m r-yj- & i 2t"Vp' V"T- ' THE PlTTSBTJItGr DISPATCH, , BRIDAT, JUNE 3. ' 1892. ; I ESTABLISHED FEBRUARY 8, 1846 ( Vol. 47. No. 117 Entered at Pittsburg Postoffice November, 1SS7, as second-class matter. Business Office Corner Smithfield and Diamond Streets. News Rooms "and Publishing House 78 and 80 Diamond Street, in New Dispatch Building. EASTERN ADVFnTTSISO OFFICE. ROOST 78. TRIBUNE BUILDING. N F.W YOKE, where com plete flies of THE DISPATCH can always be found. Foreign advertisers smiedste the emtralrace. Home adrertlsers and friends ofTHK DISPATCH, while In New York, are also made welcome. THE DISPATCH it reaidarly oitaleat Jtrentano'l. tl Union Sovare, JVfW J or, and H Ave de P Opera. Pant, Ranee, inhere anyone who ha been ditap yointed at a hotel neat ttand can obtain L TERMS OF THE DISPATCH. POSTAGE THEE IN THE ClOTED STATES. Dailt Dispatch. One Year S 00 DAtLTDisrATCH, Per Quarter 200 Dailt Dispatch. One Month 70 Daily Dispatch, Including Sunday. 1 year.. 10 00 Daily Dispatch, Including Sunday, Sra'ths. 2 50 Daily Dispatch. Including Sunday, 1 m'th.. 90 Suxdat Dispatch. One Year 2 50 Weekly DiSPATcn. One Year 13 The Daily DisPATcn Is delivered by carriers at 35 cents per week, or. Including fcunday Edition, at 20 cents per week. PITTSBURG. FRIDAY. JUNE 3. 1893. TWELVE PAGES MLE.NCE GIYE5 CONSENT. Any increase in the feeling that Blame is, health and himself permitting, far and away the best and strongest man to re ceive the Minneapolis nomination would he well-nigh impossible. The one point in the matter about which there can be any question is only whether he will ac cept the offer if it is made. And that question is already practically answered in the affirmative. Blaine's action in the matter depends more upon the state of his health than upon any other considera tion. His health is now better than it has been for long past Moreover, his silence itself gives consent to the convention to nominate him, for he can see as well as any man in what a dilemma the Republi can party would be placed if it nominated him only to have its gift returned with thanks. He is to great a man and too sin cere an upholder of the political princi ples at stake to consent to run any such risk of debilitating his party and imperil ling the success of its cause. The arguments of the men and organs straining their every nerve for one reason and another to promote Harrison's chances for a second term are just the reverse of the deductions which logically follow from the premises. It is said that because Blaine, in very emphatic language, for bade the use of his name under a certain set of circumstances by the Republican National Convention of 1888, therefore that language is equally applicable under entirely different conditions in 1892. This is ridiculous special pleading of the worst type. The case, to begin with, is not analogous, and, if there be any deduc tion to be made from the matter at all it is simply that Blaine's silence now, as com pared to his reiterations in 1888, implies that he is ready to accept the nomination if it shall be offered. The puerile tactics of the office holders and Harrison's sycophants, and the terror stricken whims of the Democratic pres3 serve rather to weaken the cause they seek to further than to touch the man who stands above them in the isola tion and grandeur of unapproached abili ties. The cry for Blaine is a wise one, and it grows daily in an ever increasing ratio side by side with the probability that it will be satisfied. CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR. The Christian Endeavor Society proposes by co-operative means to erect a hotel at Chicago for the use of such of its members as desire to visit the World's Fair. There is no factor so powerful to increase the in fluence of organizations with moral aims as good sound common sense. And this is a factor that is conspicuous in all the methods of this society. It seeks especially to promote morality by providing means for pleasant social intercourse among young people associated with churches of various denominations, and that it is high ly successful in its efforts is demonstrated by its rapid growth up and down the country. But this latest departure in connection with the Fair is its boldest and should prove its most successful enterprise. There should be no difficulty in finding a permanent use for the buildng as a club home under proper management for the youth of Chicago. Such establishments have proved useful and more than self supporting in London and elsewhere, and the time should not be far distant when every big city has a place of the kind. Pittsburg needs something of this sort, and the experiment could be tried here with every chance of enthusiastic support from those to whom it would be a great boon. THIRTY TEAKS AGO. Thirty years ago to-day Robert E. Lee assumed command of the Confederate lorces. Twenty-nine years back in the past, with the omission of one month, the tvo armies had their most tremendous meetinc. Yesterday the dedication of the "High Water Mark" Monument in commemoration of the soul-stirring event was dedicated in the center of its scene. To the rising generation it is a hard matter to realize fully the terrible strife that the country underwent, and the gallant heroism that was conspicuous on both sides. Never were men more brave engaged in combat more deadly than on the occasion celebrated so peacefully yesterday. The most remarkable feature of the monument is the equal prominence given to the names of the leaders and regiments participating on either side. And this feature was happily emphasized by ex Governor Beaver in the glowing tribute which he paid to his quondam opponents no less than to his comrades. These signs of the times are good, for, while the debt owed to the preservers of the Union must and will never be forgotten, the nation is to-day such a unit that it can afford to be proud even of those who fought against it, since they were men actuated solely by principles, albeit sadly mistaken ones. TRYING HIS LTJCK. AGAIN. It is announced that Russell B. Harrison has secured rooms in Minneapolis and will take an active part in the operations of a strategic nature which will precede the roll call for what is admitted to be a mo mentous first ballot Surely there is some mistake about this. It must be one of the many idle rumors now so prevalent concerning the purposes of the rival factions. Have Quay, Clark son, Dudley and Piatt, that coterie of men who have been so prominent in develop ing the movement against the administra tion, won so patent an advantage as the securing of the presence of "Son Russell?" He is known to those who haunt the lounging places in Washington as "Ca lamity Russ," but he cannot indeed mean to take a hand in the Minneapolis