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P1TT&BUKG, UMAT, OCT. 11, 183L
Good .un icb moil Hastings.
At a time when some of the Republican
leaders are showing a disposition to paltry
quibbling o or (Governor Pattison's move
upon the management of the State Treas
ary, it is jrratilv mg to note that so promi
nent a Republican as General Hastings
demands that the party meet the issue
feirlv and squared. "Let the Senate re
spond to the call " savs General Ilastmgs,
"aadpromptlv, and courageonslj lend every
effort to reach the truth."
This is the right attitude and covers the
&s1 lut of the Republicans. Evidence
before the Investigating Committee has
already shown incompetency and wilful
evasions of the State laws in the fiscal
offices of the Commons ealtlu The trans
action by which several hundred thousand
ctoHars of Mate funds were scut to Rards
leviHOntlis before thej should have gone
into his hands, is certaml not explained
is a satLsfacton wa by Treasurer Royer
when he sas this w.i-. done to es-cape the
operations of the llunifs law. Laws for
the 2v emmeut of the Treasurj are not
meant to be evaded, but to be complied
with. So, likewise, Auditor General Jilc
Camant's transactions with Hardsley and
the resignation and seclusion of Cashier
Livsej are matters winch clearly justify
the Gov emor's call.
General Hastings is right in advising his
party to "respond courageonslj and to do
all in its power to get at the truth." The
Senate Iniestigatmg Committee has been
slow-footed and lukewarm 111 its pursuit of
the facts. Rj co-operating with the Gov
ernor, the Republicans can acquit their
partv of the charge that it sanctions or is
willing to cover up the incompetence or
corruption in public offices. It is more
important to do this than to stand quibbling
just at present as to the motives which
animate the Gov ei nor. General Hastings'
view of the course w Inch is imperath ely
demanded is correct
W ATER AND CONSOLIDATION.
In view of the appearance on the horizon
of the future of the problem of water ex
tension for Pittsburg and Allegheny, the
fact that the same problim has been press
ing itself upon Philadelphia is of local
inn-rest The light that may be thrown
upon our problem when it comes up by
Etodving the question as it occurs to our
neighbors is alreadv indicated to be im
poft&nt m one respect at least
Discussion in Philadelphia shows a de
cided tendeurv of expert opinion in favor
of taking water from high levels and
bringing it to the cit through an aqueduct
bygraiity in preference to pumping from
nearer sources This is a radical departure
from the more ordinary pumping system
in two important respects. First, by going
to mountain streams whence the water
WBuWftow to the cities by gravity purity
of supply can be assured for all time.
Tlic water can be taken from streams
in "which there is no pollution, and
1 is even possible if necessary to
purchase at low cost the land from which
it would be drained In the matter of cost
the departuie is equally radical. The es
timates of the f.rst cost of "an aqueduct
FV5tem for Philadelphia are rather
sunning, being placed at S1G,000,000, but
this is less than the cost of pumping
water, if the annual expenditure on the
titter work were capitalized In other
words, the interest on the cost of such ai
aqHediiet is less than the cost of pumping
water in Philadelphia, aud a fortiori,
would be much less thanthecost of pump
ing to the higher levels of Pittsburg.
We believe the question of suppljing
water to Pittsburg by an aqueduct from
the mountain levels was fully discussed in
the report on water extension made by
j-qierts in the early "0's. It was rejected
tuenlecause the cost was greater than
then demanded bv the magnitude of the
cty. Rut it whs shown according to our
recollection of that report, that water
coHld be obtained, from no less than three
trorces within a radius of about fifty
miles and brought to the city by gravity
Whether the community has not now
reached the size that requires sucli a sys
tem of supplv, is a question that may de
nand consideration in the light of the
ascusswn of the same topic in Phila
delphia. Such a project would necessarily bring
up another proposition. It would be the
worst economy to bring water from mount
tain sources to supply the 250,000 popula
te within the citj limits of Pittsburg
wben there are nearly 200,000 more outside
the city limits who might be as well sup
plied by that means. The project would
imply a union for the purpose of water
supph.if not a municipal consolidation
ot Allegheny and all the manufacturing
Mibmbs in the sjstem. This idea would
arouse opposition at first blush; but if it
were demonstrated that the annual ex
penditure necessary for pumping water
Iremthe rivers to all these places would
WkM
pay the interest on tie cost of a superior
water supply and provide a fund for the
gradual extinction of the principal, such
opposition "would be converted into ap
proal. The advantages of sx comprehensive
water supply for the entire community, of
which Pittsburg is the center, form one of
the stronj: arguments in favor of consoli
dation under a sincle municipal govern
ment. It-is one of the many respects in
which an enterprising and progressive
government could make the consolidated
city a magnificent advance upon the
prehentone.
NATAL DKFKNSE OF THE LAKES.
The question of providing for the naval
defenseof the lakes has been attracting
further discussion in the Eastern press.
The ew "Pork Commercial Advertiser
has suggested thexfilltng.up of some of the
lake craft, especially the whale-back
barges, so that thev could be armed at
'short notice. Rut as this would be an in
fraction of the rreatyof 1617, the Sectary
i of the Jfavy comes totho decision that it
cannot.be done until tne treaty is aoro
jTitetl. Tho Advertiser very correctly
saj-s that the treaty should not bo can
celled, and then comes to tho incorrect
con elusion that nothing can'be done.
Thfc error of this assertion is manifest
upon n v cry slight study of tho situation.
The rdvanlage England possesses over
this country m adcess to the inland seas
bv armed vessels lies m the fact that
Canada. haS'intho latterhalf of the cen
tury spent in the neighborhood
of $20,000,000 on canals, by which
armed -vessels of 12 or 13 feet
draf can eirter the lakes. Tho United
States has spent exactly nothing for the
same purpose. The Canadian canals pay
for themselvesYiy their commercial "value
and provide a route by which England
could in caseof ""war fill the lakes with the
smaller class of sea-going warshrps. And
this policy has been so successful that
more canals ae projected by which Lake
Huron can be reached through Canada
without ipassmg through Lake Erie.
This constitutes thosolc disadvantage to
our countrj in the control of the lakes,
and the way to rectifyit is plain. By the
expenditureof a less sSun in proportion to
oui w calth.and the importance of the pro
ject than Canada has spent, and a little
over half 'what it is proposed tho Govern
ment shallsinkin theswamps of Kicaragua,
the United States can build two-canals ac
commodating vessels of 15 feet draft and
connecting the lakes with the Upper Mis
sissippi and the upper Missouri With
those canals'fcuiltta reserve of war'vessels
from those rivers could be putdnto the
lakes at two dajs notice. While the war
contingency is rather remote the-commer-
cial value of the canals would more- tnan
repay the expenditure on them until the
naval emergency came, as we mayiliope
it never will
Nothing to be done! The plain thing to
do is to build the Ohio River and Lake
Erie Canal atone end of the lakes-andthe
Hennepin at the other. "With those water
routes open the way to defend the.lakes in
case of war would be self evident
TUB PKISON CONGKES3.
