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One Month -. m Daily Dispatch, mcludlnc fcunday, 1 year. 10 00 Daily Dispatch, including bundav,3m'tlis 2 50 Daily Dispatch. Including fcundar, lm'th 90 tODAT Dispatch, One ear 250 Veeklt Dispatch. One lear - 115 TnE Daily Dispatch l delivered by carriers at Itccnts pervert, or inducing bunday edition, at SPccnts per -week. PITTSBURG. FRIDAY. J A3'. 2. 1S9L. A BLUMIEK AND A ULOT. In place of nominating General Miles for the Presidency, as some isolated admirers of that military gentleman seemed to think probable, this Indian war of ours is very apt to be viewed at bottom with a feeling of anything but admiration by the thinking public. In fact, it is not too much to say that it is a grevious blot upon the adminis tration. We need not even go the length of inquiring whether it is true that the Indians have been starved and defrauded by Govern ment agents in order to reach this con clusion. There are faults of omission" as well as of commission. The relations and resources of the Federal Government toward the Indian have been peculiarly such as to call for management which would have prevented the conditions that made this outbreak possible. "Wicked and savage though the Indian is in war, we have had enough years of peaceful control ot him to readily believe that bv foresight and the means at the command of the In terior and "War Departments that control " night have been maintained and the pres ent war avoided. - At this distance the difficulties cannot perhaps be fully measured, but it is gravely to be doubted that the Indians were bent upon violence at all until their superstitious and crazy ghost dances were hastily and un wisely made a pretext for military move ments against them. The suspicion rests upon the country that if the Government had been as forehanded in trying to peace fully control the Indians and divert them from their ghost-dancing as it was prompt and eager through General Miles and his subordinates to mate a show of arms, the present hostilities wonld have been avoided. "Western settlers in times past were wont to say that the only good Indian was a dead one. But there is a just sentiment in this country nevertheless, that our Government ,11 as obligation! to perform to this unfortuT " nate and rapidly disappearing race, and that the attempt at solution of the problem by killing them off is not the one which will commend itself to the better sense of any civilized people. Look at the management of the Indians by Canada, for an example. By living up to her treaty undertakings Canada has kept them in peace and relative industry. The Canadian Provinces are dotted by piosperous reservations. In New Tork State, similarly, Indians have been brouzht into similar paths by the thousand. Our National Government alone has made a botch and a bungle of the business. The present spectacle of slaughter iu the "West, while the heads of the Interior and "War Departments indulge in criminations and recriminations around the Cabinet table at "Washington.furnishesan unhappy and little less than disgraceful contrast THE BRADDOCK RIOT. Yesterday's riot at Braddock was as un called for as it was serious. It was no doubt due to holiday drunkenness on the part of the striking: Hungarians, and Sheriff Mc Candless' order closing the saloons will probably prevent a recurrence of the riotous spirit. This does not atone, however, for the injury inflicted. Neither is the. violence excused by the fact that the rioters were all foreigners, with but small knowl edge of the English language, or American institutions. There are laws iu Hungary and they forbid such proceedings as the strikers indulged in yesterday. The authori ties have taken prompt measures, however, to prevent further lawlessness, and no doubt the guilty will be punished for the harm al ready done. SO DODGING OX BAIXOT REFORM. There is already a noticeable disposition on the part of some leading politicians, of both parties, in this State to evade the promises of ballot reform, so distinctly made during the campaign last fall. Some of the leading organs, too, are trumping up obsta cles which they would have interfere with the fulfillment of these pledges. Beside the natural antipathy of the "practical" politi cians to a secret ballot there may be seen the partisan ear, that, if the reform is accom plished, one party or the other will get the greater part of the credit. Some of the ultra partisan politicians even object to an eqnal division of the honors between a Republican legislature and a Democratic executive. Both parties stand unequivocally pledged to a reform of the voting system which shall secure an absolutely secret ballot There is no dodging the plain duty the men elected on these principles owe to the voters who elected them. And if there is credit to be gained by the passage of the necessary measures, it is well to remember there is infamy to be gained by failure to redeem these distinct pledges. In the light ot the recent election the independent voter must be accredited with the clearest discrimina tion in matters of public policy, and a will ingness to carry it out to its -logical conclu sion. It may, therefore, be taken for granted that if there is any needless delay abont measures to secure this vital reform the guilty party will be fully punished, even with an open, marked ballot The objection has been raised that, while ,he Constitution requires the numbering of rlie ballots, no law can be passed that will secure the desired end a secret ballot; tlat, therefore, there is no use passing any law until after the Constitution shall have been amended. This view is erroneous. The covnrts hare decided that an amendment of the Constitution repeals any law that is in conflict with snch amendment or any part of any law in conflict, and only such part as does conflict with the amendment Hence, the proper measure may be passed at once, including the provision lor numbering the ballots. The Constitution can bo amended subsequently, and the perfect law will be in force. It will be just as well to insist on the passage of such, a law at the coming ses sion, as well as the measures necessary to procure an amendment of the Constitution. There is no doubt but Governor-elect Pattison is prepared to sign such measures when they come to him. It is generally un derstood thatrhe will 'urge their necessity in his inaugural message This will throw the burden on the Legislature. Members of that body of the same political faith as the Gov ernor cannot consistently oppose these meas ures. And inasmuch as the majority party in the Legislature is equally pledged to the reform, it will serve its best interests by fathering the necessary bills to be enacted. Unless it does it may be a minority party at the next session, while the executive is yet vested in Democratic hands. In truth, this is no partisan matter, and the voters of the Commonwealth want no peanut politics. PETROLEUM AND THE rTJEL QUESTION. Experiments in the use of petroleum for fuel in rolling mills and glass works are surrounded with great interest to both man ufacturers and oil producers. The former have the hope of developing a fuel equal in reliability to gas and free from the dirt and inconveniences of coal; the producers have the vision before them of an indefinite en largement of the market for their product in the crude form. Add to this the direct and pecuniary difference to the community at large of freedom from coal smoke, if an economic fuel gas can be developed, and few experiments can be suggested which in volve greater interestto a community than that