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One Year IS The Daily Dispatch is delivered by carriers at J. cents tier week, or including Sunday edition, at 20 cents per week. PITTSBURG. MONDAY. MAY 5, 1S90. 3-The BUSINESS OFFICE of THE DIS PATCH has been removed to Corner of SmithEeld and Diamond Streets. AX ORDERLY DEMONSTRATION. The success of the London labor demon stration yesterday hi carrying out a gigantic meeting in favor of the eight-hour system without the least confusion or infraction of good order, shows that the London working men are learning the important lesson of combining labor agitation with strict re spect for law and good order. This progress is the more noteworthy be cause previous mass demonstrations in Lon don have been marked by more or less dis order. The tendency of the London masses is to be mildly riotous, either from exuber ance of spirits or as an exhibition of discon tent But in this case the meeting of 150. 000 men and their declaration in favor of the eight-hour day was marked with perfect arrangements and as complete respect for order and peace as the assemblage of the more orthodox people in the churches. The gratifying aspect of this demonstra tion may ce partially accounted for by the non-interference of the London police. But it also has a deeper significance in showing that the masses of the greatest city in tbe world are learning discipline and self-government However crude and visionary some oi their social theories may be, tbe fact that they have cured themselves of the dis position to be riotous and can unitedly rely on the force of peacelul and lawful agita tion, demonstrates that when they obtain power they will be guided by reason, and will be susceptible to argument instead of being carried away by passion. The ability tQ make a peaceful demon stration for any object of labor reform proves the progress of the English laboring masses toward the goal of self-government THE CLUB'S COURSE. The action of the Amcricus Club, or rather its pointed lack of formal action, on the Gubernatorial nomination, looks rather singular at first blush; but on consideration there will appear reasons calculated to jus tify it in abstaining from taking sides. The natural expectation would be that a local political organization would support the local candidate; but as the other candidates are also members, or closely affiliated with it, there is a certain degree of good taste in tbe decision not to take sides. But if the club is not going to take sides, ought not the club as a body to stay away from Harris burg? Its members, as individuals, have a perfect right to do what they please; but an organization that intends to keep out of the fight, will find it a good rule to stay away from the battle-field. THE DANCE IN POLITICS. The ball given by the President is exciting tbe scoffs of the censorions rather more de cidedly, we suspect, among the ungodly who rejoice at this falling off from the strict Presbyterian staudards than among the brethren who rejoice in numbering among tbe membership of their church the Presi dent of the United States. It is true that tbe rapid and giddy valse, the breathless galop, and even the slower and more stately quadrille, are placed in the list of forbidden things by the straitest Presbyterian doctrine. But good Presby terians have, ere now, taken a night off and enjoyed the pleasuresof dancing fora season without irreparable injury to their religion or their usefulness as church members. In permitting the young folk to galop through the halls of tbe White House, and in listening approvingly to the strains of Strauss' waltzes, we do not think the President has inflicted any demoraliza tion upon "Washington society. "While the music may have been rapid the amusement itself was innocent Though strict Presby terians may mourn, it is no more than just to recognize that if the President lends tolerance to nothing worse in "Washington than dancing, the country can xejoice in a very pure administration. It may be expected that the tolerance which the administration is showing toward the amusements of the dance and the drama may lead to a rather more liberal view of the position of those politicians who enjoy the dissipation of swelling on a bobtail flush. Still, no one can accuse the admin istration of inconsistency if it continues to sternly draw thellne at draw poker. THE INSOLUBLE CONUNDRC3L The surprise with which the sudden stand of the New York Honse of Representatives against capital punishment has subsided enough to allow the esteemed New York Sun to make a vigorous effort to catch up with the procession by an article opposing capital punishment It takes the ground that it cannot be fairly enforced and that it does not prevent murders. The arguments of the Sun is very cogent on the general issue; but it has little relation with the main question whether legislation of that class is to be enacted without public dis cussion and by snap judgment, presumably at the dictate of a paid lobbv. As the New York Tribune says the interesting point is as to the exact personality of the "intangi ble, invisible and inscrutable African in the wood pile." Since it has been denied on the part of the "Westinghouse interests that they have taken any part in the matter, the conundrum is apparently insoluble. THE SACRED ABUSES. An almost universal disposition of the present day appears in a form which wonld be amusing, if it were not serious, in the Louisville Courier-Journal's opposition to the anti-trust bill just passed by the Ken tucky Legislature. The Courier-Journal declares that it is earnestly opposed -tc trusts; but it objects to this law, because it "makes an acreemept among tobacco grow ers to limit the acreage devoted io tobacco a conspiracy and subjects every member of an tfrtttar.teiy.wni. alliance entering into such an agreement to indictment and punishment." In other words, like the old fellow who was "in favor of prohibition but agin its enforcement," the esteemed Courier-Journal is down on trnsts; but strenuously objects to disturbing the Kentucky method of pro ducing artificial scarcity. Trusts are awful bad things; but the trust which brings water to the Courier-Journal's wheel is sacred. This is practically identical with its tariff attitude. It is the most ferocious assailant of the high tariff in the country; when a proposition is made to cut down the SO per cent tariff on sugar, which is prohibitory on all grades of sugar that are fit for consumption, the dis covery is quickly made that these are rev enue dnties, principally because they are beneficial to a Democratio interest. These things are awful abuses, except where the abuses yield a usufruct to the assailant, in which case they are all' right. This, as we have said, would be funny, if it were not loo serious. For the great ob stacle to any reform is the unanimous way in which the reformers themselves insist that their particular 'and pet abuses shall be left nntonched. WILL IT DE ENFORCED T The passage of the anti-trust bill by both branches of Congress is jeered at by some Democratic papers on the one hand and by the trust organs on the other, as legislation which will be futile. The papers opposed to the Congressional majority are also prompt to say that it was intended by its framers to be useless. There is a certain degree of foundation for this scoff, in the probability that the law will go unenforced. If its provisions are fairly and vigorously carried out it will wind up every monopolistic combination in the country that has more than a local ex tent It makes all such combinations con spiracies, subjects every partaker in them to fine and imprisonment, and exposes their property to forfeiture while transported from one State ,to another, or to a foreign state. "With that law honestly and fearless ly enforced no combination greater than a gas trust in a single city or district would dare to exist But no one expects the trnsts to give up their advantages over tbe rest ot the com munity merely because of the mere enact ment of a law. They have all known very well that their previous existence was in violation ot the common law; but they kept on violating it because they believed that they could do so with impunity. Their success in escaping any legal consequences shows their belief to be well-founded; and it is strengthened by the experience with the Inter-State commerce act Violations of that law are known to have taken place; yet the first case