mmmSiSw(si!SK:tJd:Wif9! ww ? ffip-JStacJ sssS r PpfSfWPSp r?STiVf33PT,i fsr3 . THE PITTSBURG- DISPATCH, SUNDAY. JUNE i9. 189a . J je Bigpfrfj. ESTABLISHED FEBRUARY 8, 1816 Vol. 47. No. 135 Entered, Jit Pittsburg Postofflce November, 3sS7, as second-elits matter. Business Office Corner Smithfield and Diamond Streets. News Rooms and Publishing House, 78 and So Diamond Street, in New Dispatch Building. ZAnT.RV AIWTRTIINR OFFICE. ROOM T8. TRIBUNE Bl'ILDINO. NEW YORK. where com plete flies of THE DISPATCH can alwaTS be loand. Foreign advertisers appreciate the .convenience. Home advertisers and friends of THE DISPATCH, lille lu New York, .are also male welcome. THEDISPA TCJ1 U rarularlu on tale at Brent ana's. tlUnion Square, Aew lori-, and J7 Ave dePOpera. raris. trance, ichrre anyone who hag been dwcrp jxnnied at a hotel news stand can obtain it. TERMS OF THE UISPATCH. rOS TAGE FREE IN THE UJCITED ETATXS. tuily DiRPATcn. One Year ..4 W Daiit Dispatch, Per Quarter 200 Daily Dispatch. 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POSTAGE AU persons who mall the Fnmlar issue of The Dispatch to friends should bear In mind the fact that the post ege thereon is Two (2) Cent. All double Bnd triple number copies of The Dispatch require a 2-cent stamp to insure prompt delivery. ' PlTTSBUltG. SUNDAY, JUNE 19. IS9Z. AGISTS, TAKE NOTICE, TIIE DISPATCH has made arrangements for the most exclusive, as well as the most exhaustive, reports of the Democratic Na tional Convention. Agents who haTo not sent In their ortlsrs lor extras should promptly notify the Ituslncss Office. THE DISPATCH'S reports from Minneapolis are a sufficient guarantee of what will be done at Chicago, CLEVELAND'S SCPPOKT. Ex-Secretary C. S. Fairchild, Chairman of the contesting delegation from New York, has written a letter to Calvin S. Bricc, Chairman of the National Commit tee, demanding seats and additional tickets for the seventy-two delegates from the Empire State. This means rather tlie initial step in a formal protest to demonstrate Cleveland's strength in New Tork than tho first blow in a fisht to a finish. The leaders of the Syracuse dele pates are too shrewd to go far enough to Introduce an amount of bitterness into the strife which would be disastrous to all concerned in the party's interests. The probability now is that Cleveland will be nominated whether he obtains the votes of the New Tork delegates or not For no one oan deny that he has a pledged support of more than one-third of the dele gates to the convention. And a support of fna tlitprt if if" ,-omni., imchnl'nn will eS I Vlll'LUUU, ., 1, 4.U.1U Ult&klHrmUj Hill Vi course prevent the nomination of any other man. And it appears likely to re main unshaken for it Is composed of the best elements of the party and is of an ardent and devoted nature. The Demo crats cannot select a stronger man to lead their forlorn hope destined to defeat in any case than Grover Cleveland, and it begins to look as though his opponents would find it impossible to nominate any other man. .AN UNJUSTIFIABLE DANGER. Another dam bursts under an extraordi nary pressure of water, sending a sudden and destructive flood down on a thickly populated section, filling mines and de stroying property. That it was not accom panied oy a wholesale destruction of life was the joint result of good fortune and a few moments' warning. Dams are no doubt a necessity of civili zation. But the good they do to mankind does not warrant keeping them up as a threat to ton ns and villages lying in the course of their waters. The majority of them can be and should be located where a break will not imperil whole communi ties. If there is a case where necessity compels a dam above a thickly populated valley, it should be of the best construc tion and kept constantly under super vision. Johnstown, Titusville and Mahonoy City have given warnings enough. It is time that something positive be done in abating the danger from inadequate dams. TOE QUESTION OF ANNEXATION. A special letter from Honolulu, In this issue of The Dispatch, reviews the poli tical situation in Hawaii, showing the elements which are in favor of annexation to the United States and those which are opposed to It The existence of large and respectable . Interests which would be served by annexation will undoubtedly be taken by the manifest destiny element In this country as conclusive m favor of bringing the distant Islands under the United States flag. Yet, the crucial question with regard to any such proposition is not so much what the Hawaiians wish as what the United States would do with that acquisition. Itis true that,if there was no desire on the part of the Hawaiians for annexation, not even Jingo politics would propose their subju gation. The policy of acquiring unwilling subjects is one which by common consent can be left to European empires. But, even if the majority of the people of that distant kingdom wished to come under the United States Government, the question what the United States would do with such an acquisition would take on a puz zling magnitude. Would we be willing to violate all our democratic andpopular traditions by hold ing sway in Hawaii without giving the people a chance to govern themselves? Or would we add to our already diverse citizenship a population thousands of miles distant from our nearest coasts, and with no thought or interest in common with our people? The only bond between Hawaii and the United States is that by some freak of legislative policy that coun try has bad especial privileges with regard to our tariff laws. The wisdom or un wisdom of that course has no bearing on the grave question whether it is best to ac cept the alternative of either violating the rules of popular government or adding an unassimilated element to our citizenship ipuMp i ti I t,rir'r - iiiiiiMiiiiya! simply for the sake of adding to our nomi nal territories a group of islands on the other side of the world. Those who think that the destiny of this country is to acquire territory wher ever jt caaie. gobbled up show their in ability to appreciate the difference between imperial and republican policy. The former is consistent in grabbing new territory and governing it without regard to principles. The mission of the latter is to build up a homogeneous, intelligent and self-governing nation. That mission is not".8nbserved by a readiness to incor porate in our citizenship the negroes of Cuba, or the characterless islanders of tho Pacific. TOMTICS AND THE WEATHER. The weather has perhaps been giving us a foretaste of the Presidental campaign. If .politics open out with the same prompt ness and ferocity as the sticky and op pressive hot term, it will be hardly more than the end of next week before the Presidental campaign adds its sweltering characteristics to those of the heated area. We shall at once proceed to lengths that in any other country of the world would indicate civil war or revolution. Each side will begin to prophesy un qualified ruin and disaster if the other side is permitted to carry out its fell de signs. One half the nation will exalt the virtues and patriotism of one candidate and expose the political shallowness and suspicious character of the other, and the other half will reverse the operation. Political marching clubs will essay the work of carrying conviction on economic issues by tin torches and pasteboard axes; and all things will go on as an aggravation of the high temperature until we reach the ultimate lunacy of try ing to settle how the election will go by betting imposing values of wind over it Four months of this sort of thing super vening upon a ninety-degree temperature will leave the nation in a state of mind for which the only remedy will be a total es