ES&SSiSfia PWW THE PITTSBURG- D1SPAT0H, MONDAY, APRIL . 25. 1892. E2SS83SSKSES53 Mje Bigjrafrlj. ESTABLISHED FEBRUARY 8, 1S46 Tol.7. No. 78. Entered at Pittsburg Postofflce November, 1&S7. second-ehus matter. Business Office Corner Smithfield and Diamond Streets, News Rooms and Publishing House ;S and So Diamond Street, in New Dispatch Building. rASTrn APVTimsiN" office, room ts. TKIBUNE BUILDING. NEWYOKK. where com- ?lete flies ofTIIE DISl'ATCIl cn always be found, orelrn advertisers appreciate tlie convenience. Home "advertisers ana friends of THE DISPATCH, while In N ew York, are also made welcome. THE VISPA TCR is regularly on salt at Brmtoino-s, t Union Sjvare, Sew iwk, and V Art defOpera, Tans France, vhere anyone who has been disap rotniedat a hotel news stand can obtain it. TEUilS OF THE DISPATCH. rOPTAGE FEEE IK THE CXITED STATES. PAH.T Disfatcu. One Year S 00 PAixr Dispatch, Per Quarter IPO Daili Dispatch, One Month TO Daily Dispatch. Including Sunday, 1 year.. JO 00 Datlt DlsrATCH, Including Sunday.Sm'th ISO Daixt Dispatch. Including Sunday, 1 m'th. 90 fo-DAi Dispatch, One Year 150 T eeklt Disp vtch. One Year 115 The Daili Dibpatcu Is delivered by carriers at 3J cent per week, or. Including Sunday Edition, at yp cents per week. MONDAY. APKIL3. ISW. A MAYOR'S PROPEK SPHERE. The decision of Mayor William M. Ken nedy, referred to in our local columns, that he will not as Mayor of the Northside city perform the duties of a police magis trate, shows a proper appreciation of what a Mayor ousht not to do. It permits the inference that the coming Maj or has an equally high conception of whatthe Mayor ought to da The influence which a Mayor of the right standing can exert for the welfare and progress of an important city is something which has not been properly comprehended in the past The official head of the city should be the representa tive and mouthpiece of its commercial and social interests. He should be qualified to take the initiative in movements for the public welfare. He should exercise a gen eral supervision over the municipal policy, should keep a close watch on legislation, and should have the general direction of the executive departments. The present Maj or of Pittsburg has presented an ex ample of what a Mayor of the right stand ing can do, with the limitation that his power over the executive departments is not as full as it should be. The proper discharge of these functions is not compatible with the daily task of dealing out discipline to drunks and dis orderlies, or apportioning the penalties in cident to police raids. The duties of a police magistrate are not referred to as anything but important and honorable; but the point is that they are distinct in character and form, an entirely separate field from those which ought to be dis charged by the official head of a great city. Ma or Kennedy's reported decision is a proper one. lie can attain a much greater public usefulness in showing how the Mayoralty can take the office of leadership in the city's affairs than in the daily task of adjudicating the fate of the waifs that fall into the clutches of the police. CHICAGO'S 'WISE SECOND THOUGHT. It is satisfactory to know that discretion prevails in Chicago to the extent of in ducing the Tribune to remark that "it seems to be advisable for the sake of the Fair to accept a five-million loan, rather than refuse it and cling to the illusory hope of an appropriation." We cannot sufficiently applaud the dis interestedness of this conclusion. If any other portion of the country has been panic-stricken by the fear that Chicago would rashly carry out its threat of refusing the loan and going off and raising the money itself, such timorous sections can now sleep in peace. For the sake of the Fair Chicago is approaching the point of mag nanimously accepting the loan of $5,000, 000 rather than loftily refuse anything but an appropriation. This, it may be noted, is something that the countrv can tie to. When Chicago agrees to accept the loan of that neat sum te may be sure that she will keep her promise much better than she did that other little one about not asking the Gov ernment to aid the general exhibition by a a cent of pecuniary aid. IX IMPORTANT EXPEUI3IEXT. The tendency of the time toward pro gress in the improvement of industrial processes, and its especial development in the direction of supplanting iron -with steel, Is illustrated in an item of local news in this issue. It is the report con cerning the erection of newly invented machines at McKeesport which will turn out a complete tube from a bar of heated steel, doing away with the rolling and welding processes, and permitting the manufacture of steel tubes instead of "wrought iron. Of course, it is discreet to await the practical test of this invention before taking the large results which will flow from its success as a foregone con clusion. But the success of the inventor in other matters, the magnitude of the concern interested in the invention, and the importance of the reolution which it works m the making of steel tubes invest the experiment with great interest Its pro gress will be watched with close attention by all who are interested in the iron and steel industrv. OLD CASAL HISTORY. Speaking the indorsement of the Ohio Hhcr and Lake Erie Ship Canal project, the Buffalo Courier sajs. "There is quite an agitation in our neighboring State in favor of this improement The queer thing about it is that for many years a canal was operated between the port of Erie and the headwaters of the Ohio, near Pittsburg but the people cared so little about it that they permitted it to be sold out to the Pennsylvania Railroad and filled up. The late William L. Scott man ipulated the transfer and thus laid the foundation of his great fortune." This refers to a chapter in the history of canals and the politics of the State as well -which is nearly ancient history and yet is too instructive to be forgotten. The o'd canals were rudimentary, but still they served a purpose which made the railroads anxious for their extinction. Ever thing contributed to aid the railroads in that pur pose. The crooked wajs of politics were manipulated with eminent success. The canals under political management were rendered useless by mismanagement until the State was glad to hand them over to the railroads. Those under corporate management were frozen out by low rail road rates on the competition traffic until they had to surrender. This process achieed a more complete success in Penn sjlvauu than in any other industrial State of the Union; and it still remains as a measure of the power of railroad influ ence bi our politics. The extinction of the canals by such means is often referred to as an illustra tion of the fact that the railroads have .superseded the canals. The incorrectness of that idea, so far as heavy freights are concerned, is sufficiently demonstrated by the fact that wherever by fortunate chance or exceptional independence canals have been maintained with any pretense- at preserving their efficiency they have demonstrated their value in competition with the railways. The Erie Canal fixes the rate on grain from Chicago to the seaboard. The slackwater improvement on the Monongahela enables the entire Mississippi valley to be supplied with coal of exceptional cheapness. There is no comparison between the utility of the old-fashioned canals and the one proposed for Western Pennsylvania. But the historical fact referred to makes it pertinent to say that the new project should rest upon such a national basis that it cannot be gobbled up by the railways. THE OPTIOX BILL. The Hatch anti-option bill is scheduled to come up In the House of Representa tives for action this week. As a prelimi nary to its discussion newspapers of the leading commercial centers publish a chorus of disapproval. As this is largely inspired