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One statement is to the effect that Lord Salisbury is running with the hare and hunting with the hounds by refusing the modus vivendi, but at the same time in timating that if the United States chooses to prevent sealing in Bering Sea he will not interfere with its doing so. This would be a comparatively easy way out of the difficulty, if it were so. But another statement asserts that Lord Salisbury is "defiant;" and nothing could be more in congruous than for a defiant jingo states man to permit the other in the contro versy to seize and condemn the vessels of its subjects, on the assumption that it will be sustained in the pending arbitration. Whether his Lordship is conciliatory or defiant, the American people will perceive in the conflicting statements a very good reason for maintaining their composure until the statesmen have finished their squabble. This tuey will do subject to a very clear understanding that the people will not permit such a stupid thing as actual war over a lot of saals. THE HILT, FAEJI MINE. The finding nearly two years after the terrible Hill Farm disaster of the bodies of twenty-three miners who lost then lives by that calamity revives the recol lection of a tragic event relieved by the heioism that it occasioned. The explosion which visited a sudden and awful death on twenty-nine men in the mil Farm mine was a sad evidence of the disaster that can be inflicted by the neglect of constant precaution against underground perils. But the gloom of that tragedy was offset by the united heroism of the efforts to rescue the doomed men long after hope for them hung on less than a thread. For weeks men flocked from all parts of the mining district to lend their aid in penetrating the part of the mine where the victims were supposed to be. Work went on unceasingly, hun dreds of yards of rock were tunneled through, until the mine was reached, only to find that the effort had been in vain. Even alter the work of penetrating the dread secret had lost the prominence vhich made it the chief news of the nation for weeks, it has been carried on. The task of extinguishing the flames, of pumping out the water, and of ventilating the mine has occupied twenty months, and at last the nature of the death suffered by the score anda half victimsof thedisaster will be known. The brave and unre mitting work that has followed the great calamity is worthy of all honor; but let us hope that no such occasion for it may be again experienced in the mining industry of Western Pennsylvania. AX IIXTJSTKATION FEOM CHICAGO. A very decided illustration of the dispo sition to make a lively strike out of the World's Fair and incidentally a demon stration to the reverse of that smooth com bination assertion, that the combination tends to decrease prices, comes from Chi cago. The illustration is with regard to the electric lighting, and it sheds more light on the general tendency on combina tions than on the Fair enterprise. Some months ago, when a temporary electric light plant was decided upon, one company agreed to put in 200 lamps, with the necessary dynamos, at 511 per lamp. A little later a meeting of the agents of all the companies was called, and it was agreed that 520 per lamp for further sup plies was about the fair thing. Later, since the combination of five electric light companies was effected, it was found that 538 50 per lamp was to be insisted upon; and one agent, who is also a Fair director, boasted that it would have to be paid, as his company was the only one that could do the work. The Fair management naturally determined to avoid this extortion bynegotiating abroad, and dispatches have already been received from a London company announcing that it will send in bids on the service, In this connection another attempt to work the Fair is of interest When some boilers were needed, a firm wanted 5175, 000 for them. Later its bid was reduced to 5125,000; still later to 5100,000 cash and 525,000 in Fair stock; and finally, when the contract was awarded to some one else, the first firm tried to get the work at $79, 500. Mark the difference between the two cases. In the matter of electric lights, a combination was at work, and it multi plied the prices by three and a half; in the boilers competition made itself felt and it reduced the attempt at extortion by more than one half. Yet people will persist in saying that combinations of this sort are intended to increase the service and reduce prices! FEOM PREMISE TO CONCLUSION. In the storm of protests against the recent action of the New York Legisla ture and Park Commissioners in cuttins off one whole side ot Central Park to afford a speeding track for the owners of trotting horses, a social feature comes into question. The Mayor of New York, with that rare and original logic which charac terizes Tammany thought, justifies the step in need of the importance of the trot-ting-horse interest "Think of the money invested in horses," says this head of a great city. "Two individual instances are fresh in the public mind of 5100,000 being paid for a single animal" Which moves m the Tribune to the exclamation, "And this is the Mayor of a civilized city!" Yet by the premises which have been accepted, nemine contradicente, through the voice of an untrammeled press, why is not Mayor Grant's logic impregnable? It has long been the unanimous ac clamation of society and the press that the payment of vast sums for something unique and undesirable in the line of horseflesh is among the .triumphs of civilization. The htirse who can lower the record a fraction of a second is more to the public than the greatest achievements of learning or patriotism. The man who spends 5100,000 on the ownership is a pub lic benefactor pointing the way to that millennial achievement of trotting a mile in less than two minutes. Public opinion having agreed to these things does it not follow that the slice of a public park is a very small price to give up to the furtherance of such an overmaster ing public aim? We would not object to sacrificing a park to the winning of a vic tory by a General defending his country; why should we not do as much for a pur suit on which the people gladly spend more than they ever did on the military commanders? It has been the practically unanimous verdict of our New York co- 'temporaries thatthelaws against gambling practices must not attack the grand vested interest of pool selling at trotting meet ings. If the laws of morality must courtesy to the royalty of the American trotter, why should not a few score of park acres go with them? We think our friends of the New York press will have to abate their opposition to the park speeding track, or else make the more humiliating and less profitable