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PITTSBURG. TUESDAY. OCT. 21. 1S901
CAMPAIGN FLAPDOODLE.
The very severe straits to which the
Be publican maungers in this State are
reduced for political arguments hare been
remarkably illustrated in their recent at
tempts to manufacture campaign ammuni
tion. With all due allowance (or their
bard case, however, it is necessary to warn
them that they hurt their cause more than
they help it, when they laboriously assert
that the nal'onal policy of the Republican
party is built upon such a foundation of
sand, and the national legislators ol the
Republican stamp are such weathercocks,
that Pennsylvania cannot be permitted to
Tote for th son of local administration it
wants, and lor the supremacy ot her Consti
tution and laws, in strictly State matters.
This is the practical assertion made by
njnie campaign productions published in
the Dilamatcr papers last week, with all
the cmplnsls of magnified tvpe and scare
heads. l is asserted there that "fifteen or
twenty Republican Senators" are restless;
that thev look upor, the contest in Pennsyl
vania as : test, and therefore, it is declared
by this eminent, political authority that if
l.ttison is elected, the tariff bill is endan
gered, and is likely to be repealed. The
unique representation that "Western Sena
tors are going t0 govern their action by the
result in Pennsylvania, and not by the re
sult in their cwn States does not interfere
wit.- the proiaulgatiou of this bugbear. The
spectacle winch it holds up of twelve to
fifteen .Republican Senators "repealing"
the tariff and presumably leaving the
country without any revenue at all. affords
no obstacle to its circulation. The resort to
the plea that a perfected piece ot legislation
is going to tumble into pieces before it has
f.iirly got into operation, if Pennsylvania
tlccides a State election on State issues, is
also a rrmarkalile evidence of the dreadful
condition to which the State managers are
reJucul. But tiie most striking aspect of
a'i, which this bugaboo presents, is the ter
rible arraignment of the .Republican na
tional policy by the Republican leaders
themselves.
A L-n iff hill, like other national legisla
tion, is enacted lor the benefit of the whole
naticii. It is the result of careful prepara
tion, long investigation and hard-fought
compromises. "When such a measure is en
acted it is certain to last for j-ears, not onlv
because that is necessary for a fair experi
ment, but because the work of preparing
another tariff to take its place always re
quires a year or two of preliminary dis
cussion and an entire session of actual work.
Yet here stand the Republican authorities
of this State, acting under the direction of
the National Chairman, and declare that
the one measure by which the Republican
Congress is to be judged, is so flimsily put
together, and has so little foundation in the
real needs of the people, that it cannot stand
on its own merits through the blasts of a
single election. If the people of Pennsyl
vania disregard party dictation sufficiently
to vote for honesty and the supremacy of the
Constitution, the tariff will go to ruin. If
that is so, what a crazy and imbecile piece
of work this triumph of Republican policy
must be, according to its own supporters.
If anything conld surpass this Republican
characterization of Republican policy, it is
the allegations which are made concerning
the twelve or fifteen Republican Senators
representing that great section of the coun
try whence Republicanism has always
drawn its most reliable popular support
It is declared that these national statesmen
were not satisfied with the tariff bill, but
"party pressure was so strong that they
Mere obliged to go along with the tide."
In other words, the allegation is made on
behalf of the Republicans that one-third of
the Republican Senators arc so entirely
without wills of their own that they could
not, on matter of purely fiscal legislation,
vote their own minds and secure the train
ing of a stable tariff policy, but had "to go
along with the tide." After drawing that
picture of utterly nerveless and pnrposeless
Republican Senators it is astonishing to ob
serve what power and vigor is to be inspired
in them by the distant spectacle of a little
inOepcndcnt voting in Pennsylvania.
These twelve or fifteen Senators are going
to advertise their past votes as worthless;
and, when they do so, they will show more
power than all the rest of the Government
put together, by repealing the tariff and
leaving the Government without revenue,
while the co-ordinate branches, the House
cf Representatives and the President, are
sitting in amazement and letting them
doit
There arc some particulars in which criti
cism of the Republican national policy is
possible, but it is by no means as rickety or
unworthy as the Republican managers of
Pennsylvania are trying to make the people
believe. The McKinley bill may not be a
perfect measure, but it has more stability
than to fall to pieces within sixty days of its
passage because Pennsylvania elects a
Governor who cannot make or unmake a
single vote in Congress on the tariE Our
Republican friends do not really mean to
bring such charges against their own party.
It ii only a sign that they are so much at
their wits' end to meet the popular demand
that the Constitution and laws of the State
shall be supreme over the corporations and
the politicians, when they fall to declaring
that the great Republican tariff measure
cannot stand a single breath of independ
ence; that one-third the Republican Senators
are weather cocks and do not know their
own minds; and that the Republican House
of Representatives and President are so
stupid that they would let twelve or fifteen
Senators smash the tarifl all to little bits,
while they are wringing their hands and
asking what they shall do about it.
ntlGIU FOR ICEMEN.
When summer comes around again, as we
suppose it will in spite of some signs that
the finest ot all our seasons is not getting a
fair show, it will be well to remember the
history of this year's ice business, in early J
WwHB
spring last year the wholesale icemen
affected to be terribly afraid of a shortage
in the ice supply. To calm their souls they
put up the prices of the cold commodity,
and talked of organizing expeditions to the
North Pole and other cool localities to re
plenish the stores. In some places people
had to pay fabulous prices for the ice, and
the dealers shed tears beeanse they had to
charge so much. Kot so many tears were
shed and prices were not so high where the'
uiHiiufactured ice was a competitor.
K"w it turns out that the ice in sight on
the Kennebec alone amounts to over three
million tons, half of which will be carried
through to next season. The crop of ice in
the United States is larger than usual at
this time ol year. The price has declined
irom 20 a ton, the top notch of summer
figures, to 51 or less. The ice famine of 1890
wa a fiction, in short, and the only compen
sating feature of the present situation is that
the icemen are discovering that they over
did the business ol squeezing the poblic
and have assuredly got nipped themselves.
reciprocity and retaliation.
The policy of reciprocal concessions in
the tariff toward different countries with
which we desire to increase our trade, has
already produced decided effects. The
theory of the opponents of the proposition,
that the enactment on that subject incor
porated in the tariff bill, would not be ac
cepted by the Governments with which the
object was to improve our trade relations,
has been shown by experience to be un
founded. Perhaps the promptest demonstration to
this effect conies from Canada, where al
though international feeling is supposed to
be somewhat strained, the tariff bill has pro
duced the prompt removal of the export
duty on logs and shingle bolts. This war
rants theopinionthatCanada would accept a
measure ot reciprocity that would be largely
beneficial to the manufacturing interests of
this country. The Southern countries dis
play an equal disposition to accept the
terms held out by the tariff bill. Cuba has
petitioned the Spanish Government to re
move the duties on onr staples, with every
chance of success. Brazil will probably
adopt the provisions called for as soon as
her new Government gets fairly into work
ing order, and Mexico is ready to do the
same. In short, with one exception, all the
provisions of the act looking toward reci
procity bid fair to produce their effect at an
early date. The exception is that with regard
to tea. The motive for including that staple,
and its effect on the Chinese Government,
are alike unknown, unless we suppose the
motive to have been the provision for a pos
sible deficit in the revenue by laying up for
the future a strictlv revenue duty on that
staple.
