"- '-THE-. "PITTSBTniG DISPATCH, -'MONDAT; ' OCTOBER 26.'M891. -V - - -. rTt -V . $ $jraftj. ESTABLISHED FEBRUARY IS4G. Vot 4. No.251. "ntcrcfl t ritlsbnrg Tostofflce, November Jjs;, as second-class matter. Business Office Corner Smithfield and Diamond Streets. News Rooms and Publish'ng House 7S and So Diamond Street, in New Dispatch Building. TUSTKRV ATITKKTISIXG OFFICE. ROOM a. TBlBL'SEBlTII.lUM; SEWYOUIt where com plete files OfTHE DISPATCH can always be round. Foreign advertisers appreclau the convenience. Hume advertisers and friends ofTHE DISPATCH. bile in New York, arc also made welcome. TKF. DTSPJLTCHU nvularlym im at Brentrrno's, s Uriwn Square. Sne lurk, and 17 Ave de fiipfra, rant, Mtznce. inhere anvon vlio has been aisap poi nied at a Iwttl news stand can cttain it. TERMS OF THE DISPATCH. TOSTACE TREE IX THE UKITED STATES. DAILT DisrATrn. One Year I R 00 Daily Dis patch, Per Quarter. 200 Daily DisrATTU. One Month 70 Daily Dispatch, Including Sunday, 1 year.. 10 00 Daily Dispatch. Including Sunday. 3 in tin. 250 Daily DirATCH. Including Sunday, 1 m'tli.. 90 Sunday DisrxTcit, One Year. ISO Welkly Dir atcii. One Year. 1 15 TnE Daily' DlsrAT-n Is delivered by carriers at 15 cent per week, or, including Sunday Edition, at SOeentsper veeV. PITTaBUHG. MOSDAY, OCT. 20. ISal. WASTED BOAD EXPENDITURES. The approach of the winter season, when the country roads are about to lapse into their annua! condition of mire and sldughs, makes it a fit time to review the expenditures on roads in the State during the past summer, and to estimate the act ual gain that has been made in the estab lishment ol durable and permanent road ways. A special article elsewhere makes the total expenditures on roads during the year S5,OS7,000, an increase over the pre vious year of nearly $1,300,000. It is worth while to recollect that opposition was snrated to the expenditure of a million bv the State for the specific purpose c.f mak- lug the roadwavs permanent, it is in structive to find that the lesnlts of the Jack of sybteni now prevailing have been to make a larger increase in the total ex penditures with little assurance that any appreciable part of the expenditure secured an3-gain in the permanence of the roads. It is permissible to infer that the large expenditures in Chester and Montgomery the latter S50.000 more than the total for Allegheny county represent largely work done in building durable and passable highways. Of the other 54,500,000 the probability i- that, when the season of spring mud is with the fanners once more, not enough permanent improvement will be shown to have been secured by it to be stated by a percentage. The vast total of this expenditure means the continuance of the regime of mud and impassability that has mled during this generation. Another striking fact is brought out in the same article. Such counties as Wash ington, Mercer, Lawrence, Clearfield and others spend more mony on their roads than on their schools. They get a more or less genuine article of common school education for their money; but their roads always go back on them when they are most needed. The uselessness of the pres ent road system could not be more strik ingly illustrated. THE WASK OF THE ALLIANCE. Tho interviews with Messrs. McGrath and Simpson, of the Kansas Fanners' Al liance, telegraphed from Topcka, afford much inoic significant corroboration of the previous reports concerning the waning of that organization than any repetition of such reports from somces inimical to the organization. Mi. MeGrath's .statements raight be taken with a grain of allowance as coming from a defeated candidate for the State Pre-idency; but his view is lacked np by Jerry Simpson's admission that as a business organization the farm ers are losing interest in the Alliance, but that "politically it is as strong as ever." Mr. Simpson evidently makes this as sertion with th idea that he is establish ing the position of the Alliance as a polit ical force: but if his words are true they simply foicshadow its early disintegration. The onlj pennanent political strength of that organization could be derived from its basic position as an associa tion from which the fanners re ceived tangible benefits. Such benefits anight be secured from the business feat ures of the Alliance, and when estab lished would amount to a strong claim on the political support of the farmers, even for its vagaries. But, if those business features do not amount to enough to com mand the support of the Kansas farmers, what hold has it got on their political party? In that case it is nothing more than a transient revival of the old soft money craze, and has no reason to expect a more lasting existence. There were features of the Alliance as a co-operative organization which had real merit We suspect that Mr. Mc Grath's statements are more nearly accu rate than Mr. Simpson's, and that this legitimate function of the organization is being strangled by the alienation of sup port through the political schemes of the sub-Treasury boomers. A train-iykeckeh caught. The capture of the train-wrecker who has made two deliberate attempts to wreck drains near Charleroi is a subject for public congratulation. Beyond that the case as told in our special dispatches presents a singular study in natural depravity. What is the condition of the mind which for no apparent motive seeks to gratify itself by producing a disaster in which life may be destroyed? The question seems unanswerable to decent minds, yet the case may be only an exaggeration of the barbaric appetite for the sight of slaughter w hich made people enjoy gladiatorial com bats in the classic days, and which has a mild survival in the fondness for execu tions, and the joy of seeing two pugilists maul each other, in the present age. The instincts of savagery are still little better than dormant in a large share of our civil ization; and the case of the Charleroi train wrecker appears from the statements to be one in which these instincts have become active until they were given full play in tn-e attempt to destroy life In order to enjoy the fun of seeing trains smash up. Of course, such exceptional depravity "will require the severest punishment that the law can assign; but the case is sucli as to impress us with the inadequacy of the ordinary legal penalties to fitly deal with SJch wanton and purposeless criminality. AS ORGAN IS SPITE OF FTSELF. The new scale of wages at the works of Carneip. Phltins & Co.. at Brnddoek. Making a reduction to many of the work- I ingmen, is commented ou by the Phila delphia Record with the assertion that: "This is nut the feast of high wages to which the timplc-minded workingmen of WltsB I Pittsburg were invited by the high-tariff i orators in the recent session of Congress." This would be nothing out of the ordi , nary run of the shrieks of our esteemed free trade friends, from Governor Camp , bell to the New York Times. It would not bo worth noticing if it were not for an ac companiment. In the editorial paragraph immediately following tho one quoted from, the Rctord makes Tsomo vary forcible comments on tho uselessness of party organs. It declares that tho people want "independent criticism fair to all parties," and quotes the pertinent lines: But i hnt were its intrinsic value worth, Suppose some fellow Should nail the conscious needle to tho north? With this clear recognition of the futility and stupidity of telling only such portions of the truth as suits your own party, it is unpardonable for the Retard to suppress one prominent fact in connection with this matter, whicli it must have known, al thouehwe mav charitably suppose Gov ernor Campbell and the New York Times to be ignorant. That is that the duty on steel rails, the product of the Braddock works, was reduced by the tariff act from S17 00 per ton to 513 . After the Record informs its readers of that feature, it may fairly proceed