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TOO MUCH ENERGY.
The Democratic State Convention, yes
terday, rivaled, the palmiest days of Dem
ocratic conventions in Allegheny county
for the strenuousness with which the
rival factions abused each other. It has
not been entirely without precedent for
the opposing elements of the nnterrified
in local gatherings to accuse each other of
stealing delegations and packing commit
tees; and the occasional relief of the sur
charged political enthusiasm by a resort
to slugging has not been unknown.
When these methods are transferred to a
body of the supposed dignity of the State
Convention, they are rather above the
level where they belong. Indeed a stren
uous view even of Democratic comity
would suggest that slugging be confined
to the ward primaries and that calling
each other political robbers be allowed to
rise no higher than the county conven
tions. The peculiar part of these exhibitions
of Democratic anger is their entire dis
proportion to the issues at stake. When
a county convention that can decide the
disposition of a possible County Commis
sionership results to riot and slugging,
the conclusion is evident that it is not a
strife over the offices but an outlet of the
Democratic pugnacity. In the State Con
vention the belligerent Jacksonians bad
no expectation either on one side or the
other of affecting the fate of a State office.
It does not even appear that the repre
sentation of the State at the National
Convention would be seriously affected by
any of the questions over which the resort
to overt acts of war occured. Falling
back, then, on the theory of a spontane
ous combustion of surplus Democratic
enthusiasm, we can only return to the
suggestion that our Democratic friends
should not permit their energy to take
such an extremely vigorous form, when
they reach a place where the eyes of the
whole State are upon them.
With this prominent feature of the
convention the rest of the proceedings do
not call for much comment, except to
note the fact that Mr. Harrity was
not by any means turned down. Whether
Harrity maintained his personal suprema
cy by fair means, it is useless to discuss in
the present excited state of the Democrat
ic mind. But it is necessary to remark
that, if the Democrats ever had any hope
of effecting a success in Pennsylvania,
such displays of factional enmity as those
of yesterday would make the hope futile.
A MATTER FOR CONGR TULATION.
The end of next year will see the last of
the Allegheny county debt, including the
outlay for the power house yet to be built
as an annex to the Court House. This
calculation is of course based on the as
sumption that no accident will cause un
expected expense. Such a state of
affairs is matter for "'congratulation.
The Court Honse will have been
paid for and will remain a hand
some and lasting monument to the
economic efficiency of the County Com
missioners who inaugurated and carried
out the work. The wiping out of this
debt will reduce county taxation to its
normal leveL At the same time the tax
payers will luxuriate in the lessening of
the amounts necessary to meet their cur
rent expenses by the increased return of
money by the State Treasury.
Altogether, there is a bright outlook for
the county finances, and their good condi
tion is an example of what can be done by
business-like methods to return full value
for money raised by taxation.
AX OUTBREAK OP SCIENCE.
We have received a collection of
pamphlets on the subject of scientific
spelling as proposed by Charles A. Story,
the spelling reformer elevated to fame by
the bills introduced in Congress by the
representatives of Illinois. The introduc
tion to the pamphlets states that "the
United States Fonetic Company is
chartered by the State of Illinois to do
what the law-makers have failed to do."
Further examination disclosing the fact
that an appropriation of 55,000,000 is asked
for to exploit this new scientific spelling,
the conclusion is palpable that when the
company gets that 55,000,000 it will have
done what no other spellingreform agency
has yet come near accomplishing.
A cursory examination of this proposed
strike at the treasury and the English
alphabet reveals the fact that the simplifi
cation of spelling extends the present
alphabet from its modest and inadequate
total of 26 letters to the much more im
posing aggregate of 66, with four
spaces, marked by asterisks repre
senting "compound vowels," two of which
we are mysteriously informed could not
be printed in the space and two of which
it is unnecessary to print Compound
vowels of such voluminous bulk and un
necessary character, which make a total
alphabet of 70 characters, gives us a basis
for science in spelhngof an exceedingly
abstruse and imposing exterior.
The pamphlet next gives several pages
of illustrations in parallel columns in which
the reformed spelling is classed under the
head of "science" and the usual kind of
"chaos," the remarkable feature being
presented of using the chaos to make the
science clear. Then comes the feature of
a large number of pages of poetry, com
prising no less than twenty-five stanzas.
The comment inevitably suggested by
this illustration is that if scientific spelling
has a tendency to produce poetry of this
class the most obvious use of that 15,000,
000 appropriation will be to pension off
the scientific spellers on the strict condi
tion that they carry their work of flat
rhyming no further.
After that 55,000,000 appropriation gets
favorably reported from the House Com
mittee it may be time to discuss the
proposition further. At present its most
salient feature is its combination of un
conscious humor with the prevailing en
thusiasm for the old flag and an appropri
ation. IS IT TAKEN BACK?
An interesting suggestion appears in the
announcement from Washington that in
the case of John O'NpHI vs. the State of
Vermont the Supreme Court of the United
States held the sale of. an article in one
State and its delivery to a citizen resident
in another against the law of the latter
State was an offense and punishable ac
cordingly. It is necessary to notice that
this case arose before the enactment of the
United States law made necessary to clear
up the muddle of the original package de
cision. Indeed, it antedates the first Iowa
case in which that decision was rendered.
Consequently the conclusion is indicated
that the dignified and learned court of
last resort, recognizing the chaos to which
that ruling led, has concluded to adopt the
discreet if not graceful course of reversing
itself.
Most people will agree that this is the
best it can do under the circumstances.
The inter-State muddle having been cre
ated by overthrowing the construction of
a century past, and ignoring the specific
provisions of the Constitution, the only
way out was to back down. But if it be
correct, as reported, that in a case which
practically reproduced the issues, of the
first decision the Supreme Court has con
tradicted its own dictum, there is some
pertinence in suggesting that It should
have reversed itself before it made the
original decision. For a time the result of
that judgment was to throw a large share
of the police powers of the State into the
utmost doubt It has not yet been shown
how under that ruling a State could regu
late the sale or handling of explosives, the
inspection of diseased live stock or the
sale of poisons if they were brought from
another State. Congress was put to the
trouble of passing a special act to cure the
confusion caused by this decision with re
gard to the liquor business; and in this
year of legislation and uncertainty we are
confronted by the practical allegation that
the Supreme Court has deliberately re
tracted its first decision and that all this
trouble was unnecessary.
