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PITTSBURG. MONDAT. OCT. 13. 1S90.
THE EUPERUL DREAM.
The meeting of the Peace Society and the
report that the international organization is
supported by the friendship of the Empress
of Germany, gives an especial interest to the
last reported speech of the Emperor of Ger
many: "Germany united and Europe paci
fied! That is ray grand dream."
The young Emperor of Germany has cer
tainly fulfilled his desire for fame by giving
utterance at various times to expressions
whose vigor and originality attract the at
tention of Christendom. But their ranee is
somewhat erratic. At his inauguration he
defined his function to be that of a "war
lord;" but Jater he has declared
his devotion to peace. Only a short
time ago he declared that those
who opposed his plans he would crush
to powder; and left the world in doubt
whether the crushing process is to be applied
to foreign or domestic foes. Sow he holds
up the dream of German union and uni
versal peace. It is to be hoped that he may
continue in that frame of mind. But the
fact that his enthusiasm leads him to throw
himself heart and soul into one cause, and
then with equal earnestness to rush ic the
opposite direction, leaves the doubt whether
he may not next espouse the doctrine of
universal war.
No one could do more toward the estab
lishment of peace on a firm basis than "Will
iam of Germany. If he should propose to
the Powers the reduction of all armaments
to tbe volume required lor internal police
he would at least put the responsibility of
the burden of armed expectation on those
who rejected his proposition. But even his
avowal of the dream of peace does not carry
with it any indication of real progress. It
is hard to see how Germany can be more
united than it is at present unless Austria
is to be annexed to the North German Em
pire, and that can never be accomplished
without a greater war than that by which
Prance was humiliated.
At present it seems as if we must regard
the pacification of Europe very much as
Senator Ingalls regards the purification of
politics in this country. It is an iridescent
dream, entirely foreign to the views and
practices of the imperial politicians of the
Old "World.
BOGUS CAMPAIGN AMMUNITION.
That story of Dewey, the pretended repre
sentative of the K. of L., to the effect that
ex-Governor Pattison failed to respond to
inquiries with regard to his attitude on labor
legislation, meets with a prompt exposure
from the members of that organization in
positions of authority. The Chairman of
the Legislative Committee of the Knights of
Labor for the State of Pennsylvania states
that he and his associates had an interview
with Governor Pattison, and that the result
was completely satisfactory.
When Governor Pattison received thecir
culxr which Dewey was prompted to send
to him by persons whose object may easily
be guessed, he did not reply to it for two
reasons. In the first place he had already
committed himself to the authorized repre
sentatives of the K. of L. In the next
place Dewey was not the Chairman of the
K. of L. Legislative Committee. He was
not even a resident of the State. He was
wholly without authority, and the state
ment of the members of the order who had
authority makes it clear enough that he was
employed by some one to get up a bogus
supply of campaign ammunition.
The resort by campaign managers to the
device of getting some one to falsely imper
sonate the authorized representatives of a
labor organization, in order to furnish false
reports, does not seem to be the best way of
gaining the support of the workingmen.
MR. NICOI-L'S REAPPEARANCE.
A peculiar feature of the TammanT ticket
nominated in New York in opposition to the
fusion ticket, :s the appearance on it of Mr.
De Lancy Nicoll as candidate for District
Attorney. It will be remembered that at
the last election for this office, Mr. Nicoll
was urged for the position on the ground
that his energy and earnestness in prosecu
ting the boodlers in the Broadway steal
would insure the conviction ot the whole
crowd. For that reason apparently, Colonel
Fellows was preferred; and since his elec
tion not a single boodler has been convicted.
The adoption of Mr. Nicoll as a candidate
now, seems to carry the inference that when
there is no danger of lodging public thieves
in the penitentiary be is eligible. How his
appearance on the Tammany ticket will af
fect the old quarrel arising out of his former
candidacy, in which two New York editors
designated each other by the titles of
"Judas" and "Ananias," is not yet clear.
But it is a commentary on the effect of a
Tammany nomination that when Mr. Nicoll
obtains that indorsement both Judas and
Ananias support him.
AmtAIGNlXG RAILWAY MANAGEMENT.
Mr. Aldace F. Walker, the President of
the inter-State Commerce Railway Asso
ciation, in his call for a meeting to-morrow
of the presidents embraced in that organiza
tion, makes a statement which, though not
new, is presented in connection with the
last plan for choking off competition be
tween the roads, that requires attention.
His proposition is for a surrender by all
the competing roads of the power to make
rates on competitive traffic to "a small gen
eral rate committee, subject only to super
vision by the various Boards of Directors,"
and placing the "entire joint traffic of
the roads to and from their eastern connec
tions in charge of a common agency." The
startling part of his official statement is
this sentence: "Unless something of this
kind be done, railway managers will pres
ently be chiefly receivers."
This amounts to an assertion that the
officers of the railroads are so ignorant, un
principled or vicious that they cannot be
trusted to fix the charges fpr which their
own railroads will carry freight Not only
must the power to make rates be taken away
from freight and passenger agents, but the
presidents must not be trusted with it. If
they are left to manage, each the property
which he has been chosen by the stock
holders to manage, they will, Mr. Walker
avers officially, plunge the roads into bank
ruptcy. No such wholesale indictment of
either the honesty or competency of railway
managers has ever been made by eqnal au
thority. The declaration that bankruptcy
is hanging over most of the roads does not
accord with the roseate reports that have
been published by many of these officials;
but as Mr. Walker is the official representa
tive of these very presidents, and has been
given a big salary to leave the Inter-State
Commission and devise means for evading
the law he was sworn to support, it is not
likely that they will impeach his veracity
as he has impeached their integrity.
Even if Mr. Walker's assertion were cor
rect his last scheme for smothering compe
tition between the lines would not afford the
remedy. The way to prevent the wanton
recklessness or systematic dishonesty that
wrecks railroads by carrying freight and
passengers at losing rates, is not to take
away the penalty. No greater penalty can
be inflicted on stockholders who elect men
of that stamp to manage their property,
than the bankruptcy which ought to follow.
When it is made clear that the penalty will
ensue, the owners of railroad property will
take care to forestall it by the penalty of
dismissal for agents and officers who adopt
the practice of throwing away the corpo
ration's money. On the other hand Mr.
Walker's constant effort is to protect both
stockholders and agents from the natural re
sults of their own insanity, by placing them
under guardianship; and the remarkable
nature of his argument appears from the
fact that having practically alleged lunacy
as the condition of the great body of rail
road management, he proposes to protect
them from evil by choosing as their guardians
a general rate committee of the lunatics.
The assertion is, of course, untrue. It has
the semblance of truth, that railway methods
make their managers altogether too prompt
to plunge into those conflicts, which are
always based on the railway idea of exclusive
privileges and generally have in view the
establishment of a combination in one form or
another. But it is untrue that railway man
agers as a whole cannot be trusted to man
age their own affairs. They are as intelli
gent, conscientious and careful as the great
mass of leading business men. Other busi
ness men will, when they see, or think they
sec, within their reach the profits of mo
nopoly, resort to the policy of cutthroat
wars to force the establishment of the com
bination. When it is beyond their reach
they condnct their business on the policy of
competing only so far as will permit a
profit The same is true of the railway
managers. The loss of cutthroat wars is
not due to their recklessness or dishonesty,
but to the system which is incessantly seek
ing the completion of a virtual monopoly.
