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TWELVE PAGES
THE CHILEAN POSITION.
There is a severe rebuke to the classes
shouting; lor war with Chile in the state
ment, apparently inspired by the State
Department, that Chile has been investi
gating the Valparaiso riots by rlue process
of law aecordingto Chilean jurisprudence;
that whoever is found guilty will be pun
ished, and that judicial proceedings are
Veins carried forward a-tively. These
statements are based on the last dispatch
from the Chilean Minister of Foreign Af
fairs, submitted by Senor Montt to the
State Department
It is to be remembered that the liberty
to do this was exactly what was claimed
bv the United States Government in the
7ew Orleans case. The State Depart
ment was universally applauded for say
ing that it could not in any way anticipate
the investigation of the courts into that
riot nor did the laws of the United States
permit to promise the punishment of any
individual. It was very firm in asserting
that tlvre could be no interference with
the regular action of our laws
and judicial methods; and, of course,
it cannot stultify itself by demanding a
different rule of action in Chile. It would
simply destioy our position in dealing with
thr Italian Government, and put us in the
light of setting up one law for our benefit
and denying it for a weaker power.
Chile's position is better than ours in
view of the well-known fact that the judi
cial inquiry into the New Orleans riot was
little better than a farce. The Chilean
authorities are proceeding with some show
of sincerity toward the result of punishing
some one exactly tho opposite to what
has been reached in New Orleans. These
facts put the cry for war, apparently in
the interest of contractors and promotion
hungry naval officers, in its proper light
IIAIX AFTER VINDICATION.
The trouble in which Prof. JamesBrycc
finds himself as one of the results of his
book, "The American Commonwealth,"
takes a more material form than that
which generally visits itself on foreign
authors who express themselves too freely
on American customs and events. As a
general rule we denounce the European
critic in public and buy largely of his
book to read in private. But Prof. Bryce
intrusted the writing of a chapter on the
Tweed Ring to Prof. Goodnow, of Colum
bia College, and that gentleman having
committed the indiscretion of asserting
that A. Oakey Hall was an attache of that
clique, with details to tliat effect, Prof.
Bryce is confronted with a large libel
suit, which will be ruinously costly even
if lie wins.
The vigorous determination of Sir.
Hall to make life a burden for the man
who is so censorious as to say
anything unpleasant about his connection
with the Tweed business may look on the
surface like the platform of the irate indi
vidual who proclaimed : "Jones said
thatlwasa confounded rascal and I'm
going to make him prove it" But in view
of the prevailing appetite of the political
mind for vindication, it is no more than
fair to recognize that Ilall is entitled to
his ration of it All that was ever charged
against Hall was that he acted as figure
head for the Tweed coterie and carefully
looked the other way while the stealing
was going on. And that is a matter of
to enty years ago. We are in the habit of
dealing out vindication for offenses of
much more recent standing. The star
routers are now influential and respect
able citizens. The famous convictions in
the riot claims bribery took less than a
decade to attain a public act of oblivion.
Not to make odious specifications with re
gard to matters of more recent date, it
certainly looks as if the precedents en
titled the indignant Hall to vindicate him
self by suing the unwary Bryce.
Nevertheless, it is not quite certain that
the exact brand of vindication longed for
will be secured by this suit Bryce's Brit
ish blood is up, and he is taking testimony
in this country, with a determination to
hunt evidence to back up his statements,
which may make the suit as unpleasant
for Hall as for Bryce.
A NEW BUGABOO.
The triumph of Hill in New York is
naturally a bitter pill for the Republican
organs, and some of them are taking it
with very wry faces. For a discovery in
it of the possibility of a plot to capture
the Presidency, the following perpetrated
by the Philadelphia Inquirer is entitled to
the palm of pre-eminence:
It w ould be a startling thins for Hill to do
to make the New York Legislature re
sponsible for the electors, but see what a
temptation there is in the scheme. Hill is a
candidate for the Fiesidency. Suppose he
should go before the Democratic Convention
with this proposition: "I have control of tho
Legislature of New York. Nominate me and
I will guarantee the full electoral vote, and
that vote will carry the Presidency. I will
order tho Legislature to assemble ou election
day and choose thirty-six electors.
This is certainly a very fair-sized polit
ical bugaboo to inflict on a much-suffering
American nation at the very beginning of
a Presidental year. Even if it were a
possibility, its agitation by a Republican
newspaper smacks largely of the pro
verbial suggestion about greasing the
horses' teeth so that they could not eat
their oats. If the esteemed Inquirer does
not wish the redoubtuble David Bennett to
adopt this sensational method of grabbing
a Presidental term it should not paint the
advantages of the scheme in such glowing
colors as it docs in the above extract and
its context.
But it is not necessary for anyone to
raise the alarm over this sensatioual
scheme at present. The plan of it which
represents Governor Hill as promising to
call the Legislature together on election
day and choose thirty-six electors oveilooks
one important fact. In New York, as in all
other States, the choice of electors by the
people is provided for by law. To return
to the plan of choosing electors by the
Legislature a new law will have to be
patsed long before this bargain can be
made and ratified by and between David
Bennett Hill, party of the first part, and
the Democratic convention, party of the
second part When such a bill is intro
duced in the New York Legislature it will
be time enough to raise a protest and to
also bring up the doubt whether the Dem
ocratic convention would deliver the
goods.
There is another adequate reason why
such a scheme will not be tried. It would
insure the overwhelming defeat of any
candidate in whose interest it was at
tempted in every State where the electors
arc chosen by the people.
RUE L ELECTKIC LINES.
A new development of the electric rail
way is attracting attention. The latest
illustration is afforded by a charter for a
lim- between Lancaster andNew Holland,
fourteen miles, with a capital of 330,000.
