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Including Sunday, 1 m'th.. 90 Scisdat DisrATrn, One Year. 250 Wemtli DiSPVrra. One Tear. 1 25 THh Dailt Dispatch is dcltrered by carriers at 35 cents per week, or, including Sunday Edition, at cenu per week. PlTTsBURG, THURSDAY, SEPT. 17, 1SUL TAMMANY ON" TOP. The organization which has so long con trolled the municipal government of the metropolis of the country has now grown sufficiently strong and bold to absolutely dictate Democratic nominations in the Empire State. 'While the friends of Hill were undoubtedly in control of the New York convention, the naming of 'Congress man Flower was not so much a Hill as a Tammany triumph. Both the Governor Senator and ex-President Cleveland ac quiesced in the selection because of the power of the city bosses. Personally Flower is about on a level with J"ast.ett, the Republican candidate, and each is backed by a machine. The former.however, has always had the repu tation of tapping his extensive barrel lib erally for campaign purposes. He Is also ambitious, and as long ago as 18S4 was recklessly exposing himself to Presidental lightnins. Cleveland and Hill each figure on Mr. Flower as one of their adherents now, but if he should come under the wire a good winner in November he may conclude to compromise the Democratic factional ficht by reaching for the White House plum himself. KEALISTIC AKTIIXKKY TKACTICE. The training of the militia in the noble art of war is a public dury, no doubt There is indeed a universal agreement that it has been too much neglecteV in this country. Nevertheless when the exper imental operations of a battery of artillery include the sliellinn of one or two country towns, it must be objected that the repro duction of the events of war is altogether too realistic. This is what was done in the target practice of the Second New Tori: Battery the other day. The target was set up on Hempstead Plains, in a reasonably isolated place; but the shot and sliell developed a greater attraction for the neighboring village of Ilempstead, where they tore flower beds and scared the inhabitants out of a year's growth. The rural illagers are ready to do any thing to encourage military training, but they think they ought to be protected against bombardment until war actually breaks out They may petition to have the target set up in their villages as a measure of safety, in order that the mili tia artillerists may fire at them and hit somewhere else. TnE JAIL MANAGEMENT. The further light that is obtained on the details of Fitzsimmons escape from the jail strengthens the charitable theory of a lax and negligent management of that institution. The fact that the criminal had his escape planned nearly a month be fore, and that his preparations for escape could have been discovered by careful in spection at any time during a "week be fore his "breaking bonds, leaves little room for doubt en that point. This makes a leconstructionof that in stitution practically unavoidable. The case seems to be the not uncommon one t a management which has run along in the regular grooves so long that it has be come lax and indiftercnt When that condition is illuminated by the liberation of so defiant a scoundrel as Fitzsimmons, the call for a new management cannot be ignored. The suggestion of the name of Inspector McAleese for warden of the jail indicates a very available man for the place Thisolflcer has von piominence on the city police force by his activity and talents in service. His character for effi ciency and vigilance is well established. The probability is that if he is appointed no more escapes like that of Tuesday will be succcssfullv carried out A SEW KIND Ol' ritESTIGIi The esteemed New York Jieeorder thinks that the United States "should not be precipitate" in acting jointly with European powers toward anj tiling like co ercion with China. Thi- is because to do so "would be the furtherance of European ambitions in China, which would do no good either to our commerce or our na tional prestige." It might !); a praiseworthy thing under proper circumstances and proper instru mentalities to increase our commerce with China. Nor is there any duty upon the United States to support the European projects in connection with that empire. But the present juncture is a very unfortu nate one in which to suggest that we should act as the friend of China, for two leasons. The first is that it would put the United States in the position of tolera tion toward the Chinese characteristic of killing missionaries. The second is that our own treatment of the Chinese, though somewhat strongly akm to the actions of their oin mob, dots not qualify us to as pire to the position of best lriond to the missionaiy-moiibing Chinese. The idea that our national prestige can be aided by mildly claiming a position of ultimate friendliness with a government whose people are mobbing American missionaries with impunity is an illustra tion of what silly things can be said of our foreign relations. COOLING A KING. The extraordinary efforts recently re ported from the tropical kingdom of Siam to keep the monarch of that country from becoming overheated are naturally at tracting attention. The spectacle of an absolute monaicii put inside a glass re ceiver with the favorites of his harem, and cool water turned on so as to hermetically seal the Brother of the White Elephant, is one that could only be surpassed by the jxt unaltained ideal of a live potentate on Ice. Tct it is plain that the successful refrig erating of the Oriental-King does not solve tke problem for the Western monarebs. To insure a cool and quiet time for the overheated Czar the receptacle would have to be a bomb-proof safe, by no means as pleasant as glass with a stream of 'water running over it If the choice of the Prince of Wales' companions in the glass chamber were lef t to the English Mrs. Grun dy it might keep him out of hot water; but as the Siamese precedent permits the monarch tochoose his companions during the artificial refrigeration, the danger that the Tranby Croft crowd would get into the sacred coolness would be princi pally productive of the frigidity of the social cold shoulder. Besides all this, the tendency of Eu ropean events is not toward cooling off the monarclis of that continent Popular movements and international politics both exhibit the general disposition toward the royalties to make it hot for them. REACTING TO nAKBAIUSM. Harold Frederic, the novelist and newspaper man, has just concluded a journoy through Russia for the purpose of studying its political condition. His ob servations fully confirm the views of Mr. Kennan, and even go further than his, with the statement of ' the belief that the governmental tendency, which is denom inated by courtesy as the Pan-Slavist movement, is really a reaction toward bar barism. It has been suspected for some time that the reaction would not have very far to go; but Mr. Frederic's view discloses a more significant and deliberate tendency to discard the restraints of civilized gev ernment It recalls the Napoleonic declara tion that by scratching a Russian you will find a Tartar, and reaches the con clusion that the governing Muscovite has concluded that the time has come when he need no longer be controlled by the re straints or civilized government; but can throw off the mere epidermis of civiliza tion in which he has masqueraded for this century, and invite the Slavonic element of Europe to return to the lawless abso lutism of their Tartar ancestors. This reactionary tendency, in Mr. Frederic's view, explains the expulsion of the He brews. The prejudice against that race furnishes the immediate excuse for driving them out of Russia; but the real sentiment behind their expulsion is the antagonism to all foreigners whether Hebrew, German or of other nationalities. Perhaps Mr. Frederic's theory is a little hyperbolical