The meeting 3? the Prison Congress in
this city last nightinauguratesan important
session, aud one which will attract public
attention. The successful solution of tho
problems surrounding the confinement
and reformation of criminals is one of the
most momentous questions that 'confronts
society. If imprisonment can be made to
f ullv "serve it double purpose the pre
ventionof crime and the reformation of
criminals it will be one of the most
beneficial achievements for humanitythat,
could be secured. The members compos-,
ing the congress hav e given their lives to
the study of these problems, and their,,
conferences should be productive of de
cided progress in that direction. Pittsburgi
will offer a hearty welcome to the members
of this congress and a sincere wish that the
meeting may be pleasant and profitable.
to all.
LITERATURE AND THE SCHOOLS.
A special article elsewhere makes a
strong plea for the study of literature in
the public schools. The writer is not mis
taken in his estimate of the value of lit
erary knowledge in broadening and
strengthening the mind. Every one will
agieewith him that all methods which
can awaken the interest of students in
reading the best authors and in appre
ciating their liv es as well as their works
will be a valuable aid to the best and
broadest education.
Rut the practical question is, how is this
to be effected? Our contributor offers
suggestions of undoubted value in this re
spect, although most people will deem
him rather sanguine in advancing the
opinion that these methods can creato a
literary taste "even in primary classes."
Onl the simplest of the works which can
be classed as literature is likely to attract
the attention and awaken the interest of
minds whose educational progress is
confined to the primary branches. Rut as
the scholar gains in mental stature
every means, that can lay before his view
the wonderful variety of instruction and
pleasure to be secured by the cultivation
of the reading habit, should be recognized
as a part of the best education. The
practical difficulty is, of course, to impart
this knowledge to the pupil without giving
it the disagreeable flavor of a task. The
study of history and belles lettres has in
some higher educational institutions been
subject to this drawback. It has taken
many students years to overcome the dis
taste for those branches, caused by their
association in the mind with the enforced
tasV w orlv of the schools, and in more cases
perhaps the impre.siou has never been
overcome. Our correspondent presents
valuable suggestions for inciting a live
interest in such study, and his ideas should
receive the careful attention of all who
wish for the broadest culture of coming
generations.
OVERDONE ATnLETICE.
The fact that one or two highly trained
athletes have broken down in health
litelj produces various sorts of comments.
One criticism of the present athletic ten
dencies much heard is that the athletic
disposition to train only one set of muscles
for one especial class of sports results un
favorably on the sjstem. This view is
unfortunately rendered inapplicable by
the breakdown of Ford, one of the finest
all-round athletes. Another theory is
therefore produced to the effect that "those
portions of the system which are brought
into use bj training only, and which after
ward resume their normal state of disuse,
are theieafter so many sources of danger,
so many invitations to acute or organic
disease."
This is more largely sapient gush than
the other as an intelligent development of
the portions of the system disused will
make them sources of strength rather than
danger. The majority of city dwell
ers use the street cars so that they
are not able to walk two mile3 without
fatigue. But he who trains himself and
bcco.nes able to walk twenty will not find
that his legs arc "invitations to acute or
organic diseases," but on the contrary they
are invitations to health aud vigor.
The truth about athletic exercise is that
it is a splendid thing; but, like all other
spleudid things, it can be abused. Eating
is a splendid thing, also, being even more
necessary to hf e than exercise. But while
a half pound of beef steak and potatoes is
a first-class thing for a man to take at tho
proper time, he who eats five pounds will
learn that he can overdo even tho necessi
ties of life. Also, while breakfasting,
lunching and dining is a pleasant and
necessary function, the man who has no
other object in life is an even more pitiable
being than tho man who has no other pur
pose of existence than to be a great
sprinter, or rower, or ball player.
For recreation and as a diversion ath
letics are healthy, inspiriting and useful.
Rut where they are made the first object
of a man's career they can very easily be
overdone. This may break the man down
physically, but the more usual result is
that it makes him utterly worthless as an
industrial, social or moral factor.
THE IRISH SITUATION.
The tempestuous scenes which marked
the later leadership of Mr. Parnell are
prolonged over his bier. Sorrow and
anger mingle most untimely in the ex
pression of his followers and his oppon
ents The prospects just now are not for
that union which was predicted by the
optimistic, when death removed the great
parliamentary leader from the scene of
contention. Time may bring forth amity,
perhaps co-operation; but while the
wounds incurred in the late war of fac
tions are newly opened by tho shock of
ParnelPs sudden demise, there is little
likelihood of an extension of olive
branches.
"Were Justin McCarthy, John Dillon,
O'Brien or Sexton alone to be considered,
there is httlo doubt that Parnell's fol
lowers might in the future become recon
ciled tothem. These leadcrs.'while oppos
ing Parnell's continued control of the Na
tionalist party, still showed at all times a
considerate feeling for him personally, and
were willing to acknowledge his great
services to the Home Rule cause. But
the most conspicuous and bitter agent in
the deposition of Parnell was his former
lieutenant, Timothy Healy. It is against
Healy that the outbursts of the Parnell
ites are chiefly directed. Such is the
measure of offense he has given, that re
union seems far enough in the distance
between himself and such men as thq
Redmonds, Harrington and thefr col
leagues. The spectacle of thi3 bitterness is dis
couraging. The only hope of the friends
of Ireland is that the extreme intensity of
the passion may tho sooner w ear it out
THE JAIL REPORT.
The report of the committee of the
Prison Board on the escape of Eitzsim
mons confirms tho already clearly-defined
public opinion that the murderer was
aided in his escapo by the corrupt conniv
ance of some officials and the general
laxity and incompetence of tho jail man
agement. The discharge of the watchmen whom
the evidence points out as guilty of con
nivance dn the escape is the least that
could bo done. Indeed, it looks like an
insufficient penalty if there is evidence
enough to convict either or both of them
of aiding or permitting the escape. There
is little doubt that a public official who
permits a defiant criminal to escapo is an
accessory after the fact If the evidence
is as availabloas it seems to be tho case of
at least one of these faithless officers
should occupy the attention of the Crim
inal courts.
Further than this, tho report contains
one sentence which should have some
significance to a no less dignified and im
portant a body than the Prison Board it
self. It is: "To our judgment the whole
management of the jail is and has been
for some time, loose and incompetent."
It is well to have the fact officially recog
niged; but it will be pertinent for tho
Board to ask itself whether it would not
have been within its functions to have
found out the fact before the most defiant
criminal of many j ears had escaped jus
tice. The vigor of the McDonald gushers
should bo restrained until the preparations
are complete for taking care or the oil.
What does it profit a man to bring in any
10,000 barrelers and lose half the oil any
more than if he had got a 5,000 barreler?
Public faith in Mr. Edison's electric
railway invention, w hich is to do away with
both trolleys and storage batteries, may
receive something of a check from tho in
formation that tho eloctrio current is to be
"picked up" by the cars from a wire run
ning along underneath the rails. No one
will doubt Mr. Edison's ability to success
fully run cars by this invention; but how
vehicles, hoises and pedestrians are to be
guarded against "picking up" tho current
to an extent that may make them the re
verse of lively Is an interesting problem.
