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ISM Daily DlsrATCH, PerQuarter 103 DAILY DlsrATCH, One Month 70 Daily Dispatch, nicrudlngsunfiay, lyear. 3000 Daily DisrATcn, IncludingSunday.SnTths. 150 DAILY DisrATCn, Including Sunday, lmonth $0 fcCXDAY Dispatch, One Year ISO ft eekly Dispatch. One Year 1 SS The Daily Dispatch Is delivered by camera at Jlcents per week, or including bunday edition. atlO cents per week. PITTSBURG, MONDAY. OCT. 6. 1S90. THE CONFLICT THICKENS. The open letter of Mr. Henry C. Lea, of Philadelphia, to Senator Del&mater, which appears in another column, proves that the outspoken and recalcitrant Republican of Philadelphia is determined to supplement the work of Senator Emery in making him self a thorn in ihe flesh of the Republican candidate on the issues of personal integ rity that have been raised. The danger of Mr. Lea's terse and cutting statement of the considerations which are already clear to the public mind, is that it may impress Re publican voters as such unnecessary cruelty as to almost produce a revulsion in fivor of the under dog in the fight. Impartial minds can Hardly go with Mr. Lea in asserting that it is a duty of Dela niater to bring a libel suit against Senator Emery. It is the privilege of any man to ignore such charges if he chooses to take the consequences. Cut the great mass of the people have clearly recognized that, with the prima facia evidence already produced by Emery, the surest method to disprove his charges if they are not true, is to compel him either to produce his evidence in court or to acknowledge its unsubstantial charac ter. So far, the Republican reply to Emery has been in the nature of general denial and unsubstantia ed abuse, which, as a matter of course, will now be diverted in full force upon Mr. II. C. Lea. "Whatever the outcome of the campaign the letter of Mr. Lea, the meetings of Satur day night, and the organization of inde pendent Republican voters in various parts of the State, promise that from this time out we shall have one of the liveliest fights in the record of State politics. A PRACTICAL PREMDENT. There is a disposition, especially in poli tics, to assert that college presidents are not practical. One representative of that class has succeeded in demonstrating the con trary by the verv neat way in which he has accomplished his purpose. The authorities or Williamsiown, Mass., recently author ized the granting of two saloon licenses. As this was a decided innovation for a college town, considerable interest was aroused as to the opening of the saloons. But although the licenses were taken out and paid for, the saloons were not opened; and it finally came out that they had been bought up by Presi dent Carter, ol Williims College, and were quietly reposing in his desk. The spectacle of a college president as the bolder of a sa loon license is a unique one; but its incon gruity is covered ever by the tact that his position enables him to enforce practical prohibition until the licenses expire. The college president bids fair to vindicate his reputation for practical ability. CAMPAIGN INVENTIONS. There is an element of truth in the assertion of the Philadelphia Inquirer that there is a resemblance between this campaign and that of 1SS2, in which Governor Patti son was elected. There are many points of resemblance, and in saying that the next Legislature will be called upon to make Congressional and legislative apportion ments, the Inquirer recognizes one of them. This single point, on which it makes a cor rect statement, must be acknowledged be fore proceeding to notice the other respects iu which that organ depends on its inven tion for the statement of facts, as follows: Owing to the election ot Governor Pattison, and. according to Senator Cooper, his determin ation to itipe out the Randall district, the last apportionment was deferred until 1SS7, although the State Constitution expressly declares that the reapportionment into Senatorial and Rep resentative districts thall be made at the first session of the General Assembly after the cen sus. It was in an unseemly contest with the Legislature over the reapportionment of tho State that Governor Pattison spent five hun dred thousand dollars of the State's money. This is a striking example of campaign fiction. It relies on the forgetfulness of the public for its success. Nevertheless, the impression which Governor Pattison made by bis steady insistence that the Legislature should do its duty, had so great a share in establishing his popularity, that fractures of the truth iu this connection are more dangerous at the breach than at the muzzle. The one truth in the paragraph quoted above is that the Constitution requires the appor tionment to be made at the first session after the census; and the statement of that fact calls attention to Governor Pattison's unwavering and persistent demand upon the Legislature to perform its duty, and to the refnsal of the Republican managers to obey the Constitution. As to the assertion that the failure to re district the state was "owing to the election of Governor Pattison," that is easily recog nized as an effort of the partisan imagina tion. Everyone knew at the time that the reason why the apportionment bills were not passed was that the Republican mana gers could not get them passed in the lower branch of the Legislature so as to suit their partisan interests. Consequently with that fine disregard of the Constitution, of which the present Republican can didate is an eminent exponent, they adjourned without having passed the measures required. Governor Pattison did not delay any apportionment measure, nor had he the opportunity to do so. But be did exactly the opposite of what the Inquirer asserts, by calling theLegiblatnre to gether to perform the duty it had omitted. It was in its refusal to perform that duty, and voting its members a pertdiem for a long session spent in doing absolutely nothing, that the Legislature, instead ot Governor Tattison, wasted about 5500,000, and delib erately nullified the constitutional require ment. Of course, It is necessary for the Inquirer to resort to fiction in the manufacture of campaign arguments on State issues. But a reasonable decree of discretion might warn it against indulging in inventions with re gard to matters in which the truth is so well known, so entirely to the credit of Governor Pattison. and so entirely to the discredit of the Republican wire-pullers. PREMDEKTAIi PREDICTIONS'. In our correspondence from New York an interesting conversation is given between two Democrats and a Republican on the Presidental chnnces for 1892. The idea is developed there that "W. C. "Whitnev is a Secretary or the .Navy is shrouded by an ill defined question whether it is an inde pendent lactor or is simply a device of the Hill faction to break up the solidarity of the Cleveland wins. On the other band, the Republican outlook is said to be in lavor of Chauncey M. Depew, with a reversion of the corporation support to Major McKinley. The general view of these politicians, that the candidates of both parties must come from New York, and that both must be cor poration men, suggests that a safe treatment of their predictions would be to use them as we do Wiggins weather prophecies, and expect contrary results. If it is found that to take o New York candidate will provoke the enmity of one wing or the other of the Xew York Democracy it is possible that the Democrats may conceive their best hope in New York to lie in taking some candi date from another State who would unite the Democracy; and there are still two years for the Democracy to develop a can didate ot that sort On the other hand the Republicans of the Northwest may adhere to their belief that the party can find leaders who are not burdened with corporation