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PITTSBURG, TUESDAY, AUGUST IS, lRll
SPECULATIVE FLUCTUATIONS
The excitement in the grain market lias
produced some violent fluctuations which
illustrate the exaggeration of the natural
changes of prices caused by the fictitious
dealing in the great staples. Yesterday
the market in Chicago reached the high
price of $1 13 a bushel, and then by a sud
den turn fell back to $1 05, making a nom
inal loss in value on the stock of wheat in
the country amounting to millions of dol
lars. Of course these changes in values are
fictitious to about the same degree as
the transactions which cause them.
Changes produced by the natural and un
disturbed relations of demand and supply
are gradual and steady. The iron market,
which has so far been mercifully preserved
from being made a football of the ex
changes, advances 25 cents per ton at a
step, and -when the advance-is complete it
takes weeks and often months for the
reverse movement to set in But specula
tion often from the merest vagaries pro
duces such sudden and illogical breaks
as that of yesterday. Perhaps some
large speculator concluded to realize
his profits on the previous advance, and
the crowd, following his example, rushed
to sell wheat, and the market broke down.
On the other hand, there is the theory
that the higher range of values was rela
tively too high for exportations. Either
explanation illustrates how speculation
makes the fluctuations more extreme.
Of course there would be little public
harm in these results if they were confined
to the margin operators on the exchanges.
In the present case it is not likely that the
speculators will be able to hamper the real
trade in grain very seriously. But as far
as they go, their commercial injury is
hovn in their tendency at one time to
boom prices above the exporting point,
and at another to break the market with
out any good reason for it
PRAISE FOE THE GUARD.
The report of Captain Chester, the
United States officer detailed for the in
spection of the annual encampments of
the Pennsylvania National Guard, is highly
complimentary to the discipline and ad
vancement in military instruction dis
played at the camp of the Second Brigade
last week. It compares the appearance of
our State organization to that of the vet
eran olunteers at the close of the Civil
War, which is a natural and gratifying re
sult of the large proportion of officers in
the National Guard who are veterans of
that war. The camp sanitation and cook
ing are especially praised, and the only
objects which aie made the subjects of
criticism are the obsolete accoutrements
and the antiquated guns of the artillery.
Such praise ill be highly prized by the
members of the National Guard, all the
more because it has been earned by hard
work and faithful service. The mainte
nance of a well-disciplined body of citizen
soldiery is one of the features of ourState
Government of which Pennsylvania is en
titled to be proud.
CITIZENS ARE OFFICERS.
Last week a murder was committed in
Ebensburg, and the man charged with the
commission of the crime, although vigor
ously pursued by the officers of the law,
escaped and for two days wandered about
the streets of Pittsburg. Yesterday after
noon he accosted two of his former friends,
who promptly escorted him to the city
prison. There was a reward offered for
his apprehension, but, thrusting this aside
as an incentive for his arrest, the act of
the citizens was worthy of commenda
tion. The law contemplates that every good
citizen shall step in and prevent crime,
shall arrest offending parties when they
come under his observance, and in some
States a citizen who stands inertly and
allows a criminal to escape when lie might
have stopped him, is liable to punishment
It is not Supposed that the officers of the
law can be omnipresent; hence, regardless
of the law, it is obviously the duty of every
one to prevent the breaking of laws which
were framed for his benefit as well as for
that of the whole community. So, in the
case of escaping criminals, who possibly
may become a living menace to an
other section, it is the duty of the citizen
to make the arrest if he can. Let crim
inals leam that every man's hand is
against them and there will be less crime.
PROTECTION FROM BURGLARS.
The burglarious industry has agaiu
reached such a decree of activity in the
East End wards that the people there are
becoming arou&ed and making urgent calls
for more thorough police protection. The
persistence of the artisans of the jimmy
and picklock is certainly the reverse of
satisfactory. Two years ago the pocket
book snatching business was carried on in
broad daylight there, and was finally sup
pressed. Later ihe burglarizing of subur
ban towns attracted attention, but was
supposed to be broken up by the tragic
struggle in arresting the Fitzsimmons
gang. But it now appears that the city is
Infested by another gang of criminals as
bold and persistent as any of their pred
ecessors. It is hardly necessary to say that all
necessary steps should be taken to assure
protection to all parts of the city and to
secure, if possible, the arrest of the
thieves. It would be a severe commentary
on our social system if, after spending
millions of dollars erecting courthouses
and jails, and hundreds of thousands an
nually in maintaining the enginery of the
law, it should prove Insufficient to pro
tect the homes of the public from robbers.
The danger of such a lame and impotent
conclusion should incite our public guar-
j clians to the most urgent efforts to rid the
city of its present pests.
Pittsburg can afford whatever expendi
ture is necessary to iwotect its citizens in
their lives and property. That is the first
function of government and it should be
fully discharged even if others have to be
restricted. However, as will bo seen in
our local columns, Chief Brown is con-
j fident that the protection afforded is now
sufficient, and that the reports of robberies
have been greatly exaggerated.
REED AGAINST RECIPROCITY.
Mr. Thomas B. Heed, who did not make
much secrecy of his opposition to Mr.
Blaine's policy of reciprocity when it was.
under discussion in Congress, and who is
no less inimical to Mr. Blaine himself, is
reported to be still giving vent to his oppo
sition. An interview represents him as
saying that reciprocity is "an attempt to
carry on commerce by diplomacy," and
ahking: "Then again, if we must have a
tariff to protect our business in New York
city, how can we compete with the same
rivals after we have shipped our goods to
some distant republic in South America?
If we caunot compete on equal terms
here, it is preposterous to suppose that we
can there."
This may be true as far as it goes, Mr.
Reed, but its principal appositeness is in
furnishing ammunition to the enemies of
the tariff. Apart from the spectacle of a
Republican leader attacking the leading
party measure which lie helped to pass,
because it contains a feature which he
did not originate, it is characteristic in
stopping so far short of a correct state
ment of the facts as to be an absolute per
version of them.
Reciprocity is not an attempt to carry
on commerce by diplomacy. There has
never been a hint that the State Depart
ments of different countries shall ship
products to each other, collect balances
and pay the proceeds over to the pro
ducers, less commissions, which are the
operations involved in carrying on com
merce. But the negotiations of treaties
to make commerce possible, or to secure
its extension, is an attempt to encourage it
by diplomacy. The history of Great Brit
ain for the last two centuries and of the
United States since Secretary Blaine's pol
icy began to be effective proves that such
a policy is successful.
Mr. Reed professes an inability to see
how we can compete on equal terms with
the products of foreign countries which
we cannot meet in our home market.
But has it never dawned on Mr. Reed's
mind that after the United States has been
exporting flour, corn meal, bacon, sewing
machines, steam engines and similar prod
ucts under unfavorable conditions, that
something might be done to give them
new markets by making the conditions
favorable? Perhaps if the idea had been
originated by some one else than James
G. Blaine, it would have been possible for
Mr. Reed to have recognized that one of
its great purposes is to open new markets
for the products which America has been
exporting for a generation. But as it is,
he is unable to grasp the fact evidently be
cause he does not wish to.
