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Including Sunday, lin'th.. 90 M-vdai Pipatch. One Year... ISO V kekly PisPATcn. One Year 1 31 The Daily Dispatch Is delivered by carriers -at 31 cents per meek, or. Including Sunday Edition, at It cents per week. FlTTSJU'ltG. MONDAY, JUNE n, 18K. AQEXTS, TAKE NOTICE. Till: DISPATCH lias made arrangements for tlie most exclusive, as well as the most rxhanstlve, reports of the Democratic Na-llc-nal Convention. Agents who haTe not sent in their order for extras should promptly notify the Business Office. THE DISPATCH?, reports from Minneapolis are a snfflclent guarantee of what will be done Bt Chicago. THE rENDING WAGES QUESTION. When a local cotemporary says that because The Dispatch and Times called It to account for blaming the protection policy with differences over the iron and t-teel scales, therefore these journals favor the manufacturers demand for a reduc tion of wages, it says what is neithersmart nor true. The truth is the very opposite. Tile DisrATCH and the Times, and, we venture to say, every other paper in the city, wish for a maintenance of the hlcher scales. If wishing could do any good, they would lieartily vish for conditions to permit of higher wages for all branches of labor than any that have hitherto been paid. They have sense enough, to know that it is the wages of the workingman not the profits of the manufacturer which go most quickly and freely into general circulation, and which make the life of business. There is not a merchant of any sort, or professional man, or news paper with any pretense of ideas on the subject at all, who does not favor the bighest waces for every industry that the prevailing conditions of that industry will allow. Merc self-interest the reciprocity of benefits dictates that And it is because the whole commun ity has thus an interest in high wages because every line of trade shares the benefit that the business public so strong ly support the protection policy, which by establishing favorable conditions makes high wages possible. If, as charged this jear and as has not infrequently occurred in the past manu facturers hold back their best terms at the start, or make extravagant demands, that , is not"fno fault of protection. It is the fault of individuals, not of an economic system. It is the human habit of bargain ing on occasions not in the least ad mirable; yet the common, if not pleasant, way of business. Without impertinently meddling in the minutiae of industries much better understood ooth by employed and employers, The Dispatch time and again has urged upon the manufacturers that the simple and candid plan of offer ing the best terms possible at the start would be greatly preferable to the hag gling and to the painful tension over threats of lockouts and strikes. It would establish trust and confidence upon both Bides, and lead to speedy agreements. But it looks as though the scales will be fought over every year in the old way un til the millennium or Utopia arrives. After all the debates and differences an ami cable agreement will likely be reached, as usually has been the case In the past. We trust it may be in favor of the highest pos sible scale that the conditions of the busi ness will permit; and that both sides will meanwhile thoroughly discourage the at tempts to make out of their temporary differences political capital to be used later on aeainst the great economic sys tem of Protection, upon -which their mutual interests vitally depend. HOT WEATHER ADVICE. At the inception of the heated term the spread of interna tioryis to the best pre cautions against the mseases incident to the season is a public service. This is well performed by the State Board of Health in the issue of three pamphlets giving general information on the subject One deals with precautions against cholera, cholera infantum, cholera morbus and dysentery, another with precautions against sunstroke, and its treatment, and the third with the care of infants during the hot weather. If these circulars were generally studied and their recommenda tions carefully followed there would be a large decrease in the mortality resulting from the hot weather. The State Board is discharging its duty commendably in pub lishing these serviceable little leaflets of in formation and providing for their circu lation to anyone who requests It on receipt of a two-cent postage stamp. THE STAND FOR TnE CANAL. The comforting intelligence w given by Congressman Stone, in an interview else where, though the Ohio River and Lake Erie canal project has just got a tempor ary set-back, the fight in its behalf has just begun. The bill for the survey will be ibent to the committee where it properly belongs, and the project will be vigorously pushed. This is necessarily the proper course for the representatives of this section to take. It is satisfactory that they are outlining it with energy, although it must also be noted that the most sanguine view post pones the project till next session. That fact suggests that there is something further for Western Pennsylvania .repre sentatives to do. They should serve notice by their action that, if a project of sucn importance is to be left out in the cold, they will insist on the same treatment for others of less value but of greater demands on the public treasury. This attitude should be based on the correct principle of supporting internal waterways in the order of their necessity and importance. TnE Dispatch has had occasion heretofore to comment on the marked difference in the consideration given to the various projects. That super erogatory twenty-foot channel, involving an expenditure estimated as high as fifty millions, goes through without even a pre liminary survey. Philadelphia and New York get a survey for a ship canal across New Jersey which will be merely an ar ticle of luxury, and make the appropria tion two and a half times as great as that asked for the canal which can be made to carry the greatest tonnage of the world. AVhen the contrast is afforded of striking out the modest request of the most impor tant project, it is time for tho representa tives of the section immediately interested to make themselves felt Western Pennsylvania should make it clear that it is in favor of a national sys tem of internal waterways. But it must also take the stand that the work must be taken up in the order of merit and neces sity, and not apportioned on the principles of the grab game. THE NEW GAS FIELD. The news of the discovery of new and apparently prolific gas territory in close proximity to the city, published in yester day's Dispatch, is thoroughly confirmed on further investigation. The wells that have been developed show a pressure up to nine hundred pounds, while the full force has not yet been measured. Tho power of the wells has also prevented drilling to the full depth of the sand, so that exact estimates as to the volume of the gasbearing rock and the duration of the supply are not yet obtainable. But the best indication of the importance of the strike is afforded by the fact that the gas companies have been taking all the territory they can buy or lease. The significance of the new wells to Pittsburg is easily understood. That it means such a supply of gas as will restore it to industrial use and do away with the smoke is not fully established. But it affords a basis for that hope and gives a reasonable assurance of a constant supply of gas for household use. It is to be hoped further that it will insure the sale of gas at prices within ,the reach of the masses. After Pittsburg has felt the discomfort of a return to soot and smoke, the prospect of a restoration of an ample gas supply is one to be hailed with