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Including Sunday, lm'th. 90 " Sukday Dispatch, One Year ... 150 Weekly Dispatch. One Year... 1 35 The Daily Dispatcii Is delivered by carriers at jf cents w week, or. including Sunday Edition, at IP certs -r wk. -MONDAY. MAY 2. 189X, 3! ORE SCAKKD THAN HURT. The cable reports do not indicate that the labor celebrations in the European capitals were accompanied with any seri ous disorders. The Governments had their soldiers, the laboring organizations held their celebration without tearing down the social fabric, and Europe finds itself to-day in an unrevolutionized condi tion. Under these circumstances the scare of the past ten days over what was expected to happen on Labor Day assumes a ridicu lous aspect, tempered by a suspicion of bad conscience. The practical certainty of the governing classes that labor, if al lowed to demonstrate as an organized force, would tear the laws to pieces carries with it an involuntary confession that leg islation and administration are not in the interest of labor. The long breath of re lief that the parade of workincmen has not resulted In a universal cataclysm amounts to tribute either to the forbear ance or the discretion of the laboring masses, and possibly to both. Such anticipations of trouble and such relief at its failure to occur, whether the danger was imaginary or not, might sug gest to the governing classes of Europe the policy of securing the allegiance of the laboring element by making the gov ernmental fabric operate for the interest of the working masses rather than of the privileged few. It is true that such a course would necessitate some radical changes: but it would be better to make a peaceful revolution of that sort than to live in constant apprehension of an out break. The same consideration miijht have some weicrht in this country. The theory of our Government is that it is for the common people; but in a good many respects the practice falls short of the theory. THE COMBINATION'S ANSTtMSR. The answer of the various corporations comprised in the famous anthracite coal deal is in general a repetition of the atti tude of the Pennsylvania road and its sub sidiary corporations in the Soutli Penn deal. There is the same denial that the lines are parallel and competing the same attempt" -loak the action by setting up an ""Thrermeuiary and inconsiderable corpora tion as the agent, and the same averment that the facts asstated do not constitute a violation of the Constitution. So far cor porate history simply repeats itself. There is one detail, however, which introduces a new question. Something similar to it has been presented by the action of the Sugar Trust in getting a 2cw Jersey charter to authorize it to con duct business in a manner adjudged by 2Cow Tork law to be against public policy. In the pleadings published elsewhere it appears in the shape of a question whether Pennsylvania corporations can go outside the State to form combinations in violation of the fundamental law and still retain the privileges of their charters. It will be interesting to await the decision of the courts on this remarkable attitude; and it will be still more interest ing to see if the courts find a means of giving their rulings more lasting force than was accorded to the decision on tho South Fenn deal. A 5E.UI TO BE REMOVED. The revelations lately made as to the character of tho agents employed by the Law and Order organization, to procure evidence against persons charged with vio lations of law, put the methods of that crusade in 3n unfavorable light It is an indisputable principle that those who at tack others for immoral or illegal conduct should be able to show at least a moderate status for themselves or their agents. The fact that the active work of the Law and Order movement has fallen into the hands of men of low and absolutely immoral character is one of a crushing.- reaction ary character. The necessity of agents of good stand ins was recognized by a reported assertion of the chief officer of the society recently, in which he declared that he had been ex tremely careful in tho selection of his men. If extreme care results in the selection of such men as have lately fallen into the hands of the police, the deduction is that either a little less caro or a new principle of selection is required for the further work of this society. It is certainly pertinent to suggest to our Law and Order friends that they pull the beam out of the eyes of their chosen in struments before using them to remove Utile motes from the eyes of society at I large. THE INTERNATIONAL. CONFERENCE. Iu an article which discourages the hope of any results from an international silver conference, the Xew Tork Post refers to the proposals made by England and Ger many in 188L The Bank of England of 'fered to take silver to the amount of one fourth of its gold, provided other nations would establish free coinage at an agreed ratio. Germany offered, on the same con dition to stop her sales of silver and sup press her five-mark gold coins and circu lating notes. "But," says the Post, "sil ver lias fallen rather more than 20 per cent siucc that time. The bullion valne of the silver dollar hi 1881 was 88 cents. It i now rather less than 08 cents." The application of the last named fact depends upon a detail not stated in the context Silver has fallen from 88 cents to C3 cents measured in gold; but has it fallen that distance measured in its aver age purchasing power of all commodities"? In other words, is that alleged decline of 20 cents a real depreciation of the pur chasing value of silver, or is it partly If ffij not wholly a real Increase In the purchas- ing power of gold? A careful student of the course of prices in the lost elovon years will recoenlzo what the gold mono- 'metftlllsts aro apt to ignore, that n great share of tho apparent depreciation or sli ver Is an actual appreciation of the gold standard. It may seem all right to an organ of tho exclusively creditor class that tho mone tary standard has been raised In value 10 or 18 per cent In the last eloven years. But Impartial students will have no trouble in recognizing that the lengthen ing of the yardstick is Just as bad as tho shortening of it The possible seventy five per cent increase which by this means has been extracted from debtors for tho benefit of creditors is just as vicious a principle as the 80 per cent decrease to be taken from creditors for the benefit of debtors under the proposed pollcyof silver monometallism. It is a very grave question whether Eng land and Germany, anymore than this country, can afford to'continue this policy. It Is certainly worth trying whether a new conference will not bring them to the point of agreeing to do as much In the line of free coinage as they ask other nations to do. APPROPRIATIONS AND EXPORTS. The efforts of certain Republican ex ponents of the policy of lavish expendi tures to meet the term billion dollar Con gress with the declaration that this is a billion dollar country has lately taken more definite shape. Trade statistics show that the exports of the United States for the year ended March 31 reached the aggregate of 51,006,384,500, the first time they have attained tho billion total in the history of the country. Major McKinley referred to this fact in a recent speech and was guilty of the sophistry of presenting it as an offset if not a justification of the billion dollar appropriations. It is of course a subject of national con gratulation that the export trade has grown to such magnificent dimensions; but it isa weak defense of what is the really vicioas point of the Republican policy to set it up as an excuse for the growth of Government expenditures. On the face of it some people may think it satisfactory that our exports for one year pay the Government expenditures for two years. But when we reflect that every article of exportation represents a labor cost much over fifty per cent of Its