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NEW MARKETS FOR PITTSBUUO.
Every Pittsbnrger who has the interest
and advancement of the city at heart should
read what The Dispatch prints elsewhere
concerning the Erie Ship Canal project.
The Canal Commission has carried its in
vestigation of the subject to a
point from which the feasibility,
as well as the wonderful benefit,
of the canal is clearly in view. Mr. Good
win's report upon the various surveys made
indicates the peculiar advantages of what is
known as the Beaver-Shenango route, and
we presume that this route will be the one
recommended finally by the commission.
The members of the commission are to he
congratulated upon the zeal and intelli
gence with which they have prosecuted their
labors, and we trnst that the canal project
will fare as well when it passes into the
hands of the Legislature this winter.
Colonel Roberts demonstrates in these
columns to-day, perhaps more clearly than
ever belore, the wonderful benefit a ship
canal between the Ohio and the lakes would
be to Pittsburg. Tne logic of his facts is
irresistible. If, under existing conditions,
Pittsburg manages to sell a million tons of
coal in Canada, if a Pittsburg coal man is now
sending coal by rail and through the Well
and canal to the Dominion, and in spite of
the heavy freight charges and the toll at
the Welland canal, can undersell the
Canadian article, what could prevent an
immense expansion of Pittsburg's market
for her coal if an all-water route were ex
tended to her? Hot only for coal, but foriron
and steel and glass and the rest ofPittsburg's
manufactures, new markets in the West
and Northwest, on almost all sides of us
would come with the canal. To-day Pitts
burg is unable to take full advantage of her
gigantic resources. The water-link from
the river to the lakes is what Pittsburg
wants more than any other thing. This
city can go yctj much higher if her citizens
will but take a hearty interest in the canal
project.
THE TARIFF BILL, MOVES.
The tariff bill passed the Senate yester
day, and as that body straightway appointed
Its conferees, the final passage of the bill is
in sight.
The McKinley bill has been changed con
siderably since the Senate took hold of
it, and the House conferees will probably
insist upon the restoration of certain parts
of the schedule on metals, glass, etc. In any
case the tariff bill is likely to be sent to the
President without much more delay. The
country is deeply interested in securing the
establishment of the tariff as soon as pos
sible. A SEED OK INSTRUCTION". .
The investigation into the Pension
Bureau has developed two points which go
far toward justifying Congressman Cooper's
call for the probing.
In the first place it brought out the dis
covery that Congressman Smyser, a stock
holder in Eaum's company, the operations
in the shares of which formed one of the
chief subjects of investigation, was unable
to perceive any impropriety in sitting as a
judge in the case, and had to be crowded
off by the request of his party associates.
In the next place it established by the
testimony f Itaum and Lemon that neither
of them taw any impropriety in the latter's
indorsement of the former's note for a large
sum the day after Itaum had made the
order which Lemon suggested and which
Itaum's next subordinate declared to be ob
jectionable. This is compared by the con
servative Philadelphia Ledger to be like
the case "of a judge who borrows money
from a litigant before his court," and this is
in entire harmony with Smyser's attitude.
Whether Cooper makes out his charge
that the refrigerator stock was unloaded on
the Tension Office employes or not, he has
certainly made it plain that the Itanm-Smyser-Lemon
crowd are in urgent need of
some primary instruction on the limits of
official decency.
TIIE VITALITY OF TIIE ALLIANCE.
The fact that Governor Gordon and Dr.
Felton, of Georgia, have made heed against
the sub-treasury scheme of tne Farmers
Alliance together with some other indica
tions of dissent from that policy in agricul
tural sections, causes the New York Sun
to declare that the Farmers' Alliance has
got its death blow. "For a short term of
feverish excitement," says the Sun, the
idea rippled over their imagination that
they had formed a party of the political
cohesion which comes from an intelligible
an3 promising purpose; but this notion
vanished at the first sign of opposition to
the sub-treasury bill. The fun is over, but
no one is hurt."
Thill may be premature with regard to the
extinction ot the sub-treasury delirium, but
it can by no means be accepted with regard
to the more soundly based and important
purposes of the Alliance. The Sun's prompt
ness in pronouncing the funeral announce
ment of the Alliance takes the attitude that
there was nothing to it but the sub-treasury
idea. That is a mistake. The scheme ot
government warehouses for the receipt of
agricultural products and the loaning of
money on them, was the vagary of a
popular movement which was based
on actual needs. The plan was the
joint product of the tendency toward class
legislation and the inflation error. So soon
as public men summoned up the stamina to
take position against it, its manifest weak
ness would be Eure to cause its ultimate de
feat; although it is by no means sure that
more may not be heard of it in Georgia pol
itics before Gordon and Felton finally can
sver that it is laid in its grave.
But with the sub-treasury scheme put
aside, the Farmers' Alliance will still have J
a large number of legitimate and important
functions to perforin. These are not only
the educational and cooperative wort of
the grangers, but they include the union of
farmers for aiding and protecting their in
terests. The crushing defeat which the
alliance gave to the jute bagging combina
tion is an.eridence of its Talue that will
ensure it against dissolution, because one
of its ill-considered exuberances is cut off.
"Whererer there is anything in the prevail
ing commercial or financial methods of the
day that prejudices the interests of the
farmers, there is legitimate work for an or-
ganization like the Farmers' Alliance. Until
capital abjnres the formation of trusts and
pools,and middlemen seek exorbitant profits
by excessive prices, the Alliance or its
equivalent will commend the support of the
farmers in the effort to abate these nuisances.
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It would not be strange if that union of
agricultural interests might attain strength
enough to cure the evil ot cut-throat mort
gages by devising methods of loaning
money on agricultural security at reasona
ble rates.
It is certainly too soon to proclaim toe
demise of the Farmers' Alliance. Even in
its wildest form it was not so offensive an
example of class legislation and special
privileges as corporation Senators, or the
trusts which shape tariff bills to suit their
own interest. "With its vagaries corrected
by experience and discussion it will prove
one of the greatest instrumentalities in cor
recting tendencies which contain a perma
nent threat to popular welfare.
MUNICIPAL REFORM.
President Andrew D. "White, as a result
of his study of municipal systems abroad
and his experience of those at home, sub
mitted to the recent social science Congress
his plan for securing the better administra
tion of the city governments in the United
States. Beyond the statement of the truism
which every intelligent man recognizes,
but which few have the backbone to insist
on in the face of the politicians, that
national issues should not be carried into the
government of cities, President White's
plan consists of two features: A Board of
Control with the exclusive authority to grant
franchises and to make municipal expendi
tures, to be elected by vote of the property
holders onK, and the election of a Mayor
and Board of Aldermen for the other
functions of the city government, to be
elected on a general ticket, instead of
electing the latter by wards. ,
The idea that a higher degree of consci
entiousness and economy would be secured
if the municipal body controlling public
expenditures was elected by the property
holders alone, is very general among a
certain class of theoretical reformers,
and is not altogether without foundation.