of any railroad manager subjected to its penalties is yet to be heard of. Unless a remarkable change comes over the administration of the law, it will not be strange if this legislation against trusts were also speedily nullified. This sets the widest and greatest problem before the American people. Are they able to make tbe great and wealthy capitalists ' respect and obey the law equally with the humblest and least influential citizens? Me. Balfour's indictment of the Irish for having so many children, is a perfectly natural one from the Balfour point of view. The fundamental theory of the Balfour policy is that there ought to be no Irish, and the po litical application of this particular detail in his views, is that if the Tories can hold on long enough, tbe suppression of Irish births may re sult in eventually wiping out tho Homo Rule party. But the only effective way ot carrying out this Idea a to adopt Herod's plan. Fesanxieh Ives course in paying 5 per cent to bis creditors is a distinct surrender of principle as well as of cash. The first maxim of Napoleons of finance is never to give back anything on what you have stolen. The nomination of David Bennett Hill for the Presidency by the Kew York Sun last Thursday follows tho vigorous attempt to kill off Cleveland, by the combined virulenco of the Sun and the loose recklessness of the World. In view of Hill's notorious character it is re assuring to remember that tbe Bui's rresi dental booms started two years ahead of time are likely to run through themselves before the nominating conventions meet Someone is complaining because General Rosecrans is drawing two salaries at once in a Government position. Well, if a baseball mag nate can do that, why should not an old soldier get a little of the same plum? A Chicago person of what may be termed mildly eccentric proclivities has sent The Dispatch a circular letter advocating the abolition of the U. S. army. It he can find enough of an army to be worth abolishing he will give the country an enlarged idea of its military establishment The trouble which the cowboy Marquis of Dakota has got himself into, at Paris, sug gests that tbe Marquis of Montana ought io go over there and either rescue his brother noble man or share his fate. "When we reflect that the three leading Republican papers of the West the Chicago Trxbnne, St Louis Ulobe-Democrat and St Paul Pioneer-Press are all jumping on tho McKlnley tariff bill, we no longer wonder that Clarkson tninks the party in need of newspa per support Labor Day in Europe passed by without any of tho thrones tottering to the dust Labor Day in this country makes a better record In reaching after tbe objective point of tho eight-hour day. A Pittsbubo prospector hopes to find oil or gab in the third sand of the Mahoning Valley. Stranger things have happened in the line of wild-catting; but, until tbe oil or gas is found; the enterprise must bo regarded as a long jump ahead of tbe line of developments. I Delamater gobbles tne Lancaster dele gation. The machine is rarely out of gear in that city of the Pennsylvania Dutch. A CONVENTIOX of melon growers in At lanta the other day, broke over the usual prece dents by reporting an unusually large crop. But there ft reason to believe that the other rule will be faithfully observed by having the stock heavily watered. FLEECIH0 JAY O0TJLD. How tbe King of Wall Street Wai Changed In Appearance. From the New York Press. Through tbe overzealousness of a Mexican barber, who, it Is to bo presumed, thought that the reward for his services depended entirely on the amount of hair he could separate from Mr. Gould's face, the Wall street king has changed considerably in appearance. The loss of beard makes his face appear a trifle emaciated, but his eyes are bright and tbe exposure incidental to bis recent trip has changed tbe natural pallor of his complexion into a healthy bronze. Mr. Gould expressed himself well satisfied with the results of his trip, and seemed to think that tbe present year would be one of great prosperity In all branches of trade. Millionaire Don't Own It All. From the AltoonaTlmes.j According to a Pittsburg paper theaggre-p-ata wealth possessed bv the millionaire n that city and vicinity Is "only" attout 200,000,000. That is not a bad shotting, for all the property in the twin cities ot Pittsburg and Allegheny, in tbe opinion of tbe Commissioners of Allegheny county, is valued at only a littlo more thon this amount .SKJJmSlsjU.,.' '"Aftifr-t,feaSjr4 f, '' , 1.,. ' ... ,ji ,,,-; -.. i'vjj j ,.- - . ,ii .'2-.1,. . - ? A. . -.-:,- .. ,. . '' -, .. . -: ..- !- -' . , 1's: . . A , 1 - Z "A-.l riwrMMiwftTrMlrrfflWlllTOl M WMMmiMmMLWhmUSMmkinm' 1 1fflaiara3MMHBTO Witti , t -,'. , fii ' tJi- jAait"&L&& "k - rffiffltMrirrii i- l r, Vr iff AkMsCi- THE PEOPLE WHO AFT! TALKED ABOUT. Ben Butler is reputed to be worth 15,000, 000. He has law offices In several cities, and a practice worth S100.O0O a year. Madame Fursoh-Madi has taken up her abode, temporarily, at least. In Paris, where she mourns the loss of her husband, M. Henri Verle. . Mns. Mary J. Holmes is one of tho most indefatigable travelers among women authors, 8he has recently completed a year's tour of the world and is now going to Alaska. Henri Buisson, a Parisian, is entitled to celebrity, and has received a gold medal be cause he is the senior "undertaker's man" in Europe. For 67 years he has exercised his profession. Margaret op Savoy, tho silver-haired Du chess Dowager of Genoa, mother of the Queen of Italy, despite her ace and rank-. walks to church like the poorest working woman of the town. Path. Frederick I)e QuinCey, the only surviving son of Thomas De Qulncey. is Ser-geant-at-Arms of tbe New Zealand Parliament His father wrote essays and hetob, can write S. A. A. after his name. General John Bidwell, nominated for Governor of California by the Prohibitionists, used to be a grape grower. He gave up the business at tbe time of his conversion to the ranks of the cold.water men. Sik William Jenner, tho Queen's physi cian, is about to retire from London and live on bis Hampshire estate, where he will make a collection of his writings and perhaps do other important literary work. Miss Louise Meyer, the new Southern writer, is only IS years of age. Her father is General Adolph Meyer, and Miss Louise has had every advantage of wealth and position. She is also said to bo very beautiful. Theodore TnoaiAS and"Mlss Fay. of Chi cago; Walter Damrosch and Miss Margaret Blaine, and Charles H. Rnssell and Miss Jane Potter, daughter of Bishop Potter, are among the couples to marry in this "merry month of May." Rudyabd Kitlino is by all accounts the coming man in English fiction. Mr. Yates has given linn the indorsement-of a long article in the, World, which describes him at home in his London chambers as a short, broad-shouldered, rcsolnte-jawed and dark-faced man of 24. He was born in India. His work is now in large demand by the leading editors of London. SENATOE BECK'S CAREER. Sketch or Hia Useful Life nnd His Scrvlco to the Country James Burnie Beck was one of the few men born a foreigner who has achieved distinction in American statesmanship. Born at Dumfries shire, Scotland, February 13, 1822, he received his early classical education in his native place, with no thought of leaving his Scottish home. His parents emigrated to this country, how ever, when the future statesman was but 16 years of age. settling at Lexington, Ky. Here young Beck entered the Transylvania Univer sity, from which he graduated in 1548. when 24 years of age. He was ambitious of distinction even at this early age, and, as he was not a large land owner, the only avenue open to him was through tbe profession of the law, to which he devoted himself with great assiduity for 20 years. In 1867 he was elected to the Fortieth Con cress and re-elected three times, serving his full eight years in the Lower House. He served on several committees, his most Important work being upon the Committees on Recon struction and Appropriations. His service upon the latter committee led him to make a special study of tbe questions of finance and taxation, upon which he afterward became the acknowledged leader of his party in tbe United States Senate. He declined a fifth term as a member of the House of Repre sentatives, and In May, 1876, was appointed a member of the commission to define tbe Mary land and Virginia boundaries. During the same year he was elected to the United Btates Senate as a "Democrat to succeed John W. Stevenson, Democrat and took bis seat March 5. 