gSg --;-f Y--Z-- '-- f-V W wppB?Ki. ? ' THE. PITTSBURG XJISPATCH, -SUNDAY, JANUABY. . 10, 1S92. KMaagji jgigpjclj. XSTABLISIir.D FEBRUARY S, 1S1G Vol. i No. ST. rstcrod at Pittsburg Postomce November. 1S6T, i 6ccor.d-cl.-3: matter. 'Business Ofnce Corner Smlthfield and Diamond Streets. iNews Rooms and Tublishing House 78 and So Diamond Street, in New Dispatch Building. F-ATFUS ADVEIITJSIN'O OFFlrE. nOOM -It, TRIBUNE BUIT.DINO. MIWYOJ'.K.wI.er-com-plrtc files of TIIF Dltel'ATVHc-.n always be found. Foreign adieriisers apprcciafc the convenience. HGimfadicrtifers and friends or TIIL Dl-PATCH, yrhile In N c w York, are also made welcome. THE J 'SP-i T1I ft regularly on mien' Brentnni', I IMbm Sjmre. .Via lark, and 17 Are tie repent. T&nr. Finre. inhere nnyeve fho tin teen disap jXMitfd at a hotel svjcjt stand can oltain it. TEIiMS. OP TUE DI&rATCU. rfifTA'SE rare ix tiieuxjted f tate. daily DisrATcn. One Tear ? S 0 Daily DisrATcn. rcrQuartcr ;co Daily DisrATcn. 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POSTAGE All persons who mail the Sunday issue of The Dispatch to friends thould bear in mind tho fact that the post age thereon Is Tiro (S) Cents. All doable ond triple number copies of The Dispatch require a 2-ccnt stamp to insure prompt deln ery. riTTiBLna. fcrxu vy. januaey 10. THE SIIUIIIOX CLEARS UP. Summing up all signs to date, the indi cations are convincing that Colonel Shep ard's prophecy is not to come true that the backers of President Harrison are not destined to the delight of waking up some fine morning and reading a letter from Secretary Blaine declining the Presi dental nomination'in favor of his official chief More than anything else, the events of the past week have beeg conclusive upon that point Mr. Blaine knows that with the opening ot the new year the fight for delegates to the National Convention began. Then, if at all, would he have spoken rather than place himself under the odium, if lie spoke later on, of having delayed his letter so as to keep other com petitors against President Harrison out of the field. But the President's own course shows that he expects no derlinatiorf from Blaine in his favor. He does not take the risk of Blaine delegates from Pennsylvania, for instance, but seeks to make his own call ing and election sure by getting men who will surely support himself for second and where possible for first choice. To promote this, the Federal officials in Philadelphia and elsewhere have been notified that their active help is demanded for the administration direct There has een a lively stirring up of the animals. J Without waiting longer it may now be set down for about a settled fact that if Blaine is in right health he will accept the Prcsidental nomination; and if he is not he will not put himself too much about to secure it for President Harrison. He Is not ready at this stage, anyhow, to abdi cate for B. IL A FAT HARVEST OF COSTS. The nonsensical talk of the few individ uals who compose the present member ship of what is known as the Law and Order Society about stopping railroad trains, newspapers, iron-mills, telegraph and other public services on Sunday has so far been rather more amusing than seri ous. But the end to vihich it has led, of inquiry into the manner and results of the Society's operations during the past few years, may prove highly interesting before the investigation promised by the Com adnvtealth's representative, Mr. Frazer, s completed. The institution of suits suppod to number thousands in the ag gregate: the private hearings and settle ments; the careful guarding of the names of the defendants, of the testimony and of the disposition of the cases, from public wrutiny,are now followed bytheannounce ment that though 25 fine was affixed by the Blue Law to each proved offense, only a beggarly return has, been made to the State Treasurer. Leaving out the returns of Alderman Cassidy, who did but a small part of the Society's business, it appears that in the past five years the Society's Aldermen have returned to the State but little more than Sl,000, or the fines of about forty cases! As a sort of explanation of this the in teresting new s is volunteered by one of the Society's agents that in. nine cases out of ten the cases were "settled" without fine. They appear to have yielded, how ever, their full harvest of "costs" to the people active in the prosecution. The tall: about prosecution of the newspapers, the trains, or the employes of the mills, or others engaged in the ser vices which have become necessary to the public by reason of the changed condition of things since 1791, will, of course, amount to nothing, as the courts must take cogni zance of the altered state of affajrs, and of the conditions which exist everywhere through the land; and if the courts did nor, public opinion would quickly compel legislative remedies. The newspapers, particularly, can take care of themselves; those who start in to hunt the newspapers usually get hunted before the chase proceeds very far. But the class of people upon whom the society has hereto fore levied its tribute has been generally without means of defense. If in nine cut of ten of these cases, could not be proved warranting the fine imposed by lew, the presumption arises that the ap petite for "costs" has led to an activity not unwonhy of the spirit and gcuius of Jonathan "Wild. The Law and Order Society rendered a Tfcd service in its time, when it acted in spans? to public sentimeri'; in suppress .g open saloons, disorder and gambling ; Sunday. It ihen had the backing and nembenLip cf many prominent citizens. Whw. thfise dropped out, and in the hands of a Tw fanatics, it began its pieayuniah cresauo aghinst soda water fountains and cigaK following this up its quixotic and silly till: about stopping trains, newspa pers and other jjiibUc requirements it iost -M"j sympathy. If its agents are now to justify their .proeeedingsilegally .'will have reason to congratulate themselves. It looks as though they will have an earlier opportunity for such justi fication than they expected. RENTAL VALTJEb THE TUtIL' KASIS. The assessment season is upon ust and the radical faults of our tax system will soon be exploited vociferously by those citizens who may find valuations in creased. As the taxes are merely the product of two factors, namely, values and millage the increase of either of the latter will have the effect of calling for !morc money from the taxpayer. For the present all that can be done is to impress Councils with the necessity of avoiding extravagance, and of closely j scrutinizing every detail of expense. Even I conceding that this were faithfully ob ! served, the fact would still remain that t the present tax system is the most jtupid 1 and inequitable ever devised. The Dis- tides showing no matter how conscien tious or hardworking the Assessors might be, they cannot establish a perfect equity, under this S3'stem. It may justly be con ceded that no more intelligent or upright men than the present Assessors can usu ally be counted upon for the position. Yet even these, do the best they can, will not be able to get through their work without an immense friction; and care fully as they may attempt it, the burden of taxes will in the end be unevenly dis tributed. The fault of the system is in the absurd fiction of nominally assessing property upon cash value, and practically being re duced to guess work or purely arbitrary ratings. The impossibility of establishing cash values is best proved by the fact that it is hardly ever attempted. For awhile the theory was held that when one lot in a block happened to be sold, the selling