THE PrTTSBtTR& ' DISPATCH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19. 38MT - - ESTABLISHED FEBRUARY a 1846. Vol. 4fi.No. i. Fntcrcd at Pittsburg Postofflce, .'ovember H. 1SS". as eecond-class matter. Business Office Comer Smithfield and Diamond" Streets. News Rooms and Publish'ng House 78 and So Diamond Street, in New Dispatch Building. KHTFRN ADVKUTISIXG OFFICK. BOOMS, TRIKtlNK BUILDING. NEW YORK, where com plete file of TH E I) IsPATTH can alwavs be found. Fo-elirn advertisers appreciate the ronTenlcnce. Homcadvcrtl wrs and friends of THE DISPATCH, bile iiNcw York, are also made welcome. THEDISPATCHftTtpularlycn tale at Brentano' t, I Cnton Sjuare. Sis lark, antl! Arr de I'Opem, Pari. Pranr. inhere anvonr irho hat been disap pointed at a lctd nncsstawt can obtain 1t. TERMS orTHE DLSPATCII. rosTAne rnEE ix the totted states. Daily Disrvrcn. One Tear f SOO DAiLTDisrvrai, Per Quarter. SCO Pailt Dikpatcii, One Month 70 DULT IirATCU, Including Sunday, 1 year.. 10 00 Daily DiFrATCIi. includingSundav, 3 m'ths. 2 50 Dailt Dif rATCII. Includlrg Sunday, 1 m'th.. SO EcDATDirvTcn, One Year. 2-10 WEMO.T Dispatch, One Year. 1 25 TnK Daily Iisfattii Is delivered liy carriers at 15 cents per weeV, or. Including bunday Edition, at 10 cents per week. fpiTTSBCRG, SATURDAY, SEPT. 19, 189L TWELVE PAGES Gt)V. CAMPBELL'S .sFECIVL CASES. That part of Governor Campbell's speech at Sidney, O., which sought to make cap ital out of the United Glass Company, whose headquarters are in Pittsburg, and the McKinley tin plate badges, was a very weak attempt to answer the protection ar guments of Ills opponent The Disp.vrcn, as its readers well know, does not favor combinations, and it distinctly considers that manufacturers who resort to such de vices to suppress competition are in most instances, -nhile subserving their own im mediate interest, furnishing ammunition for the free traders. But Governor Camp bell would have the Ohio publicbelieve that this combination of glass factories is sure to be a source of immense profit at the ex pense of consumers. It is curious to note that investors who are supposed to be on the hunt for a good thing are not so cagerly of that opinion. Tart of the programme of the glass combination is to put in tho individual works, apparatus, etc., at what is claimed as actual value somewhere about 32,500, 000 and take stock In the new concern in exchange therefor. In addition, 1,000,- 000 of preferred stock is offered to the general public with a promise that 8 per cent will be paid upon this before any profits go to the common stoek which the projectors of the combination hold. Yet this 1,000,000 of preferred stock has not yet been absorbed by capital seeking in vestment, though it has been tendered in the public market for several weeks past Governor Campbell and any other Ohio man who believes there is to be an im mense profit in this latest trust can doubtless for a considerable time yet have an opportunity to take larga chunks of the cream of the earnings by subscrib ing to part of this million issue, upon which 8 per cent is guaranteed out of the first fruits of the enterprise. Eight per cent investments are usually jumped at if they are considered absolutely safe. May it not be, as the projectors of this particular combine urge, that the necessity of cutting down expenses is as much a factor in the movement as any prospect of being able to force higher prices. Governor Campbell was also unfortu nate in his special allusion to the McXin ley tin-plate badges. Ilespokeof these as made f rom"imported steel, coated with im ported tin by imported workingmen." TnE Dispatch yesterday received one of these badges by mail. It bears the inscription, "McKinley and Protection; made of Ohio steel and California tin, Pioua, 189L," And it contains the further specific legend, "Made from steel sheets rolled by the Piqua Rolling Mill, September 8, 189L Coated with Calilornia tin and Missouri lead by the Cincinnati Corrugating Com pany September H, 1891. Xot an atom of foreign metal in this plate." 'What but harm can Governor Campbell do his cause by misstating facts? Was there not enough perversion last fall of the effects of the McKinley bill, and is not this misrepresentation coming back as a boomerang? 'While admiring Governor Campbell's administration of State affairs, we must say that, unless he improves In the quality of his bpeech-making upon na tional issues, his appearance on the stump will only have the effect of largely in creasing Major McKinley's majority. VIRGIN SOIL GIVEN AWAY. The President has thrown open to set tlement, after Tuesday next, 266,243 acres of land in Oklahoma. The scenes enacted when the first Oklahoma land was thrown open to the public are fresh in the mem ory of the people, and it is expected that they will now be repeated, but on a milder scale. The experiences of the first settlers of the Territory cannot fail to have a restraining effect on the ardor of the actual settler. But tho land specula tors will be on the ground early. The territory to be opened is fertile and capable of supporting a large population. It is i ell watered and the soil is virgin. It needs only to be understood to be made a valuable addition to tiie producing capacity of the Union. The main trouble with the population of Oklahoma has been that they neither understood the country, nor the conditions leading to suc cess there, nor were the majority of them more than mere speculators hoping to reap rewards through the holdings tiey ob tained for a King. As yet there is no scarcity of land for actual settlement for agricultural purposes, but the throwing open of territory which has been reserved draws attention in its direction and ulti mately results in its development which otherwise might not occur for several dec ades. Philadelphia's turn now. Philadelphia city officials are now suf fering the agonies cf suspense over the question whether the general stieet act, passed at the lat session of the Legisla ture to straighten our own municipal muddle, applies to Philadelphia or not As that act requires the assent of the major ity of property owners affected, both in interest and number, before they can be assessed for any improvement, it is clear that if the law extends to Philadelphia the path of the municipal improver in that city will not be quite as smooth as it has been. The history and purpose of this enact ment is well known to Pittsburgers. It was introduced and passed, together with other bills, as a general act providing the method for the improvements named in all cities. Its purpose was that if the critical taste of the Supreme Court with re gard to special legislation applying to Pitts burg should rule out the other acts, a gen eral law might be provided under which the opening and improvement of streets and the building of sewers would be pos sible. It was given special application to Pittsburg by a clause repealing all special legislation with regard to this city on the same subject The question whether the absence of such a repealing clause with regard to Philadelphia legislation leaves that city under the old acts is what is bothering the proverbial acumen of the Philadelphia lawyers. But supposing that Philadelphia is sub ject to the new law, Is not that quite in accordance with the needs of the situa tion? Is not what is sauce for the munici pal goose of Pittsburg equally sauce for the municipal gander of Philadelphia? If the very rigid views of tho Supreme Court make it necessary to protect the citizens of Pittsburg by these stringent measures should not the citizens of Phila delphia have the same protection? And if the old Pittsburg street acts were knocked out by an unreasonable view, should not Philadelphia join Pittsburg in sweating over the results of the judicial hypercriticism? THE ROAD REFORM. The fall is rapidly moving forward to the season when the prevailing rule throughout the country will be roads of a muddiness impracticable