MBffpfaKffsM SSJfF '. THE PITTSBURG- DISPATCH,' THURSDAY, MAT 19, 892, fe Bigpfclj. m ESTABLISHED FEBRUARY 8, 1846 Vol. 47. No. 102 -Entered at Pittsburg Postofflce November, J8S7, as second-class matter. Business Office Corner Smithfield and Diamond Streets. News Rooms and Publishing House 78 and 80 Diamond Street, in New Dispatch Building. EASTERN" ADVrRTISIS-G OTFICE. ROOM 74, TRIBUNE BUILDING, N EW YORK, where com plcte Illes of THEDlsPATCHcan always be found. Foreign advertisers appreciate tlie convenience. Home advertisers and friends of! II K DISl'APCH, wlille In New York, are also made welcome. THEDISPATCBisresniarlyonsaleotBrentano's, tl Union Square, JCea lor, and H Ave de tOpera. Pans, Trance, iclure anyone who ha been disap pointed at a hotel news stand can obtain it, TERMS OF THE DISPATCH. POSTAGE rBEE IS TTIE OXITED STATES. Daily Dispatch. One Year t 8 00 Dailt Dicr-ATCU. Per Quarter !.... 2 00 Daily Disfatcil One Month 70 Dailt .Dispatch. Including Sunday. 1 year.. 10 00 Daily Dispatch, Including Sunday, Sm'ths, 2 SO Daily Dispatch. Including Sunday, 1 m'th.. 80 Scxday Dispatch, One -ar 2 SO Weekly Dispatch, One Year. 125 The Daily Dispatch Is delivered by carriers at IS cents per week, or. Including Sunday Edition, at 20 cen ts per week. PITTSBURG. THURSDAY MAY 19. 1892. TWELVE PAGES A FAiSK POLICY. A city cotemporary in reply to the pub lic protest ajrainst the exclusive occupa tion of ilarket street by a traction line refers to the importance of rapid transit to the opposition which has been dis played to the occupation of any down town street by traction lines, and winds up with the argument that a traction car which carries thirty people, twenty times a day has just 600 times the right on the public streets that a carnage has. All of which is a special plea very easily answered. There never has been general opposition to the occupation ot streets which were necessary to bring rapid trans it to the central part of the city. But in the case referred to it is an obvious prop osition that the blocking of an already in sufficient passage way between the two cities is wholly unnecessary. There are other streets by which the proposed loop could be made without half the public in convenience to be caused by a line along Market street; and that being the case the grant is a remarkable display of indiffer ence not only to the welfare of the owners of vehicles, but of the thousands of pedes trians who pass along that street daily. , , Not only is this the case, but the refer ' ence to the introduction of rapid transit brings out the fact that there has been a wholly unnecessary occupation of the downtown streets by the traction lines. An intelligent public policy, as long ago pointed out by The Dispatch, would have established a downtown loop around which all lines could pass with every car going in the same direction, and without the present multiplicity of crossings, where the pedestrian or driver must be on the lookout for cars coming from three or four points of the compass. Such a plan would have saved many streets unencumbered by lines, and would have given all compa nies equal access to the city. If the right to run street cars is such a public one as alleged by our cotemporary, it should be extended to all alike and not be made a matter of privilege and favoritism. Rapid transit on open and equal terms, with due regard for the safety and con venience of the public, is all right. Rapid transit, where streets are given away to certain favored corporations without re gard to the public welfare, is all wrong. TE5TEUD XTS ELECTROCUTION. The ninth execution by electricity in New York State took place yesterday. It was the most successful application of electricity to this purpose which has yet been made. Experience is gradually im proving the apparatus used and the method of transmitting the current, until death yesterday was admittedly instantaneous and there was an absence of the objection able features alleged on previous oc casions. While the death penalty should be made as awesome as possible, the amount of pain inflicted should be as small as possi ble. Civilization demands this, and any suggestion of unnecessary torture pro vokes a popular outcry which tends to lessen the number of convictions where guilt is evident, aid to minimize the num ber of executions where convictions are secured. Electrocution appears to con tain all the elements of dread which are necessary, and to make the taking off as certain and painless as possible. And for these reasons the use of the electric cur rent is to be supported as a proper method of execution. DETERMINED TO FIGHT. The strike which has just assumed the important proportions of stopping con struction on granite buildings and the lay ing of granite block pavements in the Eastern cities is a remarkable illustration of the comparatively small differences which can be used to bring work to a standstill. The point originally at issue is so disproportionate to the results grow ing from it as almost to suggest that the contending parties in the granite business must be hard up for an issue to fight over. The dispute was one between the gran ite cutters of New England and their em ployers, and it has spread to the great cities by the boycott of granite got out by non-union labor. The issue is not one either of wages or the rights of labor and capital. It is simply the question whether the year for which the wage settlement is made shall begin on May I, as desired by the workmen, or on January 1, as desired by the employers. With all due respect for the arguments in favor of the two dates from the opposing points of view, it is necessary to remark that the issue pre sents no such vital aspects as to warrant the stoppage of industry and the throwing of 50,000 men out of employment through out the East When, a d'spute of that character is pushed to such proportions the public can hardly help -thinking that both sides are" anxious to have a fight As the overt acts in the struggle were commenced by a lockout on the part of the employers, the inference is that they desired to try con clusions with the labor organizations; which desire the labor organizations are disposed to fully satisfy. So long as such a conflict confined its effects to the im mediate parties public commentary must be restricted to remarks on the uuw isdem of such a mutual appetite for fighting. But, when it extends to a general halt of the building industries, it is allowable in the public interest to protest against such in jurious belligerency. It is not hazardous to predict that the losses to both sides from this dispute will exceed all that either can hope to gain. Such a strike is like unnecessary warfare a blunder which is almost criminal in its character. WAGES'AND LIVING. An interesting statement of the relative income and expenses of the industrial classes in the United States and foreign countries has been published by Carroll D. Wright, United States Commissioner of Labor. There are many differences in the methods of working which make compar ison difficult These are most fully over come by comparing the income of fami lies engaged in the various industries. This comparison, which is not unduly favorable to the United States, yields the following results as to income, the statis tics being collected from 5,284 families representing 27,577 persons. Cot- Pig Bar ton. WoolenGlass. Iron Iron. United States.. .VX7 76 SC63 13 SS59 64 91 61 $784 11 Great Britain.... 