universal rejoicing. These considerations will inspire a gen eral hope that the Pmhook field will out shine Murraysville and Grapeville in the power and endurance of its wells. Even if this hope be only partly realized, the de velopment of the new field indicates that gas production is paralleling the history of oil production in the discovery of new fields when old ones begin to fail. THE PISOSPECT FOB CLEVELAND. Senator Calvin S. Brice, after a period of earnest search for Gorman's chances, regretfully gets down from the fence on the Cleveland side and adds his voice to the predictions of Cleveland's nomination on the first ballot This looks very much like the verification of The Dispatch's prediction that the campaign will be that of 1888 tried over again. There is still the better part of a week before the nomina tion; and a good deal sometimes happens in that time. But with the strong start for Cleveland which even his opponents have to concede, the present situation points to his nomination as certain within all ordinary probabilities. Since the Democrats are determined to fight the campaignof 1888 once more, the Republicans need have no objection to accepting the challenge with confidence in securing a repetition of the result QUESTIONS FOB THE CONVENTION. The ante-election disputes of the Chica go convention appear to our esteemed co temporary, the New York Advertiser, to necessitate the settlement of three ques tions before proceeding to final action. It states the conundrums: Since this illumination lias been thrown upon the scene the convention will hare three interesting conundrums to propound to Itself, to wit: "Can Hill defeat Cleveland should Cleve land he nominated? "Can Cleveland defeat mil should Hill bo nominated? "Can the Democracy elect a candidate who cannot carry New York?" Having settled these questions, the situa tion will be much simplified. Bnt in the settling of these questions we expect to see the roof of the Chicago Wigwam again dls tm bed, this time toy the warring elements within instead of the tornado without. If our esteemed cotemporary or the Democratic Convention will accept ex parte testimony it will have no difficulty in getting an answer to these questions. The Cleveland men will give overwhelm ing evidence that Hill cannot be elected; and tho Hill men will give expert testi mony that Cleveland will prove a dead failure. The seeming Incongruity of these assertions can be reconciled more easily than the usual conflict of assertions on the supposition that both sides are right and that neither candidate can be elected. As this ex parte evidence is all -that the convention will have before it, at will be obliged to take it for what it is worth. The only conclusive way of settling such questions is to wait for the election to decide them. But as that is attended by manifest difficulties the convention will have to improve on Wonter Van Twiller's method and value the evidence by the vocal abilities of the shouters and the number of the delegates. ' THE TWO CHAIRMEN. There is a novel feature to politics this year in the attitude of the chairmen of the National Committees concerning the pros pects of success of the actual or putative candidates of their respective parties. It is true that the chairmen for the open ing campaign are not yet elected; but it is not considered the regular thing for even retiring chairmen to predicate of the can didates of their own political organizations the qualities of defeat Hon. Calvin S. Brice, whose sanguine views on things in general were reported a week ago in The Dispatch, has since then been declared to exhibit a less opti mistic view of the prospects of his party by offering to bet $1,000 that Cleveland will be nominated and defeated. This was strictly in private, and is therefore more significant of his personal conviction than his public attitude. It is fully matched by the assertions of Mr. Clarkson, of the Republican committee, as to the difficulty of electing General Harrison. Clarkson's deliverances to this effect were made pub licly, but are qualified by the fact that they were uttered before the nomination and are therefore subject to the unique rule of American politics, which applies equally to Mr. Brice's bet, that anti-nomination utterances do not count The public has heretofore had to con template the spectacle of two trained and reputedly infallible politicians each assert ing that his candidate is dead sure of election and been led to the reflection of the manifest irreconcilability of their fore casts. When a politician says that the candidate of his party will not be elected more weight is given to his utterances; but we are again confronted in this case with the fact that according to expert pre dictions neither candidate will be elected, and the country will be left the dread THE choice between an interregnum and a Farmers' Alliance President: If this feature of the situation should be kept up it would maka godd the title of 1892 as a unique year in politics. But it is certain that the campaign will not proceed very far before all the politicians will be ready to swear by the foreordained success of their respective candidates. The esteemed Philadelphia Inquirer is almost as much worried over the talk of C. L. Magee as Chairman of the Republican Committee as it is over that putative inde pendent legislative movement. It gives as the reason for considering his selection im possible that Mr. David Martin, of Philadel phia, is a member of the committee from Pennsylvania, and concludes that Mr. Magee "can scaroely as yet olaim to be the leader or the Republican party in Pennsylvania." Possibly. Indeed, when we review the course of events for two years, there is room for doubting whether the Republican paity in Pennsylvania has had a leader. It thought it had; but it is beginning to wonder if it was not a mistake. THE tornado continues to whisk about the country where e'er is listeth. Bat don't he alarmed. It won't strike Pittsbnrg Until November, when it is liable to create a lively wbirl in the free trade ranks. WrrH a cabinet portfolio, a first-class diplomatic mission, a Supreme Court Judge ship, a Comptrollership of the Currency, a Judge Advocate General's place, and An tutorship of the Treasury, and numerous smaller posts to fill, the President begins the campaign with an -unusually large amount of patronago to bestow. But that also im poses the necessity ot guarding against the kicking that follows on the distribution of the sort things or public office. Perhaps the President will bo away and make the distri bution in the line of rewards after the No vember eleotlon. THE scattering of diplomatic magnates for rear of Bismarck's visit to Vienna and the possible wrath of William, is nremaik able demonstration of the pettiness of im perial politics. The Washington Post is one of our most interesting exohanges, and it Is pleasant to observe such a sign of its prosperity as the purchase of eligible property in Washington on whioh to erect itself a new building. It Is sometimes a little difficult to keep track of the Post as between Blaine and Harrison, for example but even its volatility Is inter esting. A bright newspaper like the Post is certain to earn success. Census enumerators couldn't find more than 62,979,766 people In the United States. Can it be possible that they forgot to count the dark horses that have been so numer oub lately? The Western Pennsylvania Representa tives will stand to their guns in favor of the canal. They may do this most effectively by letting the supporters of other projects understand that if the Ohio river and Lake Erie project cannot have the treatment it deserves other projects may suffer