price for that lot would be the valuation for the property around; but the Courts knocked that plan promptly on the head, and very righteously, too, since the acci dent which might bring a purchaser for one lot by no means necessarily made a market for those adjoining at the same rate. Thus "the last recorded sale" ceased to be the criterion; and the paradox gen erally results of property being valued for taxable purposes at prices below sales in the market, and with a different standard for each neighborhood. The Dispatch has always urged as a substitute for the present uneven and un satisfactory system one by which property would be assessed by, its rental value. The rental value is something easily as certained; and as it is the real measure of outcome,no one could object to payingupon that basis. Here would be a method with the assurance of something like accuracy. Sooner or later when the question of tax laws for cities comes to be intelligently and capably considered by the Legislature, the plan of assessing according to the rental value will inevitably be estab lished. EETK1ACHMUST BY J.ECESS1TY. . In his discussion of the National Treas ury the other day, Mr. Dockery told what the people have understood generally for some time. That is that the lavish appro priations of the last Congress exceeded the public revenue by a very large amount, and that the cash balance outside of re serves has been reduced to the lowest margin tor nearly two decades. This is an important though not v holly satis factory fact; but in his demonstration of it Mr. Dockery brought out another point, which is rather favorable to the adminis tration than otherwise, by showing that it is doing its best to correct the extravagance of Congress in omitting to expend all the money appropriated. Mr. Dockery stated that ?G5,000,000 of the appropriations for the first half of the present fiscal year have gone unpaid, and the New York Post claims that this is too small, as the difference between expendi tures and appropriations- for that period is ?86,O00A9. Which of the two statements is true makes no difference with regard to the fact that the administration in de clining to expend appropriations when the revenue does not furnish the money for them is acting wisely and discreetly. There may be room for criticism as to the selection of appropriations from vhich money is expended and of those on which it is withheld; but with regard to the gen eral policy, there can be no wiser and surer way of correcting the extravagance of Congress, than this. There is no con stitutional compulsion on the Executive to expend all the money that Congress may appropriate; and the compulsion of good policy in the other is especially strong when the appropriations as indicated by these figures exceed the revenues of the Government by from 5130,000,000 to $150, 000,000. The course of the administration in cut ting down expenditures below appropria tions, together with the now undisputed fact that the once vaunted surplus is a thing of the past, places that achievement of the last Congress in anything but an enviable light It also places the admin istration and the majority in the House, in a practical agreement as to the neces sity of retrenching expenditures. THE DEMOCRATIC FATALITY. It has often been remarked by impar tial and dispassionate observers of this era of American politics that the Democratic party cannot stand prosperity. A similar opinion might perhaps be pertinently predicated concerning the Republican party based on the appropriations of the Billion Dollar Congress. There is an element of truth in the assertion with regard to both political organizations. But the theory with regard to the Dem ocracy is of older standing; and the reported trend of affairs in that party at present is especially designed to prove that it has as much foundation as ever. The disposition of the Democracy to bring its least commendable motives and its most objectionable characters to the top when it thinks it has the supremacy, while not very conclusively demonstrated at present so far as it is exhibited, has less provocation than ever before. x After the reverse of 1888, the landslide of 1890 put it in control of the House by an over whelming majority. But the Democratic joy over that acquisition ignores the fact that the Senate and the executive branch of the Government remain in Republican hands, and that the campaign, which they must win in order to carry those points may, if unsuccessful, lose them the House again. Under snch circumstances it is natural to suppose that Democratic policy would bear in mind the lesson taught by the fact that since the slavery era the Democracy have never won a national victory except by putting forward men and principles that attracted the independent element of the country. But the Democratic exuber ance is so overpowering in the House that instead of putting its best elements for ward it is at present busily engaged in shoving its worst characteristics to the front The most signal example of the Demo cratic disposition to ruin itself when it rrfta veWti. anntirrli r rln en id .tffrwAnA Tit. the indications discussed in our 'Washing- ton dispatches yesterday, that the Demo cratic control is now fully vested in the hands of Hill and Gorman. If the effort were to select the two men of all the. country who most indisputably represent the wqrst elements of Dem ocracy, and whose leadership will most powerfully repel the support of the men who believe in honest and pure adminis tration of public affairs, it would be" im possible to choose any others -than David Bennett Hill and Arthur Prue Gorman. If the same principle of selection were to prevail in the Republican party it would be difficult to find two leaders who can match them in unscrupulousness and wanton disregard of public principle. They represent exactly the same .evils as those which have alienated independents from the Republican ranks, with the dif ference that in the case of Hill and Gor man the abuses of political machinery are magnified to a high power. If the result of Democratic victory is to put public affairs in the hands of these two men, it will concentrate the decent and sensible elements of the country in the support of almost any candidates whom the Republicans are likely to name. TARTIES Ilf CITY POLITICS. The action of the TVilliamsport Board of Trade, as a representative of the independ ent citizens of that city in appointing a Committee of Thirty (three from each ward of the city) to make non-partisan nominations for city positions, calls at tention to the Idiocy of importingnational politics into city affairs. The AVilliams port case is a reaction from misgovern ment resulting from partisanship in its municipal government. The Board of Trade is making efforts to correct this, having gone so far as to request the party organizations to refrain from making city nominations. In view of the importance of bread and butter in the party estima tion, it is not probable that this request will be granted by both parties; but if not, the independent element has taken a step which -will enable it to draw the lines on the municipal issue of good or bad gov ernment There is no respect in which the super stition of partisanship more clearly re duces itself to an absurdity than in this practice of drawing party lines in muni cipal elections. The use of parties is to carry out the lines of policy supported by the party which wins the vote. But a party formed to advocate a national policy can by no logic usefulness claim a control cipal ' government where no possible application of public of muni there