ruK3t?
V
"rg
v
V
v
m$m$mlt
ESTABLISHED FEBRUARY S. 1S48,
Vol. 15, No. 1S9. Entered at nurture Postofflce.
November 11. 1WT. as second-class matter.
BiBlne8s OfficeCorner Smithfleld and
Diamond Streets.
If ews Booms and Publishing House 75,
77 and 79 Diamond Street
. RASTERS ADVERTISE GOFFlCfc, MOOMJ1,
TRIBUNE BUILDING. NEW YORK, where
complete flies of THE DISPATCH can always be
Sound. Foreign aoTertlsers appreciate the con
venience. Home adTertlsers and friends of THE
DIbPATCH, -while la Sew York, are also made
welcome.
THE DISPATCH is regularly on tale at
Jirentano's, 5 Union Square, Hew York, and
n Ave, de VOpera, fan, France, and IS
Strand, London, Eng where anyone who
has been disappointed at a hotel ncus stand
can obtain it.
TERMS OF THE DISPATCH.
rOFTAGS FREE IN THE UNITED STATES.
jjailt DisrxTcn. One Year. I 8 00
Uailt UisrATCn, Per Quarter J 00
1IAILT DisrATcn, One Mouth TO
Daily UisPATCIt, Includingiunday, lyear. JOOO
Daily Dispatch, InclndlngSunday.Im'ths. 290
Vailt Dispatch. Including Sunday. 1 month 0
uday Dispatch. One Year IM
1 ekkiy Dispatch, One Year 125
The Daily Dispatch Is delivered by carriers at
31 cents per week, or Including bunday edition,
at 20 cents per week.
PITTSBURG. MONDA Y, JUNE 18, 189a
THE DISPATCH F0K THE SuTJOIEB.
Persons Icaiing the City for the summer can
have The Dispatch forwarded by earliest
mail to any address at the rate of SO cents per
month, or f I SO for three months, Sunday edi
tion included. Daily edition only, 70c per
month, f! for three months. The address may
be changed as desired, f care be taken in all
cases to mention both old and new address.
S3-The BUSINESS OFFICE of THE DIS
PATCH hit been removed to Corner of
Smithneld and Diamond Streets.
WHAT THE CAUSE WILL BEf
A director of the Citizens' Traction Com
pany in an interview with regard to the
comine rivalry between the Duquesne and
Pittsburg Traction Company indicates a be
lief that it will be pushed to a degree that
will force consolidation. That is quite pos
sible; but it will be wise to have the causes
that lead to that result fully understood.
The interview shows'a perception of the
fact that cutthroat rivalry leads to consoli
dation; but it does not clearly recognize the
rule that the only purpose of cutthroat
rivalry is to iorce either a consolidation or
a combination. It is quite possible that the
increase of traffic on the traction lines may
make three cent fares profitable; in which
case, as TnE DisrATCK has pointed out,
natural competition will force the reduction.
But if rates are cut to the point which in
flicts loss, the sole purpose will be the forc
ing of a combination, and, beyond that, no
such losing rivalry will ever be resorted to.
Tin I ess the combination is deemed possible.
"Without the prizes to be obtained in that
way the obvious course for each competitor
is to stop the reduction at the point where
profit reases, and to lei its rivals do the los
ing business.
If our traction road magnates and city
authorities wish to prevent the cutthroat
rivalry that is produced by the hope of com
bination, they should recognize that the
surest way of doing it, is to put compe
tition on so broad a basis that combination
'will be impossible.
A FOOI.ISIl REGULATION.
Among other things which the Census
Bureau has undertaken to enact this year is
one which takes the shape of an order that
supervisors must make no tabulated returns
of their districts, and not even give out
rough estimates. This is simply the red
tapeof bureaueracy. Not only could there be
no harm, if Mr. Oliver on the receipt of the
full reports from the enumerators should
tabulate the population of the two cities and
the county; but it would actually be in
furtherance of the purpose of the census,
namely, the early publication of the official
information. As it is, the cities must wait
for the results of the census until the bureau
at "Washington chooses to give out what
might as well have been published days, if
not weeks, eailier, from the local officials.
The regulation is even a more foolish one
than those famous questions.
THEIR hTRONREST ADVOCATE.
The dismissal of the indictments against
Keenan and Sayles, two of the New York
boodlcrs who have recently returned from
Canada, brings out a curious conflict of
opinion between the New York District At
torney and the boodlers themselves. It is
not singular that the fugitive aldermen
should come back, or that the indictments
should be colled. These are the legitimate
results of the District Attorney's adminis
tration of his c ffice. But it is singular that
in dismissing the case, the District At
torney takes a more favorable view of these
famous gentlemen's cases than they have
been able to take themselves.
In dismissing the case, Colonel Fellows
did so on the ground that there was no evi
dence on which to convict them. But
Keenan and Sayles in levanting to Canada
and remaining there for two or three years
have shown exactly the opposite conviction.
Hen do not run away from prosecution and
hide themselves for years in a foreign land
unless they know that there is evidence
against them. The boodling aldermen gave
the strongest avowal in their action of their
knowledge that there is evidence which
would send them to prison if an energetic
prosecution undertook the task of working
it up.
Colonel Fellows' attitude in putting
Seenan and Sayles' case more strongly than
their own actions did is a generous way of
heaping coals of fire on their head for the
lack of confidence in him which they dis
played by failing to return from Canada the
day he took charge of his office. They ought
to have known what he was there for.
TWO FORMS OF REGULATION.
The New York Board of Aldermen
recently passed a resolution requiring all
the sunace lines in the city to run cars all
night at regular intervals of fifteen minutes.
The action is widely indorsed by the press;
and yet when fully considered it presents a
remarkable and not very favorable showing
of tbe system of regulation of enterprise by
governmental authority.
It should be established as a basic princi
ple that services ot this sort should not be
required of any corporation giving facilities
to the public unless there is enough public
patronage for it to make the service pay
expenses and yield a slight profit This is
for the obvious reason that if the all-night
car service is kept up at a loss, that larger
portion of tbe public which patronizes the
d.iy service mut pay the loss. That a night
service may be made profitable is quite pos
sible; but that it is so for all lines is no less
impossible. The legitimate manner ot
securing the service where there is a suffi
cient demand for it, is to establish such
competition that the companies will be
quick, not only to reduce their fares, but to
extend their service wherever a profit can
be secured by doing so.
But the tendency to establish an arbitrary
regulation by governmental authority, in
stead of the natural iorce which impels all
competitors to do business where there is a
profit, produces this enactment that all sur
face lines must run night cars. In New York
this is undoubtedly brought about by in
terests, some of them of a decidedly dis
creditable character, whose nocturnal trans
actions will be aided by the maintenance of
transportation facilities during the entire
night Fortheir benefit, that portion of the
publio which furnishes the paying business,
must bear the burden of whatever loss re
sults upon the running of the night cars.
Hardly any better illustration is needed
of the arbitrary and unintelligent rule
which results from putting the system of
government regulation in the place of reg
ulation by the natural and unhampered
forces ot supply and demand.
If the New York Board of Aldermen had
foresight enough to make competition in
street car service entirely free, it would take
the most effectual means of ensuring that
night cars would be run wherever there is.
demand enough to justify it
ALLEGED OVERPRODUCTION.
