gjmjjj i uqyp-j-BeHf rups-. i- -- - .? SO-3Jsr '3M?PST . qUPllli? '?r JSiF? ' - i- " -' ' , ? THE PITTSBURG- DISPATCH, SATURDAY, JUNE 18. 1892. HcrT flHP!BB?KMRBBHRRHMHiHlllHMHMBSH9MHIHRHKHIHIIHMHKiMP 'MP ":. . " tr - .,..., ,.. .- ' i 4 . i DBIOCRAGY UP TO DATE. The Party's National Conventions Since the War in The Size and Curious Things of the World's Fair by FRANK G. CAKP2NTER. Here are some other good things offered for to-morrow:' Life in Honolulu. Exploring Inner Australia. Itosa Bonhenr's Indians. Ascending a Volcano. Farmers oi Congress. Baron Ilirfccli Colony. How Cartoons Are Made. Complaints ot Servants. Besides there -will be Departments to please every Header. CONVENTION GOSSIP From the Best and Brightest Writers Wired From Chicago. BEST CABLE SERVIGE. The Most Comprehensive Newspaper and the Leader in Sports. READTO-MORRDW'S DISPATCH. ESTABLISHED FEBRUARY 8, 1S46 Vol. 47. No. 115 Entered at Pittsburg Postoffice OTember. ISS7, as second-class matter. 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One Ytar 1 3 The Daily Dispatch is delivered by carriers at rrniRiMTMet-W, or, including Sunday Edition, at It cent per -week. PITTDDKG.SATUKDAY. JD.VE 18. 1SK. TWELVE PAGES AGEVTS, TAKE XOTICE. TIH". DISPATCH 1h m id arrangements frr the most xclasive, as well as the most cxhnustivr, reports of the Democratic Na tional Conienticr. Agents who have not pnt In their order for extras should promptly notify tlio 7:nln-s C files. THE PWl'ATrH1 reports Irrra 3Ilnm-.pollg are a Mifncieut guarantee oT what will be done a; Cliidjro. j ItoriVOTH: QUK-TION. The unusual spectacle of a delegation of iron manufacturers appearing in the Amalgamated Convention to argue the vages question, as presented yesterday, gives the most emphatic denial to the re port that both s'de- were so enamored of the propec's of idleness that they would not go into conference. They have not only shown their willingness to confer, but the disposition to report to argument has gone to the unprecedented length of manufacturers appearing in the organiza tion of the men and the men giving them a fair hearing. This method of treating the question gives the best promise of a reasonable and fair settlement of the wages question. It is true that manufacturers and the men are still rather wide apart on the scale question; but they usually are a consider able distance from each other in the third week of June. The fact that they are making a reasonable and conscientious pffort to get together, and that each side has shown a willingness to give a hearing to the other, is good basis for hoping that a compromise scale will lie agreed upon that will be satisfactory to both sides. ALXUKING, BUT IMPROBABLE. The Philadelphia Inquirer, in pursuit of its organic theory that a Dalzell man is worse than a Democrat, seeks consolation for the Waterloo of the Quay contingent at Minneapolis by discovering dark and treasonable designs on the part of the op ponents of Quay in this State. The deep dyed Reform Republican Club is guilty ot "trying to find out how many Republicans there are in Pennsylvania who will vote for Democratic, or, what is the same thing, Independent candidates for the Legislature." This, in the opinion of the Inquirer, shows the desperate motives of the reformers and the wholly lost char acter of the Dalzell Senatorial movement. An Independent or Democratic Legisla ture on the conditions outlined by the In quirer would have a good many attrac lions to some people who count them seles very good Republicans. The great argument against throwing off party lines in legislative elections has been the danger of weakening the protectionist cause in the Senate. But when the Inquirer represents this move ment as made in the interest of Dalzell it offers a guarantee that it would advance to the Senate one of the mo3t eloquent champions of protection, and one who represents more nearly what a Congress ional representative should be than any one the Republicans of Pennsylvania have had to repiesent them since Thaddeus Stevens. With that condition the allurements for independent voting on the legislative elec tions would be quite strong.. They would include the possibility of a Legislature at least as prompt in the service of the peo Hie Bi&raKtj. ple as of the corporations and might pre sent the possibility of a Senate which would not'eover up the" juggling of State officials with the public funds. Such in ducements with the Senatorial result guaranteed would make it well worth while for the people of Pennsylvania to take the subject into consideration. But we fear there is little chance of that much-to-be-desired consummation. Inde pendent movements do not thrive in Presidental years, and there is reason for suspicion that the esteemed Inquirer has discovered a mare's nest NO ARGUMENT AGAINST PROTECTION. It is incomprelicnsible, as was pointed out In these colcmns yesterday, that any one should set up the annual disputes at scale-signing time in the iron industry as an argument against protection. But if our cotemporary, the Leader, .wishes to persist in deluding itself in that regard, there is no law to prevent We shall soon hear the tariff-for-revenue-only and free trade organs and speakers taking up the text; and when they .do it will be enough to ask them in what year have there not beenuch differences between employed and employers when making up their scales? Is it not usual rather than other wise? Were such disputes an argument among intelligent people against protec tion in the past? If tariff for revenue only, or free trade, were established, would the conditions ot trade become so prosperous and cheerful im- mediately that manufacturers and workingmen would bo of one mind from the first as to the scales for all classes of labor? If an economic system, by excluding the competition of the products of cheap labor from abroad makes a general beneficial condition for the home market should that system be condemned because employers ami em Dloyed differ when bargaining annually as to the precise scale for distributing the benefits? Would the state of the iron market be improved and wages be raised if protection were abolished and the products of European mills allowed to crowd out American manufactures? To put these few simple questions is to completely answer the most remarkable special plea that because the iron manu facturers and the ironworkers differ about their scales for a while, and threaten lockout or strike as may be, therefore pro tection is at fault As" stated yesterday, no matter how high the degree of pros perity both for the capital and the labor of the country that protec tion might secure it cannot adjust the special rates of wages in the various in dustries. That must be done among the particular persons engaged in those indus tries. That is what those persons are now, on both sides, endeavoring to do by con ference, and comparison of views, in the iron and steel business; and The Dis patch, with the whole community, hopes they may reach an amicable conclusion, avoiding either strike or lockout But the idea that because the work of signing the scale has to be gone through with annually, and because the parties usually put out extreme propositions at first, therefore protection is condemned by either is silly. Both manufac'urer and workingman know that without protection there would not be much of a scale to fight about