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One Ycir t 8 CO Daily Dispatch, Per Quarter I 00 Daily Dispatch, On Month TO Daily Dispatch, including Sunday, lycar.. 10 00 Daily Dispatch, Including Sunday, 3 ui'tlu. 2 SO Daily Dispatch. Including Sunday. 1 m'tli.. 50 fcrxDAY Dispatch, One Year. 550 Weekly Dispatch, One Year 1 15 The Daily Dispatch is delieredy curlers at X1C4.ntsperTvcck.or, including Sunday Edition, at ICccntupercek. PITTSBURG, SATCUDAY, JULY I, 18M. CARPENTERS AT WORK AGAIN. The long strike in the building trades is over. It was begun amidst conflicting couuseK According to statements by some of the lalior men, it was it conflict even with the teclmical rules of their or ganizations. But be this as it ma- whether it was a "boom" strike projected tinder the inspiration of President Gom pcrs. or a strike based upon mistaken esti mates of the situation by walking dele gates and other officials there can be no question that it proved an expensive ven ture. The most significant result is that it leaves the employers with a perfect or ganization, and for the first time with the prestige of success Still the strike will not have been -wholly a failure, nor will the privations and dis appointments endured be wholly a loss, if now its lessons are weighed by both em ployers and employed. .The need for moderation, for reasonable and fair coun seling together, and for consideration of the state of trade as a means of adjusting dif ferences of view will be better understood. Mere power temporarily possessed should not alone be considered. There are con ditions of trade .sometimes which neither employer nor employed, nor both together, can alter or foi ce. The Builders' Exchange has the best of the situation now; but the greater the wis dom its members will require not to abuse the victory. Liberality, just consideration of all reasonable demands from the men, nd a disposition to consider the men's in terests as far as possible will produce a good spirit Any less generous policy will be only the sowing of seed for future strikes. In the temper of the present times men, whether they represent labor or capital, will combine to resist exac tions they think unnecessary or unjust On the other hand, an evident spirit of liberality and justice is always powerful to win men over. An increase of practical wisdom the qualification all round for better judg ment and a better spirit in the future is the only profit whatsoever from this long and costly strike. LOCATING COLUMBUS' LANDING. By a special telegram elsewhere it will be seen that the expedition sent out by the Chicago Herald to locate the spot where Christopher Columbus first landed has completed its work. Of the various spots named as claimants for that distinc tion Watling's Island was selected, on the ground of its identity in physical character istics with the description given in the journal of Columbus of the island on which he lauded. The argument 'seems practi cally conclusive, and the monument erected to mark the spot containing me mentoes of the present day, including a - copy of The Dispatch, may be regarded as indicating to future generations the place where thr discoverer of the Xew World reached the success that makes his name immortal. Some jests have been made concerning this expedition, but it has done its work in a way that demon strates its importance and usefulness. A Ct'RE FOR ALCOHOLISM. A striking article appears elsewhere, written by Opie P. Bead, giving an ac count of the Keeley treatment for alcohol ism and the morpliine habit at Dwight, 111. The accounts of the correspondent concerning the success in relieving victims of those stimulants is very glowing, but with the corroboration given to its state mf Jits by other publications, and by peo ple who have undergone the treatment, the conclusion is forced upon every inves tigator that it is not loo enthusiastic. Indeed, the universal testimony con cerning the Keeley treatment points to the conclusion that a discovery of equal value with vaccination and of more demon strated success than either Pasteur's, Koch's or Brown-Sequard's remedies, has established its claim by the effective proof of rapid and unvarying cures. When peo ple in the last stiges ot wreck and disease from alcoholic and morphine intemperance are quickly restored to health, with the craving for those stimulants wholly eradi cated, the existence of a boon to mankind is clearly proved. This is the testimony notonlyof this correspondent, butof many others. Several Pittsburgers have under gone the treatment, and are ready to bear testimony to the efficacy and completeness of the cure. Certainly the statements which are made concerning the radical cures of the worse phases of these great plagues of modern humanity are worthy of wide publication and The Dispatch gladly does its share to that end. A SINGULAR ACKNOWLEDGMENT. That is a remarkable proceeding to which the Philadelphia Ledger, by its own admission, pleads guilty. It was asserted the other day that a portion of the confes sion of Bardsley, implicating others than the recognized and admitted participants in the Keystone Bank plunder, had reached one of the newspaper offices, but was there suppressed. It is now admitted l.y one of the editors of the Ledger that it leceivcd such a statement, but that publi cation was refused because it was libelous, and it would be unjust to place people of high reputation under the accusations of a notorious liar like Bvdsley. This is a remarkable position for a jour nal which assumes to represent the public interest The belief that men of influ ence enough to keep their partnership in the plunder .secret had a share of the bank plunder is widespread, and on this statement appears to be wcll loundcd. The only evidence by which the money can be traced is that WljeB of the persons who. have confessed their guilt. If this evidence makes false accusations it can be met by honest men. But when a journal assuming to be inde pendent deliberately suppresses statements the public and the law have been demand ing on the ground of libel, it looks as if the position was that anything is libelous that hits the Ledger's friends and 'that nothing that brings the robbery close to any man of influence will be permitted to reach the public Such an acknowledgment goes a long distance toward corroborating the charge that has been made, that the men in the background are so powerful as even to make the newspapers of Philadelphia sup press that portion of the news which would be uncomfortable for them. TTIE RAVENNA DISASTER. The terrible calamity which took place on the Xew York, Lake Erie and Western road yesterday morning, with the horrible result of cremation for over a score of passengers and severe injuries for about two score, resulted from causes which are almost stereotyped in the history of rail way fatalities. Full and adequate pre cautions against the destruction of life from this cause are in operation on the best equipped railroads, and their entire absence in this case is painfully empha sized by the wholesale loss of life. A passenger train over an hour late closely followed by another train; a halt to repair the engine; a flagman sent back, who only goes a car-length, and the fol lowing train coming 0:1 at full speed, not expecting to stop, crashes into tho rear of the unfortunate train, dealing out death by crushing and by burning with remorse less freedom. It is evident that with any approach to a decently organ ized block system this calamity would have been impossible. The rear train would have been held back until the forward train was out of the way, except in such rare and exceptional instances as that on the mountains a month or two ago, where the fog was alleged to have obscured the signals. It is evident