of oil fuel, or any other practicable luel gas, does for this city. Of the probable economic success of the processes now under test a more expert opinion then can be given in these columns, at present would be necessary. Better than either will be the result of actual working- tests. But it is pertinent to make one suggestion with regard to results which have been pretty well established. It is stated as a reliable proportion, by processes already tested, that two and a half barrels of oil can Furnish an effective heat equal to a ton of coal. The latter processes are seek ing the very desirable object of materially reducing that proportion. This makes oil at 80 cents', for fuel, equal to coal at 8 cents per bushel; at 75 cents equal to coal at 1 cents, and so on. "While this does not offer any econom on the cost of coal delivered at the mills, "in wholesale lots, it is a question whether, when the cost of stoking and tak ing away the ashes is included, oil at 70 or 72 cents'mightnot be preferable in our mills to coal at the usual price. Indeed, we understand that this point is generally recognized by the manufacturers, but when that is conceded another difficulty arises in the well-known volatility of the crude petroleum market The mill man says: would fit up my furnaces for burn ing oil if I could be sure of a steady supply of fuel at the 70 or 75-cent rate. Bnt what assurance is there that when I have done that, and an increased demand for petro leum from similar establishments ensues, that the price will not advance to a dollar or more? This means that I must either submitto an increased cost of CO to 75 cents and upward per ton of finished iron or steel, or that I must lose the expense of changing my furnaces from coal to oil and back again. 'This by no means unfounded objec tion shows the pertinence of the suggestion, that the oil producers might find.it advan tageous to guarantee that price on a stated portiouof their production for a term of years. Tne producers need to do two things in onjer to relieve the present situatiqp of its onerous features; first, to bring in competing purchasers for their product; and second, to enlarge the con sumption of crude petroleum. If they can do this there is no doubt that the demand for illuminating purposes could cause a rise in the market, with any resort to the hazard ous and costly device of arbitrary restric tion. Here we have an opportunity to de velop the new demand and bring in com peting -purchasers; but unless the relative fuel values of coal and oil are changed by improved processes, it must be at bottom prices. But suppose the producers as a body should agree that the mills, of Pitts burg should have, say one-fifth of their pro duction for the next five years, at a 70-cent rate, equal to perhaps 2,000,000 tons of coal. Would'it not in the first place fix a price below which the petroleum could not de cline; and would it not, in the second place, by the consumption of just so much of the supply, vastly enhance the probability that the other four-fifths of the production would sell at enhanced prices for illuminating purposes? Of course if Lima oil can be delivered in Pittshurc more economically than. Pennsyl vania crude, whatever is brought here could be counted as filling the proposed guarantee to the extent that the "Western fuel comes here. The necessity is to find some organ ization qualified to guarantee a certain price to the mills that will take hold of petroleum. It would be hard to find any body better qualified or more interested in doing so than the organizations of petroleum producers. Certainly any proposition which contains the possibility of freeing Pittsburg from the threatened return of smoke, and ot enlarging the depressed market lor crude petroleum, is worthy of thorough consideration and the warmest hope ot the public that it may prove to be practicable. THE SPEAKERSHIP CONTEST. There is no certainty yet as to who will be Speaker of the House at Harrisbnrg this winter. Candidates are numerous and each has a following, but none have enough to elect Such uncertainty so near the open ing of the session is quite a novelty, as lor many years the matter has been practically settled long before the legislators began to assemble at the capital. The position would have gone to Henry Hall, of Mercer, with out much opposition had he been re-elected, hut hjis failure leaves the matter wide open. As matters now stand, Mr. Brooks, of Phil adelphia, he of high license fame, has the most votes pledged to him and looks like the strongest candidate. Bat this ap parent strength may cause his defeat by in spiring a combination against him. This danger is especially great because the slated Speaker was a "Western man and his prede cessor was from Mr. Brooks' town, Phila delpia. A combination might elect either Burdick, of KcKeac, Thompson, of "Warren, or Hays, of Venanco. All being country members, either would jret considerable sup port from that element which opposes city supremacy. Capp, of Lebanon, has a con siderable following to help him in as a com promise candidate. The caucus promises to be more interesting and lively than usual. GRANGERS ON THE CURRENCY. The Legislative Committee of the National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry has issued a memorial to Congress inviting the attention of the National law makers to the financial views of the Grangers, in a forcible way. The address is chiefly composed of extracts from the minutes of 'he annual .meetings of the Grange, vigorously en dorsing free coinage of silver and increase of the circulating medium without the aid of National banks. "The scheme of loaning money on land security is indorsed as a good means ot increasing the currency, but this idea is not so emphatically urged as the request for free coinage. The Grange declares that the period of greatest prosperify for farmers was that im mediately succeeding the civil war, when the currency of the country amounted to $56 per capita. It is admitted that this may have Deea too great a proportion, bnt the contention was made that it was far better than tho present condition of things, with only $17 per capita, winch is far too-low. Hence Congress is urged to secure au in crease in the National currency to $40 or $50 per capita. "Without taking issue with the Grange on the advisability of any changes in the pres ent monetary system of the country looking to an increase in the circulating medium, we desire, to make a suggestion in another direction. There are, in this country, more than 100 persons who are worth over $10, 000,000 in money and property, and several of these are worth over $100,000,000. This suggests that faulty distribution may have more to do with the depression of the farm ing industry than the smallness of the aggregate circulating medium complained of. An increase of the currency would, doubtless, bring flush times, temporarily, but with the present system of distribution, resulting as it does in accumulation in cer tain quarters, it is probable the agricultural depression would soon return. There is necessity for curtailing the trust combina tions and the other agencies for sucking the blood out of the great industrial wealth production of the country. Chicago might have reserved its day light bank robbery as a feature ol the World's Fair. It would have Impressed foreign visitors more tally with the greatness of Columbus' dis covery. Senator Hoar's declaration that a State has no right to instruct a Senator, leaves the inference that a State shonld.walt to be In structed by a Senator. As each State has two Senators (the