w V 4 THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH, MONDAY. MAT 23. 1892. I lijeBigpM. ESTABLISHED FEBUtTARY 8, 1S4G VcL 47, No. 108 Entered at Pittsburg Postofflce November, 1S37, as tccon d-class matter. Business Office Corner Smithfield and Diamond Streets. News Rooms and Publishing House 7S and So Diamond Street, in New Dispatch Building. EASTERN ADVKKTKIXR OFFICE. KOOM 76. TRIBUNE m.'IM)IXG, NEW YORK, where com plete flies orTHE DISPATCH can always be round. Foreign advertisers appreciate the convenience. Home advertisers and friends of TI1E DISPATCH, while In New York, are also made welcome. THE DlsrATCllis regularly onmltat Brcntana's. 11 rnfon Sevan, Seu Tork, and n Ave de POpera. Paris. .Rvim. uliere artyortt who has been disap pointed at a hotel news stand can obtain it. TERMS OF THE DISPATCH. POSTAGE FREE IN TnE UKTTED STATES. tah,t HisrATCH. One Year $ 8 00 Daily PisrATCii, Per Quarter 2 00 Daily Dispatch, One Month 70 D ULY Disr-ATCII, Including Sunday. 1 year.. 10 00 Daily' Dispatch, Including Sunday, 3m'ths, 2 50 lAtLY DisrATCH, Including Sunday, 1 m'th.. 90 J5UXDAY- DisrATCn. One Year ; 50 Weekly Dispatch. One Year 115 The Daily- Dispatch Is delivered by carriers at 35 cents per week, or, including Sunday Edition, at to cents per week. PITTsBrKG. MOXDAY. MAY 23. 1SD2. TUB BLAINE REVIVAL. The persistent attempt of the anti Harrison element to force the nomination of Blaine is at once a measure of the strength of the public sentiment for the Secretary of State and an indication of the desperate desire of the opponents of the President to use Blaine in defeating thereuomination. Our special telegrams, reflecting the position of affairs on both sides, leave no doubt that the anti-Harrison men have organized to the best of their ability to boom Mr. Blaine's nomination and stam pede the convention for him. Their work is apparent in the appearance of reports that the Secretary will accept a nomina tion by acclamation, and in the renewed representations which are far from un foundedof the strength of the popular desire that he shall be the candidate. With this movement pushed as it will be by the skill and energy of which the anti Harrisonites are capable, nothing can pre vent its rise to a stage dangerous to Mr. Harrison's nomination, except a new and even more positive declaration from the Secretary of State that he will not take the nomination. It is probably correct, as stated in our dispatches, that all the engineers of this movement ask of Mr. Blaine is that he shall hold his peace till the convention acts. If he falls in with their wishes to that extent there is a good chance that Ohio, Pennsylvania and Xew Tork will be able to stampede the convention. It is quite possible that Russell Harrison's last injudicious outbreak may have the effect of inducing Blaine to keep silence, while the Harrison and anti-Harrison elements rend each other over the question whether he will accept or not But if the plan carries out to the point of success, it is worth while to consider the result. The Dispatch has been out spoken in declaring that Blaino is head and shoulders above any candidate If his health permitted hifi to run. But after he has positively declined, for the reason that the strain on him would probably be fatal, would it be any gain to the .Republi can party to nominate a man subject to 2ilu-c-r;nBi:riCies involved in that state ment? It is pertinent to remark that the present Blaine boomers have not in the past shown such fidelity to him as to pre clude the thought that they might be will ing to subject him to fatal chances so that their own political power remained un broken. That Blaine, in full vigor and leading the Republican party by his free choice, would be a candidate superior to Harrison is beyond dispute. But with the circum stances as they are now the revival of the Blaine outcry is mainly a sign of des perate opposition to Harrison. now much gold reserve? An admission is credited to Secretary Foster, in his testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, that the gold re serve in the Treasury has been reduced from 5100,000,000 to ?G2,O00,O00. Whether that admission was definitely made or not, or whether the fact is so or not, can best be decided by a reference to the official re port of the testimony when it is published. Our Democratic cotemporary the Boston Globe makes it the basis of an attack on the Secretary's disregard of the enactment that when the reserve falls below 5100, 000,000 the issue of gold certificates shall cease. Certainly the law should bo strictly ob served in such a matter; but that is not the chief reason why the fact should be placed beyond dispute. If it is truo that the gold reserve is diminished to that ex tent we have an evidence of the progress toward the necessary result of Mr. Fos ter's much-trumpeted policy of heaping up silver in the Treasury and then using the gold reserve to sustain the silver cer tificates at par with gold. Sixty-two mill ions may suffice to maintain this status for some time; but the reduction of one-third in the gold reserve indicates that If the process Is kept up the time must come when the Treasury must resort to silver for its payments. It would be one of the ironies of fate if after the free silver coinage proposition had been effectually postponed to another administration the chosen policy of the Re publican party should result in landing the nation on the same silver basis. Tet, if the Treasury finds its stock of gold de pleted, what other resort can it have than to the overgrown pile of silver in its vaults? The allegation is an interesting one, and the public will await with con siderable interest the report of the com mittee to determine whether it is a fact or not IS IT COTEKED UP? The fact that the great mystery of the Keystone Bank in Philadelphia is only likely to be solved by a Congressional in vestigation is brought to the point by the Philadelphia Ledger. There is a national bearing in the suspicion of a persistent smothering of this plundering of a bank under the supervision of the Government that certainly calls for ventilation. The repeated evidences of a disposition to stop the investigation into the wrecking of the bank received due notice as they appeared. The efforts of Philadelphia business men to have the examination go ou were ultimately successful The Ledger states that the experts making the examination have traced every dollar that went into the bank, and that their reports to the Treasury Department show where the missing money went Butanyinforma tion to the public, or any prosecution of tho people who pocketed the money, is conspicuously absent Bardsley has been taken out of prison to testify that he lost T,,WlV X, public money by the over a minion 01 f w'-f.