chewing of politics and the coollng-off process made possible during November. The thought of so much artificial beat added to the already excessive tempera ture is so depressive that we hasten to out lino the opposite theory. Providence is merciful; and politicians, like other men, are languid when the thermometer marks torrldity. The doctrine of compensations is likely to manifest itself by keeping politics cool while the weather is hot. Our Democraticfriends may agitate them selves to the sweltering point at Chicago next week; but the heat of politics cannot develop itself against.tbe heat of summer. It is much the most comfortable doc trine that politics will not get really hot, while the weather is so indisputably and universally that way. CHATTANOOGA'S GOOD EXAJIPLE. It is creditable to Chattanooga that it has presented one case in which the lynch ing spirit of the day was successfully re sisted. A negro who was arrested for the usual charge was threatened with the reg ular mob law, but the authoritiesremoved him first to one place and then to another until a sheriff in Hamblen county was found with sufficient faith in his ability to maintain the law to accept his custody. When the prisoner was taken back to Chattanooga for trial a public meeting in favor of the regular enforcement of the law was held, and 100 of the leading citi zens guarded the culprit against the mob. The court sentenced him to 21 years in the State Penitentiary; and the anti-mob guard saw him safely located in that Insti tution. This case will demonstrate to the people of the South that the law can convict people of heinous offenses and that the mob can be restrained. l.x . 1i9t.. . -.!. i.1.. It shows that when leading people take trouble to lead public opinion in the direction of law and order, it is easy to restrain the cowardly and cruel mob spirit Chattanooga by this course advertises itself as a place where people can locate with some assur ance of safety for life and property. If other parts of the South, and North as well, follow the example, they may close the nineteenth century with a fair claim of progress toward civilization. EIRST BALLOT PREDICTIONS. The managers of the" Cleveland cam paign at Chicago yesterday gave out the statement that their candidate would be nominated on the first ballot This, they assert, is the result shown by reports of his strength from all parts of the nation. At present this seems to be a year of nominations by first ballot, although some of the predictions to that effect havo gone astray. The Blaine leaders at Minneapo lis gave out the same prediction as the re sult of their count of noses; but the first ballot nominated tbe wrong man. The Harrison people made the same prediction and landed the verification with great Buccess. It thus appears that the Cleretand men have ample precedent for claiming a first ballot nomination. But will their predic tion meet the Blaine or Harrison'style of verification ? THE HIRSCn EXPERIMENT. Elsewhere in this issue will be found a very full description of the settlement started by the Baron Hirsch fund at Woodbine, New Jersey. Of course this particular experiment is for the benefit of the Russian Hebrew immigrants helped over the ocean by tbe Hirsch fund. But the conditions under which it is made are such as to cause it to be watched with a very far-reaching interest A great deal of careful organization and a spirit of hopeful enterprise are necessary for the inception and the carrying "out of the scheme, and there appears to be plenty of both in tbe gentlemen managing it As cities continue to become crowded at the expense of the rural districts which they impoverish by an absorption of their best blood, the question of agricultural colonization assumes more and more im portance. And the application of the re sults of such plans as the one described renders their working full of interest to a very large number of onlookers. If successful the plan is sure to be largely! followed, and if It fall new schemes mustj be worked out to deal with a question which grows in Importance from year to to year. A FALSE ARGUMENT. There is a great effort on the part of the Conservative press In England to make it appear that Mr. Balfour takes a strong po sition in passing lightly over the defense of the Tory policy and making a great deal of Mr. Gladstone's failure to produce measures to solve the issues of English government The keynote of Balfour's attack on Gladstone's "barren statesman ship" was struck by a cartoon in Punch, which represents the "old jockey (Glad stone) standing and looking at the yonng jockey (Balfour) who is mounted on a horse labeled 'local government' Theold jockey says: 'I don't think much of your mount I have got a better one in the stables,' and the young jockey replies: Well, then, why don't you bring him out?' " We can do Mr. Balfour and his sup- n porters the credit of regarding this as thl strongest position they can take and yet recognize that it is exceedingly weak. It is a basic principle of representative poli tics that a minority is not charged with the duty of producing perfected legishv tion. This principle is emphasized, in England where no measure of political bearing gets a hearing, unless it is a Gov ernment measure. Mr. Gladstone has been in a minority for nearly seven years. Any bill that be proposed on Irish affairs or any other political issue would not have been given a hearing. To attack him because he did not turn out a complete and digested bill for Home Rule is to reproach him for not having done the work of the Cabinet when he was in the minority. This is so clear a deduction from all the usages and rules of English politics, that Mr. Balfour's attack in retreat is more a sign of desperation than anything else.' A statesman who reproaches the minority with "barrenness of legislation" shows himself to be very hard up for political arguments, INDEPENDENT WHEN IT SUITS THEM. There is a touch of political nature which indicates the kindred of the whole world, in the protest of the French Royalists against the encyclical letter of Pope Leo on the relations of the church to the French. The progressive Pontiff having ordered that the church organiza tion and influence are not to be used against the Republic,butare rather to he employed in supporting it, the adherents of the Comtc de Paris have held a meeting against, what they describe as Papal Inter ference in political affairs, and -call upon French Catholics to maintain their politi cal independence and vote according to their personal convictions! This has a very elevated sound on the surface; and If the Papal authority has been employed to force any Catholic to vote agaiust his convictions, it would have much pertinence. But the beauty of the assertion of the principle of personal Independence by the adherents of the defunct Bourbon dynasty, is in the fact that their sole mainstay has been in the employment of church Influence to bolster up their cause. Their sole hope has been in using church machinery and the. in fluence of the priesthood to secure popu lar support for the Royalist party. It was this perversion of the church, more dan gerous to itself than to the republic, which the Pope's wise encyclical forbade. Nat. urally the French Royalists are very wroth at having the main prop of their cause knocked from under them; but their re sort to asserting the principle that the church authorities must not interfere in French politics has the same comic aroma about it as a Democratic horror over a Republican gerrymander, or the Republi can reprehension of Democratic machine politics. It is evident that the manifesto of the ' French Royalists will he ineffectual. French Catholics, who had before per ceived