There certainly is some cogency in rec
ommending to that lofty tribunal the
adoption of the Hon. Davy' Crockett's
maxims to be absolutely sure that it Is
right before going ahead.
REAL "WORK ON THE KONGO.
The first armed expedition against the
Arab slave traders on the Upper Kongo
has met with a complete success. The
Kongo Free State has been slow to resort
to force, but now that it has been com
pelled to use the military machinery of
civilization the slave hunters will quickly
be brought to terms.
It has frequently been pointed out In
these columns that the possession of the
Kongo river afforded a pathway by which
commerce and armed vessels could pene
tratewith suitable stations at Stanley
Falls nearly to Lake Tanganyika and
further South into the Lualaba district.
Over this vast region the Arabs have a
terrible advantage on land. But a small
steamboat armed with nothing more mod
ern than a four-pound howitzer would be
a force on the river which no Arab arma
ment could withstand. The Kongo Free
State had rightly made peace its policy
with the Kongo tribes; but a peace which
affords the natives .no protection against
the invasions of slave hunters and the de
vastation of whole districts is little better
than no peace at all
It is satisfactory to learn that the ex
pedition sent up the Kongo by the Belgian
Anti-Slavery Society has administered a
decided check to the Arab slave traders,
with good prospects of clearing them from
its banks. It is certain that the intelli
gent and energetic prosecution of the
work of patrolling the river and protect
ing both commerce and the native tribes
will in the end wipe out that remnant of
barbarism.
HARD TO SUIT.
The experience of New York clergy
men in dealing with vice and political
corruption there develops the fact that it
is very difficult for clergymen to please
the political newspapers. Dr. Parkhurst's
attack on the vieious elements in New
York, and the extreme measures he took
under the challenge to produce evidence
of his assertions, aroused a storm of criti
cism at the unclerical conduct of which he
was guilty. Now comes a clergyman who
takes the opposite course to Dr. Parkhurst,
and makes the discovery that his attitude
does not suit the New York press a bit
better.
The clergyman is the Bev. E. Walpole
Warren, the English churchman whose
engagement evoked that singular prosecu
tion under the contract labor law. In a
sermon last Sunday he disapproved of Dr.
Parkhurst's course in going into the re
sorts of vice in search of evidence and in
denouncing vice in such plain language.
Beyond that he said he had refrained
from taking out papers as a citizen of New
York, because the city government was so
corrupt that he would not be identified
with it even as a voter. Upon which the
political organs at once jump upon him as
a man who stands aloof from vice when
it is his duty to plunge into the fight to
suppress it
Here we have the case presented of two
clergymen. One makes an active, aggres
sive warfare against vice and is attacked
for the methods he uses. The other keeps
his skirts clear from any contact with vice
so scrupulously that he will not engage In
any personal effort to suppress It, and,
singular to remark, the press of New York
disapproves of J his conduct also. When
the clergy make the discovery that
whether they fight vice or leave it alone,
they cannot earn the approval ot our es
teemed cotemporaries," the New York or
gans, they may be pardoned for concluding
that these arbiters of public opinion are
somewhat difficult to please.
Parenthetically we may remark that we
have a great deal more respect for the
clergyman who Is so energetic in his op
position to vice that he even goes ttie
length of fighting the devil with fire, than
for the man who will" not have anything
to do with it for fear that he should soil
his fingers. ,
A simplification of spelling on a sci
entific basis makes an awful beginning by
proposing to increase the alphabet from
twenty-six to seventy letters.
"The Harrity and GtuTey tactions have
fought as desperately as if the welfare of the
nation depended on the result of their
rough and tumble combat," says a co
temporary. The fact is that if patriotio
principle had been the issue, instead v of
ainnal v.r14tfial rlvnitMHnfc th annrtrv
) displayed in the struggle would have been
conspicuous uy its absence.
Judging from recent murder trials at
Washington, D. C, in which men evidently
guilty of murder were allowed to go free
and unpunished, it ip hardly surprising that
one member of the Jury whioh found Schnei
der guilty should have succumbed from
brain trouble as the result of the mental
train due to bringing in the verdiot.
The Mississippi floods are so immense
that it is to be hoped the attention of the
River and Harbor Improvements Committee
will be attracted thereby.
Claus. Sfbeckels used some strong
language at one time to the effect that he
would not submit to the Sugar Trust so long
as he was above ground. He has received
his price and handed his concern over to
the monopolists, but his funeral has not yet
been announced.
A MTJEDEREB was hanged in New Jersey
yesterday. Allegheny county should take
notice that such things are allowed to
happen elsewhere.
Manx reforms are needed in marriage and
divorce laws, but thetr accompUehment
would have no effect on such men as main
tain a family so long as it suits them and
then migrate to pastures new, as the Bev. E.
Dunbar is said to have done with three wives
now living.
The Cordage Trust is badly raveled up
between the accusations of its own stock
holders and the threatened Federal prosecu
tion. It HAS been long known that great mental
ability and moral purity were necessary
qualifications for Democratic delegates.
Muscular athleticism will be an additional
requisite for candidates representing this
party in Allegheny County in f ucure.
Ktjssian military maneuvers are filling
a useful purpose in providing European
officers in general with food for thought.
One would have imagined that its stately
dignity, and the fact that it is Itself a re
vival, would have assured friendly consider
ation for the minuet from revivalists. Bnt
it is not so in McKeesport. even when the
performers are to be all ladies.
Allegheny County Democrats behaved
rather worse at Harrisburg than did
Allegheny City's councillors at home.
There is a class of men in this city who
are not cared for as they should be. Councils
should introduce an ordinance without
delay to provide seats at our busiest corners
for the loafers who are their conspicuous
ornaments.