-M. -ffl i'lMtlifl' jig!, j A v wrecking of the bank, but the secret where that money went to is as jealously guarded as ever. It is clear that the two millions of dollars which disappeared in the wrecking went into the pockets of some one. Of that money a large share was composed of public funds, and all of it was money in trusted to an Institution under govern mental supervision. Under those circum stances it is not any part of the duty of the administration to cover up or protect those who profited by the plunder. If the fact be as stated, that the experts' reports disclose where the money went, the sup pression of the facts lifts the scandal from the local administration of the bank and the subordinate officers of the national banking bureau to the national adminis tration. The reports of the experts should bo made public so that the facts may be known. If the Treasury Department will not disclose them in any other way a Con gressional investigating committee should demand their production. NOT AN IMPROVEMENT. The recent declaration of that organ of most conservative financial interests, the Financial Chronicle of New York, in favor of repealing the national tax which prohibits State bank circulation has caused a general following of the lead in quarters where it would be least expected. The proposition is supported undoubtedly by the shrinkage in the volume of na tional bank circulation; but that hardly seems a reason why in remedying that matter we uhould take the illogical course of going back to the conditions of thirty years aga One New Tork paper in favor of the change argues that the conditions now are different from what they were thirty years ago. Whether they have changed in the respects which would make it safe to open the door to wildcat bank circula tion may be a matter for discussion. Our corporate system at large does not show any marked diminution in tho disposition of speculators and operators to inject a large proportion of wind and water into the total of business and investments. Inflation in prices and speculation is not shy of appearing. The record of broken State banks and private bankers is not an assurance against unsafe banking. Bogus insurance schemes and shallow invest ment frauds spring up like weeds wher ever gulls can be found to sustain them. We search in vain for any evidence that the same class would not utilize the op portunity to Impose on the public by put ting in circulation an indefinite amount of banknotes whose ultimate value would be in its weight for waste paper. The example of the Canadian bank cir culation is referred to in defense of the State bank circulation. But before ac cepting that as a proof in favor of State bank circulation It may be well to inquire whether the banking question in Canada is not a subject of Dominion and not Provincial legislation and whether char ters are not granted so sparingly as to be too valuable to risk by wildcat banking. Certainly the feature with regard to them that every note is returned to tho Issuing bank for redemption as soon as it comes into another bank offers no superiority to the universal acceptability and stability of our national bank notes. The disappearance of Government bonds as a basis for banking requires the adop tion of some securities of equal soundness for the same function. It will be no im provement of the situation to open the door to the condition of things when it will be necessary to get a mercantile agency report to determine the value of every.five dollar bill you happen to hold. TnE TRUST IS RESPONSIBLE. The counsel for the Sugar Trust is re enforced by a grocery cgmpany in St Louis asserting that the price of sugar is reason able and that injury will be inflicted on the vested interests If the sugar duty is re pealed. The reasonable price of sugar, like that of every other commodity, is that fixed by competition. A competitive price expresses the average willingness of labor and capital to do the work for that award. A non-competitive price ex presses the ability of those who have sup pressed competition to get what they want The advance of c per pound on sugar means that by suppressing competi tion the Trust is able to extort 511,250,000 per annum more from the people than what would be paid under competition. If any injury is inflicted by the repeal of the duty no one is to blame for it but the sugar monopoly. That organization undertook to antagonize and defeat the purpose of the protective duty, namely, to diminish the price by stimulating home competition. When it thus attacked the protective purpose it justly forfeited all claim to protection. LEGISLATIVE REGULATION. The application of the theory of legis lative regulation of rates to be levied in the railroad business, or any other charged with public obligations, receives a couple of illustrations in the Eastern press. The inadequacy and iniquity of that policy ap pear in carrying it out into such details as this. One is furnished by a paragraph to the effect that "summer railroads" not over ten miles in length are permitted in New Tork to charge fares of 15 cents per mile. This naturally provokes from the New Tork Herald the comment that, If a road happens to be a little over ten miles long, it will make money by tearing up a fur long of its rails and letting its victims walk the rest of the way. Beyond that, the absurdity of a summer road ten miles long being authorized to charge a fare of $1 50, and one 10 miles long which must not charge more than 31 cents, is a signal illustration of the arbitrary di visions which legislative regulation neces sitates. The other caso is from Massachusetts, where in pursuit of the same policy a measure is proposed that railroads whose shares have a market value of 115 on the par of 100 shall be subject to the two-cent-a-milo restriction. The proposition is an attempt to incorporate into law the general and undeniablo theory that as a railroad's business grows its charges suouia aiminisn. iiutas a statutory pro vision it v would be both unjust and in adequate There are many railroads doing a profitable freight business on which passenger traffic at more than two cents per mile is absolutely unremunera tive; and there are many more which might justly make such a reduction whose stocks by reason of water or manipulation never rise to 15 per cent above par. Here we have a suggestion of the principal effect of the proposed enactment Any railroad desiring to evade that provision could by the well-known methods inflate its stocks, so that an apparent quotation of 60 or 65 on the par of 100 would be a real premium of 20 or 30 per cent on the actual investment There is just one way to insure the equitable adjustment of charges to the de- 1 tails of each case. That is to make com- .. ,"..., 1 """"a" com- petition in it "so free that the. charge for J ), 1 iffla 1 4uiW-&sMJfi. IS.. .'$ such services will be fixed by exactly the same force that fixes the charge for a bushel of potatoes or a pair of shoes. The Democrats in Congress have yet to decide whether they will go before the country this year on the platform of pubho economy or that of pork. At present they seem Inclined to Tote for pork. The fact that Senator Hill took part in celebrating the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence may occasion surprise in view of the Senator's -well-known dislike to anything lllro independence. But the inde pendence which the Senator assisted in commemorating was the independence of 117 years ago. Anything morerecentin that line could not command that machine poli tician's approval. TnE policy of pressure adopted by the anti-Harrison bosses is forcing that element to show its hands, andtnay eventually make Blaine realize that silence is not golden at all times. Lady Henky Somerset daintily speaks of America as "the happy country of tho larger hope." This sngge9ts to the New York Press that Lady Somerset "had been talking with Mr. Cleveland during ner travels in the United States." Our cotemporary seems ,to he convinced that Mr. Cleveland's hope is of large and substantial character. IP there were fewer temptations the crop of wrongdoors would be lighter. Hence the Blue Laws should he made to conform with modern civilization. A .Philadelphia organ of the Reading combine reports that tho people of the Le high Valley have accepted the deal as a necessity and are hecomiug resigned to it, which inevitably recalls the man who Was asked whether his deceased wife was re signed on her deathbed. "Resigned," was the reply, "she had to be." TnE man who took off his flannels during the April hot spell stands a good chance of having no further use for them. Chances of contusion between the Gray booms are avoided by the fact that the Dela ware Gray has declined to be a candidate. As the Indiana boom of the same shady color is apparently lost, tho Chicago con vention is thoroughly protected against the danger of