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THE PTTTSBUIIG- DPATCH, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 80, 1892.
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 1S92
TWELVE PAGES
LET ARBITRATION PROGRESS.
The ratification yesterday, by a larjre
and unanimous vote of the Senate, of the
Berinj? Sea Arbitration Treaty was a wise
action and the only logical one left The
settlement of this main point of the mat
ter at issue will cause universal satisfac
tion, except to those jingo-possessed spir
its on either side of the Atlantic who seek
to make the most of the least international
friction. The remaining question as to
the methods to be adopted pending the re
sults of the arbitration are in a fair way
to be settled, and cannot fail to be satis
factorily arranged In a few days unless
diplomacy go wof ully astray.
This treaty should be but the forerunner
of a perpetual one to arrange for the arbi
tration of any and all matters that may in
future cause discussion between America
and England. "When such a treaty is
signed the spirit of cordiality cannot but
grow between the two countries. And
with such a bond their united Influence
should be a potent example and factor in
maintaining the peace of the world.
LOCAL P. K. K. IMPROVEMENTS.
A published interview "with a Pennsyl
vania Railroad official states that the old
transfer station at Twenty-sixth street,
about which some talk was heard awhile
ago as a sort of concentrated produce
warehouse, will be used as a local freight
station. The intention Is stated to be to
use it for freight for the upper part of the
city, while that consigned to or received
from down-town shippers will be handled
at the foot of Liberty street
This ought to furnish some relief to
Liberty street from the running of freight
1 trains on it It is not all that might be
wished for that street, which if relieved of
the tracks would by location and width
naturally become the Broadway of Pitts
burg. But half a loaf is better than no
' bread; and the news that a large share of
the railroad freight now hauled over that
street will be handled at the upper depot
will be accepted as a decided improve
ment It is to be regretted that with this news
4 definite Information is not forthcoming
' concerning that long-hoped-for passenger
station at Seventh avenue. As to that
, much-desired benefit, it seems that Pitts
burg must possess its soul in patience for
awhile longer.
POLITICIANS OF THE EIGHT SORT.
Rev. Dr. Rylance, of New York, is
quoted as having said in a sermon on the
political abuses of the day, "Never bring
up your children to be politicians." Of
course, what the clercyman advised was
that children should not be brought up to
be politicians of the class which makes a
living by wire-pulling and jobbery. But
the expression makes it pertinent to point
that the right course is the exact oppo
site of what the words signify on their
face.
The correction of the evils and abuses
which threaten our social system lies in
bringing our children up to be politicians
of the right sort Teach the rising gener
ation that the great duty of the citi
zen is to take an active part in politics
for the benefit of the whole com
munity. Let it be the universal sentiment
that political power must be exerted only
for the common welfare. Let our suc
cessors be instructed to readily see through
the shams and pretexts by which public
affairs are perverted to the profit and
privilege of a favored political few, and
-let the political instruction of the masses
teach that it is as dishonorable to gain
wealth or power by the misuse of the tax
ing function as it would be to make the
same gain by robbing cash drawers. "When
the masses are made politicians of that
sort the abuses of political rings will be
come as impossible as the pursuit of a till
tapping enterprise on an open and whole
sale basis.
Teach our children to be politicians of
the class whose politics are founded on a
basis of scrupulous and impartial honesty.
In the creation of a new breed of politi
cians by this means lies the salvation of
the Republic
A POSSIBLE REVOLUTION.
The possibilities of the Russian distress,
pointed out in these columns some time
ago, are now occupying the attention of
agitators. Of course the most immediate
result of the famine is disease and death
for millions; but back of that, with the
recollection that just such a famine pro
duced the French Revolution, looms the
possibility o'f a popular outbreak in
Russia. Stepniak, in the Fortnightly
Review, very forcibly points out the
extent of the prevailing calamity
and its possible consequences. The dis
tress is so vast that the utmost efforts for
relief cannot be expected to do more than
keep the majority of the peasantry alive
till the next harvest But the question
what that harvest will produce, worked
by famine-plagued farmers who have been
left destitute of horses and cattle, indi
cates how the results may be extended for
years.
The question of revolution, according
to tliis writer, depends on the attitude of
the agricultural population. It is not
likely that a revolutionist like Stepniak
would underestimate the chances of revo
lution; but he certainly presents a far
from sanguine view of the situation by
saying that unless the discontent of the
rural population produce an outbreak the
towns cannot rise. On the other hand, if
there should be extensive peasant upris
ings the towns where disaffection has long
honeycombed society would become revo
lutionary centers, and if the outbreak
should come the army, which ,1s the sole
reliance of the present regime, might be
found to be as much undermined as, the
educational institutions and the profes
sions. - It Is hardly possible that such an up
rising could prevail in Russia without
excesses rivaling in horror those of the
French Revolution. But if it succeeded, its
final results, after the people had learned
how to use their freedom, would prove,
like'the French Revolution, to be a great
advance. The present calamity is used by
Stepniak as a forcible indication of the
benefits which could be obtained under a
free political system which would give the
people access to the knowledge needed for
better agriculture; the power of associa
tion, which would enable them to carry
into practice this knowledge; and the
public control, which would secure the
proper employment of the vast funds
which a free government would donbtless
subtract from military expenditure and
put into productive hands.
RECOGNIZING THE SITUATION.
The vigorous albeit sometimes rather
excited effort of the New York World to
carry out its self-appointed task of electing
a Democratic President, leads it to recog
nize the logic of the situation as pointed
out by The Dispatch some months ago.
In other words, it perceives that the dead
lock between Tammany and the Cleveland
Democracy has ruled out Cleveland and
Hill alike. As a result of this discovery
it turns to Governor Pattison.
The World's recognition of Governor
Pattison's availability is more Intelligent
and forcible,because it does not indulge in
any rainbow-chasing about his carrying
Pennsylvania for the Presidency. It
concedes that this State will vote for the
Republican candidate whether Pattison is
nominated or not It takes a broader
view of eligibility as follows:
And yet why sbould It ije required that a
candidate shall carry his State? Ought it
not be enough that he is a good Democrat
and would make a strong candidate before
the country and a safe President?