This is commented upon as an illustra
tion that the electrical method permits the
establishment of short lines connecting
towns, and that the small investment will
render them profitable where the traffic
will not support a steam railroad.
This may be true to a certain extent
But as the essential difference between
such a railroad as that referred to and a
steam one of similar gauge and equal cost
of road bed is simply that of motive power,
there is still an open question as to uni
versal superiority of the new idea. The
vital question is whether the motive iwer
from steam can be converted into electric
ity and then applied to locomotion as
cheaply as to apply the steam power
directly. When this can be done it is evi
dent that all steam railroads .must use
electric power or be left irredeemably in
the rear. If it cannot be done it is diffi
cult to see how an electric road connecting
two country towns will possess any advan
tages over a steam road of similar cost and
capacity.
Some twenty years ago there was a wide
spread development of the theory that
narrow gauge railroads were the coming
thing in transportation. Thousands of
miles of such lines were built on that
theory; but very few remain to-day. It
may be that this new development of the
electric railway has a single genesis. We
are under the impression that the superior
ity of electric power lies in its availability
for city streets and tunnels, where the
smoke, sparks and noise of steam power
must be forbidden, and in its devisability
so that it can be applied in cases where the
power required is less than would justify a
steam plant It must proceed to the stage
of being furnished at an actually less cost
than steam, horsepower for horsepower,
before it can displace that agent on rail
roads running far beyond city lines.
NOT THE KIGHT CAUSE.
It is just as important for the support
ers of the correct policy in monetary mat
ters to be accurate as for those who main
tain the wrong side. This is impressed
nponusby an editorial comment in the
Philadelphia Record, with whose anti-free-coinage
views The Dispatch agrees.
Speaking of the failure of the policy of
United States legislation to raise the price
of silver, it says the speculators in that
metal were forced to dump their holdings
in India. "As a result," it proceeds,
"there is a gorge of silver in India; money
was never so cheap, nor bankruptcies so
frequent, nor business sd stagnant"
This is an assertion that, as a direct re
sult of the influx and superabundance of
the money metal in India, bankruptcy
and business stagnancy have increased.
It is difficult to accept so sweeping a
statement without question. Silver is
the universal medium in which debts are
paid in India, and the assertion is
practically made that bankruptcy, or ina
bility to pay debts, has increased because
there is a larger supply of the medium in
which debts are to be paid, and it can be
obtained at cheaper rates, which is an ab
surdity. If the assertion were that the in
flation of the monetary supply had pro
duced booms, speculation and bubbles,
which eventually progressed to the point
of bursting and then produced bankruptcy
and stagnation, it would be in accordance
with well established economic laws. But
when it is asserted that the increase of the
money metal in any country has within
the first year caused stagnation and bank
ruptcy, there must be a mistake some
where. In the interest of strict accuracy our co
temporary had better inquire whether
there have been no other causes prior to
this recent influx of silver, such as famines
or speculative bubbles, which might have
caused the business troubles that it charges
solely to the increase of the supply of
money. At present its assertion looks
like the logical error of non causa pro
causa. i
A GRATUITOUS STEAL.
While the decision of the Court of Ap
peals in the New York contest gave the
Democrats control of the Legislature,
without necessarily defying the law, they
were so determined to exhibit their belief
that the party control of a single seat is
more important than any respect to law
and justice as to make a gratuitous exhibi
tion of it in the Fif teentlf district In this
case the Court ruled that the return which
gave the election of a Democrat was the
result of an illegal and improper canvass,
and that another return containing the re
sult of the legal action of the county can
vassers should be sent to the State Board
and acted upon. Such a return was deliv
ered to the Governor and Secretary of
State, but they deliberately suppressed it
and declared the Democratic candidate
elected. The Secretary of State refused
to answer the question of the Republican
counsel whether he had not received the
corrected return, and the proceedings
were hurried through for the sake of con
summating a clear steal of a Senatorial
seat.
In this action the Democratic managers
of New York declared that neither law or
justice, the decjsion of the highest courts
or respect to common fairness, have any
weight with them against the grabbing of
a single place in the Legislature. It is
hard to see how partisanship can go much
farther in the direction of overriding
honest popular government
Tt was reported when Japan, first tried
the experiment of having a Parliament that
the gi eat trouble experienced in its practi
cal working was the difficulty of getting up
an opposition. As England had an opposi
tion the Japanese Ministers thought they
ought to have one, but the members obsti
nately refused to vote against anything tho
Government proposed. The recent news
that the Mikado has dissolved the lower
branch of tho Japanese Legislature because
it has persistently antagonized Govern
mental measures, especially on appropria
tion bills, indicates that Japan has got be
yond the stage of enthusiastic loyalty, and
has reached that in which the popular party
is always opposed to the Government.
It is a singular manifestation of New
York politics to find the IPine and Spirit Ga
zette attacking Governor Flow or as lying un
der suspicion of "narrow-minded Sabbatari
anism," and the New York Evening Sun
repolllng the charge by pointing to Mr.
Flower's large and well selected stock of
liquors as :i complete vindication of his
character. Theso be powerful political ar
guments. Speaking of the pacific policy of the
State Department, the Bo-iton Herald some
what unjustly says: "If we weioin the heat
of a Pirsidental campaign at present, we
should probably hear more about the white
plume of Henry of Navarro nodding in front
of the gates of Valparaiso." Inasmuch as
we are on the eve of a Presidental campaign,
it is much more legitimate to conclude that
Secretary Blaine lias the breadth and far
sightedness to see that his policy of a peace
ful extension of commerce has far more po
litical strength than a needless war which
could yield little glory, and might have di
rectly opposite lesults.
