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PITTSBURG. THURSDAT. AUG. a, lS9a
A PKOH1BITION POINTER.
As a matter of fact the Prohibition party
is not counting for very much in 4his cam
paign. The seven hundred delegates of the
party -who met in Harrisburg yesterday will
not admit this, bat it is nevertheless true.
The letter of the Hon. Charles S. "Wolfe,
which we publish to-day, accurate
ly describes the position of the
Prohibition party in Pennsylvania,
and the party will do well to follow the ad
vice which Mr. Wolfe offers it. Mr. Wolfe
does not believe in throwing his vote away,
and, like a good citizen, he proposes to cast
it for the best man in the field. In doing
this he does not abandon his belief in pro
hibition; he merely postpones further effort
in that cause until a more favor
able occasion. The cause of morality
and good government would be served in
no slight degree of Prohibitionists were to
let their fad, for it is nothing more at this
moment, drop and cast their votes in a way
that would couct positively instead of nega
tively. We need not further supplement
Mr. Wolfe's deliverance on this subject
The course is clear for Prohibitionists who
care to exercise their franchise to some pur
pose. A WORTHLESS MEASURE.
The irconsistencv o! Senator Hoar as re
vealed in his speech for the Federal election
bill yesterday is remarkable. After protest
ing that the bill was not a sectional measure,
intended no more for the South than the
.North, and a combination of the spirittif
existing legislation in England and this
country, Mr. Hoar devoted by far the larger
portion of his speech to an exposition of the
alleged abuses of the ballot in the South
which haa rendered the Federal election bill
necessary in his opinion. The bill is exactly
as The Dispatch has said from the first, a
partisan measure, conceived in a sectional
spirit, and bound to breed discord. Senator
Hoar did not say anything yesterday which
should move Mr. Quay or any of his follow
ers from their position. There is no reason
why mere time should be wasted upon such
an ill-advised and unnecessary controversy.
PEACEaiAKEK UJ.CL.E SAM.
The five-cent war which has been render
ing daily revolutions unnecessary in Guate
mala and San Salvador has been stopped by
"Uncle Sam. We have hardly realized it,
but we have been playing peacemaker, per
Secretary Blaine, to some purpose in this
"South American squabble. The in
fluence of the United States could
not be better employed. Through
the mediation of this country
the victorious march of San Salvador's army
has been checked and apparently peace will
be restored. Mr. Blaine is to be congratu
lated on the success of his pacific efforts,
andWe may Le sure that they will bear good
Jruit in the renewed friendship of both con
testants. A SURPRISING ERROR.
It was supposed that the capabilities of
,surprise at extraordinary and erroneous
statements concerning the provisions of the
inter-State commerce law were completely
exhausted. Nevertheless there is a new sort
of astonishment when, in a quarter so noted
for correctness of information and accuracy
of statements of facts as the New York Sun,
we find the following assertion concerning
the relation of the inter-State commerce
act to the competition of the Canadian lines
with the Hf nited States railways:
The interstate commerce act will not per
mit our roads to carry any commodity a given
distance for any less sum in proportion than
they charge lor a less distance. If the charge
lor 500 miles is one dollar, then the charge for
1.000 miles must be two dollars. They have,
therefore, to charge to the seaboard for every
mile traveled at the rate they would charge for
one mile. The Grand Trunk is subject to no
such restrictions, and can charge what it
pleases for each part of its haul as is upon
Canadian soil
It is evident that in admitting such a
statement to its editorial columns the es
teemed Sun must have departed from the
rule, which has given its editorial deliver
ances an almost encyclopic value, of entrust
ing each subject to writers especially in
formed in that department For while, at
the time the law was under consideration,
this assertion was made by a Sew persons
either recklessly or ignorantly, it was proved
at the time to be utterly unfounded. There
is not, from the beginning to the end of the
inter-State commerce law, any such pro
vision as is stated above. Beyond that,
while the law has been in force over four
years, there has not at any time been a
freight tariff in existence covering a line of
over 200 miles which charged twenty times
as much for the 200 miles as was charged
for a single haul of ten miles, Finally,
there never has been a measure of railway
regulation seriously considered in either
Congress or the State Legislatures which
proposed so foolish and impracticable a rale
as the one of rates increasing exactly ac
cording to mileage.
As the context of the article from which the
above extract is quoted refers to the long-and-short-haul
clause as the provision
meant, it may be well, when such error is
circulated by a journal of the influence and
importance of the Sun, to repeat the state
ment lreqneutly mads in these columns of
what that section does enact It simply
provides that a railroad shall not make an
actually less charge for a long haul than
for a shorter one that ii included in the
longer. To take the Sun's illustration, if
the charge for 500 miles is one dollar, then
the law enacts that the charge for 1,000
miles, which includes the first S00 must not
be 95 cents. There is no intimation that it
must be two dollars, as the Sun alleges. So
far as this section is concerned the charge
for the longer distance may be $1 CO or
$1 25, or any other rate down to one dollar;
but if it goes below a dollar then the rate
for the shorterdistance must be reduced with
it.
Of course a journal of such ability
and fairness as the Sun, will rec
ognize that this is a radically dif
ferent provision from the one that it has
been misled into asserting, by a neglect of
Its usual methods lor securing accuracy in
its editorial assertions. Its logical clear
ness will also lead it to perceive that an ar
gument for the exclusion of the Canadian
railroads from American traffic, which is
based upon such a radical error in the facta,
entirely falls to the ground. The fact is
that the entire attack on the Canadian rail
ways is based upon jnst such misconceptions
and misstatements as this one. Its true
character cannot be better exposed than
when it relies on the old and utterly baseless
assertion that the inter-State commerce act re
quires the railroads "to charge for every
mile traveled at the rate they wou)d charge
for one mile."
IS THE CENSUS ADEQUATE?
The New Tork Tribune has at last begun
to open its mind to the reasons for believing
that the census of this year falls far short of
doing justice to the full growth of the coun
try. Other criticisms of the census have
been basedjipon the feeling of single com
munities that their growth was not fully
shown; but the Tribune bases its criticism
on the total of population for the whole
country, and gives cogent reasons for think
ing that the census is inadequate.
Starting with the statement sent out by
the Census Bureau that the total population
of the country is sixty-four millions, the
Tribune points out that this is an increase
for the decade of less than 30 per cent the
fact being that it is about 28 per
cent The increase in the previous decade
was about 32 per cent, and in the decade
from 1850 to 1860 was nearly 40
per cent, the growth during the sixties
having becn'checked by the Civil.War. Be
yond the general reasons for believing that
the last decade was equal in growth to that
of any preceding one, there are certain sta
tistical reasons for disputing the opposite
showing of the census.
Increase of population comes from two
causes, first, immigration; second, the excess
of births over deaths. The statistics of immi
gration show that the last ten years have had'
the remarkable record of an immigration ex
ceeding that for the whole twenty years be
fore that The immigration frem 1860 to
1880 was 5,191,977; from 1880 to 1890 it was
5,242,529. Even this does not include the
Canadian immigration, which has been so
large during the last decade as to attract the
attention of both countries. This remark
able increase of immigration inevitably leads
to the conclusion either that there must have
been an exceptional and abnormal decrease
in the ratio of births to deaths, or else that
the census total is inadequate. But wherever
vital 'Statistics have been kept covering the
period of two or -three decades, they show
that improved sanitary conditions have in
creased instead of decreased the ratio of
births to deaths. The conclusion is some
what irresistible that the census is deficient
It is rather difficult to escape from this
logic. The argument is a corroboration of
what has been said in these columns about
the faulty methods of burdening the census
with a lot of matters, some of which were in
apposite and others could have better been
prosecuted by separate inquiries. It also
lends strength to the reasons which have
been referred to heretofore for considering
the total of 210,000 as the population of
Pittsburg, and of 345,000 as that of Pitts
burg and Allegheny, to be below the real
totals.
