THE PITTSBURG- DISPATCH, SATURDAY JULY 18,- . 1891
r
I1
i
Bigplrii.
w
ESTABLISHED FEBP.UARY 8. 1846.
Vol. 48, No. 1C1 Entered at rittslmrg Postofflce,
November 14, 1837, as frccond-class matter.
Business Office Corner Smithfield
and Diamond Streets.
News Rooms and Publishing House
78 and 80 Diamond Street, in
New Dispatch Building.
FALTERS" ADVERTISING OFFICE. ROOM H,
TU1HUNE BUILDING. NEW YOIlK, w htre com--lleto
flics orTHE DlsPAT CH can always be round.
Foreign advertisers appreciate the comriilence.
Heme advertisers and Mends or THE DISPATCH,
while in New York, arc also made welcome.
THE DTSPATCHi rtpvlarlv on Saleat JSrrnlann's,
f Union Xqxiart, Ann lurk, and 27 Av de V(pera,
Pant, Iranrr. ?ifrf anyimt vto has been amap
jxnnttdata hotel nncssbind can obtain it.
TEI13IS OF ME DISrATCH.
r0TAGE TRKE IV THE rTTE STVTFS.
IUTM Dispatch. Or.c Year t 8 to
Daily lnsi-ATm, Ptr Quarter 2 oo
Daily Distatch, One Month TO
Daily Disrvrcn. in-ludlrg Sunday. 1 rear . 10 00
Daily Diei-atcii. including Sunday, 3 m'ths 2 so
Daily- Dispatch. Including !-undav, 1 niHli.. SO
M'XBAY DlsHvn.II. One Y-ar. 2M
Weekly Dis r mcil. One 1 ear 1 Si
Tiif Daily DisrATCHl delivered bv carriers at
IStrats j.r week, or, including Sunday Edition, at
rrcrnts per v erk.
PITTSBURG, SATCKPAY. JULY 18, 18(1
TI1E NITRO-GLYCi:RINK PERIL.
The explosion of a wagon load of nitro
elycerine, stated to contain about two
hundred pounds, in the outskirts of Wash
ington the Lcs yesterday, show that the
.stories of fearful hazards incurred in haul
ing that explosive about the oil regions are
not efforts of the imaeination. Of course,
the unfortunate man who was driving the
earn was blown to atoms and two houses
in the immediate vicinity were wrecked;
hut further loss of life was by extraordi
nary ?ood fortune spared
When we reflect that the work of trans
porting this hazardous exploi e in wagons
is const.mtly going on all over the oil
legions the wonder is not that such ter
rible explosions occur, but that they are
not more f rr quenl. The work is an in
dustrial neees-ity: but the hazards it en
tails are shown by this accident to be so
great that urgent measure .should be
taken to diminish them. Those whose
work calls them to "be constantly con
. fronting such dangers become inured
to the risk, as we hae seen in the case of
mining disasters; and it is probable that
people who aie outside the danger can see
the need of earnest 'fforts to diminish the
risk more ele.uly than those w ho are eon
stanth under the peril of such calamities
as that of yesteniaj
It certainly does not need many more
explosions to percen e that the safety of
the whole community, as well as of indi
viduals, requires that whatever can be
done to lessen the hazards of nitro-ctycer-ine
transportation shall be done. Whether
this can be liet effected by lessening the
amount that can be carried in a single
load, or by providing new methods of car
riage in which the risk of explosion shall
be reduced to a minimum, are matters for
further discussion; but there is a positive
necessity that more complete safeguards
shall be sought after.
A C VMPAIfiN rOR ntOTECTION.
As The Dimwtcii has foreshadowed,
the lines in the Ohio campaign are drawn
clearly and without dissent on the issue of
Protection. Other questions may appear
in the platforms, but in the nomination of
the author of the McKinley bill the Re
publicans issued the challenge to a cam
paign squaiely on the Protection issue,
and in their nomination of Governor
Campbell, the utterances of theirplatform
and the speeches of their leaders, the
Democrats have accepted their challenge.
A campaign fought under these, circum
stances will be an interesting one. The
leaders on either side are creditable repre
sentatives of their respective policies, and
the result will be a fair index of the popu
lar sentiment. As Ohio is on national
issues a Republican State the chances
are considerably in favor of the
Republicans. The leadership of Maj'or
William McKipley, the national cham
pion of the radical and bold
protection policy, will aiouse the spirit of
the party, and there is every reason to ex
pect a vigorous campaign of the sort that
wins a decisive victory. But,it is no more
than fair and wise to recognize that the
acceptance of the issue by the Democrats
is no less bold and aggrssivc.
Of course, in a campaign where the in
disputed issue is the maintenance of pro
tection to home industries, the sympathies
of Pittsburg will be on the side of the
battle that is gallantly waged by Major
McKinley. The people of this city have
always been ready to show their admira
tion and appreciation of that able and un
wavering advocate of protection, and his
efforts and success in the present cam
paign will be watched and expected with
as much interest and hope here as any
where in Ohio.
The Ohio campaign will therefore be
one of engrossing interest to Pennsyl
vania this year, so much so that the elec
tion to fill comparatively unimportant
offices in our own State will be of slight
significance.
self-condemnatory: proposition.
A large business man of the Pacific coast,
where the sentiment in favor of the free
coinage of silver has been supposed to be
most unanimous excepting perhaps Colo
rado, Montana and the pocket State of
Nevada is quoted in a Xew York paper
as putting the issue in a different light, as
follows:
The people of this country do not want
free and unlimited coinage. I have been nil
over the country. East and West, within
three months, and almost nobody 'wants free
yilvor, although there is a large sentiment
for free coinage of American silver. This
money metal question solves itself. You
can pass a resolution after a race that the
slowest horse is a better nuinial than the
winner, but that does not make it so.
This idea of a protection against the im
portation of silver from abroad has cropped
out at different times before; but this is
the first time we have seen it put forward
as representing the demand of the silver
section. In itself it presents a marked
confession of weakness on the part of the
silver men, in their advocacy of that metal
as an unlimited coinage. When a nation
deliberately and of choice selects a specified
metal for coinage it is usually taken as a
matter of course that the more of that
coinage it gets the better off it is, as con
trolling the largest reserve of purchasing
power. The flow of that metal to the
country is regarded as a favorable sign in
the balances of international trade. But
this view of silver is exactly the opposite.
The practical condemnation of silver
presented by this proposition is made very
plain by comparing it with the attitude
toward gold. Xo one thinks of trying to
prevent foreign gold from coming to this
country. When it comes in to a large
amount we regard it as a source of
strength and sign of prosperity. When it
goes away again we are uncomfortable
and look for a remedy. The people who
propose free silver coinage with a barrier
against foreign silver, which they would
not erect against gold, practically confess
that silver is the inferior metal, which they
wish to have coined solely for the benefit
of the silver interests.
The position of the unlimited free silver
advocates is the most logical, and it is no
more harmful. Either proposition would
bring the country to the silver basis, and
when that was done foreign silver would
come in only to supply the coinage needs
that the native production could not
satisfy.
MR. ROBINSON'S LAST THUMP.
The attempt of Congressman-Senator
Robinson to have the Executive Committee
of the Republican Club League exclude all
new clubs from the coming convention
looks at first blush like scoring a decided
point in his favor. But full examination
of all the phases involved in that remark
able action invest, it rather with the char
acter of a last resource, to which a can
didate would only resort under the most
desperate circumstances.
