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Including Sunday. lm'ta 90 hCNKAY DISPATCH. One Year 150 "Wxlkly Dispatch, One Year 113 The Daily Dispatch Is delivered by carriers at -cent-per week, or including Sunday edition, at tt cents per week. PITTSBURG. WEDNESDAY. FEB. II, 1681. DALZKLL'S DEFENSE OF RE1TEB. Mr. Dalzell's arraignment of Secretary of tlie Navy Tracy in Congress, yesterday, was vigorous snd clear. He held, as The Dis patch has held all alone, that the sum mary discharge of Commander lleiter, with out the trial which that officer asked for, was a Tery serious mistake. Hetouchedthe kernel of the matter when he declared that a man Ion? in honorable service, as Com mander Eeitcr was, and who had attained lis position by training and effort ia the dis charge of his duty, should not be summarily fcrced from the service by a man suddenly elevated to power by political chance and who might as suddenly disappear again by the same accident, Mr. Dulzell also took occasion to touch up the foreign policy that blusters at a third rate power like Guatemala, but winks at an outrage committed upon the person of an American citizen by any of the great nations of Europe. This exposure of our "vigorous" ioreign policy is unkind, but it is true. A great deal of buncombe was in dulged over the Barrundia affair and the worst of it was the discharge of Commander lleiter, for acting in harmony with Minister Mizner, without the courtesy of a coart martial when it was asked for. Mr. Dal zell's defense of the discharged commander was manly and timely. PROTECTING THE IA YEMENIS. The New York Legislature has a bill re quiring anyone who disturbs the pavement of a city for the purposes of excavation to give bonds to restore it to as good a condition as he found it The provision is such an obvious one the wonder is that it has not been the universal law in all cities for years. We are inclined to doubt if there is any city suffering under such continuously stupid government that it has not such a provision in its ordinance books, although it is quite I possible there are many where inefficient administration has made the provision a dead letter. There is an equally necessary provision which the generality of cities have not yet had the intelligence to adopt. It is the re quirement when streets are newly paved that all underground lines on it be put down before the pavement is laid. There are noted cases in this city of streets paved at high cost and within two years torn up to lay gas or water pipes, or street railway tracks, work that could have been more economically done in the first place. Where this is done with an asphalt pave ment, it is practically ruined. With a blockstonc pavement the damage is not so complete, but the deterioration is manifest. Nine-tenths of such cases could be pre vented by the exercise of ordinary intelli gence and foresight. The need for apply ing the same qualities is also manifest in the case of some of the streets now under process of improvement. But we cannot concur in the New York plan of curing this evii by State legislation. First, because a general statute with refer ence to a matter of purely municipal ad ministration will be sure to become a dead letter, where the administration is not ruled by business principles. Second, because the principle of local self-government makes it essential that if cities cannot infuse enough efficiency and honesty into their government to protect streets from seedless destruction, they shall suffer the penalty. The law does not deem it necessary to protect a private citi zen against the deterioration of his property by his own negligence or stupidity. There is no reason why it should protect cities which cannot adopt precautions to protect streets against unnecessary destruc tion. It would take away the incentive to popular activity in municipal affairs and abolish the penalty for bad mnnicipal poli tics, to have the Legislature put the city under the tntelage of State law in such local respects as the conservation of pavements. DISPROVING CAMPAIGN PREDICTIONS. The utter worthlessness of the clap-trap which fills some political organs before and after election is conspicuously shown in re cent statistics upon the operation of the Mc Kinley bill. The cry of free traders in No vember was that the McKinley bill would rn-ike a great increase in the prices of pretty nearly all the necessaries of life, especially the line or articles on which duties were raised. Yet an interesting comparison care fully compiled almost up to date by our Philadelphia cotemporary, the Inquirer, shows that upon no fewer thr.u 951 dutiable articles of merchandise the quotations are now actually lower than before the McKin ley bill went into operation. The singular fact is also brought out that the articles showing an increase are for the most part those which were not intended to he affected at all by the duties, the reason being from special causes reducing temporary shortage of the home supply. So, loo. the money stringency the "panic" as the free traders would have it which the McKinley bill had caused has long since aisapnearcd. We now witness the industries and trade of the country going along for the most part prosperously and hopefully, except in localities and lines where particular obstructions exist. But the full effects of the McKinley measure cannot be computed with much more cer taintyyet than in November, so the Inquir er's table, while proving the iaise and frothy extravagance of much of the rot which the lree traders were publishing in their organs and shouting on the street corners, is itself an insufficient index to future results. It will tske at least a year before the trade and manufacturers fully adapt themselves to the new conditions. We welcome the Inquirer't "figures as far as they go,-but have reason to look for a still better showing as the months go on, particularly when Blaine's judicious employment of reciprocity privileges comes into actual operation. A CONFESSION OF WEAKNESS. The discussion of iron freights, as brought out by the shut-down of iurnaces in the Shenanco and Mahoning valleys, has evoked a reply from soma one of the rail road representatives. This counterblast sets forth that the furnacenien are guilty at once of "6trikini" and "bluffing." They have committed the offense of improving their plants so that they can secure an en larged production; having done that tbey havc committed the misdemeanor of enlarg ing their production so as to get the benefit of the economy; and finally it is alleged that they have wilfully and greedily abstained from selling pig iron at a loss; and have maliciously failed to divide their profits during the prosperous period "with either the men or the railroad companies either in wages or freight," which amounts to an as sertion that they have paid neither wages or freight bills. On the other hand the liberality of the railroads is proved by the fact that they haul ore at rates that "about cover the cost of transportation;" switch their cars to the Iurnaces without charge as they must do with their other freight either to depots or freight yards; and finally when freight is shipped over two connecting lines, one line actually delivers the cars to the other without extra chargel It is to be hoped that this is not a repre sentative railway expression; for if so it would disclose an alarming degree of fatuity and puerility in the control of the