THE PITTSBtniG- DISPATCH, SUNDAY JULY 19. 1891
&
i
Wlje Bigpftfr
ESTABLISHED FEBHUAP.Y 8. 1S46.
Vol. 46, No. 162. Entered St nttsbnrg rostofflce,
Novembers, ISsf. as tecond-class matter.
Business Office Corner Smithfield
and Diamond Streets.
News Rooms and Publishing House
7S and So Diamond Street, in
New Dispatch Building.
r.AVTKHN ADVERTISING OFFICE. ROOM a.
TKlBUNEBriLDIXG, THTW YORK. wherecom
pletc flics orTHE UIsFATCII can always be found.
Foreign advertls-crs appreciate tlie convenience.
Home ad crtlvrs and friends of THE DISPATCH,
while in Sew York, arc also made welcome.
Tim ItlStPA TCIti rrr:larly tmMI'at Brentano's,
T Union Square Su York, and 17 Ave ae F Opera,
Font, France, trhere onsiune who lint been aisap
potntid at a hotel iicic stand can obtain It.
TERMS OF THE DISPATCH.
rOSTACE TCZE IX THE UNITED STATES.
DAILY DisrATCir. One Year ? s CO
Daily Dispatch, Per Quarter 2 00
Daily DierATcn, One Month TO
Daily Dispatch. including Sunday. 1 year.. 10 00
Daily DisrATCil. including Sunday, 3 m'ths. 2 50
Daily DisrATCH. including Sunday, 1 m'th.. 90
FCXDAY DD-rATCH, One Year. ISO
"Weekly Dispatch, One Year 1 23
The Daily DisrATCH Is delivered by carriers at
J5eentperetk,or. Including Sunday Edition, at
K cents per week.
Tills issue or THE DISPATCH contains
SO pages made up or THREE PATtTS.
failure on flic part of Carriers, Agents,
Newsdealers or Newsboys, to snpply patrons
with a Complete Xnmbfr should he prompt
ly reported to this onicc.
Tohmfarjr contributors should keep copies of
articles. Jf compensation is desired the price
expected must be named. The courtcsi of re
turning rejected wamiserijtts tntt be extended
irhen stamps for that purjyose are inclosed, bid
the Editor of The Disr-ATcn trill under no cir
cumstances be rcrjnnsible for tlie care of unsolic
ited mamtscrijil.
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
.