1877. He was re-elected in 1SS2 and again in 18S8. Had he lived, his third term in the Senate would have expired in 1S95. Possessed of a vigorous and well-trained in tellect with a natural bent for the study and consideration tt financial questions, bis eight years of service in tbeLower House and nearly 14 years of service in tho Senate eminently fitted him for leadership upon all questions of this kind. Beinc foreign born, he was ineligi ble to tho Presidency, even if it had been pos sible daring the term of his public career for a Southern man to be elected to that position. The Senate was the highest office to which he could attain, and he gave his best endeavors to make himself a useful and honorable legis lator. In personal appearance Senator Beck was a striking figure. Six feet three Inches in height, ho was broad-shouldered and deep chested, a very giant In physical proportions. His large angular head was covered with a mass of dark hair which bad becomo quite gray before his death. Earnestness to intensity was tbe chief quality of his speech and manner, a character istic that gave him more Influence with his col leagues than the graceful oratorical diction of some of his famous brother Senators. In tbe death of Mr. Beck the Senate of the United States has lost one of its foremost leaders. CAPTAIN ELIZA E. P00LE. Tbe Boston Lady Who Has Been Licenced n a Pilot. From the Boston Herald. A very pretty voung lady sat In the office of tbe United States Inspectors of Steam Vessels yesterday forenoon. She was handsomely dressed in black silk, wore a becoming toque, and a smile which carried tho veteran Inspec tor, Andrew Burnham, back 100 years or more to the days of his youth. Major Copeland, the genial clerk of the board, in his anxiety to do honor to his illustrious visitor, swallowed an extra clovo and nearly strangled. The lady was present on business, and that business was the procuring of a license as a pilot for the steam yacht Isis. Captain Burn, liam was willing if sho knew ber "biz," but he first sent her to the surgeon's offico in the Custom House to be examined for color blind ness. Or course she passed. She then returned to tbo Inspector's office lor examination as to ber fitness to bold the position of pilot of steam yachts. She knew all about pert and star board cross signals, rules of the road, etc.. and was given her special license as pilot of the good steam yacht Isis. The blank filled out by the United States Survevor gives the fol lowing description of Mrs. Poole, the first woman ever licensed by the Board of Steam Vessel Inspectors on the New England coast: "Name of pilot, Eliza E. Poole; age, 28 years; nativity, Ma'ssacbusetts: complexion, light; bcicht. 5 feet 2 inches; color or eyes, blue; color of hair, brown." In her application, Mrs. Poole states that sho has had two years' experience on the steam yacht Nelly. "She is a dandy," says Major Copeland, as he banded ber a license, filled out with more tban usual care. TEE BRAZILIAN REPUBLIC. A Trading Paper nt It Capital Take a Desponding View. From the Rio News. 3 A republic whero military privilege and au thority are dominant and where laws are made for tbe special advantage and protection of tbe great land-holders and planters, is very likely to result in a military despotism, or an oli garchy. If to this be added the practicq.of granting monopolies, the power of the oli garchy is increased and the people are further reduced to dependence and weakened in their powers of resistance. Add now the centralized parental form of government and we have a system which ren ders it impossible to develop liberty and en terprise among the people. Such a govern ment may be a republic fn name, but never in principle, or spirit, or development AN EDITORIAL SENECA, Who finds Comfort In Philosophy to Rich nnd Poor Alike. From the Baltimore Bun. The proper meaning of contentment is a sat isfaction of mind with things as they are and may be, without either undue exertion or neg lect of duty. Such contentment is usually associated with an active life of effort. It comes to the worklngman ot moderate ambi tion, whose chief desire is to do his full duty by his family and himself, and who labors day after day with no ambition to become wealthy. It comes to the rich also who seek to do their duty and employ their leisure hours and spare money in doing deeds of mercy and benevo lence. Contentment is not tho exclusive pos session of poor or rich; It comes to all who do their duty to themselves and others and retire to rest after their labors with clear consciences and a quiet mind. DEATHS OF A DAY. Phillip Stern. Phillip Stern, a brother of Herman Stern, the well-known shoe dealer of Federal street, Alle gheny,' died in Ivew York yesterday; Be was 74 years pi re, and wa well known In this cltr. PITTSBURG: THE CRITIC'S REVIEW. Interesting Facta Concerning Volcanoes Tho Hawaiian Islands a Row of Tlinn Inn Coke Ovens A Scientist' Entertaining- Informmlon. 'J'he Hawaiian Islabds have been associated in many people's minds during" the past few years with lepers. Father Damien's brave work at Molokal has made that little island in that singular group.of notableinterestto every body who is able to appreciate saints, martyrs and heroes". There is another Interest however, attaching to these islands, from the point of view of sci ence. Here is the habltet of the volcano.' For one who wants to study tho volcano, and find out its habits, and cuess at its reasons for being, the Hawaiian group affords a wide op portunity. In the first place, these Hawaiian volcanoes are immense. The whole chain of islands is volcanic in its origin. It is a big cinder-pile beside the door of one of nature's red-hot fumcaes. The great peaks tower up more than 13,000 feot above tbe ocean, and extend down more than 3,000 fathoms under the surface. Over 80,000 feet is the height tben, from the real base to the summit of theso great ash-piles. Imagine a line of coke ovens, each oven being a mllo or two wide, every one roaring and flar ing, painting the sky red, some times overflow ingin streams of liquid fire as bigastbeMonon gahela river, 15 of these gigantic coke ovens in a row, and you have an idea of the way In which the Hawaiian Islands looked up against the horizon at night when all its volcanoes were in active operation. MO wonder if tho scared voyager, in those ignorant and superstitious days, looked out over the sea toward Hawaii, and set It down in his geography that yonder was the abode ot the arch-fiend, among the unquenchable burn ings ot the pit which has no bottom. Out of the 15 coke ovens only three, aro burn ing now. From the other dozen the fires have long since been drawn. Only tho cinder piles remain to mark the site of all this former rush and hurry of nature's gigantic operations. These three, however, are qnite sufficient for the scientific student. Tho crater of Mt Kilauea, tbo largest one, is nearly three miles in length, and. when it Is empty is more than a tbousand feet deep. Think of that gigantic bowl, three miles from rim to rim, and a thousand feet from top to bottom! The cauldron which that carried off from Jotnnhein was nothing to it Here tbe student may watch tbe volcano work. The place is .accessible and habitable, not like Etna. There are no great clouds of poisonous vapor as at Vesuvius. There Is a good safe crust over the lake of fire. It is not so bot but tbe enthusiastic explorer can endure it And if one is willing to take tho chances of what the volcano may do during the night, one may sleep there comfortably. It is true, there may bo a littlo eruption at any moment, causing a big river of fire to make a rush upon the sleeper's camp. But this, to the scientific student Is only ono of tho anticipated annoy ances. V A volcano, it seems, rarely does tho same thing twice in the samo way. You can never positively tell eltber when it is going to break out or where. Sometimes it overflows, sometimes it underflows. That is, it may be have as this great volcano of Kilauea did In 1840, when after the warning signal of a mighty earthquake, the lava stream broke out 27 miles from the mountain, having found some under ground passage. Thence it hurried to the ocean, and leaping down over a steep place into the sea, perished in the waters, and made everything else that lived in tho waters there about Dcrish with it. so that for 20 miles the coast