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TWELVE PAGES
THE HANDICAP OF DEMOCRACY.
The fight at Minneapolis last week was
a family affair, and the indications are
that the soreness which grew out of it Is
pretty well healed. On the other hand, the
Democrats have a bitter and deadly feud
on, which they seem determined to keep
in the icebox all summer for tear it may
spoil. It is not at all likely that the De
mocracy can effect a consolidation of its
factions. If Cleveland is nominated such a
thing as a pact of harmony is next to im
possible in New Tork, if present indica
tions are sife to premise upon. Besides
this elusive harmony, there is a still
greater difference in the outlook of the
two parties. The Democrats will go on
offering free trade quack medicine at the
old stand, and they will doubtless adhere
to their free silver doctrine. This will
make it impossible for the people to sup
port any Democratic nominee even if he
could span all the party chasms and sew
np all the gaping wounds.
The Hill men are now discussing plans
in New York to discomfort their old-time
enemy, and new candidates are springing
up like mushrooms. It is not new men
but new ideas that the Democratic party
needs most As long as it wants to tear
down instead of build up it will continue
to stand out In the rain and look in.
tjed to seen BLOWS.
Some ot our Eastern cotemporaries
are representing the action in the House
last week as "a blow at thecoal combine."
Inasmuch as the sole extent of the al
leged blow consists of a report of the
Committee on Commerce in favor of in
vestigating the combination, it is one of
the sort to which that corporate aggrega
tion is fully inured.
The anthracite coal combination, in the
various forms which ithas assumed during
the last twenty years, has become fully
accustomed to investigations It has been
investigated by legislative authority, by
executive authority and by congressional
authority. Each of these investigations
has disclosed the illegal purpose and pub
lic injury of the agreement to exact ex
cessive prices for an article of necessity,
and that is all the good it has done. The
combination lias gone on the even tenor of
its way, secure in the confidence that the
social force of some hundreds of millions
of composite capital will prevent any
legislative power from doing it serious
harm.
, The last congressional investigation was
at the time of the Reading strike, four
years ago. The report was severe against
the combination, and that was the sole re
sult of the investigation. An investiga
tion may be worth while now, but it is not
likelj- to have any effect unless followed
by further legislative action.
A FOREGONE CONCLUSION.
As The Dispatcii took occasion to pre
dict three years ago, whfti the rage for
turning breweries and wholesale mercan
tile establishments into syndicates was at
its height, the unwary investors who were
bitten by that fever are now discovering
that there is a radical difference between
reports of profits and the actual payment
of dividends. One signal case in which a
brewery company was capitalized at
$1,890,000 on the report of expert account
ants that they had earned 5207,000 in 18S9
comes down with a severe fall for the
stockholders to an earning of 562,000 in
1890 and $42,000 in 189L
The New York Post, in connection with
this and other cases, enters into a lengthy
explanation of the way in which account
ants with an honest intention can be de
ceived by the venders of an industrial cor
poration taking exceptionally prosperous
years or producing a fictitious showing of
prosperity. The result of its conclusions
is that these reports of earnings on which
the profuse capitalization of industrial
and mercantile corporations is founded
are really of no value what
ever. The conclusion having been
reached after a costly demonstra
tion by experience to some of the invest
ors, it is indisputable; but there is less
foundation for the assertion that "the
question of profitableness in the long
run is the vital one, and really determines
the price which can safely be paid for the
plant and good will. The amount of
money originally invested by the first
partners is no concern to the public"
As this is said in approval of the general
principle of valuing a business simply by
its record of earnings, it requires a decided
exception, and constitutes one of the
weak points in the entire scheme of syn
dicating business stocks. The practice is
vicious because, apart from the actual
property owned by the concern thus capi
talized, good will is one of the most tran
sient and variable values that exists. In
some kinds of business the good will
is more lasting, and, therefore, more
valuable than in others. In all
cases It is largely a creation
of personal management. Real estate
values are nearly independent of good
will, and are therefore among the most
solid investments. In another business
the value may consist chiefly of good will,
and the ease with which that good will
may be destroyed makes investments in it
among the least reliable.
This brings up the second and kindred
fault of the plan under review, namely,
that you cannot capitalize the personal
equation. The interests which were put on
the market under the guise of investments
were those whose profits are almost en
tirely a question of personal management.
The transient nature of such investments
WIj
Is sufficiently Illustrated by a couple of
examples. The New York World under
Joseph Pulitzer, yields a fortune each
year; under his predecessor It was a ruin
ous failure. A. T. Stewart's commercial
business, when he was at the head of it,
netted him the revenues of a principality;
his successor saved the buildings ny
shutting up the stores. Now when anyone
pretends to offer investments in Joseph
Pulitzer, A. T. Stewart, or their equiva
lent In any successful business they are at
tempting either a deliberate or unconscious
fraud. It cannot be done for the simple
reason that any man who knows that his
management is the source of the profits
will keep the profits to himself.
There are some kinds of business which
rest so largely on permanent conditions as
to be independent so far as value is con
cerned of the variations of personal man
agement. A building can hardly be so
poorly managed that it will not yield its
rentals. A railway may be so badly man
aged that its earning power will be af
fected; but without absolute robbery it
can hardly be so wrecked as not to afford
a basis for earnings when it falls under de
cent management again. To exactly the
extent to which the personal equation is
vital in determining profits to that extent
the business is unsuitable for a reliable
corporate investment
As the interests capitalized under the
syndicate fever of two years ago were the
subjects of a haply principle of selection
of this most unreliable class, the results
are correspondingly severe on the in
investors. But the only wonder is over
the prevalence of the ignorance of thoso
principles which permitted the investing
public to be so largely bitten.
PROTECTION FROM DAMS.
The proposition for the Inspection ot
dams throughout the State Is a natural re
sult of the Conemnugh and Oil creek dis
asters. It is widely supported and yet Its
immediate value is very limited by the fact
that there is not a line of legislation pro
viding for such a measure of precaution.