affair. It Is true that he must feel as if a por tion of the weight of the present situation is upon his shoulders, for he is, in a measure, responsible for the attitude of Mr. Blaine's friends. This, indeed, may explain why he is attempting to try his luck once again. If it is true that he is to meddle with men and things on behalf of his father, it must mean that the President still believes in the influence of that famous trinity to which he attributes his election: "The Lord Almighty, the name I bear and my son Russell." The general opinion will doubtless be that if Prince Russell does not slaughter the head of his house, it is a direct evi dence that the three-fold influence is still intact THE VETOES OVERBIDDEN. Common Council yesterday followed the example set them by the Select body in overriding the Mayor's vetoes of the ordinances granting franchises to the Exchange Street Railway and that other for forming a loop whose only uses will be the increase of dangers to pedestrians and inconveniences to vehicular traffic. This action was predicted by The Dis patch, and is obviously all that could be expected while citizens consent to the election of Councilmen whose motives are other than devotion to the city's best in terests. Both acts establish public nui sances, and the wording of the overridden vetoes seems to imply that the Mayor be lieves the ordinances to be contrary to law as well as public policy. Whether or not a remedy for these particular meas ures be found in the courts, their lesson should be educative to a deeper extent than that resulting merely in a redress of the specific evils involved! Councils are doing their best to teach citizens the folly of their refusal to bestir themselves in the election 'of men fitted for the municipal government; and surely there must before long be a thorough awakening of public opinion and an or ganization of those who have the city's welfare at heart which shall insure the discontinuance of such flagrant abuses of power. The granting of franchises to street railways, even where they are a public convenience, without any equiva lent return to the city for the privileges obtained, is bad enough. The effort to make citizens pay for improvements used solely by the traction companies, as in the case of the Diamond street bridge, is still worse. And the climax is capped by per mitting railways to run in streets where they can be nothing but a positive ob struction. If these things be insufficient to bring citizens to a proper sense of their rights and the duties they involve it is hard to know what will succeed in securing re form. And without reform in the muni cipal administration Pittsburg's rate of progress will be far less than it should, and the city needs to keep pace with the times to the full extent of its capacity. FORESTRY AND FLOODS. There is at least one direction in which the enormous floods of this year should suggest careful and earnest inquiry. They should call attention to the necessity for a better regulation of forestry than at present exists. It is now almost univer sally admitted that the wholesale denu dation of wooded tracts exercises a great and deleterious influence on the climate. Its effect on the water-courses is no less remarkable. The general belief is ex pressed by the expert appointed to inves tigate the matter after the -Conemaugh freshet of 1889: First The presence of the forest on a sur face prevents the formation of a torrent. Second The clearing away of a forest ren ders the soil a prey to torrents. Third The development of forests leads to the extinction of torrents. Fourth The fellimr of forests Increases the violence of torrents and may even cause them to be renewed. These are positive assertions, and they are enough at least to indicate the wisdom of setting a limit to the ravages of the lumberman. Floods are expensive mat ters which concern many States, and their possible prevention by a better preserva tion of the forests is worthy of national study. THE SOCIAL STANDARD. That latest disquisition on fashionable society in New York which resolves the literary art into a note of admiration for the millionaire interests founds its system of social ethics on the postulate that wealth is essential as a basis of society. The dogma, which its supporters present as an axiom, is taken with so much tolera tion that it is worth while to examine into its correctness. If by society we mean the display of luxurious dwellings and the serving of costly feasts it is evident that wealth is a .necessity. No one can entertain his guests in Pompeiian conservatories or Renaissance saloons without the wealth of at least a railway king If social stand ing is to be measured by the magnitude of reception rooms, the imposing character of private galleries, or the costliness of wines and viands, of course wealth, whether got by squeezing the necessaries of life or fleecing the lambs in Wall street, is the foundation and measure of social standing. There is good authority iu the deliverances from the apostles of fashion in New York that society does consist of those things. We have a measure of the social culture of !'tiie smart set" in the artless disclosures that it all depends on the quality of your cookery and the age of your wines, with out a thought of the intellectual character of your feasts, or even of the natural kindliness which lies at the foundation of good breeding. But the measure is not calculated to impress a mind of any in dependence with respect for the social standards of the plutocratic cult All such talk is in direct antagonism to the democratic theory. It seta up first the necessity of a wealthy class which by reason of its social superiority claims and obtains special privileges. Against this stands the democratic principle that the opportunities for education, the chances of culture, can be so scattered that the ability of people to enjoy social intercourse does not depend on wealth at ail. The apostles of social cook ery of course insist that all thi3 is impracticable, but the fact is this coun try had proceeded to the point of demon stration that it was possible before the social era of Mammon-worship set in. It is instructive to reflect that all the minds from which this nation has learned any thing, all the genius which has raised it to its present magnitude, would be relegated to a lower level by the present social measurements. The gatherings of the great literary minds of the last generation cannot be called society, because they did' not have enough courses, aud probably no wine at alt Lincoln by this measure would be almost of too low a grade to mention, and the entire list of great Americans who have combined high think- ng with plain llving.from Franklin down, are of the common clay. We should