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PITTSBURG. SUNDAY. OCT. 12, 189a
THE TENDENCY TO AVASTE.
In the editorial comments of The Sis
patch, in advance of the arrival of the
guests of the iron and steel men from abroad,
it was pointed ont that while Pittsburg would
hope for the praise of her expert visitors, their
criticisms of whatever they might find to
criticise should be of great value to our
industries. The visit being ended, our peo
ple can be happy iu the expressions of ap
proval and admiration from those kindly
but competent judges; and they can also ob
tain the benefit of some salutary criticisms.
In addition to tbe indisputable declaration
of one frank visitor irom Sheffield that onr
streets are "deucedly bad," the most promi
nent and, perhaps, the most useful of these
criticisms are based on our tendency to
wastefulness.
This is by no means a new presentation of
a national characteristic. It is an old say
ing that a French family could feed itself
with healthy and appetizing food out of
what an average American iamily will
waste. The fault arises from tho very com
fortable conditions, which give us such
abundance of materials that the loss from
waste often if not generally appears ot less
importaice than tlie loss of tim : necessary
for utilizing what is wasted. The respect in
which this tendency seemed to strike our
guests mot forcibly, was in thewaste abort
coal mines; and here tbe reason is clearly
the prolusion of materials. Fuel has been
so abundant and cheap in Pittsburg, es
pecially since the gas era, that the coal
which onr visitors consider waste, would
not be worth enough to pay lor mining, or
for transportation to market
Hut tiiis happy condition of profusion
cannot be permanent, and a prudent outlook
ior the future will take into consideration
all methods for saving such waste. If, as has
been pointed out, our present methods waste
one-sixth of the coal, which proportion
would be saved in England or Germany, it
is plain that there is an immense addition to
our mineral wealth to be either utilized or
stored up against the future day when it can be
brought into consumption. Reference is often
mr.de to the immense piles of refuse coal
around our coal mines, which may be pre
sumed to contain a large share of the wasted
material, referred to by our foreicn critics.
The method by which these piles can be
turned into materials for industry, will
Make a vast addition to our industrial
wealth; while if that cannot at once be done
the method which preserves them for the
future will create an immense storage ol
material for another era.
It is doubtful if this criticism cannot be
profitably studied in other industries. In
the higher manufacturing branches both the
cost of material and the closeness of compe
tition tend to reduce waste to a minimum.
But there are many other departments
of work where the correction of waste might
make an almost incalculable addition to the
national wealth. There is no doubt that if
our farming industries were pursued with as
close a care to utilize everything, as is done
in France or England, the agricultural pro
duction of the United States would under
go an infinite enhancement. The condition
of our country roads which Tun Dispatch
has made prominent of late, and of city
streets, to which reference was made by our
visitors, are examples of the fault which
causes waste of effort and power. "We lay an
expensive pavement and then waste it by
tearing it up to lay underground pipes that
should have been put down before the pave
ment. Millions of dollars' worth of fertility
in city sewage is wasted yearly, and at the
same time one of the best gifts of nature is
thrown away by tainting the purity ol our
streams. Examples of this great fault
could be continued to infinity, but these are
sufficient
The criticism is an instructive one, and it
can be made useful, by taking all means to
correct the fault Now that our tendency
to waste has been pointed ont by such high
authority, it is to be hoped that it will re
sult in the addition to wealth and industry,
secured by utilizing the waste wherever it
is possible.
THE TROMXSE OF NEW WRITERS.
The enthusiastic remark of a writer in
Harper's Magazine concerning Rudyard
Kipling, tijat "no writer since Dickens in
England and Bret Harte in America has
promised so much," arouses the dissent of
the New York Star. That paper cites
Thackeray, George Eliot, Charles Beade,
"William Black and George Meredith in
England, and Howells in America as ex
amples to the contrary, and asserts:
Undoubtedly Kipling is a clever writer, but
be is greatly overrated both as to bis achieve
ments already and bis promise for the future.
He is a London "fad" and will only have bis
day. lie has said himself that as be has gone
up like a rocket be will probably come down
like a stick. That will be bis fate.
Both views are extreme; but the first feat
Tire of the dispute that strikes the observer
is that tbe criticism does not reply to the
original assertion even in its letter. Thack
eray, George Eliot, Meredith and Beade
were coteuiporaries of Dickens, as Howells
was of Bret Harte. Beyond that all these
writers are judged not by their promise, at
the inception of their literary career, but by
their full performance. la most if not all
of their cases, their reputation was of mod
erate and steady growth, with no such burst
of salutatory promise as must be awarded
to Kipling.
At the same time the writer in Harper's
who differs so decidedly from Mr. Howells,
must be deemed to have given rather free
rein to his enthusiasm. That Kipling has
made a remarkable entry into light literature
is beyond question. The creator of "Krishna
Mulvany" and his comrades, has within
him the promise of a Lever. Those heroes
of the India railways and Martini rifles,
fight and carouse with the same spirit as
Dumas" Three Musketeers, of centuries be
fore. But beyond that Kipling's work
does not yet rise above the level of a credit
able mediocrity. His single exhibition
picture is of startling force and vitality; but
it is hardly just to say that this is a greater
promise than is given by writers who a littte
further on in their career, exhibit much
wider range of conception and deeper
thought Kobert Louis Stevenson may now
be ranked among those who are to be judged
by lull performance rather than promise.
Yet at an early stage of his career the wide
range between "The Suicide Club" and
"Treasure Island" showed a writer with a
breadth of conception of which Kipling has
as yet given no sign. Even now we prefer
to regard Mr. Stevenson's work as a promise
of still greater performances. The man who
can create snch dissimilar characters as
Alan Breck Stuart, Prince Otto, the Master
of Ballantrae, and the pirate sea-cook in
"Treasure Island," and can vary his narra
tive from the adventures of "Kidnaped" to
the psychological fantasies of "Dr. Jekyll
and Mr. Hyde" should in some larger and
more sustained work which combines all the
remarkable qualities of his earlier stories
write his name high up on the list of the
world's great novelisU. t
Even in this country we have writers
whose promise, while less dazzling than
that of Kipling's, shows a greater depth.
Stinson's "First Harvests" ought to be the
first of a series of powerful stories of modern
life, and Harold Frederic shows a wide
scope of treatment between the story of
American life, in "The Lawlor Girl" and
that of revolutionary adventure "In the
Valley." If the promise of these, as of
many other new writers, is sustained, we
may look for works of higher and deeper
character than the striking creations or
Kipling's humor.
Budyard Kipling may be a "fad;" but
if so, tbe craze is created by the rigor and
life of his work. His popularity has in it
the lesson for writers that it is due to the
freshness of his theme and the vitality of
his treatment His success, like that of
Bider Haggard's first works, is a refutation
of the prevalent theory that a novelist must
tell only commonplace stories and must rep
resent life with the faithful monotony of
the photographic process. Even Mr. How
ells, who has preached that theory with
some persistence, proved the contrary, by
the originality and power with which he
brought out the romance and sentiment of
modern life in "Their "Wedding Journey"
and "A Chance Acquaintance." Freshness,
life and originality will win more success
in fiction than can be attained by the ham
pering fetters of realistic theories.