production, the showing that more than the national net income from the exportable surplus is absorbed in Government expenditure is far from favorable. Beyond that exports are largely consumed in paying for im ports; and viewed in that light the com parison between the balance of trade and the rate of expenditure set by the last Congress is even less satisfactory. But the inference from Governor Mc Kinley's claim brings down an issue of fact that calls for a turn to the statistics. If it means anything it means that the Republican policy has increased exporta tion so much more than appropriations as to justify the growth of both. The fact is the opposite. In the year 1871-2 the appropriations, apart from interest on the public debt were $170,000,000 and the ex ports were 5549,000,000; in 1881-2 the ap propriations were 5216,000.000, and the exports 5921,000,000; in the last session of the billion dollar Congress the appropria tions were slightly under $500,000,000 (apart from interest), and in the following year the expdrtations of $1,000,000,000 are presented as an offset But comparison shows that twenty years ago ordinary ex penditures were one-third of our exports, and ten years ago they were less than a quarter. Tet now with the growth of trade the Government expenditures have grown so much faster that they amount to half the value of our exportable surplus. This comparison shows that if there is any logical relation between the appropria tions and exportatlons their relative growth is not at all favorable to those responsible for the swelling of Govern ment expenditures. Major McKinley would have been wiser to have examined tho former figures and left the matter alone. ANOTHER SIGNIFICANCE. The fact that the delegations of Penn sylvania and Xew Tork to the Republican Convention have been sent "uninstructed," and that they are more or less under the control of those managing politicians, Messrs. Quay and Piatt, Is receiving due attention. The theory that, with the scattering reinforcements of the great un instructed from other States, it threatens President Harrison's renomination has been reported in our telegraphic columns to have spread even into the Prcsidental circle, and caused extra efforts on the part of the administration to counteract this dangerous tendency. The prominence of the uninstructed politicians, with only one candidate really in the field, is significant; but we do not think it foreshadows Harrison's defeat at the convention. There are several reasons for this. In the first place, the managing politicians are finding great difficulty in selecting an available candidate. If they had one at hand even for a stool-pigeon they would have put him in the field long before this; for an opposition without a candidate is palpably as aimless in its movements as a chicken without a head. Since Blaine and McKinley have taken themselves out of the field Thomas B. Reed seems to be the most available man; but the results of Reed's management in the lower branch of Congress serve as a danger signal to' any further candidature. Beyond this the object of the managers behind the uninstructed movement is not so much to make a President as it is to control patronage. To that end there are more ways than running an opposition candidate. It is just as easy, perhaps easier, to effect it by forcing the present administration to terms; for an opposition candidate, to be really successful, might have to be of a temper to prefer owning himself. Moreover, the precedents of the States which are sending uninstructed del egations have bee n in favor of making terms with the successful candidate, or his friends, at the convention. The movement, therefore, does not so much indicate Harrison's defeat as the ne cessity for the President to make terms with Piatt, Quay and their allies. The character of these terms will vary accord ing to the magnitude of the "unin structed" element. If it is large enough to hold the nomination in check, they may be able to exact all they choose to ask for In the line of patronage. If it continues in its present acephalous condition the administration may be able to snap its fin gers at the malcontents. The Law and Order Society under Agent McClure's direction, promises to furnish the courts with more criminal work than the triumvirate back of the organization bar gained for. A gentleman from the West, who veils his -aggressive individuality behind that broad classification, comes forward with the discovery that Edwin Arnold is not much of a poet, and that "The Light of Asia" was argely plagiarized from Asiatic poems and Qovernment reports. It seems that the genius who can discover poetry In Govern ment reports Is entitled to rank beside the ono who finds sermons in stones. If the an-, nouncement lnoltes American poets to study tho Congressional Record and Patent Office re ports, who can tell what revolutionary ef fects it may not nave on tlio poetio litera ture of the future! Fkom now on Pennsylvania Republicans will understand that tlie task of trying to dim the brightness of Mr. Quay's halo Is a usoloss and vain labor. Tub success of General Horace Porter in taking hold of the Grant Monument enter prise is demonstrated by the announcement that only $147,000 moro is needed to aomplete the fund. It is now said that the project languished heretofore because it was "no body's business" which furnishes a severe, but npi -unjust, commentary on) the persons wto'havo had charge of the work for some years past. A more pertinent deduction, however, is that when a great city under takes a public work it should make it some body's business from the start. There was not so much worldly employ ment yesterday as on the Sunday previous. Five of Agent McClure's. toilers were in jail. It is refreshing to see Republican organs like the New York Tribune making a great point of the absenteeism in the Demooratlo House. The absenteeism Is notorious and disgraceful; but the esteemed Tribune might remember that the same evil was tolerably prominent in the previous Congress, as well as the one before that. Tno vice of neglect ing duty is not peculiar to any one party. It is the result of the character of Congress men chosen by the party system on both sides. The determination of Italy to take part in the World's Fair shows that the cash peace offering has healed the Mafla sore. The prisoner's reply when arraigned be fore a court to tho question whether he would plead guilty or not guilty may serve as an answer to those Philadelphia poli ticians who want to know who Quay Is for. "How can I tell," said the Milesian, "till I've heard the evidencet" How can SenatorQuay tell until he learns at Chicago who will dis tribute the patronage? ft In Europe the Queen of May is liable to have a bomb concealed In her drapery. Theee was another murder in Allegheny county yesterday. This means another mouth to feed in tho jail, another expensive trial, a trip to Harrisburg, a consultation with the Board of Paidons, but no work for the undertaker, more's the pity. Tennessee is for Cleveland, but Tennie C. is for lira. John Biddulph Martin. At some of the theaters last week the number going out between acts was notably larger than usual. This is accounted for by tho fact that the stuff offered undortbo guise of the drama simply drove tho unfortunate onlookers to drink. Scratch a Law and Order spy and you'll find a polygamist. The deduction of the New Orleans Times Democrat from an analysis of the recent election In Louisiana, that a heavy negro vote was cast against the lottery, looks like a decided vindication of negro suffrage. CLINGING TO THE UPPER CRUST. Senator Stanford will shortly go to Europe to spend the summer. Frank Mayo, the actor, will spend the summer in Canton, Pa., at his residence, Crockett Lodge, George Beandes, the eminent Banish essayist, recently deliveied 23 lectures on Shakespeare in Copenhagen. Mrs. Annie Hyde, of Fishkill Landing, N. Y., celebrated her 103d birthday