In the first place, while the Executive
Committee under Mr. Robinson's leader
ship has undertaken to usurp the power of
deciding the qualifications of membership
in the League, it happens that the League
constitution contains very clear provisions
on that point. Mr. Robinson is rather un
fortunately noted for his superiority to
constitutional provisions of all sorts.; but
whether he can persuade the League as a
body to ignore the definition its own con
stitution provides is more than doubtful.
It is ev en more questionabl 1 that he ctn
induce the convention itself to surrender
on the edict of the Executive Committee
the right guaranteed in the constitution oi
being "the sole judge of the qualifications
of its own members."
Apart from the constitutional question,
it is obvious this step is one to which no
man could resort unless he were willing to
confess his greater anxiety to push per
sonal fortunes than to advance the inter
ests of the Republican party. Xo one
would, as Mr. Dalzell says in the interview
published, support the organization of
skeleton or mushroom clubs, and all such
cases as that which Mr. Dalzell cites at
Altoona, where five men organized a club
to send three Robinson delegates to the
convention, shouK be thrown out by that
body. But it is no test of the genuineness
of club organizations that is furnished by
the date of their birth. The purpose of
the Dalzell candidacy is to stimulate the
work of this legitimate organization by
giving the Western end of the State some
thing like commensurate representation
among the officers of the League. To
deny the right of legitimate organization
to that end indicates that the candidate
who takes that course regards his personal
fortunes as superior to the advancement
of party interests, and is not willing to
leave his chance; to the free expression of
the majority of organized clubs.
The whole proceeding savors too strong
ly of the rule or ruin polic to which Re
publican leaders in the Easterr part of the
State are prone. It is hardly to be con
ceh ed that the convention will be so crimi
nally foolish as to indorse that policy. If
it is, it will verj much weaken the useful
ness of the League in organizing the Re
publican forces of the State.
THE FOREIGN TRAVEL ACCOUNT.
There is quite a dispute pending in the
Xew York papers as to the amount of gold
taken out of the country by the annual
hegira to Europe. Matthew Marshall, of
the New York Sun, places it at 5100,000,
000, estimating the travel to be that of
100,000 people at Jl.OOO apiece. But the
Xew York Advertiser points out that this
is ?2,000 each for 50,000 people, and as it
considers the latter number a large esti
mate it believes the total of 100,000,000 an
extravagant estimate.
There seems to be no dispute, however,
that the sums taken out of the country by
foreign travel aggregate from 00,000,000
to 5100,000,000 yearly. Judged exclusively
in its economic bearing, it its evident that
the smaller sum is enough to turn the bal
ance of trade against us, or in other
words, if it w ere not spent in that way, to
keep the exchanges in our favor. But
can we expect people who are able
to travel to stay at home sim
ply to keep the coin in the
country? Are Ave to conclude even
that it would be better for the nation to
have these people deny themselves the
advantages of foreign travel for the sake
of keeping the balance of trade on the
right side of the international account?
The answer to these questions depends
of course on the amount of benefit that
accrues from a sojourn in foreign
lauds. If the travelers get 30,000,
000 worth of intellectual gain or moral or
physical recuperation from the expendi
ture of that sum abroad, the nation as a
whole cannot charge them with incivism.
But a competitive examination of the trav
elers on their return might make it a very
optimistic view to figure that foreign
travel pays its cost in actual improvement.
A WARLIKE VOTE.
The vote referred to as a Boulangist
victory in the French Chamber is hardly
to be taken as indorsing the long-since ex
ploded "brave General" It is more prob
ably an expression of the anti-German
feeling of the extremists and hotheads of
variousparties, who thus took the oppor
tunity of expressing their dissatisfaction
with the cautious and conservative course
of the Government
In that light the vote, if sustained, may
have consequences as serious, or more so,
than if it had been clearly to bring back
Boulanger to power along with those who
pulled the strings of that puppet It is an
outbreak of the same spirit as that which
hurried the Empire half prepared into the
war with Germany, and it shows scarcely
less discretion. It indicates that after
twenty years the sentiment of war for re
venge merely inspires a great share of the
political forces in France. It displays the
old inability to properly estimate the situa
tion and to await in peace the opportunity
to reopen the quarrel if the old quarrel
must be reopened at a time when there
will be a fair chance of success.
For although France is far better pre
pared for war than she was in 1870, the
odds againstherare greater than ever. The
very reports of England's closer relations
with the Triple Alliance, which have
doubtless produced much of the irritation
that found expression in this way, should
induce the French to act warily. Their
sole ally, Russia, is confessedly not fully
prepared for war; and even with Russia
the struggle against the united power of
the other four great Governments would
be a desperate one. Under such cases a
policy designed to provoke a quarrel
would be little short of insanity, and yet
this is what the majority in the Chamber
are insisting upon.
For the sake of France, as well as of Eu
rope, it is to be hoped the conflict will not
be rashly provoked. But, if they are bent
on fighting, it is a mitigation to this coun
try that we will have abundance of nro-
visions fo send to the belligerent Govern
ments to sustain their armies.
The Tennessee discoverers of Marsh in
the person of a bis man with an arsenal of
revolvers strapped around his waist evi
dently build their idea of Marsh on the Ten
nessee preconception. They will be sur
prised to learn that the real Marsh is as
mild a mannered man as over scuttled a
bank or ran away with tho public's money.
The accounts differ, but the latest reports
are that the scalers in Bering Sea have
found the occupation too hazardous andare
giving the seals a vacation. The modus
Vivendi seems to be demonstrating its right
to existence.
Tim statement, that Mr. Lafcadio Hearn
has written from Japan to a Now Orleans
friend saying that ho has accepted a college
professorship in that country, has married
a Japanese lady, and "has said goodby for
ever to Western civilization," must be taken
in the last respect as a bit of rhetorical
hyperbole. Wo cannot imagiue that Mr.
Hearn has taken a position in a college in
Japan to teach the Japanese Eastern civil
ization. Ifheisto have no more to do with
Western civilization his position in the
Japanese college should be that of a scholar
and not of a professor. We cdnclnde ho
still intends to teach Western civilization,
and retain the hope that he will not teach
the Louisiana variety.
The statement that Gregg is to be slated
as candidate for Auditor General in placo
of Mylin shows that the political powers
are beginning to have someslMit sense that
it is not well to pu t up a candidate w ho was
a member of tho Senate committee that
mutilated tho ballot reform bill.
It took twenty-five years to find out how
very important a person President Lincoln's
private secretary really was. No ono ever
imagined his importance while tho adminis
tration was under the great War President's
guidance.
Mr. .Tay Gould's announcement that he
is out 01 Wall street is calculated to awaken
unpleasant memories. The last time Mr.
Gould -n ent out of AVall street was shortly
before he and his allies w ere suddenly dis
covered to have got their clutches on two
transcontinental lines. The renewal of the
announcement is likely to inspire holders of
railway properties with a disposition to
take a lresh clutch on their stocks.
Pasteur claims that of 1,510 cases treated
for hydrophobia nt his institute only flvo
have died, and these were put under his
charge too late. This is certainly a very
good record, and seems to leave thoso who
sneered at the Pastcurdiscovery in the light
of chronic detractors.
Governor Him", can no longer complain
that Mr. Watterson has ignored his Presi
dental chances, but somehow there is no
reason to think ho will be better satisfied
now than ho was before.
Beerbohm, of London, says the accounts
of the failure of the Bussian wheat crop are
exaggerated, and estimates that Russia will
ship a little more than two-thirds the aver
age for the past four years. But even this
estimate is confirmatory of the prospect that
there it ill bo an increased demand for
American wheat this year, nnd that our
wheat growers ought to get good prices.
