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THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1891.
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RIVALS MAKE MERRY
The Annual Banquet of the
American Street Bail
way Association.
PITTSBUEG MEN SPEAK.
Mayor Gourley Welcomes the Guests
in a Happy Speech.
J. G. HOLMES ELECTED PRESIDENT.
Fight Over the Selection of the
Meeting flace.
Next
BOSTON KNOCKED OUT BY CLEVELAND
In royal friendship the street railway men
last night dropped the rivalry of business
and for four hours made merry in the ban
quet hall of the Monongahela House. Sur
rounded by nature's richest floral tributes
they retold the stories of experiences with
tl-e one-horse street railway, the cable
and then the great triumphant elcc
trie system. It was an electrical
meetinc. Men were familiar with it,
humor abounded with it and decorations
recalled it. In front of the city's Mayor
the florist's triumph was shown in the shape
of a double-decked car worked out with
nature's gifts in man's most skillful way.
An electric light tower, the curse of Alle
gheny but the hope of inventors, was con
structed true to form with fems and roses.
Decorations in Pittsburg have seldom, been
co beautiful or varied and were Only
equaled in excellence by the menu. There
were ten courses, each of a kind to tempt
the richest epienre. The speeches follow
ing were of Pittsburg material energetic,
spontaneous and lasting in their effects.
WATSON OK TltF. MOTOR.
The toast master. President "Watson, very
happily earned applause by stating that he
filled the position of a motorman, turning
on the current and if necessary putting on
the brakes The first man he introduced
was Mayor Gourley, and from the force of
His Honor's speech, it was evident Mr.
"Watson had turned the switch of a do7cn
dynamos. Bidding them welcome, Mr.
Gourlev said:
"If, in your perambulations, you observe
No Admittance' over the entrance to anv
of our great industries pay no attention to
it: walk right in, such notice has no refer
ence to you. if you lose your w ay, or be
come weary in the streets of our city, a
Tehicle, with suitable attendants, will be
supplied free to convey you to a place
where vou can lie down ana rest, isnouicl you
wish to visit our iail. vou will find an efficient
and accommodating official in charge, who
will be readv at all times to open the gate
and let you in, with the express understand
ing, however, that you leave your saws on
tin- outride. In a word, we want to con
tribute in every possible way to your com
fort and enjoyment, so that when yon re
turn to your own homes, which, after
all, are the sweetest and happiest spots on
earth, you will entertain pleasant recollec
tions of the kindness and hospitality of the
Pittsburg people. You are not strangers in
a strange land. "We are all citizens of a
common country of which Pittsburg consti
tute an important part.
"These clouds of smoke which you see
resting over our city by day, and thee
tongues of fire which you see reaching up
ward at night, are the unmistakable evi
dences of life, and toil and activity of an
industrious, prosperous and happy people.
From a village of 1,3'K) at the beginning of
the present century, Pittsburg ha- grown to
a citv of 250,000, and it we include Alle
gheny and the manufacturinj resident
suburbs which are really a part of our city,
we have a population of almost half "a
million.
GOmiLEY: TELLS OF PITTSBURG'S WEALTH.
"These marvelous industries, aggregating
almost 1,400 establishments in all, repre
senting more than Sl25,000,000, giving em
ployment to 90,000 workmen of all kinds,
and producing annually to the value of more
than 5150,000,000, have not only made our
city the manufacturing center of a great
nation but have made its name familiar as a
household word -wherever the products of
our industrial skill and labor hnve found a
n arket throughout the civilized world.
Here yon witness the splendid achievements
of enterprise and toil. Here, in these great
industries bv the fire of the furnace, in the
daytime and at niiht, you see exemplified
to " the fullest extent that divine decree
issued when the human race began. 'In the
s-n eat of his lace man shall eat his bread.
Vpon these varied and multiplied ind is
lnes the prosperity of our city rests.
"The occupation of the poof car horse has
almost entirely gone. He has been forced
to seek other spheres of usefulness and toil.
Perhaps he has become an agriculturist or,
it maybe, th? motive power of the labori
ous cart-but -whatever h's employment I
have no doubt, were we able to comprehend
his musings, we would often find him, in his
restful hours, sadly contemplating the mar
velous change., a few brief years have
wrought If he dreams methinks he will
sometimes, in his restless sleep, hear the
tinkling bell whirh once made music to his
ear, and thus live over again, in imagery,
the busy, toilsome days when weary and
foot-sore" he tramped our hard, uneven
streets and faithfully dragged his heavy
load.
A VALHALLA FOR TIIE HORSES.
"If there is anywhere in the mysterious
beyonci a happy pasture ground for the
noblcut of all God's dumb animals, I verily
believe that the patient suffering and faith
ful service of the abused car horse will se
cure him an abundant entrance thereinto.
In the meantime we bid an affectionate fare
well to Ins services and gladly welcome the
power which the genius of man has har
nessed for our use.
"Just 60 years ago the first horse car for
use in the streets of any city was built in
the United States. Street railways are,
therefore, not only a growth of the nine
teenth century, but they are an American
institution. Of electric and cable motors I
have neither the mechanical nor scientific
knowledge to speak intelligently. On these
complex subjects I am compelled to observe
a discreet silence.
A HIGH TKIBUTF. TO AMERICANS.
"What have the Americans done," said a
celebrated Euelish writer some 60 years
nro, "during tbeir 40 vears of independence
for science, for invention, for the arts, for
literature, or even for the statesman-like
Mmlics ot politics or political economy?