This leaves the people exposed to peril
from unsafe structures of that sort with
out much relief. But as the danger mainly
attaches to towns built along narrow val
leys below dams, confining large bodies of
water, it Is possible that they may be able
to provide some precautions on their own
account Any town within the zone of
danger from a dam will be remiss
if it does not cause the question
of safety to be investigated on its own ac
count If the dam is safe the inspection
will do as much good as if the inspection
were official. If it is unsafe the imperiled
community will be forewarned, valuable
evidence will be contributed looking to
ward the necessity of legislation, and
there is very good reason for thinking that
a clear case of that sort would procure
from any competent court an order for re
moving the danger. It is not likely that
the rights of property will be held to in
clude the right to so obstruct a water
course as to imperil the lives and property
of people further down the stream.
Legislation is undoubtedly necessary to
abolish such dangers as soon as they are
discovered; but pending its enactment the
communities exposed to this danger can
do a good deal for themselves.
THE IRISH MUST UNITE.
The announcement of Mr. Balfour, in
the House of Commons yesterday, that
Parliament will be dissolved some time
next week indicates that the Cabinet has
abandoned its idea of hanging on till next
spring. The announcement carries with
it the inference that a general election
will follow, and that the issue of Home
Rule will be fought out in England at the
same time that the tariff issue is being
settled in the United States.
The campaign in England will open
under favorable auspices for the triumph
of the cause which has been urged for a
dozen years, provided the Home Rulers
can compose their differences. It tbey
present a united front their prospects
for a final triumph are encouraging.
But, if they continue to present
the aspect of factional quarrel illustrated
in Limerick on Sunday, they do nothing
but furnish the strongest handle to their
opponents. It would bp a terrible epitaph
to write upon the tombstone of the Home
Rule cause that it was killed by the quar
rels of its supporters when nothing else
could have conquered it
Irish-Americans should use their in
fluence to unite the Home Rule party by
serving notice on its leaders that no sup
port can be expected from this country
until the Irish party presents a united
front
IUKCU1NO THE EX PLORERS.
An expedition will start from St Johns
In a few days to relieve the party of
lieutenant Peary, left on the coast of
Greenland within the Polar Circle last
year. It will be in charge of Prof. Heil
prin, the geographer who escorted Peary
to his depot a year ago. It is hoped that
his complete knowledge of the explorer's
plans and aims will justify the confidence
expressed in finding the party and bring
ing them back to civilization.
After this is done what is to follow?
The wearisome and generally fatal itera
tion of sending exploring parties to the
Pole and then sending rescuing parties
after them should afford ground for the
obvious deduction. After the remnant of
the Greely party was rescued the con
clusion was recognized, so far as the
Government was concerned, that no more
public money should be spent on this use
less and dangerous chimera. The Peary
party was sent out by private funds; and it
is not hazardous to predict that, when the
usual rescue has been effected and the
results counted up, it will be found that
the gain to scientific knowledge is slight
beside the cost and loss of life. Is it not
time for science as well as civilization to
adopt the conclusion that the icy will-o'-the-wisp
which explorers have been pur
suing in the polar region for nearly throe
centuries is not worth the expenditure of
any more lives?
The scientific demonstration of the bar
renness of the polar region by the lives lost
In the attempt to penetrate it ought to be
convincing enouglTto insure its being left
to its icebergs and polar bears.
THE IMPORTANT POINT.
The Prye bill for refunding the Pacific
Railway debts to the government proposes
to give the Union Pacific fifty years to pay
off the debt at 3 per cent interest, and the
Central Pacific seventy-five years at 2 per
cent The Central Pacific wishes the
House Committee to cut down thclnterest
to i per cent, and the Union Pacific very
pertinently objects to being treated less
favorably than the Central Pacific Thus
the Issue stands at present
Yet there is another question which is
more pertinent to all parties concerned
than this one over which they are standing
at deadlock. What security will there bo
for the payment of the new funded debt?
If the precedent established with regard
to the old one of providing for the pay
mentof neither principal nonnterest is left
practicable, it makes little difference
whether either company is to pay
THE PITTSBURG-
three, two or one and a half per cent.
It will all amount to the same, thing In the
end. With the equation established by
experience that a thirty year bond at 8 per
cent equals nothing, and that established
by the deduction that a fifty year bond at
3 per cent and a seventy-five year loan at
2 per cent also equal nothing, the mathe
matical demonstration Is complete that alt
are exactly equal. So it does not really
make much difference what Ihe terms of
extension are.
But unless some security is afforded for
the payment of the new loan, principal
and interest, why not count the subsidy
as a defaulted debt at present and let the
Government realize what It can from the
securities?
If the Cooley gang has risen from Us
normal sphere of obtcken-stcallng to an at
tempt of train robbery Its ambition may yet
bring it to a high coal the height ot the
gallows.
There is no movement that redounds to
the reputation or weliare of the olty, or that
is calculated to promote the comfort or en
joyment of its people that Mayor Gourley
does not vigorously support. In this as in
all respects he Is a model Mayor; and when
he asks that citizens help along the Fourth
of July celebration, which will give pleasure
to hundreds of thousands, ho is right in line
with his patriotic precedents. The Mayor
wants at least a couple of thousand dollars
more for the Schcnley demonstration on the
Fourth. Eight in the midst of two national
conventions, the oxuborunce of feeling
would seem but a hollow sham if the shekels
do not immediately pour in upon his Honor
for a rousing good timo on the "old" Fourth.
The train robbery industry is one that
the officers of the law and the railroad of
ficials are justified in getting up a vigorous
strike against.
As an indication of the attitude of New
Tork on tha tariff question, tako the result
of the attempt of a delegate to the Central
Labor Union In that city to commit that
uody tacitly to free trade. A handsome
majority of tho union put itself on reoord
ns opposed to anything of the sort, and tho
proposition to send for free trade speeches
was roundly hissed.
It loots as If TJnole Jerry were warming
np the Republican weather for the Demo
cratic convention at Chiongo next week.
People who have not yet fully mastered
tho bad success of the Pennsylvania poli
ticians in attempting to mako tho Presi
dental nomination may find some light
thrown on the situation in the news that ox
Chairman W. H. Andrew has Just returned
from his active work at Minneapolis in be
half of the cause that failed.