by the interests which draw a profit from speculation it lies under sus picion; but it has more foundation in truth than most of the arguments inspired by special interests. The Hatch bill is for the commendable purpose of attempting to suppress specu lation in wheat Why speculation in stocks, petroleum or iron should be toler ated, if that in wheat is to be suppressed, may be an open question; but the bill is most peculiar in its conception of the evil and in its proposed treatment It is founded on the notion that the sale of op tions in wheat and other agricultural staples permanently depresses the mar ket The idea is a crude one. For every option sale there is an option purchase; for every depression there is an advance. The fact is that the evil of speculation, aside from the demor alization of a general attempt to get wealth without giving value received for it, is that it exaggerates the fluctuations of the market If there is a bull situation, speculators rush to buy and get up cor ners; if the tendency is bearish, the rush for speculation exaggerates. This hampers and injures legitimate dealings; but the idea that speculative sales can perma nently depress the price of wheat is as false in its application as the similar doc trine heard in this city a few years ago that the speculative purchase of oil can permanently enhance its price. Built upon this common misapprehen sion the bill proceeds to equally singular enactments. It first undertakes to deal with contracts wholly within State juris diction; aud, as if conscious that a pro hibitory bill would not be upheld by a single Federal Court, proceeds on the most modern plan of taxing them out of existence. The person who sells grain or provisions which he owns must only take out a license fee of 52; but If any one should sell these products without owning them, he must pay a tax of 5 cents per pound on every sale of cotton, hops, lard or pork and 20 cents per bushel on grain. It looks as if this rule would wipe out the broker age business in spot transactions; but even supposing that the agency ot brokers would be construed as representing pos session, the enactment would wipe out a great many legitimate transactions. One of the most usual methods of conducting legitimate business is to contract tor the sale of articles which the seller does not own, but which he knows he can get Congress will do wisely to take it for granted that when Its jurisdiction is con fined to certain things, the subjects out side of its authority are to be left alone. When the States come to deal with the question of business gambling they should prohibit alike the purchase or sale of arti cles where the intent is purely tc gamble on the fluctuations of the niarke- A COXSERVATIVE VIEW OF MESABA. As conservative people were likely to suspect, the ery highly-colored state ments concerning the new iron ore bed on the Mesaba range were of the class that has to be accepted with a great deal of al lowance. A careful statement of what has been fully demonstrated, and what is j eta matter of speculation is given in a special from Duluth in our news columns. The indisputable fact is that develop ments of the deposits on that range show that a large supply of ore is obtainable at a cheap cost of mining at the start, with the probability that the expense of getting out ore will increase as the drifts are car ried deeper. The quality of the ore so far produced ranges from medium up; but at present the characteristic of the product is that it is a cheap ore cheaply produced. There is a compensating probability that the grade of the ore may improve as the cost of mining grows. There do not seem to be over half a dozen properties suffici ently developed to gie even an estimate of their alue, the great bulk of the com panies being up to the present of the well known class whose proince it is to catch the money of gudgeons. It is safe to regard the Mesaba range as an important addition to the resources of raw material for our iron industries. Its dee!opment addb to the guarantee of the manufacture of iron and steel at low cost But the stories of boundless mineral wealth, far beyond anj thing ever known before, are up to date little more than the product of the enthusiasm of the boomer. A KOAD EXHIBIT PROPOSEO. A good suggestion has been made by Mr. Albert A. Pope to the management of the Chicago Exposition that a special ex hibit should be made of the construction of good roads. The classification of exhib its for the Fair already include numerous classes bearing on the question; but they are scattered through five different depart ments so that their concentrated effect will be lost Mr. Pope urges the collection in a single exhibit of the machinery for road-making, the roads in process of con struction, and the completed roadways, and he proposes to start a movement to erect a building devoted to that purpose. What is especially needed is a demon stration of the different methods by which cheap and solid country roads can be made. The exhibits bearing on high-class paements will be sufficiently accessible to the student of that class of engineering. The purpose to be attained, as we under stand it, is to impress the popular mind with a practical demonstration of the fact that good country roads can really be made cheaply, and to convey the in struction how each locality can do the best with the material at its command. The best construction for Macadam, Telford, gravel and even plank, treated so as to be durable, would have a popular effect that might revolutionize our road system within the following decade. The suggestion deserves popular sup port It is to be hoped that Mr. Pope w ill succeed in getting up an object lesson on the subject of highwas that will set all visitors to the Fair to work for the im provement of the roads of their own sections. A laege portion of the Xew York press f ent into ecstasies the other day over a "billion dollar dinner." This does not mean that the genius of the New York caterers for high charges reached the high-water mark mentioned, bat that tho people seated at the festtve board represented the amount mentioned. On the principle that "money talks," the speechesattbe banquet delighted the souls of our Xew York cotemporarles, but we have not observed that they evoked any responsive echoes outside that city. The effete uselessnesg of the duel as a social corrective is clearly demonstrated by the fact that, while there has been one duel, with talk of another, none or the Fox-Borrowe-Milbank-Drayton crowd have been killed oft. The announcement that Senator Gorman is not in health for the labors or the Demo cratic National Committee this year sug gests that politics have produced "that tired feeling" in the Maryland Senator. A large proportion of the American people can sympathize with him. They have ex perienced, the same effect from the kind of politics in which the Hon. Arthur P. Gor. man is a leader. The lads and lasses who secured seats on the top of the double-decked cable car yes terday felt prouder than their brothers and sisters who lolled on the cushions of the costly carriages, and they also looked happier. The House of Representatives will this week wrestle with the question of legulatlng or prohibiting commercial transactions of the kind known as "wind." From the Chi cago press, which can be taken as an author ity on wind, strong intimations come that Congress may enact such laws as it chooses, but that the wind in business will continue to blow wherever it listeth. Still the metropolitan papers with an admiration for barrels In politics continue to express a suspicion that a William C. Whitney boom can be discovered by those who vigorously search for it. The Hew York idea of cleaning the stieets by changing the Commissioners and reforming police corruption Dy shifting the police captains is unique; but