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All doable and triple number copies of The Dispatch require a 2-ccnt stamp to insure prompt delivery. PlTlaBURG. SUNDAY. NOV. 23, ISai. THE TOOR FARM AGAIN. Anew feature is added to the already highly variegated Poor Farm record by the announcement that the owner of the Alexander larra has withdrawn the option piven the city. This is accompanied by a reported assignment of reasons to the effect that he has a better offer for the property and is tired of hearing charges of deals and jobs. The rather doubtful proceeding of with draw'nj; an option presumably valid until rejected or expires by limitation may cause this declaration to be received with incredulity. But it is not worth while to discuss that phase-of the question, as the city is not interested in interposing any obstacle to the withdrawal of the offer. It does not want the property, for three reasons: It can get property just as eligi bly located for a less price per acre; its utmost needs can be supplied with half the amount of land, and it is questionable whether a proper arraugement with the , county poor authorities would not relieve it of the necessity of buying a Poor Farm atalL Let the offer he withdrawn. -But that course should not prevent Councils from instituting an inquiry into the natural phenomenon which makes property own ers prefer to block a sale to the city by asking 75 per cent more money than they would gladly take from private pur chasers. THE RIGHT TV AT. The prospect of an authoritative de termination of the charges of malfeasance in the Allegheny City government is ren dered very definite by the commencement of criminal proceedings against the Mayor yesterday for extortion and embezzle ment This is the only course possible to take consistently with public honestly after the charges had reached the definite form of those already published. If such acts as charged have been committed, the Crim inal Court is the place where the evidence can be most conclusively produced and the penalty most effectively imposed. If the charges are unfounded, the trial of the case will most clearly vindicate the accused official. It is not prejudging the case to approve of this method of pushing it It is simply applauding the most convincing way of proving the guilt or innocence of a public official resting under grave charges. DISPROPORTIONATE RESERVES. From a summary, by the Director of the ilint, of statistics copied from European authority on the coin reserves of the na tional banks of issue in Europe, we learn that the average reserve of C5 per cent on the circulation was held by the European lranks, which average is established by such variations as from 3 per cent in the case of the National Bank of Greece to 79 per cent in the case of the Bank of France. As these banks assume a function which in this country is principally borne by the Treasury of issuing the paper circulation of their respective countries a compari son with the reserve of the Treasury would be interesting if -practicable. But such a comparison is rendered very diffi cult by Jhe fact that the Treasury, while issuing various kinds of bills for the re demption of which its credit is equally pledged, holds widely varying percentages of reserve on them. On the legal tender issue, whose standing has long been con sidered as marking the credit of the Gov ernment, a reserve slightly under 30 per cent has in thirteen years' experience proved ample. On the gold certificates a reserve of 100 per cent is held; and it was supposed that a similar percent age of silver reserve was held against the silver certificates until Sec retary roster revealed the fact that the alleged silver certificates are to be re deemed in gold, and that he is to sell bonds to obtain the gold if necessary. This view excludes the silver stock from the reserve and leaves it in the category of dead stock. It also raises the question whether we are to regard the reserve against the silver certificates as reduced to nothing at all except the Secretary's power to sell bonds, or whether we are to take the gold reserve of $100,000,000, as held against the silver certificates and legal tenders equally, which .makes the peicentage of that reserve a little over 13 per cent. It is clear, however, that the establish ment of such radical differences of reserve on obligations which are equallyimportant to the Government credit is a unique con dition. A reserve of nothing at all by one calculation and of 13 per cent by another does not consort well witli a reserve of 100 per cent on another issue of the Treas ury. A very little consideration will demonstrate the impossibility of excluding the Tieasury stock of silver from the list of cash assets. But this leaves the con trast between the reserve on the legal tenders of 30 per cent and that on the cer tificates of 100 per cent Experience has shown the. smaller re serve to be ample, even when it had to serve indirectly as the reserve for an issue of national bank notes nearly equal in, volume to the legal tenders. But in that respect why is not the reserve of 100 perH cent on the coin certificates an excessive and almost ridiculous precantlon? Why not, when we have solved the problem of giving the silver and gold dollaran actual! instead of a fiat parity, use half this ex-H cessive reserve m purcnasing unirem States bonds and hold them as reserve, with a proportionate saving of interestto the Government? WALL STREETS EAST DIVERSION. The failure of a If ew York broking firmf supposed to be of the highest standing, brings out its usual accompaniment of rehypothecated securities, or, as an emi nent financier terms it, "criminal borrow ing." It is a little early to determine the exact facts in this case, which is reported to be a disaster caused by corn gambling and aggravated by the use of securities in the manner charged. Butin-vlewof the fact that nearly every Eastern failure has de veloped acts of more than questionable honesty, it is interesting to inquire how many such things are done successfully by firms which do not break up. The exposure of irregularities and.un scrupulousness in business by failure is incomplete and partial. To-let exposure and punishment fall only on those who come to grief in the schemes-they try to carry out- by such means is equivalent to saying that the wrongdoing is in the lack of smartness which permits such tilings to be found out, rather than in thehazyideas of meum and tuum they illustrate. The ultimate cause of these scandals is the general theory of Wall street business that the man who most successfully devises means for transferring the property of others to his own possession, without let ting the criminal law take cognizance of it, is the greatest and most successful financier. When the operations that made the Gould fortune create the greatest power of Wall street, what wonder that dimmer lights should continue the lesser mistake of temporarily converting to their own use the means of others, and meet disaster by the inexcusable crime of get ting caught at it? EXPLOSIVES AS BAGGAGE. The recent discoveries that some economical individuals, with a sublime faith in the luck of the general public, have been shipping giant powder through the city in trunks as baggage is a startling illustration of the human disposition to take big chances at the risk of others. The idea might suggest itself that these small but powerful packages of explosives were intended to furnish a warning to the athletic baggage