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PITTSBURG. MONDAY. FEB 8, I89a
HE DID HOT ASSIMILATE.
The irrepressible Marquis De Mores hav
ing exhausted the possibilities of cattle
ranching and promoting of dressed beef cor
porations, in this country, now shines out
with meteoric splendor in France, as the
victorious principal in a duel. An un
bridled and ghoulish Parisian journal bit its
thumb, or otherwise poked an indignity at
the Marquis, and that Franco-American
representative from Bitter Creek called his
man out, shot bim through the left arm and
considers his wounded honor healed in pro
portion as the unfortunate journalist's left
arm is inflamed.
As regards this method ot vindicating
himself, the United States must disclaim all
responsibility for its quondam denizen. If
the noble Marquis had adopted the regula
tion Dakota method of dealing with an in
discreet newspaper, he would have ridden
his horse into the bureau de redaction,
end, if the editor had not got the
drop on him first, would hare shot the
editorial force, pied the forms and
thrown the press out of the window.
In adopting the formalities of the effete Euro
pean style, he chose a less dangerous and
uproarious, but not less comic method of
procedure. If the former cowboy associates
of the Marquis should learn that he and an
other tenderfoot had traveled together a hun
dred or more miles in order to shoot at each
other once, the humor of the thing would be
considered as convulsing.
The evidence that the Marquis has learned
nothing from American promptness in get
ting to work with his gun, is damaging to
the supposed power of our institutions to
assimilate foreign elements. "Yc shall have
to give De Mores np as an incorrigible
Frenchman.
A POSSIBLE BEFOBH.
Mr. Henry Warner joins Mr. David Mc
Cargo in the opinion that convict labor in
the construction of highways would prove
less remunerative than free labor, from the
expense of furnishing guards as well as the
inferior character of the work. This is un
disputed as regards the old system, and the
one in vogue in the Southern States. But
the question is whether the system cannot be
reformed so as to make it an incentive to the
criminals to do good and faithful work, and
actually better their condition by the change
to that class of labor. The example of Kan
sas, though it may not be conclusive, con
tains a suggestion in that direction that is
worthy ot investigation. To revive the old
chain-sang system would be a step back
ward ; but to provide a plan of work that
would be beneficial alike to the convicts and
the State would be philanthropic as well as
administrative progress.
THE EEAL ISSUE
The defense of the course of Speaker
Beed, made in our Washington correspond
ence is about equivalent to that given
out by the Speaker himself. Both
repeat in detailed form the arguments
advanced on that tide during the past week.
To their full declaration of the absurdity of a
member being present and declaring him
self absent no dissent need be taken; but
with that point conceded the vital feature of
the case which makes the Speaker's course
one that cannot be justified in the interest
of representative government, is ignored by
Doth.
That feature is brought out by the fact, as
stated by our correspondent more than once,
that "the Speaker and a few of his friends"
determined to stop dilatory motions. But
that is just what neither the Speaker nor
any of his friends, individually have a
right to do. The whole House, under the
Constitution, is given power to prescribe
rules for the government of the body; and
the majority, under the principles of repre
sentative government, is charged with the
duty of bringing in rules and securing their
adoption. For the Speaker to undertake to
do individually what only the House
can do as a body, and to carry out his pur
pose by ruling out motions privileged in
all parliamentary bodies, and forbidding
members to read records germain to the dis
cussion, is au unprecedented and unwarrant
able assumption of personal power.
If the Be publicans had brought in rules
for the government of the House, designed
to prevent filibustering, the attitude of the
party during the fight which would have
ensued, would have been very different
That would have been an assertion of the
right of the House to govern itself. Al
though Mr. Beed himself, when the Demo
crats took that constitutional course in 1880,
argued that it would interfere with a valuable
and salutary right of the minority, it would
probably have gained the approval of the
people. But when Mr. Beed undertakes to
enact personally what he declared ten years
ago the legal power should not do, it can
only be recognized as a phenomenal nullifi
cation of parliamentary principle for parti
san purpose.
Concerning the assertion that the practice
of leaving the House without a quorum is a
new thing, it is pertinent to quote from Mr.
Beed's speech ten years ago that "this privi
lege is a privilege which every minority has
availed itself of since the formation of the
Government, "and thaf'it is a valuable priv
ilege for the country."
The death of Mrs. Coppinger is an ad
ditional family affliction for the Secretary of
State. In his repeated bereavements he has
the respectful sympathy of the entire people,
without regard to polities. Party lines are ob
literated by death.
Between Tom Piatt at Albany and Tom
Beed at Washington, the Eepubllcan party is
marching to the beat of the tom-toms.
Tub multiplicity of statements in defense
of Speaker Heed's course, both from 'himself
and throngh the special correspondents. Indi
cates the dawn of the idea that the people do
not take kindly to a Speaker who enacts rules
by personal edict
LABOE IK DEMAND.
A short telegraphic item concerning the
scarcity of miners in the Monongahela river
mines furnishes a first-class object lesson on
the oft-repeated theory that competition
crowds down wages. The proof is furnished
there that such a theory ignores the obvious
fact that there can be competition in the pur
chase of a commodity or service as well as
in the selling of it.
Competition is free in the river coal trade.
All attempts to combine that interest have
failed; and what is the result? Have wages
been crowded down as might have been the
case if the operators bad been combined in a
single organization? On the contrary wages
have been kept np, and, even with the
drawback of the warm winter, the very
presence of legitimate competition ensures
such activity as to create a demand for
labor. The result is that miners are wanted
in the Monongahcla region, and the lucky
firms arc those who have men enough to
secure a large output.
The example is one to which attention is
not called very often; but it is nevertheless
frequent. Where competition is even and
unrestrained, capital will compete for labor
as freely as labor will compete for wages.
BOGUS FOOD.
The discovery that an enterprising firm
of New Jersey manufacturers have been
producing an imitation of "pure" Java and
Mocha coffee, indicates a development ol
home industry which is not likely to meet
with public favor. The general tendency
of the press is to regard this as a new thing;
but it is really a modern and probably im
proved development of what was generally
and openly done in this country during the
war when coffee rose beyond the means of
the common people, and the entire United
Stales set to the search for substitutes.
There is no inherent reason why imitation
coffee should not be as much of a success as
imitation butter, imitation olive oil, imita
tion lard or imitation eggs. The public
wrong or right of the manufacture depends
on the character of the ingredients used to
flavor the bogus coffee; but the secrecy which
surrounds the process does not inspire the
hope that the substances are such as to com
mend themselves to public favor. As the
trade is likely to be principally in selling
the imitation article as genuine, that branch
of the new industry, as in the case of most
of the other food imitations, will be little
more than an organized practice of getting
money under false pretenses.
The approach of the day when the Ameri
can citizen will sit down to his breakfast
to drink imitation coffee, sweetened with
bogus glucose sugar, and eat imitation eggs,
or possibly imperil his digestion with dough
nuts fried in imitation lard, appears not tar
away. Only the discovery of bogus cream
for the coffee and bogus flour for the bread
is necessary to make it possible for the com
mon American to take a meal without aston
ishing his stomach by a single genuine arti
cle of food.
PEOPLE OP PROMINENCE.
SexAtob Ino alls' dally lunch at the Senate
restaurant consists ot nine oysters fresh from
the shells.
