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One Year f SCO Daily Dispatch, lcr Quarter 5 00 Daily Dispatch, One .Month "0 Daily' Dispatch, including fcunday, 1 year. 10 00 Daily- Dispatch, including Sunday,3m'ths -M Daily Dispatch. Including: Sunday, lm'fh so fcCSDAY Dispatch, One Year 150 Wllklt Dispatch, One Year 115 The Daily Di6patch Is delivered by carriers at ;:cents per week, or lncludirg bunda edition, at Kccntb pe week. PITTSBURG, MONDAY, FEB. 9, 1891. A SENSELESS IDEA. In our "Washington dispatches it is inti mated that the policy of legislation by riders lias still such a hold on the Congressional mind that the Senate may yet stick a free coinage rider on some appropriation bill, and the House may retaliate by adding the force bill as a rider. This would resnlt in a general muss, with the probable outcome of necessitating an extra session of the incom ing Congress. Such a course would exhibit a wanton disregard by all parties in Congress of the principles of parliamentary action. It would show that they were not willing to let their measures stand or fall on their merits, and would require some of them to disclose - readiness to deny their own prin ciples of parliamentary action. An illus tration of this is given by the statement that the Speaker would rule a free coinage rider out o! order as not germane to the subject of the bill, while it seems that in case of necessity he would turn his parlia mentary ruling topsy-turvy on a fores bill rider. Statesmen cannot indulge in such juggling with their own principles without injuring their own standing beiore the country. "We do not think that such a blind policy will be adopted, even in the present Con gress. Senator Stewart's effort in that direction has been already cut short by the notification of such Democratic leaders as Voorhees and Turpie that they will not sup port it. Appropriation bills are necessary to carry on the Government and political leaders with any sense know that they can not burden them with their pet political measures without being held responsible for it. A PERMANENT SOLUTION. The special correspondence of The Dis patch on the shut-down of the valley furnaces, discloses the fact that the feeling is very strong there on account of the slow ness of the railways to perceive the neces sity of such a concession in rates as will enable the iron industry to run on a secure basis. Allowance should be made, as al ready pointedout in The Dispatch, for the considerations which make railroad officials loth to cut rates on a profitable traffic. But it is none the less true that delay on the part of the railroads to recognize the neces sities of the case is injuring them as well as the industries which furnish them their permanent prosperity. In the meantime it is a matter for the capitalists of the valley as well as of Pittsburg to ponder that a sum less than the capital and debt ot the rail ways running between Pittsburg and the lake ports, would, if invested lu the pro posed ship canal, completely solve any such difficulty as the present, and make Western Pennsylvania, including these valleys, the iron center of the world. A FAMILIAR ERROR. The desire to revive the system of pooling and beyond that to take the radical step in retreat of changing the prohibition of pooling under the inter-State commerce law into a legaliz ition, is backed by all the persistenceof tbehuudredsofmtllionsof rail way capital which hopes to gain an ad vantage thereby. The steady work of this most poweiful agency has at last obtained a report from a Senate committee in livor of this reversal oi the policy, and it has also secured a persistent misrepresentation of the facts of the case, the latest example of which is the editorial assertion of the Phila delphia Xorth American that "the prohib ition of pooling by the inter-State commerce law has worked very badly and ought to be removed." This is a very wide departure from the facts of the case. The truth is that where the prohibition of pooling has worked at all, it has worked very well. Over a large share of the railway traffic it has not worked at all, simply because the law has been ignored and nulli fied, by the combined edict of the railway corporations. In those sections the attempts to restore pooling by one device or another, have produced numerous examples of the cut-throat and reckless rivalry which ran rire during the pooling era. In some quar ters there has been a decent observance of the law. After one or two attempts the trunk lines concluded to give up the idea of evading the law, and concluded to satisfy themselves with a simple agreement as to rates on a basis of moderate charges. The re tult has been that the trunk lines have been almost entirely free from rate-wars, and present a marked contrast to the rate cutting o! the "Western roads, where the at tempt to establish pools in defiance of the law has gone on with scarcely an attempt at concealment for the past year or two. This is the universal testimony of all railroad history, and it is founded in the nat ural reason of the case. Railroad officials are not such insane persons as to throw awav the money of their corpoiations simply to prevent their rivals from carrying freight at a loss although many of their representations would indicate that they are. But when they hope that by carrying com petition to the degree of universal loss, tev can drive their rivals into such a combina tion as they wish to dictate, then they pro ceed to cut rates to the losing basis, wherever the knife can apply, with the expectation of getting back the loss by the establishment of the pool or combination. The same rule ap"plies in other lines uf business. AVherc ever competition is on a broad and unre stricted basis it is confined by the limits of cost. Butwhcnthereishopeofestablishiii-'a trust or pool, then prices can bo cm fnr l jrond the limits of cost, in order to drive the 1 contumacious competitor either out of busi ness or into the combination. The regula tion method of the trusts, like the pools, is to resort to cut-throat prices wherever neces sary to suppress competition. There has never been a railway war that was not waged either for the purpose of defend ing an established monopoly or to force the establishment of a desired combination. There has never been a conflict of cut-throat prices in trade far beyond the limits of cost that it did not have a similar purpose. This can be established by studying the entire history of the combination policy; but it is sufficiently demonstrated by the correction of the error into which our Philadelphia cotem porary has been led by the steady misrepre sentations of the corporate interests. "Wherever the fifth section of the inter State commerce law has been treated with any approach to respect, there rates have been kept steady on a moderate basis. "Wherever the provision has been nullified and the attempt to establish pools carried on, there the cut-throat policy has been rife, and the stock-jobbing manipulations. of the corporate kings have been most notorious. POSSIBLE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES. It is beginning to make itself manifest to the public intelligence that the antagonistic disposition of the Cleveland and Hill wings of the New York Democracy, places both of these gentlemen ontside the lists of avail able Democratic candidates for 1892. Even if the harmonizing effect of Colonel Brown's wines and viands has induced these leaders to become better friends so far that they can breathe the atmosphere of the same banqueting hall, the knives of their follow ers have been whetted