to argue at length its peculiar views to the effect that the raising or lowering of duties has no effect on the raising or lowering of wages. THE QUESTION OF QUEBEC. The complication of Canadian affairs arising out of the dissatisfaction of the people of Quebec with their position in the Canadian federation, is a peculiar one. It has frequently of late years found voice in talk of annexation to the United States; but it is important, for correct estimate on our side of the value of such talk, to un derstand that it does not proceed from any admiration or affection for our politi cal system, but is inspired wholly by en mity to the British supremacy in Canada. The condition of Quebec is a unique one in modern times. It is not only a survival of the French nationality in sym pathies, traditions, language and religion, but, so far as tha latter has any relation to j politics, it is a survival of the French ideas of the eighteenth century. When Quebec was handed over to England as a result of the wars of the last century, the people accepted the result outwardly but re jected it in their private life as completely as the people of Alsace and lwrraino re ject their transfer to the German Empire. So long as Quebec was kept under military domination the inhabitants obeyed their rulers, but kept up the old education, and now, nearly a century and a half later, are the same in language and spirit as when Wolfe gave up his life for victory. They maintain the French language, and since they have been given representation in their own government they have success fully insisted in forcing the language of their ancestry into the courts and schools, and to a degree, at least, in carrying out the old idea of a French church supported by public taxation. It is unquestionable that a people have the right to maintain their old language, and even if they choose, to keep their ancient religious institutions at public cost But it is a question for us to ponder whether a people who cherish their tradi tional ideas so obstinately could assim ilate with our modern systems. It might even be well to suggest to the people of Quebec that experience might make them even more dissatificd with being a part of the United States than with being a part of Canada. the ciiilkax how The version of the Chilean difficulty i given by our Washington special tele grams certainly shows the correctness ot the position taken by TnE Dispatch when the news of the row "was first re ceived. It was that it will be wise to go slow before making a drunken row be tween a lot of sailors and the Chilean rab ble a subject of international quarrel On the very face of it the fact of a fight between sailors on shore and the roughs of a seaport affords slight foundation for diplomatic thunder. Such riots are not unknown in nearly every seaport, and that they should occur in a country whero the United States has assiduously shown its partiality for a usurping and now over thrown executive is not unnatural. If there is any evidence that the Chilean authorities permitted or encouraged the attack it would be just cause for action by the government But, as all the allegations on that point are that the police endeav ored to quell the riot and that the Chilean courts are already taking steps to punish the offenders, it does not seem necessary to take the matter as a cause for Inter national enmity. Beyond that, how will the administra tion make a peremptory demand on Chile for apology and reparation consort with its position in the New Orleans affair? Is it going to establish one sort of inter national law for a mob in New Orleans, and another for a mob in Valparaiso? Speaking of Kepublican denunciations of the Michigan plan for dividing the elec toral vote of Kepublican States, the Phila delphia Record says: "It is a pity that all States could not be so Michiganized as to allow the voice of the majority to prevail." Verv well, supposing the esteemed Record exerts its influence with the Democracy so as to secure the adoption of the Michigan plan in such Democratic States as Xw Jer sey, Virginia, Kentucky and Missouri. The officers of the Louisiana National Bank cannot imagine what has become of the $190,000 that Teller Eugene Garcia got away with. The fact that their bank U one of the depositories of tho lottery octopus may explain their inability to compre hend it The generosity of the Czar of Russia in donating 1,503,000 roubles for the relief of the starving Russian peasantry naturally provokes the question where the money came Irom. Still we should iccoguize that the Czar is entitled to as much credit for philanthropy as the money kings or this country who make tens of millions by goug ing the public and then earn lenownby giving millions to found public institu tions. With New York borrowing money at 2 per cent and the United States continuing its loan at 2 per cent, it seems to bo a self evident proposition thai if Tittsburg votes her new loan, it should pay 5 per cent to no other lender than our city sinking fund. "M'AN's dog gets into a fight Man separates them nnd tho other dog bites him. Man sues other dog's owner and gets dam- ages. This Uoesn t seem right. In fact it isn't right." Tins profound anal sis of a great judicial issuoby the New YorKEvening Sun is calculated to arouse the inquiry whether the bitten man should have sued the biting dog or should have paid damages for btopping a dog-fight. The calculations of New York politicians on both sides, each that their respective can didates w ill have about 8,000 majority, is tol erably good evidence that tho workers on both sides are not at all certain whether t,,er are on lootorhorseback A VERY interesting ?lory forthc people of Philadelphia, ig furnihed by tho assertion of the United States Iuspeelor at that port that the cattle which are condemnedforexporto- tlon are 'killed anil solcfWmeat'in Philadel phia. The assertion ts calculated to make the placid Fhilndclphiaus stir things up and demand that the City Inspector do as much hustling as tho United States official. The man who is proposing to publish the poems wliich Rnskin wrote when he was seven years old, is contemplating as great an injury to him as he inflicts on himself in publishing the prose diatribes of his old ago. "I nAVE already said in open court that my lips are sealed and that there is no power on earth that can. open them." Thus speaks John Bardsley -with regard to his appearance before tho Senate. It might have been wiso to watcli aud seo how many eminent citizens dtew a breath of relief on learning that the policy ofisilcnco would he maintained. Cholera in Amoy, China, may make our British-American neighbors a little cautious about the character of the Chinese immigrants that they are admitting for the revenue of fifty dollars penhead. Senator Stanford's success in turn ing out fast trotters may have produced the idea in his mind that he can show great run ning qualities as tho Farmers' Alliance can didate for tho Presidency. But that idea is a delusion. Tno trouble -with him is that ho has got a record. SNAP SHOTS W SEASON. Sattm's ice box is certainly a failure. Even money melts in it. Wages always appeal to man's hire na ture. One eagle on the largest gold piece is worth several in the woods. Lawyers lay down the law when they take up a case. Melbourne has sold his rain-making secret for a snug sum, and is now in n posi tion to make it snow. If you want to get a dream out of a wed ding cake put it in your stomach instead of under your head. Street scrapes will not plean city high ways. About the time tho horses get through breaking records the voters will take a hand in the same line. There's no peace in the home presided over by the wife who is continually giving folk a piece of her mind. The St Louis fakir who killed Queen Victoria evidently desired to enliven that dead town. Uncle Sam is naturally hot over the last dose