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TBE PITTSBURG DISPATCIL THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, -, 1891.
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PITTSBURG. THURSDAY, OCT. 29, ISSIl.
TWELVE PAGES
fcENATOK QUAY'S EXl'L NATION.
Tlie evident purpose of Chairman Kerr
and his colleagues in the Democratic party
leadership in relation to the fac-simile of
the Bardsley certificate of deposit, en
dorsed to Senator Quay, is to create a be
lief that the Senator personally shared in
Bardsley's illegal perquisites. This is in
dicated by Chairman Kerr pointing out
that the transmission of the certificate to
Quay was about the date when Bardsley
had m?de a "rake" of S30,000 from the
mercantile apprai'ership patronage.
There is nothing conclusive on the face
of the documents as published to fix this
assumption upon Quay. It is shown he
got nearly S!),000 from Bardsley, but so far
as anything 011 the surface indicates this
S,000 may, as Senator Quay says, haTe
been the proceeds of a note given by him
to defray campaign expenses and dis
counted at the Keystone Bant through
Bardsley's influence.
But does this explanation help matters
Very much for the Republican party
leaders' Is it encouraging to find the
party's campaign managers making a
siote-bmker out of a public official, to
pV.hom at the same time extraordinary and
illegal favors were being extended by the
party's representatives, Boyer, McCamant
and Livsey, custodians of the public funds
at Ilarrisburg? These State functionaries;
at the date when Bardsley kindly turned
over the 59,000 certificate, were per
mitting him to hold at interest for his own
benefit hundreds of thousands of dollars
which should have been in the Sinking
Fund drawing interest for the State.
Bardsley "s stub-book certifies he remem
bered Livsey with a check for this. Mc
Camant's correspondence of the same
period acknowledges "favors received,"
conveniently interpreted as "neckties"
and "old magazines." Senator Quay now
admits that simultaneously Bardsley
obliged the party campaign committee
by securing a timely discount of a 9,000
note.
This explanation from Senator Quay, as
far as it goes, exonerates himself from the
implication intended by the Democrats
(hat he 'was personally a beneficiary at
Bardsley's hands. It will be a complete
personal exoneration if he produces
the discounted note marked "paid"
or the check by which it was
lifted. But it goes as far as even Chair
man Kerr could wish in leaving the party
managers in the position of utilizing
Bardsley in return for the illegal favors
bestowed upon him from Harrisburg. The
explanation is a jump from the frying pan
into the fire; and in this aspect of the
matter it is hardly worth while discussing
the not wholly intelligible feature of it
which represents the money as being ill
tended for campaign expenses in '89,
though the date of cashing was several
weeks after the election of '89 had closed.
The explanation of the explanation as to
this point will doubtless be that the hills
had previously been incurred. Accepting
all that, and even the entire transaction as
Senator Quay tells it, the incident still re
mains to show that it is high time the idea
of separating fiscal offices from personal
and party convenience and profit were
taken up by the public.
After this latest incident, all that re
mains to be done in the way of identify
ing the party management with the WTong
side of the Bardsleyisra issue seems to be
included in the disposition of the Senate
at Harrisburg to make defense of the
derelict State officials a party matter.
Messrs. Gregg aud Morrison have little
reason to feel thankful for what the cam
paign has brought forth. If they are
elected, it will certainly be from confi
dence in their own integrity and from in
disposition to let Pennsylvania go Demo
cratic on the eve of a Presidental election
not on account of any credit or prestige
derived from their immediate predeces
sors in office or from" the leaders of the
Party-
DIFFICEI.Tr Or PUBLIC BEQUESTS.
It is now announced that the Tilden
heirs will give" 52,000,000 of the fortune
which they have won by the suit against
the Tilden will to the public library foun
dation, to which the dead lawyer devoted
a much larger sum.
This is a commendable act on the part
of the heirs. As the fortune has been de
clared to be theirs it is practically giving that
sum themselves. But that does not dimin
ish the remarkable pass to which we have
attained iu the matter of great public
bequests.
.After it has been demonstrated that the
greatest lawyer of his time cannot make a
public bequest to suit the courts, must we
not conclude that the carrying out of such
ifts must either come in the lifetime of
the giver or depend on the generosity of
the next of kin?
through traffic agreements. .
The report that the Pennsylvania Rail
road is negotiating a traffic agreement
with the Kurt hern Pacific Railway, which
wiH give It direct connections from Qcean
to ocean, moves a Philadelphia paper to
remark that the Pennsylvania Railroad
already has such connections over all
three transcontinental lines. But it says:
"The proposed agreement may be of some
financial benefit to the company."
The only significance to such a remark
is that tlie agreement will be of such char
acter as to throw all the traffic coming
from one line to the other. Since such
agreements are among the accepted
methods of conducting-railway operations,
we may hope that tlie Pennsylvania Rail
road will get all the advantages it can out
of them. But it is worth while to note,
as indicating the character ofmethods,
that the real purpose of consolidation or
close alliance between connecting lines is
either to secure exclusive advantages for
the line so formed op to offset the advant
ages already gained by a competing line
In this case the report at least is an off
set for the similar report that theVan
derbilt lines have got control of the Union
Pacific,
We hear a great deal about the inevita
ble tendency of railway business to such
immense combinations. But the truth is
that the tendency exists only because the
railway practice overrides the legal theory
concerning the exchange of traffic between
connecting lines. It was declared in
dozens of common law cases that rail
roads must exchange freight equally with
other roads and cannot discriminate as be
tween one line or another; and the inter
State Commerce law specifically enacts
that afl roads must exchange freight with
connecting lines without delay or discrim
ination. If this were done traffic agree
ments establishing lines extending across
the continent would be unnecessary, for
every railroad reaching a terminal point
would be equally entitled to ship its
through freight by or receive it from lines
connecting at that point
Tliis is one of the several important
respects in which the prevalent methods
in railway business differ from the law.
For the results of such a system the de
parture from legal rights must be held
responsible, and not the laws which -are
ignored.
THE JURISDICTION QUIBBLE.
Mr. Shapley's argument on the juris
diction of the Senate is ingenious and is
probably the best he can do for his client;
but it has the fatal defect of proving alto
gether too much for his case.