recently. She is the widow of a soldier of the .war of IS 12. Mr. Justice Lamabis well enough once more to goout driving, and he begins to talk of resuming his labors at the Capitol ere many days. Chief Engineer Henry T. Douglass, of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, sailed for Europe Wednesday to be absent about three months, for the benefit of his health. TliE'death of Dom Pedro, lateBtnperor of Brazil, loft a vacancy in the list or (eight) foreign associates of the Academic des Sciences, France, and it is likely to be filled by tho election of Lord Kelvin, who as Sir William Thomson, is known as the "first physicist" in the world. Mrs. Bettie Taylor Dandridge, of Winchester, Va., is tho daughter or Presi dent Zarharv Taylor, and during his Ptesi dency she was the lady or the AVhite House. She as then the wile of Colonel Bliss, U. S. A., after whose death she married Mr. Philip Dundridge, whom she survives. It is not every hunter who has tho nerve to take a careful photograph of a bear that is approaching htm before shooting it. Liou tcnant Colonel Everett, of the Queen's serv ice, is authority for the statement that this feat was accomplished by a military friend, who carried a kodak In one hand and a rifle in the other. JL Henry Duyeyrier, the African ex plorer, who killed himself in Sevres last week, was tho son of a well-known dramatic author. After a tour through Algoria he went into tho Desert of Sahara for two years and penetrated to the heart of the Soudan, under the protection of native chiefs. Upon his return he gave tho rosults of his work in a book published in 18G4, and received from the Frenoli Geographical So ciety a gold medal. PBETTY LANDSCAPE GARDENING Promised ior the Eyes of the U. A. B. Vet erans to Feast Upon. WASUiitaTOJT, May L Special. When the veterans ot the Grand Aiiny of the Bepublic assemble in Washington next September for their annual reunion, the blood in their veins will be quickened by the sight or their old corps badges, under which they marched from 1861 to 1665, depicted in flowers and dec orative plants. Under the direction of Gov ernment Landscape Gardener Brown, these L badges are to be worked out in floral designs on tho beautiful lawn south of the pension office, where the rewards for valor and pat riotism are quarterly distributed to the sur vivors of tho late war or their representa tives. There will bo 40 flower bed, 29 of which will be devoted to depicting, in flowers, the various designs representative of the different corps badce. The most conspicuous or cenlial design will he the G. A. It. baage, with flag and pendant star, crossed cannon and musket worked out caref nllv in flowers that will duplicate all the original coloi-s precisely. The bed is to be 63 feet long and 15 leet wide. Some of the desisns aro more simple, butothors are very intricate, and the artistic skill of the gar dener will be taxed to the highest degree. In this age of flowering plants and bril-Hant-hucd foliage there aie great possibili ties in landscape gardening, and tho dis play in this connection Is intended to sur pass anything of the kind over attempted. Many of the oeds will require nice model ing, the ground being raised to conspicn nuslv show the special design above the field of budge. M0BH0NS' LAND OF PH0MISE. The Mexican Government Grants Privileges to Prospective Colonics. Sakta Rosalie, Hex., April 30. A Mormon colonization scheme has been perfected by -which Mormon colonies will be established here and in other parts of the llepuolic, this city being the headquarters. The conces sions planted Include exemption from Federal and State taxes lor 15 years and city taxes for ten years on realty and per sonal property, besides the export duty on all products of farm and mannlactures. The municipal government also granted land licenses to the colonists for the estab lishment of school and industry, there being no restriction on the religion of the Mor mons. This movement ,ls expected to as sume important proportions, and thousands of Mormons will flock Into Mexico, a new land of promise, free from the persecutions of the laws entoi-ced on the American side of the Hlo Grande. AN UNCAN0NIZED SAINT. IWbITTEK POtt tub dispatch. I There Is no mention in any ecclesias. tlcat calendar, under the date of the first of May, of St. Michael Bakunin. Bakuntn Is not even "beatified," which, I believe, Is one of the approaches toward tbesuprome pro motion of ecclesiastlcai'Saacttty. Nor Is there any prospeot op. The Church Is wise in that she has never set opposite her catalogue of the blessed, any catalogue of the damned. If there were, however, any such list of lost souIb, Bakunin would have his name in It, written In red. Nevertheless, saint or no saint, the first day of May in France, in Italy, in Bussia, is a day consecrated to the memory of Michael Bakunin. A great many people in those un settled countries wore yesterday meditating upon the principles -which Bakunin taught. They were not for the most part people whom we would quite like to osk to dinner at our houses. Tet there was a great multi tude of them. And numbers count for some thing. And they had strenuous voices, and knew how to use' them. And that is orten im pressive. A crowd of musoularand excited people, shouting unpleasant sentiments, is to bo respected. All wild animals are to be respeoted, at least to the point of avoidance. And when ono considers the possibility that some of these muscular shoutera have dyna mite bombs in their pocketsand a reckless willingness to their hearts to use them, fear may well be added to respect Finally, when it is realized that these dangerous people are brothers and sisters of ours, and are crying out against outrages which they say we have committed against thorn, It be comes quite evident that St. Michael Bakttnln's day Is a day which may well be enployed by reflecting persons, If not in praying, at least in serious thinking. . A Fact Hard to Realize. It Is easy, at this long distance, to treat this whole Anarchist business lightly, though we have had our own lesson to teach us that all the anarchy is not separated from up by the wide ocean. Michael Bakunin has his disciples even here. Just now, however, the storm center is in France. It takes, therefore, some effort to realize that there are actually at large in the world, unhand cuffed, destitute of straight-jackets and un confined in hospitals for the insane men and women whose sober ideal for the Immediate future U unsparing and universal destruc tion. The- would tear down all the houses, wreck the churches, ruin the mills, destroy the cities, abolish law, and bring back, if they could, a return to savagery. Of these people, who seem every year at the May Day demonstrations to be coming more obtrusively to tho front, Bakunin was the beginner. Ho was a Russian, and a mem ber of an aristocratio family. Ho saw the oppression of that country and the injustice that was done there: saw civilization, that is.) on its worst possible side. And when he spoke he had experience of the imperial method of argument lie was put in prison. BaEuniu's imprisonment emphasized his previous convictions. He had nothing to do but think, and his thoughts were not mild thoughts. The argument of imprison ment may silence, but it never convinces. The best way to defeat one's own purposes to use injustlceand violence. The, Leader and Father of Anarchy, Bakunin's revolutionary Ideas intensi fied, so Laveleye expresses it, to a kind of religion. It was the only religion Bakunin had. He "compared himself to Prometheus, the Titan benefactor of men, chained to a rock in the Caucasus by the orders of the Tsar of Olympus." Presently his imprisonment was exchanged for perpetual banishment in Siberia. Out of Siberia this new Prometheus escaped, and made his way across the Pacific to this coun try, and so to England. Finally, ho died in 1876, at Berne. Bakunin was the arch-Anarchist, the lead er and father of