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POSTAGE AH person Tiho mail the Sunday issue of TI10 Dispatch to friends tliould bear in mind the fact that the post age thereon is Two (3) Cents. All double and triple number copioj of Tlie Dispatch require a 2-cent stamp to insure prompt deUvery. PITTSBUKG, SUNDAY, JULY 19, l&fl. THE PHILADELPHIA DISCLOSURES. Up to yesterday the succession of dis closures and assertions with regard to the Bardsley declaration has been principally successful in evoking a shower of denials and explanations. The report of the ex pert accountants kept various newspaper publishers busy explaining why they paid thousands of dollars to various officials as commissions on public advertisements, while the entries of sums of money paid by Bardsley to divers State officers have brought out indignant denials from those functionaries. As these payments furnish a tolerable theory as to the reason "why Bardsley was permitted to retain a large amount of State money in his hands, the denials, rather than the original infer ence, are likely to be taken with a grain of salt But if the report published yesterday is true, a clew of more importance than any yet laid hold of has been discovered. So far the disclosures have been those of comparatively small sized corruption; but if, as stated, proof has been secured of the payment of 1,250,000 into Bardsley's hands, apart from any sums previously accounted for, the scandal takes on huge proportions. This is about the missing amount, and the fact that it has been traced to Bardsley is suggestive of theories. Of course nothing is yet known of where it went; but there is the theory that he has salted it down himself or that confederates in the plunder are holding it for him. The inference is clearly that the plunderers, seeing a defalcation of hundreds of thou sands a necessity, concluded to share the profits of making it millions, and that a million and a quarter is hid away some where for future enjoyment This last feature gives the Philadelphia scandal a peculiarly interesting character. In its disclosure of the methods of public plunder ranging from the petty to the gigantic it has had few equals. THE TOOK TAK3I BIDS. The small number of men who are will ing to dispose of farms in their entirety shows conclusively that Pittsburg is boom ing. Only eleven bids were received for a Poor Farm, and according to the ideas of Chief Elliot none of them will be suit able. They are of 200 acres each plenty large enough but the Chief still holds to the idea of fanning 400 or more acres of valuable land with pauper labor. It may be very good for the health of the inmates, but wiH be hard on the city's purse, and a small farm with plenty of chance for ex ercise, not work, will do the inmates as much good and leave the city better off financially in the end. A personal inspec tion would be necessary to pass on the availability of the farms offered, on ac count of the location and other advant ages, but as to their extent any one of them would do for all practical purposes. The reason advanced for so few bids being received is that land within any reasonable distance of the city can be sold in lots at a better advantage than as a whole. It is pleasing to note that the city is so rapidly spreading out in all direc tions. Xew plots of city lots and new towns arc springing up all around us, and aimost every farm in the county bears that interesting sign "Lots for Sale." Yet with all these signs of prosperity we must have a Poor Farm, and since no very large farms are for sale it is to be hoped Coun cils will be" convinced that those offered are plenty large enough. WHICH AS WORST? A good deal of not entirely impertinent criticism has been evoked by the recent discovery that a special bill was slipped through the last session of Congress giving a single firm in this country the right to sail foreign-built vessels under the Amer ican flag. What especial claim this firm has to a privilege refused the rest of the world unless it be that American cor poration sn the Pacific coast which seems to be enjcjingthesameexceptional liberty has not jet appeared; but it is more than intimated that the -virtue consists in hav ing friends in Congress who slip the special privileges through sub roa. Yet, when we consider the whole sub ject, the sincere question arises whether the course taken by these favored individ uals does not exhibit more true American ism than the course our peculiar naviga tion laws leaves open to other ship owners. They showed a desire to sail their ships under the flag of the United States, and although the means by which they secured that right might offer a strik ing commentary on our legislative methods, the similar comment afforded by the other course is no less striking. It has been re cently published that owners of foreign built yachts can escape the 50c per ton light dues levied at every port by the sim ple device of registering their vessels un der the English flag. So, too, the course of some of the great capitalists of this country who acquiesce in and even sup port the present laws, and then illustrate their respect for them by sailing fleets of foreign-built steamers under the English flag, has more of incivism about it than the de vice of steering special bills through Con gress. But when such things are done on both sides, does not the condition of legis lation which produces them show a degree of antiquity and stupidity that demonstrates itself? ANTI-TRUST ACTION. There is some satisfaction for those who believe laws, whatever they are, should be fearlessly and impartially enforced, and that especially a law with so good a pur pose as that directed against combinations to suppress competition should have a full trial, to learn that the Administration-has made a move in that direction. It is stated that a circular has been sent out by the Department of Justice to United States district attorneys instructing them to bring active prosecution against all com binations violating the anti-trust law passed by the last Congress. This is encouraging in some aspects, al though peculiar in others. If it is neces sary for the Administration to instruct district attorneys to enforce laws which they have previously sworn to carry out, it is satisfactory to know that the Govern ment has issued its instructions in favor of a statute so important to the masses as this one. But, then, this question naturally comes up, why, since it is neces sary to instruct the law officers of the Gov ernment that they must enforce the law, the instruction was not issued some time ago? It is stated that the circular is based on a recent ruling by Judge Key. But if the Administration cannot determine to enforce the law until the courts uphold it, and district attorneys cannot be relied upon unless the Administration takes action, the prospect of the average United States statute for enforcement seems to be very slender. Xevertheless the importance of a move ment looking toward organized action to repress conspiracies against competition is so great as to overcome all minor criticisms on the above points. If the campaign against the trusts is made as sincerely and vigorously as Mr. Wanamaker's attack on the lottery, for example, it will work a decided ' change in the plutocracy of those organizations. The law under which action is proposed has been criticised as not thorough enough. But it is clear that a more stringent law if not enforced would be equally valueless, while, if this statute is steadily main tained, it will make nine-tenths of the great combinations impossible. The ques tion is whether the