It will make no difference. As long as the spoils rule remains on top its results will filter down to the lower levels of the system which it controls. Philadelphia dust is harder on dress fabrics than Pittsburg smoke. But, fortu nately for the Quaker City folk, nothing moves fast enough there to raise the gray nuisance. If one swallow made a summer, or one weeK's victories in baseball made a season's record, Pittsburg might be regarded rs prominent in the race for the pennant. But our baseball champions have started out with a grand hurrah before without violat ing the rule for a finish near the bottom of the list. The much maligned banana is about to supplant rice as an article of diet. When it comes to us without its skin the past will be forgiven. Now it is pleasant to learn that Xew York is goto.? to do something with that Grant monument fund. A new set of offi cers are in charge of the enterprise and all that is now needed is for the Xew Yorkers to come down with the funds. But what more has been needed heretofore? The Easter bonnet got a chance to spread itself yesterday, and it spread itself all over, too. After a persevering series of predic tions of lair and warmer weather, the Signal Service's piophecy of "A moderate oold wave" yesterday may be intended as a ruse to persuade the contrary elements into glv. ing us some genuine spring temperature. Honor that is satisfied with a wounded coat-tail might just as well pocket the insult. These is a reassurance that the world is going on in its regular course In the reports from Louisiana of lrauds in the recent elec tions there. A Louisiana election in which thera it ere no frauds or charges of fraud would go far toward vindicating Totten. PEOPLE OP PR0MIXEVC3. It is said that in England there are 100 lives of Gladstone in manuscript, ready to be mshed to the printer the day tho Grand Old Man dies. The late Amelia B. Edwards was a pre cocious author. Her first story was wiltten when she was only 4 years old, and executed In capital letters exclusively. Richard Clavekhocse Jebb, LL. D., Pi ofessor of Greek at Cambridge Universitv, England, is now in the United States. lie is a most eminent English classical scholar. Henry Laboucherk says that "not one Englishman in a thousand with pretension so literary taste ever reads or has read a dozen lines of any living poet except Tenny son." Ex-Governor James W. Bradbury, of Maine, nlio was United States Senator from 1S17 to 1853. and is now 87 years old, Is staying in Washington a few days, and is re ported as being a vigorous and hearty old gentleman. It was in the Congregational Church that women were first permitted to preach. One of the pioneer women preachers In America was Antoinette Louise Blown, who, in 1853, was ordained pastor of the Congregational Church of South Butler, N. J. It is only ten years since Mr. F. Marion Crawford, whose latest novel, "The Three Fates," is newly published, made his bow to the public as an author. Mr. Ciawford is as rapid in his literary composition as ho is prolific of new stories. His flist and most famous novel, "Mr. Isaacs," was written in 35 days. Miss Malvina M. Bennett has been appointed Instructor in elooution in the Le lan J Stanford, Jr., University. Miss Bennett held this place for ten yeatsat Knox College, Illinois. During her incumbency Knox Col lege carried off more prizes In State and inter-State contests than any other college fn tho country. EES1STING TEE ANTI-SWEATEE BILL, Clothing Manufacturers of the Country Take Alarm and Will Unite. PHiLiPELrniA, April 21. Representatives or nearly every large clothing manufacturer in this city have formed an organization to resist the passage of the "anti-sweating sys tem bills," recently intioduced by Senator Hoar. Chairman Leo Loeb, of Stiouse, Loeb & Co , was authorized to appoint three dele gates to lepre-sent the Philadelphia manu lactuicrs in a contention. If it decided to call one. So far New York, Rochester and Cincinnati have taken action in the matter and decided in favor of a convention. A SOUTHSON FOB THE TJHI0H. Thomas Nelson Page, the Southern Author, Entertained iu Boston. Bostov, April 21 Thomas Nelson Pago, the Southern author, was entertained at tho Copley Squaie Hotel to-night by the South ern Club, of Harvard TJnh crsity. Among other things, Mr. Page said that theie ex isted in the South a loico that had never been estimated the women; but theie was one greater force the Union. lie added: " We havo no standing army, and need none. Fiom ocean to ocean, Mexico to Can ada, we have a loyal bodv or men who will rally to the defence of the Union." One of the Cardinal Principles. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Reciprocity will doubtless, in the very near futuio, do for us all over the Continent what it Is doing for us now in Cuba. It is a audinal principle in the Republican oreed an how, and it will be the winning issue in the campaign or 1E92. ' a His Speech Crop Is .Blighted. Chicago Inter Ocean. Dave Hill in looking over the fruits or his labor finds that the killing frost of'publio opinion has blighted all of his speeoh drop. ... ' - rrtjttfHmtr Mi-Tii fflifi t r ' 1 1 1 iiitf ii MMriTrTnninaiiiii i ir utiiiii i mm mwsmmfK m i PARKBURST AND THE PARSONS. rWKITTEJf rOB THE DISPATCII.l People appear to be finding a great deal of fanlt with Dr. Parkhurst. The prophets have always had a hard time of it. Isaiah and Jeremiah and all the rest of them got more kicks than half-pence. I don't be lieve, howovor, that Dr. Parkhurst cares very much about the abuse that is being thrown at him. Yes: he cares, of course. No gentleman enjoys being set up as the but of vulgar horseplay. And Dr. Parkhurst.belng a particularly refined and sensitive gentle man, must of necessity suffer some physical pain merely from being pointed at by so many dirty fingers. But he undoubtedly made up his mind to all that beforehand, and has been simply taking it, as one takes the Inevitable Ills of life, as stolidly as possi ble. Of all the fingers, clean and unclean, that have been directed toward our new Isaiah, I think he must have got most discomfort from thosa which belonged to the hands of his btothers, the parsons. Of course, he expected that all the rum sellers, and the dive keepers, and the maintalners of Infamous houses all( the porters of the vestibule of hell would assail him. That was an easy prophecy. And the police officials, whom be showed to be either in competent or corrupt, would not particu larly love him. No man by nature can abide to be called either a fool or a knave espec ially when ho is either a fool or a knave and not talk baok. And the politicians into whose pockets, Dr. Parkhurst, says, goes the money which gives f i ee course to all the treacheries of the devil they would not praise the proaoher. People usually admire the sermons which castigate their neighbors. And the newspapers which are in tlie pav of all this diabolical element of New York mnnlolpal life, would not be likely to applaud. Bad Errors on Both Sides. Newspaper morality is often very mnny. Wo dearly enjoy preaching, espe cially when we can preaob, to the parsons. It was very funny to read the pious papers which sent their reporters to take down the evidence which Dr. Parkhurst gave in the presence of a few people In court, and then printed It for the reading of all our sons and daughters, and In the same Issue gravely re proved the preacher for familiarizing the youth or his generation with the details of vice. It was very wrong and demoralizing for Dr. Parkhurst to go where he did, and see what he saw, and describe it for the sake of getting the infamous place closed up, even though the description was given In a court of justice for a moral purpose. And so we will print it all out in full for everybody's reading for what kind of a purpose? and lay all tho blame upon the