va mm mF?: m?w &. STR ?&&&? & h& 1,-g-X ?s Tl- '.fv THE PITTSBURG- DISPATCH, 'MONDAY, MAY-. 25,' 1891. . ,, . . .... aBSTABLISHED FEBRUARY 8. ISM. Vol. , No. 387. Entered at PltUtarg Postoffice. Netesaberll, 1SS7, as second-class matter. f Business Office Comer Smithfield and Diamond Streets. News Rooms and Publishing House EL. 7S and So Diamond Street, in New Dispatch Building. EASTERN ADVFRTISINO OFFICr, BOOM 3, TKWIIN E Bl'ILIHNfi. K" l OKK. where com- Tete Me or Til 1; IW AlfU cau always ue louuu. J-orel jra advertifae-s anil treclate the convenience. MMM-.iI.rtIj.rN ind irf etui-. r THE mM'Aruu, w line In New York, are alo made welcome. it T1JE DISPATCH it rrmlnrhion Salrat Brentnno't, Z S oMbh Swuv, -Vrw IbW. "nd 27 Are fe I'tlpem, jum, nrmrf. wherr niiwi tcao iiag wxn uwnjj jxttSwf nt a he'et t etaiidcai Main, it. TKIUIS OF THE DISPATCH. rOSTAOE TKEE IN T.'IL UNITED STATES. Daily Dispatch. One Year f 8 W Daili IlisrATtH, IVr Quarter 2 00 Daily r)irn. Out Month 70 Daily Dispatch, including fcunday, ljear.. 10 00 Daily msrATcu. including Sunday, 3 rrtus. 2 50 Duly Dispatch. uichidlngMmdaj. lin'th.. 90 SCNtxvi l)IM"Ttn. One Year. 250 WEB.L1 Dl-rvrcn.OneYfir 125 The -Daili DWAitnl-lllered 03 earrlersat Mtxtpet'weeK.or. lnclndingbmiJay Edition, at "X cent per week. riTT&lH'Kt, MONDA1.MAY25, 1SD1. THE BALLOT TKAUD. The Pennylaaia Ballot BeformAsso cifttienlias issued another address hich clearly defines the issue between the frieiws of genuine ballot reform and the supportas of that counterfeit and sham pending in the Senate. While there has been tame pretense of modifying the original distortion of the bill by the Sen ate" Committee, it continues to be a cheat, and if it should by any cv ll chance become r a law it Aould be an actual aid to the -work of conupting or intimidating voters. The action of the Legislaluie in regard to this reform is the same as in the case of road improvement, except that the disuir tion and perversion of the measure is more aggnnated. The load bill was simply so emasculated that friends of rod reform did not care 'whether it was enacted or not The ballot reform bill has leen so distorted and falsified that it be comes a bill for the corruption and con trol of the ballot The road bill was spoiled simply as a result of ordinary leg islate e stupidity: the ballot reform bill 1ms been butchered by active determina tion of the managing politicians that their hold on the electoral machinery shall not be weakened. This was made plain enough by the pro ceedings of the Senate last week. Senators dkl not hesitate to openly avow their hos tility to ballot reform, and consequently the Republican majority almost solidly oted down amendments which "would liave imparted some slight mixture of genuineness to the measuie. With this declaration that the Republican platform was a fraud to gull voters, there is no use in wasting any effort with the Senate. It is only peitinent to bear in mind this un disguised avowal that Republican pledges iarcnnsjlvauia arc not intended for ful fillment A COSILY SYSTE3L, - While Parnell may be very justly criticised for many tilings he has done lately, we can hardly feci that the attacks on him for voting in favor of Balfour's amended laud purchase bill are well founded. That measure appropriates 99,80,000 to be loaned to aid the transfer of tend to the actual cultivators, its opera tion being confined to holdings of 50 or under. If Parnell has made an alliance with Balfour which he denies he is justly to be criticised. But when a bill is presented "which he believes to sohe the land ques tion for Ireland, he is light in voting for it even though it comes from an inimical source. Aside from that the passage of a bill by which 5150,000,000 is devoted to distribut ing Irish lands among the people is the source of pregnant leflection. England has spent centuries in trying to main tain the sjstem of great landed estates in Ireland. The puzzle has gone on from generation to generation until finally it reaches such a stage that even the Tories are convinced of the wisdom of using a vast amount of the public funds in getting rid of the landed sjstem which that party has maintained for centuries. The example ought to be pregnant with instruction to this country. We are free from inheriting great landed estates from a feudal age; but we are rapidly creating even greater and more permanent estates in our corporate system. We might learn from the English example that the day may come w lien the natiorwill have to pay hundreds of millions to get rid of such incumbrances. Would it not be cheaper to check their growth in their inception? rOK riTTsIJEKG'S rOTUKE. Of the three important points which should be aimed at to make the future of Pittsburg surpass the promises of the past, good progress is being made on one, slow progress on the other, and the third re mains as yet untouched. The first is the abolition of smoke. An evil so costly, and wliich detracts so much from the pleasures of life, w ill be a great burden if permitted to resume its sway. But the acti e campaign which the ladies of Pittsburg liae undertaken promises w. ell for the suppression of this nuisance. 3one are better entitled to wage war against the aggravation of dirt than our wives and mothers. The possibilities of smoke consumption hae already been demonstrated. The agitation has induced many to adopt improved stoking apparatus w ithout delaj . The same w ork vigorously kept up should give Pittsburg a compara tively clear atmosphere by next winter. The second great object is the extension of lake navigation to the doors of our mills and furnaces. The ship canal project moves slowly, and the difficulty of educat ing the puohc mind up to its importance appears in the slowness of the Legislature fo order the publication of additional copies of the Commission's report Yet in this project is involved the future of Pittsburg and Western Pennsylvania. When lake vessels can discharge ore and load coal at our river fronts, Western Penn sylvania will be the greatest manufactur ing center of the world. With that prize before us the work in favor of the canal cannot be relaxed until its completion has been secured. The third point to be aimed at the con solidation of the manufacturing and busi ness community in a city that shall really represent the magnitude and im portance of Pittsburg is being left to the future. If we cancomplish the two pur poses already named, wc can safely leave the final organization of the great city yet to be built up, to the logic of events. But one consideration is perti nent at this especial time. The discussion recently had as to the faulty of organiza L tioa of tion ol citxs 01 tie second 'elassnas tale bearing on the question: Cities of the first class have a charter such as is aimed at by the critics of our own. Only a little growth, if any, is needed in the com munity to make it possible to organize a city of the first class. Intelligent enter prise on the part of such a community might make greater strides in building up a great and homogeneous city in the next twenty years than in the past fifty. These are the aims to he kept in mind as securing in their fulfillment the greatness of our city's future. If their attainment is properly aimed at all the details of mu nicipal improvement will be secured with them. A POST-MOKTEai CONVERSION. There is something instructive in the profuse assurances which are found stick ing out all over the Philadelphia papers, as coming from the political classes, that the new City Treasurer shall bo all that the most fastidious could ask for. The commissioners who are to make the ap-" poiutment declare that he must be "one of the very best men in the community;" while Collector of Internal Revenue Mar tin, who has no official connection with the matter but is nevertheless understood to have something