anarchy, the apostle of the dootrine of "pan-destruction." His favorite word was "amorphism," which means "with out any form or shape whatever." His idea was to begin over again at the beginning, to go back to the first day of creation, to the primeval chaos. Some holders of unlucky hands of cards imagine that by taking the pack and fling ing it against the ceiling they will prooure a more equitable distribution of aces and right bowers. This is substantially Bakun in's idea of the best way to get an answer to the prayer "Thy kingdom come." Ravachol a Teacher of Baknnlim. The most prominent representative of Bakunlsm at present is tho Anarchist Rava chol. He holds that the best way to bring about a reign of brotherly love is to blow up most of the human family with dyna mite. He desires, ho says, to call attention to the beneficent projects of anarchy. "I committed these outrages," ho said the other doy, "in order to draw the attention of the public to tho needs of the Anarchists. In this way our theories will become known, and It will be discovered that we are not criminals, but true defenders of the op pressed." The method is certainly an effective one. There is no doubt but thata judicious use of dynamite will make people think, though whether dynamite will make people love Bakunlsm any fa ore than Russian prisons made Bakunin love Russia, is open to ques tion. People in general do not care to be set to thinking in quite that fashion. Howover, Ravecnal and tho other Anarchist demon strators have at least set us to thinking. We cannot well help considering what an archy is and why it is. Anarchy, it seems, is simplo destruction. It has no plans, and makos no promises. After most of us have had our heads blown off -with dynamite, and an end has been made to all law and all religion, there may be a better condition of things than exists at present, or there may not. No An archist can say. Indeed, accoi-ding to the Alliance of the Socialist Democracy, which Bakunin founded in 1S69, "all reasonings about the future are criminal, because they hinder destruction pure and simple, and fettor the progress of tho revolution." What Anarchy Wants to Perform. "We wish," these people say, "to de stroy all States and all churches, with all their institutions and laws, religions, politi cal, juridical, financial, magisterial, academi cal, economical and social, in order that all these millions of poor human beings who are cheated, enslaved, overworked and ex ploitedhaving at last been delivered from their masters and Dcnefactors, whether of ficial or officious, whether associations or Individuals may henceforth and forever breathe in absolute freedom." Freedom to do what? Freedom to steal from each other, to murder each other, to blow up each other's hovels with dynamite bombs, to obey their new masters and bene factors, tho secret "association of the inter national brothers," and finally to starve. Anarchy is a proposal to kill off all tho in dustrious people, all the capable people, all the ambitious and useful nnd intelligent and decent people, and let tho remainder of mankind manage the affairs of tho planet. Bakunin dwells with delight upon the reign of "holy and wholesome ignorance." "The revolutionist," ho says, "despises and detests existing morality. For him every thing is moral that helps on the triumph of revolution," everything is immoral that hinders it." "The Alliance declares itself atheistic." It is easy to say that theso people are mad. They are; they are a pack of wild lunatics. It is easy to see that they are the worst enemies that the good worklngman has in tho world. Every word they say is an argu ment against the cause of labor. Every bomb thoy throw is a postponement of the indus trial millennium. From such pernicious friends all .sensible pooplo may well pray to bo delivered. Anarchy the Product of Despair. And yet these advocates of "pan-destruction" are not really bereft of their senses. We will, assuredly, get no nearer to an understanding of them by simply dis missing them as men of depraved morals and deranged minds. It is worth while to try to understand them. They aro a most significant phenonemon. They.do not belong to ancient history. It is likely that they will play a larger part in the future than they have in the past. Anarchy is tho product of despair. It is the inevitable consequence of economic condi tions which appear to give a man no chance. So long as there is hope thore is room for content. But shut hope out; thrust men Into the dungeon-of sons Chateau d'lf where there is no glimpse o the sky and no prospect M anything better than death; keep men down under suet conditions that no amount of Industry oan lift them out of abject poverty, where they have nothing to look forward to for tberaseives or their chil dren bnt work, work, worl and starvation; and who, thus Imprisoned and enslaved, would not turn Anarchistt It is natural that we, who read our morn ing papers with our feet on the fender, or be tween sips of coffee at well-spread breakfast tables, should bo amazed at May Day demon strations. We cannot understand them. And as for trying to overturn all this com fortable course of existence, and preaohlng pan-destruction, why, that Is sheer insanity. But it is not so mad as It seems. Not every body in the world is comfortable. A great many of our brot ncrs and sisters have not tho faintest or remotest prospect of ever even approaching comfort. They are utterly miserable. Tho; e is not even anything that they can do to gdt out of misery, except to commit suicide, It is all very delightful up hore in the castlu, Dut these poorpeople who are looked up und forgotten down in the dungeon, who can blame them for wanting to blow up the whole great structure? PEINTEBS' OLD AGE PE0VIDED FOB. The Magnificent Outgrowth of the Famous Chlldi-Drexel Fund. Desvee, May 1. The completion and dedi cation of the Chllds-Drexel Home for Union Printers, at Colorado Springs, on the 63d birthday of George W. Childs, Is an event which has been looked forward to with a great deal of Interest the world over, as it is the beginning of the life of the only institu tion of its kind. Thursday, May 12, is the day jot for the dedication. There will be present Messrs. Childs and Drexel, and mem bers of the Editorial Association, which, will be on its Journey to California, numbering about 200. During the session of the International Union in Pittsburg in 1886. George W. Childs and Anthony J. Drexel, the well-known banker of Philadelphia, made an uncondi tional gift of $5,000 each to the union. This formed the nucleus of a fund which the union subsequently decided should be known as tho "Childs-Drexel Fund," to be added to until a sufficient amount had ac cumulated to warrant the building of a home for printers. When the union was in annual session at Denver, three years ago, F. L. Martin and A. A. McGivneie, of Colorado Springs, made an offer to give 80 acres about a mile east of the city upon which to build the proposed home", if tho union would guarantee that a- building, to cost not less than $20,000, should be erected on the site. The offer was accepted and the work was commenced without unnecessary delay. Tho building is four stories in height with basement, built in the Renaissance style, and has been erected at a cost of about $60,000. It has a frontage of HI feet by a depth of U, with a wing in the rear nortii end of 70' feet. At one end there is around tower and at the other a square one, while over the main entrance rises a tower which adds to the im posing appearance of the structure. A BIG BOW BREWING. Democratic Congressmen Regretting Ono of Their Economic Measures. WASHUfGTOs-, May 1. isprefaf. There is a big row brewing among the Democrats in tho House over the proposition of the Com mittee on Appropiiations to make a general reduction in the salaries provided for in the legislative, executive and Judicial appropri ation bill. The proposed reductions have not