The pivotal point in Mr. Shapley's con
struction of the constitutional provision
under which proceedings are instituted js
that the words "for reasonable cause''" do
not permit steps to be instituted for mis
conduct involving criminality, but refer
only to cases of incompetence or negli
gence. But on the theory of the defense
this makes the proceeding exactly appli
cable to the case of Mr. Boyer. According
to Mr. Shapley, his client committed no
acts of criminality; but the testimony of
that official leaves no doubt that either by
incompetence or negligence he permitted
the interests of the State to be vastly
prejudiced. Upon Mr. Shapley's consti
tutional theory, and Mr. Boyer's testi
mony, the necessity and legality of the
present proceeding are abundantly estab
lished. Mr. Shapley proceeds, according to the
telegraphic abstract of his argument,
by asking what a large number of
members of the Constitutional Convention
would have said, "if they had been told
that this clause would some day be so
construed as to enable a Republican Gov
ernor at any time, when he could control
the votes of two-thirds of the Senate, to
turn out every Democratic officer in the
State and fill their places with his own
partisans?" But Mr. Shapley's construc
tion that the power can be exerted only
for the removal of incompetent officials
opens the door for such an abuse, if it
were possible, as any other construction.
The only practical difference between his
view and that which the Attorney Gen
eral represents is that proceedings for
removal can be resorted to where there is
misconduct touching on criminality. But
the extension of the jurisdiction touching
such cases does not enlarge the possibili
ties of wholesale sweeping out of elective
offices. It is in the class of cases, to
wbich Mr. Shapley admits the constitu
tional provision is applicable, that such
things could be done; and it is hardly
necessary to add that the danger, as well
as the constitutional construction, is man
ufactured for this special occasion.
There is evidently a desperate necessity
for.a loophole where such contradictory
arguments are resorted to. Before the
Senate avails itself of this theory it should
ask itself: "If we have no jurisdiction why
have we been investigating and wasting
the State's money during the past two
weeks?"
SOW THE EXPLOSIONS.
Two explosions of powder or nitro-gly-ceriue
establishments are reported within
the past thirty-six hours. One was at
Cleveland day before yesterday, the other
near Youngstown yesterday morning. The
powder explosion seems to have been the
most destructive, probably because the
amount of the explosive was the largest;
but both furnish emphatic Intimations of
the necessity of constant watchfulness in
the handling of explosives.
Of course.everyone knows that the man
ufacture of powder and the handling of
dynamite and nitro-glycerine are extra
hazardous matters. The conditions of
both require them to be surrounded by the
most painstaking precautions. The fact
that such dangerous occupations are suc
cessfully prosecuted affords evidence that
as a general rule these precautions are ob
served. But familiarity with danger often
breeds carelessness: and in that event such
disasters as those of yesterday and the day
before are almost inevitable.
Of course, the nature of these fatalities
makes it impossible that their cause and
details can ever be exactly known. But
the probability is that they were occasioned
by some act of carelessness or some hasty
omission of a precaution that for the mo
ment appeared unnecessary. The import
ance of constant vigilance in all the occu
pations involving hazards cannot be too
strongly insisted upon, and is fearfully
emphasized by these casualties.
FIXING KESl'ON&IBILTTV.
It is reported from Washington that tho
Comptroller of the Currency will In his
annual report present a recommendation
that Congress amend the national bank
ing act so as to hold bank directors to a
stricter responsibility in the conduct of
those institutions.
That is a bit of legislation which has
been indicated as necessary by several
recent events and by the ruling of the
Supreme Court in the Buffalo bank cases.
But that is not the only portion ot the
national banking system which requires
that sort of form. At the same time that
Congress passes tins legislation it should
take steps toward holding the Comptroller
of the Currency to a strict responsibility.
The circumstances of the Keystone
National Bank permit no milder inference
than that the work of supervision lodged
in the Comptroller's hands was negligently
and inefficiently administered. Thatisthe
condition of affairs indicated by the Comp
troller 's own statement O ther statements
arouse even graver suspicions, and the
most unfavorable indication of all is pre
sented by the constant obstacles to thor
ough investigation which crop up at the
Treasury Department Here is a first
class place for insisting upon official re
sponsibility. Congress should take steps for fixing re
sponsibilities of rational bank directors,
and also for placing upon the right shoul
ders the responsibility for letting political
methods nullify the safeguards of the
wfiolc national hanking system.
Touching the remark of The DisrATcn
that "the United States will put no embargo
on her magnificent surplus of food prod
ucts" the temporarily tariff-mad Buffalo
Courier asserts: "But tho United States did
put more or less of an embargo on the ex
portation of food products when obstacles
were thrust in the way of the, importation
of foreign poods to pay for -them."
If it is an embargo which permits us to
export the biggest total of our products ever
known in tho history of tho nation, then the
dictionaries must revise their definitions of
the word. If the esteemed Courier is right,
let nsjiave more embargo next year and in
crease our exports by about $300,000,000.
Jow the gentle coal dealer with a full
stock in his yards usurps the mastery of tho
situation heretofore held by the lordly gas
company. With due apology to both classes,
we may remark that every dog has his day,
and the public's may come some time. .
TilE latest green goods establishment raid
revealed thousands of letters from suckers
all overthe country who were willing to Dite
at the hook in the hope that they could
make some money out of the swindle. Also
a lot of people up in Canada are mourning
the loss of their money by a sharper who
sold them bogus lottery tickets. One class
was desirous of making money by a pro
fessed swindle and criminal proceeding; the
others hoped to profit by winning money
without rendering any honest equivalent
for it. It is instructive to note that both of
them furnish meat for the professional
sharper.
The Miantonomoli will be put into com
mission in a few davs. It would be interest
ing if, atter all the experimenting in new
types of vessels, the old Monitor class should
be found to be the most effective coast de
fenders. Tiie more or less apocryphal hull against
the comet is matched by the petition sent
by citizens of this country to tho Czar ask
ing him to" stop the persecution of tho lie
brews. If the Czar is insensible to the con
siderations of civilization, it is not likely
that he will pay much attention to the
wishes of a lot of people on the other side of
tho gloDe to say nothing of the improbabil
ity that the petition will ever reach him.
