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MONDAY, MAY 18. 1892.
A DANGER GUARDED AGAINST.
The health authorities are to be com
mended for their activity In guarding
against an outbreak of smallpox, as re
ported in our local columns, although
their theory of a decennial outbreak of
the disease may not have more than a few
coincidences to sustain it. The precau
tions will not be lost and the safety of the
city from such a misfortune is well 'north
all such efforts.
A smallpox epidemic is born of ex
posure to the contacion, filthy sanitary
conditions to accelerate its generation and
carelessness both as to preventive precau
tions and prompt and thorough isolation
of the cases which do occur. Where these
conditions exist the disease is as likely to
spreadiu an intermediate yearasat the de
cennial period. Where sanitary condi
tions are good, vaccination general and
isolation of the disease prompt and com
plete, it is no more likely to spread one
year than another. The epidemic of 1881
was well known to be due to the fact that
the initial case brought from another city
was left in a crowded court and thence
the contagion was scattered all over the
city, until energetic measures were taken
and the spread of the disease checked.
The decennial theory may have the
foundation that once in ten years the pre
cautions are relaxed; but as the authori
ties are on the alert at present there is no
reason for anticipating that the theory
will he verified this year. In addition, as
1891 is past and 1892 has advanced into the
warm weather, when smallpox naturally
decreases, the prospect is more than good
that the idea of a smallpox epidemic
every ten years will be disproved this
time. Apart from the fact that there
hare been three cases of smallpox this
year justifies the general precaution of
vaccination and the utmost vigilance of
the health officers in isolating every case
which appears.
PROFESSION AND PRACTICE.
The extremely good son-in-law of a Van
derbilt made a speech at Omaha yester
day, urging the necessity of Sabbath ob
senance and continuing his personal pose
as the especial champion of the seventh
lnv - the same day, and apparently at
"""the v j was making his speech, arti
sans' were working on a building he is
erecting in 2sew York.
It is probable that this remarkable con
trast between profession and practice will
be ralllated by the excuse that the wicked
contractors and sub-contractors were the
persons who broke the Sabbath. But
such an excuse will raise the question
whether a millionaire by marriage should
push thoe employed by him so hard as to
tempt them to break the Sabbath, and
nhether the especial champion of the Sab
bath ought not to provide in his contracts
against the violation of the law of one
rest day out of seven by those working for
him. Certainly the device of a contract is
not enouah to justify the practical exemp
tion of the self-chosen representative of
religious plutocracy from the law which
he is enforcing on the humbler classes of
society.
ORNAMENTATION BY TREE CELTURE.
This is the time of the year when the
subject of tree planting is brought up by
Arbor Day proclamations and the prej
ence of the season when planting is most
feasible. There is no more economical
and surer way of beautifying the streets
of a town than by the judicious planting
of shade trees, and yet there is none that
Is more widely neglected in the towns and
cities of this State.
It is objected that the treps will not
grow well among the stone pavements and
the smoky atmosphere of a large city. It
is true that the culture of shade trees is
made more difficult under these circum
stances; and yet a small percentage of the
time and expense devoted to parks and
pavements would in the course-of a few
years line residence streets with fine
trees. The practicability of making trees
grow is attested by the shade trees on
various streets. A very small sum an
nually devoted to finding places where
shade trees would grow would convert
these streets into shaded avenues instead
cf stony wastes.
With regard to the smoke, the same
thing can be said. It Is true that the
smoke is an enemy of foliage. But a com
paratively small amount of expenditure
will yield remarkable results. When we
are spending millions in stone pavements
and parks, and losing millions by the
damage from smoke, would it not be
good economy to devote a few tens of
thousands to getting rid of the smoke In
order that the work of ornamentation may
be made universal and complete. With
out antagonizing either parks, pavements
or boulevards, It is pertinent to say that a
mere tithe of the expenditure in those
lines, devoted to tree culture and to get
ting rid of the smoke nuisance, so that
trees can grow, will j ield far wider results
in proportion to the effort
VARIATION OF THE STANDARD.
A case of extremely shallow special
pleading is indulged in by the Boston
Herald, in reply to a correspondent, who
"asks if there has been in the last twenty
years any fluctuation in the market price
of an ounce of gold?" The Herald re
plies: ".Not a particle. Fine gold has
been worth 520 G7 per ounce all the time.
As gold is the standard of value, it cannot
fluctuate, unless there should be an altera
tion of its standard rating either here or
in Europa"
This relies for Its correctness solely on
the technical definition of the words
"market price." But the attempt to cre
ate the impression that there is no varia-
tion in the exchange value or purchasing
power is disingenuous, to say the least. To
allege that because gold is the standard of
value it cannot fluctuate but remains
worth 20 67 per ounce, is equal to the as
sertion that, measured by itself, any staple
will remain the same. It would be just as
pertinent to declare that because a hun
dred bushels of wheat now is exactly the
same as a hundred bushels of wheat
twenty years ago, therefore wheat has not
fluctuated.
As a matter of logic the statement is
really worse. The assertion Is made In
the interest of gold monometallism, but if
the standard of value cannot fluctuate a
deduction to an opposite effect Is possible.
It is that if silver bad Deen retained as the
standard of -value it would not have fluc
tuated any more than gold.
As a matter of fact, that article, taken as
a standard of value, is as susceptible of
fluctuations as any other commodity. The
fluctuation does not appear in the quota
tions, for that is simply measuring itself
by itself; but it appears in its purchasing
power. Both silver and gold have varied
in value during the past twenty years. A
large share of what is called the deprecia
tion of silver is really the appreciation in
the purchasing power of gold.
TDE GROWTH OF EXPENDITURE.
Senator Gorman's recent speech in favor
of the present scale of public expendi
tures contained an element of truth. It
brought out the fact, frequently referred
to by The Dispatch that the increase
of expenditures has gone on whether the
administration was Democratic or Repub
lican, and whether the Republican or
Democratic party controlled the majority
of the co-ordinate branches of the Govern
ment To prove this the Maryland Sena
tor quotes the following figures:
Intlie Forty-third Congress (1S75 and '70),
they were $651791,000; In the Forty-fifth (1879
and "SO), $704,527,000; in the Forty-eighth (1SS5
and '86), $635,263,030; In the Forty-ninth (1S87
and "SS), $740,342,000; In the Fiftioth (1SS9 and
'P0).$317.9G3,OO0; In the Fifty-first (1S91 and '92),
$953,417,000. So that there lias been an in
crease every Congress, with, tho exception
of the Forty-eighth, no matter what admin
istration had been In power.
The Senator's figures are to be criticised
because they only give those for alternate
Congresses and then predicate the in
creased expenditure for all of them with
one exception. Beyond that they seek to
conceal tho fact that from 187G to 1884 ex
penditures were steady on practically tho
same basis of from 5250,000,000 to 5270,
000,000 per annum. It was in 1883 that
the growth commenced; but during tho
Cleveland administration they were
swelled to the rango of 5350,000,000 to
5400,000,000 annually, while the Billion
Congress accomplished the chef d'eouvre
of reaching the 5500,000,000 mark, wuloh
the present Congress seems desirous of
emulating.
