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THE PITTSBURG- DISPATCH, HRIDAT. OCTOBER 17, 1890.
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SINKING FCXD AND STATE DEPOSITS.
The more iliat subject of the State deposits
h investigated the more does it appear to con
tain a fruitful theme for explanation on the
part of Eepublican managers, and especially
ou the part ot the Eepublican condidate.
The DisrATCH has already pointed out
the difference between Governor Pattison's
insistence on the investment of the sinking
fund and the Eepublican administration
which has permitted the accumulation of
the sinking fund to the amount of $2,496,000,
contrary to the requirements of law.
The present State Treasurer, Sir. Boyer,
made a speech the other day in which he de
fended the present sinking iund management
by the statement that it has purchased over a
million dollars' worth of securities, and ex
cused the accumulation of funds on the
ground that State bonds were hard to get,
and that to buy United States bonds, as per
mitted by the Humes act," at the present
time when the Treasury purchases
have raised the premium, might entail
the risk or loss. Mr. Boyer's speech
betrays a very remarkable view of
Treasury administration. In the first place
it indicates an idea that to purchase a
million dollars for the sinking funds,
where the law requires $3,000,000 to be
purchased, is a creditable record. Next, it
intimates that the fact that the United
States has largely diminished its holding of
outstanding bonds, is going to depreciate
the price, and contains inferentially the in
teresting assertion for a canvass, which the
Republicans assert is to be decided on
national issues, that the United States
Treasury administration is wasting the pub
lic money by accepting just that risk ot
loss which the managers of the State sink
ing fund refused to. As the prices of State
and United States bonds represent rates of
interest ranging from two to four per cent,
Mr. Boyer's idea that their purchase could
entail a greater loss than keeping the
money in banks at just exactly no interest
at all, reveals one of the most remarkable
financial minds in the country.
Of course, there might be a loss if the
Sinking Fund Commission was going to
speculate in United States bonds, buying
them at one rate of interest and selling them
at another. The remarkable fact that the
Eepublican administration of the sinking
fund has done exactly this thing may
explain Mr. Boyer's still more remarkable
argument. Under Governor Pattison's
administration over 54,000,000 of the sink
ing fund was invested much of it in
United States bonds. Under the Humes
act these bonds could not be sold except for
the liquidation or purchase of State bonds.
Yet, in the face of this provision, the Ee
publican administration of the sinking
fund sold 51,000.000 of these bonds and
distributed the proceeds of the sale among
the State depositories.
There we have an illustration of the
necessity of enforcing the provision of the
Constitution with which Senator Delamater
has been confronted. It is desirable that
when law and policy are both violated,
members of the Legislature should be readv
to investigate and punish. This very
matter was brought up in the Legislature.
Hon. S. M. Wherry declared that it was
a shameless violation of law, and asserted
that he could prove the money to have been
corruptly used and criminally mis
applied. Yet, the investigation which
he demanded was suppressed by the
influence of Delamater and Andrews.
The connection of the constitutional pro
vision with this matter may appear when we
findinthelistof denositsforthesinkingfund,
swelled as they were by this violation of
law, the following item, "Delamater & Co.,
Meadville, 100,000."
Here we have a remarkable illustration of
the regime of politics run without regard to
law, and for the interest of the favored poli
ticians. The Constitution is violated in one
particular; the statute law is overridden in
another; iunds which should yield the State
a material revenue are not only withheld
from investment, but when invested by a
previous administration are actually sold
out When these things arc done that fa
vored politicians may enjoy the use of the
money in hundred thousand dollar lots
without interest, it is likely to impress the
people that they want executive officers who
will respect the law and tha Constitution in
their official course.
A COMMENDABLE MOVEMENT.
A very timely and sensible proposition is
made by the Philadelphia Times, to the
effect that a committee should be formed of
men of high standing from each party to
collect money and offer rewards for the
prosecution of illegal voting. It suggests
the names of Messrs. Garrett, Strawbridge,
Bullitt and Kennetl as proper ones to form
a committee in Philadelphia, and says that
such a body could in a single hour obtain a
sufficient guarantee for the prompt payment
of all rewards offered for the conviction of
ballot thieves, no matter on which side the
frauds may be attempted.
Such an organization will be a public
benefit. Everyone will agree that the pub
lic interest makes it of paramount impor
tance that the will of the majority.no matter
which party it favors, shall be honestly ex
pressed and fairly registered. Yet the
practices of modern politics render
it impossible to rely on the gen
eral honor that attempts will not be
made to purchase voters or falsify the re
sult. With the knowledge of the possi
bility of this evil impressed upon us, it is
the duty of thinking and honest people,
without respect to party, to provide the best
possible checks. It is not such a check to
wait until after election and then have the
cry of fraud raised by the defeated side.
The preparations should be made in ad
Tauce. The corrupt elements should be
warned that they are under surveillance,
and that any transgression on their part
will be followed by a swift punishment.
Such a method energetically carried out
will do more to reduce the corruption of the
polls to a minimum than any other possible
course.
Pittsburg has plenty of men in all parties
whose names on such a committee would be
sufficient guarantee that its work will be
properly done. Why should not the de
mand for bdnestT in all parties combine to
preserve the purity of the polls?
HOTEL, CONST1UJCTION.
The calamity at the Leland House in
Syracuse, while less extensively fatal than
first reports led the public to believe, is
still sufficiently dreadful in its suggestions
to make the traveling public nervous once
again upon the subject of many-storied
hotels. While much ado was made about
the Leland House, because of the elegance
and supposed completeness of its appoint
ments, it seems to have been a mere fire-trap
when the crucial test came. This, with
preceding horrors of the same sort, en
forces the point that the public have a right
to expect particular precaution about hotel
architecture. While buildings either abso
lutely fireproof, or aimed to be such, are be
coming frequent for banking-offices and
general commercial purposes, the instances
of similar solidity in the case of hotels is
decidedly rare. Yet it is in hotels that fire
proof or at least slow-bnrning construction
is most manifestly required. Buildings for
other purposes are usually occupied through
the day, when the tenants are wide-awake
and fairly prepared to take care of them
selves. But, as has too often been proved,
hotel guests arising blindly in answer to a
fire-alarm in the midnight or early morning
hour, frightened, scarcely half-awake, are
in the worst possible circumstances to es
cape the flames.
It is only a marvel that so few fatalities
resulted at Syracuse. The narrative of the
shocking affair tells for itself by what nar
row margin a great number of the inmates
of the honse were saved.
AGGRESSIVE MR. ANDREWS.
The aggressive campaign which Mr. Dela
mater's managers have been promising of
late, begins, we suppose, with Chairman
Andrews remarkable address, which may
be found elsewhere. The bulk, the ver
bosity, and the general irrelevance of this
tirade are its most noticeable features at
first glance. It contains no di
rect arguments for Mr. Delamater's
election, but any amount of abusive
language for Democratic leaders, papers
and policies that have about as much to do
with the gubernatorial campaign in Penn
sylvania this year as with the catching of
centipedes in Peru. The aggressiveness of
the address does not go beyond assertion.
