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THE PITTStTRG DISPATCH. TUESDAY, MAT 31. 1892.
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FlTTBt'KG. TUESDAY. MAY 31. lSJi
TWELVE PAGES
THE LMSONOrlE'iIEKUil.
Decoration Day vras well observed. The
men who some thirty ears ago sacrificed
everything at their countrj s time of need
were gratefull' remembered and honored
by old and young The speeches and cer
emonies at the graves of those who for
sook home and cery personal interest to
rally to the national flag were fitting
tokens of a debt that can never be repaid.
Nature h?d done her share in brightening
the last resting places of the departed
brave, and loving hearts and willing hands
eked out the work of the season. But
these outward tribute', beautiful and ap
propriate though they be, should be ac
companied by a permanent and never
failing continuance of that patriotic spirit
to which the country owes its present
greatness.
Never again will the nation be torn by
civil strife. Nev er in all probability for
such is America's increasing strength
will the citizens of this land be called up
on to bear arms against a foreign power.
Tet there are duties of patriotism which
have as strong a claim upon every Amer
ican to-day as ever had those which were
answered with enthusiasm in the past
The spirit of patriotism is for all times.
It Is as useful in an era of peace and pros
perity as in the crisis of war and trouble.
Iet this be constantly borne in mind by
citizens of every sort and condition, and
the vast progress hitherto experienced
will sink into comparative insignificance
beside the glories of the future.
AN IMPORTAM FACTOR.
There is a sign of progress on the road
question m the law recently enacted in
Michigan that the users of broad wagon
tires the width being regulated according
to the weight of the wagon shall be en
titled to a rebate of half the road tax.
The arrangement is alike advantageous to
the farmer, the taxpayer and the general
public It Is most timely when some prog
ress has been made in the actual con
struction of improved roads; but as a pre
paratory measure it is judicious.
It is self evident that when a road is
macadamized or graveled, the passage of
heavy loads supported on narrow tires
wears it out in ruts. But the same load on
tires eight inches broad, the hind wheels
projecting bejond the front, in effect is
exactly the same as if a roller had passed
over two feet eight inches of surface. The
same thing is true to a less degree of pave
ments; and it is a sign of the superior care
for pavements in European cities that the
strength of tire necessary to carry given
weights, over pavements there is the sub
ject of strict regulation.
The justice of such a provision as that
adopted in Michigan is plain when we
consider the effect if all the heavy loads
transported over an improcd roadway
were carried on wheels of such breadth as
roll instead of cut up the road. The cost
of repairing the roads would be reduced
more than half. Every such load would
tend to improve the road by compacting
and hardening the surface; and the liabil
ity of the road to get out of repair would
be reduced to a minimum.
The broad tire for heavily loaded
wagons is one of the important factors of
preserving good roadwajs when they are
made. It should not be neglected in any
comprehensive scheme for road improve
ment. AN EXAMPLE OF SMOKE PKKYEXTION.
There is an example for the study and
emulation of Pittsburg in the report
which we find of a ruling last week of
the Appelate Court of Chicago. The
case was an appeal against a fine for the
violation of the "smoke ordinance," and
the ruling fully sustained the imposition
of the fine. In this case we obsen e the
following grahfjing facts. First, that an
ordinance forbidding the pouring out on
the surrounding population of clouds of
unnecessary smoke has been enacted and
upheld by the courts; second, that the or
dinance is being rigorously enforced to
the extent of convicting and fining of one
of the most prominent and influential
firms of the city; and finally, that a court
of appeal has held that the proof of the
fact of smoke is sufficient evidence that
it is a public injury. On this point the
language of the court is worth quoting.
It is a matter of common knowledge that
smoke becomes soot, -which falls and black
ens where it rests; that it is injurious to
vegetation, to many Kinds or goods, and an
noying to people. This common knowledge
is so generally diffused in Chicago tbat no
Jury could be without it.
With this public example and judicial
declaration before us it deo!es on the
city of Pittsburg to show cause why it
should not go and do likewise.
A NAME AND NO MORE.
A practice of somewhat long standing
in the Old World, but more infrequent in
this country, is that of loaning piominent
names to corporations with no other pur
pose than that of floating the shares. A
Florida land and investment company
took this mode of commending itself to
public attention by parading General
Butler's name as its vice president in its
widely disseminated advertisements. The
company has now gone to pot; the stock
1 olders are wondering what has become of
their money, and General Butler calmly
disclaims all connection with the manage
ment or responsibility for it.
The astute old lawyer is probably very
thoroughly posted as to his legal responsi
bility, but there is a question of moral
responsibility in connection with it. Is it
right for a mat! to permit his name to be
used in a way liable to attract people's
savings without the slightest care whether
the enterprise is a solvent one or a bare
faced swindle ? General Butler can hard
ly have been aware that his name was
widely advertised as Vice President of
this company. If he was really Vice Pres
ident it was not business honesty to neg
lect taking a part in the management at
least to the extent of satisfying himself
that it was a solvent concern. If he was
not an officer he should have slopped the
use of his name.
We believe it is the case that under the
law people who permit the use of their
names in that way incur no liability. But
that is simply because the law does not
cover the case. There should be a definite
liability in every instance where the name
is used by its owner's consent, either di
rectly or tacitly.
WAN ill KEK UNDER FIRE.
The charge made m connection with
the letting of the contract for a pneumatic
mail service is of the kind that requires a
prompt response in order to prevent it
from becoming a damaging feature in this
j ear's campaign. It is of course of less
weight Viith the public than it would be
coming from some other source than the
man who did get his pneumatic system
adopted; but e en from that source alle
gations so definite as some that are made
in connection with this subject have to be
promptly met when the administration is
on the eve of a national campaign.
The complainant against the Postmaster
General in this case is S. F. Leake, of the
Leake Pneumatic Transportation Com
pany. He makes affidavit that he offered
to furnish the Government an experi
mental pneumatic S3 stem for the city of
Philadelphia free of cost. This offer, he
avers, was met by the Postmaster General
witii objections as to the informality
of the offer, as to the right to
lay pneumatic tubes in the streets,
and as 'to the security of the
performance of the offer. All these ob
jections were met, one after the other, but,
notwithstanding them. Mr. Wanamaker
made a contract with another company
for a considerable sum of money. In this
company it is charged that the Postmaster
General was interested by a gift of 7,500
shares of stock; the affiant giving the
names of the people who said so.