If the modified weather of yesterday
presages an Indian summer of cool but
pleasant temperature and lasting well into
November, thoprevions eccentricities of the
fall weather may be forgiven and forgotten.
The perversity of that great but often
misgnided stream, the Mississippi, is mani
fested in its latest attack on the city of New
Orleans. A stream which makes up its
mind to sweep away any portion of New
Orleans onght not to miss tho opportunity
of doing the Hercules act with the Louisiana
lottery as the Augean stable. But with un
pardonable look of discrimination the river
fails to come anywhere near the lottery.
If Governor Hill does not get the dele
gation of tho Georgia Democrats, after that
speech on Henry AY. Grady, then oratory has
lost Its power and there Is no longer any
usufruct in it.
The death from hydrophobia of one per
son who was inoculated by Pasteur's treat
ment docs not by any means disprove the
value of that discovery. On the other hand,
tho fact that when the process has been in
use for years, and thousands of people have
been inoculated, one death is enough to
make a sensation, gives a pretty strong tes
timonial to the protective value of the plan.
Perhaps Livsey has gone to seek that
predecessor in disappearance. Marsh, of the
Keystone Bank. At least there seem to be
equal chances for finding them both at the
same time.
In Philadelphia an order has been issued
that traction conductors must not wear
shabby overcoats. Doubtless the conduc
tors will be very glad to wear fine coats
if tho company will furnish them. Or per
haps the construction of the order is that
when the overcoat gets shabby the conduc
tors must shiver without any.
Perhaps the State can stand a little anx
iety as to the Governor's appointments if
misconduct and favoritism in the manage
ment of the State funds are arrested.
Sin John E. Gorst reports the tendency
of rural laborers in England to be the same
as manifested in this country, namely, to
flock into tho cities. The difficulty seems to
be world-wide, but the way to check that
menace to the proper division of funda
mental labor has not yet been Jully discov
ered. Tun anxiety of the Republican Senators
to keep testimony out of the investigation is
explained when we are given a taste of what
some of the testimony is like.
While Mr. Bonner's views on the trot
ter are always interesting, his offer of $5,000
for the first record of 2.05 on' a regulation
course is not likely to hasten that achieve
ment very much. To the man who owns a
horse capable of that feat $5,000 will be no
special inducement-.
PERTINENT PERSONALITIES.
Shirley Dare says that fruit cake is
more nourishing than bread. Schoolgirls
will now rise and call her blessed.
Herman Oeldichs is growing a winter
crop of whiskers. He has purchased the.
residence of the late historian Bancroft at
Newpoft.
Mrs. PniLiP Beyer, of Minneapolis,
has sued her husband for meats furnished
him before they were married. She obtained
a Judgment.
Georoe Gould is arranging for private
hunting grounds where he can have his
game whenever he -wants it. He has re
stocked his Catskill range with deer and elk.
Ex-Governor "Bob" Taylor, of Ten
nessee, who fiddled his way into the Gov
ernor's chair, is to deliver a hundred lec
tures in Southern cities on "The Fiddle and
the Bow."
XlECTENANT FREMONT, IX. S. N., son of
the great pathfinder, and Lieutenant Law
rence, grandson of "Don't-give-up-the-ship"
Lawrence, took lunch together the other
day, according to New York correspondents.
U. S. Minister W. L. Scruggs, sta
tioned at Caracas, Venezeula, is enjoying a
vacation at his home in Georgia. There i3
not much work attached to his office, but it
is necessary to get away from Caracas once
in a while.
President Dwight, of Yale, while not
favoring the admission of women to study
in the classes with men, does wish Yale had
a woman's'annex, and the only objection he
finds to its establishment is that the Univer
sity hasn't the money to put into it.
Mrs. Charlotte "Emerson Brown, of
Orange, Piesident or tho Federation of
Woman's Clubs, is a daughter of Trof. Balph
Emerson. She is a handsome woman of flno
physique and an accomplished linguist,
speaking half a dozen languages fluently.
Better Employment for Workmen.
Toledo Commercial .
There is far better employment for work
ing people than there was 30 years ago.; that
is to say there is far more work to be done
by the same number of men, and the wages
are higher. The protective tariff was tho
chief element in producing this condition.
Twenty Tin Plants at Work.
Spokane Spokesman.
"There are at present over 20 concerns in
the United States either actively engaged in
the manufacture of American tin or putting
in plants for that purpose, yet the Demo
cratic, papers declare that thero is not
enough manufactured to make helmets at
Republican rallies.
Stepping Into Line.
Grand Rapids Herald.
Major -MeKinley's campaign in Ohio has
been unwontealy brilliant. The prospects
nro that he will carry the State by an over;
whelming majority and step Into line as a
Presidental candidate in 169.!.
CUBB AND CORRIDOR.
Soaking Pencils in Oil.
A now discovery has been made by rail
road clerks in Pittsburg, regarding the sav
ing of lead pencils. This will be a great
boon to those who are continually
using expletives nna borrowing pocket
knives on account of the frailty of good,
soft lead in a pencil. Everyone who has
much rapid writing to perform, prefers a
soft pencil, but nothing has cometopublio
light so far by which the lead can to an ex
tent be preserved. Tho P.,C.,C.&St.Ii. clerks
have brought about a new era in the pencil
business; also hnve they morally benefited
humanity, inasmuch as 'they decrease
violation of the Third Commandment.
The new idea to preserve a soft pencil is to
take a gross of the useful article andplaco
them in ajar of linseed oil. Allow them to
remain in soak until tho oil thoroughly per
moatcs every particle or the wood and load.
This has tlie effect of softening the mineral,
at tho name time making it tough and dura
ble. It has been found very nseful and sav
ing, an ordinary pencil being used twice as
long under tho new treatment.
Keep ts the Right.
