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There the policy of pro tection for home industries, which in these days is the distinctive Republican policy, is directly confronted by the policy of experimenting with theories at the ex pense of the business of th country. Beginning with tariff for revenue only and looking ultimately to free trade, the Democrats have flatly challenged judg ment upon that position and upon free coinace of silver also, despite the cer tainty of derangement of valuer The Dispatch believes the Democrats will be beaten: and it hopes the majority will be large enough to cure them effectually of their habit of running off after the false piophet of finance and the mere theorists of political economy. In Pennsylvania the representatives of the Republican party in State offices that is to say, specifically, Auditor General Mc Camant, Treasurer Boyer, ex-Cashier Liv sey and the Senate, which has audaciously attempted to whitewash these officials have furnished grounds which, were it not for the coming Presidental election, would be esteemed ample to justify even a sharper lesson than was administered to the party management in the ignominious defeat of Delamater last fall. The willful violation of the laws governing the treas ury, through which the Statj has losl large sums, might have been set simply to the account of individuals had not the Senate first virtually exonerated the offenders by a whitewashing report and then practically evaded their trial. Thus is the responsi bility for the business thrown upon the party. The general belief in the personal honesty o." Gregg and Morrison, and the indisposition to give the Democrats any encouragement in Pennsylvania that they miclit iue in the Presidental canvass, will probably prevent the full operation of rubhc judsment upon the attitude of the Senate toward the derelict State officials. But the vote mav nevertheless be made a close one by the course of the party man agers. Such is what may be called the local outlook. Of all the elections on Tuesday that of Ohio will be the most interesting, and Pennsylvaniansare as much concerned about it as they are in the contest in their own State. THE OKTHSIDE SCAADAL. The previous exposures and charges of corruption in the Allegheny City govern ment were cast in the shade yesterday by the report of the Auditing Committee on the Mayor's office. This report consti tutes a prima facie charge against two of the Mayors which closely approximates the line of breach of trust, and if made good certainly shows public dishonesty in that office. Besides the facts brought out in the offi cial report the street and newspaper talk includes assertions of practices even more serious. These can hardly be treated as having any foundation until backed up by evidence. But what is disclosed in the report is serious enough to call for de cisive action. Mayors who levy excessive fees and fail to account for them are not the proper executives for an enlightened city. If the assertions of the published report are true there is a crying need for a thorough cleaning out of that city's government and the introduction of a new element in its politics. These charges should be unsparingly investigated, and wherever misconduct is shown the penalties should be applied. The time is past when the public can. af ford to palter with official irregularities or corruption of any kind. THE BUFFALO'S EXIT. The fashion of lamenting the disappear ance of the buffalo from the Western plains moves an exchange, in commenting on the fact that a breeder of them in Ne braska has shipped a number to England, to say: "It is a stinging reflection that there are nearly as many live buffaloes in Great Britain to-day as in their home on the American continent" This is the stereotyped tone of comment on the extinction of the buffalo. But there is reason for the inquiry whether the fashion of talking of it as a public loss and a national offense is not over-done. The buffaio was an interesting and picturesque animal; the indiscriminate slaughter which whitened the plains with the bones of the great herds was wasteful and wanton; but his disappearance fyefore the advance of civilization was only a question of time, and when we reflect on what has taken place there docs not seem to be good rea son for all. these lamentations. The buffalo was, except as game, about I the most useless.of bovine animals. His meat was tough, his temper intractablo,and nis nide was about the only available part of him. His wlldness made him desert all his haunts at the first sign of settlement; and if the plains where he once roamed were to afford homes for civilized people his disappearance was inevitable. No sensible man will seriously maintain that the vast country west of the Missouri should have been kept away from cultiva tion in order that a unique class of wild ox could be preserved for the "occasional sport of the wealthy.- Tet that is the only alternative to the disappearance of the buffalo. It is well to preserve occasional specimens of the animal, as in the Yellow stone Park or in England; but the fact that the great herds have given place to other great herds of valuable beef cattle Is not a change that this country need be ashamed of. "We. do not raise an outcry because the prairie weeds are supplanted by fields of grain,, or scrub oaks give place to orchards and vineyards. There is no more reason for bewailing the fact that the picturesque but useless buffalo has been replaced by herds and farms which furnish food to millions in both the New and Old "Worlds. THE EOC I. JUDICIAL CONTEST. The revolt of the straightouts both Re publican and Democratic, against the local leaders of their parties, has been the soli tary, but rather interesting, feature of politics In Allegheny county this year. What 011 the horizon of local leadership was at first a cloud no bigger thanaman's hand, suddenly, under an impulse from political workers as skilled almost as the leaders themselves, developed into a squall of con siderable proportions. As an assertion of the rights which partisan constituencies claim by usage from the executive bodies they elect to run their organizations, the "straightout" movement has been some what vigorous. It now remains to inquire in how far, if at all, it has endangered the success of Judges McCIung, Porter and Kennedy, the Governor's appointees. It will" probably be found that the acri mony of the canvass, the bitter fighting in certain quarters over it, very much ex ceeds in proportion the voting powers of the "straightouts" as against the two party organizations. The large class of people who look upon the judicial office as properly non-partisan, and who do not care a fig either for the regulars or the straightouts in relation thereto, maybe counted on to follow the principle of voting for the sitting judges so long as no question has been made of their integrity or capacity. The significance of the "straightout" success in producing such a lively stir consists chiefly in indicating how quickly one set of skilled political workers can make the situation interesting for an other set. It may lead to further organi zation among the straightouts, and to future battles for control in the councils of the parties, but it is not at all likely to unseat any of the judges who are now in commission in Common Pleas No. 3. TENNESSEE'S MININQ TVAK. The outbreak of what closely approxi mates civU