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THK INTEKIisT OP THE RETURNS.
To-nicht's returns will show how far
the average common sense of American
voter transcends the sophistry of doc
trinaires and the demaRopism of smart
politicians. The people of Ohi especially
are put to a signal test of their good judg
ment They bit as a jury upon the trial of
piotection against the insidious beginning
of frpe trade, and of a sound and firm cur
rency against the delusion of the cheap
silver dollar which would derange values
and produce commercial convulsion in
place of bringing prosperity to anybody or
to any interest There can hardly be auy
manner of doubt as to the verdict
In Pennsylvania, for reasons already
gi en, the chances favor Gregg and Morri
son: but nobody need feel surprised if the
malfeasaucas of Republican State officials,
and the course of the Senate in condoning
their breaches of duty, have produced
such an influence as to cut the majority
very cloe. It is indeed highly probable
that nothing but the proximity of the
Prcsidental contest and the high standing
of the Republican candidates, particu
larly General Gregg, could save the party
this year from such a reverse as its rep
resentatives in office invited.
In New York and in Iowa two interest
ing contents are also being waged. But it
is Pennsylvania and Ohio most particu
larly the latter that will chiefly occupy
attention to-night
THK FIGHT OF THE PARTY WORKERS.
The acrimonious contest over the judi
cinry nominations in this county is now
virtually finished. The signal feature of
it to the reflecting voter will likely be that
in a contest otherwise so bitter, Governor
Pattiaon's appointees were notably exempt
from attack upon their fitness. The local
loaders, both on the Republican and
I)cmo'ri.uc side, were subjected to hot and
constant criticism from "straight-outs,"
but there was nothing maintained against
the sitting judges personally. The only
exception was the charge that Judge Por
ter, when District Attorney, failed to
secure the trial and punishment of a great
main- defendants to true bills returned
by grand juries. This complaint was
never against Porter while he was Dis
trict Attorney. It is but just to note that
in his published answer in a recent issue
of The Dispatch he met It effectively by
the assertion that in every case where an
indictment was not tried a reason was
first given and approved by the presiding
judges.
Anything that is said about the matter
now will not make voters one way or the
othei. But as the probability is that to
day's returns will re-elect Judge Porter
along with Judges HcClung and Kennedy
to the bench of Common Pleas Xo. 3, it is
fair to the individual, and due to the con
fidence which tne public should have in
the judiciary, to note that the solitary
charge made in the heat of the canvass is
fully dispelled by Mr. Porter's frank an
swer as well as by the testimony of those
lawyers who practiced most in the crimi
nal court during Porter's term of District
Attorney.
When the election is over, "the straight
out"' movement will be visible in its true
ap -ct of an eager contest for leadership
w'thin tile- party organizations. For this
the action of the Executive Committee
on the judiciary appointments merely fur
ni'hed an opportunity. Though it is
highly-improbable thatthe "straight-outs"
can defeat either of the three judges, Mc
Clung, Porter or Kennedy, it is on the
other hand quite likely from the dimen
sions of the movement that the struggle
for control in the party organitions will
continue as other issues arise.
A SIIOWKR OF SUIT&
Precipes in libel suits darkened the po
litical atmosphere yesterday. They flew
thick and fast as the flakes of snow in a
winter storm. Senator Quay pressed tiie
button, and the Sheriff's officers of Phila
delphia, Beaver, and Crawford counties
did the rest. A writ is chasing Chairman
Kerr to his home in Clearfield; and the
"palladium of our liberties," called for
short the press, is "stood up" in various
sections of the State by the Senator with
claims for damages in such big figures
that to the imagination of the country
editor, they must seem to imply a poten
tiality of riches surpassing even the
di earns of journalistic avarice.
This strange denouement of a campaign
which opened mildly as a summer's day
wili be contemplated with more than
usual interest when the election is over.
Then it will be seen whether the suits are
merely Pickwickian, or intended to be
followed to the bitter end.
1'ARTISAN INSANITY.
Tiie species of partisan insanity which
generally becomes epidemic prior to the
election is strikingly exemplified by the
Westmoreland county case. A candidate
sent a letter inclosing a S10 check tq a
political worker, which, while not an ideal
act, does not of itself show criminality or
e en corruption. The bearer of the letter
became drunk and the letter fell into the
hands of the opposition.
Tiie opposition managers are, under
usual conditions, honest and sensible per
sons; but in the excitement of politics
they were betrayed into several foolish
a'-ts, for which the emotional insanity that
seizes politicians at this season is the only
excuse. First a private letter was opened
by some person other than the one it be
longed to; next a valuable document was
taken possession of by those who had no
claim to it; and finally the wild idea pos
sessed the minds of those who committed
these acts that they could make political
capital by getting the thing published.
The consequence is that they find them
selves confronted with the unpleasant
prospect of a criminal prosecution, and
the political capital is the other way.
We do not know what individuals com
mitted these acts, nor do we wish to. We
have no idea that any one of them would
open letters or appropriate -checks if not
laboring under partisan delirium. But
that such things can be done at the close of
a campaign suggests the policy of putting
all political workers in strait-jackets for
the last week before election.
NO NEED FOR WAR.
Latest reports concerning the Chilean
difficulty indicate, not a change of Chilean
sentiment as some of our jingo papers put
it, but a different state of Chilean opinion
than has been reported. So far from ex
pressing enmity to the United States, the
semi-official organ of the Junta deprecates
the idea of war and assures the public that
the rumors are unfounded. Doubtless
there is a popular feeling in Chile against
the United States for which we should re
member that we have ourselves to blame,
but the expression of the governing classes
is the reverse of as belligerent as Mr. Egan
has represented.
