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THE" PITSBTIRG DISPATOH, THURSDAY, JULY 81, 1890.
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RECIPROCITY TO TIIB FORE.
The interview with Senator Stockbridge,
of Michigan, which appears in another col
umn, sheds light in a desirable manner upon
the attitude of President Harrison and his
friends toward Mr. Blaine's reciprocity
ideas and the McKinley tariff bill. Senator
Stockbridge states that it has been
agreed by the leaders of the
Republican party in the Senate
after consultation with the President to tack
on a reciprocity clanse to the tariff bill.
This clanse will give the President discre
tionary power to suspend the tariff law as far
as the imports from any country extending
reciprocal exemption to the United States
are concerned. That is to say, whenever a
countrv, Cuba or Spain for instance, takes
off the duties on our manufactures and agri
cultural products we will do the same by
them.
.-Ever since Mr. Blaine began writing let
ters upon the subject The Dispatch has
favored this adoption oi the reciprocity idea
upon the single condition that the reduction
on sugar contemplated by the McKinley
bill should not be interfered with. "We
can say the same now with regard to
the proviso which Senator Stockbridge
says will be added to the tariff bill.
The amendment to the bill offered by Sen
ator Pierce would practically serve the
same purpose as the addendum upon which
the White House council has set the stamp
of its approval. Senator Pierce's amend
ment wonld afford a full guarantee to the
sugar producing countries that if they give
our prodncts free entry to their ports, the
privilege of free sugar will be maintained
lor their benefit by us. The question of
leaving so much to the discretion of the
President we will not now discuss, but the
welding of reciprocity to protection would
seem to be attainable by a simpler plan.
A QUESTION OF fcUPHEMACY.
The assertion is made by a member of the
Pennsylvania corporation that the corpora
tion "owns or controls the right, title and
franchises of the South Penn," and there
lore that "it would be reasonable to sup
pose that it would complete the South Penn
or have it constructed under its control and
in its interest." This is evidently conclu
sive from the corporation point of view; and
tbc Pennsylvania Railroad interests natu
rally intimate that there is nothing more to
be said.
Bnt when it is asserted from Pennsylva
nia Railroad sources that it owns or controls
the South Penn, is it not a matter of some
importance to the public that it is forbidden
in general terms by the. Constitution to
"purchase, leaEe or in any way control"
such a parallel or competing line; and that
it has also been specifically forbidden by an
injunction of the courts to purchase or ac
quire control of this very line. In other
words, we have the assertion of Pennsylva
nia Railroad authorities, ns reason for their
action, that they have already done exactly
what they were forbidden to do by both the
Constitution and the courts. In other words,
the issue presented to the people by these
avowals is that of directly overriding by
sheer corporate nullification, the constitu
tional law and the mandates ot the courts in
this specific case.
It is a little difficult to see how the ques
tion could be more unmistakably laid before
the people of this State, whether the Consti- J
tution or the corporations shall be supreme
in Pennsylvania.
FRENCH VIEWS ON THE SEAT ISSUE.
The question of politeness to women on
board of streetcars has broken out in France,
where an effort has been made to main
tain the alleged gallantry of the Gallic race
by legislative enactment. The municipal
council of Havre was the scene of this at
tempt. One of the members, after a speech
bewviling the fact that in these days men
seated in a car never thought of giving up
their places to women, moved that conduct
ors be empowered to make the ungallant
Beat holders yield their seats to the softer
sex. It has been the subject of mourning
by the Paris journals that the majority of
Havre Council were' unable to take this
lofty stand and voted the motion down.
The novel feature of this proposition is
the length to which it carries the theory of
regulating everything by government If
any one thing might be supposed to belong
exclusively to the determination of the indi
vidual, it would be the question of
giving up seats to ladies on street
cars. Without committing ourselves to
any such socialist theory from the
corporate standpoint as that the man who
pays his fare is entitled to a seat, it may
certainly be asserted that the man who pays
his tare and gets a seat, owns that seat It
he gives it up, according to all theories of
individual rights he must do so of his own
iree will. But the French idea proposed to
make men gallant by municipal ordinance
to the extent of having to give up their seats
against their wills.
Another point is suggested by this state
ment It is one of the stock illustrations of
the good effects of government interference
in everything, that in France publio con
veyances are never allowed to take more
passengers than their seating capacity. Bnt
here we have a case in which the violation
of that rule is not only establi3aed-bj pub
lic recognition, but it is even sanctioned by
an attempt to enaet that In that case the
men must give up their seats and ride
standing. This suggests the possibility that
France sometimes falls as far short of en
forcing its regulative enactments as the
United States does.
TARIFF AHD PARTIES.
No doubt tb,e reports to the effect that the
President and Secretary Blaine are whet
ting knives for each other, and that Messrs.
McKinley, Reed and Cannon, of Illinois,
are preparing a bull of excommunication
from the Republican party against tbe
Secretary of State, are largely the result of
active imaginations 'among the opposition
press. The President and Secretary of
State are to be presumed to have sufficient
discretion to keep "their rivalry without
bounds while tbey are joined in the work of
government; for to do anything else would
be to furnish political capital to the enemy.
Likewise, however, the House leaders may
resent Mr. Blaine's excursion into the
regions, unknown to them, of reciprocity
policy. They may be credited with sufficient
sense to restrain'from turning Mr. Blaine
out of the, Republican party lest perchance
they might turn the Republican party out
with him,
Nevertheless, the light in which Repub
lican politics are revealed by a snap-shot
photographic view, at present is very in
structive, and the instruction need not by
any means be confined to party lines. The
most valuable educational aspect of the goal
to which Republican struggles with the
tariff are tending bids fair to be the demon
stration that the tariff is too tough a nut
for the political leaders on bothssides of the
House. It is hardly too early to make tbe
statement that both parties have now tried
to wrestle a bout with the tariff, and both
parties have got badly thrown.
The Democratic ill-success with that
knotty problem hag become a matter of polit
ical history. Tariff revision of some sort
was promised by the platforms of both par
ties in 18S4. After a prelude in the shape
of Morrison's horizontal reduction, the
Democracy was admonished by President
Cleveland's famous message to expectorate
on its hands and go to work. It did so with
the remit that, after nine months' flounder
ing on thesnbjectjduringwhich Randall was
put outside the door, the bill was stalled
between the Senate and the House, and the
attempt had to be abandoned from sheer in
ability to keep a quorum together to go on
with the work. This;faco was completed
by Democratic defeat at the polls, and tbe
record on that side was completed.
The Republicans were not at all reticent
about calling attention to the Democratic
failure. They enlarged on the fact that the
problem was too difficult for Democratic
statesmanship, and in effect called upon the
country to "see how we will settle itl"
They have been settling it for about eight
months, and have not got the bill quite as
far along in Congress as the Mills bill had
progressed two years ago. The Seriate has
got under way with its perpetual motion of
debate. The point where a quorum canntt
be kept together, even by the arbitrary
rulership of Reed, has been reached. Blaine
is slashing at the pet measure of McKinley
and Reed; while McKinley and Reed are
biting their thumbs at Blaine; and the
main reason why the President has made
no sign is likely to be that he cannot make
up his mind whether he hates Reed less or
Blaine more. Really if we compare the
discomfiture and demoralization of the Re
publicans at the opening of August, 1890,
by tbe'rr tussle with tariff, with the similar
results of the Democratic struggle in August,
1888, it is difficult to see how the Republic
ans have the best of it
Thus it is a legitimate conclusion that the
tariff is too tough a nut for the present
breed of politicians to crack; and that,
while tariff tinkering is likely to trouble
business, it will smash parties much worse.
