I SECOND PART. WANTTO The New Institution for the Blind Starts Drawing From Philadelphia PUPILS FROM THE EAST. Steady Progress Reported by Prof. Jacob?, the Principal. IKDEPESDEKCE THE FIRST LESSOH. Great Care is BeiD? Shown in the Admis sion of Applicants, OWISG TO THE LIMITED QUARTERS The Board of Trustees of the new Institu tion for the Instruction of the Blind held a meeting yesterday afternoon at the building, on Forty-second street SeTeral acplica tions for admission to the school were acted upon. Among them was the letter of the parents of a blind child living at Scranton, and another from a family at Bryn Mawr. Thus the Pittsburg institution, in its very beginning, is commencing to draw from the immediate neighborhood of the great blind asylum in Pniladelphia, which is one of the largest in the United States. The board also thorongly inspected its quarters in the Forty-second street liouse, and ordered a number of small improve ments. Prof. Hiram B. Jacobs, the princi pal, reported steady progress with the 13 pupils now housed there. One little fellow he especially mentioned as a proof of what a blessing the new enterprise is going to be to the city. His name is Tommy Little, and when he came to the home, Thursday a TEMPOBAKT HOME week ago, he was so helpless that he could not put on his own clothes. INDEPENDENCE THE FIBST LESSON. He was physically strong and healthy, but he was ignorant, and because he was blind had been brought up to rely upon others taking care of him. Yesterday Tommy was able to distinguish, by the tips of his tender little fingers, the A, B, Csof of the alphabet, to spell some small words, and to dress himself. The principal aim of this institution is to so train the blind that they may be sent out in the world to take care of themselves. It has now been determined that the ca pacity of the present building will be for the accommodation of 25 or 30 pupils only. For that reason great care is being shown in the admission of applicants. Although only 12 arc there now, there could have been 15 or 18 as welL But some applicants were rejected, with the request that they wait until the institntion gets into its per manent quarters. For instance, one of the applicants could pee just a little. The board reasoned that there was not the pressing need to admit that individ ual that there was to take in some more helpless person, lite Tommy Little, for in stance. SOME OTHEB DESERVING CASES. Other deserving cases are those of wholly helpless boys and girls, growing up to ."man and womanhood, to whom a year's training just now would be very valuable.- Every minute counts for tbem. Consequently, thoe who can rely on themselves some little will be asked to wait until larger quarters are secured. The present home of the institution is the property and former residence of Mrs. Cap tain James Irwin, now of Philadelphia. She leased it to the projectors of the asylum for one year or longer, selling them the fur niture with which it was filled. This is of the most elegant character. There is quite a little story about how the institution came to take the house. As is well known, the project of opening a school for the blind has been talted about for at least five years past. All that time it hunc fire, with nothing being done. During that time a proposition was made to build a magnificent building, get Mrs. Schenley to donate ten acres of ground for the site, and put the whole thing in charge of Dr. Campbell, who is one of the most distinguished instructors of the blind in the world. He is at the head of the Itoyal Institute for the Blind of London, England. A CONSEBVATOBT OP MUSIC PBCMECT. Communication was opened with Dr. Campbell, and he expressed his willingness to come to Pittsburg and look around. Bev. E. E. Doneboo was sent to England to in vestigate the foreign blind asylums, and atter that Prof. Campbell came across the ocean to Pittsburg. Then it turned out that his idea was to establish a grand conserva tory or music Here for the blind, and per haps leave the fundamental schooling fir as the tail to the kite. The idea seems to have been to start out on a big scale, build a great institution, for example, like that lor the education of deaf mutes in Wilkinsburg. Bev. J. G. Brown, D. D., was then just retiring from the prin cipalshipof that establishment, and know ing his vast experience with the education of derectives, he was elected a member ot the Board of Trustees of the Blind Institute, and his counsel sought. "Yon are wrong," he said. "It takes years to reach a point were yon can build and maintain the big buildings for sueh ob jects as these. People will not give their money to something that is as yet visionary. First "show them the need of such an institu tion, and they will see you through. Make & small start The way to resume specie payment is to resume.' The way to educate COME HERE .- . the blind of Western Pennsylvania is to start to educate them. Don't wait for the big building. Get temporary quarters at once, and go to work." MORE BLIND THAU DEA1? MUTES. Some of the directors differed with the doctor that there was any necessity for showing the pnblic that there were blind children lying around to be educated. "There are more blind people in the conntry than deaf mutes," they argued. "Statistics proye this." "That was true," assented Dr. Brown, "but statistics will also show that the ma jority of the blind Decamp so alter the age of 45. Sickness and accidents result in blind ness so often. But the number of blind Prof. Hiram B. Jacobs, tlie Principal. children to educate is not so large as the statistics would lead one to suppose." The venerable benefactor of the deaf and dumb of Western Pennsylvania knew what he was talking about. More than 20 years 1 ago, wniie ne was pastor of one of tne United Presbyterian churches in Pittsburg, two deaf and dumb children came to his Sabbath school. Ko one could teach tbem on ac count of their deficiencies, and his sympa thies being aroused, got him interested in the instruction of deaf mutes, and securing tne aid of a lady teacher he opened a single room on Third avenue for the instruction of all mutes who might apply. Step by step this charity