It is to be observed that the direct
charge of corruption rests exclusively on
hearsay evidence and until supported by
more direct proof is hardly worthy of
much credence. But as against such a
high officer of the Government even a
hearsay charge of dishonesty should be
traced to its source and thoroughly venti
lated. Apart from that phase of the at
tack, the matters directly testified to are
of such moment that a public explanation
is required. The administration cannot
afford to have its postal department rest
under even the su-picion of either favorit
ism or incompetence.
The affidavit has been sent to the Con
gressional Investigating Committee, and
Mr. Wanamaker has asked for an Investi
gation. That course is the only one to
take when such charges are definitely
made.
SOME SOUND MAXIMS.
Ex-President Hayes delivered a me
morial speech at Columbus yesterday
which was "as full of valor as of kind
ness." And it was as full of sound sense
as of elegant expression. He points out
two main things for the nation to remem
ber: With regard to international affairs
we need fear no nation rind it is our duty
to use our influence to enlarge the sphere
of arbitration. For internal matters we
must prize those much-abused words,
equality and fraternity, at their true
value.
If these maxims be borne in mind in all
cases of disputes with others, and in
framing and executing legislation for our
selves, we shall do more than can be fore
told for the furtherance of social progress
to that stage at which the brotherhood of
man is more than a mere empty phrase.
TOE TORY DILEMMA.
The declarations, first, that the Salis
bury Ministry will dissolve Parliament
this month, and, next, that it will hang on
to the spring of 1893, are irreconcilable.
They probably arise from the very nat
ural state of affairs that the members of
the Ministry do not yet know how it will
be decided. It is said that Lord Salis
bury prefers the course of an immediate
dissolution, while Mr. Balfour wishes to
hang on long enough to pass his local gov
ernment bill and give it six months of
operation before the election. As no one
believes the local government bill was
ever intended for enactment, this view
does not impress anyone with its especial
probability.
Perhaps no one thing exhibits the dif
ficulties which the Tories have in keep
ing up their courage more than this disposi
tion to hang on to their majority till the
last gasp. While there is no constitutional
obstacle to letting a Parliament ex
pire by limitation, the policy of
doing that has been unusual, and
no other motive can be attached to
the course than that of hanging on to
power to the latest possible moment
There will be little disposition to assign
any other motive to the postponement of
dissolution. Tones and Liberal Unionists
will get eight or ten months' longer lease
of life before meeting the impending de
feat; and the Government will have the
chance of something turning up in its
favor in the meantime.
Tet is this chance equal to the confes
sion involved in putting off the dissolution
expected by English opinion this summer ?
Only unless the Tories are willing to
acknowledge that their prospects are
desperate as they now stand. 'The world
will soon know whether Salisbury will
determine to put his fate to the test, to
win or lose it all, or to cling to power as
long as the English Constitution will let
him.
ONE ECONOMICAL ASPECT.
The present aspect of the political field
promises fortune for the provident soul
who saves up old campaign banners, mot
toes, regalia and tbe other paraphernalia
whereby political conviction is carried to
the popular heart. Perhaps this is the
tribute paid by the political forces to the
need for retrenchment and reform. There
has been no recognition of that need in
Congress on the part of either party; but
when we reflect on the quadrennial ex
penditure for banners bearing the names
of the candidates, for campaign rhymes
and calls of a new and dreadful character,
and all the other things constructed to the
names of the candidate, a course' which
w ill save all these expenditures ought to
be extremely grateful to the people who
put up the campaign funds.
All this can be done by the nomination
of the candidates of 1881. The Blaine
and Cleveland flags, mottoes, banners and
armor will come into play now as well as
then, as good as new for their eight jear3
retirement The people who have
afforded them storage room can realize a
good return on their original small invest
ment and yet make them cheaper than
new stuff. The campaign managers can
even salt down a liberal percentage for
their economy, and still let up somewhat
easier on the long-suffering fat-frjee.
The campaign of 1884 repeated with
emendations and variations let us hope
ought to be an economical one. It will
save wear and tear on the gray matter
ot the political brain, and permit a reha
bilitation of the campaign funds, so that
they can even pay up the high prices for
oratory which the managers promise.
Hunters, whether they be Nimrods,
Ramrods or Fislnngrods, aie generally too
much absorbed by tlio pursuit of game to
find the truth. Any way they seldom leport
it found.
Ffmhaps the day will come when a pa
triotic holiday is looked upon as an occasion
for bestial indulgence. Decoration Day was
appaiently legaidcd by some as anoppoi
tunity lor painting themselves as biutcs
with the help of alcoholic liquors. But the
times aie piogrtssive, and an era is to be
hoped fbrwheiein knowledge shall sunei
sedc ignorance and virtuo shall utteily ob
literate vice.
It is about time tor anti-Harrison men to
"bo called Blaino forces, while the General's
snpporteis should be stigmatized as the op
position and be knon n as the anti Blaine
section.
To learn that cholera has started on
Another little journey through tho world,
with the Vale of Cashmeie as its breeding
place, takes away the poetical conception
of that alleged lovoly spot. As cholera is
born of filth and decay, the lest of the
woild will do wisely to avoid the beauties
of Cashmere's valley.
Howlixo Bear is a highly appropriate
name torun old Indian chief who prophesies
a serious visitation of plngne, pestilence and
famine w ithin tw o years. .
The First Kegimentof the Ohio National
Guar'l engaged in a sham fight on Sunday
and several men weiemore or less seiiou-lv
injured by sabeis and gun wads. At this
rate sham fights will soon become fin moie
popular than football fiom the larger ele
ment of danger they contain.
Talfs of woe will be heard ere long, for
the fruit crop is rapidly reaching tho stage
of unripeness provocative of indiscreet in
dulgence. Pittsburg won two ball games yester
dav. The team could hardly do less on the
home ground when they received about
thirteen, thousind visitors during the day.
But oh, my Maryland! how much less the
Baltimore players must feel than they did
before coming
Irish leaders are calling for campaign
funds, but a union among the Nationalists
themselves is of still greater importance.