change of confessing that their past ec stasies over the great and lofty pursuit of the Two-Minute boon to mankind was more vociferous than judicious. THE RESULT OF NEGLECT. The report issued by the Allegheny Au ditors caps the climax of the exposures which have been made of the laxity which prevails in the administration of public affairs in the sister city. The lack of sys tem which allows money due the city treasury to accumulate in idleness until it reaches more than 5350,000 is indefensible. The neglect of duty by officials in posi tions of public trust, which has permitted the continuance of such a state of affairs, reflects great and serious discredit on their understanding or their conscience. But the matter, after all, comes back to those citizens who have allowed apathy, negligence, or the pressure of private af fairs to lead to a practice ef ignoring their duties to the community. The disease of maladministration has so spread as to necessitate heroic remedies in the form of amputations. When the body politic has once been freed of the impuri ties which threaten its vitality, a recur rence of such an unwholesome condition should be prevented by universal individ ual attention to the necessity of proper business management The voters elect their servants and the former must accept the responsibility for the results of then own negligence. AN INSTRUCTIVE RUMOR. There is a volume of national instruc tion in the statement that the Bureau of American Republics, which was one of the tangible results of the Pan-American Congress, is threatened with extinction. This organization has done good work in familiarizing the people of both American continents with the advantages to be secured by the extension of trade between them; but its work is nullified and its operations are likely to be brought to a standstill by the recent exploitations of jingoism. The Bureau was started on the under standing that the United States was to pay for carrying it one year, after which the other governments represented in the Congress were to bear half the expenses. This it is reported on behalf of the South American Republics they will decline to do, the tone adopted in the dealings with Chile having indisposed the Spanish American Governments for further effort in the line of closer relations with the United States. This, if correct, and it should be noted that it is nothing more than rumor so far, is extreme and unnecessary action on the part of the Spanish-American Govern ments. They should remember that the exchange of products is an operation which benefits both countries engaged in it, and that therefore their own benefit as mucn as tnat ot the united states is in volved in the policy thus abandoned. They should also perceive that if the United States departed so much from its former custom as to be nearly as peremptory as England or Germany would be under like circumstances, and thereby .wounded the Spanish-American susceptibilities, our bark, especially when voiced by the jingo element, is several degrees worse than our bite. At the same time this report, if true, conveys a very decided lesson to the statesmen of this country, that a policy of American reciprocity is not particularly aided by an unnecessary display of per emptory language in international deal ings for political revenue. THE NEW JERSEY SCANDAL. Among other recent demonstrations of practical politics, that act of the New Jersey Legislature in rushing to passage a bill sanctioning the Reading deal produces some disclosures. These indicate a state of facts which should be highly instructive to those of our esteemed cotemporaries which have referred to the action of that legislative body as indicating the character of the combination. One New Jersey Senator states over his own name that he was offered $10,000 for his vote in favor of the bill. This seems to be much above the usual quotations for New Jersey legislators. But one vote was needed, and the law of supply and demand ran the price up until the lobby agent was authorized to offer Senator Rogers "a sum many times larger than the original 510, 000," which the agent did not do, as it was useless. Theone vote needed was obtained somewhere else, presumably at a round sum, though probably at a slight decline from the top of the market The report is also heard that the pas sage of the bill cost the combination 53,000,000. This is, of course, gossip, as the men who know what it cost are not imparting the information to the public. But the nature of the measure, the char acter of the Legislature and the manner in which the bill was put through without a single argument in its favor possess all thefeatures of highly purchased legisla tion. Of course, the addition of the cost, whatever it was, to the expenses of the combination will be a factor in the cheap performance of its services. The organs of the deal will find no difficulty in rec ognizing such a method of getting what the combination wants, as a primary evi dence of economical and efficient public service. In connection with this it is of course necessary to specify that the eminent-and respectable managers of ttfese corpora tions would never do so lawless an act as to bribe a Legislature. No, indeed! They 'would only invest large sums in the acqui sition of legal counsel of various grades, and carefully direct their attention else where pending.the jwork of securing what they want " Suicides appear to'be a very inconsider ate class. Not satisfied with giving work to a Coroner'and bis" Jury over their own re mains, they frequently Insist on removing another party before taking their departure. But most Inconsiderate of all is the man who shows such disregard for public nerves as to shoot himself In a train full of people. There would be fewer suicides if intending victims of their own acts would take a walk Into the woods, somewhere out of'tho way, and allow themselves time for thought by digging their own graves. If the healthy exercise left their inclination unchanged they should so arrange matters as to provide for self burial after taking a fatal dose. The Mississippi Legislature lives - in troublous times. It has nardly had time .to recover from Hill's visit before it is dis turbed and cursed by a raving maniac armed with a knife in each hand. "I am acting in behalf of a cause which, so far.as I know, knows no poetry, but is a mere question of patriotism on both sides." So said Mr. Williams in opening the opposi tion to th'e Bland bill. This remark conveys a strong inference that most questions are discussed, not on a basis of patriotism, but as a uiatter of party expediency. The sooner patriotism swamps partisan discussion on every conceivable question, the better will it be for the country, and the more nearly