from the report of tins fatality that there was nothing like tho block system on this line. Trains were left to pursue each other in tho faith that the pursued could keep out of the way of the pursuer. The result of such faith is periodically murderous; but that has not resulted in providing the full measure of precaution. There is no doubt that the moral responsibility for the loss of life rests with the management which failed to pro vide the necessary safeguards; but if the extraordinary legal theories which have lately been enunciated in New York ex tend as far as Ohio, it is doubtful if any legal responsibility can be placed where it belongs. It is evident that these terrible fatalities will not be completely abolished until the responsibility for them Is placed on the men who control the road and omit to pro vide necessary precautions against col lision. SEVERE ON TIIE CAPITALISTS. An explanation of the mortgage fore closures in Kansas is offered by the To peka Capital, and adopted approvingly by certain Eastern journals which assume the attitude of representatives of capital. Singularly enough the explanation which commends itself to the organs of the moneyed interests is especially severe on the intelligence or honesty of the people who loan on farm mortgages. It is, briefly, that many of the Kansas farmers succeed in obtaining loans on mortgages to the full value of their farms, and then permit the mortgages to be foreclosed'as a good way of selling their farms. This is the state ment as editorially given in the New York Post from the Western paper: There were lortv-one foreclosures in Cloud county from January 1 to June 18, and these foreclosures, with scnicely an exception, and with actually no exception, tho Capital believes, in the case of farms, were on farms and lots abandoned by tho borrowers, who, having obtained all the land was worth, made no effort to pay tho mortgages. In Western Kansas the Capital declares that "in 91 per cent of tho foreclosures the land was abandoned directly after the loan was made, the borrower sought pastures new, and tho loancr 'held the bag.'" But this amounts to an assertion that people who loan money en mortgages in Kansas are either such idiots that they do not know their business, or such knaves that they deliberately loan the money of their clients to a greater extent than is consistent with first-class mortgage secur ity. It is somewhat notorious that rail road bonds, pretending to be mortgages, are floated to the full value of the prop erty; but it takes a great deal of manipula tion and covering up under watered stocks and construction company contracts to effect that cheat, and even then it has quickly become threadbare. But here is an assertion that in a business where for generations it has been recognized that tho security consists in keeping the loan within one-half the value, the rpal trouble is the inability of capital to conduct its operations on the primary principles of good security. There have been some attempts to ex plain the Kansas troubles on the theory that the farmers are ignorant, lazy and do not understand their business. It is a pleasant variation to learn that the money lenders are either fools or knaves and presumptively a mixture of botk. In view of the great corporate and firiancial law, "3Iake money; honestly, if you can; but make money," the Kansas farmers are not wholly unjustified in taking this ready means of selling their property. But there would seem to be a positive need for either reformation or enlightenment among the people who have money to lend. We should suggest that the esteemed New York Post, as the representative of financial interests, should send missionaries to the Kansas money lenders to instruct them that mortgage security is not security when the .loan exceeds two-thirds tho value of the property mortgaged alway excepting the great vested interest of rail way bonds. Concerning the discovery that a large amount of material in the Brooklyn Navy Yard is stolen by workmen, the New York Eicning bun ulBrms that it "docs not affect tho standing of the Navy Department as the best managed in the Government. This character, which it docs notoriously enjoy, serves to conjure up a fascinating vision of what such a department as that of Public llailways would be."' While that is one ap plication of tho moral, the assertion that this is done in "the best managed depart ment" coujuies up another and far irom fascinating vision of i hat must bo dono in the worst managed department of tho Gov ernment. The vigorous attack which the Hon. Henry M. Wattorson has been making on tho new Constitution of Kentucky has 10 solveu itself into a boomerang, to judge from tho announcement of the Courier Journal that it n ill no longer discuss thenewCon btltuticm. That esteemed cotemporary therefbro legumes its attacks on the force bill, w liic.i lias no friends with toes to be trodden on. The opening of the National Samgcrfest nt Newark, N. J., to-d.ty ill penult the Ger mans to cumliir ho customs of their I fatherland with tho patriotism of their adopted nation to an eminent degree. The great work of establishing American inde pendence will be duly honored, while the attributes of German song and Jollification will emphasize tho celebration. Our Ger mans have the national faculty of enjoying their snsngorfests to an exceptional degree. Its combination with the Fourth of Julv celebration at Newark will make the occa sion a rouser. Brussels is now striking to make itself a seaport by a ship canal to the North Sea. Every city without water navigation and with enterprise strives to make the latter secure the iormer. Yet Brussels has not half as much to gain from a ship canal as Pitts burg and Western Pennsylvania have. "Xow that Alabama has distanced Penn sylvania and every other Stato as an iron producer sho wants to enforce her name's meaning 'here wo rest.' " The esteemed Star is more excusable than some Pittsburg Journals in failing to make the distinction between -iron ore producing" and "iron producing." There is an immense difference of capital and labor between a ton of iron ore and a ton of pig iron, of which latter Allegheny county alone produced more in 1890 than tho entiro State of Alabama. And the difference in finished iron and steel is still greater. Axii accounts agree that the Hon. Thomas B. Roed is having lots of fun in Paris. He is 'evidently storing up his supply for the period during tho next session of Congress, when tho other fellows will have fun with him. The new form of the Sugar Trust is es tablishing a system of rebates by which merchants are to bo bound to sell sugar at fixed rates. This is a plain case of combin ing to prevent competition in inter-State commerce, and affords an excellent oppor tunity lor the United States authorities to demonstrate their stamina by putting tho law in force against that overgrown and defiant combination. It also gives some enterprising person a chance to knock the Trust higher than a kite by importing sugar at prices that will crush the rebate scheme. So FAR the Agricultural Department's weather has been above criticism. If it is kept up to this mark Uncle" Jerry will pres ently have to make promises of respect to the President's alleged renomination boom. Concerning the clement which, it alleges, will determine the sensational murder case in New York, tho Telegram re marks: "Science has seized it. Science is merciless, but it is also just. Science has no motives. Science tells the truth." Where upon science with a big S. proceeds to cor roborate tho assertion by swearing on both sides of the case with beautiful impartiality. When science says that a thing is so and then in tho person of another representative says it is not so, it makes certain of telling tho