records, and go outside of New York to find such a man. McKinlcy would be a more effective leader and representative of tariff Repuo licanism than the humorous and elusive Depew. But to intimate that the choice is confined to either of them is to forget the trenchant determination of the triumphant Reed, and the irrepressible and imposing jnvenescence or Mr. Blaine.' It also ex hibits a singular ignorance of the fact that President Harrison has permitted a formal annunciation of his willingness to accept a renomination. MR. WANAMAKER'S WORE. From a Washington special telegram it will be seen that Postmaster General Wana maker is pushing his project for postal telegraphv with an energy that promises the realization of the scheme before his term is ended. The proposition to make existing telegraph companies auxiliary to the postal service does not promise all that is wanted from the postal telegraph; but it is such a long step toward the desired end that the fuller results could be expected to follow. The Postmaster General's argument on the practicability of his plan is a convincing one. If to the exclusion of lotteries from the mails, Mr. "Wanamaker should add the establishment of a postal telegraph system, he would give his administration of the postofSce a record that would be the best answer to the jeers at his mercantile career. A bargain counter that gives the people such results would be deservedly popular. LIGHT ON THE SUGAR QUESTION. The opinions which are quoted from Mr. JohnE. Searles, the treasurer and author ized mouthpiece of the Sugar Trust, con cerning the new sugar duties are interesting, Now that the bill bas finally become a law Mr. Searles discovers the fact that the Trust is well satisfied with it. He says that free raw sugars, by cheapening the price of the product two cents per pound, will largely increase the consumption of sugar and the business of his combination; that the ad mission of yellow sugars will not diminish the purchase of refined; and that the duty on refined sugar half a cent per pound "is adequate as a manufacturing protection." This avowal, now that the bill is enacted, can be applied in a variety of ways. In the first place it proves, what The Dispatch has always held, that the original rate of three-tenths of a cents per pound, proposed by the House committee was all the pro tection needed on refined sugars. If five tenths of a cent is "adequate protection" in the view of the Sugar Trust, we may be sure that three-tenths is all that the public re quirements called for. Next it proves that the efforts of the lobby, led by Mr. Searles himself, and of certain Senators, who joined the service of the Trust, to establish a rate of six and even eight-tenths of a cent, were efforts to swell the profits of that combina tion from three to nine millions annually above what adequate protection would re quire, and thus to burden the people exactly to that extent The same, to a greater degree, is true of the old protective margin of from 12 cents above the duties on raw sugar, and that in the Mills bill of 1 1J cents. But a more decided commentary is fur nished by Mr. Searles' avowal, on the course of the Sugar Trust in trying to hold up prices. "We are told that a half cent margin is adequate; but for several years the whole policy of the Trust was turned in the direc tion ot suspending competition so as to realize the entire protection of 1J2 cents, for the refiners. In other words the effect was to realize, by choking off domestic com petition, a cent per pound more than what Mr. Searles now declares to be- adequate, to ensure the Trust a fair profit. On the annual consumption of three thousand mill ion sounds, this represents a plunder from the public of 530,000,000. Tne reduction of the cost of sugar to the people from 2 to 3 cents per pound, will be a great benefit to the people. Rut the avowal that the Trust will do well on that reduction is a telling commentary on the methods by which it extracted from con sumers the full amount of the old duty. The Hon. Josiah Patterson, who has just been nominated as the Democratic candidate in the Tenth Congressional district, bas the proud position of being the candidate who se cured tbe nomination after the greatest num ber of ballots. He won the battle on the 5,059th ballot. This may not be a very strong recom mendation, but it has more relevancy than that other Tennessee qualification for high political honors, facility with the fiddle. The discovery of a Lancaster clergyman who preaches in his sleep indicates tbe possi bility of an idyllic harmony between preacher and congregation. But preachers who are wide awake are most needed in the present era. The report comes from "Washington that one of tbe Senite stenographers has raised a fine crop of wheat on his Virginia farm, for which he got tho good price of Jl 07 perbusbeL It is satisfactory to learn that one branch of Congress can show some wheat that panned ont well. Tbe Wheat that the House has just finished with, turned out to be merchantable, but in the wrong sense. That old rule of legal practice, "When you don't know what else to do, abuse tbe plaintiff's attorney," has struck the Delamater orators and organs with all tbe force of a Great Idea for dealing with Emery's charges. The. fact that "the rival candidates for the Pennsylvania Governorship are going through the State" is noted by the Washing ton -Post as indicating "a creat weakness with Pennsylvania politicians." It may be so; but the esteemed Post must agree with us that it is a decided improvement on going through the State Treasury. Sixes Mr. Kennedy cannot get his speeches printed in tho Congressional Hccord or by the Republican campaign committee, perhaps the Democratic campaign committee will oblige him. The Hon. Chauncey M. Depew's coming oration to the locomotive encineers in this city will give him a splendid opportunity for ex plaining his position that corporations must not forbid their men to join labor organizations until they get the labor organizations on the under side, so that they can do it with safety. A roDE per cent rate for money in New York last week indicates that the United States Treasury can recuperate for a while before it is again obliged to come to the rescue ol Wall street. If it is established as a principle of inter national law that the dock of a vessel is the territory of its own nation while it is in the port of another nation, what a pilgrimage of the New York Anglo-maniacs will bo mado to tho decks of the English steamers in that harbor. Senator Quay has gone fishing. But that docs not preclude the expectation that he will personally see to spreading the nets for the voters beforo the November election. It is one of the peculiar features of Con sul General New's private business that it will oblige him to stay in Indiana until some time in November. Tho privacy of this business seems to givo force to the idea that public office is a private snap. It is understood that the farmers are pay ing attention to politics this year. Heretofore they havo boon paying tho taxes. Four hundred and sixty millions of ap propriations by the first session of the Repub lican Congress without counting the $50,000,000 or 560,000,000 required to passtbedependentpen sions! That is a "business Congress" with a vengeance. PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE. The President has appointed Chaplain Ed ward K. Rawson, a nephew of Senator Dawes, Professor of Mathematics at the United States Naval Academy. Loud Wolselet believes that the Chinese are the coming race, and that they will overran the world the moment a great general or law giver arises among them. Thomas Winans, the millionaire, who baa lived luxuriously, said on his death-bed he would give a million dollars to be able to eat a piece