for heavy loads, and during a portion of the time impass able for nearly all vehicles. This has been the accepted condition of things tor so long that it is generally regarded as part of the order of nature from which it is useless to rebel. It will certainly take more than the coming seasonof bottomless country roads, to arouse the people to the value and economy of improved highways that shall be available for all sorts of traffic at all seasons of the year. Tet the difficulties of overcoming the inertia of public opinion should not be permitted to sink the importance of this issue into oblivion. Every example where durable highways have been constructed conveys the proof of their value to agri culture and through it indirectly to com merce. It has been said and with a good deal of force, that the agriculture of the Central States is handicapped by the sys tem of freight charges which gives the cheap and productive farms of the West an advautage in proportion to the distance ranging from 10 to 20 cents per hundred pounds. Yet it is a fact which every one can recognize who takes the trouble to consider the matter, that a system of high ways which enabled the fanner to haul his products to market in heavy loads at all seasons of the year, would effect more than that saving on the primary cost of getting the products of the farm within easy reach of the nearest purchasers. The materials of constructing solid high ways are within casyreach of nearly every county of the State. There Is certainly no reason why the rural districts in the region surrounding Pittsburg should not enjoy roads of the high character of ths old Na tional turnpike before it was permitted to fall into decay. A DISCOURAGING RESEMBLANCE. It is interesting but not very encour aging to find the Fitzsimmons case re peating the feature of the notorious Tas cott case in the capture of a large number of criminals supposed to be Fitzsimmons at widely separated points at the same time. This irresistibly suggests the result of the Tascott case, in which although there was a reward many times that offered for Fitzsimmons the murderer got off scot free. The fact that when the latter breaks the restraint of our new jail all sorts of unknowh and shad' people are at the disposal of our authorities except the man who is wanted, gives us little prospect that justice in our county will get its clutehes on the man who has most wantonly defied it for many years. Of course there is still a hope that Fitz simmons may be recaptured; but if he is it will be due to luck and not to the care and efficiency of the public guardianship of criminals in this county. NO PROPER CONNECTION. The proposition that the Allegheny street railway lines should pay up their dues to that city is indisputable; but tho accompanying proposition that the grant of new franchises should be made de pendent on their doing so, is far, from be ing correct The grant of franchises' for providing transit on the streets should be controlled solely by the consideration of the best and cheapest service for the peo ple. There may be a variety of opinion as to the best way of securing that end; but it is clear that the payment of car, street cleaning and dividend taxes has no relation to it Not only is it entirely uncon nected with the only criterion in the grant of new franchises; but it is obviously not the way to collect public dues from the street car companies. Every city must have the means of enforcing these taxes. It has officers who are paid to colle ct what is due it If the corporations are recalci trant there is abundance of property within reach for an enforced collection. To let such taxes run on and then to en force them by the device of making their payment the consideration of new priv ileges is a striking example of the way things ought not to be done. The statement of taxes uncollected for various periods as far back as twenty-three years offers a very fair field for a stringent inquiry why the officials of Allegheny City have not done their duty. But to connect the payment of what the city has a right to collect with the grant of further fran chises as a sort of bribe to the corpora tions to pay their debts is little short of puerile. mpPOLYTEVS VIEW. General Hippolyte, the President of the Ilaitian Republic, in a published inter view remarked in connection with other little avowals to the effect that he only desires to establish the constitutional or der in Haiti and that his enemies, the dis turbers of the peace, are powerless; that he lias a great admiration and friendship for the United States. He also protests that he has no objections to the appoint ment of colored men N as United States Ministers to Haiti; that Minister Douglass' color was no obstacle to his usefulness; that the only reason why the late Minister was not successful in what has been re garded as the purpose of his mission was the manifest impossibility that a negotia tion for the acquisition of the Mole St Nicolas by the United States could suc ceed under any circumstances. In short everything is lovely from General Hlppo lyte's standpoint; but we cannot kave the Mole St Nicholas. It only remains to in quire why the manifest impossibility of that negotiation did not occur to the Haitian leader at the time when the Uiiited States took the action that gave him the control of the Government There also seems -to be ground for asking whether it pays this Government to go into the busi ness of backing up certain parties in the West Indies for a consideration, and then to fail toreccive delivery of the goods. Tiieke is a familiar sound in the com- plaint beard from Now York that at a des tractive Are tn tholower part of the city there i was not water enough for the lire engines in 1 the Fulton street main. We also precelve a ' situation with which Pittsburg is well ac quainted tn the subsequent dispute whether it was because the main was inadequate) or that some one had turned tho water off. Mijprylovos company it is true; but it is hardly flattering to reflect that the parallel to Pittsburg's experience in this respect had to bo produced by Tammany misrule. PnnnAPS that Mitylene affair was "only a picnic" and perhaps it was not; hut tile greatest picnic was to the British navnl forces in observing 'how easily they could send all the European bourses into panic without tho slightest danger to themselves. "Pennsylvania," remarks the Phila delphia Ledger, "is interested in tho decision at Chicago that only anthracite coal shall he used on the grounds during tho Expo sition." It is undoubtedly; but it is equally interested in the question why coke, which is equally smokeless and has a greater heat ing power, should not also bo used. Was there a desire to conciliate the anthracite corporations, that they should be given so excellent a chance .to demonstrate their penchant for squeezing high prices out of consumers? The news that the Mercier party in Que bec consider the demand for an impartial investigation of their corruption, an infringe ment of their political rights shows that the nature of politicians is much the same in all latitudes. TnE reference of the German Emperor to "the Corsican parvenu" in his speech at Erfurt, shows the petty ideas which eontrol imperial minds. One would, naturally infer that the recollection that the Corsican par venu conquered all Prussia in one of the shortest campaigns on record might inspire the presont Ilohenzollern with a wholesomo respect for tho vigor of parvenus. But the Ilo henzollern idea is evidently to the effect that no one has any right to conquer anyone else unless he has a pedigree to back him. The prediction that the name of the next Governor of Now York Begins with an F, is an easy one, if between Flower and Fassott the people do not betake themselves to the third party woods. TnE British idea in India is well illus trated by the selection of a five-year-old rel ative of the recent Rajah of Manipur to bo his successor. The