truth on one side or the other. As to the purification of Pennsylvania politics some of tho party loaders might say that it is an iridescent dream, if tho remark had not come to be regarded as having asso ciations of misfortune The county judges yesterday filled the District Attorneyship vacancy by tho ap pointment of Mr. Burleigh, who was already known to the public by his services in tho legal field for tho city. Mr. Burleigh goes into office with the prestige of approval from a greater variety of differing political factors than is ordinarily extended to candi dates. It should, and doubtless will, bo es teemed by him a privilege to justify this largo measure of preliminary indorsement. Wrrn the reports of short crops and even famine in Southern Russia and India, the prospects multiply that this will bo tho year of prosperity for the American farmer. Senator Ingall's lecture on "The Problems of the Twentieth Century" sug gests that the problems of the Nineteenth Century proved altogether too much for tho distinguished ex-Senator. Tho fact that ho also calls himself "a statesman out of a job" suggests that his solution of the problem of statesmanship on the linos of swearing to everything that the party caucus enacted did not work out so us to keep him on the in side of tho job. Under the glowing accounts of the Dela ware peach crop, a faint hope asserts itself that the bottoms of the baskets will have a less ambitious-tendency this year. It was to be supposed from the first in stallment of Bashkirtseff literature that the people who published it had very little care to present the young woman as a healthy minded girl The second installment, in which her letters to literary men whom she did not know, but wished to strike un an affinity with, place the matter beyond all question. Tho letters do not indicato any talent beyond a genius for vanity and intrigue WITH CBOWNS AND WITHOUT. Secretaries Rusk and Foster will spend to-morrow at Elkins, W.Va., as guests of Stephen B. Elkins. Fred Douglass, United States Minis ter to Haiti, arrived in New York yester day morning on the steamer Prince William. BEPORTS from London say that Dr. Spur gcon and Mr. Tyndall aro much better. Burno Jones, the artist, is suffering from tho effects of an accidental fall. The King of Ashantee is allowed 3,333 wives. Many of them are the daughters of the chiefs of tributary tribes over which tho King has jurisdiction, and are sent to him as hostages. John Strage Winter, the author, who in private life is Mrs. Arthur Stannard, is ft very handsome young woman. Sho. is tall and slender.with fine dark eyes, a pretty mouth and a well-shaped head. JUDGE Kussell, Henry Hilton's son-in-law, is reputed to bo one of tho best story tellers in Now York. He possesses a fund of wit and humor that has made him as noted as has his knowledge of tho law. King Milan recently won $35,000 at baccarat at ono sitting. He scooped in the Parisian gamblers of the Cercle de la Royale in a kingly manner, and would have had no scruples about clearing out a Tiauby Croft company. President Palmer, of the World's Fair, is said by one ofhis friends to be in a condition very far from satisfactory to himscl f or his physician. His trouble is ery sipelas confined mainly to his head and face, and is said to bo very painful and annoying. Bev. Sam Jones thus defends the class to which he belongs: "I don't care what you call the expert evangelist, revivalist, ecclesiastical tramp or whntTiot the fact that so many pastors need and call for him is proof of the proposition that the ordinary means do not reach tho case." One of the prettiest women in the Blue Grass region of Kentucky is Miss Nanette McDowell, the great-granddaughter of Henry Clay. Sho is a slight and graceful woman, with auburn hair, blue eyes and a perfect oval face, a little pale and serious. Sho lives with her father in tho old Clay homestead of Ashland, one of the most beautiful and ro mantic places in all Kentucky. A FABLE. Its Moral lias to Do With Eating Beefsteak Pie. New York Sun. A beefsteak pie, which had been sent from tho table untastcd, confided its pains to the remains of a leg of lamb. "Here I have got cold," lamented the succulent dish; "my fluids are clogged, my aroma spent, my existenco a failure. Why was I ever made at all!" The leg confessed that this mystery beat him. But, when a neighboring clock boomed the small hours, an explorer with a candle discovered the pie, and a void in its substance shortly revealed tho moral pur pose of its being, while the discoverer ob bcrved wif.li interest the replenishment of a vo'd elsewhere. Whilo enforcing the doctrine of correlation in the physical woild. this fable points the essential immorality of eatiug beefsteak pie befpiem'dnighr. CURB AND CORRIDOR. .Some Significant Poor Farm Statistics Street Car Conductors' Trials How Pol iticians Are Made Stories of Life in City Streets. "I have Just completed an investigation of the records nt tho FoorTarm and the county Jail," said Immigration Inspector Lnyton yesterday, "and I find that of tho inmntes at Homestead from April 1, 1890, to March 31,1891, 3S0 were natives nnd 1,055 foreigners, vhilc at the jail, of the prisoners now held there for court, 72 are natives and 28 foreigners. I think the preponderance of tho foreign-born element nt the Poor Farm is of great significance. A small excess of tho former might have been expected, but 30 per cent native as against 61 per cent foreign is astonishing. In the course of my inquiries at the Poor Farm, also, I was much impressed with what a number bf the old men gave as the cause of their being there. They said that they attributed their in ability to obtain work to the fact that young men of recent immigration were ready to labor for any wages, no matter how low, and that employers naturally preferred young able-bodied men when they could be had so cheap." Astray on Street Cars. "I WAirrto get out at tho Forks of the Hoad," said a lady to the conductor on a Duquesne car on Thursday morning. "Sorry, ma'am," said he, "but you're on the wrong car," and giving her directions how to find the Citizens' line, he stoppedthe car and let her off. Fortunately for tlie lady, who was not very j oung, tho car had barely reached Grant street when her error was discovered. "That sort of thing happens about once every trip," said the conductor in answer to my question. "People get on cars without asking their destination, and expect the con ductor to know by socond-sight where tney want to go. A few days ago n lady got on my car at Craft avenue, and when it started toward tho city she was furious, for sho was bound for East Liberty. She blamed me for not telling which way the car was going when sho entered it. It keeps me busy remem bering where a dozen people in the car want to be set down, and I wonder I don't make more mistakes. The cars in the morning and evening are easier to handle in this re gard, for then the bulk of the passengers are going to work downtown or coming homo." In the course of a street car tour already described in The DisrATcn the writer ob served four instances of passengers astray. Ono wns a messenger boy who had entered a Birmingham car under the impression it would tako him to East Liberty: another was tho lady referred to above; a third was an orrandboy who overshot his destination on Wylio avenue by eight or ten blocks, and the lourth instance involved two youug men who didn't discover they were not go ing towards Monterey and North streets m Allegheny till the Pleasant Valloy car had carried them to tho top of Observatory Hill. From which it would appear that street car conductors nave cause to Diame mo puuiic for perversity and blindness. A Secret of Success in Politics. "PEOrtE seem to think there is something mysterious in