having to determine which is which. AS the time draws nigh the indications of a Ilarrison walkover at Minneapolis grow beautifully less. It is no more than fair to note the fact that a proposition was made last week on behalf of the workmen in the great granite lock-out for a compromise which would obviate all cause for dispute. If the em ployers refuse this offer, thoy will show that they are determined on prolonging the con flict. If Deeming had lived in Allegheny county he would not now be living some where else. A persistent weather prophet out West calls attention to his past predictions, among which was the assertion that "the 1892 drouth will begin to show its lurking places in April." A weather prophet who can claim verification lor an Intimation of drouth in tho past six weeks is past all cure. LotBET is solid for the suppression ot anarchy and the French Chamber is solid with him. There seems to be a decided and urgent necessity for John C. New to organize vig orous and repressive measures against the political suspects who carry Blaine dyna mite and are not at all chary of throwing their bombs at the renominatlon fabric. The late frosts have nipped some Presl dental booms as well as the pears. The Irish National League of America very plainly tells the Home Kulers that they must stop personal quarrels and go to work for the good of Ireland. This warning from the source of campaign funds may have the necessary effect. NAMES FREQUENTLY HEARD. President Polk, of the Farmers' Alli ance, has a heard which ought to make Peffer green with envy. Senator Ransom, of North Carolina, is supposed to he the best dressed and most polished man in the Senate. Senator Cameron is said to take more pleasure in holding the reins behind a fast horse than in any other occupation. Assistant Surgeon J. B. Stoner, of the Marine Ilospital Service, Detroit, has been found qualified for promotion. Senator Brice will be a resident of Rhode Island this summer, and has taken tho Newport cottage belonging to Danny Fearing. The Czar and Czarina sailed for Copen hagen Saturday for the purpose of attending the golden wedding of the King and Queen of Denmark. Herr Latjter, the manager of Krupp's great gun factory, is about to start for tho United States to arrange, for the transporta tion of tho big guns that Herr Krupp will exhibit at the Chicago Fair. Allen Manvel, President of the Atchi-. son, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, arrived in New 1 ork Wednesday from a two months' visit abroad, the greater portion of which was spent at Genoa, Italy. Noting the fact that Count Hesse-War-tegg is now in Paris as the correspondent of a syndicate of newspapers, Eugene Field says that he pursues literature as an avoca tion; by vocation he is the husband of Min nie Hauk. Jacob Gould Schukman, the new President of Cornell, was a clerk in a village store on Prince Edward Island when a boy of 13. He studied hard at home and gained some scholarship In local colleges which en abled him togo to London. The New Socialist Temple at Paris. Paws, May 22. Tho President of tho Municipal Council, in the presence of ex Minister Goblet and an immense gathering of workmen, to-day opened the now Labor Exchange, which was built under the con trol of and by a subvention from the Munici pal Council. Several speeches were made, all socialistic in tone. Chicago's Milk Trust Knocked Out. Chicago, May 22 Tho Chicago Milk Ship pers' Association was beaten in court to-day m a suit for debt, on the ground that the or ganization is a trust. Judge TuthiU deliv ered the deolsion. The result is expected to he the disruption of the combine. Brazil Loses a Warship. Montevideo, May 22. The Brazilian tur ret ship Bolimoes was wrecked off Cape Santa Maria, near the mouth of the Rio de La Plata, while en route to Matto Grosso. and but five of the crew were saved, 120 be ing drowned. Sirs. Harrison Is Better. Washington, May 22. There was a per ceptible improvement in Mrs. Harrison's condition to-day, and her physician says she has been more comfortable than for sev eral days past. They Need Grab In Spain. New York Advertiser. Through Minister Grubb's efforts Spain has raised her embargo on American pork. They need "grub" in Spain. The Bight Man Will Get There. St. Louis Globe-Dcmocrat.3 The right man will probably he nominated in Minneapolis anyhow, no matter how many ballots are taken. Ought to Teach Them to. Walk, New York Evening World. I The authorities, of Madrid ought toma few of Its star Anarchists walk Spanish. The authorities, of Madrid ought to make a ONE-EYED ORTHODOXY. IWniTTEJf FOR THE DISFATCII.l I have no grudge against the Presby terian Church. I hope that that great com munion will come safely out of the dangers and temptations of the present General As sembly. It is a mark of tho vitality of American Presbyterianism that it has survived so many General Assemblies. Year after year religion has been made to run the ecclesias tical gauntlet, and increasing numbers of parsons and laymon have taken a whack at it on one side or tho other, and yet religion lives' As we grow wiser, we will come to hold the General Assembly only once in ten years. A good many people nowadays are doubt less remembering the interesting Assembly of 1837, in which, even as to-day, the party of orthodoxy had a majority or votes. Re ligion had a hard time of it that year. The malorlty seized tho opportunity and ex pelled as mnny of the minority ns they con veniently could. That, unhappily, is the temper of orthodoxy always. Somehow, bigotry and orthodoxy seem to go togothor. It is, of course, the heretics who call the orthodox bigoted. They themselves believe that their aotions are impelled bv con- science and regard for truth and love for God. That is what they thought when they piled the rack and the thumbscrew and lighted the fagots ot the Inquisition. It is unfortunate that the orthodox have so much of the love of God in their hearts that they appear to have no room loft for tho love of man. The heretics seem to have a monopoly of brotherly lovo. And somehow, we outsiders, who aro not muoh interested in the technique or ortho doxy, havo a kind of liking for brotherly love. Most of us are on the side of tho heretics. And when the orthodox put tho heretics out, as they did in 1S37, and as they may possibly do ia 1892, all our sympathy goes with the defeated party. The Fnult ot Orthodoxy. It is said that Dungala, the Indian god J 01 tnings-as-they-are, has but one eye. He sees only ono side. lie cannot understand that there is another side. Whoever de clares that there is really another side is a liar, and the truth is not in him. Dungala would bo a good patron saint for the party of aggressive orthodoxy. I do not mean only in Portland, but everywhere and always. Tho orthodox party sees things-as- they-are, and is resolved that all things shall remain as they are. Orthodoxy has never been able to make allowances for differ ences. That is my ohief objection to orthodoxy. The orthodox may hold the truth, or they may not. The trouble with them is.that even when they do maintain the truth, they maintain it in a narrow, bigoted, unbroth erly, and unohristian way. Thoy want to put out all who disagree with them. They cannot see that all the great truths are so big that the different people must look at them from differont points of view. They say, These truths have always been looked at from this point of view: consequently, thero i3 no other point of view. In the General Assembly of 18S7 the ortho dox wore in the majority. They proceeded to expell the heretics. They actually turned out the Synod of Western Reserve, of Utica, of Geneva, and of Genesee, and the Third Presbytery of Philadelphia. Mr. Dayid Ben nett Hill never executed a coup more clever, more effective, and in tho end, more disas trous. It was a case or