in many departments of American industry that now contribute to the needs alike of capital and labor. Each will sup port the protection policy, no matter how they fight over the scales. MEN OF THE NAVf. A communication published this morn ing from one who has experienced the trials of a life before the mast in the American navy contains most serious charges which urgently demand investiga tion. If one-half the assertions made be true and there is evidence that they are all made in good faith it is more than time that the abuses should be removed. The question of promotion has already been discussed in Congress, and is likely to recur at intervals until its solu tion has been found. The leading difficulty in promoting enlisted men lies in the fact that for positions of trust in the mvies of to-day an amount of scientific knowledge is necessary which can hardly be obtained without technical training. But this is a trouble which can be overcome byincreasingfacilities for the training necessary. One thing is certain,the weakest part of our nuval equipment is not in scarcity of vessels, guns ard armaments in gen eral, but in the personnel of our able sea men. Sume remedy for this state of af fairs has to be found, and the first step in the right direction involves a thorough overhauling of the present conditions of naval service. And next in order will be the creation of such inducements as shall put our defense in the hands of American citizens. THE SATURDAY HALF-HOLIDAY. Summer is here. If the geniality of the weather fails to demonstrate the fact, the advent of the Saturday half-holiday to-day should settle the question. The weekly half-holiday during the hot season is a grand institution. The worst thing about it is that it is not sufficiently wide spread. It should be taken up in more establishments this year than heretofore, and each season should show a greater progress towards its universality. This nation is altogether too much de voted to business, and Pittsburg is a striking example of the national failing. There is too much dollar-hunting and too little recreation. Lives are too much nar rowed in their scope, and the nation and the city will be all the better for more reg ular holidays and less waiting for nervous collapses before lessening the strain. Tl OMAN'S rLACE IN CONVENTIONS. One feature of the convention last week cannot pass without a little philosophiz ing. The spectacle of the wives of promi nent politicians, themselves women of social importance, taking part in the con vention was not due to the women who were delegates. Those outgrowths of the female suffrage movement governed them selves by the old-fashioned notion that they were there to cast their votes and proceed quietly according to the rules of parliamentary gatherings. But an entirely different opinion was held by the development of women in politics which was most conspicuous. The women of social prominence who stood on benches in the galleries and swung their parasols to lead the vociferous exempli fication of the great political idei of nomi nating candidates by pure power of lungs are not understood to be in favor of woman suffrage. They believe theo retically, of course that the true place of woman is at the fireside, and that the delicacy of her charms will be deteriorated by contact with the rough and voaiferous ebullitions of politics. Here we have an other of those puzzling hiatuses between practice and precept which cannot be reconciled except' on the ground of the persistent incongruity of all things. Women must not unsex themselves by walking up to the ballot box and deposit ing their ballots; or by sittAig in parlia mentary bodies and representing a con stituency according to the rules of order. But this care for female delicacy becomes rather loose-jointed when it permits the softer sex to make itself prominent in na tional conventions by starting the mob to yelling the convention into doing what it wants. Or was it the feminine quality of emu lation? The knowledge that some of the woman suffragists were delegated by con stituencies to sit in the convention may have inspired the exponents of tjtie old fashioned woman's sphere with the de termination to throw the voting women in the shade. Hence a demonstration which leads to the reflection that if this is the alternative to suffrage for womanhood the delicacy and charm of the female character can be best preserved by endow ing all our wives and mothers with the ballot If we are 'to have ladies running national conventions, give thap seats on the floor. Lovely woman will be much less out of place there than leading a mob of shouters in the gallery. A POINT rOK THE CLUBS. The Philadelphia courts appear to be working on tbe'status of clubs under the license act pretty clearly. An early product is a very decided precedent that a saloon-keeper cannot evade the act by setting up the pretense of a club as a cloak for the main purpose of liquor selling; and one worthy , who made that attempt is now .suffering the penal con sequences of his error. On the other hand a case decided in Philadelphia this week, in which a verdict was given for the defendant establishes the principle that the law cannot inter fere with bona -fide clubs where the sale of liquor is an incident to the social func tions of the organization. The instruc tions of the Judge on this point are a little less positive than the finding of the jury; but both'together give the genuine club organization a status from which it will be safe for them to sneeze at the Brooks act This is the total of results from the Philadelphia courts. Perhaps the rulings elsewhere might put a different phase on it; but, as there has heretofore been occasion to remark, if juries will not con vict, what can you do about it? THE MICHIGAN LW. The decision of the Michigan Supreme Court in favor of the constitutionality of the Miner electoral law of that State was the only possible one, as The Dispatch has taken occasion to remark heretofore; but the impregnability of its constitutional character is emphasized by the fact that a Democratic measure is thus sustained by a Republican tribunal. The language of the Constitution providing "for the appoint ment of electors by each State "in such manner as the Legislature thereof may direct" left no doubt that the Michigan law for the election of the Presidental electors by districts was entirely within the scope of the Constitution. Nevertheless, it remains to be said that the measure is a purely partisan one, and, though permitted by the Constitution, is of a character to be condemned by the peo ple. It takes advantage of a constitutional permissson to use the principle for training a few electoral votes in one State while it refuses to adopt the same principle in States, where the Democrats have a hope of electing a solid electoral delegation. If there were the least disposition on the part of the Democrats to follow Randolph Tucker's plan and adopt the principle in Democratic States, then it would be a party stand in. favor of a constitutional principle. As it is, it is so plainly a parti san departure from t'ie universal practice to catoh a few votes that it will earn the public condemnation. Such readiness to shift principles gen erally costs more than it is worth. The effect in Michigan will be to arouse public opinion so that the Democrats will gain less votes than they