with it. Hot or cold, ram or shine, there is one institution that grinds on forever. It is the divorce court, and It seems to be trying to breac the record, Just now, all over the country. The nomination of Colonel W. A. Tay lor as the Democratic candidate for Secre tary of State in Ohio is now assorted to have been sprung on the convention as a Joke. When the election is over, there may be a dispute whether the Joke was on Tay lor or the Democracy of Ohio. Politics or no politics, all sensible peo ple will agree that the wisest course is to settle the wages question by a fair compro mise rather than have a summer of idle ness. We notice that General Agnus, of the Baltimore American, is said to be "men tioned" for Secretary of State. Since Colonel Elliot F. Shepard has been alleged to have been "mentioned" for the Vice Presidency, General Agnus has good reasons for object ing to that invidions distinction. Let us see. We believe that Hicks pre dicted a storm period or two during June; but he unfortunately did not locate it on the date of yesterday's refreshing rains. The forecast of the Democratic platform shows that party is sound on the Nicaragua Canaljob. That plank will state that the pioject is all rignt, but that Government aid to the extent demanded by the pro moters is all wrong. Honco Warner Miller will not sulk any longer. To-day President Harrison will be notified that he has been nominated for a second term. No doubt tne news will be broken to him gently. Lightning operated here in several places yesterday, but the storm moved west ward and is likely to strike Chicago by Tues day. There are more marks for the shaft in the Windy City just now, and it will prob ably stay there until a few hopes are blasted. It is for but a brief season now that a large contingency of the Democracy can enjoy the subtle flattery of being pointed at as dark horses. Why need American journals consider the abandonment of the broad gauge by tho English railways a matter for special comment? The record or the United States Congress for the past few years shows that we have set the fashion in this country. A new gas field almost on the city bor der means more for Pittsburg than any other boon. More power to the Pinhook wellsl Is the energy with which the late cyclones attacked churches and schoolbouses to be taken as evidence that these disturbances are manifestations of the Evil One, or have the churches and schoolhouses been re buked for their shortcomings? Bill Nye recently fell on a cuspidor and fractured his arm, and now some are so cruel as to suggest that it was his funny bone. Mr. Thomas B. Reed's sneer at the ice wagon candidate is not seasonable. This is the time of the year when the ice wagon is not only the center of the popular desires, but its engineer is absolutely the lord of the situation. Reports last night indicate that Cleve land Is on the home stretch fully a length ahead or the field. Mr. Dana's attempt to knock out the stuffing from the Cleveland boom with a Pan-electric shock Is heroic but misjudged. More recent Democratic scandals than Pan electricity are occupying the public mem ory, s Distinguished Delegates at Chicago. Boston Herald. It is announced that there will be nine Democratic Governors, seven United States Senators and co end or Congressmen among the delegates st Chicago next week. They will make an lmposingarrayt but.they can hardly hope to compare either In numbers or enthusiasm with the Georgia Majors and the Kentucky Colonels. Proof of Where Colnmbus Was Born. Madrid, June 19. Three documents have been found in the military archives, which go to prove that Columbus was born at a place called Saona, near Genoa. These docu ments confer a title ot nobUlty on Columbus and his son. The Uncertainty Hakes Men Walt. Washington Star. ,' The scarcity of badges in. Chicago would indicate that a large number of delegates are anxlons to be on the safe side, but do not feel quite oompetent to locate It. PTTTSBtJEQ DISPATCH," SUNDAY AND THE FAIR. rwarmtw fob the dispatcim A good man from a neighboring town, who came here the other day as a delegate to the Episcopal Convention, listened to Bishop Whitehead's remarks about the opening of the Columbian Exposition on Sunday, and thereupon took his hat and sought the railway station and departed, sadder If not wiser. The subsequent pro ceedings interested htm no more. Whoever speaks his mind on the Sunday question is bound to offend somebody. People think so seriously and feel so deeply upon this subject that disinterested debate is almost impossible. We can easily discuss problems with which we are not very closely concerned, or whoso solution does not greatly matter to us, but this is not one of them. A debate on the Sunday opening of the World's Fair Is not like a game whioh is played with counters. It IS more like a game where the stakes on each side are piled up heavy and high. Defeat means lamentable loss. Principles are Involved. I have little donbt but that the Columbian Exposition will run at full blast every Sun day in the session, from early morn till dewy eve. There is money in It. And money, In this present state of soml-civlllzatlon In which we live, lsofmoie value to a good many people than morals. The Chicago in vestors who ate financially interested are intent upon making the thing pay. If it Is open on Sunday it will pay better. Without doubt, Sunday will be the be9t day in the week. " How They Can Prove Their Sincerity. This talk about the poor workingman, and the shame of shutting the gates in his face on the only day in the week when he could attend the Fair, is nine-tenths if it sheer hypocrisy. If the managers of the great industries of Chicago and its vicinity are really very solicitous about tho intel lectual and moral uplifting of the working- men let them set going a system of half holidays. That Is a good thing to do any way. And Just now it would strengthen public confidence in the sincerity of some professions of interest In the working classes. If the managers of the Fair are so intent upon Sunday opening Just for the sake of the down-trodden laborer, if the real motive Is pity for the poor people who have to say, like the llttlo girl In "Faith Gartner's Girlhood," "There's lots of good times In the world, but I atnt never in 'em" why, then, let them set the gates wide open every Sun day without any entranoe fee. That is what they do in the great picture galleries on the Continent. On other days you pay your money, but on Sundays the artisan and his wife go fi eft. And the halls are filled with appreciative people, who look at the beauti ful pictures with real interest and get genuine gopd fiom them, and nobody makes any money out of it. One would think that if the workingman wants the Fair open on Sunday ho would be the first to say so. Perhaps he has said so. If he has.hls voice has not been loud enough to attiact tho notice of the papers. In some Instances, notably in England.the opening of the gates on Sunday has been denounced by labor unions es an attempt on the part of capital to steal the only day that the poor man has. Only One Question at Issue. W e have, I think, the strong support of Holy Scripture in the position that the only real question involved is that of prac tical ntility. If it will do more good to have the Fair open on Sunday than to have It shut all tho Twelve Apostles sitting In commission will say, Let it be open. Tradi tion does not matter much. The ways of past generations need not bind us; whether the fair was open on Sunday or not at Phila delphia decides nothing about the opening of it at Chicago. What is on the whole for the best interests or the people under the existing clrcumstanoes? That Is the