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THE IITTSBtmG DISPATCH, WEDNESDAY.' SEPTEMBER- 3, 1890.
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PITTSBURG. WEDNESDAY. SEPT. 3. 1S901
STILL LOWER FARES.
The meeting of the Pittsburg Traction
Company yesterday biought out an an
nouncement that this company will meet
the competition of the Duquesne by reducing
fares to three cents. Indeed, intimations
are given that the reduction will reach
figures that are "even lower if necessary."
This announcement, taking it to mean
what it says, is one of the most striking
proofs of the value of competition that could
be afforded. The Dispatch has always
maintained that on the lines of the heaviest
traffic three-cent fares were possible; but it
has also held that the reduction to that point
would not be reached except through com
petition. The reduction of East Liberty
fares to five cents was cansed by the com
petition which centered at that point; and
the moment that the same influence makes
its appearance along the Fifth avenue line
the five-cent fares are reduced to three.
Placing the average daily travel on the
Pittsburg street lines at 100,000, it will be
seen that the force which brings down fares
in that way is worth $2,000 a day to the peo
ple. When that fact sinks into the popular
mind, it ougbt to result in a very firm de
cision to maintain so valuable an influence.
Of course, if the reduction of lares is car
ried to a point which inflicts loss on the com
panies, the purpose will not be the legitimate
one of competition, but that of forcing each
other into a combination which will put up
the charges again. But there is reason for
believing that the reduction to three cents
does not go below what will yield a fair
profit The undercurrents of information
put the portion of charge necessary to pay
expenses on the most popular cable lines at
about two cents per passenger; and the re
maining cent with the increase of traffic that
may be looked for from such a reduction
will yield a fair dividend on the actual in
vestments in the corporations. Indeed, it is
a question whether experience will not show
that the growth of business at the reduced
rate will as fully recompense for the re
duction as it did when the East Liberty
fares were cut down fifty per cent.
"We congratulate the Pittsburg Traction
Company on its determination to take the
lead in reducing fares to the people. "We
may also felicitate the people on the demon
stration of the value of competition which
will be likely to produce a popular demand
lor putting that influence at work on 311 the
lines.
A GOOD PLATFORM FOR THE FARMERS.
The idea that the Farmers' Alliance sub
treasury scheme is the universal demand
which all the tarmers ot the country have set
up as a shibboleth to judge of the fidelity of
public men to their interests, has been assidu
ously cultivated, but it is a mistaken one.
The Farmers' Congress at Council Bluffs last
week, which represented agricultural organi
zations distinct from the Alliance, did not
include the sub-treasury plan. Governor
Gordon, of Georgia, who has been identified
with the farmers, refuses to indorse that
policy; and, although be meets the opposi
sition of the Alliance for that refusal, be un
doubtedly has the support of a minority of
the farmers even in that State. The Kansas
City Times has been inquiring as to the ob
jects of the Alliance men in Missouri and
Georgia, and finds the sentiment less clearly
defined in favor of that impracticable plan,
and more decidedly in lavor of a general re
duction of expenditures, and a decrease of
salaries. As one farmer put it, "Taxes are
eating the farmers up, and the office holders
are eating the taxes."
There is no doubt that in assuming such
an attitude the farmers would be placing
themselves on a much more stable and com
prehensible basis, than by the advocacy of a
measure by which Government is to pur
chase all the crops and issue enrrency on
that basis. The need tor the inculcation of
the policy of retrenchment and reform ap
pears plainly enough in the total of ap
propriations by the present Congress, and
the fact that while population bad increased
-Sjper cent in the past decade appropriations
have increased over CO per cent The Con
gressman who seeks public approval by vot
ing in favor of economy has become almost
an unknown quantity in national legisla
tion; and he is deemed most successful who
secures the most lavish expenditure of the
public funds. The same increase of public
expenditure is observable to a less degree in
minor departments of public expenditure.
If the farmers take position as a body in
favor of establishing economy and honesty
in public expenditure, they will secure de
cided support outside of their own ranks.
That is a ptatform that will appeal to the
y hole nation.
QUEER POINTS ON STEAMSHIPS.
There are some queer things about the
Aerican interests in steamship lines which
z rd subjects for explanation if any one
can give them. It is the settled policy of
American legislation that vessels sailing
under the American flag must be built in
the United States. This is on the basis of
protection; but two points have lately be
come prominent which do not accord fully
with that theory.
The recent races against time of the fast
ocean steamers between this country and
Europe, have called attention to the fact
that one at least of the great transatlantic
lines is owned and operated by American
capitalists, who are sailing English-built
steamers, under the English flag, and with
charters that bind them to place their ves
sels at the disposal of the English Govern
ment if it is engaged in war. The incon
gruity of this fact with the protective policj
is heightened by the tact that a large share
of the ownership of these nominally English.
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vessels is held by Pennsylvania capitalists,
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who are prominent in the support of the
protective policy, in other respects.
An even more Etriking incongruity is re
ported from the Pacific coast. It was sup
posed that the requirement of our laws
already referred to applied to the whole
country. Yet we have before us an article
from the San Francisco Chronicle disclos
ing the fact that the Pacific Mail Steamship
Company, a corporation of the United
States, has bad its fast steamer, the China,
built in England, and is sailing that English
built vessel in the Pacific trade. This is
brought out by the fact that in actual oper
ation the English vessel yields less satis
factory results than the American ships.
But it cannot fail to provoke the inquiry
how it comes that the Pacific Hail Steam
ship Company can buy and operate English-built
steamers when that privilege is
denied to all the rest of the country.
"Whether navigation laws which set
American capital' to sailing vessels under
the English flag can be deemed successful
in developing the American marine is very
doubtful; but there is no room for doubt
that as long as we have such laws they
should apply to all American citizens alike.
MISINFORMATION ON TRUSTS.
The arguments of the free-traders on the
connection of the tariff with trusts, need to
be revised with the purpose of bringing
them into some distant relation with the
facts. The other day we had to refer to the
remarkable theory of a free trade cotem
porary, that a 3c duty on sugar is a
revenue tariff but a 6-10e duty, as proposed
by the Senate, is a protective tariff now it
is equally necessary to notice the produc
tion of a somewhat familiar list of alleged
trusts, in protected industries, in the speech
of Senator Faulkner, of "West Virginia,
which is quoted approvingly by the Phila
delphia Record, as a new thing.
The Dispatch has heretofore made its
position plain on the subject of trusts. It
has shown that those attemps at monopoly
seem to defeat the primary and fundamental
purpose of the protective policy, namely the
encouragement of domestic competition in
the protected industries. It is a logical de
duction, therefore, that when any protected
industry falls under the control of a trust
and competition is smothered, the protective
duty should be removed. That the tariff is
not the cause of trusts is plainly shown by
the fact that some of the greatest and strong
est of these combinations have taken control
of interests that are not protected; but that
when a trust is established in a protected
industry, the tariff is a bulwark to it, is no
less indisputably established by existing
facts. If the McKinley bill falls short of
these principles, the Democrats have the
right to make all the capital they can out of
it. But they will not strengthen their cause
by producing lists of alleged trusts which
not only disregard facts by including trusts
which never had any existence, but are so
absolutely stupid as to omit some of the
most prominent trusts that are protected by
the present tariff.