Under these circumstances, is it not a
rather remarkable indication of the prefer
ences of the Census Bureau that it is giving
all its attention to a recount where the
population is thought to have been over
stated, and none to securing revised returns
where the census is believed to be in
adequate? s
THE PREVALENT BAMBOOZLE.
The outcome of the recent floating of the
shares of the Allsopp Brewing Company
in England, is not very pleasant for tne
people who were deluded into buying the
shares, but it is full of instruction as to the
most obvious result of the present fashion of
converting industrial establishments into
stock companies and floating the stock at
two or three times its real value. The All
sopp example shows that all the talk about
the advantages of corporate organization for
such concerns means simply that by that
method the proprietors can' make more
money by selling their stock to the public
than by selling the products of the factories.
The Allsopp concern was floated as a
stock company on the strength ot the fact
that for the three years previous its profits
had been at the rate of about $1,100,000 a
year. It was capitalized not on the value of
its plant, bnt on the earning power as illus
trated by these profits; and in the inflated
capitalization the factor was carefully ex
cluded that for the preceding six months the
profits had falleu off at the rate of about
$150,000 a year. The public tumbled over each
other in their haste W get the watered stock
at these figures. After a very short lapse of
time, the decrease of profits continned to
such an extent that to declare even a three
and one-half per cent dividend the directors
drew on the reserve fund, and an investiga
tion resulted which brought out out the fact
that the Allsopps had disposed of their
stock.
It is safe to say that, with some variation
of the details, this is the practical mean
ing of nine-tenths of the conversions of pri
vate concerns into stock companies and
trusts. In some cases the hook is baited by
a real or pretended hope of a monopolyr-but
in all of them where the stock is floated on
the market the purpose is to unload the
property on the pnblic at a price inflated
either by the reputation of the concern or
by the expectation of a monopoly. It is also
safe to say that in the majority of such cases
the public eventually will be left to whistle
for Us profits.
Of course such things carry their own
remedy. After the publie has been bitten a
few more times it will not touch any more of
the "industrial corporation" stocks with a
ten-foot pole. After the whole range of cor
porate investments has been injured in this
way it may occur to those who conduct such
organizations tbat the only way to secure
them in publie favor is to found them on the
basis of common business integrity.
TAX RECEIPTS AND VOTERS.
The decision of three of the Common
Pleas Judges of the State that the gift of
poll-tax receipts to voters does not constitute
a qualification for voting, will, if sustained,
make a decided difference in the methods of
looal politics. The purchase of tax receipts
in round lots and their distribution for
(bringing out the votes of either party haa
Been one ol the recognized nses oi campaign
funds, and one which no one has ever
deemed it necessary to conceal,
r According- to this decision the practice
will be made futile, unless, as one report
has it, the transfer is ratified by acceptance
tHirty days before the election. What the
evidence of such ratification is to be, or by
what logical process the Judges held that the
payment of a man's taxes by some else is
invalid, does not appear in the short
statements of the decision so far published.
Without following out the process of ratio
cination by which this decision is reached,
it is pertinent to say that its effect on politics
would be salutary. It would take away one
ot the standing excuses for big campaign
funds, which may be used in even less
legitimate ways; and it would lessen the
ability of ward manipulators to marshal
blocks of ignorant voters to the polls to vote
as they are bid by the people who pay their
taxes for them.
Still it will not be wise to accept this
ruling on the poll-tax business as the ulti
mate law. The decision has still to go
through the ordeal of the Supreme Court,
and the ways of the Supreme Court are past
finding out
Tiie pnblic at largo will experience a
feeling of regret at the quashing ot that proj
ect to receive Prince George at Newport
when they learn the true inwardness of the re
ception at Halifax. It seems that the Prince
did not go to Halifax either, bnt dispatched
some midshipmen to bear bis excuses. The
middies conceived it to be a sin that so innch
preparation for festivity should be wasted,
passed oil one of their number as the Prince
and had a royal rime in dancing, feasting and
flirting with the Halifax girls. The possibility
tbat the Newport Fonr Hundred might
have been fooled into worshiping a midship
man, will cast a shade of chastened sorrow over
the rest.of the nation thatlt failed to materialize.
When Senator Edmunds takes the
ground that we cannot spare the sngar dntles
because to repeal them would leave a deficiency
in the revenues, the fact becomes tolerably
plain that the hope of revenue reduction has
been swallowed up in the work of surplus de
struction. The New York Frets calls attention to1
the silence that will prevail among the Demo
cratic organs, "about the fact that the Repub
lican Honse of Representatives refused to seat
the Republican contestant from .Mississippi on
the good, old. honest ground tbat he wasn't
elected." Possibly the Democratic silence can
be explained from the fact that the papers will
be struck dumb with amazement that the
House Republicans could not overcome a little
thing like 8,009 Democratic majority, and there
fore went back to that old-fashioned but un
familiar ground mentioned by the Pre.
The decision of a State court that tax re
ceipts purchased in round lots by political com
mittees and distributed among the voters do
not constitute a qualification for voting, will
work a marked change in the methods ot ma
chine politics. ,
The report that the seals have left Behr
Ing'sSeais stated to have established an un
satisfactory settlement of the sealing question.
But as one of the principles laid down by some
of our esteemed cotemporaries is that these
seals belong to the United States wherever
they are, of course the Government will follow
them up and lay claim to them whether on the
coasts of South America or among the islands
ot the Pacific Ocean.
Aftee the Emperors have agreed upon
universal peace they will go home and order
more rifles and smokeless powder to demon
strate their good faith and determination to
keep the peace by fighting for it
Up in the extreme Northwest the freezing
point has been reached at an unpleasantly
early stage for the harvest At the national
ca pitai there is a prevailing donbt whether the
temperature between the Republican factions
is red-hot or below zero. Bat whichever it is it
has blasted the hopes of the Republican har
vest Political labor leagues have already
demonstrated their value of accomplishing
nothing in politics and doing nothing for
labor.
Many of the Virginia Farmers' alliances
are carrying out the policy of cheapening sup
plies by placing orders with well-known whole
sale houses to supply their members at specified
wholesale rates. This seems likely to be a very
efficacious method of cutting down some exces
sive mercantile profits.
MODERN" KEN AND WOMEN.
Senator Kenna has taken to boatbuilding
as a means of recreation and mental rest
Senator Hoar says all the income-producing
property he has in the world, or ever had,
yields a little less than $1,800 a year.
Princess Beatrice, who has mado a study
of lace, is wnting a book on the subject, and
will -also furnish Illustrations for it
The Crown Princess of Denmark, is the tall
est princess In the world. Her height is an
nounced to be six feet three inches.
The French Government has purchased a
picture by J. L. Brown, an American artist who
exhibited at the Salon of the Champs de Mars.