sole test of the right or wrong of the matter. That is right, in the keeping of the Christian day, which will help men to be better men; and whatever will hinder them is wrong. And there is no other right or wrong in volved. For, if we are to go back to the Fourth Commandment, it is evident upon an atten tive reading that this is a social command ment. There is nothing in it about religion. It did not contemplate church attendance. I was nevermeant to touch society on the ecclesiastical side. It was altogether con cerned with man in his industrial relations. Keep a day holy, tho comirandment said. and the word "holy" meant separate noth ing more than that; not a suggestion of re ligious sacredness in it. Set apart one day in every seven, said the commandment. What for? For rest. God lested on that day, said Moses, and all God's people shall have an opportunity to follow that divine example. You were slaves in Egypt, said the lawgiver, you know what hard work means; now you are to be man masters, 'but don't forget the lessons of your bondage. Never work men as yonr were worked in Egypt. Once every week let the whole na tion take a universal holiday. Let nothing be done on that day which does not impera tively need to bo done. Let off all the peo ple In your employ. Let all men take a rest. nndav Heant ror Uplifting Rest. The Fourth Commandment is one of the most beneficent words that was ever uttered in the eaisofman. It is true' that the ecclesiastics got hold of it, and perverted its meaning. They set it about with tedious regulations. They made men rest by rule. And the kind of rest they got undor that system was as artificial and as uncomfort able as a photographic smile. When Christ came he had to shock the good people of his time by breaking that artificial and mechanical rest day In order that he might keep the day as God intended it He made it a blessed and beneficent day again, a day to rejoice and be glad In, a day in which to do bettor deeds than on other days, a help ful and uplifting day. The Sabbath, he said, was made tor man; not man for the Sabbath. That touched the heart of the commandment. The day was appointed as a help toward the betterment and happiness of man. All this is as true for Chicago as it was for Capernaum. The central meaning of the day Is test. The prime intention Is to keep man from being over-tasked. To koep tho working week within a six-day limit is the chief purpose of the Fourth Commandment. Everything is right for Sunday which, with the least tax upon the labor of men, will do most for the uplifting of man. , A Bright and a Black Side. Now the two sides of the question, viewed from this position, are these. On the one hand. If the gates are closed, they are closed upon the most instructive and beneficial Institution In Chicago excepting the Christian church: while at the same time they are open into all the theaters, all the saloons, and all the vestibules of hell. The streets of the city will be thronged with people who must go somewhere. Where shall they go? That, I think, is the strongest argument for keeping the Fair open. On the other hand, if the gates are open there will bo no Sunday In Chicago. The great army or attendants and machinists and waiters will be kept busy seven days a week. From every point of the compass ex cursion trains will pour in their car-loads of Visitors, twice as many as on any other day. And these people will be largely recruited from the noisy classes. The more respect able folks will stay at home. Chicago will be pandemonium. Another army of brake men and conductors will be employed to convey these throngs of visitors. At the hotels and restaurants a third army of seven-day workers will be occupied in feed ing them. Tho result will be that every last vestige or Sabbath rest will vanish out of the city, Sunday work will be indefinitely multiplied, and the good customs of this country, instead of impressing our brethren from abroad, will receive a blow from which they will be a long time recovering. Eng land and America have thus far stood at tho great Fairs of the world as representatives of the good, wholesome Anglo-Saxon Sun day. Now, if these gates are open, we are to yield to the worse ways of those Latin na tions whioh belong to the past, not to the fnture. The quiet keeping of the day of rest is one of our republican institutions. Chicago threatens to destroy it. Under these circumstances I am thankful that somebody else has the heavy responsi bility of making the decision. , The Seoret Will Work Out. New York Evening World.- Next week everybody will know Just how It is at Chicago. MONDAY, JUNE 20, T0TJBQ2X A8 AIT ALAMKST. Two Representative Colored Men of Phila delphia Laugh at His Talk. Philadelphia, Jane 19. ISpectaLl The re cent utterances of Judge Albion W.Tourgee, predicting an uprising of the colored people of the South and the perpetration of hor rors more frightful even than those of the French Revolution if the lynching of ne groes by white men does not cease, has called upon down his head many adverse criticisms. Robert Purvis is the son of a wealthy Scotchman, very fair, with Cau casian featuros, elegant carriage and hardly any traces whatever of the African parent age of his mother. He is a man of great wealth and broad readlmr, and enjoyed the advantage of a collegiate course at Amherst "I tell you," said he, "that Judge Tourgoe does not voice the sense of the thinking colored people or the South. To begin with, if my reading is not at fault, these lynching that he refers to have been almost without exception visited upon colored men who have outraged white women. Bnt for the fact that the punishment is ono-sided I would applaud it. Death, and death alone, appears to be the one punishment that will discourage this crime. The papers tell us of frequent lynChings of white tramps by white men for similar crimes, and only the other day colored men lynched one of their race for an assault upon a coloied woman. I cannot imagine myself leading a lynching party, but I can almost fancy that I might head suoh an avenging gathering. No, sir; deplorable as the frequent lynchings are the decent colored peoplo Of the South cannot afford to make a race war upon the whites in the defense or criminals. I deplore the fact, though, that whut is called a heinous crime when the blaek man is the offender, is not so regarded when the white man Is the criminal nnd tho blaok woman the victim. But, perhaps, time will cure all this evil." "Bah," remarked Isaiah C. Wears a wealthy representative of his race. "Tourgee is an alarmist. I deplore these lynohlngs. They are indefenslbfe. The law cannot be relied upon to punish, but blood shed will not accomplish anything. By and by tho white men will meet out measurable justice to the black man. The two races can and will live together in harmony. There will never be a race war between the whites and blaoks. Some say the races will assimilate and then the prejudice will disap- Eear. The only rorm of reprisal that I fear i in tho shape of arson. Arson brought Spain to terms in Cuba." AN INTEK-BTATE DECISION. Railroads Cannot Discriminate Against Towns They Cannot Reach. Washington, June 19. The Inter-State Commerce Commission has decided the case or the Eau Claire Board of Trade against the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company and others In favor of the com plainants. The points decided are, briefly, as follows: Where all the distances brought into comparison are considerable ana the differences between them relatively small, theie should be a substantial similarity In the lespective rates unless other modifying circumstances Justify disparity That rates should be fixed In inverse ptoportlou