advantages of ruling the Indian provinces in the name of chil dren who bear the title, have often heon demonstrated by tho English. But the In dian people might And British rule easier if they were not taxed to keep tho puppets of royalty in luxury. In New York the State flower contest it seems, is still to he settled. The Democrats have put their riower Into nomination; but the Republicans offset this with the claim that Fassett is a daisy. TnE torrid wave which has attacked the country for .the middle of September is the one thing that the crank weather prophets were unable to foretell. It is encouraging to hear that another week of it will mako the corn crop safo from frost; but it seems de cidedly unnecessary to keep the temperature so long a distance away irom tho frosty point. The campaign has not yet begun, but it might profitably bring forward tho live is- sue, whether the Cleveland or the Harrison administration put the meanest mucillage on its postage stamps. YOUNG blood has been brought to tho front in the politics of the Eastern States by tho nominations of Allen and Russell in Massachusetts and of Fassett in New York. Flower may not be especially a representa tive of youthful strength; hut there is no doubt that his barrel is vigorous. To corporations in Allegheny: Pay up whatever you owe, and then we will see about granting you more privileges. Tim Spanish floods left the .Tohnstown disaster in th6 rear by destroying 3,000 lives out of 7,000 population in the town of Con suegra; but tho case does not call forf nrther efforts to establish the supremacy of tho United States in tho line of destructivbnoss. NAMES OF PBOMTNENT PEOPLE. Henky Balvlantine, United States Consul at Bombay, is in London on his way to India. Sardou, the great French playwright, writes a hand so fine that it almost requires a magnifying glass to read it. The wife of Allen G. Thurman, now up ward of 60 years old, has been confined to her bed byillncss for nearly a fortnight; but until this attack had shown few signs of de crepitude. Tolstoi recently received a letter from an American girl, declaring that her fortune of $201,000 was twice as large as she needed, and asking what ho would advise her to do with the surplus. The marriage of the Archduchess Louise, of Tuscany, and Frince Frederick August, of Saxony, will take place in Vienna, Novem ber 2L Tho Gorman Emperor and Empress will be among the guests. Robert Franklin James, son of Frank James, the notorious bandit, has non a scholarship It a popularity contest at Dallas, Tex. Ho goes to the Marmnduke Military Academy, at Sweet Sorlngs, Mo. Tnc widow of Dr. Loring, who was his second wife, is descended from old Israel Putnam, of Revolutionary famo. She was an attractive figure in Washington society under the Arthur administration. Colonel Alfred T. Smith, of the Eighth Infantry, with his family, is visiting his father, General John E. Smith, at Chi cago. Colonel Smith goes to David's Island, New York harbor, to take command. CArTAlN O'Shea, ex-husband of Kitty, is reported to contemplate wedlock again. The young lady to whom he is said to be en gaged is a daughter of an English squire, who at one time occupied a rather promi nent position in tho world of politics. President Diaz was CI last Tuesday, ana the Mexicans duly celebrated. Tho General made a lino appearance at a mili tary review on Monday. lie rode an Ameri can thoroughbred and wore a major gener al's uniform. Ills troops made a fine array. Norwegian papers have announced the engagement of Dr. Sigurd Ibsen, the eon of ths author, and Frk. Bergltot Bioernson the eldest daughter of the Norwegian poet and politician. The young woman, who possesses great musical talent, is at present a pupil of Mme. Marches!, in Paris. Sho is said to he beautiful and clever. Mrs. Diebrich, mother of Mrs. Lieu tenant Peary, who is now in tho Arctic re gions, received a letter from her daughter yesterday, saying that tho exploring party is not in distress, as lias been reported. She states that tho party has a comfortable house, 60 tons of coal, 20 oil stoves, and that the boats oro in first-clas3 condition. Lit log Expenses Decreasing. bt. Louis Globe-Democrat. 3 Living expenses in this country, leaving sugar and xvheat flour out of the calculation, aro somewhat smaller oil tho same amount and variety of purchases than they were a year ago, when the tariff of 1S8S was still in operation. This is widely different from what the Democrats said would be the caso. Tho now tariff largely reduced the price of sugar, and the failure of the crops in the Old World increased tho price of wheat. But taking sugar, w heat and every other neces sary article into the estimate the level of housekeeping expenditure is about the same as it was at tills time in 1890 or ltbU United Brethren Reports. BEiiErozfTK, Sept. 18. Special. Tho sec ond day of tho United Brethren Conference was occupied by the continuation of reports of committees, the report especially of tho Chnrch Erecting Committee, making an excellent showing. Reports or ministers were also heard. Bishop Keppnrt, of Iowa, gave an inteicsting address, as also did Rov. Dr. Tunkhanscr, President of tho United Brethren Tlicoioical Seminary, who lect ured in the evening. THE ITASCA BASIN. Tho True Source of the Mississippi River Annonnced Changes In tho Basin Since the Time of the Nicollet and Schoolcraft Explorations. The controversy ns to the source of tho Mississippi river has placed before the pub lion vast amount of new information of an interesting character, says tho Chicago Inter-Ocean. In 18S1 Captain Willard Glazier mado an expedition to tho headwaters of the Mississippi and announced that ho had discovered that Lake Itasca could not be re garded as the true source of the great river. He found a lake to tho south of Lake Itasca which he called Lake Glazier, and which he claimed was the true source of the Missis sippi river, 3,184 miles from tho Gulf of Mexico, with an elevation above tho ocean of 1,582 feet. Captain Glazier started from Bmlnerd, Minn., on the 12th of July, 1881, in tending to go to Lake Itasca, or the head waters of tho Mississippi, and make a canoo voyago to the Guff of Mexico. In the course of this expedition ho discovered a new lake to tho south of Itasca on the 22d of July. Ho started from there in a canoe and made the journey down the Mississippi, reaching tho Gulf ot Mexico on the 15th of November. On his return ho published tho story or this ex pedition aid claimed the discovery or the trno source of the Mississippi. This announcement precipitated a contro versy in which the Historical Society of Min nesota took issue with Captain Glazlor, denying nt first the existence of such a lake as he described. In 1839 J. B. Brower. a special commissioner of the Minnesota His torical Society, mado "a detailed hydro graphic survey of the source of the Missis sippi and oimulated nu exhaustive report thereof, which is soon to be publishod. . Snrvcylng on a Frozen Lake. This survey was commenced in March 1S9, upon tho frozen surfaco of Itasca Lake. He found to the south of Lako Itasca tho lake described by Captain Glazier, which he claimed had been discovered by Julius Chambers in 1873, and which was called by tho Indians Elk Lake. He reached the con clusion, however, that the principal stream emptying into Lake Itasca from the south was that extending to tho Nicollet lakes, and he was disposed to regard these lakes instead of Elk Lake as the true source of the Mississippi. Nicollet called the river extend ing from Lake Itasca to tho Nicollet lakes "Tho Littlo Mississippi," and Mr. Brower gave the distance ot Lake Itasca from tlie gulf as 2,54S miles, from there to tho head waters of Howard creek flowing into Nicol let lakes 5 miles, and making the distance from the gulf to tlie head of Howard creek 2,552 miles. From tho gulf to Elk Lake he re ported the distance ns nearly 2,550 miles. In this report Sir. Brower claimed that