THE DANGER OF SALT WATER.
A recent interview with the Secretary of
the Navy, presents the problem of main
taining our navy in a new light, as follows:
As you understand, no doubt, tbe new ves
sels of tbe navy, that is tbe iron and steel ships,
need a good deal of looting after. Saltwater,
of course, has all to do with this, and it is my
Intention now to build a fresh-water basin
somewhere near New York, where the iron and
steel ships will not bo so much exposed.
It thus receives the confirmation of offi
cial authority that the inimical action of
salt water upon onr new naval vessels is so
destructive that they must be carefully pre
served in a fresh-water basin, and their ex
posure to the dreaded salt water thoroughly
guarded against This is a novel and some
what surprising incident of the work of
creating a new navy.
That drillmaster King of Prussia, the
father of Frederick the Great, earned a
place in the world's history by organizing
with infinite pains a regiment of grenadiers
so tall and fine that after he had them the
poor king never dared to engage in war for
tear his fine grenadiers should be exposed
to the dangers of shot and shell. The pre
dicament of the Secretary of the Navy
seems to be even more extreme than that of
Frederick William, for after getting a fine
squadron of naval vessels built of iron and
steel, he discovers that they must not be ex
posed to the dangers of salt water. This
necessitates an improvement on Sir Joseph
Porter's maxim of: "Stick close to your
desk and never go to sea" and our Sir
Joseph evolves the greater precaution of
never sending his ships to sea either, and
Eeeptng them carefully out of salt water.
Perhaps the best thing that can be done
with onr new navy after we get it built is to
preserve it in a fresh-water bandbox. But, in
view of the fact that the ships were built to
sail on salt, the nation may be pardoned for
insisting that they shall show their ability
to do what they were built for.
TBE BOYCOTT SCHEME DIES.
The boycott bogey, if it was not dead be
fore, received its quietus in Atlanta yester
day. It was in that city that the silly idea
oi retaliation by boycott for the passage of
the Federal election bill had its birth. The
Atlanta Board of Trade yesterday de
nounced the boycott idea as inBane and per
nicious from every point of view, and
publicly washed Its hands of it This
leaves the Atlanta Conttltution, which
evolved the boycott plan, in a rather ridicu
lous position. It is becoming plainer every
day that the sensible majority in the South
have no sympathy with the wild projects of
perferrid politicians to precipitate a sec
tional conflict It may be that the Federal
election bill will be passed, as Senator
Stockbridge asserts, but the South has evi
dently made up .its mind to rely upon the
whole country's sense of justice to rescue it
from the operation oi sn .inequitable law.
Governor Hjll is announced to address
the farmers of New York. As a great constitu
tional light be will take for his subject "The
bearing of tbe Original Package Decision on
Inter-State Commerce in Political Booms."
A bather remarkable statement of tbe
political way of looking at, things is made by
the remara, seemingly in eoou um, ox iud
New York .PrM, that "men of the South like
Judge Henry B. Tompkins, of Atlanta, who
supported General Harrison for President on
tbe tariff issue, although previously a lifelong
Democrat, are entitled to fair consideration in
stating their objectionsf o tbe proposed Feder
al election law," It is a little difficult to per
ceive any other significance to this statemont
of Judge Tompkins' claims to consideration,
than the avowal of the converso proposition
that men of the South who did not vote for
Harrison are not entitled to fair. consideration
in stating their objections to the Federal elec
tion law. Practical manifestations of that idea
have been visible in Congress; but it is refresh
ing to find an organ coming so close to a plain
statement of it
Arguments against any effort to beat
the lottery in Louisiana, are not wanting to the
effect that efforts to beat the lottery in the
North have resulted in several shortages of
cash accounts.
The usual attltnde or the Standard or
gans toward Tms Dispatch moves the Oil
City Derrick to evolve assertions that THE
Dispatch "began its bear movement on Penn
sylvania oil by singing pains to Lima oil" and
"demanded a certificated standing for Lima oil
when there was practically no competition."
As The Dispatch never had a bear move
ment, never sang pasns to Lima oil,
and never demanded a certificated stand
ing for. It the Derrick gets about as .near the
troth as Is customary for a Standard organ. It
Is, however, interesting to learn from that sheet
that tbe Standard's position is "patnrnal." Its
acts are decidedly in tbe line of paternal gov
ernment, and the Derrick is of tbe class of or
gans which, as pointed out yesterday, exist un
der the fostering care of paternal government
Could not Mr. Ward McAllister admin
ister solace to Newport for its failure to get
hold of Prince George of Wales, by writing a
book on "Princes Who Have Got Away
From Mer
"What was it that the editor of the Sun
wanted from tbe administration, but did not get
that makes him so bitter and unfair in his criti
cisms of the purchase of the Cape May Point
cottage by the President?" This editorial re
mark of the New York Press seems to make its
idea very clear that the support or the criticism
of newspapers on tbe administration is due
solely to what their editors did or did not get
This may recall to the public recollection the
fact that the editor of the New York-Prwl got
the privilege of mixing up the census.
The last disorderly political manifesta
tion in Alabama shows decided progress. Only
one man was Injured and he was a white Dem
acrat who was bit with a baseball bat
The noble women who have trader the
name of Deaconesses devoted themselves to
works of cbarity and religion were singled out
lor honor at Chautauqda yesterday. Although
the movement toward enlisting women ot the
Protestant faith in religious service was
started nearly fifty years ago by Dr. Fatsavant
in this city, It has only reoently taken practical
shaDe in the Methodist and Episcopal churches
in America. The movement is UkelT to attract
greater attention in future.
The possibilities of defeat are being ttsted
to the utmost by Pittsburg's baseball cham.
ptons. They managed to lose three games yes
terday, A combination between the Farmers'
Alliance and tbe anti-lottery Democrats- la
talked of in Louisiana. Such a movement
ought to do good work; but is it not a matter of
concern to the Republican organs of the Nortb,
that nothing is beard in this combination of the
anti-lottery Republicans of Louisiana?
The Federal election bill is to be passed,
so some Senators say. So much tbe worse tor
the party who fathers the obnoxious measure.
The obelisk in Central Park stood three
thousand years in Egypt without showing a sign
of decay; but only a few years in New York
commenced its disintegration. This is another
proof of the fact that the atmosphere of the
metropolis is of that kind that will demoralize
even a block at granite.
The hot wave continues, and lawns and
vegetation generally will soon be thoroughly
cooked.
The Democracy of Pittsburg had a glori
ous time yesterday at Silver Lake Grove, and a
great many people, not exclusively Democrats,
renewed their acquaintance with ex-Governor
Pa ttlson. Tbe success of tbe fete reflects great
credit upon the Randall Club.
OF A PEBS0NAL NATURE.
Theodore Tilton says he will never return
to America.
Benjamin P. Siiillaber (Mrs. Partington)
has passed his 76th birthday.
The President left Washington for Cape May
Point, where he will remain a week.
The Misses Emily and Georglana Hill have
suited a school of Journalism in London.
Mrs. Thomas a. Hendricks and her sister
and niece have gone to the White Mountains.
Congressman Reybubn, of Philadelphia,
has bought an island off the coast of South
Carolina.