The prospect is that the English cam
paign will be shorter than the American,
but It will not be any less decisive.
The conference of the iron manufacturers
and Amalgamated men set for to-morrow
shows that tho talk of not going into any
conference at all was given up on moro de
liberate leflection. The conference Itself
should show that both sides have pel cei ed
that reasonable compromise is better than
conflict, idleness and loss.
Corporations are not always seasonable.
Ono was chattered at Harrlsburg yesterday
to supply Fittsb.irg with heat.
There is a prospect of President Harri
son coining here on the Fourth, and every
bady will rejoice. He promised to come if
he could arrange his engagements to fit, and
they are not as pressing now as they were.
Come, Mr. Harrison, and you will see -what a
welcome the strongest Blaine city in the
country will give you.
Parliament will be dissolved at the
end of June. If the Queen does not do it
the scorching July days will.
Perhaps it might be well to suggest to
the immediate adherents of the Piesldent
that talk about "never forgiving McKlnley's
treachery," or political death of the Blaine
leaders, is not the best way to bring the
party into unison for a concentrated effort
during tho fall campaign.
The Pittsburg Republicans who are com
ing home from Minneapolis these days talk
hopefully of the result.
The Rev. Sam Jones intimates that
Tammany Hall would dethrone Old Nick if
they had a chance. There is a strong sus
picion, Mr. Jones, that if Tammany wag
called to plead on that charge at this
moment it would answer: "Guilty."
SfeNATOR Quay has returned to Wash
ington to see if bis part of the Capitol is
still there.
When both England and the United
States aro preparing for decisive campaigns
on national issues, (actional differences on
all sides must disappear for tho sake of the
cause of Home Rule in one nation and Amer
ican industries in the other.
Train robbers at Conncllsville! We will
hear of them on tho traction lines next.
The druggists do not always keep a sup
ply or faith on hand with their drugs, sub
ject to prescription, and thaj Is why strong
personalities like Father Mollinger fre
quently succeed where others fall.
Tnis is bad weather for No. 19 collars.
Senatok Peffer wants a National Loan
Buieau established to lend money to Tom,
Dick and Hairy. This would save some
woik on the national emblem. Instead of
40 stars we could use three balls.
PERTIXEST PERSONALITIES.
John Howaed Patne. author of
"Homo, Sweet Home," was born 100 years
ago last Thursday.
31k. and Mrs. William C Endicott
have sailed for Europe to spend tlieMimmer
with their daughter, Mrs. Joseph Chamber
lain. A. C Wheeler, better known by his
twm d guerre of Nym Crinkle, is out with a
new novel entitled "Tho Primrose Path of
Dalliance."
Commodore Hunter, who died in New
Orleans last week, left $10,000 in Confederate
om-rency the money paid htm for his serv
ices in the Confederate navy to his nephew.
Kate Field believes that the moral and
temperate saloon system advocated by Rov;
Dr. Hainsford would be a great improvement
upon the hard diinking bar trade as now
countenanced.
The Duchess of Bedford, sister of Lady
Henry Somersot, who has been on a recent
visit to this country, dines at midnight and
somehow mnnages to maintain a reputation
as an early riser.
Lieutenant Cavendish, nephew of
the DUko of Devonshire, will have a lovely
bride in Lady Evelyn, the eldest daughter
of the Marquis of Lunsdowne, to whom ho
will be married on July 25.
Rev. R. J. George, pastor of the Re
formed Presbyterian Church, or Beaver
Falls yesterday notified his congregation,
that no bad accepted a professorship in the
Reformed Presbyterian Theological Semi
nary at Allegheny.
Ray Greene Bulino, editor of the
School ond College, and Principal of the New
Bedim d (Mass.) High School, has declined
President Harper's offer or $4,000 to go to
Chicago University. He has also declined a
proposition from the Morgan Park Academy
Ex-Premier Mercier, of Quebec, is a
very sick nun, physically as well as men
tally, and his physicians give no hope or his
living more than a few months, even If he
lasts through tho criminal prosecution and
bankruptcy proceedings which are hanging
over htm.
DISPATCH, , TUESDAY, .
'OUR MAIL, POUCH.
The Church nod Henry VIII.
To the Editor or The Dispatch! '
In a very Interesting article In to-day's
Dispatch .relating to Henry VIII and the
Church of, England the writer says: "Never
theless Henry VIII did take the Pope's
place in England and since that day the
Church of England has paid no homage to
the Holy Father. Before nenry the Church
was papal: after Henry it was and has re
mained Protestant.''
Tho above assertion was prompted by an
lnquiry-as to whether or not Henry VIII
founded the Chuich or England, and while
tho'writer of the article referred to does not
definitely answer the question according to
the most reliable authorities, he hits very
wide of tho mark In making the statement
nbove quoted.
nenry VIII did not found tho Church of
xmgianu, nor ilia no cieposu iuw xupo uum
the headship of the Church or England. The
Pope never had control of the Church of
England, nnd ho certainly could not bo de
prived of that which he never posessed.
From the earliest times "the 8tate had never
lost its mastership of the citadel of suprem
acy, although so long and ofteu fiercely
attacked by papal foiccs."
Laws enacted in the reigns ot Edward I.
Edward III, Richard It and Henry IV, pre
serving the spiritual and temporal liberties
of the peoplo, show that the Popef wasnot
the head of tho English church. The latter
was distinct from that of Home. Trne, im
mediately arter- The Conquest William
allowed the Pope to rule with unusual
power. But that was of short duration, as
William himself soon curtailed the Pope's
authority. Even before tho Norman con
quest the Po'p'es did not exorcise over the
English Church the functions supposed to
belong to the Papal system. They did not
nominate to sees, nor exercise the power of
veto: nor depose, nor command nor forbid
consecrations; nor exact any fees; nor ro
qulro any oath or allegiance. The Kings did
not allow appeals of any kind to be made to
the Pope.
