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THE PITTSBUEG. DISPATC
WEDNESDAY, JULY 29. 1891
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PITTSBURG, WEDNESDAY. JULY 29, 18ML.
THE SILVER ISSTIE STATED.
That was a cautious statement of the
rilver issue made by Governor Boies, of
Iowa, in accepting the Democratic nom
ination. He confined himself to the fact
that silver was deprived of its coinage
rights in 1ST3, "at a time when our people
we-e burdened with enormous, national,
municipal and individual debt," and that
n,it is still hampered by statutory provisions
That are made in the interest of the cred
itor at the expense of the debtor classes."
This puts the demand of the Democracy
that "silver shall be restored to its ancient
i state" as a demand in the interest of the
Ojebtor class.
dut this necessarily includes the recog
nition of the purpose to alter the standard
4f values in order that the debtor classes
aiay have an advantage therefrom. If
wlver is kept at par with gold the debtor
"will have to pay just as much as he now
does. That is practically the complaint
o the Governor in the paragraph quoted
from. The statutory provisions "have so
far prevented the lowering of the dollar to
about 80 per cent of its present value, and
Jiave therefore been in the interest of the
creditor class. The interest of the debtor
class as concealed under Governor
Boies' profuse phraseology is, briefly, that
the dollar or unit of value shall be lowered
about one-fifth, in order that debtors may
pay their debts with about one-fifth less
of labor or goods.
"With regard to this proposition the sil
ver men rely for its justification on the
rlaim that a similar injustice vras perpe
trated in 1873 in favor of the creditor
class. There are several objections to
that claim. The first is its inaccuracy in
point of fact When silver was demon
etized in 1S73 the value of the silver dollar
-nas in excess of the gold dollar, and it
was not coined for that reason. The
debtors did not lose a cent by that demon
etization, although it is a fact that the
changes which, took place in the years fol
lowing did impose a hardship on debtors
by the steady appreciation in the exchange
value of the gold dollar.
But, when that point is conceded, what
accuracy is there in the claim hat two
wrongs make a right? If exactly the
same persons constituted the debtor and
creditor classes now as at that time, there
might be a certain barbaric justice in con
fiscating one-fifth of the claims of the
creditor and giving it to the debtor, on the
argument that the operation in the seven
ties was the other way. But the two
classes have changed, and the proposition
of thesiher men is practically to take 20
per cent of A's property and give it to B
because there is a suspicion that 15 per
cent of C's property was taken away from
liim and given to D nearly twenty years
ago.
Governor Boies Is correct in asserting,
though somewhat dimly, that the real
bearing of the f-ilver question is between
the debtor and the creditor classes. Bnt
when that is recognized the public will be
fciow to assent to a transaction which, as
one of its principal results, will take
1,000,000,000 off the debts of the railway
corporations at the cost of the investors in
railway bonds.
A COMPROMISE VERDICT AGAIN'.
Another compromise verdict made its
appearance yesterday in that Columbus
murder trial. The conviction of W. J.
Kiliotr of murder in the second degree,
1honsh perhaps less inadequate .in its re
sult, is. like many other compromise ver
dicts, a total defiance of reason and good
lipic.
The evidence left only one of two con
rlusions possible. Either Elliott attacked
Osbnrn with deliberate enmity engendered
by a bitter quarrel, or he was attacked by
fKborn and shot him in self-defense. The
evidence showed the former to have been
the case, and the brutal lawlessness of the
crime called for hanging If ever lulling
did. But apart from that conviction, the
evidence left only one of two theories pos
sible. Either it was self-defense or mur
der in the first degree. As a result of
obstinate disagreement, however, the jury
oi ought in a verdict in accordance with
neither theorv.
The result illustrates, as has frequently
been done before, what little force logical
deductions from the evidence have in the
deliberations of the jury system.
profession vs. practice.
Our friends, the Eastern journals, are
looking forward to a renewed agreement
of the anthracite coal corporations to re
fctnet production closer than for the past
three months. This expectation is held
out as a satisiactory performance for the
monetary classes and investors in Eastern
cities.
It is difficult to see how the coal corpor
ations can do this with any respect for
their public professions. They have for
mally avowed in times past that their
agreement was only to produce "as much
coal as the market would take." Xow the
past three months have demonstrated that
veu in the season of least demand the
market will show two million tons in ex
cess of stipulated figures. To be true to
their profession, therefore, they must dur
ing the fall and winter agree to produce
even more coal than they have been doing.
They cannot otherwise fulfill their com
bined desire to supply the full demand of
consumers.
There is no escape from this course ex
cept by the practical acknowledgment
that the professed purpose of the combi
nation was a shallow falsehood. But as
every one knows it to be that in the first
jilace, the dilemma will not probably pre-
e
vent a new attempt to- produce artificial
scarcity in the fuel of the East.
A NEW DEPARTURE.
While the published statement of Mr.'
McGuire called renew-ed attention to the
fact that the late carpenters' strike was
unauthorized and disastrous, a cotempor
ary statement brought out a compensation
in the fact that a large share of the strikers
have gone to work as contractors on their
own hook. The assertion is made that a
very considerable portion of the building
now going on is done by men who were
working for wages a year ago and are now
taking contracts, some in partnership with
their fellow workmen, and somo emplov-
insr a few hands at rcinilar waces.
ThK inrt ivitec Tho tjiftiirrh tilo Mrnar,..
'ters were defeated thev have made mere
rs w ere aeieatea tney nave maue more
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ICiW UU.d.lli;e 111 LllO lltSUU BUlUblUU U.L
the labor question. The Dispatch
has always believed that the real
tion of all wage disputes lay in making
the workmen their own emplovera
where it is economically possible. Iiris
one of the shallow ideas common to th.e
time that competition crowds down wages.
It does so where the competition is solely
that of workingmen for wages. But
where the competition is that of employers
for labor it restores the balance. This is
practically what is done when working
carpenters or journeymen of any sort in
the "building trade take contracts for them
selves. They remove their own competi
tion for wages and furnish instead em
ployers for their own labor and that of
others. Where there is a large element of
labor doing its own contracting we may be
sure competition will not depress wages
unduly.
Beyond that the building trades in this
city afford an especially favorable field for
a departure of this sort Xot in the
larger buildings necessarily, where capital
and organization are needed on a consider
able scale, but the average building here
is one on which two or three carpenters
and the requisite number of bricklayers,
stone masons and painters do the work.
On such buildings the element of superin
tendence and direction can be more satis
factorily furnished by the contractor who
himself works than by the large contractor
who, having a score of such contracts in
various parts of the city, leaves the super
intendence to his foremen. In this and in
other respects the new development can
materially bring down the cost of building
and at the same time increase their own
earning by simply reducing the excessive
margins charged by contractors and
material men. We know of cases under the
old regime in which contractors have
charged for work in which they did
nothing more than send workmen to do it
and charged 40 per cent profit on the
men's wages. It is plain that the work
men themselves could have contracted for
this work at a price which would have
given them 20 per cent advance on wages
and saved the customer 20 per cent on the
cost If the new departure should come
in conflict with thatpeculiarfeature of the
Builders' Exchange which seeks to enact
that only a privileged class shall be per
mitted to buy building material, with the
inevitable result of establishing new com
petition in the supply business, to be con
ducted on democraticprinciples.it will not
at all diminish its favor with the public.