Secretary Foster will do as little to
secure success for his patron Harrison by
defying Blaine to accept the nomination if
it ba offered to him as Russell did by sug
gesting that the present Secretary of Stato
is a mental and physical w reck.
The war was not won by memorial
speeches. But they aie indications of the
same spiiit that pieserv cd the Union.
When holiday people crowd railroad
stations so much that the scenes aio sug
gestive of riots, one is tempted to believe
that after all the country must be superior
to Pittsbnrg with its cleanliness, fresh air
and greenery.
Aspirants for second place on the Fresi
dental ticket are, most of them, possessed
of chances worse than third rate.
That tidal wave which threatens to carry
Blaine to the White Ilouse is assuming pio
portions so vast as to indicate tbat ilar
risonians had better tako hold of tho life
saving apparatus before making tho final
plnnge.
To the credit of America, be it said that
the only prize fight yesteiday occurred in
England.
Depew's little boom Interview for Har
rison is all spoilt by the sentence at tho end,
which says "Indeed, 1 will not absolutely
know whit I am going todo myself until 1 get
there." "Theio" being Minneapolis.
Yesterday was a day of proud mem
ories, happy faces and laii weather.
Dr. Rainsford preached a sermon in
Sew York on Sunday defending the saloon
and the liquor traffic geneially, Tet ono
might expect him to bo a teetotaler Horn
the watery sound of bis name.
A man may talk of June bugs now with
out being accused of humbug.
IT is now several days since Tomhicken
asked Pattison to resign. As the Governor
has taken no notice of the request, it may be
presumed that he is waiting to hear fio'ui
Dick and Harry.
The future safety of Market street pedes
trians will be settled to-day.
Baseballs were as much thought of as
eannon balls yesterday. And the battel ies
which attracted most attention wero not
those of Gettysburg, but those of the Pitts
burg nine.
NOTES ABOUT NOTABLES.
Mrs. Edison prefers candles to any other
form of household illumination.
Buzzard's Bat will be the summer re
soit ofMr. and Mis. Grover Cleveland.
Hon. T. Jefffrson Coolidge, the new
United States Minister to France, siiled
lrom New York Satuiday on the La Tour
aine. The King and Queen of Denmark and the
Prince and Fiincess of Wales yesterday took
lunch with the Uzaron board the imperial
yacht TolarStai.
Baron Hirsch, the well-known philan
thropist, is suffering from an attack of influ
enza and congestion of the lungs. His con
dition is said to be serious.
The Fretndcn Blatt says that Baron Emb
den has sent to Hamburg for publication a
hitherto unpublished collection or Heuiz's
letters to his mother and sister.
Rider Haggard has turned farmer, and
while delighted with his bucolic experiences
is puz7led to understand why milk that has
h&d all the butter taken out of it should be
called buttermilk.
Lieutenant and Mrs. James B. Hether
ington arrived at Wilmington, Del., yes
torday from San Francisco and were at once
driven to tho homo of Emlen Hewes, tho
father of Mrs. Hetheiington.
Miss Catherine Weed Barnes, who
is.wldely known among imateur photogra
phers as a fellow craftsman, expects to ox
pose 2,000 plans during her present visit to
Europe. She will probably read a paper be
fore a convention in Edinburgh.
General Isaac Jones Wistar has
given the University of Pennsylvania $135,
000 wherewith to build and maintain a mu
seum containing his father's collection of
musical objects. He is President of tho
Philadelphia Academy of Science, and is an
enthuslasticyachtsinan.
Good Reason, tor Kevlilun.
WisningtonBtar.
If women as preaohers are to rule tho
Methodist Protestant Church there is a cer
tain appropriateness in the General Confer
ence striking out the word "obey" in the
bride's responses of the marriago jervice.
A QnVstlon Easily Answered,
Detroit FreeTress.J
Which will appear as the Republican em
blcm, the waving white plumo or grand
father's bell crowned hat?
THE LESSONS OF WAR.
Ex-President Hayes' Speech to Veterans at
Colnmbos A Small Army and Wealc
Navy Not Such Great Drawbacks Priv
ileges and National Strength of the
United States.
Columbus, O , May 30 A laige assemblage
of veterans and citizens gathered at Colum
bus to-day to listen to the menioiial addicus
ofex-President Kutherfoid B. Hajes. Gen
eral Hayes was in excellent health, and
easily held the attention of tho large audi
ence. The opening portion of the General's
addiesswa- devoted to an analysis of war
and its lesulttng effects The concluding
portion w as especially notable. He said:
lie astounding piogrcss of America uur-
in:
the war and by leason of it during the
last 27 v ears has cairicd us onwardand up
ward until we have reached a rank among
the nations so commanding that we our
selves can hnidly lealize cither the priv
ileges that are ours or t he lesponsibilities and
duties which those privileges impose upon u.
It is our piivilese to be without extensive
and costly loirllications, becamo we do not
need them. We havo only a small navy be
cause with our resources we aie able, if tho
need comes, to subsidize the ships of almost
all other nations except those of the power
with which we ai oat war. We havo to-day
the lamest, the cheapest, the safest and the
mo3t efficient and toi midablearmy the world
his ever seen. It consists ot moi e than 10,
000,000 educated men who are not merely
elf Mistaining, but who. engaged in the
peaceful induitiies of civil life, are con
stantly adding to out w eulth and power. To
keep this army up to its maximum of num
bers and stiengtu we have nioro than a
quarter of a million of school houses under
the old fl ig, eveiy ono of which is nt once a
forttes and a lecruiting station for the
aimy of the Republic.
Actions Mnch bonder Than Words.
"With our privileges and national
strength the conditions appointed br Provi
dence foi human existence for nations as
well as individuals require us to bear the
Durden of coi responding duties. The occa
sion permits me to call your attention verv
briefly to two or the obligations devolved
upon us. One relates to our dealings with
forpiun nations; theothei concerns our own
citizens and our own immediate welfare.
America ousht to ue the pi ecious oppor
tunity which her weight in the woild has
givcnbei to keep the peace of tho woild. It
is altogether fitting tli.it this toi tunate Kc
public should be the peicemukei o'f the
woild. Actions -peak louder than words.