is of that policy. There may be and should be divisions of municipal parties on ques tions of municipal policy; but those party divisions are naturally as distinct from national parties as the municipal policy is from the national policy. There is nothing so utterly devoid of reason as the idea that certain views of tariff or coin age, should control the selection of a municipal body to act on questions of pav ing, water-works or lighting; nor would any such idea ever be entertained, if it were not for the supreme consideration of party spoils. Fortunately there is a certain check placed on this anomaly by the readiness of the people to disregard party lines, in vot ing for city candidates. IJut a more de cided demonstration of its emptiness is furnished by the fact that rings to control municipal business do not confine them selves to party lines. They preach the party principle to aid them in the control of the vote; but wherever valuable services can be obtained in maintaining supremacy, it is secured without regard to party allegiance. There is not the slightest reason why the interests of the people should not en joy the same liberty. Wo hope that the independent element of Williamsport will be successful in showing how to divide municipal parties on the issue of faithful service to the interests of the people. Its success may stimulate similar independent movements "in Pittsburg, Allegheny and otherplaces near home. EGYPT'S SENSATION. The reports as to the cause of the Khe dive's death are the natural resultvof the condition of Egyptian affairs. The mild est version of the rumors set afloat is that Tewfik Pasha died from an overdose of morphine ignorantly administered by a native physician, whereas other versions do not scruple to hint at an assassination inspired by the interests which hope to profit by tho accession of Abbas Pasha. To any one who has watched the polit ical changes at Cairo or Indeed at Con stantinople, it will be very easy to under stand how such reports find ready accept ance among the people. For it is a fact that such means of effecting a change of rulers are among the common incidents of politics at those capitals. The Sultan or Khedive who does not obtain power as a result either of open force or secret assas sination, is an exceptional individual; and it would be entirely within the precedents of those countries if these reports were well-founded. Nevertheless, the story is not worthy of much credence, because the principal ad vantage from the accession of Abbas Pasha seems likely to accrue to the English; and it was wholly unnecessary for that Government .to employ such des perate instrumentalities. When the English had a much less firm hold on Egypt than they now have, they found little difficulty in displacing Ismail Pasha and putting Tewfik in his place, permit ting the former Khedive to lead a life of pleasant retirement for several years in Europe. It would have been just as easy for the" English to have pulled down Tewfik as it was to set him up, if they had desired. If Tewfik Pasha was a mere figurehead for the English control of Egypt he answered that purpose as well as his son will. Possibly the death may have been the result of ignorant treatment; "but the motive for poisoning a ruler who is absolutely without power is conspicuously absent SATJL A5IONG TnE PKOPHETS. An outbreak of important truth in an unexpected place comes from an esteemed Philadelphia cotemporary. Speaking of the decision of the Connecticut governor-' ship suit the Inquirer points out its lesson to be: "That the constitution must be obeyed by the Legislature as well as by the people." And a home application of this indisputable fact is made by our co temporary as follows: "There are several important points in the Constitution of this State to which the Legislature is per sistently disobedient" The fact is very well known to all peo ple who have urged tho enforcement of the Constitution. From the time when the Legislature began its neglect to enforce tho sixteenth and seventeenth articles of that instrument, including the declaration of John B. Robinson that "there were many things in the Constitution which he could not indorse" down to the sage con clusion at the extra session of the Senate that it would be- unconstitutional to do what the Constitution specifically author! zed, the opinion of Legislative circles has been decidedly of the Old Bill Allen stripe that it was "a blank barren ideality." No dispute can arise as to' the fact, but the statement of it in the editorial columns of the Inquirer is a pleasant surprise, inas much as that journal has heretofore had little blame for" errors of that sort and was a warm advocate of the Senatorial theory at the late session that the Consti tution is unconstitutional." Now that our cotemporary has recog nized the fact in general terms, we shall hope to see its efforts given to urging the details of constitutional observance and maintenance by the Legislature. The Dispatch has for some years earnestly urged the doctrine that when the people have adopted constitutional guides for the action .of the Legislature, it is the duty of that body to respect and uphold them. It will welconfb the vigorous aid of the Phil adelphia Inquirer in preaching the same principle, and holding up to public disap proval the men who disregard it N;OW that the anti-Sims people in Ala bama have taken to lynching women, they rank themselves a good deal lower than the original outlaws, who did not, so far at re ported, murder women either collectively or individually. Two photographs from the Congo region, are referred to by tho New York Sun as showing the progress of civilization in that region. One of them represents a precipi tous, hillside where to men can scarcely get a foothold; the other is of the same spot where a broad and level grade has been made, for the roadbed of the Congo Railroad. The promise of tho completion of that work which will open tip the great Congo region from its mouth to Stanley Falls, is all tho more welcome, becauso it is the one Afri can project that is free from tho schemes of territorial aggrandisement on tho part of European power. If tho development of tho Congo avoids tho dangers of commer cial monopoly as well, it will be one of the unalloyed triumphs of civilization. Slit Edwin Aenold's declaration that tho most moral people of England are its aristocracy, reads In the light of recent events like a crushing negation of the much vaunted virtues of tho English middle classes. CHICAGO manufacturers are reported to liavo found on full experiment that crude petroleum is a cheaper fuel than soft coal, and that it is burned without smoke. It yet remains to be decided whether its substitu tion would not be to barter the smoke and fog of Pittsburg and London for a donble distillation of the smells of cologne; and that is a questionable bargain. The Presidental theory seems to be that it does not matter whether tho china for the executive table is made at home or abroad, so long as the kitchen ware is exclusively of American tin. Mr. Asteejiax of this State proposes to secure uniformity of legislation on the sub ject of divorce by a constitutional amend ment for the United States. This, as The DisrATCH has heretofore pointed out, is the only sure way to obtain uniformity; but it has tho drawback to impatient reformers of being a good deal more slow than suie. IN THE UPPFK CRUST. Secretary axd Mrs. Fostee will leave here this afternoon for a week's visit to Fortress Monroe. Secretary and Mrs. Foster left Washington yesterday for a week's visit to Fortress Monroo. Dr. "Vaiento is