A New Yorker joined the writer in a Jaunt
about town yesterday, and his observations
were many and interesting about Pittsburg
and its people. Among them was the habit
pedestrians have of crossing a Btreet. In
variably tho Pittsburger runs abreast some
other person on a street crossing for
reason that most of them never think of al
ways keoping to the right side. ' It is a
standard custom in New Tork that every
body shall take tho right crossing in order
not ro collide with ono coming from an op
posite direction. In a great measure in the
metropolis this rulo applies even to tho
sidewalk9. Up and down Broadway those
bent downtown keep on the west side, while
uptown-bound pedestrians aro almost dis
tinctively on the east side. Another in
stance of the same characterisa Pittsburger
entering a swinging door. The one who
enters on the left is almost sure to bang tho
door up against some unsuspecting person
coming out. The delay, a bruised nose and
'apologies all could be easily avoided if
everyone would simply coniorm to rne ruio
of alwaj s keoping to the right.
Digging Graves for Soldiers.
Tho Soldiers' Home at Dayton is one of"
the most interesting places in Ohio. From
a villaeo it has grown to be a city of 5.000
men. Going out one morning to the Homo
on tho poorly constructed electric road re
cently, a DisrATOi man met one of the pen
sion examiners- In speaking of the great
work performed by the Government in car
ing for tho aged veterans, he s-aid it was im
possible to keep out the dead beats. He
thought fnlly 1,000 or the men in the Dayton
refuge belonged to this class. During the
war they were no good on the battlefields;
they were tlie tired fellows always to bo
found at the rear.
Three men die every two days, and a
force is kept busy digging graves in antici
pation of deaths. An underground passage
way runs from the hospital to the grave
yard, and when a soldier breathes his last
the body is covered with thenar and loaded
on a track. A squad fires a salute, and the
cold clods of earth soon hide forever the
human dust. Last May the Government
ordered little white stones to maikeach
resting place. The cemetery is laid out in
rectangular form, and the hillside is cov
ered with tho long lines of marble. No
mound ig heaped up, but the grass is grow
ing green over the spots where many of tho
nation's heroes sleep. 'Little groups of men
were watchins some of their comrades dig-
Sing graves, and for aught they know the
oles were being prepared for them.
Dr. Negiey, a son of General Negley, is in
charge of the hospital, and is chief of the
physicians. Ho is very pOpnlar with the old
soldiers. Tlie doctor is well known in Pitts
burg, where ho was brought up.
From Poverty to Fame.
A street railway man who was at the con
vention last week related his experience of
rising from poverty to fame, and the only
other visit he had ever made in Pittsburg.
"I had been working as a clerk iu Chicago,"
he said, "and started for New York. When
I got to Pittsburg my money ran out.
I concluded to beat my way
over tho Pennsylvania Railroad, but
I did not take into consideration the strict
discipline that was then in force on' the
road. It was just after the Pennsylvania
Legislature had passed a law for the punish
ment of tramps and at the same time tho
railroad officials gave orders that no one
should bo allowed to ride on freight trains.
For some reason, the brakeman all thought I
was a spotter and would .Jiot listen to my
appeals. At Altoona I got dlsgnsted at
being kicked off the trains and concluded to
foot it the rest of tho way. Ittookme Just
23 days. I had to sweep the Trenton bridgo
to pay my toll and God only knows how I
got enough to eat. I go over tho road fre
quently now, but always in a palace car and
nothing gives me greater pleasure than to
look at tho old land marks."
LOST MS E0TAL BEAED.
Kaiseu William has shaved off his beard.
It probably came out thin on his royal chin.
Boston Sews.
Now that the German Emperor has settled
the whisker issue, what will he do with Bis
marck? Sew Orleans Sews.
The European war cloud is not more un
certain than Kaiser. Wilhelm's philosophical
conclusions as to the utility of beards.
Chicago Tines.
The Empress of Germany has, induced the
Emperor to shave off his beard." Mrs. Pcffer
should now have a confidential joint debato
with the Senator. Cleveland Leader.
It is rumoied in official circles that had
tho Emperor not shaved, there would have
been trouble of a serious character in the
Imperial household at Berlin. Whiskers
have never cut an extraordinary figure in
the diplomatio and imperial history of this
wolid, and the application of the razor to
the young Emperor's face has probably
taken them out of politics forever. Toledo
Blade.
The Emperor William, of Germany, has
shaved off his whiskers, it is said, in defer
ence to his wife's wishes, who from the very
day ho began to allow the stubby bristles on
his imperial cheek to stand, has been antag
onistic to hirsute appendages Woodstock
Sentinel.
TOPICS OP THE TIMES.
That very forcible campaign orator,
Money, is talking loudly for Flower at odds
of 10 to 4 or 5. Sew YbrkWorld. Monev, 'tis
said, makes the maro go. In this case it will
make the election go.
Otm pudgy and venerable relative, John
Bull, it seems, has "interests" in Chile also.
That is all right, John, but this country lias
a "principle" at stake. Chicago Tribune. In
this case the "principle" is larger than the
"Interest."
TnEr.E is a plant in Yucatan which cures
insanity. Thero is one in the United States,
known as the tin-plate plant, which causes
it. Chicago Times. It would be a good idea
if the free traders should import some of
the Y'ueatan plant to euro the insanity
caused by the other plant.
Protection has been tried for more than
25 years and during all that time tho labor
ers of free trade England havo been pouring
into this country by the thousands. If free
trade is so good, why do thov como. Grand
Rapids Telegram-Herald. Probably to escape
souioof the so-called benefits of the Camp
belt policy.
Those who put up their money on the 20,
000 majority some claim for McKinley aro
likely to find that betting is very demoraliz
ing to the pocket. St. Paul Globe. On the
contrary, they are more-likely to find that
it will have a moralizing effect on the Camp
bcllites. They won't De quite so ready next
time to bet against a sure thing.
IsirREssioM gained by the Chicago Tribune
in New York: "The impression was that Mr.
Blaino had unalterably formed the inten
tion of being the Eepublican nomluee for
Presidant in '92." Impressions will bworth
considerably more a week from to-morrow
night than they are to-day. Kansas City Star.
Yes. They will be changed to certainties.