Perhaps the Edison idea w ill be that every
thing but electric street cars must keep off
the track.
The reported declaration of Mr. Fassett,
of New York, that "we have G 000,000 people
In the State of New York, and 5,909,000 are
laborers," is rather indiscreet. It indicates
that there must bo a fearful percentage of
child and women labor m that State.
TnE Society of the Army of the Tennes
see has under way tho movement to raise a
fund for a monument to General Sherman.
This is right work in the right hands. No
one more deserves a monument from that
organization than the biillunt Sherman;
and no organization can moio fitly under
take the commemoration of his services in
granite and marble. Under the direction of
General Dodge tho countrj will rest assured
that the Sheirnan monumentnlll bo no such
fiasco as the General Grant monument.
The appearance of the Kaiser's whiskers
on tho new Gorman coins is tobo taken as an
imperial intimation that thcro is to be no
Bhaving of German money. But the coins
may still be clipped.
The information that young Ned Green,
son of the famous Mrs. Hettj Green, the
niulti millionaire, U determined to start a
big newspaper and sink $700,000 in it at the
first send-otl, conveys a promise that there
will not be much concentration of that great
fortune after the young man gets through
with it. It also lets us perceive that j oung
Green is a very different person from His
frugal mother.
The introduction of mud throwing into
the State campaign would not profit any
one. There are enough public issues to fight
the campaign on, without resorting to the
magazine of slime.
The flyers have been putting in the last
few days of the season in somo sharp con
tests with each other and w ith time. But
the elements were too much for them and
they will have tobo satisfied with coming
within a fraction of a second of tho great
record of MaudS. Xort year perhaps the
records may be smashed, but not this j ear.
The Anneke Jans heirs have been hold
ing a convention onco more. Their pros
pects are spoken of voiy encouragingly by
tho lawj ers w lio get the fees out ot them.
The "Western newspaper which rccentlv
asserted that Deacon White on ncd the Jncw
York Mail and Express did two men an In
justice. Colonel Elliot F. Shepard never In
dulged in gambling transactions on tho price
of food, and Deacon White does not pose as
an awful example of a donkey running a
newspaper.
Judge Ghesiiaii's great oration at the
unveiling of the Grant monument In Chi
cago, is appreciated and praised everywhere
except, possibly, at Ihe White House.
Kansas has increased her population 43
per cent during the last decade, and her sur
plus products this year will foot up over
$100,000,000. When certain prophets early
this year indulged in asseitions of utter
ruin to Kansas The DisrATCH toot tho liberty
of doubting it.
TnE news that tbe unfortunate TJ. S.
steamer Dispatch has found another reef to
run against, shows the force of an old habit
even in inanimate objects.
About fifteen millions of gold have
already been shipped to this country from
Europe, and tho sale of our crops to foreign
lands has hardly begun. By this timo next
year that outflow of gold will seem like a
flea bite in comparison to what we have got
back.
NAMES FBEQUENTLY MENTIONED.
Louis Kossuth the Hungarian patriot,
lias just entered his 90th year. He is in fair
hcilth in his Italian home.
Mr, T. Sidney Coopee, the British
llojal Academiciin, has Just celebrated his
SSthbiithday. Tho veteran aitist is in ex
cellent health.
Occaskvnally genius seems to be here
dltaij. Francis Darwin, a son of the apostle
ot evolution, is making a name lor himself
in the scienco of biology.
Mr. Lowell's literary executor, Prof.
Norton, has already begun his work and is
out with an appeal to nil of the late poet's
corresjiondents both in this country and In
Europe for copiesoroiiginals of letters they
may have received from him.
Me. aid Mas. Henry M. Stanley, ao
compaincd by Jlrs. Tennant, the mothei of
Mrs. Stanley, have started on a tour of Aus
tralia. Jlr. Stanley is still lame, as the re
sult ot his lecent accident in Switzerland,
and is compelled to have the assistance of a
crutch and stick in walking.
Dom Pedro d'Alcantara, the ex-Em-peioi
of Brazil, continues his favorite study
of Hebrew. He has privately printed at
Avignon a monograph under the title of
"I'oesios Hebiaico-Provencales de Itituel Is
raelite Comtadin." It contains the Hebrew
text, -with a transcription and a French
translation. The hymns, aio still used in
Provence upon special occasions.
Ix has not been known until now how the
Fiench explorer, Paul Crampel, met Ills
death in Central Africa. Some survivors of
Ills party say he was killed treacheiously in
ambush While m a village he asked for
water. The natives took him to a well, and
w hen ho drew near it other natives jumped
from the bush, stabbed him in the back and
then threw his body into the well. The sur
vivors, on their retreat to Brazzaville, were
reduced to such extiemities that they were
forced to eit the leav es of trees.
The maharajah of Mysore is about to
visit England, having overcome the pre
judice which nil good Hindoos feel with i e
gaid to an ooein vojage. They abhor the
occin, and crossing it bleaks the caste of
the oflending personage. A council of emi
nent Hindoo priests was culled together by
the maharajah, and they aigued the im
portant question how his highness could
preserve his caste if he went to England
The question was satisfactorily settled, and
the maharajah, who is one of the richest aud
most povt ertul of the Indian rulers, will soon
bo the occasion for another royal display in
Great Britain.
Any one who cherishes the honor of be
ing informally received in theboudoir of the
Piincess of Wales may notico, nestled in the
corner of her jewel casket, a little bijou
which is seldom worn by irs royal owner,
owing to Its sacied preservation nsoneof
the deaiest relics of her happy youth. It is
in the shape of a colored gold bracelet, richly
set with diamonds and comprising eight
compartments, each having a miniature of
one of her bridemaids, with their initials in
diamonds on enameled blue lids, which can
be closed to conceal their faces from view.
This trinket was pi esented to the beautiful
Alexandra by the eight daughters of peers
who had the honor of waiting upon her at
thetimeofhermairiage, in 1863.
VACANT MASSACHUSETTS FABMS.
The
Time Gono by TVhen They Can
Be
Purchased for a Song.
Boston Herald.
The annual report or the Secretary of the
Board of Agriculture in the State as to the
abandoned farms indicates that their num
bei has been greatly overestimated, as com
pared with tho situation in Vermont and
Jew Hampshire, and that the time has gone
by when land in Massachusetts can be had
for a song, oi is almost given away. The
present report indicates that out of 1,161
abandoned farms, 1,211 are in the five western
counties, wheio the greatest temptations
have existed to leave the farm property for
a lucrative industry. At the present timo
the icturns sent in to Secretary Sessions
announce that 88Sof theso furms aro in J32
ot the towns, and that the farther east you
go the cheaper theso farms are, and tho
more anxious are their owncis to dispose of
them.
Tho prices of this property have risen to
sonio slight extent m the western p irt of
the State, but in the eastern p irt tho compe
tition with tho nianniactuimg towns has
been too keen for tho farmer, and ho has not
learned how to adapt his crops to the near
est local market. The lea sons assigned for
giving up theso homesteads aro suggestive.