There is no effort in it to pro7e false the
charges made against Mr. Delamater by
reputable men; in fact, no allusion to these
charges at all, except in vague
generalization. Mr. Pattison himself es
capes with a few sentences of pure
invective, and the bluster of the preface dies
away in a cheap appeal to Eepublicans to
vote for Mr. Delamater, because the Eepub
lican party has been led in the past by great
and good men. This is not a convenient
occasion to go over the address in detail,
bat a hurried perusal of it justifies the pre
diction that aggressiveness of this sort will
be profitable to Mr. Pattison.
THE ENGINEERS' MEETING.
The meeting of the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Engineers in this city is naturally a
matter about which both local pride and
public interest center. Its visit to this city
and its opening meeting yesterday, which
was addressed by Mr. Chauncey M. Depew,
therefore attracted no slight degree of pub
lic attention.
The biotherhood belongs to the aristoc
racy of labor organizations. It can dispute
with the Amalgamated Association of this
city the leadership in power and stability of
organizaton, conservatism of management
and freedom from all the socialistic theories
that may crop out to a greater or less extent
in some other unions. Its oratory yesterday
also occupies an equally eminent position in
his character as an orator and in that of
railway president. His wit, cleverness and
geniality are of world-wide reputation, and
even his opponents admire him. As will
be seen by our reports, the ad dresses of Messrs.
Arthur,Gourley, Elphinstoneand Davies, in
addition to that of Mr. Depew, were well
worthy of the occasion. While there may
be plenty of opportunities for criticising
either, the meeting of such an organization
of laborand such a repres2ntative of capital
in our city is calculated to arouse the hospit
able instincts of Pittsburg. The adviser
and agent of the Vanderbilt millions is not
more the object of our good will than the
less oratorical, but not less picturesque men
who, on the railways of the country, hold
ihe lives and safety of the traveling millions
in their hands, and guard it well from
danger. While our skies may appear in
hospitable in this visit, it is to be hoped
that our visitors will recognize the glow of
our mills as more typical of our wishes that
that the visit will be one of pleasant
memories.
A STANDARD MAN TO TnE RESCUE.
Mr. C. Stuart Patterson, of Philadelphia,
who first attracted publi: attention some
years ago by a magazine article in which he
declared that all complaints to Tailway dis
criminations such as built up the Standard
Oil Company were due to "unreasoning
ignorance," and that all attempts at regula
tion "were schemes of confiscation," is out
in an open letter to Henry C. Lea on the
State campaign. Of course a corporation
advocate like Patterson is in favor of Dela
mater. He reaffirms the assertion that the
Constitution permits members of the Legis
lature to make a profit out ot State deposits
in their banks, because the law authorizes
State deposits in banks. The amusing thing
about Patterson is his firm conviction that
he knows what the Constitntion permits bet
ter than the Constitution does.
SILLINESS ABOUT SUGAR.
Some of our esteemed Democratic cotem
poraries need to be warned that they are in
danger ot making geese of themselves in their
endeavors to attack the sugar duties estab
lished nnder the new tariff act. Tub Dis
patch has frequently expressed its belief
that putting the tax on refined sugars above
the three-tenths of a cent rate fixed by the
original draft of the Honse bill, was a de
cided error. So far as the excess ot the duty
above that rate is concerned, it is fair am
munition for the Democrats. But when these
papers go beyo'nd that and claim that the
new duties will work in favor of the Sugar
Trust, in respect to additional matters in
which there is neither rhyme nor reason,
hey lay themselves open to the charge that
their real hatred ot the sugar features of the
McKinley bill, is the fact that they make a
more radical cut both in the actual duties
and in the margin of protection to sugar re
finers, than was ever proposed by the Demo
crats. A recent editorial in the New Tort World
affords an illustration of this foolishness.
After drawing correctly enough the dis
tinction between grading sugars by the
Dutch standard of color and by polariscope
tests of sweetness, the World makes the fol
towing assertions:
A common method of committing a fraud on
the revenues before 1KB was by coloring high
grade sugars. They Were thus admitted on pay
ment of a lower rate of duty than the law con
templated for Sugars of their sweetness. Under
the new law the same fraud can be repeated,
and to the greater profit of the refiners. Sugars
really above No. 16, Dutch standard, can ba
colored so that they wtll appear to be below 16,
or even 13, and will be admitted free of duty.
The refiners will then take out the artificial
coloring and sell them at the price charged for
the highest grades.
The trust will make a great deal of money
nnder the new law and no one else will be bene
flted. In this return to the Dutch standard
alone there is a fortune for the refiners. It puts
the whole sugar product in their control.
That this allegation as to the fortune to
the sugar refiners in the abandoning of the
polariscope tests for sweetness is mere moon
shine, appears in the fact that the polaris
cope test never was applied to sugars above
No. 13, or the darkest in the standard of
colors. This was so for the very good reason
that the frauds referred to consisted in
taking the higher grades of unrefined sugars
and coloring them so as to resemble the
lower grade. As the sugar must be refined
in any case, this entailed little loss. But
this process would not pay if refined sugars,
or those above No. 16 in color, were arti
ficially colored and then had to be refined
over again. This appears moat indisputably
in the fact that while the old tariff bill did
not apply the polariscope test to sugars
between Nos. 13 and 16, and therefore per
mitted sugars above the latter grade to be
colored down it there was any profit in it,
he practice was unheard of.
The new tariff law omits the polariscope
test, it is true, but that is because all the
sugars to which it is applicable are placed
on the free list, Eefiners can, if they choose,
color a No. 16 sugar down to a No. 13; but
as they will have to pay no duty on either
grade they are not likely to throw awar la
bor. There is less inducement to do so now
than before. The difference between the
duty on the highest grade of sugar subject
to the polariscope test and that on sugars
above No. 16 was six-tenths of a cent; while
on the raw sugars that formed the bulk of
importations it was l1.2c, and if the sugar
was refined to the highest grade it was
lJ41.7c Now the margin is cut down to
five-tenths of a cent. If artificial coloring was
not resorted to then, it is nonsense to say
that it will be done now with one-third to
one-half of the margin.
It is equally foolish to say that the public
will get no benefit from a reduction of duty
en refined sugar of 23o per pound, and
a reduction of the refiners' margin to one
third what was given under the old law.
Such talk gives the lie to everything which
the same papers have been saying about the
effect of duties on other articles.
FUKIFl'ING THE STAGE.
It will be well for the public and well for
the stage if the example of the Boston city
fathers in interdicting a flagrantly indecent
theatrical performance is followed in other
cities. If an actress or a manager has no
conception of anything higher than the
mere grabbing of dollars, it is no reason
why all decency should be outraged with
impunity by them upon the stage. Reputa
ble actors and respectable managers know
very well how injurious to the stage are
such plays, players and managers as have
disgusted even the Boston Aldermen, Im
moral plays and shameless actors are a nuis
ance and should be suppressed, as they can
be, by law.
The suggestion that Gladstone should be
called "the Blaine of England," in a new novel
called 'The Upper Ten," moves the New York
Jrcss to exclaim: "Why shouldn't Gladstone
be thus known to Americans when Blaine is
known to the English as the Gladstone of
America?" Perhaps, if the Press will con
sider a little, it may discover that
one reason why it should not be done is
that the antagonism between Blaine and Reed
might extend the practice to the extent of
calling Eeedthe Balfour of America.