With that view of the situation our New
York cotemporary rests its boom for our
Governor on his strong qualities as an
Executive and a candidate. There is cer
tainly much force in the argument that a
man who went through two hard-fought
State campaigns and as many city fights
and never made a mistake, who as a re
sult of his victories shows an unbroken
record of clean and vigorous Executive
work, who is free from the factional en
tanglements of New York politics, and
who is burdened neither by the free-silver
taint of the West nor by corporate affilia
tions of an Eastern candidate would make
a candidate of such strength as the Demo
cracy is not likely to find at its disposal
elsewhere in .the present year.
It may be questioned whether the major
ity of the Democracy are ready to emanci
pate themselves from the idea that their
candidate must be one who has a fighting
chance of carrying his own State. Gov
ernor Pattison is not a candidate, and the
Pennsylvania delegation will go to the
Democratic Convention to support Cleve
land. But when the convention has per
ceived that neither Cleveland nor Hill can
be elected they can easily do mnch worse
than to unite on a candidate like Pattison,
who will reflect honor on their ticket
whether he Is elected or not
THE CANADIAN DILEMMA.
The platform on which Mr. Macdonald
presents himself as a candidate.to repre
sent -Toronto in the Ontario Legislature
will evoke a vote on the question of
Canada's annexation to this country. His
address contains some forcible truths as to
Canada's present commercial condition,
and some powerful arguments on behalf
of annexation. Thoughtful Canadians are
acknowledging the necessity of a political
union with this country in increasing num
bers. There cannot be a doubt as to the
gam which such a movement would bring
to Canada. If the Dominion can once
make up its mind to ask for union with us,
England would be powerless to resist it
In fact, England would have very little to
lose commercially, and would politically
gain by the amputation.
The only obsiacle in the way of the Ca
nadians,once they have made up their own
minds on the matter, would be offered by
partisan politicians here fearing the un
known quantity which would tend
to upset the balance of party
organizations. That their objection
would be serious can be judged
from the manner in which is decided the
admission of Territories to Statehood.
There is little chance for Canada's union
with us until our people asert their rights
and refuse to be governed for the benefit of
machine politicians.
THE JURY SYSTEM'S WEAKNESS,
No less than three New York Judges
have lately had occasion to express their
surprise at the action of juries who, in
clear cases of capital crime, have either
disagreed, brought in a verdict of insuf
ficient degree or acquitted the prisoner al
together. Another case, of the same sort
appears in Philadelphia, while our own
jail is full of murderers who rely, with
a confidence that is not entirely un
founded on getting off with a term of im
prisonment One of the Judges declared on the
bench: "Crimes of this sort are growing
more numerous daily, and in my judgment
the blame must be placed upon jurors who
refuse to act upon the evidence and who
travel outside of it to find excuses for the
crime. The jury box has become a nursery
for such crimes." This is strong lan
guage, but, aside from the authority with
which it is spoken, is it not justified by
facts within the observation of every In
telligent citizen?
It is this weakness of justice that gives
the excuse and furnishes the stimulus for
lynch law. The resort to lynching Is a
non seqtiitur, because the people who
must commit the lynching neglect their
duty to see that the law is vigorously ad
ministered. But when we are confronted
on every side with such failures of Justice,
it becomes evident that there must be
either a vigorous reform of the methods of
selecting juries or else the juries will be
reformed altogether out of existence.
At the presgnt way of going the Jury
system Is setting the seal on its own con
demnation. If intelligent legal reformers
cannot find ways to make it more active
and efficient they should address them
selves to the task of devising a substitute.
A farmer who lived sixty-seven years
before committing suicide had naturally
accumulated wisdom enough to make him
considerate for his survivors by ordering his
own coffin.
The Interior Department is much more
likely to rouse Indian animosity andferocity
by restricting the methods in which they
shall consume their food than by allowing
them to have their rations as they want
them and eat meat cooked or raw according
to their appetite and fancy.
If the Chilean Congress do Indorse tho
enormous claims of the Baltimore men,
their action will indeed be strong evidence
of a desire to maintain cordial relations
with us.
France most be far indeed from a day of
eight hours' work, when It is necessary to
pass a bill limiting the employment of fac
tory women and children to eleven hours a
day.
While clerks In Government depart
ments have the privilege of thirty days' fur
loughs, it is difficult to see why other Gov
eminent employes should be discriminated
against In the matter. Here as elsewhere
sauce for the goose should be sauce for the
gander, too.
When a burglar's remains are discov
ered in a cellar pirtly eaten away by rats it
is not surprising to hear that he had gone to
the dogs some time before.
Now that belligerence is on all sides
acknowledged to be out of place In the
Bering Sea matter, arrangements may safely
he made for gathering the fleets of all
nations at New York - to celebrate the
quadro-centenary of America's discovery.
A man who dies at an age of 106 years,
leaving 150 living descendants, has certainly
done his part toward the solution of the
immigration problem.
Wisconsin has now come to the fore
with supposed cases of official boodllng. If
there be any State in the Union whose publio
officers. Federal and local, .can all snow a
clean record for, say, two years past, It
sbould be heard from now as a curiosity.
A Florida hotel man says that State is
going out of favor as a winter resort. Sena
tor Quay, at least, continues to prefer it to
Washington.
Newspaper enterprise Is highly com
mendable, hut if the Interviews with two
leading Anarchists published by the Figaro
be authentic, the conductors of that journal
are hardly good citizens In keeping back in
formation from the police.
Little TJraguay has set an example
of farsightedness to penurious England by
an appropriation of $240,000 for the World's
Fair.
That the Standard Oil Company is en
tirely contrary to the spirit of the law, even
since its re-formation, is undoubted. But
that fact does not Justify its victims and
opponents in adopting illegal taotlcs to
destroy its property.