But the reciprocity idea also crops out
in a new quarter, where it assumes the
shape, which was not altogether lost sight
of in our measure, of-retaliation. This
manifestation is in France where the in
crease ot our protective duties on French
products has inspired a decided disposition
to hit bask. The policy said to have been
decided on by the French Government is a
bill for a minimum tariff on the products of
countries whose customs regulations are fav
orable to French products, and a maximum
tariff to be applied against countries where
the tarifi is unfavorable. The United
States can hardly object to the policy out
lined in that measure, which goes no
further in the direction of either reciprocity
or retaliation than our measures do. But
the French are likely to lose sight of the
difference between a high tariff on all pro
ducts of certain classes and a tariff which
discriminates against the products of a cer
tain country. The United States has not
yet discriminated against French products
as such, although we might have indulged
in such a policy in retaliation for the dis
crimination of the French Government
against our exports of pork and lard.
Nevertheless the fact that the cognate ideas
of retaliation and reciprocity are likely to
work against our exports ot food products
to France, is a development of the policy
that introduces some decidedly new factors.
Perhaps, however, if France should adopt
a retaliatory policy we can console our
selves with the success of the same policy
on our side, in gaining control of the
markets of the "Western Hemisphere.
TECrn IN A NEW SPOT.
It is rather surprising to hear from Cali
fornia some plain talk concerning the in
debtedness of the Pacific railroads to the
Government. The California Banker's
Magazine gives the totals of the Govern
ment's account with these corporations, and
shows that the acknowledged debt of $127,
536,585, minus a sinking fund ot $12,719,935,
does not include interest on the cash which
the United States has advanced from year
to year to meet the interest on the bonds.
Summing up this interest on the banking
principle of taking the sum due each year
and compounding interest from year to year
the debt would reach ?140,000,000 The same
authority declares that with this debt con
tracted, the actual fact is that the railroads
are not fully constructed. In many cases
the sleepers are thrown down on the desert
without a pretense at ballasting, and the
track is so flimsy that trains are confined to
a speed of 19 miles an hour, on peril of
disaster. This outburst or frankness from
California is an illustration of the old prov
erb that when a certain class of corporate
adventurers fall out, the public is likely to
get interesting information; but it would be
pleasant to know whether Stanford or
Huntington inspired this indulgence in
unwanted veracity.
THE KOAD QUESTION.
The agitation for the improvement of
country roads continues, the latest move
ment being a circular issued by a committee
of the League of Wheelmen, asking for
photographic views of both good and bad
roads. The circular describes the kind of
views desired, and out of six specified
classes of pictures, four are ot bad roads,
while but two are of good roads. This may
perhaps be based on the conviction that it
will be much easier for the wheelmen to find
Dad roads to photograph than good ones.
Of course The Dispatch will welcome
any reinforcement of the work which it
took in hand in the early part of the year,
namely, the spreading of information as to
the badness of country roads and the need
of improvement. But it is worth while to
suggest to our friends of the "Wheelmen's
League that there is much more to be ac
complished at this stage of the movement in
the line of hunting out and furnishing illus
trations of good roads, than in pursuing
the topic of the badness of unimproved
highways. Two cogent reasons should di
rect eflort in that way.
In the first place the fact that there is a
great loss and waste of labor entailed by
the condition of the average country. higlA
way, is fully established already. The gen
eral pnblic has been advised of it by news
paper articles and illustrations. The clan
which is most interested, and which, in any
event, rnustjiave the decisive voice in their 1
improvement, the farmers, to-wlt, know It
by much more cogent evidence than pict
ures can furnish. They have learned the
badness of the roads by actual experience.
"What this class needs is demonstrations
of the gain to be secured from good roads
and evidence that this boon can be obtained
without too great an increase of the burdens
of taxation. In that line ot effort the "Wheel
men's League might do very valuable work
in furnishing actual illustrations of suc
cessfully improved highways. Such pict
ures, showing the existing highways, and
demonstrating the actual economy of power
to be attained by them, might furnish to
the farmers convincing evidence of the gain
that they can get from improved roads.
In the same connection that e"ffort ol the
"Wheelmen's League might be made to
famish a most valuable contribution to the
literature .of road improvement by finding
out and illustrating the different methods of
making durable highways. There are many
sections where limestone is so scarce that
the macadamizing of roads would be nearly
as expensive as paving. If the Wheelmen's
League, by its systematic effort, can find
cases where other methods of road improve
ment have accomplished good results, it can
lend a vast aid to the ultimate improvement
of the highways.
All work in behalf of road improvement
is to be welcomed; but it is pertinent that
we have reached the stage of the movement
where more is to be accomplished by point
ing the way to the economical improvement
of the roads, than by simply dwelling on
their present condition of utter badness.
IDENTICAL INTERESTS,
The same arguments which commend
Major McKinley to the Republicans of
Pennsylvania and Ohio should insure for
him a large vote from the Democrats of his
district, no matter how violently the profes
sional statesmen of the Ohio Democracy op
pose him. It requires no argument to be
convinced that if the tariff is good for the
interests of Ohio Republicans it is also good
for the interests of Ohio Democrats. "What
helps to ensure prosperity for industries in
which Republicans are engaged will bring
like prosperity to similar industries in which
Democrats are concerned.
There can be no true and lasting division
on mere party lines in Pennsylvania or
Ohio upon tbe tariff. The business interests
of one are the business interests of all.
It may suit ambitious politicians who
are concerned chiefly with party success,
and who have an eye to their own promo
tion to places and emolument for themselves
to prefer to get into line with the anti-tariff
wing of the Democracy which at present
dominates the national councils of that
party; but we are indisposed to think that
they can draw the people with them.
McKinley's district has been "gerry
mandered" against him by the Ohio Demo
cratic managers, but he is not yet defeated.
ALASKA'S LOFTY IMPOSTOR.
A serious charge has been made against
ML St. Elias, in Alaska. For some time
ugly rumors have been current about the
Alaskan mountain's lofty claims, but now
the official figures of the United States
Geological Survey's explorers prove beyond
doubt that instead of being anywhere from
18,000 feet to 19,500 feet high, and therefore
the boss mountain of this continent, its
real height is no more than 13,500 feet. This
is a great come down for a mountain that
has been lording it over all the peaks and
pinnacles of North America. There are
now more than a half dozen peaks in the
Rocky Mountains proper that overtop St.
Elias. It is a little rough to rob Alaska of
one of her lions she has so few but she
will have to fall back upon the cold comfort
of ber glaciers and midnight sun, her
hideous Indian totems and her jaw-breaking
Russian names. For Mt. St. Elias, in the
revised version, is not even the equal of
effete and hackneyed Mont Blanc; and the
tall Andes of South America, with which
the Alaskan impostor once challenged com
parison, are about two miles above it. In
fact, the advisability of changing the name
to Mt. St. Eli Perkins is suggested by the
revelation.