smashers from some vic tim whose trunks have suffered from their surplus vigor. But the circumstances show that the perilous stuff was shipped in that way merely as a method of finding prompt and economical transportation, with a happy hope that no one would get blown to pieces by the chances of tho operation. If this thing keeps on remedial measures will certainly be necessary. It even sug gests the necessity of personal inspection of baggage at the railway station like that which now greets the traveler who crosses from one country to another. THE GERRYMANDER SEE-SAW. The point of view is admirably illus trated by remarks of Ohio's Republican organ, the Columbus State Journal, on the results of the Democrats capturing the Legislature of New York. Our cotem porary thinks this would be "a serious blow "to Republican interests in that State." "It will enable the Democrats," says our cotemporary, "to redistrict the State for Congressional and legislative purposes in a manner that only a political earthquake can shake off the power of Bourbonism. It means the retirement of Senator Hiscock and a gerrymander that will give our enemies the great bulk of the representation in Congress." The unscrupulous and desperate parti sanship which would lead Democrats to gerrymander New York so that Repub licans would not have a fair, chance is quite evident to the Republican organ. Such things are wholly wrong when they accrue to the political profit of the Demo cratic party. But the fact that if such a gerrymander does take place it will be the legitimate successor of a Republican gerrymander, which has had exactly the same effect in favor of the Republicans for several years, does not Impress itself on the mind of our Ohio cotemporary as worth mentioning. Gerrymanders are expiessions of the unscrapulousness of partisanship only a little Inferior to the other device, of which much is now heard in New York, of counting out enough candidates to secure control of the Legislature. But if New York Democrats should have the power to make a gerrymander such as is fore shadowed It would come as nearly as any gerrymander to the justification of the lex talionts. NEVE WAR MATERIAL. Prof. Carl E. Myers now appears as the authority for a startling statement. To the inquiry, who is Prof. Carl E. Myers, the reply is that he is the scientific person who directed the balloon department of Dyrenforth's rain-making experiments. This may prepare the public for something startling from Myers, but not quite as startling as the following: Certain of the European powers are pos sessed of powerful airships so perfect and complete that in the event of a war with the United States they could be sailed over New York or any of the cities near the seaboard, and no power on earth could servo to check them before they had completely annihi lated the cities attacked. This fact is not generally known, but it is true, to my per sonal knowledge. In one respect the public will recognize a truth in the above. The fact Is not gen erally known. But that does not prevent criticism as to the more unique features of the statement For instance, why limit the area of these agents of destruction to cities near the seaboard? If airships can cross the Atlantic and reach New York, why should they not spread their devasta tion to Pittsburg or Chicago? It is kind of Myers to leave our city out of the panic-striking liability to such agents of warfare; but before felicitating ourselves on our superior safety, we should like to be surewe arc not resting in false secu rity. As to the effect of this disclosure on our foreign relations, it is plainly in the class of things important if true. If foreign powers are in secret possession of airy navies which can hang over our cities and reduce them to ruins, we must be very carcfulaboutindulginginanyactsof Jingo ism lest wc unexpectedly run up against the uncomfortable possessor of the destroy ing flying machine. Indeed, such a hint leaves us no other sife course than the 1 commendable one of so governing all our THE foreign relations on the principles of jus tice and falmess'that no power shall have the least axcuso for getting up a quarrel with us. With regardjto Myers himself, the prin cipal effect of his atartltaK disclosure will bote instill the deepest doubt as to the reports about the- rain-making business which came from the same source of strik ingly novel (Statements. TTHKN THE PUBLIC WILL.TAKE HOLD. The New York Telegram notes that "Wall street has to postpone its thanksgiv ing "untilrthe outside public begins to ouy again," as "splendid crops and paying de mands fromEurope" have as yet failed to "give the brokers commissions or keep the wolves from the doors of their mansions." The esteemed Telegram may remember that some time ago The Dispatch noti fied it that there was.still another element needed to give the outside public confi dence tc-take hold. That is some form of guarantee thatthe old tout always effective methods of squeezing the little fish and aggrandizing the big ones will not be re peated. When the brokers devise some means for-affording this guarantee such as striking off the i Stock Exchange .lists every corporation hrwhich such schemes have been practiced the public may begin to ieel a disposition to take hold of 'the few'Stocks left TnE heart of pacific Europe must have leaped forjoy when it learned that M. de Giers was abJe to assure Caprivi that the Francc-Bnssianlllanco means peace. That is, it might have performed that jubilant gymnastic if it were not for reoollections of the pacific influence of-every new move in politics forthe century. The lloly Alllanco was pence,. the Austro-French Alliance was peace, tho Empire ot Louis Napoleon was peace, the Driebundwns peace, and tho In dependence of Italy was peace. With the striving for peace that is constantly going on in Europe, the'perpetual danger of war is an illustration of the cross perversity of events. Lord Dufferix, it is now said, will succeed Lord Lyttou as British Ambassador at Paris. The able diplomatist who won golden opinions as Governor General, of Canada will belie his former record if lie does not make the relations between Eng land' and Franoe o overflow with good feeling. Is is, perhaps, commendable, but it daunts the faith in Uncle Jerry's nll-conquor-ing optimism, to observe that he is getting cautious. HiB report confines his endorse ment of the rain-making business to an asser tion that "the experiments were successful in producing explosions." This is more guarded than we ever knew the Secretary of Agriculture to be before; and indeed it is a more cautious statement than the subject required. Uncle Jerry could also have planted his Department firmly on the bottom-rock faot that tho experiments also registered a dazzling, though not unusual, success in 'spending the Government ap propriation. The example of David Bennett Hill is infections, Mayor Cbapin, of Brooklyn, hav ing decided that he will continue to be Mayor while he is also United States Con gressman. The discovery of the method by which two salaries can he drawn at tho same time Is irresistible to New York Dem ocrats. Theke has been plenty to criticise in Pension Commissioner Kaum's official reoord, but his action in dismissing th Examiner at Cumberland, Maryland, who cut the stitches in a man's wound because the latter was unable to pay two" dollars, will be endorsed without regard to party lines. The Government has a right to re quire that its niedical representatives shall be