to the natural advantages of competing towns with the view of equalizing "commercial condi tions," as they are sometimes described, is a proposition unsupported by law and quite at variance with every consideration of jus tice. Each community is entitled to the benefits arising from its location and nat ural conditions, and the exaction of charges unreasonable in themself or relatively un just, by which those benefits are neutralized or impaired, contravenes alike the provis ions and the policy of the statute. Complainants held that an unreasonable lumber rate discriminated against Eau Claire, and the Commission rules that a railroad cannot be said to discriminate against a town which it does not reach and in whose cairying trade It does not partici pate: therefore, no case is made out against the.carriers which wete made parties at the request of the original defendant, because none of them have lines extending to Eau Claire. The intervening defendant, the Omaha road, though serving the complaining town, need not, for reasons stated, be included in the older directing the reduced rates, but the case will be held open as against that company for such direction as may here after be req uired. PERTINENTLY PERSONAL. Mrs. Humphry Wabd is called the Mrs. Kendal of literature in England. Jay Gould says he will be back in New York July 12. He will celebrate tho Fourth with cowboys. Out in Chicago they refer to Dr. Harper, president of that new university, as "the grand old watchdog of other people's treas uries." TnE most brilliant fencer in the world is believed to be Cavaliere Eugenio Flni, who is making fencing even more fashionable in London. George Gould didn't go to college; in stead, he went into his father's office at the age of 16, and at 28 he is now a six-millionaire in his own right. Hekbeet Spencek, in spite of his phil p osohical leanings, is passionately fond of comic opera. Unfortunately he never had a chance to see "King Kaliko." Count Leo Tolstoi, according to Rus sian papers, is seriously ill in the village of Begitshevka, where he has been working in the interest of the starving peasants. Sib James Ceichton Browne said a month ago that it is far better for women to grow up healthy than learned. No learned woman seems as yet to have taken up the cudgels with Sir James. Minister T. Jefferson Coolidge lives at Coolidge Neck, Manohester, Mass., when he is at home In summer. Cornelius Vanderbllt succeeds him there this season, having taken a lease of Coolidge Neck. Since Mr. Laboucbere appended his name to a Salvation Army appeal a fort night or more ago, there has been a disposi tion to caricature him, dressed in the garb of the muoh-abused organization which he befrienlod. The marriage of Princess Maria, of-Edin burgh, to Prince Ferdinand, belrapparent to the throne of Roumania, is fixed to take place at Coburg in October next. Religious obstacles prevent the solemnization of the marriage at Windsor Castle. VENEZUELA'S WHEEL OF FORTUNE. By Its Latest Revolution Palaclo Changes Places With One Whom He Exiled. Guanan, Venezuela, June 19. Another battle has been fought, and the Government troops have again been defeated. There was great slaughter of tho defeated army. ,.The Government Generals were killed. Fresh insurrections are reported in the Southern States. A battle was also fought near the mountains, and the Dictator's troops were defeated. Other dispatches state that Dictator. Pal acio left the country yesterday. At La Guayra he got aboard the Government ves sel Llbertador. Her destination is said to be the Island of Trinidad, where Palaclo will replace as a fugitive Dr. Rogas Paul, ex Pi esident of Venezuela, whom he exiled and who is now to become his successor in the offloe of Chief Executive. Vice President Villegas has been prevailed uDon to accept the office of temporary Chief Executive. All the political prisoners, some hundreds in number, have been released. DEATHS HERB AND ELSEWHERE. Rev. James W. Mendenhall. Rev. James W. Mendenhall, D. D., LI. D.. editor of the Methodist Review.,ot Boston, died Saturday morning at Colorado Springs, whither he had gone to recuperate. Dr. Mendenhall was born in Ohio in 1844. He lw a graduate of the Ohio Wcsleyan University and studied and practiced medicine as a profession. Afterward he entered the ministry. He was the author of such well known volumes as "Echoes from Palestine" and 'Plato and Paul: or. Philosophy and Christian ity." He was elected editor of iha Methodist Review at the session of the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church In 183-3.. Obituary Notes. Wolft KAIitscmca. a citizen of San Francls'eo, who had been arrested In Berlin on charge of lese majesle. has died In fall at Berlin. Postmastek Ambeo, editor of the Sunbury Hews, died Saturday. He served In the army, and for years whs a prominent Republican politician. JESSE Fosst. for maqy years a resident of Mas slllon, while talking to his Invalid wife Saturday night, fell from his cnalrand -instantly expired froro.au attack of heart disease. H'i was 70 years of age. Boa" ar Montgomery, Sheriff or Northumber land county, died at Sunbury Saturday morning. aged62Tears He served In the Legislalurein 1870 and 1871. He w3 elected Sheriff two years ago as a ieiuocrai. EXAGGERATED EVILS. rSPXCIAL TKLZOKAB TO Till DISPATCH. New York, June 19. "Exaggerating Financial Evils" is the subject of Matthew Marshall's article for to-morrow's Sun. It is as follows: , Unless the Prestdental campaign about to begin differs from all others which have preceded It, a prominent topic in the dis courses of political orators and in the edl torials of political newspapers from now until election day will be the financial dis tress of the country. The partisans of the administration will contend that nothing bnt ruin and disaster will follow the advent to power of their opponents, and these in turn will assert that their success alone can repair the mischiefs already occasioned and avert the gteater mischiefs ready to follow them. One side will.malntain that the Mo Klnley tariff has been a blight upon the in dustry of the country, while the other will as strenuously insist that its repeal will have tne same evil euect. Here, at the East, the Increase or silver currency will be denounced as paralyzing enterprise and inviting bankruptcy, while at the West and the South free sliver coin age will with equal fervor be extolled as the only means for relieving debtors from the intolerable burden which is crushing them. In like manner the Farmers' Alltanoe, the Labor party, the Prohibitionists, the Female Suffragists and every other faction seeking power will declare that it, and it alone, offers the true remedy for the industrial, economical and social evils which afflict the country now as It never has been af flicted before. The rower or Legislation. I am far from disputing that much can be done by legislation toward augmenting and diminishing financial distress. Like all human interests, Industry can be encouraged and its rewards lnci eased by wise laws, and it can be impeded and rendered less pro ductive by unwise ones. Wearisome as is tho discussion or the tariff, of the currency and similar topics, it results in somo enlight enment of the public mind, and the experi ments made as the outcome of it lead to re sults of more or less value for future use. Hence I don't deprecate the prominence given to financial and Industrial topics in political debates, and I am inclined to be lenient to the rhetorical exaggerations of political writers and speakers. Still, I de sire to put my readers on their guard against accepting those exaggerations as sober facts, and against believing that the country's ruin is