war at the Tennessee mining camps is an example of what a stupid and archais policy of legislation on one side and the BpiriVof lawlessness on the other may produce. The Tennessea . ffair -JU- fori frATt q lilftr' wato lit tW mririri ,o-i,- 7u I .". .w.j . . AOi ' ill buab vuio nan a luupuioij uuv- break of popular passion, while the action of the Tennessee miners is In pursuance of a deliberate and even preannounced policy. When an army of discontented miners, after one previous demonstration and sev eral declarations that if what they regard as justice to them is not done, they will use force, attack the prison camps of the State, overpower the. guards and set the convicts free, it cannot be regarded as anything less than a declaration of a pro vincial war on the authority of the law. In an ordinary locality an outbreak on that scale would be less serious; but forti fied, as these miners are in their mount ains, their rebellion cannot be overcome without great expenditure and a serious .loss of life. The quarrel, as already said, is due to obsolete legislation on one side and law lessness on the other. Certainly the miners have much to complain of. The use of convicts for mining is a sqmi-civi-lized policy, and the wages of miners are nowhere so high that the State can with justice depress them by introducing con vict labor. But that does not justify the miners in armed insurrection. Indeed the outbreak makes the proper redress of their grievances the more difficult When they proclaim by their acts that force is superior to the law they simply invoke the use of a superior force against them until they are reduced to obedience. The task of making her laws effective, and also of making them just rests on the State of Tennessee. If she cannot develop her mining interests without civil war she will be better off to leave the mines de--serted and idle. A QUESTION OF TASTE. "There is no doubt of it," remarks the New York Evening Sun, "the dissemina tion of news has deadened "curiosity and its destiuction must be a matter only of time." This idea is supported by the assertion that "not one reader of the cable news out of a hundred would give two cents for tho details of the recent de structive storms." After, this conclusion is leaped to.that the time will come when, "weaned from occurrences that do not really concern it, the public mind will re ject news," and demand for its regular pabulum "good, nourishing theory." This will be a comfortable thought for the many critics of newspaper work who have so freely pointed out the fault of modern journalism to be the constant pre sentation of vast accretions of undigested facts with a very slight proportion of thought But whatever comfort they get will be derived from an assertion which is wholly dogmatic It is just as easy to say that not one reader in a hundred would give two cents for any theories that might be deemed worthy of publication; and the assertion would probably have a larger amount of truth. There is no other test as to what the public prefers than the character of the matter furnished by publications that at tain the widest circulation. And it is a well-known fact that the greatest news papers attain their success by the quality and quantity of the news they furnish. The tendency for the past fifty years has been the exact opposite of that indicated by our cotemporary. Formerly the papers gave up the greater portion of their space to opinions, with meager summaries of current events. Now they give pages to news, but only a comparatively small por tion of, their space to theoretical discus sion. But has the tendency changed? Cer tainly it would take a very acute eye to perceive any signs of such a reversal of public taste. We have been unable to notice that the esteemed Evening dun has at all abandoned its practice of furnishing as much news as is possible within the space of abright little paper .that is sold for the ridiculously small consideration of a cent 3T.VTAX IDEAS OF EBESTIGE. The telegraphic columns of The Dis patch, yesterday, quoted a prominent naval officer as saying that the present situation proves the wisdom of Washing ton's maxim, "In time of leace prepare for war," and not only justifies the work which has been done in building a navy, but proves that a good deal more onght to have been done to enable the Government to meet the present crisis properly. Standing by itself this proposition Is unexceptionable, except for the literary doubt as td crediting Washington with the authorship of a maxim which was simply a translation of the classic "in pace, para bellum." The Dispatch has steadily, advocated the policy of naval construc tion. But two or three other deliverances of naval officers which come in connec tion with that just cited are sufficient to provoke the expression of a doubt whether we will be the better off for a navy if the spirit Is to rule it which is expressed in those remarks. One naval officer is quoted as saying that he would welcome hostilities "for the good and wholesome effect it would have npon the world at large." He carries this idea of waging war for effect to the ex traordinary length of saying that "even if Chile is "small and weak, the spectacle of whipping her would produce for us an ex cellent prestige abroad." Another ex presses the same notion of naval prestige, which is simply a magnified copy of the schoolboy bully's theory on the same sub jebt, by declaring "I should like to see an affair with Chile; not only for professional reasons, but also because I think that the time has come for this country to admin ister a lesson to someone." If our naval rehabilitation is to embark us on the policy suggested by these utter ances, it is time to remark emphatically that it would be more for the credit and prosperity of the nation to have gone without a navy. It is hard to imagine any thing more repugnant to the spirit of ad vanced civilization, and the theories of popular self-government exemplified by this republic, than the spectacle of a great nation seeking to establish its prestige by whipping a small and weak one, or its navy, cruising around to pick quarrels for the professional advancement of its offi cers, and embarking in, a quarrel destruct ive to its commerce for the sake of admin istering "a lesson to some one." The navy should be used wisely and dis creetly to protect American citizens and uphold American interests. But naval of ficers should be sharply given to under stand that the United States Is not to lightly ruin its South American relations by plunging into war to give them promo tion or to secure them the glory of defeat ing "a small and weak nation." On FOB FTJFX. The possibilities of the use of crude petroleum as a fuel are encouragingly illustrated by the news in our columns to-day with regard to the visit of the chief engineer of the Inman steamship line and the probability that Lima oil will at an early date be adopted as fuel for vessels of that company. This will be a convincing demonstration f the avnilabilitf of oil for fuel. The demonstration already exists sufficiently " . " to conTmce the mlndof an expert, like the official whose visit is reported in the artleit? referred tc. The only practical doubt that has existed for some time was whether a supply could be guaranteed at a price that would make it a more econom ical fuel than coal. The immense develop ments of the McDonald gushers have shown" that the Pennsylvania field