The spectacle of Thomas B. Reed at
tacking the broadest and most far-sighted
feature of the Republican tariff policy, is
not only a singular illustration of the
light hold .that party obligation has on
some of the men who preach it the most
strongly; but it also indicates an inability
to rise above the level of personal poli
tics. A DOUBLE DIFFERENCE
Concerning the seizure of the City of
Panama by the authorities of Salva
dor, and the subsequent steaming away
of the vessel in defiance of the construc
tive seizure, the New York World says:
This is the Itala case over again, and, ac
cording to our own precedent, Salvador
would have been justified in capturing the
vessel on the high seas. Acting more wisely
than we did she simply holds the decree of
sequestration in force should the steamer
ever come wrSiln reach of it.
In its diplomatic results the case will
probably illustrate the great difference in
the application of international laws to
the interests of a powerful nation as con
trasted with a weak one. It will probably
turn out that the United States can bring
back a steamship from Chile under cir
cumstances which will not justify Sal
vador in tying up a ship.
But as regards the journalistic view of
the case, is not the esteemed World's
approval of Salvador's course as "wiser
than that of the United States a sudden
somersault? There is a dim recollection
that the columns of that journal were red
hot with the demand that the Government
must pursue and capture the Itata when
it thought that the administration would
fail in doing so.
THE COSTING DILEMMA.
While the Attorney General will proba
bly find considerable difficulty in making
out a legal claim for the State on the 40
per cent rebate of the mercantile tax ad
vertising, which the Philadelphia papers
so generously paid to someone else, there
is a point to be brought out which will
stimulate the public hope that the State
may succeed in getting the case into court
It may be the perception of this point
which makes some of our esteemed Phila
delphia cotemporaries so venomous in
their denunciation of Mr. Hensel's action.
Before the investigating committee in
Philadelphia the various newspaper pub
lishers involved in this scandal frankly
gave the details of the last year's transac
tion, with various ingenious explanations
designed to assert its legitimacy. But
when it came to inquiring about the present
year's advertisement, beyond acknowledg
ing that another payment of rebate had
been made, they all fell back on the stere
otyped and final reply: "Under the advice
of counsel I decline to answer." If their
former explanations that the transaction
was a legitimate one had been true there
was no reason why they should not
tell -all about this year's deal. But
they unanimously evinced very small faith
in their own theories, and at the same
time betrayed the fact that they had been
dealing for the advertising plum pf 1891
with some one whom they could not af
ford to betray, by refusing to say anything
about
If the Attorney General succeeds in
getting these gentlemen into court, they
cannot be quite so summary in their re
fusal. They will be asked why they de
cline, and will have to give good reasons.
And, as there is only one valid reason In
law, they will either have to tell who got
the last rake out of the Mercantile Ap
praiser's advertising, or make the mortify
ing avowal for business managers of a
great moral engine that by doing so they
will criminate themselves.
Anew the announcement is made that
William of Germany may come to Chicago in
1S9J, if the European aspect at that time is
peaceful. A live German Emperor would
be an immonse drawing card; but as the
American sovereign would claim the privi
lege of shaking his hand and slapping him
on the shoulder, and the Imperial mind is
averse to that sort of thing, the World's
Fair managers had better not bring him.
It would be a tragic result of Chicago's en-
terprise if tho difference of views between
the Germanic and Western sovereigns, as to
tho nature of their lnterbourse , should re
sult in strained foreign relations.,
The hot dispute between Havana and
San Domingo as to which possesses the real
bones of Columbus shadows forth a belief
among the thrifty denizens of tho Antilles
that a good thing is in store for the person
who can sell or lease the remains of the groat
discoverer to the Chicago Fair.
Captain "William Glazier is now on
his way to the sources of the Mississippi.
Tho Bcrno Geographical Congress recently
sat down on his pretensions to be the dis
coverer of tho sources of that river by
citing tho well-known fact that the sources
which lie pretended to discover were dis
covered years before him by other persons ;
to which Captain Glazier proposes to reply
with the crushing aigument of going and
discovering them over again. The discov
ery that Glazier needs to make is that he is a
humbug.
By the way, is that Foster who is re
ported us trusting to the laith cure to dis
pose of cancer any relation of the Foster
who seems to he relying on similar influences
with regard to the payment or refunding of
the 4 J per cent bonds?
After all there is a possibility of truth
in tho suggestion that the real cause of the
trouble with tho German Emperor is tho
dining and wining that he underwent in
England. Considering the amount of trouble
that is accounted for in that festive land by
tho explanation that the rioters "had been
dining," the Imperial 'William may be par
doned even if he w ent stark mad after a
week of Britannic feasting.
Oue happily not too familiar, but still
familiar enough, friend, the hot wave, is
showing some signs of a disposition to re
turn. But wo can enduro his advances n ith
equanimity and confidence that his back
bone is weakened.
A man named Foster in Jersey City who
discovered that he had a cancer a couple of
years ago, and trusted to faith cure to heal
It, has now discovered that faith euro does
not heal cancer. The Eastern press are
drawing out a moral Irom the incident, but
somehow they fail to hit the obvious point,
that the regular medical practice deals with
cancer with Just about the same results as
the faith cure did.
Three-fourths of the Editorial Con
vention in North Carolina declaring for
Cleveland, does not indicate that a public
man suffers irreparable loss by speaking out
his honest convictions on the silver ques
tion. It is recorded of the scene which ensued
when two condemned prisoners in South
Carolina were reprieved on the scaffold the
crowd grumbled at being deprived of tho
spectacle of the hanging. There still seem
to he sections where people are not much
further advanced from the era when the
masses enjoyed seeing men "butchered to
make a Homan holiday."
The Czar proposes to starve Europe,
and Uncle Sam proposes to feed it. The
latter function is much tho more humane ;
and it is not likely to create dissatisfaction
as it is many times the more remunerative.
Ex-SrEAKER Reed's boast that the
Congress over which he presided "took the
whole thirteen tricks and nothing got away
from us," in tho light of tho fact that the
control of the House got away from them by
a large majority, indicates Mr. Reed's theory
of politics that a grab in the hand is worth
more than political approval of the whole
nation.
The new Kentucky Constitution caught
up with the times of a quarter of a century
ago by abolishing slavery and lotteries. Was
this what made it obnoxious to the esteemed
Courier-Jounialf
Of course that Hopkins will would be
contested. No such sum of money could be
left without a squabble. Between the re
spective claims of Hopkins and Searle the
public will hardly regret the probability
that lawyers will get a great share of tho
overgrown and ill-gotten pile.
NAMES FBEQTJENTLY SEEK.
Dr. Gbay, the Afghan Ameer's physi-.
cian, reports that 40 feet of snow fell at Cabul
last winter.
The little King of Spain does not know
his letters yet, and all mental education has
been forbidden him. lie is so fragile and
puny physically that the slightest exertion
of the mind fatigues him.
Captain George Dewey, of the navy,
has lived for the last five years with only
half a liver. The other half was cut off by
an Italian surgeon while Captain Dewey
was lying ill from liver disease at Malta in
1866. From the day the operation was per
formed his health began to improve, and he
has enjoyed life ever since.
