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THE PITTSBURG- DlSPATOB STJITDAY, AUGUST 2, 189L'
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PITTSBURG, SUNDAY, AUGUST 2, 1SDL
TEST BEFORE TEARING DOWN,
The question at issue between Mr.
Kiedringhaus, of St, Louis, and the Amal
gamated Association is simply one of fact:
Are there enough skilled tin-plate workers
in this country to man the factories? Mr.
INIedringhaus says positively he has
tried to get American workmen for his
works and lias found none: and the Amal
gamated Association and others in authori
ty in Pittsburg declare just as positively
that there are plenty of men in this
country who can make tin plate. There
she ild be no difficulty in bringing Mr.
IXiedringhaus and the representatives of
lalw- together, for the former is hardly
less anxious, to judge by his public state
ments, than the association to employ
American labor.
The Amalgamated Association is right
in the stand it takes, for if the alien con
tract law is to be of the slightest practical
use it is in such a case as this, where it is
proposed to import Welsh tin makers who
will be satisfied to work for little more
than one-half the wages promised when
the protection afforded tin in the ilcKln
ley tariff was asked for. It is hardly
jossible that half a dozen skilled authori
ties on labor are wrong in persisting that
there are plenty of tin rollers in this
country. If the manufacture of tin grows
to any extent the fact that tho trade can
he learned in a short time shows how the
demand for more men can be supplied.
Should the Amalgamated Association be
wrong in stating that there is plenty of
capable labor available in this specialty
or if Sir. Xiedringhaus is correct in hold
ing that practically little or none is availa
ble the fact will soon demonstrate itself.
Many concerns are about starting tin
plate mills and the abundance or scarcity
of skilled labor will quickly be tested be
yond all possibility ot error. Meanwhile,
until this is done, the position is correct
that the spirit of the imported contract
labor law, which gives to home labor a
like protection as is given to home manu
factures, should be maintained. The
terms of the law, and the bars against
contract labor from abroad, should not be
hastily thrown down upon a mere assump
tion. IMPROPERLY BARRED OUT.
Recently a number of immigrants were
barred out of the port of Boston because
thny had no means of their own, and had
come to this country upon tickets pre
paid from this side. This strict inter
pretation of a rather vague clause in the
immigration law bore with especial hard
ness upon the family of a certain black
smith, who had earned enough money to
send for his wife and children in England.
The BisPATcn of last Sunday contained
an account of this case, and it has caused
a great deal of anxiety among those
who, like the blacksmith in the case cited,
expect to send prepaid tickets to members
of their families in the Old World. This
uneasiness is needless. The law contem
plates no such exclusion of immigrants.
It would be monstrous if it did. The Im
migration Inspector at Boston made a
blunder, and a very serious one, in deter
mining that a man had no right to bring
over his family, which he was perfectly
able to support The section of the law
under which this decision was made pro
vides that: "Any person whose ticket or
passage is paid for in the money of
another, or who is assisted by another to
come, unless it is satisfactorily shown on
special investigation that such person does
nat belong to any one of the other ex
cluded classes, shall not be
allowed to land."
In the case of the blacksmith's family
special investigation would have shown
that the immigrants did not belong to the
excluded classes. Commissioner of Im
migration Owen at Jsew York since then
has decided that far more questionable
immigrants are admissible under certain
conditions. lie admitted some penniless
Uussian Hebrews, who had been held
under advisement at Xew York, after
cfxtain charitable societies had given
bonds that the immigrants would not be
come a charge upon the public. Some
valuable information upon this subject
will be found in our local columns to-day.
WAGES AND SAVINGS OF LABOR.
The Michigan Bureau of Labor and In
dustrial Statistics lias made a report
upon a canvass of two great industries in
that State, which presents a satisfactory
picture of the life of a large body of work
iugmen. The industries were those of
agricultural implements and iron, these
being considered representative classes of
labor in the State. The statisticians vis
ited 8,838 workers in all, and asked them
a long string of questions, such as
whether or not they owned tho houses
they lived in; if there were mortgages on
the property; whaWheir wages were; what
insurance they carried, if any; how much
mm
they saved; if they owned pianos and sew
ing machines, and many other questions
touching their home life. The answers
show that the laboring man in Michigan
is, like most of his fellows in the United
States, in a fairly prosperous condition.
Of the eight thousand and odd men visited
2,328 owned their houses, and nearly half
J were free from mortgages.
further inouirv showed that 46 per cent of
thp. familifis wpre installed-in their nwn
homes.
The average wages-earned by the 8,838
'men for a year was 5167, while the married
men's average alone was $523. These in
comes seem small, but in reality the aver
agewas much higher, as a large number of
toys earning only two or three dollars aweek
were counted as men in the computation.
Sixty-nine per cent of the families owned
sewing machines, and more than a fifth of
the 8,838 possessed musical instruments of
one sort and another, including 700 organs
and 314 pianos, showing that a good many
of the comforts and conveniences of life
usually designated as luxuries are within
the reach of Michigan's working class.
As showing their intelligence, it is stated
that sixty-seven per cent took newspapers
and magazines, and half of them daily
papers. Thrift is practiced in a very gen
eral way; for of the whole number one
quarter were insured, on the average of
about-SLSOO; and 40 per cent saved money
last year. Two totals are very significant,
namely, the 5175,470 spent upon homes
and improvements, and the 5329,880 cash
saved during the year.
The condition Of the American work
ingman in general is fully up to the Michi
gan standard thus ascertained, and no
other country on earth can make as good a
showing. It is this sort of practical argu
ment that speaks for the protective tariff.
Under protection the nation has prospered,
from the lowest and least to the highest,
and the system will he maintained by the
votes of the men who, as in the case cited
from Michigan, are able under it to earn
living wages, own their homes, insure
their lives and have some little left be
sides for luxuries and the saving's bank.
CONTINGENCIES OF THE CANVASS.
Should Blaine be in any fair sort of
health next summer hardly any other
name will be mentioned by Republicans
for the Presidency. That is the clear drift
of feeling now, and the signs are it will
intensify, not diminish, in the interval be
fore the National Convention. In the
event of Mr. Blaine being put out of con
sideration by physical disability, the most
prominent candidates will be President
Harrison, Major McKinley and General
Alger though, of course, there may be
othsr Richmonds in the field later on.
The friends of the administration notably
the leading office-holders loudly proclaim
that with Blaine out of the way McKin
ley or Alger wouldnot be "init" compared
with the President, hut that is far from sure.
If Major McKinley win in Ohio this year,
of which there is every probability, it will
take more than the mere influence of
patronage to whistle his popularity and
his prestige down the wind.
General Alger occupies the interesting
position of being, in case of a close con
test, the most likely legatee of the strength
of any of the other candidates for Presi
dent; and, failing of that, the chances are
that the nomination for the Vice Presi
dency will almost surely be offered him.
His winning personality has made him an
extraordinary favorite both with politicians
and the people, besides which is a brilliant
army and unsullied business and political
record.