It is encouraging to note how quickly the
Republican organs tumble to the fact that the
story of an attempt to assassinate Breckin
ridge, of Arkansas, was a fraud. The percep
tion that stories of Southern political assas
sinations may be works of the imagination, is a
hopeful sign.
The report that the brakeman's organi
zation on a Texas railroad, is raising trouble
because "negroes are employed in trai j, yard
and locomotive departments," is on the surface
distinctly discreditable. The brakemen owe
to themselves to say whether the objection is
to negroes or simply to cheap labor. Labor
organizations cannot afford to fight for such
obsolete issue as race prejudice.
It is pleasant that the Hon. James Husted
is not going to forsake politics for the debasing
occupation of mere money-getting. Ho has
been renominated for the New York Senate,
and will for another term content himself with
tho modest profits of a corporation legislator.
"Is Pennsylvania politics are so hot that
they have to put revolving fans on the ice
houses," remarks the Baltimore American:
We had not noticed that evidence of extreme
heat. On the other hand the only locality that
seems to be red-hot is under the collars of the
Delamater organs, when they are talking about
Emery.
It is reported that Colonel Shepard's
friends are making a desperate effort to bottle
him. That is evidently tho only treatment
possible. There is scriptural authority to the
effect that braying him in a mortar will not do
any good.
The attempt to find a parallel between
the Hartranft campaign, of 1S72, and the pres
ent fight is undertaken by the Philadelphia
North American with the net result ot bring
ing out the fact that while Hartranft had a
war record, Delamater has not. The Repub
lican candidate should put up a prayer to be
saved from his organs.
It is one of the problems of politics how,
after the New York Sun has declared that Mc
Kinley is a better Democrat than Cleveland,
the Sun's particular candidate can go to Ohio
and advise people to vote against McKinley.
The action of the Principal of the School
of Practice in Philadelphia in directing that
the girl scholars should discard bracelets dur
ing school hours has evoked a variety of com
ment. The comment, however, generally
misses the fact that this action makes the in
stltution a school of practice in good taste.and
common sense.
That Austrian idiot who is trying to
earn fame by making long journeys inside at a
trunk, needs to learn wisdom by falling into
the hands of American baggage smashers.
The promptness with which the Repub
licans discover that the excess of 197,000 by the
police census of New York over the United
States was due to politics, indicates a general
agreement as to the point that politics can
affect the figures of a census. But which
censns it affected the most is still the disputed
question.
Colonel Dudley also seems to have
private business in Indiana at about this time
of the year.
SNAP SHOTS IN SEASON.
Fats acts as bunko steerer to the victim of
circumstance.'
Country Autumn, city Autumn rural
frolics, town melancholies. Did your baby
eyes first open upon green fields; or did they
peep on bleak walls and dancing chimney pots?
Did you first creep on the home-woven, Joseph
coat colored carpet and play with the apple
blossoms scattered there; or did you crawl on
the velvety fruit of tho loom and pluck at the
scentless flowers therein? Did you romp over
cloddy fields and smell the healthful odors that
follow the plow: or did you stub your tender
toes on the stones of the city street? Did you
see leaves fall in shady lane; or did you see
them turn on scraggy trees and drop in busy
street? And did you leave the green fields,
the hay scent, the apple blossoms, the rural
quiet, for the stony streets, the tall walls, the
elbse quarters, the swift life before you really
tasted the sweets of the country Autumn? Some
of you did; others didn't. Many upon many
never saw the apDles fall, tho grains ripen, the
tired fnrnlsher ot food at play. They never
dwell beyond the bustle belt. They in a golden
youth never counted the Fall days dragging
their slow length Autumnward along the path
that led to tho old gray barn, waiting and
watching for the gayest frolic of the Autumn
days. They never saw the big doors open wide
revealing heaps of yellow corn ready to the
hand of the merry buskers. They never saw
the lads and lasses of the countryside climb up
the crispy, glittering hills, form in laughing
lines and with jesting lip and joyous face
strip the rustling clothing from the yollow corn
lantern and mellow light above, laugh and
love below. They never saw the roguishness
of the girls who found seed ears in the yellow
rows, and the race they ran through the rust
ling husks and the forfeit claimed from
their pouting lips at the merry husk
ing bee. They never saw the Autumn
frolic in the ripened corn. They never
tasted sweeter feast than that one spread on
table long by willing hands the freshest,
choicest things the earth and fruits thereof can
offer. Then the ramble seeing Nellie home
over the stile and stubble, through the lovely
lane, past sleeping sheep and kine, a parting
when the night and morning meet. This is one
Autumn joy beyond the limits of the town. He
of the city never felt its thrill. Ho of the farm,
who husked and danced 'neath lantern light on
threshing floor, calls up the dream a red ear,
a laughing eye, a long lane, a goodby she into '
the light, he into the night; he one way, she
another.
Blind people must be led, not driven.
The washerwomen want a new scale,
won't wait long for it. either.
They
Her face was fair, her eyes were black.
Her dowry reached a handsome sum;
He loved her, but alas, alack I
He could not wed the chewing gum.
Starving people cannot live on sympathy
unless it is accompanied by soup.
I watched a spider spinning in the sun
Weaving a web so fragile that I thought
The wind would rend it ere the work was done.
And hours of patient labor go for naught.
But the silky net
Was deftly set;
That spider sly
Soon snared a fly;
Its colden wings
In silvery strings
Were firmly tied
And there it diedl
Herr MoSTnowsayshedoesn'tlike America.
It took Jobann a long while to find out that
America doesn't like him, however.
The "model" actress whoso shapo shocked
Boston calls tho Aldermen there "old jays."
She is about as short of polite words as she Is
of clothes.
THE TOUTS STAGES.
Sight,
Light,
Might,
Night I
Graveyards are f nil of burled treasures.
The Beaver affidavit mill is turning out a
queer grist. It may choke up the bolting ma
chine. Beware ot the man or the woman who Is
always telling you something in confidence.
They only abuse your confidence.
The Press and the Pulpit can complete tho
civilization of the world. We need powder to
cut away mountains for railroads and dig
canals for ships. But swords can be dispensed
with, even on dress parade.
The men who displace railway ties should
wear a hangman's knot.
If all women wonld boycott sealskins the
Behrlng Sea dispute would soon be settled.
Here's a chance to test your strength, girls.
On the sea, the big. deeo sea.
When I sleep I dream of thee.
Your echoing caves.
Your rushing waves
Bring joyless fancies back to me,
Osea.
Oh rolling sea, sea-sickening sea.
You snrely aro 'way up In G.
You salt your swells.
Your clocks are bells.
Your watches change when winds blow free,
Oseal
There's a drum in the 'ear, but it does not
drown the melodies of music or nature.
The frog is compelled to leap for life.
It takes nerve to have a nervy tooth pulled.
The Boston officials who shut up a theater
where a play was running on the nudity and
naughtiness of the French school have done
more to elevate the stage than any sect or class
in the country. Dress up or shut up.
A YOUNG pig, loosely wrapped In brown
paper, was sent through the English mails re
cently and delivered to the addiessee. If the
English p. o. d. is to be littered with such mall
matter the postmasters will surely squeal.
