5HE PTTSBTJRG DISPATCH. THURSDAY, MAT 26. 1892. lje mmt ESTABLISHED FEBRUARY 8, IMG Vol. 47, No, 109 Entered at Flttsburg Fostoffice November, 1SS7, as econd-class matter. Business Office Corner Smithfield and Diamond Streets. News Rooms and Publishing House 78 and 80 Diamond Street, in New Dispatch Building. KASTERV ADVERTISING '1FF1CK. ROOM 78. TRIBUNE mill.niXO. XEW YORK, where com plete files ofTIIEIHbPATCH can alwavs be touml. Foreign adcrtlscrs appreciate the comenlence. Home advertisers and friends of TI1K DISPATCH, while In New York, are also made welcome. THE DJSPA TCH if resularl on sale at Brentano's. 11 Union Square, Aew lork, and 1? Art dtl'Oprra. Pans, France, ichne anyone tpho has been disap pointed of a hotel nncs stand can obtain it. TERMS Or THE DISPATCH. POSTAGE TREE IK TIIE CinTID STATES. Daily DisrATCii. One Year t 8 00 Daily Dispatch, Per Quarter 2 00 Daily DisPATrii. One Month 70 Daily Dispatch, Including Sunday. 1 rear.. 10 00 Daily Dispatch, including Similar. 3mths, 2 50 Daily DisrATcn. Including Sunday, lm'tli.. !0 Susday DlSPATCIL One Year 2 SO "Weekly Dispatch. One Year 1 25 The Daily Dispatch" delivered by carriers at 33 cents per week, or. Including Sunday Edition, at 20 cen ts per w cek. 1TTTSBUKG. THURSDAY. MAY 26. 1SS2. TWELVE PAGES A MISTAKE IF TRUE. If it be true, as stated, that of the 31 cornermen required to guard the crossings of the traction lines only five are paid by the companies, there is something which requires explanation. It is not so very lone ago that this matter was brought up and only dismissed because the public were given to understand that it was def initely and properly settled. After the collision at Forbes and At wood streets last year, the need for in creased precautions at these crossings was conceded beyond all dispute. There was a practical agreement on behalf of both the traction companies and the public that two things were necessary. First, that all cars should come to a complete stop on approaching each crossing of another line; and, second, that a cornerman should be stationed at every such crossing, without whose signal no car should advance. Some difficulty was raised over the fact that the cornermen were required to have the authority and standing of police offi cers while they would be doing the work of the traction companies; but The Dis patch pointed out that this involved no real difficulty. The police department has for years sent officers where they were used by special interests, as at theaters or entertainments, the private interests pay ing for their services. There is no reason why the same practice should not be ex tended to the traction crossings, the Po lice Bureau appointing the men and keep ing them under its control and discipline and the traction companies paying for their services in keeping their crossings safe. It was supposed that the matter was set tled in that way. If it was not, there is a very decided call for explanation. The arrangement was the one indicated by precedent It was perfectly fair to all parties concerned, and no traction com pany would have shouldered the obloquy attached to refusing so fair a proposition. If the city has paid the salaries of 26 cor nermen made necessary by the traction companies there has been a very decided mistake on the part of the city officials. THB CHINESE EXAMPLE. It is calculated to take away the breath of the observant Mugwump to find our scintillant cotemporary, the New Tork Sun, remarking anent the increase of the rice crop in Georgia and South Carolina that rice is "tip-top food," and that "those who think it is too fattening can correct their thought by looking at the Chinese, for nearly all of whom it is the daily food all the year around." Is it possible that our esteemed cotem porary has undergone the change of heart of holding up the Chinese as an example? Not even the back somersault of the Hon. Frank Hatton in favor of Blaine is more startling. It is only a short time since the vials of the Sun't scorn have been poured upon the advocates of the Chinese style of government, the fact that the Chinese have civil service examinations being con sidered sufficient to condemn anything in that line. Tet now the Sun is permitting itself to advise the free and untrammeled citizen to study the dietary of the hated Mongolian, and learn from him the vir tues of a food product that is cheap and not too fattening. Certainly these mutations of opinion are calculated to make us ready to expect anything. Shall we yet see Dr. Dana (not the D. D., but the LL. D.) seated at the civil service board examining the aspi rant for governmental position and eating his favorite Chinese viand with chop sticks? A FAVORABLE SPECIMEN. The tendency to prophesy smooth things and regard the existing order, even where it is different from that which we profess ourselves, is illustrated by an editorial remark of the Philadelphia Ledger on the fiftieth anniversary of the marriage of King Christian ot Denmark. It states that the King of Denmark has, "by bis goodness and wisdom, endeared himself to the whole nation," and that the congratulations and rejoicings which take place there to-day "will be spontaneous and from the heart" There is little doubt that, next to Queen Victoria, the King of Denmark is person ally the best specimen of a reigning monarch to be found in Europe. For a journal which has the function of uphold ing the blessings of hereditary rule, the Danish King presents as grateful a text as could be found. But it seems as if a newspaper published in a land where the constitutional rights of the people are held to be paramount might, unless gov erned entirely by the 'impeccability of the existing order, take the salient facts con cerning this personally estimable monarch as a text for something else than unquali fied eulogy. For it happens that this amiable father-in-law of a large number of powerful sov ereigns has just triumphantly completed an eight years' contest in which he has supported the Estrup ministry in Ignor ing and overriding the constitutional rights of the representative branch of his Government The issue was scarcely more clearly drawn between Charles L and his Parliament than between the Dan ish Minister and the Folkething, except that on one hand the right of the popular assemblage in Denmark had been undis puted for centuries, and, on the other, the power of backing the court finally wore out the popular power of resistance. Charles L of England was personally a very estimable man also; but he is hardly an object of admiration in a republican country. Add to this feature of Christian's reign the practice, of. f urnishlngnis daughters' religious convictions to order to suit