too sharply to rust in disuse. Besides the fact that the rank and file of Tammany will not swallow Cleve land, it is evident that the silver question puts him in a place where he is almost cer tain to alienate the support oi one portion of the Democracy by sticking to his former principles, or of another by recanting them. The same considerations reversed apply to Governor Hill. The most significant evi dence that Hill took himself out of the Presidental field, by accepting the Senator ship, is furnished by the Sun, heretofore his warmest organ, but which no w abandons him to the regulation fate of the candidates which it booms two years before election, and pro ceeds to look around for a new candidate. "With its usnal disposition to prefer political astuteness to integrity and high character, it picks out Gorman, of Maryland, for the coming man. But fortunately for the Democracy they have other available men besides the sharp Maryland Senator, whose rise to prominence is based on a machine which would have put Tammany in its palmiest days to the blush. The list oi Democratic Governors who have been successful in carrying hard fought campaigns in States usually counted Republican presents no slight attractions. Governor Russell, of Massachusetts, is sug gested by the Boston Globe, and indorsed by the New York Herald, as a man who repre sents the younger and better element of Democracy. Pattison, of our State, has a record on which any party can afford to go into a National campaign. Campbell, of Ohio, by his readiness to at tack corruption in his own party and by the singularly frank language of his messages, has an attraction for those -who would like a candidate oi incisive and original charac teristics. The nomination of cither of these three gentlemen would be in defiance of one rule of modern politics, namely, the nomination of a candidate with the chances that he would not can-y his own State. But it would hardly be a greater violation of the principles of political expediency than to nominate a man like Gorman from a sure Democratic State who would have little strength outside the limits of his own political machine. The Democracy has of late years won its victories by relying on its young blood; and such men as Pattison, Bnssell and Campbell are creditable repre sentatives of that element. J. N. M'CULLOUGU'S DEATH. The death of J. If. McCullough yester day, removes a man who has long held a commanding position in the transportation interests of Pittsburg. As the First "Vice President of the Pennsylvania Company, and principal executive officer of its im portant lines to the west of Pittsburg, his influence in the railway interests of Pitts burg during tbe period ol its greatest growth has been leading. His career was marked by energy and force of character, and his success in managing railroad interests cov ering tbe most important sections of the country furnishes a sufficient measure of his business ability. Pittsburg will feel this heavy loss from among the ranks of her leading railway men. TWO OFFICES AT ONCE. There is a remarkable and simultaneous development of the theory that a man can at once hold a position under the United States Government and under a State Government, in the case of two more or less eminent poli ticians. The first symptoms of the idea were manifested in the case of Governor and Senator-elect Hill, when it was held that he could retain the Governorship until next December, in order, for some reason in scrutable to those outside the political cir cles of New York, to avoid imposing the Gubernatorial cares on the P reight-Paying Jones, after tbe 4th of March. The Dis patch considered that idea sufficiently dis cussed in Governor Hill's case by the re mark that Governor Hill is not a fool. But tbe same claim has been made in the case of State Senator and Congressman-elect John B. Itobinson. As Mr. Bobinson has declared that he will serve out his ierm as State Senator, it seems necessary, in order to avoid that summary classification of him, to point out the facts in the case. The present Congress terminates on March 4 next, and the next Congress, of which Hill and Bobinson are members, begins on that date. Their salaries are paid to them from the 4th or March, and if any Congres sional duties should arise for them to dis charge before the regular session meets, thev would be called together to act. A decent respect for public opinion would forbid both of them to act in the capacity of a State official without resigning the position under the United States. In Senator Bobinson's case there is also a constitutional prohibition which would be conclusive if the constitution were valid against either politicians or corporations. It is a curious illustration of the principle involved that an opinion from Colonel Mc Clure is published to the effect that the difficulty can be got over by Mr. Bobinson refusing to accept pay as State Senator, but to serve in that capacity, while drawing his pay as Congressman. This would be a clear acknowledgement that he was holding the Congressional position while discharging the functions of the State position. Nothing but the convenience of certain politicians will be injured in respecting the law and precedents Dy which these gentle men should resign their State offices on the 4th of March. They can, of coarse, resign I their Congressional places- if they prefer, but neither of them is in the slightest danger of doing that TAKING IT OUT OF CHICAGO, The disposition to be revenged on some one, no matter whom, if certain political measures are not passed or defeated as may be desired, is spreading, and Chicago as the site for the "World's Pair, is the butt of it all. The Southern disposition to boycott the "World's Fair, on account of the election! bill, has hardly been laid in the same grave with that measure before Colorado jumps to the front The Chicago Board of Trade has had the temerity to put itself on record against free silver coinage; and a thunder bolt is in course oi preparation in the Colo rado Legislature in the- shape of a resolu tion, declaring.that Colorado will make no exhibit in the "World's Pair, and advising Colorado people to direct their trade to some other city than Chicago. This is perhaps no better than was to be expected from a Legislature which recently demonstrated its idea that the way to settle a political dispute was to hold a small civil war over it, but it is nevertheless monu mental idiocy. If Colorado has reached that remarkable degree of development where it no longer needs to attract the attention of immigration or capital, it may be able to afford to boycott the "World's Pair. But such a course will hurt Colorado more than it will Chicago. It will permit the publio to infer that Colorado has no inducements to offer to enterprise, and will notify the world that the State is ruled by such stupid ity as to subordinate business enterprise to politics. As to trade, it is well known that whatever Colorado trade Chicago has se cured has been because her merchants made it to the advantage of Colorado merchants to trade with them. As long as that con tinues to be the case the Colorado Legisla ture can, in the language of John Hay's hero, "resoloot till the cows come home" without changing the course of trade. But the custom of revenging political dis appointment and factional defeat by threats against Chicago and the fair are getting rather threadbare. Perhaps Pennsylvania had better threaten to boycott the fair, if the iron trade does not improve under gov ernmental stimulation. Certainly the next thing is for the Farmers' Alliance