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riTTSBDRG. TUESDAY. MARCH 22.
TWELVE PAGES
NOT A DISSOLUTION".
The amount of actual dissolution there
is in the Standard Oil Trust's action of
j esterday may be perceived by a few mo
ments' consideration of the resolutions
which Mr. Dodd had prepared for the oc
casion. This will show the "dissolution
so loudly announced to be a minimum
with a maximum of preservation of the
illegal combination. ,
"All the property held by the Trust ex
cept stocks of corporations shall be sold
by the Trust at private sale," says the
rpsolution. As the property of the Trust
is almost entirely the stocks of corpora
tions, this exception is very important, and
its reason appears In the further proceed
ings, which provide that each owner of a
trust certificate or certificates "shall re
ceive in exchange therefor assignments of
as many shares in each of the corpor
tions"asare represented by his share of
the Trust As a means of facilitating this
distribution, the capital of the various
companies is to be watered up to the level
of the Trust
This is not dissolving an illegal combi
nation, but it is perpetuating ns faras
possible the united control of the prop
erty of the Trust That it is not obeying
the judicial decision is apparent if the
nature of the ruling is considered for a
moment The Court held that the illegal
purpose of the Trust rendered the con
tracts by which it was formed illegal.
That necessarily required, if the deci
sion were to be obeyed instead of evaded,
that the property be returned to the con
trol of those who held it prior to the for
mation of the Trust To simplify the
case suppose that A owns one property and
B owns another,and that they unite the con
trol in a Trust The Court decides that
the Trust is illegal. Obedience to the de
cision will return A's property to him, and
B's to him. But if the distribution is
made by giving A a half interest in both
properties and B the other half in both
the decision is evaded by the perpetuation
of the combination.
It may be somewhat more difficult to
keep the combination intact when the
shares are distributed among 2,000 differ
ent owners than under the Trust But in
view of Mr. Dodd's former assertion that
the nine trustees owm a majority of these
stocks, this method of distribution indi
cates that their respect for law does not
go the length of giving up their grip on
the petroleum trade.
ABUSING PLAINTIFF'S ATTORNEY.
The indictment of the directors ot the
Whisky Trust, known under the more pre
tentious title of "The Distillers' and
Cattle Feeders Company," awakens the
indignation of the Wine and Spirit Ga
zette. That journal, as perhaps is to be
expected from its organic character, is un
able to find any phase of the proceeding
which suits it It thinks it wrong that
the prosecution should have been located
in Boston instead of Cincinnati, Chicago
or New York, which would have been
much more convenient to the Trust mag
nates; it intimates that short operations in
the stock of the concern inspired the
prosecution; and it finally wants to know
why the Whisky Trust "was singled out
as an object of attack from among all the
other combinations to which the Sherman
act might be applied."
All of which creates the impression that
the Trust is in danger of being hard hit
when its organ flutters so wildly. The
piosecntion was located in Boston because
the United States District Attorney of
that district discovered there the evidence
of its violation of the statute. If the Dis
trict Attorneys of Cincinnati or Chicago
had been equally on the gut the for evi
dence of violation of the law, the prosecu
tion would probably have taken place in
one or the other of those cities. The
charge that stock gambling is at the
bottom of the prosecution has been pro
duced so unvaryingly against every at
tack on the combinations as to have lost
all significance, except that of the belief
that the only persons entitled to do any
stock manipulating are those who get up
Trusts for the sake of infusing market
value into water. As to the question why
the Whisky Trust is selected, that would
be very pertinent if all enforcement of the
act were to be dropped with this one suit
But prosecutions must begin somewhere
although we presume that the Wine and
Spirit Gazette and the Whisky Trust may
be somew hat slow to perceive the necessity.
Tirades of this sort will not avail the
Whisky Trust magnates as a defense
against the charge of violating the law.
But it is manifestly in the line of abusing
the other side's attorney.
PRACTICAL IF NOT THEORETICAL.
The decision of the Philadelphia court,
that the limitation of the Baker ballot law,
which excludes the Prohibitionists from
the list of parties entitled to have their,
candidates printed on the offlcal ballot is
not unconstitutional, is the first indication
of the judicial view on the question. The
case will of course go to the Supreme
Court, but the decision of that body, even
if it should reverse the lower court, can
hardly be received in time to rescue the
Prohibition party from the disadvantages
Imposed upon them by the act.
The theory of the judicial decision and
of the newspaper comments supporting it
is that the law does not disfranchise the
members of parties whose candidates are
not printed in the official ballot. A blank
space is leltand they can write in the
names of their candidates, if they are not
printed. This is all very well in theory.
But in practice some other considerations
appear. The law limits the time which
the voter can spend in preparing his
ticket and, while persons of clerical train
ing might write out a list of thirty-two Presl
dental electors, and as many more Con
gressional, State and local candidates in
the stated time, it is very plain that the
men to whom writing is a slow and pain
ful process could not. possibly do it It
has been said thaj the Prohibitionists are
all persons of intelligence and will find no
difficulty in preparing their manuscript
ballots which is an Involuntary compli
ment to that party worthy of note. But a
law which depends for the rescne of inde
pendent voters from disfranchisement,
solely on their being quicker with thb pen
than the average citizen, has a rather weak
foundation to stand upon.
Another point turns on the generally re
ceived superstition, that If a vote is cast
for a man with his name spelled one way,
and another for him with his name spelled
another way, they must be counted as for
two different candidates. The number of
men who can write out a ballot-containing
from four to forty different name? with
out some errors of this sort in spelling is
very small Under this regulation of
writing out ballots the votes that would
be cast away by variations in spelling
would rise to a very large proportion.
Whether this is disfranchisement in the
view of the law or not we leave it for the
Supreme Court to say. But in actual
practice there is no room for doubt that it
will work, and was Intended to work,
practical disfranchisement for a large
share of voters who might wish to indulge
in independent voting.
UTEST IN PUBLIC BUILDINGS.
The last effort of the Senate in the public
building line takes the somewhat improved
shape of laying down principles on which
thepork is to be distributed; but makes the
step in advance nugatory by leaving the
business open to all the old abuses of log
rolling and favoritism.