will Representatives approach a perform ance of the duties for which they are elected and paid. We need more discussions to be followed by action on such subjects as, "What is the best remedy for our municipal misgovern merit '?" The best remedy 4s individual ac tivity among our citizens. There have been few stories of greater injustice than the one related by the Italian foreman who claims that he was grossly ill treated, by his. employers in West Virginia, because be endeavored to obtain the rights of himself and his fellow workmen. The matter calls for searching inquiry, and, if the truth of the statements be proven, legal redress and punishment of the offenders should be easily obtainable. "With emphysema, asthma, severe ear ache, Brandenburg speeches, a paralyzed arm. bread riots, an obnoxious education bill, and what-not, Kaiser Wilbelm is in hard luck. It is not generally understood that the nation has, sustained a vital loss by the burning of agricultural reports and memor ial addresses which had been prepared for mailing.' The chief source of regret is that the documents could not have been con sumed before the expense entailed by their printing and preparation. On the whole, Mills is to be congratulated on securing a seat in the peaceful, not to say lethargic, Senate instead of in the thorny chair occupied by the Speaker of the House. - The Bar Association of New York has done its dnty In finding Judge Maynard guilty of reprehensible conduct in the Dntchess county election case. It now re mains to be seen whether Hill's tools at Albanywill dare refuse to remove him from bis lofty position. Bernhardt's pathetic portrayal of the forsaken Leah is nothing compared to the exhibition which Hill will make when he loses the' nomination at Chicago. By keeping his seat in the House until the Bland bill is disposed of Mills will have the unusual privilege of speaking on and voting for the measure in both halls of Con gress. This is a beautiful devotion to duty if he arranges to draw the smaller salary in the meantime, J- One great, ad vantage of natural gas fit tings is the absence of the poker on occa sions when quick-tempered people use it to strike while the iron is hot. Probably the greatest advantage which England Uerives from its widespread Em pire is the variety and occupation found for a few army officers by the disturbance which arises in one comer cf its domain as soon as its counterpart has been settled elsewhere. A speedy signature of the pardon of the Beaver editors by the Governor .will meet a universal sense of Justice and add to the dignity of the law. Brooklyn policemen must find their revolvers of inestimable service. One of the crack marksmen of the force fired three times at a dog six feet away and missed every time, though he managed to wing a fellow officer at his third attempt. Now that EL "W. Field has been commit ted to the Buffalo State Hospital, what is to be done by way of Investigating the sanity of his victims? It is surprising that the discovery of three mutilated bodies in Texas should cause any excitement. Lawlessness of one form and another Is so common down there that such a find should cause no special re mark. It isall very'Well to say "Hail, smiling morn," but to begin with, the morn will not smile, and to go on with, hail is little better than snow. Quay and Cameron appeared together in the Senate, alter an absence of about three months. But the roof did not fall. Natur ally the all-Important subject of patronage was the first to occupy their attention. PERTINENT PERSONALITIES. Heal Dow, the eminent Prohibitionist, completed his 89th year last Sunday, and is still in good physical condition. -Colonel Daniel S. Lamont has been seriously ill for the past two weeks. He is not yet out of danger, and since last Satur day physicians have been in constant at tendance. Mrs. Ezeta, the wife of the President of Salvador, left San Salvador yesterday for a trip through the United States and Enrope. She is accompanied by her father, Senor Marroquin. Sib Edward Watkin, the most power ful railroad magnate in England, is about to marry the widow of Mr. Ingram, the founder of the ILuslratcd London Hews. Mrs. Ingram s S3 years old. Dr. Newton Batsman has resigned as President of Knox College, Galesburg, 111., aud John T. Finley, ex-Secretary of the New York State Board of Charities, has been chosen as his successor. Miss Jennie Surget Merrill, accom panied by Miss Mary Grace, of New.York, visited Cardinal Gibbons last week,-to se cure the interest of his Eminence in her tenement-house reform work in the me tropolis. Sir Julian Pacncefote's office in Washington contains a large number of por traits of the British Ministers, secretaries and attaches of legations in the United States, as well as of special ambassadors to this country. Venango County, Pa., can justly lay claims to having the oldest postmaster in the United States. Jesse M. Perrine, of Utica, is aged 79 years, and has been post master continuously for 59 years. He is still bale and hearty. The estate of the late President Grevy, of Franco, now proves to be worh $1,400,000. The Paris residence in the Avenue d' Jena, now Inhabited by Madam Grevy and the Wilson family, with the grounds attached, is valued at $400,000. Getting Ready to Mend Its Ways. Chicago Tribune.! The rbed reform movement Is becoming a landslide. The country Is fast getting ready to'mend its way. ' AT THE COUNTRY'S CAPITAL Investigating Pension Commissioner Racm Paring the Appropriations Faf . chases of Silver at the Treasury Ex amining the Work of the Census Bu reau. WASHnrGTON,March23. Gen.Raum.was before the Pension Office Investigating Com mittee again to-day. In reply to questions by Mr. Enloe, the witness said he did not know the name of the young girl whom It was charged 'one' Engle, while acting chief of a division, had betrayed. He had sent to the Secretary the affidavit of William T. Ford charging Engle with this act. Witness supposed it was in the Secretary's office. He had not noticed whether -it was signed or not, and baa not examined into the charge before sending it to the Secretary. Witness, In reply to further questions, ad mitted that Ford was dismissed during Com missioner Black's administration on certain charges. Ford had been subsequently rein stated, and witness had -been told that W. W. Dudley, had recommended it. Mr. Enloe asked the witness concerning reports bear on Ford's alleged improper relations with a womanbut witness said he may have heard of them, but had 'not investigated such reports. The, examination then re curred tova report which bad'been made in the rostoffice Department -as 'to' Taylor's pevious record at the time he applied for a transfer from the Pension OiBeeto'the post offlco. Mr. Lineaweaver, a