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One lear t S00 Datlt DiErATCH, PcrQnarter SCO JJAILT DisrATCH, One Mouth 70 Daily Dispatch, lnclnainctunday, lyear. 30 00 DAILY DISPATCH, IncludinRbnndaT.Sm'ths. -50 Daily Dispatch. Including bunday.Huonth 90 Sodat Dispatch, One Year rso A eeklt Dispatch, one Vear IS The Daily DisPATCn Is delivered by carriers at It cents per week, or Including bunday edition, a 1 SO cents per week. PITTSBURG. AVEDNESDAY.SEP.T. 10, ISM. THE COVT OF THE PARK. ENTRANCE. As TnE Dispatch pointed out last . Saturday to be in the roost absurd degree of improbability, the idea that Messrs. Bige lowand Scott would, aftera journey to Lon don and back, ropresent their trip as a suc , cess, when they only had an option for the desired nineteen acresof ground at 300,000, proves to be utterly unfounded. The real price at which Mrs. Scbenley offers the prop'crfy is $75,000, or exactly one-quarter that named in the unfounded report which agitated some of our esteemed cotern poraries. Of course, the sum of $75,000 is not one which the city ought to throw away; but being a fraction of the commercial value of the property, it is well worth while to see what the city gets for it. In the first place, it brings the park to Forbes street and gives it a frontage along that avenue for nearly a quarter of a mile. Kelt, it gives an entrance to the park which must other wise have been condemned and constructed at considerable expense. All the cost of constructing boulevards and bridges would have been necessary anyhow, it the park was to be entered from the Oakland side, with the additional cost of condemning the rights of way. The only additional cost that the gift brings is the improvement of nineteen acres more of park, which, consid ering that tbose nineteen acres are the most accessible of the enure park, will be a very desirable expenditure. It is taken as a matter of common conseut that if this offer is accepted by the city, some of the most attractive features of Mr. Carne gie's library, art callcry and museum dona tion will be placed upon the property near to the entrance of the park. It is of course nothing but a citation of the general opinion to say that any buildings will be placed there, before the commission has taken ac tion; but it is safe to say that the art gal lery, scientific museum and scientific refer ence library will be located there, by com mon consent; while the central library will comejthere if the transit facilities are shown to be such as to place it within the reach of the masses. "Whatever buildings are put there by this donation will furnish the most imposing ornamentation to the en trance of the park. They will be the prop erty of the people and lor the use of the peo ple Justus much as the park will be; and they will embeiish that popular pleasure ground without adding to its cost. Such an enhancement of the convenience and beauties of the park will make its im portance clear to all. The almost unani mous public opinion will be not only that 575,000 is a fraction of the value of the land, but that it is inconsiderable beside the ben efits that are to be secured thereby. DOCS HAVE MANY FRIENDS. The people oi Pittsburg want a dog catcher and a dog pound in place of the 'cowardly button. If Chief Brown has not learned this yet, let him contemplate the votingnpon the question as raised by The Dispatch at the Exposition yesterday, Owners of valuable dogs will readilv pay a reasonable tax to support the institution. Dogs deserve a fair amount of protection, and they will get it in Pittsburg. shown in what is called an experiment in capital sharing on the Illinois Central Bail road. In this esse the men are encouraged to become shareholders in the corporation, are helped to buy stock on installments and are thus at once aided in the effort to be come capitalists on a small scale and inter ested in the success of the company's oper ations. But even this plan fails to realize some things that are essential before the partnership of laboring men in corporate enterprises can be successful. In the first place, the laborer who is asked to invest his savings in a railroad corporation ought to have some guarantee that he is not buying some 30 to 60 per cent of water placed there by the device of construction company con tracts or consolidations. Then lie needs a provision that will effectually prevent any manager from enriohing himself or his friends by special favors in transportation or contracts at the cost of the company; or that some speculative official shall not plunge the corporation into a railway war, for the purpose of buying in the shares when they are depressed, and making the advance on them when a combination is patched up. It is by just such devices as these that corporate enterprise has been used for transferring the investments oi the masses to the pockets of the manipulators; and a relonn which will thoroughly prevent them is all that is needed to make the cor porate system the most perfect and available form of co-operation. This is a point of the utmost importance in considering, social reforms, and it is also an illustration of the much wider principle that the cause of nearly all our social and political troubles is the perversion of the honest and legitimatepnrposeof ouroriginal institutions. INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY. Dr. Lyman Abbott, in a recent article in the I'orum, develops a scheme of what he calls industrial democracy, which he bases on the belief that where government is car ried ou by the people its industrial activi ties should be controlled by the people. If the theory was simply that this popular control should be secured by distributing the ownership of industrial and commer cial enterprises among the greatest number of owners, it would be a species of indus trial democracy that is as old in this coun try as the economic and constitutional prin ciples of "Webster and Marshall. But this established principle of our Government is not enough for the writer. He is not con tent to maintain a system which establishes the most democratic condition of property by encouraging- the widest distribution of private ownership; but prefers to abolish private ownershiD altogether in some forms of property, which is most likely to produce the result that such classes of industrial en terprise will become the property of the pol iticians as fully as the postoffices now are. The Boston Herald, in noticing Dr. Ab .bott's development of the theories of indus trial democracy, says that he does not show "how the employes on the New York Cen tral could become profit-sharers and co operators in that joint stock corporation." Yet the tendency of the times to accept the perversions of modern institutions as their legitimate condition, is shown by the fact that the very organization of the New York Central corporation is for the purpose of facilitating the joint ownership in that en terprise, not only of its employes, but of all other persons of limited means. The theory and purpose of corporate organization is to permit and encourage the widest joint ownership of all kinds of industrial enter prise among the people. It was established eo that everyone with 550 or 5100 could own a share in the enterprise and enjoy its profits. It is one of the gravest