Lyman Tbumbull, ex-Governor, ex-Sccrc-tary
of State, ex-Supreme Judgo, ex-member of
Congress and cx-Unlted States Senator. Is still
practicing law in Chicago at the age of 77. He
Is in good health and his legal ability Is as
great as ever.
Baiinard McKiebnax, of Pba;nlxville,Pa.,
was one of the Light Brigade at Balaklava. He
wears a silver medal given him by the Sultan
of Turkey and a gold one from Queen Victoria.
On each are engraved the words "Sebastopol,
Inkernian, Balaklava and Alma."
The largest tea and coffee Importer in the
United State is J. W. Doan, of Chicago. He is
many times a millionaire. Mr. Doan keeps one
man buying teas in China at a salary of 512,000
a yoar. Another gets the same salary in Chi
cago for grading teas by inhaling the aroma.
The Sultan of Turkey has sent three hairs
from the beard of the Prophet by a special
messenger as a present to the town of Aleppo.
Wherever the messenger appeared during his
journey he was received in state, and the Gov
ernor of Aleppo came to meet him before the
gates of the town.
The Dowager Empress of China wanted to
have the photographs of all the distinguished
Englishmen who have served China, and the
Chinese Government has justprocured through
London photographers for her two portraits of
Chinese" Gordon, each five feet high, one
showing him In his English and the other In
his Chinese uniform. The portraits wore ob
tained by enlarging old photographs.
Poet iVnrrriEn bad an agreeable surprise
the other day in the shape of a check for $1,000
from .Bonner Brothers In payment for bis poem
published recently in their weekly, entitled
"The Captain's Will." The old gentleman, in
sending the poem to the publishers, said it was
probably the last poem be should write, a fact
which enhanced its value. Mr. Whittler, in
thanking the Bonners, said the money was all
the more welcome from the fact that it ena
bled him to perform certain little chanties he
had in mind.
Mbs. Louise Chandler Moulton never
sends out cards for her afternoons at home,
but simply announces through the daily papers
that she will be glad to see her friends on such
a day. A number of friends are asked to re
ceive with her, and they come in street dress
and bonnets. Anybody comes wbo wishes, an
nounces himself, and has 'the liberty of the
house at once. There are always dainty re
freshments provided, bnt no attempt is made
to have them served. Tbey stand on a table In
the dining room, and each guest goes out as he
chooses to pour his own chocolate or coffee.
PLEADS FOR ITSELF.
PB0GBESS OH" THE SUBWAY QUESTION.
The progress which is being made toward
the settlement of the underground wire
question in Sew York is shown by the pro
position of a new electrical subway com
pany to build all the conduits required
within a year. It thus appears that while
the underground wire movement is in com
parative infancy, it has produced a compe
tition in the business or building and leas
ing subways which insures full accommoda
tions and moderate charges. So long as the
field is open for new companies to embark
in such enterprises, we may be sure that if
the existing conduits become crowded or the
charges excessive, capital will be found to
build new ones. Indeed, it looks as if en
terprise might eventually reach the point of
building subways large enough to accom
modate all kinds of underground lines and
pipes by the system which is being pursued
with the Thirty-third street sewer in this
city at present.
The House may not be covering itself
with glory; but the Committee on Commerce
last week proved that it knows what is wise by
setting down on the scheme of Elijah Pogram
Merse and bogus anti-monopolist Allerton for
repealing the Inter-State commerce law. Our
Congressmen may squabble for partisan con
trol, but they know better than to turn the
wheels of a needed reform backward.
Of the gang of lynchers who have been
arrested out in Texas each tried to prove that
the other fellows did it The exponents of
mob law are nearly always moral cowards, or
tbey would have stamina enough to stand up
for legal justice.
Adjutant General Hastings' suc
cessful participation in a fox hunt at Elwyn,
Pa., a few days ago, mar not have been solely
for the gratification ot his pleasure at the cost
of the poor fox. The gallant Adjutant Gen
eral doubtless saw the neea of practice, in or
der to aid him In a cross-country pursuit of
the Ely and elusive Governorship.
S0LUII0HBY MONOPOLY.
What is presented as a solution of the gas
question, as adopted by the city of Balti
more, is summarized as follows: The city
does not take over the works, but it regu
lates the gas company, fixes the price at
1 25 per 1,000 feet, forbids a higher divi
dend than 6 per cent, and, in return, guar
antees the company against competition for
25 years.
For a so-called solution of the gas ques
tion this is a monument ot municipal stu
pidity. The price is fixed at a figure far
above the cost of gas in any city so near the
coal fields as Baltimore. The stock, how
ever watered, is giveu a dividend of C per
cent; and a monopoly of 25 years is granted
through which the managers ot the company
can keep the dividends down to that figure
by means of fat inside contracts. If a plan
had been drawn to guarantee to a corpora
tion a rich and undisturbed business at the
public expense.it could not have secured the
object more fully than this alleged solution
of the question.
When cities go honestly to work with the
idea that the just price of gas will be fixed
. when it is as easy lor any one to compete in j
The principal feature in the Democratic
municipal canvass is its dull ana deadly ab
sence of the hostilities which usea to enliven
such events. Are our Democratic friends be
coming apathetic, or has the mlllenium ar
rived? An unfortunate thief has been arrested in
the East for stealing thirteen pairs ot cloves.
and an esteemed cotemporary thinks that he
must be convinced that thirteen is an unlucky
number. Probably, also if he had stolen 13,.
000,000 he might have found that large gum to
be a very lucky number, go far as this world is
concerned.
The ground hog declares that there will
be no more winter and the Signal Service's cold
wave proved a miserable fiasco. If all signs
do not XalL as they have been doing, the stock
of artificial ice companies ouch t to go up.
Concerning that Southside water ques
tion. It certainly is plain that if the public
health is imperiled, the shortest course to a
remedy ought to be taken. This holds even
when the City Attorney's statement of the law
in the case does not meet with the approval of
that eminent legal authority, the City Health
Officer.
Now Western Pennsylvania is to furnish
more steamers for South American rivers.
Who says that we cannot furnish niannfact
urers for the Western hemisphere?
The way in which both parties are over
riding the principles of representatives to se
cure control, in Washington and Montana
on one hand and in Ohio and West Virginia an
the other, indicates the foundation of party
policy at present to lie In the belief that there
Is no hereafter at the polls.
Silcotx declares that the races were the
cause of bis downfall, Is it possible that the
Yesterday's 20-Pngo Dispatch Needs No
Eulogiutn In Review.
The world is full of mistaken people. Man
miscalculates, and blunders every day of bis
life, in greater or less degree. It were idle to
even attempt to enumerate the million and one
forms In which liability to error shows itselfAn
example near home will suffice. Hundreds of
people anxions to learn, or desirous ot enjoying
cheaply the delicious fruits of literature, and
the fellowship of wit and wisdom, purchase
volume after volume, under the delusion that
they are attaining their end economically.
And yet they can obtain for a mere nominal
sum an even greater amount of cultnre ana
entertainment. In the pages of The Dis
patch great authors originate great thoughts;
wits, poets, and philosophers amuse and im
prove, while other nations and other climes are
described and pictured in such a manner as to
bring them vividly before the eyes ot the most
dull of comprehension.
Take yesterday's 20-page Dispatch for
Instance. Bead it, and let it plead to you Its
own advantages. .
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A comparative calm fell upon Congress after
the late storm had spent its rage. A vote is
soon to be attempted. Brave Sister Bose Ger
trude, successor to Father Damien, was Inter
viewed by a Dispatch reporter In New York.