There is a disposition among labor
leaders to regard this very satisfac
tory development as an outcome of the
strike. It seems to be so at the first blush;
but a more careful consideration will show
it to be instead an outcome of the strug
gle. The importance of the distinction
will appear by a single suggestion. It is
indisputable that the loss of wages to
workingmen by the strike amounted to an
immense sum. Suppose that instead of
standing idle the men had kept at work
and devoted half or even a third of their
wages to building up this independent
business of contractors from among their
own number. Would not all have been
better off now, and would not the compe
tition fiom the independent element be
much further advanced than it actually is?
l'EATrORJIS AND PRINCIPLES.
There is some foundation for the criti
cisms of Republican journals on the sum
mary nullification by Governor Campbell
and his campaign manager, Lawrence T.
Xeal, of the sil er and income planks of
the Oliio platform. That frank proceed
ing" is justified by Democratic leaders with
the pertinent plea that the tariC is the real
issue, and that all others must go to the
wall in a campaign lought solely on that
question. So far, Messrs. Campbell and
Xeal are right, and the fact that they are
on the wrong side of the leading issue
should be given due weight by the people
of Ohio.
Nevertheless it is a very singular view
cf political ethics that permits a candidate
to accept the nomination of a party and
lightly throw overboard its authoritative
profession of principles. If party plat
forms are worth anything at all, a candi
date has the choice of but two courses.
One is to accept and maintain the princi
ples avowed in the platform; the other is
to decline a nomination which pledges
him to false principles. It may be said
with some force that party platforms,
especially of the sort which catches
votes by such devices as the free
coinage and income tax planks, are not
worth anything; but that is more damag
ing to the sincerity of party methods than
indicatory of the party candidates. The
way in which such a course as that pur
sued by Campbell andNeal can be made to
work is shown by the fact that it would
leave a candidate at liberty to repudiate
the tariff plank and make his campaign on
the free silver and income-tax issues, if he
chose to do so.
XETT BUT TARDY LIGHT.
It is at last dawning on the mind of the
Administration that it is not neutrality to
treat one party in the Chilean struggle on
the foregone conclusion that they are
rebels and revolutionists. Also that it is
less in accordance with republican princi
ples to do so when the favor is shown en
tirely on the side of an executive who by
his own statement has maintained his po
sition by usurpation and the assumption of
dictatorial powers. It is less pleasant to
have it intimated that the Government has
been misled by misrepresentation of a
United States Minister inspired by corrupt
motives.
If Mr. Egan has done what is re
ported in the special telegram from Wash
ington to yesterday's Dispatch he should
be made the subject of very sharp disci
pline. But even the reported misrepre
sentations of a diplomatic representative
can hardly be accepted as a sufficient ex
planation of the mistakes acknowledged.
The Administration should have been able
to percehe, independently of Mr. Egan,
that neutrality does not consist of making
up its mind without a hearing that one
party are rebels and outlaws, and shaping
its actions on that conviction. Especially
when Balmaceda's proclamation avowed
that he had "assumed all the powers of
Government," a constitutional republic
ought to have perceived the danger of
showing all its favors to him and treating
the other parties as pirates. The Dib-
-X
patch pointed out these errors some time
ago, and the fact that they have at least
been perceived at Washington emphasizes
the conclusion that'they should have been
perceived before.
Nevertheless it is -better late than never.
It is gratifying to learn that the United
States will observean impartial neutrality,
and will no longer put itself in the very
questicnable.attitnde of exhibiting partial
ity to a.ruler-who by his own showing is
a usurper.
A VEEY iplausible foundation for the
proposed wheat corner is indicated by the
fact tha Mr. Pillsbury, of tho great milling
svndicaXe. is talking wheat up very strongly.
with the information that the syndicate is
holding a 'Mb; load In the elevators, if
ilarmerS Can UO muuKeu m Hum u H1B
. ...tmill4ncr RTmdfint.A will rift fvhlA
new crop-the-milling synuicnte win De aoie
tQ unloadrthe flour made from the wheat at
high prices, after which the farmers can
shift for themselves. Two years ago the
solM-4'miiling syndicate undertook to hold up the
market on their own hook and failed. Now
thev would bevglad to get the farmers to do
theboosting. But'the project will he an
egregious fizzle.
The news that Mark Twain -is going to
stun a comiorpaperinXondon arouses gen
eral objection in tho American press from'
t,he alleged inability of tho English to appre
ciate any new jokes. But as Mark has not
made any jotes of later, date than the early
seventies, thite objection converts itself hy
reactionary process into a positive recom
mena'ation. Norwrrnsi'-AirDiNG the fact that the
Ladies' Health Protective Association was
refused a charter, the work started hy that
organization is bearing good fruit. Smoke
consumers are heing tried hy various con
cerns, as will bi seen in oun news columns.
If they p.;ove successful, and they undoubt
edly will, they sjaould he adopted for every
furnace and bits iminous coal burner in the
city. Agreat ms.ny persons whose chimneys
have emitttki dense volumes of smoke prom
ised that tlieywould adopt a consumer as
soon as they found a good one. They should
follow those Vwlio are now making the ex
periment. It is noted tliat Sir Morell Mackenzie was
not among tho se who were invited to attend
the Emperor "William during his English
visit. The omifsdon is not surprising. Tho
German Empcros knows hy experience that
the titled physical .n's charges for attendance
are high and his ailvice and comments very
outspoken.
A BRILLIANT sitatesman in Georgia who
proposes a hill making it a mis
demeanor for a school teacher to
use a book referring to the war of the
sixties as '"the "Wlar of the Rebellion" is a
living instance of the impossibility of rid
ding a fool of his folly though he is brayed
In a mortar. The Georgian sticks to Bour
bonism even more persistently than the
Northern Democrats, whose principal anx
iety i3 to nominate) .such a Presidental candi
date that the vote? of men who are in favor
of honest and cleam politics will be kept out
of their party.
The close escape f the Lick Observatory
from severe damage by forest flres is a sub
ject of general congratulation. But the fact
that the peril was so great might suggest
the importance of clearing away the forests
from the Immediate- wicinity of mountain
observatories so as- to guard against
peril.
Eepokts from the South showthat the
cotton crop will be in liue with all other
crops thi3 year in being exceptionally large.
Already certain publications have begun to
talk prices down by the usual nonsense
about "over-production" and the necessity
of restricting the supply. But Southern
planters give the lie to all such talk by keep
ing up with the extension of their cotton
acreage; and will further demonstrate its
falsity by the practical demonstration that
the season of greatest abundance is tho sea
son of most general prosperity.
Br the way, the specific description pf
Stanley's injurylin Switzerland as a iracture
"of tho left lower thigh bone" awakens a
curious speculation with regard to the anat
omy of the great African explorer. How
many left thigh bones has hot
The jubilant boys and the sexton of the
church of a Connecticut village have tried
the Fourth of July issue with the result of an
unqualified victory for the boys. Those
irrepressible persons persisted in ringing
the hell on the Fourth contrary to the
wishes of the sexton, and an attempt to
punish them by law has resulted in their
discharge. The further result may be safely
predicted in the more vociferous celebration
next Fourth of tho boys' independence.