indictments against the corporate system that its management has so perverted it from its original pur pose of securing the widest distribution of wealth as to make it an engine of the greatest concentration of wealth in few hands. And it is an example of the blind groping that is being done on this subject that writers on social topics fail to perceive that corporations like the New York Cen tral are intended for industrial co-operation, ' rand that the eyil lies in the abuses which have diverted them from their true pur pose. A clearer comprehension cf'lhe issue is TnE MAINE RESULT. However the returns from the Maine election may be modified by the later ad vices, it is beyond donbt that so far as the bearing on national politics is concerned the full vote in Maine is a fair offset to the falling off of the Bepublican vote in "Ver mont, Monday's election leaves no ques tion that the people of the Pine Tree State stand with the full strength of the Bepub lican partv in support of the Bepublican policy. It is also a fair inference that the voters of the Portland district are prepared to indorse that extreme and aggressive stripe of Republicanism of which Mr. Beed is the champion and leader. The feeling of uncertainty which pre vailed concerning the vote was shown in the preliminary dispatches of Sunday night Democratic guessers, in the hope of getting something to crow over, predicted Beed's majority at 2,400; Bepublican sources, evidently to discount the effect of a loss, predicted it at 1,000. Both were uneasy enough to hedge; and both are shown to have been far out of the proximity of accuracy by the majority which Mr. Beed actually secured. Democratic chan nels are now running over with xeports of discreditable methods adopted to swell Mr. Beed's votes; but his majority is of such a size that illegitimate methods could not have affected the result. The fact is that while the Maine result is the subject of jubilation to Bepublicans and the opposite sentiment on the part of the Democrats, the joy of the Bepublicans is that of escape from a reverse, and the disap pointment of the Democrats was at the failure to realize an expected triumph. Maine is, next to Pennsylvania, perhaps the strongest protectionist State in the Union. If on an election in which only national issues were raised, Maine had not gone Bepublican by her average majority and given the leader of the Bepublican fighters an especial indorsement it would have augured ill for the permanence of the protective policy. The majority of 15,000 claimed by the Bepublicans on the State ticket can hardly be taken as indicating more than that the Bepublican party is holding its own, and that the protective policy, where its snpport is the mam issue, can command its old strength. The indorsement of Beed, however, has a ucculiar personal relation to the respective standing of the two Maine men. For the past month or more Secretary Blaine has been the rising star in national politics, and has bid fair to eclipse the brightness of the junior Maine man. This, as The Dispatch has said, is due to the ability and far-sightedness of his reciprocity policy. But the fact that he made but one speech in Maine, and that not at all in accordance with the Speaker's policy or personal interests, puts the two men in an attitude of antagonism. The indorsement of Beed by his constituents will be susceptible of the construction by the Bepublicans of the House that Maine in dorses Beed rather than Blaine. Possibly the Speaker may display a belief in his in creased strength when the tariff bill with the reciprocity amendment gets back to the House. H would not be strange if Beed's victory permitted us to hear more of the Federal elections measure before the session is over. about not being able to force a horse to drink, was evidently discarded in this case; but there is reason to fear that a.bolter de tained in the convention hall against his will may retain the bolting frame bf mind notwithstanding his detention. Still the employment of the police to keep the dis gruntled delegates within doors enables the report to go out that a bolt was prevented; and that was evidently its main purpose. The convention puts Colonel Stone fairly In the field, and practically makes him the next Congressman from the North Side. If his Congressional career is successful in pro portion to the lively time he has had in se curing its opening.Tie will rival his prede cessor in prominence among the leaders of the House. FOR YOUNG PITTSBURG. The Central Board of Education realizes the growth of Pittsburg. Twenty-two teachers were added to this city's public school staff last night. Two oi these are for the High School and the rest the grammar schools will absorb. The young Idea in Pittsburg will not fall in the search for' knowledge for lack of teachers. Pittsburg can attribute no small part of her success to the admirable character of her public school system. The increase in the number of teachers is gratifying as an index of the city's growth, and the ability of the Central Board to provide therefor. THE OHIO TRAFFIC. The abnormally high staged water in the Ohio at this season lends emphasis anew to the desirability of utilizing waterways. The Dispatch prints to-day some inter esting fact's regarding the river trade. It is worth noting how capable In point of speed and rates, the river' steamer is of com petition with the railroad. A great many shippers are taking advantage of the river route, the opening of which is the more opportune on account of the car famine ex isting on many of the railroads. The lock ing of the Ohio, and the making of the ship canal from Lake Brie to the river would make transportation by water a permanency for Pittsburg Instead of a merely occasional relief. TnE debate about vaccination receives a contribution which the antl-vaccinatlonists will not like from Surgeon Parke, of btanlcy'a expedition. Before the expedition started Sur geon Parke took the precaution of vaccinating a majority of the men. An epidemic oi small pox was met, and. of the vaccinated men, only four took the disease and none died; wblla among the unvaccinated camp followers the disease made great ravages. This seems to be conclusive? but perhaps the antl-vaccinatlonists will still lold on to the ground that tbe vaccinatedjnen suffered greatly from hunger and blistered feet. t)UR SHORT STORIES. HOW ME WORKED THE I0N0GENT8. pHE experienced tram boy was apparently giving instructions to a youth whom he was breaking in as an assistant. In the seat directly in front ot the two sat Mr. and Mrs. Harrison Kerpunk, of Oeorge son's Cross Roads. It was their first trip away from home. "You can gener'ly tell by their looks," said the peanut boy, oracularly, "whether it's eoin' to pay to try to come any little game oyer 'em or not. Bee that chap halt way between hero an' the other end of the cart Well, you conld sell that man a dime novel for SI 0 and rope him in on the dollar-lti-the-box trick just as easy as look at him. You'd be wastln' your time, though, to try andplay any tricks on such people as these two in front of us. They're old travelers. No use to show them anything but what's bang up .genuine an' cheap. If you've got anything that's fresh an' wuth the money, them folks Is the kind of customers to take 'em to the