ESHSsSBSS TSf? 1. TB-- . "WK'.'X lTJIWLAW-tM "VT? if" ', V vJ??l THE. -PITTSBURG1 ' DISPATCH ,MOTDATr 'FEBRUARY -22'1l89a1-j'-J y gp.BLIlIEO FEBRUARY, S. 1S4G . 47. No U. -Entered it rittsmtrg Fostotaeo Mi.c:ner, 3SS7, as second-cl-is matter. Business Umce t-.orr.cr smunneiu and Diamond Streets. K'ews Rooms antl Publishing House Lp 7S and So Diamond Street, in f- New Dispatch Building. BASTF.KN APVEUTI-INO OFKICF, ROOM 7. ritlliUXKnt'It-lUNiJ. M7W YORK, where com $lc files ofTM" lllsrATCU can Mw a- s be rounil. Htrclcn ntl'rllcr appreciate tle eomenlenre. iRnic ah itiImt. and friends on HE DISPATCH, nlak-la ew York, arc also made clcome. THE DISVATClhtreaiihirly m m'eat JlrentiM's. feifeu .$??, .Vero Fori-, an-i X! An tie I'Op'nt. Uritf. rnrur. irAnr anv-jne rrfto ftoe iir- f Afrtt fc Aofc nr ttf Hf cart nMain it. TERMS OF Till: DISPATCH. la rcrTor 'tee in the rMTEK state. I.ULT ):M'ATC:i, One tor J SCO QAILYDi-rvrcn. Per Quarter - " IJjIi.yDi'I'atch, One Month "0 tAVLY Diei'atcii, !ni hiding Sunday. 1 v tr. 10 X) pAILY HlSPVTCIt. Including bun-fen. 3in"h. 1 50 IJAILY Disi-atcii. turludiugbuiulaj. 1 ns'tli. !o JJBX1AY lliM'ATcu. n Year 2 V Wuekly DlM'ATril. One Year 155 Wthl Daily Hisi-atcI! Is lcll ered lv carrier at 3reiits ntrf k. or. Including buuda. Edition, at 50 cents per week. P rn-rMiur:G. moxihy. rnitnUAUY AMi;U, AX HONEST MAX. , Interest in the Industrial Conference at St Louis increases as its plans mature End as developments show the influence' Its actions will have on the Presidcntal campaign. It is evident .that the delo-J-ates are in no mood for trifliiic, and that any movement set on foot will be thor ough and sweeping. So striking is the resolution adopted by the delegates from California, and so descriptive is it of the spirit which evidently animates a majority of the whole body, that a portion of it is worthy of repetition in this place. In objecting to Lelaud Stanford's candidacy for the I'residental nomination the Cali jfornians say: "We are not looking for a '(Jsesar, a Cromwell, a railroad monopolist or a millionaire, but rather for a Cin cinnatus, and when he is found we will know him by the character he bears and ,tlie work he has done." ' This is all right so far as the first part goes, though it is a trifle hard on Ctesar and Cromwell to class them with birds of such different feather. But the well jneaning dclecates are a little mixed in .their metaphor when they set up Cincin 'natusas a contrast to the before-men tioned gentlemen. For Cincinuatus was 'a patrician, a class legislator of the deep est dye, and shades of Cromwell and Ocesar ! he was twice called to the dic tatorship of Rome. True, he was called ifrom t'ie plow, but that only makes his action the more repre 'hensible in having left so honorable a calling for an office of such despotic power. lie should have resisted the offer, e en when asked to step into the position without the worry of an electoral campaign, or even the formality of a nom ination. The good men cannot mean that they want a dictator. We must forgive them their ignorance of legendary history, and interpret their desire as being for a man of toil whom the office seeks, and not a jraan of wealth or power who runs after the office. Such men can be found, and should be found; nor are they so plentiful 'that there will be any trouble in identify ing them by the characters they bear and the work thev have done. QUITE A MARGIN The Xew York Frets in its steady capacity of organ for the Nicaragua Canal scheme vigorously attacks a man who, on the strength of his own personal observa tions in Nicaragua, has had the hardihood to assert that very little actual work has "been done on the ditch. This reckless creation of an abandoned imagination is confuted by the Press with the assertion: "There were over 80 miles of surveying done for every mile, not only of clearing, but of the whole route pro posed, and Chief Engineer Menocal has thoroughly familiarized himself with the country, above and below the surface, as to its physical features." This makes it all the more necessary for the esteemed Press to explain which it has up to this time singularly omitted to do where the profits are to go from the loan of the credit of the United'States to the extent of $100, 000,000, on a work which is estimated by this same competent and painstaking engineer to cost 565,000,000. The Press threatens that, if the present project does not succeed, the time will come when the United States Government will be forced by public opinion to build the canal itself. Supposing that to be the case, the comparison ot estimates with the "" subsidy raid indicates that the United States will save S.M,000,000 by that course. THE DAY TO HONOR. v AVashington's birthday! What a thrill those two words should carry to the hearts of all true Americans! What a fund of : useful thought they should give rise to! t What vast changes have occurred, what vast material progress has taken place since his memory was eternally planted in .the nation's breast! What would be his 'verdict if he could express it to-day? Has the spirit kept pace with the bodily growth of the Republic? Would he have no warning word of criticism for tome of the characteristics of the age? Has patriotism the highest place in the imotives of the majority of our citizens as it had in his? We cannot answer these questions, but we commend them to the 'serious consideration of every man, woman -and child in this country, now and for- ever. Let each American devote his best "ieffort to his country, and to the study of that country's needs. Then will grow the honor of our land and so our founder's 7 name shall be the watchword of the world. GOOD STORY BDT TOOR HISTORY. War stories are always interesting; but tSn order to make their interest more satis factory it is advisable to construct them -with some little regard to the well-known v-, facts of history. A Boston paper reports President Plympton as telling a good story on General Butler, at the recent banquet, k 'to the follow ing effect: Immediately after the battle of Chickamauga, a Confederate r in New Orleans went around the streets - asking every Union soldier, "Didn't Stone wall Jackson give you h at Chick'a- ' jnauga?" General Butler sent for the p man aud gave him the choice between p4taking the oath of allegiance and going to SfSliip Island. The Confederate concluded ltO swear fealty to the Union. After ha had done so he turned to General Butler and said: "Now we are both loyal citi- gzens, General, and I want to ask you if (Stonewall Jackson did not give us h '' Bat Chickamauga?" ' In the interest of a good story we ninst point out that this would have been avery $ good one If it liau been constructedith a :,Jfttle respect for facts. Unless P. .fesident kt- fLar:: . jistM ,, ,.,u. - .,; ,"'. ..v.JfcJiiSLaiiisfc .'..-:, '.. . u. i..- .-', -. :;, . . ;,. - .