gagg VTSV $" v--ris &! ' THE PITTSBURG- DISPATCH, '" TUESDAY,' OCTOBER 15, rvri 1889. '- fW : a- i I I f r I ije ptcij. ESTABLISHED FEBRUARY 8, 1846. VoL 44, A'o.150. Entered at limbers I'ostoHce. November 14, 18S7, as seeond-clua matter. Business Office 97 and G9 Fifth Avenue. News Booms and Publishing: House 75, 77 and 79 Diamond Street. Eastern Advertising Office. Room 46, Tribune Building, AewYork. Average net circulation of tie dally edition or THE Dieimtcij for six months ending September 30, 1SS9, as sworn to before City Controller, 30,095 Copies per Issue. Average net circulation or the Sunday edition of THE UisrxTca for four monthi ending Sentem ber23, issa, 54,188 Copies per Issue. TERMS OF THE DISPATCH. rOSTAOE TKEE IK THE VXTTZD STATES. DAILY DISPATCH, One Year f S 00 Daily Dispatch, Per Quarter S 00 UAI1.T DISPATCH. One Month - TO Daily Dispatch. Including Sunday, 1 year. 10 CO Daily DiSPATCH.includlng bunday.Sm'ths. S 50 Daily Dispatch, Including Sunday.l month 90 tUMjAY DISPATCH, Oneltar 250 Weekly Dispatch, One Year 1 25 The Daily Dispatch is delivered by carriersat 15 cents per wee V, or Including Sunday edition, at ICccnts per week. PITTSBURG. TUESDAY, OCT. 15, 18S9. THE FE0TECTI01T OF THE EIVEES. .' The:report withTeference to the encroach ments on the lines of the rivers about the city, which was presented to the Chamber of Commerce yesterday, deals with a very im portant subject in a thorough and able manner. The facts which it presents should receive the early attention of the authorities. Everyone who has given even a passing observation to the matter has been able to perceive the fact that that there have been decided encroachments on the rivers. The report, however, shows them to have been more general along the entire river bank than could have been supposed. .Everyone seems to have participated in them. Kailroads, bridge companies and manufacturing firms h-ive taken part in the encroachments which are gradually destroying the navigable value of the rivers, and the encroach ments are to be found all the way from Sharpsburg on the Allegheny, and Turtle Creek on the Monongahek, down to Verner station on the Ohio. It is certainly a public duty to support measures which will preserve the rivers, rcctily the lines and prevent further trans gressions on tne river bed. These steps are outlined in the committee's report with the addition of a very valuable suggestion, such as Tun DisrATCir has often urged for its value by itself namely, that railroads occupying the river bank should beheld open lor the use of all railroads desiring to enter the city, now or in the fnture. Such a full presentation of so important a subject should certainly lead to prompt and adequate public action. K0 BOOM YET. The rather singular argument is advanced to prove that the present rise in the prices of iron is not a boom, that the rise is based on a general demand for iron. "Was there do demand for iron in the booms of 1879 and 1872? The fact is that every such undue advance is caused by a sudden development of de juand in excess of the supply which sends prices up until they both check consump tion and stimulate increased supply so as to cause an overstock and a rapid reaction of prices. The present rise has not exceeded moderate proportions as yet, and the best protection against a boom Is the knowledge that a large capacity of iron production is ready to go into operation if prices advance very little more. There is also a good safe guard in the fact that nearly everyone in the iron trade is desirous of avoiding the dangers of such an advance as would cause a reaction. CHICAGO'S CBIHINAL PUZZLE. A Chicago grand jury hap found indict ments against the gang that was trying to pack the jury box, in the Cronin case, with jurors bribed in the interest ot the defense. It is probable that the jury in the primary case cannot be completed with safety until the jury fixers in the collateral case are lodsred in the penitentiary. But this proba- bilitv indicates an indefinite succession of cases for jury fixing which places the date ior trying the Cronin murderers in the dim future. Suppose the Chicago courts proceed to the task of making an example of these jury packers. Of course the task will involve the same struggle that has been going on in the Cronin case; and by the time that a jury has been half empanneled a new lot of jury fixers may have got in their work on those who are to try the first lot. This involves the postponement of jury-fixing case No. 1 until the jury-fixers lib. 2 are convicted. But on their trial a third relief of jury-bribers may rally to the rescue; and so on, until at the close of the century the succession of jury-fixing cases may stretch out to the crack of doom, and the original murder case be lost sight of under the mass of attempts to set up the various juries. If this sort of thing should go on much longer, it would not be strange for the Chi cago people to conclude that the only way to get prompt justice is by an appeal to Judge Lynch. UKC05GUEEABLE BOUBBONISH. Hardly any better proof of the innate dis position toward oppression that lies at the bottom of the Southern "race question" can be afforded than the reply of the Birming ham. Ala., Jge-Herald to the suggestion of such Northern Democratic papers as the 2few York World and Philadelphia .Record that its true solution is in the education of the negro race. The Southern paper asserts that "the more education the negro ac quires the sharper the race conflict be comes." If the inter-dependence of em ployer and employed is destroyed, it is as serted, the two races cannot occupy the same country. It is hard to construe this in any other light than as a declara tion that the only condition of the negro race which will satisfy the'Southern whites is a servitude that, amounts to practical bondage. The negroes cannot be permitted to vote because they are ignorant; they can not be allowed education because they might rise above & servile condition. It is plain that the negroes are not the only people in Tie South who need education. BEPOBMING EVENING PAETIES. Bishop Huntington, of the Episcopal Church, is not satisfied with the "evening party" as we are accustomed to find it in American society. He thinks it is a sham, a superficial affair, in which the partici pants are bored exceedingly aj a rule, or are simply exhibitors of fine raiment and shallow brains. Almost all the world will secretly agree with the good Bishop; there are very few indeed who really enjoy this Huntington's proposition to transform the j evening party into an instrument for good stands small chance of being carried into effect. It is true, as he says, that "people could get together with a direct intention to improve themselves and one another." But could thev improve themselves and those they meet? Their intentions might be the best, and still mutual improvement be out of the question. Bishop Huntington's reform would be feasible, perhaps, it the habitual party goers were of different material and bent. Taking them in the mass the sedulous votaries of society are not the brainiest peo ple in the community. Tney may be good to look at though many of them are not, they may dress expensively and in good taste, they may be on speaking terms with the fine arts, they may dance well, play euchre and whist, and know when to get up and when to sit down in accordance with the politest rules in vogue, but they very seldom possess brains or know how to use them. To improve evening parties we must then educate and reform the people who go to them. A small job that even a Bishop might hesitate before undertaking. It is not fashionable to send missionaries into polite society we know, but there is no deny ing that there is plenty of room for mission work there. ELECTBICITY AND SAFETY. The very natural disquietude of a city so