It seems that Balmaceda's cruisers are
not coming to the 6outh Pacific so rapidly
alter all. The European Governments seem
to have discovered that neutrality does not
consist ot favoring one party at the expense
of the other.
As investigation of that reported quarrel
and separation of Henry M. Stanley and his
wife finds them together and elicits an indig
nant denial from both. Mrs. Stanley rather
plaintively asks: "Is there no wnyto stop
such attacks on private reputation?" That
is a difficult question; but the severest
penalty that can be inflicted in this case is
the marking down of the sourco from whicn
this report came as totally-unreliable for the
future. '
The number of cures for consumption
now announced are only rivaled by the
ignorant persistence with which people keep
on dying of that malady.
As a further effort in the line of burning
down Pompeii for the delectation of sight
seers, a Bar Harbor man proposes to charter
a vessel and have her shipwrecked on that
rocky coast in appropriate weather at so
much per head for the spectators. The main
objection to the plan is that it is not likely
to yield as much profit as putting a good in
surance pn the vessel and wrecking it by an
unadvertised but no less preconcerted cas
ualty. PEOPLE "WE ALL KNOW.
Jples Vekje in his younger days was a
devotee of the baccarat table. He was at that
time a handsome young fellow, with blonde
hair and bluo eyes.
Verdi has purchased a piece of land close
to Milan, on which will be erected an asy
lum for aged and impoverished musicians.
The building is already begun.
Dr. J. Madisojt Taylor, who states that
Mr. Blaine has no organic disease, is one of
the best-known physicians of Philadelphia
and a specialist in nervous maladies.
Colonel Polk, the leader of the Farm
ers1 Alliance, is only 35 years old, but he has
gray hair and a white beard. He is aging
early and time is marking h'lm with a heavy
hand.
The late Leslie F. Morgan, of London,
England, left $250,000 to bo distributed in
four equal shares among the pour or any de
serving charities of Philadelphia, St. Louis,
Chicago and San Francisco.
Frederick B. McGinnis, a well-known
colored man of Baltimore, has received from
Mrs. Jefferson Davis a. handsome osage
orangewood cane, which is a bequest from
the ex-President of the Confederate States.
President Caenot will not accept the
proposed invitation to visit London if it is
extended. It is,feaied that too complicated
a political significance might attach to his
visit so soon after that of Emperor 'William.
Ex-Governob Spbague'S wife is one of
the best horsewomen to be found at Narra
gansett Pier, and often rides 30 or 40 miles in
a day, while "Bill" lounges around spinning
yarns and swapping fish stories with the
Casino visitors.
Philip George d'Epinois is perhaps
the most remarkable Waterloo survivor. He
was born in 1794, and still discharges the du
ties of Burgomaster in his native village of
Eplnois les Binche. The Chevalier d'Epinois
was one of the civic guards who welcomed
Leopold I. to Belguim CO years ago.
MANY W;0RDS OF WISDOM.
Excellent Addresses and Music at tjo Chau
tauqua Gathering Dress RefoAn Dis
cussed by tho Woman's Club-How to
Train a Citizen Properly. J
fSPr-CIAL TELEGRAM TO THX DISPATCH.
Chautauqua, July 25. The Wometfs Club
at Chautauqua, presided over by Mrd'Emila
Huntington Miller, is conservative i a cer
tain extent, and, while its members alvocate
dress reform and ballot reform, theyo not
go to extremes. Dress reform waij again
discussed this morning by the ladleyand a
moderate course of action was agreei upon.
Mrs. Miller, in the discussion on "low to
Train a Citizen," threw out a few hlni that
might set the ballot reformers to thiking.
Said she: "We naturally-associate thl word'
citizen with the ballot box rather thin the
cradle. The duties of good citizmshlp
neither begin nor end with the eicttve
franchise. The obligations on whicf they
rest are the same for man and womin and
me training wuicn Dest secures their ful
fillment is built both upon the same gmeral
principles; therefore my citizen slifil be
neither man nor woman, but the (child
whose potential influence still waits fir the
future to reveal. . j
"The training begins early. The f ounjation
of our national characteristic restlessness
is laid in the very cradle. The child must
be continually amused, shaken, oirried
about. The mental and physical hahia grow
together and the result is physical, mental
and moral uneasiness and craving or ex
citement, f
"The one thins that stands in tho mr nf
social reform is selfishness. Selfishness,
active, seeking to appropriate the vtalth,
the toil, the very souls of others to its en
riching and selfishness. To fight thij evil,
to build into the character of obligation to'
God and man, that shall make each lie not
a well shut up, a fountain sealed, bit an
ever flowing stream in the desert jiaces.
This is to train to the duties of good citizen
ship." Programme for the Day. I
The programme to-day was as follows: At
11 a. ai. au organ recital; original composi
tions by Mr. L V. Flagler, in the Amphi
theater; at 2:30 r.ir. a lecture on "Silde
brand," by Prof. J. C. Little, of Syracuse; at
4 p. m. a lecture on "James Bussell Lowell"
by Mr. L. H. Vincent of Buffalo; at 5 pm. a
lecture on "The Babylonian Exile" by Prof.
G. 8. Burroughs, of Amherst: at 7 r. 4 a
twilight concert by Roger's Band at the Pier;
at 7:30p.m. aprayer meeting of theChautauqua
Christian Endeavor Society, in tho Hall of
Philosophy; at 8 p. at. a lecture on"Tho Cood
Times" by Dr. Geo. Thomas Dowlinr, of
Albany, in the Amphitheater.
The recital of Mr. Flagler was madi up
entirely of his own compositions, and (hey
were most beautiful. Tho programme was
quite variedand showed that Mr. Flagler has
a most exquisite touch ranging from tho
most velvety to tho most viviO. His ired
ding march, variations of the tune "Amer
ica,'' and the sonata were exceptionally fine.
Leon Vincent in his lecture paid a high
tribute to Mr. Lowell, referring to him as
"pre-eminently the American poet," and the
man that represented our best American
culture. Dr. G. S. Burroughs, professor of
moiicai literature in Amnerst uonege, wno
has conducted the last two Sunday Bible
book studies and is just completing a course
of lectures on tho supernatural element in
the New Testament lftoratuie in the school
of the English Bible, lectured this afternoon
on "The Babylonian Exile."
Place to Commence.
The lecture was presented in relation to a
former one on "Messianic- Prophesy."
Prof. Burroughs emphasized the view that
the Babylonian exile should be regarded as
the proper point for the commencement of
the study of the religious life, which pre
sents Itself in the New Testament writings.
It was a period of marked religious develop
ment ana transition in the Hebrew religious
life, and these changes took place on heathen
soil and in contact with the great world
powers of the time. Forces which largely
brought about the New Testament religion
and ushered in the Christian church as sep
arate from tho Hebrew national life, are
here seen in their beginning. The hope of
the Messiah among the Hebrews here
reaches its height and is the explanation
of a suffering servant of God, through whom
the righteous rule ot Jod is to be extended
in blessing over the nations. The mission of
Israel and the goal of her history are to he
realized through Him.
Mr. W. II. bhorwood, tho pianist, gave his
first musical recital this afternoon, uefore a
very select and critical audience, and fully
sustained his high reputation for artistic
work. He played selections from Kuben
stein, ,Bach, Beethoven, Shubert, Chopin,
and his own compositions as follows: "Coy
Maiden," op. U, "Allegro Patetioo," op. 12.