Among tho Democrats the situation is
much slower in taking shape. The party
must make up its mind more definitely
upon the tariff and the silver question be
fore predictions of the personnel of the
ticket will be of the slightest value. If
opposition to a protective tariff is to he the
sole card as in 1888, Mr. Cleveland will
have the call; but should the free-silverites
insist on having their ism also in the plat
form, Mr. Clevelandwould be handicapped
by his record against that project On the
other hand, should Ohio declare decisively
for protection next November, the party
would so lower its pitch upon tariff revi
sion as to materially lessen Cleveland's
special availability, and leave the field
open to aspiring adventurers for a new
shuffle both as to men and measures.
This is the aspect of the situation up to
date.
THE NATIONAL ENCAMPMENT-
The National Encampment of the Grand
Army of the Republic to be held at Detroit
this week will bring together an imposing
number of veterans. Last year Boston
had the honor of entertaining the Grand
Army, and a very picturesque parade and
other proceedings incidental to the en
campment attracted the eyes of the nation.
At Detroit no doubt the boys in blue, very
old boys some of them, will once more fur
nish a stimulus to patriotism as well as
benefit themselves by the exchange of
ideas and the reknitting of friendships
which must result from such a gathering.
The whole affair will be upon a gigantic
scale. No less than seventy-five thousand
men, for instance, are expected to join in
the great parade. Detroit is straining her
self to outdo if possible the hospitality
shown to the veterans in the East last
year. The representatives of Pittsburg's
army of retired soldiers will be numerous
and worthy of the city's reputation. Since
the last encampment many a soldier has
joineda grander armyin the great beyond,
and the absence of one of the staunchest
friends of the army, the late General Sher
man, is sure to be felt grievously.
inE HUB'S CULTURED FIGHTEHS.
Notwithstanding the vaunted culture of
Boston, she cannot maintain her com
posure when one of her pugilists wins a
victory. Since George Dixon won his fight
in San Francisco, our Boston cotempo
raries have been vieing with each other
in the effort to do him honor. One cele
brates his 21st birthday for him by inter
viewing his wife, describing his charming
home, his homesickness when away from
"dear old Bosting," and many other things.
It is worthy of remark that John Law
rence Sullivan has not received much at
tention of late. Dixon is the hero of the
hour, and notwithstanding the fact that he
is a good fighter, Boston is proud of him as
a modest, retiring citizen. If he would
only retire from the ring and settle down
to a professorship of one of the Hub's in
stitutions of learning and cultuie he would
doubtless make a creat hit The chair of
phrenology would about fit him. He is
well posted in the science of bumps and
could be relied upon to supply bumps to
those of his pupils who need them.
STRANGE PARTNERSHIPS OF NATIONS.
With England and Germany feasting
and Russia and Prance hobnobbing to
gether, and all exerting themselves to be
as friendly as possible during this' hot
weather, the peace of Europe never was in
a more dangerous stew. Mr. Stead, in the
Fall Mall Gazette, declares that the only
way 'to secure it is to maintain the isola
tion of France. Yet that doughty Repub
lic positively refuses to he isolated, and
proceeds to have as good a time as any of
the big guns of royalty. If Mr. Stead
takes the proper view the peace of
Europe is on a very ragged edge. Russia
and England are not on the best of terms
at present France and Germany have
been spitting fire at each other ever since
King William wore knee pants. Thus we
find great powers allied on either side,
with chances in favor of a mere summer
flirtation, hut with greater-chances of an
ultimate bad quarrel.
It is certainly peculiar to seethe-great
European Republic running hand In hand
with the most despotic and tyrannical
government on earth. Like the lion and
the lamb they lie down-together; tout when
the lion becomes a little bit hungry he is
liable to nearly crush the life out of the
unsuspecting lamb. But these alliances
never did amount to much. It takes but a
moment to smash them to flinders, and if
France relies on Russia so much as to pick
and sustain her quarrel with Germany she
is liable to-xeckon without her host
The soul of CoL Elliott F. Shepard.is
much easier. He has been informed by
Secretary Halford that the President has
received and will give-due consideration to
the Colonel's letter, in which ho asked if
tho report was true thatPresident Harrison
had said he, the Colonel, was a good deal of
a bore. The Colonel's left eye whicn collided
with a tennis ball recently is also reported
uninjured. In snort the editor of the Mail
and Express is in fine shape "to make New
Tork howl in his own peculiar way.
Don Francisco Cuerto, of the State of
Tabasco, has invented a hand glass by which
he can look into a tree and see the sap rise.
Ho should add to it, so that he conld Bee the
wind rise, or fix something by which a sum
mer young man would not-rflnd-it so difficult
to raise the -wind.
The Chairman at the annual meeting- of
the Cobden Club in London a rew days ago
said, -with tears in his voice, that although
upward of two millions and a half of books
and pamphlets and fourteen millions and a
half of leaflets advocating free trade had
been circulated, reports from foreign conn
tries were not satisfactory and he might
have added that England herself is begin
ning to doubt the efficacy of her economic
policy.
The latest reports state that the Temescal
tin mines will rurnish enough tin to supply
all America, It is said to be of a superior
quality. With American tin and American
plates American tin plate win be of the best.
Tenny'S defeat by Longstreet yesterday
was by no means inglorious. It is a pity
that Salvator is not in a condition to run
against Longstreet for the championship of
the turf. Both are great horses and a race
between them would be of greater interest
than any race in the history of the turf. At
present Salvator must hold the champion
ship with Longstreet a close second.
Amebry telephone war is on in Boston
and 170 retail druggists have plugged their
phones. It is a hard light with chances in
favor of the monopoly, as usual.
The promoters of the McKeesport hos
pital made a proud record for themselves,
one that would be an honor to any charitably
inclined men. The project is a commend
able one, and when the hospital is finished
it will shelter and care for many a grateful
patient who would otherwise have to be
moved many miles with great danger-to his
life.
The English Parliament is going to pass
some more laws against prize fighting. The
teaching of St. Paul in matters of morality
rightly has weight.
If it proves true as reported that General
Schofield wears tennis shoes, it will look
very much as though the old campaigner
had found the fabled Florida fountain of
youth. Another dip and he would doubtless
want his army uniformed in blazers and
fish for soldiers with tennis nets.
The Pittsburg ball club has won two
games in succession, and fears are enter
tained for tho mental sanity of some of tne
local cranks.
The Maryland Democrats have had the
good sense to condemn in their platform
reckless experiments with the free coinage
of silver. The candidate who stands upon
this platform will not have to dodge and
squirm as Governor Campbell will have to
do before the campaign is over.
E1VALS OF THE 400.
General Neal Dow is still living in
the house he built for himself in 1829. He is
over 87 years of age.
Pbof. "Wiggins, the Ontario weather
prophet has written a scientific novel, which
is soon to be published in New Tork.
A dispatch from Vichy states that Dom
Pedro, the ex-Emperor of Brazil, has suf
fered a relapse and is again confined to his
bed.
Me. Gladstone seems to have recovered
his usual state of health, and he is sitting to
Millais for some alterations which are being
made in his jubilee portrait.
Stonewall Jackson was a poor horse
manindeed, he was reckoned the worst
rider in tho Confederate army. But if a
poor rider he certainly was a success as a
raider.
