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PITTSBUKG. TUESDAY, MAY ID, IS9I.
THE STREET ACTS.
Thp signing of the street and curative
bills by Governor Pattlson puts the city
business on the high road to a creditable
recovery from the muddle in which it has
been struggling ever since the decision of
the Bogqs avenue case. All five bills are
signed," so that the city is now at liberty to
proceed under the new law forneedd
street improiements, and at the same time
to secure a prompt test on the efficacy of
the curative law.
As to the first named enactments, we do
not think that there is any possible doubt
of their validity. They have been framed
with, a special view of meeting all
objections, and vwll doubtless be so
generally recognized as impregnable that
they will stand without even being ques
tioned in the courts. On the other hand, the
stringency of some of the provisions will
much decrease the activity of street im
provements in years to come. The fact
that no otreet can be improved without the
petition of a majority of property-holders
affected, both in number and interest, will
confine future work to streets where there
is a nearlj unanimous demand for the im
provement But this difficulty may pro
vide Its owacorrectlve. 'When its effect is
fully understood purchasers of property
n ho ha e a preference for pavements and
sewers will avoid new streets unless the
requisite petition is obtained, and it will
become necessary for property-owners to
sign the petition before they can sell their
propcrrj.
The future is not quite so clear with re
gard totheeffectof the curative bill; buttlie
way is fortunately open to the city to make
it clear. Even if the validity of the act
were more indisputable than it is, property-owners,
after recent experience of
the disadvantage of promptitude
in the way of paying assess
ments, are not going to pay those made
under this act until it is sustained by the
Supreme Court As to the bearing of the
Chester case on our curative act, it Is per--tinent
that in that case the trouble was not
with any act of the city with regard to the
streets, but with the general charter law
of the State: while in our case the fact that
inherent defects in the law by which the
improvements were begun may be re
garded as ital by the Supreme Court
When in addition we find it cited as a
material fact in the Chester decision that
a majority in number of the property-owners
petitioned for the improvement, while
in the majority of our own streets not even
amajoiitj in iiitp-t signed the petition, it
is quite Important that the city shall secure
a full test of the act before making a gen
eral demand on the property-owners for
their assessments.
Under the terms of the act it will take
about three months to got an assessment
fairly before the lower courts. This indi
cates the necessity of prompt proceedings
in order that a case in which the law is
fully tested shall reach the Supreme Court
at its October term.
TIIE SCHOLARS' IIOLIDAT.
The idea of a monster picnic for the
school children, as outlined in our local
columns this morning, is one which, un
doubtedly, will meet with the approval of
both paients and teachers. The Dis
patch has, ere this, pointed out the
necessity for some such affair to bo held
annually, and takes pleasure in furthering
the present plan. In the past, when the
school children of this city vishcd to have
an outing, they were compelled to go to
Allegheny and while they were always
welcomed, the parks of that city were not
large enough to accommodate the boys and
girls from both cities.
There may be a few who will say
that the school children have already
enough holidays. If number alone were
to be taken into consideration this .might
prove true. But there are many so-called
holidays during the school year on which
no amusement is provided for a child and
he is left to his own devices. The fact
that the proposed outing is scheduled for a
Saturday this year will have some effect in
making a trial possible By all means let
the attempt to equal our sister city's
"Jubilee Day" be made.
One thing should be remembered. "While
the affair is primarily intended for pub
lic school children those who do mot go to
our national institutions should be made
welcome. Young blood, w hether in school
or factory, needs sunshine and fresh air
occasionally.
trxtii and popularity.
The experience of the French lecturer
who last week undertook to expose to an
audience of his countrymen the abuses of
Siberian prison methods is illustrative of a
general trait of human nature. No one
disputed the accuracy of his statements;
but Russia is an all of France, and there
fore Russia is popular. Consequently one
of the auditors, described as a "savant,"
proposed cheers for Russia, which were
given as a complete .response to the lec
turer's comments on Russian prison
methods.
It is a good illustration of the general
idea that unpleasant truths can be silenced
by the shouts of a prejudiced audience
that a person of scientific attainments
should have led in this idea of howling
down any criticism of Russia. Of
course, the scientific man would never
think of arguing that it would dis
prove a scientific assertion to call,
on the people to shout against it
But scientific men, from the days of those
who frowned down Columbus, are likely
to be just as prejudiced and unreasonable
as any other kind. Consequently, this
specimen of the class with (he exuber
ance of the Idea "Our country right or
J wrong" extended to the allies of his
country secured a practical declaration
not that the charges against Russia are
untrue, but that it is the kind of truth that
France will not listen to just now.
Of course, no other nation can turn up
its nose at France for this exhibition. It
is common to all nations that those who
undertake to tell unpopular truths must
expect to be cried down. No longer ago
than last year, the members of the Re
publican party who dared to say that the
party leaders were faking a false course
underwent practically the same experi
ence. They were cied down; but the
event has proved that they were not far
wTong. It Is a rather ctnf ortunate trait of
universal human nature (that the man who
tries to tell unpopular-truths will not be
given a hearing.
HOW TO MEET CO-HPETITOBS.
The Baltimore Manufacturer' Qazette,
whose especial function itiis to report the
progress of manufacturing enterprises In
the South, reports the organization of a
million-dollar corporation to manufacture
steel at Birmingham, Ala. It is to be sup
posed thatan enterprise of that magnitude
has not been entered into without duajn
vestigation of the availability of the ma
terials of that section for steel-making.
Heretofore this has been a doubtful if not
negative quantity; but it is necessary to
recognize that if actual experience should
demonstrate the ability of turning out
good steel in the Alabama region, a power
ful competitor of the Pittsburg steel inter
est will be brought into the field.
This is a perfectly legitimate enterprise,
and Pittsburg" can only regard the pros
pect of additional competition with the
friendly rivalry that is the feature of hon
orable competition. But one of the first
and most legitimate acts of an interest
when confronted by new competition is to
consider how it can strengthen itself so as
to be superior to loss of trade. This is the
evident point which Pittsburg needs to
consider in view of the possible growth of
a large and active steel industry in the
South.
The advantage which the Southern steel
industry will have, if it establishes Its in
dustrial right to existence, will be the close
proximity of ores and coaL Pittsburg
cannot secure such a proximity; but it can
do what is the close equivalent to it,
namely, establish continuous water trans
portatioi between them. If it is made
possible to bring ore vessels to the furnaces
and mills of "Western Pennsylvania, the
econom of Northern Alabama in the
transportation of materials will be more
than counterbalancea by the superior
quality of the Pittsburg products and our
central position with reference to their
distribution.
In other words, the extension of lake
navigation to Pittsburg means that West
ern Pennsylvania can be placed above all
competitors in the iron, steel and coal In
dustries. That fact should unite every
citizen of Western Pennsylvania in the
support of the project
A PRAISEWORTHY CAMPAIGN.
We notice with decided satisfaction that
the Ladies' Health Protective Association
are getting decidedly -on the warpath in
their movement to rid the city of smoke.
The ability to abolish smoke having been
demonstrated both at home and abroad,
these influential and public-spirited ladies
are determined that they will see it done,
or know the reason why.
One of that organization is quoted as
saying that the success of the movement
to abolish smoke in Chicago has an especial
bearing on the question In Pittsburg. The
crowningsuceess of the Chicago effort was
in requiring railroad locomotives within
the city to adopt smoke-consuming devices.