to say on that point, as. well as ballot reform, asserts: "The very best man who can be found will have to he selected." This high standard as a result of the fact that this City Treasurer will be chosen to succeed a man who has closed, his career with a shortage of a million, is suggestive. The fact that it is adopted under extraor dinary circumstances carries with it the in ference that it would not have been deemed so essential to select the "very T)est man" ifthe circumstances had not been quite so imperative for goodness. In that view of the case, the Philadelphia public should reflect with due gratitude that there is no million-dollar loss without some slight gain. Nevertheless, the readi ness of the politicians to hunt up the best men, when the outlook is stormy, renders it pertinent for some one to ask them whether it would not have been better Jto have selected, the very best men before the defalcation of a million dollars than after. THE HEBREWS OF CORFU. Advices from Berlin, published this morning, confirm the reports of cruelties to the Hebrews on the Island of Corfu. These reports have shocked the civilized world for some weeks past, and, though an attempt at denial was made by the Grecian authorities, a belief in their truth existed. Placed now beyond doubt it can be said that the actions of the persecutors have made afoul blot on the page of cotem poraiy history. The mistreatment of the Hebrews in Russiais no greater than that in Corfu, while it might be expected that the people of the milder climate would be of milder nature. Be that as it may, the Hebrews In Europe are, as a class, to be pitied. The move ment against them is the outcome of a prejudice without the least foundation in reason, and it speaks unfavorably for the real civilization of their enemies. There may be objectionable persons among the children of Israel, but there are the same kind among those who torment them. No people nor religion is without its wrong doers, and the punishment of a class for the misdeeds Of an individual is wrong in. its first principles. A LONGER MEDICAL COURSE. A very commendableeffortisbeingmade by the medical department of the Univer sity of Pennsylvania in-the line of higher medical education. In accordance with the terms of an agreement, under which Mr. H. C. Lea built a laboratory for theTJniversity, an effort is now being made to establish an endowment of $250,000 to "maintain an obligator- four years' medical course. For this endowment Mr. William Pepper heads the list with a subscription of 50,000. The determination to establish a course of longer and more thorough medical study is an exceedingly commendable one. The enterprise and progress shown by the Board of that institution in taking that step deserves public aid and support Xow it is stated that the 3,000 feet of altitude -which some time ago were rudely subtracted from Mt. St."Elias are to be put back again. An error in calculation has been found which restores thatjieak to the list of first-class mountains. This is doing no more than justice to a mountain which has suffered from unfounded detraction. Hereafter iconoclastic topographers should understand that they must not detract from the reputations and height of mountains w ithout being certain that their figures are right. The weight of financial opinion is that the outflow of golAfroin this country has ended and that the tide Mill set the other way be fore long. Let us hope it will prove so, but it is pertinent to remark that tho times are not auspicious for the inflation of specula tive bubbles. A tkayelxr in far-off Persia sends back a story that tho American cocktail has demonstrated its usefulness by knocking out and demoralizing some bogus diamonds which had been Eold to the Shah, and which were accidentally dropped into tho great American beverage. This is regarded as a vindication for the cocktail; but it .conveys a warning that its potency, especially as sen ed up in Tersia, is such as to make it demoralizing to all except those fortunate topers w ho rejoice in copper-liucd stomachs. "The Philadelphia hankers are carrying on at a rate calculated to make the gold brick and green-goods men extremely jeal ous?' remarks an exchange. Yesunless the gold brick and green goods men of a larger grow th got all the missing money, which is probable. Oxe of the beauties of the grand moral crusade of the New "York race-track pro prietors against tho pool-rooms, for the pur pose of monopolizing all the profits of the gambling privileges themselves, takes the shape of an edict that "no ono shall bo per mitted to leave Taco-tracks till tho races are over. There is a very ell-defined convic tion back of this remarkable stand that peo ple m ho go to races have just one right the right to bo fleeced. Cokgressman- SrKtKGER is of opin ion that the next Speaker of the House will be from the West. Which Western states man the voice of wisdom will designate is something on wliich modesty compels .Mr. Springer to be silent. The rush to the suburbs yesterday was a good indication of the average citizen's desire to get away from narrow streets oc casionally. Tho'day was by no means one of the finest possible; but those who ignored the threatening skies undoubtedly enjoyed themselves. Tired they wero, of course, when they returned, but their weariness will, by this morning, have left them, while .they will bo in better condition for their usual work on account of their outing. The leading municipal minds of the city are to be congratulated on the final conclu sion that if it is necessary to issne any new, city debt it is best to do so in accordance n ith tho provisions of tho law and the Con stitution. The "best race-track tip" is stated by the .Brooklyn Standard- Union to be advice to wear lieavy clothing in going- to races In that vicinity. This may be a good pointer; but recent Ta'ce-track experience about the .metropolis makes the follo-ofiie Uie.rea.llv - -- , '-iL-.aa i .. V -1 --irf uvenavw-! wyi v 13 1, put an jour money In tho savings bank before going to the races; second, don't go at all. The urgent and unanimous inquiry of the Philadelphia newsiTai'e-s, without regard to party, as to what has bixoine of.thatmissing'. million, is all tho more pathetic because it is post-mortem. Pkof. Wiggins has been indulging in prdphecy concerning tho kind of people who will be here tw enty million years hence, and Prof. Totten has been indulging In prophecy to the effect" that there will not be any here twenty years hence. A general average of these prophetic souls leaves them about hero they were before they started. THE report that the Charleston was or dered not to catch the Itata is denied. .Both the denial and the order were needless, owing to the absence of any danger in that direction. The Secretary of Agriculture is praising the Pacific slope, as a result of the lato tour, in an enthusiastic way, which raises a sus picion that the Hoil Jeremiah Busk is secretly cherishing a Presidental boom. If this effort to create solidity with tho bound less West keeps up the j oungoc Harrison will be compelled to discipline Uncle Jerry. As a center of manufacture for news about the Itata muddle, Paris is gaining the .repu tation of turning out an article which is pleasant to the ej e but will not wash. The women of Jersey City are personally conducting operations to ' clean, the streets. This is closely related to the WQik or the women of Pittsburg in abolishing smoke. This interference of the better half jn pub lic affairs is ono that every chivalrous man -will wisli to see crowned with success. SNAP SHOTS IK SEASON. A jiilitia captain is frequently known by the company he keeps. Ko matter what occurs the Itata snarl is bound to be a Pacific affair. Before the 2few Philadelphia replaces tho old its Marshes will liave to be le claimed. The ladies who are