Example avails. Wo can better aflord to
iitffci wions than to do wrong, and espe
cially in dpaling w ith weaker nations.
No othei nation is so great that it will
evei agiin seek to knoclc the chip on" our
shoulders We should of course always be
Just, but we can affoidalso to be moderate,
considerate, charitable and luaginnimoin.
Let our examnle, voice and Influonce be
consistently, sincerely and firmly on the
-ide of pace in favor of arbitration and
against war. Let it be understood that
America will engitgc in no war that is not
abso!utcl forced upon her. We should
adopt the familiar maxim of the grot dra
matist: "Bewaie of entrance to a quarrel;
but being in it, so boir it that the opposed
may bewaie of thee." We ouht indeed to
advance both parts of Shakespeare's advice.
Large Armies Fat-U to Librtv.
Large standing armies are fatal to lib
erty. Wai is tho enemy of civilization and
we ought to keep out of war until diiven to
the wall. But when compelled to act, let
tho example of tho old Unmans he followed:
"Caithngodelentla est" Let Caithage be de
stroved Whea America is driven into war
let that wai end only with annihilation of
the power that caused it. Let it be under
stood thatwhoevei makes war w ith America
will nevei mike war again. Oar gospel is
peace. If war must conic, its aim and end
should be a peace that cannot again be
broken by the svne offendei.
Another lesson inculcated by war is for
America still moie impoitant. Ml wais
educate Of our war it has been slid. "Ideas
wero behind the cannon and pointed the
musket." Abraham Lincoln wastheveiy
incarnation of these ideas, and they aie at
once the secret and the suic foundation of
the enduiinsr plato which he holds in the
affections of all good men and women The
sentiments which filled his soul and were
the guide of his life w ere hnmani tj ; anxious
solicitude foi the welfare of his fellow men;
sjmpathy with tho suffering and the op
piesed;hitied ot wrong to the humblest
human being, and our common brotherhood.
The lesson of bis wondertul life contains
nlmost the whole tutuie of our country. It
is short and simple.
At the Partinc of Two iloads.
Our Amenea to-day is drawing near to
the parting of the roads. Dazzled almost to
blindness by the contemplation of unrivaled
swiftness and splondoi of hermaicn to pies
tige, to powti, and to richness, our country
maybe tempted toi eject or may neglect the
message of Lincoln. Thit message was often
lepeatedby him in words, and always ex
hibited in his life, from his latest day on
earth. It can easily be givenln a single sen
tence. His whole lite, his very being, seemed
to say to his country: "See to it that every
person and daughtci or our Republic, so fai
as human law s and conduct avail, shall have
an equal chanco and a fair start in the race
of life."
Knowledge is power and property Is
power. The republic means opportunity
tho equal opportunity to get knowledse,
which, in tho long run, commands piopeitv.
The practical meaning of Lincoln's maxim
is, thercfoie, let all tho children of the Re
public have an equal opportunity foi the
best education which theii natural facilities
fit them to receive. Reject or neglect this,
and our Government ceases to be lepub
lican, except in name, and that doom which
tho Almighty has appointed for all shams is
not lar off. On the other hand, let the
Ammican people remain steadfastly true to
the ideas foi which thev fought in the sa
cred wai, a" d we shall thus do all tbat lies
in us to link tne destiny of our country to
the stars and to entitle her institutions to
share in that immortality which, under the
allotment of Pi ovidence in the affairs or
nations, belongs always and only to eternal
wisdom and eternal Justice.
ANOTHER SHIP EMLEOAD.
It Is Proposed to Carry Ships Between
Laks Huron and Ontario.
Montreal, Mav TO A gieat scheme lias
been launched by a nuuibct of prominent
Canadian capitalists to connect the Georgian
Bay and Lake Ontaiio by a mammoth ship
railway. Mr. E. L. Corthell, an en
gineer of Chicazo, who was asso
ciated with Captain Eads In tho
construction of the Tehuantepec ship
railway across tho Isthmus of Panama, has
been consulted by the promoters, and has
given his opinion thnt tho scheme is thor
oughly practical. Mi.Coithell hisjustie
turned from a. thorough Inspection of tho
proposed route alonz tho small divide be
tween the two bodies of watei from near
Collingwood, on Geoigian Bay, and the
neighborhood of Toronto, on Lake Ontario,
a dlstanco of C6 miles. He cxpi esses the
opinion that theie could not be lounil an)
wheie a strip of countiy bettor adapted in
easy grades for a natural loute.
The roadbed will bo 53 feet wide and will
hav e six paraliol steel tracks. The orteinal
estimate of cost of tho work was $15,500 000.
The engineei's inspection lias conv meed him
that the sum w ill be ample to construct and
put in operation a side rail way uetwocn these
two points to cairv vessels up to 6,(03 tons
burden. The building of tho road ho is con
vinced would compel the enlargement
of the lower canals. It is utteily
impossible, he says, to provide for the
enormous commerce of tho lakes by any pos.
sible enlargement of the Erie canal, and tho
best and cheapest route to the seaboard is
by the St. Lawrence river route, of which
the ship railway will be an essential part.
The scheme, it is believod, will be heartily
supported by tho Noithwestitnd the West
ern States. A company known as tho Hu
rontano Ship Railway" Company has been
organised to undertake the project, and
several ot the promoteis will shoitly leave
tor England to interest English capitalists
in it.
A Natural Inclination.
New York World.
Dr. Parkhursc says he Is going abroad this
week to follow his "usuul Mimincr pro
gramme of mountain-climbing In the Alps "
That he should wish to get among the clouds
is natural enough and furnishes a very
pretty example of tho law of leactionary
energy.
A Keal Ruben's Tainting la Newark.
New York, May 30 Pi of. Josef Weil, an
aitist of Kewais, N. J., last Tuesday pur
chased a pictuie for $100, which he says is a
roal Ruben's.a companion to one now in the
Royal Academv, Munich, w hlch is valued at
jll'i.OOO Mr. Weil said Peter Paul Ruben
executed the pictuio in the sixteenth
century.
1 he Monetary Confernnca Is a Go.