This the Senator from Maryland is dis
posed to approve. "As the country grows
and you go on with the construction of
your navy," declares Mr. Gorman, "ex
penditures must grow." This assertion
involves two or three considerations. The
expenditures for 1831 and 1882 were
5257,000,000 and 5259,000,000. The growth
of population during the succeeding de
cade was about 24 per cent. On the er
roneous supposition tliat Government ex
penses must increase in direct ratio with
population, this would justify the increase
of expenditures to about 5310,000,000 in
1891 and 1892, whereas they actually grew
to about 5500,000,000. It has been sup
posed that an intelligent fiscal policy
would inquire whether if expenditures
were increased in one direction they might
be retrenched in another. This was done
to a certain degree during tho period to
which Senator Gorman refers. At the
time when his comparison begins the in
terest on the public debt amounted to
5100,000,000 and pensions to about
530,000,000. They-have changed places,
but pensions have increased more than in
terest has decreased. The growth in the
total of the two items is about 540,000,000.
So that if we accept the theory that ex
penditures must increase as the popula
tion does, and allow for the excess of
pension appropriations, the basis of ex
penditure as compared with ten years
ago would probably be about 5350,000,000.
It is idle for Senator Gorman to tell us
that the 5150,000,000 of annual expendi
ture outside of this liberal allowance is to
be accounted for by "the construction of
your navy, opening the harbors, deepen
ing the rivers and making great guns for
the army and navy." The actual fact is
that the increase In these expenditures
since 1880 is about 520,000,000. The alarm
ing growth in the grand total is simply
due to the lavishness that came in with
the politicians of the caliber that makes
an appropriation the goal of its political
ambition. This is illustrated by the fact
that the civil and miscellaneous expendi
tures represent 550,000,000 of the increase.
It is doubtless acceptable to Senator
Gorman, as an eminent representative of
that class, that the extravagance shall go
on. But the fact that every marked in
crease of expenditure has been followed
by an overturn of the responsible party,
as in 18S4, 1888 and 1890, might give the
politicians a little inkling as to how the
people regard it
STARTLING ALLEGATIONS.
If any reliance can be placed in the re
ports published in the New York papers,
there is a remarkable illustration there
not only of the wholesale way in which
the railroads are violating and nullifying
the inter-State commerce law, but of tho
command they have of the aid of public
officials in concealing their misdeeds.
The case is that of a man named Vonl
laire, who has been in tho employ of the
Inter-State Commerce Commission and of
various railroad corporations. He was
arrested about a month ago on a charge of
forgery, which ho claims to be able to
show was trumped up. The significance
of the matter is in his assertion that he
has possession of a large collection o
documents showing constant and system
atic violation of the law by special rates
and rebates, enough, it is asserted, to
bankrupt some of the prominent rail
roads if the penalty were enforced in each
case. As some of the documents have
been produced and published, there seems
to be more than a suspicion that his asser
tions in this case are correct
That the railroads have of late returned
to their old practices of favoritism has
been suspected for some time, and there
fore this disclosure is not startling. But
the assertion with regard to official sub
servience to corporate power is calculated
to raise the inquiry whether this is a free
country. The prisoner, who has been in
the Tombs for a month, asserts that he
has been repeatedly told by the District
Attorney and the detectives that if he
would give up the documents he could go
free at once. In other words, the power
of the law has been perverted to imp'rison
a man who is in possession of damaging
evidence against the railroad corporations,
and to force him to give up the documents,
which, it is fair to say, he seems to have
been disposed to use for purposes approx
imating blackmail.
It is certalnlv calculated to make be
lievers in republican principles to dolome
serious thinking if the corporate aggrega
tions of wealth are not only systematic
lawbreakers, but command the services of
the officers of the law In suppressing tho
testimony of their misdeeds. ,
The New York street cleaning depart
ment lias been reorganized again with tuo
same head but a new and choice assortment
of salaries. As thoro is no clean sweep In
tho department, the samo desirable quality
bids fair to be lacking on the streets.
The announcement by General Porter
that but $75,000 aits needed to complete the
New York Grant monument fundls an evi
dence of the value of energy at the head of
a public enterprise, and also a demonstra
tion of tho lack of It In that work for the
past few years. When General Porter took
hold of the monument work three months
ago $350,000 was needed. Ills success is rapidly
removing the discredit which that uncom
pleted monument has cast on the chief
city of the nation for the past five years.
Now Garza comes to the front again with
a report of ton people killed In his first
skiimish. No one would suggest that Garza
resembles Truth in any other respect, but
he does rise after being crushed to earth in
a most persistent manner.
The fact that Mississippi possesses the
severest anti-gambling law and the strictest
law for the regulation of liquor selling of all
tho Statos, is referred to by theNew York
Sun as evidence that "the present center of
Puritanism" is in that State. It would be
equally important to learn whether In Mis
sissippi, as in other Puritanic and non
Puritanic States, these strict but salutary
laws nre left as a dead letter for lack of
enforcement.
The stuffing of the industrial census in
Philadelphia and the inflation of the Dem
c ratio census in New Yorkleave it a question
of nomenclature whether the census busi
ness is to bo classed as a political pudding
or a political balloon.
The indolent Cuban is welcoming the
Chinaman to do his work for him. From
this it seems that the Cuban denizen of
African descent is becoming too high priced
for the Cuban. The resultant population of
non-working Spaniards, mulattoes, negroes
and coolies is the acquisition to the citizen
ship ot this Bepublic which some Jingo
papers desire to sec secured at a cost of un
known millions.
The reportB of the Minneapolis conven
tion doing its work in two hours are plainly
indiscreet. The labors of tho platform
makers and the distribution of chairman
ships cannot be effected withont duo delib
eration. There is pertinence in the recommenda
tion to Postmaster General Wanamaker
that he should either reform the policy of
his department or eschew testifying before
civil service investigating committees.
Under existing circumstances he makes
altogether too good a witness for the prose
cution.
Taimage says nothing is involved in the
next Presldental eleotlon. except offices.
The Tabernacle shepherd spoke the gospel
truth when he made this assertion.
The vagaries of Presldental booms are
indicated by a statement that the boom of
Governor Beck, or Wisconsin, has been put
to sleep. A Presldental campaign ona "Bad
Boy" platform would be a striking illustra
tion or our political idiosyncrasies, but we
are to be spared that display this time.
The L. & O. spies tried to keep the circus
employes from feeding the animals in the
menaeerie yesterday. Nothing is too mean
for the emissaries of Mr. McClure.
The presence of dust in the air of the
Senate is causing complaints on the part of
the Senators. This refers only to material
dust. The dust in tho pockets of the Sen
ators and tho dust that they throw about
their private and political measures are not
regarded by them as objectionable.
The peculiar feature about the month ot
May this year is the persistent dropping of
the thermometer and the homo ball team.
The assertion is made by the Providence
Journal that theie are Just 4,945 voters In
Rhode Island. Supposing that there are an
equal number who are more or less silent
partners in the purchasing of votes, the in
quiry becomes pertinent whether there aie
ten Just men in Rhode Island.
GOSSIP ABOUT THE UPPER TEN.
Not to be outdone by Secretary Blaine,
Governor Frank Brown, of Maryland, went
to the circus, too.