governed ty the motives of common humanity. Since the department of the higher eduoation, which most universally evokes the enthusiasm of the applauding multi tudes, is football, why not follow the thing out to its legitimate conclusion, and note that It is neither money nor mind, hut muscle that makes the man? Senator Plumb, of Kansas, has come to the conclusion that there Is no hope for a free coinage bill In the coming Congress. He also thinks the chances of free coinage would be much better if tne Republicans had control of tho House. Have we been de laded all this time in the belief that the Re publican party is the anti-free coinage party t It seems to be the case in Senator Plumb's degree of longitude. The critics of the new coinage are assert ing that the designs on the subsidiary coins are an insult to good taste, which leads tho way to their following the example of Pooh Bah&nd. in the end demonstrating their will ingness to pocket the insult. The New York Park Commissioners have decided that the occupation of a strip of Battery Park by the elevated railroad is justifiable as "a public use." This is the latest and one of the most striking examples of the great corporate idea that railroads are for the "public use" when it comes to taking property, but that the public use is nowhere when it comes to protecting the public interests in their use. Ktjssia proposes a great lottery to relieve the famine. This is a mark of half civiliza tion, but it would he better than nothing if it were not for the fear that the lottery will principally relieve the famine of the Russian officials for ready cash. IT is thought by the Philadelphia Times that when they get the secret ballot in that eity they may be able to find out where the Democratic voters keep themselves on elec tion day. Possibly. .Bat as the missing Democratic voters are a more insoluble mystery than the secret ballot, the means used by practical politicians to pierce the lesser secret will hardly illumine the dark recesses of the greater. PERSONAL. SlGJtoR CRI8PI is writing his memoirs for posthumous publication. John Sherman's portrait has been hung up in the directors' room in the Bank of v England. Queen Victoria pays her private secre tary. Sir Henry Ponsonby, $10,000 a year and gives him a house rent free. The "Lady Mayoress" of London, as Mrs. Evans is called, was chambermaid in a country hotel in Kent when she married the present Lord Mayor. Edmund Yates, the well-known author and journalist, and editor of the Worta, is iu a critical condition, at Brighton, England. He is bleeding at the lungs and the worst Is feared. - The late Dr. Amos Lusk, who died a few days ago in Zelienople, was a humble vil lage physician, but probably the ablest linguist in Pennsylvania, and noted in that capacity throughout the United States. AMONG long-haired men of to-day who are cited to show that length of locks does not Imply any "shortness" of brain are Prof. Swing, Alphonse Daudct, Liszt, Eawnrd Eggleston and General Roger A. Pryor. A committee has heen formed in Home, of which Signor Cavnlotti, Mr. Swinburne, Mr. Gladstone, Signor Amici, Signor llonghi and Siirnor Menottl Garibaldi are members, for the purpose of erecting a monument to Percey Shelley, the English poet, who was drowned In 1823. f i Georob Kennan, the . lecturer and wiitcr on the Siberian exile system, is ill with nervous prostration "in San Francisco. For months he has been working 15 hours a day on his new book about Siberia, and for -weeks, 'lie' h:is been traveling and lecturing at the same time. The result is that his ner vous system is wholly shatteicd, nnd in somnia has secured a grip which he cannot shake off. PITTSBURG - DISPATCH, , UNIVERSITY EXTENSION. rwarrnur fob the dispatch, i It has been objected by some of the leaden of education in the country that the name university extension, in its applioa cailon to the present methods of popularis ing learning, ia a misnomer; and it would be perhaps better to have selected another term aa a designation of the work. . But the name is now too firmly established to allow of an easy ohange. However, the nature of the work remains tho same; and the name is not altogether without Justification. In the first place the movement has gone out from uni versities, and Is an extension of the labors of men of university education and activity; and iftt doesnot give.those who profit by its teachings the equivalent of a university education, it nt least enables them to get a glimpse into that world of science and liter ature which has been so highly praised and go ardently loved by those who have left the most distinct footprints on the sands of time. Furthermore, it has heen found true in England and will doubtless prove so in this country, that the mingling of university professors and business men and laborers, brought about by this movement, has been a powerful factor in cren ting mutual respect and sympathy between the representatives or the different classes thus drawn together in the pursuit of a common aim. Another result of the movement, and one that en titles it to the designation of university ex tension is, that tho training here offered is calculated to lead men and woinon to in vestigate for themselves questlousof impor tance in order to form independent judg ment thereon. It is a well-known fact that the large majority of mankind rarely think and-decide for themselves; but that they de pend on others for thoir opin ions, in reality, however much they may deceive themselves into thinking that they form their .Judgments independently of those about them. Though men of univer sity training are not always free from prejudice, and many are easily influenced by those with whom they associate, yefit remains a fact that the training received by the investigation and literary handling of subjects tonds in general to produoe a more rational mind, nnd one more apt to lead its possessor aright amid the complications of modern life than if he had allowed his mind to go to seed, as is but too often the case in the rush for wealth. It Offers More Than Lectures. It cannot be emphasized too strongly that university extension offers not only lectures, but also class discussion and the writing of essays on topics connected with the subject of the lectures, tho writers thereof having tho benefit of the subse quent criticism of the lecturer and the further 'discussion in class of the points emphasized or criticised by him. Bacon says "writing makes an accurate man," and many who are not accustomed to putting their thoughts upon paper, knowing that they will he subjected to the friendly criti cism of nn expert, will he surprised to find what a differenca it makes in their method of thinking when they commence to do so. Accordingly it should be considered a most important part of every course that as many as possible of the hearers of the lectures he induced to prepare one or more essays in connection with it, nnd submit them to the criticism of the lecturer. Not least among the advantages to be gained by university extension is that it is the means of bringing together minds of a similar trend: and the opportunity for the exchange of ideas thus gained is of real and great importance. How often tho remark is made, "Oh, I read that but have forgotten It." Now, If that individual had talked over the contents of the forgotten article or book, as tho caso may be, with one or more friends, he would not have forgotten them with such readiness. Rousseau proposed for fixing a thing in