AVASHisaTOjr, May' 33. This Government
has received notice that France and Ger
many will send delegates to tho Interna
tional Monetary Conference, which assuies
Its assembling. It is undeistood that the
correspondence on the subject will be sont
to the Senate during tho present week.
PBESBYTEEIASISM'S PEEIL.
The Issue Involved In the ISrlggs Case
One of Great Gravity.
New York Tribune. J
As most peoplo expected who have been
following tne convolutions of tho Briggs
cae in the Presbyterian Church, tho Gen
eral Assembly has voted by a large majority
to sustain the aDpeal or the New
York Prosecuting Committee from tho
action of the New York Tresbytcry
in dismissing the
Pior. Brings last fall;
will probably be pnt
That the result of
takes place, will be
charges agiinst
and the Professor
on trial for heresy.
this trial, If it
his condemnation
can hardly bo a
matter of doubt:
lor his opponents, by raising tho cry
tl at the church and tho Bible
are in danger, have rallied to their side
nearly all tho moderates who would otl er
wise bo disposed to give him the benefit of
the doubt. Nor is the opposition to him
meielytheologic.il. No one who has fol
lowed vi ith any care tho contioversy raised
over his utterances can have failed, to no
tice that a bittei personal hostility to him
exists in the Presbyteiian Church. This
hostility has been loused, partly by the
radical (haractei of his views of the Bible,
partly by his aggressive andiasping way ot
stating these view s.and partly by tne some
wl at wifoimiilated thonght that he bad no
business to go ont of his way to raise such
an unpleasant and puzzling Issue in the
Church
In every denomination theie is a large
and woithy clas of people who, while ap
pioving of life and growth in a general w ay,
are leady to persecute the hapless individ
uals in tho Church who promote its life and
giowth by their fresh and novel wajs of
looking at old ti aditions and doctrines The
Freslnteiian Church is preeminently a
chvrch in wnich thu right of private judg
ment, as against ecclesiastic if dogmatism,
is a .vital principle. It grew into beinj out
of a revolt against tradiiion, and the vciy
Confession which so m iny of itsmembtfis
now legard as little less than divine is
simply the opinion of fallible men which
may or may not be true. And jet to-day the
men v ho w ould admit that the results of in
dependent and untrammelled thouzht vveie
good for the Chinch in the pastaie vehe
mently denyins that they aie good to-day.
Such an attitude is one of th6 puzzling
things about dcnominationalism; but puz
rling or not, it is a factoi that must De
reckoned with by all oiiginal thinkers like
Prot BrUgs.
Tlioreisalaige nnd influential minority
in the chuich, however, which will not only
question the propriety of trying Pio .
Biizsatall.hutwlilcoiiRidtr his trial be
fore the Uoneial Assemblj us contraiy to
the spiiit andlettei of the law. For it in
volves, among other things, a recognition of
tho New Yoik Presbjteiv's Investi-iiting
Committee, as an original party, no longer
the creatine of the Piesbyteiy, but the
mouthpiece of tho whole Presbyterian
Chinch, a view which many good theo
logians in the church legard as untenable.
It also icnoies the geneially accepted prin
ciple that an appeal from the action ot the
Presbytciy in the first instance should be
made to the next higher body, the Snyod,
instead of to the General Assembly. These
are purely technical point-, of course, as to
which the outsider can have no opinion; but
if thev havo any validity, an appeal by
Pi of. Briggs to the civil courts would icsult
ia the netting aside of the piesent pioceed
mgs against him, in which case the matter
would be further from settlement th m ever.
But without anticipating the future, itm ly
be said that the present issue before the
church is one of great erayity. A lailure to
try the Professor would keep the church in
a continual state of lerment that would in
ierfero seriously with Its growth, while, on
the other uand, his trial and probable con
demnation threaten to split it in tw o Under
these circumstances, it is not surprising that
Piesbyterians generally are deeply anxious
over tho outcome of the action which the
General Assembly has instituted.
Will HELP HOME TAII0ES.
The Passage of the Bill Concerning Euro
pean Clothing Is Kecommended.
WAsnixoTov, May 30 Repiesentativc
Whiting, of Michigan, has piepared the
report of the Committee on Ways and
Means, recommending the passage of tho
bill to limit the amount of wearing apparel
and peisonal effects which may bo
admitted to tho United States free of
duty. The report says;
"Very few of the thousands who cross the
Atlantic return to our shoics without being
fully equipped in foreign made apparel.
Tho clothing of men, women and children
is, by reason of oui high and severe tariff
laws, very much cheaper In Europe than
in the United States. To import such
goods in tho ordinary course of trade
would increase their cost to the con
sumer by the amount of the tariff
tax paid upon them. The American
who lemains at home pays this tax. But by
packing the goods in his trunks and bring
ing them witii him as baggage, the Amer
ican tourist escapes the tax altogether. It
is doubtless tiue that many wealthy Amer
icans sav e much more than the cost ot the
tlio by going abroad and purchasing there
tbeli supply of wearing apparel and other
personal gcods. The Board of General Ap
praisers, as late lis March 5, 1S92 gave the
lollon ing construction of the existing law:
In detennlnlnr what apparel Is necessary and
appropriate for one's Journev, and especially for
one's present comfort and convenience, regard
must or course be Ind to the social statits, condi
tion lu llfn, and financial resources of the person
n question. Including the reasonable customs 33
to arcs of the social circles in whlcu such pcrsou
ordinarily moics.
"Under this constiuction of tho law, the
coriectness of which is not here gainsaid, it
is evident that the wealthier thu person is
tho gicater in quantity and value is t lie
amount of goods which ho can import free
of duty. In othei words, his exemption
from taxation increases lu proportion to his
ability to pay tho taxes."
OflMOXS ON DR. KUNSFOED.
The Rev. Dr. Eainsford has startled tho
public and set it a thinking by announcing
that the churches provide substitutes for
saloons Troy Budget.
If church people are ready to agree with
Dr. Rainsford that tho way to check the
liquor evil is to start n lot of respectable
saloons run Dy the leligious element, then
we had better enlarge our lunatic asylums
Atlanta Constitution
A saloot honestly conducted after Dr.
Rainsioid's plin 'vouid not have ten custo
mers a day in the very heart of New York
City. It would teach Dr. Rainsford and other
theoilsts that there is something deeper in
the liquor question than the place of sale.