Until the Reformation tho clergy or the
Church of England consisted of two classes
the secular and tho monastic. The former
weio similar to tha Chtiroh of England
clergy or tho present day; they married and
lived in parishes with their families. King
Edgar tiled to abolish the bitter, and to
some extent succeeded, bnt the sentiment
of the nation was for them and they
triumphed. Surely nobody would call that
a papal system. And what is mott im
portant of all is the met that the first article
of Magna Charta, whloh refers to the church,
makes no mention in any way of the Papal
power, but says: "That the church of Eng
land shall be free and have herwhole rights
and her liberties inviolable."
I will cite another fact to show that the
writer of the article in question is in error.
My friend George Harwood la his valuaole
book. "Disestablishment," says relative to
the statute of Preminure, enacted in tho
Parliament of Richard II.: "The statute
enacted that whoever procured from
Rome or elsewhere any translations,
processes, excommunications, bulls, in
struments or any other things which
touched the King, against him, his
crown and realm, and also that who
ever assisted therein should be put out
of the King's protection, his landsnnd goods
slionM be foneltod and be himself should
be attached by his body to answer to the
King and his Council."
Attcr all this let me ask: Where was the
sum-emu power of the Pope in these times?
The Ilelorinatinn did not create a new na
tional church; it purified the old one, no
doubt, but no new principle was established;
in other words, the Reformation only reas
serted previous laws and can ied them out.
Long beroto the time of Henry VI1L the
State had had the power to determine to
what extent the canon law should prevail
in England, and all that Henry VIII. did was
to designate the extent. The truth is, Ed
waid VI. made tho spiritual leformation
after the civil reformation of Henry VIII.
had formally culminated a movement that
had been developing through a long series
of years. J. D.
Pittsbubo, June 13.
The Great Sahara May Tet Blossom.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
In the partitioning and parceling out of
Africa among the gover nments of Europe,
which is about practically completed, it
seems they have all divided shy of the
land ot simooms and sandstorms the great
deseit of the Sahara.
There is still unappropriated this area of
1,581,308. square miles, on which exists
a barbarolis population of about 22,000,000.
On this gre.it waste, whlcn a vera jes nearly
1,530 miles squaie, aie numeious oases which
nie gems of fertility set in tho midst of bar
renness. But there is nothing to hinder,
when once necessity calls for it, this
whole region, or at least mdeh tho greater
part of it, to be transformed to one of peace
and plenty.
The same winds that now make a horror
of the loose sand may be set to pumping
water from drill wells, and all this sand
needs is irrigation to produce abun
dantly. As the area is moistened
and covered with trees nnd other forms
or vegetation, these storms will gradually
diminish until they are no moro unendur
able than the winds of our Kansas. A few
windy days that lash Lake Erie Into wild
commotion mnke no impression on tho
surrounding soil, and yet. If that soil were
dry sand, it would respond to the winds in
clouds of dirt.
Tho day will probably come when It will
be better polloy to iinpiove unpiomlsing
places than to rush over the earth and hunt
and crowd into those made inviting by
natuic, for, after all, those who cannot
add to what natme does for them, can
not long keep unlmpahed the bounty
that nature gives to them. There ato mill
ions or acres of Western lands in our own
country that could be made to groan with
loads of fruits nnd cereals if tapped' with
di ill wells mid supplied with windpnmp
at hair the expense and tribulation involved
in clearing heavy timber and then contend
ing w ith roots and stumps for a generation.
When once capital is willing to embark In
loans that insure from 3 to 4 per cent. It can
find better investment in taking these
places, supplying their deficiencies and
then turn tlicm over to those who glow and
till, and all will ho benefited. N.
Wampus, Pa., June 12.
IN FAVOE 07 SUNDAY OPENING.
Unitarians Ask Tint the Fair Be Not Closed
on Ihn Lord' Day
Chicago, June 13. A petition has been re
ceived from number ot Unitarian churches
requesting that the Exposition be kept open
on Sunday. The signers or the petition
which lepresents the NoithMnssachu-etts
Conference and 'other Christian churches
situated in Massachusetts and New Hamp
shire request that tho fair be open on Sun
day, but that It be "A silent exhibit," with
no machinery running.
This .petition has been forwarded to the
Board of Directors, and is the second one of
tho sort which has been received fiom Uni
tarian and other Christian churches of what
is generally denominated as the liberal re
ligious order. The Unitarian chmches of
Massachusetts and New Hampshire, in tak
ing this action say that they do it in view ot
tho great needs'ot tho worKing people, who
cannot visit the Fair on other days than
Sunday, and they are also actuated by an
impression of the great opportunities which
tho Fair will afford in tho direction of gen
eral education. The petition is signed ana
lorwarded by the Rev. Daniel Needbam,
President of the Confeionce, and George E.
Littlefield, Secietary, and is sent from Mil
ford, N. H.
PATTXS0N AND THE PRESIDENCY.
The Governor Finds It Too H'tm to De
clare ills Position.
Philadelphia, Junol3. Special. A news
paper reporter had the hardihood to-day to
ask Governor Pattlson whether or not he
was.aTresldontal candidate. t The special
audacity of the question lay in thefact that
it tv as propounded on a fearfully warm day,
wlien anything inciting to excitoment or
disquietude Is rather dangerous as well as
disagreeable. William M. Singerly was v. ith
tho Governor when the rash reporter made
his break.
Governor Pattlson was about to speak in
answer, but apparently thought better of it.
Ho smiled, and then raising his hands,
waved them before his face with the palms
outward,ln the manner in which Macbeth
tried to bluff Banquo's ghost. But he said
nothing. Theesturo was so non-commlttul
that the reporter tui ned to Mr1. Singerly for
an explanation. "We are talking business"
said Mr. blngerly. "Don't you see thatt
Business not politics."
Channcey a Growing Statesman.
New York Press. 1
Uncle Channcey Depew is at least a foot
taller as a statesman nnd political manager
than he was when he went out to Minne
apolis. Thio shows wnat the bracing atmos
phere or. the booming West will do for a
man when he turns hlmselr loose in It dur
ing the growing season. ,
JUNE 14. 1892L
A EOT DAT IN THE HETB0P0LIS.