The Countess of Caithness, the new high
priestess of theosophy, is the exact anti
thesis of her predecessor, Blavatsky. Her
figure is slender, her manners elegant, and
her tastes refined. She dresses in great
taste. Her only resemblance to Blavatsky
plies in her fondness for diamonds, but that
is a pardonable womanly weakness.
The President and moving spirit of the
American Society for Psychical Research,
which has for its object the scientific inves
tigation of ghosts, is Mr. B. O. Flower, editor
of the Arena. Although a practical and
hard-headed young editor, he possesses a
great liking foe the uncanny, and his Inves
tigations into the realm of the unknowable
are already bearing fruit.
It is said that Joseph Pulitzer is danger
ously ill in Europe with nervous prostra
tion. He has been cruising along the coast
of the North of Europe this summer in his
private steam yacht, but was obliged to
desert it and send it home two weeks ago,
while he submitted himself to treatment for
his disorder by the best physicians of Lon
don, Berlin and Paris, who wore called into
consultation on his case.
A London letter says: ' The devotion of
Miss Shepard, who laid her Jewelry on the
"Altar of the Lord" at Saratoga, was sur
passed a short time ago by the Duchess
Eugene Litta Bologulne in Milan. To ex
press lier complete abandonment of the
pomp and vanities of the world, the Duchess
sold her "wonderful gems for $600,000 and
gavo tho money to her priest, with instruc
tions to erect with it a hospital for littlo
children.
F0STEK AT CAFE MAY.
A Financial Talk With Harrison Previous
to the Litter's Departure.
SPECIAL TELEURAM TO THE DISPATCH.
Cape May, N. J., Aug. 17. The President's
last day at Cape May until the 30th inst. has
been a hustling one. The family have been
busy packing all day, and only a few of the
small traps need to ho gathered to-morrow
before tho departure of the Presidental
train, which will leave at 8:0. The Presi
dent's Visitors to-day included Minister
Richard Cntts Shannon and Secretary Fos
ter. The object of the Secretary's visit was
to consider with the President the matter of
the coming due of the 1 per cent bonds on
September 1 and their redemption. Secre
tary Foster icturned to Washington this
afternoon. The President's only appoint
ments this morning consisted of one post
master in Kentucky, and William O.Thomas,
of Tennessee, to be Consul at Bahia, Brazil.
A pardon was denied Mary Ellen, of the
District of Columbia, who was sentenced in
June, 1S9L to two years in the Albany Peni
tentiary for conspiracy with others to de
fraud pension claimants.
Among the callers at the President's cot
tage this afternoon were Congressman
Joseph D. Taylor and hig brother, of Ohio,
and United States District Attorney Mar
shall, of the Southern distilct of Texas. The
car on which the President wili ride to Ver
mont to-morrow arrived to-night.
Believes in Moderation.
Detroit Free Press.
Mother (horrified) What did you let that
young Snipkins kiss you for?
Daughter (meekly ) For only two minutes,
mamma, and then I told him it wac time to
stop.
A PROMISING INFANT.
Ex-Senator Moody Talks of tho Inexhaust
ible Stores of Tin Ore In the Black
mils The Superiority of Ainerlcnn Tin
Plate Is Proien.
Ex-Senator Gideon C. Moody, of South Da
kota, was among the more distinguished
guests at the Fifth Avenue yestei day.says tho
Now York Prm. He was full of enthusiasm
over tho remarkable snecess already
achieved in the development of the tin plate
mines in the Black" mils. He spoke with
great animation about what is now being
done to establish the new American indus
try upon a basis of extraordinary propor
tions. "It is intcnsoly amusing," said the Senator
to a representative of the Tress, "to hear
tho shrieks of free trade newspapers against
the possibility of the existence of tin plate
in this region. I have just coma from tho
Harney PeaK region. The excitement and
encigydisphiyod there reminds one of the
davsof'49. The company has already por
lected ii plant for taking out daily from 150
to 200 tons of tho littlo crystals, while very
soon arrangements will have been made
whereby fully 1,500 tons daily will be real
ized. "Hundreds or men are at work prospect
ing, digging, smelting and shipping the very
material which our fice trade critics say
does not exist. Investigation proves that
the supply is well ntgu lnexiianstioie.
Plants Will He Developed.
"It 'Hill not be long before the plants shall
have been so well developed that there will
be no necessity to call upon Wales or tho
Dutch East Indies for tin plate. Indeed,
notwithstanding the fact that tho loreiguers
can employ coolie labor nt sixpence a (lay,
while e have to pay from $2 50 to $3 for our
help, the time i soon coming -when tho
producer t ill be able to nndeisell his Euro-
Jiean competitor in a market of which the
atterhas heretofore had a monopoly. One
of the best evidences of tho permanent es
tiiblishment heio of the tin plate industry is
the closing up of the Welsh mills."
"Could the tin plate indnstiy have secured
a foothold in this country had tho McKinley
bill not become a law 7"
'Hardly. The foreigners with their pau
ner labor could, if they would, have sent
their product heie its bnllast and laid it
down on our wharves for 4 cents n pound.
The duty of 4 conts fixed by tho McKinley
law makes it impossible without loss for
them to place it in this country at lcs than
8 cents per pound. The Americans will be
fore many months bo able to dispose of their
goods profitably at tho price just indicated.
Thus wo shall have no necessity for patron
izing producers abroad. On the other hand,
n e can get our tin plate as cheap, if not
cheaper, than it can bo sent here from
Europe, and the Americans will have littlo
or no difficulty in controlling our market.
It Is Superior to Imported Goods.
"An examination of tho article already
produced here makes it apparent that it is
far superior in quality to the imported
goods. The coating on the sheet is thicker
and moic durable. A great deal of tho Eu
lopcan stock is worthless. It breaks easily
and cannot enduie atmospheric attacks.
Until it became possible to mako tin plate
hero tho foreigners had us at their mercy.
We were compelled to take their goods,
good, indifferent or poor, or go without.
Thev could charge us what they pleased as
we had no redress.
"Now, 1 am thankful to say, the remedy
has boen found. With the erection of mills
in New York, PcnnsyU ania and Missouri
and other States comes the news not only of
tho shutting down of tho factories abroad,
but appeals from foreigners to establish
their concerns in America. Experts from
England aro seeking employment here, too.
What better arguments could bo presented
in behalf ot the tin plate paragraphs in the
McKinley law than than tho lacts just
cited? The American tin plate infant i- a
mighty healthy and powenul one already.
It w ill not be many years before it will take
its place beside tho iron, steel and other
great industries of which the United States
is so proud."
HAJ0B DENNISTON H0N0BED.
Presented With an Elegant Testimonial by
His G. A. B. Comrades.
The residence of Major J. F. Denniston
m as well filled last night with representative
men of the G. A. R. of Pennsylvania. Tho
occasion was the presentation to Major Den
niston of the testimonial voted to him at the
last Department Encampment at Altoona in
recognition of his services as Department.
Commander, his term having expired last
February. A large number were present at
the presentation, including Department
Commander George C Boyer, of Harrisburg;
Captain Sayes, Chaplain; Past Commander
T. J. Stewart, of Philadelphia, and Past Com
mander Austin Curtain, of Philadelphia.