Lord Brabsey owns 10,000 acres in Aus
tralia. A man with such a name ought to own
tbe earth.
Colonel Inqersoll believes that when he
lives through February, be is safe for the rest
of tbe year.
Stanley is reported convalescent and Dr.
Parker who has been attending him, has re
turned to London.
Ex-Governor Warmoth and family have
journeyed all the way from New Orleans to
enjoy the invigorating atmosphere of Sea Girt
One of Horace Greeley's nepbews Is a bar
ber in a little town in Warren county, Pa, In
personal appearance he is not unlike his distin
guished uncle.
George Francis Train will attempt to
beat tbe record of a trip around tbe world. He
will leave Tacoma August 7, on the steamship
China, and calculates that he can make tbe
trip of the globe In 67 days.
One of tbe hardest-worked men at Long
Branch Is George M.Pullman, of palace-car
fame. He makes full time every day, even if
he does ride In a coach and smoke fl cigars
that have been packed In rose leaves.
Mrs. John A. Logan is still in Washington,
and the only outing sho expects to take will be
to go to Boston to attend tbe G. A. R. celebra
tioht Bhe will go with tho Illinois Post Major
and Mrs. Tucker are traveling In Europe.
John P. Buchanan, the Democratic nomi
nee for Governor of Tennessee, is a cousin of
the late President James Buchanan. He joined
the Confederate army at the age of 10, and re
mained with it until the close of the "war.
Colonel James Young, the model farmer
of Pennsylvania, has just celebrated his 70th
birthday. Ho Is one of .the most Intelligent
and progressive farmers of the Union, and is
.universally beloved by all who know him. Tbe
hospitality of bis farmer home is known in
foreign lands as well as in his own country.
TO VISIT SOUTHERN MTTLEFIELDS.
A Beaver Falls Party Starts on a Novel
Pleasure Ezonralon.
f SPECIAL TELIOHAM TO TUB PISPATCH.l
Beaver Falls, July SO. To-morrow Cor
oner Watson, James McGeeban and James
Lowry, all old soldiers, will leave here In a two
horse wagon on a visit to the Southern battle
fields. Tbey have provided themselves with a
tent and cooking utensils, and-will camp out as
they go, after tbe manner they were so con
versant with during tbe rebellion.
Tbey expect to make 25 miles per day, and
will be gope six weeks.
They go from here to Pittsburg, to Browns
ville, to Cumberland. Martinsburg, and thence
to tbe Shenandoah Valley, winding up with all
of the Southern battlefields, and returning by
the way of Gettysburg.
Me. Will Get n New Sulr Wow.
From the Baltimore American,
A pension has been awarded to Mr. McGlnty,
and one has been applied for by Annie Rooney.
These worthies should get their wealth and go
somewhere faraway from tbe publio ear. Their
absence wlM win the popular heart
THE TOPICAL TALKER,
The Spell of tbe Ben Growth of tbe Ran
dnll Clan Mr. Files It Is -Now Tawing
Extraordlnnry.
Phief Brown has not yet given Pittsburg
the home-made Atlantic City beach with
campmeetlng ground attachments on the Mc
nongahela wharf, but Allegheny City bas at
least a steam merry-go-round to solaoe her sonl
near the Sixth street bridge. Apparently tbe
proprietor of this noisy whirligig has a desire
to emulate tbe enterprising Chief of Pitts
burg's Department of Public Safety, for he has
a notice posted up which reads:
j LOTS or FUN BELOW. j
j sea: :
, There is a popular preiudlce In favor ot spell,
ing the last word on the placard "see l" but it
cannot be denied that "sea 1" bas a pleasant
saggestlveness that the mere Imperative inter
jection bas not
""The well-known correspondent of The Dis
patch, who has earned a national reputa
tion as Franklin File, has changed tbe spelling
of his name. He explains the change thus:
The majority of those bearing my family name
In America adhered to the Holland Dutch
orthography. The minority Englished it to
F-l-l-c Lately, tbe old spellers won baok the
changelings, and, finding myself alone. I am
constrained to go with tbe rest "It's of no
consequence," except as explanation why I
sign myself Franklin Fyles.
'The fete champetre of the" Randall Club yes
terday recalls the first festival ot the -sort,
held at Silver Lake Grove also, in tbe summer
of 1887. Theguesuof honor on that occasion
were tbe late Samuel J. Randall and tbe Hon.
Cbanncey F. Black, and the fete, like yester
day's, was a tremendous success. The growth
ot- the Randall Club since that day has been
not a little like that ot the city of which it is an
ornament The Randall Club has grown with
Pittsburg, and to-day can confidently challenge
comparison with tbe leading political clubs of
the country.
Jt is the custom to talk of a river as a high
way, but not often is it that a stream ot tbe
size ot tbe Ohio literally becomes a turnpike.
Any evening one may see a couple ot stout
horses dragging a fiatboat laden with corn,
watermelons and otber produce up the Ohio.
Last night just as the full moon was beginning
to silver the shrunken stream of tbe Ohio the
team ot horses arrived with their freight of
vegetables below tbe'Bellevue dam, where the
steamer Two Brothers was waiting In the lock
to tow the boat upward to tbe city. Tbe horses
were up to their bellies in the water, and the
men on the boat seemed to have difficulty in
the channel, for they were poling vigorously.
It was a picturesque sight, and somewhat of a
novelty in these parts.
"UTHEN oil was first struck in Venango
connty the Allegheny river was the main
channel by which barrels were taken up to tbe
field. Tbe boats were towed np by horses, and
for want of a towpath the poor animals had to
make the best of tbe river bed. Not seldom
the horses encountered deep pools and were
forced to swim for short distances. It was ter
ribly bard on horseflesh, and about three trips
was enough to finish the best of them.
OTJEBENT jnHELT TOPICS.
After sitting a day and a half a Mason
connty, jy., grand Jury could and nothing upon
which to bans; an indictment and they were dis
missed. There hadn't been a sheep stolen in the
county or anything; of a criminal nature only
two or three men shot
A FIRM in Somerset Pa., has added the prop
agation of tarantulas to the enterprises of that
city. The eggs came free of duty in a bunch or
bananas.
Mrs. Hetty Green has possessed herself of
another towering block of Chicago property, lor
which she wrote her check in a neat feminine
hand for 400,000. The fair and irrepressible
Hetty is evidently in the natalorlum.
Somebody entered the stockade at Bt Joe
and stole one elephant two camels and Ave horses
from tbe receiver of a collapsed circus firm. Tbe
elephant was permitted to take his trunk along,
but the camels are expected to pack on the road.
A SUCEER weighing 150 pounds was caught
on a tape-line In Lawrence, Mass. A postoflce
clerk was asked tohoid one end of the line while
the man at the other end took some measure
ments on the outside of tbe building, and bis ac
complice went in and appropriated (125.
When W. Jennings Demorest, the New
York pattern maker and Prohibition candidate
for Mayor, finds the voters have been biased by
former party affiliations and they gore him under
the arms"by tucking his ballots away In their In
side pockets, he will nodonht be somewhat ruffled
instead of uasqulng in the sunslne of political
preferment
Down in Alabama they see their guests to
their rooms by bottles filled with lightning bugs.
The guest 1 order to keep up proper illumina
tion, must shake the bottle to agitate tbe bugs
with one hand and disrobe with the other.
A minister in the town of Mendon, Vt has
been fined 33 27 for unlawfully cateblngatrout
nndcr six Inches in lenzth." Served him right.