It is true that the citizens who
pay rent are nearly as much interested in
honest administration and judicious expen
ditures, as those who owu the houses; but
the failure to realize these qualities does not
come home to them so directly in the form
of increased taxes. The idea of improving
municipal expenditure by establishing a
property qualification, might be worth con
sidering, if it did not involve the surrender
of objects that are more important, that is,
the interesting of all citizens in the adminis
tration of public affairs and especially in
the interest of their own city; the encourage
ment of the legitimate ambition of participa
ting in public matters on the part of the
humblest and poorest; and the plain assurance
in municipal as well as national business that
the government is on eof the people and by
the people. Upon the accepted American
plan, if the popular vote makes municipal
government wasteful and extravagant, it is
better that the people shall suffer the penalty
than that they shall be restrained from par
ticipating in the government of their city.
The proposal to have a Board of Alder
men elected on a general ticket instead of
by wards is predicated on the assumption
that where a ticket is pu. up for the vote of
an entire community, the character of the
candidates will be better than where a can
didate is put up in each ward or district.
It is questionable if the assumntion is borne
out by the facts. The character of a whole
is determined by the character of its con
stituent parts. If a majority of the wards
in a city will elect bad representatives we
may be sure that a candidate put up to
carry the whole city will have the same
character. If a majority will elect good
candidates the need for the change disap
pears. As a matter of fact, it has by no
means been the rule that the misgoverned
cities have secured a higher character in
their Mayor or other officials elected on the
general ticket than the average of the Coun
cils. President White's change in the
cities most imperatively in need of reform
would be likely to result in the elimination
from the Councils or Aldermanic boards of
the reformatory minority which now serve
as a check on misrule.
The reliance upon a change of methods
for reforming the evils of democratic gov
ernment, evinced by this plan, makes it
pertinent to say that all plans are futile
which do not base their expectation of
reform on the enlightenment and education
of the people. If that is secured the reform
will come, no matter how public officials
are elected. If public influences foster ig
norance and recklessness among the people
these qualities will have their effect in the
government no matter what forms are de
vised to prevent it. It will be much better
than to disfranchise the non-property
holding class,and not much more difficult, to
carry out the democratic intentions of the
government to encourage every citizen to be
a property holder. It will realize a much
more thorough and lasting reform to so
educate every citizen on the effects of
municipal extravagance and corruption that
he will always vote in favor of honest gov
ernment than it will to make some shift in
the forms of election, through which the
character of the electorate will be sure to
make itself felt
In other words, what we need is not re
forms in methods and forms, so much as
a change in social tendencies. Let the In
fluences which are concentrating wealth at
the cost ot ignorance and poverty among
the masses be checked, and the fundamental
intention of republican institutions will
assert themselves. Let them keep on, and
the misgovernment of American cities will
be among the least of the evils that follow.
A NEW TEST FOR MR. REED.
It will be a surprise if the country is not
treated to more sensational scenes in the
House of Representatives. The Democrats
filibustered successfully yesterday. Not a
stroke of work was done, and the consider
ation of the Langston-Venable election case
never passed beyond the threshold of
debate. The temporary Speaker, Mr.
Burrows, even found some difficulty in
counting a quorum, and the recall of Bepnb
lican members who are busy conciliating
their constituents is thought to be necessary.
Speaker Beed may effect a change in the
situation. Any lingering doubts about the
rectitude of his wonderful rules which he
may have had were dissipated by the dawn
of victory in Maine. If Mr. Beed does'not
evolve some new 'and startling method
ot keeping as well as getting a quorum in
the House we shall be surprised.
TIIE REMEDY FOR BAD DEBTS.
A communication appears in the New
York Sun defending the course of a firm
which got into trouble by sending dunning
postal cards throngh the mails with notices
beaded "The Beat." The writer pleads the
cause of the people who resort to that sort of
thing, in the following way:
Why should it be illegal to put a dan, even
J though a sharp and stinging one, on a postal
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card or envelope? If a business man sends a
postal or other open notice to anon-paying cus
tomer and that person considers it defamatory,
why not let him get, his remedy throngh the
conrtsT Should the law protect dishonest
debtors? If the postal laws were not so strict
in this matter it would be possible to collect
from debtors who, under existing conditions,
will not pay, especially!! the amount U too small
to sne for.
The reason why the law should prevent
such a use of the mails, is that it is resorted
to simply for spite. Whether the debtor is
dishonest or unfortunate makes no difference
in the use of the mails. Debtors have a
right to protection against the use of that
public agency to vent personal spite" on
them just as inhch as they have the right to
protection in their other rights of citizenship.
To hold that because a man has not paid a
bill therefore his creditor has a right to
pursue him with postal cards calling
him a "beat" is just the same sort of logic
as if the creditor should claim that for the
same reason he has the right to kick and
beat the debtor if he meets him on the street.
Beyond the rights of the individual the
postal service has the right to protect itself
against being made the vehicle of manifest
venom.
The idea that such a petty pursuit of
debtors is justifiable, is based upon the plea
that the creditor has no other way of self
protection. Where he has permitted his
hunger for trade to lead to bad debts that is
true; but in the first place all tradesmen
have it within their power to keep bad
debts off their books. In this case the man
who will sell to a customer without any
knowledge as to his reliability, deserves to
lose the account. Where credit is not
based on thorough guarantees of responsi
bility, the resort to the system of cash on
delivery is the obvious one.
Tradesmen who wish to keep up an un
satisfactory credit system on the basis of
collecting debts by the pressure of libelous
postal cards, generally have some illegiti
mate gains in that unique method of carry
ing, on business which they wish to pre
serve. But it is a full answer to all such
statements of the difficulty of collecting
bad bills, that they can be entirely
abolished by putting trade on a cash basis
except where credits are based on guarantees
of Known reliability.
This is terrible! The Philadelphia In
quirer declares that Congressman Cannon "be
sides being profane" which is not what he is
accused of 'is vicl ous," because by an arbi
trary point of order he defeated a needed bill
that came up on Saturday. The Inquirer
further declares the necessity for Congress to
adopt rules "that will make it Impossible for
one ill-tempered member to defeat necessary
legislation." But here has Speaker Thomas
Brackett Reed been fighting and winning a
campaign on the claim that such rnles were
provided by the present Congress. Does the
Inquirer intend to call attention to the fact
that the present rules only restrain the Dem
ocratic members and leave the Republican
leaders free to obstruct and talk badly at their
own sweet will?
The proposition of wiping ont a "moral
plague spot" near the Capitol at Washington,
by getting the Government tobnyitup, might be
effective In that one locality; but it would make
the business of producing "moral plague spots"
so profitable that the supply would very soon
exceed the demand.