railways. "We do not believe that the mass of railway men are so puerile as to think that indus tries which furnish them their most profit able traffic ought to run at a loss, or that they are to be blamed for increasing their output and thus enlarging the freight ton nage. We are loth to suppose that railway men as a body are so stupid as to rely upon representations that the rate on ore about covers the cost of transportation, or that the railways have to haul a great many cars empty in a traffic which is noted for furnish ing a haul both ways. Yet if they do not disclaim such representations they will ac cept the position of standing behind that practical allegation that no attention must be paid to publio needs or the prosperity of industry in the adjustment of freight charges. Such an argument is, in its most favorable light, a confession of weakness. The Dispatch has already pointed out the importance to the railroads of the traffic furnished by the iron industry of Western Pennsylvania and the Mahoning Valley. The full mag nitude of this traffic cannot be compre hended without the figures. The production of pig iron in the section named during 1890 was 3,074,951 tons. As each ton of pig iron produced requires the transportation of two tons of material this makes a total of 9,224, S33 tons. On an average haul of 70 miles this amounts to 645,680,000 ton-miles, from which about 98,000,000 should be deducted for pig iron consumed at thejmills adjacent to the furnaces, making a total of 547,680,000 ton-miles of traffic furnished by the pig iron industry to the railroads. But this nrnilnctinn rtf niff irnn olcn 1yti1ipq thi. rrn. I duction of 2,700,000 tons of finished iron. At an average haul of 300 miles this increases the total traffic to 1,357,000,000 ton-miles, equal in volume to the transportation of about 50, 000,000 bushels of grain from Chicago to the seaboard. At an average of 1 cent per ton mile on the pig iron freights and 5 cent per ton-mile on the finished iron this yields a gross revenue to the railroads of $13,550, 000. The allegation that this traffic is not ex tremely'profitable to the railroads is com pletely answered by the fact that wherever any grain traffic is procurable, of half this volume, the railroads jump at it at rates of Z cent per ton-mile or less. Grain freights are considerably more expensive to haul than either coke, ore, limestone or pig iron. This proves, what was well known before, that the iron freights fnrnish the most profit able traffic that the railways enjoy. If the rates on pig iron and materials were reduced 50 per cent.or to the level ofgrain rates, they would still be more profitable than the grain traffic over which the railroads are generally fighting. No such reduction is asked, but a fortiori a reduction of 25 to Zo per cent, whfch will keep up the volume of the traffic, will be for the interest of the rail ways as well as of the general public. No sensible man desires to see either the iron industry or the railroads run at a loss. But au intelligent policy on both sides will recognize that when an industry that has in prosperity yielded such large earnings to the railroads, encounters au unfavorable market, it is best to economize the cost of production so as to enable the volume ol traffic to be maintained. The railroads can make concessions which will keep up this immense traffic to nearly if notquite its total of last year. Earnings will be somewhat reduced, it is true, but still larger than are given by any other traffic.of similar volume in the country. To meet an appeal to do this with an as sertion that the industry which furnishes this traffic owes its existence to the railroads, and is therefore entitled to no consideration, is a gratuitous offensiveness of which intelli gent men should not be guilty. SETTLED BY PRECEDENT. According to some of our metropolitan cotemporaries the new Congressional appor tionment contains the seeds for an electoral dispute beside which that of 1876 will be a mere zephyr. The Congressional apportion ment itself is all right The number of Congressmen assigned to each State will be elected in 1892, and the first Congress under the new apportionment will begin in 1893. But what is the status of the electoral ap portionment? The Constitution assigns to each State a number of Presidental electors "equal to the whole number of Senators and Bepresentatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress." But a vital dis pute is bound up in the question whether the Congress referred is the Congress in exist ence at the time of the Presidental election or that established by the apportionment enacted prior to it, and under which a Con gress is to be elected at the same time with the electors. In construing the term "the Congress," there are arguments on both sides of the question whether Pennsylvania, forexample, shall cast in 1892 30 electoral votes, or will be entitled to 32. On one side is the fact that the words refer to the yougress in exist ence at the time of the election; and in the Congress in whose term the election of 1892 will fall, Pennsylvania will have but 28 Bepresentatives and two Senators. This Congress will extend its term past the meet ing of the electoral colleges, aud one of its functions will be to count the electoral votes. With these considerations it would seem that the new apportionment cannot go into effect as to Presidental electors until 189G, and that the election of 1892 will choose electors on the basis oi the representation in Congress which terminates when the new President is inaugurated. On the other hand this would present the incongruity of an election in which Penn sylvania will vote for thirty Congressmen and only twenty-eight representative elec tors. Moreover there is the obvious inten tion oi the Constitution that an apportion ment shall be made which shall assign Con gressmen and representative electors alike to the various States. The letter of the Constitution, if strictly adhered to, may let the Congressional apportionment go into effect in the election of 1892; but postpone the effect of the apportionment on Presidental electors till 1896, when two more Con gresses have been elected. The spirit of the law would elect the Congressmen and electors to be chosen in the same year under the tame apportionment. This question has been raised by the New York World with a suggestion that it should be given an authoritative settlement before there is any chance of a dispute. The New York Herald has previously touched upon the same point by asserting that the Presi dental electors will not be chosen under the newapportionment until 1896, thus definitely taking the first view stated above. Prece dent has been uniformly in favor of electing the same number of electors as of Congress men for the coming Congress. We think the same number of representatives and the same number oi corresponding electors shall be chosen in 1892. TOBACCO ON THE STREETS. Mr. Showalter presented a petition at Harrisburg yesterday for a law to prevent the use of tobacco on the streets by any one under 16 years of age. Had the demand gone further and called for prevention with out respect to age, public sentiment would not be greatly offended. No one uses to bacco on the streets who gives thought to the comfort of others. The blowing of smoke in the faces of non-smokers is aggressive enough. The habit of expectoration on the sidewalks by those who chew the weed, how