It is for that end that cutthroat wars are
fought When all such combinations are
made clearly impossible, it will be found
that the majority of railway men can con
duct the affairs of their corporations as
sensibly and conservatively as the rest of
mankind.
The remedy for the reckless disposition of
railway management is not, as Mr. Walker
imagines, to protect them from the results
of their recklessness, but to place it beyond
dispute that each corporation must make its
rates exclusively on the basis of what it
can afford fo perform the service of transpor
tation for.
THEIR OWN TESTIMONY.
The Republican organs have themselves
to blame for the significance which will be
attached to two of the political events of
last week. Under ordinary circumstances
these events would be little more than mod
erate indications of the general trend of
affairs. By the logic of the Delamater
press, however if we may dignify their
campaign deliverances with that title they
are raised to vital significance. We refer
to the speeches of Wolfe and Wallace in
support of Pattison.
Early in the State campaign the organs
of Delamater teemed with assertions that
the Independent movement would not
amount to anything because Wolfe would
not support Pattison. If he had supported
Pattison, the inference plainly was that
there might be a vital defection from the
Republican ranks. But he was not going
to and so Delamater was jubilantly de
clared to be all right. When intimations
were given to the effect that the main
feature of this allegation was its display of
what the Republican organs did not know
about Wolfe, they devoted their attention to
Wallace. As Wallace was not going to
support Pattison, the Democratic defection
was going to defeat him. So vital was this
assertion in the Republican view, that let
ters which showed the support of Wallace
were asserted to be bogus documents.
Of course this waslargelycampaign idiocj.
The support of Wolfe on one hand and Wal
lace on the other was important, as it was
representative of respectable elements. But
it was not vital either for defeat or success.
After the Republican organs have sounded
the fact from one end of the State to the other
that the position ot these leaders was vital
what will be the effect upon their readers of
the ringing speeches made last week by both
Wolfe and Wallace in support of Pattison?
According to the Republican showing, it in
dicates an immense reinforcement of Paul
son's strength; and it anything.conld swell
the stampede it would be this outcome of
the campaign assertions.
The effort to escape from the force of this
conclusion to its own utterances, moves
the Philadelphia Inquirer to a wild declara
tion of what Wallace wonld say if he
"would only tell the truth." As this
amounts to an assertion that the Democrat
whom the Inquirer has recently been cham
pioning will not tell the truth, It is more
dangerous in the recoil than in the discharge.
The Inquirer would have done better if it
had stuck to the regulation plea and as
serted that the Wallace who spoke at Phila
delphia Saturday night was a bogus Wal
lace. A paragraph is going the rounds of
the papers In which a member of New York's
Four Hundred is represented as allegine that
only that select body understands the art of
entertaining. As this assertion Is amplified by
an account of entertainments given by out
siders, which were attended and sneered at by
members of that choice society. It seems to fol
low that the Four Hundred are especially in
need of instruction on the art of being enter
tained with due regard to the laws of courtesy.
PnrxEAs T. Babnum is kind enongh
to predict that the Chicago World's Fair is
going to be a great success. This leads us to
hope that Fbineas T. will get an interest in it
in which case it will indeed be the greatest
show on earth.
Tub plan for opening the tunnel nnder
the St. Clair river at Sarnla is a unique one.
A table a thousand feet long is to.be spread in
the tunnel, and the seats of honor in the mid
dle are to bo located on the dividing line be
tween Canada and tho United States. As the
United States is expected to be officially repre
sented, a close watch will have to he kept to
see that no dutlable'articles of food are passed
from one of the tables to the other.
The charge is made against Mr. McKin
ley's opponent tor Congress that be cannot
make a speech. That failinc is shared by a
great man; statesmen; but tho trouble with
most of them is that they do not know it
Mr. Jay Gould's philosophic reflec
tion that high prices can be endured very well
by letting people "get along with one suit
where they would otherwise have two." is
characteristic Mr. Gonld does not say how he
would regard tho case of the man who only had
one suit in tho first place and must therefore
get along without any; bnt we presume that be
could bear even that development of his sys
tem with chaerful resignation.
Chicago is now joyfully contemplating
tho erection of a sixteen-story building it the
announcement that it is to be put up, is not the
tallest story of all.
The Philadelphia Inquirer is worked up
over Emery's charges to tbat degree that it
calls him "a malignant political Judas." Tho
esteemed Inquirer should be warned against
the use of that much-worked Epithet to which
Messrs. Ingalls and Kennedy have given a
more famous application.
Two citizens of Biddeford, Me., came to
blows over a tariff discussion the other day.
They must bo in tralniug for members of Con
gress. "Speaking of the welcome to the Count
of Paris, the State Department is not in it," re
marks tho Washington Poll It is satisfactory
to learn that the Government Is wise enongh
to perceive tbat It is not its business to make
an official recognition ot a pretender to tho
throne of France.
THEIE NAMES IN FEINT.
Prof. C. B. Richakds, of the Yale Sheffield
scientific school, has been made a Knight of
the Legion of Honor by tho French Govern
ment. Stanley Palher, a prisoner in the New
Castlo (Del) jail, has invented a toy puzzle for
which he Is said to have been offered 510,000 by
New York speculators.
General Adah Badeau was the only man
in New York who followed European etiquette
in writing his name in the Comte de Paris' vis
ting book instead of sending in his card.
Edwa&d J. Sanderlin, a negro barber of
Denver, has acquired a fortune of (200,000, and
now devotes his time to collecting bis rents.
He is the wealthiest negro in tho West
John Hicks, the United States Minister to
Fern, who has been spending a short time with
friends in San Francisco, salted from that port
the other day for the scene of bis duties.
Mr. Robert Louis Stevenson-, the novel
ist, is expected in England next month. Ho Is
returning with the intention of arranging his
affairs in England, and settling permanently in
Samoa.
Ex Senator Tabor, of Colorado, has a suit
in his hands that is likely to cost him more
than his famous night shirt. A colored man
who was ejected from the Tabor House in Den
ver, nas brought suit for $10,000 damages.
Lord BrasseVs wedding had a very nauti
cal flavor. The bridegroom's littlo nephews
wero in attendance wearing white sailor suits,
and all the crew of the Sunbeam were present.
Tho bride. Miss Sybil Capcll, was a bandsomo
woman in her satin and lace.
B. Frank Gilkeson, of Bucks county, who
is Second Comptroller of the Currency under
the present national administration, is a close
friend of United States Senator Quay. Gllke
son has from the beginning of the present fight
in the State declared that victory would perch
upon the Delamater banner.