SOCIETY AND CREtUNAXS.
The statement of McNally, who was sen
tenced to the penitentiary in the Criminal
Court yesterday, contains a good deal of food
for thought The sincerity of his assertions
is showj by his disavowal or tbe theory of
kleptom inia advanced by his counsel; and
while his views of the places of criminal de
tention may be somewhat tinged by his un
fortunate experiences, there is enough in
them to warrant investigation and correc
tion. The most salient feature of this profes
sional thief s statement is that he learned
the art of larceny in the reform school, and
that his education in vice was finished in
the workhouse. Such an assertion should
invite a very decided effort to change things
for the better. A reform school which
teaches predatory youth to steal fur
nishes a class of reform that is not
wanted. The reform schools were estab
lished for the purpose of keeping the
younger people who come within the limits
of tbe law, out of the criminal influences
that are supposed to be ineradicable in the
prisons where older criminals are confined.
Some of them may have been successful in
actually reforming the subjects of their
treatment; but there is too much reason for
believing that in others the statement of
McNally is true and that they are schools
of vice rather than of reform. If so they
defeat their own purpose and should be
either entirely reorganized or else abolished
altogether.
The further part of this criminal's state
ment, with regard to the difficulty or a
convict in securing honest labor and the in
fluence which therefore impels him back
into crime, is also a grave matter. It is an
evil that is well known to exist. Indeed, it
is not unnatural that people should be loth
to admit convicts to their employment
But it is none the less discreditable to
Christian civilization that a man who is
trying to redeem past offenses and live an
honest life should not be aided rather than
discouraged by the rest or society. .There
is a public duty, to aid such men in obtain
ing employment, that should not be shirked;
and until the duty is fully performed,
society has a share in the criminality of
men like McNally.
Certainly when it is alleged that public
institutions teach vice, and that then society
makes outlaws of the criminals, society as
well as the criminals, is on trial.
LIGHT ON THE CONFEREE SYSTEM.
It may have been thought that as a politi
cal device for ascertaining the vox poptt.lt,
which is supposed to have some relation to
the roz Dei, the delegate system of conven
tions had fallen into the lowest stage of dis
repute. But the conferee plan of Congres
sional nominations in districts composed of
different counties enters into bad emulation
of the delegate convention proper. "When
the public permits itself to take a languid
interest in the innumerable ballots and
"never-surrender" sessions of these con
ferees, it is usually amused at the farce.
"Whether the constituents of(these conferees
take the matter so lightly when the inner
workings are exhibited, as is now being done
in the Twenty-fifth district, is quite another
thing.
The charges of bribery and the recrimina
tions against the accusing parties in the
Twenty-fifth district are fresh in recollec
tion. But they are not more astonishing
than a paper which was published in The
Dispatch: and other journals yesterday of
date December 26, 18SU; by which not only
was the nomination for Congress this year
disposed of, but a further mortgage was
THE
placed upan the future as far as 1892. This
quaint document begins as follows:
"It is mutually agreed that A, McDowell and
his friends in Mercor county are to support the
candidacy ot C. C. Townsend for Congress In
tbe Congressional Conference of 1890, by gtTing
him tho votes of Mercer county conferees In
said conference; and on the part of C. C. Town
send and his friends in Beaver county, he and
they will give the support of Beaver county
conferees to A. McDowell In tho conference
for the Congressional nominations of 1892. And
if necessary to carry out the spirit of this
agreement, McDowell is to be a candidate for
Congress In Mercer county In 1S90, and Town
send in Beaver county in 1892.
This agreement is duly signed by Mc
Dowell and Townsend, aud after the form
or negotiable paper indorsed by "M. S.
Quay, S. H. Miller, Thomas Perry and B.
J. Haywood." It will be observed that the
votes of the conferees are pledged six months,
and again two years in advance. No
thought seems to have entered the minds of
the high contracting parties that the Be
pnblican citizens of the district might wish
a voice of their own in the matter. An ad
ditional light upon the workings of con
feree machinery is had in tbe proviso that
the parties, if necessary, were to be candi
dates in their own counties, "ven when they
did not want the nomination, so as to carry
these counties, and then throw the vote to
the previously arranged candidates. Though
everything would" be cut and dried, the
usual formula of 100 or more ballots would
doubtless be gone through with before de
livery of the goods. Of course this par
ticular bargain broke, and the public know
the result
The remedy for tho fraudulent conferee
system is this: The voters in each county
should insist on voting directly for their
candidates; then the majority of the ballots
would honestly nominate the most popular
man. A lew more cataclysms like the one
in the Twenty-fifth district will help bring
about the desired change.
NATURAL GAS CAPTURED THEM.
Natural gas captured our guests from
abroad. They are charmed with it; our
mills and factories may be paralleled abroad,
our streets may be excelled, but natural gas
is unique, and it is Pittsburg's. Chicago
will find it hard to make an impression on
the gentlemen from over the sea without
natural gas.
THE SIGNS OF THE WEEK.
If the accounts of partisan correspondents
of the receptions during the week to the
rival candidates for Governor who are
"swinging round the circle" were taken for
gospel, the public might be puzzled over tho
fickleness of a town which one night is re
ported in an ecstacy of enthusiasm for Patti
son, and tbe next experiences similar emo
tion for Delamater. However, the public
are by no means liable to take all these re
ports without salt. They know that even
correspondents who start out on such a tour
in an impartial mood are liable to be affected
by the feeling for the particular candidate
they accompany, before it is finished. They
can, therefore, well be prepared to discount
where there is reason to expect beforehand
( a partisan bias or motive. The utility of a
clacque is understood in a political canvass
as keenly as at a theater on first nights. To
create the impression of victory ahead is to
influence the timid and wavering.
Taking into acconnt that Pattison repre
sents the minority party, and that he has
been traveling in strongly Bepublican dis
tricts, it is undoubted that the quality of
the receptions tendered him indicate a vote
far in excess of his party. Making liberal
deductions even for the enthusiasm of cor
respondents, it is quite likely that enough
Independent Bepublicans are supporting
Pattison in the western and middle counties
to make probable his election, if from the
same source he derives any considerable
strength in the East, or even if his own
party is active as a unit in his behalf.
The majority which Pattison has to over
come is normally a big one. It is also true
that Delamater and the Bepublican mana
gers will work as hard as possible for suc
cess between now and polling day. But the
signs indicate that the Bepublican majority
in the "West need not be counted upon.
Looking in any direction it is difficult to
see where Senator Quay finds a basis for his
confidence in Mr. Delamater's chances. At
present they seem about as blue as possible.