Where are their Foxes, their Burkes, their
Watts, their Davys, their Scotts, their
B.rons, thpir Kembles, their Keans, or
thur parallels to the hundred other names
that have spread themselves over tbe
orld from our little island in
tli" course of the last 30 years?
A hat new inventions have they given to
the world? "Who drinks from American
glasses or eats from American plates? Who
wears American coats or sleeps in American
blankets? Sidney Smith died too soon. If
he could revisit the earth to-nicht we would
introduce him to the wizard of Menlo Park.
A e would show him a whole galaxy of Amer
ican names, names of men, some dead, some
livinr, whose illustrious achievements in
war, m statesmanship, in literature, in
sen-nee, in art, in mechanics, in invention
have- contributed to the imperishable glory
of the age, and added undying luster to the
American name. In the majestic march of
progress which is leading the world np
to a higher elevation, where tfce rising sun
of a brighter and happicrfitture shall illume
the face of all men, we see the footprints
of American genius, and power and skill.
The luminous record of the achievements
which have made this century the grandest
that has ever dawned upon the world will
soon be complete."
SIORELAXD rBESENTS FIGURES.
City Attorney Moreland followed with
an answer to the toast: "OnrTwo Cities."
"Tuo souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one,"
was the sentiment, and the Jolly Major
spoke in his happiest mood, with the Twin
Cities as his subject. After giving a history
of the development of the two cities and
the amount of business they are doing at
present, he said:
"A comparison with the trans-Mississippi
group presented in the census, shows that
Pittsburg gives railways more business
than the whole of that region. And, there
fore, in tbe face of these stupendous facts
may we not be pardoned for saying that the
amount of tonnage originating in and pass
ing through the city of PittBburg exceeds
that of any other, city in, the Union,
not excepting Hew York. Primitive
forests have become the crowded city;
the wilderness has in a night,
changed its form; the vast mountains
and rivers running north and south have
been bridged and tunnelled from east to
west, and ovrir them move the mighty
masses of men in majestic march, as well as
the ponderous commerce and traffic of a
nation. Myriads of men, pressing and
crowding the highways of the land, have
found holy rest, assured safety, prosperity
and peace; and have bound themselves to
gether in the indissoluble ties of a common
country, a common weal and a common
Christianity.
BISHOP "WHITEHEAD GROWS HUMOROUS.
Bishop Cortlandt "Whitehead respondedto
the toast "Home, Sweet Home" in a partic
ularly pleasing and happy vein.
He said: "All the preceding speeches
made were of the most eloquent character,
and I can preface mine by saying it will pale
into insignificance as compared with
them. "We are indeed blessed with
many kinds of street cars and modes
of transportation on our thoroughfares.
The enterprise has crown to a wonderful
magnitude in-lhe two cities, and nowadays
a man when he steps out ot his door and on
to a car is carried through space at the rate
of a mile a breath. There is the sad side
and jolly side of the street car traffic. "We
will look on the humorous side. The
crowded car is an institution which,
although uncomfortable, brings about some
laughable incidents. Home Sweet Home in
this connection becomes apropos. You
may have heard of the Irishman, who after
toiling hard all day, boarded a crowded car
to go home. He was compelled to hang to
n strap. He rode and rode anxiousl v await
ing until sonic one got off" that
he might get a seat. He came
within sight of his humble domicile, and
still was standing up, when just as he was
about to alight lie turned about looking
savasely at the passengers, saying: "Well,
Bcgorra, havent any of yez got a home?"
Xow my dear friends we welcome yon
hereto-night, and hope to have you with
us again, meanwhile let your thoughts to
nicht after this banquet is at an end go out
toward that heaven on earth home sweet
home."
Geortre C Wilson responded to the toast,
"Our Growing Kepublic" In opening he
said:
mittee.ex-President Watson, Buffalo; Louis
Breen, Trenton; William W. Perrin, St
Joe, Mich.; Murray A. Verner, Pittsburg;
Thomas F. Bennineton, Chicago.
A lively contest took place over the selec
tion of the place for the next meeting.
Cleveland was recommended by the com
mitteee appointed for that purpose, but the
friends of Boston would not accept one de
feat and appealed to the convention. The
debate over the question lasted about two
hours. A vea ar.d nay vote resulted in the
selection of" Cleveland by a big majority.
STREET CARS AT THE WORLD'S FAIR.
At the afternoon session a letter was read
from Tillard TJ. Smoth, chief of the trans
portation department for the Columbian
Exposition, stating that on account of the
serious illness of his family he could not
be present He said that the building de
signed for the street railwav display
would cost SSo.OOO. Besides this.he stated
that electric cars would also be placed in
the electrical department. He suggested
that it would be advisable to have specimen
tracks prepared in the manner used for
practical work. He urged the companies
intending to make a display to state im
mediately what space they desire. In con
clusion he called attention to the fact that
no charge would be made for. space.
,T. H.'Bickford, Chief Engineer of the
Haumkeag road, Salem, Mass., sent a com
munication recommending that an associa
tion of railway engineers be formed. The
matter was held under advisement
T. Crosby, of New York, read a paper
on "Standards in Electrical Service." He
stated that it had been customary to rate
motors as well as other machines by a
certain amount of horse power. He called
attention to the fact that a 20-horse power
machine would only .do about what ten
horses could, and therefore advocated that a
minimum rate instead of maximum rate
be used. He also wanled some distinction
provided for showing the difference in at
mospheric conditions.