Delaware was the first State to ratify
the Constitution and is now the first to
select a site for her State building on the
World's Fair ground at Chicago. Delaware
may not be much for size, but she has a
liking for the front rank in the procession
on national occasions.
The Hon. Tom Watson, of Georgia, and
the Hon. William Johnson, of Ohio, seem to
have about equal strength as candidates for
Governor. We refrain from inquiries as to
who cast the one vote.
Ax announcement of the Rochester
Herald that General E. Burd Grubb will re
turn to this country and run for Governor
of Delaware is picked up by the Buffalo
Express, which remnrks'that General Grubb
lives in New Jersey. fUut, considering the
doubts as to where General Grubb really
does live, the paper which located him in
Delaware may be pardoned.
One of the burdens in the life of a census
superintendent is the necessity, after his re
ports are made up, of persuading ambitious
and Indignant cities that the figures are cor
rect. Mr. Porter is enaagod in that task at
present, and his efforts are far from being
crowned with success.
The sewer pipe manufacturers have come
to the conclusion that prices will not bear
another raise, -he drainage of the pockets
of the people who have to buy sewer pipe is
sufficiently deep already.
"Speculators forming corners to raise
the price of grain, or otherwise trading on
the growing necessities of tho people, will
bo punished and expoUed from this jurisdic
tion." This declaration from absolutist
Russia shows that sometimes a tyrannical
government can do what a popular govern
ment does not when the speculators do not
belong to the luling class.
Once more it is announced that the
American hog is to be admitted again to
France. With the Parisians getting a big
revenue from the bipedal variety, they
ought to give the four-footed hog a chance
to show what ho can do for them.
A CAVE of robbers has been discovered
on the Atlantic coast. Not Wall street;
another cave of robbers.
The complaints against Minister Doug
lass' way of living at Port au Prince have
taken definite shape in the form of a sea
captain who asserts that Mr. Douglass drovo
'about in a one-horse chaise and only offered
his visitors Jamaica rum. The bitter indig
nation of the hardy tar at not getting free
champagne is instructive as to the duty of
diplomatists.
WELL KNOWN AND P0PULAE.
President Diaz, of Mexico, is very ill.
He suffers from insomnia.
Carl Schurz sailed for Europe yester
day on the steamship Fuerst Itismarck. Mr.
nnd Mrs. Gustav Amberg were also passen
gers. Mrs. Logan has left the General's
library Just as it was when he last occupied
it, untouched, except by tho dust brush, and
unchanged. His arm chair still retains its
customary position, and hardly a paper has
been moved from his desk.
The Duke of Augustenburg, for whom it
is said his brother-in-law, tho German Em
peror, wishes to arrange a marriage with ono
of tho daughters of tho Prince of Wales, is
described as being "exceedingly proud and
arrogant, desperately stupid, and by no
means rich."
John W. Bookwalter, the millionaire
manufacturer of Springfield, O., has been
superintending arrangements for building
an agricultural village ou his Nebraska
tract, 60,000 acres. He is making arrange
ments for a tour of Eastern Russia. He be
lieves Russia will bo at war belore a great
vi hile, and ho wants to look ovor the country
before that time comes.
Baron Oscar von Redwitz-Schmeltz,
the German poet, whose death has just been
announced, was called in Germany "tho
modern Minnesinger." Ho was born at
Lichhenau on June 28, 1823, and in 1851 he be
came a professor at Vienna. Among his most
popular works are the religious epic, "Tales
of the Forest Brook and the Pine," and the
"Lay of theSew German Empire."
Rev. Sam Small, the evangelist, has de
cided to return to journalism. He went to
Atlanta two days ago and was cordially re
ceived by his old friends. A fund -nasat
once raised for the establishment of a daily
evening paper to be called the Atlanta Even
ing Herald, of which Mr. Small has accepted
tho managing editorship. The first issue
will appear to-day. The paper will take ad
Tronoed nrouad on all public questions.
FACTS AND FANCIES.
Gossip About lCIng Milan and How He
Spends His Exile In Paris Sir. Wana
makcr's Early Financiering Gold on a
Church Roof.
If one meets n rather fleshy man, with a
black, thin mustache, a dark brown skin, a
rough, unpleasant voico and "loud" man
ners, either in the Bois, in the loge of the
theater, or in a restaurant before a heavily
laden table, says the Berliner Post, his
identity is easily established. He is an
exotic parvenu 'or the ex-Klrig Milan of
Servia. One can find him at 5 o'clock in the
evening and nt 5 o'clock in tho morning
playing baccarat in his club or poker in the
Rue Royal.
In Paris King Milan leads tho life of a
wealthy foreigner who has retired from his
business or profession. Ono must acknowl
edge that there is little that is majestic in
his conduct. As a rule ho doesnot like to be
addressed as "majesty." Ho wishes to be
treated as Count de Takova, both in tho
club and in society.
His ex-Majesty lives in the neighborhood
of the Bois de Boulogne. Recently ho pur
chased u home there, after living several
months in furnished apartments in tho
Avcnuo d'Antin. It would, therefore, soem
that he does not expect to be recalled to
Servia by his former subjects. As a rule
this King loves the provisional and is op
posed to binding contracts. His honsohold
consists of a chamberlain and an adjutant.
They ofton leave him alone, honoer, as
Milan prefers to leave tho memories of his
lormer station in the vestibules of most of
the houses -n hich he visits.
But he bears the golden exile from his
country easily. He pretend to have nothing
to do with politics more than he should do.
He does not like to speak about the Queen
Natalie. When compelled to do so aguinst
his will ho speaks with an energy and in a
manner that proves that the founder of tho
Obrenovich dynasty was not born at the
foot of a throne. Still, ho loves his country
nnd takes pleasure in recounting the revo
lutions -which have nourished in Servia
during the last century. Docs ho do so be
came the Servians have leealled their exiled
princes more than once?
Milan lives In Paris as many Oriental mill
ionaires. He ti ishes to be the Parisian in
everything. He desires to be looked upon
as a leader of Parisian stj-le, as one who
understands all Parisian eccentricities. "A
good fellow," says his friends. His com
panions cannot be surprised that clubmen
have nicknamed him "Le Relstaquouere."
Ho Was Always a Xlnancier.
"Postmaster General Wanamaker is a very
clever man," said Merle Middleton, a w ell
knewn iron nnd steel broker of Philadel
phia, to a Chicago Herald reporter. "He has
been clever nil his life and made his first hit
when a mere lad. There is an incident told
about liim when he w as employed as office
boy for a large firm. He was sent out ono
duy to collect a bill from an establishment
which was considered unsound financially.
Tho debtors gaveyoung Wanamaker a check
for $73. Ho went to the bank to get tho
money and was told that there were not
enough funds to meet tho demands of the
paper.
" If we cashed this check," said the teller,
'the firm's account would be overdrawn.
We do not care to do that.'
" 'How much does it lack?" asked the lad.
" 'Just $2 75.'
" 'Here is $2 75,' spoke up tho boy immedi
ately. 'Put that to the firm's credit. Then
cash this check.'
"The money was obtained," concluded Mr.
Mlddleton, "and the boy mado a big lilt, for
the firm failed next day."
A Dude and a Robber.
Beyond question tho bluejay Is the pret
tiest of American cone-bills. As his name
Indicates, blue is the predominant color of
his plumage, and It runs through all Its most
beautiful shades along his back and tail
until it merges into silver white on his
breast. He has a heavy pointed crest of
dark, yet j ellow feathers raised above his
head: his eyes are large, fierce and radiant,
and his bill Is short and strong. He Is some
what larger than the black-faced redblrd of
the South, which he resemble . very closely
in shape and in the i ay he IlieH.