556 It S15 64 Ml 69 455 S3 S19 99 Hrance 305 91 424 51 464 74 Germany 302 11 275 99 282 20 Belgium 62765 374 53 35937 Here the marked superiority of the waces paid to the workmen in the United States appears. That has scarcely been a disputed point; but the question as to what the workmen gets in return for his wages is subject to dispute. On this mat ter 2Ir. Wright's report gives definite in formation. The expenditure for rent is much larger in this country than any where else. But apart from the fact that our workmen live in better houses than those abroad, the total difference makes very little weight against the difference in wages. Rents In the United States range from $72 58 for cotton workers up to 5109 57 for glassworkers. In France Jthey are about $34; in Germany, $25.to $27,' and in Great Britain, $50 to $52. The amount spent for vacations and amusements in the United States is far greater In the case of the glass industry, and singularly much less in the cotton industry. In the ex penditure for intoxicating liquors the United States shows a less average than Great Britain and only a little more than France in the cotton industry, but is much greater than either in the glass industry. Expenditures for food are far greater in the United States, which, as this is a coun try of cheap food, bears testimony to good living on the part of labor. In ex penditures for books and newspapers the workmen of the United States put from two to three times as much as those in Europe. The total average expenses per family shown by the report yield the fol lowing results: Cotton. United States 510 61 Great Britain 502 13 France 33-170 Germany 232 53 Belgium Woolen. Glass. 3334 09 PCS 08 431 64 4G0 44 334 05 2J159 4M42 These figures show not only that the workmen of the United States are better paid and live better, but that In most cases they have a larger margin between wages and cost of the improved living than the workmen in Europe. These facts will clear up a large amount of dis pute and uncertainty concerning the rela tive position of labor in the Old and New Worlds. SALISBURY'S NEW DEPARTURE. Lord Salisbury yesterday made a speech in which he advocated protective tariff on all imports but food and "raw materials." Indisputable as is the wisdom of Protec tion, the fact that it should be suggested as good for England by a party leader of Salisbury's prominence in free trade Eng land indicates both the serious condition of trade in that country and the straits to which the Tory leader has been "-brought for campaign material in bidding for labor's vote. For some time an insignificant section of the Conservative party has made "Fair Trade," or Reciprocity, one of its plat form planks, but it has hitherto met with little but ridicule, Tather from the weak ness of its propounders than on its own merits. Salisbury's speech indicates clear ly that Protection is to tie made an issue in the rapidly approaching general elec tion, and marks a startling new departure in England's party politics. The struggle will gain enormously in interest for this country, and will be watched with un usually close attention. WHAT'S IN A N ME? The objection of a New York newspaper to calling two of the new protected cruis ers the Alabamba and the Florida is criti cised by the Washington Post as "a mug wump whine about the things of thirty years ago." ThePost regards it as a suffi cient answer to the objection that Ala bama and Florida are States in the Union though they "tried to get out of it thirty years ago." The argument may be valid, but the esteemed Post makes a double error in pre senting the matter. It is not the mug wump practice to bring up the fight of thirty years, but a quality which charac terized the machine Republicans until they found that the people would not swallow it There is more of, a mistake in supposing the objection to be that Ala bama and Florida attempted to secede. Mississippi did the same, but that is an honored name in the United States navy. The objection to the two names specified is that they are famous as the titles of the two vessels that destroyed American com merce. It is not the position of the States, but the memory attaching to the historic vessels which suggests an incongruity in reviving the names for the new navy. It is by no means certain that this Is sufficient reason for discriminating be tween States in naming vessels, simply on account of the naval disasters attaching to their names. But in discussing the ques tion it is well to have a clear understand ing that it rests upon a portion of naval history that our cotemporary seems to have forgotten. A SHORT-LIVED WEATHER PROPHET. There is a large proportion of satisfac tion that Weather Prophet "Vaughn, who was advertised about the opening of the month as never having made an error in weather prediction, has got himself on record to the opposite effect The proph ecy to which he committed himself in that connection was altogether too precise in describing a terrible storm which was to swoop across the country with frightful results and carry away everything mov able. Had ho been more discreet, like any other prophet who confined himself to intimating "cyclonic possibilities," he might have escaped with a damaged but not altogether wrecked fame as a weather prophet But while the first half of May has been quite stormy, the kind of storm which Vaughn predicted with such alarm ing detail is exactly what did not occur. It is too much to expect that the weather prophets.will ever learn the wisdom of silence by experience; but after a while the public and the press agents may recog nize that their crankiness is not worth any attention. Mb. Cleveland may be sincere enough in his wish that the office should seek him, but from the letter sent aronnd to the news papers by his friend and literary manager it is evident that he is not averse to helping