first thing. Snide goods wonU go down with such customers as thorn, I tell you. Well, I must work the train now. Remember what I'vo told you. "That boy is a mighty good judge ot human nature, Jose, isn't te?" said Harrison ;to his wife, after tbe experienced peanut boy baa gone into the forward car to get his basket. "He thought he wasn't talking loud enough for us to bear, but I've got pretty sharp ears. I heard every blamed word he said. "Well, it's a fact, Joso," he added, "It wouldn't be much Use to try any ot his little tricks on me. I've got my eye teeth all cut. Hete he comes. If he's got anything worth buying he'll come straight to us. You see if ho doesn't." And before that peanut boy was done with Mr. Harrison Kerpunk he had sold blm half a dozen prize packages, fireboxes of last year's maple caramels, a dozen sour oranges, three 25-cent books for half a dollar each, unloaded bis entire stock of mouldy figs on him, and cleaned him out of 2 bill on an Innocent little trickjwith a pillbox and gold coin. "Jose." said Harrison, after he had sat looking ont of the car window for about five miles, "durnedif Idon't begin to think he said all that to the other boy on purpose for me to hear it!" RECIPROCITY. "AI"5yona believer in reciprocity, Jonesr asked Brown. "Certainly," replied Jones. ''Don't you know I bought a parrpt last week?" "What has that to do with reciprocity?" "A good deal. My neighbor's dog howls all night, and Polly screams all day." KINZTJA VIADTTCT TO GO. The Fainane Erie Brldgo Found Too Light for thit Traffic. Hornellsyille, N. Y., September 6, Kin zua bridge will soon be a thing of the past. The structure is too light to carry the heavy traffic which is now being done on that division of the Erie, and It is to bo replaced with a detour, "Klnznit viaduct,'' an Erie official said last night, "which spans the gorge of Kinzua creek. Is over 2,000 feet long and is 310 feet above the water. It was built for a single track at a cost of $2S7,000. and consists of 20 fewer, each 10 feet by 88,' Inches at the top and of varying width nt the bottom, the highest being 103 feet by SSU feet at the base. These towers are built of Phoenix Iron columns, in SO foot sections, and connected by internal wrought iron sleeper joints, and is the highest bridge In North America, and, with one exception. In the world. The viaduct was designed to bold a weight of 236 tons, which is equal to a load of 3,075 pounds per lineal foot of track. This via dnct carries a branch of the New York, Lake Erie and Western Railroad from the petroleum fields of Bradford county to the coal fields of Elk connty. It was commenced May 5, 1S82. and completed August 29, 1882, in less than four months. The viaduct for years has been one of the famous bridges ot the world and has been visited and examined br many eminent en clneers and railroad men of this and other countries, and is probably the only bridge in the world which has just about paid for itself in the amount of excursion business it has brought to the road building It" - Councilman Cochran, of Allegheny, thinks free organ recitals in Carnegie Hall are vanity. He would not allow such extravagance if he could help it. But the thousands who en joy the free concerts fortunately have more influence in Councils than Mr. Cochran. The New York Press says that the inves tigation by "the Board of Arbitration In that State, clearly establishes that "the employes of the New York Central Railroad had been dis missed for no other apparent reason or explana tion than that they wpre members of a labor organization." This being directly opposed to the avowed principles of Mr. Chauncey M. Depew, President of that corporation, of course he will hasten hom j from Europe to rectify the transgression of his subordinates. At present, however, the haste is not visible to the public eye. lie view of the returns from Maine, it will probably be concluded that tbe Republi can correspondent who estimated Reed's plu rality in advance at 1,000 will receive a severe rebuke for untimely indulgence in misplaced caution. The report that "Bobert Elsmere" is to be replied to by another work of fiction. Indi cates that some discreet person should quietly but firmly suppress the controversial novel writers. Religions argument In the form of fiction bears too close a resemblance to that class of discussion in which the disputants rely on their imagination for their facta A CONVENIENT COMMISSION. Senator Plumb's amendment to the Tariff bill creating a Customs' Commission secured a majority yesterday in the Senate. The Commission is to examine the operation of the tariff, its effect npon domestic manufact ures and agricultural products, and to sug gest from time to time such changes in the scheme of protection as they may seem de sirable. Senator Plumb's object no doubt is to render it easier to make reductions in the tar ill than by the existing processes. The creation of the commission is not cer tain to secure that or any other good object. Commissions have a fashion of confining their attention to the drawing of their sala ries. The country has about enough com missions of this sort. But the Senate agreed to it, and the House may likewise see the beauty of creating five snug offices with 57,000 salaries, to which disinterested gen tlemen and how nicely that describes a Congressman 1 may be appointed by tbe President, The tendency to increase the cost of government ought not to be encouraged. A PLAGUE of fleas is reported in Wash ington and a similar one in the Harlem suburb of New York City. Tho cuter imtins is evi dently determined to do its best to let two cities of this nation forget the woes of poli tics. Assistant Secretary: op the In terior Bussey is of the opinion that a soldier's dnty may take blm to church. An Union man who broke his leg on his way to church by this ruling obtains a pensiou. It is a curious commentary on our Christianity that this soldier's claim for a pension was once denied. Of course the Democratic talk of unseat ing Speaker Reed in the next House, is only intended as a partisan notification to the coun try that the Democrats can be just as unfair as the Republicans if they get the chance. TnE best estimates of the cotton crop this year make it the largest ever gathered. The apostles of the doctrine that scarcity makes prosperity may now bo expected to condole with the South on its misfortune, while con gratulating fruit growers, who got no crop at all, on their superabundant increase of wealth, "We can bid farewell to tho sweltering summer temperature without a regret or any desire to recall it before next year. The nse of gentian is recommended as a cure for blushing. But a careful Investigation falls to disclose any general need for such a specific If some beneficent herb could be dis covered which will cure tbe disease ot not blushing, it might be found to be of great use In political and financial circles. AN OZARK ROMANCE. '"D'ye lak me, Suer "Pury well, Jim." "How much, d'ye reckonT" "Oh, er good deal." "But how much, now?" "Oh, erlot." "How'd ye lak ter" "Ob. Jim!" "How'd ye know what I war goln' ter say?" "I know'd." "WhatT" "You know." "1 was goln' ter ast ye ef ye'd go er fishin' s'evenin'." "Ye wasn't, nuther." "Yes, I war." "Jim?" "Hmr "Ye don't lak me." "Yes, I uo, a heap." "No, ye don't." "I orter know." "How?"