"With the astute Chairman of the National
Committee at the helm they may change;
but thus far they are the reverse cf promis
ing, and apparently growing no better fast.
THE CANAL AGAIN APPROVED.
The canal projected to connect Pittsburg
with Lake Erie finds favor among naval
men and engineers at "Washington. They
apprehend how great a commercial benefit
to the interior of the whole country such an
addition to its waterways would be. Nor
does the canal scheme lack the countenance
of age. Plans of a survey made under the
authority of the State for a canal having the
same direction as that now designed were
drawn up as long ago as 1824, and the maps
are in existence to-day. The canal may
have some strategic value also, although as
Commodore Bamsey fays it is not immedi
ately apparent
REFORMERS AND POLITICS.
The difficulty of keeping politics out of a
reform movement receives a striking illus
tration in the New York City ticket put in
nomination by the Municipal League. That
organization, it will be remembered, was
formed for the purpose of divorcing munici
pal affairs from politics. The attempt was
outlined to be to put the conduct of muioi
pal business "on a business basis." "With
that done, it was thought that the corrup
tion and favoritism of municipal adminis
tration would be done away with.
No one doubts that the movement was in
spired by the most praiseworthy motives;
but the faot that the plan of action at the
start turned on taking the city offices out of
the bauds of the politicians, puts the out
come in the nomination of a ticket last week
in a very peculiar light Of course the first
important aud crucial step of such a move
ment was the nomination of a ticket
This work being taken under considera
tion, the question of obtaining support for it
was given exactly the same prominence as
if the organization had been a political one.
Negotiations are opened with the County
Democracy and the Bepublican organiza
tion on the purely political basis of secur
ing support in exchange for nominations.
The result has been, after a good deal of
negotiation, the nomination of a ticket
which, by tbe biographies of the candidates
is shown to be made up entirely of the polit
ical class, which at the inception of the
movement was to be shut out altogether.
It is not likely that the members of the
Municipal League consciously abandoned
their principles, and it may be hoped that
their ticket is made up of honest and faith
ful men; although the opposition organs de
clare some of them to be "machine politi
cians of the most pronounced type." Bnt
the result shows how readily even the men
who try to abolish political practices, fall
Into them, when they get into the field of.
political effort When the League reform-
PITTSBURG DISPATCH,
ers concluded that they would get the votes
of the County Democracy or the Re
publican.', in exchange for repre
sentation on the ticket, they took the
step of admitting political considerations
behind which the entire range of political
practices is sure to follow. It is not to be
understood as necessarily entailing dishon
esty to make combinations by which nom
inations are exchanged for votes; but for
men who started into a movement on the
basis of abolishing the political class of
methods it was an abandonment of princi
ple. They could stick to their platform
only by making nominations on the plan of
attracting votes through the high character
and well-known integrity of their candi
dates. The ticket nominated by the agreement
between the reformers and the dissentient
politicians does not seem to possess in any
commanding degree that quality ol success.
In fact the only reason for thinking that it
has any particular strength is the savage
way in which it is attacked by the regular
political organs.
TnE Delamater organs which declared
that the announcement ot Wallace's intention
to support Pattison was based on a bogus let
ter, will now proceed to demonstrate that tbe
wicked Democratic managers produced a bogus
Wallace at tho meeting in Philadelphia last
night
Balfour's plan for relieving the famine
in Ireland by putting all the Irish in jail is
likely to fail by reason of two obstacles. The
jails are not large enough, and the Irish will
not stay to be put In them.
New Mexico, which has been refused
admission as a State has as much population as
either Idaho or Wyoming, which were admitted
to the Union. A Republican organ explains
this by pointing out that the population of New
Mexico is principally Mexican and half-breed,
and is therefore without the necessary intelli
gence. There is something in this. Idaho and
Wyoming voters bad the Intelligence to vote
the Republican ticket and thus secure admis
sion. Colonel George Bliss, of New York,
is also for a straight Republican ticket in that
city. The way in which all the practical poli
ticians are opposing the fusion movement is
about tbe only evidence yet given that the lat
ter has some chance of success.
The corrections and denials of that re
port about Cooper displacing Andrews, make
it appear that Cooper is to do nothing except
to supply the quality of hopefulness to the Re
publican management.
We regret to observe that the Hon. Jo
seph Medill, of the Chicago Tribune, and the
Hon. Charles A Dana, of the New York Sun,
are expending their valuable time in a discus
sion over the meaning of the'word "chump."
They should be satisfied with not belonging to
the class, and remember that they will not be
wholly free from that peril If they waste much
time over studying the chump.
Speaker Beed declares that the Senate
is composed of a lot of old grandmothers. The
language is not much more parliamentary than
Kennedy's; but it is a good deal less sensational.
It leaves a doubt whether tbe speech of Ken
nedy was not the voice of Beed.
There may be some doubt as to which
tickot Charles S. Wolfe is supporting; but it is
beyond dispute that his speeches are not in
tended to make votes for Delamater.
The reappearance of the practice of as
sessing tho department clerks at Washing
ton, makes it strange that the Republican cam
paign committee did not include in their list of
Republican pledgee redeemed, that of enforc
ing civil service reform. The list is chiefly fa
mous for crediting the Bepublican party with
the things that it has not done.
Mr. McKinley's" speeches move the
esteemed New York Sun to declare that "he is
an uncomparably better Democrat than Grover
Cleveland." In that case the Sun should bring
the Democrats in a solid body to vote for
McKinley.
It seems that tbe daughter of the Confed
eracy will not wed the son of tbe Northern
abolitionist. We regret to say that Miss Davis
has seceded from the union.
There are declarations to the effect that
tho twin relic of barbarism, polygamy, bas
ceased to exist in Utah. But if a search were
set on foot for it like the hunt for specimens of
that other extinct species of the Western
plains, there is no reason to believe that the
searchers would not have to bunt as long as
tbey did for the buffaloes.
PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE.
Mrs. Frank Leslie will deliver two lec
tures in Chicago next week on "The Boyal
Leaders of Society."
Mrs. M. Edith Howcott, of New Orleans,
is the owner of over 50,000 acres of selected tim
ber lands in Lonisiana and Mississippi, and is
still buying.
General E. Burd Grubb, the new Minis
ter to Spain, received notice of his appoint
ment in an autograph letter from Mr. Blaine,
which be considers quite a complimenc.
Mrs. Custer, who has been visiting several
of her gallant husband's army friends in Mon
tana and the Dakota, is finishing np tho Chi
cago postscript of her trip, and is liable to reach
homo any day.
Walt Whitman has received a kindly let
ter from Sir Edwin Arnold In which the letter
expresses a hope to meet the "good, gray poet"
under his own roof-tree at .Camden during tho
summer of 1891.
Mr. Joseph Pulitzer, of the New York
World, just home from Europe, basso far re
covered from bis threatened blindness that he
retains perfect sight in one eye. He wears
blue eye-glasses.