Among them aro the poverty of the seller,
the inability to obtain farm laboiers, the
bettei inducements in other linos of labor,
the competition of the West, the attractions
of city life, and unintelligent fanning. The
indications aro tint theie is a slight reac
tion from the extiemely low piices which
tho farms have biought duung tho last 10
or 20 years, nnd the numerous inquiries
which have been mado for tho cataloguo of
tho abandoned farms indicates that a large
portion of them will be taken up by those
who are able to make them productive. At
any rate, the statement of Secretary Ses
sions plncts tho farming interests in a better
light than was anticipated.
JUDGES IN B0BES.
The Custom Is Not Regarded With Taor
bv Americans.
It seems the United States Court of Ap
peals at Chicago was opened on Monday in
gicat foiin. A dispatch says tho throe
Judges, Harlan, Giesbam and Blodgett, en
tered "with stately tread and dignified
mien," and' "attiredin theiriobes of office."
Tho latter aro described as "of blncksilk,
gathered In large ruffles at the shoulders,
forming a cape that hung down over the
Miouldors." It is to be regretted that tho
opening of thi3 new court has been maried
bj such spectacular flummery as this
Every intelligent loieigner traveling in this
conntiy is impressed with tho simplicit of
the courts and the Implicit submission of
the people to the majesty of the law w ithout
even the appearance of any outward press
ure. In iuiope, wheie the usages ot the
middle ages still survive in many formali
ties. It is still considered necessary
to awe the people with uniforms, pai
apheinalia md the trappings of office.
In somo Emopean countries everything
connected with the courts is unifoimeu,
roiii the Chief Justice to the hangman. A
murderer would hardly consider himself
well hanged unless the job was done by a
hangman dressed in scailet fiom head to
foot. In England the judges envelope their
heads in pow tiered wigs to give them an air
of supernatural wisdom, a custom that has
come down from tho middle ages, and which
the EngliQb peoplo are too conservative to
chance. But when we read of snch flum
mery being introduced in the United States
in the closing yeirsof the nineteenth cen
tury wo aie led to suspect that the, world, is
revolving backward. Ihe talk about "robes
of .office" is nonseiiso. Theio is no such
thins m this counti as a robe of office. Tho
lnu does not pi ovido lor anything of the
kind, and the people have not authorized it.
The durmtyoi a judge is not increased by
. . i ..l.n clltmi.m .r I..-...---! T
,ii, the rei'iumr stvi,, nt ,e,.,i .re
meats. Tho w hole businesa Is un-American,
PI0TTB FOE CUBA.
Some of the Beneficent Effects or the Mo.
Klnley Reciprocity Clause.
San Francisco Chronicle.
The Spanish Import duty on American
flour into Cuba Is at present time $6 20 a,
barrel. Under tho commercial agreement
between Spain and tho United States,
which is to go into effect on January 1, the
duty will be only $l per barrel, and the ef
fect of this coming reduction Is already
felt. There is keen competition among
dealers, and the oiders for flour to be de
livered under the new tariff aggregate 300,
000 barrels. It Is said that the regular
steamers cannot begin to carry the freight
and that outside vessels will have to bo
pressed into service. New York will ship
most of the flour, though many ordeis have
been placed in Chicago, whence tho flour
will be shipped by rail to Baltimore, and
thence by vessel to Cuba. There will prob
ably bo a number of exciting races between
the Now York and Baltimore vessels carry
ing this flour.
This is but a single instance of what the
reciprocity pronslons of the McKinley bill
have accomplished. It may be well to ex
plain again that what is called a commei
cial tieaty with Spain is only her formal ao
ceptanco of the suspensive clause of the
McKinley bill reduced to writing and car
ried out into detail. As soon as Spain
learned that Cuban sugar would bo subject
to import duty in the United Statei unless
she l educed her tariff on American prod
ucts sho cast about for the wav to protect
hci self from sucii a disaster, and the reduc
tion in tho Cuban duty on flour is ono of tho
things to which she agreed.
Our free trade friends no doubt will argue
that if leciprocity with Spain increases our
export of flour to Cuba, reciprocity with
Great Britain would in crea'o our export of
flour to England. The argument looks
plausible, but it i fallacious. Our re
ciprocity under the McKinley bill is limited
to a few articles which we c innet or do not
produce In quantity for ourselves, namelv,
sugar, molasses, tea, coffee and hides We
may wcil afford to admit these artioles duty
fieoupon reciprocal conditions, whereas ft
would be tho height of folly to invite foreign
competition in articles which we can pio
duce or make for ourselv es. Wo know of no
piece of national legislation which has been
more successful than the third section of tho
McKinley bill. It has unlocked many a for
eign gate to Amcncan products and enabled
us to extend the market for our surplus
without having to make any unpleasant or
disafrieeablo concessions. Senator Aldrich
must hai e been genuinely inspired when he
framed the suspensive clause.
A DUEL WITH HOB BOY.
How llaclfell of Barra Mado Him Trove
His Superior Swordsmanship.
The Scottish American.
The far famed Bob Roy MacGregor was
confessedly the best swordsman of his day.
His celebrity for wielding tho claymore ex
cited MacXcil of Iiarra to visit him for tho
express purpose of trjinghisprowess. Barra
was a gentleman possessing the quali
ties that endear a chief to his elan,
with the accomplishments which confer
acceptability in polished elides. On arriv
ing at Rob Roy's house tho MacXoil chief
tain found ho was at Buchanan attending a
market, nnd thither he repaired. He met
several gentlemen on horseback on their
way home, and, accosting the nearest,
begged to know If Rob Roy was still at
the fair.
"Who inquires for Rob Royt" Inquired a
voice, moie lemote.
"MaoNeil of Barra," said the chief.
Rob Roy npproached, announcing himself;
and, after exchanging salutes, Barra said:
"I havo heard Rob Roy extolled as the best
swordsman of our times, and havo come a
long Journey to prove whother he or I de
serve that commendation."
"Chieftain of Barra," said Rob Roy, "I
never sought a quarrel with anv man: and
if it please j on to think yourself the better
swordsman, I have no objection to your
opinion."
"This is the language of fear," said Barra.
"Who dares to speak of fear to Rob Hoy
MacGregor?" said MacGregor. '"Dismount,
sir, and try it I'm afraid."
Tho chivalrous encounter immediately
commenced, nnd Rob Roy found Barra near
Iv his match: but after much dexterous tilav
he wounded the chieftain in the sword arm,.
so mat ne was several montas oonnnea at
Buchanan.
0UB WOOL CONSUMPTION.
The Home Market Enlarged by the Protec
tive Tarltt
Lenlston Journal.