Free speech should have full scope at a
political convention, but a free fight is as
much out of place there as anywhere.
Two games won tor two games played is
an excellent beginning for our ball players.
May the future show no great falling off, Is
the hope of Pittsburg expressed with some
fear and trembling.
We bid fair to reach midsummer without
a spring, though this is too much of a jump
to be comfortable.
Taxpayers who hold their money over
to-day will lose their 5 per cent discount.
Wise folk will make a quick return and
secure the rebate while there is yet time.
What the Harrisburg Democratic Con
vention lacked in decorum it more than
made up in vigor.
The painfully long drawn out Hill Farm
episo'de is ended. But the disaster and the
noble efforts it called forth will long occupy
a prominent position in local tradition.
Democrats have given another stab to
Hill's already defunct boom by their action
at Harrisburg.
Thanes to our -pitcher, Cincinnati was
jugged a second time yesterday.
PERTINENT PERSONALITIES.
Congressman Springer Is cruising
about the Baltimore Bay and the capes on"
board of a Virginia pilot boat.
Wilson Barrett is a son of a gentle
man farmer, and entered the dramatic pro
fession by his own choice when only 17 years
of age.
Sir George Baben-Poweli has come
to the conclusion that Secretary Blaine is
the greatest American statesman of the
present age.
General Jubal Early used to wear a
scarf pin representing a Confederate flag,
and probably does so still, for he never
deigned to become reconstructed.
The only woman who owns and conducts
a printing office in Boston is Florence Grant,
who is the publisher of Woman,' Voice,
which is edited, managed and printed by
women.
President Harrison is contemplating
the purchase of the Beikeley estate, near
the Point, on the James river. This is the
old Harrison homestead, but is now owned
by New Yorkers.
Knebworth, Lord liytton's country
seat, which Mr. Henry Fhlpps Jr., of Pitts
burg, has leased, is one or the oldest estates
jn England. The house as it stands to-day
dates back to Henry "VIL's time.
It is announced that Prince George of
Wales, only son of the Prince of Wales, will
make a visit to Canada in 1893. After visit
ing Quebec and Montreal and other places
in the Dominion, ho will visit Chicago and
attend the World's Fair.
Mr. H. Bemsen Whitehouse, First
Secretary of the American Legation at
Borne, who has been acting as Charge
d' Affairs since Minister Porter was given
leave of absence, has started for Boston,
where he will marry Miss M. B. Burney,
daughter of Henry Williams, of that city.
BETEAYED BY THE WIND.
Custom House Officers Find Silk Under the
Lining of an Overcoat.
New York, April IS. Mr. Taylor, of
Chicago, a well-built, fine-looking man, ar
rived here this morning on the steamship
Servla. As he descended the gang plank of
the steamship he carefully buttoned np his
overcoat. A gust of wind caught the flap of
his coat and turned it out, revealing a rent
In the lining from which protruded a few
inches of drub silk.
The silk caught the eyes of Special Cus
toms Inspectors Brown and Donohue, who
took Mr. Taylor into the examination-room
and found that he had thirty-seven yaids of
silk concealed under the lining or his coat.
Mr. Tavlor broke down and cried like a
child.. He begged the officers to let him pay
the duty on the silk to avoid the disgrace of
exposure. He said he was taking it as a
present to his wife. The inspectors took the
silk to tho seizure-room. It cost $00 on the
other side and the duty was $30.
FEHINIHE VISITORS TO THE FAIR
To Be Provided by the Lady Managers With
Cheap Xodging Nearby.
Chicago, April 13-Mrs. Potter Palmer and
nine other well-known women connected
with the Board of Lady Managers of the
World's Fair, at a meeting to-day decided to
organize, under the name of the Chicago
Woman's" Dormitory Association, with the
purpose or erecting a building for the ac
commodation of women visiting Chicago
during the Fair, particularly those of limited
means.
The site, it is expected, will be within two
squares of Jackson Park, and will be con
tributed Iree by George M. Pullman. The
aim is to have a structure that will com
fortably lodge 6,000 women at a cost of so to
40 cents a day each.
Only a Few Thousand Lett.
Detroit Free Press. 1
Another of Washington's body servants
has crossed the great divide. There are
only a few thousand of them left.
THE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.
The Harrlty-Pattlson-Cleveland-Unit-Bule
Programme Carried Through Graver's
' Ideas of Tariff Suit His Pennsylvania
Followers The Secretary of State Su
preme. Habrisbitro, April IS. The following Is the
platform adopted to-day by the Democratic
State Convention:
We, the Democracy of Pennsylvania, in
convention assembled, Join with our politi
cal associates of other States in the effort to
restore the control or the Executive branoh
of the Federal Government to the party of
the people.
We pledge anew our fealty to the principles
first declared by tho illustrious men who
founded our free institutions and estab
lished the Democratic party to proteot and
preserve them.
We believe in the doctrines which have
been taught and the practices which have
been enforced in the administration of Gov
ernment by Thomas Jefferson and Andrew
Jackson, by Samuel J. Tilden and Grover
Cleveland.
We believe in, and we declare for, honest
and economical administration, for local
self-government, for honest money, the gold
and silver coinage or the Constitution, and
for a currency convertible with such coin
age without loss, for that genuine civil ser
vice reform which recognizes publio office
as a public trust, for liberal but not reckloss
pensions, and for the speedy abatement of
all forms of needless and oppressive taxa
tion. Resolutions and Declarations.
With special relation to the pending po
litical conditions in the country and Com
monwealth, we resolve and declare:
First That the paramount reform now
demanded or the Federal Legislature is the
leformof the tariff laws, upon the basis of
the Democratic national platform of 1888, to
the end that no money shall be needlessly ex
acted from the industries and necessities of
the people, and that onr Industrial interests
shall not be prejudiced by excessive taxa
tion, false systems of finance or extravagant
cost of production. To this end the McEin
ley tariff bill should be repealed, the essen
tial raw materials of American manufac
tures should be put upon the free list, and a
revised tariff should be adopted, with due
regard for the rights of American labor and
the preservation of our manufactures.