in representing the tendency to react to Slavonic semi-civilization as in-' tentional; but the actual facts established with regard to Russian methods, leave littl;room for doubt as to the important fact that the sentiments and motives which inspire the .Russian policy are very close to those of a half-civilized people. THE rAHALLEL OF PERFECTION. A modest Cincinnati educator the other day made an interesting disclosure In an address to the Cincinnati teachers. It was that the line of maximum purity of speech lies along the 40th parallel of latitude. Of course this brings Cincinnati close to the line of English, undefiled, and was re ceived with enthusiastic approval by the Cincinnati instructors as a testimony to the eminently successful results of their labors. But it is worth noticing that Pittsburg is nearer to the 40th parallel than Cincinnati. Consequently the purity and accuracy of our language is greater than that of Cin cinnati This may have been observed al ready, in those indices of popular culture, the press, of the two cities; but the public have not previously had the in formation why it is so. Further, Wheel ing being very close to the 40th parallel, and Philadelphia and Columbus directly on it, it will be clear that the standard of pure English is maintained to an unsus pected degree. We also learn that the language of our legislators at Harrisburg, which is only a few miles to the north of this line of lingual perfection, must be cor rect and refined to an excruciating degree. The assertion contains further disclos ures. The idioms of the section In which we have the fortune to reside are thus shown to belike attic phrases, as compared with the provincialities of other latitudes. To say that a person "wants out" and to speak of the overshoes of modern times as "gums" is now a mark of culture; while the Yankee twang of our more northerly citizens and their description of the same useful articles as "rubbers" is distinctly archaic After this, there is nothing left for Bostian Boston to do but to hide her diminished head. A BOOMEKANG PLEDGE. A rather novel issue has sprung out of the Philadelphia city canvass. As the newspapers of the city are elevating it to the rank of a burning issue, and as it seems to have sprung up of its own ac cord, it may fitly be termed a case of spontaneous combustion. The issue began with a proposition that the Republican candidates for city places shall pledge themselves not to accept the fees attached to the offices, but to turn over the money from that source to the City Treasury. Whereupon the Times denounces the idea with the assertion that such a pledge would be a violation of the law against promising any valuable con sideration to secure election, and would be little short of bribery to the voters. It looks like chopping logic to a very fine degree to make it illegal for a candi date to say that he will not take the pub lic money by fees which, under the Consti tution, are really illegal. But this gives a more cogent reason t hy such a pledge would act like a boomerang on the Repub licans. The Constitution provides for the abolition of the fee system and the substi tution of fixed salaries. But this, like a good many other provisions of the Consti tution, has not been enforced by appro priate legislation; and one of the greatest obstacles to its enforcement has been the character of the legislators turned out by the political machine of Philadelphia. Per haps the recent disclosures concerning the fee system may explain the fondness of the Philadelphia politicians for Constitu tional nullification. To make a reform depend on personal pledges alter defeating the Constitutional provision for 17 yean, is a rather strong case of the sa'.ntliness produced by a sick bed. It can hardly fail to provoke pointed inquiries whether the party system that induces men to violate their oaths to sup port the Constitution can be relied upon for fulfillment of a pledge of this sort A striking exemplification of the way in which tno discussion of social topics is carried on, is afforded by a Ions article in the New York Trtbui by ex-Congressman lloswell G. Horr, combating tlio idea that the building up on gieat fortunes in tills country is at the cost of tlio people. In this article Mr. Horr says: "How Mr. Gould be came as rich as he is reputed to be is unbe knonntomc. Ho may havo used means that arc questionable. I know nothing about it." Some discreet friend should sug gost to Mr. Horr thqtifhe knows nothing about Michngigantlcandiiotorious example of wealth gained at tho cost of others, he should have the modesty to refrain from trying to instruct a better informed public. TllK intelligence that the Chinese at Lung Chow recently assembled and burned 10,COO telegraph soles that had been unloaded la their vicinity proves that the - heatEen Chi nese, In some things, are ahead of the Ameri cans, Perhaps If Pittsburg would put her affairs in the hands of a commission of LuAg Chow's citizens wo might attain that long desire, d municipal goal of getting rid of tho poles and wires. So the seizure of Mitylene was only a bluff. Would that the sensation of the fol lowing day could turn out the same way, and that wo could report that Fitzsimmons really did not mean it I It seems that the German electrical exhi bition did better than was expected in the transmission of electrical energy. The Dis patch referred tho other day to the fact that waterfalls have been used In this country for the same purpose. But to carry tho power 100 miles with a loss of only 25 per cent In transmission Is an unrivalled feat for the Germans. With that example It becomes a pertinent inquiry whether the falls of the Toughiogheny and Nesbannock, and tho rapids of the Conemaugh and Loyalhanna may not yet furnish electrical power to Pittsburg. The natives licked the Germans in Zanii bar, and the freshmen are reported to havo got the better of tho sophomores at Lehigh. Finally we learn that tho Hon. William F. Sheehan, of Buffalo, made tho Hon. David Bennett Hill, of New York, como to his terms. After these things anything is pos sible. TnE oflerof the Philadelphians to fur nish the money for that Keystone Bank in vestigation is accepted, and the Investiga tion goes on until some now excuse is found for stopping it. It seems that there are defined limits to the heretofore unregulated powers of cor poration presidents. The president of the New England Terminal road the other day called a passenger an ass for grumbling at delays on tho road, whereupon the passenger smote tho corporato magnate on the nose somewhat repeatedly. Ho has not been prosecuted, which is not unnaturally taken to mean that the grumbler can protect his privileges under the corporato legal theory that might is right. It is interesting to find tho Robinson organs pitching Into John Dalzell for dis turbing the restoration of harmony. Har mony in the Bobinson lexicon means the absorption of all the available positions in sight by the Senator-Congressman and would-be League President. The cigarmakers who are attacking deal ers for the use of counterfeit union labels should also pay attention to dealers who sell counterfeit cigars. The somewhat disputable advice of Andrew Lang to young women, "Don't marry literary men," arouses the wrath of the Cincinnati Enquirer, hich proceeds to smite that essayist over the head with its editorial bludgeon. Why this heat, It is hard to conjecture. No one ever accused the edi tors of the .Enquirer of being literary men. If they had Delonged to that class they might have perceived that Mr. Lann- was trying to protect them against the - of the cap-setters. Now we hear that the Delaware peach growers did not make any money after alt But was there ever a season jn which they did make money, according to their own ac counts? And still tho Delaware peach grow ers continue to grow peaches. If Diss DeBar, or Ava, loses