Grover Cleveland is flourishing the standard of
ballot reform, ana ex-Solicitor General Jenks
is confident of G rovers Fresidental success.
A Bichmond preacher has been suspended for
writing to a married lady. Senator Farwell
says that the appointment of Clark to the
Chicago Port Collectorship was confirmed with
his consent. In spite of contrary statements,
the audit of tho National League books has
proved completely satisfactory. Depositors in
the Sixth National Bank of New York are
assured' that they will lose nothing by the
wreckage. The secret of Mrs. Parn ell's desti
tution is out. She speculated in stocks, and
was consequently plunged in poverty. She
praises her son's generosity, but says he has no
means of bis own. A terrible and fatal fire
occurred in a Boston tenement house.
Portuguese newspapers aro striving fiercely
to stir up hatred of England in their country.
The Austrian Imperial Court observes solemn
ly the anniversary of the death of Prince Ru
dolph. The young King of Spain is pronounced
convalescent. Barnum performed, figuratively
speaking, before some English notables in Lon
don, and succeeded in making a few jokes
which were almost funny. A rupture Is re
ported between Kaiser William and Bismarck.
The Boulangists are still lively.
II.
Bev. Samuel Maxwell, rector of Trinity
Church, sues the trustees thereof for damages.
Treasurer Thompson gives interesting particu
lars in response to a Johnstown man's kick
against the fund distribution. The Democratic
primaries were slow In the extreme. Delegates
were elected to the National Colored Conven
tion at Washington. Mr. Pattison states that
the postofflee will be moved to the rapidly pro
gressing Government building on Smlthfleld
Btreet by October L The election fraud cases
from tho Eighteenth ward are being ventilated
in court. The Americas Club is discussing the
project of a new club house. The first banquet
ever held in Pittsburg, when toasts were given
in French, came off on the Southside with suc
cess. Pringle's review and much Interesting sport
ing intelligence are to be found in their nsual
places.
nr.
"L. E. 8." writes pleasantly of the present
candidates for office In Pittsburg: their lives
and works. Miss Grundy, Jr describes what a
really excellent dinner should be. "Beatrice,"
H. Blder Haggard's charming story, is contin
ued. G. H. Sandlson's "Bouts in the Dark" Is
an able article on wrestling as the best mode
ot self-defense. Arlo Bates discusses Mr. Bel
lamy's theories on the social problem. Brenan,
in "Gay Gallery Gods." describes scenes and
characters in the galleries of a theater. "Is
Life Worth Living?" Is discussed byEmile
Zola and Walt Whitman. A pleasant interview
with Chauncey M. Depew, on "Oratory
and its Methods," is the compilation of
ELS. and H. H. C. writes of Gov.
Beaver's home in a very picturesque
manner. Frank G. Carpenter describes nine
of America's leading Bnpreme Jndges. Bill
N ye is, as usual, excruciatingly funny. "Come
Forth," the biblical story by Elizabeth &
Phelps, is continued. Mrs. Frank Leslie writes
in "Fair Woman's World." Other contributors
to this magnificent Issue are: "Frank Fern,"
Fannie B. Ward. Louis M. Megargee. Bev.
George Hodges, "Bessie Bramble," Henry
Haynte, "Lorna Doono," "Bumbalo," "Clara
Belle," Edward Wakefield, Shirley Dare.
"Kosmos," B. P. ShlllaDer ("Mrs, Partington"),
etc. "Paysle's" fairy story Is bright and at
tractive. The dramatic, musical, literary, mil
itary, society, educational, and other special
columns are quite up to the mark.
THE CRITIC'S REVIEW.
The Other Professor's Queer Way of Read-
Ins A Book Hard to Bend That Way
Memories ol Ferdinand The Annual of
Photography, the Pilgrim nnd the Shrine,
Miss Breckenridge, Fugitive Facta and
Other Books.
pHE Other Pbofessob, in the new book by
the author of "Alice In Wonderland," had a
queer way of reading.
"The Other Professor was seated at a table,
with a large book open before bim, on which
bis forehead was resting; be had clasoed his
arms round the book, and was snoring heavily.
'He usually reads like that,' the Professor re
marked, 'when tbo book's very Interesting.' "
Even the Other Professor would find It hard
to read Bylvte and Bruno after that fashion.
Lewis Carroll may have written it in his sleep
indeed, he confesses in the preface that he
dreamed some of it but nobody can go to sleep
reading it "Sylvie and Bruno" is not equal, of
course, to "Alice In Wonderland." That would
be quite too much to ask. The mlddio-
aged Individual wbo reads nooks on
"Diseases of the Heart" in railway trains, and
divides bis attention between lovers and
fairies, is not half so delightful a guide into
elfland as Alice was, still, the fun and the wis
dom, the rhymes and the sermons, the real folk
and the fairies, aro just as charmingly blended;
there is the same succession of dissolving views,
and It Is just as evident as ever that Lewis Car
roll has found that magic vial which Alice
drank of, and which brought her bead down to
a-Ievel with the little people by her feet Mr.
Carroll seems to think, for some reason, that he
has started out in quite a new path. We could
wish for nothing better than that he should
take us for still another walk along that pleas
antest road on which wo started with Alice in
our company. And that. In fact. Is what be has
really done. There is no new path about it.
The game of cards and tho game
of chess have changed into a pretty
love-story, and there may be a littlo more
preaching in this book than in the other a
littlo moro of that sobriety which the author
says is "a very good thing If practiced in mod
eration" but otherwise this is simply "part
three" of the same delightful story:
"lie thought he saw a rattlesnake
That questioned him In Greek;
lie looked again and found It was
The Middle of Iext Week.
The only thing I regret ' he said,
'Is that It cannot speak.' "
Who could read that without thinking of
Alice, and the jabberwock, and all the rest of
that charming company? We get straight Into
the midst of that land of strange and learned
animals, where our guide assures us that be is
very wise in natural history, being always able
to tell kittens from chickens at one glance.
IS Mr. Carroll says of bis book in the preface:
"It is written, not lor money and not for fame,
but In the hope of supplying for the children,
whom I love, some thoughts that may suit
those hours of innocent merriment, which are
the very lite of childhood, and also in the hope
of suggesting to them and to others some
thoughts that would prove, I would fain hope,
not wholly out of harmony with the graver
cadences of Life." (MacMillau & Co.; J. B.
Weldin & Co. ?1 60.)
pEBETNAND is best remembered among the
ladies of the "Queen Isabella Association''
as having bad the good fortune to be the hus
band of Isabella. There is somo historical
foundation for such an estimate; anyway. It
was the good Queen who pawned ber jewels to
give a chance to the adventurous Captain wbo
wanted to go West, In whom she had a
faith for which all ages will give ber
credit Ferdinand was indifferent science was
hostile; ecclesiastical polities, Franciscan and
Dominican, added complications and hin
drances. The Council of Salamanca decided
that there was no likelihood of any continent
over here, at all; even Isabella herself wavered
a good deal in her confidence. Christopher Co
IumDUShadabardtlmeof it If it had not been
for the faith and constancy of good Fra Perez,
of the little convent of La Boblda, near Falos,
even Captain Christopher Columbus would per
hapshavo given up bis hope. Fra Perez was tho
real hero, next to the discoverer, of the Colum
bus expedition. However, all honor to the
Queen, whose jewels, if tbey ever really went to
pawn, let us hope were safely got out again.