will furnish all the oil needed for illuminating purposes, and the1 Lima oil is therefore relegated to constant use as a cheap. and convenient fueL The local bearing of this matter is more important than may at first seem. If Lima oil is an economical fuel when piped p"ast Pittsburg and the Pennsylvania coal fields to the seaboard, by how much more must it be an economical fuel at Pitts burg with the cost of extra pipeage saved. Here we have In addition to the other means of furnishing our manufacturers with cheap and convenient fuel, a great staple that can be brought into the mills and used there without any of the soot, smoke and inconveniences of coaL It will be prosperity to the oil interests to have the cheaper crude used as fuel on steamers as well as in mills", and it will be no less advantageous to Pittsburg to have it used in our mills before it is used in the steamers, unless a cheaper gas fuel is speedily discovered. The appearance of the New York Ftet's political directory, which generally sums up the character and connections of State and county candidates in a highly fastidious manner, reveals the fact that the candidates this year come off better from the .Pod' scrutiny than is usually the case. This per mits the question whether that highly oriti caljournal is more tolerant this year, or whether the tickets on both sides being no toriously named by the bosses, the stormy political outlook is to be credited with hav ing frightened the managers into putting up good men. That story told from Texas the other day about a crowd burning a negro at the stake is pronounced a fabrication by an ex change on its Internal evidence. 2et us hope so; but as the treatment of negroes by Southern mobs lias always proceeded moro or less on tlie principles of barbarism, it is to be fearod that there is a possibility of even that last degree of savagery. It is interesting to observe that the theory of Dr. Keeley, the bl-chlorlde of gold reformer of hopeless drunka'rds, that light wines and beer diminish tho oraving for spirits, meets wttu tne enthusiastic ap proval of numerous esteemed cotemporar ies. These organs of public opinion advise people to at once take to drinking claret. In view of the fact that a day's wages of the ordinary man will about pay for the bottle of claret that is thus shown to be necessary, it is to be presumed that the latoring masses will have to keep on craving. The legal technicality is making itself felt at present. It has thrown out the Til dsn will and brought the Andover heresy hunters to a dead halt. Wo might add that it has permitted the dodging of the investi gation in this State, except that to call the pretext on which' the evasion is mado a legal technicality As a libel on the techni calities. The New York Advertiser refers to a "deal between Minister Zgan, .Dictator Balmac eda, Charles K. Flint and some big men in administration circles in Washington," which it alleges will make a stir when pub lished. But if our cotemporary nas any au thentic information of such a deal wily not publish it now in order that the people may comprehend the real bearings of the Chilean business! If it has no such information slurs of this sort are weak. Either take the lid off boldly or leave it alone. f To ordinary persons the gift of a tomb would not appear to bo a specially appropri ate tribute of good wishes and esteem; but Walt Whitman, who has Just received a present of that sort, is stated to be very much pleased about it. No one, however, "has yet alleged that the good gray poet is in a hurry to utilize the gift. Information comes from the Kepub- llcan organs iirSew York that Mr. Depew the greatest orator in America. This is hardly possible, the fact being that Mr. Depew's oratory la too vast and expansive. Just at present some of tbe otatorioal poroses by vhioh he pictured the political fate of any man who should hamper New York's effort to get the World's Fair, are re turning to plague him In his effort to prore that it Is a matter of no cooeequenea what ever. The cable report that a clown' in a traveling circus in Germany bad shot and killed in the ring his -srife, -who was a popu lar rider, attributes the act to jealousy. It may have been an excessively energetic at tempt to introduce something new in the line of the clown's jokos. Now it appears that the Hon. John IV. Sullivan did not have to swim home from Australia, but was able to negotlato a loan sufficient to pay his p&ssase and Is now In the land of tho free. The Hon. John L. is re joiced to get back to this country, where he can slug waiters and railroad porters, carouse without limit, and accept the shekels of the public whenever it pleases him to drop tho more Jovial occupations long enough to rake in the money. Why indulge in the expense and vexation of a libel suit, when tno National Republican Committee will in a couple of months more assemble and bo rendy to furnish another vlndicationT It is a subject of regret to sensible and orderly people that the final outcome of the contest in which Mrs. Paxton. the Mayoress of Kiowa, Kan., was engaged has beon her resignation. That female functionary was an energetic woman who started on the principle that whisky should not rule her town. It is not pleasant to reflect that she overestimated the strength of tho law or un derestimated the strength of whisky as a ruling force. LEADERS IN THE EACE. PhiIi Armour takes a great deal of pleasure in playing bean bag with his babies. General Butler will not vote this year. He failod to register in time, and now says he don't care to vote this time. The Nizam of Hyderabad spends 510, 000,000 a year. The fact that he has 600 wives accounts for his extravagance. Jl on cube Conway says Mme. Blavatsky told him that her occultism was all glamour. That is what most people supposed it was. General Grubb's valet is named Hugg. It is supposed that the General will not leave his valet at homo on life forthcoming wed ding trip. Mb. John Cairn, President of the Brush Electric Light Company is said to re semble "Jones, Who Pays tho Freight," of New York. It is reported that ex-Senator Fair, of California, has married the proprietress of a sirls' school in San Francisco. Senator Fair's daughters were once students at this school. VonMumsi will continue to represent the German Government at Washington until a successor to the late Count Von Aroo-Valley shall have been appointed. Ho is said to be extra dry. Miss Frances Willabd, the temper ance evangelist, has a new idea. She pro poses that a professor of total abstinence be appointed to the American University at Washington. It ought not to be hard to fill the position. A ITJGirBEIOTJS EVBHX. Tho Keturn of the Czar to a Suffering and Stnrvinc People. New York Times.! The return of the Czar to Russia is neces sarily a lugubrious event. The distress that prevails throughout his empire of course re inforces the preachers and workers of sedi tion. Although wo have not heard much of it of late, nihilism must be considerably more powerful than over. The suffering Russian peasantry have thus far avenged their sufferings upon the Hebrews, who are already under an official as well as a popular ban, and thl3 direction of their energies is entirely pleasing to the Russian Govern ment. There is another class of Russians 4vho will fail to find satisfaction in mauling Hebrews, and who are likely to renew their attempts to overthrow the Government under which they