fmam ?9",g?3?1W5 TZ mumrv' A CHY COAL TARD.iSSSiS Sensational Proposition Made by the, Nationalists of Boston. IT CAUSED A LAUGH AT FIRST.-J EutEccentDevelopments Prwe-JhaWt-Is. a -Serious Hatter "WHAT BELLAMTIS1T MAT XET LEAD TO A' Boston letter to the New York-2une gives an interesting review of the work of the Nationalists and their aims. The latest Sensation there is a petition from the Bella myites to the City Council asking for the establishment of a "fuel department" They asked that the city should open a coal yard from which to supply all purchasers with coal at cost price. The public received the announcement of the scheme with a general smile of Incredulity. The Aldermen dis cussed the petition a little, referred it, and forgot it. Probably few persons not directly inter ested in the matter imagined that the sub ject would ever be heard from again. The idea that the city should go into the busi ness of buying and selling coal was, in the general publio mind, too utterly absurd to be seriously entertained for a moment. In tact, the suggestion was regarded as a hot weather joke or a temporary plaything for impracticable reformers. But the Nation alists were in dead earnest. To-day the plan is no longer laughed at. It is seriously discussed, andeven those opposed to it rec ognize that its success is, at least, among the possibilities of the near future. The events that have led to this latest economic agitation would make an interest ing story if related in detail. It is less than two years 6icce the adherents of the Bellamy creed banded th?mselves together as Nationalists and started in to reform the worla, beginning with Boston and Massa chusetts. "They had the courage of their convictions, and they displayed a great deal of political skill" and tact when they plunged boldly in, within a few months after organization, and demanded of tho Legislature the paase of a bill giving any city or town in the Commonwealth permis sion toon n and to maintain its own gas or electric lighting plant for the public use and for the service ol its inhabitants. The measure failed of adoption, but it cost the cleetric light and gas companies a pretty earn of money to smother the bill. SYSTEMATIC .VXD IS EARNEST. Paring the months intervening between this deieat and the opening of the next Legislature the Nationalists did much sys tematic and energetic work. They can lasted the State thoroughly, and from exery town of importance they had a peti tion of the most prominent and influential residents in favor of their bilL The fight before the Legislature was a notable one, even in Massachusetts' annals. The oppos ing lobby was big and had plenty of money, and the Nationalists had at least sufficient fund" for oar fare. No less than 30 public hearings were had over the measure. Even money or odds against the Nationalists was the betting on Ihe result, but when the measure was pushed to a vote it went through with a rush, more than two to one in its la or in the Senate and more than five to one in the houc It has not yet appeared that there was any very spontaneous and widespread pop ular demand for the law. Before the bill had been signed by the Governor, one town Peabody was in a quiet way running its own lighting plant, and to-day is proud of the fact that it has the cheapest rates for light of any community in the State. Short ly, the towns of Melrose, "Wakefield and JJanvers fell into line. These are near neighbors to Peabody, and all four are large tons almost ready to burst the chrvsalis and become cities. Peabody and Danvers are centers of the hide and leather indus tries of the State, and "Wakefield is a manu facturing town,so that their populations are made up largely of laboring people. Mel rose is a pretty" suburb of Boston and it is the home of some of the reformers. Other towns are agitating the question and are, perhaps, waiting to see how the experiment may work where it is being tried. But the sum total of definite results has-notyet been large. SURPRISED AT-THEIB SUCCESS. Nevertheless, the Nationalists have re joiced with exceeding great joy over what they accomplished. They were probably even more surprised at their success than other folk were. Flushed with victory, ihey began to lav new plans for the future, and to this end the leaders held several con lerences. They felt that it was essential to the lite of their cause that they should not oclay in following up their first advantage. More than that; they determined that "in their second contest they would plant them selves firmly and unmistakably upon the i itreme Nationalist dogma the care of the 'ndividual by the Government. It ias easv to fix that point, but it was more diffi cult to decide upon the definite idea with Inch to go before the public. Theresas much anxious deliberation before this was sertied. There was a notable gathering of promi nent members of the order at the headquar ' ors in this citv several months ago. Ac i ording to all accounts, that was a lively lueeting, harmoniouSj but earnest. They were hunting for an issue, and suggestions were plentiful, although no one had any particular scheme to exploit. A verbatim report of the discussion on this occasion Mould make interesting reading. Plan after plan was suggested, only to be rejected as unfeasible. They thought of cooperative stores, but that was thrashing over old straw, and not Nationalistic straw at that. Besides, failure had too often followed this liperinicnt to make it advisable to try it again. There was a strong sentiment in tvor of State loans to individuals, but this pian was reluctantly abandoned as finan cially unsound and as likely to arouse the antagonism of the conservative element in the community, which had been with them in their campaign for municipal lightning, and which they wanted on their side in the ne-t imrve. ORIGIN OF THE COAIi SCHEME. The discussion narrowed down to the proposition that the Government, State or local, should be called upon to furnish to lndiwduals accost price some one necessity of life. Pood was thought of and then clothing and then other staples, but the wide diffusion of these industries in private hands was accepted as an insuperable objec tion lo tatinp' nnv of them. Suddenly Nationalist Lemon Bpoke upd quietly: "Why not coal?" "The very thing," exclaimed another, and coal it was. Th?t is tho true story ol the origin of the municipal coaly ard scheme. The suggestion vas adopted without dissent, and the work of propagation, as already told, was mapped out at this first meeting. On the face of it, this plan is simply a movement to securo cheap coal for the peo ple. To that end, apparently, it might as well have been accomplished by co-operation with private coal dealers as by cstab- l si.mg a municipal monopoly. Cheap coil" according To the manifestoes ol the leaders n 4. AAV UIIO U4AU U1IJJ klUli UlUtCU itl of the movement, and the question of means to accomplish this result is merely one of opportunism. A prominent advocate of trie measure sets forth the scheme in these words: Thue coal owners and manlnulators am making an enormous profit on coal. The itoorer peoplo Buffer the most. They oollgcd to buy coal by the basket, and, as is are well Known, mcj urw ivrceu. wj about t v. ico w hat it brings by tho ton. t . -ay that these people should "buy it in the ! Urjer qnantlty. They cannot, and that set- Tho meteuTO should command the support ny. only or the wage workers, but manufac tnrcra snd merohaatt ought to Join in tho demand for municipal eoul yards and cheaper fuel. It will reduce the cost of man ulacturc largely. Every manufacturer Cheaper power means lotion. Goods can to placed on the counters of oar stores at a lower figure, the more cheaply power can be obtained. Something most be done to brejk up the monopolies, and we propose to crusn tnlsono Kit rates me next ten years to accomplish our purpose. FOR THE BENEFIT OF EVERYBODY. TT "R Temld "Prpcirtpnt nf ihn Second Nationalist Club, argues in the same strain. lie says: This is a scheme for the benefit of all the peoplo. Wedonot believe in any class leg islation. The suggestion nas ueen maao tims this should be restricted to poorer people. Nationalists object to such restrictions. Wo Co not desiro to label anyone a pauper. If the restriction proposed was adopted the Industrious androspoctable poor would shun it as thoy would a plague. Let every citizen who has the money to buy a small or large quantity be treated Just alike in this matter. The sobeme was proposod for all tho people and not for any few or tho peonle. A munici pal coalyard lor all or none is the ground we stand on. That is the theme running through all the discussion that has followed the introduc tion of this plan to the public attention; cheaper coal for everybodv, and that end at tained by the reduction of expenses of han dling and the pbliteration of individual dealers' profits. But the scheme goes further than that even. There is a large-sized' African in the woodpile, but as yet he has not poked his woolly head out into sight. The National ists are not in the business of philanthropy for the fun of the thing. In the abstract they do not much care whether the single individual gets his coal 25 cents a ton cheaper or not, be that individual Edward iiellamy or plain smith or jacuartny. it may be well enough perhaps to show the peoplo of Boston that they can save 51,000, 000 a vear in the cost of coal, but it is much more to the pomt to show tnem tnat tnis can be done by having the State or the municipality run the business. Success in that line viould be the biggest kind of an object lesson of the practicability and the adantages of nationalism pure and simple. SIGNIFICANCE Off THE MOVEMENT. This, then, is the first attempt that has been made to put into practical wording shape the extreme Nationalist theories that the Government should take care of the individual. In the cases of municipal lighting and water works each community simply produces for itself and its individual members that is, the interests served arc those of a collection of individuals. In the coal yard scheme it is the individual alone who "is considered and not the community at all. It is an example absolutely of paternalism of government to the indivi dual in his individual capacity and not to him as a component part of a community. Therein lies the real significance of the movement. Once let the principle be estab lished that the government (in this case tho city) can safely be the medium of supply, and there is no limit to which the scheme may not be logically carried. If coal can thus be distributed, why not beans and beer, shirts and- sugar; in fact, why not hasten with rapid steps toward the realiza tion of Bellamy's Leoren? Familiarize the people with the benefits to be derived from this condition of things, say the reformers, and then they will be ready to follow us further when" we point out to them other paths of pleasure and profit. They believe that in the coal yards they are planting tho seeds for a tremen dous economic and social revolution. Nor are these general results all that are expected or aimed at. As a direct outcome of the new 6chenie, if it shall prove to be successful, the Government control of rail roads and mines is looked for: indeed, that is really part of the plan, although it is not publicly acknowledged and has not yet been fully elaborated. The men at the head of the new movement are inclined to move slow. They realize that the coal bus iness is about all they can undertake at the outset, and that if they hope to get that in as an entering wedge they must not preju dice the public against them by exploiting other issues too soon. WHAT IS LOOKED FORWARD TO. But the steps to this end have already been clearly laid down by the reformers. They do not expect that their coal yards i-i11 Sia aKIo rt coll nnl flf fl r-rpnf. rfliliiptinn I from current prices. But as soon as these institutions have been firmly established and are-demonstrating that the price of coal must be high anyway, there will be investi gations set on foot to find out why it is that coal must cost so much. Statistics concern ing the cost of mining, miners' wages, cost of transportation, speculating, watered rail road stock, etc., will be collected. It will be shown to the people that their coal yards cannot sell their coal at reasonable figures because of the extortion of coal barons and railroad monopolists. Then will naturally come the demand for the Government to take control of the railroads and mines in the interests of the people. A hint of what is looked forward to was dropped in an interview bv one of the active Nationalists the other day. He said: Is it not astounding and lncomprencnslblo that the people will allow a few men to meet and raise or lower the price of fuel, without legard to the necessities of the country, and witnout any heedbelng given to the cost of production, transportation or distribution. The city may find itimpossible to pm chase coal at the proper figure fiom mine owners and operators. In fact, I more thai expect that snch will be the case. It is, I believe, not possible for a man or party outside of the combination to purchase coal at the present time. Of course this ring will make a titanic fight to defeat the objects of a municipal coal yard. The coal barons have matters pretty well fixed at the present time, and we do not expect that they will rerrain from extorting undue profits from the people. Just because tho Nationalists and labor reformers say that they mast. We are, however, prepared for this emergency, anuif necessary wo shall go to Congress and before the United States Supreme Court. NOT CONFINED TO BOSTON ALONE. It must not be overlooked that the idea is not confined to this city. The petition to the City Council here was put forward as a feeler, and it has accomplished the real purpose of its sponsors in precipitating a public agitation of the question and in interesting other parts of the State. Already in the cities of Haverhill and Lynn the enterprise is being pushed, while the matter will be