herself again, there should be a distinct stipulation to the effect that she must stay lost. The Berlin report that tho Czar intends to visit the Kaiser and that tho visit will bo returned, is disci-edited. But why should it be? Did not tho Imperial magnates visit each other last year, and keep right on massing troops, and doing threatening things? "Tho one does not prevent the other" any more than with respect to other royal irregularities concerning which tho phraso was first used. Europe is manifesting a disposition not to let gold come back to the United States; but wo need not care for that. If Europe can get along without wheat, we can do without gold. The Europeans cannot eat the gold. In order to be as English as he can be, Mr. William Waldorf Astor will assume the character of an absentee landlord. NAMES FREQUENTLY HEARD. The German Emperor's sons picked up a love for angling while in England recently, and this is now one of their favorite diver sions at Pottsdam. Judge R. E. Becham, of Texas, so closely resembled Senator Carlisle, of Ken tucky, as to be mistaken for the Bluegrass Statesman very often in Washington. Herbert H. Bates, of the class of '91, Harvard, has been engaged as associate in structor of English literature and rhetoric at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. Major John A. Tibbitts, of New Lon don. Conn., now United States Consul at Bradford, England, has recently been in poor health, but is now reported as very much improved. M. Bertand, one of the lessees of the Paris Opera House, at which Warner's works are to be performed this mouth, has given up several of his other business enterprises to concentrate attention on this. Miss Mary Holland, daughter of Rev. Robert Holland, roctorof St. Gcorgo's Epis copal Church, St. LouU, is about to enter St. Margaret's Hospital, Boston, as a trained nurse, with tho intention of devotinghorlife to hospital work. General JosErn B. Carr, ex-Secretary of State of New York, is at St. Luke's Hospi tal in that city undergoing treatment for a cancerous affection. The case is not re garded as incurable, and he will piobably bo out in a few days. The late Postmaster General Raikes, of Great Britain, was much interested in sport ing matters. He never bet appreciably, but he bred horses for the turf, and was active In certain racing councils. As a schoolboy, he was captain of the successful crow in a regatta, and even after ho reached the age of GO ho would sometimes pull an oar with his boys. Prof. Tsndall has recently been an noyed by intrusive neighbors. One man built a stable Just in front of the scientist's study windows, and refused to move it when offered a free site and $500; and when, as a last resort, Prof. Tyndall erected a screen of larchpolos and heather, the townsfolk evinced great irritation; and the matter was discussed at length In the local press. Isaac Codt, father of Buffalo Bill, was the first man to shed bis blood in Kansas for the cause of human liberty in tho troublous days of 1854 He was a farmer, with some little knowledge of law. when he moved into that territory lrom Iowa,and ho was stabbed by one of the ugly squatters who sought to advanco tho interests of slavery at that timo. Mr. Cody's tent is said to have been the first that was pitched in Kansas by a regular set tler, and on the site of it he afterward built a log house that was the boyhood home of his noted son. Good Advice by an A. M. E. Bishop. JouSTOwif, Sept. 16. Special. The A. M. E. Zion Church is holding its annual session for the Allegheny district in this city. Many prominent ministers of that church are present, among thom being Kov. John Holli day, of Pittsburg, and others from that end of the State. Bishop J. W. Wood, ot North Carolina, delivered an interesting Episcopal address to the members this afternoon. He devoted a greater portion of his address to bad habits, both among ministers and mem bers, of their congregations. He was par ticularly severe in his denunciation of the too free use of tobacco and intoxicants. Up Goes tlio Price of Coal. New Yobk, Sept. 18. Tho agents of tho. coal producing companies met' to-day and ordeied prices advanced from 10 to 2 cents a ton October 1. Broken is advanced 10 cents: eeg and stovo, 15 cents, aud chestnut 25 cents. iCTffilUEATJSTOgDSEPTEBpTTPpS CHINESE MAY COME. A Decision That Nullifies Attorney General Miller's Opinion- and Gives the Celes tials Admittance From Canada A World's E"alr Conference Bonds and Fractional Silver. i Washington, Sept 16. Special. A very radical turn in Chinese immigration affairs has been taken at the Treasury De partment. "The Chineso may come" is a re vised interpretation of the Chinese exclu sion law which Acting Secretary Spaulding has reached. For mouths the Treasury has been straining every nerve to turn back the tide of Celestials which has been flowing across the border from Canada. A largo force of detectives has been kept in Canada to give information as to the approach of groups of Chinamen. Acting Secretary Spaulding has himself made a trip along the Northwestern border to familiarize himself with the extent of the trafflo and devise further means for keeping the Chinese out. But the Treasury Department lias thrown up its hands in despairand declared in effect that "the Chineso may come." It will be recalled that Attorney General Miller gave an opinion some weeks ago to the effect that when a Chinaman camo to this country by way of Canada he could not claim that Canada was the country "from whence he came." As the Chinese exclusion act permits the Treasury Department to re turn Chinese- immigrants to the country from whenco they came," this opinion in effect declared that Canada was not an asy lum of refuge for Chinamen, and that when caugnt they could be shipped to China, and not merely to Canada. It has never done any good to return them to Canada, as they, would soon slip across the border again. Acting on the Attorney General's opinion many Chinamen have stopped at border points. Some of them have hired lawyers and fought the Attorney General's view, ana to-day word was received that a test case at Detroit had been so decided that the Treas ury Department would havo to bring its Chineso crusade to an end. ' Miller's Decision Upset. The Collector of Customs at Detroit has telegraphed Secretary Spaulding that Judge Swan, of the United States District Court, has decided that Canada was tho country from which the Chinese came when they got into this country by way of our Northern neighbor. Thl3 was directly in face of the Attorney General's opinion, and if Judge Swan's rule was followed Chinamen could not be sent back to China. Secretary Spaulding was loth to aocept such a ruling, but there was no alternative. The Attorney General's view was merely an opinion, which had no binding effoct, but the Swnn decision came from a Federal Court. Tho Acting Secretary, therefore, telegraphed that the decision of Judge Swan would ho accepied by the Treasury Department as final unless some method of appeal to the Supreme Court could bo devised. Tnere is no appeal, how ever, and the Treasury officials feel that the war of exclusion against the Chinese is sud denly brought to an end. Secretary Spaulding said that If the border courts wished to thus construe the law so as to favor Chineso immigration, the Treasury would give np Us efforts until Congress came together and changed the law. This ending ot the controversy means much to Canada in the way of revenue, as the Dominion will now become a thorough fare for Cninamen en route to this country, every one of whom pays $50 as head tax to Canada. Four shiploads of Chinamen arrive at Vancouver every month. There wore 7,900 Chinamen landed from January 1 to July 15 last, and 7,000 wore destined to the United States. Canada's incomo on tho traffic for this period was $395,000. The activity of the Treasury detectives