.1
Tha Street Thermometers Register From
96 Degree to Several Notches Higher. ,
New York, June 13. Special Ninety-six
degrees in the shado was a fair average for
the street thermometers here to-day, and
some got up to 9S. It wa the hottest day
on record for the first half of Jnne, and,
worst of all, a continuance of the heat is
promised for to-morrow. What made the
heat harder to bear was the moisture,
officially known as "humiditv," which was
700 per cent. The sidewalk merchants
profited by the general discomfort. They
ceased purveying the pendulous shoestring
and the unseasonable sulphur match and
went into the palm-leaf fan Industry. So
many thoughtless citizens induced more
perspiration by the exertion or fanning.
It was hottest at 3.30 o'clock. All the
things that distinguish a torrid day In New
York were observable. Tho street car lines
that bad open cars put them all on. There
were relays of horse along the routes. The
sides of the poor beasts throDhed as tbey
staggered before their loads, always heavy
on hot days, when walking produces discom
fort. Many animals wore knocked out at the
shady relay stations, where hostlers sponged
them with cool water and lot them rest for a
time. All night tired dwellers in the tene
ments slept for the first time this year on
the fire escapes or roots. Eleven cases of
prostration were reported to the police be
lorc 4:30 o'clock, bnt tho total list will foot
up at least double this.
0LE0KAEGABINE IN MABYLAHD.
The United Slates Court Declares the Law
Prohibiting Its Sale Unconstitutional.
Baltimore, Mr, June 13 Judge Bond, of
the United States Court, has rendered an
important opinion in the case of Chas. E.
McAllister, alleged agent of Brau 4 Fitts.
oleomargarine manufacturers of Chicago,
who sought his relief from the custody of
the State authorities. Judge Bond holds
that the arrest waB Illegal and discharges
the prisoner. Mr. McAllister was arrested
under the Maryland law relating to the sale
of oleomargarine.
Tne judge in reviewing the case said:
That a person may import an article from a
foreign country or one of the States of the
Union and sell It In the condition which it
was imported, Is not to be disputed now
after a long line of decisions by the Supreme
Court. A State mar regulate the sale and
storage of articles dangerous to the health
or the city, but It cannot prohibit the im
portation. The laws or the United States
recognize oleomargarine as a mercantile
article. Being such, while a State may per
haps regulate its sale. It cannot prohibit its
importation. The statute in question does
this and is unconstitutional in this respect
and void. The petitioner Is discharged.
BEAUTIFUL SOUVENIR ALBUM.
Jnst 42 Issued by Members of the Harri
son Conference.
Minneapolis, Mrs., June 13 A novel and
pleasant little episode has grown out of the
organization work done for Harrison oy
what has been described in the dispatches
as the Harrison Conference.
There were 40 men in this, each one repre
senting a State. The success of the cam
paign was, beyond all doubt, due to this
powerful combination. Since the victorv
thov have met and gotten up a very beauti
ful "souvenir album, of wnlch just 42 have
been issued. One will be hcldbv each of the
State representatives in the conference, one
by General MIcnener, of Indiana, who,
though not a member of the conference,
was General Harrison's chief manager, and
the 4id album will be sent to President Har
rison. The 40 representatives and Genoral Mich
ener have signed their names. New Eng
land is represented by Major Henry Gould,
of Medfield, Mass. The co er of each album
bears the numbers "521" in gold letters, thl3
being the flnar estimate or Harrison's
strength, as telegraphed the Herald the day
It was made.
TAMMANYITES IN HADES.
Kev. Sam Jones Says They Could Only Get
Throngh the Gates One at a Time.
Nashville, TEinr., June 13. Rev. Sam
Jones, the noted evangelist, concluded a
successfnl series of meetings here last night.
Among other things in his closing sermon,
he said, touching politics: "The difference
between the Republican platform and the
Democratic platform is in the tariff, that
is nil.
"A fellow may say: '1 would die for the
principles of my party, when he would not
know a principle if he wore to meet it in tho
road. If old Tammany were to go to hades
in a body and knock at the door, the devil
would only let them In one at a time. If he
were to let them In all at once they would
knock hlin in the head, elect their own
devil and run things to suit themselves."
REID BEFORE THE SEARCHLIGHT.
Whitelaw Rkid will add great strength to
the ticket. He Is n finished scholar, a diplo
mat of rare ability, and a man of irreproach
able personal character. Cleveland World.
Mb. Reid Is a representative Journalist,
and his selection is a compliment to the
newBDapar men of the country, which they
will no doubt fully appreciate Minneapolis
Tribune.
Mb. Reid will give strength to tho ticket,
for be is recognized as a man or Integrity
and ability, who has done good service for
both the party and the country. Denver Re
publican. The discussion of Mr. Reid's public ser
vices during the campaign must all draw
attention to the successful foreign policy of
the administration, and add to tho strength
of tho ticket as a whole. Philadephia Press.
Mb. Reid will give strength to the ticket,
not only in his own State, but In every sec
tion of the country as well. He is an able
editor, a wise diplomat, and a man or wide
culture nnd experience, and a loyal Repub
lican. Troy 2ii.
The nomination of Mr. Whitelaw Reid
adds greatly to the strength of the Republi
can National ticket. Kaielyhas any or the
candidates lor this office united In his per
son so many qualities bearing the promise
of snecess. Xew York Sun.
Whitllaw Rkid worked his way np from
the lowestround or the newspaper ladder to
his present great position. He was ones a
reporter in the United States Senate, where,
arter March 4, 1693, he will pieslde as Vice
President or the United States. New York
Recorder.
Mb. Reid is not a politician or a statesman,
in tho usual sense of those terras, but an ed
itor, with all w hich that word implies. Ho
has risen from poverty and obscurity to the
highest place ot Journalistic snecoss by his
own efforts and ability. The country might
he searched in vain for a more notable ex
ample of American possibilities. Chicago
Inter. Oe an.
Flgniflcant Opposition.
New York Recorder.