- ' . -? Plymptnn is woefully misreported, how ever, he should have taUcn the trouble to Inform liimself on the history of the war Mifiiciently to have recognized tho impos sibility of any person supposing that Stonewall Jackson foticht at Chickn mausra four months after he was hilled at Chancellorsville, and to have noted in addition the very grave difficulty to the whole story as published pres?nted by the fact-that General JJutler was relieved of command at Xew Orleans, and came ISorth ten months before the date of this story. Inasmuch as this story is copied by our brilliant cotemporary, theXew York Sun, it seems necessary to sugaest to Mr. Dana that he should give his office cat a course of instruction in the history of those great events quorum pars magna f-uit. GOLD -iTILL GOES. There is an intimation of some factor in the balance of trade not yet brought to general knowledge in the statement that the steamers sailing from New York on Saturday took out $500,000 of gold. Half a million is not a very big amount of gold to be shipped, but the fact of any gold at all going to Europe is so far from what was generally expected as to merit some investigation. This shipment takes place after months of unpreccdentedly large exportation, and against the expectations of a continuance of .the heavy outflow of breadstuffs. While imports have been large, they have not been so heavy as to prevent a comfortable balance in favor of this country. Such a balance in formir years has resulted in importations of gold; but the conditions at present are such that after about half of the gold taken from this country last spring has returned the exportation has resumed. Unless the trade statistics are hopelessly unreliable, there is some in fluence affecting the movements of specie outside those indicated by the returns. That this is the case is rendered quite probable by the fact that the quotations for sterling exchange do not require gold to he shipped. This was the case last spring, and the deduction was that some one in Europe wanted gold even when it cost a fraction more than sterling bills. But what influence produces this anomaly has not yet been explained. The hoarding of gold in anticipation of trouble in Europe; the return of stocks to this country by for eign investors; the preference for gold by European creditors on account of the silver scare, all are theories to explain the state of affairs, but none of them have as yet received any distinct corroboration in fact. At all events, the exportation of gold cannot be very heavy while we have com mand of the grain supply of the world as at present But the readiness of this specie to take wings for a foieign flight gives us a strong intimation of what may be expected in a moderate crop year, with importations continued on their present scale. ITS EE.AI MEANING. . The wrath of Mr. Bland at Mr. Harter's circular calling the attention of pensioners to the fact that free silver coinage will re duce the value of pensions about 30 per cent principally serves as evidence of the cogency of Harter's argument It is indisputable that when every one can have silver coined at the mint the value of the silver dollar will be limited by the market price for silver. The inevitable result must be that all payments of amounts stated before the passage of such an act will be decreasedin exact proportion to the depreciation of the dollar. Harter's point on the pension payments is unassailable; but undue prominence is given it by Bland's display of wrath in the sight of the nation. The fact is that this is but one of the items in which the depre ciation will injure and defraud the people. There is a general soft money idea that the masses are benefited by any device for the scaling down of debts; but examples to the contrary can be produced on the largest scale. The savings banks deposits of the country are as a rule the property of people of slender means. The railway bonds of the nation are held by moderate investors. These two items figure up $0,600,000, and, if we capitalize the pension item on a ten per cent basis, we have a total in these three items of $7,-950,000,000. At the present market price of silver the Bland free coinage bill will take away from the frugal and hard-working owners of these investments $2,385,000,000 of their property. Add to this the proportion of small holders of mortgages and notes out side of the classes specified, and it is a conservative estimate to .say" that free coinage is a proposition to take away $3,500,000,000 of the savings of small in vestors. This is the "real meaning of the BJand scheme lor silver monometallism, "it is neither more nor less than the taking away of a large percentage of the property of creditors for the benefit of the debtors. CORRECT IN THEORY. It is reported from Washington that supporters of the anti-option bill have come to the conclusion to amend the meas ure so as to recognize contracts for future delivery made in legitimate trade and to prohibit the options merely intended as bets on the course of the market This is undoubtedly the proper course of legislation in theory provided the subject falls within the jurisdiction of Congress. To make illegal a genuine contract for the future delivery of staples necessary to the conduct of commerce would be sim ple stupidity. To forbid mere gambling, under the pretense of such a contract, is a proper exercise of legislative power in the abstract And as to the difficulty of toll ing to which class a given transaction be longs, the judicial system which under takes to determine the intent with which a man strikes a blow, or the frame of mind under which he fires a shot, ought to have no insuperable trouble in determining whether a seller or buyer in an option transaction is conducting legitimate com merce or gambling on the rise and fall of the staple. But with the abstract correctness of this form of legislation conceded, the question will remain: What prospect- is there of the enforcement of the law? There are several other very salutary pro visions on the statute book, such as those against railway abuses and trust combinations,- which are left wholly unenforced. Would it not he better for Congress to direct some measures for the enforcement of the laws it has before adding to the volume of dead-letter legislation? A RIGHT AND A WRONG WAT. There arc few subjects upon which publtf: opinion is so divided, and in the discission of which passions run so high, as those of temperance and total absti nence. This verv fact is a reason for the 'handling of the topic by preachers whose supreme duty it is to express their sincere opinions on tho leading questions of the day. But at the same time every pastor is called upon to use all the delicacy and moderation at his command in dealing with inflammable material which roughly handled is likely to fan into flame any sparks of contention that may lurk in tho bosom of his flock. From the report published elsewhere it seems that, while unshrinkingly expound ing the convictions for the expression of which he was appointed, the Rev. Mr. Reagen was careful in tho conveyance Of the views to which some members of his flock took-viplent exception. But, what ever the verdict finally passed on the clergyman's outspokenness, there can be no doubt that the methods used for ob jecting thereto were, to say the least, in discreet. Jo matter how greatly mis taken a pastor maybe, a boisterous discus sion at tho close of divine srmce in a building hallowed by thoughts of love and worship is a wrong way to tell him so, and self-control should be exercised for the preservation of due decorum. There are proper channels for the conveyance of objections, and these alone should be used. Orderliness is a safe rule for the guidance of all actions, and in none more so t'aan in dealing with church mat ters. A rcnsoxAT. item is going the rounds to the ctlect that Eugene Fiold is said to have framed, near IiLm desk, some $3,000 worth of checks sent klmbytho Scribneis as royalties on his two books." Tho infer ence that the talented and witty Field is so flush that tie does not care to take so small an amount of checks to thebaokand lealize on that $3,C00 is highly encouraging to am bitious scribblers; hut wo fear it is slightly apocryphal. Doubtless, however, any firm of publishers will nsroo to draw large checks . in payment of authors on a strict guarantee that the checks will be framed, instead of returning to deplete the publisher's bank balance. As one result of the passing ice gorge we have even more nourishment (?) than usu.il in our drinking water. There is a great deal too much of this matter in suspension, and we should bo put out of suspense at once. Itiests with the consumers to insist on an impiovcmcnt. Tun minority report on the silver coin