The light Is slowly but surely being turned
on the Dark Continent,
The potato is the root of all evil in Ireland
at present.
Homes are blasted when a blast furnace ex
plodes. The city needs a pilot. Organize a Bureau
of Information and steer the strangers through
the breakers. It won't break us but will make
us popular.
The colicky melon and fresh garden greens
No longer whet the craving appetite;
But hot mince pies, with roasted pork and
beans.
Will soon make ghosts walk in the frosty
night.
The person who first goes on the book mar
ket with a marriage license guide will reap a
profit, judging from the number of letters re
ceived from youths and maidens who are o'er
young to marry and who cannot gain the con
sent of the cruel parent. Every mall brings a
plea for a guide to the nearest Gretna Green.
Loudon women are heartily sick of dress re-'
form humbug. They can't stand the divided
skirt. Petticoat rule will continue in all Its
phases.
The frost and the hotel holocaust has been
heard from. Look up the flues of the hotels,
blocks and tenements, and examine the fire
escapes, gentlemen. A peep in time may save
lives.
Don Camebon, the son of Simon the Slick,
says the campaign will now become aggressive.
It's abont time for Don's friends to come out of
the ditches, where they have been hurling
mouthfuls of mud at ,the enemy, and meet
charge for charge. Instead of being defensive,
their campaign so far has been decidedly of
fensive. Indian summer will probably need a blank
et. It's liable to be frost bitten.
.Cultivate home and street etiquette and
let the drawing room take care of itself.
The man who prays publicly and swears pri
vately fools bis neighbors, but not the devlL
Now Delamater is harping on a new string.
He says Grover Cleveland is a fraud. What
Grover has to do with tha BUlingsley Dill and
other Pennsylvania ills passeth all understand
ing. Talk business, not nonsense, Mr. Dela
mater. If Emery is a liar, what is Delamater, Judg
ing from the evidence on file now?
Steamship engineers have to watch cams in
a storm.
THE young Californian who held up a stage
to secure money to finish his education would
have fared better had he worked and stolen
time enough for study.
Musicians have a staff to lean upon.
Willie Winkle.
JOINED FORTUNES.
Another Day of Weddings in and Abont
rittsburg The Standlsh-Nevin Nuptials
Several Other Happy Occasions of the
Kind An Alphabetical Social.
At early candle light last evening, in the ivy
covered stone Presybjterian Church at Se
wickley. Miss Elizabeth Duncan Nevin, known
to her friends and family by the name ot
"Lilly," was made the wife of Thomas Ander
son Standisb, of the Arm of Armstrong Brothers
& Co. The families of both the young people
live at Edgewortb, and are well known through
out the State m business and social circles.
Tho bride's father Is Colonel Robert P. Nevin,
who has deservedly won the distinction of being
a graceful and pungent editorial writer, while
William L. Standisb, the father of the manly
groom, is now, as he has been for years, inter
ested in numerous successful enterprises here
and elsewhere.
The church last evening was filled, every per
son there being a warm and personal friend of
the young couple who were the parties to the
solemn obligation. The bridal procession en
tered the north door of the edifice in double
file, and while the great organ sounded the
thrilling measures of the wedding march
traversed the right-hand-aisle toward the front
of the chnrch, where, in tho pulpit alcove, with
the pulpit as a part of the background, stood a
platform banked and covered with hundreds
of luxuriant leafy plants and a profusion of
artistically arranged and tastefully blended
flowers. First appeared tho six ushers, Messrs.
W.I. Nevin, A. T. Nevin, Fred Irwin, Robert
D. Totten. Esq., Allen McC. S. King and Harry
Richardson, and following them tho bride
maids, Misses Ethel Standisb, Mary Kramer,
Ella S. Andersou, Mollie Chapman, Irene Mc
Vey and Grace Ogden. Behind the sextet
of exceptionally Dretty young ladies tripped
four lovely little misses as attendants.
They were 'Jennie Nevin, Ethel Anderson and
Martha and Alice Sterns. Following these in
teresting maidens walked the maid of honor.
Miss Jennie Sterns, and then the bride, Miss
Elizabeth Duncan Nevin, loaning on the arm of
her father. Colonel Robert P. Nevin.
While the bridal party was advanclne. Rev.
Dr. W. O. Campbell, the officiating clergyman,
took bis position in front of the pulpit. After
him came the groom. Thomas Anderson Stand
isb, accompanied by his best man, Robert P.
Nevin. Jr. When they reached the bead of the
aisle they halted and awaited the arrival of the
bride, who was then given to the groom by her
father. the best man stepping to
the side of that venerable gentleman,
while the procession gracefully grouped itself
in a picturesque arrangement on the hand
somely decorated platform. The grouping, to
gether with the artistic en semble of the plants
aud flower", produced an effect strikingly
beautiful. The ushers had formed In lines
three in each radiating from the pulpit toward
either side of tho auditorium, three being on
either flank of the ceremonial group, which was
placed in the center of the platform and facing
the minister. In front of these dark lines of
ushers stood lines composed of a like number
of bridemaids dressed in white, and between
them and the bride and groom were placed the
little girl attendants, two on either side. Tho
father stood near tho head of the aisle, while
the best man and maid of honor took the po
sitions which custom has already assigned to
those most imDortant nersonaces.
The ceremony commenced abont 6 o'clock,
and at Its conclusion the procession re-formed,
in the order already given, with the exception
that the groom was the proud companion ot
the bride, and the best man's occupation had
taken its denarture. The party upon leaving
the altar went down the left-hand aisle, and
passing on out of the church, took carriages in
waiting for Colonel Nevin's magnificently
located home on the terrace overlooking Edge
worth. As the numerous guests arrived to
attend the reception, which commenced at 7
o'clock, a sight of rare splendor and
loveliness gratified their eyes. The
beautiful grounds were brilliantly illuminated
by electric lights among the great
forest tree?, and the grand old residence was a
blaze of lights. Within the comfortable home
the air was ladened with tbo subtle perfume of
fragrant flowers and rare blooms, and potted
plants rich in foliage were so placed as to pro
duce effects effective and artistic.
Among those present wore representatives of
all the old and aristocratic families of Sewick
ley Valley and vicinity, including such well
known names as Nevin, Irwin, Dickson, Way.
Wilson, Shields. Kramer, Ogden, Harbaugh,
Fleming, Chapman, Young, Love, Wardrope,
Oliver, Standisb, Armstrong, Anderson and
King.
The bride and groom left Edgeworth on the
Erie train, at 10:17, tor this city, where they
took the mldnighttrain for Cleveland.
THANES, AND COME AGAIN.
The Good Work of Some Allegheny Ladies
Receives Encouragement.
Steaming hot coffee and chocolate with ice
cream and cake wero served yesterday to visit
ors at tho Young Men's Freo Reading Room,
Beaver avenue, Allegheny, by the ladies in
charge, it being the day of the annual donation.
-i ... A ...!.... .ifkl.ti a 1.... nnmliar nf mita'
anu rcucjjuuu U1V,U a lUlgg mumjuh. wx ,uw.i
remembered both by their presence and by of
fenngs that became tangible memries of thefr
visits. Money, books and various things that
will assist materially in sustaining tho good
work undertaken by the philanthropic ladles
were gratefully received, and thanks aro re
turned with a request to be further remem
bered bv the benevolent inclined.
