PF -1wf5Wr?J T T" T 23W-. JV '4 C THE PITTSBURG- DISPATCH,' WEDNESDAY, -JANUARY 28, 1891- J p 9 r i." s. u r i &t IBgpaftlj. ESTABLISHED FEBRUARY 8, 1S46. Vol.43, ho. SIS -Eutercdatl'ltUbnrgrostoffiee, November H. US, as second-class matter. Business Office Corner Smithfleld and Diamond Streets. News Rooms and Publishing House 75, 77 and 79 Diamond Street EASTEKN ADVEiniSINO OFFICE. BOOH 21, TKIBUM5 BUILDIMJ, NEW YORK, where complete files of THE DIbPATCHcan alwsjsbe found. Foreign advertiser appreciate the con venience. Home advertisers and friends of THE lil'sPATCH. lille In ew York, are also made vclcome. TJ1E DISPATCH is regularly on tale at Ercntvno's. S Union Square. A'ew York, aid 17 -rfi-e. de f Opera, J'ans, Jance, uliere anyone uho has been disappointed at a hotel news stand can obtain tt ' TERMS OF TIIE DISrATCH. rOSTAGE FREE He TnE CMTE9 STATES. JUn.T UlsrATCH. One Year t CO Daily Dispatch, I'er Quarter 2 00 Daily Dispatch, One .Month 70 Daily Dispatch, Including bundav, lyear. 10 00 Daily Dispatch, lncludlncSunday,3m'ths 2 50 Daily Dispatch. Including fcundiy, lm'th 90 -cday Dispatch, One ear 250 1lekly Dispatch. One ear 125 The DAtLY DISPATCH Is delivered by carriers at Icentrcr vicck, or including bunday edition, at X cents per week. PITTSBURG. WEDNESDAY. JAN. 23, 1891. LIFE SACRIFICED TO NEGLECT. Words lail to depict the horror of the catanronhe at the Mammoth mine. Over one hundred workmen, in the vigor of man hood, slain in an instantl Nearly a hun dred destitute families deprived of their bread-winning heads, by an insiduous de stroyer, in a moment ol time! Such is the situation as it presents itself. It is an awful calamity. Not mereiv to the persons imme diately concerned, but to the whole commu nity, in fact to the State. That this horrible thine has happened at a mine noted for its freedom from the dan gerous fire damp does not palliate the evil done. Prom the information at hand it would appear that a worked-out chamber must have been broken into and an accumu lation of the explosive pas allowed to rush into the working where the miners were. On areount of the extraordinary freedom of these workings from gas, the miners were using the common instead of the safety lamps. The result was an instant explosion and untimely, awful death. It may be useless to point the lesson of this frightful accident The responsibility will be fixed by the proper authorities; the disaster will go into history and will be partly forgotten. Vet there is a lesson in it il it would only be taken to heart It is the old lesson taught by nearly every mine ex plosion in the bituminous region. Namely, that the safety lamp, prescribed by law, should always be used and that more care snould betaken in mapping' and conduct ing the workings. The coke region is honeycombed. Tears of industry have tunneled the hills through and through. In the chambers of abandoned workings the deadly fire damp has accumulated in great quantity. Hence the utmost care and accuracy are necessary in the engineering plans. The Dunbar horror was due to failure in this regard, and from the informa tion now at hand this new and greater ca lamity may be explained in the same way. That the miners were permitted to carry naked lamps can only be considered in the light o" culpable negligence. There may be demands lor more laws, bnt until those al ready on the statute books are enforced new ones are of doubtful utility. WELCOME TO THE VISITORS. Pittsburg welcomes the visiting news paper men heartily, and hopes they will en joy the visit Yesterday they were shown the mysteries of an oil field where "gushers" abound. To-day they will see glass and steel made in the great center for these industries. This region has many things to show to these gentlemen which is of interest to them, who are, by the necessities of their profession, compelled to be in touch with the throbbing of the in dustrial pulses of the country. The press workers here want these visiting Journalists to feel their visit has not been in vain aside from the important T7ork of forming an in ternational club. And with the richest of resources to exhibit, believe this will be so. AS TO THE SPOILS. The explanation of the failure of Senator Pierce, of North Dakota, to secure re-election that itwas on account of dissatisfaction with his distribution of offices, is referred to by the New York Press as new proof " that patronage is a curse rather than a blessing to those who are expected to distribute it" This has been often proved in bath State and National politics. Blaine was defeated with National patronage behind him, and Cleveland elected without any patronage. When Cleveland controlled the offices he was defeated and Harrison was elected with out the aid of any offices. The only time the republicans have secured a majority in both branches of Congress, since 1SS0, was -when the Democratic administration held the National patronage in 1888 ; and, after the Republican administration had dis tributed the spoils, the most crushing de fea that the Republicans ever sustained was experienced last year. These examples might be multiplied indefinitely. But that is not necessary. It is clearly demonstrated by experience that the spoils weaken any political party, and that the contrary belief is urged not for the benefit of the parties but tor the sustenance of the professional politicians. Bat since the Press recognizes the damna tory effect of the spoils system, has it not a word to say concerning the leaders of its own party who, while professing opposition to it in their platforms, adhere to its practice with scarcely any attempt at concealment in the exercise of their official powers? RELIEF TROM THE COURT. In deciding the appeal from Judge Slagle's decision on the legal status of Al legheny City's government, the Supreme Court not only allays the difficulties pre sented to the Nortbside city, but also kindly relieves the apprehensions created by the argument of certain learned counsel that the entire legislation providing char ters for cities of the second class is uncon stitutional. For this prompt relief from complications threatened, that lofty tri bunal ill receive the public gratitude and all preceding events may now be forcotten. The decision as to Allegheny City clearly defines the course to be taken by that mu nicipality. Its advance to the second class docs not necessarily revolutionize its city government Tt makes no vacancies to be filled except by the creation of new offices, and vacates none except where offices are abolished. The old city government re mains in force until the city adjusts itself to the new form. Officers common w Hit, ,i-aSV 2jWJk2ssM&$fiSL3&AMaiSiHHklBSSSSSSSBVhwr taSEsSMBBsT SSBfiB to both charters, whose terms have not ex pired, will fill out their terms; and conse quently the only elections now required are for those offices which expire this spring, and the new dues created under second-class legislation. Without questioning the legal aspect of this decision, it is noticeable that its practical effect is to put the election of heads of departments in the present Councils without letting the voters exert any influence over the choice. While this decision raises the municipal politicians of Allegheny out ot their slough of difficulties, it also throws a ray of light into the Pittsburg municipal situation by promptly clearing away the doubt whether we have any charter at all. Judge Paxson does not deem it necessary to answer the legal arguments on this point in extenso. It is practically conclusive for him- to say: "We are of opinion that the title sufficiently indicates the