The sensational reports of the way in
which foreign fleets could He off shore and
shell our seaport cities, leads an Eastern cotem
porary to remark that "if, as appears to be the
case, the modern man-of-war canno. carry
enough coal to bring her within shelling dis
tance, our cities may not be in so much danger
from that source, after all." But inasmuch as
our ports are not much further from Europe
than Alexandria in Egypt wat from England,
and that city was shelled without difficulty, it
does not appear wise to rely too confidently on
safety from that cause. We had better confide
in honest and fair dealings with other nations
so as to make an attack on us an offense against
civilization, which no European power would
commit.
The New York Tribune has reluctantly
come to the conclusion that "there evidently
exists a ring in the Pension Bureau." And if
things keep on it will be suspected that the
ring is not entirely confined within the walls of
that unique public office.
It is not singular that the Bepnblican
organs should make a spread ovor Reed's vic
tory; but when the New York Press publishes
a cartoon representing "Columbia welcoming
Reed babk again," an effect of the triumph
that cannot be unreservedly indorsed, is indi
cated by the fact that the cartoonist makes
Reed several sizes larger than Columbia.
If Beeu's supporters bought votes at
Monday's election the way in which his major
ity transcended their expectations must make
them feel as if they had thrown their money
away without sufficient provocation.
Kennedy's assertion that there has
been "too mnch billing and cooing" can be ac
cepted in part only. There has been too much
billing of the force variety; but the withhold-'
lng of his speech from the JXecord is an indica
tion that Mr. Kennedy's friends think that
what there has been too much of, is cackling.
The Honorable Senators were in error
who supposed that the adoption ot the policy of
reciprocity carried with it the necessity of reci
procity with the Sugar Trust.
Count Pappenheim, itls reported, will
go into the brewing business on the capital ac
quired by his American marriage. The Count
modifies an ancient ana honorable saying to
German conditions, so as to make it read that
he who makes two glasses of beer to foam
where one foamed before is apnblic benefactor.
Chicago has come back to its old idea of
a divided site. The World's Fair that is put on
two sites is in danger ot having a disastrous
fall.
The New York Herald, speaking of the
Senate vote on the sugar schedule, cays: "The
Senate refused to give the people cheaper
sugar." As the schedule passed by the Senate
makes a reduction of IK to 2Jcin the sugar
duties the Herald's idea of "cheaper sugar" is
evidently a unique one.
An Inieretiiae Fact Overlooked.
From the Seattle Journal.
Here Is a hard nut for the moralists to crack.
In Alpine county, CaL, near the Nevada State
line, there Is no church and no minister, but
four liquor sellers and nine professional gam
blers, and yet the jail has not had an Inmate
for three years. The only thing deficient about
the statement is that nothing is said as to how
many Inmates the jail should have had.
Small Consolation for Democrat.
Portland, ME., September 10. Full Repre
sentative returns from ten counties in Maine
and partial returns from the reraaining.six. in
dicate a Democratic gain of 12 Representa
tives, making the House stand 113 Republic
ans to 8 Democrats. The Senate stands I
Democrats, 27 Republicans. Republican plu
rality for Governor, 18,721.
OUR SHORT STORIES.
THE POINT OF VIEW.
iiUow does rural life suit you?" said the
veteran commuter to the young man
who fl ew to the country last spring.
"Had onough of it, thank you, already. It
Isn't that I don't like the country, but you see
its such an infernal long climb from the station
to my place; a half mile up hill. Nice enough
when you get there, I grant you, but the road
is so bad you can't drive a horse over It if
you've any conscience. Then I don't like my
neighbors very well one of 'em everlastingly
prying into my affairs. Asked me last week
what I meant by keeping a horse and buggy
when I had a mortgage on the house. Then
the boys can't get to school and"
"Guess yon mean to go back to town?" said
tho old commuter, with a grim smile.
"Yes, Pittsburg's good 'nough for me," said
the young man. "Say you don't know any
bodyfwho wants to buy a house out my way, do
you? My house is a new one. you know
mighty nice eight-roomed affair: natural gas;
tar walks and a lot GO by 200. .Elecant situa
tion, high an dry: sandy soil, no malaria, splen
did views and just enough neighbors to bo
sociable like. If you hear of anybody who
wants a nice country house I wish you'd let
me know."
OWED HIM AN ARM.
Tit the summer of 1S77, General Jnbal A.
Early was a guest at the Arlington Hotel,
Hot Springs, Arkansas. Among the ether
notables stopping there was the then some
what famous ex-Governor Stearns, of Florida,
who had been recently appointed by President
Hayes a commission to adjust the claims of
citizens of Hot Springs, who had improvod
real estate afterwards decided to belong to the
National Government. One day the two gen
tlemen, who had no personal acquaintance,
met in the hotel office.
"General Early," said Stearns politely, "you
ought to be willing to shake hands with me.
Yon owe me an arm;" and he indicated his
empty sleeve.
"How is that. Governor ?" queried Early, at
the same time extending his hand.
"I lost that arm in tho cause of the Union at
Winchester, where yqu commanded the Con
federate army."
"Indeed 1" responded the General suavely, as
he stroked his long gray beard and slightly
straightened his bent figure. "You mustn't
blame me for that. 1 always instructed my
men to do their duty, but sometimes the
rascals would blunder."
The future intercourse of the two gentlemen
was limited to a passing bow.
GRANDPA'S STORY,
'"pun children had asked-grandpato tell them
a story of tho days when ho and grandma
were first married. He leaned his chin on bis
clasped hands as they rested upon the topot
his cano and began:
"Jlst atter yer gran'maw an' me wuz married
an set up housekeepin' 1 went to tend ther
muster uv ther militia. Er lot of fellers I
knowed wuz thar an' we got ter playin' seven
up fur drinks. I got drunk. When I got home
hit wuz dark. Wife was er settvn' in ther do7
waitin' fur me. How pizen mean I felt when I
soed 'er. Sho 'tended like she nuver noticed
nuthin' an' had snpper ready in no time. Ther
taller candle dldn' give much light, but I could
see 'er eyes lookin' watery an' red. Atter er
while I went ter bed. Wife said she'd come ez
soon ez she washed the dishes. I went ter
sleep. When I woke hit was all dark 'cept
wharther moonshine came thoo ther window.
Mer hald wuz er achin' powerful an' mer
mouth wuz cz dry ez parched co'n. I felt fur
mer wife. She wan't in bed. I looked roun'
ther room an' I seeder kneelin' in ther moon
light. Her ahms wuz on er cheer an' 'er face
hid in 'em. She wuz er prayln' an' er cryin'.