Every English nowspaper is against Presi
dent Harrison and in favor of the Demo
cratic nominee, whoever he may be. Shall
the English editors elect tho next Presi
dent? How is it that not one or them is in
favor of the Republican party? Because the
Republican party is lor America, first, last
and all the time.
They Hare a Big Contract Ahead.
New York Advertiser.
Honry Wattorson says narrison is a strong
candidate. Roswoll P. Flower says he will
ben hard man to beat. The Democratic
leaders nil ndmlt that they have a big con
tract ahead of them. And, most truly, they
have.
0BITUABT H0TES.
Mns. Levi M. V ilas, mother of Senator Vilas,
died suddenly fcuaday lilgnt. at Madison. Wis.
Joitx A. SIErzKT, one of Allegheny's hest
known citizens, died yesterday afternoon, at his
home, S2 Ohio street lie was 44 years old. He
will be buried from his late residence to-morrow
item ton at 2:39 o'clock.
James T. Colt died at the residence of his
brother, Charles. New York, on SaturJay nlftlit, of
lung trouble. He was a well known hotel pro
prietor. With his brother lie had conducted for
some,)ears the Arnyle Hotel, at Babylon, L. I.:
ycnvrlU: Hall, at Sartrook. Conn.: the Hotel
Windsor, at Jacksonville, and the Sherwood
HoubC and Bnrllnztou Hotel In New York.
Axdked GILSET. aited 3 who. with his broth
ers Peter, John, Henry and Charles, were the ex
ecutors of the large Gllscy estate In New York,
died at his home at North Long Branch, N. J., on
Friday, from a complication or diseases, arter an
illness of about three months. Mr. Gllsey was born
In New York. Alter the He ith or his r-ither. Peter
Gllsev, he superintended the construcilon or the
old Fifth Avenue Theater, and the new building
was also erected under his direction.
BETWIXT AND BETWEEN.
This Is the Season When Society Js Neither
Hot Nor Cold street Car Parties a Pos
sible Fad Lights and Shadows -of a
Dav.
Society's pleasures are in an inter
mediate state at present. They are not of
the winter decidedly, nor have yot quite
taken on a midsummer aspect. Society al
ways tnkes its amusements about this time
In the East End. Indeed, solnvariablea rule
13 It for the owners of pretty ground?,
who aro more secluded than their
almost metropolitan Allegheny sisters,
to come to the front, that it
would nearly be safe to assert that the peo
ple entertaining now wore entertaining this
time last year. A Inwn Is a great necessity
these sorts of days. It knocks a crush sky
high, and particularly on young ladies and
men partial to tho beantles of a rose garden
in the late afternoon or twilight. This
month will bring all this to a close, and then
for Cressan, Long Branch, Newport, Chau
tauqua, Bedford, Ehcnsbnrg and the many
other spots embellished with the country,
seaside or mountain villa of the wealthy
Plttsbnrger.
Some one suggests giving street car
parties! And, why not? Street cars can
give a pleasant ride through the suburbs
that no carriage drive can compare with for
speed, comfort and safety. The Plttsbnrger,
be that "ho" or "she" who goes away from
Pittsburg In search of the picturesque with
out first picking np what is lavished at
his own door, is a very foolish person.
There's tho Filth avenue llneafter it mounts
the hill at Soho street. An incline on one
side, a decllreon the other, and if it Is the
evening, there is the Sonthstde pricked with
as many lights ns theie aro evor stars in the
skv. Beyond this there nre vales and dales
and rolling and rising ground, and gronnd
to put a billiard tablo tostiamo. And al
ways, Just where it ought to be, there is a
house. There are trees enough sprinkled
all over numerous enough to start several
nurseries for coming virgin forests. Add to
all this a sunset and what moro could
one desire to see, even after traveling thou
sands of miles?
The double deck car of the Fifth avenne
line has been thought of as a fine means of
transit for a party bound ou pleasure in the
city. It could be reserved for an entire
party for a ride continuous out and in and
supposing at a stietch it would hold a
hundred peoplo, there would be a cost of $5,
with a couple moro for tips to the brakeman
and condnctor. It would certainly bo novel
and as a means of enjoyment scarcely be
outdone. Surely it is a deal sight more com
fortable to think about than those awful re
oeptions where perspirations mingles and
no doubt many low groans of suffering. It's
something new to look on a street car as a
source or pleasure, especially in Pittsburg,
wnete a seat in it, like lightning, never
strikes twice in the same place or at the
same man.
A NewTork writer on fashionable doings
thus dishes np society at West Point:
"A great deal of maneuvering in more
ways than one has been going on at West
Point this week. The annual exercises, ex
aminations and reviews have been in prog
ress, and even more than the nnnnal amount
orflirting.philanderingand sentimentalizing
has been enioyed by graduates and under
graduates and their sweet girl Trlends. Tho
escaped lunatics, one might almost sav, but
probably the academy's first and second
classes would be tho moiodlniheddelgna-tIon,paintedtheCasinorcdonS.Unrdayeven-ing
nnd gave a happy forotasteor what sober
minded citizens have to expect when college
crews, baseball nines and tennis champions
are let loose upon the summer nights.
Miss Mae Goff and her mother, Mrs.
Milton B. Goff, widow otthe lamented Chan
cellor or the Western University, expect to
leave Tor Germany this summer. Miss Goff
will go under her mother's chaperonago to
complete her education, and the two ladies
hope to devote two years in the Fatherland
to that purpose.
The popular "Pavsie" or the Sunday Dis
patch was the nom de guerre nnder which
Miss Goff contributed, if memory serves
aright, lor two years past a number of
widely read ralrv talcs. They were nearly
all founded on German folk lore, and it 13
expected that this young author will nour
ish her proclivities in this direction. Miss
Goff has mndo arrangements also to write
for a city paper while abroad.
One of the most daring as well as most
gracetnl riders in Pittsburg is Mrs.George H.
Welshons, or Fifth avenue. A 30-mile "fly"
on a bit of a breakfast Is no uncommon feat
for Mrs. Welshons to perform tnese lovely
mornlngn, and In addition to having abso
lute contiol or hor horse shecin felicitate
heiseir upon her gracelul appearnnce. The
combination is as rare as it Is charming, for
somehow these dainty little horsewomen
aie only good to look at when their prowess
is not tried too far.