Mr. Hcset M. Stanley will begin his
lecture tour in this country next month. Mr.
Stanley will find no obstacles presented to his
exploring the great: American pockctbook:
but his greatest trouble will be in the demands
of tho reporters for "hongo" or tribute in tho
lino of interviews.
The esteemed Erie Dispatch is much
troubled over a paragraph in The Dispatch a
few days ago, with regard to the respective in
telligence of New Mexico and other Terri
tories. After recounting that now threadbare
report about New Mexico's rejection of a con
stitution because It provided for free schools,
it asks. "Is our Pittsburg namesake ready to
have New Mexico come Into tbe Union on a
basis of hostility to public education?" Ave
are not, any more than wc are anxious to have
tho other Territories with a population less
than half of a Congressional district in Penn
sylvania turned into pocket boroughs for tho
swelling of party majority In Congress. But
sinco it has also transpired that this same con
stitution contained provisions designed to put
all the political power in the hands of a ring
and to keep taxation off the great corporations.
It is equally pertinent to inquire if our Erie
cotemporary is ready to refuse all States ad
mission to the Union which do not bind them
selves over to the politicians and the corpora
tions? Jit Cannon reports concerning his can
vass in Illinois in a dispatch to a Republican
journal: "The Democratic candidate, Samuel
Busey, has not yet opened his mouth." That
seems to be cruel on Mr. Busey's part. It gives
him so much of an advantage over Cannon.
Boubke Cockran's relative, who re
ceived a twelve hundred dollar appointment in
the Register's office before he was naturalized,
and was promoted to a tnlrtecn hundred dollar
sinecure because he was delicate, is assorted by
tbe New York Press to bo "a fair example of
Tammany rule." It is a rather rank case but
is it a more phenomenal example of practical
politics than to run a candidate for Governor
whose only public characteristic is furnished
by tbe achievements of himself and associates
in nullifying and violating the constitution and
laws of tbe State?
It is considered by tbe Boston Traveller
an oversight to leave Alaska without repre
sentation on the World's Fair Commission.
But as tbe seals will be represented there by
tbeir skins it will not make very much differ
ence. It is a rather surprising and interesting
illustration of the unique operations ot some
minds to find in the esteemed Boston Traveller
an allegation that the burned Syracuse hotel
was provided with all the appliances to lessen
the danger of fire. This, the Traveller gravely
remarks, must be a comfort to the proprietors.
It may be so, notwithstanding the fact that tho
obstinate hotel burned down; but whatever
satisfaction the proprietors get out of It wo
fail to see that there is any comfort in it for
the people who got burned to death.
The police are going to clear the streets
of luii i hanicters. If the weather will only
gie ti iher branch of the city government a
chance to Wean the streets of mud our high
aj may attain an ideal condition.
JUDGE Gilkeson, Second Comptroller
of tho Treasury, turns u'n in Bucks county with
a statement that Dclamater and Wauger are
going to be elected. Jndge Gfikeson seems to
have a clear idea of what lie is there tor, but
lie omits to reply to tho assertion of the Re
publican paper of that county, that "intelli
gent, thinking, self-respecting Republicans
cannot indorse, .and be true to Republican
principles, a man with such a record as Dela
mater's." A cokoneb's jury has discovered that
"no one was to blame" for the Dupont powder
mill disaster. That jury is not going to leave
the beaten tracks and earn the enmity or rested
capital by blaming any one.
An "Authority on Etiquette" is quoted as
declaring that a peach should be picked with a
fork, quartered and eaten piece meal. This
may do for this year. The old-fashioned way
of eating peaches in three bites, was the proper
caper In years when there were peaches to oat;
but this Tear when there are none, etiquette
can make tho process of eating them as long
and painful as it chooses.
The exploding locomotive is now trying
to demonstrate that It can accomplish as much
in tho line of destroying human Ufa as the ex
plosive blast furnace. Both are entirely too
successful.
"We learn from an editorial in the New
York Press that the Panama canal schema is
baiting. As this project was asserted by nearly
nil our New York cotemporarles, a year ago,
to bo dead and buried, tho information that It
is halting now indicates that it must have re
ceived a fresh supply of vitality.
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.
Robert Sbllars. the oldest Mason in Can
ada, nas just died In Kingston, OnL, at the age
of 99 years.
HAECDBisnop K"EJnnicK,of St.Louls.who is
expected to receive a Cardinal's bat next year,
is In his Satn year and is the oldest ot living
American Archbishops.
Thomas Winans, the millionaire, who had
lived luxuriously, said on his deathbed that he
would glaaly give $1,000,000 to be able to eat a
piece of bread and butter.
Douglas Sladen, the Australian poet, is
spending the present month in Nepigon, Out.
NeM month he will visit Montreal and Boston,
in which latter city he has many admirers.
General Babkundia's married daughter
will shortly visit the United States to consult
with the President concerning ber father's
murder. She is now with her mother at
Oaxaca. Mexico.
Theodore Winters, the well-known horse
man and Democratic nominee for Governor of
Nevada, narrowly escaped death by asphyxia
tion in a Virginia City hotel one night last
week. Before retiring he blow out the gas in
his bedroom. Tho night clerk detected the
smell of gas, roused Winters and saved his life.
Governor Frances T. Nichols, of Louis
iana, is a picturesque figure on account of bis
dismemberment a result of the fortunes of
war. He is blind in one eye and has lost an arm
and a leg. Tho leg was shot away at Chancel
lorsville, just after General "Stonewall" Jack,
son was shot, while the arm was carried away
by a cannon ball at Winchester.
Rev. Dr. Heber Newton Is reported as
having said of New York, In bis Sunday ser
mon, that, "The poverty which oppresses our
city is directly aggravated by misrule. The
waste, tho jobbery, the robbery of our city
during the past generation have saddled upon
us a debt which every poor man feels in the in
creased rent which ho pays for his rooms and
the increased price which he pays. for every
necessity of existence."
Sir Edward Shelly, who was a nephew ot
the famous poet, and who died a fow days ago,
spent much of his adventurous lifo in this
country before be settled down as a Hampshire
country gentleman. From a trip to Africa ho
came to America and proceeded to the prairies,
where he was captured by a tribe of Indians,
who kept him prisoner for nearly three years,
and when he escaped from them he went still
further West, and ultimately reached San
Francisco, whence be returned homo through
Japan, China and India.
A REPENTANT BOO.
Ho Commits Suicide Because He Had Set
Fire to a House.
From the New York Sun.1
The death of an Irish setter, owned by John
Barden, of 191 Pearl street, Brooklyn, on Fri
day night is attributed to suicide, and so tbe
returns of the police of that city have recorded
it. Mr. Barden, who is a manufacturer of fish
hooks, owned two Irish setters, which were
favorites in his household. Mrs. Burden was
preparing supper on Friday night when she
heard a loud noise in the sitting room on the
top floor. Sho found that tbe dog had upset a
burning lamp on the floor and set fire to the
carpet. Tbe dog, which was not burned or
otherwise injured, stood near the open window,
and Mrs. Barden tried to call him to her.
