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PITTSBUKG, FKI DAY", JULY 24, 1SSL
MEASURES, NOT MRS.
Governor Campbell's bold free trade
"uttmances during his visit here a9 a guest
of the club bearing the name of Pennsyl
vania's Democratic champion of protec
tion sound strange, to say the least. His
frank assertion, that the battle in Ohio
must end with a breach in the nation's
commercial dyke or a firmer and higher
embankment against which the free trade
waves can pound harmlessly, plainly puts
before the manufacturing States the real
dangers involved. Add to this business
menace the free silver folly, and the Na
tional features of the coming struggle in
Ohio assume a magnitude that dwarfs side
issues, local questions and personalities.
Governor Campbell makes a wry face
while culping the free trade medicine ten
dered him on a silver spoon, but he swal
lows it all without vehement protest The
magical word "free" is the sugar that sav
ors the bitter dose the bait held out for
those gudgeons who foolishly imagine it
is a synonym for "prosperity." But it is
a delusive little word. Free trade as pre
sented bv the platform of the Democracy
of Ohio, and as preached by the man who
gtaads upon that platform, means com
mercial serfdom for the sectionj now
clouded by the smoke of Industry and en
livened by the clangor incident to pros
perity and progress. It means a pulling
down of the palisade that has kept out the
products of foreign cheap labor, protected
ur wares and workers, dotted our hills
with homes and our valleys with work
shops encouraged invention and pushed
development created wealth and dis
tributed it. shortened the hours of toil
without cutting down the wage of the
"toiler. It means the replacing of a demon
strated success by a dangerous experi
ment a bliadow for a substance.
"With these dangers dependent upon the
result In Ohio the men must be sunk out
of sight by the cause. It is not a battle
between Mr. Campbell and Mr. McKinley,
liut it is a fieht for what they represent
One champions a fact, the other a fancy.
One defends the home, the other assails It
Hence the choice of sides should not be a
difficult matter for the majority of Ohio
voters to make.
FRUIT AND VEGETABLES rLKNTT.
Consumers of vegetables and fruit in
Pittsburg certainly have no reason to
complain of the present condition of the
market As shown in our market reports,
nearly all farm products have fallen In
price within the past week. Apples at
40 cents a bushel now were a few days
ago worth SO cents and $L Potatoes which
-one week ago were worth $3 now sell for
?1 75 per barrel.
This shows conclusively that the present
has been a great growing season. Tho
yield of everything has been great, and
the consumer gets the benefit However,
it is a little hard on producers, as they can
hardly get their money out of the prod
ucts. In some cases garden stuff shipped
to the city has Kld at less than the cost of
transportation. This was caused to a cer
tain extent by the rush to get in on the
erly market when prices were good.
Later better prices will rule, but not as
high as lat year. Thus producers will
gel a fair profit, as their plentiful prod
ucts will be easier to market Consumers
iviil also haie the advantage of getting
better value lor their money, as only tho
l)est grow ths w ill be offered. Altogether,
this looks like a good year for both pro
ducer and consumer. "We have plenty
and to spare.
VOI.VING THE INDIAN QUESTION.
The allotment of land to the Sac and
Fox Indians not onlv6hows that they have
advanced in civilization, but greatly de
creases the ohanoes for future Indian
troubles. With these Indians dependent
on their own resources and their tribal re
lations nltolished they are less liable to
grow dis&atisfied, and if they were to do
so they would have difficulty in organizing
to make trouble for the authorities. They
are. of course, better prepared to care for
themselves than those tribes on the reserva
tions, as they have partially learned the
art of agriculture and are prepared to sup
port Uiemselves.
Thus the great Indian question that has
for years taken up the time and been a
gnat expense to the Government is
hlnwly solving itself. The Indians are
gradualh falling into the ways of civiliza
tion, and the education of the younger
generation is pushing savagry to the back
ground. Already several great Indian
trioes are governing themselves and edu
cating their families, and the Sacs and
Foxes are merely the latest additions.
Others will follow until at last perhaps
not many years hence the question what
shall we do with the Indians will be an
swered: Jt them take care of themselves.
The tendency is In that direction, and
justice will hasten the end.
THE SCHOOL CENSUS.
The Census Bureau bulletin on the sub
ject of public schools shows a gratifying
increase in the enrollment of pupils over
population. The increase in pupils was
27 per cent, while the population increase
was only 24.M5. The percentage in the
South was by far the greatest In Vir
gfaiia it was about six times greater than
the percentage of increase in population;
Tennessee four times, and in a number of
other Southern States three times.
This is a most excellent showing all
round. It means that the colored people
of the South are taking more kindly to the
schools. If this ratio continues, the negro
quetion will -n time be settled-by the race
being lifted out of its dense ignorance.
The system of public schools has also
greatly improved in the South, and alto
gether excellent educational work Is being
done in that section. Of course, much of
the increase there is to be explained by
the great amount of illiteracy formerly
prevalent, and the ratio bf increase the
next ten years will probably not be so
great .
In Pennsylvania the increase in enroll
ment was only 1.59 per cent, while popu
lation increased 22.77. This poor school
showing in the face of such a splendid in
crease in population would invite criticism
were it not for the fact -that a protective
policy which holds out great advantages
to artisans may be pardoned for overlook
ing the brain for the brawn. Pennsyl
vania, in addition to being the key
stone in the grand arch of protection, is
also the birthplace of the founder of our
free school system. Its educational ad
vantages equal its industrial achievements,
and the immigrants flocking to her hills
for bread will find schools for their broods
in her valleys.
The laws of the Commonwealth do not
compel attendance at school, and he who
was forced to keep his little ones busy
helping to add to his meager wage in the
home land must be allowed to accustom
himself to the advantages accruing from a
policy that guarantees prosperity. Before
the next census he will have his children
at school, and will be in a position to-keep
them there.
ENGLISH ARTISANS AND PROTECTION.
Though all parties in England are com
mitted to free trade a large element
favors a protective tariff, and the senti
ment is gradually gaining ground. This
is evidenced by an interview with C. J.
Valentine, a British iron master and ex
member of Parliament, now traveling in
Canada. He says that for the past 10 or
15 years one country after another has
increased its import duties on British
productions, and in order to compete it
has been necessary to cut wages and other
wise reduce expenses in England. This
has gone on until laboring men object, and
they now demand the same protection ac
corded artisans in other countries.
Should England establish a protective
tariff with reciprocal relations between her
colonies she would gain much that is now
lost in the matter of trade. But it would
require years to do this, even If a tariff
were settled upon immediately, which is not
at all likely. Free trade has a solid foot
ing in England, and, though it is plain to
be seen that much is being lost by that
policy, it will require years to arouse the
people to a realization of this fact The
Irish question has engrossed the attention
of the voters of England to the exclusion
of everything else, and the condition of
the working class has been little thought
of until now, when the workingmen of
England are in about as bad a plight as the
peasantry of Ireland.
Eecent labor disputes and the action of
the McKinley bill have awakened British
voters to their condition, and a movement
is on foot, headed by members of the Im
perial Federation League, to bring before
the people the desirability of "a change in
the tariff system. Mr. Valentine ventures
the prediction that in the near future this
question of a revision of the tariff laws of
Great Britain will become, in spito of
Liberals and Conservatives, the leading
question of the country.