either impending' or already here be cause they are told so. For rhetorical purposes Indeed the plain, unembellisheu truth is so muoh less effec tive than exaggeration that the temptation to substitute exaggeration for It in argu ment is almost Irresistible. It 4s well kown that scenery painted for a theater most be made far brighter in Its color than nature and much mote vivid in Its contrasts of light and shade or else it will seem dull and tame. For the same reason actors and actresses have to color their laces to avoid looking pallid, and to declaim instead of speaking conversationally to be heard. Artificial Better Than the Real. There is even a venerable legend that a performer on the stage once won great ap plause by the skill with whioh he mimicked a squealing pig, and that when a Jealous rival sought to supplant him by hiding a Teal pig under his cloak and pinching it nntil it squealed the audience unanimously pronounced the living animal far inferior to its artificial imitator. So, if platform speak ers confined themselves strictly to tacts, they would have no success against more .Imaginative competitors. There is always, too, enough real misfort une in the world to afford foundation for im passioned denunciations of the supposed causes of it. lEvery man has his business troubles and disappointments, and toeverv man they seem of vastly more importance than the troubles and disappointments of other people. When, therefore, he hears la mentations over the evil plight of the coun try, piesent or imminent, his inclination is to join in them and to adopt the remedy pro posed, provided its efficiency is plausibly enough advocated. I never knew the time yet when some one or more of my friends did not insist that his business was not worth doing, and who had not an infallible cure for the evil by some legislative meas uie. This widespread discontent and nope 01 improvement Dy cnange are always ravor able to the party out of power, and it often overbalances the advantage derived from the possession of the offices by the party in power. Bow Henry George Got a Big Vote. A striking illustration of the war in which this trait of human nature operates in this respect was presented by the mayoralty election in 1836, In which Mr. Henry George was a candidate. Mr. George had never held office and had absolutely no political experience and no reputation for administrative ability. His sole recom mendation was the vigor with which he had portrayed the miseries of the poor and the confidence with which he propounded his single land tax scheme as a panacea for them. On this ground alone he obtained CS.000 votes in this city from people who. to save their lives," could not have explained in what respect they were worse off than the rest of mankind, nor how the election of Mr. George as mayor of New Yoek would lesult in tho slightest benefit to them. The wrongs and the sufferings of the la boring population are always an inexhausti ble theme, not only for politicians but for philanthropists. If we are to believe all we read and hear, the men and women who work for dally and weekly wages in this country are the most abused and down trodden creatures in existence, and the em ployers who pay them wages are inhuman tyrants. The favorite remedy proposed for the evil is to abolish individual employers and have all industries managed Dy Govern ment officials . This is done in the lace of the fact that the Government officials we have already are continually denounced by those opposed to them in politics as selfish, greedy, corrupt, tyrannical, and everything else that Is bad. As Well Off as Anyone. The truth is, unless I am greatly mis taken, that while American workingmen are not perfectly happy, they are as nearly so as the rest of their fellowmen, and de serve no more commiseration from others. Politicians at the extreme West and South have a great deal to say Just now about the distress cansed in those sections by the want or ready casn and tne aDsolute neces sity of legislation to relieve It. The meas ures proposed are unlimited silver coinage and an increase of bank circulation. The later device has only lately come into prominence. A bill to enact it into law was presentee? in Congress last week, and I am jilad to see it was summarily i ejected. Yet very respectable gentlemen advocate it on the ground I have mentioned, namely, that people remote from the great financial centers are suffering from the scarcity of currency and are compelled to pay ex orbitant rates or interest for loans They forget the time honored saying that a man cannot eat his cake and have it too, and that what the western farmers and south western planters suffer from is debt volun tarily incurred, which no coining of silver and printing or bank notes will discbarge. Our western and southwestern fellow citizens are not, however, pecnliar in thus exaggerating the intensity of tho financial evils whioh most immediate concern them. Every time a little gold is shipped to Europe it makes our capitalists uneasy and de presses the prices of securities. Few peo ple seem to consider that gold coin cannot be eaten, nor drunk, nor worn, and that its shipment abroad reduoes by just so much our debts abroad and Is thereiore a benefit to us and not an injnry. Serloas Obstacles to Prosperity. The most serious obstacles to financial prosperity are not those whioh are the most talked about and for the removal of which legislative remedies are the most loudlv de manded, but those of which little or no ac count is taken and whioh can be overcomo only by individual effort. The want of skill, enterprise and good judgment, the taking of unwise risks in the hope of great and sudden profits, the giving of credit to men undeserving of It, and the expansion or business upon borrowed money all operate surely and steadily to bring about thefie quently recurring financial disasters wrongly attributed to legislation. Up to this time no means have been in vented for eliminating from business af fairs these agencies of evil, and until they are eliminated it Is vain to expect uninter rupted financial prosperity. THE LATEST OCEAN BACK. The Alaska Beat the Aoranla, Though De layed by Broken Machinery. New Yore, June 19. The race between the White Star steamer Alaska and the Cuuar derAuranla, across the ocean westward, was won bv the former off Sandv Hook this afternoon, in seven days, five hours and i lorty-nve minutes, nut witn oniy aoout zu minutes to her credit. The Alaska passed Roohe Point at 12:12 r. X., and the Auranla at 12:41 p. m. Sunday, and, with a slight ex ception, kept in sight of each other all the wav. Teaching the Hook at 1:33 and 1:34 r. x. to-day respectively. The Alaska was delayed by broken ma chinery a lew hours Tuesday, during which time the Auranla passed her and went out of sight: but the Alaska soon overhauled and forged ahead of her competitor on the completion of repairs. OLD HTJTCH'S HASH HOUSE. Interviewed In His New Field, He Says He Is Deaf, Damb and Blind. " New York, June 19. Benjamin Peters Hutchinson, better known as "Old Hutch," is busy preparing to open his new restaurant in the store which extends from 20 Bridge street to 31 Pearl street. He has taken a lease of the place until May L 1833, and paid three months' rent in advance. He expects to begin feeding the hungry some time next The' contents of the store yesterday con sisted of the couch which "Old Hutch" brought from Chicago to sleep on, a barrel of lime, a lot of second-hand dishes, a, loaf or bread and "Old Hutch" himself, with a last summer's straw hat tipped back on his head, a lawn tennis shirt with patches on the elbows sewed by himself and a pair of faded overalls. "What are yon going to