He turned around, seemed to scan her fea
tures anxiously, and then sprang out of the
open window. Ho fell on the flagstones below
and died instantly. The flames spread to tbe
lower floors, and before they were extingnished
the damage exceeded 5,000. Mr. Barden's
loss, which is on furniture, is placed at SOU
HANDLED WITH DISPATCH.
Tho Work of Now Construction Rushed by
tho Navy Department.
Washington, October a). When the adver
tisement for proposals for building tbe ram,
torpedo boat and torpedo cruiser was issued
Saturday it marked the completion by the Navy
Department of all the work of tbe new con
struction which it bas been authorized to un
dertake, with two exceptions. These aro tho
Thomas submarine monitor and the duplicate of
tho Vesuvius, which it is unlikely will ever be
constructed on tho lines originally laid down.
Congress, at its last session, made provision
for six new vessels most of them of the
heavier type and more complex construction
than any heretofore undertaken to be built
and the naval authorities are felicitating them
selves upon the fact that they have within
three weeks after the adjournment been able
to complete all of the designs, issue the pro
posals and, in several cases, award cont.-acts
for tbe construction of the vessels.
SHVEB ON THE INCREASE.
Director Leecli Gives His Observations of
the Mining Country.
Washington, October 20. E. O. Leech, tho
director of the mint, has returned from a visit
to a" number of mines in the West. Speaking
of his trip to-day, he said: "As to the pros
pects of silver mining and the current produc
tion of our mines, I should say that the silver
product of tbe United States is increasing; cer
tainly there is great activity in all the mining
camps which I have visited, and when one con
siders that only a short time ago they were get
ting only 90 cents an ounce for silver and 3
cents a pound for lead, while to-day silver Is
worth SI 10 an ounce and lead G cents a pound,
it is not surprising that there should be great
activity in mining Industries and that tbe out
put should be increased.
"But tho precious metals are not like wheat
and oats, or manufactured goods: they cannot
be raised ad libitum; they must be found, and
when found are soon' exhausted, specially when
actively and profitably mined."
DEATHS OF A DAY.
Stella Steen.
At Mansfield, to-day, will take place the funeral
of Stella Steen, who died at that plate Saturday.
Hiss dteen was a (Treat favorite in a large circle of
Iriends. When called by death she was In the
bloom of young womanhood, jfrom childhood
she had been a consistent member of the Presby
terian Church, and a cherished member of the
social circle of her home. She tilled a place In her
parents' hearts that cannot be replaced. In her
themotherfonnd comlurL, her father Joy and tbe
onucer children a guide.
George 31. Baker.
Boston. October 20. (icorje Al. Baker, the
well-known writer or plays for amateurs, for
merly with the publishing house of Lee &Shep
hard, Is dead at Ut home In Barnstable.
James Burrows.
YOUNQSTOWN, O., October pa,-James Bur
rows, who recently caused the arrest or Detective
Mover on a charire or robbery, died suddenly to
day of heart trouble.
S. R. Dunlap.
WTCCIAT. TSXUUUAJI Til THE DISPATCn.l
WET HltlDQEWATEK, Vs., October JO. Samuel
Kuthcrford Dunlap died of pararjsls at his home
here yesterday, at 5 a. ii.. aged Si i cars.
' Sir Richard Burton.
LONDON, October 20. -Captain Sir KIchard Fran
cis Burton, well known for his explorations In
Africa and'otber countries, died to-day.
SNAP SHOTS IN SEASON.
Don't place tin wreaths on the graves. They
keep the green grass from growing.
Have you a memory mark? What's tbatr
you ask. Why, a something that happened
long, so long ago an event that you remem
bered then, which you remember now, which
you will remember up to Finis a happening
which -you refer to as the starting point ot
memory, the first "Ah, I remember!" Of course
you have, It's as plainly stamped on your
mind as tho indelible birthmark. Just turn
back the leaves in the book of the past back,
back, still back there you have it,haven't you?
The first memory! And what a bright little
page it is, too, on the thought-touched volume.
Perhaps it takes you back to the very edge of
the cradle; perhaps it carries you to the cot or
trundle-bed; perhaps it leads you to the
nursery. Surely it transports you back to the
golden hours that glow between infancy and
teenhood, for in their abort but happy span tho
memory marie was maae. What was ltT Was
it a disaster or a victory T Was it a fright or a
frolieT Was it a bogy or a real thing of flesh,
blood and bones? Was it a baby joy or an in
fantile sorrow? One or the other, to be sure.
Whatever it was it left its mark. You can't
go back of It. There memory started, there it
draws tho veil that shuu out the cradle bnt
does not obscurs the grave. In childhood It was
a mere wee speck. And how we would scratch
our little heads and cudgel our sleepy little
brains to recall it, too, when guessing how far
back we could remember. It seemed such an
awful long time since it happened, you know.
Then as the years took us farther away from It
how closer It seemed to cornel No hard think
ing, no guessing, no mistake. Finally when
ago stamped its lines on our faces, thinned or
silvered our hair, drew our teeth, shrunk our
shanks in leading us up to the End bow close
seems the Beginning, and It stands there, bold
ly writ on memory's front page the first year
post on life's rough road. No matter whagit
recalls, it takes us back to the old home, the
old folks, the young days, the sunshine, the
nightless day, the dreamless nigbu All the
jolting over the ruts In the long lane of life,
lined with hopes, fears and years, cannot dts.
place or break it; time brightens it; tear can
not wash It away mind mark indelible, mem
ory's most precions miniature.
You don't have to cultivate ground to raise a
disturbance.
When winter ices ponds and streams
So boys can o'er them glide.
The girls will shoot, with awful screams,
Down the toboggan glide.
Bttrglar-fbooit safes and fireproof hotels
are all right until one is robbed and the other
burned. Then people talk about tbem.
A great many foolish young men bny cham
pagne just to hear the cork pop. This is their
idea of making a noise in the world.
When you tread on a man's corn you shock
him.
Lot's wife received the first salty sentence.
The Exposition folk should not bo at all
backward about letting the public know ex
actly how they stand. Hurry up the count,
gentlemen. The public aro deeply interested,
ana have a right to a clear statement at your
hands.
When a gas well driller
speaks in a lighter vein.
bits a gusher he
The man who lives in torrid belt
Has summer all the year;
And he who lives where ice can't melt
Has winter long and drear;
But ho who lives 'twixt sun and snow
Has heat and cold combined;
He gets the weather whether or no,
And is forced to go it blind.
One snow fly doesn't make a winter.
Don't keep any of the children out of the
night schools on account of crowded and
cramped quarters. Room should be provided
for all comers. School days only come once in
a lifetime, you know.
One "bum" makes a bummer, for the dose is
generally repeated.
Sewer gas comes high, too.
tor bill.
It means a doc-
It tbe young Kaiser keeps on in the line he is
pursuing kingship will go up a notch or so.
His model-homc-for-poor-people project is
worthy highest praise. When rulers reach
their subjects by appealing directly to their
hearts instead of flasbingtbesplendors of court
life before their eyes and parading power
behind a line of bayonets they will only riso up
to call him blessed.