Among the railroads which have equipped
their engines with successful smoke con
sumers are the Pennsylvania Company,
the Baltimore and Ohio and the Lake
Shoie. "Now," asks this very discerning
lady, "if these railroads can successfully
consume their smoke in Chicago, why
should they not be able to use the same
cleanly devices within the limits of Pitts
"burg and Allegheny?"
The question is an exceedingly perti
nent one, and it is to be hoped that the
ladies will direct it with effective force
against the railroad authorities at their
meeting this morning. But before they
attack the railroads they must give their
attention to local smoke producers. If the
ladies make life a burden for their hus
bands, brothers and fathers until the latter
have abolished smoke from their chimneys
and smokestacks, the conquest of the rail
roads will prove an easy victory. Success
to the ladies in their public-spirited
campaign.
AN' IMPORTANT QUESTION.
The issue as to whether the dangerous
poisoning in the vicinity of Sharpsburg was
caused by eating smoked sturgeon or not
bids fair to be an interesting one, though
difficult to settle. On one hand Is the
statement that numerous people purchas
ing that viand at different places exhibited
the same symptoms. Against this stands
the fact that other people ate the same j
article at about the same time without any
deleterious effects.
Of course, the only public interest is in
a fair determination of the question of
poor and healthy foods. The whole
sale dealer who cured and sold the
fish has very properly offered to pay
for an analysis, and if it is found to
contain deleterious ingredients promises to
abandon its sale. Such an analysis should
be made, os well as thorough investiga
tion of the circumstances accompanying
all cases of illness notedi If smoked stur
geon is a dangerous food the fact should be
established beyond peradventure; if it is
harmless, that fact should also be made
clear.
WHERE OCR GOLD GOES.
An interesting illustration of the way-in
which the financial increments in one part
of the world extend themselves to other
hemispheres is presented hy the present
specie movement The balance of ex
change is in favor of this country, but
gold continues to flow to Europe. This is
because Russia, for purposes of her own,
is drawing upon Europe for gold. To
make good that draft the European bank
ers are buying gold in this country, even
when the exchange inflicts a slight loss.
An interview with Baron Bleichroder,
the great German banker, reports him as
saying-that the United States has no cause
for uneasiness over this draft on her coin
reserves. Indeed, he thinks the United
States will have the benefit of it presently.
He says Russia is not drawing gold for war
purposes, which is not to be expected for
at least three years, as that power has just
commenced arming its troops with a new
rifle. But the Russian Government, being
unable to negotiate an extension of its
maturing debts, has got to pay certain
Dutch loans, and is calling on the gold for
that purpose. When these loans are paid
the United States, as a strong creditor in
the balance of trade, will find the specie
flowing Its way.
It is fortunate for business In this coun
try that the Busslan financial campaign did
THE
not occur in ine xaii, when such a
draft on our reserves might have made the
monetary stringency a very serious matter.
Wejcan hopevthat the gold will flow our
way before next fall; but it wouldnotbe an
auspicious time for any of the speculative
"powers to try kite-flying schemes without
first entering Into an alliance with the
European Powers to prevent them from
demoralizing the gold reserves.'
.
The movement of Philadelphia busi
ness men to organize a "bourse"' Is one of the
features of the awakening of that staid city.
But Is it an essential part of the new Phila
delphia that it must go to the Continent for
its municipal nomenclature. Can it not find
a good plain name for its commercial legisla
ture in the language of the United States!
The fact that it usually takes four years
to get a casejeettled in the Supreme Court of
the United States indicates that the appeal
of the Governorship contest in Nebraska
would, under normal circumstances, result
in some one getting left. The term of the
man on the outside will expire in two years;
and it would be little consolation for him to
hear four years hence that he was Governor
de jure, when there will bo no chance of his
ever getting the de facto satisfaction of hold
ing the position and drawing the salary.
Perhaps, however, the Supreme Court may
advance the case on the docket sufficiently
to decide that the Jurisdiction over the Gov
ernorship of Nebraska belongs to the Su
preme Court of Nebraska.
The New York press Is beginning to
protest that it is time that the highway
robberies in that city should he stopped,
when it comes to breaking open a mall
wagon on Broadway. The only highway
robberies whichNew York can condone aro
these perpetrated hy corporate combinations
on the steam hlghw ays of the land.
"The farm indebtedness of Kansas is
b elng paid off at the rate of $1,000,000 a month,
but this is not the work of the Farmers Al
liance," remarks the Boston Traveller. Are
we to understand the esteemed Traveller to
assert that some one outside of the Farmers'
Alliance is paying off mortgages for the
farmersT Sinco that organization consti
tutes the bulk of the farming population it
may be presumed that, if the above state
ment is true, the members of the Alliance
are paying off their debts by the hard work
that is characteristic of the Western farmer.
The stupid enmity of some of the Eastern
papers toward the farmers of the West goes
far to excuse the enmity which the farmers
are cherishing toward the East.
It is asserted by the Washington Post
that tho difference between a boy's throwing
and a girl's throwing is explained by the
greater length of tho female clavicle. Bosh!
The difference is explained by the fact that
the girls as a rule do not learn how to throw.
A very aggravating and exaggerated
specimen of the American hog is pointed out
by the Philadelphia Press in the shape of the
drunken man on tho street car. The charac
terization is a proper one, but it requires a
single qualification. One specimen of the
American hog exceeds in hogglsbness the
drunken man on the street car, and that is
tho company which lets him ride there and
inflicts him on tho other passengers for the
consideration of five cents.
Gold departed for Europe at the rate
of $4,000,000 on a siuglo steamship last Satur
day. WiU some of those financiers who as
sert that gold cannot bo driven out of the
country, please assert themselves and drive
this gold back into the country?
The disposition of an Albany organ to
make an international issue of the prohibi
tion of the British Government on the
wearing of swords by the Albany Knights
Templar during their summer tour in Eng
land is hysterical and Anglophobiac It is
sufficient to remark that a Government
which can perceive danger in Knights
Templar swords would faint away at the
sight of a doctor's lancet
Now Mr. Edmund Russell is quoted in
Chicago to the effect that "color in ladies'
dress should not be dumb; it should sing."
It is plain that Mr. Russell Is placing himself
in strict rapport with tho Chicago tendency
tow ard loud dressing. '
Concerning the late Presidental trip,
tho New Yoik Sun remarks: "Benjamin Har
rison is not n popular man, but he has suc
ceeded in great measuro in reuniting his
party, and that is no small achievement for a
President, even if ho has to travel 10,000
miles to do it." And the same week that the
trip ends one of the family organs cartoons
Blaine as a chicken thief. Call you this re
uniting his party?
Now that the curative bill has been
enacted into law, the Supreme Court should
be given nn early opportunity to say
whether it will cure or not.
There is a touch of prematureness in
the jubilation with which the press of this
country is announcing tho nselessness of the
Esmeralda because she has to get a fresh
supply of coal. As tho Charleston is a vessel
of exactly tho samo typo as the Esmeralda
she had to get a new supply of coal also. Her
only superiority was in the luck of being
ablo to get coal wheio the Chilean vessel
could not.
The frosts have made their ineffectual
effort, but tho dry weather continues to get
in its woik.
Pbesident Diaz, of Mexico, has put
himself in tho position of taking a "firm
stand against cxtravnganco and over-pledging
the national cicdlt." As Diaz himself
has done most of tho over-pledging and been
guilty of most of the extravagance, his re
formation permits a hope that the indomita
ble Thomas B. Reed will appear in tho next
Congress as a champion of retrenchment
and economy.
NOTABLES JT0TED.
General Jural Early still clings to
the Confederate gray as the color of his
dress.