object of the act and that its provisions are germane to such object" That settles it The Allegheny people can proceed to divide up their second-class offices, and the Pittsburgers can go to work on street legislation with the hope of pro viding a method of making assessments thit will suit the fastidious taste of our Supreme Court. THE SOUTHERN MISTAKE. The Dispatch has expressed itself plainly on the false policy of the elections bill and the folly of those Bepublican leaders who display their' determination to let all necessary business stand undone rather than that their precious means of securing party supremacy by act of Congress should go untried. As that effort has spent itself, lor the present at least, there is no necessity of enlarging on that phase of the subject But there is pertinence in pointing out that the Southern States which are making their participation in the World's Fair at Chicago conditional on the abandon ment of the force bill show an equal stupid ity and a similar sectionalism. There was an attempt to justify this action in the Southern legislatures by the argu ment that the passage of the elections bill would so injure the South that it would be a useless waste of money to make an exhibit which will induce immigration. This rests on a false assumption. Noth ing ean injnre the South industrially except the disorders and lawlessness of its own people. Such legislation might injure the South politically in common with the rest of the country; but if the Southern people can learn to meet a political wrong on the highest plane it cannot effect her industrial progress. Even if it could, the best way to meet it and minimize the injury would be to make such an exhibit of the re sources and arts of peace as to convince the nation through the medium of the Chicago Exposition of the progress of the Sonth, and thus furnish the best answer to its de tractors. . There is no doubt of the real meaning of such action as that taken by the Tennessee and Alabama Legislatures. The element represented there proposes to hold one lo cality especially responsible fo'r an act of national legislation, and the whole nation responsible for the act of a political party. Chicago is the one city most vitally inter ested in the Exposition of 1893. But for an act in which Chicago has very little respon sibility, this Southern element proposes to do what is in its power to render the enter prise a failure. Then, too, viewing the Ex position as a national enterprise, the whole nation is held responsible for what is done by a few political leade. ". The nation is, of course, politically responsible; but it is an evidence of very rampantDrejudice to extend that responsibility to business enterprises in which politics areoutof place. Yet that is what thisjsletaent of Southern opiuion proposes to do by preventingr a national enterprise from having its full national character. Since that course would deprive the South ern States adopting it of the undoubted ad vantages to be derived by making a good exhibit at the Pair, it would amount to a peculiarly flagrant case of biting off the nose to spite the face. Another very grave aspect of this line of action is its proof that among the class adopting it the national spirit is still quite weak. The declaration is practically made that a single piece of legislation offensive to Southern susceptibilities is sufficient ground for throwing overboard national pride and national credit The credit of the whole country is involved in making this Exposi tion a success. Yet the Southern attitude proposed in these Legislatures is that if the South is offended by an act of legislation on a subject entirely distinct from the Fair it does not care to do its share to sustain the reputation of our common country before the world. The Dispatch has repeatedly blamed tbe Bepublican partisans for neg lecting the interests of the whole coun try in order to push their pet meas ure; but this action displays the same partisan spirit in another form. It is a more or less distinct avowal that the Southerners supporting still place their own section above tbe nation, and have not enough love and pride in the nation as a whole to rise above the spite of sectional politics. It is pleasant to note there is a consider able element South entirely free from that mistaken sentiment The Charleston News and Courier very distinctly points out the error ot the policy proposed, and makes the clear-sighted prediction that if the South should meet tbe elections bill and similar legislation by showing its readiness to join in national enterprise, and its promptness in adopting all opportunities to secure progress in its industries, the surest means will be taken to secure a speedy correction of the partisan legislation. It is to be hoped the South will generally appreciate tbe wisdom of this advice. CLIMATIC CHANGES AND WIRES. From all over tbe country comes a wail against the overhead wires. They have not a single defender. One feature of the matter comes uppermost, namely, that the vicissi tudes of a changing climate are rendering the wires in the air more expensive and less reliable than when such wires were first strung. Whether these climatic conditions will continue or not is an open question. And reference to them brings up again the theory that our climate is influenced in some degree by the extensive system of wires and steel rails. Possibly if the wires were put underground, where they should be, the vagaries of the weather might be modified in some degree. It might be necessary, however, to put the railroads underground, too, to get back the "old fashioned winter." HOW THE PRINCIPLE MIGHT WORE. It is likely that the action of the adminis tration in first censuring Commander Belter and then refusing him a formal hearing is due to thejeeling of the Cabinet that it must have, an ample supply of scape-goats for the Barrundia affair, and that Mr. Mizner by himself will not fill the bill. Yet it is to be questioned whether in its ardent but some what belated desire to pose as the champion of the inviolability of the American flag it hat not committed itself to a vague and in- definite principle of international law whicbJ is liable to prove very troublesome. An illustration of this can be seen from a recent event in New York harbor. Some sailors from a German steamer concluded a spree by first doing what Amounted to an insult of the American flag, then making a murderous assault on some people who in terfered with them, and finally taking refuge on board the steamer. The Jersey City police, who pursued them there, are com plained of for having unnecessarily attacked the officers of the steamer; but according to the theory of the administration the police not only had no business to pursue these riotous offenders on the German steamer; but if there had been a vessel of the German navy in port it would have been the prov ince of its commander to take the offenders under his protection even If the German Minister had decided that they were not en titled to sanctuary. It may be convenient for the administra tion to have set up a theory in dealing with a weak power, that gives it a loophole through which to back out in an issue aris ing with a strong one. But it may be doubted whether it will give it much pres tige to have established a theory that crews of foreign vessels can insnlt our flag and defy our authorities in American ports, with impunity. But suppose the position changed. If some one should commit a wanton disorder in a German port, amount ing to a practical defiance of the German Government and should then take refuge on