Second That, consistent with this issue
and with this demand, the sentiment of the
Pennsylvania Democracy is overwhelmingly
for the renominatlon to the Presidency of
the man who gave to his party Intellectual
and political leadership, and to the country
a pure and elevated administration. We de
clare our conviction that the best Interests
of the party and or the country demand the
nomination and election of Grover Cleve
land as Pi esident, and we are confident that
under his leadership the principles or De
mocracy will win a glorious victory; and, to
the end that the vote and influence of Penn
sylvania may be most effectively heard and
felt, tho delegates this day chosen are di
rected to act as a unit in all matteis en
trusted to their charge, said action to be de
termined by the vote of the majority of the
delegate3.
Pattison Also Heartily Indorsed.
Third That the honest, courageous and
efficient administration of Bobert E. Patti
son, Governor of Pennsylvania, merits the
approval and confidence of the people of this
Commonwealth, and has the hearty com
mendation of the party whose standard he
twice carried to viotory; that his efforts to
enforce the Constitution and the laws are
praiseworthy and patriotic, and have our
unqualified approval.
Fourth That the action of the Republican
State Senate in evading the duty or pro
nouncing Judgment upon faithless State
officials was a cowardly subterfuge and a
disgraceful violation of public duty.
tilth That in accordance with the rec
ommendation of the National Democratic
Committee, the Democratic State, county
and city committees are advised and di
rected to further by every means in their
power the organization of regular Demo
cratic societies In every district, and the
union of such societies in the Democratic
Society of Pennsylvania and the National
Association of Democratic Clubs.
Besolved, That we cordially approve the
action of the Democratic State Central Com
mute in selecting William F. Harrity to fill
the vacancy in the Democratic National
Committee, caused by the death of the late
William L. Scott; and we hereby declare
Mr. Harrity to be the ohoice of the Democ
racy of Pennsylvania for the full term of
membership of the Democratic National
Committee, which begins in Juno next,
One Way to Have Vacancies Filled.
Besolved, That the Democratic State
Central Committee of Pennsylvania is here
by authorized to fill any and all vacancies
that may occur after the adjournment of the
convention in the positions of candidate for
Judge of the Supreme Court.of candidate for
Consressman-at-large,of candidate for Presi
dental elector-at-large, or of delegate-at-large
to the Democratic National Conven
tion by the nomination or election or suit
able persons to fill such Vacancies; provided,
that should any vacancy in the position of
delegate-at-large occur after June 1, 1892,
then such vacancy shall be filled by the re
maining delegates-at-large.
Besolved, That the delegates to this State
Convention from their several Congressional
districts he authorized to fill any vacancies
that may occur in the positions ot district
candidate for Frcsidental elector or of
delegate to the National Convention.
INSTINCT OB INTELLIGENCE!
A. Bather Singular Story About Language
Among Dogs.
Lawresce, Kiif., April 13. Probably the
most convincing and remarkable evidences
that animals can talk to each other was wit
nessed near here a few days ago on tho farm
of William Seymore. Seymore has two dogs
which are accustomed to remain in the
barns and have become firm friends with
the horces. To such an extent has this
friendship progressed that when any of the
horses or either of the dogs have been away
from home for any time, Immediately on
their return they rush together and rub
noses and give other evidences of delight at
meeting.
The dogs arid horses go to the pasture
together and return home at evening in
company. This remarkable and close friend
ship has been noted by many and much
commented upon, bnt the climax was
reached when one of the dogs came rushing
from a small piece of timber about half a
mile from the barn. He ran hurriedly up to
the other dog and whined and barked in a
queer manner and then ran to the house.
The second clog at once Jumped to his feet
and started off on a run to the woods as fast
as he could go. The first dog huntedaround
the place until he found Mr. Seymore, and
then by barks and strange antics attracted
his attention and started back toward the
timber.
Mr. Seymore paid little attention to him
until he was told what had occurred at tho
barn, where the two dogs apparently held
conversation, and then he followed to the
woods. Tho dog went straight into the
woods, and there Mr. Seymore found that
one of his horses had fallen down in a small
water course which was so narrow and
steep that it was impossible for the animal
to rise.
The horse was lying perfectly still, while
the second dog was sitting by its head lick
ing its face and showing by its attentions
that it intended to comfort the horse all
that was in its power. The fact that the
horse was lying in an out-of-the-way place,
with the additional fact that the second dog
did not hesitate, but went directly to where
it had lallen, was plain evidence of the fact
that the first dog had told the story and
given directions for finding the horse that
was in trouble.
OLD TIMES, OLD FRIENDS, OLD LOVE.
There are no days like the good old days
The days when we were youthful!
When humankind were pure of mind
And speech and deeds were truthful;
Before a Ioto for sordid gold
Became man's ruling passion.
And before each dame and maid became
Slave to the tyrant fashion I
There are no girls like the good old girls
Against the world I'd stake 'em I
As buxom and smart and c.ean of heart
As the Lord knew how to make 'em I
They were rich In spirit and common sense.
And piety all Bupportin';
They could bake and brew, and had taught school,
too.
And they made the likeliest courtln' f
There are no boys like the good old boys
When we were boys together!
When the grass was sweet to the brown bare feet
That dimpled the laughing heather;
When the pewee sung to the summer dawn
Of the bee in the billowy clover.
Or aown by the mlU the whip-poor-will
Echoed his night song over.
There Is no love like the good old love
The love that mother gave us I
We are old, old men, yet we pine again
For that precious grace G od save us I
So we dream and dream of the good old times.
And oar hearts grow tenderer, fonder.
As those dear old dreams bring soothing gleams
Of Heaven away off yonder.
Eugene Field in Chicago Hoot,
WILL STAND BT BBIGGL
Union Seminary Feels Sore Over the Action
or the New York Presbytery.