Rev. Dr. T. P. Mahan, of Cleveland, is
named as a possible successor -to the -late
Bishop Gilmore.
Rev. "Sam" Jones has given notice that
ho cannot conduct services at the Round
Lake campmeeting this year, and Mr.
Moody has therefore been secured. --
Charles Fechier left the jewelry worn
by him as Hamlet to Lester AVallack. Wal
lack In turn left it to Madame PonisI and
she in turn has given it to Frederick Pauld
ing. Mrs. Richard Manning, of South Car
olina, is tho only woman on record who was
the mother of a Governor, tho wife of a
Governor, tho sister of a Governor, the
nieco of a Governor, and the aunt of a Gov
ernor. Countess Aymsuy de la BocHErou
cauld is said to be tho most beautiful woman
of this century. Her profllo is strikingly
like that of Marie Antoinette, and her hair
is of tho real shade possessed by the martyr
Queen.
H. C. Bunnek, author and editor of
Puck, lives at Nutley, N. J., where he has.a
pretty cottage nearly buriod in the woods,
no is a great pedestrian andsomething of an
amateur photographer. Ho has a wife" and
a little daughter named Nancy.
Michael Tschigorin, who recently
won the cable chess match with Mr. Steinitz,
is 40 years of age, and was born near St.
Petersburg. Ho learned the game to which
he is now so devoted while about 15 years
old, and in less than, 12 months could beat
his master, though giving tho latter tho odds
of a rook.
President Carnot went recently to the
Jarein d' Acclimatation, and a Bohemian
was asked what ho thought of the French
chief magistrate. "Oh, ho is a dignified and
gravo looking man," replied the dark cpm
plsxtoncd gentleman; "bnt ho always comes
with the same woman. For tho Lord's sake,
has ho only one?"
PETTBTJEG- DISPATCH,
A RELIGIOUS MELANGE.
The Consecration of the First Methodist
Episcopal Nurse Deaconess in New York
A Couple of Prominent Ministers Coino
to the Defense of Dr. Brlggs.
SPECIAL TELEOB IM TO THE DISPATCH.
New York, May 18. The second anniver
sary of the New "York Deaconness' Home
and Training School of the Methodist Epis
copal -Church wa3 held to-night in the Park
Avenue Methodist Church. Bishop Edward
C. Andrews conducted the service which
consecrated Mrs. H. L. Jenkins to the work
of nurse deaconess. Mrs. Jenkins is the first
nurse deaconess in New York. Sho took the
regular course of training for nurses at the
Methodist Hospital and was the first grad
uate from that institution. She left the hos
pital just as theDeaconess' Homo was opened
in May, 1889, and at once entered the home
training school. She has taken the regular
two years' training coarse of study and read,
ing and 13 the first graduate.
The discipline of tho Methodist Episcopal
Church provides that "the duties of dea
conesses are to minister to tho poor, visit the
sick, pray with tho dying, care for the
orphan, seek the wandering, comfort the
sorrowing, savo the sinning, and relinquish
ing all other pursuits, to devote themselves
to such forms of Christian labor that may be
suited to their ability. No vow shall be ex
acted from any deaconess, and any one of
their number shall be at liberty to relinquish
her position as deaconess at any time."
The Conditions Made to Suit.
The deaconesses live in the Homo under
three different conditions. They may pay
their own board and expneses, they may pay
their board, but not their expenses, and they
may pay neither. In any case, after they
have served a proper time in probation and
have been recelvedas candidates, they must
remain for two years taking a course of
reading and study and practical training in
the work beforo they may receive their
diplomas, xiie nurse deaconesses muse ntso
be graduated from some reputable training
school or hospital. Tho work of all the
dcaconosses while in the home consists in
visiting the poor and sick and relieving dis
tress in every way possible. They give up
all the' afternoon to the work, leaving the
home at 130 o'clock and returning at some
time between 5 and 6. Their mornings are
devoted to reading and studying.
Although the Home is strictly a Methodist
institution tho work of the deaconesses is
non-sectarian.Thcygowherovcrtheyflndthe
opportunity. Whenever they are allowed to
enter the house they call that a visit; but
when they aro admitted no further than the
door that is a call. Tho nurse deaconesses
finds still different employment. Often her
visits continue nnd ore extended into days
at the bedside of her patients. Mrs. Jenkins,
acting ln.this capacity, has made ovor 700
professional calls and has been remarkably
successful in her work. Sho is a woman of
pleasing personality, and her kindly manner
ana cneor way greatly augment ner useiui
ncssinhei: profession. Tho nurse deacon
esses live at the Home, but it is not unusual
for a deaconess to leave the Home to work
under the supervision of one church. In
such cases she is under tho direction of the
pastor of the church with which she is con
nected, but when associated in a Home all
members are subordinate to the Superin
tendent. The Superintendent of the New York
Home is Miss Isabella A. Reeves. There are
also connected with the Home a number of
associates. These are ladies whose home
lives do not permit them to enter tho
Deaconess Homo, but who can yet give part
of their timo to the work of the Home. The
records of tho visits of tho deaconesses and
nurse deaconess contain much that is pitiful
and unpleasant but there aro many cases
reported where tho cheery helpfulness ot
the visitors has wrought great changes in
tho llfo and conditions of the unfortunates
whom they have found out nnd helped. Not
always have their ministrations been to the
poorest classes; but their work is done for
its own sake and not for show, and their
records are kept for their own profit only.
Calls Dr. Brlggs n Martyr.
As a prelude to tho sormon last night the
Rov. John L. Scudder, pastor of tho Jersey
City Tabernacle, touched upon the trial of
Dr. Brlggs.
"Another theological war has been de
clared," he Bald. "Once more tho disciples
of Christ are preparing to do battle with one
another, and before this conflict is over I
fear many people will bo seriously damaged.
It is with great misgiving that I look upon
the coming trial of Dr. Briggs for heresy.
This is a purely theological quarrel a war
fare of opinion which is destined to Increase
the dissensions which already exist, if, in
deed, it will not sever the denomination.
"There is little to be gained in such dog
matio conflicts. It is a poor recommenda
tion for the gospel of love when the follow
ers of the meek and lowly Jesus join in
angry debate and exhibit sr harsh, unchar
itable controversial temper. Multitudes of
people stand aloof and say with a
sneer, 'You had bettor convert your
selves before you attornpt to con
vert us. Whether Dr. Briggs agrees
or disagrees with certain statements in the
Vestministor Confession whioh, itself,
sadly needs revision In my Judgment the
entire movement is a mistako and highly
Srejudicialto tho Interest of Christ's klng
om. In addition to the wisdom of this anti
heresy movement I believe it will defeat the
very purpose for which it was inaugurated,
for it will be national notoriety to the prin
ciples of higher criticism for which he
stands, and thus bring it down to tho masses.
"Dr. Briggs represents a growing party in
the Church of God a party which believes
in obtaining all possible light upon the
Scriptures and that is suro to win. This
learned and conscientious professor is sim
ply a martyr to the cause of religious pio
gress. Whatever may be done with him, and
heresy hunters do very queer things at
times, tho principle of higher criticism for
which he stands is certain to prevail in
course of time.
"Dr Briggs is a man of tho ago, an inaugu
rator of a now era in tho history of the
American church. Ho w 111 bo remembered
centuries nftcr his persecutors He forgotten
in the gravo."
Another One Defends tho Professor.
In his prelude talk yostorday the Rev.
Thomas Dixon, Jr.v discoursed on tho "Re
ligious War Against Prof. Brlggs." "The
religious war that has been bicwingfor a
generation," said ho, "has now fairly begun.
