'&: THE PITTBBimG DISPATCH, MONDAY. "SEPTEMBER 21. 1891 ? 'H?s,!? v Be w ESTABLISHKD FEBRUARY 8. IS46. Vol. ,Xo. 231. Fntered at 1'ltlsburg Fostofflce, November 14, 1SS7, as fecund-clasn mutter. Business Office Corner Smithfield and Diamond Streets. News Rooms and Publishing House 78 and So Diamond Street, in New Dispatch Building. taptkiin AnvrirrisiKo omrE. room a. TBIBUNE BOIMJIXK. NEW YORK, wherecom plete lllea nf THE DISPATCH ran always be found. Foreign advertisers anprcrlate th convenience. Home atlrcrtl-TS and frier ds of TIIK DISPATCH, arliilc in Acw Yor. ac also nude welcome TIIK DISFA TCIIix rcyw Virly on mUr at Urmtano's, F Onion .sjar. Xfw York. "Kit J7 Avr fe VOpem, S'nris, frvtncr. rher antnn nhn has lrn aisap jjomtrt at a tiottl nnos grand ran oMatn it, TEKMS Ol' TIIK DISPATCH. POSTAGE TREK IS TIIK rxlTED STATES. Dailt Dispatch, One Year J 8 00 Dailt Dispatch, rer Quarter. 2 00 Daily DisrATCii, One Month TO Daily Ditatcii, Including Mmday, 1 Tear.. 10 00 Daily Dispatch, lucledhigundar. Sin'ths. 2 50 Daily Dispatch, ln hiding Muiday, 1 la'th.. 80 .ECxday Dispatch. One Year 2 SO WEEKLY Dlsr lT. II, One Year 125 The Daily Disp T-n is delivered by carriers at 15 cents per week, or. Including Sunday Edition, at 30 cents per eek. PITTSBURG, MONDAT, SEPT. 21, 1SS1. THE CONTHOIXING ISSUE. Puck's cartoon representing Napoleon IMcKinley as abandoning the tariff horse and mounting the silver horse ou the wrong side presents a view of the Ohio campaign which has been taken elsewhere. Some Republicans, evidently under a weak impression that a party advantage was to lie gained that way, have asserted that the tariff is not the issue in Ohio this year, but that the campaign is to be decided by the silver question. It is excusable for Gov ernor Campbell to think that the Repub lican weakness is to be developed on the tariff question, and therefore to make his chief points on that issue; but for Repub licans to even tacitly ignore the controlling question is an error of judgment as well as of principle. Such a view is erroneous in a tlonble sense. In the first place, as the Dispatch lias always maintained, the nomination of SrcKinley made the tariff the controlling icsne in the campaign. It is true that the characteristic blunder of the Democratic platform on the silverquestion, makes that an important secondary ksue; but the character and record of JIcKinley as the leader makes the tariff the main question by which he must stand or fall. Wc can be certain that there is no disposition on Ins part to ignore this issue: but those of Ins supporters who have been misled into alleging that silver coinage is the issue in Ohio, ihould reflect that Major JIcKinley cannot be dissevered from the protective policy. The idea is erroneous in the further fact that the best and most lasting victory can be won for the Republican party by sticking to the tariff fight and making it apparent that the protective cau'-e has triumphed. If the Republican party can not win in Ohio on the policy represented in its tariff legislation, all its previous work for the past two years has been wasted. The policy of protection for home industries, reduction of excessive revenue by removing the duty on articles which the United States does not produce, and the extension of our commerce to countries with commodities to exchange for ours, should be and will be fully pre sented to the Ohio voters from this time on. There need be no fear as to the result. THE CENSUS rAILURE. The record of the census work begun last year is somewhat abruptly closed with the announcement that the appropriation of 56,400,000 is exhausted. As a result all i urtbpr operations are suspended, and the agents engaged in making special in quiries are instructed to send in their work whether finished or not, and to close their offices. The malign fatality which has presided over the talcing of the eleventh census, reaches its climax with this step. The ap propriation was one of the two largest ever made for a census. A rational appor tionment of the money to the various branches of inquiry contemplated in the original plan, and a strict adherence to that apportionment, ought to have ensured a completion of the branches of the work that were really important But the sys tem of management which produced re sults on the increase of population that practically disproved themselves, has spent the appropriation on such topics as the prevalence of private diseases and the number of donkeys in the District of Columbia, and the work is now stopped without a single complete re port on the manufacturing and industrial interests of the country. It was a fair criticism of the tenth census that'it scat tered its investigations over a needlessly wide field and did not complete many of its reports until the3T were long out of date. But it completed the work, after cairying it on for five or six years on an appropriation not much greater than that for the present census. With the scope cut down, the superintendent of the eleventh census has run through his means in fifteen months and leaves the work un finished. The lesson is a valuable one. In mak ing plans for the census of 1000 the methods and personal control of the cen sus of 1890 will afford an excellentexample to be avoided. THE OKLAHOMA INDICATION. The fact that some 5,000 people are ready to make a rush for the Oklahoma district which is to be thrown open for settlement to-morrow evokes a variety of comment One view that is taken in the East is that of utter reprehension. The Philadelpliia Inquirer, as a specimen of the class, declares the proceedings to be "idiotic;" asserts that the expense of get ting a homestead bj joining in this boom would buy a taim equally good in any one of a dozen States, and says that the boom ers do not want farms for their own use, "but "merely wish to get possession of the land and sell out at a profit, either to actual farmers or, if possible, to people trilling to buy lots and build a city." All of which is condemning the boomers without evidence. The best possible proof tliat a desire for land for actual cultiva tion is at the back of the rush for new territory when it is opened is that the other portions of Oklahoma recently opened are now under general cultivation. Some of the "boomers may have occupied claims and sold them out; but the vast majority of the settlers are actual cultivators. Tne demand for licwand fertile lands is an exponent of the extent to which the "Western territory has fallen into the hands of corporations and arc held either out of the market or at prices which place them beyond the reach of the average settler. This phase of the case may ex plain the animosity of a certain class of I w Eastern journals for the boomers; "but it does not detract from the significance of the indication that the days when the - pioneer could go to the frontier and build up a home and farm of his own are rapidly passing away. Of course, the assertion that it costs more to locate a farm in Oklahoma than to buy one equally good in any of a dozen States is dogmatic nonsense. If it were true, no one would go to Oklahoma. It maybe true that a farmer with capital and skill for thorough farming could do better to take land in the older sectipns and bring it to a state of high cultivation. We believe it to be true In Pennsylvania. But the men who settle new farms and who have built up this country do not as a rule have- the capital for that process. For those who have about enough money to take up new land and live till they "make a crop" the supply heretofore almost infinite is now getting scant CHILEAN NEWS ROMANCES. In the last issue of TnE Dispatch a comment was made on the remarkable ubiquity of the late Mr. Balmaceda, dis played in the reports which placed him on the flagship of the United States squadron and on the borders of the Argentine Re public at one and the same time. The news which was received