N. Y. Cor. Philadelphia Ledger.
The Union Theological Seminary will cer
tainly stand by Prof. Briggs, whatever may
be the action of the General Assembly of
the Church at Portland. The action of the
New York Presbytery in electing an antl
Brlggs delegation to the Assembly, while
terribly disappointing to the faculty and
friends of Union Seminary, will not move
them an inch from the position they .have
taken In this matter,
I write from personal knowledge when I
say that Professor Briggs' colleagues in the
faculty of Union Seminary are fully as "ad
vanced" as he is in their opinions of the sub
jects in controversy in the church. They
may not adopt his pecular and original
methods of giving expression to his views,
but tbey are in entire sympathy with him.
The honor ol Union Seminary Is in
volved in the controversy ' and It
will not recede from what it believes
to be its standard of duty, even
If 'it has to leave the Presbyterian
Church and become an institution inde
pendent of denominational lines. The
Union Seminary professors axe men of wide
culture, of matured powers and of no ordi
nary Intellectual gifts. Whatever may be
thought of their doctrinal views and of
their advocacy of the higher criticism, there
Is no question of their, sincerity. Such men
are not apt to surrender. I happen to know
that some of them fear that the present con
troversy in the church in regard to doc
trinal points will result in a division of the
denomination.
To an outsider there could seem to be no
other outcome ot the contest. That the
seminary should be defeated in the very
city in which It stands, in the place where,
of all others, It should be strongest, is a bit
ter disappointment, especially as the elec
tion of yesterday reverses the action of the
Presbytery in its vote last vear on the
charges against Professor Briggs. The
seminary desired particularly that Profes
sor Brown should be elected as a delegate,
in order that he might represent it before
the Assembly, but he received only 35 out of
113 votes cast. This seems like cruel treat
ment of the seminary, which certainly
should have at least one representative in
tbe Assembly.
President Hastings, of the seminary, said
to-day that he considered tbe deteat of Prof.
Brown a deliberate blow at the seminary.
His defeat leaves the seminary, whose fate
is to be decided at the General Assembly In
May, without any one to speak for it on tho
floor. The seminary, he said, would cer
tainly protest most emphatically against
such a state of affairs. Even ir the
General Assembly shonld disapprove
again of Pror. Briggs' appoint
ments to the Chair of Systematic
Theology In the Union 8eminary7the officers
of that institution would not consider them
selves bound to respect such a decision. It
Is to be feared, however, that the Assembly
will not content itseif with a mere disap
proval, bnt will, in another way, administer
another blow at Dr. Briggs and all his fol
lowers. In such a case it might happen that
the seminary would return to tbe independ
ence from eclcsiastical supervision which
the Union Seminary enjoyed prior to 1870.
As affairs now stand, said Dr. Hastings, the
AssemDly will listen to the appeal of the
anti-Briggs men against the decision of tho
New York Presbytery, and the delegation
from that Presbytery will be found standing
with the appellants. This predicament, he
thought, was unparalleled in the annals of
Presbyterian Church history. I am told that
the friends of Union Seminary believe that
whatever it may lose from being driven out
by the Presbyterian Church will be more
than made np in the accession or strong,
able, courageous young men who, desirous
of becoming clergymen, will, they say, be at
tracted to it by its independent and ad
vanced scholarship.
BELLAMYISM TBIUMPHANI.
Three Square Meals a Day Famished by a
Kansas Eating Club.
Boston Globe.
Whatever may be the fact as to the
theories concerning national politics which
are propounded in that famous book, "Look
ing Backward," there is no doubt whatever
as to the practicability of Mr. Bellamy's
ideas concerning household co-operation.
They have Deen put to the test and have
been by no means fonnd wanting. It could
be wished, indeed, that tbe scene of the tri
umphs of Bellamyism in the field of co
operative cooking bore a less prosaio name
than Junction City. But this is a practical
world, and the object lessons which are
daily taught in the little Kansas town can
not fall to exert a widespread interest. Fifty
of the leading women of the town make up
what is aptly called the Bellamy Cooking
and Eating Club. The- President of the
organization, which came into being more
than a year azo, is the wife of an honored
Judge. As there are many more applications
for membership than can at present be con
sidered, it is safe to say that the organiza
tion, financially as well as socially, is an
assured success.
A large private residence, centrally and
conveniently located, is tne headquarters of
this prosperous experiment in Bellamyism.
Three square Kansas meals are furnished
every day to as many as the club dining
rooms will accommodate. Of course the club
is largely a "family affair," and many house
holds meet together, the charge of adults
being $2 50 a week, with a reasonable reduc
tion In rates for the young people. Un
married folks are admitted, but an addition
al charge of 60 cents per week conveys its of t
recurring hint as to the consensus of opin
ion in the club concerning what is styled
"single blessedness." The methods of man
agement in this exposition of what Bellamy
lsui can do for the inner man are eminently
sensible and business-like. An Executive
Commltee of three has general charge of tbe
wotk. There is an out.:o or $20 per month
for rent, and $16 a week suffices to meet the
wages 01 the five domestics employed. All
bills are paid on Saturday afternoon, which
is also tbe time for a conference with the
head cook as to tbe table programme for the
week to come. A great theoiy seems to have
been put into undeniably successful prac
tice out in me prairie country, junction
City, Kan., may yet be a Mecca and an in
spiration for multitudinous tired house
keepers throughout America.
This Takes the Sandwich.
Chicago Tribune.
The Hawaiian situation is regarded as
critical, but the highwlne situation attracts
more attention in Peoria. Peoria Transcript.
That takes the Sandwich. It's a Honolulu.
NEED FOE GOOD E0ADS.
Tax country road in spring and fall is a
severer tax on the rarmer than the charges
of railioad corporations or of vessel lines.
South Bend Post.
Ow the good roads we build now onr chil
dren will go to market by electricity instead
of by mule power assisted by fence rails at
tbe mnd holes, as our custom now is. St.
Louis Republic
A roadbed properly laid and composed of
good materials, even though It may require
additional expenditure at the outset, quickly
pays for Itself by the reduced cost of main
tenance. St Paul Globe.