suppressing the smoke will be perfectly satisfied with a non-soot in all cases brought against stubborn coal burners. Ax honorable enemy is far better than a deceitful friend. Modestv draws the dead line beyond which Fashion cannot go without getting hurt. Bar bills worry the legislators more than ballot reform bills. The bathing suit will now take the place of tho ballet dress. IiOXG standing accounts " make business men tired. It is one of the blessings of life that we cannot hear ourselves snore. The specie shipped from America to Europe is far superior to the species shipped from Europe to America. "MILL workers who wish to gain their point should strike while the iron is hot. IT sounds natural to hearabout mosquitoes infesting Buzzard's Bay. The tired city folk will soon be aching with the pains of travel in crowded cars and. dragging weary limbs over rough roads and soggy sands. Still they w ill call this rest The snake came very near causing as much trouble in the Tiesbyterian Assembly as it did in Eden. NOTES ON ROTABLES. David Blalock, .Decatur, I1L, claims to be the only living son of a Revolutionary soldier. Johx Henry Shoktiiouse, the author of "John Inglesant," has.nearly completed a new novel which willbe published in the autumn. Leslie Stephen, owing to ill health, ,has been obliged to resign the editorship of '"The Dictionary of Xationaf Biography," but he will contubuto valuable work. D wight M. Collier, of New York, who passed the winter at Dresden, has completed his inquiry into the methods of manufactur ing pressed coal from coal dust and has started for homo. Ole Bull, -Jr., is a violinist, as was his father, and it is claimed that he has wonder ful execution. . Anyhow he is coming to this country to let American musicians have a taste of his quality. The. Grand Dnke Nicholas, of Eussia, who died recently, received nt various times in his career 110 less than 13,000,000 rubles as part of the piocceds of military "jobs." This story Is openly circulated in Russia. Eev. Flavius J. Broijst, of Chicago, follows this original line of reasoning: Mr. Ingersoli believes in Shakespeare. Shake speare believed in the God of the 3ible. Mr. Ingersoli should follow his teacher and also believe. Hon, Oscar. S. Straus, our ex-Minis-ter to Turkey, w ho is a literary man as well as a diplomat, is- soon to publish the life of Roger Williams, the founder of religious lib erty, npon which ho has been engaged for some years. Jean Jacques Weiss had an observant cyo nnd sarcastic smile which made Napo leon III uneasy when they were together. Tho Empei-or, however, probably suspeoted that he wasan object of contempt to the eminentjournahsU ' JIiss 5LG. McClelland, the Virginia novelist, is of middle age, tall and slender, with iron-gray hair that sho wears parted over her forehead. She Is a genuine South ern woman, cordial and kindly ol manner, and a rapid and prolific writer. Colonel J. C. Bundv, the spiritualist editor, tells tho women of Chicago that as a class they are the worst enemies that woman suffrage lias. They aro swayed too.easily by emotion and misled by sentiment, nnd to ad vance the cause should cultivate courage and backbone. D2. EEPPEB'S UBEEAinT. How,His Generosity Will Lead toll Higher Medical Education. Philadelphia, May 21. At aecent meet ing of the Board of Trustees of the Univer sity of Pennsj lvania Dr. Pepper made an offer of $50,000 toward an endowment fund of $250,000, and of $1,000 annually toward a guar antee fund of $20,000 annually, for five years, conditioned upon the establishment of an obligatory graded four-year course of medi- I caistuuy. xnis-oas accompaniea,Dy a com munication from the medical faculty, pledg ing themselves to carry out this proposal, and to enter upon tho four-year eourse in September, 1803. It was also "reported that tho members of the medical laculty had themselves subscribed $10,000 annuallyfor five years to the endowment fund. The JJoard of Trustees expressed warm approval ,of the proposed advance in medical educa tion, but postponed their assent until the success of both funds has been demonstrated. It is to be hoped that tho necessarypledges will bo secured promptly, as the interests of the entire community are "'deeply involved "in the success of this great advance, which -will enable -medical students to obtain a thorough, practical education in every branch of their profession. A MHIION D01LAE Will. The Entire Estate Turned Overto the Widow for Distribntlon. Evassvillb, Isd., May St The will of tho late John A Reitz was filed for probate yes terday. Ho bequeaths his entiro estate, valued at more than $2)00,000, to "his wife in fee simple, to be distributed at her death as she may desire. IUm wifft nnd son. V. X Ttaitx. President nf the -Evansville Gas and Electric Light Com SyVare5gl m We.WWtfckSii THINGS IN GENERAL The Conquering Progress, by Peace orWar, of the Anglo-Saxon Race The Present Troubles in South America toResultJhe Saino Way The Situation InClUle. 'WRITTEN TOR TUB DISPATCH.l When .Mr. Stead went down to Borne to in terview the Pope, thore were three points npon which he desired information. ne wanted toknow how the Pope stood in re lation to the present condition of things, -to modem society, to -the new enj. And the three most notable characteristics of tho new era, In liis estimation are these: (1) Tho woild is passing into the hands fit the English-speaking peoples. (2) Society; is being reorganized on a Socialistio basis. (3) Woman is at last being recognized as a being with a right to equal privileges and oppor tunities with man. Mr. Stead is the pre-eminent Professor of Things in General. There is no instructor to day in all the immense faculty of the uni versity of the universe who keeps such a wide and observant outloofcover the -world welivoin. 'Nothing escapes him. ' The interviewer did not get complete satis faction from the Holy Father on these sub jects. Although, I believe, he went away somewhat encouraged. Home was not so obstinately and irretrievably behind tho times as some people imagined. He told the Pope. I remember, that what he heeded. more than anything else was a good, live newspaper. What you want, ho said, is an "prgan." "Put out 20 cardinals, and in their .place sot 20 progressive editors, and you will quadruple your hold upon the world." The Itelgn of the AngJo-Saxon. Bead this: "The Norsemonilrst discovered the American continent, the Italians gave it its name, nnd showed tho Old Woild the way to the Xow. The Dutch colonized 7ew York, the French occupied tho mouths of the Mississippi nnd the Sts Lawrence, and tho Spaniards held the Pacific coast, whilo the Bussians annexed Alaska. To-day,, from Xova Scotia to San rmncisco, from Bering's Sea to the Gulf of Mexico, the English-speaking man is supreme. Mexico and South America nrp lioney-combed with Anglo-American agencies. Australasia has fallen as the golden fruit of Hesperides Into the -lap of the Briton. In India, 800,000,000 Asiatics, whose civilization andculturewere hoary when our ancestors stained them selyes with' wood and offered human sacri fices in the recesses of tho forests, acknowl edge tho supreme authority of the English man. And in South Africa, black and bocr alike, admit that the sovereignty of tho continent will ultimately be vested inhose who speak tho tongue of Shakespeare and of Milton. Everyw here, therefore, there are the manifest nnd unmistakable signs of the ascendency of our imperial race." Yes; the people of the future will speak English. Tho institutions of the future w ill be English institutions. The conquest of the Latins, which our forefathers, tho Goths, began, IS stni going"bn, Ilaly and America, standing up together before the woild, lep resent the past and the future. The Victory of the 'ew. Tho old and the new have had a fair fight of it in North America. The northern half