at the last mo ment for the same issue, that Balmaceda had committed suicide in'Santiago, only in creases the pertinence of that comment Indeed, this entire Chilean business has been redolent with instruction on the large part which imagination and inven tion play in the work of the South Ameri can newsgatherer. The statements a short time before the taking of Valparaiso that the Congressionalist cause was on the verge of dissolution was a mild case in point Tho report from the closing con flict of a complete victory for Balmaceda, when the real result was the exact oppo site, was another. These instances are not without precedent in other nations; but the publication of a story which tells how Balmaceda escaped to the vessel of the United States Admiral disguised in liquor and a suit of sailor's togs, must evidently have been out of whole cloth. The fertility of the news agencies in the Southern continent, in turning out this class of story, has dis played itself to a degree that even creates a faint wonder whether this detailed story of his suicide may not be a fabrication of the same sort as the drunken sailor yarn, designed to relax the search for him and to cover his escape. When the next South American war breaks out the press of the United States will be justified by the experiences of the Chilean conflict, in providing for Itself agencies of information which have at least a remote perception of the commer cial value of truth in news. WEAKNESS OF THE JAILS. Some misguided person down in Virginia broke into the jail of Tucker county and took out his son who had been confined there. Circulars asking for his arrest and confinement in "some safe jail" have been received in this city. Tho request as addressed to Allegheny county is calculated to reduce the officials of the law. to desperation. A safe jail seems to be as scarce an article here as in Tucker county. Our jail probably has far more of that quality which Mr. J. Gargery describes as "architectooralural," than the Tucker county variety; but the jail that can be broken into is just about as useful for its purpose as the jail that can be broken out of, allegedly without ex ternal assistance. Perhaps if the Tucker county jail and law breaker comes this way, our officers may be able to hold onto him by keeping him in the city lock-up, or some similar stronghold. Also, if Tucker county gets hold of Fitzsimmons we hope that it will give its jail a new chance to vindicate itself, and take especial pains to keep ir reverent outsiders from coming along and breaking into their house of detention. THE WKONG REASON. The growing disposition of European investors to put their money into sound securities located in the United States is a legitimate and reasonable one. The ex emption of the United States from the disturbances that threaten the Old World, and from the vagaries of South American financiering which cost the Barings so dearly, is asufficient justification for the ad vice recently given by one of the Roths childs to "buy good Americans." But the logic which puts that policy of investment on the large business which the railroads are going to do this year is a striking ex ample of doing the right thing for an in sufficient reason. It is a general tendency of the stock market to predicate variations in values on conditions which are entirely transient in their effect It is evident that the value of any investment is largely influenced by its earning power. But in determining the worth of a permanent investment the permanent earning power must be taken into consideration. Say that a railway has through a series of years demonstrated its ability to earn six per cent on its capital. If, during a favorable crop year, it is ablo to add a cubit or two to the stature of its dividend and earn eight per cent, the ut most addition to its value that can be properly made on account of the condi tion which will last only during that year is the additional two per cent. But the stock market on the false logic that an increase of 33 per cent in the dividend adds something like that to the value of the stock will boom the stock 20 or 25 per cent, at the cost of the investor who buys at the elevated prices. Per contra, the presence of a temporary failure of traffic will depreciate the stock far below the value which represents its steady and aver age earning power. Of course, these fluctuations are largely exaggerated by the manipulations of stock speculation, But the erroneous estimate of values is illustrated by the statement that European investors are buying "Americans" simply on the strength of our good crops. They do well to invest their money in American enterprises, but they should do so on the general solvency and stability of our business, and not on the condition of things for a single year. It IS singular to find the idea advanced by such papers as the New- Yo rk and Boston Heralds that tho falls of Librador are 200 feet high, and are therefore second class while. Niagara Is iu the first-class. Are our esteemed cotemporaries under the impres sion that Niagara is more than 200 feet high? The nature of the campaign argument is abundantly illustrated by the following from the Philadelphia Becord: ".Flower and Fnssctt both have money. Flower started in life as a farmer's boy, and mado his money by industry and intelligence. Fas sett married his money." We do not sup pose that there is any vory vital difference between Messrs. Flower and Fassett as to tho methods by which they would bo willing to make money. But as to the above asser tion, the biographies of Sir. Flower show that he rose from the position of a retail druggist to that of a financier by marrying the sister-in-law of Keep, the old-time rail way magnate and stock manipulator, and that hls.fortune3 have since been enhanced by his fortunate position on the inside of 'railway management. But, of course, an or vgan could not he expected to recognize suoh ; little, facts as these. "The fact that the Iowa firm which made tho lowest bid for tho new torpedo boat has an establishment capable of building it, and I accordingly gets tho contract, brings up the old question in regard to naval construction on tho lakes," remarks the New York Times. How does It? Does the Iowa Arm propose to build the boat in Jowa and then cart it across Illinois or Wisconsin in prairie schooners to the lako? Or is our esteemed metropolitan cotemporary in such need of studying tho geography of tho United States as to suppose that Iowa rivals Chicago in 'the possession of a lake port! THEtNew York organs on each side are each busily engaged in accusing the oppo site party of defeating Now "York's World's Fair project. The evidenco.produced so far seems adequate to produce tho conclusion that DotU. sides tried to mako a Job out of it. "JIuch credit is due to Postmaster Van Cott?' begins an editorial comment in the NoWYork Tribune and tho expectant mind foresees the establishment of some now and valuable feature of the postal system. But n further porusal in forms us that tho public service por formed'by the Now York postmaster was the formation of a Republican club. Tho day in which tho New York postmaster was expected to eive cxclustvo attention to tho postal work of the metropolis appears to have become, a part of -tho past. "We think that the Hon. John Dalzell is beaten," remarks the Philadelphia Inquirer. If blow and bluster can beat him, ho is de feated. Tho Hon. Jack Robinson and his organ, tho Inquirer, can beat the world at that political agency. The Chinese outrages should be sternly suppressed; but it is food for interna tional reflection that China has lately exe cuted six rioters for the last hatch of as saults on foreigners. That is just six more than this great and civilized nation has ever punished for mobbing foreigners who are un der the protection of treaty guarantees in tho United States. It may be salutary to in quire