tho impropriety of using church Influence to attack republican govern ment, were already opposed to the Royal ist party. The people who are under the sway of the church will find the encyclical of more authority than the Royalist mani festo, and the ultra Royalists would cling to the moribund cause in any event The Jeath of ex-Senator Kutan after a very severe attack removes a figure in State politics which antedates any of the aotive politicians of the day, except, perhaps. Sena tor Quay. Mr. Kutan was a leader and force in State politics when many of the present politicians were school boys. He was a cotemoorary of Mackey and Errett, and with them of tho later careerOf the elder Cameron. He was aggressive and deter mined in his political acts,' which qualities lent a good deal of interest to his attitude at the close of bis life. His death removes one of tbe last links between the Republicanism of the war era and that of the present day. Tramps treading the ties on the tracks from Chicago will bea commoner sight than usual toward the end of this week. The unexpected death of Mr. Emmons Blaine yesterday emphasizes tho losses to which the CK-Secretary of State has been subjectcdreceutly.besido which politi cal disappointments appear trivial. In the death of Mr. walker Blaine a comparatively short time ago, the Secretary lost the favor ite son and confidential assistant In all his undertakings). The death of the other son whose career in business reflected credit on the name is another severe stroke. Mr. Blaine's bereavement will entitle him to the sympathy of the nation without regard to politics.' The rivers are entering into a keen and almost successful competition with the rail roads aslife destroyers just now. r There will be another party platform published in a day or two, and it is very safe to proribesy that the majority of Democrats most steadfast in their allegiance to the party will not even read its confession of faith uefore exerting themselves to the ut most no convince all they meet that it is the only safe creed to subscribe to. Tnfe twenty-first of June Is the longest day ijn tbe year, and a good many Democrats wUl thoroughly realize the fact. I IjTNCniNG is at all times and places and under any conditions a token of barbarity. The) lynching of foreign subjeots bv Ameri cancitizens has tbe additional bad feature that it is liable to cause unpleasant diplo matic trouble. I is about time for someone to mention thfe excessive warmth to tbe offlelals respon- J slble therefor. Chief Brown evidently believes that a oliceman has duties to perform for the city find that he should be a decent, law-abiding fcltizen. And the Chlor is doing his best to bring his belief to the attention of the force. Dams appear to be like pie crust and many political promises mado to be broken. It is natural enough that William E. English, of Indianapolis, should be hard at work for Cleveland at Chicago. There is a good deal about Grover that is "English, you know, quite English." Cleveland carries weight, and the dark horses are waiting their opportunity. These is altogether too much of Cleve land to have a clear course for any dark horse until tbe Improbable shall have hap pened and his Immensity has been removed from the field. The Amalgamated Association's may be described as a steel-yard. scale There is a new scientific schema for sig naling to Mars. But on these balmy, starlit evenings the sons of earth are for -the most part exclusively Interested in signaling to daughters. Democrats outside Chicago must be feeling terrible lonesome these days, If any Democratic voter wish' for the oniinatlon of his party and, havo not yet pressed the same, he should be heard i right speedily or it will be too late. to date Chauneey Depeirhas no Secre- sblp of Statement to make.- PaVbiots desirous of an opportunity to be patrslotio outside the lines of party poll- ext irotn taryl si tics cannot (to better than contribute' libe rally to the Fourth pt July fund. "Come wheel, come whoa!" said the cyclist when he wanted to stop. bi- TO-DAY ought to be quieter than usual throughout the conntry with so marjy Demo crats in Chicago. Bat, oh, what a time tbe Windy City will have! OahpbelIi, of Ohio, does not seem to be humping himself. Prussian Sunday lavs take the cake for severity. They forbid even the automatic machines to do business on the first day of the.week. So Emin Pasha has still another chance to die after aU. As a precaution against freckles and sun strokes it is a Rood plan to keep in the shade. Coolness is only obtainable in a well-ailed ice bouse. Commencement days seem to have no end to them. Tammany's tiger stripes can never be regarded as anything but a disgraoe to the national emblem of tbe Star Spangled ban ner. RrvBBS fall as thermometers rise. The air of the million mill workers is al together different from that of the summer resorts patronized by the millionaire. PRODUCT OF A GIFTED MAN. A Dramatic Poem by Hovey Creates a Sensation at the Capital. tntOM A STAJT COBBESrOlfDENT.J Wasuikotoit, Jnne 18. Mr. Richard Hovey, the Washington yonng man whose "Launce lot and Genevieve," issued early last spring, has caused so much disougslon among liter, ary critics, and which received extended notice in The Dispatch, is out with an other dramatic, poem which will greatly enhanco the yonng author's already high reputation. This latest production lias all the requisites of a great "acting" drama, and will probably be produced on the stage by a well-known actor during the coming season. Though the title has not been fully determined, It wUl probably be "Gandolfo," from tho leading person of the drama, Mr. Hovey, who has Just returned from Paris, read portions of his play this evening before a large assemblage of mem bers and Invited gnests of the University Cluo. Tne author is an excellent elocution ist, and this, with tne intensity of tbe pas sages read, created mnch sensation. It was one or tho first, if not the first, reading ever given so publicly in Washington by an au thor and from Ills own work. The verdict is that the drama cannot fall. The Interest of the play centers in the l character Oaudofo. From the moment he enters upon me scene, we leei tne presence of one of those great forces, powerful alike lor good or for evil, which we agree to call fenluses. Archbishop of one of the great talian cities at the time of the greatest corruption of the renaissance, he represents the older faith and purer life of those mid dle aces that are then passing away, just as Cardinal Ruberti stands for the newerGreek learning and its Inter morality, and the Syrian alchemist, Acharoth, for the tenden cies toward modern science which came In from Arabia. Qaudol o is filled with a mighty discontent at the existing unbelief and corruption, and, hampered In the execution of his gi eat plans for the re generation of Christendom, conceives an unselfish and laudable ambition to bo Pope, so that ho may carry ont his reform un impeded. - But at this point he lalls a victim to a criminal passion lor nis ward, Adela, whom he has Just married to a young noble man of the city. From this beginning the mail's character and faith are subtly and gradually undermined until, at last, his love affair terminated by the death of Atcla. be stands over her dead body, an atheist, a criminal and a murderer, as loul at last as he was lair at first. But his ambition, so worthy when he was worthy, clings to hin. still, but now mado as vile a thing as he has become himself, and when the messenger enters with the news that he has been made a cardinal, with hands still red with blood he clutches the letter and exclaims: "The Cardinal's hat! The next is the tiara." That ends the plav. Beautiful and