It is necessary to note that the approach
to an improved understanding began when
Chile was able to reach the State Depart
ment through the nedium of its own rep
resentative, and that the communications
received through that authority .were con
ciliatory instead of warlike. This lends
additional point to the inquiry whether it
is true that the United States Minister at
Santiago delayed the nws of the Chilean
Minister's appointment and has since then
been coloring the communications by his
own belligerent disposition to the Chilean
Government
This is a point which the Administration
should clear up at once. It would be a
nice morsel for the campaign next year to
have it come out that the United States
had been nearly plunged into war bv the
unreliability of its diplomatic representa
tive, and nothing had been done to correct
the misconduct
BANE, FAILURES AND RUMORS.
The Boston Traveller last Saturday de
nounced the mischief-makers who cir
culate cruel and unjust rumors concerning
"a prominent bank man and his institu
tion." The subsequent suspension of the
Maverick National Bank indicates what
these rumors were and also permits the
inference that they were not unfounded.
Those who circulate baseless talk
against the solvency of financial institu
tions are doing a silly and wicked thing.
But there are several reasons why the
editorial efforts to suppress that sort of
thing, as exemplified in the case of our
Boston cotemporary, are idle and in some
casesMH-judged. As a newspaper cannot
name names without giving additional
currency to the rumors, its editorial re
proof of them must be ineffective. Beyond
that there is some pertinence in the ques
tion whether the rumors are ill-founded
or not If they are well-founded, is it
not the right of a business man to let his
friends know of the fact and take their
precautions accordingly?
Iu the case referred to, it appears there
was good reason for the stories. The
juavencK national .BanK nas Deen in a
weak condition for the entire yese; and
the Comptroller of the Currency will have
another case in which a scapegoat will be
necessary to relieve him of the responsi
bility for letting an insolvent institution
continue in operation long after he has
known of the impairment of its capital.
The early reports permit the hope that it
will be no such case of bank-wrecking as
that in Philadelphia. But as early reports
of bank failures are always optimistic,
that hope will have to be held in reserve
until the receiver makes his statement
In the meantime there is urgent need
for informing the Administration that to
permit the safeguards of the national
banking law to be broken down by weak
enforcement is a very grave responsibility
for any administration to assume.
AN OLD STORY.
It is well to keep the history of the
epoch-making sixties fresh in the public"
mind; out sometimes that benefit can be
marred by what is emphatically character
ized in Shakespearean phrase as "damn
able iteration." It is rather more amus
ing than exasperating to find in the New
York Bun a letter from T. E. Chadwick,
Commander United Stated Navy, assert
ing that "it is not generally known how
strong is the claim of Russia upon our
gratitude." After which Commander
Chadwick repeats the oft-told story of the
orders to the Admiral of the Russian fleet
at New York, in case the Confederacy was
recognized by France and England, to
place Ms fleet at the service of the United
States Government
It has long been known that this story
was authentic, and it certainly gives the
people of the United States good reason to
regard with kindness the memory of Alex
ander 1L a monarch who, especially in
his early career, was as progressive and
humane as his successor is reactionary and
prejudiced. But it is not necessary to con
clude that even Alexander II. was inspired
solely by an altruistic- admiration for
the republic of the New World. At that
time the memory of the humiliation of
Russia by France and England in the
Crimea was fresli in the Russian mind,
and the opportunity to revenge that
humiliation was probably as important to
Russia as the preservation of the United
States from dismemberment
The United States should certainly re
member the friendliness of Russia nearly
thirty years ago.. But gratitude to a past
ruler can hardly be invoked to prevent our
recognition of the fearful misgovernment
which is now turning Russia back into the
principles and practices of the Middle
Ages.
SAWYER'S SELF-EXPOSURE.
A remarkable and highly unsavory story
is told by ex-Congressman La Follette
concerning Senator Sawyer, that amiable
Wisconsin millionaire, whose wealth and
liberality, with special pension claims, have
made him one of the Repubiican lights of
the latter day class. There is some dis
pute about the exact facts, but the most
charitable view of the matter puts the
wealthy Sawyer in a very bad light
For some time the State treasurers of
Wisconsin have increased their salaries by
depositing State funds in various banks
contrary to law and pocketing the interest
The Democratic State Government has
brought suit to recover the funds before
Judge Siebecker; and the other day tliat
judge announced that he would be unable
to try the case because propositions had
been made to affect his decision. Ex-Congressman
La Follette now tells that the
proposition came from Senator Sawyer,
who, visiting him because he was a friend
of Siebecker's, declared "I do not want to
pay 8100,000 or so," and offered 5500 or
51,000 "when Siebecker decides the case
right" To this exposure of La Follette's
Senator Sawyer denies the attempt at
bribery, but says he offered La Follette
money to look up papers in the case and
do other work.
La Follette is a Republican of as good
standing as Sawyer, and the charge cannot
therefore be looked upon as a partisan
slander. But back of all that the fact re
mains that even by his own admission the
Wisconsin Senator was urgently interested
In working to prevent the State from get
ting hack money that had been made with
its funds. This provokes the inquiry:
What is the connection of Senator Sawyer
with the interest paid on State deposits?
Why should a Senator be so much opposed
to having the State recover the interest
money paid on her funds? Is it possible
thatthe wealth which has given Sawyer
such weight in the Senate has been built
out of a political system which gave him a
rake at the interest money as well as an
inside track in purchasing timber tracts?
The exposure is striking, but not sur
prising. There have been plenty of indi
cations heretofore that the plutocratic
Sawyer is a gilded sham, who regards the
dollar as an Ultimate and unanswerable
argument in all political questions.
