THE PITTSBTJBG DISPATCH, SATURDAY. AUGUST 8, 189L Me Bigpf clj. ESTABLISHED FEBRUARY 8. 1S46. Vol. 4fi.No. 181. Entered at Pittsburg rostofflce, November 14, 18r, as second-class matter. Business Office Corner Smithfield and Diamond Streets. News Rooms and Publish;ng House 78 and 80 Diamond Street, in New Dispatch Building. KATKRN" ADVERTISING OFFICE, BOOM SU TRIBUNE BUILDING. XEWYORK. where com plete files ofTHEDlSPATCUcan always be fonnd. orelga advertisers appreciate the convenience. Home adrertUcrs and friends of THE DISPATCH, tthlle in New York, are also tryide welcome. T7IE PTSPATCnts rrffvlarliiontaleatllmtamS, I Cmon Stuart, .rw T'trk. arut 27 -It dV VOpsra. hrw, Fmncr, tchrrc a-nyonr icho ha been awap ymnted or c hotel nctos stand, ran obtatn it. TERMS OF THE DISPATCH. POSTAGE FREE IN TOE UNITED STATES. DAILY Dispatch, One Year f 8 OD DAILY Dispatch. Ter Quarter. 2 00 1HII.Y Dispatch, One Month 70 IKILA DISPATCH, Including Snadar. 1 yerr . 10 CO DulyDispvtcii, including Sundav.SnTths. 250 Daily Dispatch. Including Sunday, 1 ra'lh . 90 FrxrA Dispatch, One Year 2 50 Weekly Dispatch, One Year 1 2" The Dailt Diptch Is delivered hy carriers at 15 cents per week, or. Including Sunday Edition, at S) cents per week. PITTSBURG, SATURDAY, AUGUSTS, 1!)1. POLITICIAN AND THEltLAIXEBOOM. The number of minor booms and per sonal testimonials which are daily being affixed to the great big Blaine boom must furnish a curious study to the observant citizen. It is a fact that the present Blaine boom is about the most spontane ous and honest expression for a public man from the people that has been wit nessed in this country since "the call in lSrtS upon Grant to go to the AVhlte House. Blaine's views upon the tariff, upon for eign trade, upon our relations with other countries, have been so much clearer and more comprehensive than those of any other leader in the Republican party, that recognition of his superior ability has become general and earnest both within and without his party. But this was made manifest in the press and among the people long before the politicians took up his candidacy for 1892. In the present instance, while Cam eron and Quay, Dudley and Clarkson are credited in some quarters as the power be hind the throue which is obtaining the daily expressions for Blaine, the real truth is that these politicians are but following the already well denned tide of public opinion. They risk nothing iu casting their fortunes with a popular movement which, even if they were to ally them selves with the administration, they would be powerless to withstand. It has been a foregone conclusion ever since Blaine wrote his famous reciprocity letter that, if alive and well, nothing could pre vent his being the Republican candidate for President in 1802. Under the circumstances the political leaders really need the Blaine boom very much more than it needs them. The real danger is that too many of them may at tach themselves to it all at once. The special and shining indorsements, for in stance of Chairman Quay, Chairman An drews, of Pennsylvania, Colonel Dudley and others tacked on by some conventions to expressions for Blaine, are no sort of help to the latter. The politicians are to be credited with shrewd perception of the possible sources of future lenefits for themselves inlaunch ingtheir boats promptlyonwhathasall the appearance of becoming a tidal wave; but the movement of the mass of water does not come from them. They merely float upon the surface. It is the widespread and earnest feeling among the people that Blaine is by great .odds the most ca pable man in the party, or indeed in pub lic life in this country to-day, which is making the stir. inE RAILWAY ACCIDENT EPIDEMIC. The open switch was the cause of the collision which occurred to the New York and Chicago limited yesterday morning. Two lives paid the penalty of that care lessness, and the only wonder is, from speed of the train and the force of the shock, that the slaughter was not more wholesale. At nearly the same hour the vestibule train on the Wabash road ran into a heavy freight, with an equally provi dential escape from a general destruction of life. The Fort Wayne collision appears from Hie accounts to have been of the kind to le charged to the carelessness of an em ploye. The responsibility for the western accident is not so easily settled. But it is plain that such accidents can not occur without negligence somewhere; and the higher up the responsibility is located the more grave is the negligence. The epi demic of railway accidents really sigui lies an epidemic of carelessness. a voice thom the trusts. The Albany Evening Journal is making a persistent though rather belated asser tion of its unshaken loyalty to the trusts by referring to the present low price of sugar as an evidence that the trust is all right and has never had a monopoly. It asserts that the "demagogic outcries" have led the people to believe that "it had mo nopolized the sugar refining facilities of the iand," but that Spreckels has always competed with it. To which it adds "that the trust was organized as a reaction from the excessive competition which had lendered sugar refining unprofitable." A person of very moderate intelligence would find no difficulty in asking how, if tV trust did not suspend competition which forms the essential feature of a mo nopoly, it would do any good as a reaction against the alleged excessive competition. The inquiry, however, is rendered the less important from two facts which fh trust organ carefully suppresses in it-- advocacy of the Sugar Trust The first is that bpreckels did not compte with the Sugar Trust east of the Rocl. Mountains during the period in which iK control of the mar ket was most absolute and extortionate. His establishment of a competing refinery in Philadelphia was a result of the high prices which the trust established, and illustrates the principle, which The Dis rvrcn has always maintained, that unless the tmst possess, as the Standard Oil ( ompany has heretofore, some lever for choking off new competition, they will bring at once their own remeuy and their own punishment by calling new establish ments into existence. The other fact this champion of the trusts suppresses is no less significant The article is based on the statements of a New Tork telegram with regard to the re duction in the wholesale prices of refined sugar. Tnat telegram states, and the trust organ scrupulously omits to mention, that two years ago sugar sold at 8Xc, while now it is a fraction below 4c. The reduc tion in duty on the raw sugars used by the refineries averages about 2c This leaves the margin of 2s as the extra price which the trust levied on sugars while it had a monopoly of the trade. This represented a burden on the people while it lasted of a little over 880,000,000 a year. With that fact before usthe thread bare claim that trusts do not enhance prices to the consumer is" shown to be a shallow fraud. As to the claim that there was "exces sive competition" in sugar refining prior to the organization of the trust, two facts furnish a complete rwily: first, there was uot as much competition as there is since its operations have had their full result; second, the sugar industrj prior to .the trust was well known to be a solvent and prosperous interest Its members, when the market became overstocked and un profitable, had the