of bread and butter. Hale Jenkins, of North Wales, Pa., has in his possession a deed signed by William Fenn, conveying 4S0 acres of land in Montgomery township to Thomas Falrman. A portrait of Benjamin H. Bristow, form erly Attorney General, has been painted by Robert Gordon Hardie at Brattleborough, Vt. This is for the liristow tamlly in New York. The house in which Aaron Burr courted Estelle Provost, his wife, is still standing at Paramus, N. J. It is of rough stone, with gothic ornamentation, and surrounded by a fine strip of woodland. The Hon. Uonum Nye. who is 95 years old, is still tho active treasurer of a savings bank in North Brookfleld, Mass., and recently gavo a reception at his residence that lasted from 4 o'clock in the afternoon till 10 in the eveninc. Mrs. Augusta EvAJts-WitsoN, the South ern novelist, is short and stoat, with a good natured, intelligent face, having an expression of happy contentment, showing that she is on good terms with her husband and the rest of the world. Ex-Frjcsident Cleveland says ho has neither purchased nor thought of purchasing a yacht for himself, and supposes that the an nouncement that be had bought the Galena grew out of the fact that he offered to advance the money for one to the skipper with whom he sailed and fished last summer. THE TARIFF ON FISH. Gloucester Fishermen Fenr tbe McKinlcy BUI Will Knock Tbem Ont. Gloucester. Mass., October 5. The more the fishermen hero study the tariff bill the more they realize that, so far as the duty on fresh and frozen fish is concerned, it will be of great Injury to them. Although about 15,000,000 irozen herring were brought to this port last winter, principally by vessels that belonged here, the demand for those fish for food was so great that the fishermen bad to pay a high price for their bait, and they were thus greatly handicapped. If an export duty is put on all frozen or fresh fish exported from Newfound land in foreign bottoms, as has been intimated by the Government of that province, there is nothing to hinder Newfoundland, should she feel so disposed, from having a monopoly of this trade. This is tbe opinion of some skippers who for years have been going to Newfoundland for frozen herring. They say that at St. Johns there is a large fleet of steamers which are hauled un in winter until the sealing season opens, which does not commence until the mid dle of March that can very easily go to For tune and Placentia bays, load with large car goes of herring, carry them to Boston, New York and Philadelphia, and snpply the Ameri can market, while American fishermen will have to sit idly by and see the business tbey have controlled for years taken away from them by means of unwise legislation. With three-fourths of a cent duty to be paid at this end. only a small export duty would make it unprofitable for American vessels to bring frozen herring from Newfoundland to this country. THE HOUSE MAY BE DEMOCRATIC. Republican Cansreaslonnl Committees Flo urinff on the Next Session. Washington Cor. Cincinnati Commercial. The Republican Congressional Committee bas been doing a little figuring as to the prob able complexion of tho next House. Accord ing to tbe committee's estimates, 109 districts out of the S22 are sure Republican. Then 20 more are probably Republican, 33 others are doubtful, with possibilities of Republican suc cess. That makes 162, which is five less than a majority. All of these districts in question are represented in the present House by Re publicans. The cause of doubt in tbe case of of most of tbe "20 probable Republican" and "S3 doubtful" is the Democratic gerrymander. Then there are 24 districts now represented by Democrats in which the committee thinks there are chances of Republican success. Under the circumstances, however, it looks like tbe next House might be Democratic, but the majority will be small. Ten is tbe most prob able majority, and it may be less than this figure. SOMETHING OF AN EATEB, What a Builorvllle Man Swallowed Alter a Ilenrty Sapper. Butlerville, O., October 4. Henry Ro mohr, who lives near this place, stepped into E. Snider's grocery last evening, boasting ot the large supper bo had just eaten, but said he "didn't have eggs;" so he bought a dozen and ate them, and then a half dozen and ate them, after which he drank a pint of water, and then ate one pound of candy in all, 18 eggs, 1 Dint of water, and 1 pound of candy, in 15 minutes; after which he said ho felt very much re freshed. A Family Horse Resents Chastisement. Dayton, O., October 4. William Evans, a colored hostler, in the employ of Mrs. E.' G. Young, of this city, while chastising tbe family borse, which was fractious in his stall, was kicked in the head, receiving injuries from which ho will die. DEATHS OF A DAY. John Smith. John Smith, 17 years old, died last evening at his home. Ho, 145 Fourth avenue, from a hem morrhage. Tbe deceased was a member of Great Western Lodge No. 345, Knights of Pythias, and Duqnesne Lodge, 1. o. O. i He leaves a wife but no children. The body has been taken charge of bv tbe lodges to which ho belonged, and will be interred to-day. Mrs. HtliMi Boiler. SPECIAL TELKOKAM TO THE D1BPATCIM CAKSISLE, October 5. -Mrs. Helen Hosier, widow of Hon. John W. Hosier, deceased, died suddenly to-day ofheart disease. She leaves an estate of over 11,000,000. Oncorherklnd acts was the build ing of the Dickinson College Boslcr Memorial Bail, costing (30,030. , GLIMPSES OF PARIS, The Gay Metropolis of France Compared With London A Drive Tliropgu streets Memorable for Revolutionary Scenes Tho Salon In tbo Louvre Parisian Wickedness. iwiirrrEif ron the dispatch. Boedeker has no guide book to Southern France a sure indication that those regions are little visited by tourists. There aro some ploalant summer and winter places along the sea, where people go. And the climate of the South of France is proverbial for its gentle ness. But there seems to be no great pilgrim age in that direction. The summer visitorgoes elsewhere. Even on the map that part of France does not attract. You look over the names of the towns, and you notice that they are not many, and that of even the few you have'scarcely heard before. These ought to be somewhat worthy of attention in that old do main of romance. The troubadours were fond of it The "Court of Love," that singular In stitution of, the times of song and chivalry, was held there. It is pleasant to read of the art and literature, and the gentle living, and the worthy and wise and tolereant thinking which was done fn Sontbern Franco in the days when the ballad of "Ancassiu and Nicolette" was written, and before Simon de Montfort came. That was the beginning of evils. Simon de Montfort visited Southern France somen hat as William of Normandy visited Northumtria. A crusading army fol lowed behind him. It was the North against the South. And the North conquered. The South of France has not played any creat part in history since. It has never quite recovered from the Inquisition. Boedeker lias a guide book, however, to Northern France. There are more towns there." You notice the difference from tho car window. Yet even in the North there aro no places of graat importance. Tho truth is that France is a country of one city, and that city, of course. Is Paris. The life of France centers in Paris.lt is true that in England people speak of London as the "town," as if there were no other. And even as far away as Lincoln you will hear it said "I am going to town to-morrow." meaning Loudon, as one might speak in Wilkinsburc of Pittsburg. And London is, in deed, a place of some size. But England is a land of busy, prosperous and notablo towns. Tho train is all tho time stopping at important stations. It is not so in France. There in only one town iu France.and the name of it is Paris. www Tho French