aire bill evokes fion!1 the Uartford. Courant and the Koton Herald praises for "younf Representative Williams" lor his able work in draw ins up that document. Tho praises may be well bestowed: but before they re ceive universal indorsement it willbo neces saiy to liavo some explanations whether young Representative Williams, orhis clerk, or some secret enemy, perpetrated that champion and monumental blunder about the alleged exchange at the Treasury of "sixteen silver dollars for one gold dollar," and the refusal of the public at large to en gage in such a plofitable transaction. A GKEAT deal lias been justly said against the scheme of the Congressional tiip to Chicago. It has one good point, however, and that is that its audacious magnitude gives it a publicity which will enable every observer to note the result of the manipula tion. IiYXCH law dies a slow Jeath. In fact it is-not even yet fairly on its death bed, nor is there any great prospect of the l emoval of this national distemper while a Xetr Yolk paper editoiially advocates "a little lynch law properly applied" as a remedy for train wrecking. Train-wrecking is a dastardly crime, and so are many others; but the law legally administered is strone enough to deal witli the worst of criminal evils, while the national morality, and its dignity before the w oild, can only be injured by the per petuation of barbaric usages. The President will lead a fashion in hats to-day, as no doubt many of the junketers -n ill feel a need lor enlarged headgear on their return to the capital. Coxgekssman McKEIGHAX, of Ne braska, believes "that the inter-Stato com merce law should be so amended that the average man may be able to. understand something of the provisions by reading it." lie might have gone further and callpdfor an amendment to make the law enforceable against offenders. Bill-tramers have vast improvement to make in 'Clearness of lan guage, and in the arrangement of measures which shall not be capable of wholesale eva sions. "Mr. McAllister's relation to what calls itself 'society' is unique," Yes, for tunately for the man himself, for "society" and for the public. Xothing eo clearly marks the difference between the lesignation of a Cabinet in France and a ministerial defeat in England as the fact that the Minister of Foreign Af fairs of the resigned French Government is to form a new Cabinet containing at least one of his late colleagues. In England when the Government resisens an aopeal is made to the people; in France the Cabinet merely undergoes a rearrangement. IiET us console ourselves for the follies of our Anslomaniacs by the thorough wsty in which England is adopting our blizzards. i Peohably the prospect of stricter im migration laws will cause a rush of those anxious to gefin before the imposition of restrictions. Of course, those most desirous of coming over will be of the class which is most likely to be kept out, and this should be another reason for a prompt enactment of the needed legislation. Balfoitr's bill is in a sorry plight when it meets with criticism even from the repre sentatives of Ulster. A few more snow storms as severe as those from which England sufferedlast year and is now undergoing and British railways will soon have to add to their equipments to cope wfth the danger and inconvenience. Practically no piovision is made for such casualties at present, and their effects are correspondingly sSvere. If. Blair's Presidental boom meets the same fate as his Chineso mission it will be side-tracked. London theaters are now fumigated after each performance as a precaution against the spread of the grip. Theie are many galleries where ovorciowding produces an atmosphere that would be the better tor a thorough disinfecting and cleansing, even when theieisno special infections diseaso in the neighborhood. The ice is going down now preparatory to going up next summer. The abuse of the free ticket system estab lished for the benellt of the starversln Rus sia indicates the grasping selfishness of tho purchasers no less than the severity of the sufferings of those who soil their ehance to get to the relief centers for the wherewithal to buy lood at once, no matter how little they get. Iho New Bishop of Georgia. Bktulihev. Pa., Feb. 2L Dr. C. KInloch Nelson, Bishop-elect of Georgia, to-day de livered his farewell sermon to the congrega tion of the Church of the Nativity, of which he was lector. He will be conseci'ated Bishop of Geoigia in St. Luke's Cathcdial, Atlanta, on Wednesday. A Century Later, Early Enough. , BostonHcral1.3 Mr. Williams' date for the further consid eration of free coinage is about right A century hence is early enough. , A Wonder He Zeft It Behind. Washington Post. Jay Gould has left Washington. For a time there was some danger that ho might take it with him. , The Great Boom Baby Farm. Chicago News.l Ohio seems to have the distinction of being the greatest baby farm for booms in tiffs' country, ' " ' " discovery: of eittsbukg. tWr.ITTiN FOR TUB DISPATCH.! One of the differences between George Washington and Christopher Columbns is that Columbus discovered America, but Washington discovered Fittsbuig. Among the other patriotic asoclations which be long to this 2Jd day of February, that ought not to be forgotten. In tho year 1753, when Washington dis coveied Tittsbuig, tho Fiench and the Eng lish were disputing the possession of this continent. In tho Museum of theJropa gandant'Romo hangs a map ofthewoild upon which Tope Alexander VI. diew, one long-ago day. a dividing lino across this Western hemisphere, nllotlug half to Por tugal and half to Spain. But In Washing ton's day, both of these nations had lost their grip upon this Northern teriiton", and the figh't had passed to other combatants. That contest was being longht n hich is'not yet finished, betwecu the two great races, the Latin and the English. .Only a week or two ago, there seemed a possibility of a breaking out again of that old raco foud. Nor will such a possibility pass into the regions of the impossible until that inevit able da j anives when this whole Western world, from Patagonia to Hudson's Bay, fiom one pole to the other, from tho Auiom Boiealis to the Southern cross, has como into tho light of English liberty, and under the domination of English ideas. That is the re.il outcome ot ourplans forrcciprocity. You give us maikcts and we will give you ideas. Let us exchange our goods and our opinion". Let us bring our ideals Into con trast and comparison, flist of all into con tact, and may the best survive. The day will .come when this will be an English speaking hemisphere. Wherein the Pioneers Differed. But when Washington discovered Pittsburg all the future was uncertain. The French and tho Enslish were each alining at complete possession. The French held the two great livers, the St. Lawrence and the Mississippi, tho English held the sea. Tho Fiench built forts, the English planted farms. The Fiench settlement was military, and thus temporal y and alien, getting no close hold upon the country. The English settlement was civil and agricultural, of the kind that lasts. The French ere soldiers, the English wero tho only genuine colonists. Now along the lines of tho tworiveis the Fiench weie setting their forts and in from the seaboard, eveiy year getting farther into the inteiior, the English were setting their farms. It was but a question of time when tho two gieat companies of settlcis should meet It was quite evident that when they met there would be trouble. It was almost as evident that he place of their meeting would be in the neighborhood or Pittsbnrg. Tho Fiench made tho first move. The Governor of Canada sent down troops and supplies into this part of the country and began the erection of forts. The Governor of Virginia whose name, Dinwiddie, is called out every day by the