The committee appointed to present the tes
timonial was composed of Adjutant General
William McClelland, W. Hays Grier, of Co
lumbus, O., W. G. Williams, of Philadelphia.
The testimonial was an oxide table with a
handsome solid silver service set. The pre
sentation speech was made by Chill W. Haz
zard, andiespondedto with a neat speech
by Major Denniston. At the conclusion of
the speech making, the G. A. R. Bandwhich
was located on tne lawn, rendored several
fine selections. The evening was then con
cluded with dancing and a bountiful supper.
INTOXICATED BIBDS.
A Flock of Pigeons Which Was Not to Be
Relied Upon.
London Times.
A pigeon-flying experiment at Tours has
ended in a most remarkable manner,
proving tho shocking fact that the useful
birds, in addition to being excessively
greedy, are also given to an over-indulgence
in strong drinks. Four hundred and twenty
nine pigeons wore conveyed by train from
Tours to La Bohalle, and there let loose.
To the astonishment of the various societies
interested in the experiment, only 40 re
turned home, and these were in a dazed con
dition and quite incapable of finding their
respective quarters.
An inquiry resulted in the discovery that
at a roadside station a large consignment of
black cutrants had been put in the same van
as the birds. The inebriating qualities of
the currant juice proved two much for the
little travelers, and they were quickly in
such a condition that only a small propor
tion were sober enough to find their way
back to Tours.
POLITICAL POINTERS.
Mr. Blaihe's popularity extends all over
the country. He is Just as popular in In
diana, for instance, as he is in Maine. St.
Louis Globe-Democrat.
The Republican party can permit Mr.
Blaine to spend all of next summer at Bar
Harbor, and stilVelect him President, if ho
will simply cinsent to be the candidate.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
If English manufacturers and alien im
porters do not pour out their millions to de
feat McKinley and protection it will be
strange. They are the allies of the Demo
cratic party in the United States, and far
moro deeply interested in the defeat of pro
tection than are any class of American citi
zons. Chicago Inter-Ocean.
SrEAKiso of the tin plate clause in the Mc
Kinley bill, the San Francisco Chronicle says:
"But they may do as they please in tho prem
ises. Their desperate efforts to prevent tin
plate being made in tho United States are
sure to be frustrated. The Republican party
has started in to establish the industry, and
is bouud to succeed. Its success will mean
the creation of numerous opportunities for
American workingmen to find employment.
As this success can only be achieved by
bringing to the country proper instructors,
it is worse than silly to cavil at the move
ment to do so. Indeed, no one is growling
except the sorely beset Democratic free
trade editor, who i3 hard pressed for argu
ments against the tin plate clause of tho
McKinley bill."
It will be difficult for the free traders to
persuade the people that a law which is pro
ducing these results diminishing tho re
strictions upon trade, enlarging our com
merce and reducing the cost to consumers of
foreign goods is likely to prove disastrous
to the general prosperity. The truth is that
the antagonists of protection maintained
themselves in tho last election by misrepre
sentation and appeals to the prejudice and
ignorance of tho people, but now that tho
facts are becoming apparent, and it is shown
that the McKinley act is beneficent ia its
operations, tending to encourage the pro
duction of American fabrics and give em
ployment to American skill and labor while
restraining the introduction of foreign
goods competing with those which we are
able to produce at home, we may look with
confidence for a popular vindication of the
protective principal wherever it is put ia
issue. Frank Leslie's, Wezkly.
OUR MAIL POUCH.
Tar and Feathers. "
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
When did tarring and feathering first com
mence. T. A. R.
Sewicklev, August 17.
Ancient fabliau preserves an incident of
a dame who, wishing to punish a cure, a pro
vost and a forester for persecuting her with
thelrMishonorable suits, made appointments
with them to visit her and then contrived
thcttthcy should bo stripped and thrown
into a cask full of feathers, whence they
were hunted by her husband with all tho
dogs and;in habitants of tho villago at their
heels. In England this penalty was intro
duced for a different offense in 1189, when
Richard I., before sotting out for the Holy
Land, ordained, in order to prescrvo the dis
cipline of his fleet, that whosoever should
be convicted ot theft should first have his
head shaved, that boiling pitch should then
be poured upon it and a cushion of feathers
shaken over it. Ho was afterward to be put
on shore at the first place the ship touched
ut, though after a baptism of boiling pitch
the poor f. retch would have little life left in
him. In modern times the practice has
found favor with tho populace us a means of
readily executing justice on an offender
whom the law, perhaps, shows no anxiety to
reacu.j
The Naturalization Law.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
An error crept into a recent answer rela
tive to naturalization. In all cases a five
years' residence and minority are required.
If the alien on his arrival is under 18 years
of age, he need not declare his intention,
hut is required to prove, by a witness, that it
has been his intention to become a citizen for
ntleast two years. When over 18 he must de
clare his intention at least two years before
his application for naturalization. Tho nat
uralization of the father makes all minor
children citizens. L. T. W.
PlTTaBUBQ, August 14.
Directories or Cities.
To the Editor of The Dispatch.
Can you inform mo how I can obtain tho
business addiess of a person in another city.
Is theie any place where directories of
other cities are kept for tho public accom
modation. Louis James.
KemsIhoton, Aug. 17.
A number of directories are kept by the
public library, on Pcnn avenue. Among
others is a business directory of othor cities.
The best w ay to ascertain an address in an
other city is to write to some person there.
Age or Ages.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
Which is right, "Minors mispn, ..resenting
their ages shall be dealt with according to
law" or "Minors misrepresenting their age,"
etc? ' A. R.
WlLMERDISO, Pa.
Tho latter is oorrcct.
Chartiers Gas Stock.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
Please state what the price of Chartiers
Gas stock was on February 25, 18S3.
PiTTsnuRO, August 17. A Reader.
Chartiers Natural Gas Company stock
was quoted at SIX bid and 92 asked on the
dato mentioned.
COOKING SCHOOL ETHICS.
The Country Meeds Less Politics and More
Pumpkin Pies, Mrs. Ewing Says.
SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.
Chautauqua, X. Y., Aug. 17. Miss Mario
Decca has completely captivated Chautau
qua, and she w ill be kept here till the close
of the Assembly. A big concert has been
arranged for to-morrow, and the Press Club
will entertain the prima donna Wednesday.
So popular has Mrs. E wing's work become
here that she found it necessary to use the
amphitheater this morning for her lecture
on bread making. From Deing bread-winners
Cbautauquans have become bread
bakers, for Mrs. Ewing has been teaching
them that "a friend in Knead, is a friend in
deed," and that contrary to the Scriptural
verse, a man can live by bread alone, pro
vided it is good bread. "Mrs. Ewing admin
istered some sound, sensible advise in the
course of her object lesson. She said that
this so-called "terrible dough-mixing" was
tho great trouble of the average woman.
She does not care how much paint she daubs
on her hand, but if the slightest dough gets
there she regards It as simply horrid. Dress
reform is good enough, but good bread is
better; and what this country needs is less
politics and more pumpkin pics.