The Reception Committee Included Mrs. S.
Gibson, Mrs. McConnell, Mrs. George Shaw,
Mrs. Donaldson, Mrs. Thomas Benner, Mrs. A.
Y. Patterson, Mrs. R H. Gilliford, Mrs. I. M.
Patterson, Misses Jean Marshall, Sarah Hamil
and Nctta Trimble.
AN ALPHABETICAL SOCIABLE.
Seven Letters Used Up by tho Hostesses of
an Evening.
Not an A, B, C sociable, but an A, B. C, D, E,
F, G ono was given in tho pretty little chapel of
tho First Presbyterian Church on Wdod street,
last evening. It was the initial oneof a scries
to be giveu by tho ladies of that coiigregation
alphabetically, during the winter! and tho
names of the hostesses last eveJing ranged
from A to G, and by their clever management
the chapel radiated with light and! resounded
with joous conversation and meriy laughter,
besides being redolent with the aloma of the
most delicious coffee, which was sVrved with
cake that melted lu the mouth. I
A literary and musical proirammeundcr the
supervision of Mrs. Pershing Anderson, was
irreatlv eniojed and appreciated by the sociably
inclined peoploand compliments were showered
upon the charming performers. The! Reception
uomnutiee wua ui.nuii into, rmyts, air. ana
Mrs. Davis, Mr. and Mrs. Day, Mr. and Mrs.
Holmes, Mr. and Mrs. Bigger and Mr William
Ewlng.
A BEWITCHING PIC
Miss Elizabeth Smith's Pretty I'eatnres
Neatly Counterfeited.
A golden-haired, blue-eyed little beatty that
is ju'st at present creating the most aimiring
comment is Miss Elizabeth Smith, the Yi-year-old
child of Mr. Percy Smith, whoso picture, a
threo by four pastel, is on exhibition ii the
office of her uncle, Mr. E.D. Smith, tho Gen
eral Passenger Agent of tho Baltimore Tand
Ohio Railroad.
The picture is a glorious vision of the tiny
elf in a dainty little white frock which displays
her babyish shoulders and prettily roundVd
arms and is pronounced by all who have an ac
quaintance with Miss Smith a perfect likeness1,
and by those who have not the honor of an ac
nnaintance a most bewitching and cantivnlim-'i
picture. The background flecked with blue.1
the color ox me utue Deautys eyes and the
handsome white and gold frame, prove a charm
ing setting for the figure of the Jittle one.
Wedded at Beaver Falls.
In Boavor Falls, last evening, occurred the
wedding of Miss Josephine Howard, of that
place, and Mr. William G. Stewart, a promis
ing young attorney of this city. The bride is
the second daughter of Mr. Andrew Howard,
of the Phmnix Glass Company, a former resi
dent of Wilkinsburg, where both tho bride and
her sister, who married Lieutenant Wagoner,
of Fort Leavenworth, were favorites In society
and considered exceptionally bright and lovely
girls. The future home of Mr. and Mrs.
Stewart will be In Wilkinsburg. and numerous
friends are awaiting an opportunity of extend
ing congratulations and a warm welcomo to the
young couple.
Benefit for a Day Nursery.
Elaborate preparations have been made by
the Whatsoever Band of King's Daughters, ot
the Oakland M. E, Church, for the fair to be
held in the chapel of the church, on Forbes
street, this afternoon and evening. The young
ladies will have beautiful fancy articles and
varied refreshments for their guests. The day
nursery which this society has started on De
Soto street, Oakland, will receive the proceeds.
A VERY PRETTY WEDDUKJ.
Miss Allda Phillips Made the Happy Bride
of Mr. D. W. Sloan.
A pretty wedding last evening at 8 o'clock,
in the Allegheny Reformed Presbyterian
Chnrch united Miss Alida Alma Phillips, the
lovely daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Ander.
sod, and Mr. D. W. Sloan, a very popular
youngsoclety man. The bridal procession con
sisted of ushers Mossrs. Cliff McCausland, W.
M. Boggs, William Tibby, S. C. MUIigan, Ren
old T. Sloan and Mr. Kearns, little Miss
Carrie Sloan and Master Howard Anderson,
maid of honor Miss Cora Shallenburg, and the
bride and groom. The grouping at the altar
where Rev. J. R, J. MilUgan awaited
the party wa3 most effective, and during
the solemn words pronounced by Rev. Dr.
MUIigan tho organ, under tho skillful
fingers of Mr. Sam Brown, gave forth a
tender, sympathetic accompaniment and then
burst forth into a triumphal march at the con
clusion of the ceremony. The bride was
charmingly pretty in a decollete costume of
white silk, over which fell the soft, graceful
folds ot her bridal veil, which her maid of
honor throw back from her face ere she
retraced her steps down the aisle on
the aim ot her bannv and proud-
looking groom. The maid of honor was a very
pretty girl with short, curly hair and a dainty
costume of dancing length. And little Miss
Sloan and Master Anderson wero an ideal pair
ot attendants at a bridal altar with their large
calla lilies of unusual beauty and their pretty
vouthfnl faces. A Kate Greenaway gown
draped the slight figure of Miss Sloan.
A reception was held immediately after the
church services at the residence of Mr. and
Mrs. Anderson, to which the guests were con
veyed in carriages, and at which gayety reigned
supreme until tho departure of the bride and
groom for Cleveland.
NEVER MINDED THE WEATHER.
Brilliance and Beauty at an Allegheny Wed
ding Last Evening.
The brilliancy and beauty within the commo
dious home of Mr. John L. Myers, on McCIure
avenue, last evening made the gloomy, dreary
weather but an incident that was forgotten as
soon as the realm of gayety and festivity was
entered. The occasion was the marriage of
Miss Minnie L. Myers and Mr. J. L. Chapman,
and the ceremony was performed at 8:30
o'clock by Rev. Dr. White, rector of St. An
drew's Episcopal Church, and was according to
the Episcopal faith.to which both the bride and
groom adhere. The bridal party, whose advent
was awaited anxiously by the interested guests
who thronged tbo parlors, consisted of the
bride and groom, best man, and maid ot honor,
tho latter honorary position being filled by Miss
Ella Stanton, of Buffalo, and bridomald, Miss
Florence Myers, sister of the bride. Mr. John
K. Bryden. of Franklin, officiated as best man.
The bride, whose bright, animated counte
nance and graceful form are familiar to most
of the older residents of Allegheny, and to
many of the newcomers, was attired in a very
becoming, tasty toilet of elegant white crepe
du chino for her nuptials, which were viewed
with a slight tingo of sadness by some of her
more zealous admirers in tho assemblage, as it
meant to them literally the loss of their charm
ing friend's society, as her stalwart groom,
after the Eastern wedding trip, will carry her
off to Rochester, where he has established a
promising jewelry business, and where he is
considered a leader in business and social cir
cles. Gernert's orchestra and Luther's cater
ing did much to make the event an enjoyable
one.
WEDDED AT HOME.
The Quiet Marriage of Miss Laura E, Lee
and Mr. W. J. Lightner.