Constitution calls them Repre sentatives), there might be. a conflict of Instruc tions under the Hoar system. We have beard a good bit lately from several States abont having no Senators, and it Is little wonder when the Senators rise superior to their con stituencies. People who want more laws, and people who don't want what we "now bave meddled with, have their eyes, metaphorically speaking, turned on Harrisbnrg now. It is estimated that the grain shipped East by the lakes last year wonld load a string of cars extending from New York to a point 500 miles west of Chicago. A good bit of this business will come down the Lake Erie and Ohio canal when it is built ' In the parlance of the day, be who has turned over a new leaf bad better get onto it with both feet before it turns back again. "While the mills in this city are learning to get along without natural gas, two great roarers are wasting themselves on the desert air in the vicinity of Coraopolis. One was brought in this week. Tnere is several miles of territory between them. Financial circles in this city need no wish for a happy New Year. Dividend notices are being sent out now. That was a very interesting colloquy between Mr. Speer, of the police committee, and Chief Murphy, of Allegheny. It would appear that friendly New Year greetings did not wholly absorb people on lha Northslde yesterday. Nearly a thousand newsboys and boot blacks havo cause to rejoice over a New Year's banquet Those who are familiar with the French duel will not question the justice of the verdict of "accidental death," rendered by a Georgia Coroner's jury, in the case of a man killed in a duet The Southern variety is different, how ever. There is no reason to believe the soldiers wished the Indians a happy New Year. Another 14-story building is planned in Chicago. A good many dangers lurk in these high structures, bnt that cuts no figure iu the face of the financial disparity between free air and real estate at about $50 a square foot. PERSONAL HErTTIOK. Me. J. J. Cuban, M. P. for Montreal Center, Catu, has been presented by his constituents with a cheque for 7,000, A prima donna. Miss Adele Marra, has written an opera, which has actually been pro duced at the Teatro Renacb, at Parma. John S. Dwight, the Nestor of American music journalism, had a slight attack of par alysis last, week In Boston, but is about again as lively and active as ever. Sarah Bernhardt will arrive in this coun try in February. Her first production will bo "La Tosca," after which she will render "Cleopatra" with the live snake. Lady Deros, who, in her youth, was a noted belle and danced at the historical ball at Brus sels on the eve of the battle of Waterloo, is dead in London at a very advanced age. Senator Moodt, of South Dakota, is get ting ready to write a book on the Indian ques tion. He is well posted on the subject and has long been a student of the red man's character. Lord Tennyson Is in excellent health. Hon. Hallam Tennyson writes that notwithstanding the severe weather and his advanced age, the poet who is staying at Farringford, Isle of Wight takes his usual walk every day Francis IL, the King of Naples, whom Gari baldi overthrew, is living in exile in Paris. He is a plain looking man of medium height, whose eyes always have a mournfal look iu them and who never smiles. Mrs. Brown, wife of. Judge H. B. Brown.the new Supreme Conrt Justice.is a most beautiful woman ot many accomplishments and will un doubtedly grace her position in Washington society. She is distantly related to the poet Whlttier, and nearly to the wife of Ex-Senator Palmer, of Michigan. Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Palmer have both long been social leaders in Detroit Miss Braddon, the English novelist lives in London, and as Mrs. Maxwell is much courted and admired. She Is described as "a tall, dark, hungry-looking woman, with peaked features and a yellow skin, indicating long hours of work, bad air and bad digestion." She Is, however, a fino conversationalist, dresses with lavish expense, and wears Jewels that a princess might envy. Prof. Hyrtl, the famous anatomist of Vienna, recently celebrated his 80th birthday anniversary. Modern anatomical science owes many of its triumphs to his genius. He has al ways been bitterly opposed to vivisection, or any torments inflicted upon animals in the in terest of sclence.Ii Prof. Bmcke was writing a book on the weight of animal bodies. He kept half a dozen dogs in a conrt yard of the Ana tomical Institute, and reduced their supply of food. Their howling called Prof. Hyrtl's at tention to them. Ho went every night sur reptitiously and fed them. Prof. Brucke was puzzled to find them fatter at tho end of the week than at the beginning. BROW 8T0EMS IK KANSAS. Trains Impeded or Blockaded in the Cen tral and Eastern Parts. Kansas City, Jan. 1, Specials from a num ber of points in Central and Eastern Kansas Indicate that severe snow storms are raging over that district In many places attempts to move .freight trains have been abandoned. A strong north west wild is blowing. Snow is falling Here. SNAP SHOTS IN SEASON. If the warm wave'stays much longer the trees will be turning over anew leaf. Are tne women the ,glrls ot the day always to be in the primary period! Does common sense not come with the years? Must they be coddled, chaperoned, championed petted id the pinafore period, spoiled while in slip;, governed while in cowns by the unwritten but ever written about laws of f orm.society,surveil lanceT Are only a few a very few tanght self-reliance; or are they instructed to under-" stand that their greatest strength lies In their weakness? 'That the chief aim is chic; that the highest prize is popularity; that the one object of life is dress; that tho diversion of the sex is a striving for tho unattainable; that the mind must bo trained to grasp the social skein, not the knotty, tangled, twisted threads ot life. Pick up from the pile any one of the text books the class periodicals which the girl of the day is asked to accept as a guide and go from cover to cover. From the dressing of a doll in priceless stuffs gathered from the looms of tho world to the costuming of a bell In all the gaudinessand grandeur of the golden age is but a matter of turning leaves and studying style plates. In betceen are essays on etiquette, rules for art to injure nature goodness in goods, godliness in garments, worth in wealth, woe in the want of the wherewithal to pattern after the pict ures or cut. trim, bind, twist decorate in the form diagramed. The letter press Is, 'as a gen eral thing, purely primary. It leaves the im pression that those for whom it Is in tended are in the, infant class help less, lacking reliance, tact, sense of the common, everyday sort Still the women not all, of course, but a good many clamor for emancipation. Not emancipation from the slavery of the day, surely, else the tones of their favorite pens would change for lack of applause. Why not shift the air a trifle? Put more of the mother than the maid, more of the truth than the fancy, more ot the real than the ideal, in the leaves. Life cannot be measured with a tape line or laid out with compass and square. Give the girls a chance to act natnral instead of by note and they will get where they belong without jolting those who think they are Just too sweet for anything. The Congressional silver syndicate will prob ably find the top side of their cloud as black as the portion exposed to view. A ltvino lie The man traveling under an alias. The man who pawns a watch Is striving to turn time into money. The winter girl evidently knows well