to issue a iulmination of that sort, if the sub-treasury-agricultural-warehouse-and-two-per-cent-loan scheme is not at once adopted by Con gress. That the mining laws need improvement is beyond question, but the pending proposi tion to create a commission for their revision awakens a comparison with the commission to revise the revenue laws. If the proposed com mission should be built on the lines ot the body which has been wrestling with the revenne question, the mining laws might get themselves revised by the time that all tbe coal in the mountains of Pennsylvania had been mined out. But it would not do to bet on even that resnlt. The remark which is now going the rounds as having been made by tho late "Will iam H. Vanderbilt that the happiest time of his lite was when he was worth $300,000. warns the masses to be content with tbe happiness of humble poverty on that sum when they can get it The resolutions of the Ohio Legislature on Brice's residence in New York are thought by the World to bo "simply a further mani festation of the Republican desire to retain by fraud the power which they are losing in elec tions." Bat if Brice is only a resident of Ohio sufficiently to be elected Senator, and not suf ficiently to be taxed or enumerated in tbe cen sus, it is somebody's business, and none more tthan tbe Ohio Legislature's to find it out The report that New York milkmen have formed a million-dollar corporation nnder tae accommodating New Jersey law, to "protect their interests," shows one instance in which the trust policy and the milkman's policy of water ing stock meet on common ground. The interesting fact is noted in last week's trade reviews that "a New York miller has pur chased 100 carloads of wheat in Chicago at a cost laid down in New York several cents per bushel higher than the ruling price fortheMay option." This seems exceptional, but it may bo fully explained on the hypothesis that the New York miller wanted wheat and not wind. "It sounds a little queer," remarks the Philadelphia Times, "to hear ot the degree of LL. D. conferred on Mr. Balfour by Dublin University." Why not? The degree of the two D's has heretofore been widely conferred on Balfour by the Home Rulers. Senator Ingalls' frankness has dis gruntled the organs to the extent that the New York Press declares: "Mr. Ingalls should vote with his party or get out of it" Bntthatis exactly what Mr. Ingalls did up to a very recent date, with tbe crushing result of getting the majority of the people of Kansas out of it The President's message recommended economy on public buildings; and tbe public building bill is nearly four times greater than last year. "After us, the deluge" is the motto of the leaders in the present Congress. TnERE is room for serious doubt whether tbe Rer. Sam Jones in his bare-knuckle contest with the Mayor of Palestine, Texas, got tho better of that official; but if tbe Mayor had been the English grammar, there is no question tbat tho evangelist would have knocked him ont in tha first round. The "vindication" of Baum and the vigorous efforts of the silver pool committee not to discover anything, make it clear enough tbat, in the present House, investigating com mittees do not investigate. One hundred and thirty-five millions is tbe current pension appropria tion, with Senator Allison's assurance that deficiency after that sum is expended may be "six, eight or even,ten millions." The pension method of scattering a surplus is eminently successful. The Rival National Games. New York Continent. Congress costs the people $30,000 a day, but it is money well spent Tho people get more fun ont of one day of Congress than they do from a whole season of baseball, which in New York City alone costs 550,100. We'll lie More Economical Now. Kansas City Star. The Pittsburg Dispatch insists upon spelling the name of tho new Senator-elect from Kansas "Pfeffer," which proves, of course, that the editor of that paper is a Penn sylvania Dutchman. SAM JOKES, THE SLTGGEB. Washington Post: If Sam Jones intends to continue his Texas tour be will do well to join forces with Colonel Fitzsiinmons. Toledo Blade: It was perfectly proper for Rev. Sam Jones, the Georgia gentleman, to have a set-to with a Texas gentleman. Nashville American: Sam Jones should ar range to carry Colonel John L. Sullivan with him as a terrible example and a defender. Savannah News: Added to his other at tractions as a freak Evangelist Bam Jones has tnrned slugger. Apparently both he and the mayor were somewhat Knocked out and they deserve to be knocked further. Charleston Jrcws: When the Rev. Sam Jones goes back to Palestine, Texas, he ought to explain to his congregation what tbe Bible means when it says that, if a man strikes you on one cheek, you must permit him to strike you on the other, also, .Brother Jones evidently UUC3 IJUb UCUIJia 1U ilUOlM lumjllDMUUll, Brother Jones belongs to" the church militant. SNAP SHOTS IN SEASON. Our sorrows should be writ with in visible ink and our joys chronicled with a never fading fluid. Agitation and antagonism is a good thing after all. Snrely the world is better off because it refuses to remain passive, and man and woman are improved by the constant contra dictions and opposing opinions which form tbe mind waves on the thought sea. If tbe wisdom of the grandfathers had been accepted by the fathers and handed down to the children with the injunction "thus far Shalt thou go and no farther," what a barren, undeveloped, hum drum old world this would be, to be sure. Bui man is a fighter in tho field of thought as well as on the field of carnage. He builds up and he tears down: he wounds and he heals; he breaks and he mends. While natnre is harmonious and rythmic, humanity ir Inharmonious and erratic in thought and action. Were wo harmonious, passive, sub missive, our mental power would languish and the brain die of inaction. Were we not an tagonizers, debaters, objectors, untruths would pass for truths, we would worship idols, chew husks, strew ashes. Under the generalship of thought the war of words is fiercely waged. The citadel of the mind is stormed, and after each engagement old ideas are buried and newer ones recruited. The retreat is never sounded, and tho for ward movement while slow is sure, and an intellectual victory assured. Un der the antagonisms which meet and do battle on life's broad field the scope of thought is widened, the bnrden is lightened, the road brightened. Were it not for the antagonisms of mental life we would still be looking at the stars instead of beyond them, would still be looking into the grave instead of over it But the brain was built for working, the tongue for speaking, the eye for seeing, the heart for hop ing, tbe feet for carrying us on. And the argu ers will go on .arguing, the delvers will go on delving, the searchers will go on searching ever onward and upward, retrograding, per haps, but To-morrow never dipping to the level of Yesterday. Good form is very often bad taste, but fashion tickles the fancy instead of the palate. The oftener sensible people pass the growler the better for all concerned. In Germany the more marks a man carries the more he is respected. The silver men seem to have missed a golden opportunity. "When is a banjo like a book ? "When it's well thumbed. There is always more or less staggering at a stag party. Theatrical programmes now read: "Characters assumed by the players," etc., in stead of the old-fashioned "Cast of characters." The change is doubtless due to the fact that the drama has lost caste. Tn& wretchedness of London evidently pleases Kipling better than the