and officials has been the only thing which has In any way limited the influx thus far, but with the acceptance of the Swan decision as final to-day the Treasury agents are brought to a standstill, and the bars are practically mi unu uuwu lur tno incoming ininamen. World's Fair Conference. The conference between the "World's Fair Foreign Commissioners and tne princi pal onicers or tne Treasury Department re specting the modification of certain features of the customs regulations, so as to facilitate the free entry of foreign exhibits at the fair, was held at the Treasury Department this morning. The conference was held with closed doors. At the request of Secretary Foster, tho commissioners agreed to formu late in technical shape the regulations they sought to have put in force. They expressed satisfaction with the construction of the law already given by the department officials, and suggested some further modifications of tho practice. Secretary Foster assured the commission ers that he would do everythlngin his power to meet tho needs of the foreign exhibitors, and where modifications of tho existing statutes icquiredhe wouldcheerfully recom mend that Congress enact the necessary amendments. The commissioners made ft plain that the suggestions they had brought forward embraced the wishes of the intended exhibitors In every European nation visited by them. At the conclusion of the hearing the commissioners proceeded to the White Honso, where they were received by tho President. Foster's Bond Notice. Secretary Foster issued a circular this afternoon giving notice that no more bonds of the i per cent loan will bo received for continuance at 2 per cent alter tho SOth. Bonds not then continued will be redeemed on presentation. The circular will also revoke the notice given August 21 to the effect that the Assistant Treasurer at Now York will redeem 4 per cent coupon bonds on presentation nt tiiat place. Owing to numerous inquiries coming from many different parts of the country for frac tional silver coin. Indicating a scarcity of change in many communities, the United States Treasurer has prepared for transmis sion to all banks and other financial institu tions and to the principal postofflces in the United States a circular, stating in substance that now halves and dimes will be furnished in sums of $200 or more, by exDress, free of charges, or bv registered mail in sums or multiples of $50, registration charges paid to any point in the United States. Office Seekers Busy. The President's first day at tho "White House after his long vacation was a very busy one. He was overrun with callers.and, as the weather here Is as hot as at any timo during the summer,the visitors, particularly the office seekers, grew quite annoying. The applicants for tho big vacancies were not on hand in person, but each of tlio Cabinet members and other close friends of tho Pres ident has a candidate whom he is not back ward in bringing lorward. It is thought heie that there is no doubt about the President's intention to make a Judge of Attornoy General Miller. It Is thought probable, also, that the present Cabinet vacancy will be filled before Mr. Miller is appointed to the Judge ship, and when the second vacancy occurs through Mr. Miller's resignation there will be a shifting about in order to get General Wallace into tho War Department, unIos3 the sentiment in Indiana leads tho Presi dent to turn from Wallace to Judge Brown. Brown has the reputation of being the best lawyer In the State. Ho was very strongly urged for tho Supreme Court Jus ticeship on each occasion when a vacancy has occurred during this administration. If the President should be induced to take Judge Brown for his Cabinet instead of General Wallace, Judge Brown may be made Attorney General. A Troublesome Question. The thing which promises to give Mr. Harrison most trouble from the very start is the appointment of a successor to Judge Sohoflold on the Court of Claims. There are many candidates for the placo, nearly all of whom are strongly backed by politicians, who will have something to do with the selection of delegates to the Republican National Convention. It is generally be lieved that thouch Mr. Harrison all bnt I promised Senator Quay that he would ap point uiii.es uv w ut uo u now mat he and Mr. Quay are at war again. Probably the strongest effort in behalf or any candi date for the place is that to secure the ap pointmentlor ex-Representative Thompson, of Ohio. It is understood that ex-Representative Clements, of Georgia, has the Inside track on the Inter-State Commerce Commissionershlu. Cannon, of Illinois: Butterwortn and McKinloy, of Ohio; Cogs well, ot Massachusetts: McComas, of Mary land, and other Republican and Democratic politicians who served with him in the House, the list representing between 25 and SO States, are asking for his appointment. The Republican vacancy on the commis sion Is eagerly sought after; but no one ap pears to have any idea what the President contemplates doing with relation to it. Without being in the interest of any par ticular candidate, a strong pressure is being brought to bear upon him to induce the se lection of some man from the far West. The name of Spooner, of Wisconsin, has been suggested to him, bnt tne President, it Is stated, has good reason .for believing that ho would not under any circumstances ac cept the appointment. Good Times Bad for Democrats. Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. Good crops make gooU business and pros perity for the country. Good times 'for the people make bad times for Democratic politicians. RECLAIMING THE WESTERN DESERT. The Irrigation Congress Continues Its Ses sion at SaltXake City. 8ait Lake Crrr, Sept 18. To-day's session of the Irrigation Congress was devoted to the consideration of the report of the Com mittee on Resolutions. It recommended to the convention tho discussion of the follow ing topics: Should Congress donate larids outright to tho States and Territories! Should Congress, instead, make giants in trust? Should such donation orgrantin trust be of the arid lands only, or include the entire public domain within the States and Territories to be benefited, or should it be limited to tho number of acres of both or either? Upon what conditions and with what instructions spould agrant trust be made? Should States and Territories bene fited compel tho preservation of sources of water supply by protecting the forests which guard them? Instead of such grant or donation of land, is It advisable that the Federal Gevernment Tetaln the public do main and itself enter upon the work of reclamation of the arid land and then trans fer to actual settlors. The congress went into committee of the whole with Senator Stewart, of Nevada, In the chair. Francis C. Newlands, of Nevada, in. a speech of some length, stated that the field of individual effortln the matterof irri gation was about exhausted. The first essential thing is the control of the land it self. The people can do nothing until they receive an unlimited grant of all the arid lands within this region, or agrant sufficient in quantity to justify the States In under taking the work. The United States ought to make grants in the arid regions with a view to developing the school interests. The congress must consider the effect of a de mand upon the national body for that amount of land. The East .would certainly oppose it. Tho speaker favored a cession by Congress without conditions. Newlands closed with tho assertion thac greater men lived in the West than in the East, and urged the nomination of a Western man for Presi dent. Mr. Estee, of California, took exception to this speech, and said that Congress nad as sembled for the purpose of discussing, not polltios, but lnigation. Resolutions pro viding for the issue ofbonds to the amount of $150,000,000 to be expended on irrigation; said bonds to be