expect; while, If the same effect should lose them a State or two somewhere else, they might conclude that their partisan grab was more danger ous at the breech than at the muzzle. SHARP MEASURES .NEEDED. The Chief of the Department of Public Safety is reported as declaring that the participation of police officers in that "Millionaires' Club" excursion, as well as some other recent remarkable proceedings by members of the force, must cost them their official heads. The statement indi cates that the head of that important de partment is in earnest in maintaining dis cipline. It is to be hoped that his prom ises will be made good to the utmost. It disclosed a remarkable conception of the attitude of police officials toward order and morality when they were found large ly represented in an affair of such disrepu table and disastrous character as that of last week. When such a manifestation of the standard of conduct is made, it is evi dent that nothing less than severe meas ures will have any efficacy. No man who takes part in that orgie is a proper person td be on the police force. Mr. Brown will have the support of the public in cleaning out the force of all such elements of de moralization. DON'T GIVE IT UP. The positive news that the appropria tion providing for the survey of the Ohio River and Lake Erie Canal has been elim inated from the River and Harbor bill gives rise to several thoughts. It reflects great discredit on the methods of Con gress, it is matter for serious regret by all thoughtful Americans who have consid ered the subject, and, above all, it is a reason for renewed activity in pushing the scheme. Local forces must be con centrated in displaying the advantages of such a waterway. Local Representatives must be undaunted by present failure and work hard by explaining the strong features of the plan to secure future success. The importance of the matter is such as ill brooks delay, and its inception should be pressed with vigor. There has not been half enough enthusiasm shown on behalf of the canal in this district so far. The sooner our capitalists, merchants and manufacturers realize their interests in the matter and work for them with the force which can only come by united action, the' sooner will the country awake to the value of this inland waterway, and thesooner will it be obtainable. The reports of wars between tbe Protestant and Catholic missionaries in Uganda hare been made the subject of explanations in Parliament, and it is now reported that Cap tain Lugard, British representative, is on his way home to cive further explanations. One statement is tbat lie will have material to make a hook when be gets back. This might be enlarged upon by saying that it should take several volumes to explain how tlie emissaries of tbe gospel of peace, at the close ot the nineteenth oentury, earae to discredit their own teachings among .the heathen by a religious conflict. There is another ministerial crisis in Biazil. But in Brazil that sort of thine; is hardly less common than is a hot day here. The annonncement of & Boston organ that "Beed is sale," in the headlines chroni cling the return of the ex-Speaker to Wash ington, can hardly fail to provoke reminis cences of the sanguine physician who had to acknowledge losing the mother and in fant, but entertained definite hones of sav ing the old man. , President Palacio, of Venezuela, has resigned. In other words he has been turned down by euperior force of arms. The fafet that the Crown Prince of Den mark shows a great interest in gold cure ex periments suggests that ho may see a new opening for the precious metal by making it a drug upon the market, which will prevent its fall in price when all the golden crowns have been sen); to the melting pot. It is about the right season for spontane ous combustion, but the crop appears to be backward this year. Grant has gone far beyond the range of political strife. But the lightninz was so much in the habit of striking him that it could not but be attracted by his monument at Chicago in the Presidental year and on the eve of a Democratic National Conven tion. Cleveland won the ball game here yes terday, but Grover will suffer defeat in No vember for all that. If anyone is laboring under the delusion that the Oil 'Creek sufferers are all provided for, and is abstaining f 10111 contributing to the relief fund for that reason, such a one cannot too soon awaken to the tact that there is still a demand for more help. Clothes and complexions are' the two leading inconveniences of civilized life just at present, This is hardlv the sort of weather in whicli one would expect a blast furnace to get chilled, but one of thorn at Braddock has managed to catch cold in spite of the beat. Any cold water candidate ought to have an immense following while this weather prevails. .After the pipe of peace is passed around iiTthe Wigwam Tammany will return to the old hunting grounds and bury the hatchet with the handle well above ground. It is marvelous that the sidewalks are not more slippery during these melting mo ments. The hot weather should remind every one that the Fourth of July will very soon be here, a.id that Mayor Gourley's celebia tion lund still needs additions. Boies and the girl baby are liable to divide honors in the present political cam paign. Members of tbe Pittsburg police force desirous of participating in rowdy excur sions will do well to band in their resigna tions before starting. Gkoveb stands a first-class chance of getting three cheers and a '-tiger" at Chi cago. Party feeling that will take folk to Chicago, to say nothing of the wigwam, in such torrid times as these must be as aident as it is unenlightened. Allegheny's wealth seems to be only equaled by its ignorance thereof. Hill's motto now should be "Facilis descensus Averno est," which may be inter preted as meaning that "it is an easy tnmble to tbe nether woild." No one can deny that Cleveland has the balk of the Democratic party. Manufacturers and Amalgamated Association delegates were wise enougli to indulge in a mutual improvement kind of discussion yestetday. Reid came out of the nominating ring triumphant and unbruised. No one can deny that Hill has some of the brazen instruments, but Cleveland has nearly all of the brabs bands and most of tbe delegates. NOTES AB0DT NOTABLES. Prof. A. Gaylor Slocum, Principal of the Corning (N. Y.) Free Academy, has ac cepted the Presidency of the Kalamazoo (Mich.) College. Henry W. Sage and a D. Halliday have been re-elected Trustees of Cornell University. George Turner, of Auburn, was elected Alumni trustee. , Harriet Beecher Stowe has passed her eightieth birthday anniversary, but did It in the quiet and seclusion best suited to her extreme age and weakness. The fortune of the late Jules Lebandy, the great sugar rellner and speculator of Paris, is estimated at 360,000 000 francs, prob ably the largest lortuue in France. Secretary Rusk has recently secured for the President a couple of live young 'po'snms. They wore presented by some Maiylaud people. One came labeled "Pro tection" and the other "Reciprocity." It is said of the late Samuel McDonald Richardson, of Baltimore, that be was per sonally acquainted with nearly 47,000 de positors in the savings bank of which he was President, all of them working people of small means. The Cologne Gazette says that the con dition of the mad King of Bavaria is