tho making of a successful politician," said a Pittsburg lawyer tome tho other day, "but the most powerful factor in most instances is simple enough a thor ough knowlodgo of human nature acquired and applied persistently. For instance, not long ago T. J. O'Leary. the well-known poli tician, came in to see me and casually asked during the conversation the name of my office boy, who had entered the room for a minute and then left again. Now it taxed me considerably to answer the question, for tho boy had been always Bob to me and nothing more, but at last I recalled his sur name. " 'Ah! then he's tho son of my old friend Blank,' said Mr. O'Leary, but I couldn't help him further in Bob's geneaology. However, I had to leave my visitor for a fewminutos, and when I camo back I found that Mr. O'Leary had extracted from Bob all about his parentage the former surmise had been correct and about himself, and, in fact, knew Bob better in five minutes than I who had employed him for two years." Counterfeit Gratitude. Three dollars was what a hackman charged a Pittsburger for taking him to his home in the East End. Tho fare was not un reasonable, it was late of night, but when the East Ender felt in his pockets he could find nothing but a fivo-dollar bill. The hack man then searched his olothcs for change but nil he could produce wns a solitary coin, a dollar. There was no way of obtaining change elsewhere at that unholy hour, so the East Ender made a virtue of necessity and told the hackman ho could keep the ex tra dollar. Tho hackman said thank you and pocketed the V, while tho other follow ockoted his loss with a good grace, in fact le felt the glow which comes altera gener ous action. But he glowed in. another way next morn ine when ho discovered that the dollar tho hackman had given him was a counterfeit of tho baldest kind. His Clothes Onlv Went to Bed. TnE First ward, Pittsburg, is talking about the almost tragic termination of tho attempt of a local celebrity to sleop in his bod a thing he very seldom does. He is a bar tender by profession, and a rounder by choico, and when ho gets sleepy as a rule a chair is good enough couch for him, and harder places have served. But the other night ho thought he would enjoy tho luxury of a night between the sheets; so he retired early to his room, divested himself of his clothes, laid them on tho bed, donned his nightshirt and sat down at the window to enjoy the novelty 01 the river view by moon light. Whether it was the witchery of the scene, or the habit of sleeping in chairs, that stole his senses nobody can say, but he fell asleep with his head in his hands nnd his arms resting on tho window ledge. The sun shining in his face waked him hours later, and rem.nded him it was time to go to work. TWO MILES A MINUTE. f Great Things Claimed by the Inventor of a One-Wheel Cycle. Springfield Republican. A one-wheel eyele, eight feet high, that a greenhorn can learn to ride in a minute and then write his name in the dust with it in 15 feet of spaco, not to mention a speed capacity of two miles in 60 seconds on a good track, is the astonishing invention which Victor Berangor, of Worcester, editor of Ze Courricr de irorccster.claims to have produced after two years of hard work. Last week, he says, his brother in Montreal rode the phenomenon 73 miles in one hour on an ordinary highway, and that was at the rate of much more than a mile a minute. Mr. Berangcr himself, on a wager of $1C0, will leave Worcester sorao day next week in the presence ol a number of witnesses, so ho says, nt the same timo the new "Chicago flier" on the Boston and Albany Itailioad leaves for Boston, and he promises to arrive at the Hub at least 15 minutes before the ex press train leaches there, notwithstanding" that ho will have to travel 61 miles by high way as against U by rail. If he does it, in the face of tho fact that tho highway be tween Worcester and Boston is in no way piepared lor such a lightning trip, "Mon sieur" will have furnished the world tho biggest sensation possiblo short of an actual flying machine. 3Ir. Berangor may be an enthusiast, but be has made applications for patents in fivo countries, una his patent in this country is already assured. Tho new cycle will certainly make the fur fly in "uiko" circles if it goes, lor it will bo sold for $70, and its weight will bo about 15 pounds less than the ordinary "safety." STOOD ON HER DIGNITY. A Woman Was Offended Because the Milk Was Wanted for a Cat New York Ledger. Simplicity of mannors. Joined with strong, sturdy common sense, is, ono of the rare and refreshing virtues which adorn the character of a true man. They shine con spicuously, though without ostentation, in asmuch as they lorm such a striking con trast to the countless instances of false dignity nnd vile affectation which wo daily see about us. Wo lately heard of a most amusing in stance of offended dignity. A man called at a grocery and bought some milk, and while tho portly hostess was pouring it out he happened to mention that he wanted it for a favorite cat. "What!" exclaimed the woman, with in dignation in her red face, "do you suppose I keep milk to sell for cats to drink? I rather guess not!" and sho poured it back, saying: "I rather guess I haven't got down quite so low ns that yet!" Audrso tho mini was obliged to go without the milk and wait till the woiftan got :i little low eruud dignity n as a llttlu cheaper. . A REMARKABLE POND. Many Relics of a Prehistoric Race Found on an Island in It. Atlaxta, Ga., July 3. Half a milo from Sparks, in Berrien county, is a pond at tho head of Bear creek. This pond was dammed and a mill built 20 years ago by John Par rish, who successfully operated the mill for several years, to the great accommodation of the country for miles around. This pond is one of the wonders of the South, and not one attempts to go over it without a pilot, and sometimes the pilot gets lost: Tho pond covers about 2,500 acres, averaging 6 feet deep. Cypress nnd other growths peculiar to water nature stand high over the pond that cast a shadow for tho benefit of the playful fish that thousands of people are smacking their mouths for. Near the center of tho pond is an island of SO acres with 12 acres in cultivation that con sists of one of the finest little truck and poultry farms of this section: owned and presided over by Mr. D. T. Pulliam, who takes a great delight and Interest in improv ing fowls. He has his fowl yards conveni ently laid off and enclosed in picket fences that would give credit to a suburban sur rounding. On this island are landmarks that are supposed to stand in memory ofthe last Indian tribe of this country. The land is rich and produces vegetables in largo quantities, and Mr. Pulliam is making a suc cess with his little experiment farm on the island. The dam that holds this largo body of water is only a few hundred yards long. The pond is 11 great pleasure resort forthoso who like sport. Fish of many kinds nnd largo sizes are caught every day, but tho people cannot catch them as fast us they raise, and this is why the supply is inexhaustible. Tons nnd tons of fish could be caught and plenty left. When the workmen wero digging for dirt to build the dam 20 years ago, they found landmarks of a nation of people, that were hero before tho Indians. A crossing for vehicles was resting under a foot of land that tho first settlers of this country could train no information of from the Indians. Further down in the earth thoy found the decomposed substance of a man's bones that had evidently been laid away a century or two ago wrapped in a fiber resembling cypress bark. As best they could Judge tho bones were of a man above the medium size and was supposed to have been of a giant nation that preceded the Indians. BATTLEFIELD MUMMIES. Four