in 1816 Mr. Nicollet laid down Elk Lako ns an estuary of Itasca, but that at a lnterdate Lake Itasca receded from Elk Lake to a lower level, and the two lakes are now con nected by a short creek. He claimed that the original discovery of this creek and Elk Lako was mado by Jnlius Chambers, who, on the 9th of June, 1872, while encamped on Schoolcraft Island explored tho shores of Itasca, nassed m Elk creek in his canoo to Elk Lake, crossed to the southern shore of tho lake and then passed down the Missis sippi in his canoe. Mr. Chambers published a man claiming that this lake, scarcely a quarter ot a mile in diameter, was the true source ot tne Mississippi. A ii. seiginca visited Elk Lake in July, 1S79, Edwin S. nail claimed to have i&ited the hike in 1875, O. E. Garrison in i860 and the Rev. L. A. Gilfillan in 1881. Beautiful Lake Glazier Explored. On the 17th of August last Captain Glazier and several others loft Minneapolis to make a second survey of the sourca of the Missis sippi. They made a caroful survey of Lake Glazier and the report pronouncedit a beau tiful sheet of water one and one-half miles In length and from one-half to three-quarters of a mile in width, in extent 255 acres, its depth 45 feet. According to this report Glazier Lake is connected with Itasca by a creek 1,100 feet long. This has a brisk current and carries enough water to afford passage to tho large boats between the lakes. The lake is fed by four tributaries, the largest of which is Excelsior cieek, which has its source ono and live eighths miles from Glazier Lake. A careful rcnort is also mado as to Nicollet creek, which is r -ported one and one-half miles in length. Toe first of tho Nicollet Lakes is described us a Illy pond of about 3 acres; the second a small lake about 12 acres in extent; the third lake beyond the ridg6 is about 10 acres in extent. This re port decides in favor of Excelsior creek, which flows into Lake Glazier, as tho true scurco of the Mississippi. In Nicollet's map of the source of tho Mis sissippi Itasca Lake is giveu a different con figuration from that on the official maps of Minnesota. At that time, according to his report, thore was no Elk or Glazier Lake. Standard Books Found to Be indefinite. Chambers' map of 1872 gives another out line of Lake Itasca, Dut marks the lake now called Elk or Glazier as Lake Dolly Varden, and describes it as only a quarter of a mllo in diameter. Captain Glazier's map of 1881 agrees with Brower's map of 1890, except; that it places Glazier Lake further from Lako Itasca than the Brower map places Elk Lake. Glazier's map of 1891 differs from that ot 1881 in that it gives mote prominence to the Nicollet Lakes and places Glazier Lake closer to Lake Itasca. It is stated that the first white man who visited Lake Itasca was William Morrison, in 1303. H. R. Schoolcraft visited the lake in 1532; J. N. Nicollet in 1S36; Julius Chambers in 1872; E. S. Hall made a government survey in 175; Captain Glazier made his first survey in 1881; Hopewell Clark mado a special sur vey in ls-86; Mr. Brower mado a special sur vey in 18S9; Captain Glazier made his second survey in 1891. This is tho record. The standard books of reference, when they come to speak of the source of the Mis sissippi, are indefinite. Tho article on tho Mississippi river in the American Cyclope dia says: "The source of the Mississippi, ac cording to Schoolcraft, who visited it in 1832, is a lako call.'d by him Itasca, by the Chip pewa .Indians Omoshkos Sagaigon, and by tho French traders Lao la Blche. It is a beautiful sheet of water, clear and deep, about seven miles long and one to three milos wide, in latitude 47 and 14' north, longitude 95 2' west, about 1,575 feet above the sea. Five creeks fall into Lake Itasca, the principal one of which has its origin about six miles distant in a pond formed bv Mater oozlnt; liom the bases of the hill's known as Hauteurs de Terre, which are about 100 feet high." AGAINST A THIED PAETY. Tho Alliance Is Not a Unit on tho Political Issues. Chicago Inter Ocean.l Tho St. Louis convention of Alliance men opposed to third partyism and sub-Treasury loanism is of Southern origin. The purpose of the active spirits of the convention is to prevent a stampede from the forces of tho regular Demooraoy of tho Southern States, Bnt it must bj plain to tho Kansas or Nebraska man who is n member ot tho Allianco that if "better Tcsults can bo achieved for the agricultural people by voting inside ot old party lines than by form ing a third party" in the South the same must bo true in the North. If the sub Treasury scheme be regarded as ridiculous by any considerable body of Alliance men in tho South, surely it cannot be carried o effect by tho votes of a single class of tho community in two or three Northwestern States. Already it is plain that the Alliance is not i unit on political issues. It contains "free and unlimited" coinage men and men who favor free but not unlimited coinage, men who hold tho sub-Treasury Schome to bo infinitely practical and men who regard it as superlatively visionary; men who are out and out protectionists and men who are plain free traders; men who are pro hibitionists and men who aie opposed to all sumptuary laws; men who think that veterans of tiro Union army and tho widows and orphans of deceased Union soldiers should be pensioned and men who speak ot the pension system as a "steal:" men who approve 01 me general unit ot Republican legislation and men who regard nil laws mado in pursuance of Republican policy with hatred. It does not seem possible to unite elements so discordant by the single bond of discontent, nnd discontent is tho sole bond of unity woven by tho politicians who would mako the Alliance "a third party." Veterans' Day at Bellefonte. Beliztoxte, Sept. 18. Special: This was a big day at the Grangers' State picnic, it be ing Veterans' pay. There were nearlya.OOO in attendance from Central Pennsylvania. In the business meeting General Beaver was 1 re-elected President of the association. Re ports of the different committees were heard, nnd addresses wore delivered by General Beaver. General David M. Gregg, candidate for Auditor General; Hon. A. R. Tllden, Dem ocratic candidate for State Treasurer; ex Department Commander Austin Curtin, Gen oral Banks and others. The old war Gover nor, Hon. A. G. Cnrtln, gavo a very touching address on the decreaso in tho ' ranks, and stated that it will probably bo the last time be would have the pleasure of addressing them. TURKEY HOLDS THE KEY. If Russia Secures the Ottoman Empire England Must Fall. "I said to Hon. William E. Gladstone 15 years ago in London nt tho Langham Hotel: 'If England ever permits Russia to take pos session of Turkey your country will bo tho next one the Czar will reach out for and will grasp,' said Robert Levy, of Constantinople, to n Chicago Herald reporter. "The country that takes possession of Turkey can command tho entire world. Tho Snltan has as much as said to England: You made us fight onco, now you go ahead and fight.' If England and Germany permit Rus sian war vessels to pass through the straits of tho Dardanelles those two countries will regret it, and regret it, too, at the cost of thousands of lives and the expenditure of millions of dollars. And before tho end of tho strife is reached the United States will will bo drawn into tho trouble. This coun try would do well to extend its moral sup port to Turkey, if nothing more, for the Sul tan's domain is tho key to the critical situa tion. War in Europe is inevitable. What harm has Turkey done to the nations of Eu rope that they should always be doing us an injustice and injury?" asked the enthusias tic Turk. "Turkey is a free country to every body. English, Russian and other mer chants go there and secure prosperous in vestments nnd they are not molested. But treaties are made with us and then brokon; promises aro mode, but are never carried out. "When the treaty of Batouh was signed it was understood between nil the nations of Europe, including France, Germany, Italy, Englnnd, Russia and Austria, that the port of Batonn, which was Turkish territory, should be a free port to the entire world. But shortly afterward Russia became avaricious and took possession of Batoun. 