No one who cares anything for his reputation
would catch a fish under six Inches in length,
either lawfully or otherwise.
Stanley is regarded as a great discoverer,
but wait till his wife asks blm to find something
in tne pocket of her dress hinging In the closet.
The Jungles of the Hark Continent are nowhere in
comparison. "
The Washington Star says: Times have
changed and wo have changed with them. In 1812
ourcrywas, "KreeTrade and sailors' Rights."
Now England cries, "1'reo Trado and Sealers'
Eights."
AH APPEAL P0R FUNDS.
An Address to tho Homo Rale Sympathizers
la America.
Lincoln, Neb., July 30. The following ad
dress was to-day Issued by tbe officers of tbe
Irish National League of America:
Lincoln, Neb., Jnly to. 1890.
To Mho Officers and Members of the National
League of America:
Since the publication of Mr. Parnell's letter
relative to the convention, advices have been re
ceived from the Irish leaders depleting the urgent
necessity fur tbe Immediate transmission of all
available funds In America to- tbe home
organization. In view of tnls severe criti
cism and In order that no true friend
of Ireland can be excusabio for neglect in render
ing such assistance as means will afford, all
branches of the League, affiliating organizations
and Individuals In sympathy therewith, are
hereby authorized to forward their funds direct
to the office of the League In Dublin. The address
of the Treasurer of the League In Ireland 1 Ur.
Joseph F. Kenney, M. P., Upper O'Connell
street, Dublin,
The address is signed by President John
Fitzgerald, Treasurer Charles O'Reilly, Sec
retary John H. Sutton.
A Trlbnic to Journalism,
From tho Pioneer Press.
A certain Dr. Cyrus Teed, of Chicago, has
been telling a number of reporters that he Is
God Almighty. To the credit of Chicago
journalism not more than one-half of the
papers of that city appear to take any stock in
such a story.
SUMMER PLEASUBES.
The Belect Knights ot the A. O. U, W. and
other seml-milltary organizations will be ten
dered a summer night concert and reception at
Windsor Park ibis evening, under the auspices
of the Bellevue Legion No. 31, Select Knights.
The Gernert's and tbe Select Knights' Cornet
Band will furnish the music.
From early morning until late last evening
the employes of the Keystone Brewing Com
pany made Hommel's Garden on Mt Oliver
ring with mjrrlment The affair was compli
mentary to the employes and their fr'ends
tendered by the proprietors of the vast busi
ness. Invitations are ont for the third annual
excursion to Idlewlld of the Merchants' Asso
elation, for August 6, 1890.
The West Newton M. E. Church and Sunday
school enjoyed a plonlo at Aliquippa yesterday.
DEATHS OF A DAY.
Berj. F. Pratt.
NonTH Wetmocth, MASS., July 30,-Oeneral
Benjamin F. Pratt died at the hospital at Wor
cester yesterday, aged 66, During the war he
enlisted as Captain of Company H, TMrty-flfth
Regiment Massachusetts Infantry. He served
one term each in tbe Massachusetts House and
Senate.
SPEAKER REES DEFENSE.
His Reply to Crlllclsma on His Method of
Counting; a Quorum A Demoeratlo
Leader Says It Gives tbe Clerk Don
geroaa Power.
Speaker Reed in North American Review for
August.
The presence of a majority si the legislative
body constitutes a quornm to do business. Tbe
essence of all business on tbe part of the legis
lative body is the consent of a quorum of that
body, either express or implied. It may be as
thoroughly expressed bT sllenoe as by sound.
In tbe parliamentary sense, presence always im
plies lull sight and bearing ot all that takes
place. If a member, then, is present in full
sight and sound of all occurrences, and It all
action Is loudly proclaimed by tbe clerk or
Speaker, he is as much a party consenting to
all that occurs as if hejrociferated in his loud
est tones. This all admit Even tbe writer of
the anonymous article admits this In all cases
except that of a yea and nay vote. Hence,
even with him, we have only to deal with that
method of determining the result
It must be obvious that all methods of deter
mining the consent of the members are of
equal value. By eaoh of them laws are passed
which have equal validity. Whether tbe sense
of the House is rnado manifest by mere volume
of sound or by the rising of members in their
places, by members passing between tellers or
by yeas and nays, makes no difference what
ever in the result Laws passed either way
have canal force. What then, was the object
of the constitutional provision as to yeas and
nays? Was it to establish a new and separate
doctrine of quorum? Was the quorum te be a
majority present when all other methods ot de
termining the question were used, but a ma
jority voting when yeas and nays were called?
Was there to be one quorum required Id one
case and another quorum in another!
Does it require any different body to pass
a bill by yeas and nays than by a rising
vote? A majority of tbe House being present
can 129 members to 1 pass a bill by standing up,
and not pass it by yeas and nays? A claim like
this utterly Ignores the meaning ot tho call for
yeas and nays, and tho right to have It which is
given under the Constitution. What were tne
yeas and nays given for? Look at the debates
on the adoption of the Constitution and you
will see. It was to inform the people bow
their representatives voted, if they voted at
all; and also the faot that they did not vote, if
such was tbe case. The idea that, in addition
to this, the oonstitutional quorum was thereby
instantly shifted from a majority present to a
majority acting is entirely a modern invention,
as illogical as It is unconstitutional.
Who Should Count the Quornm f
A Democratic Leader in North American Review
for August
But it may be asked, is It'hot a dangerous
Innovation upon parliamentary usages to give
the clerk of tbe Hou;e the power to count a
quorum? Here we have the real ground noon
which tbe position of Speaker Reed may be
fairly criticised. The power to count a quorum
is, indeed, a dangerous power to intrust to a
servant of the House, and one which should
never have been conferred upon him. Rnle
XV. Is a salutary reform so far as it asserts the
principle that a quorum consists of a majority
of the members present in tbe House, whether
voting or silent, and that the members present
are presumptively present to do business. Tho
method of ascertaining the presence of mem
bers under this rule Is, however, entirely repre
hensible. Under a parliamentary system which
requires a majority to 'constitute a quorum,
when the roll-call shows less than a majority
voting, though a majority are clearly within
the chamber, a system should be devised for
ascertaining the number present which would
leave nothing to vagueness or conjecture.
Tbe quorum should be counted by the House,
and not by the clerk or by the Speaker. The
whole number present should be counted, and
not the bare number necessary to make a
quorum. When It is apparent that a quorum
is actually present, while less than a quorum
has voted, it Is entirely competent and proper
for the House to direct that the members who
abstain from voting should be placed at the
bar, and that in tbe presence ot tbe whole
House their attendance be noted and they
themselves counted as of the quorum. Such a
proceeding would remove any element of doubt
as to tbe Identity of the members constituting
the quorum. Such a rule would not be incon
sistent with the provisions of Rule VIII. as
tbey now exist nor with any additional clause
which might be adopted providing a penalty
for a failure to obey its provisions. It would
operate to preserve a more accurate record of
the proceedings than any which bas been here
tofore known to Congress, by showing for the
benefit of their constituents which members
voted, which failed to vote through non-attendance,
and which refused to vote in open de
fiance of the rules.
COMING AFTER CHBISTLNA.
A New-IUado Benedictine German Drummer
Wnnii 11U Bride.