an American merchant vessel, the United States Government would be apt to discover that tbe rule still holds good, as recognized by our State department from the time of Bayard back to that of Marcy, that the merchant vessels of any power are subject to the police regulations of the power owning the port in which it may happen to be. Ofcourse.it is well known that diplomacy largely consists in enforcing principles against weak governments that would never be insisted upon against strong ones. But it is worth while to ask if the United States is not in a position to conduct its inter national dealings on a higher and more con sistent plan than that? CAMERON'S CHANGE OF HEART. The mourning in the Honse of Senator Cameron's friends is freely enlivened by ob jurgation over his course on the Federal elections bill. His vote will not in itself be censured by those who believe the bill was of no advantage either to the country or to the party; and it is safe to say that many of those who are hauling the Senator over the coals for his dereliction have never read the provisions of the measure. But the point they make against Cameron, that he secured his election to the Senate upon a distinct understanding that he would vote for the bill, is justly taken. He might, and we rather think would, have been elected any how, as the majority of the Bepublican leg islators were mare or less identified with his friends and lieutenants. But his immediate friends took no such risk?. He permitted them without contradiction to pledge his support to the force law. This leaves Cam eron in an attitude which to anyone else less stolid would be decidedly awkward. It is singular in regard to Cameron that the two characteristics for which he was sup posed to be noted, viz., extreme partisanship and superiority to pecuniary benefit in con nection with his official functions, are the ones whose absence he has latterly been en gaged in most conspicuously demonstrating. The practice of changing legislation by departmental construction is carried to exceed ingly questionable lengths In the recent decision of the Treasury department that sago flour is dutiable. The McKinley law spectflcaljy places sago flour on the free list; but the Treas ury holds-that it most pay two cents a pound duty because it is starch. The decision is all the more remarkable because tbe starch com bination tried to make tbe tariff law exclude sago flour flt for use as starch from tbe free list; but tbe tfnal form of the bill struck out that amendment thus showing the express intent of Coctrress tbat all forms of sago flour shall be admitted free of duty. Under those circum stances it is difficult to see how the Treasury decision can assume any character bnt an ex ecutive attempt to overrule an enactment of Congress in tbe interest of a combination de clared illegal by the United States statutes. It seems that the new Bepublican Senator from North Dakota is pledged to oppose both the McKinley tariff and the elections bill legis lation. That pledge tnakesSenator-elect Hans borough a voting Democrat and affords a new illustration of the activity with which party blunders are turning Bepublican States into Democratic ones. Speaking of the collapse of the so-called "Bellamy Kitchen" in Evanston, I1L, tbe New York Star says: "In tbat it has simply followed general experience in co-operative schemes of living, from tbe days ot Brook Farm down to the present" As neither the Evanston scheme nor the Brook Farm was co-operative, the above remark is rather wild. But supposing the idea suggested in regard to Brook Farm tbat co operative enterprise and industrial commu nity is one and the same thing, what will the esteemed Star do with such examples ot the latter class as tbe Economite Society in this vicinity, the Shaker communities scattered through a half dozen States, and the Oneida Community in Now York, all of which are noted for remarkable pecuniary success? These be rough times for some of the leaders of the Republican party who were lately treated as little gods. Cameron is now called a "flopper" and Ingalls a "traitor.' Can such things be and overcome us like a summer cloud? Speaking of the fact that Charles Brad laugh, now critically ill, has been a quiet and almost conservative member of Parliament for soma years, the Philadelphia Ledger says: "He made a great bluster at one time and set him self up for champion of the people, but ac complished next to nothing." The especial point on which Bradlaugh set himself up as a champion of tbe people Was as an exponent of the right of tbe people to he represented by the man whom they elect As he won that fight alter many years of rejection by Parlia ment, it is pertinent to observe that there is a field for such champions of the people in this country at present The information that John Bull has got another dynamite scare in full operation may he taken as evidence that the Tories are doing their best to work the English mind into a favorable state for tbem to order a general election. r The effort of the Philadelphia Democrats to find a candidate for Mayor is provoking the jeers of the Republican press of that city. Yet it is not over a month since the same papers were sharply criticising the reported determin ation of the Democrats not to make a nomina tion, but to throw their support to an lode pendent candidate. Tbe impossibility ot suit ing the orcans of the opposition to any given party is proverbial. The diligence with which that silver pool Investigating committee falls to follow np soma of the clews opened by tbe witnesses lends new interest to the question whether lnvestl gating committees are intended to investigate The degree to which Inspired stupidity can Innocently propose to attack Individual rights is illustrated by the New York Saturday a lobe. "Make hoarding a penal offense," rec ommends that journal. After which, we sup pose, it would urge that any man who does not make trade-actlye by spending all his money within twenty-four hours after he receives it, should be sent to the workhouse and be forced to labor on the roads. Ajt English guardian of the poor is very much opposed to American pork, declaring in a recent speech: "X would not fatten a fool upon it" It appears to be self-evident that he does not want to be fattened on that food. The late storm in New York is declared by the Tribune to be "tbe plainest possible lesson tbat wires of all kinds in both city and country should ba put under ground with as little delay as possible." Tbere have been plenty ot such lessons; but the fact also appears in the same connection that tbere has been a wof ul lack of application of the lesson of tbe law. IK FAME'S FIELD. Mrs. John Thompson, granddaughter of the poet Burns, has just died in Glasgow. Kossuth in poverty at El! Tbat means a life spent for mankind with no thought of self. The great Hungarian could have no higher eu logy? Lord Haetinoton, in an address to his constituents on Saturday, at Rosendale, Lan cashire, said tbat the only chance of Home Rule being a practical policy bad gone forever. Mb. Habold Foewood, of tbo 8eawan haka Corinthian Yacht Club, is the son of Sir William Forwood, the head of tbe Atlas Steam ship Company and member of the British Ad miralty. Chancellor von Capkivi has submitted to Emperor William reports showing that Da maraland is worthless to Germany, and ought to bo ceded to England in exchange for land in Africa more favorable to German development MBS. William Morris, wife of the London artist, poet and Socialist is said to be the most beautiful woman in the world. She is described as having "features