whether the United States should not at least keep even with the Chinese ex ample. Ibsen's son is to marry. This warrants tho expression of the hope that he will not put into practice the paternal Ibsen's ideas, which mayte tersely expressed as to the effect that marriages should not marry. It is interesting to learn from our esteemed and bright cotemporary the New York Com mercial Advertiser that it contains all the news of the day and leaves all the morning papers to do nothing hut warm over the news that it publishes sixteen hours before they get out. This impels us to the infer ence that tho Morning Advertiser, published by the same enterprising management, is not worth the cent that it costs the public to buy it. The modest claim of the Western Irri gation Congress for $150,000,000 from the United States Treasury, may bo considered when the irrigationists discover the $150, 000,000 in the Treasury. TnE party that is violently opposed to silver in the East and is a rank free coinage party In the West seems to be fixing up a puzzlo for itself in 189.!. But its ability to deal with tho subject on lines that would never occur to the ordinary mind is illus trated by its nomination of a silver man oh an anti-silver plank in New York and of an anti-silver man on a free silver plank in Ohio. Secretary Foster's roseate views of tho Treasury surplus will presently inspiro some one to come alone and ask him what the Treasury wants with more money than it has got any uso for. It is interesting to observe that Sir Hec tor Langevin got a coat of whitewash while pending arrangements deny that luxury to Mercicr. This looks like unjust discrimina tion. It maybe said to make fish of ono Can adian politician and fowl of another, if the disclosures did not warrant the opinion that both sides aro exceedingly fishy and quite foul. Mb. Vanderhilt's imported yacht is still tied up at the New York Custom House. As a pleasure vessel it is a success only in affording a picnic for tho levenue officials. EEPBESENTATIVE MEN AND WOMEN. It is improbable that the Duke and Duchess or Sutherland will visit their Florida estate during the coining winter. Mrs. Susan E. Wallace is generally introduced to tho public ns the wife of the author of'Benllur," yet she is a writer of ability herself. Edward Kearney, the New York mil lionaire, is, next to Judge Hilton, the largest property owner at Saratoga, and ho is known as "Tho Earl of Saratoga," on account or his lavish hospitality. Senator Gorman's ' life is a very simple one. He is a very devoted husband and father, and i9 never so happy as when ho is in the family circle, and ho manages so that politics will not take, too much of his time from his family. John A. Logan, Jr., is a notable figure at the rac6track nowadays. Ho is of medium height, and he has a natty, well-knit figure. His hair is as dark as was that of his father, but his mustache is far from being as mar tial, no has a fair stable of horses, and he is well liked anions turfmen. Kino George, of Greece, was a recent visitor at Paris and Fontainebleau, whero every attention was shown to him. Ho has grown bald of late years, but his figure is still trim ana lacking in tho extent of girth that afflicts most princes as devoted to the cmsono as King George is reputed to be. Maurice Bernhardt, the divine Sarah's son, who is traveling with his wife in this country, does not look llko a "cig arette athlete," as bo has been described. Ho is a rather handsome specimen of the Frenchman, with a tall, wiry physique, a clear olive complexion and a small, dark mustache. The German Emperor is very much in terested in autograph letters. During his recent visit to England he examined several documents in the possession of the family of Count Hatzfeldt, Ambassador to Germany, The Hatzfeldt fumily has decided to make a present of these letters to Emperor William Many other great families will follow their example and will surrender to the Kaiser many interesting documents relating to Na poleon. Oliver Wendeli, Holmes takes infinite care of himself, and is particularly watchful against tho approach of an attack of pneu monia. The rooms of his house are equipped with thermometers, barometers andaerome ters, and lie never rises in tho morning with out knowing the temperature of hia bed room, or takes his bath until the water has beeu accurately tested. He lives by inflexi ble rules, and strives to avoid the slightest risk of taking cold. UNITED BEETHEEN CONFEEENCE. Names orthe Ministers Who Will Trench In Local Churches This Year. Bellefoxte, Sept. 20. Special. The fifty third annual session of the Allegheny Con ference of the United Brethern Church, nipt here this week. J. S. Fulton, A. M. Hong, J. E. Spangler nnd G. D. McHonry were given licenses to preach. Thirty-two reports of ministers were passed upon, and the re port on "Education" read by L. Kelstcr, called forth a warm discussion and a reso lution was passed requiring at least throe yean, of preparation before applicants for the ministry could be admitted to the con ference. The following nppointnieuts were an nounced at the sess'on till? Snndav even ing: Greensburg district, J. Metsger, Presiding Elder; Allegheny, Rev. W'nvnu Smith; Brnddock, Kev. II. F. Shape; Fair mount, Hev. E. James: Westmoreland, Rev. L. Scneff; Williamsburg, liev. L. IS. Kelster. THINGS IN GENERAL. The Experience or a Man Who Is Serving on a Jury for tho First Tlmo-Ono of Rniljard Kipling's American Criticisms Apparently Sustained. TWIUl-TEN FOK TUB DISPATCH. People are mistaken who imagine that the whole duty of the Sheriff 1 toseemen hanged. It is also, the business of the Sheriff to summon unfortunate citizens to serve upon the jury. Jury service is not greatly sought after by people who have any other occupation for their time, never theless the J uror may reflect for his encour agement that serving on a jury is vastly more comfortable than being hanged, nis legal friends who wander into the court room nnd find him thus serving his country will not fail to say to him that they are glad to see htm in this building rather than in the other over the stono bridge. And ho will probably make np his mind before tho day is over on which his term of service begins, that the Jury box is a pood deal bet ter place even than the witness box. Serv ing on a Jury is not the worst work in the world. It is much more agreeable to try other people than to be tried yourself. Tho first distinct impression made upon tho mind'of a new Jnror is connected with the voice of tho crier who opens tho court. At 9:30 to a dot the Judge ascends bis plat form and scats himself in one of the three Imposing leather thrones which are the most conspicuous objects in tho furniture of the room. Then rises an official from a chair at His Honor's feet and proceeds to chant an incantation, sonorous, monotonous, and absolutely without meaning except to the initiated. It might be a prayer, it might te a formula in magic, it might be an Invo cation of the goddess Justitia, it might be a portion of the multiplication table. It sounds a little like tho intoning or the service of the Prayer Book, and a little like the proclamation of the man in the railroad station who announces that trains for Dan and Eeersheba are ready. It is all sound. There is no perceptible sense to it what ever. Reflections or the Jnror. The juror discovers presently that the purpose or this mysterious chant is to get silence, and, as silence speedily follows, it matters little what it is that is said. The Juror finds that the largest part of his time is to be devoted to idleness and reflection (for which he is paid $2 60 a day and mile age), and he reflects upon the conservatism which is displayed in this medlreval fashion of setting about tho business of a court. Why should a man in this very modern Pittsburg address a company of his fellow townsmen in Norman French? Why should hedesirc