Metropolis nt Night. The cabmen of Paris drive like Jehn, tho son of Nimshi. It was nearly midnight when the Oriental express drew up in the Paris station, and the cabman to whom we instrnsted our selves and our luggage had no obstructions of traffic in his way, and on we wont over the smooth pavements, past tbo gas lamps and tho lighted drinking places, with tbo stars over our heads and the great somber shadows of the high buildings beside us, past the groups at the corners of the streets, past the Louvre with its treasures of art, and thcTuilleries Garden with its suggestions of old mobs and riots, till we stopped in the courtyard of tho Hotel Conti nental. One who comes thus into Paris by nignt gets a most signmcant .signt or mat strange city in the half-hour journey between the station and the hotel. He catches glimpses which ho can never rorget of its beauty and its misery, of ltsstateliuess and its wickedness.and of its past; and he wonders what next awaits the city in tho future. I spent nearly a week In Paris, and the week accentnatcd the Im pressions of that hasty glance. The streets of Paris run between the state liest buildings in Europe. There are certain points of aa vantage in London, it Is true,which seem to touch the high mark of impressive- ness. Trafalgar Square, with tho Nelson col umn, and the facade of tho National Gallery, and tho view from beside St. Margaret's, West minster, where the Abbey stands on one hand and the Parliament buildings on the other, are really finer than anything in Paris. And Princes street, in Edinburgh, is more beautiful even tban the Champs Elysees. But Paris abounds in striking combinations, and noble squares, and stately monuments, and imposing buildings. The omnibuses and the street cars of Paris and London, and, indeed, of all the cities on this side the water, have seats on top. It is strango that we aro so behind the rest ot the world In this. And from these high scats one can see the town. Take one of the great omnibuses which ruu from the Madeleine to tho Bastile, and climb up the winding stairway to one of the sky seats. The way traverses some of tho most attractive part3 of Paris. GIlmDaM of Historic Spots. You ride through the fine, wide, shaded boulevards. If it is toward evening the little round tables which crowd the broad sidewalks in front of tho cafes are surrounded by drink ers and smokers and talkers and looker.'-on. All Paris is in the streets, walking leisurely about or sipping cups of cafe noir or taking journeys on the tops of omnibuses. You pass arches or triumph, setup ny some oi me .na poleons, and memorable more recently as the places where barricades were set in the days of the commune, and hesido which some of the hardest fighting was done. Finally you get to the wide square in tho midst of which stands the high column which mams tho place where the mob of Pans tore a prison down. And if you climb up inside that gigantic brazen pipe stem, where for two-thiras of the way you are in almost complete blackness, feeling your way step after step interminably, you get out at last upon a narrow balcony and look down upon all Paris lying at your feet. Tbe boulevards radiate out toward the ten corners of the earth. The domes and spires and towers of famous buildings are visible over the tops of tbe tall houses. That green space out in the distance Is Pere Le Cbalse, where Abelard and fleloise lie buried. That otber green park nearer at hand is where they set up the guillotine in the days of the revolution. Down this brown street below the mob camo surging out of the Faubourg St. Germain hurrying to assault the Bastile. On all sides in Paris you are reminded of the revolution. If vnu walk In tbe Rue de Rivoli yon pass the park whichwas once the garden of the roval palace. Hero stood the fair facade of the Tuilleries. Here was the riding school where the revolutionary assembly met. and had the unfortunate Louis before them. Here the Swiss Guards fought tbe mob. If you turn into the Place de la Concorde to Iook at tbe obelisk of Luxor, you are on the spot where the headsman was kept busy decapitating aristocracy. The bridge which you cross, as you go from the Ereat gallery of old art masterpieces in the nuvresto the greatgalleryof moaern art mas terpiece in the Luxembourg, is built of stones Irom tho prison of the Bastile. Jf you go out into the country to Versailles to see tbe palace which the residence of Louis XIV. has made memorable and notorious, and the quaint, formal, geometrical garden amid whose regu larities the court of that monarch led their very irregular lives, you cannot look out of the palace windows down that wide, magnificent avenue which leads to Paris without remem bering how Louis XVL and Marie Antoinette looked one day out of tho same windows and saw that broad avenue full of hurrying women, the women of riotous Paris, coming on like a legion ol furies, and shrieking liko an army of fiends. w A Small-sized Riot. The Parisians are excitable people still. The smallest unusual thing in tbe Paris streets attracts a crowd. A dispute be tween a cabman and a reluctant tare payer blocks tho whole street. One day I saw a fight fn tho Avenue do l'Opcra It was very brief and nobody was hurt much, put the crowds went wild over it. Everybody was pushing and shouting. It was a little riot. One needed but to multiply it by 100 to realize many, tragic pages of French history. Paris possesses the most beautiful room in Europe. It is in tbe Louvre and is called the Salon Carre. The room bas no furniture in it. nor is the ceiling glorious, as it is in the Doge's Palace or in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles. The beauty of the room is in its pictures. Mur. illo's "Immaculate Conception" is hung in this room and his "Holy Family." and Raphael's "La Belle Jardiniere" and Da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" ana Paul Veronese's "Marriage Feast at Cana" and 40 or 50 other masterpieces. It is a place to spend a year in. Tho rooms of the iiOuvro are crowded with treasures. There is an embarrassment of richos. The eye grows weary with looking. And tbe walls of tbe Luxembourg are even, more beautiful than those of the Louvre. Becauso at tho Louvre there are many nictures which aro more interesting for their place in the de velopment of art than for their beautv. They were painted by the fathers. But sometimes the sons paint better. The modern paintings at tbe Luxembourg are chosen with a stricter discrimination. They are selected for their intrinsic excellence. And they are superb, in deed. One picture there is attractive not only for its own sake but for tbe fact that it was painted by Marie Bashkirtseff a canvas of considerable size, representing a little group of schoolboys meeting at the corner of a street. There is a little of Millet's work here, but not much. w The Desrndntion of Ait. The worst pictures in Paris are in the shop windows. Thero is a shop in Paris with a" dedication over the door, after a fashion not uncommon there; except that in this case the shop is set under the protection not of St Lonis or of St. Genevieve, but of the "Don dlable." There are a good many shops In Paris which need no sign to assure the passerby that tbey are devoted to the service of the devil and not to any good nevll either. These windows are set open not in back streets but they confront the face of Paris in the finest avenues. The young boys and girls look into tbem. They are tho most significant sight which one sees in this fair city. Except the empty churches. The great churches of Belgium and Germany and Italy, nave peopie in uieiu at au nours oi tne aay t. f saying their prayers. Butin Paris the Pantheon is secularized and has its altar taken away, and the Madeleine and Notre Dame are empty except for the tourists. In