Senator Harris, of Tennessee, is ac
counted the best parliamentarian in Con
gress. He is the oldest living Congressman,
and is likely to stay in the Senate as long as
he desires.
The Czar has conferred the grand cordon
of tho Order of St. Anne upon Admiral
Gervais, of the French squadron, and has
bestowed decorations upon 32 other officers
of the French fleet.
Captain Hains, of the steamship
Etruria and Commodore of the Cunard fleet,
has just completed his 5Sth trip aoross the
Atlantic. He began his sea life in 1S3S, and
has been In the service of the Cunard Com
pany since 1857.
Leo XIIL was baptized by the names of
Vincenzo and Gioacchlno. His mother
always called htm by his first name, which
was used by himself up to the termination
of his collegiate days, when he began to use
the second name.
The Shah of Persia is an enthusiast with
the kodak, and takes very good pictures
with it when he condescends to do so.
Wherever he goes he is accompanied by a
court photographer, who takes views of
everything that interests the king.
A PEETTY BOUHANIArl CUSTOM.
Itls Similar to Our St. Valentine's Day and
la Celebrated March 1.
Youth's Companion.
A pretty custom, similar to that observed
in England, Scotland and the United States
on St. Valentine's Day, the 14th of February,
lis in vogue In ltoumanla on the 1st of March.
This is the day indicated In the State and
Church calendar as the official date for the
beginning of spring.
The masculine portion of the population
is not favored, as with valentines in this
country, but the daughter, friend, sweet
heart or bride may be quite sure of receiving
her token of affectionate rememorauce on
that day. These little gifts are called
martisofres, and are made of bronze, silver,
or some cheaper material, in the shape of
hearts, stars and medallions. These little
amulets bear the date, March 1, accom
panied by that of the year, and any motto or.
inscription which may occur to the giver as
appropriate.
The recipient of tho martisoire wears it,
held by a small chain, on her arm or hung
around her neck, until in her walks abroad
she sees a rose in bloom or hears the song of
the nightingale. Then she takes it off, and
hangs it on the next green bush to which
she comes, as an offering to Mother Nature,
for whom all Roumanians have a great love.
Whether these little medals are allowed to
hang on the bushes and swing in the breezes
all summer, or whether after a certain time
they are stealthily gathered by a martisoire
collector, to be melted for another season's
use, is not stated by the recent German
paper which tolls of this pretty, if rather
sentimental, custom.
STATE ELECTIONS THIS YEAB,
There WIU Be Twelve or Them or More or
Lets Importance.
New Tork Times.
Pennsylvania, November 3, will elect
Treasurer and Auditor General, and' vote
whether a Constitutional Convention shall
be held and elect delegates to the same.
Iowa, Novembers, will elect Governor and
other State officers and Legislature.
Kentucky, August 3, will elect Governor
and other officers and Legislature, and vote
upon tho Constitution framed by the con
vention which was elected August 4, 1S90.
Maryland, November 3, willeleot Governor
and other State offloers and Legislature, and
vote upon six proposed amendments to tho
Constitution of the State. The first em
powers tho Governor to disapprove separate
items in appropriation bills; the second re
stricts tho exemption of corporations from
taxation; the third provides for uniformity
of taxation; the fourth relates to the elec
tion of County Commissioners; the fifth
authorizes the sale of the State's interest in
all works of Internal improvement, and the
sixth empowers the Legislature to provide
for the taxation of mortgages, if such taxa
tion is imposed, in the county or city where
the mortgaged property is situated.
Massachusetts. November 3. wiU elect
Governor and other State officers and Legis
lature. Mississippi, November 3, will elect three
Railroad Commissioners andLegislature.
Nebraska, November 3, will elect Associate
Justice of the Supreme Court and two Ke
gents of the State University.
Now Jersey, November 3, wiU elect part of
the Senate and the Assembly.
New Tork, November 3, will elect Gov
ernor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of
State, Controller, Treasurer, Attorney Gen
eral, Engineer ana surveyor, ine senate, tne
Assembly, ten Justices of the Supremo
Court and a Representative ia Congress
from the Tenth district.
Ohio, November 3, will elect Governor and
other State officers and Legislature and
vote upon a proposed amendment to the
Constitution providing for uniformity of
taxation.
Texas, August 11, will vote upon five pro
posed amendments to the Constitution of
the State. The first provides for tho regis
tration of voters in towns of 10,000 inhab
itants and over, the second relates to tho
maintenance of the common schools, tho
third fixes tho maximum rate of interest at
10 per cent, and in contracts where no rate
is specified at 6 per cent, the fourth relates
to local option, and tho fifth provides for
establishing two or more civU courts of ap
peal. Virginia, November 3, will elect one-half
its senate ana its House oi ueiegates.
ABOUT WUHELMINA.
Interesting Gossip of the Girl Queen of the
Netherlands.
St. Nicholas for August.
Wilhelmina, Queen of the Netherlands,
was born at The Hague on August 31, 1S80,
and received the full name of Wilhelmina
Helena Pauline Marie. The monarchy of the
Netherlands includes not only Holland but
its colonial dependencies in South America
and the East and West Indies. These col
onies are both rich and extensive, covering
an area of 800,000 square miles and contain
ing a population of more than 27,000,000, six
times that of Holland itself I
The youthful Dutch Queen is the daughter
of William III., who died on November 23,
1830, and oi Emma Adelaide Wilhelmina,
Princess of Waldeck-Pyrmont. Her father
was the last descendant in tho direct line of
one of the most lamous families in Europe,
the house of Orange-Nassau, which has
mven to nistorv tnree BDienaia ncures:
William tho Silent, the first Stadtholder of
the Dutch Republic; his son Maurice, and
William II., who became also King of En
land. From her early childhood Princess Wilhel
mina has been trained to prepare her for
her royal duties. She has Been carefully
educated under an English governess, hav
ing been required to master the English and
Fiench languages as well as the Dutch, and
great attention has been given to her diet,
exercise, and all that could contribute to
her health. She has also received the con
stant supervision of her mother, a woman
of amiable character and excellent judg
ment, who is greatly and deservedly beloved
in Holland, and who acts as Queen Regent
during herdaughter'sminority. As Princess,
Wilhelmina is dressed plainly, wearing sim
ple white gowns, and having as her only
ornament a turquoiso or pearl necklace.
She will not take up the full duties of
Queen for six or seven years to come, and
probably there will be no gi eat change in
her habits and privileges in the interval.
The people of Holland have welcomed her
to the throne with feelings of tender pride
and Interest akin to those with which more
than half a century ago Great Britain
greeted tho accession of their "Bonny En
glish Rose," the Princess Victoria, then a
girl still in her teens. That Queen Wilhel
mina has already won tho love of the Dutch
has been shown by tho fact that even during
her father's life her birthday, although not
a regular fete, was usually celebrated with
public rejoicings by the people.
SOUTHEBN PLANTEES HAPPY.
They Have a Hlg Crop of Sugar and a
Bounty.