Princess Victoria, of Germany, tho pret
ties: ot the Empress Frederick's daughters,
who is engaged to marry Prince Adolf, of
Schaumburg-LIppe, is a clever and accom
plished young lady, boasting proficiency in
many branches of sport and art, not commonly
associated with royal blood, least of all when it
flows in feminine reins. She is not only a cap
ital horsewoman, but a clever whip as well
and handles a four-in-hand with consummate
Bkill.
OUR SOUTHERN RIVAL.
A Birmingliam Man's Roast of His City's
Growth and Iron Resources.
Chicago. October 12. M. C. Royster, for
merly of Chicago, bnt now ono of Birming
ham's solid men, is at the Palmer House, He
said to a reporter this evening :
"Wc have made arrangements to receive tho
members of the Iron and Steel Institute at
Birmingham, Ala., and will show them the
finest iron mines in the world at Birmingham.
When I left Chicago eight years ago no went
to Birmingham, lots that were selling at
$500 to JLOOO, which are now worth fronV$25,000
iu cju,wu. Aiewjeais ago wo iiaa asctuack
or depression, but now we are on a solid basis.
We have a population of 60,000, 96 miles of
street car lines, and 18 furnaces running at full
blast day and night tho year round. By the
way, one of our furnaces mado the longest run
on record more than two years without stop
ping a minute. We are building a better sys
tem of water works by tunneling to the
Cahanka river, a distance of 16 miles, Tho
works will cost 15)00,000.
"It is the opinion of experts," continned Mr.
Royster. "that the iron and coal mines within a
radius of CO miles of Birmingham will prove to
be the most productive of any in the n orld.and
what will make them most valuable, or rather
make tho profits greater, is the cheapness of
prodnction. It is all digging.or surface work
no blasting Is necessary. That will undoubtedly
be the greatest Iron-nrodncing country in the
world, and I predict for Birmingham a popula
tion of 350,000 within the next teiryears."
The special committee of 15 appointed to
receive the members ot the Institute, will meet
at the City Clerk's office thi morning, at 8:30
o'clock, where each will receive a bouquet and
something else in the nature of a snrprise, and
proceed in a body to the Palmer House to re
ceive the distinguished delegation.
THE STATE CAMPAIGN.
When a man bolts his food he swallows It.
When a man holts a nomination he bolts be
cause he can't swallow it, and the woods are
full of bolters this year.
Bedford Gazelle (Dem.): Next Tuesday
Senator Delamater will come, to Bedford to stir
up the faithful and try to prevent the county
from casting a unanimous vote for his oppo
nent. The Republican candidate for prothonotary
in Monroe connty has a covered wagon on
which is printed his name and the office wbieh
be seeks moving through the county con
stantly. New York World (Dem.): The Cameron
express train, carrying a large amonnt of
money and securities, while passing through
Boodle Gulch in Pennsylvania the other day
was held up by the G. O. P. road agents. Cash
to tho extent of 100,000 was secured.
Harbisburg Call (Rep.): In tho event of a
Democratic Legislature, a Democratic United
States Senator and an outrageous gerrymander
like unto the one in Ohio, some of the pig
headed Barkcrites might be convinced that the
present campaign in Pennsylvania was one ot
national importance.
Scranton HepubUean (Rep.): Hon Charles
S. Wolfe has flopped onco more, and for the
second time ho is now supporting Pattison.
The Prohibitionists thought they had him, and
he had promised them to stick until after tbe
election, but for tbe second time he's jumped
the fence into the Democratic fold.
Bradfosd Star (Rep.): The enthusiasm ex
hibited by tbe audience over the brave words
of Delamater and the eloquent and Impas
sioned appeals of Stewart, Graham and War
wick provoa conclusively that the mass of the
Republicans of McKean are not ready to join
the battered and disorganized army of the
Democracy.
DEATHS OF A DAY.
Presley Kntz.
Presley ICalz, one or the oldest residents of
Plumb township, died at his late residence near
Unity station. Mr. Katz was S3 years of age and
wai well known and respectedia the community
In which be lire. The funeral will take .place
to-morrow.
FAR-FAMED CANTERBURY.
Rev. Dr. Hodges Describes a Visit to the
Mother Church of England The Cele
v brateil Cathedral and the Ancient Shrine
A Glimpse of Middle-Age Scenes.
WRITTEN FOB TUB DISPATCU.1
'J'HK best way to do is to visit tho continent
first and England afterwards. Then you
appreciate England.
You ombark at Calais and set sail across the
Channel. The sea is choppy and the boat goes
up and down like a swing. People who cross
the broad ocean defying Neptune and un
touched by tbe pangs of mal de mer meet
humiliation between the shores of France and
England. It was a smooth day, the sailors said,
when we made the passage. But "smooth" is a
relative term on those turbulent waters. No
donbtit was smooth in comparison with the
days when tho wind howls through tho rigging,
and tbe sea dashes over tbe decks, and the pas
sengers are shut up in tho cabin for fear of
being washed overboard. But it was sufficiently
rough, and, though wo escaped sickness, we
were glad to see the white cuffs of Dover.
Over these waters came the fleet of Caesar,
adventuring in quest of new worlds to conquer.
Looking out, as we do. upon these shining cliffs,
and wondering what sort of savages inhabited
these shores. And here, too, landed Hengist
and Horso leading the first Englishmen who
set foot upon the soil of England. And here,
Angnstlue with his 40 monks came, bringing
a new religion and civilization with them, be
ginning a conquest which is far from being
completed yet the conquest of England for
the Lord Christ. You think of these things as
you look across the troubled waters toward
Dover. What fleets upon fleets of hurrying
ships have crossed here! Ships of war with
decks crowded with armored soldiers English,
French, Spanish; and ships of merchandise ana
ships of pleasure, from tbe party which was
personally conducted by Julius Cajsar to the
parties which are personally conducted by
Thomas Cook, what a running to and fro over
this uneven pathway
Custom House Inspection.
""THE Custom House officers board the steam
er; but tbeir examination is an easy ana
formal one. There is only one civilized country
which treats touris like pickpockets, and that
is the country whose ship barbor is graced with
tbe Statne of Liberty Enlightening the World.
There are plenty of customs examinations to
vex the traveler in Europe. Sometimes It
seems as if you had to stop every hour or two
and open your bags and baggage. But the
officials are always courteous, and you are al
ways given credit tor common honesty. The
whole business Is a petty and foolish medieval
ism. It Is a relic of the days w ben bandits and
brigands levied on tho strauger's possessions In
every dark pass and deep forest of his journey.
But its formalism saves it from any very fierce
objurgation. It is a bother, hut you endnre it
like all the other interesting bothers. But at
New York it becomes robbery.
However, we are at Dover. Tbe castle
towers up above us nn Its strong cliff. The
green lawns of England delight our eyes. We
hurry to the station aud take the train for Can
terbury. And now we discover how lovely En
eland is. These fair fields of green, with grace
ful trees, and thick hedge rows and little towns
of comfortable houses aud parish churches
with gray towers. there Is nothing beyond the
ocean which is so fine as this.