clerk in the Pen sion Office had obtained the report from the Postofflce Department. It was developed in connection with this matter, that Mr. Linea weaver is not in the city at thepresent time. Mr. Enloe sought to learn from the witness w hy he was not in the city. Mr. Raum said that Mr. Llneaweaver's absence had nothing to do witu.the absence.of himself (Kaum). Finally Mr. Enloe asked If Lineaweaver is not hunting up evidence to lie 'used in the investigation. Tno Commissioner replied that it might or might not be, so; he did not know. It was evidence that Be "might want to use. ' The remainder of the afternoon was do voted to hearing the Commissioner's reason for the removal of certain clerks who had been in the service. The sundry civil appropriation bill of last year carried an aggregate appropriation of about $38,000,000, while the bill of this year amounts to only a little more than $25,000,000, being in the neighborhood of $13,000,000 less tlian the act for the current fiscal year. The largest cut made is in the items making ap propriations for publio buildings. The fol lowing appropriations, among others, are made: Galveston Harbor,' $450,000. In addi tion to this amount, which is available July 1, there was on hand March 1, $S30,000. Hay Lake Channel, $115,009, on hand March 1,$545, 000; Sault Ste. Marie, nothing, as the engin eers made uo estimate, $1,820,000 being on hand March 1. With reference to the World's Fair, the committee makes available the balance remaining of the appropriation of $1,500,000 heretofore made by Congress. A sub-committee is going to Chicago to visit the Fair and investigate expenditures, and until its report is received nothing further will bo done in the matter of World's Fair expenditures. A large cut is made bv the bill in the appropriations on account of military posts, this item being reduced over $3uu,uuu. xneusne house, me saving and quarantine service, it is said, are well pro vided for. In answer to a resolution calling upon him to inform the Senate of the amount of Treasury notes issued under the provisions of the act of July 11, 1590, the amount of sil ver dollars coined and the amount of silver bullion in the Treasury purchased nnder the provisions of that act, and also whether the silver dollars coined were available for the expenses of the Government, Secretary Faster says that there were purchased and received at the mints under the act of July 14, 1S90, ti om the date when it took effect, August 13, 1890, to and including February 20, 1S92, o(,500,"63 fine ounces of silver bullion at a cost of $83,167,892, in payment of which there were issued vivithin that period Troas urv notes authorized bv the act to the amount of $83,236,212, leaving a balance of S23LC80. which represents the amount of the purchases of bullion made at the mints of san a rancisco, new Orleans ana Carson City late iu February, the reports of whicS reached the department after the close of that month. Theid were coined, says the letter. under the act. within the period mentioned, 28,939,175 standard dollars, with a wastage of $28,935 not yet adjusted; and there were held in the Treasury at the close of business on the 28th ultimo. 62,0S9,503 fine ounces of silver which cost $61,437,330. Of the silver dollars coinpd under the provisions of that act $21,001,627 are held in the Treasurv for the redemption of the Treasury notes, $4,380, 000 have been covered into the Treasnry on account of seigniorage and so have becomo available for the ordinary expenses of the Government; and the remainder, $557,84Sare held in the Treasury uncovered awaiting adjustment of the seigniorage account. When this last mentioned amount or so much of it as may be ascertained to be the net seigniorage is covered into the Treasury the amount so covered will also be available, says the letter, for ordinary exDenses of the Government, Bespecting redemptions or exchanges of silver dollars. Secretary Foster says that the department has not redeemed silver dollars or silver certificates infold or sold certificates; nor has it exchanged silver dollars or certificates for gold or gold certifi cates. Concluding, Secretary Foster says that silver dollars and silver certificates are received for public dues andareused freely in the discharge of all Government obligations. The Senate Committee on the Quadro- Centennial this morning gave a hearing to several persons representing that element of the population of the country which seeks to secure Congressional action compelling the closing of the World's Fair on Sunday. The committee had nnder consideration the Colquitt bill providing that no exposition or exhibition for which Congress appropriates money shall be open on Sunday. Dr. H. H. George, of Pittsburg, representing the American Sabbath Union, said that to yield to the demand of that element which de manded the opening of the Chicago Exposi tion on Sunday would be to destroy the sanctity ot the day from a Christian stand point. He asserted that the laws of Penn sylvania and Illinois prohibited such amuse meats on Sunday, and that it was owing to tne existence oi mis law in Pennsylvania that the Centennial Exposition remained closed on the first day of the week. While thp Illinois statute, it enforced, would pre vent the opening of the Fair on that day, the speaker believed that the clamor on the part of persons interested in public conveyances, street , car lines, railroads, backs, etc., wopld induce the Board ot Management of the Fair to desecrate the day by keeping the Fairopen. The represen tatives of the church unions had sent delega tions, he said, to lay the matter before the Board of Managers, but so tar they had ap pealed in vain. Doubtless, ir a decision could be obtained from the board it would be favorable to Sunday closing, but the diffl oulry was to secure action on their part. L. S. Coffin, ex-Kailroad Commissioner at Ft. Dodge, la., representing the Brotherhood of ltailroad Trainmen, numbering 23,000 per sons, mostly brakemen, pleaded for the ob servance of the Sabbath in order that rail road employes might have an opportunity for rest. He asserted that many railroad disasters, attributed to carelessness of em ployes, leally resulted from the lact that the employes were overworked. This class of people wanted the moral support that would be afforded by favorable Congressional ac tion on the pending bill in order to assist them in attaining their object, namely the establishment of regulations by railroad cor porations that would afford the trainmen more Test than they now enjoy. Incident ally Mr. Coffin stated that it was contem plated by the association he represented to request Congress to pass a law Drohibiting tbe running or inter-State mail trams on Sunday. The