ecclesiastical gerrymander of the worst kind. It was as if a Democratic majority in the State Assembly should disfranchise Allegheny county. The result, of course, was division. Presbyteri anism was long after divided into New School and Old School. The point of difference, I believe, between the orthodox and the heritics, was that one side believed in mediate and the other in immediate imputation! Who can tell to day which is the orthodox and which the heretical position? Who knows, indeed, what imputation means, whether immediate or mediate? All this has long gone into the theological dust heap. Something in the Portland Fight. They have something better to fight over oi rortiana. That is an enoouragement. The question of scriptural inerranoy is vast ly more interesting than the question of im mediate imputation. Ono would think, also, that it would bo considerably more easy of settlement. The Orthodox say there are no errors in the Bible. The book of Holy Scripture is exact, acourate and Infallible in all Its religion, all its science, all its history and chronology, and all its grammar. The heretics say no. Surely there is no room hero for a priori discussion. This is a matter of fact. You set down a column of figures, and your neighbor says you havo made a blunder. Will you then, putting the figures behind you, enter upon a discussion of the probability of mathematical errancy? AbsurdI You say show me the mistake. This the heretics aro very willing to do. It is plain, thoy say, that the Bible is not infal lible verbally, for there are 150,000 different readings, in which cases nobody knows ex actly what the right word is. It is not in fallible historically. Two writers describe the same event differently. Ono says that there were two blind men at the gate of Jericho, another says thero was but one. Dates differ. All the marks aro found here which appear in any other quite human his tory. It is not infallible scientifically. Genesis and geology cannot be made to fit together. It is not infallible morallv. The Old Testament contains much against which our New Testament con science revolts. The provisions made for conduct in the old time were the best that men knew, or could receive then; we have outgrown many of them now. A man who who should attempt here in Pittsburg to take tne Bible as an Infallible and an iner rant guide in morals, and should shape his conduct according to certain precepts and examples which he might find between its covers, would bo thrust into a patrol wagon. The Bible 'nowhere claims to bo Inerrant. The Now Testament writers did not regard the Old Testament as inerrant. Even in the Reformation days, neither Luther nor Cal vin believed in an inerrant Bible. It was not until the Reformation had begun to de clino in enthusiasm and spiritual fervor that it came to be thought that "not only the substance or truth and the views "pro posed in their minutest detail, but even tho identical words, all nnd in particular, woro supplied and dictated by the Holy Ghost. Not a word is contained in the Holy Scrip ture which is not in the strictest sense in spired, the very interpunction not ex cepted." This notion which the orthodox party are intent upon upholding in the General As sembly came into tho roolish heads or blind theologians not earlier than tho seventeenth century. The Bible Not Endangered. It matters little, except for the inter estsorthe Presbyterian Church, which way the question is decided at Portland, or whether or not it ia decided at all, either "mediately" or "immediately." There is no danger that even the largest kind of a ma jority will be able to put the Biblo under a glass case and padlock the case. The Bible is so great, so true, and so inspired, that it has not the slightest need of being fenced off with a barbed-wire barrier of pious lies. It is to be readandto he studied. Tho actual truth about it is to bo found out and proclaimed. Tho sooner, tho better; and the more of it, the 'better. No weight of orthodox anathema will deter the wise scholars who to-day are anow discovering the Bible for us and making it real. The right of free inquiry that is tho ques tion upon which all tho other questions turn. Must men go on year after year be ginning all their teaching and preaching with the formula, "it is written," blindly upholding the old traditions, echoing the old doctors, and maintaining the dominion of things-as-they-are? Or shall thinking beings be allowed to think; shall there be study, and examination, and investigation, and genuine, unimpeded search for truth? That is the question which not only Presby terianism but every other ecclesiastical ism has got to face. And the question is tho enigma of tho sphynx. The penalty of a wrong answer Is death. What we want to-day is truth J1 Wo want it in theology Just as much as wji do every where else. We want to learn it hi the book of Scripture as we do in the hook of nature. And we believe that whatever is! truewill not be afraid of the light. When anything is immummmi kept back in the dark and defended from examination by guards in black uniform with shotguns of anathema, we suspect that it is not true. Truth needs no cover of darkness. Truth asks no aid from intoler ance. Truth is always on the sids of free inquiry. Truth has her abode in the coun try of things-as-they-ought-to-be. BUGS ON HIS BETUBKS. An Illustration of the Loose Way In Which Connecticut Election Officers Worked. New Haven, Conn., May 22. Counsel In the Phelan-Walsh quo-wnrranto case to ex pedite matters have appointed a committee of two Republicans and two Democrats to canvass the votes cast for Secretary of Stato at the last State election. It was agreed that tho finding of tills committeo should be accepted as a (act in the presentation of the case to Judge Hall nnd when tho caso is taken to the Supreme Court. The count was completed yesterday. It was found that Pholau received a mtijority of 547 votes for Secretary of State, which is 3 more than the tabulated returns compiled by the Sec retary or State gave him. Tho writing on many or the statements is almost Illegible and eras.es and blots are common. Tho ink used bv the counters was, ns a rule, very poor, and "has already faded. In sovoral cases where the counters did not uso the printed form for making out the re turns they took the official ballots of the different candidates and wrote tho number or votes they received on them. Tho most remarkable return tho committee have yet found came from Goshen. The countor in that town.instead of using the official blank, tore a couple of leaves out of a book on zoology and wrote out the result on them. The papers are covered with illustrations of highly colored bugs and insects that live under water. This return tho committee think should be framed and exhibited con spicuously in order to Bhow the hit or miss fashion m which elections are recorded in this State. CHICAGO CLEEKS DEMAHD BEST. They Are Backed Up by Church People and the Central Trades Assembly. Chicago, May 22. Two methods of secur ing Sunday closing and no night work were proposed to tho Chicago clothing clerks at tho great mass meeting held this afternoon in Bricklayers' Hall. Ono camo from tho ropiesentatives of organized labor, and, in a word, was to boycott dealers who per sist in exacting unreasonable labor of their employes. The other came from the clergy and was, in effect, to educate people out of thoir thoughtlessness in making purchases. Since the mass meeting was held under tho auspices of tho Trades and Labor Assembly, the former method met with tho more favor able reception. Steps were taken to initiate a move for the organization of the salesmen, and it is not improbable that the upshot of to-day's meeting will be the representation of clerks in the Trades and Lnbor Assem bly. Resolutions were adopted, condemn ing the