This talk of a protective tariff for Great
Britain has a double significance at ' pres
ent, inasmuch as it will be urged upon the
voters of Ohio that the McKinley bill has
increased prices on various articles. This
is not in keeping with the statement of I
jit. v aiennne, wno aeciares inai every
time our tariff was increased wages were
decreased in England and expenses other
wise reduced in order to compete with
American products. It the English manu
facturer could continue to pay the same
wages and add the tariff duties to tho
price of articles sold to consumers there
would now be no demand on the part of
British artisans for a protective tariff. But
since the duty comes off the prlco received J
by the manufacturer, he Immediately
takes it, or a part of it, from the wages of
his men, and this causes tho trouble.
There is a general complaint among
British workingme on account of the
ruinously low wages paid, and because
they do not have employment more than
half the time they want to know what
benefit they derive from breadstuffs com
ing into the country free of duty when
they have not the money to buy nor the
work to earn. This is a very significant
question, and one that should be studied
by workers here as well as workers there.
The size of the mortgage on the farm of
Hiram C. Wheeler, Republican candidate for
Governor of Iowa, is causing the Domocratlo
press considerable uneasiness. They seem
to think that his penchant for mortgages
will follow him into tho State House and ho
will mortgage the State. This is hardly
probable, as the Census Bureau shows that
the State is mortgaged for $200,000,000, or
ubout $6 per acre.
A Republican club in Brooklyn is
making a fight against civil service reform,
declaring it to be a lurce. They size up tho
situation rightly. Civil service reform is a
farce as it is being handled, but real civil
service reform is badly needed. They should
study this side of the question.
In Boston lawyers .and doctors are dis
cussing the question of adopting electrocu
tion instead of banging in Massachusetts.
A New York genius suggests an injection
of prussic acid while the victim is asleep.
There are plenty of ways of killing a man,
but there is hardly a possibility that any will
suit the victim. Tho chief requisite of tho
method should be its surety rather than its
comfort.
TnEltE is yet a chance for the poor
maidens of Pennsylvania to riso in life. The
favorite wife of the Tuiklsh Sultan is Flora
Collin, once a poor girl and the daughter of
a French coal miner. She made dresses for
the Sultan's mother and in this way cap
tured the head of the Empire.
Some of the railroad companies are talk
ing of putting automatic attachments in
their cars, so that if one is derailed the
balance of the train will bo brought to an
instantaneous standstill. In lieu of an in
vention to prevent cars leaving tho track
and collisions, this will give the traveling
public some assurance that they will reach
their destinations in safety.
A field for missionaries has been dis
covered in the heart of the United States.
It is said that in the Western part of North
Carolina there are people who have no Idea
of morality and have no knowledge of the
world outside of their own community.
Pebhats it was the poor showing of
Ireland in the last census more than any
special sympathy for the condition of the
peasantry that causes Xngland to turn
aionnd and relieve their wants. Ireland de
populated would not be of much value to the
United Kingdom, and Mr. Balfour evidently
sees that it is high time to do something to
keep Irishmen at home.
In Japan it is slander, punishable by im
prisonment of two years at the galleys, to
call another man a coward. An angry man
is apt to think twice before he taunts an
other under such cironmstonces.
A new explosive has been invented in
Austria. It can be handled, carried and
m&nulacturcd without danger of explosion,
and it is more powerful than dynamite. It
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THE
trill be a benefit to this country when It ar
rives, for no accidents such as occurred
recently at "Washington, Ba will give the
newspapers opportunities to nse display
headlines.
The Odd Fellows are to be congratulated
on their new home for widows and orphans
at Laurel station. The generosity of the
donor will make him the-patron saint of the
order-in Allegheny oonnty.
Some cities have been ruined because the
inhabitants in different sections have a sort
of "you-feel-one-way-I-feol-tlie-otber" dispo
sition. Strangers do not care" to live or
locate in such places, and as Pittsburg has
little of this sectional feeling a boom in
immigration is litely to oocur despite tho
increasing smokiness of tho atmosphere.
Xowadays the Canadian annexation
plan seems to bavetieen consigned to a hack
seat. Tho talk is all for independence, hut
independence first and annexation later
.would not be a had policy.
The Bandall Club, which, while he was
living, bore the banner as well as the name
of a Protectionist Democrat, saw nothing
amiss in specially honoring tha free trade
executive of a neighboring State. It was all
right, hut the incident shows that the club
Is receding from the teachings of the man
who stood as-a rock for home industries.
SOME of those who are crying for a con
stitutional convention forget that many
laws are sometimes the signs of a sick Com
monwealth. THE question of irrigation is greatly
worrying our "Western farmers, and statistics
show that in Utah $10 55 per ap re has been
spent on farm land for digging ditches, eto.
No more work of this kind should be done
until the Canton rainmaker finishes his ex
periments. Artificial rain is cheaper and
better than artificial rivers.
The idea of a national political race
being trotted in heats is unique. It will be
done this year,.howover, and tho course is in
Ohio.
The period of a generation has been
lengthened by the scientists. Fifty years
ago it was increased from 30 to 34 years, but
in the last half century it has reached 43
years. There is no telling to what extent
human life may be prolonged, if the present
temperate manner of living is kept up.
If Uncle Jerry's weather could be run
through Kanm's refrigerator ail would be
forgiven.
Mayob Gleason, of Long Island City,
is a rival in a mild way of Hippolyte, the
Haitian tyrant. However, he confines his ax
to official heads, and does not seem to care
to spill blood except from the noses of his
enemies. As a slugger he is a success, but as
a statesman he is a dismal failure.
CLINGING TO THE TJPPEE CETJST.
John T. Blair, the New Jersey million
aire. Is lying very sick in Kansas City.
Colonel Tom Ochiltree will return
from Europe in time to attend the races in
his home city.
The condition of Dom Pedro, ex-Emperor
of Brazil, who is at Vichy, suffering
from an injury to one of his feet, is slightly
improved.
The German Emperor is alleged to have
requested hlsmother to Bubmit a programme
of her movements for his approval when
ever she may wish to travel.
Sib Henry Pabkes, the leading Aus
tralian statesman and to whom is due the
fact that Australasia is now virtually a fed
eral Republic, began life as a farm laborer in
England.
Ex-Seceetaey of Statu Bayard is
.probably the most distinguished person in
Saratoga at present. Ho and Mrs. Bayard
are at the United States Hotel and they aro
keeping very quiet.
Jay Gould arrived in Chicago yesterday
afternoon from New York, and left in the
evening, on the Bock Island train, for the
West. He declined to talk to reporters
further than to say he was going West for
his health.
JOHN "W. Bookwalter, who was the
Democratio nominee for Governor of Ohio
something like 12 years ago, has spent a great
deal of his money in promoting flying ma
chino inventions. As ho has several mill
ions he can afford to lose.
TnE King of Belgium has not succeeded
in making his Congo investments pay very
well so badly indeed that they have well
nigh swallowed up his own fortune, if not
also the vast property that ho holds in trust
for his sister, the ex-Empress Charlotte, of
Mexico.
VALUE OF OUB F0HESTS.
Tho Production of Lumber Has Greatly In
creased in Ten Tears.
1-Chlcago Tritrane.l
Some figures recently issued by the De
partment of Agriculture show tho great im
portance of our woods and forests to the in
dustries of tho United States. The total an
nual product of all kinds of material is
about 25,000,000,000 cubic feet, equal to a solid
bulk of a mile square on the base and a little
more than one-sixth of a mile high. It is
equal to the annual increase of 500,000,000
acres of forest In fair condition. Tho value
is about $1,000,000,000, being ten times that of
the entire gold and silver output, three
times the product of all the coal and other
minerals, and nearly three times the farm
value of the wheat crop. It exceeds tho
gross income of all the railroads and other
transportation companies. It would suflico
to pay the indebtedness of all the States, ex
cept New York and Pennsylvania, including
that of all counties, townships, school dis
tricts and cities within those States (in 1880),
and would more than wipe out the remain
ing public debt of the United States.