Miss Minnie T. Clay, who is now in com
mand of the steamer Minnie, on Sebago Lake,
Maine, is a graduate of Andover. The vessel
belongs to her father.
Andrew Carnegie, who, with a party of
friends. Is on a coaching tonr In the north of
Scotland, has been presented with the freedom
of the royal borough of Wick.
Miss Nikita. the American diva, is singing
in Germany with distinguished success. Rub
instein beard her lately at? Badenwelle, and
sent her a bouquet and a shower of compli
ments. The distinction of being the first soldier who
enlisted for the three years in the late civil
war Is claimed by Stephen Decatur Phelps, of
Cambridge. Mass. He is a nephew of Rear
Admiral Phelps.
The rumor that Freddie Gebhard and Lily
Langtry were out Is very much confirmed by
the news from Paris tbat Lord Lurgan has set
tled $50,000 on the Llly.and Is her most obedient
in many respects.
Prof. Charms Kendali, Adams, Presi
dent of Cornell University, who has been
united in wedlock to Mrs. Mary Matthews
Barnes, will visit Mr. Andrew Carnegie in
Scotland, sailing for New York on Augnst 27.
Baron Hirsch, of Vienna, has sonttotbe
Hebrew Benevolent Society, of Montreal, a
check for 20,000 to aid In their charitable work
becanse they conld not participate in the bene
fits of the American fund established by him.
A BEILLIANT WEDDIHG.
A Vlrsll& Attorney Comes to Pennsylvania
to Choose Bis Bride.
fSPECIAL TELEGBAM TO THE DISPATCH
Bellefonte, August 0. A brilliant and
pretty wedding occurred hero this morning a
little before 12 o'clock at the handsome resi
dence of the retired banker, W F. Reynolds,
a brother-in-law of the bride, who is a widow
of the late T. R. Reynolds. Ex-Judge Joseph
Christian, of Richmond, V a., was the groom,
and Anna M. Reynolds, of,oolsburg, this
county, the bride.
They were married by the Rev. J. O. Davis,
of St Paul's Episcopal Church, of this place,
in the presence ot a few friends. Mr. Christian
is a prominent lawyer and ex-Judge of Rich
mond, Va., and Is well known throughout, tbat
State. The bridal connle left for the Fast this
afternoon for a short tour before departing for
their home in the South.
OUTS TO THE CHHDEEN,
Wealthy Clevolander Will Thousands to
Benevolent Institutions.
Cleveland, August 20. The will of J. H.
Wade was probated to-day. The Huron street
hospital Cleveland Protestant Orphan Asy
lum, and the Children's Industrial Home each
got r5,Ooa Mrs. 8. T. Everett, granddaughter
of Mr. Wade, will receive J 100,000 and her hus
band $50,000.
Other legacies are left to relatives, and the
remainder of the estate. Valued at (5,000,000,
will go to J. D. Wade, Jr., a grandson of the
dead millionaire and a brother of Mrs. Everett
OUR SHORT STORIES,
THEY NEVER CROWED AGAIN.
AT ext 10 a dog that amuses himself by hark
ing all night a rooster that persists In ex
ercising his voice is nature's own nuisance,
especially when the rooster lives in town. A
banker who used to live next door to Dr. Jim
White, in Richmond, Va,, owned two little
bantam roosters that he had taught to crow
for a grain of corn. Ha would takea double
handful of corn out into his back porch, lift his
hand, and the chickens would crow. Then he
would give a crain to each of them. This
wonld be continued until all the corn was ex
hausted and the roosters were hoarse. This
sort of thing annoyed Br. White. He didn't
mind the quality, of the noise, but he objected
to the quantity. One day a medical student
dropped into his office about the time the ser
enade began.
"I'd give $5 to shut oS that Infernal noise,"
said the doctor.
"Ton can do it for less than tbat," said the
student "Why don't you entice them into
your back yard some time when old Rufe is
down town, catch them and cut their vocal
chords."
"By Jove I That's the thing. Come around
to-morrow at 11 o'clock and assist me in the
operation."
The next day at the "appointed hour the
student was in the office on time; so were the
roosters.
Within two minutes one vocal chord of each
chicken was cut and then the birds were tossed
over the fence to tbeir home. At noon the
owner came out on his porch for his daily
amusement. White and the student watched
him through a crack in the fence. He lifted
his hand and the little squallers reared back
and went through the motions, but did not
"utter a sound. The banker lifted his hand
again; with the same result He went out into
the yard and walked around his pets, but he
couldn't see anything wrong. Then he called
his wife, and the two made a critical examina
tion. He made them go through their panto
mime for an hour and got disgusted. He tried
it everyday for a week and then killed the
roosters and ate them. When he found out six
months afterward what White had done, he
bought two large donkey-voiced parrots,
trained them so say: ' Dr. Wblte," and
"White is an ass," and hung their cages in his
back porch.
White moved in a week.
A SCIENTIFIC SPIDER.
A spider with a great head is doing a rush
ing business over the iron gateway leading
to the platform in the Fort Wayno station at
Federal street There is a big incandescent
electric lamp above the wicket at which the
gateman examines tickets, and underneath this
light and a little behind It the spider has spun
a big web from one "bar to another of the Iron
fence. On Tuesday night the web was literally
crowded with files, gnats,moths and all sorts of
nocturnal bugs. There was barely standing
room for the spider .himself.
So It will be seen that even spiders are begin
ning to utilize electricity. The lights attract
thousands of winged insects, and a spider has
simply to set a diaphanous trap near a lamp
and wait for nightfall to fill it Probably in a
generation or so entomologists will observe
that spiders sleep by day and haunt the neigh
borhood of electno lights by night
IF MY WIFE TAUGHT SCHOOL.
TFI had a wife 'at taught school I wonld go
To far awav countries I'd fish from the 10
In a gay gondolier and the plash o' my oar
Wonld be beard by the natives around Singapore.
If my wile taught school,
I would, wouldn't you?
Er wouldn't yuli,
Enny way what wonld you do?
If I had a wife 'at taught school 1 wonld Ret
bomethlnzflno in the shape of a furniture set;
If 1 could pay my board and she could pay hern,
There's a good many nice little things I could earn.
If my wife tanght school
I would, wouldn't you?
Er wouldn't ynh?
Anyway what would you do?
If my wire taught school you can bet I would fly
Like a condor. I'd roost pretty mlddlln' high;
I'd wear a silk tile and own bosses. I voir,
And do lots o' things that I ain't doln''how.
It my wife tausht school
1 would, wouldn't you?
Er wouldn't yuh?
Anyway what would you do?
If my wire taught school lite some women do,
And I conldn'tearn quite enough for ns two,
I'd go In the barnyard, without any fuss,
I would blow out my brains with a big blunderbuss.
If mr wire taught school
1 would, wouldn't you?
Er wouldn't yuh?
Anyway what would you do?
THE SITUATION HE WANTED.
""The young man banded his letter of intro
duction to the merchant prince and waited
respectfully, hat In band.
"Ah J This is Mr. Ylpps, is ltT I am glad to
see you, sir. Take a chair. So It appears that
you are acquainted with my niece. Miss Bessie,
are your" 1
"Yes, sir," said the young man, "and she was
kind enough to say she was certain I could fill
acceptably any position you were pleased to
give me."
"So I see," repliod the merchant referring to
the note of Introduction again. "Well, I have
great confidence in Bessie's judgment Bessie
is my favorite niece by the way. As to this
position now, what salary would you expect?"