Now that umbrellas and parasols are to
be controlled by a trust, there should be on
Increased trade in big hats and gum coats.
It is impossible to tell just how much
credit the Foraker faction should receive
for McKinley's self-abnegation in refusing to
accept the hypothetical honors thrust upon
him in connection with a Presidental can
didacy. That sidewalk ordinance would not have
been passed so easily had not some of the
Councilmon been booked for a walk.
The population of France has been on
the decrease for some time. It will be still
further lessened by the expulsion of Anar
chists. But quality is certainly preferable
to quantity in this connection.
Objections are still raised to electrocu
tion as the method of capital punishment in
New York. But any system which upholds
the law Is better than one which causes its
wholesale evasion.
Bultj-fighthtg will boom in Mexico
Just now, since one of the bull-fighters has
met his death In the arena.
If anyone be nominated for the Presi
dency on the single plank of free coinage
be will find it as hard to maintain his bal
ance on so narrow a platform as it would be
on a greasy pole.
,-The Reading deal continues to grow, and
It promises to be a deal bigger than Is
healthy for the publio.
It is about time that the officials of the
Pennsylvania Railroad gave evidence of
more knowledge of the when and where of
a new station for Pittsburg than the publio
is possessed of.
POINTS THAT ARE PERSONAL.
Ma Gleadowe, British Commissioner
on Sealing Claims, will sail for New York
from London on the Teutonic to-day.
The writer of a successful play is certain
ofa fortune. Bronson Howard's royalties
and interests are said to be not far from
$75,000 a year.
Certain citizens of El Paso will give
Jay Gould a lot there and the railroad mag
nate says he will accept and build a winter
residence on it.
Queen Regent Christina, of Spain,
has received Sir Henry Drummond Wolff,
who presented his credentials as British
Ambassador. Speeches of the most friendly
character were exchanged.
M. Ribot, the French statesman, ascribes
a large share of his success to thesagacions
encouragement he has received from his
wife, who was formerly Miss Burch, daugh
ter ofa Chicago hanker.
John Stuart Mill struggled with
Greek verse at nine and Cardinal Newman
at five was doep in Ovid, while the younger
Pitt went up to the university at 16 with a
store oflearning that amazed bis tutors.
Colonel Watterson at present is im
pressed with three facts that Hill is an
adroit politician, Cleveland a clever dreamer
and Carlisle a Democrat. This looks as
though Carlisle were poaching on Hill's pre
serves. Lucy Hooper says that Alexandre
Dumas, whose fine collection of paintings is
soon to be sold, once told her that "if Provi
dence had not made of me an author, I
should have liked to become a merchant of
bric-a-brac."
Henry Miller, probably the largest
land-owner In the San Joaquin, Cal., valley,
was 40 years or so ago a butcher boy. with
scarcely a dollar of his own. He individually
controls over a million acres now, and is be
lieved to be worth between $30,000,000 and
$40,000,000.
Emperor William must have a rare
sense or humor. According to the London
World if a guest makes the slightest slip at a
court ball the Emperor not only laughs
loudly but audibly criticises the unlucky
person to the royal staff, who Join in the
merriment as in duty bound.
AFKAID OF AUEBICAN TBADEBS.
Canadians Fressine the Necessity for an
Entente With Newfoundland,
Ottawa, Out., March 29. A. G. Mann, of
Newloundland, and W. A. Munn, of Mon
treal, members of the firm of Stewart, Munn
& Co., which does a very large trade be
tween Canada and Newfoundland, are here
for the purpose of pressing upon Premier
Abbott the necessity of some entente being
arrived with Newfoundland prior to the
opening of navigation.
They contena that even now Americans
are driving Canadian products out of the
market and that unless some agreement Is
reached before their ships begin to ran
again they may as well go out of business so
far as Canadian products are concerned.
Queensland Lacks Laborers.
BEI3BAUE, Queekslasd, Maroh 29. The
Governor of Queensland, in opening the
Colonial Parliament to-day, announoed that,
as sufficient labor was not available to main
tain the sugar Industry, a bill would be pro
moted extending and regulating the labor of
Pacific Islanders and blacks lor a period of
ten years.
Bough on John Bull.
New York Morning Advertiser.
We think there will be no fight. There is
too much of the Charles Mitchell In the
English Government.
SOME AFFAIRS OF STATE.
Excitement In the Ellis Island Investigation
Irregularities in Connection With
Voucher Confirmations by the Senata
New Oleomargnrlne Law Proposed.
-Washington, March 29. The Ellis
Island investigation by the Joint Senate and
House Committees on Immigration to-day
was marked by animation and tartness.
There was a spirited controversy between
Assistant Secretary Nettleton, of the Treas
ury Department, and Chairmen Chandler
and Stump, of the committees, particularly
Between the two first named. Chairman
Chandler, in questioning Mr. Nettleton,
sought to plaee upon him the responsibility
for the policy under which the the depart
ment used immigration head money for im
provements at Ellis Island. Mr. Nettleton
resented this as an attempt toflx on him a
responsibility not properly attaching to
him and accusing the two Chairmen of hos
tility to him. Senator Chandler went so faras
to charge Mr. Nettleton with making a false
statement, and this charge the Assiscant
Secretary resented in language as severe as
that used by the Senator. Subsequently Mr.
Nettleton withdrew the accusations he had
made against the Chairman, and peace and
harmony reigned. A still more sensational
turn was given the investigation a short
time afterward, when Assistant Secretary
Nettleton read a letter calling the attention
of the Secretary of the Treasury and of the
President to the management of the office of
Superintendent of Immigration by W. D.
Owen. In brief, the letter said that Mr.