The bill passed by the Senate provides
for the erection of a Government building
in every town where the yearly postal re
ceipts exceed $9,000, and where for three
years preceding they have averaged 58,000
or more. The cost of buildings, including
site, are to be not less than 523,000 nor
more than S75.000. The plans and speci
fications of each are subject to approval by
a board consisting of the Secretary of the
Treasury, Postmaster General and Secre
tary of the Interior. The underlying
theory of the bill is what The Dispatch
has often urged; but the loopholes in this
scheme are wide. The moneys to be ex
pended under the bill are to be appropri
ated by Congress each year, and, if we
understand the published summary, the
decision as to the cost of the building in
each town will be settled by that body in
its annual appropriations. Here we have
the door left wide open for the regular log
rolling. Whether one town gets a $75,000
building while its rival has to put up with
525,000 will depend, not on the needs of
business, but on the activity of their po
litical representation. If this is an error,
and the Senate bill puts the decision of
this question entirely outside of Congress,
we must credit that body with a decidedly
reformatory streak.
But even then the provisions of the bill
suggest curious possibilities. Imagine an
ambitious town doing a postal business of
say 54,500 per annum. What would pre
vent the enterprising business men of that
town, when they wished to get a public
building, from buying twice as many
stamps as they need for three years, and
using up the surplus stamps after the
building was erected?
THE HIGH STREET CASE.
The decision of the Supreme Court re
versing the ruling of the lower courts on
the right of the Central Traction Company
to operate its tracks on High street fully
confirms the right of the corporation to its
present route.
Thus ends a long and rather peculiar
case, the legal points of which are fully
discussed by the Supreme Court The
final decision of those points by the court
of last resort renders further discussion of
them wholly supererogatory. But it is per
tinent to speak of the effects of the decis
ion on the public convenience.
While it is to be recognized that the oc
cupancy of High street by both tracks of
the cable road for a single block is an in
convenience to the occupants of that
block, it is also evident that -the stoppage
of the road would have been a greater in
convenience. The line furnishes increased
facilities for a large section of the city and
has opened up to improvement a district
which, before the starting of the cable road,
was regarded as most remote by reason of
the time consumed in reaching it. To un
reasonably hamper orwholly obstruct such
a public convenience, on slight grounds,
would not have been in the public interest
On the other hand the complete occu
pancy of that single block by the cable
tracks emphasizes what The Dispatch
has often heretofore urged. A proper
foresight in the grant of franchises when
the new methods came into vogue would
have established a single loop for the
downtown sections which all traction
companies could have used in common.
SniFTIXG TOE SEASONS.
March winds were a proverb of the last
generation; but March snowstorms, if not
blizzards, have taken their place. Whether
it is that old preconceptions were erroneous,
or that a meteorological change has taken
place, it is notable that the former idea of
winter is now modified by the fact that
snow and other characteristics of real win
ter are now more regularly experienced
up to the latter half of March than in De
cember. The traditional inauguration of
winter used to be located at Thanksgiving.
Now we are become used to a soft and
open Christmas, and Ho not begin to really
expect spring until ApriL
The discussion as to whether winter is
getting milder would attack a more per
tinent topic if it directed itself to the
question whether by some unknown means
it has not had a jog of a month or six
weeks further along the calendar. In the
presence for several seasons of open and
mild weather in December, and of storms
and cold in March, those who are accus
tomed to appeal to legislation for a correc
tive of evils should be able to draft a law
to meet the subject Their idea of the
power of legislation might not go to the
length of a bill against snowstorms after
March 13; but the appropriateness of the
seasons could be betier conserved by
changing next January to make it Decem
ber, and to let March come in like a lion
at the time when April now permits us to
begin hoping for spring.
.Resemblances are at times found in
most unexpected places. Balfour, in Ens:
land, and mil, in Air-erica, are wonderfully
alike in the opposition they are meeting
from men of all parties.
The rumpus raised by some Tale stu
dents at New Haven Saturday night in one
of the theaters of that town was a highly
censurable affair, but it should not be taken
as a reflection of the prevailing tone or man
ners of that leading and excellent univer
sity. 'Yale students have always as a class
had the reputation of being sensible and de
corous. The occasional freaks of some un
ruly spirits should be sharply checked by
the Faculty buttho tone of Yale Is so much
against breaches of that sort that they are
veryvexceptlonaL'
England as a whole will be much dis
appointed if Dr. Yaughan be appointed to
succeed the late Cardinal Manning. The
characteristics and abilities of the two men
are wider asunder than the poles. No ap
pointment could more clearly demonstrate
the loss which England sustained by Car
dinal Manning's death.
Venezuela now shows that, .in common
with other South. American republics, it suf
fers from the prominence of individual am
bition and the absence of cohesive patriotio
"principles.
Discontent at the difficulty in obtain
ing money owed by the National Treasury
should not cause a reaction toward extrava
gant appropriations, hut should be concen
trated .on an. insistence that the lavish
wastefulness which has brought the ex
chequer to its present condition be never
again repeated.
'It is about time 'that the Standard Oil
Company should realize that Illegal dealings
in petroleum, or any other commodity, have
as III a scent under one name as another.
It is eminently appropriate that the
Americans identified with the Indiana's re
lief cargo should be greeted witn cordiality
and thankfulness by the Russians. It is
less becoming, however, that their welcome
should assume the form of a banquet when
their presence is due to the prevalence of
starvation.
In listening to a Presidental candidate's
estimate of the situation and opinions as to
the strength of his competitors add large
grains of salt before swallowing.
When a man conceals some 539,000
worth of property in his undervest his
mental- organization must be of a peculiar
order to allow him to forget to don the vest
after Vie ordeal of a Turkish bath. Absent
mindedness Is dangerous in such a case of
vested interests.
Capriati's resignation partakes of the
nature of the invisible stars w hose discovery
was assumed from the peculiar behavior of
neighboring luminaries.
If the Standard succeed in securing the
contract to supply fuel for tjie World's Fnir
the experiment will be watched with great
interest.-. Should success result a new era
in the use of oil as a steam producer will
probably be Inaugurated.
