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All double and triple number copies of The Dispatch require a 2-ccut stamp to insure prompt cleliierj. PITTSBURG, SUNDAY, SEPT. J3, ISMl. the cnop or NEW TOWNS. To hear of the number of new and promising towns brim: established within 10 to 20 miles front Pittsburg's corporate lines, a stranger might suppose that like some of the great stars which burst into asteroids and meteors, Pittsburg was ex ploding into fragments which were making a detrimental settlement beyond her bor ders. This might, to the . unthlnkine, be heightened by the announcement of man ufacturing establishments formerly doing business within the city lines now becom ing the foundation of these new towns. But a correct estimate of this highly in teresting development will soon show that in place of marking a stoppage of Pitts burg's growth it is really the most assur ing indication of future progress. Experi ence has shown how these new towns thrive. Braddock, McKeesport, Jean nette, Sharpsburg, Chariiers and many others -which might be named on our immediate outskirts prove how rapidly towns are built up by manufacturing in dustries commanding the natural advan tages to be found in this section. All of these are tributary to Pittsburg in a mer cantile sense. This Ls the central market from which their goods are supplied. The retail dealers who furnish the wants of these outlying towns do their buying here. The manufacturing establishments have iheirofhees in the city; and agents and trav eling salesmen from abroad make this place their headquarters. Thus, while tho gain is not so directly evident from day to day as if all these industries and their incident population were established compactly within the municipal confines, it is no less clear that they are essentially and vitally part and parcel of the same community. With everything now upon a solid basis and a great prospect for a national prosperity through the next year by rea son of the immense crops we can confi dently look for a resumption of local progress on a great scale. One of the most powerful factors of Pittsburg's new growth will bs found in the success of these adjacent towns. Their influence in promoting the city's business can hardly be oerestimated. COMMISSION AND LAW. The resignation of Judge Cooley from the Inter-State Commerco Commission evokes a genera! reference to him as "its wisest and ablest member" and the one whose influence has been potent in laying the foundation of the work of that body. We believe this estimate well founded. It is pertinent also in connection with what follows to declare our belief in Judge CooIeys unsullied integrity and in his careful study and eminent learning. Having thus testified respect for his emi nent personal qualities, it is necessary to state that the work of the commission un der his guidance lias been to reduce the law as nearly to a nullity as the commis sion without wanton and intentional nullification of its provisions could effect. The reason is that the commission, or those members of it who had any opinions on the subject of railway regulation, ap proached their tak with so strong theories of their own as to be unable to give a hearty support to the theories enacted by the law. The law clearly adopted these principles of action among others: (1) that the commission was to furnish a resort where sufferers from rail way abuses could obtain relief and dam ages more promptly thai from the regu larly constituted courts: (2) that combina tions to suppress competition should be prohibited under heavy penalties; and (3) that the check upon discriminations under the long-and-short-haul clause was to be universal with certain rare exceptions those exceptions to be made the subject of careful decision by the commission. Judge Cooley believed that the commis sion had not power to award damages for railway abuses; that pools should bo per mitted; and that the commission would not be able to hear all the claims for ex emption from tho long-and-short-haul clause that would be made. The conse quence is that alter four years of trial, these important and characteristic features of the law have never been given a fair ex periment One of them ls now wantonly ignored and nullified without the slightest indication of a disposition to enforce its penalties. There is no ground for charging either Judge Cooley or his associates with a de liberate intention to substitute their own theories for those of the law. Tetsome newspaper admirers of the commission have gone so far as to claim that it was the commission's province to do so. But the case presents an instance of the neces-. sity, when a law dealing with a new prob lem is to be enforced, of entrusting ita en forcement to those who believe in its pro visions. A law cannot have a fair trial in WlteB any other way. We can readily see that If the devotees of Thuggee In India, or of Mormonism in Utah, were entrusted with the enforcement of the criminal laws, the laws against murder and bigamy would not he likely to make much of a success. How much more reasonable is it to en trust a law prohibiting railway pools to men who have avowed their belief in pool ing and then blame the law for the con tinuance of pools? The Inter-State com merce law is widely denounced as a failure, when the faot Is that after four years, dur ing which violations have been frequent and notorious, the cases in which its pen alties have been enforced can be counted on the fingers of a single hand. This is the result of that principle of selection which has deemed it a wild ex periment to entrust the interstate com merce to those who believed in its enact ments. This idea has been more or less prominent in the appointments of both administrations. As long as it prevails we can expect no more success for the law n the hands of the commission than the perfunctory respect paid to it during the past four years. AN AMBITION ABANDONED. There is one feature of the organization of Baron Hirsch's "Jewish Colonization Association" that does not appear on the face of it, and is likely to escape attention unless taken as bearing on the traditions and sentiments of the Hebrew race. The association is organized to administer the magnificent donation of Baron Hirsch for the relief and settlement of the Hebrews who are subjected to disabilities and perse cutions in the countries of their former residence. All its provisions are shaped to that end. Xone of the increment of the fund can take the shape of profit. It is entirely to be devoted at present to the establishment of colonies in North and South America. This direction is interesting in a histor ical view. For centuries the dream of the Hebrew race has been the reconstruction of Palestine. Generation after generation of devout Hebrews have steadily cherished the hope of a future when the wealth and power of the scattered people could bo united and displayed by founding on the site of the old Hebrew kingdom a com monwealth to perpetuate the ancient importance of the race. They dreamed even of surpassing the wealth of the Israelite Icings of antiquity. That this would occur at some time that even its realization might be looked for in the near future has been very close to an ar ticle of religion among the most orthodox of that belief. It is also clear that if any definite steps were to be taken for the realization of this hereditary dream of Hebraism, a fund like that of the Hirsch donation would afford occasion for them. Thousands of the race are driven from their old places of resi dence by semi-barbarous intolerance. The f 10,000,000 Hirsch fund would