Owen was Incompetent, thoroughly untrust
worthy, guilty of circulating mRlicious slan
ders against his superiors, and slipshod in
the handltnz of public moneys. There was
also aspeolflc allegation that Superintend
ent Owen had attempted to secure improper
Sayment of a voucher. Superintendent
wen explained that there was an irregu
larity In connection with the voucher re
ferred to, but that he was notresponslble for
it. He denied having circulated any slan
derouB or untruthful reports about Mr. Net
tleton. The bill creating a Board of Begents of
Education for the Indian and Oklahoma
Territories recentlv introduced into the
Senate by Judge Perkins, of Kansas, was
drawn by Bev. Dr. Malcolm MacVlcar, Sup
erintendent of Education of the American
Baptist Home Mission Society. The bill has
received the highest indorsement from the
Commissioner of Education, the Secretary
of the Board of Indian Coirmissioners and
the Secretary of the Indian Rights Associa
tion, as well as from some of the most prom
inent religious and secular newspapers in
the country.
Confirmations by the Senate to-day
were as follows: John H. Baker, United
States District Judge for the District of In
diana. Daniel L. Hlndman, agent for the
Indians of the Slsseton Agency, S. D.
Mr. Hatch, from the Committee on Ag
riculture, to-day reported to the House a
bill designed to make oleomargarine manu
factured in one State or Territory for ship
ment into another State or Territory sub
ject to the laws and restrictions of the State
or Territory into which it is shipped. Mr.
Hatch also reported the Paddock pure food
bill.
At the conclusion of a conference be
tween Speaker Crisp, Mr. McMillin and
others, this afternoon, the opinion of Chair
man Springer as to the best course to pursue
on the tariff bills was again requested, and
Mr. Bryan, of Nebraska, was designated to
confer fully with him and report his views
to the Democratic majority of the Ways and
Means Committee. At the conclusion of
this conference, Chairman Springer, whose
physician has all along protested against his
design to close the tariff discussion, sent the
following letter to the acting Chairman of
the Committee:
WASHIXGTOX, D. C, March 29, 1392.
Hon, Benton McMillin, House of Representatives:
Mv Dear Sir I am advised by my physician
that the condition of my health Is such that the
making of a speech In the House In the near
future would probably cause a. relapse which might
result fatally In my present exhausted condition.
I must, therefore, abandon the Idea of closing the
debate on the bill "To place wool on the free list
and rednce the duty on woolen goods." This and
the other bills should be passed and sent to the
Senate at as early a dav as possible. I hope to be
able to appear in the House on Monday next, and
moTe the passage of the free wool bill above men
tioned. I am faithfully vonr friend,
William M. Springer.
This letter will be spread before the Demo
cratic members of the Ways and Means
Committee to-morrow by Mr. McMillin. and
there is no doubt the programme to-day sub
stantially agreed upon will be adopted sub
ject only to concurrence by the Democratic
majority of the House. 'It is likelv that
in view of Chairman Springer's condition.
Representative MoMillin, who has had en
tire charge of the tariff bills in the House,
will make the closing speech In advocacy of
the bill.
The recent and now famous trip of a
party of Congressmen to the mountain town
of West Liberty, Ky., for the purpose of
officially witnessing the burial of the late
Representative Kendall will cost the Gov
ernment $2,185 56. The bills nsiendered to
the Committee on Accounts foot up that
sum. The items are as follows: Joseph
Steiner, professional nurse, three days, $30;
George M. Bond, for the Chesapeake and
Ohio Railroad, eighteen persons from Wash
ington to Morehead, Kv and return, at $28
each,$520 20; ticket for corpse.$U 45: luncbes,
$9; meals on dining car, $18: special train
from Huntington to Morehead, $160; special
car AusteTlltz. $13; commissary "npplies
furnished by Pullman Company. $173 9i; W,
M. Kobinson, hotel at West Liberty, Ky., for
fifteen meals and lodging, also lunches and
"miscellaneous items," $45; lodging and
meals for William Phillips, $5; E. G. East
man, for carriages and hearse across conn
trr, $314; J. William Lee, undertaker, casket,
$350: lining, extension handles and silver en
graved plate, $100; copper metall'o Uning,$10:
hearse, $7: sundry other expenses of under
taker, $183; total, $2,186 53.
During the recent proceedings of the
Senate in executive session, the question
came up whether the Senate has power to
expel one or more of its members for violat
ing the rules and regulations governing
executive sessions. Senator Pugh, as a mem
ber of the Judiciary Committee, took the
ground that the Senate has the power to pass
upon the qualifications of the members and
punish them for any violation of the rules.
The question was put to him whether the
Senate had the power to deprive a State of
Its full representation in that body, and the
answer was that the House and Senate have
the rlzht to sav whether their members are
duly elected, and also whether they conform
to. the rules and regulations in accordance
with the oath they subscribe to when they
are sworn in. Senator Pugh argued at con
siderable length in favor of the expulsion of
anv Senator or employe who was convicted
of revealing the seorets of the executive
sessions. Several other Senators, whose
opinions were sought on this subject, agree
with Senator Pugh that there is an unwrit
ten law to the effect that any Senator who
is found guilty of betraying the secrets of
the executive session is subject to expul
sion. There is not a case on record where a
Senator was punished to this extent for an
offense of the kind mentioned, and there is
no Immediate prospect of setting a prece
dent in that direction. There are so many
new Senators In the body that Senator Sher
man and some of his followers thought the
fresh men ought to he taught a severe les
son with regard to executive sessions.
FB0M HEW Y0BK TO 'FBISCO AFOOT.
A Scientific Scholar to Make a Long Trip
With Englishmen.
New York, March 29. Dr. Emil Doon, who
for several years lived In London and cor
responded for a number of scientific Ger
man and Austrian periodicals, is contem
plating a walking tour this spring, from
New York to San Francisco.
He will make this Journey in the Interest
of science, and will publish his experiences
In book form. He expects to make the Jour
ney in ISO days, and will have as his compan
ions three young Englishmen, who will
reach here trom London next week. Dr.
Doon has been in New York since October,
engaged in studying civil and political con
ditions in America.
What They Are There For.
Philadelphia Record.
"We are not in the Council forour health?"
said a Chicago Alderman. Clearly not. It
was wealth, not health.
This Is a Tory Strange Country.