He advocated a set of definitions that
would be recognized by the convention, and
which would, he thought, come into gen
eral use by manufacturers. The question
was left to a committee of seven.
A motion was passed authorizing the
Executive Committee to name the next
place of meeting, before doing which it was
to take into consideration hotel rates and
accommodations.
At the morning session of the convention
a paper bv G. Hilton Scribner on "Public
and StateTreatment of Corporate Property"
was very thoroughly discussed. He claimed
that taxation in the East was too gre-it.
Politicians do not consider the rights of
corporations and levy taxes on them to gain
favor from their constituents.
Knight Neftel, electrician of the Lan
caster Citv Railwav Comnanv. presented a
valuable scientific paper on "The Inde
pendent Storage or Primary Battery System
of Electric Motive Power."
DALZELL AT HIS BEST.
The Pittsburg Congressman Addresses
a Philadelphia Audience.
HE DISCUSSES THE DAY'S -ISSUES.
The Democrats, He Says, Are Trying to Win
on False Pretenses.
LESSONS OP TIIE PRESENT SITUATION
WILSON ON THE REPUBLIC.
"What shall I say of it? Shall I speak of
her people? They are the most enlightened.
Shall I speak of her institutions? They are
on every side, and scatter blessings with an
open hand. Shall I speak of her resources?
They are limitless. Shall I speak of its
frowth? It is marvelous. Shall I speak of
er pofstbilities? They are beyond man's
power to define." Continuing, he said that
one of the greatest things for the advance
ment of civilization is the street railway
and the men that operate it.
John S. Wise, who was to follow, sent a
letter of regret stating he could not bo pres
ent, v. ij. juaeee was tuen called upon.
When his name was mentioned bv the toast
master rounds of applause in quick suc
cession showed the hitrh esteem in which
Pittsburg's favorite is held in other places.
He was assigned to speak on "The Press,"
and after going over the details of his sub
ject liKc a goad newspaper man, said in
conclusion:
The enterprise of men in promoting the
public convenience keeps pace with the
public domand. It never outruns it. The
newspapers, that gather for each community
the story of the dailv life of every other,
have made each unwilling to be behind any
other. They have taught men that it is out
of harmony "with the due order of things for
a mau to read in the morning the columns of
printed matter that the civilized lightning of
the telegraph has gathered before his eyes,
while he iB dragging along the street at the
heels of a mule. The mule and the tele
graph, and the printing press cannot live in
tne same town, xne slowest must tall out or
the race. When men were willing to wait a
week to find out by their newspaper what
happened the day before, the mule had
some standing as a motive power equal to
their demands. With the swifter methods
of new s gathering, by which the thoughts
of the sreatest man In the uttermost part of
the earth, are made material to the eve of
the poorest man who can read, within a
day, almost before his lips have ceased to
move, there has come a spirit of discontent
with all slow things that has made the swift
railway, the New York and Chicago limited
express, the telephone, and all the various
devices for bringing men close together that
have made an hour of to-day worth half a
dozen hours of any day ten years ago."
RAILWAYS MUST ECONOMIZE TIME.
The concluding address was made by
Colonel William A. Stone. It was on the
subject: "The New Public Sentiment
QuickTime." "The man who formerly rode upon a
street car," he said, "did so because he was
tired. The man who rides upon a street
car to-day does so because he is in a hurry.
No one in a hurry ever took a horse car.
The American people never get enough
time. Pittsburg people eagerly Indorsed
the new standard time. They gained 19
minutes by it Nineteen minutes is a great
item here. A Pleasant Valley car can go
trom the PittsDurg station to the power
house in 19 minutes. It used to
take 40. The company used to carry 8,000
people a dav. Now it averages 22,000
a day, and is gaining. Two years ago our
people wanted quick time. They got the
idea from our natural gas explosions. And
when Pittsburg and Allegheny want npv
thing they want it bad. They want it rigfit
away. Our officers are God fearing men,
some of them, and they chose electricity as
a motive power because it seemed to have
the warrant of Scripture Nahutn, second
chapter fourth verse: The chariots shall
rage in the streets; they shall jostle
one against another in the broadways; they
shall seem like torches; they shall run like
the lightning.
Job xxxviii.:35 Canst though send light
nings that they may go and sav unto thee,
here we are.
But the passage in seventh Ezekicl, nine
teenth verse, seemed to have the most direct
application: "They shall cast their silver
in the streets."
A PITTSBURGER MADE PRESIDENT.
At the mcetine of the convention Yester
day, Pittsburg was honored with the elec
tion of John G. Holmes as President Mr.
Holmes is President of the Citizens Trac
tion Company. He is a native of Pittsburg
and has been identified with the street rail
way interests of the city since the
running of the first horse car in 1859,
his father Nathaniel Holmes, having
been a moving spirit in its organization.
He began his business career in 1866 in the
banking houseof N. Holmes & Son, and
is now the senior member of the firm. The
bank was established in 1822 and is the old
est in the city. Mr. Holmes' connection
with the American Street Railway Associa
tion dates from the first regular meeting of
the organization. He has missed very few
of the conventions. In 1883-4 he was a mem
ber of the Executive Committee.
The other officers elected were: First
Vice President, Thomas H. McLean, New
York; Second Vice President, J. D. Speed,
Louisville; Third Vice President, E. Lang,
Toledo; Secretary and Treasurer, William
J. Richardson, New York; Executive Com-
A MASTEE OF ELECTRICITY.