same liberty as farmers and iron manufacturers and the great mass of the people of suspending operations or seeking some less crowded field of indus trj". A S.MALL GOLD FRKjnUM. For some time the New Tork money market has made a distinction between loans payable in gold and those payable in any class of legal tender. This has at tracted attention. By charging $ per cent higher interest on the latter than on the former a premium is practically placed on gold. The fact has elicited wide com ment in the Eastern press, which gener ally holds it up as an example of the re sults of the agitation for free silver coin age. The appearance of an actual though slight premium on gold is a legitimate argument to show how any disturbance of the monetary confidence can create an ap preciation of the metal which is in uni versal demand for monetary use, or a cor responding depreciation in the forms of money which arc available for use only in a single country. In that light the con dition of the money market referred to is a cogent argument with reference to what we ma- expect if free silver coinage is adopted. But it is certainly premature to regard it as a result of the agitation in favor of that measure for two reasons, either one of which should be sufficient. If the temporary slight premium is to bo referred to silver measures at all, it is plainly more referable to the silver legis lation actually in effect than to that which is not an existing condition, but is only a proposition for the future. If the pre mium on gold should become higher, it is plain that those who wish gold can pre sent legal tenders at the Treasury and de mand specie in payment. But, if the Treasury under the present law has so large a share of its reserve in silver that it is forced to meet these demands with pay ments in whole or in part in silver coin, the correctness of the prescience Involved in the premium would be vindicated. That free silver coinage will create a gold pre mium of 15 or 20 per cent is beyond ra tional dispute. But it is by no means cer tain that the policy of loading up the Treasury with 54,000,000 of silver annu ally will not more gradually reach the same goal; and so far as the premium re ported from New Tork has any bearing on the question, it is most strongly related to the latter cause. It is questionable, however, whether the silver question has very much to do with the small and probably transient prefer ence for gold indicated in the New Tork loan market Impartial investigation will probably show it to be mainly-due to the scarcity of gold caused by recent exporta tion of that metal, and the efforts of the banks to strengthen their reserves in ex pectation of the fall drain of money to tho interior. LAW AND PRIVILEGE. In a recent address ex-Senator Ingalls referred to the unequal distribution of wealth as one of the threatening evils of the day. Having said this, he proceeded to show how little he really knew of the causes which produce the great inequali ties of wealth by the following utter ances: I have searched in vain to discover any legislation that did not bear equally upon Jay Gonld and mj self and thoother citizens of "the United States. All have equal claims, so far a I know, and the only reason I know why I am not a millionaire is because I had not brains enough to become one. The famous picture "The Ai.gelus" brought $100,000. No citizen was prevented from painting it. It only required a few tubes of color, a camelshair brush, a small square of canvas, and brains. The paltry dauber who paints pictures for $2 50 apiece thinks he is a victim. The New Tork Tribune, in quoting the above from Senator Ingalls' speech, re ferred to it as "a whole truth under the half jest" Tet the Tribune, in a mo ment of unwonted frankness, not very long ago, exposed in a few lines one of the abuses of railway management, by which promoters of new lines load down the companies with watered stock and try to sell the inflated securities to investors who, as the Tribune said, really pay for the road. If that journal had stopped to remember its interval of outspoken truth it would have realized that there is one case in which the effort to make immense fortunes is by hoodwinking the public into investing in securities representing two or three times the actual cost of se curities. It is true the law that Is, the theory of well considered and honestly adminls-J tercdlaw does not give one man advan tage over another. But to stop there is to tell a very small part of the truth. For the nullification and defiance of the law have afforded too many opportunities to pile up immense fortunes at the cost of the people to permitthat feature of the day to be overlooked in considering the causes of unequal distribution of wealth. It is against the law for great corporations, or individuals cither, to combine in order to suppress competition and enhance the cost of staple productions; but fortunes are made that way. It always has been contrary to the law for railway corpora tions to discriminate in favor of one ship per and against another; but a large share of the great fortunes of the day have their root In that abuse. The Tribune remarks that "Law does not enable one man to project or to build a railroad rather than another." It Is true, but there are other influences than law at work. It is not so many years ago since the combined edict of the corpora tion magnates went forth that a railroad in process of construction through the State of Pennsylvania should not be built And although they had to defy the Con stitution of Pennsylvania, the corporation edict proved stronger than the funda mental law of this State. This was fol lowed very shortly by a compact between the railroad magnates and the great bank ers of New Tork, which decreed in effect that no one should be permitted to build new railroads in the trunk line territory except the trunk lines themselves. With these facts on record the plea, that law does not prevent one man from building railroads rather thsn another, is a some what pitiful evasion of the real record. No sensible man objects to the wealth gained by superior skill, intelligence, in ventiveness or frugality in the legitimate efforts of life. But it is the wealth gained by devising means to hoodwink, deceive or burden the public to which objection is legitimate. In the vast majority of such cases they are direct evasions or nullifica tions of the theory, and generally of thelet terpf thelaw. Itisalsothefactthatnearly every great fortune created within the present generation owes its start or its augmentation to some such violations of justice, honesty and law. If Senator Ingalls and the Tribune really wished in formation on these points, they would find little difficulty in obtaining evidence of the rule of special privileges and favorit ism by which the fortunes of the day are made. PETROLEUM FOR NAVAE FUEL. The usefulness of petroleum for fuel for steamships, and especially for war vessels, is discussed in detail In an article else where in this issue. The conclusion may be summarized to the effect that at points where the petroleum fuel can be stored and delivered without too great a differ ence over the cost of coal, its superior con venience in handling, the greater amount that can be stored in the same bulk and the absence of "smoke give it decided ad vantages. The facts stated have great cogency, and