be careful.of course, to avoid in such discussions the error of quarrel ing about terms. For those whoso idea'of society is simply artistic gluttony .and profuse upholstery, the social standard of the day must be. conceded.' But to those who think that social pleasure means the interchange of thought, the enjoyment of mental intercourse, and the mutual gain of personal contact, it should be plain that the accidents of wealth and the fripperies of dress and furniture have no social importance. The social ethics that you cannot get along without so many courses at dinner, or a supper served In a stated style, have just the same sort of standard as that of the rural housewives who consider themselves disgraced by entertaining guests without giving them at least five kinds of cake. There may be those who prefer the standard of Vitellius to that of Socrates;' Cleopatra may present more attractions to certain .natures than Cornelia; but think ing people are still at liberty to prefer a society where intellect and virtue are regarded as more essential than mere luxury. For Blaine "to allow his name to be used in the convention now would be slraplr calamitous," le marks a cotemporary. It certainly would he disastrous for tho aspira tions of the mon who seek to compete with him, but it would be the best thing possible for his party and the nation. That Exchange Street Railway runs easily through Councils, but it is more than probable that it may, find that courts of law add another and more powerful obstacle to the aheady numerous and should-be-all-suflicient ones to the passage of its cars through Market street. The Chicago papers grow exclamatory over the death of a woman whose mother was eaten by wolves on the spot where the Windy City now stands. One would think the leally surprising thins was that the daughter escap ed the same fate. The mysterious suicide discovered yes terday morning cannot be explained by the theory of blighted Presidents! aspirations, as the defunct gentleman was evidently of German birth and therefore ineligible for the highest executive office. In opening the Chilean Congress, Presi dent Montt said that all was quiet and tran quil throughout tho country. But the streets on his way to the opening were lined with soldiers and he had a military escort for all that. One thing to be remarked with regard to the noticeable absence of illumination in City Hall is the fact that its -ordinary con dition has not been so dark but that it could get appreciably darker. An Englishman in Glasgow one wet day asked a native if italways rained there. He received the reply "it snaws the while." Iowa is fast qualifying for a similar epitome of its climate. HALF a loaf is better than no bread, and Harrison may realize ere long that to rest content with one term in the White House is better than an attempt and failure to obtain two. Depew is to make the speech proposing Harrison's name for a second nomination. But oratory cannot do everything, and in this case it is likely to do less than usual. , Mayor Kennedy is meting out fines with a heavy hand, and it looks as though drunkards would disappear while Alle gheny City's treasury is filled. Apropos of the log-rolling on the river and harbor appropriation bill, it may be said that tho document is somewhat waterlogged in a'rhanner.' v? The Giants attained their full stature yesterday, and Pittsburg suffered Its first de feat under the New York batteries this sea son. Minneapolis is the most important storm conter just now, and a good deal of seiious damage is expected in some quarters. Ducey may yet prove that, priest or no priest, he can play the deuce in matters per sonal and political. European sovereigns with court jour nals to record their every movement are less closely watched than Presidentul pos sibilities this year. There is no excuse for any Pittsburger to forget the address of his residence now that the new directory is published. River banks break when the current is running high. Other banks break when the stock of currency runs out. Tramps and politicians are on the roads this month. Care is sometimes necessary to distinguish the species. This sort of weather makes a man long in vain for better bathing facilities than Pittsburg possesses. It is somewhat surprising that scabs have not been more conspicuous during the strike of plasterers. Chief Bigelow is evidently omnipotent, fortheie was light in City Hall when he ordered it. Those granite strikers haTe not reached bed rock yet, but they move slowly in that direction. Councils appear to regard a Mayor's veto simply as something to be disregarded. It will soon be the time when mosquitoes are the gnats which poople strain at. " Decolette underwear is almost a neces sity these days. PERSONAL AND PERTINENT. The Czarewitch is coming to America early in June for a few months. Secretary Elkixs returned to Wash ington yesterday afternoon from a visit to his home in Elkins, W. Va. Rev. A. G.Upiiam, of the Olivet Baptist Church, has accepted a call to the First Baptist Church, of Clovelnnd. .Prof. Edward D. Frost will be ap pointed to tho next chair of astronomy to be founded by Dartmouth college. It is now said that the Queen is de cidedly opposed to a marriage between Princess May and the Duke of York. General McCauley, of Indiana, Ap pointment Clerk or the Treasury, is very ill in Washington with bronchial troubles. Jay Gould carries in his purse a 10 cent piece which he declares was at one time all that stood between him and a dead broke condition. The Japanese Minister to Washington wears in his turban a magnificent opal al most as big as a pigeon's egg, set in a frame of spaikhng diamonds. Aechbishop Ireland, of St. Paul, Minn., left Borne Tuesday for this country. He will not travel direct, bnt will make stops in France and England. "THE order lor the retirement of Colonel William B. Remey, Judge Advocate General of the Navy, takes effect on the 4th inst., instead of the 12th, as originally stated. Japanese newspapers print pictures of Mrs, Potter Palmer, which shows how the fame of that energetic and persuasive champion of the World.'s Fair has reached the uttermost parts of the earth. TIMID INSTEAD OP HOPEFUL Math"! Talk. About the Kepubllcan Party of To-Day W hy Blaine Stands Above Harrison Interesting Ketrospeet and Deductions The Sophomore Element ' racking at Minneapolis 1 trBOM A STAFF pOBUESFOXDEST. Minneapolis, June 2- The Republican party of to-day is consulting its timidity in stead of its hopes. The Harrison men here invariably ask you if you do not think that Blalne's'nominatloti would result in this or that being said, these letters or those letters being produced, and they end by saying "We had better be on the safe side." They are not like their forefathers, who wanted to be"on the Union side and to make it glorious.