Someeodv interrupted a speech by Jerry
Simpson in Ohio by suggesting a cheer for
John Sherman. Jerry crushed him instant
ly by retorting: "My friend, hurrahing for
Shorman will not put a pair of pantson your
back." Sebras7:a State Journal. No wonder
Western people are down on Jerry, i t that is
the way ho arranges their wearing apparel
for them.
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FEANCE'S HOPEFUL YEAB.
No Treaty Exists Between Leopold nd
Germany.
Boston Courier-Journal.
This is a hopeful year with France. Its
harvest has oecn good. Its people-havo con
fidence in the Government, there is no hos
tility betwoen employers and employes, its
financial- credit was never better, Bou
lnnglsm sleeps with Boulanger, and the Gov
ernment does not fear a war from any for
eign power. Denmark has taken its stand
with Russia. It stands guard on the llaltio
and over the Gulf o'f Finland. Belgium
takes pains, as it has not done for many
Years until nowv to claim its independence
or Germany, and its determination in the
event of a rupturo between Franco and
Germany to -main tan its neutrality.
Even the usually modest and retiring M.
Freycinet, the chief of the Ministry and
Minister of War, says: "I shall have some
thing to say myself nbout war" by -which
ho means, nbout keeping the peace. At the
late fetes of Marseilles the Eourgmestro of
Brnssells said: "Permit me to speak as a
friend to friends; that is to say with that
frankness. which friendship authorizes. It
hns pained us to see it reported in your press
that there was a secret treaty between tho
King Leopold and Gormanv. The truth is
that is a pure Invention. I am anthorized
to say no such treaty ever existed. Our
people love France, but wo shall never re
nounce that rule of neutrality which is the
sure guaranty of the independence of our
country."
BLAINE IS ON DECK.
Secretary Blaine has liad a good rest, and
is again at his regular job of making the
other fellows tired. Chicago TribXme.
Now that Blaino is back at his desk, the
Democratic correspondent will have him
dead about three times every ten days. To
ledo Blade.
The report that Mr. Blaine will spend the
winter down in Texas can probably be set
down as a yarn. There isn't a more delight
ful winter resort in this country than
Washington, D. C Boston Herald.
Majok MoKislet did not absolutely need
the help which Secretary Blaine's tribnte to
tho new tariff law furnishes him, but' he ob
tains it nevertheless, and it will add a few
hundred votes to his total. St. Louis Globe
Democrat. If Mr. Blaine was really "ghostly pale" on
caching Washington, there is nothing
strange about it. What the Harrison admin
istration has done in his absence is enough
to mako any sensible Eepublican ghastly
pale. St. Louis Republic.
Se'cbetaiiv Blaise is on deck in Washing
ton, and already humming the English ditty
made famous in Beaconsfield's time:
Wo do not want to fight, but by Jingo if
wo do,
Wo've got the men, we've got tho guns,'
we've got the money, too.
Boston Globe.
JAPAN IS FBIENDLY.
One ot Its Consul Generals Speaks in High
Praise of the Country.
San Francisco Chronicle.
Consul General Tokahira, who has just
been nppointed Japan's representative at.
New York.arrived on theOceanic.andwlllgo
at once to his post. Ho says: "I have always
admired the United States and the Amer
icans, and it gives me pleasure to be sent
here. I am quite familiar with the country,
fox In 1879 1 was sent to Washington as Sec
retary of the Legation. I remained there
until ISSt, and during thnt time traveled
much through various States. I come to the
country now without any special instruc
tions, and without even knowing how long I
am to remain. It seems to be the desire of
tho Japanese Government to keep on the
most friendly terms with the United State",
and therefore comparatively few changes
are made in the consular service. I may stay
three or four years, or even longer."
Consul Tokahira was for a long time
Charge d' Affaires in Corea, which. In tho
opinion of tho Japanese Government, is a
very Important office, ne was also Consul
at Shanghai, but returned from there to
Tokio a year ago last March. Consul Sutemi
Chimba, the representative of the Japanese
Government in San Francisco, was on hand
to greet hht friend Tokahira soon after the
latter's arrival at the hotel. Many, other
Japanese called during the day to pay their
respects to the Consul General and his wife'.
INCEEASED CUBAN TE&DE.
All
the Steamers Are Now Laden With
American Merchandise.
New York Tribune.
The reciprocity treaty with Spain has been
in operation only two months, and flour has
not yot been included in the reduced sched
ules: but there has been a large increase of
trade with Cuba. Every Ward steamer now
heading for the island is heavily laden with
carso, a marked increase ol the trade in
provisions having followed tlie negotiation
of the agreement. It has even been neces
sary to charter extra steamers in order to
carry the outgoing freight. When the flour
reductions go info effect, the resources of
the company's fleet will be heavily taxed to
meet the requirements of the trade.
This evidence proves how useful the re
ciprocity policy is in enlarging foreign mar
kets for American exports. So far as Cuba
is concerned, the benefits are even greater
than to American interests. Not only will
the cost of living bo diminished in the
island, and flour brought within the reach
of large classes who havo not becnnbleto
buy it, but the industries will be developed
by large investments of American capital.
An immense quantity of improved sugar-
glant is now going to Cuba from the United
tates, and the product of cane sugar will De
increased one-half in the course of a few
years.
CHAT ABOUT THE STAGE.
The Pitou Stock Company will give ns two
new plays next week, at tho Duquesne
Theate-, namely "A Modern Matph" by
Clyde Fitch, the young man who battled
with Bichard Mansfield for, tho authorship of
"Beau Brummel," and "Geoffrey Middleton,
Gentlemanrtby Martha Morton tho author
of "The 3Ierchant" which Pittsburg enjoyed
a few weeks ago. The company which Mr.
Pitou has gathered together is apparently
of remarkable strength, and is fairly com
parable to that A. M. Palmer sent
here last season, in which wero Messrs.
Stoddard, Holland and some others of even
excellence. It is a fact that the press in
other cities has praised Mr. Pi ton's players
and the plays in very warm terms, and the
best critic in New York, Mr. Meltzar, de
voted a pas of the Now York Herald to an
illustrated criticism of;"Geoffrey Middleton"
last Sunday, in.which there was much com
mendation. Tiiebe are lots or now things in "Superba,"
which the Grand Opera House will offer
next week, so it is promised. The Hanlon
Brothers have contrived new "tricks and
scenic effects, among which is a new trans
formation scene by Hoyt, whose scenery in
connection with the Casino Opera Company
has been greatly admired here. ThcIIanlons
promise "Superba" shall be practically a
new show, and they keep their promises.