making a collection of 1,000 photographic views of Central America for exhibition at the World's Fair. ' John" I. Blair, the railroad magnate, is quite ill with erysipelas. Much anxiety is felt for his recovery among bis friends. Mrs. Bernard Beebe will sail for New York, from London, on the 29th inst., ac companied by Herbert Standing and Marius. The Prince of Wales has begun to sign himself "Edward," instead of "Albert Ed ward," indicating that when King he will be Edward VII. It is rumored that all the theaters in London are to be thrown open free to the public on the, evening of the Duke of Clar ence's wedding day. The Secretary of the Treasury has awarded a life-saving medal of honor to Moritz Rosenthal, of Riverside, Cat, a lad of It years, for rescuing a man from drown ing on the 29th of August, 1S91, at the peril of his own life. Actor ScANiiAN is believed to be rapidly nearing his end. Those who know say tho indications are that be cannot live many weeks more, as his physical condition is grow ing worse, as well as his mental. His physicians says he may die any time. The London City Council has decided that the wedding gift to be presented by that body to the Duke of Clarence and his bride shall be a diamond necklace valued at 1,600 guineas for the Princes3, and a magnificent silver dinner service valued at 900 guineas for the Duke. A $30,000,000 EXHIBITION. Where the Honey Comes From to Be Swal lowed Up in Jackson Park. Chicago, Jan. 9. The Department of Pub licity and Promotion of the World's Fair has issued a statement showing the scope of the work in hand. Thirty-nine nations and 21 colonies have made or officially proposed appropriations for their exhibits, amount ing in the aggregate to $4,004,563, and the in dications are that at a low estimate this will be increased to J5.000.000.' The States and Territories of the Union have appropriated $2,695,000, which will be largely increasod. In nine States where, for constitutional reasons, no appropriations have been made, organizations of citizens are raising $1,030, 000. Tho aggregate contribution of the States is expected to leach $5,000,000. The United States Government has appropriated $1,500,000. The Exposition "ComnanV has raised $5,721,230. Chicago has given a $5,000, 000 loan, and the Government will be asked to loan or appropriate an equal amount. . The cost to the Exposition Company of constructing and holding the Exposition is estimated at $13,500,000. of which $8,000,000 is to be put into the General Department buildings alone, exclusive of the National and State buildings of all sorts. To meet this, it is figured that the company has $23, 750,000 of prospective resources, inoludlng in addition to the sums already given and exclusive of tho proposed sum from the Government, $10,000,000 from gate receipts and $3,030,000 from the sale of privileges and from salvage. The company has paid out to date $2,779,707; and the current expendi tures are about $1,000,0:0 a mouth. The ag gregate amount to be spent on the Fair by the Exposition Company, tho various States and foreign nations and the Federal Gov ernment is approximately $30,000,000. II TOOK SEVEN YEAKS. A Postal Card on Its Travels From Louis ville to Chicago. Chicago, Jan. 9. Louisville is a city in Kentucky, about a pleasant daylight jour ney from Chicago. At 5 o'clock on the aft ernoon of September IS, 1881, an Innocent, unassuming 1-cent postal caid was stamped in tho Louisville ppstofflce. Across its placid front was written, "Western Leather Co., 76 and 78 Wabash Avenue, Chicago, IlL," and the script o'n the reverse side was subscribed "Chilton Guthrie & Co." There was nothing else about the appearance of the card that was radically distinctive. It was a plain, ordinary card of regulation Government standard and make, but it was lazv. There was an indecision about its move ments, a lack of energy; a species of abject slowness attached to it that distinguished it from its fellows, for It reached Chicago at 6 o'clock p. it., December 31, 1891, just soven years, two months and fifteen days from the time it was dropped in the Louisville post office slot. During that time the firm to w hich it was sent has changed its location four times and its makeup threo times. From the dirty, muddy and woebegone appear anco of the laggard it is presumed that it walked to Chicago. The question is: "Where has that postal card 'been for seven years anaoyeii- TRUE TALES OP TO-DAY. The talk turned upon personal courage in a conversation I had tho other day with an aide-de-camp of Genoial Alexander Hays. The veteran, who had the name of boin'r the most during aide on Hays' staff, said: "You ask me how I felt when I first smelt powder, so to speak-woll, after the lapse of all these years I'm almost ashamed to tell you I was panic-stricken, scared out of my senses, my courage oozed out of me in an Instant, and a small boy could have captured me without trouble. This awful experience onmo after I had been auout a year in the army. The regiment of infantry in whjch I was, was preparing to go into camp. Wo wei e a few miles outside of York town, which was in the possession of tho Confederatps, but none of ns, not even our omcers.realized the proximity of the euomy. There" weie soma cattle with the army, and somehow or other some of my comrades and I were pait of the crowd that drove the booves to the place where they wero to be slaughtered. We formed a circle, a vort of bull ring, and fell to skylarking and firing our pistols at tho cattle as they ran hither and thither. It was all laughter and shout ing. Suddenly, without the slightest warn ing, a sound that we had never heard before rose above tho clamor. If was a sort of whirring howl, lasting a few seconds only, but long enough to striKe terror into our hearts. Tho men who had been as gay and noisy as schoolboys a minute before-were dumb. I don't remember how they bc havod. My own affairs kept me busy. I felt as if my boots wore nailed to the ground. They wouldn't move, noithcr would my legs in fact I had Iost contiol of my body. I was perfectly limp, and my knees sagged out. That was at the first strange sound, as of some hideous, deadly bird flying over "head. I hardly realized, mind you, that the enemy was shelling us. All I knew for sure was that somehow my life, which I had en Joyed so much a minute before, was in dan ger. I wanted to run, but my legs, wouldn't obey me. Two shells passed over me, be fore I could shake off the paralysis. Then I ran as I never ran before or since, with a professional sprinter's speed, to the shelter of the woods from which our regiment had only Just emerged. A second terror seized mo as I reached the first scattering trees. I had selected one, a big fellow, as my refuge, and when I reached it, three other men who were crouched behind it pushed mo violently away, saying there wasn't room for more. Shells wero still in tho air, and with terror I pursued my flight. When at last I fell exhausted upon tho ground be yond the range of the enemy's artillery, I almost lost consciousness for a while. "Nobody was killed by those shells, but the 'Rebs' must havo laughed to see us run, and laughed louder yet when our cattle ran into their lines as they did. I felt more or less uncomfortable always in going into battle afterward, but never again lost my nerve as I did at my fire-baptism before York town." A Fatal Resemblance. Somebody called Robert Layton, the Immigration Inspector, Alexander the 'Great the other day, whether because of his dissatisfaction with the limited-number of worlds to be conquered, or because all na tionalities stand in awe of him, is not