Thk warning of the Comte de Paris, to
the Fiench people of the latal effects (of
Republican government upon religion and
morals, comes very strongly in connection
with the reoent pranks of tho heir to the
Orleans dynasty. The monarchist theory
is evidently that the royal dynasty can
attend to the immorality of the whole
nation.
Tt is interesting to learn frnm n. "Rnffaln
exchange that "a Pittsburg citizen" arrested'
in this city lor nnng off a revolver in the
streets pleaded that the liberty was allowed
here, and "seemed greatly surprised be
cause the pleasant Pittsburg custom was
prohibited in Buffalo." Our cotemporary is
slightly misled by the assertion of the too
enthusiastic reveller. It is not a "pleasant
Pittsburg custom," to Are off re vol vers in the
streets. Onr leading citizens indulge in the
practice only on extraordinary occasions,
suchasraiu-making experiments or subse
quent to other large attempts a$ irrigation.
The revival of the story that Emperor
William is going to come to this country is
evidently a covert boom for the World's
Fair. If the champion of absolutism should
come to this land of free-spoken news
papers and indppendent citizens, the at
tempt to reconcile the irrecoucileable will
acquire a new interest.
It is a bad case of the schoolmaster abroad
that is presented by the New York Recorder,
in speaking ot an alleged foreign nobleman
who has got tip a divorce, suit in New York,
as follows: "Count Blucher is tho grandson
of Gebhard Leberecht von Blucher, Prince
of Wahlstadt, the Prussian Field Marshal,
who, on that memorable June IS, 1815, saved
the German army from annihilation at the
battle of Waterloo." The information that
Blucher saved the German army from anni
hilation at Waterloo is the latest example of
history reconstructed.
The candidate of the lottery Democracy
in Louisiana claims that ho is opposed to it.
From which it is natural toconcludo that
lie takes the old giound of being opposed to
the lottery, but "agin the enforcement" of
any laws to stop it.
When a free-trade paper gets hard up
for anything else to say, it remarks that
Andrew Carnegie proposes to cut down
wages, and hangs extended commentaries
thereon. The partisan New York World
afforded the last illustration of this mania.
If the assertions or the TTorW for the past
year weie to be believed, Mr. Carnegie must
be so busy cutting down wages that he has
had no time to do anything else.
M". Romero, Mexican Minister, is quoted
to the effect that Revolutionist Garza is a
nobody. For an entirely negative person he
seems to have been remarkably successful
In kicking up a positive muss along the bor
der. The weather flai flying from the State
Department is very strongly set toward
fair weather. Secretary Blaine is evidently
of tho common-sense opinion that tho
United States cannot impose a rule 01 inter
na'tional law on Chile that it does not
acknowledge for itself, and that it will not
pay to ruin our growing South American
commerce to please the Jingoes and flre
eaters of tho navy.
The outcome of all the predictions of
a hard winter so far is that the f.ivorite
pointer now is to buy artificial ice company
stock.
Pbisce Christian, who was shot by the
Duke of Connaught tho other day, is mucn
better and has been pronounced out of
danger. The Prince will no doubt be able to
resume shooting in duo time, but only on
condition that when he is ont.with His Royal
Highness the Duke of Connaught the latter
shall bo put under bonds to aim carefully at
him before ho discharges his kuu. In such
means lies safety.
Michican Needs More People
Chicago News.
Michigan lias now another political party.
If Michigan is to have many moio parties it
will be'neccssary to import some more indi
viduals into the State to form them.
Candidates In the West.
Chicago Intcr-Ocean.l
If the peopld insist upon it the West will
frirnish uUp-irtles with candidates " in HM.
There ti an immense crop this year.-
STEWART TO HILL.
An Open Letter Drawn Out by tho Governor
Senator's Queer Speeches- Some Sar
castic Questions and Allusions The
Sllverlto Says David Has Been Gulled by
thn Gold Trust.
Washington, Jan. 1. Open letter from
Senator Stewart toScnntor Hill:
Uxit: d states Sexatk, I
Wasuisqtos-, D. C, Jan. 2, 1S93.
Hon. D. B. Hill;
My Dear Sin- If you are in favor of free
bi-metallic coinago on tho ratio now estab
lished by law, why do j-ou take pains to
repudiate Nevada? Nevada i', and always
has been since silver was demonetized, in
favor of restoring tho white metal to tho
place it occupied as money previous to
tho passage of the mint act of
1873. No representative from that
Stato has ever advocated in either
Honso ot Congress any other doctrine. In
ycur Elmira speech you advocated free
bi-metallic coinaze. In j our Albany speech
on New Year's ovo you advocate the repeal
of the act of 139(1, which gives the people
more money by the difference between silver
certificates issued on tho coin of $il,C03,0C0
worth of silver per annum and the amount
of Treasury notes issued in the purchase of
51,000,000 ounces of silver bullion each year.
You also propose to deny to the iarmers and
planters the benefit of an enhanced pi ice of
silver in which the value of their products
is measured, knowing full well that the in
creased demand under the act of 1S90 over
the requirements of the Bland act enhances
the value of silver.
Hill Willi the Gold Trust.
The lead of Nevada for free coinage seems
odious to you, although the lead of the
Chamber of Commerce of NewYoik, a repre
sentative body of the Gold Trust, you follow
with alacrity. The Gold Trust, through the
Chamber of Commerce, demands tho repeal
of the act or 1800. You re-echo that de
mand, and anvise Mr. Bland, Chairman of
tho House Committee on Coinage, to obey
it. If he will do so and pretend to be for
free coinage, whilo legislating to limit tho
use of silver, yon assure him of tho respect,
admiration and support of the Democracy
of New York.
Are you awaie, Mr. Hill, that this is tho
old story that the people of the West and
the South have been assured ever since
silver was rejected as monev of tho respect
and admiration of the New Yoik Democracy
if they would co-operate with the represent
atives of the gold trust in contractiug the
real money of the world to gold alone.