call your hotel?" he was asked. "I'm deaf," he replied. "Are you going to sell liquors?" "I'm dumb." "Are you going to have French waiters?" "I'm blind." "Will your establishment be run on the European or American plan?" "Didn't I tell you I was deaf, dumb and blind? Get out." "Are you going to be the cook or the cash ier?" "None of your business. Get out, or I'll open an unaertaklns establishment right off. Come around next week when I recover my speech." "Are yon going to open a laundry too?" "Go! Get out! I'm dangerous." "Old Hutch" determined to open a restau rant because he could not get food which had not been salted. He said he wanted everything Just as nature produced it. And again, prices were too high. Great sport Is expected when be throws open bis doors. He has not been trading in grain recently. It is said he has given up speculation for good. LABOR AND THE FAIR, New York Mechanics Demand the Appro priation and Ask for Sunday Openlnr. New York, June 19. At the meeting of the Associated Trades of Now York held last evening the following resolutions were adopted: "Whereas, The Worlds Fair to be held at Chicago In 1S93 is and should be regarded as a national affair of the widest significance, and "Whereas, This Fair will be primarily an exhibition of the skill and products of the labor of the world, therefore be it "Resolved, That as workingmen of New York we are Interested in all that concerns labor on Its behalf, and demand that this great enterprise shall be worthy of the work ing people of the nation. "Resolved, That we demand tho Immediato passage of the hill now before Congress, ap propriating $5,000,000 for this undertaking, to the end that that enterprise shall be lifted from the narrow confines that limit its im portance to a single city, into the broad area of national dimensions; and we further de mand It on the ground that the sum asked from the National Treasury has been ex pended for labor already performed. "Resolved, That we are unalterably op posed to the proposed project looking to the closing on Sundays of this great educa tor or the masses, industrial art and mechan ical science. "Resolved, That In the name of the toilers or the country,we protest against such a sac rifice and denial of their right toexamlneand study the work and skill ot their brother toilers or the earth on the only day when their time is their own and their mind is in its most receptive condition to porcelvo the larser lessons which the dignity, importance and necessities of the labor world ever teach." DEMOCRATS MAY 00 HUNGRY. Striking; Walters in Chicago Serve Their Orders on the Delegations. Chicago, June 19. Four restaurants signed the waiters' scale yesterday, but they were small lunch houses. When the committee called at Gore's Hotel and tho Great North ern.theymet with a refusal on the part of the proprietors to sign the scale. The wholo foice of the Chicago Club walked out. The Strike Committee, led bv President Pomeroy. visited the headquarters of the the New York delegation, where Pomeroy Informed those present that he represented 1,200 striking waiters: that certain houses in the city had been placed undor the ban of the union, and they hoped no loyal Demo crat would patronize such houses. Ho then asked if the New York delegates expected to recognize the committee. General Daniel E. Sickles, assured him the committee would be well received, but thatastboie were but a few or the regular delegates present he sug gested that the strikers' criovonce bo put in the form of a written communication, ad dressed to tho delegates through Chairman Murphy, and that It be presented at 8 o'clock, when the delegation would be pres ent in lorce. The suggestion was carried out. The assembled waiters In the park marched in double file to a position directly facing the delegation headquarters, nhen a prolonged and hearty three cheers ami a tiger weie delivered tor the New York Democracy. Filing then up to State street and in front or Siegel, Cooper & Co.'s a stop was made long enough to cheer themselves and decide the waiters employed there to strike. ONTARIO'S IRON ORE. American Capital to Develop a New Source ofWfalthto the Province. Toronto, June 19. Capitalists have in band a project for the erection of blastfur naces near here for smelting Ontario ora, and they are urging the Provincial Govern ment to grant financial aid to carry out the scheme without delay, lc is proposed to erect furnaces tvith a capacity of smelting 100 to 150 tons of pig Iron daily. Capitalists inform tho Government that experts from the United States who have examined the Ontario iron ore say it is of a very supe rior quality, and point out the faot that it is re markably low in its percentage of phosphor us, and will, therefore, yield high grades of Iron and steel. Regarding fuel, the project ors of the scheme state that It can be laid down here cheaper than in Chicago. It is proposed to use coke. W. Hamilton Merritt, a Canadian mining expert, states that the United States pro duces 45 times as much pig iron per capita as Canada, and, as individual consumption is about the same in both countries, the showing is not very complimentary to the Dominion. Americans, he said, are obliged to Import their best qualities from Spain and Cuba, while In Ontario there are deposits quite up to the standard of either Spanish or Cuban ore. The Government is asked to pay a bonus of $3 per ton for all ore mined, and it is thought that, as this will help de velop the Iron mining industry of the coun try, the request will be granted, American capitalists own some important iron ore dis tricts in Ontario. Massachusetts to Its Delegates. Boston Herald. A pleasant and profitable Journey to Chi cago, Messrs. Dolegates. Be solid and you will be happy! THE NATION'S SYMPATHY. There can be none now, neither friend nor opponent, who will hear the news of his be reavement without the tribute of pitying sadness, Philadelphia R-cord. In the sudden death of his son, Mr. Emmons Blaine, at Chicago, ex-Secretary Blaine has met with a new affliction, over which the whole country will grieve with him. Sea York Frets. The political arena fades from view; wo only remember that a rather has bowed his head before the storm, and offer the sympa thy which is due from one man to another. Sew York Herald. This has been a sad four years for James G. Blaine, and in his last affliction, the death of Emmons Blaine, his most promising son, he will have the sincere sympathy or tho country. iVeto York World. The sympathy of all his countrymen and countrywomen will go out to the great ex Secretary of State, James G. Blaine, In the terrible bereavement that has fallen on his house. Sew York Recorder. Henceforth all political striving and am bition will probably be repugnant. In a new sense, to the bereaved statesman for whose sake millions of Americans will feel the loss or Emmons Blaine as a personal sorrow. Cleveland Leader. Few public men have had deeper private griefs than this great American, who Is hon ored at home and abroad. Poor in feeling must be the man whose heart will not do touched by the new sorrow which has dark ened Mr. Blaine's home. Sew York Tribune. AFPticnoifs have come upon Mr. Blaine with grievous frequency in recent years, and now again the resentments of politics and the differences born of public activities will b laid aside while the sympathy of the nation finds utterance and the whole people mourns with him at the death of bis son, Emmons Blaine. Sew York Timet. CDKIOUS CONDENSATIONS. In the United States there are 673,613 Free Masons and M7.71 Odd Fellows. A shark caught ofi the Irish coast in . 