Mr. Washburn, the United States com
mercial agent at Magdeburg, is about to
start for homo on leave of absence.
Mb. Litmb Stocks, who died recently in
England, was tho last surviving engraver
among tho members of tho Royal Academy.
Alexander Salvini is soon to appear
in a play ombodying the story used in the
"Cavallcria Rusticana," but, liko tho book of
that opera, derived from an Italian novel.
The effect of his American tour was
shown by Joan de Reszke, who refused to
sing at the Opera in Paris in "Romeo and
Juliet" for less than $1,000. Tho highest the
Opera could offer him was $500.
Admiral GnEBARDi was on board of an
excurslan train in Georgia, last Wednesday,
when a collision occurred that did only a
little actual damage, but caused much alarm.
The Admiral was not reported hurt.
The most conspicuous woman composer
o: the time is Mile. Augusta Holmes, who
lives in Paris among her trophies, medals,
wreaths and framed decorations. She Is said
to be a regal creature, with an intense devo
tion to her art.
"While Queen Victoria was In Darmstadt
recently she held a private Investiture of the
Garter at the Schloss and conferred the
Order upon Grand Duke Ernest of Hesse.
Tho new Grand Duko was Invested with the
Insignia which had bolonged to his lately
deceased father.
Miss Reoina Moepht, of New Orleans,
a nieco of the great ohess-player, has com
posed a waltz called "The Paul Morphy
Waltz," which, she has dedicated to the
Chess Club of the Crescent City. Miss
Morphy is said to be a remarkably talented
woman. She Is accomplished in music and.
painting and speaks threo languages
fluently.
Army of the Cumberland .Reunion.
Washington, May 15. The next annual re
union of tho Army of the Cumberland, to be
held at Chickamauga, has been Anally fixed
for September 15 and 16. It will thus take
place tho week before the Grand Army en
campment at Washington, Instead ot the
week after, as first planned. Western rail
roads will sell tickets at reduced rates to
Chattanooga, and, if desired, to return by
Washington. General Rosccrans, President
of the Society of the Army of the Cumber
land, has information Indicating a large
gathering on the battlefield to Inspect tno
work of establishing tho Nationat Park,
which is now progressing with great
rapidity.
rirst World's Fair Building Finished.
Chicago, May 15. The Mines and Mining
Building at the World's Fair grounds is
finished. Superintendent of Construction
Geraldine inspected tho completed struoturo
yesterday, and then recommended its ao
ceptanco to Chief Burnham. Tho Min
ing Building has the honor of being the first
of the big white palaces by the lake to be com
pleted, but there are several others closely
following it which will be finished in a few
days.
Clarion Will Have Lots of Fruit.
Clarion-. May 15 Special Reports on
tho probable fruit crop from all over the
county are very favorable. Cherry and ap
ple trees are covered with buds, while
peaches are not so well in blossom, but will
have an average crop. Other fruits will bo
fully equal, if not superior to last year. The
few frosts the latter part of last month did
very little damage here. - x
PRACTICAL REFORMERS.
WRITTEN FOR THE DISPATCH.1
Some time about this season of the
year comes tho "Self Denial Week." It will
not probably make muoh difference to many
citizens of Pittsburg. It belongs to an ec
clesiastical calendar which is not much con
sulted in this neighborhood. Nevertheless
it is a notable and widespread and signifi
cant institution. It is a week of self-denial,
undertaken by some of the poorest people
in the world, for tho furtherance of reli
gion. It is tho work of tho Salvation Army.
I was reminded of It by a copy of the War
Cry, which was sold me tho other day by a
Salvation "lassie" in tho Buffalo depot.
There was something on nearly every page
about the "Self Dental Week." One little
note, I remember, suggestod that some Sal
vation soldiers might have treasures which
they could sell, and so got money which
would represent genuine self-sacrifice. Last
year, it was said, two devout young women
sold their back hair. That was tho year
when the Salvation Army raisod in that one
week more than $125,000. Think of that.com
ingoutof the pockets of those poor people!
Tho secret of It is that everybody gives a
little. And these littles, added together,
make a Bum which needs to bo punctuated
not only with a dollar mark at one side, but
by nn exclamation mark at tho other.
Really, it would sometimes seem a disad
vantage to a church to have many wealthy
people in it, not only because It gives color
to the mistake of tho worklngman who
thinks that religion nowadays is subsidized
by capital, but because it keeps tho people
of small means from giving. Tho people of
small means, when they do glvo, always sub
merge the benefactions of tho rich. Tho
Roman Catholics, the Methodists, and the
Salvation Array show what a great moun
tain can be built up out of pennies.
Caring for Body as Well as Sonl.
It is not easy to exaggerate the interest
or the importance of the work of the Salva
tion Army. Saint William Booth has
already a greater following than Saint
Francis of Assissi. And there aro no signs
of diminution. I have Just been reading the
repoi t of the first year's work of the "Dark
est England" scheme. It is a tale of wonder.
The Salvation Army people believe in
saving mon and women body and soul. Too
much of our religion has gone on tho com
fortable, but quite mistaken notion, that
men and women aro disembodied spirits,
that they are all soul. The Salvation Army
knows bettor than that. And it has learned,
further, that tho soul depends very con
siderably upon tho body. Tho great fact of
environment in its bearings upon human
character is realized and counted upon in
their good, sensible and effective work. If
a plant is to grow it mnst be set In a fair
soil and given a fair chance. And that Is
Just as trno of a soul.
Theso excellent, practical people, accord
ingly, are feeding people and giving them
clean and cheap lodgings, and putting thorn
in tho way of finding work. They are not
satisfied with prayers alone. Tho new order
ought to call itself if it had not already a
better nnmo the Society of St. James, who
said, "If a brother or sister bo naked, and
destitute of daily food, and one of you say
to them, depart in peace, be ye warmed and
filled; notwithstanding ye give them not
those things which are needful to the body;
what aoth it profit?"
Environment Can Be Conquered.
And yet the soul is not forgotten. It is
not accounted that environment will do
everything. The fact Is recognized that the
most important thing about a man is his
soul. An unceasing endeavor is made to
get that set in the right direction. It is be
lieved, and the belief is emphasized by
daily illustrations, that tho man with the
right kind of sonl can conquor even a very
bad environment.
That is the mistake of a good many of our
reformers: they think the environment will
do everything. Make the body comfortable
and tho tenant of the body will bo virtuous
and happy. Mr. Ingersoll said that, when
ho was here the other night. Crime, he
said, is only a mistake. There is no suoh
thing as sin. What we call sin Is the result
of environment. Give people a chance, and
they will all be saints.
This was a somewhat surprising statement
in a lecture which began with a description
of the environment of Shakespeare. Shakes
peare, it is said, owed nothing to environ
ment, no was born in a hovel; his father
and his mother were both poor and illiter
ate. Tho verdict of environment was that
William Shakespeare should live his life as
an obscure peasant In the streets of Strat
ford. BulShakespeaiohad that within him
which cared not for environment. Ho con
quered environment. Nor was there any
thing so very remarkable about that. The
history of greatness is a reiteration of tri
umphs over physical surroundings. There is
no end to the list of notables and eminences
who began poor, and had to fight thoir way
through a score of barricades into the fort
ress of success and fame. Af tor all, it is not
so much that a man has about him and out
sldo of him, as what ho has within him, that
determines destiny.