She is wearing some of them in the picture
of her which illustrates Itabella of Castile
(C. V. Waits & Co., J2 SO). This little book
is one of the first signs of the
approach of tbe 400th anniversary. It is
published by an association (originating, of
course. In Chicago), whose purpose is to erect
a statue of Isabella to bo unveiled at tbe Fair,
and also to put up an Isabella Pavilion, In
which it is purposed to exhibit articles com
memorative or the days of tbe discovery.
Harriet Hosmer is to be the sculptor. Eliza
Allen Starr has written tho book.
writer, who is evidently a lady, and quite
young, and an admirer of the work of Mrs.
Amelia Hives Chanler, will write a good,
strong, sensible, striking and readable novel.
But not yet (J. B. Llpplncott Company; J. B.
Weldin & Co., SO cents).
.
puarava Facts Is an altogether different
sort of book, as Indeed Is suggested by Its
title. It Is a "Handy Family Reference Book,"
well described as being "entertaining and in
structive for desultory reading," but incor
rectly styled "unique." Miss Killikelly's ex
cellent book of "Curious Questions" covers as
wide a range, concerns things which one Ik
even more likely to want information about,
and is In better type. There seems to bo no
particular reason why Mr. Thome should have
selected lust these particular facts. Still, how
ever, wa are not disposed to quarrel with
his choice. However much of Interest
has been left out almost everything Is of
Interest wbloh has been brought in.
Every page attracts attention and invites
the reader. The Cardiff GUnt and tbe Star
Chamber, the Sphinx and the Flying Dutch
man, Djnamlte and Volapuk are discussed with
a thousand other things fn brief, clearly stated
Saracraphs. Mr. Thorne naturally in so wide a
eld falls occasionally Into error, as, for ex
ample, where be attributes tbe name "Star
Chamber" to a star ornamented celling. Tbe
better explanation finds the name In tbe fact
that In the times when Jews had no standing
In local courts, but were dependent solely upon
the King for justice, their bonds, which in the
Hebrew were called "Starrs." were kept for
safety in this strong room. In the main, bow
ever, tbe collecting and editing has been wisely
and carefully done. The appendix contains
musical, nautical, commercial and medical vo
cabularies, and a dictionary of mythological
names. The book comes close enough to date
to take In the Eiffel Tower. (A. L. Burt J.
B. Weldln&Co. 82.)
A little book with red covers, and of a size
to slip easily Into the average coat pocket,
with good paper and clear type, and Tales from
Blackwood tor a title, contains six notable
stories. Or rather five stories and a ballad.
The ballad is written by John Stuart Blackie,
and tells of tho battleof Ancrum Moor, wherein
was done that deed of valor which is kept in
memory still by the quaint inscription on a
stone which marks the spot:
"Fair Maiden Lilliard lies beneath this stane;
Small was her stature, but mickle was her
fame;
Upon the English loons she laid full many
thumps,
And when ber legs were cuttlt off she fought
upon her stumps."
The best story In the book, to our liking, is
"Fiddlers Three," by Mrs. M. L. Burton,
dramatically written, and showing what good a
little music did. Most of the stories are sad,
several are tragic. 'The Dragon Tree of Telde"
describes tbe working of grim destiny with a
bleeding tree for message bearer. "Tbe Ghost
of Morcars Tower" is a capital venture into
the undiscovered country. 'The Last Words
of Joseph Barrable" Is a'bit ot a story by way
of comment upon the relations between justice
and poverty. The way in which people can be
tortured and robbed and murdered "By Act of
Parliament," Is very grimly shown. "How I
Fell Among Thieves" lightens npthe book a
little, the misfortune of the story belngnothing
worse than a succession of weddings, making
inordinate demands upon the purse for presents
which were not appreciated. (White fc Allen;
J. R. Weldin & Co.; 40 cents).
ONE OP CUPID'S QDEEE CAPEES.
A Boy of Sixteen Slarrlea a Maiden Forty
Year of Age.
Btblinoton, N. J. February 2. Announce
ment of tbe marriage of Walter Clark, who
has reached the age of 16, to Miss Phcube Jones,
a spinster of 40 summers, forms the latest topic
of vigorous talk in this city. Miss Jones was
housekeeper for John Kane, a neighbor of the
Clarks. and the boy became infatuated with
her. She received the advances of her youth
ful lover with all tbe abandon of a giddy girl.
Tbe strangely-mated pair went to Camden
early this week, but that marriage mill did not
pan out a certificate of matrimony for them.
They then tried their fate in Philadelphia,
not knowing the marriage law. Failing there
to have their wishes crowned, tbey visited Ban
cocas, a small village five miles from here,
where a country 'Squire pronounced them man
and wife. The parents of tbe boy-busband
have as yet made no move to get aside the mar
riage, THE WORLD'S FAIE.
TXTe have received from the Scovlll fc Adams
Company, by tho courtesy of W. S. Bell A
Co., bf this city, a copy of The American An
nual of Photography. Even the Innocent man
wbo has never stained his hands with the ob
jectionable acids which for some reason seem
to be used in making pictures, ana who prefers
the white light of tbo sun to tbe red dusk of
the dark room, can still find something to in
terest him in this handsome volume. He can
look at the pictures. If he does, be will see some
exceedingly good pictures. Thomas A. Edison's
boyish looking face serves for frontispiece.
'An Improvised Studio" and "A Merry Group"
are capital genre studies. "Babyhood" in
photogravure is a charming littlo picture.
Neither of the cberubs in Mr. Carnegie's
Sistico Madonna areas pretty as this little
curly-beaded, bare-sbouldered baby. People
whose knowledge and taste run in tbe direction
of Hypo-Eliminators and Bromides and Hy-
drochlnon developers, ana Eikonogen will find
plenty of Instruction in these pages. (Paper
covers SO cents.)
V
A fter an extended paper cutting, top, bot
tom and sides, we get a good look at Ed
ward Maltland's book. The Pilgrim and the
Shrine (John W. Lovell Co., 50 cents), there
seems to be some kind of morbid influence In
the air of South Africa, which leads one who
lends himself to It into all Borts of emotional,
ethical and theological vagaries. "Tbe Story
of an African Farm" is an illustration, and
is quite enough of that sort of thing to last a
good while. "Tbe Pilgrim and the Shrine,"
however, is in the same tone of thought, and
even In manner of expression brings continual
reminders of that singular book. Herbert
Ainslie, tbe hero, remarks on the first page
that the "Sunday services and week-day devo
tions," which seem to satisfy the rest of the
family aro quite "painful" to bim, till he feels
constrained to declare that he will "never go to
church again." This is in England; he "escapes"
and seeks the South. He takes up his abode
in the South African gold diggings; be flist
across the sea, stopping at Samoa to fall in
love with a fair, but dusky, native, and visits
California; at last, after an immense deal of
letter-writing, and diary-keepfng, and theologi
cal disquisition which be may read who will
he settles down, marries an Australian
heiress, and decides that "in love alone, in
pure and nnreserving love, does all question
ing find answer." The book is No. S Lovell's
"Occult" series.
Philadelphia Jfews: It there is no World's
Fair in IS92 New York can tell why.
Boston Herald: It now seems likely that it
will be held in Washington, if it Is held at all.