gridironed with electric wires as our own is, produced by the numerous deaths from that cause in New York, obtains another reas surance in the shape of an interview with an electric light official declaring that the insulation of all wires in this city is per fect; that they are all under the most careful and constant inspection; and that they are proved by tests twice every day. It is to be conceded that the immunity from fatal accidents in this city makes these precautions seem reasonably adequate; and if there is a public assurance that the vigi lance will never be relaxed, it is to be hoped that this happy security will not be dis turbed. Nevertheless, the statement evokes two comments. The first is that if such pre cautions as these will secure safety, it sets down the action of the companies in New York in failing to adopt them as crim inal negligence, little better than man slaughter. These precautions are with in the reach of every electric light cor poration; and if numerous lives have been sacrificed by their absence, those responsi ble for the neglect should atone for it in the penitentiary. The other point is the authority of no less an electrician than Mr. Edison, that no insulation can make a high ten sion electric wire wholly safe, cither above or below ground. This looks like a sweeping assertion in view of the capacity of the earth to absorb any electric current; but Mr. Edison's statement must certainly have force with regard to over head wires. His remedy lies in the pro hibition of electric tension on the streets of such power as to contain any danger. If the underground wire does not secure ample safety, as there is-there is good reason to believe that it does, certainly Mr. Ed ison's plan for the regulation of electrical tension is the least that can be expected. A device for the benefit of humanity must not be turned into an instrument of death, in order to save money for a few corporations. BOYCOTTS AGAINST COKBIKATIOHS. The advance in the rates for natural gas by the companies supplying Erie, Corry, Jamestown and "Warren has resulted ih a popular movement to secure a universal re fusal to take the gas at the advanced rates. In other words, the proposition is to boycott the gas companies, as some of the newspaper advocates of the scheme put it: and the ex pectation is plainly held out that if the people stand out firmly enough, the gas com panies will be forced to reduce their rates. This method of regulating the price of gas is a natural result of a system of exclusive privileges in the supply. It may be the only immediate remedy within the reach of the people; but it is open to vital objections as a method of placing a check on the exac tions of corporations. The first is that when the union of thousands of consumers is pit ted against that of a single corporation the former always proves the weaker. Some of the thousands will give in before the corpo ration does, and, the union being broken, the rest will follow like sheep. If there were competing companies, the union of consumers, to transfer their patronage to the company that would first make cheap prices, might be effective; but the endur ance of thousandsagainst a concentrated cor poration is rarely such as to win victory. Another main objection is that the method of settling the price of a staple by a test of power does not base the price on the le gitimate foundation ot the cost of furnish ing it, but on the opinion of the strongest side. The proper price fo gas, as for any thing else, is the cost of delivering it to the consumer, including a fair return on the bona fide investment. This is always un erringly fixed by free competition; but it can never He fixed by contests such as are proposed in the Northwestern Pennsylvania towns. The tendency to fix prices by a series of gigantic strikes, is a natural out growth of the combination system. In no respect is the abnormal and injurious effect of that system plainer than in this. The trouble with the natural gas business, as in a great many other things, is that in the introduction of the system enough care was not taken to preserve the influence of com petition so broadly that if one agency did not snpply gas cheaply another wonld be ready to do it. The fact is worth remem bering in other connections than that of gas. TREASON IN CHICAGO. Chicago still continues to be the central point of treason in the United States. Traitors seem to gravitate naturally toward Chicago, and they are allowed to plot and spout treason there with very little interfer ence. On Sunday, at a meeting of so-called Socialists the stars and stripes were hissed, while the red flag of anarchy was cheered to the echo. Abont a thousand men and women joined in this disgraceful demonstra tion, and a lovely Bussian by the name of Sergius E. Shevitch made a bloodthirsty address, in which he congratulated Chicago on the probability of its becoming the Paris of America, the city of revolutions. There ought to be one revolution right away in Chicago. Treasonable utterances and insults to the nation's flag ought to be punished surely and severely. The author ities in Chicago can make it very unhealthy for these unwashed, beer-swilling revolu tionists, If they will but act firmly and swiftly. There is such a thing as carrying forbearance, even if born of contempt, too far. The Stars and Stripes wave over the freest country in the world, and that very fact ought to secure for the flag courtesy and respect from all who seek a refuge beneath it. This very man Shevitch is in all prob ability a refugee, owing his life to the United States; a man who knows tbatpun ishment follows plotting too closely in Eussia to make the conspirator's life a com fortable one. He ought to revere the land which gives him a refuge, and have nothing but the warmest feelings of regard for the flag. As he and the scurvy fellows who cheered him, have not the grace nor the sense to appreciate our institutions the police should instruct them in the schools of court and jail. It further appears that the directors of the Comptoire d'Escompte' in France are sentenced to remain in prison until the de ficit in the accounts of thai institution is made up. As this practically means im prisonment for life, it appears rather severe. It is further noticeable that if the same law were applied to this country it would require either a marked contraction of the loans .made by financial institutions to trust man ipulators or a permanent enlargement in the penitentiaries of the land. The statement that the real estate boom at Pierre, S. D., has progressed to such an ex tent that they are selling off lots by moon light might suggest to some of the boomers that a large share of the boom is simply moonshine. The Czar having made up with Emperor William, he then -held a consultation with Bismarck to see if he could keep out of a fight with Germany. It is intimated that the Iron Chancellor was favorable, and the Bussian monarch left Berlin whh the assur ance that white-winged peace will hover over Europe until one of the powers builds more war ships or military railways. The report that Canada's Senate is to be deprived of its function as a secret divorce mill indicates that the abuse of private di vorce trials is to be reformed everywhere but here in Pennsylvania. Ik view of Mrs. Potter's passionate pro duction of proof that her health will not per mit her to play in the United States this season, it is permissible to remark that all this earnestness is unnecessary. The theater goers of the country are not calling for her appearance with so much urgency that sworn testimony is necessary to reconcile them to her absence. Do the electric power wires of Pittsburg furnish an additional possibility in the way of illustrating the probabilities of electrical executions upon unsuspecting and law abid ing citizens? The