The odd vote played as important a part
in determining the fate of Tildcn's will as it
did in regard to his political ambition. It
was first sustained in the lower court by one
judge. In the general term of the Supremo
Court it was decided against by two judges
to one: and in the Court of Appeals by four
Judges to three. Eleven judges having
passed on the will, six decided against it
and Ave for it. Thus in the Electoral Col
lege, before the Electoral Commission, and
before the New York courts in a whole and
in parts the odd vote has always been cast
against Mr. Tilden.
To-day is the day when the figured-out
majorities of the political managers are re
duced by the actual facts to the value of a
last year's bird's nest.
A solid stone roadway has been un
earthed in Illinois, and is credited to the
Aztecs before they were di iven out of that
region by the Indian tribes. This looks as if
the Aztecs were ahead of the present popu
lation in the United States in the matter of
roadways; but when we learn that the road
way was made of cobblestones, we perceive
that they were only up to the progress of
Pittsburg in its early stages of develop
ment. ,
Next Monday the Prince of Wales will
be fifty years old. It is thus high time for
that jovial youth to settle down and become
respectable.
Now it is heard that Emin Pasha is
marching across Africa and will come out
by either the Cumeroons or Jlorrocco. The
attempt to rival Stanley by this feat is some
what too obvious lor comment. At all
events if Emin's followers rebel on this trip
he will be left to rescue himself.
Tennessee should make her miners
obey the statute laws, anil should herself
obey the laws of humanity and advanced
civilization.
A cotesiforaky figures out the cost of
raising a boy till he is 21 years of age at $4,150.
The trouble with that expense is that in
fluences entirely outside of the expenditure
determine whether when the boy is raised
he is worth the money or would be highly
valued at the odd fifty dollars.
To-mokp.ow it is understood that the
Senate will place itself on record as to
whether the Constitution is unconstitu
tional. The foolish talk of some people in New
York who think that society is making too
much of the coming football match on
Thanksgiving Day is properly reproved by
the World. Shall not the development of
ohr great educational Institutions be iecog
nizod Jy society.
One of the pleasant prospects of the next
few weeks is that the American tin issue
may now be given a much needed rest.
The reported decision of the Administra
tion to await full mail advices before further
action on the Chilean question is a discreet
intimation that it will know exactly what
the Chilean attitude is, without relying on
Mr. Egan's version of it.
Cold weather for the political workers
to-day. Which side will find it the chilliest
at midnight;
A vote against the Constitutional Con
vention is a vote in favor of public economy
and a fundamental law which, if enforced,
will secure good government.
November leaves no doubt as to the
fact that it is here with all of its vigor and
rigor.
SNAP SHOTS Iff SEASON.
We are rocked when young and clubbed
when we grow old. 'Tis a cruel world.
The German Emperor shaved off those
whiskers because he did not want to bo con-
L sidered a harnm-scarum sort of chappie.
Drummers have things easier than bal
let girls and burlesque actresses. Theydw .'t
have to wash their trunks.
Iir choosing friends you are sure to make
some enemies.
If life did not contain some bitterness its
sweets would not taste so pleasant.
Moke interest is felt in the farmers'
than in his crops J ust now.
Vote
The shoutcrs will be out in force
To-night, to-night.
They'll yell until they all are hoarse
To-night, to-night.
But, oh, what a difference in the morning.
What a difference will come with the dawn
ing; ,
They'll wake up with a head that'll pin them
to the bed,
They'll wish that they were dead to-morrow
morning.
It would never do for a baker to stick up
a sign "No loafing here."
Yesterday they were guessing, to-day
they are voting, to-morrow they will be
cursing.
Sen ley is in command in Chilean
waters, and is only waiting the word to slay
the enemy.
If all the campaign liars were dragged to
the libel court the other sinners would die
while awaiting trial.
The winners can eat quail, but the losers
must munch crow.
A GOOD way to punish wife beaters would
be to hold them until enough are secured to
form a pair of football teams, and then lei
'em at each other.
The mnrd'rer takes his gun in hand
And bags his human game.
The small boy grasps his Flobert and
He gets there just the same.
Ward heelers wear collars, bnt the
trouble is they don't wash them.
There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and
the dancing hole that fits the latohkoy.
Marriage is a partnership, bnt, unfor
tunately, U is subject to the laws of dissolu
tion. It is a mooted question whether Wash
ington or his biographers lied. .
IN SOCIETY'S WORLD.
Hospital and Church Confer for Mutual
. Benefit The French Mission Again A
Bride's Homecoming and the Other Gay
Doings of Yesterday.
The managers of the Oakland Hospital
for Children and a number of ladies from
the Church of the Ascension met at Miss
Sallie Killikelly's house last night. They
have combined interests in tho coming
pageant to bo given in the Auditorium in
December, the plans of which were fully
discussed at this meetlrg. The list of
patronesses, and auxiliary honorary com
mittee of ladies aad men will be formed this
afternoon at the church, composed of
prominent people of the city and Allegheny.
There might be one point made regarding
the coming pageant. Uusually beneHts
mean an expensive, poor entertainment,
when people give their money to expect
nothing in return. Those who have seen
the pageant declare that it is most delight
ful and entertaining, as well as novel. The
managers of tho benefit are to be congratu
lated on their keen business instinct in ob
taining something that every one must
desire to see.
The friends of the French Mission will be
pleased to know that it reopens for the
winter on next Sunday afternoon. Last
year the mission interested so many in the
Pittsburg French colony, as well as in Polish
circles, where tho French tongue prevails,
that there has been a universally expressed
deshe for its continuance. Its force will be
strengthened this year by the promise of its
Secretary, Prof, llenri Rollin Parker, to,
officiate at every other meeting. Rev. Mr,
Launitz will pi each next Sunday. Mr. Curl
Hotter presides at tho organ, and n volun
tary choir will lead the singing. As with
last year, these will take place at the chapel
of the First Presbyterian Church at 4 o'clock
in the afternoon.