Robert C. WlNTnROP. Hamilton Fish and
William Evarts. who were originally appointed
trustees of the Peabody Educational Fund by
Mr. Peabody, are still active members of the
board of trustoes.
Mrs. Lanotry's recreant bntler, William
Sumpter. is in trouble. Bis wife asks for di
vorce and alimony, and he makes answer that
be only gets 60 a month for butlertng and
stewarding tbe Lily.
General Butler, accompanied by Treas
urer Gilfillan and other officers of the San
Miguel Company, is on avisittothatcompauy's
property.? This is the General's first visit to the
country beyond the Missouri river.
Senator Stanford, just home from
Europe, is anxious to get back to Palo Alto,
his great California establishment for tbe
breeding of thoroughbred horses. He found
that his reputation as a horse-breeder had pre
ceded him to Russia.
Ex-Senator George w. Jones, of Iowa, Is
a well-preserved" and jaunty man of nearly 90
years. His head Is covered with bunches of
wavy, white curls, and his Van Dyke beard and
mnstachlos are white and curly. But his figure
Is still light, sinewy and graceful. He lives la
Dubuque, la.
Tlie "Way We Always Do It
From the Altoona Times. J
The reception to the visiting metallurgists at
Pittsburg this week was an ovation. During
their stay in that place they were treated with
unusual consideration and were shown every
thing worth seeing.
DEATHS OF A DAY.
Abljah Hays, Jr.
AbUah Hays, Jr., who died Thursday evening,
was bom August 6, ISIS, In Franklin connty. His
father removed to Plum township, this county.
when Abljah was 2 years old. The deceased re
turned to this county when a young man, and
after learning the carpenter trade, became a con
tractor and builder. In 1S31 the llrraof J. A A.
Ilays was established, and he was actively en-
f sued In tho lumber business for over SO years. In
Mi the mill property was destroyed by lire, and
since then Mr. Bays led a retired life until hi
death. Hewasamemberof the Methodist Epis
copal Church. He was. the .father or seven chil
dren, five sons and two daughters. The funeral
occurs at 10:50 to-day,-I
SUNDAY. OCTOBER ,12,
MURRAY'S MUSINGS.
Higher Prices Result From Business Greed
Bather Than the New Tariff Law Cable
Cars on Broadway in New York News
paper Mechanism.
ifrom a staff correspondent. I
"The sudden rise in tbe market rates of cer
tain classes ot goods strikes a good many
people with dismay. That the new rates of
customs dnties is directly responsible for much
of this is generally admitted, but it is largely a
fictitious necessity. It is always remarked that
any pretext which will, enable a dealer to ad
vance prices Is taken 'advantage of immedi
ately, while a change of circumstances tbe
other way makes no appreciable difference to
the consumer, save by long and gradual ap
proaches. Tho advance is promptly sudden,
the decline by easy stages.
Tho most conspicuous Instance of this was
observable in tnis city last week. Probably not
less than 1,000 different articles of everyday
consumption changed to a higher price iu a
single day. Tbe man accustomed to buying a
certain brand of cigars at say, two for 25 cents,
found that between Friday and Saturday that
same brand advanced to 15 cents, straight
The kind that he purchased anywhere on Fri
day for 10 cents each had on the next day been
marked two for23ccnts. The club man who had
been paying $3 SO for a certain brand of wine,
lo, these many years, now finds 4 tbe ruling
figure. The ladies who shop daily and make a
sort of religion of their shrewdness in price
lists were confounded en Saturday by the gen
eral rise all along tbe line. The tin plate clause
In the recently enacted tariff bill not only af
fects tinware, but has served as a pretext for
all dealers in household goods to bang a small
increase on throughout tbeir general stock.
The inland retailers who are about to lay in
stock will find how this thing works. It will be
a good thing for them, for it affords them a
pretext also, to put on a higher price all 'round.
The tariff bill will be made to shoulder tbe
blame, whether responsible or not When ice
went up from 4 to S8 per ton tho price of soda
water went up from o cents to 10 cents per
glass, though the real extra cost ot the bever
age becauso of the rise In ice was not 2 mills a
glass. So it affected, in tbe same or less de
gree, everything consumed in the market and
with as little reason. It will not surprise the
student of economics, therefore, to find that
prices have stiffened up generally. But it will
make him awfully mad.
A Wonderful Nowsdealcr.
pnERE is an active, line-looking man at the
corner of Broadway and Thirty-third
street who follows the bumble business ot run
ning a news stand. His place on the sidewalk
is shetserea by the steps of the downtown ele
vated station. It is a close little den chocic full
of novels, periodicals and newspapers, with a
sort of a cockpit big enough for one person to
turn around in. When the weather is fine the
owner stands outside and serves papers from
an outer shelf to his many customers. If you
caro to stand near by between the hours of 8
and 11 o'clock It is worth while to witness tbe
operation of a remarkable business. He han
dles lrom 1,600 to 1,800 papers daily. Most of
these are handed to his individual customer in
person and without any indication on the part
of tbe buyer as to the paper desired. I thought
he was a mind reader at first until I learned
that he knew nearly every man by sight and re
membered iust what paper or papers be read.
As these customers stream along to take the
elevated downtown they are served with the
lightning-like rapidity that comes of long serv
ice in the delivery department of tho big dailies
on Park Bow.
As nearly every purchaser splits a nickel it
maybe imagined how absolutely marvelous
this' human combination is. He has a long
string of elevated railway tickets for custom
ers who do not care to be crowded through tbe
mob upstairs. They don't bavo to ask for them
twice, either. It is merely an accommodation.
Every man usually buys tho same paper or pa
pers every morning and evening, and if he
takes the cars here these papers will be neatly
folded and banded out to him with a polite
bow and, after awhile, a cheerful word. Ihave
watched this newsman for hours, altogether,
and never saw him make a mistake. On the
contrary, ho remembers what I want in papers
and periodicals when I forget it myself. And
what do you suppose such a stand takes in?
From ?30 to $10 per day!
A Small Boy's Big Business.
'There is another curious business here, and
one which bas grown up from small and ap
parently contemptible beginnings into a great
commercial enterprise. This is the toilet sup
ply. One day a few years ago a down town
office boy, who may have been a very good boy
every other way, was discharged for inatten
tion to tbe towels, soap, etc. He conceived a
brilliant idea. This idea was to the effect that
tho voxatious towel and soap question should
be entirely removed from the crowded brain of
the office boy and be treated as a specialty.
With the help of his mother, who did tbe
washing, he Degan serving offices regularly with
soap and towels at so much a month. Tbe bus
iness prosneied. That young man now fur
nishes hundreds of offices with a handsome
mirrored wall rack fixed with rollers (costing
85), a good brush and comb, soap and four clean
towels a week for 75 cents a month with six
clean towels $1. He runs delivery wagons,
drivers, agents, and I presume a formidable
laundry and prosperous manufactory.
The Broadway Rippers.