old suggestion that safety against railroad collisions could be secured by tying a railroad director to the cow-catcher of every locomotive, might be adapted to the electric light danger. "Would we not be likely to get perfect insulation if every elec tric light director should be required to test the wires daily by handling them without gloves? En gland's willingness that the United States shall have the Sandwich Islands can be appropriately reciprocated only by our making her a free gift of Kalakaua. Mb. Jat Gould's declaration that "the "World's Fair will be held in St. Louis if it is located where it ought to be," shows the disposition of the amiable Mr. .Gould to boom his own property. Inasmuch as he owns St. Louis, it is natural that he should be desirous of accepting all possible methods to increase the revenue thereof. Chicago appears to be turning out more confessions in the jury-fixing case than with regard to the murder itself. Chicago alwavs tries to beat her own record. The opening of new coal and coke lands in "West Virginia, which will be nearer Chicago than the fields tributary to Pitts burg, so far as the Baltimore and Ohio line is concerned, does not trouble car shippers half so much as the problem how they can induce the railroads to furnish cars enough to transport their business. An actress has been robbed of her dia monds. The fact that she is able to prove it to the public's satisfaction is where the news comes in. The cancellation of Senator Manderson's increased pension as unlawful appears to be a decided reversal of the late practices of the Pension office, which affords a pre cedent for getting back the funds from a good many others who were more anx ious for the money than Senator Manderson was. PEOPLE OP PKOMINENCE. Mb. Austin Corbet has gone to Europe. The Czar offended his host at the Imperial banquet in Berlin by making a speech in French. Us. C. A One, of Clark University, is to go as an anthropologist with the eclipse expedi tion to Africa. Mes. Zebelda Wallace is lecturing in Louisiana on woman suffrage under the patron age of the W. C. T. U. Mrts. L. P. Mortou, Mrs. Grover Cleveland and Governor Beaver are exported to be the bright particular stars of the Hahnemann Hos pital Association's benefit ball at Philadelphia on November 20. The son.of Baron de Fava, Italian Minister to the United States, has been naturalized as a citizen of the United States. He has been with his father at Washington, and is a civil engineer by profession. Queen Olga, of Greece, is particularly fond of American literature. She is a constant reader of the principal American magazines and newspapers. Her favorite of all authors is Nathaniel Hawthone. Baone Koczalski, a Polish boy of 5 years, is the latest musical prodigy of Europe. He is going to play in Berlin the Mendelssohn Con certo in 1), a Chopin mazonrka and other com positions equally difficult. Miss Rachel Sherman, the youngest of tho daughters of General W. T. Sherman, is booked to sail for Europe on the SOth of Octo ber. She has been invited to spend the win ter with the family of Minister Whitelaw Beld in Paris. Wilford Woodbutp, the President of the Mormon Church, was born in Connecticut 83 years ago. He has the compactly-built figure of Grant. In the square face, the strong nose and the set of the eyes there are reminiscences of the old Commander sufficiently strong to make strangers comment upon the likeness. A C0XTEACT TO KILL RATS. A Wnshlncton Man Will Attempt to Bid tho White Dome of Rodents. Washington, October 11 Having gotten rid of the red ants which infested the White House, the President is trying to drive the rats away. Major Ernst, the new Superintendent of Public Buildings apd grounds, has made a contract with W. H. Hosiner, of this city, to clean out the entire building of rats. The contract allows Mr. Hosmer $10 a day, with time unlimited. Ferrets and dogs are to be used in the work of extermination, and the work Is to proceed until It is completed, if it takes all winter, the Government to pay for all the losses of ferrets. Mrs. Harrison has requested the contractor to begin work at once. In her room, as there was one impndent rodent who nightly invaded the room, greatly to her annovance. The work will begin earlv on Monday. Tho ferrets used will be brought from New York. Agricultural I'lnglarlsu. from the Baltimore American. 1 Charges of plagiarism still continue. It is now hinted that successful and hitherto unsus pected farmers crib the stores of their corn magazines from nature's cereals. THE TOPICAL TALKER. Fino Architecture In PUuburs Life la Cer tain, LioTe Is Not Left Lcg-gedncss. Beyond ail qnestion the new building erected on Fifth avenue by Dr. Hussey, in which the Chronicle Telegraph will soon be completely housed, is an ornament to the city. It is really unfortunate that its situation does not allow all the structure's beauties to be seen. Bat from the upper windows of any of the tall buildings in the lower part of the city tho graceful outlines of the turret and stone battlement with which the Hussey building is crowned may be seen to advantage. The street front of the building, the wide arch of the first floor especially, is essentially novel in design, and, better still, is simple and yet highly ornate. Tho architect, Mr. Frederick Oester llng, although a very young man, has done well before in Pittsburg, of which he is a native, but his last work must be regarded as his best. If the stumpy architectural horrors of elder Pittsburg are to be replaced by such handsome structures as Mr. Oeeterling's example. Fifth avenne after the removal of the unsightly hump will be worthy of the city whose most important street it is. . . The religious editor was trying to persuade a fair member of a city church congregation to reveal to him the inside facts of a very pretty church squabble, and finally he resorted to a mild form of bribery. "If you will tell me," said he, "the names of the principal parties who are to be disciplined I will see that my paper gives you a splendid send-off when you get married. It shall be the prettiest our wedding reporter has secured a patent on the word 'pretty' as applied to wed dingsthe most fashionable and the best at tended wedding of the season." "No, sir," the modest maiden replied, "I never gamble. Promise me an extra superfine, wire-wove obituary and I might consider your offer, but thero are too many risks about a wed ding." , In a paper on "Left-Leggedness," read be fore the British Association, Dr. Sibley speaks of a. man as having been supposed to bo a right-handed animal. Being right-handed, it is popularly assumed that be is also right-legged; but this does not appear to be the case. Stand ing working with the right hand, there is a tendency to use the left leg for balance. Many people find less exertion in going round circles to the right than in circles to the left; race paths are nearly all made for runnings in circle to the right So the majority of movements are more readily performed to the right, as danc ing, running, etc. Tho rule in walking is to keep to the right, and this appears to be al most universal. Crowds tend to bear to the right The left leg being tho stronger it is more readily brought into action; hence troops start off with the left foot; it is the foot which is placed in the stirrup of the saddle or step of the bicycle in mounting; so the left is the foot which a man takes off from in jumping. Man, being naturally or artificially right-handed and left-legged, tends unconsciously to' bear to the right, lower animals, on the other hand, appear always to circle to the left MAEYELS OP MEMORY. Somo Grent Men Whose Retentlveness of Facts Was Remarkable. from Blackwood's Magazine. Thero have been stupendous memories enough in ancient and modern times to stagger belief such as those of Theodectes and Hor