the office to find its -way. This is really kind of Grover, for It would indeed be lamentable and disastrous to the nomination were it to be unfortunate enough to lose its way for want of sign posts. The reported retirement of John Wana maker from the Postmaster Generalship would be more credible If it stated that ho wished to devote all his energies to the Sun day school industry instead of the further ance of his businessinterests. It can hardly be possible that he would deprive the nation of his well-nigh indispensable services for any matter of less Importance than religions instrnction. The cigarette fiend is once again entering on liis annual pleasure in having a com panion in misery. Warnings are being freely offered to the ice cream gluttons. It is worthy of note that the proposed twenty-five per cent reduction In the Biver and Harbor appropriation is due to cam paign tactics rather than to a careful con sideration of the merits of the case. But, since the manufacture of campaign cries is to rule the actions of both parties, the less extravagant brand is the better of the two. Notwithstanding the completely or ganized opposition or Hill's instruments Cleveland has marched through Georgia with flying colors. The sooner Pittsburg awakens from Its malodorous nightmare to a proper realiza tion of the fact that the present absence of system in the removal of garbage is an obnoxious but remediable nuisance the bet ter it will be for the city's health and com fort. It is hardly worth mentioning, but our team was beaten again yesterday. A victory is desirable, if only to vary the monotony of things a little. New Yoke is proving the adage that practice makes perfect. The electrocution of Tice lacked all the objectionable featnres of former oases, and it is evident that exe cution by electricity will soon attain a posi tion of equality with the lethal .chamber as a'metbod of euthanasy. The logjam on the St Croix river, Wis consin, is too well pieserved for publio safety, and it does not spiead as jams should da A vessel and six seamen have been swallowed up by a treacherous Nora Sco tian Quicksand. But the absorbing power of Congress surpasses this achievement in a greater degree than the bulk of the sun exceeds that of the earth. JlAr.KEr street is likely to be more crowded than ever by pedestrians who wish to use their privileges before Councils abol ish them. Harrison has an immense hat, and he wishes for an enormous Fresldental boom. But if he continue to catch trout weighing eight pounds apiece his reputation lor truthfulness will suffer to an irremediable extent. Now that an exhibit of Pennsylvania's oil is to be permitted, things should run smoothly at the World's Fair. Free silver was buried long ago, but even the worm will turn. Yesterday's crushing vote in the House places a. monu ment over the grave which will demand considerable resurrective force to remove it. Fish stories are seasonable enough, but they do not go well with a Presbyterian sec ond term Presidental boom. HILL'S decision to go to Chicago to boom himself is perfectly natural for that gentle man, and especially so when it Is remem bered that he is vastly more interested in the matter than anyone else is. Levees having burst, money will be levied fioin the charitably disposed to re lieve the distress. In view of the progress made by street railways, the ordinance for the burial of wires should be lramedto include a subway for the use of pedestrians driven off the eaith's surface. Cleveland's 60-called black-eye in Cal ifornia was more than offset by Hill's broken neck in Georgia. KX0UN BT THEIR NAMES. Colonel John S. Mosbt, for the first time in several years, is a visitor at his old home in Wnrrenton, Va. General V. D. Greener, of Norfolk, has invited President Harrison to go to North Carolina for a few days' shooting. Abkam Gaar, a wealthy manufacturer of agricultural implements in Indiana, gave his daughter a check for $100,000 on her w ed ding day last week. Mesdames Potter Palmek,oi Chicago, and Mrs. Grubb, wife of the American Min ister to Spain, attended Queen Victoria's drawing room yesterday. Arabi Pasha is to devote the remainder of bis exile in Ceylon to raising tea, which is abetter proceeding than raising Cain in which he used to take such interest. General P. A. Collins, of Massachu setts, will leave Boston in a few days for his animal trip to Europe. He will return In time to attend the Chicago Convention. Although a resident of the City ot Brotherly Love, Father Treacy is the only clergyman tu America who is a victim to the habit of carrying a gun to prayer meet ing: Among the Americans who are recognized as genuine poets by French critics is one Jean Feuilleverte Whlttier, which is sup posed to be an exact rendering of the name of the venerable "bard of Amesbitry. If Senator Hansbrough has any weakness it is for light opera. He trankly confesses that in his judgment "The Mikado" is the most enjoyable thing ho knows, and that he would rathe? hear it than Patti any day. Phil Armour, Chicago's great packer, was at one time a miner in a small way near Folsom. Cal., where alter some months of unremitting toll he secured enough gold washings fiom the placers to sell for $100. THE SILVER. COHFEBEHCB Likely to Be Held 'Within the Next Two Months or So. New Yokk, May 18. A Washington special to the Post says: The International Silver Conference bids fair, from present appear ances, to be held within the next CC day?, though the place has not yet been decided upon. One element of delay has been the tact that the correspondence has been con ducted by mail instead of by cable. It is likely that the place chosen will be the capi tal of one of the lesser powers, so that no great political significance can be given to the meeting locally. The names of the American representatives at the conference are not yet made known, as it is doubtful -whether the President has his list made out. Several suggestions are canvassed, however, in a manner which would irrdicaU that the President has them under adviet lent. So far the signs point mostly toiHenry ff. Cannon, of New York, as a representative Republican bimetallist and geneial financial expert; Senator John P. Jones, of YNevada, a Republican friendly to the silver. nrin in interest, and a student of the 1110noy question, aud General Frances A Walker, of Massachusetts, as a btmetalllstlrepre sentative of the opposition pnrty.1 Tho fourth member may be chosen from the leading Western Democrats who havomado a specialty of this subject. A movement is on foot among the leading SenatoTs and Representatives of both political parties to Erocuro the nomination, as the fifth mem