bustling pros perity of American cities. The pessimist looks at the world with sore eyes and refuses to wear rose-colored glasses. And now the silver States are boycotting the World's Fair. It can get along without an exhibit of cowboys and Indians, anyway. "When Blaine clinches his reciprocity bargain with Cuba, Havana cigars will be within the reach of the middle classes. The weak-willed are the ones who are always talking about making good resolutions. The man who hears the jingle of the coins In bis pocket is seldom lonesome. "We would all be gamblers if we had a sure thing on winning. The Indians at "Washington talk like children and handle a gun like old soldiers. "When glass house workers strike they never come to blows. Some of the laws designed by the granger statesmen are cat bias. A cotempoeary's reciprocity cartoon represents Blaine greeting a Greaser. Mexico is not yet in it dear boy. "Why are gamblers like little children? Because they love to play. It is all right to air clothing, but the soiled linen shonld be kept in the background. Stuttering folk have an unruly tongue, but never try to bridle it Mrs. Jeff Davis says her husband was abused at Fortress Monroe. A good many husbands were abused during the war, and those at Libby and Andersonville failed to live long onough to file a complaint The stream of tbe present cannot be ob structed by the wreckage of the past. Where the flow is retarded new channels will be cut The heart often holds the key to a lock of hair. It costs more to whitewash a statesman than It does to fresco bis house. Good art merely repeats something pro duced by natnre, and only the prudes prefer to see it draped. Blood-shot eyes indicate that their owner is loaded. It is far pleasanter to get a letter with a remittance than to get a letter reminding yon to remit The pen that writes the obituary is dipped in charity, but the one that writes the biography is frequently dipped in gall. Love is not nearly so blind as the parents of a great many lovers. The color applied to the hair takes the color out of the cheeks, but some women seem to prefer rouge to blood. The Chinese yesterday undertook to ex orcise the evil spirits, and propose to drive all the devils out of Pittsburg. The preachers will still have their hands full, however. Bankers as well as musicians know the value of a note. Honest money can hardly be expected from dishonest lawmakers. A whispered scandal travels faster and further than a shonted compliment The church will never succeed in making theological seminaries out of the public schools, or nunneries out of the female colleges. Nature's laws are heartless and are en forced by tbe iron band of fate. It will solve the race problem slowly but surely. It is not at all likely that Councils will get stuck on a Glew farm. A Four-runner The race horse. Legislators p&y more attention to the alimentary canal than tho proposed ship canals. WlMJE WlNKLK. Bigness Not Greatness. Richmond Dispatch. The managers of the Chicago Fair ask of Congress an appropriation of $5,000,000. They wish to have an exhibition that will eclipse any tho world has ever before seen. There is ex ceeding probability that its vastness will bo created at tbe expense of symmetry. The Centennial Exposition was too large, and yet the coicago reposition u to ce larger. Bigness is noi greatness. ' "WHY WHJ TEE8 GE0W WABMEB, A Theorist Says the Exhaustion of Natural Gas Alters the Climate. New York Telegram. 1 "The natural gas theory?" laughingly said Charles J. Pierson, of Indiana, at the Ashland House. "Have you heard of that? Well, it is exciting a good deal of comment with us, and I think deservedly so. You know that Indiana is now held responsible for the lack of cold winters in Detroit and Chicago and along the lower line of Michigan. The theory is simply this: "Underneath the localities mentioned there is a vast subterranean reservoir, in which the gas has been stored for ages past You know that certain combinations of gas will make cold. The gas wells of Richmond, Ind., give out over 15,000.000 feet of gas a day. This waste has been going on for years. This drain is thought sufficient to make a change in the climate of those places abovo the subterranean reservoirs, notably Chicago and Detroit Yon know it is a source of constant remark in these cities that there are no more cold winters. How far this theory Is right in its conjectures is not for me to say." The Obvious Moral. Detroit Free Press. For tbe heir apparent of tbe English throne to gamble is sad; for him to be caught at it and dragged into a court of law as a witness is lamentable. The moral is: If you feel like wooing the goddess of chance, choose your company, and then don't do it Has Her Tongue Left New York 'World. What has become of the woman who made 150 speeches for the farmers of Kansas dnring the late campaign T In the grand distribution of prizes what has the woman got T NAMES TEAT ABE GREAT. Father Ignatius has been spending the winter in Florida. Friends in England sent him $3,000 to cover his expenses. Miss "Winnie Davis, daughter of Jef ferson Davis, is again engaged to be married, it is said this time to James S. Richardson, the great Louisiana cotton planter. Senator "Voorhees is ill of a compli cation of diseases, rheumatism and heart trouble being the most serious. It is not prob able he will be in the Senate during tbe rest of the session. Inventor Edison is a vegetarian. Nov elist H. Rider Haggard is a vegetarian. Prof. Swing is a vegetarian. Sir Isaac Newton was a vegetarian. All the Greek philosophers, sages and seers ate no flesh. OF.the hundreds of letters which Judge Peffer has received congratulating him on his election to the Senate not one comes from the wealthy classes or moneyed interests. Mr, Peffer feels very good over this. John D. Bockefeller's gift of $1,600, 000 to the Chicago University is being paid in installments of 100,000 each 30 days. He said recently to one who had spoken of his gift as munificent: "Ob, it is nothing compared with what I intend to do, as I have only just begun to make money." And he is rated atSlOO, 000,000! Mrs. Marian Beid, the aged mother of Whitelaw Reid, who resides nearCedarville, O., has been quite teeble for the past month or six weeks. She was highly delighted while her illustrious son was taking his trip through the Holy Land to receive from him some olive leaves he obtained on the Mount of Olives, a sprig from a tree whose branches overhung the River Jordan, and a blight, old-fashioned mar igold plncked in tho Garden of Getnsemane. General Longstreet has just re turned to Atlanta from Texas, a little reduced in flesh by sickness. The sobriquet the "Old War Horse," was first given General Long street in December. 