the memory to repeat it ten times. That will no doubt aid in doing so; but we are of the opinion that discussing the matter pro and con with friends or acquaintances will have more lasting effect. For repetition easily becomes mechanioal, and the mind then wanders to some other subject; but a real, live discussion keeps tho mind active and brings the subject up to several different points of view, thus broadening the impres sion while it is being deepened. The Preparation for Lite's Work. Herbert Spencer complains, in his work on education, of people entering into the marriage relation without the slightest con ception of the duties of parentage; so it is with the great majority In entering on their life work. How few there are who really make the best of their position in life. How little is done in this land, which is the paradise of labor, to Impress on men and women ideas of the dignity of labor. If however, by means of lectures on mechanics, the relations of trade to society, etc, men and women could be brought to realize the fact that there is nothing degrading in hand work, hat that on the contrary, honest labor well performed is something of which any one may bo proud, it would be a great gain for tho community at large. The Immortal words of Pope are worthy to be written in large letters on the wall of every school room and workshop in the land: Honor and sname from no condition rise; Act well your part. His there tne honor lie. The present condition of politics among us is a crying evil which only the education of the pnblic up to the point where tliey will demand better service from the publlo servants will be able to remedy. University extension can do at least something toward awakening interest on this subject by lectures and discussions on the rights and duties of the citizens, founded on a study of the laws, both municipal and national. The great philosophers have taught us that sin is the result of ignoranoe. If .that is true of the sins of commission, how much more true is it of the sins of omission. Now the sins of the public regarding public affairs are mostly those of omission, absorbed as men are in their private affairs; and they en tirely fail to see that disregard of pnblic in terests has a bad effect on their own personal affairs. A Preventative of Crime and Disease. It has taken centuries to educate the European public up to the point where they realize the neoessity of public cleanliness in order to insure the public health; and Amer icans do not seem to have learned the lesson yet. But If an epidemic of typhoid fever or cholera appears, then the public suddenly wakens up to the necessity of doing some thing. Now if the public were really per suaded from day to day of the necessity of sanitary regulations, tliey would act accord inglp, abd not wait until hundreds, or per haps thousands, oi precious lives have been sacrificed to public negligence. If you can once get men to take an interest in science Bnd the beauties of literature yon have one of the best preventatives of crime; you make them better citizens; you make them better husbands and fathers; yon make them heppler men. See how miserable are the rich without education, when old age and lingering illness como upon them. Ask any one of them in such a moment whether he would not willingly sacrifice a large part of his fortune for the education which would enable him to find pleasure and-consolatlon at such a time, and his answer would not bo doubtful. The English leaders of the movement tell us that so great has been tho Interest aroused by these lectures and classes in certain "centers",of that country, that the entire conversation of the village or town has been completely changed for months, and that tho sale of books on the subject of the lectures has been beyond all precedent. Certainly a movomont that is capable of getting n community out of its old ruts, and leading it to a , hhjher lino of thought and conversation, is worthy the support of tho entire public. TJNIVEESITY EXTENSION. College Professora Form a Board to Es- tabllsh Lecture Courses. Chicago, Xov. 28. A notable conference of Western educators was held at the New berry library to-day. The matter under discussion was university extension or bringing abroad nnd special education to persons who connot attend universities Tho conference, after n long discussion, re solved itself into a Board of College Pro fessors, to consist ot a President and two prorcssors of each college. Tho duties of this board will bo to choose lecturers for the various courses and to de- SUNDAY, NOVEMBER' 29; cldeon atyten of credits, for work per formed. There was also appointed an Ex ecutive Board oomposed of President Sogers, or the Northwestern! Roberts, ol Lake Forest and Conlter, of Indiana. This board will attend to the active work of directing the extension plans. While work tag in harmony each university is to be al lowed to carry on the work according to its own methods. BOSTON'S 80BB8T WOUND. A Literary and Art Imposition Worse Than Forged Checks. Chicago Inter-Ocean. 1 Boston is sensitjvo about her culture, as Chicago is abont her business prosperity- It was therefore downright meanness on the part of M. de Solssons, tho alleged French nobleman, to strike Boston at her weakest point, and have all the best society welcom ing him to their, homes " and going into raptures over his art and literary critic'sm, when he knew nothing about art or liter ature and had never been in court circles anywhere. If the alleged nobleman had not exposed himself as a common forger Boston would not have been so much hu miliated. It was a mean trick to play on Boston. Ho was only n Frenchman from Montreal. He went to Boston nearly a year ago. He criticised Boston In a serfes of delightful letters to the Transcript; he was also a coleb rlty as a literary critic. He had Mrs. Ellis Max Elliot) for a chaperon and was wined and dined at the most exclusive establish ments at the B.ick Bay. He was a bachelor swell and the Javorite of all the ladles with out being the onemv of any of the gentle men. Ho was lionized for months, and then had the bad grace to allow himelf to he ex posed as a common French Canadian, de pendent on his wire lor all his art and liter ary criticism. Ills onlv accomplishments were in pretending to" be a swell artd 'in ploying Jim the Penman to perfection for a number of his new-found friends, who now mourn over their forged chocks as they seo the forger behind the bars. It was one or the greatest calamities that has visited Boston for many years. TWO SETS OF TRIPLETS. Six New Girl Babies in Two Families at Beading- and Mt. Carmel. Readisq, Nov. 28 SpeeiaL Mrs. .Daniel Trout, of this city, a delicate woman weigh ing 110 pounds, on Tuesday night became the mother of triplets, all girls, perfect in form. The first weighs eight pounds nnd has black hair. The second weighed a pound heavier, and has golden hair and blue eyes. Tne third weighed seven pounds, and, like the first, has Dlack hair and eyes. Daniel Trout, the husband nnd father, Is an ice driver, 59 years old. His wife Is 43. Much interest Is manifested In tho triplets through out the aity, nnd a large subscription has been raised nlreadv for the family. Mrs. Sam Spotts, or Mt. Carmel, yesterday followed 3frs. Trout's example by present ing her husband with girl triplets, nil well formed and healthy. The local newspapers have opened their columns to receive con tributions for them, and the hank aocount of these youngsters runs high up into