ever, is so infinitely worse that the offense of the smoker is small in comparison. It is not nice to have to resort to legislation as a corrective of bad manners, and as the world grows older the need for this sort of cor rection diminishes. Tobacco is a source of solace and delight to most of its votaries ; but it can best be enjoyed in the seclusion which the home or office grants, and least in publio places. AN IMPORTANT DUTY. The fact that two cases of smallpox or varioloid have been reported by the munici pal health authorities emphasize the neces sity for sharp precautions to prevent its spread. The disease so far is of the milder type of varioloid, whichnBough satisfactory in one view, does not materially change, the duty of prevention and isolation. In at least two instances in the past a failure to adopt stringent and active meas ures at the first appearance of smallpox has permitted it to spread to the extent of an epidemic. To cut off any possibility of such a calamity in this case is the highest public duty. Every one should see that he is protected by vaccination; and the health authorities should promptly isolate every case as soon as it appears, and keep up an active watch that no case escapes them. In the present instance it is satisfactory to note that the health authorities have acted promptly in isolating both cases. It the public follows this up by securing general protection by vaccination all danger of the spread of the disease will be averted. By the way.the discovery tbatsomeone has a claim to the land on which the Capitol at Wash ington stands, by reason of an old deed for four lots lying to the west of Fort Cumberland, Al legany county, Maryland,is a striking instance of a non seqaitur. According to all modern geography, Cumberland, in Allegany county, Maryland, Is about a hundred miles from the Capitol at Washington. No one will be bring ng an action of ejectment against Congress,un less it be the people. The anti-lottery law has not been entirely futile. It is now stated that the Washington agency of the Louisiana lottery has removed itself to Montreal, with the other swindlers and cheats. There it proposes to catch business on both sides of the border. But it may discover in the fullness of time that Canada has an anti lottery law. Williamspoet is ejoicing over the grant of an injunction to restrain the Philadel phia and Erie road from interfering with the construction of the West and North Branch road, which will give the Lehigh Valley a direct Williamsport connec tion. But that city shoold not be too pre mature in concluding that injunctions enjoin. There was an injunction granted in the South Fenn matter once; but where that injunction now is, no one would be able to say. A West Virginia Republican cotem--porary breaks loose long enough to nominate that incompatible and sterling patriot, Hon. Steve Elklns, for Secretary of the Treasury. There seem to be grounds for convlctlnc its guardians of criminal negligence, in permitting it to get away with itself in this fashion. Sir Julian Pauncefote now goes so far as to admit that be did talk a little to a young man in a Washington street car about the Supreme Court decision in the Bering Sea case, but he had no idea that the young man was a reporter. The insinuating and unsus pected industry of the American reporter is the rock on which a great many British diplomatists have suffered shipwreck. In the opinion of the Chicago Intcr Ocean, the most popular boy is the one who neither whistles nor leaves the door open. This reveals the fact that according to the standard of our cotemporary .the most popular boy would not be a boy at all.but a Miss Nancy. Ingalls criticises the Bepublican policy In the Senate, the Republican Speaker of the Massachusetts Legislature attacks the Mc Kinley bill, and Senator Chandler' threatens to expose the methods of the Boston and Maine Railroad in carrying the New Hampshire Legislature. Recent events seem to have in spired a large amount of frankness into our statesmen. The publication of that proclamation of Jeff Davis', setting a price upon'the head of Ben Butler, will enable that Old war horse to cock his eye up to the ceiling and settle back into comfortable reflection on the tact that after all he was not the man who was captured. Col. Elliot F. Shepaed has made the awful discovery that the downfall of Crisni was due to a conspiracy among the Italian conserva tives. This permits a hope that the warlike Colonel will transfer his base of operations to "Roma" and make war on the dark and de signing conservatives instead of dooming the devoted Southern States of our nation to fire and sword. In that mutual reciprocity treat with our Southern neighbors, we of the United States invariably take sugar in ours. x Consistent and Correct. New York Tress, Bep.J Governor Northen, of Georgia, is a member of the Farmers' Alliance. He was invited to a banquet at Atlanta to meet Jay Goald. He de clined the invitation. His excuse given privately wsb that Mr. Gould's visit had uo' official character, an'd be objected to Mr. Gould's policy of monopoly and business methods to such an extent that he did not care to meet him personally. Governor Northen is at least dignified and consistent. THE PITTSBURG- DISPATCH, "WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY SNAP SHOTS IN SEASON. Corporations have no souls, but they have organs that grind for gold. People are more interesting than places, after all. The study of faces is more profitable to the mind than the study of scenery. The city may be vast, its amusements varied, its surroundings beautiful, its din and bustle tre mendous and overpowering, but If Its people are not attractive, warm-hearted, democratic, catholic quaint, fascinating or curious the visitor soon wearies and dubs it Boredom. The proper study of mankind is man, says the phil osopher, so, too, the proper way to study a hamlet or a town is to study the physiognomies of the people. The heart is mirrored in the lineaments, the soul looks out of the eyes, the passions lurk on the lips, the characteristics of the com munity are stamped over all. Hence whenyou study the people you get at the heart of the town, feel its pulse, are drawn to the spot or repelled. Humanity undoubtedly dinars with environment. A person goes from a goodly city to a metropolis. Unless he finds in the faces there the signs of friendship, feels a tight grip in the handshake, reads a welcome in the eyes of those about him, he feels cramped, tired, restless. Everything looks alike. He feels that be is held at arm's length, that he is an Intruder, and the home sickness drags him. down until the depression forces' him to return to more congenial com pany. You long for a change of scene, and when you get it study the faces before you smell the flowers. You sigh for the sea and scan its sailors before you gaze into Its depths. You go to the hills, bnt beforo you begin to climb up the narrow paths to the snows you paint on memory's canvas the portraits of the people there. And when 'the scene fades and the flowers wither, the faces yon studied lin ger, the bands you clasped stretch over the seas and through the forests, the eyes you looked into sparkle In the waking and the dreaming. Dots with wedding veils are very popular in fashionable circles. We won't hear anything more about the Indian war until Buffalo BUI reorganizes his Wild West show. Aiili work and no play would undoubt