tensius and Cineas, of whom Cicero speaks, and in our later days, Pascal, who, it is said, never forgot anything he had seen, heard or thought; and Avicenna, who repeated by rote tho entire Koran when he was 10 years old; and Francis Buarez, who, Strada tells us, had the whole of St Augustine in his memory enough, one wonld think, to destroy all his mental power of digestion; and Justus Lipslus, who on one occasion offered to repeat ail the "History" of Tacitus without a mistake on forfeit of his life: and. in our own days. Jedediah Buxton and Zerah Colburn among others, who had such a prodigious power and rapidity of calculating in their minds. Col burn, it is said, could tell the number of sec onds in 58 years almost before the question could be repeated. The story is told that Jede diah Buxton was once taken to the theater to boo Garrick. and that ho was observed to pay an unremitted attention to the great actor throughout the play, when he went out his friend, who accompanied him, asked bun how he had been impressed by tho acting, and Jede diah answered by stating the number of words and syllables that Garrick had spoken. His mind had been interested solely in this enumer ation. I dare say it was a purely mechanical operation of mind with him, and I rather think tbaf with all these great memories it is the same. As I have not a good memory, I wish to decry it out of pure envy. I wish I could say that great men never have great memories. Unfor tunately, it is not true. The names of Pascal. Avicenna, Scaligcr, who committed to memory the whole of tne Iliad and Odyssey in three weeks; old Dr. Thomas Fuller, whose memory was equally remarkable to say nothing of Cyrus, Hortensius. Mithridates are so terribly against me that I give up such a proposition; and I have serious thoughts myself, despite its disgusting ingredients, of resorting to the learned Grataroll of Bergamo's recipe for im proving my own memory. He gives several, buf one above all others as efficacious and com forting to the memory. It is this: To make a mixture of mole's fat calcined human hair, cumin and bear's grease, and swallow a pill of them of about the size of a hazelnut at bedtime. A SOLID MARRIED COUPLE. Tho Hnaband Welsh' 410 Pounds nnd the Wife Tips tho Benm at 315. Btjskibks, N. Y., October 11 Mr. and Mrs. Addison G. Hayner, living here, are a substan tial, solid married couple. Mr. Hayner weighs 410 pounds and his wife pulls down tho scales at 315, making a conjugal total of 725 pounds, and it is all solid flesh. Both are in good health, and cheerfully do the ordinary work of a farm. When Mr. and Mrs. Hayner walk arm in arm they take up the whole sidewalk, and when they sit tozether in the Methodist Church there is not much room in tho pew foranyonoel&e. They have two children, one a beautiful young lady of 19, tall and of graceful and delicate build, the otber a short, stout girl of 12 years, who weighs a plump 100 pounds. Mrs. Hayner's mother, formerly Mrs. Amelia Warner, of Canaan, Conn., was a small, spare woman, who never weighed over 115, and her father, Mr. Franklin Waters, both physically and politically, is a man of the Andrew Jackson type. When Mr. Hayner returned from service in the late war he was a man of ordinary build, aud when be married Miss Waters she was a young lady of graceful figure. They havo been gradually growing stout together until they have both become eligible to membership in the Fat Men's Club, A BUlIfi FOR OLD MAIDS. The Novel Colony to be Established in Eaton County, Ind. Fort Wayne, October U-The queer will of L. B. Eaton, the eccentric farmer of Steuben county, which was contested by Isaac Eaton his son, has been declared valid by the court The terms of the document will, therefore, be executed. The 400 acre farm will be divided into ten acre lots, and 40 homes for widows and old maids above the age of 35 will be erected thereon. The colony is to be known as the "Eaton Home." The value of the estate thus bestowed is about 530,000. A BIG ALDERMAN'S PAST. He Goes Without Food for 12 Days to Ho duco His Weight. Eatj Clause. Wis., October 16. Alderman Jacob Stumm, a wealthy citizen, to-night com pleted a voluntary fast of 12 days, and declares he can bold out thrco days longer. He has taken nothing but water. His purpose is to re duce his superfluous flesh. Mr. Stumm weighed 290 pounds and was gaining. He now s weighs 230. Hois not very hungry and feels well. A Political Prophecy. From the New York World. 3 In a quiet, clever way Senator Quay, of Penn sylvania, is placing his Prcsidental boom on a strong foundation. "Quay and Foraker" is a combination which will have considerable strcneth at the Republican National Conven tion of 1S92. Turning tho Accent to Account From the Minneapolis Trlbune.1 Kenry Irving estimates that of the 20,000 actors in England, quite half of them would be glad of an assured $1,000 a year. Let them come over here; a cockney accent is worth large currency on mis side. Ux-GoTornor Willlnm T. Oil Stamfokd, Conn., October 15. Y llllam T, Minor, ex-uovcrnor of Connecticut t ed Tester day, aged 74 years. He was appoli ted Consul General at Havana In ISM byJPresident AT TOE TflEATEEB. The Brlffnndi a Success A Possible Case in Good Hands Other Plays. In'the first place it is only fair to say that the now comic opera produced at the Grand Opera House, "The Brigands," deserved suc cess. The cast chorus, the scenery, the cos tumes were as nearly perfect as mundane things can be. Of the opera it may be said that it has enough good music in it to com mand favorable consideration, though its mer its are not stupendous. In the second place "The Brieands" achieved a great success. Tho plot of "The Brigands" does not amount to much. A band of Italian brigands swoops down upon an inn, the robbers violently assume the garb of the Innkeeper and his servants, and when the JPrincett of Grenada and' her suite come that way the brigands imprison them in the inn, take their attire and proceed to the court ot tho Duke of Mantua, whom the Spanish princess is to marry. The brigand chief aims to get 8,000.000 francs which the Duke of Mantua is to pay over on the weddlDg day. The scheme fails, and yet the opera ends in general happiness. The truth ii,the plot is very nebulous and devoid of point after the close of the first act StiU, plot never counts for much in comle opera. One is Inclined to expect great things from the libretto because it is from the best librettist of the time, W. 8. Gilbert but the fact is that Gilbert wrote it twenty years ago and is heartily ashamed of It, as well he may be. It has none of the snap and keen wit neatly toned rhymes and jingles which characterize Mr. Gilbert's work with Sir Arthur Sullivan. If it were not for the excellence of the actors ftie dialogue would flag painfully at times. The music is in the familiar stain of Offenbach; light in two senses, it is neither heavy nor dark. It is brightest at the finale of every act and the waltz movement with which the first act closes, and also the last l3 a marvelonsly magnetic piece of stirring, tuneful music. There is a grand sweep to the measure that carries one away from the parquet chairs, and if it lands you anywhere the place is somewhere near the Mohammedan paradise. The tremendous ef fect of this waltz is upheld and inflamed by the incessant movement of the mass of men and women upon the stage. The principals sweep up and down the stage in step with the ravishing strains, and the torches of the fair brigands on the rocks at the rear wavo to tho tune. Then the voices, swelling and falling alternately, and finally soaring into a crashing climax, complete the whelming fascination of tho scene. Now we como to the company, and uncom monly pleasant it is to be able to say that there is not a weak spot in it The women are all pretty, the principals not only, bnt