that aro perfect in their regularity, a complexion that baffles descrip tion and eves deep, soulful and actively sympa thetic." Rose Cogulan and Lydla Thompson met at a hotel table in Albany lately, and fell to ex changing reminiscences in a very sociable way. The fact was developed to an interested few that Miss Coghlan first came to this country from England when a girl, with Miss Thomp son, playing a subordinate part in a company under the management of the latter. Habvey B. Dodworth, a famous band master and leader of the Dodwortb Band, which accompanied the Seventy-first Regi ment New Jersey, to the front at tbe outbreak of the Civil War, died on Saturday at his home. No. 22 Hill street West Hoboken.N.J. Ho was tbe first musician in this country to ar range Wagner's music for military bands. Rev. Robert Collyer hasn't forgotten the trade he learned in his boyhood, blactsmithing. Talking to a Chicago reporter the other day. be said: "A student at Cornell wrote me offering me $1,000 if I would make him a horseshoe. He probably thought that either I did not know how to make one or would back down, think ing it unbecoming my dignity. In either case he was disappointed, for I made it" and here the speaker's eyes began to twinkle "and 1 don't think it was such a bad piece of work manship. either. Could I make one now? Let someone offer mo SI. 00U and sea how quickl would turn one out" SENAT0B IKQALIS' SUCCESSOR. Judge Pfeffer, the Alliance Nominee, Se cures the Election. TopekA, KAN., Jan. 27. Tbe successor of Senator Ingalls was balloted for in both Houses of tbe Legislature to-day, tbe result being tbe choice of Judge W. A. Pfeffer, the nominee of the Alliance caucus. In the Sen ate tbe ballot resulted: Ingalls, 36; Pfeffer, 2. In tbe Honse the result was: Pfeffer, 96; In galls, S; C. W. Blair, 5. The joint ballot will ba taken to-morrow. William Alfred Pfeffer was born in Cumber land county. Pa., September 10, 18dl. He Is of Dutch parentage. His schooling was obtained between the ages of 10 and 15, when be at tended the public scbool seven months in the year. At the age of 15 years he was made master of a small district school, and taught there until he was 19. In 1850 he caught tbe gold fever, and went to California, where he re mained two years. He made considerable money, and returned to Pennsylvania in 1832. There he .married Sarah Jane Barber and removed to Indiana. He engaged In farming near Crawford ville, but business reverses impoverished him, and i.- went to Southwest Missouri, At tbe breaking out of the war he enlisted in tha Eighty-tht-d Illinois Volunteers. He served until June 26, 1863. having been detailed princi pally on detached duty as Quartermaster, Ad jutant and Judge Adjutant. During the two latter years of his service he devoted himself to tne stuay oi law. ai me ciose oi me war be settled at Clarksville. Term., practicing law. He remained it Clarksville until 1870, wben be moved to Kansas, taking up a claim in Wilson county. Ho moved to FrcdonU in 1872, and there established the Fredonia Journal, a weekly newspaper, at the same time continuing bis law practice: but afterward became an ed itorial writer on the Topeka Capital. He was a delegate to the National Republican Conven tion in 18S0. In that year be moved to Topeka. assumed editorial control of the Kansas J?aimer, and afterward bought the paper. He has been engaged in the pabllcation uf tbat paper ever since. in personal appearance Judge Pfeffer is a handsome man; rather above medium height and neither stout nor spare. A generous, flow ing beard adorns a face which habitually wears a thoughtful expression. As a newspaper writer the Judge is versatile and prolific, but not particularly brilliant. He was an out spoken Republican until tbe political revolu tion which gave birth to tbe Farmers' Alliance in bis State, of which movement he was an active and consistent leader. A GEEAT NEWSPAPER. -. ' Adhering to a High Standard Forces Its Wonderful Prosperity. Towanda Dally Kevlew.l The Pittsbubo Dispatch has made great strides the past year, and this month occupies a new fireproof granite building, with an entire new outfit of machinery and material. Tbe Sunday edition has a circulation exceeding 60, 000, and tbe dally over SO.OCO. It Is the leader In oil news, and unexcelled in markets, finance, special cabled foreign news, and leads all its competitors in tbe gathering and dissemination of local affairs. Complete in every detail as a newspaper, it Is even better in its irank and candid discussion of current events. Here, as heretofore, an In dependent Bepublican journal, it considers affairs of Stato and nation, with regard to abso lute truth and public interest as a first and only consideration. So long as It adheres to this high standard. The Dispatch cannot but con tinue to prosper. A SEEIES OF FEEE LECTUBES To Be Given Under the Auspices of the Academy of Science and Art In accordance with tbe expressed desire and intention of the Council of the Academy of Science and Art to disseminate knowledge ot a kind that will be of value to tbe whole com munity, a series of free lectures has been ar ranged for. Prof. C. A. Youne, the Director of Halstead's Observatory at Princeton, N. J.. has been engaged for to-morrow evening, and will have "The Sun" for his topic Prof. F. W. Putnam, Curator of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology, Cambridge, Mass.. is the second celebrity who will appear, and Feb ruary 3 is the date of his lecture. "Archaeology of North America" w.ill be the subject. Both lectures will be Illustrated by lantern slides; tbe first will bo delivered in Carnegie Hall, the second in Bellefleld Church, East End. Paradoxical but True. Philadelphia Kecord.3 It Is all right that the State should collect a tax upon collateral inheritances. The dece dent does not miss the money and tbe collateral heir can well afford to let the state take a small toll out of bis windfall. But there is no apparent reason why the Register of Wills should collect fat fees from all tbe collateral inheritances iu Philadelphia. ' DEATHS OP A DAY. Alexander Greenawalt Superintendent Alexander Greenawalt of the Allegheny Stock Yards, died suddenly from a se vere attack of asthma, from which he had) been a sufferer for many years, at the Drovers' Home, Ninth ward, Allegheny, about 10 o'clock A. M. yesterday. Mr. Greenawalt was one of the best known butchers and drovers In the city and his administration of aSalrsat the stock yards was 'eminently successful. He laaves a wife and two grown-up sons. He was about SO years of age. Judge James C. Edsou. GLENCOE. MlNtr.. Jan. 27.