Like somo persons says the New York
World, the beauty of the bluejay is his only
attraction His habits aro singular, and lie,
does not walk In the ways of righteousness
nor in the paths of peace.
He is a regular dude, a smart, disagreeable
tattler, an overbearing bully, a murderer, a
robber and a petty sneak thief all com
bined. Yet he seems to bo supremely happy
all the time, perhaps it Is because he has no
conscience.
It may have been these vicious traits of
the bluejay that gave rise to a 'curious
leirend among the colored people of the
South that this bird owes to the devil one
day's work in each week, and that at pre
cisely 1:01 o'clock every Friday morning all
the jaj-blrds start for the lower regions to
render the service duo to their master.
A Gold Mine on a Roof.
Three thousand dollars for an old tin roof
would be n pretty steep price, but tho man
wbo gets the battered roof from tho old
Tabernacle Church, at Broad street and
South Penn square, which is now being torn
away, says the Philadelphia Record, for that
sum will bo in great luck. Somo years ago
tho paint was scraped off the old roof and
yielded $5,000 in fine gold. It Is almost cer
tain to yield as much this time. The gold
comes from the Mint.
When gold is being coined a considerable
quantity of it volatilizes with the smoke
through the chimney, and as soon as it
strikes tho air it falls. Much of it falls on the
roof of tho Mint; so much of It that the
officials save even he water that falls upon
It during n shower. All the drains from the
roof aie connected with large vats in the
cellar of the Mint. Before the water finally
gets to tho sewer it is strained through
many blankets and sieves which retain tho
gold.
Notwithstanding all these precautions, tho
gold that is annually washed into the Dela
ware from the Mint is w orth thousands of
dollais. Every particle of dirt swept up
about the Mint is caiefully stored away with
tho washings from the loof, and onco every
year it is sold to the highest bidder, as ft
cannot be used at the Mint.
Both In the War Again.
Treasurer Harry Sommers of MoVlckor's
comes of a clever family. He is closely re
lated to a young lady who is a bright young
author in fiction. But this is neither here
nor there. He told the following story the
other day, says the Chicago Tribune and al
though the reader is put on guard hero goes
the novelette:
"Georgo Sanaway, who has charge of the
drilling of tho supers employed In tho pro
duction of the 'Soudan' at McVicker's, and
actually served all through the war which is
commemorated in the play, tho other day
while putting a squad of new recruits
through their part hoard a shout of amaze
ment, and ono of the men rushed forward
with outstretched band.
'"Sanny, oIdboy."hecricd,don'tyouknow
mo? Don't you know Billy Baldwin, your
comrado in the Soudan?'
"The drill was postponed for a fow moments
until the reunltedold friends could exchange
greetings. Baldwin is a resident of Chicago
and an ironworker bj- trade, but at present
out of employment owing to the strike. Ho
went on as a super more from the curiosity
of the thing than anything else.
"'Do you know,' he remarked afterward
while talking over old times -with Sanaway,
'I really believe that I will be more light
ened when it comes to charge an enemy in
fun than in deadly earnest? Yes, Satmy, old
boy, I'm much atrald that the batteries of
eyes In the theater will cause me to do what
I never did in battle.'
" 'And that is?' queried the drill-master,
smilingly.
" 'To turn around and run, Sanny,' was the
reply. 'I'll retreat at full speed to the alley,
mark my words.' "
Dolmonlco's Ancient Currency.
One of the curiosities which old Now York
ers cherish and which, in the very nature of
things, could scarcely find its way to any
public exhibition, says the Adcertiser, is the
curious scrip which tho Delmonicos issued
during war times. This currency, for such
it was, "good for" its face value "in trade,"
at No. 2 South William street, New York,
was printed on white banknote paper, and,
except in size, resembled somewhat the
Bank of England notes. Each noto was
about five inches long and nearly three
inches wide. The picturo of the four-story
and a half Dolmonico building, with the
Pompeilan pillars, adorned its center piece,
flanked on oach side by the denomination
of the particular 1-sue in figures,
and below came tho denomination
printed out in words and the name of the
head of tho house. People who had not
been at No. 2 William street since the old
days when the elder generation were on
deck, reproduced from their aged wallets
and secret drawers a lot of this sorlp last
neck and Drought it in. It was handed
around as a curiosity. Most of it bore date
in July, 1S62.
ADVICE TO A YOUNG MAT?
ATI10 Is About to Start Out to Slake His
Way In Life.
Chicago Globe.
James , tho graduate of a Chicago
High School, recently wrote to the Daily
Globe, expressing himself as anxious to
achieve success in life and asking for advice
as to how to begin. Ho waslnformod that it
all depended upon what ho considered suc
cess, and that his communication w as not
explicit enough in reference to his tastes
and qualifications to make a satisfactory
answer possible. Ho replies as follows:
Editor Daily Glode-1 find It difficult to com
ply with your suggestion to give an account of my
attainments. I hare received as good an education
as the public schools of Chicago afford, but have no
particular bent. I cannot say that I prefer any
particular profession, but feel sure, If I could make
up my mind which would suit me best, that I would
succeed In It, as I think I have energy enough to
carry out what I have begun. James ,
It Is unfortunate that the necessity that
all children should receive a general educa
tion makes it impossible that boys cannot
be trained in tho direction of their individ
ual talents. This is an age of specialties
but education in any particular branch in,
volvcs a gteat sacrifice of time and money,
nud the boy who Is compelled to go to work
as soon as he leaves school Is at a disadvan
tage from tho start. James' case is similar
to scores of others. The peculiar genius of
some men for certain callings frequently
doe not come to light for many years after
they have reached manhood. Washington
never realized that he was a statesman until
his life was ncailj over; General Grant, at
the outbreak of the Civil War, never
thought for a moment that he was capable
of being a great military leader.
Our advice to James is to study himself
long and carefully. If he has any taste for
debate or logic the law might bo the proper
profession lor him to enter. If he loves
nature and scientific research a broad field
will be opened for him by diligent study
nnd self-sacrifice. If he has business talents
a thousand opportunities may bo found for
an enterprising young man. Discourugo
incnt may await him and he may chooso the
wrong path and be obliged to begin all over
again, but this should not deter him. Many
men havo not begun life until they were
past 40. Only a steadfast adherence to pur
poso and the severest criticism of his own
acts w ill aid him in the struggle.
Above all, he should not murmur at the
necessity which compels him to begin "at
the lowest round." Men never enter into
the high places but by the most laborious
preparation. Earnest endeavor and a de
termination to do everything thoioughly
which comes to his hand aro the best quali
fications he can havo. And after all, he
should remember that many achieve suc
cess without realizing it, and that all at
tainment is only relative. If he fails in
somo of the high idenls of his youth he
should try to learn the lesson that
No endeavor Is In 1 ain.
Our reward Is In the doing.
And the rapture of pursuing
Is the prize the vanquished gain.
BETTEB THAN A SHIBT.
Curious Shrub From Australia Which
Wears Buttons All the Year Round.
Chicago HcraliJ
"That," said the gardener to a distin
guished member of the Clover Club, as the
latter named gentlemen were being shown
tho beauties of Garfield Park, "that Is the
fire bush. It comes from Australia, but
grows here readily. Notice tho curious little
red disks with black dots in tho center.
Thoy are called buttons. The buttons stay
on the fire bush all the year round."
"I wish I could wear a fire bush for a
shirt," sadly remarked one of the Quakers.
Put Somo One on Guard.