er, of Director Leoch, of the Mint Bureau and by common consent the coinage expert of the United States Treosury. Toe Axis Begins to Squeak. ) Detroit Free Press. ( The supply of petroleum in Pennsylvania Is gradually giving out, and the axis tof the earth is Beginning to squi TALK OF THE TIME. There is a fountain of youth for the theatrical people much surer and safer than that sought by Ponce de Leon. It is the window lithograph. Some of us who are Just old enough to regret we arc not younger, but old enough to bo glad we are no older, can remember the birth of theso familiar Clrcean advertising devices. We can recall when tbe'notablcs were first dipped in their preserving, time-defying bath ofHthog'raphlo ink and then mado their bow and an im pression on the public. "Honest Little Emma" was a notable offender. She looked out from an oval plate in a Marie Stuart arrangement, lumin ous of eye and round of clicoc This was some time along abode 187S TTani that same face could be found on any available city window up to the time of her death. Helena ModJeska, who was here so short a time ago as to be fresh in the mind's eye of the most casual observer, stands at three-quarter lenzth on the slnglo sheot pictures with all the grace and round Hues of beauty which characterized her in the days when she was a belle at the Con tinental Hotel in London, or when she braved the wrath of Alexander by refusinir to play in St. Petersburg. And then there is Maggie Mitchell. I do not pretend to remembor when I first saw the prevalent pictures of her. They have grown up with me since about the time of Appomattox, and have become more comprehensible since the pub lication of Mr. Rider Haggard's South Afri can romances on the same lines. What a fair-skinned, rotund, vivacious Joe Jefferson is he of the windows would, Indeed, he were so in face. Kate Castleton is really too young to go without a chaporone in the pictures; and she is almost as slim and graceful as she was when she made herself a name with Lydia Thompson in the year heaven forgive us, what a thing it is to have a lingering memory! Rose Coghlan's face is one of the few that keeps company -with its presentment and looks as near lire as you could well expect with the footlights of imagination between you and its reality. Rhea is another absolutely changeless one, and she has not added a day to that time when she badeadieu to Petersburg and Paris and was exploited as a second Modjeska, which she is not. But what is the use of naming them? They all sail in the same pictorial boat, and the young men who smoke cigarottes and wear yellow shoes admiro tbem, instead of venerating, as they should. You hear funny things sometimes in the brokers' offices in the usual course of busi ness. A broad-ganged speculator, who had rules of his own. dropped into his broker's one day and, after reading a financial paper, reruniked: "Tom, I see Central Arizona has advanced within a week from 8 to 14." Tom grunted to show he heard, but continued to smoke a meditative toby. "Tom," remarked the speculator after five minutes of silence. "Buy me 600 Central Arizona at best to-day." Tom pulled the crank of the messenger call, and another deal was born. Two or three days later the speculator sauntered in again, picked up tli.it same financial paper of later date, to be sure and presently re marked complacently, "Tom I" "Eh?" "I see Central Arizona is down to 9." "Don't say so I" "Yes. Say, Tom! What is Central Arizonn a railroad or a mine?" "Damflno," said Tom in tho technical parlance of the street "Find out, will yonf Another turn at the cfank, another messenger boy and then there came the quiet of lunch time, during which no man of gentlemanly instincts will ask another to exert himself. By and by, when it was afternoon, boy turned up with a telegram, which Tom reads. "Central Arizona's a mine," he says nonchalantly. "The denco! Sell it I" re plies the speculator in equally unruffled man ner, and so it was. A driller of oil wells took a quiet little flyer on his own account and leased some territory. Then he proceeded to a capitalist whd had tried his hand on "developments." "I've got a map Here," said the driller, con fidently, "of about the best piece of terri tory in the McDonald field. If I had enough capital I wouldn't' lot anybody in with mo, but lhaven't.and so thought I would show it to you." The capitalist listened with a silent and grim politeness which presaged ill for that particular deal. Then he said with the tono of a man really desirous of informa tion, "Jim, how long have you worked for met" "Off 'n on for more'n two year." "Exactly. And in that time how many good wells did 1 strike." "Well," replied Jim, uneasily, "you did have a streak of powerful mean luck: didn't strike any as I know of." "Jim, you are certainly thoroughly well in. formed. And now how many dry hole3 did I get?" "Nine," said Jim, and his eyes sought the wall a' if he thought he had some or the tate of Belshazzar for mural inscriptions. "Well, Jim," and this came with emphasis "you aro conect on every point, and, furthermore, I'want to say that at this pres ent moment I wouldn't drill a well in a whale. Good day!" a tabby oat, too. Now dere's our 'lttle tabby tat, a s'eepln outen der sun. Ever sence I wemeraber dat's all dat de tabby tat's done. See don't det tailed Inter de house as soon as It starts to wain. An' the don't never det her face wast, over'n over adaln. An' you sood see her wun in de gwass, an' It all wctwiddew! An' It mates me mad I can't do dis an' wouldn't it mate youf jf& Now I'm a dolu' on four years old, and tabby tat's only two As leesc dat's wat my papa says, an' wot he says It twuc. 'Canse lie's gwowed np an' knows encysing an' heaps an heaps beside. An' mamma see ain't ha'f so old, an' see toodn't be ef see twled; But sec tails me in an' sec mates me eat, dough I ain't hungwy 'tall, j.. An tabby tat wlnts her eye at me w'en wc hear mama tall; An' dere see dest s'eeps on an' s'eeps, an' nuffln Is ewer said If see don't turn a wunnin' In wen It's time to do to bed. An' I don't tare wat ennyone says, w'en I'm old like de twees, I'm doln' to be a tabby tat, too den I'll do dest as I peese. P. L. W. STJGAE TETJSTFACIS. Some Figures Which Will Convince Doubt- en That There is a Combine. Washington, May 18. Congressman Stout, of Michigan, whose bill to place all grades of sugar on the free list is now before the Ways and Means Committee, has prepared the following list of susar refineries transferred to the American Suxar Rrnnlnc Companv, Apiil 1, 1892, the figures being their daily ca pacity in barrels: Havemeyer and Elder Sugar Refining Company, of Brooklyn, 8,000; Brookljn Sugar Refining Com pany. 3,000; r.O. Matuiesen. Wefchers 4 Co.. of Jersey City. 4,500. Havemeyer Spear Refining Com pany. Jersey City, 500: Standard Sugar Kenning Company, of Boston. 