"DROADWAY is being again ripped np for the
winter season. There bas never been a
rainy season for tbe last four or five years that
this naturally magnificent thoroughfare was
not a succession of broken blocks of trenches
and mud. The all-winter subway operations
of the last two years has been followed by tbe
cable railway operators. In connection with
tbeir work and presumably simultaneously
with It the electrical, gas, steam power and
heating companies must also lay all of their
work and attend to allot their repairs for
Broadway is to be repaved and the Slayer's
edict nas gone forth that no more ripping up
shall be allowed after this grand ripup. You
can imagine what the condition of Broadway
will DO snouiu tne rainy season or sona oia
winter set in and catch these rippers in the
middle of their ripping. No. you can't, either.
The condition would be beyond the reach of
the most vivid imagination. It would be
equally impossible to imagine Broadway per
fectly paved and free from end to end from tbe
corporation rippers. The reason of it is that
tho authonties do not appear to realize the
difference between a condition and a theory I
and do not Know wmen comronts them. As
long as a gas pipe, electrical conduit or steam
pipe lies buried beneath tho pavement by legal
authority the right to reach it for necessary re
pairs is an implied right difficult to deny rea
sonable exercise. The only solution of this
street problem iu a great city like this unques
tionably lies in the construction of a single
subway nnder the street a tunnel big
enough for all branches of underground service
and to accommodate tho operators.
Cablo Cars on Broadway.
the cable railway on such a street as Broad
way will probably greatly aggravate the
evils incidental to our general street system.
There is no comparison between the conditions
of Broadway and the conditions of streets of
other cities where the cablo railway is in oper
ation. In Chicago there aro miles of good par
allel streets as good as Broadway. Here tho
latter constitutes tho long.giraife-liko throat of
tbe metropolis, and its unobstructed use every
bour in the bnsiness day is actually necessary
for properly swallowing and feeding the com
mercial digestive apparatus. Anybody who is
familiar with tho choked condition of all of the
more or less narrow and crooked streets to the
right and left of Broadway during business
hours will understand this. It is not proposed
to clear Broadway of its business functions to
accommodate cablo car travel. The cable cars
will have to grapple with tbe loaded truck and
delivery wagon and tho crowded crossings just
as tbe present horse cars do now. Tbe
street conditions will be exactly tbe same, so
far as speed is concerned. But tbe present
numerous accidents affecting life and limb
will probably be 'doubled, not unlikely quad
rupled, by the cable system on Broadway.
The Newspaper Artists.
pnE pictorial era of journalism brings acer
tain artistic talent to the front that, but for
the new order or things, would possibly bavo
never been developed. The demand for pic
tures creates artists. At every public gather
ing in New York you can see a swarm of artists,
regular memnersof the city staff of the daily
and weekly press, engaged In catching sketches
of the prominent men and interesting scenes.
They go everywhere and cover every conceiv
ble matter worth Illustration. It maybe a con
vention in the morning, a street parade, tbe
latest arrival at the morgue, a swell wedding, a
murderer in bis cell, i court room scene, or all
of these in tho afternoon. For the pencil of
tbe newspaper artist is an exceedingly ready
and a versatile one and can travel over a good
deal of wbito paper in a day.
Tbe material thus gathered Is turned into the
artistio department ndw the necessary adjunct
of the modern newspaper, and Is there trans
ferred in an almost incredible space of time to
the reproductive surface. Some of these
young fellows are so accurate and skillful that
they can get a very correct likeness of a plat
form orator in a nilnuie or two, though the
office process .and rapid printing on a poor
quality of naper often utterly destroy bolh tho
likeness and th&artifctic merits uf the work.
Newspapers by Machinery Only.
CFEAKINO of modern journalism reminds me
"5 of the fact that tho Sun has decided to
adopt the mecbanioal type-setting machines.
.It will set up 85 Bodgers vtnachines with the 1
1890.
average capacity of abont 6.000 ems per hour
eacb. Tbe Tribune bas long used the Mergen
thaler machine successfully. Both machines
cast tbeir own type in one-line bars and dis
tribute their own matrices and spaces as they
go along. The paper using them has a new
dress every day, tbe same as tbe most fashion
able Saratoga belle. These machines find their
way very slowly into general use, considering
the alleged fact that they save 60 per cent or
more on tbo price of composition. The Mer
gentbaler people are getting out a new Lino
type machine, one of which is now in operation
inthe Judge building. It Is said to be much
superior to that in tbe 2W6une, tbe Courier
Journal, tbe Chicago News and other offices.
Tbey claim that it will set six lines of tbe
Tribune print per minute, or over 11.000 ems per
hour. The Improved keyboard, which is more
closely assembled and in more nearly tbe form
of the typewriter, and the better delivery and
automatic distribution of the matrices achieve
this result.
But one of the most remarkable features of
tbis new machine is its combination with the
phonograph. This attachment will enable the
able editor to dictate snch matter as required
hurried composition to tbe phonograph aud the
operator, setting his repeater to suit his own
speed at the keyboard, can cast the matter into
type at once. There is always a hurry with late
news at tbe small hours of the morning on the
morning newspaper, and the man who bolls
down telegraphic stuff to meet the requirement
of the closing hour, or who must get out extras,
here finds an aid the possibilities of which can
not as yet be fairly grasped. The very fact that
an important murder case may now be bandied
within tbe last ten minutes before closing the
forms, through a reporter at a distant tele
phone, tbe receiver at tbe phonograph and the
operator at the casting and setting machine
without the aid of a pen or the use of manu
script and a gang of compositors, is enough to
make an old-time printer's hair curl.
CHAS. T. MURRAT.
New York, October 10.
LAST WEEK TO VOTE.
Popnlar Ballots for Exposition Visitors Dar
ing the Last Six Days.
This Is the seventh and last week of the Ex
position. The topical voting pastime in
augurated by The Dispatch will bo continued
till the close at its Headquarters, In tbe com
modious space occupied by the Brunswick-Balk-Collender
Billiard Company. All attend
ing the Exposition are requested to vote yes or
no on tbe topics chosen, registering their votes
in The Dispatch Poll Book, which opens and
closes with tho Exposition every day and night.
MONDAY'S VOTINO TOPIC
Should Pittsburg have a Polytechnic School
where the Young could be Trained in tbe Arts
and Industries? Open to Lady and Gentle
men Voters.
TUESDAY'S VOTINO TOPIC.
Should the City Maintain a Bureau o Informa
tion for tho Benefit of Visitors? Open to
Lady and Gentlemen Voters.
WEDNESDAY'S VOTING TOPIC.
Should Petty Criminals In Jail and Workhouse
be Compelled to Work on the Public High
way? Open to Lady and Gentlemen Voters.
A MODERN HERCULES.
Tho Death of an Enormously Proportioned
Man in Circleville.