edly ruin the stage people. Teade revivals convert goods Into cash. Judging from the variegated colors shown in the ballet cirl's costume the dyers are making a good living. Fast colors never run. Blaine "Will Refrain. Will Blaine Refrain From speaking to the Russian Czar About the tar Who, for a few poached seals, Took to his heels. Was caught. And brought Before a Cadi most unjust, ' Then thrust Into a mine, where he spent years In digging coal and shedding tearsf Ab, yes, 'Tls safe to guess Blaine Will refrain From tussling with the Russian bear, Or ruffling up his shaggy hair, Nor dare To rear Or swear 'Bout this affair, Because he has no ships or tars To cross wide seas and punish Czars, Hence it is plain As A, B, O That J. G. Blaine Will refrain. Of what use is a Senator, anyway? Pennsylvania seems to get along all right with out Cameron. People who secure divorces are un-mar-ried, of course. The women who claim to lie the leaders are merely following the men. The wise granger is he who looks over the corn field instead of the political field. The funny thing about a saying with a hidden meaniDg is that the meaning is only too plain. Eye wasn't even clothed in her right mind when she stole the apple. A great many people adopt foul means to feather their nests. February remains with us even after it is Lent. It costs more money to print Pennsylva nia's bird book than to breed the birds and keep them. The passing show One filled with dead heads. The Russian bear has pulled a feather out of the eagle's tall. Will Uncle Sain put a chip on his shoulder, or depend on the Nihilists? Authors are compelled points in order to succeed. to raise novel When the imprisoned miners stood in the shadow they prayed for strength and were strengthened. When they thirsted, they prayed for water and got it. Carry the news to Bob IngersolL It's useless to attempt to guess who will be the recipient of Harrison's Treasury valen tine. As a surpriser Benjamin is a success. Congressmen have voted themselves clerks. Well, they need them. On labor's field one strike puts the men out. THE Poor Farm nonsense proves the truth of the old saw about too many cooks spoiling the broth. Parnell takes desperate chances in pol itics and love, and generally wins. TnE boH Indians in Washington talk without reservation. A cold spell I-c-e. The Ohio fanatics who dynamite saloons are more dangerous than drunkards. - Blood has really been drawn in a French duel. The winner immediately apologized. CHICAGOANS realize by this time- that the world is not so fair as it might be. Judging from the World's Fair boycotts. The rumor about Senalor'Brice resigning is undoubtedly a canard. He's not built that way. The most startling thing about that Re serve township riot is the telling of it. The Poor Farm is still 'way out of site. Willie Winkle. DEATHS OP A DAY. James Itedpath, Nationalist. New York, Feb. 10. James Redpath, the famous Irish Nationalist, Journalist and lecturer, and the Vice President of the Anti-Poverty So ciety, who was run down by a Fourth avenue horse car last week, died this morning at St. Luke's Hospital from the effects or his injuries. Mr. Iteapath was born in RerwIck-on-Tweed, Scotland. In 1833. and came to this country with his parents in 1843. Robert Senry. Youkostown. Feb. 10. Robert Senry, ex Commlssloner of ..Mahoning county, died last sight st his home near Lewellvllle, nluo miles east of here. Daring the six years in which be servea as a member of the-Board of County Com missioners the affairs of the county were con ducted with scrupulous honesty. He leaves a wife and family In comfortable circumstances. THE BELGIAN XXHG. Leopold IE is a Traveler, Scholar and Pro motor or Art. T. C. Crawford in New York Tribune He is devoted to art. He has done more than any other modem ruler for the advancement of art in his kingdom. Indeed, one of the strong elements in the success of the present Belgian school is the supnort that has been given by this broad-minded, refined and scholarly King. He is constantly looking out for new talent. He is a man of profound knowledge of art, a correct and appreciative eye, and he is always the first to discover talent In a young artist. He even goes about to the studios of Brussels bunting for someone to encourage. At the annual exhibitions he goes through the collection carefully, aud when be discovers any new artist of talent be lnvarjably pur chases his picture. This always brings to the artist favor and additional orders. An artist who has sold some of his work to the King is regarded as a successful man. For it Is gener ally known that the King Is not indiscriminate in his praises, and that where he approves, the artist Is deserving. In the same fashion he goes out "of his way to encourage sculptors. He steals, every now and then, an hour from his busy days to sit for some young and unknown sculptor whom he has found to be deserving of encouragement. This gives a great stimulus to art study and work. The young artists of Belgium know that in him they always have a friend at court. He is a widely-traveled man for a European ruler. Before be came to the throne he trav eled all through Europe and even went as far East as China. His mind has, therefore, been broadened by unusual opportunities of observa tion afforded by bis numerous journeying. To-day he often visits France, Germany and England, although be rarely goes farther away from home than that. He Is a splendid horseman and has served as a military officer for a number olyears. He is fond of outdoor life and keeps his iron health and vigor through bis devotion to horseback exercise. He is a wonderful linguist. He speaks French, German, English, Flemish, Spanish and Italian with snch ease and such accuracy that he would be able to address any public assembly in either one of these lan guages. He Is much interested: in the United States. Itlls one of the secret desires of his heart to be able to visit this country. He will not in all probability be able to go so far away from homo. He Is, however, much Inter ested In this country anils thoroughly familiar with its institutions. Ifa watches"Closely our material development, the march of our indus tries and our new discoveries in science and in the world of inventions. AN OPEBA GLASS. The Innocent Optical Instrument Played a Leading Role in Comedy. Jewelers' Weekly. A humorous Incident occurred recently at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York. Five people became involved in a complication over an opera glass. In one row of orchestra chairs fonr people sat in adjoining seats. A young woman and her escort sat next the aisle, and two young men held the adjoining seats. The young men were friends, but did not know the pretty young woman who sat next or her escort. Directly behind the young woman sat a young man. During the first intermission the two young men in front went out to see a friend, leaving a pair of opera glasses on the seat next the young woman. The glasses slipped to the floor after the youths had gone oat, and the young man be hind picked them up, and, thinking the young -woman had dropped them, touched her on the shoulder and held out the glasses. She accepted them smilingly, and, surveying the house, passed them to her escort. He asked her where she got them, and she nodded toward the young man. The escort bowed his thanks to him and turned the glass on the boxes. Finally the yqung woman returned ,the glasses to the young man, who, thinking the lady wished him to have a few peeps himself, smiled and surveyed the bouse. As he-finished and was handing them back to the kind young woman, the two youths came back. One of them grabbed for the glasses, but the young man couldn't permit any such perform ances. Ttio young woman's escort took a hand in too, for he didn't wish the obliging youth behind to suffer. He knew the glasses belonged to him. So did the young lady. They young man knew they belonged to her. The two youths knew they belonged to them, and for four or five minutes there was a comedy of errors as funny as anything in fiction. An eye witness explained the error and the comedy was over. TEE LEHTEH PAST ABOLISHED. Broad Dispensations Granted by the St, Louis Archbishop. St. Louis, Feb. 10. His Grace, Archbishop Kenrick, has issued instructions to the pastors of his diocese as to the observance of the Lenten season. In regard to the use of flesh meats, he says, leave will be given by dispensa tion to use them on the following days: San-, days. Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays; also on all Saturdays, except the first Saturday after the first Sunday of Lent and Holy Satur day. This is the broadest dispensation that has ever been granted in this diocese, and it prac tically abolishes the Lenten fast. PE0HIBITI0N A POINT AHEAD. A Resubmission BUI Fails to Carry the Day In North Dakota. Bismakck, N. D.. Feb. 10. A majority of the Temperance Commltteo of the House yes terday reported in favor of indefinitely post poning the re-snbmisslon bill. A long and bitter fight ensued. A motion to adopt the majority report was finally carried by a vote of 31 to 23, seven mem bers being absent. The liquor men will try to secure a reconsideration. PEBSONAL PAEAGEAPHS. President Eliot, of Harvard Univer sity, has gone West for a stay of six weeks. Mrs, TJ. S. Grant has contributed $23 to the New York Memorial Arch fund, which now aggregates JS9.633. Ellen Terrt's son is described as a handsome young fellow who wears spectacles, and has hair that looks like his mother's. Blanche Willis Howard is as busy In a literary way since her marriage to Dr. Teuffel as she was before. She lives at Stutt gart, and is said to be ideally happy. Alfred Eussell Wallace, the dis-' tinguished English naturalist, has written to Prof. Ely, of Johns HopKins University, that he has become a convert to Mr. Bellamy's theories. THE Bev. Howard MacQucany's trial for heresy gave an astonishing boom to his hereti cal book. More than 15,000 copies of It have been sold, a remarkable record for a work on theology. Phillips Brooks is 55 years old, and for 20 years he has been the rector of Trinity Church, in Boston. His salary is 810,000 a year, but of tnat a larger proportion goes for charity, for his generosity is proverbial. Jam.es S. Richardson, the largest cot ton planter in the South, and Miss Bessie Behan, daughter of General W. J. Beban, the largest wholesale grocer In the South, will be respectively king and queen of the Mardi Gras festival at New Orleans this week". Sib Richard Burton, the famous traveler, writer and archaeologist, who died re cently at Trieste, was master of 27 languages. Bayard Taylor could command nearly as many, and Theodore Parker read 23, though he spoke only English with ease and fluency. Isaiah T. Montgomery, who made a plea for education of blacks in the late consti tutional conventfbn ot Mississippi, is trying to raise $500 to extend the term of a freo colored school in his neighborhood. He applied to Mr.. Cleveland, and received a check for 25. Henry Haynie, writing from Paris, says that nearly every good singer on the lyric stage there was born in the United States. In this connection it may be mentioned that Mile. Adiny, leading prima donna of the Paris Grand Opera, and nn American, was recently decorated with the violet ribbon. Prof. John P. Barrett, the city elec trician of Chicago, who has been appointed chief of the electrical department of tho World's Fair, Is a native of Auburn, N. Y.. 61 years of age, and was in early life a sailor. He is wholly self educated, and began bis con nection with the fire department of Chicago- in 1865 as fir watchman in the City Hall tower. - 11, 1891. PLEASURES OF SOCIETY, An Enjoyable Concert at Carnegie Hall Last Weddings and Other Social Affairs Previous to Lent now the Season Was Interrupted. The' State Music Teachers' Association, by the courtesy of Messrs. Webster and Henncks, is considerably richer this morning, having reaped the benefits of the Star entertainment given last evening in Carnegie Hall.. The audience was a delightfully ap preciative one and nearly filled the hall. Including the balconies. Miss De Vere, whose frtnjuent appearances in the city proclaims her excellence and popularity, was the star of the evening and ap peared In several numbers. She was beautifully gowned in pure white, her golden hair forming a halo 'round her expresdve face. Her reception was enthusiastic and her encores ditto. She rendered first a polonaise from "Puritan!," Bellini, and followed later with Romanza from "Alda," Verdi, and "Ave Marie," Gounod, which Prof. Glttings accom panied on the piano, Carl Retter on the organ and Franz Wilchek on the violin. The latter gentlemen took Miss Mamie Reuck's place on the programme. The Allegheny Musical Association opened the programme, after an admirably executed "Marche Religeuse," Guilmant, by Organist C. D. Carter, with two selections by Foerster. The first, "Spline's Verdure," was a feminine choru', bnt in the "June Song" the chorus united. "O, Rosebud Blushing," Lessmann, was rendered by Joseph Vogel, and "Galatea," Jensen, and "Rlgoletto," Verdi-Liszt, were played by Prof. Glttings. An "Ana From Hamlet" was given by Mr. Bapperstem, aud Mrs. Lippa gave a piano solo romanza and rondo from the Concerto in E minor, Chopin. Harry B. Brockett sang "Salva Dlmora," from Faust, and Beverldge Webster played "Album Leaf," Gade, and "Rlgadoon," Raff. The Allegheny Musical Association closed the programmu with "Stars of the Summer Night" and a "Lullaby" by Smart. A CAP UAL SCHOOL. The Sewiokley Valley Clnb in Robertson's Pretty Comedy. The Yalley Club gave the second entertain ment of the season in their theater at Bewick ley last night. The play chosen was Robert son's comedy in four acts, entitled "School," which was given some years ago by the club. Of the original cat only one, Miss Whiting, was upon the programme last night. The play is not an easy one by any means, although plctorlally at any rate it offers special attrac tions to amateurs. Last night's performance was highly suecessfnl, and that, too, in spite of many drawbacks, such as cbanzes in the cast daring the last days of rehearsal. The full cast was as follows: Lord Meauou, Mr. Carpenter: Dr Butcliffe, Mr. McPberson; Beau Farintosh, Mr. H. M. Richardson; Jack Payntz. Mr. Nevln; Mr. Krux, Mr. Charles Richardson; Vaughn, Mr. Doyle: A. Groom. Mr. Tate; Mm. 8utcliff. Mr&Burrows; Bella, Miss Anderson; Naomi Tighe, Miss Whiting; School Oirlt, Miss Chap lin, Miss Cooper, Miss Carpenter, Miss JIc Cleary, Miss Lowe, Miss Swartzwelder. Mrs. Whiting, as the spirited heroine Naomi Tighe, displayed to advantage the comedy powers with which Sewlckley audiences are now well acquainted. The humor of the play, wbichjj so largely entrusted to the feminine characters, was well brought out. The eccen tric comedy of Mr. Charles Richardson as the