Tner clock struck. Hit wuzl o'clock. I lis
tened. Mer wife's v'ice sonnded like er angel's
'cept fur ther sobs 'at shook hit ez she said:
'Good Lawd, he'p me ter make 'im er good
man. Don't let 'im break mer po' heart. He's
all I sot. I kin ba'r Deln' po' an' workln' hard,
bnt 1 kin not ba'r ter seer mer husban', whut I
love betterin' all ther world, comm' home
drunk an' makin' a hog uv hlsse'f.' Naix'
thin' I knowed I wuz on ther flo' by'er. Mer
ahms wuz roun' 'er an' I wuz er prayln harder'n
she wuz. Sho bust out er crying' loud an' I
felt er tears er runnln' down mer own face. I
nuver felt so happy er so mean. I got up Pom
ther nor' er new man. Wife an' me be'n llvin'
tergetbpr 40 yeer, an' I hain't nuver made 'er
cry sence."
THOSE BLOOMIN' TRAMS.
A couple of sturdy Englishmen,
artisans
evidently, stood at the corne- of Penn
avenue and Slxtb street yesterday. They
seemed to be strange to the city. It was about
6 o'clock when they first took their stand at
the Hotel Anderson corner. Tho cable cars in
teresteu them; that was manifest. Every car
that came bowling In from tho east captured
them. At 0:30 one of the Britishers intercepted
a young man bound for Allegheny and in
quired: "Can you tell me, sir, when one of
them blarsted bloomin' trams '11 come this
here way?" and he waved his hand from west
to east, "or do them trams only go one way?"
There was a pretty explosion of British ex
pletivesmostly sanguinary when the AUe
ghenian explained that the cars to Lawrence
vlllo ran by way of Liberty street.
EVIDENCES OF A HIGHER CIVILIZATION.
,itt does me good," observed the stranger,
leaning against the awning post, "to see
that there are humane people in these big
cities even yet."
He pointed to a large wagon in which a poor
old horse, held In a kind of frame by a broad
leather band passed under it, was being care
fully hauled along the street.
"Yes," said a citizen in reply. "That is what
we call a horse ambulance."
"It proves to my mind, rejoined the stranger,
feelingly, that the people in larger cities are
not so engrossed in the eager scramble for
wealth, but that they have time and inclination
to cultivate those finer feelings of the heart
that lie at the foundation of all that is highest
and noDlest in our civilization. But here
comes a patrol wagon with somebody lying
down in it. Some offender against the law, I
presume?"'
"Er no," replied the citizen, after he had
gone out and joined the curious crowd about
the patrol wagon a moment and returned. "It
is a woman who fell down a stairway and
broke her leg. They are taking her to the hos
pital. Wo haven't got any er ambulances
for human beings."
PEOMIKENT PEOPLE.
Andrew Cahneoie'3 mascot is a brass tele
graph key. Ho keeps it in a glass case.
MARY Andekson has the largest feet of any
stage beauty. She wears No. 5 shoes.
James Rkdpath Is aiding Mrs. Jefferson
Davis in getting up the memoirs of her hus
band. General Gbant always "tipped" a Pull
man car porter with a $5 bill. Harrison gives
a quarter.
Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland, Bister
of ex-President Cleveland, has sailed for
Europe and will spend some time abroad.
Rider Haggard's first book was a com
plete failure. Itwas"Cetewayoand His White
Neighbor." He made 10 on his second,
"Dawn."
Mother Seton, of the"New York Convent
of Mercy, is the oldest Bister of Mercy in
America. She is over 90. The order ot Sisters
of Charity, at Emmlttsburg, was founded by
her sister.
ALL the members of the Arm of .Harper &
Brothers are practicalpilnters, and it is a rule
of the house that each member of the family
who expects to be taken into the firm must first
become proficient in type setting or presswork.
BisiiAitCK has the satisfaction of knowing
that the newspapers in Germany which have
deserted bltn have lost seriously in circulation.
The Allgemcine Zetlung in particular, which
had for years been a Bismarck organ, and has
now taken the other tack, has fallen from 25,000
to 10,000 daily.
"IViLLrAH B. Irwin, who died recently in
Harrisbure, Pa., was a delegate to the conven
tion which nominated Lincoln in I860. Mr.
Irwin, a short time before his death, had ascer
tained as nearly as possible the numberof dele
gates who were still llvine of the convention,
and found there were but few of the old guard
left.
AnouBisnop Coerigait was bom in
Newark, N. J., where his father as proprietor
of a popular hotel on Market street. The build
ing stood tbero until quite recently, just below
the First National Bank, in the best business
portion of tho city, when it was displaced to
make room for a number of buildings better
adapted to these days.
FIGHimG F0BEST KUIEES.
Novel Finn to Destroy the Beetles
That
Rnln Writ Vlrelnln Pine.
rSnCCIAL TXLEGBAM TO Till DISPATCH.!
Pahkersbubg, September 10, For months
fast the valuable forests of spruce pine in the
Cheat and other mountains of this State have
been dying off on hundreds of thousands of acres
entailing a loss of millions of dollars, and no
cause assigned for the devastation. Becoming
alarmed at the great destruction of the finest
forests in the country, Mr. A. D. Hopkins,
entomologist of the Agricultural Experiment
Station of West Virginia, was sentto thodevas
tated districts to investigate and report the
cause of the ruin of the trees and to devise a
remody if possible. He has just returned and
reports that tho timber has been' killed by
myriads of mlnnte beetles, not mnch larger
than fleas. Tho beetles bore their way under
the bark in all directions, and thus prevent a
flow of sap, and kill the trees. He says many
thousands of acres of valuable forests have al
ready been totally destroyed, but that the bee
tles appear to he growing less destructive.
Dunn? the progress of this investigation
Prof. Hopkins discovered a parasite which is
preying on the beetles and doiug uiach good by
destroying many of them. Several species of
these parasites were found In the same tree3
with tne beetles. The parasites will be intro
ducedin districts where the timber Is beginning
to show the effects of the ravages of the bee
tles, with a hope that their presence will put
an end to the damage caused by the destroying
beetles. If this plan should prove successful
the vast forests of spruce pine still in a good
state of preservation may yet be saved, other
wise the total destruction of the spruce forests
of Cheat Mountain and the Alleghenles will not
bo far oil.
GBAHD 0FFICEBS ELECTED
At the -Convention of the Knights of St.
John and Malta.
ISMCIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH-l
Welleville, N. Y., September 10. The
second day's session of tho Chapter General of
America, Knights of St. John and Malta, was
held to-day. The morning session was largely
devoted to the secret work of the order, and to
the reports of special committees. The order
is foun'd to be in a flourishing condition, and
nearly every encampment throughout the
United States and Canada Is represented. The
following officers were elected to-day for the
ensuing year: Most Eminent Grand Com
mander, W. H. Goff, Brooklyn; Lieutenant
Grand Commander. N. Perkins, Kane. Pa.;
Grand Captain of Guards, J. H. Cowan, To
ronto; Grand Prelate, James McKelvey, Wil
mington, Del.; Grand Chancellor, J. L. Mc
Elroy, New York; Grand Assistant Chancellor,
C. Merritt. New York; Grand Almoner. J. M.
Goodenougb. New York; Graud Herald at
Arms. Isaac Hoage, Brooklyn; Grand Sword
Bearer, Fred J. Mosler, Bolivar, N. Y.; Grand
Marshal. C H. Bereman, Allegheny, Pa,
Grand First Guard. F. N. Hall, 11l Allen, Pa.:
Grand Second Guard. H. A. Sealy, Philadel
phia; Grand Musical Director, John Scott,
Marshall, Tex.; Grand Medical Examiner, B.