parson. This Is very amusing anil amazing morality. "Here is an Immense city," cries the pi eacber, "reaching out arms of evangeliza tion to every quarter of the globe, and yet every step that we take looking to the moral betterment of this city has to be taken directly in the teeth of the damnable pack of administrative bloodhounds that are fattening themselves on the ethical flesh and blood of our citizenship. We have a right to demand that the Mayor and those associated with him in administering the a ff ail 3 of this municipality should not put obstiuction in the path of our ameliorating endeavors; and they do. There is not a form nnde- which the devil so disguises himself that so perplexes us in our efforts or so bewilders us In the devising of our schemes as the polluted harpies that, under the pretense of governing this city, are feeding day and night on its quivering vitals. They are a lying, perjured, rum soaked and libidinous lot." This is good, strong, vleorous language, and is not calculated to win any Tammany affection. Naturally, the "bloodhounds" and "harpies" are in pursuit of the uncom promising preacher. Honnded by a Motley 31 ob. All this, however, Isaiah must expect. He got It all In old Jerusalem, where, it Is true, they had no newspapers, but as they finally sawed the bold prophet asunder with a wooden swoid, that was nearly as bad. And be is getting it to-day In nineteenth century New Yoik. But it Is pretty hard to have the parsons join In the mob. An abusive crowd of publi cans and harlots and pot-bousa politicians and loafers and low-down newspapers and parsons, Is a prettv mean sort of crowd. Somebody ought to smash the silk hats of these parsons over their heads, and, thus extinguished, take them home wheiethey belong, and let them say their prayers and read their Bibles and try to learn a little sense. All kinds of fools are dangerous animals to be at large, but a pious fool is the most l abld kind of all. These parsons, who for a Sunday or two past have been abusing Dr. Parkhursfo ought to be in better business. There are always people who are perfectly willing that good should be done if it is only done in their way. If it is done in any other way, so much the worse for the door of it. Sometimes tney have some sort of ethical fad which they use for a measuring stick, and they compare every new project with that, and, if It Is blgzer than this measure, something is the matter with it. There was a notable instance of this the other day in London, at the time of the County Council election. The County Council, among their other great plans for the munioipal betterment of London, had piovidcd music in some of thepaiks on Sunday afternoons the most harmless, not to say commendable, thing they could have done. But the Sabbatanans were In arms about it. They held that the people had no light to r.ny music on Sunday except that which was connected with the singing of King David's psalms in Saint Francis Rouse's version. And, accordingly, these good people actually airayed them selves with the avaricious landlords and tho mm selleis and the keepers of disiepu table rosoits and the other enemies of the people, and voted nualnst thepaitvof reform. If they could not get their own narrow little re'orm, they would have no reform at all. The Max. in of Christian Reformers. Any way to help anybody is the maxim of all senslblo, genuine and Christian refor mation. When these good paisons, who have taken upon themselves to revile Dr. Paikhurst, saw the great work that he had taken in hand, and tho great need there was of somebody's taking It In hand, they ought to have been glad to the bottom ot their hearts. Out goes our Divld to assail this huge Philistine, who for now these many years has been defying the armies of the living God. We have all been afraid to meet him. We have stood In our ranks over hete and shouted very loud when the Philistine cameout.and havo tried to scaie him away by shouting; but hero at last is one who is brave enough to do what none of usdaies to do. He will go out and meet Goliath. So he goes, and picking up a goodstono trom thobiook, he hurls it and hits this foul giant in the foiehend so that he falls down, if not dead, at least stunned, and so lies for a whole Sunday; yes, for two Sundays, showing what David, if we have a David.can do with this huge, armored giant. It is possible to stun him, and if we all help, to kill him. Aud what do we do? Why, we all Jump up ana down In execration and derision, and we shout out at our victorious David: "David, j on've got mud on your handl See there, where you picked up the stone out of the brook, you've got mud on your hand! Oh, you miserable, muddy-hanaed David, come back here, and let us teach you how giants ought to be attackod!" I call that contemptible The pious news papers weie bad enough, but the parsons aro worse. After all, tho only real hindrance to tho driving out of the devil is human nature; and not only tho human nature which refuses to be reformed, but tho hu man nature which rejoices more in the mis takes of the refoimers than It does iu tho do feat of the devil. And It appears that t jls human natuio is to be discovered even among the elect. The parsons must first be con vetted to Christianity beloro they can convert the world. A Moral for Susan B. Anthony. Chicago Times. Wyoming, where the "rustlers" and Uncle Sam's bluecoats are shooting at each other, Is the only State in which women vote. Tho moral of this Is left lor Susan B. Anthony to draw.. ' . -e i '5. 7 ' - - t .v.: '..-.. I . . -vfe ..&MXSMmMt-s&.' . , .... .- . . ... . I . SB. TANNEE'S DBEAHY SCHEME. He Has a Flan by Which Perfect People May Be Prod need. Chicago Iuter-Ocean. Dr. H. S. Tanner, whose fast of 40 days some years ago made him famous, ar rived yesterday at the Auditorium. "I have never felt any but good effects from my ex periment," he said. "In fact, I am firmly convinced that If a man should fast for 40 days every ten years In his lifetime there is no reason why he should not live to be 100 years old. He renews his youth every time he does it. The truth Is that the American people are all digging their graves with their teeth. I am a strict vegetarian. I eat but two meals a day and nothing at all after noon. I do not blame Europeans for refus ing our pork. Meat eating is expensive at the best. You feed an animal ten pounds of grain to get a part of one pound of meat. It is like putting ten good gold dollars In the bank and then a year afterward giving the bank a leceipt for 50 cents." Dr. Tanner is now engaged in New Mex ico upon a decidedly novel plan for making future venerations of absolutely perfect men and women. "We have bought a 1,500 acre ranch near Las Cruoes," he said, in ex plaining this plan, "and on it a borne for 100 poor orphans. We bring these obildren up in absolute ignorance of the existence of alcohol, tobacco or narcotics of any kind. We give them a good education and plenty of exercise. When any of them reach a marriageable age we shall bring them to some city and allow them to see the woild. They can remain in and of the world if they wish, but if they prefer our colony life they can return to us, but with the understand ing that they can marry only among,thera selves. Is it not reasonable to suppose that in time their descendants, fiee from any hereditary taint, will be as near perfect men and women as can be made on this earth? It is simply the plan which the breeders of fine hoi ses or cattle carry out successfully. Iu man it will result in physical, mental, and moral spiritual betterment." EZP0ETS KILLED BY IMP0BT1 Causes of the Crisis In Costa Blca Explained Very Easily. WAsnisroTox, April 21. Tho Bureau of American Republics has received from Costa Rica official information to the effect that the increase of the imports into that Repub lic during the last twelve months