Kaiser Wilhelm's sickness appears to
be useful for covering his indiscretions and
retaining his ministers. "Sweet are the
uses of adversity."
If people persist in the carelessness of
leaving loaded firearm within reach of
fools and children, who know no better than
to play' with them, they should be. made
criminally responsible for their thoughtless
ness. -Iir.the happy time when trains run on
a schedule rate of a hundred miles an hour
the tracks will be covered or snow
abolished.
A club called the Circle Francais has
been organized at Cairo for the furtherance
of French interests in Egypt. The name is
appropriate, since there is nothing eccen
tric in a desiio for French ascendancy.
ToTTEsr announced that Sunday was "the
beginning of Judgment." License nppli-.
cants and remonstrants will please take
note.
The greater the expense incurred by rail
road companies from wrecks,the more likely
is the safety of the traveling public to be
"enhanced by tho adoption of better pre-
cautionary and protective measures.
Verbosity, like procrastination, is the
thief of time whether Fiee Stiver or any
other subject be made an exouse for it.
This is the season when It becomes more
apparent than usual why lawyers are said to
practice at the bar.
PERTINENT PEESONAMTIES.
Prof. Tassikaei has discovered that the
ordinary European bacillus detests tobacco.
Ix memory of Miss Josephine Medill,
who died in Paris In January last, her father
will endow beds in Paris hospitals for tho
use of Americans.
Commissioner McCoemice is about to
goto Paris to attend the farewell banquet to
Minister Reid, and to consult with the
French supporters of the Chicago Fair.
It is said that Seaborn Wright is the
most magnetic public speaker in Georgia.
He is a youthful citizen of Borne with all
the eloquent diction of an old Roman orator.
From now . until their departure from
Paris Minister and Mrs. Beid will attend
dinners given in their honor nearly every
evening. They in turn will give farewell
breakfasts.
The son of the late General Cavaignac,
recently made Minister of Marine in tho
new French Cabinet, is only S3 years old,
and is one of the yonngest men ever railed
on to fill so important a place in the French
Government.
The latest reports about the Count de
Lessens affirm that the great Frenchman is
almost in a state of dctsce. And with the
decline of .his mental powers his bodily
vigor is beginning to fall fast. De Lesseps is
now nearly 86 years old.
Colonel Godwin-Austen says the
Chogo Glacier, in the Himalayas, is one of
the most beautiful in the world. It is an
almost impassable sea of ice-waves on edge.
But Colonel Godwin-Austen ought to see
some of our side streets after a vernal snow
storm.
GOOD EOADS IHCEEASE VALUES.
More Would I4ve Out of Town If Thorough
lares Were Passable.
Norwich Bulletin.
In England the highest ambition of a ma
jority of well-to-do men is to have a "place"
in the country. They don't hanker after
city living the year around; Indeed, they
don't hanker after It at all, except as it may
be forced upon them in order that they may
live near their business. But the minute
their business leaches such a point as to
afford them some leisure, or the minute they
acquire sufficient means to retire, they seek
a-home in the country. England has good
roads, and these country lesidents are no ver
beyond the reach of good markets and of
the supuljcs which good markets offer. A
country house ten miles from a market
town, but connected with it byiv good load
a i ond good at all seasons and in all weath
ers Isn't really so difficult or access as some
country houses within a mile of Norwich
city limits.
Has It ever occurred to land owners in the
towns that good roads to their lands would
not only bring those lands nearer the mar
kets they raise produce for, but would also
bring those lands nearer tho city where
business men do business, make thern more
available for residence, und increase their
value? Soman wants to travel two miles
evory day to -and from the city over such
"roads" as exist in this immediate vicinity
Bnt many men would be glad to drive five
or even more miles every day, If the roads
offered them were such that the drive was
a dally pleasure and did not put them at an
unreasonable distance from their offices in
point ot time; -
Delaware Slethodists Favor tne Ladles.
WiLMijioToy, Dki, March 21. At to-day's
session of the Delaware Methodist Episcopal
Conference, on the question of eligibility of
women as lay delegates, the vote was 69 to
54 in their lavor. Members not presen t were
privileged to record their votes later. This
will, it is thought, Increase the majority.
Flag Signals for Cincinnati Police.
CwcixNATr, March 2L The Cincinnati po
lice force i about to organize a signal corps
whlch.will be drilled in the use or flag sig
nals for the purpose of conveying orders in
time of riot or of other obstructions to the
streets -where there Is difficulty in passing
verbal orders, .
millions for Waterways. .
Features of the River and Harbor Appro-
jprlatlon Bill Movable Dam at Beaver
Ship Channel Through the Great Lakes
A Contract System Adopted.
Washington, March 21. The House'
Committee, on Elvers and Harbors to-day
completed 'consideration of the regular
river and harbor appropriation bill. It ap
propriates 20,700,000, which is" about 1300,000
less than the amount carried by the hill re
ported by the committee in the last Con
gress, .and nearly (1.000,000 less than the
amount of the bill which became a law in
the last Congress.
The greatest feature of the bill is the ex
tent to which the committee enlarges the
policy adopted in the last Congress on plac
ing some of the most important projects
under the contract system, by means of
which work can be undertaken with tho
amount appropriated for the year covered by
the bill and contracts entered Into for the
completion, of the work and of its con
tinuance without serious interruption as
has sometimes happened when the con
tinuance of the work was entirely dependent
upon river and harbor 'appropriations for
each Congress before the work could again
be pushed ahead. This year tho committee
authorizes additional contracts to be en
tered into aggregating $32,15!,706, distributed
-tl . . t. r, M 1T1 lll.
ua iuuows; unariesion, o. 9a,j,vw,
Savannah, $3,217,000; Mobile, Ala., $1,43,800;
Hudson river. $2,147,906; Columbia river,
dregon, $1,700,000: the Great Lakes, $3,310,000;
Point Judith, Rhode Island. $1,175,000; Beaver
Dam, Ohio, $650,000; the Mississippi river,
$16,000,000.
flmprovmcnt of the Mississippi.