suffer, by the ancient method of tem- I penng despotisms, ju aussia were roieraoiv prosperous and contented, the Czar would probably return with warlike intentions; but he will scarcely venture upon any offensive or threatening actions now that Russia is more wretched and moro discon tented than she has been siuce the Crimean war. TALK OP THE TIMES. Every time that Grover Cleveland has spoken in this canvass he has added per- kceptibly to Democratic voting strength by fixing men's minds on the real principles and issues of the election. Albany Argus. Be has succeeded then where his confreres failed. It is said that an eTephant -larger than Jumbo has been captured in Africa. The Democratic party in Ohio has one fully as large on its hands. Kalamazso Telegraph, The only difference is that one has Just come out ota jungle and tne other has got into a jangle. ,Our navy is growing at a fairly satisfac tory rate of speed, but there must be no "let up" in this business. Congress, in the com ing session, must provide for more new ships. fit Zo!rfjGfo&e-.Democra. They should include a larger number of small vessels for protecting the harbors. Missouri is about the only State in the Union where it can rain three days in one spot not exceeding 15 feet in diameter, with the sun shining everywhere else. Kansas City Times. Such a peculiar phenomenon may suit Missouri, but other localities prefer to have the moisture scattered a little. "Where is the man with power and skill to stem the tide of a woman's will?" The women of Ohio say that McKlnley should be the next Governor of the State, aim that settles it. Toledo Commercial. Did anyone ever hear of a woman's intuition leading her astray in her calculations or pre dictions? There is no question as to where the Alli ance men have gone. Last year thoy were as thick as the sunflowers that grew in the deserted corn rows. This year they are as scarce as silver dollars in the pocket of a tramp. Lawrence Journal. Thoy have gone back to the old parties Just as everybody supposed they would. The American hog has been introduced to Italy, an d he is so well liked that he has been accorded a free entry. Backed by the Blalne-McKinley reciprocity act, the Amer mern hog is getting into the Old World in great shape on all fours. Saginaw Courier Herald. How else would he get there when backed by such a solid combination. A correspondent asks us to note It as a fact that farming implements, like mowing machines, cultivators, etc., of American manufacture, are, under the present tariff, sold at SO per cent lower prices in South America than they are sold for here. Boston Herald. This is an absolute falsehood. Farm ing Implements are not-selling for less in South America than they are here. Chairman Hahn's Prediction. Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. Chairman Habn, of the Republican State Executive Committee, under whose direc tion a careful and complete poll of the State has been made, finds every indication of an increased Republican interest and vote thioughout the State, and of a sweeping Re publican victory in this county, With but a nominal plurality in Hamilton county, Mr. Hahn says McKlnley will be elected by a plurality ranging from 19,100 to 21,000. A safe working majority In the Legislature is assured, anji the United States benatorshlp will not bo auctioned off, nor will Ohio be Michiganized next winter. tel PITTSBURG ON THE SEA. ; Some Dy the City Will Be m Fort From Which Ships Will Go to All the World The Erie Canal and Ohio Hirer Im proTement Zessons of the Past. I W JUTTJtW POK THM DISPATCH. 1 7 Aa inevitably and inexorably as will come to-morrow, and next year and a de oade of years, in the even flow of time will eome a period surpassing all others in the history of Pittsburg's prosperity-:the per iod in its career when the inland city will become practically a seaport from which ocean-going ships built in Pittsburg shall sail from her wharves direct for foreign ports laden with Pittsburg products coal from Pennsylvania hills and breadstuffs from the Ohio Valley. Then, Indeed, in a more stupendous sense than heretofore dreamed of shall Pittsburg become "the smith of the land and sea." Tho "signs or the times" are year by year .thrusting themselves more pertinaciously and pointedly and plainly upon the attention Of the public and coming events are casting shadows before, with constantly increasing significance. Pittsbunr's greatest po tentiality, of course, lits in the construction of the Lake Erie ship canal, and this great project has already passed through the period of discussion and Its entire practic ability has been attested by competent au thorities, while the Legislature has taken action upon it and It only remains for the Pennsylvania delegation in Congress to in duce that body to pass measures empower ing the construction of tho canal, which Con gress can scarcely fall to do in view of the generally recognized, wide-spread ad vantage that would accrue. Aside from the great impetus to be given commerce by an outlet to Canadian ports of Pennsylvania Coal in bulk cargoes, tho Genoral Govern ment itself would secure in tho opening of a ship canal from the Otiio river to Lake Erie a counter balance to tne advantage whioh England possosses in the Weliand Canal. In the event of war,the value of this waterway from Pittsbm-g (where are 'centered all of tho materials for ship construction, together with plants of great capacity ever ready for the quick Duildlng of iron, steel or wood crafts) to the lakes, would be inestimable. Improving the Ohio Klver. Secondary in importance only to the Erie ship canal project is the improvement oi tne onio river, which there Is every reason to believe Congress at its next ses sion will givo a measure of consideration more nearly in proportion to its worth than it has heretofore accorded and make an ap propriation commensurate with the vast ness of the region which the region drains and the traffic which it floats. The com merce or the Ohio river has been shown by recent statistics to far exceed in number of crafts and in tonnage tho commerce of the Mississippi and to bo second to none other in the world. Taken hi connection with the foreirolnir facts, which form a strong promise of near by prosperity to Pittsburg, a certain late ac tion of the Government must have given impetus to the thoughts of some of our en terprising manufacturers. This was the awarding of a cod tract for the building of a torpedo boat to a Dubuque, la., firm. The thought must havo arisen irresistibly, "If Dubuque, a very distinctively inland town, can furnish a seagoing craft, why can not Pittsburg?" Why, indeed, with her con centration of materials and her ready me chanical facilities, shall she not? The Pittsburg manufacturer has only to look at what has been accomplished in the Sast to assure himself of the feasibility .of oing such work in the future, not tho future for a few years hence, when the Erie Ship Cannl and the improvement of the Ohio shall havo rendered tho demand nnd facili ties greater, but the immediate future, with no other facilities than at present exist. What lias Deen Done. A sweeping glance in retrospect is sufficient stimulus for prospective work. Let the manufacturer who owns vast iron and steel plants reflect that the inland Pittsburg has built many crafts to sail salt water. As early as 1793-99 two vessels wero built here which were competent for sea voyages. In 