Notre Dame, there were priests in the screened choir monotoning an office, but nobody was praying at any of the beautiful shrines. At the Madeleine one after noon there was a baptism going on, and the little babv was resenting the anointing of tbe back of his neck, and tbe salting of bis tongue, and the wetting of his head, but nobody was kneeling anywhere in the Sne church at prayer. All this, of course, was in the week. I was not in Paris on Sunday. But tbe difference between Paris and other great cities on tbe continent was most emphatic. I read in the papers and saw on great signs along tbe streets the adver tisements of fortune tellers and wise women and wizards. There Is a lesson here somewhere if anybody bas timclto think it out. Skepticism aad superstition go significantly together in Paris. And the people who have abandoned religion seem somehow to have abandoned morality also. G. H. WHAT SAM" ALLEN HEARD. A Talk Between His Little Boys That Caused Him to Reform. The gang of hands engaged in "working the road" were resting on the roadside after din ner. The overseer, an elderly, kindly-faced countryman, bad listened to several stories, and when a pause came in the conversation be be gan: "Hit's ther leetles' thing whut starts er feller up er down hilL Yer nuvcr kin tell whut'll move er man fur better er wuss. Thar wus a good-hearted feller named Sam Allen whut usterlive jist over ther ridge frnm me. He wuz er bully feller, but ther pow'fullest ban' fur ter git drunk an' fight. Ever' time he'd git drunk' an' he done hit ever time he could, he'd ra'r er roun' an' fight ever'body what wouldn't tako his sass. Onst 1 went over ter bis house uv a Snnday fur ter see him. His cabin wnz er tumblin' down an' his wife an' children ragged an' nuver had ernough ter eat. His wife wuz so poor an' 'er eyes looked so bad lack they wuz dry, she'd cried so much. S'l, 'Howdy, Miss Allen, whir's Samr S'she. 'Down ter ther spring.' S'J, 'I'll go fin' him.' I'went ter ther spring an' thar wuz Sam er dip pin' nv his head in ther water. Hit 'peared lack bit wuz hot an' he wnz er tryin' to cool bit. S'l, 'Howdy, Sam.' S'se, 'Howdy.' an' he turn ronn. His face wnz all bunged up. S'l, What's ther matterr S'se, '1 was drunk yes tiddy an' I fit with Dick Mason. I got ther wust uvhit. "Jist then we heard Sam's two little boys or talking together side ther spring house. They never knnwed we wnz thar. One of 'em sez, s'se: Til be pappy an' come laung drnnk an' vou say 'Howdy,' an' I'll lick yer fur hit.' Tlieryother says, s'se, 'At won't be fa'rfur every time pappy gets drunk be licks me any how an' 'tain't ia'r fur both uv yerter lick me.' Then ther yother says, 'Mammy says pappy kin be good-natured an' friendly an' not wanter lick all er us but I hain't nuver see'd Mm thater way.' Sam turned pale and sick like when he heard 'em. Then he rocked hisse'f with his face in bis han's. All at onst he jumped up an' says, s'se, 'I'll show 'at boy 'at bis mammy's er tellin' uv ther truth.' Sam ain't never drinked er dram since. He's got er good house an' bis fambly's well tuck keer uv an' they owes it all ter what 'at bo v said that Sunday an' mean' Sam heard hit." A WESTERNER'S GRATITUDE To the Ken- York Lawyer Who Got Him Oat of an Insane Asylum. lrrEciAL texequuc to the dispatch. 1 New Yore, Octobers. One crisp night in December five years ago a fine-looking, well dressed man made something of a sensation around the uptown hotels. He had his pockets fnll of money and ho distributed It among the swell barrooms of uppor Broadway after a fashion that made folks stare, and finally was gathered in bya policeman and sentto Bellevue Hospital in an ambulance. At tbe hospital he was put into the insane ward and said he must go to an asylum. The man gave his name as Louis StremmeU He sent a messenger for a lawyer and ex-Judge H. W. Leonard visited him. Mr. Stremmel told him that he was not insane but simply suffering frpm the effects of a prolonged spree. He was in New York on a visit and had been drunk tho whole time. Judge Leonard got a writ of habeas corpus from Judge Donohue and after a legal fight covering several weeks a peremptory order was secured from Judge Donohue for tbe man's re lease. When released Mr. Stremmel hunted up tbe messenger who had brought the lawyer to him and gave him $50. Then be banded Judge Leonard a check for $250, thanked him profuselv and told him he would hear from him again. He then left town. Judge Leonard did not bear from the man again until Friday last. Then a letter reached him from the law firm or Wilson & Trainor, of Pueblo, Col., briefly stating that Louis Stremmel, .of that city, had recently died, leavine a fortune of 8500.000. When his will was opened" it was found that be had left $250,000 to Judge Leonard as a reminder of the service performed him five years before. WEALTHY COUNTIES KICK. Mississippi Makes Them Support Scbools In Other Districts. Jackson, October 5. The question of. pub lic education will absorb tbe attention of the constitutional convention for the best part of tbe coming week, and so many Interesting phases are presented by the investigation that some explanation seems necessary to givo the outside world a clear idea of the conflicting Interests Involved, Mississippi expended last year for school purposes the sum of 51.117,111; of this amount there was paid in salaries to white teachers $5,S90.400, to colored teachers $341,000, the re mainder being appropriated to the erection of school buildings and the payment of Incidental expenses. Of this sum the State Contributed SSOO.OOO, distributed pro rata among the counties according to tne number of educatable children therein. It is now sought by the county delegates to increase the State contribution to $400,000, bnt wealthy counties object on the grounds that they would have to pay for the support of scbools in other parts of the State. Some ot the wealtbytowns furnish high BChools to other places and aro bearing unequal taxation. COSTLY MEAL OF RATS. Dlnlnff on a Miser' Greenbncks Until Five Thousand Dollars Is Nibbled Awny. St. Paul. Minn., October 5. Steve Zeraga, a miser living on the Missouri river, near Chamberlain, S. D., discovered to-day that he had lost a fortune in a peculiar manner. It had been his custom for several years past to secrete his surplus cash in a cellar under his house Instead ot placing it in a bank. The pile bad gradually accumulated until the total reached over $5.0'JO, and all in greenbacks, in denominations from $1 to $500. Imagine his surprise, sorrow and chagrin when on visiting his secret hoard to-day he found that rats and mice had burrowed in and chewed up tbo bills until they were entirely worthless. Llbbr Prison Adjutant Dcnd. Richmond, Va., October 5. John Latouch, who.was the adjutant of tbe Lib by Prison dur ing the war. died last evening, aged 70 years. Mr. Latouch was horn in London, England, but had been a resident of Richmond for years and a successful merchant tailor here since the close of hostilities. THE CHIEF BREAD BAKER TO KING. THE "When I was very small Indeed. And even younger than my size, I went out walking by myself To gather facts to make me wise I came unto a baker's shop, Where 1 beheld the strangest thing: A creat gold sign whereon 1 read "The Chief Uread Baker to the King." I went within and asted the man. In all respect, "Can tills bo true? Does ever any King eat bread. The same as all the poor folk do?" The baker was a flowery man. As most men are who talk and bake. And said. "It Is a Fallacy To Judge that Kings consume but cake. Not only does the King eat bread. But history states, and does not cheat, There have existed certain Kings Full glad to have some bread to eatl" And while I stood a-wondcrlng Whatever fallacy might mean, Behold I saw another sign Wnereon was "Hatter to the Queen." I sought the hatter 'lnld his plumes (ot knowing hCwaa mad thereat), And asked, "Gin It be really true That any Queen puts on a hat?' ' The hatter said. Indignantly, "It is an error fit for cluwns. To think that Queens array their heads Exclusively In golden crowns. "Indeed, there have existed Queens, As In tbe chronicles 'tis said, .Not only clad tu have a bat, 1 But still more glad to have a head I" A sadder aud a wiser child, 1 hied menome to think of things: It seems so strange that Queens wear hats, Add bread Is good enough for Kings! Valentins Adams in St, Kielulas . . '-. .,- 'rftL,. ,.