grew, until buildingafter build in;: was required to accommodate its growth, finally culminating some years ago in the erection of the stately institution building at Wilkinsburg, which are now kept up partly by State aid. There are now some- TOB THE BLENT). where in the neighborhood of 200 pupils in that school from all parts of the country. SB. sbown's idea adopted. Dr. Brown's idea was adopted for the blind institution too. For the time being the directors are letting the controversy with Mrs. Schenley and the city park authori ties about a permanent site go to the four winds. They have now been at work in the Irwin residence two weeks, and with only 12 pupils, and the instance of little Tommy Little, are content to let the publio see what is needed. A very capable gentleman is at the head of the institution Principal Jacobs. He came here from Indianapolis, where he had charge of the Indiana Institute for the Blind. He is accompanied by his wife. The protessor is not a blind man, but be came interested in the education of that class of unfortunates more than seven years aero through his connection with public school work. He was born in Maytown, Pa., October 14, 1843, and went to Indiana in 1868. He was teacher and superintendent in the New Albany schools for 14 years, and then connected himself with the blind in stitution at Indianapolis. Indianapolis newspapers prononnce "his administration clean and efficient, having raised the in stitute thereto a high standard." WASHINGTON' Society Is preparing fop the most dazzling season In history. Miss Grundy, Jr., has collected for THE DIS PATCH many Interesting facts relative to the social prospects of the capital, and will present them to-morrow morning. Twenty pages. AMONG HIS FBIENDS, French Canadians, the Count de Paris Finds Strong Partisans. Montbsal, October 24. Mayor Grenier, Alderman Ouimet,the Speaker of the House of Commons, Judges, Aldermen and Mem bers of Parliament left this morning to meet the Comte de Paris at Brookville and accompany him to the city, where he ar rived at 8 this evening. During his stay in the Province of Quebec, he will be tendered a great ovation, which will prove to him and to the world that French Canada is in tensely anti-republican, and is a strong par tisan of Bourbonism and Clericalism. The programme in Montreal, Three Bivers and Quebec always starts out with an official visit to the Archbishop, an imposing reli gious service and an inspection of the lead ing convents and other Soman Catholic in stitutions. At the banquet to-morrow over 400 covers will be laid. It will be attended by the Mayor, Aldermen, the Chief Justices and the Justices of the Courts, and by all notables. In fact everything points to the reception being very much more imposing than those tendered recently to the members of the British royal family. The cromised republican counter demonstration has com pletely fizzled. STORIES of New Xork life by Charles T. Hurray and Clara Belle are pleasing features of the Sunday Issue of THE DISPATCH. Their letters to-morrow are unusually crisp and gossipy. Twenty big pages to-morrow. A DUEL WITH CS0W BAE8. Two Men Fight Desperately Until Both Fall Unconscious. New Xobje, October 24. Joseph Wood, 30 yean old, and Carl Barg, aged 46 years, fonght a duel with iron crow bars this after noon in a blacksmith's shop on Park avenue. The battle was fierce, and lasted for some time. It was ended only when both men sank to the ground with fractured skulls. They were removed to the hospital in aa un conscious condition. THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH LABORING FOR LOVE. t Meeting of the Women's Auxiliary , to the Episcopal Council, AT CALVARY CHURCH, BAST EHD. Interesting Talks bj Those Directly from the Fields of Labor. BISHOPS WHO TELL WHAT THEY WANT Calvary Church, East End, was the scene yesterday afternoon of the meeting of the Ladies' Auxiliary of the Episcopal Mission Council. It becomes doubly interesting when it is known what splendid work these noble women are doing in behalf of their sisters in the heathen lands of the world. Missionary work seems to be pre-eminently women's work, and they have taken hold of it with a determination that to no laxity of theirs can be ascribed the slow progress of the Christianizing of the universe. There were talks interesting and instruct ive, and eloquent appeals were made for the means to push forward the work of send ing missionaries and teachers to the Dark Continent and Oriental countries, where the word of God is unknown and where so much is needed to enlighten the people to a knowledge of the Bible. All present were greatly interested in the talks of those from the scene of their missionary labors, both in foreign and home fields. Bishop Leonard, ot Utah, was the first speaker, and as usual made a most interest ing address. He said at the opening: "Not long ago I was driving with a couple of my friends, and the husband aud wife began discussing how best to sharpen a knife. They decided that emery was the best and I think that the best way to whet our missionarv zeal is to have our Emery." The Bishop followed with a glowing tribute to the efficient services of Miss Julia Emery, the Secretary of the Ladies' Auxiliary, and told what splendid work she had done in his diocese. Continuing, he said: demand pob a deaconess. "This is a diocesean meeting, and I will not talk about myself or my work. Now, at these auxiliary meetings we missionary bishops are often asked what we want I'll tell you what I want I want a good woman a deaconess. I can't conceive of a place in the world where a good woman can do as much good work as in my diocese. I will hunt lor an intelligent, cousecratcd woman, because we so much need her out there. I must have something like a deaconess who can preach the gospel snch as only a woman can. Now, if you know of such a woman just send me word. Not too many, however. I asked for a teacher, and I got so many re plies that I thought all the women in the country wanted to be teachers. It made me try to think how many grand and noble women there are in the world." Bishop Talbott, of "Wyoming and Idaho, was the next speaker, and he proceeded at once to