yet been agreed upon, but several mem bers of the committee have informed their friends what maybe expected. It did not take suoh news long to travel all over Wash ington, and the consequence is every Gov ernment official is on the anxious seat now. Some of tho membors of the IIono who voted for Mr. nolmsn's economic resolution at tho beginning of the session are now re gretting their action, and are prepared to repudiate, so far as tho reduction of the sal aries of the employes is concerned. Congressman Shell, forinstance, one of the leading Farmers' Alliance Democrats In the House, says there are other means of econo mizing than by cutting off a few dollars from the snlarlcs of employes in the various departments of the Government, and If the intention of the Committee on Appropria tions is carried out he proposes to move to chop off a slice from the salaries of Congress men. Mr. Shell savs if the Government can not afford to pay its employes the salaries now allowed, Congressmen should also suffer a reduction, ne is notaoalthy man and less able to stand a rednction than many of his associates, but insists that Congressmen who are posing as economists must take some of their own medicine. A MEDICAL SCHOOL'S DILEMMA. They IMust Admit n Colored Applicant and Lose Students, or Refuse and Be Sued, New Yohk, May 30. Tho question of ad mitting a colored man. Dr. William T. Merchant, to the New York Post-Graduatc Medical 8chool, is confronting the faculty and is unfavorably considered. Dr. Merch ant has been in thts city a month seeking admission to the school. He came here from his home In Eagle, W. Va., on the strength of correspondence as suring him that he would bo admitted, though in his letters he made no mention of his color. When he reached hero and his color was revealed, the faculty found the school was "too full" to receive him. Dr. Merchant placed tho matter In the hands or Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll, who wrote a letter to Dr. B. St. John Roosa, President of the school. Colonel Ingersoll has not re ceived a reply to his note, as tho laculty has not finally determined the matter. If the reply is unfavorable to Dr. Merchant, suit will'be brought to compel the school to ad mit him. The reason for the disinclination of the faculty to admit Dr. Merchant, is that many students are Southerners, who would leave In a body should a colored man be ad mitted. SHE HAS GBEAT FAITH. A Rheumatic Woman Arrayed in White is Immersed in the Ohio. Wueelino, W. Va., May L Special. This afternoon, in tho prosenco of a largo crowd, Mrs. Nannie E. Jewell was baptized in the river with solemn oxoi cises, Rev. J. A. Hop kins, of tho Disciple's church, officiating. Mrs. Sow ell is a member of tho Methodist church. Recently sho took tho rheumatism so badlv that sho was bent double, and hor death was considered a matter of a short time. She went to the Bethany Faith Cure Home in Pittsburg, andaftertwo weeks' stay was so much improvod that she was consid ered almost well. She got tho idea that sho ou"lit to bo immersed, and insisted that this should be dono nt onco. She is still weak and suffering somewhat, bntattiredin snowy whito she walked out into the river until the water was up to her chin, and was then plunged under. The affair has caused a good ueal of comment. DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE. Rov. M. L. TVenkiey, Berlin, Pa. Eev. 31. I. Weakley, reputed to be the oldestMetliodlst preacher In the United States, died at his home In Berlin, Somerset county, atl o'clock yesterday. He was a remarkably vigorous man. although 9 years of ape. Previous to his last Ill ness he was never sick a dav In Ills life. Rev. 3Ir. Weakler has been connected with the McKetsport conference lor at least years, and was one of the hest known ministers In this section of the State. He contributed nequcntly to the church papers, andhlsniime Is known wherever Methodism has gained a roulhold. Dr. J. Lit, Du Bols. Dr. J. Litz, an old practitioner in Clear field county, died suddenly at his home in Du vols Snturdav evening. jjeaui was caused bv an ex cesslvc dose of chloral. The doctor had not been well for several days, and was taking the drug to relieve pain Dtit in luc nuai insiani am not juuffe and United workmen, to which the doctor be longed, will attend the luncral Tuesday attcmoou. Conductor Frank Barn. Frank Baers, the oldest conductor on the Pittsburg and Birmingham Traction line, died jes terday.at hlshonie. Ainandastrect.Mt. Oliver. He had been IU some tinv. suffering from asthma and consumption. He was 39 years old. and is survived by a wife and two children. Obituary Notes. Joel Wood died at Martin's Ferry yesterday, aged 78. lie was for years Vice President of the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad, and afterward a director. Joiix Steulino died at his home near Mason town, Fayette county, Saturday morning of par alysis. He was 70 5 ears of age and celebrated his gulden wedding February 6. AugostUSKountz, of the New York banking house or Kountz Bros., died Saturday, aged (15 years. Banker lvountz was prominent and suc cessful In financial affairs In the Western States and In Ills own city. William C. Mcse. recently night news editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, and for four years agent or the Associated Press, died at the residence of his father, Judge T. C, Muse, at Jack son, Tenn,, Saturday. THE UNFORESEEN CERTAIN. Matthew Marshall on the Union Pacific Stockholders' Meeting He Thinks the Best Was Made of the Conditions An Exploit Worthy of Approval. IsrECIAL RX.XORAH TO THX DISFATCH.l Nkw York, May 1. Under tho caption, "Union Paoiflo Affairs," Matthew Marshall writes as follows for to-morrow'a Sunt The resnlt of tho Union Pacific Railway Company stockholders' meeting at Boston, Wednesday, emphasizes ono of my favorite .maxims, that nothing Is so certain as the un foreseen. To be sure, the snecess of the Gould party on this occasion was not unforeseen, strictly speaking, since it was known that they would not submit to be turned out of office without resistance, but it was so gen erally believed that they would resist In vain, that the contrary event was a great surprise. As it was, they received only a' small majority of the votes cast, and those that turned the scale In their favor were, up to the last moment, in the hands of their op ponents. To have snatched as they did vic tory from the very Jaws of defeat, was an exploit which has deservedly won admira tion, if not approval. Some people are .disposed to censure the holders of the 26,000 proxies which gave to Mr. Gould and his friends the control of the Union Pacific property for another year at least, and to think that they ought to have voted them in the opposite direction, wihlle some even make the charge that these proxies were sold for money. There is no gionnd that I can seei for doubting Mr. Goorge Gould's story that he got the proxies by the very simple expedient of provlngby argument to tho gentlemen who bad the dis posal of them that it would be for the ad vantage of their principals to give them to him. They may very well have come to the conclusion on the merits of the case that, as President Lincoln would have said, this was not n favorable occasion for swapping horses, and that they had better retain the team they Had than try a new one. An Eany Aflnlr to Manage. Whoever will take the pains to look over the report of the Union Pacific Company for 1891, Just issued, will see that the successful management of its affairs is no easy matter, Eight thousand and more miles of road, a capital or $60,000,000, a debt, fnnded and un funded, of more than $140,000,000, with prop erty and assets to balance capital and debt combined, nnd gross earnings of some forty odd millions yearly, demand administrative talent of a considerably higher grade than that which snfflces for any banking or brokerage business however large. Mr. Charles Francis Adams