It the farmers will send to the Legislature
men who will work and vote for good roads,
instead of sparrow-scalping acts, the Impas
sable roads will soon cease to be a tax on the
farming communities. Peoria Herald.
If the roadways which go through the
main parts of a country town were con
structed upon the plans which are followed
in England and France there would be but
little trouble in the spring in traversing
them. Boston Herald.
Tnn day of tbe soft road in both Missouri
and Illinois has been a long one and In both
States tho time has come to locate the bot
tom of every publio road in less than two
inches of tbe top. And that as a perma
nency. St. Louis Bepub.te.
The United States is the richest country
on the face of tbe globe to-day, and, outside
of its cities, it has the poorest roadways of
any of tne civilized nations. There Is no
ground on whioh this state of things can be
successfully defended. Denver Times.
The condition of the roads Is a potent fac
tor in the business of a farmer. Bad roads
may prevent tbe advantageous marketing
of his crops and cost him heavily In the
breaking down of his stock and the wear
and tear upon vehicles. Good roads all the
year round would mean many dollars in his
pocket. St. Lows Fosl-Dispatch.
"Who shall make and maintain country
roads?" The county officials, we think, are
the proper authorities to care for the work,
to expend the money and to lay out the
roads of the county, and the cities and towns
should be charged with the duty of paying
for the city and town approaches of the
country roads, whioh they as well as the
farmers need. Omaha World-Herald.
ONLY ONE OF A KIND.
Easter Fancies for Fair and Fashionable
Women Soldiers and ' Their Wives,
Sweetheart and Sister StUl Working
In a Good Cause Gossip of Society.
This frost is not out of the ground when
tbe new summer silks are on exhibition In
show windows and on silk counters. The
patterns are not widely different from those
of last year, the ever popular polka dots and
chains remaining. Anew fancy is tbe change
able silk. It comes sometimes In changeable
grounds and plain flowers, and sometimes in
plain grounds and changeable flowers. One
pattern Is like that of old-fashioned wall
paper, consisting of festoons of roses in an
endless chain of wreaths. Another novelty
Is a pattern dress, at $45 for the dress. The
idea of this pattern dress is that there shall
only be one in the city, so that the wearer is
not afraid of seeing some other woman wear
ing a garment made from the same silk.
These pattern dresses are. all In stripes, some
with plain ground and pink and white
stripes, and others of motre antique with
white and gold stripes. These are for even
ing wear. Traveling dresses are of taffeta,
in all the shades of gray and brown. India
silk this year will be worn as much as ever,
but is nearly all black. The variety is end
less and prices reasonable.
Great preparations are being made for
the fair for the benefit of the Pennsylvania
Memorial Home, of Brookville, Pa., in Old
City Hall next week. The fair will com
mence on Monday next and will continue
all the week. Dinner and snpper will be
served dally in the hall on about the same
plan as was adopted by the ladies interested
in the Southside Hospital In the Auditorium
last fall. Business men and others are ex
pected to patronize the ladles by taking
their meals in the hall, and thus a goodly
sum will be realized for the cause. On Mon
day nlgnt there will be a union campflre, to
whioh G. A. B. posts. Sons of Veterans,
Women's Belief Corps and old soldiers gen
erally, with their families, are cordiallv in
vited. A number of well-known speakers
will deliver addresses, including General
John P. Taylor, Department Commander,
G. A. B., Pennsylvania: Past Commanders
Thomas J. Stewart, Austin Curtin, J. P. S.
Gobin: Generals A. L. Pearson, Harry White
and John Taylor, Quartermaster General,
G. A. B., and a number of others. There
will be music by Post 3 Band, and a great
deal of fun, as there always is at such
times.
This is Holy Thursday. There are serv
ices in all the Catholic and Episcopal
churches. There 'will be handsome floral
decorations in all of them. In St. Paul's
Cathedral the holy oil will be Dlessed wltn
impressive ceremonies, including a proces
sion of all the sohool children and clergy
present.
These was a large audience at the Home
wood Avenue M. E. Church to .witness the
dairy maids' entertainment and drill under
tbe direction of the Young People's Associa
tion. The proceeds will be devoted to the
fund for a memorial window for the new
church now in course of erection.
This evening Hiss Josephine Patterson,
of Herron avenue, will give a card party to a
number of her friends.
Miss Jennib Tibby, of Sharpsburg, will
entertain the Shakespeare Club this even
ing. To-MORKOW evening Prof. "W. "W. Very,
of the Allegheny Observatory, will lecture
on -The Principles of Mechanical Flight,"
at the monthly meeting or the Academy of
Science and Art.
Ow Good Friday, evening Eev. George
Hodges, of Calvary Church, will tell the
story of the Cross, with lantern slide Illus
trations. At the "Women's Exchange, 628 Penn
avenue, an exhibition of Easter novelties Is
In progress,. from 9 a. m. until 5 r. m.
A NEW S0TJECE OF WEALTH.
The Jeweled Shower That Is Constantly
Falling From. Above.
Chicago News.
Bomance would better packup her library
and flee from tbe earth if there is any truth
In the theory that some. German savants
are spstalnlng. The latest statement of
these scholars' opinions comes from the pen
of Julius Stlnde, who boldly ohamplons the
postulate that diamonds are not of earthly
origin, bnt have fallen from above. Burled
treasures, pirates, doubloons and Captain
Kidd are drearily commonplace compared
with the Stinde theory. Briefly stated, it is
based upon tbe facts, first, that no powerful
volcanic process to which carboniferous
matter could be subjected in the bowels of
tbe earth would be likely to produce dia
monds; second, that the diamond-bearing
earth of Sontb Africa is not stratified, but
arranged in a series of cones or tunnels of
vertical formation as though resulting not
from upheaval, but from a fall of matter to
the terrestrial surface; and, lastly, that dia
monds have been fonnd in meteorites.