A good sensational melodrama has a vory
long life, and "Aftor Dark," which comes to
the Bijou next week, is a fair example, both
as to merits and longevity. All the scenic
effects and sensational features of the play
are to bo strongly brought out, JIanager W.
A Brady promises, and in the London Music
Hall sceno Jim Corbctt, tho Iiandsomo Cali
fornia pugljist, will spar four rounds with
Jim Daly of Philadelphia. '
Axothkb farce comedy from John J. Mc
Nally. the author of that classical mosaic "A
Straight Tip," will plead for laughter at the
Alvin next wcok. The new farce is called
"Boys and Girls," and such clover people as
the Irwin sisters, who assisted in the suc
cess of "The City Directory" last season;
George Marion, Tgnatio Martlnsttinnd Wood
and' Shepperd are in the cast. Kicli and
Harris are the managers. ,
The management of the World's. Museum,
in Allegheny promises another series of in
teicstlng novelties next week. At eacli per
formance of "Uncle Tom's Cabin'.' this week
tlie crowds have been as largo ns Manager
Kcenan cared to handle, and. he says next
week's attractions will equally as good.
A man who allows anyono to hammer Ills
head with sledge-hammers, 200-pound rocks
and inch planks will bo ono of the features
nt Harry DavlsrFifth Avenue Museum next
week. He is known as "The Man with the
Iron Skull."
ABOUT THE CHRYSANTHEMUM.
How Gardeners nave Developed Tills Much
Prized Flower Tho Show NextTnesday
.Expected to be a Great Success Points
About the Flower,
interest is increasing in the chrysanthe
mum with tho approachof the flower show.
It is always a flower worth studying, but ad
ditionally so since we expect soon to see
somo or its choicest varieties. Possibly
Superintendent Hamilton, or the Allegheny
Parks, knows as much as any man about the
chrysanthemum. The credit belongs to him
or having brought into the world somo of
the rarest of seedlings several
ofhis particular pets will be displayed at
tho auditorium on Tuesday next.
Going up the Kivcrof Time to its source,
you find the comnosite order to which the
chrysanthcmam.'the dahlia and the rose
belong, simplified and quite unlike what it
nowi. Tho little cup-shaped roe of tho
field was not unlike the rose or Eden. If
Adam bethought hlnr-elf to pluck a bouquet
of chrysanthemums for Eve of a morning, it
was a very different flower he presented her
with to what it now is. It was not unliko
the sunflower, with its yellow disk and
singlo.row or petals which used to do serv
ice as food for chickens before Oscar Wilde
discovered its' merit as a parlor ornament.
Liked by the Japanese.
Adam and tho chrysanthemum, however,
parted so early in their acquaintance that
he must have left it much as ho found it.
Thus the Japanese, with that peculiar sense
of the beautiful which is as much a part of
them as their appetite for rice, took a liking
to it. Long ago. nobody knows how long,
thevmade the chrysanthemum the national
buttonhole bouquet'. WJien we -English
speaking people saw this queen of the gar
den wc fell in love with her, and carried her
across tho ocean. To-day the captive
pervades the land. As its gardener
Mr. Hamilton knows something of its
beauties, frailties ana coyness. Since,
through propagation and cultivation, it has
taken to wearing more petals tho number
of seeds it produces is lessening. Something
like a woman .who. ns she grows fonder of
dres loses the little brains with which she
started in this world. The chrysanthemum
grows bigger and bigger, its colors, their
shades and gradations ol shades the more
numerous until finally it is barely possible
to obtain a single seed. Cutting.or rootlings
aro its only salvation, else it dies off the face
of the earth.
It seems likely, too, that the chrysanthe
mum must be under the ban of original sin,
for it displays a tendency to go in
the broad way. Mr. Hamilton says that if
you make a bed of the double and
semi-double flower and leavo them to
their owii sweet wills, somo bright morning
you will find a very insignificant flower in
their place.
'Preyed Upon by a Fly.
These mav be tho fittest to survive, but It
is not the survival of the fittest. A large fly,
that looks like a bee. Is a sort of a hanger-on
or poor relation to tho chrysanthemum;
what Jnlien Gordon, when she finds a simi
lar case in the human, race, facetionsly terms
"The little brothor of the rich." This fellow
gives the gardener any amount of 'trouble,
and is voted abovo aqcordingly. He files
hither and thithor among the chrysan
themums wh en they are in bloom a poor re
lation never bothers you unless you are
flush.
He sips sweetnesses everywhere, until his
little stomach 's full of honey and his face
covered with pollen. Nobody would mind
him taking the honey if he would let the
pollen alone. But ho mixes tho pollen here
and there, detrovs the varieties so that the
mother chrysanthemum couldn't swear to
her own offspring. Tho gardener has to tie
up his pet seedlings in gauze and the fly
either goes touts garret and starves or else
hunts employment elsewhere.
A Great Show Expected.
It is needless to say that the chrysanthe
mum show which opens in the Auditorium
on Penn avenue on Tuesday, Novem
ber 10, and continues until Thursday,
November 12, will bo largely attended.
The regulation prizes for fine flowers
aro numerous and will appear in the cata
logue issued on tbe opening ay. But in ad
dition a number of prominent people and
firms are offering splendid prizes, which
will be eagerly competedTor by the various
exhibitors.
At a committee meetingyesterday evening
in N. Patterson's on Sixth avenrfo. the com
plete list of extra prizes was arranged. Some
of the contributors to the prize list selected
tno nature of the competition, while others
were satisfied to put the matter in the hands
of the committee. Tho complete list of
prizes is as follows:
First day E. P. Koberts. handsome vase
for tho best lrandled basket of chrysanthe
innms;W. W. Wattles, vase for best display
of orchids in bloom: Joseph Hornefc Co., $25
for most artistic dlspla' of cut orchids; Paul
H? Hacke. handbme vase for best
nrranged flat oval' Basket of flowers.