- "Why. Sue. didn't I jlst ast ye ter git ready an'j-" "Ye said ye war goln ter ast me to go er flsh ln'. "Sne?" "What, Jim?" "I dldn'tmean it." "Thon what did ye mean?" "Oh, Sne. quit yer -oolin' an' go ast yer paw." 1 1 UNCONGENIAL, po the astonishment of her friends and re lations, a lady whom we will call Mrs. Smith, returned to her home in a little town not 0 miles from Pittsburg, early last month, at a timo when she was expected to be ex hausting herself and the sights of Kurope with a party of tourists. "Wealthy, in good health and far enough this side of 60 to be fond of sightseeing, Mrs, Smith elected to cross the Atlantic with several friends who were bent upon enlarging their views and contracting their pocketbooks according to the fashiona ble recipe. Nobody knows till he has tried It what a risky business it is to make a partnership for a sea voyace. Many a friendship has been wrecked at se3. Mai de ner is not the only sickness incidental to a sea voyage. So it happened that Mrs. Smith was sick of her companions by tho time the Cnnarder was half across the At lantlc Such a coldness sprung up between her and them that when Liverpool was reached Mrs. Smith announced that she should not con tinue her journey eastward. She took passage on the next steamer for New York, and arrived home a little more than two weeks from the day she started. Her explanation of her sud den return was somewhat perplexing. It was coached epigrammatically, after the fashion of tho Delphic oracle: "It's no good traveling" she said to me, "with people who don't con geal!" NOT A RUNNING VINE. Jfor a lone-distance running from a battle field Rosser'8 famous cavalry charge away from the battloof Cedar Creek is without a parallel in history. Rosser had organized his brigade and called it the "Laurel Brigade." Each man went into the battle with a sprig of laurel in his hat. "When they came out they didn't care whether they ever saw another piece or laurel again. All they wanted was to got as far away from that field as possible, and most of them did. Some of them ran for three days and It took Rosser two weeks to collect his brigade. When be reported to General Early for orders, old Jubal looked at him a minute and then said: "Rosser, you ought to change the name of your brigade. The laurel is not a running vine." WAS HITTING RICH IDLEBS. Kev.W. F. Rlchnrdson Corrects a nllsqaota tlon From Hla Sermon. To the Editor of The Dispatch: Your report of my sermon of Sunday even ing, on "Some Labor Day Lessons," was In the main correot; but it attributes to mo one senti ment which I did not express. I did not apply the words "They toll not, neither do they spin," to tbe presidents or managers of great corpora tions, who are often tho busiest of men; but to rich idlers, who, because they have money in plenty, think themselves free from all obliga tion to do the world any servioe. I asserted that all men, whether rich or poor, onght to be doing something to make the world better. I did say that officials who were mere figure heads, doing no real service, but drawing princely salaries, were guilty of robbing those whose labor earned tho money that nas un justly paid to them. But I just as distinctly as serted that the man who fitted himself, by long labor and careful preparation, for responsible position, was now, and ever would be. entitled to receive the due reward for his superior use fulness. I plead for the rights of man, as man, and used no language which, rightly interpret ed, conld be considered as an attack on cither capital or labor. Please do me tbe favor to allow me these few lines, as I have learned that my discourse was not correctly understood by some of your read ers. Respectfully vours W. F. Richardson. Allegheny, Septembers. SNAPSHOTS IN SEASON. The Shiras men say Justice is Stone blind. There be tricks in every trade. Most of Veil dressed men who patronize the traveling' tailor shops sent to Pittsburg by the bang up New York outfitters imagine that all the ma terials in their nobby suits are the product of English or French ldoms. They are not. One house, with a long line of custom here, operates silk and satin mills In Bethlehem, this State. The plain product of its looms is shipped to France. There it enters a convent. Deft lingered. meek-faCed nuns embroider it. It is then sent back here, made no into fauct vests and proudly borne upon tbe hearts of our cou pon cutters. American silk and satin is su perior to tbe foreign article: but, as American cirls prefer lawn tennis and wheeling to needle work, the finishing touches must be put on abroad. Stone, George Shiras HL The steam shovel can do the work of many men, but it can't vote. Poverty is about the only thing in the World that costs nothing. i Maine remains in line. Fortune tellers who come to Pittsburg can predict with certainty that they will be ar rested. The needlewoman collects rents. Life is a lottery, but New Orleans would be lifeless without tbe lottery. Clouds are the sky's watered stock. The Shiras men who tried to bolt yesterday ran against bolted doors. Laughter is the light opera of life. The arms of the street car conductors go to waist. This is annoying to tbe ladles, who object to being handled like prize packages. Politeness should always be coupled with prudence. Lawsuits cost more than fall suits, and are always cut bias. FTSEIKO COMPETITION. The Alton nnd Rock Island Give Notice of Their Cat Rate. Ciiicaoo, September ft The notices given by the Rock Island and the Alton roads of their intention to put into effect a rate of 10 ccnt3 en wheat and 17 cents on corn from the Missouri river to Chicago, in accordance with the orders of the Inter-State Commerce Com mission, came up for consideration at tbe meet ing of the Western Freight Association to-day. As expected, the members, excepting the two roads named, voted against complying with the order for a reduction. The Alton and Rock Island thereupon gave tho usual ten days' notice that tbe low rates would be put into effect September 19. Tbe other roads can hardly refuse to meet tbe competition of tbo Rock Island and Alton, and the adoption of the Commissioners' tariffs must apparently be general throughout tbe Western territory. Meantime a meeting of general managers will be held to arrange a plan of procedure should the Inter-State Com merco Commission allow the case to be re opened. INVENTORS' TEOUBLES SETTLED. Speaker Beed Maine. made a Manley fight in. ALL the newspaper composing rooms in the country are running out of "Q,'s." and are "sorting up." It's Senator Quay's fault. Terrapin will soon he in the saucepan. A 'writer says tbo Prince of Wales takes a drink of mineral water with a dash of lemon in it before retiring. Hn Ich Dienness prob ably takes something else between drinks. The Investigation Committee Decides Mer genthaler Owns tbe Linotype Patent. .Philadelphia, September ft A decision has jnst been rendered by the Committee on Science and the Arts of the Franklin Institute, of interest to inventors. Some months ago the award of the Elliott Cresson medal was made to Ottmar Mergenthaler for his invention of the linotype, and public announcement made. An appeal was taken by another inventor, and the subject was referred to tbe above named committed After an exhaustive