redeemable in Treasury notes issued against them, were offered and laid over for future consideration. A WATCHMAKERS WAR. The Old Fight Among the Big Companies of the Country Breaks Oat Afresb. Chicago, Sept. 16. Special. After slum boring a few months, tho old war has broken out afresh among tho Dig watchmakers' of America. This time the Elgin and Waltham Companys have pooled their issnes and by one claw seek to wipe out of existence their dangerous foe, John C. Daebor, who left the trust four years ago. From that moment all the power of money was brought to crush him. Once he made an assignment, but recovered again, and since then various rumors have been circulated as to his financial standing. Four months ago Dueber put upon the market a watch movement known as the 18 size. Nothing like it had ever been sold before for less than $15, but Dueber poured his movement on the market at $9 50. This stirred up the trust and Just a week later a circular was prepared and signed by the two big com panies, which proved that the withdrawal of the Elgin Company from the Trust a few weeks ago was merely a formality to evade tho State anti-Trust law. By the terms of this circular the Elgin throws away $100,000 and the Waltham com pany over a million, and the circular is now hi the hands of every Jobber in the world who handles Waltham and Elgin move ments. It carried with it a notice that all 16-size movements would pa sold at a reduc tion of 20 per cent. The Elgin company will J lay $100,000 in rebates to Jobbeis who now old in stock the goods on which reductions are made. The remaining $300,000 is the loss on movements now held by the company. With the Waltham people a much larger stock was carried, both in stock and in the hands of the Jobbers. Nothing is thought of tho retail dealers In the country stores. The loss to them will be very heavy in the aggregate. FOR AMUSEMENT LOVERS. "Pompeii" is to be given at Recreation Park thi3 evening with more pomp than usual. Messrs. Pain & Sons, proprietors of tho spectacle, are here, and have taken charge of the closing performances. There will be only one more exhibition after this on Saturday night. The special features for this evening are a portrait of C. L. Mageo in colored fires, taken from one of the latest pictures of this well-known Pittsburger, and Niagara Falls in silver fires. Niagara has al ways boon popular with visitors to "Pompeii," and notwithstanding that it is very expensive, tho management is deter mined to give It for tho wind-up of tho sea son. There are a number of now specialties for tho Pompeiian games before the eruption Vesuvius. "O'Dowd's Neighbors" is doing a splendid business nt tho Dnquesne, It is the best farce comedy that has been in Pittsburg for many seasons. The preliminary fall season at this theater ends with the presentation of "A Fair Rebel," a war comedy-drama that is one of the solid successes of the year. It is filled with stirring occurrences and splendid scenic environment. Tun production of "La Belle Helene" by Miss Pauline Hall and her superb opera company Monday night next at Mr. C L. Davis' now Alvin Theater is creating a great deal of Interest among lovers of light opera. Miss Hall will bo seen in a new rolo es pecially congenial to her, and her excellent company cannot fall to do full Justice to Offenbach's exqnislto music. The Fitzsimmons furniture at Harry Davis' Fifth Avenue Museum is a great card. A perfect representation of the fatal cham ber is given, with the Identical bed and other things that were in tho room at the time of tho murder. The skeleton dude says ho has chosen his bride, but will not name her till Saturday. Effie Eixslsr comes to the Grand Opera House on Monday night, and brings with her the orjglnal Madison Square Company, or at least those who originated the principal characters, including Messrs. Couldock and Weston. The Bijou Theater management havo a surprise in store for PIttshurgers in tho pro duction of the spectacular farce-comedy "A High Roller," on September 21. Barney Fagan and 20 comedians will furnish the fun. Beginning next Saturday and on each suc ceeding Saturday throughout the season, every child who visits the World's Museum Theater will receive a handsome present. nARRT Williams has an excellent enter tainment at his ever-popular Academy of Music. DEATHS HEBE AND ELSEWHERE. Monsignor Botelli, Papal Nuncio. A cable dispatch from London announces the death of Monsignor liotelli, tho Papal Nuncio at Paris. Monsignor Roltlll was appointed Nnnclo In June. 157, anil was well received hjr rresldent Grevy. soon after lus arrival he fell under the dis pleasure of the radicals by appearing, lt.was said, at a reception given by Baron Mackaa to a party of royalists. Several Deputies said tliev would bring the matter before the Chamber. The Nuncio explained that he had attended the reception merely as a private person and not In his omclal capacity: and there the matter ended. The Tope Is deeply affected over the news or the Cardinal's death. Ieo XIII. had Intended to create the Nun cio a cardinal at the next consistory. Jonathan Edwards. Jonathan Hagan, a leading and wealthy citizen of Stcubcnvllle, died yesterday morning of Inflammation of the bowels aftcrV short illness. Mr. Hapin was a prominent member of the First Presbyterian Church, holding the office of Treas urer. He has been a member of Council, of the Board of Equalization and held other responsible official posluous. He was about 58 years of age, and leaves a wife and five children. Mrs. John O. Boyle, of l'lttsbnrg, is a sister-in-law. Obituary Notes. SlE JOIIJf STEELE, It. S. A., 6culptor to Her Majesty Queen Victoria, who executed the bronze statue of Robert Burns erected In Central Park, Hew York City, la dead In London. Mas. R. SCHEIDLBK, wife of a prominent trac tion engine manufacturer of Newark, O., died Testerday aneruouu mivr k buurb mness. esne was the recognized leader of society In that town and active in cnarimuw. "wii.. Dwnuiuimii oo jears of age. MBS. Makguebette SltARr, widow of the late Thomas C. Sharp, a pioneer resident of Braddock, died yesterday at her home at Green Springs, aged St years. She was the mother of Thomas W. Sharp, of Braddock. who has several times been Burgess of the borough. Oliver G. Park, a former business man of Newark, O., and doorkeeper of the House of Rep resentatives in Columbus, died jesterday at the home of his brotlier-lu-law In Newark, ageil 53 cai. He is the last of three brothers, and has lived In that vicinity almost all Ms lifetime until about a J cur ago, when his family removed to Chicago. VJZ? "&& T"t?!5 AN EDUCATIONAL CAMPAIGN To be "Waged by the Antl-Sub-Treasnry and Antl-Tblrd-Party Section of the National Farmers' Alliance The Macune Censuro Resolution Fosses. Sx. Louis, Sept. 1C The Farmers' and Laborers' Convention reassembled this morning at 10 o'clock. The first order. of business was the qnestions of yesterday, and thay were carried by a good majority. An effort to make them unanimous revealed two negative votes, who did not relish the resolution oensurlng Macune. The Commit tee on Permanent Organization then pre sented their report as follows: "We,- a largo number of the Fanners' Alliance and Industrial Union, representing our constituencies In convention assembled, being desirous of settling the differences existing In our order, agree to the appoint ment of a committee of seven members who are authorized to go before the Supreme Council or tho Alliance which convenes at Indianapolis in November, and submit to said Council our objections to that part of the demand of tho order for the sub-Treasury and Government land loan schemes which were adopted by the Supremo Council at its meeting in Ocala, Fla. Said committee are authorized and empowered touso their own discretion in the premises. A Bureau of Informa.ion Proposed. "Pending these negotiations for an ami cable