Thousand Men Killed in 1879 Lying Where They Fell. Youth's Companion. A sea captain, Who has recently returned from a long cruise along tho South Ameri can coast, reports soma very strange and in teresting sights, especially in Peru. He vis ited the- -battlefield of Tarapaca, where the Chileans defeated the Peruvians with great slaughter in November, 1879. The Peruvians lost 4,000'men, and wero forced to leave them unburied on tho field. In almost any other country all these corpses would in a fow weeks have been re duced to skeletons, either by wild beasts or by the action of the elements. Here, how ever, for more than a hundred miles on cither side of tho battlefield there is not a spear of grass, and as a natural result there are no wild animals. The soil, moreover, is strongly impreg nated with nitrate of soda.and this.in connec tion with tho hot, dry atmosphere, has liter ally converted men and horses into perfect mummies. The captain visited the place first by moonlight, and, as may well be imagined, was gieatly impressed by the strange spec tacle. To all appearance the battle might have been fought but a day or two before. The uniforms were still bright and the steel weapons untarnished. Inspection by daylight brought out a still more curious phenomenon. The hair had continued to grow, both on the men and on the horses, for some time nfter death. Some of the soldiers' heads were covered with ex cessively long hair, while tho norses' tails were long enough to trail for some distance on the ground. MARIE ANTOINETTE'S SLIPPER. It Bias for Years Prevented Corns In an American Family. Youth's Companion. In an old French household in New York the most carefully cherished heirloom is a slipper which w as worn by Mario Antoin ette in tho last days beforo the French Rev olution. It was ono of tho precious relics in tho baggage of a conrt lady who fled with her husband to Louisiana when the storm broke. Sho left tho tiny, blue,-faded slipper to her daughter, with tho injunction that it should go down In tho family, to tho eldest daughter, if she never allowed herself to nave corns. It is a prettv slipper, and has been care fully kept in the jewel case of one French woman nfter another, so that it is perfectly preserved. It is short, very narrow and very high heeled, and is a brocaded blue, lined -n itli soft white silk. The sole is of coarse grained leather, and there are three satin straps over the instep, fastened with a paste buckle. The pointed toe Is ombroldered with silver threads, and the 'edges are bound with silver braid, The condition regarding its inheritance has always been strictly regarded. Tlie women 01 the house have taken great care of their feet that they might rightfully claim tho unhappy Queen's slipper, and for 100 years there has not been a pinching shoo worn in that family. A relic of this sort would bo a boon in a good many households, if it had the effect of inducing the daughters to abandon the tight boots, which injuro not only their feet, but their gait and carriage. AN ODD GEOGRAPHY. A Book Which To-Day's Boys and Girls Wonld Laugh At. New York Advertiser. About 1700 a geography was introduced into tho New York schools from England, "A Little Description of the Great World," by Peter Heylyn. The geographies of those days are tho oddest of all our text-book relics. The prevailing ideas of Europe and Asia weio tolerably clear, but the most of Africa was a mysterious land, and tho inter ior of America dark and unknown. ' The Sahara Desert consisted of the Land of Beledulgerid and the Land of Zaara, in habited by wild beasts and pagan peoples, said to be hospitable and friendly, who eat camel's flesh and milk. In Negro Land, or tho center of Africa, wero people without heads, who had eyes nnd mouths in their breasts. Tho Kincr re sided at a town called Mousul, where was a market for human flesh and where 100 slaves were killed daily for the King's table. Wonderful stories camo from the French possessions along the Mississippi, where tho land was so fruitful that two acres would return 400 bushels of corn. In the land of Florida were found goodly fruits and a goodly quantity of gold and silver. "Emeralds aro found there also, and tur quoises and pearls. Thomen of this country doe naturally lovoware and revenge, inso much that they are continually in ware with one or other." Watch It in Ohio. Detroit Free Press. A traveler says that Japanese elections are always conducted with tho utmost good or der and politeness. Wo should hurry up and send a lot moro missionaries to that be nighted people.- Manifestly there is little civilization there. Where Is Balmaceda? Chicago Inter-Ocean. The richest woman in the world is a Chile nntwidow, Donna Isidora Cousino. Isidora has an income of $80,000 a month. Whether she remains rich depends upon how much she has got invested elsewhere than in ChUe. Not a Sparrow FaUeth. Chicago Tribune The only consolation remaining to the English sparrow in Illinois is found in. Matt, x. 29, and many commentators .are. of tho opinion that oven that passage has no refer ence to this impious and profane bird. They Were New Then. New York World. An Englishman has just paid $4,250 for tho autographs of the signers of tho Declaration of Independence. Tho original signatures cost England a far bigger price than that. DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE. Judge J. M. Love. Judge J. 31. Love died at his home in Keokuk, la., Friday night, ol a complication of diseases due to kidney troubles. He was 72 years old. was appointed Judge of the United State Court for the district of Iowa by President Pierce, in 1855, which position he held until tnc division In 18S3, when he became Judge of the boutheni Dis trict, lie had a national reputation as a Jurist uud author. ' OUR MAIL POUCH. A Victim Sounds a Warning. To the Editor of The Dispatch: The season having set in for the great annual pilgrimage of invalids as well as pleasure seekers to our health resorts, it seems to mo an opportune time to offer a suggestion through your columns which many persons may And productive of ad vantage to themselves. This is, to arrive at the point briefly, that it will bo found a wise precaution for Inva lids forced to employ the services of resi dent physicians at the resortsat which their maladies render them guests to have a clear understanding'in advance as to what terms of compensation tho patients aro to rest responsible for. That is to say, tho patient should, for his or her own protection, ascer tain before employing tho local physician what fee he proposes to charge for his services. There are many practitioners at our great and little health resorts who prac tically live by tho compensations they re ceive or exact from persons whose nfllictions demand medical care during a summer period. Many of these practitioners aro competenfand.no doubt, honorable men: only too many, however, belong to a class whom our loose system of medical license places in the position to prey upon the afflicted and to levy an extortionate tribute on tho sufferings of helpless humanity. A great many people have been laughing over tho story of a physician of this city who received tho follow ing communication from a rural practitionor: Dear Dock I hav a pashnnt whos phislcol sines shoes that the windpipe lias ulcerated or. and his Jung hav drop lntoo ills stumick. he Is unabel to sti oiler and I fecr his stumick tube Is gone. I hav Riv hlra evry thing without cfeckt. his father Is welthv, Onerable and influcnshlal. he is an active memSber off the M. E. Chirsch and god nose I don't want to loose hj in. what shall I dae. ans.buyre turae male, yours In neede. This may bo a funny story on its face, but it is a very serious matter that it involves. I have myself been treated at a