the court into which each is to marry, and it might be recognized in this country that an extremely favorable specimen'of the monarchial class is likely to do in his line of business some things which are even worse than the practices .of our profes sional politicians. BLAINE'S DESTINY. The desire for Blaine's nomination at Minneapolis is growing in strength day by day simultaneously with the increase of probability that it will be gratified. His mental qualifications are such as to leave no room for competitors. He stands out is a Colossus among the other American statesmen of to-day. But wkile his im mense superiority over all his rivals in statesmanship and magnetism would render his nomination an absolutely fore gone conclusion, the"' state of his health has hitherto made doubtful the advisability of subjecting him to the stress of a Presi dcntal campaign and the strain of a term in the Executive Mansion. Since James G. Blaine wrote his famous letter to Clarkson his strength has been marvelously improved. He has shown a marked increase of physical strength in matters which, though they are trivial in themselves, indicate when taken as a whole that his pristine vigor has returned. That there is no man who can command the same measure of support as Blaine in a Presidental candidacy is an incontroverti ble fact The Republican party can nom inate no man so certain of success, and his nomination is an assured fact, if only it can be shown that he feels prepared to accept the arduous work that it would mean for him. His silence since he wrote his letter in February, and the general feeling that he will maintain it until the convention meets, is in itself an indication that he has regained confidence in his powers of endurance. His nomination would mean certain success for his party, and for the protec tion and enlargement of home industries, which he has done more to further than any other man. The nomination of any one else would involve the party in a struggle of which the results would be most doubtful. If Blaine's health will stand it, he will be nominated with the utmost enthusiasm, and there is little or no doubt that his strength of body will be equal to the demand upon it. PREPARING FOR THE FOURTH. Mayor Gourley's decision to follow Su perintendent Luckey's suggestion and provide street car transportation for thS fifteen hundred or two thousand school children who are to participate in the Fourth of July choruses is a kind and Just one. The choruses will be an important feature of the celebration, and everything should be done to secure the best singers and to encourage them to do their utmost The Mayor points out that the date is rapidly approaching, and urges all who can and will contribute to send in their subscriptions to the fund as soon as possi ble. There should be no trouble in rais ing the amount required, and the less de lay in remitting, the better can the "arrange ments be made. THE MONETARY CONSIDERATION. The recent offer of the saloon-keepers of Sioux City to donate $10,000 for the re lief of that flooded town, on condition that they were permitted to open their saloons, bears a close resemblance to the offer of the Louisiana Lottery -to the State of Louisiana and to the donation which that gambling institution made in the case of the floods last year. There are some minor differences. The saloon-keeping business is illegal in Iowa, and the offer was intended to secure immunity for it The Louisiana Lottery was not illegal, yet its offer was for the purpose of pre venting the declaration of its illegality. Both, however, were monetary offers to secure immunity for obnoxious prac tices. There seems to be a persistent idea that an offer of money for some public or charitable purpose is sufficient to condone any wrong or abuse in the manner in which it is obtained. Both the lottery in New Orleans and the Sioux City saloon keepers were of opinion that their offer was irresistible. Tet what was it but an expression of the idea that public administration can be bought collectively, as some of its factors may be individually, to nullify and betray the enforcement of the law? The fact is that such offers would bo an insult if they were not so evidently the fruit of judging everything by the monetary standard as to make it impossible for anyone to feel insulted from such a source. It is necessary to note that the Sioux City saloon-keepers and the lottery sharks are not the only persons who think that a share of the to turns ought to purchase not only im munity but public approval. Some of the most eminent exemplars of the science of finance conducted on the principle of highway robbery have considered them selves entitled to the odor of sanctity by devoting to missions or education a possi ble two per cent of the millions they have extracted from the public. In one respect the Sioux City offer dif fered from that of New Orleans, so as to possibly have affected the 'prompt refusal. The lottery proposed to relieve Louisiana by money gathered from all over the coun try. But the 510,030 which -the saloon keepers would have donated for the relief of Sioux City would be paid by the people of Sioux City themselves. That was decided ly a gitt of the Greeks. Benjamin Harrison inherits his grandfather's hat, but ho falls to agree with him on some matters of importance. Befor rlng to second terms In the Executive Man sion, William Henry Harrison said: "Noth ing can be morn corrupting than Ions con tinuance In an office or high trust; nothing more destructive of those noble feelings which belong to tho character of a devoted Republican patriot. When this corrupting pa:s"ion once takes possession of the human mind, like the love ofgold.lt becomes insatia ble. It Is the never-dying worm in his bosom, grows with his growth, and strengthens with the declining years of Its victim." Bnt per haps Benjamin Is smothering his real feel ings In an unselfish desire to benefit the nation by seeking re-election. Just as he has dono In disregarding his own emphatic ex pressions on behalf of clvll-servlce reform. An Allegheny somnambulist walked from the third-story window und fell to the sidenalk without receiving any serious in jury. But tho safest plan is to slumber quietly in bed. No doubt there is ample reason for at tempting to curb tho obstructive powers of Kickers Watson and Kllgore. But a man who offers a resolution to the Democratic Congressional caucus, pi ovidiug that when ovcr a member asks unanimous consent for the passage of any bill it snail be granted unless ten members object, perpetrates a contradiction of terms which Indicates that a study of the dictionary would much im provo his knowledge of.the language. However