There is no doubt that every speculator in
Asiatic products who buys cheap silver in
the United States, coins it into rupees or
other Asiatic money, and exchanges it at
par in Asia for wheat, cotton and other
Asiatic products and pockets the difference
will admire and support any Western man
who will aid in pcrpotuating this extortion.
There is no doubt tliat every great banker of
New York, who invests and collects on for
eign account, and is required by his Euio
pean patrons to collect in dear money, will
admire nnd support any Western man who
will betray his constituents by restricting
the use of silver.
Sonw Western Sarcasm,
Your Elmira speech in favor of free
coinage, stripped of the suggestion of the
employment of cuttle fish policy to deceive
the people, would have met with unbounded
gratituac and admiration of tneproduceis
of wealth in the United States. I was so
mnch impressed witli your utterances in
favor of free bimetallic coinage that I pre
pared a letter of congratulvtion to you, but
refrained from sending iton account of the
concluding portion of that speech, wherein
you suggested the possibility ot obtaining a
partisan advantage by non-action during
the present session or Congress, because tho
Pi esident and a majority of the Senate were
Republicans and might share in tho popu
Iniity sure to follow the free coinage ot sil
ver. I did not, at that time, suppose you were
playing a pait in harmony with "the Gold
Trust and in concert with the movement
inaugurated by the Chamber ot Commerce
of New York to repeal tho act of 1893. Have
you discoveied that that act must inevit
ably lead to bi-metallic coinage to pi event
the depreciation of silvoi? Do you know
that there are nearly $303,000,000 ot silver
coin in the United Stntes. including bullion.
awaiting coinage, and that no means is pro
vided by law for the ledemption of th
tiensury notes issued under the act of 18t0
except the gold and silver coin received for
duties and taxes, nnd tho silver coin pro
duced fiom the bullion acquired under that
aoOns the BoiaTrujt found that thete
is no possibility under existing laws of ac
cnmulatin sufficient gold to pay the na
tional debt and redeem the outstanding
greenbacks and the legal tender treasury
notes issued for tho purchase of silver with
out a verv large use of silver coin for such
purposes? Do you see that the existing law
must inevitably force all parties tondvocate
free bi-metallic coinago? If you do not un
derstand the situation the gold standard
contradictionists do. In order to pi-event
the passage of a free coinage act they pro
pose the repeal of tho law ot 1890.
Why Stewart Is Sorry.
I am sorry, if yon are really in favor of
free bi-met.illc coinage, as declared in your
Elmira SDcech, that you have fallen into the
trap set by the gold trust and are now
willing to aid them in their efforts to confine
the real money of the world to gold alone.
If the Democracy of the South and West
adopt j-our policy and make retrograte
movementat the present session of Congress
the people will place very little confidence
in promises to restore free coinage, when
your party shall have obtained control of
every department of the Government and
those who are for free bi-metallic coinage on
tho ratio established b3- law aro for it now
and atall time. Thoe who are against it,
advise the people that they must wait for a
more favorable opportunity.
Let me assnre you, my dear sir, that the
restoration of silver to its place as money
lias bceu delayed for more than 15 years by
excuses, many of which were more plausible
than those you present, and that the people
have come to tho conclusion that persons
who are good for making excuses are worth
less advocates of iree coinage.
Yours respectfully,
William M. Stewart.
Fence in Indian Coal Fields.
Tehee Haute, I-nd.. Jan. L The indica
tions pointing to a ronewnloftue strike in
the bituminous coal regions have almost
entirely disappeared. The trouble in the
Clinton district has been amicably settled,
and every bituminous miner in the State,
except about 300 at Clinton, is working.
PERTINENT PERSONALITIES.
Paderewski tells a story admirably,and
is passionately fond of pool.
Lady Heney Somerset, so it appears
in the Parliamentary statistics, is tho owner
of two licensed inns.
Dk. Charcot, the distinguished French
physician, is suffering fromaseveie attack
of influenza at Paris.
Captain N. B. Giddings, the first Con
gressman from Nebraska, is now a Justice of
the Peace at Savannah, Mo.
Young Prince Albert Victor is very fond
of fried calves' liver, aud the irreverent in
timate that this is a case of homeopathic ap
petite. Chief Engineer J. W. Collins has
been designated by Secretary Foster as Con
sulting Engineer of the Revenue Marino
Service.
Prince Ippolito, a nephew of Prir.ce
Borghee, has entered tlio Jesuit order in
Rome. He has just turned 18, and is a mill
ionaire. John Redmond, who has been chosen
over Michael Davitt by the people or Water
ford, was once a clerk in the House of Com
mons at $450 a year.
Robert Louis Stevenson is still a
"mother's boy," his mother living with him
don n in tho South Sea Islands and wearing
her prim widov.'s cap and black silk dress
to the great astonishment of the ratives.
C. A. Daughekty, who is Secretary of
the Ameiican Legation in Mexico, is a son of
Daniel Daughcrty of the silver tongue. He
once occupied a similar position in Rome,
where every Ameiican tourist who met him
liked him.
Rev. Dr. R. Heber Newton has been
pronounced out of danger by his physicians.
A consultation was hold in the house yo3
terday morning by tho doctors, alter which
it was announced that Dr. Newton was on
the way to recovery.
Ma Anthony J. Dkexel, whose name
has been made famous beyond tho banking
circles of the world by his magnificent en
dowment of theTJrexel Institute, is a vigor
ous looking man or high forehead, fine,
bright eye, and straight, powerful nose.
EEMAEKABLE "INDIAN CAEVIHG.
Three Curlons Relics in the State Univer
sity Museum.