buy from the impoverished Porte, the inde pendent sovcrelgntv of Palestine, if not of all Syria. A Hebrew commonwealth on the site of the old Judea and backed by the financial powers of men like Roths child, Hirsch and Goldsmid, could main tain its independence. Close to the Suez Canal, it could revive and even eclipse the glories of Solomon. Tet, with this possibility, the deliberate decision of Baron Hirsch, Lord Rothschild, Sir Julien Gold smid and their associates is to locate 'their colonies not in Palestine, but in North and South America. It is hardly possible to view this except as marking the practical abandonment of the Hebrew dream. It is a decision of the great financiers and leaders of the race, that the greatest opportunity for the energies of the Hebrews who must find new homes, is in new world develop ment It is more than probable that this .decision reflects the choice of the great majority of the Hebrews. The vast majority of the race are thoroughly in harmony with the spirit of tho nineteen tH century. They prefer the life and growth of North and South America, to the practical drawbacks of living in Palestine for the fulfilment of a racial dream. A DISTURBING COMPETITOR. The New York World, which is still ransacking the habitable globe for argu ments against reciprocity, asks: "What have we gained by the Cuban reciprocity treaty if, under the 'most favored nation' clause, Spain concedes to England every advantage stipulated in our convention?" Let us see. The principal products of the United States to which the Cuban market is opened by the new treaty are flour, hams and bacon. Tho discriminating duties on these articles, heretofore levied in favor of Spain, are now reduced to the United States and, according to this state ment, to England. It will be very sad If the English pro ducers of bacon, hams and flour should discover such a surplus, as to take away from the United States the market opened for those products in Cuba. But as England has to buy these staples from the United States, it does not seem to be an Imminent catastrophe. The compulsion upon the World to be a free trade organ is bringing its mental qualities to a pathetic stage of decadence. ONE EXHAUSTED APPROPRIATION. The cross destiny that presides over the attempts to get at tho bottom of that Key stone Bank rottenness is eminently ex-' cmplihea Dy tue announcement from Philadelphia that the investigation by the Government experts has been suspended. The reason given for this abandonment of the work is that the appropriation for in quiry has been exhausted. A special appropriation has been used up; but the apparent inference, that there are no other funds to complete tho work of finding out how national banks are plundered, carries a strong intimation of the depletion of the National Treasury. Even supposing that the funds immediately available were lacking, it might be thought the work could be carried on, in the firm faith that the coming Congress would make good the deficiency. But the stoppage of the probing Is strictly In accordance with the precedents of the case. It has been the rule that when any probing seemed likely to reach definite results, some obstacle, apparently trivial per se, but fatal in its insupera biity, has brought further progress to a dead halt In this light the exhaustion of the appropriation, though somewhat inex plicable, looks like a certificate that the Government experts were in danger of discovering something. THE 31ANLINESS OF CONFESSION. The recent action of the Mayor of New Castle, in this State, in making a public apology for knocking down a newspaper man who had pub lished exasperating things about his church relations, awakens the jeers of the Eastern press. The affair has its comic aspects, no doubt But to those who arc willing to recognize the manliness of repenting a hasty action, no phase of the case is stronger than the frank and commendable spirit of the man who pub licly makes the fullest reparation for an .act done under momentary exasperation. The basis of tle New Castle Mayor's admission of wrong is his recognition that In anger he committed violence irrecon cilable alike with his pledges as a member of the church and his duties as a public official. This is true enough; but men of social prominence with whom the concep tion of duty is strong enough to make them inflict public humiliation on them selves when they violate their religious and legal professions are so few that the action of the New Castle Mayor stands as a bright exception. No slight praise Is due to one who can so promptly recognize that he has been in the wrong and so freely do his best to apologize for it Tho man who can frankly confess when he is In the wrong, is not only a sincere Christian-, but one who la rather unusual. KNFORCEMENT AGAINST THE TRUSTS. The renewed announcement of Attorney General Miller that tho Congressional enactment against trusts is to receive en forcement, is the best answer to the pointed inquiries of the Democratic press why the previous promises to that effect havo not been followed by some measure of per formance. Other attempts to answer these questions have been rather unfortunate. The Chicago Inter-Ocean for example has offered the explanation that "the law officers of the Federal Government" have been "waitingto Bee whether the machinery of the New York State law, .which was set in motion before the passage of the Con gressional act, would be potent for the destruction of the great Sugar Trust" This provokes a reply as sweeping as the famous one in the fabled copper kettle lawsuit In the first place neither State law nor United States law can be expected to effect anything if the officers of each omit enforcement until they see what the other Is going to effect Secondly a New York State law if enforced could not restrain the operations of any great trust beyond the borders of that State, or afford any relief to the people of other States. Thirdly there is no New York Trust law, the proceedings against the Sugar Trust having been under the laws relating to corporations which were evaded by the device of moving the trust to New Jersey. It is a much better answer to the oppo sition press to say, as Attorney General Miller does, that United States District Attorneys have found cases where the vio lation of the law is clear, and that present ments will soon be made. The public can easily place full faith in a portion, at least, of the statement. It is easy to believe that District Attorneys have found in stances of violation, as there ls hardly a judicial district in the United States where the law is not treated with open contempt by one combination or another. But the indisposition of the legal profession to en force the law against these eminent exam ples of law-defying capital has already been so strikingly displayed that the pub lic will want to see the prosecutions actu ally instituted before concluding that the doom of the trusts is sealed. It is nevertheless pleasant to receive renewed assurances from the Attorney General that the statutes of the United States are to be made effective. It is to bo hoped that these assurances will bo made good, and that the great combina tions will receive an early and convincing lesson that they are not superior to the laws of tho country which protect their wealth even In an Illegal organization. THE ALLEGHENY FIGnT. The interchange of accusations Of cor ruption upon tho ordinances for transit franchises in Allegheny is growing ex ceedingly interesting. Without pre tending to any knowledge ns to the foundation of these charges, The Dis patch hopes that if any man