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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.