1862, at tbe battle of Fred ericksburg, where Lee said: "I kept tbe OId "War Horse" by my side so I could direct him where to apply his strength best" Veterans in Atlanta declare be got the nickname after the seven days' fight around Richmond in 186L The question of Cleopatra's beauty is an old one, bnt it has been brought into fresh prominence by Sardou's "Cleopatra" and Mrs. Langtry's revival of Shakespeare's play. The only authentic portrait of Cleopatra that is known to archaeologists is a bust which appears on a series of coins. It is on the reverse, and bears the inscription in Greek, "Queen Cleo patra, the Divine, tho Younger," while on the obverse is a portrait of "Antony, Dictator for the Third Time, Triumvir." The workmanship of the coin is far from good, and this accounts in come measure for the undeniably plain ap pearance of tbe queen. Yet the likeness, so far as the f eatnres go, is a true one, for the other coins of the same series, though of a different type, give her the same features an equiline nose, a strong chin, a long neck and narrow shoulders. Tho fact is tbat her beauty was not so remarkable as one would think from the spell she cast over Cassar and Antony. Envied by Machine Politicians. Denver News.! Tbe Alliance members of the Kansas Legis lature meet in caucus every evening, decide on a programme for the day following, andtbat programme is carried out to the letter. It is known what bills will be introduced and how each member of the Alliance will vote. All differences are settled in caucus. The disci pline of this new party in Kansas was never surpassed by any party. There Should Be Some Good. St. l'aul Globe. The statistics of recent immigration show the same tendency as the past year to an increase from Italy, Poland and Russia and a decrease from Great Britain and Scandinavia. Ger- I many, however, increases, and there ought to be some good material driven out of Russia by tho despotic rule there. F0TJHD IN A VEIN OP SILVER. An Arrow Head nnd Human Bones 4C0 Teet Below the Surface. . nSPFCIAL TILKORAM TO TUB DISPATCH.! Leadville. Feb. 8. John Sunger brought to this city to-day an arrow head made of tern' pered copper, and a number of human bones which were found in the Rocky Point Mine, at Gilman, 460 feet below the surface of the earth, imbedded in a vein ot silver-bearing ore. Over $100 worth of ore clung to the bones when they were removed from tbe mine. The ore clung to the arrow bead when taken from the urn, and was with some difficulty re moved. One of tho bones is a portion of the head of the femur or thigh bone. Tbe im portant feature of this discovery is the fact that these relics were found in tbe center of a vein of ore, indicating that man was in exist ence on tbis continent when tbe molten metal was coursing the fissures of these mountains. Sara and the Dog Trick. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. We TCgret to note that Sara Bernhardt, with all her fame and talents as an actress, conde scends to do the "dog trick," which seems to be the latest advertising dodge of "actors and act resses in search of notoriety. The "dog trick" is a device for getting into the newspapers about a change of hotels necessitated by the refusal of one house to allow a dog to occupy apartments reserved for guests. Sara has just played It in New York, and her transition from the Gilsey to the Hoffman is tho subject of comment It has been played in St Louis sev eral time? and has yielded the expected results, but is becoming something of a chestnut here'. What Ails Kansas. Brooklyn Standard-Union. Kansas has had one of her diseases of youth. We should think it a big case of measles. The disease is not dangerous as long as the rash is kept well ont on the skin, and He think Peffer is a mistake we may depend upon. He is a red rash with bumps on it He has been Improving his mind until he has overdone It. His speech of acceptance of a seat in the Senata showed a habit of confounding himself with the Al mighty. The Peffers are a power this year. Next year they will be made hay of. Out of the Frying Fan. Toledo Blade. Buffalo William suggests that the Indians be treated like the negroes. Tbis would mean tbe substitution of the shotgun fur the Winchester rifle. Nothing in a Name. St Louis Globe-Democrat Congressman Bland is very blustering these v4ays. THINGS IN GENERAL. The Wrestle of the Ordinary Tongue With the Difficulties of a Russian Name A Strango Land for Teachers of the World to Come From, Some people, referring to the Verestchagin exhibition, speak of it as "those pictures over in Carnegie Halk" This is an easy escape from a wrestle with the Russian language. Others, who are more venturesome, lay hold upon the hard name In a catch-as-catch-can fashion, and pronounce It "Very-shockinV That is. indeed, a fair description of some of tbe pictures. They are very shocking. Some of these battle scenes are so real and so horrible that they become ahaunting vision. You wake up in the middle of the night, and the priest in robes of black and silver swings his censer over the field of mangled corpses. Borne people Cod the religious pictures equally shocking. There arono haloes about the heads of Verestcba gin's saints. And that is an unpardonable thine. It is quite proper and most commenda ble to paint pictures of sinners without any clothes on, bnt to paint pictures of saints with out any haloes on outrages one's sense of Chris tian decency. Such is the foolishness which steals the good name of art I confess that I have no admiration for haloes. My reverence for tbe saints Is riot in creased when they are depicted with their beads outlined against dinner plates of bur nished gold. There is only one saint whoso head ought to be in a dinner plate; and that of course, is that realistic preacher of the old day who spoke ome good, homely, realistic truth to Madame Herodias. Thn mnt aarrAfl fhtntr in this world is truth. Tell us the truth; paint things as they really are. All else is "news from nowhere," and concerns ns not at all. A Scene That Is Realistic So I like that picture of the holy family, where Christ sits reading the roll of the book, and Joseph is busy at the carpenter's bench, and Mary with her little children sits upon the ground in tbe Syrian courtyard, and the family washing hangs overhead, and tbe chickens peck in the brown earth. That is what that scene was really like, in those old days at Nazareth. And I like, still more, that strong, triglc picture of the crucifixion, with tho great wall on one side and tbe three crosses on the other, and the great crowd in the foreground, and no ecclesiastical grouping, no conventional effects. Tbe old pictures look as if tbe crucifixion was a religious service instead of a disordered, brutal execution. Bnt this picture is true. There is not a conventional attitude in it, as there was not at Calvary that spring day back in tbe centuries. Down runs the great stream of red blood from hands and feet. Here and there a clenched fist Is lifted in denunciation. Back in a corner of the picture the mother is crying, her face covered by her hands. And the crowd looks on, some with wonder, some with curiosity, some with pity, some with fear. Tbis is what the passers-by saw that day a crucifixion which was not especially different to the common eye from any other of tbe crucifixions of that brutal time. Whatever more we may believe abont Him, Jesus of Nazareth was a real man, walking tbe streets of the Syrian towns, wearing the dress of that land and time, looking simply like a man. He was satisfied with that but somehow we are dissatisfied. That representation of Himself to men was reverent enough for Him. If we are right-minded, it will be quite reverent enough for us. One of the most significant facts abont this notable collection of pictures is that they are religious pictures. And by tbat I don't mean only that the painter has chosen bis subjects in many cases from tbe life of Christ and from the scenes hallowed by the touch ot His blessed feet. Bebind these great canvases is an up lifting purpose; that is what I mean. They are religious, because th ey minister to the highest interests of men. They were painted to help men. That is the mission of tbe best realism. The realistic artist who knows what his art is for, has a message, and that message is meant for us common men. A True Record of Remarkable Sights. Take these battles and camp-hospitals and barbarous punishments and snowbound, per ishing sentries. What a lesson they teachl Verestchagin tells us tbat when he painted them tbemain purpose in his mind was to make a true record of some remarkable sights which had come within the range of his own remark able experience. But when they were painted, behold they were not songs bnt sermonsl Like all the work of all earnest men, there was a helpful meaning shown in them. It is amusing to learn tbat tbe Russians were greatly pleased with tbe picture of the Sepoys blown from tbe English guns In India, but they did not at all approve of the picture of tbe Russian hanging scene in tbe snowstorm. Tbat is human nature. We like the sermons which hit onr next door neighbors. Queer, though, isn't ItT that these Russians should come preaching to usT Tolstoi and Verestchagin, out of that land which Kennan and Stepniak have depicted in such realistic fashion, that semi-barbarous Russia, inhabited (the Contemporary Hevlew assures us) by liars, thieves and unclean persons these two great teachers come to teach us how to behave our selvesi Tf'!a,eye??llin eye, and a tooth for a tooth." ?, n5" ta,takm tne race to ontgrowthat .!