has evidence that corruption was used, he will expose the job. But apart from any question of actual dishonesty, it is evident that, If Councils are moved by the single desiro to take the action that will yield the best results to the people, they will not do what is asked by either side. The entire contention of each corporation is that it should bo given tho franchises in dispute, and that its com petitor shall be shut out If the contest Is to be decided on those lines, it is a case of "fight bear, fight Sally!" so far as the peo ple are concerned. But there is no reason, except munici pal stupidity or something worse, why the contest should be decided on those lines. The city of Pittsburg presents a striking and rare illustration of the benefits to be secured for tho people by the full compe tition of two different transit lines. Tha Allegheny case furnished an opportunity for securing exactly the same competition. If the Councilmen of the Northslde havo the interests of the people at heart they will not omit to secure it Both corpora tions might well be given the privilege of building lines into the disputed territory. Tho franchises asked for are for the most part on different streets. Where the pos session of a single street is at issue it Is time for representatives of the people to explode the archaic idea that, two transit corporations cannot use the same track in common. The public interest In the Allegheny dispute would dictate the grant of the franchise to both, or else if one only is to get it the highest bidder should have it proceeds to go Into the city treasury. THE nANDS TRAINED IN SCHOOL. The success attendant upon the estab lishment of the Industrial course in the public school system has been demon strated by the maimer in which the classes formed have been filled With pupils. Not only are they crowded, but there are many pupils enrolled, awaiting their chance to take the course, and it is apparent that to accommodate all who desire to fit them selves for artlsanship other classes will soon have to be organized. The Industrial course attachment of the public school system Is not a new venture. It has been tried for several years in other cities and its success has been such as to make it certain that no system is now com plete without it The failures, and they have been few, resulted from the incom petence of teachers and managing boards, but when both were good the course has proven a more valuable adjunct of the school S)'stem than the kindergarten. The object of an industrial course is to educate the hands so that they may be ma'do of sen ice to their owners. Tho majority of pupils in the schools will have to depend upon their hands for their means of sup port and a system that fails to include the industrial course is faulty and out of date. Tur, case of Mark Hopkins, the man who made the millions, now contested for by Scarles, his wife's second husband, and nn adopted son, is thought by the New York Sun to illustrate the old proverb that "no one knows for whom ho is working." On the contrary it seems to point very clearly for whom the men who pile np great for tunes are working. They can always reflect that, if they mako the accumulated wealth big enough to fight over, thoy aro working to enrich tho legal profession. It is remembered that a witty Frenchman once described the United States as a nation that has a hundred varieties of religion and but one"grnvy. The death. of an ex-President of France recalls that the Trench have a wide scope In the difforcnt kinds of gravy but no religion at all worth mentioning. TUB proposition to use Niagara Falls for the generation of elect! icity is asserted by the New York Tribune to" bo proved to be based "not upon mere hypothesis, but oii ac complished fact," because the electrical ex hibition at Frankfort on the Main la run by electricity generated at the Lnuflean Falls. But is this the first caao of the kind? Has not the city of Spokane Falls fnmlshed electrical power for an entire community from its water falls, for several years past? The fact, that the farmers of Kansas are paying off mortgages faster this year than ever before, will probably he most satis factory to them. As long as they can do this, they can stand any amount of attnoks from the Eastern papers on the Farmers' Alliance In calling upon Congress for a 5,000,000 lift.to the World's Fair, Chicago has broken the understanding by which she secured the Exposition, as already pointed out by The Dispatch. But It is very comic to hear New York journals indignantly echoing the assertion. The fact is that exactly the same sort of understanding upon an even more sacred subject has been broken by Now York with regard to the memorial over Gen. Grant's tomb. Pot and kettle! There is something in that Cuban reci procity arrangement after all. When a Michigan milling firm begins heavy ship ments of Hour to Cuba, there is a tolerable assurance that the.irrepressible Yankee will get something out of the trade. The Pennsylvania World's Fair Com mission Is no'w fnlly organized and ready for business in getting up the Pennsylvania exhibit. Yet there ls a drawback to the prospect thus held out in the significance of that most characteristic feature of tho meeting, which provides that any one of the 30 members shall be able to draw upon the fund for his expenses, with the little form alitr of his own certificate that he has spent tho money. "Miss Aya," denies the assertion that she is the famous Diss DeBar. It Is permis sible to suggest that from the accounts of hor sayings and doings, she may be a daugh ter of tjie onco noted "Fakir of Ava." It is a singular yet stereotyped feature of politics thatys presented by tho unanim ity of the Democratic organs of New York, which a week ago wore demonstrating that Andrew D. 'White would never do ns a can didate for Governor of New York, and are now clearly proving that tho Republican Convention wfts false to Its duty in failing to nominate him. Whether the admirals have been quar reling or not, it is pretty certain that the "squadron of evolution" has been on parade long enougU. The vessels might now bo used to do some real work. Perhaps the rainmakers could make more of a success of it if they should pool their issues and work together. With Mel bourne working one way in Wyoming and Dryenfurth pulling another in Texas, no wonder the perplexed elements nro unable to make up their minds What they are ex pected to do. There is no excuse for a short-weight dollar at present. With silver a 98 cents per ounce. It is cheap enough to let us have a dollar's worth of silver in a dollar. Denver has a new weather prophet who predicts four great storm waves. These are to pass over the country during this month. As one of these atmosphorlo disturbances was fixed for the last two days, the country will conclude it onn bear Up under three more "storm wnves" of tho same sort With out any especial preparations for them. The motto of the inventors who are try ing to turn out a smokeless and notsoless explosive, is evidently the old one: "No smoking aloudl" TnE reports of Mr. Jay Gould's exhausted health make the lambs tako a tight grip on their fleeces. Especially so, when they are accompanied by tho general belief that he is a bull on the stock market. There ls no tonic that has nroved more efneaoious for Mr. Gould's ailments than a general squeeze of Wall street. HAMES OFTEN SPOKEN. Captain Hawley Smart, the English sporting novelist, i3 an old soldier, and fought in the Crimea. Bishop Coleman, of Delaware, has just started off on a pedestrian tour through the mountains ofVirginia. Ex-Senator Ingalls