Social Char.
Amoxo those Interested In the annual
Chnrch Home garden party to be given on
Thursday at the Home on Fortieth street
are: Miss Jane Gorman, Mrs. A. S. M. Mor
gan, Mrs. Klmberlaln, Miss Dnrnian, Airs.
Smith, Miss Hancock, Mr. Wilson McCan
dless, Mrs. Oliver Ormsby Phillips, Mrs.
William H. Honse, Mrs. Boss Johns
ton, Mrs. John F. Patterson. Mrs. W. G.
McMasters, Mrc. A. E. W. Painter. Miss L.
M. Guthrie, Miss Byllesby, Miss bpcer, Mrs.
Anshntz, Mrs. Ingram and Mrs. MoMasters;
Somk peoplo in town have received invita
tions to the eleventh annual reception at
Ferncllff, Ohio Pyle, Pa., next Friday even
ing. Tne receptions, of tolerably long
standing, are always enjoyable. The com
mittee Is composed of Mr. Charles David
son, Mr. H. C. Huston, Mr. J. 31. Reid and
Mr. II. P. Snyder. Arrangements have been
made for a special train over the Baltimore
and Ohio Hallway, v, hich will leave Union
town at 7-30 and Conncllsville at 8.
The rector of Calvary Episcopal Church,
the Itcv. George Hodges, expects to leave
lor Europe in a few weeks. The duties of
fiulplt and parish will devolve during Mr.
lodges' absence on the recently appointed
curate, the Rev. Mr. Mattuen s, who, with
Mis. Mattheus. has taken up abode for the
present In the Hotel Kenmawr.
The new coach at the Schenley Park Rid
ing Academy bids fair to work a great many
moro hours" than eight per day. No one is
the thing nowadays if she has not had sev
eral coaching experiences to adorn her con
versation. No one, of course, is in this caso
always in the feminine geader.
Srs.CE in Great Britain Ic is supposed that
heather brings luck to brides, American
young woman will have nothing e'oo in the
IooDlngs or the bridal veil and among the
coils of tho coiffure.
Mb. asd Mas. Dawsoit Speer will be tho
guests ot honor at a reception on Friday
evening to be given by Mr. and Mrs. John J.
Speer, of Dallas avenue.
The Rev. Mr. and Mrs. George nodges
gavo a small I eception at the rectory yester
day afternoon to the Sistet hood of Calvary
Church.
The lawn fete m Mr. Ben Thaw's grounds
for the benefit of the Miadyside Presby
terian Church will come off this evening.
St. James' Episcopal Chckch will open a
strawberry and cream festival this evening
to continue on Wednesday also.
Tnn Deaconesses' Home will hold its an
nual opening on Wednesday. The address
is 205 Dinwiddle street.
Sliss Sarah Lippixcott and Mr. James
Botsrord will be married this evening in the
Shadyside Church.
Miss Perrikes marriage will take place
this evening in the Oakland M. E. Church at
8 o'clock.
Tms afternoon Mrs. Albert Childs will
receive In honor of her daughter, Miss
Clara.
This evening the garden parly at C. C.
Craft's house in Crultou Is expected to come
off.
Mrs. and Miss Oliviti. of Shields station,
will receive on Wednesday afternoon.
MBS.-ROGMLS, of Fifth avenue, gavo a
coaching party on Saturday evening.
WHISKY MSN JUBILANT.
They Rejoice Over the Decision or the
United Sla'es Court In the Green Case.
Cincinnati, June 13. The Intensely black
eye given the Government by the decision
or United States Judge Jackson In the case
or L. 11. Green, acting President or tne
Whisky Trust, Is the theme of much con
gratulation in whisky circles here to-day.
The only ono who is not glad(ls Treasurer
W. N. Hobart, who, when he heard of the
second indictment, hurried to court to give
bond for his appenrunce nt Boston in order
that hemUht not be Ulsmrbod during the
Mny Festival.
United States Circuit Judge Ricks, of
Cleveland, who had two similar cases berore
htm, had heard them, and had prepared an
opinion, but ho n Ithheld Ills decision and
came here to listen to Judge Jackson V hear
ing. It turned out that they agreed exactly,
and Jndge Ricks telegraphed to Cleveland
to publish his opinion. United States Dis
trict Attorney Herron is still absent and uu
tlMie returns the final order releasing Mr.
Green will not be issued.
- CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS.
Germany has 385 military bands.
The great St. Paul's Cathedral, in Lon
don, waa built from taxes levied on coal,
Next to pork, the banana.is said to ba
the most indigestible thing a person caneat.
More than 26,000 persons have been
divorced in the State of Connecticut since
1S60.
If London streets were put end to end
tbey would reach from that city to St.
Petersburg.
The revenue collected from last years
ascents to tho ton of tha Eiffel Tower
amounted to $115,000.
Portsmouth, N. H., bears the proud
distinction as the place where the first
newspaper was established In this country.
This was in 1756.
Above the length of 19 or 20 feet,
snakes in the Philllpine Islands Increase
greatly in bnlk for every fot 'n length, so
that a snake 19 feet long looks small beside
one 22 feet long.
It is estimated that 3,SO0,O0O theater
tickets are issued In tho country every week
at SO cents each. The total sum expended
every venr for thl form of amusement"
would amount to $91,000,000.
The greatest enemy of subnrbanr-telS-phone
and telegraph poles Is tha wood
pecker, whose search for tho numerous in
sects which inhabit tho wood often leaves
the pole literally honeycombed.
A. Dakota clergyman has sent out an
advertisement which reads as follows: "Re
ligious doubts and difficulties answered by
private letter. State your difficulty clearly
and inclose one dollar for reply."
A small cabinet containing an alarm
clock, a three candle-power lamp, a medical
coil and a gas lighter, all operated by elec
tricity from fonr cells of drv battery, is
among the novelties recently devised.
In order to keep sea porgies thron;h
the summer, the fishermen or Rhode Island
have nets so arranged that the passing
schools aro led np Into salt water ponds and.
the channels connecting with the ocean are
closed.