A Sentiment Applauded.
It is not found, I believe, that virtue is
any more at home in palaces than In tene
ments. A man eats a orust, Mr. Ingersoll
said, and blesses God:but he sits down in the
midst of luxury and congratulates himself.
Everybody applauded that sentiment with
vigor, as if the man who congratulated him
self weie somewhat superior to the man who
remembers God. The applause, however, was
piobably as unthinking as most applauso is.
The sentence was spoken in a round voico
with a swinging gesture, and we all clapped
our hands. All well-bred audiences liko to
encourage tho speaker. The sentiment is
not complimentary to human nature, and is
most disastrous to the belief in environ
ment, but It is true. Too oltcn the poor
man has a wider outlook than the rich, and
is busy with thoughts while the rich man is
busy only with things, Lazarus looks up,
while Dives looks down. Environment thus
produces, sometimo3, Just the opposite ef
fect from that for which we look. The en
vironment of wealth too often, as tho lec
turer suggested, tends to make people sel
fish, irreligious, animaf, narrow-hearted,
with no aspirations higher than a tiled roof.
Something more is needed than environ
ment. Tho soul of man must be given an
impetus in a right direction. No man is
saved, General Booth says, by patting on
him a new pair or breeches, or by getting
him steady work, or even by giving him a
university education.
When Thinking Is Dangerous.
Yet a man must have a chance to think.
And if he i3 in the midst of a perpetual, des
perate battle for bread he has no opportun
ity to think, unless he thinks wild thoughts,
whioh we who live in comfortable houses
would prefer that he should not think. It is
a dangerous condition of things when people
aro compelled to think so much about their
bodies that they have no time to think
about anything else.
The Salvation Army, for a year now, has
been at work in London spending the monoy
which came In the lesponse to the appeal of
"Darkest England" in giving men and
women a chance. Their leport is full of fig
ures and statistics. But these, to tho or
dinary reader, signify little. Fortunately,
there is much beside statistics; illustrations
which give us glimpses of places and people,
descriptions of men and women who have
been helped, and of the appliances that are
made use of in mending and refitting and re
storing human beings. And these are of In
terest to overybody.
That great scheme which was outlined a
year ago is now, almost all of it, in activo
operation. Some features of it have not
been found to work; but the great ideal, in
wonderful completeness, has been found to
stand the test of reality. The roviow of the
first year's work of tho "Darkest England"
social scheme is the most encouraging read
ing that one can meet in many a day. It is
here demonstrated that the best aspirations
both of lellgion and of socialism for tho
reaching and bettering of the very lowest
aro capable of realization.
A Religious Colony From Pennsylvania.
Phojnix, Ariz., May 15. A largo colony of
the religious sect known as the River Breth
ren has arrived here from Pennsylvania and
purchased a tract of land 14 miles from tho
town for fruit-growing purposes. The settle
ment is named Glendale, and will be con
ducted according to the sect's rigidrellglous
and tcmperafice Ideas. They will be Joined
in the fall by 00 more families.
PLENTY OF FEUIT THI8 SEASON.
The Prospects From Neighboring Towns
Are Very Flattering.
Washington, Pa., May 15 Special. Not
withstanding the late sevore frosts, farmers
aro expecting a great crop of fruit this sea
son. Groon gage plum, apple and pear trees
aro full of blossoms while peachos are
slightly backward. Wheat Is said to bo In
rather bad shape. Farmers are plowing at
intervals in the hayflold whenever the
hoavy rains give them a chance to do field
woik.
Last year apples wero so plenty and cheap
at Somersot It hardly paid to gather them,
and thousands of bushels rottod on tho trees.
Old farmers have a saying that one year's
plcntv mnkes another year's want: but that
saying will hardly be true this year. Fruit
trees of all descriptions are laden with
blossoms that promise another year of
plenty.
A similar report oomes from Mcadville.
Indiana county boasts of tho best load of
blossoms ever carried on all kinds of frnlt
trees, and tho magnificent crop of last year
will certainly be duplicated. It was at first
feared the late frosts had done considerable
damage, but apparently no harm whatever
has been done. Not so good reports nre be
ing made of tho wheat crop, which suffered
gioatlv from lack of a snowy covering dur
ing tho winter.
At Franklin apples, plums and peaches are
said to promise one of the ureatest crops
known, while pears and berries of all kinds
will ho fully as plenty as last year. Reports
from the grape-growing districts along the
river hills above say a fine crop Is expected,
and with n successful year the larmcis
promise to embark heavily In grape-growing
next j oar.
When thn last sovere frosts covered the
vallovs in tho vicinity of Stoubonville it was
predicted the fruit crop for the season was
done for. This proves to bo untrue, as trees
of all kinds are laden with blossoms.
Apples, peai s and grapes will bo especially
plentiful, though many of the peach
oichardi wcro badly nlppod by frosts.
SENATOR VANCE IMPROVING.
Ilia Wife Explains 11 nw He Came to Bo
Taken So II).
Washington, May 15. Senator Vance ar
rived here this morning, from his mountain
homo at Gombroon, N, C, where he was
taken sick the middle of last week. Al
though the Senator rode lOrollej in a buck
board, yesterday, and spent last nightin the
cars, hematic the trip without serious dis
comfort. Mrs. Vance, tho Senator's wile
says she hopes it will bo a matter of but a few
days before her husband is able to be out
again and resnme his Senatorial duties. The
cnuso of his recent attack, she says, was tho
result of a little Imprudence on the part of
fjtho Senator. He was engaged during his re
cent vi'ic ro uomDroon in superintonuing
operations on the plantation. One day in
tho middle of last week, while the sun was
very warm, ho stood out in tho damp flold
for some time, talking with ono of his em
ployes. As a consequence lie perspired
Ireelv. Going up to his houso he sat down
Inn laige, comfoi table chair on the shady
side of tho voranda, and while sitting there
he uns taken with a chill, which later de
veloped into lumbago and sciatica
Owing to tho remoteness of the place con
siderable delay was experienced in obtain
ing the service's of a nhysician, during which
time the Senator snffei ed intensely. Domes
tic remedies were applied, bat they did not
bring substantial rclier. Afterwaiting some
time a phvslcian arrived at the houso, and,
administering a hypodermto injection of
morphine, succeeded in alleviating the suf
ferings of tho Senator in a very brief time.
A SEASON OF SELF-DENIAL,
Salvation Army Soldiers Expect to Savo
Over 85,000 by Economy.
New York, May 15. Special. During tho
last week the Salvation Army of the United
States has been having the "season of self
denial." On April 30 Ballington Booth sent
out a circular to the army and allitsfrionds,
urging them to deny themselves of some
especial thing during that week, and to give
the proceeds of tho denial to tho army for
its work in tho saloons. The results of this
self-denial aro Just beginning to come in.
Last j ear self-denial work brought in $5,000.