The question of the prosperity or de
pression of the agricultural industry pro
duced a very liveiy discussion at the State
Board of Agriculture, in which a diversity
of views was elicited, with a general ten
dency toward the natural conclusion that
the farmers can make a living by working
very hard for it The State Bureau of Statis
tics, in a report on the same subject, takes a
more decided stand on the point of agricult
ural depression; but makes some deductions,
so remarkable as to form the chief feature of
the report This is especially the case in
tbe remarks upon overproduction. The
bureau makes the definite statement that
there is asurplus of agricultural production,
or food staples, and at the same time recog
nizes that there are large numbers ofine-
chanics and workingmen in mills and mines
who would consume more food than they get
if they could afford it Yet in the pres
ence of this abnormal condition of disastrous
abundance, the best recommendation that
the bureau can make to improve matters is
that the farmers must produce lessl
Such a lame and impotent conclusion is
equally remarkable for its halting logic
and its disregard of the principles of hu
manity. It begins with the postulate that
because, on one side, too much grain,
flour, meat, milk and vegetables are pro
duced, and on the other too many laborers
are ready to manufacture iron, tools, clothing
and machinery, therefore the farmers
must go without machinery, tools and cloth
ing and the laborers must put up with less
bread and meat In view of this unnatural
inability of the producers to exchange and
enjoy their respective abundance, the re
markable conclusion is arrived at that be
cause the farmers are tunable to exchange
their products advantageously they must
benefit themselves by raising less to ex
change; while the mechanics and miners,
Who are now unable to pay for abundant
food, aro to experience the unique ben
efit of having food made still scarcer and
dearer, so that their wages will purchase
just so much less than they can now getl
The person who with the condition stated
of a surplus on both sides which the work
ers are unable to exchange to advantage,
cannot see that the paradox of universal
want in the midst of universal abundance
must be caused by devices to hamper the
exchange, for the profit of interests that
stand between the producers, is unable to
carry on tbe processes of inductive reason
ing. It is no less remarkable that any one
should fail to see that the obvious remedy
is to seek the means of making the ex
changes of products more economical and
removing the barriers built up by combina
tions and monopolies. The report makes
some groping efforts in that direction; but
the failure to arrive at a clear statement of
the remedy in any case, is illustrated by the
assertion that the claim is made on behalf
of the Eastern farmers that the railroads
ought to carry the products of theVestern
farms at the same rate per mile as the
products of the Eastern or Middle States.
It is hard to believe thatafter ten years of
discussion of the railway issue, any pub
licist who assumes to write on the subject
can have so superficial a knowledge of the
question as to make that statement in good
faith. The complaint against the railroads
is, not that they do not carry freights at the
same rate per mile, but that they mite rates
for the longer haul wholly out or proportion
to the cost of service, carrying that dispro
portion in some cases to the extent of an actu
ally less charge for the longer distance than
for the shorter. That this policy results in
locating the prod uction of staples at a greater
distance from each other than would be the
case if each locality were given its legiti
mate advantage in the point of distance, is
obvious; and the inevitable result of wasted
labor in transporting products one thousand
miles that might be produced only five hun
dred miles distant from each other, places a
burden upon industry that may go far toward
explaining the paradox of industries that
produce so much as to keep the producers in
want Add to that the success of pools and
trusts in levying vast profits on the opera
tions of exchange, and tbe mockery of pro
posing to remedy universal want by artifi
cial scarcity ought to be apparent
It is a very useful work to collate facts
with regard to economic conditions. But if
the agencies for the gathering of statistics
undertake to draw conclusions, they should
understand how to draw those which obvi
ously result from the facts established.
Some of tbe Bepublican organs, in speak
ing of political movements in this State, show
the need of instruction on political history.
Thus the Philadelphia Inquirer, glorifying the
signers of the Delamater manifesto, speaks of
"Chairman McKee, of the Independent move
ment which made Pattison Governor." If the
Independent movement ot 1882 had voted di
rectly for Pattison it might have claimed to
make bim Governor; but as Pattlson's plurality
was 4,000 more tban tbe entire Independent
vote for Stewart assertions of that sort arc
subject to revision.
Major Montooth makes it very clear
that ho is not running for second place. The
Major wants what he started out for or nothing,
and all reports that he will take a compromise
are weak inventions of the enemy.
The question how the Belgian iron man
ufacturers can afford to furnish structural iron
to a building in Minneapolis 5 per cent cheaper
than Pittsburg, puzzles onr mill owners. Per
haps the answer to that famous puzzle of King
Charles, namely, how a fish can be put In a
bucket ot water already full to the brim with
out spilling any water, might furnish the solu
tion to this question. It may be wise to watt
and see the Belgtam manufacturers' balance
sheet alter they have furnished the Iron
which the have not yet given bonds to do.
With the Kansas and Pennsylvania de
cisions at the back of it, the original package
rules the roost until Congress plays its card.
The esteemed Boston Slobe is cxp&uiBg f
, THE
anxiety lest, If tbe silver bill should pass, the
bullion value of the silver in a dollar should
advance to be worth more than tho dollar. Tbe
Globe 6ajrs: "It might go up to 81 25 or SI 60."
As tbe silver in a dollar is now worth less than
80 cents by tbe cold standard, this is the most
decided case ot borrowing trouble a long way
ahead, yet put on record.
The drink question in England is likely
to prove as much of an issue as in this country.
There it threatens to break QD a Cabinet
Here it smashes the prohibitory and license
laws.
The abolition of the course of journalism
in Cornell is followed by tbe still more radical
prohibition of boxing in Michigan University.
If tbe colleges are to turn out neither news
paper men or pugilists, what aro tbe students
to make ot themselves? The baseball profes
sion is no, longer profitable.
The price of boodle State Senators in
Boston is quoted at $10,000 eacb; and the politi
cians of other States are inqniring what in the
world makes them so scarce and high.
The fact that the ice monopoly in New
York has run through itself and that the price
of ice is now one-balf what it was a few days
ago, gives a new illustration of the fact that
tho monopoly which has not a lever for chok
ing off new competition, is bound to beat Itself
by its own greediness.
It is stated that Senator Plumb subscribes
and pays for 250 Kansas newspapers. No won
der be needs a private secretary to perform the
onerous task of reading them.
Mr. "W. il. Smith, of the Salisbury
Cabinet is reported to be booked for the
House of Lords; bnt be should think better of
it The spectacle of a Smith in the House of
Lords would be enough to cause him to be dis
owned by that great and democratic family.
PERSONAL P0INTEES.
Ex-Governor Ordwat, of Dakota, and
his family are spending tbe summer at War
ner, N. H.
Frank W. Smith, of Boston, has built at
Saratoga an oxactcopyof a Fompeian villa,
his model being the famous "House of
Pansa."
Ex-Governor Curttn will be a piomlnent
figure at the meeting of the Pennsylvania sol
diers at tbe headquarters of Washington at
Valley Force on tbo 19th inst
Mr Leonard K. Wilson, who has been
prlvato secretary to Mr. Stanley since tho lat
ter last got out of the woods, has just been en
gaged in a similar capacity by the King of tho
Belgians.
Amono the many clfts received by Mr. Stan
ley in the last few weeks is a well-worn copy of
Shakespeare's works from a laboring man.
Mr. Stanley was much gratified by the receipt
of it and wrote the giver a cordial letter of
thanks.
MAsnrEE Is the namo of a summer resort
that aspires to national eminence because Mr.
Joseph Jefferson and the Hon. Grover Cleve
land have rented tbe Attaquin Hotel there for
themselves to ocenpy during tbe last week of
July. Mashpea is not far from Cotuit, and its
nearest railroad station is Cataumet
Mr. W. J. Florence, tbe comedian, leaves
for Europe on tbe Etrurla next Saturday to
join Mrs. Florence at London. Ha will be ac
companied by his brother-in-law, Joseph H.
Tookor. Before their return to America in
tbe fall the little party will visit points of in
terest in England, Ireland, France, Italy and
Germany.
Miss Ada Heather-Biggs, Lady Dllke and
Hon. Mrs. Jenne have done a good thing in
London In establishing what they call a series
of "happy evenings" for the London Board
School children. These are tbe children of tbe
very poor, who, never having a penny with
which to purchase pleasure, are to be invited
every two weeks to a comfortable room wbcro
they will be entertained with music, magie
lantern pictures, games, etc.