-Judge James O. "Edsou, Judge of the Eighth Judicial district died at bis hotSe in this place at 1 o'clock this morning of Bright'! disease. SNAP SHOTS IN SEASON. Some of the happiest folk in the world are those who are always doing something for others. Fickle, coquettish, skittish, the great Pub lic, to be sure. To-day you go up like a rocket, to-morrow you come down like a stick. The "dull thud" is truly heart-breaking. Then yon are "turned down," become a "back number," are labeled a "fossil" and forgotten. The Public whom you started out to serve, however. Is not a hard taskmaster, either. But it keeps Its eye on you. A false step made after fair warning will not be pardoned, a deceitful move will not be tolerated, a wilful wrong will not be encouraged. What tbe Public demands is a square stand-up fight for principle, an open, earnest battle for the right according as you consci entiously see the right no snaky maneuvers, knavish trickery, fawning sycophincy. But tbe servants will persist in trifling with the masters, and the elevation and lowering of matter and mind, person and character, goes merrily on, heads appearing and disappearing with each revolution of opinion. Eacb turn of favor's tide bears off tha swimmers and casts up the sinkers one on the crest of the wave, the other doomed for the quicksands on tbe shores of the swashing sea of lite. Do you ever glance over tbe list of hnlks, with "fail ure" painted on their battered sides, that line the beach where Public Opinion plies as a wrecker? It is longer than Lloyd's tale of old ocean's cruel power. And you will be surprised at their newness, too. Launched yesterday, stranded to-morrow on the crest of the wave in the morning, in the breakers at noon, on the rocks at nightfall. Well, they carried too much canvas, disregarded tbe chart, ran in without a pilot and shivered their timbers ere the paint was dry. You see tbem here, there, everywhere. Perhaps you saw them go up and knew they were coming down, but after the rocket's head scattered its shower of colored stars, the flight of the stick had no interest, and you didn't care where it landed. That's a way the Public has, to be sure. So men go up and men go down; as ships sail and ships sink: so the Public plays shuttlecock with the People; so Character is pawned for Place, staked against Opinion and loses. Still tbe game goes on and tbe players crowd and jostle each other around the table, flushlrjg with success to-day, blushing with shame to-morrow. Bomb elderly folk never reach the age of dis cretion. Washington has solved a great mathemat ical problem by squaring the circle. If you meet with sucecss yon will be sneered at but those who do the sneering are tbe ones who feel bad. v The critical period of tbe actor's life comes when be picks up the newspaper the morning after his first appearance. A tiger bunt on the Northside is among the possibilities. Party instead of principle seems to be the cry on tbe Potomac now. Doctors profit by our ills and the usurers by our misfortunes. If tbe old rebuke of hissing was resurrected some of tbe dramatic offerings would soon be come more palatable. Mart Ann Dougherty is again before tbe Senate. Anything to block public business goes now. Marginal notes Bucket shop collateral. When all else fails, woman can console her self with tbe thought tbat marriage is still a worthy occupation, though a trifle risky. It will take a few more elections to place tbe business interests of the country where they belong, and substitute lawmaking for political knavery. Don Cameron has committed political hari kari. The streets are so laid out that if you don't want to meet an obnoxious acquaintance you don't have to. The idler is always confronted by tbe crust of the last loaf. For Ingalls read Pfeffer. and you have the name of the new Senator from Kansas. Pipes are symbols of peace with Indians, but in Pennsylvania tbey have made discord, es pecially in tbe oil regions. Mr. Charles Mitchell will endeavor to make a hit on tbe stage according to Queens berry rules. Always holds its ground Tha coffee pot The modern drama leaves entirely too much to the imagination. As fast as one political measure is side tracked in Congress another gets right of way. Tbo politicians are in tbe saddle and the country In the woods. When the public idolizes a man be is apt to become a worshiper of himself. Woman has a perfect right to do what she can so long as she does what she is expect ed to do. The ice trust is the coolest kind of a robber. This Republic was not built on tbo rnins of cities, nor was its corner stone laid in the ashes of antiquity, hence it can stand anything from cranks to cyclones. YoUNO ladles usually stamp their feet when tbey cancel an engagement Why is Philadelphia like the boy who ate the watermelon? Because it has the Cramps. If you cultivate industry you can raise a salary. Fug Filzsimmons Is a shining object lesson of the beauties of the Australian system. Whom the gods would destroy tbey first bribe. The toper takes an eye-opener when he ryeses. A NEWLY married couple will eat oleo and drink bean coffee up to tbe period when tbey discover the mother-in-law. Then the scales fait you know. Joint debates frequently occnr In the meat stalls at tha market house. If you are thirsty in the morning remember your bed has a spring. The strongest billiard players are compelled to take a rest during a game. If yon don't own real estate you do not have to dodge the tax collector or buy a fire escape. Ever since PIttsburg"has been cut off from the Signal Service Bureau at Washington the weather has been delightful. The disclosures in the Senate Interest Penn sylvanlans more than the closure tactics j ust at present Jay Gould has fitted out a Pole hunting ex pedition in New York. AND Freedom shrieked when Jay Donald Cameron voted nay. Mr- Morton would fill a place back ot tha Sborebam bar better tban behind tbe desk of the Senate. He's tbe champion mixer. Iu selecting leaders and teachers their char acters as well as their minds should be looked Into. RURAL lovers frequently gossip over the stiles. The Pennsylvania Legislature is a victim of misplaced confidence. Don Cameron has bunkoed it AN illustration in a cotemporary yesterday morning showed Speaker Reed responding to a toast at the Bobble Burns banquet . The old church lottery ticket reproduced in The Dispatch when photo-engraving was in its infancy, reappeared again yesterday morn ing. When the mails are delayed news is scarce. Our senior Senator wears a silver collar and a diamond ring. These seem to ba flies on tbe air ship that sailed in Old City Hall tbe other day. The ghost dance has been transferred from the Bad Lands to the Senate. Love is mightier than intellect in working out reforms for the improvement of humanity. The deeds of the fathers are tha sins for which a good many children are doing penance, Pittsburg will feed the press this week, and all tbat can ba asked for is a good impression. What Is home without something to put In it? Pittsburg Post, credited to Watson-town (ra.) Jiecord. Wby not take them while they are fresh and give credit where credit is due? This waif be longs to The Dispatch. Health is undermined when the pit of the stomach is overworked or flooded. Cupid doubtless lives on arrow root The skirt-dancer's costume weighs about two pounds, counting in ear and linger rings. The gas meter is the squarest liar in exist ence. Willie Winkle. NEEDS NO ASSISTANCE. C L. Magee Thinks Governor Pattison Is Able to Write Any Speeches or State Papers Ho May Need Without Help Prom Anyone, and Cites His Record. New York World, Interview. "I am not in politics much now," said Mr. Christopher Magee at the Fifth Avenue Hotel yesterday morning, "but I am a Republican: as I was until last fall, when I was forced to admit that for a time it took a good deal of pressure to keep me from becoming a Mug wump. But I was victorious iu that campaign, and now I am back where I was at first" Sir. Magee was sitting in the "Amen Corner" of that famous Republican headquarters. Asked what he thought of the force bill. Mr. Magee smiled and said be didn't know what to think; that it looked as if "those old fellows over there at Washington might go on f arever, like Tennyson's 'Brook,' without accomplishing anything." "Mr. Magee.what do you think of this charge of plagiarism against Governor Pattison, and of tha report, which Judge James Gay Gordon aecllnes to deny, that he. Gordon, during Mr, Pattison's first incumbency of the Gubernato rial chair was the real author of the Pattison State documents and of the Governor's first