Ten years ago manufactures of all kinds
held the first place in importance as meas
ured by dollars, agriculture second, and for
est products ranked third. It is thought
that since then the lumber industry has en
larged to such an extent that the forest pro
duction now occupies the second place, if
not the first. The capital employed in mill
ing the product, exclusive of harvesting, is
roughly estimated at $650,000,000, and more
than 300,000 people are employed in the di
rect manufacture of forest and, sawmill
products alone, without counting the em
ployment afforded by its transportation to
points of consumption and remanufacture
there.
A HOT DAY TABLE.
The Ice Tank's Superior Position in the
"World in Summer.
Yesterday in the office on the corner two
of the occupants got into a dispute, or
rather it was one-sided.
"What do you amount to?" said the Clock
to the Ice Cooler. "Men only accept your
hospitality when they haven't the price for
beer. You'll do well enough in a pinch, but
when it comes to down-right pleasure or
business, you're not in it. Now, as for me, I
tell the time correctly, and if it weren't for
me the boys might work a half hour over
time without knowing it. I am the true
friend of the working mn."
Just at this instant one man who had had
the price to buy beer ignored the Ice Cooler,
staggered past tho window, while the City
Hall clock chimed out the hour of S, show
ing the boasting Clock to be five minutes
behind, having lost that time in blowing.
The Cooler never said a word, but smiled
audibly as a Newsboy took a drink and said
it beat circus lemonade all hollow.
Moral Water on the brain may be bad,
but as a beverage it meets the wants every
place but Cincinnati, where it is said to be
practically unknown.
AN OCEAN FLYEB.
The Big Steamship Teutonic Hakes the
Fastest Trip of the Present Season.
rsrECIAL TELEGKAM TO TUB DISPATCH.
New Yobk, July 23. The White Star steam
ship Teutonic finished yesterday tho fastest
trip of the season from Queenstown. She
covered 2,821 knots in five days, 21 hours and
14 minutes.
The Teutonic brought over Mrs. John A.
Logan, Miss Harriet Blaine, daughter of the
Secretary of State; Colonel Howard Vincent,
M. P.; Mrs. and Mrs. F..Yznaga and Nat C.
Goodwin.
PITTSBURG' DISPATCH,
LUCK GOOD AND BAD.
AToung Physician Lost Four of Bis First
Eight Patients, but the Ninth Brought
Prosperity Premonition of Danger
Didn't Go In the Balloon.
In the last days of his life, Lamartine, the
Frenoh poet nnd statesman, lived in the
Bois de Boulogne near Paris, in a little
house given him. by the nation. Though
much tormented by creditors, he lived in
comparative oomfort, says the Youth's Com
panion, surrounded by five or six grey
hounds, to which he was greatly attached,
and cultivating roses, cabbages and a little
literature. His favorite greyhound was a
particularly slender and graceful one named
Mademoiselle Flnette. The care of her was
the first duty of his servants, who were per
mitted to speak of and to her only in the
formal third person.
One day, during a fearful rain storm,
Mademoiselle Flnetto was taken very ill.
Lamartine called a maid, who happened to
be a "green" young girl, fresh from Ber
guudy. "Bun and fetch a veterinary surgeon in
stantly," he commanded; "Mademoiselle
Flnette is very ill!"
The girl started of and began inquiring
for the nearest doctor. She was referred to
Dr. Ixe, a young physician who had lately
established himself in the neighborhood.
He had had eight patients, and four of the
eight had quickly passed beyond the reach
ol medical attendance.
"Who wants me such a day as this?" said
Doctor Ixe, sharply, as the girl rung his bell.
"Oh, it's Monsieur de Lamartine, sir," she
said, "and you must come right off; Made
moiselle Flnette is very 111."
Lamartine! Tho young doctor was in a
flurry. In spite of the weather, ho put on
bis best frockcoat, his most resplendent
necktie and his handsomest pair of gloves,
and hastened to Lamartlne-s cottage. What
an opportunity! Physician to the family of
Lamartine; for he said to himself Made
moiselle Flnette is evidently one of the great
man's immediate family; a nieoo, perhaps.
Bushing up in a cab, the doctor found La
martlne's gate open, and the poet himself
standing near it, under a big umbrella.
"I have been waiting lor you, sir." said the
poet, "with cruel impatience. You have
come none too soon. Mademoiselle Flnette
is very, very ill."
"How old is she?" asked tho doctor, fidget
ting timidly.
'Three years."
"Only 8 years! Do you think it is the croup,
Monsieur de Lamartine?"
"The croup? Oh, I think not; but here we
are."
Lamartine tiptoed into a darkened cham
ber, the young doctor following him, im
pressed and solemn, toward a curtained
bed.
"Here is our little sufferer," said the great
roan, with a deep, poetic sigh. "You shall
see If I had not ample cause to call you in
haste."
He lifted the silk curtain, and there, curled
up and shivering on a satin coverlet, lay the
greyhound.
"What!" exclaimed the doctor, "it's a
dog! Is Mademoiselle Flnette a greyhound,
sir?"
"Certainly," said Lamartine, "but what's
the matter with you, sir?"
"I I'm not a veterinary surgeon!" said
Dr. Ixe.
"What are you, then?"
"I am a physician. Monsieur de Lamar
tine." Tho poet was in fresh alarm, though he
could not quite help laughing at the blun
der. However, Dr. Ixe volunteered to do
what ho could for Mademoiselle Finette, and
his services were accepted. He treated the
dog faithfully and she recovered.
From that time the young doctor had a
powerrui menu, tie met people oi attrac
tion at the poet's house; and whenever any
one was ill, Lamartine exclaimed:
"Why don't they try Dr. Ixe? He cured
Finette."
He Saved a Man's Life.
"There is something in premonitions,"
said Mr. Harry Winne, of Detroit, to a Free
Press reporter, nnd he recounted an inci
dentwhich hadjus occurred to him.
"I went down the Detroit river recently
intending to spend Sunday in a tent on the
shoro. My companion, however, wanted to
return to the city on Sunday as there was a
good breeze for our sailboat. I agreed, but
all the timo something seemed to say no! no!
no! and urged me to stay. I got the boat
ready and then backed squarely down. I
could not go. The next day there was no
wind and my friend tried to show me how
foolish I had been, but the came influence
made me think I was right. After awhile a
breczo sprang up And we tacked over to the
Canada shore and ran into a lonely part of
the channel. As I did so I noticed a small
boat with a man in it crulBlng near us, and,
as we sailed on, I heard a cry and saw his
boat upset. We turned about and had hard
work to save the fellow, and ho was pretty
well used up when we got him into our boat.
"Now I believe that thnt feeling I had
meant something. There was no one else
near, and the roan must have drowned if
we had not come along as we did. You may
call it what you like, but thero is some
thing in a foreboding of that kind. I never
throw myself against fate."
The Unlucky Proved Lucky.
"I am going up in a balloon," said a young
reporter last Saturday to a Chicago JVi&une
friend.