make bis manifold wants known, be cause he knew that he had fonnd a good place to plead for the cause of missions. "We are bnildincr a hospital up therein my diocase, at Wallace. We have the building inclosed and already several patients have been received. In Wallace there are 1,700 miners, and scarcely a day passes that one of tbem is not injured. The building needs to be completed and we need about $2(000 to do that After it is finished the hospital will he self-supporting. The miners will give $1 per month whether they be sick or not. This will take care of the hospital at all times. "Before I left home I let a contract for a school for Indians. I have $5,000 iu hand and the contract calls for 56,625. Now when the contractor reaches the 5.000 he will stop unless I have the balance, and I wonld like to sav to him, to go on and finish the bnilding. One more thing. Our work is growing there, because the Territories have become States. We now have 80 clergymen and only had eight at the start I must take six more hack with me, or send them ahead of me. HOUBLT NEED OF A HOSPITAL. "I am allowed ?2,000 per year for the sup port of my clergymen, beside what they re ceive from their churches. I must have $2,500 more, and wonld like to have anyone pledge to pay me from 5 to any sum per annum iu the support of my clergymen. My hospital is needed every hour, my Indian 'school is rapidly bearing completion and my clergy fund always demands replenishing. Now, my friends, when you ask yourselves the question where out in the Bocky Mountain region a dollar will do the most good, send it on, for what may seem to you a small sum will, I assure you," be a great benefit." As the missionaries had had their sav and told what they most Btand in need of, the great replenishes of the different funds, the ladies were given a chance to say a word and tell how all these little sums that will aggregate quite an amount are to be raised. Mrs. Tattle, wife of the Bishop of Minne soto, told of the organization that has been found to he a great money winner in her State. It is called the Missionary Host, and is com. posed of children. But strange to say, this is entirely in charge of the laymen of the church. They do all the work and make all the arrangements Year after year the Misionary Host has held its annual meetings in the great cathe dral at St Paul, but it has grown so that the church has proved to be too small. First, all the parents were kindly invited to absent themselves, and give away entirely to the children. But even this failed to suffice,for still the church was filled to over flowing. This year the large auditorium of the St Paul Exposition was secured. This will accommodate nearly 5,000. There the grand meeting was held. The bishops and clergy stood on the platform while the bands of missionary children marched in, each singing its own processional, until the great auditorium was filled. Seven choirs were present, and one was composed entirely of little negroboys. X TVOBD POB THE JTOTIOB AUXILIABY. Mrs. McCauley, of Detroit, spoke in be half of the Junior Auxiliary. She said the children should be taught about the mission. ary work, and it is very difficult to find teachers who are able to tell them what they should know. Mrs. McCauley said she had thought that there was quite a band of little missionaries in Detroit when there were 700 in attendance at their annual meet ing,but after attending the meeting of the Junior Auxlliarvat Carnegie Hall and hear ing ot Mrs. Tuttle's band, she decided that she would have to return home and do better. Miss Smiley, of Albany, Is at the head of the Society for the Home Study of the L Scriptures. She said that while money is neeaea, goou women are needed more. Speaking about the stndy of the Bible, Bhe said she fonnd a good many who would write Acts of the Apostles with a "little a," Bible with a "little b" and Church with a "little a" After awhile she taught them to write capital letters, and then she thought she was doing capital work. She said that when shefound ladies who do not read their Bible often enough she had to teach them to write it with a capital to hold it more high ly, and then she was working in the A B C of the religious life. THE LAST OP ALL SPEAKERS. Miss Carter, who has traveled through Japan, China and the West, was the last speaker of the day. She showed a paper with Japanese writing thereon, and miitl that in that country when one is to make a ?ti)t hjtv ws.lt Mit wtvtw an lit a .. 1 v--vi, ."..j rr,iw wjsu i - .. PITTSBTOa, SATURDAY, name, and then ask you to sit under it The paper she had read: "God is Love. Miss Carter." The lady told about the work among the Japanese and Chinese ladies of rank, and told how a society of 72 of the former had been organized to be called the "Mutual Improvement Society," cot one of whom could read. Miss Carter showed a plaster of paris cast of, the foot of a Chinese woman 60 years old, and told how they suffer from the bandages. Proceeding to the Indian question, Miss Carter said she had found the best way to help people is to help them help themselves. The lady spent her summer vacation at White Biver, Minn., teaching the Indian women to make point lace, and after ber re turn she secured a teacher to go there to prosecute, the work. This teacher has been at the reservation two weeks and already re ports great progress. The meeting closed with devotional exer cise and singing, Bishop Coxe pronouncing the benediction. He took occasion, before closing, to compliment the ladies on their good work, and to hope tor them more blessed returns in the future. THE HOBimra'S WORK. A Session Devoted to Religions Services and Interesting Speeches. v The morning session of1 the Women's Auxiliary to the Episcopal Missionary Council was opened by Bishop Howe, of Central Pennsylvania, in devotional ser vices, and Bev. George Hodges, rector of the church, made the address of welcome. Bishop Whitehead made an address, allud ing to the good work of the society, and urging them to take courage and push their work during the coming year. The business meeting of the society was presided over by Mrs. Phillips, President of he Pittsburg auxiliary. Miss Julia