well-known health resort in this Stato by a licensed physician who spelled "symptoms" with an "i" and city with tu o "ts.1' I was last sum mer advised by mv family physician to try a series of baths, being at that time a helpless cripple from tho worst form of rheumatism. My treatment in the hands of the local prac titioner wns such that I had to bo removed from tho resort in question nnd from his merciful care to save my life. Tho charge to w hich I was put for the maltreatment that nearly extinguished tho little vitality I had left, when I terminated my stay, was four times as much pbr visit as his usual fee to local patients. But I was a hotel guest; I had employed this person, he being tho physician connected with tho hotel. In my state of in cessant anguish bodily and mental I had madenoinqniryas to his charges until too late, and so I paid the penalty in fall. This distinction between tho hotel and tho local patient is almost universal at those places where invalids are forced to congre gate. The principle, or lack of principle, upon which it is basea seems to be that sick people who can afford to live at summer hotels can afford to be gouged. Tho fact, however, is that the majority of Invalids at health resorts upon whom these vultures fatten are not persons of large means. Wealthy men and women have their own summer houses or can afford to hire them and to provide forthe professional attention and ndvico their afflictions reqnire. It is the great middle class which is forced to re sort to tho hotel for relief from the city in summer, and often at tho cost of the most grinding economies, to pay these prevers upon their pitiable condition their extortion ato fees for a share of service. Women, and especially women of matnro and older vears women to whom tho ,-iiripsfc laborer and the most aggressive tough of Now York would and do on occasion render servico gladly because they recognize their helplessness nnd pain are quite as pitilessly fleeced by theso bandits who carry a mostly unearned diploma as a shield. Indeed, the rule seems to be that the weaker the victim is, tho stronger he or she can be safely mulcted. I make my case an illustration as being, I believe, typical of many. The evil exists, as lar as I can learn, all over the country, and tho only safeguard tho snm-mer-seoklng invalid has is to begin the em ployment of the local leeches by finding out just how much the extraction of each drop of blood Is going to ccst. Experto credeJlu perto. A Victim. New York Citt, July 2. Tlie Dispatch Heartily Indorsed. To the Editor of The Dispatch: In a recent issue of the Times-Star of Cin cinnati I read a paragraph credited to The Dispatch which I am suro is cordially ap proved by a largo portion of the American people. Deferring to tho spirit of annexa tion which prevails in some quarters, you say; "To add to our population tho peonlo of Cuba, Haiti or Guatemala would bo sim plv to incorporate into our Government a class utterly incapable of performing tho duties of American citizenship." That is the simple statement of a great truth. The Latin race is not as capablo of successful self-government as the Anglo Saxon. Note the different, and sometimes sndden and bloody, changes of government in Franco and Spain and In the Spanish American republics south of us since tho es tablishment of our own Fjderal Govern ment. Stability does not appear to depend upon vnlightenment either, for France, tho queen of modern civilization, since the rev olution of 1789, has been under the govern ment of the first Nnpoleon, Charles X, Louis Phllippo, another Napoleon and the present system. Another objection is that the Latin race, particularly on this continent, is a cruel one. Who of us can read of the barbarities of tho Chilean chief, Balmaceda, without shuddering? In Cuba tho race largely runs to bandits who have nn unpleasant habit of torturinir their cantives at times. All thta i repugnant to the Anglo-Saxon spirit. Surely such a peoplo would not furnish good mate rial to make American citizens of. Still less aro the negroes of Haiti, San Domingo or Cuba fit for American citizen ship. While tho Latin race is capable of sell-government, the negro race is not. The pages of history will be searched in vain for a single example of successful autonomy by a negro people. Haiti began her career as an inaepenuent government but shortl nenueni Government out shortlv after we began ours. She had every net- vantage that geographical location and cli mate can give, aim me commerce 01 the Western world passed within hall of her shores. Sho had but to reach out her hands to become a rich and powerful nation. But she was not peopled with a race capable of grasping the situation. She was barbaric then and she is barbario now. Sho would not bo a valuable acquisition to tho sister hood of American States. Thocommcici.il advantages would be more than counter balanced by the disadvantages of attempting to Kuveru uer iiuuuicui. liumuiianis. Yon speak truly in the paragraph referred to when you say: "We w oiild either have to nullify our principles of popular self-government by holding those populations in a condition of disfranchisement, or wo would havo to admit into citizenship a large num ber of people wholly foreign to intelligent democracy." Johx A. Coswell. Aurora, ina., j my j. Realty on the Hill Top. To the Editor of The Dispatch: In the interesting account of a ride over the transit lines ofthe city in this morning's Dispatch, a statement is made concerning the hill top section reached by the Central Traction Company, which in the interest of the general public, as well as that locality, should be corrected. It is as follows: "De sirable building sites in this region are plentiful, nnd tho trouble seems to bo that everybody on the hills is waiting for top figures prices are higher than the proper tieswith tho result that other ncighbor hooas are taking tho population." In making this statement the writer evi dently reasoned from effect to cause, and made an error by getting the wrong cause. There is a gi eater area on thc-hilltop region reached by the Central Traction line than anywhere elso within three miles of the Court House.because, up to a year and a half ago, that locality was the farthest away in point of time. It took more time for tho old horse cars to climb tho hill than It did for tho business man or clerk to go to Torrens or Bmsliton by tho moro rapid routes. The consequeuco wns that popula tion flowed to tlie moro accessible points and land on the hill top section.up to a short time ago, Sold at almost rural prices. As stated in tho article leicrred to. thtj cable line has brought this section within 11 minutes' rido of the Court House, hut tho fact with regard to the prices of property thero is just tho opposite of what is asserted in the sentence quoted. Property has ad vanced since the opening of ttie cable line; and it may advance more when tho now electric lino along Center nvenuo Is built. But this section being shown by the article to be as near town as Oakland, it is pertinent to say that any intending purchaser will find on investigation that property can be pur chased there at about one-half the cost of Oakland realty. ' It is well known that prices of lots throughout the East Liberty Valley range from $50 up to $100 per foot front in tho choice localities. It would not be strange if some of the Thirteenth ward property own ers should feel inclined to hold on until prices there reach something like a parity to those figures; but there aro many who are well satisfied to accept the improvement on former values of $."0 to $10 per foot front on unpaved streets, and HO to $50 on paved streets. For tho present purchasers will find no difficulty in obtaining really eligible sites nt these figures, which the people of that section claim to be mnch cheaper than can bo found anywhere else within the same dis tance of tho center of business. Thirteenth Warder. Pittsburo, July 3. The Gentleman Wins. To the Edltor,of The Dispatch: riease decide this: A gentleman bets that a resident of this country has a rigljt in cer tain States to vote for President without being a citizen of the United States. Please answer. J. II. YocsosTowir, O., July 3. In some States aliens who have declared their intention of becoming citizens can vote for President. 