Canterbury and Its Churches.
A nd so we arrive at Canterbury. The little
town is crowded with visitors. Flags and
colors hang from the shop windows; banners
float across the corners of the streets; tbe side
walks are thronged to tho curbstones; tho ho
tels are turning people away. It is cricket
week. And cricket week is a great time for
Canterbury. All Kent Is here, and all tbe
neighbors of Kent are on band. At last we
Una lodgings at tbe Fleur-de-Lis. There is a
great fleur-de-lis over tbe street door. "
Canterbury has been used to crowds as long
back as tbe da s of Geoffrey Chaucer. The old
town has had long experience in entertaining
pilgrims. Probably It has most of its old-time
look when its ancient streets are noisy wilh
many voices, and its venerable buildings look
down upon a multitude of strangers.
The best thing about the crowd from our
point of view was tho fact tbat they all spoke
English. After a month and more of foreign
speech, in streets where the signs over the
shops were in strange tongues, and even tbe
little childron chattered in French and Ger
man and Italian, what a relief, what a bome
f celing to get back to tho land of a reasonable
language!
The interest of Canterbury centers about two
churches the little church of St. Martin and
tbe great Cathedral.
Little St. Martin's is much larger in years
than it is in yards. Tho story is a familiar one
how Augustine came on his mission from
France, sent by tbe good Pope Gregory, who
saw tbe fair Englisb slaves in the Roman mar
ket place and wanted to make angels out of
Angles; and how Ethelbert. the King of Kent,
gave him audience sitting in bis throne on tbe
wide downs beside the town of Canterbury, his
capital; and how, after tbe sermon, he gave the
monks permission to preach to bis people and
convert them if they conld; and how a littlo
cnurcn was touna wnicn naa been bunt
in the days when tbe Roman soldiers
guarded tho island, before any English
man had ever heard of England, and here
the Christian religion was begun again upon
these shores. This little St. Martin's was the
church. You can still see Roman brick in its
old walls. Tbe church is long, with a square
tower at the west end. Tho ivy which covers
the tower from bottom to ton is 600 Years old.
Tbe trunk of it is like a small tree for thick
ness. Inside is tbe old fort in which King
Ethelbert was baptized, he and his warriors.
There is very little doubt about that.
The Mother Church of England.
Co religion of the Christian kind began
herein this little sanctuary. Hero is the
mother church of England. Here is tho place
where men of our speech and our kin first
went to church. You see why Canterbury,
which is a town now of small importance and
away off in a corner of England, should be tbe
seat of the Archbishop of all England. Kent
was the chief district of England when Augus
tine came here. Canterbury was the capital of
England. By and by. when tho King ot North
unibrla married Ethclbert's daughter, and
a Christian minister accompanied her,
and tho Christian church was set
up In tbe North of England, tbe center ot
work was York, for York was the capital of
Northumhria. as Canterbury was ot Kent. Aud
when it seemed good to have two archbishops
tbe second one took his title from the royal
town of York.
On tho way between St. Martin's and the
cathedral you pass the fine gateway of St. Au
gustine's College. Tho gateway is nearly all
that remains of a fine old abbey which was onco
the glory of the town. St. Augustine himself
was the founder of it. Henry VIII., always
most gencrons in giving away what did not be
long to him, mado a present of it to somebody
or other at the Reformation, turning the monks
out and stealing whatever was worth stealing.
Finally, half a century ago. it was put up at
auction, and a good man bought it Mr. Beres
ford Hone and madea missionary collego out
of it. whatever remained of the fine old nnild
ing was built up into now strength, and what
ever else was needed was added.
But we have come to Canterbury to see its
great cathedral. We wonder a little how the
English cathedrals will look after tbe splendid
churches of the continent. Will they he hu
miliated into insignificance by contrast; We
discuss tbe probabilities as we turn our steps
toward the cathedral gate. Off tbe man street,
where tbe shops are, runs a little narrow lane,
with houses built up high on either hand, each
upward story projecting a little further into
the street than the one beneath it till the ga
bles almost touch over your bead. This is
'Mercery Lan e." There were little shops here'
in tbe old days where you could buy amulets
and beads, and crucifixes and pictures of the
venerated St Thomas of Canterbury.
Scene of the Canterbury Tales.
Qh the corner of the High street, as you turn
rout me uiu ut; awuu uio iuu wuero xne
pilgrims of tbe "Canterbury Tales" rested after
their journey. The framework of the ancient
hostelry still stands, hut they sell dry goods
now where no doubt they retailed wet goods in
generous abundance in the pilgrim times.
Through the little lane we go, treading In tho
steps of kings and prelates, princes of tbe
realm aud princes of tho church, and friars in
cowls of brow n and gray, and many humbler
worshipers of the ancient time.
And specially from every ehlre's end
Ol Enclc-Iand to Canterbury they wend.
The holy, blissful martyr for to seek
That them hath holnen when they were sick.
Beneath these very carved aud sculptured
stones passed the caravans of pilgrims, under
tne great gate wiucu cnui mo lane, into tbe
fair garden in the midst of which stands tbe i
cathedral.
Is the cathedral dwarfed and unbeautitul
after the spires of Cologne, and the statued
roof of Milan, and the golden frescoes of San
Marco, and the stateliness of Notre Dame?
There is not a shadow of disappointment.
There aro two respects In which the English
cathedrals are finer than any on .the continent
They are beautiful for situation. They stand,
nearly all of them. In the midst of gardens.
There are grand old trees about them,
and the croon lawns touch tbe brown
walls, and tbe Ivy grow over the old stones.
Tbe continental cathedrals are set In the bnsl-
f St Dlaces of great towns. Thevars snrronndetl
witn scores anunoteisanu nouses. .Tne ground
is not a spear of grass nor a leaf of ivy to be
seen. Beside that, on the continent there Is
just the cathedral and nothing else. And when
you have looked about the nave, and explored
tbe chapels which are clustered about tbe
choir and chancel, and climbed the spire, and
gone down into the crypt, you have seen it all.
But the Englisb cathedrals wero once the
churches of old abbeys, a great many of them.
And there aro still remains, often in ruins, of
tho old monastic buildings. And there aro
chanters and chapters of the most interesting
kind of history to be read there. You get back
into the Middle Ages. There Is an interest
about tho cathedrals ot England which Is lack
ing in the cathedrals of the continent.
Memorable Events Recalled.
C" ANTERBUKr used to be an abbey church,
and there was a good deal of rivalry with
the other great abbey of St Augustine in the
old days, and St. Augustine's Abbey rather
overshadowed tbe importance of tbe
monastary of Christ Church and its
cathedral until tbe day ot the murder. After
the most notable murder in English history was
done within the cathedral walls, and the mur
dered archbishop was made a saint and,
miracles began to be performed at bis shrine.
jld& tho King who had shared in tbe guilt of his
murder suiimiiieu to oenoggea Dyiuo monKS
of Canterbury in tho crypt of the cathedral
after tbat no sanctuary in Christendom equaled
Canterbury.