practice of employers in opening their shops at all on Sunday and keeping open an unreasonable length of time on weekdays, and appointing a committee of ten to request clothing dealers to contorm with the desire of the meeting. THE THIBD PABTY FOB FBEE SILVEB. Their Congressmen in Washington Send a Message of Comfort to Colorado. Denver, Cot., May 22. W. H. Slater, Chair man of the Executive Committee of the Col orado Silver League, some time ago ad dressed individual letters to tho eleven members of tho People's party in Congress, asking their views and position upon the question or free and unlimited coinage of silver. To-day a combined reply, signed by seven of the members, the remaining four being absent from Washington and unable to be reached, was received. It is, in part as follows: "Wo beg to say that we are In practical ac cord with you on the subject of free coinage of silver. We do not consider it a full solu tion of the money question, but as an im poitant step in tho right direction. With this view our party and its leaders and teachers uniformly work and vote for the equal legal treatment of the two money metals." This letter Is signed by B. H. Clover, John Davis, K. Halvorsen, John C. Otis, William C. Baker, O. C. Kern and Jerry Simpson. A BETTEB TEST THIS TIME. The Vice President of the Whisky Trust Surrenders on a Stronger Indloiment. New York, May 21 Herbert L. Terrell, Vice President of the Whisky Trust, ap peared before United States Commissioner Shields yesterday and surrendered himself, having learned that a warrant had been Issued for him in connection with an indict ment that had been found against all the members of the Whisky Trust by tho United States Grand Jury May 10. Commissioner Shields allowed Mr. Terrell to go on his own recognizance, to appear be fore the Commissioner again Thursday. A copy of tho indictment was received bv United States District Attorney Mitchell Friday. The indictment is more explicit than that found, in Boston last Maroh and quashed through the efforts or Lawyer Root, who held it was faulty in that it failed to speciry any illegal actions on the part of the trust. A SUNDAY OPENING COMPROMISE, It Is Proposed to Turn the World's Fair Into a Sacred Concert Bach Holy Day. New York, May 22. Mrs. Flora Adams Darling, the President General of the United States Daughters General Society, makes a patrqtic suggestion for tho solution or tho problem or Sundays at the World's Fair. She proposes that the Fair bo opened for a grand international concert each Sunday; that the national anthems of the various countries be rendered in harmony with the day and occasion, and that, if practical, ad dresses be made by ominent clergymen of all denominations and countries in the vari ous buildings under the auspices of different organizations; but that music the universal language of the world shall be the reature of the Sundays of the World's Columbian Exposition. AMEBICA M0BEM0BAL THAN ENGLAND. Lady Somerset Very Outspoken on tho Vices of the Modern Babylon. London, May 21. Lady Somerset thinks New York is not as bad morally ns London. When interviewed to-day, she said: "Dread ful as are the dives and saloons of New York, I was much struck and encouraged by tho met that none but women completely lost to all decenoy and character can be found in these places in cither New York or Chicago, in neither of which cities can such sights be seen as shock us in Piccadilly. "I bolieve) I have mentioned this faot pnb licly before, but it cannot be too much in sisted upon, and I shall goon repeating it till my remarks produce some effect. Last Sunday night, when I left St. James' Hall, I passed through a scene of vice that could not be publicly flaunted In the streets of any American city". ' Belgian Elections Change Nothing. Brussels, May 22. Eleotious wero hold in Belgium to-day to replaco one-hair or the members or tho Provincial Councils, whose terms ore about to expire. The changes resulting are not sufficient to affect the respective majorities of the different parties. There was some rioting at Lonvain to-day between students and Soolalists. Forty persons wero arrested, and many wero in jured. DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE. Addison Myers, McKeesport. Addison Myers, aged 24 years, was found dead In his bed at McKeesport, at 5;30 o'clock, Saturday morning, and Is supposed to have died from an epileptic fit. He lived with his parents. He retired apparently well and In good spirits Friday night. Early next morning his lather heard a groan and lound the door of Ills room locked. He then climbed in throuorh a win dow from the porch, and found his son dead. Obituary Notes. J. M. Fillmore, a well-known railroad man, and manager or the Pac iflc Coast Railway, died Saturday at San I.uia Oblsho, (Jul. Dr. Charles Elmer LAntxo. ex-President of the Illinois Homeopathic Medical Association, and prominent In the faculty, died Saturday at Chicago of pneumonia. He was horn in Pennsylraula in 1831. Mas. LEVI WARD, of Wnrtemburg, Lawrence comity, died Saturday night, aged 65. The de ceased was one of the best-known women In the county, having been connected with the W. C. T. U. for years, ller husband Is Vice President of the Lawrence County Agricultural Society. JIrs. Mart Platt. widow of Thomas Piatt, died at New Castle yesterday, aged 69 years. The deceased was the mother of William Platt, an at tache of one of the departments at Washington, and also mother of Hanhlton and James Platt, meritfLntllp nrlnters In Waahtncton 8tnte. She was born lu Ireland, but haslllTed in New Caitls so years. m BUUI fi . Mlfftfiim iliri i! Yitttfto- -ftrrtfcrnmrrli- - A DULL MONEY MARKET. IKrECIAL TELEGRAM TO'TOE DISPATCn.l New York, May 22. "A Dull Money Market" is the title of Matthew Marshall's article for to-morrow's Sun. It is as follows: In spite of many discouraging incidents the market for sound dividend and inteiest paying securities remains firm, and is even advancing. The prophets or evil who havo been predicting both tho fallnro of tho Rich mond Terminal reorganization scheme, which has been so long before the public, and the passing of the quarter's dividend on Northern Pacific Railway preferred stock, have had their Bagaclty vindicated by the event, and, Just at the close or the week, came the announcement or the new $100,000, 000 second mortgage of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fo Railway Company, which, ap parently, is a bold repudiation of the con tract or the company with its incomo bond holders and an attempt to bulldoze them into accepting considerably less than they are entitled to. Tho Western floods have, likewise, discouraged purchases of tho stooks of the companies whose property they havo damaged and WI1030 receipts they have out down. But beyond the limits or tho direct inflnonce or these untoward agen cies, purchasers show no signs of trepida tion, but rather the reverse. The fact is that abundance or idle capital seeking investment, both here and in Europe, and tho consequent low rates or In terest for money are adverse to anything ...... ,o.niuiicn, uepression ot reanv goou stocks and bonds. In this city call loans on marketable securities can easily be had at 2 por cent per annum, and less, while time loans on similnr securities, as well as dis counts of flrst-olass commercial paper, aro quoted at not over 3 per cent. Ruling Bates In Foreign Markets. In London, the Bank of Ensland rate, for the first time in five yearn, stands at 2 per cent, with call money at one-half of 1 per cent, and discounts in theopon market at IK per cent. In Paris, Berlin, Amsterdam, Frankfort and Hamburg the rates of dis count in the open market range rrom 2 to 2 per cent, and it is only in Portugal, Spain and Italy, whero the credit of borrowers is bad, that higher quotations are made. As usual, this condition