Chicago Tlmcs.3
Secretary Foster Is writing signed edi
torials for a New York newspaper. Can it be
that the bllllon-dollar Congress left the
Treasury so impoverished that the Secretary
has to eke out a living by doing literary
work on the side ?
DEATHS HEBE AND ELSEWHEBE.
Samuel Boyd.
Samuel Boyd, of Sewickley, died rather
suddenly last evening at Point Chautauqua, of
heart trouble. Mrs. Boyd was at her husband's
bedside at the time and telegraphed tin sad Intelli
gence to Pittsburg. Mr. Bod was one of the
oldest and most respected business men of Pitts
burg. He was born In Washington county 70 years
ago and came to Pittsburg in the year 1845, immediately-
after the great are. He was engaged In a
number of buHtucss enterprises with abllltr and
success. In 1805 he founded the art Arm ofS. Boyd
& Co., and was identified with it until about one
vear ago, when he sold his interest to his nephew,
Mr. J. B. Xevln, in consequence of heart trouble,
and retired from actlc business. The old firm
name has been continued since. Mr. Boyd leaves
his wife, one brother, Mr. David I. Boyd, of Den
ver, and four sister". Mrs. JIarv Ii. Ncvin, of
Oakmont;Mrs. Anna JlcConnlcV. of Oregon; Mrs.
Joseph Ncvin. of Beaver county, and Mrs. Mar
garet Rohb, of Weat Virginia. Ills remains will
be interred In his lot In the Unlondale Cemetery.
Mrs. Hannah Pool George.
Mrs. Hannah Pool George, a notable
woman, died at the Home of the Ilomelcss at Os
wego, N. Y., Monday, aged 81 years. She was a
native of Camden, of Scotch parentage, and was
hlghlv educated. Her husband, Matthew George,
was deeply engaged as an officer of the rebels In
what Is known as the Patriot AVar of 1838, and was
taken prisoner hv the royal troops at the battle
fought at Windmill Tolnt, opposite Ogdensburg.
He wa- afterward tried as a rebel and executed
with three comrades at Kingston. After her hus
band's death Mrs. George came to Osw ego and be
came for many years a member of the household of
her brother, the late Dr. Augustus rool, 3 dis
tinguished phjslclan. Since his death and that of
hi r only child, a daughter, she has been an inmate
of the home.
George W. KarkendelL
George W. Karkendell, a prominent resi
dent of Wllkesbarre, died Thursday, aged 58 J cars.
He has been a resident of that city for 30 years.
Mr. Karkendell was at ouc time County Recorder,
and alter leaving that office lie engaged In the real
estate business until 1881, when he became a mem
ber of the commission linn of Karkendell Brothers,
lie was prominently Identified witli the Masonic
order, and was an ex-Councilman of Ills city.
Mifflin Lorenie.
William Lorenze, one of the oldest citi
zens or Upshur county, W. Va,, dlied yesterday at
Buckhannon. 3lr. Lorenze was known throughout
the State, liaUug been a leading Democrat, and
was Clerk of the County Court 01 Upshur county
j ears ago. He has been dying for months with a
cancer In his race. His remains will be burled Sat
urday by the Masons, of which ordenrlie was a
member.
John G. Mlnehart,
John G. Jlinehart, of Bridgeport, Pa.,
went out skiff ri'ding Thursday night at that place.
On his return he stood up Just as his boat touched
the shore and he fell hack in the skiff dead from
heart disease. HewasC" j ears of age and has for
many cars conducted a tailoring establishment at
Bridgeport. In the early slxtUs he was President
of the Union League.
Obituary Notes.
JOHN Blaxey, the veteran boat builder of Cam
bridge, Mass.. died Thursday.
Madame de Bonnejiaix, well known In connec
tion with the Boulauger scandals, died Thursday
evening In Paris.
JONAS Klizeh, a trainer of prominence on the
Western turf, died suddenly in Lexington, Ky.,
Thursday, aged about 60.
GEXEKAL Thomas Browx, -k ho for so many
yc'ars represented the "Burnt District" in Con
gress, died at Martins; Ule, Ind., jesterday.
Rensselaer T. Goldsmith, President of the
Southold Savlugs Bank, Southold, L. I., died
Thursday afternoon, at his residence, nearPeconlc,
L.I.
Edoar MARVIN. United States Vice Consul at
Victoria, B. C, died there Wednesday evening,
aged 67. He wasanathc of New York, and went
to Victoria in 1862.
GEORGE BAILEV, a prominent Democratic poli
tician of Somerset county, died Wednesday In his
51st year. He was County Surrogate for three
terms, retiring from office in 18S5.
General Benjajiin Franklin Kelley, who
raised the first regiment of loyal troops south of
Mason and Dixon's line during the Civil War,
died at Thursday night at his home near Oakland,
Md.
Colonel L. H. Ferrell, one of the six men In
Louisville who voted for Abraham Lincoln in I860,
died at Louisville Thursday. He served gallantly
through the war. He was 62 years old and death
n as caused by heart disease.
William Crowley, known In the baseball
world as "Jockey" Crowley, died Thursday at
Gloucester, N. J. He was one of the early players
with the Athletics, of Philadelphia, the Bostons
and the Buffalos. He was 48 years old.
BALril BENNETT, who died in Manheim, Pa.,
Wednesday, was noted throughout Southern
Pennsylvania as the best horse trainer In that sec
tion. He trained more winners than any
other man In the State. He was S3 years old.
Alexander Fraber, a well-known citizen of
Baltimore county and prominent among florists and
gardeners of Maryland, died Thursday night at the
Johns Hopkins Hospital, In Baltimore. Mr. Frascr
was reported to be the best grape grower In Mary
land lie always took the nrst prize at every exhi
bition of the fruit he participated In.
MRS. Thomas NiCKEHSON, wife or the former
President and the builder of the Mexican Central
and Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe systems, died
suddenly Thursdav In Newton, Mass. She was a
woman of great force of character, and followed
her husband's enterprises with active church and
educational work. To this end, late in life, she
gave much time to the practical study of the Span
ish language.
A PERPETUAL CHORUS.
Sweet Harmony Pills the Temples and
Groves of Chautanqna Lectures on
Rossini, Education and History Sirs..
Ewlng Gives a Talk on Eggs.
srECiAL telegram to the dispatch.
CnuiTArQUA, July 17. There is music
everywhere at Chautauqua, Thobirdscarol
It early in the morning; later the chimes
ring out their notes on tho air; next tho
swelling strains from tho grand organ take
up the refrain at tho chapel exercises, and
when the sun mounts to his meridian splen
dor, the wholo grove seems to break forth
into a symphony of song, a sort of "crea
tion" chorus, haying a verisimilitude to
Hayden's great masterpiece. During the
day musical recitals, choir rehearsals, solo
singing fill tho air with melody, and when
twilight comes over tho camp the beautiful
vesper service may be heard floating on the
breeze and banishing the thoughts of a day.
The Chautauqua programme opened to
day with a delightful lecture recital by Mr.
Flagler in tho amphitheater. His subject
was "The Great Composer Rossini," whom
he said excelled In Ave things, namely,
'fecundity, novelty, song, expression and
leirning. Mr. Flagler played a number of
Rossini's pieces on the big organ in most ex
quisite style, among others, Somiramide,
lancredi and tho overture to William Tell.