in augural? "It seems absurd to me," said Mr. Magee, knowing Pattison. Gordon, Hensel and Black as I do. Mr. Pattison had no need ot Mr. Gor don s assistance in his public life, when be I PattlSOnl Was In 1RS-? nlprlort fnnrrnllar nf tha city of Philadelphia by a majority of thirteen odd thousand, although tbo city went Republican by nearly 30,000. and he has succeeded as a pub lic character and as President of tbe national bank, over which he presides In Philadelphia quite as well since he left tbe Gubernatorial chair, and ceased according to this rumor to nave the political aid and literary assistance of bis one-time friend. Judge Gordon. "Pattison was a very young man when he was elected Governor, but he was pretty thoroughly equipped and be bad made a record for himself aa City Controller. He didn't need anybody to write his speeches for him or to speak them for him either." Agentleman ot the party hero volunteered tbe statement that Judge Gordon declined either to confess or deny tbat he had been the author of some of the Pattison State docu ments, and Mr. "Magee smiled incredulously, "I believe," said he, "It is because of Patti son's acknowledgment of the services of Mr. William U. Hensel, whom he made Attorney General, and of Mr. William F. Harrity, whom he has made Secretary of State, that Judge Gordon Is now alienated from him. There was something very interesting about Pattison's course toward these men in the recent cam paign. Inever beard that story that be and Hensel were on the outs.1 because wben first elected Governor Mr. Pattison had declined to grant Mr. Bensel tbe favor of an advance copy for his newspaper of tbe Governor's inaugural address. Buc I do know that iu the Guberna torial convention which nominated Pattison this time Hansel's delegation was instructed for himself and did not go to Pattison at all until toward the last, when it became apparent that nobody else would be available. "When tbe Pattison-Hensel-Black party reached Pittsburg on their stumping tour of the State Mr. Hensel dined with me at my house on the Sunday of their stay tbere, and Mr. Black, who dined not far away, came over and iolned us after dinner tbat day. Itwas then said by them tbat tbey had been com pelled to waive personal preferences and turn in and support Pattison with all their power, because he was such a vote-getter tbat there was nobody like blni in that respect and he was the only candidate with whom tbe party stood any show at all. I have heard tbat Judze Gor don rather resented Mr. Pattison's appoint ment of Hensel and Harrity to office." "But on this charge of plagiarism it is said that the langnago Itself as well as ideas of Governor Pattison's Inaugural address now and eight years ago are almost exactly the same. How do you account for that?" 'Well. I account for it in this way: Gov ernor Pattison made a winning fight both times because he insisted tbat national issues had no place in tbe campaign in Pennsylvania. He re-' fused to consider the taiiff question or any other national one dividing the two parties, bnt devoted himself to local issues. In the cam paign of 1S90 he found the same local issues confronting him find his party whicb con fronted them in 1SS3. As bis opinions on tbose issnes and on their importance bad not under gone any chance in ihe eight years Intervening, he saw no reason to change the language in which he had expressed tbose opinions. 1 don't believe for a minute it was because be didn't feel and was not capable of re-expressing them In any way he choose." Somebody suggested tbat Mr. Cleveland was getting jealous of Pattison now since people began to talk about Pattison and Palmer as the Presldental candidates of 1892, at which Mr. Magee expressed surprise, and said that he bad heard on the contrary tbat Mr. Cleveland bad prayed for Pattison tbe night of the elec tion, and had so written him. It was observed tbat this looked as if Pattison and Cleveland were still great friends. HO BESULT IN ILLINOIS. No Illinois Senator Elected on the 371st Legislative Ballot Springfield, 111., Jan. 27. The joint As sembly convened at noon and proceeded to ballot for a United States Senator, with overy member of both houses present Six ballots, making the ageregate since the beginning 371, were taken without change, and an adjourn ment till to-morrow followed. Lesson of the Storm. Buffalo Express. Sunday's storm demonstrated that the over head electric wire is not only a nuisance and a source of danger to the general public, but that it Is an expensive luxury for its owners. The loss to the telegraph companies in business alone must haro amounted to many thousands of dollars. But that was only a fraction of tbe entire loss. The expense of repairing the broken lines and the damage for property In jured by the falling poles and wires will eat a big bole in the year's profits. If tho Force BUI Is Kept Down Philadelphia Ledger.! . Now tbat tbe Senate has got down to general business, tbe prospects have brightened for tbe copyright bill and the Torrey copyright bill, which have passed tbe House and will no doubt pass the Senate if a reasonable amount of time can be obtained for their consideration. A Truth Worth Remembering. Boston Globe.l There seems to be a surprising number of missing and eloping women of late. A home, however imperfect Is only appreciated when one has left it behind to wrestle with tbe bard facts of a cold, selfish world. There's no place like home, even If it be but a half a one. An Approved Process. Philadelphia Times. J Tbe only process tbat can make any force bill a good one is that which is popularly sup posed to be necessary In order to'make a good Indian. He Lie Low an' Think. NewIYork Press. Bre'r Weed, like Bra'r Rabbit, he Ha low, but he's watching Bra'r Hill's cabbage patch. SOCIETY'S PLEASURES. The Mayer-Goldsmit Wedding at Con cordia Hall Concerts and Muslcales Nu merous The Boston Mendelssohn Quin tet at Two Places The Social Chatter of a Day. A wedding of unusual Interest to the ultra fashionable Hebrew society from tbe high social position occupied by both bride and groom, was celebrated with becoming pomp and ostenta tion In Concordia Hall last evening. The hour was 6 o'clock and the clubhouse was fragrant with the perfume of many beautiful flowers, echoing with tbe sweet strains of orchestral music and thronged with guests in brilliant evening dress wben tbo bride. Miss Rosa Gold smit entered the handsome parlor with William T.Mayer, the groom. Tbey were preceded by Ushers L, K. Llppman and L. H. Meth, and tbe bridemaidand groomsman. Miss Emma Mayer, of Philadelphia, and S. Goldsmit Rabbi L. Mayer performed tbe pretty and impressive ceremony. The brlda was arrayed m a queenly robe of heavy wblte satin, cut low In tbe neck and trained to extreme length. Enveloping he grace? nl form was a veil of great delicacy and costliness, and her bouquet was composed of lilies of tbe valley. The same flower predominated in the decorations of the clubhouse, it being tbe favorite blossom of tbe bride, a lovelv and accomplished lady with cultured and refined tastes. The bridemaid formed a pretty contrast in a charmingly girlish robe of pink silk, with pink roses. After the important words had been spoken tbe company repaired to an immense dining ball and enjoved a wedding feast In keeping with the elegance of the other appoint ments. Supper over, Toerge's orchestra burst into an entrancing and not-to-be-resisted Strauss waltz, and it was a late hour when tbe cuests departed, after reiterating kind wishes for the happiness or the newly married couple. Mr. and Mrs. Mayer will spend a few