Full of Witticism.
The lecture of Dr. Dowling was the witti
est and cleverest that has been given here
this year. The big Amphitheater was
crowded with people who laughed and ap
plauded frequently during the evening.
Said the speaker: "There are some people
in this world who are not comfortable unless
miserable. They are like the man riding
backward in a car; however magnificent the
scenery of this world may be, they never
see the magnificence till it is past. I have a
friend in New York who never likes to see
t o young ladies kiss each other. It seems
like such a reckless waste of good material.
I seldom argue much w ith a pessimist. It is
too much like a reckless waste of good ma
terial. I do not believe that this grand old
world, created by such a good God, is on the
down grade. Off there, in Chicago, they tell
a story about the Kev. Sam Jones, that upon
one occasion he was addressing a crowded
audience, and said: 'I want everv ouo in
this congregation who wants to go to heaven
to stand up.' Of course, almost every
body arose. Then he said- 'Now
I want everybody who wants to go
to the other place to stand up.' Atfiistno
one stood up, but finally a long and lank and
skinny individual in tho back seats, about
as fat as an umbrella, aroo and said: 'I
don't exactly want to go to the other place,
but I am willing to stand up rather than let
the preacher stand all alone.' I am not
willing to stand up even to keep the pessi
mist fiom standing all alone. I hold the
only wise philosophy of life is that of the de
termined optimist, that for tho purpose for
which this world was created it is the very
best that an allwise God could create and
that while it Is necessary for us to keep our
hand upon the lever and the headlight, the
same one who made the cars has ballasted
the track."
AN INEBEIATED COW.
She Unwisely Eats the Kefuse From a Con
venient Winery.
In spite of Pasadena's prohibition policy a
poor cow got drunk there a few days ago.
The story is told in the last number of La
Progress, the French paper of Los Angeles,
as follows:
"Some days ago one of our countrymen,
who lives at Pasadena, was astonished to see
one of his best cows lving apparently dying
in front of the barn. The animal lay there
inert, with open eyes, oblivious of every
thing. The man called a veterinary sur
geon, who could not diagnose the case, and
a butcher was sent for to bleed the animal.
He was some time in arriving, and when he
did come the cow was found eating at a hay
stack, but with legs a little uncertain. An
investigation followed, and it was found that
the cow had eaten copiously of the refuse of
a neighboring winery This stuff, composed
of grape skins and stems, had fermented
and induced a state of intoxication."
MILLIONS OF CAPITAL, NO ASSETS.
Two Executions Against nn Electrical Com
pany Find Nothing to Take.
New York, July 28, To-day the Sheriff re
ceived two executions, aggregating $S3,5S0,
against the North American Underground
Telegraph and Electric Company, in favor of
Lewis May. No property could be found to
levy upon.
The company was organized several vears
ago, with $5,000,000 capital, to work the John
stone underground electric conduit system,
but the Board of EJectrical Control did not
look with favor upon the Bystem.
HUMANE SOCIETY W0BK.
Three New Members Taken in at the Meet
ing Yesterday.
At the regular meeting of the Humane
Society yesterday Corad Mendel, Mrs. Benja
min Thaw and Mrs. Lizzie Bumm were
elected members.
The contributions for tho week amounted
to $70, and were: Corad Mendel, $5; Dauler,
Close & Johns, $5. Charles Parzel,$2; Henry
Terheydcn, $1; J. Kauffman & Bro.. $5; J. F.
Schroeder, $5; O. Kinzor, $2; Mrs. Benjamin
Thaw, $5; William Metcalf, $25; Mrs. Lizzie
Bumm, $5, and Mrs. James McElroy, $1.
Charles Benkeny, of Elizabeth, paid$l lor
cock flighting.
They Slay Need the Ship Later.
Chlcajro Tribune. 1
If the Alliance party is at any loss for a
Presidental candidate we take the liberty of
suggesting Airship Pennington as a man
whose broad financial views, sanguine tem
perament, and record as an Inflationist fit
him pre-eminently lor the J ob.
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A LAND OP BLACKBEBBIES.
Twenty-Fivo Thousand Backets Picked
Within a Stretch of 35 Dliles.
CORRESPONDENCE OP THE DISPATCn.l
03 the Steameb Berlin, July 27. Piles,
rows and pyramids of buckets of black
berries. Not the cultivated, insipid article,
but the lustrousluscious wild blackberries,
indigenous to the soil, are what The Dis
patch correspondent saw from the hurri
cane roof of the steamer Ben Hur, at dozens
of points between St. Marys, W. Va. and
Clarington, O., on the Ohio river a day or
two ago. How many people know any
thing of the importance and extent of the
blackberry season how the fruit is gath
ered, or how shipped to market.
The thoughtful housewife, with her pros
pective view of long, comfortable rows of
jars and cans of Jam or airtlghts, or bottles
of wine and cordial, goes to the market or
store nearby, and purchases buckets of the
luscious fruit with a dim idea that black
berries grow on bushes in the gardens about
the city, where thev are cultivated like
many other fruits. She has no idea that the
great portion of tho berries are wild, that
thousand of buckets are daily arriving in
the cities, gathered among the hills and
glens, the valleys and neglected fields for
miles along the Ohio river, or that to hun
dreds of people, and even to steamboats and
railroads,the blackberry season is an impor
tant factorin their trade. Yet such is the fact.
The blackberry season begins about July
15 and ends about the SOtli. During that
short period the principal carrying business
ot numbors of boats Is confined to the black
berry trade. The fruit grows all along the
upper Ohio VRlleys. It is found among the
hills and valleys; in the glens and open
spaces, wherover the rays of the sun can
penctra te, but thegrea test number are found
in old deserted fields and along tho fences.
Some of the best territory is found along
the Ohio river between St. Marys. W. Va.,
and Clarington, O., from between which
points there has been shipped already this
season not less than 25,000 buckets into the
markets of Bellaire, Wheeling and Pittsburg.
The steamer Ben Hur alone has carried over
10.0C0 buckets, while other daily packets and
the railroads have done an equally large
business.
Among the pickers are men, women and
children, many of them going out of the
cities during the season to combine pleasure
with profit camping out with a prospect of
being on the right side of their bank ac
counts at the close of the season. The
greater number, however, are country peo
ple, who went over the ground before the
season opened and selected the best terri
tory. These people frequently camp out,
also, living in temporary cabins or shake
downs constructed of poles and covered
with thick layers of brush. Here they cook,
eat and sleep men, women and children.
The pickers are up betimes and before
the sun is high enough to render the work
uncomfortable they have gathered all of the
ripest and most marketable berries within a
certain radius. The buckets are then carried
to the river bank, where they are loaded on
the up-going steamer for the market. On
its down trip the steamer brings back the
buckets taken up the day before, together
with such groceries or provisions as have
been ordered by the shippers.
Tho berries this season, which is believed
to have been the best for many years, havo
brought prices ranging from 25 cents to 60
cents a bucket. At these prices the pickers
mako pretty fair wages, some of them fre
quently gathering as many as four or five
buckets in a day. The best of the pickers
are said to be boys and girls of 14 years of
age or upward. Their size and agility enable
them to force their way easier into the fre-
Suently matted bnshes, while their nimble
nsers outstriD those of older persons.