What is the origin of the meteors, why
tbey should have fallen with so partial a
discrimination In favor of Africa, what
part of tbe Jeweled shower may be due to
the moon, the men of science do not assume
to say. They do intimate, however, that the
lunar surface is very likely a source of part
or the deposit. This would of coarse upset
a pet theory and set people to crying for
that gilded plaque wore than ever. Per
haps some able syndicate will secure the
unsufruct and fee-simple of the moon.
DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE.
Colonel John W. Glenn.
The death of Colonel John "YV. Glenn in
New York City Is announced. He was born In
Urbana, O.. 86 years ago and removed to Texas
when 13. He was Major of Engineers in the Con
federate army and afterward Colonel. He con
structed Forts Morgan. Gaines and Powell In Mo
bile Bay, and was Chief Engineer of the Central
division of the Confederacy, with headquarters at
Maeon, when the war ended. Ho was Chief of
Engineers of the Texas State Board of Engineers
and Superintendent of tbe construction and repairs
of buildings under the control of the United btates
Treasury Department In 1830. In 18S5 he was chosen
Director General of the second New Orleans Expo
sition. After its close he was Interested In railroad
bnUdlng in Yucatan.
Bev. 'James L. Deens.
Bev. James L. Deens, one of the oldest
members of tbe Pittsburg Conference, died at 2
o'clock yesterday morning, at his home near Bel
lowsvlUe, Beaver county, of malignant pustule,
that made Its first appeal ance last Saturday. Dr.
Deens had reached Che advanced age of 72 years.
He was admitted to the Pittsburg inference in
1834, and for 40 years was In the etTectlro work of
the ministry, of which fonr years was served as
PresMing Elder. For the past three years he had
been on the superannuated list.
Mrs. Sarah Liggett Hitchcock.
Sarah Liggett Hitchcock, widow of L. P.
Hitchcock and aunt of Thomas and A. Liggett, the
well-known real estate men, died yesterday at her
late residence, 161 Fayette street, Allegheny, In her
74th year.
Obituary Notes.
Mme. Gaedosi, widow of the celebrated tenor
and daughter of Tambarini, the baritone, died in
Paris, aged 60.
WIU.1AM Edgab. general passenger agent of
the Grand Trunk Ballroad, died yesterday morn
ing at Montreal.
FrIdeeick Willaed Baldwin, general wire
chief of the Western Union Telegraph Company,
died at his home In New York City yesterday.
JosxrnGoss, a organist of note, a composer,
and a writer on organ music, is dead lu Poole,
England, at the age of 83. He was the younger
brother of tbe late sir John Goss.
FbancB. Wilkie, a well-known Chicago news
paper man, connected for many years with the
Timet, died Tuesday nigh t at his home In Norwood
Park. He had been ill for some time.
JIllx. Hache. a once famous actress at the
Paris Gaiete, Varletes. and Porle-St.-Martln
Theaters, Is dead. She was tbe widow of Charles
Wldeman, formerly of the Paris Jrtgaro.
Godfeet Snydackxe, a weU-known Hebrew
banker of this city and one of the business pioneers
of Chicago, died Tuesday night after an Illness of
but hair an hour. He had been Inactive business
here since 1893. His age was 67.
Andkew bucbanas. aweU-known old citizen
of Newcastle, died Tuesday night from the effects
of a paralytic stroke. Mr. Buchanan was almost
70 years of age and at one time was a prominent
and wealthy citizen of Allegheny county.
David Bice, who Introduced the first knitting
machine in $tew England, died at Canon City.
Col.. Thursday, aged 67 years. His home was In
Bristol, JJ. H.. audhe was for monv years a lead
ing stocking manufacturer In New Hampshire.
AlfnBEW VAX Yalkxxbubq, tta road super
visor who laid the first rail of the Erie and North
East Railroad, now a part of the Lake Shore sys
tem. 62 years ago. died yesterday at Erie. He had
been in the employ of tbe company at Erie ever
since the road was built.
MOTKXB MABT XAV1IB. Superior of the St
Francis Nuns, died In Dubuque. la., yesterday.
She was one of tbe founders of the order, the only
Superior it ever had, and went to Iowa with other
members of the order when they were driven out
of Prussia In 1373. She was 61 years old.
CDEI0DS CONDENSATIONS.
There are said to be 163,000 families ia
London living In single rooms.
In the reign of Henry "VI, the people,
of England fea but twice a day.
The earth is the greatest distance from
the sun on the morning of July 6th.
Bombs which resemble oranges are the
latest product of the St. Petersburg Ni
hilists. There are now in Prance 419 beet sugar
factories, the majority of which are situated
in the northern departments.
Elections in France are always held on
Sundays, in order to suit the convenience of
the worklngmen and peasants.
As-long ago as 1866, Behm, a leading
German autbority.estimated the population
of the earth at about 1, -400,000,000.
At Quito, the only city in the world on
the line of the equator, tbe sun sets and
rises at 6 o'clock the year round.
A diver recently stated that he ones
slept an hour and a hair at the bottom of a
wreok were he was laying a pipe.
The shade trees planted along the quays,
avenues and boulevards, and in the squares,
parks and gardens of Paris number mora
than 400,009.
The largest sailing vessel afloat, tha
France, of 6,160 tons, recently entered tbe
portofDunkirque with 6,000 tons of nitrate
of soda from Iquique.
They have had a fall of black snow in
the Canton of Geneva. This curious color
ing, as is now well known, is attributable to
the presence in the snow of a fungus.
At the present time the Shah of Persia
is tho owner of a Shetland pony which is
but 12 inches high. This pampered pet of
royality wears gold shoe3 worth Z each.
More than 100 writers in Britain, male
ana female, have written tbe life of Glad
stone, and have the manuscript all ready so
that tbey can rush to a publishing housa
with it the moment his death is announced.
It haa been computed, as an illustration
of the cheapening of ocean freights, that a
half note-Bheet will develop sufficient power,
when burned in connection with the triple
expansion engine, to carry a ton a mile in an
Atlantic steamer.