disagreeable Crux, added to a capital make-up, was very much enjoyed, and the solemn em bodiment of the aged clergymen Dr. Butcliffe, by Mr. McPherson, was equally amusing. The artless innocence ot Bella was very happily pictured by Miss Bessie Anderson who made her first appear ance last night. Mrs. Burrows gave a quiet and dignified rendering to the character ot Mrs. Butcliffe. Mr. Carpenter as Lord Beau Joy was an engaging lover, and with Mr. Robert Nevin, Jr., as Jack Poyntt divided the honors of the romantic side of the play, and exceed ingly clever self-possessed they were. Messrs. Tate and Doyle were good in small Earts, and the picture of a stiff !ngllsh servant the latter presented was true to life. Very few ladles' seminaries boast such a bevy of lovely gtrls as Jfr. Sutcllffe't showed last niche The scenery and other de tails were perfect, and for the management of the play great credit is due to the committee. There was dancing to Toerge'j music after the piay. xne next play win De given alter .taster. The audience was very large, and inoluded many from town. AN ELEGANT EECEPTI0H At the Jackson Residence, on Fenn Avenue, Last Evening. The Jackson residence, on Penn avenue, was the scene of a notable and fashionable gather ing yesterday afternoon. The affair was a re ception given by Miss Mary Jackson in honor of Miss Mary Laughlin and her guest. Miss Reed, of Philadelphia. Early in the afternoon the mansion was In Teadlness for the as semblage that later entered the portals and passed Into the scene of loveliness and beauty, becoming a part of the grand whole. The various apartments with their magnificent furnishings speaking of long es tablished wealth and elegance, unbent from their dignified stateliness and breathed a flowery welcome to the guests. From the re ception hall to the tearoom great bunches of exquisite flowers rose frointcostly vases and urns, and others wreathed the brows of artistic statuary. Mirrors were handsomely festooned with clinging vines, mantels were blooming and chandeliers hnng with garlands. The charming hostess was attired in a becom ing gown of gray silk, with embossed figures of yellow. She was assisted in receiving by her guests of honor and by Mrs. F. S. Blssell. A number of society ladies dispensed the hospi tality of the tearoom, aud the guests Included ladies from both cities and the East End. At 7 o'clock dinner for the aids and a few gentle men concluded the festivities. TEE DELSABTEAN C0BBECT. Pittsbnrgers Pleased With the Lecture of Prof. Edmond Russell. Edmond Russell is pronounced correct by Pittsburg society. He delivered his first lec ture yesterday, about noon, at the residence of Mrs. AE. W. Painter. His subject was "The Teachings of Delsarte," and under that bead he treated tho art of expression, poise, dignity, repose, command of the body, society manners, and natural expression, school gymnastics and the exercises .for personal culture He is a pleasing speaker, of wonderful Innate refinement, and possesses a thorough and com prehensive knowledge of the subject upon which be has gained so much renown, ile will deliver two more lectures at Mrs. Painter's, and will speak to-day, to-morrow and Friday mornings at the Pennsylvania .College for Women. Next week the same lectures or, rather, lectures on the same subjects, as Mr. Russell always speaks extempore will he given by him at the residence of Mrs. C. L. Slagee. in Oakland. FBIDAY EVENING LECTTJBES i Be Given Under the Auspices of St. To Peter's Episcopal Church. St. Peter's Episcopal Church is one of the most energetic and successful in the city in ar ranging for entertainments that will promote sociability and intellectual advancements. Besides the entertainments given by the King's Daughters and the Sons of the same royal family, a series of Friday evening lectures has been outlined by prominent divines of the city. Next Friday evening Rev. George Hodges will inaugurate the series by delivering his popular lecture on the "Passion Piay." Feb ruary 20. Rev. E. P. Cowan, D. D., will lecture on "The Root of All Evil;" February 27, Rev. A. J. Bonsall, on "Unseen Realitier"' March 8. Rev, W. F. Conner, on "Sacrifice;" March 13, Rev. J. O. White, D. D.. "Jezebel;" March 20, Rev. George T. Powers, on "Conscience and Christ." PEOMINENT EDTJCATOBS To Gather in Philadelphia, in National Convention, In Two Weeks. The meeting of the National Educational Association at Philadelphia, February 24, 3 and 26, will be the largest convention of edu cators ever held in this country. Prominent school men will be present from all over the country, among them Sheldon Jackson, agent of education for the Territory of Alaska, whose address concerning the advancement of learning in the Northwest will be an interest ing feature. Superintendent -George J, Luckey, of- this city, will represent Pennsylvania, and Is on the ?roKratrime for "Qualification and Supply of 'eachers lor City Public Schools." A Masonic Ballad Concert. A ballad concert wilLbe given in connection with the next Masonic organ recital, dated for March 28, at the handsome Masonic building on Fifth avenue. At least five of Pittsburg's most prominent and popular lady vocalists will appear upon the programme in the ballad por tion, and the organ performance will be of the usual standard. Several male singers will also appear in solos and duets. A Home Wedding on Sit. Wnshington. Miss Nellie M.Noble, daughter of Mrs. Ellen Noble, of Fetzor street, Mt. Washington, be came the bride or James Jesson, of Virginia avenue, last evening at 8 o'clock, Bev. E. B. Farrand officiating, it was a home wedding, none bat members of the families being pres- ent. The happy, couple will be pleased to re ceive their friends at their new nome on Duquesne Heights. Social Chatter. At the annual reunion of the G. A. R. men at Alton la this month. Miss "Kitty Hamm has been engaged to recite, and it is anticipated that she will be adopted as the "Daughter of the Regiment." For her recitation Prof. Byron W. King, her teacher, is composing an original poem, entitled 'The Grand Reunion," warranted to incito enthusiasm in even the de livery of a lees talented and pleasing reader than Miss Hamm. A fancy dress ball was given at the Linden Clnb last night, being the close of the festivi ties which have brightened the clubhouse dur ing the winter season. There was a large at tendance, and the assemblage had a very gay and pleasant evening. The Misses McCullough gave a very enjoy able "at home" last evening for the Misses McGonnegle, who are their guests and cousins. The courtesy of the Verestcbagln collection has been extended to the members of the School of Design for next Tuesday. A SUNFLOWER concert will be given this evening in Carnegie Hall by Post 123, Lieuten ant James M. Lysle. Mrs. Henry Sfboul was hostess to a theater party last evening that dined at the Duquesne Club. ' J. W. Grove entertained a party of gentle men friends at the Duquesne Clubhouse last evening. Pbof. Albert D. Leifelt entertained his friends last evening at Cyclorama Hall. - Miss Bessie Young will entertain the mem bers of the Teacup Club on the 25th. Miss Seafortu. of Center avenue, enter tained friends last evenings, Mrs. E. XL Feuee, of Montour Junction, will mcelve February 20. Mrs. J. W. Ross, of Allegheny, entertained yesterday. COTJNXEEFEIT PBE8EHTMEHT8. Photography and Sleep Reveal Character istics the Owner Slay Conceal. New York Evening Sun's Woman About