brought to the attention of other municipalities during the next two months or so. Now the reformers do not expect favora ble action upon their petitions by the city authorities, either here in Boston or else where, and, in fact, they would be rather disappointed at that outcome of the affair. They want a grievance, not a remedy. It would stand for little to have their princi ples, as represented in the coal-yard plan, approved by a few municipalities; to have them indorsed by the State in a legislative enactment would mean a great deal, and they frankly acknowledge that that is what they are after. So we are having a fiery campaign for cheap coal in the middle of the summer in order that public interest in the subject may be thoroughly worked up before the political campaign opens in the autumn. FICTION Emma V. Sheridan's story, "Freda Sonaday," now running in tho Sun day issue or THE DISPATCH. Two charm ing; chapters to-morrow. Owns a Historical Mound, Colonel G. S. McFadden, ex-Warden of the West Virginia Penitentiary and pro prietor of a large summer hotel at Moundsv ville, W. Va., is in the city. He owns a celebrated Indian mound at that place from! which many hundred relics have been taken. The West Virginia Historical Soci ety is trying to buy the mound. Corns permanently by Daisy Corn Cure. 1 and quickly cured IS cents; of druggists. C Baeuerleln Brewing Company, Bennetts, Pa., telephone 1018, brewers and bottlers of standard lager and wiener export beer. The trade and families supplied. TTS Do you deal at a first-class grocery? If so, you can get "X'able Bello ' flour, and so, you can take no other. & Big reductions have been made in our stock of boys' waists men's' furnishing de partment Jos. Horne & Co. '6 Penu Avenue Stores. !CHB FORFALL AND WINTER -Some New Notions Hare Been -Sanctioned by Dress Designers. LONG WAISTS AND SCANT SKIRTS. A Celebrated Englishwoman "Who Will" Soon Be in This Country. "WHAT IS AND TVHAT WILL BE W0KN. While you are fluttering from place to place in mad summer revelry and delight in your delight fully cool and easy serges and wash silkB the powers that work in the mantua makers' shops are designing the instruments of torture for your winter's penance. Be prepared, first nf nil 4hAn lanA JJ your bodice in a I little tighter, says the New York Sun't ' fashion writer. Make the stays a little more nicked that they may press down a new length of waist a narrower girth of hips, for the dominant note of the new fall gown is most emphatically slinkiness. The skirt will be a little longer, decidedly more scanty and as much closer as the ingenuity of dressmakers can smooth it. A silk stocking fit on an attenuated woman is the ideal of all dress artists. The coat bodice will prevail, but it will be cut longer than in the summer, its seams will follow long sweeping curves and beout liued with jets and gimps in decided lineal fashion. The sleeves will be long, too, rising high on the shoulder and nearly covering the hand with their deep cuffs and frills of rare old lace. It must be ever remembered that the desired clinging effect is incompatible with lnundried petticoats of muslin, and only possible with undergarments of softest silk. The fashionable woman wears first of all a combination garment of Bilk webbing, over that one silk petticoat if she is stout, two it she is tmn, very mucn gorea at tne top, very full at the bottom, and covered at the hem inside and out with frills in "pen wiper fashion." Some dress skirts of soft material have a facing of mohair about the bottom in addition to the frills with whioh it is always completed. The skirt is not draped upon a foundation as formerly, but is lined throughout with silk, which "insures the bell-like sweep and swing at the bottom. Additional slender ness of effect is given by covering the eight or ten seams of the gored skirt with gimp in a contrasting shade to the dress. The deep festooned flounce has become too com mon for elegance, and been supplanted by these tiny ruffles, one above the other, around the edge of the skirt. These ruffles reveal daring bits of color combination when emanating from Parisian hands. Picture a vivogue gown in pale doeskin with a band of galloon, from which fall a frill of doe color, one of green and one of pale shrimp pink, all rippling together with wondrous sheeny effect. Ever remem ber that there isn't any such thing as dress braid, or, if there is, that it has fallen into most hopeless desuetude. Here is a word of warning to the wise and sensible women. Save your strength. xne mosc vigorous women do not hare any too much vital ity. As a rule, they inherit a lack of it. And besides, through the igno rance or the care lessness of parents, much vitality is lost in childhood, never to be regained. Therefore, what strength you have, be it much or little, take the best care of it, and do not waste it. Never do anything in a hurry. If possible, allow Wrtnc1F Ientv fr time tn nwnmnlish Far a XAtOe Miss. anything you may have undertaken, but if you find that your task cannot be finished to-day,resign yourself to lettingit wait until to-morrow. Do not fret and worry about it. Do not work too many hours a day. Be sure and take plenty, not onlj of rest, but of recreation as well. You will often find it difficult to do this in this nervous, ener getic country of ours, where there is always so much to be done, both for the house and the children; but remember there is a cer tain duty you owe to yourself as well as to others. Do not deprive yourself of sleep. There is no such restorative in the world. See to it that you have all the sleep you need; if you cannot get it at night, take it during some part of the day. Do not fret yourself-or anybody else with imaginary woes, and try not to indulge your grief too much over real ones. Be self-controlled, calm and brave. Only try, and you will be surprised how-often you will find a silver lining in your dark cloud, no matter how black it may seem. Every woman who travels appreciates, the value of a mantalet. The prettiest kind of a mantelet is one which consists of double-sided stuff. Let one side, for example, be of dove colored woolen ma terial, the other of a brown frieze-like texture. The gar ment can now be worn with either side out, just as one desires. If thrown open when one is traveling, it is .just as pretty on the in side as on the out side. The comfort of having a garment that is sure to look pretty whether it is rolled up as a pillow for one's head, or is thrown back over the car Very Serviceable, seat, or is used as a lap robe can only be appreciated by a woman who possesses such a wrap, and who has trav eled a couple 'of months in its companion ship. A hood Is a verv nrettv accompani ment to the mantelet, and it is likewise a very useful one. In cases of emergency it can be drawn up over the hat, to protect the latter from a sudden shower. It can also be worn on board a Jship, should the breezes be so strong as to prohibit the wear ing of a broad-brimmed headgear. It is good when the cold winds