It appears from the census of 18S0 that in
1879 23o,000,0G0 pounds of domestic and 10,000,
000 of impoited wool, total 275,000,000 pounds,
were used by the mills of this country in
the manufacture of woolen and worsted
goods; together with 1,500,000 pounds of
camel's hair, 18,000,000 pounds of cotton and
61,000,000 pounds of shoddy in tho manufac
ture of mixed textiles. In addition to this,
24,000,000 pounds of imported and 2,000,000 of
domestic wool were used in themanufactuie
of carpets In that year about one seventh
of the wool used in making woolen and
worsted goods was imported, aud six
sev enttis pioduced at home.
The wool clip of tho United States last
year was about 300 000 COO pounds, which w as
nil consumed by our mills, and about 21,000,
000 pounds of 'clothing and combing wools
were imported. This 5 ear the imports of
clothing and combing wools will be about
40 000 000 pounds, and tho dotnestio clip about
310,000 pounds total consumption of these
wools livoui mills about 350,000,000 pounds.
About 100,000,000 pounds of wool (last ear
150,000,000 pounds) will be imported this 3-ear
in the form of cloth. Xeaily all our carpet
wools are imported. It will bo seen, there
foio, that the proportion of domestic wools
used in our clothing mills increases., not
withstanding theio is a much larger use of
foreign wool this j ear than last, because tho
new tariff has enlnrgcd the home maiket lor
American woolen goods, and we do not as'
yet produce all tho wool we use.
BTBANGE BEDFELLOWS.
Old fllornlltj and His Connection "With tho
Liberal Party.
Toronto Fmpirc.
Politics makes strange bepfellows;tho late
Mr. Parnell and tho Radicals, for( Instance,
befoie the trouble began in the family.
Quito as impossible a member of the "Tory"
paity, as somo Liberals profess to under
stand It, was tho late Rt. Hon. W. II. Smith.
"Old Morality" he was facetiously named by
the wags of the House, no who, by solid
British plodding and industry, attained not
only the leadeishipof the Commons, but a
waiin place in tho hearts of all Englishmen,
was once snubbed by tho Liberals: lofused
entrance, in fact, to "the Reform Club when
just entering politics because bis father was
a book seller nnd he, good honest man, ear
ned onho Mime trade.
It is cliainctciistic of Liberals to sneer at
arlslocracj ' but when it happens that they
themselves aio not "111 trade" then they
can cairy theii noses very loftily indeed.
Such nonsense does not belong to Conservn
timinoiu dnj.the Conservatism of which
the late Mi.hmith and the lato Sir John
Macclonald were tjpes; both hard working,
one by application alone, thoothei with a
wonderful faculty for statcsm inship The
world is full of sham Liberalism. Where
mav Sir Richaid Cartwnch and Mr. Goldwin
Smith be counted?
PEEPABING P0B BALDS.
Government Vessels Ordered North to Fut
a Stop to Depredations.
Jfew York Times 1
The ordeiing of tho Rush back to Bering
Sea, where theBear also 13 to remain thiough
November, is a verv practical response to
the recent mmor from Victoria that one of
the sealing schooners there was prepaiingto
raid the Piibilof Islands It Is a fact at
tested by official "authority that in lormer
seasons, after the depirture of the levcnuo
cutters fiom tho islands of St. Paul and St.
George, poachers have landed there nnd
made sad havoc among such seals as weieie
inaining. Tho desire to get out of that latitude be
fore the approach of winter and the closing
up ot the authorized catch at tho islands
have niturally led up to the depaituie of
the rev enue v essels as soon as possible. But
last year tho Government was obliged to
send a craft in pursuit of two Victoria
schooners that made a eupplementaiy trip
to Bering Sea, and this year, with the dimin
ished catch both of tho private sealors and
of tho Pribllof lessees, tho temptation to
attack tho rookeries may be increased Ac
cordingly the Rush, it appeals, is to go north
again and round out hei long and arduous
season of patrolling.
It Had to lie Weak.
St. I otils Globe-Democrat
Goveinoi Campbell, in tho joint debato
with Majoi McKinley, mado as good a do
fenso of Democracy as was possible, but
from the nature of the case ft had to bo
weak, .
MURRAY'S MUSINGS.
Deliberate Murder Committed In the Sale
of Spoiled Foods Robbing Stenograph
ersHow an Elephant Drinks Beer
How Small tho World KeaUy Is.
CrKOH A STAFF COnKKSPONDEVT.J
Spasmodic efforts have been made by
tho health authoritiesof this city to prevent
the sale of spoiled food. The other day a
great hubbub was raised over the discovery
of copperas on grapes a slight deposit left
from a spraying mlxtui e used to destroy ob
noxious insects, and large quantities of the
grapes were seired and the bottom knocked
out of the general grape market for the sea
son. It was n'rterward ascertained that a
consumer would have to eat a ton of grapes
before ho could get enough poison to make
one dangerous dose of poison.
Tho raids upon tho spoiled food market,
the tainted meats and rotten fish have, how
ever, a more substantial foundation It
reason. Unfortunately for the health of the
city these efforts aio not long sustained or
very sweeping. They do not cover enough
gionnd. Spoiled food is as common in this
city as flies in summer time. The two evils
go hand in hand. Outside of tho bestplaces
spoiled food is so common and offensive
that it h impossible to wholly get away
from it Decajed fruit and vegetables are
exhibited in front of cvervgiocery. Stink
ing fish and meats taint the air of everv
small butcher shop. These are all sold to
somebod . Very often they ore slyly tucked
into an order of persons who havo paid for a
sound and healthy article, though they are
mostly disposed of at a low figure to the
poorer population. Even first class grocors
are not above putting in a spoiled banana,
a lotten orange, a couple of de
cayed peaches, or something of
that kind at tho bottom of the measuro
where tho enstomer has paldfor sound food.
And your butcher is not apt to tell you that
the cnt you aie getting is a trifle tainted,
but will next morning listen to your com-
Jilaint w ltn cai eless Indifference or a look of
njured innocence. This hurts nobody ex
cept in temper, because you will not eat the
spoiled food anyhow, and only swear at
being robbed As you cannot stand by with
a club to see your order put np, and haven't
the nerve to demand a smell of the meat
every timo before It is cut, this will be re
peated until you begin, to accept It as a nec
essary evil.
But with the very poor it Is quite different.
On tho lookout for a cheap article they fall
upon spoiled food of nil kinds as a regular
diet. When one sees what is sold here every
day and carried home for family consump
tion, it sceins wonderful that epidemics of
various diseases do not tread upon
each other's heels and sweep away
multitudes. I have no doubt that
tens of thousands die here annually
from the use of food that was spoiled when
sold them, and was known at the timo to be
so spoiled by the seller. That one man gives
or sells another poison because the latter
wants it is not considered either a moral or
legal release from criminal complicity In
case of death except in this matter of rotten
food. In this wo calmlv permit the acces
sory before the fact to go on with his insidi
ous woik, whoieas the law should hold him
to a strict accountability.
An Elephant's Beer Glass.
There is usually a sporting air about
tho dressing room of certain well-known
actors. One hot night n short time ago I
happened in upon De Wolf Hopper at the
Broadway. They Tvere just setting the
scenery for the second act of that charming
comic opera "Wang,"and I dodged the beer
guzzling elephant Just as ft was being
swung np out of tho way of the chorus girls
and slipped into Hopper's dressing room.