enfprcement will bo vigorous and unyielding; whether the ad ministration is prepared to make an at tack upon the Standard, the Sugar Trust, the Whisky Trust and similar organiza tions, and wage the war to a decisive issue. If so we may expect very lively times, both in-this district and others. But, considering the monetary power of the organizations, we may be permitted to re serve faith in the vigor of the proposed enforcement until it demonstrates itself. NATURE VERSUS A CORPORATION. The exploring party that left the Colo rado river at "Yuma in a boat has arrived at Saltan, on the border of the new desert lake, after a six days' voyage. It has dis covered that the river has turned a large share of' Its current into the desert There was a report that the Southern Pacific Railway would take measures to prevent the lake from becoming a permanence, which would have a beneficial effect on the climate but would be an injury to the company. If the Colorado river has taken the matter in hand, however, it may prove that there is a mightier power in that region than the Southern "Pacific corpora tion. TAX-DODGERS EVERYWHERE. That other countries havo experiences often noted in this land of public cheating is not without its consolation. In that light the fact that a noted case in Ger many brought out the practice of success ful tax-dodging is interesting to the Ameri can mind. The case in some of its details brings out the marked difference between Ger many and the United States. An editor charged in his paper that the tax commis sioners of tho town of Bochum systemat ically undervalued the income of the rich people of their own party. The list was headed by a privy councillor, who was taxed on an income of 32,400 marks, while his actual income was declared by the edi tor to be over 300,000 marks. Other cases of the same sort being specified, the editor was sued for libel. Although ho produced seventy witnesses who admitted they paid taxes ou an average of 40 per cent of their true incomes, he was convicted and sen tenced to five months in prison. This case, unless misstated, indicates that other countries have abuses as badly as we. The cotemporary from which we quote refers to the income tax as inquisi torial. But in view of a recent protest in this State against an .attempt to tax per sonal property in full, we may conclude that all taxation is inquisitorial if it makes a vigorous effort to reach taxables. As the tax-dodging charged was in about the same proportion as that done in this State on personal property, and that admitted is about equivalent to the general under valuation of real estate, the case may bo taken to express the universal dislike to being taxed and the especial success which attends the efforts of tlie wealthy and in fluential class to evade taxation. Society has not yet learned how to en force the lesson that it is the duty of all honest men to pay taxes. To cheat the State of your just proportion is simply cheating a large number of your fellow men. NOT A CASE FOR REVOLUTION. The Louisiana idea of self-government crops out in a new form in tlie declaration of the opponents of the Louisiana lottery that, if they cannot carry the popular vote against the re-chartering of that institution, they will resort to revolution to prevent it This avowal made by a clergyman at the New Orleans meeting has been indorsed by several meetings in the interior of the State. This indicates a radical and earnest op position to the public scandal and disgrace of the lottery, which in Itself is not dis agreeable to witness. In any other State than Louisiana it would be taken as the hyperbole of campaign rhetoric; but a section which has manifested a readiness in the past to resort to the arbitraments of mob law cannot take such utterances as mere figures of speech. Of course, the deliberate intention to resort to revolution, if the majority of the people do not vote against the lottery, is wholly at variance with the principles of self-government The divine right of revolution is a resort where the forms of eovernment do not give the people an op portunity to maintain their rights or en force their wishes by any other means. But where the people have the remedy in their own hands, the fact that a majority vote wrong does not excuse the minority for attacking the very foundation of self government To assert that policy 'in Louisiana is just as insane as the assertion of the same intention by the Anarchists of Chicago, except that it is inspired by a more worthy sentiment. Beyond that, the practicability of such a project ought to give the worthy oppo nents of the lottery a little reflection. If they can resort to revolution the lottery can also bring its armed forces into the field; and especially, if it is backed by a majority of the people, that moneyed power might prove its ability to put the most effective force of fighters into action. The supporters of morality in Louisiana will find it both wiser, as well as more patriotic, to confine their efforts to be sup porters of the law as welL NOVEL LEGAL THEORIES. The theory of defense in the case of the persons arrested for running a gambling room on Diamond street was a unique one. It was in effect, as presonted by the learned counsel, that the men supposed that they would be permitted to run their room during the races. There was no dis pute that the act was a violation of law, and the consequent legal theory that the law was supposed to be suspended during race week is novel. There is an old theory that in time of war the laws are silenced, but this is the first proposition to the effect that the first meeting of the grand trotting circuit has the same effect But the novelty of this theory is capped by the judicial deliverance with reference to it The court correctly stigmatized such a defense as "nonsense," but pro ceeded to say in effect, it the re ports can be believed, that it was the duty of tho defendants to ask the j police authorities if they would be permitted to take the races as a valid act of Indemnity and immunity. Tho suggestion from the bench, even of a po lice court, that such a line of action might work well, is one of the unique manifes tations of the phenomenal legal theories that are sometimes developed in these tribunals. It is pertinent to say in this connection that the talk of police protection for this gambling establishment is not supported, by any evidence. The fact that the pro prietors were arrested and brought to jus tice is the most conclusive proof to the contrary. The peculiar ideas with regard to the enforcement of law, aired on the trial, may make it a matter only of moder ate surprise that the proprietors imagined their project of maintaining the lair of the tiger to be practicable. France and England, complain the Bos ton Traveller, "refuse to officially recognize tho Chilean insurgents, but the English and Frenclftnerchants give all the aid possible." It may be excusable for France and England to suppose that an executive who usurp3 the power of the legislative branch constitutes the Government; but a newspaper of the United States should know better than to call the representative Government of a country defending; their constitutional rights, "Insurgents." Up from Atlanta comes a hint, in the Journal of that city, that negroes are allowed to ride in street cars with white people bc causo election is approaching. But when Georgia begins to bid for the vote of the negroes in any way, the end of the color line Is approaching. IT is now understood that Lord Salisbury will stick to the last gasp, and refrain from ordering a general election until tho close