comes high. He thinks his services for a lecture tour are worth about $1,000 a night. General Alikhanoff Anabsky, of the Russian army, was arrested as a Russian spy in Cabul, tho capital of Afghanistan. He was disguised as a Moslem devotee. George A. Pilsbury, of Minneapolis, presented a soldiers' monument "to his native town. Concord, X. H. It was recently dedi cated in the presence of 2,000 persons. James JiAND Allen, the Kentuoky author, lives in a llttlo frame house on tho I Tate's Creek pike. Just out of Lexineton. Hero ho passes nearly all his time in literary work. Henry M. Stanley says that a man's wife is too sacred for the world to know and discuss, and he is much opposed to having his wife paint, publish a book, or in any way attract public attention. A grandson of Thomas Hart Benton, Missouri's great Senator, lives in Neosho, Mo. lie is a smart yonng lawyer and is am bitions to become a member of the Court of Appeals of the St. Louis district. Frank Stockton dictates to a ste nographer and seldom writes more than 1.000 words a day. He must be peculiarly fas tidious, as ho confesses that he sometimes waits an hour to select the correct word. Edward Atkinson, the accomplished statistician and wealthy mill owner, is a handsome man of largo, robust figure. His bearais white, ho wears steel rimmed spec tacles, and for 40 years he has been a close stndcnt of finance and economics. There is only one man now living' in Edinbuigh who knew Sir Walter Scott. This is James Stillo, the bookseller, who be gan his apprenticeship with John Ballan tyne & Co. In the year after Waterloo. Ho is full of reminiscences of Sir Walter, who n, as to him both the greatest and tho best of men. It is lucky for certain people that the Prince of Wales rather than tho Emperor of China sets fashions. The latter gentleman rises every morning at 3 o'clock, and after a light meal goes to the temple for prayer and meditation. Breakfast is served at 7 and dinner at 3. After this he works hard till sunset and then retires. COAL IN MI6S0UBI. A Largo Bed Which "Was Tapped Tears Ago Has Been Unearthed. St. Joseph Gazette. Attention has been called in the past few days to a vast deposit of coal which has been discovered on the farm of Cornelius Roberts, deceased. The farm is situated 12 mlles'south ot this city, near DeKalb, and from indications there tg an endless supply of fuel that can be easily taken from Mother Earth. Over 30 years ago coal was taken from tho same plnco in largo quantities arid hauled to this city, whore it was disposed of. The old shafts irom which it was taken are still eas ily located, bnt nothing has been done in late years to develop the mines. Surface indications aro numerous, and it is now stated a number of local capitalists intend to develop and put tho product into the market. The quality of coal is of the best. TUflFOBM MABBIAGE LAWS. Action by the Bar Association Favoring: Their Adoption Everywhere. New York Herald. 1 The action taken by the Amcrtcau Bar As sociation to secure uniform legislation in the several States is a timely move in an im portant direction. There are many sub jects on which such uniformity is highly desirable bankruptcy, commercial paper, wills, etc bnt none of more piessing im portance or closer concern to the people than marriage and divorce. One law of marriage and divorce for one people would seem to be as much a matter of course as a uniform system of currency. Yet the Amer ican people are subject in their domestic re lations to 10-odd codes of law An anomaly not found in any other civilized country In tho world. If those variqus statutes were uniform or nearly so it would make little difference how many there were. But, aa'a matter offset, they nro far from being uniform. On the contrary, scarcely two of them are alike, and many of .them present conflicts that give rise to grave evils. Cases are- constantly arisinir in which only the courts can determine whether a woman is a wife or a mistress, a widow or a false claimant: whether children are legiti mate or otherwise, whether certain persons are heirs entitled to inherit or not This doubt arises from the uncertainty of tho law us to what constitutes a valid marriage. In oneState a formal ceremony is required; in another a mere verbal agreement of tho parties is sufficient. Still greater evils aro presented by thevarlety of statutes relating to divorce. In some States the divorce laws are so rigid that it is difficult to sever the matriage tie. In others the marital obliga tion is as easily thrown off as taken on. In New Yorktlioro la butonegronnd of divorce. Elsewhere a dozen may be found, including the most trival things. "In one State tho ap plicant must show a year's residence. In another six or'even three months will del. Herp divorced defendants are forbidden, there they are free to ranrrv again. Whether severance of the marriage relation should bo made difficult or casv is a yioint on w liich opinion differs and will differ. Bnt there can he no question that there should be one rule for all that the law of divorce should be the same in every State of tho Union. It should bo no easier to get a' divorce in Dakota than in New York and no harder to gPt one in Pennsyl vania than in Illinois. The trlie remedy for tho well-known evils which spring Irom this diversity of marital statutes is a national law nt Tnlrrlftfr nnrl rtlvnrpp Ttnh tlm lftw can come only fiom Congress when it has ueen emrjowereu to legislate on tnesuDject by constitutional amendment. Tho adop tion of such nn amendment is out of the question in the near future. The only re maining courso is uniform legislation in tho several States. To bring about this legisla tion is the task undertaken by the American Bar Association. It is not a now idea. Movements having the samo end in viow have been started in several States. Like all great reforms the progress of this ono must be slow. But tho causo is steadily gaining in strength and popularity. Never has there been greater reason for its suc cess, now that the courts of one State aro beginning to question the validity of di vorces granted in another to persons who have gone there for no other purpc se than' to get a divorce. MONEY IN THE DAIRY BUSINESS. It Is Almost Donble the Amount Invested in Banking. American Analyst. 3 There are $-2,000,500,000 Invested in the dairy business in this country. That amount is nlraost double the money invested In bank ing and commercial industries. It Is esti mated that it requires 15,000,000 cows to sup ply tbo demand for milk and its product'sin the United States. To feed theso cows 60, 000,000 aci es of land are under cultivation. The agricultural and dairy machine imple ments are worth $200,000,000. The men em ployed in tho business number 750,000, and the horses nro over 1,000,000. There aro over 12,000,000 horses all told. The cows and horses annnally cohsnme 30,000,000 tons of hnynnd nearly 90,00a,OC0bushels of cornmeal, abont the samo amount of oatmeal, 275,000,000 bushels of oats, 2,000 000 bushels of bran and 30,000,000 bushels of corn, to sny nothing of inu urowery grains, sprouts nuu otner ques tionable feed of various kinds that ate used to a great extent. It costs $150,000,000 to teed these cows and horses. Tho average price paid to the labor ers nocessary in the jlairy business is prob ably $20 per month, amounting to $18Cf,O0O,000 a year. The average cow yields about 450 gallons of milk a voir, which gives a total product of 0,750.000,000. Twelve cents a gallon is a fair price to estimate tho value of milk at, a total return to the dairy farmers of $810,000,000, if they sold all the milk