'A Hugo Assignment. To the Editor ofThc Dispatch: I would like very much to know the name of tho leading paper of each State and Terri tory, too, if possible, in the United States. A Beaded. Pittsectuj, July 3. Newspaper directories are issued by Rowell & Co., 10 Spruce street, New York.l Municipal Perplexities. To the Editor of The Dispatch: Has the city any right to compel persons to lay new sidewalks when they are in pretty good condition. Tho wear on tho pavements on Fifth avenue has been caused by the constant tearing up of the street for gus, water and cable loads, and it does not seem just to make citizens pay for what companies are responsible for. PlTTSEUBO, July A. TAXPATER. The Home of Astor. To the Editor of The Dispatch: Please in form me of what nationality the Astors are. Where they originallv came from. "M.K. Pittedbo, July 3. John Jacob Astor was born at Walldorf, near Heidelberg, Germany, in 1763. He camo to America in 1783. PEOPLE COMING AND GOING. John D. "Ward, of New York, no relative of Captain Ward, of tho Brooklyn team, is the new chief clerk at the Duqnesne. Ho is ono of tho oldest hotel men in the country, and will be remembered by many ns the genial manager of the Monongahela Hou-e when Mr. Gnsconi wns proprietor. Mr. Ward remarked that he was glad to get back to Pittsburg. Hohas numerous friends in the city who will be glad to see him. H. C. Prick went to Cresson last evening to spend the Fourth with his family. Ho said ho had been watching the iron trade with a view to selling coke, and he had come to the conclusion that next year might be cood for business, but this one was a failure. Deputy Fish Commissioner G. H. Lamb son with five assistants in a private car, passed through the city yesterday, bound lor Northville, Mich., where he will stock the car with trout for distribution in Illinois and Wisconsin. Ex-Governor A. M. Poindexter, of Mis souri, wa3 at the Union depot yesterday, going homo. Ho said he had no use for Cleve land, but would vote for him if nominated. Ho would like to see a Western man elected President. Thoma3 Dennison, one of the owners of the Birmingham road, was in the city yes terday to seo how it was running. He was greatly pleased with the cars, and he thinks they are the best in Pittsburg. Congressman John B. Robinson and wife and his mother, Mrs. Lctitia Robinson, re turned to Media last evening. They were hereattending the funeral of Mr. Robinson's brother. Among the New York passengers last evening wero Judge Porter, Dr. W. S. King and wife. J. B. Sheriff, A. W. Mellon and Captain Sam Brown. Frank Alexander, of Canton, H. As kins, of Dennison, and J. P. Linton, of Steubenvillo, are registered at the An derson. B. C. Willson, proprietor of the Seventh Avenue Hotel, has gone to Boss Park, on tho Allegheny Valley road, to spend the sum mer. "W. P. Rend, the coal operator, boarded the limited last evening, and went homo to celebrate (he glorious Fourth. If. A. King, of ileadville, and John E. Du Bols, of Du Bois, are nmong the guests at the Seventh Avenuo Hotel. D. G. Kincr, of Fredericksburg, and M. B. Taylor: jf"Warren, aro stooping at tho Monongapela House. Captain Henry M. Kuhn, of Johnstown, andF.M. Parker, of Spokane Talis, are at the Duq-iesne. T. 31. Orr, commercial agent for the Santa Fe road, started for the seashore lust even ing. E. R. Gasper returned yesterday from a fishing trip on Lake Erie. Dr. Horner came home from Atlantic City last evening. M. IC McMullen, the stock broker, left for York. AMERICA'S FIRST STRIKE. It Resulted jn a Co-Operation Business Which Later Broke Up. "Do you know that this Government had been in existence over 50 years before such a thing as a strike was known among the laboring people?" asked Frank Gassner of Cincinnati, as ho leaned thoughtfully against the cigar stand at tho Occidental in conver sation iv ith a San Francisco Call reporter. "Yes sir, 50 years, and it was reserved for Ohio to be the scene of the first revolt. It was in 1S10, in June, I think, that the em ployes of Wolf & Co.'s foundry in Cincinnati struck for increase in pay, nnd in a few days it spieadsoas to include all the iron-workers of this city. For more than a month both sides held out, and at the end of that timo the laborers succeeded in securing money with which to start a co-operative toundry. They chose a business manager and a super intendent from among their own numuer, and started out with a great boom. At tho end of three years they wont to tho wall,and after everything was cleared up thoy wero still $300,0.0 behind. As each of the incorpor ators was personally responsible under the Ohio law for the liabilities of tho concern, without limitation as to time, every one of the strikers was compelled to leave the State in older to prevent their savings being seized to satisfy their creditors. So ended tho first strike." ORIGIN OF FIREWORKS. A Song for the Fourth of July. Away, far on In China, In the dajs of Nankc-cbln, Lived a funny little fellow. Who was priest aim mandarin. And ever through hU shaven head, A strain of music rang. Which seemed to him like "Fizz And crackle. Ilzz aud crackle BANG." One day this little fellow. As he trolled his merry song. -riimnrrl to meet the royal viccroT, As he rude In state along. Who, stopping, listened with delight. To what he gaily sang. And befrged at ouce the music rare. Of "Fizz and crackle BANG." Bnt naught had he ofmnslc, s Nor a note had ever read. For this strain so shrill and stirring. Was but running In lifs head; Nor cunld the gongs nor kcttlif drums. With all their noisy clang. Express a bit of what he meant By "Fizz and crack Ic-liANG." Then said this little fellow, I will try 'That I can do," And iicstralglitway set to molding Kockcts, Horn in candles too; But what he sought and most desired; Was something with a twang. That ouldnprcss in all its force. His "Fizz aud cratkle-UANG." But e'en while he was planning. Burst lib rockets with such noise. Frightened came the whole town running. To behold the dreadful toys; Then madly danced tlie mandarin, Apd cried, "O, I will ha'ig. If I've not found tho very thing To make my Cratkle BANG."' , Now sound the rattling crackers. As in days of Naakc-cliln. (For the Fourth, to be weU honored. Mush have clangor, clash and din, ) The banners all are waving. And the drums and trumpets clang. Awaking echoes far and near Of "Fizz and crackle BANG." And when the day departing. Does the evening open out. Sparkling, nery little demons Leap from wheels and dance about. And hissing rockets upward fly. Amid prolonged huzza. While crowds astonished, gaping. Cry out, ' Boom. A-A-A-A-H." CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. Floors of rubber, claimed to be as dura ble as asphalt end cheaper, are being tried in Germany. A tramp stole a razor and opened up a shop in a boxcar near the firebrick works: at Mexico, Mo. He shaved 25 men in half a day, pocketed $Z 50, and again took the road. It wonld take all the Lancashire cotton factories 400 years to spin a thread long enough to reach the nearest star at the pres ent rate of production of about 155,000,000 miles per day. A resident of Minneapolis has fallen heir to three big fortunes very recently. The smallest ofthe three is moro than $75,000. and is from relatives totally unknown to the lucky man. Two immense gum trees, which tower over 100 feet above a little chnrch in Guate mala, are CO feet in circumference, and hava pushed the foundations of tho chnrch out of place by their strong roots. The grave of Brigham Young is covered by a plain and inconspicuous slab of granite. It liesin an inclosod city lot in Salt Lake City, surrounded by a low iron fence. Afew of tho prophet's wives lie buried near by. Statisticson the Hebrew population of tho world show that thero are 6,301,550 in Europe. 