Kiznsas City Times.
The one way in which intemperance can
bo decreased continuously is tho way Dr.
Rainsford will have nothing to do with the
natural method of leaving men freo to get
di unk if tho v w ill and of t iking away their
will for diunkenness by continually incieas
ing the intelligent sentiment In favor of un
compolled sobriety. St. Louis M-public
Dr. RAiysrouo spoke plainly from his pul
pit in elaboration and enforcement of the
ideas regarding the liquor saloon which he
recently expressed. Dr. Rainsford possesses
the courage of his convictions, and has evi
dently not adopted the couisa he is now
pursuing without giving it careful thought.
iV. Y. Tribune.
If the newspapers, instead of making
merry over this simple proposition and hold
lngDr. Rainsford up to ridicule in the as
pect of a "publican," would give it serious
consideration and advocacy, it is not impos
sible that they would accomplish nioro for
social reform than can evei be accomplished
by spasmodic oiitbmsts of police vigilance.
Philadelphia Times.
. Dt. Raivsfoud believes that prohibition is
Utopian nnd he proposes to do away, not
with drinking, but excessive drinking and
its attendant evils. Ho would establish sa
loons wheie would be sold beer and light
wines. Theso saloons would be decent, or
derly places; intoxication would never bo
suffered in them, and the best brewings and
vintages would be sold by their Christian
pioprietors.T-Eoston Herald.
DEATHS HERE AND ET.sEWIIERE.
Prof. Anion Hilfll, Nihilist Author.
Prof. Anton llalfli, a well-known littera
teur, authoi of several notable works on nihilism,
was found In a dying condition In his roooi tills
mornlnc. and ten minutes laler breathed his last
Death was due to laudanum, but irbether taken
with suicidal Intent or for medical purpose cannot
be learned. Deceased was a native of Zurich.
Switzerland, aged 45 vcars. and liaies a wile and
five children in destitute circumstances.
Obituary Note.
CiviKit Jonv Ulrich Krzidler, aged 60
years, Commanderln Chief of the Catholic Knights
ofst John of Ohio, died at Dayton Sundaynigut
after four weeks' Illness.
Captuv Joiix Wheeler, a well-known hotel
man. politician. dl6tlllerandameinrror the One
Hundred aud Mlty-elghth Kejclmeut, died yester
day at NeTllIe. Pa . aged 63 years.
Mrs. Db. Hopkins, mother of W. J. Hopkins,
foreman of the Pittsburg Post, died at Cldcora
early yesterday morning. The funeral takes place
In Uooperstown, Venango county, the home of
Mrs. Hopkins' childhood, Wednesday.
POLITICS AND SKIRTS.
A Curious Combination at a Convention of
To-Day The Tyrant of the Tennis Club
Curious Comments of a Captious
Critic Somo Small Shot.
According to tidbits of drawing room
gossip, the Alvin Thcatcrwas selected by the
County Committee for the nomination of
Mr. Dalzell (whose convention will beheld
to-day at 10 a. m.) fiom philanthropic
motives whose basis is the sox which is
pining to nnd cannot vote. It is realized
that some day tho franchise will be ex
tended and women come to their own. In
the meantime the fact that the fair sex is
alarmingly ignorant on matters political, Is
pressing itself on tho masculine mind.
Moieover the ladies are notoriously known
to be unable to preserve their
tempers in an argument, and,
worse, they are charged with being
utterly at sea In tho ethics of controveisy
to say nothinr of an inability to wrestle with
the laws of logic. As a step to remedy all
this, the intention 1 to give them to-day a
sort of a gilt-edged introduction to the
mvsleries ot our glorious country's politics.
The talk is that thdre will be a large attend
ance of women to-day at the convention,
when Mr. Dalzell will have tbe gratification
of knowing that the women aie doing all for
him that the law permits them to do.
The smart people who form the Pitts
burg Tenuis Club know only one terror, and
that, by the way, is of their own forming.
The exact descriptive title by which it is to
be denominated is somewhat difficult to set
tle upon. In the first place, this terror is a
man, which is the least pai t of it. Next, he
is a king, an emperor, a czar, a despot, hav
ing in ills possession an inexorable veto,
more honoied in the observance than in tho
breach. Thesa executive labors aro Joe's
(lor there exist some who have called him
this and live) vocation: his avocation
is the cire of the ruotinds and all that pei
tains thereto. It lies with Joe to saj when
a member may or may not play upon a
court, and in the present disagreeable tem
per ot the weather Ills most potentship is
exei cislng his veto wifi alarming regularity.
It nas been said that tobacco is tbe royal
road to occasional lavors, but that was told
to The Dispatch by somebody w ho was told
by noineliodj else, who was told by some
body else once removed, who was told by
somebody else's second cousi 1, and, there
ioie, Is only giv en here for what it is worth.
Surely it is pessimism run mad that
sees in the creditable peiformance and alto
gether pictuiesqne occasion of the Tuesday
Night Club at the Dtiquesnc Theater on Fri
day last, the rock 011 which that org iniza
tiouwillbe sh pn recked! We have heard
of women who have wopt to put on a beau
tiful spring bonnet because it must wear
out, and they were afraid that so becoming
a headgear could never be rivalled, let alone
outdone, In the summers to come! A fool
ish child onco cried bitterlv because she got
to thinking she might have a daughter some
day, who, in her turn, might have a daugh
ter th it would tall into the fire and gc:
burned, and therefore she proceeded to
enjo) a piesent grieving for a prospective
inlet. It is respectfully si guested that the
Tuesday Night Club should tease to live to
day lor fear of dv ing to morrow.
3rR. H. S. STEVE:bON, the young; Pitts
burg portrait painter. Is making prepara
tions to spend a part of the summer in
Algiers, North Africa, in pursuit of subject
mattei for a contemplated scriesof pictures.
What the nature of these promised canvases
w ill be is not generally known, but it is quite
safe to pi edict that they will be studies of a
moi e ambitious character than the artlt has
jet attempted. Mr. btevensnn has grown
up with our own art fn Pittsburg and he is
pirticularly our own property, so that his
success is Pittsburg's gloiy, and ho is there
fore wished a hearty "godspeed" in Ilia
Journey to foreign lands.