now merely vegetative, that he is unable to dis tinguish persons in his familiar eutouiage, and that bis attendants have the greatest difficulty in getting him to take food. Me.. Henry Abbey has signed a con tract with Mr. Henry Irving, Miss Ellen Terry and the Lyceum Theater Company fu make a tour in the United States in. 1893, presenting "King Henry VIII.," which had a successfnl run at the Lyceum Theater In London. Judge Blodgett, who has been con fined to his home in Chicago for some days, owing to an attack of nervous exhaustion, had sufficiently recovered yesterday to enable him to start lor Washington, He will be accompanied by Justice John if. Harlan of tbe Supreme Court. BO USE FOB FAITH CUBE. A Physician to Be Called Down With a Thainp for Christian Science. WASHraaTOir, June 17. The closing session of the Homeopathic Institute was held this morning, and was largely devoted to rou tine matters. The final report of tbe Board of Censors and the leport of the Inter-Col-leglnto Committee were read and approved. The statistical report of the bureau of or ganization, registiatlon and statistics was also read and approved. A resolution was adopted favoring the' passage of the Pad dock puie food bill, now before Congress. At 10:30 o'clock tlio institute adjourned to meet in Chicago next year. A party or hoineopathists will leave New Yorkjor the convention of the International Hahnemaniiian Association at Narragansctt Pier next Monday, bent on deposing the President, Dr. James B. Boll, and exDelling him Iroin the organization on the ground that he has violated its rules by advocating the art of divine healing, or faith cure, and that he has Incidentally given a boom to the practice ot Christian doctrine. A BEMAND FOB-PSEACHEBa. Gilt-Edged Ones Yt unted. Who Can Make Themselves Social Heroes. HARTiOKDf Coira , June 17. Special. The Congregational Church of Connecticut has discovered that it is alarmingly short on pastors, and is concerned to known what it had better do about It. There are Just 46 Congregational Churches In the State that have no minister., the number being IS per cent of all the churches of the. denomination in Connecticut. There are Congregational pastors enough in tbo State, however, to supply all the pul pits of too kind. The trouble is said to be that the churches won't accept clerical tim ber that isuvniluble. Theyr want handsome, social, magnctlo theologians unmarried ones If possible, men who will render gilt odged sermons for a salary of from $890 to 12,000 a year. TALK OF THE TIMES. "It's a queer thing about the difference between the hair of men, and women," re marked" the barber as he stropped his razor "Now, after a severe fever like typhoid nearly every woman has to have her hair cut and her head shaved two or three times to insure a renewed growth. I have work of that sort to do nearly every week. I have been a barber a good many years, and I never knew a man who had fever to have bis head shaved simply because of a fear that the hair would come out. It does come out, of course, and wo trim it close with clippers, but wo don't shave it. I have, however, seen cases where the fever entirely changed the color of a man's hair.' I heard a Pittsburg physician say he occasionally had to hypnotize a patient as an extreme measure, and I asked him how much faith wide-awake, active medical men put in the results of such experiments. "Well it isn't a safe thing to ao unless you understand your patients thoroughly and have exhausted every other means of arous lng them. I went to Vienna some years ago to study and saw some wonderful things done by the professor who lectured on that subject. Qne of the most remarkable exam ples of hypnotic effect and one of which but little is known is the connection of ideas between tbe hypnotic state and the normal condition. For instance, I saw a young German girl hypnotized. Toward the close of the experiment the professor told the girl that in half an hour ho wanted her to strike the tallest man In the room with a glass rod and that she must get the watch of Dr. , one of tho assistants, without fall. In a few moments the girl was restoied to her normal state and asked us a number of questions about what she had said and done. Then we begun to chat on other mat ters. Just SO minutes after the command of the prolessor the girl became restless and wnlked quickly to a table on which lay a glass rod. She -then came and struck me with it sharply several times. 'Why do you do that. Fiaulein?' I asked. 'Oil, I don't know, I don't know,' she answered in a much distressed tone, 'but I have to do it, something tells me to do it. She then went to Dr. and asked for his watch. At first lie 1 efused to give it to her and she became Irantic in her pleading, saving she must have lc at once, and she seized hlmnnd tiled to tako it from him. That Is but one of many instances I have seen whore com ninnds given to a hypnotized person were cairied out later when thev ere In normal condition. Once this same girl did what she was told a week after the experiment, tbat boing the time fixed by the professor." MoTr Guj, the mutineer elephant of whom Rudyard Kipling tells, had a habit of lying down beside his master in tbe middle of tho highway, whereupon "travel would become congested." There was a horse, a raw-boned, sun-burned, three-cornered horse, which followed tbe example of the Motl yesterday. He was balky and sulky and did not seem in a mood to haul the wagon load of potatoes to which he was fastened. Finally he got his foot canght in the cable slot opposite the downtown power house on Fifth avenue and there he stuck. Cais piled up, people stood up and looked on, wagons accumulated, motormeu, team sters and passengers swore, owner of horse very much ditto. Horse tied himself up till he looked like the gold bow for a ladv's watch chain au chatelaine. Finally a black smith from a shop a couple of squares away came and took oil the shoe and the conges tion was relieved. Half the crowd went on Into town and half remained to give the man advice as to how to rebnrness his hoi se and the traction company probably suf fered to the extent of more than the value of horse, wagon and potatoes, too. The readiness of the West "Virginia and Kentucky mooushlners to use the repeating Winchesters that they have as constant companions is well known. Charity Chief BUIot, illustrating this fact the other day, told the following story: "I had been up in the mountains of West Virginia several years ago getting oil and gas leases. We weio In a little country hotel in one of the small villages up there, and had the farmers come in and sign the leases. One old fellow with a peaked hat and long, greasy hair down over his buckskin coat came in and stood his Winchester in tho corner. Ho bor rowed n ci ew of tobacco and chatted Just as pleasantly as he could. The lease was read to him. He picked up a pen and made his mnik. Then turning, without even a change In his expiesslon, he said: 'I don't Know wnat's in tuar, Dut ei it nain'tes ye say I'll shoot ye es sure as my name's Bill White.' He was as cool and quiet about It as if he was only borrowing another chew. But I was satisfied he meant what he said." Ex-Solicitor General Jenks, of Brookville, put up at the Seventh Avenue Hotel last evening. He has great faith in Cleveland, and believes he will be renom inated on the first ballot. "Twenty-four