The list which was produced in the Sen
ate, and is reproduced in the esteemed Phil
adelphia Record, has done duty as Demo
cratic campaign material for two years. Its
value as an enumeration of the tariff-protected
trusts is illustrated by the fact
that it does not include the most
prominent of them all, the Sugar
Trust, protected by a duty of from 70 to 80
per cent, on the various grades. This would
be naturally assigned to the fact that the
Republican policy includes the removal of
the duties on sugar; but when we find that
that the constructors of this list had not in
formation enough to include in it the Jute
Bagging Combination, we can only ascribe
it to monumental ignorance.
But this favorite ammunition of the free
traders is still more remarkable for its reck
less superiority to the facts in putting in its
list alleged trusts of which there is not the
slightest existence. Of the eighteen alleged
trusts in the lists, there are five which are
in effective operation. If the makers of the
list had had honesty enough to include the
Sugar Trust, the full tale of half-a-dozen or
33 per cent of truth would have been
reached. The salt, nail and rubber shoe
trusts, which are quoted in the list, are in
stances in which combinations have been
talked of, or attempted, but have not suc
ceeded, the ' failure of the salt and
rubber trusts being cotemporary his
tory. But the utter reliance upon
imagination for these alleged facts
is showing by the standing presence
in the list of such titles as the "general
iron trust," "general steel trust," "tin
trust" and so on. Everyone who has anv
knowledge of the general iron industry
knows that there has never been anything
in it at all approximating a trust. Every
one ougbt to know that there is free compe
tition in the steel industry; while the utter
stupidity of alleging that there is a "tin
trust" is shown when we reflect that the
very free-traders who are quoting this list
have been making the most of the argu
ment that there is absolutely no tin indus
try in the United States to-day. The allega
tion of trusts in the case of the other in
dustries included in this list is as utterly
unfounded, as in those we have mentioned.
The trust question is a vital one, and its
connection with the tariff is an uncomfort
ably live one. But that does not make it
justifiable or discreet for our friends, the
free traders, to produce alleged statements
which can only be explained on the suppo
sition either of ambitious mendacity or of
phenomenal ignorance.
OPENING OF TIIE EXPOSITION.
The Exposition of 1890 in Pittsburg will
be thrown open to-day. It is promised that
the display will surpass that of last year's
Exposition. Many difficulties have been
overcome, and great energy has been ex
erted to secure this result "We hope the en
deavors of the managers and the exhibitors
will be rewarded even more handsome
ly than was the case last year.
The success of the- first Exposition
wes accomplished by the hardest kind of
work, and there is no reason why the same
methods should not lead to like results this
year. The Dispatch trusts that the pub
lic will give the Exposition the support and
countenance it most fully deserves. This
duty will be the easier of performance by
reason of the many real attractions the' Ex
position presents.
A DEFICIT IN ftlGHT.
Mr. Cannon confronted his colleagues in
Congress yesterday by annonncing that he
had sighted a surplus in the treasury for
the year 189L But the Democratic mar
iners on their little raft declared simultane
ously that Mr. Cannon's surplus was a mi
rage. In plain words while Mr. Cannon
says that the revenues will exceed
the expenditures by tixty-nve mil
lions, the Democratic members of
the Committee on Appropriations insist
that there will be a deficit of at least eleven
millions. Thisjcontradictiou is easily ex
plained. Mr. Cannon conveniently omits
from bis calculations of expenditures cer
tain fixed charges upon the United States
Treasury, amounting to abont sixty millions
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of dollars. These charges are" not created
by this Congress, and Mr. Cannon prefers
not to see them. But the painful convic
tion will be forced upon the Nation that
clever cooking cannot change a balance
sheet. A deficit is certainly to be expected.
The Brooklyn Eagle, in reply to a Re
publlcan criticism of. the Gerrymander against
McKinley, admits that it i "an Infamous busi
nessone in which no honest man of any party
would engage," and then proceeds to say that
the Republicans are as bad as the Democrats.
But is not the fact that the entire party in the
Legislature of a State has perpetrated dishon
esty of the infamous sort a matter ot especial
importance for the organ of the party which
so characterizes its action. When party organs
attack the infamy of their own party as vigor
ously as that of the opposition we shall be
much further on the road to reform than we
are at present.
The cranberry crop is reported tq.be all
right, and nothing is heard of a shortage in the
yield of young turkeys. With free sugar added
to these supplies we may be happy yet about
Thanksgiving time.
Those Pacific coast naval tests of speed
seem to be of the kind that bear a good deal of
watching. The roseate reports of the Charles
ton's first trial were afterward discovered to
have been inspired by liberal libations of cham
pagne. A correspondent of the Philadelphia
Press calls attentiou to the fact that the "four
hours run in the open sea" which theSan Fran
cisco made with such splendid results, was
actually made in the Santa Barbara channel,
which is so perfectly protected from rough
weather that ships are safe there in the great
est storms. Some one in California has a great
idea of fixing things.
"With Uucle Joe Cannon "indicted" by
the renomination of his constituents, ana un
rebnked by the House, the statesmanship of
bad language is likely to flourish and wax rig
orous. The minority report which Mr. Dalzell
presented in the House the other day against
the refunding scheme for the Pacific Railway
debts puts that gentleman in the attitude of
supporting the public interests in preference
to those ot the corporations. Some people
have thought that Mr. Dalzell's antecedents
wonld make him unduly favorable to the cor
porations in bis action as a Congressman. Hii
stand against the refunding scheme after it
has been carefully set up, for the cogent rea
son that it does not properly protect the publis
interests, shoes that, in this case, at least, the
apprehension was entirely without foundation.
Let us hope that the American girl will
this season take a hint from the abbreviation
of her bathing suit, and win nniversal popu
larity by applying it to her theater hat.
A foreign; correspondent says that
Channcey M. Depew spoke of meeting the
Prince of Wales at Hombnrg "with no more
tremor in his voice than if he were mentioning
the name ot T. V. Powderly." The correspond
ent evidently does not appreciate the circum
stances which make it much more pleasant in
this particular summer of the New York Cen
tral strike for the genial Channcey to meet the
Prince of Wales than it would be to have an
interview with Mr, Powderly.
The Marquis de Leuville is booked for a
French dnel. Some men would regard this as
preferable to getting married; but the Marquis
only resorts to it as second choice.
TnE fact that the French Minister of
Public Works has submitted a project for a
ship canal to Paris, calls attention to tbe fact
that France has always devoted especial atten
tion to canals, and has, therefore, more domes
tic wealth per capita than any other country
in the world. In the meantime this country
continues to let the railways gobble up the few
remaining canals ana wreck them.
The evidence of Mr. Patton as to the
Osceola accident is satisfactory in refuting the
charge that careless loading of -ties upon a con
struction train caused the terrible accident.
The mystery of tbe crime is not likely to be
pierced now.
Another proposition for the new Missis
sippi Constitution is to shut outthePinkertons.
The Mississippians propose to protect home
industry in the matter of shooting.