-- , .- i. ..JZJi&Kt:.,.. . '.....--,..' . .- -. ';.. .;..., ' . . - 'I SNAP SHOTS IN SEASON. The elevator boy can always give you a lift. Strange how easily we accommodate our selves to circumstances. Tbe slipping from tbe old Into the new groove causes a squeak, of course, but smooth running Is only a matter of time. Contrast tbe Pittsburg Snnday of to-day with the Pittsburg Sunday or, say ten years ago. What a contrast it is, too! .Everything, to use an apt vulgarism, was "wide open" on the old Snnday everything, or nearly every thing, "went." Those tbe days of seductive side doors, crowded barrooms, picnic3 with music and liquid accompaniment, occasional street brawls, quiet little games, and other pastimes decidedly non-sectarian. Boldness bred contempt of law and vice flourished. Brit the change came slow, sure, and radical. To be sure, there were jolts and jars predictions of evil phantoms which vanished like mist be fore sunshine. Mutterings about interference with vested rights dwindled to faintest whisper, finally dying out altogether. We accommodated ourselves to circumstances nothing more, nothing less. So we have tbe Sunday of to-day quiet, calm, restful. Not ostentatiously' pious, perhaps, but bearing such contrast to the business day as to bo easily identified therefrom without a glance at the calendar. And, truly, isn't It, on the whole, better than the old roystering, noisy, devil-may-care Snn day T You will hardly say nay. At any rate. It is here to stay. Perhaps some of tbe existing strictures will be removed those odd edicts of tbe long ago when scolds were sentto the ducking-stool and witches cremated in primi tive style days when fresh water ran through the villages and every man waB his own tobac co store; when lemonade was not so plentiful as unadulterated whisky and buttermilk could be had for the asking. It's a Nineteenth cen tury Sunday now with Puritanical trimmings. Some of the trimmings could be discarded; but tho main idea rest, innocent recreation, harm less Intercourse, noiseless pursuit of pleasure and perfect freedom of thought should never be lost sight of. A Stan's character can be blackened with out the use of a brush. But he will not permit it without a brush all the same. There's a Lolla at the Grand this week, boys. Mr. Porter, of census fame, probably pre fers blue points to count oysters by this time. Types have faces. Those used in the Con gressional Record should blnsh with shame. Let old fogies slug of tbo beauties of Spring, And rave about buds and bees. Or tell the old story of Winter's past glory. And gush over Autumn trees. Of course it's nice to have plenty of ice. And lots of ripe grain in store; While it's truly a pleasure to-Btroll at your leisure And the beauties of Spring adore. But the Summer's the time it's the season sublime; Then Nature hor treasures unfnrl. So let's drink to her splendor, and if none else defend her We'll call on the bathing-beach girt The Czar will celebrate bis silver wedding next Thursday. The presents will doubtless be broken up by the guards, else a bomb may creep iu unawares. There was a Mass meeting in the Cathedral yesterday, but as politicians do not believe in the efficacy of prayer, none were present. The German Emperor met with about as chilly a reception at Vienna as Mr. Delamater did at New Castle the other day. The tariff has increased tbe price of eggs, which will be good news for the bad actor. The baseball players will now give their feet and hands a rest, but will continue to work their jaws, more'3 the pity. Ftrr away the bat and batter, Hang tbe mask upon the wall. Shoot the crank whose awfnl clatter Brings back mem'rys of baseball. The clergy of Treves, in Germany, have de clared that lawn tennis Is not a fit game for the Frauleins. Possibly there's too much racket in it to suit the surpliced shepherds. The devil seems to be umpiring the game of life. The Delamater boomers are paying more at tention to the campaign to come than the cam paign on hand. Stick to tbe issues of the day, gentlemen. Fountains can play night and day without growing tired. TnE only dealor not benefited by advertising Is the faro dealer. IT Btrchall had lured Benwell over the line and killed him on this side he would not be in the shadow of the gallows now. You cannot be arrested for begging pardon. It is not necessary to join a gymnastic clnb to learn how to tnrn your attention. 3oulanger made the millions of the Duchess d'Uzes fly at.the rate of abont $3,000 r. week. To what base uses, etc The Oklahomaites know how to get good re sults out of their Legislature. They make the members work under an armed guard. Law making at the muzzle of a shotgun is decidedly refreshing. The anti-lottery law Is a bit more sweeping tban the general public supposed. It Includes lots beside tbe New Orleans nuisance. Mother Eve was the first person to turn over anew leaf. The fellow who talks behind your bacK does not relish back talk. Down to the South the sun bas gone. The birds are flittlnc; Frost paints the earth at early dawn For autumn's flitting. The shades of night fall earlier than when Tbe hay was grass; Ob, these be tbe days of happiness to men Who sell us gasl The Congress just ended has one thing to boast about it was tbe longest on record. Blackguardism will not disprove Emery's charges, gentle men. Stop it. "To dry straight" meaning to come out all right is the latest London slang. Denscjsn't it. anglo-maniacs who use the phrase will nare to furnish a diagram. The Congressmen left enough in the treas ury to pay their salaries at all events. Some betting men get a straight tip on a crooked race. j IF an avaricious man were offered all the money he could lift be would rupture a blood vessel in tbe attempt. DealerS.wBo throw in a baby gun with a package of prize candy are determined to teach tbo young idea how to shoot. Some of the policemen counting New York's population are liable to call twice at the little side doors of the saloons and practice double entry. IF Congressman Cannon is defeated at tho polls he will go ont on a fouL WELL-stocked drugstores wltl profit by the new tariff. They will elevate their drugs to fit the bigher duties. It will cost more to be sick than it used to. THE cold water candidate should get the floating vote, but be won't. When a princess of the blood blushes she holds a royal flush) The market quotations on baseball players have dropped several points. Common sense is not quite common enough. The men of Manitoba are short of matrimo nial material. Go Northwest, girls. The Cramps bave been cramped for money, but are all right now. That 513,000,000 cruiser contract is a pretty plum. It is not always the mark ot a cockney to drop the "b." The pittsburo Dispatch sensibly drops .it .from tbe name of iu native city- Chicago Tribune. Thanks, awfully. wilus Wiskxe. flOW DO YOU VOTE? V Some Moro Popular Topics for Exposition Visitors to Bnllot On. This is the sixth week of the Exposition. Tbe topical voting pastime inaugurated by The Dispatch will be continued till the close at its headquarters, in the commodious space occupied by the Brunswick-Balk-Collender Bill iard Company. This weok some vital topics bave been