The bill authorizing the contract system
to bo applied to the Mississippi river pro
vides for improving tho Mlsilsslppl river
from tho head of the paBses to the mouth of
the Ohio river, inoludlng salaries, clerioal,
office, traveling and miscellaneous expenses
of the Mississippi river commissions and
continuing Improvements $2,500,000 (the
amount directly appropriated in this year's
bill), to be expended under direction of the
Secretary of War, in accordance with the
plans, specifications and recommendations
of the Mississippi Blver Commission for the
general improvement or me river, lor mo
building of levees and for surveys including
the surveys from the head of the passes to
the headquarters of the river, in such man
ner as in their onlnlon shall best improve
navigation and promote the- interests of
'commerce at all stages of the river.
"Additional con ti acts may be entered into
by the Secietury ot War for such materials
and work as may be necessary to carry on
continuously the plans of the Mississippi
river commissions or the materials may be
purchased and work done otherwise than by
contract, to he paid for as appropriations
may be made from time to time, not exceed
ing in the aggregate $2,500,000 per annum
for three 'years, commencing July 1, 1803,
and for improving the Mississippi river
from the mouth of the Qhio to St. Paul
$5,500. Additional contracts may be'mado
by the Secretary of War to carry on con
tinuously the systematic improvement of
the Mississippi, between the points men
tioned or material maybe ptuchasedand
work done otherwise than by contract, not
exceeding in the aggregate $1500,000 per
annum for three years, commencing July I,
1KU.
"Provided further, that of the amount ap
propriated $700,000 shall be expended from
the month of the Ohio to the mouth of the
Missouri river and $8C0,0C0 from the mouth of
the Missouri to St. Paul and the amounts to
which additional contracts aie authorized
to be entered into shall be expended in like
proportions."
Money Meant For a Ship Canal.
, In the case of the great lakes' project
$100,000 is appropriated in the bill for a ship
channel 20 and 21 feet in depth ana or a
minimum width of 360 feet in the shallows of
the connecting waters of the great lakes be
tween Chicago, Duluth and Buffalo.
In the cases of the other improvements
put under the contract system, tue bill pro
vides that the Secretary of War may enter
into 'contracts "To complete the present
pioject of the improvements to be paid for
as appropriations mav he paid by law," the
aggregate cost of the contracts It being pro
vided in each case shall no exceed, iucLisive
of the appioprintions made directly in this
bill the cost heretofore, named as the limit
of cost of completion of the improvements.
For these projects there is diiectly appro
priated in the bill the following amounts:
Charleston Harbor, $JO0,OCO: Mobile Harbor,
$350,000: Savannah 1 1 ver, '$425,000; improving
the Ohio liver by the construction of a
movable dam at or below the mouth of
Beaver rivet, Pennsylvania, $100,000; Point
Judith Harbor of Refuse, Rhode lsland,$!00,
000; Columbia ilver, Oregon, at the Cascades,
S43),000.
Tne following is a list of the more import
ant appropriation:
Pennsylvania Erie, $40,000; Allegheny,
$25,000
Ohio Ashtabula, $70,000; Cleveland, $100,
C00; Fail port, $35,000; Huron, $15,000; Poir
Clinton, $10,000; Sandusky City, $11,712: To
ledo Straight Channel through MaumeeBay,
$200,000; Conneant, $25 000.
Ohio Ohio, $350,000; Ohio (at or below
month of Beaver river, construction of
movable dam), $100,000.
Examinations, suiveys and contingencies
of riveis and harbois, $175,000; expenses con
nected with inspection of bridges, $i5,000.
GEOWIH OF THE SOUTH
Industrial Development for a Week
in
Several IJnes of Trade.
The Tradesman, Chattanooga, Tenn., in its
review of the new Industries established in
the Southern States for the week ending
March 19, says that the movement of South
ern coal to tho markets of the North 'and
East has greatly increased duiing the week,
und that the ability of Southern miners to
furnish the supply of bituminous coal at
prices which will control the sales has been
demonstrated, thai the output of iron, both
in ore and in the manufactured product is
being steadily maintained at the maximum
amount, that theie is continued activity in
railroad circles, as shown by tho number of
coiporations chartered and orsanized dur
ing the week, und that reports as to the
acreage of cotton to be planted indicates
that the quantity will bo abont 75 per cent of
that of the last season.
Waterworks aie to be built at Bay St.
Louis, Canton and Port Gibson, Miss., Cor
pus Christi, Texas, Oramre .ity, Fla., Lum
ber City, Ga., and Lake Providence, La. The
coke ovens at Lewisburg, Ala., are to be en
latged by the building ot 190 new ones, tho
ice factory at Lake Providence, La., will in
crease its capital to $100,000, the car-wheel
works at Houston, Texas, will add $25,000 to
their capital, and. enlargements of wood
working plants aro reported at Statesboro,
Ga., and at Ashland and Catlettsburg, Ey.
A BAEGA1N IN A JUNE SHOP.
Mrs. Beid Buys a Greuz? Painting for S20
Well Worth SIO.OOO.
Baltimore. March 2L Special. 'Mrs. An
drew G. Keid, wife of a well-known capital
ise, bought a painting this morning for $20,
which, is said to be worth $10,000. Mrs. Eeid
is French, her name before marriage being
Mile. Bleir. She is a conniosseur, and while
passing a Junkstoie at once recognized the
value of the picture.
lr is a peasant's head, and on the back is
tho name of Jean Baptiste Greuze, the
French artlf t, nnd immediately below is the
inscription 1726-1S0S. William T. Walters has
the mate to this 'picture, and values it at
$10,000.
ELOPED' WITH HIS OWN WIFE,
The Daughter ot Lucky Baldwin, the Mill
ionaire, Figures In a Bomince.
Sax Francisco, March 21 The announce
ment was made to-day that Anita Baldwin,
the only daughter of "Lucky" Baldwin, the
well-known California millionaire, had
eloped with her cousin, George Baldwin.
It transpires they were secretly married
January 5, and that, having failed subse
quently to obtain the millionaire's consent
to the union, they took advantage of his ab
sence to start northward on a bridal trip.
The news of her marriage and elopement
has been conveyed to Baldwin at hU ranch.