settlement of our differences, tlio com mittee hereto provided for shall constitute a bureau of Information, and shall use all legitimate means for informing the subordi nate unions and the peoplo in regard to the true views and principles now engaging the attention of tne industrial classes of Amer ica. Said committee is authorized to secure competent speakers and suitable literature, and to devise ways and means for paying all the expenses of an educational campaign. Said committee is authorized to call a con vention of all antt-sub-treasury brethren throughout the countrv to consider the re port of the commlttco as to the result of the conference with the Supreme Council, and may fix the time and place of meeting and make such arrangements as may be deemed necessary. "Wo further recommend that each State select a committee, such committee to con stitute a State Bureau of Information, which shall be empowered to make all necessary arrangements to obtain speakers and con duct a campaign of education against tho sub-Treasury and land loan schemes in their respective States, and shall Co-operate with the National Committee." This did not satisfy B. W. Nicolds, of Mis souri, and ho offered the following amend ment, which was unanimously adopted: For Complete Political Liberty. "That said committee be authorized to file the convention's unalterable and unend ing objection to tho passage or any resolu tion whatever binding the individual mem bers of the Farmers' Alliance to auy political conrse of action; and we hereby protest against the action of any previous meeting infringing upon the individual political rights of any member of the order." The report as a whole was then adopted by unanimous vote. Then came one of tho most important declarations of the conven tion. It has been maintained right along by many of the delegates, and some even went so far last night as to give out to the press, that a new State organization in Mis souri had been organized; that this conven tion was for the express purpose of seceding from the National Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union, and form a new body in opposition to the present organization. A. 8. Smith, ot Missouri, wanted to protest against these erroneous statements, and in troduced tho following, which was adopted unanimously: "Whereas, Tholmpresslon hasgainedsome credence that the primary or ultimate ob jector this meeting is for the purpose of ef fecting a separation or division of the order and the formation of a distinct organiza tion, therefore, "Resolved, That such purpose is not and has not at any time been the intention of this meeting, but that Its object la purely one of expressing Its opposition to tho pro posed sub-treasury and land loan cnact mont, and to institute an educational move ment in that direction, thereby bringing tho organization back to those principles of wisdom, Justice and fraternity on which it was originally based." The Co-Operation of Outsiders Asked. The Committee on Permanent Organiza tion asked for a further hearing, and the fol lowing was presented: Believing that the future policy and pros perity of tho Government and of the Farm ers' Alliance and Industrial Union depend In a large measure upon the action of thi3 body in setting forth plans for .the work in the future; fully realizing the fact that we" need the hearty co-operation of all people, and especially of the members of our order, and in order to secure the same we recom mend that the members in each State who oppose the snb-treasury and land loan scheme, the Government ownership of rail roads and who arc not represented In this meeting, be respectfully invited to co operate with us, and are further requested to proceed to organize and to elect one mem ber from each State who shall become a member of the National Central Committeo provided for by the report of the Committee on Permanent Organization. This report was adopted without debate. CEHTBAL PENNSYLVANIA GBANQEB3. Ex-Governor St. John One of the Orators at the ISolIefonto Convention. Bellefonte, Sept. 16. Special. The weather being disagreeable not over 8,000 people gathered at Grange Park, whero tho Patrons of Husbandry or Central Pennsyl vania are holding their annual convention." Hon. Leonard Rhone, Master of tho State Grange, made tho opening address, and was followed by Colonel Jamc3 Wearers. Ho dwelt at lengtn on equal taxation and tho free coinage of silver, of which he Is an en thusiastic exponent, and which Is rather favored by tho members from this section. Hon. S. R. Downing, of West Chester, also made an interesting nddress. The principal speaker this afternoon was ex-Governor St. John, of Kansas, who made a long address on general fopics of interest to farmers. This afternoon there were fully l,200peqnlo present, and many weio disap pointed at not hearing Governor Pattison, who was detained at the last moment. To morrow and Friday will be tho big days, the latter being veterans' day. Tlie Death of Andrew Hartnpee. Andrew Hartupeo. the great engineer and machinist, died yesterday at the home of his son, W. D. Hartupeo, Charloroi, Pa. Ho was an inventor and produced tho first com pound engine and tho first nutmaking en gine. During the war ho became a great boat builder and subsequently built the Pittsburg water works. Ho was born in Pittsburg In 1319 and until recently has always lived hero. His daughters aroMrs. It. Sellers McKee, Mis. Dr. Chandler and Mrs. Burke. His son, W. H. Hartupeo, is superintendent and part owner of the Char leroi glass works. Homestead's Soldiers' Monument. Homestead, Sept. 16. ISpecial. The new $2,200 soldiers' monument at ttiis place will be formally unveiled to-morrow with appro priate ceremonies. Major Denniston, of Pittsburg, will bo Chief Marshal. Thero will be ptesent 13 G. A. R. posts in a body and 10,000 persons are expected to take part in tho parade. Colonel W.J). Moore will be the orator of the day, and A. B. Hays, with other prominent persons, will make ad dresses. Colonel Chill W. Hazzard, of Monongahela City, will conduct a big camp flro in the Opera House In the evening. Whitewashing a Canadian 91. V. Ottawa, Sept. 16. The majority report of the Cochrano Committeo reported to Parlia ment yesterday exonerated Mr. Cochrano M. P., from complicity In selling Govern ment offices, holding that his connection with the abuses has not been proven. Tho minority roport contends thnt the clllng of offices would not have taken place unless in spired by Cochrano. Tho Privileges and Election' Committeo met to-day and adopted tho majority report. Tho uiinoilty report will bo moved as an amendment in the House. Tho B. & O.'s Earnings Increasing. Baltimore, Sept. 16. Charles F. Mayer, President, was in tho chair to-day at the meeting of the Bo'ard of Directors of tho Bjitlmoro aiid Ohio Railroad Company. Tlio Secretary read tho lolloping statement of earnings and oxpen-es for the month of August: Earuincs, $2,352,3!-9; increase. 