Minneapolis Journal: Tbe World's Fair
movement begins to smell of if, fizzle, and fail
ure. Denver Republican: TbeCongressional Com
mittee on the World's Fair seems to be waiting
for additional bids before the hammer de
scends. New York World: It tbe metropolitan
World's Fair project is killed let its epitaph
read: "Destroyed by the Pernicious Bacillus of
New York Politics."
Baltimoro American: The fact that New
York is putting politics Into the World's Fair
enterprise is the best of reasons for selecting
the site somewhere else.
Boston Globe: The New York Assembly has
voted $10,000,000 for the World's Fair. New
York legislators aro always as generous with
the people's money as New York millionaires
are stingy with their own .
Albany, N. Y., Journal: The party has had
a lucid interval in refusing to turn over to Boss
Crocker and tho other Tammany politicians of
New York City the expenditure of $10,000,000 of
World's Fair money in a Presidental year.
St. Paul Pioneer-Press: It does not much
matter wbo gets the Fair, but it would be dis
tinctly better to have none at all than to toler
ate any taint of boodle about it It is almost In
evitable that the New York project, carried out
on the New York plan, should Involve a scandal.
THE SPEAKER'S SIDE OF IT.
A Correspondent Sees the Light or Reason
la Reed's Rigid Ralc-rA Minority Not to
be Governed or Gulled br a Minority
The bpenker Supported by Ills Parly for
Good Reasons Action the Watchword.
iritoM a btait coBBXsroxnrfT.i
TXJashington, February L The noisiest and
most disgraceful scenes ever enacted in
tbe Congress ot the United States have been
witnessed during the last two or three days.
Altogether it was an Insane and senseless up
roar, which would have been creditable to tbe
population of Bedlam. It was not called into
being by any great question of public policy,
but merely by a point of parliamentary tactics.
The whole affair has been very generally mis
understood. Individuals and journals In sym
pathy with the minority have been interested
in proving that the action of Speaker Beed is
autocratic and revolutionary, and even many
Republican iournals, and independent
ones which aim to be right and
not partisan, have appeared to think
that the Speaker was arrogating to himself
absolute power, regardless of any question of
right or fairness for mere party advantage, and
that the Republicans, In supporting him, were
a lawless mob, simply bent upon ruling at any
cost It may be well, therefore, to go a little
farther Into the situation than was approplate
in tbe news telegrams describing tbe scenes of
each day.
It Is only within a few years that filibuster
ing has become a constant practice of the mi
nority of the House, for the prevention of any
act of the majority not acceptable to that
minority. Gradually, In tbe elaboration of
goneral parliamentary law, known as the
"Rules of the House," clauses were in
serted which gave to one man, or a
few men, absolute power to baffle -and defeat
the will of tbe majority, and this, even though
a quorum were present; and, furthermore, even
though tbe party of the majority bad a quorum
present and voting. Motions for tbe reading of
tho journal, to adjourn, to take a recess, points
of "no quorum" on all of these motions, pos
sibly; demands for reading bills and reports in
their entirety, and other motions designated as
"privileged motions," repeated over and over
(as was permitted by tbe extraordinary rules),
sufficed the filibuster to "block the wheels ot
legislation," as tbe conventional phrase goes,
Tbe power, by means of a small vote to com
pel the calling of the yeas and nays on each of
these motions, and thus consume tbe time of
the House, greatly added to the force ot the
weapon in the hands of tbe minority.
Tt often happened, as in the instance of
the contest upon tbo Direct Tax Bill,
about two years ago, that the question Is not a
political one en which the party line is drawn.
That bill was supported by a large majority of
both parties, yet for weeks a mere handfnlof
men who wanted to make a record for "econ
omy," defeated every effort of the majority to
pass tbe bill, and that majority was finally
forced to yield and deliver the control of legis
lation into the bands of that small and not
particularly savory minority.
Frequently a single member, sincere, but of
bad judgment, or one merely playing
the part of a demagogue, or possibly
one purchased by some influence desiring tbe
defeat of a measure, would prevent absolutely
the consideration of such bill, single-handed
and alone, against all prayers and protests of
every other member. No such condition was
ever contemplated in the institution of the
Parliament The groundwork and super
structure of democratic government was defied
and destroyed by it, and in America, tbe center
of republican spirit and growth, an abuse was
fostered and established that would not be
tolerated for a moment in tho Parliaments of
any of the older, less free and less progressive
countries.
In their Parliament a reasonable number of
dilatory motions are permitted enough to em
phasize tbe protests of tbe minority and call
the attention of tbe country to them but, to
these Parliaments and peoples, continued and
successful filibustering by one member, or a
small minority of members, would be viewed as
not only revolutionary but an anomaly at once
criminal, grotesque and ridiculous. Impossible
with reasonable and honest beings. From time
to time efforts were made to limit tbe infinito
power of the minority, out tbe most that was
done at any time was once to agree to a tempo
rary suspension of dilatory motions, except the
few orderly ones recognized by the most digni
fied Parliaments.
whole country will soon see the good effect on
Congress, in the production of reason and order
and the facilitation of public business; and,
after it Is done, nobody will be better satisfied
than the Democrats who now denounce the
Speaker. Such rules may enable the Repub
licans to seat a number of the contestants of
their party. It Is the custom of both parties to
seat their own contestants, and somewhat re
gardless of law. But any Injustice done in this
respect can be avenged at the polls next No
vember. EL W. Liohtxeb.
OUE MAIL MUCH.
Balldlng and Loan Associations.
To the Editor of The Dlsnatchi
Would von kindly tell me through The Dis
patch if it is necessary for a person to own
shares in a buildirg and loan association, and
what amount or how many, to have the privi
lege of getting a loan to buy property? I have
read the rules and by-laws of one or two asso
ciations but don't really understand them.
Bex.
Pittsbubo. February L
Tbe principles of building association man
agement are as follows: Every borrower Is al
ways a member and an investor. Investors or
members contribute Jl per month per share
until each share, including tbe profits in the
business reaches the ultimate value of 8200. In
many ot the associations the shares
reach mutnrlty in about 140 months.
No person is allowed to borrow from tbe society
unless bo is a member or becomas one. The so
ciety will lend a member S2U) on each share to
which he is contributing. When there is a de
mand for tbe money, by reason of several mem
bers wanting It at one time, tbe borrowers bid a
premium for it, and the highest bidder secures
the money by agreeing to pay (if on what is
called the installment plan) so many cents per
month per share fur each month the loan has to
run. A share ot stock, so called, is the accumu
lation of $1 per montb, until a final value of $200
is reached, by adding together tbe monthly de
posits and the gains.
History of Mirrors.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
who invonted mirrors?
Glexwood, February L
Smooth water was the first mirror, though
not the first looking glass; Narcissus, accord
ing to the Greek story, saw his own Image in
the water, fell in love wltn it and wasted away
with grief becau se be could not reach it The
Egyptians and other early people used metallio
mirrors, as the Chinese do still. They were of
brass or copper, highly polished, Fasiteles in
vented sliver mirrors about SO years before
Christ Some commentators think that glass
mirrors were used by tbe Romans about SO A.
D. From that time down to about 1290 glass
mirrors are not mentioned; but John Peckhamj
an English monk, who died in 123M, speaks of
iron, steel andpolished marble mirrors, and of
glass mirrors glass backed with lead. In the
fifteenth century glass mirrors were still rare.
Aboriginal Americans.
To the Editor of Tbe Dispatch:
Can you give me any information of what are
known as tbe cliff dwellers or mound builders?
Is there any published work on tbe subject?