enough, what she is here fur. ' The beginning of the end of the settlement of the Indian problem seems to be at hand. Railroad corporations fear the deadly parallel. .When an unverified rumor reaches yon set about verifying before swallowing it. Economy seems to be the order of the day in everything except politics. The Day After. There's a melancholy feeling in the air, A sort of New Year sadness everywhere. Every other man you meet On the crowded city street Seems to wear upon his features signs of care Seems to tell you that his woes are hard to bear. When you greet him In the usual friendly way, And ask him if he'll join you, he will say; "Thanks, but to put it brief, I have turned another leaf, I must decline to go with you to-day. Please do not urge me any more, I pray." Then you gaze on him and seem inclined to roar, But he sadly looks toward the open door. Soon bo slides in between Th ftonntAranil thn nrrftMi . , I And you see the new leaf scattered on the floor; He only turned it over nothing more. An art collector The fellow who presents you with a bill from the picture dealer., ., ? ' The opium smoker surely believes life is not worth the living. The next time the Indians ask for bread Uncle Sam will not give them guns. Bad management is responsible for most of the bad lnck in the world. A PRETTY woman faces the world with confl dence'untll the wrinkles remind her that her stock in trade is disappearing. The calendar makers seem to bave gone ont of business this time. The patent medicine almanac is still with us, however. When some people stand between the horns of a dilemma they take a horn of whisky, and then they don't care which they erasp. The New Year didn't need a sealskin at all events. A New Year Caller. The man who wears a pleasant smdn Now stands on your doorslll. And flnzcrs his neat pocket file To find your New Year bill. California has chosen tho golden poppy for a State flower. The heathen Chinee intro duced the seed. Is Buffalo Bill under the ammunition wagon? The world is full of strange tongues, bnt hearts are just the same in every dime. It takes all kinds of cookery to satisfy the public taste, and the dishes to choose from are varied enough to tickle all palates. Bad temper reduces us to poverty, for on account of it we are compelled to beg pardon. The good Indians are undoubtedly the dead ones now. Cultivate self-reliance and you will pick yourself up when you slip. The girl who is under the wing of a chaper one cannot be induced to believe that two is company. If the Indian war keeps ud some of the epauletted pets at Washington will havo a chance to see what they are made of. Would Harrison veto a Cape May postofflce bill? The grlpman's lever don't move the world, but It moves a large percentage of those on top of it When a man says he feels like a top he's prepared for a spin. What did yon do after vou resolved to do better? The old year went out on wheels, and the new almost came in on the crest of a big wave in the Ohio. Her Life Is Saved. The cold flag's flying, Annie dearj The rain is oil the track; Now stop your crying, Annie, dear. Get out your sealskin sacque. A small boy writes fn an English journal that the House of Commons Is composed of Conservatives and Liberals, and they try and hinder one another as much as they can. The child has sized up modern statesmanship the world over in that sentence. , The Indians imagine that a ghost shirt is bulletproof. Illusion does not make a very good coat of mail. This sort of weather is enough to try the patience of a saint and overthrow the constitu tion ot a pit mule. If you want to be in style possess or wear somethlns heart-shaped. A new purse is heart shaped. Hearts and purses go together nowa days. ' It is intimated that it a snake charmer was added to the staff of some of the hospitals the labors of the nurses would be lightened. Willie Winkle. newyeae's'at THE EAST END, A Fashionable Gathering for the First Cotillon at the Linden Club, The pretty Linden clubhouse at' Point Breeze, the scene of so many pleasant social gatherings recently, was radiant with, bright lights and cheerful decorationslast evening in honor of the first of the East End cotillons. The assemblage was composed largely of those who In previous years held their dances at the Sterrett school house, bnt the elegant and commodious quarters at the pretty Lin den Club were avallod ot for a more brllliaflt, fashionable, and numerous gather ing than formerly. The subscribers composed several hundred of the most prominent repre sentatives of fashionable social circles of the East End and Sbadyslde,with many Allegheny friends. Dancing was, oi course, the attrac tion of the evening. In tho intermissions the ample corridors and various charming rooms of the club afforded delightful opportunltiei for promenading and conversation, of which the young folk, particularly. 'enjoyed themselves to the Utmost. Refreshments were served in the billiard room. The patronesses for this and the cotillons to be given later on were Mrs. Henry M. Bailey, Mrs. George Singer, Jr.. Mrs. G. W. Dilworth, Mrs. J. Ernest Schwartz, Mrs. Carter C. Beges,Mrs. Edward M. Quimby, Mrs. George A Macbeth. Mrs. William N. Frew, Mrs. Christian L McKee, Mrs. James M. Schnonmakcr. Mrs- WiUUra Ross Proctor, Mrs. Charles P. Orr. All enjoyed the occasion to the utmost It was the gayest reception that any New Year has yet had from a social assemblage at the East End. being not only .brilliant in itself but ensuring the success of !ho two remaining co tillons of the series for this year, and lnangn rating social festivities in that part of the city on a more elaborate scale than was possible be fore. The committee of arrangements may congratulate itself upon its success. TOUNO LADY ATTENDANTS To. Be Features of tho Approaching Bal-lentlne-Ford "Wedding. One of the prettiest conceits that of having young ladles as maids of ceremony instead of having masters of ceremony will be intro duced at the Ballentinc-Ford wedding, next Tuesday. It is to be a homo wedding, and an unusually pretty one, for the eleeaut drawing room of the Ford residence, on North avenue, is specially adapted, by its spaciousness and elegance and arrangement,- to make it such, and the appointments, floral and otherwise, are to ba perfect, to say nothing ot the sweet Gowning of the bride and her attendants. The yonngladles who are to be maids of cere mony and guard the entrance to the drawing room, holding back the rich crimson damask hangings, that the bridal party may pass through, are Misses Graham and RIddle.wbose respective homes are on either side of the bride's. They will be dressed in soft silk. Miss Graham in dolic&te pink and Miss Riddle iu white, and will carry rose bouquets to corre spond. The maid of honor will be Miss Nellie I" ord, the bride's sister, who will be clad In rose color and enter with the best man, Mr. Jenkins. The bride win wear a regal toilet of white, and with the groom will follow the maid of honor and best man. Six o'clock is the time desig nated for the ceremony. PBEPABING FOE THE PLAT. MU Washlpgton Young People Soon to Tackle tho Tragedy Ingomar. The young folks of Mt Washington are ac tively engaged in rehearsing "Ingomar," which they intend presenting In the Library Hall on the evenings of the 15th and 16th of this month. The affair will be the most elaborate of any en tertainment ever given in that pretty hall, as the arrangements are being perfected to the smallest detail, and the stage, scenery and cos tumes will be professionally correct The quaint naive character of Parthenta will be impersonated by Miss Edith Sraitbson, a tal ented elocutionist and former punil of Prof, gyron W. King, who won so many admirers by ner clever presentation of "A Kiss in the Dark" at the same hall early in the fall. Miss Smithsou will be supported Dy J. C. Kober as l"Bomar. The remainder of thecast will consist o1 the following prominent young people: C. R- Shopler, Samuel Williams, Dr. J. A Hageman, Joseph Kiefler. F. A Grundy, John Barrett Mrs. Myers, Miss Imogene W ill lamK, Samuel Harper, Frank Ryder and Ernest Marland. MIES PENDER MABBIED. She Unites Her Fortune "With P. J. Devlin, the Telegraph Operator. Miss Agnes Pender was married yesterday afternoon to F.J.Devlin.at StBndget's Church. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Father Graven before a large company of invited guests. Miss Pender was a belle of the "hill. She wore a white silk dress trimmed with tulle. Her sister Kate was the maid of honor. The groomls a well-known telegraph opera tor. He was formerly connected with the Baltimore and Ohio road, but Is now employed by tho Pennsylvania Company. Tho Sloan-nankin "Wedding. At 5 o'clock p. M. yesterday. In the First Presbyterian Church at Braddock, the wed ding was solemnized of Miss Clara L. Rankin and Dr. George A, Sloan. After the church service, guests took the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad train for Rankin, where a reception was held at the home of the bride's parents, from 6 to 10 o'clock. Tho reception also cele brated the thirtieth anniversary of the wedding of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Rankin. An Exclusive Suburban Wedding. A pretty but exclusive wedding at OsDurn station, at 5 o'clock last evening, united Miss Llde Ramsey and Will Arrott, son of J. W. Ar rott, of that place. The ceremony had as witnesses only members of the two families in terested in the union and ono or two of the bride's most intimate friends. A Family Reunion. The James h. McKee family held a reunion at the St Charles Hotel yesterday. About 80 members of the family were present, and they spent a very enjoyable afternoon after the dinner. Social Chatter. The annual treat' and entertainment of tho Filth U. P. Sabbath School was held last even ing, and the pastor. Rev. J. W. Harsha, was presented with an elegant gold watch and chain. One of the features of the programme was the recitation by Miss Ella Redpath. Miss Edith Rankin will give a chic party this evening at wnlch her guest, Miss Weeks, of Newark. N. J will be introduced to tho friends of the hostess. The, Moorhead W. C. T. U. celebrated its Fifth anniversary yesterday afternoon and last evening with a reunion, a supper and an entertainment. A charuino luncheon was given at 2 o'clock yesterday by Mrs. Charles Lane Fitz huzb, in honor of her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Henry Fitzhugh. THE Redpath Concert Company at Old City Hall to-night comprises a great many celebrities in the artistic line. Mrs. Charles E. Cornelius, of Sewick ley, received yesterday in honor of her nolce. Miss Mary C. Over. J. J. Shick, editor of the Clarion Jacksonian, was in the city yesterday, the guest of R. B. Ivory. The Alhambra Club will dance atthoMon ongabela House. Mrs. Morris Baller, of Locust street, re ceived jesterday. ANOTHEB SKY SWEEPER. 'Chicago Y. M. C. A. Preparing to Erect n 81,400,000 Building. Chicago, Jan. L The announcement is made that the Young Men's Christian Association of Chicago is to erect a magnificent building on the comer of La Salle and Madison streets, at a cost of 1,400,000. The building will have 11 stories, three of which will be devoted entirely to the work of the association. The late John Crerar made a bequest of 850, 000 as a nucleus of a fnnd to give Chicago a Y. M. C. A. building which would give the as sociation the necessary accommodations to ex tend its work. Two other Chicago men havo subscribed $25,000 each, and other amounts are being rapidly added. The association neods $100,000 to secure the fund. TEEBE IS HOPE FOB KANSAS. The Opening of the New Year Finds Crop Prospects Flattering. HUTCHISON, Jan. L Advices from 20 counties in Southwestern Kansas show that there has been heavy rains this afternoon and evening. Reports concerning the wheat pros pects are of the most flattering character. The area is the largest m -the history ot these counties, and the condition on the first day of January is the best known. Up to this time the weather is mild and Eleasant, and there has been no suffering, outhwestern Kansas stands upon the thres hold of the new year full of hope. THE TOPjCAL TALKER. Politics Not Tarpon Now. It is not probable that Pittsburg will see the licht of Senator Quay's conntenance again till spring time. He left Pittsburg after breakfast yesterday with bis son. Assemblyman Dick Quay, who loft tho train atHarri3burg. The Pennsylvania limited took the Benator'on to tVasblngton, where his family will shortly join him. The Quays "have a comfortable corner bouse on I'streot, which they will occupy till the close of tho session. Whenever that glad day comes Senator Quay will once more be tako him to tbo haunts of large game on the Florida coast ana how long be will remain there depends at present upon the effect of a winter's hard work which ho looks forward to in Washington. But in any event it is not now the Senator's expectation to return to Beaver till the coming summer. He looked thinner yesterday than he has for some years, but this he attributes to the fishing trip in Florida and the exertion and exposure incidental to running down the elusive though mighty tarpon. His general health is good, and he talks as if bis spirits were qnito up to holiday standard. Photographers PntOut A class of people who do not lovo old-fashioned winters, when they Involve dark, stormy skies, snow and fog, as Pittsburg's sample has, are the photographers. One of them said to me yesterday: "The weather has played the dickens with my business; keeping people from my rooms, and making the development of photo graphs almost an impossibility. In clear, frosty weather, the winter holiday season is very profitable to the photographer, but the succes sive snowstorms of the last week or two have put personal looks out of the' people's heads, and made them think more of dry feet than their faces. On several days it has been too dark to make a good photograph or to finish it." London's Fire Perils. On Wednesday, when the bulletins of the aft ernoon papers contained the alarming, though rather vague, news of the big fire In london, a man asked ma if I thought the entire city was likely to be consumed. It did not seem very probable to me that the Immense collection of cities, towns and villages, covering perhaps ISO square miles, that is called London, could meet the fate of Chicago. The fact that the Thames river divides London roughly into two parts makes such a fiery doom for the whole metrop olis well nigh impossible. Bnt there are other reasons, of course, in plenty. The absence ot frame houses, and of flimsy structures of brick that are little better than wood in the face of a conflagration, is a great obstacle to the spread of fire in London. When the London of Charles IL's time wasburned, in 10CC, frame houses predominated, and the single bridge that spanned the Tbam es, London Bridge, with its street ot wooden houses, was a train to carry the fire to the south side 6f the river, although id those days outhwark was but little more than a village. It was singular how the Car penters' Company kept control of the building trade until the Great Fire set people to think ing abont the inflammability of wood. Even