Detroit Free Press.J
Strange country this. Kansas is trying to
exterminate the wolf, yet the tiger continues
to flourish in New York.
When the People Are Educated,
New York Recorder. J
Dr. Rylance is right. Our Government Is
what the people make It. When shall we
bare the reformt
THE DI8APPEAEIHQ GUH A SUCCESS.
Its Great Mass Loaded ana Fired Withont
the Least Difficulty.
Sandy Hook, Maroh 29. The new disap
pearing, gun carriage which has been in
position at the Proving Grounds since
November was to-day put through proving
test. The' tests were conducted before
General J. M. Scofleld and the members
of the United States Ordnance Board and a
number of Congressmen. ' The carriage was
tested by its owner early In December and a
defect was found In its working. This was
repaired and the owner's test proved to be
satisfactory. The carriage was then turned
over to the Government and to-day's testa
were intended to try its powers and work
ings before i ecommending its acceptance by
the Government.
The machine Is a triumph for American
skill and genius, and is the first carriage of
its kind that has been successful. A large
number of tests have been made by England,
Germany, France and Russia to find Just
such a carriage as this, but all have been un
successful. The test proper began at 3
o'clock, the gun being mounted on the para
pet of an old fortification with her muzzle
turned toward the lightship. When prepared
to load ho part of gun could be seen from
the beach in front of the parapet but the
moment the loading was completed the
machinery was set at work and hi an Instant
the big gun, weighing 67,000 pounds was
raised above the wall. The ele
vation for fire was eight feet from
load position. The gnn was fired with an
electric primer and the recoil was easy. The
time elapsing from the completion of load
Sosition to its recovery alter reaching the
re position and dropping back was less
than half a minute, and it is estimated that
the gun could be hoisted, fired and lowered
to its original position in less than 12 seconds.
The gun nsed to-day was one of the new
10-inch steel rifles, and the projectile nsed
weighed 575 pounds. It was fired with a re
duced charge. The explosion shattered
most of the windows on Hook. The
carriage was designed by H. H. Spiller,
one of the designers of the Terror,
and was built under his dlreetion by
the South Boston Iron Works. Its operation
is automatic. Its weight complete is 55 tons.
Its main principle is compressed air, which
laises and lowers the gun and aots as a cush
ion for the recoil and is used to load the
piece. It force varies from 325, when the
gun is at Are, to 1,000 at the recoil.
LIGHTNING MARRIAGE RECORD.
A Young Man Wedded and Divorced In a
Day Merely for Money.
Topeka, Kax, March 29. Special. Mar
ried and divorced the same day is what
the records in the clerk's office in this city
show was accomplished by a young financier
of Napoleonic talents. His experience was
had In 1883, but it was only brought to
light to-day through the efforts of Miss
Etta Bead, tde leading lady in the Corse
Peyton Comedy Company. She went to the
clerk of the District Court and said a friend
of hers, an actress, had recently married an
opera singer In New York, whose real name
was Svlvester Smith.
Smith told his wife he had been married
and divorced in Topeka on the same day.
Suspicion was aroused, and Miss Reed had
been requested br her friend to investigate.
The recoids show that Smith was divorced
in the District Court here in January, 1883,
but no record of his marriage could be found.
The suit for divorce had been filed and the
divorce granted on the same day.
There was a fraternal order here in the 70's
known as the Marriage Aid Association. It
was formed to aid unmarried people to save
money, which was paid back to them on
their wedding day. Shares were $10 each,
and members were limited to three shares
each. On his or her wedding day each was
entitled to draw, for each share held, 50 cents
a day from the time the share was purchased.
The money was raised by assessments levied
on the members.
Smith had throe shares, purohased in 1830.
He kept his dues paid up, as he hoped to
draw a large sum when he took the last step.
He was engaged to a young lady at Garden
City, but she went back on him at the crit
ical time, and he came to Topeka. Shortly
afterward he learned that the association.ot
which he was a member, was about to go
under, and he was in danger of losing his
money. The only way to save It was to
marry, so he hunted up a woman who agreed
to share the bounty and they were married.
He gave her $1C0 to get the divorce, and paid
the costs.
The whole proceeding of filing the petition
and setting the divorce was attended to in a
few hours. He drew over $1,200 from the as
sociation, and after all his marriage ex
penses had $1,000 left.
TEE DAMAGE QUESTION.
Soma Very Interesting Figures on the Far
Seal Business.
New York Tribune.
Washington, March 29 Officials who are
Informed on the subject estimate the seal
catch of the Canadian poachers in Bering
Sea last season at 28,000 skins. This is
exclusive of the number of seals killed and
not captured and the pups who starved to
death on the islands because of the slaughter
of their mothers at sea. The catch during
1390 was slightly less than in 1891 and In 18S9
was less than In 1890. The fact that the catch
in 1891, when sealing In Bering Sea was
wholly prohibited, was larger than in 1890,
when it was only partially restricted, is ex
plained by the fact that there were many
more vessels engaged In sealing in 1891 than
in the preceding year.
These figures are interesting as tending to
indicate the amount of damages the United
States would be required to pay in case this
Government agrees to Lord Salisbury's
proposition for a modns Vivendi, with an
indemnity liability in the future contingency
that the arbitiators decide against the
United States on the question of its Jurisdic
tional rights in Bering Sea.
On the other .hand, if Lord Salisbury's
S reposition Is adopted and the arbitrators
ecide against the contention of Great
Britain, that Goverement will be liable for
the claims of the North American Commer
cial Company against the United States for
non-performance of contract, etc. By this
contract the catch wns limited to 60,000 skins
the first year and 100,000 each subsequent
year.. Under the terms of the modus Vivendi
the company was restricted to 7,500 skins.
OXLAHOMA AGAIN HAS A BUSH.
Baser Would-Be Settlers Gathering in Long
Files, Beady for an Opening.
KiNoiSHBR,OBX.,March29. Special. Gov.