'which is now under the Czar's control. tvnatum the other European nations do? Nothing. They never gave tho affair tho slightest notice, and Turkey was compelled to submit to the outrage. The feeling among the people of Turkey is in tense, and tlioy are ready to fight at a mo ment's notice, and they little care with whom they fight. Turkey can have a de termined army of men of 500.C00 in the field in a short time, and by a little hard work 1, 000,000 men could be pi essed into tho service. War we know is inevitable, and we aro only waiting for it to come. And when tho mur der does commence, for it will bo nothing else in those modern times, England will see hcrorror. nnd nrobablv too late. Russia with its 115,000,000 people can wield a mighty power, and if tho Czar's warships are per mitted to come down the Black Sea through the Bosphorus and from there through the straits of tho Dardanelles, the Sultan's em pire will be gobbled up, then India will bo gathered into the fold. England will next fall, and Russia will be as great a power as the Roman Empire." A HOT BAIN ST0BM. Death Valley Is One of the Best Places for Man to Avoid. Chicago Inter-Ocean. It is hoped that Mr. W. S. Barton, of Cali fornia, miner and prospector, is a verao ions gentleman. A storm of boiling hot rain is calculated to take tho Juice out of credulity, but as ho locates it in Death Valley an ex haustive argument is not necessary to con vince minds that Mr. Barton at least has a nodding acquaintance with truth. A queer region is Death Valloy, and the discriminat ing Forty-niners who had a nice sense of tho fitness of names mado no mistake in chris tening the sink of tho Amnrgosa river. Tho valley is in the county of Inyo, between tho Panamint Mountains and the Amargosa range, and it Is there that the Amargosa river is swallowed up and forever after lost to sight. In tho deepest part the bed lies 150 feetbelowtho level of the sea, and the rocky walls on cither side rise 1,500 feet above Its level. The entire valloy is a desert, the air ex cessively dry and suffocatingly hot. No man has. ever explored its area, for the reason that it is impossible to sustain life long enough to traverse its awful waste, which is eight miles wide and 40 miles long. Tho air is poisonous as well as intensely hot, the thermometer exposed to its influence often showing a temperature of 125. It was while attempting an exploration of this vallev with the thermometer 115 at midnight that Mr. B irton and his party wore showered by boiling water and escaped scalding only by gettting under close camp cover. Death auey is one ot tne Dest niaccs in tne worm to avoid, and it is difficult to surmise what reward even the most adventurous explorer coulH hope for in 'getting upon its cruel sands. It is presumed that tho valley is of volcanic origin, and that unextinguished subterranean fires render it so fatal to man andbcast. LIBEBAL PABTY CBISIS. The Salary Question Is Assuming an Im portant Position. Washington Star. The Liberal party of England faces a new crisis. Tho Radicals, composed chiefly of labor men flushod with last w eek's victory in the Trades Union Congress for the prin ciple of pure manhood suffrage, insist on tho members of the House of Commons being paid a salary out of the public treasury. Thoy expect a larsrer representation in Par liament, and the paying of salaries to mem bers would promote their purpose. The old Liberal leaders are hardly pro pared to concede the claim as yet. It would certainly have the oflect of transferring in a short while the leadership of tho party to tho radical element. At present tho coun try gentleman, the brower and the manu facturer control tho organization, which is a mere extension of tho Whig party of other days. The full representation in Parlia ment of the laboring class of Great Britain and Ireland would work a mighty change in British politics and institutions. DEATHS HEBE AND ELSEWHEBE. Ex-Congressman Brentano. Ex-Congressman Lorenz Brentano died at his residence In Chicago yesterday. For seven years he had been suffering from paralysis, and his death came not unexpectedly. Mr. Brentano was born la 1813 in Mauhelm, Baden. Germany. He studied law at Heidelberg. After leaving the uni versity he returned to Manhclm and engaged In the practice of law. He was twice elected mayor of that town, but the government on each occasion refused to confirm his election or alloW Mm to serve. In l$tshewas elected member of the Par liament at Frankfort, and before the end of lhe session became the leader of the Liberal party. In the political movement which led to the fleeing of the Urand Duke and the Government crisis of 1818 he was made President of the Provisional Govern ment of Baden, and later on Dictator, On the re turn of the monarchists to power he fled to Switzer land, and was sentenced to death la his absence. From 1860 to 1S67 he wa editor and principal pro prietor of theStoat Zritunv at Chicago, and for Ave years was President of the Board of Education. Colonel Samnel B. Pickens. Colonel Samuel B. Pickens died Thursday morning at Charleston, S. C, aged 52 years. He belonged to the famous South Carolina family of Pickens, and was a relative of the war Governor of that State. During the war he commanded the Twelfth Regiment of Alabama Infantry, Confed erate Army, Deing probably the 4 oungest Colonel in the service, the rank of Colonel having been conferred on Mm when he was 25 years old. He was In all the battles fonght bv his army except when wounded and surrenderrd at Appomattox. Since the war he had followed railroad pursuits, helngat the time of his death General FrIghtand PaS'cnjrcr Agent ofthe South Caroll na and Charles ton. Cincinnati and Chicago Jtallroid Companies. He ranked high among railroad men of the bouth. The runer.il will take place to-day. William aioorliead. "William .Moorhead died on Thursday at his residence on Water street, Freeport, at the age offlo Tears. He learned the hlArkhinlth tnrfpln Pittsburg In 1817, and for years had a shoo near the arfcnnl. He was well known to almost all of the older Plttsbargers. George A. Kuhn. George A. Kuhn died suddenly yesterday at his residence on Center avenue. He was pay master of the P. & L. E Railroad and was widely known in political circles. Nicholas Veeder. Kicholas Veeder, private secretary of Dr. C. G. Hussy, died Thursday at the residence of his son, Herman, on Pennsyhania avenue, Allegheny He will be burled to-day. Obituary Notes. General Isaac W. Qcimbt, who was a class mate or General Grant at West Point, and who served witn aieuncuon in tne army, died in Ho- Chester. . Y.. yesterday morning, aged 70 years, He was also a professor of mathematics and natara history. LiEUTEXAitT.IOHN W. Gabdneb, United States Navy, died at his home at Athens, N. Y"., Thurs day, aged 53. For brave and, meritorious services during the war he was a few years ago placed oo the naval retired list ith full pay. James S. Smith, the oldest manufacturer or coins, medals and badges la the country, died Thursday morn ng at his home In Brooklyn, in his S5th year. He was born In Birmingham. England, and came to this country when a buy. and iu 1823 started the business In which he became famous. OUE MAIL POUCH. The Lost Cabin Mine. To the Editor or The Dispatch: 1 have been looking for further news lead ing to a confirmation of the report contain ing tho particulars ofthe latest finding of tho "Lost Cabin Mine," from tho fact of my once meeting with an old-time prospector who claimed to have found and lost, at ono time, tho lost mine at a point which ho do scribed as being in the near vicinity of tho place where tho rocent discovory is said to have