conductor of the fifth avenue qable cars sent up a commis sioner with a small escort to ask these intrus ive Latins what they meant by encroaching upon English tenitory, and also to ascertain by quiet observation how well prepared the Frenchmen were to empnasizo their claims. The commissioner chosen by Dinwiddie for this important and difficult errand was George Washington. Tonne but Experienced. Geoege "Washington was then only 21 years of age. But he was a member, as heir to his brother, of tho Ohio Company which had for its object the colonization of this valley, and he was, moreover, a young man of singular good sense and efficiency, who had already had some sight of the world, and knew men, and particularly knew Indians, and was an experienced 'backwoodsman. In October, 1753, George Washington set out to inteiview these un welcome visitors from France, and, on tho way, to make tho discovery of Pittsburg. The expedition set out from Will's Cieek, which is now the town of Cumberland, in Maryland. From Cumberland they started in November over a country which had in those days no road whatever, good or bad, and in the face of unusual storms of rain and snow for they had an "old fashioned winter" in those days and at last reached Turtle Creek. Here they found tho Monongahela even with its banks. Theie was no possibil ity of gettingtho pack-horses over with their loads. They, accordingly ,'pnt their baggage into a canoe, with two men to take it down the river, while Washington and his escort, swimming their hoises over, were to ride down over the few miles of land, and meet the boatat the junction of the rivers, at "the Point." now Fitlsburg Was Discovered. It had been determined beforehand that alort should be built about ten miles back from the fork of tho Ohio, near tho wigwam of a friendly Indian, named Shinglss. But when George Washington rode down over this fair peninsula, down past Braddock's Field, which he was eventfully to see again, past Swissvale and Edgewood, and Wilkinsburg, through the 'East End, and so along the Indian trail which was the Fifth avenue or the Pcnn avenue of the eighteenth century, and reined up at the meeting place of the three rivers, he was of another opinion. He had already decided that the most important place just then on the whole American continent was here at .Pittsburg. Here the English might best make their dcsiied interruption in that long line of foits which the French were hoping to extend fiom Quebec to New Orleans. Pittsburg was discovered! Washington went 17 miles down the Ohio to an Indian village, where he held a con ference with the Indian chiefs. The Indians wero on the side of the French. Like many other ignorant folk, they believed that a sword is stouter than a ploughshare; they could not be persuaded that the people who lived bn farms w ere stronger than the men who lived in forts. . From the banks of the Ohio, the pat ty went to Franklin, which was then named Venango. Franklin was then inhabited by a few Frenchmen, thence their course was to the headquarters of the French com mandant at Fort lo Boeuf. Here Washington got an answer'to Dinwiddle's letter, and having looked the situation over with his wise eyes, went home, with many adven tures by the way, to make his renort. One Hundred and -Thirty-Six Yean Ago. Governor Dinwiddie welcomed Washington's discovery of Pittsbuig. Steps were at once taVen to raise a force of men to build and hold a fort here at the junction of the livers. Aud Captain Trent went for ward with a band of frontiersmen to begin the building. On the 22d of February, a hundred and thirty-six years ago this day, Trent and his workmen, were getting logs together down at "the Point," whilo Washington at Alexandria was getting men together and finding tho task a hard and slow one for the Pittsburg expedition. Winter passed before tho regiment weie ready. At last, in April, 1751, Washington arrived at Cutnberland. And here bad news from Pittsburg" met him Down the Alle gheny river had come ono day a great fleet of canoes, and tho canoes were lull of guus and Frenchmen. The Fiench had landed at "the Point." The English had discreetly surrendered at the sight of them and re treated into the surrounding woods, the English fort had been pulled down, and in its place stood Fort Duquesno. This French capture or tue Pittsburg fort amounted to a declaration of war. That notable- contest between France and Eng land, which lasted seven j ears, and which was really of more far-reaching consequence than the War of tho Revolution itselt; that fight which determined whether this new continent should belong to the Latins or to the English, to the party of retrogression and the past, or to the party of progress and the future; that war began Just here where we now live And the first shot actually fired in that war, in the faces of a company of scouts from Fort Duquesne, was fired by the discoverer or Pittsburg, George Wash ington. The Change of the Seasons. Chicago Hcrald.i We have the mugwumps' word for It that in York State February 22 is "midwinter." This being the case, Christmas must be an auttlmn and .the Fourth, of July a spring holiday. ' . . - STBONG TEMPBANCE BESOLTjnOHS Fussed Dy the Evangelical Conference in Session at Lebanon, Pa. Lebakoit, Pa., Feb, 21. At the Saturday session of the Evangelical Conterence the Committee on Temperance presented the following report: "Wheiseas, Tho traffic In the manufacture and sale ot intoxicants, sanctioned and pro tected by the law has proved itself one of the boldest midmost fatal foes to the church, the nation and the homo; and, "Wheiyas, The traffic is strictly forbidden In tho Word of God and in our church laws, and because it is notonly a sin intrinsically, but its woeful effects ale so destructive upon both the temporal and spiritual economy of all srovcinment; and "Wheiras, Tho two great political parties of our land unmistakably havtj adopted the license principle as a method of controling the evil, and consequently maintaining it, and thus are under the control of the liquor power, aiul'thev l-nve abundantly demon stinted by an audacious defiance of temper ance piinciplrs that wo cm expect no relief through their political muasuies, therefore, "Resolved, Fiist, That we are uncompro misingly opposed to any political measure tunc wouiu legalize tne saloon ana give tue pernicious truffle tho sanction of the law. "Resolved, Second, That we, as a confer ence, insist upon a strict obedience of our church discipline in this matter, and deem it a direct violation of our law for a member of our church to sign an application, or in any wav fonvaid the cause ol tho saloon by his influenco. "Resolved, Third, That we, as a confer ence, ilcooly deploie that the directois of the Woild's Fair propose to licen? e the sale of intoxicants at the World's Fair, and that w o piotest against such as unchristian and damaging upon not our nation alone, but upon all the different nationalities partici pating in the groat Exposition; and, that we earnestly request that tho commissioners veto such privilege." NOW COMES A GSEAT FSTJIT TBUST. Local Crop Failures to.Re Compensated for by Co-Operntion. New Yoke, Feb. 21. The Tribune publishes this: P. B. Armstrong, who has gone to Cal ifornia to foimn great fruit trust, has pub licly given an outline of his-piojcct. The investment is estimated at $50,000,000, to be divided into sharps of $100 each, proprietors of land to be entitled to subscribe in pro poition to tho value their property bcais to the whole. It is proposed to issue a first mortgage bond, beaiiffg not to exceed S per cent interest, redeemable, if desired, by the coipomtion after ten years, and payable in 30' years: the bonds to be issued for an amount equal to 33 per cent of the capital. Ihis plan, it is computed, would give the fruitgrowers of