poetic in form, nothing could be more realistic and unrelenting In esence. There is no more external poetio justice lugged In by the ears. Qaudoffo's only pun ishment is tbe necessary punishment of real life; he does evil, and his retribution is that be becomes evil. It is what is called "a star play," but this is because of tbe strength of Gaudo'fo, not because of the weakness of the other characters. Adela, a strange combination of womanly intuition and childlike naiveness, wtoie innocence is her ruin: Bchiatta, tho flippant, jesting man or tho woild, punctilious in tbe point of honor but lax in morals; Tullio, tbe romantic boy: filmonc, the crafty, yet sinoora ecele siastlcal politician, tho rattle-pated Felijpx and tbe pedantic Lazaccta each is in itself a complete and fascinating study, and the management of the details of stage business, as well as the straightforward movement of the plot fiom cause to inevitable effect, shows the hand or a dramatist whose quali fications lor his art are not merely theoretic cat NEWSY AND PERSONAL. Cyrus W. Field, who has. been at his country home at Ardsley, N. Y., lor the past month, is reported seriously ill. President Cabnot and several of the French Cabinet Ministers gave an audience to Archbishop Ireland yesterday. Mme. Sara Bernhardt will shortly produce a new one-act play entitled, "Sa lambo," written in French by Oscar Wilde. The departure of Prince Reuss, the Ger man Ambassador, for Carlsbad has been postponed, his condition having changed for the worse. General E. Burd Gruber, United States Minister to Spain, and Ira D. Sankey were passengers on the Hamburg American steamer Columbia which arrived at New York yesterday morning. i John E. Redmond, M. P., returned to Ireland yesterday on tbe Etruria. He in tended to remain in this country for several weeks, but has been called back on account of the appioachlng election. The growtn of the city of Toledo has added very materially to the wealth of ex President Hayes, who is now rated as worth nearly a million. Mr. Hayes' uncle, whose namesake he is, left him a large block of real estate in the city. There are 13 surviving widows of Revo lutionary soldiers, and two of them, Nancy Rains, of Carter's Furnace, Tenn.,and Anna Marin Young, of Easton, Pa., are centenar ians. The youngest is Nancy A. Green, of Napoleon, Ind., who Is 74. Mabgabet Manton Merrill por trayed Mary Stuart at the Lyrio Club, Lon don, last night, under the patronage of Minister Lincoln, the Duke and Dncbes of Portland, Lady Somerset, Lady Carew, Lady Adderly, Lady Lincoln, Mrs Mackay and others. Despite a plucky fight against adverse circumstances, Mrs. James Blown Potter and Eyrie Bellow were obliged to terminate their season at tbeSbafetsbury Tbeater.Lon don, last night, when tnelr partnership also came to an end. Mrs, Potter says it will not be renewed. Miss Mary Augusta Scott has just been elected a Fellow orYale Universlty,the first woman to receive this distinction. Miss Seott is a graduate and M, A. of Vassar College, has studied at Johns Hopkins, and was a student in honors at the University of Cambridge, England. There has been a curious dispute among the biographers regarding the age of Grover Cleveland. By some of tbe campaign his torians he is said tp be 67 years old, while oth ers make blm fully five years younger. Mr. Clevland himself, in answer to numerous In quiries, is reported to have given bis age as 65. He was born at Caldwell, Essex county, N.J, ' The Best Argument Tet Advanced, Philadelphia Inquirer. The best argument made in favor of the tin plate tariff In the House on Thursday was made by, Mr. O'Neill, It was In the shape of a dispatch from a responsible Phil adelphia firm saying that their tin plate works would be completed by the middle of August and that it would have a weekly capacity of 20,000 boxes of canners' tin, or J.040,000 boxes a year. One fact like that Is worth 63 Ireeks of talk. " feESPECT FOR JACK TAR, n Is Finding Expression In ' an Enormous Sale of Sailor Suits A Cinder in the Eye Girls Wearing Suspenders Hunting for a Living. VBOK A STAFF COHKSFOXDIST. One of tbe pleasing sights of the streets of New York is the evidence of the respect and patriotic 'love for the naval uniform of the United States in tbe dressing of little children. No surer sign or the com mendable growth of the naval sentiment could be found than in this exaltation of the common sailor. For it is tbe flowing trows- ers, the broad, starred collar, the flat oap, the "bo'sens" cord and whistle and low quartered shoes of the oommon sailor that are most affected. Children still In the toddling age, not yet having arrived at the diginlty of trowsers, can be seen on Broad way dressed in all sorts of combinations or naval Import. In skirts or knickerbockers, or kilts, or trowsers, the stars and anchors, the names of new ships on the cap, yon encounter the patriotic young American in every diiectlon. the proprietor of one of the largest retail stores In New Yorfc, where children's outfits are made a specialty, informs me that the rage for sailor costumes in one shape or an other lor little children this season outruns any craze within bis mercantile experience not excepting the Little. Lord Fauntleroy peiiod. It is a happy craze, if it must be so designated, and points more surely to anew era of naval glory for this Government than even tbe liberality of Congress and tbe res- istration of foreign built ships. It begins at the root. Inspire the young with a proper pride in the naval uniform love for the Stars and Stripes goes along with it and we build upon a solid foundation of patriotism. The boys will early study the achievements of Paul Jones, and Perry and Decatur and Reld and Fa'rrngut and others of the long line of American naval heroes, with more earnestness and a better understanding, and those who represent' them in the national councils will push tbe restoration or American superiority upon the seas. With this sentiment being now inculcated in tbe vonng the time will soon come when tbe American sailor will again be an Ameri can, born and bred to honor the flag, proud or his ship and ready to bravely do and die for his country. I have seen the eyes of the bronzed tars on shore leave glisten with emotion at the sight of these little chaps In uniform. It tells the sailor that he is no longer a human dog to be despised and shunned by all Undsmon, but that his call in? is honored of men and glorified of women. His ship's name on the jaunty holi day duck of the five-year-old man-o'wars-man of Broadway may well send a thrill of pleasure through his brawnv frame. Long may he live! and long live these infantile tars that are to come after html Getting Cinders in the Eye. Did you ever get a cinder In your eye? YesT Then you know hpw it hurts. And, you know how easily it gets In and how diffi cult it is to get out. The elevated trainmen suffer from cluders more than any other trainmen In the world. This is partly ow ing to the fact that the trains do not run fast enough and steady enough for the loco motives to run under natural draught and the forced draught throws out clouds of cinders, or bits of unconsumed carbon. But it is mostly due to the fact that a trainman's duty on the elevated is on the hooded plat form of the car, where the cinders eddy In greatest volume. If you ever rode on one of the platforms a Bhort distance you'll know what it means to be there all day, or all night. xne new men naturally sutler tne most, a little experience teaches the art of a train squint a half closing or tbe eyes so as to considerably lessen tbe danger. Still, men get cinders in their eves every day new men every trip. There is a station man at Fifty-eigbth street and 81xth avenue who is