of things impresses manymindsasbeingan unprecedented nov elty, in tho same way that every hot summer is declared to be the hottest ever known.nnd every cold winter the coldest. It Is need less to say that we have had many just such seasons before this one, and shall have many more of them in the future. Day is no more surely followed by night, flood-tide by ebb, and summer by winter, than are periods or great activity in industry, trade and enter prise by periods of reaction and compara tive stagnation. Two thousand and moro years ago tho wi9e man or Scripture wrote: "Tho thing that hath been it is that which shall be: and that which is dono Is that which shall be done, and there is nothing new under the sun." These words remain truo to this day, and they apply as well to financial affairs as to thoso of less importance. False Ideas of tho Present Reaction. By most people, too, the present reaction is attributed to the Baring suspension of year before last, and to the shock which that catastrophe gave to general confidence. This, though true in part, is not sufficient to act entirely for tho prolonged and wide spread dullness now prevailing. Had the Baring failure not been supplemented by the bad harvests of last year in Europe, by the collapso or speculation on tho continent as well as in Great Britain, and by the rear or hostilities by Russia against Germany and Austria, its effects would by this time have passed away. Our new tariff is also charge able with a disturbance of European manu facturing industry which acts unfavorablv upon enterprise. When existing invest ments of capital are yielding reduced profits, or no profits at all, new ones are not made, and a diminished demand for money ror both old and new undertakings leads to low rates of interest as a logical consequence. How profoundly our economical legisla tion has effected Europe in imagination, nt least, is shown by the recent speech of tho Prime Minister of Great Britain, Lord Salls cury, condemnatory or free trade, and lamenting the inability of his counft-y to re taliate upon us with protection without do ing itself moro harm than good. Were it not, as his Lordship was compelled to acknowledge, that Great Britain cannot im pose duties UDon the brcadstufTs. nrmrtofmia and cotton, which constitute the bulk or her purchases from us, without increasing the cost of feeding and clothing her workmen, and thus increasing tho cost of the manu factures thoy produce, protection would have a good chance of being tried there. Great Britain's Imports and Exports. As it is, the British people must endure patiently what they cannot obviate, a very considerable diminution or their roreign trade apparently caused by our protection ist policy. The British Board or Trade re turns for the past rour months or this year show an increase or imports or jE8,82S,492, as compared with the corresponding lour months or 1891, nearly the whole of which increase is in articles of food and drink. The exports for tho same period exhibit, on the other hand, a decrease or jE7,53S,C17, as compared with the corresponding four months of 1891, of which decrease 5,871,535 Is in articles manufactured or partly manu factured, .700.000 of it resulting directly from tho effeot of the McKInloy tariff in diminishing our consumption of British tin plate and telegraph wire. Thore is also a considerable falling off in our buying of machinery and cutlery. For the month of April the decrease in exports amounts to 3,012,504, which Is 1L5 per cent of the total for April, 1891. It is of course an open question whether Lord Salisbury does not, for political effect, exaggerate the injury Inflicted by our tariff upon British trade. Evidently the increase or imports which he laments is due not to that tariff, but to the bad harvests, whilo the decrease in the exports of metal manufac turer to this country is not so great as to Justify alarm. Ho probably had in mind the recent protective legislation of France as well as or this country, and the competition or German protected manuractures in South America and other foreign markets with those of Great Britain'. While, too. the nnr- centage or the loss or British trade is not enormous, it affects so great a number of people that their complaints are noticeable, and, in the silence of those who are still content with their profits, it terrifies a poli tician. a tlTios to Pick Up Investments. But, whatever be its cause, there is no disputing the dullness of tho European money inarkot, and the sympathetic dull ness here. The stagnation shows itself most conspicuously in the piling up of cur rency in our banks, this being an affect and an indication of the same condition of things that makes Interest low. Borrowers of money, as I havo often pointed out, want, not coin nor paper, but tho things that coin and paper will procure for them by ex change As a matter of fact, in very few large borrowing transactions does actual money change hands. Usually only a bank credit is transferred by the lender to the borrower, and by the borrower to tho seller of the commodities ho requires, and oxcept in paying wages anu Buying jor smau pro ducers no actual currency is employed. It is true that we are adding every month be tween $4,000,000 and $4,600,000 to our stock of money, and thus apparently to our loanable capital. Anyong continuance of low rates or in terest on temporary loans inevitably creates a willingness to pay moro for permanent in terest and dividend paying securities, and wero it not for the uncertainty that attends all human affairs, I should confidently pre dict still higher prices for them. But though the results of this year's harvest hero and in Enropo have yet to become manifest, the contingency of a war in Europe to be considered, and the finances of our Government are In a very unscttlod condition, still, in view of all the conditions, I recommend my readers not to hesitato to pick up any really good investments that may be offered them. Eventually, no doubt, the present dullness will be succeeded by activity, but the change will not be sudden, nor the waiting for it profitable. Eventu ally, too, another reaction will ensue, liko that or 1890. and after it another demand will spring up ror good investments, such aa now provails. Too much caution and fore sight, it is well to remember, is as bad as none at all. Itparalvzes action and pur chases snfetyat theexpense of profits which might be made, but which, through irresolu tion, are allowed to pass unappropriated. A SEW MODE OF BAILBOASING. A Jacksonville Farmer Uses His Traction .Engine for a Itoart Freight Train. Homer City, Pa., May 22. Special. A now way of railroading has been started in this section. Jacksonville is a small conn try town about ten miles from here, and has no railroad. An enterprising farmer from near that point, who owns a very good trao tidn engine, has started a train for the pur pose of hauling freight to and from that pi ice. He leaves In the forenoon and makes the turn trip in the afternoon. The first trip as made yesterday, and the chances are le.trafflo will be heavy over his Una all liner. . P re THE SWELLEST COMET YET. It Is Cutting a Wide Swath la the Heart of the Scientists. New York Evening World. A comet with eight tails is visiting around in the suburbs or our solar system, causing many a flutter in the most rechorche circles of ultra-stellar socioty and cutting a swath in the hearts of susceptible scientists that surpasses anyllko meteoric performance of the past. Tho distinguished luminary is now shedding his luster in Pegasus place, one of the most fashionable quarters to which planetary committers hurry when their dav's or night's toil is done. It cannot be seen by the naked eye, but an eye in a night shirt may discern it Just as easily it it ascends to the roof with a pair of opera (lasses and perching on a chimney-top about 3:30 o'clock to-morrow morning pro jects its gaze along the eastern horizon. In block S86, section 5, of the Pegasus addition to our universe the searching eye will light upon the octn-caudalled stranger wandering ou the ether lawns of tho constellation or pumping its bicycle on the cerulean pave ments, entirely regardless of Kepler's laws or tho city ordinances that govern und regu late speed on the cosmlo thoroughfares. The eye that resists sleep until the hour named will be amplvrewarded for the sacri fice Tho comet's tails are not only bril liant, but there are more of them than a comet ever grew be:ore. A century and a quarter ago there was a great comet with six tails that thought "self some pumpkins and was much feted .n celobrated by the .sky-scouring 400 of itfe '1 .