101,552; expoiiees, (1,401,25 : tncixaso, $58,507; net, $S(il,S33; increase, $U,C5. T. V. Powdcrly Veiy III. , Wilkesbarre, Pa., Sept. 10. Special. It is reported here Jo-night that T. V. Powderly has been oeized with another of his minting spells, and hU condition is very weak. HAHTI7ACTTJBEB3 CHANOINrj BASE. The Labor Question Forces Them to Locate In Small Towns. New York Post. A noteworthy development of the labor question in the Eastern States is the estab lishment in recentyearsof a number of shoo manufactories in the smaller cities and towns of Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont. This Is the result of the troubles with the "walking delegates" nnd other obnoxious accessories of the labor unions in the cities where this industry wa3 formerly concentrated. Many a manufacturer has bad the experi ence of ono who recently olosed his big fac tory in Haverhill, and explained his course by saying, "I am tired of being bulldozed by labor unions." The single factory in the small town escapes these troubles, its em ployes being as a rule men of some charac ter, who aro not ready to throw up work at the beck of any loafer who mav come to tho front in a nnion. A few years ago the agita tors thought that they were going to "run" the whole Industry of shoemaking, but they are slowly learning their mistake. MBS. FAIR'S FOBTUNE. She Wills the Bulk of It to Her Daughters Instead of Her Sons. Bi,n Frahcisco, Sept. 16. John Mackay and Mr. Dey, the late Mrs. Fair's men of business, estimate the value of her estate at $6,000,000. The will is not to be opened until after the funeral, but its provisions are known. To her two sons, James G. Fair, Jr., and Charles Fair, she leaves but a compara tively small amount. The great residue of the estate is to be divided equally between the two daughters, Mrs. Herman Oelrichs and Virginia Fair. Their fortunes, like their brothers' por tions, are to be in tho bands of trustees and the incomo onlv is to go to them, at least for some years. There are no bequests to churches or charitable institutions. This fact has caused considerable surprise, as during her lifetime Mrs. Fair was one of the most generous of the patrons of a large number of charities. Ilensel After Thosi Rebates. Hapjusbtro. Sept. 16. Special. Tho At torney General to-day entered suit against the publishers of the Philadelphia Press, En quirer Ketcs, German Democrat, S!forth Ameri can and Evening Bulletin, to recover the sum of money alleged to havebeen paid as rebate to the persons who prooured for them the advertisement of tho mercantile appraisers lists. The Commonwealth will claim that the money was unlawfully paid. Suit has not yet been brought against the Philadel phia Telegraph because of the absence of tho publishers in Europe. Sunday Cars Will Still Bun. HAnitisnnKO, Sept. 16. Special. Attorney General Ilensel to-day addressed a commun ication to the counsel for the citizens of Harrisburg, who petitioned for a writ of quo warranto against the East Harrisburg Pas senger Railway, and to the counsel who ap peared in opposition to the petition, Inform ing them that after due consideration of the matters presented at the hearing of the case, he declined to permit the use ol the name of the Commonwealth in a proceeding to for feit the franchise of the company, on the ground that it operates its cars on Sunday. Calling the Kettle Black. New Tork Tribune.) Tammany objecting to tho County Demo cracy on the ground that it has not pulled true is a flagrant case of pot calling kettle black. It was Tammany wnich not so many years ago bolted and defeated the Demo cratic nominee for Governor. It was Tam many which.according to the Albany Argus, helped to defeat General Hancock for tho Presidency. A prettv organization to ay ralgn a fellow-organization for disloyalty to party! Becelpts From Public Works. The financial report of the Department of Public Works for August shows the follow ing receipts: Diamond markets, $1,648 15; Adams market, $4; Southside market,- $426; Monongahela wharf, $499 10; Allegheny wharf, $313 26; Southside wharf, $36 36; city weigh scales, $73 38; Bureau of Water Sup ply and Distribution, $13; Bureau of Water Assessment (new buildings), $224 90; switch licenses, $75; scalo licenses, $75; total, $3, 890 03. It Is Answering Its Purpose. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. 3 Tho McKinloy tariff law was prepared with a view to promoting the prosperity of the industrial and commercial interests of the United States, and it is answering that purpose in a very plain and satisfactory way. What the Party Baa Done. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Gormany cannot float a 3-per-cent bond at par, while tho United States Is extending 4J-per-cent bonds at 2 per cent. A fact like this shows what the Republican party has done for the country. Keeping Well in the Lead. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Tho Ohio Republicans "got the bnlge" on their opponents at tho beginning of the campaign, and tbevae keeping it in a way that is beautiful to behold. WEDNESDAY'S SOCIAL CHATTEB. Mb. axd Mrs. W. R. Haslett and Miss Sadie Bartholomew, of Jackson street. Allegheny, have returned home from Bedford, White Sulphur Springs and Somerset. They under took: tho old time way of travel to drive across the mountains there and back. Captain John "W. Morrison, candidate for State Treasurer, left last night for Coats ville, whero he will attend the reunion of his old regiment, the 125th Pennsylvania volunteers. Invitations have been issued by Miss Sella A. Boardmnn to a select reading and musical at her home, Ridge avenue, Alle gheny, Wednesday evening, September 23. Eobert Lanyon, of Pittsburg, Kan., is at the Monongah'cla. Ho is Interested in the skelp mines at that point. The output this year is the largest for some years post. James B. Clay, of Lexington, Kv., passed through tho city last night. He had in charge two carloads of blooded horses lrom the blue grass country for New York. V. J. King, the coal and coke operator of Cleveland, is at the Anderson. He does not think thero will bo any moro trouble in the coke regions for some time. Rev. J. G. GEomiAir, pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church, Allegheny, was tendered a reception last evening by the members of hi9 congregation. G. A. Allen, a prominent politician of Zanesville. O.. passed through last night. Ho thinks McKinloy will be elected by a band some majority. Theodore Hawkins, of Iiealsville, a brother of Colonel A. L. Hawkin, 10th Regi ment, N. G. P., with his family is at the Central. Samuel E. Stewart and James S. Fruit, members of the Legislative Investigating Committee, went East on the fast liho last night. Tub Ellsworth Social, of Allegheny, have isued invitations for its seeond annual ball which will be given in Turner Hall Novem ber IS. John H. Evans, Prothonotary of Venango county, went to ew York on'tho fast Una last night. His family accompanied him. The second annual bill of tho East Park Council No. 321, Jr. O. U. M., will be held at Masonlo Hall, Allegheny, November 36. Tub marriago of Mis9 OHIe Haney and Mr. John L. Gettv, of Indiana, Pn., will be solemnized in ilcKeesport October 14. Thomas Barnard, superintendent of the Western Union Telegraph Company at Bnf lalo, is a guest at the Anderson. Countr Chairman Cochran, of the Itepub lican County Committee of Mercer, went to Philadelphia last night. J. Horace Harding, a prominent, banker of Philadelphia, Is registered at the Dn quesne. James Amen, who is with the Standard OH Company at Buffalo, is at the Duquesne. Dick Quay went East last night. He will Join his parents at Atlantic City to-day. Miss Kate Bujm and Dr. George M. Shll lito will be unltod in marriage this evening. Franklin Pierce, the well-known Iron man of bljarpsville, is at tho Anderson. Thomas Gatt and wife, of Moundsvillc, are at the Seventh Avenue. State Senator J. AV. Lee, of Franklin, is a guest at the Duquesne. A tea will be given this afternoon by Mrs. Fred Magee. CURI00S CONDENSATIONS. The cork-oak tree is now being success fully enltivated in California. Cotton having a beautiful red color is being grown In some parts of Georgia. An old homestead sold lately at,Bed fOTd. Mass.. has been In ono family for a period of 227 years. A new method of diverting and healing the insane of Blackwell's Island, N. Y., is to have them rehearse in comedy. The most striking thing in the Peru vian exhibit at the World's Fair will bo ono of the human heads that tho Jivaros Indians wear as trophies of war. The farmers in Washington have straw roads, which are said to be excellent. They take the straw after It is threshed and scat ter it over the roads, and after awhile, when It is settled down, it makes a road like papier mache, smooth and dnstless. A set of furniture for Prince