I saw tbe transept where Thomas a-Becket
stood to face bis murderers. There was an
altar there in that day whose removal has
somewhat changed the look of the place. But
'you can stand upon (be spot. There is tho door
by which tbe men of war came in witb their
clattering swords. Here tbe brave Archbishop,
the indomitable defender of tbepeople's rights,
conirontea tnem. tiero tuey struck mm uown.
I saw tbe pillar in tbe dark crvnt where tbe
King stood or knelt to take bis monastic beat
ing, by way of penance. It made one tbink of
the castle of Camossa. and the royal humilia
tion which was enacted there.
Where Uecket'g Remains Rested.
t saw tbe place where the shrino stood in
which they laid the body of Becket Tbe
choir of Canterbury is a dozen stops higher
than the nave, and tbe altar is lifted up abovo
tho choir and behind tbe altar, higher still and
reached by a flight of steps on either side, is
tbe chapel where was once the most gorgeous
shrine in Christendom. Tbe meanest thing
about it was gold, Erasmus said, who saw it.
Tbe wooden framework was covered with gold
plates, and these were "damasked with gold
wire," and upon this were iowels set in gold.
Henry VIII. stole all this. There is an empty
space where tbe shrine stood. Only tbe worn
places in the stono steps where the pilgrims
climbed to tbe sacred place, and the groove in
tbe floor around tbe site of tbe shrine worn by
the knees of pilgrims in the hard stone, re
mains to testify to the adoration of the old
time for Canterbury's saint G. H.
LAST WEEKJ0 VOTE.
Popular Ballots for Exposition Visitors Dar
ing the Last Six Days.
This is the seventh and last week of tbe Ex
position. The topical voting pastime in
augurated by The Dispatch will be continued
till the close at its Headquarters, in the 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 the Exposition every day and night.
MONDAY'S VOTING TOPIC.
Sbould Pittsburg have a Polytechnic School
where the Young could be Trained m tbe Arts
and Industries? Open to Lady and Gentle
men Voters.
TUESDAY'S VOTING TOPIC.
Bhonld the City Maintain a Bureau conforma
tion for the Benefit of VisitorsT 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.
AN EDUCATIONAL CAMPAIGN.
Choice Extracts From Mr. Delomater's
Speech at Bradford Last Week.
from the New York Sun. 2
"I stamp tbat accusation as maliciously
false."
"Another lie I want to nail."
"He has had tbe gall and tho face to lie."
"I brand the whole of it as a He, venomous
and dastardly."
"I want to answer another falsehood."
"He has been venomous, malicious and das
tardly in his lying."
"These extracts from a speech delivered by
the Hon, George Wallace Delamater.Rcpubllc
an candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania,
at Bradford last Thursday night, indicate the
style of conversation which prevails among the
Pennsylvania Republicans at present They
are hurling back tbe lie at tbe rate of a lie a
minute, and they seem very excited and un
happy. AN INTELIIGENT DOG.
Ho Boards a Train at Llvcrmoro and
Trat els to His Old Home at BlalrsviUe.
.tU'ECIAL TKLEPRAJ! TO TIDE DlarATCItl
Latrobe. October 1Z Dr. C. W. Banks, of
Derry station, is the proud possessor of an in
telligent dog, a survivor of the Johnstown flood.
The animal Is kept at Livermore, and one day
recently, he decided to pay a visit to some
canine friends in Blairsvllle. He calmly boarded
the train at the depot, and in duo time arrived
at bis destination. After promenading the
boulevard, in company with a reception com
mittee, composed of the best dogs in town, the
visiting pup wearied of bis trip, and decided to
go home.
In some unknown manner ho managed to
learn what time the train left Blairsyille for
home, and he trotted down to the depot In old
travelers' time, one minute before tho train left.
Arriving home, his airs wero almost unbear
able until supper tlmo arrived, when he con
sented to recognize bis friends.
PENNSYLVANIA WAD7S.
Ailentown hus 3.802 children enrolled in
the public schools. There are 75 teachers..
A "Soap-pounders' Association" is tho
latest secret socioty at Susquehanna. The
members are barbers.
Williasi McHale, of Carbondale, took the
total abstinence pledge from the famous Father
Matbew himself 53 years ago and has never
violated it.
Stephen Townsend, of Hartsville, had a
treat to red raspberries from his garden on
Sunday last, and will repeat the luxury to
morrow. The berries were large, sweet and
luscions.
Superintendent Fulton, of tbe West
Chester Park, took down a squirrel box the
other day, and in it found three pounds of
honey, built on cones 16 inches long, 8 lncbes
wide and 1 inches thick.
A great many black bass are being caught
in French creek, and, as last season, they are
biting at small frogs better than on almost any
other bait. The Conneaut Lake bass have not
yet been educated to like frogs and very few
are taken on that kind of bait
Mrs. Jennie E. smith has a farm at Long
Reach, Lycoming county, on which she raised
2.400 bushels of potatoes this year, every bush
el fine tubers. She has them bunched in a
single bin 75 feet long, 12 wide and 6 high,
and claims the prize as champion up tbat coun
try. Auctioneer Green, of Media, has an um
brella said to be 150 years old. He never left
it in a hotel, restaurant or church rack. It
has ribs of cane thick as the average umbrella
stick of tbe preseot day, covered with a bottle
green material nearly as thick as a canvas
tent.
As especial attractions at the Yore fair last
week wero these two: Congo, a wonderful non
descript beast with tbe face of a human being
and a mouth that chews a three-ounce tobacco
plug at one time; and Taggart's six-legged bull,
a fine white Durham with six legs, fourhips
and two tails.
A sHAi-r 22 feet deet was sunk one
day at Uuthrio's Store, Indiana connty, and the
next day tbe workmen found a rattle-snake
had staked off a claim at the bottom. Corne
lius Leonard killed it and secured eleven rat
tles as a well-earned trophy. The snake was
over three feet long.
B. A, Conrad, a Nixarod of Pine township,
Indiana county; brought down an owl the other
day which measused 64 inches across the wings,
this is not alb While cutting off corn his dog
found a groundhog under a pile of rails which
bad no tail and only threo legs. The stumps
were completely healed.
Kate Pcbssell, an actress, while in Oil
City, crossed over the bridge that spans tbe
liver. She was told tbat it was the Allegheny
river, witb a wave of her hand she replied,
with surprise: "Then there are the Allegheny
Mountains," pointing toward the innumerable
hills tbat surround that ancient burs.
SNAP SH0TSJN SEASON.
In the race of life the fastest will surely
reach the grave first.
The men of Iron and of Steel, the men of the
mine and the mechanicians from the Mother
Country and tbe Fatherland, who spent four
delightful days in Pittsburg, have departed.
The guests were men who are best calculated
to pass upon our advantages, resources,prescnt
prospects and future hopes. What they have
said and will say will undoubtedly be of the
greatest benefit to Pittsburg. But apart from
this Kis pleasant to.know tbat the visitors
from over tbe say leave Pittsburg with regret
and carry away most pleasant recollections.