Ex-Governor Foster, of Ohio, has not
yet learned that it is wasting breath to predict
political events in the Bnckeye State, But his
prophecy of a 20,000 majority for the Republic
an ticket should be stored away for compari
son with tbe actual figures. A slight discrep
ancy may be expected.
The fact that Punch has got around to
the point ot cartooning Balfour, shows as de
cided a change in England as that which is in
dicated in this country by the fact that Judge
has stopped cartooning Secretary Blaine.
PEOPLE IB GENERAL,
Wavne McVeagh and family are at the
Luray Inn, "Virginia, on their way home from
the South.
Mrs. Ole Bum. and Mrs. Emma Thursby
are guests of Mrs. Celia Thaxter, at her cot
tage near the Appledore House, at the Isle of
Shoals.
Commissioner Raust is a short man of me
dium weight, keen-looking, and bald on the
top of his head. HU chin is covered with
whiskers.
Judge Walter Q. Gbeshau visited his
old home near Corydon, Ind., last week, and
the people for miles around cauio in to shake
hands with him.
J. DeWitt Butts, of Rochester, and Dr.
.Edmund Canby, of Wilmington, Del., have
just completed a trip on horseback across the
continent, and are now visiting in San Fran
cisco. "Vicxon Hugo's granddaughter, Jeanne, is a
stylish and pretty blonde, who was tbo idol of
the great novelist in bis declining years. She
is 20 years old ana has already had many social
triumphs.
Tennyson is rarely seen without a pipo be
tween his tooth. He is excessively fond of
tobacco, but he likes it in quantity rather than
quality, preferring a pipeful of a cheap mix
ture to the most fragrant cigar.
Jacob Seiiqhajt, of Michigan, is the small
est millionaire in the country, being scarcely 4
feet high. He came from Germany when a
boy and went to Michigan 20 years ago without
a dollar. His fortune is now estimated at 115,.
000,000.
Benson Foraeeb, son of the pyrotechnic
ex-Governor, has become a reporter, and,
singularly enough, has chosen for the field of
his apprenticeship a Cincinnati paper thatjwas
conspicuous for the vigor with which it used to
bang his father.
The veteran John A. Heistand, of Lan
caster, who has been in failing health for some
time, is now in a dangerous condition. Tbe
story of his battles as a newspaper editor and
politician wonld make one of tbe most inter
esting chapters in tbe history of Lancaster.
One of the presents received by Dr. Oliver
Wendell Holmes on his 81st birthday was a
gold-lined silver spoon, the handle of which
bears a witch on a broomstick, the word.
"Salem," and the emblematic witch pins
crossed. It came from a laly as a token of Dr.
Holmes' latest poem, "The Broomstick Train."
H0X0B TO HIS MEM0EY.
Action of the Bnron the Demh ol the Late
Jnme Glldcn, Eq.
A largely attended meeting of the Allegheny
County Bar was held yesterday afternoon, in
the reception room at the Court House, to take
suitable action on the death of James F. Gil
dea. Esq. The meeting was presided over by
Judge Magee. Remarks touching upon the
life of the deceased were made by Judge Ma
gee, T. J. Konnan, Esq., C, C, Dickey, Esq.,
and others.
Suitable resolutions eulogistic of Mr. G1I
dea's career as a member of the bar anda clti
zen were adopted, and ordered to be Spread
upon the Conrt minutes.
Married tn DInrylnnd.
The marriage of Miss Lillian J. Flann and
Charles E. Wade, of this city, took place at
Cumberland. Md.i Thursday evehlner. the Rev.
Clarence Buhl, of Emanuel parish, Cumbetf- I
lauu, uwcia;ing. .
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OUR -SHORT STORIES.
POWERFUL CU'IS CRITTERS.
TThe crowd in front of the cross-roads saloon
had been discussing women. Silence fell on
the group. It was broken by a grizzly squatter
who observed slowly:
"Women is cu'is critters. I knows 'em. I'm
er livln' with mer third one. Las' Sadday
evenin"bout er hour by sun, I'd done salted
ther log front uv mer house an' I was er stand
in' in tbat road er watchln 'uv ther cattle lick
hit. Up rid Dave Carter lookin' powerful
solemn and kinder white 'bout the gills. K'l,
'Dave, sumpin' er hurtin' ur ye?' S'se, 'Yes,
git yer hoss an' go er long with me.' S'l,
'Whar yer goIn'?' He says s'se, 'You knows
'at Sam Peters was up afo' ther cou't terday
fur er killin' nv Nat Wesiley?' 'Yes,' says I,
I does. Whut uv hitT' B'se. 'On'y this uv hit,
'at dang jury foun' ini guilty an' sent 'ira ter
ther pen. His wife wan't thar an' I'm boun'
fur her now. I done got ter tell her 'bout hit
an' I want yer terhe'p me.'
So I tuck mer hoss an' rid ou with 'im. Blme
by we corned ter ther house whar Miss Peters
was er stoppiu. .We lit, bitched an' went in.
Thar was Miss Peters er settin' in 'er cheer.
She riz when she seed ns. Says Dave, s's'e,
an' 'is v'ice shuck like onter er dry co'nstalk In
er win', s's'e, 'Mis Peters, I haf ter tell yer some
bad news.' S'she. 'What is hitr S's'e, 'Sam
was sent ter the pen fur six year,' an' Dave
mighty.nigh broke down an' like ter uv cried
hisse'f. She sot thar 'bout er niinit an' then
she kinder schreeched an' bust out er cryin'.
We was er f eelin' awful bad ourse'fs jist then.
All atonstshe hollered "Oh, Lawdy, Sam's got
ter go ter ther pen fur six year an' he hain't
laid in no coffee an' sugaAfur ter do me th'o'
ther winter.' Me an' Daveslld. Wo got on
our critters an rid erway. Vhlle we wnz er
ridin' down the lane, Dave he, give his bridle
er jerk an nzup an' says 'D--!' Inuversaid
nothin' 'c'ase I b'longs ter raeetin', but hit
mado me think 'at women isUiowerful cu'is
critters." t
HE WAS NOT LAT
C I. AGSLEY has some reputation
:awit. The
other evening he attended a pri
ate theatric-
al, to which he felt obliged to go,
Uthough he
knew he would be dreadfully bored.'. As be en
tered the vestibule the hostess saiuco mm re
proachfully: 1
"Ob, Mr. Snagsley, how late you are!"
"Has Mils. Screechirini sung yetT"
"No, but she is just about to."
"Then I am not late," said Snagsley.Y'I am
premature."
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AT THE BAT.
The greenroom scene in "The City Direc
tory" bad a special feature not mentioned u
the programme on Monday night at the Bijou
Theater. Mr. Paul Potter probably nevjir
thongbt of writing an acting part for a Dat
um we jieaermaus got into -ua viij xjui
tory" in great shape all the same.