them to keep silence and give at tention by calling Oyez! OyezI Oyez! The juror, by the way, had understood that the crier opened court by saying Oh yes! Oh yes! Oh yes! That has a funny sound, but it aoes sufficiently represent the orig inal. All foreign languages are of course absurd. The crier in Common Pleas No. 2, howevor, will open court this morning at half-past nine by crying Oh yea! Oh yoa! Oh yea! That is, unless tho Juror misunder stood him, which is quite possiblo. There are a good many people, of whom the crier may be one, who have an idea that all French words end In ah ora. I heard a good lady speak tho other day of brio-a-brah. Far be It from a juror to criticize a crier! Thus the day begins with Norman French. You enter'the Couit House beneath an In scription in Latin, nnd you are addressed in Norman French. Well, let it srayi Modern law began with the Latins, and free repre sentative government began with the Nor mans and their kinsmen. The Latins stood for centralization, the Normans" and the English for representation. The Latins put tho emphasis upon tho ruler, the Norman9 upon the people. And tho ruler in the judi cial system was represented by the judge, and the peoplo bv the Jury. A Very Prominent Feature. So the jury represents the people. The inry in the Allegheny county courts ap pears to represent a peoplo whose most obvious characteristic is an inordinate dc siro to spit. Next to the leather thrones the most conspiclous objects in the Court House are tho spittoons. Theymeet you at tho door, they accompany you up the great stono stairway, they ride np and down in the elevators, they line the halls, they seem actually to pave tho floor of every court room, there is one for the judgo, there are Btx for the 12 jurors in the box. You cannot walk ten feet In any direction in the Court House without falling over ono of those legal conveniences. You could not heave a brick behind you or before, or upon either hand, without breaking a spittoon. They are of all materials, from the fine china of the judges' bench to the cast iron of the common hall. They are all of them largo, generous in their proportions. Their name is legion. And every ono of them is absolutely necessary. Outside, where tho loungers lean against tho iron railings, the pavement is foul and poisonous with the stains of tho unfortunate spittcrs, for whom an inconsiderate Com monwealth provides no spittoons. Tho en trance to Kichardson's great temple of justice is probably the nastiest flight of stone stops in tho United States. It is the spittcrs' paradise. The first act of ovorybody who enters tho court; uouse, is to spit, xnere is no law on this subject, except one printed! in staring letters, which forbids spitting on' the floor. This might bo more persuasive if it were worded after the pattern of a sign which adorns the wall of a little meeting house in Wilkinsbnrgi "Gentlemen will not spit on this floor. Others must not." That suoh an announce ment would not be considered beneath the dignity of the building is evidenced by a placard in one of the downstairs offices which reads: "The Lord helps those who help themselves; but the Lord help anybody who is caught helping himself here." All in the Same Boat Everybody spits again on the way up stairs. The new juror, having nothing to do but meditate, observes that fonr lawyers out of every flvo when they onter the court room at once tako oft their hats and spit. Tho Judge, walking up and down, oxorcising during the progress of tho argument, spits by turns into each of the judicial spittoons. The jury box resounds with the splash, splash of the spitter. ' Kudyard Kipling did not hesitate to say that this Americanrcharacteristio made him sick. Every intelligent visitor, who comes over the ocean nnd looks about hlm.here, remarks upon the prevalence of this curious habit. So far as I know, It is distinctively American. Englishmen do not spit, nor Frenchmen, nor Germans, nor South Sea Islanders. Tho American, of all men upon the planet, is tho man who spits. It would seem as if our merourlal temperament had salivated us. Tile now juror, having made those mental notes touching tho crier and the spitter, falls to observing tho course of the law. The course of tho law, it seems to him, is unconscionably slow. But he finds several pretty good explanations. Chief of nil, the inevitable uncertainties of examinations. It takes a good while to get at the real truth. Truth, in any department of it, cannot bo guessed at nor jumped at. Even in mathomaties you have got to set the figures down and add them up. And that cannot bo done while tho socond-hand says three. And when you come to that most grievous and twisted of all tangles, tho complications of human society, it is foolish to expect to untie that in 20 minutes. Anybody who has ever tried to mediate in anybody else's quarrel know s what an undertaking it Is. Tho new Juror sets down on his list of Facts Worth Knowing that justice is slow because Justice is slow. That Is the nature of it. And nobody can very greatly hasten it. The lawyers, perhaps, might hasten it a little. The new juror notices that most of the lawyers whose cases are called answer "un prepared." This, however, he Is told is the first week of a new term and thing's haven't got to going rightly yet. Tho Jndge and the Jury. Finally, the new juror is impressed with the justice of the Judge. There is no body in tho courtroom who1 appears to bo so profoundly interested in tho case us the Judge. Not a word en cither side escapes him. In half an hour he knows more about tho actual facts of the case than elther'of tho lawyers. As for the Jury, confusion grows more con founded. But the Judge sees all the light there is.. It seems to the Juror that the Judge Is desirous of only one thing, and that is to see justice done. The Jury, for ex ample, if the case is one of damages against a railroad, is ready to a man to decide for plaintiff. It was a Jury, though perhaps a mythical one, which gave a poor tramp damages against a railroad because ho had been made sick by a pie which was given him by a station master's wife. But the Judge wants justice. He Is no more on tho side of the poor than on the side or the rich. Nor Is he for the rich and against the poor. Tho best Christian that the new Juror dis covers in the Court House is tho Judge. And as no man in tlio whole county has more use for good religion than a Judge, this dis covery seems to the juror to be a valuable one. It is worth while to serve on a Jury to get such an assuranco of the Justice ol the courts of law. CANADIAN OB AMEBICAN. Oar Northern Neighbors Urged to Make Their Name Known. Toronto Empire. Tho pushing, self-assortlvo, egotistic, yet in many ways patriotic, citizen of the United States has succeeded by a curious mixture of demonstratlveness and pride in his country In placing the name or American fully nnd fairly before the people of Europe. The great civil war advertised the term; the myriads of tourists in Europe familiarized it, and tho constant "booming" of the Re public for emigration purposes made it In many places a household word. Conse quently the "American" citizen has an ad vantage over the Canadian, who represents a new country, small In population though great in prospects. He has, moreover, tho advantage of a somewhat widely diffused literature, which totally Ignores the great Dominion, and of politicians at homo and abroad who habitually speak of the con tinent as the property of the Republic. In such circumstances it is evident that the first duty of Canadians, whenever and wherever they can, is to "boom" Canada. Praise of the country, its resources, position and piospects should be uppermost, and above all a sentiment of pride in the name of Canada and the designation Canadian. It is to be feared that, as a general rule, Canadians are not particular enough in bringing the name of their country