since the greater share of the cost of coal at distant stations lies in the cost of its transportation thither, it seems probable that the relatively smaller cost of transporting petroleum would make its comparative cost less, the further away the station was. Should this fuel come into general use for naval purposes, of course the cheap Ohio oils would be drawn up; but the enlarged demand for that product would have a stimulating effect on the market for Pennsylvania's superior product, by the relief from the competition of Ohio oil. TOE MISSISSIPPI PLAN. The experiment tried in the new Mis sissippi Constitution professedly for the purpose of restricting the ignorant and reckless suffrage is attracting attention. The Boston Traveller refers to the feature requiring voters to pay a poll-tax of 82 per capita, four months in advance of the an nual election, as "a plan for getting rid of the colored vote," which has been suc cessful, as three-fourths of the negroes of the State have neglected the provision and are consequently unregistered. So far as this one feature is concerned it is difficult to see any injustice if it is im partially applied. A provision of that sort docs not differ in principle from tho Penn sylvania provision that voters must have paid at least a poll tax assessed two months and paid one month before elec tion. If any class do not place enough value on their electoral franchises to com ply with a known provision of this sort, as is alleged of the Mississipgl colored people, the inference that they are not very valuable voters is obvious. A rather different view is to be taken of the other Mississippi feature of an educa tional qualification for suffrage. Here the theory is unexceptionable. Any State has the right to require a certain degree of education in its voters, and "it is a praise worthy step if the educational standard is not juggled with. But when it is asserted by an outspoken Democratic paper like the New Tork Advertiser that the Missis sippi qualification is applied so as to rule out colored voters while admitting ignorantwhitestosuffrage, thecase against the fairness and honesty of Mississippi is rather strong. The South should learn, and a faith in the progress of the human race includes the belief that it will, that the solution of the negro problem lies in giving whites and blacks an exactly equal, treatment before the law. The New York World, which shares with some of the K. of L. leaders the work of booming the Constitutional Convention, says the convention proposition was supported by the Democrats and opposed by the Be publican managers. At the same time the K.ofL. leaders declare they are going to support the Republicans because the latter gave them the convention. There seems to be a necessity for tho supporters of the con vention to arrange a little more harmony in their alleged statements of fact. Ingalls says that he has not brains enough to be a millionaire. This may be true; but if anyone else should intimate that Ingalls has less brains than Elliot F. Shep ard, for example, there would be bitter back talk. ' It is pleasant to learn from the London financial market that "Hopefulness about Argentines sustains tho general tone." It is always gratifying to hear that hope is gild ing an otherwise dark horizon. But the in formation that Londoners can discover any thing hopeful in the Argentine inflation in dicates that Lombard street must have an element of the sanzuine character of our own Thomas V. Cooper. In the era when fiat resignations are in order, it would seem pertinent to suggest that Governor-Senator Hill, of New York, and Senator-Congressman Robinson, of Pennsylvania, might let go of a few offices. The pointed suggestion of the Washing ton Post that some one should arrange a reci-. procity treaty between Governor Campbell, of Ohio, and the Democratic platform of that State, enrries with it the pertinence of tho same effort including the establishment of cordial relations between tho Republican legislators of Pennsylvania and the Repub lican platform of this State. NOTWITHSTANDING the frequent demon strations of its impossibility the effort to make two trains pass each other on the same track has been frequently attempted1 .of late, with the usual disastrous results. Bbown is elected Governor of Kentucky, and Brown is going to be tho next Governor of Maryland. Also Bill Brown and Jones who pays the freight are rising lights in the Democratic politics of New York. If this tning goes much further tho Smith family will have to take possession of the Repub lican party and run opposition in sheer self justification. THE final conclusion of the Finance Com mittee that something had better bo done to meet the payments for street improvement is a commendable perception of tho situation that was manifest some months ago. It is said the Tilden heirs-have effected a compromise by which the fund intended for a library will be handed over somewhat diminished though not so much so as it would have been by litigation. The fact and the statement afford a striking commentary on the uncertainties of will-making and the certainty with which litigation will eat up the funds. The World's Fair missionaries have arrived at Berlin, and Major Moses P. Handy will now proceed to instruct the German Emperor what it really means to be an auto crat of the dinner table. It must be remarked that when General Veazey, the late commander of the G. A. B., said In his address concerning pensions, that "if the present enactment is not the wisest, It is liberal," he came close to damning the party from which ho has received a very good office with the faintest of praise. Ax the rate at which New Tork is going, Kentucky will have to got ready to hand J over the championship of being the great hip-pocket State. The esteemed city cotemporary which bulletined yesterday, the "death of the great Proctor Knott." perpetrated a severe though perhaps unintentional satire on the states man after whom the defunct racehorse was named. SNAP SHOTS IN SEASON. The wrong man is sometimes in the write, place In newspaper offices. The past is gone, of course, but the memory lingers. Perhaps, like some others, you prefer to leave It behind a blank p&ge In the book of life, a missing link In the chain of years. But why seek to wipe it off the diary of the days? Surely something some act, influence, error, pain orjoy bas helped you solve tho riddle or life up to the present. Glance back and look it over now and see if you cannot pluck from the clouds or the sunshine some tears or some smiles that have followed you on. Are the voices that como over the hills, across the waters, through the forests, dis cordant or melodious nowt Are the words that echo down the days hurtful or helpful? Are the errors lasting or is the lesson they taught fraught with the fruit that ripens on tliq bough of bitter experi ence? Are the hopes that cheered the young heart all blasted now dead leaves, scentless blossoms, bitter buds? Hardly. Instead out of tho youthful fears sprang manly hopes. Out of tho errors of the past grew the earnest endeavors of the present. Into tho dead leaves which fell and enriched the soil the seed was sown -which grew the flow ers now twmeu in tne rope tnat Dinus tne past to the present. Don't bury tho past beyond resurrection. Place it out of sight if you will, but not beyond reach. If the past is a ghost laugh at it, because it cannot harm. Make of it a memory, for in its recol lections you will find more helps than hurts, more sweets than sours. When pleasure becomes hard stop it. work - The little boy always enjoys the sonny side of life. A long pnrse too often means a short life. If all smoke nuisance cases end in a non-soot the town will soon become sun nier. Cupid Not a Chef. He sent her a cookbook, and wrote on thei leaf: "Study this, dear, and happy we'll be." Next day she returned it with this state-J ment brief: "Love is made without a recipe." Bbead cast upon the waters indicates that somebody has been seasick. If there's luck in small numbers the "straight-outs" will get there all right. If we wrote our own epitaphs our con-i science would probably trouble its at the last moment. Pianists shonld make clever baseball players, as they easily make runs. A girl can learn to handle-a beau with out taking violin lessons. Some folk are so unfortunate that-they cannot even raise an umbrella. The women cry for the ballot and the men howl for the ballet. 