-.fi?1Lou brut0 inheritance." Nations are still like dogs. They fight What a way of ascertaining truth, to pummel each other about "" . f' ay " we can to CI" off the heads of the upholders of the other side! And so to b"ng about the reign of righteousness! But we are learning better. Tbe finest thing that has been of late years accomplished in Inter national settling of agreements, is tbat trans fer of our sea troubles with England out of the hands of politicians into tho jurisdiction of judges. Tbat is the way to do it. Get tbe dis putes out of tbe reach of tbe men whose aims are purely selfish, who want notoriety and money, and votes, and offices. Some say that the aangetous class in this country is the tramps: others say tho capitalists. Why not the politicians? Why not the men who would even be willing to encourage war, if war would serve their party ends? The Heart of the Matter. Verestchagin is right in bis belief that one step toward tbe putting down of national fight ing is a realization of the horrors of war. Of course that does not tonch tbe heart of tbe matter. A realization of hnman brotherhood gets nearer to tbat Still, by all mean, show up unbrotherliness in all its ghastly, bleeding, horrible results. From this time on, war is going to show that increasingly. Partly be cause there is a constant and tragical improve ment in tbe construction of machines for kill ing men. Cam has case away bis old club. He has a whole armory of Weapons a thousand times mor deadly. And partly, also, because there is a ponde, now which makes no smoke. That blinding cloud, tbat hiding, delusive, merciful veil of smoke, will no longer hang over tbe field of battle. Every man will see bis brother's bleeding wounas. Every horror of mangled, distorted, blood-dripping, torn, dead humanity will be in full sight of evervbndy. It will be too much for tbe stoutest heart. Tho next great war will be without a parallel lor its sheer, open, fiendish bru tality. Men will find out what war is. That if. the prescription which Veretchagin offers for the malady of war, and which tjf na tions will perforce take the next time thfy fall sick of that plague, is like Dr. Koch's prescrip tion for tuberculosis it is the most virulent of poisons. It is significant that we are a good deal more Interested just now in healing men's bodies tban we are in mangling them. The doctors are more important tban tbe captains. The mention of Dr. Koch suggests the name of Count Mattel. Dr. Kocb is trying to cure con sumption. Count Mattel is trying to cure can cer. People are just beginning to find out something about this Italian doctor. Mr. Stead, who is 'up" to everything, has discovered him. A Radical Change in Treatment The old process of cancer treatment began, as Mr. Stead remarks, with a sharp knife and ended with a dose of morphine. But here is something better. Hero is the homeopathic principle applied in tbe case of cancer. And in the case of everything else, it seems. Inuecd, that is the orst thing about it, that it claims to do so mnch. Cardinal La vigerle ants to have all tbe missionaries of Northern Africa supplied with this remedy tbat they may work miraeles. This miracle business, and the part played in the medicine by "blue electricity," are sus picious. The base of the drug is a decoction of herbs, an thee are somehow mixed up to gether (nobody but the Count knowB how) with "blue electricity." However, here It is. Quackery? 'Yes. Pat ent medicine? Yes. But will it cure people? Ye?. At lcat, thousands of peonle say so. Aftcrll. that is what we want. What care wo for all the faculty of medicine so long as we can be cored? Princess Galltzin (a familiar name in these parts) is a believer in the Count. Gen eral Ignaticff belongs to tbe noble army of wit nesses. At Hankow. China, there is a hospital with a thousand patients under this treatment The Dncbess of Argyll has been recovered from astbma. Lady Paget was cured of la grippe, in five minutes. In India tbeyarerestoringlepers with blue electricity. In England Prof. Hux ley and Sir Morell Mackenzie are suggesting a test hospital. In Chicago Dr. Pnschaek Is the Count's American representative. The Lono Star of the Cabinet. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The only Preldental possibility In the Cab inet ii the Secretary of State. In this particu lar the present ministerial council of the nation is widely differenvfrom-any "other-waich it has bad since before tne war, OUR MAIL POUCH. 1 For the Safety of the Miner. To the Editor of The Dispatch: In reading an account in The Dispatch of tbe Mammoth mine slanghter, and the choos ing of a legislative committee to investigate tbe same, it strikes me that this would be a proper time to speak of some of the causes that lead up to mine accidents in general, and these wholesale slaughters in particular. Insufficient ventilation and a want ot thorough and vigi lant inspection of ail tbe working galleries and chambers of a mine are accountable, in the main, for gas explosions; and while it may be true that in very fiery seams, the laying bare a gas fissure by tbe workman's pick, tbe firing of shot to loosen coal, or the caving in of the root, may sometimes be the means of an un looked for and free escape of a large body of explosive gas. All experience teaches ns tbat the greatest loss of life arises from the first mentioned cause". In reference to the present sacrifice, the statement is made that the mining laws stipulate that tbe safety lamp shall be used. Bnt the evidence all goes to show that that law was ignored. A perusal of tbe evidence ont up to the 30th inst goes to show that the Mammoth miners lost their lives through neglect or indif ferent inspection, arising from a false feeling of security, resting upon the theory tbat this mine, having hitherto been free from gas, it would so continue to be free. Tho duties of a fire boss, when faithfully attended to, are oner ous and exacting; and such men shonld attend exclusively to the inspection of the galleries ot a mine for accnmulation of gases. There can not, in tbe nature of things, be such a careful inspection as will reasonably insure human lives, where the flro bosses' inspection ended three hours before the miners commenced work. A fire boss' first daily iuxpection should be so arranged as to time that all the working parts of the mine shall be visited and reported on, his ronnds to terminate not more than 15 or 20 minutes before the men commence work. Bnt onr bituminous