Soldiers Orphans to Colebratc.
Harbisbtjbo. March 2L Special.' The
second annual meeting and banquet of the
lC-Vears' Club of Pounsylvania will be
held in this city May 6. Any male soldier's
orphan who has been a member of any of
the established soldiers' orphans' schools or
homes as a ward of the State, whose admis
sion thereto was based upon the de,ath and
services of the father in the War or the Kef
bellion, and who is of good moral character,
is eligible to membership. Meetings of the
clnbare to be held annually May 6, com
memorating the signing by Governor Curtin
ot the first act creating the soldiers' orphans'
schools. -
Nobody Believes, Either of Them.
Chicago Times. 1
Like Emperor William, the coal dealer
says, "My.weigh is the right .weigh," but no
body believes either of them.- .
DAEWIfl'S THEOET DISPUTED.
Every Living .Race Is Still Human With No
Simian Characteristics.
PubUe Opinion.
" Since the Darwinian theory of the origin
of man matte its. first victorious mark, 20
years ago, we have sought for the interme
diate stages which were supposed to con
nect man with the apes; the proto .man, the
pro anthropos, is not yet discovered. From
anthropological 'Science the pro anthropos
is even a, subject of discussion. At that
time in Innsprnck the prospect was, appa
rently, that the course of descent from ape
to man would be reconstructed "all at once;
but now we cannot even prove the descent
of the separate races from one another. At
this moment we are able to say that among
the peoples of antiquity no sirrzle one was
any nearer to the apes than we are. ,
At this moment I can affirm that there is
not upon earth any absolutely unknown
race of men. The least known of all are the
people of the central mountainous district
of the Malay Peninsula, bnt otherwise we
know the people of Terra del Fuezo quite ns
well as the Esquimaux, Bashkirs, Polyn
esians and Lapps. Jfay, we know more of
many of these races than we do of certain
European tribes: I need only mention the
Albanians. Every living race is still human;
no single one has yet been found that we
ran designate as simian or quasi-slmlan.
Even when in certain ones phenomena ap
pear which are characteristic or the apes
e. g.. the peculiar ape-like projections of the
skull in certain races still wo cannot say
that these men are ape-like.
THE NEXT BELIEF VESSEL.
Plans for Raising a Cargo to Fill the Ship
Conemaugh for Russia.
Philadelphia, March 21 The Russian
Famine Relief Committee met a"t the Mayor's
office to-day and received a number of addi
tional contributions. President Boswell
Miller, or the Chicago, Milwaukee and
St. Paul Railroad sent "a message offer
ing to transport 10,000 barrels of
flour free from Minneapolis to points
touched by Eastern companies. The Cone
maugh will carry 22,500 barrels of flour fts
her cargo, and lor this purpose it will be
necessary to raise about $25,000 more.
Whether this amount is raised or not with
in the stipulated time will not prevent the
prompt sailing of the Conemaugh, as two
gentlemen have guaranteed the whole ex
pense and will be repaid by the subscrip
tions as they come in. Tho Conemaugh will
embark from Antwerp for this port either
to-day or to-morrow, and will reach Phila
delphia about April 8 or 9. The-dato fixed
for her departure is April 13.
A BAEEF00I WALK IH THE 8H0W.
To Cnre Corns and Chilblains, the Specific
of a Tanker.
Ebidoeport, Coxy., March 2L Special.
Captain Charles W. Hoye, of this city, while
standing in the rotunda of the Atlantic
Hotel, yesterday, removed his shoes and
stockings, and, lolling up his trousers nearly
to his knees, surprised the onlookers by
starting out of the doorway toward the
street. When asked where he was going,
he replied that he was about 'to take his
ycirly snow walk for his health.
With that he stepped quickly Into the
snow-covered street, walked rapidly out the
old Stratfoid road for over a mile and then
returned. He aays he has done this regu
larly for over 30 years, and that it is the
greatest cure for chilblains and corns known.
A WATCH FE0M PIZAEEO'S BAHD.
Uncle Sam Apologizes for Exploring Islands
Belonging to Ecuador.
Panama, March 21. There has been dis
covered In Guayaquil, the principal port of
Ecuador, an ancient. ohronoineter which,
from its date and inscription, is believed to
have belonged to Pizarro's party.
A note o f apology has been received from
the Government of the United States for
the late visit of the "Albatrpss" to the
Callapagn islands, where investigations
were made by a scientific commission on
board without having previously obtained
the consent of the Ecuadorian authorities.
CRACKS AT C0XGEES'.
Whatever course the silver question may
take there is no way by which the Demo
cratic party can escape responsibility for
the course pursued by it representatives in
Congress. Charleston ACews.
Unless-out of the turmoil some man
emerges fit to take the lead of affairs we
shall have a wasted-session. A wasted ses
sion at this time means serious results for
the Democracy. St. Paul Globe.
The Fifty-second Congress is very-much
afraid of pension legislation, but it takes to
legislation in favor of Southern war claims
as a duck takes to water. Bat this is easily
explained. Chicago'lnter Ocean.
The Democratic party asked to be put in
power in Congress in order that it mlaht
lepeal "the Iniqnitous McKInley law." Has
anyono heard that flny practical step's have
been taken in that direction? Cleveland
Leader.
Now that the Democratic party is sure to
co on . record in Congress in favor of the
Bland bill, sensible Democrats in the East
are writing against New Tork, New Jersey
nnd Connecticut the words "probably Ee
publican." Indianapolis Journal.
The Fifty-first Congress knew Just what it
intended to do when it adopted its rules.
It did what It intended to do. It is very
safe to say that the Fifty-second Congress
did not know Just what it wils doing when it
adopted its new rules. TTajAfnfon Star.
Asa sample of the prodigality of the Dem
ocratic House where Southern war claims
are concerned take the case of a college in
Tennessee, for which the committee re
ported a bill appropriating $7,500, which the
committee said was an amount sufficient to
coverall the damages done to it. Bnt the
pemocratlc House made the sum $10,000, and
passSd the bill. Barton Herald.
City Needs Better Market Facilities.
From the Evening Press.