Seay was here yesterday arranging for sur
veyors to go the various comity seats in the
new Territory. These are to be laid out in
lots, blocks, streets and alleys. The rush
continues here. Every train is crowded.
People began forming in line at the land
office dopr ou Friday night. Yesterday the
line was increasod to 53. The wind blew
clouds of dust all day, but the men In line
sent out for goggles and, thus protected, re
tained their places. Food was carried to
them by friends, and they declared their in
tention oi remaining tui tne iana was
opened to entry.
A special from El Reno says: The situation
in El Reno is ohanged only by an increase in
the excitement pending the opening of the
new lands. Every manner of man Is here,
from the gambler from Deadwood to the
capitalist from the Eastern States. Just
now the waiting crowd is undecided as to
the future. It is said that a telegram has
been received from Washington saying that
the country will be opened on April 10.
It Onght to Be Copyrighted.
Washington Stir.
Some political orator should get In ahead
of his cotemporarles and copyright the re
mark that we are on the eve of a great strug
gle. The Came or William's Ailment.
Washington Post.
Perhaps the Kaiser's sore ear was caused
by the harsh grating of the remarks of his
critics.
DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE.
General Kostamin Von Alvexsleben
hasjust died In Berlin at the age of 83.
Prince de chijiay. Minister of Foreign Af
fairs, who had been 111 for some time past, died
yesterday at Brussels.
Hon. Charles Yousq, Judge probate, died
yesterday at the age or 80 years at Cbarlottetown,
R. E. His death was due to grip.
Philip St. Pierre, one of the best known
engineers on the Hudson river, is dead In the C5th
year of his age. He was born In Canada. He was
the engineer of the Daulel Drew for 20 years.
Mbs. Marian Foster Millen. wife of C. S.
Mellen, the future general manager or the New
YorksndNew England Railway, while vlsltlna
her sister, Mrs. Julia M. Hanaford, died Monday
nl St. Paul.
Chevalier Dominico Tooetti. the artist, died
at his home in San Francisco Monday aged 86. He
was born In Borne and did a great deal of noted
work there, especially in connection with the
Catholic Church.,
Daniel Lillt Tailikr died at Waterdown,
Ont.. yesterday at the age or 108 years. He was a
native of Ireland. He had full possession of his
faculties up to the time of his death, and had used
rum and tobacco all his life.
IN SOCIAL CIRCLES.
Clan- HcPherson Listens to the Strains of
Bagpipes and Applands the Sword
Dance An Evening of Music Some
Lenten Diversions.
A jolly time was spent at Masonic Hall,
Allegheny, last night. It was the third an
nual concert and assembly of Clan McPhcr
son No. 59, and there was a goodly gathering
of the clans to participate in the amuse
ments of the evening. The exercises
opened with a discourse on Scottish bag
pipes, which was evidently much enjoyed
by the enthusiastic Scots present. The rest
of the programme consisted of songs, instru
mental musio and several characteristic
dances. Among them was a Highland fling
by Mr.G. Urqubart and the "Ghillie Callum"
or sword dance by Mr. T. McEwan. Others
who contributed to the evening's entertain
ment were Prof. Weeden, Mr. T. J. Smith,
Miss Murray, Miss Tillie Mcintosh, Miss
Brookie, Mr. McDowell and others. The en
tertainment was most enjoyable, as well as
being novel. It was characteristically
Scotch, of coarse, and the breezy smell of
the heather seemed to be rampant in the
ball. The attendance was very large.
Invitations are out for the first annual
entertainment of the Literary Circle of the
Yonng Men's Hebrew Association, which is
to take place to-morrow evening in the Cy
cloramu. parlors.
When Ella Wheeler Wilcox wrote these
lines
For neTer yet did heaven's sun shine on
Or stars discover that phenomenon
In any country or in any clime
Two maids so bound by ties of mind and heart
They did not feel the heavy weight of time
In weeks of scenes wherein no man took part .
she didn't know anything about the year
1892, but was speaking entirely for the tlme3
In which she writes. Nowadays the more
fashionable a woman is the less she has to
do with men. The dove funotions are driv
ing everything else to the wall,
and for one danoing party you can count
dozens of afternoon teas, breakfasts and
luncheons. Either the American man is not
a success socially or he does not try to he,
or on general principles be is no 1 oncer a
diversion, excepting as a possible husband
or as the business end of the household.
More and more are the evening hours being
encroached on by the women, and the men
are being left out in the cold. In New York
women's luncheons are becoming things of
the past, and 8 o'clock dinners aro being
substituted. It seems as though beforo long
men will be dethroned entirely so far as
social life is concerned, with two possible
exceptions in the doning of their dress
suits when they marry and when tbey die.
A DSLIOHTFUL evening of music was
spent at the residence of Mrs. John Arthurs,
in Oakland, last night. Aside from the so
cial pleasure that was assured the guests by
Mrs. Arthurs' peculiar fitness for the duties
ofA hostess, there was some good music by
Miss May Beeslev, Miss Noe Lewis, Mrs.
Mary Scott and Mr. F. J. Bussman.
The ladies of the Sharpsburg XT. p.
Church gave a pleasant entertainment in
the hall or the Y. M. a A. last night. Shake
spearian tableaux were the piece de resist
ance of the evening.
Chancellor W. J. Holland's lecture
on "Japan and the Japanese," illustrated
by lantern slide0. Is to be given to-morrow
evening at the East End Hall of the Y. M.
C. A. .
A correspondent puts the following
supposititious caset Upon the marriage of
the elder daughter Should the card accom
panying her visiting card (supDoslng this
last to be written Mr. and Mrs. Jones), and
bearing her maiden name, be Miss Smith or
Lottie A. Smith? There- is no social rule re
quiring the card of a young woman recently
married to bear an accompanying identifi
cation. Her old friends know or ought to
know who she is without it, and to new
acquaintances the Information would have
no particular signification. Moreover, she
has no longer any right either to the title of
Miss Smith or Miss Lottie A. Smith, and as
Mrs. Jones only should be known. This
refers only to the laws governing the polite
world of England and America, which, of
course, are the only drawing room ethics
that have weight in the United States.