examination and inquiry tbe award to Mr. Mergenthaler has been confirmed. The appeal was based on tbe justifying apparatus STlie committee says that the Raypatent ante dates the invention of the appellant, and adds: "But In the judgment of your sub-committee, even it this claim conld be substantiated, it forms so small a part of tbe extremely ineenius features of tbe Mergenthaler machine that your sub-commltteo would not feel disposed to recommend that the award be set aside." "Wall's station should be a good site for a prison. The summer girl does not object to embraces from sea swells. Over 41,000 newspapers are published in the world. And still we wonder at crime. Does Chief Brown propose to muzzle the Yellow Dog Socials? The willing worker never looks at tbe clock. STONEMASONS FH0M SIX STATES. A LIVELY CONVENTION. The convention in the Twenty-third dis trict, which nominated Colonel Stone yes terday, was true to the precedents of the campaign in winding it np with as lively scenes as any of those which have enlivened the contest from the time that Colonel Bayne withdrew his name from the first conven tion. The warmth of the contest, in a closer district, might contain a threat of further difficulties; but with the large margin that the nominee has to go on, any dissatisfaction that may have been generated is sure to prove innocnous. The canvass has developed unique feat ures heretofore; but none of them have had a more refreshing and unprecedented char acter than the distinguishing feature of this body. We do not know when we have heard of a more amusing development of !.. i.. uuu ucwCe o. pre- catholic institution oricarnlng. was celebrated ventmcr a bolt by closine the doors and to-dav uv tbo alumni of the imtitntinn. A keeninir the kickers imnrisoned until tho large number or visitors were presenr. Inci i.eeping me jucuers imprisoned nnm tne dent to thejoccaslou was an address by Rt.Bev. If the Maine Democrats expected to see a Reed shaken by the wind, they were mis taken. The premium is vanishing from the oil produced in the oil regions of this vicinity be cause the competition for its purchase bas been wiped out. If the producers put their proposed Independent pipe lines and refineries into oper ation the premium will come back again with all its pristine vigor. You may lock a bolter in the hall, if you will, but the aroma of bolting will bang round him still. The Arizona Kicker has been evolved in this country as a burlesque product of the imagination; but that Wbistler-Moore row in Eneland seems to have been got np especially to demonstrate that what Is only Imaginary here sinks in Europe to the commonplace of reality. THE UFE SAVING DEVICE. The T Rail Cbalr Will be Manufactured in Pitubursr, rsrxcui. TiMtonAjf to toe dispjltck.i Mansfield Valley, September ft Tho owner of the new llfo saving device, called the Trail chair, is completing arrangements with Holland & Co, ot Pittsburg, to enter at once Into Its manufacture, and will produce them in opposition to the old fish plate and ancle bar. Many railroad people from Pittsburg, Chicago and other places are here daily to iuspeot the patent. Celebrated by Many. .frECIAL TELEGftAX TO TnE prtPATOlt.t Wheeling. September 9, The twenty-fifth anniversary of Mr. Pe Chantal, the well-known PECULIAR PROHIBITION. 'T'HE stage has Its bine laws, and one of them forbids drinking In tho green room, or in fact behind tho curtain. It Is a rule that every-manager tries to enfnrce, and nearly every actor tries to break. When "The Black Flag" was running at Nlblo's Garden in New York Ed Tborne and Nat Goodwin smuggled a basket of wine to the lattcr'a dressing-room and had cracked a bottle or two when Manager Poole walked in. -" Tborne and Goodwin were both tolerably large-sized stars, and Mr. Poole did not like to jump on them too hard. All the same be said: "Gentlemen! Gentlemen! This will never do! It's against the" "Py gracious," interrupted Goodwin, -take a glass with us," and the comedian's persuasive powers mastered Poole. He drank two or three glasses and mellowed perceptibly. "Boys." ho said finally, "you mustn't bring champagne back here -again. Mind me. now. no more champagne. Stick to whisky. You'll get quicker action for your money." HTBTH AND MEEEIMENT National Convention of the Gnlld In Session In Maryland. Baltimore, September 9. Now York, Penn sylvania, Ohio, Missouri, Colorado and Mary land are tho States represented In tbe National Convention of btonemasons now holding in this city. The purpose of tbe convention is to organize a Stonemasons' National Union, when tbe stonemasons will abandon the Brick layers and Masons International Union of tbo United States and Canada. The local unions represented here have already abandoned tho International Association. George J, Jones, of Pittsburg, Is the general socretary and arranged for tho present con vention. Tho next convention, it is expected, will be made up of delegates from all the States. A Dclnmnler Meeting Friday. fSPECIAI. TELEOHAK TO THE DISPATCH.' Mansfield Vallet. Pa., September 9. Hon. G. W. Delamater will address the sup porters of tho G. O. P. at the Armory, on Fri day nlgnt, on aiary street, ae win do tne guest of J. A. Bell, the Republican nominee for County Treasurer. PEOPLE EN GENEBAL. At a WcddinB Anniversary Celebrated at Sbadyslde Lnat Ercnlnxr. The charming home o! Mr. and Mrs. John G. A. Leishman, Bldwell street, Shadyslde. was a scene of mirth andmerriment last evening. The occasion was tbe tenth wedding anniversary of the very popular gentleman and his Interesting wife, and, with a select few of their most inti mate friends, they celebrated it with an ele gantly appointed dinner. Covers were laid for 20 guests, and daintily de signed souvenirs laid beside them. Tbe evening; was spent in social converse and merry remin lsences. Wedded In Oakland. A very pretty wedding, privately celebrated last evening, was that of Miss Annie L. Barber daughter of Mr. George P. Barber, of Meyran avenue, Oakland, and Mr. William Lone of Toledo, O. Red Men in Gotham. New York, September ft The annual meet ing of the United States Grand Lodce of tho Independent Order of Red Men began here this morning, some 200 delegate's being present. The lodge will he in session for two days. convention was over. The old proverb Bishop Kain, and a banquet at noon. t They Aro In the Hub. Boston, September 9. The Great Council of the. improved Orc"e of Red Men is In mtlnn.t sesMonJierc to-day. Edward V. Valentine, the Richmond sculptor, Is now giving the finishing touches to bis statuo of tbe late General Williams C. Wickham. Sir Arthur Sullivan, the composer, is spending the autumn at his pretty riverside house on the English river Wcy, not far from Sbepperton. Me. C. P. Huntinton has given a fine tract of land to tho city of Newport News, Va., for school purposes and proposes also to erect suit able buildings thereon. The statuo of General Sucre, tbe Venezue Ian, recently executed by Scnlptor Turin!, of Staten Island, arrived at Cnmana, Venezuela, August 15, and is to be unveiled October IS. Queen Christina, of Spain, has telephonic communication established between her room and tbe Madrid Opera House, in order that she may enjoy the opera without having to appear before tbe public General Alejandro Yearra, Inspector General of tbe