This year thoy expect it will be somewhat
moio than that. The army girls who
work In tho slums of New York gave
up coffee, which they had been drinking
twice a day. They counted this as 10 cents a
day, and each will turn in 70 cents. Some
others give up milk, othors meat, and others
bnttor. One Boston captain gave up all
food except corn bread and water for break
fast and rico and water in tho evening. He
gave up midday eating entirely.
Just now the army is astir over the great
Eastern gathering ofits forces in the Music
Hall to-morrow evening, when Commissioner
Onchterlong and staff officers, all just ar
rived from Sweden, will bo present, and will
join in the parade with Ballington Booth
and bis wile and a host of Salvatlonis ts.
LOST HER JOB AS TEACHER
By Marrying One of Her Sunday School
Papils, a Chinese.
New York, May 15. Special A certifi
cate of mariiago of Edward W. Lee to Grace
French was filed yesterday with tho Brook
lyn Board of Health by Rev. James Higgins,
a Methodist minister, uho married tho
couple Thursday last at his house. Edward
W. Lee is the Chinese laundryman, Leo Tad,
who, as a Sunday school Chinaman, first at
the First Place Methodist Church and after
ward when tho Chinese Sunday school was
discontinued thereat the Greenwood Bap
tist Church, managed to win tho affections
of Miss French, his Sunday schoolteacher,
and induce her to run away with him. Ills
Chinese friends say that Leo Is already mar
lied in China and has childien there.
The gill, who is about 20 years old, left her
home on Wednesday, married Leo Tod tho
next day, nnd it is said they are now in
Washington. The authorities of tho Sunday
school in which Mrs. Lee taught when she
was Miss French will notify her on her re
turn that sho cannot resume her place as a
teacher.
THE C0ETJE D'ALENE WAR.
Guards Imported to Protect Non-Union
Miners Aro Arrested by the BlierilT.
Wallace, Idaho, May 15. A special train
on the Northern Pacific arrived this after
noon, having on board 100 non-union inincis
for the Coeur d'Alene mines and about 80
guards. Warrants have been sworn out for
the arrest of the guards by the Central Ex
ecutive Union and deputy-Sheriffs woio
on the way to Mullan to intercept the in
coming train and make arrests. The train
wns ahead of time, however, and rushed by
Mullan without stopping.
The non-union men wero taken to Burke,
and shortly after the Sheriff proceeded to
Burke to make the arrests of the guards.
To-night Information is received that Joseph
Warren, Captain of the Guards, has been
arrested. There is a feeling of uneasiness as
to the outcome of the trouble.
DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE.
Jonathan Blochard, Educator.
Jonathan Blochard, President Emeritus
of Wheaton College. Wheaton, 111., died very sud
denly Saturday night. He had had an attack of the
grip for the last week, but Saturday was better
and called on friends. Prescient Blochard was
born in Rockingham, Vt., January 19,1811. He en
tered college at 17. graduating at 21. lie graduated
under lr. i.yman jieecner, ana was oniainea pas
tor of the Sixth Presbyterian Church in September,
1S38. In 1843 lie was the American Vice-President
of the World's Anti-Slavery Convention In Lon
don. In 1S68 he accepted the 1'resldencv of Knox
College. Galeoburg, III. He round the college
(7,00) In debt and running behind, and he left It
Iree from debt and worth ! 1 00, 000. In 1?60 he went
to Wheaton. where he acted as President till l8i
when he rcslcned. Since that time lie has devoted
his time and strength to his work as editor of the
Christian Uynorurc and to Journevs In the interest
of the cause which that journal advocates opposi
tion to secret societies.
Mark liobb.
Mark Bobb died early yesterday morning
in his 85th year on his farm in North Fayette town
ship, m here he was born and lived all his life. His
grandfather and father came from east of the
mountains and bought and settled uuon the farm
where Mr. Hobb lived and died. The deceased
was the father of ex-District Attorney John S.
Bolb. and James McB. Ilobb. of the Counir
Treasurer's office. For nearlv 50 years .Mr. Kobb
had been an elder In the Unltect Presbyterian
Church.
Robert Scott.
Eobert Scott, aged 75 years, and one of
the oldest residents of the Eleventh ward, died on
Saturday e entng at his home, 178 Bedford avenue.
Mr. Scott was born In County Tyrone, Ireland, and
came to Pittsburg in 1838. For many years he was
a drayman. He leaves a wife and six children.
Christ Steinel.
Christ Steinel died on Saturday after
noon after three months' sickness, at the residence
of his mother, 29 Lombard street, where he was
born 24 years ago. The deceased was a clgarmaker,
but upon the death of his father, about a year ago,
took charge of the latter's grocery. The funeral
will take place this afternoon.
COMPETITION'S STRUGGLE.
New York, May 15. Special. "The Fight
Against Compctitlon"s the tltlo of Matthew
Marshall's article for to-morrow's Sun, which
is as follows:
Whllo tho authorities of Now Jersey nnd
of Pennsylvania are vigorously exerting
themselves to break up the coal combina
tion, tho original indictment of the ofllcors
of the nhisky trust, under the Sherman
anti-trust act, recently obtained In Boston
by the Unttoil States Government, has been
quashed by tho court on technical grounds,
lenvlng the vital points at issue yet to bo
decided. This point, as remarked four
weeks ngo, is whether the whisky trust men
can properly be punlshod for offering spe
cial Inducements to customers to trade ex
clusively with them. If thev can, a great
many other people are in tho same box,
and equally llablo to the penalties of the
act. Unless, too, it lo allowable in some form
or other for men in business to combine to
protect and benefit themselves, the whole
law relating to the formation of partner
ships and of corporations will have to bo
abrogated.
Moreover, as 1 also pointed out, if combi
nations of the producers of commodities in
tho management of their business are to bo
prohibited, those of the laborers employed
in production will havo to be prohibited
also. Tho ground of tho opposition to the
so-called trust3 is that they tond to raise tho
prices of commodities to consumers, nnd
yet unions of laboiers to sccuro higher
wages, or shorter hours, or In any other
manner to obtain gretter compensation for
their labor, evidently no less tend to raise
the prices of whatever thoir labor produces.
So lar ns that element is concorned, there
to e, trades unions aro open to the same ob
jections as trusts. Tho only distinction is
that trusts primai ily benefit the lich nnd
injure the poor, whereas trades nnlons ap
parently benefit the poor and injnro only
the rich. Hence, human sympathy, whioh
naturally sides with tho poor against the
rich, is. opposed to trusts and in favor of
labor unions.
Two Wayg of Suppressing Competition.
The truth is that neither do trusts benefit
tho rich and Injure tho poor, nor do unions
benefit the poor and injure the rich to any
thing like tho extent commonly supposed.
Both aim at suppressing competition by com
bining competitors against it. nnd both
sccuieonly a partial success. Competition
in trndo and for employment Is only ono of
many forms of the strugglo for existence
which has prevailed in this planet Blnco its
creation, and to which wo aro indebted for
our progress from the savage stnto to an
ever improving civilization. Among plants
nnd animals and the lowest type of human
beings the struggle is for baro existence,
and defeat results In the death of the de
feated. Later the content becomes one for
something more than existence and men
strive for dominion over one another, and
tribes and nations for the conquest of other
tribes and nations. Later still comes the
pursuit of wealth and of luxnries that
wealth procures.