One of tbe distinguished of tbe English
visitors has permitted me to uso tbe following,
which shows exactly how they all feel toward
tho great Gas City:
A FAHEWELU
Farewell, Pittsburg, ere we o
From this merry meeting.
Wise and simple, high and low,
Here we send yoa greeting,
Strangers yesterday wo came,
But as friends you met us,
And as friends we'll think of yoa
Always if you'll let us.
You have men of steel and Iron,
Brethren, too, are we,
Proud indeod to own your kindred
From beyond tbe sea.
We are men of Steel and Iron,
But tbo tie tbat binds us
Is the dear old motherland
We havo left behind us!
You can work with flame and forge,
But such arts are mating
With a silvery eloquence
Rich and captivating!
Carnegie, yonr Iron King,
Worthy of his place is
Master of a hundred arts
Who can count bis graces!
In a hearty, friendly way.
You have cheered and fed us,
'Round about yocr wondrous works
You have safely led ns.
We havo wandered in your streets
Sailed upon your river
Marveled at your "natural gas," ,
May it last forever!
Seen your weird and watchful fires
In the darkness blazing.
Leaping up and flaming high.
Wonder most amazing!
Fiery spirit of tbe earth
Chained to do your willing.
Servant of Aladdin's lamp
All commands fulfilling.
Farewell Pittsburg! She shall lead
Chief of iron citlesl
If we had not seen her might
'Twere a thousand pities.
Stress and struggle, flame and blaze
Be a crown upon her.
In the land thatis our homo
We shall give her bonorl
To the author of tbe above neatly turned
oompllment, whose initials F. S. I am per
mitted to use, and to all who have inspected
our mills, mines, furnaces and partaken of
Pittsburg's hospitality, I would say:
To ye from England's mines and mills,
To ye from German fires,
A parting cup old Pittsburg fills
A bumper to our sires.
Your kindly words of unsought praise
Shall not, like flattery, perish:
We trust that in the coming days
You'll still our mem'ry cherish.
You are the judges of our worth;
Go forth and tell the story.
Speak so the nations of the earth
Will marvel at oqr glory.
Tell them how Nature, gen'rous, true,
Has yielded up her treasure
Wealth for the many, not tbe few,
Nor stinted is her measure.
We say Adieu. God bless you all!
'Neath any flag, o'er any sea,
So long as Vulcan's fires enthrall
We'll firmly forge our destiny.
Surqert is tho oldest of the sciences. A rib
was taken from Adam, you know.
AFRICA is now tbe New World. America is
no longer tbe Infant among tbe nations of the
earth.
A girl who is handy with her needle can al
ways be well dressed. She can dress cheaply,
too.
The Sypher Dramatic Company has been or
ganized. It will be disorganized when the box
office receipts represent a 0.
A prisoner's reputation has more weight
with tbe average jury than the arguments of
tho lawyers.
Candiadatb D-
Lamater, he
Now knows who are meant by X, Y Z.
The naked truth sometimes shocks us.
A good many people got wet yesterday in
order to hear some dry sermons.
Inebriety In palatial places is just as re
volting as drunkenness in the slums.
A druggist can comgpund a prescription
and a banker can compound interest There's
big money in both.
If you want to be convinced that better peo
ple than yourself are in tbe penitentiary
run for office.
If yon havo no enomies you can bet your
bottom dollar tbat some of your friend3 aro de
ceitful. Learn your boys a trade. The woods are
full of scholars hunting work and good me
chanics are scarce.
Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are;
Bnt some day I fondly hope
To find out with a telescope.
An editor says buttons have been nsed from
an early period in the history of the human
race. History does not state that Eve ever had
to sew any on Adam's trousers.
IT is to be hoped tbat all tho talk about an
extra session of Congress will prove idle talk.
Love that drives fellows to shoot is not worth
the powder on your face, girls.
Sojie ships are knocked out by one blow.
It might not be amiss to say tbat the drunk
ard's breath smells like the devil.
THE cutters are up in tbe sea sea, but they
are not cutting out sicquo patterns, girls.
Buttons have gone up, but pins are plenti
ful as ever.
If Ajax lived now he wonld not defy the
lightning at tbe live end of a dead wire aDd
llvo to brag about it
We sincerely hope the new tariff will not
raise the theatcrhat.
American vessel owners will not profit by
tbe new tariff like the egg producers, even if
tbe hens can only lay one while the ships lay to.
The silver leaves on maple trees
In autumn turn to gold:
But after flattering In the breeze
They simply turn to mold.
The fellow who plays a king on tbe stage
may bo a knave in real life.
The American mixed drinks puzzled as well
as dellgbtod tbe visitors from abroad last
week. Last Friday an English engineer stood
beside a swell bar and watched tbo dbpenser of
joy and sorrow mix what to him was a mystery.
As tho rich, creamy, rnm-scentcd and egg
colored decoction was shoved toward the con
sumer London whispered, "What's that, my
boy?" "It's a milk punch." "Mix me one,
you know." He watched tbe operation and
quaffed the invlgorator. After smacking his
lips he said: "What will I call for to get It in
tho morning, my boy?" "Just ask for a m'Jk
punch, sir," was the Instruction given. He
will drink milk punch all over the land now.
The artist is not lazy, but he loves his easeL
Candidates who buy a vote secure a fran
chise. Pittsburg showed the foreign iron masters
more than New York and Philadelphia com
bined could offer. And beside, we gave tbe
Londoners a fog every morning, yoa know. It
wasn't imported, either.
The Delamater people will now cry Wolfe.
Charles has got abroaa witb a through ticket in
bis band this time.
Some papers are publishing articles designed
to teach us how to cut. shoot and slash each
other. This is highly edifying, to be sure. Such
trash sbould be rejected at all times.
It's too late to wire: "Dear Rutan, don't
talk." The Senator will now root through bis
old letters and add to the fun which culminates
in November.
The bread earned in tho sweat of the brow Is
always palatable.
The foreign visitors had every opportunity
of seeing Pittsburg at its best and. at its worst.
tnanks to tbo prankish October weather.
Dr. Maey Walkeb still pants tor fame In
politics. Willie Winkle.
OUR MAIL POUCH.
Where Pittsburg Should be Advertised.