--Wealth has Inured totheKepub licaniparty, partly because of the affinity between'' wealth and the affinity be tween wealth and government, but mainly because the rash young men of 30 years ago have become the successful investors and capitalists of the present time. These "do not llko to follow a man who has been beaten. The popular leader Wh09e banner has come to the front for 20 yeats has not, in their eyes, the luster which attnehes'to one successful term. In the hands of a newquantityHarrison's unil luminuting temperament rather seizes upon what Imagination the business class possess. They transfer to his iudifleienco and silence their conception o(i his executive ability. All the men they ever kpow were uncommu nicative and scl -reliant, and never let go, so they consider the President should be. Harrison Inferior to Blaine. But Blaine, until the Harrison issue was produced against him, had recovered among the business class1 whatever repute they denied him in 1884. His admirable eclat is admitted by men on the spot such as Sena tor Spoouer, who said to me that Harrison's standing in the cnuise of the New Orleans trouble was much inferior to Blaine's grasp of that situation, which has finally settled itself, but has left ono conclusion, namely, that some States in this Union do not want immigrants nnd especially those who pub lish, newspapers and take the mlnoiity view. . Judge Nlbloek, of Indiana, said to mo 10 or 12 yearn ago, or about the tiino that Greslmm entered Arthur's Cabinet, that Gresham had generally been a popular man in Indiana. uub tuai ineie was a wnspisnness uuouc Harrison which took intellectual hostility to a man at a distanco and kept It up as if his sting required exaroise. If I correatly ostlmato what I see here, tho opposition to Hairlson has a better tempoi' tnuu Harrison's irionus. xnat Miocies oi friendship which gets "mad" for a friend In stead of smoothing his way generally has its origin in the peison championed, llosooa Conkllng was always lofty and mad; so weio his partisans. Blafne was always mollify, lne aud Indulgent, and so are his genial suu- Jiorters, although of late an element had olned him from necessity which 1b hardly yetaccllmated in that congenial personality. Wisdom, however, is abroad hole and exer cising all the righ'ts of tho free intellect. Men adapt themselves tgnew situations and foisake old favorites often from the pre servative motives which keep us from being a nation of clans and dynastic parties. Book Drudgery That Injured Blaine. There are undoubtedly men for Harrison at present who are sincore in believing their loyalty to the situation is as honest as their former enthusiasm for Blaine was thorough. The bane or sickness and almost of prostra tion has touched their friends. His succes sor is still young and seems not to waste bis vitality pei haps from a want of that gener ous warmth and tropical frultfulness which have made the 'helmet and its plume too heavy for the Plumed Knight. If Mr. Blaine had nothing else to do he would write ten printed pages of a book every day for a year or two under a stilct mercantile contiact which made him a drudge and harnessed his intellect like Samson to a grindstone. Mr. Elkins told me not long ago, that writing his book threw Mr. Blaine in the gout and dyspepsia which predisposed him lorthe serious attack he had in Floience, the latter brought about by his precipitate grappling with Cleveland's tariff message onmesamoaaynereau.it. tie aia always work with all his might, to be transmitted that night across the ocean, and three days afterward something he knew not or was all through his system, aud then came the gout and then what might have followed. V here the Statesmen Differ. Those who give away royally get no credit at lft witfr those, who inow how to keep. Blaine obtained a popularity, of which a large part adheres to him, from his dashing, brilliant and effective frequent per formances. Harrison, retiring into his office, regards himself as an employe of a system, and at the end of for years can throw his associates and officeholders into Minneapo lis to display the audacity tho power in hand always has. By holding these national con ventions yearly tho President is left with nearly a whole year or about one-fourth of all his term still to dispose of, and this works particularly upon the Republican party, which has been long in control. The .Democrats meet a montu or two later, and, excepting inflbne instance, have said noth ing to give. themselves away. Meantime the valuation of the Federal situations becomes greater and greater as we discover that no country outside ot our selves is worth living in. To be a foreign Minister for only six months entitles a man to go into the cyclopedias of biography and the official register, and his local wealth is worth three times us much from the fact that the newspaper readers recognize him and his conespondents address him as "Hon." If the President would give three months of each of his foreign missions to rich wagon makers bankers, car builders, boiler makers, patent medicine men. etc., he would be conferring more real distinction than if the Queen, at the command of her Prime Minister, were to ennoble a hundred tradesmen, that they might galvanize the Honse of Lords Into carrying some bill or other. Tho divinity that doth hedge a king is coming very near our Presidents, and the unfortunate captor of the popularity who has several times been beaten in pursuit of the Presidency soon has that divinity robbed from him which he had almost attained. Ti h t ths Kepubllcan Party Licks. By a third of a century's possession of magnificent power and the recital of the glorious times of tho war, the Kepubllcan party is lacking in the sophomore clement, and old.case-hatdened people, either officials or disappointed aspirants to be officials, come to these conventions. Here is Clark son, an Iowa country editor, who found John At-Kasson in his way for years, and took advantage of a private sorrow of Kas son's to drive him a ay. The doubly un happy man became an official exile for a time, and is now said to be wilting some thing historical. Those who touted him from home went to Congress, became pub lic printer, postmaster, etc., and, finally, when Allison s hopes were set at lest in 1888. Mr. Clarkson einerzed as the leDre- seutative Iowa expectant. Harrison gave the Christian statesman the higher place, and set Clarkson beneath him a little lower than the sngels, but clothed with glory and honor. In the course of time, by the aid of running a part of the National Committee for two campaigns, Mr. Clarkson has become a Warwick. Small office holders tremble at the mention of his name. He gazes at the