St. Louis Republic
A cool, clean, bright man is Captain Tom
Shields. He wears a white vest, white tie, a
white mustache, and would wear white trou
sers had they not gone entirely out of style.
Time was when ho did wear them, and was
one of the handsomest men on the river, as
he to-day is one of the jolliest and best
known. When Captain Tom's big steamboat
Blows around at the foot of Canal street in
New Orleans all the people feel that a friend
has returned to town, and when that same
big boat settles her nose softly against the
foot of Chestnut street, even tho old orange
woman throws back her bonnet and puts on
her smiles of 40 years ago. Tho Captain was
born and reared in Boonville. His father,
Captain Billy Shields, wes a steaniboatman
before him, and when Tom was a boy his one
ambition was to run a boat. His hair is griz
zled now, but his stalwart figure and his
bright eyes indicate tho presence of a con
tented mind.
"The Southern planters are happy now,"
said the Captain the other day. "They have
got thebiggest crop of sugar that ever struck
Louisiana, and on top of that are receiving
the Government bounty. They-don't think
it will last and just consider tho bounty so
much money picked up in the road. One
woman got $280,000, and ex-Governor War
mouth got S2C0.C00. So, you see, it amounts
to a small fortune to each planter. But I'll
toll you another thing: When the Govern
ment takes hold of the levees thero'll be a
million more farmers in Louisiana inside of
ten years. It's the prettiest country on earth
and full of resources. All that it needs is se
curity from the ravages of the Mississippi.
Talk about the New South. It has only be
gun now, but it will be a restoration without
prejudice. Just watch her grow."
Joy Is Getting Poor.
Chicago Globe.
Jay Gould dropped $5 into tho plato at the
church he attended at Cheyenne, Wyo., Sun
day. Ho is now worth exactly $199,999,995. It
is thus that extravagance drains a man's
property.
AMONG THE FLOWERS.
Not with the eagle's flight, who sees below him
A vlUage gleam, a pine grove sleep lu sand,
A blue lake smile, a river's liquid poem
Run Its slim thread-light through the prose of
land.
Nor where the 6allor steers by southern islands,
Sighting some distant Thule of the sea
Through deserts of alternate sound and silence.
And wilds of wonder, let my roaming be.
Ilwould -n alfc humbly, where no glass between uJ
Must chow me nature's countenance, and come
In das whose evening star is always Venus
To sportu ith dew-drops, like a bee, at home.
'TisEden everywhere to hearts that listen
And watch the Ufe or words and meadows grow)
Each tlnest blade Love's holiest kisses christen.
And Beauty asks not where to bud and blow.
There Is no music for the joy of thinking
I.Ike Flora's hymn in smiles and odors plaj cd.
No mood like that when sense and soul are drink
ing The red and yellow honey that God made.
The blooming wilds His gardens arc; some cheer
ing Earth's ugliest waste has felt that flowers be
queath. And all the winds o'er summer hills careering
Sound softer for the sweetness that they breathe.
Down lonely glens, in beds nnshaped, unspaded.
The snowdrop letters of Joy's earliest word
Whiten the sod, and pink stars shine, fern-shaded.
Where old creation's curse was never heard.
Peace, Freedom, Purity her blossomed sample
Guards each in fields and forests evermore
And the lost glories of the world's green temple
Show still some flakes of splendor on its floor.
Thes are my school books, and I study In them
A voice, a bliss of strange forgotten days
That brings me near the Love that could begin
them.
And makes each petallcd sweet a song of praise.
Theron Vroan in the l'oyth's Cumpanion,
MURRAY'S MUSINGS.
Facts -About Recruits for the Navy Morals
at the Seashore A Beat Beaten
Trying to Beat Three Card Monte
Pllfeng Peanuts.
FBOM A STAMP COBBESPONDEKT.
New Yoek, Aug.- L The recent drills of
the naval militia in this vicinity have
stirred up public sentiment and stimulated
the general interest in naval matters. .
"I see by the newspapers," said a gentle
man from Maine, "that it ia difficult to ob
tain a sufficient number of sailors to man
what ships we have. How will It be when
we have double and three times the number
of new vessels? The other day a Govern
ment ship put to sea with buta handful of
sailors, the rest of her crew being made up
of apprentices and landsmen. Every United
States vessel is short of hercomplement. It
isn't so much because the American sailor is
becoming extinct. There are plenty of
sailors ou the coast of Maine. I have been
all through there recently and know the
coast people pretty thoroughly. The Gov
ernment system of recruiting for the navy
does not reach these people. The recruiting
officers are stationed in the big cities, where
they pick up men from the slums and for
eign sailors out of a job. There is a recruit
in? office at Boston and one at the Kltterv
navy yard. They are run on the principle
that sailors and men who want to ship will
come to them.
"The real way to get sailors is to go after
tho sailors. There are hundreds of young
men up my way who would ship with u nele
Sam if the right sort of recruiting officers
wero sent up there right among them.
These young men are born and bred to the
sea and so were their fathers, grandfathers
and great-grandfathers before them. That
they will leave their homes and fishing
smacks for tho life of man-'o-war3 men is
evident from the fact that emissaries of the
Chilean Government are at this moment
picking them up for their new shipslying on
the coast of France for want oi sailors. It
seems a shame that we should lose the
services of these splendid sailors for want
of a little activity. The Balmaceda agents
are simply nobbling up American sailors
right under our noses, while our ships are
allrunningshorthandedand our recruiting
officers are growling over the poor material
offered."
No Hope for Promotion,
A navy officer to whom the question was
referred says it is undoubtedly true that the
real way to get sailors is to go where they
are. "As for the report that the Chilean
Government agents are working the New
England coast for men, it must be done
mighty quietly, if at all. Sailors are credu
lous people, and on the promises of big pay
and fair treatment will go anywhere
into any service. It Is largely a ques
tion of pay and treatment. Then
there is the human love for adventure. It
is often easier to get man o' wars men in
time of war than In peace, and for service
abroad than at home. But the pay and grog
are the ruling incentives. You can't get a
man to leave $25 and $30 a month and com
parative liberty for $12 or $18 a month and
three to five years' rigid service on a man o'
war.
"Another thing is there is no hope for
promotion in our navy beyond the warrant
officer. First-class seamen may work up to
the command of a merchant snip and have
a percentage above salary do better finan
cially than hold high rank in the navy; but
such men have no hope whatever onboard
a United States ship. That alone prevents
ambitious and intelligent American sailors
from shipping."
Putting the Ban on Poker.
A sad' sensational tale of the arrest and
condign punishment of four Kockaway wait
ers for gambling sounds decidedly humor
ous to the thousands who have played every
thing at the beach except poker the game
for which the waiters suffered. The games
of chance atRockaway and West Brighton
are thicker than the bathers. The noble
and national game of poker which requires
skill and nerve, is thus singled out invid
iously, perhaps, because it is the only thing
at Rockaway wherein the snortlve visitor has
a show for his money. The other gambling
devices, such as pitching 10 cent rings for
Scent canes, hitting a number for a "gold
watch or $3," covering tho number, chancing
your fortune with dice, knocking the nigger
for the cigars, and getting a square meal for
$2 50, go on night and day, and on Sunday
especially flourish, openly and unmolested.