the chorus also. We expected all along to find a corps of less favored choristers filling in the crevices, but we were disappointed. Every girl was pretty and some of them entirely too good looking for the safety of weak vessels. Let us start off' with Miss Lillian Russell, there is no otber; way to start She is a royal beauty, and far lovelier to-day than she was a few years aco. Her voice has improved also, and is a powerful, rich soprano well under command. The depth and purity of this voice was tested severely by the numerous high pas sages in which the opera abounds. She sang with a wonderful spirit aud enthusiasm; was cheered as she deserved, and won approval in other quarters by her exquisite dresses. Miss Fanny Bice, plnmp, pert and pretty as ever, made herself prominent enough in a thin, thankless part a part in shadow most of the time. But her vivacity shone all the same. She seemed to be suffering from cold and her voice would not re spond to her demands upon it always. Miss Urquhart appropriately completed the central group in this dream of fair women. Her beauty is of a statuesque and slightly severe order, and it contrasted well with the cheery roundness and redness of Miss Kico and the queenly but sunny Lillian Rus sell. AH the chorus girls deserve mention on the score of looks, and they sang well, too, and the little morsel of dancing in the last act showed that some of them were graceful in that direction. There is need of more rapid rhythmical movement in the chorus, more dances, more quick marches. The comedy element was not so strong as it has been in some recent operas, but Mr. Fred Solomon was funny as a brigand of ton type of Cadeaux in "Erminle," and Richard F. Carroll made a decided hit as a most whimsical Cap tain of Carbineers. George Olml was very satisfactory as the Captain of the Brigands and several others in the cast deserve praise. The chorus as a wholo was the best we have seen in comic opera for a long while. Tbescenery, a splendidbitofltalianmountain and sea in the first acta charming inn of the old Italian style in the second, both by Marston, and one of Mr. Hoyt's famous interiors a lav ender salon for the last act, were simply su perb. The costumes could hardly be richer In color or more gorgeous generally. A crowded house applauded the opera liberally, and many encores were demanded. A Posslblo Case at the BIJon. Tho diversity of the marriage laws In the dif ferent States of the Union, and the humorous and tragic entanglements which may result therefrom is the motive of "A Possible Case," which is being presented at the Bijou this week. The play has been here before, and has been duly criticised. "A Possible Case" is a bright and polished society comedy, and is presented at the Bijou by a thoroughly compe tent company of artists. Mr. M. A. Kennedy, as Otto Brinkerhoff, Etq., a retired merchant of susceptible tendencies, is a charmingly funny, yet always gentlemanly, imperson ation, Charles Dickson, as Allen Week), a wealthy young trifler, is also a clever come dian, while Herbert Archer, as Senor deVidat, is all that could be asked for lu the way of a polished villain. Miss Helen Russell Is a beau tiiul and more than ordinarily artistic actress, who does full justice to the character of Violet Mendoza. upon whom and ber three husbands the plot hinges. Henrietta Lander, as Ethel Serrero, Bnnkershoff't wife, played a rather difficult emotional role and played it well while Mbs Belle Archer was a very bright and win some Oladut. The other members of the cast are up to the standard, and there are few com panies in which the standard is so high. The staging is perfect the scenes in the first and second acts being very artistic. The house was crowded last evening. Votes of the Stage. TnB production of "She" at Harris' Theater yesterday was notable on account of its splen did mounting and its great spectacular features. The She of Miss Marie Rene is very fine. Crowded houses testified their delight with it. The novelty of a complete circus at the World's Museum yesterday drew large audiences. A further notice of this departure shall be given on Tuesday. Hyde's Big Specialty show repeated its pre vious success at tho Academy last night. WAKAMAKEE SPARED A SH0CE. A Congressman Who Actually Contemplated Asking nim Oat to Drink. From the New York Trlbune.1 Strange as it may seem, despite all that has been published about him in thd last five months, the Postmaster General's habits of temperance in speech and action as well as in other respects have not become known to all the men In public life or even to allot the members of his own party. A few days ago two Congressmen making the tonr of the De partments stopped at one of the bureaus of the Postofflce Department, and after transacting the business for which they had come said to the head of the bureau: "Have you time to come out and cet a drink?" fa The bureau chief did not havo time, for it was an unusually busy day with him. "Well," said one of the Congressmen, "I am going npstairs to see the Postmaster General, I wonder If he can spaio tho time to go across the street?" , The bureau chief grew pale. "I wonld advise you," he said, "if you havo anything to ask ol the Postmaster General not to ask him to drink." Aud as the Representatives were satisfied to' ioiiow mis aavice unquestiomngiy, Mr. Wana maker's nerves were spared a great shock. HAIR MADE WHITE BT P0IS05.. A Yonnic Woman Svrallows a Fatal Draught nnd at Once Turns Gray. New York, October 11 Lucy Eddy,20 years old, tho wife of John Eddy, a young carpenter, committed suicide last evening by swallowing a dose of carbolic acid. The pair occupied apart ments on the top floor of No. 281 Rivington street They had a slight spat after supper, and, while Eddy was taking a nap In the bed room, his young wife took the fatal draught After she bad swallowed it she relented, awoke her husband and told him what she had done. Eddy alarmed the neighbors and rushed for Drs. Harley and Goldeuberger. They gave Mrs. Eddy doses of milk and sweet ell, but all to no purpose. In 20 minutes she was dead. A strange feature of the case was that in the short interval between the taking of the poison and her death the hair of Mrs. Eddy, who was a brunette, turned almost white. A PASTOR'S SURPRISE. ' Ber. 3Ir. Klddlo Presented With Silver Br His CanKrcsntlon. "Every cloud has a silver lining" and last evening it was a cloud of crystal with a silver lining, which was presented to Rev. W. Riddle and wife of the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church by the members of the church and congregation. The present was in honor of the 15th wedding anniversary ot the pastor and his wife, and the occasion was also celebrated by a reception held in the churcb, which was beau tifully decorated with cut flowers, plants aud ferns. Mr. J. H. Skelton made the presentation speech, and voiced the entire gathering iu wishing Mr. and Mrs. Riddle many happy re turns of the day. Mr. Riddle responded with surprise, delight and gratitude all depicted upon his face. Music aaded much to the pleas ure of tbo evenlnsr, and other addresses were made by Rev. H. B. Grose, of the Fourth Ave nue Church, and Rev. George Street of the Mt Washington Church. Refreshments were served in the lecture room of the church by the ladies, and in every woid and action was plainly perceptible the unity existing between pastor and people. HER FIPTI-THIRD BIRTHDAY. A merry Catherine at the Residence of Airs. John Owston. A large and merry crowd of railroad people gathered at the residence ot Mr. John G. Owston, one of the oldest and best known engineers of the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad, at No. 286 Franklin street, Allegheny, last evening. The cause of the meeting was to celebrate the fifty-third anniversary of Mrs. Owston's birth, and wish her and