You spend your vacation and your money at
tho same time, my boy.
He is strutting in the barnyard with head very
high.
On tho fat of the land he is living:
But, proud old turkey, you must surely die.
And be gobbled on tho next Thanksgiving.
Love is as great aleveler as poverty.
Brass band musicians take a horn before
they go on a toot.
If an actress loses her wardrobe in a hotel
fire sho gets more pity at the hands of tbe pub
lic than those who have only a few charred
bones to comfort them.
If Delamater was the victim of anonymous
letters he would be right in maintaining a "dig
nified silence." But he isn't
The Standard oil organs now call The Dis
patch a "demagogue." The dictionary thus
defines tbe word: "A person who sways the
people by oratory or persuasion." Thanks.
Right you are.
Our growth should not be retarded by lack
of homes. Fat up tbe houses and pall down
tho rents.
The latest national scandal promises to Im
plicate tbo Census Bureau. If its figures lie
they cannot be relied on, and if they have been
doctored for partisan purposes, the count Is of
no account. Tbe rumors flying around furnish
sufficient grounds for a public peep at the re
turns. Santa Claus usually puts his costliest gifts
in tbe silk stocxings, after all.
Tremble, Cooper, tremble!
Vainly you dissemble.
Hear ye not the rumble,
Fear ye not the tumble
Of tho big majority
To a mere minority?
Tremble, Cooper, tremble!
Useless to dissemble.
The dlsaffectlon's wide,
Prepare for a landslide.
Sbtver, Cooper, sbiverl
Get ready for Salt River.
If Pension Agent Barclay is to be bounced
for offensive partnership, what does President
Harrison propose to do with John Jarrett and
the genial but sly John Delaney? Don't hide
the last named nnder tbe hat, Benjamin.
The speeders are expected to go kiting over
the kite-shaped tracks. Money will be kited
on tbe horses just the same, of course.
Farmers' boys follow the plow, and farmers'
daughters, if they are sensible, follow the
plowman.
Pittsburg has a great many ups and downs.
A male child's bed is a boy-cot.
We are still striking roarers In the gas belt,
ye golng-back-to-coal croakers. Spread the
news among the men of the land who play with
fire.
ALL the wickedness in New Orleans is
directly traceable to the lottery curse. People
who live on chance take desperate chances.
The Dalmatian olive crop is a failure,
cotton seed crop is all right, however.
The
So the church fair lottery Is under the ban.
What's sauce for the goose is sance for the
gander, of course, Willie Winkle,
ALL SORTS OF PLAYS.
Roland Itecd as A Woman Hater Kiralfy's
Around the World InshavoguoWhal
len & Martello's Variety The Flying Ma
chine und the Chinese Dwarf;
The Woman Hater," a comedy with farcical
tendencies by the late David D. Lloyd, was
produced here last season by Mr. Roland Reed.
It was played again by Mr. Reed and his
company last night at tho Grand
Opera House. A large audience enjoyed
Mr. Reed's eccentric and original humor very
much, and anprnved of the play and its actors
as well. "The Woman Hater" is a whimsical
caricature of life, and hardly desorves the title
of comedy. It Is rather a roaring farce with a
few intervals of genuine comedy. The story
n iiruuipiousiy laugaaDie as lunny in ract as
It Is impossible. Last night it appeared to
be very much better than it was when
first seen here. We do not know whether
it bas been altered at all, although it shows
signs of compression, and a large part of the
apparent improvement is due. doubtless, to the
fact that last night Mr. Reed and his company
were in good health; whereas, last vear they
were all more or less fit for tho hospital, and
Mr. Reed himself was almost prostrated by the
grip.
a torn whatever cause, then, "The Woman
Hater" appeared last night to much greater ad
vantage than on its first production, and went
with a go and hilarity that captured the audi
ence. Mr. Reed's personality is as absurdly
comical as ever, and tho part of tho man who is
anything but a real woman hater though ho
seems to be in some lights is just the thing he Is
best fitted for. Ha makes oceans of fun out of
it, and Mr. Harry A. Smith and Miss
Isadore Rush help him not a lit
tle In the mirth-making process. It
must be said of Miss Rush that she
has made remarkable progress in her
profession, which she entered, if we are not
mistaken, but a year ago. ft is quite a refresh
ing novelty to see such a pretty woman culti
vate so intelligently a turn for true comedy.
Miss Maud Monroe, the newcomer in the com
pany, mado a good deal of a slight ingenue
character, and the other members of the cast
did their very best, and conscientious hard
work is what makes a performance enjoyable.
The Bijou Theater.
New scenery, new costumes and a new com
pany are the novel features of the Messrs.
Kiralfy's revival of "Around the World in SO
Days." The spectacle retains its popularity
wonderfully, for the Bijou Theater was crowded
last night, and the audience showed every sign
of enjoying the time-worn situations, the cheap
wit, and the beautiful scenery to tbo
utmost. Every time that tbe dramatic version
of Jules Verne's popular novel is produced,
the fidelity of the pictures of life in many lands
fades farther away. Tbe present version does
not suggest even probability most of the time.
Bnt verv fow aro disappointed at that, no
doubt. The scenery has been freshly painted
at least most of it for this occasion, and very
picturesque and gay a great deal ot ids. The
tcene in tbe Hindoo necropolis and the
scene on board ship are especially fine
pieces of painting. In the Japanese scene
the ballet is introduced. It is the old "Mikado"
ballet, but with entirely new dresses, all of
which are delicious in color and of costly ma
terial. Tbe dancers of tbe ballet are young
and comely women, some 20 or 25 In number,
and they dance in the style with which Gilbert
and Sullivan's "Mikado"made us familiar. The
dances are extremely proper, and it is the sort
of ballet that children and ladies
will particularly enjov. It is only
fair to say that tho Pittsburg con
tingent that made a background for the
Kiralfy coryphoes were not nearly as painfully
plain and clumsy as usual; they did not sing
with much harmony or power, but thev stood
still and marched without falling over each
other, and tbe distribution of rouge and pow
der and costumes showed discrimination on the
part of the management.
The elephant is a fine animal, but he plays a
very small part in the necropolis scene, and
appears to be bashful. Elephantine actors are
not usually hampered by modesty, but Maznuk
seems to be afflicted that way. The Phileas
Foao of Mr. Slavtor is a creoltabla nerform-
ance, and Mr. Frankel's passepartout is fair.
The entertainment as a whole is pretty good.
Harry Williams Academy.
It looked like home in the Academy last
night. It was the opening in the old place of
vaudevillo entertainment, and the first show
there sincethe fire two weeks ago. Tho house
has been thoroughly overhauled, and tbo few
places where it had been scorched could not
be noticed. Tbe only thing suggestive of any
thing wrong was the absence of opora
chairs, and these will be in position
by.the end of tbe week. Tbe scenic effects
have been overhauled, and new ones added,
and altogether tbe fire will be the cause of
many bright improvements. The show is a
combination of first-class talent, and notwith
standing the staleness of somo of the witti
cisms of tbe performers, it is replete with fun
and interest. The entertainment of Harry and
Mildred Rouclerc is of tbe highest order, and
although many of last night's audience do not
believe In mind reading, they were mysilncd
and bewildered at the rapic'ity with
which Miss Ronclere read oS figures
on a blackboard and added up fivo
columns blindfolded. The performance of
tho Martellc Brothers, is also worthy of note, as
tbeir acrobatic business bas never been seen
before in this city. Oracle Cummings is clever
in her character songs and has considerable
talent for a child. All in all tbe show is well
worth seeing.