strong may be the. feeling .be fore tlio convention meets Tit llfnneapoils, It may bo .assumed as certain that neither Blaine nor Harrison will refuse to support loyally the one which secures the nomina tion. Both men are biz enough to make It sure that each Is certain in the event of his nomination of the straightforward support of tho other. Farmers In Central Illinois are by no means letting the grass prow under their feet. .They aro making efforts which hare never been surpassed to plant a'blg corn crop. Kaiser "Wtlhjclm's horses ran away the other day and be wasflung from his carriage to a ditch. Be picked himself up unhurt and brushed the dirt off. He was somewhat shaken up, butHves to make some more sensations. He would scorn to die in a ditch, and it must be remembered tnathis scorn is, or ought to be, omnipotent. The strength of various Presidental as pirants may be well estimated by tho amount of noise they make on their own nc connt. The strongest men are the silent ones. It is stated that Harlem women who take their babies on shopping expeditions get them cheoked nt the stores visited and transact their business In com Tort. The idea is an excellent one, and the system should be extended to secure the comfort of railioad travelers who are at present annoyed by other folks' babies. 'When' a drunken brute makes a mur derous assault on his wife becnuse his sup per is not ready, one wishes that the law could provide a good flogging for him. More than a hundred of the delegates already chosen to go to tho Minneapolis Convention are Federal office-holders. Will they obey Harrison's outspoken wish that they shall abstain from attendance, or will they regard his secret desires and strain every nerve in an effort to effect his rcnonii nation? "When Quay seeks to explain his presence at any particular spot by stating that bo is there for business and not politics ho makes a distinction without a difference. Eoosevelt and Wanamaker are now engaged In a warm controversy, but It is too .one-sldod nt present. Tho public Is anxiously waiting to be taken into Post master John's confidence that It mayjudge whether ho has any excuse for himself. Records of crimes due to drink would make suitable literature for Keeloy's pa tients, and would help tho treatment. The Republican Congressional Conven tion at Steubenvllle only nominated a Poorman for Congress on the eighty-sixth ballot. It ought to take less trouble than that to choose a really good man for the office. There is more dependent on Blaine's physical strength Just now than on the brain power of any other statesman. HILL again failed,to make use of an op portunity to express bis opinions by a vote on the silver question yesterday. But Hill's actions lack now tho importance attached to them two or three months ago. , Syrians are not the only people in Pittsburg who would profit by mission work. Gladstone's speech against the Irish local government bill and his indictment of the Tory Government Is strong evidence that the Grand Old Man is btill more than equal to the struggle before him. Here's a Democratic straw: The base ball game yesterday went against Cleve land. New Jersey has instructed its Demo cratic dolezates for Cleveland. And Hill, mourning alouo among the ruins of his shat tered hopes, sinks daily deeper into tho ob livion of his party's distrust. Spring continues to be a movable feast in these parts. 60NS AND DAUGHTERS OP FAME. The noted Italian prima donna Branca Donadro has decided to retire to a convent. Mrs. Stanley, the wife of the great ex plorer, is a lineal descendant or Oliver Cioni well. A niece of James Bussell Lowell, Miss Ruth Burnett, is to become a Sister of Charity. Mrs. Lincoln, wife of the United States Minister to St. .Tamos' Court, will sail for this country about June 1. Don Isadora Cousino, of Chile, is re puted to be worth $203,000,000, and, of course, is the richest woman in the world. Mother Elizabeth, of the Pittsburg Sisters of Mercy, who will celebrate her golden jubilcoof convent life June 16, is a cousin of the late Cardinal Wiseman, Arch bishop of Westminster. Boscoe Conkling'S fine portrait, by Cuyler- Ten Eyck, has -been placed In the Vice President's room atf the Capitol, in MTashinzton, and obtain as much praise as attention from visitors. -It is not generally known that a son of Canon Farrar Is attached to the editorial de partment of the Philadelphia Ledger. Young Farrar Is scarcely moio than 20 years of age, but writes with fluency and possesses excel lent editorial Judgment. Johann Friedrich Schulze, the veteran schoolmaster, has Just celebrated at Pankow the seventieth anniversary of his wedding day, a celebration which was shared In by his dear old frow and their large circle of descendants. Johann Is 92 years old a.nd his wife is 01. GLENN Ii ALSO SECEETAEY. Colonel Jobn Will Lopk After Things With Sir. Learli. Habrisbcrq, May 25. Specfa'. Colonel John Glenn, late of the Auditor General's office, yesterday notified Chairman Frank Reeder, of the Republican State Committee, that he would accept the position of Secre tary or the committee. Mr. Glenn, who is one of the most popular politician!) in the State, will take charge of the general campaign, leaving Secretary Leach to look after the legislative contests. Colonel Glenn will receive tho people who call at ho idquarters and will bo the general representative of General Reeder. In this way the unpleasantness which has grown up in regard to the difference of opinion between tho Chairman and the candidate will be done away with. It is not known whether George Pearson will aocept the third secretaryship, as noth ing official has been heard irom lilin by the Chairman. $10,000 FE0M ME. ASI0E. 85,000 for the Press Club and 85,000 ror the Grant Monument. New York, May 24. The President of the Press Club yesterday received a check for $5,000 from Mr. John Jacob Astor. It was presented by Mr. Astor 'through his agent, J. W. Homor, to be devoted to the general purposes of the clnb. A check tor $5,003 was also sent to Gen eral Horace Porter for the Grant Monument Fund. New Officers of the Knights Templar. Philadelphia, May 25. The following grand officers were to-day elected at the Conclave of the Pennsylvania Commandery, Knights Templnr. Grand Commander, James H. Codding; Deputy Grand Com mander, Charles C. Baer; Grand General issimo, Irving P. Wagner: Grand Captain General, E. B. Spcrncer;s3rand Prelate, E. W. Burton; Grand Senior Warden, Samuel S. Yohe; Grand Junior Warden, Harry M. Vauzent, of Harrisburg; Grand Treasurer, M. Richards Mnckle; Grand Recorder, Chnrles E. Moss. The next conclave will be held at Wilkesbarre. And So Would New Tork, New York World.! IfJ'shootlng.for