New York. July 30. Moritz Varln, a drum
mer for a manufacturing house in Germany,
arrived here yesterday on the steamer Fries
land in search of his runaway sweetheart,
Christina Antspltz. Christina elopod from
Berlin with a well-to-do married man named
Heinrich Sobepkeson the evenlne of her mar
riage to Varln, taking with her $2,000 of
Varln's money and all the presents be bad made
her. Scbepkes' wife was also a passenger by
tbe Friesland.
The faithless couple were located In Chicago,
and Varln and Mrs. Schepltes will proceed
thither to-morrow.
EENEWma THK IK VOWS.
Shared Each Other's Joys and Divided
Their Gifts.
IJTICTAt. TELEOnAM TO THB DISPATCH.!
Newark. July 80. The golden wedding of
Mr. and Mrs. A. Barrows, two of the oldest
residents In Newark, was appropriately -celebrated
at their pleasant home yesterday after
noon. A number of old friends responded to
tbe few Invitations extended, and the occasion
was a most joyous one.
The aged and respected couple who have
passed tbe half century mark together, were
made tbe recipients of many presents of great
value.
TTHE SPECTRAL SPECIAL.
The "Fast Mall" lay on the side track, for tbe
"Night Express" was late.
It bad passed tbe "lower crossing," and was
darting through "the gate,"
When the flashing of Us headlight showed the
fatal misplaced switch
Toabrakeman of the "Mall Train, " who stood
waiting by the ditch.
Quick as lightning past the engine, scorching
with Us fiery breath,
Leaped the man aqd grasped the lever, saving
scores from Instant death.
But alasl the treacherous engine struck him as it
thundered past
And that act of noble daring was the faithful
braVcman's last.
The "Fast Mall" had reached its station, bnt the
mangled brakeman lay
Dying, while bis sad companions watched bis life
blood ebb away.
"Must I die here, boys, Otell me? Is there time
to take me back
To my Mary? to Detroit ence more over tbe old
track?"
But his comrades stood In silence; none had
heart to say him nay,
For his Mary and Detroit were fall two hundred
miles away.
Minutes passed, the changing shadows flitted o'er
bis lowly bed,
When the friend that leaned above him sadly
whispered "Charley's dead I"
"Ah, he was a noble fellow, kind and generous,
always true."
Then the deathly lips were parted and they cried
out "Kalamazoo!"
Then bis comrades knelt around him, wiped the
death damp lrom his brow.
Looked In wonder at each other, neither breath or
heart beat now I
Yet he raised his band and shouted, "Jackson,'
bis set eyeballs gleamed like stars,)
"Passengers for all stations, Saginaw road,
change cars!"
For a momeut dead, dead silence, tben "Ann
Arbor" pierced the night
With a strange unearthly accent half of anguish.
half of fright.
Many a trip the faithful Charley had made over
the old track,
Rutto-nlgut a spectral speolal takes the dying
brakeman back.
"Ypsllantl," the voice weakened, "Change
here-ror-Kcl-rlver-road . '
' 'Tis Ills last run," said a comrade, while the
tears like rivers flowed,
"Grand Trunk Junction," then a silence, every
watcher held hls.breath,
Mary," -"Msry." "De " he faltered, not
Detrolt-lt was death!
Eltta'Lamb Jtartyn, in tht Boston Olobt.
DEACONESS' DAYr
CHAUTAUQUANS ENTERTAINED BY LEC
TURES ON THE NEW SOCIETY.
The Growth oftbe Deaconesses ItsRemnrk
nblo Strength The Organization In This
Connty Tho College of Liberal Arts and
lis Increasing- Inflnoncr.
ISFXCIAL TELEOnAM TO THB DISPATCW.l
JAKE CHATJTAUtUJA. N. Y July 80.-From
all appearances the Assembly Association
bas a liking for organizations of all kinds. The
Business Educators' Association just closed
their meeting yesterday after enjoying for a
week the freedom of the grounds, and the hos
pitality of Its managers. This was Deaconess'
Day devoted to the church organization of that
name and August 1 will be Granee Day, when
all the farmers of the surrounding country who
belong to this Protective Alliance, will be ad
mitted to the gate; without the payment of a
fee.
To minister to tho poor, visit tbe sick, pray
with the dying, care for the orphans, seek the
wandering, comfort tbe sorrowing, save the
sinning, and relinquishing wholly all other
pursuits, devote themselves in a general way,
to such forms of Christian labor as may be
suited to their abilities, are tbe objects of the
Deaconess Society. A society of noble women
formed tor a noble purpose. The word is a
new one, and tbe day a new one at Chautau
qua, f
Progress of the Deaconess.
A quite large number of representatives
were present and in tbeir black dresses,
black bonnets and white ties, sat in the gallery
throughout the exercises. At 10:30 in the morn
ing Bishop Thobnrn called tbe meeting to or
der, and a devotional meeting was carried out
followed by two speeches. Miss Jane M. Ban
croft of Washington, D. C, spoke upon the
"Deaconesses sf the Nineteenth Century." In
1S36 the Westphalian Deaconess Society was
formed, now the deaconess' homes are dis
tributed throughout the world. Tnere are
seven or eight of them In the Established
Church in England. The deaconesses first in
troduced In America through Dr.Passavant of
Pittsburg, who in 1819 sent over to Dr. FUedner
to come and bring some of the sisters.
At first the work did not flourish as later on.
Now schools aro established in all the leading
cities of America. In 1SS8 the Methodist Con
ference In New York City recognized women as
deaconesses, and the Episcopal Church fol
lowed last year. The movement Is a practical
one. right before us and in no way theoretical.
We need tbe aid of both men and women. In
Germany there is more chance for this class of
work than here, as there are more women of
leisure, for there are no great colleges for
women and the standing army prevents mar
riage relations.
Denconncases In America.
TN England there are many women of wealth
and high birth who are deaconnesses. 1 wish
that American women of wealth and leisure
would take hold and help the poor of Christ I
hope that women here to-day will become in.
terested and aid more in our labors. Mrs.
Lucy Mercer spoke on the. needs of "Deacon
nesses In America." Our far-advanced, civilized
and Intelligent band of 10,000.000 Christians
with every advantage lack the ardor of Christ's
500.
She was a little pessimistic, and tboughttbat
our religious spirit was in a very baiLconditlon.
Like so many speakers who speak here, she
wandered away from her subject to partisan
points, and made a fairly good talk in tbe in
terest of the Prohibition or Third Party.
In the afternoon Bishop Thoburn presided at
tbe meeting in tbe Amphitheater. Dr. A.
Spaeth spoke on tbe "Deaconness and tbe
Sick." He referred to tbeir great work in our
hospitals and to their peculiar adaptation to
nursing. "It is only through the gospel," he
said ."that she has developed these traits."
Dr. W. O. D. Crawford also spoke enthusi
astically in favor of tbe society, while Miss
Thoburn made an enthusiastic plea for aid in
tbe work.
The College of Ltbernt Arts.
Tf Chautauqua has not made tbe success of
"University extension" that was expected,
their correspondence school has been attended
with most satisfactory results. A conference
of overseers and professors was held this after
noon. Dr. Harper, the principal of the College
of Liberal Arts, presided and called npon Prof.
McCllntock to speak, who said that there was
no comparison between a correspondence
course ana tne attendance at a college.