THE NEXT HYGIENIC C0NGBESS.
It Will Bo Hold at Buda-Pesth Instead of
Minneapolis or St, Paul.
London, Aug. 17. Tho International Hy
gienic Congress closed to-day after a long
discussion as to the next place of meeting.
Though it was strongly uiged that a town in
Minnesota be chosen, the congress finally
decided in favor of Buda-Pesth.
DEATHS HEBE AND ELSEWHEKE.
James Boyce.
James Boyce died Suuday at his home,
one mile west of Towson, Md. Mr. Bojce had not
been well for nearly a year and lie took a trip to
Europe for his health. Heart failure was the im
mediate cause of death. Mr. Boj cc was one of the
largest individual bituminous coal miners and
shippers In Maryland and Virginia. He was born
In Chester, Orange county, N. Y on January 8,
183. His parents were natives of Dublin, Ireland.
He received a common school education and then
went to New Tort Cltv, where he was employed as
a clerk by a retail grocer, subsequently entering a
v. holesale house in the same line. In 1339, when 16
years of age, Mr. Boyce engaged In the business
which he followed so successfully for the rest of his
lire. In 1847 he became Interested In the Cumber
land coal fields.
Coont Carlo Boych.
Count Carlo Koych, commanding the Ital
ian man-of-war Volturno, died July 9 on board his
vessel, at Shanghai, China. He was sent by his
Government to Japan and China to negotiate cer
tain treaUes which are as yet kept from the knowl
edge of the public. Having completed his duties in
that section of the globe he expected to sail soon for
Chile. Count Rojcnwas very promlnentln Itallau
naral and political circles, and possessed several
crosses bestowed on Mm by his Goernmcnt. He
commanded the expedition sent by Italy to capture
and annex Massowah, In 1838-9, and to him Is
largely due the success of that venture. He was
also the represcntatl e of Italy sent to watch and
report upon the progress of the war between Chile
and Peru.
Daniel Underbill.
Daciel Underbill, one of the oldest and
Hbest-Vnown Insurance men in this country, died
Saturday at ws home in .aew xorK city, in the 71st
year of his age. He was of Quaker parentage, and
was born in Maryland. He entered the service of
the New York Fire and Marine Insurance Company
when a boy, and was elected Secretary In 1444. He
served in that capaclt until 1884, when he was
made President, lMiich position he occupied until
last year, when he resigned, having been in the
company's aervicc for 54 years. He was an active
Mason, and was an old volunteer fireman.
Philip P. Dunn.
Philip P. Dunn, a very prominent mem
bers of the Society of Friends in New Jersey, died
Sunday at Spring Lake in his 67th year. His death
follows closely on a series of financial crashes that
involved his good name. He was President of the
vimt Katlnnal Hank of Trenton. S.J.. and recent
ly resigned because of the lallure of the Star Rub
ber Company, Trenton China Company, Central
Rubber belling Company and se er.il other con
cerns in wnicu ue was uuauciaiiy luieresieu,
He
became Insane.
John Abrahaxnson.
The news of the death of John Abraham
sou, a Swedish missionary to China, was recilved
oy bis friends in McKeesport yesterday. He was a
member of the Swedish Free Evangelical Church
of that city, and was selected as a missionary to
China last December. He contracted typhoid lever
while there and died soon after. He was a! years
of age, unmarried and one of the brightest and
most promising Swedish students In Mch-eesport.
Obituary Notes.
Frederick Hirr, one of the oldest and best
known citizens of Canton, died yesterday.
CuristiaMF. Dmcil died suddenly yesterday
morning from pneumonia at his home, 1712 Hart
man alley, Southside. He was 33 years old and
leaves a wife and four children.
State Representative L. D. Hotchkiss, or
Bloomlngton, la., died there Sunday night. He
was one of the most prominent politicians of Iowa.
He was chosen by the Democrats and Republicans
as a compromise Chairman of the last Legislature,
when the deadlock was on.
vr. Samuel Kramer, one of the oldest and
est-kuown Methodist preachers of Washington,
died Sunday of heart failure. He was 82 years old.
He was born in Baltimore, where he took an active
psrt in the delense of the Sixth Massachusetts Reg
iment on Its passage through that city In 1861. lie
served as a C'aptalu In the navy and was a Major In
thc.'nrmy dnriug the late war.
SLEXTZ At the residence, of his son, W. R.
Slentz, Colonel J. L. slcntz, of Gettysburg, Pa.,
died jesterday. The deceased was an old-time
resident of Pittsburg, being an old "typo" and
latterly connected with the.Lxcclsior Omnibus
Company and Pennsylvania Railroad. The de
ceased was 73 years and 2 months old. Funeral nt
ietiysl)urg. l
THE PASSING SHOW.
The Overture of the Theatrical Season ot
1891-2 The Limited Mail at tho Bljon
Tom Sawyer Turner's English Girls
The World's Museum-Theater.
Theatricals are 'waking up in town,
it is not the season yet, but the fiddlers aro
tuning up nnd the people are beginning to
prick up their cars. Tho heat grew ugly
yesterday, and even after snndown it was
so warm that tho crowds which surged into
the Bijou, Harry Williams' Academy and
Harris' Theater were not expected by the
managers. At tho Bijou the big gallery was
filled with a perspiring and vociferous
mob, very largely made up of boys,
and standing room wag not easy to find in
the rest of the house. In one of tho boxes
were some of the fair members of the Gar
row Opera Company, which to-morrow takes
a long jump to Omaha. Harry Williams'
Academy, which is cool and Inviting in
color, thanks to the really artistic new
decorations, was moro comfortable perhaps
than the othor theaters, because no rules
of etiquette prevented a man from taking
off his coat and vest there. Harris' Thenter,
bright and clean with new seats and other
things, was also moie Inviting than it has
been for years. Indeed, wherever the public
may go among tho theaters this season, the
good results of competition among the
managers will be found.
The llljou Theater.
The roomy and rather vague term
comedy-drama covers a multitude of sins.
The now play by Elmer E. Vance, "Tho Lim
ited Mail," produced at the Bijou Theater
last night, nestles under this convenient ti
tle. But if it is a comedy-drama it is also a
melodrama, according to tho original mean
ing of that word, a drama with music, and
in places it is very like farce-comedy pure and
simple, as Hoyt mado it in his "A Hole in
the Ground." Its merits as a drama of any
branch, breed or description aro not remark
ably numerous or striking. It is
stated that Mr. Vance, the author,
had not any previous experience as
a dramatist when he wrote "Tho Limited
Mail, " and but a slight acquaintance with
the theater. He was a telegraph operator,
we believe, at Columbus, and a very good
one. He has put his knowledge of railroad
telegraphy to ingenious use in his play,
of which the electrical effects are tho chief
novelties and the best points. It would not
be easy to briefly relate the story or explore
the plot, nor would It be profitable, for there
is not much that is new to be found there
and a very great deal that' is ridic
ulously untrue to nature and com
mon probability. The strength
of "Tho Limited Mail," as indicated by the
approval of the great andlence last nl$ht,lies
in its sensational episodes. Of these tho
display of the telegraphic message in letters
of fire upon the wires "Hold the Limited
Mail" which frustrates the wicked designs
of the villains of the piece and the flight of
the express train across the stage, are the
most noteworthy examples. They are not
reasonably realistic, but they are thrilling
incidents, carefully led up to with dramatic
violence and mechanical ingenuity of tlio
latter tho sound of the wind whistling
through tho wires is a very clever instance.