found the task too much for him, and left the company on the brink of going into the hands of a receiver. Under Mr. Gould's administration thts catastrophe has so far been nverted.whether by his endeavors or in spite of them it is not necessary to dlscuss,since the potentates who combined to rescue the com pany showed no resontment at his behavior by their votes on Wednesday, and the house or Morgan distinctly refused to exert itself against him. I should not my self like, as a stockholder in the Union Pacific, to have it controlled by a man who has so many interests adverse to its interests as Mr. Gould has: bnt. then, I should not hold Union Pacific stock on any terms, be cause I neverbuy stocks exceDt for tho divi dends thov pay. Union Pacific does not pay any, and, for all I can see, will not pay any until I shall be dead and unablo to collect them. Still, as a majority of the people who differ with me in this respect are willing to own the stock, and are also willing to trust Mr. Gould, I do not see why the rest of the world should object. Kept From a Receiver's Hands. The company has, as I have said, for the present escaped going into the hands of a receiver. By making an assignment of all its available assets to trustees for tho Dene fit of unsecured creditors to the amount of $18,000,000, It has obtained a respite of three years, of which less than one year has ex pired, in which to extricate itself from its embarrassments. At the end of that period it will again have to face the same exigency and its tato will depend entirely upon the valuo and salabillty of the securities, by the ue of which it has lately so happily staved off bankruptcy. It was conceded, when the trust of these securities was made, that they would not readily bring enough to pay the amount for which they are pledged, and It was, more over, asserted that even if they would do so, it wonld be ruinous to scatter them among numerous small purchasers, instead of keep ing them together as a compact whole. Whether it will be otherwise when the three roars trust expires the event will decide. This, however, is a matter of small import ance compared with that of the company's gigantlo debt to the United States Govern ment, and to its first mortgage bondholders, which matures in installments, beginning In 1893 the next year after the maturity of the tlireo years' trust just created and end ing in 1899. To the Government it will be liable to bo called upon to pay, commencing in 1395, a snm which, on Juno 80, 1891, amounted to $51,881,601, and which is increas ing by about $1,0'!0,000 every year, so that in 1898, when the bulk of It becomes duo, it will bo nearly $60,000,000. Millions to Be Prepared For. The first mortgage bonds, which are a prior lien to the Government debt, amount to $33,600,000, and matnro from 1806 to 1699, making altogether $93,500,000, ror which pay ment must he provided or delay obtained not later than 1399. This, too, is independ ent of a number of smaller debts on branch and collateral lines which it is quite as im portant to take care or.: Obviously, thethlng to aim at is to get the time of payment of tho principal ot the debt I speak of extended upon the best terms that can be made with the holders of It. as to the $33,500,000 of first mortgage bonds the question Is meiely one of the rate of in terest. Tho bonds are in the hands of in vestors who would mncli rather not be paid off, provided they felt sure of their income, and who, if they had to decide the ques tion to-day, would probably take 5 per cent per annum, anu pernaps less, in place ot the C per cent, which they now get. The $30,000,000 debt to the Government, represent ing the subsidy bonds issued from 18C5 to aid tho building of the road, stands in a dif ferent position. Oddly enough, while it is due to a creditor which, until lately, having had more revenue than it has known how to snend, has anticipated its own maturing debt at a premium virtually producing it only 2 pornnnum on the money employed for 'the purpose, nnd would therefore, pre sumably, jump at the offer of anything above i per cent rather than ucccut pay ment or the principal. AH efforts to nego tiate with it an extension of tirao of pay ment have so far proved fruitless. Very Nearly Law Several Times. Bills for the purpose that have several times been recommended to Congress by the Interior and the Treasury Departments have once or twice become pretty near passing, but they havo all failed finally, and for the present none is even talked of, not withstanding that the Commissioner of Railroads, in a report to the Secretary of Interior, mado only last November, repeats his recommendation that the debt or the Union Pacific ana of all tho other subsidized railroad oompanies be refunded, and sug gests the appointment of a commission by tho Government to investigate the whole matter and devise some plan which shall at once secure to the Government its dues and ypt not cripple the companies. It is an interesting question what the Gov ernment can do, and what it is likely to do, in case no arrangement is agreed upon for extending tne time oi payment oi it- ciaim iigninsf the subsidized railroad companies upon terras which they will accept. A ROUND OP POLITICAL G0S3IP. The HaiTlsonian breezes continue shift ing and variable. Tho Reed, of Maine, is not shaken by them. New York World. Tammaky rules New York City; Tammany rules Now York State. The burning ques tion is, Shall Tammany rule the United State? Uotton Tiaveller. Democratic newspapers don't scorn to like tho Albany platform. They will dislike it more every succeeding day from now until election. And that's tho beauty of it. Nao York Tribune. Usliki: his predecessor, long-bearded Senator Poller ns yet is not hurting the country's feollngs by talking too much. Hence it's not down on his chin, as it were. Philadelphia Timet. Ir Reed, of Maine, announces himself as a candidate for President it is to bo hoped that Mr. Blair, of New Hampshire, will have tho good tuste to withdraw. New Eng land must keep within bounds. yew York Advertiser. Ik ton years nnder protection tho num ber or workers employed in manufacturing establishments in Cleveland has increased from 21,521 to 53,349, while the wages paid an nually have grown from SS.502,935 to $30,4:3, C25. The electors of Ohio have good reasons for voting for Republicanism and protection to home industries. Pawtueket Timet. THE BEADING'S JLKSWEB. Its Lawyers Claim That the Recent Deal Does Not Violate ths Constitution. Harrisburo, May 1 Attorney General Hensel having ruled the numerous defen dants in the salt against the so-called Head ineicomblne "to plead, answer or demure," they have responded by doing all three. The Philadelphia and Beading Railroad Company, over the signatures of Its counsel, M. E. Olmstead and W. B. Laraberton, of Harrisburg; George F. Baer, of Beading, and Thomas Hart, Jr., and John G. Johnson, of Philadelphia, has submitted a separate an swer and demurrer setting forth in detail all the railroads and hranohes owned or con trolled by It in Pennsylvania, and also all the roads and branches owned or controlled by the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company, and denying emphatically that these two sys tems are parallel and competing within the meaning or the Constitution of Pennsyl vania. ' The leasing of the Lehigh Valley lines by the Reading is admitted, but the answer claims that the agreement was distinctly authorized by tho charters of the two com panies and that it is not in any way in con flict with the Constitution and laws of r Pennsylvania. The answer admits that the Port Reading Railroad Company, a corpora tion or New Jersey, has leased the Central Railroad of New Jersey, but denies that the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Com pany owns the whole or a majority of the capital stock of the Port Reading Company, bnt on the contrary avers that the entire stock of that company is held by a construc