was washed with boiling water, in which the fish bad all been cooked. The latest reporter of the proceedings of this eccentric volcano and Its two companions is Prof. James B. Dana, of Yale University. Prof. Dana's book is entitled Characteristics of Volcanoes, With Contributions of Pacts and Principles Prom the Hawaiian Islands. (Dodd, Mead fc Co., H. Watts A Co. $5.) It is a hand some book, portly in size, with a broad band of red across the cover, typical, no doubt, of vol. canic fire. There is an abundance of illustra tion, with maps in plenty. Cones and craters, lava Dombs and lava fountains, are shown in pictures. There is a valuable batbymotrlc map of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and the islands aro pictured from several points of view. . pnoF. Dana both begins with a chapter on vol canoes in general, in which are discussed the rocks, gases, and lava streams, which characterize different volcanoes, and tbo differ ent forms of cones resulting from theso differ ences ot materials and action. Thero is a dis cussion of the methods and causes of volcanic action. There is still a great uncertainty as to what really causes volcanic eruptions. It seems certain, however, that water has a good deal to do with it The water, partly from the rain, and partly from the ocean, flows under the earth, and strikes this red-hot rock away down under there, heated, nobody knows bow. That makes steam, and the steam forces its way up. The lava bolls. By and by tbe lava boils over. Tbe greater part of the book is taken up with a study of the phenomena presented at Hawaii. Prof. Dana has supplemented his own observa tions with a research into all available records of the-actlon of these volcanoes for nearly 70 years. These records are accompanied by sketches, showing how the crates of Kilauea looked at the time of each eruption. Thb following account of an eruption in 1789 is taken from a missionary's record, and is interesting even from an unscientific point of view: "The army of Keoau, an Hawaiian chief. being pursued by Kamebameba, wero at tbe time near Kilauea. For two preceding nights there bad been eruptions, with ejections of stones and cinders. The army of Keoau set out on their wly in three different companies. The company in advance had not proceeded far be fore the ground began to shake and rock be neath their feet, and it became quite impos sible to stand. Soon a dense cloud of darkness was seen to rise out of tho crater, and, almost at the same instant, the thunder began to roar in the heavens and tbe lightning to flash. It Continued to ascend and spread around until he whole region was enveloped, and the light of day was entirely excluded, xno aarxness was the more terrific, being made visible by an awful glare from streams of red and blue light, variously combined through the action of the fires of tbo pit and the flashes of lightning abovo. Soon followed an immense- volumo of sand and cinders, which were thrown to a great height, and came down in a destructive shower for many miles around. A few of tbe forward company wero burned to death by the sand, and all of them experienced a suffocating sensation. The rear company, which was nearest tha volcano at tho time, sul fered little injury, and after the earthquake and shower of sand bad passed over, hastened on to greet their comrades ahead on their escape trom so imminent a peril. But what was their surprise and consternation to And tbe 'entire company a collection of corpses! Some were'lying down, and others were sitting up right, clasping with dying grasp their wives and children, and joining noses (tbo mode of expressing affection), as in the act ot taking leave. So much like lifo they looked that at first they supposed them merely at rest, and it was not until they had come up to them and handled them that they could detect their mis take." . pROF. Dana is in a position to speak with the voico of authority. He brings to the making of his book tho qualification of ex ceptionally thorough geological knowledge, of the babit of exhaustive investigation, of the gift ef observation, emphasized by carefulness patience, persistance and trained, scientific judgment and of the ability to state results in a manner at once clear and attractive. It is not often remembered by tourists tbat these great volcanoes are only two weeks dis tant from New York. They might well repay a visit. "Hardly three weeks distant from Europe and not two from New York, with much to be seen on the way and tropical isl ands, growing corals and tree ferns at the end, tho route should be a common one with tour ists. Tho magnitude and easy access of tbe greatcraters; their proximity, while noarly 10,000 feet apart in altitude; their strange uu likeness in ordinary action, although aliko in features and lavas; their unsyuipathizing inde pendence; tbeir usually quiet way ol sending forth lava streams 20 and SO miles long make them a peculiarly Instructive field for the stu dent of volcanic science, as well as an attrac tive one for tho lover of tbe marvelous." GLADSTONE AND YON M0LTEE. Tbo Phonographic Legacies They Leave to Posterity. From the New York San. The phonograph people have property which grows more valuable with the lapso of every year. Many cylinders are stowed away with marvelousiy interesting records upon tbeir waxen surfaces. Tbe Gladstone cylinder is ex hibited only on raro occasions and to dis tinguished guests. It is already an extremely valuable record, and at Gladstone's death it will probably be worth 11,000. A cylinder con taining a few sentences by old General Von Moltke, now 90 years of age, can also be heard. The squalling of a baby can be taken by the cylinder, and when Its producer has reached man's estate be can listen to his own infantile voice if ho has any curiosity that way. Funny stories by Eli Perkins, songs by well-known singers and short passages from well-known plays, spoken by eminent actors, are all on storage in phonograph cylinders. Tbey lose nothing in clearness and volume, from tbe lapse of years, but, ot course, may be worn out trom use. II is believed that a record taken to-day and carefully preserved can bo reproduced 200 yairs hence. v "" ' ' "" '"""- 1 1 in win hi mii iiiiiKiifiif tmw mmmmmmmsk DISPATCH, MONDAjr MAT 5. TESTEKDAY'S GREAT PAPEK, Summary ot Lending Features of tho Mam moth 20-1'ngo Edition. Yesterday The Dispatch went out to Its 55,000 patrons filled from tbe first to the last of its 20 broad pages with the freshest news and the choicest literary productions. It was all wholesome, entertaining, instructive reading matter, ao increasing army of readers una it indispensable. I. London was on tiptoe Saturday In expecta tion of the grand labor pando scheduled for yesterday. There were wild riots in Spain, and Barcelona was in possession of a mob. The Germans have been outgeneraled by tho En glish in a scheme for annexing African terri tory. Merchants, manufacturers and mine owners In Germany are combining to oppose strikes. Opium is said to have been one cause of Bismarck's downfall the Emperor thought the Chancellor used it Senator Beck, of Kentucky, fell dead in a railroad station at Washington at 4 P. M. Ho left New York in tbe morning apparently in his usual health. The President of the Bank of America and the teller of a branch concern were arrested at Philadelphia as a sequel of the recent failures. Tbe McComas bill was reported to Congress, with arguments for and against it Mayor Grant was before the Fas sett Investigating Committee to testify regard ing ibe boodle cases. Reed Is being boomed for the Presidency by some of his enthu siastic friends. Frank G. Carpenter has been Investigating New England farms. He finds in New Hampshire 1,300 productlvo ones that are idle. He thinks they would be a good investment Colonel A. K. McClure, of Philadelphia, interviewed in New York, inti- mates that Patti.ion's nomination Is probable. Other interesting points on State politics, the" letters of C. T. Murray and tho Topical Talker, the music world and baseball reports, were features of the first part II. The American Mechanics have been indorsing George Sblras' candidacy for Congress, and have been called down by tho State Councilor, At Pittsburg electrician has invented a cheap ice-making machine. The attempt to get the musicians into the Trades Council failed. President Evans resigned from office. An Allegheny young woman was locked up for defrauding shopkeepers. Thomas Carey, employed