Calilornin fiom $15,000,000 to $23,000,000 to enlarge tue product ot the btate. It is also proposed to have the stocks aud bonds listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Mr. Aimstrong points out the plan would equalize leturns to producers w hen ccitnin sections suffered from drouth, w et or vermin. AMERICA'S BIGGEST L4B0RAT0EY To Be Built in That Aggregation onuge rtilngs, Chicago, for Her University. Chicaco, Fob. 21. Sidney A. Kept, the .well-known Board of Trade man, yesterday pledged liimself to erect for the University of Chicago a chemical laboratory, which he promises will be the most complete in Amer ica. An aichitect'is already at wotk on the plans, and Mr. Kent has placed $150,000 at the disposal of the building committee. Work will be begun at once, and the struc ture will be ready for occupancy when the University opens, October 1, It was Mr. Kent's brother, formeily of Chicago, who gave the Kent Laboratory to Yale College. Other wealthy Chicago citi zens are expected soon to authorize an. nouncements that they will furnish funds for the erection of a woman's dormitory and for the gymnasium. KEID HAS NOT EESIGHED, But He Will Come Back Home and Will Not Keturn to France. Pauis, Feb. 21. United States Minister Iteid and family expect to sail on the steam ship La Bourgogne on Saturday next. Mr. Iteid does not wish to leave his work uncom pleted, but it is said here that M. Ribot is no longer in a position to sign treatics. Mr. Held has not. yet resigned his post of United States Minister. It was his" desire at first to lesign early enough to enable him to nresent his successor to the French nffininls but at the request of the State Department ii ,,9iiiiiiuu no win uut it-ijii until alter his arrival in America, and probably not until the extradition tieaty has been voted upon by the United States Senate, as the State Depaitment might wish him to ex plain officially some portion of the docu ment. AH0THEB TITLED YANKEE GIBL. This One, However, Is in Luck, ns the Count Has Cash and Is Slashed. Paris, Feb. 21. Count Festetics do Tolma, whose mairiago to Ella Haggiu will take place jn Xew York on" Wednesday next, is a scion of a famous family. His mother, Countess Festetics, is still a handsome woman, and is well known in aristocratic circles. The Count first met his lutuie wife nt a ball at the Austrian Embassy in Paris. Friends and relatives of the family aie de lighted at the match. The Count is said to have a large fortune in bis own name. IN THE UPPER WALKS. John Knox used to preach political sermons and the practice is becoming quite a fad nowadays with certain city divines. Justin S. Morrill, the veteran Senator from Vermont, is one of the keenest and most enthusiastic whist-players in Wash ington. Mrs. Tel Sono, the leading female law yer in Japan, is lecturing in this country in behalf of a Christian school for high caste. Japanese girls. The mental condition of Guy de Mau passant has becomo very much improved since his confinement in Dr. Blanche's asylum for the insane. The Comte d'Andlau, the FrMich exile who recently died in South America, was one of the few habitual gamblers who always came out ahead of tho game. ' , Prof. Bobnham says very pertinently that the real secret of a good memory is .good health, and that all the tricks of the' mnemonio doctors are practically useless. Prince Bismarck has just received a valuable present from the German colony in Bnrmah. It consists of a center-piece of solid silver two feet long and thieo feet high. Kight Hon. William Henry Smith, who was satirized by Gilbert as the Admiral in "ftnnlore," "polished up the handle ot tho big front door" to some -purpose. His per-, sonal estate is valued at $3,000,000. Miss Harriet S. Monroe has com pleted her dedicatory ode for the World's Fai It is noteworthy that whatever the women have to do with the Colombian Ex position is done with very creditable dis patch. THE most eloquent pnlpit orator in Can ada is Dr. George Douglass, He is totally blind, and his hands fall helpless in front or hiin from paralysis, so that he is to all ap pearances half dead, but no one who hears his Voice can remain iusensible to the charm of his oratory. DEATHS HERB AND ELSEWHERE. Dr. Talbot, Edinboro. Dr. Talbot, the compounder of a patent medicine, died Saturday at Edinboro at the age of ,71 years. The doctor had limited practice in Warren county for a numter of years, but Ms medicine made him wealthy, his estate being valued at over (150.000. He lcates a widow but no children. Obituary Notes. 3IILTON LOXA8, ope of the pioneer residents of Lima, O., died yesterday ol Brlght's disease, aged 63 years. J, S. FrniST, a -prominent citizen of Clinton countv, died Friday night, aged SO years. De ceased was a brother uf Judge A. 0. Furs, of Ilcllelonte. Lieutenant W. K. B. Del aiiay, a retired na-. val officer, died in Leavenwortb, Kan., yesterday. He was a graduate of tho Annapolis claps ofI869 and was a member of the relief- expedition ror the Arctic explorers ou the Jeannette. Judge David W. Pattirsok, for 18 years Associate Judge of the courts of Lancaster county, died vesuirday erenlnft of paralysis, aged 79 years Hie Judge was a member of theLeglslatureln 17, District Attorney of the cocuty lu lS53.andwasa meinber-of the ConiUtaUonal COnreuUvu of Wt. OUR MAIL POUCJJ. Private Da'zMl on llu Soldier Vote. Totho EdltororTlieDlflpatch: WJiy 1 1 tho world is it can any one tell me, I wonder that in all iie newspapers and politicians are saying about Picsidental candicates, party platforms and prospects, the soldier voto is ignored ontirelyt I see alt the papers, and rend lots of them, but In no one a single word as to what the soldieis say about tho coming campaign! Is this an unimportant tactoiT Isitwoith ennmeiat lng in the audit of political affairs? Elim in- ate the" soldier voto lrom Harrison in 18tS and Grover Clevelana was elected by a cool million mnjoi ity. Withhold it from Harri son in 1802 and lie will full of re-election by a million votes. Yet nobody takes it into any calculation of the possibilities of the com ing campaign. If this is not leaving Hamlet out of the play with a vengeance I should like for some ono to say why not . If tho soldieis were all dead thismight liavo somo show of reason or common sense, though even then their sons would cast a million votes almost exactly as thplr fathers voted borore them. But we are not nil dead by a million voters yet. Of these 250 003 are Democrats, who cancel and set off 250,000 Republican votes, leaving half a million majority among thd soldiers yet, who can generally (not always by a long shot) be counted for the Republicans, and thev more than furnish allthomajoritiesof the Repub licans in all the Northern States gave Har rison every elector he had. Then there are half a million of their sons voting with this half million this year, and how many fathers, brothers and other male relatives of voting age? Yet this force is not worth mentioning in any papers or by any poli tician. Aie theso men mere machines to bo voted by tho leaders always nt their sweet win, or aie tuey iree ana lnaepenuer.t men who will be actuated by oi dinar)" human motives, interests and prejudices as other voters are? Leaving us out, what do the politicians take us lor anyhow? Have they forgotten history so soon? Have thev forgotten how grandly the nartv won witli the boys inblne all in line in '1664, 1863, 1372,1830, 18S8,and how weneaily lost tho election of lS70ivnd quite lost that or 1SS1 bv tho coldness and indiffer ence of the Republican soldiers, be- cuusoorhe slights put upon them by our leaders in ostracizing ns from all offices and doling out $2 pensions or none? Who has foi gotten how the veto of the bounty bill ot 1873 split the soldier voto in the next elec tion, gnve half of it to the Democrats and left a