1800, down at Marietta, Ohio, the St. Clair, a full rigged brig cleared for Ha vana and subsequently sailed to Philadel phia and it is worth noting the same in land port afterward sent to sea by way of the Ohio and Mississippi more than 20 ves sels of all kinds. The building of sea-going vessels was com menced as a regular business at Pittsburg in 1801 by John A. Tarascon Brothers, James Berthoud & Co., who sent out that year the schooner Amitv and the shir Pittsbun; (250 tons) to Havana and Philadelphia respec tively, with rnnrne.1 ofHonr. After which the Pittsburg made the trip to Bordeaux and re turn, yuite a nutnoeroi wooden vessels lor ocean service were bnilt about the same time at Elizabetbtown on the Mo nongahela, but the passage of the embargo act in 180S put an end to ship building at the headwaters of the Ohio, 2,000 miles from the salt waters of the Gulf of Mexico. lbs Record on Iron Vessels. Iron vessels for sea service were first bnllt in Pittsburg, at the Fort Pitt works, in 1545-the Jefferson and the George M. Bibb (the latter named after the then Secretary of War). Each of these vessels was" 210 feet long and 17 feet deep in the hold. The Jef ferson was taken apart and transported to Oswego, N. Y., where she was committed to the waves, and the Bibb, launched at Pitts burg, went down the rivers to the gulf. The well-known revenue cutter, the Sherman, in service on the lakes, was a product of the Pittsbnrg iron mills. In 1863 the turret shipi, or " monitors, Mana yunk and Umpqna, each 225 in length were built here and went to sea by way of the rivers, and quite a number of other iron boats were bniltbefore and after the last mentioned date, seven of them being war vessels, and a grater number designed for. commerce. Thus it will be seen Pittsburg, 2,000 miles from salt water, (as tbb rivers run) has in war and in the '-piping times of peace" contribnted to the sea flotilla, and there is every reason why she should make her future contributions to the ocean marine transcend by far those of the past. The prophecy of the Rev. Manasseh Cut ler, who, in 1787, said that the time would come when tho Ohio would "be moro loaded than any stream on earth," was long ago fulfilled, butthe current is destined to carry a yet more stupendous traffic, and it is a part of "manifest destiny" that Pittsburg must stand as indisputably first among the cities of its shores, commercially, as she does geographically. it. Dehtla. NECESSITY FOB A CANAL. It Would Have a Pacifying Effect Upon Fa , cine Countries. Cincinnati Tlmes-Stir.3 The necessity that is 'almost absolute for the completion of the Nicaragua canal now becomes manifest as the lelationsbotween this-country and Chile become more and more strained. To reach the scene where Uncle Sam's reasonable demands may be punctuated with a lew shot and shell thou sands of miles are to be traverssd and weeks of time lost that could be saved were it pos sible to send the steel-clads through the canal. Valparaiso is almost directly south of Washington. The same meridian that passes through Washington runs but a few miles west of Valparaiso. In their route to Chilean waters the American vessels now on the Atlantic coast are compelled to go through the Straits of Magellan, and so sail thousands of miles out ot their course. Every point of the com pass is described in the present route to Chile. The Nicaragua canal would simplify matters. Moreover, its existence would be apt to have a pacifying influonce upon little Pacific coast Countries naturally disposed to be "sassy." INJUN SUMSIAH. De Injun snnnnah's comln, De bees is all froo hnmmln. De watnh melleu tbumbla' Has passed long time ago, De ole clock in de kitchen Is tlcidn' mij' bewltchln' While Gabe Is out unhltchln Just kase hit looks like snow. De Iambs Is runnln' orah De aftah math ob clovah. An yondah comes de drovah, , HI spec he's got a yahn About de ole bell weddah Dat's wanddn roan' de meddsb An' wants ter glt tergeddab Wid de bheep up roan' de balm. Some days de son Is shlnin'. Some day de win' is whlnln',' An' den Ise aftah flnln' Big plpirfns on de groun.' De birds nab all stopt slimln', - Wll' geese Is soafward wlngln', Jes look an' see 'em strlngln' " Whar wammah wedaaVs foun'. De yallcr cat Is nappln' En layln' ronn an' gappln', Btme by he will be slappln' Some torn est on de wal'. ' Dar's a uieUah, yallah glory Kase de yeah is ole an an' lio'ry. An' a inelancolly story . , - - bo'tv' lmugm' roun' us all. Chicago Herald. "V.- The United States First in Speed as Well as in Miles of Road.' Jfew York Herald. ( There have been within the last week two remarkable' achievements by the great rail ways of this country. One was tho trip of the special express to Buffalo over the tracks of the Xew York Central road; the other was the transcontinental Journey of a special train from the Paoiflo coast, which ended Thursday, making a record of four days, 12 hours and 41 minutes. These uro events in the history of railway travel and in any other country would havo been made tho occasion of national celebration. They are regarded hero as merely the out come of vast competition by enormons pri vate corporations, and their success Is a proof of the admirable proficiency of the management of the respective roads. Thore is abundant reason, however, why the rec ords made on these occasions should be given some'public acknowl6dgmebt. Tney have asserted again, with profound em phasis, the superiority of the best American railways over simiiar'metho 's of transpor tation in anv other land. They havo proved to all men interested in the problem of ac commodation of the traveling public that not alono have we the greatest number of miles of track, but we can niako phenome nal time over these tracks. ON THE H0ME8TBETCH. What trifles tho Democrats ravooveras the campaigns draw to their close. Chicago Inter Ocean. ' It Is a pleasant spectacle to see Mr. Cleve land throwing bon bons to the tiger. New York Advertiser. Party managers and rcgnlarly appointed election-day workersare nsoful and efficient, but the united work of all members of a great party Is irresistible St. Zouis Republic' Majoii McKislev has made 120 speeches in this year's campaign, and yet has not nt-' tered one foolish word. That is to say, as an orator, ho presents a striking contrast to Grover Cleveland. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Whes the returns begin to come in next Wednesday, Papa Cleveland will wish he had stayed at home and walked in the stilly night, instead of cavorting about tho State for Flower and Tammany. Minneapolis Journal. . The new ballot is a simple affair and yet tho average man falls utterly to understand it. There be wiso men who think the old fashioned is plenty good enough and the wise men are not altogether wrong. Grand Xapids Telegram-ITerald. This enthusiasm which was witnessed last night; as well as when Major McKlnley was here, is merely a sample of the wave that Is sweeping through the State. Xorthwestorn Ohio will go largely Republican U a careful canvass means anything. Zbfecio Commercial. The most careful observers incline to the opinion that Ohio will go Republican and Iowa Democratic; Sow York and Massachu setts doubtful, with the doubts in favor of the Republicans in the former State and of the Democrats in tne latter. Wisconsin State Journal. INCREASING THE CADETS. Wise Recommendations for Educating; Young Men for Offices, New York Times. 