It is a unique and interesting sight to see
a oig unio river steamer covoreawitn rows
of buckets from deck to roof, going up
stream like a floating mountain of buckets.
H0UBS WITH THE PBESLDENT.
Preparing to Announce the Spanish Treaty
in Effect,
rEPECIAI. TELEGUAlt TO THE DISPATCH.!
Cape Mat.N. J., July 28. The Executive ap
pointments to-day consisted of ten postmas
ters, several Commissioners of Deeds for the
District of Columbia in variouj States, and
of the appointment of Charles E. Adams, of
Massachusetts, as alternate Commissioner
for World's Columbian Exhibition. Ex
Senator Warner Miller, who arrived last
night to talk over somo matters with the
President before he sails for Europe to-morrow,
went to New York this morning. This
morning the President continued his talk
with Secretary Tracy, over matters con
nected with the Navy Department. As they
'usually see each other often in Washington,
and not having mot for sometime of late,
they consequently had much business to
transact and each had many recommenda
tions to make. Tho Secretary was the guest
of the President while hero, and left on an
afternoon express for Washington. On the
same train was Colonel William H. Crook,
Disbursing Clerk at the White House, who
also went to Washington.
General John W. Foster, who has been
negotiating the reciprocity treaty with
Spain, arrived here this morning, in com
pany with Thomas W. Cridler, Chief of the
Diplomacy Buieau of the State Department.
They went at once to the President's cottage
and were busy over the arranging of the
final details for tho President to issue his
pioclamation, declaring the treaty between
Spain and the United States in effect. At
bathing hour, enough time was taken just
before dinuer for Secretary Tracy, Presi
dent Harrison, Secretary Halford and Chief
Cridler to take an ocean bath, while General
Foster sat on the cottage piazza and watched
them. This afternoon the President held a
several minute reception at the Shoreham
Hotel, and received about 300 Odd Fellows
and their wives of Wilmington, who were
here on an excursion. This afternoon the
President drove over to Cape May and hade
Secretary Tracy goodby, and left General
Foster at Congress Hall. The General will
go to Washington in the morning. Cardinal
Gibbons returned to Baltimore this morn
ing. '
DEATHS HEBE AND ELSEWHEBE.
Frederick C. Havemeyer.
Frederick C. Havemeyer died at G:30
o'clock yesterday afternoon at his home at
Throgg's Neck, West Chester county, N. Y. Mr.
Havemeyer, who was 66 years old, was attacked
last winter with the grip, which left him in a very
weak condition. He neverfully recovered, and the
illness resulting in his death took a serious turn
anout ten days ago. Mr. Havemeyer, who was the
founder of the well-known Havemeyersugar firm,
was a great benefactor to the town of West Ches
ter, and during the many years he bad a country
residence at Tliroeit's NecK he was Identified with
numerous, enterprises for the progress of the town,
and was also active In charitable affairs. Mr.
Havemever leaves five children, three sons and
two married daughters. He was possessed of a
vast estate.
Prot Shemshelljian.
Prof. Shemsheiijian, teacher of languages
In the Kentucky University and the Hamilton Fe
male College, is dead at Lexington, Ky. He was
born on the shores of the Black Sea, and was con
verted to the Christian faith by the Turk who mar
ried Byron McClelland's sister. He was a graduate
of the Bible College of Kentucky University, and
was preparing to return to his native land as a mis
sionary when consumption attacked him. He was
unmarried, and did not have a relative oa the
Western Hemisphere.
Samuel Sands.
Samuel Sands, one of the oldest citizens
of Baltimore, died yesterday, in his 92d year. For
a long period he had probably been the oldest living
printer, lielug In uninterrupted service as prluter,
editor or publisher since his apprenticeship began,
In J8U. .Nearly half a century ago he was publisher
of the American 1-hrmer, the first agricultural paper
started In this counlrv. During the war henvus an
unconditional Union man and had since been a Re
publican. Obituary Notes.
F. C. ALLEN", the famous publisher of Augusta,
Me died of pneumonia at the Parker House, Bos
ton, yesterday. He was 42 years old.
Judge William H. P. Wbigut, one of the old
est citizens of Lawrence, Mass.. died Sunday, aged
GB ne served In the House of Eepresentatlvcs In
1867 and 1S6S. '
Alexander Gbant, for many years one of the
leading drygoods merchants In Newark, died at
his home In that city on Sunday night of apoplexy.
He was 65 years old.
Major J. Marshall Guion, Department Com
mander of tho Union Veterans' Union of the State
of New York and prominent In Grand Army cir
cles, died suddenly in Seneca Falls Sunday.
SENATOR Odell died in HaUfax Sunday night of
apoplexy. Though a resident of Halifax he repre
sented New Brunswick in the Senate, being ap
pointed by royal proclamation at Confederation.
joun Oottschall, of Indianapolis, aged 72,
dropped dead Monday. He had been chief car
Inspector of 'he Panhandle Railroad for S5 years,
andf was preparing to celebrate his golden wed
ding. Meredith Reynolds, one of tho original aboli
tionists of Kentucky, died at Glasgow, Ky., Mon
day aged 86 j ears. He was the only man in his
county to vote for Martin Van Buren and the other
free soil candidates.
Samuel Flowlks. one of the oldest residents of
Mt. Hope, was found dead In his barn Monday. He
had been out for a walk, and in trying to reach a
sheltered place It Is thought he overexerted hlra
seir, with fatal results.
J. B. Emile Wiltz, Assistant Recorder of New
Orleans, Uied on Sunday, aged 79. Ile'was of an
Ai1 rrvn1ffamilv and an ancle of the late Governm
Wiltz. He was a member of the Legislature and
Recorder of Mortgages in 1851, and has held various
othcrpoUtlcal offices since. J
OUR MAIL POUCH.
A Novel Liquor Proposition.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
The prime issue of national politics is the
liquor question. The life of the liquor traffic
is its profits. License gives it monopoly.and
therefore profits. License imparts to it a
degree of respectability and indirectly en
courages adulteration. As the liquor traffic
depends largely on its profits, if you want to
kill it destroy its profits. In the present
state of the public mind in dealing with the
liquor traffic it appears imperative to avoid
trespassing on personal liberty. To accom
plish these objects different means might be
adopted, but tho following are suggested:
Let tho liquor for the wholo State be con
tracted for by the Government in several
different amounts the lowest bidder to have
the largest contract. A town or city com
munity of not less than 2,000 may apply to
the county court for an agent to sell who
will be paid out of the taxes of said com
munity and elected by them. The place of
sale must be on a main street and have a
door only in front. The salesman must be
under bonds, must not sell to minors or ine
briates, and must enter every sale in a book.
His stock must be constantly under Govern
ment inspection, and he may sell nothing
else. He must be subject to immediate dis
missal on conviction of failure in duty.
Doors to be open from 7 a. st. to 7 P. it.
Liauor to be retailed at the wholesale price.
No'one else permitted to sell.
License makes monopoly: monopoly
makes largo profits; large profits multiply
saloons and create a large class whoso sole
business it is to concoct and sell a kind of
liquor that will mako a man thirstier the
more he drinks of it. If the business was
run in tho lines I have indicated, the
old topers would have pure liquor while
they live, and I think there would bo very
few young topers manufactured.