W. Dyer, New York: Grand Attorney General,
J. N. Shirley, New York; Grand Warden, H.
B. Walker, Brooklyn; Grand Sentinel, G. H.
Seid, New York; Grand Trustee (three years),
J. J. Bauingard, Philadelphia; Grand Trustoe
(one year), Moses Hamilton, New York.
QUIETED TEE DOCUMENT.
The Uniform BUI of Ending Trouble I Set
tled in the Shippers' Favor.
Chicago, September 10. The new uniform
bill of lading received its quietus to-day so far
as its use in connection with east bound ship
ments is concerned. Chairman Blanchard
offered resolutions that were adopted allowing
the use of both forms, thongh urging the new
wherever practicable.
Beyond a doubt this settles the new bill of
lading in its present form. Altogether tho
result is generally regarded as a complete
victory for the shippers. It is now agreed that
whatever is done toward the establishment of
a uniform bill ot lading must be accomplished
through consultation with the shippers. They
are all in favor of uniformity, but are opposed
to a so-called contract which is designed to
release the railroads from all responsibility for
the safe delivery of property. It is understood
that the committee, of which Sir. Blanchard is
chairman, will arrange for an early conference
with a representative body of Board of Trade
merchants with a view to agreeing upon some
plan for a uniform bill of lading that will he
mutually satisfactory.
ALL OK JACKSON PABK.
The Entire World's Fair Will Llkoly bo Held
On One Site.
Chicago. September 10. The Committee on
Permanent Organization of the National Com
mission of the World's Fair was in session this
forenoon, and after the noon recess recon
vened, remaining in session the entire after
noon, adjourning at 6 o'clock unt'l 11 to-morrow
morning.
There was a full attendance of the commis
sioners who constitute this committee. During
the session it was voted that to-morrow after
noon the members of the committee would
make a personal visit ot inspection to Jackson
Park and its entire surroundings, and it is re
ported to-night that many members of this
committee, as also other commissioners who
are in the city, are of the opinion that the en
tire World's Fair will be located at Jackson
Park, excepting perhaps one building, that of
the One arts, which may be placed on the Lake
Front Park.
FUKEEAL OF CAPTAIN BmCLATS.
Solemn Services Mark tho Last Rltci of
tho Lies Banker.
.TFF.CIAt. TELEODAM TO TUB DISPATCIT.i
McKeespoiit, September la The largest
funeral that has occurred hero for many years
was that to-day of Captain H. B. Sinclair, late
President of the First National Bank. The
services were exceedingly solemn, and were
conducted bv the Rev. G. W. Montgomery, of
the Central Presbyterian Chnrcb, who was as
sisted by the Rev. John Graham, of St.
Stephen's Episcopal Church, 'and several othei
ministers.
The directors of tho bank ot which the do
ceased was President stood as pallbearers.
DELEGATES FEOM. EVEEYWHEBE.
Opening of the Fire Underwriters' Conven
tion In the Garden Clir.
Chicago, September 10. The Fire Under
writers' Association of the'Northwest is hold
ing its twenty-first annual session in this city
to-day. Nearly every fire Insurance company
in the United States has a representative pres
ent. The proceedings were opened by President E,
A. Slmonds, ot Chicago, who delivered his
annual address. This afternoon George P.
Sheldon, President Phoenix Insurance Com
pany, Brooklyn, will deliver an address. The
convention villi be in session two days.
A New Need of the Navy.
From the Chicago Post.
It has been discovered that grass is growing
on the fast cruiser Charleston. Secrotary
Tracy should advertise at once for bids on
lawn mowers to go with these new cruisers.
Straining at tha Gnat.
Boston Globe.l
Talk of expelling General Kennedy from the
House of Representatives while Cannon is
allowed to keep his seat is very liko straining
at the gnat and swallowing the camel.
THE BEST IN LIFE.
What's best In life, O baby, bright,
lth mouth of mirth and eyes ol light?
My mother's face, my mother's breast.
Her heart oflove on which 1 rest
Are best of life."
What's best In life, fray-hearted girl?
"Why, Dcauty, youth, this rlnjt and pearl
Vhlch tell of someone's love forme. .JSEJ
And love, l'in sure, all must agree.
Is best In lite."
What's best In life, O busy brain?
The sense of powfr to strive and gain
An Inspiration's Joyous thrill.
And work a balm for every 111,
Work's hest In We."
What's best In life, ambitions man?
'Tis wealth for which 1 toll and plan.
For wealth Is master in the strile,
'Twill purchase home and friends and wife,
Mold's best In life."
What's best in life, wise Heart and true?
We learn it late, the good we do,
Old.wrongs set right, heart's healed that break,
Tbe'unkhown act, for Christ's dear sake.
Are best In life."
What's best in life, O Silver Ualr?
Y'ou've tasted all its Joy and care;
Is't work lor others, or forself.
Or fame, or mirth, or love, or pelf,
What's best In life?
The happiest honr of the day
Is when you press yonr conch and say:
'Work'j done; now welcome rett, good night;
Bo Death, who kindly shuts the light,
Is best orilfe."
m-Liziie IK. Champney in Woman's Cycle,
SNAP SHOTS IN SEASON.
The pit mule is the only thing going back to
coal in Pittsbnrg.
There is a project afoot to cultivate horse
back riding here. I have been informed that a
gentleman who thoroughly understands the
care of horses is looking around for quarters
nearSchenley Park. His idea is to secure
quarters for a riding school and stabling for
the animals of city folk. Owners of fine stock
cannot reach the open roads and the park pre
cincts without running risks since the rapid
development of suburban -rail ways has ironed
and ripped up the streets. A stable centrally
located, with lockers for riding suits ar.d steeds
ready for riders would undoubtedly be appre
ciated by all who can afford the luxury of a
horse. The busy man of business could board
a car and in a few minutes would be in tbo
saddle. Equestrianism is healthy, and a spin
over the pretty pathways of SchenI ey Park in,
early morning or in the twilight wo uld jolt the
cobwebs off the brain and sharpen the appetite
for business as well as bread. This is an English
fad which need not be condemned. I
A silver spoon doesn't hold any more soup
than a pewter one.
Philadelphia police have raided the bill
board ballets. There cannot be any bald-heads
on the Quaker City force.