SiaA.
Benwood, W. Va., February L
The question Is one that cannot be disposed
of in a newspaper paragraph. Scores of vol
umes and hundreds of magazine articles have
been written on tbe subject, and innumerable
theories advanced. You ought to find some in
formation about the matter in any pnblic
library, or for that matter, in any complete
work on American history.
As lo Liquor Licenses.
To the Editor of the DispatchU
Do retail liquor dealers have to pay United
States license also? Reader.
Bocewood, February L
Tbe United States does not license liquor
dealers, but it requires them to pay an internal
revenue tax.
Dr. J. G. Holland.
To the Editor or The Dlssaten:
Who was tbe author of "Bitter Sweet?"
Winebeb.
Saxokbubg, February L
Looking to tbe Practical.
From the Norfolk VlrRlnlan.l
A Westminster Abbey In Washington has
been suggested, but it Is thought that a na
tional morgue for legislative deadlocks would
be more practical.
A Smashing Time.
From the Baltimore American. 2
There may be a great crash in tbe Old World
goon, as Russia Is trying to break up China, J
Tyriss Bbeceeniudge, who is described as "a
y daughter of Dixie," poses at the open
window clad in "Hellenic draperies of clinging
white." Behind her is the "glinting ball
room." Before her is a scene, uncharted in
any astronomy, and best visible, perhaps, to
daughters of Dixie. Anyway, it is not visible
in Pittsburg. "A luminous crescent pendent
in tbe dark, azure dome, while myriad stars
like sparks from shattered sunbeams gemmed
the velvet softness of tbe summer sky like
glittering Kohinoors, a royal diadem for the
shadow queen, night The illumined dark lay
upon the bosom of earth and sea like tbe
feathery plumes of some silvery pinioned
thing, and the perfect night was aquiver at the
Impassioned kiss of the caressing wind that
bore on its -saline wings weird love-whispers
from the surging sea."
That is a pretty high key in which to pitch a
book, but tbe author of "Miss Breckenridge"
manages to keep it up from start to finish.
"For one long. long moment their souls stood
apart, absorbed in the divine glories of vision;
then, then there was a soft rush a stifled gob
clinging arms, and silence! While below
there on the beach, alone lu the darkness, a
bravo man lifted his wild, white face to tbe
bending sky, while his heart writhed and broke
in Its awful agony of FatrHIcc!" That is tbe
end. Tbe man below v.as Poijc. Tbo happy
map on tbe pier was Roosevelt In that charm
ing Japanese romance, "The Sfcadow jj, the
Water," the hero marries both the heroines. It
is a pity, with two such perfeetlysuperb heroes,
that gome similar arrangement could not have
been made here. Somo day, this Nashville
Lea Jlllserables.
From the Coarler-Joarnal. I
The coal dealers have fared poorly this win
ter, but tbey have prospered in comparison
with tbe man who writes "Shut the Door"
signs.
DEATHS OF A DAY.
Alfred J. Parsons.
Alfred J. Parsons, tbe receiving teller of the
Dollar Savings Bank, died yesterday at his home
at Ingram station. Mr. Parsons had occupied the
tbe position of teller or the Dollar Savings Bank
for 28 years, and was an exceptionally attentive,
faithful and honest officer. Be was exceedingly
careful and regular In his habits. He was never
away from his post of duty except when off on his
summer va canon j.
Hehas been alllnsr somewhat for nearlv a rear
with Brlglit's disease. Aliout six weeks ago he
got a leave of absence for three months, hoping to
recruit himself, but death summoned htm be Tore
his furlough was oyer. The deceased leaves a
widow and six children three boys and three
girls.
President James Herdman, of the bank, was
seen at his home on Arch street, Allegheny, yes
terday afternoon. Be bad not heard ot Mr. Par
sons' death, and was completely overcome. He
had nothing but .the highest Drolse for tbe de
ceased, and said ho never knew a more straight
forward, honest, nprUbt business man than Mr.
Parsons had been. This, coming from a bank
president of38 years' experience, is a noble trib
ute to one who nad occupied a position of trust for
so long. Mr. Parsons svas a pupil of J.JI.D.
Meads, the present Treasurer of the bank, when
tbe latter taught the Second ward school.
Thomas W, Dnvls.
Thomas W. Davis, formerly a well-known CoU.
lector of Internal Revenue for eight years, died
at 1.1s borne In Glenwood yesterday afternoon
from peritonitis. Be submitted to ap operation
last Thursday as the last resort, but tt was unfor.
tunately unsuccessful. Mr. Davis has been long
and favorably known in local politics. A friend
of ltohert Mackav, and one of the leaders in the
marching club movement In 1871 In the Oraut
campaign, his services were recognized by his ap
pointments Collectorof internal Kevenue, which
he held for eight years. He was very highly
esteemed by all those with whom he came In con
tact and was about SO years of age at the time of
bis death. He leaves a wife and small family.
Peter Beaver.
ISFBCUJ, TSLE01U.1I TO TnE DISPATCH. 1
LxrwigBUBO, PA., February 2.-Ur. Peter
Beaver, one of the oldest and most respected citi
zens of tbe borough, died suddenly. Years ago he
was actively engaged In large Interests here and
elsewhere, but of late years was, an Invalid and
unable to take the prominent position which his
business abilities merited. At the time of his
death, however, be was senior member of the firm
of Beaver & Oo , manufacturers of pig Iron at
Wlnfield. Mr. Thomas Beaver, of Danville. Is a
brother. Governor Beaver a nephew, and Mrs. W,
II. Cassldy. of Pittsburg, a daughter of the de
ceased. lion. John W. Borlnc.
JsrrXIAL TtLEQJUM 7P Till DISPATCH. I
WnrELisG, February z. Hon. John Vf. Boring
dledatsr. . tfl-dar. He was one of the oldest
residents or TVhosIlag. and hagbeen prominent
In city and county notifies ror over 60 year, dur
ing which time he held nuriy offices.
J S conference Speaker Beed and a few of the
Bepublican leaders determined to abolish this
abuse which tended to make legislation to a
great extent a farce, to emulate it, to amend it
out of all semblance of common sense, and to
defeat it altogether. It was decided to em
body in the new rules of tbe House a clause
which would be a prohibition of filibustering,
except as to the few dilatory motions which
may be made in apparent good failh, and
which, until they aro repeated, cannot be recog
nized as dilatory. It was decided to test tbe
temper of tbe House by an application of
these rules to tbe proceedings. They were sim
ply the rules of common sense, first, that
a minority must not absolutely and finally rule
the majority: and, second, that it Is tbe duty of
a member to be in bis seat and that when there
be might be counted as taking part in tbe pro
ceedings, though not voting.
This last feature was tbe great stumbling
block. One of tbe chief means of delay In the
the hands of the minority bas been to abstain
from voting, and then, if tbe majority present
failed to number a majority of the whole
House, to make the point of "no quo
rum;" that is, too few to legally transact
business. Unless this point be raised, any num
ber of members voting may pass bills and
transact all tbe business delegated to the whole
House. Tho question of a quorum, once
raised, tellers must be appointed, ana a quorum
of members file between them and bo counted,
or tbe yeas and nays must be called. A quornm
must be disclosed in some way. If it be impos
sible to find a quorum business ceases abso
lutely, and the only means by which It can be
put in motion is to Send out the sergeant at
arms and his assistant, arrest members, fetch
them before the bar of the House, fine them or
excuse tbeir fault and compel them to vote or
pass between the tellers and be counted.