'Tis far better to put a porch on your modest little home than a mortgage. The punctual husband gets the warm meal. The press is a great moral engine, and it needs condensers, too. From Affluence to Poverty. m, phi, Bill, nut The correspondent not Infrecruentlv' -turns out to he the co-respondent. There's reason in all things except a disappointed woman. Home comforts are a necessity In winter' time, especially if the gas is weak. The riding habit is not a bad habit, if It fits well. It does appear strange to read about so many divorces taking plaoe at the Court House. The nut-brown maid is a summer chest nut. No doubt the sea still holds plenty of good fish, but all of us cannot afford to own tho regulation tackle. If there was a woman in the moon instead of a man it would not get full so often. A Philadelphia editor asks: Where are the people? Some are at the seashore and some are in jail. Made a Note of It. He met her in a shady nook; "Who are you. Miss?" he said. She then produced a tiny hook; "See! I'm a diary maid." The seaside souvenir spoon will either bring up sweet memories or visions of breach of promise. If you call too often on your Anti Pyrin you will regret it. Burning kisses necessarily follow a spark. The elevation of the stage means the. lowering of the ballet costume. Watermelons cramped quarters. generally go Into People who are'eontent with their lot live in the fashionable real estate quarter. Silver-tongued orators will be quoted high in Ohio during the coming campaign. The girl who would sooner learn to ride a bicycle than cook a meal will some day make one man's lot miserable. Wealth That Brings Misery. The coal that builds up homes so grand, And gives their owners wealth to boot, Likewise besmears your collar and Shows that we are not hard to soot The waiter is always ready to extend a helping hand. The Sound boats are probably consid ered safe by tourists who cannot rightly comprehend our peculiar language. How would Budd Doble do for chief of the weather bureau? He can handle the reins, you know. The old-timer who wrote about the everlasting hills never saw a steam shovel. With so many gents' furnishing stores all over the land there should be ho excuse for old maidenhood. The Democratic cloud has a silver lin ing without the shadow of a doubt. The wages of sin are too often better than those secured by the hired man. The sweets of life are easier to get than the sours. Not one cook in twenty knows how to prepare a good salad. "The short horse frequently wins tho long race. Perhaps ships are classed in the femi nine list because they are not of much use unless well manned. The breath of life is too frequently cented'wth cloves. Willis Wikkle. CONSIDESED HIS HELBS. He Disposed of His Stock Before the Road Killed Him. New York Becorder. The road was uneven and there were nu merous sharp curves, and as the train wa3 running at a high rate of speed it was any thing but comfortable for tho passengers. Sometimes it actually seemed as though all the wheels on ono side of the Pullman wero off the rail at once. This didn't serve to put any of the passen gers at case, but it seemed to have a particu larly bad effect on a little old fellow near the middle of tho car, says the Chicago Tribune. He grew more and more nervous with ovoryjeik of the car, and finally called the porter to him. "How soon will we reach a place where I can send a dispatch? ' he asked. '"Bout ten minutes, sah," was the reply. "All right. Bring me a telegraph blank." It was brought, and he hastily scribbled the following message to a New York broken "Sell all my stock in X and Z road at once and at any price vou can get." "You don't seem to have much confidence in the road," said the man in the next seat, who had read the dispatch over the little man's shoulder. "I haven't," was the terse reply. "You don't think it has much of a future, apparently?" "Future be hanged?" returned tho little man. "I was thinking of the present ana my family." "Your family!" exclaimed the stranger. "What has your family got to do with it?" "Everything, my f nend, everything," ex plained the little man, "and if you were any thing of a financier you'd see it. I' e got to ride 200 miles on this road yet, and how would it look for my familv to sue the road for damages that, it secured, would practi cally come out ot my estate? No sir; I'll allow this dispatch 20 minutes to reach New York, and I'll allow the broker 25 minutes to dispose of the stock. If this blamed car kcops the rails for 45 minutes moio some one else will be stuck for dnmages if I climb the golden stairs. And if she holds the rolls for the whole 200 miles 1 can buy the stock back If I want it and go back by another road." EVABTS' BEADY BET0BT. How He Got Ahead of Senator Hoar, Who Thought Him Slow. New York Commercial Advertiser. Senator William Maxwell Evarts is known in Washington as being the ,most dilatory man in Congress, and many amusing instances have occurred through his habit of procrastination. Long after tho Christmas recess last winter no meeting of the Senate Committee on Library, of which he was Chairman, had been called, which fact caused considerable surpriso among the other members of the committee. Senator Hoar, of Massachusetts, was one of them, and while he was sitting on a sofa in the cloakroom one day conversing with Senator Frye, of Maine, along walked Mr. Evarts in deep thought, with bowed head and hands clasped behind his back. Said Senator Hoar: "Evarts, I wish that when you do call a meeting of the Library Committee that you would have the extreme kindness to notify my executors of the fact." Senator Evarts Just stopped in his walk long enough on hearing this to say in his dryest tones: "Senator Hoar, allow me to assure you that nothing would afford me greater pleasure." It is naedlcs.3 to state that Senator Hoar did not again remind Mr. Evarts of his neglect to order a meeting of the Senate Committee on Library. SH0BT SEBM0H IN FIGURES. How tho McKlnley Bill Acted In Regard to the Sugar Market. New York Press.! The contest between Mr. Claris Spreckels and the sugar trust has emphasized the ben efits that the people of the United State3 enjoy from the free sugar clause ofthoMc Kinley bill. Granulated sugar Is selling to day from the Spreckels refineries at 4 cents per pound, with 