miners are allowed to go. and actually do go, all along the two rivers, and In the Connellsville field, commencing on their day's work Irom 1 a. M. to 7 A. jr.. as feeling or necessity drives them. Poor fellows! theirs .is indeed a hard life. But apart from the sacrifice of life caused by explosions, there are many other causes to be guarded against, such as flooding of a mine from accumulations of water in exbansted workings; breaking of the hoisting apparatus; falls of mineral while undermining and falls of roofs. Accidents arising from tbe last-named causes have been greatly reduced of late years, owing, in tbe main, to tbe visits of tbe mine in spectors, but there is still lots of room for more effectual progress in tbe same direction. When the time comes aronndthat our lawmakers and onr mine proprietors and operators reverse tho present order of things, and consult tbe safety and welfare of their workmen in preference to the accnmulation of the dollars, then, and not till then, mine accidents will be fewer. But hero are a few ideas for what they are worth: Tbe long wall system of mining our bituminous coal veins, while the first cost of opening up the mine would be more expensive, would resnlt in tbe end in far greater profits to the operator, in a greater saving of tbe mineral, a less percentage of lives lost to the amount of coal mined, a great reduction in the amount of timber needed, and a more perfect and equal ventilation with the same power. A law to prevent the miners from com mencing on their day's work in any shaft slope or drift before a certain stipnlated hour, say G or 7 A. M. Such a law would enable the fire bosses to attend to their dnties within tbe limits necessary to thorough ly examine tbe mines so as to insure tbe great est safety to the workmen. Tbe contract sys tem (or piece work) ought to be abolished, so far as mines are concerned, for tho following rea sons: First because it tends to recklessness and a disregard of the workman's personal safety; sec ond, because it prematurely exhausts the vital energies of the workmen: third, because it cre ates dissatisfaction among tho workmen them selves, owing to the unequal distribution of the work, and also because it has a tendency to overproduction, causing tbe workmen to be subjected to periodical conditions of over-exertion or a total suspension of wort; fourth, be cause tbe plan is practical, although I am aware that many of tne miners would object to it In conclusion, allow me to state that there has been far greater sacrifices of life than the one just occurring at the Mammoth shaft Some tblity or so yfcrs ago. at a place called Lund Mill.ln Yorkshire.there wero 159 killed by an explosion, and a little whilo after, at tbe Oaks colliery, near Earnsley, Yorkshire, there were SU lives lost by thegag firing in tbe shaft. Tbe writer was at tbe pit mouth ot both or those mines. Stephen S. Brown. Heshbon, Indiana co.. Pa., Feb. 5, You Are a Good Republican. To the Editor of The Dispatch: Dear Sir As I have voted for the last President Benjamin Harrison, on the Republi can ticket and supported the last State ticket except for Governor, tbe question I would like answered is: Under those conditions would I be entitled to a vote at a Republican primary? Reader. Elizabeth. Pa., Feb. 7. If you are not the Republican party wonld be in the minority. Independence does not disbar you. J Probably Meant for a Joke. To tbe Editor of Tbe Dispatch: "Paper No. 10," in The Dispatch of Janu ary 3L upon water ways, is very ingenious and interesting. I would like to ask tbe writer how be proposes to surmount the impediments to navigation when tbe rivers and canals are frozen over. W. C. Kheem. Franklijt. Pa., Feb. 7. lit tbe writer had closely read the papers he would have discovered tbat allowance was made for tbe weather in calculating the yearly navigable period nnder the Improvement sug gested. Less Brilliant, bat More Solid. Baltimore American. Congress is not as interesting as it was, but it is doing a heap more work. WHEN SISTER DARNS TTIE SOCKS. rrKIPABID FOB THE DISPATCH. 1 There's a nook beside the ingle, where the chil dren lore to gather. When the winter nights are passing, and the frost Is on the p ane. There's a rocker nxed for mother, and a big arm chair for father. And a cost rug before the hearth, for pass and baby Jane. And tbe clock ticks In tbe corner, and the old man gets his glasses. And mother brings her knitting, and the chil dren mend their frocks. And a flood of pleasant feeling o'er tbat little circle passes. As the boys et down the checker board, while sister darns the socks. There's the baby with ber picture books, who talks or dolls and dresses. Or frolics with the pussy, tumbling round upon the Boor; While the firelight glints and ripples on the golden, tangled tresses. Casting shadows, dark and gloomy, on tbe wainscot and the door. Soon a bashful, sunburnt fellow steals across tbe frozen stubble You can tell by some one's blushes, tbat she guesses well who knocks: Ben 1'acLer come to chat awhile, and seethe cider bubble And hold the skcln for .Nellie, as she sits and darns tbe socks. There's talk of cattle, sheep and crops, ana colts and bslkyhorses. And subsoiling, and top dressing, and tobacco Juice for ticks; And the old man's eTes grow brighter as he, limbering up, discourses God bless his simple earnest heart of "dralnln' off the cricks." The clock is Striking ten, but still the awkward figure lingers. The old man rattling straight ahead, while mother sits and rocks; Tbe curly heads are nodding fast and Nellie pricks her fingers. For her heart goes with her lover, while she sits and darns the socks. O sacred hearthstones of our land, O firesides pure and simple. Whose holy love, like that sweet dove that slept o'er Jordan's stream, Around them flits, while mother knits, and sis ter's blushes dimple. Nor thought of guile or 'worldly wile, disturbs their artless dream. God bless the homes of innocence, andchlld h oca's thoughts elyslan; And bless, to those who know him yet the sire who sits and talks: Tbe day shall come wncn home's sweet scene will be a cberlsh'd v slon. When sister sweeps a stranger's hearth, and darns another's socks. Ye prond, who like th' Egyptian queen, salt down life's purple river. Whose coldness kills the spirit and whose spleador chills the soul. There's a rapture, and a glory from your hearts shut out forever, A stream that rarely rises when the waves of grandeur roll. 'T!s the light of Joy. that sparkles when the Are or love Is burning jror tbe dream of fame and glory but blisters blinds and mocks How many haughty spirits. Tor their childhood's peace are yearning. As Ken yearns lor his Netlle, as she sits and darns tbetsekw 1 iL-i .o. rnttADttLriHVlTeb. . J. B. Pabxe, ii. V, CDRI0US CONDENSATIONS. But one mile of railway was built la Iowa last year. A man at Ensh Lake, Mich., found evidences of silver while digging a well. A solid train of 75 cars of lumber ar rived In Savannah. Ga.. one day last week. Missouri annually expends over $7,000 for tobacco for tbe convicts in tbe penitentiary. A store building at Decatur, Mich., Is nicknamed "Mummery Block" becanse all tha village secret societies meet there. The Port Huron tunnel banquet will be eaten June 15, from flat cars in tbe middle of tho hole. There will be 1,000 guests. A boy at Tampa, Fla., while hunting eggs in an old stable, found two gold watches. They had been stolen and concealed there. Forty-three carloads of coal have been shipped from the Kansas State mines at Lan sing to 11 different destitute Western counties. Mr. Henley, aged 95, finished