was so great that the returns from the coffee crop and other products of the country during the same period was not sufficient to meet the obligations contracted with the shippers and merchants who had sent the imported articles. This unbalanced condition of things, although momentary, caused a rise In the rates of foreign exchange, and specu lators undertook to take advantage ot tne increased value of the national silver coin in the foreign markets, and began to export The Costa Hloa Government, under this condition of things, thiough a permanent committee of Congiess, which duiinz reces3 and in cases of urgency has the same powers as the whole body, has issued a decree for bidding the exportation, for the period of six months, of the Costa Rica silver coin, and authorizing the Executive to shorten or to extend this time to one year, as circum stances may require. The people on their part have agreed to receive the currency of the country at its face value in all domestic transactions. The long list of names, which the official Qaceia has been publishing for the last two months of merchants and im portei s and land own ers and others bindln g themselves to receive the notes of the bank of Costa Rica and the Government notes the same as gold.seems to Indicate that the crisis, If of any Importance, will soon be over. 6HE MADE TEE ENGINE STOP. The Foolhardy Railroad Trick of a Romp ing New York School Girl. New York, April 24. This afternoon, as a passenger train on the New York and New Jersey Railioad entered upon a straight stretch of line between Woodridge and Calls tad t, a ltt-year-old girl stepped quiefcly in front of the locomotive when it was about SOOyaids away from her and moving very fast. Half a dozen of her companions watched her breathlessly from a safe stand point. She was laughing defiantly, facing the locomotive, standing faltly between the rails, and the engineer knew that she was bent upon mischief and not upon suicide. He made the passenzors Jump on their seats with the blood-curdling whistle that he sent out or his engine, but the girl between the rails snapped her fl nereis and danced de risively. The engineer had to stop tne tram or mn over her. Of tho two evils he choose the one he supposed to be the least. His fireman did not agiee with blm, but theie was no time to argue the point. When the locomotive was binugnt to a standstill its pilot was hardly live feet from the girl's skli ts. "I told them you'd havo to stop," she said; "I knew you daien't run over me." Then she laughed and ran alter her com panion?, leaving the engineer and his fire man to swear and make up for lost time. DEPEW FOB WOMAN BTJEFBAQE. Only the Lack of Interest In the Matter by the Sex Stands In the Way. New York, April 24. Chauncey M. Depew was to-day asked for his opinion of the po litical and social aspect of the woman suf frage movement In this State. "Well, I am in favor of giving women the franchise," leplled Mr. Depew. "In nine cases out of ten the wife has more common sense than the husband, and could vote more intelli gently. Wheie woman sufirage has been tried I am told it works very well. In Wvomini, where woman havo the fran chise, I amintormed by persons who have given consideration to the mutter that the lesiilts aie In every wav satisfactory. In this State the woman suffrage movement Is fast gaining giound. I believe that It will finally triumph, though It may be some time before women have complete lian chise heie." When asked what he regarded as the chief obstacle to the ucccs3 of the cause, Mr. Depew leplied that he believed it to be a lack of interest on the part of the gieat body of the women of the country in the political questions of the day. BLOCKED BY 100,000 LOGS. A Very Dangerous Gorge on the Gnjaadotte River at Huntington, W. Va. Huntihotoit, W. Va., April 24 Special Tho largo boom in the Guyandotte river, thieo miles uboe heie, broke loose yester day and set adrift an immense number of lo.js, which formed a gorge against the up per side of the Chesapeake and Ohio bridge. For a time it was thought the bridge was in danger and an attempt was made to dis lodge the jam with locomotives. Failing in this, steam tugs havo been set to work, but so far have failed to break the goige. The logs havo been coming down the river nil day and lodging nt the rate or 2,600 an hour. It is estimated at least 100,000 logs aio now in the gorge. Trains are lunnlngover the bridze, but railroad poople are making everv effort, w ith lumbermen, to start the lojsdown. FINANCIAL EDUCATION IN EUBOPE To Bo Thoroughly Investigated by a Penn sylvania University Professor. PmtAPELrniA, April 24 Tho committee aopointed by the American Bankers' Asso ciation at its last meeting iu New Oileans to seleot someone to investigate the methods of business education in Europe has in vited Prof. Edmund J. James, of the Whai ton School of Finance and Economy, Uni veislty of Pennsylvania, to undertake the w oi k. Piof. James will make a thorough study of English, French, Italian and Geiman meth ods of financial education and deliver an address on the subject at the next meeting ot the association at San Francisco in Sep tember. DEATHS HERE ASP ELSEWHERE. Jack Campbell, Uniontown. Jack Campbell, the king of horse traders of Fayette county, died at his home In Unlonlown suddenly at 7 o'clock last evening. He was well known among horse dealers in tills end of the State, and had become so famous that his old residence, which Is now a village, and the postolllce which lus recently been established at that place, were named CampbtUtown in his honor. William C. Kelso, Erie. The accidental injury of 'William C. Kelio, a prominent member of tho Erie bar, re sulted fatally yesterday evening. Mr. Kelso w as a grandson of a Revolutionary officer. Ills father be ing General Kelso, of tlie United States Army. Tlie deceased had been secretary of the vestry of St. Paul's Episcopal Church there for 40 yeafs Obituary Notes. John AnsEV. father ofMayor Arney of Carlisle, and for many rears constable of that city and a prominent Democrat, died yesterday, aged 69 yean. ) CONTROL OP CORPORATIONS. Matthew Marshall Ones More Apologizes for Trusts His Ideas on Their Forma tion and the Necessity of Their Being A Development of Modern Industry. I8PICIAL TELEORAM TO THB DISPATCH. New York, April 24. "The Control of Cor porations" is the title of Matthew Marshall's article for to-morrow's Sun, which leads as follows: The tendency of capital toward aggrega tion Into large masses, to which I referred last week. In speaking of the so-called trusts, which are a distinguishing feature of the development of modern Industry, has at the same time made the control of these masses or capital an object of ambition as well as a source of profit. In the early days of corpo rations in this country comparatively small amounts were invested in each one. They were founded by men who were well ac quainted with one another, and it was un derstood at the outset that their affairs were to be conducted by officers then designated, and who, like the members or a private partnership, were to retain their places for life, or during good behavior. In fact, they were really partnerships, incorporated only for the purpose of avoiding personal liabil ity. When ohanges were mado In their man agement thev were usually made with the consent of all concerned, because without such consent changes were all but impossi ble. The capitals of the companies being. as I have said, small, and their shareholders few in number, an absolute mnjorltv of the stock was easy to retain, but difficult to acquire. Thus they remained in the same hands year after year, and often descended from fathers to sons, like any other prop erty. How Consolidations Were Begun. This primitive simplicity could not with stand the giowth of tho country's wealth and the necessity of