of Chile sauce. Canada is losing her revenue as well as her reputation, thanks to the modern school of politics. Only those who have the sugar can afford a suite of rooms in the hotel. The stock certificates of some corpora tions should be printed on watered silk. The bloody shirt has not been flaunted this time, but tho usual amount of dirty linen is in the campaign w ash. Ball dresses come high even if they are cut low. PEON!! OF WIDE RENOWN. Paul Du Ciiaillu is a bachelor, bnt he is said to have manners that charm women. Governor Boies, of Iowa, is a native of New York, lie started West for wealth with only a few cents in his pocket Maine has a wealthy woman. Her name Is Sirs. T. X. Egery, and she lives at Bangor. Her fortune is said to exceed $4,000,000. Sir Morell Mackenzie thinks with Mr. Spnrgcon thata clergyman can smoke a cigar "to tho glory of God," if the cigar is good, without harm. ItAFCADio Hearn has created a romance in real life by marrying a Japanese damsel. He used to reside in Cincinnati and write West India romances. Banker Eugene Kelly, who is worth $5,000,000, earned his passage to this country by driving n jaunting car in his native place, County Tyrone, Ireland. It is no longer good form to call the Em peror of Japan the Mikado. He is now called Kotci, and the Chinese Emperor answers to the title of Bakudahan. Ex-Senator Blair confesses that he was disappointed in not being allowed to go to China. There are many who sympathize with him in that respect. It is evident that some people think there is still a field Tor mission work in the United States, lime. La Marochalc Booth, a French Salvation Army leader, is going to make a tour of the country. Thr Ameer of Afghanistan has issued a proclamation announcing that he intends to visit England. He has heard of the Jolly times his great mend,, the Shah of Persia, had while visiting the Queen and th6 British nobility. The news is quite a surprise to England, as the Ameer has not been Invited to come. JINGOISM HEARD AGAIN. Foreign Governments Learning That They Cannot Insult Americans. Frank Lrt!e's Weekly. The cry of "Jingoism" is heard again. It comes from the free trade press, and is di rected against the administration because of its prompt and vigorous piotest to the Chil ean Government against its unfriendly atti tude toward the American Minister at Val paraiso. It has been a standing rebuke to our people visiting other land", and particu larly tho South American Republics, that their rights of citizenship were not pro. tectedas were the rights of other foreigners. So little was to be expected from this Gov ernment that the traveler from the United States, when subjected to insult and assault, was compelled to ask the protection of the British Consulate. That is nil of the past. The piesent administration, from the outset of its being, has indicated its Arm resolve to have the rights of American citizens re spected as bioadlyand completely as those of any other people. Great Britain has been taught that lesson; so have Germany and Italy; and now Chile is learning that it can not insult with impunity the representative of onr Government. If this Isjingoism.leta partisan press make the most of it. WENT THH0TJGH FIBE UNSCATHED. The Interesting; History of a Sloncy Package in the Mingo Wreck. WASHihOTON, Oct. 23. October U last E. A. Collins, a banker of Milan, Tenn., registered a package addressed to Latham, Alexander & Co., Sew York, containing $1,C00 in cur rency. A train wreck occurred nearSteu benville on the IGMi inst. The mail laigely shared the general destruction which Are made more thorough. For tunately this package, its cover badly scarred and crisped, remained quite intact, and was picked up by W. B. Johnson, one of thebrakemen of the train. Mr. Johnson, immediately after tho wieck, delivered the package to George F. Brown, chief dis patcher of tho PIttsb'urg, Cincinnati ana St. Louis Railroad, Columbus di vision, who. In turn, handed it over to the custody of the postofllce at Stcubenviile. The package was irom this ofllce promptly forwarded to A. Burt, Divis ion Superintendent of the Hallway Mail Service nt Cincinnati, who delivered tho same to the postmaster at Cincinnati for transmittal to the dead letter office, where it was received by registered mail on the 22d. Information of its receipt was at once telegraphed to tho sender, and in accord ance with his instructions the package us forwarded to its owner. THINGS IN GENERAL. The Relation of the Fnlpit to the tabor Question A Discussion Before an Audi ence Hardly Orthodox The Way to Investigate Socialism. rwBrrras ron the dispatch." In Puritan Plymouth, the other day, at one of the sessions of the School of Applied Ethics, Mr. W. L. Sheldon, of St. Louis, ethi cal lecturer In that city, read a paper on "The Relation of the Pulpit to the Labor Question." There were not very many par sons present to hear the paper, and of those who were thcre not many of them could have' obtained a verdict for orthodoxy from a Presbyterian General Assembly. 1 remember, for example, that I was intro duced to he Rev. Mr. Spenper, of Scltuatc, Mass., and then, in tho next breath, to the Rev. Mrs. Spcncor, his wife, of Providence, Jt. I. He is a Unitarian, I think, and she is an Ethical Culturist. They livo in their separate parishes, "exchanging" occasion ally, and spending their vacations together. She is said to be the better preacher of the two. The orthodoxy of the parsons may have been open to question, bnt the good sense of the pancr was without exception. The chiof emphasis of tho lecturer was upon the ini tial duty of the man in tho pnlpittoknow what he is talking about. Learn tho facts, the lecturor said; go to political meetings, attend the assemblies of labor leagues; get acquainted with the men who seem to desire to turn the whole world upsldo down, and And out nho they are nnd what they want, and nt just what angle they propose in their zeal to Invert this disordered world. It seemed 'to mo that hero was wisdom for others than the parson, for every intelligent man nnd woman who is interested in the bettering of human society. Lead the Spirit of Reform. Learn the lines of least resistance, the paper proceeded, not bunt against a stono wnll when you can go through a gate, not suggest the impracticable. In general, try to bo leaders rather of the spirit of reforms than of their technical details. This, indoed, was advised and acted upon a good whilo ago by that wisest of all tho ethical lecturers, to whom the orthodox also give heed, who declined to scttlo a question of inheritance which was proposed to him, refused to look nt the accounts on cither side, leaving all that to tho courts, and contented himself with saying to both parties, "Take heed and bewaio of covctousness." Finally, the lecturer said, never go be yond actual personal knowledge. Get your facts, when you can, from the sight of your own 03'es and tho touch of your own hands. When this is impossible take tho word of acknowledged authorities. Read tho peo ple's bibles. Learn from tho leaders them selves the direction in which they want to lead the people. Above all, put no faith in magazines or pamphlets. In illustration of the dangers of such easy, bnt unreliable sources of information, the lecturer commentod upon some pages of a book which has had an immense circula tion and a wide nnd influential reading, "Our Country." At tho publishers in Now York, n fow days lntor, I saw I know not how many thousands of copies of this book stacked up In piles ton feet high, the van guard of n new edition which is already meeting n popular sale in the bookstoies. Mr. Sheldon said that the chapter on social ism in "Our Country" is like a chapter on Christianity which might be written by a visiting Buddhist who should mix together the religious opinions of n Trappist monk, a Unitarian preacher and a Salvation Army