-. This new comet sees thoso six tails und goes them two Det tcr. It is really the swellest comet that has yet dono us the honor of anpearing "in onr midst." Space is lull of cobbed comets, comets in clawhammers and comets with ono long, woe-begone, lonesome tall, but a comet with an octet of appendages has never been seen before, and really deserves to be liberally tead und "swayrayed" and to have its name appear frequently in tho so ciety columns of the newspaper. Nobody knows what the comet's business is with ns, but the cometitself probably knows. Surely thete can't be any flics on a comet that swings eight tails. HABBISON'3 OBDEB A BLUFF. His Personal Friends Don't Mind Ills Anti Convention Warning, Wasuisoton-, May 2i Special. The Fed eral officeholders in Washington are in a great stato of mind over tho President's in timation that they are not expected to make themselves active or conspicuous at the Minneapolis Convention. The suggestion on which the President's so-called order was based was made bySocretary Foster. The minor officials who aro not delegates havo promptly determined in their course. They will remain at their desks. Ono of them, who is the ohief or a big bureau and who had made all his arrangements ror at tending the convention, said to-day. "Well, I don't know just how broad the Presidont intended to make his intimation to office holders to stay at home, but it is certamly broad enough to cover my case. I do not mean to risk my official head by flying in the face of the President. I shall remain at home, although I feel pretty mean about it. The other bureau officers will, I think, as a rule, also remain away from the conven tion." The higher officials, like Dan Ransdell, of Indianapolis, Harrison's warm friend, regard tho order as a big bluff, and they will be on hand early at Minneapolis. Republicans generally in Washington do not seem to know just what the President means by his anti-convention warning, but they think it hardly possible that he means that office holders who are delegates' shall resign their commissions. If he should do so it would play havoc with his chancos for renomina tlon. for a somewhat hastv study of the list of delegates rrom the various States shows that over 100 or them are officials or the ad ministration. One-eighth or the delegates are beneficiaries of tho Government purse, a larger proportion of public servants than was ever before sent to a National Convention. HABBIS0N IN TBAININ 0. Tho President Bravely Undergoing a Very Severe Masjage Treatment. Washihotox, May 22. Special. Every night before retiring President Harrison undergoes the massage treatment at the hands or an expert's vigorous manipulation. Ten or hair past ten o'clock is the hour at which the President retires, and the thump ing process occupies from 15 to 20 minutes prior to that time. Ho is also an early riser nnd a hearty Dut careful eater. While his habits are as regular as clockwork he has heard or tho various methods employed by other distinguished men to secure perfect health, and he does not propose to be "ont or condition," ir he can help it when the great Presidential handicap is run. IIo is aware that Secretary Blaine is now living up to tho Muldoon svstcm or training, and ns he is an early riser, he probably sees his Secre tary or State taking his early morning sprint on the Wbito House lot, or in Lafayotte square. It is said that the President does not flinch under the sevorest pounding by his manipulator, and the latter is sometimes surprised at the brave manner in which tho patient takes the punishment. A well known anti-narrison man, when informed that the Presidont was undergoing a caso of massage treatment, was moved to remark, "Well, he probably expects to get some pretty hard knocks at Minneapolis, and he wants to prepare himsolf." SMUGGLING SUITS TB0M L05D0H. An Ingenious Plan of a Tailoring Syndicate to Dodge the Tariff; Chicago, Slay 22. The Treasury agent3 here are engaged in the investigation of what is claimed to be a conspiracy to import British goods into this country duty free. The information upon which they are act ing, coming from a Kansas City tailor, is that a regular syndicate nas been established ror the sale or snits by London tailor merchants to Americans, whoso orders nre obtained when they visit the other side or the At lantic. The plan upon which the members or the syndicate act is this: Several or those in terested will brtng over, say, a dozen suits under the wearing apparel provisions. These are distributed to customers by branches in this city, Kansas City, St. Lonis and New York. Tho investigation Is likely to reveal the names or some prominent peoplo who tako advantage or the schomo. THE BLAINE SITUATION. Blaine's polo can reaoh the persimmons if he wants them. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. It is becoming painfully apparent that Mr. Blaine is putting the "crown" asldo each time more gently than before. Cleve land Plain Dealer. Blaiite may be a sick man, but the Blaine boom is at present enjoying very robust health and indulging in exuberant activ ity. New York World. There is authority Jor the statement that Blaino will let .Naturo tako her course at Minneapolis. This denotes that tho Secre tary or State doesn't regard the course a3 Harrison's exclusive property. Philadelphia Record. We regard Mr. Blaine as out or the Presi dental race of 1892, and this last and most desperate of all the Blaine booms is likely to perish before tho Minneapolis Convention shall meet ou the 7th or June next. Phila de'phia Times. We think it plain that some or thoso most vehement in pursuit of Mr. Blaine to be a candidate aro sure he will not be. They want to use him to beat Harrison, and then put to the front some mysterious deal of their own. Brooklyn Standard Union. We have the best of reasons for believing that Mr. Blaine would be unspeakably grat ifled wero ho to rcccivo the spontaneous nomination of his party at Mlnneapoli3. Whether he would accept it we do not know. It is our belief that ho would. Wash ington Post. Tnis Blaine revival will bo as futile as all the other movements that have been started during the past six months to induco the Secretary to come into the field. The great majority of Republicans have made up their minds that he is not and will not be a candi date. Philadelphia Xullctin. The present situation is favorable to Mr. Harrison. Ifprotracted until the date of tho convention it will make him tho only alternate of Mr. Blaine, sinco the forces that are now opposed to himwill not have time to,concentrate upon any other candidate. Neio York Commercial Advertiser. JIr. Harrisos Is a vory able gentleman of good habits, but not exactly in touch with the peoplo. Blaine is the proper candidate, if he will accept the nomination. If his health willpormit; and, finally thero is noth ing in Mr. Blaine's physical condition that could prevent him from undertaking the fatigue and excitement of a campaign. New York Advertiser. CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. Church