as late as 1630, but ten years before the Great Fire, we find the Carpenters' Company which may be Compared in its genial influence and control of the trade to one of our trade unions memorializing Parliament to prohibit the use of stone and brick for buildings because, as they humorously put It 'the tymber buildings are more commodious for this city than brick." But after the fire Parliament made short work of frame buildings, and the act which was passed then forbidding the use of wood except for floors, windows, doors and shop fronts, has been practically In existence ever since. The result has been that in spite of narrpw streets and a notoriously insufficient fire service Lon don has escaped widespread fires; although the fire losses have been far heavier than ought to be in a city of London's wealth and civilization. A feature of the. Are in Victoria street the other day, which the American correspondent noted derisively, was the number of hand en- Ines which still encumber the London fire rigade. I see by a report of the London Fire Department, publiseed in 1887, that it owned then 43 steam Are engines and 78 six-inch man ual Are engines and 37 hand engines under six inch. There have been some improvements made in the department since Captain Shaw, its chief, visited America in 1887. but the hand engines are still in the majority no doubt Pittsburg has about twenty-two steam fire en gines, or halt as many as London, with, I sup pose, less than a tenth of the area to protect. It is singular that the London Are insurance companies and tbo merchants do not force the authorities to remodel the fire service on the American plan. The only particular to which the Londoners can point with pride Is the per sonel of the brigade. They are a very fine set of men physically; picked men invariably from the English navy it being thernle of the Lon don department to .recruit their force with sailors solely. Dr. Koch's Lymph for Pittsburg. It is probably just as fortunate as not that Pittsburg has not shared in New York's ex perience with the earliest importations ot Dr. Koch's lymph. Grave doubts of the genuine ness of the lymph with which some of the New York doctors havo been experimenting are en tertained in medical circles here. At all events, not enough is known of the origin nf the lymph being used in the East as Dr. Koch's to make it entirely desirable. It may be, as it is claimed, the lymph made in Dr. Koch's labora tory, but at least it is not certain. Confirma tion of .the doubt comes in a letter from Berlin, which reached Pittsburg this week, stating that Dr. Koch has not yet authorized the exportation of any lymph. It is a fact also that Pittsburg is assured of a supply of the wonderful fluid at the earliest possible date consistent with safety. In this the assistance of Mr. Andrew Carnegie has been invoked with success, and when the lymph reaches Pittsburg it will have come direct from Dr. Koch through Minister Phelps and the State Department It is probable that the lymph will bo given a fairer and safer trial in this city than any where else in the country, at latest in a few weeks' time. AN EDITOR'S MABBIAGE. Pittsburg Persons Attend a Brilliant Wed ding at Masslllon. 1SFECTAI. TXLZGBJUI TO THB DISrATCIH Massillon, Jan. L Edward S. Wright, ed itor ot tho Akron Jtepublican, was married last evening to Miss Evelyn McCue. the oldest daughter of B. M. McCue, one of the best known coal men of the Tuscarawas Valley. Their beantiful residence was handsomely dec orated in honor nf the event Rev. Edward L. Kemp, rector of St". Timo thy's Cburcb, performed the ceremony. The brldemaidwas Miss Blanche McCue and the groom's best man was T. H. Goft, of Clereland. Immediately after the reception the pair led in the dance, which was followed by an elegant supper, after which Mr. and Mrs. Wright left for the South under a shower nf rice and con gratulations. Over 200 guests were present including many from Pittsburg, Akron, Canton and Cleveland. , TVBATHS OF A DAT. I K. Lodge, Division Superintendent. ritritriAi. tklbokam to the diktato!!. ALTOONA, Jan. 1. L. K. Lodge, Superintend ent of the Altoona division of the Pennsylvania Railroad, died of pneumonia at bis residence yes terday morning after a brief illness. .Mr.-Lodge was a native of Marlon. Montgomery county, and was about lOyearl of age. lie had spent the whole of tho active portion of his life In the service of the company, having been on the engineer corps that snrveyed the Southwest Pennsylvania divi sion In 1870. In 1872 be was made assistant engi neer of the Tyrone division, and was tne first ns slstant engineer in charge of the maintenance of way departments. In 1873 he was transferred to the New York division, filling a similar position, and was then made superintendent of a division or the .Northern Centr.il Railroad, and In 1832 he was transrerred to Media as superintendent of the Central division of the Philadelphia. Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad Since July 1 he has served as superintendent of the Altoona dlrlslon. and was one of the best known and most popnlar officers on the Pennsylvania Railroad. lie was married In 1883 to Miss Annie, flangbter or Dr. Wilson, of I ewlsburg, who. with one son, sur vives him. The interment will take place at Lew lsburg Friday. Theophilus B. Peterson, Publisher. I'HiLABKLPHiA, Jan. l. Theophilus u. Peter son, senior member of the publishing firm of T. B. Peterson & Co., died yesterday In bis G7th year, lie was first employed In a drygoods store, and. was later connected with the Saturday Evening Post and Spirit of the Times. He began In 185 In a small store with a capital of less than 110, and In the following year Issned bis first regular publica tion, "me Divorced," byLady Charlotte JUurv. at 25 cents, when the London edition cost over S7, and from that time to the present has continued pnbllhlngand stereotyping most of the popnlar American English boons. Justin A. Fettigrew. Siocx Falls, s. !., Jan. l.-Justin a. Pettl grew, a brother of United Btates Senator Petti- grew, died here last night. Benator fettigrew It I much incensed at the Christian Scientists who at- I tended the tick man. ' KOCH'S L7XFH, Results In New York Moderately Favor able and Time TFHI Tell the Best NeV YobXi Jan. L The operation of. Koch's lymph' on the patients in the New York hos-. pltals Is still being carefully noted. Conserva tive doctors ot eminence in their profession ad mit some good results, but say more time Is necessary to determine the exact value of the remedy. GaillarcCs Medical Monthly, abigh conserva tive authority, published to-day. sums up the matter as follows: First-Only cases In which tubercle bacilli are found In the spnta should be subjected to Inocu lation for therapeutic purposes. Second Injections are not repeated until all re action baa ceased, and none are repeated (for therapentlc purposes) In which no reaction Is ob tained or ceases to obtain after trials with In creased doses. Third The varied character and the severity of me reactions warrant great care in the adminis tration of the lymph, Fourth The Increase In the quantity given mmt depend on the reaction produced by one milligramme. Fifth-Only In cases of Input have there been sufficient dAtaon-wblph to base an opinion at to Its curative effect and even here it Is still to be settled by time whether the results are perma nent. Slxth-The best results in phthisis pulmonalls have been obtained la the first and second stages. Data or the rcsnltt In more advanced ttages do not give promise of brilliant results. Seventh The greatest value or the lymph at