This poker prosecution by the highly moral
managers of the beach is a erand bluff: it is
distinct notification to tho tens of thousands
who go daily down to the sea for fun that
they must leaye their money on the ground
when they return or have no fun.
Morals at the Seashore.
"Talk about seaside morals," remarked a
veteran the other day, "there is more gen
uine deviltry going on at Asbury Park and
Ocean Grove than at any other resort ou the
Jersey coast. It is a curious thing, but peo
ple who are up to sneaking tricks go whore
the broad cloak of compulsory morality
covers everybody alike. I have just come
from Asbury Park. I have run down there
from the Branch every summer more or less
to see the fun, and I have known and heard
of more scandals there than anywhere else."
Between Bits of Painted Oilcloth.
Is Upper Broadway may be seen a proces
sion of six sandwiches that is men with
big signs on front and back 3lowly prome
nading up and down. Three of the men are
white-haired, respectable-looking old men
out of luck, and three have tho appearance
of good for nothings in the prime of able
bodied manhood. Each man carries a flag,
and the signs, painted upon white oilcloth,
come down to their heels. They advertise a
cheap shoo house. There is something pa
thetic in these old men reduced to such a
method to earn a livelihood. If the joyous
schoolboy, the ambitious student, the happy
father, the respected merchant, could antic
ipate such an end would life be worth liv
ing? Would he consent to live it out to this
extreme?
Reduced from fortune to poverty, alone,
forsaken by kindred, walking tho streets of
New York a human sign! What a story of
human hopes, great temptations, love, sor
rows and degredation lies entombed be
tween those bits of painted oilcloth!
Will Drink First Next Time.
"I was just looking after my baggage at
Chester," said Manager Tom Davis, "and
the baggage man was trundling a big theat
rical trunk with my name and dramatic
company emblazoned thereon, when a seedy
looking chap in the old-time actor's outfit
stopped me on the platform. Ho called mo
by name I'd forgotten the trunk as he de
posited his bundle at my feet and said ho
was an actor, who had been stranded at
Pittsburg, and was working his way to Phila
delphia. Would I let him have 50 cents, on
his honor as a gentleman?
" 'Is that the fare?' I inquired.
" 'You can send him by boat for 25 cents,'
remarked a bystandor.
" 'What did you give to that fellow?' asked
the baggage man after the transaction.
" 'Only a quarter ho w ants to get to Phila
delphia seems to know me.'
" 'Rats! That man is a bum. He was
thrown off tho last train from Philadelphia.
He saw your name on the trunk. I thought
you show people wore fly!'
"I was mad all through and I made up my
mind I'd catch that fellow if I missed my
train. Hurrying through the station I just
saw him disappear into the nearest saloon.
I ran over and entered just as he held a
brimming glass of whisky lovingly in his
right hand. In his other was my quarter.
While he was thus tantalizing his thirst, I
stepped up behind and seized the coin. He
looked at me reproachfully and nervously
turned to tho bartender.
" 'Do I drink, boss?'
" 'No yon don't!' exclaimed the bartender
emphatically, as ho grabbed the glass of
liquor.
' 'By Hamlet's father,' he murmured in a
sepulchral voice, 'hencciorth I drink first
and think afterward!' "
The Man Who Toots a Horn.
Tiieke is a tally-ho coach that leaves town
for tho Morris Park race track every day at
12 o'clock meridian. It has six beautiful
bay horses and a horn. That horn is "wound"
as the empty coach stops in front of the
Parker House and the man w ho "winds" it
makes the sound echo from the Broadway
trenches. He cannot blow tho simplest call
or get by any possible combination u nqto of
music from the long and slender instru
ment, but bo seems to have lots of fun try
in". A number of sports climbed into the
vehicle tho other day and tried to persuade
other to go out with them.
"Tickets only $1, sir round trip," said the
""What's that infernal horn for?" asked the
man. "Thisaintno charivari party. Let
me kill tho man ith a horn and I go, see?"
Just at this moment the man up behind
blew a terrific snort which anywhere elso
than in the principal thoroughtare or New
York would have insured his getting 30 days
and tho would-be patron hastily added:
"But I must kill him before we start, see?
Is it a go?" It was a go. That is, the agent
said "go" and the six-horso coach went off
without the critical sporting gentleman.
His Lesson at Gambling.
"Whes I was a boy," said a Missouri man,
"my brother ran a boat between New Or
leans and St. Louis. I had been up and
down bo many times as a sort of youthful
factotum that I knew the channel pretty
thoroughly. I also knew' about all the dev
ilment that was going on and that Is say
ing a good deal, for the boats before the war
were worked by all kinds of games. There
were two monte sharps that picked up a
good deal of money on our boat, and I used
to watch that little game with more interest
than anything else. I had saved up aDout
$30 during the year and carried my father'3
gold watch and chain. One day I told the
monte man Ruegles his name was that I
could pick out the right card every time.
He said 'try it,' and I tried it. Every time I
saw him I tried it, and every time I tried it
I called the turn.
"'You've got this down fine,' said Rug
gles. 'You wonld be a bad young man to
play against. But take my advice, boy
never gamble.'
"It struck me as very Inconsistent for
Buggle3 to bo winning money off of every
body and telling me not to gamble. For he
always did counsel me against it. I thought
Ituggle s was afraid of me, and so I hinted.
" 'I am,' said Buggies. 'Got any money?'
"I told him I had a" modest purse, but I'd
go the whole that I could pick out the right
card. He immediately sought a quiet corner
of the boat and shuffled the cards. I drew
forth my buckskin purse and threw it down
with a chink.
" 'Hold on,' said Buggies, "my limit is $2,000.
How much have you got in there?' I told
him and he threw down two $20 gold pieces
against it.
"I won. Breathlessly I placed tho shiners
in my purse and then laid down the whole.
I won again. Again I put down the double
stakes. Again I won.
" 'I'm afraid you have got on to this game,'
said Rugeles. 'Better q nit now.'
" 'I'll bet anything I've got I can name
it,' said I confidently.
" 'That's a very nice watch you've got,"
said Buggies; worth an hundred.'
" 'She goes in with the rest,' said I, 'at that
figure. And I stripped off the watch and
chain that I wouldn't have parted with for
a million.
" 'You've got nerve,' said Buggies, as he
turned the cards.
"That was all I did have, too, for I lost and
Ruggles coolly swept in the whole outfit and
sauntered away. A year's savings and my
father's watch! I never squcaled,but I knew I
dared not face my father at St. Louis with
out a watch. I saw Ruggles now and then
going up. but he never seemed to notice mo
much. Finally, on the day wo wore in sight
of St. Louis he took me one sido and,says Tie:
My boy; I'll give you back your watch and
your purse and will add your first Innings to
It if you'll give me your solemn promise
never to touch a game again.' You bet I
promised. More, I've kept that promise to
this day."
Favorites of the Long Ago.
There is a queer little shop uptown, near
the big theaters where the photographs of
"old theatrical celebrities" are on sale.