the hundreds. A TBAIN X0AB OF CABPST& It Is Bound for the Pacific Coast in Special Qnlck Time, New York, Nov. SS. A traiA of ten cars, laden -with 5,000 rolls of carpet, left the Del aware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad station in Hohoken at noon to-day for San Francisco. Tho shipment of 'this great cargo was by W. & J. Sloane & Co., carpet manufacturers, to the branch house, W. & J. Sloane & Co., of San Francisco. The train is scheduled to make the trip In ten days, which is about half the usuM time. The train was sent out by the Great Eastern Freight Line over tho .Lackawanna to Chi cago and the Santa Fe and Colorado Mid land from there to the Golden Gate. AFTER THOUGHTS. The surviving turkey should not inflate its chest too arrogantly. A few more weeks and it may have its leg pulled, too. Phila delphia Record. We are all ready to admit this morning that a man who refrains from overeating on Thanksgiving Day is a being of perrect self control; and a very symmetrical, and very scarce man. Bostou Globe. ,T The quality of a turkey depends upon the time when you take an opinion, whether the day before or the day after. And that is the reason why we give thanks "for what we are about to receive." Boston Herald. The turkey that escaped the Thanksgiving feast will do well to crawl under the barn and remain out of sight for another month. Thanksgiving turkey tasted so good that there will be a great demand for his Christ mas brother. Erie Times. What Ohio la For. New York Press. The leading morning Mugwump organ de clares thnt Ohio is for Cleveland and free trade. If this is the case the Ohioans cer tainly concealed their preference very suc cessfully in the last election. There Is a strong popular impression that Ohio went for McKlnley and protection by about 21,000 plurality on that happy occasion. But per haps a little thing like that doesn't oount in the estimation of the rainbow obasers. Four New Bank Examiners. Washihotow, Nov. 23. With a view to in creasing the efficiency of the service the Comptroller of the Currency has appointed additional examiners of national banks as follows: Hugh Young, of Pennsylvania, as signed to the Pittsburg district; Charles H. Dengler, of Pottsvllle, assigned to the East ern district of Pennsylvania (not Including Philadelphia): J. S. Alden, of Pennsylvania, assigned to the North Carolina district, and George A. Stone, of Iowa, assigned to the Iowa district. Senor Gnarez Sailing for Spain. Washikoton, Nov. 28. Special. Senor Guarez, the Spanish Minister, left this even ing with his children for New York, to pro ceed to Spain, upon an extended leave of ab sence. His return, however, is somewhat doubtful. Senor Don Felipe Gayrario, Sec retary of Legation, will act as Charge d' Affairs until sprinar. Madame Guarez and her babv sailed a fortnight since for Madrid, ostensibly to visit her mother. The de parture of the Minister is regarded as sug gestive. Pittsburg Doesn't Cry. Chicago Tribune. Let fall a scalding tear or two! It Is a thousand pities, But New York, Chattanooga, Son Francisco, Detroit, Pittsburg, St. Louis, Omaha, Cincinnati, Plunketvllle. Franklin, Fur nace, Haverhill, Olney, jUllisvllle, Hack ett's, Mills, Pecatonica and."azoo Are not Convention cities. A SERENADE. Under your window my heart sings a song Each time that I go past; Itslnirs: "Ihaye found her, found her, found her Pound my love at la9tl" Bat who shall sing In the city's street Whatever the time his heart may beat? The grim policeman never can know That a loTer'a fancies to music go. And yet my heart will sing Its song The heart thalhas waitedfor you so long It sings: T have found her, found her, found her Found my love at last I" And It's oh ! for tho happier olden time Whert lover could slog at the door. And the"watchman never would call the time Till the serenade was o'er. In his bright blue coat with a collar that rolled. He aang the song that never grows old. And the watchman heard, and his eyes grewdlm, For love In Ills day'ha'd come to him. And perhaps he too had sting In his day. Somewhere down the Bouwerle Way, The song: "I have round her. found her, found her- ' My love for evermore!" Yet under your window my heart sings its song. That no watchman ever can hear; He never.can hear It, hear it, hear It. For It's only for you my dear! But If you should hear my steps as I go. Hark as you He on your pUlow and know That your lover goes by with a song In his heart, For two touls set from trie world apart, A simple old song, but a dear old song-Love-s have sung It for ever so long They sing It to.day as In days long past , If goes: "'I have fo-ind her, fouud her, foand her Found my love at last!" ' H, C, Sunntr in Puck. 1891. MURRAY'S MUSINGS. Disclosing Wettnow Facts About Ini mlcratlon How One Man Acta When He's Drank-BenrlntT Loiters Follow American Travelers Back From Bnrope Gotham Gossip. frnoMA fftArr coBBiaFOJrDmT.l New York, Nov. 28. Public attention bos repeatedly heen drawn to the recent extraordinary influx of an undesirable clns of emigrants. The experience of an Emi gration Commissioner as an assisted pauper in tho steerage was scarcely necessary to convince an observant New Yorker that the emigration laws were being daily and sj'stomntically violated. It may bo seen in the Russian quarter, the Italian colony and in tho regions or the city infested by tho Chinese. If there wore Bny way to get at the bottom of this pauper emigration busi ness, the "trim facts," to use a metropolitan reportorlal redundancy, would doubtless surprise people. It Is not yet exactly clear wherein the United States management of tho question is an improvement upon the old Castle Garden system. But the responsi bility is fixed under tho nowlaw. If those laws and regulations are not strictly observed there Is a power behind the throne the great laboring class which may be appealed to not in vain. One of the humorous features of the Barge Office is tho unanimity with which General James H, O'Biorno was "roasted" for strict ness hs to pauper emigrants and tho sudden discovery that the chler who relieved him Is lettingverybody In with insufficient ex aminntlon. Next to this comes Commis sioner fichulteis' discovery that the alms house crowd and other dregs of Europe that como over in the steerage or the big liners are not rcmarkahlo for either cleanliness or godliness. It reminds me of the boy who, having struggled through the alphabet, wonders much that he had to go so far to learn so little. Tne most casual inspection of New York neighborhoods where these same classes live after they get here would have developed a degree of filth and sodden immorality by the side of which the tem porary lifo in the steerage fairlv rises to a plane of respectability. It isn't necessary for a man to disguise himself and submit to the disoomrorts of an ocean voyage In order to ascertain what sort of people are coming into the United States, although it may be a good way to arouse public sentiment. Any New York tenement house will afford enough information on this point to make a decent man sick. An Odd Manifestaion or Liquor. The problem of what a given: roan will do under the pressure of a given quantity of intoxicating liquor is always an interesting one to the student of human nature. A row evenings ago the usual number of well dressed gentlemen about town were in vari ous stages of dining at a famous chop-house. That Is to say, some were at bread and water and their favorite evening nowsfiaper await ing the coro'.lation.of