"Salary would be immaterial at least just
now."
"I see you would like to begin at the bottom
and work up. Well, what kind of a position
would salt you?"
"I think, sir," answered the youth, twirling
his hat in an embarrassed way, "I would like
the position of nephew."
DON'T HAVE COMPANY MANNERS I
tf you would always seem at ease
" Be courteous ev'ry dayl
For manners In reserve will crease,
As coats will, put away.
v MOSQUITOES HATE OIL.
uVJirHEREVER you find petroleum you won't
And mosquitoes," sild an old oil coun
try man. "The infernal insects canlt stand the
smell of the grease, and wherever oil wells are
plenty there is no call for mosquito bars. Oyer
and over again 1'vo seen mosquitoes cleared
out in a new oil field as soon as a well flows.
Whether petroleum, applied to the hands and
face, will drive off 'skeeters.I don't know. But
one of the few compensations of the driller Is
that he's seldom troubled by mosquitoes."
WASHTJTGTOH'S W0NTJEBFUI GE0WTH.
Gigantic Strides in Population Made by the
Mew State In Tea Years.
IVBOH A BTXTT COBHXSFOirDBtT.1
Washington, August 2a The figures pub
lished to-day upon the population of Washing
ton State show a wonderful increase for the
last ten years, and proves that Its admission
lntothe Union was well advised. Though
young the State shows signs of considerable
vigor. The principal town Is, Seattle, with a
population of 13,933. Ten years ago it was a
little struggling village of 3,533 people. The
next town in point ot size is Tacoma, which
now has 35,858 inhabitants, although in 1SS0 it
had only 1,09a The total popnlation of the
State, lacking two districts. Is 313,561. In 18S0
it was 75,116, so tbat the increase has been 63,.
418. or 857.38 per cent
Milwaukee has been doing well during the
ten years. Her ponulatlon in 18b0 was 115,587;
now she has, 203,879, an increase of 88,392, or
1S.il per cent Three towns in Kansas bare also
progressed wonderfully since the last enumer
ation; Arkansas City has 8,S5i people now, as
against 1,012 in 1SSO, an increase of 7,812; Ft,
Scott with 5.372 lnlb80, now hat 11,837, an in
crease of 6,165, or 120.3 per cent; and Emporia
City has risen from 1,631 in 1880 to 7,554, an in
crease ot 2,919, or 63.03 per cent
The Mark They Blade.
From the Philadelphia Press.''
Silver is going up at a tremendous rate. Tho
silver-plated statesmanship of the American
ConzreEshas made its mark in dealing with
this question a sort of 8 mark, So to speak.
DEATHS0FA DAY.
Dr. M. Chambers, Jr.
Or. U. Chambers, Jr., who died yesterday
afternoon at bis resldenco on Carson street
Southslde, rom heart disease, was the son of M.
Chambers, 8r , formerly manager of the Cham
bors Olass Company, and since deceased. Dr.
Chambers was a director of the Southslde Hos
pital? President of the Provident Building and
A,oau Association, and member of several bene
ficial societies.' The deceased physician enjoyed
an enviable reputation in his profession, and was
very nonular. lie was but 45 years of age. "Ho
leaves a widow and-two children to deplore his
loss.
MOKEY TIGHT, UTUEW T0BK.
Tho Great Anxiety ol Gotham Brokers
Intensified.
.New YORKi Augnst 2a The stringency in
money continues in spite of the circular issued
by the Secretary of the Treasury, and to-day
loans on call on stock collateral ruled
from 20 to 10 per cent per annum. Borne
loans were made as low as 15 per cent, but these
were on the best collateral, inoluding Govern
ment bonds and silver certificates. Brokers
express great anxiety about the situation and
are disappointed at the small amonnt of 1
per cent bonds offered under the new circula
tion, and do not now expect much relief to the
money market from it
The stringency has been marked every day
this week and was intensified Monday by
banks calling in large amounts of their loans.
The bank statement Saturday showea that the
banks in the Clearing House Association held
in reserve 655,725, less than 25 per cent of
tbeir deposits. The national banks are
required by law to maintain a
25 per cent reserve, but the other
banks have no such requirement, although the
Clearing House expects its members to keep up
to tbe legal limit, and they generally do so.
The drain of money by the sub-Treasu.'y and
West and South, however, has drawn down the
surplus reserve from 8,959,550 to a deficit of
653,725. Tbe shipments to the interior and pay
ments to tbe sub-Treasury so far this week have
been heavy and a further loss in reserve is
feared.
ah ravrrATioH on a gold plate.
President Harrison Is Asked by Pioneers to
Visit Cnllfornlo.
Washington, August 20. The California
delegation in Congress, headed by Senator
Hearst, waited on the president this morning,
and on behalf of the California Pioneers and
the Nativo Sons of the Golden West invited
him to be present and participate in the cele
bration of the fortieth anniversary of the ad
mission of tbe State into the Union. The invi
tation was engraved on a handsome plate of
solid gold, which contained In relief in enamel
and gold the coat of arms of the State, sur
rounded with the emblems of the Societies of
the Pioneers and the Native Sons of the Golden
West
The President made a brief address, express
ing his thanks lor the invitation and his great
desire to visit California. He said that while
he would not be able to visit tbat great State
this year, he hoped to do so next year. He re
marked tbat it was a happy coincidence that
the invitation to California's anniversary was
presented on bis birthday, and said it wonld
always he a souvenir of this occasion as well as
of tbe kindness of California. He promised to
make a more formal reply in the future.
DISCOVERY OF ANTHRACITE COAL,
Preparing a Programme for a Proposed
Centennial Celebration.
Match Chunk, August 20. A meeting to
formulate a programme for the celebration of
tbe tenth anniversary of the discovery of an
thracite coal on the Lehigh, by Philip GInter,
was held in Summit Hill last evening. The
meeting was held in pursuance of a resolution
of the Town Council of Summit Hill borough,
declaring that this important event in tbe his
tory of Pennsylvania be duly celebrated. The
proposed commemoration contemplates the
erection of a monument to Ginter, and an im
posing demonstration at its completion in Sep
tember, 1S9L
At the meeting last night representative citi
zens from Mauch Chunk, Lansford and Sum
mit Hill, were present Among other interest
ing letters favoring the project was one from
Hon. Eckley B. Coxe, who expiessed himself
much pleased that the movement had been ln
aueurated, and promised to aid It in every way
in his power. It was decided tbat the Town
Conncil of Snmmlt Hill be tbe Executive
Committee and have entire supervision of the
celebration; also, that there shall be a general
committee, representative of the anthracite
coal region of the .Lehigh Valley. Of this latter
committee W. D, Zehner, of Lansford, was
made Chairman.
Another meeting will be held in the Court
House, at Mauch Chunk, on Thursday, August
28, when the membership of the committee will
be completed.
THE B0NDIUG FBI7ILEGE.
Canadians Insist They Aro to be Deprived
of It Here.
Montreal, August 20. In press dispatches
of Monday it was stated that a Montreal corre
spondent had seen a letter from the Treas
ury Department at Washington recommending
an American transportation company not to
accept a consignment of cartridges from
Canada for Mexico, as it was intended to dis
continue to Canada the bonding privileges she
bad hitherto enjoyed and such as would be
continued to other countries. The informa
tion not finding confirmation in other quarters
it was denied.