an expert on cinders. He handles all tho bad cases the otheis look out for them selves. Time is ton short for the celebrated flaxseed reme'dy. He has a remedy of his own. This man is known throughout the entire elevated service. His fame has spread even beyond and outsiders often come to him for treatment. The latter heohargesa fee bis comrades nothing. To say that the cinder doctor is very popular with trainmen is stating it mildly. The Deification of the Suspender. The young woman and -her suspenders challenge the admiration of Broadway loungers. The young woman and her sus penders aie not peculiar to Broadway, but on that popular promenade they are pecu liftily effective. They seem to lire things up, like a broad black band on a whlto bat: to put a new face on nature, as it were. The young woman and her suspenders are are different. We could love the young woman for herself alone, but her suspenders draw us to her with an additional 40 horse power. There Is a variegated beauty and richness of tone to her suspenders that oomes very near nigh art. They are full of sentiment, too tegular class-day poems, that fairly slop over with girlish enthusiasm. They touch a tender chord in our memory. For tbey remind us or the suspenders we used to wear when boys-cloth. Sometimes tbey weie crossed Demna ana sometimes not, and sometimes were connected with cross straps, Just as the young woman now wears them. They were invaribly worn hign up, as is the piesent fashion, though we miss the long,dangllng front ends with their nail worn buttonholes. We used to call them 'galluses." I havn't seen any young woman with one gallus but that will doubtless come and one gallus was a popular thing in my boy hood time. The young woman of New York who sports suspenders is a gallus young wo man, anyhow. I do not attempt to acconnt forhor. There are plenty of slender young creatures who might have pardonably worn suspendei s, in secret, long ago; but why this sudden public display or what has hitherto been deemed in men more proper out of sight When the young woman andher sus penders combine the linen bosom, collar, necktie, studs, etc with galluses, as Is fre quently the case on tbe streets of New York, are we to turn away and lookout across the park and shudder? Or, must we let go old traditions? Let 'ergo! To lovely woman alone wo accord all the rights In matters of dress which includes even the right to make a guy of herself. And it would he dif ficult to conjure up anything more ridicu lous than a tall, angular, slab-sided girl, with a dress terminating at the shoulder-blades in a pair of eight inch suspenders. 1 (while we know the latter are merely ornamental, they giro the humned-up appearance or the oy Willi jus trousers sirappeu up too nign. If tho young woman will wear suspenders, for Heaven's sake let them wear them grace-' fully, beginninx at the waist-hand and crossed In the small of the back. Suspenders suggest trowsers and tbe good or bad effects of trowsei sis unavoidable. Everyman, of course, will be glad to note the appearance or the younu woman andher suspenders. If the fashion sets In earnestly he can leave his coat and vest at homo in hot .weather and promenade Broadway In his - suspenders without shame or self-reproach. The advent or the young woman and her suspend ers makes suspenders respectable, if not a beauty and Joy forever. A Need of the Hoar. What is very much needed in the inter ests of the observance of the Sunday laws and of general morality is a flshpole jointed so as to be carried in an inside pocket with tbe bait. The Bicycle Riders of Gotham. One of the extraordinary spectacles on Broadway is the bicycle rider. With the new small-wheeled vehicle and Its big, hol low rubber tire tho rider may dare almost any city street on which he may get suf ficient headway. But tbe Broadway rider has the knack or following the cable groove, on which he trnndles swiftly along on every stretch between cars. When he overtakes a car he glides out and around with a grace ful curve, to come in again upon the cable slot just ahead. A good rider can thus make wonderful time, uptown at least, and to him any other method of rapid transit Is not in it. Occasionally even women riders venture the slot on Upper Broadway, and when they do it Is to be for the moment the cynosure of all eyes The small-wheeled, lowblcycle, with multiplying gear and wire protection for her dress, divests the lady riaer of that peculiar, bold and horsey appearance that lormerly characterized her on the road. On the broad aspbaltum paved boulevard she gets a wider swlng.'and there she can be seen every pleasant day. The women riders have greatly increased with the decrease of the dangers and dif ficulties of learning, and the introdnctlon of the new machines. Stacks of ladles' wheels may be seen piled up at the expi ess offices every day, marked for shipment to the in terior and to the watering places. The bicycle riders, male and female, are evi dently rapidly increasing in town and coun try. Picking Up' a Living; . You have doubtless heard of people pick up a living in the streets of New York. or tbis class there i a curious specie of whom .we know but little. Where they come from and where they go, and with J what varying success they find that for which all men seek Is a mysterr. They come out in the flrtt gray of tbe morning, and operate to best advantage while the great metropolitan world is yet asleep. For their, occupation is to And what has been lost or thrown away. Yon have heard of the Anders at the sea shore those who patiently at season's elose, spade in hand, overturn tbe sands, looking for valuables and money lost by the summer's crowd of how those sands yield up to the searchers hard cash, diamond rings, charm, chains and other varieties of Jewelry, of sufficient value and in such abundance as to pay for the trouble taken to And them. It i noc strans;e,th-re-fore, that in a great city where a million of more or Ies careless people come and go daUy, and perhaps half as many nightly, there should be left in the streets cold and silver and precious stones, and that a cer tain class of people should make an honest living by going around and picking them up. The difference is that the sea sands fur nish Dut a temporary field, whereas tho streets of New York oner diurnal and peren nial treasure. The findor goes forth to find with the first tint of dawn. With a longand pointed stick he follows the curb line and car tracks at crossings, and delves along the theater fronts and under the elevated sta tions and tbe gutters fronting the swell res taurants and all-night houses, patrols the precincts of the roysterers and tbe pave ments of tbe retail shopping districts. lie turns over every bit of paper and despises no accumulation of debris of yesterday's busy life. His eyes, long accustomed to the search, are as sharp as a ferret's. What others would see only by chance he sees by instinct and from afar off. Now it is a penny, now a bit of silver, fallen rom some vest pocket, now and then a bill and not unfre- Qurntly a pocketbook or diamond eardrop I glistening in tbe rand, or golden watch cnarm, or a pair or eyeglasses, or a horse shoe. The latter ho. never passes and if it be well worn so much tbe better it brings him luck. He moves rapidly, for he is not alone in this business and the more ground he can cover be foro tbe rest of the city is on its feet the better for him. Nor does he ceae even then, but goes on and on, with eyes modestly cast down oblivious to the busy world around him. His trained eyes discover at once that which 10,000 pairs or other eyes have passed unheeded. The finder of New York is not alwavs poor he is not always honest. But he picks up a living Just