blow to . protect one's neck from neuralgia, and when off duty it looks very pretty hanging in the back of the garment to which it belongs. By all means have a hood to your mantelet, and make it up in as pretty a shape as you can. If women smoke much nowadays, says the Tnbvne de Oenevc, they can at least plead that the example is set in high circles. The Empress of Austria smokes 30 to 40 Turkish cigarettes every day. On her writing table there is a silver box with fine relief work filled with cigarettes, and a gold ash tray. The Tzarina also yields to tbe passion for nicotine, but she only smokes in her bou- .jjQiQ" v wmw (Ik A ft JBxr f 'I 11 : HETTSBTIRGI - DISPATCH; doir, a copy of one of the prettiest rooms in tho Alnambra, filled with palm trees. Her anxieties may plead her excuse; but Queen Marguerite of Italy, whose life is freer from care, smokes also, and smokes much, but always in solitude. The Queen Begent of Spain consumes Egyptian cigar ettes in large quantities, Queen Nathalie of Servia has a wonderful store of cigarettes of every kind, the Queen of Eoumania carries a little golden box filled with the same means of delight, while the Comtesse de Paris appreciates only the tobacco of Havana, and her daughter, the Queen of Portugal, gets her cigarettes from Dresden. It is said that the ingenious MrNaye--mura Sakusaboro, the Japanese druggist, has made excellent success of his experi ment of converting wild hemp into a tex tile impossible to distinguish from silk. Many trials were made at first of thehempen thread at various silk-weaving manfac tories in Kioto and elsewhere, and the re- E oris were that "the web had a luster, eauty and softness, and more than the dur ability of silk, while the plant as it grows is much cheaper than the slow and expen- ive product;of the silk-worm. Lady Henry Somerset, the President of the British Woman's Temperance Associa tion, will pruuiv bly be in this country some what sooner than she was expected. She is to attend the NationalTcm- perance Conven tion in Boston in November, but a private letter re ceived this week says she will be in New York in the early antumn. Lady Henry Som Lady Henry Somerset. erset is Margaret Bright Lucas' suc cessor in the office she holds. She is the eldest daughter of Earl Somers, of Eastnor Castle, near which is the quaint old town of Ledbury, where John B. Gough spoke for temperance 30 years ago, and wife of Lord Henry Somerset, second son of the Duke of Bedford. Eastnor Castle js beautiful in sit uation, historic in surroundings and set on a pinnacle in the hearts of the London poor, for into it and its surrounding cottages are received every summer scores and hundreds of waifs from the slums of Soho. Lady Henry Somerset is a fresh-air-mission all by herself, and Eajtnor, sun-crowned, heaven kiflscd, with its terraces and gardens and conservatories, is as hospitable to sad-eyed women and forlorn children, used only to feted air and filth, moral and physical, as to the beautiful woman who counts it her an cestral home. Within a few months Lady Henry Somerset has organized an English branch of the King's Daughters. TVhat Is and What Will Be. Diagonal effects are seen in the fastening of bodices and draping of skirt fronts. Plain skirts for autumn wear will not bo made so extremely closefitting as they now are. Paotebs, suggested and actual, are to bo worn in house and evening gowns next sea son. Silver cray and light straw yellow glace "buttoned gloves with black seams arevmuch worn. The "dip" in the back remains a feature of tho fashionable skirt. Tho severely plain skirt, however, ia gradually superseded by those with "broken" fronts and panels on side and front. Mauve, gray and green in medium tones are most fashionable in Paris. It is consid ered in better taste to have the hat and wrap to correspond in color, and the gown of a lighter harmonizlngshade, than to have these articles in contrast. Poa out-of-door festivities the light sheer materials are much worn. French organdy veiling and China silk are favorites for such oostnmes, whioh necessitate suede or can vas ties, suede gloves and large picturesque lace straw or leghorn hat, with parasol to correspond. A shettt house costume Is of dark brown velvet and light biege brown wool com bined. Tho Jacket is of tho velvet and has halt length hip pieces. It opens in front over a draped vest of cream colored crepon. with velvet standing collar. Tho sleeves are of the velvet. A Jabot of cream colored lace finishes the front. The skirt is of the wool and has a short plaited train behind while the front is plain, covered with stripes of velvet. The question as tothe styles of wraps for outside wear to bo worn next winter is already being discussed, and dealers are be ginning to bring out their designs. The cape promises to be as much of a favorite as ever. For autumn wear long capes reach ing io cue Knee are seen, as well as snort double shoulder capes. Tho longer capes are frequently padded, and have a vest and patelot sleeves. Short capes are edged with lur, and have passementerie epaulets. Loose upper sleeves falling in folds, a Stu art collar of fur-corded embroidery and feather trimming are also seen on those short wraps. 31IOORJTEAD Ex-Chief Clerk Clinton Lloyd's letter for THE DISPATCH to-morrow is on Congressman James K.3Ioorliea1, who represented the Pittsburg district so long and so faithfully. TWO BTJITS FOB DAMAGES. One Against a Railroad,' tho Other Against a Traction Company. Attorney James M. Cooke yesterdayfiled ,a precipe in a suit for damages by Theodore Havekotte and others, heirs of the estate of Julia O. Havekotte, against Allegheny City, the Ohio Connecting Bailway Com pany and the Pittsburg, Pt. Wayne and Chicago Bailway Company. The plaintiffs are the owners of property which, it is claimed,iwas damaged to theextent of sev eral thousand dollars, caused by raising the grade of streets to make the approach for the Ohio Connecting Bailway bridge. Harry J. Ulam yesterday entered suit against the Federal Street and Pleasant Valley Passenger Bailway Company for 1,000 damages. TJlam alleges that on July 14, 1891, he was a passenger on car No, 135. As the car rounded the curve 'at the corner of Anderson and Lacock streets it was driven at a high rate of speed, and TJlam, who was standing on the rear plat form, was thrown off. Hia arm was broken and he was otherwise severely. injured. DIEECT TO CHICAGO. The Baltimore and Ohio Eoad to Enter tho "Windy City Over the Northern Pacific. Thedong talked about project of the Bal timore and Ohio to enter Chicago by a di rect route will, it is now reported, find effect as soon as President Mayer of that Proad returns from Europe. Arrangements nave been completed whereby the road will enter the Windy City over the tracks of the Northern Pacific, utilizing the new depot recently erected by that company. Tbe contraot will be signed, it is said, when Mr. Mayer returns, and the first train run within two months from Rare Opportunity To secure a bargain in a pretty summer dress. All India silk, challi and cotton dresses at half price. Ladies' Suit Parlors,, tts Parcels & Jones, 29 Fifth avenue. This Is a Bargain. We offer 100 all-wool blazers, tan or blue, at ?1 68; a regular $3 fiO article. Come quick if you wish to get one. EOSENBAUM & CO. SI. Louvre. Hi The first glove sale of the season suede mousquetaires, all colors and .black, at 75c a pair. A real bargain. 