of the full seven-years-term of Parliament, It is evidently the Tory hope that something may turn up in European politics that will arouse the Jingo spirit and give him a hopo for securing a fresh majority. Until then Salisbury, like Micawbor, waits for some thing to turn up, but unlike Mica wber, keeps a tight grip on the inside of the situation. The apparent success of the Russian bacon company and the Standard Oil Com pany in establishing their respective mo nopolies on the Continent," suggests that the official mind of Europe takes kindly to the greasing operation. It seems that Canada has got it worse. than we have. The Public Accounts Com mittee of Parliament has unearthed a mass of scandal with regard to the Canadian Paciflo Railroad which bids fair to outrank any thing this country has experienced for many years. The mixture of great corporations with politics is certain to produce corrup tion, nnd the Canadian Paciflo has done the business thoroughly. The expert examination of Bardsley's ac counts show the quarters from which lie got considerable sums of money that ho should not havo had, hut where the im mense total went remains as insoluble a mystery as ever. The American amateur athletes showed the Britishers that they are made of first class material. The hoys ended a brilliant tour in London yesterday by sweeping the big share of the prizes and doing some rec ord breaking. AT hen one of our crack boat crews goes over and distances the Oxford boys, we will be ready to look for moro ft orlds to conquer. The Gubernatorial candidates in Ohio are putting on their armor for a sharp fight for the Governorship, with an eye of each turned toward a possible Presidency in the not distant future. Advices from Berlin last evening indi dicate that Lord Salisbury got the best of thebargain in the Drolbund. While England doesn't have to light for Germany, the latter must help the British in case of need. Evi dently the Englishman got some sharp points on diplomacy by rubbing against Secretary Blaine in the recent dispute on the scaling question. , If Uncle Jerry keeps on running the weather bureau in this way it will become n matter of individual preference whether his weather is better or woise than his party. The World's Fair Commission has reached London, and is inaugurating Its campaign with a vigorous series of banquets. The prospect seems good for dining with all the political and commercial powers of Great Britain. If dinner-eating can ensure the success of the Fair we may rest assured that the Commission will make it boom. The London Times isbooming the World's Fair enterprise with a rigor likely to con done many of the Thunderer's previous errors. The advice to Presidental aspirants to "keep an eye on Robert E. Pattison" is re peated by the Boston Traveller, with the as sertion that he is a good man, and the -wish that as much could be said for his party. It is well to wish that for any party; but is there any better criterion of party character than the men the parties put in office? Figuratively Speaking. Chicago Tlmes.J King George of Greece has had a skating rink built iu connection with his palace. The King and Qneen are very fond of skat ing, which seems to be quite a royal pur suit. Even Emperor William is said to get bis skates on frequently. , Give the Lovers a Boost. Chicago Intcr-Occan.j If St. Paul nnd Minneapolis can't get to gether after 20,000 Christian Endeavor peo ple labored with them for a week, they may as well give it up as hopeless. MONARCHIES ABE UNGRATEFUL. Some of the Suggestions Brought Out by the Drelbund Discussion. Philadelphia Ledger. What a curious and suggestive spectacle does this "Dreibund" Alliance present; and how emphatically it shows that what the proverb says of the ingratitude of republics does not attach more properly to republics than to monarchies! Let us consider how this remark applies, beginning no further back than 1848. At that politically convuls ive period in European political affairs, the Austrian Empire was crowded to the wall by-that uprising in Hungary with which the name of Kossuth has since been identified. But for the timely assistance given then by Russia to the Austrlans, in the very crisis of their troubles, the Hungarian revolt would have overwhelmed Austria. Now Austria finds it convenient and grateful to Join the alliance against Russia, who saved her in 1818. During the Italian -war for independence and rescue from Austrian domination and oppression in Napoleon Ill's time tho French carried the Italians through to that victory which has since culminated in the establishment of the Kingdom of Italy.- But just as It is said that in" Venice Tassos echoes are no more," there seems to be no Sounds in Florenoe or in'Kome that echo the memories of holferino and Magenta, on which fields French nrmies enabled tho Italians to overthrow their Austrian foes and oppressors. If there were, there would hardly bo such cordial alliance between Italy and Austria, with Germany, against France. There's but little of sratclul recol lection of priceless servico in that. Of the same nature of unnatural alliance' seems that of Austria with Germany, seeing that it is no further back than 186S that Prussia, under Kipg William, rode rough shod into Austria, overwhelming her "with hitter humiliation and dethroning her from her Germanic supremacy. These are all "bunds" and alliances that seem to be so repugnant and repellant in their nature that it is no Wonder that the threo-cornored partnership seems at short intervals to be ready to drop to pieces. A "bund," whether a "Zweibund" or a "Drei bund," has nc more lasting cohesion than an international royal or imperial marriage, which of it. -ell has no lasting good influence whatever among the nations whose reign ing families are parties to such marriage alliances. Nearly all of the royal, iniperial and princely families of Europo arc Inter locked by marriage or by blrod relationship, and yot many of them are in a condition, of perpetual estrangement and qnasl-hostlllty, embracing each other when they have reason to masquerade belore the public, but "making faces" at each other behind tho scenes. 8T0EY OF STEPHEN. GIBABD. How He Gave a Young Man His Start In Life. Harper's Weekly. A characteristic story of Stephen Girard was that he induced a boy to work for him till he was 21 years old by promising to give him a good start in life afterward. When the time came, the young man applied for the promised reward. Tho eccentric old merchant looked at him for a moment, and then said, gruffly, "Go and learn a trade." Considerably cast down,, for Tio had expected a very different start, the young man turned away; but after some reflection, knowing something of the other's peculiarities, ho de cided to do as he had been bidden, and learned tho cooper's trade, AVhen he had mastered it, a year or so later, he presented himself again, and the old man gave him an order for two barrels. He made and de livered them, and Mr, Girard examined and praised them. "Now," he said, "you have a capital that you cannot lose, for you can al ways tail back on your trade if you meet with adversity," and then he advanced his protege a considerable capital w ith which to start in business. WELL-KNOWN NAMES. .General "Wade Hampton has accepted tlie invitation to preside at the unveiling of tho Jackson monument on Tuesday next. Jules "Verne's son Michel, who has written short stories in the style of his father, bids fair to step into tho fame of tho older Verne. The condition of Itev. C. H. Spurgeon is much improved. Ho partook of some solid food Thursday night, the first that