A restaurant keeper of Chicago was re
cently committed to an asylnm for the in
sane, being crazed from subsisting almost
entirely npon coffeo. During the past three
years ho has scarcely tasted any kind of
solid food.
AVhile capturing a large gar in a river
near Velasco, Tex., recently, a fisherman be
came entangled in his line and was dragged
from his skiff bv the fish and nearly drowned.
Ilelp arriving, he was rescued and the gar
landed. It weighed 132 pounds.
In one of the Comstock mines a new
water wheel Is to be placed which is to run
1,130 revolutions a mlnnte, nnd have a speed
at its periphery of 10S05 feet per minute.
A grenter head (if water than has ever be
lore been applloj to a wheel will be used.
In a Beatrice (Neb.) court the othei
day a William Trues lale was grantod an ab
solute divorce from his wife Amelia, on th
ground that "she was an incorrigible gosip
whose tale-tolling propensities rendered lift
with her unbearable." Trnesrtaleaversthnt
in the three vears he has lived with his wift
she has told 10,000 lies.
A strange case of insanity has recentlv
come to light at B.UIston. Tho nnfortunati
person is Charles H. Morris, 32 years of age
and an expert accountant, no has ror
long time beon known ns a man or many ec
centricltics. It is thought that constant
joking and teasing have been a potent factoi
In impairing his mental faculties.
A mysterions singer among the nuns o
the Church of Sant' Anna in Rome has latel;
attracted an enormous crowd to the ser
vices, snch was tho beauty of her voice ant
style. One evening recently thecongrega
tion wa seized with such enthnsiasm tha
It bnrst Into applause and cries of "Vival" si
that the police" had to intervene and clea
the edifice.
In many out-of-the-way places it ba
been fonnd necessary to manufacture nltro
glycerine on the spot In order, to avoid th
very high rates charged by transportatlor
companies. Snch has been tho advance Ir
methods of making this explosive that, wltf
orilinarv precaution, thorough washing, ant
careful 'watching or the various ohanges o
color, it can be made without fear of serlou
accident.
It has been discovered recently in Eng
land that the same wire can beuoedslmn'
t.nneonsly for telegraphing and telephohfni
The discovery has been utilized on tW
fireat Western Railway's line betwem
Sonthall and Brentford, a distance of 3
miles, nnd it Is said that the faintest tl
phonic sounds are distinctly heard eve
when the telegraphic message Is tickii.
over the wi:e.
More than 20,000 persons visited Shake!
peare's birthplaco last year. Three-fourth
of them Inscribed their names in the visit
ors' book, and of these 9.549 were Brltls
K"b1ects and more than half as many, o
5.333, Atner'cins. It is strange to observ
that only 91 Germnns are numbered amon.
the visitors, for Germany bnvs morn conie
of Shakespeare's works every year tha
probably any other nation.
A stockman of Peoria, HI., recently n
tnrned from a trip to Mexico, bringing wit
him a gripsack full of horned toads. On th
morning of his arrival he went to his bote
where he occnpled a room with his bnslne
partner, nnd found tho latter intoxicate
and sound asleep. He emptied the bagfn
on his partner's bed and also filled hi
pockets. When the sleeper awoke he tea
down on his knees and took an oath neve
to drink intoxicants again.
One of the exploits of Sullivan, a pri
fessional "strong man" In London, IS to Hi
with a rope held in his teeth a young cli
pliant weighing over LS00 pounds. Anothf
is to attach a chain to a 56 pound weigh
and with tho end or tho chain in his montl
whirl rapidlv around cntll the chain a
snmes an almost horizontal line. This fef
makes the spectators on the gronnd flo
shndder, lest a link or tho chain should pai
or his teeth should relax their hold.
In a villasre on Long Island, N. T., is
woman who has not been out or bed for
years, not from any Infirmity, bnt becaui
she never received a proposal of marriag
She told her .mother, who Is long since dea
two months "before her 19th blrthdav that
sho did not receive an offer of marriage b
fore her birthday sho would go to bed an
remain there ns long as she lived, her ha
Is now trrav nnd her skin very sallow, bi
one can easily sco that she was once a bea
tl:ul girl.
A student from the Cincinnati Un
verslty recently visited a farm, and one dr
when the farmor started to get some yonr
potatoes, took the basket from the latter
hand and said he would get them. Half
honr later he came back with an empt
basket, saying that b had hunted all ovi
the patch and could find nothing bnt bio
soruS. Tho student was much surprise
when the farmer took tho hoe and bega
digging the potatoes out of the gronnd, an
he said he thought they grew on the vine
A BUDGET OF HUMOR.
Satan Did you torture him well?
Asmodeus-Yes.
Satan-Wliat did you do?
Asmo.Icns-1 asked him If it was hot enough f
hlm.-Aiw Tot Herald.
Youngster I understand the marrii
women have organized a elnb?
Oldster What do they call It? Broom-handU
or "Kolling-pln?" Detroit IreePress.
A face that's sweet, a figure neat,
A fancy parasol:
A gauzy dress lace more or less
Alas, but that's not all.
Besides her smile used to beguile
The youth that's smart.
Hid 'neath her dress. I must confess.
Is an India rubber heart.
Xusie and Drama
"Is this a healthy portion of the Statel
asued a traveler in Arkansas.
Well. I should say 11 Is. There has beenn
Codyhung about here la three months. " T
Sifting.
"I beg your pardon, ma'am, but your i
count Is overdrawn."
"Dear me. Why, I've got a whole lot of cbei
left." Chicago yeiei Record.
Your girl good reason has to frown
If she goes with you to the track:
She finds that when you're going down
You're nicer than when comlnc back.
New lark Evening Sm
Elder Berry "WTiat is your definition
faith?
Joblots Putting a nickel on the plate and i
pectlng to get a crown of pure gold. Aw i
Herald.
(Harry has been teaching the farme
how to play tennis.)
She (after hair au hour's Instruction) And K
don't mean nothln';how funny. .ne lot St
ttln.