Herr Peter Lechner Is known as tbe
most lonely man in Enrope. He is connected
with tbe Weather Bureau Service and is sta
tioned on top of the Schonnblick Mountains,
in tho Austrian Alps. There bo lives month in
and month out, engaged in noting the meteor
ological changes In tbe highest station In Eu
rope. Three times a day be takes bis observa
tions and telegraphs them to headquarters at
Vienna.
SNAKES HEB ONLY FEIEND&
A Female Hermit Wbo Died Surrounded by
Reptiles.
8AX.EH, Va., June 15. A singular character,
byname Martha Ann Tilison and who was
known as the "snake woman," died near here
recently. Sbo lived in a little cabin at the foot
of Twelve O'clock knob, and led a hermit's
life, having no ono to share her abodo except
snakes. By tbe few who were ever allowed to
see tbo interior of her cabin it is said to have
literally swarmed with her strango companions,
with which she ate and slept and which were
to be seen lyinc in ber bosom and coiled about
her neck, body and limbs whenever she was
caught sight of.
Her extraordinary predilection for these un
pleasant creatures is supposed to have arisen
from a morbid feeling that she was, like them,
hated of men. for, naturally deformed, she re
ceived In addition an injury to tbe spine while
an infant and. though perfectly sound in mind,
was of so sensitive a nature as to render her
miserable and uneasy in the presence of any
but her parents. She was observed to steal
away every day with a pan of milk, and, on be
ing followed, was found to be caressing a dozen
or so hideous rattlesnakes, while they drank
from the vessel which she held in her lap. Hor
rified, ber parents tried to reason with her,
then to punish, and finally to confine her. In an
endeavor to break her of her fondness for the
reptiles, but she pined so for her pots that they
feared she would die if kept from them.
She was a little, fair woman of about 45. with
sandy hair, very abundant and long, which she
wore in a numDer oi iigmpiaits, wnicn, com
bined with her deformity and the odd. miscel
laneous style of dressing, tbe result of her re
fusal to hold any communication with a fellow
being, served to make ber a most remarkable
looking object She was looked upon as a witch
by tbe negroes about who declared her to bo
Sossessed of the evil eye, and hated and feared
er accordingly, tbough her life was a most
harmless, quiet one. She had been dead some
days when discovered, and ber dead body was
literally covered by a writhing mass of snakes,
whicb had to be killed berore it could be re
moved, for the reptiles turned viciously on all
approaching the remains. On her heart was
found coiled a huge rattlesnake dead.
BEES FOB A PBIZK
A Gold Wsttcta for Anyone Wbo Consumes
000 Bottles Over the Bar.
From tbe Washington Star.
A new method.of buying a watch bas just
been introduced in Washington. Y ou can get
a real cold one at no other expense than the
consumption of 600 bottles of beer. It must be
a particular kind of beer, which the manu
facturer is anxious to introduce. With each
bottle that you drink you get a yellow ticket
and when you have accumulated 600 tickets
the bartender will give you tbe watch
in exchange for .them. You are at
liberty to go on. if you like, consuming
the same kind of beer, thus obtaining
more watches. Ono can easily conceive
the passionate interest with which the
beer drinker, looking forward to the acquisi
tion of a timepiece, would pursue a coutse of
procressive stimulation realizing bow every
bottle swallowed brings him nearer to the prize.
The latter is hung up over the bar. with a sign
attached to it saying that it cost ?25 wholesale.
When tbe time arrives for its delivery to him
who bas earned itauother just like it is hung
up in its place. Tbis idea is a new one and
will doubtless become popular as an advertis
ing scheme.
It is an adaption of the practice so long popu
lar in Sunday schools of giving the pupils,
whenever they are good, merit cards, a certain
number of which accumulated entitles the
pious scholar to a reward. Of course, many
customers will not have tho fortitude to bold
out to tbo extent of 600 bottles, and thus the
brewer will not be obliged to pay for so many
watches. Men will carry around then: tickets
with the name of the brand of beer on them
and show them to their friends.
No American Girl Need Apply.
From the Chicago Malt J
TheCzarowltz is coming to America. Just
to think of lti But then the hearts of the dear
girls needn't palpitate a bit faster. The beir
of tho great white throne can't marry at his
own sweet will, no matter how many millions
might back a girl's attractions. However, tbe
visit will be a pleasant novelty, and it is to be
hoped that His Youthful, Majesty may imbibe
soma, enlightened, progressive Arierican ideas I
during bra (lly among tho best peoflo on earth, j
Vi a htM'MffiuWiuifthmmti ir
PITTSBURG- DISPATCH,
THE CRITIC'S REVIEWr
What la Meant by (he Word Nature A
Book Tor ThoOEhlful Render Orcrnolc
Evolution Considered Poems by a Pitta
bars Author Other Work.
"pnE Tf'orfo! Energy and its Conservation"
(S. C. Griggs & Co.) was not written for the
frivolous reader. And tho frivolous reader Is
not likely to look twice at it Tbo book began
in an answerlne to the quertion. What Is Man's
Place in Nature T The first step in the answer
ing of such a question is to find out what nature
is. For "nature" is one of thoso words which
we use in a very familiar way, as If we knew
entirely what it means, but which, when we ap
proach, a definition eludes us. We get along
pretty well with such words in our ordinary
uses of them, just as an architect bandies
stone with considerable skill tbongh he may bo
ignorant of geology. But when we get into the
realm of philosophy we bavo to put our words
through a gauntlet of cross-examination. What
do we mean ? That is the initial question which
we are compelled to answer. Thus and thus we
say, such and such words we utter, but what do
we precisely mean T
Mr. "William M. Bryant found at the
entrance to his studies into man's place
in nature that he must know what
nature is. What is the nature of nature?
To this end he examined the conclusion as to
nature at which tho great thinkers of the race
have arrived. He found tho philosophers di
vided into two great classes: the realists and
the Idealists, the men of science and the men
of speculation. The representative of one
school is Spencer: the representative of the
other is Hegel. Mr. Bryant found much in
common between tbe two opposing theories of
nature. "Tbo more I learned." he says, "of
tbe speculative method of Inquiry on
the one band, and of the method of in
quiry in natural science on the other,
the more did it appear to me, that so far as
men really think, the method of their thinking
not only must prove, but actually does prove,
to bo one and tbe same." Thus the "absolute
idealism" of Hegel, and the "transfigured real
ism" of Spencer are discovered to have remark
able likeness. One is the counterpart of the
other. One proceeds by reasoning, the other
by experiment; one is speculative, the other
empirical; but eaoh arrives at truth, and truth
Is always at one with truth. One is concerned
with thought, the other with thintrs. hut
"thought and things aro but the necessary
complementary aspects of the one totality of
existence."
jYT length the conclusion was reached "that
nature is not something apart from mind.
On tho contrary, it became manifest that nature
is nothintr else than the outer mode of, and
hence has its only truth In, mind." What then
is "man's place in nature." ir this is nature?
Evidently man's relation to nature is now seen
to be bis relation to the mind which manifests
itself in natnre.
This conclusion has much to do with tbe al
leged conflict between religion and science.
Tho purpose of Mr. Bryant's book is to show
that there is a "science basis tor tbe reconcilia
tion of all science whether predominantly spec
ulative, or predominantly empirical, with any
religion that is worthy of the name." For
nature, being but tbo manifestation or outer
form of mind, tho world energy, the force
which lies beyond phenomena, is personal. It
is "tbe one absolute person."
And so this follows: "To bring one's tbonght
into unison with the established order of the
world itself a world of reason that is tho re
ligion of the intellect; to deliberately bring
one's conduct into harmony with that order
that is tbe religion of tho will: to harmonize
one's feeling, tbe entire range of his sentiment
with that order, so that be delights In doing
wnatever is consistent witn the rational world
order that is tbe religion of the emotions.