he has taken for a month. Hon. Thomas Bococe, ex-Speaker of the House of Representatives, is critically ill ut hit homo in Appomattox county. He has been an invalid for several years. Bjoenson, the Norwegian novelist, writes so abominably that no one but his wife can read his manuscript, which she has to copy for him before it is sent to the publishers. President AVellep. and the entire fac ulty of Lane University, at Lecompton, Kan., resigned because they did not like tho scen ery and manners of the town. They con template an opposition institution at Enter prise. , BIshop G. T. Bedell has given his beautiful estate at Gambier, O., valued at $30,000, and known as "Kokoshing," to Kenyon College. The handsome stone mansion, in a grove of trees, may be made the home of the college President. Mrs. Cleveland preserves a volumin ous scrapbook filled to the covers with notices of her husband clipped from the col umns of the daily newspapers. Insomuch as the uncomplimentary as well as the compli mentary notices have boon religiously kept, it must furnish interesting reading to its owner. Mr. Gladstone has written a letter in support of Mr. Brand, a candidate for AYis beach, in which he says: "My physician will restrain mo for some months to come from the public use of my voice. I hope tho elec tion will be an additional proof that the country is determined to shake off the incu bus of tho Irish question." CHAKEY MAKES A MISTAKE. A Big Newfoundland Dog Wakes Up Cherry Hill Resident. New York Recorder. Under the loof made by the Chatham square station of the "L" road is a hack stand somewhat run to seed. Yesterday morning at precisely 11 o'clock it took an other jump and sprouted iu all directions. At the hour mentioned a portly looking German, accompanied by anothcrgentleman nndalargeNcwloundlnnd dog, orossodthe street. The dog was evidently well trained, for ho carried in his mouth a basket filled with tho delicacies of the season, which ap parently had just been purchased in Fulton Market. "Dot is der niccdest dog vot deir effcr vos I bado you," said the admiring proprietor of the canine. "Idon'd haf some dronblespy hlm ven I der iuarged goes. Don'd dot vas so. Chakeyt" He stooped down to pat Chakey. Just nt that moment Clmkey sawanother dog nosing nronnd under one of the cabs. He started for it. The other dog was a Cherry Hill resident and -wasn't in the humor for 'funny business. When they got through with each other Chakey had forgotten all about his groceries, the cab drivers were trying to crawl from the roors of their coaches to the "L" road structure, and Chakey's managing editor was endeavoring to put a display head on the other dog, while his friend was lescuing huckleberries, cabbage, a yard of pork and a quart of beans from tho gamins who were having fun with the fruit and each other. BETTEB THAN SHOOTING. Birds Attracted to a Lighthous j Tower and . Are Killed. Chicago Tribune. A person wlio spent a month a New Bruns wick lighthouse says he never witnessed in a hunting trip such mortality among birds. On dark and stormy nights the light seemed to have a powerful fascination for birds, and when tho wind would permit they would circle about the tower in swarms like moths. Some Would apparently try to resist tho spell which drew them to the great light. but would always return. Others would come out of the darkness in a line as straight as an arrow and strike the glass.with tremendous force. Others, in en deavoringto shun the light, would strike the tower nnd fall off dead. On one morn ing, after a high wind had prevailed dur ing tho night, 251 dead birds were picked up on the platform and at the base of the tower. This Is Hapld Advancement. Boston Globe. According to census figures the average American has but slowly followed the in junction, "Go up higher," in his choice of an abode. Ho now lives 788 feet above the sea level, having climbed Just 49 feet in ten years. MURRAY'S MUSINGS. The Genteel Beat Who Gets Tour Money -Over Terrapin and Champagne Novel Methods of Petty Swindlers A Waiter Who Was Famous Gotham Stories. rFBOM A STATT COBRESPOJJDENT. New York, July 18. "There is a feature of r New Tork life," said a gentleman of fortune and a well-known man about town, "which has never been adequately described. In the nature of things it would bo impossible to do the subject Justice. To be sure, every now and then some clever swindler or bunco sharp gets his head tangled in the meshes of the law and the public is entertained with an elaborate account of his operations. But the groat army of sharps and flats go on operating nnd being operated upon Just as if nothing had happened. Having the reputa tion of considerable money and a liberal al lowance of goodnature I havo been taken in again and again, though the times I have escaped imposition outnumber the fatal at tacks 50 to 1. Money is invariably the ob ject, of course. "You know I am not stupid and will credit me with a pretty good knowledge of my fel low man; yet I havo left some thousands in the. wake of my ten years of metropolitan life. I haven't been bunkoed or robbed, either. The schemes that are put up and the skill and adroitness with which they are worked challenge admiration. They run all tho way from a loan of $1, on the dead square' indefinitely, to 'cash my oheck for $MJ till day after to-morrow.' I suppose I nu not alone in this thing, but Ihnie been so harassed ut times by impecunious gcntlo meh' that life has seemed scarcely worth living. It would take a volume to oven give illustrative samples of these people. The man who strikes you for a small loan of 50 cents Is easily gotten rid ol; but the gen- tcol, cuitureu, weu-.iutnenficatea gentle man who comes at you through terrupin and champagne Is not 90 easily disposed of. And the very wor.st of tlie lot is the man you have once known, dimly, perhaps still you have known him and his family, the latter irreproachable, and it is not an easy matter to'dispose ol him. I have had smart fellows pursue me for months, systematically, "with out their being able to get their hooks in: whereas one ot this gentry says in a casual way some evening: 'Let mo have a a ah fifty, my dear hoy llttlo short to-night to-moirow or next time Oh, thanks!' nnd it's gone, nover to show up again. I will say that tho dead beat crowd is composed mostly of people of other States. Thoy are not New Yorkers. They hail from every State in the Union. They come to New York on somo scheme or nnother, expend what money they have in making acquaint ances nnd pushing their project, then, in stead of going home, remain hero, living by hook or crook until they get into Jail or join the regular 00-cent beat gang. Oh. yes," concluded my moneyed friend languidly, "I'm 'touched' a dozen times a day. They make me tired." Playing the Check Game. The man who wants to got a check cashed has come to be an object of grave suspicion. It makes little difference whether it is his own individual check or the formal Order to pay of a responsible moneyed man or firm its BUddon presentation anywhere is apt to create a panicky feeling of insecurity. Tho man with a check is wholly distinct from the vulgar borrower of a "tenner till to morrow." He Is usually a smooth-spoken iimii oi gcuueiimniy appearance, wnose sur- luuuuiugs uuu ussoumuons may db some what cloudy, hut to whom it is difficult to say no. You may have met him socially or in a business way for months, perhaps years, and yet, not having occasion to test it, have no resonable knowledge ol his financial re sponsibility. ir he is a genial fellow whom you do not caro to offend unnecessarily, tho simple re quest to