empyiean, and is even in danger or being run over by horses, fiom the abstractions natural to sultans and Warwicks. G.EOEGE AUBETJ TOWSSEKD. EVEN THE ?0P WILL EXHIBIT. Action Never Before Taken by a Pope in Connection" Wilh a World's Fnlr. Chicago, June 2. NewB of action wholly without precedent in tho history of the Vatican was cabled to Chicaro to-day. The Pope, in older to testify his interest in tho World's Fair and his special lespect for the American people, has aetermined to send an important exhibit liom the Vatican. The cablegiam making the announcement or the intention ot the Holy- Father, and authorizing the engagement of space for the exhibit, was leceivedfrora Aichbishop Ire land by Hon. W. J. Onaban. Dr. Mary Was There, Too. New York Recorder.) A ludicrous leature at the Syracuse con vention was the .appearance of Dr. Mary Walker in a frock, coat, trousers, patent leather shoes and a nigh silk hat, requesting to be sent to Chicago as a delegate. She was not sent, but she will be a gt eat acquisition to the'"Dandelton" Democracy. Tapper to Present Canada's Case Ottawa, June 2. Hon. C. H. Tupper, Min ister ofMarine and Fisheries, has been se lected to prepare the enso which the British and Canadian representatives upon the Bering Sea arbitration will present and con tend lor before the arbitrators. THS EEBELLI0N AT IIS ZENITH. - Commemorated by the High-Water Mark Monument at Gettysburg Getttsbbho, June 2. The "high water mark of the Rebellion" was dedicated to-day with imposing ceremonies. It is in the form ot a short monnment, broad at its base, the whole surmounted by a huge open book. The monument standB about midway of the Federal lines on July 3, 1863 that is, midway between Bound Top and Cemetery Heights, and is Just in the rearof (ho "clump of trees" which were pointed out by General Lee to General Pickett as the objective pointof the Fedeial line, which it was hoped the flower of the Virginia infantry would break through, wliilo Stewart's Kebel cavalry at tacked the same point from the rear. Samuel M. Swopo, of Gettysburg, unveiled and presented the monument to the Me morial Association, and John M. Vander slice, of Philadelphia, received it. Ex Governor James A. Beaver, of Pennsylvania, delivoied the oration, from which the fol owing is extracted: As the years go by 1 Decome more and more convinced of the duty whioh dovolves upon the survivors of our late war tosmooth the way for the complete union, in senti ment and feeling, of the people of all sec tions of our common country, and for the utter destruction of sectionalism In all its foims and phases. We do not discuss the motives of those who wore the gray. We do not argue as to the sufficiency of the causes which led them to seek the overthrow of the Government, under the stars and bars. We cannot don their unirorm and feel the promptings of their hearts, and argue our selves, with their logic, into the belief that they were right. We can admire their courage, their fortitude and thelrendurance. We can acknowledge that they were at least our equals in all that constitutes the soldier and makes a toeman woithy of our steel. Why should this not find its acknowledg ment upon this field Why should not tho strategy and the tactics of the battle of Gereysburg De studied from both sides? Why should not the Government of the United States take possession of this entire battle field and make it a National Park which can bo the lesort of all our people. An irrepiesslblc conflict no longer separ ates us into necessarily contending factions. The house is no longer divided against itself. Our alms, our hopes, our ambitions tor our country are one. Upon this field, where the division was so bitterlv emphasized, let us make the effort for union. WAENEK MILLEE'8 C0HVKII0N Meets at St. Louis and Listen to Explana tions bv 1(1 MlittF Snlrlt. St. Louis, Jnno 2. The delegates from 25 or more States and various commercial bodies of the Union gathered this morning in Entertainment Hall of the Exposition Building to open the first session of the Nicaragua Canal Convention. Ex-Governor E. O. Standard, of St. Louis, was chosen pre siding officer. After an address of welcome by Governor Fiancis, Hon M. M. Estee, of California, explained the object of the con vention. lion. Warner Millor presented tho history of tho canal question, which, ho stated, dated back hundred of years from the day that Columbus sot out, not to discovera new world, but a now route to tho Orient. Turn ing then to moie recent history he gave in detail the various efforts to secure a shorter route to tile Pacific. Ho said the company had In no way directly or indirectly sought Government aid, and would not so long as he was president. He touched next upon the bill now before Congress, guaranteeing the bonds of the company, explaining its provisions and telling what relations he, for the company, had with statesmen at Washington, denying that his company had sought Government support, though not un willing that it should, if it takes proper hold of it, control it. MR. PLAIT'S INTERTIErT. Fon a small man, Thomas C. Piatt strikes a wicked blow. Philadelphia Inquirer. Putt seems to think ths President looks upon him as "a cloaked and hooded Venetian conspirator. New Y-tk World. The responsibilities of office are also in sisted on by Mr. Piatt; if the President has found some angels, he has also brought out apes. New York Evening Sun. A3D what Prof. Piatt has to say of party that this country is governed by parties and not by men is well worth remembering. New York Commercial Advertiser. lux funniest thing of to-day is the news of Boss Piatt preaching to Mr. Harrison that the Presidency is not any man's private property. New York Evening World. As soon, as Mr. Piatt opened his mouth he showed that the President never took a more accurate aim than when he leveled his keen arrow at the would-be boss of New York. Philadelphia Prett. Mb. Platt candidly states what his mo tives ate. They aie for the good of the party, and in his opinion the renomination of Mr. Harrison is not one of tne things that makes for the party's interests New York Post. Brail odds the liveliest reading that one B. Harrison will flud anywhere to day is the ready-made interview which Mr. Thomas C. Platt, Generalissimo of tho great anti-Administration comoine. has furnished to the public press. Philadelphia Telegraph. Astronomer's Business Looking Up. Philadelphia Times. Since the announcement of still another new comet the astronomer's Dusiness has been looking up more than ever. DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE. Paul P. Murphy, Kevo'utionUt. Paul P. Murphy, a well-known partici pator in the Irish revolutionary movement of 1865 and 1597. died at his borne Wednesday. Mr. Mur phy was born in Cork. Ireland, and It was here that he Joined the revolutionary movement. For participating In this uprising he found it necessary to leave his native land. He came to this country and Joined the regular army. He served 11 years in the Fourth and Fifth Artillery Keglments, and was aide-de-camp on the late General UDton's staff. William G. Thomas, Millionaire. William G. Thomas, a millionaire resi dentofKorwalk, Conn., while playing checkers hi a meat market Wednesday afternoon, was stricken with apoplexy and, falllnir backward lu his chair, exnlred. 