Joseph M. Burton.
New Castle, Pa,, July VS.
Why It Is Called King.
To the Editor of TheDispatch:
Why was the king snake-so namcd7
Braddock, July 23. G. W.
It is because the kingrf3 tho most powcr
lul snake found in this country, And is the
conqueror of every other species. He wages
a constant warfare upon (rattlesnakes, moc
casins, vipers and all others, and nearly
always swallows his victim. A recent issue
of the Atlanta Constitution says: '-Recently a
large king snake was discovered making a
meal of a coachwhip much larger and
longer than itself. The coachwhip was yet
alive, but the king was tied around it and
had swallowed its head and about a foot of
its body. When the king snake was set at
liberty it ran around awhile until it struck
th e track of the other and then darted off in
pursuit. Judge Pittman was fishing on the
bank of a river and saw a coachwhip swim
mine across from the opposite side. It
landed and struck out through the woods.
In a little while be saw a king snake in pur
suit, which landed at the same spot and dis
appeared in the woods on the track of its
game." The king snake grows to great size
and is as strong as nn ox. It is black, with
small white stripes around its body. Their
tenacity of life is marvelous. They have
been known to crawl off' aftertheir heads
were mashed into a jelly.
A Feather In His Cap.
To the Editor of the Dispatch :
Nowadays we often hear the -phrase "It's
a feather in his cap," when a man has gained
a point or a viotory. What was the origin
of the phrase? B. L.
McKeesport, July 28.
In the Landsdowne manuscript in the
British Museum is a description of Hungary
in 1599, in which tho writer says of the in
habitants: "It hath been an anoient custom
among them that none should wearafether
but he who had killed a turkto whom onlie
yt was show the nnmber of his slaine
enemys by the number offothere in his
cappe."
Mother Goose Lived.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
As$ little girl I read "Mother Goose Stor
ies" and my mama told me there really was
a "Mother Goose." Will you tell mo who
she was? Maud H.
Sewicklet, July 28.
"Mother Goose" was a real character.
Her maiden name was Elizabeth Foster.
She was born in 1G63. She married Isaac
Goose in 1693. Sho died in Boston in 1757,
aged 92 years. Tho first edition of her songs
were printed in 1716.
Not Quite Old Enough.
To the Edttor of TheDispatch:
Some time ago there was an offer of $300 in
your paper for an old edition of Burns'
poems. I write to know it mine is the copy.
It was printed MDCCCLVI., with explana
tory and glossarial notes at the bottom of
every page. M. F.
Nouwalk, O., July 27.
The high-priced edition is the Kilmar
nock, of 1736. Yours is not the one re
ferred to.
Wages of Working Girls.
To the Editor of the Dispatch:
Can you tell me something of the wages
paid working girls in Englaud, and how they
compare to those in'this country; F. H.
Alleghent, July 28.
The wages of English working girls, as
also of the men, are considerably lower than
in America. It is currently stated that over
200,000 girls InEngllsh factories earn no more
than $1 00 per week.
The Ownership of Fruit.
To the Editor of TheDispatch:
I own an apple tree whose branches over
shadow my neighbor's yard. Ho claims the
apples on the limb over his ground, and has
been knocking them off. Who owns the ap
ples? E. E.
Pittsburg, July 28.
The fruit belongs to the owner of the tree,
and he can compel his neighbor to leave the
apples alone.
AN AMPHIBIAN BOY.
His Hands and Feet Are Webbed and His
Tongue Is Tied.
Brandon Bucksaw,
Jackson, Miss., is to the fore In the way of
curiosities with a web-footed and web
handed boy, who spends the greater part of
his life in the water. He is tho son of a
negro day laborer, John Peterson by name,
employed on Cant & Battle's plantation.
The boy is now nearly 15 years old, and is
considered half-witted, as he has not been
known to speak intelligently for years,
though expressing his few wants well enough
by the means of signs. He is undersized,
though unusually strong and agile. He lives
entirely on fish, which he catches in some
unknown way, employing neither line nor
net.
The membrane between his toes and
fingers is exactly like that of a duck, only
much broader, but with the exception of this
peculiarity and some property of the skin,
which prevents its wrinkling by long im
mersion in the water, ho exhibits no physi
cal deformity and enjoys the best of health.
He hahnts a small turn in the Peail, where,
sheltered by the rushes and flags, he will lie
for hours completely submerged, save for
the extreme tip of his noso and his eyes.
His movement in the water is a sort of
paddling, rather than swimming, but ex
ceedingly rapid. Summer and winter appear
to be all the same to him, a's he has been
known to disport himself in tho river for
hours when Ice was thick. His mother de
clares that she knows of no cause for the
boy's Blngular nature.
He Will Bother You for Some Time to Come.
Newcastle-on-the-Tyne, Chronicle.
Mr. Blaine is reported to be dying, and it
issaid ho cannot last for more than two
months. Tho protectionists and anti
English party in America will lose a great
leader should Mr. Blaine disappear from
politics.
A SUKPKISE.
He found it In his grip one day.
Hid softly in its russet case.
And wondered much whose picture lay
In such a rude unrestful place.
And was It Katie. Maud or Sue?
The handsome drummer looked perplexed;
Those flirting girls! Perhaps they knew
That he was married were they vexed?
Then something deep within his breast
Owned to a thrill of honest shame;
How dared thev send this hidden guest?
He would return It whose the name?
He lookei. Sweet face with pictured laugh,
Briglilfluffy hair In tangled curl.
And scrawled Across the photograph.
In printed letters, "pApaSglrL."
-Mrs , M, L, Rajfne in tin Detroit Fret Press,
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SOCIETY IN MIDS1JMMEB.
A Merry Wedding Yesterday, and Several
Events to Come.
A complimentary outing will be given by
Vine Cliff Council No. 107, Jr. O. IT. A. M. to
the friends of the members at Allequippa,on
the Pittsburg and Lake Erie Railroad,
Saturday next. Messrs. James Torrence,
Charles A. Reckhow, T.F. Jelly, J. F. Geis
senhainer, M. B y ron, Jr., Thomas McGough
and J. C. Connor comprise the Committee of
Arrangements. They have secured the
Mozart Orchestra and provided for a list of
amusements including dancing, football,
baseball, quoits, croquet, tennis, races, etc.
The affair is open to invited guests only, and
invitations must be presented at the gate to
secure admission to the grove.
A merry wedding was given last evening
at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. William lie
Murray, 200 Third avenue, to Miss Daisy
Lynch, their niece. The groom was Harry
A. Getman, of the Pittsburg Photo-Engraving
Company. The ceremony was performed
by Bev. H. C. Applegarth, pastor of the
r ourtn Avenue Baptist Church. The newly
married couple were the recipients of many
congratulations. Their future home will be
at 33 Colwell street.
"The Fall of Pompeii" was necessarily
postponed last night on account of the rain.
The next exhibition will be given to-morrow
night if the weather permits. There
will be many strong features in the enter
tainment. Rev. Mr. Ruopp, of tho Smithfield Street
Evangelical Lutheran Church, completed
arrangements for tho annual trip of the Ex
cursion club of the church; It will leave
August 10, for a week's trip to Cincinnati.
WABNED IN AMPLE TIME.
Disclosure or an Alleged riot to Bob tha U.