And yet theso three are but tho essential and
complementary aspects of relieion in its genu
uine, practical, concrete signification."
Mr. Bryant has written a careful, well con
sidered, and clearly-stated book. It is a ques
tion, however, as to its success in really
reconciling those two old dlspntants idealism
and realism. When we read that "there is no
'material' world apart from the spiritual,"
and that "the so-called material universe is but
tbe out-putting, the utterance or outer-ance,
the external modo of the divine, spontaneous
energy of spirit" and that 'the world In space
is nothing else tban the external aspect of tbe
world as thought;" when we are offered this as
a reconciliation of idealism and realism we are
inclined to set tbis "reconciliation" by tho side
of the "compromise." which the man made
with his wife about tho color which" the houso
should be painted. She said "white," and he
said "brown," go they "compromised" on
brownl
A uttue book which appeared in 1831 en
titled "Tho Development Theory." is
reissued now in a new edition, and with a
changed name as A Primer of Darwinism and
Organic Evolution, (Lee & Shepard, J.R. Weldiu
fc Co., $1 25); J. Y. Bergen and Fanny D. Bergen
are tbe authors. Tbe purpose is to present a
stralgbtforward and uncontroversial statement
of the Darwinian theory. The question is
stated, conditions of variation and selection of
advantageous variations are considered; testi
mony Is adduced from einbrvolngv, geology ana
Geographical distribntion; and there is a chap
ter on the origin and antiquity of man. The
style is clear; there are many interesting
instances, and apt quotations; the book is well
illustrated, unewnomsbes to know what Is
said on tbo other side must go to other books.
Tbis is not a discussion but a "Primer."
Another book on a good solid subject is The
Economic Basit o' Protection. (J. B. Lippln
cott & Co.; J. R. Weldin & Co.) The author is
Dr. Simon, N. Patten, Professor of Political
Economy in the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Patten Is a pronounced protectionist Ho
believes that whatever may be the best thing
forEngland or Europe the best thing for this
country is protection. He lays down three
premises: First that the American people aro
in a djnamic state, which means that we are
growing; second, that tbo American people are
not yet adjusted to our present economic envi
ronment Our economic conditions, in a land
which touch the frigid zone with one hand and
the torld zone with the other, and whose shores
are washed by the two great oceans, are
wholly unlike those of any otner country; the
old theories do not fit it Third, that at the
present time thero is a strong tendency in
America to increaso the share in the distribu
tion of wealth which goes to rent and other
natural monopolies. That is thero are other
relations to bo considered beside tbe old single
ones between producer and consumer.
Upon these promises Dr. Patten builds up
tho conclusion that we are not ready
for free trade. The trouble with the freo
traders, ho says, is that they have a low ideal
of our national position and prospects. They
take it for granted that we have settled down
and stopped growing. Tho fact is we are just
ucfciuuiii); iu kiuw. Aiie umereuce uctween
nationalism and nrovlnHallfimls niriw etato
The best thing for us to do is to develop our
selves to our uttermost to make the most of
ourselves. By and by we may be ready for
cosmopolitanism.
.
J)inna Forget," by John Strange Winter;
The Perject Way, in Lovell's Occult
Series, "by Edward Maitland and Anna Kings
ford, and Lyrlin, by Oulda, are published by
Frank F.Lovell Co.
Outlines of Jewish History is issued by the
Jowisb Publication Society of America. The
writer is Lady Magnus. The history begins
with the Jews in Babylon. That portion whicb
is covered by the Old Testament records and
tbe books of the Aprenypher is recounted; tbe
reign of Herod bas a chapter; tbe war with
Borne and the destruction of Jerusalem is de
scribed. The Roman, and Christian and Mo
bamedan persecution are outlined; tbe Jews in
Spain, in Central Europe during the Middle
Ages, and in England is set under the head of
"Darkness." The present age is "Dawn."
Emma Lazarus is the last name mentioned.
The idea is an excellent one, though Dean Mil
man had already conceived it and executed it.
The idea is carried out, unfortunately, not in
tbe historical, but in the partisan spirit Two
paragraphs, and these written In a narrow
temper, are all tbat this historian can spare for
the supreme saint and hero of the Jewish race,
the Prophet of Nazarath.
T ondon and Other Poems," by Slack Davis,
(Pittsburg, J. R, Weldin fc Co.) is the
title of a little volume that will doubtless find
many admiring readers in this city, where the
antbor was so well known. It contains many
sweet and dainty bits of verse, whicb, although
not remarkable! for flights of fancy, breathe
the true poetic spirit The work is a memorial
volume, edited by Lillian Slack Davis, tbo
daughter of the author. Much of its contents
has appeared in print before, but several
poems tbat are by no means less meritorious
than otbers, are published for tho first time
in this volume.
(")ne of the latest issues from John B. Alden's
press is "Stanley's Emin Pasba Expedi
tion," by Wauters, a very handsome, lame-type,
illustrated volume, reduced lu price to SO cents.
Tbis work tell a most interesting and complete
story, beginning with the conquest of the
SoudaB, and continuing through years of Afri
can exploration, tbe revolt ot the Mahdi, the
siege of Khartoum, with the death of Gordon,
the return of Dr. Jnnker, beside the story of
Stanley's own "adventures, including his suc
cessful relief expedition. It is one of the best
and most complete works issued upon the sub
ject ..TJANK Officers: Thtir Authority, Duty and
" LUbilltv," by Edward S. Bollls (New
York, Homans' Publishing Company), is a book
tbat business men will fiud Interesting and i.
public, and this new work appears to be Quite
as good as any that bave como from bis pen, I
" , r ir-nifTr.- in, i-AiifflttteVr- , , At
ui-wio. - n--Mv iw.mw uv JUirouuctlOn to Inn
MONDAY, JUNE 16,
A JOURNALISTIC TREAT.
A Synopsia of n Few of tbe Many Good Thing!
Contnlned In Veaterdny'e Dispatch.
A trifle over 63,000 copies of yesterday's Dis
patch were printed and sold in Pittsburg and
surrounding country. Its 20 pages were filled
with news from all parts of the known world,
besides columns of live local news. The special
features of yesterday's Dispatch were some
thing out of tbe ordinary, and must ba read to
be thoroughly appreciated. A few of the many
good things are appended:
x..
New rules are needed in England to save the
Tory Government from speedy destruction.
All England is aroused by the serious nature of
the dispute with France, Men of high rank
discuss tbe Issues in Germany. A great lack of
respect is shown to the memory ot ex-Speaker
Randall In Washington. Miss Caldwell and
Baron Von Zedtwltz to be married. Congress
man Dalzell has a plan for tbe settlement of
the Pacific Railroad debt The United States
Circuit Court at Leavenworth decides that
any size original package can be freely sold
under tbe decision of the United States Su
preme Court Five tons of gylcerine explode
at Findlay. Destructive storms" rage in Ken
tucky and Illinois. Pennsylvania is too pros
perous to get up a good show at Chicago. A
sensitive actress refuses to be photographed
in a rather air costume, but she is caucht by
flash light while upon the stage. Po-lerIy
makes a plea for equal and exact justice for
the world's female toilers.
New primaries aro set for the Twentv-thlrd
District Hundreds of sick persons are being
cured at Troy Hill at the hands of a Catholic
priest A surprisingly large number of children
are found employed at manual labor. William
Scott Is charged with the murder of Salratore
Tcro. A sham battle takes place in Allegheny
for the benefit of the West Penn Hospital. Tbe
United States Marine Band eivo a concert in
the evening. Frank Semple recovers his dead
father's Bible. The result of Democratic and
Republican primaries throngbout the State are
published in full. Sports and pastimes are re
plete with facts and figures.