Philadelphia, Jan. 1 Three very remark
able examples of carving in wood and bone
by the Delaware Indians aro now on exhibi
tion at the Museum of American Archaeo
logy of the University of Pennsylvania.
One of these, measuring two and one-fourth
inches in length by one and one-half in
greatest breadth, is a tnost artistically
carved representation of the human face.
The typical Eastern American Indian is
faithrully reproduced. There are three
holes on the margin, through which a luck
skin thong has been passed, and this still
remains. The wood is very hard and pol
ished, and colored dark led by paint made
of oxide of Iron. The other specimen of
wood carving is even more remarkable. It
isthosiine in size and material, but not
realistic character. It represints lainy
well the face of a barn owl (.strix pralincola)
but so lar modified as to be suggestive also
ofthe human face. It is of tho same red
color and attached to it by tho buckskin
thong already leTurred to.
The question naturally arise- as to the sig
nificance of these carvings, and no qulto sat
isfactory loply can be given. Dr. C. C. Ab
bott, of the University Museum, says that
objects essentially the same, carved in stone
and shell, aro familiar to archaeologists, and
have given rise to much conjecture, but
nothing better. It may be added, hon ever,
that the two c.irviugs above described are
far In advande m artistic skill of am that
have so far been brouaht to general notice,
and suggest that the Delaware Indians were
reallv capable of producing these inscribed
gorgets that have been generally looked
upon w ith suspicion. The third carving-'s a
prong of deer or elk antler, the tapering end
representing accurately the rattle of a l-at-tlesnake.
nndnt thfibrojcl em!, in mofilo. is
equally accurately carved the human face.
suriomiuing this Is a double low or uots,
equi-distantlv placed, and a double curved
line suggesting a snake's forked tongue.
These three specimens, at about the begin
ning of the present century, were presented
to a gentleman then living in Philadelphia
by an Indian, and have been preserved. with
tneir history, until now. They are three
possibly unique and unquestionably ex
tiomely valuable objects.
FIELD TTBNS OVEE A HEW LEAF.
The Imprisoned Rroker EntB a Hearty Meal
Hefore the New Year.
New Y'okk, Jan. 1. Special. Edward M.
Field has turned over a new leaf. Ho has
eaten. With tho season of good resolutions,
he has adopted one himself, though a day
early. He will keep his good resolution
as long as lie lives, too. He broke
his fast yesterday, and ate heartily for the
first time since he has been in jail. Oyster
stew, poached ergs, boiled codfish, green
peas, buttered toast, chocolate and celery
was the menu of his first meal,
thougn Warden Dnnlap wassogiad to have
ills wealthy prisoner eat that he would have
given him any delicacy he asked for. It was
a good, square meal, a'big meal foranvbody,
that the ex-banker ate, and he seemed to eh
jov it.
The people aronnd the jail give Dr. Cosby,
the County Physician, the credit for the re
turn of young Fiebl's appetite. Dr. Cosby
has beengivingFieidmedicino all the time,
and it seems that this medicine has at
last sharpened Field's appetite to a point
where it was impossible for him to resist it.
He gave np his attempt to starve himself,
and began the new year with a full stomach,
if not a clear conscience and its accompany
ing good digestion.
WICKEDNESS IN NEW Y0EK.
Over Ninety Thousand Arrests Made Daring
Twelve Months.
New York, Jan. 1. New York Is growing
in population, but this scarcely accounts for
an increase of 8,000 in tho number of arrests,
which amounted to 90,207. The city must
either be growing more wicked or the police
morevigilant. Ofthe number arrested 71.
091 were males and 19,116 females; 17,278
males and 7,827 females were arrested for
being drunk; G.3S3 males and 2,071 females
were arrested for being drunk nnd dis
orderly, and 10 65.1 males and 4.733 females
were arrested for disorderly conduct.
There were 23 arrests tor arson, 123 for
homicide, 1,891 lor grand larcenv, 3,460 for
violation ofthe excise law, and over 4,CO0 for
being suspicious persons. The city's death
rate has Increased. In an estimated popu
lation of 1.680,796 tho number of deaths were
43,631. against 40 230 in 1899. The death rate
was 25.S6 against 24.60 in 1890. The number of
births were 46.F0J, against 38,250 last year.
There were 15,764 marriages, an increase of
772.
S0LDIEES SOBBING THE CHINESE.
Not Content With Smuggling Them From
Canada, They Waylay Th-;m.
Lockport, N. Y., Jan. 1. Special. The
War Department has taken hold ofthe Fort-Niacara-soldiers-smuggling-Chinamen
busi
ness, and a thorough investiga
tion will bo mado. It is charged
that half the men in the fort have been mak
ing small fortunes in the business, and, if
the story of the last batch of Celestials is to
be believed, waylaid ind robbed them.
An interpreter found out that a batch of
fonr Chinamen were brought over the
other night nt Youngstown, nn the Niagara
river, near the fort, by soldiers, and when
they Jett them two men with masks on
robbed the party of their monev, their
railroad tickets io New York, and their
Canadian passport papers, took them and
locked them np in an empty old shed ont in
tho conntrv on the Lowiston load,
and then went to Youngstown and
informed the customs officers that
there was a gang of Chinamen up in a shed
whom thev thought had been rowed over
the river. The quartet wero ariested, and
to-day is the first known of their mishap.
HOLIDAYS IN THIS YEAB,
By a Strang's Coincidence Nearly All of
Them Occnrr on Monday.
Monday will be a great holiday day during
tho presont year. Washington's birthday
comes on Monday and so does Memorial,
Day. Tho Fourth of Jnly is also billed for a
Monday ana Labor Day will be celebrated
on a Mondaj'.
Christmas is dewn on the calendar for Sun
day and will therefore be celebratad on
Monday.