Venezuelan army.is at tbe Hoff man House, New York. His wife is the daugh ter of the late American Minister at Caracas, Judge Thomas Russell, of Boston. . Lord Tennyson Is said to have recited'-The Charge of the Light Brigade" and the "Odo on the Death of Wellington" into a phonograph, so that tbe vibrant melodies of his voice may be beard 'In summers that we shall not see." Mr. John La Faroe, the artist, has made another hurried departure for the far Orient, along with Mr. Henry Adams, of Wasbincton. This time it is not Japan, but tbe Polynesian Islands of tbo Pacific, which they are visiting lu a yacht. James M. Turner, whom tbe Republicans of Michigan havo nominated for Governor, is several times a millionaire and yet a farmer. He lives on a 2.000-acre farm near Lansing, runs a dairy of 3.0J0 cows and has a large quan tity of fancy stock, including a kennel of dogs. Bishop Potter, who went to Europe a few weeks ago, worn out by overwork. Is much re juvenated by his trip. It is thought that some thing may be done at the coming Episcopal Diocesan Convention whloh meets at the end of this month in regard to getting an assistant for the Bishop. Gladstone and Balfour detest tobacco and will not deign to lend countenance to the habit by even a glance into tho "smokcroom" of the House of Commons. On tho other hand, La bonchere,BradIaugh,Lord Randolph Churchill, Sir William Harcourt and Mo Chamberlain are almost constant habitues. - Parnell drops in once a day for a small cup of coffee and a-very mild cigar. Are the people who play the horses at Sbeepshead Bay muttnnheads? Hunting dogs point with pride. Marie Bashktrtseff wrote: "I like soli tude before a mirror." Well, Mary, if Eve had possessed a mirror and kept a diary she would have written the very same thing. If we were all rich who would do the chores? "Annie Laurie" is. 200 years old. She jilted the fellow who made her famous and married a man named Ferguson. Annie wouldn't sell herself for a song. Clubs were trumps at the Stone-Shiras con vention yesterday. They were not used on Stone men, though. If yon miss the first train you can catch the next on;. But if yon miss an opportunity you get left. The Shakers should remonstrance against taxing quinine. The new-fangled electric nickle-In-the-slot camera will probably produce a shocking picture. If it were harder to get married perhaps di vorces would not bo so easy. The hand that rocks the cradle propels the plate. English speculators are after the American nurseries. Now the babies will kick. An incubator is an egg plant. Veterans who lost their feet in tbe war 'make the most effective stump speakers. And the politicians work them for all they are worth. Variety performers are scarce. A local manager tells me it is almost impossible to se cure good entertainers for the vaudeville stage. Tbe clever class combine and monopolize tbe theaters built for toe legitimate, leaving only the raw and the poorer stock to choose from. The short circuit, covering Boston, New York, and Philadelphia, also claims the cream of the profession. The manager named several fine performers who have never crossed the Alle glicnles. Later in the season, however, when the drama will draw, some of tbe variety per formances will have to be given where they be long. There seems to be lots of room on the specialty boards for clever people. BALLOTS ND PRIZES. PROGRAMME FOR THE OPENING DAYS AT THE EXPOSITION THIS WEEK. Cast Yonr Ballots ou Ptpalar Topics Thrfe Prises far Writers A Chance for Think er to Maks Home I'in Money and Go oo Record. The Topical Voting Inaugurated by TheDis patch at its Exposition headquarters In the Brnnswick-Baike-Collender Company's billiard exhibit space, has met with popular favor. For the opening days of this week THE DISPATCH suggests the topics given herewith for tbe suffrages of the visitors. Voto Aye or Day on tho following: WEDNESDAY'S VOTING TOPIC. Do yon favor or oppose a law compelling tele graph, telephone, electric light and electric car companies to place all wires under ground? Open to lady and gentlemen voters. Register your vote for or against in the Poll Book at Dispatch Headquarters. Watch The Dispatch for topical voting an nouncements in which yon aro interested. ThU Week'- Prize .ny Offer. The Prize Essay contest this week is open to all writers except those regularly employed on the staffs of Pittsburg newspapers. Prizes will be awarded for the best article on "The Benefits of the Exposition to Pttts buro." For the best contribution on the above topic The Dispatch will award a prize of TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS. For tho Second Prize The Dispatch Will award Ten-Dollar Gold Piece. For the Third Prize lint Dispatch will award a Five-Dollar Gold Piece, the conditions. Each article must make at least 1,200 and not more than 1.500 words. Competitions must be written legibly, on one side of the paper only, and must be labeled, "The Dispatch Prize Essay Contest." Contributions must be left at The Dispatch Headqnarters,Brunswick-Balke-CoUenderCo.'s space. Exposition Buildings. Correct name, address aud age of contestant must accompany MSS., name only for publica tion if successful. The Dispatch reserves the right to publish any contribution, whether it be awarded a prize or not. The Prize Essay Contest for this week will close with the Exposition on Saturday night. Septembers Souvenirs for Lady Voters. Watch these columns for future prize offerings and topical voting announcements. TITLES AT A DISCOUNT TTTrRTH, CDKI0US C0NDEKSATI0KS. Experience That Make riilibnrsers Shy of the Arlstocrncr. From the New York Btar.l "I don't think that any more of our Pittsburg girls want to marry European titles." said a prominent lawyer from the Iron City to me last night, at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. "Everyone is familiar with themlsfortunes of poor Virginia Knox, who married the psendo Italian, Count dl Montercole, and was beaten by blm in Paris while on their wedding trip. The affair was freshened up in our minds at home this week by tbe appearance In Pittsburg of the Hon. Francis Rawle, the well-known Philadelphia lawyer, who had charge of the estate ot the late Mr. Knox, father of the un fortunate Counters. Mr. Rawle is also counsel for Mrs. Knox and her daughter, and while in Pittsburg, was quietly securing evidence for use in a suit for divorce, which will be bronght against Dl Montercole by tbe Countess In a short time. She is living in stuct seclusion with ber mother near Philadelphia. "The other 'horrible example' held up for a warning to our susceptible and ambitious maidens fa that of thn Karnnpn T.ierfaU Tl, Baron had a right to bis title. Ho really came of anoble and highly honorable Swedish family, and his Uncle is on thA nrttnnAl ntntr nf thA King. The Baron himself held a commission in the Swedish army. Ho came to Pittsburg uuu i.aii jrwH i;u iu iansuj, xie enagea in business, alone with the duties or bis office. and three or four years ago married Miss Jennie Doty, of Steubenville, a girl well known In PIttsbnrg, where she was educated at the Pitts burg Female College. Her father was rich, and she was handsome and accomplished, and the wedding made a stir In society circles. The Baron, for the last two years, bas been specu lating. It bas been found that bis affairs were In very bad shape, and that he was a forger to a large amount in certain stocks. At first it was thought tbac his defalcations would only amount to about $20,000 or $23,000, but last week attorneys in the case told me that they would amount to 100,000 at least. The Baroness, who by the way. is a most estimable woman, is at ber fatber's home nearly heart broken, but tbe HaWltl'l UfllA.a.linnta twm nnt-nn..n f t ........... !