In fact, it is only a lew months since a
preposition was made to use Duquesne way
for an extension of market facilities. Yet
at this very time with our market privileges
growing more and more inadequate it is
pioposed to cede away what might be made
a valuable market if it were taken care of
properly. Tho N. G. I, of Pittsbnrg need
armory facilities, there is no question of
that, but it ought to be possible to have
them and better market accommodations
also than the city enjoys at present. The
condition of the Fifth avenue market has
been a disgrace for yeai s, an eyesore to its
neighborhood, but that evil ought to be sus
ceptible of remedy in some other way than
that now proposed.
They Have a Familiar Sound.
Boston Herald.
Senator Hill's speeches down South have
a familiar sound. They, may be summed np
in his favorite observation that be is a Dem
ocrat and don't you torget it.
DEATHS HEKB AND ELSEWHERE.
Louis Cartigny, Naval Veteran.
Louis Cartigny.aged 101, ia dead at Hyeres.
He was the last French survli or or the memoiable
naval battle In the Bay of Trafalgar, In October 21.
1E0), in hlch the British fleet del cateil the com
bined navies of France and Spain, and the great
hero. Admiral NeUou, was killed.
Obituary Notes.
Caroline Mount Pleas nt. wife of the late
Clilerof the Six Nations, John Mount Pleasant,
died Saturday, aged 60 jears. She wasa sister of
the celebrated Indian General Parker, now of New
York, who served so gnllantly In the Civil War.
She received an academic education anil was wed
read in literature, bhe proved of (treat help to her
husband In his efforts to elevate and educate the
various tribes of the Six Nations. B
Obituary Notes.
Dox Isaac Esch'evebrt. the distinguished Col
ombian General, Is dead.
Thomas G. Welles, of Hartford, son of the late
ex-Secretarr Welles, of the navy, died whllo at
tending school at Concord, Sunday, of pneumonia.
Captain Jakes SIcdoxogh, who served about
six terms as Chief of Police of St. Lonls between
1850 and 1SS1. and who was well known the country
over as an unusually competent police officer, died
yesterday morning, aged 78.
Pbof. J. U. Gbegq, a prominent music teacher
or Tarkersburg. died Sunday night, aged 45, from
the crip. He w as widely known in the State, He
had Just completed a wonderful piece of mechan
ism, a clock which runs apparently without motive
power.
AlbebtMyeks. a well known citizen of Bead
ing, died suddenly of apoplexy, aged 66 rears.
He served during the Mexican war. and also In
the One Hundred and Twenty-ehrhth Pennsylva
nia Volunteers during the Rebellion. He was con
nested fnr name vears with his father in th nntui-
icatlon of the Chronicle of the Timet, the Beading
jjemocrat ana uie jicr&B vouniy smtt, weefuy
papers.
THE QUIET LENTENTIDE
Preserves Its Outalds Sanctimonious Char
acteristicsBut It's Said That Hosts ot
Small and Earlys Occur Behind Closed
Doors The Day's Social Footprints.
THE chef de cuisine of the Hotel Du
quesne and his entire culinary corps waited
In person with bated breath while fonr eggs
were being boiled bard for the use of
Madame Sarah Bernhardt's- pet canary.
Next came an elaborate bill of fare for
Mr. Asp; and finally, when the c ravings of
I the inner map among the lower animals
haa been satisfied, tne divine sarnn sat her
self down to a whole chicken. A little care
ful culling among statistics indicates that it
costs much less to keep Sarah than to keep
Sarah's menagerie.
The young woman who would be aa fait
must wear lilies of the valley nowadays.
An au fait purse, is an absolute desideratum
also under the circumstances.
To arrange violets artistically is to take a
stem point of view of them. Violets have
been Ill-treated in bunches much longer
than any other blossom, for it Is only very
r lately that any art has been displayed at all
iu meir maae-up. a rittsourg norist in
making them Into bunches catches the
stems evenly between his forefinger and
thumb. This throws all the unevenness
into 'the blossom end of the stem, which is
the perfection of art in a bouquet of "violets.
One of the final acts of the Kev. D&.
Furves' piritual administration at the First
Presbyterian Church will be the organiza
tion of the French-Mission of PIttsburg'and
Allegheny into a separate and distinct body.
A meeting for this purpose has been called
by Dr.Pnrves for next Wednesday afternoon
at 3 o'clock. At that time a board of trustees
and the other necessary officers will be
selected and the rules adopted. It Is said,
though only a mere rnmor, that the Rev. Dr.
Holland, Chancellor of the Western Univer
sity, will be tendered the position of Presi
dent of the Mission, a selection which is
looked on with favor by nil who know with
what vigor Dr. Holland alwavs pnshes his
fostering care. The circular closes with an
urgent appeal for the attendance of all in
terested people.
The woman who has knocked Queen
Isabella's deadandgone nose oat of Joint so
far as the World's Fair is concerned, Mrs.
Potter Palmer, struck the Congressional
Committee of a heap in Washington during
her present visit. The gushers .over her
describe Mrs. Palmer as a "sort or mental
hermaphrodite: combining everythhvr that
is "ladylike" with all the qualities we are
accustomed to look for In the male sex only.
The committee or whom she asked an ap
propriation a few davs aao is being para
graphed widely -because it publicly voted
her thanks for requesting from them a
money appropriation. It i to be noted,
though, that their votes went for the tbanks
and not for the money; for sirs. Palmer is
yet unportioned.
3dKS. H. E.'Moweoe, who has. been lec
turing in Pittsburg for the greater part of
this month, will leave in a few days forborne
Philadelphia expecting to return to this
city in May. Mrs. Monroe has been most
successful during her visit, and she appre
ciates ourgood taste to such a degree that
she has promiied to' stive several other ad
dresses later in the season. Mrs. Monroe is
quite an innovator. On Sunday night, at the
Episcopal Church in McEeesport, the ser
mon was laid on the table and the lady and
her lecture requested to replace it. It is
scarcely necessary to say that the audience
was delighted.