her husband many happy re turns. An elegant banquet was served oy the hostess, who has gained a record for her hospitality. Among those present were: Rev. Hudson, pastor of tho Baptist church at Library, and wife; Mr. and Mrs. William Jordan, Mr. and Mrs. A. Martin, Mr. and Mrs. John Weber, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wolf, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Shook, Mr. and Mrs. B. Callachan. Mr. and Mrs. John Keys, Mr. and Mrs, James Owston, of Leets dale, Mrs. Henry Grabing, Mrs. Orrison Harris and Teeters, of Alliance, O., Mrs. Frank John ston, Mrs. Baker, Mrs. O'llonnell, Mrs. Mc Knight and Miss Sippey. SIlsscs Learn of Europe. The baseball club, the boating club, the equestrian club and the pedestrian club have, with the falling of the leaves and the advent of cooler weather, given placs to a class of clubs that aim at something more than mere physi cal development and endurance. With the re vival of the Woman's Club,tho Dramatic Club, the Cup and Saucer Club, the Tourists' Club, the Magazine Club, is also noted the organiza tion of a new and ambitious club composed of about 0 young ladies, who, with Miss Killikelly as instructor, meet in the Library parlors every Monday morning to study and discuss the cit ies and countries of the Old World. Yes terday a very interesting meeting was con ducive to an extended knowledge of the city of Florence. In a Social War. Cards are outfox the wedding of Miss 'Ida Fahnestock and Mr. Boyd. The Woman's Literary Club will hold its regular meeting this afternoon in the Library parlors. Wednesday evening, November 13; the Carlton Club will have a select reception at Turner Hall, Forbes street Tns second reception of the Carroll Club will be held atheir clubrooms, 6230 and 6232 Penn avenue," East End, Thursday even ing, October SL Miss'Exka J. Nicxebson, of Boston, Mass., the inspirational spiritualist will hold a recep tion for her friends at 378 Wylle avenue this afternoon and evening. The St Helena Guild, of Braddock, will give a tea and musical entertainment at the residence of the Misses Farley, corner of Sec ond street and Camp avenue, on the 18th ol Optober. The Concordia Club will open the season at their hall on Stockton avenue, October 17. The committee are devoting a great deal of thought and money to the event, and a very en joyable time is predicted. Oiraof the most notable weddings of the season will be that of Miss Nora Gucken heimer, of Western avenue and Fulton street daughter of the wealthy distiller, to Mr. Arthur Einstein, a popular young business man of Chi cago. This event is the principal subject of comment in Hebrew circles, and will abound in new and unique features. A CANINE RACER. Doc, the Dog Trotter, Gives an Exhibition of His Speed. From the Kansas City Journal. The spectacle of a dog, harnessed to a wagon, trotting upon a race track as fairly and squarely as any horse, is certainly a novel one, yet that is what was witnessed by 100 curious persons who gathered at Exposition Driving Park en October 0. When Mr. Ketchum first announced that he bad a dog which could trot lfke a horse and make faster time on the track than some horses, his statement was received with a great deal of incredulity, especially on the part of the horsemen. But that his statement was correct in every particular was amply demon strated when Doc, pulling a load weighing twice as much as himself, trotted half a mile in 1:52 on a track that was rough and bumpy. Doc is a handsome red Irish setter, 2 years and 7 months old, and weighing just 3 pounds, and was brought upon the track harnessed to a two wbeeled caff weighing 36 pounds, and driven by little WillieKetchuni, aladwelghingoopounds. Mr. J. E. Riley's horse Loafer was sent with the dog to make the pace, and at the word they were sent away together. Doc gave one jump to start bis load, and then atonco settled into a fast square trot, which took him over the ground in an amazingly rapid way. His action was a perfect trot, and he went without a skip or a jump. Without urging the quarter was made in 055. Around the turn, where the track was lumpy, the pace was not qulto rapid, but when the straight was reached the little driver let Doc out again, and he came to the wire with a great burst of speed, finishing in the fast time of lal Doc did not seem at all distressed after his per formance, running and leaping playfully after he was taken from the wagon. The perform ance was a surprise, and elicited much ap plause from the spectators. Doo has been carefully trained to trot, and has given fre quent exhibitions of his powers in trials and In races against horses in various cities. RELICS OP PIONEER TIMES. Some Genuine Cariosities Exhibited ntnn Old Settlers' Sleeting. FLEMlNaSBDKa, KY., October 11 The re union just closed of the old settlers of Fleming. Lewis and Mason counties, held at Ruggle'a camp grounds, drew together 800 or 400 of the oldest people of, the three counties. An im portant feature of the reunion was a collection of old relics handed down from generations. One attracting a great deal ot attention was a JJt-M Araee nt whftfl dfmitV. exhibited bV his Gertrude Owens, wom by an ancestress 17o years ago, the fashion of which would astonish the modem bride. Another curiosity was a genuine pod-auger, i..nni. n tMa .nrmtrv in 1779. A. novel feat- H Af th. irtit.'iinm.ne' was the music, fur nished by Colonel Tom Brown on a 8cotch bag-, pine brought here in nn, tne instrument umun over 200 years old. About 2,000 persons were in attendance. Troth In nn Artless Eemark. From the St Paul Globe. The young lady in Detroit who did not know exactlwhat female suffrage was. but supposed it was some kind of a disease, was artless and not sarcastic. She illustrates the difficulty In the way to the ballot box of tho sex. A BOIL ON THE NECK. Each heart has Its moments of pleasure and pain That follow the ebb and the flow; Each soul has its portion of sunshine and rain, Hope dawnlngs and sunsets ofwoe. Bnt there're few other evils to which flesh is heir That with sorrow our Joy can so fleck And fill our whole belnic with so much despair As a boll on the back of the neck. A man's wile may tell him In tones low end sweet Her mother Is coming to stay, ... He may tread a banana peel down In the street And swear in a dignllled way. Somebody may walk on his favorite corn, He may foolishly cash a snide check, But the one thing that makes blm regret he was born Is the boU on the back of the neck. The brooklet e'en sings In a sad undertone. The skies are all clouded with care, And nature's voice echoes a saddcnlnc moan, The breezes come freighted with care. The future Is nanght but a desert ot night The present a mis'rable wreck. Without even Just one faint spark of delight Tor the man wltha boil on his neck. QMcago Herald. THE HEW'-YOBK EXHIBITION. A Blot Interrupts the Peaceful Progress of Police Blackmail. fNBW TOSS BUREAU SrXCtU.S.1 New Yobs, October, 11 There was an Italian riot in Mulberry street late last night A quart of beer caused the trouble. The riot occurred in the dimly lighted hallway of a notoriously riotous tenement -house known as 'The. Barracks." Mrs. Teresa Delafaro was bringing a quart of beer tor her husband and eight or ten of his friends who were gathered In his room. There is a Sunday law against the sale of liquor, but it is used only to enable the police, from captain to patrolman, to levy blackmail on such saloon keepers as desire to keep open. This Is the simple, unexaggerated truth. Mrs. Delafaro bad no trouble getting the beer. As she entered the hallway ol "The Barracks" a strange Italian snatched the pail from her band, drank the beerwhile she screamed for help. Help came immediately In the shape of Delafaro and his friends. Delafaro smashed tho pail in the stranger's face and drew a knife. The stranger also drew