Something About tbe Man Whoso Genins
lias Been Felt Everywhere.
St. I,onlsUlouc-Democrat.3
Anybody that has heard much about the
work of Prof. Elihu Thomson, the man
whose name is in the title of the great elec
tric company, and whose brain has worked
out the mechanical ideas that have made
the company tremendously rich and famous
in the last decade, is very much surprised
usually when he meets the little professor.
The man of genius is only about 5 feet 4
inches high, or perhaps a little taller. His
figure is even boyishly slight,and his face is
very much younger in appearance than that
of almost anyman with a mustache in the
senior class at Harvard University. His
no-account brown, mustache gives him an
older look, but if it were not for that he
w ould be starlingly youthful looking. As it
is. He is ne is a lew years snort ot 4U.
He was always famed for his pre
cocity, and he had to wait two years before
he could enter the High School in Phila
delphia, because he was so young. He was a
professor of chemistry betore he was 23
years old. When he was 11 years old he
began -experiments with Leyden jars, and
continued experiments in electricity unin
terruptedly until he was 13 years of age.
He lived in Philadelphia, and when he'd
try his 'prentice hand on his first dynamos
he used to travel into the woods away from
home to strip the elderberry bushes, and get
elder pitch to make insulating material
with. When he'd be short of this he'd get
from the neighbors the silver foil from to
bacco and use that He ought to be worth
hundreds ot thousands ot dollars to-day, but
he is comparatively poor, and he devotes
his energies to the supervision of the techni
cal electrical works of the company ex
clusively.' Prot. Houston, the man whose
name is joined with his in the title of com
pany, is not directly connected with the
concern, but is a. plodding professor of
physics in Philadelphia.
BO KOBE H0ENED CATTLE.
The Breeders of tho West Have a Plan to
Prevent the Growtli ot Horns.
The great cattle breeders and farmers out
West have hit upon a plan for preventing
horns from growing on the heads of their
beasts, and it is thought that before long
there will be no more horned cattle. Little
tubes are made about the size of an ordinary
lead pencil, and these are filled with caustic
potash. Enough of this liquid to fill one of
these tubes can be bought for a few cents,
and will be sufficient for operating on 20
calves. In order to produce the best results,
and to be quite efficacious, the operation
ought to be made as soon as the little horny
knobs make their appearance on the calf's
head that is, that is from three days to a
fortnight from its birth. First of all, the
hair should be cut with a pair of scissors
from around the nascent horn; then, with
the tip of the finger, the horn should be
moistened. Care must be taken not to allow
any drops of water to run over the head of
the animal, or the dissolved potash will fol
low in the same course, and cause the calf
unnecessary pain.
When the horn has been moistened, the
tube of potash is taken, the tube having
first been carefully wrapped in paper,
except just at one end, because it is ad
visable not to let the liquid come into con
tact with the hand. Then, holding the tube
like a pencil, the horny knob is rubbed all
over, care being taken to keep it moist all
the time. This should be continued until
the skin over the horn gets soft and red and
commences to peal, when the operation
must cease. It is said to berare that a sec
ond application of the caustic potash is necessary.
tSPECIAI. TEtEOBAM TO TIIE DISPATCH.
Philadelphia, Oct. 22. The disagree
able weather of this evening,to a considerable
extent got the better of Iiepublican enthusi
asm, and as a consequence, the mass meet
ing in the Academy of Music, under the au
spices of the Citizens' Republican Associa
tion, was not as well attended as its promot
ers could have desired. Still, there were
enough waterpoof Republicans tc comforta
bly fill the lower floor, with a few to spare
for the galleries. The Association itself
was well represented, and tne members,
wearing silk badges, helped to fill up the
stage.
The leading speakers were Congressman
Dalzell and ex-State Senator Lee, of Ven
ango county. Congressman Dalzell created
quite an interesting diversion when, on
making some casual reference to Grover
Cleveland.the name of the ex-President was
greeted with hearty applause. The speaker
ignored the incident and proceeded to an
other line of argument.
Theodore F. Justice presided and other
addresses were made by District Attorney
Graham and Representative Riter. In his
speech Mr. Dalzell said:
NO LACK OF PARTY LOYALTY.
"I would be lacking in frankness if I did
not say that I count it a distinguished honor
to stand on this platform to-night and face
such an audience as this. That Republican
must be wanting in party lojalty, iudecd,
whose enthusiasm does not take fire at the
blaze of this splendid meeting. And when
I call to mind that this is Philadelphia, the
historic citv in which a nation was born.and
a continent baptized in the name ofL iberty
I rejoice to 'know that the motive that
brings us to touch elbows here is our com
mon interest in a poliitcal party, that far
away beyond any other party in human His
tory, has carried forward that sacred cause.
For, my fellow-citizens, whatever may be
our shortcomings we must never forget
that ours is the partv that held up the
hands of Abraham Lincoln; that enfran
chised a race, and established the unitv of a
continent under one flag and that the flag ot
our fathers.
"What brings us here to-night? I an
swer, the commonwish, nay, the common
resolve, that the pending State contest shall
find us, at its close, in the place where the
old party belongs, serene in the enjoyment
of victory.
"How hhall that victory be gained? I
answer again, in this way, and in this way
only, by a loyal adherence to the Republi
can party and its principles, and by the se
lection of honest, competent and courageous
men to carry its banner.