Miss Annie M. WHBEN,theaccomplished
and youngest daughter of Samuel Whren,
proprietor of the Kellyman House ofHolli-
daysburg, was married at her father s band
dome residence yesterday afternoon to John
L. Foster, a young business man of this city.
The ceremony was performed by Bev. J. F.
Patterson, of Pittsburg. The couple left
last evening on an extended tour.
Mb Adams will take another "illus
tratedjourney" at the Pittsburg Club Thea
ter to-morrow evening. His audience will
accompany him "In and Out of London."
A necktie social was held last evening
at the ball of Post 162, G. A. R., under the
auspices of Ladies' Auxiliary No. 1, to Union
Veteran Legion.
The students of King's School of Oratory
gave a creditable entertainment last night.
Besides a nnmber of recitations, they ten
dered a two-act comedy entitled "Stage
Struck." The characters In the comedy
were sustained by Miss Nina Milligan, Mr.
Lewis Todd, Miss Kathryn M. Carney and
Mr. Thomas Sweeney.
COSTA BICA 8T0PS 60LD EXPORT.
The Coin Has Been Disappearing Too Fast
to Salt the People.
Saw Jose, Costa Rica, March 29. The Gov
ernment has deemed it necessary to resort
to extreme measures in order to restore the
country to a normal condition. Prominent
merchants and financiers have been invited
to confer with the President and Cabinet re
garding the depreciation in paper money
and the disappearance of the country's coin.
It was decided that a restrictive law as to
the exportation of the latter sbould be
passed immediately.
The official Organ, La Gaceta, publishes a
strenuous request that rumors of alarm
should not be heeded or given impulse. It
explains the difficulties of the situation by
saying that exchange on the United States
and "Europe has gone up to the tre
mendous premium of 130 and 123 per
cent as a consequence of large
importation and a scarcity of the
principal exportable commodity, viz: coffee.
And because of this the temporary resource
of exporting the country's coin has been re
sorted to, which has caused something of a
panic among the country people.
BHYNKLED RHTMELETS.
"ToUB wife must take more exercise."
"But, doctor, what can I do? She refuses to
stir."
"Give her some money to go shopping with."
Harper's Bazar.
He was a mighty pugilist,
Whom all men saw with fear.
Till he became quite deaf and dumb
That ended his career.
Washington Star.
Bagley What ever possessed you to
name your parrot "Wine?"
Brace oh. I understood that wine was a mocker.
Pomona Times.
Kabbidge (cigar dealer) Here's some
thing new In cigarettes, Mr. PutTer won't you
try It?
Pnffer What la It? Tobacco? Smith. Gray 4
Co.'s Monthly.
Who seems to think as he goes by
All men should bend before '1m,
And has the supercilious eye
Of some high cockalorum?
Tottrto not know him? Is It so?
Why, then, my friend, you oughter;
That man is as most people know
An Independent voter.
Sew York Press.
"1 wonder why it is," said the tramp,
"that 1 alius feels most at home In a caliker
shirt?";
"I know," replied bis partner. "It's cos It
won't wash. Judge.
Ctnch What have -you given np for
Lent? -
Pinch Thirty dollars for my wife's Easter bon
net. Puck.
"What is the Lenten period kept for?"
Was her Interesting question.
"Is it for sinners' penitence or
Simply a rest for tired digestion?"
-Sew York Herald.
Practical Father So you want to'
marrymy daughter, eh?"
Poetloal Lover Yea, sir. I would lie down and
die for her!
Practical Father H'm! Would yon get up and
work for httt Harper's Bamtr.
CUEI0DS CONDENSATIONS.
The residence of a Jeffersonville (Ind.)
man has been burglarized seven times within
15 months.
When a cat washes itself and puts its
hind leg straight up behind Its ears there)
will be rain.
An Eskimo village, inhabited by from
50 to 75 natives of the frozen regions, will ba
one of the sights at the World's Exposition.
A cocoon of a well-fed silk worm will
often yield a thread 1,000 yards long, and
one has been produced which contained 1,235
yards.
The majorit'y oi 'recent calculations of
the sun's pace place it at about 10 miles per
second, or nearly 3,000 times as fast as an ex
press train.
A French naturalist has stated that an
insect which attacks hop vines can produca
6 000,000 000 young ones during the month or
six weeks of its existence.
There is a whirlpool in the Santa Fa
river, three miles northwest of High
Springs, Fla.. into which 1.000 feet of line has
been lowered withont finding bottom.
Green Mudd was the name given by a
dark colored man when he took the stand la
the Louisville City court upon the charge of
breaking Into his aunt's house. Mudd was
fined $20.
Among the instrumental resources of
the John Hopkins University is a thermom
eter valued at $10,000. The graduations on
the scale are so fine that a magnifying glass
Is required to read them.
St Paul's, London, is to have a new
clock. The old clock strikes the hour on the
old Phelps bell, but the new one will strlko
upon Great Paul, which Is nearlvlT tons
weight, with a hammer weighing 680 pounds.
The new countries are not the only one
in which towns expand as with a mushroom,
growth. Thus Crewe in England, which in
1831 had a population or 51 onlv. and tea
years later could only boast of 203 inhabt
tant, all told, now numbers 30,000, who are
most all railway employes.
Some one has been taking the trouble to
reckon up all the advantages of the new
fangled labor-savine: appliances for veloci
pedes, as described by their enthusiastic in
ventors and the conclusion arrived at is
that a machine fitted with them all ought to
go without any motive power at all.
On reading in a Southern newspaper ofa
heroic act of a young woman in Mississippi,
William Jones, a young business man of
Delke, Go., wrote her, exDressing admira
tion of her courage. A correspondence lol
lowed, together with an interchanje of pho
tographs. Last week the young couple were
married.