Social Chatter, y
Mb. and Mas. Joseph Phillips arc home
from a honeymoon spent in the East. Mrs.
Phillips was pretty Miss Nellie Brown, who
had a charming home wedding a fortnight
ago. The first "at home-' where tho biide
will be Vresent is at one to bo given by her
aunt, Mrs. J. G. Bennett, of South High
land avenue, next Friday. The recep
tion does not include Mr. Phillips, as It
is a ladies' affair, and takes place in the
afternoon from 4 to 6. The hostess will be
assisted in receiving by Mrs. Phillips and
several friends.
The agreeable entertainment given by a
number of clever and kindly disposed mnsi-
cians last year at Dixmont will be repeated
this season. The first one takes place on
Saturday evening next, when a good, varied
programme wjll be presented by Miss Carrie
Tenant, Miss Margaret McCallister. Miss
Mary Byron, Miss liattie Nicliol, Messrs.
HenrvS. Armstrong, Theodore A. Rentz, R.
Frank Emery, Frank Thuma, Joseph Nogle
and several others.
Ohe of the pleasant echoes from Hbllow-e-n
was a party given by Mr. and Mrs. J.
W. Orr, of Arch street. A bill of Jare which
would have been a delectable sight to our
grandmothers, including pumpkin pie,
sw eet cider and gingerbread, ushered in the
evening's pleasure. Befoie midnight the
more modern ice cream, cake, candies and
fruits were served, bringing to a close an
evening every guest will remember with
pleasant thoughts.
A M akaoek o f the N ewsboys' Home (who is
charitable, bnt who also prefers that his
right hand should know nothing of what his,
ioiv uanu is umugj cuntnuuceuio naiiQwcun
gaieties by giving an unlimited feast of nuts
and apples to the boys at the Home.
Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Hartley, of Lockhart
Place, celebrated the second anniversary of
their marriage- on Saturday by a pink dinner1,
Near relatives were the guests.
A hew cotillion cluD has been formed in
Allegheny, adopting the name of Alvin out
of compliment to Charls Davis' theater.
A reception will be held to-night at the
Linden Club.
TALK OF THE TIMES. "
Bv accepting the resignation of Secretary
of State Chapleau, Canadian Premier Abbott
has assumed the responsibility of a govern
mental crisis. iV. Y. Recorder. It remains to
bo seen whether he can weather tho storm
he ' - to face.
Tim killing of a railroad superintendent
by a smash-up on his railroad, in Arkansas,
Friday last, was a deplorable event. JV. Y.
Advertiser. It may work for the benefit of
the people, though, by making the other su
perinic dents use all their power to prevent
other accidents. f 1
A California grand-ljury has indicted a
member of the Legislature for accepting a
bribe. Tulare Sentinel. This is an invasion
of an American right, and will have to be
kept from spreading eastward.
Contact with civilization is doing a great
deal for tho noble red man. lie has learned
the absurdity of standing around waiting to
be executed when an oppojtanity of escape
is afforded. Kansas City Star. Education has
its results even upon the savago. Why
should ho not follow the example set by
Marsh, Livesey, and their Canadian proto
types. Good roads are the best proof of an intelli
gent government. Providence Journal. The
sooner the people understand this, the soon
er will the highways be well built.
Piotection, reciprocity, and the honest
dollar are tho present cardinal doctrines of
the Republican party, and they have tho
sympathy and support of a sufficient num
ber of voters to elect the next President.
St. Louis Olobe-Demccrat. Protection and re
cipioeity have already tho support of all ex
cept the calamity croakers, and they are
nearly silenced.
It is so seldom that an elective office unac
companied by salary is sought by or offered
to a competent man. JVebraskaWorld-Herald.
If this is the case, then there should be a
change very shortly.
NEW LIFE IN TBADE.
Industries Hare Been Encouraged
and
Prices Have Been Lowered.
Grand Rapids Telegram-Herald.
Even admitting that free trado is better
for England, it is no proof that it would be
better for America. Instead of a little is
land, there is here an immense continent
capable of producing almost every variety
of natural production and mechanical in
dustry. The general policy of tiie United
States has been to encourage homr Industry
and products by imposing a high enough duty
on articles from (6utside that the purchaser
may discriminate in favor of the home
market. This has bad the effect to bring the
United States into competition with many
new lines of industry, and the effect of
this competition has been the usual one
that of putting new life into tiade, and of re
ducing the price of the products of these in
dustries. The months following immediately after
the passage of the McXinley bill may safelv
be fcaid to be the most'unfavorable to the
growth of industry, and yet during the first
three months alone, 15 new shoe and leather
factories were started, 19 cotton factories, 21
woolen, 15 pottery and glass, 15 paper and
pulp, 16 iron and steel, 6 met! working, 32
machinery and hardware, and (f firms either
began the manufacture of tin plate, or built
new mills or additions to old ones for that
purpose. Again, it was confidently promised
by the Democratic party that the passage of
the bill would raise the prices of everything.
And yet it is perfectly true that the cost of
the necessaries of life are but very little
changed from what they'were a year ago,
and the change has been toward lower
prices.
S0LAE SF0T3.
A Mysterious Phenomenon on the Surface
of the Sun. ,
New York Herald.
The curious and suggestive phenomenon
of the fall of a solar protuberance into a sun
spot has been recently reported by M. Tron
velot, the French astronomer. Ho was en
abled to observe this fall very distinctly.
The sun spot In which the protuberance-was
lostwas very quiet, giving not the slightest
evidence of any volcanic eruptions going on.