of this continent will never be anything clso than English. "It will never permanently sustain any other than Anglo-Saxon Institn-. tions. In speech, in religion, in politics, in manners, -wo belong to the new era.' " Now tho battle is being' fought in South America. It seemed at the beginning, when the two divisions of this gieat continent were being colonized, as if the old and the new, tho Latin and tho English races, had agreed to partition this vast territory be tween them; in the South tho Latins, in the North tho-English. That partition still con tinues. But the North is moving the South. Pittsburg sends .locomotives to Brazil. Year by year this whole country sends new Ideas from tho Gulf of Mexico to Terra del Fucgo. And the pew ideas arp beginning .more and more to get hold. We really kno;wvery little about South America. Europe is over so much more familiar to us. Even Africa nnd Asia are better known. News from South America is glanced over like news from the moon. The reader has a sense of obscure, remoteness which hlndere Ills interest. Ono of tho benefits of war Is that it serves as an introduction. Tho nntions Qf the world, almost the whole planet over, began their acquaintance one with another by a series of hard fights. People are always inier.ested.ln a fight. Just, now there is a good deal of fight going on.in South America, nnd w5 aro accordingly more interested in that direction than wo havobeon before. The Transition in South America. Tho Latins seem to bo having a hard time of -it down. in-Sontli. America. Thcwhofe land, accustomed to earthquakes, is now being shaken by a notable series of political and financial convulsions. The Argentine is mortgaged up to the chin to English capi talists. Urugnay.whero the Repnblic stands shi ering on tho brink- of financial difflcul ti6s,1S not less immersed. Peru is littlo bet ter than a bankrupt estate," which ought to bo in tCo hands of English liquidators. If gold really comes to be worked in Vene zuela, that country also w ill pass under the sway of those who speak the language of Drake and Cromwell. Brazil, having got rid of its Emperor, who wits an amiable, ceri- tlemanly .King Log, has fallen -prey to King Stork, in the shape of Military-Dictator-President Marshal do Fonseca, whoso Minis try has resigned, and who now rules Brazil by his troops. . , Now the center of trouble and of interest is Chile. Chile is one of the most remarkable of all countries in its geographical jiosltion. It lies along the PacificOccan from Peru to the cape, thus including just about half of the sea coast of Western South America. On onesldois tho ocean, on the other side are the mountains; and the distanco between the Pacific and the Andes is 200 miles in the widest part and 40 miles in the nanowest. Think of a country 2,500 miles long and 150 miles wide! A History of Invasion and Bo volution. The history of Chile is a history of in vasion and of revolution. The first invader was ono of the Jnens of Peru before the Spanish Conquest. Then came the Span iards, and along series and alternations of conquests and rebellions followed. While wo wereghtingEnglandinlSlithe Chileans weie fighting Spain. Bdt the patriots were defeated. .Finally, in 1&17 the national cause triumphed and Chile became a Republic. A long course Qf dissension and anarchy fol low ed, during which various triumvirates tried vainly to rule the countrjv In 18231. constitution was adopted. In 1&S3 it w as ic vised. Sinco that time the'eountry has en joyed a fairmeasuro of peace and prosperity. Whatr is the trouble nowr -runt is the question to which we want nn answer, and a patticulaily hard question itappears to "be. The whole mattecis inextricahlytangled up. This, however, Is plain, thatboth sides claim to be contending forRepubiican institutions. Anglo-Saxon ideas aie evidently at the bot tom of it: Chile has a President, as" wo have, and a Cabinet, and two Houses of Congress. The present contention began with a dispute be tneen the President andCongress'about the Cabinet. Tho Presidont, heretofore, has ap pointed his Cabinet at his own pleasure The. Congress now demauds that he shall appoint a Cabinet acceptable to them. But the President is a liberal, represents tho masses, is dead set against the church and tho aristocracy, while tho Congress is Cori servative, represents the classes, and is made upentircly or members of tho arjstoeratlo and wealthy families of the country. T.)0 Cabinet, consisting of five officers. Is in charge of tho great departments of adminis tration. The Eternal Political Question. Shall these departments bo administered in tho interests, of tho masses or of the classes? That seems to bo whatthoy are fighting about. The Liberal President re fused to appoint a Conservative Cabinet. The Conservative Congress refused to vote the appropriations for the Xlbcral Govern, ment The President then dissolved Con 'gress, "depending uponafeoriesofprecedents as grounds for prolonging for sfcMnpnths the supplies required for carrying on the Gov ernment."' The Conserf ntive party did not dare appeal to the people in .a new election. They appealed to tho navy. And that appeal was successful. ThttS matters standj at present; .The Con.' KervfLtitrna Tinvfl tne naw. me x.ioerais w &Se ."WrWlWJVT WI(4!fflBS'W': i.a .. ..... .vmi.i.'irfnfanAAivfflnwvaf iiif , r ' r in 1 strongest position and tho most money. The war ha now continued for three months. Four considerable battles have, been fought at Pisagua, San Francisco, Iquique, and Pozo Almonte the advantage lying with tho Conservatives. Imagine our Congiess demanding that President Harrison.shoUId appoint a'Demojiratic Cabinet, and, -npon his refusal, withholding applopriatipns' fpr tho -'supply of tho Government. Im agine tho .President dissolving Con .gress, the Democrats seizing tho navy and the Republicans the army, and war 'en suing. And you have an idea of tho situa tion in Chile. Suppose on the onQ side, that the" Democrats repipscnted the classes a ugalnst the musses, capital as against labor. Suppose, on tho other sidp, that the Presi dent was nibitrarj' in his use of power, and a demagogncrad his supporters men of ques tionable character. And you get a glimpse at the difficulty of determining which of the two paities ought to win. As for the Itata, she is""one of tho Conserv ative navy1. She has attempted" to " convert one of our ports into a base of supplies, and so Involve us in tho struggle. Wo do not proposo to be involved in tho struggle. And wo sent the Charleston in pursuit in order to make our protest plain. And here is the sum of tho whole matter: Whether tho President wjns or loses tho Latin power in Chilp is bound to suffer. The Latins urn fighting among themselves as tho Britons. iougnt 111 tngland. And the English wait. WHO BUTCHEBED THE BALLOT! The Senate Committee, Says .the Indignant State Keform Association. The Executive Committee of tho Pennsyl vania Ballot Reform Association has issued tne following:. To the Voters of Pennsylvania: The issue between the supporters of ballot reform in Pennsylvania and its enemies Is clearly defined, and should be thoroughly understood by every citizen. TheBaker bill as leported by the Senate Committee on Elections (Senators Crouse, Porter, Keefer, Mylin and Steel, Republicans, and McDonald nnd Monaghan, Democrats) on May 29, is but little better than as. first reported on May 7. It does not provide for proper free dom of nominations, nor for equality of can didates on thoTmllot, nor for secret voting, ' nor for an open count. It Is not n ballot re form measure, and, if passed,' would tend.to greatly increase all the evils of our.presend 'system. Besides many minor points in which the bill has been injured, the essential features of ballot reform, as originally contained In ,the bill, have been destroyed in the follow ing respects: 