cause" .continues to pre. vail" in Purls tiie city will'suffer a great loss . of population. LASH BETTER THAN HALTER. Iter. George Hodges Believes the Gallows Shonld Be Superseded by the Whip ping Post Hanging a Relic of Barbar ism With bnt Little Effect Upon Crimp. The whipping post should supersede the gallows and corporal punishment bo In flicted upon criminals instead of capital punishment. Such is the sentiment of the Rev. Dr. George Hodges, rector of Calvary Episcopal Church, tho most favored place of wor ship In East Liberty. Dr. Hodges was ora pnntlo in stating his sentiments to a Dis patch man yesteiday evening. He doclared in vigorous lauguage that capital punish ment is a relic of barbaric days and is more fitting as a dread topic of history than as an existing evil. "Punishment of criminals should bo reme dial in Its effect and the life should not be cut off before tho criminal has an opportun ity of exhibiting his penitence. Hanging Is barbailc, biutal and Inhuman," con tinued the rector. "It has bnt one creditable feature, that is, the effect it has as a preventive of crimo. But this ono feature Is not noticeable as the State affairs now exist; what with the pardons, the commutation of sentences and the secrecy with which executions aro con ducted, the public cannot appreciate capital punishment. If the public was permitted to witness the executions and could exper ience the horrors of the spectacle, the effect might be salutary in preventing crime. But as it now stands the public cannot hear any thing of it except through the press, and no account, no matter how realistic, can affect the mind as the actual sight. Does Not Prevent Crime. "I am not in favor of capital punishment, no matter In. what manner executions aro conducted. I do not think they have any ef fect whatever as a crime preventive. To Illus trate myboltof 1 need but recall the time in tho not far distant past, when stealing was punishable with hanging. If ono looks over the annals of crimo in those days thoy will find with little search that stealing was lnrgcly more prevalent than it is at present, when the thief Is compelled to languish in prjson. "I njn no more in favor of long Imprison ments than I am of hanging. A criminal bo comes accustomed to lmpilsonment after a time and many of them manage to pass a livable If not a comfortable time. Amorlcan prisons are filled with men and women, too, whoaie serving a second and some of them a third, fourth and fifth term. To the per son or easy temperament or of no ambition, who is content to exist for the mere exist ence, caring little or nothing for any or the bettor things in lire, a term In prison Is not difficult to bear, and many persons offend the law simply to return to prison. Hard labor is a sentence that prevents to a certain extent manv grcnt crimes, but the fault I. have to And with that Is that such a sen tence is but seldom passed, "Punishment of criminals should be, as I have said before, of a remedial character, and there is nothing, in mv estimation, so effective upon the criminal mind toward the prevention of crime as the fear of physi cal suffering. Stroncly Favors the Whipping Post. "I am in favor of corporal punishment, or, to,put it more direct, I am in lavor of tho whipping post. I would not be misinter preted and have my remarlcso construed that I would bo considered favorable to a revival of the slave trader's brutality, as I am averse to inflicting unnecessary or ex cessive pain. But I think a series of whip pings administered at various or regular times would havo such a terrorizing effect upon the average criminal that the number ofcrimes would be much smaller than it Is at present. "Tho whipping post In Jails and prisons with a little solitary confinement would un doubtedly have a most beneficial effect. Of this I am convinced. Justturn to Delaware, where the wlte beater Is punished by whip ping, for an example. Since that law went into effect there have been but very lew'cases where tho whipping post was used. From other parts of tho country there aie casos of horrible brutality practiced by men upon their wives, and vet their nunishment is but n simple confinement where the temporal wants of the body are cared for as thev are out of confinement, and oftentimes much better. "Abolish tho scaffold, abolish barbarous hanging, punish tho criminal bv inflicting pain, and you will find criminal history much shorter than It Is at present." LAB0E AND THE FAIR. The Federation Opposes the Closing of the Show on Sundays. New York, May 25. The American Feder ation of Labor has issued the following: "A raovemeut has been started by some well-In tentloned people, seeking to influenco Congress to order that the World's Fair at Chicago, in 1E93, shall be closed on Sundays. As American citizens, as wage-workers, no maintain that Congress would exceed Its powers should (t undertake to legislate upon questions of this character; that tho Govern ment of tho United States is non-sectarian. "As a matter of fact the days the wage workers will havn tho best opportunity to visit tho World's Fair will be on Sundays. A visit to the World's Fair, an examination of tho product of tho genius of man, cannot tend to demoralize or deprave. A visit to the Exposition and a view of the arts and handicrafts ot tho peoples of all nations can only tend to ennoble the visitor, enlargo the sphere of his intelligence and broaden his sympathetic nature. There is no Idea nor thought for the desecration of the Sab bath, bnt we insist that Congress shall re frain 1 1 om legislating upon a subject entirely foiolgu to its sphere. "The tolling masses have not so much leisure time that thev can afford to have this wonderful Exposition closed to them upon one of the days In the week which will best give them nn opportunity to visit it. Those of our fellow-workers coming from distant cities, or eyon those in the cltv of Chicago and the surrounding parts of "the countiy, Kill of necessity count Sundays as part of the time they desire to devoto to visiting the Fair." A EA1D ON YANKEE FLAG! Kanuck Soldiers Exhibit Their National rrrjudice on the Queen's Birthday. Montreal, May 23. Yesterday three petty officers and five men of a brigade of tho Montreal Garrison Artillery stepped into the store of Dorge & Co., hattera, and de manded that tho Stars and Stripes flying outsido by taken down. The clerk in charge pointed out that French, Belgian, Swiss and British flags were also flying, as well as tho American flags, for decorative purposes only. However, the men insisted on tho re moval at once of the American flag. To avoid trouble tho Stars ana Stripes were taken down. The same lot of soldiers visited