T XT us suppose this to be the situation: It is
" Impossible to discover a quorum by tellers
or by a call of the roll. The doors are closed.
The officers ot the House aro sent scurrying
abont the town, for truant members. They are
in tbe restaurant, at home, or driving about
town. If it be at night thev are In bed. In hll.
Hard rooms, gambling at tbe clnbs, or at other
places. Tbey are dragged to tbe bar of
tbo House. All members are jailed
within the hall. Hours pass, perhapn,
before a quornm can be mustered.
When that is accomplished, the doors are
opened, tbe members scatter again, and upon
the very next motion a quornm vote Is lacking,
and the whole wretched farce has to bo played
over again.
Speaker Reed and his friends determined to
do away with this most powerful weapon in the
bands of filibusters. For members to sit In
their seats and break a quorum by refusing to
vote, ana thus compel tellers, roll calls, calls of
tne Mouse, arrest oi memoers, anu so on, was
the most revolutionary and dostructire of pro
ceedings. Tbe Speaker would save the time
of the House by counting these silent filibust
ers as present and taking part in the proceed
ings of tbe House, though not voting. It was a
monstrous absurdity to permit a man to bowl
himself hoarse in aeDate ana men upon roll
call subside and become absent, in a par
liamentary sense. Mr. Beed changed all this
by watching for those members who were in
tbe hall and refusing to vote, and recording a
sufficient number of them, with the members
voting, to constitute a quorum. It was tbe duty
of every member to be in bis seat and to vote,
and In ruling as be did tbe Speaker was but
carrying out tbe spirit of the Constitution and
tbe dictates of common sense.
TTbas been argued that, by this ruling, a
measure may be passed with but one man
voting for it, and the other hundreds refusing
to vote either aye or nay, bnt, nevertheless.
counted by the Speaker to makeup a quorum.
The proposition is absurd: bur, even if It were
possible, the wrong would lie with the members
who refused to do their duty and vote.
The outcry against tbe Speaker, therefore,
has been merely the fury of a minority which
demands the opportunity to accomplish by par.
liamentary trickery what it cannof by tbe hon
est and Constitutional method of vntinr.
Every ruling of Speaker Beed has been in the
interests of orderly and speedy legislation. It
can injure none but demagogues and trick,
sters and corruptionists. If under it
tbo majority may accomplish some (njuitice
more easily than it would otherwise, it must be
allowed to do so and take tbe responsibility for
its act The minority can always expose the
Wrong, and tbe people can pass judgment
on tha perpetrators. The country can better
repose trust In a majority, wbicb may be held
responsible for its acts, than in a minority, at
least as fallible as the majority, and which is
entirely Irresponsible, as the record of a Con
gress is always charged to tbe majority.
If the Speakerbe revolutionary, be is revolu
tionary afl In the right direction, and, in my
estimation bas not only manifested great
ability as a presiding Clc;r, wonderful Ip bis
self-cuntrul, never losing his head or his tem
per fur a moment, and exhibiting a courage
approaching the hemic, fori do not believe
any other member could have carried this pro
ject to what now seems to be the point of suc
cess. If new rules are reported and adopted, em
bodying the late "ruling ol the Speaker, the
AN EXTREMELY ERRATIC STAfi
That Astonished a Mnrjland Professor and
Others Who Snwll.
.from the Baltimore American.
Prof. T. K. Paul and a number of people who
live at Pikesville were very much astonished
on Wednesday morning at the antics of what
they believe was a star or some other heavenly
body. Mr. Paul was paying a visit to bis
friends at Pikesville, and he arose quite early
on Wednesday morning. While standing in
the yard and looking to the northwest be saw a
star, and a very bright one, move from the
right to the left, or westward, at a distance of
about 150 feet; at least, it appeared so
to him. Mr. Paul then called to his friend,
Mr. Harry Warner, and asked him to
come out and see a meteor explode. Mr. War
ner came out, ana the star. Instead of explod
ing, moved back, Mr. Paul says, to tbe starting
point with a rush. The motion back was much
swifter than when tbe star moved to the left
This continued for some time, first to the left
and then to tha right After this most erratic
star bad kept this up for somo time, it de
scended very rapidly till it nearly reached tbe
earth at least so It appeared to Mr. Paul.
Then tbe star reascended to the heavens,
turned to tbe left then to the right again. By
this time the yard had become filled with peo
ple, wbo watched this star with the greatest
amazement About 630 o'clock the star disap-
pearea.
A representative of the American called on
Prof. Simon Newcomb, of tbe Johns Hopkins
University, and asked bim about it. Prof.
Newcomb said Mr. Paul was mistaken, not
withstanding his witnesses. For the last 8,000
vears. since rjoonla have been studvlnir the
stars, no such thing had ever appeared in tbe
heavens, and it was not at all likely such a thing
would occur now. What he saw was something
terrestrial, and not a heavenly body.
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From the Irwla Standard.
The Pittsbubo Dispatch, this wonder,
fully successful journal, has become a neces
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of the list of live newspapers, its columns filled
to overflowing with tbe latest news, its reliable
market reports, and Its bold and fearless stand
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wbicb has a bona fide circulation ot over 50,000
and is growing larger each week, is a welcome
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20 large pages is supplied by a host of contribu
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With the advent of the new year, new'feat
ures will be added which will increase Its pop
ularity if such a thing be possible. In short
The Pittsbup.0 Dispatch is a paper that
Should be read by everybody, as one of the
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number of the immense Sunday edition consti
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Sir. Wnlterson la Pittsburg.
From the Chicago Mews.
Mr. Henry Watterson has been entertained
very handsomely by tbe Pittsburg Press Club.
It Js supposed that Mr. Watterson went to
that city to see how his old enemy the tar:
Iff Is working after all tbe long years that
he has been sandbagging it with tireless enthu
siasm, A Pnprrfluona Organization.
From the Philadelphia Record, j
So we have two Democratic parties in this
city. And there was hardly a paying business
for one!
Arlvnotaara of Poverty.
From the New York World.
Tbe man who bas no money In the banks and
Is not moved by great financial breaks Is fit for
slumber, happiness and peace.
HOW YOCXG YOD LOOK.
"Howyonngyoulookt" Ocruel phrase
That stabs you In tbe guise of praise I
What tho' the years have lightly rolled,
What tho' mid gleaming locks of gold
No telltale tress Time's touch betrays.
You know tbat now the evil days
Draw nlgb. For, O, each fond frlend'aays.
With smiles that make your blood ran cold,
How young you look!
What though the world Is still agaie,
Ucdaazled with your beauty's blaze;
Alas! alas I You're growing old.
You know 'tis true. flrsttimeyou'rV.told
Aaalrlng mixed with more amaze'
Howyouujyoulookl
-BottanQMi,
CDBI0U8 CONDEKSATIfm
Bam fighting is said to divide with cock
fighting the affections of those of sporting
blood among the natives of Ceylon.
Philip Kick, who died recently near
Jit. Vernon, O., was the father of 19 children.
His widow and 17 of the children survive.
A Scranton landlord has ordered all the
girl waiters at his hotel to wear slippers, so
tbat they will make less noise while moving
about,
The Recorder of Portsmouth, England,
has publloly censured tbe Dockyard police for
neglect of duty because they allowed a man
wbo bad once been in prison to enter the yard
in search of work,
A new truffle field of wide extent is said
to have been discovered near Mussorle, India,
and epicures abroad are letting tbelr mouths
water in anticipation of a more abundant sup
ply of the delicacy hereafter.