on the new Government building, was accidentally killed by the breaking of a derrick. Attorney William M. Price has been sued by William Moyle f or $5,000 damage for libel. Ida Tucker departed for Norwich, N. Y., in custody of an officer. in. Thomas Nast's cartoons and Willis Hawkins' running comments on Washington scenes formed one of tbo many good features of the second part W. H. Crane wrote of "Stage Gags," and Baron Von M. of "An Empress Re close" Elizabeth of Austria. L. N. Megargee furnished pen pictures and reminiscences of PfafPs a famous Bohemian resort in New York. A chat witn Lotta was Frank Carpen ter's interesting subject "Tbe Art of Boxing," by tho great John L. Sullivan himself; C. A. Orr's African letter, and articles by W. L. Hawley, Searight and others were also included in this part of tho paper. Fart third contained Miss Grundy's gossip, Howard Fielding's hnmor. Fannie Ward's Mexican letter, tbe con tinuation of Prince Lubomirski's novel, the woman's world, and papers by Purdy, Shoppell, Rev. George Hodges and many others. It was a fine paper, whether viewed from a journal ist's or a critic's standpoint THLBTEEN MOUNTAIN LIONS. Notable Adventnro of Two Hunter In Southern California. Santa Pattla, Cal., May 4. Mountain lions, or cougars, have been unusually numer ous and andaclous in this part of the State this spring. They have killed 15 colts for John F. Cuddy, on r'razer Mountain, and have been seen prowling about on tho out skirts of the smaller towns, raiding sheep pons and chicken roosts and picking up any stray curs. The chalk hills back of Santa Paula always have afforded safe retreats for these beasts, being very rough and broken, and f nil of small caves. Irving Foulks was up there two weeks ago, and came back without any cougar pelts. -But he brought back some stories about the number of mountain lions prowling tbroueli tbe chalk hills that made old hunters wag tbeir heads and insinu ate tbat be was getting early Into the habit of spinning yarns, a habit tbat was to be toler ated only in men of years and experience. Foulks said he saw so many lions tbat be was afraid to fire at thero, whereupon old Jake Uries snorted contemptuously, and asked to be piloted to a place where varmints were thick enough to scare him. Foulks and the old man went up there yes terday, and for once In his lite Jake saw "var mints" enough to satisfy him. They got into the ruggedest part of tbe hills and sat down to watch for game. Presently a lioness appeared less than a hundred yards away, and Jake shot her through tho body. Of course she yelled as soon as she was hit and before the echoes of the rifle shot bad time to get back across the canon old Jake Gnes was sorry he bad fired. Lions started into view so suddenly and plentifully tbat it seemed as though tbere must have been a lion lying behind evory rock on the hillside. Jako threw another cartridge intotbe barrel of his rifle, and raised the piece to take aim, but put it down again slowly and re marked that he would be everlastingly con demned. Tben be suggested to Foulks that it was no use for a man to be a chump, and that perhaps they bad better go home it the lions would let 'em. They retreated cautiously, and managed to get out of tbe hills without being attacked. Jake declares that be counted thir teen mountain lions in tbat crowd, of "var mints," and nobody doubts bis word. CTJBBENT TIMELY TOPICS. THE Boston Herald is trying to keep indig nant taxpayers from leaving the city on the plea that "It was much to be a citizen of Koine when the Apostle Paul wrote." There is no good authority, however, fur believing that St, Paul ever paid a tax bill la his life. THE reason that General Boulaneer did not return to Paris yesterday, according to pro gramme, has not been correctly given. A private telegram from the seat of war states that a care less waiter split soup on the Liberator's cocked hat. and the General has consequently been laid up for repairs. No one has been apprehended for mnrder by the Authorities at Washington for the space ol three months, and yet the zhostof the King's English hovers dally about the corridors of the stately Capitol. CnAMPiON Suxiivan's" newspaper articles are written in Addisonian English. The emphatic certainty that John does his own fighting dis courages a suggestion of any uncertainty about his doing his own writing. There is a cruel kind of candor In Lotta's admission that she began acting so long ago that she cannot remember It. The paragraphers for three generations have been sitting up nlgbtsjust to keep ber memory green on this particular sub ject. Boston is finding grains of comfort in the law against perpendicular drinking. It Is ex pected to relieve that embarrassment that Is in evitable at certain stages when standing at the rail has become uncertain, precarious and nearly Impossible. There was nothing of Poo-TJah in the Lord High Executioner at Pekln. Tnls artist was not only prepared to execute a man at "a minute's notice, "but he actually cut off the heads or a men In two minutes' time, and without tbe aid of electricity. A lakoe eloquent smile may be allowetTK wreathe ltsell into curvamrea oi ecsiauc &BB hysterical beauty on the face of the body pollll OVer One aspect Ul luuiavui uvuuic j.iiuauiftca In Chins will make a short stock of firecrackers on tbe glorious Fourth. Tuia suspense Is slowly killing us. Won't somebody Kindly mediate between Harvard and Princeton so that they can play ball and block tbe wheels of the nation's progress no longer. Boston is never feverish, but it has a Board of Aldermen "clothed on" with a majestic cool ness that if Justly distributed would sDarc its en tire population from fear of undue heat, here or hereafter. It has been unanimously declared by this body tbat no license shall Issue to any theater In the city until every alderman has received a season ticket Opposed to matrimony. From the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. "I think it ,was two years since," Colonel Woolley said, "that Senator Beck called to tako me out driving. He wished me to see tbe now part of Washington. During the ride I said to bim, 'Senator, it has been suggested in tbe newspapers that you are contemplating matri mony. Is there aoytruthin ltr He straight ened up in his seat turned on "me, and asked, When dirt I becomo an nlcl fool, slrf " '1890. GENTEEL DISSIPATIONS. Indalseil In by tbo Gay Capital Upper Ten Washington at It Best Bibulous Statesmen in Trouble President Hnrrl son'.Indoraemcnt ot the Wicked Waltz Cnane Avrfal Tnlk. fconnEsroNDENca or the nisrAicn.l 'titashisoton, D. C, May 4.-Tbe Capital City has just finished dranlng itself with foliage and flowers as only the Capital City can, and is in all the glory of May-time. It is In many respects the most beautiful city in the world, but it at all times lacks something of the Impressive grandeur of Paris, tbe inimitable crowds of the boulevards, the fast, supreme, sophisticated air of everything, the ennui of the finished metropolitan. But in its multitude of trees, its profusion of flowers, its miniature parks, its well kept streets, its conspicuous public buildings, Washington is apart and unique. It is decorative even to the noses ot many of the statesmen present within its bor ders. There is a finer color everywhere than in any other city. There is something in the environments' that give zest to gay plumage, and a gorgeousness tbat would bo out of place in almost any other city, is here quite in tone. The warmth of tho brick walls in color, the brilliancy of the parterres of flowers, mingling with the complementary green of the floresi of trees, brings the gayest of costuming into per fect good taste, and such decorated Eves, and Psyches andVenuses cannot bo found in the rest of the world. Bright colors of all kinds on the body, and whole flower gardens on the head, and pink and orange, and red and blue gaiters on tbo feet, make our girls wood nymphs rather than twentieth century flirts. The avenue on an afternoon looks like tho jKew Gardens taking a promenade. &. ' Genteel Dissipation. Qutside of the city tho popular drives are crowded with all the newest styles of vehicles. As In dress, so there is a rage for new shapes and new decorations in things on wheels, and the jolllest loudest and flirtiest of wagons and carts tbat can be seen anywhere are always on tho jump out Brightwood way, or in the Arlington drive, or In Woodley Lane. A pretty girl with tho latest of hat3 