the store or one Poitrnss and made a similar demand as to the American 11a.; which, with others, Mas floating in the breeze. Again, to avoid trouble, the obnoxious banner nas pulled don. Several stores In tho vicinity wero visited and the owners wero compelled to haul down the American flag. The matter has been reported to the Brigade Major and an Investigation will be held. LAE0E C0HMISSI0NEES MEET. A Woman's World's Fair Committee Wishes a Certain Subject Treated. Denver, May 25. The ninth annual con vention of the State Labor Commissioners Is in session here with delegates present from 16 States. President Carroll Wright, in his annual address,statcd that foreign countrios aro beginning to understand tho usefulness of an American Bureau of Labor. Letters of regiet have been received fiom Samuel Goinpers, President or the American Feder ation of Labor, and T. V. Powderly, Grand Master or tho Knights of Labor. A communication has been received from tho Woman's Labor Committee of the World's Fuir Congress Auxiliary asking the Labor Commissioners to make tho conditions under which the women and children nre employed lor hire the special topic in the next report of the convention. Ihe Anti-Option Bill to Have a Test. Washington, May 25 Tho Houso Com mltteo on Agriculture to-day authorized Mr. Hatch to call up the anti-option bill when the sundry civil bill is disposed of, and to endeavor, to get a test vote on tho question of consideration. Good Cause for Damages. Chicago Mail.l President Harrison wonld be justified in bringing suit against Mr. Blaine for alienat ing the affections of the Republican party. Wading Good In the West. Detroit Free Press. J , -The young man who' now follows Horace -preeley's advice can wade right' through tne west. EOOSEVELT TO WANAHAKE3. The Civil Service Commissioner After Some Information He Cannot Get. Washington, May 25. Civil Service Com missioner Roosevelt this morning appeared before the House Committee on Reform in Civil Service, and had something to sav with reforence to the statements of Postmaster General Wanamaker as to the Baltimore postofflco matter. Mr. Roosevelt Bald that on Mav 16 ho sent to the Postmaster General, by registered mall, a letter, of which the following is a copy: Uxited states Civil Service commission, l Washinotox, May 13. J To the Honorable, the Postmaster General: SIK In your reoort of the Inspectors of the Balti more postofilce, submitted by you to the committee of the House, these lnsiiectors state that my examination wrrr unfair and partial la the ex treme: that my "qnestlons were calculated to mis lead such ar a committee of Investigation hunting for nothing but tne truth, and desirous of doing emct Justice would not practice or follow, "and that my report on the postmaster's conduct was "not onlynnjnsthlablc, but malicious. " These are re flections not only on inr actions, but on my mo tives. There lb no need of commenting on their gross Impertinence and Impropriety, used as they arc by the subordinates In one department In refer ence to the head of another who is. like yourself. responsible to the President onlv. But I nave nothing to do with these subordinates. It Is with you. the official head, responsible for their action that I have to deal. By submitting this report without expressly dis claiming any personal responsibility Tor It. you seem to assume that responsibility and make It jour own. I can hardh suppose that this was your Intention, hut I shall be obliged to take the statements, which In any way reflect upon my acts and motives, as yours, unless you disavow tliem with the same publicity with which they were made to the committee. I therefore respectfully ask whether you will or will not make such dis avowal, so that I may govern myself accordingly. and not De guilty of any Inlnstlce. Yours truly. Theooore Roosevelt. Mr. Roosevelt said he had received no an swer, and was therefore reluctunntly ob liged to assume that the Postmaster Genernl made these statements his own. The Post master General had ss.ld it was not for him to consider whether the insuectors' report contained nnything that could be construed as disrespectlul or hostile to the Civil Ser vice Commissioner. "On the contrary," said Mr. Rooevelt, "ho is precisely the person culled upon to make this doclsion, and when he acts upon this re no l and submits it to this committee with out expressly lepndiatlng tho offensive paragraphs he thereby makes It his own. I have never sheltered myself behind my sub ordinates, and I decline to allow tho Post master Gcueral to shelter himself behind his. The statements above quoted in my lettcrare slanderons falsehoods. If this in vestigation by the Postoffice Department had been made with the deliberate intent of shielding tho accused, covering up tiieir wrong-doings, and tempting them to perjure themselves so that the office could be cleared from the effectof their former truthful con fessions, it would have been managed pre cisely as it actually was managed." Tho statement or the Postmaster General that "he must be governed" by tho reports or his subordinate officers in these cases seemed to Mr. Roosevelt an extraordinary proposition. In a case of the importance of this one, whore the reports of his subordin ates and of the Civil .cervlce Commission were In direct conflict, ho could not under stand how the Postmaster General could fail to see that it was his duty personally to Investigate tho matter, at least to the extent of reading the evidence upon which the two reports were based. The committee voted to request tho Post master Gene.al to furnish a written copy of the repot tho had said the Assistant At torney General had made verbally, In which the law officer held that contributions to primary elections were not political contri butions, as contomplated-ln the civil service law. THE HALLELUJAH CAVALBY. A Novel Method of Spreading the Gospel Adopted by the Salvation Army. Saw Frahcisco, May 25. Special. Tho Frisco branch of the Salvation Army has de cided to make a departure, and will send next week a force or ten men on horseback 800 miles through California spioad log doctrine. The horses are being trained by an ox-cavalry man and members of a cavalry company. In cluding several good musicians. Tho Halle lujah Cavalry, as it is to be called, will be commanded by Major Kyle, leader of the Army on tho Coast. It will leave hero next Tuesday and proceed down the coast to San Luis Obispo, then ncross the mountains to Bakersllcld and home through San Joaquin Valley. Among the cavalrymen Is one Chinese, who Is to preach to Mongolians in their language. The cavalry will camp out on the road and military discipline will be enforced. Regular