Miss Rosa France was just on tbe verge of
sentimental ballad when the bat made its bow;
a fluttering sweep reaching from tbe border
lights to the top gallery the longest bow ever
drawn it is believed. Miss France is a demure
littlA finnhrfftrA with rrnltlen hair who can
dance, sine and act with the very best, but sbel
had not a great deal of inclination to compete
for popular attention with a bat a disagree
able thing, too like a mouse to be popular
with women any way. But the or
chestra, like time and tide, waifs
for no man, or soubrette either, and
the opening bars of the song led Miss France
to tbe footlights. She sang but obi her heart
was otherwhere it is suspectedi in her dainty
little shoes. The two other Hosebuds Miss
Mayme Kelso and Miss Josle Sadler, isolated
from the rest of the company, were on tbe left
of the stage. The bat's proceedings were in
tensely interesting to them; and tbey showed
tremendous courage in staying quite stilL &o
did Miss France in singing her song de
through to the end, and even beyond it to a:
encore.
The bat circled about tbe auditorium am
swooped up and down for a few minutes an
then went out at the second entrance on th
left side of the stage. Not a Psyche Knot or
single switch had been harmed, but the awful!
intensity of the suspense must have tried the)
nerves of the Jiosebuds and Nanon as they had
never been tried before.
A ROMANCE.
A romance with a tragic finale; concisely
expressed in four chapters.
A man's daughter.
A mau sought her.
A man's laughter.
A manslaughter,
NOT HARD TO LEARN.
f T s'poSE if I should try to ride that machine
I'd break my blamed neck," said a pawky
looking fellow sitting on the drygoodi box in
front of the country store, as he looked at the
bicycle which a city wheelman, on a tour, had
leaned against tho hitching rack, preparatory
to inquiring for a bottle of soda pop.
"No, you wouldn't," replied the bicycler,
winking at the bystanders. "It's the easiest
thing in the world to do. Anybody can ride one
of these machines if he only thinks so."
"I want to know!" exclaimed the gawky-looking
youth. "D'ye think I could stay on it if I
got on T'
"I know you could."
"An' make 'er got"
"Of course."
"She! You're trying to fool me."
"Don't you want to try it?" ,
And the tourist in knickerbockers winked
slyly once more at the interested spectators.
"How do you keep fromtallin' off the darned
thing?"
"All you've to do Is to climb on, start it go
ing, and keep going. Take it out and get on."
The gawk chap climbed down from tbe Cry
goods box, shut up his jack-knife and pnt it In
bis pocket, took hold of the bicycle awkardly
and trundled it out to the middle of the road.
"It isn't quite as good a one as I've cot at
homo," he said, as he mounted It and started
down tbe road at a rattling pace, "but 1 can
folio w directions on it, I can start it and keep
it going. It's only four miles to the next town.
I'll be waiting for you at the pump. Good-by."
And the smart young tourist in knickerbock
ers trudged after him on foot.
A VTBILE VTBQIHTtJS.
4n Admirable Presentation of the Classic
Piny by IUr. Jnmei nnil his Company.
A vigorous and artistic performance of "Vir
ginius" was given at tne Grand Opera House
last night by Mr. Louis James and bis com
pany. No role perhaps better suits the virile
personality of Mr. James than that of Virgin
ius. His powers are all of the kind that
have full play in the portrayal of the noble
'Roman. No one upon our stage to-day better
realizes the. physical grandeur of Virglnius,
and when in addition to this Mr, James brings
his remarkable command of art the result can
not but be impressive in a high degree. Mr.
Jame showed the ease of the veteran in bis
work last night, but unlike so many of his co
temporaries in the legitimate drama ho has
not lost his spontaneity and freshness.
The vital earnestness of his acting seemed
contagious, as it often happens, and the old
play consequently sped bravely. Mr. Moslcy's
Jcxlius was boldly done; a very proper hero. Mr.
Langdon's Dentatus possessed plenty of fire, as
this actor's characterization always does. Miss
Bateman makes a fragile but passing fair Fir
ginia, and the charm of her voice and her
manner are undeniable. She rose well to the
high emergencies of tbe character. Miss Al
vord's Servia was a very conscientious piece of
art, and the rest ot tho company did well
enough.
Considering the plane of art upon which Mr.
James moves, and the creditable care he dis
plays in costuming' bis company his Romans
conld not be mistaken for Hindoos or Tartars
It is unfortunate that the stock scenery of
the Grand Opera House does not contain an
interior or landscape resomblltig iu the re
motest degree tbe country and 'epoch in which
the story of "Virginias" Is located. A market
square in a modern Italian town, with stores
and garish awnings, and a gothic church tower,
or a freshly papei od ante-room from a Queen
Anne villa on Forbes street, are hardly proper
circumstances for a toga'd Roman. This is the
more inexcusable because a scene representing
a Roman court, or forum, is not an elaborate
picture burdened with infinite detail. A few
marble pillars ana a.batch of divinely blue sky
are all tbat are required for the noblest Roman
of them all.
Cannot Adjourn Any Too Boon.
From the Barrlsburg Independent,
By all means let Congress adjourn as soon as
possible the earlier in September tbe better.
It would have saved tho credit of the House
had it adjourned a week ago, and what has
been said In the Senate this week on the sub
ject of liquor Sold in Its basement will not soon
be forgotten by the people. "Under the circum-
I stances Congress cannot adjourn too soon.
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FOSTER ON OHIO POLITICS.
He Thinks Sherman Will Betlre and Fears
McKinley Wilt be Benlen.
IRFICIAL TELKOEAM TO TUB DISPATCH.!
New Yobk, September 2. "Yes, it Is gener
ally understood that Senator Sherman will re
tire from the Senate after bis term expires. He
has said as much, I believe, and he is a man of
his word."
This is what ex-Governor Charles Foster, of
Ohio, said to a Dispatch reporter to-day at
the Firth Avenue Hotel. The ex-Governor
was enjoying a smoke and gazing languidly at
the new white fresco ceiling in the rotunda ot
the hotel. As be is reported to be slated as
Senator Sherman's successor, his words have
more or less significance. He spoke cautiously
about Senator Sherman's retirement, and
praised the sage of Mansfield in that easr,
sophomorical way characteristic of atrue Buck
eye State politician.
Tbo reborter asked: "Is Senator Sherman a
candidate for the Presidency in 1S92?"
"No, bo is not. He is a power In our great
Stato and has a Iarjrelf ollowinc. but I do not
think be cares to go before another convention,
I am not speaking ex catbedra. but just from
general knowleage. Senator Sherman would
make a treat President; no one denies it, but
tbe pathway to a nomination is not an easy
one. Ohio is proud of all her great men."
"What about your going to the Senate?"
The ex-Governor smiled ani had little to say.
Ho had not heard that he was going and
thought it somewhat premature to discuss tbe
question. .But abont tbe defeat of General
Grosvenor for a renomination to Congress and
the probabilities of Major McKlnley's retire
ment, he was not at all reticent and added:
"The story that ex-Governor Foraker defeated
General Grosvenor is a pure invention. Tbe
other candidates before tbe convention were
opponents of ex-Governor Foraker, including
Mr. Enochs, who received the nomination, and
that refutes the story completely. Major Mc
Kinley will have a bard time to be re-elected,
but I think it possible, and do not care to pre
dict defeat. His county ii a large one in the
district and he Is popular."
"Is Ohio all right?"
"The State will go Republican by 20,000 or
moro majority. Mr. Ryan, candidate for Sec
retary ol State on tbe Republican ticket, is a
man to insure confidence, has made a good
record and will be re-elected. Ohio is all right
even if the Democrats did gerrymander nearly
every district in the State."