PRESENT POLITICAL OUTLOOK.
"Let me pause for a momeut to call your
attention briefly to the political outlook,
and I do not confine myself to Pennsyl
vania alone, for you can no more divorce
the effect of our State election tins year
from an influence on na'ional politics than
you can define in the pool the circles that
the disturbing stone shall create.
"All over this broad land the air is full
of surcharged with political heresies.
Advantage is being taken of all the elements
of discontent. Attempts are being made' to
array class against class, and on the founda
tion of misinformation and prejudice to
buildup new political parties. Henee, for
example, the Farmers' Alliance, which has
no more reason in it for independent politi
cal being than there would be in a lawyers'
alliauce, a preachers' alliance or a shop
keeper's alliance. Providence, not politi
cal parties, controls the ripening of crops;
men ought not to be misled by a few who
have to blame speculation, individual ex
travagance and unthrift for their farm mort
gages. Honest farmers, and the most
are such, with real grievances, and there are
such, will, in my judgment, find relief soon
est through the medium of existing parties.
Then, again, the apostle of cheap money is
abroad, and wants to make cents dollars,
and plenty of them, by the simple magic of
au act of Congress. Behind him, of course,
is the silver mine owner, who would protest
loudly against any law which would make
the Uovernment ouy irennsylvania pig iron
at more than the market price, but wants a
law which will give him 100 cents of good
money for 80 cents worth of silver.
THE CBY POR FREE SILVER.
"And then, again.we have the cred
ulous people, who think it a proper func
tion of government to go into the brokerage
business, and loan money to anybody who
wants it at 2 per cent per annum, on the
security of farm mortgages, produce mort
gages, and the like. And then we have
like the poor, always with us the Demo
cratic party, joining in the cry for free sil
ver, and demanding that we turn back the
wheels of progress, slaughter our industries,
lay waste our capital, and sacrifice our
labor and our laborers, by destroying our
great protective system which has made us
rich and prosperous, and which will make
us richer and more prosperous in the days
that are to come. I am stating to vou
facts, patent to every intelligent man's ob-
Texas there is no true Republican from
whose heart there does not xise a fervent
prayer that victory may crown the gallant
champion of protection, Major McKiilley.
The same character of contest is recognized
as being waged in Iowa To the eastward
Massachusetts is being tom by the same
strife." 6
Mr. Dalzell paid a high tribute to the
characters of the Republican candidates,
Gregg and Morrison, scored Cleveland and
Clevelandism, and conclude as follows:
"Protection to America'labor and capital;
protection to American money; protection
to the American ballot; honest men for
office; these are the mottoes that shine down
on us from the Republican banner, while
over it hover the eagles of victory."
MODERN CANNIBALISM
JULES VEBNE HAS A VISION.
the
Wonderful Tilings He Predicts for
World a Thousand Years Ilence.
Fall Mall Budget.:
M. Jules Verne has been speculating as to
what will be the daily life of people 1,000
years hence. As science extends her do
minions it is noticeable how increasingly
ambitious suoh forecasts become. Nothing
will satisfy M. Verne but terial trains trav
eling at the rate of 623 miles an hour, a
traus-Atlantic tubular service, conveying
the traveler from London to New York in
295 minutes, a "telephote," which enables
in different hemispheres to dine with each
other, or at least to see and converse with
each other while eating, and accumulators
for condensing and radiating at will the
sun's rays. Such are the advantages to be
enjoyed by the inhabitants of a certain city
called "Universal City," the capital of the
United States in the year of grace 2891.
England by that time will, according to M.
Verne, have become a province of the
United States. Tho public will be kept in
formed of the latest political developments,
not only upon the terrestrial gloDe, bnt
upon Jupiter, Mars and Venus. Not that
they will read newspapers.
The newspapers of the day will be
spoken. Brilliant descriptive writers will
be retained to speak through the telephone
to millions of subscribers, and daily install
ments of novels to be continued to-morrow
morning will be given by popular authors.
Man is to be fed on the choicest viands, laid
on as New River water is at present, and it
will be sufficient to step into atoilet cabinet
to be tubbed, shaved, dressed and brushed
in the space of two minutes. Even a new
digestive apparatus, "warranted for two
years," will be obtainable. But one thing
we, or rather our posterity, are told not to
expect. They must not expect to live for
ever. A certain Dr. Faithburn s experi
ment in freezing his own body and causing
himself to be kept for 100 years turns out a
complete failurej so obstinately does he re
fuse to be resuscitated.
A lieutenant's Terrible Experience
on a South Sea Island.
HUMAN FLESH PDT BEFORE HIM
NEW AJJVEETTSE3TENTS.
SATISFACTION
STAMPED
ON" HIS FACE.
By Natives Who Could Kot Understand Why
He Would Not Partake.
BRUTAL TREATMENT OP THE WOMEN
A HELD FOB THE PH0N0GEAPH.
to
It Can do tho Talking to Men Who Want
See the Head or tho Firm.
Here is a great field for the phonograph,
ilt can do all the talking to agents. A clerk
of a big publishing house which is overrun
with applicants for positions as canvassers,
tells how she manages the man who must
talk to the head of the firm.