The audience greeted all theie stirring
things with terrific applause. There is a
sawmill sensation and some other bits of
quasl-realism which lend variety to the
hackneyed tenor of the play.
The company which fills these pictures of
life, or what passes for life, is reasonably
capable of the task. Lew Bloom's delinea
tion of a tramp a serio-comic villain of the
sort noey has given us in a lighter vein
was especially clever. Master Harry Blaney,
as an heroic boy, such as dime novels usu
ally make their heroes, showed undoubted
talent. Joseph H. Coyne presents a familiar
type of the stage Irishman well enough-
The audience appeared to enjoy the whole
tilay, and the sensational scenes in particu
lar, and the gallery gods were so enthusi
astic aud uproarious that a largo portion of
tho dialogue was entirely inaudible to the'
rest of the audience. The disorders in the
gallery at the Bijou, especially on Monday
nights, ought U be toned down.
Harry Williams' Academy.
The syndicate of Turner's English
girls at this house do not monopolize all the
humor, general ability and beauty on the
variety stage, but they are able to give a
fair entertainment all the same. There are
some handsome women In the company,
whose faces and forms show to advantage
In a couple of light burlesques and a grand
march. Fields, the Dutch comedian, the
Healeys in a humorous sketch full of fun
and good singing, the knockabout foolery of
Hanloy and Jarvis, Miss Nellie Russell's
various musical feats, and several other
artists of ability are also features of the
performance. The audience was very large
last night and loud in its approval.
World's Museum-Theater.
Some of horse-shoes that Charles P.
Blatt, the muscular champion, tackled at
this house yesterday wero of unwonted
toughness and ho had difficulty in breaking
them. Ho tore enough of them assunder to
prove himself to be a wonderfully strong
man and the people who saw him perform
the feats wero convinced of their genuine
ness, ne is undoubtedly one of the strongest
men in the world. Minerva, the female
Hercules, proved her right to tho title by
some extraordinary lifting experiments. In
the theater large audiences laughed
in spite of the perspiration it induced with
great heartiness at Tom Mcintosh's vcrv
original and quaint sayings. This actor fs
about the best colored comedian who comes
to Pittsburg. La Pettite Kittie also won lots
of applause with her songs and dances in the
manner of Maggio Cline. Miss Ada Burnett
sang prettily and comically also, and several
others contributed to a clever performance.
The museum and theater look very clean
and gay after the summer overhauling.
Harris' Theater.
There is not much in "'Tom Sawyer"
to recommend it as a play, whatever tho
merits of Mark Twain's original story, and
the painful truth is that Will E. Burton and
his company, which performed it at this
theater yesterday, mako very littte of the
rough material. When a performance is so
thoroughly weak as this, and the nlay so
poor, the best thing and the kindest is to say
very little about it.
Harris' Theater is far handsomer in its
new clothes than it ever was before, and the
public evidently appreciates tho new seats
and pleasant surroundings already, for the
audiences wore large, considering the
weather.
A EASTING WOMAN.
She Has Taken No Nourishment for Seven-
teen Years.
Dr. Vergara, of Villaclenzo, in the province
of Burgos, states that there is In that village
a married woman, aged 48, w ho for the last
17 years has taken no nourishment of any
kind; in fact, says the British 2IedicalJournal,
we are asked to believe that nothing what
ever has passed her lips except a small
amount of water, which she takes every
three or four days.
During all that time she has not left her
bed for a single moment; she lies there in a
state of lethargy, which might bo mistaken
for death but for occasional slight move
ments of her body and a feeble moan which
she utters when disturbed, ashy light falling
on her face. There seems to be no question
of making the case a paying exhibition, as
the husband resolutely shuts his door against
mere sightseers.
THE THDNDEK OF THE TINGOD.
WRITTEN FOR THE DISrATCII.
I.
Oh I the din.
Hear him chin!
Nledrlnghaus, the alarmer.
Protected in his armour,
Made of protected tin.
Hear his tlntlnabulation
Shaking up this Yankee nation;
Obi the tlntlnabulation
Of the tin.
Hear its din!
II.
Oh! this prattle.
Hear him rattle I
Hark to the tlngod's raving,
Welsh ' 'dipper, " he is craving
To clip our protected tin;
Hear his tlntlnabulation.
Sons of the Cymric nation;
Ob! the tlntlnabulation
Of the tin,
Hear Its din!
HI.
Hear the rattling
Ofthlsgatllng,
Who cries for alien labor
And the nation's gun and saber
. To help him make his tin;
Hear his tlntlnabulation,
Honest toilers of this nation:
Oh! the tlntlnabulation
Of the tin.
Hear its din!
H02ISSIZAS, Pa,, August 16. , , H.
SOCIAL AMUSEMENTS.
A Lawn Fete or Three Days and Several
Other Coming Events.
The first annual lawn feto of the Wilkins
burg Fire Department is announced for
Thursday, Friday and Saturday, August 27.
23 and 29. The exercises will be conducted
on a largo meadow at the corner of Wood
nnd Wallace streets, Wilkinsburg, and they
will bo of all kinds. One of the features
will be parade of tho Are department,
headed by a brass band, each evening.
Wilkinsburg is proud of its fire laddies, and
tho parade will be a drawing card, If every
thing elso wero weak. But everything elso
will be the reverse of weak. All the
churches in the borough have determined to
take part, and tho ladies of the various con
gregations will bo in charge of the tables
and will dispense the refreshments and
other wares that are ulways to be found nt
lawn fetes, with the earnestness that alwnvs
marks the work of ladies for any worthy ob
ject. Cream and cake will bo important
delicacies at the fete, the admission fee, en
titling ench visitor to enjoy those comest
tibleb. The general committee comprises
Messrs. Harry Kent, G. W. Snyder nnd C. W.
Hutchinson. 'Tho piocceds are to be devoted
to tho benefit of tho lire department. AVilk
insbnrg Is a growing town, and it is desired
to improve the fire department in every way
posiblo. This Is an expensive proceeding,
and it is necessary to raise money in every
way possible. It'is expected that the lawn
iuiu nui earn several nunureu uuiuii3.
Am box social to be held in Glenwood
Temperance Hall Friday evening by Jr. O.
U. A. M., Jfo. 50$, the Glenwood Cornet Band
will furnish tho music. The band is a new
one, and promises to do good work. The
member'' are as follows: C. McClaskey. E
fiat cornet, leader and instructor: C. Mofflt,
E flat cornet; P. Denion, solo It flat cornet;
M. Lynch, first B Hat cornet; T. Dunlap, sec
ond B flat cornet; J. Frederick, solo alto; H.
Veazey and C. Miller, first and second
alto; Robert Bevard and G. B. Shaw, first
and second tenors: Samuel Berrel, baritone;
II. Sprucebank, E flat tnba; J. Gleaser, bass
drum; A. Dunlap, cymbals, and G. Slone,
snare drum.