and gowns, with a swell fellow at her side, a spanking thoroughbred with a stump tail and close- clipped mane, in a high yellow cart or the moro popular wagon or drag, with a darling of a footman on the back seat, and the pretty girl handling the reins as though she were the daughter of a jockey, is just the most inspiring thing within tbe horizon, and throws into deep shadow such humdrum instltntions as Con gress, either American or Pan-American. Like fine residences in the city, which seem to spring up in a night, comfortable little road bouses erect themselves numerously and with out any special advertisement and here there are petite diners and soupers, and bits of dissi pation, and bits of scandal, that one day would have made a sensation, but which now'are hardly tbe subject of a passing word among tbe old maids. I don't think there is as much drinking at the bars as there was a few years ago, but the innate craving for excitement for the human animal finds vent in genteeler and more seductive forms of dissipation. Convivial Congrciimen In Trouble. J"here are three Congressmen in town who have been here for several terms each, and who used to be on tho Rlalto nearly every night and they didn't care much what tbey did nor who saw them do it Tho "prohibition agi tation in their districts led them to take in a little sail, as they wero carrying decidedly too much canvas for high and contrary winds. Tbey made up a scheme to.do their drinking in tbeir own rooms where they could have just as good a time, get just as drunk and make no one the wiser for It Recently on a Saturday night they indulged with more than usual liberality and after a brief sleep awoke with thirsty throats and went at it again to make the most of their Lord's day opportunities. At 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon they concluded that a little fresh air would not be amiss and tbey started np one of tho avenues wbich is always crowded with promenaders at that time. Each finding himself a little unsteady, tbey linked arms for mutual support, wbich gave them confidence but only rendered their condition more con spicuous. With smiles of Ineffable bliss on their faces, which smiles occasionally broke into loud guffaws, thoy walked the length, and just as surely the breadth, of tbe avenue, the observed of all observers. Occasionally the bat of one wonld be knocked from bis bead, and tben the attempts of each to pick up that hat was some thing whose imitation by tbe stage drnnkard would make tbe fortune of the actor. -Didn't they bear about this "quiet little drunk," though? They were teased about it the next day by all their friends, and ever since they have been hearing from their constituents who want them to explain all about in the public prints of tbeir districts. The idea? This is really one of the most innocent crimes I have known, a Congressman to commit: fora long time, and yet it has made more gossip than if one of them had kissed hissed his neighbor's wife. I suppose we have a tendency to forgive the large-sized moral outbreaks rathertban tbe little one, just as we have a profound respect lortne Danker or casnier woo runs away with hundreds of thousands, and consign to the lowest corner of tbe social perdition tho man who steals a loaf of bread to keep his children from starving. Tho White Home Ball Causes Talk. "Tnil prospects are not good, I grieve to say, for a decrease of social dissipations wbich lead to a destruction of moral fences and a scatteringof the flock in new fields and pastures green, wbich havo been generally looked on as forbidden just as decidedly as Eve's apple was. What with his duck shooting escapades, during which be gets Into a psychological condition in which he can't tell a duck from a commonplace barnyard pig, and what with his indulgenco at dinners, the like of which have never before been seen in this city (given, cf course, by otbers that himself), Mr. Harrison seems to havo set the pace for as much mischief in the near future as moonshine ever shone upon. I really did not want tbe readers of The Dis patch to know tbat thero bad been a ball at tbe White Honse. and that round dances wore the favorite and almost only caper, but as it bas got out I suppose 1 may retcr to it without treason. Though exclusive it was really a very loud ball, and 1 don't see how tbe -Presi dent's church in Indianapolis can overlook the affair. Wo who worked and voted for tbo nomination and election of the man, and'no Republican can be found who did not, were taught tbat the devout statesman was incapable of doing anything over which ho could not say grace. The worst of it is tho dazzling, dizzying waltzing, at the connivance and command of the President bas set the pace for balls at all tho fashionable domiciles of the capital. For years and years dancing has been one of the lesssr dissipations of the city, but it is now the rage, all 'Decause tho President set tho pace. The British Min ister, who makes no pretension to goodness, and who Is -just about as lively as they make fellows ot hfs age, followed last evening with a big dance tbat was even wilder and more reck less than tbe affair at the Executive Mansion, and there is no estimating the loss of health and of caste, the broken hearts and broken beads that will result from this terrible exam ple set by tho President, The course of Mr. Harrison is really astounding. I am quite aware that previous to the date of the ball the old and careful practices of tbe Harrison family had been so far relegated to profound desuetude as to allow them to attend really very lively theatrical performances and sit conspicuously in the boxes; but tbat is hard ly so misleading as the waltz, upon which the President has put the seal of his official ap proval, "done at the Executive Mansion." and which Is lnduclngsuch preparation for dancing, not only in the mansion of tbe ungodly, but in the most straightest sect among the entireties, as was never seen before; and I wouldn't be surprised to hear of balls organized for church purposes, at wbich waltzing will be conspicu ously announced in connection with a notice that th ifrir will be natronized by "His Ex cellency, the President of the United Statns." E. W. L. William Receive Free Advlcr. From tbe Omaha World-Herald.l Empeor William of Germany proposes, it is said, to visit this country. He is right He can never hope to know the world or realize what life is till he bas visited the United States. Perhaps when he sees how prosperous and contented his countrymen are with us he will learn how to govern better those who still re main with bim at home. LITTLE FACE AT TnE WINDOW. A little face in the window; Two little feet tiptoe; -" Eyes open wide as they peer outside In search of a form they know. A face of weary wonder; A little tongue all dumb. While to and fro the people go, But the right one doesn't come. A little face transfigured; A cry tbat is low and sweet And a merry laugh to telegraph Tbe joy to the tiny feet The face Is gone from the window; And, toddling over the floor. He laughing goes, for tbe baby knows That somebody's at tbe door. Columbus pisvalch. OUR MAIL POUCH. Trouble of the Charitable Mrs. Sehcnley'a Generosity nnd It Embarrassments. To the Kdltor of The Dispatch: Whenever boards of charity hear of a person who has given liberally to some worthy object they too often flock down upon tbo giver by messenger with notes, by mall, in person or by deputy, and waylay bim at all possible points until sometimes be wishes be bad never-bad sueh good fortune as to figure as a philanthro pist Charity is often thus chilled, and life be comes a burden whilo answering or dodging tho importunate, and there is trouble In avoiding the distinction wbich one generous contribution has given. Some like the popularity which comes from liberal gifts, but tbere are other natures which shrink from public notice, which are so delicate as to allow of 'forward solicitation without rebuff; and to get rid of tbe imposition, in tbe softness of their hearts tbey otten grant what is asked. It micht be well to consider this view in re gard to Mrs. Schenley'a donations. Mrs. Scben ley, it is true, was born here and inherited part of her wealth here; but she was young when she wentaway, and she has been away so long from her nativo land that it might be possible that her early love for Pittsburg may not be. at this late period of her life, quite as fresh as it was in tbe days of ber youth, when she left