Thomas Bralnerd, the President of the com
pany in question, now admits that the facts are
as stated, and says: "Some time ago the Treas
ury Department at Washington wrote to the
transportation company to which he had ap
plied for rates, that they could not grant the
binding privileges enjoyed by European goods
over the route to goods coming from Canada.
This decision was sent to us. It was recently
sent to tbe Minister of Customs and is the basis
for the published statements.
A BEOKEtf KECK MENDED.
Remarkable Cure of a Bay at a Philadelphia
Hospital.
Philadelphia, August 20. A boy cured of
a dislocated neck is the prize case of the Pres
byterian Hospital. The patient is so well
mended that he does not have to wear a support
to hold his head up. There have been broken
necks mended, but few if any so well as this.
This patient is Harry Relgel, 11 years. Ell North
Forty-first street On May 8 he fell from an
elevator in a factory on Belmont avenue, light
ing on his head and dislocating the neck at the
fourth cervical vertebra.
When brought to the Presbyterian Hospital
bis case was considered almost hopeless. Dr.
De Forrest Wlllard, of the visiting staff, and
Dr. W. C. Posey, with the resident staff, tried
what extension weights pulling at tbe head and
feet would do. At first the head lay on tbe
breast and the end of tbe vertebra could be felt
by pushing the end of the finger down the boy's
throat After the weights had been removed
the neck was kept in place by a plaster of pads
jacket. In a month the boy was allowed to get
up. When the jacket was taken off a few
weeks ago, to the astonishment of the physi
cians the coy moved his neck as well as he ever
could.
WAHHTET) AT ST. PATRICK'S.
A Popular School Teacher Weds a Young
Rnllroailer.
St. Patrick's Church was filled with friends
and relatives of Mr. Thomas J. Kane and Miss
Martha O'DonnelL yesterday afternoon, who
were united in marriage by Rev. Father Dennis
Kearney, pastor of the church. The groom Is
employed In the Pennsylvania Railroad freight
office, and the bride is a former teacher of the
Ralston school, and a daughter of ex-Alderman
O'Donnell, of tho Ninth ward. Miss
O'Donnell was dressed In a white silk and cash
mere, cut dancing length, and was attended by
her sister, Mary. The groom's best man was
M. H. McCorniick.
The bride carried a bonquet of white and
the bridemald a bouquet of pink roses. After
the ceremony the young couple were driven tu
the bride's residence on Liberty street where a
wedding supper was served, after which the
couple departed on the eastern express for a
stay at the watering places. Upon their return
they will take up their resldenoein a new house,
a cif t from the bride's father, on Butler, near
Fifty-first street.
TJSEFDX AS A EATCATCHEB,
An Elgut-Foot Black Snake That Is the Pet
of a West Ylrslnla Family.
ISrECIAL TELEOHAM TO THE DISPATCH. 1
PARKERSBURO, August 20. Thomas Oxley,
a well-known and leading farmer of Lincoln
county who lives near Griflithsvllle, has a
queer pet It is a huge black snake, 8 feet 6
inches long. The snake has been an adj unct of
the farm for 13 years and Is considered by Mr.
Oxley as among his more valuable possessions.
It stays about the barn summer and winter,
and is the most indefatigable exterminator of
rats, mice and other vermin ever owned by
Oxley. "Jim," as tbe snake Is called, is per.
fectly tame and docile and answers to hls'name
as promptly as the family dog or cat. Ho is
fond of being pettpd by the family and seems
to highly appreciate acta ot klnducts. Jim
casts bis coat at regular intervals of 12 months
and every one of bis suits have been kept by
Mr. Oxley as curiosities.
The big Wack fellow never attempts to harm
any living thing except the rodents about tbe
farm, and them he keeps completely extermi
nated. Mr. Oxley would not part with him for
a large sum of money. This, it is believed, is
the only insiancc where a huge black snake
has been domesticated and become useful.
Worked by Wind Power.
From the Philadelphia Becord-J
Labor Day will find the Federal Congress
still hard at worK at "lutelleetual" labor.
RECOGNITION DAY
AWARDING DIPLOMAS TO THE CHATAU
QUA CLASS OF '90.
The Procession to the Hnll of Philosophy
A Plttsbnmer Conducts tbe Exercises
JIIIss Allco Freeman Palmer's Address A
Life Is Lieut ened by Love nod Learning.
rsrZCIAL TILXOBAK TO THE DIBPATCH.I
TAKE Chautauo.ua. Augnst 20. "Pierans,
Redeeming the Time, 1890." These were
the words and this the motto written In bright,
bold letters on a banner broad and wide
stretched across from pillar to pillar In the rear
of tbe platform 'of tbe great amphitheater. It
was Recognition Day, and the class of '90of the
Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle
celebrated their completion of the four years'
course of reading. Five hundred of the 6.000
members were present to receive their diplomas
direct from their mother institution. The day
was given up entirely to the C. L. S. C. and the
banners and mottoes nf All thn hnria from the
pioneers of '82 to the freshmen of 'M were-
noatea everywhere. Badges large and small,
metal, paper and ribbon, announced tbeir
bearers as members of this populated educa
tional institution.
As early as 9 in the morning the procession
began to form, Secretary W. A- Duncan acting
as grand marshal of the day. Following him,
the band, and then came nearly 200 little girls
from tbe ages of 1 to 8 with wreaths resting
upon their baro beads and bearing baskets of
Sowers. Behind them came persons of all
sorts and aces, bearine the banners of the C.
L. S. IS There was the grevhaired man of
four score years, and by bis side his grandchild
of no more than 15 summers; the business
man, tbe college professor, tbe wife, the fair,
sweet typical Chautauqua girl, tbe high and
low, the aristocracy and the common, tbe
stately and the undignified, all marched side
by side in that procession with a feeling of
perfect fellowship and friendliness, engendered
by persevering, reading and study together.
To be a member of this circle is no idlo mean
ing, as proved by tbe fact that only one-fourth
tbe original entrance of the class ot '90 fol
lowed up the course until graduation day,
'
Opened by n Plttsbnrger.
At the hall in the grove the graduating class
gathered about the Golden Gate, and Mr. A. M.
Martin, of Pittsburg, after reading a responslvo
service fit for the occasion, placed tho key In
the lock. It rang with a merry clink, tbe
portals were pushed open, and the 100 members
filed up the broad walk through evergreen
arches, the little girls on either side strewing
the way with flowers as tbe procession passed
into the Hall of Philosophy, where
Dr. Jesse Hurlbut In the absence of
Chancellor Vincent, led the customary
services. From there they marohed to the
Amphitheater, where seats bad been reserved
for ail graduates and under-graduates of the
circle. The platform and bulldlne were beauti
fully adorned with evergreens, and in front of
the former a large fountain of water spurted
forth. Dr. Hurlbut presided again, and
grouped around him were many distinguished
Chautauquans. He introduced Mrs. Alice
Freeman Palmer, ex-President of Wellsley
College, as the speaker of the day.
A Moment of Great Jay.
Qeaduates of the class of 1890," she said,
"there could be no more joyous moment
In all my life than this. Such a moment as thi3
is a moment of joy, of giving good wishes and
congratulations from all our hearts. There are
many in this and other lands who cannot be
here, and to them we give onr blessings.