known. Mr. Layton resented tho insinuation and de clined to wear tho name. He also told this story: "At one time something or other that I did, what it was is neither here nor there, endeared mo to the German social istic element in Now York, and tho editor of a leading Socialistic paper published thero wrote to me, making a very flattering pro posal. Ho said he would like to present mo to his readers and to that end begged me to send him my photograph, that ho might have a picturo made of me. There were so miany pretty thing in tho letter about my services to the cause of liberty, etc., that I hadn't the heart to disappoint the editor. I sent him a photograph. When I had forgot ten all about my German friends in the East and tho project to immortalize my features, the photograph came back, witn a brief letter to this effect: Respected Sib I am overcome with sorrow. Your picture cannot appear id iny paper. After the engraving was made from the photograph my attention was called to the striking resemblance of your face to Bismarck's. It would ruin us with our readers here if we published such a picture. Accept my apologies and regrets, also your ph oto grapu. Yours, etc.. The Press Clnb's-iJelegates. The train bearing the Eastern delegates to the Press Club Convention must be near ing its destination, and any unusual glow that may be noticed in the Western sky these nights may safely be credited to the hospitable efforts of San Francisco's news paper men, who are sure to play the host in grand style. Everyone who has visited San Francisco talks of the generous warmth of tho welcome its people give to the stran ger. Fortunately Pittsburg has sent a del egation this time that will appreciate kindly treatment, and at tho same time reflect it. The delegation represents the Press Club of this city uncommonly well. Tom Keenan, George H. Welshons, Will H. Davis and L. D. Bancroft are the four lucky dogs. Mr. Keenan has had so much to do with the creation of the International League of Press Clubs that he could ill be spared from this the second convention. The brilliant "St. Geo' is sure to make Welshons a synonym "for good company on tho Coast, and if he doesn't add a new piquancy to,, the great Institution of poker the Call-' fornians will have cause for complaint. For the further illustration of the capability of Pittsburg's Journalists in this and oaier directions the impetuous Hilly Davi3 and the indefatigable Ban may be relied upon. Not much has been heard from the party since the solid train of Wagner palaco cars swallowed it and rolled away westward. Two telegrams that have been received indicate that there is nothing funereal about the procession. One dispatched be fore the train reached Chicago adverts to "a splendid time;" and curiously enough the other telegram after Chicago had bcon left behind alluded also to "a splendid time." A January Thaw. Last month my Julia frozen seemed. And quite beyond my reach I deemed, bbe was so coldly kind. Her jeweled words were all of ice; Now ice in summer's very nice. But now not to my mind. Still when the snow came down apace, I inortgaged all I had with grace. And asked her out to sleigh. We rode together many a mile; 'Twascold.butshe was not Dou'tsmlle, Waitjust another dayl Next day the sleigh's again in line; I whisper wildly: "Wilt be mine?" Saysshe: "Please 6cemy Pawl" No ice clung 'round that muffled "yes;" And ne'er so welcome was, I guess, A January thaw. Hkpeuks Jonxs. The Demand of Stern Justice. Chicago Tribune. yf hen a robber holds up a train in the out skirts of Pittsburg stern justice decrees that he shall bo sent to the woikhousefor 30 days. DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE. Akchbishop THEBAUDIEE, of Cambria, France, died yesterday of the grip. James Goodwix, the only millionaire farmer in Indiana, died at his home in Lebanon yesterday. HOWABD- BtJSSEIX JOHK602J. author, play wright and son of ex-Lieutenant Governor Johnson,- (lied yesterday at Sansailto of heart failure. GEOHGE Fowleb, the head of the great Kansis City packing firm of George Fowler & bona, died at Liverpool. England, Friday. He was a multi inlUlonalre. Hon. S. W. Wheelocx died Friday afternoon at Mollne, III., aged 7s years. He founded the Mollne paper mills, wa. President of the Mollne NaUoual Bank, and had been Mayor, several times. Fr.EDEiucK Staul, ex-Mayor of Galena, 111., is deadattbe age of 83 years. In the Black Hawk war he served as a Sergeant in ColonelStephenson's company, receiving distinction at the decisive battle of Bad Axe. He was a Democrat and was prominent in State politics 39 years ago.' John W. Nelson, grandson of Thomas Nelson, one of the signers of the Declaration of Inde pendence, died In Nyack, Thursday. t the age of US. Ho participated In the Seminole War in Florida, and was one of the scouts who went In search of the famous Indian chief. Black Hawk. Julia AM) Mart Howard, twin sisters, died at their home in Wilkesbarre, Thursday, almost at the same time. Their deaths occurred on the same day of the year ana at the same hour that they were born. They were CO years of age. Oaa was a llctlm of pneumonia and the other of dropsy. They had lived with each other always. BLOTJEI'S BELATED WIT. He Arrives Late, Finds Everybody in Good Humor and Puts Them in Better. Monsieur Paul Blouet (Max O'Rell) evi dently pi ofeis taxing his memory to taxing his mind; for, borrowing an O'Rellism, his eauserie litei aire et humoristique in Carnegio Hull last night was exactly the samo as was hi discourse in Sewickley several weeks since, and, tit the same time is said to be either un epitome of or extracts from his "Frenchman in America." An andlence splendid In sizo and evincing the best characteristics of I'ittsbuig's best peo ple awaited the distinguished Frenchman for three-quaitcrs or an hour after the ad vertised hour, Mr. Blouet in the meantime having the misfortune or learning that cable cars are as uncertain and coy as Sir Walter Scott's Udies, and that boarding one in East Liberty at 7 o'clock is no criterion that you will arrive In the city by 8. To obtain good seat.", since none were ie-crved, or rather since all were leserveu.many peoplenrrived at 7 o,clock. Everyone was seated by 8:30. Until then there was no impatience but some turbulent boy shnuled hi leet in Siotest against this strain on his endurance, very body followed suit and gave free vent to his feelings by an earnest stamping and clapping. This brought Mr. Blouet's Cliair man, the Chancellor of the West em University, on the platlorm look ing a bit flurried by reason as ho said, ' of having an audience but no lecturer on his h.inds."' Dr. Holland commiserated with himself nnd with his hearers, and said that since he was suie Mr. Blouet was as anxious tn jpeak as they were to hear him, lie, Dr. Holland, did not doubt that In a case of cable cars versus Blouet, Mr. Blouet would triumph. Dr. Holland disap peared amid a storm of applause, which died away nnd then revived again, as the delinquent Mr. Blouet walked up the aisle, headed by Prof. Henri RolUn Parke. Mr. Blouet's face was hidden in an immense coat collar, but s"nce Mr. Parke's counten ance wore a smile of triumph, it is natural to suppose that the lecturer's was engaged in a similar manner. Dr. Holland's brief introduction was a gracefully worded speech, and then Mr. Blouet, in evening dress, in which, by the way, he looks extremOly well, diverted his audience for the following two hours. Preceding the subject proper, tho lecturer gave a brief disserta tion on the pliilosophv or traveling. The cognomen "Jonathan" was explained as not referring to the