3,000; Ctatlnental Sugar Re fining Company, of Boston, 600; Louisiana Sugar Refining Company, or New Orleans, 3,000; total capacity, 3.600 barrels a day. To this list should he added the San Fran cisco reflnlng companies ownod orleased by the Western Sugar Refining Companv and working in harmonv with the trust, gross daily output, 3,600 barrels, which makes the total output of the trust 26,100 barrels. The following companies, thongh not in tho trust, aro con ti oiled by it, a majority of their stock being held by trust stockhold ers Franklin Company, of Philadelphia. 6, 000 barrels dallv: E. C. Jtnlght& Co., of Philadelphia. 1.300: Claus Spreekels Company, of Philadelphia, 3,500; Delaware Sugar dmipanv, of Philadelphia, 500; Baltimore Sugar Refining Company, of Baltimore, 1.500: Revere bugar Refilling Company. of.Boaton. 1,000. Total output 13,800 barrels daUy. Aiminst this crand total of 39.900 barrels piouuced daily by the trust Mr. Stout arrays the total output of the following companies in 'the combination whose plants are not operated owing to the terms of the trust. De Castro A Donner Company, of Brooklyn, 3.000: Dick t Myer Comnany. of Brooklyn, plant burned: Havemyer Company, of Brooklyn, 3,500: Holler A Hicrck Company, dismantled; North River Company, of New York, dismantled: Oxford Bros, t'ompiny. ofk Brooklyn, dismantled; Boston Company, of Boston.-3,000; Bay fetate Company, of Boston, dismantled: Forest City Company, or Portland. 5,000: at. Lou's Company, of St. l,ouli. 1.DU0: total capacity of plants In running order, but closed, 11,000. Theso figures are now being examined by 'the Wavs and Means Committee. An early report 6rMr. Stout's hill is expected. A Relic of Religions Barbarism. New York Recorder. J That war on Pittsbnrg Sunday papers is a relic of religions barbarism. EAHDY TO HAVE A BB0THEB. How President Harrison Secured the Dele gates From Tennessee. Nashville, May 18. Special. There will be 24 Bepublicun delegates from this State to the Minneapolis convention. Some of the leading Republicans of the State, who are not officeholders, but are members of the Re publican State Committee, are discussing the methods by which the delegates were elected. It is believed that the majority of the delegation favors the renomination of the President. The Republican delegation from this Democratic State was elected mainly through tho efforts of Carter Harri son, the President's brother, Marshal of the United States Court, it is claimed that the whole force of the Harrison administration has been nt woik in the nesro counties and districts for many moons; that in every county for days before the local conven tions, the internal revenue officers attached to tiro Harrison administration were active ly at work. This was especially so where the entire force of the internal revenue was most handily dlstiibuted. At the State Convention it is openly de clared that every postmaster, from Chatta nooza to Memphis, from one end of the State to the other, was in attendance. The District Attorney and his assistant, tho United States Marshal and his entire force in West Tennessee, the District At torney and his assistant in Middle Tennessee, and their associates in tho Federal courts, nil the Internal revenue collectors nnd their deputies, without a single exception in the State, were also on hand, and were directed by the President's brother. Those who have believed in the Harrison declarations of civil service re form want to know what became of the Government work on these occasions. Among the delegates to the National Con vention are included the collector of in ternal revenue, the collector or the customs at Nashville, the postmaster at Lawrence burg, three deputy Internal revenue col lectors, and the United States District At torney for West Tennessee. The friends of the President are delighted at Carter Harri son's w ork. CANNOT BE ANALYZES. Dr. Keelry Says Chemists Can't Tell the Ingredients of Ills Gold Carp. New Ha vex. May 18. Dr. Keeley made a hurried visit to his institute at West Haven last night and delivered a lecture to the in mates. He took occasion to criticise chem ists in general. He said: "Tell these people what you want and they may find it lor you, but prepare any simple liquid and ask them to explain what the in giedlentsarenndyou will' find them want ing. They are constantly floating among the clouds seeking for inlormation. If they would confine themselves to the earth thoy might learn something. Thov can experi ment with a sea of the gold cure, yet they would discover nothing. Like many other liquids, it cannot be analyzed." YANKEES COLONIZING COSTA EICA. The Little Republic to Be Filled With Immigrants Rejected at New York. Port Limoit, Costa BtOA, May 18. The steamer Hondo has arrived with the first 30 tamilics of the new American colony. The manager will locate them in Talamanca, and will then leturn to New York for another installment. The Government is considering a proposi tion Irom an energetic young American to supply labor at low cost by importing immi grants rejected at the port of New York solely on account of thoir poverty, which, it is argued, will prove a less serious obstacle in a country where the climate is propitious and food easily obtained. BOIES OR A WESTERNER. Iowa Is for a Western man or Cleveland. The ru'e is good enough to work both ways. St. Louts Republic. ' Some Western man" seems to be the fa vorite in cei tain Democratic circles Just at present. Boston Traveller, Is vain with anxious scrutiny the bound less West they scan! The Democrats have not yet found that flrst-class Western man. Pat erson Argus. "Some Good Western Man" in the Demo cratic press appears to be experiencing diffi culty in getting out of the list of tho uniden fled Chicago HalL The solitary speck on the horizon, "no bigger than a man's hand," is a new boom for a Democratic dark horse. The 'name isn't big enough to read yet. Toledo Bkule. Thet are dimly conscious over in Iowa that Boies hardly fills the bill as a "good Western man" in all respeots, bnt they are In hopes he will grow. Chicago Tribune. Tammasy Hall will probably favor that Iowa boom for the nomination. It will pronounce it "Byes," and that's what Tammany always looks after. Detroit Jour nal. Cleveland aud Hill should pool their is sues. Boles has a boom. Boies is a broth of a boy who is not skulking or shirking any responsibility. He has been, as Beriah Wil kins says, six years a Democrat, and as Be riah does not siy, he knows