captain, and offer the mixture, as a fair de scription of tho doctrinos of tho United Presbyterian Church. Investigate Socialism. Mr. Sheldon advised us, if we really wanted to know what socialism is, to read Dr. Schatlle's "Quintessence of Socialism," a small book, published in England, in the "Social Science Series." The morewe know about socialism tho bettor. Socialism is perennially interesting. So long as working and eating are universal occupations of man, people will bo interested in wages and dinners. And socialism promises higher wages nnd better dinners. All the hungry people nro bound to listen to tho sermons of tho Socinllsts. And hungry people nro a mosMindesirablo clement in a community. Partly because they vex the consciences and haunt the hearts of those, who desire to love their neighbors as themselves. And partly be cause hunger is always dangerous. Starving men will not tramp past bread-stores and dining-rooms in pcaco lorever. Socialism is a word of fear in tho cars of a good many timid citizens. They think of it ns a doctrine which will one of these days inflame the hearts of these hungry brethren of ours, and pull down handsome houses over the heads of their comfortable owners. They want to have socialism hushed up and Socialists silenced. Strength of a Silenced Cause. That, however, is the worst thing that could bo done both for socialism and for so ciety. A cause that is silenced grows both in strength and in bigotry. By and by, tho Eilcncc is broken, nnd tho voice that speaks Is the voice of some terrible explosion. Free utterance brings all theories to a fair and open test, gives play to reason, strengthens the hands of the moderates, and is the sur est way to defeat extremes nnd to discover fallaoies. The covered kettlo bursts; tho open kettle, with the same fire and tho same water, sings away with a pleasant simmer. The young German Emperor has done well to repeal the anti-soclallstio laws. The so cialistic congress at Erfurt, the .other day, showed in its mild tone tho good working of that wise polloy. It is plain enough that the existing condi tions of industrial society are by no means ideal. Such pictures of London as "Darkest England," such revelations of Sew York as "How the Other Half Lives," finding coun terparts in proportion in every modern city, even in Pittsburg, do not tend toward tho contentment of right minded people. In this state of things socialism promises away out. Wo need that bad enough. The promise is at least worth looking into. What is social ism? Socialism is a substitute for competition. Competition Is the economic name for the general scramble alter the silver dollar. The purpose of this universal scramble is wealth. And wealth means private capital. Wealth does not mean simply enough to eat, enough to wear and a decent house to live in. That, indeed, is about all that it does in reality amount to. Mr.-John Hooy, whose name is just now unpleasantly before the public In connection with a p irtlcularly ob jectionable grab in this general scramble, owns 1,600 pairs of trousers, but he can wear only one pair at a time. What the scramble is after Is money to pile up, to invest, to hand down, to speculate with. Plans of tho Visionaries. Now the Socialist in his kingdom of heaven, if he ovr gets over-his hard road of Jordan into it, will have no money at all. Coinage will stop. Banks will suspend bus iness. Safes will be needless pieces of furni ture. The plaoo of money will be taken by labor cheques. The State, which will bo the one only capitalist, the one onner of nil the great agencies of production as the land, the mines, the lines of transportation and the manufacturing plants the one em ployer of labor, will issue to each worker in the country labor cheques, each icpresent- ing the full value of his actual service to tho community for one day. And that cheque will be exchangeable, at tho gov ernment warehouses, for a certain amount of the necessaries or the luxuries of life. There will be no loans, no debts, no rents, no interest, no private capital. There will be no trade, no markets, no bid ding for custom, no advertisements. We will all got the best uttlin lowest price. And, as the capital. sts will get less Of the proportion of the earnings of labor than they do now, and tho workmen will get itiey uu nun, twiu wiu vruTjtuien win gel more, there will be a levelimr down and nn nooody will be very rich or very poor. Some of the more enthusiastic Socialists claim that there will be no more ohurch in that material millennium; and-others say that there will bono marriage. But these, the real Socialists say, are only tho quacks of socialism. Thev are tho friends from which socialism prays to be delivered. Tho actual essence of socialism is the substitution of collective capital lor private capital; com petition is ended by State control. Con sequently, thero will bo no more waste, no more trampling down" ot the Weak under tUe feet or tho stiong, no more fighting lor money ,sno more millionaires and uo more That -will be a Human Nature in the Way. ' There is only one very serious difficulty In tho way of socialism, and that is human nature. Tho author of "Onr Country" is right when he says that socialism is an at tempt to regenerate society without regene rating the individual. After all, a house must have foundations, and a plan to better the conditions of human life must take ac count of the character and disposition of the human being. As tho human being is at present constituted there is-no use denying it he will Mteal. If ho gets a chance he will steal roonev; if he rots only halt a chance he will steal time. Emerson said, "Every man isnslnzv as lin ilnmn hi he" Tho news- 'papers, which hold npa daily mirror in tho ince oi me uuman lamny, uo noi iiwiuiso us to put any woio means and nny moie power than at present, in tho hands of poli ticians and office-holders. What checks does socialism piovide against public ras cality? Socialism puts tho purse or the wholo people Into the pocket of the politi cian. Isuotthnt rather n risky venturer And socialism docs certainly takouwava great deal of incontive out of industrial life. This dead level Which it proposes to meas ure ns by is not encouraging. None of ns can get up verv far, nor down very lar. What we earn is only a part of it for our selves, the rest goes to societv. But the un regencrate do not leallv care much for so ciety. Selfishness and ambition are still lprge factors in human progress. The truth is that socialism must oifcr us all the good things of tho present system tramps, no more poverty. gltniDso of tho millennium. sl ciu anything that has been found to be good, arenotieadv to submit to nny diminishing of liberty or 'individuality or privacy. The new must grow out of tho old. gradually and naturally. How this will come about, no Socialist can sav. Socialism does not know. Socialism, as at present formnlated. is based not on nctunl human nature, but on nn ideal brotherhood, which Is beautiful indeed, and supremely desirable, but which is not yet attained. It is with socialism as it was with the the ory that James Russell Lowell's landlord hnd abbut the changing of common ducks Into canvas-backs. Ho confided to Lowell that he believed that this transformation might be effected bv feeding tho ducks with celery seed. Lowell said, "Why don't you try it?" "The tronblo is," answered tho landlord, "that the blamed things won't eat tho seed!" TALK OF THE TIME3. Minneapolis is a great floor center Tam many is also a Flower sccntcr which smells loud. Chicago Inter Ocean. Is it possible that the scent has reached as faras Chicago? One more week of tho campaign, and McKinlcy's election comes. Toledo Blade. Campbell's speech at East Liverpool left McKlnley with a clear field. It looks like a walkover. . Jerry Simpson is right when he says that thcAUIanco party wants no joint debates. Whnt the Alliance is In urgont need of is a lot in tho political seminary. Topela Capital Somebody out in Kansas ought to furnish tho lot immediately. . How would it do to hiro one of tho rain makers to give us sorao Democratic weather in Ohio election day? Chicago Times. There's windy weather there now. It will bo a freeze out on November S. Is that tho kind of weather tho Democrats want? Major McKinley's eyes nro beginning to bulge out in nn anxious effort to see which way the cat Is going to jump. Galveston Kews. This opinion comes from too great a distance to be of value. The Sac should have said "McKlnley has tho bulge on the jump of tho cat." The so-called People's party has a ticket in the field in several States, but nobody hears aboutany of them. The people don't know that party and don't want to know it. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Why not let the dead past bury its dead. There is no utility in Dringing dead issues to the front. Reciprocity is a good thing so far as it goes, because it is free trade in a restricted form. But it is noticed that it does not touch such things as tho manufacturers are more especially desirous of having pro tected. What tho people want Is cheaper necessities tin plnte, for instance. Ifansas City Star. They v'ill get them fast enough as soon as the factories aie completed. Tho world wasn't made in a minute. AN EXTEAOEDINABY EXPERIMENT. Knowledge Gained From a Torpedo Boat Trial in England. Sew York nerald.l An extraoidinary torpedo boit experi ment was made near Portsmouth, England, on Thursday. The casual reader will get the idea that the torpedo boat made an at tack such as she might be expected to make in time of war nnd that it failed. Saturallyl tho effect win ue encouraging to tne men who go down to tho sea In ships that might be made tho objects of a torpedo boat's nttacK. Great Britain has done a good deal of this kind of experimenting. The moral inflncnce of the torpedo is one of its chief points of value. The possibility of being drowned like rats irf a box by the ex plosion of a torpedo under a great ship's bilgo always makes a crew more nervous than tho chance of being sunk by gunfire. Hence, the British Government is alwnys willing to cast discredit on the torpedo's performances. The Thrush was given a hopeless task. It is not conceivable that in actual warfare she would have been permitted to chargo at such" an obstruction unless it had been somewhat broken up by shells: or, if this wore lmpracticaoie, a torpedo would have been exploded under the boom by the Thrush before she trlod to pass it. Crippled ns she was, the cable dispatch says the Thrush would have been able to discharge her torpedoes. In actual war, however, she would have qulokly been in tho beam of nn electric lieht and the de fense's machine guns would have riddled her a few seconds after the shock. It is hard to see what useful knowledge has been gained by this experiment. PARTIAL SOCIALISM. Tendencies Which Have Gradually Crept Into the Alliance. Topcka State Journal. It may nnd probably is true, that the ma jority of the Kansas farmers who are in the Alliance are not Socialists. They are not ready to believe that the Government ought to own nnd manage all the means of produc tion and distribution. There is not one in ten ot the Alliance farmers in Kansas who would want to give up his farm to the Gov ernment and hold it only as a tenant; but nevertheless the Alliance is socialistic In its tendencies. It wants the Government to control the railroads and eventually to own them; it wants the Government to build graneries for wheat and corn; and It wants tho Government to do tho Danking business of the country. All these are partial socialism. They are the first three steps toward It, So far as this, most of tho Alliance- farmers aro willing to go: but their leaders nre Socialists to the core. They have read Gronluud, Pioodhon, Carl Marx and all the socialistic writers on the subject of political economy, and have embraced thfiir doctrine entire. They mean to lead their followers to take the first three steps in socialism. By the time that Is ac complished, the' believe the impetus of the movement will be so great that the whole social system will be overthrown. This is the programme of tho clever and designing loaders of this movement. 'It remains to bo seen whether tho farmers will make tho whole Journey with them. Foreign Trade Flourishing. Milwaukee Evening Wisconsin. The chief of the Bureau of statistics re ports that the total value of exports of mer chandise during the 12 months ending Sep tember 30, 1591, was $923,091,138, and tho vnlue of the imports for the same period, $821,715, 270. These figures show a handsome balance in our favor, and refute the assertions or the Democratic free trade croakers who are worrying abont our foreign trade. Our foreign trade will continue to flourish under the new tariff law and the reciprocity policy. What Does It Signify? Sew York Commercial Advertiser. There is si deep significance in the tremen dous legistratlon thus far recorded this year. If tho fourth day keeps up its aver age tho election will bo practically settled. The trouble is that no one can be quite sure what the significance is or which way the thing is settled. . . - ' and the good things or the socialistic future-H-toccther. rtonle nre not eolng to give irp ur ll dgjaw.?r5s&gjiiB ., . ; A.-yi,. tK- . v.V'v ':.'.',... .u-" . . . ., - vr a jm j WMlHiHWarilllMfiBiWM Hs: PrfBiwirSBLnSfrtlti BIMjS&mm&&&tta f.t!&J-B. "-MBrfiira'ii fflirTA.' a . i glut tmmmWvK ft METHODIST DIFFERENCES Points on Which Members of the Ecumeni cal Council Did Sot Acrea Subject Which Were Touched In a Timid Manner It Was a Great Gathering, Though. rrROM A STArP COKRESl'OXDEWT.1 Washikotos, Oct. 25. The great religions council .of the Methodist Church has Just adjourned, and in long years the citizens of the capital have not shown so deep an inter est in theological affairs. Washington is not a very rigidly religions city. That is, it Is vory libeial in its conduct and opinions after tho bit of religion tliat is necessary to tho lives of those who are immersed in politics nnd business is done with in listening to a short sermon, anthems of fine choirs and very short prayers. The Catholic influence, which is so vast here, applies its tenets almost as loosely to roliglous matters outside of church doors as it is applied on the Continent of Europe: and, with nil tho churches of this political capi tal, tho ohsorvance of Sunday is moro liberal than it is in any other city of the country, even though it does not demand open theaters, baseball games and yawning saloons and billiard rooms. Tho bulk of the population looked on the sessions of tho council us opportunity for an Intellectual treat. Men and women who are not accustomed I .