cosmopolitan and might be a Frenchman only ror hia lan guage or an Englishman excepting that ho was not born there; Jonathan represented the type of the American: tho man of tho masses; tho man who saved his verbs, etc. Then followed philosophical observations, illumined by anccdates, and anecdotes pointed by observations; a thoroughly O'Rell eauserie, always witty, though, tor tue reason stated neretoiore, not as novel as could be wished. The leception given to Mr. Blouet by the audience was all that could be desired. Mr. Blouet came to Pittsburg last night for the benefit of the French Mission, established here a year ago by his countryman. Prof. Henri Rollin Parker. It is patronized by the society and intellectual world of Pitts burg, as well as by the French residents of the city. BEWABDED BY A BEGGEB. A Baker Left a Fortune by One Whom He Had Once Befriended. St. Louis, Jan. 9. Christian Boyerlein Is as old German baker who lives in East St. Louis. He has received news from New York of his falling heir to $50,000. The strangest part of the story is that his bene factor is his nephew, a professional beggar, who for a score of years has been a familiar figure on the streets of New York. Christian Beverlein says his nephew, August Beyer lein, committed a misdemeanor in Germany and his parents drove him from home and caused him to come to America. After land ing on this side the boy began begging on the streets of New York and profited so well that be became a professional beggar. Several years ago Christian Boyerlein left East St. Louis on a journey to tho old coun try, and met his nephew by clian co in New York. Beyerlein surmised that his nephew was in poverty, and resolved to help him, and gave him a bill 'of largo denomination, promising to give him further financial as sistance upon his return from Gctmany. Trno to his word, tho hard-working old baker did so. Tho action.of his parents in turning him away from homo was made to seem, if possible, more uncharitable than ever before, and he resolved to reward the man who had befriended him with all his belongings in case of death. He made a will In favor of Christian Beyerlein before he died. Mr. Beyerlein is inlormed that his nephew's estate is mostly in New York property, and that it is worth not less than $50,009. MOUNDS 07 ALUMINUM. 1 A Comedian Who Says He Has the Mineral in Plenty. " SrBixGPiELD, O., Jan. 9. J. C Stewart, the comeditfn at the head of the "Fat Men's Club," who is immensely wealthy, says that among his possessions is an island of 150 acres near the mouth of Chesapeake Bay, unon which is an enormous pile of white clay. This clay was recently analyzed by a Phil adelphia chemist, and shows from 10 to 65 per cent of alumina. By a new process dis covered by a German chemist of Philadel phia be claims he can produce pure alumi num in commercial quantities at a cost of not more than 16 cents per pound. He is not ready to divulge the chemist's namd. He says that in three weeks he finishes the the atrical season; then he and his associates will begin the manufacture of aluminum at once. , MES. HABBIS0N BECEIVES. The First Entertainment of the Kind for the Season Yesterday. Washihqtok, D. C, Jan. 9. Mrs. Harrison held her first public reception for tho season this afternoon, from 3 to 5' o'clock, and there was a constant stream of callers during those hours. She was assisted by the wives of Justice Gray and Justice Brewer. The ladies invited to tho Bliieroom wero Misses Brice, Chandlpr, Morgan, Voorhees, WashDurn, Teller, Friess, Lodge, Herbert, Bou telle, Lowery, Matlngly, Williams, Scid moro, Liebor, Amy Lieber, Breckinridge, EdieandEdithPatten.Helen Patten, Paunce lote, Sybil Pauncefote, Parker and Carroll. The Marine Band supplied the music. Perhaps Dr. Keeley Would Suit. Chicago Times. 1 " . John P. St. John has regretfully declined to run for President on the Prohioition ticket. How would Dr. Keeley suit the drys for second choico? Free Speecn a Terrible Evil. Chicago Tribune. Mrs. Lease, of Kansas, will make no charge for her speeches hereafter. Thus, you per ceive, tree speech may become a terrible evil. ' BELTA IN THE FIELD. If reports can be relied upon, we have one Presidental candldato in the field Belva Lockwood. But this statement may need confirmation. Boston Traveller. , Cohsidebiso that this is leap year the declaration of Belva Lockwood that she will not accept the Presidental nomination unless it is freely offered her is certainly very handsome. Chicago Times. Belva A. Lockwood Is once again on the Presidental race track, nntt proposes to stay there until the votes are counted On election night. It is believed that not even a two ounce mouio could scare her away. St. Paul Globe. , Mrs. Belva Lockwood has announced openly that she will again be a candidate for the Presidency. She does not propose to take any advantage of Messis. Cleveland, Boies, Blaine and Harrison. Memphis Appeal-Avalanche. Belva Lockwood has announced her in tention to again oppose both the old parties for the Pre3ideucy. Strange that Belva can; not reconcile herself to one or the other of the old parties since she' is such an elderly party herself. Sew York Advertiser. Belva Lockwood modestly says: "Mr. Blaine and I stand in the same position, for both of us, if nominated for the Presidonoy next year, will bo forced to accept" So a repetition ot the terrible struggle between Mrs. Lockwood and other fellows who wear ahem! is inevitable. Boston Record. Belva Lockwood says she is not a candi date for Prcsidental honors, but will accept a nomination if it is forced upon her. Belva seems to have taken a leaf from Mr. Blaine's book, and indeed it may be admitted that she stands about as close to the Presidency us the tattooed statesman. Clticago Times, 1) ' MURRAY'S MUSINGS. A Fhlladelphlnn Think HUTown,Is Awful ly Ring-Ridden What Fin de Steele Women Demand The Brnte In the Aris tocratic Poodle Odds and Ends. fFHOM A STAFF COEBESrOXDEXT. "You New Yorkers are eternally growl ing about the encroachments or yourcorpor ntions upon tho rUht3 of the public," rc maiked a Philadelphia man( "but in our city the evil i much greater. The street Iranchiscs of Phil-idelphia have fallen into tho hands of a set of cormorants who recog nize no public rights whatever. They prac tically own the local newspapers and shut the avenues ofieinonstrunce and complaint. The heelers of both parties stand in witli the street grabbers to rob the city and tram ple upon tho people. Corruption in city affairs is rampant nnd has maile our munici pality the synonym for all that U dl-grace-ful in city government. Where this will eventually lead is a problem. There is one corporation alone the trac tion railway that in Now York would cause a revolution. It kills and m-ilm9 citizens right and lert and is the most forcible ex ponent of the 'public-be-liaiigud' principle in the United States to-day. By the sldo of It your most recklessand lawless crowds are not in It. If this thing goes much further, I tell you there will be an uprising of the indignant citizens of the Quaker City somo or these days that will throw the vigilance committees and scenes of violence that characterized the earlier times of California completely in the shade." Women Forging to the Front. Woman's rights, as they prevail In the metropolis the right to stand up and hang on a car strap, to earn her own living, to compete with men in nearly every avenue of life have produced a generation of self assertive women sometimesbeantifnl to see. Sometimes not. Nowhere is this more con spicuous than on the elevated trains and stations. During tho hours of heaviest travel