II.
Brenan describes Art in the Country, Wilmer
Wellington writes about Scenes in Virginia, A
Doctor of Divinity, tbe Sunday Lesson, Rud
yard Kipling, tho Black Jack, Victoria's Let
ters, No More Wrinkles, the American Girl,
Philosophic Reflections, Beating Uncle Sam,
Gossip of Gotham, tbe Home Winners, Citizen
Cleveland, Art for Country Sale, Omens on the
Deep, Comfort and Dress, the Owner of the
Angelas, in Foreign Courts and Gobbles in
America are all graphically described by a
corps of brilliant writers,
m.
Thomas Nast illustrates Fine Arts In Con
gress: while William Churchill tells of South
Sea Lovers; tho Ace of Clubs; Duties of a
Nurse; Tales From London; Homo of Gymnas
ium; In tho Dark; Miracles and Law; tho Flro
slde Sphinx; the Woman's World; Ellice Sere
na tells how to make salads: C. R. Clifford
writes of tho beauty in the home; and a staff
writer describes Our Servant Girls.
Beside all the above, full market reports and
miscellaneous reading matter will be found,
which makes The Dispatch one of the most
interesting papers published. It is a complete
book in itself and only costs S cents.
P0BT6M0UTH TO PITTSBUEO.
Tbo Smoky City the Homo of Moral Recti
tude and tho Sabbatarian's Dellffhr.
A gentleman who signs himself W. H. Mc,
recently made a trip from Portsmouth to Pitts
burg, and writes of the latter place as follows
in the Portsmouth Blade:
As dark approaches and wo near Pittsburg
the sicht is magnificent Tbe stand pipes giv
ing out great volumes of flame aro everywhere
reminding ono of tbe Irishman's story of the
Yankoe. He said the darned Yankee had read
Bom'eres tbat the Creator would some time
destroy tbe olrth with toire and they'd set to
worruk to poomp all the oil out so the blamed
thing wouldn't bum, and bate the Onid Man at
his own game. Pittsburg, so lopg known as
tbo Smoky City, in eeocrapblcal nomenclature,
is now probably tbe cleanest and best kept in
America. All coal has been superseded by gas,
and tho mills and furnaces, with perhaps one
or two exceptions, are void of any smoko what
ever. The streets are all paved with Belgian
block or asphalt and are- swept every night
In rapid transit she cannot be beaten. Cable,
elcotric and horse cars run in all directions for
a distance of perhaps six or seven miles. Steam
cars also furnish suburban residents splendid
accommodations and facilities for reaching the
city. Many of the buildings are painted white,
.which makes them very attractive, but would
he entirely out of place were there any smoke.
The majority of tile seven and eieht-story
buildings are built of polished granite fronts of
unique designs and enduring as tbe ages.
Allegheny, which is virtually a part of Pitts
burg, except In matters municipal. Is a lovely
place. Allegheny Park, which extends in cir
cular form tbrougn the entire center of the
city, is a whole panorama of itself. Lakelets,
in which float graceful swans, as well as wild
geese and other water fowl, relieve the green
grassy lawns ann smmemcai maples, in the
center is a large and magnificent green houso
containing every known domestic and tropical
plant and flower that yields fruit or fragrance.
Largo banana trees loaded.Indla rubber trees,
palms, palmettoes. etc. No flowers are sold or
given away except when transplanting. The
building and grounds was tbe donation of a
Mr. Phipps, and provided that it should be
kept open on Sunday for the benefit of tbe
working man, and the thousands that visited
the place last Sundavls evidence they appreci
ate tbe eif t Fountains plav in varions nlnnes
and monuments are erected to distinguished
persons.
Speaking of Sunday here, it is the driest
place this side of the Sahara. Money will not
purchase a cigar, chew of tobacco, glass of
soda water, lemonade, or even red liquor.
The Law and Order League are running tho
morals of the town. A man immediately ro
forms as soon as be strikes Pittsburg. It is so
ordered. Thero is a Bort ot sneaking business
carried on by certain ones, and If a fellow
knows how, I am told (now, mind you, I am
told this),, he can work tbe combination and
et hW whlstlo very w et They call snch insti
tutions "speak-easies."
WITH mPEESSIVE EXEECISES.
Tbo Firat English Evangelical Lutheran
Church at Brnddock Dedicated.
ISrZCIAI. TELEOBA1I TO THIS DISPATCn.1
Braddock, Juno 15. The First English
Evangelical Lutheran Church, erected tbis
spring at a cost of S10.000, was dedicated this
afternoon with impressive and solemn exer
cises. The corner stone of the St Luke's Re
formed Church was laid with the same exer
cises. The All Saints Episcopal Church will bo
dedicated next Sunday, and the new and ele
gant Methodist Episcopal Church, which was
erected at a cost of J25,000. will be dedicated a
week later.
CUEEENT TIMELx" TOPICS.
THIS hot weather has assisted the law ma
terially In driving out the car stove, but they will
be foundjn the same old corners with tbe advent
of cold weather.
It Is said that when certain Congressmen
speak in Washington all the rats can be seen
leaving the Capitol and make a bee line for ad
Joining buildings, only to return when the orators
aro through, of what use Is the Government rat
catcher there?
Marshal Lurty. of Oklahoma, sent to
Chicago to have his printing done, and the pro
prietors of tne home offices are hopping mad
They snould retaliate by compelling the Marshal
to send to Chicago when he wants to advertise for
a servant girl.
WnitE carryine up a load of brick on an
Allegheny house Saturday, a colored man hap
pened to slip and fall to the bottom. Another
colored man ran to his assistance and said, "is
yerhurt?"
'No, I Isn't" was the reply; "but I guess dem
bricks am pretty well pressed."
Titusvtlle, at one time tbe Queen City of
the Aorthern oil field, is awakening from Its Jtlp
Van Winkle sleep. Iho Herald of that city 'says
that a gang of men are soon to.be put to work re
moving the grass and weeds from between the
walks and the streets.
Corry. known from one end of tho world to
tho other for Its tough railroad sandwiches, came
near being swept away bvhlgh water last week,
and but Tor the arrival or a carload of Its Justly
celebrated sandwiches, the good people of that
place would probably have no town to look at
to-day.
If those counting machines in Washington
are not brougbtnp with a sharp turn when they
strike some or those Hungarian names In the coal
regions, the patentee may consider himself a very
lucky man.
THE enumerator's work is nearlv completed.
Those who lived through the ord'eal will not
hanker for the position ten years hence, and those
who lost their Jives during tho U days' engage
ment will not it 1 to be hoped, be compelled to
engage in a similar undertaking" innhe. brighter
"VBii"iC'iJ.:. aNs3JL .3 X&.
i890.
THE TARIFF MANGLERS
Of tbo Senate Severely Overhnnled Mem
bora of tbe House Ravins; iUnd at the
Senatorial Rlppeis Phenomenal Impu
dence of tbe Member of tbe Flnnnco
Committee of tbo Upper Body A Fight
Certain.
rVBOM A STAFT COBBUSrOXDltTr.l
"ashinqton, June 15. I am not particu
larly well versed In the "annals of Con
gress," and am glad of it, for I would hate to
bavo much of the dreary stuff stored up in my
mind; bnt I doubt if the annals of Congress
can exhibit a parallel to the treatment of the
McKlnley bill in the Senate. With the House
Democratic and the Senate Bepublican, as was
the case in the last Congress, I suppose itmignt
be said to be legitimate party warfare for tbe
Senate to mutilate beyond recognition a tariff
bill originated and pasecr by a political enemy;
but for a Republican Senate to murder a bill
originated and passed by a Republican House,
as tbe McKinley bill has been murdered by tbe
Senate, is something without precedent A
Democratic Senate would hardly have done
more.