cash n small check lor him or put your nama on a bit of paper at tho hotel counter is pretty hard to retuse. The most suspicious and iron-hearted man in the world will bo caught occasionally by such fellows. The strongest resolution never to do so again will be ruthlessly broken down. And, after all, is it not much more desirable to get taken in now and then than to go through tho world distrusting every human creature and refusing to do even your best friend a financial favor. Learning to Walk. "It requires a year or two of experience beforo a woman enn come upon' the stage or walk across it properly," said a well-known theatrical manager. This is the key to that most remarkable gait one sees on uppor Broadway every day. When the stage walk is Anally acquired it is liko unto nothing elso under tho heavens. Her Game Was Penny-Ante. A well-dressed and not bad-looking woman, with a small hand-bag, rushing into shops and stores for "just 1 cent to make up 5 cents for car faro," illustrated a surprising bit of uptown work the other day. She took it systematically and nearly everybody she came across stood the raise. A croup of gentlemen in a cigar store each contributed a penny all but one. He said apologetic ally that he was sorry, but that ho had noth ing less that half a dollar. "I can change it," she said, promptly. The three contributors opened their eyes very widely, but she saw her bad break at tue same moment uuu siippeu uway wun a faint smile creeping up from behind her ears. A Newsboy's Novel Game. Tuere arc a good many ways of earning an honest living by tho sweat of bomebody else's brow. The other evening tho usual crowd of gonteel and semi-genteel sporting people occupied the sidewalk in front of the Whito Elephant pool room, while the rost of tho public walked around by -way of tho narrow curb or the street. "Ye o owl Wea o ow!" A succession of sharp yelps and prolonged howls broke on tho tympanum, and a 6-year-old newsboy came bounding from a car plat form, his papers' flying right and left in the mud. How he did sob and yell! And how the sympathetic crowd gathered 'round him and swore at the railway com pany, and went down into their individual pockets and fished np stray dimes and quarters nnd half dollars! And how that dirty little fraud scooped 'em all In and ran off 'round the corner with two or three dollars in this same hard-earned silver! Smart? Ho boat the wholo pool room crowd. Odd Freaks of Habit. "I seveii tread on a crack in the pavement -when I -walk alone," said a Custom House official. "It is an involuntary habit now, but I used to do it as a diversion. A thing like that takes a man's mind off of more serious things. When I was very much worried with business troubles I would walk out and concentrate my mind on avoid ing the cracks in the pavement. It engages the nttention Just enough to take the mind from, the more disagreeable subject. A friend of mine counts tho finger and thumb of ono hand and adds the sum to the fingers of the other 'live und four are nine' 'lour and live are nine,' and repeats tlie count. Ho has been using mat mcinou so long. How ever, that he pursues tho count mechanical, ly, telling off one finger after another and adding them up while his mind is really busv with other things. Any apparently harmless thing of that kind is apt to fasten itself on a man in the eouise of time, much to his annoyance. A Fumous Waiter Gone. On Thirty-fifth street is a little, low-browed choDbouse. It has but one small room and a kitchen, and tho high wooden bar in one end, the iron safe your chair tilts against be tween the two windows and the icechest seem to encroach upon the public rights. Tho place seats aboat SO people, the walls nro smoked and dingy and exude odors of 10,000 bygone chops and toasted cheese enter tainments. The paintings crowd each other on the dirty walls, and havo that peculiarly indistinct look of the work of the old mas ters. Yet, forbidding as this would all ap pear, this place is noted for its choice morsels, nnd is frequented by the swellest men about town. From 7 o'clock in the evening to 1 In tho morning a vacant seat is rare and an unoccupied table unknown. Among the lamillar belongings the face of Robert, tho single waiter, is seen no more. Robert is dead. Robert was a waiter among waiters. He never forgot. He knew a thousand customers by sight. He sized per sonal tastes up by a sort ot instinct. He was never effusive, but took your tip graciously. Tips? He made from $5 to $20 a day, did Rooert. Ho averaged $300 a month, and ho had a monopoly. But Robert is dead, good fellow, and gone where tips are not recog nized. He is not forgotten, however, by nny means, for late in the morning over your Welsh rarebit and toby or ale you will near man v stories of the dead waiter whose face bo lohg seemed a part of tho place. A Scene Pen-Plctored. "The luckiest man in a pokor game," re marked a Washington man in n reminiscent mood, as he drow three cards, "was a certain Congressman from Illinois. He was backed in a jack pot hy(the United States. We were having a nice liltlo game of $2 limit. There Is often usmarllpile of money on a 2-limit. Around the ho ,el table were four of us and this was the Jouly Congressman who had sand enough and money enough to sit out tho game. There was a night session and an exciting time in the House of Representa tives and the others had dropped out one by one on the score of public duty, Excuse me, gentlemen, but there's a dollar shy. Well, it was getting on toward 2 g'clock In the morning and we had a lovely pot and everybody staeyd In. I'm a dollar better. The pot wns opened on four deuces and tho man stood pat. That was this same Con gressman. There was nothing less than a good pair out and everybody seemed to have improved his hand In the draw. I'm still with you. The betting was lively. Just then a servant rushed In and said tliore was a call of the House and the Sergeantof-Arms was at the door. " 'I'll play this hand out If the wholo United States was at the door,' said tho statesman. " 'Keep him out a minute, Jim.' ' 'Lock tho door! ' , "But tho big foot or the sergeant-at-arms was thrust into the crack of the inner door as Jim wns going out to bar the outer one. " 'I'm sorry, gentlemen, but' "I'm not,' interrupted tho member. 'I'll go as soon as I rake in this Jack pot. In tho meantime let me have fifty.' "The sonreant-at-arm ni-ndiirpd hl nrrlnr- booknndthe fifty soon went toswell the pile. 'I'll draw on yon for a hundred,' prett v soon came from tho plucky IlUnoisan. One of us laid down his hand at this and another began to look nervous. There were several 'I. O. U.'s' In tho pile already and I was down to my last dollar (fifty cents better) and had to call. I hud a king full and well, the Illinois Congressman and his fourdcuces and the sorgennt-at-urms and the United States treasury and that Jack pot, with about $SC0 in it, all wentoff together. ine t I talk too much!" How They Gamble in Gotham. A stroll nlong tlie corridors of the down town hotels latent night will leave the dis tinct impression that the prohibition of gambling doesn't prohibit. I happened to call on a friend One warm evening recently and found nearly every room on his floor was occupied by a poker party, or bv some soitot'ngame. It wns a warm night and the doors wore wide open, showing men in shirtsleeves around the tables, emntv bot tles and glasses on tlie floor, while the l jiuiiiuvu .tounu. in --linos suyi noateu along the corridors. Breaking Your Luck or Neck. There is an iron column of tho Elevated Railway structuro exactly in the middlo of the walk where Broadway intersects Sixth avenue. This is a much frcquentednnd pop ulous section, and it keeps a couple of po licemen pretty busy to prevent trucks and conflicting street cars from blocking the street: It nlso keeps pedestrians pretty busy to keep front being run over. Between tho Broadway cars and tho Sixth avenue cars nnd the long unprotected stretch of diagonnl crossing there is often the liveliest work for Seople on foot to avoid being under foot, othing but the law of gravitation, that pro vents car drivers from chasing people up the side streets, renders it possible for anybody Jo, como that way with reasonable safety. 