The old reporter looked pensive. "I heard
a man say that at the time of the Donaldson
ascension in 1876. He was on the Chicago
IiWftune and his name was James Maitland.
He is still living, I believe, and in Chicago,
though in quieter literary paths than that of
tho press. I remember how sanguine he was
that day. but he found a competitor. The
other reporter who wanted to go up was
Grlmwood of tho Journal. The aeronaut
couldn't take both, yet both insisted, it was
decided that they should pull straws, and
Maitland got the one to stay on the earth.
You never saw a more disappointed man
than he for missing the ride to Elijah. He
told me then, and once of late years when I
mot him, that he believed he had been iug
gled out of that ride to death. What
man knows his luck? Away sailed the bal
loon with its two occupants; then came tho
days of terrible suspense; the wreck of the
canvas; the wave-beaten corps of one poor
fellow on the shores of one of our lakes
hut you look pale."
".Not at all, dear boy only in a hurry. By
the way, give me a breezy paragraph if I go
the way of the Journal man."
And the old reporter promised, but heard
afew hours later with disgust at the anti
climax that the bag at Filty-second street
and Cottage Grove avenue had not been
filled with gas.
Storms Bring Her Luck.
"I always win on stormy days," said a
stout female as she sat down in the grand
stand at Morris Park on Saturday, in the
presence of a Commercial Advertiser reporter.
Then she drew a long breath and a $3 bill
and sent the money into the ring to back
.Correction to win, which Correction aid not
do. Another long bieath and another $5,
which went on Hell Gate to win. Hell Gate
failed.
"Eon can't win with such a weight in the
mud," said the child of showery fortune,
"so I'll play San Juan." Tho five stayed in
the ring.
HI luck made her reckless, and she spite
fullv declared that she "guessod she could
play favorite as well as anybody." King
maker was tho favorite and one more $5 bill
was gathered in by tho ring.
Frantic with the loss of her $20, she looked
at her card. Xizette caught her eye. "My
namo'.s Elizabeth," said she, "and I'm going
to nut S10 on Lizette. I always was luckv
on stormy days." So she was, for Lizette I
won and her $10 came back to her with $150
more. .N et value or tucir, iav.
More Hard Luck Tlian Anybody.
"Hard luck? Well, honest Iniun, I don't
believe there's a man In the party who has
ever had the slightest opportunity of ap
preciating hard luck as compared with that
man I just pointed out to you," said a Chi
cago storv teller the other day. "Here's a
sample: He came to me one day and pleaded
so hard for something to do and acted so
earnest that I finally concluded to give him
a Job. He said he hadn't nad a bite to cat
for three days and thnt unless he was soon
able to make an honest living he would
either commit suicide or become a thief. I
put him to work driving a sprinkling cart
by the day. I then had the contract for
sprinkling the city. The first day he went
at his work with a light heart and a full
stomach, for I gave him a hearty breakfast.
He did his work well and I feltl hadajenel.
Tho next day It rained and it rained every
day for seven weeks. I never saw him
again until the other day as he was passing
the Tnbune office. His luck has changed, or
he wouldn't he alive."
Gerrymandered in, Not Fleeted.
Boston Globe.
It is pleasant to recall just now that in
1890 tho State of Ohio elected 14 Democrats
to Congress and only seven Hepublicans.
Such figures make one believe that Camp
hell is coming again in the Buckeye State
for sure.
"FRIDAY ; VJTJLY 24; ' 1891
COMMEBCE WITH BBAZTL.
England Ahead, but With Reciprocity tho
United States WIU "Win.
Brooklyn Eagle.
The present, condition of the trade which
England and "the United States do In that
quarter reveals the fact that wf start, under
the new terms of competition, a long way
behind our great rival. Our principal arti
cles of export to Brazil aro wheat, flour, re
fined mineral oils, manufactures ot iron and
steel, cotton manufactures, lard, breadstuffs
and manufactures of wood. Those of Great
Britain are cottons, wrought and unwrought
iron, machinery, coal, woolens, leather,
hardware and cutlery. In 1835 our total ex
ports of such articles amounted to $7,253,035.
Four years later they had Increased to $9,
278,511. During the year 1SS5 England en
tered at Brazilian ports merchandise of the
character stated to the value of 828,030,149,
or nearly four times as much as the value of
the American entries. By the year 1859 she
had increased this total to $39,329,566. In
round numbers, therefore, while the value
of our exports of articles above enumerated
during the interval mentioned represented
an increase of $2,000,000 the value of British
exports enumeratcdrepresented an increase
of $4,000,000. There was a slight change of
the ratio In our favor, but it was not enough
to afford any ground for the belief that we
were decidedly gaining on our competitor,
for England sends In addition other articles
that raise her total to nearly $50,000,000.
The branch of trade in which it most con
cerns us to eclipse England Is that of cotton
manufactures. In 1SS9 the Brazilians pur
chased of the cotton fabrics of Great Britain
some $12,167,5S3 worth. They received from
us only about $516,000 worth. Our principal
staple of export was flour, amounting to
$3,369,074, or nearly one-half the value of the
total exports. We ought to have the great
bulk of the cotton trade. Instead of England,
on general principles. She buys annually
from Brazil about $5,000000 and sells her
$47,000,000. France buys about $13,000,000 and
sells her about $17,000,000. Germany huvs
about $10,000,000 and sells her about $8,000,000,
while the United States buys from $55 000,000
to $60,000,000 worth of her raw materials an
nually and sells heronly about$8,000,000worth
of Its own products. That is to say, Brazil
finds in the United States a market for
nearly one-half of her total exports of coffee,
sugar, rubber, hides, etc., while the re
mainder Is divided botween England, Ger
many and other European countries.
A HERMIT FOB MANY YEABS.
His Home Burns Down and He Appears
Among Civilized People.
rSFECIAL TELEGRAM TO TUB DISPATCH.
Port Jeryis, July 23. The little, Isolated
dwelling, high among the Sullivan county
mountains, a few miles from this village,
where for several years Colonel John F.
Lord has lived the life of a recluse, was
burned to the ground a few days ago, and
tho veteran hermit has been seen for the
first time in years among scenes of civiliza
tion. Thirty-five years ago Colonel Lord
was a power in the polltlos of Pennsylvania
and almost supreme In the management of
the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company,
of which his brother, B ussellF. Lord, waif
then tho managerial bead.
He was a leader in the Pennsylvania mill
tin, and a member of Governor W. F.
Packer's staff. His family was among the
prominent ones of Northeastern Pennsylva
nia. His wifo, a highly accomplished lady,
was a cousin of tho present mistress of
the White House, and he is an uncle by
blood of Mrs. Dlmmick, of the president's
household, and the wife of Lieutenant
Parkerboth also nieces of tho President.
Lord, after years of living by odd Jobs
around tho lumber mills and tanneries, some
years ago suddenly disappeared from all his
former haunts, and it was not known what
had become of him until his hermitage was
accidentally discovered one day by some
hunters. Ho is now 80 years old, and says he
will return to his life ot a recluse as soon as
he can replace his burned cabin.
THE B0YAL ABCH MASONS.
The Triennial Convocation Fleets Officers
and Will Meet NeltlnTopcka.
Minneapolis, July 23. The General Grand
Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, this morning
elected Joseph H. Horner, of New Orleans,
General High Priest for the ensuing trien
nial period. This afternoon the visitors
were shown over Minneapolis. The convo
cation will probably not adjourn before
Saturday. Last night the General Grand
Chapter adopted a ritual, the first complete
one it has ever had. Three hundred dele
gates are present.