At 2:30 Dr. W. T. Harris, United States Com
missioner of Education, entertained a large
audience In the Hall of Philosophy on "The
Philosophy of Education," and at 4 o'clock,
in the samo place. Prof. John Bich McMus
ter, of Philadelphia, lectin ed on "The Strug
gle for Free Trade and Sailors Bights." The
C. L. X C. Hound Table came oft" at 5 r. M.,
and in the evening Miss May Donnelly, of
Chicago, now Mrs. Prof. Kelso, gave a de
lightful reading. The Apollo Quartette, of
Boston, also entertained the big audience by
a number of choice selections.
A Lertnre on Eggs.
Mrs. Swing's lecture to-day was on "Eggs,
and Omelets." These lectures havo be
come so interesting that tho male portion of
tho Assembly nre turning out with spoons
and nankins to hear them. Tho speaker to
day told how to make "picnic eggs," to bo
eaten with the proverbial picnic lemonade
and picnic pies. The eggs are first bard
boiled, then cut lengthwise, and tho yolk
taken out nnd seasoned. It is then put
back, the egg glued together by albumen
from a raw egg, and tho wholo cplled in
minced chicken. "When a young man asks
who laid such eggs," said Mrs. Ewlng to the
young ladies, "you must give a polite answer
and say they are cooking school goods.-'
The business educators' convention con
tinued their sessions to-dny. These
wcie tho papers read: "Penmanship
in Advanced Department of a Business Col
lege," lesson by A. P. Root, Philadelphia:
"Correspondence and How to Interest the
Class in Penmanship," T. J. Risinger, Utica,
N. Y.; "English in the Business Practice De-
Eartment," W. C. Kamsdell, Wilmington,
iel.; address by Dr. W. T. Harris, United
States Commissioner of Education, "The
Philosophy of Education," Chautauqua
course: "Practical Measurements," lesson
by C. M. Mcgarger, Ottawa, Canada, book
keeping, financial statements and closing
accounts.
Commissioner Harris' lecture was listened
to with great interest. He said In substance
that education is made possible by the fact
that man can develop himself In three direc
tions by means of ideas. Religion says that
man is in the image of God, and this gives
him susceptibility to education. Tho plant
can be cultivated and the animal can be
trained, but man alone can be educated.
Three Kinds of Piety InvoUod.
There are three kinds of piety involved in
this education into tho Divine image, name
ly, the piety of the heart, tho piety of the in
tellect and the piety of the will. We must be
ablo to know the Divine as well as to love It.
We must be able to rcalizo It, too. Education
covers the whole of human life. We see there
is very littlo progress beyond first instincts
in the animal. All institutions educate, the
family gives the child his bundle of personal
habits, and the college his vocabulary of
language. Society teaches the individual
how to specialize his work and co-operate
with his fellows In producing industry.
The State educates constantly by Its pres
ence In the mind of the individual, as a sort
of higher self. To belong to a nation like
Great Britain, whose flag waves under every
sun, or to the Roman, which protected all of
its citizens, or to our own ation, with its
great size and population, is a perpetual
consciousness of strength, which adds
silently to tho character throughout life.
The church educates by defining the Divine
ideal and teaching that habit of mind which
refers all actions to an ultimate standard of
right. The school re-enforces these insti
tutions, but it especially furnishes a sort of
transition from the education ot tho family
to that of civil society. Hence arise tho
different grades of schools, from the kinder
garden, which most lesombles the family
nurture, up to the university, which trains
the individual for his special vocation in
civil society. Elementary education deals
with data, rather than their relations. It
deals, too, with instruments of knowledge,
like letters and figures, rather than with tho
substance of knowledge, but secondary in
struction (that of the high and preparatory
schools) deals more with relations and
forces than with things, but the college edu
cation tries to teach the unity of human
knowledge.
Defects in College Education.
The college education, however, ia de
fective in that the student has as yet only a
hearsay knowledge of tho branches which it
attempts to unite into a system. Hence, the
university instruction, which adopts the
method of investigation and causes tho
student to do original work In the labora
tory and seminary, Is needed to complete
the list of schools. The speaker deprecated
the present tendency to disparage college
work. He held that it would not do to base
specialization directly upon secondary edu
cation. Pror. McMaster's lecture to-day was in
tensely interesting. He began with the ac
count of tho origin of tho impressment of
American seamen and the exercise of the
right of search by Great Britain. Ho then
gave a list of tho most notorious cases from
1S04 down. Ho next showed how, when the
United States attempted to 1 etaliato for tho
Chcseapeake and Leopard nffair, she found
it impossible to enforce the total non-Intercourse
act for three reasons: First, because
the revenue derived from the English im
ports was over $5,000,000; second, because
the exports to England wero over $20,000 000,
and third, because all tho cotton cloth used
in the North was made in England, and non
lntercouso meant no shirts.
Prof. Francis Thorpe, of the University or
Pennsylvania, has just arrived here and will
follow Prof. McMaster. The latter has been
discussing the institutional side of Ameri
can history. Prof. Thorpe will take up tho
constitutional side. Dr. Anderson, head of
the department of physical culture, gave a
blgieception to his students to-night. Mrs.
Emma Ewlng also gave an "ideal dinner" to
her class. The menu was elaborate, and the
cooking could not have been improved on.
SHE'S ON THE INSIDE.
A Relative of the Blaines Has the Best As
signment at Bar Harbor.
rSPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.
BarHarror, July 17. The sensation of
the hour is tho political situation at Bar
Harbor. It has taken on a new color and
has developed many new features within
tho past few days. The conflicting reports
sont from Bar Harbor by somo unknown
correspondent have at last been unearthed
and the creator of them brought to light. It
is a young girl only 19 years of ago, a rel
ative of Mrs. Blaine nnd an Inmate of Stan
wood. Her name is Magherita Arlinn Ha mm. She
is of French and Spanish descent. Her
grandfather was General Pierre Hamm, ot
Canada, so long a leader of tho Liberal
party, and her mother w as a cousin of Mrs.
Blaine's. She is very pretty and highly ac
complished. She has been abroad some tlmo
writing for London nnd French journals.
She was takan up by Whitelaw Reid and re
vealed the first interview with Blaino In
last Sunday's Tribune. Sho is taken up by
the best society here, but has evidently
been working through the press for Mr.
Blaine.
She represented 30 newspapers here on
two sides of the question, and has been tho
only inmato of the Blaino household to
give reporters any news. Tho Now York
Herald man tried to gt an interview with
her to-day and was refused. She has held
the situation right in the palm of her hand,
and has the inside political clew. The
Marquis Imperall has been paying her con
siderable attention, nnd she has been very
much admired here. She has been the ter
ror of the correspondents and has reaped a
regular harvest since she arrived.
Her paragraphs on Blaino have been
widely copied, and she Is surrounded by
newspaper correspondents every hour in
the day vainly trying to get an Inkling of
the situation.
' THE ENGLIIH CHTJBCH.
A Report Showing the Position It Occu
pies in the Nation.
Boston Herald.
The Ecclesiastical Commissioners of Eng
land havo published tho full returns of tho
property and revenues of the English
Church, nnd the statement is interesting be-,
cause it shows, so far as figures can tell the
truth, tho position which the Church of Eng
land occupies in the nation. The gross ag
gregate income amounts to X3,733,5J7, of
which X5,4R,171 is derived from ancient en
dowments, and jea4,386 from private bene
factions since 1703. The income from
lands, tithes and other sources of
the episcopal sees produces a gross
total of about jCD9,000. The cathedral nnd
collegiato churches havo an income of 192,
460, tho whole of It from ancient endow
ments. Tho holders of ecclesiastical bene
fices' receive the gross income of nearly
jE4 OOO.OOO from the ancient endowments, and
jE272.ri0j from private benefactions since 1703.