5iret-(Secs. 3, 5 and 33). The number ;of signatures required for all nominations but those of the existing Republican and Demo cratic organizations; is based-on such high percentage of the entire vote cast as to make such nominations practically impossi ble except in the smallest townships and boroughs. It would bo impossible td secure 5,000 signatures for a State nomination or 6,000 for a Philadelphia nomination, the gen uineness of tho signatures and the qualifica tion of the signers to he sworn to absolutely by ten persons, GO days before election in the ono case an d 40 in the other, when the slight est error is latal to the validity of the whole paper, and tho signing by persons not strict ly qualified is made a crime. All but the "regular" Democratic and Republican nom inations are barred out by such a system as this, and tho free Tight to vote is denied. Second (Sees. 14 and 23). The arrango- uicui ut jiumes on 1110 oaiiot in partygroups places all indenendent candidates, if thnr could be any, at a great disadvantage, and ma provision mat a voter may iwmcn would often mean must) vote the whole party tickethy making one single mark, de stroys the freedom and secrecy of the ballot, for the party watchers would always see whether a man who was told to make one mark for the whole ticket did so or not. Thhd (Sees. 23 and27J. The seerecy of tho ballot is made voluntary, and therefore destroyed, by not requiring the voter to mark his ballot alone, and specifically per mitting him to take another man Into the voting compartment with him imill cases. Fourth (see. 29). The Secret'count of our present system is retained, but with greater riskof fraud T-he-votes are to be counted by tho Judgo alone, nnd the party watchers aie allowed to bo present. Fifth (Sees. 16, 17, 21, 26 and 36). "Sample ballots" are lequlred to be printed in large numbers, tp bo given to any voter at his re quest, all check on the destruction of the ballots provided is Temoved, and, by the omission of section 36, it is not unlawful for any one to have ballots m his possession outside the voting room, although the abso lute prevention of such an occureenee is es sential to the-secret ballot system? When! the bill In this worse than useless shape was before the Senate on second read ing on May 22, every attempt tpcorrect these glaring evils was voted down. Jf it passes thiid reading, it must go to a conference committee. If that committee do not vir tually restore the original provisions of the hill in all tho abevp particulars, or if they do this and the Senate refuses to pass tliebill with these restorations, it ought-to.be voted down. Should the bill finally pass both branches of the Legislatuie without change In all these- points, it would be the Governor's duty to voto it, for If it became a law it would bo a fraud upon the rights of the voters of Pennsylvania. In any event, every voter should recognize that a genuine, honest, constitutional ballot reform bill was changed by the Senate Com mittee into a measure fulf of danger to tho freedom and purity of the ballot, and that the majority of the Senate has so far sus tained this change. "Ballot reform" means 'Itroe ballot reform," and itthis bp not now granted to tho voters of Pennsylvania every Senator who voted with the "majority must bo held answerable. Has This Man Eyes? Evening Wisconsin. JA newspaper article giving directions as to the arrangement of Greek drapery kjndly hints that "only a woman with fine arms nnd shoulders should attempt such dress ing." Women who have nothing of that sort to exhibit never tjjink of getting intoi Greek drapery. A Valuable Lesson. St. Louis Tost-Dispatch. The reflection that City Treasurer Bards ley might have prevented the loss of nearly a million dollars if he had not been under the influence of a gang of speculators af-J ioros siumi eumiorcTO citizens 01 xnuauei phla, but it carries a valuablo losson which they may profit by in the .future. A Western Prophet Denver Republican, Rep. The thlrd party organized, by tho mass. meeting 01 cranita ana political outcasts at Cincinnati will hardly be heard ol wfien the returns corho in from the nest presidental election. It is practically dead now, and it will be buried long before Novcmbcr,',lS92'. DEATHS HEBE AND ELSE.WHEEE. William Milholland, Sr. William Milholland, Sr., died very sud denly last evening at the residence of his son, James JUllbollaud, Center avenue. East- End, of paraljsis of the heart, -wdtli which he has been 'troubled for some years. His death, while very sudden, was not unexpected owinfc to his extreme are. The deceased was well kiiujni throughout tho city. He lPftYe three sons toinourn his loos, J. auil J. B. Mllliollaiul, tbe engine builders, and Oeorgc B. Mllliollaud. He w as a, brother of Joseph Slllhollaud, of Etna, Pa. v Alexander Swift Alexander Swift, a widely-knowp busi nessman of Cincinnati, died suddenly at his home there Saturday eienlng. Hewas7?carsold. He was the founder of Swift's Iron and Steel Worts, in Newport Ky.. from irblth he retired several vcirsogo. His ttret wife and also the second were Ii.fersorthe distinguished Uterarvwomen. Alice ,aud rbffibe Carey. Q bltuary Notes. Dk. Huco V. AULEit, President of the School JJoard ind Coroner of St. Louis fpr six jears, died suddenly Saturday morning yt heart disease. LoGAJf D. CAMEUOir, publisher of the St. Louis ChrUtian Advocate, organ of the I. E. Church South, died of heart disease at Lexington, Mo., Saturday. S. C. CLirroN, Superintendent or Carnegie, Phlpps & Co.'s wire mill, and member of City Council, died at his residence In Beaver Falls yes terday of lung disease, brought on by the grip. George T. Foote, a noted politician Jn New Yotk Mate, one of the original band of Abolition ists, and later an active memoer of -thu Republican and Labor parties, died at tho old Footo homestead at stainrord, Delaware county. New York, re centl. Mks. Grace Wells, wife of Hon. Thomas II. Vclls, of Youugstown, died very suddenly yesler tta) morning of congestion of the brain. The rura lly recently rttuiried froiii'a trlplhronith Euron, Mrs. Wells bcingin exrelleutlieaUli nntll suddenly. LattUlvMa Grewvilif.ji.irpaW.lWtwMrgeM: VERY 3J UCH MIXED. Some Short Storlesand Sketches Wit, "Wis dom and Pathos Gathered Prom the Press Human Nature in Old and Young SometlUn'g for Everyone. New York Tribune. Tlierpis a, dapper young feljowwrho stands, up behind a high desk in a big, insurance office for a few hours every day and then takes a horse, car to Washington Square. Then hp walk's up Fifth avenne liefeto din ner to the handsome home-of his papa, who believes in the young fellow working for his money, but gives his son a generous salary forir. This jpuhg fellow pays a good deal of attention to his clothes generally, but his especial pride is in his gaiters, tinted a deli cate shade pf French gray, and neatly strapped under his narrpw feet with straps lonV enough to allow of their ends being doubled back through: the buckle, inakinga little bowt in a trnly delightful English manner, you know. lie arwavs gets ins aainty snocs nicely pol ished before he starts uptown hv an Italian who has a comfortable chair, protected by an awning, doo to a news stand In l'arlc Row. The Italian knows that if he expects tp get nn extra 5 cents from his customer he, must unbuckle these Ijttle straps, ford the dainty gaiters back out of harm's way, pol ish thesboes, fold the gaiters down again neatly an,d w ithout a spot or smudge on tho immaculate surface, anu men dockic up tne straps dgaiu. The Job jvas carefully completed tho other afternoon and the yonne fellow rose to step down' from the chair. -ITis feet refused to budge, however. They were rooted to the spot by' some mysterious pow?i hut his "body continued on with the impulse he" had given it, and over he went on I11S fioso.