weeks in the East and will then return to the home of the bride, on Sheffield street until arrange ments are perfected for their future residence. Mr. Mayer is associated iu business with the bride's father, E. Goiamit, and it is considered a very charming union. Distinguished guests from distant cities who attended the nuptials were Mrs. H. Moehler and Miss C. Friedman, New York; Miss Ada Schriber, Miss Fannie Binswanger, Mrs. Mayer and Miss Emma Mayer, of Philadelphia; Mr. and Mrs. H. Mayer and Miss Alice Brown, of Bradford, and J. Offenbach, of New lork. EJJTEBTAIHMEKT AT A C0IXEGZ Fair Students Enjoy an Afternoon With the Mendelssohn Quintet It is a question whether the charming college girls that filled the pretty Dllworth Hall, of the Pennsylvania College, yesterday afternoon most enjoyed the performance of tbe Men delssohn Quintet Club or tbe clapping of their own pretty hands. Certain it is that one in spired the other, and right merrily and vigor ously were tbe encores given, though not a gen tleman was present to give weight to the ap plause. Tbo audience was swelled, however, by a number of representative East End ladies, who took advantage of the opportunity to hear" tbe club at tbat place instead of attending the entertainment in the evening at Old City Hall. The programme was a varied and pleasing one, arranged to give all the stars of which the club is composed an opportunity of distinguish ing themselves. In sola numbers as well as in concerted selections. Miss Marie Barnard, tha soloist of the club, was an especial favorite, and gracefntly responded to the ovations given her by tbe fair maidens. B er first number was: "Lol Hear the Gentle Lark," with flute obligate, and her triumph in it was followed by a pretty little ballad. A "Tarantella La For zetta," by Arditi. was the second number, and gave scope for some wonderful vocalization. She appeared in a street costume, seal jacket and large, soft felt bat creating as mncn of an impression by her personality as by her singing. PBETTY PICTTJBES TO BE SEEK At the Water-Color Exhibition of the Pitts burs Art Society. The Art Society is congratulating itself over its water-color exhibition that materialized last evening. It has been tha desire of that flourishing and progressiva society, for some time, to have a water-color exhibit, but disap pointment has rewarded its efforts to tbat end in the past without permanently discouraging results, though, as the reception of last evening proves. It is proposed to make the water-color exhibit a regular annual feature, altercating spring and fall with one of oil paintings, and for the initial water-color rxhibit Frederick Keppel'i collection, of New York, was secured and bung advantageously in tbe handsome, spacious parlor of tbe Academy of Science and Art They were viewed, last evening, by any number at artistic and refined people, members of tbo Society and their friend", at tbe one hundred and sixtv-second reception of the or ganization, and will remain in position for the remainder of tha week. The collection consists of 63 pictures, embrac ing subjects of every description, and 50 artists of more or less renown are represented. ENTEETAINED tjt qooD STYLE. Knights of the Golden Eagle Have a Fleas ant Time Together. Lorena Castle 131. Knights of the Golden Eagle, bad an enjoyable entertainment at their hall, on Federal street Allegheny, last night Coroner McDowell, as Chairman, presented Prof. Stetson, who sang a comic song. Miss Conley. a pleasing 'elocution .it. the Major Sell ers Quartet, and C B. Wilson s Quartet. Miss Mary Finney sang "Love's Last Request" in a very nice style, and was vociferously encored. Stereoptlcon views of army and European scenery were shown bv Prof. Laughran and ex plained byC. F. McKenna. A cornet solo by Mr. Frank Grey deserves to be mentioned. ITS FIEST C0HCEET A SUCCESS. Satisfactory Debut of the East End Men delssohn Club Last Evening. The Mendelssohn Club, of tbe East End, gave Its first concert of tbeseason last evening, in the new Masonic Hall, on Collins avenue. In spite of counter attractions, tha hall was well rilled with aa enthusiastic audience that lost no opportunity of expressing its apprecia tion ot tbe numbers on the programme. A chorus of SO voices, under James McCoI lum's baton, sang part-songs and miscellaneous choruses, and the other performers were Miss Jennie M. Evan, Miss Lizzie Reed, and Messrs. John Gernert John Horner, Franc W. Bearl. George F. Wagner, J. H. Frederlca and R. Mayer. An Enticing Programme. Invitations are out for a concert to be given at Dllworth Hall, Pennsylvania College, next Friday evening. The programme, a3 outlined. Is enticing to music-loving people, and em braces well-known artists and promising students, among them Prof. GIttlngs. Miss M. Jones, Miss Bradley. Miss O'Neill, Miss M. Reuck, Miss M. Jones. Mrs. Caster, Miss Ede burn. Miss W. Rlsher and Miss Frew. Social Chatter. F. Wilton Hunter, the leading tenor In thePIerse-Blamphln Concert Company, billed for Old City Hall Friday evening, is a former Pittsburger. He has studied four years In Italy, and it is said, has an excellent voice. Mr. Hunter's father is well known as manager of a department of Jones & Laughllns' mills. South side. George C Jenks is local agent for the concert company. The attendance at the Verestchagin Exhibi tion In Carnegie Galleries. Allegheny, is this week greater tban ever. Last night tha galleries were crowded. All the railroads centering In Pittsburg will announce special excursion rates for the balance of tha exhibi tion season this week. The soloists who will appear at tha Riley entertainment at Old City Hall this evening are Miss Mamie Hammer, of Curry University? Miss Margie Wilson. Pittsburg Female College, and Miss Grace Bradley, Pennsylvania College. THE marriage of John E. Krans. of the ship ping department of Moorhead's mill. Sharps burg, and Miss Katie Hulkew, took place last evening, in St Mary's Church, Sbarpsburg. A concert at Crafton last evening was strongly represented by Pittsburg talent It was under the direction of Thomas J. Smith, with Miss Nellie Jackson accompanist MBS. George Dean, of Arch street, Alle gheny, gave a progressive euchre party yester day afternoon. Mb. and Mb Columbus Wilson, of Ben Venue, entertained with euchre last evening. Mrs. Pebsival F. SuiTHf Ridgo avenue, gave a charming dinner last evening. Mrs. George W. Guthbie, of Marchand street received yesterday afternoon. Mrs. Joseph Albree, of Ridge avenue, will give a i o'clock tea to-morrow. THE BENNETT LAW BEPEALED. It Receives the Toll Democratic Vote in tho Wisconsin Legislature Madison, Jan. 27. In tha House to-day, un der a suspension of tba rules, tbe bill to repeal tbe Bennett compulsory education law was passed, receiving tha full Democratic rota, after a hard tight by the Republicans. CDEI0US COHDEKSATIOSS. During last year 330 medicines were patented. The Farmers Alliance has 116 papers In Kansas one to every county, with ten to spare. The first prize in the Paris Art Con servatory was recently awarded for "two studies of an enlarged bead." Tbe subscriptions to the Balfour-Zet-land fund for the relief of distressed people to Ireland have reached 336,000. At Nashville, Tenn., during a snow storm on Saturday, countless numbers of small fish fell. They resembled carp. Three-fourths ot the letters that are re ceived at the World's Fair headquarters are from persons who want employment. A bill passed the Texas Senate making it a felony to fight a prize fight In tbe State either with cloves or without gloves. Trains will not begin running through the new tunnel between