The lovely home of Mr. Robert Lee, on Penn
sylvania avenue, last evening was the scene of
the wedding of his niece. Miss Laura E. Lee. to
Mr. W. J. Lightner. The wedding was quite
private, only the immediate relatives of the
families being present. But the appointments
were elegant and carried out with as much
nicety as if for a much more ostentatious af
fair. The beautiful bride was gowned in white and
had as an attendant Miss Birdio Babst, who
was robed in pale pink. The officiating clergy
man was Rev. Dr. Prngb, of Grace Church.
The Davidson-Myler Nuptials.
Miss Callie Myler and Mr. John Milton
Davison joined hands for life last evening at 6
o'clock in the pretty parlors of the residence of
the bride's mother. Mrs. C. C. Myler. Edwiu
street. East End. Numerous friends witnessed
the interesting ceremony which united the
young lady, so well and favorably known, to
the enerzetic, ambitious young man from Wil
kinsburg, whose integrity and honesty has al
ready made lor him an enviable reputation.
The pretty home was beautifully decorated for
tho event S Messrs. A. M. and J. B. Murdoch.
Social Chatter.
The anniversary entertainment of Valley
Forge Council, Jr. O. U. A. M.. helcUast even
ing at its Fifth avenue hall, was well attended
and a very en joyable affair, the programme em
bracing many interesting numbers and closing
wilfh an auction of cakes. Tho address of the
evening was made by Hon. Clarence Burleigh,
aid Mr. Charles A. Richardson officiated a3
&asterof ceremonies.
The marriage of Miss Lillian Hoag. of this
city, and Mr. Eiseman, of Allentown, occurred
last evening. Miss Hoag but recently resigned
her position in the Urantstreet school, In which
she was a popular teacher, to wed the gentle
man of ber choice, whose sterling worth will
doubtless prevent her ever regretting the step.
Miss Agnes Metcalp, a thoroughly charm
ing young lady, daughter of Orlando R Met
calf, a former resident of this city, was wedded
yesterday to 'Mr. Virlot Wiseman, a young
Pittsburcer of considerable prominence, at the
home of her parents, Estes Park, Col. Mr. and
Mrs. Wiseman will reside in the East End.
CubbyUniveksity Hall was filled last even
ing for the entertainment given by the Pro
tected Home Circle. Those ou the programme
were Misses Kennedy, Edna and Lulu Vogler,
Nannie Hammer, Agnes Lambing, Tillie Mack
intosh. Bertha Moore, Millie Gardner and Dr.
H. C. Hall.
CyclobamA Hall was a scene of gayety
last evening. Tho Knights of the Mystic
Chain with their ladles, to tho number of ISO.
engaged in the terpsichorean pastime from 8
o'clock until the wee sma' hours, taking time
only to descend to Luther's for refreshments at
11 o'clock.
The reception tendered the visiting engineers
by the railroad department of the Y.M. C. A.,
at the chapel of the Association building, this
evening, is to be an exceptionally well-arranged
and interesting affair.
Miss Pauline Weaver and sister, Mrs. K.
E. L. Weaver, the latter accompanied by her
bright little daughter Vivian, are visiting rela
tives in Allegheny.
THEBurwick Musical Club will give its sec
ond annual hop atNew Turner Hall, Forbes
street, next Thursday evening.
Miss Coba McKelvy. of the East End,
entertained the members of tbo Teaspoon
Club yesterday afternoon.
Mb. and Mbs. D. P. Reiohakd, of North
Highland avenue, have returned from an ex
tended European trip.
Captain and Mbs. J. J. Vandegbift are
visiting in New York.
LAST CHANCE TO VOTE.
Tho Close of the Exposition and the Popular
Topical Ballots.
During the Exposition, which closes with
the present week. The Dispatch has afforded
the public an opportunity of expressing views
on a wide range of popular topics. The effect
of the voting test has been to awaken interest
In matters which otherwise would have been
allowed to slumber. They furnished food for
thought and results may follow. At all events
noibarm has been done, and visitors have been
amused, to say tho least, while the people have
cerkiinly been benefited. For to-day and to
morrow the following topics will be offered to
visitors, who are requested to register their
votes in the Poll Book at Dispatch Head
quarters, Brunswlck-Balke-Collendcr Billiard
Company's space.
FRIDAY'S VOTING TOPIC.
Should jtbe Hauling of Trains by Locomotives
on Piibltc Streets be Prohibited and Horse
FoweAApplled ? Open to Lidy and Gentle
men inters.
. ISATURDAY'S VOTING TOPIC.
Bhould all the Toll Houses on Roads in West
ern Pcpnsylvanla be Removed? Open to
Lat'y aud Gentlemen Voters. "
acy aud
OUR SHORT STORIES.
WORST LUCK ON RECORD.
TXTHAt's the matter with that young man?"
the conductor askedof the old commuter,
indicating a big, raw-boned fellow, handsomely
dressed, with a strip of court plaster across bis
left cheek, a swollen lower lip and a decidedly
black eye. ,
'-Enough's the matter," said the old man,
taking a banana out of the basket which the
train boy bad left by the stove while be went
out to wave his handkerchief at a girl who
couldn't see him if she tried, and probably
would not be looking as the express dashed by
the little way station. "Enough's the matter.
That's young B , who came inter a email for
tune when his father died last June. Guess
he's tryln' ter come out of it as fast as he can.
He was jns' tellin' me 'bout the time he bad
yesterday an' the day before at Joppa. Seems
be went ter the races an' dropped fifteen
hundred skin game, I guess. Got ter
drinkin' in the evenin' an' a little fel
ler 'bout foot shorter than bim Degan
guyin' B fer beln' so green as ter drop
his money. That riled B an' he hauled off
an' hit at the little feller; an' the little feller
ducked an' pasted B In the ribs, smashed
him in the jaw and knocked him all around."
"B got away at las', an' fetched a cop an
had the little feller arrested. But the little fel
ler told the p'leeceman bow the fight begun an'
B was arrested, too. "Both gave ball betore
the alderman. Nex' mornln' tho Judge beard
the case. looked at B an the little feller.an'
as B was the biggest fined him 513 an' costs.
B told me all about it, an' be BaysJoppa's
seen the last o' him. Dropped fifteen hundred
dollars, got licked by a smaller man, an' fined
fer bein' licked that's what's the matter with
THEIR FIRST FUSS.
"T"HE squatter's cabin had grown to preten
tions proportions during the 40 years he
had occupied it. The old man remained un
changed, except for the effects of passing
years. The crowd of young people that had
collected at his bouse to spend the afternoon,
pressed him to tell them a story of his early
life in that region. After a little hesitation he
began: "Lemme see, it's jist f orty-f o' year ergo
'at me an' mer wife wnz maird an' moved ter
this country fur ter set up fnr onrse'fs. We
had er log cabin with on'y one room an' er shed
fur ther stawk. I worked powerful hard er
clearin' uv Ian' an' er makin' er crap at ther
same time. Wifeallers fetched mer dinner ter
me an' she staid in ther flel' with me mo'n half
her time. We wuz happy, ez happy ezef we
wuz rich. One roawnln' we bad er f nss. I dls
remember what hit wuz erbout, but I went
erway mad an' lef ber cryin'. At dinner time
she never come. I lowed ter myse'f 'at she wuz
mad, an' s' I, 'Let er stay mad ef she wants ter.'