laigo poition of it home? Who has forgotten how the refusal to repeat the ras cally limitation on arrears of pensions pioduced the like result in 1384? What idiot does not recall the promises and pledges of large pensions and lucrative offices for the private soldiers which brought the Indiana soldiers and all the rest into line again and elected Harrison in 1888? Talk of tariff lcfoiin, silver, reciprocity or other "eternal principles," or of your candidates Hill, Flower, Harrison, Alger or Sherman, anything or any body it is all idle speculation unless you include in your cal culations the factor paramount in" import ance, the soldier vote! It is the be-all and the end-all. I would rather have the soldier vote sure on a platform written in Chinese, which no man could lead, than the best plat form conceivable without that vote. That vote will beat "eternal and everlasting principles" every day in the week, but with out it the Democrats can take the Lord's Piayer or the multiplication table for a platform and beat the Minneapolis nomineo out of his boots. So have a care, gentlemen, of the conven tion! Be sure that you have this majority of all majorities on jour side or your labors will all be in vain. With it you can take any old larmer, railsplittcr or boatman and make him President as easy as rolling off a log; without it you cannot elect the best anil bigsest statesman in the whole pack. "O fiddlesticks," you sav, "we can count on the soldier vote for anybody or anything eveiy oay in tue yean" xuauKs lor your confidence though it savor of contempt. We don't vote in the lamp. Each one de posits his own ballot! Did you ever think of that? We have no proxies. The soldiers aro not in good humor. To be frank they don't like the w ay things are goins. They caiemore for pensions than they do lor pi oniises or parties either. Did you never find that out yet? Thev have more concern in it fair share of the offices than they have in "eternal nnd immortal principles." A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. They have been fooled with too many lies. You can't palm off tariff for a pension. They begin to giow tired of all this rot of prom isbs. They seo no privates need apply, yet you expect them to vote for you. Is this not cheeky; is it not cooler than the weathei? Do you know the boys don't take kinuly to those $2 and $4 pensions? Have you thought of that? Do you know that if moved by the same impulse they can unite in the G. A. R. in one nisht Jor.or against any candidate? FlilVATE Dalzeix. Caldwell, O., Febiuary 21. Martyrs, Not Suicides. To the Editor of The Dispatch: In one ol the leading Now York City jour nals I recently noticed an editorial touching "The Prevalence and Cowardice of the Crime or Spicide." I copy therefrom the follow ing paragraph: "Socrates, tho Athenian orator, and Cato, the Roman philosopher, both committed suicide. Lord Castlereagh, at the summit of bis political career, gre w weary or success and voluntarily ended his lire."" Now, Mr. Editor, in the above short ex tract there seems to me to be several mis statements, and ir I am wrong, I trust you will be kind enough to set me' right. In the first place, I always supposed that Socrates was a martyr, as much so as Bruno. In my biographical dictionary I am in formed that the grand old philosopher "was .put to death by the Athenians on a raise charge or Atheism, 400 years before Christ," the fact being that Socrates had long been in the habit of deriding in public, probably on "Mars Hill," the plurality of the heathen gods, asserting in opposition to the orthodox beliet, that there was but one God the supreme ruler of the universe, whose temple was built with stais. Probably the vein of ridicule in which he indulged was similar to that usedby Ingersoll at tho pres ent day. Bat, fortunately for Robert, he can fling his satire with impunity, nnd instead of running the risk or martyrdom for ridi culing tire orthodox opinions or the pres ent time the satirical Bob can smile placidly and rake in the shekels in galore. Socrates, liite a good, law-abiding citizen, condemned to death, took from the hands or the jailer the cup or poison the Juice or hemlock, and with calm serenity, as a noble martyr, passed away sublimely into what he believed a higher state of existence. As Cicero and Demosthenes represent ancient oratorv, so is Socrates associated in our minds as a great philosopher, not an orator. To talk ot Castlereagn "growing weary of success" is simply absurd. His political career was a signal failure. Cowardice, lrom a consciousness of his guilt, prompted him to commit suicide, and the only grace ful act of his lite was when he severed his carotid artery with a pbnknife in order to escape the vengeance of an insulted people, whoso execrations struck terror to his cra ven heart and made him feel that, like the infamous Jefferys, he would soon be hurled from his high position and hunted down like a wolf, for in the wolds or Lord Byron, when referring to Castlereagh, he was a "cold-blooded, smooth-faced, placid mis creant." Owen Jones. Cobbt, Pa., February ID. Americans Can Stand It, Louisville Courier Journal.! Washington's birthday stops business for two successive days this year; but where is tho American who can go back on George? TO-DAi'S SNAP CONVENTION. The proceedings at Albany next Monday will haidly startle the country. Tf'asliinglon i-osi. The snap convention will be held Monday. The results of it will become apparent in other days. Buffalo Enquirer. The Hill boom would be in much better condition had Geoige Washington been born later in tho year. Deliver Tone. It is expected that Senator Hill will ad dress the convention in Albany to-morrow, ir he does, he will be listenedVo. Xew York Advertiser. There is some possibility that the machine which Mr. Hill constructed with so much care may turn out to be a Frankenstein. Washington Star. TBE22dof February will be notable this year. Chicago will have Puttiand Congress, Cleveland will orate at Ann Arbor and Hill will manipulate a snaD convention. Chicago Inter Ocean. The date of Senator Hill's next visit to Washington is now fixed for the 24th. This is subject to the exigencies ot the Hill boom, however. This is the prime consideration Boston Herald. Next Monday Senator David B. Hill will hold his snap convention at Albany and select 72 delegates to vote for him lor Presi dent at the Democratic National Conven tion in June. Denver Republican. AN TJHEVENinjL WEEK AHEAD. - Congress Not Expected to Do Much Except to .'ettlo the Cralg.--tew.irt Case. Washi.igtos, Feb. 21. The present week in Congress is likely to be uneventful. Al though both Houses will reassemble Tues day, it is improbable that a qnornni or Con gress will be present until the following day. Tho Clagett-Dubois contested election ca'-e will come up in the senate as the unfinished business, and may consume several days in its discns-iion. The Paddock puio food bill is set don u us the next subject for consid eration, nnd a piolongod debate up"n the merits or tho tm-asure is inevitable. The-e matters win probubly occupy the attention of the session during the legislative week, with the possible addition or some interest ing proceedings in executive session in con nection with pending nominations. When the House reassembles Tuesday, ac cording to an understanding heretofore reached.it will begin Consideration of itsflrst election contest, nami-lv, that oL Craig versus S'ewart. fiom Pennsylvania. Two of the Rennbltcnn members ol the Com mittee on Elections have joined with the Democratic luajori'y or the committee in recoinmendin-r that Stewart, the Ropnbli can, he oustedand that Crate, the Demo cratic contestant, be seated. Chairman O'Ferrall says the case should be decided by the House in onedav.but it is possible that the contest will last two days. Tho Indian appropriation bill Is the unfinished business before tho House. Considerable progress was made in its consideration during tl-e two days of the pat week when ic was under discussion and it is thought that an other day will be sufficient ror bringing it lo passasre b v the House. Any time in nddition to the legislative dav devoted to the Indian appropriation bill "will militate ngainst private bills, which aie entitled to engross the whole ot Friday, when there is not omo matterofprivilego or great importance be fore tho House. Siturd.iy is what maybe termedan"open day"in the popular branch of Congress, nothing being set dow-u for that day. WEST INDIES AE0TJ5ED. The Islands Will Send Somo Novel Exhibits to the World's Fair. WAsnrsGTo;.