CUBBEKT TIMELY TOPICS)
A NOVEL scheme Is on foot in England, so
the cable informs us, to reform the nobility.
From the specimens that have reached this coun
try, It Is no more than right to state that the re
formers have a bigjob on hand,
t t t
Fob Rent At reduced rates a cosy cottage
by the sea. To the right parties it will be rented
for tbe remainder of the season at a great bar
gain. Apply to B. Harrison, Washington, I). O.
sep2-lt-pald
t t t
September came in with a smile. If she
contlnnes in the same way daring the month
merchants will tmlle Just as sweetly,
t t t
That's a pretty good sized crane they have
turned out In Washington, bnt it can't lift as
a much as Speaker Kced can.
T T T
1 Representative Cannon is not talking as
much as be did. Perhaps he thinks that silence is
golden.
t t t
The Exposition doors will do opened to the
public this evening. It should draw like a mus
tard plaster, and It will.
t t t
Republicans who were confident that tbe
fusion ticket would win the day in Arkansas are
not as nnmerons to-day as they were a few days
ago. An increased Democratic majority Is the
cause for the change of neart.
t t t
Senator Blair is still wearing his kicking
shoes. The New llampshlre representative ap
pears to have soured against the world since his
pet scheme was dcleatcd. lie Is evidently bil
lions, ,
t tt
TUere Is probably nbtbing dirtier than bills
which are constantly passing current, and yet the
average man and woman do so love to handle lots
of such dirt.
t t t
A Georgia editor went to tbe mountains in
quest of health. On his return be penned tho fol
lowing: "During our visit we fell down a preci
pice and broke our left leg, and as we are without
a pair of crutches, we call upon our subscribers to
pay what thev owe; and we promise that here
after, when In search of health, we will remain
at home.'
CUBED BY PEAYEK.
A Deaf and Dumb and Blind Boy's Wander-
fal Restoration to Ilenltb..
) rSr-ECIAL TELEGRAM TO TOE DISPATCH.!
Cincinnati, September 2. A case which is
exciting much attention in medical circles is
that of the 11-year-old ton of Mr. Frank Root,
of Newport, one of the leading residents of
that suburb. The boy's perfect recovery has
astounded tho medical fraternity. Two months
ago the boy was taken 111 with typhoid fever.
He bad contracted the disease at a floating
bathhouse on the Cincinnati side of the Ohio,
through whicb the dregs from the sewer canal
passed. S While suffering from the fever,
spinal meningitis set in, and for eight weeks
the little xellow suffered all that a human can
suffer and live. For three weeks he was totally
blind, deaf Vnd dumb. When all hope of recov
ery had almost gone, and the family physician
had exhausted all of bis' resources tbe boy's
parents determined to make one more effort.
A council of thefive leading physicians of Cin
cinnati was held, pnd as tbe result ot their con
sultation it was announced tbat it was impossi
ble for the boy to lire, but should his life be
spared by a miracle, most of his faculties
would be impaired, including bis mind.
Although not a nfember of tbe Catholic
Churcb, some of his friends who were members,
after all hopes had been given up, requested
that prayers for young Root's recovery be
offered up at tho celebration of mass at the
Catholic Church. This was done. Since then
a marked improvement has taken place, and
young Root is now on the road to recovery.
His mind is perfectly clear nd his hearing and
speech are not in the least affected. Tbe phy
sicians are astounded at bis recovery and state
that it Is the only caso of the kind in which a
patient suffering from such a complication, re
covered with all of his faculties unimpaired.
THE WHEELBAEE0W SgOVEB.
Harrison Warner Rciurni From
His
Lone
Journey to Baltimore.
Zanesville. September 2. Mr. Harrison
Warner, tho man that wheeled the wheelbar
row from McConnelsville to Baltimore, arrived
at this place yesterday. He will be 89 years old
October 5. He is on bis return to his home fn
Morgan county. He visited Washington CityV
Richmond, Fredericksburg, and he spent f ourt
weeks with bis son-in-law, Mr. John McGregor,
near Richmond, Va. He traveled 28 days on
bis out trip, an average of 19 miles per day.
From tbe writer's acquaintance with him
since 1831, he is satisfied Mr. Warner is good
for many more years. He was always a sober
man. For 68 years he has been a member of
the M. E. Church at Mr.Zion, Bristol township.
He will remain for the Muskingum County
Fair, exhibiting his wheelbarrow and wheeling
it around tbe ring on Thursday. Next week
be will attend the Morgan County Fair and
shake bands with his old neighbors and other
friends. He says: "No man enjoyed a trip
more than I enjoyed my trip. The beautiful
scenery on the way amply repaid me for my
travel."
FATAL EHCOUHTEE WITH A RAW,
Frank Drulnrd Instantly Killed by tbe Un
expected Discharge of His Gun. -
Mt. Clemens, Mich., September 2. News
comes from Harrison of a fatal accident to
Frank Drulard, a young married man, 21 years
of age. Drulard and bis father-in-law, Philip
Ballard, were hunting, having but one gun be
tween them, which Drnlard carried.
In crossing a field on tbe farm of Jacob
Relnold. the two men were chased by an un
ruly ram kept by Reinold, and not desiring to
shoot the animal, Drulard kept him off with
tbe butt of the gun, when, in some way, it ex
ploded, sending the entire charge through his
right lung, killing him instantly.
Snbbnlb School Akaoclntton Convention.
The 28th annual convention of the Pennsyl
vania State Sabbath School Association will be
held In New Castle, beginning at 2 p. a, on
Tuesday, September 80, and continuing
Wednesday and and Thursday. The proceed
ings will be of special Interest to all classes of
Sabbath school workers,
DEATHS OF A DAY.
Vanco Sievrarr.
tHriCtAt. TILEOBAU TO THI OISPATQTt.l
Gbeenville, September 2. Vanco Stewart,
Esq., of this place, died to-day after a lingering
illness, aged 72 years. Mr. Stewart acquired con
siderable wealth tu tbe oil regions and has lived a
retired lire here forinaiiy years. He leaves a, wire
and fodr children, Bev. O. V.Btewart,ofStcuben
vllle; James W. Stewart. Esq.. or Cleveltnd;
Delia Stewart, or Greenville; J!lrs. alary Battlet t,
of Jiew Blchmond, VU,
1
'itihkMtTi' r&A'ki.w-l 'su'iFa'W
. YOU VOTE TO-NIGHT.
Opening of tbe Topical llnlloilnz nt ilia Ex
poillion Where The Diapaicb Pool Book
Will tie Found Tbe Firm Prl2o Essay
Content toCloo Saturday.
The Dispatch has perfected arrangements
whereby it will be enabled to add a pleasant
feature to the varied attractions of the Exposi
tion from tho onening to the closing day.
Here 'are the preliminaries:
Room for headquarters at tbe Exposition has
been secured in tbe commodious and attractive
space occupied by the Brunswick-BalKe-CoI-lendcr
Company's billiard table display. The
Dispatch booth will be located on a corner,
giving It a frontage on two aisles, the whole
space being surrounded by wide passageways,
making it conspicuous and easy of access.