all about it Brooklyn Standard-Union, TnE feeling that tho Democratic party should come West for its candidate this year is likely to increase from this time forward. It will be an easy matter to find a Western man who as the nominee for President will unite the factions in New York and inspire the party In every State in the Union. Chi cago Herald. Still in the Ring, Brother. Cleveland Plain Dealer. The war on Sunday newspapers has again broken out in Pittsburg, and the proprietors of several leading papers have been arrested for pursuing worldly employment on Sun day. Publio sontiment is on tho side of the newspapers, and the harder the cranks try to suppress the Sunday issues the more their circulation grows. Cornell's New President. Ithaca, N. Y., May 18. Prof. J. G. Sehur man'was to-day elected President of Cornell University. DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE. Bertha M. Sutherland. Miss Bertha H. Sutherland, of the faculty of Curry University, died very suddenly at her home in Beaver. Pa., yesterday at 5 o'clock A. K. She was a young lady of unusual attainments and will be mourned by a wide circle of friends. She was especially beloved by the students wltn whom she was a great favorite. They with the faculty will attend the funeral In a body baturaay after noon at 3 o'ciock. 5. S. Bryan, Tltosvllle. S. S. Bryan, one of Titusville's most prominent citizens, died at bis home Tuesday alghtlnthc 73d year of his age of paresis, after an illness of nine days. Mr. Bryan was for many years a resident of Allegheny until 18&J, when ho removed with nls family to Tltusvllle. The re mains hare been brought to Pittsburg for Inter ment. Miss Bertha Sutherland, Educator. Miss Bertha, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Sutherland, of Beaver, a graduate of the Beaver High School, and one of the faculty of Curry Institute, died yesterday morning at the family residence, or rheumatism of the heart. She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. one was aoout zj years 01 age. Captain John S. Adnms. Captain John S. Adams, an old riverman, died Tuesday night at his home on Carson street. He was 84 ve.irs of age and had run on the river for half a century. Obituary Notes. James s. Joses, of the law division of the Pension Bureau during the Cleveland administra tion, died Tuesday ot pneumonia, at Champaign, HI., aged 62 years. II. H.Barr, who was under bill at Chester.Pa., on the charge ofcmbezzllng nearly f 10,000 as agent of tho Reading Railroad at that place, died Tues day morning of heart failure. Dr. L. Y. Hates, President of Buena Vista College, at Storm Lake, died Tuesday arier a short illness. He was formerly President of the Presby terian College at Fort Dodge, Iowa. Williah Townlet. the oldest stage driver in New Jersey, died Tuesday In Elizabeth,, aged 89. He established a stage route between Ellzapetli and Is ewark In 1837, ana ran it until the close of the Civil War. Dr. Plikt Earls, Superintendent of the Northampton St ite Lunatls Asylum from 1865 to 1885. died at Northampton, Mass . Tuesday even ing In Ills 83.1 ear. IV was noted In this country aud abroad as an expert in the treatment for In sanity. Joii.v J. Swxxxkt, a comedian and vaudeville performer of some note, was uurled in the Ja maica, L. I.. Cemetery Sunday. He had been on the tstage slnte Ills 16th jear, when he was a Juvenile "Pinafore" singer. With O. Rylandas a partner he had made three trips to England, and had been quite successful in the London music halls. , MUST MOVE THE HOME. Progress Forces a Change of the Location or the Colored Orphanage Scenes at the Annual Reception Wedding Bellsjin Wllklnsbnrg Gossip of Society. The annual reception at the Colored Orphans' Home took place yesteTday. There was a meeting of the Board of Managers, and the twelfth annual report was read. It showed a prosperous condition of things, nnd that much good had been done during the year. It is expected that this will be the last year In the present building on Green wood avenue, Allegheny. When the Home was established it was fairly in the country, on the banks of the beautiful Ohio, and there were few reminders of the proximity of two large cities. Now plans are afoot for build ing manufacturing establishments in the neighborhood, so that the Home will be overshadowed by high brickr walls, instead of being, as hitherto, in a rural, home-like locality. It Is impossible to arrest business progress, so the only thing for the managers of the Home to do is to seek some other abiding place. The receipts dur ing the past year Iras somewhat in excess of the expenditures, so that the Home is keeping Itself in an expellent manner. In the afternoon the social part of the exer cises was opened with an address by Rev. Mr. Kyle, of the Fourth U. P. Church, Alle gheny. This was followed by an entertain ment by the children on a piettily armnged stage in the schoolroom. The stage was hung In red cloth, while at the back was a large screen, on whlctflrere painted sun flowers of natural size. Wlieso decorations set off the little black face", and gave an odd and pleasing effect. Recitations and songs were given by the little people with a good deal of native, ability.. Some of the music had a decided plantation twang, while in the concerted pieces the voices blended in a most creditable manner, show ing that they were well trained. The children have the appearance of being well cared for, and yesterday were as bappv and bright as any youngsters could bo, wliatever their color. They were served with a goodly portion of ice cream and cnkes,.whlch thoy evidently enjoyed excessively. On the second floor, in a sitting room, there were a candy" table and a Sanoy work table. Most of the work on the fancy work table was done by the boys. One of the indies paid the bovs wore mure dexterous with the needle than the girls. The articles sold briskly dnr ing tho reception. The fancv work table was in charge or Miss May Mai shell, Miss Vnrdie Marshell and Miss Isabel McClung. The candy table was taken caie of bv the Misses Scott, Miss Alice Tindle, Miss Allie Lyon and Miss Alice Willurd. Down stairs ice cream, cake and coffee were dispensed by Mrs. J. C Lecky and Mrs. John A. Myler, assisted by n number of other ladies. The election or the Board of Managers showed only two changes. The members for the en suing year are: President. Mrs. Ormsbv Phil lips; Secretary, Mrs. Benjamin Bake well, vice .U1S3 Annie Miller, reslaned: Treasurer, ,Mrs. Henry Conley, in place of Mrs. DcHns- eu, uecuaseu. xne oiner memuoraare iuiss Ella Seaver, Mrs. Jehu Ilaworth, Miss Ma honey, Miss Ware, Mrs. IL C. Campbell, Miss Praetr, Miss Minnie