committee, consisting of Mr. George Evans, the'dishursing officer of tbe Depart ment of the Interior, and Mr. A, C. Tonner, the chief of the appointment division, desig nated some weeks ago by Secretary Noble to make an examination of the work of the Census Bureau with a view to ascertaining among other things what share of the work has already been done and what amouut of money will bo required to complete the work, has made its report. The committee find that to complete tbe entire work as out lined and entered upon by tbe superintend ent 'of the census, under tnstructl6ns from Congress, including the farms, houses and mortgage inquiry, will necessitate an ex penditure or $2,000,000. This amount incl udes the sum of $25J,000 recently appropriated by Congress. The committee recommends tha't certain divisions of the bureau be abolished, particularly the appointment and finance divisions, the wore of which to be trans ferred to the department proper. The com mittee also recommends that as far as prac ticable the clerical force of tbe Census Office be. concentrated npon the Inquiry as to man ufactures; this being, in the opinion of the committee, a matter of prime importance. This report was transmitted to the Super intendent -by Seoretary. Noble, witb a r- quest that he submit bis views upon the recommendations of the committee. His attention is called to his last annual report to the Seoretary, in which be stated that $1,000,000 would be ample to complete the census work. Mr. Porter in his reply highly compliments the thorough and obviously fair work of the committee and 'agrees with them that the two divisions mentioned may now safely be abolished. The Superintend ent expresses his satisfaction that he is now in possession of data which he bad not heretofore been able to obtain and which will be of great service to him in the future management of the affairs of the bureau. The report of the committee and the cor respondence on the subject are now In the uauuaui secretary .NODie. After having had under consideration for some weeks the Caine bill to give local government to Utah, the House Committee on Territories decided this morning tore port it favorably with an amendment which striken out the section relating to the sain of publio lands for school purposes, the committee deeming itDest to have a sepa .rate measure covering this point. The bill reported to-day is one on which several hearings were given bv both the Senate and House Committees on Territories. The vote on tbe bill was a party one, the Democrats favoring and the Republicans opposing It. Ik the House to-day Mr. Patterson, of Tennessee, reported Senate bill for the con struction of two revenue cutters for use on the Pacific coast and for two revenue cutters for use on the great lakes. FREE COINAGE OF SILVER. Hon. A. IJ. Farquhar Says That It Would Injure tbe Country's Credit. In an article upon the "Silver Coinage" published In the York Gazette, Hon. A. B. Farquhar says: A "free coinage" law, we grant, would very soon raise the price of the silver ounce to its par value of $1 29 that is, more properly speaking, it would debase our $1 29 to the value of an ounce of silver bat that nominal increase could have no effect on silver quotations in other countries, or on real values here. It would amount to a legal permission granted every man under obligation to pay $1 29 to discharge that obligation'by paying a quantity ofsilver whose cost, In goods or in labor, would be less than what we now know as a dollar. Gold would be of no use to ns except in special gold contracts, where that metal was explicitly named; no one wonld use a gold dollar where a depreciated dollar could serve the same purpose: and we should find ourselves as far from bimetallism as we have ever been. If there is anything in'tbe experience of any country, which conld en able us to hope for any other result-, as suredly nothing has been made known. Who would be injured by the proposed de preciation of all money obligations? Land lords and holders of mortgages, to some ex tent; but small Investors in savings banks, building associations, life Insurance policies and other rewards of frugality and industry, to a greater extent. Pensioners wonld find their allowances docked by 20 to 30 per cent, the laborers to whom, throughout our coun try, $100,000,000 in arrears of wages 'are al ways due, would suffer a dead loss in eaual proportion; their employers would be able, moreover, to hold them to the same nominal figures on their rolls, long after those figures had lost a quarter of their real significance; and the injury that must be suffered by these classes would transcend, a hundred fold, all that could be visited on tbe richer creditors. Can any Democrat, glorying in his party's mission, as friend ol the common people, contemplate such an act without shame? But that is not all, nor the worst. Our coun try's credit must suffer, along with the wage earners and patrons of savings banks. By shaving 20 or 30 per cent from what it has promisea to pay its creaitors, tne Govern ment may come easier out of its present in debtedness; but it will commit an act which, however tire champions of free silver may attempt to explain it away, the world out side will be unable to distinguish from vul gar repudiation the sophistries by whiob it will seek to justify its course will be beard with contempt, and our national good faith be consigned to the level of the Punica fides of the ancients. PENNSYLVANIA AT THE FAIR, Contract Awarded for the State Building at the Columbian Exposition. Haerisburg. March 23. The contract for the erection of tbe Pennsylvania building at Chicago was awarded by the Executive committee of the World's Fair Board this afternoon to iNesbit 1 Coder, of Hurrisbutg, their bid on the revised plans being $67,900. 'The building must be completed by October 14. There were eight bidders. Resolutions were adopted giving the Exe cutive Commissioner control of employes and directing communication to be had with owners of public and private conservatories regarding a State exhibit of flowers. The Gray Invites the Bine. Richmond, March 23. At a meeting of Lee Camp, Confederate Veterans, last night a resolution was unanimously adopted invit-ing-the members of the Grand-Army of the Bepublic, during their national encamp ment at Washington, to visit this city, as suring them a hearty welcome on the part of the people generally and the Confederate soldiers especially. Blair Should Send Off Fireworks. Chicago Mail. 3 Mr. Blair should send np a skyrocket once in a while just to let the public know that be and his boom are on earth. JOKELETS FROM JUDGE. 