Bimeby I gits so hungry 'at I started fur ther
house jist er bllln. When I got tbar ever' thing
wnz thar 'ceptin' mer wife. Thar wuz mer
dinner ready fur ter take ter me, but wife
wuzn' thar nur thererbouts. I gits skeered
an' I calls her, but no answer. Fine'Jy I seed
ther dawg er comin'. He axed me fur ter toiler
him plain ez talk an' I done hit. He sot off
fur ther creek an' me er follerln', Purtysoon
we corned ter ther creek an' he rnnned down
ther bank an me arter him. Nex' I beared
him bark, "Yere she is,' jist ez plain. I rnnned
whar he wuz an' thar wuz wife er layin' on
ther gronn', pale an' white ez erghos. She
smiled when she seed me an' say, 'I'm so glad
yer come.' Then she p'lnted ter er grape vine
full er grapes whut wuz on er er dead tree, an'
she say, s' she, 'I wuz er tryin' fur ter git yer
them grapes fur yer dinner fnr ter git yer In er
2ood humor with me. Er lim broke an' I fell.
Yrr ain't mad at me now, air ye?' I felt like
klllin' mer fool se'f fur ever bein' mad at ber.
Hit don't matter whut I tof her then. I toted
i her ter ther house an' nnssedher twell she got
well. I wouldn' let nobody do nothin' fur her
but me, an' she 'peared like she nuver wanted
no one to. Well, arter er while sbe got well
an' we wnz happy ergln. That wuz ther on'y
fuss we ever bad. Sence then ef ona shows
signs er glttin' mad ther yother ssys 'grapes
an' hit stops thar."
THE CENTER OF THE STAGE.
JN the last act of "Amorita" a lofty railing
with stone posts and an arched gateway oc
cupies the center of the stage, dividing it from
very close to the footlights almost to the back
scene. It has a solid look, this set piece, and
serves the scenic purpose well enough. Bnt it
aggravates the actors, from Paulino Hall tho
Lovely herself, to tha chorus clrls. who in
magpie costume play serenades upon Impracti
cable instruments. Why? Because nobody
can get the center of the stage. The high rail
ing has it, and won't give way.
The ambition ot every actor worth his or her
salt is to get the center of the stage and keep
it. Stories Innumerable are told of the conten
tion of players for this privilege. Ellen Terry,
the great actress whose genius far surpasses
Henry Irvine's, showed me once a little polished
paperweight of wood that sbe treasured be
yond most of the bric-a-brac and souvenirs
which always fall in upon a great actress by the
ton. She told me that It was a section of a
plank in the very middle of the Lyceum Thea
ter stage, which was cut out by an adoring
stage carpenter and given to her by him ono
Christmas Day. While sbo has that paper
weight Miss Terry thinks the center of the
stage will always be hers.
A SINGULAR VISITATION.
TTTalter J. Scorr is a young man scarce 23
years of age. who resides In a Western
city. Young Scott is an ordinary looking in
dividual save for an abnormal growth of hair
that covers bis face, neck and bead. His
whiskers are nearly a foot in length, and of a
reddish color that affects a slight bluish tint
under certain conditions of tbo atmosphere.
Tho hair on his neck is long and silky, but it
curls close to the skin. The horny tissue that
covers his cranium, though, is a marvel. It is
nearly as long as his whiskers, bnt it stands
straight out from his skull like the hair on the
wig of a sideshow Circassian, and each strand is
as stiff as a wild boar bristle, and could be used
to sew carpet with, or to make a scrubbing
brush. Tho wonder is, though, that this pecu
liar growth has developed within the past
three years. When young Scott was 20. his
face wa3 as smooth, soft and silbish as that of
a maiden of 15, tbo texture of bis hair was fine,
and his eyes were shaded by long, delicate
lashes that would havo made a Spanish
senorita sick with envy to have seen
tbem. The wonderful change was
the work of a single night. On
Scott's 20th birthday a pet poodle dog ho
owned died. He was overcome with grief at
the loss of bis pet, and at one time it was
thought ho wonld be seized with spasms. He
dsnonnced everything, and going out into the
street, barehoaded. ho shook his fist at the sky,
and In a paroxysm of frenzy he cursed and re
viled the Omnipotent. He swore by every
thing holy that be would never shave his face
or have his hair cut. Ho went into the house
and sank insensible on the floor. He was put
to bed and remained in a comatose state until
the next morning. He was awakened next
morning with the sun. Then tho marvelous
change. His hair stuck out over bis head like
the quills on the back of a porcupine, and his
face was covered with a shaggy beard several
inches in length. It grew up close to bis eyes,
bis eyelashes had dropped out, and abont the
only part of bis face left uncovered by the
strange growth was his nose. For the past
three years Scott has religiously kept his oatb.
He Is well educated, a good writer, and appar
ently in every sense a man of brilliant parts.
Married In Baltimore.
George W. Robinson, bead bookkeeper of
the Singer Manufacturing Company, in this
city, was married in Baltimore last evening to
Mis Laura Rickster, a well-known belle or the
Monumental City, by Rev. Mr. Mullin. of the
Lee Street Baptist Church. The young couple
will return to this city and settle in Allegheny.
Joined in tho Holy Bonds.
rsrxciAi. ti,zpba3 to tub DiarATcn.t
Boston. October 16. Mr. Frank S. Cooper,
of Pittsburg, and Miss Anna W daughter of
Dr. Edward Sawyer, of Bridcewater. were
married to-day at Bridgewatet in the presence
of a large number of well-knownsociety people
from Boston, New York and Pittsburg.
DEATHS OF A DAY.
George A. Deeringi
Washington, October 1-Paymater George
A. Deerlng. of the Navy, on duty In the coast
survey, was fonn'l dead In his bed at his home In
this cllr this morning. Death was due to heart
disease.
David Watson.
David Watson, an aged aud well-known citizen
ortheKastEnd, died at his home last evenin? at
8 o'clock. He was 67 -years old. Arrangements
have not yet been made for the funeral.
CUEEE5T C0NDENSATI0HS.
Tampa.-i'la., has a hotel with the ap
propriate name of Booze House.
A Cincinnati Court recently decided
that a spiritualistic mealum is a f ortuno teller.
A peasant woman near Nantes, France,
recently gave birth to five children, who wero
still alive at last report.
Artificial eyes made of celluloid are
dangerous, says a French physician, in that
they et ud an irritation.
There is a man in Atchison who has
written and prepared his own obituary notice.
There Is nothing left to All in but the date.
The Australian tailor who traveled in a'
trunk from Vienna to Paris has just made the
trip from Pans to London in tbe same manner
Frank Woodruff, of Cronin case fame,
will probably be taken to Kansas for horse
stealing as soon as he gets oat of the Chicago
Bridewell.
"Old Sacramento," the cannon taken
across the plains by General Fremont In his
first expedition, is an object of Interest at the
Kansas State Capitol.
An artesian well was driven 85 feet
throngb solid rock at Pullman, Wash., when
water was struck. The discharge is said tone
1,000 gallons a minute.