1J hen to this is added the curious supersti tion that it is bad luck for a foot party to bo divided so as to pass on opposite sides of anything, you will understand the important part played by that iron column. Two rows of flagging run on either side of it, so that a couple need not break their luck. But when it comes to breaking your neck or breaking your luck, tho latter is usually let aside. It is certain to cause dis may, however, and it is not uncommon to see a lady sheepishly turn back and pass around the column on the other sido so as to heal the fracture in her prospective fortnno. Scores of people do this trick every day. CUARLES TUEODORE MUKBAV. A BIO HAUL MASK, Hott Old Captain Trout's New Gun Worked on tlie Ducks. Forest and Stream. Old Captain Prout, for whom Prout's Neck, now a well-known summer resort, is named, was a noted gunner in tho days when water fowl were plenty in that vicinity. "Early one spring, 18G0 or thereabouts," said nn old settler to me, "he brought home from the West Indies a gun, tho like of which had never been seen by the natives. It was a muzzleloader, about a two-inch gauge, and weighed about 30 pounds. Soon after its ar rival there came a heavy storm, nnd the next morning a pond a couple of acres In ex tent back of the Captain's barn was covered with ducks so thick that another one could not possibly have been squeezed in. Hero was an opportunity to try the new gun, and loading it with the regulation charge, of one-qnarter pound of powder and one-half pound of shot, he sailed forth. At the cor ner of the barn ho cocked the piece and stepped out with It held in readiness. When within about 10 yards all the ducks, jumped as one bird. The Captain aimed at the middle of the mass and fired." Here my informant stopped as if expect ing some enconragoment, and somewhat against my will I felt constrained to ask, "How many did he get?" "Wal," ho roplied, "he didn't got any, he undershot, but he picked up three bushels of ducks', legs." HE'S A JAP, SHE IS FBEHCH. John Low and nis Pretty Wife at the Barge Office Yesterday. New York Advertiser. John Low, a fine-looking Japanese, and his wife, a pretty French girl, landed at the Barge Ofllco yesterday from the steamship Suevla. Mr. Low felt very happy as he stepped ashore, because, by coming in the steerage of tho steamer and being com pelled to pass under jurisdiction of the immigration authorities, he had earned the proud distinction of being the only Jap anese ever landed at tho Barge Office and of leading through that institution about the handsomest woman that has ever given her pedigree there. The two met in France during the Paris Exposition, and, falling in lovo at once, were married in a month. They were united on the Eiffel tower. Mr. Low will take up his residence here. An Artist at Will-Making. Boston Herald. A Brooklyn man died somo time ago, leav ing a will, in which he bequeathed a lot of good advice to his children. Tho will is now being contested by tho heirs, indicat ing that they are sadly in need of their share of tho bequest, DEATHS HEBE AND ELSEWHEBE. John Abel. John Abel, aged G8 years, died at Hew Castle Friday afternoon. He was thrown to the ground the day before from a haywagon.the wagon upsetting and throwing him againbt a fence, the load coming down upon him. He was born in Germany; served In the late Civil War, and his comrades tell of many acts of heroic braTcrr per formed bv him. Beloved and respected by all who came to know him. his death Is sincerely regretted, cspcclallv by a wife and son. and by his cumrade of tlie war.- He will be burled from St. Joseph's Church tills afternoon, He was a prominent C'atlio- lie all Ms me. Charles V. Scott. Charles V. Scott died suddenly at the resi dence of his mother-in-law, Mrs. Copeland, or Larimer avenue. East End, yesterday afternoon of heart failure. He had been in poor health for some time, and had Just returned from a trip to Europe, where he had been for his health. Mr. Scott was In his 31st yoir, and was a sou of tho late John bcott. lie lea es a widow and two children. Dr. Charles E. Shoemaker. Dr. Charles E. Shoemaker, a distinguished physician of Philadelphia, and a well-known specialist In aural surgery, died in that city yester day noon from Injuries recently received by making a misstep, and sustaining a fjll which caused con cimlmi of the br.iin. He was educated at Urslnns College and the University of l'eunsj lvanla, and was & years old. Colonel John Polk Pryor. Colonel John Polk Pryor died at Frank fort, Ky., Friday night. He was a near relative of President Polk's, and before the war edited tne .Bicfeand Enquirer at Memphis. He was In For est's command In the Confederate army, and wrote "The Life of Forest." He had been in Frankfort for 20 years as a newspaper writer. Obituary Notes. Daniel Dacdiieiser, who died at Pottsgrovc Thursday, was the oldest man in his county. He was K years old, and had Uved 15 years on the same farm. , AVilliam R. Mills, a lawyer of New Orleans, died Friday, aged 63 years. He was chiefly famous as the leading attorney for Myra Clark Gaines in fier litigation for many years. "Captain David Mickev. who died at New Bloomfleld Tuesday, was elected Protbonotary 6f his county three times and served as deputy in the Barne office during three terms. He was 59 years old. ' Maxogi, the Samoan chieftain who was being sent home with other natives, died on the train Friday between Medicine Boy and Rawlins, Wyo. He was In the last stages of consumption, and could not stand this rarirted air at that altitude a, ouo feet. COLOXEL S. R. Cockuill, father of Chief Jus tice C'orkrlll, of the Arkansas Supreme Court, died at Ml. Ncbo. Afk., yrslerday morning. ai;ed 87. The decea-cd was a native of .Virginia, and-an olUccr In the Mexican War, He had llicd iu Ar kansas for yeirs. A UNIQUE CALENDAR Every Day a Greeting From a Distant Friend Was Seen. Harper's Bazar. Someone the other day thought of this about a calendar. A daughter was to go away, to be gone a longtime, on the other side of tlie earth. So the mother, thinking to bring her good cheer, bought a calendar. Now the ordinary calendar differs little from its fellow, except happily now and then in the way of quoted phrase, orbllthe some child, or maybe decorative fruit and flower. More than that, no ordinary calen dar seems an individual's very own. As how-could it, with its counterpart on any body's desk, and itrmates all manufactured by the dozen? But the calendar this mother made could be duplicated by no one, for this is what she did. Below the date on each leaf thero was a blnnk space. Sho therefore took the cal endar apart, sending its 3U5 leaves to as mniit f.tnmla u . .1 ..l.tdrna .islrlni. Mllll t.n write some sort of salutation on this blank. space below the date. V hen these were re turned, they were bound together again, and tho calendar was given to the daughter, who knew nothing of what had been done. She was made to promise, however, to tear off no leaf until tho day had dawned when the leaf