a knife and the dnel began. The men fought up and down the hallway, out into the gutter and half a block up tbo street Blood flowed in streams from their wounds In the neck, breast and face. The stranger's friends came to his aid and tried to do up Delafaro's friends. When a policeman came, a dozen Italians were cut and- battered and covered with blood. All the rioters escaped arrest except Delafaro, who was arraigned to day for assault with Intent to kill As no one appeared to press the charge he was let off with a fine for disorderly conduct An Involuntary Suicide. Louis Gamper, 28 years of age, became so ul ten days aga that he could not go to his little notion shop. Consequently his income ceased and he grew very despondent Early this morn ing he cut an artery in his arm. While bleeding to death be tried to leave his bed and fell across the top of a hot stove. He was too weak to rise. His clothing took fire and he gradually burned to death. Smoke Issued from the windows of his apartments and someone, think ing the house was on fire, sent out an alarm. When the firemen arrived on the scene they found poor Clamper's charred remains. Another Pearsall Proves a Hero. A street car full of passengers was driven upon the Pennsylvania Railway's net work of tracks in Jersey City last midnight, just as the St Louis express, slightly overdue, came around a curve one block away. The car horses bad just stepped on the rails In front of the train, which was going at the rate ot 23 miles an hour. William Pearsall, the driver, saw that he had not time to cross before the train. would be upon him. He ground down the brake, leaped to tho heads of the horses and pulled them into a position at right angles with the car. The passenger train struck the haunch of the outside horse and ripped its body from tall to head. As soon as the train had passed Pearsall fainted. The passengers ran out; and some fled up and down the street Two women fainted. None of the 22 persons on the inr was hurt thanks to the driver's presence of mind. The danger was caused by the stupidity of a sleepy gateman, who is now no longer in the company's employ. A Good Young Man Gone Wrong. The fact that Fred J. Warner, a clerk of the Wagner Palace Car Company, is out of town aud that also nearly 2,000 of the company's funds seem to have taken a trip at the same ttme to expand the circulation, causes a good deal of anxiety here. Fre W. Seymour, auditor of the passenger accounts has been dismissed without any reflections upon his honesty, but as a comment on his negligence. Warner is only 24 years of age, and has been identified with the Y. M. C. A. branch of the New York Central road in this city for several years. He is said to hare bet heavily on the recent races. Warner walked into General Superintendent Flagg's office this morning, accompanied by his brother, and admitted the pocketing of a day's earnings on the cars that run to Jerome Park race track, on Friday last Mr. Flagg said Warner had taken only between $300 and 100. As Warner's brother offered to restore the missing funds, nothing farther will be done. A Reporter Jastly Honored. At a meeting of the bridge trustees to-day George B, McClellan, a son of the late General 31cClellan, and at present employed as a news paper reporter in this city, was, on motion of Mayor Grant, appointed Treasurer and Audi tor. This is a new bridge office, and a couple of months ago it was tendered to Lawyer An drew J. Hammersley and declined, The salary was fixed at S1000. Nllsson'a Loir Notes. Christine Nilsson, the singer, obtained a ver dict of $175 and costs in part third of the City Court to-day against the Bogota City Hallway Company. The verdict was secured by default Mme. Nilsson is in Paris, and the suit was brought through Goodrich, Dealy &. Goodrich, her counsel. Mt. Goodrich said to-day that he knew very little about it Mme. Nilsson owns, it appears, five bonds of the railway, the par value of which is $5,000. There was a default In the payment of the coupons in May, J8S9. Each coupon was worth 35, and she sued for their value. THE OIBTUfi'S DEADLY ENEML Starfish That Get Into His Bed aad Cause Great Loss to Planters. Brtdqepobt, Conn., October li-The United States steamer Fish Hawk, of the Government Fish Commission, has made this port her headquarters for several weeks, and is carrying on a work of great interest to oyster growers in this section. It is that of obtaining the most complete information as to the habits and manner of feeding the starfish, with a view of exterminating the greatest of enemies to the oyster. Lieutenant Robert Piatt is in com mand of the ship, detached from the navy for special duty. As fast as the grounds are ex amined charts are carefully prepared, which will be submitted to the Fish Commission for inspection. Around Bridgeport Lieutenant Piatt has found fewer starfish than he ex pected, and of these the greater numoer were on the natural bed'. There Is no effort to restrict the stars on the natural beds, and ho Is of the opinion that these plots are the chief breeding places of the stars. The stars have been found by Lieuten ant Piatt in every temperature of water and every condition of bottom, from the frigid zone to the equator. In the vicinity of Bridge port constant fishinz has kept down the stars, but the proximity of the natural beds he considers a source of great danger. He says that a single female star produces millions of eggs a year. Stars have power to move a quar ter of a mile a day, and, moving from one feed ing ground to another in search of food, they are a deadly enemy to the oyster, and a great element of trouble and loss to the planters. Bosslsm Thnt Isn't Political. Fromtbe Dramatic Mirror. Wong Chin Foo says that "the real boss of a Chinese troupe is the property man, the one that owns or manages the costumes." The real boss of an American troupe is the property man, the one that owns or manages the female star. TRI-STATE TRIPLES. Sevzbai stones, forming one ball-like mass, 12 inches in circumference, were found in the stomach of a Hallertown horse which dropped dead. The Dictionary of Fossils, Issued by the State, contains 3f pages in small print correct ing statements found on the other 405 pages. Seven bushels of fruit have been picked this season from tho apple tree on the Deaver property at Lancaster. It was planted 127 years ago. In tho absence of a Bible a document was sworn to in the Beading courts on a copy of SmuU's Hand-Book. Two gunners near snow-white squirrel. Williamsport found a AntratER near Wheeling claims to have shot eight squirrels on the same tree in less than ten minutes, Faiucer Maktin, of Mahoning county. O., gave an old pair of pants to a tramp, forgetting to remove 13 and valuable notes from the pockets. , A stbanOeb at an Akron hotel got up In his sleep and threw his watch out of the window. Alt Ohio peddler claims to have cleared 18,910 outof aJesusamet's.work,. w' -- CUM0DS C05BI5SATI05S. A blacksnake was captured at sea off the Brenton Reef Ilghtsfilp, In Newport har bor, the other dav. Messrs. Seldomridge and Pebbles, of Colorado Springs, are arranging to dispose or their sheep. One has 10,080 aad the other 17 J. G. Bicb, of Bethel, Me., a veteran trapper. Is engaged In the novel business of catching wild hares to ship to sportsmen who wish to stock game preserves. James Clevenger, aged 15, of Nashville, Brown county, and Miss Anna Patterson, aged 11 were married recently at the home ot the bride's father, in Columbus, Ind. Miss Minnie Earhart, of Glendale, O., awoke in a Chattanooga hotel to discover a man in ber room. She put her hand under her pillowdrew out a long black silken purse, polnttn It at him and threatened to shoot The fellow thought it was a pistol aad left la stanter. Yourie T. B. Garrison, of FordlaBd, Ma, was walking home from church Friday night when