"After learning his business," she says,
"I say to the applicant: 'Now just let me
hook this in your ears, and the head of the
firm will talk to you.' You see, it's an
Edison phonograph he sits down to, and be
fore he; fairly knows where he is, zip, zim,
quackety, quack, the machine begins to talk
to him. It starts in 'How do you do? Glad
to meet you. You wish to canvass for
?' And then the agent always nods
his head at the machine as if it were a live
being. Then the phonograph goes on to tell
how very busy the publishers are ana that
thev feel sure he will appreciate this labor
saving device which they use in talking to
him. Then he is told: 'Take a circular
which lies at yourright hand. Look it over
carefully, and please stop the machine
while you do it.' So with the prospectus,
etc Then the machine asks him to examine
the territory book at his left, where he can
see what sections have not yet been assigned
to other agents. It tells him where he can
find pen and ink to make out his applica
tion and to 'pay the young lady who first
waited on you' that's me $2 for a pros
pectus. Finally the machine says, 'Now if
there is any point on which it is absolutely
necessary that you have further informa
tion, the young lady will conduct you to
one of the firm. But remember, you must
be brief, for their time is valuable.' And
then the agent nods again, where he would
get mad and go out if he had been talked to
lace to face. But he can't get mad at a ma
chine. Then the phonograph says, 'Good
day,' loud and sharp, and the. agent hands
me his application and his ?2, meek, as
Moses, and goes out."
rSPECIAt, TELIQBAM TO TIIE DISPATCH.
San Fkancisco, Oct. 22. One of the
few men ever invited to partake of human
flesh at a cannibal feast is now in this city.
He is Lieutenant B. Linneman. His horri
ble experience was on the Island of New
Britain. He went to that hitherto nnex-
plored island as special agent of the Ger
man Government, being empowered to go
into the interior to settle boundary disputes
between the New Guinea Company and
island claim jumpers.
For four years Linneman has been in the
Papnan Islands and the South Seas. Linne
man penetrated the interior of the island
100 miles, finally reaching a place where
natives had never before seen a white man.
He felt no fear, as they regarded him as a
superior being and never cook or eat white
human flesh. Men and women go stark
naked. Women are sold for a mere trifle,
the handsomest bringing only ?23, while
homely or old women can be bought for a
plug of tobacco. When a man has bought
a woman, said Linneman, she is his abso
lutely, and if she violates her faith with
him she is killed and eaten.
"They will not kill and eat her at or near
our trading posts," said he, "for years ago
we began inflicting severe punishment on
them for cannibalism, but they will luro
her awav into the woods and then cut off
her head and then cook her. We never
heard of such women again. It is only for
such things that a tribe will so dispose of
one of its members, but tribe preys upon
tribe, steals men and women away
from each other and eats them. The coast
natives never tell of cannibal feasts
but when we went into the interior the
natives were bolder, and on one occasion I
came upon a party of natives who had
cooked the body of a young woman. The
fires were burning among the palms and a
gloomy light was thrown out. The dead
bodv had been cut into pieces and the parts
cooked through and through. It was a fear
ful sight, and as the natives stood about
each eating his piece of human flesh, I
thought no livine person had seen, or could
see, a more horrible thing.
"One ot tne savages advanced with a
fleshy piece in his hands, and as he came
closer I saw it was the woman's arm. He
tendered it in a manner meant to be hos
pitable, and in his native language asked
me to eat it. I shrank back in horror, but
neither the native nor the throng of savage
men, women and children around me could
understand my horror. The body after it
had been cut into pieces was cooked with
leaves of the tarro bealnut tree. These give
the flesh a spicy flavor."
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FAD OF A SOUTH SEA KING.
THE NEW MONTE CABLO.
TWO SENATOBS FOB ONE SEAT.
The Interesting Constitutional Question
That Is Troubling Florida Now.
Harper's AVcekly.
At the approaching session of Congress
the Senate will be called upon to decide a
very interesting question. Mr. Call, of
Florida, will appear to occupy his seat,
claiming that he has been re-elected by the
Legislature of his State. Congressman
Davidson, of Pensacola, will also appear as
a claimant for the seat, on the ground that
Governor Fleming has given him the ap
pointment. The contest will involve the
decision of a nice point
The Constitution of the United States de
clares that "Senators shall be chosen by the
Legislature." The Legislature of Florida
which elected Mr. Call in joint session.in
cluded only 15 of the 32 members of the
State Senate not a majority; and Governor
Fleming holds that Mr. Call's election was,
therefore, illegal because the common law
rule embodidied in the Constitution of Flor
ida declares a "majority of each House
shall constitute a quorum to do business."
In his view of the case Governor Flem
ing seems to have the law on his side, as
there could have been no lawful adjourn
ment of the Senate for the purpose of going
into joint session with the Assembly to
elect a Senator. This knotty question'the
Federal Senate will have to settle, as it has
now gone beyond the State's jurisdiction.
It involves no political considerations, as
both claimants arc Democrats.
servation; facts that ought to enter into
the consideration of every thoughtful citi
zen, and have a dominant influence with
him in his exercise of his right of suffrage.
"The lesson to be derived from this sur
vey of the existing situation is as plain as
is the situation itself. It is that the time is
ripe for action on the part of conservative
men I will not say Republicans but con
servative men of all parties, to see to it
that we abide by the ancient landmarks.
Therein and therein only lies safety. This
is no time for the loosening of party ties,
nor indulging in political experiments. It
would be a work of supererogation for me
to adduce to this audience proofs to sustain
the proposition that the iiepublican party
has always been on the side of
safe principles. On all the great
questions that make the milestones of
our political history it has been sound.