The lawn fete for the bencflt of the South
side Hospital is to take place on. the grounds
attached to the residence of J. McD. Bryce,
on Mt. Oliver, to-night. In addition to the
namosofthe committees given in The Dis
patch yesterday, the following ladles will
he in charge of the decorations: Mesdames
Sharpe (chairman), M. Pfell, James Hays,
James Horner, D. Jones, Hartley, J.
Schlmpf, C, Kaufmann, George Monro, O.
W. Sadler and Stuart, and Miss J. Davis and
Mrs. Dr. Chriss.
Social Chatter.
The wedding of Miss Elizabeth Norcross
nnd Mr. Wilbur Mathews is sot for an early
day In September.
West Bellevue Council Xo. 210, Jr. O.H.A.
31., will hold its annual lawn feto at Wind
sor Park, Bellevue, August 27.
Allegheny Commandery So. 35, K. T
drill corps will hold its first annnal basket
picnic Wednesday, the 2Gth, at Rock Point.
Georoe C Jenks' select evening excursion
is announced for to-night, rain or shine.
Tho boat will leave the foot of Wood street
at 7:30 p- m.
Mis Bertha Jane Liniiabdt and Mr. Ad
dison Boren, of the East End, are to be mar
ried nt tho Park Avenue Presbyterian
Church on Thursday evening.
TnB seventh annual convention of the
Sabbath.schools in the Pittsburg Presbytery
of the Reformed Presbyterian Church is to
tako place next Tuesday at Rock Point.
The Sewicklcy Athletic Association i3 ar
ranging a "county fair" to be given on its
grounds on Thursday afternoon and even
ing next. All sorts of sports aro in the pro
gramme. The Butler Street Methodist Episcopal
Snndav school w ill hold its annual picnic at
Idlewild to-day. The scholars will form in
line at tho church and march to Thirty
third street, wheio a train will be in waiting
to convey them to the grounds.
JOHNSTOWN'S HIDDEN TBEASTJBES.
Two Discoveries of Money Burled by the
Flood, Made Testerday.
CSrECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.l
Johnstown, Aug: 17. Another unexpected
flood relic was turned up to-day by one of
Contractor Howe's men. The gang is work
incattho Point, where the river deposit is
being removed, and this afternoon one of
the men dug up a lard can containing $60,
three $10-bllls and the balance in gold coin.
Another workman found $11 in silver, all
of which w ill likely be turned over to tho
Flood Committee appointed for that pur
pose. JUST WAIT AWHILE.
San Francisco Stevedore Strikers Not Em
barrassing Masters Much Now.
San Francisco, Aug. 17. The strike of the
stevedores for increased wages is still pro
gressing, but thus larbut little difficulty has
been found in discharging or loading car
goes. Tho stevedores claim that now is the
dull time, but when tho heavy arrivals com
mence the strike will be soverely felt.
PEOPLE WHO COME AND GO.
Secretary of Internal Affairs Thomas J.
Stewart and State Treasurer George G.
Boyer arrived at the Seventh Avenue yes
terday. Thoyare here to attend thoG. A.
R. celebration. During the day they ex
changed greetings with friends who called
upon them. Neither Tt ished to be quoted in
connection with tho political situation.
Kev. "W. D. Jloore, of Columbus, passed
through to New York on the eastern ex
press. He is the moderator of the Presby
terian Church. He said that while Dr.
Briggs was astray on doctrinal points he was
not altogether to be condemned.
Adjutant General McClelland came in
from Harrisburg last night, on tho mail,
leaving on the limited for Chicago. He said
ho was going there to attend the meeting of
the Classification Committee of the World's
Fair.
Seventy-five florists left over the Pitts
burg anil Lake Erie Railroad yesterday
morning for Toronto, Canada, where they
will be lu attendance at the Florists's Con
vention, to be held thcro this week.
Herman Cale, a Cincinnati brewer, was
an Eastern Express passenger last night.
tIk found that the Brook's law in no wnflif.
fectcd the business of the brewers relative
to the collection of accounts.
Among those who returned yesterday
from summer outing wero: Charles A. Mc
Feeley, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Lawrence, C. B.
Desbon, C. A. Verner, W. Greenland, Miss
Sara M. Brokaw and Durbln Home.
Samuel Gncr, delinquent tax collector of
Allegheny, Barton J. Grubbs, of the Depart
ment of Charities, and Chief Assessor John
Hetzel, have returned from Macinac Island.
George L. Jlbreland will leave this
morning lor Lnkewood, N. Y., to loo,k after
George C jenxt mierest m "as ioui.u;e
It," which he pioduces there next Friday.
Mrs. A. It. Mairell and G. H. Smith, of
Knoxville, Tenn., aro visiting Assistant En
gineer Stevenson, of the Pennsylvania Rail
road. H. C. Dimmick, commercial agent of the
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul road, ar
rived on tho limited last night.
Prof. J. P. Andrews, of the Bureau of
Highways, and John Moore, of Knoxville,
returned yesterday from Atlantic City.
ilnjor and Mrs. F.C. Jf egley and danghter,
or9Bluff street, left Saturdaj-for a month's
tour of the lakes and the Northwest.
Captain Hazlett, of the Allegheny "Water
Department, will leave for Atlantic City to
day for a two ai eeks' vacation.
Constable A. A. Heiner, of Alderman
McMaster's office, has returned from a two
weeks' trip to Atlantic City.
Rev. C. "Wohlgemuth left yesterday for
Vermillion, O., to attend the Evangelical
campmcctlng.
Charles W. Urockumer, a tableware man
ufacturer of Wheeling, is staying at the Mo
nongahela. Mrs. "W. H. Hart and daughter and Miss
Sadie Connolly have returnedVfrom a tour of
the lakes.
Mr. J. B. Youngson, with wife and
family, have gono to Ocean Grove for a few
w eeks.
M. J. Flynn, the Emlenton woolen manu
facturer, is a guest at the Schlosser.
E. E. Haft, of San Francisco, is a guest of
Rev. Dr. Holliday, Allegheny.
Dr. K. C. M. Stewart, of Grand Valley,
Pa., is at the St. James Hotel.
Mr. "West Guffey, the oil operator, went
to Franklin yesterday.
Miss Blanch Garfield returned from Chau
tauqua this morning.
Maj'or McCandless left for Harrisburg
early this morning.
Mr. S. Klinordlinger returned from Sew
York yesterday.
J. J. Leidecker, the Butler oil man, is at
the Schlosser.
CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS.
Missouri is credited with 133,000 mem
bers of the Baptist Church.
It is a remarkable fact that the most
quarrelsome woman in Atchison is entirely
deaf.
The Missouri watermelon crop will re
quire 0,000 box cars to get it to market. Each
car will hold 1,000 mellons.
It'is expected that 500,000 bushels of
wheat will be harvested from the Dalrymple
farm, near Casseltown, North Dakota.
Persons with divining rods are search
ing for ancient Spanish gold supposed to be
buried in the banks of tho Ohio, near New
Albany.