Charlotte Cushman, Mary Taylor, Adelina
Patti,"as she first appeared;" Mrs. G. C. Tay
lor, the original Topsey, Tom Thumb, as he
was when Barnum first exhibited him; J.
Wilkes Booth, Forrest, Edwin Adams, Laura
Keene, and a host of old-timers some repro
duced from old daguerrotypes confront
the occasional collector. A sight of them is
enough to arouse the dead spirit of the past.
Picking Up a Peanut.
If you will notice the face of a peanut
Tender when a man comes along and picks
a nut from the stand you will see a manifes
tation of subtle human emotion. It is the
smallest trifle, to be sure, but when hun
dreds of thoughtless men, women and chil
dren come along and take one or two pea
nuts each, it makes a hole in the profits.
Worse it makes a hole in the peanut mer
chant's temper. Yet this is exactly what is
going on every day all over town. No won
der the Italian fruit seUer occasionally takes
a notion to carve up the community of pec
ulators. Charles Theodore Murray.
A VEBY CHEAP BATE.
Scalpers Sold Tickets From St. Paul to Chi
cago for a Dime.
ST. Patji, July SI. St. Paul to Chicago for
10 cents. That is the latest accomplishment
ot the Kansas City road. The explanation
1b this: The Northwestern Eailroader, in its re
port of the trial of President Egan, pub
lished a fac simile of the ticket which was
the cause of the indictment of the Kansas
City officers.
Some enterprising scalper having discov
ered the fatal exactness of the reproduction
of the ticket, it is needless to add the edition
of the Northwestern Railroader was quickly
bought up and a large number of people en
joyed a ride between St. Paul and Chicago
for 10 cents. The Kansas City officers are,
however, onto the deception, and are out
with a notice to conductors warning them
of the fraud.
A SUCCESSFUL CBAB HUNT.
The President and Party Slake a Good Haul
on Their Fishing Trip.
'SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH. 1
Cape May, Aug, 1. The Presidental fish
ing and crabbing excursion to-day, made up
of President and Mrs. Harrison, Mrs. Dim
mock, the two grandchildren and Mr. and
Mrs. William Buckman, of Philadelphia, had
excellent luck and a pleasant time on the
sound. They embarked at 9 o'clock, and
were out until 1, and during the time caught
a large number of black fish and netted
about a bushel of crabs.
Each member of the party had the pleas
ure of catching something, whether from
the bite of a fish on the hook or the captur
ing of a crab in a net. The party brought
home with thorn about a bushel of crabs, and
had them for supper.
A BEIGHT FABB0T.
The Bird Tried to Teach the Chickens to
Say Uncle.
Spare Moments.
A gentleman was boasting that his parrot
would repeat anything he told him. For ex
ample, he told him several times, before
some friends, to say "Uncle," but the parrot
would not repeat it. In anger he seized the
bird, and half-twisting his neck said, "Say
uncle,' you beggar!" and threw him into the
fowl pen, in which he had ten prize fowls.
Shortly afterwards, thinking he had killed
the parrot, he went to the pen.
To his surprise he saw nine of the fowls
dead on the floor, with their necks wrung,
and the parrot standing on the tenth twist
ing his neck and screaming, "Say 'uncle,'
you beggar! say 'uncle.' "
Reed on the Same Old Bust.
Ex-Speaker Reed didn't lose any flesh in
the Old World. He comes back happy, fat,
sassy, and looking just as much as ever like
the Stratford bust.
DEATHS HEBE AND ELSEWHEBE.
Edmund W. P. Smith.
The State Department received a tele
gram Friday from Bogota announcing that Ed
mund W. P. Smith, the Secretary of the United
States Legation at Bogota, died at Carthagena,
Colombia, on July 3, of an acute attack or Blight's
disease. Mr. Smith was well known In this coun
try, and was one of the most popular members of
the diplomatic service, with which he lias been
connected for some years. He served with the
Pan-American Congress during Its tour and ses
sions as an attache detailed by the State Depart
ment, and after Its a llournmcnt he w as appointed
to the post In Colombia. He had formerly heen
stationed in Colombia in diplomatic duty, and had
a valuable acquaintance with South American af
iairs. His widow is a Colombian lady.
Commander Charles McGregor, U. S. N.
Commander Charles McGregor, of the
United States Navy, died, aged 46. at the Emery
Hotel In Cincinnati yesterday morning. General
and Mrs. Sweltzcr, his sister, and Captain Vande
grift, an old comrade In arms, attended him. Ho
was born on Mt. Elberon. Cincinnati, and served
on the Union side in the War of the Rebellion. At
the time of his death he was Lighthouse Inspector
of the Fourteenth dlstrlcr. with headquarters at
Cincinnati. He will be burled in the full uniform
of his service Sunday afternoon in the McGregor
familv lot at Spring Grove. The Loyal Legion w ill
attend the body to the gra e.
31. C. Raymond.
M. C. Eaymond, who is dead at his home
atMontvllle, Conn., aged 01, was the most noted
citizen of that country town. He had a wonderful
constitution. He was never sick during his life
until his faUHHness. He manazed his big farm,
and was as actie as are most meu of 50 until a few
weeks ago. His wife survives him. and the couple
had been married SI years. In January, 1877, they
celebrated their golden wedding. Mr. Raymond
w as made an elector In VSH, and bad voted at every
Presidental election since. He was a licpu'jlicin.
He hail represented his town in the Legislature,
held many other offices, and was its Town Clerk fur
many years. He had been a member of the Mout
vllle First Congregational Church for 68 3 ears.
Prot John Tredlnnick.
Prof. John Tredinnick, pastor of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, dean of the Univer
sity of the South and a member or the Alabama
Conference, died Friday at Bluffton, Ala., In the
18th vear of his age. lie was born In Knpr'niui,
wai educated at Princeton, and went to Blufl'.on,
In 1339.
Obituary Notes.
Ex -United States Sexator Sawyer, ofSouth
Carolina, died at Shawnee, Tenn., Friday night.
He was a prominent tlgure lu the South during the
reconstruction period.
Jons C. SASKEY, chief clerk to Pay Inspector
Kenny, of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, died Friday
in the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore. He
served with distinction in the navy during the
Civil War.
A MOTHEH'S LITE.
What Is the Gain if She Works It Out for
Her Family.
Harper's Bazar.
Self-sacrifice comes natural to women.
Much of It is born in them, and what is not
is ground into them from their childhood by
education. For the sake of her home duties
a girl gives up amusements and privileges
which her brother would never be expected
to forego for the like reason. As she grows
older, this spirit grows, encouraged by all
tradition and outside influence. Often its
power masters her altogether, and her life
becomes one long devotion of endless labor
and acceptance of unpleasant things, that
the pleasant part of living may he kept sa
cred for the rest of the family.
The purely useless side of thi3 entire
felf-abnegation must sometimes strike the
beholder. Such effacing of individuality
Is not uncommon. And It gives as little
real benefit to the family as it does to the
individual.