In every trade, profession and occupation
tho stronzer and more skillful get employ
ment at the expense of the weaker and less
skillful, and thus lifo becomes n battle in
which the victors are fow and the van
quished are many. That this state of things
is unpleasant and even palnfnlhas beon rec
ognized ever since it began to exist, and
remedies of many kinds have been sought
for It. The one most obviou3 is to destroy
competition by destroying the competitor,
as animals anu savages aia long ago.
Protests of Petroleum Shippers.
A day or two ago I noticed that the Brit
ish shippers of petroleum in cons wero pro
testing against the carrying of the oil in
bulk in vessels through the Suez Canal to
the markots which they are now supplying.
In this country we have laws ngainst tho
immizration of the Chinese and of laborers
nndor contract, to say nothing of our pro
tective tariff, which is designed to shield
American labor from the competition of
that of Europe.
Tho combinations called trusts and the
unions of workingmen have thus far proved
tho most effectual of all devices for substi
tuting peace for tho perpetual and painful
conflict which I havo described, but that
they are far from perfectly serving their
purpose all must agree.
How tho so-called trusts have provoked
hostility nnd attsck both from the press and
from Legislatures I need not mention. How
trades unions. In spite of the good they do
by opposing a united front to the exactions
of employers, instead of a scattered and un
organized, and therefore helpless crowd,
are felt by many workmen to be tyrannical,
is eauallv true. -Besides, neither combina
tions nor trades unions annihilate that state
of warfare which is found to bo so disagree
able, but only shift its ground and change
the mode of its manifestations.
Kept Continually on the Alert.
Suppose, for example, that all the coal
producers and coal carriers of the country,
both anthracite and bituminous, could bo
combined into one great concern, they could
not In the first place prevent some kinds of
anthracite from competing with less desir
able kinds, nor bituminous coil and coko
from competing with all. The managers
would havo to be perpetually on tho alert in
adjusting prices so as to put the products of
their various mines on an equal footing, and
they would have to be likewise vigilant in
preventing new mines from being opened
and interfering in the market with theirs.
The officers of the Standard OH trust have
apparently for a series of years Dcen able to
maintain their monopoly of the market for
refined petroleum, but they have had the
hest talent of the country in their service.
and thev have used It unremittingly and un
sparingly. The strait in which the American
Sugar Refineries Company found itself from
tho competition of tno Philadelphia com
panies has been relieved by tho expensive
expedient of purchasing these leflneries,
but it now finds itself threatened with Euro
pean competition which it will not be easy
to defeat. The whisky trust is likewise not
only struggling with the Government, but
with the problem of contriving satisfactory
terms to offer to the distillers of the finer
brands of whisky who think they do not
need the help of the trust bnt can rely upon
the reputation ot their whisky for a steady
market.
Application or tho Law to Labor.
The application of this law to labor is not
so visible nor so easily demonstrated, bnt it
is, nevertheless, sure. The utmost that
labor unions can do is to fix a Ion est allow
able rate of wages. They cannot prevent an
employer Irom paving higher waaes, nor
from giving the prefoience to good work
men over poor ones, any more than they
can compel him to go on with his business
when it ceases to bo profitable. Sooner or
later, by a silent process of weeding, tho
various grades of mon find their proper
level, and tno least SKiuea. ODtain no more
wages than the price of their product in the
market Justifies. When this price falls be
low the point at which these least skillful
workmen are desirable, they have to be laid
off. At a lower point those of the next
grade follow them, and so on until the pro
cess ends in leaving only at work the work
men whose producing power equals the
wages paid them. As this limit is perpetu
ally shifting with the viccissitudes of trade,
a cortain numDer of workmen are always, in
spito of their unions, out or work and seok
ing for it, or else sinking down Into the mass
of unskilled laborers which no nnion has
been able to benefit.
For all this, both combinations of capital
nnd unions of workingmonaro as distinct nn
advance over the guorrilla warfare of com-
fietltion as it prevailed berore thev estab
ished themselves as the consolidation of
modern civilized society into a few great
nations is an advance beyond tho multitudo
of petty tribes of savages which It has sup
planted. Only wo must not be too sangnlne
and expect that by any lngcnions invention
we can extirpate an essential element of
human natuie. So long as the world is con
stituted as it is, and men are what thoy aro,
they will strivo to get tho bettor of ono
another, and the most wo can do is to secure
the greatest possible benefit from that strife
with the least injury.
FAITHFUL TO A SUICIDE HASTES.
A Doc Watches tho Ilanging Corpse With
out Food Till It Is Found.
Wilmington, May 15. William Boiesly, a
carpenter, aaed 55 years was found dead in
tho lott ot his workshop to-day, having
hanged himself with a piece of window
cord. He had been missing since Thursday.
Tho carpenter's dog had remained at his
side until the discovery was made. The
animal was almost famished, but still clung
to tho side of its master. Men havo been at
work under tho lort of tho shop for tho
three days while tho corpse of their em
ployer hung from the attic celling. The de
ceased became despondent through drink.
Bedford Barns Blown Away.
Bedford, Pa., May 15. Special. A terrlflo
storm accompanied by rain and lightning
passed over this county at 8 o'clock this af
ternoon, and lasted about 20 minutes. Sev
eral houses were blown down, trees were
twisted out by the -roots and fences were
leveled to the ground.
SHEPARD WITH THE METHODISTS.
With; BIhops and' Ministers lie Says a
Good "Word for Sunday.
Omaiia, Mny 15. Probably the largest con
conrso of people that ever attended a relig
ious meeting in Omaha attended the mass
meeting In Exposition nail this afternoon.
The special subject of tho meeting was "The
American Sabbath." Elliott F. Shepard, of
Now York, Bishop Warren, Bishop Nlnde,
Judge Lawronce, of Ohio, and other speakers
addressed tho audionce. Bishop Newman
presided. Colonel Elliott F. Shepard read tho
Ton Commandments and confined his re
maiks to tho necessity of having ono day in
seven to rest. The proper observance of tho
Sabbath, ho held, would keep people out of
crime. He said the United States is a religious
nation, and all work notabsolutel-v necessary
should be suspended on the Sabbath. Hon.
J. T. Edwards, State Senator of New York,
mado a brief address, In which he statod
that Jarres G. Blaine was in favor of closing
tho Centcnl.il Exposition onSnndsv.andhnd
telegraphed that statement from Paris when
consulted about the matter by the Board.
Mr. Edwards tbousht the American people
had better quit sinarlni tho patriotic song
"America," If the World's Fair was to bo
kept open on Snnday.
Bishop Nlnde made the speech of tho day.
He held that there is llttlo uso to expect tho
people to keep the Sabbath holy until the
chnrch had won the masses to Christianity.
He wanted to see the ministers get hold of tho
masses. Thero nre people who make light
of ponnlar preacher", bnt he is ready at all
times to take off his hat to tho man who can
draw tho masses to hear the word of God.