24 Sixth street, opposite Bijou Theater. Those "Who "Wear the Stag's Head Know That the Stag's Head White unlaundered shirts Are the best $1 shirts made. All the points of a perfect shirt Jos. Horne & Co.'3 Penn Avenue Stores. iBATURDATT' AUGUST .29, TALKS WITH SPIRITS. .Spook .Messages From Denizens of the WorlOeyond This. A LETTER WRITTEN BY BEECHER. Spirit Telegraphy Between a Husband and Departed Wife. SOME MYSTERIES OP SPIRITUALISM rSPECIAt COKBEBPOXDENCI OP T1IE DISPATCH.l Lilly Dale, N. Y., Aug. 28. As Hon. J. H. Osmer, of Franklin, once remarked to your correspondent, "Cassadaga is a great place to make a man think." He had reference, when speaking, particularly to W. J. Colville, a little, dried-up, sickly looking man, who would not attract atten tion anywhere either from his appearance or conversation, and yet when upon the platform discourses so eloquently and learnedly upon any question of philosophy, political economy or social ethics that may be suggested to him by anyone in the audi ence, that the most profound listen with interest and wonder. ' But there are many other things to make a man wonder; many things that make him stop to wonder whether all these people who talk so constantly and confidently of seeing, hearing and talking with their friends who have passed out of earth life, are practicing for the insane asylum, or whether they have really been granted the coveted privilege of holding communion with those whom we have been taught to regard as dead until the trumpet shall sound on the great ressurrection morn. LOTS OP CRANKS THERE. There are many cranks here, of coarse, to disgust not only skeptics, but intelligent spiritualists with their continual babble about being controlled by some of the Pharaohs or Julius Cssar, Empress Jose phine, George Washington or some other of earth's great historical characters. There are, on the other hand, a large pro portion of liberal, sensible people, with some who would feel at home in a company of scientists, or who could honor a constit uency in tho halls of Congress, yet every lost one of them believes essentially of spiritualism all that is claimed by the cranks. If an ignorant woman, claiming to be a mecHum, says that she is controlled by good Queen Bess, they do not think she is falsifying, but blame it upon some lying spirit, which they say is personating Bess and making the" deluded woman believe that she is spokeswoman for royal spirits. Speakers came upon the platform, and through their spirit control advocate senti ments contrary to their personal opinion; so they say two things are depended upon to establish the proof of spiritualism; the phil osophy and the phenomena. Some of the more scholarly and intelligent ones declare that they could be fully satisfied of the truth of their doctrine, if they had nothing but the philosophy to depend upon, and in fact they regard it as the better and stronger proof. But the majority are satisfied with the phenomena and have neither the inclin ation nor ability to delve very deeply into the mysteries of the philosophy. THE BETTER COURSE. Tour correspondent is of the opinion that an intelligent investigator would better first study the philosophy to some extent, at least, and be better prepared to study the phenomena. If they get intelligent com munications on slates held in their own hands, signed by the name of some departed friend, or have their alleged spirit friends come and speak to them in a materialzing seance, it will so contradict their reason and experience that they will doubt the credibility of their senses. After studying the matter with more or less care for a month and talking Spiritual ists of all grades and skeptics of all varie ties, your correspondent has concluded that converts to spiritualism as a rule are not made.at.big camps like Cassadaga, and if theroVe're no better evidence on which a man could base an opinion than that ob tained at paid seances, held in partial or total darkness, he would likely remain a skeptic to the end. But here are men from all parts of the country sensible, successful business men whose word is good for thousands of dollars who claim that they have all the evidence in their own homes that can be obtained at these seances; that there, where no charge or suspicion of imposture can be made, they converse with their dear ones on the thither side of the dark river. They have no right to disbelieve them or to think they are either deceiving themselves or trying to deceive others. These men afford the strongest proof of the truth of the funda mental doctrine of spiritualism, and it is through them that most intelligent, thought ful converts are made. SLATE-WRITING PROOF. Slate-wriring affords perhaps the most convincing proof to the average man of a force and an intelligence manifested from beyond. The writing is done in the broad light ot day and the cases are so numerous and so well attested that it seems folly to doubt that some superhuman power does the writing. An interview with the well known slate-writer, W. A Mansfield, does not throw much light on the subject, for, as he says, he himself knows very little of it, except that sometimes an unseen intelli gence answers questions. He says he has what may be called a spirit guide," or mes senger, to call for the spirits from whom communications are desired. His guide's name is Phil Hughes. Sometimes the guide brings a spirit too weak to write, but with a word for the friend through the guide and medium. Mr. Mansfield's opinion is that he is a sort of battery, through which the spirit is enabled to write, as he feels a peculiar sensation as long as the writing continues. Sometimes he is enabled through his control to read the questions when in the hands of the ques tioner. A lady one day came into his room and he said: "Good morning, Mrs. Hall." The lady was surprised, as she had never seen him, and said: "Can you give my maiden name?" He almost instantly replied, "Crabtree," which was correct She re ceived a slate-writing with scarcely any effort on his part.and alter reading it started out. His guide called to him to tell her to come back. Mr. Mansfield followed her down stairs and overtook her between his room and the Grand'Hotel, and putting the slates together received two more messages. TIRED Ol" SLATE-WRITING. Mr. Mansfield says that he shall give up writing after this season. He can do noth ing else while practicing slate-writing, but lives in a half dreaming condition that he dislikes. When he is lollowing any other profession he cannot do slate-writing. He is a very sensitive gentleman, as all slate writers seem tote, and on meeting a person he feels either an