been made. Some three years ago, while absent on an extended trip to tho Pacific slope and the South I spent several months in the Cascade Mountains, within 100 miles or less of tho present location of tho "Lost Cabin Mine," where I learned of many leading Incidents connected with 'the history and search for tho mine that has never reached the press. During my stay I met several miners who claimed to have inter viewed the person who attended the only surviving owner of tho mine during hls ill ness and death after his escape from tho In-, dians nnd return to civilization, nnd to whom tho minor, dnringhis lucid intervals, imparted the secret of the existence and locality of tho mine that has for years baffled the efforts of an army of gold hunters to discover. Soon after mr arrival in tho mountains I formed tho acquaintance of au intelligent middle-aged miner, who had given up min ing and had settled down and become a well-to-do ranchman in that vicinity. Ho informed us that whilo out on a hunting ex pedition the previous season he got lost from his party, and during his wanderings ho unexpectedly came across what ho felt confident was the "Lost Cabin Mine." But, being out of provisions, he only remained long enough to note tho appearances of tho mine and take in the surroundings sufficient, as ho supposed, to enable htm to locate it at any time, and then pushed on in quest of his'companions. Keeping his find a secret, he returned home to secure a mining outfit, but on account of tho lateness of tho season was compelled to postpone his return until the following spring. At the time of our first interview he had taken in a wealthy minor, nn old mining companion, as a partner, and thoy had purchased ponle3 and all mining equipments, and were then on tho evo of their departure for the field of operations. So sanguine was everyone of their suc ceeding in resurrecting the mine, tho event of their ,:oing was deemed equivalent to tho possession of tho fabulous wealth the mino was supposed to contain. But when three months later thoy returned, with rusty, unused mining implements and were sllont upon the subject, it was evident the mino romainod as much of a myth as ever How ever, they finally admlttod that their search had only been suspended fora time and would, later on, be prosecuted until success crowned their efforts. Taking into con sideration tho fact that this minor located the mino at about the samo dtstanoe and in tho same direction from Klamath Lako as mentioned in tho recent report, the chances aro greatly in favor of these miners proving to be the latest discoverers. A. A. A. LEEcnmnio, Pa., September 18. Waste Should Be Stopped. To tho Editor of The Dispatch! Some time ago my attention was called to an article in your valuable paper which stated that a considerable number of valua ble commercial commodities could be ob tained from smoke. Would it not be for the interest of some company of capitalists to utilize the smoko produced in Pittsburg? By this means the city would bo relieved from its nuisance, and there would not be so much waste as at present. The figures representing the waste in Pittsburg must bo something enormous, and a time will come when those who aro permitting it to con tinue will bo sorry they did not take advan tage of their opportunities. An immense amount of heat which surely could be utll izod is lost every day, and tho sooner tho genius solves the problem of bringing it into use, tho better it will bo for all concerned. Nothing should be wasted that can bo savod. Ecoitomv. Pittsbcho, Soptomber IS. Senator Sumner's Arguments. To the Editor of The Dispatch t What were Senator Sumner's arguments against the proposition of President Grant to nnnex San Domingo. B. H. McKeesport, Sept. 18. Sumner alleged that tho people of San Domingo wore opposed to annexation, and that the President of that country, who had endeavored to carry out the scheme, was an adventurer whom the people hated. Loss by Tornadoes. To the Editor of The Dispatch: Can you tell me what the loss of life and property in the United States by tornadoes has been? Metes. Pittsbcho, September 18. The total number of tornadoes recorded is 1,867 during 87 years. Over 3.0C0 people were killed and 5,049 injured. The loss of property amounted to $911,282,500. The Cost of Alaska. To the Editor of the Dispatch: From whom was Alaska purchased? How much was paid, and in what year did the bargain take place Seal. ALLECiiAEJiT, September IS. Alaska was purchased from Russia in 1867 for$7,2CO,000. SNUBBING AMEBICAN TOADIES. Some of Them Complain of the Crnsado Against Them at Homburg. Chicago Tribune. A dispatch from London states that Ameri cans returning from Germany are complain ing bitterly because of the crusado mado against them at Homburg by the swell En glish and led.or instigated by the Prince of Wales. The announcement made lu this dispatch, however, is altogether too sweep ing. It should have read "toady Americans returning from Germany." It is not only probable but certain that many Americans have visited Germany this year who know nothing and caro nothing for the Prince of Wales and his fnwning courtiers, and who have carried them selves with dignity and honor as American citizens, and have secured respect for the American name among the Germans by their conduct. There is, however, a numer ous class of Americans from the toady rich, and mainly from Now York, who have played spaniel to the Prince of Wales and his set, and demeaned themselves ridicu lonslv to secure notico from him. and who have spent their money lavishly nnd re sorted to various disgusting artifl-es to com mend themselves to tho swell English co terie which lias been sojourning this season at nomburg. It should bo a matter of general satisfac tion that tho Princo of Wales, cloyed with their flatteries and disgusted with their fawning obsequiousness, at last has soured on them and given notice to his baccarat clique to snub and ostracize them. They will have no sympathy at home They have nothing but vulgarity and money to com mend them, and commendation of this Bort goes no farther In this country than it does in Homburg. Dignified and self-respocting Americans would not bo exposed to snubs from his Royal Nibs for the leason that they would never seek his company after tho revelations of his real oharacter recentlv mado in a court of JusHce. The class of people whom he has snubbed are entitled to no more consideration nt home than thev received abroad, and their punishment will bo approved herewith quite a much satis faction as tho London Timex manifests, while intelligent foreigners will know bow to make the proper discriminations. To Encourage Homo Industry. Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. Tho Democrats need not attempt to show that they havo favored froo sugar, or are en titled to any credit for the removal of tlio tariff from it. All of tholr tariff bills have placed a duty on sugar, bocauso it yielded a large revenue. They voted against the free sugar clause in tho McKinley bill. Now they are trying to get even by denouncing tho sugnr bounty as a burdensome fraud. It Is n Republican measure, doslgned to encour age n homo industry, mostly in the South. Its cost is not great only about a fifth of what consumers will save by the removal of duties on imports. Sympathy Tells for Blaine. New York Recorder. Sympathy tells for Blaine, it is true. But it is sympathy of patriotism which, beyond all feeling of moro personal kindness, hopes nnd prays that talents so uncommon and accomplishments So brilliant may bo pre served to the fullness of their uselulness for the Republic whose greatness Blalno has in creased and whose prosperity bis masterly policy will long advance. , Cleveland Is Anxious. Washington Post.1. Mr. Cleveland is probably anxious to know whether the Pennsylvania Democrats will stand by their applause or tlielr platform. f MUSICAL AND SOCIAL, Blatters of News and1 Comment In