There are skeletons as well as china in a
great many closets.
After having repeated Porter's consus cate
chism, it is awful annoying to be asked, "How
are you going to vote?" The straw ballot fiend
should bo out.
The game stands: Stone, won; George Shlras
HI. Rutan is at bat.
Feathers are as heavy as lead when
weighed in the scales of Justice.
The people unanimously favor a dog pound.
Councils have resumed, and someone should
prepare an ordinance. An early statt must be
made in order to get every tbingin shape before
the dog days of 'DI. If not the scheme will go
to the demnitlon bow-wows.
The etlquotte of Congress cannot bo intro
duced into the drawing-room.
Reed counted the quorum In Maine.
AldehtdeIs a new drug of the chloroform
family. It will knock a person silly in two
minutes. It is only a trifle more powerful than
summer resort whisky.
Davis Island dam men should make good
cricketers. They are wicket keepers.
TrrETThanksglving turkey will soon be on the
dissecting table.
The President of Kentucky's Constitutional
Convention is named Washington. If he's a
chip of the old block the Bourbons will get
there in fine style.
Deadly germs are hatched in foul cellars.
The man who carries his head erect looks
beyond bis fellows: but he who keeps bis eyes
on the ground seldom slips on a banana peel.
The melons are going, but the oranges are
developing.
Workmen will never strike against pay day.
Where Is that electric fountain promised by
the Exposition folk? The show is good enough
without It, of course, but new features, liko
chickens, should not be counted beforo they
are out of the shell.
"WnEjf a party gets a walkover in an election
race old General Apathy has to shohlderthe
blame.
"Whoh the gods wish to destroy they first
nominate for office.
The noise of the sewing machine has drowned
the Song of the Shirt.
Persian insect powder burned on a plate
will drive mosquitoes from sleeping apart
ments. The incense incenses the buzzing little
blood-sucker, as it were.
SJThe death" of Cardinal Newman recalls a
snap shot fired by Carlyle which cansed all En
gland to smile. During the Tractarian contro
versy carried on by Newman, Dr. Pusey and
other High Churchmen, Carlyle was shining
brightly in London. Ho slashed right and left
in bis crisp, cutting style, and when London
woke up one morning it read that "A number
of English High Churchmen are about to take
the veil." The shot told and Carlyle's fame ex
tended. When a woman parades in a new dress the
sisters who pass her can be caught looking
backward.
Silken bodices cover more secrets than the
calico waist.
The red thum D-marks on the pages of history
woro made by tho soft hands of luxury, not by
the grimy, sinewy hands of toll.
You cannot alwajs gauge a girl's age by the
lengtn oi ner dress.
The coffins of the rich may cost more than
those of the poor, but graves are all the same
depth.
Francis Murpht is no longer a widower.
Mrs. Murphy will never be compelled to sit up
nights waitlnc for her husband to come from
the clnb. May their honeymoon last until
death divorces them.
Are not some of the awnings below the
proper height? Take a tocr of the streets,
gentlemen, and get them into legal line.
The bardest weepers are not always the
most sincere mourners.
Good watchdogs don't bark loud.
If you want to frighten a child for life tell it
a ghost story every night The hobgoblins
should be banished from the nurseries.
The dress coat is always in society.
When a baseball game draws only a few
hundred people it is a sure sign that civiliza
tion is not a flat failure.
It pays better to invest a dollar In a news
paper than in a lottery ticket.
Everybody Is acquainted with tho man who
advertises.
A wateuino place The horse trough.
These is this difference between joy and
sorrow. One has three letters, the other six.
Joy should bo longer than sorrow, but it isn't.
Church steeples are heavenly mile posts.
If dolls did not have to be dressed it wonld
not be so bard to teach the girls not to be ex
travagant. Willie Winkle.
PIAYS TO C0HE.
The sals of seats for Marie Walnwrlgbt'g
presentation of Shakespeare's most amusing
comedy, "Twelfth Night," at the Grand Opera
House next week, will be opened this morning.
The memory of the success of this production
last year is still fresh, and it Is not too much to
say that no more trnly enjoyable and artlstlo
performance is now to be seen on our stage.
Miss Walnwrkrbt bad long been known as one
of our most graceful, accomplished and Intel
ligent actresses, but herpVtYforrnanceof Viola
reached a much higher plane than had any of
her previous efforts. She will be supported by
the same excellent company, which includes
Barton Hill, William F.Owen, Perry Brooke,
Blanche Walsh and Louise Muldener.
Bartlky Campbell's romantic play in six
acts and seven tableaux, which is under the
direction of Mr. H. C. Kennedy, will be the at
traction at the Bijou Theater next week.
"Siberia" has been so often seen here that it is
not necessary to speak in detail of Its merits.
It is one of the strongest plays of its class, and
always plays to large business. This season
the play is said to be more handsomely
mounted and costumed than ever before, and
tho cast Is quite equal to any seen here in the
play. The principal actors are Maurice Drew,
J. Hay Cossar, Frank -Drew, Adelaide .Fitz
Allen, Lizzie May Ulmer and Carrie Radcliffe.
THREE POPULAR TOPICS .,
To be Voicd on by Visitors to tne ExposI
lion Tho Ship Canal, Country Roads
and Electrocution .to bo Balloted For
The Prlzs Easay Topic.
For the last three days' voting at the Exposi
tion this week The Dispatch has chosen
three popular topics. Visitors can vote Yes or
No at The Dispatch headquarters, in the
Brnnswick-Balke-Collender Billiard Company's
space. Write your names in the Poll Book and
register your vote for or against the following
questions:
TO-DAY'S VOTINO TOPIC.
Should the National Government Aid in the
Construction ot the Proposed Lake Erie
Ship Canal? Open to Gentlemen Voters
Only.
FRIDAY'S VOTINO TOPIC.
Should the State Supervise and Aid Country
Road Building? Open to Lady and Gentle
men Voters.
SATURDAY'S YOTTNO TOPIC.
Should Electrocution be Substituted for
Hanging in Pennsylvania? Open to Lady
and Gentlemen Voters.
Thl Week's Prize Enny Offer.
The Prize Essay contest this week Is open to
all writers except those regularly employed on
the staffs of Pittsbnrg newspapers. Prizes
will be awarded for the best article on "The
Benefits of the Exposition to Pitts
burg." For the best contribution on the above topic
The Dispatch will award a prize of
TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS.
For the Second Prize The Dispatch will
award a Ten-Dollar Gold Piece.
For tho Third Prize The Dispatch will award
a Five-Dollar Gold Piece.
THE CONDITIONS.
Each article must make at least 1,200 and not
more than 1,300 word3.
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
Headquarters.Brunswick-Balke-CollenderCo.'s
space. Exposition Buildings.
Correct name, address and age ot contestant
must accompany MSS., name only for publica
tion if successful.
The Dispatch reserves the right to puDllsh
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, September 6.