present It as a diagnostic factor in tuberculosis or any sort and as a ruratlve agent in lupus, al though Itosenbaeh claims to have gotten a reac tion In laryngeal phthisis only once In a large number of caset of all tvpes. speculations as to the exact nature or the lymph are numerous bnt worthless. We must patiently await the an nouncement bv Koch himself, and It Is nut. we hope, to be long kept a 6ecret matter. It will be some time before the lynioh will be used any where except In hospitals, and It Is. perhaps. Just as well that such Is the case as Ion; as the matter Is In the experimental stage. " We await with great Interest the time element In determining the place or tne lymph In our therapeutic acquisitions. The large body of the profession can well afford to have this factor added to the composition of the lymph, to say nothing or the facts that will br It alone be added to our positive knowledge or IU value, aiagnostlo and therapeutic, and or its effects. CTrBBENCi" OF CHECKS. They Are Used MnchMore In Commercial Transactions Than Money. f hicago Globe. Attention is being drawn to tho currency of checks. The operations of the New York and Chicago banks show that out ot every $100 dis pensed only go ont in money, while $98 go out In checks. Hence, if the same ratio pre vails to even half the extent elsewhere, the currency of checks is more than SO fold greater than the currency of bank bills, gold, silver or silver certificates. Here is an important factor in the financial question and one which must command the consideration of financiers in estimating the bulk of the moneyed circulation. It is evident that checks are currency, and that they displace the volume of cash to the amount of their cir culation. The deposits on which they are based are not hoarded iu the banks, but are thrown ont in loans into the general enrrent of the circulating medium. The relations of checks to commerce arc, therefore, as im portant as the values in cold, silver and bank notes, and the effect Is to make the volume of bona fide currency much greater than the figures given In national financial reports. e A WILLIAJI8P0BT WEDBJSQ. The Groom Is a TVell-Known Railroad Man at TVilmerding. rSPXCIAL TILZOKAM TO THS DISrATCB.l Williamsfobt, Jan. L Rev. J. D. Cook, pastor of the Presbyterian Church, of Renova, Pa., assisted by Rev. Adalos Allen, of the Third Presbyterian Church, this city, at 7 r. M., united in marriage at the residence of the bride's parents. John L Rankin, agent of the Pennsylvania Railroad at Wilmerding, and Miss Ada West rail, of Willlamsport. The bride ! the daughter of E. B. Westfall, Super intendent of the Eastern division of the Phila delphia and Erie Railroad and the Susque hanna division of the Northern Central Rail road. The bride wore benzaline silk, trimmed with brocade and chifl roue lace, made court train, and carried in her hand bride's roses with lilies of the valley. Joseph M. Durban, of Pittsburg, was best man, and the bride's attendants were the Misses Alice and Lillian Westfall, sisters of the bride. Tbo decorations were very fine. Misses Elslo and Annie Williams officiated as flower girls. Among the guests from Pittsburg were O. O. Reams, Sidney Seiman, Joseph 1L Dur ban and Mr. and Mrs. Warmcastle. A recep tion was given in the evening. ALIEN SEAMEN. An Interesting Decision From the Treas ury Department on This Point CniCAGO, Jan. I. The Collector ot Customs has received a decision from Secretary Win dom which is of considerable importance to seamen. H. P. 01sen,aptain of the schooner H. B. Moore, had a mate on the vessel. John Martin Olsen, who was not a citizen of the United States. When brought before the Collector, Captain Olsen discharged the mate, but immediately re employed the man as a sailor, and paying him no more than sailors wages. But when the captain was again broucbt before the Collector, the evidence sbowod the man had been-bavlne all the power and authority of a mate. The case was submlttea to Secretary Windom, who has decided the captain is subject to a penalty, SO cents per ton for each trip, which In this case would amount to $92. This was simply a test case, and Is important not only from the fact that it is claimed hundreds ot aliens are em ployed as officers on the boats, but many law yers have given it as their opinion that they had the right to so serve. Great Capacity for Biting. Washington Star. J One ot tbe marked peculiarities of people who die in battle is their unvarying effort to "bite the dust." The fact that the superficial area of South Dakota Is covered with deep snow avails nothing in the present Indian trou ble, the sensational head writer insisting that numerous "Sioux warriors bite tbo dust," al though tbe soil beneath the snow Is harder than was Pharaoh's heart A Chicago Suggestion. Chicago News. Two or three sqnare yards of cloture chucked into the tireless and indefatigable jaws of Sena tor Hoar might facilitate tbo work of Congress considerably. With a Dozen Independent Refineries. Warren Mirror. The producers of the Tiona field have no rea son to feel otherwise than jubilant at the pres ent time. They Are All in Blooming Health. Chicago Times. A, Mrs. BInroe, of Allegheny City, Pa has given birth to seven children within two years. There's a parterrejof fragile blossoms for you i Applicable All the Time. Cincinnati Times-Star.l There should be no stretching of party lines on ballot reform. THE YEAR'S "WHITE GATE. They stood ontslde of the grc.it white gate. That opens but once a year. The bounding heart, and the heart grown old; The silver head and the head of cold; The youth and the aged seer. 'My son, "said the old man's trembling voice, 'Step out of my path. I pray, The gate swings quickly, and I must past Ere.1t bo too late. My task, alas! Was begun but yesterday. "I was young when I entered the gate. And hope In my breast ran high. There was much to do. but time seemed long. My heart beat glad with Its Mew Year's song. And the swirt days hurried by. "I was young, nor heeded how quickly time On Its golden pinions flew, For earth was sweet with Its flowers In bloom I wept with May and I laughed with June, Nor thought of the 'much to do. "I languished under the tnmmer skies; In autumn my task begun. Too late to finish I loo late! Too late! For see, I have reached the year's white gate, And the work of my hands undone. "I have lived my youth. My knowledge gained At the summer day s we nt by Is or priceless worth to the sons of earth; I have many a plan for the goodjir man." "And so," said the youth. have I." "But one may enter the year's whltej"gite, My son, there is much to do! Knowledge is powerful to combat tin." The belli rang ont, the white gate swung In, Lnd the agile youth passed through. Son UartwicK Thorn. CUEIOUS CONDENSATIONS. -- Minneapolis Is to hare a macaroni mill. Gatchina, the Czar's home, contains 70Q rooms. ' Mrs. Eobert Goelet, of New Jork, has an income of $500 a day. A young man named Eice defeated his father lor tbe Legislature in tranu, This Is younc America coming to the front with a vengeance. . A. defendant in a New York conrt con fessed that he was tho "most notorious liar in tbe world. I' can't help it I would rather tell a lie than not" - A surgeon says he can take any human face and with four cuts of the knife and a few stitches so altar its original expression that a man's mother won't know him. The Canada preachers' stipends havo hitherto-been exempt from taxation if below $2,000 a year. Henceforth they will be subject hw ma as lue incomes ox otner citizens are. The "Wellesley College girls have been measured, and the average