Tho Ecclesiastical Commissioners have XI,
247,827, out of which they nre obltecd to pay
950,000 yearly. Of this sum 337,000 is paid
to incumbents as augmentation grants, the
remainder going to bishops, cathedrals ahd
archbishops.
In 1832 there wero 10,718 parochial cures,
with an income from all sources of 3 211,139.
The number of the cures now is 13,979, with a
gross income of 4,213,022. The increase ot
income is much larger than tho proportion
ate Increase of cures. Not ex jtly the same
kind of returns is now in u s 2 which was cm
ployed in 1832, so that anything' like an exact
estimate of the financial condition of the
Church of England is not vo'sible. These
estimates do not take iJi-.o account thp
enormous sums that havo been raised
and spent on church building and church
restorations and repairs. Large wms have
been recently expended on sx newly
founded bishoprics, nnd the recen. addition
of suffragan bishops has compelled ;o rais
ing of great sums of money as private bene
factions for their support. The returns say
nothing about curates. Tho salaries of
these assistants are usually paid by the
clergy themselves, nnd it is a common say
ing thnt the gifts of tm clergy to the church
nre larger in am? .at than what they receive
from it. The gloss incogs ..'f the English
church represents a capi-il :--n of $200,000,
000. The report of the commissioners shows
that the giving habits of the people of the
Church of Englnnd have greatly improved
in recent years The increase in income has
not been through the ancient endowments,
but through the increase ot private benefac
tions. The energies of individual church
men and theirs oluntary offerings account
for tho extension of the usefulness of the
Church of England at the present day.
There has been no incrcaso in the ancient
endowments. In the absence of a religious
census, which the nonconformists are un
willing to allow, this statement of the re
turns of the pioperty and revenues of the
Church of England is cxccedingly
useful as an aid to an Impcrtect
understanding of its position. There aro
no statistics to show the proportion which
the members of the church bear to the en
tire population of the country, but these
financial returns indicate that the activity
in the church, and the w illingness to con
tribute money, have never before been so
great as they are now. Only the other day
the fact was stated that the English Church
has greatly Increased Its control of secular
education, during the last 20 years, and it has
done this through the benefactions of pri
vate parties. The importance of this state
ment is that it postpones tho threatened
efforts for disestablishment indefinitely. So
long as the English Church maintains itself
as an active moral force at the point of its
present usefulness, Its disestablishment is
out of the question.
CAMPBELL'S BUSINESS ENTEBPBISES.
It Is Said That lie Has Several Schemes for
Getting Rich.
Cincinnati Times-Star.
"Well, well, well:" said ex-United States
District Attorney William B. Burnet yester
day afternoon when he asked for Neal news
of a T,mes,-Star reporter and got a 508 7-16
carat item instead. "Campbell did have it
figured down mighty fine, for that is about
what he said ho would do. Yes, I was for
Neal, and was two years ago. I do not think
that Campbell is sufficiently In line with his
party on the tariff, and he never voted right
until tho last Congress."
"You know a good deal about Campbell.
How much is true about his ventures in
Wall street and his bankruptcy and all
thatt"
"Well, Campbell goes to New York a good
deal. And there has been a good deal of
talk aboat his Wall street speculations, and
it is my opinion and belief that Campbell is
not bothering about Wall street. O, he may
be willing to pick up a good venture when
he sees a chance, but that he gambles in
Wall street I regard in all poppycock. Now,
let me tell you, I happen to know personally
of two or three ventures or inventions that
Governor Cnmpbell Is interested in, and his
frequent journeyings to the East are no
doubt to enlist capital In their favor.
"I happen to know that he Is interested in
an Invention for transmitting telegraph
messages in opposite directions over the
same wire, and at the same time. I was at
Willard's Hotel in Washington when 16
messages were sent over the wire to New
York, and at the same time 16messoges were
coming from New York. I was also at
tho New York end' when the
same experiment was successfully tried.
Then he is or was interested in a certain
kind of gun that will shoot oh, I guess, a
hundred cartridges in a minute. The stock
is hollow and forms a chamber for holding
the cartridges. 1 saw them shoot it at a test,
and it was a terror. I happen to know about
these things because I saw them myself.
But I never believed the stories about his
Wall street speculations. There is one
thing I can say for Campbell that speaks
w ell for him, and he did what not one 111 ten
thousand would do, or ever havo done. He
gave up bis pension. You know he was
wounded in the war, and I am told never got
a pension until somo friends interested
themselves and got it for him. But Jnat as
soon as he got so his wound did not bother
him, or tint he didn't actually need it, he
returned it, and at a time when he needed
it, too, I am told. I have always admire'd
him for that. But hp was not my man. Oh,
of course, all good Democrats will voto for
him."
PEOPLE WHO TKAVEL.
Brigade Inspector Prank "W. Patterson,
Commissary General Walter Greenland and
Brigado Quartermaster A. J. Logan went to
Philadelphia last night. The First and
Third Brigades of the N. G. P. go into camp
to-day.
Dr. 31. J. E. Moore anil wife, of 4G Arch
street. Allegheny, nnd E. V. Babcock and
wife, 30 Stockton avenue, Allegheny, leave
to-day for a two weeks' trip in Northern New
York and Thousand Islands.
Misses Jessie McCullough and Rh ea Scy
ple and Mrs. M. A. Turner will leave to-day
tor a two weeks' visit at Ebensburg.
Key. James Tracy, rector of St. Patrick's
Church, Dixon, 111., a former Pittsburg resi
dent, Is visiting friends here.
Mrs. Samuel Mather, of Cleveland, has
given $73,000 to the Woman's College of AVest
ern Reservo at Cleveland.
"W. H. Denniston, a brother ci Major
Denniston, left on the limited last night for
Laramie, Wyo.
Captain D. C. Herbst and Mrs. Herbst
left last evening on a visit to their daughter
at Asbuiy Park.
Hon. Upton H. "White, of Salesbury,
registered at the Monongahcla last even
ing. United States District Attorney "Walter
Lyon and S. S. Marivn went East last night.
J. J. Hoblitell, the Meyersdale brick
manufacturer, is at the Monongahela.
"W. S. Sewell, the lawyer, was a passenger
Eastward last evening.
John "W. Herron returned yesterday from
Europe.
THE TENNIS QUEEN.
Now the blossoms all are going.
Soon the roses will be blowing.
Indications that the summer time is here, here,
here, m
And the wandering wind caresses.
Lover-like, the loosened tresses
Of the ttnnls-playlng summer girl so dear, dear,
dear.
O, we all of us adore her.
We would bend the knee before her
In loyal admiration of her grace, grace, grace;
For we love her, lithe and lissome.
To her finger tips we'd kiss "cm
If we didn't feel she would surely slap our face,
faco face!
She Is charming lnhcr natty
Tennis suit; all the bcati
Tndcs seem weak to that young man on whom
she smiles, smiles, smiles.
Exercise Is her cosmetic.
She delights In sporU athletic.
And at ulght she ofu dances thirty miles, miles,
miles.
O, we all of us adore her
Aud we'd bend the knee before her
Ifwe didn't feel convinced that we'd get hurt,
hurt, hurt;
For with her entrancing beauty
She has little sense of duty
She's a conscienceless, unmitigated flirt, flirt,
flirt.
Chicago Tribune,
CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS.
!New York boasts of 3,200 Smiths, 253
of whom were christened John.
The largest bav in the world i3 Hudson'
Bay, which measures 830 miles north and
south by 600 miles in width.
Brooklyn physicians are being swin
dled by a rogue who calls in their absence
and pays fictitious bills with bogus checks,
receiving the change in cash.