selected, and all are requested to vote yes or no in The Dispatch Poll Book, which opens and closes with the Exposition every day and night. MONDAY'S yOTINO TOPIC. Should Pittsburg Erect a Memorial to Stephen C. Foster? Open to lady and gentlemen voters. TUESDAY'S VOTING TOPIC. Should the Courts be Relieved by a Law Plac ing Petty Cases into tbe Hands of Police Justices? Open to gentlemen voters only. "Wednesday's voting topic. Should Brick Pavements be Prohibited in All Sections of the City? Open to lady and gentlemen voters. Souvenirs for Lady Voters. A CONFLAGRATION AVERTED. flown Fire Was Extinguished Wllbont the Use of Water. "Fire!" Tbe wild cry rang out on tbe nlghtair. Heads were thrust hastily out of :uppcr windows, ex cited voices uttered quick inquiries, and in the distance was heard the clatter of tbe engines coming nearer and nearer. From a large build ing around the corner huge volumes of dense smoke poured forth. The whole floor was on fire. The flames had not as yet communicated to any of the floors above. Nearer and nearer came the engines. They reached the scene. The firemen sprang to their task with alacrity. But an nnforseen contingency presented itself. There was no water. In vain tbe faith ful men made the requisito connection of hose and waterplug. In vain the engines throbbed with superhuman energy. Something had happened at the waterworks. "Must I stand by and see my honse burned to tbe ground:" shouted the owner of tho build ing with tears in his voice. "Can nothing be donef The Chief o'f the Fire Department s hook his head. He looked helplessly at the crowd that had gathered. Suddenly a great light shown in his eyes. With the quickness of a man trained to act in emergencies he darted into tbe crowd. There was a sound of rapid scuffling, angry protest, and loud threats, and the Chief emerged from the crowd with a large bundle in his arms. Calling imperiously to his men be ordered the front doors of the bnilding to be broken open. It seemed like the freak of a crazy man. but the order was obeyed. With a yell of triumph the Chief sprang Into the burning building, fol lowed by his men. Grimy, choked, and blinded by smoke, but victorious, they came out a few moments afterward, and the Chief gave the order to return. He had smothered the flames with the trousers of an English tourist. UP MONT BLANC ON A SLEDGE. A Lame and Elderly Alan Makes the Jour ney With Some Comfort. From the New York Snn.J A lame man, about 60 years of age, has just made the ascent of Mont Blanc. In his day Mr. Janssen has been a great mountain climber. He is tbe President of the French Alpine Club, and an astronomer. He had a two fold purpose in view in the ascent be hag just made under such disadvantageous circum stances. He wished in the first place to ascer tain whether it was possible for scientific men to reach tbe regions of eternal snow without becoming so fatigued as to impair the value of their observations, his second purpose was scientific He desired to find whether the outer atmosphere of tbe sun contains oxygen in the state in which the gas is formed in the atmosphere of the earth. The scientific results of Mr. Janssen's jour ney bave not been announced. He ascertained, however, that though old and lame he was able to roach the top of that ternblv fatiguing mouptain in comparative comfort. In fact, tbe astronomer was taken up on a sledge which was drawn and pnsbed bv 23 guide?, and while tbey bad a rather bard time of It in some parts of tbe ascent, the old gentleman sat in com fort on his sledge and let them tug away and flounder in the snow. It took him two days to make the ascent, but only one day to return to the hotel near the foot of the mountain; and during the many hours the guides were puffing away up the dif ficult slope two ladies, the wife and daughter of the Alpine sledge traveler, were on the veranda of the hotel watching every movement of their relative through a telescope Ho tberefore not only ascended the mountain with a considerable degree of comfort, bnt afforded, all tbe way up, a very unique and Interesting spectacle to those who were watching the party below. TWO THOUSAND MIXES TO TBAVEL. The Task Warburton Pike lias Undertaken In Arctic Regions. Ottawa. October 5. Warburton Pike, who is now enjoying a solitary ramble in the Arctic regions, does not expect to see civilization again before Christmas, If then. When last heard from he was at Fort Resolution, when he intended to go directly to the Arctic, ascending the Great Fish river. About 2.0U0 miles of travel along the desolate coast off which Sir John Franklin and his men were lost, mil bring the traveler to the mouth of the Mackenzie His intention is to ascend the great river, cross the mountains, pass through New Caledonia to Quesnell, and thence come home by civilized routes. He is without a guide, that official having returned to Ft. Resolution with the information that the provisions were runnlnc short. PETBIFIED FBUTT UNEAETHED. A Youngitown Bookkeeper Discovers It nnd feends It to Washington. SPECIAL TEL ECU Ail TO TBE DISPATCH. YOUNGSTOWN. October a William Burt, a bookkeeper, while bunting recently a short distance from here, discovered imbedded In sandstone a number of specimens of what he supposed were petrified nuts. He sent them to the Smithsonian Institute, and to-day received a letter stating that the specimens wero petri fied fruit of great antiquity, growing in a climate wntcn was entirety umereni irom tne present. The find is regarded of great value by geological students, and the Smithsonian Institute will send a representative to prospect for more specimens. THROUGHOUT THE STATE Mt. Carmel colliery began operations dur ing the war and still continues, with over 17 miles of cangway. Since the marriage license law went into ef fect 2,732 papers have been taken out in Cam bria county. Of this number 551 are credited to 18S9 and 659 to this year. First public sales of real estate in Johns town since the flood took place last week. One property brought 13,100 and sold for 511,000 in May, 18SS. or J53S per foot frontage. Elizabeth Baer, a maiden lady, be queathes 20,000 to Josiah Diehl and wife, a poor couple living in tbe upper part of Lehigh county, because of troume witn relatives. A new Industry promises to take hold among Tioga county farmers. Simeon Davis, a Bloss burg gardener, raised several large bunches of peanuts the past season and intends to go into the business extensively next year. Frank Kemerer, a Renovo youth, trolled the Susquehanna river with a black cricket at tbe end of bis hook, and a black bass 20 inches long took bold. He bad to drag it up the bank, and old experienced Renovo fishermen say it beats tho record. Four female school teachers walked from Renova to Lock Haven, a distance of 23 miles, between sunrise and sunset on Saturday. They carried their dinner with tbem and rested an hour while eating it. Ibey walked upon the railway ties most of the way., Weather signs conflict this year with the usual regularity. A covey of partridges took shelter in a Norristown ontshed and the prophets predict a cold winter on tbe strength of tbe visitation. A swarm of bees have celled up a home near tbe top of a Sunbury oak tree and tbe prophets predict a mild win ter., Andrew Hunter, a farmer living Ave miles out from Reynoldsville, JeiTersr.n coun ty, has just turned tbe century nilleposs in life and hundreds assisted In celebrating the event. This patriarch took up bis home in the Beech wood's settlement S years ago and he does a day's labor with tbe young" men of tho farm Just as he always did. CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. Potatoes are so large in Maine that 160 of them make a barrel. The honey crop of San Diego county, CaL, for 1890 will be 1,750,000 pounds. It will take three