Emery, the National Secretary, made a lengthy address, telling of the efficient work of the ladies, and urged the organization of branches or the society in all the parishes of the country. Mrs. Howe, wife of the Bishop, made a few remarks on "Mothers' Meetings," and Miss Spencer, a traveling missionary who spent a year in China, seven months in Japan, and has also visited India and Africa, talked about the work of the foreign missionaries. A HEW BISHOP APPOINTED. Bev. Dr. Chapman to be the Missionary Bishop of Alaska. The House of Bishops has decided to elect a bishop to Alaska and Bev. Dr. John W. Chapman, now a missionary in that terri tory, was chosen as the proper person for the honor. He will not be ordained for a year yet, as it will be impossible to set his com mission to him for several months, on ac count of the winter coming on, and it will require several months now for him to come to a place' where he can find a bishop to ordain him. The Bev. Mr. Chapman is but 32 years old, and will be the yonngest Bishop of the church. He has gained quite a reputation as a missionary among the Esquimaux. One of his first sermons was preached in Trinity Church, this city. THE Dancing Season is here, and anything touching the terpslchorean art is of deep interest to the beaux and belles. THE DIS PATCH has collected the latest ideas for figures and costumes. See to-morrow morn ing's issue, Twentypages. AutheNews. FOLLOWED HIS DAUGHTER. Death of EUEdmundson.the Weil-Known Old Pittsburg Merchant. Eli Edmnndson, one of Pittsburg's oldest merchants, died yesterday in Baltimore, lid., after an illness of five weeks. He fol lows his daughter, Mrs. Dryden, who was buried in Allegheny Cemetery Thursday, and his wife is lying serionsly ill at the home of her son in Oakland, and is not ex pected to recover. His grandson, a son of Dr. W. F. Edmundson, has just recovered from a severe attack of typhoid fever. Mr. Edmundson came to Pittsbnre fmm Baltimore and started in business in the year 1832. He was successful up to the time of the big fire of 1845, when his store and dwelling were both consumed. Having plenty of energy he immediately started up again, made a competence, and retired from active business about 20 years i ago, two of his sons, Eli Edmnndson. Jr.. ami T. C. Perrine, succeeding him in business. When Mr. Edmnndson came to this citv he was a Quaker, hut there being no Quaker society here, he identified himself with the Methodist church, and was a class leader in Smithfield Street M. E. Church for about 18 years. In 1850, on account of declining health, he moved to Chartiers township, withdrew from the citv church. and gave his support to a country district church. It was also through his influence and support that the Mansfield Methodist Episcopal Church was built, to which chnrch he was identified until recent years, when he again moved to Baltimore. He was the father of Dr. W. F. Edmund son, of Filth avenue, and left another son, a well-known business man of Baltimore. MTTSIC, Art, Society, Drama, Science, Elec tricity, Secret Societies, Grand Army, Sport and Military and Educational Matters are treated In special departments for THE DIS PATCH. The latest gossip in each circle will be fonnd in to-morrow's issue. Twenty pages. Largest Circulation. subpbises m Canada. Erastns Wimon Springs Them on the Iron and Steel aien. rsrXCIALTXLGSi.U TO TUB DISPATCH. . Niaoaba Falls, Oht., October 24. The British Iron and Steel Institute and iriends in the American Mining Institute of Engineers, arrived here to-day. Mr.Erastus Wiman, in his address of welcome, said: The brief and huriied visit through Canada could hardly be permitted to terminate witbout some statement of the enormons importance which Canada must. In the future, tlav In the mineral development ot the world. This coun-t try possesses the greatest deposits of nickel on to alt Stretching far out to sea. in the pier like projection of Nova Bcotia within six miles of the Atlantic, is fonnd an assemblage of the finest Iron. Side bv Side with rhomlcnllr nnrn limestone, and with coking coal In seams SO feet thick. Still farther surprises await him who ! follows the development of the oil deposits in, the great Northwest, where. In the MacKenzie basin, are found deposits of petroleum,! the extent and magnitude of wbicn it Is ad mitted exceed that ot the known deposits of, tbo rest of the world. Bnt the greatest surA prise of all is the imaginary line across the continent, where McKinley and McDonald say "haltr' If the Congress of the United States should extend to British North America an In vitation to reciprocal arrangements. Great Britain must not blame CsnaHi if .ha o-mnts L the first glorious omen of better relation to exist Deiween ma English speaking nations u. uwibi -ui9 tivb. vuuunent in common. 7 WBECKED ON A BOCK One Yacht Goes to the Bottom, and Another Adrift at Sea. $ Locust Valley, October 2f. E. D. Morgan's large steam yacht Katrina, bound from Newport B. L, for Ne yYork, with "the owner and crew of 30 menton board, ran on a rock 100 yards from Maynecock Point, Ii. L, about 3:30 o'clock this morning. A large hole was knocked in the yacht'a bot tom, directly under the engine, and the vessel filled rapidly and sank. Mr. Mor gan and all the others aboard reached Matioecock Point. Mr. Morgan's 40-fotlt vaeht, which was in tow of the Katrinawljh three sailors on board, was cut adrift, and nothing has yet been heard from her. The accident was due to the heavy storm, which drove the vessel In iriAM mrtA mS .llstf va a tinohljl tft At Urn At .. . . " . n unguisa tne iiijn or tase uonnmngs, . . . . OCTOBER 25, 1890. BOOMING STAPLES. The Stimulated Movement tothcr In terior Still Continues. IRON BUSINESS UNPBECEDENTED, But Production 'About Matched If Con sumption at Pittsburg. MARKET FOE BREADSTOFFS ADTAHCEB - rSFXCIlX TBUOBAU TO TUB DISPATCH. 