cavalry saddles have bocn pur chased and fitted with red braided saddle cloths. Tho warriors will wear white cavalry fatlguohats,loosercdblouscs,eavalry boots reaching to the knees and , spurs. The two lending riders will bear Iances.from the tops of which will flutter tho colors of the United States and the Salva tion Army. The rear of the cavalcade will be hi ought up uy a light tno-horso wagon that will carry a camp ing outfit, musical instruments, baggage and ammunition in the shape or traots, sing ing books', etc. Tlicro will be ten brass in stiuments, which the foico will play enter ing towns, riding two and two. and also ban Jos, guitars, tambourines and a French or gan for "dismounted" music. Major Kyle wild to-day, that tho army had never had anything like this. Ho proposed also to send two mounted men through spaisely settled districts to preach, as has been dono in Austialia and Sew Zealand. A WOELD'S C0NGBESS IN CHICAGO. Secretary Blaine Thinks No Extra Call for One Is Necsssary. Washington, May 25. Senator Sherman to-day pi esonted to the Senate a lettor from Secretary Blaine in regard to resolutions in troduced in the Senate providing for issuing Invitations to foreign governments to send repiesentatlves to meet nt Chicago during the World's Columbian Exposition for tho purpose of taking measures to promote the causo of peace and tho settlement of national differences by arbitration. The Secretary falls to perceive the neces sity for the passage of either of tho resolu tions referred to, since thetr object seems possible of accomplishment without that formality the President's invitation to foreign governments to participate in tho World's Columbian Exposition being accom panied by the prospoctus of tho World's Congress auxiliary, which proposed, among other things, a World's Congress similar to that set forth in the lesolution. ' A THAYEE APPOINTEE IN TE0UBLE. Ex-Adjutant General Cole, of Nebraska, Said to lit Short In His Account-. Lincols, Neb., May 25. The State Military Board, which has been investigating the accounts of A. V. Cole, Adjutant General r.nder Governor Thayer, reported yesterday a shortage of $1,440. They further find that he has paid money ont in ways not author ized and to unauthorized persons, and also that be has reported as paid larger sums than have been paid. Cole asserts that the shortage is due to careless bookkeeping, but he has paid up $900, and says ho will fight the rest. Pittsburg Innocents Abroad. Pottsville, May 25. Fifteen graduates of the Western University or Pittsburg ar rived hero this morning, escorted by Pror. D. C. Carhart, C. E., Prolessor of Engineer ing, and Prof. D. S. Liggett, Prolessor of Physics. Thry are making a ton"- of the Middle and Eastern States, stopping nt all points of interest and inspecting all in dustries of note. Harrison Invited to Pennsylvania. Lancaster, May 25. Rev. Dr. Hark, Presi dent of the Pennsylvania Chautnuqiu.called on- President Htrrlson yesterday and In vited him to be present at the G. A. R. ex ercises of the Chautauqua at Mt. Grctnu on July 14. Tho President, without giving a definite acceptance, expressed tho hope that he would be able to bo present. The American Baptist Union. ' PniLADELruiA, May 25. At tho meeting of the American. Biptist Union to-day a report from the Commltteo on Missions In Bnrmah showed considerable prozress in that terri tory. Rov. Augustus H. Strong, D. D., of New York, was elected President. Oh, No It Isn't. New York Recorder. The big hat. is still the favorite in the po litical betting DBATUS 1IEKB AND ELSEWHERE. THE Duke of Fernan-N unez, Spain, died Tues day, of a spinal complaint. Johann Frederick Wulff, consul of Denmark and vice consul of Norway and Sweden, died at Montreal, Monday night, of paralysis. Charles Almonte, organizer of the noted Almonte troupe of acrobats, who hava traveled all over the world. Is dead, in Adelaide, South Australia, at the age of 4S. His right name was naries i renencK iiurgess, ana ne was an juigusn- xnan dy Dirin, i FLOWERS AND FAVORS. Introducing n Young Bride at a Luncheon Celebrating n Birthday With a Laven der Reception Decorating the Graves of Their Dead Gossip of Society. Mrs. Charles E. Speek, of Craft ave nue, gave a luncheon yesterday afternoon for Mrs. Dawson Speer, nee Taylor. There were 30 guests, representing the most promi nent families of the two cities, and they were all eager to make the young bride feel nt home In Pittsburg. Sho is one of the fa vorite society girls of Baltimore, and will prove a great acquisition to Pittsburg inner circle. She was the center of attraction nt tho luncheon yesterday, and she made an excellent impression by her modest grace and affable manner. Tho menn was, of course, unexceptionable, and the table ap pointments were of an artistic character that could not fail to please the eyo of the most Jastidlous. The flowers were roses. Their colore were red, white, pink and yel low, and clustered, ns they wore, with a due regard to their sun otindlng;, thoy prodncod a beautiful effect. The favors at each plate were roses, and vasoi of the same floners wore disposed here and there throughout the rooms on the mantelpieces, in cabinets and on tho tables. Tho parlors were fra grant with roes, and their soft, sweet pet als wero everywhere. A. M. and J. B. Mur doch were the decorators. A pretty lavender reception was given by Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Stlllwagen last even ing, at their residence on Craig streot, to commemorate the birthday of Mrs. Stlll wagen. and also as a closing reception to the "No Name" Club, of which Mrs. Stillwagen is a mom ber. Tho Invondcr Idea wns carried out in the costnmo of the hostess, tho invi tations and tho ribbons tying tho favors at each plate. Tho euchre prizes wore also daintily fastened with lavender ribbons There were 65 guests.nmong whom wero Miss May and Miss Salllo Cresswell, of Philadel phia, nndvMrs. Olive McDonald James, of Washington, D. C. Tho rest of those present wero well-known Pittsburg and Allegheny society people. Dnrlng the evening thero wns vocal music by Mr. Fred Robertshaw, Miss Katie Hughes, of Allegheny, and Mr. P. Ward. Besides tho singing, thero wero euchre and dancing, while the library was set apart for such ot the gentlemen as did not care for either, to sit and .smoke in and while away the time in conversation. Miss May Stillwagon. a fairy-like little damsel of 10, performed sevorval fancy dances with charming grace. The occasion was a de lfgbttul one In every way. "On Decoration Day everybody that has a grave will decorate it and who is there that hasn't a grave?" remarked one of tho best known florists in the city yesterday afternoon. Ho