Sarnia, Canada, and Port Huron, Mien., before midsummer. William Marshall, who was born on the Tam O'Shanter farm in AyrsbircScotland, has just died near Bright OnL, aged 96 years. The English telephone patents have ex pired, and tbe monopoly tbere has come to an end. The Bell patents in this country have still three years to run, A little boy of TJtica, N. Y., one day recently played letter carrier, and distributed through tha neighborhood a bundle of old love letters that bis mother bad saved from her courtship days. The Eev. John Eliot, missionary to the Indians, wrote a letter in 1B73, which was sold at auction a few days ago in Boston for $500. At the same sale a letter of the Rev. Jonathan Edwards brought only $11 50. A Chicago man figures out that he has paid bis landloard,a hotel keeper,S60,000 in bard money for bis board and lodging. But as he bas, at 71, rosy cheeks, a clear complexion and bright eyes, be docs not repine. President An gel I, of Ann Arbor Uni versity, says that the Chinese have no straight streets or walls, because they believe the devil travels in a straight line. They are great be lievers in signs and portents, thousands in numbers. A bill has been introduced into the Leg islature of Indiana providing that any man who shall be proven guilty of whipping his wife shall himself receive 60 lashes, and that the public shall be admitted to tbe jailyard to see him whipped. "Take any 25 tall, lean men," said an old court officer to reporter, "and you can secure a jury in a murder case. They have no conscientious scruples against the death pen alty. As arute,;short, thick men have doubts on this point." Colonel John C. Taylor, of Dayton, Ky.. has fallen heir to estates in Ireland that make him the Earl of Tyrone, and. better still, give him property valued at S7.000,OOU. It is needless to sav that Kentucky will soon lose one of Its prominent Colonels. The Socialists have introduced in the Reichstag a bill providing that tbe State shall take charge of tbe manufacture of drugs and medicines, claiming tbat it is tba duty of the State since passing the workmen's insurance bill to supply remedies at cost price. An old friend of Sir Walter Scott says that the original of Rebecca in "Ivanhoe" was a beautiful young American woman to whom Washington Irving became engaged after the death of his wife, and to whom he wrote a glowing description the Bard of Abbotsford. It is stated at Washington that all com munications from the United States Govern ment for Canadian officials are sent through the Imperial Government and this accounts for the fact that Canada has not yet received her notice of tbe holding ol tbe Worm's Fair. General Sherman the other evening at tbe Yale alumni dinner in New York, having been welcomed as usual by "Marching Through Georgia," remarked feelinsly in his little speech: "I have often thought that wben I was marching to the sea, it would have been well had I marched ou into it" Tbe City of Papeeti arrived at San Francisco from Tahiti Islands Saturday. She reports tbat tbe .French Government has bribed a chief with about 2.000 followers to con sent to French rule. Fully 3.000 natives, partial to tho United States taking possession, are camped In the mountains, and it is sup posed tbev arc furnished with ammunition by American schooners. A letter has teen received by Collector Beard, of Boston, from Assistant Secretary of tbe Treasury Spalding to the effect that the department concludes that sago flour is duti able at 2 cents per peund. This decision is re garded as remarkable, because the new tariff law distinctly states that sago flour is free. Assistant Secretary Spalding in bis decision In forms the collector tbat sago flour is not Sago flour, but is starch, and as such is dutiable. The Parisians, now that the severe weather is over for a time at least are plum ing tbemielves on the care they have taken of their poor, as compared with the much greater misery In Berlin and London. No cases of star vation have been reported in Paris, and the liberality and energy of the Government, di rected by President Carnot in person, have been are effective In relieving the multitude ot destitute who bad flocked to tbe city. Prof. T. A. Schurr, of Pittsfield, Mass., said In a recent lectnre: "The rattlesnake is a proper symbol for our country: tt minds its own business, but knows bow to defend itself when attacked." Tbo rattlesnake, too, with the motto, "Don't tread on me." appeared on one of tba earliest of tbe American flags. But it is perhaps too late to oust tbe eagle and substi tute the snake, even if tbe change should meet with public approval, which is exceedingly doubtful. Most people bate a snake. During the past six years Minnesota bas paid 178,831 for wolf bounties- During cer tain months of the year the bounty is only $3 per scalp, while during other months itis So. It is alleged that In certain counties certain per sons have been in the habit of farmmc wolves, and also of keeping wolt cubs in captivity dur ing the months wben their scalps were worth only i3 until the $5 months came around. It is also alleged that wolf scalps have been im ported from other States, and that generally speaking, the bounty system has been grossly abused. A well-dressed young man registered at tbe Spencer House, Niagara Falls, on Satur day, as "C. E. Stanley. Cleveland, O." He drank heavily. Reservation Park Policeman High land bad just locked the gate of the bridge leading the way to Goat Island when he saw Stanley climbing over the gate. He ran after him and took bim by the arm to lead him back to the malnland.Stanley struggling to get awav Tbey were m tbe middle of tbe bridge whe'nStanley jerked away from the officer and lumped over tbe railing, falling on the ice, where he lay stunned. Help was called, but wben it had almost reached him. Stanley worked his way to tbe edge of the ica and was carried over tbe American Falls. WISPS OF WIT. Harry I see it stated, Miss Dora, that London ladles are always in terror of being sua kissed. That terror does- not extend to this country. Don (shyly)-Well it depends on the son.-CAf-cago luter-Ocean. Wagg I was terribly taken down this morning. "Wooden Why, how was that? Wagg Welt Iwasshovellnit snowoff the roof, and the whole buslnes sUd oir, and took me, too. boston Courier. Of all the deadly things tbat war Against our peace and kill us The worst and deadliest by far. As proved by the researches of scientific men In Uermany. France, and several towns in Michl ean. who have made the matter a study and found out by experimenting with guinea pig and other cheap animals how to cure almost anyythlng except warts and cataarh. is mersly a baemus.-CAtow Tribune. Old Loafer (to drummer) Pickia y teeth, stranger? Drummer-Yes. What business Is it of yoursr Old Loafer-Wal, none, only I don't pick my teeth. Drnmmer-Don't eh? W by not? Old Loafer Oh. I'm contented to take 'em Just as tber eome.-Orteasiurg Sparks. Cassius Your Western tour was not a successful one, then, lay Brutus? Brutus-.No, Cassius, it was, I own, a failure. Cassius Walled out of town between tba rails, eh. Bratus? Brutus No. Cassius, rode out on top of one. Somerrilt Journal. "What is the situation at Springfield, Senator?" Almost divine." ' "ilowso?" The Republicans have hope, the Democrats hsvc faith, aud all that Is needed Is'eharlty onUba part of the -big three. "-ClUeago Tinfeg.jjjg Lighte I hear De Dsube's last parejii' quite immoral. ww Shade Welt It's bad enoaih to be anything, Washington star. . . OS fjfirr ' jrTrmn vjwStwsBewEsppwpjlljess-wsyjssteWjME3
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