her young lite and all of her school days and school friends bebiud ber. But, notwithstanding ber lung absence, she bas done what no other citizen, old or young, bas done for Pittsburg. Manv vervrich men have died in the past decade in Pittsburg and Allegheny without giving one cent toward tbe beautifying of the community which they claimed to love so welL But Mrs. Schenley, far beyond the influences of a life-long resi dence in the neighborhood, during her lite time granted freely to the people of this city a large body of land, with an option upon an other large tract, which will make a breathing or rambling place for the people of this city. Evidently this generosity brings Its embar rassments, for from present indications and known applications to her for tracts of land for this and that, unless almost divinely gifted with patience. Sirs. Schenley might almost be glad when her last foot of ground In this city Is sold. She gave ten acres for a new blind asylum in the neighborhood of the donation for tbe park, and although tbe city was given a princely gift it appears tbat it is not wholly satisfied yet It would like tbe ewe Iamb, too. Tben rimes the Carnegie library scheme. Where is it to be put? Instantly comes the an swer from some quarter: "Why, Mrs. Schen ley ought to give some of ber ground in tbe First ward." When the great Exposition was first men tioned, who hut Mrs. Scbeuley was drst spoken of as a possible donor of a Bite? When ground for several new churches was needed, again Mrs. Schenley was in each case suggested as a.donor. And so it goes everybody in any way con nected with charitable, religious or public im provement seems to go mad or lose dignity and get an astignatism in the mental eye which de flects toward persistent beggary. It seems as though the public mind Is again affected this thirteenth year since the great railroad riots. TLen everybody hoped for or der to be restored, until men, well raised, old citizens, even merchants, were seen carrying home, up alleyways the jetsam and flotsam of tho wreck. Tben did it appear tbat cbaos bad come again.and other qualities departed. Tbere is somo thing of this tendency now. Men of reason In the city join with all the rest to get all tbey can for nothing from Mrs. Schenley and from tbe Government, apparently thinking that Airs. Scbenley and tbe people of tbe United States have nothing to do with tbeir property but to give it to the first comer. It Is well to see tbe city grow beautiful and attractive, and large and magnificent donations, such as Pittsburg has been signally favored with during the past year, should be not only a source ot pride and gratification to tbe people, but brlngtheir own reward In tbe pleasure tho noble munificence gives to tho donor. Rutin tbe midst of tho general rejoicing over this, is it not well to forget tbat those who make hand some benefactions sbonld not on tbat account be subjected to continued solicitation? They should rather be remembered as having done nobly, and others should be expected to follow tbe example and supply new requirements. PiTTSBtma, May 3. THE FAD FOE LONG SHOES. How It Galoed Prominence Among the Fair Sex. From tbe New York Sun. The observing pedestrian upon Broadway or the avenue at tbe hour of the fashionable promenade will notice tbat either women's feet have grown longer or tbat they wear shoes much larger than their feet Undoubtedly the latter supposition is correct The long slim foot is the stylish shape. Tbe cramped up knotty knuckles have gone Out. Shoe dealers preached years upon the advisability of woman wearing the long shoe for comfort and health, but she refused. Now tbey have bit upon the happy expedient of assuring tbe dear creature tbat the longer the shoe was, the narrower it could be worn. Presto change, this popular shoe Is so long it fairly turns np at the toe. The girl who wore a 3 now wears a i A shoe, and finds that her feet look smaller, and feel moro comfortable than they ever did before. Physicians claim that the objectionable features now are their want of space across the ball, and tbe narrow ness of the sole In tbe hollow of tbe foot, giving women a desire to walk on the heels, to the detriment of grace and the displacement of tbeir vertebrae. As soon as some one makes it apparent that the former result is tbe only undesirable one and that it is little consequence if the vertebra) do bang against each other like colliding trains at everv step, the shoe will be remedied still fur ther and made according to approved modelL Women have ono vulnerable point at which at tack never falls of desired result. A Golden Opportunity Lost. From the Omaha World-Herald. 1 A missionary has been killed in Japan. But it is noVpossible for righteous America to lash herself into a fury over the matter, for the murderers have been caught and will be pun ished. Tbls debars us and many others from writing a forcible editorial. TBIBTJTES TO MB. BECK. He was a good lawyer and his views bn legal points in Congress wero regarded with respect by bis colleagues of both parties. Although a strong Democrat, he was much liked by his Re publican associates in both hnnses, and his loss will be generally deviated, Cleveland Plain Dealer. The loss to the country of United States Senator James B. Beck is sudden and irrep arable. He was honored among all classes and conditions of men as an honest incor ruptible statesman, a trne patriot, and an earnest, sincere friend of liberty and progress. Philadelphia Record. His death will be a groat loss to tbe working force of tbe United States Senate, for. though Kentucky does not lack, for Democratic states men of a high order ot merit it will not easily find a man who will combine with Mr. Beck's ability and acquired knowledge of financial subjects bis Industry and unquenchable zeal. Philadelphia Press. He was an honest man and in his long publio career he had acquired a knowledge of affairs that made him a valuable legislator. He was aggressive and at tbe same time conservative. Wben be took a position he could maintain it with great ability, and in tariff legislation be was looked upon as the Demoratlc authority in tbe Senate. Philadelpia Inquirer. UNCHANOEABT.E in his politics, he bad warm friends in every party, and de served all their friendship. There was no affectation, no shirking, and no double dealing about him. His death is a sad loss to Ken tucky, and a greater loss to the United States. A statesman true, fearless, democratic and sin cere; thank God for tho life and the memory of such a maul New York Sun. Rarely have we had in our public life a man who .so combined geniality and strength. He was both loved and respected. Upon economic questions be bas been for years the authority of the Senate, never permitting partisanship, sturdy Democrat as ho was, to lead bim away from what be believed to be the clean truth. He sought no arts of oratory he clung to the facts; and the Senate and the country listened whenever he spoke. Cin cinnati Enquirer. Tn5 career of none of Sir Walter's heroes is moro full -of successful and romantic adven-ture-than tbat of this big-brained Scot who, among a peoplo tbe most conservative and pro vincial in the world, has risen from tho obscur est depths of poverty, unaided except by bis own strong will and extraordinary talents, to the very highest eminence, and who holds that eminence as easily and as firmly as if born to it and owning if by right of inheritance. Louis Mile Courier-Journal. ' Senator Beck was a fine type of the broad minded Kentuckian. Though not to the blue grass born, he was as excellent a representative of the great Old Commonwealth as ever re plied with pride to the question, "From whence do you come?" with the famous Kentucky re sponse, "From Kentucky, by Jove, sir!" Sena tor Beck, In addition to beine one of the ablest lawyers who over practiced at tbe bar of Ken tucky, was a keen lover of outdoor sport Cincinnati Commercial Qatette. CUEI0DS CONDENSATIONS. Mrs. Betsy Averhill, of New Milford, will celebrate her 103d birthday to-day. She is said to be tho oldest pensioner on the Govern ment rolls. Caleb Ellis, of Preston, Conn., has a calf tbat has six legs, four of them being set in front Tbe animal is well, and Caleb Is holding bim for a dime museum price. The legal standard of water in the milk of other cities is 70 per cent. In Br, Louis it Is 80 per cent with about ten per cent additional generously thrown in for good measure. An Opelousas, Iia., gander