It was decided to hold tho next convoca
tion in Topeka.in July, 1894. The General
Grand Council It. & S. U. will alsq be held
there at the same time Additional officers
were elected as follows: Deputy High
Priest, George L. MeCaban, Baltimore;
King, K. C. Lemroon, Toledo; Scribe, James
W. Taylor, Lutherville, Ga.; Treasurer,
Daniel Strikor. Hastings. Mich.: Becorder,
C. G. Fox, Buffalo; Captain, A. G. Pollard,
Lowell, Mass.; Principal Sojourner, F. E.
Dyas, Paris. 111.; Eoyal Arch Captain,
William C. Swayne, Milwaukee.
IT WAS A P0SEB.
nay Is Good for a Horse but Ilartlly for a
Man.
New York Ledger.
Father Mathew warned a friend against
the use of inconcluslvo arguments argu
ments wnlch, to use a strictly temperance
metaphor, will not hold water. He said he
was once addressing an audience of Irish
cardrivers, and told them they might learn
a lesson from the brute creation.
"If," said he, "I were to set before one of
your horses a bucket of water and a bucket
of whisky you know which the wise boast
would take."
Whereupon one of these quick-witted car
men replied: "Well, father, if I were to
place before my horse a truss of hay and a
sirloin of beef, you know which the wiso
beast would choose. But does it follow that
the hay is best for me?"
DEATHS HEBE AND ELSEWHEBE.
Mrs. Clarissa C. Armstrong.
Mrs. Clarissa C. Armstrong died "Wednes
day In San Francisco. She had an eventful life,
closely Identified with pioneer missionary work In
the Pacific Islands. She was a sister of the late
Chief Justice Chapman, of Massachusetts. She
was born In Hampton 86 years ago. In 1833 she
married Rev. Dr. Armstrong. Her wedding trip
was on board a whaler bound for the Marquesas
Islands, where a year was spent In trying to con
vert the cannibals. Erom there she and her hus
band went to Hawaii, and for 60 years Mrs. Arm
strong labored among tho Kanaka women. In 1831
she returned to California, where she lived unUl
her death. One of her sons. General Armstrong,
i3 now In Honolulu, and the other. William N.
Armstrong, who was a member of thelato King
Kalakaua's Cabinet, and who accompanied hlra on
his tour around the world, Is a resident of 'Frisco.
Her three daughters are in Oalifomla. At the time
of her death Mrs. Armstrong was actively engaged
In mission work, fehe had tne dlstincUon of being
the oldest active member of tha American Board of
Foreign Missions.
Antolno Dupuy.
The death is announced in Paris of An
tolno Dupuy, the historian. He was born at Dus
slere in 1835. He waa appointed Professor of His
tory at the Lycecof Brest a month after he was
graduated from the Normal School in Paris. He
pubUshed in 1873 his celebrated thesis. "DeGnecls
Homanorura Amicls aut Prxceptorlbus a Secundo
Bello Punico ad Augustum;" In 1881. "Histolrede
la Reunion de la Bretagne a la France" in two
volumes, for which the academy awarded to him
tho first Gobert prize; in 1832, "Regime Pcnlten
tlalrc en Bretaene auXTIIIe Steele;" In 1883, "Lea
Tribulations del' Abbe Kerretde Keravel." .He
wastheoldest memberofthe faculty of Letters of
Rennes, and was regarded as infallible In aU his re
ports and observations on the history of Brittany,
John Walthonr.
John "Walthour, tho museum man of 31c
Keesport. died at his home there yesterday morn
ing after a short Illness with typhoid fever.
Walthour was known aU over Western Pennsylva
nia, having been the proprietor of a traveling
museum which has been on exhibition in aU or the
smaller towns.
Obituary Notes.
LiEUTEifjgrr Colonel E. J. Tocbtellotte,
formerly General Sherman's Chief of Staff, died at
his home In La Crosse Wednesday night.
Meyer Goldsmith, one of the oldest real estate
and insurance men of St. Louis, and a wealthy
property owner, died of apoplexy Wednesday.
Rev. 1'ibmax Bobbins, one of the oldest and
most widely-known ministers In the New Jersey
nrA,T.nHiet : Pnnferencc died at his home in Bridge.
ton Wednesday, after an illness of one week. His
age was 68 years.
Jesse Cabpexteb, who died at Wllkesbarre.
Tuesday, was the founder of the Wllkesbarre
Blcvcle Club, and one of the best-known wheelmen
in Pennsylvania. He died of paralysis, though
only 30 years old.
D. T. Beedeb, the oil operator who was burned
by the explosion at his well on the Miller farm
Tuesday, died early yesterday morning at Callery
Junction. His famllv was with him when he ex
pired. The body was taken to his late home at
Butler.
MAJOR D. V. DEBicxsoir, a prominent and
widely-known citizen of Meadvllle, died in that
city Tuesday, aged 74 years. Major Derlckson
commanded at ono time during the War of the Re
bellion the company guarding the Executive 3Ian
aion. Washington, and was frequently commended
by President Lincoln for his soldierly iiualliles.
Deceased was a member of the Legislature in
1881-2, and has served hf many public capacities.
"
SOCIETY AND CHARITY.
Dedication of the Odd Fellows Orphans'
Home at Laurel Station Postponement
Of the Hotel Kenmawr Theatricals A
Neat Summer "Wedding Social Gossip.
The Odd Fellows' Widows and Orphans'
Home at Laurel, was dedicated yesterday.
Every train for that station yesterday was
crowded with members of that order from
all the cities and towns within 100 miles of
Pittsburg. Besides the dedicatory services
it was a day of fraternal reunion and all
kinds of sports were enjoyed. The arrange
ments were complete and the success of the
affair was duo to the management of Dr. G.
A. Mueller, John W. Honey, C. C. Cricks, S.
S. Hagar and T. B. Cook.
An ode by the McGarvey Quartette opened
the exercises. The addess of welcome was
delivered by Hon. John A. Myler, P. G. Mas
ter. It was one of Mr. Myler's characteristic
speeches and much enj oyed by the audience
Following a selection by the quartette
Mayor Gourley made an address. Mayor
Wyman made a short speech. The other ex
ercises consisted of an address by 11. H.
Graham, Grand Patriarch; solo by Miss Mcr
Garvey: formal dedicatory exercises by the
ofilcers of the Grand Lodge and Encamp
ment of Pennsylvania; musio by the Daugh
ters of Kebecca, of Beaver county; address
by W. Ed. Marsh, Grand Master; oration by
J. B. Nicholson, P. G. Sire: benediction by
Bev. M. D. Lichiltor.
The business of the home will be con
ducted by a board of 27 managers selected
from members of the corporation in July
of t;ach year. Those elected in July. 1891,
are: J. A. Myler, H. C. Mindel, A. H. Book
ing, G. A. Mueller, S. S. Hager, Thomas B.
Cook, C C. Criks, W. A. Irwin, E. E. Ander
son, W. N. Patterson, D. W. Shaffer, W. M.
McLaln, John H. Morrow, W. H. Stewart,
Mrs. Mollle M. Cricks, Mrs. A. S. Bassett,
Miss M. Clark, Mrs. Abbie Lynch, Mrs. J. D.
Wi ey, Mrs. B. J . Campbell, Mrs. Alice Jamie
son, Mrs. L. Watts, Mrs. T. Gill, Mrs. S. Op
pennon. Mrs. K. Gaub, Mrs. E. Hulme, Mrs.