On the question of nationality, 6f freedom
of thought, speech and press, and of the
equality of man, on questions of finance, of
tariff, of reform in administration; on all
these questions it has consistently held to
the views conservative of our institutions
and of the popular weal. It is, therefore,
the party to which men must look to-day to
meet the risingstorm of political fanaticism,
to protect us against the indescribable mis
eries that would follow in the train of a de
based currency, and to preserve for us the
economic svstem in which the reward of
labor an'd the fortune of capital are insep
arably bound up.
ALIj fame issues denounced.
"Is any reason given why any man should
decline at this time to make the Republican
party his choice, and refuse to vote for its
candidates? Let us see. The Democratic
party in its platform declares that no na
tional issues are involved in this contest,
ana tnat men muse vote its ticket because,
as it iterates and reiterates, some Republi
can officials have been found faithless to
their trust.
"I tell yon, my fellow citizens, the Dem
ocratic party is trying to win in Pennsyl
vania upon false pretenses.
"Look around you, scan the political
horizon, and answer me if that be not sound
doctrine at this time. In Ohio, our gieat
neighbor to the westward, the D-rnnrlpst edu
cational campaign, probably, in all our po-
4iiii;ai uisbury is uwug uuuuucieu on issues
that are national. Without equivocation or
evasion, both parties have announced in
their platforms that the questions to be de
termined relate to honest money and a pro
tective tariff andboth candidates admit that
the result will determine Ohio's place in the
great battle of 1802. And from Maine to
Stories of nigh Stakes on the Parisian Gam
ing Tables at Ostend.
Pall Mall Budget.
Monte Carlo just now is thrown alto
gether into the shade byOstende, where the
rage for gambling 6cems to have reached the
point of madness. According to a German
paper, "a well-known London gentleman,"
whose ventures on one single day amounted
to ouo.ouu irancs. nas departed tor Pans
with enormous gains. He was one of those
players who have had astonishing luck this
season, to the severe loss of the bank. One
day a complaint was made that there were
not enough 1,000-francjetons for the play
ers. Hereupon the bank hit upon the very
unlucky notion of ordering a number of
G,000-franc jetons from Paris. The unit
was at once raised from 1,000 to 5,000 francs,
even for ordinary players, and the whole
table was quickly covered with jetons for
this new amount. At the trente-et-quarante
table, we are told, hardly any language is
spoken but German, and the Germans are
by far the greater players. Among the
jsngnsn, -cneques ot ,to ana even iu,
000 sterling have been drawn."
One player from London is said to have
written a cheque for 14,000. The play be
gins at 11 o'clock in the morning and con
tinues all day, and with some all the night.
The founders and managers of the club are
not Belgians, as some have asserted, but
are one and all Parisians. The Bum they
pay to the municipality of Ostende is 300,000
francs for the season.
If a Trinket Strikes Ills Fancy No Amount
of Money Is Too Mnch.
King Tembinok, writes Robert Louis
Stevenson from the South Seas, is possessed
by the seven devils of the collector. He
hears a thing spoken of, and a shadow comes
on his face. "I think I no got him," he
will say; and the treasures he has seem
worthless in comparison. If a ship be
bound for Apemama the merchant racks his
brain to hit upon some novelty. This he
leaves carelessly in the main cabin or partly
conceals in hU own berth, so that the King
shall spy it for himself. "How much you
want?" inquires Tembinok, passing and
pointing. "No, King, that too dear," re
turns the trader. "I think I like him,"
gays the King. This was a bowl of gold
fish. On another occasion it was scented
soap. "No, King, that cost too much,"
said the trader; "too good for a Kanaka."
"How much you got? I take him all," re
plied His Majesty, and became tho lord of
17 boxes at 2 a cake.
Thus, for instance, he took a fancy to my
wife's dressing bag, a thing entirely useless
to the man and sadly battered by years of
service. Early one forenoon he came to our
house, sat down, ano abruptly ottered to
purchase it. I told him I sold nothing, and
the bag at any rate was a present from a
friend; but he was acquainted with these
pretexts from of old, and knew what they
were worth and how to meet them. Adopt
ing what I believe is called "the object
method," he drew out a bag of English
gold, sovereigns and half-sovereigns, and
began to lay them one by one in silence on
the table, at each fresh piece reading our
faces with a look. In vain I continued to
protest I was no trader; he deigned not to
reply. There must have been 20 on the
table, he was still going on, and irritation
had begun to mingle with our embarrass
ment when a happy idea came to our deliv
ery. Since His Majesty thought so much
of the bag, we said, we must Deg mm to ac
cept it as a present. It was the most sur
prising turn in Tembinok's experience. He
perceived too late that his persistence was
unmannerly; hung his head awhile in si
lence; then, lifting up a sheepish counte
nance, "I 'shamed," said the tyrant. It
was the first and last time we heard him
own to a flaw in his behavior. Half an
hour after he sent us a camphorwood chest,
worth only a few dollars but then heaven
knows what Tembinok' had paid for it.
I Ml.
Thorn Lfhb'to 5Vvtiu
Do you find any difficulty in
getting a suit that suits you ?
If you do, what is the trouble?
Whatever it is we will take
the trouble to remove it We
make it our business in the
first place to make perfect
fitting goods; secondly, our
materials are selected with a
view to give satisfaction;
thirdly, our price is always
the lowest Satisfaction not
only while you buy our goods.
No! but after wearing for
and during 12 months we
guarantee to keep them in
repair for you free of charge.