1 can't make a living for myself and wife here In New York." said the young man. "Whv don'tyou go West?" What for?" "A divorce." Young Mr. Dolley (feeling his way) It came to my ears to-day. Miss Munn, that a report is In clrcalation that we are engaged. Miss Munn (sweetly) It's odd what utterly im possible things the gossips will talk about. Ernestine Why are you so glad that Lent is come? Celestine Because the doctor said the only thing the matter witb poor Fl Jo was that be ate too much meat. The church is ont. She deigns to glance With sober eyes across the aisle. A little bow oft, angel mine. Where Is, alas 1 thy old-time smile? Can It be true I pause to think By such reserve a slight Is meant? But no, I'm wrong: her thoughts profound Tread naught to-day but bacred ground She's keeping Lent. Teacher What is quickness? Scholar Quickness Is when a person drops a hot plate. "What makes the aristocracy of .Eng land so exclusive. I wonder? "Their debts, most likely. I know lota of trades men who refuse to have anything to do with them." Burley So you're going to make a mnslcian of your son Tommy, are you? Bagley Yes, indeed. Why, he's got s fortune In that headofhalr. Customer I am putting down a carpet and I want two packages of carpet tacks. Clerk I think you will find one package will be enough. Customer That's all right. I.want the other for my feet. PATTIS0N SAWING WOOD. Palmer and Pattison would make ticket as much alike as two Vs. Springfield Monitor. Goveivxor Pattisox is in favor of "some good Western" man, but thinks lie can be found without going too far West. Paw tucket Times. It is strongly suspicioned that when the order is given to unmask, Governor Patti son will step out from behind the Pennsyl vania Cleveland boom. Washington Post . Govkbxob Pattisox, of Pennsylvania, is reported to be very busy sawing wood. This is an exceedingly prudent occupation for ambitious statesmen just at" this time. Boston Herald. A goodly number of the Democratic county conventions in Pennsylvania are declaring for Governor Pattison as second choice for the Presidental nomination. AUoona Tribune. Governor Pattisoit, of Pennsylvania, will base his claims for the Democratic nomina tion for President on his veto record. He would be a good candidate for the Don't party. Chicago Inter-Ocean. , An Interesting Boodle Exhibit. Washington Star. J , Chicago should ' preserve a few of Its boodlers for exhibition', at the World's r"alr. They .would be m teres ting and, In a negative sort of way, instructive. STARTED OUT IK LIFE. The Mission Francaise Organized With a Full Quota of Officers The Deadhead System at-Theaters Forms the Topic of , an Instructive Conversation. .What has been known until the present time as tbe Mission Francaise became yes terday .very much organized, taking to itself as many officers and committees as there are days in tbe month. A meeting for this pur pose was held in the afternoon jat 3 o'clock, with the Bev. Dr.Purves as chairman. After a few preliminaries, including good natured skirmishes, the Bev. Mr. Launitz was to pro pose a deferment of the election, the precious matter in the meantime being put Into the safe keeping of a committee. Prof. Henri Bollin Parker failed to see the utility of a postponement. He was a busy man, so were they all all busy men. It had been by serions disarrangement of bis plans that he had been able, to be present. Quite likely the same could be said for others. . They had for along time been endeavor ing to give the mission a place in the city, and now that they were on the point of doing so Mr. Parker really failed to under stand why Friend lAunitz desired a delay. Mr. Launitz made no response to this, and then Mr. Parker's motion, or rather his in structions carried the day. Before putting the nominations in the bands of tno com mittee, the Bev. Dr. Holland begged to say a few words. He submitted that committees were nuisances, and quoted somebody as saying tnat a committee of three, one mem ber of which was in a foreign country and another sick in bed, wa3 an ideal factor for business. He begged that the Board or Directors, In tended originally to be composed of 30 mem bers, should be cut down to ten. Then a committee of four able-bodied men, includ ing Dr. Holland and Mr.Parker, put through Mr. Parker's ticket, only one In the field, and sifted the 30 directors until ten were taken and 20 got left. Then the Chairman announced tbe names as follows: Chancellor Holland, or the Western University, Presi dent; Bev. H. Norcross, Kev. B. F. Wood burn, E. T. Breck and Rev Dr. George Hodges, Vice Presidents; H. B. Parker, Sec retary.and William B. Thompson, Secretary. When the list of directors was brought forward, the women members, who, it Is said, have been chiefly instrumental in fos tering the mission in the days when it couldn't walk alone nor had no staffs to sup port It, were Informed thnt they had a hair representation, though the Chairman said nothing had been done to make them eligi ble. The directing board was as follows: Mrs. Joseph Albree. Mrs. Albree declined, to serve and G. C. Hartman wns named as sub stitute; Mrs. Henry Holdship, Mrs. James B. Scott; Miss Suvdam, Miss Mercur, Miss Wheeler, Mrs. Sullivan Johnson, Mr. Harvey Henderson, Dr. Llppincott and Dr. Mercer. Mr. Parker, upon the presentation of this committee, apologized tor blasting the hopes of 20 people, and said he had wished it might be otherwise. Finally Mr. Launitz was formally voted in-his incumbency as pastor by general acclamation. Mr. Launitz rose to decline. Dr. Norcross responded that they couldn't do without their pastor. Mr. Parker reiterated Dr. Norcross" statement, and when it was left to theladiesandgentle men present they rose in their might and upheld the speakers. A further meeting to arrange details will be held on the coming Wednesday. A marriage has been arranged between Miss Frances Porter, daughter of Mrs. S. E. McClelland, of Uniontown, and Mr. Edward Yeager, son of Christian Yeager, Esq., of Allegheny. 'Miss Porter's family move in the aristocratic circles of Youngstown so ciety, ana her fiance is of. representative people belonging for many years to this part of tne country. Mr. Yeazer, Sr.. wa3 for merly interesceu in tne (joiumDia steel Works, and before that was partner in an important business bouse in Pittsburg. The wedding will likely be held in June. As irate theatrical manager yesterday de livered a blow straight from the shoulder, which resulted in a very black eye for Pitts burg. "This," said he, "is a very pretty town; it ought to have a hall built round it, that might reflect in the sky so that the sur rounding countries could see and admire. Between whiles when yon are not being stood up and sandbagged for your money, they stand you up lor passes. Upon rriy honor I was introduced to a man on Monday and on Tuesday he buttonholed me on Fifth avenue and said he would like to come down and see ns. 