forward. A case in point occurred recently, when, through carelessness or indifference, a large firm of Ontario exporters placarded their offices in London with the announcement of their goods ns "American." Such an inci dent is to be regretted. The life and future of this, as of any young country, is in its name and reputation, and whoever willfully ignores his own land and adopts the name by which another nationality is known In flicts whatever injury is in his power upon tho country of his home. PEOPLE'S PAETY BEPTDIATED. The Alliance Cannot Affiliate With It In the State of Ohio. . Cleveland Lcader.l The circular which the officers of the Farm ers' Alliance of Ohio aro sending out, defin ing the political position of that, organiza tion, is one of the most significant docu ments of the campaign. It lias been said many times by the oflicers of this organiza tion that it was not political, but of late the self-styled People's party has attempted to make it appear as an adjunct of that hodge podgo aggregation. The circular Is intended to correct all such errors. It states clearly and distinctly the purposes and aims of the Alliance as set forth in its articles of in corporntion.and emphatically repudiates the People's party by declaring itself in no way identified with it. It rightly says that "the proper attitudeof the Alliance politically is to bo prepared to criticise or admire the actions of any party." In other words, it stands as a distinct or ganization for other purposes than politics, and while striving to incite an interest in public matters among its members and edu cating them in regard to such matters, nevertheless holds itself free to support whlchoverparty most nearly meetsits views. This is undoubtedly a vory strong as well ns an entirely sate position for the Alliance. 'By maintaining it, the Alliance arouses no direct political enmity and holds its mem bership intact. It compels every party to prove its professions by its works, and will accomplish vastly more in the end than it would ns a separate party. The Alliance is to be congratulated upon its independence, and particularly upon its repudiation of the absurd People's party aggregation. ONLY A LITTLE WORLDLY. The Pastor Was a Good Man, but He Forgot Preaching Time. PAMiEnSBURO, W. Va., Sept. 20 Special. The sessions of tho Conference of the Meth odist Church south, now being held here, are of the lively sorrowing to the trials of mem bers for tliolr peculiar conduct. Threo members are now on trial, others having been disposed of, or referred back to tho General Conference. The three members on trial are Eov. G. W. Mays and Kev. W. H. Patterson, of Cattlcttsburg, and Key. Giles K. Danson, of Huntington. Tho charges against Kev. Mr. Mays are, that haviug been assigned to a pastorate charge, he neglected it by giving his attention to secular mattors, which occupied so much of his time that ho could not properly attend to his church work. Evidence wns adduced showing that fiequently his congregation would assemblo and watt patiently for him until long past tho regular hour for services, and usually no minister appeared. Later in the day, or evening, howevor, bo would be seen return ing from some sort of work in jio way con nected with his ministerial duties. It was also shown that some members of his congiegation never saw him on his pas toral rounds, and that he had been guilty of various acts unbecoming n minister. No charges of immorality were made, and no evidence was brought forward that showed him to bo other than a man of excellent character, but rather worldly. After con sidering the evidence, the committee decid ed that no evidence had been brought for ward demanding his removal, and he was allowed to resign his charge. Germany's Taste the Best. Lendvllle Herald. Tastes differ. While Germany prefers American pork, Russia prefers Turkey. DEATHS HEEE AND ELSEWHEEE. "liev. B. r. Bunting. The Eev. B. F. Bunting, T. D., a prom inent Presbyterian minister, died very suddenly Saturday on a railroad train at Lebanon, Tenn., where lie had been attending a meeting of the Nashville Presbytery. Ho walked to the station to catch a train for Nashville, entered the smoking car, which was unoccupied at the time, and sat down. In a short time It was discovered that he was sick, and he died in a few seconds. Dr. Bunt ing was ono of the most piomlnent members In the Southern I'resbytcrlan Church. He was pastor 01 mc cimrcn ui iTaiiiiiiij, jumi., ana aiaiea uierK of the Nashville Presbytery. He went to Tennessee In 1861, as the Chaplain of Terry's Texas Rangers, nnd after the war was called to the psitorate of the First Fresh tcrlan Church at Nashville. He en tlrelv reorganized the church, doing earnest work. While there he wrote an Interesting history of tho First Church. After three years Dr. Hunting re turned to Texas and did pastoral work there for two years, when he vias appointed agent of the Southwestern Presbyterian University at Clarks ville to raise the endowment fund. On the comple tion of this work he was called to the mstnraia nf the Gallatin Church, and had only recently ac cepted a call to BrunswlcB, Ga., of which he intended to assume charge noxt week. Henry S. Walker. Henry S. Walker, who died of heart dis ease at the Colonnade Hotel. Philadelphia, Satur day, was born In Winchester, Va., Mny 31, 1810. He became editor of the Wheeling UenUter In 1S55. In 1863 he was the Democratic nominee for Con gress In the First West Virginia district, but was deflated. In 1870 he established the Charleston Courier, and In 1871 and 1872 was State Printer. Three ear3 later he missed being the Democratic candidate for United States Senator bv a few rotes In the caucus. In 1878 and 1880 Mr. Walker was the Greenback candidate for Congress In the Third district, hut was defeated by the Democratic nom inee. In 1835 he was appointed Secretary of State for West Virginia, and held the office for lle years. Mr. Walker was for ten j-ears Regent of the fetate Unlierslty. Obituary Notes. Mrs. Alice Inckrsoll Chambeiilain', wife or ex-Governor Daniel H. Chamberlain, of South Carolina, and for several years a resident of Jew York, died Saturday at her home ou Morris Heights. GenebaC Joseph F. Knapp. President of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company of New York, died on Monday last aboard the French steamer La Champagne, which arrived in New York jeoterday. Lutheb O. Gbeene, Inspector of Finance of the State of Vermont, and for about 35 years editor and proprietor of the Woodstock Standard, died sud denly at his home In that town Fridiy, at mld uleht. For two years past he had been President of the Vermont Press Association. Jonx M. DCSN. who -n as United States Marshal at Wilmington, Del., under President Grant, dur ing both terhis of his administration, and a spec! d ntri.nf far th Interior Denartmeut. nnner lrp-.l- ih'iit Arthur, died at his home there Saturday night from softening of the brain; aged 50 years, a leading Republican and a prominent member of lie 'the Grand, Army or the KeDubUc, ALL ERIE IN MOURNING. The News or the Death of W. E. Scott Causes a Profound Sensation His Eo- tnte Is Estimated at From 815.000.000 to S30.00O.00O A Brief Sketch. EniE, Sept. 20. Special. The news of William L. Scott's death created a profound sensation in this city, as a hope had been created that he wonltl ultimately recover. Information of his death, for some reason, did not reach his household until almost noon to-day. Dr. Brandies, who becanreMr. Scott's physician when he was a young man of 18, drawing a salary of $25 a month as a clerk in tho employ of General C. M. Reed, at his freight and passenger docks, and hag been bis Intimate friend and family physi cian ever since, says that Mr. Scott's trouble was hereditary, a his father died of con sumption of the bowels. At the age or 25 Mr. Scott had so much stomach trouble that he contemplatod leav ing