Bussia has become infected with the
vice of ether drinking, and tbe pernicious
habit has spread so rapidly, that the Gov
ernment has Judged it necessary to prohibit
the free sale of ether and of certain of its
compounds, and to schedule it among the
poisons.
Emigration from Ireland fell off con
siderably in the last three months of 1S9L
The number of emigrants who left Irish
ports in that quarter was 6,803, being 1,427
less than in the corresponding quarter of
1890, and 2,433 under the average number for
the fourth quarter of the ten years 1881-90.
Schoolmaster Johann records that dur
ing 51 years he distributed 911,317 strokes
with a stick; 240,100 "smites" with a biroh
rod; 10,986 hits with a ruler; 126,715 hand
smacks: 10,235 slaps in the face; 7,905 boxes
on the ears: 115,800 blows on the head; 12,763
tasks from tho Bible, catechism, the poets,
and grammar.
Professor Elihn Thomson, in a recent
article, state his belief that 130,000 horso
power at 500,000 volts can be transmitted 240
miles through tnree wires about as largo as
a good-sized knlttlni; -needle, and, moreover,
that this can be sent underground tbrongha
smalt pipe, using only cotton and cheap oil
as an insulator.
A short time ago the Moorish Raids
gave the Sultan of Morocco and bis son a
present of 200 male and female slaves to cel
ebrate the event of the marriage of the heir
to tbe Moorish throne. Girls from 10 to 13
years of age fetch abont $S0 to $120 each, and
tbe lave merchants find tbe females mora
profitable from 10 to 20 years of age.
Norwegian sailors believe in a myster
ious water goblin who singes their hair while
they are asleep, knots ropes and commits all
sorts of absurdities. He is a small man, with
fiery red hair and green teeth, dressed in
yellow breeches, tall boots and a steeple
crowned hat. He often helps the sailors in
their work, but to see him is certain death.
"Trajan's "Wall" is a rampart made of
earth and about 35 or 40 miles long, extend
ing from Rasova, Jnst at tbe big bend of tha
Danube to the Bhores of the Black Sea.
Though only an earthwork it is a most for
midabl e line of delense. Even now, IS cen
turies alter its construction, it is from 8 to 10
feet in height; with a clear cat fosse- In front
01 it.
The Scandinavians, in their story ot
creation, tell us how Odin, Till and Ve, the
three sons of Bor, while walking along tbe
seashore 'found two sticks of wood, one of
' ash and one of elm, and sat down there in
' tho sand and shaped them into living, in
telligent beings, known in the after ages of
the world as the first man and the first
woman.
Herr Klinge has been studying the
eruption of peat bogs and the stream of dark
mud these give out. The phenomenon is
rare and is generally preceded by heavy
rains, and accompanied by detonations and
vlbratlws of the soil. He rejects tbe ex
planation that it Is due to excessive absorp
tion of water by the peat.or that it is caused
by exploding gasses.
The longest span of telegraph wires In
the world is to be found in Cochin China,
crossing the river Mekong, and the longest
span of telephone wires in England. It hap
pens to be a portion of the wire crossing the
river Dart, and connecting Dartmouth with
the trunk lines between Torquay and
Plymouth. The span of the former wire is
stated to be 2,560 feet, and of the latter 2,400
feet.
In Germany, the smith, when finishing
the shoe, punches a hole in the two ends,
and when tbe shoe is cold he taps in a screw
thread and screws into the shoe, when on the
horse's foot, a snap-pointed stud of an inch
in length; and with shoes thus fitted horses
can travel secutely overthe worst possible
road, and have never been known to slip;
and draught horses are shod in the same
way.
A new Great Seal for Ireland has just
been completed by Mr. Allan Wyon, chief
engraver of Her Majesty's seals, to take the
place of the seal designed on the accession
of the Queen, which is now worn out. Tho
new seal is an exact replica of its predeces
sor, and is similar in all respects to the
Great Seal of England, save that in the ex
erguea harp with hamrook leaves takes tho
place or the trident head and sprays of oak
which form the distinctive mark of the Eng
lish seal. It Is interesting to observe, as il
lustrating the much greater frequenoy with
which the English seal is used, as compared
with tbe Irish, that whereas the latter has
withstood the wear of 51 years, the English
seal has already been twice renewed In the
present reign, once in January, I860, and
aain in August, 1878. A discarded seal on
being defaced becomes the perquisite of tha
Lord Chancellor.
IDXLS OF THE SPRINGTIME.
"I think that dawg of yaws must be a
society dawg, " said Cholly to Chappie, as the pair
trudged through the fields in search of game.
'Abl Wbyso?"
"Because In society It Isn't good fawm to point,
contcherknow. and that dawg won't point. Hawl
haw I haw I" Sea York Press.
"Yes, time is changed since I was young,"
The ancient wanderer spoke,
"And as a consequence I find
Both Time and I are broke."
Denver Bun.
Gildcrsleeve Why do you always lodge
in an ante. "Wlneblddle?
TVineblddle Because there Is always room at th
top. Somerset Hews.
Olivia Say, Lily, I saw Fred Hardup
going into a pawnbroker's yesterday. Whatever
could he be doing there?
Llly-Oh, I don't know-passing his Mme away,
maybe ! Smith, Gray & Co.' Monthly.
No sooner does snow disappear
And the little brooks gurgle and gush
Than tbe sojourner here
Must accustom his ear
To a season of summer-girl slush.
Washington Star,
Clara Is this the first time yon ever pro
posed to a girl?
Jack Yes. Miss Clara. Is It to be the last?-OT. T.
Herald.
"How's the sewing class getting on?"
"Beautifully. "We've made a dozen different
kinds of sachets for the poor people." Judge,
Ah, spring is here that is to say,
It was here Just the other day;
But It is gone that is to say.
It had gone Just the other dar.
And ere this poem may appear.
Spring Is was haa been may be here.
Detroit free Prut.
He I'm snre I saw somebody kiss Miss
Bndd a little whhe ago in that dark corner in the
conservatory.
She-Ob. Son must be mistaken. I've been sluing
there ail thdevenlng myseln A T. Bun.
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