said that there are moro flowers being prepared for Decoration Day this year than ever before. The decoration of graves will not be confined to that of soldiers, although the desire to honor the memory of the late war has led to the pretty custom In the cemetery every 30th of May. The soldiers' resting-places will bo decor ated, as usual, but thero will be thousands of people in the cities or tho dead with flow ers to strew on graves that aro sacred to tho visitors oven though they do not hide a soldiers' lemains. Next Monday will bo Dec oration Day, but the decorating of graves has been In progress all tho week. Many like to avoid the rush on the actual Decora tion Day, and therefore go tho week belore to perform their sad duty, with tho inten tion or taking part in the exercises that will bo carried on by the various Posts of G. A. R. and other organizations on the 30th. Tho florists say they aro selling plants and cut flowers in'qnantitics of five and -ten dollars apiece, and that the amount disposed or this season is unprecedented. The probabilities nre that the cemeteries will bo veritable gardens next Monday. Social Chatter. Tire reception or the Soho school Is to take place to-morrow. The O'Hara, Sterfett and Wllklnsburg schools will likewise cele brate children's day at the same time. Tho day is a pleasant one for the children. They ore dicsed in their holiday clothing, and they have a chance toshoiv their protlcicncy in their studies in the presence nt their par ents and friends, and all Is gladness for at least that one day In tho year. Mas. Habdino, who has been seriously ill for some time, Is convalescing. She has been attended with the closest or loving de votion by her daughter, Miss Julia Harding, for weeks, and the friends of both will re joice to know that the Invalid is improving, and will probably be well enough to go out before very long. To-Mdnnow night Is tho tlmo for tho long promised performance or "Diplomacy" by the Tuesday Night Club, in the Dnqucsne Theater. There is every indication that the auditorium will be filled, while the careful rehearsals of the play warrant the expecta tion or a splendid performance. A Lawn fete for tho benefit of Grace Epis copal is to be given on tho grounds of Thomas F. AshTord, Sr., Mt. Washington, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday evonina?, June L 2 and 3. Dancing will bo among tho amusements. Special Ascension Day services will bo held to-day in Trinity Church by Rev. A. W. Arundel, tue rector. Bishop Whitehead will administer a number of confirmations in the afternoon. To-xianT there will be a drill by a number of young ladies to tho music of the Western Utiiveisity Glee Club, In tho Butler Struct M. E. Church. Me. and Mrs. Tiieo. F. Brown and Miss Mabel Brown are registered at the Audito rium Hotel, Chicago. To-iionnow night the Curry University Dramatic Club-will play "Our Boys." THAT GRAXT-C0NKUNG LETTER. It is doubtless a-part of the antl-Harrlson campaign. This is the quadrennial season for bogus political documents. Baltimore Herald. Its language concerning n second terra nomination and its coming to light at this time nre regarded as something more than n fortuitous coincidence. Cleveland J'lam Dealer. WnATEVER bearing it mny havo on tho existing political situation Is purely acci dental. The fact that it is accidental, how ever, does -not make it any the less im portant. Columbia Ditpatch. There is nothing in it. that It would havo been Inconsistent for General Grant to write. Much of it is characteristic of htm. If It is a fake," the imitation is remarkably well done. Urooklyn Standard-Un on. Nobodt has as yet been able to establish the authenticity of the Grant letter given to the public last week. Ihe belier that it is a forgery grows with the days. If a forgery, why was it sent ont at this tlmeT New York Advertiier. The genuineness of the letter published last week purporting to havo been written by Gcueral Grant to Hon. Roscoo Conkling just prior to the famous contest for the nomination in 1S80, may well be doubted. C.eveland Leader. The fraudulent character of the alleged letter Is so transparent on its face that it is not necessary to examine it in detail. It is difficult to understand the pnrpose which wns to have beon served by putting forth a hoax which could be so easily detected. Philadelphia BuUetin. It Is certainly no reflection upon the character or the patriotism of the illustrous soldior and citizen who is said to have written it. Thero is nothing in it which friend or relative, sensitive to his memory and tender of his famo, need be in swift haste to disavow. Watldngton Post. HE COTJLDH'T MAKE IX BAIN. The Sonora Authorities Say Thry Broke No Contract With Melbourne. WASniKOToir, May 25. Thero seems to be another side to the roport that the Governor of Sonora, Mexico, last March broke a $2,500 contract with Frank Melbourne, a "rain maker,"' alter tho tatter had produced rain. Theoff.cial paper of the Sonora Govern ment says thnt natural rain fell while Mel burne w as at Hermaslllo, but that after tne weather had cleared up and he had beon given a fair chance with his aparatus, he left, declaring that the atmospheric condi tions of the place were such tnat ho could not overcome them. In Need ot Soap. Boston Herald. It is announced that Queen Victoria has conferred the Order or the Bath upon the Khedive of Egypt. Some of the other po tentates should now send him some soap. This would help to make a now man of the Khedive, C0RI0US CONDENSATIONS. Massachusetts has a justice of the pea who is deaf and dumb. Filty-eight thousand women belong the trades unions of England. A dead cat is the basis of a divorce si brought by a Fort Dodgo woman. A Schuylkill county, Pi, man has c three sets of teeth and is getting out fourth. The public park in San Francisco i cently received a cocoannt tree from Hoc lulu which weighed six tons. There are 80,000 barmaids in Engla whose hours average 14 dally for wage of 10 shillings per week. A New York policeman is going to It land to take possession of an estate he h Inherited, which is said to bo worth $2C0,0 It is said that the idea of putting woman's head on one side of our coi originated from tho saying that "mon. talks." A Missouriaa nailed his wife in a b and sent nor as freight in order to save c fare. The experiment resulted in payii funeral expenses. It is announced that the secret of mal ing odorless whisky has been dlscovere The name of the discoverer and his proce alike are hidden from the world. "While the "West is suffering from tl floods the State of Maine Is suffering fro drouzht. Lake Sebago Is 8 feet 9 inches b low its normal level at this season. One hundred