A cofeKESFOXDEXT writes: llrs. William
Schoyer, wife of one of the proprietors of
the Pittsburg Pott, is making the Chalfonte,.
at Atlantic City, her home, where she will
stay for some time to come. Mrs. Schoyer'3
fatuer, the Bev. I. Hammetr, of Meadville,
Ph., and Miss Hamuiett, are also of the
paity. .Mr. and Mrs. Schoyer have been
going to Atlantic City for the past 20 years.
Mrs. WnvLiAai H. House, of Center
avenue, is visiting in Philadelphia.
EVERYBODr doesn't know that Charlotte
Smith, editor of the Women-Inventor, who al
most talked her bonnet off her head in con
troversy with Madame Yale last week, has
been a most aggressive feature in Washing
ton life for more than 29 years. Mrs. Smith
has something of Kate Field's pungency, bnt
in a iesspolished plane. She deals rather in
slangy colloquialisms, which are largely
startling, because of their unexpectedness.
For instance, Mrs. Smith pitches into Kate
Field, because that hidy chose to talk in a
familiar strain about King Solomon's horses
andtiorsemeu. Her quip is quite womanish,
and concludes with this: However,
Miss KatB Field knows moro about them
than we do; for it was long
before our time." In spite of their attacks
on each other Madame Yule and Mrs. Smith
are the best of chnms, Madame looking after
the steaming of Charlotte's fnco and Mrs.
Smith occasionally roasting cosmetics and
particularly the enamel face worn by Mrs.
Potter Palmer, of Chicago.
The Bridge Should Beach the Bluff.
From the Evenln Tetegrapn.I
The idea held out most recently is that a
bridge be so arranged as to meet the high
level of the bluff between Fifth avenue nnd
Second avenue. The great cost, probably
over $C00,000, is taken as an argument
against the plan, hut, by starting from, or
at Brady street, this route, would offer par
ticular advantage for future travel in the
direction of Center avenue, Minersville and
Herron's Hill.
A Canadian Attache for Washington.
Ottawa, Ost., March 21. Dnlton Mc
Carthy, one of tho leading supporters of the
Government; give3 notice of a resolution In
the House of Commons, proposing that a
Canadian representative be attached to th e
British Legation at Washington.
Chicago Juveniles Very Rapid.
Chicago, March 21. This afternoon the
police descended upon a pool room under
the Haymarket Theater. The only inmates
were 13 boys, all under 15 years of age, but
the regular operations of such place3 were
going on in lull blast.
A Question for Ward to Answer.
Chicago Tribune.1
A discussion as to whether or not the nse
of cosmetics is injurious is raging among the
women in Pittsburg. This is one of those
questions that oujht to be submitted to
Ward McAllister without debate.
IDYLLIC HUM0RESQUES.
"I SUPPOSE, he said, "that proverb,
'people who live In glass houses shouldn't throw
stones.' applies especially to women."
"Why?" she asked.
"MIssBanx," he responded, "It Is evident that
you never saw a womau trying to throw stones"
Washington Star.
Seeking a winner, certain I could pick it,
In Cupid's lottery I bought a ticket;
But luck, alas I my fortune never falls.
Just as 1 bought it 'twas forbid the males.
San Jose Xeiet.
"What's the pries of them opera
glasses?" he asked, as he entered the optician's.
Twenty-eight dollars, " said the clerk.
"Well, say, I've only got one eye. Can't you
knock offflfty per cent?" Harper's Batir.
Eph Massa Charles, Massa Chariest " I
caln' t git deu spots outen desc pants dls morn' no
how. Massa Charles (sleepily) Have you tiled am
monia? Eph N'o. sah, not yet. But I knows dey'U fit
me.-Vtww.
He traveled round the world three times.
East, west and north and south;
Had tracked both Nile and Congo
From the source unto the mouth.
Bad clambered Himalayan peaks.
Where clouds beneath one roll.
Then kicked when asked to hustle down
To the cellar for some coal.
Sew Tork Herald. -
He (seriously) We must devise some
means of obtaining your father's consent.
She Well, let's put our heads together, and
(but after that he did not care whether they had
papa's consent or not) . Puck.
Shoppek Are those last colors?
Clerk Well, I should say as much! Tou just
wash It once, and see how they'll run. Boston
Courier. ,
EDITOR (of monthly magazine, after read
ing the manuscript) Tour poem, sir, hs great lit
erary merit.
Author of Poem (In voice of agony) Then of
course you can't use HI Chicago Tribune,
CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS.
Brazil has 2,000,000 acres of coffee.
The women of Bussia travel only one
third as orten as the men, ranch less, la fact,
than the women of other nations.
In California peach" trees are success
fully grafted with rosebuds, thus producing
groves of red, white and pink roses.
In the. year 1801 the number of towns ia
Prussia with over 10,000" inhabitants was
onlr 137; this increased ln1875 'to 158, in 1830
to i78, in 1885 to 196, and In 1890 to 205.
In 1891 58 postmasters, 23 assistant
postmasters, 15 clerks in postofflces and 66
mail carriers were arrested on charges of
dishonesty, out of 75,000.090 employed.
The Frenchman fears thunderbolts, but
ho rarely has protection against them. A
lightning condnctor in France, where elec
trical storms are frequent, is an uncommon
sight.
The mountain paths between Bampoor
and Spiti are so precipitous that sheen.
I more sure-footed than larger beasts, are
wuiiiwu) iucu wj carry Duraens oi irom IS
to 20 pounds.
There are no special designations for
the breeds of sheep in Egypt. They are
mostly native Egyptian sheep, but some are
imported from Syria. Sheep are raised
chiefly for meat.
While Formosa is, practically, a new
tea country, it appears to possess unlimited
possibilities. Its crops Increase in quantity
ns woll as quality. Formosa produces three
crops of tea annually.
Business men and tourists, of course,
form the greater part of the mass of people
traveling across tho Russian borders. Emi
gration and immigration play only a second
ary rule in this problem.
Pliny, that rare old gossip, tells of a
cave somewhere In Dalmatia, where a stona
thrown In raited a regular din of noises.
Flngal's Cave, on the Isle of Staffa, has an
abnormally developed echo.