Circleville, O., October IX Abraham
Ater, who died last Tuesday night of dropsy,
was a modern Herznles. He was 6 feet 3 inches
in height and weighed 385 pounds. His strength
was in proportion to his size. On one occasion
three men tried unsuccessfully to load a large
stone into a wagon, which he lifted with com
parative ease.
Another time he was asked to testbis strength
upon a lifting machine. Ha refused until as
sured by tbe owner that it could not be broken.
He pulled the machine into pieces without
much effort. On account of his great size a
special order was given for his coffin, aud it was
necessary to remove all the inside fixtures of
the hearse to get it inside. He was only 47
years old and very good-natured. His remains
were interred near Williamsport, O., this morn
ing. DIED OK SCHEDULE TIME.
A Giant Predicts His Hour of Death and
Orders a Coffin.
Sumner, III., October 1L William Peters,
of Lnkin township, died Friday morning. He
was without doubt the largest man in the
county, his weight being 400 pounds. The im
mediate cause of hl3 death was gangrene of
the lower extremities. Thursday be requested
that the undertaker order a coffin for him, say
ing be was going to die at 6 o'clock A. M. Fri
day; that there were no coffins large enough
for him here and one would have to be made.
Tbe undertaker at once ordered one. and it
came on tbe midnight train. It was one of tbe
largest ever sent out, being 6 feet long, 21 inches
wide and 22 inches deep. WItbin 20 minutes of
the time ho predicted he expired. His age was
47 years.
HYDROPHOBIA FROM A DOG'S SITE
A Lady Bitten Over a Year Ago Has Symp
toms of the Dread Disease.
Trenton. October 11. Mrs. William A.
Maxon, of this place, is suffering from what
appears to be bydrophobia. She was bitten
over a year ago by a pet pug while suffering
with fits. No trouble came of It until last
Wednesday, when she was taken ill. At times
she bas violent epileptic fits, during which she
snaps and bites and froths at the mouth.
Mrs, Maxon knows when the trouble is com
ing on and makes all preparations for it. While
ill It takes two or three men to hold her. She
has now one a dav, and they are becoming more
violent. Dr. K. B. Rogers, her physician, is in
constant attendance, but he fears he can only
give her temporary relief and believes ulti
mately that she will die.
Tlie Canal Scheme Feasible.
From the Philadelphia Record.
A ship canal through Pennsylvania, connect
ing tbo Ohio river with the great lakes, has
been pronounced feasible by the Commission
appointed by the Legislature to investigate the
subject. Surveys have been made, and only
appropriations are lacking to go ahead. The
Canadian Government spent over 825,000,000 on
the Welland Canal. How much the Common
wealth of Pennsylvania will bo willing to devote
to the proposed canal up Beaver river remains
to be seen.
Iron Ore in Indiana Connty.
From the Indiana Gazette.
Iron ore in large quantities has been discov
ered near Kellysburg. It Is located In what is
called the "Devil's Race-Way." Some of it
has been assayed by a Pittsburg chemist and
has proved 72 nor cent iron. This is an exceed
ingly fine grade of ore and should bo developed.
And He's Running for Office, Too.
From the Pnnxsutawney Spirit.
Abuse of candidates is so common and so vio
lent in these latter days, that after we get
through discussing a man's character and qual
ifications we are at a loss to know whether he
should be elected or sent to the penitentiary
for life.
A Hnmorous Feature.
From the Scranton Truth.
The serio-comic proposition of the machine
organs that Emery should prosecute Delama
ter if he believes his charges against the latter
are true, is one of the most hnmorous features
of the campaign.
REST COMETH AFTER ALL.
Though friends desert you In the race for fame,
Thoirxh fortune leaves von for some other goal;
Though you arc blameless, yet receive much
blame,
Tbouxh sorrow dwelleth deeD within your soul,
Though life has been a failure and you plod
Footsore and weary o'er this earthly ball,
Still If you have a faith, a trust In Ood,
.Best cometh after all.
Best cometh after all, then'higher climb;
Itest cometh after all, thongh wealth departs,
Tbe world may blame you, yet rest sublime.
Shall drive the sorrow from your hesrt of hearts;
ThoughJife's sad failures make jou onward plod,
Sln-slck and weary till you reach the pall,
Still If you have a faith, a trust In God,
Kcst cometh after all.
Best cometh After all. then let us go
Forth to tbe duties of this fleeting life.
Bearing our Master's burdens, for we know
In Him Is comlort and a rest from strife
And worldly sorrow ; let our faith be shod
With love and mercy, while we ever call
Our friends to an eternal, mighty uod,
Best cometh after all.
Best cometh after all, then as wo seek
A higher lire, abetter, grander road.
Let us of Jesus as a Savior speak.
For He will help us bear lire's awful load
Of cares and sins, of doubt and unbelief.
Of earthly struggles, be they great or small,
WcthankThee, Ood, that life and trlalsare brief;
Howard CV Tripp,
f
THE TOPICAL TALKER.
A BRITON ASTONISHED.
rjURlNO the voyage of the Mayflower up tbe
Monongahela on Friday some Englishmen
were sitting on tbe rail in the stern of the boat,
when one of the crew came up and asked them
to move. He had been told to take down the
flagstaff, be said. One of tbe Englishmen asked
why tbe flagstaff bad to come down.
"I'm obeyln' orders,s!r," was the roustabout's
reply.
"If that's the case," said a florid Briton with
a merry eye. clearing the way to the flagstaff,
"none of us will object for a moment. Obeying
orders! By jove. you're tbe first American I
have found who would stand an order. Most
of you will do anything you're asked politely to
do, but obeying ordersl That's something
new."
FOR CURSORVREMARKS.
Qne of the distinguished Welshmen among
Pittsburg's visitors from abroad encoun
tered on board tbe Mayflower a countryman of
bis, who is, however, a naturalized American
citizen, and they fell to talking about the old
country.
"How long have you been in this countryP'
tbe former asked.
"Twenty-five or six years," the Pittsburger
replied.
"Do you know any Welsh?"
"Not much I use a little to swear in."
THREE NURSERY TALES.
Come days ago a little Pittsburger was taken
to tbe barber's for the first time in his life
to bavo his hair cut They bolstered him up in
the big chair and then as the barber took up tbe
scissors he asked in a most deferential tone:
"Will jou have your hair cut short, sir?"
"Of course." the.boy replied, "you couldn't
cut it long, could you?"
The same boy was reproved by bis mother,
when they were dining at an nncle's bouse, for
asking for something that was not on the ta
ble. His uncle seeing the boy was abashed
said: "Never you mind, Archie, if there's any
thing you want, ask for it!"
"Very well. Uncle," answered Archie after a
second or two's reflection, "I guess Til take a
horse an' buggy, pleasel"
Yet a third story is extant of this specimen
of Young America. He was in a hardware
store with bis mother, and he took particular
interest in a couple ot men wbo were nailing
up empty packing cases. By and by be turned
to his mother and asked: "What are they nail
ing np boxes of nothing for?"
SULLIVAN WANTED BRICKS.