was dUe. What a source of delight such a calendar would be to an exile from home can easily be imagined. Every day a different greet ing from a different friend! Every day a new surprise, and never to know till the morrow wliat friend was to send a word of good cheer. Tho one addition thismother might make on another calendar of its kind would be to ask each friend to keep a record of the date when the greeting, as it were, fell due; then to remember both greeting and date, so that when the exilo read it in one of these far away countries, she nnd her friends at home might, for a moment at least, stand con sciously face to face. TBUSTS AKD THE NEW LAW. How It Will Affect One or the Biggest Con cerns in Illinois. Chicago Globe. The law against trusts enacted by the last Legislature went into effect July 1. It was believed to bo Ironclad and not possible of evasion, but those who o believed reckoned without their host. One of tho biggest com bines doing business in Illinois is the tobac co trust, the largest houses of which are in St. Louis. The members of these houses have had their heads together and the result is a scheme which if it does not entirely evade the law will come very near it. The tobacco men propose to establish "agencies" where their goods will be sold at prices set by manufacturers. The same system in vogue before the law went into effect will continue under the new scheme, except that tho dealer's marelns will be "commissions." This system is Equally as tyrannous over the dealers as was the old Jiool. They cannot cut prices if they care to lundle the manufacturers' goods. It is the urine rniestion nt least which brings tho new scheme within tho pale of the law. Tho law says there shall be no combination to keep up prices; it is very plain should the tobacco manufacturers carry their plan into effect that they may have considerable business to transact with our courts. The dealers, however, are not looking with favor on tho scheme. They believe it was concocted to defeat the law, and declare they will not be parties to such questionable practices. Should the tobacco trust succeed In its efforts to' evade the law the potash, spice, match, starch, soap and lyo com bines will, no aoubt, adopt similar methods. It takes a smart man to draw np a will.but It needs a genius to frame a law affecting trusts. BUSSIA HOLDS THE P0WEB, And When She Whistles a Tnne Other European Nations Must Dance. New York Telegram. "The action of the Russian Government in threatening to withdraw her gold balances from other European nations because Rus sia? sold low, owing to reports of short crops, as would happen to any government," said a Wall street banker to me last nfght at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, "simply shows the hold she has on the money markets of Eu rope. Why, in England alone sho keeps from -13,000,000 to 10,COO,CO0 in gold in tho .Bank of England subject to her check. She will not set a time limit to the deposit, and all becauso she wishes to havo her fingers around England's throat. It is Just the same with the other Enropean nations. They are all in mortal flnanoial terror of Russia', and she practically has the say in the peaco of Europe to-day. The peo ple talk or the financial policy of Great Britain, but it is not a circumstance to the brilliancy of the Russian exchequer. I con sider Russia to-day as tho most wonderful nation on the earth, and it is not going to be many years before sho is heard from. UOIUT 16S, X UllUK "1 liXUl, X UM13U1E we shall see it return in the fall just as it has left us this spring. There are many reasons for the recent large exportations of gold, but the two principal ones are the sale orour se curities in London, which wo wore com pelled to buy, and the importation of large quantities of foreign goods last fall before tlie McKinley bill went into effect. Of course, these goods had to bo paid for on time, and this spring saw the payments due. I think wo will have a lull In tho coming month and money will be easier." BECENT VALUABLE DISCOVEBIES. Identification of Several Moro Ancient Cities of the Pharaohs. Dr. Naville, the discoverer of Bnbastis and of the Treasure City of Pithom, has just given to the world the results of his work in identifying other cities and districts in Egypt, more especially some connected with tho exodus of tho Israelites. He finds that Succoth was not a city as some supposed, but a district; from a remarkably valuable inscription discovered at Pithom, there was no longer any doubt that it wns that Greek Heroopolis, from whence, as Strabo, Pliny, Agathemeros and Artemidoms described, merchant ships sailed to the Arabian Gulf. This fact coincided with the results of modern scientific surveys, which showed that thero had bean a gradual rising of the land, and that tho Red Sea once extended up to tho walls oi i-itnom; mis must navo Deen the case about 3,000 years ago, nnd Sir Will iam D.iwson and the French englneerLinant held that it went even farther north. The next place noted by M. Naville, was Bnal Zephon, and in identifying this, he had been ahfed through some recently discovered papyri, which proved that it was not a village or city, but an ancient shrine of Banl and a noted, place of pilgrimage. Other ilaces were Migdol and Pi Hahiroth, and lere ngain a papyrus had helped him, it seemed probable that tho Sernpeum was the Egyptian Maktal or Migdol, and it was greatly to bo regretted that a bilingual tablet discovered there a few years ngoTiad been distroyed before being deciphered. The bearing of his identifications is of no small interest Jto the students of history, both sacred and other. A PBOFTTABLE ANSWEB. How an Old Colored Gentleman Had His- Watermelon Taste Satisfied. New York Commercial Advertiser.! An old darkoy was walking along the beach at Coney Island yesterday afternoon enjoying the breeze and wrapt In contem plation of the ocean. As he passed, oue of a party that wore seated In tho sand eating a luuclieon threw a piece of watermelon at him. It struck the old man on tho side of the head, and he jumped as if he had been shot. Recovering his composure, he eyed the party sorrowfully, and then the watermelon. Finally ho said in tones that sonnded pa" thetic: "Nex time yon 'tend doin' annything like dnt giv' man chance t' open he mouf, so we'se bofe enjoy de joke." He got a large slice of the melon. THE AIK. Like some mysterious, sentient thing. It throbs to throbbing lands and seas; I hear It weep, I bear It sing. In vagrant wind or breeze. It Alls the ghostly gloom of night Willi halcyon calm, with storm and clash; And I can trace Its farther flight When autnmu meteors flash. It flings the new dawn's glory wide Over the dusk of silent shores. Over the misty hills which hide Sleep In their rocky cores. And when It feels the shock and crowd Of the electric fires. It shows Mad splendors leaping from the cloud. Booming their thunder blows. " Or else, above that frozen land Which c cuds the piercing iftnter forth. It marks, hi colors rich and bland. : The aurora of the North f " . George Edgar Mon'.gvmny in Harper a Wetkly. CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. There are nearly 6,000 pieces in a mod ern locomotive. One of the gardeners of Bayou Sara, in Louisiana, has produced a potato that weighs 27 pounds, and he now proposes to rest on his laurels until his competitors ctch up with that. A carrier pigeon, which had been bought at Charlottenburg, near Berlin, and taken to London, has reappeared in its old home, having most likely escaped and successfully undertaken tho long flight buck. Apples are as profitable a crop in