the waiter and the cnl inary department some were in the soup and mustache struggle, some were "dis cussing" to use a plain and vulgar word, eating the various chops and steaks not disconnected with potatoes and malt served up at this popular resort, and others were dallying with tohys of ale and small bottles and chrars and tooth-picks and mellow con versation. The portraits of stage celebrities of the long ago on the walls looked down upon the gastronomlcM scene v. ith stern wlstful ness. In the midst of this scene of the living and the dead a gentleman suddenly arose and, looking wildly aronnd, shouted: "No man in this place can hold met" If one of tho actors who has been dead a dozen years had suddenly leaped down from the wall and offered to settle his moldering score at the bar the assembled gentlemen could scarcely have been more astonished, naif a dozen chops seemed to have gone the wrong way at once, and one man inadvert ently tossed off his neighbor's wine. "I'll bet there isn't a man in the crowd who can hold me"! repeated tho gentleman defiantly. Nobody seemed to entertain the wish to hold him. lie wasrathertoolargeforababy. He stood firmly on his pins. There was ap parently no valid reason why he should have been held. On the contrary, an i lmost yearning wish appeared on every counte nance that he should not be held, but be al lowed to go. Especially on the face of the manager. That gentleman at once stepped forward and intimated his desire. Where upon the gentleman, for he' really seemed to La ...... -....m.Iw aafr ilnvn anil ,vann..(1 tlC jUO DUU1I, tUJCJ o,K ... cat... ...su.... Vlfrnranfl rnfnTinlr. The chons strain beeran to ohop, the mellow conversation was taken up where it had been left off, and the por trait of a dead pugilist on the wall looked sour enough to cardie a milk punch. This serenity, however, -was soon again dispelled bv the' eccentrio individual rising in his ptnee and again shouting his defiance: "There ain't a man in the crowd who oan hold me!" . Whether it was this slip in grammar or the rising disgust at this second disturbance the friend of the man who couldn't be held got np and pulled the latter down into his seat rather peremptorily. 8o violently, in faet, that the chair gave way, the friend fell on him, and in falling both men became ho tan gled up you couldn't tell which from t'other. They rolled over and over, clawing eaoh other like wildcats, providentially gravitat ing toward the door, and finally . down the front steps. Nobody wanted to hold either of them. Some minutes afterward, when quiet had been restored, a battered-looking gentleman.with a light overcoat ripped from stem to Btern and splashed with mud, ap peared in the doorway, and politely said; "Gentlemen, I apologize. I made a mis take." Then he bowed himself out, and the chops began to chop again: nd a waiter picked up the picture of the dead pugilist that bad fallen from its nail. A Monomaniac on Gas Stoves. "Gas stove? Yes; I thought go," said a friend of mine. "I've got a gas stove my self. You see a Pittsburg friend said that there was nothing like gas for convenience, usefulness and economy, and he figured it out so satisfactorily that I put one in my office. It was a Jewel. I saved time and money and worry by that stove, and talked it up among my friends became for the time being a gas-store monomaniac. Every time anybody came in I began on that gas stove, showed my small bills and evinced on en thusiasm that laid me open to the suspicion of being a stockholder In the gas company. I noticed that my friends never staid very long, declaring that my room was tho hottest place in town, and that nobody could live many years in such an atmosphere. I opened'family quarters later and put in an other gas stove a cooker. I boaght it of the same man. He sent an order to tbo wrong gas company. The gas company, yon see, puts the connections in for nothing to encourage gas stoves, and like the doctor, sexton and undertaker, the gas company and the gas stovo man have a sort of a pri vate understanding. I waited about a week and finally got the official ear of our com pany. They sent a man over and got the measurements. It was getting cold weather, and I sot him to connect my office stove. He conneoted In my absence, and collected 50 cents from my wife. In a day or two I felt dlzzv and sick and found the Joints leaked and had to have the work done over again. The man who took the measure ment lor my cooker never came back. I sent for another. He came in my absence, and was drunk and scared my wife nearly to death. Then, in a day or two. a new man came and brought two sets of fixtures, out of which he finally got things together. The new stove smoked ns nearly to death, and 1 went through another scene with the ras man and the stove man. The latter said it was because the gas was poor, and I be lieved him. The former snid the stove was wrong, and I believed him. They finally managed to harmonize'opinions and modify the evil.. Then the gas comnanv began to take statements of the meter. Tboy were so anxious for that stove to get in its work that tliey couldn't wait till the end of the month. They took statements at least once a week. Their man would burst in at all sorts of hours and take a statement. I be gan to think the company's dividend de pended on my cooker. Perhaps tliey thought I was running a bogus pipe on 'emthey were so persistent and nnnoying. hen the first hill cauio 'round I could see chagrin and suspicion written all over the honest collector's brow. It wasn't big enough. Now an average of two plumbers aw. ck monkeving with my meter causes no sur prise. 'When they get up to a paying basis I'll probably throw the stove out. It s mak ing mo prematurely old. To cap the climax my doctor says a gas stove ought to De ac cepted as legal evidence of attempted sul clae and I ought to be looked up. Itrallsm of the Painter. There isacuriouspaintinginthe window of an upper Broadway picture store. It reprcsentsan oldman's face peoring through a broken rough board shutter withnn old flint lock dorringer pointed outwardly in his wrinkled right hand. The face Is full of determination, the Jaws are firmly set and the blue eves squint at you from out the darkness with an expression of resolve life like and revengeful. Whichever way yon look at it the eves seem to regard you watch fully, and the muzzle of the deadly derringer covers you. Itisaclever painter's trick and ruffles the imagination Begging Letters From Europe. "liver since I was abroad," said a well known New Yorker, "I have been pestered with all sorts of begging letters. They are mostly from the managers of English charit able institutions of various descriptions, though some are from private individuals. The former inclose ii variety of printed mat ter illustrating tho purposes and work or the institution; the latter are abject appeals or apparently professional begilmt letter writers, with whom London abounds. I was talking with a friend about it, and he said he had the same cxporienco for about two yearshfter he had hnilt a fine houe here, a description of which and his wealth got Into the lecal papers. He was deluged with begging letters from almost evcrv capital in Enrope, and especially from London, Thoso people aie tho worst" nnd most persistent begirars in the world. Fancy an American mailing begging letters to Londoners! I suppose there mnst bo money in it or thcy wouldn't do It." Objects to Onr Dining Boom Habit. 