There areln or near a suu spot usually jets
of incandescent matter, frequently thrown
up to great heights, but this voiacious spot
which swallowed up the protuberance in
question wa in almost entire repose.
M. Trouvelot hints that the most probaDle
explanation of this most mysterious phe
nomenon is that the class of spots which are
in u state of repose exercise some kind of
attraction upon certain protuberances.
These solar clouds, sometimes filamentary,
sometimes diffuse, sometimes seen to be
gyrating like a cyclone, are composed main
ly or hydrogen and helium. Around the
spot the motion of filaments is usually in
ward toward a central spot and then down
ward. It might, therefore, be supposed that
the prominence seen by M. Trouvelot ap
proached the spot by aspiration.
PBIS0H EEF0EMATI0K.
Some of the Things That Are Needed in
Modern Penitentiaries.
Springfield Republican,
The punitive system of a half century ago
has been generally discarded with such
penalties as death for stealing, and the bar
barities of the dungeon, the lash and other
forms of torture not because of its inhu
manity alone, nor from a sentimental desire
to make the convict's lot an easy one, but
from a conviction that the true end of all
punishment should bo the reform of the
prisoner. It has been and is now the study
of penologists how to so combine
punishment and kindness, severity and
education as to accomplish this result. The
prisoner, no matter how degraded, is a man,
and if the State takes him into its keeping
for its'own protection for a term, it is Ms
duty to release him more of a man than
when it took him iu charge.
It is not surpiiaiiK tlin,t in the application
of this idea the very natural reaction from
the older severities shonld lead to excess in
the other direction. In time, these excesses
will be refonnea, and something like the
happy medium leached, for the ideal
method of treating prisoners is vory gen
erally aarrecd upon that is, within broad
limits. It includes the carefnl classification
of the prisoners, separating the old from the
young, tho inexperienced from thelinrdened
criminals. The prisons should be clean and
barelv within the limits of comfort, the
food plain, nourishing and just sufficient to
sustain the strength, and hard labor shonld
be enforced upon all. Rewards for good
condner, and encouraging and elevating in
fluences all have their place in the plan, the
Jmrpose of which is to make a life of honest
abor attractive to the erstwhile criminal.
PH0TECT THE F30NTIEB.
The Fortifications Should he Strengthened
at Various Points.
New York Recorder.
It is semi-offlcially intimated from Wash
ington that the question of our relations
with Canada will be very emphatically dis
cussed in the President's message. The
British Government is strengthening its
fortifications in the regions of the Lakes and
it is only natural that we should not be in
different to its movements in this direction.
The present modus vivendi between our
selves and England is based on the treaty of
1817, by the terms of which the naval force
that either country may maintain on tho
Lakes is limited. The arrangement was
favorable to us when It wns made, but the
construction of the Canadian canals has
completely reversed the conditions of three
quarters of a century ago so that all the ad
vantages are now on the side of Great
Britain.
In tho event of tho disturbance of friendly
relations between the two countries England
could put an immense fleet of light draught
vessels of war and torpedo boats into the
Lakes at almost a moment's notice. In
view of her military activity on the border
this is not a very comfortable position to bo
in, and the sooner it is changed the bettor.
The ideas of the President and Mr. Blaine
on the question have not been made known.
One of two courses is open: liist, a new
tieatv, and, second, the strengthening of our
fortifications at various points. This we are
now doing a small scale. There is, of course,
no immediate danger, but wo should be pre
pared lor whatever may arise.
THE METEIC SYSTEM.
Its Use Has Ben Anthorized but
Never
Enforced in This Country.
Scientific American.
Several British Consuls have recently
warned their countrymen they were losing
considerable trade in foreign countries
owing to their persistent use of English
weights and measures in their circulars and
price lists, which were frequently unintelligl
ble to most of the foreign dealers, whereas
their French, German and other competitors
used the metric system, which was familiar
to everybody, and naturally attracted cus
tom. These warnings apply equally well to
the exporters of tlio United States. The use
of the metric or decimal system was author
ized by oifl: laws many years ago, but the use
has not yet been made compulsory; hence
the majority of people cling to the old sys
tem and dislike to change, althougli the
metric is more simple and easily under
stood. The metric system is so much more con
venient, saves so much time and has now
become so generallv adopted throughout the
world, that the United States ought no
longer refuse to fall into line. A very little
pressure would suffice tojiring about the
change. It would do the business, probably,
if Congress were simply to pass a law re
qulung that estimates, contracts and bills
specifying weights or measures, when not
made out metrically, must Dear a revenue
stamp of one dime. Rather than pay a small
tax. everybody would at once use the deci
mal system, and the change would be as
smooth as the system itself.
VICUNA HOT IN IT.
He Is Not Entitled to Recognition as Presi
dent of Chile.
Washington Post.
SenorDonClaudio Vicuna, who was elected
President of Chile while the late warv was
going on, is now an exile from his country,
and will shortly leavo New York for Europe,
to remain until the present strain of affairs
is relaxed or perhaps permanently. .He is
in no wise entitled to recognition as Presi
dent of Chile, and probably entertains no
such idea himself, although the suggestion
has been made that in certain contingencies
he might be so recognized by the United
States. No snch contingency is possible.
The United States has recognized the exist
ing provisional government. It recognizes
the legality of the machinery by which the
people of Chile hare just chosen an electoral
college for the choice of a President.
Even in the event of war, there would be
no occasion to go back of this action. The
present difficulty is with the present Gov
ernment. It has to be settled with the junta
or its successor. Sonor Vicuna is not in it.