A man in Evanston, Wyo., has invented
a new style or railroad which he claims
ought to transport passengers across the
country at the rate of 200 miles an hour as
easily as trnins can now be run at 0 miles
an hour. The cars are to be run on a single
elevated rail placed upon posts and steadied
by side rails.
Miniature arrow heads cut-out of jasper
and camelian are found to this day by Arabs
in the desert sands and strung in necklaces
for charms. The Etruscans of old nsed to
mount similar arrow heads In gold, and one
tees them worn even now In scarf pins.
Thus is the stone age brought down to the
very present time.
In Iceland the Protestant religion is the
national one, for there is not a single Roman
Catholic place of worship on the Island.
There are very fewEoman Catholic Hebrews,
or Dissenters In the Scandinavian countries,'
the percentage of non-Lutherans (Lutheran
Ism being the established Scandinavian re
ligion) being barely one of the total.
The blackbird and thresh are "wander
ing souls" whose sins must be expiated on
earth, hence they are forced to endure tho
rigors or winter. Rooks, jackdaws, bats,
hawKs and owls are animated bv lost souls.
The wagtail is called the "devips bird'- for
no other reason than that it cleverly evaaes
the missiles thrown at it. A dead wagtail is
a rara avis.
On New Tear's Day, at the capital city
of Thibet, Lh'asa, there begins a season of
festivity. One of the entertainments is
called the "Spectacle of the Flying Spirits."
The performers stretch an enormously large
rope made of hide, all the way from the top
lv mo uubiom uijuu jrocaio; men rney fasten
grooved blocks of wood to their chests, and
sail down the line like so many swallows.
Horse chestnuts and potatoes carried in
the pocket to keep off rheumatism or for
other superstitious purposes are amulets.
The-Vtrtues. supposed to be possessed by
amber beads are variously familiar. Belief
in the supernatural qualities of amber is
verv old Indeed. It arose originally from Its
peculiar electric quality, from which was
derived the word "electricity," electron Be
ing the Greek name for amber,
A convict made his escape at Brenbam,
Tex., a few days ago In a curiou3 manner.
With a number of others he was working on
a railroad embankment. When none of the
guards were looking, the convict laid down
in a hollow made by the spades. The gang
near him threw dirt over him until he was
completely covered. When canrn was
reached and the roll called the escape was
discovered. He has not been captured.
That a knowledge of mythology (as
taught to yonng ladies and others) should
be common in the Greece of to-day is only
natural. You shall find the urchins in the
village school at Delphi reciting the lives of
heroes and saints, ol Samson and Herakles,
of the vlrzin huntress and her who wns
greatest among women, in a breath. All are
equally real to them, as they might have
been to their forebears IS centuries ago.
An odd belief is current among the
Roman populace that Beatrice Cencl has
finally got into heaven. The legend was
that when she was executed she went to pur
gatory, and that she was to stay there as
long as the Borghese family, to whom ths
Pope distributed the Conci property, kept ie
with profit and enjoyment. The Borgheses
are now almost ruined, and so it is believed
and reported in Rome that Beatrice's pun
ishment is cnuea.
One of the latest methods of testing; the
academic proficiency of mail clerks has Just
been devised in San Francisco. It consists
ofa case of 141 pigeon holes, each of which
represents a country postofflce. The victim
gets a number of cards having written ad
dresses on them to represent ordinary let
ters. He is then timed with a stop watch in
order to ascertain how long It takes him to
get all tho cards in their proper pigeon
holes. In California alone there are 1,450
minor postofflces, so it may be Imagined that
the task is not an easy one.
M. Koebele, who has been for the sec
ond time searching in Australia and New
Zealand for "beneficial insects," has discov
ered that Orcus cnalybeus, a steel-blue lady
bird, is a most important enemy of the red
scale. According to Nature he has found
them by the hundred, and has observed tha
mature insects eating the scales. The trees
were "full of eggs," and the larva wera
swarming on all the orange and lemon trees
Infested with the red scale. M. Koebele has
sent to America a large quantity of the eggs
and many of the adult beetles.
Curions evidence shows that a cubic
Inch of air at sea level contains about 350,
000.000 nfolecules. If the law of regularly
diminishing density holds good, a cubic inch
of air at the height of 100 miles will contain
about 350,000 molecules, and at less than 223
miles only 1 molecule. Opinions differ, how
ever, as to the actual height of the atmos
phere's upper surface. Prof. Young declares
that no definite upper limit can oe stated,
while Prof. Forster, of Berlin, contends that
a thin air connected with that of tho earth,
pervades the whole solar system.
Java has thunderstorms on the average
97 days in the year; Sumatra, 86; HinUostan,
55; Borneo, 54; the Gold Coa3t,52: Rio da
Janeiro, 51; Italy, 38; West India, 36; South
Guinea, 32; Bunos Ayres, Canada and Aus
tria, Hi Baden, Wurtemburg and Hungary,
22; Silesia, Bavnria and Belgium, 21; Holland,
18; Saxony and Brandenburg, 17; France,Aus
tria and South Russia, 16: Snain and Portu
gal, 15; Sweden and Finland, 8; England and
the high Swiss mountains, 7; Norway, 4;
Cairo, 3. In East Turkestan, as well as In
the extreme north, there are almost no
thunder storms. The northern limits of tho
thunder storms are Cape Ogle, northern part
of North America, Iceland, Novnja Semelja
and the coast of the Siberian ice sea.
How many people who are fond of eggs
and eat them daily, ever stop to think what
a wonderful thing an egg is. It is one of tbo
greatest wonders of nature. What part of
egg Is the animal? The clear white part?
No. The yolk? No, that is merely food.
Break a raw egg, and beside the white and
the yolk what do you find? On tho mem
brane which covors theyolk you will see a
little whitish circle. That is the animal.
When nature brings the young animal at an.
early period Into tho outer air or water it
provides it with means to live. A young
alligator, no larger than a tiny lizard, takes
to the water the moment it creeps out of tha
shell, and begins to devour what it can. It
needs no protector.
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