Chautauqua waited until you had tested your
power, your patience, your bravery, betore she
welcomed you to ber great family. She says to
you, education is life, Tho college and Chau
tauqua, the greater college than them all, have
brought you to appreciate education. You have
found by this course that an education
is never finished. There are few
here that have passed through cloudless
skies. When the humdrum of life and Its
daily rounds have mado yon wearv Chautau-
?ua has opened up a new lite and lifted you
rom this drudgery. You Pierans have come
at the end of four years to drink at a new
spring of life that is to be fresh and Invigorat
ing day by day. You cannot be true Chautau
quans unless life to-day is purer and better be
cause of those quiet hours over your books.
There is not a little girl who walked In the pro
cession to-day but whose life will be sweeter
because she knew of the school of Plato and
tbe ideas of Socrates.
"Ab, we Americans are too practical; we
strive too often for riches. Tbe greatest riches
are not thoso of tbe almighty dollar. We
Americans need to know more concerning the
life which Is made better by ideals and ideas.
My friends, you have not gone through these
four years' course ot reading without having a
wider world opened np to you. You mothers
have something better to do than to discuss
tbe draping of our neighbors' dresses since we
have a Chautauqua course. I venture to say
that you will not lose the opportunities of tuna
which you can use to bless yourselves and
friends.
.
Looking; for n Hnid Task.
iT enow a young girl who came to me out of
her Chautauqua reading saying: 'Do you
know of something in this land that is impos
sible tbat I can do; my mother says that I can
not go to be a missionary. I think I will go to
tbe Mormons. Do you know of anything
harder?' And so this girl Is doing a grand
work now, the result of a Chautauqua teach
ing. What you say, have tbe Assyrian kings
to do with the draping of a dress? Ab, my
friends, it Is the knowing that lends the en
chantment. "I know of a good farmer woman In a Massa
chusetts town who bad for many years worked
hard, milked ber cons and taken care of ber
poor old maiden aunts. Chautauqua came Into
that woman's life when she was 10. She began
to study French, and tbe town was in a rage
over her supposed folly that broke all tbe good
ccstoms of the village. For two years she has
been studying this language alone In her bed
room, and her pronunciation would be sur
prising to you. She never talks It only when
alone, but a new liebt has come into tbat
woman's eye. She wanders forth in the field
with a new feeling. She jtudles botany and
nature, and delights more than ever before m
the beanty of God's handiwork.
"Great questions before the American people
are to be settled forever in tbe next few years.
Those citizens who educate themselves are the
ones who will decide them. Tbe crown of
Chautauqua's honor has. been that she
has educated us and made, us wiser.
You have seen men and women sitting in
beautiful homes angry because they had many
things to attend to, when the verv things they
cared for were under their feet We know tbat
onr life is a part of the divine life, which is the
only life In the woild. We have promised
ourselves, to uavp oniy tne nignest laeai. we
have promised to give onr best ana only our
best to tbe wide world. I do not think there is
a single woman but tbat will go home better
from this recognition day.
Nothing Lasts but Love.
(('There Is nothing tbat will last but love.
The story of Chautauqua's life is the
life of love. In every part of our land, in tho
islands of the sea, in every part of the world,
this great love has been carried. The day Is
too serious and too sweet tor me to tell you the
science of education. I leave here seeing the
girl of 15 receive her diploma to go to tell a
gentleman of 82 of these scenes, who is just
beginning his course. The old idea tbat educa
tion was alone for the gentleman's son you have
struoka deathblow in tbe face. At last you
have conquered the universities, and they only
ask you to be good to them. This is my word
to you, live and learn in the name of God.
Be what God would have you be and so may
God bless yon."
Tbe diplomas were conferred at the amphi
theater in the afternoon. Madame Carrlncton
sang, Mr. Flagler played the organ, Dr. Hnrl
but and several others talked. Secretary Mar
tin, after long moments of patience and ardu
ous labor, succeeded in getting the ubiquitous
members of the class arranged In rows of ten,
from a unit upward, and then passed nut from
his great pile of diplomas tbe little folded
paper that was testimony of the receiver
having regplarly pursued four years of reading
scientific, literary and historical. This even
ing the platform meeting was held, at which
there were music by the band and choir songs
by the Schubert Quartet, reading byLelaud
Powers, and short addresses by tbe following
named gentlemen: Dr. J. L. Hnrlbut, Dr. T. L.
Flood, Dr. A. E. Damming. Dr.A. M. Falrborn,
Dr. E. D. Ledyard, Dr. B. M. Adonis, Mn.Alice
Freeman Palmer and others. It was a regular
C h. S. C. love meeting and Chautauqua rally.
Noticeable among tbe class of '90 to-day were
tbe members of the Bchnbert Quartet of Chi
cago, who joined four years ago when they
were here, and have kept no tbe readings.
Later in the evening tbe graduating class held
their farewell meeting in the hall, and all cot
tages and walks were Illuminated with lan
terns. SHEBUAK BBIGADE EEITNIOK.
A Large Gatlierloa of Veterans Addressed
by the Ohio Senator.
ISPZCIAL TELEOBAUTO THE DISPATCH.!
Mansfield, August 20. The twenty-first
annual reunion of the Sherman Brigade, com
posed of the Sixty-fourth and Blxty-fitth O. V.
V. L, Sixth Ohio Battery and McLaughlin's
Cavalry, is being held here. To-day is the first
Important day and committees for the business
of tho association were appointed.
This afternoon Senator Sherman. Major Gen
eral F. fc). Wood, Captiln V. Bradley, chief of
the artillery', and other prominent members of
tbe brlgado made addresses. Tbe Eighth O.
V. V. L is also holding its reunion here now
and the city Is fall of soldiers.
OUR MAIL POUCH.
Road Illaklng rtngccsllons.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
I have been reading up the public road arti
cles, as published by The Dispatch from time
to time, as I have been greatly Interested In the
discussions, and have had some experience and
lots of observation. The majority of yourlcorre
spondents favor a macadamized system, which
is no-doubt tbe best and cheapest in the end;
but tbe expense ot it is the great barrier to Its
general adoption. Ii the roads were all macad
amized and tbe water allowed to run down tbe
wagon tracks oil every hill.lt would not be two
years until they would be as bad as
they are now. Tne trouble gen
erally with country roads Is want of care
and system in expending the money. Tbe
roads in tbe country could be kept good eight
or nine months in tbe year by following or
adopting this rule.
First Have some'one In every school district
see tbat the ditches are kept open and tbe
water turned into them out of tbe wagon
tracks.
Second Let the State appoint a supervisor or
superintendent in each county and pay him a
good salary, and be in turn appoint one or two
or more assistants In each township and bor
ough of the county to orersee tbe work as it is
being done, the county superintendent to be
examined by tbe State commission and tbe as-i
slstants examined by blm. and no one appoint
ed who does not thoroughly understand his
business. The boroughs and townships
Bhould all have the best road ma
chines, and the work should all
be done by the 1st of July. Tf done by that
time the work gets settled and hard before the
fall rains commence, and there will not usually
be bad roads more than four to six weeks be
fore winter sets in. If you drive through tho
country now you will rind good roads on tbe
levels and a gutter or two on every hill. The
water on the hills tears tbe road up and runs It
to tbe foot of the bill, and the average' super
visor will tramp over It every day and not no
tice it and complain tbat there is so much
work to be done tbat he cannot do one-half of
it If the roadmasters in the spring say In
April would put three days' work with five or
six men to turning the water off the hills
and opening the dltcbes by the roadside,
and keep tbat up for five years, the roads
would not require more than two-thirds tho
amount of work now required to keep them In
good repair.