bells will soon bs s rung by eleo- triclty. The chief cook at a fashionable Netv Tork hotel is paid $8,500 a year. A Liverpool sign that catches the eye or the stranger 13 "egg-shell fuel for gas stoves." A dress made from spiders' webs was presented to Qncen Victoria by tho Empress of Brazil lit :SS7. Audiences in Russian theaters are for bidden by law to manirest their displeasure at actors by hissing. The total manufacture of cigarettes in this country last vcar was 3,000,000,000, as against 240,000 in 1878. An Indian with the significant name of "Wets His Lips" has been arrested for grand larceny In South Dakota. So cosmopolitan has Jfew York become In recent years that more than 100 languages and dialects aro spoken in the city. The Cottonwood river at Emporia, Kan., varies in width during the course of the year from threo feet to seven miles. An old soldier of Wichita recently re ceived from the Government 3 cents whioh had been duo him without his knowledge for more than 50 years. The only official in the country whose right to be addressed by the title of honor able is constitutional, it is stated, is tho lieutenant governor of Massachusetts. The largest child ever born, it is said, was the son ot Bates, the "Kentucky Giant," and his wife, tho "Nova Scotia Giantess." This infant Hercules weighed 23 pounds. The net debt of the city of New York Is $93,000,000. Philadelphia and Brooklyn combined have the same amount of debt, nnd substantially tho same population, ta New York. A new method of census-taking has been adopted in Chicago. Tho authorities have decided that tho population is 1.500.000 and the census-takers havo been ordered to find them. Between 1880 and 1890 the mileage of Southern railroads, with tho exception of Arkansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Missouri and Texas, was increased from 12,223 miles to 24,933 mile3. Six pairs of white swans from the Thames river havo arrived in Philadelphia for distribution in public and private parks. Some or the birds will be placed in the City Park of Denver. During the year just closing the United States Supreme Court has disposed of nearly 500 cases, yet the number filed in a given period always exceeds tho power or tho judges to consider them. Cold iron has been rolled so thin that 18.0OJ sheets, one upon another, would meas ure only an inch in thickness. It is added that 1,200 sheets of tissue paper make but little more than an inch in thickness. An old man caught on a hook in Briar Creek, Ga., last week, a rock fish that weighed 50 pounds. It was 3 feet long, and in its stomach there was a Jack fish which measured SO inches and a catfish IS inches long. A curious case is reported from the Chi cago Pasteur Institute. An epileptic boy underwent a course of Pasteur treatment, on account of a dog bite, in August, 1690. Since this he ha3 had no more attacks of epilepsy. The streets of London are cleaned be tween 8 in the evening and 8 in the morning. Many of the carriageways are washed daily by means of a hose, and the courts and alleys inhabited by the poorer classes are cleaned once a day. At Tucker, in Ripley county, Ma, there Is a curiosity in the peach tree line which will be sent to tho World's Fair. Tho tree is 3 years old, about 1 inches in di ameter at the butt, is 37 feet nigh and has no limb or branch on it. Superintendent Kinyoun, of the Madi son County (Ind.) Infirmary, has a cat which is nestling a brood of young rabbits. Her kittens wero taken away and drowned, and she assuaged her matronly sorrow by nursing the rabbits. The centrifugal force developed by the earth's rotation tends to throw bodies off its surface as a stone is propelled bynsling.and in consequence of this fact 1.293th part of the weight of every particle or matter lyinj along the Equator is" employed in keeping it on the earth. A faith-cure physician at Chicago, held responsible by a coroner's jury for the death or a sick person thus treated, has been lee off by a grand Jury, which decided that if anybody wanted to submit to this cure, or make a test of Christian science, it was no body's business but his own. In the Julius tower of the fortress of Spandau, in Prussia, there is a treasuro of 150,000,000 francs in gold. The other States have only their national banks to depend upon. Tne estimate gives 947,000.000 to tho German Empire, 547.000,000 for the Austro Hungarian Empire, and 200.000,000 to the Kingdom of Italy. In 24 days Handel wrote "The Mes siah." Dr. Johnson wrote "Kasselas" in tha nights of a single week. Schubert some times wrote four or five immortal songs in a single dav. He was born ia 1797 and died in 1823, yet lie set to music 031 poems by 100 dlf feient authors in addition to writing other musical works. At Shanghai, China, there i3 a Euro pean quarter, which contains handsome buildings for banks and public offices. In most of the streets colonnades are built, while the open spaces aro utilized and made places of beauts- by being filled with trees and flowers. The inevitable race-courso, which seems to follow as a necessary ad junct to Western civilization, is a prominent feature outside the city boundaries. The rufes of a socialistic society in Paraguay will bo: No individual property; absolute equality, without distinction of sex or race: the rule to he oxercised by the ma jority; unrestricted freedom of criticism by pon or speech; the total amount of material labor necessary for the well-being of the colony to be reduced to a minimum, and equally apportioned among all, according to the abilities of each. A useful South American animal is the kinkajou, which, as the dictionary will tell you, is a procyoniform quadruped, with a protuslle tongue and a prehensile taiL The chier reason for asserting that the kinkajou is useful is that, in addition to his fondness for fruit, he has a great liking for insects for lunch, and when tamed is a valuable assistauoe la Southern homes,where fly-paper is unknown and where a mosqullo net is more expensive than a silk dress. SOME THINGS FOR SMILES. Spinks Goodno's pretty typewriter haa left him. What was the matter? BInks-She caught him kissing his wife. Judjt, "When you feel the microbes chajing Up and down your spinal column. And your mind know no erasing Ufa thought that's sour or solemn; When your legs will hardly carry yon. When all your brain Is thrumming. When you're "knocked out" by malaria. You know that summer's coming. Washington Star. Young Housekeeper It's such a trial to have a servant who can't understand a thing I say to her. Old Housekeeper Yes; bat think how unpleasant It would be If you could understand the things she says to you. Puck. "What Is a propaganda?" inquired tha teacher. The boy looted at the celling, wrinkled his lore head, wrestled with the question a minute or two. and answered bravely that he guessed It was the brother of a proper goose. Chicago UYibune. So live that when thine obituary comes Thou go not with the trite "no flowers." Kelegated to some oat or the way place. But with a nonpareil cap. head and double leaded lines. Like one who was a Dug of size. Whose going "cast a gloom." a "pan," and so on. -A Y. Herald. Mr. Phlatskul A man must have brains to go crazy, don't you know, 3Ilss Sharp. Mls3 Sharp (briefly) Whose, Mr. Phlatskul? Detroit Free Press. Rich Man Ain't you ashamed not to ba earning your bread by hard work Instead of begging? Tramp-Humphl You don't even beg? Texas Stftings. A woman is a funny thing She starts with but a dime. And shops all day. Yet strange to say She gets home every time. Cloak Review. Daughter Father, I have had an ofier of marriage. Parent (who has had experience with the nobil ity) How much does he want? Washington Star. " ....-.!., w.ip miiKiwi wilmot OWBl "KSBSBVSSBBJQPJHHBJBPJPJK rrwaj
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