tion company, and that the lease i fully authorized by the laws of New Jersey, where the respective parties thereto are located. The answer is very full and complete ns.to allegations contained in the Attorney Gen eral's bill or complaint believed to be material: but the company demurs to sun dry of said allegations, particularly as to the relations of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal nnd Iron Company, the Lehigh Valley Coal Company and the Lehigh and Wilkes barre Coal Company, contending that, if all ot the Attorney General's allegations are true, they, nevertheless, do not constitute anv violation of law or pnblio policy. The separate answer and demnrrer ot the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company by its coun sel, Francis 1. Gowen and M. E. Olmsted, at tested by John R. Fanshawe, Secretary, is substantially the same as that of the Read ing. It denies that its lines parallel the Reading. The Philadelphia and Reading Coal Com- Sany filed a similar demurrer. The Port calling Railroad Company files a separate answer, stating that It is a corporation of tho State of New Jersey: that its railroad is within that State; that Its capital stock is not the property of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company, but is owned bv a construction company, nnd that its officers and agents are In no way nnder the direction or control of the Philadelphia and Reading except as from a community of in terest they are or may bo willing to conduct the operations of the two companies in har mony; but the two corporations are, in law, separate, in dependent and distinct. The lease or the Central Railroad Com pany of New Jersey is declared to be "a valid, lawful and subsisting contract be tween two corporations of the State of Now Jersev.which cannot inany mannerinfrlnge r.r.violate the Constitntlon of the State of Pennsylvania, nor In any manner be con trolled or affected thereby." The same counsel filed a separate answer for the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Com pany, which admits that it owns the Lehigh and Susqnehanna Railroad, which is leased to the Central Railroad Company of New Jersey, but denies that it was a party to the agreement whereby that road was leased to the Port Reading Railroad Company. The same counsel enter a plea tor the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal Company, denying that the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad has leased or acquired control of its mines, collieries, etc. The papers will be filed with the court to-morrow morning. HABBISON MD3T TAKE CASE, The Civil Service Reform League to Have a Smelling Committee Abroad. Baltimore, May L The following supple mentary resolutions, introdnced by Mr. Rose, of the Maryland Association, was adopted by the convention of the National Civil Service iteform League before its ad journment: Whereas, Violations and attempts to violate those sections of the civil service reform act which are Intended to prevent the levying of assessments for political purposes upon office holders are usu ally more frequent and audacious during a Presi dents! campaign than at other times, now be it Resolved. That the President of the National Civil Service Reform League be and i hereby re quested to appoint a committee of five persons, whose duty It shall be to Inquire as promptly and as thoroughly as they mar have means anu oppor tunity for so doing into all reports of violations or attempted violations or the law Intended to pre vent the levying of political assessments among officeholders: and whenever such reports shall ap pear to them to be well founded they shall, after having obtained the approval of the President of the League, fnrnlsh the Information they have to the United States Civil Service Commissioners, the District Attorney ror the United States for the dis trict In which such violations or attempted viola tions shall. In their opinion, have taken place, or to the public whichever one of sail lines of action shali In any particular case seem to the committee and the President or the League most judicious; and be It further Resolved. That each association In the League be and the same hereby Is requested to appoint promptly a committee of Its own members to co operate with and assist the committee of this League In the performance of the duties br these resolutions imposed upon them. He It further Resolved, 1 1iat the committee of IheLeague shall report to the next annual meeting of the League to the Executive Committee prior to the next meet ing of the League, the result of Its Inquiries to gether with st.ch suggestions, if any, for the amendment or the liwasthc observation and ex perience or the committee miy convince them will tend to make the law .1 more effective Instrument for attaining the object for which It was Intended. The Lengue committee will oe promptly appointed by President Curtis. ITALY WILL TAKE PABZ The Government Will Exhibit at the Fair Throngh Chambsrs of Commerce. Rome, May 1. Tho Minister or Agricult ure and Commerce of Italy has issued a circular, announcing that the Government will officially take part in tho Chicago Expo sition, through tho various chambers of commerce in Italy, but not directly. The circular says tho Government will give its moral support and patronago to the exhibi tion of Italian products, and a ship of war will bo designated to transport tho exhibits to New York. The Committee on Fine Arts, already formed, will constitute a section of the committee. The Government assumes five-sixths of the expenses of transporta tion to New York, nnd the Chamber of Com merce of Rome one-sixth. A dispatch from Panama says: W. E. Saf ford. World's Fair Commissioner to Peru, leaves by the steamer Newport to-day for the United States. Mr. Safford has been for some days on the Isthmus, advancing tho lnterestarof his commission. He has cata logued and backed the valuable collection of antiquities, pottery, gold and silver work, which Bishop Peralta has kindly placed at the service of the commission for exhibi tion at Chicago. GB0VJBB THE FIBSX FBEE TBADEB. An Interesting Historic Fact Recalled by a Democratic Orator. New York Sun.I President Captain Alexander Coke's ad dress to a newly organized Democratic Tar iff Reform Club in Richmond contained this timely assertion of an historic fact: The Democratic party Is not now and has not been In any period In Its history since the adoption of the Federal Constitution a free trade party. The first four Democratic Presidents, Jef ferson, Madison, Monroe and Jackson, ap proved and championed the principle of protection. In fact, there was never a free trade President until Grovor Cleveland, and he probably never comprehended the sub ject, or even appreciated tho import of his sonsational tariff message in 1SS7. HIST0BY BEPEATINQ IISELP. Ingersoll Speaks in Cincinnati Just Where He Gained Ills Fame lor Eloquence. CIKCISBATI, May L SpecW. Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll to-night lectured to a large audience In Music Hall, on "Myths and Miracles." This was the first time in the history of tho hall that it was ever used on Sunday for a lecture other than on religious topics. There was another peculiarity of the lec ture. It was delivered only a few feet from the spot where, 16 years ago, lacking a few days. Colonel Ingersoll gained fame in a single speech, when ho nominated James G. Blaine for the Presidency in tho most elo quent nominating speech ever made. Some Great Men Live There. Oakland Times. A New York man has brought suit against his wife for "her failure to support hlra." Thoy have great men in the Empire State. CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. Indians and negroes in Panama are on the outs and may go to war. About half the States in the Union permit marriage between first cousins. Bonham, Tex., had a water spout Iri- 'day which caused such a flood as to drive tno peoplefrom their bouses. At Bombay all the Hindoo sentries a lute any passing black cats, thinking: It pos sibly the sonl of an English officer. An alarm clock in a bride's pocket in New York the other day struck jnst as the preacher was finishing tho ceremony! At Harrlston, Miss., a negro was hanged 36 minutes and when his body was cut down he was found to be still alive. According to the report of the Depart ment of Health for 1890 there are 68.211 females earning their livelihood In Chicago. Prof. Snow, chancellor of the University of Kansas, atTopeka, advocates the destruc tion of chinch bogs by spreading a parasite among them. Nearly all semi-civilized races believe that prior to taking a drink the serpent vomits up all its venom, for fear of poison ing itself should any bo swallowed. Eecently compiled statistical figures show that the debts of the world at the 1st of June, 1890.minus sinking funds and includ ing local foreign debts, amounted to 130.400. 