Town. Photography plays queer pranks with Its sub jects sometimes. A photograph often flashes out a family resemblance that bad never been noticed in a face until then. A photograph has a way also of telling on people sometimes. The hidden cruelty, or sensuality, or vanity, or deception comes to light under the searching of the sun, however successfully the man's will or craft may conceal It ordinarily. A rascal is running a risk when he has bis photograph taken. His friends may see what he is trying to hide. It was James who wrote that remark able story. "The Liar." There was an artist who painted a portrait of tho husband of the woman he bad once loved himself. When the portrait was finished the husband and wife, and not only they, but all the world, saw on the canvas the face of a consummate liar. What the artist did on that occasion is what the sun often does. It tells the truth that the man has hidden so successfully. The woman once heard a shrewd man say: "A man can deceive me as to his real character when he is awake, but if I can once see him asleep I can tell you what be is." And there is a strange truth in it. What photography daes, sleep does also. In sleep a man is off guard. The will no longer dominates, and first nature comes back and asserts herself. One can make his face say what he chooses when he is awake, but when sleep touches his face it tells the truth. The forced smile slips away and the cruel lines about the mouth stand out. The closed eyes shut out the look of determination that sometimes gets into a man's face without the reality in his soul, and the childish inde cision and Irresolution that come back show you that the man is weaker than he makes you believe. , It was a half knowledge of this fact that a clever French woman used a phrase when she declared that she never would see any of her friends early in the morning, because she hadn't got her mask on yet. Her face hadn't got the soul out of It yet or hadn't got the soul into it, which was it? and she instinctively shut herself away from detection. We all jug gle with our real selves and appear to be what we are not, more or less, but the truth does manage to get itself said somehow and some times. UNCONSIDERED ZEIEXES. Very Trivial Circumstances on "Which GreatThings Have Depended. Dr. i. K. Parke In Philadelphia North Amerlcan.l Had Cleopatra's nose been a trifle shorter, says Pascal, the political aspect of the world would hare been different. Antony would not have been enslaved, and Cesar would have gone down to history simply as one of Rome's defeated generals. Such a groveling thing as the passing lust of a Tarquin, gave to the Mother of Men that liberty upon whose shrine a Ca3sar was sacrificed, and a Cato suffered martyrdom. The battle of Waterloo, with all its" vast in terests, was lost to Napoleon, according to Hugo, through a peasant boy's false statement to Grouchy, when asked the shortest road to Hougoumont. Louis Pblllippe drank one cup of wine too much, fell from his carriage, was killed, the Orleans dynasty was overthrown, the family exiled, and its estates confiscated. To most persons it will prove a new para graph in the history, that the War of the Revo lution and the Independence of America were brought about directly by a horse kicking over bis traces. Such, nevertheless, is the fact. A gentleman riding in Cheshire, England, was, by such an accident, thrown from his carriage and slightly injured. At a farm house, where he applied for assistance, he first met the young lady whom he subsequently married and who, emigrating with him to America, became, in' tho year 1732, tho envied and illustrious mother of George Washington, the hero of our fathers' memorable struggle and the founder of Ameri can liberty. A BTJEST BANK. A Big Prospective hut a Very Small Concern After AIL Correspondence Philadelphia Ledger. A Brooklyn bank, which a few weeks ago claimed a capital of $200,000,000, has closed Its doors. This statement sounds panicky, but it isn't. The capital of the bank was on paper, and its business, as reported January 20, was limited to $1,08S of liabilities and $2,033 in assets. The bank ws named the Mechanics' Co-operative, and the mechanics appeared to have failed to co-operate, hence the suspension. The $200,000,000 in stock was not paid up, and had the company realized the expectations of its officers it would have been nearly 17 years be fore payment would have been complete, as the stock was issued in shares of $200, payable f 1 monthly. At the time of the last report the receipts bad aggregated but $5,212. This is tho bank which began business with highly wrought pamphlets which announced, among other things, a con nection with two responsible Brooklyn banks. This connection the banks in question promptly disavowed, and the newspapers very freely criticised the new institution for its ilack of candor, and discounted its roseate predictions. During its brief life its profits were 526 70. while expenses were over 3,500. Thenevltable fail ure hurts a few depositors, but the losses will be small. TO BE OS GUABD. The Friends of Sound Currency Should Look Out for a Conp. Wall Street Investigator. It is stated that Republican Representatives, have been urgently requested to be in Wash ington all this week. The Democratic leaders are trying to whip their followers into line and hold them togethor In an attack upon the rules of the House fur the benefit of free sllTer, and they seem to ha hopeful ot success. While there Is not much doubt that several Democrats will rel use to join in this attack, the danger is serious enough to demand that the ooponents of free coinage should be alert and ready to repulse the attack, which will be made at the first opportunity. The present silver law is working well, and it Is well to leave well enough alone. Must Have Ills Weed. New York Continent. Colnnef Bob Ingersoll Is an inveterate user of tobacco In all its forms excepting when rolled in milky white wrappers. He smokes. Iodc and often, nod "chaws" hard and fast. The Colonel would as soon think of giving up hU law prac tice as to go back on his favorite weed. He would feel that he had been ungrateful to an old frlind if he did, to he won't. CURIOUS C0HDENSAT10K8. Two convicts have died in the Concord, Mass. reformatory from drinking alcoholine, a preparation used in the shoe shop. Henry Kramer, a lineman, recently re ceived an electric shock at Louisville, Ky., and has become hopelessly insane, believing be is pursued by an electric ghost. r-For the first time in the history of Bis marck. N. D., all the saloons have closed their doois for an indefinite period, and not a drink is to De had for love nor money. An attempt is being made in London to form a hnge ring for the control of the calico printing business. Many of the largest bouses are already pledged to the syndicate. A flock of 21 fine geese belonging'to Asher Werts, of Crawfordsville, Ind., spent list Thursday night on his fishpond. It froze during the night, and this morning the birds were found fast in tbe ice, every one of them dead. A wise provision for escape from fire if obligatory In all Russian hotels. Every cor ridor must bare a staircase at each end, and, if of extra length, several others at stated in tervals, or else iron ladders must be placed outside the house. The 7-year-old son of J. T. Webster, of Tennllle, was recently bitten on the hand by a hog, which had previously been bitten by amad flog. Tbe