Erie, but the doctor secured a reller for him which enabled him to settlo down to his business again. The illness which ter minated in his death became manlfestabont 20 years ago, and Its stubborn nature was greatly aggravated by Mr. Scott's great mental activity and his abnormal appetito at times. The Entire City Mourns. The great sorrow which has come upon his family and close business friends Is shared by the entire city. The Board of Trade will meet to-morrow morning and tako action on his death. The remains are expected to ar rive In Erie on Tuesday morning. The mau soleum in which they will be placed was only recently completed, and the undertaker is now making arrangements for the ob sequies. Mr. Scott's bitterest political ene mies were many even in bis own home, but to-night they are among the most sincere in their expressions of sorrow at bis death. Thoie have been several estimates made as to the wealth of W. L. Scott, which was generally knonn to have been something enormous, but the actual figures are known to but a few In this city, who have been at different times identified with him in busl neis interests. A prominent politician and business man of this city, who has been clo-e to Mr. Scott for some years past, gives it out as an authoritative fact that the es tates and moneyed interests of tho late Con gressman are valued at between J15,000,000 and $20,000,000, the latter figure being the most nearly correct. A Sketch of His Career. William L. Scott was born in Washington, D. C, July 2, 1823. He received a common school education and served as a page in the Honso of Representatives from 1S10 till 1S16. He was taken to Erie by General Keed and was mado clerk Jn the shipping business. In 1S30 he began business on bis own hook, and soon owned several vessels on the lakes. o became largely interested in the manufacture of Iron and mining coal, as well as now represents over 2,200 miles of railroad probably the greatest number or miles or railroad that one mnn ever con trolled. He was a district delegate to the Na tional Democratic Convention held in the city or New York in 1863. nnd a Delecate-at- Large from the State of Pennsylvania to the Democratic National Convention held In Cincinnati in 18f0, and nl90 represented the State of Pennsylvania in tho Democratic Na tional Committee from 1S70 till l&'i. He was elected 3Iayor of Erie in 18C6 and again in 1871. He was elected to tho Forty-ninth Congress as a Democrat. While Mr. Scott was a page in tho House, Arthur P. Gorman, of Mary land, was a page at the other end of the Cap itol. When the campaign for the Fortv nlnth Congress was at its height, Mr. Scott proposed to Mr. Gorman, that if successful, they would celebrate it by a dinner at Del monico's, which was accordingly done, the dinner being a most lavish one. EECIPEOCITY NOT A HUMBUG. It Will Turn the Tide of Spanish-American Commerce in Our Favor. Chicago Tribune, The United States buys from Southern American nations about $200,000,C00 worth of sugar and coffee per year, and pays of this price the one-quarter In farm and factory products of this country, and the other three-quarters in gold or exchange, which in effect is the same thing. This con stant heavy balance of trade against us in the purchase of 'sugar and coffee puts our finances in Jeopardy and always subjects us to the danger or a drain or coin and its at tendant shrinkage of credits and securities, with panic and hard times in the immediate background. The correction of this evil is what reci procity was designed -y Blaine to ac complish, and yet tho New York Democrats impudently and absurdly call it a "humbug." It was meant to avert what these Democrats must ndmlt to be a bad thing, and it is working well, though as yet in operation only in two countries namely, Brazil and the Spanish West Indies. The statistics show that the policy Is swelling the volume of our export trade with both countries Inrgcly with Brazil, and only less so with Cuba because the treaty dfd not go into effect tbl the beginning of this month and is conducted on a limited schedule till the middle of next year. Tho work of stopping that outflow of gold has already begun, and the saving will increaso month by month as wc pay moro and more for our imports from South America with exportatious of our own products. JOHN BULL AND TUBKEY. Is John Bull going to become a Turkey gob bler? Baltimore American. When the Sick Man or Europe is at his worst a dose of English warships proves an I eiicctive remeuy, notion j.ruveuer. The Turkish idea of diplomacy is to throw as generous a bone to the British lion as to the Russian bear. Kansas City Star. Tiiinqs have come to a pretty pass if a party of British officers can't pop a few corks on a desert island without spreading a war cloud over the wholo firmament. Min neapolis Journal. The story of the occupation of MItylene by British troops seems to bear a striking resomblanco to Artomus Ward's celebrated essay on the snakes of Ireland: "There aren't any." Chicago Mail. The seizure of MItylene may be one of those bold strokes that makes peace as sured, no matter how much war is wanted or needed by some of the great powers of Eui ope Philadelphia Star. The Eastern question has long been tho key to war or peace in Europe, and naviga tion rights iu the Dardanelles are, to a great extent, the key to the Eastern question, so to speak. Oshkosh Korihwesiern. It is observed that when Mr. Bull helps himself by force to anything the victim is always a weakling. For a thousand years his robberies have been laid on these com paratively safo lines. Xew York Advertiser. TnE British marines closed the picnic be fore Russia had n chance to come down and catch them at their fun. The little escapade. however, may causo as much diplomatic in quiry as the passing of troops by Russia through the Dardanelles. Toledo Cotnmer cial. If the British marines were landed at Slgrl by due authority they can never be made to leave until the British view of the case has been conceded or a great war has taken place. Now, indeed, tho foreign situ ation is becoming interesting. Richmond Dispatclu The anomalous position occupied by the Turk in Europe, and how completely the Ottoman throne is at the mercy of the Great Powers, is well Illustrated by the vacillating course pursued by tho Sultan respecting the rival interests of England and Russia. Cld cago Inter-Ocean. That "occupation" of Mityleno is now re ported to have been nothing more than an oflicers' picnic. The "oidnance" taken us hove, consisted piobnbly of champagne bottles loaded and the "fortifications" elected were doubtless the Oriental equiva lents of clambakes. Xew York World. If the British Hon had squatted on an American Island Instead of a Turkish pos session, how quickly Mr. Blaine would have seized his tail. Those good people who ex pected to see some twisting done as soon as Mr. Harrison should get into the White House have no ono to look to but tho Czar. Courier Journal. If it bo true that England has seized MIty lene as a counter move to Turkey's conces sion of the passage or the Dardanelles to Russia's men-of-war' it must be conceded that the move is an old one, and in the pres ent stage of the eastern question boldness and a::dacity may count for more than Fa bian measures. Clticago Herald, PEEPABINO P0E BBIGGS. The Time for the Trial or the Heretical Pro fessor Drawing Nigh. New Youi. Sent. 20. fSoeciatA Dr. Briges' trial begins October 6 before the New York Tresbytery. The old Scotch church that wit nessed the memorable scenes last May when the heresy hunt was begun will serve ns a conrt room. The Indictment must be ready then. It Is being drawn by a committee of five, all of whom are dead set against the accused. The ruling spirit of tho committee Is Colonel John James McCook, one of the famous fighting McCooks, and an elder in Dr. John Hall's church. Ho is a railroad lawyer and an expert