000,000, " The burial mounds of sand in Florida are rapidly disappearing in consequence of the way in which they are disturbed by treasure-seeking natives and relic-hunting tourists. One mode, according to a story, of sell ing torquolses at Nishnl is, if true carious. A person, on payment or a fixed sum. is allowed to plunge his hand into a bag full of them, and to become the possessor of the bagfnl. A Berlin shoemaker has invented an artificial stone sole for footwear. It is made of a solution of some kind of patent cement and pore white quartz sand. A pair of such soles will last for years on any pave ment, and are said to bd elastic and easy on the feet. It is only recently that people have been permitted to ascend the rock and sig nal station at Gibraltar. Since last Novem ber the British military, with their families, and persons connected with the British navy have been permitted to visit this fine look out. The Greeks, the Bomans and the He brews, as well as many of the Oriental na tions, believed the serpent to be tho wisest of any of God's creatures. One species, they affirmed, the cerastes, made it a point to hide in the sand along well-traveled paths, where he could bite the horso and thus gee at the rider. Oa January 18, 1890, Poweshiek county, Iowa, offered a bounty of 10 cents a head for gopher scalps. The result was that the Incredible number of 140,000 were trapped and paid for In Poweshiek county during 11 months of the year ending December, 1890. The gopher pockets were taken instead of their scalps, nnd the price paid for 140,000 pockets by one county amounted to $14,000. A company has been formed at Christi ania, Norway, to reproduce as a seaworthy vessel, which can be sailed across the ocean, an exact model of the old Viking boat, dis covered some years ago in an Ice floe. The original boat is 80 feet long and 17 feet wide across the bow. it will be brought across the Atlantic and shown here in proximity to the Columbus Santa Maria. R. B. Bowker, the microscopist and general investigator, says that wool is a kind of hair, and that hair is simply a species of plant rooted in the skin of animals. Through the whole range of human, plant, goat's hair and sheep's wool, however, nature shows such close gradations that it would be diffi cult to draw an exact line or to distinguish beyond a question of doubt between wool and hair. Ed. A. Babcock, of North Stoniogton, Conn., while crossing his rocky farm met an odd and brilliant looking snake of a species that was believed to be extinct In Connecti cut, arl altera lively chaso captured It. It is a IlLle fellow.not half grown, and is black, e ept that a broad golden band encircles its neck. It belongs to the gold-banded racer species, which grow to be-ten or fifteen feet long, and are swift and feroclons. Among the curiosities in the Maine State prison if a dress that one of tho prison ers, who attempted to escape recently, had made as a disguise. At different times the man. who worked in the carriage trimming . shop, secreted small bits of flannel, whitfta; he sewed together Irom which he fashioned' a most remarkable gown, with a big bow at the back byway of adornment. The but tons are made from harness trimmings and bits of leather. i The present 3eal of the city of Chicago was adopted in Juno, 1854. It consists of two circles, under which are the wWds "City of Chicago, Incorporated March 4, 1S37." Withiu the inner circle Is a shield emblazoned with a sheaf of grain. Oyer the shield an infant reposes onaseasholL At tho left is an Indian with a bow and arrow and on the right a ship in lull sail. Beneath is a scroll inscribed "Urbs in ilorte" (a city in a garden). the Chinese in Australia, thongh they are hated by tho Australians, are showing: what can be done by land culture. The Cal lfornlans, in their largo wheat-growing tracts, produce 15 bushels of wheat to tho acre, the Englishman 27 bushels to the acre, the Scotchman 33, the English allotment: holder 45 to 50, the Chinese, with his caretnl neof every available drop of manure, and his painstaking care for each clod of ground would produce about 100 bushels to the aero. The digging up of mammoth remains in the heart of London seems incongruous, yet this has just been done by the workmen on a sewer, who, at the ('epth of 22 feet from tht surface, came upon romalns of a mammoth and other prehistoric animals. Two large tusks were met with lying nenrtogethor,, along with other bones belonging to tbu same animal. A portion or one of these tusks was brought to the surfaco and It was found to measure nt its thickest part nearly two) Jeet It, circumference. The Portland fishing schoonej- Hattite Maud was hauled out on the marine railway last week for painting and cleaning, and bC was found that sho needed a new garboarld stroke tho plank next to too keel. When the old plunk was takon off a curious discoV-n- wns made. A cobblestone, weighing a couple of pounds, had rolled between th planking and the ceiling of the vessel, amd from constant motion with the rolling an 11 pitching of tho schooner had nearly worst IJjrOUgll hUU jjiuuik aaa iuu aivw. ONLY A LAUGHING MATTER, 1 Some tourists in the Alps asked soma shepherds whom they met near a hut: Can we sleep in this hut overnight?" Certilnlr." was the reply, "but you must do it by dartlme, for we sleep In It ourselves at night.' Texas Siftingl. If I had a motor that wouldn't go, Do you s'pose I'd abandon it? O. no. nol I'd stock It for a million or two and then Live line Jieely on my trusting fellow-men. Chicago Tribune. "Sow. Johnny," said Johnny's father, I want you to go back to Mr. Parker, and tell him you didn't mean to ring his door-bell and rua awjiy." "I can't papa." "But you must. It was very naughty of you to dolt." "t know that: but I did mean to do it, and I don't think I ought to tell Mr. Parker a story."-r Harper' t Bazar. He wrote a play, but found that it Was not the proper stuff; The hero was a gentleman; The villain was a "tough." He chanced It: made the villain sleek; The hero poorly clad ; And soon both dollars and applanse The prudent author had. Wathinston Sar. "So your John has got religion?" "Well, he hasn't exactly got religion, to to speak, but he waits at the church door for his girt every Sunday nla;bt.--AVio York Press. Mrs. Fleecy Yonng Dudeleigh said to night that he thought tho ways of English society were simply charming. Mr. tfleecy We'd better watch Dudeleigh and see that he doesn't steal any of your Jewels. Judge. Help a man out of trouble, and though he'll forget Your kindness as soon as his trouble Is o'er, If ever again In a'hole he should get. ' Ah ! then he will think of you kindly once more, -Pack. "I'm going to change my laundress." "Why so?" She's lost that dude customer of herswhot swell shirts I used togetbyirfstake." Harper' Bator. I V. if i r .TWltfttewrisrjii -2-V.P , - 'Sf'ir v - . - . ? , .-!. .4mMMe it- -'.(eii ttitvtti ifH , t ,,, n.j, -- - ' . , . e t . rf j. i .- &asimsii& tv-t&t'
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