instinctive friendship or a similar dislike, wnen he leeis a repulsion toward any one he seldom succeeds in get ting sucn a one any writing, ne win en gage in teaching after the season closes. A gentleman related to me a day or two ago the strange experience of Frank Ban som, of Buffalo, proprietor of the extensive medical establishment of Dr. D. Bamsom & Son. The gentleman who tells it says that Mr. Bansom and his wife, who died five years ago, "were mated in heaven and were perfectly congenial and happy. " She died in Borne, and Mr. Bansom was distracted with grief. Before the day of telephones he had a telegraph line erected between his office and home in order to. make communi cation easier, and both he and his wife learned telegraphy. He tried several times to secure slate writings from her. but failed. Something suggested to his mind the idea of trying the telegraphing instrument He invited Mr. Mansfield to his home, and four members of his family, with Mr. Mansfield, formed a circle, taking one another's hands. He held Mr. Mansfield's right hand with his" left and another member ot the family held Mr. Mansfield's other hand; Mr. Bansom held the sounder in his right hand. SPIRIT TELEGRAPHY. After sitting a few minutes he asked 1891J whether his wife could communicate him, and immediately his call, ' te with was made on the instrument, and question after question was answereo. ana signeu vj " which had been his wife's call when work ing the instrument in her earthly life. It would work when placed in any part of the room, but instantly ceased when the circle was broken. Mr. Bansom was hunted up, and con firmed all that has been said, and much more. He is a very pleasant, intelligent gentleman, and, while not wishing to nave his name mentioned, finally consented when the argument was made that unless names were mentioned people would blame the re porter for drawing on his vivid imagination. Ho mentioned the following among many other incidents: When they were in Borne he left her there six days while he went to Naples the longest time they were separ ated during their married life, and he re ceived four or five letters during that time. He had them in his pocket after coming home, and after he had brought the body of his wife home and buned it. One evening when in a circle of three or fqur of his family and a medium, whose hands were held as usual, in the darkness a hand reached into his pocket, took out the letters, carried them across the room and opened them. He cautioned the power to be careful of the letters. Finally the hand came back, replaced all the letters but one and placed that one on top of his head. On striking a light, he found the last letter that she had written him was the one placed on his head. A STANGE MEETING. On another occasion during the sitting of the same persons in a circle, a pad and pen cil were laid upon a table and a request made that a message be written upon it The room was totally dark. Soon writing was heard for some time, and then the sound of the pencil as if drawn rapidlv and promis cuously over the paper. Wnen this ceased a light was brought and a message was found upon the tablet and marks drawn all over the paper in every direction, but with out crossing a single word of the message. Mr. Bansom gives many such instances of this strange power. Another peculiar case of Blate-writing came to light this week. A promient busi ness man of Philadelphia was here last week. His very appearance indicates thorough honesty and intelligence. On inquiring of some Pittsburg merchants, who know him, I- find that in his case appear ances are not deceitful; that he is an honest, upright gentleman. He is so modest, how ever, that his name does not appear in one of the large Market Street stores owned largely by him. Before coming here he went to a bright medium in Philadelphia, who will not give a sitting for money, and hardly for friend ship's sake. At this sitting, the medium announced that Henry Ward Beechef was present This gentleman spoke, saying: "I am glad to know it, for I once heard .him say that he always wanted a new subject" He then asked: "How do you find it over there?" The answer was: "When in earth life I wa3 a man of words; now a man of works." On coming here the gentleman went before Slate-writer Keeler, and among the qnestions ho asked was this: Will tht minister who purported to come to me at the last seance here identify himself?" This question or no other contained any reference to Mr. Beecher. On opening the slates he found the following: LETTER FROJI BEECHER. "Deah Sib There is a difference between what preachers say and what spirits here say. The motives ot tho preacher, not what he preaches, are what eSect his own souL The preaching and not the motive are what effect his heaven. Hence it behooves an honest prracher to teach only what ho means and is firm in his conviction of. I greet you from a land that is freeing a despotic world from its benighted ecclesfas ticallyblind condittons. "I am, dearsir, yours truly, "Heuby Wabd Beecher," The objection may be raised that Mr. Beecher would scarcely have used effect twice for affect and ended a sentence as one of these ends, but the objection is met with the reply, for tho sptrit is more or less affected by the medium and her condition. At the bottom of, the slate were these words: "Begards to nil," and signed by the name, of a man who had been a prominent member of the Baldwin Locomotive Works firm, and whose name was neither men tioned nor thought of in Mr. Buler's presence, and whose signature the gentle man says is that of his spirit friend. CHILE Fannie B. "Ward's letter to THE DISPATCH for to-morrow deals with social customs. Both amusing and Instructive. ONLY THE HEGE0 LYNCHED. rive "White Murderers "Whose Crime Was Worse Get Off by Begging. Georgetown, Kt., Aug. 28. About 1 o'clock this morning, 125 masked men marched into town on horseback, and the jail, where were confined Frank Dudley, the negro who killed farmer Hughes on Monday night, and also the Kendalls, jailed for killing the Jarvis brothers on the streets of that city, yesterday. Some of the cooler headed members of tho mob were selected to go into the jail and bring out Dudley and the five Kendalls, father and four sons, but the latter begged piteously and were allowed to remain in the celL Dudley was found crouched down in one corner of the cell. He was hurried out into the streets, and the mob took him to a small woods half a mile this side of Georgetown, and swung him up to a limb. The members of the mob then dispersed. A great crowd of negroes went to tho scene and made many threats of vengeance, but the authorities are prepared to preserve order at any hazard. The women were par ticularly demonstrative, some declaring that their husbands had no spunk, and that they ought to burn every house in town and kill every white man. Milton Kendall, Sr., has applied to Judge Bates for a transfer of himself and sons to Lexington jail, and this will probably be done to-day. A BANK EOBBEE'S BETJTAL