thero is usually a line of ticket buyers in front of the ticket windows. The rule of take-your-turn. generally recognized among men. rarely influence women on uch occa jions. She calmly walks along thcline until uircctiy at tne montn oi tne iron cnuw, ana then plants her elbow in the short ribs of the nearest male creature, squeezing into the gap mnde by the opening wedge, passes in her nickel, and sails serenolv out upon the platform. It is trne all women do not do this, but a good many do it, and it Is done every day and every hour in the day. Several astonished people recently wit nessed an episode on Sixth avenue line that carries with it an alarming suggestion. One of the self-assertive kind stepped into the crowded car, and glancing about with a busi ness air settled her eyes upon a nice-look ing young man wno was just unioiomg ms evening paper. "Beg pardon, sir," she said, confidently, "but will yon please give me that seat?" The nice young man started up as if he had unexpectedly sat upon a car heater, and with a pained look murmured confused ly that he was delighted, wbilo everybody else looked at him and grinned. The lady said, "Thank you," in a perfunctory way but she said it and sank back with a smile that was chilk-Uke and bland. If this should become a custom In New York there would be a panic on 'Change. A Kicker at Liberty. One day last week the wind came Doom ing in from'the sea and sweeping around the ancient corners kito .upper Broadway, depositing the surplus sand in the eyes of the soubrettes and walking gentlemen who frequent that region nnd raising Merry Christmas with everything that was loose. Two Tammany politicians were gallantly breasting the breeze, which violently changed dlrcctiou three or four times to the block, each time leaving a dread uncertainty as to what particular point of the compass it might come from next. These two are known as "gents" on the East side and exhibited the outward visible signs of a belated Christmas making a combination with a happy New Year. The wind did not even respect their "pull" with the city government, but blinded them with the cast off material of departed street com missioners, and tangled their legs with the coat-tails and flying skirts and umbrellas and canes of the common people around them in a disgraceful way, finally whisking off a Brown derby and sending It scudding along the western walk. A mnn never appears quite so ridiculous to his fellow man as when he is chasing his hat. It was natural, therefore, that a mid dle-aged "gent," with seven long hairs swishing over a moth-eaten head, on a turkey trot onJ3roadwar after his rolling tile should provoke the shouts and laughter of the thoughtless mob. A kicking and singing sonbrette "at liberty" stood on the corner talking to a "ladifriond." The derby rolled gently against her dress and quietly reposed there, as if satisfied with having Blown up against the remains of what is known in the theatrical world as "a snap." Its owner blew along after it and made a dive for it. Here is where he made a mistake. Ho V should have sent a polite note to the lady no tifying her or nis temporary misioriune ana honorable Intentions. As it was he was dis covered just as he was about to recover his property. The "ladifriend" screamed. Not so the soubrette. She just turned around, shook her curly head.saw.coraprehended and kicked! Not tjie "gent" the hat. Her dainty toe swung nnerrintr with a quick up ward lilt tnat sons 10.11 Jjat soaring say naru for a moment, to fall oh, horror into the stagnant pool of water that usually decor ates that particular side street. The crowd almost went wild with delight. The Tam many "gent" was dazed for a moment and looked at the kicker with amazement. Per haps he thonghtit a shame that such an ar tiste should be "at liberty." Then he silent ly waded out for his hat and whacked it against his knee. The Veneering of Civilization. Civilization with all its refining 'in fluences of education, culture and minutely formulated and universally accepted social obligations, is but a thin veneering that peels off under various conditions and leaves exposed the real raw material of barbarism. While in the park I saw a well-bred dog being led by a boy. Tne dog bad never been outsido the city limits, nor had his ances tors for several generations. He was a prize dog of 'tho dog-show, the petted of the ladies, the trick dog of the parlor and the genial favorite or the nursery a fln de siecle dog of fin do slecle dogdom. As he bounded along the serpentine paths at .the end of a string his young attendant was the envied of promenaders. When he got op posite the deer enclosure of the Zoo his gentie uuj;suij uauKui, sigut ui uic intiun deer. He had never seen a deer before and it would not have been strange if he had fallen into a not uncommon error of ama teur sporting mankind and been unable to distinguish it from a calf. But there was no doubt about his judg ment. His eyes blazed. He tugged at his keeper with frantic efforts for freedom. He never barked he was too earnest for that. He j umped and snarled and lashed his culti vated tall. His hair stood on ends. So did the boy's. It was something he hadn't bargained for. The dog was worth a cool thousand and the possibility of his getting away caused melting icicles to drip down, that boy's back,'but he finally, with volun teer assistance, got the animal away. 1 have seen the greatest men our mod em civilization has produced who on occa sion shed the veneering quite as quickly and thoroughly as this aristocratic dog in the park. Thov would suddenly become as ig norant and uncivilized brutes, wallowing lovingly in their own besotted bestiality. Then quite as suddenly resume their cus tomary shell of culture and exalted states manship. It is altogether wonderful. It is unfathomable. This Happens Every Time. When a man slips on a banana peel or anything' elso his face lights up with aston ishment rarely shown on any other occasion. He invariably stops, turns and mentally marks thelocation of tho article, as if lie migut come that way again some day and it would be Just as well to be posted then looks at his foot quite as curiously.probably dropping a casual observation or two con cerning a possible future state of existence None of these things tend to modify the fact that he slipped, and that he is no more likely to slip again on the same thing than he is to be struck by lightning. Holiday Rush With the Jewelers. "I'm glad the holidays are over," re marked a jobbing jeweler. "Of course, we make money, but thero is a limit In human endurance even in money making. We have had such a nish of work that 18 hours a day has been too short to doitic. It be can on the first of December and reached its greatest flood two days before Christmas. Why people want their jewelry repaired any moro-earnestly just about tho holidays is incomprehensible. It is a fact, however. We don't make articles of Jevyelry very often. It is about all n the way of cleaning, alteringandrepairing. I think this embraces everything from a $3 watch to a $5,000 dia mond necklace. Onr regular customers are the retail jewelers. They sell a ring. It must be cut or made larger or smaller, per haps or It is a setting to be changed, or an old piece that Is to be reset, or something. The job Is sent to us. Everybody wants his work at once. Hence this terrible rush of business this time or the year, Charles Theodore Mtobat. Sew Yobs, January 9. CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS; " . ' Two thousand women became artists in 1391. IJeturnsfor India will show a decrease) in leprosy. The Chinese