Souvenirs for Lady Voters. Watch these
columns for f uture prize offerings and topical
voting announcements.
PITTSBUEG IS HUE,
The Smoky City Castle Ranks Second In
the Myillc Chain.
ICrZCIAT. TZLXQBAU to tui dispatch. J
Reading, September 10. To-day's session
of the Select Castle Knights of the Mystic
Chain of Pennsylvania, was mostly taken up
with the consideration of the reports of officers.
Select Commander Rettew, of Columbia, la his
report says:
"That the success of the order is dne to per
sistent work. Harmony has prevailed among
all the lodges of the State."
The Select Commander urges members to
give encouragement to the military branch of
the order. General John A. Logan Castle, ot
Philadelphia, initiated 109 persons, the largest
number of members during the year. The next
highest is Smoky City Castle, of Pittsbnrg,
they having admitted &i members. Tho castle
having the largest membership In the State is
Mountain Castle, of Johnstown. During the
year the Degree of Naomi for the wives,
daughters and sisters of members was Instituted.
Martha Washington Lodge, of Pittsburg, was
the first ladies' lodge of the Degree of Naomi
organized. Since then Altoona, Johnstown
and other places also organized ladiesWodges.
The Select Council passed a resolution sympa
thizing with John O. Matthews, of this city,
founder of the order, who is blind, and voted
hiniapurss of 3100. The report of John J.
Davis, of Pittsburg, Select Recording and Cor
responding Scribe, showed that the member
ship Is 11,450. The total receipts were JC9.
591 OS; amount paid for relief, S19,5M C2; total
expenditures. S43.G01 29; cash balance In
treasury. S20.95S Oo. The total value of the
property of all the castles in the State is 117,
851 21. The following officers were elected:
Commander, Charles Ashcorn, Johnstown;
Vice Commander, Richard Muse, Pittsburg;
Marshal, W. T. Solomon, Wilkesbarre; Secre
tary, John J. Davis, Pittsburg; Treasurer, W.
C Brown, Pittsburg: Inside Guard. Richard
White, Allegheny; Outside Guard. H. L.
Jenkins, Philadelphia; Trustee, A. C. Heller,
Philadelphia; Supremo Representatives, S. D.
Hunter, Pbocntxville, J. B. Holland, Turtle
Creek, H. E. Wainwnght, Pittsburg, John C.
Getter. Philadelphia, R Nabbs. Pittsbnrg, J.
K. Boyd. Johnstown, w. J. Wilkinson, Tacony,
E. Murphy, Altoona, George P. Chandler, Bar
risburg, F. J. Skerrctf, Philadelphia. The Se
lect Castle presented Secretary Davis, of Pitts
burg, with a handsome silver tea service of U
pieces.
BITTE2T BY A BATTLES.
"Rnttleannke Pete" Struck on the Hand by
One of Ills Snakes.
From the Oil City Blizzard.
In an article published a couple of weeks ago
was given PeterGrubcr's opinion as to the best
thing to be done by anyone if bitten by a rattle
snake, though he had never been bitten by one
himself. Last night he bad the unfortunate
opportunity to make a personal use of such
treatment. He was pulling a three-foot rattler
out ot the cage where it was kept, with others,
to show some friends who came In. In doing
so he caught the snake too far back from the
head, and the reptile, which had been in cap
tivity but a couple of weeks, whirled its head
with a lightning-like dart and buried its
poisonous fangs in the back of his right
hand.
Fete then caught the reptile back of the
head, opened Its mouth to show the fangs to
the visitors, as he bad started to do, and threw
it back in tbe cage. Then he took a rubber
band from his pocket, twisted it tightly around
bis wrist, and, after enlarging with a needle
the wounds made by the reptile's fangs, he un
hesitatingly placed them to bis mouth and
drew out most of tbo poison in that way. Sub
sequently, at tbe request ot the visitors present
to have a physician. Dr. Coulter was called,
who cauterized the wounds made by tha fangs
and administered the regular remedies. This
morning Pete's hand and wrist were consider
ably swollen, bnt bo was around as usual.
"WEDDING BELLS.
Brilliant Bfarrfaso or Alias Blacsle Rntbor
ford to Superintendent Humphrey.
(srrciAL txlxokak to ina DisrATcn.i
Scottdale, September 10. A brilliant wed
ding took placehere this afternoon. It was the
marriage of Miss Maggie Ruthorford, daughter
of John Ruthorford, of this place, to Mr. Albert
Humphrey, Superintendent of tbe Great Bluff
Coke Works. The wedding occurred at the
home of the bride's parents on Grove street.
Rev. John Connor, pastor of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, officiated.
After a short tour the happy couple will take
up their residence here.
Over One Ilandred.
Kennett SauAEE. PA., September 10.
Probably the oldest resident ot Chester county,
Mrs, Mary Hynes. aged 102, died yesterday at
ber son-in-law,. Patrick Keatlng'j residence.
Sho was a native of Ireland, and retained her
health up to her death. When she was 83 she
walked 12 miles from Wilmington, Del., to here.
The Prealilcnr Congratulated.
From the New V ork Trlbune.I
Wo congratulate tbo President upon bis es
cape from the Potomac bottoms to a Pennsyl
vania mountain top. New York has been bad
enough the last two days, bnt Washington
must have been worse.
Stranger to tbe Church.
From the Altoona Tlmes.2
A great many of our people would feel bet
ter, morally and physically.if they wonld bestir
themselves to the extent of attending church
on Sunday.
i
ClirUllan Jucoby.
;ftxctai. teucoram to tub niSFATcn.:
CABLISLE, Pa., September 10. Christian
Jacoby, leading Democratic politician of Cum
berland county, died at his home to-day at Kerrs
vllle. For many years lie carried on the forward
ing business, and was elected lteglster of the
county in 1881. His age was 90 years.
CDRI0DS CONDENSATIONS.
Adrian, Mich., has three thriving lad
doctors.
Oil City has 13 churches and a church
going population of 5,000.
West Branch, Mich., was infested so
badly by wolves that the berry crop was left
almost untouched.
The number of newspapers published in
all countries Is estimated at 41,000. 21,000 ap
pearing iu Europe.
The report that Garibaldi's widow is
about to remarry is confirmed. The wedding
day is not yet fixed.
Over 4,000 children were refused admis
sion to the public schooU of Philadelphia be
cause of the lack of accommodations.
William Ellis, a lad caucht stealing
from his emplorer.a Norristown jeweler, in
vested all his stealings in perfumery and mus
ical instruments.
Doyicstown, Pa., ducks are addicted to
dissipation. Tbey eat tho tomato refuse from
a seed establishment which has undergone fer
mentation and get beastly drunk.
The number of failures in England and
Wales gazetted during the week ending August
23, was 131. The number in the corresponding
week of last year was 150, showing a decrease
of 16.