The Balmaceda regime Is not in it. It is the
obstreperous and impracticable organiza
tion which has risen upon the ruins of that
regime with which our administration has
to do, and with which it will doubtless deal
in a manner calutnry to the Chileans and
satisfactory to the American people.
British Marksmanship.
Toledo Commercial.
Great Britain must have some remarkable
gunnel's in her navy. A couple of days ago
while target practice was in progress, fish
ing vessels weie struck and sunk, several
lives of fishermen lost and the deadly
nature of the artillery fully manifested.
The accuracy of the aim, however, is to be
inferred from the fact that the, ,shing ves
sels are said to have been four miles from
the target.
Not for Any One Class. &
Los Angeles Express.
The blessings of the McKinley law are not
for any one class or section, but for the
whole population and for every part of the
country. That is why the measure gains
friends so rapidly now that it is being prop
erly understood.
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PERTINENT AND. PERSONAL.
Gladstone thinks that Milton was the
first author to sell a manuscript.
Walt Whitman has not lost the clear
ness of his mind though his bodly powers are
failing.
Senator Feffer has written a book,
but it has been lost to sight since the cam
paign commenced.
The "Duke of Bedstead" is the title of
a London millionaire. He began life as a
bedmaker and now his establishment covers
two blocks of city land.
Queen Victoria does not intend to
have the Ameer of Afghanistan at close
quarters with her. She will turn him over
to a hotel instead of inviting him to Windsor.
Governor Russell, of Massachusetts,
occupies his spare moments by studying the
"Letters of Junius" and Henry Cabot Lodge
is much interested in tho "Meicbant of
Venice."
THE most noted woman novelist of Aus
tria is Baroness Marie von Ebner-Eschen-boch.
She is a woman of 61years, the mother
of seven children, and for 20 years she has
been writing works ofiction.
Senator Stanford, who aspires to be
President, onco reiused to buy a book from
a woman on the ground that he never spent
money foolishly. The Farmers' Alliance
evidently do not believe this tale.
Ex-Governor Houser, of Montana, be
gan live as a surveyor on the Missouri Pa
cific Railroad. He emigrated' to Last Chance
Gulch, where Helena now stands, and got a
job to turn the windlass of a mine hoist. Now
he is a millionaire.
OUR MAIL POUCH.
Ingalls on Jefferson.
To the Editor of The Dispatch: ,
The very righteous and learned indigna
tion with which your Wampum correepond
dent calls ex-Senator Ingalls to account for
something he did not say in a recent lecture
at Boston is amusing to the ordinary reader
if it is anything. ,
Mr. Ingalls may not know as much about
Jefferson and the Declaration of Independ
ence as the Wamnnm savant but we venture
to assert that he did not in Boston misquote
that famous instrument as reported in the
newspapers.
And, we venture further to assert, even at
the peril of exciting the wrath of the learned
Wampum citizen, that Jefferson was not in
fallible, and that his theory was vastly super
ior to the constant practice, at least so far as
the rights of man were concerned. And his
declaration in the famous instrument of
which ho was at least the reputed author,
that "all men are'born equal," is not true,
and the phrase-following in which "certain
inalienable rights are specified, wil" not bear
the construction the Wampum statesman
gives it.
Two distinct and separate affirmations are
made, to wit: That all men are created
equal by their Creator; this has reference
simply to bringing them into being, and has
no connection with what follows. They are
endowed with certain inalienable rights by
their Creator.
That men possess certain inherent or inal
ienable rights, and that these aie life, lib
erty and the pursuit of happiness, no man
worthy of tne namo will deny. On the other
hand, no man, even of the most ordinary
intelligence, will claim that all men are cre
ated equal, or that equality in creation is at
nil necessary to the enjoyment of life and
liberty or the pursuit of happinoss.
Wearo, therefore, in view of all the stub
born facts of history, and especially the one
that Jefferson, with, other leading men of
his dav, laid the fonndntions of our govern
ment, "in pirt, on the cornerstone of a bar
parous institution, Avhich has been well
charactei ized as the snm of all villainies, and
which eventually drenched his country in
fraternal blood, we are driven to the con
clusion that Thomas Jeffersou equally with
the modern politician, was prone to indulge
inrhetoncandbuueombe, quite as much, if
not more, than in lact and in principle.
And we feel sale in saying that, in declaim
ing on the equality and inalienable rights of
man, while at the same time lie was dealing
in hirTnan beings as though they were born
only equal andendowed with no higher rights
than the beasts of the field. Thomas Jeffer
son affords an historic example of inconsist
ency which the most reckless and auda
cious of statesmen of the present day will
not dare to imitate. , E.
New Brighton, Pa., November 2.
OPENING THE MISS01TBL
The River Improvement Idea Is Spreading
in the West.
Knnsi CItyStaf.J
It is the experience of all sections where
there is permanent water transportation that
rates on all classes or freight are greatly re
duced. In that part of the United States
known by the railroads as the North Central
division the rail rates are the lowest in the
country. This is solely dn account of the
competition afforded by lake transportation.
While, owing to the great difficulty of river
navigation, opening the Missonri river would
not bring the rates down as low as the tariffs
of the North Central division, the reduction
w ould still be material and of great value to
the producing classes. This ought to be rea
son enough, not only for Congress to act, but
for the people to work unitedly to the de
sired end.
.Opening the river would not alone cheapen
rates. It would also develop resources of
a country now inaccessible, which is of
greater importance than cheaper rates. It
would open transportation for the extensive
deposits of iron and coal and valuable tim
ber forests now unused, and stimulate in
dustry in regions at present practically un
inhabited. It was cheap lake transportation
which brought the coal of Pennsylvania and
the iron end copper of the Upper Penin
sula of Michigan together and established
the great industries which now exist in the
Lake Superior country. Ther sources of the
Missouri valley are greater and more diver
sified than those of the Superior region, and
the improvement of the now comparatively
unused stream and its tributaries would
bo the cause ol results that nobody now can
estimate.