he felt a strange impulse to go and see his mother. He started to walk to her home, 15 miles distant; aid when he arrived there, at 3 o'clock Saturday morning, foaod her dead in bed, A few days since Sergeant Groo, of fee New York police force, met five brothers at his father's bouse in the town of Neversfek. The total weight of tho six was 1,125 poweta and their aggregate length 36 feet The father is a sprightly old man of 74 years, and eaa jet hold his own with anyone of bis Boys. In Stockbridge township, Hick., ji hungry hawk swooped down on someyeaag turkeys. The mother turkey tried to drive him away, but failing to do so, sped away, aad in a few raomeats returned with a whole fleekr of able-bodied adult turkoys and made a com- blued attack on the barn-yard pirate aad beat him off. f A combination of "Western live sleek exporters, headed by a Chicago firm, has de vised a new plan to ship its cattle to Europe by utilizing th'e between decks of the tank steam ships which now cross the Atlantic Ocean with bare decks. All of the tonnage has been char tered by the combination, which will first ex periment as to what effect the vapor from oil will have upon cattle. It is thought the odor from the cargo will be a benefit rather than as injury to the animals. A few days ago a large hog belonging to LeRoy Hardy, of Stark. Ga while the fam ily were all out of the house, went into the house, and after cllmbin? upon a featherbed, proceeded to tear the bed and clotMBg teto doll rags. Hfs hogship thought he had feoad a beautiful play-house, ancl in his delight and playfulness tore things np generally. When the inmates of the house eatae in the fleers were literally covered with featfcers, sad the festive Drute ran from the house Ieekisg ssen like one of the feathered tribe than a is porker. ' , f A "Winipank, Conn., oat owner oae day not long ago heard shrieks from bis wife aad lady guest in the-parlor of his house, and ei pitchfork; In the middle of the parlor fleer, with her kittens about her. sat the fassily eat, and in front of heron the carpet was a Hreiy greensnake. The ladles were oatae ptsao. screaming, while the kittens, with areaed backs and bristling fur, betrayed a terror sec ond only to that of the occupants of the ptaao. The eat was trying to convince her faai&y that the snake was worth trying for a baaqaet. The householder set his heel on the reptile. There is at least one woman, in North Berwick, Me-, who wastes no time admiring herself before a looking glass, and saa proved it last Sunday by attending' chorea, aad Sab bath school with her bonnet adorned with half a dozen cards which a raasculiae sinner had tucked in among the trimmings a day or two before, probably supposing she would see them when she put on her headgear. But the good woman's mind was on Seaday school lessons, not bonnets, when she dressed far church, and so the Sunday school got a chaaee to giggle. Henry Smith, of Brook. Center, Cons., was fn the highway oa his way to bis day's work in the fields, when he saadeely beheld la the road what seemed to him a cartons eireas. A blacksnake. a six-f ooter,,was earled oa the ground, tut Instead ot having a head, as the ser pents Mr.Smlth had been familiar wita all had, this snake seemed to begin aad end. in talis. Eager to know the mystery of his queer con struction, if possible, Salts picked op assess and hurled it at the strange reptile. Ha didn't hit him, tut the mystery came apart la tea middle. The big black fellow had swallowed about half of another one that was nearly ,aa large and of the same species, bo tiastaauy ae diseoreed him when the stsae straak- tfce grouna.. ;jBfB.. sauces wsesu into the roadside wallbefore nnd anotaex missile. Sixteen-year-old Harry Spencer, el Hansom, Pa., is a successful crow ttapaer. Young Harry's guinea hens got intenee of laying their eggs In the bushes back of taa house last summer, and every now and toes the crows would swoop down and carry oS. tea eggs. At first Harry was ataloss toaeeeaat for the disappearance of tee eggs, bat oae day he ought two crows lathe act of steaaae them, and he straightway went to work to oat wit the black thieves. Oat in the field he baSt a little well of soda, with an opening on oae side wide enough for a crow to passtareagh, and In the passage be seta steel trap. Tfcea he placed an egg in the easier of the weH, aad the first crow that siw it alighted oa tea eat side of the circle of sods, tripped into tee open ing after the egg; aad got its foot ia tee trap. The crow began to flutter like fury, aad Harry ran out and clubbed It to death. He has caagat nearly two dozen of the sly birds 1b that way mis season. In the western part of North Carolina, about seven miles west of Hot Springs, there lives a family by the name of Brooks. It Is a very interesting- oae, aad many a visitor to tea quiet little town of Hot Spflsgs has had his curiosity so aroused by stories of this family that he has hired a team and driven seven miles to the Brooks residence. This consists of a lit tle, low log cabin In as unsettled district, aad is occupied by lather, mother and 30 excepties ally handsome children. Every one is a Meade, with yellow-golden hair aad peachy complex ion, and all as ignorant, wild and natatered as they are beautiful. In additiou to the above family proper the two oldest girls are married; one is a widow with two children and the other has three children and a hasband, Both these little families are Uvicg with the oM fetes at home, making in all a family of 38, wheaaaae are missing. The borne or log cabin consists of bnt one room, and that a very small oae. The family sleeps in berths, an angsd like taese oa a ship. FANCIES OF FTJKHY MEf. First Bagman How is business? Second Bagman Oh, picking up. .Yew Jort Sun. It takes a smart man to tell a good lie; but nearly all men grow smarter the longer they are married. SomtniUe Journal. "Marriages are made in heaven," quoth Miss Antique. "Then there Is some chance for you yet," was the creel reply of her younger sli-ter.-iforper' Matar, Thompson (proudly) Bobinson, yon see that gun? My wife killed a bear with that once- Bobinson Ah. Indeed I What was she thootlng nilJtumteyt Wetktv. He my greatest fault is that I'aa apt to speak wlthoat tnmklng. She Well. 1. suppose It ean't be well avoided unless you quit talking. Terrs Haute Exprtst. I've changed ray mind, old fellow, And the maiden I'll ne'er wed; I asked her for her hand, last evening, ,p Ana got it sias or tne neaa. , .gfk Kearnty SnterprtttS Sweet Girl "What under the sun areayesr going to marry him for? ' $ The Other Sweet Olrl-He looks so auchflike poor 1'ldo when he was alive. Trr Ue.utenx vrttl. J ff Mormon Boy (whose JOsther has ,n:any wires) You hit me oa the nose again and I'll tell my ma. Gentile Bey Which one of year bus are yoa gola' to tell. Toss Btftlnft. A Fortunate Man. ITTesJ' said the stranger, "1 have made over SS,0S0 this year br parachute descents." "Ton are a balloonist, eh?" "No, lam an undertaker." Kevo Tort Sun. . He'll Get There Some Day. Strangerr Boy, will you direct me to the nearest bank? Street Uamln Will I' SS cents. Btranr Twentr-STf- cental Isn'tthst hlgnr Gamin Bant directors always gets big Pr. ( mister. JTo Tort Sun. Younglove I don't care tor fashionable j wnn -r.lf sail, mv ilr. I will always Del quite content If yoa never wear anything morej expensive than a calico gown aDoni m YTl Mrs.YounglOTe Iamnrpnsea ju i I thought you objected so stronily to women s pearlng ia print. America. , OeoraaVj Scribbler When is that review of'jsyj ini..l.nmliirnlil HnMiorr SMttlf r (profel crltlo-WeH, toteH tho truth. 1 have not re4Utj yet. ScrtbWw-Vetwlwnl broogut saebMta toh m sHBrsd bh that Ton would lose M sat tal readtefftt. SaSear-So I did- WeaVXha aetSMeKjt.-.wv.; 4 1 .1-1 i M t Jlncola. in ," ... ,- i '. '3..xi .stJstc iJiffjiilAs&L -i.Mt.J