Clark, Mrs. Hay Walker' Mrs. Carson, Miss Hennlmrs. Miss Freda Craig, Mrs. McKee, Mrs. Johnston. Mrs. Gross, Mrs. Witherspoon, Mrs. Estep and Mrs. J. A. Mj ler. This evening the tragedy of "Hamlet" will be presented at St. Joseph's Academy, Greensburg, by the private pupils of the elocution class, under the direction of Prof. Byron Klnir. Tho Hamlet will be Miss Sara Lappan, supported by the followinr young ladies in the othorparts: Miss May Shearer, Miss Mav Erhart, Miss Susie Btikeloy, Miss Annie Carlin, Miss Gertrude Hoover, Miss Agnes Bovle, Miss Effle Philips, Miss Millie Boehm, Miss Eflle Philips, Miss Lyda Dorn, Miss Agnes Boyle, Miss Mercedes McCabe, Miss Agnes Boyle, Miss May Drhew Miss Mae Powers, Miss Stella Owens. The young ladles are nearly all mem bers of well-known families of Pitts burg and Allegheny, and a very large party from the two cities will be at the college this evening to witness the entertainment. The expectation is that the perlormnnce will be very creditable. Tboro is a very pretty theater in the colleue, called the Odeon, with a well-appointed stazeandall the conveniences ot a modern theater iu miniature. A marriage of much interest to "Wil kinsburgcrs is to take place iu June. The bridegroom will be Mr. Raisig, the well known contractor or Wilkinsburg, and the brldo Miss Marv McKdvy, daughter of Mr. nnd Mrs. John McKelvy, 01 the same borough. The parents of the bride were nmong the first settlers in the neighborhood or Wilkinsburg. Mrs. McKelvy was a Miss Horner. The Horner homestead was on Penn avenue, and was ono of the landmarks of Wilkinsburg. It has Just been torn down to bo replaced Dy a business block. There will he a concert for the benefit of the Russian sufferers in College Hall.Beaver, Pa., to-night. A good programme has been prepared, and tho following ladies will take Eart: Misses Etta Nixon, Floronce Wlck am. Onhella Winkle. Beulah Reed. Ger trude Wilson. Viralnla Adams, Alfaretta Russell, Blanche Bray, Jennie Mitchell, Alice Davis, Jessie Galey, Laura Ferguson, Evalyn Lewis, Mrs. Fry and Jlias Winn. Social Chatter. The annual rose meetinzof the Woman's CIud will be held at the beautiful residence of Mr. and Airs. C. I. Wade, in Edgewood. on the last Thursday in June. The occasion will be rendered all the more interesting from the fact of it being the anniversary of the wedding of the bost and hostess. Tho snrroundings of the Wade homo are veiy beautiful, and visitors in the summer spend most of their time on the spacious lawn. There will be an ODen meeting of the Pitts burg Stenozmphers' Association this even ing, at 112 Wood street. Papers will be read as follows: "The Secretaryship," by Fred B. Sankey; "Reminiscences of Legislative Reporting," by A. JL Martin. There will be music and singing by a number of talented young men, A farewell social is to be given this even ing in the Sandusky Street Baptist Church by the young people of the congregation. A special programme has been prepared, and it is expected that the occasion will be a most interesting one. There is no doubt that the attendance will be very largo. Last night the installation of Rev. Ernest L. McCartney as pastor of the Edgewood Presbyterian Church took place in the pub lic schoolhouse ot that borough. Tliore was a large attendance, and Mr. McCartney was the guest of honor at a pleasant informal reception alter tne ceremonies. Tableaux and Shakespearean burlesque will be given in Dllworth Hall by the young ladies of the Pennsylvania College, next Friday evening, May 20, at 8 o'clock. The proceeds of this entertainment will be used lor purchasing apparatus for the college gymnasium.- Mrs. C. B. McLeau, of WIneblddle avenue, gave a 10 o'clock luncheon yesterday. The floral decorations were Very delicate and tastoful. The'center pieco was of cream and pink roses, mingled with maidenhair ferns, and the favors were sweet peas. Is Old City Hall, last night, there was a delightful concert under the auspices or the United Italian Republican Club, of Pitts burg. There was a large attendance, and the entertainment was thoroughly enjoyed. Cards ai e out for a reception to bo given by Mrs. Alexander Gordon, of Edgewood. in honor ot Mrs. Alexander Gordon, Jr., who lias proved'herseir a decided social acquisi tion in her new home. At the Queen's drawingroom, on Monday last, Mrs. Henry Phipps was among the American Indies presented to Her Majesty by Minister Lincoln. Mrs. Harlow, wife of Lieutenant Harlow, will be the guest of her nieces, the Misses Price, of Oakland Terrace, next week. Miss Kate Murray, of Chicago, is tho gue-t of her sister, Mrs. James Atwell,vOak- ianu rernicc. Miss Hates, of Chlcazo. is visitlnz her aunt, Mrs. Judge McL'andless, of the East End. The Mill Is About to Start. Chicago Tribune.3 The naturalization mill is about to start np. There is a whole bar"l of grease to oil it with, and It will run on fall time tin the close of the campaign. A Voice From the South. Louisville Courler-JournaUl There is a getting upstairs alongtho Mis sissippi and a. setting down into cyclone cellars in the West. It is a bad year, my masters. BUT NOT FOR HILL. When the general roll Is called she'll be there, Old Georgia, with the hayseed lu her hair: Folks that sec for her a trap. She will give 'em all a rap. With a feather In her cap She'll be there! When the general roll Is called she'll be there. Old Georgia, like she gets there every year; Oh, (he ticks the dnst up fine. For she wears a number'nlne. And you'll see her rise and shine; . She'llbetnere! Atlanta Constitution. CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. A machine has been invented which will turn out 30,000 corkscrews a day. The great cathedral in the City of Mex ico is tho largest in America and cost nearly $2,000,000. There is a chicken living at Seymour, Ind., which is said to lave four wings and four legs. A clipper ship for every day in the year is required to remoro California's surplus wheatto Europe. A company has been granjd permission to experiment with electric omnlbnsos in London the coming summer. If a well could be dug to the depth of 46 miles, the density of the air at the bottom would be as great as that of quicksilver. A new religious sect has been estab lished in Virginia by a negro named Na thaniel Brown, which he calls the "No Meat Eaters." A 100-year-old bearing orange tree, from San Gabriel, is one or tho exhlbitsan nonnced from California, forhe Chicago t World's , airj A large white circle around the sua frightened the negroes at JacksonIiss., so badly last week that-they rusned from their nouses anu aeciarea tuat tne juagmem uay was coming. Some large blasts of rock have been made to provide material