Tho dear old solemn owla composing the
Presbyterian Sanhedrim of Now York have
delivered their verdict. Prof. Brlggs must
bo arraigned and trlod for thinking a crime
for which they look up and truly thank God
they are guiltless. The Protestant religious
world has been rapidly dividing into two
great classes during the past few years
tuose wno tninK axiu muse wno ooiieve it is
a crime to think.
"I defy any man who thinks to taker
Shed's Dogmatio Theology,' believe it and
Reason keen hor throne. The lunatic aav-
lum would certainly be his home."
Mr. Dixon found four issues involved in
the heresy trial: human tradition against
divine progress; human dogmatio assertion
against tho religion of the Bible; a paper
creed against a vital religion, and slavery
against freedom.
"The men who make this fight," cried Mr.
Dixon, "make no intelligent appeal to the
Bible. They simply use the Bible as a
bludgeon. With the bigness 01 the typo and
Saper and binding they try to beat out the
rains of those wno refuse to bow down to a
little god they havo -created in their own
way. They appeal to human dogmatics and
proposo to try him by standaidsmade by
human hands. Theyproposctatry him for
heresy for undermining tho Bible; at the
tamo time refuse to confine themselves to its
teachings for the standards by which to con
dnctthetiial. "This fight means reason against stupidity,
mis-called faith. Faith is a moral act of tho
soul, and is utterly foreign to the pious
stupidity which rejoioes in swallowing dog
matic contradictions and absurdities. This
fight means n battle for tho very life of
Christianity with its misled but earnest de
fenders." EEPOBTEBS HOT BARBED.
Tho United Presbyterian Ministers Discuss
a Very Interesting Question.
The question as to whether the reporters
should invade their meetings wns the chief
question, before the United Presbyterian
ministers yesterday. It was called
up by a resolution presented by Hev. T.
W. Young' to oxcludo the press from
the meeting. Tho question was discussed,
but it could hardly be said to havo been de
batod, as the largo majority of the ministers
favor tho idea or having the reporters swell
the audiences they uddiess. A vote was
taken and only I Out of about 30 voted to
close the doorjn their faces..
Kev. R. M. Russell rend nn exhaustive pa
per on tho "Tithing Law." It proved so in
teresting and entertaining that it was unan
imously decided to request its publication in
tho church paper. The question to be dis
cussed next week will bo "What Lesson May
Wo Learn from Dr. Talmago as a Preacher?'
A Poker Expert Speaks.
Chicago Post,
"A Norwegian has Just discovered a new
substitute for ivory. On a pinoh there are
Amorioans who have foundmatches orbeans
a fair substitute.
TUESDAY, MAY 19,
0UB KAIL 20U0H.
A Briggs Critic Criticized.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
In the criticism of. "Dr. Briggs on the
Bible" by Dr. Sutherland, as reported In this
morning's Dispatch, he sovs tho "urgent
bold speech" of Christ, "without one word of
caution," was "Search the Scriptures." This
text, John v., 39, is ono of tho most doubtful
interpretations In the New Testament, and
is the one on which Dr. Brlggs could most
safely rest his case. If thoso who
are Interested in the discussion' of
this question nised by Dr. Brlggs -will
get a copy of the Now Version of the
Scriptures they can see that this text so con
fidently quoted is changed from the impera
tive to the indicative mood, and reads: "Ye do
Bearch the Scriptures because ye think that
in them ye have eternal life," and then
Christ adds as a rebuke of such "thinking,"
"Ye wiU not como unto mo that you may
havo life."
In Lange's great Commentary, after giving
the arguments in favor of the imperative
mood, he says: "These arguments are in
themselves insufficient, ana must give way
to the one consideration that the connection
and natural sense of the passage as a whole
requires the indicative. Among Bible critics
of ancient and modern times, who agree
with the New Version in not adopting the
imperative, "Search the Scriptures," as
given by Dr. Sutherland, may be found such
names as Cyril, Erasmus, Beza, Bengal,
Lucke, Meyer, Heny. Dodridge, Olshausen,
Barnes ana jnany others. In view of this
conflict of sentiment among Bible critics,
the counsel of the Church, in which the
writer has long been a minister, "Not to at
tempt to settle doubtful questions by doubt
ful texts," seems to be especially applicable
to the Briggs controversialists at this time.
C. W. H.
6121 LlBEnTT AVEBUE, PlTTSBCHO.
FOB COMMERCIAL INTERESTS.
The Trans-Mississippi Congress to Meet at
Denver To-Day.
Deuveii, May 18. The Trans-Mississippi
Congress will meet at the Fifteenth Street
Theater to-morrow nt 10 "o'clock. Seven
hundred delegates have already arrived,
amonr them President H. M. Frisback, of
Fort Smith, Ark. "Every incoming train
bring! additional delegates and by to
morrow morning it Is expected ovor 1,000
will jiave arrived together with as many
visitors.
The object of the congress is to unite
the people of. the States nnd Territories
west pf the Mississippi river for the promo
tion of their commercial interests. Among
the questions to be discussed will be:
"Lekislatlon Affecting Commerce, Trans
portation and Finance;" "Improvement of
Watetways, Lake, Gulf and Pacific Ports;"
"Maijrets for Western Products:" Promotion
of Manufacturing and Agricultural Inter
ests.'! "Irrigation and Reclamation of Arid
Land);" "Western Mineral Lands and Their
Development;" "Cause and Effects of Busi
ness Combinations and Their Uses;" Reel,
prociiy and International Trado Extension;"
"Thoandinn Question nnd Opening of Indian
Lands," and such other subjects as maybe
worthy of consideration.
An Inter-State Commerce Trip.
Washikotoh, May 18. Beginning May 18,
Inter-State Commorce Commissioners Mor
rison, Bragg, Veazey and Knapp will make a
circuit to the Pacific coast nnd return, and
hear cases and make investigations at vari
ous points on tho louto.
PEOPLE COMING AND GOING.
G. M. Gardner, superintendent of the
Mono Mining Companv, of this city, left yes
terday via the Lake Erie road, for Pitkin,
Col. William Adams, the Southsldo glass
man, is treasurer of tho company, and he,
with several others, will go out in a few
days.
Judge Inghram, of Waynesburg, was at
the Union Depot last evening to receive the
body of Albert S. Black, who died of con-
gestionofthe lungs nt Washington. Black
1 a brother of Mrs. Inghram, and formerly
tias assistant cashier in the Waynesburg
Bank. r
J. C. Herold and wife, of Little Bock.
registered at the Duquesno last evening. Mr.
Herold was a former Pittsburger, and went
to school with C. L. Mageo. He hasn't been
in the city for seven years, but during that
time, he says, the place has grown wonder
fully. Charles H. Nutt, representing the
lam.es1 Home Journal of Philaaeipma, a phe
nomenal publication which is a visitor to
nearly a million homes, is at the Anderson.
He leaves for the West this evening, going
by easy stages slopeward.
W. S. McGinnis, Assistant Superintend
ent of the Railway Mail Service, inspected
the local wagon and messenger service yos
torday. Ho says the horses and wagons
compare with tho best in tho country.
Mrs. August Fecke, of 1402 Carson street,
Southslde, yesterday started on a trip to
Germany in company with her 10-year-old
son. She expects to visit hor paients and
and will be gone four months.
Among those who went toHarrisburg last
evening were A. C. Robertson, Adjutant
General McClelland, Mr. Giles, W. C. More
land and Diok Quay.
O. A. Lappe started for Europe vestorday
to spend a year. He will bo in England dur
ing the summer, and put in tho winter in
Germany and Egypt.