Qolonel Dawson, of the Bijou, went over
toAltoonaons day last week to see John
L. Sullivan knock out the drama of "Honest
Hearts and Willing Hands," in three or four
acts. After soelng the play and shedding tears
over the great pugilist's acting, Colonel Dawson
went back to the Logan House with tbe plain
and virtuous intention of going to bed. Bat
he had no sooner reacbed tbe big. airy room as
Signed to him tban a noise as of a regiment
of cavalry coming up stairs announced the ap
proach of John Lawrence and bis satellites.
Tbey came Into the room and occupied, the bed
and the regulation three chairs and a table.
Colonel Dawson, for some unaccountable rea
son, decided not to go to bed just then, aud in
a space of time measured according to Mr
Snillvan's method by the shaking of
a lamb's tall, a neat and not gaudy
lunch made its appearance. With tbe
lunch appeared a colored man of
pretty large proportions. Wherever Mr. Sulli
van goes the hotel proprietors always take care
that he shall be attended by tbe biggest wait
ers. A desire to preserve the artistic nnlties
and tbe furniture may prompt the hotel keep
ers in tbis selection.
Well, as tbe Patseys and tbe Teddies and tbe
other distinguished actors, including the great
and only John L., were pitching into the oys
ters, cold chicken and beer, tbe tall colored
waiter gazed intently at the star pugilist Sul
livan watched tbe waiter's close scrutiny, and
beckoned to him to approach. Tbe waiter
advanced slowly and sideways.
"Go down an' fetch me two bricks," said Sul
livan, The waiter paused and begun: "What's 'at,
sir?"
"Go down an' fetch me two bricks, one
smooth t'other ind ther plaster on an' rough
an' be quick about it, d'ye seer' and to em
phasize bis order Sullivan got up as be con
cluded, "I alius rubs meself down wid two
bricks afore turnin' In."
The waiter disappeared and Sullivan went on
to tell Colonel Dawson how he lost 18,760 odd
dollars out of the money he won at his last big
fight. Half an hour later the waiter brought
un the two. bricks, and Sullivan, amid the
laughter of the crowd stowed them away in
Colonel Dawson's bed.
Who will deny that John Lawrence Sullivan
may yet be the name of a great comedian.
IF THEY USED COLT REVOLVERS.
""They were discussing tno custom of duelling
which German students think so conducive
to a good complexion and a repntation for
bravery, and a stout Englishman, leaning
against the bar tbis conversation did not
occur in court said: "It strikes me that duel
ing would soon go ont of fashion If the men
were put teu paces apart with good revolvers
in their hands there'd be danger of somebody
getting hurt"
"Ah!" remarked a slender American, "that
would be a Colt of another color."
A DRUMMER'S RESOURCE.
TTThen the opera company stranded, four
weeks and twelve hundred miles out
it is a singular thing tbat your operatic bark
always strands a long way from shore the
orchestra of five pieces went on tbe rocks like
wise, and the philosopher who played the dram
and tbe triangle and the tambourine and tbe
castlnets, and could imitate anything on a pinch
from a crowing rooster to the roar of an express
train, remarked that if tbere had been more
rocks in the treasury they would not bavo been
wrecked.
After a ghastly remark like that the conduc
tor of the orchestra was not surprised to find Its
author waking the echoes in the hotel reading
room with the drum. He was beating a tattoo
with variations on the drum. The conductor
stopped and looked athim. As he wound up the
long roll the conductor said:
"How do you expect to get back to New
York?"
"Beat mem way dat was all right," the
philosophic drummer replied.
Hehburn Johns.
A Beiltlon Necessary.
From the Cleveland llain Dcalcr.j
The Committee on the Revision of tho Pres
byterian Confession of Faith is still at work in
Pittsburg, likely to remain In session a week
longer and then adjourn to meet later In an
other place to continue the labor. The mem
bers are close mouthed regarding their deliber
ations, but tbe essential fact of interest to tho
outside world Is tbat the denomination thus
acknowledges tho need of revising its creed in
order that It shall conform with truth.
HOVELITES Df BRIC-A-BEAC.
CUT glass decanters are nowmado particu
larly massive and brilliant
A gentleman's glassware liquor set In
raised jewel cutting Is shown.
Miniature novelties for f ivors are in the
forms of game birds, storks, dogs, etc
A vase in tbe shape of a pineapple, for cen
ter table decoration, is one of tbe new things in
glassware.
Banquet lamps are now made with bronze
figures as supports. A pair lately shown has
the figures of two warriors In full armor.
Tall lamps designed to represent Egyptian
vases are now being made. The prevailing
tints in globes and shades are the new corn
color and lililite.
A brass lamp resting on a pedestal of onyx
was recently exhibited. Pillars of brass and
cut glass, supporting lamps, are also coming
Into use.
Light tables of brass are made In fancy
shapes, the three leaved clover and tbe oval
being tbe most usual. Tbe tables are covered
with variegated plash.
A neat traveling clock Is made in gilt with
an ornamental porcelain face and a leather
case. By pressing a spring in tbe top of the
clock at any time it will strike the hour.
A new piano lamp has for a support an Ori
ental dancer holding a wand.on which tbe lamp
is placed. The fignre is about three feet In
height and leans gracefully on the staff.
A handsome clock Inonyx and gilt bar be en
recently exhibited. It is. a mantel clock and
rests on a pedestal ot onyx, nanasomeiy
mounted in gilt tbe whole standing about four
A.Ieetbigh.-JiweleT' Weekly.
CURIOUS CO&DENSATlOfiS.
Iu London there is on exhibition a
panorama of Ntapara, with an "artificial roar"
of tbe falls.
The Italian Government has ordered
tbat tbe study of English shall be added to the
cuniculuin of all Italian universities.
There has been a tremendous rainfall in
New South Wales. Seventy inches in seven
months, and still raining at last accounts.
It is said tbere are no lese than eight
American girls at Lenox who have this year
refused offers of marriage from titled for
eigners. So much in excess of the supply is the
demand for whalebone that several tons were
B- ..? weelc ia London at the enormous price
of JELSIjO per ton.
A sweet potato from the fertile soil of
James Cox's farm, Kirk's Mills, Lancaster
county, weighs just three pounds six ounces.
It was grown from Jersey seed.
A Three Rivers, Mich., girl bas a beau
who is a Lake Shore fireman. Every day she
ties a bouquet to a stick and hands it to her
lover as bo flies by her home in his cab.
In a New Orleans court Mrs. Kate 31c
Glnty is suing for J3U.00O damages for the loss
of her husband. He went down with tbe
dredgeboat Bayley, whose boilers exploded a
year ago.
Ail the liberty poles in Slanle Corners,
near Portland. Mich., were cut down last week.
As both the Democratic and Republicans suf.
fered alike neither party can make campaign
material out of it
John P. Walker, driver for an Adrian,
Mich., grocer, hit bis horse a thumping whack
with tbe whip yesterday and tbe animal plant
ed his feet against Mr. Walker's shins, break
ing both of Walker's legs.