He had lust come off and was perspiring
like a quarter horse. But this did not inter
fere with a heated discussion between him
self and his handsome tenor, Stanley, as to
the merits and demerits of the sluggers in a
recent prize fight. Several bets were offered
and taken; nil the time the comedian's
dresser, a slim young man in a caro.'ully
nursed moustache and a French soldier's
uniform, was getting his principal ready for
the next act. Hopper is something of an
athlete himself and his stalwart figure
seemed almost gigantic in this small room
and among us small men. lie went on
presently, but soon returned with great
beads trio kllng over the grease paint.
"A hot night and a cold house," said he In
disgust. "I didn't get a hand. Fact! Where
I usually get an encore I never got a hand!
Hot night always gives a cold house."
"We'll so a tenner apiece." said Tenor
Stanley, continuing the sporting conversa
tion where it had been broken off by
Hoppei's cue, "and see what comes of it.
And ir '
At this juncture tho stage director asked
me if I ever saw the bottom of an elephant'9
beer glass, and thereupon kindly showed
me that work of stage art. It was a flat
bottomed plain cylindrical glass with a
handle like the regulation mug and had a
hole in the bottom plugged with a cork.
This mug holds about a gallon, and when it
i3 brought on and set casually upon the
table it covers a certain hole on the latter.
When the elephant sneaks in and dips his
trunk in the beer the stage manager in tho
wing pulls a string and knocks tho cork out;
and thus, whilo the audience is laughing
heartily at the elephant's capacity for beer,
and wondering where it all goes to, tho
liquid is rapidly running through the hole
into a bucket under the tabic
Imposing on the Stenographers.
One of the latest schemes that is being
worked to get something for nothing Is the
answering of stenographer's advertisements
in the daily papers with lequegts for trial.
Of course, a lady stenographer who wants a
job does not object to a fair test of her
capacity. When a business man sends for
one of theso, however, and tries her on a
whole morning's work, and the morning's
work being done, either thinks she won't do
or offers her a ridiculously small salary; he
usimllj gets so much work for nothing. If
he Just keeps that up, making a different
appointmont, he c in have a new stenogra
pher and typewriter every morning of tbe
week without expense. It would seem Im
probable that any man would thus tako
advantage of young women seeking em
ployment. But it Is an unquestionable fact
that a certain class of alleged businoss men
aie guilty of this very thing. A man like
that would rob a grav eyard.
Ghost Walks at Theaters.
Every now and then the public is in
formed through tho press that somo Ono of
tho city theaters is haunted. This new ad
vertising scheme appears to have sup
planted the usual diamond racket of the
leading lady or tho matrimonial scandal 01
the flist gentleman. The latest theater to
be haunted is the Star. They say ghosts
walk there every night. This will certainly
creato a run on the part of the profession
for employment in that particular theater,
as ghost walking i3 tho most interesting
pal t of tho theatrical business so far as the
perfoimers are concerned. In most theaters
if tho ghost walks onco a week It is highly
satislactoiy to the profession. If we can
only have a theater where the ghost walks
every night there will bo certainly a stam
pedo for that theater.
Pleasantiyaside.it is curious to note these
evidences of theatrical snperstition. A
short time ago a ghost made its appearance
on the walls of the old Fifth Avenue The
atei. Crowds of people gathered about tne
place every night. The thing was treated
e en more seriously bv members or the the
atrical guild, and nothing would, have in
duced one ot them to enter the ruins while
his ghostship was on deck. By the by, I
wonder whether the Star ghost Is the same
nocturnal apparition that cieated a sensa
tion on Twenty-eighth stieot, or is he a
biand new flrst-nppearance upon any-stage?
How would it do to get up pools on the next
theatiical appearance of this rather hack
nej ed ghost
Two Remarkable Coincidences.
This world very often seems to be a
small affair. Eeryboily who ins traveled
much has unexpectedly met unexpected
peoplo 111 the most lata way and unexpected
places. Mr. P. E. Studcbikor, tho gieat
wagon manu acturcrof Indiana, was telling
roo the other evening at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel of a singular experience of his in this
line. "I was going down to London," said
he, ' on a business errand, and I was there to
meet a certain gentleman by appointment.
it was on situiuay aiteinoon aud 1 con
cluded to stop over at a pi etty Httlo histori
cal vill ige to spend Sunday. The next mon -ing
I liadiny bieakfast in the coffee room,
and while I was sitting there over my cigai,
111 walks the very gentleman 1 was to meet
thu following da in London. He did not
know that I was In England, and I did lint
know anv thing as to his wlieieaboutssavo
bv appointment mado In the United States.
I hadhad ourbusieo-s matter in my mind
during tho entiio trip, and it seemed rather
singular, to say tho least of it, that not only
our lespeetivo minds weie running in the
same channel at the same time, but that w e
should have thus antlcipited our nupolnt
ment." Since that time I was talking with a Wash
ington acquaintance in front of the Hoffman
House when another gentleman caino along
ono whom I had known about the amo
Icngtuof time and who I suddenly reniem
beted cainofiom tho same section w hero
once lived the man at my side. I therefore
introduced him. Within five minutes the
conversation drifted Into business channels.
One gentleman was a broker, the other a
contractor. The broker began telling
story about the collection of a certain claim
In Washington wherein ex-Congressman E.,
John Ellis tignred as attorney. It appeared
that the claimmit h.id sold the claim two or
three times over to people in New Orleans
nuu eisewnere before it was pusneu 10 pay
men t. This broker held a Hen on it and had
the warrant made in his name. Anticipating
possible writs of attachment he cot
lectod the money before ho left the
Treasury Department. Acouplo.of deputy
sheriffs met him at the door and presented
writs against the warrant which, was sup
posed to be 111 his possession. As he had iro
warrant, but the money itself, he declined
to recognize the writ and walked away.
"They have been whistling for their mon
ey," he said, "ever since."
"Yes," put in my friend tho contractor,.,"!
am one of the men who la whistling yet. I
am ono of the men who wasbohlnd a deputy
sheriff and thn writ-"
He then gave his nart of the story, which;
completoly supplemented that told by tho
broker. It would really seem as though one
might live for 1,000 years and never meet
with such a coincidence.
One Fact About the Tarlfl.
"I don't see what there is about the
tariff" remarked a friend of mine tho other
day, "that sets men crazy. It undoubtedly
docs unbalance the mind of a man wlo de
v otes much attention to it. I might mention
four or five friends of our mutual acquaint
ance who have recently become interested-
in the tariff problem, and who havo becomeM
the greatest bores on earth in consequence.
There is something about the tariff that
absorbs a man's entire mental being while
he is fooling with It. He can't think of any
thing else, and can't talk rationally on any
other subject five minutes at a time. The
tariff seems to be a good deal like religion
In this rosDect. Whenever a man goes be
yond a mere believer and wants to And out
nil about tbe foundation for his belief he
becomes a perfect crank on that subject. I
tell you that no truer saying was ever
uttered than that 'A little learning Is a
dangerons thing.' Most of those that I hear
talking about the tariff have deuced little
learning, and are consequently dangerous
to society."