1 New Yobk, October 24. The stimulated movement ol the staples to the interior con tinues a feature of the general trade situa tion. Special telegrams to Bradstreet't re port marked activity among jobbers in drygoods, groceries, boots and shoes, no tions, tobacco, carpets clothing, and at the South, plantation supplies. The demand noticed is mentioned at the larger Atlantic coast cities, at Cincinnati, Chicago, St Paul, Omaha, Kansas City, St. Louis, Mem phis and Dallas. At the latter city, how ever, as at New Orleans, severe rains have checked trade some, in Louisiana having had a serions effect on conntry roads, thus check ing receipts of sugar and, as reported, cur tailing the yield of rice, At the Western centers wool is more ac tive than at the East, where tradlncr is qnieter. Beceipts of cattle and hogs are heavier at Western markets, and the former are lower. A better demand for hogs has advanced prices in some instances. Hog products are a shade higher. POLITICS AND TRADE. At San Francisco a heated political cam paign checks trade temporarily. Wheat exports from the Pacific coast promise to be more free during the remainderot the calen dar year. It is reported that 7,970,000 bush els of 1889 wheat still remain in California. The Alaska salmon pack promises to equal that of 1889. Sugars (raws) are neglected. Eefined is not active, and prices are unchanged. The output of Lonisiaoa sugar promises to ex ceed the yield of 18S9 by 60,000 gross tons. . So far as railwav shares are concerned, speculation in the New York market tends to improve, despite some fears of further stringency in money. A break in Sutrar Trust certificates, however, partially de moralized the market. Bank clearings at 53 cities for the week ended October 23. are $1,348,491,041, an in crease over this week last year of 13.1 per cenL New York City's clearings, which constitue 59.2 per cent of the grand total, are only a fraction of 1 per cent larger than last year, while at 52 other cities the gain is 36.2 per cent. IBOIT, COAL AND PETEOLEU1I. The iron and steel industries remain in the quiet state reported for months past, with a very large output, which, as alleged, is about equal to consumptive requirements. The long expected advance in prices has not appeared. Coal is steady and in fair demand. Petroleum accears weak, and specula tively is neglected. Plans are making to refine Ohio petroleum on a large scale. Lake ingot copper has been sold at 17c at Boston for late winter delivery,' and the tendency is upward. Wheat and corn have advanced abont lc on the week, and oats 2c per bushel. The market does not favor exports, bnt some lit tle wheat continues to go abroad, largely from the Pacific coast, where reserves have, perhaps, been underestimated. The exports of wheat, both coasts (and flour as wheat), this week equal 1,782,885. against 1,696.403 bushels last week, aud 2,197,460 bushels in a like week in 1889. Total exports from July 1 to date are 30,756,248 bushels, against 32,641,103 bushels in a like portion of 1889, and 39,184,453 bushels in 1888, and 55,800,000 in 1887. STOCK OP WHEAT. Total available wheat stocks east of the Bocky Mountains since September 27. have increased only 5,481,821 bushels. A the present rate of growth they promise to gain about 10,000,000 bushels during the live weeks ending November 1, or only one-half the increase for a like period (October) of 18S9. Drygoods are in moderate demand, and cold, dry weather is awaited with interest. Mail orders constitute the bulk of present demand. Agents are doing a steady busi ness in SDring goods. Print cloths are weak on the largest stocks since 1884. The trade in imported goods at New York has been very heavy. Fine men's wear goods hold late advances firmly. Baw wool is in fair demand, especially by dress goods and worsted goods manufact urers. Fine combine wools are most active. Territory vools are less active. Cotton is active in the speculative line, bnt with a bearish tone rnling, owing to a lartra cron movement and good weather advices. Business failures reported to .BraaTstreet's number 202 in the United-States this week, against 177 last week and 190 this week last year. Canada had 33 this week, against 29 last week. The total number of failures in the United States from January 1 to date is 8,187 acainst 9,132 in a like portion of 1889. dun's bepobt. B. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review of trade says: Business continues large in volume, and generally profitable. In many branches there is noteworthy expansion on account of the new opportunities which the revised tariff gives. Boston finds the boot and shoe trade en couraging, and ptices in that line are firm. Sales of wool are rather large, bnt there is a distinct improvement in the market for woolen goods, and manufacturers are more hopeful. Cotton goods are firm in price. while the raw material declines. At Phila delphia money has become easy, aud collec tions are on the whole satisiactory. At Chicago there is marked decrease in receipts ot cured meats, dressed beef, lard, butter and hides, but in cheese and wool an in crease, and the volume of business con tinues larger than a year ago, with satisfac tory collections in drygoods and clothing. WKSTEBN TBADE GOOD. At St. Louis the state of business is healthy, and while money is rather scarce, there is no trouble about collections. The volume of business at Cleveland is much above last year's, especially in drygoods and clothing, though the unfavorable weather retards trade to some extent, and at Pittsburg the manufacturing interests are flourishing, though lower prices are quoted for Bessemer steel and blooms. It is a remarkable feature of the retnrns this year that the Western cities appear to prosper without the slightest regard to the condition of business on the seaboard. At Milwaukee trade is satisfactory and money unusually active at 6 to 7 per cent. At St. Paul trade is excellent, and at Minneapolis receipts of wheat reach 1,900,000 bushels. At Kansas City trade is healthy, and at Denver good. There is rather more indica tion of monetary prestne at Southern cen ters, apd business is only fairly active in the Louisiana region. The money markets are, on the whole, less disturbed than they were a week ago; but there is an increasing scarcity of funds at some of the Western and Sonthern centers. BIG BUSINESS IN IBOZT. The most important industries are doing well. The iron business is hestating be-t cause an unprecedented consumption is ap parently overmatched by