L. L. Brown. The officers of the association
are John A. Myler, President: Henry C. Men
del, Secretary, and Dr. G. A. Mueller, Treas
urer. A dinner was served from 12 o'clock to 3 by
the Daughters of Bobecca. A charming
lunch was also served in tho evening.
As You Like It," on the lawn of the Hotel
Kenmawr, has been necessarily postponed
till this evening. With a glorious afternoon,
turning into cloudy, threatening weather,
thero was a general feeling that rain might
come and spoil the programme, and sure
enough, at about 6:30 o'clock there was a
thunder shower that converted the Forest
of Arden into a swamp and precluded the
possibility of Orlando wooing Mosalind for at
least 24 hours. Manager Jenks, who hod
been at the hotel for several hours, saw
that a postponement was Inevitable, and
lost no time in telephoning the fact to the
city, where it was bulletined outside
Tub Dispatch office and elsewhere.
Miss Bose Coghlan, Miss Burress, Mr. Mul
doon, Mr. Joseph Haworth and other mem
bers of tho cast sat on the great stone porch
of the Kenmawr Hotel last evening after
the rain, and were introduced to those who
came to see whether "As You Like It" was
to be done In spite of the rain. They were a
merry party, and although there was some
dlsanrjointment over tho postponement.
.there was consolation in the knowledge that
..it would be only till this evening, when tho
inaic&tions are lor lair weaiuer. every
thing is ready, and there is no
doubt about a delightful entertain
ment being given to-night, unless the
weather should again prove unpropitions.Mr.
Jenks announces that, as nearly all the seats
for the first performance of "As You Like
It" are sold, It will be repeated to-morrow
night, with Miss Coghlan, Mr. Haworth, Mr.
Muldoon and the same cast throughout, and
In the same manner as the first. Tickets
for both performances will be on sale to-day.
Reserved seats for both performances now
on sale at Hamilton's Music Store.
A musical concert by tho Major E. A. Mon
tooth Band was the programme of enter
tainment for the new Central Park, on Bed
ford avenue, last evening. A largo crowd
was present, but the rain pud an end to the
?ilcasure of the evening. But a few seleo
lons had been played when it commenced
to rain hard, and as there was no Bheltor.
the musicians had to leave. They proceeded
down town and upon arriving at Berry's
Hotel, 817 Liborty street, were served with
an excellent supper. The entertainment
for the band was furnished by Coroner Mc
Dowell and Mr. Berry, who were present
with a number of friends, and a pleasant
evening was spent.
The "Fall of Pompeii" will be glvon at
Recreation Park to-morrow night unless the
weather should interfere. Manager Barn
helsel says he has everything ready now,
and believes he will bo able to offer Pitts
burgers thebest representation of "Pompeii"
that has ever been seen in this country. Be
sides the $1,000 worth of fireworks that are
discharged at overy performance, thero will
be chariot races participated In by both
men and womon, and other extraordinary
features. Judging by the large advance
salo of tickets there will bo at least 10,000
people at the opening performance
An event of much importance to the so
ciety people of Wilkinsburg i3 the lawn foto
to bo given next Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday evenings on the grounds of St.
James' R. CChurch. It will be under the
auspices of the Knights of St. John of that
church, bnt the ladies of tho congregation
are also taking an active interest in the
management ofthe function, so it is unnec
essary to say that the fete is suro to be very
pretty ob well as successful.
A vebt pretty wedding took place last
evening, when Miss Annie McNally became
the bride of Mr. C. L. Gilde'rsleeve. A few
friends only witnessed tho coremony, which
was performed at the home of the brido on
Manor street, at 8 o'clock. Rev. C. E. Locke
was the officiating clergyman. A supper was
'served, after which the young couple do
parted for their wedding trip. They will ro
sido on Dinwiddle street.
Social Chatter.
Tire H. J. Heinz Company has issued invi
tations to its employes for a basket picnic at
Boss' grove to-morrow.
Campmeetihg at Yalley Camp will open this
evening with a sormon by Bcv. C. E. Locke.
The cottages aro alt filled.
William P. McCobmick, ofthe well-known
steamship agency, was married last evening
to Eliznbeth C. Carnahan. The future homo
of the couple will be at Ingram.
A LAwif fete will be held on tho Hampton
place grounds, Wilkinsburg. August 7. It
will be given by tho Y. P. S. C. E. of the
Presbyterian Church and promises to be a
very enioj'able affair. The proceeds will be
devoted to church purposes.
A mtioir bush meeting will be held at
Homewood grove next Sunday afternoon.
It will be undor tho auspicos of Siloam Bap
tist Church. The services will bo conducted
by eminent clergymen of the two cities.
The object of tho mooting is to raise funds
for repairing the church.
The Pittsburg High Sohool class of '92 was
given a reception last evening by Miss Lydia
Murdoch, of Forbes street, who is a member
ofthe coming graduating class. Eighteen
young people in all werejpresent, and from 7
till 11 o'clock mirth and music reigned
supreme. Each young miss was the recip
ient of a handsome corsage bouquet and
each gentleman a houtonniere of white
roses. The house was very prettily dec
orated. A -WOMAN'S EEASONING.
Summer Jewelry Runs to Silver Hearts In
Spito of AH Else.
Detroit Free Press.
Why summerjewelry should run to hearts,
is something beyond my ken, but it is true
that the sweetest, coolest, cutest little silver
hearts are shown at the Jewelers' lor this
season's wear. The snmmer girl has had
the good tasto to adopt this pretty fleeting
fashion, and she wears the tiny silver heart
with her Initial or monogram on side, at
tached ton slender chain which just claps
tho circumference of her dainty neck, and
outlines the classic proportions.
Some of tho buds wear tho little heart
strung on a narrow band of velvet, but the
chain to match Is prottier. Others fasten it
on the bodice with u classpin, or wear it on
a bangle. Tho largest of these hearts Is as
big as a silver dollar, and one side open3 to
show a picture inside. And here inoxorablo
Damo Fashion insists that the portrait face
must be that of some member of the family
not lover or friend. The girl graduates
are very happy In the possession of tneso
new silver sweethearts.
Respectfully Dedicated to the Hon. M. S. Q.
Conventions now are out of dale
And caucuses are waning
Tho while against the fall campaign
The candidates are training;
The summer breezes softly blow
And sport the gentle zephyr
Athwart J. Simpson's eocklcss (bins
And hirsute growth of Peffer
Stray "Sliver" threads among the gold
So sore her actions trararaell,
Ohio still may strain at gnats
And oil to swallow Campbell.
Meantime, far wisest of his kind.
The wily politician.
Who drops the whole confounded "biz"
And sensibly goes flhin
Washing ton Post.
"?wFtf
XATJGHS AT A LOCKED TA"W.
John Cook, of Coney Island, "Works and
Eats Under Difficulties,
New York Ad rertlser. J
There is at present living in Sheepshead
Bay a man who is a prospective victim of tho
deadly lockedjaw. His case has been pro
nounced hopeless by physicians; but, with
wonderful determination, the afflicted man
has continued to live and perform his dally
labor while his jaws remain in that vice-like
grip. Death by starvation is actually star
ing mm in the face; Dut oonnuooK caimiy
contemplates his impending fate and goes
about hi3 duties as cheerfully as If he was
sure of living over again the throescoieyears
which he has already spent on earth.