Cali fornia as oranges. A grower whose ranch is np 4,000 feet in tho Sierra Nevadas figures out a return of $2,106 per acre gross at tho ratoofCJi cents per pound, which he re ceived. A resident of Monroe City, 3Io., has re covered 100 from a man who tied his mules to a handsome maple shade tree belonging to tho villager, letting- the mules bark and kill the tree, it being one his grandfather planted. Writing by telegraph, now so much talked about, was tried in France 20 years ago. Signatures were sent from Pau toJ Paris, and tho experiment was considered entirely successful. After that the wholo matter was suffered to fall into abeyance. An 11-year-old Polish girl passed through Scranton, Pa., last week. Sho was from Poland and had traveled the er-tire distance without a care-taker. Across her shoulders was strung a taa on which was written: "Direct this girl to Shickshinny, Pa." She could speak no English. Arrangements have been completed with the Spanish legation at Mexico, where by pension shall be paid by Jlexieo to the heirs of tho Duke of Montezuma. He repre sented the Spanih branch of the house of Montezuma, to which the various Govern ments of Mexico, without interruption, have paid pensions for 355 years. Near the old cemetery in AVcst Alex ander, W. Va., a big tree is growing, which forks at 3 feet 9 inches from tho ground. Ap- fiarently it is white oak. but on examination t appears that above the fork it branches into two species, one a white oak and the a white cherry, with the foliage peculiar to each. The oak is about 63 and tho cherry 53 feet high. A discovery more curious than any other yet made with the Lick telescope is the recent ono of a new moon. Since tho first hint of the discovery many observations have been made, all of which tend to con firm the original impression, to wit: That this particular satellite of the greatest of the planets is double a dot of a moon revolving around the main moon. The origin of "windfall," in the sense of "good luck," dates from the time of AVilliam the Conqueror. It was then a crim inal offense to cut timber in the forests. Only such could be gathered as the wind had blown down; hence a heavy windstorm was hailed by the peasants as so much good luck, and from this comes the modern appli cation of the expression. "On an average 500 bears a year are killed in Maine," said a Lewiston fur buyer. "I buy 73 a year, and yet the trappers an nounce every year that the bear in Maine is becoming extinct. The bear is quite a crop all in all. The trapper who gets a big bear gets $30 to $33 for the skin and $5 bounty. Five hundred n year, averaging half as much, makes $10,000 & vear from our profits from Maine's wildest beast." The working classes of Italy are very poorly fed. The consumption of meat is very scant, except on feast days, and but little wine is drank. Living is almost ex clusively confined to cereals (wheat, maize, rice), with vegetables and other green herbs cooked with bucon. The food in general ii very deficient in nitrogenous qualities, the bulk of which is derived from vegetables rather than from animal food. The Bi-Chloride of Gold Club at Dwight, 111., composed of graduates and undergradu ates of the Keely Institute for the Cure of Drunkenness, occupies and has fitted up handsomely for its use the abandoned Pres byterian Church in the village, which was mainly built by funds presented by tho Prince of AVales on his visit to this country, when he stopped four days at Dwight to shoot prairie chickens. Tho club now num bers 000 members. A story of the trying times of the war of 1812 comes from an old Bath (Me.) sailmaker. Money was an unknown commodity along the Maine coastrand barter the invariable rule. By and by when the skies began to brighten, a skipper offered to pay In cash for a lot of fish purchasod of a Phippsburg party. It was a great novelty, and the fisherman shook his head doubiously, ex claiming: "No, yon can't have them, I must have rum rum and molasses or you can't have the fish!" "I never carried a watch in my life," said a New Yorker of 50. "A watch Is a habit, not a necessary article. No man who carries a watch can bo any more regular in his habits than I am. I can get np at a cer tain minute, and do so every morning. I can tell the time of day by feeling my face. The beard grows exactly so ranch, and yon can come within a reasonable time of the hour bypassing the hand over the chin. Not that it is often necessary, because regu lar habits soon become second nature and yon never think of wondering about the hour. Of course, the man who lives on trains and boats a good deal has to wear a timepieco and a time table." A wonderful example of patience in . the Chinese is afforded by a consular report -dealing with the manufacture of salt in Cen tral China. Holes about sixinches in diame ter are bored in the rock by means of a primitive form of iron drill, and sometimes a period of 40 years elapses before the cov- si ered brine Is reached, so that tho work is carried on from ono generation to another. . During this tirao tho boring, as may be im agined, goes down to an immense depth. AVhen brine is found it is drawn up in bam boo tubes by a rope working over a large drum turned by bullocks. The brine is evaporated in iron caldrons, the heat being supplied by natural gas, which is generally found in the vicinity of the salt wells. NEWS FKESH FROM THE BAZAAB, , Physician I'll give him something that'll set him on his feet, and then we'll increase his ap petite, and he'll be all right. . Economical Wife-Get him on his feet, doctor; but er never mind the other. ," "I hear Bronson sang 'Hocked in'the Cradle ofthe Deep at thcconccrt." j "Yes." "Did he do It well?" "He did Indeed. It was so vivid that fire people' left toenail overcome with seasickness." 1 "AVell," said father-in-law, after mother-in-law had returned from a visit to the1 young couple, "what sort ofa fellow Is John?" ' "I'm afraid he's notg'MKl for much," said mother-In-Uw. "He reminds me very much of you." Maud I wish Jack would hurry up and propose. Ethel Why, do yon wish to marry him? Maud No. I want to get him off my hands. "Has that young man proposed yet?" asked the fond father. ' "Yes, pa," she answered. "Did yon accept him?" "No, pa; because, you see, he didn't propose to me." "Humor is the most powerful force in the world." remarked Cnmso. "How do you make that out?" aked Tangle, "It overcomes the force of gravity." "Well, Mr. Pedagogue, does ray boy. show any special aptitude for wu.-i?" asked the proud father. "I think so, Mr. Bronson," retnrned the school master. ' 'I am uncertain as yet w.itther John will make a sculptor or a baseball plaj er. He Is un erring In his aim with paper wads, but the condi tion of his desk top convinces me that he can carve with considerable facility." "Maria, you've got to take the baby now, I'm tired." "You've only had him an hour. George." "I know that; but I fastened my pedometer oa him, and I've trotted him fifty-three miles. That's " enough." "Did you ever go up in a balloon?" "Once." "AVhat were your sensations?" "Oh, same as usual. I wanted the earth." "Can you change a two-dollar bill?" asked Cadley. "Certainly," returned the druggist, courteously. "How'U yuu have It, In quinine plus or cough drops?" "AVhat do you think of my angel cake?" she asked. "It's too'heavy to flr," he rtplled. This was the beginning of the end. j "AVhere does thismilk come from, any--how?" asked Mlgjrles. "Cows, I rancy,"ald AVagg. "That accounts forit," said Higgles. "Cowejls a famous waterjug-place." r V i ) t i . 4-4 ! 9 3 .
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