Tbis action of tho Senate is the gross Internal
scandal of the time In the Bepublican party.
One out of reach ot Congressional conversa
tion that is not intended for publication can
not have any idea of tbe intensity of feeling of
the members of the House against the Senators
who are engaeed in the mangling of the bill.
Of course, there are a few members of the
House who are glad of tbe vandalism of the
Senate. They posed as "kickers" against the
bill in the House, and they look upon the ac
tion of the Senate as their vindication. That
the bill was in line with tbe platform of the Re
publican party no one has attempted to deny.
It was Republican and high tariff to the core.
It may bave had faults. It bad faults. It is
impossible to do anything without faults creep
ing in, but tbe worst faults ot tbe McKinley
bill are virtues in comparison with tbo best of
the changes that have been made in it by the
members of the Senate Finance Committee,
wbo have taken it upon themselves to knock
tho stuffing out of ft
Phenomenal Senatorial Impudooce.
'The impudence of the thing is phenomenat
It Is an insult to tho Committee on Ways
and Means, an insult to the House majority
which passed it, an insult to tbo National Re
publican Convention whicb adopted tbo high
tariff platform upon which tbis bill was con
structed, and through tbat convention and
through the House of Representatives an in.
suit to Republicans everywhere. It is a deadly
blow at the principle of protection, and a deadly
blow at the manufacturing interests of the
whole country.
The impudence of tbe act is magnified a
thousand times when it is remembered that tho
men who performed it represent vastly less of
the sentiment of the country tban is usual even
in the unrepresentative body called the Senate.
Allison's election was gained, it might be
said, by -the turning of a hair, and after his
election had hung in the balance for weeks.
Ho hardly represents tbe half of bisown State.
It rcauired very fine political work to enable
bim to get there; and bis Stato is not a repre
sentative State anyway.
Hiscock comes from a State representing all
of the great interests of the country, but he is
anytbinir but a reoresentatlva man. as he wan
merely a compromise choice of tbe Legislature
when it got into a deadlock over the men, one
of whom was expected to be chosen by the
people who elected -the Legislature. Ho is at
best an embodiment of vanity and selfishness
which makes bim incapable of an act in which
self-interest is not the controlling influence. A
cloud of witnesses will attest this estimate as
the true one.
Not Very Bid Potatoes.
A ldiucii is a man of pigmy abilities from a
pigmy State. The State is not even a large
pocketful for a very rich man. It Is a mero
mouthful of a State, a caricature of the word
sovereign, a farcical piece de resistance, a ban
tam rooster, whose every crow is an illustration
of tbe chance and imbecility whicb work to
gether to make up an empire tor the benefit of
politicians.
With Allison elected by a mere scratch from
a Stato whose farmers bave not enough brains
to get rid of their mortgages, and blamo their
own impotency on the tariff; with Hiscock
elected as a compromise man, which is another
namo for a man whom nobody wants, and wbo
is put in office solely because the candidates
too powerful for eacb other agree to accept one
who Is so much of a nobody that he cannot be
a disturbing element in a future contest; with
Aldrich elected by a baker's dozen of legis
lators, so-called, not ono nf whom has ever been
beard of in public life, and in a State whose
existence Is foreotten except on the occasion
of a Presidental election, or when one of Its
Senators makes himself conspicuous by trying
to undo the work of better men; the people, tho
Republican party, can judge bow representa
tive of the sentiment and wisdom of the coun
try are the men wbo have assumed tbe tasK of
practically drafting a new tariff bill upon the
ruins of the McKinley bill.
Ont-Heroding Herod.
Mow if I could be convinced that any one of
these men who are wholly and solely re
sponsible for tbe crime against the McKinley
bill were actuated by a grand, patriotic, un
selfish motive, I would simply say tbat they are
honestly mistaken, tbough their conduct would
still take tbe laurels for incomparablo impu
dence, and for this simple reason: The Com
mittee on Ways and Means spent months and
held hundreds of hearings, while considering
the form of the bill: within a few weeks tbo
Senate Finance Committee, without any hear
incs and without information, has torn away
nearly all ot the important and vital provisions
of the bill. Tbis of itself is enough to con
demn the course of the Finance Committee,
even admitting tbe utmost in its favor.
But I cannot give them credit tor anything
but a desire to re-elect themselves, for there is
no ovidence of a broad or enlightened view of
anything in the changes so far as they aro
known. A Democratlo committee could hardly
bave drafted a more Democratlo measure than
this promises to be as it has been changed by
tbe Senate sub-committee. Certainly it is not
a Republican measure as it now stands. The
House conferees should Insist till the cows
come hnmo on the restoration of tbe terms of
the McKinley bill, and the real Republicans of
tne country snouta insist mat the House con
ferees should insist to the last moment of the
session, and let the bill die altogether rather
than make it operative in Its mangled and un
Kepublican shape. E. W. L.
A NEW CHOECH BEGUN.
The Corner Stone of St. Lake's, at Brnddock,
Laid Yesterday.
Tbe corner stone of tbe new St Luke's En
glish Reformed Church, situated on tbe corner
of Fourth street and Camp avenue, Braddock.
was laid yesterday afternoon at 5 o'clock amid
a gathering of over 300 persons. It was thought
for a time tbat the heavy shower would force
them to abandon the exercises. However, tbe
people bravely walked through the mud ankle
deep, and were seated on tbe platform im
provised for tbe occasion.
The choir of the Wilkinsburg Reformed
Church furnished the music. Tbe programme
as carried out was as follows: "Anthem," by
choir; "Invocation," by pastor. Rev. Hassler;
hymn, "O. Lord of Hosts," assemblage:
"Psalm" No. 96, Rev. G. W. Sherrick;
"Anthem," by choir; corner stone service by
pastor and assembled ministers, according to
tbe rites of the church: "Apostles Creed," con
gregation: hymn, "Coronation." congregation:
address by Rev. John It Prugb, pastor of
Grace Reformed Churcb, Pittsburg, relative to
the growth of tbe churcb here and tbo exercises
of tbo occasion: reception of offerings, Dox
ologj; benediction. Rev. Freeman.
The ministers in attendance were Rev. John
It. Prugb. of Grace Reformed Church. Pitts
burg: Rev. Mr. Freeman, Pittsburg; Rev. Mr.
Whitman, of Lancaster: Rev. Mr. Hassler,
Bas tor of tbe church at Braddock,ana Rev.G.W.
herrick, pastor of the Copeland U. B. Cburcb.
Tbo exercises were shortened on account of
the threatening weather. They lasted an hour
and a half. The contents of tbe box deposited
within the corner stone wero the records ot the
cburcb at Ilraddock, tbe papers connected with
the Reformed Church, copies of the Pittsburg
dally papers, and tbe names of tbe members
and donators to the church fund. Tho oox was
sealed and work will be commenced in the
building to-day.
, f ' wljl bo quite a large building, two stories
nigh, the lower floor to be used as a basement
the upper to bo built of brick, and It is cx
bentemb" eUlcat9 Jt by tho beginning of next
A Collection Highly Prized.
From the Washington Supper Table.!
A couple of Pittsburg Grand Army men
were in town the other day and offered $500 for
the etchings in the Grand Army room, but tbe
proposition was not entertained. The old
soldiers prize their collection very highly.
4 llvir Lining la hn Clou J.
From the New l'orkTrlbune.:
The announcement tbat another Cracker
Trust has been formed will encourage lovers of
clam chowder. The day, mar be naar at hand
when'crackers will be so expensive, that it will
'ttsiw f a tint1 n aIa m, m av fAa-A t - , . s
httsA . s -toie ..- .,. : ITl :
OUR MAIL POUCH.
. Mall Delivery In England.