hours after Cleveland is nominated" con tinued Mr. Jenks, "there will he more en thusiasm in the Democratic party than since the days ot Jackson. Do I think Cleveland can be elected? Most undoubted ly. He is the. strongest men in New York to-day. By the way, enthusiasm Is sadly lacking among Republicans. The nomina tion doesn't suit Pennsylvania. In Brook ville there were only two men whofavoied the renominatlon 01 Harrison. All the others-were for Blaine, and when he was turned down they were disgusted." A- train load of howling Democrats struck the Union depot last evening five minutes after the arrival of the Chicago limited. Both sections were a half hour late. The limited banged into a freight car not far from Altoona. The car was de molished, but fortunately nobody was hurt. The delay was caused by this accident. Among those on the six cars were the Jackson and Young Men's Democratic Club of the District ot Columbia, Delegates Nor ris and Davis, of the same 1 enighted section ol the country; Delegate at Lare T. J. O'Donnol, of Coloiado; Delegate D. W. Flick, of South Dakota: Congressmen Springer, 'White, Williams, Cable and Newberry, Illi nois: Patton, Indiana; Allen, Mississippi; Elliott, South Carolina; Geisenbalner, New Jersey, ana neruert, Aiaoama. Mr. O'Donnel, of Colorado, said he would vote for any Democrat but Cleveland. "Grover is the only Democrat nominated that can be defeated, even if he carries New York," he continued. "The free silver men are against him, and he would lose several Southern States. I like Hill, but I am afraid of a factional fight in New York. I favor Gorman above all others, and I believe my colleagues will support him." The District of Columbia delegates are uninstructed, but will vote for Cleveland on the first ballot. After tbat they will be for tl:e most available man. Dr. D. W. Flick, of South Dakota, is a relative of C. F. Mc Kcnna, and he asked about the well-known Pittsburg lawyer. He thinks Cleveland is the strongest man before the people, and he will vote for him. B)r Vice Piesldent, he believes Boies conld carry Iowa, and if Grover gets first place, he would like to see Boies in the second position. Mr. Springer it not a delegate. He said ho never attended a convention as a delegate. He believes in dividing up tbe honors. He was proud that he had been named for Congress ten times in succession, and that was honor enough for him. "The Illinois delegation," he said, would vote for Palmer against the field, and they will stick to him to the end. I don't believe Cleveland will be nominated. I have not neen carried away by the array of votes given out by his managers." Would Palmer accept second placet" "Never," was the leply. "The people of Illinois would not permit It. He would be more useful on the floor of the Senate than as Its presiding officer. If Palmer is nomi nated he will carry Illinois, and ho is about tbo onlv Democrat in the country that can do it. If Cle eland should bo the nominee, I suppose Boies, ol Iowa, would be nut on the ticket wltn him. There is a strong feel ing that Boies can win out in his State. You ask about the platform. Well, I think tbe tariff plank of 1876, rramed by Tildeu.and the most tadical the party has ever had, will ue leaffirmed. It is much strougor anil broader than the platform or 1S88. I have aimed to be conservative in dealing with the' tariff iiuthe Ways and Means Coin mtttce; that is, my methods are conserva tive, bnt the effects aie far-reaching. I hud no desire to. alarm the country or disturb any of our business Interests." Tho olbcr members of the Illinois Con gressional delegation, of course, are lor Palmer, and are going to Chicago to work for the old man. They were not so emphatic or confident as Springer, but will make a bluff at booming what must bo apparent to them is a lost cause. Tlie South Carolina and Alabama men are divided. Hill has some followers in these States. , Tammany Caused the Walters Strike. New York Recorder. The "organized appetite" of Tammany has appalled the Chicago waiters, and they have struck. The waiter who serves a Tam many man should have double wage. OUR MAIL' POUCH. The Navy Keelhauled. To tbe Editor or The Dispatch! In your issue of yesterday you seem anx ious that the Government obtain 11,000 sea men at once, and which they need very badly. You gay there are so many other ex citing modes or making a living that tbo youths of the country are no longer enticed toward the navy, ir you would learn the true canse of Americans avoiding naval service enlist for one year. I think before you aro there one month the truth will dawn upon you vividly. It is the most tv ranlcal institution on earth. The naval offi cer is tbo most contemptible, miserable be ing that lives. There is no promotion for a seaman higher than master at arms. The pay is $21 per month. No matter what deeds of valor or daring ho may door per form he cannot be promoted unless he passes through the Naval Academy at An napolis and is selected to that school by some politician. The despotism in the navy is terrible. Men are punished for very trifling offenses, such as not answering an nnlieard order. Pnnistynent for thls offense is to be spread out spread-eagle like, hands and feet tied so they cannot be moved, in the burning sun. Homepeison must be punished everyday for an example and to Intimidate tbo crew. The most cruel and deathly punishment is the swoatbox a place Just big enougli to permit a man to stand erect. The offender is placed in and the door shut. Steam is ap plied at the bottom. Two honrs or s.icn punishment will wreek the strongest. If ho survives tho punishment he will not live long afterward. Handcuffed to another for a.weck is the slightest and smallest punish ment. An offlcercanabnseandmaltrcat a seaman with impunity. He cannot prefer onarges against him successfully unless he has nn officer for witness. I was an eyewitness to an outrage bearing on the above. During the war an officer took a boat's ci ew ashore in Georgia. While onshore the officer be came intoxicated and took offense at some thing a seaman did, and slushed him on tho arm with his sword, making an ugly wound. After arriving on board vessel he made complaint to the captain. "Who aie your witnesses?" "None but seamen." "Well, a seaman cannot be a witness against an officer; you havo no case." But the wound was apparent enough. All this boasting about armor-piercing guns, swift sailing vessels, etc., may as well be dispensed with nntil we get men to man the gnns and vessels, which will not be done untd the service is remodeled and rendered a fit habitation for human beings. There must be promotion, better treatment, etc., and drunkenness among officials stopped. Ninety per cent of all naval officers die of drunkenness. Until the abhye abuses are corrected no American wilf belittle himself by entering the United States Navy. Some one has said that the seamen In the navy are New England men. That Is wrong. Not 5 per cent are Americans. The majority are South Americans, Peruvians, etc., and a bad mixture all through a poor lot to depend upon In time of war. Before tbe Mast. Pittsbtjbg, June 17. THE MINES LAW BTAND& Michigan's New Method of Selecting Elect ors Deo ared Constitutional. Laxsiso, Mich., June 17. The Supreme Court to-day unanimously sustained the Miner electoral law. Justice Montgomery writing the opinion. AU the points