1 The recommendation of Colonel .Wilson, tho Superintendent of the Military Acade my, that an Increase should be made in the number of cadets takes the form of propos ing a restoration of the President's privi lege of appointing ten cadets at large each year. It would oertalnly seem wiser to be gin with a moderate increase of this sort rather than to take the more extensive ones which have been proposed, through also giving Senators the right of appointment. It should be understood that this year's appointment of many civilians to second lieutenancies was wholly exceptional, re sulting from legislation by the last Congress which transferred several scores of officers to the retired list. Even next year or the year after there may be no vacancies, ex cept those for the graduates and the ap appolntees from the enlisted men. Of conrse, there is a standing argument for educating as officers, with a view to use in an emergency, a number of young men in excess of tbe needed in the army; but even this consideration is now somewhat offset by the partial or primary military education of hundreds yearly in collates to which army officers are detailed for their Instruc tion. AKEBICAH PATBIOTKK. It Should Not Be Dragged Into the Dnsty Political Arena. Washington Post. The course of the administration, when it comes to the protection of American citi zens, should not be a matter of partisan politics; it should be a matter of patriotism. If American citizens are mistreated it is the duty of those responsible for the adminis tration of this Government to see that full apology and reparation are made, and if not made, then fight. There should be no blus ter, no indeoent haste, but a firm demand should be made and all done that diplomacy requires should be done. If by snoh a course any political party is injured, so much the worse for that party and so much the better for the political party that is benefited. But no snoh thing can possibly happen with either party in tbo matters now pending settlement between this Government and Chile. President Har rison and Secretary Blaine can be relied on to do their mil amy as Americans, and it is not only Indecent, but brutal, to charge them with being actuated with other than sentiments of the highest patriotism. The slime of the partisan politics should not be injected'lnto American patriotism. DEATHS HEBE AND ELSKWHIBK John Babbage, Pioneer Miller. John Babbage, one of 'the pioneer millers of Rochester, N. Y died Thursday la that city, aged 73 years. He came to this country a poor end grant In 1337, and walked nearly all of the distance between New York and Rochester. He got work on the first day of bis arrival in the then village of Rochester at the old Beach mill, one or the first that gave the place its reputation as a Hour manufactur lngcenter. Twoyearslaterhewentlnbuslness for himself, and married Into the Weacott family. He had been Identified prominently with the business Interests of Rochester, and Monroe county eter since. In 1844 he established the first commission house in that part of the State that made a specialty of shipping fruit to Canada. His wife died In July. He Is survived by a son. Dr. E. S. Babbage, of Rochester, and two daughters. Colonel B. C. Yancey. Colonel B. C. Yancey, whose death in Georgia at the age of 76 is reported, was a brother of the once famous William L. Yancey. He had been a memberof the Legislature of South Carolina, a member of the State Senate of Alabama, and a member of the Legislature of Georgia. He bad also been Minister to the Argentine Republic under Buchanan's administration, and was for several years President of the Georgia State Agricultural Bocletv. Durlnr our Civil Avar he was a cavalrr oxnceroi me conieaeracy. Mrs. A. 91. Wattles. Mrs. A. M. Wattles, mother of the well- known Jewelers, W. Warren and W. Wesley Wat tles, of this city, died at the residence or W. W. Wattles yesterday morning after a short illness Mrs. Wattles was a devout Christian, and Is mourned by all who knew ner. The remains will be taken to Gettysburg for Interment. She was 81 years old. Four daughters are married to thesu ministers: Revs. Dr. J. Fry, 1'. M. Bickle, D. M. Moser and D. A, Kubn, Obituary Notes. General Gomxz. of Mexico, Is dead. Pkutce CzaRToryski, Vice President of the Upper House of the 'Austrian Parliament, Is dead In Vienna. Fred Becxee, a prominent hotel proprietor and old soldier, died at his home In Johnstown Friday, aged 81 years. Captain James P. Jack died at his home In Bellcvuc, Pa., Friday, aged 77. Ills entire life was rpent as a pllon on Ohio river boats. Alexander Wills, an old veteran, died at Wormleysburg. Pa'., Thursday, aged 45 years. He served during the war with the North Pennsylva nia Cavalry, and participated in Sherman's famous march to the sea. Frank H. Stacxt, a well-known conductor on the Ft. Wayne road, died yesterday at his residence in Lectsdale, of typhoid fever. Mr. Stacey bat been rallroadlbg for the past 29 years and was a f treat favorite with the patrons of-his line. He eaves a wife and three children. H. J. Fowler, who died In Atlanta, Ga., on the 23th of October, bod been .In the course of his life a soldier In the Indian wars, a doctor In successful practice, and a Methodist preacher of long experi ence, lie was 75 years of age at the time of Ills death, and left two children ami many grandchil dren, William H. BkAnd. an active: and influential Republican leader In Central New York, died Mon day, aged 68 years. He represented the county in tho State Legislature in 1812 and 1863, and served as' State benator for the Madison-Oswego district for the ti-nn of 1870-1 . He had been an Invalid for the past fire years. '.- MURRAY'S MUSINGS. : A ew, York Isn't Much of' a Civilized Place, After All Treatment for Astigmatism Fixing Up a Business Office A Rainy Day Scene. rVROSIA STATTCOHRMrOXDE'Tr.l New York. Oct. 31. "There are a great many particulars In which Chicago is ahead of New York," remarked a Western lady who had been out shopping all tho after noon among the big retail stores. "In the first place, all the best shops In Chicago bavo large reception rooms, for ladies. Some of these are elegantly appointed. There are desks with paper, envelopes and pens and ink, where a lady can write, notes or orders, orflguro'on herpnrchascs. There are com fortable tables, chairs, sofas and reading matter, ir she has to wnlt for somebody. There are lnxnrious toilet rooms. Ono place has toilet rooms in whito marble, divided iuto compartments big enough to take a bath In or dros for a ball. All of thoi r e ceptlon rooms have free telephone connec tions, district messenger and telegraph calls. "If there are anv- such accommodations for ladles in Xow York I don't know where they are. Another thing, for women with small children there are nurse rooms with maid in attendance. A woman can leave her children here In the morning and shop all day If she ttants to, and call for her baby when she gets ready to go home. Yon can lust hock your babv, so to speak, as you would an umbrella, and be sure it is well tjkencareof. If you havo a trunk or other article sent you by express it will bo de livered upstairs in your room without extra charge and haggling as you always have here, or having an Impudent expressman leave it on your front stoop. If you rent a piano in Chicago it will be sent up without carriage charge. Thene mav seem like small things, but here in Xew York without them it