To tbe Editor of The Dispatch:
Although bnt a few hundred miles from
Pittsburg, yet one finds very few of the Inhabi
tants who know anything regarding the great
city at the head of the Ohio river. As a com
mercial agent, who has occasion to make about
four trips a year down this country, and having
been doing so since 187S, I think I can safely
say that not one merchant out of fifty can say
he ever was ia PittsDurg. When he has occa
sion to go to a city he always goes west to Cin
cinnati. Why? Because every year tbat city
has her musical festival, etc, ind gives the peo
ple something to come to tbe city for. They ad
vertise it clear up to our very doors at Puts
burg. And now, while our city enjoys the
most prosperous and most instructive Ex
position ever given in any of tho
States, yet the people below Wheeling know
nothing of it. It is next to impossible to got a
Pittsburg paper beyond that point, and while
tbe trade tributary to Pittsburg beyond tbat
point is great, our friends who are running tbe
Exposition so successfully do not seem to know
that by a little judicious advertising a vast
amount of money could be brought to our city,
if they ould only co-operate with the Ohio
Railroad and give out inducements to tbe peo
ple living down this way. Many merchants
have said they would like to come to Pittsburg,
but it costs too much on a regular ticket
Pittsburg is a great and glorious place, and
is thriving and multiplying in inhabitants fast,
but I do think ber commercial Interests could
be brought to a nearer approach of what they
sbould be, to a city of its importance, if there
were a little more boom and zejt put in, and a
little attention paid to bringing tbo people to
the city who have never been there before.
As a manufacturing city we don't take a
back seat, bnt we must frankly admit as a com
mercial city we are wanting. It does not need
to remain thus. If our present merchants do
not awake to tbe fact tbat we do not expand
proportionately, and keep pace with the de
mands of the times, it will devolve upon the
younger men who follow to bring our city np
to tbat point in tbe world of commerce to
which she belongs. DRUMMER.
Huntington, W. Va.. October 11.
A Street Car Patron Complains.
To tbe Editor or the Dispatch:
Permit a subscriber to take up a small space
in your valuable paper to complain in regard
to the manner in which the Second Avenue
Electric Una is managed. Last evening I
boarded one of the cars ot this line at Market
street to reach my home at Hazeiwood. On
arriving at Grant street the car stopped and, to
my snrprise, a conductor from another car
came into the one in which I was seated and
deliberately took out all tbe electric lights,
leaving ns in total darkness to ride three miles.
1 left the car at the railroad crossing and
waited for the next, rather than remain in a
dark car. This morning, in coming from
Hazeiwood, tho car I was on was over one hour
reaching tbe city, and when we reached Grant
street we were transferred to car No. 9 and
kept standing on the track for 20 minutes. A
prominent banker of this city was also a pas
senger and can corroborate my statement. He
was so disgusted that he left the car and
walked to his place of business.
There is one way for residents along this line
to better their condition, and tbat is to use tbe
Baltimore and Ohio road until a change has
been made. Conductors on this line have to
work 12 honrs per day, and if their car is on
time are allowed 13 minutes for dinner. No
conductor seems to remain with this company
more than a week or ten days at a time.
Pittsburg, October IL
That Carve Problem.
To tbe Editor of Tbe Dispatch:
Is Saturday's Dispatch appears an article
from a correspondent regarding a curve, or
rather the rails of a curve, in which be states
tbat the outside rail must be the longer of the
two, and that tbe outside wheel travels farther
and faster than tbe inside wheel. That is a
mistake. For example, take a locomotive. In
rounding a curve tbe driving-rods are, of course,
perfectly straight and cannot bend. They are
attached to tbe driving-wheels. The wbeels
aro all "keyed" to the anxle, one on either side;
tbe axle turns with every revolution of the
wheels and tbe driving-rods are the agents than
move tbe wheels. Therefore, tbe entire ma
chinery thus described, being connected to
gether, it is plain to be seen that one wheel
turns no more than the other. Under the con
ditions named, such a thing is impossible.
Locomotive Engineer.
Pittsburg, October 11.
The Fastest Railway Time.
To tbe Editor ol The Dispatch.
In reply to tbe question of "3. J." In last Fri
day's Dispatch: The fastest time ever made
by rail between New York and San Francisco
was mado by a special theatrical train, June,
18S6 Time, 3 days, 7 hours. 59 minutes and 16
seconds.
In reply to Still Water: The fastest time
made by a train was 02 miles in 93 mlnntrs,
one mile being made in 45 seconds, on the Phil
adelphia and Reading Railroad. D. T. W.
altoona, October .
Marriage License.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
Please inform a reader of your paper if a
marriage license is required to get married in
the State of Ohio; also, bow old a lady must be
to cet legally married in Pennsylvania. J. C.
KlTTANNING, October 11.
Ohio has a license law. She must be 21 in
Pennsylvania and 18 in Ohio.
Quoted at 35 Cents.
To tbe Editor of The Dlsnatch:
What, if any, premium is there on a half
cent of the year 1805? A. E. H.
Allegheny, October IL
THE TWO ANGELS.
BY JOHN G. WHTTnitB.
God called the nearest an eels who dwell with Him
above;
The tenderest one was Pity, tbe dearest one was
Love.
"Arise," He said, "my angels! a wall of woe sod
sin
Steals tbiough tbe gates of heaven, and saddens
all within. ,
"My harps take np tbe mournful strain that from
a lost world swells:
Tbe smoke of torrent clouds the light and blights
the asphodels.
"Fly downward to that under world, and on Its
souls of pain
.Let Lore drop smiles or sunshine, and Pity tears
like rain."
Two faces bowed before the throne, veiled in their
golden hair;
Four white wings hastened swiftly down tbe dark
abyss of air.
The way was strange, the flight was long; at last
the augels came
Where swung the lost and nether world, red
wrapped in rayless flame.
There Pity, shuddering, wept; but Love, with
faith too strong for rear.
Took heart from God's almlgbtlness and smiled a
smile of thcer.
And lo! that tear of pity quenched the flame
whereon it lcll.
And, with tbe sunshine or that smile, hope entered'
Into hell!
Two unveiled faces fall of Joy looked upward to
the Throne,
Four white wings folded at the feet of Him wbo
sat thereon I
And deeper than the sound of seas, more toft than
falllntr flake.
Amidst the hush or wing and song the Voice Eter
nal spake:
"Welcome, my angels: ye have brought a holier
Joy to heaven;
Henceforth Its sweetest long shall bethefong of
sin forgiven I"
CDBI0DS C0NDE5SAT105S.
Wanamaker, L T., has a colored lady
postmaster.
Buck Kilgore's boot is exhibited to ad
miring thousands of the International Fair in
San Antoma, Tex.
There was quite a romantic marriage in
Athens between an old gentleman of 65 and a
young lady of 16.
Vermont had her first snow flurry of the
season on Wednesday last At some places a
fall of two inches is reported.
An Alpena, Mich., woman wheeled her
aead baby to a pnotographer's.carried tbe body
upstairs and had its picture taken.
The best dressed men on the other side
are having their trousers cut two inches longer
than they have any use for and turning them
up.
The chime of bells being made in Troy
for St Patrick's Cathedral, Now York City,
will comprise 15 bells and will weigh in tbe
aggregate ou,uw pounds.
Young sharks, under the guise of "ten
derloin of sole," are exposed for sale In the
San Francisco fish market". The inspectors a
few aays ago confiscated 700 pounds.
The length of telegraph lines in the
world at the end of 18S9, it is said, had reached
a total of 1,&SO,900 miles, a length sufficient to
go round tbe equator almost 70 times.