THE EECIPE0CIIY HUMBUG.
It Compels South America to Purchase
From the United States.
Confectioner's Gasretta.
"The reciprocity humbug!" What does
the "recipiocity humbug" amount to. It
compels South America to purchase from
this country something in. exchange for tho
largo amount of produce we. have been buy
ing from them. Heretofore they have been
sending us their sugar, coffee and otherar
ticles in some instances making us nay, as
in the case of coffee, an export duty for the
privilege of buying it from them, and then
putting a heavy duty on American flour and
other products.
This country was good enough for them to
sell coffee and sugar to, but in their buj-ing
the favors were all shown to the Europeans.
Reciprocity has changed this. It has com
pelled them to give Americans fair play. It
has been the cause of abolishing discrimin
ating duties, ,nd now it has opened the
German market to the American hog, which
has been barred out heretofore. American
farm products gain also in the same treaty.
This insures an immensely increased mar
ket for American pork and American corn,
which is not such n very bad result of "the
reciprocity humbug."
CAETEE HAHBISOir IN A SEW BOLE.
He Purchases and Assumes Control of the
Chicago Times Newspaper.
Chicago" Nov. 2. Hon. Carter H. Harrison,
who served two terms In Congress from Il
linois and who was four times chosen Mayor;
of the city of Chicngo, has purchased and to
day assumed control of the Chicago Tvtna.
The price is not made public, but it is un
nerstood that the sum is -well np in the six
figures.
Ever since the death in 1835 of the late
Wilbur F.. Storey, the founder of the news
popef, it has been more or less involved in
legal complications, which this transfer
promises to jpnt an end to. Mr. Harrison
says that, finding the intermittent activities
of an occasional political campaign insuf
ficient to deep him from growing rusty be
tween times, he has bought the Times to
to give himselt active occupation. He an
nounces that the paper will be Democratic
in all things.
He Is Entirely Healthy.
Pomona Times.
Mr. Blaine takes hold of the Chilean busi
ness in the manner of an entirely healthy
man.
. SHADOWS CAST BEFOEE.
A Niagara of Republican votes will soon
be rolling down to the Harlem. iV. Y. Re
corder (.Rep.)
It is significant that Republican, organs
are less confident of success in Iowa than in
any other of the five great battle grounds of
this campaign. Kansas City Star (Zem.)
Pbesidest Hkkisox should not forget to
enumerate among the reasons for celebrat
ing Thanksgiving Day the cheering fact that
thore can be no more joint debates this year.
Chicago Times (Dn.)
With Boies, Flower and Campbell all win
ners, the Democrats will have three more
first-class men right at the front of tho po
litical procession as it moves over into 1892.
St. Louis Republic (Dew.)
The victory that is within sight for the
lottery men ill Louisiana will partly com.
pensate the Democrats for such defeats as
they will sustain next Tuesday in tho other
States. SL Zotiis OUbe-Democrat Rep.)
The Republicans unanimously declare
that Fassett will be elected Governor. The'
Democrats are equally positive that Flower
will be elected. This enables us to say that
tho election will be a close one. iV; Y. Ad
vertiser (Ind.i '
The Iowa Republicans have been some
what handicapped this year by tho fact that
their candidate for Governor is not a public
speaker; but then Governor Boies has done
them considerable Rervice in that respect.
Los Angeles Times (Ind.)
Ohio's Republican plurality in 1888 was
19,503. If Governor Campbell wins against
such overwhelming odds It will be an un
precedented victory for tariff reform, and a
magnificent indorsement of an able and fear
less executive. Illinois State Register Rep.)
CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS.
Joseph Walker, of Massachusetts, In
vented tho wooden shoe peg In 1813.
On the average a boy costs a parent
about $200 a year until 20 years of age.
Apple trees set out 80 years ago in New
Haven, Conn., bore excellent fruit this fall.
A Florida man found "25 fish" in- the
stomach of a moccasin snake, which he shot
a few days ago.
Thunder and lightning are exceedingly
rare on tho Pacific coast. A genuine thun
der storm has visited California but twice in
12 years.
Itigid examination of the applicants for
certificates to teach In Willis, Tex., has re
sulted in the idleness of half the schools of
the county.
It is said that, including the officers
holding honorary rank, thore are 2,050 gen
erals in the British army, or nearly one) for
every 100 soldiers.
The mother of a Kansas City, Mo., baby
is 16 years old, its grandmother, 33, and its
greatfgrandraother is but 52 years old. All
reside in the same house.
Tacoma, Wash., has a well 100 feet deep
from jrhich the wind blows continually. As
there is 50 f.eet of water in the well the
source of the wind is a mystery.
The giraffe is now threatened with per
manent extinction. Ten years ago herds
of 70'and 80 could be found where to-day 13
would be an exceptionally large herd.
Venezuela has 56 holidays everyi year.
On these occasions tne people close their
stores and enjoy themselves in chicken
fights and other tropical amusements.
In the last seven-and-twenty years tho
number of students attending Scotch uni
versities has more than doubled: for in 1861
the number was S,3S9, and in 1890 it was 7,000
odd.
When a Missouri cabbage was cut open,
it was found that the outer coating con
tained 28 perfectly developed little heads in
a cluster, about the size of a walnut, and
nearly as hard.
The low volcanic island which rose bo
suddenly out of the sea near Palermo, and
from which fire was emitted, has entirely
disappeared, even the water that covers it
having ceased to boil.