the same Troubles of Working in the Street. The other day a couple of workmen were putting a curiously shaped iron box in tbe sidewalk against the Broadway en trance to the Alpine building. It was in ap pearance a cross between a gas meter and a letter box, of cast iron and painted black. Tbe workmen had chipped out the glass bull's-eyes from the walk and were setting, the box and answering questions. Every body who came along stopped a few mo ments and looked at the operation. About every fourtn person would inquire what tbe machine was and many of these would comment upon it and ask why tbey didn't do so and so, or nse some other scheme to reach tbe desired results. The men at work finally grew weary of tnls, and answered sometimes without a strict regard for tbe truth. Finally, some wag put up a card bearing the inscription: This Is a Ventilator! It Is Put Here to Ventilate! This seemed to be satisfactory until an old lady came up just as all was done and looked at it. She stndied It for some time, when her curiosity got tbe better of her modesty. "What is it going to ventilate, I wonder not that bjg building?" "It's to ventilate Broadway, ma'am," was the smart reply. "Indeed!" she retorted "then it'll keep you off the block!" The man tore up the card without a word and walked sadly away. Charles Thxodoei Muozat. Naw Yobk, June 18. THEBE'S TWO SIDES Z0 IT, Argument Bock of the Movement to Open the World's Fair Sunday. From The Bulletin, Pittsburg. On the first Sunday of the present month the Bishop of the Episcopal diocese of Pitts burg delivered a notable sermon, and on the following Sunday the rector of St. Stephens', Bewickley preached a similar sermon. Each discourse was marked by broad-guage views regarding that vexed question, the opening of the World's Fair on the first day of the week; and each of the reverend gentlemen not only voiced the sentiments of a large and cultured class, but kept well to the lines advocated in The Bul letin. In this oommunlty, and aside from the bearingsof the question as to the World's Fair, tbe people have bad excellent oppor tunities for noting the effect of rigid, old time and narrow laws regarding what may and what may not be done on Sunday. The friction between tbe enforcement of a "blue" law and personal freedom has been nowhere more marked of late than in the Iron City, and that the highest authority in tbe Episcopal Church hereabouts should openly advocate a liberal policy as to Sun day observance In general and tbe World's Fair in particular, has naturally aroused deep interest among all those who wish to do right by their fellowmen and themselves. Bishop Whitehead dearly and logically sets forth the results which must follow the closing or the Fair's gates on the first day of each week. He said: "The saloons will be In fall blast, the the aters and concert halls will have their per formances, as they do now in Chicago, every Sunday. Where shall these people spend their days? I believe it will be far more in accordance with the spirit of Christ and Christianity if we say to them: 'Comer to this beautiful inclosnre, where, at least, the influences will be beneAoial; look at tbe beautiful things that God has made and tho wonderful thing that man has done; spend your time, not in close saloons or concert halls, but under the blue heaven or these Ane buildings.' This concentration would diminish the number of police needed. Res taurants within the grounds would be open instead of those scattered through the city. Concert halls and theaters would be less numerously attended." SNAP SHOTS AT JERRI SIMPSON. HAxsAShas a pair of "Boss Simpsons." Jerry appears to be rnnniug everything la the People's party. Kansas Siate Journa', Jerry Simpson doesn't want the Allianee nomination for Governor of Kansas. Jerry is evidently willing to let well enough alone. SL Joseph Mo.) Oazttle. Jebrt Simpson has been renominated for Congress, and the bicycle his been proven no bar to proferment by the horny-banded farmers. Indianapolis Senlmsl. Jerkt Simfsos has been nominated for Congress despite a suspicion eurrent among his constituents that he had not only learned to wear socks, but silk onus at that. Chicago Timet. Hon. Jxas Srxrsoir of Kansas has some nonsense in him that needs to be purged ont with hellebore, but be has made a good Con gressman. He. deserves renointnation, Jit. Louis Republic. Jerry Snirson seems to be a quick-witted follow in spite of some of bis silly notions. Congressman Snodsrass charged him with being a dude the other day and Simpson re torted that he bad beard that there were two great fouls in the Democratic party, and that one was named Snodjrass and so was the other. New York Oommercat Advertiser. The People's party in Kansas has renomi nated Congressman Jerry Simpson and re fused torenominate Congressman Otis. The trouble with Otis was that he took his calam ity campaign of two years ago as serious and tried to fulfill tbe promises ho made. Simp son was shrewd enough to see that it was only a joke and he has been ridlnir a bicycle and courting Democrats ever since he went to Washington. Chicago Inter-Ocean. 'Wiman Not Frozen Ont. New York, June 18. Erastus Wiman hav ing been refused credentials to represent the Toronto Board of Trade at tbe Associ ated Chambers or Commerce assembling in London June 28, because he would not pledce himself to advocate preferential trade between Gi eat Britain and her colo nies to the exclusion of everyother nation, was gratified to-day to reoeivetan intima tion that he had been elected a delegate by the Brentford Board or Trade. He will, therefore, be entitled to a seat in tbe con. cress, and no doubt will be heard from in relation to the question of enlarged com merce on this continent. DEATHS HERB AND ELSEWHERE. Obituary Notes. JOUK WirrrxLAW, the superintendent of the Clevelan'i waterworks system since 1867, died late Thursday night of heart failure. Bo was famous througbout the country as aa authority on water works matters, " Mas. Robert C. WrxTHOar, wife or the emi nent statesman, died at her home In Brookllne, Mats., Friday night. She was beloved for her generous and charitable works. She was the third Wife of Mr. Wlnthorp. aud was the daughter of Francis Orange, of Canandaigua, N. 1'., theFost- masicrucscrai unaer rresiueut w. a. iiarruon. aT TALE OF THE TIMES. Vice President Thos. M King, of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, is in tbe city looking after the affairs of the company in connection with the Pittsburg and Western Railroad Company. A number ofsurveyors are at work on the line of this road with a view of straightening out its curves and cut ting Its grades so as to donble track it and make it more serviceable. Mr. King has changed but little in appearance since he won his spurs as a ready and thorough rail road manager as Superintendent of tbe Alle gheny Valley road. He is quick to decide and full of engineering resources, and as a manager of men is an admirable general. John Glenn, Secretary of the Repub lican State Committee, came to the city yes terday. He has taken cbame of the general party work through the State, and is giving bis attention at present to the Baker ballot law. This' law might be used to tbe great disadvantage of the party because of its strict technicalities. Omissions on the part of the Sheriffs of counties in giving notice of election, or tbe faulty filling up of election blanks might throw tbe electoral vote of Pentsylvania out of the Republican column if Secretary Harrity saw Ac to take an nnfalr advantage ol his official position. It seems certain that it will take longer than it did before to count the vote, and returns from the State in November will be much later than usual In showlmr nn