31 r. Thomas was president of the Thomas Compressed Brier. Company, of St. Louis, and was largely Interested in the Larribee Cracker Company, of Albany. He was also largely Interested In several big New York enterprises. Bicbard Welsh, Rochester, Pa. Bichard Welsh, one of the most promi nent business men of Rochester, Pa., and an original and heavy stockholder in the Rochester Tumbler Company, died at Ids home at 2:30 yes terday morning. lie became ill a few days ago from what seemed to be an apoplectic attack, but rallied and was not generally supposed to be dangerously in. lie leaves a wne sua lour sons. Jules Dnpratn, Musician. The French musical school has lost in Jules Duprato another of Its masters. , It Is. after Lalo, Gulraud and Poise, Its fourth loss in six week6. He was born at Mmes, August 20, 183. At 17 years of age he went Into the Conservatoire, and four years later he won the Home Frlie. The Opera-Coinlque produced his first work, "Let Trovatellei." William Alcorn. William Alcorn, father of T. B. Alcorn, Esq., Ihe well-known member of the bar, died on Wednc3daylast at his son's home, on North High land avenue, after a brief illness. Mr. Alcorn Is a resident of Ohio, and was on a visit to his son when hU deJtli occurred. The remains will be sent on to Ohio to-day ror interment. James H. Hlldrclh, Wllkesbirre. James Henry Hildreth, aged 67 years, died jesterdar morning at Wllkcsbarre of Inflam matory rheumatism, which had affected Ills brain. He was one or the most prominent citizens In the Wyoming V.iiley. and was widely knnwn in New York and Chicago business circles. He leaves an estate of orer ;i, 000.100. Obituary Notes. David Jardixe, a well-known New York archi tect and builder, died Tuesday evening. PROK. A. &CUAL5I. instructor of Athletics for the Pirttsvllle Y. M. C. A., died yesterday morn ing after an Illness or fle days or a disarrange ment of the bo els caused by too violent exercise iu his profession. Rev. Abraham Ktnier Vax Nest, a well known clergyman of the Dutch Keformed Church, for many years stationed abroad in charge of the American chapels In Paris, Borne and Florence, died jcstrrdayal his residence In Mew York. City. In bis 70th j ear. He was a well-known contribu tor to the religious press. Walker M. Hobart died at his residence in San Francisco yesterday afternoon from heart failure. He was a native of Vermont, 82 years ago. He en gaged in mining ventures in Nevada In the early slxtlps and accumulated a large-fortune, much of which he Invested In San Francisco real estate. He was also owner of tne famous stallion btambouL for which he paid S51.00Q. CHARITY ALL PRESENT. Everywhere In the Sister Cities Anniversa ries Were Celebrated Yesterday Mrs. 'Mellon' Bctpe for Doagbnnts What Befell on Thursday in Ih Soolety World. Yesterday seemed to have been, acci dentally or othorwise, set apart for the an niversaries of many- philanthropic institu tions. It might truly be called a charitable day. But yesterday evidenced something more. Pittsburg women realize now more than ever that to belong to -every Board of Managers, whether of orphans' homes, hos pitals or what, is no longer a possibility in this city. Such a state of things once ex isted, but Thursday found many a generous woman of wealth harder worked than any mill band, for they practically flew from house to house iu.au effort to do their duty by everybody. From this time forth it is evident that the ladle will have to econo mize their generous impulse to belong to every eleemosynary institution iu Pittsburg. The anniversary at the Home for Aged Protestants yesterday was announced for the afternoon, but the bulk of the attend ance took the matter Into their own hand and made of it a forenoon affair, and thus escaped the beat. A few belated stragglers wandered in about 3 o'clock in tho after noon only to be informed that everyone had gone home, though luncheon was still being served. The usually large patronage showed a diminution yesterday, but, never theless, those who remained by the ship were sufficient in numbers to make both a fine and a fashionable appearance. The fancy tables and the candy booth, as cus tomary, occupied a parlor on the ground floor, and at the other end of the building Mr Beymer presided over an ice cream de pirtment. Mrs. George A. Kellv, Socretary lor some years of the Home, acted as door keeper. " k The entire list of managers and aids are as follows: Large dining room Mrs. Mellon, Mrs. Samuel McKee, Mrs. Rook, Mrs. Stevenson: aids, the Misses Stet enson, Mrs. Webb, Mrs. C. A. Carroll, the Misses Negley, Miss Minnie Darlington. Small dining room Mrs. John H. Mc Creery, Mrs. E. M. O'Neill, Mrs. John Z. Speer, aided by the Misses Speer. The Misses Speer represented the managers of this room, all of whom were absent. Supply room Mrs. Norman Smith, Mrs. Jarvis Adams, and Mrs. II. C. Dickinson. Hall dining table Mrs. Charles McLean, jurs..Lesmitn, Atr3. JUathow Bigger ; niu, Mrs. Lin ford Smith. Fancy table Miss Mary E. Davidson, Mis. Q. A. Scott, Mrs. Thomus Graff; aids. Miss S. H. Scott, Miss Elizabeth Reyuier, Miss Vin nle Scott and Miss Agnes Graff. Yesterday a disaster of a more or less portentious nature, according as one viewed it from the vantage point 0t his appetite for doughnuts, clouded the otherwise brainy sky of the culinary department at the Home for Aged Protestants. Without any pre monitory warning, the news fell among the pantry people like a lump of lead, or as less healthful doughnuts do when they get in tho stomach, that Mrs. Judge Mel Ion's usual yearly contribution of doughnuts had been omitted. Deferring to history, not yet writ ten, it appears that these doughnuts are to the anniversary at the Home, what the Home itself is to the inmates. Without doughnuts, that it, without Mrs. Motion's doughnuts, it Mas thought impossible for the wheels to go round. Everyone had her story to tell of the unequaled pastry when she had first met it. When first eaten. How it looked when last Feen. Many were the tender tales unfolded, the words of praise spoken and 'tis said that, could some doors talk, they might reveal of a few tears which were shed behind them for the miss ing dainty. When Mrs. Mellon wns ques tioned