Harris' Theater.
Florence's pretty Irish drama. "Insbavogue,"
is tbe magnet that drew two very large au
diences to this bouse yesterdav. Tbe play is
one familiar to theatergoers. It has a dcet
plot and a sufficiently villainous villain, and
opportunity is afforded several really clever
people to display their specialties. W. F.
Phillips, for instance, received double encores
yesterday for his rendition of "The Irish Jub
ilee," which has been heard frequently in tbis
city ot late, and Lottie Winnett's song and
"Irish waltz dancing" caught on immensely.
The rest of the companyare all good. None
could bo singled out for disparagement, and
the prospects for another big week's business
for Harris' Theater is excellent.
Theatrical Notes.
Prof. Campbell's flying machine and a
variety of other interesting curiosities, and a
good stage performance drew crowds to Davis
i if th Avenue Museum yesterday.
The Chinese Dwarf, a capital specialty en
tertainment, and many new curiosities amused
large audiences at tbe World's Museum yester
day. ONE HUNDRED YEARS OLD.
A Fire Company at York, Pa., Soon to Celo-
brate Its Centenary.
(SrrCIAI. TXLEGKA1I TO IMS DISPATCH.!
York, Pa., October 20. On Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday of tbi3 week the Laurel
Fire Company, of this place, will celebrate its
centennial by a grand parade, followed Dy a
banquet and ball. Tbe Montgomery Hose
Company, of Nornstown, will participate with
SO members and will be attended Dy a large
number of citizens.
An interesting historical sketch of the old
Laurel Company has been issued to the visiting
members of other companies. The parade ou
Wednesday will be attended by several outside
companies and a largo number of other civic
organizations will also be in line.
THE STRAGGLER ABH0AD.
Hon. C. F. McKenna Takes His Comrades on
a European Trip.
Hon. C. F.McKenna. who bas lately returned
from Europe, gave bi3 comrades of the Union
Veteran Legion the benefit of bis travels at U.
V. L. Hall last evening in a lecture wbcrein he
enacted tbe role ot '"The Straggler Abroad,"
with great oratorical and colloquial effect.
A stereooticon assisted Mr. McKenna in his
stragglings by unfolding famous scenes to tho
large audience present, and, to quote W.S. Gil
bert, "gave an air of verisimilitude to an other
wise bald and unconvincing narrative." The
affair was a great success.
To be Wedded In St. Paul's.
At St. Paul's Cathedral at 7 o'clock this
morning Miss Jennio Featherston. of Watson
street, will wed Mr. Charle3 H. McBride, a well
known young clerk in tbe office' of the Penn"
sylvania Company. The young couple are
well known on the bill, and after tbe ceremony
a wedding breakfast will bo tendered at the
home of the bride. The couple will leave for
Chicago at 1 o'clock to be gone several weeks.
A Musical and Literary Evening.
One ot those delightful musical and literary
entertainments, under tho auspices of tbe
Young Women's ChriMlan Temperance Union,
was held in Wilkinsburg last evening. Miss
Lillian Swift was the hostess of tho occasion,
the entertainment taking place at her home on
Ross strcot.
A Reception This Afternoon.
Mrs. A. E. Sailor, of Swissvale, gives a recep
tion this afternoon from 3 to 6 o'clock in honor
of Mr. Edgar Wilson and his bride, the former
of whom Is a cousin ot tbe hostess. Mr.Wilnon
is Attorney General of Idaho, and is enjoving
his wedding trip, having married on the loth a
Miss Dashiel. of the same State.
Mrs. Stanton for Miller's Place.
Washington, October 20, The local Wage
Workers' Political Alliance bas presented a
petition to President Harrison requesting him
to present the name of Mrs. Elizabeth Cady
Stanton to tbe Senate of the United States as
an' Associate Justico In lhe place of Justice
Miller, deceased.
SCORED A SUCCESS.
The Initial Concert at the Linden Club a
Most Enjoyable One A Supposedly Con
firmed Bachelor Joins the Benedicts
Other Items of Social World Interest.
Pretty name, that Linden for a club, and
prettier home, that, of tbe Linden Club. Cer
tainly It looked pretty last evening, even from
tbe outside, with its immense windows sending
out generous streaks of light into the inky
blackness ot the night. And the inside was one
realm of brightness, with the exception of the
ebony-colored statne who held tbe salver with a
mute appeal for cards.
Tbis single stately dark figure was
the only one that met the gaze of the visitor
as he passed through the lovely hall, flanked
by cozy little reception rooms with polished
floors, handsome rugs and wicker furniture, on
UD the richlv-carneted stairwav into the as
sembly room, with Itssuggestivelv smooth floor
and its pretty ecrue and bine walls, where had
congregated the members of the club, with
.their rives, sweethearts and sisters, for the
first concert of the series to be given this
winter by Gernert's Orchestra.
At the extreme end of the ball, npon the
raised platform, was seated tbe orchestra, that
paid a graceful compliment to tbo club by
opening the programme with an inspiriting
march composed by Gernert 'and named
"Linden Club."
Right vigorous was the applause that fol
lowed this number, showing that tbe listeners
were very apnreclnttve of the delicate atten
tion, and as If entering into the spirit of the
enthusiasm the orchestra plunged into the
noisy demonstrative overture, "Jubel," by
Von Weber. Following was the more
subdued and more invigorating number,
"Poem of Love," by Batiste, and On. 17.
Foerster. Mrs. J. Sharp McDonald then ap
poared and intensified tbe pleasing impression
she created by her charming personality and
exquisite evening toilet, with an admirable
rendition of the recitative and aria, "Der
Frelschuetz,"by Von Weber. In response to
tbe rapturous applause given her, abe sang a
simple little ballad. "Happy .Hours." Gounod
in the "Funeral of a Marionet," and Ruben
stein in "Melody in F,"were then interpreted
by the orchestra as a conclusion of part first
ot tbe programme.
During tho intermission, everyone talked to
everyone else, and the conversation was only
hushed when the familiar strains of Lohen
grin's "Bridal Chorus" rang tbrongh tbe hall
and caused several, from force of habit,
to look around furtirely for tbe bridal
party. The "Prayer" and "Finale. 3d
Act," of . Wagner, followed, and pre
ceded a cello solo, "Serenade," by Zippel,
rendered by Mr. Charles F. Cooper. When the
applause given this very popular yonng artist
(lied away. Mrs. McDonald reappeared and
sang "Protestations," by Morris, with a violin
obligato by Mr. John Gernert. The sweet
melody of tho "Spring Song," of Mendelssohn,
and the plaintive "Cradle Song." by Henselt,
was next beard, and the "Tannbaueser" finale
conclndcd tbe initial concert and scored a great
success for the enterprise.