C. A. Egley, commercial agent for the
Queen and Crescent route, is on one of his
monthly visits to this territory after
freight.
Coroner Heber McDowell and Mrs. Mc
Dowell returned yestorday from a trip to
Eastern cities and the seashore.
General A. J". "Warner, of Marietta, and
Thomas Sutton, an Indiana banker, are at
the Seventh Avenue Hotel.
H. M Horton, of Pomeroy, and A. J.
Packard, of Youngstown, are stopplngattho
Monongahola House.
Alonzo Loring, the ancient Wheeling nail
manufacturer, was nt the Monongahela
House yesterday.
"William Garrett, Secretary of the Illinois
Steel Company.is at tho Duquesno. He 13 here
buying iron.
Postmaster McKcan left for Norfolk last
evening to attend a land sale.
E. A. Hess departed yesterday on a busi
ness trip to Eastern cities.
Collector Warmcastle returned from Har
risburg yesterday.
Mayor "Wynian left yesterday for Ohio on
a business trip.
DEATHS HEBE AND ELSEWHEBE.
Colonel Robert McForlane.
Colonel Bobert McParlane, a prominent
hardware merchant of Bellefonte, died suddenly
yesterday. Colonel McFarlane bad a nar record.
When the Rebellion broke out he raised
Company G, One Hundred and Forty-eighth
Pennsylvania Volunteers, and was 'elected Its
Captain. One month alter be was made Lieu
tenant Colonel of the regiment, James A.
Beaver at that time being Colonel. Colonel Mc
Farlane served In that capacity for two years,
"having command of the regiment most of the time,
in one notable Instance at the hattle of Gettysburg,
when Beaver was In the hospital. Mr. McFarline
was discharged on a surReon's certificate In No
1 ember. 18G3. At the time of bis death he was 63
years of age.
Lord Edward Cavendish.
London, May 18. Lord Edward Caven
dish, youngest son of the Duke of Devonshire, and
member of Parliament for West Devonshire, died
to-day from the effects of an attack of influenza.
Lord Edward Cavendish Was the only surviving
brother of the Marquis of Hartlngton and lxrd
Frederick Cavendish, who was murUircd atl'hcenlx
Park, Dublin, lie would have succeeded to the
dukedom of Devonshire had be outlived the Mar
quis and had the latter died childless.
Obituary Notes.
Blaise Sooles, one of the best known railroad
men in Connecticut, died at his residence In Barne
gat on Saturday night, aged 67 years.
CHARLES W. TAYLOR, who died last week, had
been the leading Justlceof theTcaceatMlncrsvlUe,
Pa., for the past 25 years. He was prominent In
Republican political clrUes In SchuylHU county.
He was 74 J ears old. (
-William I". GnAnAjr, editor pt the Merldcn
(Conn.) Republican, died Sunday, after a long Ill
ness, of consumption, aged 46 years. Mr. Graham
had been a resident of Merlden for a years, and for
years editor of the Kepubllcan.
MISS SUSAN COLLINS died at Norwich, N. Y., on
Wednesday, in the 95th year of her age. She was
born in Ehode Island, of Quaker pirentage, nnd
she lived the serene and pious life enjoined by that
faith. She retained her faculties in a remarkable
degree to the day of her death.
JOHN T. Pfeifpeii, for many years leader of the
Naval Acidemy baud, died In Annapolis Sunday,
aged 75 years. A pension of (72 a month was re
cently awarded Mr. Pfeiffer. Reproved that his
loss of sljtht began while writing music for the use
of the Naval Academy band when he was the
leader.
HOK, EpWAUD JonitSTOy, an eminent lawjer,
and an imclo of District Attorney Johnston, of this
city, died yesterday .at his home In Keokuk, la.
District Attorney Johnston received the intelli
gence In a dispatch yesterday morning, Mr. John
ston was for many ) ears a Judge on one of the Iowa
circuits, lie migrated West wncn quite young. He
was at the time of Ills death In his 711 year.
1891.
THE PLAY'S THE THING.
Fanny Davenport as Cleopatra A Magnifi
cent Spectacle Realism In Two Modern
Melodramas, tho Patrol and the Mid
night Alarm Yariety and Other Enter
, talnments.
"Cleopatra" as presented by Fanny Daven
port and her associates at the Grand Opera
House last night is a magnificent spectacle.
Nothing like it for scenic splendor and gen
eral gorgeousness has been shown hero for a
long while. Taking it as a spectacle wo have
nothing; but .praise for it; whatever fault
may be found with play, or the performers.
It is worth while to see -"Cleopatra," if
for nothln j else, to see the typhoon scene
with Itsintonselynatural picture of element
al fury. The trouble last night was that
with everything else the intermissions were
of magnificent proportions, nnd the per
formance rolled grandly on till nearly
midnight. The play is in sis acts, and the
scenery for each of these is heavy and com-
fillcatedto an extraordinary degree. Still
here is no reason why the play should not
consume much less time after the novelty
of the first night's performance has been
overcome. A testimony to the play's inter
est Is the fact that in spite of tedious waits
and tho final approach of another day very
few of the audience left tho house before
the conclusion of tho piece.
"Cleopatra" is an English version of Sar
dou's play in whioh Rernhardt has also ap
peared. It is not a great play, nor even a
moderately good one. There is a lack of con
tinuity in the plot, and the dramatla art has
been ruthlessly sacrificed here, there and
everywhere for the sake of spectacular
effect. As far as the adherence to history
goes Mr. Sardou has probably kept as
close to all the known facts and they
ore none too many nor too clear
ns Shakespeare in his play, "Antony and
Cleopatra," which, by the way, is practially
less actable than Sardou's by a very great
deal, and the weakest of all tho bard's his
torical tragedies. Sardou hasnot taken very
much from Shakespeare, and he has shown
excellent taste in selecting what he has
taken. The scene in act III., wherein Cleo
patra obtains from a terror-stricken messen
ger a description of Antony's new wife,
Octavia, nnd vents herjealousy in sarcastic
comments upon her rival's attributes, is
borrowed almost verbatim from Shake
speare's"AntonyandCleopatra."Thenatural humor of this episode, a rolief
after the outburst of wild rage which
It succeeds, is Shakespeare's, not
Sardou's and the language in which
Cleopatra's scornful interpretation of
the messenger's description, the most telling
perhaps in the play, is Shakespeare's to a
considerable extent also. There are other
strong scenes of Sardou's own, hut the in
genuity of the great French dramatist seems
to have failed him in certain places. whore
he might have been expected to
shine. For instance, how ridiculous
Is Cleopatra's concealment (t) in Mark
Antony's bridal bed at Actium. If the author
was resolved to have Cleopatra overhear
Antony's connubial coolngs with Octavia,
and in plain sight of the audience, nnd
everybody else, show tho tempestuous
course or her passionate resentment, he
might have given her a bettor platform than
an old four-poster bed and three towzled
pillows. The situation stopped but little
short of the comic, and a great deal of the
glamour of Cleopatra's charms was rubbed
off as sho tumbled about 111 a neglige led
dress under and over and around tho big
bed.
And what manner of Cleopatra is it that
Fanny Davenport brings tousT Not tho sub
tle, sinuous shadow of nn unholy beauty that
history and the poets have but faintly
limned, leaving half to be imagined. Rather
a very substantial woman of warm, deep
passions and veins well filled with red
blood; a qneenly woman, if you will, whom
Tennyson's description might fit in good
Sart; a character compounded of
eaven and hades, with Hashes
of light from both places. It is
impossible to bolievo that Cleopatra was the
woman Miss Davenport makes her with
Sardou's help, but the creation has no littlo
ohnrm of Its own, and tho physical appeal of
this Serpentof the Nileisundeniably strong.