regarding the non-appearance of her wonderful cookies, she volunteered to make public her recipe in lieu of the article, and gave it much as follows: "Of course," prefaced Mrs. Mellon, "you must use common sense in the cooking of dough nuts, as much, if not more so, than lard." The proportions a la Mellon are: 1 large tablespoonful of butter, 2 cups of sugar, 3 cups of flour 1 teaspoonful of Royal baking powder to eacb pint' ot flour sitted three times 1 eggs. Juice of 2 lemons, 1 pint sweet milk. Stiffen the flour until firm enough to roll out. All this, though, according to Mrs. Mellon, is of no avail If you do not have the lard Just at the right point of heat to cook the dough at once. Ana this is how the famous doughnuts are made which have been served at the Home for Aged Protestants' anni versary for ten years, and which caused so great a "to do" yesterday by tholr non-appearance. JIojtojjgahela C ITT and Pittsburg were agreeably united in bouds of orange blos soms yesterday by the marriage of Mr. Charles S. Howell and Miss Ursullne Nor man. Miss Norman is the daughter of the Kev. Dr. Norman, of the Episcopalian Church, and a pleasant coincidence of the event was the fact that the marriage was performed in her father's church, which is the church of her girlhood, and the cere mony was performed by the rector himsolf. John Birch, Esq., of Wheeling, was Mr. Howell's best man, and the duty or giving away the bride, in the inability of her father to do two things at one time, devolved on the bride's cousin. The ceremony was at 3 o'clock in the after noon. Prior to this the bridegroom enter tained a small party of men at his hotel, the uuests including Dr. Norman, the bride's brother. Mr. Birch, of Wheeling. Mr. Jaques, of New York, and several friends, lesal advisers of the Baltimore and Ohio Railway, with which Mr. Howel! is con nected. Social Chttter. A concert worth traveling some miles to hear will be given under the modest name of a musicals at Mrs. M. II. Chaplin's in Sewlckley to-night, for the benefit of the St. Stephen's Chancel Society. Such siegers as Mrs. Tener, Mis. McDonald and Miss Marion Gaiton and Mr. Gilpin will lend theirvolces, and the music of violin, piano, 'cello, guitar and mandolin, will be brought out by Messrs. Arthur Neviu, W. Adair. A. L. Pearson. Jr., Clarence Lake. L. Shannon and Miss Glenn. Nor iv 111 the grosser solace of ice cream, coffee and cake be wanting, for the lair members or .the Chancel Society promise their best efforts in this regard. Friends weie pleasantly surprised by find ing another wedding awaiting them after the attendant ceremonies which made Miss Holmes and Mr. Miller hnsband and wifo on W ednesday, nt St. Peter's Church. Miss Coyle, who was Mis Holmes' bridemald, probably inspired by her young friend's ex ample, had only returned Irom the cnurch, when she became the chler actor in a sim ilar scene. Dr. A. C. Speer wa the bride groom. The hastily married couple are at the biide's house, on Taylor avenue, Alle gheny. Thocoh to-day is the return of the annual meeting of the Vussar Aid Society, it will pass unobserved owing to the absence ot the aecretary, Miss Grace Kelly, who is now in Covington on her way to the Vassar College closing public ezamipations. The reason of Miss Kelly's presence is twofold: She is a member of the Class of 1830, which will meet for the first time, and. besides, Miss Steph enson, ot this city, will become a graduate at tins occasion. Mas. JAr.visADA3rs,who, withherdanghter, Mrs. John Lake Garner, and Mrs. Charles Wolfe, will be "at home" on next Tuesday evening ftom 1 to 7. will have thu asiistanco of 20 ladies or thereabouts iu the duties of receivme. The occasion will be rendered all the more enjoyable since Mrs. Adams will havo the pleasuie of intioducin: her friends to a very superbly arranged establishment, thrown open to her friends for the first time. Our special correspondent at Canton writes as follows: Miss Marie Biechele, of this city and Ailolpli E. Scidle, a 1 oung busi ness man of Pittsburg, were married here yesterday in the German Catholic Church. Many guests f i om a distanco weie present. Tho couple, after u wedding tour, will reside in Pittsburg. Thu bride is a handsome society girl. At the fourth preliminary contest of jjost grnduatcs for tho gi-and gold medal of Kins's school of Oratory lat night. Mary Byron, Alice McCulIoiwh nnd Alma Kreuger were selected lor the final contest. Colonel W. D. Moore. T. Knox and Pri'f. E. W. Moore wero the J udges. Pnor. Maoie, tutor of physics nnd elec tncity at Princeton University, will con duct the examinations for entrance to the college at Willard School, June 16 and 17. MissSadieP. FoRD.daughterofH. P.Ford, has been awarded the valedictory at Glen dale Female College, Glendale, O., and graduates on the 9ch inst. The students' hop at Annapolis Naval Academy is an angud to take place this even ing. Mrs. William Lang is among the Pitts burg guests. The late tea given by tho members of the Vussar College Aid Society nett.'U a)0. and this in spite of weather usst described as beastly." The Homo Tor tho Friondless held Its anni versary eterday, ami donation day was also observed at the Bethesda Home. Ah annual strawberry and ice cream festi val will be held this evening in the Central Presbyterian Church. Tnz anniversary of the Christian Home was held yesterday from 12 to 3. ' CDRI0US CONDENSATIONS. A petrified canoe lsiaidto be the lat. est find in Wyoming. The first folio 1023 edition of "Shakes peare" is under process of reproduction by means of photography. There are seldom more than 6,000 stars visible in the heavens to the eye from any one point of observation. An astronomer of Eochester, N. Y., thinks that the latest arrived comet has been 8,000,000 years In getting here. Two mahogany tables that are souvenirs of the illustrious highwayman Jack Shep. pard were sold In London recently for a guinea. A man was arrested at La Crosse, Wis., charged with counterfeiting old pennies worth from $100 to $300 each. The dates wero 1789 and 1850. It is claimed that a German family liv ing out WeBt have in their possession a tame fox, with a beautiful bushy tail, with which the animal has been trained to dost the par lor furniture every morning. There are engraved stones in the Brit ish Museum showing that the fashions in garments and headgear or the women of Babylon at the time cf the Deluge wero about the same as those now prevailing. A wife in Kansas became a mother and a mayor on the same day, and a wife in Ken tucky took back to her family a week-ola baby with her diploma from the medical college where she graduated with honor. The law of evolution works in lan guage as well as in other things. Twenty thousand words have been added to the English language