raised by the petitioners are fully discussed and decided in the affirmative for the law. The court declares tbat the right of the Legisla tnre to determine the mode of choosing electors has been firmly established In prac tice since the' adoption of the Constitution, and does not seem to admit of controversy. A question of the construction of the lan guage may be reasonably raised, but it is clearly susceptible of one conferring upon the Legislature power to say how the Slate action shall be voiced. It does not lie with any court to assert tbat tbat right has been lost to the State by non-user. The act In question is in conflict with the law of Con gress, in so far as it attempts to fix a date for the meeting of electors and the method of certifying to their action, but the law is not neces-arily inoperative because in some of its provisions the law of the Legislature has exceeded Its power. The Court says: "We have considered the questions presented with the care tbat the exceeding Importance of issue seem to im peratively require, and reach the conclu sion that the statute must stand as the law ful cdictof the Legislature. The injustice of any other than a uniform system of elect ing the President or the United States is manifest. In legislating noon tnissubiect. it should not be regarded fiom a party standpoint, bnt neither the fact that this important consideration has been over looked, nor that the legislation may result in serious Injustice, can extend our Jurisdic tion or Jnstlfy us in usurping functions which, under the Constitution, pertain to the Legislature." Tbe.court politically is three Republican and two Democrats. The Miner law was Sassed by the last Legislature, which was emocratlc. The case will be carried to the United States Supreme Court. 1 HE TWO-THIRDS SOLE. A obeat advantage of tho twp-thlrds rule is that it prevents hasty action by the ma jority in attempting to bind' the minority. St. Louis Republic In the Democratic conventions of 1S36 and 1810 Romulus Saunders came lorwaid with his "two-thirds rule" again and it was adopted. Chicago Herald. ALTHoroH this lias been the law or the party for 60 years, a law which no Democrat dreams of disturbing, the Mugwump press Is beginning to howl for its repeal. Brooklyn Ciliten. The rule was made In 1832 at the first Dem ocratic National Convention ever held and it has been readopted by every convention since. There is nothing, however, reqniring a convention to accept it. Buffalo Express. The two-thirds rule is a curious illustra tion of the power of tradition. It had a real excuse for existence in the ante-bellum period, when the representatives of the slave holders lacked a majority in the Dem ocratic Convention. New York Post. Whatever may be the arguments for or against the rule on abstract grounds, there is no question that, as a matter of fact, every delegate to the Chicago Convention was elected with a very clear understanding that he was to be bound by the two-thirds rule. New York World. It is remarkable that the fundamental principle of democracy "The will of tbe majority is supreme" should apply In all Democratic councils and govern nil Demo cratic assemblies with the single exception of the most important gathering or all the National Convention. Chicago Mail. Reciprocity the Great Jssae. St. Louis Globe-Democrst.l Reciprocity will be a great issue this year. The people want it, and tt.e Republican party is giving it to them as fast as It can. DEATHS HEBE AND ELSEWHEBE. Msjor E. I Wicks, Chicago Pioneer. In the presence of his youthful wife. Major E. L. Wicks, a Chicago pioneer, aged C3. of late a resident of Sn Antonio. Tex., fell dead from heart disease Tcsterdsy In his room at the Hotol Metropole, Chicago. Mrs. Wicks was a widow before wedding the Msjor. It is said he arranged to settle upon her the bulk of his fortune, over 11,000,000. Anton Woir, a Veteran. Anton Wolf, a well-known East End cit izen, died at his home on Penn avenue yesterday morning In his 51st year. Bright' disease was the cause or death. Mr. Wolf was a veteran or the war. having served from ls6l to 18SS In the First Pennsylvania Cavalry. Since the war lie has con ducted a restaurant and llcioor store. Obitnary Notes. M. PBOTincn. one of the three regents ruling during the minority of Kiug Alexander, died sud denly yesterday from heart disease, at Belgrade, fcervla. Fbed Eckstein, one of the foremost men In the American White Lead combine, met his death at Cincinnati Thursday, by railing down the 'levator shaft la his new building, a distance or eight stories. Count Hebbmax Pcckleb, one of the oldest servants and most Intimate friend of the first Emperor William, died In Berlin yesterday. acd sojears He was Grand Marshal of the Prussian Court from 1861 to 1S85. Mrs. Sophia W. Owisxi died In St. Lonls Wednesday at the residence of Tier nephew, Barry Coleman. She was the grandmother of Mrs. Cor nelius Vanderbllr, and well known in society cir cles all over the country. Jcdoe A. M. McDowell, one of the early set tlers of Kentucky, dlrd Thursday at the home of his son. Dr. P. C. McDowell, in Cynthlana. Ky. He was 87 years or age, and was Master Commis sioner of Harrison county lor a number of years. Lady Elizabeth Louise Monck, wife or Lord Monck, who was Governor General of Canada from 1861 to 1857, is dead.' She was the third daughter of the first Earl of RatUdown. which title Is now extinct, and was married to Lord Monck JulyS), lSii. . A NEW CLUBHOUSE. Handsome Home of the Concordia A Spa cions Ballroom Miss Mary McKean's Wedding Announced Piano Contest for a Gold Medal Social Gossip. A quite domestic looking place is the Concordia Clubhouse, with little about it that is characteristically clublike. Tho plain stone front tells no tales. It might bo the residence of a millionaire, who. pre ferred bis comfort and the gratification of his taste tosupplying food for the gaze or tho curious passerby. This does not mean that it is not imposing. There is a frontage of 60 feet on Stockton" avenue, and it extends to Park way, a distance of 210 feet. This gives the ballroom a floor 90 feet long and 60 feet wide, the dimensions of which might be more easily realized by a comparison with the Pittsburg Club assembly room which is said to be 75x13 feet. Even a con servative estimate wonld still leave some thing in favor of the Concordia ballroom, and thus it occupies the first place in tho city to-day as a dancing floor. Thegencrat plan of the house is lighter than in a club where men alone frequent. Stern mascu linity does not favor a varied, comfort snch as delights the more feminine mind. There are arrangements everywhere that smack not of a woman's hand, but of the desire for the prosence of the owner of snch a hand. Yet, strange to say, the most beautiful room in the house, a charming apartment in the third story, with an entire out side wall of windows connecting In French fashion and by doors with a fine stone balcony. Is devoted to the use or the men as a smoking room. The style of the clubhouse is, as so often tbe case in buildings of to-day, no stylo at all or many styles in one. Simplicity is par amount. On eithcrsido or tho hnll.wnlch has a width of 8 feet, are two large rooms, the one a library, the other the parlor. Tbe front-walls oTcacli, containing hnge windows, are concave and effect a superb spacions ness. The convexity without has a most