The merchant fleet of Norway consisted,
at the close of the year IKK), of 7,334 vessels,
of an ngsregate tonnage of 1,682,01G tons, or
. .. u.v.1, w,t;i in j,m,2ou ions were sailing;
vessels, and 6G3 of 198,786 tons were steamers.
One of the largest camellia plants ever
known is now growing in a nursery near
Birmingham, England. It quite fills a large
greenhouse, tome 2,000. bnds -have been
trimmed from the tree, and it still has 6000.
"Oxford county, Me., turns out nearly
all of the spools on which the thread of this
country is wound," said a wholesale notion
dealer. "The spools are made from white
birch timber, and they are produced by the
million." .
A letter was recently received at the
postofflce' at Washington from the Italian
Director of Posts, inclosing a $50 Confederate
note, and asking, if it was still valid, that it
be redeemed nnd the value transmitted to
him by a money order.
' The loss ot population to France by
emigration is a mere trifle, the total number
of emigrants being less than 34,0J0 a year,
and It is estimated that 61 Der cent of this
number return to France within ten years
to remain permanently.
Milk is described as the most whole
some and nntritlous food that we possess,
and even as a representative and ideal one
excellent not only for children (furnishing
as it does every clement necessary to the
grow th of the body), bnt most valuable also
for persons of every age.
The total number of travelers passing
the Russian borders in both directions dur
ing 8 years was 11,178,000 Russians and 23,522,
531 foreigners. Out or 100 Russians leaving
their country, only 5 return, whereas of 100
foreigners arriving, 87.7 leave the country
again. On each Russian leaving the
country there are two foreigners arriving.
There is much excitement at Cape
Xorth over the appearance of thousands of
seals. The entire resident population is en
(.aged in catching them, and good hauls are
beinzroade. It Is nearly eight years since
seals have appeared here. They are thought
to have been carried on the ice from Green
land, the mild weather having loosened the
ice.
The elephant at the Paris Museum suf
fers from toothache, and one of its teeth re
cently had to be stopped. The sagacious
creature endured the operation of filing and
boring with great patience, only, rapidly
waving Its trunk when the pain was violent.
When all was over it showed its gratitude
by caressing M. Sauverre with the flhger
Uke extremity of Its proboscis.
Few, if any, of the criminals leaveltaly
by sea, as a strict watch is kept on all who
go ont of tho country by boat; these persons
generally take the railroad to some northern
Enropean port, where they embark forthe
United States. Preference is given to the
Netherlands Steamship Line, whose rates
are lower than the others, and whose vessels
make a landing at Boulogne to accommo
date Italian emigrants.
Right at Durango City, Mexico, is one
of the most wonderful and extensive iron
deposits of the world, the "Sierra Mercada,"
said to be almost a mountain of Iron. The
ore of this famous mountain is said to be
magnetic (magnetite) nnd absolutely free
from phosphorus, and hence especially
adapted to steel manufacture by the Bes
semer proce. This property is now owned
by a United States corporation.
The whole interior of Newfoundland is
an unknown territory. Only one white man
has ever made the journey from east to
west, a Mr. Cormack, who accomplished the
feat in 1829. Consequently there Is no map
of Newfoundland extant which is in any de
gree reliable. It is a very curious fact that
a valuable tract of land, with coal, iron and
silver in its bowels, and perfectly accessible
to the explorers, should lemain so long un
known. The coming giant lives in "Whiting
ham, Vt. He is a lad now, being only 18
years Old. His name is Myron Jilson. He U
G feet 10 inches tall, weighs 200 pounds, and
is still growing rapidly. A few days ago
Myron's father sent an order to a clothing
firm for a pair of trousers for his boy. They
called for 38 Inches waist measure, and legs
40 inches long on the inside seam. The firm
say this is the longest leg measure they ever
heard of.
No provisions for ships were ever found
equal to the Gallapageous tortoise, which
weie said to remain in good condition for a
vear witnont food or water. A supply of the
latter was carried by the aulmals in a bag
which contained as much as two gallons
sometime". They were sagacious, and, when
kept on deck, could be taught to confine
themselves to anv place arranged for their
accommodation by whipping them gently
with a rope's end when they went out of it.
There are no great woolen factories in
Egypt, but the looms are scattered in small
numbers over the country. According to
Mr. Felix Mengin, in his "Histolre Sommairo
de l'Ezypte, 182338," published in 1S39,
there were in .Egypt in 1833 4,000 looms for
weaving woolen stuffs. These stuffs were
used to dress the fellahs and" the sailors and
for bed covers, etc The coarse wools of
TTrnnr Ksrvnt were chieflv used for those
purposes, not being suitable for any other
use.
There are no laws against child labor in
China. They begin to work as soon as they
walk. A boy or girl at i years of age will
carry the baby "piggy-back" half an hour
at a time and mind it from dawn till dusk.
They also hunt up the pig when he is lost,
lead the water buffalo, or tend a herd of
sheep with almost the same success as a
grown man. They work in tho garden, bring
water from the wells, destroy locusts, cater
pillars and slugs, pull out the weeds, ana in
every way show themselves excellent Hor
ticulturists in miniature.
The mining and fusing of sulphur ore
in Sicily has been carried on for a great
many years, but from lack of enterprise and
fpr want of outside capital, which cannot be
induced to invest in any enterprise on the
island, the mining and fusing is still carried
on In the most primitive fashion. In tne
majority of mines machinery is -nwn
and in the larger and more valuable ones
only pumps and hoisting apparatus Is used.
Hand labor is universal, and a great many
children find employment In carrying
in baskets on the head the mineral from tne
mine to the surface. ,
The best boxwood comes from-the Cau
casus, ' hitherto Turkish territory, but
taken by Russia. Since 1372 somer or the
forests have been closed and others de
nuded of the tree. At that time (1872). in
Persia, a wood was discovered similar to the
Turkish or Abaslan boxwood, and as much
as 8.0J0 tons have, in some years, been im
ported from that country; but, owing to the
exhaustion of the forests near the coasts
and the Increased cost due to scarcity and
longer land carriage, the price is now al
most beyond reach, exoept for the engraver
for whose nse, it is afflnned, there la no infc
stltute yet discovered.