2 per cent off for oash, mak ing the price really 3 92 cents. The trust has closely followed the Spreckels price. In Au gust, 1889, granulated sugar was selling at 8L cents. When the McKinloy bill went into effect it was selling at 6 cents. For the fiscal year ending .Tune 30, 1S90, we imported nearly 3,000,000,000 pounds of sugar. The difference of 2 cents in price repre-, sents a yearly saving to the American peo ple of $75,000,000. Every housekeeper in America saves a small part of this enormous sum. The tariff on sugar was purely a revenue tariff. It was levied not for protection, but for in come. The Republican party promised to reduce the surplus revenue, and its greatest cut was made on this prime necessity of life. The sugar trust, as well as every Demo cratic organ in the country, opposed it. The Mills bill, as passed by the Democratic House of Representatives, retained the high tariff on sugar. Ask your Democratic neigh bor which party he now thinks was right. OF KOBE 0B LESS PE0MINENCE. The poor old Austrian Kaiser, who has taken little interest in life since Crown Prince Rudolph's death,has become a devotee of planchette. Mona Caied's '"Romance of the Moors" is the first English novel to be copyrighted in this countiy under the now law. Moua cared enough about it to take the trouble 0 secure protection; and she got it. The wife of Senator-elect Hansbrough, of North Dakota, had almost recovered from her recent serious and prolonged Illness a fortnight ago when sho went out for a drive and had a relapse. Her life Is now despaired of. Miss Molly James, who has just been married at Memphis to a Mr. Villoue, is a. niece of G. P. R. James, whose "solitary horseman" is as famous on the land as the "long, low, rakish-looking craft" is in sea tales. General John Eaton, at one time United States Commissioner of Education, and latterly President of Marietta College, Ohio, bas resigned the latter post, in order to devote his time to educational lectuilng and writing. Boulanger stalks about the streets of Brussels, "remote, unfriendly, melancholy, slow." There is not much about the former "brav' General" to excite admiration nowa days. His figure has proved to be too small for the trappings of greatness. The trustees of the Western Minnesota Seminary have been petitioned to change the name of that institution so as to perpetu ate that of General Harrison's late Secretary of the Treasury. "Windom Institute" is what it is proposed to call tho school. James Lane Allen, the Kentucky writer, is a tall and slender man, with a grave face. He can tell a story at a dinner table as well as inn printed volume. He looks somowhat Use the typical pedagogue, and in lact began his career as a teacher. Sig. Crispi is declared to have a passion for the nightingale's song, which ho loses no opportunity of hearing. Word was brought him recently that a particularly melodious nightingale was warbling in the ruins of the Coliseum, ona tue story goes tnat crispl came near Doing shot by a sentry that night as he was making his way to a point of vantage near by. DEATHS HEBE AND ELSEWHERE. M. HEinl Litolff, the weU-known musician and composer, is dead. Mas. Mart McCobmick, sister-in-law of Sena tor Cameron, died at Harrisburg Thursday. Mrs. Eliza Merritt, widow of Daniel Merritt, died at her home in Mlildleliope, near Newburg.N. Y Wednesday, aged 87 years. She was one of the most widely fcuown ladies living in that section, bhe leares lour children. B. F. Camp, cx-Assemblyman of the Third dis trict of Westchester county, died Thursday at Furdy's station, N. Y. Mr. Camp was 75 ears of aire and was one of the oldest stockholders in the fanoe and Leather Bank, New York. Ex-Governor Samuel B. Axtell died Thurs day at the residence of hli son-in-law, Charles M. Phillips, in Morrlstown, N. J., after a brief Ill ness He was born In FrankUn county, O., Octo ber 14, 1819, and was educated at Oberlln and West ern Beserve colleges. John J. Cochran, an Assistant Enrgeon In the United States army, with the rank of Captain, died Thursday atSt. Luke's Hospital, New York, after a lingering Illness of typhoid feyer. Captain Cochran was a native of Cambridge, Mass., where he was born in 1853. MISS Dollie Smith, one of Maine's most tal ented artists. Is dead, aged 67. She had occupied a stndio In New York and Boston. Among the more notable of her works was the painting from Long fellow's poem, "Hiawatha," which occnpled a prominent position la the Memorial Hall exhibition at Philadelphia. OUR MAIL POUCH. It Brought Up Interesting Reminiscence. To the Editor of The Dispatch: I am indebted to a Pittsburg lady for The Dispatch of recent date. My attention was attracted by pencil marks to an interesting article from the pen of Mr. L. E. Stoflel con cerning the Brackenridge family, famous in the early history of Western Pennsylvania. The older, H. II." Brackenridge, was able and distinguished as a lawyer and Judae.and not less distinguished as a scholar and writer; whilo the son, H. M. Brackenridge, althougn not tho equal of his father as a wit and humor ist, was his equal, if not superior, as a writer and seholar. I was an early admirer of the Brackenridges, lather and son. While a law student in the vicinity of Chapel Hill, X. C, in 1824 I read "Modern Chivnlry," written by the elder Brackenridge, and while yet a boy read "The History of the War of 1S12," writ ten by the younger Brackenridge, and long afterward I read his "Recollections of the West" and his "History of the Whisky In surrection," as published in the Southern Lit erary Messenger. Judce then of the pleasure and gratification I felt In reading your cor respondent's sketch of tho two eminent men. Unwittingly, however, he has fallen into an erior touching an incident in the life of Judge II. H. Brackenridge. In allusion to the affair between General Lee and Brack enridge atPhlla elplnalnl782 your corre spondent says: "In 1871! Judge. Brackenridge was editor of the United States Mas.ari.neaX Philadelphia. He had written some severe strictures of the character of Light Horse Harry Lee for his course toward Gcorgo Washington. General Lee, in a rage, called at the office in company with some of his aids with the intention of assaulting the editor. He knocked nt the door, while Brackenridgclooking out of the upper story window, inquired what was wanting. " 'Come down,' said Lee, 'and I'll give you as good a horse whipping as any rascal over received.' " 'Excuse me. General,' said Brackenridge, I would not go down for two such favors. " It was not Light Horse Harry Lee but General Charles Lee who fianred fn tho ad venture with Brackenridge at Philadelphia. Ever since Washington's severe rebuke of Lee at the battle of Monmouth for his dis orderly retreat before the enemy Lee bad been publishing harsh and bitter strictures on the character and military conduct of Washington. A reply to these strictures and counter criticisms on Lee's conduct at Monmouth, published in Brackenridge's magazine, was the cause of the strange meeting between Lee and Brackenridge which greatly amused and entertained the Phlladelphlans. And now for Light Horse Harry (General Henry Lee). He was the personal and polit ical friend of Washington, and I hazard nothing in saying he was never known to in dulge in disparaging criticisms of the char acter or conduct of Washington either as a soldier or statesman. On