The dressing, or rather the undressing, of
tho part has to be a feature of the character,
and Miss Davenport's solitary clinging gar
ment, or the transparent gauzy robe she
wears at her first entrance in the inter
view with Antony, cannot be said to
conceal very much. Tho question of
propriety hero arising involves tho whole
play, but while it is on dangerous gronnd
the drama is not offensive in any great de
gree. Tho lesson it might serve to teach is
the old one which Cleopatra and her kind
have always taught sinners and fools who
followed them. The end of the easy descent
is shown plainly enough.
Aioioourne McDowell has a snperb phy
sique to recommend him in his embodiments
of Mark Antony, and some other attributes
of his befit the character of the Roman con
sul. In several episodes Mr. MoDowell
rose to real tragic power, but he has
a regrettable tendency to be theatrical in
his gestures, nnd.'wnen representing any
intense feeling, talks so fast as to be unlntel
llgible. In a lesser degree Miss Davenport,
at times, had this latter fault, also; but she
showed rare elocutionary talent in the rela
tion of an Egytian legend in the second not.
Theodore Roberts, as Kephren! a slave of
Cleopatra, was the only notable actor besides
the two prinoipals.and his work was exceed
ing artistic and worthy in every respect.
Every scene in the nlav is a nicture of con
siderable beauty. The advent of Cleopatra's
barge at the mouth of the Cydnns, if not an
exact realization of what Shakespeare and a
host of painters have tantalized us with,
was managed with a wonderful skill, so that
tho stage was ablaze with color, and the
oriental idea of Cleopatra's atmosphere was
suggested In a score of ways. The views of
Egyptian temples, tho seashore and the
desert and the holy Nile, which subsequent
scenes unfolded, were wondorfnlly real
and beautiful. Tho climax wns
the storm scene. Cleopatra standing
on tho steps of tho Temple of Isls
prays for a storm to confound hor enemies.
Tho storm comes; tho furious typhoon of
the desert, with Its wind nnd snn'd and rain
wound in a weapon of nwful splendor and
destructiveness. The storm Is leprodnced
with exact fidelity. You see the skies white
with lightning, the palm trees bending be
foro the wind, the thunder roars, and tho
wind seems to whistle through the wings.
A large audience gave the play a hearty re
ception. BIJou Theater.
At the BIJou Theater last evening "Tho
Midnight Alarm," a realistic comedy-drama
In five acts, made a decided hit. It is full of
life and action from start to finish, and was
well staged. The locality is New York City,
nnd the timo tho present. The characters
aro well defined and the various scenes and
incidents fairly natural. In the fourth act
is introduced a scene at tho truck
house. Suddenly the alarm strikes nnd
out dashes the Hayes truck, followed by
engine and hose carriages, the whole forming
a very realistic and exciting episode. Fred
erick Julian as tho villlan Silas Carringford
made the hit of tho evening, nnd in the third
net his -work is especially fine when Oarrina-
ford discovers the loss of papers whioh he
aepenuu upon 10 mace a lortnne. tuos.
Brldgeland was a manly hero. W. W. Bitt
ner played the old farmer well. Gcorgo T.
Hall and George Scott ably sustained tho
comedy element, and Kate Pearson as Sparkle,
-a gieuui 01 siuisuuie, ino Heroine, maao a
pleasing impression. The houso was largo
and appieciatlve and will do a large May
business.
The Duquesno Theater.
Mr. Scott Marble, who has hcretoforo
traveled in tho paths of comedy, has con
structed a strong melodrama in "The
Patrol," and one 'destined to bo a great
financial success. Tho cast embraces names
well known to all theatre-goers, and from
the leading part to the most insignificant,
all are well taken. Mr. Handvelde as the
Captain 0 Police. Mr. Hamilton ns Hell,
Mr. Anderson as tho French Detective, and Mr.
Carpenter were all good. Miss Alice Fischer
ns the Adventuress, wns charmingly clover,
and Miss Blanche Seymour as
"Sieceter"' was excentionallv irood.
Miss Wlllett gave a natural Xauraand Miss
Morton ns the wife alHraden gave dignity to
a small part. Among tho bits of character
refreshingly real was that or Herbert Jones
as the tramp in the station house scene. Of
course, Luke Schoolcraft was fanny. The
realistic feature of tho performance wa tho
patrol barn scene. Thenlnrm nnd the hitoh
ingortho horses and their wild dash from
tho stagennd their return In answer to a
call from an nctnal patrol box was 11 scene of
realism long to be remembered.
Harris' Theater.
Clom. C Mageo has so long beon a favorlto
with vaudevillo entertainment patrons that
ho will doubtless do a good week's business
at thls'house, whore, with n tolerably fair
company, he began a week's engagement
vestcrdav, in a farce comedy entitled "Irish
Luck." Tho play was simply put together
to fnrnish nn excuso for the Introduction of
n number of specialties, including skirt
dancing, singing, dancing and ' lightning
crayon sketches. x
Notes of tho Stage.
The now performance and exhibition of
curiosities at Harry Davis' Museum attract
ed lrgo audiences.
The World's Museum has a new bill nnd a
great many good things in It which a host of
people enjoyed yesterday.
The "Emma Juch Company has finally
come to smash in St, Louis, Manager Locke's
many creditors are chasing him hard, MA
E. D. Wilt among them.
Ths Fay Foster English Gaiety Company
at Harry Williams' Academy is not especial
ly strong, but the wonderful balancing feats
of Yanola are worth going to see.
The May Festival chorus is called for re
hearsal at Old City Hall at 7:30 this evening,
for the Gilmore concert. Members having
copies of the "Creation" are requested to
bring them. -
The large advance sale of seats for the Gil
moreB and concerts to-morrow afternoon
nnd evening indicates that the people of
Pittsburg appreciate popular music. Gil
more is noted for playing what tho public
want, and the programmes this time show
that ho will not depart from his rule now.
Ho will bo assisted by Campanini, Natale,
Maud Powell, Ida Klein, Spigaroli, Sartori,
Anna C. Mantell and the May Festival mati
nee. At the matinee all the school children
of Pittsbnrg and Allegheny will bo ndmitted
for 10 cents apiece. This Includes the chil
dren of Catholic and other sectarian schools.
SOCIETY AND CHAEI1T.
A Honsewarming Opens the Hostetter Man
sion on Fifth Avenue.
Yesterday afternoon tho portals of tho
magnificent Hostetter residence on Fifth
avenue, were for the first timo thrown open
to tho social world. The event was in the
nature of a housewarmlng, as well as a
pleasing attention to the Misses Friesse, of
Now York, guests of the hostess, Mrs. D.
Herbert Hostetter. Nature and art vied
with each other in their efforts to beautify
the home, and the result was charming in
tho extreme. Costly and exquisite vases,
urns and mantels, bloomed with the love
liest of fragrant flowers. Rare paintings
and antique furniture, with luxurious car
pets and window drapings completed the
background of elegance, for tho many lovely
ladies that were on it outlined. Guests to
the number of 300, in the very ideal of ex
quisite costuming paid their respects to the
charming hostess and passed a few words
with tho ladies receiving, who were Mrs.
Allen Wood, Mrs. Herbert Dupuy, Mrs. E.
W. Gerdes, the Misses Gerdes, Mrs. Wood
well, Mis Susie Dilworth, Miss Louise Dil
worth nnd Mrs. Frank Nicola.