The purpose and design are for those who
cannot attend tbe local college. We hope to
f;ive him just what he needs. By tests, exam
nations, criticisms and reports we take tbo
place of the classroom. .We assign the lessons,
in parts have a regular examination. The
student sends a report of his lesson and tbo
teacher personally criticises this report finds
where tbe student is weak and refers him
again to the books with suggestions. In tbe
correspondence system every student has to an
swer his own questions, and not as in tbe class
rooms, yon know whether tbe stndent bas bis
lesson. Writing out tbe lesson makes the
student thorough. We have no use for boys
and girls, but want earnest, sincere students
who are matured.
Prof. Waters, professor of Greek, gave a de
scription of the manner in which be taught
correspondence students Greek. He described
tbe Inductive method of teaching language by
means of which the student starts out reading
at once, gathering the grammar work as he
goes on. Mr. Waters read several letters from
students showing good results and enthusiasm.
Dr. Ely said that from actual experience he
could pronounce the correspondence system in
political economy a success. Political economy
needs a study and a teacher as well as any other
study. Reading of it by one's self Is liable to
lead to tbe conclusion of an extremist.
Dr. Harper said in conclnsion that there
were a good many people who could do a great
deal more than they were doing. If we could
put ourselves under obligations to do anything,
we could do a great deal more. What we need
is external pressure. In the future corres-
fondence work is to play a very important part
t is growing; it muse grow.
Helnrlcb Heine as an Historian.
yrru Leon H. Vincent has made a great hit
with his literary lectures, which show fine
descriptive and analytical powers. Heinrich
Heine, the German Jewish poet, was born at the
time of the spirit of tbe greatest Intolerance
toward the Hebrews in the German Empire.
Tbe appearance of Napoleon in Germany was
what destroyed tbeso prejudices and oppres
sion, and Heine looked upon the great warrior
as almost a God. Heine read with great Inter
est and sympathy for the misfortunes of the
luckless knight the story of "Don Quixote,!'
Heine's mother was a woman of extraordinary
intellectual power. His father was a fine look
ing but effeminate man. Rector Scbaumeyer,
the teacber of Heine, took a great Interestin
his pupil, and endeavored to bring him into the
Catholic Church. Heine was helped during
his school days by tho little French drummer.
Monsieur Le Grande, who instructed bim in
French politics. Heine's mother wished bim
to be a merchant but bis progress in business
was slow. He was then set to studying law
by his uncle, and, although he continued this
for some time, he devoted a great deal of
time to writing poetry. Some of his books
were condemned by tbe Government on ac
count of tbe spirit of freedom wblob they In
spired. In 1831 he went to Paris, a voluntary
exile, on account of the hostile attitude of the
Prussian authorities. The "Reisebilder"
("Pictures of Travel") was one of bis principal
works. It was translated into English by
Charles G. Leland. Heine made expiation for
many a grievous fault by voluntary exile in the
cause of freedom. He sang tbe purest love and
the loftiest patriotism.
At 7:30 vespers were held In the Amphitheater,
followed by speeches from several prominent
people In tbe interest of tbe Deaconness So
ciety. Bishop Thoburn made a very strong
speecb. in which he emphasized tbe need of
women to do the work which this society has so
well begun.
HYPNOTIZED E7EEY ONE.
A New Rlesmerlatic Influence nl Work la
Tbls ritnlo of Great Power.
TfiFXqiAL TILXnilAJI TO THB DISPATCS.l
MoKeesport, Pa., - July S0.-Dr. Erie
Munck, a Swedish physician, of this city, who
recently patented a process for keeping
water cool by the aid or chemicals,
has made an Instrument by which
he claims he can completely mesmerise.
or hypnotise a person, and says It will prove
very valuable to his profession. He has ap
plied for a patent The instrument is nothing
more thau a circular mirror arranged so that It
revolves rapidly.
The persuii to be mesmerised is placed so as
to look steadily at a certain portion of the
disk, and tbo peculiar rapid rotarymotlon wi!l
bring abont the desired effect He has made
several remarkable and authentic cures in
nervous diseases by the aid of tbe queer ma
chine. Mot n Bnd Sosgeatloo,
From the New York San. J
Let St Paul and Minneapolis unite, and then
at tbe next census each will be the boomer of
the other's population with a view to the grand
total.
This Borders on tbe Chill.
From tbe Cincinnati Enquirer.
Now, if Patagonia will only have a quarrel
with Terra del Fuego, then tbe Pan-American
Congress will bo vindicated.
OUR MAIL P0DCH.
A Cbnutanqaa L'Ctarcr'a Mistakes.
To the Editor oftbe Dlf patca:
I listened with tbe greatest Interest to Mrs.
Abba Woolson on-the "Germany of to-day." I
admired tbe eloquence ot tbe lady, but I am
exceedingly sorry for her. Among the many
errors she committed In recard to historical
facts, aro the remarks abont the foundations
of the German universities. She said, for in
stance, that there is only one German univer
sity, Halle, older than our American Harvard
(1836). Here are some dates about tbe oldest
ones: Prague was founded by the German
Emperor Charles IV. in 1SI8. Vienna 1385.
Heidelberg 1380. Cologne 1888, Erfurt 1392.
Leipzig 1198, Tubingen 1477. Wittenberg 1603
(transferred to Hallo 1691), Lena 1583, etc
Did Mrs. Woolson nover hear anything about
Luther, of Wittenberg, the great reformer?
And Hamlet Shakespeare's Hamlet; was he
not educated at Wittenberg? Shall we correct
small things, for Instance that Habiburg. tbe
Stamburg of tbe Imperial House of Austria, is
not in Tyrol, but in Switzerland, between Basle
and Zurich.
Mrs. Woolson called her lecture "The Ger
many of To-day," and spoke in reality about
nothing bnt the military reign in Prussia since
Frederic L Not enough to depict the so-called
military despotism In the darkest colors, it
suited her morbid Imagination to make absurd
predictions about the future Germany. Accord
ing to her this well-consolidated power intends
to go down to the Mediterranean and take
Trieste and Marseilles and Switzerland and Hol
land! Why not tbe whole of Europe and
America? O sancta slmplicitas!
And now tbe logic! Such a mediaeval militar
ism throws and threw away "all Inspiring In
fluence" ne quote tbe lady historian "to art,
letters and literature, civilization and the rise
of the human race ."
Does Mrs. Woolson know nothing about tbe
German education in general, about tbe Ger
man philosophers Leibniz and Kant tbe
astronomers Copernicus, Kepler; tbe chemists,
tbe poets, the musicians, the explorer Hum
boldt tbe many inventions made In Germany?
Of course we cannot expect anything of this
kind from a lecturer who was only five days In
Germany, and bas not tbe slightest idea about
tbe German language.
Mrs. Woolson wishes to be original, wishes to
say something that no person before ber bas
said, and, having no facts to prove ber state
ments, does it in the very convenient way of
fabricating and falsifying history according to
her fancy and prejudices. Who has said a
little learning is dangerous?
Someone has stamped our age the century of
women. It may be true, but they are still on
trial, and if ever a woman proved unfitted for
treating acientlflo matters Mrs. Woolson suc
reeded perfectly.
Personally we most heartily regret having
been forced to oppose a ladv. and especially
such a charming lady as Mrs. Woolson unques
tionably is. Bnt tbe innate love for truth and
justice predominates. Ana still with courtesy
we are compelled to protest against abuse of
freedom of tongue, even if it comes from a
lady, even if it comes from Mrs. Woolson.
Excuse, Mrf. Woolson, your table neighbor,
Albert Kern.