an unprecedented production, and Bessemer iron is weak at Pittsburg and Philadelphia. But the de mand for all finished products continues so large that the capacity of the mills seems to be strained to the utmost, and while so ad vance in prices is reported, the market is everywhere strone. Thejnrketi jbrbreadstuffs continue to advance. Wheat has risen le during the week, corn nearly lc and oats nearly 2c The foreign demands afford no support to this speculation, and the exports arc far be low those of the corresponding weeks last year. Hogs are steady and pork a shade lower, bnt ic may be fairly said that the specula tive markets, though rather less excited than usual, are at this time singularly un reliable as a measure of values. EXPOSITION MATTERS. BUREAU OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND FINE ART COMMITTEE MEET. An Ethnological Exhibit of European Conn tries Wanted--The Bureau of Fine Arts Should be Separate From That of Music and Drama. Net7 York, October 24. The Bureau of Foreign Affairs of the World's Fair met this afternoon. Colonel Baker, of the Chi cago committee, said he thought that the money on hand should be nsedby devoting it to an ethnological exhibit of the Euro pean countries. Others thought the amount too small to purchase an exhibit worthy of the fair. Mr. Baker proposes to draft a letter to the Secretaryjof the Treasury, asking that some provision may be made whereby the exhib its can get through to their destination and be recovered without any trouble. The Joint Committee on Fine Arts, Musie and Drama met at 10 o'clock this morning. The first subject discussed was whether or not the committee should first ascertain from the directors of the lair what plans have been arranged for the bureau. The se lection of chief of the bureau was then discussed. Miss Hallowell and Mr. Kurtz have applied for the position. Director Loring, of the Boston Museum, was lavorably mentioned in committee. No definite work will be done by the committee until affairs in Chicago are more settled, as thecommittee has no money and no plan of action. From the discussion of the com mittee, it would appear that the members thought the bureau too large, and that fine arts would be but a side issue in comparison with the other two branches. The discussion resulted in the following resolution: Resolved, That it is the sense of the Joint Committee on Fine Arts. Music and Drama of the World's Colombian Exposition that the Bureau of Fine Arts should be separate and distinct from the Bureau ot Music and Drama, and that said Bureau of Fine Arts should be restricted to the subject of fine arts proper. A sub-committee was appointed to inter view prominent collectors of the city and to obtain suggestions from them. At the close of the business the committee adjourned to meet in Chicago on November 18. THE Big Telescope at the Licit Observa tory has already made important contribu tions to the science of Astronomy. In THE DISPATCH to-morrow Prof. Holden-wUl ex plain how the speed of our solar system through space is to be measured. Twenty pages. All the News. FABMEBS BEATEN AFTER T,rH Potato Bot Discourages Those Who Hoped to Even Up on Other Losses. rSFXCUL TELIOBAU TO TBS DISPATCH. J Saratoga, October 24. The extent of the potato rot in all this section is almost appalling, considering the dependence which was being placed upon this crop to even up the farmer's balance sheet of a thus far un favorable year. Other crops have yielded poorly, and, except in isolated instances, the fruit crop has been light. Early potatoes were ruined by the drought and yielded poor returns. The late crop, however, had prom ised fairly well, and reports being well founded of the almost total failure ol the crop in Michigan and other great potato sec tions, farmers looked for a fair yield and re munerative prices. The yield proves to have been largely in excess of expectations, bnt those dng early and housed were at tacked by rot and in many instances one half were found worthless. The later digging, in many cases, has been abandoned, there not being a sufficient num ber of sound potatoes to pay for the labor. Some farmers, who ordinarily would have had hundreds of bushels to sell, will have hardly enongh for their own use, and buvers are caving carioaas ot potatoes returned to them as not being fit for market. The fail ure of this crop completes the record of an other disastrous year. A PEHNSYLVANIAN DISMISSED. Disobedience of Orders Causes a Naval Student to be Expelled. I SPECIAL TZLEOBAX TO TITS DI8PJ.TCH. Annapolis, October 24. Naval Cadet Andrew Jackson Cruse, Jr., of Pennsyl vania, member of the third class, has been dismissed from the Naval Academy for dis obedience of orders. One of the causes for his dismissal was stated to be his refusal to give information concerning the alleged hazing cases recently investigated by court martial. Naval Cadet T. O. Pollard has re signed. The Maryland Court of Appeals to-day decided in a registration case that George D. Gilbert, a colored student of the Morgan University, of Baltimore, is entitled to register in that city. He had been refused registration on the ground of being a non resident. The decision recognizes the right of college stndents to become voters. HOTVAED FIELDING contributes another of his clever letters to THE DISPATCH for to-morrow. No humorous writer of the day is his equal. His letters are a feature of the Sunday issue. Twenty 8-colomn pages. Largest circulation. CAPTTJBED BY THE VANDEBBHTS. They Secure an Interest in the Reading Rail road Syndicate. Philadelphia, October 24. The an nouncement was made this afternoon that an alliance between the Beading Bailroad syndicate and the Vanderbilt Interests had finally been effected, and that hereafter the Yanderbilts will be represented in the Bead ing management. At a meeting of the syn dicate to-day H. B. Hollins was elected a member, vice Mr. Gibbs, resigned. The Evening Telegraph says: "The sig nificance of the meeting becomes apparent when it is stated that H. B. Hollins & Co, are the recognized brokers of the Yander bilts, and that the head of the firm enjoys confidential relations with the leading mem bers of the