for the new har bor of refuge at Brest, as much as 100,000 cubic yards being thrown out at one time. A redbird died at the advanced age of 23 years in Zanesvllle, O., the other day. It had become so feeble that it could not mount its purch in its cage, but it sang until a year ago. There are two yew trees in the Depart ment of the Eure, in France, which are sup posed to be 1,500 years old. They measure about 30 and 23 leet in circumference re spectively. By the great earthquake of October 28 four large cotton spinning-mills were dis abled, and many of the old native industries were destroyed, some of which have not been resumed. Turkish women, all of whom wear ear rings from their seventh year, derive tho use of these Jewels from Hagar, who is held, in veneration as the mother of Ishmael, tho founder of their race. A Wisconsin congregation that de termined to stop ritualistic practices jn every form has elected as Its rector an ex tremely low churchman who stands 6 feet 3 inches in his stockings. A most singular method of street no menclature Is adopted in Canton, China. Thus there Is a street called Unblemished Rectitude, a Pure Pearl street, a street" of Benevolence and another of Love. In Chile, after making cider and wine from their apples, they extract from the re-' fuse a white and finely-flavored spirit, and by another process they procure a sweet treacle, or, as they term it, honey. Northeast Missouri is the home of tho giants. Ella Ewlng, the tallest girl In the United States, is from Clark county; and Jode Webb, who at the age of 16 measures 6 feet 7 inches, is from Scotland county. Lighthouses are classified by orders de-' pending on the, height and diameter of tho lighting apparatus. There are four orders. The first three are used tor sea or coast lights and the fourth for harbor purposes. Dickson county, Kan., has a county su perintendent of schools who, when he visits schools, takes along a box of tools, saw, hammer, etc., and Axes all the broken seats,' decayed doorsteps and dilapidated brooms he comes across. Captain Robert Gray, of the tea and tur ship Columbia, was the first white man to sail into the great river of the Paciflo slope which bears his vessel's name. He crossed the bar on May 10, 1792. The Columbia drains a basin of 335,000 square miles. The dimensions of the famous floating dock in Bermuda, the largest in the world, nre: Length over all, 381 feet; length between caissons. 330 feet: breadth over all, 123 feet 9 inches; bieadth inside walls, 81 feet; depth overall, 75 feet; total weight, 8,3iJ tons. The system of postal savings banks was introdnced in France in 1882. During 1S90 the 6,817 branch postal banks received,l,9!9 371 separate deposits, representing the sum- -of$20,465.g32 47, which is a far larger sum--than was handled daring the previous year. , Caviar, which is made from the eggs of stnrgeon, is an important article of exporta tion for many cities of Russia and As trakhan, and principally Taganrok. The an nual amount is estimated at 40,000 ponds (1 poud is equal to 35 uounds). The srreater part goes to Turkey, Greece, Italy and Ger many, very little to England, and still less to France. V Carp are known to be hard to kill, but one sent to Pendleton from Portland, Ore., the other day beats the record. It bad trav eled all tho way from Portland on ice, and there were bruises on its head, showing that an attempt had been made thero to take its life; bnt when the box was opened this "fresh flsh" was found to be moving around, as hough accustomed to such trifles. The Canadian census takers had troubla with their Indians. The Indians are de scribed as being, not unnaturally, very curi ous to know what the census was for. At one place they wonld demand to be paid forgiv ing their names.and at another the enumer ator had to bribe them with tobacco before they would tell the names of children and others who were out hunting or berrying in the woods. While the Duchess of Sanfelice was walking along the Via Fireuze in Jiomo ro centlv the cord holding her necklace of pearls broke and the gems, valued nt $50,000, rolled into the sewer. An alarm was sent to the Department of Streets, and laborers were instructed to search for the pearls, the Via Fireuze in the meantime being closed. The h an t -n as successful, and all but four of the Jewels were found. A reason given for the use of the third as the ring finger by some anthorities, is that in the early Christian marriage cere monies the bridegroom, taking the ring, put it first on the bride's thumb, nn d then suc cessively on the first and second fingers, pronouncing in each case the name of ono person of the Trinity immediately after the words: "With this ring I tbee wed" name ly, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, until, -with tho final "Amen," the third finger was reached, and thero the wedding ring was suffered to remain. IDYLLIC HU3IOKE3QCES. "George, dear, don't you think it's rather extravagant of you to eat butter with that delicious Jam?" "No. love; economical. Same piece of bread does for both." Harper's Bazar. "An eminent tragedian Would star in leading parts, " So read his advertisement In the dramatic marts. He soon found an engagement And in brl'Uant hues arrayed He led a painted zebra In the circus grand parade. Vhicago limes. Teacher What is a knight-errant, Georgia Gazzam? ... ... Georgie-Goln' for the doctor after dark, ma'am. Detroit Free Press. "I've noticed a queer thing about bald old bachelors." What's that?" "You often find long hairs on their coat sleeves." Aew Turk Herald. When the dreary drizzle drizzle Last for weary, weary weeks. Making life a wretched flzzle. Making oceans out of creeks. What a bore to press the pillow Of a cottage chamber bed. And to listen to the ever Lasting raindrops overhead! Chicago Tribute, Hard-up painter (to Old Friend) Yes, Chaffee. I am wedded to my art. Old Friend Confound you. d'Auber; I always told you that you would some day marry a poor . glrli-Puc. "When I grow up I'll be a man, won't I?" asked a little Harlem boy of his mother. "Yes. my son. If you want to be a man you most be industrious at school, aud learn how to behave yourself." "Why, ma; do lazy boys turn out to be women when they grow up!" Texas Sitings. When coasting on the shore, beware Of reefers and of capes. When they are worn by summer girls Of most entrancing snapes. Cloak Review, Hojack So poor Staggers is dead. Tomdlk Yes; and did you hear or the wise rore thoughtof Mrs. Staggers? ' Hoi ack What did she do? TomdlKHad him laid ott In an.asDestos soromd. Judge. 1 if1 , i4,i flftftfttif rM i-"5. MAstfcfTaH -.SEfe"
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