A party of Marquette explorers has
discovered a rich vein of Bessemer iron on the
Breltuag estate, near Crystal Falls, Mich. Tha
vein Is over 50 feet wide.
Electricity has been introduced as light
into tbe British Museum, thus enabling that
institution for the flrst time in it3 existence to
be kept open in tbe evening.
The Michigan State Hoard of Health,
believing consumption a communicable dis
ease, advises tbat all pupils affected be ex
cluded from the public schools.
Susan La Elesb, an Indian girl, who
graduated in medicine after going through
tbe Hampton (Va.) school, is practicing among
her tribe, the Omabas, and with reported suc
cess. The "cap that was snapped" when Ex
Congressman Breckinridge wa3 making a
speech in Arkansas proves to have been a
match struck by a countryman to light his cob
pipe.
TJp in Rogne River, Ore., fruit growers
have found a firm friend in yellow jackets.
They are death on the green aphis scale, and
when they light on a tree it is thoroughly
cleaned in a few minutes.
It has been suggested that the study of
tbe influence of diet and habit upon the color
of hair In different nations of men may causa
discoveries by which the color of the hair In
the human race may be modified by judicious
treatment,
A Missouri farmer is the owner of a,
steer which wa3 accidentally covered up with
straw during the threshing. Aueust 20. On
Saturday last his horns were discovered as ba
was eating bis way out of the stack of straw,
having lived without water 45 days.
The following method of making paper
transparent for copying drawings has Deen
found very serviceable: Place a blank sheet of
paper over the drawing and rub it lightly with
pure benzine. The traciug can then be readily
made, and tbe benzine, upon evaporation,
leaves the paper as opaque as before.
Clarence Phillips, a boy, residing in
Tampa, FIa has been presented with a hand
some medal of gold and silver by Mrs. J. C.
Williams, for bravery in putting out in a leaky
boat to the rescue of a party of ladies in a dis
abled yacht, and succeeding in getting the im
periled craft into safe harbor. Engraved upon
the medal is a view of Tampa Bay.
The number of wealthy. Americans who
rent moors and ttsbings in Scotland Is greatly
on tbe increase, says tho Court Journal. A
financially gifted man from New York reckons
the snm total expended by his countrymen at
no Ies than 600.000 a year this for rent alone,
which certainly does not cover half the outlay
incurred by the modern sportsmen.
There has been discovered on the west
coast of Africa a bnsb, the seeds of which yield
a yellowish fat of a very agreeable nntty flavor,
which might be used as a substitute for butter.
It solidifies like butter, and contains no acids
which causo it to becomo rancid. If tbe plant
can be domesticated in this country, no homo
will be complete without its butter bush.
Thomas Silverthorn, a hotel keeper at
Coral, Mien., has a spectacle case five Inches
long tbat dates back to the misty past. Tho
lid and bottom are of brass, the sides of copper.
On the lid and opposite side aro seven rude en
gravings, and under each js written in the
Polish language the Scriptural account of tho
birth of Christ. It is claimed to be from 500 to
600 years old.
Bay City has an electrician, and a prac
tical one, too. His household recently was
compelled to issue an edict agaiust a superflu
ous mess of kittens. Drown them? Not any.
He tied their heads together with a copper
wire, tnrned on the spark, and. presto, the cats
wero deader than Kemmler. and now he is to
apply for a patent on bis process of kenimleri
zation of cats.
Blowout Mountains, in the Cascades
above Breitenbusb.Ore.. is unmistakably one of
the wonders of the Cascades,eonsisting of about
800 acres of granite rock piled ur in every con
ceivable shape. From all indications it has
been caused by an accumulation of gas below
which, bursting out throw tbe rock Into tho
canyon, forming a beautiful lako from 20 to 3
rods wide and half a mile long, in which
abound myriads of trout.
A prisoner in the Webster county (la.)
jail, a few days ago, received a copy of tha
"Kreutzer Sonata." Tbe Sheriff felt "obliged
to read tbe book through in order to judge of
tho propriety of leaving it with tho prisoner.
The official was rewarded for his watchfulness
by discovering two sharp steel saws secreted
between leaves which had been pasted to
gether. This offensive feature was promptly
expurgated, but it is not known whether too
prisoner received the volume as amended.
A stranger entered the Church of the As
sumption, Brooklyn, on Saturday morning, and
borrowing a rosary from the sexton, knelt in
apparent prayer. When the sexton, who bad
been our. returned a few minntes later, tha
stranger had vanished. So had two silver chal
ices, two silken stoles and two proyer books.
Chase was given and the fellow was caught.
Upon his person was found the booty taken
from tho church, as well as threo silver coffin
plates bearing tbe inscription, "Rest in Peace."
A curious natural ooject is now to ba
seen in the Catholic cemetery grounds, at Mo
bile. In the UDper jiart of the graveyard,
within the wails of tbe lot of the Callaghan
family, there is a fair-sized flr tree, which tree,
like other trees, twice a year puts forth its new
branchei. A new spray has just appeared at
tbe apex of tbe pyramid formed by the tree's
dense foliage, and strangely enough this spray
has tbo sbaoe of an anchor, with a stock form
insr a cross. This perfect representation ot an
anchor and cross, with a ball on the end ot tha
shank, just as appears in a real anchor, attracts
tho attention of all who visit the cemetery.
IN WITH THE TIDE.
"You're very late in returning from
church; you must have had a long sermon."
"Ob. yes; Dr. Sixthly give us a great discourse
on The Evil of Talking Too Much. "Puck.
He (looking dreamily into his cup)
What's this? A miracle? ,
She Indignantly) -Why, no; that's coffee, and
good coffee, toot
He Well, isn't tbat a miracle?
A Cooking School Graduate. She Dar
ling, nlease tell the grocer to send me up two
quarts of nice, fresh sponges.
He You can't get sponges at the grocer's,
ducky, but I'll stop at the druggist's for them.
What kind do you want?
bhe I want the kind used for making sponge,
cake, and tell him they must be fresh. Seattlt
press.
Counsel And all you can do is to confess
that you are guilty?
Prisoner (sadly) -Yes. sir.
Counsel Well, then. I'm afraid the only defense
we can offer is Insanity.
Prisoner (cbecrfully)-Bully, boss! Then yef
can prove dat dls concession of mine here is a
what-ver-call-lt? Hallucination? an' I'm inno
cent! "Dat'siy:-Puc.
Warden Well, what would you like to
work at while you are here?
New Arrival At my own trade, if you please,
sir.
Warden What is tbat?
New Arrival I'm an Arctic explorer, sir.
Miss de Hub And those dear little squir
rels tbat sported under the hedge last summer,
where are tbcv now?
Miss Rustic Oh, tbey're holed up for the winter.
Miss de Hub Ugh! My dear, your notions of
grammar make me shiver; I presume you mean
held up.
THE BOOKSTORE CRANE.
O'er costly bindings, first editions,
And glltcd edges, he will gloat.
Although his hat's an old back number.
And veiy rusty Is his coat.
Tls but the paper, types, and leather
That be pores over on tbe shelf;
If he'd but think books made for reading, ,
He might be better bound hlnueir. - .--PuUt'
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