In the cities, and in dutriots where there are four or five hundred voters. Tom of Jack's Peggy and Tom of Jack's Peggy's William are no longer friends. It has nothing whatever to do with the charge of the Ligbt Brigade at Minneapolis on Friday. It is Indeed more than nnllkely that either of them ever heard of tbe circum stances or city by tbe Falls or St Anthony. Life to them has too much short range object lesson to permit any wandering curiosity to complicate them. And not only Is this true, bnt It is also a fact that no con siderable portion of this or any other com munity are concerned in the lease as to what maybe the opinions or the line of action ofrav heroine and hero. Tom of Jack works in one of tbe iron concerns at Sobo, and is not exactly a model of deportment. There was a wire or Tom's once, bnt she toiled, and worried enough in a few years to satisfy her with tbinzs gener ally, and so she gave up the problem and Is not. There was a little girl In the house when Mrs. Tom left it. not old enonzh then to pr6test againBt her mother's going, and she has, in a leisurely way, srown up to be Tom's Peggy. She helps cook and do for father as well as she can, and between whiles plays with other ragged, bare-footed, tousle-headed girls on the avenue. Tbe boys have found her ready of tongue and quick of Ast, and she is looked up to as one unsafe to molest unless it be by reconnoissance in force. Like all other billy sections of a large cltv that part of the Soho region is prolific of goats, and that is where Tom of Jack's Peggy's William, usually known as Peg's Billy, comes in. Somewhere underneath the soot and mud and raze of Peggy there is ? rowing a sentimentality like the storied ily on the dunghill. There Is no telling but what vivisection might lead to the dis covery that Peggy had a heart from which this sentimentality mav spring, but that is as yet unknown. Peggy's weakness took tbe form of a solicitude for Billy's welfare and comfort for several years, and the goat re ciprocated by not butting Peggy as hard as he did anybody else who came within Teach. He trusted her so tbat he would come and eat an oyster can or pieces of newspaper out of her band with striking docility. Together this pair roamed the hillsides and dodged tbe cable cars. In cidentally it may be said that when Peggy had any sweeties, which was seldom, she divided, while Billy remained a selfish glut ton and took all that came his way. In some way Peorgy became owner of a wooden soap box. subsequently of two toy wagon wheels and a paling from a fence. These were evolnted into a wagon, and the triumph of Peggy's career was when Billy consented to be attached to this chariot and haul it and its mistress over the smooth aSDhalt. Satiated at last with ridlnir about herseir Pejgy took to hauling tbe neighbors' babies when the mothers were at work. Then came the idea of a garden. There was a shady slope be side her home and thither Peggy and BUly hauled dirt and formed It into a mound. About a month ago, Willikins,. the grocer, in the goodness of his heart gave Peggy a scarlet geranium in a pot. The child kept it on tbe window sill in her room until her gardening arrangements were completed. She made a fence of s.icks around tbe mound, pounded the sides till they were bard and then crowned tbe heap with the brilliant combinations of the gera nium's green and red. Sho n ntered It and at tended to. It with so much care that some lurking devil of jealousv grew up in Billy's soul and he bided ills time. Mike, Annie's little lad, had a fall and is neevlsh and Pesirv was called in to amnse him while Annie slapped the clothes around in her tub. BUly went with her but deserted in a short time and disappeared when Peggy went home. There stood Billy within the sacred garden lence wnicn ne nau uprooted, .r rom nis mouth projected a something green which he chewed briskly. The geranium was gone. I am afraid, in view of tbe scene that ensued and the way that Peggy wept and lamented for two or tnree dajs, that her sentimentality is stunted and will not take shape again this year. Somebody who had chanced upon tbis mite of a history sent Peggy a fuchsia In a box. At Arst she was delighted, but she reconsidered and said sadly: "Take it back mi-ter. 'Taint no uso. Billy he'll eat it, he will and tben I'll get jnad again and BUly ain't got nobody but me." The probable opening of Diamond street has given rise to more or less gossip. Among th6 rumors or the day was one yes terday that tbe two 20-root lots of the How ard estate, next to Diamond on Smithfield street, had been sold for a handsome price. It is said that negotiations were In prosrress soma time, but the Pittsburg members or the family deny it. It Is possible that some deal may be in progress with W. J. Howard, Esq., who lives in Lancaster and practically manages tbe estate. Druggist Brent, of Oakland, has a very bright boy five or six years old, who numbers among his friends one of the park police officers.-Last Sunday when tbe offi cer sat down to eat his lunch, tbe boy bor rowed the officer's belt, club, whistle and cap, and announced with much dignity that he would patrol tbe beat until lunch was over. Off be marched and presently be came opposite a big rose bush. On each side of the bush were s'ns "Keep off the grass" and "Do not touch the fiowers." The tiny guardian of the city's property noticed two good-sized girls picking fiowers In the rear or the bnsb, and he ran up to tbem, and exclaimed: "Can't vou girls read?" They laughed and replied that they could. "What do those .signs say?" he demanded. The girls read them aloud and again laughed. "I'll have to take you in 1 guess," says or fended dignity and he promptly blew the alarm whistle and grabbed the arm of one or tbe intruders. This thoroughly frightened the girls and they soon made their escape. When the officer came up young Brent told his story and added: "Put It In your report and I'll appear against them it you catch them." tr. L. W. Women Elected to Yale Fellowships. New Haven, June 18. Speciall Two women have been elected to fellowships at Yale University, and they are the Arst to re ceive this distinction. Miss Mary Graham, graduate of Wesleyan '89, who stood second i her class and received Arst honors in political science, has been awarded a grad uate fellowship. She has of late been teach ing at the Mt. Holyoke College The other Jady is Miss Mary Anzusta Scott. She is a graduate and M. A. or Vassar College, has studied at Johns Hopkins and was a student in honors at the University or Cambridge, England. She will proceed to tbe degree or Doctor of Philosophy. These ladies will begin their studies at Yale in the folL THE SWEET GIRL GRADUATE. IWBITTEN FOB TUB DISPATCIt.1 When winter's days were rougli. Wrapped In her boa and muff. With cunning bangs a-fluff. She p used my window pans. When birds and bees and flowers Came with the April showers. She charmed he winged hours That flew athwart jny bralu. When rosea of the May ProtUlmcd commencement day. Not very faraway, 'Twas then we were to meet When seniors one and all. At stern profeuor's call. Should gather in the hall, 1 was to bare a treat.' - More lovely than a bit le. All robed in white 1 bpled An anf el at my side, . Resigned, I thought, to fate So brautifulandwUe! ' I dared not criticise Her form, her speech, ber e yes The sweet girl graduate I J. BUCHANAN SmXBS. 