-, Feb. 21, Mr. F. A.Ober, the special commissioner of tho World's Fair, now in Puerto Rico, writes that a very lively interest has been awakened, und a nnmber of valuable collections have already been offered for exhibition. A very attractive display will be made or native woods, in lesrard to which the local commission ers will make special effort, and the work lias alreadv been begun. One resident will exhibit syrnps, oils and extracts of native plants and fruits, etc, and is already en gaged in theinanufactureof a very excellent Florida water, of which samples will be sent. This would appear especially appro priate, trom the ract that it was from this Island Ponce de Leon sailed in search of tho fountain of vocth and the house he built and occupied is stdl shown. Full photo graphic -v iews of It will be displayed. The Exposition Commissioner to the West Indies writes liom St. Thomas that much in terest in the coming fair has been aroused in that island, and preparations are being made to make a creditable display. A large relier map or the town of Chailotte Amatia, tho chief port, showing tbo surrounding hills and harbors, has been suggested. The town is one of the most beautiful in tho, tropics, it uas a spicnuiu setting, ami the harbor is framed for its safety and commodiousness. This attractive ex hibit would undoubtedly excite much inter est at Chicago. Around this as a nucleus will be grouped the various products and manufactures of the three Islands or St. Thomas, St. Johns and Santa Cruz. They will consist or sugar, rum bay rum and fiber plants, native hnndiworic, etc. Some beau tiful Spanish lace will be sent. No action has yet been taken by the Government, but the interest shown by private parties will guarantee a splendid showing. WITHEBS BIG ESTATE. He Leaves It AH to His Relatives and None to Charities. New York, Feb. 21. Special. The will of David Dunham Wither?, the turfman, was opened yesterday for a private reading. There are no public bequests or any kind. The whole estate is divided among the members of Mr. Withers' family and his near relatives. Judge A. C. Munson, Mr. Withers' lifelong friend, is appointed tho sole executor. The greater part is to be put in the hands of trustees for tbo use of Mr. Withers' sisters during their lifetime. On their death most of it falls to the nephews. Judge Munson, the executor, professes to have approximate idea of the value of the estate. According to the estimates of busi ness acquaintances of Mr. Withers, it may be placed at about $4,000,000. Mr. Withers' closes: relatives, among -whom the greater part oT his property will be divided, are his three sisters, Mrs. Emory Ludlow, Mrs. Virginia M. Payne, and the Countess De Rancourt. all or w horn reside in this city: his brother, Reuben Withers, who is an invalid, now living in Paris, and his nephews, Robert Center and Allred Witheis. The tuneral of Mr. Withers took dlace yesterday afternoon in St. Marks Church. TEN MILLIONS DIVIDED. The Estate of John D. Trevor Finally Settled to Everybody's Satisfaction. White Plaixs, N. Y., Feb. 21. Special. The executors of the estate of the late John B. Trevor, of Yenkers, have filed tbeirdecree in the Surrogate's office in which they ren der to Surrognte Coffin an itemized account, of all moneys and property which have come into their hands as executors and ask to be discharged. Surrogate Coffin signed the de cree which orders the discharge of the executors and the payment over of the moneys to themselves ns trustees under the last will and testament of John B. Trevor for the heirs at law. The decree values the estate now at $10,017,610 73, which consists largely of railroad stocks and bonds. One clause or the decree reads 33 follows: "It is adjudged and decreed that out of tbo balance ot principal remaining in the hands or tho said executors they eaeh retain the sum of $97,084 21 for tho balance or commis sions to which they are each entitled on this accounting." Another clause reads: "Tho executors shall letain the sum of $43-1 57 each for the costs and expenses or this account ing." Another clause again gives each ex ecutor $441 51 for commission's to which they are entitled on the accounting.' The estate is now settled except for the payment Of the legacies to the heirs at law by the trus tees. EXPECTED TO COME BACK. A Second Adventlst 3!akes m "Will "With That End In View. New Haven, Conn., Feb. 21. The effort to set aside tho will of the late Almeron San lord, of Hamden, Conn.,in the Probate Court this afternoon was successful. The will gave to his son, Harmanus A. Sanford, of Torring- ton, the greater part of the property, which consisted mostly or land. One or its provi sions was that the land should not be sold within 239 years. The reasoii for this provision, it was ex plained as proor of Mr. Sanford's mental in capacity, whs that Mr. Sanford was a strong Second Adventlst and expected that within a few years he would return to earth. To prevent any squandering of the "ptoperty during his "enforced absence," he put in the clause regarding its sale, believing that within 293 years, at least, he would be able to come back. Mr. Sanford made another provision that his son should take care of thepropertvora brothel wno was insane and confined in the Middletown asylum. Harmanus A. sanford was unable to caie for the bi other without selling the proDerty. It was these conflicting provisions that in duced the heirs to contest the instrument. DAU0HTEB8 OF THE BEV0LTJTI0N To Convene To-Day in National Congress, at tho Nation's Capital. Washington, Feb. 2L The flirst Continen tal Congress of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution will convene in this city to-morrow, and con tinue in session during three days. The public sessions will be held in the Church of Our Father. The Congress will bejcalled to ofder by the President General, Mrs. Harri son, who will make the address ot welcome. The morning session will be devoted toad dresses on special subjects by jhe regents of the different States. Wednesday will be the day for election or officers. Mrs. Cabell, presidins Vice President General of the association, will give a re ception to-morrow evening to visiting regents and delegates, to meet tho officers. Mrs. Max M. Hallowell will give a luncheon to visiting regents and delegates on Wednesday. But the great social event of the Congress will be the reception by Mrs. Harrison, at tho White House, in honor of visiting regents and delegates at 9 o'clock on Wednesday evening. No Danger ox's Sweating System. Washington Post.J At its present rate of progress there is no danger that the House of Representatives will develop a sweating system. . '. CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. To every 1,000 males in London there are 1, 1J females. The total income of the Church of Eng land is about $1,000,000 a week. The total valuation of property in Mon tinnfnlKH was $HJ 205,128, an increase of t),G J3.C15 over 1M0. Because of the low price of cotton, a f.tmipr in Coffee connty, Ga., burned his crop or it and then committed