391,000 in Asia. 507,500 in Africa. 2S5, 200 in America, 13,500 in Australia and 2.500 in New Zealand, making a total of 7,101,250. King Kalakana's effects have been sold at auction. The Queen bought his boat house nt $1,001, while S. M. Damon, hor hns band.bonhgt the dead king'sanrt chair, pay ing 10 for it. The total proceeds of the sale were only a little more than $200. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company is abont to put on a new train to be known by the name of the "Jllindopany SpeciaL" This mongroi' word is a conglomeration of tha first letters of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Penn sylvania and New York, the States through which the train will run. A3-ycar-old gray-hair seal weighing about 60 pounds was caught the other day in a salmon seine near The Dalles, in Oregon. Another seal, said to be twice as large as tho ono rtcscrihed above, wns caught in one of the fish wheels of Winans Bros., cm the Washington side of tho river. It is seldom that seals follow their prey so far up the river. The Government of Spain has granted to two merchants in Angola, Africa, the exclu sive privilege for ten years, of exporting from the Province of Angola a new indus trial product invented by them and ex tracted from a common tubercule, which has not yet been scientifically classified for any industrial purpose. The product Is to be ap plied to the tanning of hides. An English paper offers an answer to a question often spoken: Tho Authors' So ciety is asking why the publishers don't cut the edges of their three-volume novels. Tho answer is simple. Nine-tenths of the public buy a book by its appearance, and "Pater noster Row" loves "a fat book." Now, if the edges wer cut. a thicker and moro expensive paper is needed to prodnce the same bulk than if the edges wero lelt uncut. A prominent official of the Reading Railrad addressed a porter on tho train as "John." Tho latter said: "I beg yo paw don, sail, bnt on this cyah, sah, it is etinuet to call me potab,' and that title, sah, I will answer to. You have not an acquaintance with me, sah, that warrants you calling me by my Christian name, sah, although if you really wish to know my name which is not John, sah I will be happy to give yon. my cahd, sah." The official was overcome. C. B. "Wian, of Albany, Ore., cap tured a peculiar looking moth the other day, and being somewhat of a naturalist himself, he sent it to Prof. F. L. Washbnrn. entomol ogist, at the State Agricultural College, at Corvallis. It was a beautiful specimen.resom bling in size a full-plumaged butterfly. The professor, In acknowledging the receipt of the specimen, said it was an American silk worm, telea polyphemus, which is not com mon enough in this country to bo of economic value. A curious mass of metal was iound in the heart of a bnrning pino stump in tho yard of.Mr. J. M. RIchey, 15 miles from Che welah. Ore. It is not often that metal of any kind is melted out of oid stumps of trees, but snch was the case when Mr. RIchoy see Are to this stump. He saw the melted lead, dripping down from the heart of the stamp, nnd the specimen now on exhibition was dug from the ashes. It is supposed that the tree had been used as a target some years ago by the Indians, and had been shocfaU oflcad. The neighbors of James Striebel, of Brownstown, Ind., are inclined to believa that ho is an object, even in his grave, of the divine vengeance. Striebel was killed by lightning last summer jnst after he had shouted out a blasphemous enrse at the ele ments. Ills friends buried him and erected, a stone monument nine feet high to hU memorv. A few ntahts aeo this monument was struck by a thunderbolt and shivered into pieces, nnd the superstitious peoplo ara mnch oxercised over tho circumstance. They must have an exalted opinion of tha power that rules the universe. Willie Carroll, of Augusta, Ga., was a page in the House of Representatives at Washington for four years. His salary was $75 a month. Lastycar he gave It up to learn electricity. Ho went to Augusta and started with the electric road there at $30 a month to learn the business. It was not six months beforo he was in charge of the operating dc- Eartment of tne road at a good salary. Ho as Jnst given that np to go to Chattanooga and take charge of the electric roads thero at a handsome salary. Ono year's.study of electricity, ina practical way, starting at tho bottom, has placed him in a position to earn a salary equal to thatf of a Judge of the Su perior Court. Wichita., Kan., hasn't as big a boom on now as it had two or three years ago, though it is still a bustling town of 30,000 in habitants. Among Its interesting features are its institutions of learning, which haven't much past or present, but a great future. There is Fairmount College, which the Congregationalists put np at a cost of $100,000. It hasn't any students yet. Wichita University wns built by the Lutherans at a cost of $100 0C0 and is in operation. Tha Presbyterians have a fine site for a college, but prudently refrain from building jnst yet. Garfield University is to be one of the big things of the West when finished. It will cover an acre and a half of land and will ac commodate 3,500 students. At present it accommodates a much smaller number, however. EFFORTS OF FUNNT 3IN. Blirkers It isn't safe to court two girls at the same time. Stoddart I should say notl I did that once, and one of 'em sued me for preachof promise! Blinkers And the other one sacked you, I sop pose? Stoddart No; she married mel Smith, Cray Co.'s UontMu. Mrs. Enpec Well, you can't say that I ever borrow trouble. Enpec No, I gKe you credit; It to the only thing yon arc never out of. Smith, Gray Co.'t ilanthly. Mrs. Hicks You shouldn't thwart a child's bent, Samuel. Hicks No, Maria: when yon have him bent, you should thwack him. Smith, Gray fc Co.'s Monthly. Our greediness shows itself soon In life, yea soon afterbirth. As Infants we cry for the moon. When older we sigh for the earth. Xeto Turk Press. Pipkin Joblots is' always howling be cause he can't raise the wind. It is a standing complaint. Potts Have you known him long ? Pipkin Yes; when he waa a batiy he howled for the same reason. Sew Tork liemlct. Leaflard But you painted my wife's mouth wide open I Van Daub Exactly. Yon particularly requested a speaking likeness. Seio Turk Telegram, '"So you mustered up courage. aud called upon her last night?" "I did." "Did she seem pleased?" "To tell the truth. I was so nenroos that I didn't notice, bnt I Kuess she was pleased for as I got up to go I saw that sho looked very happy." Sew Tork Press. South American General to his soldiers Now, my brave men, charge once more! Victory will be oars, and your country wiU owe 70a aa everlasting debt. Detroit tree Press, Drops of perspiration Through complexion flow. Leaving little chunklets That resemble dougb. Washington Post. That was very sad about Pimpleigh. He died of nicotine poisoning the other day." "Yes, so I heard. The doctors held an autopsy on the remains. They found his stomach and In testines lined with cigarette pictures." Siw fork TtJ'srrma, , f 4 .-X hsii,i '. i'J&&Sw, . J$iBkx& . Jti. ,- JB MHPHKnBHHIUl
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