makes a great difference to tboso having enjoyed them. Manv of my New Yorkncqnaintances speak of Chicago as if its people were semi-civilized, but I tell you there are Chicago merchants, and even small tradesmen by the score, who can give their New York prototypes points in secur ing and keeping customers.'1 Pernicious Activity of Policemen. "The police are said to very active in this campaign," said Colonel Dan Laniont to me tho other day, "and I know of at least' one policeman in my neighborhood whoso interest conies very closo to pernicious ac tivity. I was coming out of my residence last registration day and, beeiag an officer down on the corner, I thought I'd inquire, where our registry place was. I wanted to get on the list. "Right down on tho street there,' said he 'just this side of that saloon. And you'd better hurry up, young man, if you want to be in It.' "I hurried up," laughingly remarked the railway magnate and ex-Secretary to the President or tho Unitod States, "but I conldn't help wondering what ticket that officer wanted me to vote. I'm In It, any how." Astigmatism Slakes Expensive Families. I happened to be in a Broadway opti cian's store and saw a good-looking, well dressed matron with a slip of a girl and a small boy, all ot whom wore spectacles. The lady gave some directions about a pair of glasses, and.when she had gone I asked the optician whether defective vision is heredi tary. "Rarely," said he. "That lady has four children and all of them must wear glasses. The father's eyes are sound. The mother and her children are afflicted with astig matism, a defect of tho vision which is al most as rare as anything that afflicts the hnman eyes. It makes straight lines crooked and parallel lines fade into one. Special classes must be mude and ground to suit each person and sometimes the respective eyes. They cost $3 a piece, too. So you see a large fnmllv of children with astigmatism cost a good deal of money in glasses alone. As tho children grow up the range of vision changes; they break or lose their glasses oftener than adults, which increases the ex pense. "Yes, I think moro youne people wear glasses now than formerly. This is owing to the fact that early education is more gen erally pushed, and that young people read more nowadays than they used to do. Another thing is becoming known the eyes often differ with each other in strength and vision. One eye gives out before the other. In choosing glasses both eyes should be consulted, as both feet should be suited in buying a pair of shoes. Few people pay any attention to this, though the eyes would be much more effective and would last longer if treated with equal consideration.' How. Tradesmen Treat Customers. It takes about as long to fit up an office in this city as to furnish a house. The Smaller the job the more difficult It is to get it done. If it is simply the connection of a gas stove, or the change of a burner or the laying of a yard of oilcloth or something like that it will take a week or two weeks to get the work done. This is because trades men will take your order and feed you on promises until they can detach a man from more important wurit. ah uue.rKci.io uuiu who rents an office will go half mad before he gets it in complete business trim. It he he not a philosopher he will chafe and fret more over multitudinous trifles than over the serious questions of six month's busi ness. He will run after the painters and plumbers and decorators and sign men and carpet men and house furnishing men until he becomes Inuraard and careworn and thinks life scarcely worth living. His chief trouDlcs are aue to mistaken presumption that all trades are standing ready to serve him at once to tbo exclusion of the vest of the world. When he gets through It all and is neither insane nor a confirmed inebriate he settles down to the calmer Judgment that he U not the only man In business. His experience has taken some of the conceit ont of him if it has re sulted in nothing else. It has also con vinced him that breaking of promises and bald-headed lying are more prevalent than ever and should be punished with the early Puritan severity. Human Nature on a IJalny Day. The Broadway car was crowded. The ram came down in damp sheets that cut one above the knees. Everybody who conldn't get out of the gusts and wicked' eddies that swirled andzipped around t lie corners made a dive for the passing cars, and gaining the crowded platforms looked daggers at the Seople who were there in advance of him. ne little man just caught the lower step and was swung round by the wind in his umbrella. For a moment be wildly clung there, his gooseberry eyes standing out like knobs on a druggist's drawer, and then the stalwart conductor reached over and catch ingthe swaylngman by the eollaryankedhim in with one powerful Jerk. The little man was safe, but the umbrella alas! there wasn't enough silk left to make a baby a fashionable mourning necktie. A human life was saved from tho wheels of a passing truck, but "That was a brand new umbrella!" shrieked the excited little man. "I bonght that umbrella in London last month! This company's got to pay for that umbrella blank, blankety, blank, blank! My London umbrella blank, blank, blank, blank! I'll sue 'em for it, I will, by blankety blank! Yes. it's blanketv blank funny isn't it! I bought that umbrella in London and I can prove it three pound ten and six. Blank ! irthBsnnof rosv June had been shining and every occupant of that car has Jnst succeeded in passing a bogus half dollar rn the conductor, it would not have shone upon a happier crowd. The Philosophy of,Yonth- The Hew York 5-year-old Mamma, does St. Peter stand at the heavenly gates? "Yes, child." "And will he let us in when wo dies?" "I hope so but the good book say's it is a narrow way, darling, and wc might not get through together." "But, mamma, when St. Peter says both gates' yon can go in ono while I go in tha other, like we did on tho elevated road." Charles Theodore Murray; Mobilizing the Militia. Seattle Telegraph. General Miles wants the militia of tho States mobilized to meet at tho World's Fair in Chicago. He says that 00,000 State troops and 10,000 Federal troops ban be brought to gether for the sum of $330,000, ami ho wants Congress to appropriate that sum for the purpose. There have been worse sugges tions, but such a mobilization is scarcely necesrary to demonstrate the military potentialities of this country, which indeed would only be parodied by the parade of the force mentioned. Still, the gathering to gether of the militia of tho States under a general plan of mobilization would be inter esting, and might be valuable as showing what can bo done in the way of a quick call to arms. A Good Homeopathic Doctrine. Chicago Times. J The homeopathic doctrine of like enres like has accomplished soma marvelous things. Why not apply it to the fellow re sponsible for the misplaced switch? V 'N t ' i-rrrDTnTTo timatwKa hmi email t ' iubiuuo vvnvciioaiivnA 1 1 " !. i i 3J - Wild strawberries are now ripening far' Washington. f Salvation Army women havo been for bidden to wear ear rings. It is said that the first newspaper adver tisement appeared in 1613, dnrlngtan English civil war. Productions of the typewriter or imita tions thereof are not admissible through the post as circular letters. Sometimes- the colony of bees in a sincle hive will gather Aom -It to 18 pounds of honey within 21 hours. It is estimated