To the Editor ofThe Dispatch
1. Is there a mall delivery by postmen in En
gland and Ireland on Sunday? 2. What caused
the trouble between Prussia and Hanover
which ended in the abolition of tbe Hanoverian
kincdom? 3. Who is Duke or Cumberland?
BUTLER, June If. O.
Yes; but any person can have such a de
livery stopped as to himself. The delivery is
in tbe towns, not in tbo country districts.
2. George V.. King of Hanover, bated and dis
trusted Prussia, and sided with Austria in the
"Six Weeks War." So Prussia invaded
Hanover and annexed tbe kingdom. Prussia
offered him a large indemnity, but he refused
to accept It. 8. Ernest Augustus William
Adolph George Frederick, son of George V.,
who died In 1878.
Tho Lnat ot tbe Algoaqalns.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
Is anything left of the Delaware tribe of
Indians ? Was Cooper correct in making tbe
Mohicans, of New England, a branch of the
Delaware tribe ?
McKeesport, Jnne It
The Delawares were a tribo of tbe Algonquin
family ot Indians. The Munsey Indians in
Canada are descendants of tbe Delawares; but
in the United States tbe Delawares in 1866 took
up lands in severalty in Kansas, and ceased to
be retarded as a tribe. Yes; the Mohicans wero
Algonqulns. The name means wolf, and the
Delawares were divided into three classes, those
of the turtle, tho turkey and the wolf.
Bine Points nail (Silver Points.
To the Editor oftho Dls patent
What is the difference between a
"blue
point" and a "silver point" photograph?
Pittsburo, June M. Header.
Both are unfinished photographs, taken
from tbe negatives by different processes. One
is blue and tbe other isn't Ask a photog
rapher to explain the technical processes.
He Most Tote In Pennsylvania.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
If a man goes into another State from Penn
sylvania, leaves bis family here and resides in
the other State two years, must he return to
Pennsylraniajlwhero bis family is, to vote at a
general election, or can he vote in tbe State his
business is in? Echo.
FrrrsBDRO, June 14.
Consult n Dealer In Old Books.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
I have two old books, one a "Methodist Dis
cipline" and tbe other tbe London Gazette,
the former being published in 1803 and the lat
ter in 1777. Are they of any particular value,
and what Is it? Seeker.
Axieanna, O., June 11
Jin Certainly Does.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
Will you pleaso inform me through your
Mall Pouch column whethor a persdn needs a
license to get married in Canada?
Pittsburo, J una It Canada.
Wbo Can Give It?
To the Editor of Tbe Dispatch:
Please give me a receipt or formula for mak
inc stick 'em flv paper. J. It Heciuian.
Pittsburo, June It
Unanswered Qnorlrs.
M. Ique, Pittsburg, asks: Has Rhodo Island
a law prohibiting Catholics from holding of
fice? G. A. B. wanU to know who was the Inventor
of the process of inserting tbe silk threads in
paper money.
A BELIGIOTJS TEST CASE.
Tbo Supreme Court to bo Called Upon to
Settle tbe Sunday Question.
The Supremo Court of Tennessee has just
rendered a decision affirming tbe action of tbo
lower court in the case of the State versus R.
M. King. This case was appealed from the
Circuit Court held at Troy. Obion county.
Toon., last March, and has attracted much at
tention on account of the religious question in
volved in it Mr. King is a member of the
Seventh Day Adventisc Church, a sect which
onserves the seventh day (Saturday), as the
Sabbath, in the place of Sunday, tbe first day
of the week. Mr. Klnc Is a farmer, and was
indicted for quietly working on his own prem
ises, not in sight of any place of publio worship.
Nono of the witnesses for the Stato testified to
having been disturbed in any way, or to having
a knowledge tbat anyone elso bad been dis
turbed, except that their moral sense had been
shocked by seeing work done on Sunday.
Tbe defendant was first arraigned before a
justice of tbe peace, and fined $3 and costs,
amounting in all to about 512. which be paid.
He was afterward indicted for tbe same of
fense by tbe crand jury at Troy, Obion county,
and was convicted, and fined $75. An appeal
was taken to the Suoreme Court The case will
be taken to tbe Supreme Court of the United
States. This will be tbe first case involving the
constitutionality ofSnnday laws, tbat has been
brought beforo tbe United States Supreme
Court
IT PE0VED A FATAL FEAST.
A Man Swallovn Twenty-Six Hard Boiled
Egg and Dies.
Akron, O., June 15. Homer E. Newton, a
most prominent farroerof Snmmit county, died
at his home in WestRlchfield last night. Three
weeks ago, while on an excursion with a party
of friends, a discussion arose concerning over
eating, which ended in a wager, and Newton
ate 26 hard-boiled eggs. He became ill almost
immediately, and was taken borne, where he
suffered terribly until his deatb. The stomach
and bowels refused to perform their functions,
and seemed to be paralyzed by tbe impact mass
of eggs. Tbe patient lived practically without
food for three weeks.
Newton was aged 45 and was a perfect speci
men of physical manhood, 6 feet tall, and
weighing ISO pounds, and was never sick a day
in bis life until bis fatal feast He owned the
finest farm in this section, was worth 1100.000.
and was a heavy shipper and importer of fine
cattle. He was well known to cattle dealers at
Chicago and New York, and was a frequent ex
hibitor at State fairs.
HAN'S HOBBIES.
Ofa. James Horner Purchases 84,000 Worth
of Orchids In Philadelphia.
From the Philadelphia Inquirer.:
Man's hobbles run in a great many direc
tions, but about the most beautiful one a man
can bave is the study of nature's own
product. James Horner, one of Pitts
burg's wealthy residents, seems to think
so, for be bas devoted most of his time for sev
eral years to tho collection and study of rare
cacti. He is in the city at present stop
ping at the Girard House, and has just
bought HOOO worth of orchids. Attached
to his magnificent residence in Pittsburg is
an immense conservatory and hot houses, in
which be plants his pets.; Recently he made
a six months' tour of South America and se
cured many valuable specimens, among which
was an orchid the leaves of which curled up
into the form of a perfect dove.
POINTERS POB GENTLEMEN,
Wrm onting wear tbe plainest kind of hand
kerchief is desirable.
The Prince Albert coat seems to be coming
strong for morning wear in London in a variety
of rough faced cloths-
Underwear and hosiery of the plainest
character suitable to tbe temperature is most
in demand, in gauze, lisle and silk.
TnE made-up scarfs will be in less demand
in warm weather. And the four-in-hands and
wide Ascots will not bo associated with out
ing wear.
The Tuxedo coat may be worn in the even
ing during the summer withont the waistcoat
A black surah or satlc sash is substituted upon
these occasions.
The metal-headed canes seem to tend in
their decoration to repousse work in silver,
or a tracing of the silver in erratic designs
upon the natural wood sticks.
Some of the wide waist belts shown for out
ing wear are calculated to turn the convictions
of tbe most bigoted opponent of tbe outing
scheme of attire to an admission of its come
liness. One of tbe consequences of wearing tbo
tnrndown collar with full dress will be that
white or black tleable cravats will have to be
worn therewith, the catch and buckle bow be
ing Impracticable.
Durinq the summer, as at any other time,
gloves must be worn by the men with evening
dress. The prevalent idea is a delicate pearl
ahada. With heavy whlw cord-like braid em
broidered oa the Back,-.1K from tht Clothier
and Furnisher, .
J
CURIOUS C0HDEKSAT10I.8.
Atlanta bas "a pump tbat occasionally
pumps itself," to tho great alarm of super
stitious persons In tho neighborhood.
Eighty-six designs in competition have
been submitted for the great iron tower in
London, which is to surpass that of Eiffel In
The explanation of the peculiar density
of thunder clouds is said to lie in the fact that
the vapor is partially condensed into drops by
the electrical action.