The police force of India numbers 17,
000 superior and subordinate officers and 126,000
constables, not reckoning tbe 17,8b0 police of
Upper Barman, and 500,000 village watchmen.
A Marcellus, Mich., liar says he dug
up a stnmp and found 83 rattlesnake-, in a nest,
varying from i to 10 inches in length. Marcel
lus is just across the line from local option Van
Buren.
A man who earns 52,000 a year and is
worth S2O.00O sent in an application to the
Wilkesbarre Cyclone Fund Committee recentlv
for JJO loss caused by a chimney falling on bis
kitchen.
A contract for a 53,000,000 16-story
building, to cover tbe half block bounded by
Adams, Dearborn and State streets, Chirago,
has just been let out The building is to be a
general store.
Game is so plenty down in Connecticut
tbat the partridges are reported flying into the
cities ana roosting on tbe back fence, where
they are shot and Toasted for dinner. This
sounds more like a fish than a game story.
Barbers report that hair-dyeing is going
out of style. Many "tonsorial parlors" do not
keep the dyes. Gray threads in a yonng man's
bead, especially if his occupation can be con
strued to be intellectual, are considered dis
tingue. In Cincinnati, on Wednesday last, two
girls, one of whom was but 11 years old, were
arrested for drunkenness: and two boys, ono
only 8 years of age, charged with being incor
rigible, were taken to the police station,
"shackled together with handcuffs."
Mackinaw Island, Mich., has somR
queer people, Enias Pelotte is 86 years old,
was born on the island and has never seen a
locomotive or railroad car. Rosa Louislgnaw
is also 86 years old and for 60 years never left
the island, breaking her record last year.
A sentence in Massachusetts in 1663,
discovered in a search of old records: Robert
Coles find 10 for "abasing himself shamefully
with drink," and enjoined to stand with "A
Drunkard" in great letters on a white sheet on
bis back, "soe longe as tbe Coort thinks meete."
At Montrose, while Kelson Hawley was
pasturing his cow, she bit off a mouthful of
grass and Immediately spitting it out com.
inenced coughing. An examination of that
throat developed nothing, but lifting the
tongue he found a needle had penetrated
through and stuck out half an inch above.
Engineer Springer, of the Soo Line,
killed three deer tbe other night near Glad
stone, Mich. His engine was running 35 miles
an hour, when a buck and two does stood in the
center of the track, fascinated by tbe flash of
the headlight It is not unusual to kill a single
one, but three at once is a remarkable run.
In hotel dining rooms the name of tbe
house is frequently seen woven in a circle on
table cloths and napkins. For years tbe largo
hotels have suffered severely by the loss of
linen. Indelible ink was no longer indelible
after tho thieves got at it, Tbe device of weav
ing tbe name in tbe center of the piece came
from Ireland, and is said to be almost certain
protection.
The death of Register Poydras, a colored
man, 103 years old. formerly tbe slave of Julian
Poydras, toot place near Port Allen. West
Baton Rouzo parish. Louisiana, last week. He
was a grown man when Jackson won the batt'e
of New Orleans, and "often related tales of
Lafitte and the old pirates of the Gulf." It is
refreshing to chronicle a new feature about tbe
oldest inhabitant.
A Holstein ball belonging to Joseph
Lippencott, of Woodstown, N. J., is ia an In
teresting predicament. Tbe door of an under,
ground ice bouse on tbe farm was left open,
and In endeavoring to get a better view of the
interior, tbe bull slipped and fell 13 feet. As
the bull's disposition ha3 not been reposeful m
tne past, Mr. Lippencott has de'eided to allow
him to remain there indefinitely. He is fed
regularly every day.
Near Gilford station, on the Staten
Island Railroad, there is a peculiar piece of
woodland, a spot where the roots of the trees
will attach themselves to the trunks at from
four to six feet above tbe level of the ground,
giving to the stumps an odd, snidery appear
ance. The soil of the vicinity is very porous,
which lends weight to the opinion that the
banyan-like grove has been formed by tbe
action of frost and water.
Otto Plock, of New York, wbo has a
residence near Port Jervis, a few years ago im
ported a number of wild Russian swine for his
game preserve. Four years ago they escaped
from the preserve and have sines-been roaming
on the mountains. The other day a party com
posed of members of the Hartwood Park Asso
ciation, while bnnting In their preserve, en
countered a small herd of tbese wild swine and
one was shot which weighed 200 pounds. Tbe
animals have committed great depredations on
the farms.
The authorities in Chicago have let a
contract for the construction of what is called
a "folding bridge" over tbe canal hi Weed
street, from Gooso Island to tbe mainland, at a
cost of 811.000. The bridge will be built with
out a center pier. Each half of the bridge will
consist of two sections or folds. When in posi
tion for traffic the halves will meet in the cen
ter. When boats aro to be let through either
or both hMves will fold back upon the ap
proaches. The invention Is patented by the
manager of a local towing company.
The romance of a ring, ending in
tidings of along missing son, has come to the
surface in Scranton. Ttuth says tbat when
City Engineer Blewitt attended the State Fire
men's Convention at Chester he met George
Sykes, of Swarthmore. Sykes informed him
he bad In his possession a ring which Reese F.
Davis, formerly of Scranton, bad traded with
him just before a battle in West Virginia in
1565, in which Davis was killed, and that he was
anxious to communicate with Davis' relatives
with a view ot sending the ring to them. A
fow days after tbe appearance of this state
ment John R. Davis, of Fittston. and William
Davis, of Bellevne, father and nephew, called
on Blewitt and learned for tbe first time the
story of bis son's death. Members of tbe fam
ily will visit Swarthmore to see Sykes and get
the ring.
DOUGHNUTS AND CIDER.
He Will you marry me?
She playfull"y)-Ab, dearest, what a risk yoa
are running.
lie I know it but I always was a reckless dog.
The Epoch.
3&s Well, by Jove, Jones, how are you?
Uow you have chanced!
Stranger Bnt my name isn't Jones!
Jay What, your name changed, too?-U'osp.
"Father," said Willie, "Did Columbns
discover the Atlantic Ocean?"
"Why, certainly not; what made yoa aaksacb
a question?"
'My Joggerfy says he came across It. "Wash
ington Post.
Little Jiggles Pa, what is a high tariff
man?
old Jiggles A protectionist, my son.
Well, who are the protectionists?
Tbe Republicans and tbo ew Tork police.
Sttinsi.
Professor in Political Science To what
party did Grovcr Cleveland owe his election as
President of tbe United States.
Student To tbe Kepublican party.
"What is your authority?"
The history of the Civil War. If It hadn't been
for the Republican party there would bave been
no United States to electa President in 1S-34."
Mnghampton Republican,
Little Johnny Pa, wasn't Washington
the first man to sit In the Presldental chair?
Papa He was.
"And they call him tbe father o'f bis country,
don't they?" ,
"Yes: that's what tbey call him."
"Well, Isn't the grandmother of his country
sitting there now?"
"Perhaps, my son; perhaps," Sttings,