Third Another great mistake daily made Is
filling a mudbole with stone, as. all know that
when a hole is piled full of stones the first wet
spell there is a mudbole on each side worse than
it originally was. It is a fact that all good roads
In tho country are in the sections where there
are no stones to pnt in them. The best roads In
Pennsylvania to-day outside of tbe macada
mized roads, are in Mercer, Crawford and Erie
counties, and there Is no stone used, except In
swamps and lowlands, and in many of these
they use gravel. There Is no way to prevent a
clay road from becoming nearly Impassable In
a winter like tbe last But if the roadmasters
would do as I have suggested they would not
be nearly as bad as they are now. as the differ
ence between tho system tbat I suggest wonld
be almost as much In the wet season as tbe dry
one. I hope tbat these few hints may be picked
up and applied f or-a few seasons by some road
master. Good Roads.
Pittsburg, August 19.
The English and Tbeir H'.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
Being a regular subscriber to your excellent
paper, I have recently had occasion to remark
several times on a subject which I consider
really requires a little correcting, and this is
the misuse of tbe letter "h" by tbe English.
Being an Englishman myself, I know perfectly
well that It Is one of the characteristics of tbe
Englisb.but only of the most ill-favored classes.
In one of your recent issnes I read a letter from
one who signed himself "A Country Parson."
It contained much valuable advice to one
about to cross "tbe pond," but one piece of ad
vice was most certainly incorrect, and, if acted
up to, likely to cause much ridicule. He ad
vised Americans on landing to drop "h's" and
also introduce them wrongfully. Wow, from
personal knowledge lean state that people who
enter hotels in England and do such things
wonld be more likely to receive less attention
from the officials than more, as he Inferred
they wonld; also, the doing of such a thing
would assuredly debar any well bred Britisher
from cultivating tbe acquaintance of such a one.
The other day a young miss from school, aged
17, congratulated me on my knowledge of the
English tongne, and remarked that she had
never beard me misplace an "b." Now, this is
just the kind of feeling tbat exists among your
people, and which I think your widely read
columns ongbt to correct At Cambridge with
me there were men literally rolling in wealth
who systematically misused the unfortunate
"h'but they were not considered "good soci
ety" in the University in spite-of their wealth.
In conclusion, if vou could Inenlcata the lrir
tbat it is tbe English snob and cockney, not the
educated Englisaman, who makes this mistake,
I feel sure that you wonld confer a vast deal of
knowledge on many people. To put it plainly,
it causes a smile of derision to read such things
In the papers, as it shows really how very little
tbe English people are known over here, and
make one think that American tourists mnst
seldom meet tbe right genus of Englishman in
his travels. The use of the phrase "I alnt
doing nothlnz." and similar misuses of the
negative, are far more common here than our
misuse oi tne n." x et a iiritisner does not
expect an educated American to make this
awful howler. While on the other hand,
many of your people seem quite surprised not
to hear every Englishman make the mistake
about the "h." Nov, sir, I have been to some
length to point this ont to you, and trust that
your columns will not again giro vent to such
advice as "The Country Paason" advocated, as
it is nothing more than ridiculous and mislead
ing. P. F.
Connellsvuxe, Augnst 18.
A Chance for Reconciliation.
To the Editor of The Dispatch :
Your Issue of Monday contains a communica
tion from a druggist and signed "Justice." I
am glad he adopted that nom de plume, for it is
ominous of entente cordiale. If "Justice" will
approach, tho offending physician in a friendly
tray and spirit, he will be met half way in the
Interest of a reconciliation and an amicable ad
justment of tbe estrangement tbat has existed
between them for a long time, to the sincere re
gret ot tbe physician complained of. But the
physician bad no other redress, lor he, too, has
a reputation to protect and a responsibility rest
ing upon bim which, at times, be almost doubis
his competency to assume.
If there are two persons in different positions
between whom harmony and friendship should
exist tbey are the physician and druggist
Aside from tbe strained relations existing be
tween tbe physician and druggist in question,
there has been, as he says, pecuniary loss on
both sides. There is no longer any need of this.
There was no need of it In tho first place. But
the physician, being himself the aggrieved one.
feels that the first overtures looking toward a
reconciliation and an amicable adjustment of
existing difficulties should come from tbe other
side. Hoping that "Justice" will he able to
take the, same view of tbe matter, I will sub
scribe myi elf Harmony.
At-leqhent, August 20.
A Spenk-Ensy.
To the Editor ot Tho Dispatch:
Please tell me through The Dispatch what
a speak-easy Is, and settle a big dispute.
J. G. Mc.
Clearfield, August 18.
A speak-easy is the Pittsbnrg term for a
place where liquor is soM illegally.
THE KNIGHTS OP PYTHIAS.
Some Business Done and Black of the Day
Given Up to Pleasure.
tSPECIAL TXLXOBAU TO TSS DISPATCH. I
Reading, August 20. The members of the
Grand Lodge Knights ot Pythias of Penhsyl
vanla devoted most of to-day to pleasure
and sight-seeing. The unwritten work
and ritual wore exemplified by Grand
Keeper of Records and Seals and Supreme
Representative Hawkes, of Philadelphia,
at the morning session. Tne Grand Lodge took
a ballot for the election of a grand Inner
guard. There was no election on the first bal
lot Tho result being very close between R. H.
Jackson, of Allegheny; W. E. Lloyd, of Lacka.
wanna; H. H. Matter, of Mifflin; Frank Lee
Miles, of Montour, and Harry Green, of Dela
ware. Mr. Jackson was elected on the second
ballot
The Grand Lodge then took a recess until to
morrow morning to allow the representatives
to witness the parade and participate in the ex
cursion. The storm last night Interfered with
tbe attendance of lodges from all sec
tions of the States and to-day's parade
was necessarily "very- small compared wiih
what was contemplated. Telegrams were
received from Altoona, Harrisburg, Allen
town, Scranton and Lancaster Uniformed
Ranks saying tbat it would be impossible for
them to come on account of tbe severe storm.
This afternoon there .was an excursion over
Mt. Penn, followed by dancing to-niibt
. LOVE AMOHG THE CYHICS.
BrsoHAitTON Leader: Love may he blind,
ut he skips the girl with the squint
Atchison Globe: Love Is an argument that
is kept up-until one of the two is worsted.
Leadvllle Dispatch: Love never has to be
watched to see that It does a full day's work.
New Orleans Picayune: Love Is blind,
and tbe best looking girls do not get married
first
Milwaukee Journal.- Love is an expecta
tion of swapping selfish admiration fox diain-terested'affsction.
CURIOUS CONDENSATION. ,
Douglas county, Ore., is turning out
variegated marble of excellent quality.
A good. horse-meat dinner can now be
had in Berlin for 5 cents. Americans will find
uo fault with the price.
Joanna Furnace, jn Berks county, the
oldest iron establishment in the State, is out of
blast owing to a defective hearth.
A white woman, at Whitewater, Mo.,
gave birth to triplets, two of whom are colored
and the third one perfectly white.
Mr. James Carbangb, a collier living
in the mountain near Mont Alto, McL, killed 87
copperhead snakes a few days ago.