Mttncte Cottage. Chautauqua, July SO.
A Driveway ts Sehenley Park.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
Now that Scbenley Park is an assured suc
cess, the publio should have, by all means, a
good drive leading from the lower part of the
city out to it This Is a question that requires
no argument and it alio requires no argument
to sustain the assertion that at present we have
none. Liberty avenue and Center avenue, that
have been namsd as such by Chief Bigelow and
others have their objections that are apparent
to all. Tbe writer begs permission to snggest
the following through the columns of your es
teemed paper:
Erect a bridge, say at Ross street, end of
Second avenue nark, for entrance, and let it
span the railroad tracks at Try street and as
far up Second avenue as necessary. This much
for the accommodation of Southslders and Sec
ond avenue generally, thereby avoiding the
well-known obstrnctlon to travel at tbls point
Connecting with this bridge and directly over
the railroad tracks a branch could be
built that wonld circle around the old
glass works oropertr. and lead to Bluff
Btreet on Boyd's Hill. Thence along
Bluff street toSoho. At tbls point tbere mlgnt
be some little trouble to get on tbe opposite
side of tbe hollow, but It could be done; thence
to Maurice street: thence to Hamlet street, to
Emily, to Bates, eta, to the park and tbe East
End generally.
It strikes me the plan Is a feasible one. The
drive along Bluff street would be delightful,
as no better view can be had anywhere in the
city. I have no personal ax to grind in tbe
matter, as I am not a property-bolder on any of
the streets named, but simply submit this for
what it is worth. observes.
Pittsburg, July 29.
Johnstown Flood Victims.
To the Editor of The Dlsnatcni
Let me know through your paper what tbe
actual or estimated loss of lite was by the
Johnstown flood. J. H.
New Haven. Pa., July SO.
According to Secretary Kremer, of the Flood
Commission, tbe number of males lost was 923,
of whom 193 were found and identified, ZS2
found and not identified; the female lost num
ber 1,219, of whom 017 werefoundand identified
and 310 found but not identified. The sex of It
persons who were found could not be ascer
tained, Jobnstown's quota of dead was, 1,111;
Cambria City, 360; Woodvallc, 270; Conemaugh
borough, 167; Millville, 115; South Fork, 6; Min
eral Point 16; Franklin borough, 17; East Con
emaugh, 13; hotel guests and railroad passen
gers. 63. Forty-nine of the dead were under 1
year old; 136 from 1 to 5, and 11 from 5 to 10; 313
from 10 to 20; 313 from 20 to 30; 209 from 30 to 10;
173 from 10 to 50: 135 from 50 to 60; 102 from 60 to
70; 36 from 70 to 80; 6 from 80 to 9a The ages of
425 could not be ascertained.
Internal Revrnne Law.
To the Editor of The Dlspatoh :
A reader of your paper was talking to a
brewer and the conversation drifted to tbe
brewing business. Among other things tbe
brewer claimed that If they sold beer to a party
and the party did not use tbls beer, and had It
returned to tho brewer three or four days after
the sale was made, the brewer could use the
same stamp again to sell to another party.
Your reader claimed that a brewer was com
pelled by United States Internal revenue law
not to use the Same stamp acaln. Will you be
kind enough to answer this through your paper
and greatly oblige? A Reader.
Pittsburg. Jnly SO.
We do not know of any provision of tbe law
covering the case cited. A common sense view
of the matter wonld be that the brewer is right
A keg of beer, if unopened, would be an
original package and would not require a new
stamp until disposed of.
A OEEAT TIME AT WHEELING?
The Tamers of the Pittsburg District Pa
rading and Singing.
rsFEOIAL TZXXORAU TO TR DtSPATCn.l
Wheeling, July 30. Theparadeof the Turn
societies of tbe Pittsburg Turn district took
place this morning at 9 o'clock. About 2,000
men were in line. The column wa made up as
follows: A. A. Franzheim, Cblef Marshal; Leo
Riester, Chief of Staff; John Koch, Adjutant.
First division, Chief Louis Delbrngge and 16
police; Opera House Band, E. W. Spiel, leader.
Active Turners and scholars In uniform in tbe
following order: Wheeling Turnvereln and
sobolars; Central Turnverein. Pittsburg; Alle
gheny Turnvereln, Johnstown Turnvereln,
Soutbslde Turnvereln, Lawrencevllle Turn
vereln, Birmingham Turnvereln, Allentown
Turnvereln, Manchester Turnverein, McKees
port Turnverein, Germanla Turnverein, Steu--benville;
East Liverpool Turnverein, Beaver
Falls Turnverein, Southtldo Turnverein, of
Wheeling; girls' class, of Wheeling. In deco
rated wagons. Second division, officers of
the Pittsburg Turn Bezirk, Executlvo
Committee of Wheeling Turnvereln; Veterans
ot Wbeollng Turnverein; speakers, members
of the press and Wheeling Pioneer Society In
carriages. Third division, McKeesport City
Band; Passive Turners and singers, of MoKees
port Fa.: singing societies, of Wheeling:
Mozart Moennerchor, Germanla. Beethoven,
Tentonla and Arion. Fourth division, com
posed of Passive Turners and singers, of Pitts
burg: Turn Bezirk Band: Central Tnrnverein,
Pittsburg. Pa.; Allecheny Turnverein, Johns
town Tnrnvorein, Soutbside Turnverein,
Lawrenccviile Turnverein, Birmingham Turn
verein. Fifth division, Germanla Turnvereln,
Steubenville; Allentown Turnvereln, Pitts
burg, Pa.; Manchester Turnverein, East Liver
pool Turnvereln, Beaver Falls Turnverein,
Soutbslde Turnvereln, Wheeling Turnvereln,
also composed of Passive Turners and singers.
After parading through tbe principal streets
ot tbe city tbe column marched to the fair
grounds, where the day was spent in various
amusements. To-night a summernachtsf est is
in progress.
A Dataller Name.
From tbe St Eon Is Post-DIspatcb.l
Senator Quay is traveling around Pennsylva
nia infusing "vigor" Into the campaign. Dis
criminating people were never well pleased
with the- ill-favored word "boodle," bnt they
can have no objection to "vigor." It Is a dain
tier designation of the same thing.
CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS.
"I sell cigars in seven languages" is
sign In Philadelphia.
Nearly 150 women are buying and sell
in real estate in Superior, Wis.
There are eight Democratic candidates
for nomination for Congress In the Ninth
North Carolina district
Texas has a double-headed cat. It is
perfect In form except tbe two beads. It bas
lour eyes, four ears and two mouths.
James Yates killed an owl on Hawk
Mountain. Ga last week which measnred
feet 7 inches from tip to tip of wing.
Georgia beats the world in babies. The
wife of Will Lennon, a painter, in Macon, has
gived birth to a child weighing 40 pounds.
A Charlotte, N. C, clergyman wears
undoubtedly the largest shoes in this country.
The size is x! and each shoe is 20x8 inches.
The tombstone of the late Mrs. Ann D.
Carter, of Philadelphia, bears the following
lines cut in marble:
Soma have children and some have none.
But here lies the mother of 2L.
Henry Edick, of St Joseph, Mich.,
celebrated his 105th birthday lately. He was a
drummer boy In the war of 1812. going to the
front with bis father. He was born in Deer
field, Conn., June 28. 1785, and moved to St
Josephs on the 99:h anniversary of his birth.
Mr. Edick has scarcely a gray hair among bis
plentiful locks, and is remarkably preserved.