are beginning to be notice able In Africa. A New Mexico man has three well defined tongues. At a Missouri wolf hunt 13 dogs wero killed in mistake. A Xew York boiler maker has been working with his heart exposed to view. Orange county, X. Y., is overrun with foxc. The farmers are hunting them with fox hound?. The posterity of one female sparrow in ten cars is ometning like two hundred and seventy-six billion bird. A gold nugget weighing six and a half pounds was round in the BrandvFlat ce ment mine, near Washington, Nov., last week. The first theatrical cora--iiy to play in this country, it is said, came from England in 173A and rradc their first public appear ance at York, Va. The latest location for a watch is in a dnor handle. There Is one in a shop in Bond street and another in the handle of a doc tor's brougham. Europe signi6es a country of white complexion; so named because the Inhabi tants there were of a fairer complexion than those of Asia and Africa. An old record of the Civil Warhascome to light in Xew York. It contains some im jiortan.t official documents and was brought; at auction many years ago. Yacaville, Cal., has a haunted house. It is situated on the rond to Vanden, and it is said even the hnnters In that vicinity will make a wide detour to avoid passing the place at night. A company making aluminum in Nen hauserrliavo again lowered tho price of that metal from S to 5 marks a kllozramme. This price is one-third that of nickel and only 20 per cent higher than copper. In ancient Egypt the cat was an object of religious worship, and was even an in mate of the temples. Thero was actually a, cat zoddess named Bubastis, whowas always depicted as having a cats neau. The American Bell Telephone Company has so forwardPd its experiments in the telephone field that it has perfected a tele phone hr which whispers can be trans mitted 500 miles with perfect distinctness. Dr. Bide reports before the Eoyal Geo graphical Society In Madrid the discovery of a strange people in C'acere. living in caves and inaccessible retreats, speaking a. curious language and possessed of a hairy skin. PatersoD, X. J., has adopted a new seal. It has in place of the American eagle, which. was in the old seal, the representation of a man planting a mulberry tree. This was se lected as being the most appropriate for a city so famed for its silk industry. A four-pronged buck was killed a few days ago near Orlando, Ga., in the left hind foot of which, just above the hoof, a circular bone or some portion of a cow's skeleton was found flrmlv clasped. It had worn through tbp flesh and into the bone of the .limb, and disabled the animal. An orange tree in a yard in Yuba City Cal., has a full yield of large ripe oranges of this season's crop, and hanging among them are a number of oranges of the previous year in a good state of preservation. On tba same tree is a lemon branch in full bearing, Titli ripe fruit nnd also beautiful blossoms. The tree presents a very striking appear ance. The instinctive fear which cats have of dogs is illustrated very amusingly by strok ine a dog and then caressing a blind and new-born kitten with the same hand that has touched the dog. At once the kitten will spit and fluff itself up in the most absnrd war, distinguishing the smell of the beast which experience for thousands of genera tions has taught it most to dread. Two cannon balls have been found at the Glen Mills stone qnarries. near Philadel phia, embedded in rock about 20 feet below the surface of the earth. About eight feec of this covering was solid rock, on which earth and underbrush had grown. It is sup posed tne Dans nave oeen tnere since tna Revolutionary War, and probably from tha time the battle of Brandywine was fought. Fraulein Susanne Morgenroth, 83 years old, died recently in abject squalor at Mois ling, near Lubeck. For many years she had gathered all her firewood on the highway and had drawn monthly upon the poormas ter. Eventually she starved to death. In her mattress were found bank books and secnritlcs showing that she had more than $10 000 Invested, and stockings full of gold and silver coin were discovered in dirt heapa and under the floor. During the Mozart centenary at the) Imperial Opera House at Vienna an old gen tleman applied to the Court Counsellor for a stall at tne "Magic Flute," the booking office having told him that the house was sold. Upon being a'kecf whv ho was so anxious to see the "Magic Flute," he said that he had seen it first performed at tho Vienna Opera, House, and Tie wanted to see it azain. Is was first plaved in Vienna lust SO years ago, when the old man was 11. He got a seat. Many of the giant reptiles of long ago had enormous horns. The great lizard known as tho triceratops had a big horn over each eye and a little ono on it4 nose. Thedinoceras and the tinoceras, gigantla mammals of the tertiary epoch, had threo pairs of prominence on their heads which are believed to have supported horns. How ever, the material of which horn is com posed quickly decays, being largely com posed of gelatine and other animal matter, so that theso appendages are apt to be found abent when the fossil bones of beasts which had them are found. The adult Fangs, of the Congo, decline to learn any other language. If tbey engage in trade they speak Fang. If they have any controversy with another tribe they will discuss the merits or the case only In tha Fang tongue. It is absolutely necessary for missionaries and merchants, and even other nesrro tribes, if they are to make headway and get on with the Fangs, to loam their language. Tho commerce of Gaboon is in their hands. They alone snpply ivory to white traders. If a merchant understands their language business is speedily trans acted. If he talks through an interpreter IB sometimes takes days to complete a sale. RHXNKLES AND RHYMELETS. "Is Mike a good worker?" 'Oh, yes: fair." "Regular?" "Regularas clock work. Strikes every hour." Jiutae. They're now made one, who once were two, So more till death to part: He matched a shade for her and that Was how he won her heart. teio Tork Press. At different times "Willie had been told of the man in the moon, and that the moon Is a green cheese. Futtlngthe two statements together, he exclaimed one evening, "The man In the.mooa must be vcy hungry these nights." "Why, dear?" "tie has eaten almost all the cheese." Barpeft Bazar. "Have you heard of Howell Gibbon's lat est Infatuation?" "No; what Is It?" "He has become addicted to the chrysanthemum, habit." Puck. He knelt in front of the furnace, In the morning cold and gray. And wondered with growing ferver If the fire wonld barn that day. He knelt and he blew upon It Till his back, grew limp and lame. And he tells his friends of the sorrow That comes from an old, old Him;. Washington Star. Stage Manager Here! Here! Who rang up that curtain? The act can't go on without me. First Heavy I'm blest If it seems to get on with you. Brooklyn Eagle. Sunday School Teacher Why did David use a sling to kill Gollab? Little Jloy 'Cause he. hadn't any glaat powder for gun! Texas Sifting . Mix the fruit and mince the meat; Add rum for strength and sugar for sweet, And let the crust be rich and thin; And then to have aU complete. Just cram a lively nightmare In. Judge, Mrs. Spotcash (entering her husband's counting room In great agltatlon)-Oh. Wlttlaml Who is that rough-looking man Just outside your door with a queer valbe In his harm? Is he Is ha one of those terrible dynamite cranks?" 3Ir. Spotcash (pale as a sheet) Worse, Caroline I He'aapiumberl" Chicago Tribune. ' 6 - ' J? I ' '
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