as miik. But 5 per cent of their milk is made into choose and butter. It takes 27 pounds of milk to mako one pound of butter, and ten pounds to make one pound of cheese. There is tho same amount of albuminoids in eight and ono-hnlf pounds of milk as there is in ono pound of beef. A fat steer furnishes 50 per cent of boneless beef, but it would re quire 24,000,000 steers, weighing 1,500 pounds each, to produce the same amount of nutri tion as tho annual milk product does. AN OCEAN EACE. Five Fast Sailing Vessels Start on a Race Around the Horn. Detroit News. Five vessels sailed out of San Francisco Bay tho Other day, and started on a long race around Capo Horn and up the Atlantic At their head was the queen of sailing ships, the American four-masted bark Shenan doah, bonnd for Liverpool with 5,002 tons of wheat, tho largest cargo of the kind over stowed in a sailing vessel. She had been put in fine trim, especially for this trial of speed, but her commander.Captain Murphy, was still a little anxious at tho start, as ac cidents ana unroreseon inciuentsnavemuoh to do in deciding a sailing race. Her great rival is the British ship Strath earn, Captain Itobb. She is 25 yenrs old, and was for years tho wonder of tho Western waters. She beat all tho steam vessels on long runs until the ocean grayhonnds came in and overshadowed her phenomenal time botween New York and Liverpool. The other three aro the American ship S. D. Carlcton, Captain Amesbury, bound for Havre; tho British ship Balkamah, Captain Watts, also for Havre, and the American shio M. P. Grace, Captain Do Winter, for New York. All wentout on the highest tide, as tho Shenandoah draws 27 feot of water and could afford no risks. The Shenandoah and Strathearn "make sail by steam," as tho nautical pliraso is that is, thoy have donkey engines to draw the sails into place, and, according to sea men, it is ono of the loveliest sights in tho world to too all th white canvass swell in five minutes from bare poles to full rig. Of course photographs were taken as tho fleet departed, and tho entire Pacific coast waits with anxiety to learn which vessell will first round the Horn. FBANCE, SPAIN AND BUSSIA. Rumors That Another Triple Alliance Will Bo Formed. New York Fost. Rumors of the inclusion of Spain in tho Franco-Russian good understanding havo been propagated in Paris, and Lc Malin has triumphantly given it out that France will soon havo a triple alliance of hor own. Some color has been given tho reports by meet ings of prominent Spaniards and Russians at Biarritz. The Spanish Premier was sum mering there, and when his Minister of For eign Affairs Joined him there was thought to io something in the wind. Suspicions were gicatlv heightened when the Russian Minis ter to France dropped In upon the pair. Still, it might easily have been that hero was but a coincidence, had not the subse quent announcement been made that tho Grand Duke Vladimir was to pay the Span ish Queen regent a ceremonious visit at San Sebastian. When it was farther added that Hor Majesty had ordered the Minister of War to be present at tho Interview, tho gos sips were set wild. It is haid to say how much there may be in it, bnt it seems scarcely possible that anything more is in tended than a bit of agreeable flattery to Spain in the hope of winning her good will. Spanish pride would be stimulated by an in vitation to enter tho field of European alli ances, but her soi Ions financial embarrass ment would remain a powerful argument In favor of her previous policy of strit neu trality. Impossible to Keop His Month Shut. Rochester Times. "It is impossible," says thg Herald, "for Russell Harrison to keep his mouth shut." Nothing singular in that. It Jakes a man with brains to keep his mouth shut. The Congregationalists of Boston took a census of church attendance in eleven wards on a recent Sunday. Out of a popula tion of 172,441 there was an attendance of 71,069. Of this number 21,576 were Protestant, 40 311 Cathollo and 182 Jowlsh. On tho samo Sunday it found that about 40,000 people went to the snburbs and 350,000 traveled on the street cars. mm&AY'S MUSISGS. Names on the Signs Show Americans Are Not Shopkeepers Idle Men of a City Bapld Transit Talk Apartments 100 Feet Above Ground. FUOSI A STAFF CORBESPOJfDENT. The late Charles Dickens had a system atic way of picking up odd nauies about London in his repertorial days, and these names he utilized in his subsequent stories. If Dickens had been a New Yorker as well as the carefully ohseivant man he was he would have had plenty of this material to his hand. Our streets, fashionable and un fashionable, teem with curious names of a heterogenous people. Street signs always havo a singular fascination for many peo ple. These street signs, more conspicuously and lavishly displayed In the United States than in any other country on the face of the earth, teach their interesting lesson in the ' book of commercial life, and it is a lesson well worth the attention of anybody. Those who have learned it well could name tho city in which they happen to bo by glancing nt the signs, even were they plumped down amid them blindfold. Who could be deceived by the signs ot Milwaukee? or of New Orleans? or of Boston? And as for New York, what a record of individuality is Broadway! Take a single block in the heart of tho trade on Broadway near Cnnal street, for example. Here is a faithful transcription of signs irom corner to corner: "Ilirshkind &Co.," "Fielman, Heller, Dlnk elsplel & Co.," "Joseph Beckcl & Co.," "Ed ward Oberndorff & Co.," "A. S. Lew A Co.," "Solchow & Richter," "Indig, Berg" & Co.," 'Pings A Pinner," "Dicckcrlioff, Baffler A Co.." "B. Blumenthal & Co.," '-Charles Falk enhorg A Bio.," "Uensel, Calllday & Co.," "Butler Urns." The lust is the only name that carries the Luglish language and nativity on the face ol it. The.se names aie not selected, but comprise all in sight on that block. To bet ter illustrate this, let us take in the oppo site side of Broadway betweon the same streets: "Womser, Fellheimer A Co.," "Eugene P. Ppyser," "Diehl A Co.." "Kramer A Kauf feld," "Moritz Pscli," "Eugene Tlrihneis Sinser," '-Cngner Bros ," "Goodman Bastan nclli," "Ftshel Bros.." "Max Schiff," "Mi chaclis A Llndeman," C. P. Wildey," "Wcta A Co." Where are the good old Jones, and Smiths and Browns and Williams and Cooks and Coopers and Carpenters and Bakers and so on? "Why down in Temple Court," said a friend to whom I submitted tho question. "Go down to tho Equitable, to the Potter and other big buildings where professional men swim. Thero you will see plenty of good old Anglo-Saxon names. You'll find them on nearly every office door." Probably. But does this indicate tho American aptitude for professional lifo rather than trade? This Bioadway straw would seem to show, at least, that wo are not by nature or by practico a nation of shop keepers. The Iteturnlng Wanderers. The healthy tan of the sea shore and mountains begins to show up on Broadway and at the tneaters In the scores and hun dreds of peoplo who havo just returned to town. It is a mark of social distinction. Tho young lady who airs the skin of a Mexi can or Cuban is very proud of It. She looks down upon her fair-skinned sisterhood who remained, in town with well affected pity. Tho latter comments upon the appearance of the returned wandeross severely and "wouldn't look such a fright for anything." And then the piles and stacks of luggage that are heaped up oVery day at the railway and steamboat termini! Verily, these are the days that try men's souls though possi bly a good many of the returning fair and bravo ones are not prepared