Here all tho Ballots and Prize Essays of the
voters and contestants will be received and ac
curately recorded.
Oprnlne Week's Balloting-.
The Exposition will open To-Nioht at S
o'clock. Tbe Bulletin of Ballots and the Topic
for the Prize Essay Contest for This Evening
and Thursday, Friday, and Saturday of the
openiLg week follow. "Vote Aye or Nay on the
topics here suggested:
TO-NIGHT'S TOTING TOPIC.
Should all tbe Suburban Street-Car Lines run
All-Night Cars? Open to Lady and Gentle
men voters.
Thursday's votiito topic.
Should the Old Block House at the Point be
removed to Schenley Park, or should it re
main where it is and the Point De turned Into
a Park? Open to Lady and Gentlemen voters.
fbidat's voting topic.
Should tbe Allegheny Wharf be transformed
Into a Promenade and Park? Open to Lady
and Gentlemen voters.
satubday's voting topic.
What is your choice of Sites for the Main
Building of the Carnegie Free Library? Open
to Lady and Gentlemen voters.
How to Vote.
In order to accurately test public opinion on
all the topics to be balloted for during the Ex
position, The Dispatch has decided to open a
Poll Book for recording the Ayes and Nays,
thus avoiding "tissue ballots" and "repeating."
Voters will be expected to give their names and
addresses for entry in tbe Poll Book, and their
vote will be set opposite, thereby ensuring ac
curacy at all times. The Poll Book will open
with the Exposition each morning and be
closed when the lights are turned off at night.
Ladies will be permitted to vote on all popular
topics in which they, as well as their fathers
and brothers; are interested.
The Prize Essay Contest.
The Dispatch each week will offer Prizes
for tbe best Essays and Contributions on a
topic to be chosen and announced, so as to give
ample time for their preparation. The Prize
Essay Contest for the opening week will he
open only to Amateur Writers, professional
newspaper and magazine contributors being
barred. All Amateurs in Western Pennsylva
nia can contest for tbe Prizes.
OPENING WEEK'S FBIZE TOPICS.
For the opening week The Dispatch will
offer the prizes announced herewith for the
best Descriptive Aeticle on the Exposi
tion as a whole. Articles must be general in
character and deal with tho instrnctlve and
unique features of the displays and attractions.
No puffing in the line of designating by name
tbe exhibitors will be permitted. The features
and attractions can only be referred to in a gen
eral and interesting way.
The Prizes.
For tbe best contribution on the above topic
The Dispatch will award a prize of a
TWENTY DOLLAR GOLD PIECE.
For the Second Prize The Dispatch will
award a Five Dollae Gold Piece.
For the Third Prize The Dispatch will for
ward by mall to the winner a copy of the
Sunday issue of The Dispatch for One
Year. X
THE CONDITIONS.
Each article mnst make at least 800 and not
more than 1,000 words.
Competitions must be wntten legibly, on one
side of tbe paper only, and must be labeled,
"The Dispatch Prize Essay Contest, Expo
Fition Descriptive Article; closing Saturday,
September 6. 1890."
Contributions must be left at The Dispatch
Seadquarters.Brunswick-Ba)ke-CollenderCo.'s
space. Exposition Buildings.
Correct name, address and ageot contestant
must accompany MSS., name only for publica
tion if successful.
The DispAtch reserves the right to puDlish
any contribution, whether it be awarded a prize
or not.
The Prize Essay Contest for the first week
will close with the Exposition on Saturday
night, Septembers.
Watch for Second Week's Prize Topic and
Ballot Bulletin.
The Dispatch has secured neat little
Souvenirs for presentation to all Lady Voters
during next week's balloting. One will be a
handy addition to the work-basket, the other
will be appreciated during tbe long winter
evenings soon to come. Ladles can choose from
either.
A Cbnngef Af Nnme Only.
From the Providence Journal.
Tbe representatives of the Farmers' Alliance
from the Southern States will bo simply Demo
crats sprinkled with hayseed.
BLALTTE'S BLAST.
St. Paul Daily Qlobe, Dem. Absolute free
trade is not feasible under present circum
stances but if the followers of Blaine do not
let their zeal run away with them. Democratic
1 conservatism will prevent any evil results.
V Toledo Evening Bee, Dem. So when Mr.
Blaine says the home market is overrun both in
agricultural and manufactured products and
our ilea ot trade with foreign countries 'must
be extended, he virtually knocks the McKinley
bill witli-its high wall theories and trade pro
hibition measures all to flinders.
Memphis Avveal. Dem. The line of arcu
ment Mr. iilaine pursues is exactly that which
tne Democrats nave ioiiowea in meir protest
against tbe 'crippling effect of that high pro
tective policy for which the Republican party
has so peristently contended. It is to the
Democraticjposition that Mr. Blaine has at last
come.
Boston Jt'erald, Ind. Mr. Blaine's speech
atWatervillehas little or nothing to do with
tbe present Maine election canvass. It is al
most purely personal pronunciamento. It
elaborates thq point that Mr. Blaine has al
ready mado against the policy of his own party
on the tariff question. Its beginning and its
ending are substantially bere.
Banooe Daili News, Rep. Tbo speech of
Secretary Blaine, delivered at Waterville. will
attract universal attention thronghout the
conntry. Whatever views the leaders of tbe
two parties may bold toward Mr. Blaine's
policy of reciprocity, there can be no question
but that the arguments in favor of his plan for
reciprocal trade relations are presented clearly,
forcibly and with rriasterly skill.
-CoiCMBUS, O., 'Evening Dispatch, Rep.
Every line of the speech seemed to abound in
practical business siense. As an address di
rected to the business interests of the country
and to Cobgress it will be accepted rather than
as a campaign speechno Maine voters who are
expected to cast their ballots for Thomas B.
Heed, a gentleman wlio has notso far exhibited
any great love for Mr.Wlaine's popular plan.
New Yobk Tribunt. Itop. Secretary Blaine
completely entrapped ails political opponents
Into public approval o his suggestion before
they discovered that ift was "in harmony with
the Republican pulley. fSoino may suspect tbat
an apparently ill-cousilered recital of argu
ments for admission ol course wool tree of
duty was, in fact, shre!
idly Intended to draw
the entire Democratic
9reo into unreserved
commitment to his plai
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SNAP SH0TSJN SEASON.
Dancino masters are waxing the floors of
their halls. This is a sure sign of fall.
It is refreshing to make a toUr of the busi
ness streets at tbe store and shop opening hour.
Tbe owners of smiling faces, denoting con
tentment; ruddy cheeks, bearers of health's
trade-mark; swift feet, indicating willing work
ers, pup into places where their active brains
and ready bands daily contribute to Pittsburg's
prosperity. It is a cheerful sight. Young men
and women, our future hope in business bonso
and cheerful home, clad In stuffs denoting a
fair wage, neither looking to right or to left.
bnt swiftly threading through the going and
the coming, pass in quick review. It is Labor's
early morning parade. No city in tbe land can
boast a finer brigade. Beauty, health, brawn
Ill borne with a dignity whicb attracts and
commands admiration and respect.
The moon Is out to-night,
ing curs.