In Berlin a schoolmistress receives ?300
annually dnrlng the first years of ber service; a
schoolmaster, 400. After 42 years of nnDroken
service tbe schoolmistress' maximum salary is
ISO, and tbe schoolmaster's SoOUL
Street Commissioner "Wolverton, of
Adrian. Mich., had a calf which had a habit of
sticking its bead out of the barn door. Mon
day a bolt of lightning killed it. The queer
part of the case is that tbe barn entirely es
caped. A very smart young man in Savannah
tried to pay bis street car fare with a 5100 bill.
The conductor was accommodating, and stop-
Eing the car be went into a store and got the
ill changed, giving the young man a shot bag;
full of silver, amounting to 99 'Jo.
Seneca Jones, pastor ot the 31. E.
Church at Woodland, is a practical mechanic
For six years he has been at work building a
pipe-organ, which will be put up in his church
in a few weeks. It covers a floor area of 130
square feet and will contain 1,000 pipes.
A peculiar torture is practiced in the
prison of Uskub. Macedonia. Thieves and
forgers are chained naked to the floor and 50
ants are placed on the body of each person. It
Is said that the uneasiness caused by the ants
roaming freely over the body is the most exas
perating torture.
An Idaho bank on which there was a
rnn piled upon the counter what was supposed
to be 40,000 in eold. Tbis stopped the run and
brought In depositors, and when tbe trouble
was over tbe gold was taken down. The pack
ages contained iron washers cut to the thick
ness and size of 20 gold pieces.
The wire rope used in the tunnel at
Glasgow, Scotland, is claimed to be one of tbe
largest and longest wire cables in the world.
It was made at Cardiff, Wales, in 1SS5, and is
2,400 fathoms in length, or about 2 miles and 108
yards. It weighs 21 tons and has nearly 100,
000 fathoms ot wire in its makenp.
The hottest day of the year in New
Zealand generally comes at Christmas. The
day is great occasion for picnics in tbe coolest
nooks of the woods. The only recollection of
the Christmas dinner of Western notions is
the plum pudding, which Is religiously eaten,
but to the accompaniment of cold lemonade
instead of coffe and wine.
The Du Pont powder mills explosion
caused a confusion at tbe West Chester Normal
School amounting almost to a panic The stu
dents rushed from the classroom, ran about
like frightened fowls and some feared an earth
quake. Tha cause was bulletined on the black,
boards and In tbat way everyone learned West
Chester was safe to this earth for tbe present.
One of the most remarkable old ladies
In Maine is living un the Island of Monhegan.
Although only 75 years old she not only knows
nothing of tbe cars, telephone, electric lights,
etc, but bas never seen a horse. Sbe bas
always lived on the island several miles from,
the mainland, and ber world has been Mohhe
gan. Sbeep and cows are kept on tbe Island,
but there is no call for horses.
As this is the season of rice birds, the
following recipe from, a lady who knows how to
serve rice birds in the most delicious way will
be worth cntting out and pasting on a blank
leaf of the cook book. Cut sweet potatoes
lengthwise, scoop out in the center of eacb a
place that will fit tbe bird; now put in the birds
after seasoning them with Dutter. pepper and
salt, tying tbe two pieces of potato around
them. Bake and serve them in toe potatoes.
Colonel W. S. Allebacb, a jeweler of 50
years' business standing in Tamaqua, stood on
the porch fronting bis store the other morning
and noted a large bird swooping rapidly his
way. The direction was northeasterly, and in
a twinkling it shot downward, and. sweeping
in a straight line, struck the shop window, the
glass falling ont, shattered Into numerous
pieces. Tbe bird was a pheasant, and Colonel
Allebach is in search of a cause why his win
dow should have been selected in preference to
others more prominent
About a quarter of a century ago, when
Charles M. Wlnant, now City Marshal of New
port Ore., was a small boy, be was sitting one
day on bis father's knee in their bouse at
Brnceport, Wash. John B. Rose, now under
sentence of death in Pacific county. Wash., had
a grudge against Mr, Jed Winant at that timo
and fired through tbe window of the house at
Mr. Wmaut and his son while they were sit
ting as described above. Fortunately the bul
let missed its mark and neither tbe fatber nor
tbe son were injured, but tbe would-be mur
derer of a quarter of a century ago now awaits
tbo hangman's noose for his participation in a
crime, which was not merely an attempt, but
resulted in tho murder of two inoffensivo peo
ple. FUNNY MEN'S FANCIES.
Minister Von ought to whip your boy
for fishing on the Sabbath.
Deacon-I Intend to. sir: but I thought I'd let
blm clean them first. Detroit Free Press.
(In the newspaper office) Fassett Pas
me over tbe mucilsse, please. Miss Passy.
Miss l'assy With all my heart.
Fassett Only the mucllasc, please. Amtriean
Stationer.
Weeks I'll wager a new hat that man
over there's a schoolmaster.
Potts Nonsense; bow do yon know?
Weeks Oh, he tried his hand on the seat of the
chair before be tat down on MLife.
She (as the anthem is being sung) Oh,
Isn't that music heavenlyl
He (who Is not exactly a reznlar member) Yes,
but the. chorus might be a trifle better Icokimr.
Would you mind letting me look at your er
libretto a moment? Kiio Xork Herald.
Fastleigb I am nearly worried to death
by my creditors.
Goodman Ab, you see your sins are beginning
to find you out.
Fastlelxh I wish they would, but the trouble
is they always find me in. Sew Xork Herald.
Mrs. Bonig What did you pay a yard
for that, Mrs. Eooney?
Mrs. Eoony-Nlne cents.
"Why. tbey charged me 10 cents for the same
goods on Wednesday."
Yes. bat Wednesday was bargain day."
Xunsey's Weekly.
Miss Vocalgesanc What kind of jewelry
would you recommend for a songstress?"
Jeweler If she Is a soprano I would recommend
high sea Jewelry.
Miss VocalgesangHlgh C Jewelry! What do
you mean?
Jeweler-Coral.-Vewefer' Weekly.
"So, Herbert is a member of the militia,
Isn't he?"
Tcs."
'How does he rank?"
'1 don't know exactly, but I'm suro he ranks
well, because I beard papa say he was tbe rankest
soldier he ever saw. " IVat(nfiro ifost.
"I trust that before long we will be en
tirely out or debt" remarked the parson as he
closed the appeal for more money. "I trust so
most sincerely."
And the rich manor the congregation, who was
always expected to give liberally, murmured. "1
trust so, too." Sew Xork Herald.
Brane I say, Crane, did you read thit
article In the alternoon Iihymts about the con
vention? Crane Yes; why?
Brane Why, there were 11 grammatical errors
In the first paragraph. Strang yon didn't notice
them.
Crane (with dignity) I'm a proofreader.
Ijiujalo Courier