has learned to turn tbe faucet of a cistern with bis bill, and when tbe water begins to flow he sits down un der tbe stream, flaps his wings, takes a bath and bas a good time generally. E. E. "Wishart, of Abbeville, Gs., has a tame deer that one of bis mnles delights in chasing. Lately the mule made tbe race hitcbed to a cart, wbich was somewhat dam aged by coming in contact with stumps' and logs. A novel way of raising money to bnild a church has neen adopted by a congregation man Iowa town. They borrowed 8120,000 and gave life insurance on a number of tbe mem bers, which is to be applied on the debt a3 fast as death ensues. In each ton of camphor wood brought to this country from Japan thero Is 25 per cent of camphor and 75 per cent of waste. More over, one-balf of tbe camphor evaporates dur ing the sea voyage, leaving 12 per cent of the drug after reduction. Thiee years ago a St. Clair county, Mich., clergyman preached a sermon over the) body of a good citizen. It was a good sermon. and tbe preacher charged the estate $50 for it The bill has not been paid, and it is now in the Probate Court with 511 interest attached. The old Mormon Theater in Salt Lake City, built years ago by Brlgbam Young, is about to be torn town and replaced by a new one. with all tbe modern improvements. A delegation of capitalists, who have bought tbo old theater, havo just come to New York to se cure plans for their proposed "dramatic tem ple." A wealthy Georgia man died recently, and after the last sad rites tbo family made a search for tbe will, but could not find it. Finally someone suggested that the body should be exhumed. This was done, and in the insida pocket of tho rrr.-ivo coat the will was found. The raref ul citizen bad put it tbere for safe keeping. A genuine Roman pig of lead has re cently been discovered at South Cave, in. East Yorkshire. The pig weighs nearly 140 ponnda, and it was found about two miles north of tbo Humber, close to where the great ferry (Tran situs Moximus) of tbe Roman road called Ermine street crossed from Lincolnshire to Yorkshire. A bookseller who observes the reading habits of young women says tbat the young women of Now York seldom read back farther than a year. They keep up famously with tba new works of note In tbe lighter fields of liter ature, but tbat no one of them Is found reading the older English writers, with the single ex ception of George Eliot. A remarkable surgical operation was performed recently near Red Oak, la. A week ago a 14-ycar-old son of James Hall was shot by a hired man with a 33-caliber revolver, the ball passing into tbe abdomen and cutting tbe in testines in four places. He was placed under the influence of ether, tho intestines removed and the cuts sewed up. He may lire. Next to the Birmingham and Chatta nooga districts. Southwestern Virginia has been and is now tbe favored spot in tbe com mercial South. During Governor Lee's admin istration it is estimated tbat 1100,000.000 have been Invested in various enterprises within the State, and yetthe surface of Virginia's vast mineral deposits has hardly been scratched. Benedict & Lockwood, of New Canaan, Conn., havo just made a pair of shoes for a Charlotte, N. C, roan. They are tbe biggest ones ever made. The size is No. 32. Each shoe is 20 inches long and S inches wide. The man who is to wear them is a clergyman, 6 feet 10 inches tall, and weigh 410 pounds, and the county in which he dwells is a roomy one. Any law firm inNewYorkwitb.areally profitable business, expends from S10.00O to 25,000 a year for rent light fuel, stenograph ing and the like. Somo of tbe older lawyers still refuse to employ typewriters, and William Allen Butler astonished some of bis younger brethren at Albany tho other day by present ing a voluminous brief written out in his own hand. The Congressional Committee appointed to investigate tbe immigration business report the discovery of a single square mile of terri tory In New York City where 270,000 people live, wbich is 8.000 mure human beings tban can be found dwelling in any other square mile on tbo earth's surface. These people are said to be all Italians, speaking only their own language, and observing foreign customs. The lour most valuable minerals in Persia are coal. Iron, copper and lead, while it bas been ascertained tbat there are large de posits of tbo purest petroleum in Southwest Persia. In the north a coal field ot great ex tent has been proved to exist in tbe neighbor- -hood of Teheran. Tbe coal has been tested, and experts affirm that it will hear comparison not unfavorably with the best English coat An employee in the office of the archi tect of the capitol, Washington, has Invented an electrical musical machine. Tbe keyboard Is similar to that of an ordinary typewriter, and its keys are connected electrically with a number of electric bells arranged beneath tbe table. Pressure on each key closes the circuit of an electric bell, and when the keys are operated by an expert any tune may bo played on the machine. Commencing on Monday night the or chestra in 18 theaters In New York twill play the national anthem, "The Star Spangled Ban ner." as tho closing feature ot tbe evening's en tertainment. The idea is suggested by the cus tom of English theaters, where the orchestra plays a the audience is leaving "God Save tho Queen." The orchestra at Harry Williams' Academy of Music In Pittsburg, took this pa triotic step a long time ago. A recent notable invention consists of a fender for street railway cars run by electric ity, which is worthy of attention. It ptesents a platform capacious enough to receive a victim so unfortunate as to be cangbt upon the track lieforo a car. At a slope before it is a heavy fnnr.nl v rubber belting, pliable enough to pass over paving stones and similar objects, but suf ficiently rigid to prevent an arm or leg from Do ing drawn under the fender. T. J. Athey, of Marion, Ark., has pat ented a fire escape. It Is an aluminum steel tapn, one end, of which is attached to tbe build ing and the rest nonnd aronnd a small reel with a brake attachment, which tbe person using it can manipulate so as to descend at lightning speed or stop at will. Mr. Athey tested it at Niagara Falls, and had himself fbc tographed while banging from thn upper sus pension bridge, with 190 feet of tape let out P. G. Van Ostrand, of Elmore, Mioh., is beginning to believe that the 27th of April Is a day of fate for bim. He was married on that date; two years later his wife died. Following; that affliction his wedding day anniversary has been observed in this way: His bouso burned, bis pocketbook was stolen, he was blown up in a mill, be was shot in the leg, he was nearly drowned, and last Sunday, when be had reason to hope that bis Nemesis was sleeping, he re ceived word that his son bad been arrested for theft and before he could interfere the lad was sent to tbe reform school. AS HTJltOEOTJS AS POSSIBLE. The Initials Unfortunate. "Do yon read Sala's novels and letters 1" - "No. Tbey are very light." "What can you expect from O. A. B.?" Sirw yorfc Commercial Advertiser. Didn't Appreciate Greatness. Bobby (on board tbe Ocean Oreyhoundj Oh. mamma ! Who Is tbat great proud man In uniform? Mamma-Wby, that's the captain of tbe ship. Bobby (with awe)-My I He looks Justllke the Janitor or our flat at home. Texas Sifting: "Without Strong Competition. Miss Bea-conhill-I wonder what the philosophical reason Is that tbemenwhomlnd their own business gen- Lerally succeed." , r . . ..aw. P!iiw npcAilKA thpri. la .n lit- jacs J-1"1' ' ...- tie competition la that line. .Warrant Lampoon. She Had Read tbe Advertisements. Mrs. I'unkla (at the clrcns)-I dunno, Silas, about cllrabiii' 'way up on them seats; they look prettT flimsy to me. Silas Pun kin-I guess they're all right Don't ye know what they said In the advertisements secure scats 1PucK. The Evidence All In. Citizen How do you know that Colonel Beekura will be a candi date at the coming election t Politician Bow do I know? He emphatically declares that he cannot under any circumstances bo induced to run. Tben he Invites us all in to take a drink. Chicago Timet. He Was a Latin Scholar. "So that fel low Brown married tbo popular Miss Jones and she had a dozen better men at her feet ?" "Yes, and be calls her ' plurlbus unnm.'" " " plurlbus unuml' What dots' he mean by.'i that?" j "Won from many. Brown. Is a gnat Latla scholar, don't you know." Washington Star.
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