'There is one peculiarity of American life," said a famous Frenchman in the hotel lobby, '-that challenges the attention of the Continental, and that is the funereal aspect or the American dining- room at meal time. Your people are decidedly English in this respect. It is apparently resarded n a breach of decorum lor people to talk ut din ner. Perhaps it Is the legitimate outgrowth of xenturies of table d'hote. Your public dining rooms are as oppressive as tbo fun eral services, over tuu bodv of one's best friend." Charles Theodore Murray. HILL'S PE0CLAMATI0N. An Albany Journal Declined Publishing It Becanse a Political Document. Chicago Tribune.l Tho Albany Evening Journal, which from time immemorial has printed the President's and Governor's Thanksgiving proclama tions in its leading column, this year ap pears with the President's nlonc. The omis sion is explained by the Journal nnd its ex planations certainly nro satisfactory. It declines to publish Governor Hill's proc lamation, first, hecanse "the Governor has shown his usual discourtesy to tho President of the United States and the authority of the United States Government in naming a date of Thanksgiving prior to tho issuance of a similar proclamation by the President, contrary to all unge;" nnd, second, boconso the proclamation is intended to bo "a polit ical document and is therefore a disgrace to the people of tho State." These are certainly sufficient reaBons. Tho action of the Governor, however, is what might havo been expected from this whisky politician. He could not take any other than a peanut view .of Thanksgiving. Whntover other cansos for giving thanks the peoplo of New York may have had. Gov ernor Hill -was not one of them. POLITICAIi POTPOURRI. Yorra Speakership cake. my Georgia friend, is burned to a Crisp. Mills. Chicago Tribune. Goversob-Senatob Hill needs a large dose or the bichloride of political decency. Chicago Tribune. Mb. Shebmaiv appears to bo one of those men who can always be Senator and, never be President. Louisville Courier-Journal. The greatest mistake of the Cleveland administration was in hot inaugurating a reciprocity policy, and thus depriving the 'Republicans of one of their leading advan toges of 1891 St. Louis Globe Democrat. The fame of fow Presidents is equal to that of Henry Clay or Daniel Webster. Is it unreasonable for Mr. narrison to wish that Mr. Blaine should bo equally as famous as thoso two great men? Louisville Courier Journal. Secretabt Foster has not yet fully re covered from the bad cold he caught at the Chamber of Commerce dinner in New York, where his remarks on silver spread such a chill over the meeting that it struck In. Boston Herald. The Tammany Hall vpteis now coquetting with Mr. McMillln. This has no significance as the factor In the final result of the Speak ership contest. It means simply that, hav ing been detected In a secret "combine" with Mr. Crisp, the Tammany voters are trying to escape a prominence that might affect their places on committees. They are as much committed to Crisp ns ever. They are not even hedging, only dodging. St Unas Re public. OHIO'S TEACHERS HISS They Hold a Snecessfal Session on Their Twenty-fifth Anniversary. Coshoctox, O., Nov. 28. A notable session of the Ohio Teachers' Association was held here yesterday and to-day. It was the twenty-fifth annnal meeting and was largely attended, there being 350 teachers present. An eloquent address of welcome was deliv ered by Dr. Pope, the Methodist minister, to which Superintendent L. E. Baughman, of Dresden, responded in behair or tne associa tion. The inaugural address by President S. K. Mardis, of the Ohio University at Athens, was ably and enthusiastically received by the vast audience. Dr. J. P. Gordy, of Athens, gnve a very In teresting and comprehensive discourse on "University Extension," and Superintendent Shawan, of Colnmbus, read an interesting and instructive paper on "The Quadrl-Cen-tennlal or American History In Our Public Schools." Other interesting papers were read by Superintendent Charles Hanport, of New Philadelphia, and Superintendent A. E. Gladding, of East Liverpool. The meeting was very sucoessfnl. Next year's session will be held on the day following Thanksgiv ing. O! The Bells, Bells, Belli. London Truth. A society has been formed in New York, with branch in Philadelphia, to promote the suppression of chnrch-bell-ringing or at least its regulation by definite legal re strictions. It will nbt, I trust, be long be fore this beneficent society has another branch in London. Many pretty things have been said and written about church hells. They may or may not be true, but it Is cer tain that they have only been inspired in the country. Nobody ever wrote or said anything poetical or complimentary about church bells In large towns, and most of the fhfncra thnt have been written and said on that branch Of the subject are quite unfit for publication. . Good Guessing In Post Office. Bt. Louts Globe-Democrst.3 It is a significant fact that 5,000,000 more errors were made last year by the patrons than by tho employes of the postal service. That is to say, such was the difference be tween the number of misdirected letters and the number of mis-sent ones. The show ing is certainly very creditable to tho de partment over which Mr. Wanamaker pre sides. CAUGHT AND COMMBNTED fjy. New York's 400, according to the winter issue or the "Social Register," has Increased to 6,000 families, and it is very evident that Mr. Ward McAllister's fences are sadly out of repair. .BaWimore American. Ont of re pair Why, his fences are all gone! He's taken off fence. Govebsob Hill's oft-repeated assertion that he is a Democrat may show that ho holds royalty in contempt, but it gives him no excuse for turning np his nose at an hon est count. Baltimore American. No, nor any honest man (nor dishonest, for that matter) for almost any man's his peer. Betweis Foraker nnd John Sherman every sensibly man, Democrat or Republi can, will be for John Sherman. yew, York Sun. That will include about all of the Re publicans, and as for the Democrats, of course, they can't be pleased as a majority on the foregoing ground, but it really don't matter about them anyway. Now that New England no longer sends her rum on lta evangelizing mission to the heathen, the truly patriotic bosom will glow to read that Chicago Is sending thou sands or barrels of American whisky to Eu rope. This is in consequence of Germany's suspending the bounties to her distjllers. Hew York Sun. Is it to be inferred that the quality of tho whisky had anything to do with the recent imperial temperance pro nunclamento? Bisxabcx has picked out a number of prominent journalists with whom he was on bad terms while he was in offlca nnd has in vited them to dine with blm. The ex-Chancellor, is unwilling to pnblish his book or leave this world until he has made friends with the newspaper men. The old states man is as canning as a tox. Atlanta Constitu tion. Perhaps the old fox remembers read ing when a boy how the nearest way to kill a starving man was to give him too much to eat. CURIOUS condensations: I An average man' of 80 has spent 6,000 days, or nearly 20 years, in sleep. There are now 400 electric roads in this country; three years ago the number was only 13. From $".",000 to 5100,000 is the cost ot tho electrical outfit on one of our new cruisers. Spectacles were invented in the year 1320, but were not in general use until nearly 2t0 years later. There is a place called Hell's Half Acre in tho Ozark Mountains of Arkansas, abont 