So are the yelp-
Have you noticed the flag floating over tbe
old postofflce? If Uncle Sam cannot afford a
better, it would not be out of place for the Jr.
O. A. U. M. to make a donation.
Now, gentlemen, please brush up the ap
proaches to the Exposition.
So the old Block-house is to be turned Into
a penny catcher. This is sad. Why doesn't the
city lease it and give a free show? If bnt one
step is taken toward Its recognition perhaps
concerted action looking toward its preserva
tion will follow. Precious relics of this sort
should be cherished.
Schenley PaekIs the lnngs of Pittsburg.
Push work upon the arteries which lead toward
it. Good lungs guarantee longevity.
The oyster is shelling out, but he's in the
consomme just the same.
There's a merry war in Allegheny over the
merry-go-round. Cannot something be done in
either city to provide proper supervision for in
nocent amusement? Children must play, you
know. Surely some provision can be made for
their protection nnder all circumstances. Sift
the wheat from the chaff and assist the little
innocents to have some fun.
The tower of the City Hall displays too con
spicuously the traces of Pittsburg's old denier
Smoke. Wash it or paint it, gentlemen.
Pittsburg and Allegheny now have seven
permanent places of amusement. In a month
or so another will be added. Next year one
moro comes. This will swell tbe list to nine
five legitimate, two vaudeville, two museum.
This should meet the demand at present. It is
hinted tbat some managers are casting their
eyes East Endward, however. Would a cozy
little theater pay there?
IT is Labor Day the year round, in Pittsburg.
Soon the shriek of the campaign orator and
the glare of the torch-bearer will disturb the
sweet September calm which envelops us. Life
has its miseries and its joys.
IT you want to boom a bad book preach about
it.
These are delightful days for lawn tennis
and all other healthful sports in which young
men and women can participate. Keep it up,
boys and girls. The coming fathers and
mothers should be strong. Humanity cannot
afford to degenerate. Only tbe healthy body
can carry the active brains of tbe present pro
gressive age.
Every dog nas his day.
muzzled him.
September has un-
A touching tribute to the dead was quietly
paid by tne typographical paraders In tbe Alle
gheny Park on Labor Day. Tbey placed their
boutonnaries on tbe Armstrong monument,
tbe whole forming a pretty floral offering.
Some who have gone before are not forgotten.
Some of tbe girls who have returned from
tbe seaside ate wearing engagement rings.
But the vows usually made on tbe beaches are
no more binding than ropes of sand.
The boys are beginning to whistle new tunes.
This Is a sure' sign that the light airs ot the
burlesquers are catching on.
What has become of the saucy English spar
rows? If at all observant you will discover
they are not so plentif nl in the streets as they
used to be. Is business crowding out tbe birds?
The new fall dress goods can be utilized for
checker boards.
Who can say variety is not the spice of life?
Only one city theater is indulging in the
legitimate. All the rest are catering to tbat
same old bald-head in the front rows and the
small boy in tbe galleries. Tbe eye and not
tbe ear must 'be tickled nowadays.
THE Schenley Park underground railway
should catch on. The park is for the people.
The people should help along every legitimate
scheme to get them there.
There's majesty in the dinner pail as well
as cold victuals.
The newsy is not so mischievlous as he used
to be. If the Improvement noted is due to first
efforts in the edncational line perhaps tbe com
ing newsboys' school will graduate some clever
little gentlemen. Push the project to tbe end.
Light overcoats are comfortable o' nights.
The chestnut burrs are bursting.
A Chicago philanthropist is putting up 25
street fountains for dogs. They say water is a
better anti-hydrophobia agent than muzzles.
Why not test it In Pittsburg?
The gas meters will soon
office business.
be doing a land-
Site h untlng is fashionable. While Chicago
is looking for a World's Fair site Pittsburg is
skirmishing for Carnegie Library sites, a blind
asylum site and a Newsboys' Home site. New
York is in a quandary. It has a Grant monu
ment site, but the funds tomarkitaro notiu
h sight by a long sight.
.
Pittsburg has a musical prodigy. We keep
up with the procession.
It seems easier to hold up a train than to tie
up a railroad. Tbe gun is mightier than the
tongue.
We are bound to lead. New York has boodle
aldermen. Pittsburg has a boodle Baron.
The marriage license court still keeps np the
same old grind. Cupid brings a good grist
every day. It's nip and tuck between it and a
divorce mill, however. Is the nuptial knot a
slip-knot?
Baron Lagerfelt is in London. His
creditors are in Pittsburg. If some of them
bad what he owes tbem perhaps they wonld be
in London too. Sympathy will not buy a state
room on an ocean racer. We can afford to
sympathize. '
TAKING A I0NG SLEEP.
Caused by Devouring; Largo Quantities of
Common Brown Paper.
MoNCTON, S. K, September 2. Etta Simp
son, aged 17 years, went to sleep a week ago
yesterday, and has not yet awakened or taken
any nourishment. Miss Simpson has for some
months had a mania for eating brown paper,
and would consume a large bag. such as used
in grocery stores, at a single meal.
She has eaten scores of brown- piper bags,
and it is supposed this mania has something to
do witb her illness. About a yearago she slept
tor five days, but was awakened while being
bled by ber medical attendant.
A Qnlet Allegheny Wedding.
'Mr. CbarlesNunge and Miss Sadie Nathaniel,
a young Allegheny couple witb a host of
friends, last evening surprised their acquaint
ances by hieing to a minister's and taking upon
themselves the vows that made them man and
wife. Mr. and Mrs. Nunge will reside in Mau.
Chester.
Gotham Census Howl.
New Yobk, September 2. The Board of
Aldermen to-day adopted a resolntion stating
that tbe Census enumeration fell short of the
total population or this cily about 200.000. and
recommedlng tbat application be made to tho
President for a recount.
CURIOUS C0HDENSATI0SS.'
A Dowagiac, Mlctt, farmer's cow wa
held a prisoner six days by tbe cave-in of
straw stack, and was only discovered by he
hideous wailing.
No less than 89 newspapers have been
started In the State of Washington between
January 15 and June 15, of the present year. Of
this number 57 nave been started west of the
mountains.
Pigeon fanciers and flyers are interested
in tbo statement that swallows hare been
trained in France to carry messages in the same
way as pigeons, and fly much faster afid over a
longer distance.
The pumps in the Gold Hill mine at
Grass Valley, CaU, were nncovered recently
after lying nine years underwater. Tbey were
put to work and lifted water as weU as the first
day they were down.
It is said Ed. (hbom, of the "Waopac3,
Wis., starch factory, will clear a cool 510,000 on
his potato deal tula season. He contracted for
all the potatoes in his vicinity at 18 to 20 esnts,
and the chances are they will be worth El this)
fall.
John Brunner, who died recently near
Morgantown, lived on the dividing line between
Berks and Chester counties, the line running
through his bed chamber, and it was his boast
tbat be always slept with his head in one county
and his feet in another.
The body of Eddie Fisher lies buried
beneath tne sands in Torch Lake, Mich. Search
for tbe body proved unsuccessful, for the Cal
umet & Hecla stamp mills discbarge into the
lake in three days enough sand to cover an aero
two feet deep, and his little body is there bur
led forever.