waist measure of the L10O students was found to be 212 inches. Physicians say that this is too small for health. The first two bicycles ever ridden in Georgia were straddled by Hon. John A Sibley, now of Cobb county, then an Augusta boy, and the other by ths editor of the Amer icas rinia Reports from Eastern Colorado tell of awfnl destitution and famine among settlers owing to lack of rain. Many are dying of starvation, and hundreds will follow if assist ance is not soon rendered. Ex-Mayor Thomas Navin. of Adrian, Mich., who seven years ago stole $3,000,000 from the city and made it bankrupt, has been par doned, and on his release from prison will com mence the. study of law in Detroit An association of colored residents of the State of Washington has been formed for the purpose of encouraging tho immigration of nezrnes into Washington and in general to im prove the condition of the colored people. Mrs. Geqrge Eedpath opened a stive door at Marengo, III., with an apron, which caught fire and burned her so badly that she died In a few hours. In attempting to put the fire out her husband burned the ends of his fingers off. The Douglas county (Oregon) nickel mines are attracting much attention. Develop ment of these mines is looked forward to with interest J. B. Riddle, of Riddles, Ore is at the head of the company owDintr the district which Is held at JI.oOO.OD'l. The great dam across American river, California, has .been finished. The work was done by the convict3 ot Folsom prison, and great benefits will accrue to Sacramento through the completion of the work and the canal, which will be completed at a later date. The commonest kind of ink bottles are transformed Into harlequin perfume casks. After tho Ink has been withdrawn from their depths the bottles are cleaned and palated in stripes running from tbe neck of the bottle to the lower edge. The stripes are silver, gilt bronze, scarlet and blue. Austria has not only a High School of Agriculture, but 15 intermediate and 83 prim ary agricultural schools, besides nine chairs ot agriculture in polytechnic establishments and agricultural experiment stations. There are also 163 courses of agricultural lectures, at--tended by about 10,008 persons a year. Jesse Klugb, of Maytown, Lancaster county. Pa., has resurrected an old contract which shows that In 1315 his father agreed to teach school In East Donegal township for S3) a month, and furnished fuel besides. At present the teachers in the same district get Sol a month and tho board furnishes the fuel. There were three fatal cases of yellow fever recently in Brunswick, N. C, which is a short distance from Hammond. The victims were Miss Kelly Thomas, Willie Stanley and Brooks. It is supposed they Imbibed the Infec tion from a lot of second-hand clothing; There were two other cases, but they did not prove fatal. It has been determined that under no conditions can the deaf learn to speak by asso ciation and without effort as normal children do, but that In every case speech Is an acquis!- ' tinn only possible with great and sustained effort on the part of the pnpil. assisted by the skill, patience and perseverance of competent teachers. Only last month, boys who were search ing over the old battlefield at Gettysburg for relics, discovered two musket-balls with their points so thoroughlytelescoped that thev could pot be separated. There is bur one explana tion of the Ireak. Tbey had met in midair, and were welded by the friction caused by the concussion. Dr. Torembovies has found in th; na tional library at Cracow a number of manu scripts of Spanish songs, romances, comedies and novels, hitherto unknown and dating from the sixteenth century. Among the most re markable of the mannscripis i a poem npon The Child-King Broadbil EI ReyChico.who lost Grenada." Rabbi Solomon Sehindler told a Boston audience the other night that Jews were a sober people because they were never prohi bited from drinking. Men sometimes make sun by pronibiting certain things. There would be less sins in tbe world and fewer sin ners if there were fewer rules, ordinances and laws to be transgressed. No sooner is a thing prohibited than a cravlnc for it arises In tbe human mind. Rabbi Sehindler contended that the more the liquor qncstion was agitated the more drinkers there would be. Walter F. boyle Is probably the youngest author in Georgia, or, perhaps the United States; He is only 12 years old. Sev eral ofhl3 stories have been printed in the Detroit Free Press. He is now fixing up a story for boys, under the supervision of his uncle, L.T.Blome, and will send it to some of tho children's magazines. Walter is entirely independent in regard to his productions, and refuses to let anyone see them until be bas finished, when bis uncle looks over them and makes suggestions, which the young author gravely considers. La Belle King, one of the opium smugglers who escaped from the United States Secret Service officers while being conveyed from bis home, Port Huron, Mich., to Detroit two years ago, by jumping thronsh a car win dow, was capturedTuesdav at Olympia. Wash.. where be was driving a laundry wagon under the name of Boulanger. He Is said to be at the head of the largest smuggling rings in tbe United States and 13 worth a great deal of money. His capture was made bv Special In spector Coblentz, who bas been following him for some time. Fashion is sometimes a friendly dame. The Countess Taafe. a rich and powerful social leader In Vienna, has set the mode of wearing many carved mother-of-pearl hairpins and other ornaments to profit the needy fishermen. Arehduehess Valeira, dauchter of the Em peror, has made silver ornaments and furnish ings fashionable for the sake of tbe silver workers. To benefit the half-starved weavers, the Princess of Wales has revived the anti quated mannf acture of Irish poplins, of which she wears many, and with ber sister-in-law has forced into vogue for the street the heavy woolen cloths, tbe making ot which means bread to so many hungry men and women. IN HUMOROUS VEIN. Jones How high Foozles carries his head of late. Urown Yes. It moved up with the rest or the tinware when tne McKlnley bill became law. Washington Star. Uncle Jerry. Bask has had his haircut This takes blm out or the Presldental nee. "o granger who goes to Washington and becomes a dude can get tha. .Farmers' Alliance nomination In '92. Boston Qlobt, ""Why were not Shadrach, Meshack and Abednego harmed when they were cast into the fiery furnace?" asked the teacher. And a thort-balrei boy with a bad eye t poke up and tald it was because they stood in with each other. Chicayo Tribune. Keedlck Photographers ought to be Tcry fond of flowers. Hhittnck I don't see why. Keedlck-Because they are to familiar with poses. Chicago Inter-Ocean. Mr. Fies Has it occurred to you that young Tlmmlns seems to be coming hero pretty 11 laura AVhy-I never thought of It In that light' It seemed to me tbat he went away rather often.' Indianapolis Journal. "Young Scadds has married a poor'glrl whose face wat her only dowry." "It rnns in the family. Ills titter Is married to a foreign Count who brought her nothing but his cheek. "-Puck. "They tell me that Miss Sizzle calls you an upstart" said a young man to Gut de Jay. 'Yes;butlcawn'tblameher, don't you know. I hid sat down on a pin Just at the time, don't joa know." Washington Post. CboJIy Cholmondeley I" visited an' old annt to-day. Whom I had not teen tlnce I wis a baby; and tbe wemarked tbatlwas much changed. Do you notice It Hawold? Hawotd Hawwtnztua Sol How ttwasg! Jrwtltrs' Circular, : ,. ,
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