A Georgia youth who answered (inclos
ing a quarter) an advertisement ot bow to
make money without work, got m reply a
we dB " Paper lnscrlbeU: "Catch suckers, as
"William Jones, or Philadelphia, has re
ceived a white raccoon whicb was captured in
the eastern part of Ohio. It is said to be tbe
only animal of its kind and color known in
A prisoner who escaped from the Tatt
nall county Fla., jail recently. left a note for
the Sheriff, saying he was innocent but that
be would be back in October to stand trial, and
hoped to be acquitted.
Where is there a more ludicrous and
at tbe same time pathetic Inscription, asks the
New York Sun, than tbat chiseled upon the
perpetually empty horse trough in Mail street:
Drink, Patient Friend?"
A postage stamp was recently found by
a Connecticut physician in tbe ear of a little
patient and on its removal a severe pain, from
which the child had suffered and which caused
tbe visit to the doctor, disappeared.
The treasurer of St Clair county, Mich.,
received an envelopo the other day containing
8100 In money. It was from some conscious
stricken man.and the only explanation Inclosed
was tho fact that the money wasn't his.
The pelvic bones of a mastodon have
been uncovered on a farm near Virginia, lit
Search is being made for tbe remainder of tho
skeleton. Tbe animal from which tho bones
came was not less than 13 feet high and IS feet
long.
A use for flowers that was novel, if not
altogether new, was made on a train at Jersey
City by a convict He carried a huge bonquet
in bis hand to hide tbo handcuffs which en
circled bis wnsis. He was being taken to servo
outahis sentence.
B. little chicken, which, though healthy
and flourishing, will always have to be fed by
human hands, attracts attention in North
rlalnfleld-N. J- Thnnrmnr half nfflshlllfa
rolled back in a tight ball between tho eyes.
Tbe lower half is natural and perfect
A Bostonian, just returned from Lon
don, says that be was attracted by a large
crowd one day, and. on investigation, lonnd
that tbe people were waiting to see the man
expected to enter a railway carriage marked,
Reserved for President Ames of America."
Bread and milk is one of the most popu
lar dishes served for lunch at the Congressional
restaurant in Washington. Glasses of pure
cream or of half cream and halt milk aro
greatly In demand among the Congressmen
who come from cities, but they are avoided by
tbo rural members.
The custom of a water boy to carry lea
water through the cars began on Connecticut
railroads during tho war, when water was car
ried through the cars to sick or disabled sol
diers, and it so commended itself to tho public
that in KM a law was passed making the ser
vIcb obligatory on all roads running through
the State.
Lightning struck the chimney on the
residence of John M. Giltner. near Elliott,
Montgomery county, Iowa. Mrs. Giltner was
preparing breakfast and the bolt passed within
tWO feet Of her and ttlllpd a. rinr nnriarthn
house. Mrs. Oiltner's sister was sleeplne in a
bed with her head close to where the lightning
passed down tbo chimney and was shocked
severely.
A phosphate speculator in Florida
bought of another person a tract of land tbat
had been sold at a tax sale, and bad exhumed
H25.0OO worth of phosphate ready for shipment
when a woman appeared on the scene and pro
duced her deed for tbe land and tax receipt in
full. She furthermore nronospji to inn fnr
5100,000 damages. The trouble is caused by a
loose system of assessing and collecting taxes.
While fishing at Ormond, Fla., a fisher
man hooked a two-foot shark. Upon pulling
him In he found tbat on the upper hook was
the bead of a small sbovel-nose shark, and on
the lower hook the aforesaid two-footer. It
appears that tbe larger shark f onnd the smaller
one hooked, devoured bim up to the head, and
then, taking tbe bait of tbo other book, was in
turn caught. Tbe opening of the larger shark
discloses the abovo fact The small one was
about 16 inches long.
J. H. Youngclas, of Duncombe, la.,
has lost four young horses from hydrophobia
within a short time. Tbe animate seemed to
suffer intensely, biting tbemselvea and tearing
their flesh in a terrible manner. One ot tho
horses was bitten by a mad dos about a month
ago. and had succeeded in biting tbe other
three before the nature of the malady was dis
covered. The rabid canine was killed by a
cow which he attacked but did not succeed In
biting.
At the Montefiore Home for Chronio
Invalids there Is a patient suffering from a pe
culiar and incurable disease, the like of which
is rarely met with and never before in such a
perfectly hopeless and completely developed
state as in this instance. It is called
acromegaly, but tho name conveys no informa
tion of the horrible nature of tbe disease, which
is one that baffles medical skIII. The bones of
tho frame and cranium of a victim of acrome
galy never cease to grow, but add bone tissue
to bone tissue, cartilage to cartilage until the
individual is extended to an enormous size.
Hamilton, O., has a mysterious visitor.
He is a man of about 45. and daring tbe several
weeks he has spent about the town no one has
been able to get a single word from bim. Ha
carries a bundle to which he clings ail the time.
using it at night for a pillow. What it con
tains no one knows. He sleeps in an open
wheat field. He has never entered a door,
never asked for food or been given a mouthful
of food and puts in the day walking np and
down the pike. He visits a spring where be
drinks copiously; bnt what he lives on outsido
of water, where be came from or what his
name is no one bas been able to ascertain.
During the Franco-German war the
ladies of England wero busy making paper
cushions which they sent to France to be used
for the wounded in tbe hospitals. Hundreds of
thousands of these cushions were sent and
wero ot great service. Now all England is
crazy on the subject of paper pillows again.
Tbey tear tbe paper into very small pieces, not
bigger than one's finger nail, and then put
them into a pillow sack of drilling or light tick
ing. They aro very cool for hot climates and
much superior to feather pillows. Newspaper
is not nlco to use, as there is a disagreeahlo
odor from printer's ink; but brown or white
Eaper and old letters and envelopes are the
est As tbey are torn, stuff them into an old
pillow case, and you can see when you have
enoueb. The easiest way is to tear or cut the
paper in strips about half an inch wide, and
then tear or cut it across. The finer it is, the
lighter it makes the pillows.
A FEW HIGGLES.
"Waal, Ar'bellah, ef dat Jackson young
nn ain't for'ard fur a J-monthj-ola chile, a
kvarln' hits ma'a par'sol!"
"W'y, Misslus Pollock, dat's one ob dem new
fashion' kyar'ges wot bez de par'sol hinged on a
wire."
"Do you ever, in your lonely hours, find
yourself addresfing the moon?"
"So, Indeed." said the Boston girl. "I have
never been introduced to tbe moon; I only know it
by sight"
"Hello, old fellow, I hear you are going
abroad."
"Yes. I expect to sail next month, and to settle
permanently In London."
"Why, how nice that will bet So convenient
too, for your friends. I expect to go over for a
few weeks myself next year."
Mr. Slowboy Miss Passe, what do you
think Is the best name for a girl?
Miss Passe (looking deep into his eyes) That or
the only man she ever loved. SomerviUe Journal?
Briggs Say, old man, what are yon doing
for that cold?
Griggs Coughing. Life.
Lucy So Emma has written to her
mother to come to visit them. Do you think she
Is anxious lot her to come?
Julia No. fehe gave tbe letter to her hnsband
to mall. Detroit Irte Press.
Mamma Take your fore, Tommfe. Don't
you know it Is wrong to eat with your lingers?
Tommle Fingers were made before forks,
mamma. '
"I know It Tommle; bnt yours were not"
Xonkers Statesman.
A single grain of common sense beats S
million of gunpowder when superstitions are to pa
exploded. It Is futile for the most profane man
attempt to blast tbe rock of public opinion:
American Grocer.
Married sister And of course, Laura, you
will go to Rome or Florence for yonr honeymoon?
Laura-Oh, dear, not I couldn't think of going
further than the Isle of Wight witBamuIknosf
UtUaoraotolsgofj.
m