suicide. The Drnids held many plants sacred, as, fur instance, vervain, selago. mistletoe, aud,among trees, the oak and the rowan. The story of an intoxicated gentleman who drank a bottle of a certain euro for in ebriety by mistake and is now an involun tary teetotaler is lull of suggestion. By studying the spectrum of lightning as it passes through the air, it has been fonnd that sodium, the element lrom which common salt is formed, exists in the a mos phere. The city of IJutte, Mont., has so many idle men on its hands that tho authorities aro talking ot putting up a new building where the unemployed can be fed aud lodged. A British Consul in China, Dr. James Scott, who has written the first Corean grammar, declii res that the Corean Iangu"e is even more difficult than the Chinesj. He estimates its age at 4,0ouyears. At a wedding in Brookfield, Mo., last week the bride and groom each wore very valuable gold nuirsets, old familv relics, dug lrom Deadman's Gnlcb, Sacramento Valley, by the lather or tho groom in 1336. American colleges are every year add ing lnrgely to their libraries. Harvard now has .103,000 volumes: Yale, 200,000: Cornell, ISO 000: Columbia, 90.000: Svracuse 73,000; Dartmouth. Ci,500: Princeton, 6S.C00. This has been a terrible winter for stock on the Idaho ranges. Thousands of animals are dead, and tho stockmen say that owing to recent heavy snows there is no possible hope for the remainder. The PBcenicians were acquainted with the use or extremely hardened irou (prop erly speaking, steel), a their numerons anil beautirul works in ornamental metallurgy, and tho cutting and engraving of previous stones. The State Treasury of Kew Hampshire has just been drawn on for $3i0 for So bears killed within the limits or one town (Bart Iett) dnrlng last year, and of this um ono man F. C. Merrill, received $2S0 for 28 that ho personally killed. The United Kingdom has neither pe troleum nor natural gas. Our product of each in 18i8 wa nearlv $25,000,000 on the spot the agzregate. as civen by the latest re port or the United States Geological Survey. being)vcr-H7,000,COO. Steps are being taken to tear 'down the old John Jacob Astor headquarters fur trading house at Fond du Lac, and enough interest has been aroused in the preserva tion of the oldest building at the head of the lake to call out a vigorous protest. A professional nurse in Frankfort, Ger many, who allowed a surgeon to cat away a piece of her arm to place in a open wound on the body or a wealthy patient, 13 suing the surgeon for damages on the ground that he took too much from her arm in the opera tion. The CentralUalt der Bauwallung states that pipes of cement, in which wire netting is embedded, are now being manufactured in Berlin. The wire netting is said to greatly increase the strength of the pipes azainst bursting, so that they are well adapted for water conduits. The Salvation Army is being boycotted in Finland. No mention of It of any kind may appear in pnblic print. So strictly is this law being carried out that any mention of the army, any advertisement hearing on the movement is sufficient to cause an entire issue of a newspaper to be cancelled. The widow of the famous Indian chief, Black Squirrel, who was one of tho Seneca tribe loyal to the American cause during the war of 1312 and did valuable service, died a few davs ago on the Tonawanda reservation in Niagara county. New York. She was 102 years old, and drew a pension from the.Government. , The cheapest tax-dodging scheme on record is that or a churchman in Lincoln connty, Me., who has organized a bo:jus religious and charitable society, has made himself treasurer, and has turned! all hit personal property over to the treasury of this non-taxable corporation. He defies the assessors and they don't see how they can get at him. Toys were showered upon the King of Spain last Christmas. They came firom his grandmother at Paris, from his grandmother at Vienna, from the Orleans family, from grandees of Spain, from the corporations or the towns through which the royal party passed last summer. All these good people literally bombarded His Majesty with cases of all shapes and sizes, crammed with toys or all sorts and descriptions. Everybody who has read the poetry or novels or Sir Walter Scott has seen the throstle or mavis frequently mentioned in them. A number of these birds were Im ported to Portland from Germany. Last year they made nesti and reared young in the larzc trees at Ninth and Main streets , and In the fall migrated to the south. They have just returned to Portland and are mer rily whistling about their haunts of a year ago. A Californian, having read an article in Sature on the intelligence or the fox, writes that whatever may be truo or the English fox his California cousin is next door to a fool. His son caught numbers of them in a trap, but many of them escaped by parting the chains (by dint of strength, not or in telligence), and were again caught within two or three days in the same traps! One of them was caught three times in quick suc cession! Living on "Weston Mountain, Umatilla county, there is a young man, recently from Ohio, who has two sisters who are not related in the least by blood. This strange state of things came about in this way: His lather had one daughter by.his first wife; first wife died He married again, and dying he left one "son, the gentleman in question. His mother married a second time, and one dau"hter was the result or the union. Each orthe daughters is, or conrse, a hair sister to the son, although there is no blood relation between tho two. KHYNKLKD KHYMLETS. "You pres the button," he said to the fair amateur photographer. "And yon?' she said shyly. Ibusathe pretty 'on," he whispered, as he but let us retire. We have no business here. CM. cago Tribune. "When a statesman is boasting his worth to the nation. When a doctor Is forward in drinking your health. -n.hn a lawyer advises to shun litigation. They are scheming for naught but increasing their wealth. ludoe. , 5J- "How do I stand with yonr father?" ho asked. " I don't think George." she answered after some thought, "that yon had better stand at all when yon are with father. Yon had better run.' Washington Post. Tom I shouldn't wonder it Jack had bine) olood In bis veins. Dice He'd knock you down if yon dared to hint at such a thing. Tom Democratic? Dick No. Harvard. ,S0. Puck. They went the museum's freaks to see, And saw the marvels there displayed; "Tls wonderful to see." said she. "The curious things by Nature made." "Tis true." he answered, "Naturemaltea Some curious things I'm sure of that. For 1 have seen a nest of snakes That were the offspring of a bat." Hew York Brmld. .Mr. Flame (rejected) And am I to con sider your 'no" positive and IrrevoeaDle? 3Ilss Icicle Well. I don't know. Try me next summer aud see. Harper's Bazar. Mrs. Trotter I hear that all three of Mrs. Barlow's children have the measles? Mrs. Faster Yes; 6o I understand. They're so poor that they have to economize on the doctor oy all getting alci at once Judge. She wears my roses o'er her heart That with true love for me doth thrill. Aud In a pocket o'er my heart . Hi I for those roses wear the bill. .eia York Herald. Mother Edwin, stop that chattering'or I" shall have to report you. Edwin I ain't chattering. I'm eating. 'Hold your tonpie, sir! Iloioiryouor,old:you eat with one ear and talk with the other, I know you." Texas Silings. - ,-. w - a f h I- - ir 1 imiIi ,.rL tu'T'.dKBkl " !TTMf f- -: " jra-f'rtti.-Mr ..vtf-'Lg.m.'.n-a.'Ti'a c-i iMTlTliilTi m ik h n'IW-MiJlMWMMiaWWnTlBTlliiVf"lTJrtaf 'rakEmMr?i--ii"B-f,Tittiiii-j&'rii- - . . j-c: . ,J.-' SOmyr ZJnrvi.- A. ,1 j w - s-t .if ' f..Jf-it Tli iMf tSr-. r -" l r Vta-vvv i f ft'. j.. - --d. - . "Mb1 V?13 -rs. i .i Trrr..atJi y miMB Wi 4
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