What better offer can we
make? It is certainly our
desire to gain and keep your
custom. We have now placed
on sale a grand selection of
those new nobby Cheviots,
Homespuns and Tweed Suits
that are so popular in the
Eastern cities, and are selling
very fast at the popular prices
of $10, $12, $15 and $18.
No extra charge for extra
sizes. Short and Stout,
Slim and Tall.
WE FIT THEM ALL.
Home-Made Overcoats, every
style that can be imagined is
here Box Sack, Fly Front
or Double Breasted, in every
make of goods at the very
low prices $8, $10, $12
and $15.
Makers of
Tailors,
fina Clothing,
Hatters ani
Furnishers.
954 and 956 LIBERTY ST.
S-t&a? Corner.
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ETJNGBY DOGS IN ALASKA.
MOCHA IS A MYTH.
The Cofleo Sold Under That Name Is Not
TYht It Is Represented.
People are continually calling at the
grocers for Mocha coffee, and many will take
no other, says a coflee expert in the St.
Louis Oldbe-Democrat. As a matter of fact
there nre probably not 500 people in the
United States who have ever tasted real
Mocha, and I do not believe that there is a
single pound of it to be found between the
Atlantic and the Pacific The Arabs, of
Arabia, not those of Africa, as the most
fastidious coffee-drinkers in the world and the
crop of Mocha is not large. The Governors
and Shieks get the pick, the finest and
plumpest berries being chosen for them.
The rich Arabs get the second choice.
The rest is sold throughout the country
and very little, consisting of the shriveled
and broken berries, finds its way to Con
stantinople. Not a hundredweight a year
gets west of that city. What is called Mocha
consists of inferior Arabian growths at
least a little of it does, and coffee from Cey
lon and Java, a most inferior kind.
Ocean Steamship Arrivals.
Steamer. Where From. Destination.
German! New York London.
Olnlam New York London.
llrltlsli l'rlticc Liverpool Philadilplila.
Montana London Philadelphia.
Dresden lircmcn It.iltlmore.
(Lahn , Uremrn New York.
;uvoirew iorK....ijiTcrpooi Aew vorK.
Niagara Havana New York.
Nevada Liverpool New York.
Klha... Svw York.t Bremen.
(crmanic New York Oueenstown.
Iiritisli l'rlnce Uerrool I'hlladdphla
Switzerland Antwerp ...Philadelphia
Nina Scotia Lhernool lialtlinore.
Virginia ,t New York Hamburg.
Prance ..New York London,
Baltimore Baltimore Loudon.
Mate f Nevada Glasgow New York.
Cancilk Hamburg. New York.
A Fathetlc Scene in the Arctic Camp of
the Bold Band of Explorers.
The night of February 13 we camped on
the Chulitna, between Lakes Jones and
Robinson, writes A. B. Schanz, of the
Prank Leslie exploring expedition in
Alaska. It was the first evening that our
dogs were given no food at all. The poor
beasts could not understand what it meant.
They knew they had worked all day with
as much vigor as they could command, and
had earned their piece of fish. Why was
it not forthcoming? When we halted to
make camp I sat on my sled wrapped in
gloomy thoughts. My poor skeletons, who
had a savage affection for their master, came
up one by orie and squatted in a circle
about me, looking reproachfully into my
face.
"Where is that meal you owe us?" thev
would have said, had they been gifted with
speech. For me it was a horrible torture,
and I had to hide myself from the accusa
tion of their eloquent eyes. After a while
thev lost their sorrowful manner, and the
gnawing of their vitals drove them to slink
furtively about, searching for anything to
still their pangs of hunger. I had a whip
made of tarred rope laid up in sennet, and
this dainty morsel was gorged down by one
of the starving brutes. Another saw one of
the boys take a package of tobacco from a
sled, and snatched the bundle. In au
instant there was a fight of a dozen doss,
and the tobacco was gulped down before the
animals djscovered what it wa1. Some of
the dogs ate the cod-line lacing on Mr.
Clark's sled, the line being covered thickly
with red lead.
During the night, however, there was
little rest in camp, for the teams snarled
about like a pack of coyotes. At about
midnight one of the brutes managedfo get
hold of a pair of fish-skin boots in the
men's quarters, and pandemonium reigned
while the whole pack was fighting for the
delicacv.
No Resemblance.
Yonkers Statesman.
Xo, Constance, you are wrong. A razor
back hog does not resemble a raise-her-back
cat, at alL
Clasps the figure closely,
but yields to every movement
the Ball's corset. There's
a perfect fit and perfect free
dom. Coils of tiny wire springs
in the sides give you both.
It's the corset for comfort.
But, if it doesn't suit you, after
wearing it for two or three
weeks, bring it back and get
your money.
ROSENB AUM & CO.
510-518 MARKET ST. .
OC21-27-MWT
A BRAVE MISTAKE
Some people, for the sake of a fe7 cents
difference in price; buy Whiskies that they
know nothing about. Isn't it worth the
difference to get Whisky sold under a sworn
guarantee of purity? Klein's celebrated
"Silver Age" and "Duquesne" are both ao
companicd with the distiller's affidavit
certifying that they are unadulterated.
Physicians everywhere prescribe these
brands, and leading hospitals use them ex
clusively. "Silver Age" sells at SI CO and
"Duquesne" at 1 25 per full quart. Once
used, always used. Goods expressed any
where. MAX KLEIN,
82 FEDERAL ST., ALLEGHENY.
se23-jrw.