Thanksgiving Day and Election Day are
the only holidays during the yecr that will
bo celebrated on any other day but Monday.
People who believe in luck and aro super
stitious may decide upon Monday as a lucky
day during 1S92.
A BIG BUILDING SHAKY.
Scranton's Court Honso Hoot Liable to
Fait in at Any Moment.
Scrai-ton, Pa., Jan. 1. Special. Close
upon the announcement that the claim
of Contractor Snaith for work on
tho Albany Capitol building had
been rejected, comes the discovery
that tho work Suaith did on tho iK20,0JO
Court House in this city was faulty. To-day
one of the County Commissioners found
that one of tho iion trusses that supported
the roof had snapped and that the roof was
caving in.
Aichltect Walter mado nn inspection and
scrambled down very quickly, saying it was
dangerous to remain in the room, as the
roof might fall at any moment. The com
missioners hnve taken precaution against
accident. They think they will have to re
build tho entire roof.
Advice to tho Canadians.
New York Recorder.!
Tho best thing Canada can do this year is
to come into the great Union.
AH, LIFE IS GOOD.
They come, they pass, with snow-soft feet.
And deathless youth illumes their eyes;
Alike to them are chaff and wheat.
Al'k i the ioollsh and the wise.
Thev brine the wound, they bring the balm,
Tliey llxlit onr smiles, tl.ey dry our tears;
Careless or death or life, thecahn
Servants of time, the pitient jcars.
The winds that rend an 1 strew the rose
involve the sweetness through the air:
This wind of time that beats and blows.
Le ives all the past still fragrant-fair.
Thonpli hopesinay fall and hearts may break.
And fruitless all the strixhig be.
One jioldeii gift is left to make
Man's bliss, cousollng memory.
Hall and farewell, farewell and hall !
The going and thj coming guest.
Welcome to daybreak's shining sail.
As to the night beyond the West I
The y a.-"s may com'e, the years may go.
And bring the. sad or merry mood;
Merry or sad, 911c. thing we know
That life is gbod, ah,' Ufe Is good t
" , fat Tork Stau'
OUR MAIL POUCH.
Balloons Daring War.
To the Editor or The Dispatch:
Although, like General Grant, I am in
favorof peace and good will to men, first,
last and always, yet, like him, I am in lavor
of making war so terrible that folk won't
care to engage in it. About nine vears ago
while watching the fleets of Fourth of July
balloons it occurred to me how easily it
would be for an army to destroy a city by
suili simple means.
The elements of the problem necessary
are: A current of air in the proper direc
tion; India rubber balloons similar to the
children's toy, and large enough to carry
say 10,20, 50 orlOO pounds ofa high explosive
subdivided into cartridges of two ormore
ponnds each; the balloon encased in suit
able netting nnd provided with a watch
movement time and alarm clock, con
structed lightly and for the purpose iu
tended, viz., that when the wind is favor
able a pioneer balloon can bo sent out to
determine the time necessary to reich tho
desired position; that the alarm device can
be f-et to begin operation", say 7 to 11 min
utes, CO minute', 33 minutes, etc., and that a
suitable detaching device liberates the
cartridges at intervals of as many seconds
as may be arranged for. Thu cartridge,
properlv constructed, will descend with
percussion fuse below nnd explode by con
tact. The Dalloon, freed from tho weight of
each cartridge.will naturally rise somewhat
higher, bi-t will continue on its Dath until
and after all the cartridges have detached.
Compound cartridges, containing both the
explosive acd inflammable material, can be
detached in tho suns manner. An army in
position somewhat at right angles
to tho direction of the wind wonld
f nrnish a bao lino of operations.
This divided into stntions about eqnal to
the square ofa citv a part would repiesent
the ci os section o'f the city. A reasonably
steady current of air would carry the mes
sengers of destruction in reasonably par
allel lines, which would be intersected by
the time of liberating device alter the alarm
device be set in operation. The net result
would be a veritable checkerboard of action.
People who io really fond of war can
amuse themselves figuring out the result of
one night's amusement as above mentioned
in case ten thousand balloons dropped two
hundred thousand cartridges and plenty of
carbon oil or turpentine within a city.s
limits.
One ormore war vessels coasting during
a nice sea breeze would furnish a base line
of operations to send out a whole flock of
these balloons over our sea const cities. The
clock woik can ho arranged to run lor days
if nccessaiv, and the alarm set to suit to
unlock and operate and lock and go on to
begin again and again at the whim ofthe
ones who set them afloat in the beautiful
blue sky. They can be floated where the
wind llstetli to terrorize a whole nation and
bring great fear and injury thereupon.
Joitx M. Bkcce.
Pittsburg, December 30.
Vitalized Air Officially Indorsed.
To the Editor orThe DisDatch:
Permit me to throw some light upon the
"decided opinions" of Dr. S. J. Hayes, ex
pressed in yourlocal columns yesterday upon
vitalized air, as called forth by the recent
death of Bernard Mohan. I first call for
the credentials of this self-vaunted "expert
on all dental questions." Did Mr. Hayes
ever receive a dental degree or the scientific
education of a dental college? The Dental
and Surgical Microcosm, whose editor
ship is also prominently paraded, is a
hand hill intended to foist upon
thu dental profession a patent anaesthetic,
which Mr. Hayrs claims to have discovered
but which in fact is a combination of drugs
well known and in nse for years. The "de
cided opinions" consist of a tirade against
vitalizedair and these who administorit,
with the object of eventually boosting Mr.
Hayes' anaesthetics. The expert's (?) de
scription or the effects of vitalized air is
about as scientific as Choctaw, in fact is
meaningless jargon and h's statement that
it is not,most used by leaders of the profes
sion is a falsehood pnre and simple. It is
administered by every dentist, nnd all of
them except one has received a sciontifio
dental education. Further, it is to-dav the
most universally administered anaesthetic,
the total number of administrations in this
countrv alone bein-i 750,000 annually, and is
found "in two-thirds of the dental offices
from Miiine to California.