Pitts burg's Social World. There was a pleasant musical time at tho Westminster Presbyterian Church, Al leglieny, last night. The new organ was opened byProf. Salmon, who gave a recital, and who pronounces the instrument a good ono. He was assisted by tho following well known vocalists: Miss Bertha M. Kaderly, M'ss Mary E. Bankerd and Messrs. John A. Strouss and Harry Brockets CarlMaeder plnyed tho violin. There was a large at tendance, and the recital was an entire suc cess. A number of ladies and gentlemen known in scholastic, medical and legal circles in tho two cities propose to make tho acquisi tion of French an object during tho winter months. Prof. PaTker, tho well-known French scholar, has been frequently re quested to establish an evening class for the convenience of those whose time is occu pied during the day, and he thinks the de sire to learn "la languo diplomatique" is so goneral that ho has decided to give a lesson evory Monday evening from 7:30 o'clock to 10:30 o'clock during tho next nine months. The Fourth ward school rooms have been granted by the- directors for the purpose, and the opening lesson will be given next Monday. The entertainment given by theEpworth League at the Arch Street M. E. Church last evening was most enjoyable. Miss Ellen Pershing read selections from Dickens' works with much humor and pathos, and there was a general discussion as to the ex act shades of meaning to be attached to dif ferent passages in tbe great author's works. There was a very large attendance. About 50 young lady bicyclists of the East End, including several members of the Keystone Club, are to take a run without male escort this morning. The route will take in Schenloy Park, as well as the Ea3t End thoroughfares. Social Chatter. Mb. Raxsev Speee and Mr. Albert McKay, or the East End, leavo to-day to attend school at Boston. TnE wedding or Miss Edith Darlington and 3Ir. Samuel Ammon is announced lor the22d of Octobor. Mr. and Mrs. Ammon will spend their honeymoon in Europe. The Gleaners' Band, composed of young ladles of the Park Avenue Presbyterian Church, gave a social and supper in the par lors over the Sunday school room last night. There was a good supper, served with plenty of fun and by the daintiest of girls, and it was participated in by a very largo number of friends and members ofthe church. SELLAMYISH AND NATIONALISM. It Is Not Co-Operation and It Abolishes All Competition for Profit.' Detroit Journal. It is surprising that when so much is said about Bellamy ism and nationalism that any one discussing or referring to it shonld havo a vague or incorrect view of it. Yet a para graph going the rounds and crcdlted'to tho New York Tribune shows ah Inadequate or falso conception or tho fundamental idea In tho new scheme to reform society. A largo number of families in a suburb of Chicago finding it' difficult to get enough skillful domestic help resolved to abandon tholr household meals and to establish a co-opera-tivo kitchen and dining room. This was a purely economic plan based solely on the idea that it is cheaper to obtain one's meals at cost la a largo establishment than in sep arate households. From various causes tho affair was given up, the chief reason being that the families preferred taking their meals under their own roofs and to consult their tastes more exactly than they could at a general table. But tho ending of the plan is described as a practical failure of Bellamyism. Bellamy ism, however, is not a scheme ot co-operation. Co-operation ismorely a convenient arrangemont for reducing tho cost of con sumption by saving the profits. Bellamy ism, or nationalism, is an entire equality of income. As a consequence, an entire equality of income abolishes competition, profits and evory other feature of tho pres ent industrial and capitalistic condition. Under co-operation tho members of the as sociation are not limited in their income, and consequently not in their expenditure. One man may earn nnd spend $10,009 a year if ho likes; another only one-tenth that amount. Tbe only equality between the two is that thoy both buy their goods at cost. ' Inequality of condition, luxury and irngallty, aro not affected by a co-operate scheme. THE NATION'S WEALTH. The Country Is Favored So Long as Pro tection Is Afforded to Producers. Seattle Transcript. While the country haB been making rapid strides in population, it has been growing rich at a rato hardly less remarkable. Not only has tho aggregate wealth multiplied many fold since 1S50, and even since 1860, but the per capita ratio has also steadily ad vanced. According to a recent census bulle tin the estimated true valuation of real and personal property, based on assessed valua tion, has increased in tho last four decades from $16,159,616,068 in 1860 to $62 610,000,000 in 1890. The figures aro as follows: 1860, $16, 159,616,063; 1S70, $60,063,518,507; 1S80,$,612,000,000; 1890, $62,610,000,000. A glance at the above statistics betrays the astonishing fact that tho increase be tween I860 and ItCO was $17,963,000,000, or more than $2,000,000,000 greater than tho total val uation for 1SC0. The aggregate wealth of tho country is now naarly four times as great as it was when the cival war broke out. Thii seems the more remarkable when we remem ber that our industries were paralyzed and our resources reduced by lour years of war, and business was again pros trated in 1873 by a season of panic, depression and uncertainty prolonged through many months and universal in its blighting effects. As our increase in popu lation is largely duo to immigration one would naturally anticipate a decrease orat least no great advance in the per capita wealth, even though there be rapid growth in th aggregate. Such, however, is not the case. The per capita wealth in 1NW was $51; in 1890, $1,000; a gain of nearly 100 per cent. Verily the Yankee nation is a favored one, otwI will lw art lnntr n nnr lpwilfitnrq chtm wild-cat financial legislation and extend duo I protection to our manuiactures, agriculture, labor and commerce. BEFTJSES TO EXHIBIT. Italy Has Been Driven to Notice tho World's Fair but Won't Participate. Philadelphia Press.! The Italian Government has been driven into tho position of noticing our World's Fair, but It will not be represented. Premier Rndinl says that they havo established a rule not to take part in international fairs. This is a rule that would bo more honored in the breach than in tho observance. Tho Premier would havo been nearer the truth if ho had acknowledged tho practically bankrupt condition of tho Italian Treasury as the real reason for remaining away from Chicago. To keep np tho military engagements duo to the Triple Alliance Italy has been run ning farther nnd farther behind every year. Everything else is sacrfflcud to that end. If it were not for the gold brought into tho country by tho foreign visitors the crash would come oulckly. Under tho circum stances it would bo tho part or wisdom for Italy to spend a small sum at Chicago in order to increase tho travel from thiscoun-tn-. Americans now comprise the creat majority of foreigners in Italy. There seems to bo a decided Lick of foresight in the methods ofthe Italian Government. PEOPLE WHO COKE AND GO. General Passenger Agent Clark, of the Pittsburg nnd Lake Erie Railroad, who has been attending the meeting of the passen ger agents at Old Point Comfort, returned home yesterday. S. B. Liggett, Secretary of the Pennsyl vania Company, returned yesterday from tho stockholders' meeting held at Phila delphia. George W. Potter, the Washington, Pa., tnrfmnn, is in the city attending the Homo wood meeting. Will Hutchinson, of the Baltimore and Ohio ticket office, returned home from New York yesterday. Postoffice Inspector Thomas G. Stoddard passed through Pittsburg yesterday on his regular tour. Wick Taylor, a prominent real estate and insurance man of Toungstown, is In the city. A. S. Campbell, of the American Lnng Distance Telephone