3 miles east of Hot Springs. i The largest steam shovel in the world is at work digging phosphate out of the mines at John's Island, near Charleston, S. C. If you write much adopt the practice of using green-tinted paper for manuscript. It Is less hurtful to the eye's than white paper. The glassmakers of Thebes, 40 centuries a;n possessed tho art of staining glass, and they produced the commodity in the utmost profusion. The German army next year is to con tain 20,3it officers, 48i,98J men, 1,837 surgeons, 93 paymasters and terouauts, 559 veterinary surseons, 855 gunsmiths, 93 saddlers and S3.750 horses. If the finding of four-leaf clovers brings good luck, a young woman Hying at Sauga tuck. Mioh., ought to be especially blessed. Durim tho past two years she has gathered over 500 of them. Santa Fe, which was the seat of Gov ernment in New Mexico as far back as 1640, is the oldest capital In the United States, nnd yet its population is only 6,135, accord ing to Porter's census. The benefit of the electric light in the factories of Germany is said to have been so marked that it is proposed to make its use compulsory in all works where artificial light is employed during working hours. On the anniversary of Lord Nelson's death, every October, his flagship is elabor ately decorated with evergreens, and the white ensign is freshly displayed as it was nil the night long prior to the battle of Trafalgar. The polar night at Hammerstein, Nor way, begins on November 13 and lasts until January 23, bat hereafter the 2,000 inhabi tants will enjoy the benefits of electric light -during that period. Each house in the hamlet has an electric light. The six largest cities of the world in order of their population are as follows: London (census of 1890), 4,421,661; Paris (1S36), 2,344 350; Berlin (1890), 1.574.S83; New l'ork (1803). 1,515,301: Canton. China (estimated), 1,500,000: Vienna (188S), 1,350,000. The Mormons who fled to Mexico about five years ago are flourishing in their new homes, a little east of the Sierra Madra Mountains, in about 30 north latitude', where the fertile Casas Grandes Valley gives them plenty of rich land to till. To tell mushrooms from toadstools (without eating and waiting for the result) peel an onion nnd put with it the fungi while being cooked. If the onion remains white, eat with confidence. If it turns black, eat with an emetic or a stomach pump at hand. The Shah of Persia is described by the opposition in his country as nearly played .ont. He drinks a bottle of brandy a day, and uses much hashish and opium. The child that he brought to Europe with him, the son of his cook. Is now his sole and irresponsible Grand Victor. It begins to be noised about that whales in the South Pacific are not so nearly ex tinct as they were reported to be, and that there is profitable employment of steam whalers. A whaling bark which left Tas mania on August 17 captured in two days two large black whales, which yielded am bergris valued at 120,000. John Jacob Astor ?eft an injunction in his will that the family Bhould always con tinue the Investments in the English funds and in English securities that he had him self commenced. The sons and grandsons have always respected this command, and the family has now "an anchor to wind ward" amounting to jCI.COO.OOO. Many of the electric roads in this coun try and Canada have electric heaters upon their cars, and express satisfaction with them.. The points which call forth tbegrcat est comment aro their neatness and the economy of space, labor and money which attend their use. No room desired lor other purposes is required by the heaters. The act of February 28, 1878, authoriz ing the coinage of the silver dollar specified that it should bo of tho weight of 412J4 grains troy of standard silver. Standard silver signifies silver 900-1,000 fine, as specified in the mint laws enacted by Congress In Janu ary, 1837. The sliver dollar, therefore, con tains 371J4 grains of pare silver and 41 grains ot alloy. An old ppwdar horn, supposed to be a relic of Benedict Arnold's expedition to Canada in Revolutionary times, has been found In a deserted house In the Dead river region, in Maine. The horn is elaborately carved, being completely covered with de signs of birds, flsb, deer and ships, and bears the inscription: "JobmShannan, his horn. Made at Ticonderago, Sept. ye 22, 1760." The potato was introduced into Europe from the Western Hemisphere. History has ft that Christopher Columbus was tho first European who ever tasted a potato, but the vegetable that he ate at Cuba in 1492 and brought to Genoa was the sweet potato. The first potato grown east of the Atlantic Ocean was planted by Claudia in the botanical gardens or Virginia in 1588. Sir Walter Ral eigh found the potato in Virginia, and took speefmens back to England. The original home of the popular tuber is Chile, and it was brought North by the Spaniards. A railway is about to be built across Siberia by the Russian Government, to bring its provinces on the Pacific into closer relations with the empire's center. It is to be finished In 1895, to cost $75,000,000 and will be 3,000 miles long. The motive of this great ontlay is chiefly political. There is to be ultimately, it is felt, a struggle with China in the East, and the railway is required to enable Russia to meet China on equal terms. Vlndivostock, the eastern terminus of the railway, is to be made a first-class fortress a second Sebastopol. From that port Rus sian ships of war will issue with a freedom denied them in the Baltio and Black Sea. i VEAL CUTLETS. XOST EDITORS ARE. While other folk their prayers repeat, And give a great thanksgiving: He's grateful for a crust to eat. And thankruLthat he's living. Atlanta ComtttutKm. "Minneapolis has secured the Bepublicaa Convention, I see." "Yes." 'ner twin rival never could get an Alliance Con vention." "No!" "Of course not. Aren't women forbidden to speak in St. Paul?" Baltimore American. COURTSHIP'S AMEHITIES. "I'm glad, dearest Harry," said beautiful Bell To her lover, as brightly upon Mm she beamed, "That every one speaks of your character welL And that you are everywhere highly esteemed." "Yes, I've won everybody's respect. It Is true," He replied. ' 'but the credit belongs not to me Half as much. I Imagine, dear Bell, as to you. For I'm known by the company I keep, don't yoa "' -Few Tor Press. DELICATE. I love all the delicate ways that she has; Her hands and her delicate smile. She's a delicate nose and a delicate pose And a dreamy and delicate style. Her delicate voice is a musical treat, a. .hrttimfi m fniin tains that SDlash: But she's at lier best. Is my delicate pest. In a her delicate leasing lor au. Sirs. Freak They tell me your husband hast beenatLouiiVlIleaconpieoi u iw:BuiBi: tliei je races. M..vVnn hvi been misinformed: my husband took a S jutliern trip for his health. tj Mrs. F.-Dld be get it? Mrs. M. I assume so: he brongbt back consider able wealth wllh Mm. and I don't know how he acquired It. unless It was on the prlnclpl e of "health makes wealth." Boston Courier. Chappie AVhat's this, old fel? loa are not dining at 2 In tne nmiaunoon, arejum Cholly Yah. that's all cowwect. I've found out that when It's 2 In New York it's 7 In Ueah old Lunuon, donchcr know. Tutm llpies. "I don't see that important floor walker you had here last month. Where Is he?" "Doing the same thing nights, I understand." (flights? How'i-that?" "Ob, Mswlfehasgotababy.-Ptl&Jder.pAftifnM, it
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