months to lay the brick floor in the Port Hnron tunnel. A 3Ionguagon, Jlich., man has a rifla which his grandfather boucht in 1775. A Finney county, Kan., man has re ceived an order from New York for a car load of ai.k rabbits. According to the report of the 3Ier chants' Protectivo Association the "deadbeats' $8,000 adlS' I'a'' number W1 and owe ore The beach at Crescent Citv has beeu 2lT-erSdiWitn ,warm of herring arid smelt that is unbearabl by s,r0DS tldea Toe 3tcncl1 An aged Chinese leper was found in a rt8.3ehJhrSn0the other day. Hewasaban. bran?puytited.raCaan1 he i that his legs Young sharks, under the guise of "ten derloin of sole." are exposed for sale in tha San Francisco fish markets. The inspectors a few days ago confiscated 700 pounds. y a A new invention in musical instruments brought out In Germany is called a "bowed piano." It resembles a pianoforte frame, anbl contains six violins, two violas and two violou cellos. Some opals were found recently on Mis. souri Flat, five miles Irom Pullman. Wash., and 200 claims have been staked out. The zems are found in a deposit of gravel 26 feet below the surface. "When the Sheriff of Tuscarawas county weni to lock np his prisoners in the jail at New Philadelphia Tuesday night he-found that four prisoners had sawed through an iron window and escaped, The St. Joseph, Mo.. Opera House peo ple are advertising for a young man to take a small part in a play who may be deficient in good looks and form, but must understand, uiiiKjng a cow. "William Hackard, who lives near Bay minette, in Baldwin county, Ala is the small, est man In America. He is 21 years of age and weighs only 49 pounds. He is three feet high and perfoctly formed. As the season of roast turkey and cran berry sauce is at band housekeepers may find useful the best means of keeping cranberries. This is to place the berries under cold water in stone jars for winter use. At a harvest dance the decorations were) sheaves of grain, tied with red ribbons, placed a!.0,n,t 5ne room. pumpkins cut jack o'lantera, all kinds of vegetables placed on the walls and palms and roses for floral ornaments. What is claimed to be the largest load of log3 ever hauled in Santa Cruz county, CaL, was brought Into Monta Vista a few days ago. It was drawn by five yoke of oxen, and Included, 25 logs, that scaled 50,150 feet of lumber. The members of a stranded variety troupe are living in a cottage at Reed City, Tbe male members are sawing wood and tho female members are telling fortunes. The company finds the new business lucrative. A cucumber on exhibition at Mont gomery, Ala., Is 33 inches long. 12 inches wide and weighs Wi pounds. It is called the "Cen tennial," and tbe patch in which it grew is full of cucumbers, weighing from one pound to tha weight of the one mentioned. A queer wedding occurred at Kirwin, Kan., thea other day. A couplo who went through the form of a marriage 12 years ago dis covered upon investigating the records that no license had been issued to tbem. and a prompt wedding in due form was the result. A drummer, of Iowa, for the Waltham Watch Company, bought a one-third interest it an about-to-be-abandoned zinc mine atJop lin. Mo., for S155. He went down into tho mine, dug an hour, struck it nchly. and, com ing out. sold his interest for $15,000 cash. While a political meeting was impa tiently listening to a speeeh in Alabama, last week, somebody got away with the meat and drink with which the rally was to wind up and the ungorged freemen camo near lynching some nesroes who wero suspected of the ab straction. There is in the yard of Samuel Owens at Whittier, Cal., an acacia tree that visitors are never tired of admirin;. It bas grown from a seed planted two years ago last ADrll. and is 33 feet high. Its trunk a foot above tbe ground is 12 inches in diameter, while the branches ara 16 feet in diameter. "Old Man Schneider," an old German about Ashland, Wis., found a barrel containing; over S700 in gold, silver and paper money while cleaning out tbe alley back of a saloon. Tho barrel bad evidently been there for years, bcbnelder took bis treasure inside the saloon, and tho barkeeper took It to iook at ana keps it. Schneider has brought suit to recover tho money. The Montreal express brought a queer passenger into Springfield. Mass. He worked himself under one of. the coaches and securing bis body to one of the axles bad a long, lowly and dirty ride. Beforo the city had been reached tbe wheels were sounded at a station and tbe stowaway discovered. He evidently had been prepared for such an emergency, for he quickly unfastened himself and ran. J. D. Hoss, of Indianapolis, sued Mrs. Lydia Hersey, of Montgomery county, on a note, and she set up a counter claim for fuel and light used by Mr. Hoss while he was court inz a girl living with Mrs. Hersey. Mr. IIosi then filed a demurrer, asserting that inasmuch as Mrs. Hersey also had a beau while he was there she would bave used tbe fuel and light anyhow. The court found for Mr. Hoss. "W. T. Ellis and bis little son, of Wells villc, Montgomery county. Mo., were bitten by a mad dog September 9. They did nothing until Sunday, when their wounds having swollen and become painful they went to Han nibal and had Dr. Vernette apply bis mad stone. It clung to Ellis' hand 13 hours, ex tracting several ounces of green poison, and to the lad's all night. It is believed they will ret cover. Some very strange accidents are brought to light by the accident insurance business. For instance, a man at Zaleski, O.. a stationary engineer, was kicked very severely by a hog. It disabled him Tor quite a number of weeks, and be was paid 507. Another case was that of a roan at Chiilicothe. O. As ho was stooping to pick up some kindling wood a game rooster gaffed him in the waist, cutting an artery, which disabled bim for some time. WITH PURPOSE AND POINT. "Do you play cards?" asked the minister of the three-card monte man. "No," said the gambler, gravely; "I work with them." Somerviltt Journal. She Do you believe in the doctrine, "A kiss Tor a blow?" He bo far as my experience goes, no. bhe What experience have you had? lie Oh, I've Vlssed lots of girls and had them blow. Lowell Citizen. Artist I flatter myself, my boy, that that new picture of mine Is going to make the sensa tion of the year. Critical Friend Yes, you do. SomertiUi Journal. Piano Teacher You must accustom vour self, young lady, not to use the pedal to much. Young Lady Oh, 1 can't help it! Teacher And why not? loung Lady Becauso I've been working tho whole year on a sewing machine. Fliegmd BUutttr. "There, John, that is. an ox. The shoes on your feet are made from the hide of an animal like that." "I don't see bow that can be. My shoes are black. He's a russet leather ox." tfarptr's Bazar. Mike Pat, they soy that one o' thim fel lers with a big tllescope be aflher discoverln' a new asteroid. Pat Sure, Hoike, an' he can kape the baste. I'd rather rolde a narse. JneekM' Weekly. Tramp I. Did he give you anything? Tramp II. Yep. Tramp I. Shell out, then. You promised to dlwy. Tramp II. You can have It all. He gave ma tbe address ol the town soup kitchen. Harper's Bazar. Ethel York Ma, what makes the Phila delphia girls wear mugs? Mrs. York-Do they. Ethel? Ethel Ulg brother says that the irhlladelphla girls have the awfullest mugs on their shoulder! he ever saw. Jewelers Weekly. Customer I want a 2-cent stamp. Druggist Cert'nly, ma'am. Anything else? Customer No. Please be sure and send tha stamp home In time for the malt. Druggist Yes ma'am. Shall I send the boy to lick the stamp? Customer ao. That will not be necessary. Ilovr much? Druggist (with a sigh) Two cents. Customer (paying htm) It does seem as though we ought to -bave cheaper postage. Good moral log, Uargef Bazar, MHt&
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