No other physical symptoms atanyltlme
accompanied the development of this re
markable case of lookjaw. Physicians rarely
encounter a case of this sort, where the nerv
ous and muscular systems in parts of tho
body remote from the place of contraction
are not affected in some manner. John Cook
is a man ot perfect health outside ofthe
troubles affecting his inferlormaxillary, and
has a robust constitntion and a healthy ap
petite. In view of the absence of these other
disorders physicians regard bis case as sim
ply one of a locked Jaw, and due, no doubt,
to the absence of sufficient natural lubricant
at the hlngo joints.
When the physicians first examined Cook
they concluded that the case had its origin
in an injury of some sort whioh he had re
ceived. It was not until the physicians had
departed that John remembered that his
jaw was injured about six years ago, and
that since then the lower jaw has become
gradually locked, nntll it is now immovable.
The injury to the Jaw was received while
he was wrestling with Jim King in tho bar
room of Mrs. Mahon's Atlantic Hotel, Sheeps
head Bay. The men had Just returned from
an election in the Town Hall, and were
drinking at the bar of the hotel when King
proposed a wrestling bout. The men were
evenly matched, and "Tommy" Smith, who
has tended bar in the hotel lor the post 19
years, acted as referee. John was thrown
fairly, but in falling his left Jaw came in con
tact with the end of the bar rail. The in! ury
was superficial, but during the next few days
the jaw began to lose Its freedom of motion.
It took some years before the Jaw was fairly
locked as it is now. It has been locked
tightly for a year, and John Cook would
have been starved to death before now
had he not foreseen the result and taken tho
precaution to have two teeth filed down in
front and another drawn out. This left an
aperture, through which he now pushes the
necessary food into his mouth. Of course,
ho cannot chew his food. Ho feeds prin
cipally on soft material milk and bread and
soaked crackers and fish. When ho wants
to enjoy roast beef it must be cut up in
shreds for him. When, by dint of hard
Eushing, he forces some food into his mouth,
e rolls It around with his tongue, tossing
it from side to side until it Is ready for swat
lowing. On account of the slowness with
which he Is compelled to eat, he occupies his
chair at the table somotimes two hoars at a
stretch.
For 50 years Cook has lived at Sheepshead
Bay, following his calling snmmer and win
ter as a fisherman. He Is of African blood,
nnd was born In slavery. His mother, an
old lady SO years old, is still alive, and Is as
spry as a woman of 40. There is no one
better known on Coney Island than John
Cook, not even John Y. McKane. A number
of Cook's friends have offered to pay for the
services of a surgeon if he will permit an
operation, but John is adverse to an opera
tion.
A PBESIDENTAL DIP.
Harrison Takes Another Ocean Hath After
a Talk With Foster.
CSFECTAL TELEGRAM TO TUB DISPATCH
Cape May, N. J., July 23. The President's
official acts which were to be transaoted to
day were laid over nntil to-morrow, owing
to the number of callers at the Presidentai
cottage to-day. Tho mail was exceedingly
heavy a.rain to-day, and after the morning'
visit at the cottage, Secretary Halford was
busy uuti 5 o'clock this afternoon in catch
ing up to It. The President received at the-
oottago tals morning, S. V. White, of Brook
lyn, and Silas B. Dntoher, of New York, who
were closeted with the President for over
an hour this morning. They left this after
noon. Secretary of the Treasury Charles Foster
arrived this morning, and after registering
at Congress Hall went to the President's
cottage, where ho passed all the afternoon,
taking dinner and supper at the cottage.
The object of Mr. Foster's visit, which will
last a week, is for business and vacation
combined.
Secretary Foster was serenaded at Con
gress Hall this evening hi- Simon Hassler's
Orchestra. The President, Mrs. Dimmlck,
nnd tho two grand children bathed again
this morning. Mrs. Harrison called on Mrs.
John W. Kitchen, of Indianapolis, at the
Windsor Hotel this afternoon. Brigadier
General L. W. L. Williamson, of El Paso,
Tex., arrived to-day and will call upon the
President to-morrow to arrango some mat
ters concerning affairs near the Mexican
boundary.
'THBEE GE0BGIA LAWYEBS
Now Suffering Badly at the Hands of ths
Quitman Jokers.
Tho Quitman, Ga., Fiee Press has heard
two good jokes on two lawyers this week.
One is on Judge Jim Guerry, of Dawson. A
short time ago an old negro was up before
tho Judgo charged with some trivial offense.
"Haven't you a lawyer, oldman?",inqulred
the Judge.
"No, sah."
"Can't you get one?"
"No, sah."
"Don't vou want me to appoint one to de
fend you?"
"No, snh, IJesttho'tl'd leab the case to
the ignnnce of do co't."
Tho other is on the legal fraternity in gen-,
eral. An old farmer was on his deathbed.
He requested that two lawvers from a neigh
boring town he sent for. When they came
he motioned them to take scats, one on each
side of the bed. Ho looked from ono to the
other for a few moments, and then with hl
last breath exclaimed: "I die content, like
my Savior, between two thieves!"
A DEFEAT FOR EDISON.
The Suit Against tho United States Company
Will Be Appealed.
New Yobk, July 23. In the United States
Circuit Court this morning. Judge Wallace
allowed the appeal of the United States
Electric Lighting Company in the Edison
lamp case, and entered the order suspend
ing the injunction, so as to loave the United
States Company free to manufacture and
sell lamps to its customers. The United
Stntes Company is toflle a bond of $50,000
within ten days.
The Judge gave as his reasons for the de
cision the magnitudo of the Interests In
volved and the delay in bringing suit. The
appeal will probably he argued this fall be.)
fore the new Circuit Court of Appeals.
A STBEET PEDDLES.
Ho Had Plenty of Fish, but No Mercy for a
Poor Brute.
San Francisco Call.
A disappointed flsh peddler was trying by
the use of a bludgeon to get "a move on" an
old and decidedly dilapidated animal yester
day afternoon, shouting between strokes,
"Fish, flna flsh; fresha flshey." A tender
hearted lady pokedherhead out of a Tehama
street window, and, seeing the act of cruelty
to tho horse, called out sternly to the human
biuter "Have you no mercy, sir?"
"Nota mncha mercy, mum," answered the
peddler, "but I gota plenty nloa flsh; how
mucha you want?"
PEOPLE COMING AND GOING.
Mrs. S. C. McCandless and daughter; 3T.
Ohlman and'family, of Mendville; J. L.
Mohn, T. D. Hunter, of McKeesport, nnd
Louis Kalb were among the Atlantic City
excursionists yesterday.
D. "W. Higgins and Miss Higgins, of
Toronto, Canada, aro at tho Monongahela.
Mr. Higgins has lately been through British
Columbia and speaks highly or the resources
of that country.
Emil Swenson. superintendent .of the
draughting department of the Keystone
Bridge Company, left for the seaside last
evening.
Colonel John Staples and Charles "W.
Vance, of North Carolina, who have been
here for a day or two, left for New York last
night.
J. A. McCormick, trainmaster of the New
York Central at Bffalo, left for homo yester
day after a brief visit here.
A. L. Suesman, general "Western manager
of .the United Press, was a passenger east
ward last night.
The Hon. W. B. Meredth, of Kittanning,
was at the Seventh Avenue yesterday for a
few hours.
August Schmidt, of the Bartholomay
Brewing Company, is at the Duquesne.
Colonel. Elkins returned from the East
last night.
CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS.'
Berlin women have formed a league to
wage war on the corset.