-with his feet still on tho rests. Tho bootblack was enual to the occasion. He saw ntnglanco what was the matter. Raising the young feJ16w by the shoulders ho swung Jus body up in a semicircle until he rested in the chair again, and then pro ceeded to undo those gaiter strapS.wHIeh he liad unwittingly buckled underthe thin Jron foot-rest. The vonpg man had been strapped to the chair, lie gatheredhis rudely shaken little body together, picked up the chango and keys that had tumbled oat of Ills in verted pockets, and renounced that shoo blapkfoieven. At the Italian seemed sorry, but net surprised. Tricks of the Memory. New YorkTeltKram. "Celebipted authors sometimes forget their own work," said an eminent physician the other day. "This is usually one of the effects of disease fir old age. As Walter Scott grew old he became a vietimto this kind of forgetfulness. Frequently1 when one of his own poems was read to him he would ask who-was the author. 'Ivanhoe' was dictated during a painful illness and publisheibeiore its author had quit his bed. "When Scott had become convalescent ho had np roeellectfon pf the story. Townrd tho close of liis life Linne found great pleasure in leading his own works. Forgetful that he wras .himself flienutnorjlie would Irequently exclaim as he read: 'Beautiful!' 'Magnificent! 'I wish I had written that!" "Macualay, tho historian, had a friend whoso memory had once been exceedingly stiong. Qldage made Itexceedingly' weak. If anything brilliant w as said or read to him in the evehinghe would imagine nextfmorn ing that the brilliant ideas 'heard the night before were his own. It was his custom to write them out and show them to his friends as original matter." Greek and Itoinan Chestnuts. Home Journal. Wendell Phillips declares that there aro not 25 original witty stories In existence, and all.tho others are founded upon or borrow ed from these. Hq tells us that tho man who was writing a letter as follows: "My dear friend, I should tell you moro if there was" not an impudent fellow looking over my shoulder and read ing every word" "You lie;, sir, I have not read a word you have written" comes from Egypt, and is 250 years older than tho Nw Testament. So with the story of the man who said, "I Would have been a very hand some fellow if they had not changed me in the cradle-" "Take the Irishman," said Mr. Phillips, "who carried around a bripk" as a specimen of the house Jie had.to sell; take tho Irish man who shut Jiis eyes and looked. Into the glass to see how he would lookvwhen he was dead: take1 thelrishmau who bought a crow, alleging that crows were reported: to live 200 j earsr and he was going to set out and try it; take the Irishman who met a friend who saidtolihn, 'Why, sir, I heard you were dead.' 'Well,' says tho man, 'I suppose on see I am not. 'Oh, no,' says her 'I would rather believe the man who told me than you any day.' Well, all these are Greek; a score ormore of-them of a parallel character come from Athens." Australian Women. New York Recorder. Women appear to bo making great prog ress in ninny directions in Australia, and It is not to be wondered at, seeing that the tact, tho nicety and thp social discretion which aro tho distinguishing characteristics of the sex find there such a field for exer cise. Lady Martiii, the widow of a Judge in Sydney, Is the daughter of the late "Billy , Dong," a cpnvict who in his day was cele brated,,and who, long after he had become rich and respectable, could not upbraid his coachman without the latter's turning on him with, "Why, sir, I once went to see yon hanged. You were reprioved only Just in time." A highly respected Australian, Mr. Dally, a memorial to whom was recently unveiled in the crypt of St. Paul's, London, was a con vict's son ftnd married a convict's daughter, and one of Sydney's leading lawyers is the son of a lady, now dead, w ho went out as a Red Rover girl. Tho 'ladies," by the way, who were shipped in the Red Rover, mur dered the ship s doctor on tho way out So that taking. onethlng with another, consid ering how careful ono has to be in one's talk and what blundering spcechos men must be always making, it's not surprising women como to the front in Australia. 1 - lie Was Not a Nice Man. Chicago Post! Billy .Florence, the actor, when last in Chicago, related with no little unction tho following tale, which he declaied had never been in print: "It occurred to mo a number of years ago," he said. "I was on my, way with my com pany from ;Ncw York. On the train I had struck up an acquaintance with a protty littlo nrlss Just entering her teens, nnd It was not long-before we became fast friends, al though neither of Ms knew the other's name. "Just before wo rolled into Chicago I caught her looking very Intently at me, and I asked her what she was thinking about. She blushed as if detected in a guilty act, but upon my repeating the question she said hesitatingly: "Nothing very much, sir. I was only .thinking how much you looked like some-' body.' 'WhP is it?' I Asked. '"Oh, Idpn'tllkP to tclljrpu,' she replied. I again asked her to tell mo the leason. " 'Because,' she roplled,"ho'is not a nice man- lie is only an actor, and his name is Billy .Florence.'" Japanese English. All the Year Ronnd." A firm dealing In fishing" fackle, having sent a circular t& a merchant in Tokip, Japan, received tho following communica tion: "Dear Sin nrYouns We should present to j our company tho bamboo fishing rod, a,n'et basket and a reel, as w o have just conven ience; all those weio very rough and simple to you laughing for vonr kindieply which you sent" us the catalogue of fishing tackles Just, etc. "Wishing wo that now at Japan there it was not m-prevailing fish gaming, but flsheinicn, in scarcely there now, but w e do not measure how tho.progessionofthe germ of the flsh,ingrgame beforehand. Tliere loie, wo may yield-of feeling to restock in my store, your countrio's fishing tackle, 'etc. 'Should yotrliave.thekindness to send a such further conntrie's oven a few partake when 'we send the money In ordering of them, should yon. I am yours, yours truly ." Teleplioned-to'Heavpn. Arkansaw Traveller. This Incident is related as a faot: Ono day Mamie Knowles, aged B years, was all dressed for a walk in tho park, when the rain began coming down. " . Mamie natclieditin silence for several minutes and then asked her .mamma if she might use tho. telephone, ilamma jcopsent ing, Sho rang and said: ello, central!" . "GIveine heaven'" was Mamie's order. 1 ,, . ,. t . .. .. .. I.uillll) .,-,.1, nil ah A.l , (- Mamie then said: "Please, God, make tho rain stop and the sun shine, or else have mamma send for mo a-nowparabclkt-ngjit nway." TljgiPralrfo Mirage. Detroit Free PreesO '" A biirnfne' summer sun hatkbeaten down m'tto'fBMrie, forildays.,Fnraee-MkVt south winds came racing out of the pulsing' haze at the far horizon. The sky seemed of copper, and tho flpor-like plain's once em erald disk was tinged bv the heat with. gray-, ish brown. ' But one object broke tho "monotonous snineness of tho scene n. -nrhltt covered wagdni its "flapping canvns" top giving allgnf shelter to tne emigrant ana; jus who crouched lythin. Their Journey has, been long and feyer'throbs in the wpman s Veins. Suddenly thcnian lpoks up, startled: Their search fora home js oveif. "SeQ!"hociiesinjoy. , They have come ont on tho edge of n wide reaching Valley. Lines eC densc-leavcd bil lowy forest bend and swav in, a gentle breeze." A lake, with licreun'd there n tOuclL nffnarn to relir.vft tlio ivirlrHn?r-Tjlue of tllo waves, restlessly tosges and wrinkles if -I waters, Jiroau meadows, suggesting cioyev and golden rod, arc nearby, and the undnla lions 01 1110 grass are iiko mose oi.njcjno. Yonder, along the beach, they catch a glimpse of dwellings seeming phlaces, whose bold frontage was their simple minds. "See!" calls ont again the glad husband, and