Putting aside "the moral effect on the
younger members of a familv brought up to
regard their mother as a machine run for
the family service, does the woman who so
gives herself for the well-being of her fam
ily really accomplish all she desires? If she
work without pause or slackening day in
and day out, does she always feel satisfied,
with admiring onlookers, that it is the
noblest way to so spend her health and
energies? If she renounces all recreation
and higher life for herself, and gives up all
communion of mind and spirit with her
husband and children, is the reward ade
quate that is paid to them in a better-kept
house, a more bountifully supplied larder or
handsomer clothes?
If over fatigue causes her to become petu
lant or complaining, is not the atmosphere
of home more greatly injured than the added
cleaning and cooking can Tepair? If she is
too worn out to give sympathy and help
to the children's joys and sorrows, what do
the finer clothes and furniture obtained
avail? And if, as sometimes happens, out
raged nature gives way, and others must
step into the breach, do their own work
and the played-out woman's as well, and
take care of ner into the bargain, what has
she gained by her extreme efforts that she
has not lost by the breakdown.
A life laid down in a worthy cause Is
not lost, but gained; but is this cause
worthy?
THE GERMAN EMFEB0B.
The First Three Years or the Reign of Will
iam. II. Reviewed.
Poultn ey Blgelow In the Century. J
William IL has been for three years Em
peror, and in this time has succeeded not
only in winning the respect of foreign Cabi
nets, but in strengthening himself at home.
He succeeded a father idolized by all who
came within the sphere of his gentle and
generous nature; his grandfather left be
hind a warliice fame so great that only the
age of Frederick II. can afford a paralleL
The present Emperor has had, therefore, no
easy task before him, for it has been neces
sary for him both to remove prejudice and
to give the country confidence in his inten
tions as well as in his abilities.
The secret of the Emperor's power with
his own people arises mainly from three
causes:
First He has courage.
Second He is honest.
Third He is a thorough German.
If the whole country had to vote to-morrow
for a leader embodying the qualities
they most desired, their choice would fall
unquestionably on their present constitu
tional ruler. Perhaps the virtues I have
specified appear commonplace, and will be
taken for granted by the reader; but an em
peror must be compared with others In the
same trade.
Ufa bnnpstv baa been the cause of nearly
i all tho malevolent criticism that the outside
papers have accorded mm, lor ne nas saia.
freely what older or more politic people
might have placed in a different way. He
has made many minor mistakes by acting on
the impulse of the moment, but these mis
takes have never betrayed to his people a
want of sympathy with their development.
He has mado his share of minor blunders in
handling largo masses of troops at the grand
maneuvers, but the army would be happy to
see him make a thousand times as many
rather than to miss the active interest he
takes in keeping the military machine in
working order.
A COMPLIMENT E0B AMERICA.
Emperor William Appreciate the Great"
and Growing Nation of the West.
Ponltney Blgelow In Century.
Shortly after the maneuvers of 1889 ho re
ceived our Minister, William Walter Phelps,
In a manner more than complimentary, say
ing, among other things: "From childhood I
have admired the great and expanding com
munity you represent, and the study of
your history, both in peace and war, has
given me particular pleasure. Among the
many conspicuous characteristics of your
fellow citizens the world admires in par
ticular their spirit of enterprise, their re
spect for law, and their inventiveness. Ger
mans feel themselves the more drawn to the
people of the United States because of the
many ties that inevitably accompany kin
ship of blood. The feeling whioh both coun
tries entertain most strongly is that of re
lationship and friendship of long standing,
and the- future can only strengthen the
heartiness of our relations."
This, I venture to say, is the most friendly
language ever used by a German ruler or
cabinet toward the United States, and it
gains the more in value by coming from the
mouth of a man who would not have said
anything that he did not fully mean. The
personal regard entertained for Mr. Phelps
made the Emperor's language perhaps more
easy for him: but in addition to that, I am
sure that few Germans who have not
traveled in America are better informed of
our conditions, our history, our resources,
and our literature than he. When "Battles
and Leaders of the Civil War" appeared, it
was read by him with interest; as an officer
in the army he attended courses of lectures
on our principal military operations; and
only within the past few weeks he was dis
cussing with an American George Kennan's
work on the treatment of Siberian exiles.
A CZABEWnZ BECEPTIOfl.
Indian Princes Who Wore Great Strings of
Diamonds and Other Jewels.
After being honored with 'a seat at the pri
vate dining table of the Viceroy, writes an
Indian correspondent, everything else in a
social way comes to a man or woman. I
have dined with tho Lieutenant Governor
and been to various receptions and evening
parties at both the beautiful Belvidore and
the Government House, the last two recep
tions (evening parties), one each at the
Viceroy's and tho Lieutenant Governor's.
Of course I went to see tho future Czar of all
the Russias recently. Ho U a fairly good
looking young fellow of about 21. with a
look about his eyfesand Jaw which auegested
that he might be equal to any emergency
which might arise in the future. I stood by
his side for ten minutes in a crush or 2,000
people, and so had a good look at him. I am
glad that 1 am not a Czarewitz, ?nd that he
is not my Imperial Highness.
But wnat interested me more than this
young imperial highness was the great as
semblage of native princes, rajahs, mahara
Jabs, etc., with their magnificent and gor
geous attire. I don't think I over saw so
many jewels in all my life. These old and
young princes had evidently decked them
selves out for the occasion. One young ma
harajah had a necklace of diamonds on com
pletely surrounding his neck, six strands
deep, no one of them smaller than a large
pea, and running up in size to a large hazel
nut. Besides such masses of diamonds there
were pearls in strings (more beautiful than
diamondsj.rubies, sapphire,emeralds (most
beautiful), and evcrv glorious stone the
earth jield'j. It would have sent half the
society women of West End, London, mad
with envy just to have seen them. And to
think of them being wasted on the men!
A COLONEL BY MABBIAGE.
How a Texan Gained the Distinction of a
Military Title.
Yonth's Companion.
A traveler in Texas says that he was rid
ing along a cattle trail near the New Mexico
line, when he met a rather pompous-looking
native of the region, who introduced himself
as Colonel niggins, of Devil's River.
"Were you a colonel in the Confederate
army?" I asked.
"No, sah "
"On the Union side, then?"
"No, sah, nevah was in no wnh."
"Belong to the Texas Hangers?"
"No, sail, I do not."
"Ah, I see. You command one of the State
militia regiments."
"No, sah, I don't. Don't know nothing
about soldiering."
"Where, then, did you get the rank of
colonel?"
"I'se a kunnel by-marriage, sah."
"By marriage? How's that?"
"I married the widow of a kunnel, sah;
Eunnel Thompson, of Waco." '
CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS.
In Munich, which consumes more beer
than any other German city, the family al
lowance amounts to S65 quarts a year for
every man, woman and child.
A "Wichita woman has had 27 servant
girls within less than a year, and the last
one she employed had worked for 32 differ
ent mistresses during the year.
The English royal princesses have set
the fashion for sisters not only to dress alike
when they are unmarried, but to continue
to do so after becoming wives.
A Bar Harbor man is such a devoted
worshiper of Dickens that he reads from
one of the great novelist's works every
night before Tetiring, no matter how busy
he is.