DisruTANTE desires Tun Dispatch to
inlorni her if "it is considered unladylike by
general society for a lau to walkin a public
thoroughfare without hcrglovesT" General
society has no pronounced views on the
matter, but tho Four Hundred, or the 393
banging on the outskirts of tho Four Hun
dred, aro charged with considering it a moro
heinous crime to be unglov ed than to break
every item of the decalogue. Common sense
rules In the wearing of gloves as it does, or
should do, in every walk in life. A well
bred woman would not gobaichanded if sho
whs gowneu in a tnuor-maue iroclc or a
Worth creation. If, however, she has on an
outing suit, and time and place be pro
pitious, theie is no reason in the woild whi
stle should not take off her gloves unless
her hands be led when she ought Indeed to
keep them very much to herself.
A wedding during the past week, ot in
terest to many Pittsburg people, was that of
Rev. John M. Waddell, formerly of Shady
side, now pastor of the Presbyterian Cnurch
of Dravosburg, and Miss Nellie Lee Stoicr,
daughter of Dr. R. S. Stoker, ol Elm Grove,
a beautiful suburb of Wheeling. W. Vn.
The ceiemony was performed nt II o'cclock
a. it, May 25. The maid of honor was Miss
Brown, of Wheeling. The othnr attendants
were Miss Annie H .addcll and Miss Bogs,of
Allegheny City; Miss Margaiet Johnston,
and Miss Virginia Hogp, of Wheeling. The
best man was the Rev. John Calhoun, or
Connellsville, Pa. The asheis weie: Mr.
lialid Hubbard and Mr. John Storer, of
Whccllnsr, Dr. Milton, Richaids and Mr.
John Wilson, of Pittsbnrg. The ceremony
took plac at Elm Giovo in the old Stone
church. The Rev. Dr. Grier, of Elm Grove,
assisted by the Rev. Dr. Cook, ol Wheeling,
officiated. The bride and bridegroom left ut
2o'clocfcr. M. fore, wedding journey in the
West. The will take up their residence at
Dravosburg, Pa , about July L
Jane Meade "WELsn lectured yester
day morning on "The Making of the Consti
tution" in Miss Denny's house, ill Penn
avenue. She is hero under the an3pices of
the Daughters of the Revolution, and pur
poses dealing with important men and
measures in the history or the Common
wealth since its formation. Tlio complete
list of the series is as tollows: "Alexander
Hamilton," "Thomas Jcffeison," "The War
or 1812," "John Qjinev Adams nnd Andrew
Jackson." "The Capture of a Common
wealth." Foclal Chatter.
THAI.K3 to the well dispensed hospitality
of a number of voung bowickly I idles, in
cluding Miss McCieery, Mis Blairand Misj
Dravo, the Athletic Association members of
the borough spent a pleasant Decoration
Day. Tho sun is still shining in the heavens
as this is being written, and it really seems
safe to assume that the romantic cipsy sup
per prranged for out-of-doors took place as
promised.
A marriage has been arranged which
will unite the mmilies of Jones and Dalzell,
in the peisons of Mr. B F. Jones, Jr.. eldest
and only son of B F. Jone, Esq , of Alle
gheny, nnd Mis' Sue Dalzell, daugbtei of
John II. Dalzell, Esq. The engagement was
made public it lew days ago
The marriage of Mr. Christopher Magee,
Jr , nnd Miss Julia Heberton. of Bridgetown,
New Jersey, will be solemnised on Wcanes
i'nv. The ceretnpnj will take placo In the
West Presbyterian Church of Bridgetown,
nnd will be an afternoon celebration.
The DonHldson-'cott nuptials will be cele
brated in Philadelphia on Tnursday at tho
house of the bride's father, John Scott, Esq ,
attorno of the Pennsylvania Railway. A
permanent residence .it Colorado Spiings Is
contemplated by Mr. Donaldson.
Mrs. Williavt Eoeffleb and Miss Flora
Loefllcr, of Oakland, have been in Cincin
nati all week attending the May Music
Festival.
Higher Things Than Money.
Philadelphia Inquirer.
Pittsbnrg blew Its horn lustily at a trado
banquet on Saturday evening. Pittsburg
is a hustling city. The world knows that
pretty well already. But it is just as well
not to let the fact bo forgotten. With its
now libraries and parks Pittsbnrg promises
to be something moro thau a money-making
place, and out of its prosperity will
come tho higher things which it does not
lose sight of in tbe presence of more imme
diate interests.
Then We'd Feel Ashamed.
New York Herald.
Perhaps it would be just as well if Edison
would delay that aerial telephone for a
while. If It should turn out tbat the in
habitants of Mercury or Mars have reached
a high st ige of civilization and have been
dwelling in gentle unity for untold ages,
v?e'd feel dreadfully ashamed of ourselves.
Blninethe Most Popular Cltizin.
New Yort Press.
Whether he is a candidate or not, the fact
remains that James Gillespie B aine is still
the most conspicuous and the most popular
citizen of the Republic
CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS.
A New York woman has copyrighted a
dance.
Nearly a quarter of all cases of insanity
are hereditary.
The railroads get $22,000,000 a year for
carrying the mails.
There are said to be 100,000 lilies ia
full bloom in a field at Bermuda.
The Federation of "Women's Clubs ha
issued an edict against the fllthr trailing
skirt.
The bold idea of ferrying loaded freight
cars across Lake Michigan Is soon to be put
into practice.
An Ashboro, K. C, man has among his
deeds a land grant to amember of his family
from George III.
A clipper ship for every day in th
year is required to move California's surplut
wheat to Europe.
A Dublin doctor lately sent in a bill to
a laay which ran thus: "To curing your hus
band till he died."
In the Chicago postoffice 100,000 letters
are sorted, stamped and bagged In 31
minutes by 217 men.
An African missionary reports that he
has been able to make almost all ofhisjoar
neyings on his bicycle.
It is estimated that $160,000 will have
to be expended yearly to enforce the new
Chinese exclusion law.
A German has invented an incandescent
lamp apparatus for showing the interior ol
boilers while under steam.