Company, is in the city. W. C. Achcson, the Washington, Pa., attorney, is at tho Monongahelo. CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. ' Two persons die every second. Ofthe 27 royal families ot Europe, two thirds are Germans. In Spain an infant's lace is brushed with a pine tree bough to bring good lack. European powers have claims upon nearly three-fourths of the .entire area of Asia. The annual coffee crop of the world is estimated at over 11,000,000,000 pounds, worth, in first hands over $135,000,000. The Alaska Indian depends npon hU sqnawin tho selling of an article. She hav ing a better idea of its worth, fixes the price. Tbe father of one ofthe largest proper ty holders in London isburiedinaglasscasa on top of one of the finest buildings in the city. It is proposed to build a Moorish pal ace for the Chicago Fair with a labyrinth ia which everyone who enters will be hopeless ly lost. There are said to be over 23,000 Indian in the United States who can read English, and over 10,000 who can read Indian lan guages. The World's Fair power plant will be of 21,000 horse power, and will require the services of 230 engineers, firemen and at tendants. The cotton worm is creating great de vastation in many conntles in Mississippi. One field of 22 acres has been entirely stripped of its leaves. In New York City the quantity of hnckleberries sold is ten times that of any other berry. Dried huckleberries, in winter time, always bring a fair price. Oskaloosa, la., has a threshing machine haunted by spooks, which put out the lire in theengino and abstracted tools from tho workbox which four men were watching. It is the intention of European engi neers to store tho waters of the Nile to such an extent as to enable a greater extension of the cotton and sugar cane crops in that re gion. Coal equaling that of the finest Lehigh Vallev grade has been discovered in Brazil, the veins being from 4 to 25 feet in thick ness. The mines are situated at and near Sonora. The forest areas of Germany are re turned as follows: rru3sia, 6.000,000 acres: Bavaria, 2,SO0,00f) acres; Wurtemberg. 470.000 acres; Saxony, 416,000 acres, and Baden, 235, 000 acres. A Lyons anatomist has examined the skeletons of 86 monkeys chimpanzees, gor illas and orang-outangs and has found dis eases of the bone to be ns freqnent as in man, and of a strikingly similar character. Thirteen years ago a student in Berlin was mobbed in the streets for appearing on a bicycle. Now the German Union of Bi cyclists, which has lust held its eighth an nual conference at Breslau, has 14,000 mem bers. The granting of permission to the starv ing Rnssian peasantry to use the imperial forests has led to many burglaries and dep redations on the imperial farm, tho famish ing people fighting and in some cases shed ding blood over the spoils. There is "comfortable room" in "West minster Abbey for 40 or 50 more permanent occupants. This item, from tho report of a, commission appointed by tho Government, snggests that great men would do well to die early and avoid the rush. In Africa when an army of ants mo ve j for food tho still forest becomes alivo with the tramping of tht elephant, the flight of the antelope or of the srazelle, of the leop ard, of snakes, nil tho living world, in the same direction where the other animals are fleeing away. The Corsicans are not the only people in the world who believe in the evil eye, for the Tm-k is so affected by it that he thinks it extends its Influences to whatever animals belong to him. Strings of coral are sold on the streets and said to be a preventive against the evil. An insect which promises to be of as great benefit to Washington hop growers as the Australian lady-bug was to the orohard ists of Sonthern California, has been discov ered on the sound. It thrives on the hop lonse, which it considers a most desirable delicacy, and by its help it is hoped that this pest can be kept under in future. A famous German restaurateur went Into the bankruptcy court the -other day. Judge ofthe sensations of his customers when they learned that he owed a bill of 15,000 marks to a knacker for supplying him with the carcases of horses and donkeys! To the ingenious qnestion as to what he wanted with these animals the man had to answer, "Why, my customers ato them as venison." While the little Queen Wilhelmina of nolland was out driving in company with, her mother, she alighted and tried to stop a battle of snowballs between some school children, who therenpon turned upon Her Majesty and almost smothered her with snow. Indeed, they pressed her so hard, despite her declaration that she was Queen Wilhelmina, that tbe coachman was obliged to come to her rescue. Some German scientists, interested in forestry, havo recently furnished informa tion in regard to the ages of trees. They assign to the pine tree 500 and 700 years as tbe maximum, 425 years to the silver fir, 275 vears to the larch. 215 years to the red beech, 210 to the nspen, 200 to the birch, 170 to the ash, and 145 to the alder, and 130 to the elm. The heart of tho oak begins to rot at about the ago or 300 years. Tbe hollv oak alone escapes this law, it is said: and there is in existence near Aschaffenburg, in .Germany, a tree of this kind which has attained an. ago of 410 years. A British regiment returning to Eng land from China next month is to make tbe trip eastward by way of Canada. This will bo the first practical test of Britain's new military highway to tho East across her American possessions, and the result will be looked for with much interest. GroatHSritain expects this route to bo of enormous value in case of trouble in India and ofthe Suez Canal being blockaded. Tho agreement be tween tho government and tho railroad for the use of tho road was mado public lost week. RHYNKLES AND RHYMES. I "What nonsense is there ?" he asked, as Ihe looked over her shonlder at the paper she had la her hand. "Some fool dress pattern, I suppose." "No," she replied. "It's a diagram of the pitcher's curves in baseball." "I.emme see It as soon as you get through, will you ?' Wnthlng ton Pott. "I have got teu of the finest rules forpre servlng health and avoiding doctors' bills yon ever read." Badley reads them. ,g "I got one that beau them all," lie commented. "Kill yourself at once." Philadelphia Timet, rt Mr. Blank (examining his portrait just painted by Prof. Fnlllcmort from Paris) Pro fessor, I do not know how It is. but neither yoa nor any artist whom I have ever met has been able to catch the expression of my face. Professor Ah, Meester Blank, zat lsvarayrrnej but (shrugging his shonlders), eef re expression ecs not zare, how can yon catch him ? WatMngton. Star. I asked the maid, with heart aglow, Will yon be mine? She answered. No, Novt week I asked again, and she Said with a sigh. It cannot be. A fortnight after that I said. Be mine, she smiled and shook her head. Next time I asked. lnteadof no. She said. Oh. please, don't plagne me so. - Last nlgfct. I asked agnln and she bald. Yes, Jiut to get rid or me. J Denver San, "1 like a man who whistles at his work," said Fayles, who was reducing his help. "Why?" "Because it gives you such an excellent excuse for firing Um."-Xeu York Prut. The season now will soon arrive When several people that I know Will pack their grips, and-happy Io To Europe for tbe summer go-. But I. a simple man of verse. Must stay at home, forlorn and sad. For I am told by those who've been. The walking over's very bad. Boston Oovrler'. Broncho Boh Good mornin', BilL Where's all the boys this morning? Buckskin BUI I seen some of 'cmbangln' aro and tbeDewdrop Saloon. Broncho Bob That's stranze. Theygln'rallydo their hanin' on that lone Cottonwood out yonder. .Veurortfra.'(J. Ward Why did you bite that dollar yoa loaned tome to see If It was good? - Randall I wasn't biting it; I was kissing ltfooft by. Harper'' Braar, f .. a ,,,,,.., .. ... - ,(..-,. y , ,,, ,..,..
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