'So you shall, n'y.bor.' said I. 'the box office Is open from 9to9, and your. aonars are always welcome, juiotner time I was a sort or enforced escort to a young lady, who was belated and had missed her friends. I knew her slightly, and, as a gentleman should, offered to see her home. Thero Isn't a blessed relative she has that I bavent passed into this house, and only the other day the young woman metme and said her sister was going to be married, and wouldn't I give her a box, so her brother-in-law-to-be conld give a farewell stag party. I dined at a first-class restau rant last week, where they serve second class meals, and the clerk, as he struck me for" $2, remarked: " 'You might Just as well use the other side of that check to make me ont a pass.' " "I chucked an infant under the chin the other day and said it was the living image of its mother. I got aJetter trom its father the next day asking for two seats at tbo matinee, 'and please,' he added, 'seep the third chair vacant if you can. Baby is going along, as it is nurse's day out, and the little fellow may want to have his mother's knee.' Another day ou a crowded street car I exchanged my seat for a strap, to which a lady was holding- on. What do you think, she came into my office only this morning, and wanted to know if I wouldn't be so 'per lite' as to give her a seat in tbe theater also. She thought I was so much of a gentleman, she didn't mind in the least asking me. My pastor begs for passes. My landlady de mands them, and pays off her milk bill with them. When I treat a man, he looks as if he expected a pass at the bottom of the glass. The street car conductor thinks one ought to go with every fare I pay him. Young women present me with roses, wearing a 'won't-you-pass-me;through-the-door sort of expression, and their brothers walk along the avenue with me, call me my boy' and want to know what night 'me and sis' can find a couple of seats. Then they take some other fellow's sister. But for the cock of the cake walk cive me a fellow on Fifth avenue whom I asked last Monday to. send me down some things (J. u. v. " 'We don't trust theatrical people at all, my dear sip. Wo find it doesn't pay.' I wanted the thinsrs straizhtawav and with difficulty made up the sum out of thechange in my pocket. The next night the gentle man was at the theater door Just as I came lorwara. I suppose it's all right? he said. " 'What's all right?' said I. " 'Oh, you know me. You did business with me yesterday. Isn't it all right I "I didn't wait to say a word, but I rushed home and for five minutes yelled blue devils up the chimney of mr fire place; after which I went back to the theater and for two hours couldn't break the lino of people waiting for passes." Then the manager, sighing wearily and wiping his perspiring brow, wrote on the margin of a newspaner: "Pass Mr. Jones and party to box." When ho finished he whispered: "My best girl's mother's divorced husband, who at the present time is standing In again with the old lady. If things continue blooming there will do a double wedding." Announcement cards have been re ceived of the marriage of Miss Lillio B. Bailey and Hugh C. Barr on last Tuesday, March 22. They will be at home in Taren tum after April L In April when housekeepers are in com motion there is also a disturbance in the diary business, due to a reduction of 20 per cent in their cost. A diary as vou will see is by that time only three-fourths as valu able as at the first of the year, though, strangely enough, sales of them are otten made all summer. Of late years diaries have moved in a more utilitarian sphere. Their elegance has been reduced, and they have takento'wear fustian jackets, so to. speak; or plain cloth covers. ic was no great wuuo usu iuui, the most recherche affairs were got up to particularly attract young women of great wealth, consequent great leisnre and small brains. When Marie Basbkirtaeffs lurid heart-burnings came before the public the diary trade experi enced an instantaneous boom of several weeks' duration: but it was not or the 3 by 4-inch Bnssia leather variety. The book hitherto confined to counting rooms went with a rush, and great, big, practical pen holders went with it. Bat too great prevsnre killed the fad, and the would-be Marie Bash klrtseffs returned to their deserved-oblivion. Tbe diary in nse to-day Is a middle-sized affair, and is not worn at madam's heart. If a fashionable woman's, it is used to note en gagements and shopping commissions, and should it be the property of a housekeeper It partakes of all her domestic characteris tics, and is usually an extremely interesting, practical Journal. A Precedent Likely to Hold Good. St. Iyouis Globe-Democrat. No man has ever yet become President by seeking the office after the manner of a vender of wizard oil; and the precedent is certain to hold good In Hill's case. CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS., The French still fight an average of 4,000 duels a year. . i There are said to be 20,000 kinds of but terflies, or which two-thirds are named. JOne of the smallest coins in size is the) new cuatroreal gold piece of Guatemala. Four pounds of gold have been col lected from the soot of the chimney of the Boyal Mint In Berlin. There are nearly 10,000 steamships is the world, and their aggregate burden amounts to about10,000,000 tons. The people of Eome get their snpply of water, which Is said to be remarkably pure, from the Appennines through an ancient aqueduct that was constructed by their forefathers. During the prosecution of the- Chris tians by Nero, men and women were covered with tar. or some other combustible mate rial, and set Are to, to serve as torches for the chariot races. It has been reckoned that if the whole ocean shonld be dried up, all water passing away in vapor, the amount of salt remaining would be enough to cover 5,000,000 square miles with" a layer one mile thick. Several 'of th'e higher apes share with a man the involuntary habit of blushing. Indeed, they seem to possess it to a higher degree than we do, for the blush of an apa extends over a larger portion of the body than that of a human being. In France the custcm of shaving cam In with Louis XIII., who was young and beardless. The Anglo-Saxons wore their beards until tbe time of the conquest, when they were compelled to follow the example of the smooth-faced Normans. Honey is called "sterling" because in the time of Bichard I money coined in the east of Germany became, on account of its purity, in especial request in England, and was called Easterling money, as the peoplo ui .ua,i,ui vrciuiauy were caiieu. Jascer lings. November 3 is St. Hubert's Day, and Hubert is, in a measure, the patron saint of dogs. He is. first