that bees in this country produce a value of $10,000,000 yearly In the shapo of honey and wax. Statistics show that eight times as many murders are committed in Italy as in any other European country. A reasonably populous hive of bees will contain about 30,000 workers, all of whom are of the gentler sex. . South Americans believe that it is un healthy to eat fruit after midday. It is always an accompaniment to the breakfast table. About the year 450 the Ionlans first in troduced the present system of writing from, left to right: previous to that time from right to left prevailed. Let the wary householder keep hij ey npon stray cats that prowl about his prem ises. It has been shown that they are capa ble of transmitting disease. Among the Beethoven relics collected for tho museum at Bonn are the ear trum pets made for the deaf composer by MaelzeL, the inventor of the metronome. In Hungary, where the railways havo not been paying, tho fares were reduced from 40 to 80 per cent, and in consequence the nnmber of passengers rose from 20100,000 to 7,000,C00 and the receipts IS per cent A cave has been discovered in Kansaj which is rather curious. Tho temperature of the air inside is snoh that it will freeze water in a few minutes. It is so cold that no one has yet explored It to the innermost end. Very delicate and beautiful knitting work has been produced by the women of the Shetland Islands. A long shawl that weighed only two ounces and three-quarters was sold last year for $75. The finest wool is obtained by rueing pulling out tho fleece by tbo root from the live sheep. Corn husks boiled in caustic soda are being utilized for the manufacture of paper. The cooking process results in tho forma tion of a spongy, glutinous paste, which Is subjected to heavy pressure so as to elimi nate the gluten, the fiber remaining being made into paper in tho ordinary way. A Mantua physician, who took the trouble to bottle the air of some cemeteries In calm weather, found it to contain an or ganic corpuscle, which he called septopnen raa. This corpuscle, administered in a solu tion to a pigeon, developed putrid fever, and destroyed the bird on the third day. A California pear raiser says: "I pick my pears at four different times, and each picking select the largest. fruit." He goes on to say that by this method he gathers nearly double the number of pounds of fruit that be would by taking all at a single pick ing, and besides gets much handsomer fruit. The Government of Iiiberia has found the temperance societies to be somewhat of a nuisance. These societies, estab)ished in IS&t, had great vogue, and gained so mnch influence that tbey fairly compelled the Government to Impose npon spirits an im port tax which was "practically prohibitory. The sentiment that in Eastern State3 clusters about the beautifnl morning glory does not prevail in California, where the plant is regarded as a most troublesome weed. Ventura county is Ioglslatingagalnst it, and Tulare and Santa Clara county farm ers aro being greatly troubled by Its persist ent growth. A clock is rarely seen in the farm houses of Liberia, and many of tho town residents have no timepiece of any sort. There are few civilized countries where a timepiece can be dispensed with so conveniently. The sun rises nt 6 a. m. and sets at 6 r. M. almost to tho minute the year round, and at noon It is vertically overhead. Mosquitoes which have filled them selves with human blood weigh three times as much as they do when empty. Some genins, with nothing better to do, has weighed some mosquitoe on a sensitive balance and find the average weight of one mosquito was 1.27 rniLLu;ninimes.-liatisrit' would, tako 360,000 to weigh a pound. - Mrs. George Swearinger, of Buchanan, Mich., although but 30 years old, has been a grandmother for four years, and has been married four times, twice to the same man. She married George Swearinger first, was divorced and married a second husband, who died; married a third and was divorced, and then weddod her first husband again.. Her maiden name wa9 Matchett. Engineering, of London, in commentint; on some of the fast time now being niado on American railroads, acknowledges that the best performances of British railways are now regularly equaled In this conntry. and gives the figures to show that the run of the Royal Blue express from Jersey City to Washington, which is made at the rate of 52.8 miles per honr, is slightly better than the West Coast Scotcli expresses. A statistician in Paris had the patience to count the number of words employed by the,most celebrated writers. The works of Comeille do not contain more than 7,000 dif ferent words, and those of Moliere 8,000. Shakespeare, tho most fertile and varied of English authors, wrote all his tragedies and comedies with L'i.OOO words. Voltaire and Goethe employ 20,000. "Paradise Lost" only contains 8.030, and the old Testament says all that it has to say with 5,012 words. Fort Leavenworth is said to have a ghost. The apparition is that ofa woman who was murdered on thoFort Leavenworth reservation by little Benson, and appears at the scene of the murder precisely at noon every day. She dresses In white and some times carries her dismembered foot, and oc casionally the blooflv saw with which the foot was cut off. A bluish vapor surrounds the apparition and In a few seconds it dis appears, to return at midnight, when it keeps up a shrieking racket. SMILES THAT ABB SMALL. "Help! Murder! Fire!" Policeman Hark! Someone must be robbing that woman. Friend How do you know It's a robbery? She U crying every! hlng else. That's Just why I think to." Boston Hews. "Charley's on a regular tear to-day," said one dry goods clerk to another. "You don'tmean ltl" "Yes; he's lost his scissors, yon know; Galves ton i'ews. "Tour coffee's good to-night," qnoth he. With rage her race grew white. By some mistake he put, yon see. The accent on "to-night." Denver Sun, Pipkin "Weeks was blackballed at the last meeting of the Saugns branch or the Society for the Preventon of Cruelty to Animals, Pottg Any caue assigned? Pipkin A member denounced him for making a speech in which be advocated throwing "physic to the dogs.' Puct. Jessie, girls shonld never whistle. Why? On reading you will find: "Whistling Is a slgu or symbol That betrays a vacant mind." But, ah, your lips so red and rosy Once again let's see you try , There, now, Jess, how could I help it. Don't you see the reason why? Smifi, GraytCoSsMmM?. He I hope you're never jealous of me, dear? She Jealous of yon? Why. how eonld I be? And .he Is sffll wondering what she meant, Sonora Democrat. "What are you doing there?" asked the house dog of the hens, who were scratching in the garden. "XotMnirmnch." was the reply; "Just having our measure taken for a pair of shoes." H'aA ingtom. Star. In love's sweet warfare both were slain;' Such death to all must have its charms; To mourn for them were worse than valnr Each yielded to the other's arms. ' y.T.HtraU. vMr. Nagnag I do wish yon would learn v. toeookasmymotliern.edto. Her bread and pies f always had a perfect crust. . Mrs. X.-Yes. and her children too. Boston Courier-Journal. .i Hyand Lowe Did you go to Mrs. Chin wag's reccpilnn? . ' a" Kownede Bout Yes. It was a far more enjoy-. able affair than was expeetea. Brand Lowe How was that? BownedeBout Spowter. who ecite. failed to appear. Puc. ; was expectedltoT 3 ' '5. - 4 , r
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