General Grant's cabin, brought irom
the hanks of James river and placed In Fair
mount Park, Philadelphia, for preservation as
a war relic. Is fast going to decay. In tbls
cabin Grant Issued orders for Sherman's great
march to the sea. In it tho rebel commissioners
treated for peace, and after Sherman reached
tbe sea. under Its humble roof Lincoln. Grant
Sbendan. Meade and Admiral Porter met In
eonference.
A prisoner in the jail at Huntingdon,
W. Va., has developed into a remarkabla
sleeper. He has been there four months, and
on no one day in that time has he been awake
more than four hours, while be often sleeps
three or four days in succession, it being 1m-
fwsslble to rouse bim. He wakens with a start
ooks about wildly for a moment tben appears
to be perfectly at ease. His appetite is good,
and he doesn't seem to lose flesh.
There is a family living at Athens, Ga.,
whose bead delights In long names for the
children. The first child Is named MaryMaga
lina Mandy Mectum Elizabeth Betsy Polly
Mack Barrett: tbe second cbild Is named Alice
Georgia Ann Yorena Barrett: tho third child is
named Mattle Francis Anna Tranna Barrett;
tbe fourth child is named Emory Speer
Walker Buster Barrett: tbe firth child Is
named Tila Cory Coston Estelle Liniment
Ettie Isidnler Barrett; tbe sixth cbild is named
Montlne Cinicar Barrett and tbe seventh child
is named Efflce Boznia Mondenay Virginia
Barrett
A Paris, 111., dispatch says: The little
town of Ransom's Ford, lying six miles south
of here, is much alarmed and puzzled over a
natural phenomenon which is just now being
exbiblted there. On Friday last a short while
after sunrise, a cloud coming from a north
easterly direction and descending from a great
height moving with rapidity, settled down
upon the place and has remained nndispelled
ever since. The atmosphere is so dense with
the moisture from the cloud that objects ara
wholly ucdiscemible at a distance of less than
two feet; but the remarkable feature of the
fog Is its intense cold, which is such as to ren
der fires necessary to prevent the people and
animals from freezing to death, while all vege
tation in the town and the country about for a
quarter of a mile around, and. indeed, wbere
ever the fog rests, has been killed.
In the forests of Washington and Brit
ish Columbia trees are seen dripping copiously
during clear, bright days, when no dew Is
visible elsewhere. The dripping is so profuse
that tbe ground underneath Is almost satur
ated. Tbe phenomenon In this case Is caused
by the remarkable condensing power of the
leaves of the fir, and it occurs only when the
relative humidity is near the dew point The
Cripping oeases after 10 or 11 o'clock in the
morning, but resumes at or near sunset In
Hakluyt's "Voyages" they is an account of
Hawkins' second voyage to Africa and Amer
ica, written by a gentleman who sailed with
Hawkins, in which e are told that in the
island of Ferro there is a weeping tree that
supplies all tbe men and beasts of the island
wltn drink, tbere being no other availabto
water supply. Further, he states that in Guinea
be saw many weeping trees, but ot a species
different from that at Ferro.
Fergus McCarthy, of Philadelphia, was
the subject of a peculiar operation at the Pres
byterian Hospital. A needle which protruded
from bis abdomen was removed by Dr. W. B.
Gilllard. Tbe needle was much corroded and
blackened. McCarthy said he could not ex
plain how tbe needle got there, but remem
bered that about 20 years ago he trod upon a
needle, which troubled bim slightly but was
never discovered. JlcCartby says he did not
experience much pain at the time, but since
tben he has suffered extreme pains less or
more all around tbe left leg, which gradually
moved upward. The pain shifted tn bis side,
and be has latterly experienced the stinging
pain in the region of the abdomen. While at
work at the foundry he was doing some work
which necessitated his stooping considerably.
He felt keen pain as If something was pene
trating his flesh like a needle, and bad to get
up, and, on examination, lie discovered the
blackened point of tbe needle. The case Is one
.of the most peculiar that bascomeunder treat
ment at tbe hospital for many years.
Mrs. Abram Altman, of Buffalo, N. Y.,
basin her possession a dog which, although
made ot bisque, is a most ferocious-looking
beast Tbe animal was purchased from a Bos
ton woman, who conceived the idea of the de
sign which was to be ned ai a burglar alarm,
and. under whose care, she should feel as safe
as if she had a blj brass cannon at each win
dow. Following up her conception, she bad a
Siberian blood bound cast in bronze as large
and fierce as possible. In Its diaphragm sho
bad a pbonograph set. She then borrowed a
neighbor's dog to bark Into tbe machine tn load
it. The bark did not exactly correspond with
tbe appearance of the big bronze dog, but she
thought it would frighten burglars, for he
said the doers bark will be worse than bis bite,
anyway. And so sbe sat ber brazn Imigp.
wltb Its full set of phonograDhlc bowls aud
patent msldes. and bad It connected with her
room by wires and an electric button, so that
when the burglars made their appcarince h
could just touch the button and the dog wonld
do the rest But tbe bcrzlars did not come, and
when tho old lady died, the 'log burglar alarm,
as it was called, was shipped to Buffalo.
FUSSY aiESM FANCIED.
Ingratitude is chronic with some people.
The more you Increase a ballet dancer's pay tbe
more sbe kicks.
She was smart and she was pretty, and the
elders thou tht ber wlttv, and she tripped the
light fantastic like a fay.
She could read both French and Latin, and was
sweet In nriat or satin, and 'twould make
your bosom heave to hear ber play.
Bat In single life sbe tarried, and she never, never
married, and she'll doubtless bo a maiden
till she dies.
for she bade a proud defiance to the culinary
science, and she never knew the mystery of
pies. Burling ton Irte Press.
Citizen (agitatedly) What, a writ for
me? Why, God bless ns!
Constable (stolidly) Nop. Wrong again. Man
damus. American Uroeer.
"What a stout, heavy race the Germans
are?" "Yes, they are all Tirotons, you know."
Chatter.
Cumso Jaysmith is penurious, isn't he?
Fangle-I should say he wis! He won't even
laugh at a Joke unless It Is at someone else's ex
pense. Epoch.
General F. E. Spinner has got so he can
not read his own wrltlnjr. Hla writing many
years ago got so that nobody else could read it
Butltwent.-ioi"U Courier.
"Why is it that young Simpson is always
moved to tears when anyone speaks of his dis
solute old father?"
"I can't say; unless it is because he finds It
cheaper to move than parentl" Amtrican
aroeer.
If an ordinary man was muscled like a
flea he could throw a book agent two mlles-Jfam'
Horn.
To tho Weather Bureau Where did you
get that hot? Washington Star.
A. You have heard, I suppose, that I am
married again? u. Tcs, and tbey say you mar
ried your deceased wife's sister. A. Yes, I did.
B. Why did yen do so? A. Simply to avoid hav
ing two motners-ln-law.
"Come, come; don't be a fool, my dear,"
said the husband, dnrlng a domestlo braeze.
"Didn't marriage make yon and me one?" she
asked. "Of course it did." "How can I help
being a fool then?"
Teacher (at Sunday school) Betty, what
have we to do before we can expect forgiveness of
our sins? Betty We have to sla first of course.
Patient I say, doctor, what sort or si
lump Is this on the back of my neck? Dootor-It
it nothing serious, but I would advise you, never
theless, to keep your eye on it