Hearing a tremendous noise in tbe en
gine room, an Auburn. Me., engineer rushed
below to find tbe governor belt off, the engine
running wild and tbe room filled with steam.
He immediately appreciated the situation and .
did what few men wonld groped about till he
found the stop-valve and slowed the engine.
Dairy Whitley is a fortnnate Ann Ar
bor colored man who had saved up 50 in the
course of his life. Tbe other day be wanted to
see how 1; would seem to have it 'all in his
pocket at once, and was walking along witb tb'a
air of a real millionaire, until he discovered hut
pocket bad no bottom, and his life's savings
bad been lost.
A curious flower has been discovered on
the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. Its chief pecu
liarity is the habit of changing its colors dur
ing the day. In the morning It is white; when
tho sun is at its zenith it is red. and at nlgbt ill
it blue. Tbe red, whito and blue flower grows
on a tree about tbe size of a guava tree, and
only at noon does it give out any perfume.
A sample of oranges plucked from trees
grown on the place of Thomas E. Halle, at
Kanapha, Fla., are of the early variety, just
commenced to ripen, and will weigh abont one
pound each. Mr. Hade's grove covers several
acres, and the trees are so loaded with fruit
that it has become necessary to prop them up.
The crop is simply wonderful.
Of all the vegetables which furnish
nourishment to man. the banana is the most
prolific A single clnster often contains 160 to
180 pods, and weighs from 60 to 80 pounds. It
is said tbat 120 square yards of land will pro
duce 4.00U pounds weight of fruit, while" the
same area will rarely produce more than SO
pounds weight ot wheat or 80 pound3 of
potatoes.
A. O. Christopher, of the Georgia House,
in Orlando, Fla., has a peach tree in his yard of
the large yellow cling-stone variety. The treo
is three years old, and has borne two crops
since the frost in March last, the first becoming
ripe in July and the sei.ond in August, and
there will still be another crop in September.
The tree grew from a seed obtained in Mtddlo
Georgia.
A fire ball, blue and white, fell in
Brooklyn, Conn., during a recent thunder
storm. Ono account says it seemed to come
straight down from tbe sky, and bit the carriage
in which Mr. and Mrs. Sperrv and children
were driving. All were burled out of tbe
vehicle. Mr. Sperry was badly burned and bis
wife and two bfluren were p iralyzed. Neither
carriage nor horse was ruucu Injured.
Some very old relics were sold at tno
sale of the personil effects of the late
Frederick Fox,at No. 323 Franklin street,Read
ing. A waffle iron with long handle and tripod
was supposed to be 150 years old. There was
alto a steelyard with weights, 120 years old: a
handsomely ornamented waiter of unusually
large ize over 11X1 c.rs old. and many smaller
articles. A "grandfather's clocc," over 130
years old, was Kept in the famjly.
There is a tree at Athens, Ga., which is
a property bolder. Tn tbe early part or the
century tbe land on which it stands was owned
by Colonel W. H. Jackson, who took great de
light in watching its growth and enjoying its
shade. In his old age the tree bad reached
magnificent proportions, nd the thought of its
being destroyed by those who wonld come after
him was so repugnant tbat he recorded a deed
conveving tu it all land within a radius of eight
feet of it.
Frank Werren, who lives in Shamoka
wa. Ore., had a little child almost killed by a
rooster the other day. Tbe rooster is of tho
Leghorn variety and very vicious, and never
hesitates to attack anyone that comes within
its reach. Tbe child, which is abont IK years
old, was out in the yard, when the rooster at
tacked her, knocking her down and inflicting
with his spurs two deep gashes over tbe left
temple, and making an ugly wound over the
right eyeball. Had the rooster struck ber a
little lower it would probably nave rained the
eyesight of the left eye. Tbe child will recover.
At a farm in the district of Forest Hall
one of a brood of chickens was lamed. Unable
to follow the ben in search of food, it was soon
half starved. The chick was recently missed,
and next day was found lying with three kit
tens, tbo mother of which gave toe fledgeling
every attention. Every day the cat has carried
the bird in its month into the farm yard, where
it has obtained food, and as regularly conveyed
it in tbo same manner back to lie with tho
kittens. Through the care of puss the injured
limb is growing stronger and the chicken is
thriving. The conduct of the cat has been a
matter of great interest to the inhabitants of
the farm, who have carefully watched puss in
all her proceedings.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
"I like this clock," said a customer to tha
Jeweller, "and think I'll take It. Bat does It
strike?"
No. sir."
Then it won't do; for I'm a walking delezate.
Show mc one that will." hpoeh.
"Miggins is very eccentric, isn't he?"
"That't no name for it."
Toralltuesanisshlnlnj I Just saw him pn
ting up a due pold-handlcd umbrella."
-What, a aay like this?"
yes: he was putting it np at his uncle'."
JSnUtmorc Herald.
Mistress (during a heated term) Get
dinner to-day oa the (rasollne store, Bridget.
Brldget-Plazc, mum, I lid thry, but th' stove
wlnt out. -
Mistress-Tryagalp, then.
Bridget Kis, mum, hat It's not come back Tit,
It wint out t'rough th' roif. Sew XotZ Weekly.
Editor's Assistant Here's a photograph,
Jnst come by mall; no letter with it; and "Yonrs, ,.
respectirullr. 1 Sllngsby J. Pettlsbone" written
across the back oi It. Ever hear of him?
Edltor-1 never did; hut It's all right. He goes
Into our "Gallery of Leading American's.
CMcago Pott.
She Now we are married, Tom, yoa
might give up smoking, for my sake.
He I don't see why. I'm sure you have given
up none of your amusements for my sake. Bay
yon. now?
She-Yes, I have. I have quit getting engixed,
haTen't V.-Dttnlt Free Press.
Mm. dn Temps I don't approve of Mr.
Moneybags' salt, my dear. I don't thluk he is
the man for you, for ber doesn't seem to have
spark of principle.
llhis du Temps-He has a prlncinal, ma, ofp.
000 that yields him 10 per cent annually. What
more do yon want? Kashvillt American.
Prominent Humorist Er, would it be too) ' ,
much ofa favor for you to let me go Into your Ice- if.
house for few hours this afternoon.
Ice Dealer Well, that's a strange request, sir.-, a
What's the matter Is th& heat too much for ybu3p
Prominent Humorlst-Ncbut I've Justrecelved
n order from Pudxe for a lot of Christinas Jokes. X
and I want to get some Inspiration. yasliviUtti
American. f
Author You decline publishing my book?,
Whv. I am sure it would aave s big sale. Mr
friends assure me that It is the beat thing I b,sv
ever written. j
Publisher-Bat It would never be successful.
Why, my dear ,lr, there Isn't a passage in it
which could secure its suppression by Wanamtj
i.tt.Xasnvllle American.
WHAT -WlhL WE DO I
The question need to be, 'this true,
What work Is there for glrli to do?"
But now we've reached an epoch wncn
We ask: "What Is there left for men?"
They're still enlarging woman's spnert
And e'eu the stontest of us fear
Man will be useless after while,
And finally so out of stile.
CMcago Foftn
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