S. Treasury.
TFROM A STAFF CORRESPONDENT.
Washington, July 23. A day or two ago
Secretary Foster received from a place in
South Carolina a letter which is quite
unique, revealing a plot to rob the Treasury.
It is supposed to be the work or a practical
joker or some "intellectual tramp," who
possibly has been played upon by some local
humorist. Without giving the matter any
attention the Secretary turned the letter
over to the Captain of the Treasury Watch.
Following is the letter:
Hon. Charles Foster, Head of Department. Wash
ington, D. C. A.
SIR I've Just been made aware of a plot of a
desperate Southerner, of distinguished family and
rebel record. Inadvertently upon my promise of
secresy about the same, concerning a contemplated
raid and looting of the United States Treasury some
time next August. The way I became cognizant of
the affair Is this: I was asked to arm up aU the
desperadoes or tramps I could, so as to be on band
at such time afterward as I would be informed of.
Their modus operandus Is to arrive In Washington
a few days previous to the contemplated raid osten
sibly as excursionists, beneath tne cognomen of
fraternal societies and so forth, get on a high de
bauch, which would tax your poUce powera to the
utmost extent, and in the height of the melee. In
five diverse sections of the city, away from the
Government buildings, so as to create a diversion
in many places. Thus In the midst of such excite
ment, under cover of darkness, a well-armed body
of plunderers are to overawe the meager force at
the command of the Government, and dt explosion
of dynamite bombs add confusion to tne already
chaotic programme; and in the midst thereof, carrr
off the plunder to a craft or crafts on the Potomic,
or in special convoy by wagon or rail to the coast;
then the revellers are to disperse and receive from
appointing agents the reward of their daring. A
majority of the concourse are not to be let into the
secret of the attempt, but are to be brought there
under recreation auspices, etc., or fraternal socie
ties, by a free ride at the expense of the wealthy
originatoroftheplot. Ithoughtlt behooved me to
acquaint you of the same In consequence of the
already great draft made on your department In
consequence of recent Legislation. I have, dear sir,
the honor to be yours. Chance R. Locke.
I. E. O. BEX (Tramps).
THE OLD STTBBENDEB HOUSE.
It Will Be Taken Down and Exhibited at
the World's Fair.
FROM A STAFF CORRESPONDENT.
Washington, July 23. Some time ago a
gentleman succeeded in purchasing what Is
known as the old "Surrender House" at
Apomattox, the genuiue and only building
whero the terms of surrender were arranged
between Generals Grant and Lee. With the
old mansion, which is in a good state of pre
servation 1,200 acres of land was,purchased,
and it is the intention to build a hotel, con
struct a beautiful park, and make the place
otherwise attractive and pleasant for the
many visitors to that locality immortalized
by the dramatic finale of the war.
The old mansion will, in all probability, be
taken carefully to pieces and transported to
Chicago, as Libby prison was and thore re
erected and enclosed, to bo exhibited at least
during the World's Falr.if not permanently.A
company has been formed this week, and the
scheme capitalized at I50,000. Col. Samuel
V. Holliday of Erie, now Commissioner of
Customs in this city, has been elected Presi
dent, and among the Directors is Mr. Eben
Brewer, another citizen of Erie.and like Col.
Holliday well-known throughout Penn
sylvania. Ignatius Still on Duty.
Chicago Inter-Ocean.
Ignatius Donnelly alternately pounds the
old political parties and BUI Shakespeare;
and none of them seem to mind it much.
PEOPLE COMING AND GOING.
Count von Krawel, a German steel rail
manufacturer, is at the Dueiuesne. Ho came
to Pittsburg to visit the Homestead and Ed
gar Thomson mills. Ho bays they make as
manj- rails in Germany as they do in the
United States. The Count was so worried
about a package of letters whioh had been
returned that he couldn't compose himself
long enough to talk on Germany's indus
tries. He is modest about his title, and
keeps it in the background.
J. F. Farley, the Denver Chief of Police,
passed through the city last night bound
for his old homo in Connecticut. He said
the Colorado capital was booming. A num
ber of smelting works have recently been
erected. He added that they never would
excel in making finished iron. The Pike's
Peak Rjilroaa has resumed operations, and
the people once more have something won
derlul to talk about.
Fred. "W. Eggcrs, the druggist of 299
Ohio street, Allegheny, will leave thi3 morn
ing for a brief stay in the mountains about
Bumersci. xiv n ui uc uceuuipumeu uy ins
wife and infant son. 1tr. Eggers has been
very ill for some weeks past and takes the
trip by the advice of his physician.
The advance guard of the Iron City Fish
ing Club started for the camp grounds on
Georgian Bay yesterday. In the party were
Rev. C. L. Smith, Dr. A. H. Norcross, Walter
and W. C. Slellar, Harry Dangerficld, Ley
don Ford, Raymond Brice, Miss Hays and
Miss McGill.
A. G. Cochran, of St. Louis, was a passen
ger on the Eastern express going to Wash
ington last evening. At present ne says
S duties is about the last thing discussed in
issouri. Mr. Cochran was formerly an
Allegheny Congressman.
H. S. Stewart, the oil man, left for Hart
ford last eveniug to get a 3-year-old thorough
bred which he Intends to bring to Pittsburg.
Mr. Stewart takes considerable interest in
horseflesh, and he thinks he has a great one
in his colt.
Judge George B. McLane, Charles E.
Herbert and Vi . G. Hunter, of the Southern
Land Company, returned to the city yester
day. They are trying to build a city near
Baltimore.
Attorney Thomas H. Davis and family
will make their annual pilgrimage to their
farm in Butler county to-morrow, and there
spend the remainder of the heated season.
The steamer Spree has arrived at South
ampton. Rev. J. B. Duffner, Mrs. Anna
Vitb. ahd Ed. Puskayler and wife, of this
city, were on board.
J. J. fepearman, a Sharon furnace owner,
and W. II. Baird. of Monongahela City, are
registered at the Seventh Avenue Hotel.
H. Crawford, a well-known Chicago rail
road lawyer, and B. S. Henderson, a Sharon
iron man, are at the Anderson.
Clayton Anderson, of Steubenville, and
Louis de Saulles and wife, of Uniontown, are
stopping at the Duquesne.
James Allen left for Omaha last evening
with tho intention of buying property in
the Nebraska metropolis.
Division Passenger Agent E. D. Smith,
of tho B. & O. road, got back from Atlantic
City yesterday.
General Passenger Agent A. E. Clark is
attending a central traffic meeting at St.
Clair flats.
Kobert C. Patterson has gone to Chau
tauqua with his family to spend a month.
Jacob Spohu, a Southside druggist, has
gone to Somerset for two weeks.
Mrs. George T. Chambers went to Thou
san d Islands yesterday.
T. H. Hearn, of Ottawa, is among the
guests at the Schlosser.
A. Clark Baue returned from Xew York,
yesterday.
C- M. Garrison.left for New York last
evening.
CURIOUS CONDEiNSATIOXS.
It is said that of 10,757 farms in Utah
9,724 are made fertile by irrigation.
Missouri is the moat populous State
west of the Mississippi and is nearly as oig
as all of New England.
A sensible dog at Auburn, Me., regu
larly disappears in thecountry en July 3 and
doesn't come back until dog days are over.