boy's hand is fearfully swollen, and fears are entertained of hydrophobia, as the hog has since evinced unmistakable signs of hydro phobia. Baroness Nathaniel Rothschild, who re cently purchased the celebrated Strauss col lection of objects of Hebraic art. has presented it to the Clunev Museum, in Pari3. One of the finest and most curious objects is a huge ark of walnut wood, ornamented with 51 panels, su perbly carved. Civilization is making way in Russia. We cannot doubt it, for we read that the first strike of laborers for increased wages has just occurred. The strikers are colliers, and they show their proficiency in Western ways by choosing the middle of a severe winter for throwing up their work. There are reports from Poland of fresh plottlngs against the Czar, and the secret police are said to be adopting measures of brutal severity to find out the chief conspirators, ar resting for that purpose the wives and daugh ters of suspects, who are subjected to horrible tortures to make them divulge their secrets. Sheriff Haynes, of Dearborn county, Ind., was awakened by a pull on the doorbell of the jail at Lawreuceburg the other morning, and upon responding to the summons found one of tbe prisoners on the outside who had voluntarily returned. Investigation showed that all tbe prisoners had escaped dur ing the night. The Queen of Boumauia, during her sojourn in Eugland, visited a needle factory. While watching tbe work one of the men asked Her Majesty for a single hair from her bead. Tbe Queen granted his request with a smile. The man placed the bair under the needle of his machine, bored a hole In ic, drew a fine silk thread through the holo and then presented it to the astonished Queen. Carthage, 111., has a "spook excite, meat," for which either Louis C. Boston, who died recently, or "Ant" Wright, one of his sur viving friends, is responsible. Wright declares that Boston, In the regulation robes of an ap parition, met bim on a lonely road at night, addressed him and his horse familiarly, and deliveied various messages for friends, enjoin ing them upon a reformation of life. Attorney Sullivan, of Crescent, la., re cently was retained to defend a man for hog stealing. When the officer went after the prop erty another hog was found with the one want ed. This the defendant claimed was his own. but It has since proved to be the property of Mr. Sullivan. Since the lawyer mustbe snre of the innocence of his client he will be expected to defend him against stealing his own hog. The only way for tho attorney to get eTen is to win the case ana taae ooia nogs mr uu Some recent statistics show that very rapid increase is being made In vine culture in this country. There are now under vine culture in America 40O.0C0 acres, of which about 3)0,000 acres are bearing. The estimated value of the vineyards and wine cellars is 8155,000.000. In California there are 150,000 acres under vine culture, and a large proportion of the grapes produced are made into wine. Most of the grapes grown in New York State are sold for food. The total production of wine in the United States during the past year is about , 000,000 gallons. Rather a curious condition of things exist in New Orleans. There is racing down there every day, and a big concourse of betting men travel to the track daily. The running of the horses is poor, and the judging and riding are about equally spiced with suspicion. Crowds of Soctnern men hang around the bookmakers and bet continually. They seldom look at the races that are going on at their elbows. It Is only after a little investigation that spectators discover that the races which the men are in terested in are being run atuutienourBaaa Clifton. The returns are received by wire, and the sportsmen wager their money against the horses on the Jersey tracks, whilo they entirely neglect the racing under their noses. Dr. W. D. Gentry, of No. 182 State street. Chicago, has been using a consumption cure for several years, the discovery of Dr. J. A. Biegler, of Rochester, N. Y., who wrote of some experiments he made with it in tubercu lar meningitis in the London Organum, second volume, 1S79. The nutter used by Dr. Biegler is made by taking in atom of tuberculous tis sue containing the vital principles of the poison and teritnratmg it for a long time in sugar of milk. It is then reduced by adding more milk sugar and tituratlng to the one-thousandth potency. It is then given by the mouth instead of as Koch gives it, with a hypodermic syringe. Dr. Biegler's discovery has been used in several cases by Dr. Gentry with success. Andrew Schissel, of Iowa City, a wid ower ot 75 years, has missed the delights of lin gering courtship in his second marriage, for he met, wooed and won his present bride in five minutes. Two weeks agb Saturday he pre sented ihlmself at the kitchen door ot Adam Mueller, of his town, and introduced himself to Mrsi Annie Kessler. a widow of 45. there at work. She was a late arrival from Inaiana. "I wih a wire." Mr. Schissel said to tbe widow. "Yes. sir." she responded. "Will you marry mer "Yes. sir." In his ardor the aged wid ower desired the wedding ceremony to be per formed right away. The widow wanted to wait nntil she got ber employer nousework straightened up. The marriage took place the following Monday. WAIFS FROM WXTLAND. This world is fall of chumps, indeed; Or would be ir the dally tale Of someone's self-dejtractlve deed Did not come in by wire and mall. Why will they Ionrer seek the tomb Through salted love and pepp ered pride? Why longer crowd the mystic flume? Why sue and sigh, then suicide? -Oil City missard. The Chicago people are complaining of cold streetcars. They ought to Insure hot passes Eers. Washington Post. "Did yon hear the building vibrate just now?" "Yes. What was the cause?" "It was the artist's brala throbbing. He's try ing to work oat a cartoon to show that Ladner's a fbost dancer. That's all. "-Philadelphia Xorth American. If the bacilli could be provided with through tickets and no stop-over privileges they would be better travelers in the human body. Xeio YorkEvening World. Sock The ghost dance the Indians have been having must be very Interesting; wouldn't yon like to see It? Kuskln WetL I should be perfectly satisfied simply to see the ghost walfc.-iton Courtrr. Policeman (excitedly to boy on the fence outslde)-What's going on In there, Johnny? Having a war dance with all the neighbors on th square? Johnnie (composedly) Nope. Only mam ln slstln oadad spendln'hls evenla's at home. Washington. Star. Bloober Mabel has refused me! J am desperate I On. for a war cloud, that I might be cornea soldier of fortune and bare my breast to pitiless lead! y Van Leer (yawning) You might get a Job as electric light linemln-A'eia lork Herald. Nowadays the cup of pleasure barely yields a shorter measure Of delight than in the stricter times of yore, For attending plays, aid dancing, Are notnearly so entrancing. Now they're not considered sinful any more. InaianapolU Journal. "You seem to eat of the bouillon with very little relish to-night. Tom." "Quite to tbe contrary, I assure you, my dear fellow. I have carelessly spilled half the contents of the pepoer-sauce bottle into this plate of soup." Vetfult Pree Press. One thing there is 'bout sockless J., as comfort for his shocks ' Ills shoes some man may 211 some day,' But sae may fill his socks. ) , Sew tort Conttntnt, i .;. " ' s .
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