to concede a sonl to a baggage man. However this may be, tho just and philosophical must admit that the baggage men and their satellites, the porters, need the prayers rather than tho curses of mankind just now. And when the extraordinary amount of extra work theso officials are required to perform in tho early September without extra pay is taken into consideration, it is not easy to say they do not deserve what they need. The Decline of the St. James. After months of painful gossip and oc casional sweeping denials on tho part of his intimate friends Captain "Billy" Connor was deposed from the management of the St. Jumes Hotel. For his own good his friends should have co-operated in tho effort to save a fine property and a clever and popular gentleman from tho Inevitable ruin that awaited their continued business associa tion. Captain Connor was one of the bright est and most successful theatrical managers over on the road, and the late John McCul lough owed much to htB agent's per sonal popularity. As lessee and manager of tho splendid hotel property at tho corner of Broadway and Twonty-slxth street this personal popularity increased, and Billy's connection with tho turf drew around him tho most aristocratic of the sporting ele ment of the country. It can scarcely be raid that a instinct cllentelle of this kind is ,ot advantage to a hotel so important as is the St. James. Horsey people of prominence attract horsey people of every sort; book makers and gamblers, touters of every guide. The great majority of hotel patrons do not like to live on the quarter stretch. They may take a fly on tho track occasion ally, but they draw a line at the track. The result was seen in the St. James in tho gradual withdrawal of tho ultra respectable custom. In the mean time its manager be gan to show signs of both physical and men tal failure. This was concealed from the public with whom he was n lavorite. But owing to the fact that Captain Connor's friends had no legal authority beyond his consent for their guidance this concealment had no appreciable result on the fortunes of the house. So things ran swiftly down hill until the creditors combined to save them selves, dispossessed Captain Connor and in stalled their own manager. New York's Kapid Transit. "I hope the Broadway cable road will put on tho nowest pattern of cars," said a citizen who had Just returned from tho West. "Much depends on that as to whether the lino will be popular or not. Tho latest de sign of cable cars ls not only a thing of beauty and comfort: but recognizes for the first timo in street car servico in this coun try tho rights of smokers. They nro putting such cars on in St. Louis. Now York should keep abreast with the times. We have long been behind St. Louis, Chicago, Pittsburg and Washington in the matter of local sur face transit, and now that we aro taking steps to catch up wo ought to have the best. Theso new cable cars have no platforms, but open at the side by means of a cross vestibule. In ono end of the carmen may smoke; in the other they cannot. The con ductor and gripmnn are both under shelter. The seats are divided so peoplo cannot bo squeezed into a Jelly, and so that but ono person can take up but one seat." Idle Men of New York. Visit them on whatever day you will, the parks of Newlork are full of idio peo ple. It is not probablo that all of these peo ple are living without work md at some body clsc'3 expense. Nevertheless, a man who sits in the park is not nt work. No more is the man who is lounging in tho beer saloon, concert hall or garden. Kvery park, every garden, every saloon in tho city lias its quota of idle men during tbo day, not to mention the street corners. Not leas thau 60,000 men are idlo every day in this great city. Not thcsame ones, perhaps, bii t that many at tho same time every day and ovory hour in the day. At the average rate of la bor wages this means tho loss ot g 100,003 per day. If nil of tbeBe peoplo would go to work and give me that money for a week I could take a short rest myself. Quality of England's Sailors. "Our navy needs a thorough overhaul ing," remarked an English Captain. Wo were seated In tBe smoking rorm of tho State of California, after a charming break fast on board that new and elegant addition to the Allan line. "The English navy is shorthandod and good sailors who aro will ing to ship on aman-o'-wnr are growing more scarco every year. This is partly on account of tho suporior pay of the merchant servico and partly because of the recent changes in navy construction. Thq old fushioncd British sailor of song and story is becoming extinct. I flrst went to sea 35 years ago and have In that time witnessed all tho successive changes both in the navy and merchant marine service. I have been through every grado of a seaman's life," added Captain Braes, "and there is as wide a difference between the duties and training of tho British man-o'-war's man of to-day and the sumo man So years ago as there is between my position as the Captain of this ship and my boy hood, on u Scotch farm. In other words, except as to eating, drinking and discipline, there is no similarity at all. Yes, sir; when I look back at my 35 years of sea lifo from the point of vi of this mod em ship I feel as If-1 had 1 :ved a couple of hundred years." A New Heal Estro Swindle. "The latest schemV that is being suc cessfully workedln tlii real estate market," says a dealer, "is to,lialld or buy a row of fiat houses, fill tbjm full of tenants, and then sell the whole outfit. A house full of tenants represents a stated income and fur nishes a tangible basis for sale and invest ment. It would be a fair basis, too, but for the fact that these tenants are not always bona fide ocenpnnts. They are notnnfre quently dendheads or half-pay people, who have been scraped together bv the enter prising speculator to make a front on the market. A good many buyers are bitten that way, for an effort to colleot rent in such cases generally results in a depopulation or the flats. The owners are really worse off than if they had purchased tha empty houses." Living Above the City. There are to be bachelor apartments fitted up in the tall tower of the Madison Sqnnre Garden, but if the prices in any way approximate the altitude of tho tower itself nobody but millionaires can occupy them. These rooms will be over VM feet from the ground and will overlook the entire city from every side of the square structnre. Theynretobo finished in hard woods and luxuriously appointed in every respect. A fast elevator is to be put in. The occupants of this romantic outlook or lookout need never go out of the building since they'll hnve an iminenso restaurant below from which to draw bodily sustenance, a grand garden for exercise nnd a snug little theater for amusement, and plenty of fresh air on top in their rooms at all times. This would seem to be enough even without Jimmy Jlorrissey, but the management kindly threw him in. Anv Crusty old bachelor who wants a better janitor than Morrissey wouldn't be satisfied with the earth. The Latest Advertising Scheme. A firm on Fourteenth street in the Dnsiest shopping neighborhood has intro duced n novel advertisement. A painted theatrical ocean is constructed on the roof of one house, whilo the roof of tho adjoining building, being n little higher, serves as the shore. On this shore a man attired as the lone fisherman sits and Industriously goes through the pantomime of flslilng. Jiov and then he work's the lilies of a miniature sailboat, causing the latter to kim the mimic seu. All of this attracts the attention of thousands of people on the opposite -nnlk. For fear, however, that s-ome might go by without seeing it a hired confederate of tho lone fisherman saunters along the walk and gazes upward. It is human nature to stop and look at anything anybody ele is looking at. Result, crowds of curion gazers. CUAnLKS TiiEODonE Mut.eat. New Yonk, September 12. THE MAjfrPUB DISASTER. Lord Cross Absolves the Indian Govern ment From Blame. Newcastle Chronicle. Lord Cross, as Secretary for Ind!a,absolves the Indian Government from blame in refer ence to the disaster in the protected State ofMsinipur. Lord Cross dispatch to this ef fect will become a historical document, es pecially as it sumarizes in a formal and lucid manner, the events.that led to the massacre of the British force. In September, the Ma harajah fled to India, owing to a revolt by the Senaputty,one of his 3-ounger brothers, who seems to have been the strongest native prince in the country. Another brother, the JubraJ, who was the heir apparent.ascended the throne under the protection of the Sen nputty. The Government of India resolved to recognize the JubraJ us the new ruler, but to arrest and punish the Senaputty, who had instigated tho revolution. Lord Cross arrives at the conclnsion that tho Jubmj was himself no party to the revo lution and approves the action of the Indian Government in recognizing ;him as a ruler. Lord Cross al'O agrees that it was necessary to punish the Senaputty. The sophistry may perh.ips bo accounted for by the difficulties attaching to Government in India, where Sentiment goes a great way. It may havo been impossible but to acknowledge the JubraJ as ruler. At the same time it was apparently thought necessary to show tho reality of British rule in India by punishing the Senaputty. Having decided to arrest and exile the benuputty, the Indian govern ment left the carrying out of that project to the discretion of Mr. Quinton, the Commis sioner of Assam. With this Lord CTossalso agrees, and will deal with the manner in which Mr. Quinton attempted to arrest the Senaputty, resulting in tha massacre of the British expedition, in another dispatch. The homo and Indian Governments nro evi dently bent on throwing the blame for the disaster on Mr. Quinton's manner of -carrying out his instructions. This looks very much like whitewashing tho living at tho expense of the dead. Farmers Finding Them Our. New York Advertiser. Tho Farmers' Alliance In Missouri, which last year enrolled 69,000 members, is now short nearly one-flfth of that number, and this diminution will go on there and in other States as fast as the farmers find out that they are at onco deluded and de frauded. Celebrating n Long Pastorate. HoixiDAYSBuno, Sept. 12. Special. This evening a public reception was tendered Rev. Dr. D. II. Barron by his congregation of the First Presbyterian Church in com memoration of his 30 years' pastorate. Dr. Barron is the oldest pastor In the Juniata Valley, and fully 1,050 people attended the reception. Beating His Campaign. New York Press. Governor Campbell is getting bettor faster than his campaign in Ohio. That Is past all recovery. DEATHS HEBE AND EXSEWHEBE. J. n. Latrobc, Founder or Liberia. John H. Latrobe, a most distinguished and the oldest member of the Baltimore bar, died Friday. Jlr. Latrobe was President of the Na tional Colonization Society, and it was through his lndivldnal efforts that Liberia was established as the "Black Republic." Mr. Latrobc is the author of many scicntlnc and literary works, and the inventor of the Latrobe stoves. Mr. Latrobc was Thomas Wlnans prac tical and legil councillor In all hlsrallro'id build ing projects from the llrst Baltimore and Ohio ir&CKS. llt'n n mails uuui ma jiunsiAt, matis aim got into litigation Mr. Latrobe studied Russian and argued the cases In the Rustan courts. He. won thim, but the Czar's ukase npet the verdicts, Durlnirthe war of 1811, when Mr. Latrobe was a boy. his family lived for a short time in Pittsburg. Dr. Fetor I'lneo, Surgeon. Dr. Peter Piueo, a noted surgeon in civil and military life, died In West Somervllle. Mass., Friday need CG. At the outbreak of the Civil War be went out as a surgeon of the Ninth Massachu setts. He was successively comm!3ioncd brigade Surgeon of United Sta,ecs Volunteers, Medical Director of the First Army Corps, and Lieutenant Colonel and Medical Inspector of the United btates Army. During the years ISJ3-'C4-'05 he personally Inspected every army on the Atlantic Coast, from Washington to Texis, and also ahc great hospitals at Fortress Monroe, Norfolk and Portsmouth, which, combined, contained nearly 10.000 beds, and was the consulting surgeon of Jelferson Davis while the latter was confined at Fortress Monroe. The later y ears oflus life have been spent in and around Boston. He "as a member of the JHIitary Order or the Loyal Legion of the United states. Elliott S. Davis. Elliott S. Davis died yesterday at the home oriils daughter, Mrs. John Mitchell, in W1I klnsburg, in his S9th year. The deceased was born near the Pittsburg Court House in lsttl. and has re sided within the county all his lire. Abont sir j ears ago Mr. Davis lay seriously 111 at his home near Turtle creek. Ills grand daughter. Miss Clara Davis, of Braddock. then a little girl. In discover ing the face of her grandfather platnlv visible on a pane of glass In her father's house, had a dreadful Foreboding. The face on the pane remained for several da J s, dnniig wnicn me me nine gin re fused to be comforted. Thousands of people came from every quarter to tee It. Obituary Notes. COLONEL E. W. WIXKOOP, ex-Warden of the New Jlexlco penitentiary and a wcll-knowh pioneer of the Rocky Mountains, died at his home In &anta Fe yesterday, arter a long illnes3. He was a natlt e of Philadelphia and it as uuc of the original Pike's Peak expedition. 31ns. Jane B. Smith, granddaughter or the late Hon. Joseph B.Varnum and grandnlece of General James M. Varnum, who held a commission in the Continental army during the War of the Revolu tion, died on heptember 8 at the residence of her son, Charles N. Mnith, In Louisiana, Mo., In the 87th year of her age. Major Edsiumd L. Ssirrn, formerly of the United States Army, died at Reading Friday, aged 62years. .Major mlth was once a member of the PcunsTlvanla Legislature and of the Legislature or Colorado. In which he was one of the pioneer set tlers. Till recently Major Smith for many years was a member of the law Arm of Wells, Smith & Macon, Denver, Bev. Jamis Seaton; one of tho most noted Methodist ministers in the State of Blinds, died Friday at Monticello. He had preached for years, and was the historian of Methodism in Illinois. He was born In Lincolnshire. England, and came to America when he was 17 years or age. He began preaching In New York City. TnE Very Rev. Letuls A. Chasse, for seven years Chancellor of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Louisiana, died -In France, Thursday. He was a native of France.and came to America in 1853, com pleting his studies for the priesthood at tho Lazarls College, and being ordained la 1806. He Illlcd vari ous cnarges in laion itoitge and New Orleans until appointed Chancellor, filling the latter position until ill health forced his Journey to France. log nis stay in itcwuneans Father editor of tho Propatateur Vattoliave, CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. Ten torpedoes, costing 516,000, were lost in the fate British maneuvers. There are 2,084,803 hogs in Kansas awaiting transportation to Germany. There are considerably over a hundred thousand acres devoted to tobacco in Vir ginia. Third-class passengers are increasing in England at the expense of the