A CHAT ABOUT PABSD7AL
Wagner's Last Musical Drama Discussed by
Mr. Nevln.
"Parsifal," AVagner's last musical drama, for
bidden by his will to be performed anywhere
but at Bayrentb, was delightfully talked about
by Mr, KthclbcrtNevin at the 159th reception
of the Art Society last evening in their new
quarters In the Thaw mansion. In an easy con
versational manner Mr. Nevin explained the
story ofl"ParsiraI," the "pure-fool,"who,byhls
guileless innocence regained the spear and
brought back again tbe happiness of the
Knights of tho Grail and the world at large.
In well-chosen terms he referred to tbe style of
composition chosen by Wagner for this relig
ious drama so totally distinct from tbe style
be had developed in his other works,
returning as he aid to tbe choral style
of chnrcbly music suggestive of Handel, Bach,
and even as far back a3 Pahestrina and Pope
Gregory I.
Mr. Nevin was remarkably successful in rep
resenting upon the piano tbe music of Parsifal,
which In its essence, as in its orchestral treat
ment, is decidedly unplanistic lhe evening
was a very enjoyable one to the members of
tbe society, and with it a new era in the
lifo of tho organization is marked. It was tbo
fir3t reception of tbe season for tbis society,
the oldest socially, musically, artistically In
clined associations in tho citv, dating Its birth
back to the early seventies, and looking for
ward to almost a perpetual existence. Indeed,
it is tbe desiro of the society to
become a fixture, as one might say,
and to afford not only pleasure and
enjoyment to its members for the time being,
but to unite also instruction and Information
regarding the arts occupying the evening.
whether musical or pictorial, that will elerato
and improve and awaken more and greater in
terest in these studie.
On this new voyage the society fairly em
barked last evening.and evervthing Is favorable
to tbe journey. With tbe Karl Merz mnsiral
library for consultation and tho contemplated
collection of photographs, statues and other
arts for examination and study, tbe outlook is
very bright ror the ultimate attainment of tbe
ambition voiced Dy the club. Of tbis society
William Thaw was one of two life members, a
frequent attendant and an entnuiiastlc advo
cate ot expansion and growth.
DELIGHTTDLLY ENTERTAINED
Were AU Who Attended the Carnegie Hall
Concert Last Evening.
Boston does not confine Itself to culture and
baked beans, but sends out very creditable
musicians, as was evidenced last evening in
Carnegie Hall, when the Ladies' Schubert
Quartet, assisted by Miss Lizzie Gleason, a
dramatic and humorous reciter, gave an enter
tainment for the benefit of tbe Buena Vista
Street M. E. Church.
The club consists of Misses Maud Nichols,
first soprano: Jennie Barker Wooster-. second
soprano: Elizabeth Roberts, first alto; Anna
Louise whitcombe, second alto, young ladies
of rare personal charms, possessed of voices
rich in quality and clear in tone. Their solos
and quartet numbers gave genuine satisfaction,
and they received warm applause from the
audience that filled the cozy music hall. Miss
Gleason as a reader was no less satisfactory
than the quartet as singers. She has a pretty
voice, shows training and study and is un
usually graceful.
CAPTURED IN GRAND RAPIDS.
A Supposedly Confirmed Uatchelor Forced
to Capitulate.
"We all thought he was, a confirmed Bach
elor," said a prominent gentleman yesterday,
in speaking of Mr. James W. Painter, cashier
of tbe First National Bank, Kittanning, who,
according to invitations issued by Mrs. Judson
W. Stanton, of Grand Rapids, will marry her.
niece. Miss Nellio Moore Stanton, on the
evening of October SO. at the St.
Mark's Church, in that city. A reception
will follow the church ceremonies, at 119
Livingston street which, by xbe way, is in the
very sweliest portion of the city.
Sir. and Mrs. Painter will bo "at home." in
Kittanning.aftcr November 12. where the many
friends of the happy groom will hasten to pay
homage to his lovely bride for sucn she is as
serted to be by those who are on the "inside
track," so to speak.
A TREAT IN ST0EE
For Those Who Attend the Pittsburg Club
Entertainment This Evening.
After the Pittsburg Club entertainment this
evening, at which Mrs. Walter C Wyman, of
Chicago, will assist Mr. Ethelbert Nevin. a de
lightful reception will be given the talented
laliy at the Hotel Scblosser at which the num
ber of guests will be limited. It is a really im
promptu affair, but somo few will have an op
portunity of discovering that Mrs. Wyman
is as charming a society woman as she is a
singer mch is saying a good deal.
Bnt really, the reputation of Mrs. Wyman as
a brilliant, witty, pretty and vivacious woman
is as thoroughly established as is her reputation
as a prima donna, and in Chicago and Boston
she is quite the rage for dinner parties.
AN INFORMAL RECEPTION
Tendered Visiting Engineers and Their
Wives by AUegheny Ladles.
A baby grand piano in tho centerofthe room
and a large number of delegates to the En
gineers' Convention, with their ladies oecnpy
ingthe chairs circled around tho room, was the
picture the lecturo room ot Carnegie Hall pre
sented last evening, quite early. The event was
an Informal reception, and alter the musical
proTamme, good cheer and sociability was
promoted by an elaborate supper served in the
room adjoining on tables appetizing in them
selves with their faultless napery and lovely
Tbe members of the Ladles' Auxiliary to
Keystone Lodge. No. 20, Allegheny, were the
hostesses of the occasion, and won many com
pliments npon the charming manner in which
they entertained.
Neat Invitations to a Birthday Party,
"Please come to my party and have a good
lime" is beautifully inscribed on the invita-
tiuns issued by Master Alex. Reisfar, son of
Sccretarv Keifar. for next Saturday evening,
from 7 to 10 o'clock. Tbe event U m honor of
the young man's birthday, and will commemo
rate his reaching tho soven-tirae-one period.
About SO tiny misses and sturdy masters will
be present, and dancing to good music, with
an elaborato supper, will make them feel quite
like big folks.
CDEEEKT CONDENSATIONS.
"Will Reed, of Shelby, Mich., has a pear
tree in fall blossom.
Denver will imitate Chicago by build
ing a vast auditorium.
Berlin drank in 1889 269,274,100 quarts
of beer that is, abont lo0 quarts to every man,
woman and child.
The average hotel guest begins and con
eludes his dinner in a half hour. Some, indeed,
in much less time.
It is expected that the census dow about
to be taken in tbe Citv of Mexico will show a
population of about 400,COa
The Government of India has decided
to discontinue the annual grant devoted to the
search for and purchase of the Sanskrit manu
scripts. In London the attendance of school
children is not satisfactory, rarely rising above
80 per cent; so that every day some 97,000 chil
dren are absent.
A St. Petersburg journal states that a
Russian civil engineer. M. de Nlcaloff, has
succeeded in producing a f net from peat great
ly resembling anthracite coal.