Vitalized air Is to-dav recognlzod as a true
anaesthetic tho safest and best for dental
practice: that the public should not be de
ceived as to this bv those who are incom
petent or have a selfish motive in condemn
ing it I desire this letter to receive the
broadest publication. Personally I do not
know Mr. Hnycs, ana have no quarrel with
him, but let truth prevail.
A.E. Hall, D. U.S.
McKeesport, December 31.
NEW YORK'S MISFOPvTUKE.
New 1'ork may now be taken out of the
list of doubtful States, so far as this waning
year is concerned. Sew York World.
Governor Hill can now proceed to Wash
ington. Things in New York appear to be
all fixed to his satisfaction. Boston Herald.
Those New York Republicans with an ab
breviated turn of mind should charge their
mislortunes to the Tarn tiger. Washington
JPost.
New York has had Democratic Legi3la
tmes before and survived them. Perhaps
she will pull through this time. Xew York
Advertiser.
It is no time for vain lamentation. Work
must be done if the blundors of Piatt are to
be retrieved and a Republican victory
gained in t&Z. Buffalo Express.
Is the present position of political affairs
in this State the Republican press would do
well to remember that no battle was ever
won by hysterics. Albany Journal.
RErrBLiOAXS have no redress, except by
appeal to the people to stamp with their
condemnation and rebuke these abuses and
violations of the rights or the majorities
Vtica Herald.
. Now that the Republicans of New York
have suffered about all the ill fortune that
could possibly befall them, perhaps they
will close up their ranks, send false leaders
to tho rear, and go to work in earnest to re
deem their State. Cleveland Leader.
SCHOLARS LACKING IN HTJH0E.
A Prize Contest for Humorous Essays, in
Ohio, Fails Io Bo Fanny.
Stecbexville, Jan. 1. Special. Forabout
a month the Gazette, of this place, made a
standing offer in its columns of cash prizes
for the best and second best humorous
essay written by any nigh school, parental
or grammar school pupil of Steubenville.
The bright boys nnd girls wero invited to
"pitch in and show tho public that Steuben
ville has among her young folks some humor
ists of high order." The six contributions
were placed in the hands of a committee com
posed of three of the best judges of humor
in Steubenville. who, after careiul examina
tion of the contributions aud discussion of
their merits, published tho f-llowing report
in the Gazette on New Year's Dav:
Stixbexville, O., Dec. 31. 1891.
Messrs. McFaddcn & Hnntcr:
Gkxtlemen Your committee having exsmlned
all the papers submitted, are ofthe opinion that
the bu.liiinp talent ot our city Is not vet sufficiently
in touch with modern humor to entitle any or them
to publication.
Respectfully submitted.
JL M. A. Hartxedt,
II EMIT DOBBIN'S.
D. W. Matlack.
The essays, however, are to be published,
but without names, and the prizes are to bo
distributed between the authors in con
sideration of their nerve in entering the con
test. Tho City orPjris Storm ProoL
New Y'ork, Jan. 1. The steamer City of
Paris arrived at quarantine at 2 o'clock this
morning after a very stonny passage. She
was six hours late in, leaving Qaeenstown
owing to a dense fog. Daring the entire
passage she experienced a succession of
heavy gales nnd high seas, nnd for flvo days
was obliged to olow down trom 12 to 16 hours
each dav. The City of Paris behaved ad
mirably" and received not the slightest
uaniage, nor was any passenger injured.
Massachusetts Aid for Russia.
Bostojt, Jan. 1. Governor Russell has
issued an appeal to the people of Massachu
setts, asking theui to the aid of the famine
sufferers in Russian, and has appointed n
committee, with Bishop Phillips Brooks at
its bead, to receive contribution.
Maybe Campbell Would Accept.
Boston News.3
Gov. Campbell says that neither CIovelnd
norHill will get the Democratic nomination.
Perhaps lie la willing to tike it himself.
CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS.
Kansas farmers plowed on Christmas
day.
In New York there are 30,000 cash girli
between 12 and 14 years of age.
The people of the United States spend
$450,000,003 each years for shoes.
European physicians now employ hyp
notism as a cure for drunkenness and the
opium habit.
A debt of 3 cents which has been owed
by a Philadelphia woman for 40 years has
just been paid.
In 15 years the orange export of Cali
fornia, lias Increased from nothing to
26,000,000 pounds.
It is estimated that at least 50,000,000
of the Government's paper money has been
lost or destroyed.
The bulk fot the Japanese revenue is
derived from the railroads and telegraph
lines which it owns.
Dnring the past fonr months more than
$7,000,000 in gold has been brought to the
United States from Australia.
A blacksmith's tools ofthe present day
arc almost identical with those nsed in the
same trade over 300 years ago.
The oldest liquor in any New York club
cellar is supposed to be some Sayillao
brandy ofthe vintage of 1803 at tho Union
Club.
A floor painted in various colors in
gesso has been unenrthed at Telel Armama,
in the palace or Amenopbis IV., the Kin; Of
Egvpt.
A girl in Norway must be able tobake
bread before she can have a bean. The one
who takes the cake as a cook is considered
the flow er or the family.
The aboriginal Australian adopts a bru
tally forcible mode or wooing. When he
wants a wife he looks about for a likely
helpmate, and finding one to his liking,
knocks her down with his club, and carries
her home.
Zadkiel, the English planet reader, in
his sixty-second annualalmanac, justissued,
has found a message somewhere in his stel
lar readings to the effect that in November
or next year there will be "a death of an
Empress or a Queen."