MK Ifacke's present will be "one
of tho most beautiful, as the vase is a rare
one pickfd up during his European travels.
Miss Mary Mon tooth will give $10 for tbe
prettiest Boxof flou'er".
Second day John DImling, $100 for dining
room decoration, which will continue
through the third day; Hardy J. nays, hand
some vase for most beautiful arrangement of
vase of long-stemmed yellow chrysan-T
themums: Eic-iDaum, set ot account dooks
for vase of chrysanthemums of three Tjorie
ties. Third day A number of Lawrencevllle
people will give a "Lawren'ceville Cup,"
madefoT silver and valued at $50, for the
best bridal sct.conslsting of bride's bouquet,
twobridemaids' bouquets, boutonnlere for
bildeand two boutonnlere for groomsmen.
George W. BIzgs, vase for handsomely ar
ranged vase of long-stemmed roses: Ley and
Geiselhure, $20 in money for handso-nest
wreath; John Sauer, $25 for flat oval basket
of chrysanthemums.
On the committee are these men: A. W.
Smith, chairman, B. L. Elliott, K. C. Patter
son, J. B. Murdoch. James Dell, John Her
ron, Julius Ludwig, John Baden, N. Pat
terson. Social Chatter.
Saturtjay there will be a Convention of
Children s and Young People's Missionary
Bands of the different Presbyterian
Churches in Allegheny county at the Wil
kinsburg' Presbyterian Church. . This Is a
similar meeting to the oneheld in Dr.
Kumler's church last year, at which 800
children wero present. The programme is
an interestinir one. The morning session
will begin at 10 o'clock, and after luncheon,
which will be served free in the church,
convene again at 2 o'clock. The Dnqnesne
traction cars, now running to Wilkinsburg,
go within a short distance of tho church,
transferring people at East Liberty for town
upon their return.,
To-night the Women's Relief Corps No. CO
will irive an entertainment in Emory M. E.
Church, tho monev from which will be de
voted to Post 117, G. A. R.,or which the corps
Is nuxiliarv. The Kev. C. V. Wilson wdl
mako an interesting address, Simeon Bissell.
and several pupils contribute musical selec
tions, and the Ferchmont Camp, Sons of
Veterans, act as ushers. The evening will
be an enjoyable one.
A srECiAL from McKeesport announces
the marriage yesterday or Miss Ireno O.
Scott, daughter or John W. Scott, to J.
Miller Eemaley, or Allegheny City. The
ceretuonv was performed by the Kev. C. A.
Hare, after which Mr. and Mrs. Bemaley left
forrBellaire. Jersey City will bo their place
of residence.
Ameetixo 'of nil the delegates from tho
city churches, in connection with "Pitts
burg Day" at tho coming S. S. Hospital
benefit is called for to-day at 2 o'clock, in
tho Second Presbyterian Church. The
Chairman earnestly rcqnests a goodreprc
ssntation to be present.
Miss Emma A. McKee. a sister of H. Sellers
McKec, retnrnod yesterday from a five
months' tour of England and the Continent.
Miss McKee brought back many beautiful
presents and toKeus of esteem to her host of
near Mends and relatives.
The Women's Guild, or Trinity Church,
was busv selling cakes and fancy work in
the Guild room yesterday. Everyone was
busy as bees, and a good business was done.
The East Liberty branch of the Youns
Men's Christian Association 'will give its
first entertainment to-morrow evening in its
rooms, corner Penn and Center avenues.
Arriving at Wisdom.
Chicago Times.
It is a matter of interest that the opening
to settlement of somo lands in Wisconsin
has not brought a horde of hungry boomers
to that State. Generally tho settlement of a
tract of Government real estate takes on tho
lively features of a fire panic or a free flgbt.
All have a right to some of the property,
and all.who aro strong in nerve and shot
guns get it. The others have to be contented
with having1 had the right to have it. Those
who do secure the free land then sit up
nights thinklng'how theyaregoingtoget rid
of it. This has been the story of most land
openings. Perhaps Wisconsin has escaped
a booming crus-ido because peoploare ar
riving at wisdom through the dark and
gloomy byways of experience.
Chile Should tteiiave Better.
St. Loub Globe-Democrat.
The best thing that Chile can do is to so
conduct herself tuat the United States shall
not be obliged teach her a lesson in civility
and propriety.
CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS.;:.
Baccarat is said to have gained a hold
on Topeka's population.
It is reported that a Chicago man in
tends to start an elephant farm in Southern
California.
Burlington, Konu ha3 'a bank whose
stockholders are all farmers livingupon and
operating their farms.
In Venezuela fireworks are never ex
plodnd at night. Sky rockets and roman '
candles are sent skyward in broad day light.
It is estimated that-12,000 quail have
been killed in Mexico and marketed in tha
United States sinco the season opened, Octo
ber L
A grilled chop, grilled tomatoes and a
pint bottle or ale is an Englishman's lunch.
This is taken about 1 o'olock, and costs 2and
6 and a tip for the waiter of 3 pence.
The wear upon the Cape Cod coast is
shown to be at the rate of 753,756 cubic yards
per year, or an annual wear of tho coast
equal to a distance of about eight feet.
In Poland some of ..the customs are
peculiar. One of the said customs is to drop
in upon your friends and crawl into the bed
tbat has the greatest capacity at bed time.
A recent eruption on the sun's face was
photogranhed and lasted for fully 15 minutes.
Its angular height showed it to' bo a dis
turbance causing the vapors to ascend fully
80,000 miles.
The record-breaking quality of tha
drouth may be inferred from the fact that an
island, which hadn't been seen before since
I8G1, has lecently appeared lnLakeWasso
keag in Dexter.
There are records of elephants that have
lived for 200 years, and an ago of 150 years U
not regarded as so very old for an elephant.
It takes about a quarter of a century to get
the elephant to full maturity.
. The Chinese have a superstition that if
they release a bird or a beast in captivity
they draw down a blessing upontthemselves.
The other day one of them bought three
turtles at Portland, Ore., and threw them in
to the ocean.