Flowers in garlands and bouquets fes
tooned nnd flanked tho pulpit of the Eighth
Street Covenanter Church last evening.
Upon the platform were seated representa
tive ministers of the Presbyterian denomina
tions, while the auditorium was well filled
with members and friends of the congrega
tion. It was the last day of the Quarto-Centennial
celebration of the church's history
a sort of nine-day wonder," because the en
thusiasm and interest in the occasion were
maintained without abatement for that
length of time. The services last night in
cluded an address by Rev. Prof. D. B. Will,
son, D. D., of tho Reformed Presbyterian
Theological Seminary, on his recollections
of tire church. Of the members of the Con
ference of his childhood days but one
is loft, and of the next following generation
of clergymen he is the only one performing
ministerial functions. Ho was followed by
Rev. Dr. W. J. Robinson on "The Covenanter
Church and Reforms," and according to him
tho church is 50 years ahead of others in
reforms, w hile it might be an equal distance
in the rear on some doctrinal matters. Rev.
Dr. J. W. Sproull, son of the Rev. Dr. Thomas
Sproull, the old pa3toroftho "Union con
gregation," kept at home by an enfeebled
constitution, spoke for his father and him
self. During his delivery he declared, with
great earnestness and force, that the
"Covenanters aro not narrow minded, nor
biggottcd; they grant to their ministers the
very widest latitude of belief so long as
they remain true to the Covenant." The
concluding address "The Covenantor Chuich.
and Her Mission, as Seen by a Friend," was
dellveied by Hev. Dr. I. N. Hays.
Johh PATTEKSoir, a son of Attorney David
T. Patterson, and a young man of wide ac
quaintance in and about the Court House,
where he conducts his stenographic busi
ness, will become a benedict on the third
day of June. Miss Gregg, of Allegheny, for
merly of Wheeling, is tho bride-elect. It is
to be a homo wedding, and as early In the
evenlncc as a dres9 suit is nermissable. The
young couple will dopart on the evening
train for Niagara Falls and other points of
interest m wo usc
A man noon wedding in Pittsburg 13 not an
uncomion event, bnt a midnight wedding is
qnito so. However, there is to bo ono shortly.
Miss Moorhead and, her fiance, Mr, Tan
Mothen, are to become man and wife at to
Americans that very unseemly wedding
hour. The wedding will be conducted ac
cording to French principles, and will be
solemnized in the bhadyside Presbyterian
Church. The invitations will be limited to
tho family connections and intimate friends.
The Casmian Literary Society, of the Al
legheny High School, is preparing for an en
tertainment tobogiven next Friday evening,
and is putting forth 'all Us efforts to make
tho event such a success that its rivals will
turn green with envoy. Part first of the
programme will be musical and literary
and part second will be a German comedy
translated. In the comedy a newly wedded
couple figure. The musio will be furnished
by tho Philharmonio Club.
Social Chatter.
The ladles of the W. C. T. XT. will give a
lawn feto and supper at the Howard place
on South street, Wllkinsbnrg, Thursday and
Friday evonings. There will bo all sorts of
amusements and plenty of refreshments,
and there is every indication that tho occa
sion will bo a very enjoyable one.
Tnnyonng men holding membership in
the St. Paul's P. E. Church chapter of the
Brothership of St. Andrew's will give a
musical and literary entertainment in the
hall of the Fourteenth ward public sebool
building on the evening of Jnne 4, the pro
ceeds to go to the churon building fund.
The regular monthly meeting of tho
Woman's Temperance Alliance of Alle
gheny County will be held this afternoon in
the Fourth United Presbyterian Church of
Allegheny. Mrs. Francus L. Swift, the
former president, Is expected to speak.
The Woman's Wealth Protoctivo Associa
tion will meet at 11 o'clock to-day in tho
Mercantile library rooms. A lawyer and a
member of Councils will be present to dis
cuss tho legal aspects of a fight with the
smoke nuisance.
A meetiko will be held this afternoon In
Camcglo Hall lecture room, in the interest
of tho proposed Young Woman's Christian
Association, of Allegheny.
"The Slodern Deborah; or Woman's Rights
nnd Woman's Wrongs," is the subject Rev.
C. E. Locke will lecture on at the Smithfield
Church this evening.
Miss Eleanor M. An-ratm, of Henderson
IHU, will bid adieu to friends before her de
parture for Dansville, with a reception this
evening.
WASHraoTOX and Jefferson College Banjo,
Mandolin and Guitar Club will give a con
cert to-night in Dilworth Hall.
The dedication and reception of the Home
for Aged People at Fair Oaks took place
yesterday.
LrEOTESAKT Geabet Circle No. 7 will cele
brate its seventh anniversary this evening.
TnE Southsldo Medical Society will enjoy a
boat excursion and basket picnic to-day.
Mns. A. E. Clark was hostess yesterday
afternoon to a delightful card party.
A cocsnT -a 111 bo given to-night In St,
Michael's Hall.
ODD FELLOWS IH C0TO0TL.
Opening of the State Encampment and. the
Election of Officers.
SPECIAL TELEORASt TO THE DISFATCn.J
Lancaster, May 18. Tho annual session of
the Grand Encampment I. O. O. F., of Penn
sylvania, opened nt 9 x. v. to-day with
prayer uy uranu nign i-riesi niciiirru.ii.
Graham. The reports of the Grand Chief
Patriarch and Grand Scribe shows a gratify
ing increase. Slxtocn new encampments
were instituted and 73 new members ad
mitted to the Grand Encampment. Tho
relief paid out Inst year amounted to 70,
789 5i, nnd for 10 years, $1,233,401 50.
Officers were elected and installed as fol
lows: Ricliard II. Graham, No. 47, Grand
Chicr Patriarch; r. V. Van Arsdalep.Nd. 115,
Grand High Priest; George Hnwkes, No. 20,
Grand Senior Warden; James B. Nloholson,
No. 101, Grand Scribe; John S. neiss, No. 20,
Grand Treasurer; II J. Grismnn, No. 217,
Grand Jnnlor Warden; M. Richards Mnckle,
No. 51, Grand Representative. The Grand
Encampment finished its session at 5.30 p. jr.
The Grand Lodge convenes Tuesday tCt 9
o'clock. The parade of cantons, lodges,
etc., at 2 r. 11. will be a large ono.
An Rdltor's Birthday.
Delta (O.) Atlas.
The 21st of this month Is the birthday of
the editor of this paper. Wo are 53 years
old at least. Valuable presents may bo for
warded tons nt your expense, bnt wo aro
well supplied with flower and garden seed
and literary matter. We wish ourselves
many happy returns of the day, and If wo
can pay our debts and serve the people ac
ceptably, contlnning to glvo them the best
paper in Fulton county at tho lowest price,
we trust they will join with ns la the wish.
CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS.
The grave dug to receive the body of
William P. Weidner, of Lehigh county, wai
11 feet long and 9 feet wide.
A fine pussy cat in a Chester, Pa., fam
Hy Jumped for a rat, caught its neck ribbon
on a nail and strangled to death.
A resident of NewIoorefield, O., hasa
cat which has adopted an infant skunk and
is as attached to it as to her own kittens.
Wheeling, W. Va., is proud of a col
Ored man who eats nothing but lamp chira
neys and live chickens, if he can get them.
A hen which grows a mustache every"
spring and sheds it each following fall is onfl
of tho able-bodied curiosities of Atchison,
Kan.