Vanderbilt family." BATTLE WITH APACHES. In New Mexico They Repulse a Body of Troops Pursuing Them. SiltebCitt, N. M., October 24. The troops who were called out to pursue the band of Apaches who murdered two sheep herders about 20 miles from here recently, met the band in an unfrequented spot near the scene of the murder early this morning. A conflict ensued, but the Indians beat off their pnrsners after two of them had been killed. A THBITTY SUICIDE He Takes Out a Large Accident Policy Be fore Shooting TTiiir, Concoedia, Kan., October 24. At 6 o'clock this morning A. B. Bancroft, one of the oldest settlers of Lyon county, and at one time Sheriff, shot himself through the heart with 8 shotgun and was found dead in the barn door by his daughter. Yesterday he took out twa accident poli cies on bis life for 53.000. good for 24 hours. THE DISPATCH has secured Rudyard Kipling's first Serial. The opening chapton wm appear Sunday, November 0, tflMCHERS' BY E. W. WEITTXN TQS Mr. Jehu Clincher had just been elected to Congress. His constituents already ad dressed him as the Hon. Jehu Clincher. Mrs. Tabitha Clincher, his wife, who had been for several years Secretary of the Ladies' Missionary Sewing Circle, of Mil! ville, was promptly chosen President of that organization at the annual election of officers, which occurred soon after the ambi tion of Mr. Jehu Clincher had been grati fied. Miss Clincher and Miss Valeria Clincher, the daughters and only children of the Clincher family, were both elected to positions in the literary society in Mlllville, and thus on account of the success of the father, the whole family suddenly fonnd themselves in office. Mrs. Clincher and the Misses Clincher at once began to lay plans for a brilliant campaign at the national capital. Born apparently to a life of poverty on a barren farm, Mr. Clincher, by the sheerest vagaries of luck, while yet in the vigor of his life, had become a millionaire several times multiplied, without any special exercise of cunning or judgment on his part, though he was possessed of what his neighbors called "good horse sense." But his riches made him mighty, and elected him to Congress, and his wife and 'daughters, having already knocked about the world a bit and acquired some thing of the veneering and assurance of "good society," determined to cut a broad swath in the highest social circles of the capital if any way could be devised to gain admission to ,the charmed set. They sup posed they would proceed at once to Wash ington, and gave vent to many severe crit icisms of the fathers of the Bepublic for the idiocy of the provision that more than a year should elapse after the elections for Congress before the members could take their seats. But Mrs.Clincher and the girls managed to put in their time very agreeably shopping in New York and Philadelphia, buying elegant gowns and bonnets, and such like female toggery as Mlllville had never dreamed of before. For, with all their riches, the Clinchers, feeling that they were bnt plain folk at best, and that their nat ural sphere could never reasonably or sensi bly extend much beyond the suburbs of the village ot Millville, had never attempted to exceed the lasnion ot tne place, jut. Jena Clincher was king, Mrs. Tabitha Clincher was queen, and the Misses Clincher were princesses there without attempting to daz zle the eyes of the locality with gorgeons costumes. But it was all changed now. There must be a show of grandeur consistent with the dignity of a Congressman and a millionaire, to begin with. More important than that was the determination of Mrs. Clincher, that her daughters should be quite as conspicu ous In Washington as in Millville society, and so there mnst be costumes from the best American modistes at the very least, and possibly the richest resources ot tne Jfrencn capital would have to be drawn upon to satisfy the newly created demands of the little village of Millville, so far reaching is the dominion ot modern society. Of course the larger portion of these purchases never saw the light of day in Millville. The orthodox population of that secluded burg would have been shocked beyond recovery had it been revealed to them that the ladies of the Clincher family had gone to the very extreme of the fashion m ordering their evening gowns, with a wealth of longitude at the southerly end, and a paucity of the same at the northerly lim its, in the snowy regions of the neck and bosom. It was only in the seclnsion of the Clincher mansion, in the late hours of the L night, when there was no -danger of inter ruption, that the ladles guiltily put on their gowns, repulsive to the moralty of the place; and it required some practice even when none but they were present to accus tom themselves to the boldness of the fashion. But there was a fascination in this new richness of dress which soon overcame all scruples, and the Misses Clincher, and even at this time the mother herself, on fre quent occasions indulged in the vanity of admiring their figures at full length in the mirror, in each delicate degree of costume, from the snowiest linen and the finest of laces, up to the point at which fashion'de clared they were dressed, but which seemed to them for a long time to be anything bnt fnll dress. "Mamma, I do believe I shall iaint the first time I go into company in these awful gowns." Baid Miss Clincher one day. It's all well enongh to learn to look at myself in tbe glass, and to have yon and Valeria eaze at me and talk about me without my having a fit, but it will be quite another thing when strange men stare at me and make re marks in their minds abont tbe shape of my neck and arms and the. quality of my skin. I know they'll do it, and I don't believe I can stand it I'd like to know the name of the inventor of this horrible way of ap pearing to be dressed when you are not" "Well, I suppose it wilt take nerve," said Mrs. Clincher, "but we always go through with what we undertake, you k now, and we'll struggle with the situation as best we can when we come to it" "Ob, I'm not bothered half so much about that as about what I shall say," be moaned Miss Valeria. 