Chased by a Topical Song.
"A popular topical song makes me
tired," said Manager Tom Davis, who had
Just returned from the road. "The more
popular it is the more tired I get of it. Last
week I stepped into McVIcker's in Chicacro
and the comedian sang 'Oh What a Differ
erence In the Morning.' The next night I
went to tbe Columbia, and there the same
old song struck me. I bolted after the first'
verse and took tho train for Philadelphia. (
At tbe first theater I went to I had scarcely
got seated before the orchestra struck up
the air of 'Oh, What a Difference in the
Morning.' This was enough to drive a man
to drink, and I started out immediately to
get one. I met a couple of friends while I
was out, and wo finally went ovor to the'
Chestnut Street Theater. We wero down
piettywellin front, and don't you know,
pretty soon Digby Bell came on, and, look
ing me right In the eye, began to warble
that confounded topical song, 'Oh, What a
Difference in the Morning!' Ihe Chestnut
Street Theater la the only place where that
chestnut could be appropriately sung, so I
had to sit It out 17 verses and 17 encores.
When I left the theater I went straight to
the telegraph office and wired my company
at San Francisco that if our comedian ever
sang that song to give him the usual two
week's notice."
Pittsburg Had This Tears Ago.
"What will the publio do when this work
on Broadway is finished?" asked a Coleman
H6use lounger. "'We won't have anything to
look at, to swear about, to watch, to talk
about. This cable work and the condition
of Sew York's thoroughfare has afforded a
never-ending source of interesting conver
sation. Thousands of people are standing
idly on ten miles of curbstono at all hours of
tho day watching the workmen and discuss
ing tbe work. Columns upon columns of
newspaper stuff have been printed about it,
and the complaints or indignant tradesmen
during its progress would probably make a
volume as Dig as an unabridged dictionary.
When all the agony is over and Broadway
represents a clean, solid, unbroken surface
from end to end what is everybody going to
dot"
"Swear at the cable cars," suggested a by
stander. "If yon remember the experience
of Philadelphia with its new cable road," ho
continued with cruel suggestiveness, "you'll
have to bear In mind that the public and the
newspapers will find plehty ot food for dally
conversation."
Charles Titkodop.b Mubbat.
New York, Oct. 10.
LEVEL HEADED KICKAF00S.
They Cannot See the Deraeflt to Be Derived
From Selling Their Lands.
Omaha Herald.
Tho Xew York Times thinks that the Kick
apoo Indians must feel very much disgusted
with themselves. There are 200,466 acres on
tho eastern border of Oklahoma which are
owned by them. Xot an acre of this would
the Kickapoos consent to sell. The Iowas,
their neighbors at the north; the Sacs and
Foxes at the cast; the Shawnees and Potta
watomics at the souh all yielded to tbe per
suasion of the United States Commissioners
and sold out. But the Kickapoos remained
firm. "The obstinacy of the Kickapoos was
mule-like," says the Timet. "Xow there is a
great real estate movement there, and they
are not profiting by it." Tho Times forgets
that neither would they have profited by it
if they had consented to sell.
An Indian does not profit by real estate
mov ements, nor by any other sort, because
he is not permitted to make bargains with
purchasers. He cannot reap any benefit
from a rise in prices. He must sell his tracts
of land at a uniform price and conduct his
negotiations through the United States.
After that his dues are doled out to him by
the paternal Government, sometimes In
small periodical suras of money; nometimes
in unwholesome food; sometimes In the
form of ill fitting garments and vnnous im
plements for which the Indian does not have
any particular use and always by rascally
rings that practice fraud. There isn't much
excitement about real estate deals thus con
ducted, and the Kickapoos probably feel
v cry well catisfled at having shown suffi
cient sagacity to hold on to their property.
If they havo ai(y cause for disgust It is at
the greedy and murderous hordes which
have raced across their dominion on their
way to the free lands.
WESTEHN WATEEWAT3.
Importance of Having a Carefully Devised
Tlan to. Work Ipon.
Philadelphia Telegraph.
Governor Pattison's appointment of 20
Commissioners to represent this Common
wealth in the coming National Convention
to consider the improvement of Western
waterways, is a more important act than
will be realized by tho public generally,
though tho number of Commissioners and
the high character of the gentlemen selected
by the Governor will necessarily attract
wide notice. The indiscriminate appropria
tions made by each successive Congress of
millionsof money for river and harbor im
provements are only too often wasted and
devoted to illegitimate purposes. There is
no-'cneral de-.Lm.no sjstem or orderfol
inni in unriert ikin tnese improvements.
and the only plan of operations followed is
for each Congressman or political leader to
get as much uioneya he possibly can secure
for his own district, Irrespective of what is
going 011 elsewhere.
In the West, and tho Northwest particu
larly, this scramble Tor appropriations leads"
to senseless squandei ing of tho public funds,
resulting in little ele but scandals that an
intelligent peoplo should bo ash uned of and
should 1 cruse to tolerate. Tho National
Convention toconsidci tho impiovcmcnt of
watcrwavs will take this matter in hand
and wnl endeavor to rolorin it altogether.
A carefully studied plan or work w ill bo ad
vocated, devised by competent skill to pro
mote the best interests of tho whole coun
try and a ueteiinincd effort will be made to
Induce the people of this country to put a
stop to the li ip-hazard, log rolling dralts on
the public tre miry heictofore secured for
local political pin pocs under t'io 11 inie of
appropn itions for lmpiovcments to tiout
brooks nnd mill xtieams.
An Vducition.il Campaign.
Columbus PreJS
VV c aio now in the heat of a campaign in
Ohio, and it is a matter of credit that theie
is seen very littlc'of tlieold timo hurrah,
which, w lth its toich lights, cheap unllorms
and transparencies, characterized the State
nnd national campaigns. Itieally seems to
bo a camp lign of cduc ition. May it con
tinue so to tho end.
Free Traders Arc Hedging.
Muskegon Cnronicle.j
The Democratic leaders in Ohio aro now
hedging and acknowledging their coming
defeat. The McKlnlev law has not incrc tied
prices, as tho predicted, but better times
than cv or hav c followed Its application in
Ohio ns elsewhere. Sot down AlcKtnlej's
majority as a big one.
CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS.
Chicagowill adopt double-decked cabin
ears. t
The Colorado Canon is 15 miles wide at
ithe top and 6,000 feet deep.
Squashes weighing 230 to 300 pounds
are common in-Southern California.
Soundings to the depth of 26,700 feet
havo been made on the Coast of Africa.
Persian carpets are made with intricate
designs so that the evil eyoay be bewild
ered. A Slissouri farmer has killed himself
because his wife wouldn't make bread to
suit him.
Mails are still carried by dogs and
sloderes in winter in the northern part of
plichigan.
Dnring the past year the water of the
great lnkes has been lower than at anytime
Un 20 years.