A fonr-leggcd chicken has been pur
chased by tho bulls of tho New York StocJc
Exchange. It 13 hoped tho fowl will prove
to be s mascot.
Burial ground being very scarce in
Hong Kong colony, the Government pro
poses to take up and urn Chinese unclaimed
dead buried for five or six years.
The biggest orange tree in Louisiana is
claimed to be in Terrebone parish. It is 13
feet in circomferenco and 50 feet high. Tho
yield this year Is expected to reach 10,000
oranges.
The first word spoken through the Lon
don-gnris telephone was the old English
word "Hello." So was the second, third,
fourth and fifth. The sixth had the sylla?
bles reversed.
One of the milder claims to futnTf)
greatness advanced by Pittsburg, Kan., Is
that beneath the surface of that town there)
still remains $552,000,000 worth of coal, at the)
lowest calculation.
It has been reckoned that if the whole
ocean were dried up, all the water passing
nwny as vapor, the amount of salt remain
ing would be enough to cover 5,000,000 square
miles with a layer one mile thick.
A large number of Manchester, N. H.,
people, old and young, are saving all the 1
cent pieces of the issne of 1891 on the curl,
ous rumor that the Government has called
in all the cent pieces of the 1S91 series.
The wife of a clergyman in New
Goshen, Ind.,compIained for several months!
of nn acute pain in the side, and the surgeon
being consulted, a needle was extracted
which the lady swallowed when a little girl,
nearly 40 years ago.
The depth at which some of the Belgian
coal mines aro worked Is something pro.
dlglous. In a pit at Flenn the work Is now
done at 8,700 feet; in a pit at Fremerin nt
2,800 feet, and in tho St. Andre pit at Moo.
tlgny-snr-Snmbre at 3,000 feet.
A 12-year-old youngster at Eobinson,
Me., Went to the woods four weeks ago witn
his ax and felled a rock maple, and made &
violin out of it. The other day, for a caller,
he executed a reel, whiio his father, 66 years
old, danced to the musio in a manner that
would test the powers of a young fellow of
20 years.
A Georgia editor says: "We came
across a snake a few days ago that surpassed
anything in the snake line we have ever
seen. The reptile was no larger than a lead
pencil, out was abont 9 or 13 feet long, and.
Its head was about the size and shape of a,
tea. saucer. On top of its head was an exacts
likeness of a tiger?'
Under the Dakota statutes a man who
robs a stage can be sent to prison for life. If
lie attacks but falls to get any plunder, ha
can be sentenced ror half a lifetime. In &
case where n Judge figured that 15 years wns
half a life, the Supreme Court has upset the
sentence, figuring that 19 years, J
months and I days is the correct figure.
A colored man was hanged at Trenton,
Gn., the other day. The landlord of a hotel
in that little town, advertised as follows:
"Are you going to the hanging? The Blank;
Houso at Trenton, Ga., offers an excellent
view to witness the execution. Stop at tho
Blank Honse, Trenton, Ga., when visiting the
hanging, May 13. Can see all from windows.
Gallows within 150 yards. Meals 50 cents."
It is customary for the Emperor of
China to offer prayers every New Year's Day
for the "welfare and bright prospects of his
subjects in the 13 provinces of his empire.
At 'the ceremony 13 pairs of candles are
burnt, and the name of each province Is
marked on each pair. Any of the candles
that burn badly slgnifr that such provinces
as are named will suffer great calamities
sickness and the like.
The, biggest cocking main ever fought
in South Carolina was concluded in Charles
ton tho other day. It was between South
Carolina and Georgia and North Carolina
combined, and consisted of 18 fight", with
$1,000 on each sido and $1,000 on the odd.
South Carolina won against Georgia and
North Carolina by a score of 8 to 10 after
three days' fighting. Over $17,000 changed
hands in the three days.
A report comes from Leadville of tha
discovery of an arrowhead, made of tern,
pered copper, and of a number of human
bones, in the Rocky Point mines, near Gil
man. Col. Tho relics were disclosed 40O fees
beneath the surface of the earth, imbedded
in a vein of silver bearing ore. 3Ioro than
$100 worth of ore clung to the bones when
thoy were removed from the mine. Here is
a puzzle for the geologists.
The latest scheme for direct railway
communication between England and
France provides for a double water-tight
tnbe, capable of containing two railway
tracks, nnd sank about W feet in the channel.
The engineer proposing this method pro.
poses to utilize the displacement and buoy
ancy of the tnbe to give tho necessary sup
port, piles being driven into tho channel, to
which the tube wouldbe chained to prevent "
it rising.
A citizen of Stamford, Conn., has been
driven insane by his yonng lady neighbor
practicing on the piano, and his mania took;
a very queer form. When it seized him, ho
went to all the piano dealers in the town and
orderedtheratosend costly instruments to
the young lady's house at intervals of half
an hour. As he was rich, his odd orders
were complied with, and the young woman,
despite her objections, had ten instruments
blocking tho street In front of her house,
besides two hi the parlor and one in tho hall,
Finally tho madman was captnrednnd the
pianos rotnrned, but tho young lady has
ceased practice.
While a fair yonng daughter of York,
Fa., was serenely seated in her aerial bed
chamber the other night, weary with the
toils of the day, about to doff her wrap and
lay herself down upon her couch to enjoy
tho kindly embrace of Morpheus, she sud
denly heard n strange noise.which affrighted
and almost bewildered her. Itwa3 that of
an old family clock which had been stored
away in the room. Its truthful tones had
not been heard for half a centnry, when all
nni its irhenls besran to vibrate, and thA
old familiar gong sounded out tho time of
night 11 o'clock. It did not strike or "tick"
again, bnt stopped, not to go again. The
nlnrm is a mvsterv. and the timid lassie
awaits in breathless silence the sequel of
the occasion.
SOME FUNNY THINGS.
A shrewd old lady cautioned her daughter
against worrying her hasband too mnch, and con
eluded by saying; "My child, a man Is like an egg.
Keip him in hot water a little while, he mar boll
soft; bnt keep bun there too long and be hardens.
Gossip.
One of the earlier yeomen of Bridgeton
was a pimp maker, a good citizen, bat with "no
religions preferences." One day lie was waited
upon br one of the church assessors, who handed
him a bill for the support of preaching. "I hain't
heard no preaching," said the old man, somewhat
surprised. "Well, brother, it's your own fault
then." replied the churchman. "It'sbeen accessi
ble to all every Sabbath for a year." He paid.
Not lopg after the parish received from htm a bill
forapnmp. "We have bought no pnmp of yon,"
was the answer. "Well, then." replied the old
gentleman, with a twinkle hi his eye, "It's yoar
own fault. Tor I have been making them forycars."
Leiclston Journal. '
"These firemen must be a frivolous set,'
said Mr. Splllklns, who was reading a paper.
"Whyao?" "I read in the paper that alter tho
fire was under control the (Ircmen played all night
on the ruins. Why didn't they go home and go to
bed llko sensible men. Instead of romping about
like chuaren.-r,3a S(TUn3s.
AFTER BYKOX.
The maidens are coming like lambs to tho
fold.
With their bathing suits gleaming with purple and
gold.
Ami tho light of their eyes Is like stars on the sea.
Where the blue waves lave nightly the eoast of
Jer-zcc. Kew Yuri Herald.
"Always aim a little higher than the
tnart." says a philosopher. What! Kiss a girl 'on
the nose! Never. Adrian Dally Timet.
Guest How is this? My bill this time is
(la days and last December I had the same room
and 1 1 Was Only 3 a day.
Clerk Yea. I know ; but the days are much Ione
tnwittm Cwrier,