ever-enlarging means for the development of Its resources. The consolidation of numerous little railroad companies owning short connecting links of road into one great company covering the entire line, which was demanded by the ex igencies of travel and transportation, was another powerful element of corporate ag grandizement. Thus the New York Central Railroad Company was formed in 1853 out of the companies which severally owned the pieoes of road between Albany and Buffalo. It was followed by a similar con solidation of the lines between Buffalo and Detroit, and of those between Detroit and Chicago. These companies were imitated elsewhere, and weie the result In the gigan tic lallroad systems of the present day, the affairs of which occupy so much of the public attention. A like necessity had led to the formation or the so-called industrial trusts, and for all that I can see the process is aestined to go on still further. What may be called corporation politics has, under these new conditions, assumed an impoitance almost equal to the affairs of nations. Just now the leading topic of in terest is the revolution supposed to be Im minent in the com se of the presont week in the Union Paciflo Railway Company. A year ago, to the surprise of everybody, Mr. Charles Francis Adams retired from the Presidency of that company and was suc ceeded by Mr. Sidney Dillon, as the repre- nAA64VA f HsT Taw i?.Anlfl IiTaw 4 fa paatrf Mr. Dillon Is to make way for a candidate proposed by the European stockholders, who are as little satisfied with Mr. Gould's management as Mr. Gould was with Mr. Adams'. A Lively Canvass for Proxies. "Week before last we heard of a movement for supplanting tho ancient dynasty which has so long ruled the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company by members of the modern house of Vanderbllt, but as the present oc cupants of the throne are indisposed to with draw a lively canvass for proxies Is going on, the result of which will appear at the election of directors May 10. The Richmond Terminal reorganization scheme seems to be hampered by a similar struggle for control or the property involved, and Its fate prob ably depends more on the result of the struggle than on Its own Intrinsic merits. Ocaurienoes of this kind are, indeed, not absolutely new. It is now nearly 30 years since the New Yoik Central Railroad, after having been for years the private property, as it were, of a few Albany magnates, was wrestled from them by the late Commodore Vanderbllt by the aid of the millions ho had amassed in running steamships. Tho strug gles for the control of the Erie Railroad Company are historically famous, and some or the incidents to which they have given rise have been as dramatically striking as those of a play upon the stage. How, in more recent yeais. the Reading Railroad ?ropeity, t'ie New Jersey Central, the New ork and New England, the so-called Nickel Plate, the West Shore and many others of equal importance have passed from one set ot hands to another by revolutions as sud den and unexpected as those which occur in Spanish-Amei ican Republics most of my readeis do not need to be told. The Im portant point is that these revolutions no longer excite alarm or oven surprise. They are accepted as normal contingencies in cor poration affulis and are taken as matters of couiso. A Universal law Illustrated. In this latest phase of corporation life, so to speak, we have but another illustration of the universal law that like causes tend to produce like results. Civil society, as wo see it about us, is the final outcome of many yeaisof piogress and development. From the family of tho savage it proceeded through the tribe to the nation, and then through the consolidation of nations into empires and republics. The same mutual attraction which keeps the members of a family together keeps men togethor in larger bodies, and the same necessity for mutual help and defense whloh preserved the tribe fiom disintegration guarantee the permanence or the nation. The ideal to which the world is moving is universal brotherhood, though v. a are yet a long way from the goal, and I do not expect that it will be reached in time. For the present the Interests of the one country are adverse in many lespects to those of all other countries, and much statesmanship and diplomacy are exercised in defending each one against the aggressions of tho others. So it is with corporations. They havo arisen out ot the industrial and financial necessities or the human race, and their re lations to one another resemble those of civil societies. If nations have their wars and their treatiei nnd their compacts, so have railioad and manufacturing com panies, and in tho contests for the direction of their affairs there aie the same opportu nities for intrigue nnd maneuver that are employed in winning high places in the State. The collection and dltbursoment of the millions of dollars or revenue of a gi eat railroad, for example, the employment and piomotlon of its thousands of servants, and the patronage of its ptirohases, like thosa of a nation, afford abundant room for the exer cise or the talent for command, and require a quality of it not inferior to that employed lu civil government. Merely Matters of Entertainment, But while to the public at large these chances and changes and careers of corpor ations are only matters of entertainment, like the other news of the day, and while its chief solicitude is that corporate aggrand izement shall not bo pushed so far as to raise unduly railroad rates and the prices of commodities, such as sugar, whisky, co.il and cordage, tho very considerable number of small stockholders who havo bought their stock for the sake of dividends, without a thouzht of controlling tho affairs ot their companies, get little or no commiseration. Yet it is upon thoe people that the buidens imposed by their ruleis weigh di rectly. Nominally they have votes and may protect tbemselrcs by using them.but really they areas helpless as the subjects of the Russian Czar. Thev buy In under one ad ministration nnd berore they know it n now one is in power, with whose mcthoJs or management they may havo good reason to be profoundly disi-atisiied, but the only remedy they have is to hell out at a los, oc casioned by the acts of their ostensible representative. Their condition is like that ot the darky on the Mississippi steam boat, in the years before tho war. Being asked by the captain whoso "bov." or slave, he was, bo could only answer, "I was Col onel Johnson's boy when wo came on board, hut he has been down in the cabin plavln pokwer over an hour, an' I don't know whose boy I am now." MABBIAGE A 2EGTLAB HABI1 A Man Weds Nino Pretty Girls and Is Ready for Another Clvorc;. Los Angeles, April 24. Special. Bon Jamln Franklin Prltchard married his ninth wle here to-day, when he was wedded to Miss Mary Baker, daughter of rich lartner near this city. She doesn't know her hus band's record. Marriage has become with Prltchaidahablt. The women he 1ms mar ried are all ynung and pretty, and their ages ranje from 18 to 29 years, tue oldest being the Inst. When Prltchard becomes enamored of a woman ho loves her ardently for a few months, until he sees another whom he likes better. He then makes It sotvnpleasant she lsglao to grant uim ujuivorcv. ii k iM. MISSION OF THE CROSS. Dr. De Costa Again Pays Bis Respects to Dr. Parkhnrat's Circus. New York, April 24.