ornamental appearance. The entire fur nishings are in oak, and excepting tho two rooms mentioned, the floors are of polished hard wood. The parlor and library will both be caroeted in wilton. The oak paneling reaches up a third or tbu wall. The remainder is treated by a line method of roughcast to represent a coffee-colored velvet hanging. The rooms on the lower floor are 16 feet high, and depending from the ceilings are silver chandeliers, simple in style and dis playing mnch elegance. The entrance hall widens into a reception room, embellished by a huge mantelpiece, fashioned after the fireplaces o the day s w lien people could sit in their corners. Beyond this the reception hall again narrows into the entrance hall that leads to the ballroom. This Is the only entrance, for -the ballroom will not be open to anyone except members and the use or It lor a private ball at any time will Include the front entrance of the club. Other members on snch occasions will be relegated to a side door. The ball room contains a stage and a gallery. This last is accessible from tbe cafe upstairs. A wide stairway ocenpies the fourth side of the reception hall, and, like the hall. Is of hardwood, polished and uncarpeted. It winds up in three flights and is lighted by long windows and a roof of stained glass that adds a much appreciated glow. On the second floor Is the cafe. The ballroom being two stories high, the second floor dees not contain a room similar in size to it. Over it on the third floor is a huge billiard room, with the newest designs in billiard and pool tables. Tho remaining rooms on tbe second floor aro all amusement rooms, where a large or small party of friends can enjoy the evening in whatevprwav their ideas of enjoyment suggest. The third floor has similar rooms and on this floor is tbe beautiful smoking room and the Board room, where tho officers and House Committee meet and all business of the club is transacted. All these rooms are finished as on the first floor and are equally indicative of quiet elegance and good taste. In the basement is :t spacious dining room capable of seating 500 people at tables arranged to accommodate ten guests. Down there also is the domestic establish ment and the steward's apartments. Two bowling aHeys have also managed to find room on tills wonderfully well arranged floor. Near the cafe on the se'eond floor is a small dining room lor tbe use of private parties. In Hebrew circles the clubhouse occupies an entirely different position to that of the generally accepted clubhouse. They say the clubhouse- is destroying the home circle. Their clubhouses are onlv intended to widen the homo circle by nn intermingling with other house clrcles,anu as round a man's own flrnplace awomnn is paramount, so is she eqmtlly aronnd s fireplace or the club. Hav ing this In view, the intention o make a house in Its tenderest and most perfect sentiments has been admirably carried ont in the Concordia Clubhouse. The club will be formally presented to its members on Wednesday evening next, tho Hous-a Com mittee having a fieception Committee on that occasion. The entire list of officers1 is ns follows: President, P. H. Bamberger; Vice Presi dent, Mr. Josiah Cohen: Treasuier. Mr. Charles Keuben; Secretary, Mr. Charles Zugsmith: Corresponding Secre tary, Mr. Theodore Kaafmann; Board o: Di rectors, J. D. Berud, S. Rndelhoim, S. Kauf mann. M. Kingsbacher, B. Forst: House Com mittee, Samuel Mack, Max Klein, I. U. Silverman, G. Kaulmann. Louis Ilimmelricb. The annual dues are $60 and the entrance fee is the same. No man except lie is a mem ber is admitted, and only the wive-i. sisters and daughters of members are permitted to form the feminine contingent. They are not subject to any fee. The commencement exercises of the Pittsburg Academy were held in the Grand Opera House last night, wherr a varied and elaborate programme was gone through. The following young girls and boys received graduation honors: Classical course, Meredith Bced Marshall, Henry Park Easton; scientific, Frederic Alter Hemphill, John Nelson Bennett, Thomas Chalmers Davis, William Pierce. Invitations have been issued by the trustees and the facnlty of the Shadyside Academy lor the closing exercises, to be held on next Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock in Dilworth Hall, Pennsylvania College for Women. The class is composed of John Isaac Bowes, Thomas Benton Clark, David Hayden Collins, William Sutton Dickson, William Smith Ferguson, Henry Darllng- 'ton McCandless. Bnrle Ramsey Marvin, Georgo Norrls Morgnn, Arthur iomuna Pew. Henry Holdshlp Robinson, William Henry Sohoonmaker, David Speer and Doug las Stewart. Miss MaryE. McKean, of Charleroi, a sister of Postmaster McKean, will be mar ried to C. F. Thompson, of Finleyville, next Wednesday .evening, June 22. The nedding will be a quiet one, only relatives of the contracting parties being invited. Miss McKean is a popular and attractive young lady. She has host of friends, and IS well known in Pittsburg. Those who have been royally entertained on the McKean farm will be disappointed not to be presentat the ceremony, l.ut tho lamilies thinkit best to have a quiet wedding. It Is tbe intention to give a reception when the happy young couple return from n sojonrn in the Bast. The annual piano contest for the E. P. Roberts A Sons gold medal by advanced piano pupils of Curry Conservatory of Mnslc took place last evening. Tho composition, selected by the lacnlty of the conservatory, and which each contestant performed, was "Rondo Brlllante" (op. 62), Weber. The names of tbe contestants who appeared in the following order were: The Misses Ada Fisher, Hattio Nlchol. Lnlu Vogler, Hallie Adams, Mary Larking, Adele Stevenson, Marv Halm. Each performerwus Introduced by Mr. Simeon Blssell. Miss MIHIo Gardner rendered soma choice rending during the evening. Joseph A. Langntt.Esq., made the presentation speech. The sngcessiul con testant was Miss Uattle Nlchol. Mr. and Mrs. Dawson Speer were the recipients of a charming social attention last night in the form of a garden party at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. John Z. opeer at Homewood. The grounds aie very beau tiful, and for picturesque attractiveness are not surpassed any wncrc In the whole coun try side. Representatives of the leading families of the two cities were present In token or regard fora bride and groom whose popularity insists upon growing witn each occasion at which tbey are tbe honored guests. Invitations were issued this we'ek for the marriage of Miss Caroline Hampton Moreland and Mr. George Scott Abraham. The ceremony will be celebrated in the Oakland Methodist: Episcopal Church on Thursday, Jnne 30, at 8 o'clock in the evening. The oride is the daughter of William C. Moreland, Esq., in whoso nairie and that of Mrs. Moreland tho invitations are made. "At home" caidsfor Octouer L giving Forbes avenue and Craig street as the address, accompany the wed ding Invitation. CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. Cosmetics cost the fair Americans 561 000,000 a year. The capacity of Minneapolis' large flouring mill Is 15,300 barrels a day. The total school enrollment for tl United States last year was 14,200,00. Oakwood, a Chicago suburb, is boastii of the only ostrich farm in this country ot side of California. The region about the Dead Sea is o of tbe hottest places on the