of all, the patron saint of hunters: but he is held to have special au thority over dogs, and to him are a"ddressed prayers for cure or protection from hydro phobia. The stock of Bank of England notes which are paid in five years fill 13,400 boxes, which if placed side by side would reach over two miles. If the notes themselves were placed in a pile they would reach to a height of five miles. They weigh 90 tons ad represent 1,750 millions sterling. The following advertisement appeared recently in a Western newspaper: "Wanted A young lady as Clerk of the County Court of Elbert Gonnty. It will be necessary for her to marry the County Judge. Address, County Judge, Elberton." There were nearly 1.C0O applications. The Japanese papers, it appears, were not content with announcing that General von Caprivi, Chancellor of Germanv, had become Count of Zanzibar. Another enter prising Japanese has written to a Tokio paper that Emperor William had anado Prince Bismarck King of Switzerland. Some experimental tests in regard- to the strength of waterproof bricks have re sulted in exhibiting a resistance to crushing on their part of from 5,000 to 22,000 pounds per square inch, according to tbe quality or grade of tbe bricks the average of ten vari ties being 7,150 pounds per square inch. The best ivory comes from Zanzibar, the African elephant being more highly Erized than the Asiatic on that account, ittlo ivory comes now from India, where the animal is so highly prized as a beast o( burden that only the tusks ot elephants that have died a natural death are obtainable. Korean native coin is copper cash. Mexican dollars and Japanese yen are used in tbe ports to a moderate extent, but are al most unknown in tbe Interior, ana tbe cum brous nature ot the medium employed, to gether with the greac fluctuations in Its value, is a serious obstacle to the expansion of trade. An American lady, bent on being original in the selection of her attire, has just invested in a wonderful dress, the trim ming of which consists of 1,800 buttons of various colors, shapes and sizes. There are 100 buttons on each sleeve, 330 on the' collar and the remainder, are .distributed, all .over tne garment. . , Elijah Davidson, who went to Oregon in 1650. was the father of 12 childr'en.-six boys and six girls. The first child born to Mr. and Mrs. Davidson had red hair, the next one black hair, tbe next one red hair again, and so on alternating red and black through the whole 12, no two in succession having hair of the same color. There are many kinds of beetles in the United States, which are as good for the purpose of blistering as the Spanish fly, be longing to the same family with it. One species In and about Washington preys destructively upon the petals of chrysanthe. mums and "asters, but has tbe redeemluj habit of devouring grasshoppers' eggs. A singular casualty attended the suicide of an artillery man in the barracks in Vienna on Saturday. The man shot himself 'with a Werral rifle. The bullet, after passing through the suicide's breast, plowed through the head of a second soldier standing near, killing him, and then imbeddod itself in the arm of a third soldier, inflicting a serious in jury. Photography has been utilized as evi dence in the question as to the destruction of seals. Sir G. Boden Powell paid a visit to the Bering Sea and took a number of pho tographs, especially of those spots known as the Breeding Islands. These plates have now been developed, and tbe prints disclose the presence of seals in hundreds of thou sands. Out of every 1,000 persons, men, women and children, iu the population, 602 are un married, 345 are married, and 53 are widows or widowers. During the year 18S9, the last yearforwhich the complete flguresare avail- aDie. inert" weiu -,,oa m'wi wm lcu in En"Iand and Wales. Of the husbands. 24, GC0 wero widowers, and or the wives, 17,321 were widows. According to the last report of th Michigan Bureau of labor Statistics, the farmers number more than one-half the population, but their profits constitute only one-eightb'oftho total net proceeds of the industry in the'" State. One-fortieth of the population own all the timberlands, mineral lands, railroad lands, city, railroad and farm mortgages and 'manufactures in the State. An interesting experiment is being made on pome of the engines of the Great EasiterpiSRailway Company to test the ad- vantiiges-of. H as el n tne ordinary loco motives. Several of the enzines have been supplied with oil tanks, and the firemen havl the option of using the oil or the coal as tbej think fit. Experience has shown that tin men piefer the oil. It requires less stokinj and produces a steadier body of steam. .AA-very novel ieature was introduced at ftWijHte'rtiiinlfiB'nt given recently by Mrs, AsfotV It consisted or the turning loose of a lot of automatic toys, tiny alligators, papier macho roosters, tin toads and other ani mals, which were wound up and then set going by the gentlemen of the party- Each man closely followed tho progress of the animal which he had wound up, and se Iectedas his partner the young woman be-; 1VIV WUIUU ib pUUSQU. At a Brooklyn entertainment, held at a clubhouse not long ago, a novel means to call the carriages was adopted. A sheet, somewhat larcerthanbedsize, was stretched across the sidewalk of the side street, and on this were thrown the carriage numbers as they were desired by their owners Coachmen could thus keep watch for their numbers, and the incessant shouting, usu ally a contusing accompaniment of such functions, was done away with. It is calculated that in Virginia, Caro lina, Georgia and Alabama there are at lease 100,000 "tobacco dippers," as they are called, who consume a great quantity of snuff In the following manner: The dippers take a tmall stick, moisten it, and dip it into the snuff, and ruD it into the gaps between their teeth, and there let the dark brown powder remain till It has lost its pungency. Others hold the stick covered with tobacco in theif mouths and suck it as children suck a stic of barley-sugar. Seventy-five years ago Thomas I Walker, then a mere boy, planted four wal nuts by the roadside opposite his father's bouse, in the Eleventh civil district, near Cedar Bluff, and some ten miles west of Knoxville. He died ten years ago, yet he lived to see four walnut trees grow . to a measure of 4 feet in diameter, worth. If cut and properly seasoned, at least eacn. Had he planted 300 walnuts on an adjoining acre of ground his heirs, when he died, would have been $120,000 better off. To-day they would be $200,000 better off. Had. ha planted ten acres they wonld be worth at 1688112,000,000. J M f v v kddiAh'isM .' .. t .. . .. v &&i&aM vsiaemtMii mdiammmm a&te
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