Charts have been prepared showing
that the eye has 729 distinct expressions, con
veying as many different shades of meaning.
It is stated that tbe German Electric
Company of Madrid has in contemplation the
installation of a plant for electric plowing on
a large property in tbe central part of Spain.
The latest scheme for marking the
points made in playing cards on the cars la to
stick a pencil between the slats of the window
blind, and the pencil travels up and down ac
cording to the luck.
Becanse a South Bethlehem Hungarian
with a weakness for singing would not desist
In his warblings of "Lil An Rooney." on Sun
day night, his boarding boss knocked blm in
sensible with a flatiron.
M. Topping, of Plain field, Livingston
county, Mich., has been postmaster through
thick and thin for 50 years. He was appointed
by Franklin Pierce, and is doubtless one ot the
oldest Democratic postmasters in the world.
An American actress has sung "The
Star Spangled Banner" at the top of the Eiffel
Tower. I: now remains for a French artist to
don a diver's snit and warble "Down Went Mc
Ginty" at the bottom of the English ChanncL
A drake owned by a Neversink, Berks
county, man, killed and devoured 14 chicks in
one day. During the summer W young chick
ens and ducks have been missed, and it is safe
to say that tbey were gobbled by bis drake
ship. A large chestnut tree, measuring 18 feet
in circumference at thp base, was struck by
lightning in Mr. Mercler's pasture field, near
Frederick, Mo., last week, and spilt In tbe
center from top to bottom. There was no
storm at the time.
Abner Dorsett, a negro living in Hick
ory Mountain township. North Carolinxnas
tho largest head of any person in the United
States so far as beard from. It is 32 inches in
diameter, and elves Abner a decided "top
heavy" appearance,
A honse in Georgetown, D. O., has just
been shingled for the first time since 1803, and
the carpenter says be has found sawed shingles
tbat had been laid within ten years in much
worse condition than tbe shaved pine shingles
which had been in wear 87 years.
At the Tamarack and Osceola copper
manufacturing company's wire mill in Hough
ton county, Mich., a coil of copper wire 2
miles In length was recently drawn. The fore
man ot the mill says itis tbe longest ever drawn
in the world. It weighs 2-i tons.
A patent was issued in Washington
last week for a steel fence post It is to be
made of steel tnblng, 7 feet high, with a neat
cap, and with bands to bold the barbed wire,
ilt Is said that these posts can be furnished
complete for placing in position at 21 cents
each.
Away np 4,000 feet above the Columbia
river, at the base of Mount Adams, six large
ice caves have been found. One of these ice
caves, the largest one, is used by the farmers
as a cold storage warehouse for butter ana
milk, and certainly answers the purpose ad
mirably. A retired English army officer of means
is on a tour through the Western States of
America. When he sat down to dinner a day or
two ago be met with quite a surprise. The
waiter who took hi3 order was his son, who had
run away from home to scalp Indians some
seven years ago.
Mrs. Polly Downey lives at Thermal,
Fresno connty, Cat Although 70 years of age,
she is a good worker. She acts as postmaster,
has cut and piled 41 cords of stove wood, cut
the wood and tended a coal pit tbat paid her
400, has crocheted three bed spreads, milks
daily two cows, feeds a lot of poultry and takes
care of 75 hogs.
A Paw Paw, Mich., man deserves the
medal for flckle-mindedness. Early this week
he obtained a license to be married to a local
belle. Something happened, and in about two
hours he returned and wanted Mrs. Anderson,
the license clerk, to take back the license and
refnnd the money. She wonld not do it and
advised bim to try and "fix it" with tbe girt
He acted on tbe advice and Is now a benedlot
G. W. Giffen, of Truckee, Cal., makes
tbe following unique political announcement;
"I am a Dependent candidate for the office of
Road Overseer in and for District No. 5 de
pendent upon the voters ot said district I am
pre-eminently sound upon all the leading ques
tions, from the tariff all the way down to 'who
struck Billy Patterson!' and if elected will do
my duty, and if defeated will submit without
kicking."
A ranchman living on the Satsop, Col.,
missed three head of cattle, and noticing a con
gregation of buzzards a short distance away,
proceeded to make an investigation, and found
all three of the animals lying dead, their bones
all broken, their horns knocked off. scarcely
any hair left on them and the ground around
them all torn up with elk tracks. Apparently
a band of elk had come up and attacked them
in an opening, and hooked and batted them
down, and pawed and stamped them to death.
An amusing case of absent mindedness
happened at Cbesanlng; Micb., as tbe south
bound train pulled out. A lady in tbe rear car
frantically jumged to her feet clapped her
bands to her head and ran for the platform,
from wbichshe wonld have thrown herself
but for the intervention of the conductor, who
seized her around the waist with one arm and
pulled the bell cord with the other. It was
afterward explained tbat tbe mother In the ex
citement to make the train bad forgotten ber
baby, and left it in the depot
A man of figures at Saginaw has calcu
lated that the average person trims off a thirty
second of an inch of nail from each finger
every week, or three inches a year. The aver
age of human life tho world over is 40 years.
Ten feet of finger nail for each finger a round
200 feet from the 20 fingers and toes. There
are 1.300.000,000 people in this world, and alto
gether thev waste on au average,300,000,000 feet,
or 66,818.15 miles of finger nail in a gener
ation sufficient to reach around the earth and
still leaio 10,000 miles to do our scratching
with.
J OAT FOR PUN.
The race isn't always to the swift. Some
times It Is to the poolsellers. Socluittr PotU
Express.
No, Heliogabalus, the crowbar is not the
place where the crow pleads his caws. KlnjAom
ton Leader.
"I'm working pro bono publico." "Which
translated means?" "For a publie bonus."
JStw lorlc Sim.
It is often impossible to distinguish si
lence lrom wisdom, because they are frequently
the same thing. Dallas Sexes.
Striking Similarity "The mosquito is
Use the summer girl."
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"Bardto catch, but easily mashed." N. I,
Herald.
Sunday-School Teacher (in Kentucky)
Johnny, how did the forbidden frnlt cause the fall
"jSlmny-Tbeymadelt inter brandy.-tfew XorU
herald.
Particular Citizen These new red stamps
are notas adheslre as they ought to be.
Postal offlclal-I suess you never tried carrying
a sheet of them in your pocket on a hot day. Sea
Xork Weekly.
The Explanation "Papa, why do they
call this census report from Washington a tough
count?"
Became it has not been filed yet my son."
Chicago Tribunt.
She What a bright fellow that Jenkins
is.
Johnson (Jcaloss)-Be's getting brighter and
hrlffhter every dav. He's letting his red beard
g-row.-Oaee a Meek. .
Dumpsey Blobson's wife is very small,
Isn't she?
Popinjay Yes; yoa would hardly believe It bat
Than h...4 I, ..U .,. ah mi 4ht-nnt-h hlS
pockets every nisht Uurllnaton Free Press,
TheWhynessof the Dnde Watts Hay
what yoa pleaseaxalnst the dnde, yoa must ad
mit that he Is a product of civilization.
Potts Of conr'e. If people were not restrained
byclTlllzatlon they would kill him. Tore Haute
Express.
Silversmith That teapot is for a mem
ber oi Congress. Isn'tlt a beauty?
. Philosonher I think von have not mads eaonzls
of one feature.
silversmith What's that?
Philosopher The spout J'wer, Weekly,
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