globe, and t sea is said to lose a million tons of water day by evaporation. An alligator at the Crystal Palace liy in perfect health upon nothing for months. It lately took a piece of very hi; mutton with relish. The largest ot turtles is said to be tl species known as tho loggerhead, wliii grows to the enormous weight of 1,600 pount These are found in the sea. A Philadelphia funeral team did ser Ice at a wedding a few days ago, and ti dozing driver allowed the horse to carry tl bridal couple into the cemetery. A Western editor is making a colle tion of big checks drawn by men who cou. not sign their names. Some of the cheel run well up into tbo soven-flgurejange. The business of preparing shrimp f the Chinese market is assuming importa proportions in California. The shrimp a taken in huge nets, andboilcd in great in vats. An umbrella company has been incc porated with a capital of $8,000,000, and is carry on business in ail the States and Ten tories of the United States, and in forei; countries. Dramatists in France get 12 per cent the gross recipts ot each play, and ai allowed tickets to the valne of 10J francs ft every performance of such plays 03 tht have written. A recent real estate deal in Chicago s. tbe citizens of that town a-talking. A sm: lot. 40x20 feet, sold for $200,000. At this ra an acre of land In that neighborhood wou cast nearly $11,000,000. In 13 years the manufacture of ciyi ettes has increased from 233,276,817 to 2,iT 799 440. Fully two-thirds of this cnormm number of cigarettes annually made ai sold are smoked by boys. A Washington official believes there a vast ocean in Dakota. There are 13,9 wells'west of the 07th meridian. More tui 100,000 acres of land are irrigated from the wells, 2,000.000 gallons or water per day llo inglroma single well. The first lighthouse built on this cont nent was at St. Augustine, Flo. Its cbii use was as a look-out, whence tho Spanit people or the town could see vessels a proachlng from Spain or get notice of tl coming of foes in time to ran away. Some New York ladies were desirous finding out whether tbe people who san the streets made a good living. Tin adopted a sufficient disguise, and, taking guitar, went lorth to try their fortune After singing and plaing for an hour ar a half, tbey bad collected $1 S3. Tablets found in Egypt at Tel-el-Aroan contain among other curious records tl letters sent by a King of Egypt about L: B. C. to a King of Babylon denying that t had ill-treated one Babylonian wife and as ing for another. These tablets are now t: property o: the British Museum. The sunflower is found to be of gre: service in Southern Rnssia, where it has some time been extensively cultured. It grown principally for the bright yelloi odorless and tasteless oil yielded by i seeds. Tbe oil is said to be supersedu olive oils throughout Southern Bu-sia. A Vienna correspondent reports th. two ladles who served In the revolutionai army In Hungary in 1S4S, and fought in se eral of the fiercest battles dressed in mi tary uniform, died recently. One of the was several times promoted.butan artillei major stopped her career by marrying he In ancient times, beds were simply rug skins or thin mattresses, which could I. rolled up and carried away in tho motnini At night they were spread on the floo wmch, in the better class of houses, was tile or plaster, and, as shoes were notwoi In tLe house and the feet were washed 0 fore entennga room, the iioors were uean than ours. The noisiest spot on earth is said to the Pribylof Islands, in Bering sen, tl home of the fur seals. From the 1st of Ma to the 1st of September the fights to a flnis between the seals and tbe savage wooing c tho older ones create a deafening noise, tl thundering of the Falls of Niagara and Ye lowstone being as the mnrmnriug of abroo compared to the tumultuous uproar whic may be beard during the summer. Anciently, in many part3 of Franc when a sale of land took place, it was tr custom to havo 12 adult witnesses accon pan led by 12 little boys; and wnen the pric of tho land is paid, and its surrender too place, the ears of tho boys wero pulled, an they were beaten severely, so that the pal thus Inflicted should make an impresslo upon their memory; and, if required afte ward, they might bear witness to the sale. The orohippus, the ancestor of th noble horse of to-day, Is first known to ha? existed in the eocene period or eologici eDoebs. Some of the species were as sma as tho common silver fox of to-day, and a had 16 hoofs, four on eacn foot. Just like tr cow brutes of the present age. After Ion ages had elapsed the creature became three-ioed representative of animal or ation; later on he had a single split hoof, c eight toes altogether. In one respect at leastvQuito, the cap tal of Eucador, is tbo most unique city i tbe world It is situated in botlsttbe Nortl ern and the Southern Hemispheres, a di tlnction claimed by no other place of in portance on the globe. In one part or tr city the summer season does battle with ol winter, who is Just across the street. Tb seasons, ns far as names are concernet cliano almost instantly: but, as tho ten perature is remarkably even, these curion points are seldom thought of Dy tho 50,01 people who make Quito their home. The thousands of tons of rich' gold or dlsclospd in tbo Gordon mine, located nea Leadville, is something wonderful. Lars particles of free gold may be seen glitterin by candle light In all portions of tho veil Seventy-two .pounds of ore taken from th' streak recently returned over 73 ounces c gold, more tnan an ounce of gold to th pound or ore. The streak closely follow the hanging wall, and gives an average n turn of $40,000 perton, the very, richest asaj in" as high as $160,010 per ton. A conservi tive estimate shows $750,000 worth of or already blocked out. JUNE JOKELCTS FKOM JUDGE. "Now. prisoner," said the Judge, "hoi did you manage to elude so successfully the vigil ance of the detective" T.iat was very casvYonr Honor." replied th. prisoner. "I lived In the front parlor ora ei England farm house." I hate a man who always has Important things to say Who can't recall them aU Just now. But will some other day. ' "Are you interested in baseball?" asket Miss Stltts of Mr. Dolley. at 11 r. jr. "Yes. I am." Dolley replied. "But why doyo ask. ML-s skltts?" "I was merely wondering If it wasn't about tlm for you to make a home run." Miss Emerson (of Boston) Are yo-" quite satisfied that he loves you? Miss Bleccker (of New York) Dead sure. 3Iiss Emerson But what makes you so fat3 confident? My friend, a subtle wit, repeats to me Each Joke he writes, and If mr feeble brain Can grasp the point, at which Ilaugh. tbeu he Reject the humor as a tiling too plain. "I never play in a theater heated bj steam," said Marlowe. "Afraid of fire?" "No: but audiences are like sheep. They'll fol low a lead, and the hissing ot a steam radlato mlsat prove disastrous." Clara X suppose yon have heard tha Charlie BIgrolle ana I don't speak, haren't you? Maude Why, no. What was the trouble? Clara-It was all my dressmaker's fault. She for got to take the pins out of my waistband. He sat on a can of dynamite, Oh. horrible disaster! They conld not find of him one mite. But they burled the porous plaster. Briggs I see that there is crape oa ths Blnger door. Griggs Yes. Old man Blnger bought hnaseu 1 safety razor last week.
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