A curious artifice of warwas adopted by
a Chinese jnnlcwjien attacked by a man-of-war.
Tho crew threw cocoanuts overboard
into the sea, and then jumped in among
them. Nearly all escaped, for it was im
possible to tell which wero heads and which
were nuts. '
A very superior quality of brick is now
manufactured from the waste sand, em
ployed at the factories in grinding and polish
ing glass, which necessarily accumulates in
such large quantities. .The bricks thus pro
duced have a specific gravity of only L5 and
are perfectly white
A rainbow kat night is something new,
but that is what Dr. Conger and family, of
Pasadena, saw tbe other night. Off toward
the mountains a distinct semi-circle was out
lined aaainst a heavy bank of fog, being al
together like the regulation rainbow, except
that it was colorless.
The superstition of sailors that ecclesi
astical associations bring bad. Inck to tbe
ship will be strengthened by the recent ex
plosion of the steamship Evangel's boiler on
Pugct Sound, by which three men were
killed outright and five others badly hurt.
The Evangel had been a gospel ship, and
was built by small subscriptions from a
great number of churches.
While ascending Pike's Peak by the
new rack railway, abont one person in 200
is affected by the rarity of the air at the high"
altitude. Tbe Indications of distress are
itching and redness of the nose and then
blackness nnder the eyes. A woman who
was dying apparently on a trip recently was
sent back on the locomotive to the foot of
the mountain, where she recovered. Tho
summit is 14,400 feet above the level of tho
sea.
The degree of delicacy which has been
attained in the application of the radio
micrometer for the measurement of radiant
heat viz. from the candle, a. fire, the sun.
tbe moon, the stars, or anything else which
radiates heat in space Is pronounced
marvelous by scientists, a single illustration
of this power being afforded by the fact that
a really appreciable effect is produced on
tbat instrument by a candle placed two miles
away.
There was recently taken from a smalt
creek near Stringtown, I. T., a genuine curi
osity in the shape of a petrified horse, which
had, beyond doubt, been lying in the bed of
the stream for many years. The creek,
which is known as Mason's Ford, has been
dwindling away for some time, owing to tjio
failure of the springs by which it is fed, and
is noWbut a shallow rivulet", and aTiumber
of Indian relics, human bones, etc., have
been taken from its bed.
In some parts of the Colorado desert
.water boils up from springs, which are sur
rounded by circular hillocks of carbonate of
lime from fonr to eight feet in height, the
material of which has been deposited from
the flowing fluid. The latter is so highly
charged with eas that it is difficult to keep
corks in bottles filled with it. It seems
queer to find in such a desolate country real
soda water fountains supplied by nature.
Syrups are not offered to order, unfortu
nately. A comAission of gipsy moth extermin
ators, acting at the expense of Massachu
setts, under legislative authority, has been
at work in the vicinity of Boston. The State
has already spent $100,000 in its war upon
this insect pest, -which in more than o'ue
suburb has stripped the trees entirely of
foliage. The ravages wore worse in Middle
sex county than anywhere else, and billions
of eggs wero thero destroved. Indeed, tho
nuisance has become so offensive that ty
fire department was frequently called our.
wash moths off the trees and afterwai.
crush them with rollers. This winter tht
superintendent of annihilation will keer5D
men employed at marking trees wfth "tho
fatal white circle. Twenty-ono years ago
the gipsy moth was unknown in Massachu
setts. About that time a. French professor,
who brought some eggs over for a natural
history collection, allowed them, it is said to
blow ont of a window. Hence all tha
trouble.
SEASONABLE SMILES.
Waiter Help! help! ,
Proprietor What's the matter!
"That guest over there went Into a regular nt
when I gave him a glass of water, and I'm sore he's
got hydrophobia. ' '
"Hydrophobia nothing! He's a Kent'ickian."
Boston Jfews.
Mother Xow, Johnny, yon must try to
be a better boy. Of course, neither yonr father
nor myself expect you to be an angel In this world,
bat we want you so to lire while here that you
may become one in the next.
Johnny I know why dad wants me to be an angel
because it'll De saving on clothes. Boston Courier,
And now the sad-eyed married man
' Doeth mount the hash mill stool
And call for tripe, likewise, "ham ana'.'
His wife's at cooking school.
Minneapolis TrVmnu.
"Look here," said the indignant passer
by, "you haven't any sign npto let people know
tnat this is fresh paint.'
"No," was the nonclialaut reply.
"Why Haven't yon?''
"Because it don't make any difference to ns
whether people carry It off on tbclr clothes or oa
their hands. "Washington Star.
I well can bear these chilling breezes
Tbat antum brings, and sudden freezes.
The heaped up coal bin I can stand;
My temper even I command
When from the house and round about '
The smoking furnace drives me out:
But -when to a saloon I go
One sentence chocks me full ofwoe:
I aslc for something warm and wet
"Wehaven'tonrhotwateryet." " -
-Xtw Tork Herald ,l
Old "War Horse (looking along the half
moonlit piazza of the summer hotel) HumpMhlj
reminds me of Shlloh.
His Companion-How is that? --
Old War Horse The engagement seems to. be
general all along the line. Los Ratus Xncs. . 5
Mrs. Bold My husband is very jealous.
I can't look at another man without making him
very angry. How can 1 cure him? ,
3Irs. Sharp Stop looking at other men. Brook
lln Citizen.
"Comrades! Comrades!"--he sang in the
eventide.
The lights were low-I dealt him a blow, -
And "he died right by my side."
--Pick.
Miss Oldun Will 100O or 1901 -be consid
ered as the first Tear of tintwentieth century? p
Miss Sharpe I reaUy don't know, bat-perhaps
you can tell me how tlie beginning, of the nine
teenth century was reckoned. Sua Jot Times. ." ,
Makes All the Difference Barkeeper (to
Seedy Stranger) Say, get awiy from there'will
you? Yoacan't make a dinner on the lunch. -
Stranger (dcprecatingly) f am not eating any (
more than the others, sir.
Barkeeper (decisively) Bat you eat as If jotl
were hungry. Smith, (fray 6 Co.' XmtMgtfr