1 just know I shall make a fool of myself among all these smart people, who have been used to society andpolitics and dl dl what is it?" "Diplomacy, I suppose von mean," said Miss Clincher with a superior air. "Yes, diplomacy; that's what I'm afraid of mora than anything else, I've read in the papers that those foreign ministers and awfully smooth and deceitful, and that von I JneTer know whether theyjnwm what AeyJ PAGES 9 TO 12; "" mPI3PACY LIGHTNEB. THX DISPATCH.! say. and all the time they ara just oyer wneiming you wim siun inai leaus yuu uw all sorts of traps, and yon don't knotrwhat to do. I like people who say In a plain way just what they mean." "Bnt we mavn't meet those fellows at all," said Miss Clincher, at which Mrs. Clincher looked up quickly with a sly smile. "You know," continued Miss Clincher, "that Mr. Struthers, who preceded papa in Congress, tried his level best to get his family into the toniest society, and only got laughed at for the maneuvers he and Mrs. Struthers made and the money they spent. And I think Mr. Struthers is just as smart as papa, because he is a lawyer and papa is just a poor farmer, who made money by luck in getting bold of a lot of land which had coal and oil and natural gas." "If your papa is Mr. Struthers I am not Mrs. Struthers," said Mrs. Clincher, quietly. Congress had met The Hon. Jehu Clincher had taken the oath and kissed the book. The pre-boliday season had passed when the new Speaker of the House takes a month to nuke up his list of committees, when there is nobody yet in town and con sequently no "society." Of course, every body is in town, bnt custom at the capital decrees that what is known as the fashion able season shall not really begin nntilatter the holidays, when Congress is in fall blast, when" the lobbyist, male and female, is in most industrious and liberal mood, when legislation is being shaped in committee room and drawing room, in secret corners and at great receptions; in short, when all the strange and varied life of the capital is at its highest tension. The Clinchers had taken the finest avail able mansion in the city, for which they paid a rental of a thousand dollars a month. They had not gone into society because thera. was no society in the fashionable sense, aa Mrs. Clincher explained to the few common place acquaintances she had made. She and her daughters expected to enjoy a very gay season. But in the privacy of their own rooms the Misses Clincher were in despair. "Why, mamma, we have not been noticed at all," said Miss Clincher one day in early January, "and here is tbe beginning of the season, when all the fashionable ladles are making up their lists, and we're not as much made of as though we were in Millville. I'd rather be at the top of things there, I'm sure, than a perfect nobody here, and with all onr fine gowns, too." "Why, I haven't so much as set eyes on a foreign diplomat, even In the street," ex claimed Miss Valeria iu great heat "That is, if I have they mnst just appear like other people; and I'm sure if they dol shall be awfully disappointed, for I want a count or a lord to look distinguished, and not Ilka common Americans." Wait," said Mrs. Clincher. Within a few days there was an Informal reception at the magnificent residence of Secretary Simpson. Mrs. Secretary Simp son had been acknowledged for two years as the leader, unopposed, of the very cream of the cream of fashionable society. That afternoon Mrs. Clincher drove out alone, not informing the Misses Clincher where she was going. She rode in state in a magnifi cent coupe, lined with purple satin, and drawn by a blooded team, such as the Hon. Jehu Clineher said could not be bought anywhere but on tbe stock farms of Western Pennsylvania. On the box was a coachman and footman, the handsomest that could be engaged in Washington, and they were ar rayed in tbe finest ot livery, new and clean. With an assurance of victory that proved her a veritable Napoleon of women Mrs. Clincher alighted from her carriage and en tered the great mansion where Mrs. Secre tary Simpson reigned and issued therefrom commands to her subjects. When Mrs. Chncner was announced aa ill-concealed smile rippled over the faces of many of the ladies who heard tbe name, bnt with a coolnses and ease which suggested a life spent only in elegant drawing rooms, this former patron ot the wash tub and kitchen passed up to the hostess and reached out her hand, saying: 'Mrs. Simpson, I could not resist the pleasure' and there the sentence wai cut off by the murmur of voices in the room. Mrs. Secretary Simpson blushed rosy red, and seemed to be painfully embarrassed for a moment, and the amused witnesses of the encounter expected the proud wife of tbs great Secretary would freeze the presumptu ous Clincher out of the house in short order; but a moment later they were astounded to see the supposed intruder receive a warm greeting from the hostess, who then led Mrs. Clincher to a sofa and paid her tbe most dis tinguished attention. When Mrs. Clincher departed after remainingonly a fewmlnutei, as though she were pressed for time and could give but a moment even to so distin guished a lady, Mrs. Secretary Simpson, in a tone that was unnecessarily loud. In vited her to call the' following-morning and breakfast with her, when they could have a pleasant visit alone, and arrange matters relating to the opening season. That was enough. The card basket of the Clinchers was no longer empty. The ladies were flooded with invitations, hut nnder the generalship of Mrs. Clincher they held them selves aloof from everyone for a grand en trance at the first magnificent and exclusive card reception of Mrs. Secretary Simpson. If there was any doubt in regard to the position. the Clinchers would take in Wash ington society, this'tventfnhevenlng set it at rest Tbe favor of their hostess, the ac knowledged autocrat of the ultra.fishion ables, at once placed them among the most distinguished of her guests. The voluptuous figures and fine complexions of the Misse Clincher made them really tbe moat attract ive of the young women present, though, they were too robustly healthful In appear, ance and too natural la their manner fa 1 -v m , . . 1 . , .. , r . .
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