The cost of the West trial to Washington
county. Pa., bas reached S1.109 22, and the Dis
trict Aiiornys and Clerk of Court's fees and
some other expenses are yet to be paid.
It has been calculated that it would bo
possible to take from a section of the River
Negro lakes, occupying about nine square
Ieagnes. upward of 2.000.000 tons ot salt.
There are from l.COO to 2,000 children
under 15 years of age employed in the manu
facture of paper collars, while of those between
15 and 20 year3 the number reaches about 8,009.
It is now more than 2,000 years since it
was first proposed to cut a canal through the
Isthmus of Corinth, but the work is at last un
der way, directed by a Polish engineer, and
promises to be completed in lb92.
The third sensation of tbe optic nerve
experienced by those using tbe electric light is
said to be due to the fact that the luminous
waves are of great intensity, and not to a pre
ponderance of violet chemical rays.
A correspondent of the London Specta
tor claims that by a mere suggestion of age ha
can make a hypnotized youth suddenly look
old. to the extent of his face muscles "falling
in," and the "hne ot age" overspreading it.
A lawsuit involving the poies3ion of
$21,000,000 worth of securities and gold, of 1,200.
000 sheep, and hundreds of thousands of acres
of land in all parts of European Russia will
couie to trial in St. Petersburg in about a week,
Dr. Mays, of Philadelphia, has recently
been conducting investigations to determine
what proportion of deaths among firemen aro
due to pulmonary consumption. And he has
found that firemen are singularly prone to this
disease.
In 1889 there were 630.000,000 pounds of
tobacco consumed in the United States. 20.000.
000 ponnds of which was imported. There
were 4.500,000.000 cigar continued here in tho
same period, all but 40.000,000 of which wero
home-made.
E. M. Carter, a colored man who live3
at Jumbo. Pa., is said to be the most accom
plished whistler in the State. He can carry on
two and three parts ot a tune at one time and
his trills and warbles equal those of tbe most
encbantlng birds.
It is not generally known that ink
stains can readily be removed from the fingers
with the bead of a parlor match. Moisten tho
ink-stained spot and rnb it gently with the
head of the match, keeping the skin wet so
that it will not be burned.
The annual report of the Commissioner
of the General Land Office states that nearly
19.000.000 acres have during tbe year been
transferred to settlers. The area of coal and
mineral lands patented has been largely in
creased over that of tho previous fiscal year.
The Railway Age, of Chicago, reports
3.782 miles of railway constrncted In this coun
try during the flist nine months of tbe year, or
470 miles more than in the same period last
year. The South leads tbe wayin railroad con
struction, and Georgia takes the palm with 323
miles.
The Montreal Chamber of Commerce
wants tbe Canadian Government to put a duty
of 5 cents a dozen on eggs from this conntry,
which is tbe size nf tbe duty laid on Canadian
eggs by tbe McKinley bilL Meanwhile, the
importance nf tbe hen on either side of the
border is exalted.
In oiling out the statistical sheets to ba
forwarded to the bureau at AVashingtoe, it Is
f ound that there are ten public parks in Oak
land. Cal with a total area of 1S1 acreq. of
which soven are improved, with a total areA at
nine acres. One bnndred and sixtyacresaroj iti
tbe water park or Lake Merritt. J
The United States have 770,500 miles
of telegraph wire, and in 1SS9 no less thanSe,
000,000 messages were sent through the conntrv.
France has 220.SD0 miles of wire. o- which in
IbS!) were transmitted 30,050.000 despatches.
Great Britain hat 1S0.CC0 miles of metalline,
and in 1&S9 sent 50.000,000 messages.
The extensive preparations for railroad
building in the Northwest have induced the
Seattle Press to make somo calculations. That
paper is informed that m the next three years
fully 63.OCQ.000 will bo expended in railroad
building in the Northwest. The Great North
ern and the Union Pacific, it is said, will ex
pend S30,00O,00O.
In 1864, while the Union Army was
lying in frone of Petersburg, Va a gentleman,
who is now a Washington attorney, found an
old family Bible, in which was a genealogical
tree of the Hatcher family. He did not suc
ceed In locating the owner until a few days
ago, when he forwarded the prized volume to
Thomas C. Hatcher, of Clresterfleld county,
Va.
Several attempts have been made to es
tablish tbe tack industry in tbe South, but they
have failed from difficulties in handling the
material. This branch of the iron trade is in
the hands of New England manufacturers and
is practically confined to Massachusetts. More
than two-thirds of tbe tack business is con
trolled by the State and fully three-quarters
by all of New E ngland.
Paris and London may soon be con
nected by telephone. The two capitals have
already beeu connected with tbeir respectivo
coasts by aerial linos, and a cablo to complete .
the circuit is being manufactured. The cable I
will be a double one, and will be laid between I
Kent and Sangate. the French and English
Governments snaring ine cost. 1 lie circuit be
tween the two cities will be a metallic one. audi
will have the resistance of 5,900 ohms. '
Speculators have bought, for exhibition'
purposes, tbe side-wbeeler Beaver, now lyini
on the flats at Victoria, B. c. According to 1
San Francisco paper, the Beaver was the first
steamer on the Pacific, and cane aronnd the
Horn in 1S35. in Inch year it is cisiued, the
was built in London for tbe Hudson Biy
Trading Company. She is 101 feet long. 20 feet
broad and 11 feet deep. She has a very broad,
square stern and bas her paddle-boxes aay
forward.
FROLICSOME FANCIES.
Law and Custom. Teacher Explain the
difference between law and custom.
Boy (who owns a sailboat) Accordln' to law, a
steamboat must give the right of way to a sail
boat, but 'wording to custom the sailboat has got
ter make tracks or get smashed. -Street Smith's
Good Sexes.
"When a man bolts his food be swallows it.
When a man bolts a nomination he bolts It be
cause be can't swallow It. Queer. Cape Cod
Item.
A young man in Battle Creek found an
ivory paper knife in a bundle of paper fresh from
Kalamazoo, 'lhe knife had a ladys name on It
Battle Creek boy did fool act and wrote Kala
mazoo girl. Kalamazoo girl got best fellow to
reply Correspondence flourished Kalamazoo
fellow hunted np Battle Creek fool One good,
swift kick Love's young dream Is a nightmare.
Detroit Journal.
"Ah, Mr. Harris,
Back from Paris?"
"Oul I"
Quothc he:
That Is to sar. Paree."
Andhow. tell me.
Is Mrs. Barrcc?"
yew lor Herald.
A Memory Aid. Goodfello Here's your
health, oldfel. By the way, what Is that knot la
yonr handkerchief for?
JollltellcHeml That Is to remind me that I've
sworu off.
Goodfello Cat you just this minute took a
drink.
JollIfello-Y-e-s. Fact Is. I neversee that knot
till I tale out my handkerchief to wipe my
mouth. .Veto lork ll'Akt'j.
"WInt made you so angry with him? Did
he itrlteyon?"
-Worse !"
How so?"
He laughed at me." Chicago Globe.
"This is the worst snap I ever struck," re
marked the woodebuck when he cot cxujt&tlas
1 steel trap. Hi ngtiamton Republican,