on intricate questions of corporation law. Ho is the counsel of several large trust concerns. For the pur pose of this trial he has explored nil the cob webbed recesses of ecclesiastical law and practice. His hand has drawn the indict ment, and he will conduct the case against Dr. Briggs in the trial. The indictment will charge a violation of the ordination vows taken by all Presbyterian ministers. The several counts will be based upon his most recent books, speeches and review articles. According to the rules of such trials Dr. Briggs mny take ten days to respond to the indictment or he mav elect to procepd at once with the case. But if he wants delay the trial mny easily be put off for 90 days. The Presbytery must dispose of the revision question before December 1. The original proposition to revise the Confession was carriod iu this Prosbytery after a hard struggle. It recnmmended'but two changes In the creed. Now the report comes back for final action, with tlra Confession almost entirely rewritten. Many of the presbyters consider this of greater Importance than the Briggs trial, ir, however, Dr. Briggs in sists on iroinir ahead with the trinl, revision must wait. The friends or the accused are greatly exercised over the news that Dr. Briggs means to conduct the cao himself, f-ome of his advior suggest Dr. Francis Brown for this duty, but Dr. Briggs will not be moved. As Dr. Briggs' return from abroad is expected daily.his plans may soon be definitely known. EXTENDING THE CAPITOL. The Famous Struct ure Will Be Made More Beautiful Than Ever. WASniHQTOir, Sept 20. Siiecial. At the last session of Congress the Senate Com mittoe on Public Buildings and Grounds passed a resolution instructing Arcnitect Edward Clark to submit plans and specifi cations before the assembling of Congress In 1811, looking toward the extension of the building. The pl.msand specifications have at last been finished land if the ideas of Architect Clark are carried out they will not only add plenty of room to the cramped buildings, but will above all give additional beauty to the magnificent structure. The expense of the new work, under the plans of the architect will aggregate at least $230,000. Those sections of the building which con nect the north and south wings with the rotunda portion of it are of sandstone, painted white, in order to resemble ns much as possihle the marble of wliich the wings nie constructed. These are parts or tho "Old Capitol." The wings which run east and west are additions to them. Architect Clark's Idea is to bntld addi tional connections between the winss nnd the rotunda. Corridors run through the projected new sections which would lurnish ample space for committee and other needed rooms. Under plans prepared in the architect's office, four of thei-e exten sions are provided for. Tho plans called for white marble, and If the Idea is followed it will hide from vlow the old painted sand stone. Probably within two years the new Congressional Library building, now being erected on the sqnnre east of the Capitol, will be finished, nnd then the large space now used for the library In the Capitol will be available for Congressional use". Doubt less the next Congress will provide for this work and also for a great hall of records, which is Imperatively needed for the safe storage or documents, now exposed to loss and fire. SECTIONALISM OUT OF DATE. One Incident Snowing What the Telegraph Has Done for the Country. New York Commercial Advertiser. A greater force than the railroads is bind ing together the people of the country and breaking down sectionalism. It is the enor mous increase in the amount of telegraphic matter printed in tho daily newspapers. Ten yenrs ago a jew Yorker visiting San Francisco or New Orleans or Port land found almost nothing in the journals of those cities to interest him. To-day he finds practically tho same news in them as ho would be interested in reading at home. Of hundreds of examples that might be cited, we go as far away as possible, and take a San Franciscojonrnal of last Saturday. Here aro the main headlines on its first page : "Massing Bussia's Soldiery." "Ava Possibly Diss Debar." "Fun for the Speedy Vamoose." "Salvator's Dire Visitation." "Hostility to Fussott." "Lowering Prices of Wheat." Each or the articles thus headed might have appeared in a Now York newspaper on the same day, and in the same position or relative importance. In fact, the whole ef fect of the page on which they appear Is the same as that produced by the same pngo of it New York daily. The significance of this is not slight. Whichever is cause and which effect, the fact is that what people read about in their local newspapers theV talk about and are interested in. And the people or this entire country are gradually being led bv the press to talk about and be interested in the same things. That means that they are learning to bo interested in each other and to understand each other as they did not in other days. Tbo telegraph and the printing press aro in league for the destruction or sectionalism. Blaine Beady to Maintain Honor. San Francisco Chronicle. Isn't it about time to drop this discussion or Blaine's ailments? The Secretary or State has shown all his old-tlnic vigor whenever called upon to do any work. He didn't be tray any weakness in the Now Orleans affair, and if a new international complica tion should arise Blaine would be found ready to maintain the national honor. What Benefits a Section Benefits All. Omaha Bee, It is a mistako to siippoo that this is a matter which Interests the West only. It is of concern to the entire country, because whatever benefits the West would derive from irrigation the arid empire,;wonld be shared in by every other section. The nar rower view has prevailed, but it is losing ground, and broad-minded men admit that it is of National character and importance. The Democrats Arc Worried Kansas City Journal. The Democrats seem to bo greatly worried because Major McKinley is so confident of his election. It worries them for the reason that they feel way down in the bottom of their hearts that his confidence seems to be pretty well founded. An Exchange That Would Please Chile. Omaha World-Herald. If Uncle Sam would square himself with the Chilean Junta let him return the Itata and take Egan. THE nEKO OF KANSAS. Compassionate eyes had our brave John Brown, And a craggy, stenl forehead, a militant frown; He. the storm bow of peact. Give him volley on volley. The fool who redeemed us once, out of our folly. And the smiter that healed us, our right John Brown. Too vehement, verily, was John Brown, For waiting Is statesmanlike! His the renown Of the holy, rash ami; the cqulpper and starter Of freedom; aye, call him fanatic and martyr: He can carry both halos, our plain Johu Brown. A scandalous stumbling block was John Brown, And a Jeer; but ah ! soon from the terrlBed town, Iu his bleeding track, made over hilltop and hol low, WIso armies and councils were eager to follow. And the children's lips chanted our lost Johu Brown. Star-led, for us, stumbled and groped John Brown. Star-led In the awful morasses to drqwn; For the tocsin that rang for a nation's upheaval. From a thought that was Just, through the deed that was evil. Was blown with the breath of this dumb John Brown. Bared heads and a pledge to mart John Brown ! Now the curse Is allayed, now the dragon is down; No we see, clear enough, looking back at the onset, Christianity's flool tide and chivalry's sunset Iu the lid, broken heart of our hanged John lirnwn! Ionise Imogen Guiney in Kansas City fifeir, CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. Ten torpedoes, costing 516,000, were lost In the late British maneuvers. Rhode Island, the smallest State, has the largest population to the square mile. There are 80 anti-vaccination leagues ia England and Scotland, and a determined op position is also being organized