flrst and sec ond class. Michigan mines employed 8,961" men last rear. Of this number 74 met with fatal accidents. New Bedford, the sleepy New Englafld town where dramatists now launch their new plays, is called the Dramatic Foundling nospital. There are 80 anti-vaccination leagues in England and Scotland, and a determined opposition is also being organized in Ire land and Wales. An Atchison girl was compelled to make a trip to Kunsa? City to get a pair of oi gloves. As a rule the hands of Atchison girls are as big as their hearts. There is a radish in a garden near Ben ton, Mo., that has a ciicuraference of 22K Inches nnd is over 2 feet long, and It is still grott ing at the rate of an India week. In Eastern New Mexico nearly 600,000 acres of iruit and farmlands have been re claimed by the construction of storage res ervoirs and Irrigating canals during the past two years School education In Louisiana is very deficient. The recent school census shows a school population or 370000. of whom but 8j.0"0 attend school, and may of these at tend but one month. The woollen mills in MpxIco are clos ing Indefinitely because the Government has revoked the concession whereby manufac turers weronlloned to import their wool and dyestuffs free of duty. A lad only 4 years old died in New York this week of alcoholism. He had been intrusted by his father to carry home a bot tle of whisky, nnd on the way tippled until he became dazed and finally unconscious. An Italian publisher got the opinions of 100 writers and scholars as to who are the best authors. The replies placed Darwin at the head of foreign writers, Shakespeare ncit nnd Schiller, Goethe and Humboldt following. The national Japanese gambling gama is barra or "flower." The curds are 4i oblong slips of pasteboard, divided into 12 series, each representing a month. Six players, with four cards each, play a sort of combination of casino, enchro and poker. Dr. George C. Matthews, of Jackson ville, Fin., has a very intelligent horse. Tied in front of a hotel near the waterpipo hn turned the faucet with his teeth, and, holding his mouth under, got a drink. Ha then turned the water off in the same way. The wealthiest insane asylum in Amer ica is said to be the Sheppard asylum In Baltimore. It was endowed in 1S57 with $."iC0,O0O. Since thnt time the trustees using the interest alone have expended $880,000 in buildings and land and still have a capital of $000,000. A clergyman in New South Wales com plains that out of 117 marriages which he has celebrated within the last year 23 called him out of bed between 11 at night and 6 In tho morning. He never knows when he is to have a peaceful night, and all on account of a freak pi fashion In his parish. Johnny Abbott, 8 years old, of Battla Creek, dreamed the other night ho was slaughtering whole tribes of Indians. Get ting up in his sleep nnd his night clothes he went upstairs, passed out a window onto a roof, slid to the ground and walked 30 rods through the cold, wet vegetation Deforo ho awoke. Chicago has a child that possesses a mania for remaining out of doors. Often in order to Satisfy it she runs away from her homo, staying away for days. Up to two years ago the family lived in Dakota, and there the girl would wander into the woods and live for days until found on herbs and berries. A marvelous illustration of the patience of the Chinese is found in the salt mines In Central China. Holes about six inches in diameter aro bored in the roclc by means of a primitive form of iron drill, and sometimes n period of 40 years elapses before the cov eted brine is reached, so that the work is carried on from ono generation to another. The following will prove valuable to parties interested in mines who desire to know how much ore there ls in sight at a mine. One cubic foot of lead oro weighs ill pounds, thus a vein of gelena or lead ore I foot wide, 6 feet high, and 6 feet long will produce 10,532 pounds, or a vein IK inches wide will net one ton, 3 inches wide four tons, etc Another relie of the Rebellion ha3 been discovered In Virginia. A few days ago while a log two feet In circumference wis being cut in two near "Bloody Angle," in Spottsylvnnta county, tho saw went through tueouccenuoi a iz-pounu sneu wnicu was Imbedded in the log out Of sight. It is sup- Sosed that tho tree was about 19 inches In inmcter nt tho time tbo shell was fired in ISC!, as these trees grow about a quarter of an inch a year. Two doctor books are heirlooms in the family of a Clinton, Jlo gunsmith. They are dated 1677 and 1913 and contain old-fashioned remedies for all ills and ails of tho flesh. The title of the index says: "This Is tho index of two books for King Charles yo First. His book." It is said they were taken from the palace of the unfortunate, monarch shortly before his execution. To test melons is a difficult matter, and a Georgia farmer, who has been annoyed by mistakes made In attempting to determine when melons are ripe by thumping them, now Judges by scraping off he thin rind with his thumb nail. "If the edges of tho skin on each side of the scar are left ragged or granulated, tho melon Is ripe, but if the edges of the scar are smooth and even, and the skin docs not come off clean, then the melon is green." BAZATC BUZZINGS. "Shelley Higgins is awfully fickle. He's deserted Penelope for that empty-headed New York girl." "That's all right. Shelley changes his girl Just as he does his clothes. He wanted a light-weight girl for snmmerwear." , "Did Harold call on yon this morning, papa!" "Yes; bnt I couldn't make much out of what ha said. I understood him to say that he wanted to marry me, and that you had enough to support him, sd I sent him borne and told him to write It out." "By Jove, Cynicns," said Scribbler, "I havo half a mind to go into literature." "Walt awhile, Scrlbler," returned Cynlcuj. Yon need a whole mind to succeed." "I fear you can't support me, sir," saidshe. "Alone," said he. "I mast confess that's true; But what you have, with what belongs to me. I really think will be enough, for two." "Do you keep pigs?" inquired tha com mercial traveler of the country landlord. "Why," answered Boniface, "do yoa wish board?" Jawkins I hear that Mrs. Loftinez has been so reduced since herr husband's failure that she has had to take In boarders." Guzzleton (who likes something more than nap kins and silver for his dlnner)-Poor fellows! How much a week docs she "take them la" fort. "Why did you leave your last place, Norah?" "They was the meanest paypll ol Iver saw. Sometimes phln I was too busy to attlnd the front door, the boss he'd go hluiillf. an tho ahklnfllnt charged me tlnelnts forlvery tolme he went. It kem to foivc dollars more than me wages." "John," said Maud, when she caught her nance throwing a kiss to her former rival, 'lam, afraid you are fickle." "Indeed I am not," returned John, innocently. "I've always loved that girl." "Now, Jimmie, yon must eat your chicken, or you shan't havrfany pie." "I can't, mamma. I'm a bird-defender, and It wouldn't be right." "It has been a very bad fruit season, I be. lleve," remarked Trotter. WaaL" replied the old New England farmer, 'fruit wnz pretty bail, all 'cept pumpkins." "They have a skeleton in their closet, I am certain." "You arc wrong. It is one of those patent dreu forms. IsawltmyBelf." Suitor I have come, sir, to ask you to give me your daughter's hand. Paterfamilias Why. sir, when I last saw It, U was In your possession. . "He is a Dublin man, isn't he 7" "Mostlr." "Why mostly T" "He has a Cork lex." i r .'ai-JS itv .AiUiHiji-r' iif'iilslsisiSssi'risfeiw'
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