Budolph's smoking room, made for the Prince In Vi enna just before his suicide. Is now on ex hibition In a Chicago store. It 13 a curiosity of workmanship. The chairs are covered with leopard skin and the chandcller.bureau, batrack, clock, card and smoking tables, as well as the chairs and woodbox.are all mada or the horms or wild animals killed in the woods near Vienna. At Bayreuth, the other day, an amus ing Incident took place. M. Van Dyck, the tenor, was playing Tarsifal to Madam Matcrna's A'toufry.and in trying to escape from her wiles, being overcome with enthu siasm, he seized his hair with both hands, forgetting the presence of a wig. The ludi crous scene may he imagined, and poor Van Dyck was obliged to return to tho wings for a mirror. California will make a good showing as a producer of beet sngar this year. The Chlno factory expects to produce 5,000,000 pounds of sugar, the Watsonvllle factory 8,000,000 pounds, and the Alvarado factory 2,000,000 pounds. This makes a total of 7,500 tons, which seems a large amount, but the United States imports sugar to the value or $100,000,000 annually. It will be some time before we can make all this sugar at home. A prominent lumberman of Galvestqn, Tex., has in contemplation, it is said, a unique project, nothing less than shipping a huge raft of logs from Galveston to Lon don, lie thinks there is less risk in shipping from Galveston to London than in shipping from St. Johns, N. B., to New York. Tho raft will be built in three sections, firmly lashed and spiked together. It will be com posed of yellow pine for building purposes. Near Higate, about 40 miles west of St. Thomas, Canada, was discovered the larzesC skeleton of any extinct animal yet found. It belonged to the order of mastodon gigan tlcus, and measured 22 feet from end of nostrils to tip of tail. The tooth only of one of these huge monsters of prehistoric times was dug up recently at Falling Springs, near Belleville, Miss., whicli weighed 14 pound3 12 ounces, and bad the skeleton been dis covered it wonld probably have been found to be that of an animal 30 feet long. The vastness of Maine's timber wealth says the Southern Lumberman, is not gener ally appreciated. Every year now 500,000,000 feet of logs are cut in tho State, about one-third of this amount floating down the Penobscot, and the quantity of manufac tured lumber that has been shipped from the State since the first sawmill was started is enormous beyond description. To-day the Penobscot log crop is sawed almost wholly for the American market, New York, New England port3 and Philadelphia taking the bulk of it. In the collection of curiosities at Wool wich arsenal, where the great English guns are made, is probably tho largest steel shav ing in the world. It Is the result of an acci dent. A workman who had charge of a lathe on which a 60-pounder was being turned left his post for some time, and on his return he found that a shaving over 70 feet in length had been turned from the gun's jacket in bis absence. It was subsequently tied into a huge Turk's head knot, painted , red. white and blue and placed among the curiosity collection. Boston is threatened with an invasion , of black ants. State street, in the vicinity of the Exchange butlding.is literally swarm ing with them. They are to be seen in tho street, on the sidewalks, and crawling up the sides of the buildings. Many have mado their way into the buildings, and prove very troublesome. They are more than a quarter of an inch in length, and many of them have wings about halt an inch long. Their bito is said to be much more troublesome than that of tho mosquito. Where they came from seems to be a mystery. The present wonderful run of salmon has soglntted tho market, says tho Port Townsend Leader, that for some time these silver-sided beauties havo been selling at 5 cents apiece, but the price took a tumblo yesterday and several fisherman sold a boat load of salmon, weighing? 20 pounds each, at the pitiful price of 1 cent apiece. One cent for a 20-pound silver salmon, tho finest quality or that excellent fish, is the lowest price, perhaps, that a food fish ever sold for In this or any other country, but salmon are so plentiful that peoplo do not know what to do with them. A girl of 18 years, the daughter of a sea captain, recently navigated her father's ship when he and all tho crew were down with yellow fover. The bark, a coasting vessel, bound from South America to Savan nah, was last spoken at sea off Navassa. when all bands were reported ill with yel low fever, and no attempt was made by tho vessel which reported her to give any as sistance. The master of tho bark had with him on board his only daughter, who appears to have been the last to catch the fever. With the aid of ono or two sailors who managed to crawl to the deck, she navi gated the vessel for several hundreds of miles, and succeeded in reaching port with a crew dead and dying and tho captain In a critical condition. Audrain county has a ghost story In days gone by there was a man and a maid who loved each other with that very fierce caloric ardor that animates all such affairs In Audrain county. Bat the parents objected and they were separated. In the vicissitudes of the years they lost sight of each other, bui they never forgot nor were consoled, and both died of broken hearts on the same day. In the old, happy days of their freshly bud ded love they used to take buggy rides on the Range Line road, nnd now their spooks continue tne uussiui excursions. -very Sun day night the specter lovers, with horses and chariot from spirit land, may bo seen gliding noiselessly along the old road. An effort has been made to authenticate tho story by the statement that the female ghost always docs tho driving. JOKELETS FROM JUDGE. A wicked Western boy killed hi3 father and mother aud was duly found guilty. "We ask for leniency in the senteace. Your Honor," said tho lawyer for the defense. "On what irround?" Knifflr asked the judge. TTour Honor, the defendant is an orphan." Although it seems to me you're carpin, Your words appear to be much out of Joint; For. like a poor lead-pencil we would sharpen. You never seem to come just to the point. "This young man," said a gentleman who was urging a claim for a situation In a bank, "is so trustworthy that his companions call him 'Honest Dick."' "Then I don't want htm," replied the bank pres ident, with a shudder. "I wonder what Slimson keeps an office for?" said a business man. "He never has any thing to attend to down town." "I suppose," was the reply, "he has to have some place to go while his wife gets the Louse-work off her hands." The men who marry their chosen girls Are like the divers w'ho leap In the sea; They may perhaps find treasures ami pearls. Or monsters they never had known to t. "I have here an article on 'The Style of Bndyafd Kipling,' " said the young lady. "Don't want It," returned the offlce boy. "Give ns one on his lack of It and she goes." Cubbage What's the difference between a dilatory manAud the president of a female col lcsc? Rubbagc I'll give It up. Cubbagc-One misses the trains and the other trains the misses. He swore loner to succeed in life, And the crown that he wears is not dim; For a race horse to-day Is named for his wife. And a tuiooat la called atter him. Guest (in Chicago) I really must apologlre for my husband's absence. He enjoys these muslcales so thoroughly. Hostess Shall we not see him later la the even lug? Guest I'm afraid not. There's a couple of thdusand hox to kill for early morning delivery, and I guest Butch will find his hands full. What a beautiful volume ofUrowulngyou lnvel" "Blithers is an awfully mean duck. He rohbed the poor-box once." Tbat'snot anything like as mean as nicks.. Hicks borrowed a one-cent paper from a newsboy' and then gave It back." ""- , .- ...... K ' P-.i J .-
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