The wealth of the United States amounts
to $62,500,000,000, distributed among 13,000,000
families. There are 133,000 families who
have an average wealth of $1S5,000.
Dr. Adam Clarke's celebrated grace
when a roast pig was set before him: "Oh,
Lord, if thou canst bless under the gospel
what thou didst curse under the law, bless
the pig."
One of the oldest ways of getting a liv
ing is pursued by the salonniers of Paris,
who make a profession of tying gentlemen's
cravats. An expert artist in this line can
am $10 an evening, it is said.
Timothy Xcllis, a carpenter employed
on the Globo Hotel, Watertown, N.Y., fell
from the fifth story to the cellar, throngh
the skylight, and was picked up without a
broken bone or any apparent ill effects.
Herman, the famous sleeper of Xorth
ern Mlnnesotn, awoke July 5, after a nap of
two years. When he last awoke he had been
unconscious for 13 years. The doctors
think he will die In one of these sleeping
fits.
Captain Jack Leathers, an old and hon
orable citizen of Kenton county, Ky., was
born in Bourbon county, lived in Campbell
county and died In Kenton county, and he
lived all his life on the farm on which he
died.
At Asheville, X. C, somebody gave
poisoned beef to a valuable shepherd dog
belonging to Captain J. C. McCape, and the
animal died. The owner, who prized his
pet very much, gave a public burial. Sev
eral stores were closed.
A cubic foot of aluminum weighs 157
pounds. A cubic foot of copper weighs 358
pounds. A sheet of nluminnm, 12 inches
square and 1 inch thick, weighs 14 pounds.
A bar of aluminum 1 inch square and 13
inches thick, will weign 1.17 pounds.
E. M. Haskell was buried in North
fleld, Minn., 23 years ago. When his body
was exhumed recently a beard 23 inches lonsy
was found growing from his face. Tho
Scientific American has invested the case and
vouches for the truth of tho statement.
An old table in the waiting room of the
Philadelphia, AVilmlngton and Baltimore
depot at Wilmington possesses a peculiar
interest for people fond of relics. It is tho
table on which the body of President Lin
coin rested while being conveyed to Spring
field, 111., for burial.
The recent count of the money in the
United Treasury shows that there are 4,500
tons of coin in the vaults of the Treasury
building. A statistician estimates that if a
band of burglars broke Into tho building it
would require 90,000 men of average strength
to carry this money a distance ot 50 feet.
The substitution of camel's hair, cotton,
paint and chemicals for leather in ma
chinery belting is said to bo meeting with
some success in this country. It was flrss
Invented in England, and it" is claimed for
the new material that it is stronger than
other belting, more durable, more efficient,
and as low priced.
A deed of adoption was filed one day
last week in tho County Recorder's office at
Sedalia, Mo., by the terms of which a woman
who assumes the custody of an infant girl is
to receive for her sustenance the sum of $20
per month until she is c years old, $25 from
then till she is li, and $33 from then till sho
is 21 years old, the sums to be paid montnly.
The existence of a cholera demon is
still firmly credited in certain districts of
India. A native in a village near Allabahad
recently assured an Inspector of police that
the previous night his home had been visit
ed by a cholera monster, with a head like a
large earthen pot. He and his brother drovo
away the spirit with bamboo clubs, nnd tired
a gun to complete its defeat, as the creature
fears noise.
Dr. "W. B. Lee, the young American
physician who has been made the royal doc
tor to the King of Siam, is but 23 years old,
and at tho ago of 21 he was driving an ex-
Sress wagon in Springfield, O., for a living,
r. Lee graduated from the Medlnl School
of the University of New York in 1890 with
high honors, and the Presbyterian Board of
Foreign Missions, sent him out to Petcha
buree in Siam.
A parrot on the canal boat F. "V. Vorth,
which was run into and sunk in New York
harbor last Wednesday, sounded the alarm
of danger. Just before the collision occur
red the bird screamed: "Look out there!
Murder! We'll be drowned." The cries
were heard by the captain and his family,
and running on deck they had barely time
to pick up tho parrot and a few other pets
and escape to a vossel that was alongside.
It was a matter of some comment a
week or so ago that a quart of potatoes was
worth more in the Chicago market than a
quart of strawberries, says the Fruit Journal
of this city. This was brought about by a
combination of circumstances which might
not occur again for many years. Potatoes
were scarce and berries were plentiful. But
it indicates the fact that the industry of
potato growing is on the wane and that of
berry growing is fust on the increase.
A negro and a mule were electrocuted
in Brooks county, Ga., Wednesday after
noon on ham Clayton's place, about four
miles west of town. The negro's name was
Dock Cross. He had tied the mule's head to
his foot to keep him from biting the corn.
Ho went out during a thunderstorm to un
fasten him. and, while stooping down trying
to untie the knot, a stroke of lightning
killed them both. Death was instantaneous,
neither negro nor mule ever knowing what
struck them.
Jane, as borne by the royal families of
Europe, has always been a name of ill-omen.
Lady Jane Grey was beheaded for treason;
Jane Seymour was one of tho victims of
King Hal; Jane Beaufort, wife of James I. of
Scotland, was savagely murdered; Jeanne
do Yalois, wife of Louis XII., was repudiated
for her want of personal beauty; Jeanne
d'Albret, mother of Henry IV.,was poisoned
by Catherine de Medici; Jane of Caotile lost
her reason through tho neglect of her hus
band, Philip the Handsome, Archduke of
Austria; Jane I. of Naples caused her hus
band to be murdered and married his assas
sin, and Jane II. of Naples was ono of tho
most wanton of women.
PUCK'S MIDSUMMER CROP.
I painted well her portrait,
And she cried aloud with glee;
"Oh, won't the family be surprised
When I tell 'em that it's me!"
Tyjggg-wheredid you get that Jim Crow
stage manager?
Maycup He used to be a circus man; doesn't he
know his business?
Wlgg He seems to; he is in there trying to fill
the tank by rumbling the rain machine over it.
"You've spoiled all my fun," said the
Dndc to the Ant at the picnic.
"Yes: and you've spoiled all my work," returned
the Ant. "I'd Just finished a line apartment
houe, when you came along and sat on It."
"By jove, old man, from the way you
keep hitching at your trousers, one would think
you werra sailor."
"Tlin't that, my boy; I'm wearing a flannel
shirt and a belt "."
'Tis said that "hate is love turned inside out."
And many think the saying far from stupid;
But if it's true, to say the very least.
You must admit It's rather rough on Cnpld.
Mrs. Bondo Ah, so you have stopped
writing.
Mr. Rondo My thoughts have run np a tree.
Mrs. Hondo That's too bad ! What will yon do?
Mr. Rondo (filling his pipe) I am going to smoke
them out.
Miss Daisy Cutter Father, I can never
accept Mr. Walstret.
Mr. Coupon Cutter Don't be reckless. Consider
his wealth and position: and then he Is only 3, and
good looking, too.
Miss Daisy Ontter He may be young in years,
father; but the man who can pass a base ball
bulletin without turning his head to see what the
score is. Is too old for inc.
Jeanie Gns takes life easily, doesn't he?
Jane I always supposed he did, until he tried to
talk me to death last night.
Maude (excitedly) Did you hear the
news? Tom Barry and Jack Dashing are going to
fight a duel about you.
Amanda--l3n't it delightful? Tell me the par
ticulars. Maude Each one accused the other of being la
love with you.
Although the ice is hard and cold,
Yet in Us heart love's power is felt:
As soon as by the sun 'tis wooed.
It never falls to yield and melt.