A New Haven gentleman has a couple
of tame wasps. They have built a nest in his
parlor and live undisturbed and nndlsturbing.
This is tbe third season the insects have oc
cupied the same quarters.
William Eiley, whose family hai
mourned him as dead lor many years, and for
whom a stone Is erected In a Hingham (Mass.)
cemetery, has written from Maine In regard to
retting out pension papers.
A scientist computes that with the aid
of a machine constructed on the principlo of
the boring, drilling and pumping apparatus of
the mosquito, a hole could be bored to the cen
ter of the earth in less than a day.
While attending the fair. Miss Knhn,
the charming daughter of J. H. Knhn, of
Shelby ville. Ind., s topped on a nail. It was not
thought serious until Tuesday night, when
lock-jaw set in, and soon resulted in a very
painful death.
Farmers in Fayette county are alarmed
ovor a peculiar disease prevailing among cattle,
especially among calves. The tronbla is first
noticed in the stiffening of the joints of the
fore legs, tha whole body of the vm; finally
becoming useless.
Incandescent lamps placed near tha
celling will cause it to blacken, contrary to
general belief. The blackening is not due to
unconsumed carbon, bnt to a current of hot
air which deposits black particles on contact
with a cold surface.
The Naval Exhihition to be held in
London next year will display the progress and
evolution of the navy from the earliest times.
The guarantee fund Is already mounting to
ward 05 000, and the Queen and the Pnnce of
Wales take part as patron and President.
Arrangements are being made for send
ing out to Australia from London toward tha
end of November a protected party, principally
of single girls, under tbe care of the Church
Emigration Society's matron. The society's
offices are at 19 Victoria street, Westminster.
General "W. H. Enochs, who is running
for Congress in the Twelfth Ohio district, was
one of the youngest enlisted soldiers in the
Army of the Potomac, and one of tbe youngest
GeneraU. too. He is said to have commanded
in battle more than 4,000 men when he was but
22 years old.
A Seattle girl thoughtlessly told a
friend that tbe names of the donors wonld not
be displayed with the presents at her wedding.
Of course the news got abroad, and when the
day came not even tho presents were displayed.
They consisted of 3(i plated sugar spoons and 13
salt sprinklers.
William J. Joseph, of Newtown Vil
lage. L. L, being unable to sleep tbe other
night on account of an attack of rheumatism,
got out of bed and went downstairs, and as ha
entered the parlor observed a burglar coming
In the window. Tbe rascal quickly jumped
back and ran off.
Among the incidents of the late Grand
Army rennion in Boston was the meeting of
two brothers, natives of Maine, who had not
seen each other since the war, and each of
whom supposed the other to have been killed
in that conflict. U::e now lives iu New York,
the other in Vermont.
It is proposed to pnt 500 to 1,000 steel
tubular frame eight-wheel wagon?, fitted with
automatic brakes, on the Government railways
in Natal, and that tbey shall be paid for by
one-halt tbe annual savings made by using
them in moving freight, as compared with
the cost ot moving an equal quantity on oral
nary wagons.
A showman hilled a small town in
Georgia some time ago with announcements
that lie wonld distribute "luck stones" gratis
at each performance. These proved to be
painted oeans, out the recipient of oneof them
has since sent him 1100, with the news that
he had been notified tbe day after hs got his
"luck stone" that a deceased uncle had left
him SJ.000.
J. Price, of Savannah, Ga., has a curi
osity in the shape of a young mocking bird en
tirely white. Price purchased tbe bird from a
nesro trapper on the Waters road, who brought
it into town the other day. From the appear
ance of the bird's bill it cannot be over 6 weeks
old. There is no doubt ot tbe bird being a
mockingbird, as it has all the marks of the
species except tbe color, and has the peculiar
chirp of the young mocking bird. A white
mocking bird is a great rarity.
A authenticated case of ahumannoss
that had been cut off being restored is told of
in a medical paper. Operations of the char
acter ara often beard of, but almost invariably
the reports lack confirmation. Tbe patient
was a young man employed in a cotton mill,
and the operation was performed byDr.Kelley,
of Griffin, Ga. Tbe organ was cut cleanly oil
by a rapidly revolving belt, and bad remained
where U had fallen for about an hour. It was
washed carefully, and every antiseptic pre
caution used, and healed in the course ot a
week.
A curious wager, with fatal results, was
recently decided at Siepring, in Bavaria. A
notoriously strong man, named Freytag, bet
that a horse could not move him from the door
of his house. Tbe horse was brought, ana
Freytag put his hands and feet against tbe
door posts, while Stern, the man with whom
the bet nad been made, fixed a rope round
Freytag's neck. At the firstpull the rope broke.
A now rope having been brought. Stern plied
his whip with all his mht, when Freytag gave
a scream and, letting go. Has dragged along for
some yards. His neck u as broken.
THE WITS ASD WAG:.
No vice goes alone except advice, which
is always a loan. Drake's Magazine.
It is a good policy to tell the truth, be
cause If you don' t yon can't expect to he believed
when you tell a lie. aurnngion. tree trust .
Speak no evil of tbe absent, that is cow
ardly. Likewise, speak no evil of the present;
you might get licted.Jndianapotis Journal.
An empty pocketbook is a man's most
constant friend. Others may grow cold, hatha
will Had no change in the purse. Great Jtamng
ton Sews.
Teacher Why did Caaar hesitate on tha
banks of the Rubicon?
Jiad Boy Because he didn't have any bathing
suit. Harper's Jtazar.
Sergeant (drilling a squadof raw recruits)
What you must never forget Is that Immobility
is the most beautiful movement or military ex
erclse. Courtier die Mats Uais.
Where Polls Flourish There ought to fee
universal suffrage In at least one part of Kussla.
"What part Is that?"
Poll-land." -Urate' Magazine.
"Have you seen 'Much Ado About Noth
ing?' '
Minch Ado About -Nothing?' I should sar
sot My tram Is chiefly patronized by ladles."
Drake's Magazine.
"Mr. Boggles has a fine turnout," re
marked a young man to a friend who has ea
deavored to be attractive to Miss Boggles.
"Yes," was tho reply; -'he has. 1 experienced'
It last night-" Hasttngton J'ott.
Little Nell Annie took me to the mati
nee to-day, and all the idiot asylum Inmates were
there. The manager tent them lree tickets, and
puttbcmalllnone partof the theater in a whole
lot of seats by themselves.
Mamma Indeed! And how did they act?
Little Nell I), J ust as if they had a boi.-Spring.
field Republican,
"Please, sir, give me aid. My wife and
children arc starving."
Who are you?"
'lama Knight of Labor ordered out on a strloa
by our leaders. "
"Well. I'm a walking delegate, on my way to
join my family at Saratoga, who are spending tbe
summer there. 1 have no time to stop, but here's
10 cents for you." Sorristoum Herald.