- a ttend church services more than once twice a year listened to some of the great preachers present once or twice a day and on snnuays. Amend or mine who much prefers a Httlo game of poker or liberal bowlsof Hancock's brewing of punch to dry chips of theology, boasted that he listened to four sermons each day of tho two Sun days of tho council. It was tho ouci chance of his life to hear the representative preach ers of M thodlsts of all lands where Meth odism obtains, nnd he seized npon It; and so it was with a multitude. Eminently Dignified and Orderly. Of the little ructions occasioned by ex cited remnrks or British Conservatives nnd Liberals who could not leave their politics at home; and by really insulting charges of American delegates that the English Presi dent showed partiality to the foreign dele gates, and such unparliamentary conduct likely to happen in anybody of earnest men it is not worth while to speak. The council wn, as a general thing, eminently orderly and dignified. But for a council ot intel lectual giants, of men who nro as logical as men can be, who are forced to nccept faith nnd revelation in theology instead of absolute and touchable proof, there was re markable diversity of opinion. I doubt If a single subject came np for di-cuslon on which there was not a radical divenrence of opinion except ns to the general propo sitions of the cardinal doctrines of tho church. There was a serious disagreement as to the treatment or the temperance question, that threatened for n Httlo while tho pcaco of the council. The foreigners, accustomed to the habits of their countries, handed down from generations of old. conlil not nccept the harsh piohibitory arg uments indulged in by most of the American delegates. The difference was fervently oxprosscd and could not be reconciled. Tho discussion did anything but good for tho prohibition cause, for the foreisn delegates put tho Americans in tho position of viewing tho human race as a lot of children from whom a dangerous thing must be kept out of leach, nnd whose. Judg ment of their own necessities could bo trusted onlv to a committeo of safety, self appointed and as bigoted as could be imagined. Against the Recognition of Women. Tho refusal to permit women equal recog nition with men in the assemblies of the church also caused a hot discussion, and, astounding to say, the sentiment of this great and intelligent council was so imbued with tho ancient conviction of the inferior ity of women, as to vote overwhelmingly against such recognition. It seems almost beyond belief that In tho church, whero nny movement for tho equal opportunity and recognition of all sexes and colors nnd conditions should be most ad vanced and progressive, tho grandest coun cil of one of the grandest churches should show itself so narrow and unprogrossive. It seems that the movement for real equality is, after all, to bo gcneraled by that class of radicals wno aim to taico away ail individual and class advantages, and who, only, up to this time, have rubbed out from their dec laration of principles nil signs denoting the existence or nationality, sex, eolor, class and condition; namely, the Socialists. ? Upon the social question, erroneously called the labor question, tho coun cil was, as a whole, ex tremely conservative. They touched it with timid tongnes, and rather as though they had taken up a subject entirely dis agreeable merely because they could not avoid it. Thero was no glimmer in tho drawn out remarks on this question of the puicly sciontiflc views that have permeated all schools of economic thought of lata years, and which is rapaidly revolutioniz ing the politics of all of the most progressive conntries of tho world. It was n remarkable exhibition of timid ity, or ignorance of what is transpiring In tho field ot economic thought and research, and tho more surprising for the reason that many preachers of the Methodist and other churches have, in their own pulpits, boldly avowed their conversion to the new school of social economy. It would seem that the church had sent its most conservative teachers to this council, Jearfnl of the effect of tho presence of the Independent thinkers, who usually succeed in throwing some fire brand into the midst of bodies of which they ai o members Even in this conservative treatment of the matter there was a disagreement as to methods of ameliorating and remedying the poverty of condition and opportunity found among tho laboring classes, some hinting nt the Idea of isolated co-operation, some at profit sharing, and tho larscst number leav ing tne wnoie question to tue tenuermercles of the capitalist with their souls modified and made sympathetic by the teachings of religion ana tne example oi jurist. Sectarian Moderation Noticeable. Strange to say, there was also disagree ment in regard to the estimate put upon the dogmas and policy of the Catholic Church. For the most part tho expressions were con ciliatory, though tho historical speakers threw no veil around the machinations ot the church for tomporal power in other daj-s, and insisted that tho same spirit in a moro subtle form animated tho organization at the present time. But even with the bitter re marks of some of the more vigorous anti Catholic members, and with the enthusiasm for the orection of the now Protestant Uni veisity, confessedly as an offset to the Cath olic institutions ot learning already estab lished in the district, the general tone of the council was of remarkable moderation toward the great and aggrcsslvo body that is yet, with all Its reverses, tremendous power in the religious and political world. I could not be convinced by my somewhat hurried view of the proceedings of the coun cil that much progress was made toward any real consolidation of the Methodist fac tions. There was much talk or harmonv and union, bnt I do not think it had a great deal of tangible meaning. It was rather a mere sentiment born of enthusiasm at the time. But with all its failures and weaknesses and disagreements, it was a meeting of absorbing interest, nnd furnished a study of the most serious and profound characterfor the skep tic as well as for the religionist. E. W. L. THE PIEST CAMPAIGN GUN. Blaine Fired It in His Letter on the Tariff Hill and Reciprocity, Detroit Tribune. That is a magniflcentletter of Mr.Blalne's, in which he not only gives his support to the McKinlcy tariff law, but also insists on tho great benefits whicli reciprocity has worked, and the still greater benefits which it must work to this country in the future. The policy of protection as a means of de developing American resources has always been a favorite topic with Mr. Blaine, and in his book he devotes much space to the bene fits whlsh the protective tariff has brought to American industries. But while ho recognizes fully tho value of protection, he sees clearly that hand to hand with that policy goes reciprocity. The en largement of our markets by a judicious sys tem of barter is now the leading principle in the Republican policy. The Democratic party aims to enlarge the mat kets of for eigners in the United States. Tho Republi can policy aims to enlarge our markets in foreign lands, by making those nations from which we buy in turn buy from us. Of the two policies only that of tho Republicans exhibits tho quality of statesmanship. Tho Democratic policy is thatofa bull in a china shop. Mr. Blaine has fired the first guu of the campaign of 1892. Mrs. Lease Proud of Her Whiskers. Chicago Tribune.l Itis a grand thing to bo able to raise a beard. More than half of the humuu race can't do it. Mrs. Lease, of Knusas, has a right to bo proud of her whiskers. OUR HAIL POUCH. - Campbell's Speech at ;East Liverpool. To tho Editor of The Dispatch: That politics in Ohio is getting wnrm is not now to be questioned. Had thero been no other reason ' for the warmth, the harangue delivered hero a fow evenings ago by Governor Campbell would have been sufficient causa for tho enthusiasm of tho Republicans for Major JIcKinlcy. The Gov ernor's speech was so full of wilfully and maliciously false and garbled statements that tho Renubllcnn.s have gone to tho trouble to print a verbatim report of itl uoucnng tuat it cannot jail oi umn; niu Republican canso great good. The cam paign of lies carried on by the Democracy still goes on, however. Tho Pittsburg rost of Saturday gave its first columns' to a con tinuance of the misstatements that have been circulated, in which it glvos. In flaming headlines, the intelligence that tho "dis graceful conduct" at tho rink on Thursday evening was tho "work of hireling?. Insti gated by a tariir.pampercd, purse-proud monopoly." It goes on to say that abont 5,000 pottery operatives woro out at the moetinz to hear the Governor, oto. Thefactsaie, that thore may have been at tho outside estimate from 3,000 to i OUO peiple In nttendnncc. Tho people here, who are nearly all Republicans, were quite will ing to give the Governor a hearing. They thought