his strong arm lifts tho fainting wife tuat sue may get a better view. Rest is there, and liope and Joy. The bur dens of the past have been so great! In tho fierce race of life they have been left sofAr behind, but now'the jonrneyover thfe thin grassed prairie Is almost ended the haven lis in sight They can almest taste the fruits of the deep foliaged trees, and catch a scent of the clover and of tho sea. Hungrily; earnestly they feast their eyo3 as they gaze through the opening in tho flapping canvns. ' A passing clpud drafts suddenly before tho sun. A cry of pain and disappointment surges to tho woman's lips as sho sees again a dreary length of ptam, whose level lines had so long fajigued her eyes. The torrid wind flpds not a leaf, to stir. She falls baclf on her hcat-fllledpillow. The mirage Tins lifted. The emigrant is alone in tho midst of the prairie with "his dead. A SHI2 CAHAL STjaGESTipiS'. . The Direct Tax Money MlghtBe JJsed to Help the Ditch. Along. Corry Herald. GpvernerPattispn has received from the United, States $1,631,71113 oh account 'of. money expended by th.e State in the equip ment of troops early in the latp. war. Hp lecommends" that the Legislature immedi ately pass a "bill appropriating- that amount to tho sinking Tufid ifoi? payment of the State debt. This recommendation is worthy of. consideration and it would be a wise dis position of the money under, sonio circum stances. But the State debt of Pennsyl vania, is very small, and not the least op pressive. It seems to us that tbe State can put the money to much het'er use by ap propriating it to the purpose of constructing a canal from the Ohio river to Lake Erie nt Erie harbor. Such an enterprise would en hance the value of 'property in Western Pennsylvania to an extent that would moro than pay the entire State debt in five years after tho completion of thp work. The money should he set apart for that work. If this wore done probably influence enough could be brought to liear upon Congress to aid in the work. We cannot lielp thinking that the State might well begin to consider the needs and Tights of this large section. Had a liberal policy been! pursued toward this section by the State the natural advantages of Western Pennsylvania wopld notliaye lain dormant while the great city of Cleveland 'on tho west and the great city of Buffnlo pn tlip east grew up, neither of them having any thing like the adv antages which Erie pos sesses. JJoth pf them have been liberally treated by 'their States and by the General Government Thirteen great counties pf the northwest, full and overflowing with mineral and agricultural wealth have been for years totally ignored in their rights by ,tho State whilo hearing much of tho burdens which have given the asylums, workhouses, public charities and pnblic'imnroVeincnis fo tho East. "On tho ground pf 'Ipcal rights we might plac'p our claim to-this money: bnton ground of sound, broad public policy Of 'general improvement the claim cannot be 'denied. It would be better, far better for 'the entire State tif the money coujd' be, set apart for use In building, that canaL THE BEIXLTAHT BALLET. An .Interesting Historical Sketch of the Modern Mazy Wldrl. Tho roodorn ballet was born in Portugal, 1189, and spread to Italy. Ifis related that Bergonzio dl Botta gave a feast -in honor of Galeas, Dnko of Milan, and Isabella" of Aragon, at wliich a ballet was danced with mythological characters. It ended with a Sas de deux most appropriately performed y Bacchus nnd Silenus. CntherlnodeMedici introduced tho ballet into .France, where it wa3 danced at the court by members ot tho roval family and their attendants. Lodis Xv.mn.de nearly the first of his publio ap pearances as King before his lojal subjects in a ballet, wliich in those dajs consisted of singing as well ns dancing. In 1671, when "Pomone" was produced, the male dancers wore recruited among the dancing masters and their schools. The youngest and plumpest of these, all wearing masks, passedQffasgoddc3ses, shepherdesses and nymphs. Ten years later Lnlli, tho great danclng rraster of Ills day, and quite a power at court, introduced four real dahseuses In "Le Triomphe d'Amour," and they became the talk of tho town. Theo young Women their names wer5 Miles. La Fonta'ne, Ro land, Lapuntre and Fel-non also wore masks, and even during the licentious days of the regency the dansenseS Continued to do so. It required n man posess!ns the monumental nssnranco of GmotaU Vestrli, the great male dancer-and ballet master of his day, to breakthrough this custom, says the Jlliutrated American. It was he who said: "There aro but three great men qltve npon the face of tho' earth myself, tho King of Prussia (Frederick the Great) and ,31. do Yoltaire." Xulll not onlyintrodnced women dancers on the stage, but ho quick ened the action of tho ballet. Hitherto tkey had been slow and stately, as befitted the dignity of an entertainment in which such men as "le grand monarque" nnd Sully; Henri IV.'s grave minister, could take part without causing scandaL Henri IV. was very fond of tha ballet. Sully aided .lUra in tho preparations, and was considered a, very skillfnl dancer. Fava Can Get a Job. Boston Glflbe. Baron Fava missed his calling. He would have mado a cood reporter. There is a 'grapliic'and conversational pioturesqueness aboutrhis official report 6f his talks with Mr. maine wnicn is geiuom iounu in vne tiry have a place on the GUMi staff when the cruel place war is over. PEOPLE WHO COME AND GO. .Manager David Henderson returned fo Chicago lastcvpnlug. He had intended to give several operatic performances in the Duqneshp Theater this summer1, Tint he couldn't get the singers ho wanted. It is ex pected that Harry Fulton will bo put on the road next year to manage ".SinBad, the Sailor,4' Company. JJusiness Manager 31c Cullough will look after the local house. Assistant Treasucr Berg will spend hiS vaca tion in N,ew Y,orJ& Among the legislators goini; to Bnrris burg last evening wero Dick Quay, Samuel Stewart, C. A. Muehlbrenner and Senator Mehard, of New Castle. Tho session "will begin at 11 o'cleck this morning. They thought this week would wind up the worlf, and they were looking for-some lively and acrimonious debate. feri Newcomb, Treasurer of the Ghar lerql .Elate qiass Company, and Captain Henry H. Kuhn, af Johnstown, are stopping 'at the Dnquesne. The Charlcrol plant is now turning out an excellent quality of glass1.' Morris Obcrmeyer, qf Chicago, Sam Eng lish. Philadelphia,' and Lorn Ulmnn, New Yorkr well-known pool sellers, are at tho Mouongahcla House.- They are on hand early for the Homcwood races. Morris Wertheimer and Br. Maver left .for" Now York last evening. Mr. Wertheimer wilt bo married to Miss Selma Kahn,.of that city, to-moirow afternoon. Dr. Mayer will perform tho ceremony. John Uhlerkin, a .New York literary man, and John H. Probasco, of Wheeling, are stopping nt tho Monongahela House! 2Jick rTinzer, the Louisville tobacco man, and his wjie, and W. GT Steven'soii, of Wefisvilld, are at the Anderson. General Freight Agent C. S. iVxigR of the "Baltimore and Ohio road, went to Philadelphia lastevenhlgv H. H. Snvder. of Leetonia, and Edgar K. JMnou, of Blalrsville, nro at tho Seventh Avenue Hotel. Colonel Willis J. Hulings, of Oil City, andhls daughter worp in the city yesterday. C- "Ju. .Magee and Jlecorder Yon Jionn Ihorst If ft-for New York last evening. j JlI.,H."Westmgme iWl -ST, A: :Siik; gauwra swnHHS an cyumng. a CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS;. , The original oak. shingles are still on tbe roof of a Reading, ra., house bnilt in 1750 "'''' ' t- - '.