and fifty negroes we: lynched in this country during the past yea and It is stated on good authority that tl numDerof lynchings is on tho Increase. It is not generally known what raarve ous progress has been made In roeent 3-ca in the teaohlntroftho dumb to speak. Ita pears from official records that last year tlcnlation was taught to no less than 4,2 pupils. A few days ago an intoxicated man wi round on tho track of a New England rai road by a engineer and rescued from deat No sooner had he been pulled out of dang than he turned and stabbed bis rescuer . tho back. Some of the Venetians those who hat never been to the mainland have neve seen a horse in all their lives. A showmn once brought ono to n fair and called it monster, and tho factory hands paldlScen' each to see the marvel. In order to determine what influenc the moon has on earthquakes, Captain d Montcssns has collected information of 60 Ot earthquakes, and has arrived at tho cor elusion that onr satellite has no effect upo these phenomena. There are many people now living wh will have only one birthday to celebrate fo nearly 12 years to come. This strange ci cumstanro Is duo to the fact that the were born on February 23,and to the rnrthc fact that tho year 1900 will not be a lea year. There is a tribe of South America; savages who live in treo tops near Yer czuela, and their singular mode of exlstenc ttave the name to that Province. The vf lnges of these poople aro built over th bosom of a great fresh-water lake to escap from tho mosqnitos. It is said that 1,000 horses are slaugb tered for food every week in Paris, wher horse flesh has come into general nse amon; tho poor as an article of diet. Palatabl dishes of the same article of food are als. frequently fonnS on the tables of the poo: of Berlin and Vienna. It has been shown that the white elm o our bottom lands and gToves yleids.one yon with another, at a very moderate estimate too, 33,000 seeds. Now. nn elm ordinarily lives at least a full 100 years, and, conse quently, in the course of that comparative!: short lile prodnces nearly 3.000,000 grains, al' coming from one original seed. Marriage may be a failure in San Fran cisco, and it may not, but it is interesting t no'te that comparatively few people an making the experiment. During last yeai there were only 3.23G marriages in the citj less than 11 to 1,000 of the city's population The rate in London is moro than 18 per l,O0f What it is in the various cities and States o the Union is not recorded accurately. "The wind blew through his whiskers' had its origin at St. Joseph, Mo., ten year ngo. A Innatlc, who had escaped to the roo of a house and held at bay a number o strong men for hours, was afterward askec his reason for going on the roof. He repllec that, his whiskers being so thick, he wen tip there to let tho wind blow through then and cool his lace. Miss Betsey Trumbull, who diei recently at tho almshouse in Skowhegan Me., at the a;e of 92, was supported by th town from the dny of her birth to the day o her death, for, although able to do consider able work, both indoors and out, she was ot feeble intellect and unable to take care o. herself. Ninety-two years on a poor larm is the longest time on record, Immense schools of large sea bass were found on the fishing banks by the New York fishing stcamors last week, and on Tuesday more than 4,000 were taken with hook and line. The deck of one boat was nearly cov ered with these fine fish. The run has made Its appearance unusnally early, much to the ileli-tht of the -alt-water an?lers. Tho sea bass is not a first-class game fish, but it is very showy and has excellent table quail tie?. In walking through the Central Park oneday last -neck a Boston naturalist was snrprlsed by some of tho trees, shrubs nnd flowers be saw there. He says ho found even sugar maple', Norway maples and swamp maples. Ho found moss pinks, Asiatic magnolias, lilaos, the forsythia, tha cornelian cherry and other charming things that are familiar to Now Yorkers who stroll through tho park. Who would think, to look at a big rail way locomotive, that it could by any possi bility be put together in less than ono dayt A London paper states that the feat was ac complished at tho Stratrord works of the Great Eastern Railway of Ensland. The locomotive was "a standard rreight locomo tive or the six-cotipled type, weighing more than 37 tons, and able to hanl a load or 550 tons." From the driving of tho first rivet to the application ot the final coat of varnish, tho work occupied less than 10 hours. At the felling of an ancient hollow oak in a German forest, when tho tree crashed to the ground itdlsclosod a human skeleton In excellent preservation. From his long boots, powder flask and other articles fonnd heapoearedto have been a hunter, and it was conclndcd that the unfortunate man, in climbing tho tree in pursuit of some wound ed bird or animal, had slipped into the hol- low trunk, bad been unable to extricate, himself, and so had perished miserably of starvation in hi3 ready-prepared oak coffin. JOKELETS FK03I JUDGEL She (at 7:30 p. jr.) Do you mind waiting until I put on my gloves? He Not at all. I don't care much for the theater anvwav. Mrs. de Style Something should be done to stop this disgusting Industrial-art progress. It's perfectly horrid! Friend What Is the matter now? Mrs. de Style They've eot things so now one caa never tell whether a nelehbor's dinner set was made in Europe or New Jersey. Mildred Why, Amy, surely yon are not tinting your cheeks? Amy (rough duster In hand) Yes: this Is Deco ration Day, you know. He If you didn't love me why did you marry me? gne Well, when you proposed you said I was an angel, and I'd beard that people should marry their opposltes. Agent Madam, I have sold one of our J astir celebrated folding beds to every one in the neighborhood, with the single exception of tse spinster lady who lives across the way. Lady of the honse Why wouldn't she hay one? Agent She said there was no chance for a man to get under It. Miss Vanity That Mr. Flipps is always staring after me: he torments roc almost to deata with his attentions. Miss Vtxen-I know Poor fellow I He never did have much sense. "I want to ask one more question," sa little Frank as he was being put to bed. "Well?" acquiesced the tired raamraa. ' 'When holes come In stockings what c-ecomM f the pt ce of stocking that was there before the hole came?" Husband Hello! Where did that clock come from? Wife Why, my dear, that was one of the docts that was given ns for a wedding present. Husband-Well. I should like to know where 1 has been all these years? Wife The Jeweler has been regulating U.
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