Spokane Falls, "Wash., is taking steps
to build a mineral palace out of ores from
,tho mining camps.
The pupils of some of the Nebraska
high schools conduct dally paDers, which
.they edit and print for distribution.
A bear visited the office of the City En
gineerof Kalispell, Mont., last week. He
was killed by a shotrfrom a small revolver.
Sixty thousand bushels of potatoes have
hoen allowed to rot in one district of Cali.
jfotnia because It would not pay to dig them.
The new Cunard steamship will be about
three times the size of the Scotia, which
ten years ago was the largest vessel of the
(line.
Railroad cars in England now are sel
dom heated. At intervals porters bring tia
"boxes f iillwf heat for passengers to put their
feet on.
Taking (the officers holding honorary
rank into account thero are 3,030 generals In
the Brltisluarmy, or nearly one for ever 100
soldiers.
In Kansas the other day a Justice of the
Peace being unable to decide a case, allowed
ithe lawyers to settle it with a game of
checkers.
A British-. Columbia Indian caught 4
.sturgeon that weighed 856 pounds a few
M rears fio Tho lisn measured j-i reel a
nches in length.
Pachaug Pond in Griswold is the prize
nlckerel nond of Connecticut. In one week;
i this season 1.S00 pounds of pickerel and peroh
were taken irom it.
TheJndians predict an unusually Ion
and cold winter in the West. The fur and
nailH on rabbits' feet are-inncn longer than
usual and this is regarded as an unfailing
token.
The great-proportion of the government
inspectors who examine pork for trichina
throngh microscopes are-women, they hav
Ing been found to do the work much more
satisfactorily than, men.
There 13 Eomething.about the cedar logs
that are being exhumed 1n Capo May county.
If J., said to have been buried for more than
2.000 years, that imparts a soft and melodious
tone to a violin, and the logs are "being cut
up for theunaking of such instruments.
Thev'have three wooden shoe factories
-In Grand'Eapids, Mich., -whose output aver,
ages one gross per day for the year. The
price Is $2 75 per dozen pain small ones are
counted as two dozen for onejlarge one, and
extra large sizes aro rated" astwo dozen for
the price of three.
This is the way a JIacon,3Io.,, minister
prayed recently for some of his flock: "O
Lord, wo pray that the excursion train go
ing eastion the Hanmbil and St Joseph
Railroad tbiMmorning may not run off the
track and kfllany church members that may
be on board. Church members on Sunday
excursions ar&not in condition to die, etc."
A prize of v3,000 francs wasnot long ago
offered bya French assoclatlonfor a method
of keeping potatoes and other vegetables.
Some isolating substance, such as wood
ashes, sawdust? or rye-straw, with sand, was
used by four or five of the competitors.
The plan of Tif Scliribaux, who gained the
prize, i3 to pat the potatoes-for ten hours in
a 1JJ per cent solition of commercial sul
phuric acid. whan, after being thoroughly
dried, they will keep without alteration
more than ayear.tThe-samo solution may bo
used many times.
Sir Charles Giesecke, an eminent
British antiquarian, says that numerous
ruins exist in Southern Greenland, which
are eyidently relics ofXorsemen who dwelt
there centuries before Columbu3 discovered
this country. The locality Is near the pres
ent Esquimaux station of Ignlikc. Tho ruins
consist of remains of walls of 17 stone dwell
ings, ono of them marked In such a manner
that it is reasonably certain that it was the
house of Erik Itauthi, a "banished Icelandlo
jari, who was tbe first to land in Greenland.
He established his settlement at Brattlelid.
as it was then named, and Igalikoisbelieved
to be tho spot wbero that colony was lo
cated. Itwa9onan isthmus between two
fjords, and sols in Izaliko. The fjords are
believed to be the Erik's and Einer's fjords
of the old sagas.
Deacon Hungerford, of Chester, Conn.,
Is a farmer. He Is also a prohibitionist. His
orchard yielded.au immense crop this fall,
and he did not know what to do with the
apples. He could'not eat them and he want
ed no cider. He went to the parson to talk
over tho situation. He suggested giving
them away. Bnt the parson vetoed that.
What, give them to someooay wno would
convert them into apple whisky! It was
not to be thought of. Apple whisky, as
everybody down east knows, is a peculiarly
seductive fluid, with an aromatic odor and a
fiery body, that makes a big drunk with only
a small headache Its manufacture absorbs
tho surplus apples of that part of the coun.
try. But the deacon's! apples should not be
mnrte into whiskv. So they took the whole
kcrop and threw it into the mill pond.
BAZAK BTJZZINGS.
""We'vB got to economize, STand," said
Henry. "It.is absolutely necessary."
"Very weII.J' returned Maud, "I shall giro up
jonr cigars "
And I will do-witnout a fall bonnet," said
Henry.
Now tho summer has departed and the
autumn days are here.
All the trees are cnangingTColor, and the silver lake
is drear.
And sweet Phyllis, standing lonely, ronders why
dear Mortimer
Fonail it lovely and enchanting to be left alona
with her.
"For, "she says, "Iflndlt stupid standing on tnis
rustic quay.
All alone here in my glory, all alone with Tittla
me.'"
"They say Mozart played on the piano at
the age of C."
That's nothing. I've got a little girt only 2
years old who plays on the piano every day."
"What does she play?"
Dolls."
"Clara," he whispered, as he came in
irom the coal bin with a scuttle of coal, "would
you not that it were Bummer, and in the misty twi
light we might wander hand In hand?"
No. Adolphus." answered tbo practical maiden
of the Jersey coast; "think of tbe mosquitoes."
"Who was Adam's nurse when he was a
baby?" asked a bright httle -year-oId girl.
"He never was a baby," was the reply. "Ha
was created a man of dut. We are all made of
dust."
"Then arc Indians made of Jersey dust?" she
queried.
She was a beautiful type-writing maid,
And he a sutceptible youth.
She as a nun wa as quiet and staid.
While lie was devoted to trutn.
Dailv they sat In the same office-room.
And cTaitv she clicked the machine
Strange how tbe maiden alpelled all his gloom,
And made the rough hours serene.
"I feel constrained to tell you, Fred, that
I have been engaged before this," the whispered.
"Don't mention it," he said, gently; "I too hav
been jilted."
"I'm going with Tom Trotter, the Tale
, anl foolbill player, to tbe reception to-morrow
night."
' How can you go with such a great overgrown
boy?"
"Whv, just tliluk how he can break through the
rush Hue for supper?"
"I often heard you say you wouldn't
marry the best maa la the world, " remarked Gas
zam to his wife, teaslngly.
"Well, I didn't!" snapped Mrs. Gaszam.
She So you are a lawyer? "What a splen
did profeIoa !
He I'd ntber be a clergyman.
She-VWiT'
llc-l!cta'ic then no one would answe..me back.
Jack Congratulate me, old fel; I'm en
gaged ired hl So am I.
J-uk-NuI That so? Who Isjne?
Fred Lulu Smlthcrs. And yours?
Jack-Lulu bmlthcrs! We're la lack, old tnan.
Shake!