- t-.w. It takes about three seconds fpr a mes sage to go fiom one end of the Atlantic cable to the other. A woman at gapinsville. Pa., counted the sfltcheshs she knitted' a qnilt-J There were nearly 000,000, -'-A.thief with x mania. fotstealiuJoco m6tiv'es 'Is under arrest nt Sacramento, Cal., after having stolen three. On dark nights a white light can be seen farther than anv other eolor; on bright nights red takes the first place. An Atlantic City colored woman was so frightened by a thunder storm the other day tliat she died before it was over. Xew York has a professional rag picker wlfh gold bowed glasses, which he dons when, he wants fd investigate the contents of an. ash barrel. A Buyallup, CaL, cow was seen to cross a stream the other dav with her young calf on, hpr horns- The calf was safely deposited, on dry ground. The first theater in America was bnilt In Annanolis, and was opened June 13, 1732, with "The Beggars' Opera" and a farce, called "The Lying" Volet" A shipment of sea island cotton-seed has been sent from Savannah to the island or Borneo for planting, at tbe request of Ola Governor of British North Borneo and. lebnan. ' A Chicago barber charged a Scotch im migrant $3 50 fpr a shavo and a hair-cut. The. man told a policeman, w"ho succeeded in get ting back; 1220, leaving the barber! 30 for his services. Spearfish, S. Dak., has a barber doing active business in that city whoe youngest granddaughter is 37 years old. His age is 82, and he handles the razor with a "skill and. dexterity of a man of 25. Colored men 'digging the foundations for a hotej at Canton, Miss., the other day, dis covered a largo jar containing over $10,000 in. fold. The treasnreis supposed to have been, dried during the war. A New "York, paper, in a premature nu ment, Inst week published a picture of tho Charleston blowing the Itata- out of' tho water. The claim wad made that the picture) was" sent by a ne wtrlcgraphlo process. A ialf-breed Shoshone Indian who. passed through Chattanooga., Tenn., the other day had features the exact counter part of tlioso of a bear. Otherwise he ia human, his hands and feet are-shaped like those ot a man', and his body is not hairy ltko that or an animal. A Mississippi boy sent to Louisville for medical treatment" is abnormally fond of water, although previous to an accidental shooting he had as strong an aversion to It. For the past two months he has been sittinjr in atub of water, and screams as if in tha greatest agony when out of his tub. 'To show how deadly nicotine is, it is told that two men fonnd an adder in a, Wilkesbarre cemetery one day last week. One held tlie reptile fo the ground with a stick, while hht companion ran a timothy stalk through the jiteni of his clay pipe and deposited the nicotino in the snake's mouth. In three minutes.thc snake was dead. The Kaffirs ef South Africa'have very queernames. They are baptized pn their arrival nt Somo town by their first employer. He gives them whatever name may first enter his head- some are as follows: Six pence, -ShUlfng, Dollar, .January, February, Jlell and, Blazes, Two For Sixpence, etc Sixpence is the favdrite, .however. The existence of a cholera demon is still firmly credited'in certain-districts In India. A native Inn village near Allahabadrccently assured an Inspector of Police that the pre v Ions night Ills homo had been visited by tho cholera monster, with a head like a largo earthern jiot lie and his brother drove away the spirit with bamboo clubs and fired a gun to complctejts defeat, as the creature fears noise. The London Board of Education has appointed six women at a salary of $400 each, to visit school. Heretofore Jady visitors have been "regularly employed! but without?' remuneration, the position being honorary. The visitors win. bp expected to- put in aa many hours' work as the teachers and to furnish weekly reports to the board ac counting for every hour of service duringr the sps9ion. m A Kansas paper announces tliat it has in its possession ad Alliance dollar bill which, bears npon its face the following declara tion: "This is to certify that the"bcrrer has produced to the amount of $L nnd Is, there fore, entitled to an equivalent." It fnrther states that the- bill is copyrighted, wliich leads ene to infer that the author does not piopose to allow anyone to borrow "his. idea witnout .paying ior it. Three doctors recently joined a secret order in Omaha. At the door of the lodge room, they were met by three fellow physi cians. The outside sentinel was a life insur ance agent; the inner doorkeeper was a. druggist; the oath was administered by a minuter. The escort was an undertaker and tombstone dealer, nnd the treasurer was a city bill collector. Tho wholo affair was excepticnallynpfcropriateandappropriately lugubrious. It was tho Omaha way of doing things right The condition of the public teachers in Spa,in is not to be envied. The payment of their salaries 13 almost always far in arrears, and a. case came up tho other day of a man who had not receiv ed a cent of money from the Government for 17 years. The total amount of back .salary at present duo to teachers is about 1700,000. In some cases tho sufferers are-sustained by charity, and ia others are compelled to send their children out as servants. Many schools have been clpsed altogether. While the Moerlein brewery -was burn ing in Cincinnati tho other day the specta tors stared in open-eyed wonder when En gine No. 8 bustled npon the scene. Each member of this company was resplendent in spotless linen, white necktie, polished shoes and button-hole bouquet. 3Iud, smoke, water and flying cinders disfigured their finery in snort oruer. -wu " ..,.,. ..-. -r the evening began. Along the north fork of the Bhukwaler river,in Tucker county, W.Ya., half a mila from Hcndrick's station, on the West Vir ginia Central and Pennsylvania Bailroad, there is a cavo one mile long, which has, as 3 et, only been partially explored. An arched. channel,.varyingfrom6fo 30 feet in height, leads throughout tho entire cavern, thae has a subterranean stream of pure water con. stantiyflowing through tho -main way and all the recesses so far discovered. Half a mile from the entrance there Is an opening; where mkny snow-white pillars almost blind the oves, and throughout the cave is fascin atingly beautiful and well worth further ex plpration; SCINTILLATING SCBAPS. "Curious thing. I'm not superstitipus at all, hut It looks as If that old crone's prophecy about the Prince of Wales would cometue.,, "What was that?" Sho'prophesled that he would never be Queen of England." Jury. itt. Gilliard presents himself at the fire in surance company's office with his policy. "I wish to draw my indemnity." "MonsleurS property has been devoured by flames?" t !" "No; not that. But I have just moved to a new flat for the second time, and you Snow that moving twice Is equivalent to being ouce burned out," FutU Figaro. SOT MADE TS WIS. Ko matter if she pretty be, Orplaincstofthe plain ; There scarcely U a girl aUve That feels she's maiden Vain. PMlmUlpMaJTimet. "There's no rest for the wicked." "Oil. yes. there Is. There's arrest for th wicked." Kaa Turk Continent. ' f "Don't you think you dress more loudly than U consistent with yourclrcumstanees?" katd the Irifluentlal church member to the deacon. "r -"I don't see hart that can be," wai'the Indlg-nantly-spoken answer, "Myhatls black,' my coat Isblack, jnj cravat Is black " 1 "I Knowtt, brother;but you wear squeak shoes." VuhlhgtanFo4t. ' ' -,-,- .Friend (previous to initiation ceremonies In the Goat Bunting Brotherhood) I am- sorry there are so many candidates ahead. It JrUl be very late, S A. at. at least, before we get through. NoTltlatc-My! Myl - Friend Keep up your courage, my friend. I admit that the trlato ofour initiation are many and appalling, but don'tlose yoar sclf-eomtrol. Don ' 'becomfe terror-stricken if why, yoo'are'aH'fa tovntfeltralreadr. '' ' iNojrtttottI-I was thinking of vbat jBf ,t4-J w we www ae u 11 fit tnmm n , w. .. wwi Jmtttl :&l jzi13:&i hwwwh fff'3yfrfiyy?
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