-5pecfoi-Dr. B. F. De Costa, preaching in his Church of St. John the Evangelist this morning, again paid his respects to Dr. Parkhurst. Dr. Do Costa's subject was the White Cross move ment In Its relation to municipal reform, and his text was tho twenty-first verso of tho twelfth chapter of Paul's Epistle to the Romans: "Be not overcome with evil, but overcome evil with good." Dr. Do Costa prefaced the sermon with a statement tbat the account he gave or the prayer meeting In the house ot Hattle Adams and the tears there shed and the good there done was true In every respect, and was capable of proof. In considering the methods by which the White Cioss Society proposed to accomplish the elevation of society. Dr. De Costa went on to state some means which It did not use, aud he paid his respects to Dr. Parkhurst and the "circus" movement in this language: "The White Cross does not propose to employ any political method or make any moral question a question to be championed by some party to the disadvantage of the opposite party. That, however, is the char acter of tbe movement which Is enjoying public attention. The recent raids have had no moral objection in view. The aim has been and remains political. In substance they say openly, 'We are not discussing whether tbe city is in a bad moral condi tion, but simply seeking to prove that the poll ce are making money out of theiniquity.' In accordance with this policy, action Is being taken action which, as it is coming to be kuown, shocks the moral sense of men and women all over tho land. But what proof does It afford of the complicity of the police? None at all. It simply proved what everyone knows, and every public officer freely acknowledges, that shameful exhibi tions are common in this toun. Not one atom of evidence has been produoed against a single officer. We have had the scandal and shame for nothing. The most ordinary looker-on sees simply a political programme to be carried out on tue basis of charges that are not pioven." Then lie turned to tbe attack upon Dr. Parkhurst, saying: "Indeed, it is not tbe office of the church to proceed against sinners with reference to their punishment, and any prosecution set on foot by church men, under any pretense whatever, would simply have the effect of turning thousands of tue sinful class against religion and shut up their hearts to approach. The church cannot play tbe part of policeman. Her office Is to win and reform and say: 'Go and sin no more.' " OUR MAIL POUCH. Philadelphia Dust as Eal as Plttibnrg Smoke A Woman's Woes. To the Editor of The Dispatch: I see by the Philadelphia Time that "Meg" hasvisitedPittsburg. Why didn't somebody capture her for tho mueum? A Phlladel phian away fiom home! Oil, that's bravery. To make a venture like that is real heroism. Well, she wrote us. Some or the things she said I liked, and some I didn't. Indeed I know she did get bcr eyes opened when she saw the "hurry and go, and business activ ity." To illustrate what she meant by "chasing around" as compared with the slow pace ot Phlladelphians, let me tell you of an incident that occurred when our family first came to Philadelphia a xew years ago to educate my sister in tne med ical profession. Some friends were coming to visit us from the western part of the State. We were to meet them at Broad street station. We lived abont two miles out and knew It would take us an hour. If not more, to reach tne station. They wero duo at 6 50, and there was less than an hour of the time left, and our friends would not know what to do if we failed to meet them. We had no time to waste standing on cor ners waiting for street cars. We must catch the first one. We started from the house in good Pittsburg style, determined to "get there," We were in a hurry no body ever is fh Philadelphia. Men stepped out of our way, women shied to one side, and the children ran up the steps shouting after us: "Walk a little faster! walk a little faster!" We merely smiled. We got the first street car, but even then we had no as surance that we would make connection, for ir anyone chose to light his pipe and wanted to strike tbe match on the car track the cars would wait for him to do it. Well, "Meg" rubbed us (Pittsburg) up on our dirt and our funereal looking appearance. Of course we have dirt, and so have they (the Phlladelphians). The sin, however, is in being found out. Ours Is black: theirs Is gray. Ouromber costumes are a sight to behold after we have been "doing" the city for a day. Wo aro covered from head to foot with dust dresses and hats ruined, for you can never get that gray look out of the texture a?aln. Shoes, too, with enough sand in the pores of the leather to start a sweet potato patch. You come home, "you sit and grieve and wonder," and conclude that the dark shades and colors in which we revel belong to another clime. You smother your pride, and tbe next time flaunt your house dress in the street and wear your street dross In the house. It is all a matter of adaptability. Saba. Philadelphia, April 23. BOSTON EATS BAW P0BK. Consequently It Pays for Its Folly In Numerons Cases of Trichinosis. Boston, April 24. The Secretary of the State Board of Health said yesteiday, In re sponse to an Inquiry as to what that board had to state regarding tho trichina cases, that if people would eat raw pork they would be sick, and that sinoo tbe middle or Febrnarv there had been upwnrd of 50 cases or trichinosis in Boston, with five deaths, a larger number than had ever before been re ported to the board in the past 50 years. One-tenth of all the pork around Boston, he said, is affected. The only safety in the use of pork Is in its thoiough cooking. TIIE IlUliOS IJf fOUTICS. It is noticeablo that Republican State plat forms adopted nowadays condemn free trade and free coinage with, equal fervor. Was? mgton Star. Not even the heart-stirring gurgle of the beer disturbs tho intense sllenoe about Tam many Hall. Something is being hatched in Tammany. Chicago News. Michigan, would like to correspond with any other State that has two Republicin parties. Objeot, amuemeiit and mutual benefit. Detroit Free JPreti. The Democracy of Georgia shonld take something for its Constitution. It is the only Hill paper of any conseqnenco in the South. Omaha World-Herald. CoxanFS9JiAN Harteii calls Cleveland "the Thomas Jefferson of the present day." This is faint praise from a Cleveland worshiper. Many of them regard Jefferson as the Cleve land Of Revolutionary times. Detroit Jour nal. Ward McAllister has come out against Cleveland. In view of this Tact it will bo gratifying to Clevolandite3 to recall that Mr. McAllister' following has recently been re duced from 400 to a pitiful lid. Chicago Trib une. Chausckt M. Depew is qnlto sure It Is going to he Cleveland and gives several solid rea sons why it mu3t be. Chauncey does not say, however, that he will vote for him when he has been nominated. Itis surpris ing how enthusiastic some politicians will become overcandidates tor whom they have no idea of voting. Boston Hera d. Flour Ma.)e nr Banana. Washisqto, April 24 The Bureau of Ameiicau Republics is informed that a new use has been found for bananas which will greatly add to tbe value ot that fruit. In several places in Central America flour is now bein.r made from bananas, which, under chemical analysis, are fo mdto contain more nutriment than lice, bc.msor corn. A manu factory on a large scale is being established at Poit Limon, Costa Rica. A Statne to the Marseillaise Author. Paris, April 24 V statne of Rougot do Lisle, who wiote the words aud music of the "Marseillaise" jii't 10J jears azo, wns un veiled to-day at CboisyloKoI. Ex-Minister Goblet, delivered an oration. President Carnot was represented ut tho ceremony. Republican Victories In France. Taris, April 2L Senatorial oloctlons were held to-dav in the Cote d'Or, Orne and Seine districts. All returned Republic in candidates. The Republicans galu one seat. A German Spy Slips Up. Paris, April 24-j-A German spy named Scburiedor has been nrrostod here. He had in his possession a quintityor documents, which were seized. Snsan B, for Sunday Opening. Rochester, N. Y April 24. Susan B. An- thonv has written an open letter advocating the opening of the World's Fair on Sundays. ....... i . .