A company has been granted permis
sion to experiment with elcctiic omnibuses
In .London the coming summer.
A log jam in the St. Croix river, at
Eagle Island, is said to bo over five mile3
long and contained over 150 000,000 feet ot
lumber.
Only a few years ago there was net s
mile of telegraph line in the Chinese empire:
to-day there is more than enough to girdl
the earth.
The Italians invented the term ir
finenza in thp seventeenth century, and a
tnh'itd tho disease to the influence of ce
tain planets.
Instantaneous photography has reveale
the fact that the former method of repre
sentinsr lightning as a fiery zigzag was en
tlrelv false.
Traffic has been delayed in Oregon by
millions of largo crickets, whic'i cling to the
rails and make it utterly impossible for
trains to move over them.
There is a bowlder in the Ozark Moun
tains so densely charged with magnetism
that r. kuifr dropped to the ground nine feet
away will be attracted to it.
An ocean steamer has gone all the way
from Xorway to Chicago, being hailed with
sreaf Joy. a3 may readily bo imagined, at
the Western metropolis.
During last vear there were only 3, 238
marriages in San Francisco, less than 11 to
1.000 of the city's popnl.atton. The rate In
London Is more than IS per 1,000.
In testing the conditions of the atmos
phere luiidoa petroleum tank, if tho air at
th bottom is found not inflammaDle orex
plosive the air above is sure not to bo so.
Molasses burns with a hij;h heat in
combination with the dry stalks of the saiar
cane, nnd its substitution for coal as a filel 1"
practiced in certain sections of the SoutV
India, the home of serpents, has wma'
is known as tho "vesetable boa constrictoV,
a species of cltmbor which twines abov.il
ereat trees so tightly as to strangle thorn tti
death.
The wild potato vine (I. pandarata)
sometimes has a root that attains tho size
and occasionally tap form of a boy's body,
and weighs 3V pounds.
A New York woman ha3 invented a
cushion headrest for church pews to enable
those who bow their heads upon new backs
to do so with comfort. The contrivance can
bo set at any angle and can be clamped to
any psw.
The part of the larynx commonly
known as Adam's apple, has just been re
moved from the throat of a man at tho
Cnrnev Hospital ,in Boston, the first opera
tion of the kindln that city. A cancerous
growth had started In the affected part.
-England's Jueen 'since the beginning of
her reign has only signed one death war
rant, which was for an,oiecution in the Islo
of Man, the net passed for relieving Hor
Majesty of the siinln death warrants hav
ing by an oversight, not included that part
of Her 3Iajesty's dominions.
Among the mosi remarkable spiders
is the Dolomedes, which runs over the sir
faco of water in pursuit of its prey, arid
dives to escape from Its enemies. Stranger
still is the Argvroneta, which bnilds r,
house wherein it Ias its egs.and rears it s
j oiing at tho bottom of streams.
The public are more credulous now
than sixty years ago crial navigation,
says a writer, is no douot an accomplish
ment of tho future, and when some supposed
crank says tbat ho is going across the Atlan
tic in an air ship don't discourage him nor
predict a failure, as they d(d poor Fulton
with his first American steamboat.
Among the latest patents is a design
for an ink bottlo in which the ink is used
from the bottom and the snrface for evapor
ation is limited to the cork hole only, the
pen point being passed into the bottle so
tint the ink will not creep up the holder,
while the bottle. If accidentally tipped over,
will always stop with the hole up.
It is claimed that a person dreams
almost from the first hour of existence. Let
a babe have bnt one experience, either that
of light, warmth orthemoreplcasurableone
of suction, and in its sleep tha' experience
may and probablv will be recalled. If a child's
month bo watched in its first sleep its lips
will be seen to bo in motion, the action of
suckin 1 is going on tho child is dreaming
of its flr3t meal.
The phonograph has been introduceil
into medical practice. Dr. G. A. Leach, of
Washington, has been experimenting with
tho talking machine with such result that
be expresses the opinion that deafness can
bo cured by a quickening of the ear drum
with vibrations from its disk. HIS theory
is that the v ibrations will dislodge the for
mation or coating on the inner bones of the
ear which produces deafness, and thus re
store tho process of hearing.
At the 1876 Centennial at Philadelphia
an electric light was exhibited as a curiosity,
and now nearly all of the cities of the United
States aro so lighted, and Mr. Edison has
given the world the Incandescent light for
the interior of our dwellings and buildings.
The storage battery Is now being so per
fected that it is reasonable to prophesy Its
being employed to convey passenger cars
over common railroad tracks, and even to
bo used m the place of the steam engine for
freight trains.
-WIT AD WISDOSI.
Patient I guess I'm about well, ain't If
Doctor Almost.
Patlent-What's mr bill'
Doctor Yon'rc not quite strong enougfc for thst
yet Detroit Free Preu.
Vife What did you do to that miser
able clerk when he told you lie bad no more of th
cloth
Husband I bought him a drink. Cloak Rev'eic.
He gazed in wonder at the stars
The mighty telescopes reveal.
But later be saw many more
By stepping on a banana pee'.
Chicago Inter-Ocan,
"Wiggsy Why is this called Decoration
Dav?
BlggsT Don't know, unless It's because so many
take advantage of tbe holiday to paint the town.
Brooklyn Eagle.
"I am at your service, ma'am," as the
burglar said when the laly of the house eangnt
him stealing her silver. Texas bitings.
To take her out that night he did expect,
But she sent hhn a telegram (collect),
That, when he paid, his pocket was so low
That after all well, he couldn't go.
.Veto lork BeraU.
The Deacon Biblets has acted queerly
since he took the bi-chloride of gold care.
The Elder In what way?
Th Deacon W hen the pla.te Is passed to hlffl la
church now be Just breathes on It? Brooklyn Ea;le.
Le' Grand S tanned Why is the crowd
being kept back so forclhlv?
Klrby Stone So as to glre the police a cnince to
see the procession, I fancy. Puck.
Barber "Will you have a little bay rum?
Old Soak Thanks; after you. -Acu Tork Herald.
It was a funny idea of Scumbles to paint
a pile of wood for the exhibition.
bnapps Yes, and it was o natural the hanirtnr.
committee put It In the Are, Chicago- Inter-OW
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