A healthy girl of IT who devotes her
self to hospital work will die 2iJ years
sooner than a girl of the same age in the)
general population. This is supposed to bo
ne to her liability to tuberculosis.
A fine deposit of asbestos has been. di
covered in Jackson county, Oregon. Itis
pronounced by Eastern experts to be of tho
very best quality. The machinery for clean
ing, baling and shipping will soon-be put in.
At a communion service in a Hanwell
panper school a little girl who had charge
of the chalice droDned it. and some of tho
wine was spilled on her pineafore. -Th
A luminous crayon has been, invented
which enables lecturers to draw on the
blackboard when the room Is darkened for
the use of the lantern. It is likely to provo
of value also to the students who take notes.
There is a farmer in Ventura county,
California, whose name is Stubblefleld, and
another named Haymaker. Los Angeles,
Cal., has still another honest granger who
bears the euphonious name of John Bean
blossom. '
A Bay City, Mich., family were taken
with alarming' symptoms after eating b
quantity of English walnuts. The physician
called said that they bad been poisoned with
minute particles of prussic acid, which had
formed in the kernels.
Florida is probably the best timbered
State in the Union. Out of about 38,000,000
acres, only some 3,000,000 are inoluded in
farms, the rest, nineteen-twontieths, exclu
sive of the area covered by lakes aad rivers,
being covered with heavy forests. ,
It would seem that the ladies of the.
harem possess a wonderful capacity for dis
posing of sweet things. France alone last
year exported to Turkey and Egypt for tb)8
harems 1,600,000 franca' 64,000) worth of
fondants, praline and marrons glaces. J
-MDne of the missionaries of the Seamen'al
Mission in England has during the'yearvis-v
ited 3,000 vessels, and read the Scriptures in
English, Danish and Norwegian. He has dis
tributed 2,900 New Testaments and 7C0 Gos
pels to English and foreign seamen and emi
grants. '" " "' -c-v- '-'
The timber cut in one year in 'Florida
averages a little short of 200 000,000 feet,
which is over 3 per cent of the whole amount
of mercantile timber standing in her forests.
At this rate, in about 30 years Florida would
be cleared of her timber, ir there was no.
natural increase.
Outside passengers by one of the Lon
don road car services were recently aston
ished to find fixed to their seats a funnel
containing an umbrella, which might bo
used witxhiit extra chargej on wet days.
The only condition attaching to its employ
ment was the modest request that it should
be replaced.
The Mbntana sapphires embrace a great
variety of the lighter Bhades of red, yellow,
blue and green. The latter color is found
quite pronounced, being rather a blue green
than an emerald green. Nearly all the
stones, when finely cut, have an apparent
metallic luster which is strikingly peculiar
to those from this locality. Neither red
rubies nor true-blue sapphires have yet been
found.
An Indian tomahawk was recently cut
from the center of a saw log 32 inches in
diameter in Wisconsin, six inches in length,
and has a 2-lTicti blade made of roughly
forged iron. There were 10 Inches of solid
timber overthe head, showing the indent'
ure of a portion qf the handle In the timber,
which was a different wood from tho tree.
It is supposed to have been in thai tree for
nearly 200 years.
The Japanese practice refined cruelty to
delight their palate. They believe that the
fish called the dai is most delicious when
eaten alive. An expert Japanese carver
can dextrously remove five-sixths of the
edible matter from its bones without touch
ing a vital part. During this cruel opera
tion the fish is kept alive by wet seaweed,
which, being placed over its gills, enables it
to breathe.
Washington, Ga., has three trees of
which it is vastly proud. . One is a white
oak, under which the Commissioners began
tho work of laying out the town in 17S3. A
second is a poplar, under the shade of which
in 1790 took place the first ordination of a
Presbvterian minister west of the Savannah
river." The third is a huge oak, under w hich
in 1856 occurred the memorable debate be
tween Robert Toombs and Benjamin Hill,
one or the greatest intellectual contests in
the history of Georgia.
SOME SHALL SMILES.
"What a lovely morning!" he said.
"It is a perfect morning, "she replied.
Trne,"hesa!d, "I haven't seea anything this
morning that "isn't perfect," ana lie looked net
straight in the fare.
Then she Washed. Cape Cod Item.
"What is the trouble between them?"
"She can't cook aaweU as his mother."
"When did he find it out?"
"At the end of the honeymoon." Sew York
Press.
Minnie So, -Bessie Smith fs going to
marry Jim Lathy! He's so thin. I don't see what
she can sc in him. ,-,.
Kitty-I should thlnk-everythingl-SmBA. Gray
ACo.'s Monthly.
Bulfinch I tell you what it is, that Miss
Smllax Is simply out of sight.
Wooden-Yes, I've noticed it every time 1've
caned. Boston uoicner-jounuu.
I craved a kiss with prayer and sigh,
Long, long I craved, and long In vain;
..TV
At length mpiiyiur uij iu.
s The gift she granted, tenderly.
1 cannot teU the reason why
This grac. alas! should prove my bane, -
For now. still far more hungrily.
I'm wishing day and night that I
Could kl her fifty times again. c.
PucKrr
Patriotism The expansion of egotism
"My country." , -".'-
FUglarlsm-A lack of sfciU In effacing coln-
' Originality Leaving an idea in the mind to grow
until you forget how it was planted there. JEote
FUWs Ifajliiw.
The man who looked upon his past .'
Was grieved and sore amazed:
'I am surprised," he said at last;
"I'm simply yesterdayzed."
Washington Star. '
"She's awful, isn't she?" " "
'Dreadful.'!.
"She flirts with everybody, except Mr. Mete."
"Yes: why doesn't she flirt with him?" '
"He's her fiance, you Enow. "Colusa Sua.-