A watchful Chicago dog "treed" a
burglar on a pile of trunks In the store-room
and kept him there until the man of tho
house arrived on the scene.
George C. Curry has arrived at Van
couver from Alaska in a dugout canoe, and
it is said ho is the only white man who ever
made that journey in such a craft.
A pair of carriage lamps have been
made for Major McKinley without that
gentleman's knowledge by a factory in
Bridgeport, Conn., from American tin-plate.
Joan of Arc is soon to be canonized.
Caprara, procurator of the faith, has col
lected all the necessary documents, and St.
Joan will soon be entered upon the list of
noiy, canonized ones.
A Burlington woman refused to con
tribute to the fund for the support of her
pastor because he sometimes practices law
while engaged in the ministry. She holds
that no man can bo a good Christian and
practice law.
A sequoia tree has been found in King's
River Canon, in the Nevada mountain range,
whose original diameter exceeded 40 feet,
but has been reduced by fire to 39 feet. This
i3 larger than any or the gigantic trees dis
covered in California by seven feet.
An English naturalist has discovered
proofs that the bedbug was quite common in
the armies of the world at least 120 years be
fore the Christian era, and that he was ever
a sea rover, as the fleets of that day had their
timbers stocked with this breed of nocturnal
prowlers.
Death has made havoc among tha
general officers of all grades that served in
the Confederate armies. Of the total nnm
ber 498 only 1S4 are now living. Gustavo
P. T. Beauregard is the only general surviv
ing, and Edmund Kirby Smith tho only
general with temporary rank.
A monkey in New York got a bottle ot
whisky the other day, and after swaUowing
the contents, proceeded to rip things up
generally, and even went so far as to decline
to hand over the pennies that were given to
him for his boss organ grinder, preferring to
squander them all on himself.
The official literary statistics of Turkey
show that during the year 1S90 only 910 books
were published in Constantinople. Of this
number 197 were in the Turkish language,
mostly novels and theatrical pieces; 120 in
the Armenian tongue, principally religions
contents; SG in Arabic on jurisprudence,
philology and religious dogmatism, and the)
test were in other languages of Europe.
For several years the California Chinese
engaged In the fruit business in a small way,
but this season they have gone into the
larger districts and have proved a decided
tnbrn In the side of the white dealers. Their
presence of buyers instead of laDorers has
aroused the bitterest opposition from the
whites, who declare that the Chinese will
ruin the reputation of the California fruit
trade.
Nathaniel "Witherell, who died at Glens
jalls, N. Y., always regarded himself as a
living oddity. He was the thirteenth child
and the seventh son of his parents and the
youngest child in the family. Mre. Wither
ell, who still survives her husband, occupies
the same relative position in her father's
family, being the thirteenth and youngest
child and the seventh daughter of her
parents.
The United States census reports only
110 paupers in Louisiana. There is no suffi
cient pauper law in the State there was no
revision whatever made for paupers even
i New Orleans until the Shakespeare alms
house was constructed a few years ago, and
it is unable to hold half of those entitled to
admission and in only a few parishes is
any provision made for their care and main
tenance. "The Poetess of Tarrytown," Miss
Minna Irving by name, has brought a suit
for $5,000 damages against a next door neigh
bor for literary losses of hers by being kept
awake nights and irritated during the day
by the howling of dogs. Miss Irving re
quires a certain degree of quiet and solitude,
in order to turn fortTTher poems, and when
thes are denied her she regards her loss as
a decided pecuniary one.
Lord "Wolseley tells of a curious relic in
the possession of the wife of the American
Consul at Madeira. It isonly a simple paper
knife, but it would be difficult to find any
thing more interesting than it. On one side
is written: "I broke this. D. 1). Porter." On
the reverse Is inscribed: "I mended it. IV.
T. Sherman." The owner met these two
great Americans at Gibraltar, and remem-
oers mem witn great pleasure.
A stray horse "entered a Brooklyn
candy store the other day to the great hor
Tor of the proprietor, picked up some candy
and held it out to tho young woman clerk.
While she was wondering whether the ani
mal wanted the candy wrapped up and sent
home or not, the horse's owner cuuie in and
explained that the petted beat wanted
someone to hold tho candy while he ate it.
He was used to being fed from the hand, and
thought he could eat iu no other way.
A gentleman iu "Waterbury, C'oun., had
two canaries, and to protect them from cats
he kept them in a heavy wire cage, hung in
the second story of a rear room. A grape
vine twined around the window of the room.
Entering the room tne other morning tho
gentleman found a blacksnake over five feet
long in the cage, making the most desperate
efforts to escape. It had swallowed one of
the birds, which had caused it to swell so
much that it could not siide out between the
wires through which it had entered. The
snake had crawled up the grapevine 20 feet.
It is not an unheard of thing foramanto
delegate to his wife the care of his wardrobe
and the task of keeping the run or his socUl
engagements, but who ever heard of a man
who bad to be sent to his meals? In Bruns
wick, Me., there is such a man. His wife wa3
away and he was to take his meals at a
restaurant. The first day of her absence, he
paid no attention to the supper hour, but
kept right on working until it was time to
close his place of business, when he went
home and retired, without getting any sup
per. The next morning he left the honse
early and going to the shop began his work,
never thinking of his breakfast until nearly
11 o'clock.
INCLINED TO HUMOR.
A little Detroit girl was bidding her boy
playmate goodby and on this occasion her mother
told her to kiss him. She offered him a roguish
cheek, and when the salute was gravely given, be
gan to rub It vigorously with her handkerchief.
"Why, Laura." laid her mother, "you're not
rubbing it off?"
-'No, mamma, "answered the little maiden de
murely, "I'm rubbing it In." Detroit Free Press.
"How long did you remain with your
last mistress?" asked the housewife of the appli
cant for employment.
"Only three weeks, ma'am. There wor a good
deal av heavy work about the house, an' sure tha
mlsthress wor so delicate that I had to let the place
go. ' ' Washington Star.
"Don't you think there's lot of dash in
Flufllnger's articles?"
"Yes; he wlU Insist on putting dashes between
nearly all his sentences." Brooklyn Eagle.
'Tis a treat to rise when the buds begin
To welcome the vernal dawn.
When the early robin is raking la
The worm on the shaven lawn.
The robin's wisdom one may discern "
As his captured victims squirm.
But what Is the lesson we may learn
From the fate of the early worm?
Sew TorK!Press.
Irene (in a whisper) See that handsome
young man across the aisle, Laura? I can bring
him to mv feet any day I want to.
Laura Indeed, dear! He doesn't look the least
bit In the world Uke a chiropodist! Chicago Trib
une. Managerius I hear that Venus ballet of
2l's was Just saved from failure.
Criticus WeU, It was a bare success. A'no Tork
Telegram.
Columbius I think that this chaperon
Ides 1 utterly un-American.
Cynleus That's precisely what recommends it
to the X.cw Ibrk Herald.
Convict Excuse me, ma'am, you dropped
your handkerchief.
Lady Visitor Thank you: you are very good.
Convreagerly)-Say. ma'm. yon couldn't
inanage to persuade the Gov'nor of that somehow,
could jtTjSomertitle Journal.
"Whatever our purpose in life may be
Whatever our earthly station.
We ought to try thermometer-like
Torise to the situation. -
Philadelphia Tim,
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