Tho ohureh should go after the millions, no
matter what their condition ia. Tho
ohurches of the present day have gotten
into tho habit of shiftlns along to keep np
with tho rich, instead of going after the
massos evorywhero and nnder all circum
stances. He believes that if tho chnrches
would take hold in earnest and work for the
salvation and convorsion of every rank and
olnss of humanity, the groat Sabbath
aue8tion would soon solve itseir. The
Mi on arousod tromendousenthusiasm.nnd
sot sovoral of tho brothrcn In thn confer
onco to shofiting for moro of tho noly Ghost
religion.
MILLIONS HADE IN ALE.
Will
of tho late American Agent of tho
Guinnesses of Dublin.
Newakk, N. J., May 15. Special. Tho
will of John Burke, or Llewellyn Park, Wost
Orange, was admitted to probate hero to
day. He was a New York bottler, and the
agent in this country for the Guinnesses, of
Dublin. His will was made in Dublin. Sep
tember 11, 1500, and It disposes of consider
ably over $1,500,000. All of the bequests are
mado in pounds sterling, and bis wife and
two sons, John and Edwin, are the chief
legatees. Tho will was proved in Dublin, so
fnr as witnesses are concerned, tho Lord
Mayor accepting the commission from Sur
rogate Dusenberry.of Essex county, and tak
ing the depositions. The document confirms
tho settlemet made by the testators for the
benefit of his children. John Burke, Jr., and
Anitn L. Moor, wife of Errnnncl Moor.
He gives Ills homo in Llenellyn Park and
all the lands to the widow, who'ls a daughter
of Rev. Dr. John Lee, once the roctor of
Grace church, this city. For his daughter,
Mrs. Moor, ho leaves in trust $175,000, and
directs that the interest bo paid to her until
her death, when It shall be paid to her
children until thoir majority, then to be
divided between them. Ho gives his wife
$30,000 and his sons, John Burke, Jr, and
Edward F. Bnrke, $250,000 ench. To his
daughter Mabel Burke and Edith Lee Burke,
when they are 21 years old, or when thev
marrv with the consent of their mother.
$125,000 each.
FELL INTO A GRAVE.
A Cincinnati Undertaker Dyln
From
Pecnliar Accident.
CracnrxATr, May II. Mr. Henry Dustor
borg, a well-known undertaker, is at present
confined to his homo in a dangerous condi
tion from injuries received by falling into a
grave ne recently assisted at a funeral,
and whilo close to a grave was Jostled by an
inquisltivo onlooker.
Mr. Dustorberg's feet slipped out from
under him, causing him to fall and loosen
his hold on tho coffin straps. His end of tho
cofiln foil into the grave with a lond noise,
and he followed head-foremost on top of it.
His head strnck against n brass ornament
in tho shape of a lily which adorned the
lid of the coffin, receiving a deep gash about
four inches lone, running from the left
temple backward. Ho narrowly escaped
having his neck broken by throwing his
hands in front of him, nnd'thus lessening
the shock of the fall. The shock and the
hurt will probably end his life.
A SHORT-LIVED STRIKE,
The Street Car Employes of Clevolnnd Win
a Substantial Victory.
Cleveland, May 15. Tho 300 conductors
and motormen employed by tho East Cleve
land Electric Street Railway Company
struck at 6 o'clock this morning, tieing up
fourlines, or about 20 miles of load. Not a
car wns ran, until 1 o'clock this afternoon,
when a compromise was effectod and busi
ness resumed. The men asked for $2 for a
day's woik of ten hours. Before the strike
thev worked from II to 12 hours a day, the
motormen receiving 16 cents an hour, and
tho cordnctors 16 cents.
By tho terms of the compromise, they are
to work but ten hours a day, motormen to
receive 18 cents an hour and conductors 17
cents, and lor overtimo 20 and ID cents nn
hour will be paid 'or motormen and con
ductors, respectively. Three leaders in the
strike, who had been discharged, are to he
reinstated. Tho mon regard ft as a victory
ONE CONTRACTOR GIVES IN.
The Others In tho Paving Ttuslneas Say They
Will Never, Never Surrender.
Barre, Vt., May 15 H. Webster, a wealthy
quarry owner and a large paving contractor,
has signed his paving cutters' bill of prices
to May 1. 1893. Two years ago Webster was
a member of the dealers association, but
he is not now. He says he will furnish stock
to all who want it. The cuttors say Web
ster's action is a victory for them, and
others will follow his example.
At a meeting of the association last night
nearly 50 new firms Joined. The owners of
all large quarries are members, excepting
Webster and the Lnngdon Gianlte Com
pany. Two thousand men are idle in Ver
mont. The dealers say the lockout will last
forever unless the cutters give In.
THE HUMOR OP rOT.ITICS.
Gray still insists that he is In tho Presl
dental race, but he cannot be soen with the
largest field-glass. St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Mrs. CnAtJNCETM. Depew says that sho
never allows her children to read fairy tales.
Thus tho poor things never had the fun of
reading thoir father's speeches Detroit Jour
naL Ex-Senatob Inoalls will be nt the Minne
apolis convention as a delegate at large
from Kansas. Tnere is no mistake now
that tho dead may be resurrected. Toledo
Blade.
The fact that the People's Party will con
vene at Omaha on the Fourth of July sug
gests that their candidate may go up like a
locketandcomo down like the stick. Chi
cago Times.
A rural correspondent suggests that tho
ticket be Cleveland and Hill Cleveland to
resign at the end or two years and Mr. Hill
to be President the remaindr of tho term.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
It is feared thero is no hope for Holmes
county Democrats. Tho cyclone which
swept over that county a few days ago was
not sufficient warning to cause them to
turn fiom tho error of tho way. Toledo
Blade.
Thanks to tho present thrifty Congress,
the cadets at West Point may havo to buy
thelrown soap, but the Government will seo
that thoy havo plenty of river and harbor
water to wa3h In freo of charge. Chicago
Neies Secord.
Congress will continue the appropriation
for the National zoo. The House has a repu
tation for being a good deal of a national
bear garden at times, but it doesn't object
to another ono with a greater variety of ani
mals, apparently. Boston Herald.
Son Russell's description of Blaine's flt3
of temporary imbecility may bo accurate.
as ho understands them so well. Son Bus.
sell ought to imitate them. Ho might Im
prove himself greatly if he could exchange
his present condition forgone of temporary
Imbecility. St. Louis Bepublic
Five Corpses Recovered.
Boston, May 15. Superintendent Bradloy,
of the Farm School at Thompson's Island,
reports the finding of the bodies or flvo of
the boys drowned April 10. All of the bodies
were floating in tho water off City Point,
and all have Deen positively Identified.
CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS.
Jesus Campeche, of the City of Mexico,
claims to bo 151 years old.
A Chicago restaurant keeper drank too
much of his own coffee and died.
Canada has 13,420 Indian children of
school age, of whom 7.571 aro In attendance.
The whaling bark Progress, over 50
years old, will be on exhioltlon at the
World's Fair.
A little Freeport, la., girl imagines she
Is a rabbit, and runs from everybody who
comes near hoi.
The King of Dahomey worships statues
of the 12 apostles as gods. He is therefore
called a Christian.
The microscopists say that a mosquito
has 22 "teeth" in the end of his bill llabova
and the same nnmber below.