1 CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. Women began work in printing offices as early as 1520. Only one woman of the upper class of Egypt Is permitted to see men. There are more bee hives in the United States, where there are 2,800,000, than Inany other conntry on the globe. If cork Is sunk 200 feet deep in the ocean it will not rise again on account of the pressure of the water. It is interes'ting to learn that we live s distance of only twenty trillion . miles from tlin na,Mf nfth ernatlnrl "fiXArl" Stars. Truckee, Nev., had a shaving contest recently. The successful artist scraped his man in 45 seconds and no blood was shed. The extremes of temperature on the Sahara are such that whUe the day may be oppressively hot at night it is freezing cold. Amherst College is now among the American colleges which authorize their students to appear in classical garb, cap and gown. There are about 11,000,000 women In Italy, and some 2,000,000 of them are engaged in industrial occupations, while more than 3,C00,0O0 labor In the fields. A Cornell professor recently told his students that the man who sells his vote is worthy of greater respect than he who stays away from the poUs and does not vote at all. Railway managers of Holland have found it impossible to get men to work the switches who can be depended upon to let liquor alone, and have therefore substituted women. One of the highest living authorities on oceanography, John Murray, estimates tbe area of the dry laud of the globe at 55,000,000 square miles and the area or the ocean at 127,200,000 square miles. A careful woman has her home In Port Richmond. She was married IS years ago, and began her married lire with two rows of Eins. She has 37 or them yet, and would be appy if she could find the three missing pins. A new puzzle has appeared in London shops w,hlch is said to be a patience-prover after tbe style of pigs In clover, only a good deal more so. It Is called the bicycle puzzle. Tbe chance of solving the puzzle is but one in ten. .Belgium now nas im,vw voters; a household suffrage would raise the number to 900.000: giving the suffrage to all who can read and write would raise it to 3,100,000. and universal suffrage would mean 1,500,000 voters. A lock on the door of a house in Ply mouth, England, on being taken to pieces for repairs, was found to contain an inscrip tion stating that It was formerly, on the door or the chamber in St. Helena la which Napoleon breathed his last. A novel signal has just been success fully tried by the fire department or Cincin nati. It consists of an electric button in the nozzle of the fire hose, and by its means the fireman In. charge of the hose can signal to the man at the hydrant to shut off or turn on he stream as may be required. A pneumatic self-playing piano, which reels off any kind of music, from classical selections to tbe latest music hall atrocity, has lately been put on the market by a music seller of Hamburg. The tune is de veloped by mean of a perforated sheet of cardboard passing over a kind of bellows. There are remarkable instances on record of what pigeons have done. A Frenoh bird, captured near Paris, was taken to Ber lin, 500 miles away, and kept there for four years. It escaped somehow, and at once made a straight line for borne, safely reaching tbe loft in Paris where It had been reared. The transportation fleet of the United States at the beginning of 1890, with the ex ception of canal boats, numbered 25,540 ves sels of all classes, of which 6,067 were steam ers, 8,912 were sailing vessels, and 10,561 were barges orunri"ced vesselB, whose gross ton nage was-7,633,676 ton, and whose estimated value stood at 1215,069,300. The instinctive fear which cats have of dogs is illustrated very amusingly by strok ing a dog and then caressing a blind and. s new-born kitten with tbe same hand that has touched the dog. At once tne kitten will jpit and fluff Iteirup in the most ab surd way. distinguishing the smell of tho beast which experience has for generations taught ic most to dread. Two Swedish peasant women attracted considerable attention recently at the Im migrants' Bureau at Ellis Island by tho aboriginal way in which they carried their babies. Tbe little ones were tncked in a leathern bag suspended from the backs of the mothers iroin sbonlder straps. Peasant mothers of Sweden have so much hard work to do afield that they have to take their babies with them. A storm cloud was observed a ttw miles south of Lemoore, Cal., recently that acted very strangely. It was quite near the ground and seemed to be violently agitated. Suddenly the cloud seemed to burst asunder, one part goinz to the northwest and only forty or fifty feet from the earth. One of the sections passed over or through the tops of some poplar trees and shaved them off as if a gigantic mowing machine had passed that way. At Hirniskretschen, in Bohemia, from the unequal working of nature in the de struction of rocks, has resulted a most colos sal and ruggedly beautiful arch, the summit of which is upward of 1,400 feet above sea level. Tbe sides and top together appear at a distance like the frame of an immense picture, tbe latter being represented by the wildly romantic scenery which is visible through the openinz of the arch. For practical purposes the Mediter--Tanean may be accepted a s being what ltis popularly supposed to be, a tideless sea, but it is not so in reality. In many p'aces there is a distinct rise and fall, though this U more frequently due to winds and currents than to lunar attraction. At Venice there is a rise of from one to two feet in spring tides. The only place where the tidal influence is nnmlstakably observed Is in the Gulfof Gables, where the rise and fall varies from three to eight feet. A stock-raiser and ranch owner of Homer, Neb., has Just contracted one of the ghastliest marriages on record. He was a widower. Ten days before his second union, be declares, he received a spirit message saying that his wire was in a perturbed state, his approaching marriage beimr the cause. To propitiate the wounded spirit the stock man and his bride were married atmidnlght on the grave In which his first wire was burled. From exposure and fright tho strangely-made brlge has since been eon fined to her bed. PICKINGS FROM PUCK. Judge TTou are accused of stealing aa overcoat. Guilty or not guilty ? Prisoner Not guilty. I merely adapted It. Judge What Is your buslneu ? Prisoner I am aa American playwright. Usher I can give you a good seat after the first act: the newspaper critics go then. Standee Don't they come back J Usher-Bless you, no I they only drop In toe vrlfy their suspicions. Landlady What I going to leave us, Mr. Barglnsayle? I hope you've no fault to And wit tbe tabic ? Boarder No; tbe table's all right; but my room mate Is an amateur photographer, and ha Insists on taking flub-Ilght pictures of me every night when I'm trying to go to sleep 1 "I hear that yoa have left Kernel!, Kapp ft Co." "Yes; three weeks ago." 'What are yoa doing now J "I'm In business for myself." So?" "Yes. Looking for work." Office Boy Can you let me off this after noon? my grandmother Is dead. Head of Firm Not very won: but you can rua out two or three times and look at the score. Jess I believe love is a disease. Bess No do-jot; but. thank goodness. It Isn't one of those you can't have bnt once. Teacher in Kindergarten You've omitted somrthlnr. Mabel, la making your letter "l'l." What Is it? Mabel-I guess I forgot to put eyebrows over 'em. Peppergrass "What are yon studying German for? You are not going to Germanr, are you? Spearmint No; I Intend to spend a few months In Milwaukee. "Oh, misery!" cried the editor. 'What's the matter now?" "I Just threw a poet out or tbe window; ana his wife, who was waiting for him below, has pre sented one of our Insurance coupons at tbe cash ier's desk. He had it on him! Another flrs hundred dollars gone, when two dollars would hare bought not only his poem but bis everlasting gratitude." !ssaESi3 - i "" " '"'s s siiiTT
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