-. . .u.. ...... -! j-stfrfSh . -Jkw .. JBa wLr lvAJ l.,. i r, itirifcH iiTifr1s - -ti. - aff Ja .-js ajtjSMSmUgifSSsKKKKtHnmf1! m s-&M CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. Dixie was named for a planter who had no ear for mnsic The shepherd dog is the best mother In the animal kingdom. The world's typewriter record is 1S3 words a minute, held by a lady. It has been proposed to import snakes to Australia to kill off the rabbits. In France laws prescribe the sort of bottles nnrses must use for babies. An old Vanderbilt hack has turned up in Jackson, Miss., the property of a colored driver. " Owen Mulligan, a hermit in Clinton county. III., died recently leaving a fortune) of $100,000. The great Cathedral in the City of Mexico is the largest in America, and cost nearly $2,000,000. Nineteen years ago this month a circus put up its tent in Mexico, Ma, In the midst of IS Inches of snow. A farmer at Nevada, Mo., had his dog treated with a roadstone after it had been, bitten by a rabid anlmaL ,-. The remains of a supposed extinct sea monster havo been nnearthed near West minster, Los Angeles county, CaL The vexed question of what is the high est mountain in North America has been determined in favor of St. Ellas. At Hopkinsville, Ky., tbe other day, a father allowed skin to be grafted from his arm to his child's face to save her beauty. At Jackson, Mich., an important case was interrupted because one of the jurors got the mumps and gave them to the other 1L A Baptist colony has located at Cedar Valley, Ore. The first improvement will bo a sawmill to be followed by a church and scnoolbouse. In Austin, Tex., a man was arrested on a charge of playing dominoes. The Judge released him because there was no money bet on the game. After years of vain negotiations th Royal Botanical Society of London, have at last obtained a specimen of that rarest of Oriental rarities, the coco de mer, or double cocoannt. The latest literary success in Munich is said to be a dramatic curiosity In the shape of a play translated and freelr adapted by Emil Pohl from the Sanscrit of Elng Suddaka. Some time ago a New York jeweler missed a $500 diamond. Another was drop ped on the floor when a dog swallowed it. The animal was given an emetic and soon produced both gems. The most voracious of all marine beasts of prey Is the orca or killer whale. It reaches a length of 25 feet, and Its Jaws bristle with teeth from four to six inches long and as sharp as a dirk knife. Within the next few days nearly 500, 000 pansies will be growing and blooming in the pares and public squares of New York city. German pansies have been used by the Park Department for six years. Americus, Ga., has a freak in the shapa of a little white puppv, born Tuesday night, which has only one eye located In the cen ter of the head has no upper Jawbone or nostrils, and breathes through its mouth. Kangaroo farming is to become an established institution in Australia. In a few years, perchance, the trade will becoma so valuable that it may enter into the ranks of tbe most lucrative of pastoral pursuits. The French chemists Fremy and "Ver nenil'havo for years'been experimenting on production of rallies by chemical synthesis and announce that they have at last suc ceeded In making stones of a marketable size. During a residence of two years In a tomb at Gizeh, Mr. Wm. M. Flinders Petrie collected evidence showing that tbe tools used In working tone 4,000 years ago were made with Jeweled cutting edges, as is the modern custom. The co-operative cooking club of Junc tion Clfy, Eas.. is a great success, and bezins its second vear with forty-rour well satisfied families. Over $3,000 was expended last year in table supplies, but fully $i,500 was saved for the families as a whole. Nearly 40 years before Stephenson's victory, a Swedish engineer, Karl Hogstrom, not only constructed a locomotive on simi lar lines to the one of Travitblckand Vivian, Pnt, according to an American newspapor, also conceived the plan of a regular rail road. There is a little Sevres vase in Lon don, which Is only 3 inches high, very thin and urn-shaped, which was at one time pre sented" by Louis XVL to Tippoo Sablb. IS sold recently for $7,205, which sum in gold weighs upward of 2,003 times as much as tho vase. Tbe flume which conveys the water from the mountains to the reservoir at San Diego, Cal , Is said, by those who know whereof they peak, to be the largest and longest thing of the kind in the world. It is 35 miles long, and is composed almost wholly of redwood. A horse fell into a water course near Lawrence, Kas., and could not get out. A friendly dog ran to the stable, made another dog understand the situation and then took his master to the scene. There he found the second dog licking the horse's face and wag ging his tail ror encouragement. Bees will never thrive in a quarrelsome family. Many think that bee3 only thrive when tbey are stolen, while it is generally considered unlncky to purchnse bees, and that the only way to get them if they are to do well Is to havo them given, catch a wild swarm, or to steal them, leaving some goods in exchange. It i3 said that when Colonel John Thompson, a prominent New York lawyer goes to Washington he is kept busy explain-, ing to people, who think they know him. that he is not ex-Congressman Phil Thompson. ofKentucky. The re-emhlance i3 marvelous, even to tho tone of voico, gesture and carriage. This is how prisoners are fed in Eng land and Wales on tlielr first div of con flne ment: For breakfast the get ehzlitonneesof bread nnd one pint of cocoi. The middav meal consists "of 12 ounce-, of brc id, four ounces of colonlil or American beef or mut ton; tho supner menno Is, perriaps a little meager namely, eight ounces of bread and a pint of porridge. Many persons have puzzled their brains wondering why the "Red" Sea should be so called. Tho name was originally applied to it because portions of it aro covered with patches from a few yards to some miles square, composed of microcoplc vegetable anlmalculse which dye the waters a blood red. When not affected by these organisms the "Red" Sea is intensely blue, the shoal waters showing some shades of green. SAID TO BE HUMOROUS. A busy hunter is the man who tries To shoot each folly as It swiftly lies. Tlie wide, wide world is bis limiting ground. Anil the gunning is good the whole year round. Chicago Iribuie. "I've been in 10 engagements," said Colonel Warhorse to Miss Flypp. "O. that's nothing! I've been engaged slv tl-ncs myocir ! And look at the difference In our ages!" Detroit Tree I'ress. Codling "Why, chappie, you look fa tigued. What's the trouble?' Golln "I am quite tired Cliolly. I got up this mawnlng tea minutes earlier than usual. Instead of remaining in bed ten minutes later than usual, as 1 genewally do." Harper's Bazar. Sarvant Madam, there is a poor man at the door, who savs he Is out of worb. and has a large family vrbo depend upon him for bupport,au4 hare nothing to eit. He wants empoymeut. Lady Do teU Ulm to go away. He should hare come before Lent was over, when charity was all the go. lexas blftinus. Miss Daggett (to man who has returned her "lost" pet) Here Is a dollar, mv good man. I hops Pido didn't give you much trouble? Mau (with the air of a martyr) Tbot same he did. mnm. 01 had to kape him toled oop hi th cellar, an' sit there an watch him all day. or he'd a' brokeu loose an' run back home. Puck, There is joy in our cup, For the skies ceas to frown. And the mercury goes up And the coal bill goes down. .Vew York Press. "So you went to sing in the choir?" "Yes." What part?" "Hell. I went in as first bass, but they changed it to short stop when they heard my voice." Washington Star. Little drops of water, Little grains of sand, Mase tbe milkman happy , Aud the grocer bland. Hew TbriETntt aftfa idiflfr-.' -
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