Last year 22,080 patents were issued,
nearly twice as many ns wero granted dar
ing tho first 50 years of the Patent Office.
The first instance that history records
of the use of forks was at tho table of John
tho Good, Dukn of Burgundy, and he bad
only two.
In Iiussia a law has recently been made
forbidding hissing nt the theater. There
will bean exodns of second rate American
actors to Russia.
A man was arrested at LaCrosse, "Wis.,
charged with counterfeiting old pennies
worth from $100 to $200 each. The dates
were 1767 nnd 1650.
In a "Western town there are two broth
ers, twins, so much alike that when one of
them was recently taken sick the doctor
cured tne other one by mistake.
The analysis, by chemists at the State
Agricultural College, of sugar beets raised
in Iowa shows 14 41 per cent of sugar, which
Is not often excelled in the best beet-growing
countries of Europe.
A great festival took place lately in the
Tlmok Valley, in Servia, to celobrato the
baptism of 400 Mohammedan Gipsies belong
ing to the tribe of Ibrahim Hamll. The
Gipsies are gradually coming over to Chris
tianity. Dr. Pze Smith says of gout, that not all
drinks will produce it, for it is rare in Scot
land. Not all wines will produce it, for it is
rare in Spain and Italy. Not all malt liquors
win prouuee it, tor it is rare in v tenna anu
Munich.
At New York last Wednesday a cat
got into a tree and seemed unablo to get
down. After remaining thero threo days it
was rescued by a S. P. C A. agent, who
put a plank between the treo.and a third
story window.
The Greenlanilcrs laugh when they see
Enropeans uncovor their heads as a mark of
respect: the bow, which we esteem as the
outward sign of an inward grace, and tho
very expression of courtesy, is to them a
rldicnlons contortion.
An old maids' insurance company has
been opened in Denmark. Spinsters can in
suro themselves by a small sum on reaching
the age of 13, and if still unmarried at 40 are
entitled to a regular allowance. If they
marry, however, they forfeit all claim.
"W. S. Holladay, whose home is at
Tucker, in Ripley county, Mo , has a curios
ity in tho peach tree line which he ts think
ing of sending to the World's Fair. The treo
is 3 years old, about 1 inches in
diameter at the butt, is 37 feet high and has
no limb or branch on It.
An Italian tailor of New York swal
owed, by mistake, 30 grammes of carbolic
acid. He did not dlo as evorybody thought
ho would, and as he certainly would if Dr.
Morett had not pumped into his stomach a
strong solution or snlphato of soda, which
forms, with carbolic acid, a harmless com
pound. One variety of beetle is called the
"Diamond Beetle," becauso it is covered
with minute points which reflect the light.
Thoy are employed for trimming drosses,
and sometimes a particularly fino one is
kept alive and allowed to wandor over tho
corsago of the wearer, attached by a slender
chain.
A New York physician has constructed
nn instrument on the plan of tho stetho
scope with which he asserts that he can de
termine the exact size and position of the
heart of a living Tiatient, and so certainly
that ho conld thrust a pin into one's chet
within a hair's breadth of the heart without
touching it.
The white aigerettes, so much worn on
bonnota and hats and as ornaments for tho
hair, are obtained from the egret, or heron.
Tho bird Is found in warm climates, and is
smaller and more graceful in line than the
English heron. The rcathers of this bird
are white, very delicate and spirally curled
toward tho point.
One of the largest and hardest log jams
ever known in the Northwest has been form
ing in the St. Croix nver at Eagle Island. It
is over five miles long and the logs are piled
up in all shapes, and it contains over 150,
000,000 feet. Tho St. Croix river is threaten
ing to cut a new channel, and nnless checked
it will do so and leave the logs on dry land.
It was Qneen Anne Kichard II.s
Que on Anne who introduced trailing gowns
Into England nenrly 500 years azo. It was
the same royal lady who first set the fashion
of enormously high poiked headgear, from
whioh the "matinee hat" is no doubt de
scended: and also changed the mode of lady
horsemanship from tho cavalier style to the
side-saddle.
At a recent "fishing of the locks" at
Delaware City, thn eastern terminus of the
canal, nearly 20,000 herring were caught, nnd
ic was estimated that between 77,000 and 80,
000 passed throngh the locks that dav. On
the same day it wns estimated that the net
In tho locks at St. George's contained at one
time 60.0CO herring. Tho weight was so great
that only is.uuu couiu oe orongnt asuore.
Waukesha, Wis., is almost in a state
of war. Armed men patrol the streets day
and night, and trouble seems to be immi
nent. It is all a Done the project to pipe the
famous spring water from Waukesha and
have it on tap in Jackson Park. Chicago.
When the pluo line man with a gang of la
borers appeared tolay tho pipe he was met
by an injunction, a cannon and 300 men
armed with guns and pistols.
The old chatelaine spoon has been re
produced with historic fidelity. This was
the spoon with which tho housokoeper wns
accustomed to taste all dishes before they
were presented to guests, as a guarantee
necessary in thoso rude and savage times
azainst the uso of poison. This spoon is
abont as large as a tablespoon. It was form
erly arranged so that it could bo hung on a
chain from the girdle, as its name indicates.
A South Jersey hen had the honor of
laying a pair of eggs the other day. Having;
produced one complete egg, correct in size
and shape, she managed, in trying to In
stantly duplicate It, to inclose it In a flexible
sac of semi-opaque skin, whioh also con
tained the complete yolk and white of an
other ogg. Tiie effect was, therefore, that
of a hard egg and an egg that has been
drooped out of its shell, both enclosed in a
seamless bag about four inches long and two
inches wide.
FUNNY MEN'S FANCIES.
Shabby Intruder We were boys together
at school and yet you don't seem to recognize me.
Banker I don't propose to recognize you until
you tell me what yon want. Texas SiUnas.
"So you are going to leave in the morn
ing?" said Birdie McGlnnls to Gus De Smith.
"Yes. I am going on the limited express train.
It travels at the rate of CO miles an hour."
'Gracious, how quick you are going to leave us.
Texas Sitings.
Upon her point lace handkerchief
He vowed he'd write a sonnet.
And then he bore it off in glee.
And got five dollars on it. CloakRecieuK
Agent (exultantly) I've got the dandy
freak. Nothlnc like him seen In Chicago for years.
Dime Museum Manager That so? What's his
line?
Agent Well, sir, he used to be a regular soak
and he's quit drinking without starting a club or
wearing a badge to tell everybody about IU Chi
cago Times.
"I've yearned so long to kiss thee, sweet,
Oh, tell me that I may."
Well, 'tis May Day, you know. " she spoke
I kissed her right away. Sew York Herald.
Mis3 Elder (to the dentist) Is it good
form to take an anesthetic. Dr. Molar?
Molar Oh. yes, madam: chloroform. Detroit
Free Press.
He stood upon the baseball field
Surrounded by his foes.
Said he, "They scorn the power I wield.
And yet what I say goes.'r '
WasMnaton Star.
Aunt Fnrby Low (at art store window)
Did you ever! Look at that little bit ot a picture!
It's marked ISO.
Uncle SI Low (with an air or superlorlty-Tlit
means by the gross. Puck,
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