There are exceptions to all rules. At
St. Helen, Cal., there is a bock agent who la
82 years old and who was never shot at,
thrown through a window or worried by a
dog in all his long experience.
Owing to au ailment that is "puzzling
the doctors," a Swedish patient In Milwau
kee puffs up enormously about the body
every night, so that the clothes he wears in
the daytime don't begin to fit him.
The 13 superstition has had another
boost. During the first half of the present
year the number 13 figured in Cincinnati's
violent deaths. There were 13 suicides, 13
homicides, and 13 children died violently.
For the year ended June 30 there was
collected at the portorVancuover, B.C.,a
duty on Chinamen entering Canada, $15,963,
as compared with $3,563 the previous year.
The amount exacted from each Chinaman U
$120.
One hundred and seventy head of cattle
are ordered to be killed in Yorkshire, Eng
land, where pleuro-pneumonia is raging. It
will take ten days to slaughter the animals
and the loss to tho owners will exceed
$17,000.
There is a post at the corner of the pub
lic square in Fairmont, Mo., which gets a
bolt of lightning from nearly every thunder
storm that comes along. Three men, 5 horse
and 20 or 30 sheep have been electrocuted at
the spot.
It hailed so hard in Cheyenne county,
Kan., one afternoon this week that 16 men
working at a threshing machine were cut
about the face and hands so badly that they
were unfit for work the rest of the day.
Their clothes were literally riddled.
The other day an old buck belonging to
a flock of sheep which were being driven
down street at St. Joseph, Mo., happened to
catch sight of his reflected image in a plate
glass window and charged upon it, shivering
the glass and scattering a display of gold,
silver and bronze goods in all directions.
Statistics of the Keeley Institute at
Dwight, Mass., show that the physicians are
more usually addicted to the opium and
morphine habit than to whisky. One reason
is that drugs give less evidence by their im
mediate results than alcohol, and are less
offensive to the noses of the patients.
An overly-careful physician in 2few
Haven washes all the greenbacks he receives
from patients for fear they might contain
disease germs. He first uses soap, then
rinsing the notes off in cold water, and ho
reports that the treatment elves a clean,
crisp look to even the most dilapidated bilL
A novel method of "beating" the Post
office Department has been detected at Lew
Angeles, Cal. A young man rented a box,
taking two keys, one of which he gave to a
lady friend, and they exchanged letters
through the box. The letters have been
held for postage and one key has been taken
up.
One section of the historical collection
at Dresden, Germany, is literally a museum
of boots and shoes, being, it is believed, un
equaledin the world as a repository of tbo
foatwear of celebrities. Among the things
of Interest shown are a pair of shoes worn
by Martin Luther at the diet of Worms
and the toilet slippers of the great Maria
Theresa.
All Boston was dazzled the other day
by the dress of a variety actor who appeared
upon Washington street wearing a suit of
sky blue clothes, except his waistcoat,
which was of purple velvet, and he had a
new black, shiny "beaver." His necktie was
a profuse one of white silk: and it is needless
to say that his face, and likewise his neck,
.were smooth shaven.
A contract marriage took place at
Fresno, CaL, recently, the bride being under
age and unable to obtain the consent of her
parents. John Hoffman, the man, Is 23 years
of age, and Florence Rlce,the girl, 15 years.
They agreed to take each other as man and
wife, entering upon that relation at once. If
she so desires the woman's contract may bo
voided when she attains majority.
At Bocky Hill, Conn., the other day,
lightning shook hands with Fanner W. II.
Stevens in the most cordial manner, no was
in the shed at S. F. Wright's house and had a
piece of a scythe in his hands. The thunder
bolt took the iron out of his hands, threw it
Into one corner of the shed, and jumped
Stevens into an opposite corner. Mr. Stevens
says that when the lightning took hold of
him he felt as if a fountain had burst inside
him and spouted pins and needles into every
part of his body.
Between Lebanon and "Waynesville, O.,
lives a family consisting of Mr. and Mrs.
Yazel and eleven children, ten of whom are
sous and one daughter. There were U chil
dren, but three have died. The mother has
12 fingers, six on each hand. The daughter
also has 12 fingers, and one of the sons has 12
toes. Agriculture is the occupation of Mr.
Yazel, and that he is well fortified by the in-,1o3trv-
of his sons is indicated by the fact
that Mr. Yazel went to town the other day
and bought several hoes for home use.
The heaviest modern ordnance is the
English 110-ton gun. Its charge is 960 pounds
of best prismatic gunpowder, and the cylin
drical steel shot weighs 1,800 pounds. At the
last test this enormous shot penetrated en
tirely through compressed armor (steel
faced iron) 20 inches thick; then through
iron backing five Inches thick; then it
pierced wholly through 20 feet of oak, 5 feet
of granite and 11 feet of hard concrete and
3 feet into a brick wall. No existing fortress,
much less armored vessel, could withstand
such a shot.
The Boone county, Ind., Circuit Court
has decided a question of ecclesiastical in
terest. Some members of the Mount Tabor
Baptist Church, wishing to admit to church
membership a certain class of persons whose
objections to the creed were apt to cover
minor and unessential points of doctrine,
appealed to the courts to determine whether
the creed could be disregarded in any par
ticular or whether it must be accepted in all
its verbal rigidity. The court, considering
the creed in the nature of a legal contract,
decided that it must be accepted, if at all,
for just what it says in plain English.
THE BAZAR'S HAPPY THOUGHTS.
A quiet place is this with much to do.
In this sweet spot, not far from ocean's shore.
Yon walk and promenade, and when you're
through.
You change your clothes and go and walk some
more.
"Thai was a mean trick of that drygooda
concern's."
What did they do?"
Advertised "Circulars Given Away To-day.'
and all the women within ten miles went down to
get one. When they got there, ther found the cir
culars were printed ones, and not cloaks."
"So this is your grandson, eh, Bastus?"
'Yasslr. He's a fine boy, too. Leads his classes
at school."
"Indeed! Come here, boy. Suppose you had two
dozen watermelons, and another boy took five of
them, how many would there be left?"
Iguethefldonegltaholto twodozenwater
millions, they ain't no boy on dis yere alrth 'uld
git Ave of 'em," replied the youngster.
"AVouldn't it be lovely if a plate of ice
cream should come right np through the floor?"
said Maud.
'No," returned Charles. "I skould hate to
have a coolness spring up between us."
"Is that Bronson boy smart?"
"Very. He climbed over Into the Smithers
orchard, stole a lot of blossoms, and sold 'em to
Mrs. Smithers for a dollar."
"Which way the winds do blow,
The straw will surely show
But really as for that.
So will the derby hat.
Father It is the early bird that catches
the worm.
Johnny That's so; but It Is the little birds that
stay at home sleeping In the nest that get the worm
to eat.
"Farewell," said he. And she replied,
As he In sorrow left her side,
'"Tls needless, sir, forme to say
I shall fare well when you're away."
Papa Dear me, Mary, what ever are you
going to do with all these trunks two, four, six,
twelve of them? Yon can't fill more than one.
Mamma I know It, my dear: but we must make
a decent appearance ou arriving at Newport.