the death of Wash ington General Henry Lee, then a member of Congress from Virginia, was selected to deliver the funeral oration before the two Houses of Congress. I was under the impression that in that oration, which I have not seen for many years, tho words occur for tho first timoin their application to Washington: "First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen." But in looking into tho speech of John Marshall, afterward tho great Chief Justice, announcing to the House of Representatives the death of Washington, I find those identical words used and applied to Washington. Marshall's announcement must have preceded Lee's oration. I feel assured your correspondent will pardon the intrusion of a stranger. Jesse Tcrmeb. Yak Bubek, Ark., August 1. Talk About the Stars. To the Editor of The Dispatch: The astronomical article republished from a metropolitan Journal in last Monday's Dis patcu was so full of errors and mistate ments that I cannot refrain from making e, lew corrections. In one place in the article, it was stated that Neptune was the only morning star at the beginning of August. The truth is that both Venus and Mars were morning stars at that date, although tne latter was too close to the sun to be visible. In another place is found the assertion that "Mars is no longer an evening star, his appearance at that time having ceased three days ago. Mars is nota very bright planet Just now.bnt may easily be seen shining in the southwest ern sky at an altitude of 45 degrees above the horizon." Three days after conjunction with the sun to be seen at an altitude of 45 degrees, before sunrise, and in an opposite quarter of the 9ky! No one familiar with the clocklike regularity of the motions of the planets would have suspected one of them being capable of such a meteoric motion ns that! It Is also asserted that Neptune is -at present difficult to see with the naked eye, whereas It is never visible without optical aid. Another glaring mlstatement la here quoted: "As soon as the sun is down and after Jupiter bas made its appearance, Venus becomes the most brilliant planet in the Western sky." The absurdity of that statement is very ap parent to close observers of the sky. Jupiter does not rise until more than an hour after sunset, and Venus throughout the month sets before tho sun, and by the time Jupiter appears above the Eastern horizon, Venus is more than 15 below the Western. The statement that Saturn may be seen e very night until September 13 is also wrong, as he is then in conjunction with the-sun and becomes invisible three weeks previous to that date. The riter makes still another error when be says that "Arcturus passes slightly nearer the North Pole towaid the close of the month, and gains in brilliancy." Arcturus is a fixed" star, and apparently, to the naked eye, maintains the same distance from the North Pole of the heavens, year after year. The writerprobably meant that, at a given time each evening, the star Arc turus is seen nearer the north point of the horizon, and consequently at a lower alti tude. Arcturus is not gaining in brilliancy, as the writer avors. The article is closed with tho statement that "Canopus, ono of the;biggost fixed stars, shines bngntly m the ourly evening." The star Canopus is never visible in the latitude of Pittsburg. To get a view of that brilliant star a Pittsburgor would have to travel south almost as far as New Orleans, and even there it cannot be seen at its best, as it culminates at a very low altitude. Only south of the equator, whereit describes a long diurnal arc, and culminates at a high altitude, is Canopus seen in its brightest aspect. H. A. M. Cross. COMSOQCEHESSIHO, PA., August 6. The Indian Schools Question. To the Editor of The Dispatch: In your issuo July 28 your Washington correspondent, Mr. Lightner, in an article on Commissioner Morgan, asserted that tho Catholic Indian Bureau was an experwe to tho Interior Department, that tho money in tended for the education of the Indians was applied to other purposes. The Wheeling Intelligencer published Mr. Lightner's corre sponaenco and spoke in very high terms of Mr. L., and thus at least seemed to indorse his assertion. Mr. Morgan, as stated in the New York World August 1, "is now satisfied that the Catholic Mission Board is not a mere expensive middle man between the Government and the Indian schools. He finds that every dollar goes direct to the sohools, the expenses of the board being pro vided for by tho denomination to which it belongs, and is candid cnougli to officially so state." Will you correct Mr. Lightner's erroneous statement? This is important in view of the wide circulation of your paper and its influence J cstice. Wheelisq, W. Va., August 6. It Was UlnJ. William Croghan. To the Editor of The DISDatch : Was there a Colonel or Captain William Croghan connected with the curly history of Fittsburg? If so, was he tin officer in the "War of the Rebellion?" In what regiment did ho serve, etc.? veteran. New Castle, August 4. Tho gentleman evidently referred to was Major William Crogham, a native of Ireland, who came to this country when quite young, lie settled in Virginia. In 1773 he was a captain in Fourth hegiment of the Virginia line and was later promoted to major. He carao to Fort Pitt on July 6, 1782. In 1784 he moved to Kentucky. Wants to Go to Africa. To the Editor of The Dispatch: Having noticed in your paper the an nouncement of an African exploring expe dition I write you for further information. Where does the expedition start from and what length of time does it require? What talary do they pay? W. B. Bellevebnon, Pa., August 6. The expedition is to start from Tunis. No salaries are paid, but on the contrary a man must pay $43 a week to be allowed to go nlong. It is evidently a money-making scheme. Wants Pay Twice a Month. To the Editor of the Dispatch: Please explain the semi-weeklv pay bill When does it go into effect? Justice. ROUSEVILLfi, .FA., August 6. There is no such law. The Legislature passed a semi-monthly pay law, and it has gone into effect. It is not being enforced, but many firms have observed its provisions since its enactment. FATE IS A TEACUP. Spooning Couples Should Learn All Their Lessons by Heart. New York Advertiser. Here are a few old superstitions regarding the ever-friendly cup that cheers: ir while tho tea is being made and the lid, which has been removed to pour in the water, is for gotten, it Is a sure sign that some one will "drop in to tea." If a single person happens to have two spoons In his or her saucer, it is a prediction that the fortunate (or unfortunate?) drinker of that partieularcup will bo married within a year from that date. If you put cream in your cup before the sugar it will "cross your love," so bo very careful. If a tea stalk floats in thecup.it is called a "beau," and when this Is seen unmarried women should stir their tea very quickly round and round and round, and then hold the spoon upright in the center of the cup. If the "beau" is attracted to the spoon and clings to it, he will be sure to call very shortly, if not the same evening, but if the stalk goes to the side of the cup he will not come. Examine the tea leaves in your cup if yon are plebeian enouah to boil your tea instead of drawing it in the refined and dainty fashion, for a lot of leaves mean money and fortune. If you want to know how many