in the department of biology alone since Darwin's discoveries. A company was organized at Phoenix, Ariz., recently for the construction of what is claimed will be the largest artificial reser voir in the world. It will be 16 miles long and contain 103,053,010,800 cubic feet of water. The hose used in sprinkling the plazas of Paris is a queer contrivance. It consists of lengths oflron pipe, each length mounted at the end on short axles having two small i u heels and the lengths joined together by short pieces of flexible hose. It is stated that there is scarcely a liv ing fish in any of the creeks or rivers in Sweet Homo, Tex., or vicinity, in conse quence of the late rain, which washed down so much sediment from the black land that the water became so thick the fish could not breathe. The steamer Ems, which arrived in New York the other day, reports passing an ice berg in latitude 13 on which were seen two large polar bears. The steamer did not stop to interfere with them, but left them to con tinue their voyage and give the sharks a taste of bear meat. A recent issue of a London paper con tains a business-like advertisement an nouncing in behalf of the advertiser that "the charge of cremation has been ohaned to $23." Its pi omoters have business sense euouh to advertise, and their rates are at tractively cheap. A Beer Isle man has a curiosity in the shape of an egg which had on one end a cap like excrescence, which, being lifted, showed a full-sized cranberry bean between the cap of the shell and the inner lining membrane of the egg. It is said that fully a million copies of "Comrades" havo been sold. For this and others of his popular songs such as "That Is Love" and "Oh, What a Difference in the Morning!" the author, who lives In Lon don, receives about $1,000 a month fronji America alone in royalties. ) The Municipal Council of St. Etienne France, has decided upon an interesting ex periment, which is to distribute electrical power to 18 000 looms, scattered about in tho homes of the inhabitants, 70,000 ot whom are engngoa in the ribbon Industry. The power is to be supplied from the city reservoirs. The most famous religious relic, says a church paper, is the "Iron Crown," which was worshiped in the Middle Ages. The tradition is that it was made from the nails which were driven through the hands of Jesus at the time of the crucifixion. This celebrated relic is now in Naples among the state Jewels. At Greencastle, Ind., there are twin maple trees of equal size, but curiously grafted. At the height of SO feet one makes a sharp angle, growing solidly into the body of the other, forming a natural arch. The trees at the base are about 15 feet apart, and their identity cannot be distinguished at the point of confluence. -- In the early days of telegraphy copper wire could only be obtained with a conduc tivity of from 30 to 40 per cent of that of pure copper, and with a breaking strain of 30,000 pounds per square inch of sectional area; whereas now hard drawn copper can be pro cured having a conductivity of 97 per cent and a breaking load of 61,000 pounds. Electricity is now used in a French gnu factory for tempering gun springs. The springs consist of steel wire, wound spirally, and when they have been brought to a high temperatnre by the passage of the current the circuit is broken and they are dropped into a trough of water. It is stated that by this method a workman can temper 2,400 springs a day. There is in London a firm of women tea merchants, who have bought an estate in Ceylon, and carry on their business entirely through women blenders, tasters, packers and agents. The rooms where this essen tially feminine luxury is dispensed in Lon don nre marvelously decorated and daintily appointed, and are becoming a favorite ren dezvous forwomen. A resident of Fairfield, Me., has just been released from Houlton Jail after an in carceration of four years for debt. He was able to pay. but wouldn't, and transferred all of his property, worth several thonsand of dollars to relatives, saying that he could stand boarding at the jail as long as the county and his creditors could. The amount of bis indebtedness was small. The Clerk of Clark county, Ind., was summoned to his office late at night recent ly to issue a marriage license, and he found two old men and an old woman in waiting. Each man claimed it was the other who was principal, while one of them, addressed as Judge, whom the lady insisted was the right partv, persistently disclaimed the con trary. The dispute continued until tho clerk locked them all out. Letters and documents signed by George Washington, Lafayette, Queen Anne, the Earl of Sunderland, Thomas Jefferson, Will iam II. and William III.. William Byrd, of Westover. Receiver General of Revenues of Virginia; George II. and other historic per sonages, were advertisort for sale at Boitnn, Mass., on Saturday at public auction.but the talo did not take place. The Commonwealth of Virginia secured an injunction restrain ing the sale. PLEASANTRIES FKOM FUCK. Mrs. Xewliwed What are these? Flsherwoman Them is Spanish mackerel. Mrs. Newiiwed I'll take three pounds or them. My husband Is very fond of anything Imported. Mr. Manhattan You understand ths. language of flowers, of course. Miss Winona? Miss Winona (of Minnesota) Oh. yes! Four "Vs Is the best quamy. mane irom seieciea winter wheat. I hold it true, wbate'er befals, T is only stupid to be good; For wealth can now win coronets And look with scorn on Norman blood, philanthropist Why are you crying so, my child? Little Girl Please, sir. me madder sent mewW 50cints fer to git bread wld. an.' I lost it In tnst there dark alleyway. I'll be licked terrible. Philanthropist Well, well! my poor child; drj your tears. Here is a match. Pcrhapsyou may be able to And it. Mr. Know Ethel, it is perfectly imbe cllc,your trying to give yourself the airs of ' prima donna, every time George calls. Ethel Knox Why. papal What can you ofB Mr. Knox I heard you say farewell at least' times, last night "The Countess de Eigeur," I heard 'American some Western town The reigning belle" I looked and knew My old school mate, bamantha Brown. Mrs. Plainfield (proudly) And h would have thought that I should ever tie li mother of a poet Her neighbor (misunderstanding) Oh, wet wouldn't worry about that! He'll have " sense when he gets a little older. Discouraged Parent That boy of n'n' worries mc; he hasn't a particle of acutfieK doesn't know anything, and yon can't belle', word he says. What can I do with him wn grow up; Friend (after a moment's reflection) We yonr description he ought to make a ' private detective. The "European plan," reducer1 tlce, is the scheme of ordering what ' taking what the waiter brings.
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