CEIHE. Because He Failed to Find Plunder Ho Had Hidden He Kills His Wife. Peoria, III., Aug. 28. Nell Iago, the alleged wife of Louis G. Bottenheim, was found in a deserted house yesterday cov ered with bruises and blood. She had been there for three days without anv medical aid whatever, and was at the point of death when officers removed her to a hos pital. She related a romantic story. Her supposed husband assisted in robbing a bant in Sedalia, Mo., several years ago, -when $43,000 were secured. Of this sum $20,000 were hidden in a stump. The men. wandered around in a dense fog all night and reached Sedalia the next morning, when they were captured. The bank people recovered $23,000, and the two men were sent up for five years. Bottenheim's partner died in the peniten tiary, and his remains were shipped to this city under an assumed name and buried at night only a few months ago. Since Bot tenheim has been out'he has been searching for the money he hid in the stump, but the locality has changed so he cannot find it Beturning ifrom one of these fruitless searches he went on a spree and kicked and beat his wife nearly to death and left her in the room where she was found. He was placed under $3,000 bond to await the out come of her injuries. A Baltimore and Ohio Train Derailed. East-bound passenger train No. 6, on the Baltimore and Ohio Bailway ran off the track yesterday morning at Cambridge, O. The locomotive, baggage car and several passenger coaches were derailed. " Passen gers were badly shaken up, but no one was seriously injured. Tie train was eight hours late. EUEOPE All the capitals covered by Special Cable Correspondents for THE DISPATCH. Keystone Plan of Lots, Crafton. Public sale next Tuesday. Plans from Jas. W. Drape & Co., 313 Wood street D EEATOEES OF TEADE. Rumors of Frost and the Breaking Down of Grain Speculation. A MODERATE TRADE EXPANSION. larger Sales and a Somewhat Better De mand Is Noted in Iron. BRADSTREETS' AND R, G. DUN'S RETIEW SPECIAL TELKGHA5T TO TUX DISPATCH.! New York, Aug. 28. Special telegrams to Hiadstreel's report a moderate, expansion in the demand for seasonable staples among manufactured products. Belatively less of this is reported from Cincinnati, Philadel phia, New Orleans, Memphis and New York City than elsewhere. There is increased activity in wool and worsteds, clothing, lumber and rubber have declined heavily on the failure of the syndicate which has been in control of available supplies. Products of woolen yarn mills are not as active as ex pected, and vegetables (except potatoes) and fruits are exceptionally abundant and cheap. New England' cotton goods mills make encouraging reports, and domestic wool markets present a feature of the week. Agents generally consider the position of staple cottons as satisfactory, although there is not much new business. The print cloth market has declined again, and sales have been slow. The fall trade in.clothing is generaUy better than was anticipated. FAILURES AND STOCK BUSINESS. Business failures in the United States number 18C, against 181 last week and 134 this week last year. The total from Jan uary 1 to date is 7,915, against 6,797 last year. Stock speculation, under the influence of the crop situation, has shown a further in crease of activity with growing public par ticipation and liberal purchases for foreign account. At the close of the week the market'reacted somewhat on reports of dam age to Western crops by frost Prices of the Grange! s, Vanderbilt and other groups have, however, advanced sharply, and there has been unwonted activity and interest in a great variety of railroad specialties. A feature wa? the" large trading and advances in a number of low-priced and income bonds. Foreign exchange has declined lc on free offerings of bills against securities with a better supply of commercial draw ings. The New York money market is steady, and rates for all time transactions are still on a 6 per cent basis. Call loons are still 2K3 P3r cent. In spite of heavy losses of surplus reserves by New York banks through the Western movement of funds, the tone in financial circles shows a decrease of ap prehensive sentiment BANK CLEARINGS AND GRAIN EXPORTS. Bank clearings at 8 cities this week amount to $905,016,1G7, a decrease from the week last year of 13.3 per cent At 57 cities, New York's total excluded, a decrease of 3 per cent is shown. The export movement of wheat and flour from both coasts of the United States equaled 6,348,000 bushels this week, 587,000 bushels more than in the preceding week, and more than 1,200,000 bushels in excess of the total for the'Becond week in August In the fourth week of the month, 1890,'the total exported was 2,562,000 bushels, including Montreal. In 1889 it was 3,088,000 bushels; in 1888, 2,983,000 bushels, and in 1887, 4,010,000 bushels. The approximate total exported during eight weeks ended August 27, including flour as wheat, is 31,228,000 bushels, against 17,764,000 bushels in the like eight weeks of 1890, including Mon treal's shipments, and as compared with 15,- 736,000 bushels in a similar period in 1889, and 17,772,000 bushels in 1888. San Francisco is shipping flour to China. SPECULATION BROKEN DOWN. B. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review will say: The speculation in breadstuffs has broken down. The failure to export at more than about $1 10 for wheat has admin istered the corrective which this trade greatly needed. The threatened withdrawal of the crop by the Farmers' Alliance amounts to so little that receipts were 11, 400,000 bushels for the last week reported, against 4,900,000 for the corresponding week last year, while receipts of other grain slightly decrease. Money is moving rapidly to the interior, but the Treasury has been strengthening itself, adding $2,800,000 to its gold for the week, and also taking in juuv.uuu more treasury notes than it has put out By re quiring deposits of gold at New York against shipments of currency to the country banks, the Treasury has somewhat increased its gold reserve, but the mam fact is that its receipts for the past week have exceeded its payments of all kinds by about $1,200,000. CONDITION OP THE CROPS. Crop prospects are in all respects exceed ingly Dright despite reports of injury by frost. Hog products are somewhat stronger in sympathy with corn, but oil is lower and also coffee. Cotton has advanced three sixteenths. It would be a good thing for producers, in all probability, if a consider able part of the forthcoming crop should be cut off by unfavorable weather. The market for iron shows somewhat larger sales and a better demand, though new brands of Virginia ore are still offered at low prices. A little improvement is seen in bar iron, and plates are more active though prices are very low. Structural iron is in fair demand but not stronger in price. The demand for. rails is stagnant, the combination having succeeded in bo far maintaining the price that buyers are dis posed to wait as long as possible. Inthe minor metals no change is seen in prices. Coal