years will elapse before you may expect to be mar ried, balance your spoon on the edge of your cup, first noting that it is perfectly drv, fill another spoon partly with tea, and holding it above the balanced spoon, let the drops of tea gather to the tip or the spoon and gen tly fall into the bowl of the ono below. Count the drops each one stands for a year. It is a sign of fair weather if the cluster or small air bubbles formed by the sugar col lect and remain in the center of the cup. If they rnsh to the sides it will surely rain be foie night. When the toast is made, three or four thin slices of bread must to cut the whole length of the loaf and placed oneover the other. This done, they must all be cut in half with one sweep of the knife. If this is done by a young woman, and the slices are not sev ered clean through to the plate, she will not be married within the year; if the bread parts in two even heaps, sho might as well order her trosean. On no account must she take the last piece of toast or bread on the plate, unless she wishes to be an old maid. WHY HOBSES GO 1AME. A Coachman Gives Away Some of the Se crets of the Stable. Chicago Tribune. A coachman who f up to the tricks of his trade says that there are more ways than one for an honest coachman to make a livinor. "Of course," he explained, "no boss is goin' to buy a horse without consulting his coachman. If he docn, that horse will go lame, sure." "How's that?" "It'll gO lame, sure, and the boss'll have to sell It for what he can get, and lucky if he can get half the price. Then he won't try to cheat an honest coachman out of his com mission. Nqt the second time, see?" Thereupon the honest coachman explained why a "boss" who buys a horse without con sulting the autocrat of his stables is sure to have a lame animal on his hands. "It's this way," he remarked, "any honest man as respects himself will pull a hair out or that horse's tail and 'thread? it in a noedle. Then he'll lift up that front leg of that horse and 'hunch up' in his fingers the skin be tween the outer and middle tendons, see? Shovo the needle through, cut off the hair at each end, and let down tho foot. There's nothing to see, is there?" "Suppose not." "Well, that horso'll go lame in 20 min utes." THE RUSSIANS AND THE FBEHCH. Many Rumors Are Flying Around About. Their Friendship. Paris, Aug. 7. Rumors concerning the re sults of the recent visit of the French fljet to Cronstadt, and close friendship between France and Russia, continue to be circulated in all classes of society, and there is much conjecture as to what the outcome of the conferences between the representations of the two nations will be. Le Paix to-day publishes an article which, , if true, will put an end to all conjecture. That paper says that Baron Mohrenheim, the Russian Ambassador to France, has re ceived a cipher dispatch from the Russian Foreign Minister announcing that a treaty of alliance between Russia and France has beou signed. No, Not a Great Deal. Pawtocket Times. 3 Last Sunday the New York papers printed I an advertisement of a Brooklyn firm offer ing gray wool OlanRets, weighing four pounds, at $1. The duty on those blankets is $1 93. Does this look as though the tariff is a tax? PEOPLE WHO COME AHD GO. Colonel Samuel B. Dick, the Meadvillc banker, was attending to business in Pitts burg yesterday. He is proud of the Pitts burg, Lake Erie and Shenango road, which he pushed through to completion. The line, in connection with tho Nickel Plate, makes a short route to Buffalo out of this city over the Pittsburg and Western road. A through passenger service will bo put on this fall. Dr. Z. X. Snyder, principal of the Indi ana State Normal SchoolandSuperintendent of Public Instruction, accompanied by his wife, left for Denver last evening. Dr. Sny der has been offered $5 0C0 s year to take charge of the Normal School at Greeley, Col. He is going out to see what the field prom ises. Among the Atlantic Citv pa&sengers last evening vera Assistant Postmaster H. L. Edwards and his two nieces, Mrs. T. E. Jones and Miss Humphrey, Division Passen ger Agent E. D. Smith, of the Baltimore and Ohio road United States Ditrict Attorney Walter Lyon and George T. Oliver. John Tregaskes, of the New York Herald, who covered the Johnstown flood for his paper, desires to meet his Pittsburg news paper friends, whom he met at Johnstown, at the Hotel bchlosscr this evening. H. W. Mathews, of the Burlington road; Wharton McKnight, Alex. Thomas, sales agent for Park Bros. & Co., and Attorney Blair went East last evening. W. B. Heani, editor of the Harrison Republican, at Cadiz, was at the Seventh Avenue Hotel yesterday. He has great faith , in the success of McKinley. Charles A. Orleans, the New Orleans architect and builder, 13 at the Anderson. He has erected some of the finest business blocks in Pittsburg. J, M. James, a' London iron man, and James JIarwien, of Glasgow, are at the Du- quesne. Mr. James caiiea on d. tr. wunerow yesterday. Captain Murdock and Campbell T. Hcr ron got back from New York esterday Irom a meeting of wrought iron pipe manufact urers. Mrs. A. J. Thomas, son and daughter, started for Ontario yesterday, where they will spend a month visiting relatives. Colonel Frank A. Burr, the well-known and genial journalist of the metropolis, whose fame is national, is in the city. Judge Campbell, of Uniontown, and J. W. Mitchell, of Franklin, registered at the Monongahela House last evening. D. H. Wheeler, of Meadville, and the Belmont Cricket Club of Philadelphia, are at the Seventh Avenue Hotel. Governor Pattison and his staff will be in Pittsburg this morning, en route to the camp at Arnold's Grove. , W. II. Straw, of Bellevue, and Dr. W. Straw, of Allegheny, will leave for Balla Falls on Monday. Harry Moore, of the Fidelity Title and Trust Company, is wcoing the mermaids at Atlantic City. 3Iiss "Virginia Bulger, of Bellevue, left last evening to spend her vacation in East Liverpool. TJpton H. White, a Salisbury politician, took dinner at the Monongahela House yes terday. Captain William Martin, of the Davis Island dam, is with his family at Chautau qua. K. J. Gatling, of Hartford, inventor of the Gatllng gun, is stopping:! t the Anderson. Miss Katie Bitter, of Federal street, Al legheny, left yesterday for Atlantic City. Edward Brainard and wife, of Dcnaiston avenue, have returned from Capo 3Iay. E. T. Neal, of the lake Erie road, went to New York last evening. H. P. Burgwin and wife went to New Tork last evening. Evan Jones, the contractor, left for Phila delphia last night. CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. Africa has nearly 700 languageSj.and this fact presents great difficulties to mis sionary effort. So far there hasn't been a month in this year, excepting the present one, without a frost in Connecticut. During his last year in New Tork Dr. William A. Hammond is credited with hav ing made over $150,000, probably the largest medical income ever earned in America. During the years immediately succeed ing the downfall of tho First Napoleqna Russian Cossack was much more heartily hated by the French than a Prussian Uhlan or a Croat Grenadier. Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Osborne, of Knoxvillo. Term., are soon to celebrate the seventy-second anniversary of their mar riage. They are respectively 101 and W years of age and have 220 descendants. A farmer near Amite, La., owns ahorse that will not drink from tho watering trough if any of the mules drink first. He doe3 not seem to object to drinking after other horses, but draws the line at mules. A Missouri weekly paper recently in dulged in some critical remarks about Shakespeare, and a farmer, named John Shakespeare, thinking the familv insulted, came to town and gave the editor a thrash ing. The veracious story comes from East Springfield, O., that lightning struck a cow belonging to James Scott and split tho ani mal in two, one side being thrown sixty feet in one direction and the other side an equal distance the other way. The true test of genuine American paper currency is to hold the bill up to the light so that you can discer n two lines run ning parallel across its entire length: these are a red and blue silk thread inside tba paper; no counterfeit has them. At the great procession of Orangemen at Kingston, Canada, last week Mr. Miller, a native of Queen's county, Ireland, had a piece of the banner which was carried De fore King William while he was crossing the Boyne. The remainder of the flag is in En niskillen. Russia has been experimenting with a movable pigeon loft, from whioh dispatches aro sent by pigeons to various parts of an army camp. Army officers are also training falcons to catch pigeons, so that in case of war tho former can capture the enemy'3 messenger birds. A little boy in Winterport, Me., a few days ago found a bird's nest with four young birdsand brought it Home. Shortly after tho mother bird came in at the window and fed the little ones. Since that time she has come regularly several times a day, bringing food. If the window happens to bo closed sho waits for some one to open it. If anything catches fire, or somethinjr burning makes a disagreeable smell c smoke, throw salt npon it at once. If a, bright, clear Are is quickly desired, it may readily bo obtained by throwine salt upon the coals: likewise, if too much blaze should result from dripping of fat from broiling: steak, ham, etc., salt will subdue it. The Canadian Government has received information that, owing to the great promise of the crops in Manitoba and tho Northwest the Canadian Pacific Railway Company has ordered 50 new locomotives and 1,500 box cars to transport the season's harvesr to tho seaboard. It is estimated that it will require ten trains daily for seven months to move) the crop. The deepest mine iu the world is at St. Andre de Poirier, France, and yearly produ ces 300,000 tons of coal. The mine is worked with two shafts, one 2,952 feet deep and the other 3,033. Tho latter shaft is now being deepened and will soon touch the 4,000-foot level. A remarkable feature is the compara tively low temperature experienced, which seldom rises above 75 degrees Fahrenheit. The Sandwich Islands alphabet has 12 letters; the Burmese, 19; Italian, 20: Bengal ese, 21; Hebrew, Syrian, Chaldee and Samari tan, 22 each; French, 23; Greek. 24: Latin, 25; German, Dutch and English, 20 each; Spanish and Sclavonic, 27 each; Arabic. 28; Persian and Coptic, 22: Georgian. 35; Armenian, 33; Russian. 41; Muscovite, 43: Sanskrit and Jap anese, 50; Ethiopia and Tartarian have 202 each. It is said that the trouble with the peaches this season arises from the fact that, there being no peaches last year, the curcu lio was not present this year to help thin tho immense crop set on the trees, consequently the "June drop" this year was very light, leaving more frnit on the- trees than they can possibly mature. The fruit being set the hot, moist weather has caused rot and premature peaches. The Kanwar Harnam Singh, CLE. (of Kapurthala, Punjab), and the Kanwarina (his wife) have arrived in London. The Kanwar and Kanwarina are Christians, and both went In tho procession to Westminster Abbey at tne JuDilee in 1S7, as representing the Royal Hone of Kapurthala. The Kan war (Prince) is younger son of a late Rajah of Kapurthala and uncle to the present one. They have come over to England to see their sons, who are being educated there. San Francisco detectives recently caught a thieving bartender who had formed a combination with his mouth to beat tha coin register. Smilingly he received the money deposited by the customer and turned to the register,but before his flneer touched the button the coin was transferred to his mouth, where it remained until he had servod the next customer. The de tectives found that the young man's mouth receipts amounted to 75 cents in four hours. Unless their attention is especially di rected to it, few people notice the tiny let- tors stamped on the larger silver coins of our currency at a point Just below the junc tion of the arrows and olive branch held in tho eagle's claws. Tho letters aro "S.," "O." and "C. C," and stand respectively for San Francisco, New Orleans, or Carson City, where the pieces were cast in the United States branch mints. Coins made in tha mint at Philadelphia bear no special mark, and are indicated by its absence. A horse's thonghtfulness is told of by a gentleman, in front of whoso house, besida the grass plot, a team of handsome horses drew up. The near horse munched the grass contentedly, which the off horse tried in vain to reach. "Suddenly, to my astonish ment, the near horse raised his head with his month full of grass and held it near his com panion's moutn. The off horse accepted tho apparent invitation to eat, and took the grass from the other one's mouth. After turning and eating a while on bis own ac count he repeated the maneuver, and I then called in the other members of my family to watch them. There could be no mistake about it; the horse which could reaob tho grass fed bis companion at short intervals as long as they stood before the door." SOME OF PUCK'S PUCKERS. First Deadly EnemyThe world is wida enough for as both. Second Deadly Enemy Yestbut it is not deep enough for you. Mrs. Worrys (awaking her lord) Charles, get np, I think the baby has the cronp. Mr. Worrys Hadn't I better wait tiU you are sure? "A tough fired at a policeman yesterday with a heavy caliber revolver. ' ' And what did the policeman do? Did ho arrest the tough?" "No. He arrested the bullet." "Papa, what is an agnostic?" asked Johncy Cnmso. 'An agnostic, Johnny. Is a man who knots very Uttle and is not sore of that." Jack (strolling home from the evening services) There used to be a law In New England pronibitlng kissing on Sunday. Maude (cojly) Well, it isn't lu force now. is it? (And the moon went behind a cloud to laugh). Miss Midas Do you.expect to go to col lege next year, Mr. Crccsus? Young Crcesus Not much. Father Is going to have them bring It to me. "Ah, Jonesy, old man," said Hicks, as he and Jones walked home from the club; 'there's a light In your window for. you. You married men " 'By George, so there is!" returned Jones, "Let's go back to the club." Tommy Mama, should we love our enemies? y-"' Mama Yes, darling. Tommy And Is Katie papa's enemy? Mama No; but she's mine, and papa and I are one I "I believe in giving the devil his due," said Evergreen. ' "So do I; and I wish he had a great many of his overdue, " replied Brightly, bitterly. t Kitty Winslow Physical culture is quite a fad of mine: see, for instance, ho w well 3Ir. Van Nobs stands'. ,' Tom De Witt Oh, yes; he stands better against a dark-blue portiere than he does financially. Z
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