1862 measured 31 feet In length and the weight of Its 11 ver was more than two tons. Card" playing was a favorite diversion as far back as Shakespeare's time. Tho principal games then played are now un known, such as "primers." "gleek," "maw," "ruff," and "knave out of doors." Shakespeare's expression, "false aj dicers' oaths," bears strictly In hi3 own time. At the period of the Restoration false, dice wero called fulhams, from having been manufactured in a town of that name. A stream near Tucson, Ariz;, petrifies all soft substance thrown into It It Is In the great Colorado potato Deetle belt, and at the time of their migrations thousands of them strike the water ana are converted into solid stone. Many English surnames end in ford, ham (house), lea, ton (farm) and by (dwell ing), from the old practice of naming per sons after their native place. Ayleaford, Grlmston, Habersham and Ormsby are ex amples. A return card sent from London to Hong Kong via Vancouver on the 19th of Marcn reached its destination April 28. and within three hours was on its way to London on a P. A O. steamer, arriving in London May 30, or around the world in 70 days. The Empire of China, covering an area of 4,000,000 square kilometers, now has a pop ulation of 350,000,000, or about 83 Inhabitants to the square kilometer. Ho-Nan is the most thickly populated province having about 210 persons to the square kilometer. Although it may not be generally known the woods of Northern British America are still infested by hundreds of queer species of bison known as the "woods nufialo." He Is much larger than the bison of the plains, which formerly abounded in such numbers. An ingenious lock has been invented by which doors, etc., may be locked from a distance electrically. It is specially applica ble for doors in private and business bouses and offices, where absolute privacy Is needed or desired. The lock is operated by simply turning a switch. A resident of Huntingdon advertised recently that he could prove that in spiritual ism is a remedy for all pain. He proposes to place himself under the surgeon's knife, and allow himself to be cut open, his heart removed, his lungs cut in halves, and other dismemberments made to prove that he Is right. One of the most expert money handlers In the Treasury Department at Washington Is a woman, who has the remarkable record of counting 75,000 coins in a single day. So delicate and sensitive is her sense of touch that even when counting at tills tremendous rate she detects a false coin with unerring instinct. In Mindinac, the farthest southeastern island In the Philippine group, upon one of its mountains, the Volcanic Apo, a party of botanical and ethnographical explorers found recently, at a height of 2,500 feet above the sea level, a colossal flower, as larse as a carriage wheel, in fact. It is the largest flower known. Bombay, India, has opened magnificent new water works, supplying the city by gravity with 31,000,000 gallons of water dall v. The water is brought from a great artificial lake and passes thjongh G2 miles of tunnels. The water works, including the dam and aqueducts, are among the famous engineer ing works of the time. The bodies of the spider3 of Ceylon are very handsomely decorated, being bright gold or scarlet underneath, while the upper part Is covered with the most delicate slate colored fur. So strong are the webs that birds the size oflarks are frequently caught therein, nnd even the small but powerful scaly lizard falls its victim. In that enormous waste known as the Gobi Desert, north of China, showers some times fall during the summer, and the tor rents of a day fill the drled-up water-courses through which water seldom runs. It is in thpse channels that the Mongols dig their wells, expecting to find :i little water, when upon tho surface ot the plateau itself the soil has lost all triice3 of humidity. ' It is said that in China the wife is veryt seldom mentioned by her husband, bnt when he does mention herltis always In some roundabout, wav. He has some name that be calls her In his flowery language, which takes the place of the word "wile." One mnn calls his wife "my hand tho clothes:" another caljs her "my dull com panion;" another "my thorn In the ribs;" mother descnDcs her as "the mean one of the inner rooms." The first commercial intercourse of the English with the East Indies was a private adventnro of three ships fitted out in 1591. Only one of them reached India, and, after n vovage of thre years, the commander, Captain Lancaster, was brought home In another ship, the sailors having seized his own: Dnt his information gave rie to a mercantile voyago nnd the establishment of a company, whose first clrirter, in Decern ber, 1630, was renewed in 1C09. A great rarity, in the shape of an Aepyornis egg, has been exhibited at the Zoological Society. London. This hnge egg is as nearly as possible a foot long, and tho specimen in question is valued at about $500, so that it rivals the egg of tho great auk, which fetches such fancy prices. The eggs are occasionally found in Madagascar, bnt onlv a few of them have ever turned up. Tho-bird which laid them is only imper fectly known, from fragments. The sacred fires of India have not all been extinguished. The most ancient, which still exist k, was consecrated 1 centuries ago . In commemoration of the voyage made bv theP.irsees when they emigrated from Persia to India. The fire Is fed five times every 2 hours with sandal wood and other fragrant materials, combined with verv dry fuel. This flre, in the village of Oodwada, near Bulsar, is visited by the Pnrsees in largo numbers dnrlngtho months allotted to the presiding genius of flre. A German cotemporary notes as a re markable historical tact that for nearly 200 years no son of a monarch of France ever sneceeded his father on the throne. Louis XV. sueceeded his grandfather, Louis XIV. Louis XVI. was the grandson of Louis XV. Louis XVIIL was the brother of Louis XVL Louis Philippe came to tho throne on the renunciation of the crown by Charles X, who was tho brother of Louts XVIII. Na poleon III. was the nophew of Napoleon L, and closed the long line of crowned heads In France. IDYLLIC tf MORESQUE. Brown By the way, is he still in the land of the living? " Slarritt I can hardly say. The last time I heard of hlmhewasln Philadelphia. Sew Xorlc Ettntng Sim. Just a little dimple, Just a little cyrl. Just a smile quite simple That's what makes the girl. Jnst some ducats yellow. Just a few good clothes That's what makes the fellow. Everybody knows. Just the luck to "get there." Jnst to please her dad. Zounds! An epithet there. That's what makes me mad. Harlem Lift. Frances (4 years old) Mamma! Mamma What Is It dear? "You never saw me before I was born, did you?" "o, love." Then how did you know It was me?" BrooJtljfn -Life. He's mean; it is quite funny, For he's a man of wealth. He only spends his money T ben he has lost bis health. Colorado Seat. "I have proposed to Miss Jinxby again," he said, sadly." but I don't believe there Is any hope for me." "Why." replied his friend, solicitously, "she didn't accept you, did she?" Somerset Times. The season of the year's at hand When the Summer girl so pert. Will stroll aloni the whitened sand Clad in her brother's shirt. With dainty straw hat on her head, And freckles ou her face. With sprightly air she'll gayly tread To Summer's breezy pace. And each young man will not Inquire Her pedigree or birth. But he will wonder, walking by her. How much her pa Is worth. Cloak Review. "I say, my friend," said a traveler in Maine, "can yon tell me where there's a haunted house?" "Yes. sir," was the reply. "Come with me and you'U find any kind of spirits you want, Washing ton Star. iitiw&m
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