it nothing hut right that tlie Gov ernor of tho great State of Ohio should be accorded a welcome in an -city within the Stnte, and particularly here, whero the ttrcat hospitality of the people is so veil known. Conseaucntlv three-lanrths of the L large audience went there to seo and hear a man so prominent, uesides, many or onr citizens, who could not be induced under any clrcnmstnnces to vote for him, have a friendly personal feeling for the man on ac count of his usnally irenial manners or rather had such friendlv personal feeling prior to hi speech, in which he deliberately and grossly insulted the hospitality of onr ficople. Tho wholo affair in n nut siiell may o summed np in this, that the crowd wero McKinlcy's trlend, which would bo quito natural, ns this is McKinlcy's old district. Everything went merry as n marriage bell until, after discussing the Australian ballot law for awhile, tho Governor made refer ence to the name of Major McKlnley as a "Princo of protection doctrine," etc.. when the vast audience, partly as n compliment to the Governor in giving his honorablo tes timony to the personal w orth of his compet itor and partly in token of their enthusi asm for the man w ho has done so much to build up onrgieat industry, broke out into modernto applause, which grew as a swell ing tide until tho cheers wero deafening. Our people when enthusiastic in a right canso are very much so, nnd they simply cheered and cheered for the period possibly of three or four minutes, much to the dis- comfort and evident confusion of the Gov nor, who immediately lost his reason, tind abused. everyone nnd anybody whom heini agiued'might, could or should have any thing to do with tho preservation of the peace, from the DeirRicmtic Mayor, who was upon the platform, and who was courte ous enough to introduce him, down. We nppend denials from two of thogcntle men named in the l'ost interview: Mr. Wm. Erhmger said: "In the first place, I was not interviewed by anyone. In the second place, I have no recollection of having made a slngre utterance reflecting npon the Republican party of East Liver pool, or that I have tile remotest idea of changing my politics on account of the Democratic meeting. I said In conversation that it was a disgraceful meeting. I did not say the Republicans would lose, or that the Democrats would gain by it, either nvo thousand, or any othei number. I say, em phatically, now, that Ea-.t Liverpool is a. McKlnley town: that he will be elected Gov ernor by a large majority; and it is my opinion that Governor Campbell will receive (ewer votes in consequence of his speech than he would have received had he not delivered it, from what I infer Horn newspaper reports of it. as I was not present during the delivery of all ofit." Sir. Muir said: "Tho report as given in the Post does not represent what I said. I did not call tho meeting a "mob," cither-"with tho greatest vistor" or otherwise. I was not knowingly "Interviewed" by anyone upon the question. I simply discussed the matter as did everj" other business man in our city tho day following the Democratic meeting, and no doubt expressed dis-atisfaction with many things which occurred there." S. East Livznpoot, October 21. A Turf Suggestion. To the Editor ofTIie Dispatch: I nm glad to see there is a movement on foot to have a spring running meeting at Homew ood Track, and on y hope it may succeed. I am going to give n pointer to the Secretary that may help to make tho meet-' ings a success. lam satisfied thero is enter prise enough in this city to encourage the undertaking. Sow, why don't the Secre tary, or, still better, tho President of the Park Association, call on tho business men and explain to them the programme. Say a well-known firm will agre to have a stake race named after them. This will be run on a certain day. Then another for another day. and so on. I have no doubt all the loading hotels, sticet car linos, railroads, etc., would, ii called on, arrange to have a stake race In their honor. This is done in other cities, nnd I know it can be done Ucre. Hand some purses would bo secured, and local pride in the success of the meeting would gun rantco good attendance. Let some one in authority act, and I Jeel certain the busi ness firms who believe in booming the town w ill respond. Ax OtD Sfobt. Pittsbcko, October 21. McDomld's Slow Trains. To the Editor ofthe Dispatch: In your.p:iper of Inte dateyou speak of ad ditional trai- s between McDonaldand Pitts burg. Since the amount of travel to this oil field has increased to the oest paying district on tho line, we think the Pan Handle officials should give us better train service in the way of time between these points. On a short distance of ISmilesournioniingund evening trains make from 18 to 20 stops, anu aro from 65 to 75 minutes on the road to tho city. Why should not their additional train be an im provement over the slow "McDonald" nnd "Ilnrgettstown"accomuiodatlons,and be the "McDonald Express," a morning train to the city, leaving at 8 a. in., stopping only nt Soblestown nnd Oukdnle; returning leave the city at 5 v. x., making tho same stops? Such trains as the 9-05 a. m. and the 3:22 and 6:10 r. jr. nre what we need: but In the morn ing at present -'every mile a stop accommo dations" go. Tho Washington people, have their Sos. 117 and J1S Express, and why can't we have one as good. Pan Hasdle Pathos. McDoxald, October 21. Why Huckrye Democrats Are Sad. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. McKlnley is stronger than Foraker was two years ago, whilo Campbell is weaker than he was then. This is why the Buckeye Democracy is snd. SECRLTARY BLAISE'S EETURX Mn. Blaise is so i obust that ho may live to consume many a bushel of wheat and many u barrel of pork. Louisvi lie Courier Journal. The country and the world will weloome Secretary Blaine's return to his duties at Washington In the vigor of fully restored health. Xi Y. Recorder. SKCRETAar Blaine says ho ts perfectly well, nnd his word upon such a question is worth more than that of any Democratic editor in the land. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Mr. Blaii hopped up the steps of Young's Hotel ye sterday with a grace and agility that couldn't pass unnoticed. It is a pity that Brother Harrison and "Sapoleon" Mc Kinley were not thore to see. Boston Globe. Mr. Blaise is on his way to Washington. Let's soe according to the know-it-sll gos sips Mr. Blaine has been dead and burled at least six months. It must be his ghost that is hurrying to the capitol of his native land. Wheeling Intelligence. Secretary Blaise will horeafter be per sonally present In the Department of Suite and the Bar Harbor wire will fall into desue tude. Ileis very apt, too, to snow to doubt ing Thomases that thero is a good deal of stalwart life in him yet. tfmrieapolls Journal. Thk country will rejoice that Secretary Blaine is well cmngh to return to Washing ton. Aside from tho natural sympathy of the people for any prominent man who is incapacitated for the labor he delights in, there is a great deal of genuine personal re gard for Mr. Blaine more, perhaps, than for any other public man in this country. It will he a satisfaction, also, to seo again a t his post the one large figure of this udmini s tratlon. iV. Y. World. It his health is restored, ns some say, he will be the standard-bearer of his party in the coming campaign. Nothing can prevent this except his unequivocal and final ro fusal. Perhaps oyon this will not. He st inds to-day before the country the fore roost man of his political faith, tho only man capable of firing the hearts of his followers. Warm in manner, adroit in speech, olever in action, he embodies qualities of availability which no riyal can approach. 