A banana eating contest at Tarpod
Springs, Fla., ended in a tie between two of
tho racers, each stopping on the sixty-first
banana, it is said.
A vast nnmber of people take comfort
in the hope of at last reaching Nirvana. The
total number of Buddhists in the world is
estimated to be 75,000,000.
George A. Avery, of Dover, 2T. H., has
a current bush in his garden which, it is
said, stands 2G feet high and is loaded with
large red enrrants; they aro picked with the
aid of a ladder.
There are 1,000 women to every 949
men in England. Yet the Englishmen, say3
the New York World, will insist on marrvins
American girls and so continuing the dis
proportion. A man in Oakland City, Ind., boast
that he never wore a pair of socks until he
was 80 years of age; that he has mado three
overland trips to New Orleans, and that be
has always voted the Democratic ticket.
Speed has its advantages. The ocean
flyers make yon sick and keep yon so. It is
said that old sailors are made seasick by the
excessive amount of vibration caused by the
propellers of some of the high speed
cruisers.
Crawfordsville boys are seized of the
balloon-paraohuto business, and cats aro
dally sent up, the pamchuto being arranged
so that it will detach itself from the balloon
five minntes after tho latter is afloat. The
cats are not taking kindly to this aeronautic
mania.
The latest invention to attract tha
attention and approval of railroad men i3
the cushion car wheel. It is composed of
two parts the center nnd the tire, while be
tween the two ia a thick rubber band which
acta as a cushion to absorb all thevibra
tions.
S. E. Pond, son of ex-Mayor Pond, of
San Francisco, and his friends, S. H. Jack
son and M. L. Rosenfeld, visited Shovel
creek last week, after a thrilling visit to
that wonder of wonders, Crater Lake. They
performed a feat few travelers daro to un
dertake, creeping down the 2 000-foot wall of
the crater to the shore or that wild, weird
lake and writing thir names where few
names will ever bo written.
The chief article of creed held by the) '
believers in what ha3 been called tha
"Religion of the Great Pyramid" is that tha
pyramid was built for the purpose of reveal
ing a number of remarkable truths to the
human race. They hold that it was designed
by direct inspiration of the Deity, and was
meant to embody Important astronomical
and mathematical truths for the instruction
and guidance of future times.
The Health Society of St. Petersburg
has recently appointed a committee to in.
vestigate tthe sanitary condition of thosa
who are employed in the rag business. On
July 10 the committee submitted its report,
denouncing the rag business as highly in
jurious to the health of those engaged in it.
Tho rags are picked by children, over 75 per
cent of wbbm suffer with contagious dis
eases, and less than half attain a mature age.
A pestiferous insect may retard civili
zation. One of tha greatest obstacles to the
settlement of vast regions in Africa has
been tho tsetse fly. Although harmless to
men, all civilized animals die from its bite
in two or three days. A man of Natal has
discovered a remedy for tho poison, in
which he has such confidence that ho has
contracted to carry the Portuguese military
stores through the tabooed districts on bul
locks. A spider is the novel pet of a Laings
burg, Mich., girl. He is kept under a goblet
and carefully fed, positively refusing to
begin a meal until three or four flies have ,
been trust intohisapartment. These he lets 1
walk all around him and oven over him,
allowing them to think him pefectly harm
less, until in some of their trips under his
nose he apparently wakes up and grabs
them. After one of these meals he loses his
appetite for about 48 hours. He seems qnito
content with ten flies a week.
The latest discovery in the vegetable
kingdom U made by Dr. B. G. Culver, of
Atchison, Kan., in the propagation of a vine,
which he has christened potamato, that will
grow potatoes under the ground. In the
usual fashion, and bear toniutocs, as does
the tomato plant, at the top. Dr. Culver has
spent 21 years in experimenting, and with
the present season he feels assured perfec
tion will have been reached, so that next
year ho will be able to distribute seed in
limited quantity.
According to several colonists who have
returned from Topolobampo, It is not tho
Utopia its promoters have represented it to
be. Mr. Ezra Comfort, of Delphos. Kan.,
says there are about 400 deluded colonists in
the little valley. A common store and com
mon fund supplied all. The water is so hot
that much sickness follows its drinking. Ice
is unknown. The flour, which is furnished
by a Kansas concern, is of the poorest grade.
There Is no market for fruit. The com
munity deals in spiritualism and has implicit
faith in the teachings of Hoffman Owen and
other receivers of the colony money. Tho
Utopia is the dream of farce, and the farce
numbers many victims.
-"When it comes to a show down between
Mr. Tennyson's Enoch Arden and tho fol
lowing true story from the Paris Mercury it
will be seen that granu old Missouri is still
in it: "Oliver Smith left this country in the
spring of 1850 for California during the gold
excitement, and was not heard of hero until
last spring. He worked in mines there for
a year, and upon hearing that his wife was
dead, he drifted away to the gold fields of
Australia, ne wrote several letters back
home, which miscarried for some cause, and
receiving no answer, he gave up tho idea of
returning, contenting himself to live in hi-i.
new home. He left fonr children, all of
whom aro dead, they leaving two children.
His wife is still living at the age of 67 years.
He was 25 years old when he went away.
Mr. Smith will return home next month,
and no doubt will meet a hearty welcome
from his wife and relatives, as w ell as old
friends, many of whom have long thought
him dead."
KnYMES AND KHTNKLES.
M3ud O, it was dreadfuL There I was
up In this tree, and I had to stay up there for three
long boors till he awoke and went away. He was
right at the bottom ot me tree, you Know.
Amy Why. whose dog was It?
Dog! Itwasaman." Boston Seics.
The people of Passamaquoddy
Are tolerably fond of their toddy.
And drink on the sly
Whenever they're dry.
Which doesn't concern anybody.
Washington Post,
"Johnny," said the humorous gentleman,
"give me your little brother. Yon don't want him
any longer, and I'll make a man of him."
"Can you do that, mister?"
Indeed I can."
"Well, let's see yon make one out of me. qniclt,
before ma comes; then I'll fool her. for she's gono
af (er a stout switeh. and 'U be back In a minute."
St. Louis Republic.
Flies on bald men all around us
We conld make a pile of rocks
By a strictly enforced ordinance
Making flies all wear white socks.
Chicago Times,
"Do you think that the resnlt from your
rain machine will be equal to all necessities?"
asked the official of the Inventor.
"Oh. yes." was the reply cfMhe mentally ab
sorbed man; "I think it will cover the ground."
Washington Star,
There was a young man lived in Youghall
Was the biggest Uar since Adam's fougall.
For the fish that be bought
He'd swear that he'd canght
Tills young man of unlimited goughall.
IFbrest and Slrtam.
Mercury Please, haven't you some mes
sage fur me down to the earth?
Jove What's this? You are unusually willing to
work. Ah, I understand. You arc thinking of
the summer girl. Well, go down and give her my
love. Sew York Herald.
A. letter came by the morning's post
And ber dainty cheek grew red.
And she placed it tenderly near her heart '
And never a word she said.
And my heart grew sick with a Jealous fear,
Ti.ough my lips were cold and mute;
But I after learned that the letter brought
Only her bathing suit.
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