in Ireland and Wales. The Vienna Prefect of Police has ordered an investigation of whether the long, sweeping skirts of ladles tend to spread coirtagious diseases. A Cleveland concern has built for a South African mine the largest gearwheel in existence. It is 30 feet six Inches In di ameter and weighs 66 tons. More men have died and are buried on the Isthmus of Panama, along the line of the proposed canal, than on any eaual amount of territory in the world. Instantaneous Dhotography has beea used to record the movements of the lips in speaking, and by putting the photographs In a zoetrone a dear mute can easily read the words." A Florida negro who was hiding In a swamp near Tallahassee, and was forced up a tree by the approach of alligators, was so badly frightened by his experience that his hair turned whte. "Sew Zealand is surpassing the Argen tine Republic in tho exportation of dressed meat. The largest cargo of this kind ever received in. England recently arrived from the former country. A chnrch in lower Austria has just re ceived a legacy of 300 florins. It was be queathed by a merchant of Vienna to atone for his having broken a window during a lesson in catechism when a boy II years old. The production of molasses in Louisiana is so great that it does not pay to buy bar rels to ship it. Arrangements are now be ing made to burn it, mixed with some other substance, and thus save a great amount of coal. Regarding female models for artists the critics say that the French are nnderslzcd and have bad shoulders: the Germans liavo not classic faces and too broad hips; the Italians are not well rounded; the English are too tall, and tho Spaniards arc anatomi cally deficient. Meteors of various sizes reach the earth in many places. The largest known is that which fell on the plains of IncnnLin, in South America, which weighed about 15 tons. A recent calculation shows that the increase of the earth's weight nnnnnlly, from meteoric sources, is about 91,00 1 tons.' It appears that the Dutch East Indies are mncli less prosperous than formerly. On account of the bnd seasons and deficient harvests the coffee plantations have ceased to yield the great crops of previous years, and it seems to be impossible to find a crop whieli can readily be substituted ror coffee. One of the curiosities at the fair of the Queens County, N. Y., Agricultural Asso ciation will be the "oldest sleigh in New York State." It was built in 1S75 by the grandfather or the late John Pearsall, ot Searington, L. I., und has been handed down from generation to generation until the present time. Music as an aid to cooking is provided for by a chef iu Berlin. Helms composed a polka called tho "Boiled Egg Polka," with this notico on the title page: "To boil the eggs place them in boiling water, and piny the polka in 'allegro moderato' time, taking them out nt the lust, bar. Thev will then be found to De boiled to a nicety.'' Boston has an asylum for cat', and among its features Is a feline gymnasium, full of bright balls or yarn, bounding rubber balls and miniature spiked fences. Small kittens are given gntta perctia mice to cut their teeth on. Everything is done for ail ing kittens and invalid cats which en lightened philanthropy and human impulse may suggest. M. Blanchard, a French savant, thinks America and Europe were once linked to gether. A line can be drawn from Labrador to the north of Scotland, passing through very shallow seas and taking in several Isl ands. Many specimens of flora, animals, fish and insects are the same in the eastern parts or America, especially in Greenland, as in parts or Europe. A new paper, the Wamlerlwj People, will bo started in London. It will be published in the Gypsy tongue and edited by George Smith, the King or tho Gypsies. The object orthepaperito"dorend the just cause or Gypsydom and to give correct accounts of the manners, beliefs and doings of the wandering people, who are nnjustly re garded as the pariahs or the human family." The theory of the light of the aurora borcalis was evolved from tne analysis of its light by the spectroscope, which showed that it was caused by electrical discharges among the particles of meteoric dust in tho atmosphere. Tho broad red line or the spectrum ot iron is shown in all these cases, nnd thus upholds the theory, ns It is well known that the principal part of meteors is metallic iron. An English syndicate recently sent an expert mining engineer to look up tho old gold mines in Portugal. He struck one of the old Roman mines worked In the days of Cu-sar Angustns. In those days they cut down to the vein, and this vein wns 500 feet deep before pay rock was reached. The mine was open for ah area of ten acres or more np to the surface, every foot of ground having been taken off. The debris around these old mines could bo worked overnt n profit were they In America, but in Portugal it would cost too much for the transportation or ma chinery. Russell Barnes, a West Virginia man, now 40 years old, Is a freak in the way of slow intellectual development. Until lately he has been regarded from infancy as an im becile, but his development has gone on slowly, nnd now he exhibits the aptitude- or a schoolboy and betrays a love or stndv. Prof. Morris, who is much interested in the case, says that Barnes in reality possesses a flue mind. The theory is advanced that the length of his life will correspond to that of bfs childhood, and that ho may see as many years as Methusaleh. Referring to the fact that photographs of the moon, taken at full, give that body an egg-shaped appearance, with tho small end pointing toward the earth, a recent writer argues that this goes to prove that planet's non-globnlar shape. According to this writer's reasoning, matter at the surface of tho moon is acted upon by two important forces tho Inw or gravity would arrange tho matter in a globe around tho center, the moon alone considered, and the attraction of tho earth, being always exorted in tho samo direction relative to the moon's center, would constantly draw nil fluid or plastla matter to the side next the earth. OTJK FUNNY CORNEE. It. I. P. Beneath this homely mound a man In peace ilea resting. He began To tic an Ascot tic one day. While thus engaged, he slipped awar. CMhier and Furnisher. One of the most expensive things in this life Is the reverse curve on the bottom of a cham pagne bottle Bolton Transcript. The woman yon would call a poem is not the woman yon would call In the morning to kindle the breakfast lire and fry the slapjacks. Richmond Eecorder. He The artists say that five feet four in ches Is ;he divine height of a woman. His darling (crossly) You know 1 am Are feet eight. He (quickly) Yon are more than divine, dear. Btnghamton Republican. Little Esther was looking through a mag azine andame to a picture or a lady hi an elegant evening costume. Little Esther looked attentively at the picture. Then she said reflectively: She needs a gnlmpe, doesn't she, mamma?" . Somarille Journal. Strollaway Do you remember Miss Do vey? I'll never forget how you and she were In love with each other. How she used to call yon pet names and you-welI,l suppose It's all overnowl No more sweetness between you, eh? Stayathome No: all over! "By the' way, whom did she marry?" 'Me 1' Boston Sevcs. The landlord is writing out the bill with the assistance of the head waiter. "Have you noUccd that the gentleman in No. 7 looked at the weather vane every morning daring lib stay here? "Ye. sir: every morning." Then we'll put down. 'For use of weather vane 3 francs.' "Intmnsiamnt, "You say your husband has tried, to give up smoking, bat caa't!" "Yes." "Why doesn't he try an ocean royaw?" "What good would that do him?" "It might cure blm I have s friend who went on an ocean voyage and the flrst day at tea he-gave up eve rytuing. Vape Cod Item. i " s ' i j i -v ' ;" I fJ ', Mmdm.
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