-".- w.biwuu.a m.b uuniiunu. V I.UU1SO the same misfortunes might have come to these youn lames 11 tne Bridegrooms had been Americans with no other titles than 'Mister bat the titles give the case much more promi nence. Taken with tho blooming 'younger son' of some British Lord or other, who worked his way Into all the Pittsburg clubs and into tbe best society circles, about four years ago, they hare had some pretty good lessons," A Fair riiuburo-World's Fair Mnnatier. Tbe act of Congress creating the World's Fair Commission provided for the appointment of a "Board of Lady Managers." The commis sion at first fixed tho number of managers at one for each commissioner and an alternate. William McClellann. of Pennsylvania, has named Miss Mary E. McCandless, of Pittsburg, as a Jady manager, with Mrs. Nellie B. Plumer, of Franklin, as alternate. Miss McCandless resides on Winebiddle avenue. A talkative girl is a wind-lass. If Harrison lingers much longer at Cresson he will be subjected to cold stares. Honied words generally conceal a sting. THE mantle of Christian charity should be thrown over the dead body of Judge Chris tiancy. John L. Sullivan is an orphan. He can take care of himself, however. Coopers can whoop it up. THE switchman who shows the wrong signal Is as dangerous as the little gun that wasn't loaded. Adam and Eve were tbe first gardeners. Clumsy-footed folk who tread on ladies' dresses are train wreckors. THE BE3ULT IN MAINE. they All men are not liars simply because are not all fishermen. There's fun in a funeral after all. Yon get it in the first syllable. TnE Broncho Is a new waltz for next winter. It should bo popular with cowboys. The news from Maine is good Reeding for Republicans. It's a cold day when tbe sun Is shut out. You can judge a man by the rine of his voice. If birds could talk they wouldn't sing. Willie Winkle. THE DESIGN SELECTED For tbe Grant Monomelic, la be Constructed at Rlrcrlde Fnrk. rpyriA.i.TXLoijm to TnnmiPATcn.1 New York, September 9. The sub-committee of tbe Grant Monument Association held another secret meeting this morning in the flat placed at their disposal by Mr. Knox, one ot their number at No. 210 Fifth 'avenue. After deliberating far some time, the sub-commltteo selected the design of John H. Duncan, and will recommend to the lull committee that It be definitely and finally accepted as the design for the Grant monument, subject to any change or alteration of tho plans that may be suggested by tbe committee. The full committee will meet at tbo same place Thursday alternaon at 3 o'clock. Tbe sub-committee also -decided to-day to place all tbe designs tney have received for 'the monu ment on exmnuion eany next wees. Buffalo Exprett (Rep.): Democracy did not overestimate the importance of the result. Mr. Reed's overwhelming victory is not only an omen, bat an earnest of tho similar indorse ment which awaits bis party In 1832. Cleveland Leadtr (Rep.): All tbe world loves a lover, but It loves a good fighter, too, and every Republican will rejoieo to know that the gallant Republican leader will go back to the House with tbe biggest majority be ever received, hundreds in excess of bis phenom enal majority In 1883, and that Maine's delega tion to tbe House will be solidly Republican. New York Tribune (Rep.): Maine, truo to its motto, points tbe way to a general Repub lican triumph in November. Without the em phasis which a full vote from its political re serves adds to Its verdict in a Presidental year, it has registered with unmistakable di rectness and decision its approval of tbe great measures enacted by a Republican Congress. Cincinnati Commercial (Rep.): Mr. Reed's majority in the last previous election was not so great as to enable him to read his title per fectly clear to success in this, and certain in fluences were at work that indeed caused some approhenslon among bis friends. The Repub lican party can congratulate itself on the re sult. Mr. Reed could not well be spared from Congress, Baltimore Sun (Dem.): The methods by which he has managed to retain bis majority will probably be revealed in the coarse of time, and If Mr. Reed's enemies are to be trusted, it may be shown that bis triumph has been due to devices and practices that would not be toler ated in any Southern Congressional district, and that are far worse than the alleged evils at which the force bill was aimed. Indianapolis JournaJ (Rep.): Never was a great political victory more timely and more emphatic than that of the Maine Republicans. It will prove a bugle blast to the Republicans of tho whole land. It will fill every Republican heart with the old-fashioned Republican zeal and Inspire the whole party la every Northern State with a purpose which will elect a Repub lican House in November. New York Hrald (Ind.): The result is at tributed to a falling off in tbe Democratic rather than a gain in tbe Republican vote. While the campaign of tbe Democrats was marked by apatby the Speaker made a vigor ous cauvass, and his work has proved effective. Tbe election means more than the return of Reed to tho next House. The country Is now likely to hear much of his name in connection with the next Senatorship and, perhaps, even the Presidency. Philadelphia Timet (Ind.): Speaker Reed is to be congratulated on the success of his efforts to avert tbe party disaster that was threatened by tbo wavering of Vermont. By his own and his friends' hard work, with the aid of a well-organized machine, be has appar ently succeeded in holding his Stato to nearly its ordinary majority and has securea his own re-election by a larger plurality than two yeari J as". A disease known as blind staggers is carrying off a great many horses In Florida. Eev. Henry Itooninger officiated at tho second marriage of his mother last week at Bethlehem, Pa. Millionaire James Bobinson,ofPhocenIz, Ariz bas at last found time to attend sight school, so that to his other possessions he may add the ability to read and write. Death from sea sickness is.so very rare that the case of Mrs. James Price, of Toronto, attracts attention. 8ho never recovered from tne nausea Induced by a trip on the great lakes. A man in Banks county, Ga., entered a negro church while services were going on, and i?i5a.1d.e5 th? nraacber to stop. He was ar rested and fined for disturbing public worship. The theory that good apples cannot be grown in the South seems to be disproved. Apples 10 and 12 inches in circumference are Florida? far,owara ,he equator as Southern Blackening the nose and cheeks nndp the eyes bas been found an effecual preventive of snow blindnes or the Injurious effect of the glare lrom illuminated snow upon eyes un accustomed to it. " ' J. H. Spangler, of Fontana, Lebanon county, three years ago brought a sprout of a banana tree from Florida and planted it. It has grown to a height of 12 feet and has leaves 5 feet long. A vessel recently reported in a Belgian paper as bound for the west coast of Africa had aboard 11 missionaries. 