Thirteen thousand mules are sold at
Marshall, Mo., every year.
A hoveltv in men's hats is a fac simile
of the "stove pipe" made of straw.
About twice as much power is required
to stop an express train as to start one.
Bival squires are marrying eloping
couples free of charge at Jeffersonvllle, Ind.
The mayor of Philadelphia receives
$12,000 a year, the mayor of New York re
ceives siu,uuu.
A sensible dog a Auburn, 3Ie., regu
larly disappears in the country on July 3,
and doesn't come back till the racket is
over.
George Schweich, a merchant of Rich
mond, Mo., owns the table upon which tha
Book of Mormons was written. He values
it at $5,000.
George C. Curry has arrived at Van
couver from Alaska in a dugout canoe. It is
said be is the only white man who ever made
that Journey in such a croft.
A club of whistling girls has been or
ganized in Brewer, Me., and it is rumored
that a concert will soon be given, at which
the club will make its first appearance.
At Butte, Mont., E. J. Thomas and his
wife, while in bed, were struck by lightning
and instantly killed, their infant, which was
sleeping between them, escaping injury.
In Douglas, "Wyo., two servant girls
sued a woman who keeps a hotel for their
unpaid wages. The case was tried by
women lawyers befor a J ury of 12 women.
The life insurance carried by John
Wanamakor amounts to $1,000,000, which is
distributed in 29 different companies. Tha
Sremiums on these policies amount to $U0,
X) a year.
Sheriff "West, of Camden, 2f. J., ha3
seized a cemetery lot owned by Jacob
Stanger, on execution issued at the suit of J.
J. Knight, who secured a ludgment against
him for $&.
A woman living near Grass Lake,
Miob., lately traded her horse to a tinware
peddler for 16 milk pans, two dippers and a
bucket, and her neighbors declare that sba
got the best of the bargain.
The JSew York girl who lost her en
gagement ring in a wash basin only to find
it two years later in the gutter, where it had
been washed from an open sewer, had mean
time been married and widowed.
Chicago, located upon the shores of
Lake Michigan, Is Just now so much in need
of pure water that capitalists are preparing
to invest $1,000,000 In piping water from a
Wisconsin spring to be sold in that city.
Sir "William Siemen's method of apply
ing electrio light to grow flowers and fruit by
night or on cloudy days has been employed
with good success on board a West India
steamer to-keeD alive exotic vines and other
.plants.
One of the prettiest shows in Marshall-
pville, Ga., is a peach orchard of 6,000 trees
planted by the compass in squares, well
tilled, beautifully trimmed and each limb
gracefully bending under the preoious bur
den of fruit.
"While an Auburn, Ind., barber was
shaving a customer a boy threw a lighted
firecracker under the chair. The explosion
startled the barber, the razor glanced Into
the customer's throat, and a surgeon had to
be called to sew the wound.
A man walked into a Lowell, Mass.,
barroom last week, bought 25 cents' worth of
cigars, and offered a $1,000 bill In payment.
He was somewhat taken aback when tho
saloonkeeper pocketed the bill and counted
out for change $999 75 in silver.
A Battle Creek, Mich., man has
patented a typewriter for musical compo
sers. The copy whioh it makes can bo pho
tographed ana a plate reproduced for print
ing which is said to be much better than
plates made in the ordinary way.
Artificial grindstones, made of a mix
ture of pulverized quartz, powdered flint,
powdered emery or corundum, and rubDer
dissolved by a suitable solvent, are now
made for sharpening tools which outwear
by years any a atrial stone known.
A marble slab has been placed on the
house in which Poganini died in Nice. Tho
inscription concludes with: "The powerful
bow that drew forth magio sound3 now lied
inert, but its supreme sweetness still sur
vives in the scented breezes of Nice."
' A horse at Irvington, CaL, that was an
noyed while taking his daily meal from a
bucket by a flock of hens, especially by one
big black hen, one day turned his bucket
over on his tormentor and left her impris
oned under it, where she remained till the
next morning.
The method of purifying water invented
by Dr. William Anderson, and no w employed
at Antwerp with success, consists in pasting
the water through a slowly revolving cylin
der containing metallic iron in tho mrm of
scraps or filings. The estimated cost of puri
fying 1,000,000 gallons in this way is abotft
$150.
A horse in Macomb, Mich., has been
used to go to church every Sunday with his
owner for years. Last Sunday, for reasons
best known to himself, he left the horse at
home, and after services went out and there
stood the faithful animal in his accustomed
place, by the church, waiting ior him. Out
without the carriage.
According to the "Annual of the French
Army for 1S91," the standing army will con
tain next year 570,603 men, and will show an
increase over this year of 32 officers, 7,10
men, and 1,013 horses. The an nual gives tho
total number of officers, doctors and other
officials of officers rank as 75,000. The esti
mated expenditures for tho army next year
is $131,000,000,
An old brindle cow belonging to an
Indiana man broke into another's field, and
in court the owner of tho field proved that
the cow destroyed the following mentioned
property, to-wlt: Two 1-year-old cherry
trees, 7 apple-.trees, 5 pear trees, 1 plum tree,
100 head of cabbage, 12 rows of beans 5
rods long, 1 row of beets 1J rods long, 50 to
150 sweet potato plants, 1 bed of onions, 3
grape vines nnd 11 blackberry bushes.
Kev. Dr. Cuyler, of Brooklyn, says that
Harace Greeley ouco told him that he be
lioved that at tho time of his young man
hood in Now Hampshire he was the only tee
totaler in tho State. Dr. Cuyler further
says, upon the authority of Dr. Lyman
Beecher, that in those times, when the Con
gregational Ministers' Association of Con
necticut hel d a dinner, the place whore they
dined had so much whisky in it that it
'smelled like a barroom.
PICKINGS FROM PUCK.
Florist "What was that man kicking
about, you sold the roses to?
Boy He Wanted to know If they were fast colors;
said the last he got were faded.
Sawyer The proof of the pudding is in
the eating.
De Spep No, It Isn't. It is In the digesting. ''U
Visitor Good morning, Lhmanl How
Is your sore foot?
Lehman (whispering) Coming out aU right,
thanks; but speak softly. It's it's asleep, now.
Disappointed Bard (in newspaper office)
What's the trouble about my work?
Office Boy 'T ain't no trouble at all. Mister.
The boss Just looks atyonr signature, an' then
chucks the stuff over for me to keep.
"It is a beastly bore having those ocean
steamers start after six P.M.," said Howell Gib
bon. "Such a nuisance of having to start for
Europe In a dress suit!"
"Ijwas bred in Ohio," said the Mission
ary. "Huh! You be pie in my country," returned
the cannibal; and later developments showed that
the cannibal was right.
"Did you enjoy your tete-a-tete with Miss
Mumm?"
"No."
"You're very ungallant."
"I'd rather be ungallant than have people think
I love to hear myself talk."
Policeman (poking tramp over baker's
grating) Here you. move on! What areyedoln'
here?
Tramp Dat's inhuman. Mister! I'seJust Inhal
ing my breakfast!
"Joekins and Quipley, the funny men,
had a queer bet hut night."
"What was it?"
"Joekins bet Qnipley that Depew's speeches had
more of his Jokes In 'em than they bad of Quipley'a.
Quipley won, though. The score was 400 to 33S."
"Where are you going this summer?
"'To the mountains."
"What Is your reason for going to the mount
ains? "Mahomet's; the mountains will not come t
me,"
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