3U Paut Globe CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. Straw burning stoves are used in' Oregon. The Shoshone Tails, Idaho, are offered for rent. Scientific men say that a wink occupies about the sixtlfjof a second. The fountains of Trafalgar Square spout 500 gallons of wateramlnute. It may not be generally known that the great Missionary College of England is at Canterbury. A Maine man went io sleep in a field the other day. When he awoko ho found the mice had eaten up his trousers. . Five hundred theaters have been burnt down all the world over in the last 100 years, entailing a loss of about 4 000 lives. African tribes that formerly disposed of their captives bv cannibalism, aro now saving them and selling them for slaves. A New York woman of 45 years of age has been married to her fifteenth husband. All of her husbands but the last are dead. Bears formerly ran wild in Great Brit ain. They were not exterminated in Scot land till just berore tho time of William the Conqneror. Mushrooms generally consist of DO per cent of water: bnt. in spite of this, the bal ance of 10 per cent is said to be more nutri tions than bread. During the year ending with July the average daily population or the prisons of tho United kingdom was 13,495, of whom 2 377 were females. Long before London coined money, or possibly had a tower to coin it in, Win chester, under King Athelstnne possessed six mints for coining as many different de nominations of metallic currency. From Oregon comes the queer story that a 5-year-old child at Easeno grows faster on one side than on the other without any apparent cause. Physicians there nre reported to bo highly interested in the case.' A gentleman in Pendleton, Oregan, has a pear tree on which thero aro pears fully developed, others a little larger than an egg. and still others tho size of a walnut. f.nd blossoms still upon tho tree. The tree has borne thus for two or three years. The working classes of Italy are very poorly fed. The consumption of meat is very scant, except on feast days, and but little wine is drnnk. Living is exclusively confined to cereals (wheat, maize, rice), with vcgetaDles and other green herbs, cooked with bacon. In the Queen's private gardens, at Os borne, there is a myrtlo about five feet in height bearing an inscription to theeffect that it has grown from a snrig of mvTtle taken by the Queen from the Princess Royal's wedding bouquet on tho day of her marriage with tho then Crown Prince- Sir Robert Hall, the Astronomer Eoyal for Ireland, predicted n short time ago that SO.000,000 years ago the moon was a part of thiscaith, and that in 50,000,COO years henco tho moon would be twice tho distance it is now, nnd th length of the day then would be 1.4OT or 1,700 hours long, or equal to 27 of onyprescnt days. Near Soda Springs is a mountain of al most pure- sulphur. Parties are tunneling the mountain from different points. It is onlv a qncstiim of time when a good iorce will bo nnt to work and lirgn shipments made to Eastern markets. The mountain is only six miles from Soda and the road lead ing" thereto is a good one. Fhonographs are to be used in Mexican postofflces for the benefit of those who can not read or write. Tho illiterate Mexican will go to the postofllce, talk his message into tho receiver of tho phonoranh, nnd when the cylinder reaches its destination the person addressed will be sent for and the messago will bo repeated to him from another machine. Professor Lee, chief of the Bowdoin College Exploration party, has returned to Halifax, S. S.. from Labrador. He claims to have discovered a race of Montagnais In dlnns. hitherto unknown to white ni"n, and has also brought back a valuable collection of natural history specimens. The fish species which hehascollcotedaredoubletho number previously known to exist in thoso waters. All sound, whether high or low, loud or soft, travel nt precisely the same rate, i. c, about 1,100 feet a second. Wero Oils not so the different notes ot music would reach the carntdifTaient times, and tho result would bo confusion instead of melody. If the .sun gave forth sounds loud enough to reach the earth, such sounds, instead of reaching us In tho space of abont'eUrhi min utes, ns light dnc. would only arrivo after a period of nearly It vcars. In England there were the following nnmher of deaths resulting from accidents In coal mines during these last f onr decades: df ICO 000 workmen the annual deaths from accidents were, from 1S51 to 1850, 407; from 1S71 to ISsn, 2S3. nnd from 1S81 to 1S97 thero wero but 199, thtrs showing a reduction of moro than one-halt. In " other European conntries there occurred the following num berof deaths fiom accidents in coalmines per annum per each JOO.OCO workmen: In Saxonv. 339: Prussia. 273: Belgium, 232; Aus tria, 2S0; England. 199, and France, 130. From April 1 to October 1 55,000 Amer ican residents crossed the Atlantic in tha steamers plying between the ports of the United States and Enropc. The White Star lino conveyed abont 5,000 saloon passengers from New York to Liverpool in tho period indicated. This is now tne favorite line of tho American tonrists, and the English rather affect the Cnnard service. A rough calculation lias been made that each passen ger spends after his arrival abont 80 (of cour-o many spend much more), so the 55,f0O "tourists leavf on this side of the Atlantio quite i?2 000.000 a useful contribution to tho funds of Europe. At Six-mile rapids on the Colorado, nearly 400 miles north of Yuma, there ox ists.a place in tho river where the water seems to be different in many respects from thereat of the stream. Steamboatmen long ago noticed that whenever they struck that particular point tho water always loamedin the boilers and all the steam bearings cnt badly. The water does not differ in color from nny other place, but when a bottle is filled and corked it soon turns very dark, almost, inky, in hue. A heavy dark sediment also settles to the bot tom, which nmount3 in an ordinary qnart to two inches in depth. KHYSKLED F.HY3IELETS. "You have omitted one item," said the departing guest to the landlord. "What's that?" asked mine host. "The bookkeeper said good morning to me to day. and jou've forgotten to charge for It." Harper's Mazar. Restaurant waiter (to Mr. Clover) Ahem! Anything, sir. for the waiter, sir? Mr. Clover (rising from table) Sartla. Take all thtre is left; I'm stuffed. Judge. She was both good and true, Was sweet and also tender. Yet la a sorry plight With no one to defend her. Sow I to such a saint Had long desired to groTel, And when at last I found her, Alas! 'twas In a novel. yiio Ibrt Rerald. Hired girl And what do you give me notice for, ms'am? Mistress Yon evldenUy don't know your place., H. G. Ain't 1 always been respectful, ma'am? SI. yes, but you don't seem to know your place. . for every time you go out at night It takes you till after 12 o'clock to find t.Seu Turk Press. 'Twas nothing but a little kiss, 'Twas but a lock of hair: Bat they broke him up a,t billiards And In the bill or fare. Washington Starl . Mrs. Dimsite Willy, have you seen, my sleeve buttons? Little Willy Dlmslte Yes'm. Pa couldn't flni his own till morning, so he took yours. , .Mrs. Dlmsltc--All right. I'll .wear his. They must be In plain sight somewhere. Puck. - 'Just see how fondly that man kisses his wlfegoodby." said the optimist. "There Is trio sham demonstration there.' " " - "O, that is because she Is going away,"' said' the penslmlst Indianapolis Jounuil. r-L" It always seems to me that cheek JS - Succeeds In besting worth and skill; " -, Why. e'en In church one unall red cent Makes more noise than a dollar bill. Colorado $itn$ Doctor Notwithstanding the iact'that' there arc new diseases coming up every dayfthe' old "ues stem to li.'Id their own all the timt.'Jh Tarter-Yes? Well, that may be. but thera'Ione of the old sort that don't seem to atfect my ouUof- towu customers at alL Doctur-What Is that? ' Tartef-Thc remitting fever. ifcwton Journal "MP
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