60 tons of gun powder. 11 cases of gin and 10 cask of rum. An unusually large proportion of missionaries. Mrs. Penschower, of Cloverdale, CaL, has raised a sunflower this year that breaks all records. The stock is 8 inches In diameter at the ground, it stands 12 feet high, and tha flower measures 8 feet around the outer edge. Nelly Thorpe, of Santa Maria valley, CaU is an expert with the rifle. She bronght down a largo eagle recently that was hovering over her chicken yard, and her latest trophy la the pelt of a huge wildcat that was sneaking on the same plan for a chicken salad. A Georgia editor in resigning a country postofiice writes:: "The receipts for the last month have been S6 40; the rent. . and the clerk hire 21Q. Hnlnf-A nmnrfir a j4n - - r, v.v...... n w VW.UU longer give our consent to hold office under a Republican administration, hence we resign." A painter named Bellebon was acei dently killed at Colquitt, Ga., one day last week while carrying a hoavy piece of timber on his shoulder. While taking tbe piece from a wagon he stumbled and fell, and the timber falling upon his neck, broke It, producing al most Instant death. Louise Garnet, of Pullman,!!!., issuing Horace F. Medbury, of Providonce, R.I..for 218,000 loaned blm while they were engaged to be married. Medbury, it is alleged, used the money to such good advantage that he became a rich man and then refused to carry out the marriage contract. Tbe Japanese books begin where onrt end. the word finis, coming where we put tha .ltle page; the foot notes are printed at the top of the page, and the reader pats In his marker at the bottom. The best rooms of a Japanese house are always at the back, and architects, when building, begin with tbe roof. A day or two ago a gentleman who waa visiting his laboratory, and whose son was about to enter npon bis first employment, asked Edi son to give him a motto for tbe boy. so that he imKiibuairoib39 a sumuias ana guiae. .air. Edison laughed a little at tbe novel request, then said: "Well, I'll give him this: 'Never look at the clock.'" Mrs. Esther Haddock, mother of John Haddock, who lives near Clarksville. Ga., was out where someof the family were feeding hogs, when an old sow suddenly ran at a small shoat, and picking it np on her snont threw it with considerable force against Mrs. Had dock, striking her just below the ankle and breaking her leg; Mrs. Haddock is nearly 80 years old. James Mossey. a veteran of the war, died a few days ago at Nebraska City. A few years ago be applied for a pension on account of a wound be received at Fort Donelson. His application was rejected, as no mark or wound could be found on bis head, where be claimed to havo been shot. After bis death a post mortem was held and a large buckshot was louna lmueuaou in ms Drain. The police raided the premises of John Westrop on Esex street. Springfield, securing a quantity ot liquor. The intoxicants were con cealed in a hen coop, and the only interference the officers enconntercd in obtaining them was from the fowls, who guarded their roost with. as muchrperslstency as a sentinel would guard a fort. The feathers flew, however, and the chorus ot cacklers very much disturbed the usual Sunday morning quiet. A singular affair has occurred at To ronto. Tho wedding suit of John Crelghton. a lawyer, which costs nearly S10Q, and was paid for and ready to leave the tailor's shop, and which bad been attached by a woman for the payment of a debt, was sold at auction last week. Tho highest bid was 18 SO from the tailor who made it. The claim, which was over U0, Is. therefore, not yet liquidated. Crelghton was absent on his vacation and Is not yet mar ried. Tbe incident bas caused a great deal of local gossip. A small boy living in Ventura, Cal.f went out Into a vacant lot and stood npon his head. This is as natural a position for a small boy to assume as any other, but in this instance, unfortunately, the lad was not sufficiently careful In choosing bis cround, for in putting down bis head he placed it directly npon the body of a large gopher snake that chanced to be taking a sun bath just there, A small boy Is very heavy sometimes, and the snake was irri tated. Quick as a dash it slid out from under the boy's bead, and turning bit him directly npon the lower Up. The wound was painful, although not at all dangerous. There are about 300 hands employed at tbe Mint of Yeddo. Japan. "When the men en ter in the morning, they are made to divest themselves of their own clothes, and put on others belonging to the Mint. At the end of a day's work a gong sounds, when the somewhat curious spectacle is presented of 300 men springing from the ground on which they have been seated, throwing off tbetr clothes, and rushing, a naked throng, to one end of the yard. Here they pass through the following ordeal in order to prove that tbey have no silver on them: Their back bair is pulled down and examined, they wash their hands and bold them np to view, they drink water, and then hallo, and lastly they run to tbe other end of the yard, clearing two or three hurdles on their way. aft er which performance they are allowed to go to their lodgings. AUTUMNAL LAUGHTER. Principal of Girls' Boarding School (to her bntcherl From to-morrow you can send me three pounds of meat less than the usual quantity. "Have yon last some of yoar boarders?" 'No; but roar of tbe girls have lallcn In love." Batter Kactiriclitm. After the "Wedding He "What are you crying lor, love? She Over papa's wedding present! boo-hoo. He Why. what Is the matter with It? She It's nothing bat a receipted bill for the ca we nsed ud during oar couitihlp.2turttngton lrtt Prett. "Let me see," said Bjenkins. musingly; "what was It I was going to take home to-night?" "Perhaps It was a horse car," said his pretty stenographer, saucily. Somtrville Journal. "Do you believe in healing by tonch?" asked Miss DePrlce. Indeed I do." replied DeBlaltes. "I met Tom Tlgbtpinca to-day limping along and complain ing of the gout. I touched him for a five and be skipped off as thonzh he bad never been 111 day inhlsllfe."CAica$ro Timet. "My wife beats meabertime she gits mad, boss. Can't nofflu be done." 'I'll give her a good scolding. Uncle Ben, and perhaps she'll do better nexttlme." "llo better? W'y, boss she kin do It well 'nnff. Wat 1 want Is fer her ter qnlt alter gether." Husband Mv bnsiness is increasing so that I shall bare to get an amanuensis light away. "Wife Get a typewriter If you like, John; but remember. If you are to have an amauaensls. It must be an amanuensis with a strong accent on the "man.1' SomervtlU JournaL Alpine Guide Here at this cross is the place where the gnlde Peter fell and was killed, llon'tyoawantto five me a lit Je money for hit poor wife and cnildren? "Oh, yes; but how is it that yesterday on the other side of the mountain they showed us a eras for the same guide?" "That Is all right; that Is for the travelers who go up the other side." Flitatnt Blattttr, THE CHAPERONS SY8TKX. She' my Annie I'm her J02; ahe'i my sweetheart, I'm her beau. Sooa we'll marry, 3 hen we wilt part Old cfaaper Kooney , From my sweetheart. Wathlngton Sari ( i-4i -rf&if'rii lJtid
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