is weak but there is a better feeling in the market FE05I THE BIG COTES. A slight improvement is seen in leather at Philadelphia, though buyers are cau tious, but lumber is quiet, the building trade' being stagnant, and orders for woolen goods are backward. Trade at Cleveland shows some gain over last year, and at Cin cinnati a fair improvement in groceries, while at Chicago receipts of wheat are in creased four-fold and of wool two-fold com pared with last year, and an increase is seen in flour, cheese and in sales of dry- goods, clothing and shoes; but a decrease of one-halt in cured meats, a tmra in iara, ana some decrease in butter, hides and oats. A. heavy increase is seen in trade at St Louis, country merchants buying liberally, and trade is improved at Kansas City, Minne apolis and St Paul harvest prospects being the brightest As much depends upon the balance of lorcigu irttuc, lb 13 "iji" i"'vmui tun the imports for July exceed the exports by only $3,800,000, instead of $23,600,000 last year, and for August thus far the increase in exports at New York is 13.6 per cent, while in imports there is a decrease of 18 per cent. Prices of all commodities have declined 1.3 percent for the past week. RELIGIOUS In his sermon for THE DISPATCH to-morrow Kev. George Hodges speaks of the three great eras of history and the close of one of them. You cannot be sure that you will run the summer through free from all attacks of cramps, cholera morbus, diarrhcea or dysen tery, etc Prudently provide yourself, therefore, with Dr. Jayne's Carminative Balsam, a perfectly safe medicine, and a sure curative. Over the Heads of Many. Over the heads of a hundred competitors is Pilsner beer always. It has no equal, as the thousands of Pittsburgers who drink it know. Iron City Brewing Company. Telephone-1186. g GEOLOGISTS 05 A JUNKET, Many Foreign and American to Start oaa Long Jonrney Tuesday. Washington, Aug. 28. The Geological Congress will adjourn Tuesday. Wednes. day a party of some 60 foreigners and 20 Americans will start west. In each region, of special geological interest the party will be guided by a geologist familiar with the ground The route for the main line of the excur sion is more than 6,000 miles. It crosses 20 of the States and Territories and a Prov ince of Canada. The route will be from this city westward over the Baltimore and Ohio Bailroad, passing through Harper's Ferry; Cumberland, and the famous Cheat Biver mountain region; crossing the Ohio Biver at Bellaire; thence to Chicago and the Northwest, along the Northern Pacific and the Yellowstone Park, where a stay of six days will be made. Leaving the park the party will go to the headwaters of the. Missouri river, and spend a day at the mines in Butte City, thence southward through Idaho and Utah to Salt Lake City. The journey will then be through the canons of Colorado. Manitou Springs, the Garden of the Gods, Denver and other points will be visited. Chicago and Niagara Falls will be stopping places on the homeward trip, and on September 23 the party will reach New York city. MEXICO There are iortanes to be made from now Industries in Mexico. Carpenter gives enterprising Americans some adrlco in THE DISPATCH to-morrow. rOE UNTFOEM STATE LAWS. Important Action Taken by tbe American Bar Association. Boston, Aug. 28. President Baldwin opened the forenoon session of the Ameri can Bar Association by calling for the report of the Special Committee on Uniform State Laws, which closed with the follow ing resolution: Resolved, That this Association recom mend the passago by each State and by Con gress for the Territories and the District of Columbia of an aet similar to the acts passed by the States or New York, Pennsyl vania, Massachusetts, Michigan. New Jersey and Delaware for tho promotion of uniform State laws, and pledges itself and members to a healthy co-operation both in the creation and work of tbe commissioners agpointed. The report was adopted. The matter of the award of the medal provoked a great deal of discussion. Finally the report of the committee recommending .that two ; medals be struck off, one for the Earl of Selburne and the other for Hon David Dudley Field, was adopted. Among the Yice Presidents chosen was Benjamin Har rison for Indiana. nCMOK Bill Nye talks agriculture to Grover Cleveland, Joe Jefferson. Edwin Booth and other notables at Cape Cod. See THE DISPATCH to-morrow. Preparing for the Convention. The regular meeting of the County Democracy will be held Tuesday, Septem ber 1, at 7:45 p. M., at the rooms on Smith field street Deputies will be chosen to reoresent the organization at the State Con vention of Democratic Societies, to be held in this city Wednesday, September 30. Committees will also be appointed for the entertainment of visitors ana other duties. An Electric Car Disaster. New York, Aug. 28. By a collision be tween a beer wagon and a car on the Bath Beach and Brooklyn Electric Bailway this morning Gavin Roe, of Brooklyn, was fatally injured and three persons slightly hurt An Actor Crippled for Life. . Beliot, Wis., Aug. 28. G. W. Sparks, of the "Fast Mail" Dramatic Company, fell down the elevator shaft of the Goodwin House last ",night; breaking a thigh and elbow joint and crippling him for life. B.&B. Would one of the handsome Italian silk slumber robes be nice and useful for son or daughter going to school? $1 60 to-day. Boggs & Buhl. Fine neckwear, new and nobby, at James H. Aiken & Co.'s, 100 Fifth avenue. Bo Sure Ton Have It There are many brands of beer" on the market, but none to compare with that brewed by the Iron City Brewing Company. Try it Telephone 1186. Silk "Waists. Choice variety of silk waists at a sacri fice. Come early for choice. Ladies' Suit Parlors, TT3 Parcels & Jones 29 Fifth avenue. Keystone Flan of Lots, Crafton. Public Bale next Tuesday. Plans from Jas. W. Drape & Co., 313-Wood street- D Zi Louvre. Si Grand clearance sale of real kid gloves; $2 gloves, button or laced, reduced to la pair ; must have room for fall goods. 24 Sixth St., directly opposite Bijou. The best always the cheapest but "Table Belle" flour. Use none s "That Man is wise who does every thing in its propertime." When you are suffering from con stipation, sick headache, dyspepsia, or any stomachic or liver troubles, you will do well by using the Carls bad Sprudel Salt, which is imported from Carlsbad. It is Nature's own remedy. Be sure to buy the genuine article, which must have the signa ture of "Eisner & Mendelson Co., Agents, New York," on every bottle. au29 ONE! CENT A WORD! -IS ALL IT COSTS TO ADVIETISE IX THB DISPATCH uxDiBTm: roixowEro clas- - -smcATioxs: -SITUATIONS WANTED. -MALE HELP WANTED. -AGENTS WANTED. -FEMALE HELP WANTED. -BOARDERS WANTED. -BOARDING WANTED. -PARTNERS WANTED. -MISCELLANEOUS WANTS. -MISCELLANEOUS TOR SALES. -ROOMS TO LET. -PERSONALS. -LOST. -FOUND. All cest-a-word ADvxsrssRro-HrsrB icyWjfM ' x PAID FOB nr ADVAlf CX. 'SH Try one la THE SUNDAY DISPATCH. C "J$H9 -&HB1 au29-11773fc3MEH & m fa u A
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