The daily consumption of oysters at the
Senate restaurant is about 25 bushels daring
the oyster season. Fully the same quantity is
served to customer in the House restaurant.
Friday Is tbe big day for oysters at the Cap
itol. White county, Ark., claims tbe cham
pion big girl. Her name is Nellie Arllda Ma
lone. She was 9 years old the 14th of last Au
gust, and now weighs 250 pounds. Her father
Is dead, but she has two sisters and a brother,
all younger than herself,
According to the British Catholic Di
rectory for 1590, the estimated Catholic pop
ulation of the British Empire is 9.730,000. It
Is distributed as follows: Ireland, 3.913.000;
England and Wales. L3GO,000; Scotland, 327,
000, and tbe colonies and dependencies, 4,130,-
Charles Logan, of Parfcersburg, W.
Va.. was burned In an oil explosion, taken
home and put to bed. Shortly afterward hU
mother was horrified to discover tbat tbe bed
was on fire. Tbe strange occurrence can be ac
counted for on the theory of spontaneous com
bustion. A tax collector of Crawford county re
cently sent the following dun to a delinquent:
"Mr. I tot I wood Bite you a few lines in re
gard to your tax i haf to go To town the last of
the month So I want you tax on or before the
25 tor i dond wanto Levy and Sell property if I
can belplt"
In one of the small islands of the New
Hebrides a trading vessel recently put ashore a
sailor to buy some yams, arranging to call for
bim in a few hours. While be was waiting a
band of natives attacked bim and carried bim
off into tbe interior, where subsequently he was
roasted and eaten.
Edward Travis, 52 years old, was ar
raigned in a Liverpool court a few days ago for
stealing a door mat On tbe trial it came out
tbat he had committed tbe same offense twice
before, and had been sentenced to five vears'
imprisonment each time. Tbe Court intro
duced variety into bis life by letting him off
with one month this time.
The MacSerraigh family, of Ireland,
were originally called Hodnett, and came from
England; wishing to make themselves as Irish
.as possible, they took the name MacSerraigb.
but after a while, when this had degenerated
into McSherrv, they grew tired of it, and, re
membering that Searracb means a fool In Irish,
they have changed their name again to Foley.
The Government of India has been com
pelled by law to purchase three conies of each
new book issned in the country, and it bas been
discovered that a practice has grown up of
printing new books simply for the sake of the
sale of those three copies, for which any price
within reason could be charged. A change is
about to be made in tbe law, and hereafter tbo
gublishers will have to present tbe copies to tho
fovernment
The King of Belgium had a telephone
line from bis palace at Laeken to the Theater
de la Monnaie in Brussels in order tbat ha
might bear tbe performance without having to
leave his palace, bnt he had no telephone con
nection with the Royal Palace ana other Gov
ernment omces in .Brussels, ana wnen too
palace at Laeken was burning tbe other day
tbey bad to borrow somebody else's telephone
to send the King word about it.
Dr. Lnciea Howe says blindness has in
creased in tbe State of New York during the
past five years 13 times as fast as tbe popula
tion; and the State Charities Commissioners
state that tbe excess in the increase of tbe in
sane in tbe State over the increase in its popu
lation for tbe last nine years bas been more
than 44 per cent These figures are most start
ling, especially when it is considered tbat the
modes of treating the eyes and brain are sup-po-ed
to have been so much improved of lata
years.
Virginia is thus far the only known
State which boasts of ben dentists. Somo
time since the Page County Courier published
an account of a hen there angrily flying at a
farmer and pulling out one of his teeth.
George E. Heath, who lives in Hanover county,
states that on Saturday morning he went to his
hennery and attempted to take a ben off ber
roost, when she flew at bis face, pecked bim in
his month, and took out a tooth which bad
been troubling Mr. Heatb for some time, and
which he Intended having extracted. This is
the second hen dentist in Virginia.
Full one-half of the people living with
in a radius of five miles of Edgewater and
Pleasantville, N. J., have flocked to tbe site of
the unearthed tomb of tbo people who at one
timo ruled that land. Eight skeletons were
taken up at one place and others have been
found. Among the skeletons was one whose
skull was found encased in tortoise shell orna
ments, oyster shells and beads. It is probably
tbat of the once powerful cblef KInewaugba,
whose descendants still live along the shore.
Four skeletons were dug np there and a little
further on mora were found. Before tbe ave
nue is completed probably hundreds will be ex
humed. A dispatch from the City of Mexico
states that William B. Richardson, tbe young
Boston naturalist, has succeeded in reaching
tbe top of the volcano Coiiuia. The feat was
adarfngone. Richardson pitched his tent at
tbe npper line of pine trees and just below tbo
lower line of ashes and lava. The trees above
had all been burned, and It was impossible to
walk in the deep bed of ashes. From this point
Richardson and his Indian followers could hear
tbe sound of air from numerous rents In the
sldo of the volcano. Tbe Indians were much
terrified, and could be induced to remain only
by the earnest persuasion of tbe naturalist.
One night during the eruption they could dis
tinctly see the deep red glow of melted lava as
It ran down the line, a fiery stream, burying
itself in ashes, trees, or in beds of brooks and
older beds of lava. One dense cloud of ashes
covered the party thickly and drove birds lower
down.
LITTLE PLEASANTRIES.
The old toper always has a gia phiz.
Binghamtoa Lender.
With a woman it is a struggle to provide
something lor the Inner man, and with a man It
Is an effort to provide something for the outer
woman. AtcMson Globe,
Overheard in the Capitol. "It's a pity
tbat Ananias couldn't baye lived In the present."
"Why?"
There was great political timber In him."
WaiMngton Post.
Yabsle v Is Timming doing pretty well on
the potlce force?
Wlckwlre Beautifully. He arrests tbe atten
tion of every hired girl he comes In sight of.
Terrt Haute Express,
Teacher The rainbow is God's promise
that He will never again destroy the earth by
water.
Pupil I reckon my psp'll feel right peart when
he hears that. Boston Transcript.
He (somewhat suspiciously) You say
you never loved anybody bat me? Ha! Is that
true, Mand?
She-Harry, your looks terrify met Have-hava
I been too bold in lettlnj you kiss me so much
this evening?
Be No. Maud, bnt you kiss like an old hand.
Chicago Tribune.
Extremely Polite. He was a man noted
for his Cbesterfieldlan address, and bad been very
ill.
Yon were at death's door," remarked the doe
tor, as his patient began to mend.
"Keally, doctor!" replied the man of the world.
TJo-doyou know whether I-ah-left my card?"
Harper'' I Bazar.
"Ma," said Willie, who had been to the
missionary sewing society with bis mother. "I
feel very sorry for the poor little heathen."
That's right Willie. I am glad to see yon
bow such a spirit."
"Tfes'in, I'd feel sorry for anybody that bad to -wear
the clothes that you people were making to
day. Washington Post.
A WXTBB TALE.
" A fellow who swallowed a drachiu
Of poison grew cold as a clachm.
And when somebody said.
'l don't believe be Is dald, "
The corpse quickly shouted "laehml"
And since then they say that his ghost
Each night walka round his bed phost,
And It scares all the folks.
Who aren't used to such Jolks.
Clear oat of their leases almhost, ,
Chicago HeralS.