an unin terrupted life of pauperism in the Gosport workhouse. He was brought there when S years old in 1S0L An old frontiersman says that the "ghost dance" is nothing more nor less than the old Modoc war dance, with possibly a few recent embellishments. Eighty per cent of the people at Union ville. Mew, are church members. There are hardly enough sinners in the whole town to get up a dance or a card party. A Missouri man has collected over 6,000 different kinds of wood, petrifactions and relics from all parts of the world. He expects to exhibit them at the World's Fair. A colored man, confined in the Cassop olts, Mich., jail becanse he is a maniac on re ligious topics, bas stoutly refused to eat a thing for six days. He says he wants to die. The people of "Winfield, Kan., have made up a purse of COO with which to erect a monument to tbe bov hero. Thomas Morgan. who a short time ago lost his life In attempting to rescne a young schoolmate who had broken through the ice while skating. At a session of the Central Farmers In stitute, held in Toronto, interesting discussions took place on the Illegality of combines, the advantages of free trade, and other matters of moment. A resolution in favor of absolute trade reciprocity between Canada. England, and the United States was earned by a large majority. When Livingston reached the center of Africa he fonnd millions of people there who never bad tasted salt, but they got to liking it and would sell a slave for a pound of salt just as they would sell a slave for a bottle of whisky. Quite a new description of stage illu sion has been originated by Van der Weyde.tbe eminent London photographer. It is stated that the illusion is so wonderful that tbe on looker refuses to believe that the shadow pro jected is anything bnt solid stone. The young ladies of Quincy, Mich., have a "guess party." The ladies send the gentlemen invitations reading: "Party in our set this evening. Guess where and come there.' It is needless to say tnatthe boys get aronnd late, as tbey frequently visit a dozen houses before finding the right one. The President and Committee of the Egypt Exploration Fund have determined to begin an exhaustive archaeological survey of that country, which will include measuring and making plans of the monuments, copying and photographing tbe inscriptions, sculptures and wall paintings, and making note of all the recent depredations. Willhelm Vaddie, an eccentric charac ter and naturalist residing near Versailles, Ind., who spends much of his time searcbingin the woods, among the bills, deep gullers and ravines, found a stone abont four inches long, that has a number of diamond-shaped points on the surface. A Cincinnati jeweler is said to have offered Mr. Vaddie 12,000 for his treas ure. A peculiar discovery was made at Stone Fort near Chattanooga, just as men were hew ing asunde.' a large piece of rock. It was found tbat a crevice divided it the aperture, however, narrowed down until It became solid toward the bottom. When tbe men broke it asunder, within tho bosom of tbe rock was found a petrified reptile resembling very much the shape and build of an alligator. Tbe canvas-back can distance any other dnck. It can fly two miles a minnte and keep it up for hours. The mallard is the slowest but with an effort can go a mile a minute. The gad wade dnck. numerous in Oregon, can travel 80 miles an bonr. Tbe broad-bill duck Is al most as switt as the canvas-back, but cannot keep the race as long as the other. Even geese can travel by wing from eight to ten miles an bonr. What is known as the "secret mail" of India bas for more than a generation perplexed tbe English mind, and is still a profound mys tery, although numberless attemnts have been made to explain it. Everyone who has lived long in Asiatic countries is aware that tbe ac curate knowledge of important happenings at a distance is often possessed by tho natives a consiuerauie time ueiore it is oDtained by the Government, and even though special facili ties had been provided for the transmission of the news. The latest estimate of the 12 largest cities in tbe world, in the order of their popu lation, is as follows: London, Eng.. (inclndiug suburbs.) 5.101,613; Palis, 2,311,530: Osaka. Japan. 1,653.111; New York City. 1,513,501: Can ton, China, 1,500.000; Aitchi. Japan, 1,390.702; Berlin, Prussia, L315, 297; Tokio. Japan, J.28S, 07; Vienna. Austria. L103.857; Chicago. 1099. 133; Philadelphia. 1,046.252; Sian, China, L00O, 000. There are three other cities ot China that are said to have LOOO.OOO Inhabitants, bnt the populations of the Oriental cities are generally mere estimates, While a Chicago, Burlington and Quincy freight train was coming from Burling ton to Galesburg, 111., tbe otber day, the en gineer noticed an eagle sitting on the track feasting on a rabbit The eagle arose when the engine drew near, but tbe locomotive was run ning so rapidly tbat tbS big bird could not clear it. One of tbe wings flapped into the wedge shaped space formed bi the headlight bracket and tbe extension at the front end of thn boiler, and was held there as In a vise. The fireman went forward and released tbe wing, and carried the eagle into the cab, where itshowed fight and made things livelr for the engineer, who finally cornered it and brought it to Gales burg alive. It is an unusually fine specimen. The following 21 trunk railroad lines cover more tban 1,000 miles each: New York Central and Hudson; Fennsylvauia; Denver and Rio Grande; Atchison. Topeka and Santa Fe: New York. Lake Erie and Western: Illinois Central; Chicago. Rock Island and Paciflc; East Tennessee, Virginia and Georcia: Louisville and Nashville; Late Shore and Michigan South ern; Chicaeo and Northwestern; Union Paciflc; Northern Pacific; St Louis and San Francisco; St. Paul. Minnesota and Manitoba: Michigan Central; Baltimore and Ohio; Chicago. Bur lington and Quincy; Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Pan!: Chicago and Alton; Boston and Al bany; Pittsbure. Ft, Wayne and Chicago; Southern Pacific; Richmond, West Point and Terminal. LATEST GEMS OF WIT. The spark who goes to see a maid. With her young heart to idly sport If she engage a lawyer's aid. Can be compelled to go A court. Siagara Spray. A philosopher is a man who can feel as easy over his own troubles as he does OTer his neighbor's. There are no philosophers. AtcM son Globe. Tescher To what circumstance is Colum bus Indebted for his fame? Tommy To the circumstance that America was not already discovered.-5trf, fi Texas 81fU ingt. Hcjack (to his wife) If you're waking call me early. Mrs. Hojack-If I'm not waking. I suppose I can call you Tom, S3 usual. Chicago Inter Ocean. Biggs And how does Senator Dunfer stand with your people? Griggs lie Is dead-a political corpse. Biggs Did bis enemies stab him ? Urlggs No. he wrote a confidential letter to a trusted fricnd.-CAfcaffo Time. Editor of Religious "Department (pausing a moment in bis work) How does that quotation go "A prophet is not without honor except ex cept" Kallroad Editor (busily scratching away) Ex cept among thieves. Chicago Tribune. Physician (with ear to pugilist's chest). There Is a severe swelling over the region of tha heart which must be reduced at once. l'atlent (anxiously) That swelling Is my pocket book, doctor. Please don't reduce it too much. Chicago Xeici. Simi'kins Say, Jones, have you heard the news? l'eople can't get married any more. Jones (In surprise) Why, what's the trouble'1 now? 2' i Hlmptlns-Oh, Vanamakerand the rest of Jest - there at Washington have pat s stop to'theletJ tery business. VraKt's Magazine ?JS ! S-:-