The rapidity with which insects travel
is astonishing. The common house-fly makes
600 strokes per second when in the act of ordi
nary flight, that number of strokes causing
an advance movement of 25 feet. Our best
naturalists say that this can be increased
soven-fold.
There is a knowing farm horse near
Butler, Pa., which lifts the latch, opens the
gate, goes to the watering trough, seizes the
pump handle in his month, pumps water,
drinks and returns to his pasture, closing
the gate after him.
In round figures, the building done in
Chicago during the past year amounts to
$54,010,500, as compared with $4773,209 during
1SUU, and $31,516 000 during 1889. This amount
represents 11,476 permits, and 230,614 feet of
frontage. This, in turn, represents a solid
frontage of 54 miles, or over 4 miles In excess
of las: year.
Electricity has been tried in Sweden for
blasting. A deep hole is drilled in the rock
and a Jabiochkoff candle is inserted and the
current turned on. The intense heat causes
the rock to swell atall points, and internal
strains crack the whole rock. Holes are
best drilled into the solid parts, not. as in
blasting, in the seams and soft places.
A father will sell his daughter among
Unyamwazi, Africa, for one np to ten cows.
ALomali asks of a poor wooer from 10 to 20
horses, ofa wealthy one from 100 upward,
together with 50 camels and COO sheep. On
the other hand, in Uganda lour oxen are
sufficient to buy the most perfectly formed
village belle, provide six needles and troox
of cartridges are thown in.
Colonel Le Cauteur, of the Isle of Jer
sey, cultivated 150 varieties of wheat on his
estates at onetime, and Darwin mentions a
French experimenter who had 322 distinct
sorts growing at one time. Vilmorin-An-drienxet
Cie. seed merchants of Paris, have
collected npward of 700 different types of
wheat, or more than twice as many as the
great Jerssy experimenter.
Fireflies have been put and are even to
this day applied to some curious uses. In
Santo Domingo and other West India islands
they are employed for lighting purposes,
being conflncd in lanterns, both.for going
about the conntrv at night and for the illu
mination of dwellings. By attaching one of
them to each foot while traveling in the
darkness they serve as a guide to the path.
The Rancha Came Humana, in Cali
fornia, is said to derive its singular name
from the fact that a portion of it was once
occupied by a tribe of Indians who ate
human flesh. Another tradition is, however,
that some Spanish explorers who came into
the valley just after a terrific battle between
tho aborigines found it so strewn with dead
and mutilated bodies that they named it
ValleCarne Humana, the Valley of Human
Flesh.
Arecent census of British Guiana shows
a population in the colony of about 300,000,
of whom 117,000 are East Indian coolies, 5 000
Chinese, 15.000 Portuguese,and20,000negroe.
The great increase in the number of Asiatic
immigrants into the country, the coolies
now forming a third of the whole popula
tion, has Been made tliesnnjectorconsider
able legislation recently. These coolies are
imported, under contract with the British
Government to work on the suiar estates,
and only remain in the colony a few years.
The Japanese art of making miniature
landscapes and gardens consists chiefly in
starving the plants so as to retard the circu
lation of the sap or life-giving juices. Fur
guson, who was one among the first of
English adventurers to visit China and
Japan, mentionf the fact that he sawat Can
ton "a boxe about the bignlss of ladyes
snnffe-box, which did containe a littyl dirt
and sixteen tiny little trees, foure of which
wero in full blow, the whole boxe, trees and
nil, so small that n man could put them in
hys mouth together.
The Esquimos wear reindeer skins for
clothing. They buy them from the Siberian
Chnkchees, who come over to an interna
tional fair that is held every summer on
Kotzebne Sonnd, just above Bering Strait,
on the Alaskan side. For the pelts, seal oil
and walrus oil aro exchanged. There is
much dancing and feasting on these occa
sions, as well as trading. AH the trading is
donebvbarter.no sort of money being in
circulation. At th"3 fair also many wives
are bought. One can purchase a very good
article of a wife for $10. Wives among the
Esquimaux people are usually bought. Some
times the women are consulted.
PICKINGS FBOSI PUCK;
Hughs It's queer that Marsh, the Phil
adelphia defaulting banker, has never been found.
Clews-Yes; do you suppose they have look el
for him among the tall grass on Chestnut street?
Though legal usage does not will
That lawyers plead a special gear in.
At court 't'ls common fur them still
To have a lawsuit to appear in.
Handsome Young Sheriff (with an order
from the Court) I beg pardon. Miss McFaU, but I
have an attachment for you, which,
Miss McFall (3 if she's a day) This Is so sud
den, Mr. Nippers I But. yes, .dear.
Dominie's Wife Edward, the people are
talking shamefully about your deception in that
last horse trade.
Doinlnle (eagcrly)-Dld they say anything about
trying me for heresy?
It's a verjfhard fact, and there is no use re
pining. Though civilized man can not live without din
ing." If he couldl What an end to vexation and care!
And how soou he would bloom out a full niiUioa
alrc. "What a red head that fellow has!"
"Yep! I guess Melancholy must have marked
him for her roan."
Amy Budlong Did you make any New
Year's resolutions?
Flora Wall Yes. I nave resolved to get married
this leap year, or die iu the attempt.
"Can you imagine a pea-green elephant?"
said Brers, as he rea(J,in the paper of that animal
being discovered.
Thanks," returned Hennessy; "I don't care IT
I do."
He called her an angel, but knew not that
she.
Like the celestial people, wings had grown
A most deplorable discovery
Till with another she away had flown.
Mrs. Greatmann What are you worrying
over? Nobody will believe what those papers say,
dott that you have boldly sued them for libeL
Hon. .Mr. Gresuuinn (despondenUy)-I a'm
afraid 1 can' t keep the case from, comlag to trial.
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