THE PITTSBURG .'DISPATCH. TUESDAY, JUNE 28. 1892.
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SIGNING THE SCALE.
The good news from the West telling of
the signing of the iron and steel wage
scale by prominent firms there doubtless
marks the begiuning of the end of
the delay here. When this is accom
panied by the announcement that
one of Pittsburg's leading steel firms has
signpd the steel scale and notified its
workmen that the July vacation cannot
be guaranteed, the public naturally in
clines to the belief that the industry is not
in such a precarious condition as some
would have it appear. The fact, too, that
all the Western firms demanded the waiv
ing of th summer rest clause indicates
that there are sufficient orders in sight to
guarantee a busy season all along the line
of this industry.
Yesterday's Western break in the
manufacturers' ranks gives hope that the
final settlement will be reached before or
at the appiinted time. The only cloud on
the industrial licrizon in this district is the
alleged determination of one large firm to
wage war against organized labor.
The announcement that imported special
police and Pinkertons are to be
employed this, too, without a sign of
violence from the labor element is to be
deplored. The Dispatch hopes that the
rumor is unfounded, and trusts that
peaceful and harmonious methods only
will be used to settle the pending dispute.
THE FRENCH SCANDAL.
That reported scandal trom Paris with
regard to the sale of the plans of French
fortifications promises to assume inter
national proportions. The confession of
Greiner, the clerk in the Ministry of
Marine, that he sold the plans to Captain
Borup, a military attache of the United
States Legation, who in turn sold them to
the. German and Italian Governments, is
one that cannot be ignored or overlooked.
Under ordinary circumstances such an ac
cusat.on against an officer trained in the
strict school of our army would be un
worthy ot notice. But in this case the
assertion is too definite to cast aside The
testimony ot a confessing official can
hardly be ignored, even though it places
itself under suspicion by undertaking to
state what Cap'ain Borup did with the
plan after th'y had passed beyond the
knowledge of Greiner, who makes the
corfeision.
Of course, 1- the accusation is proved,
our Government cannot too completely
disavow or too severely punish such art
unwarrantable tampering with the -.ecrets
of a friendly nation. But there should be
clearer evidence than the ascertion of a
self-;onfessed scoundrel before a man of
honorable position is disgraced for life.
THE TALK OF GRESHAM.
The possibility of Gresbam as a Third
party candidate has loomed up somewhat
lately, but is still very indistinct. The
factors against Ips nomination are double:
first, his refusal to accept the sub-treasury
and soft-money crankisms of the People's
party platform; second, his private cir
cumstances. On the other side are the facts: first,
that leaders in that party have been urging
him to say that he will accept, with a full
knowledge that the acceptance would
carry a repudiation of the crazy elements
of that organization; and, second, that the
labor element are proposing to raise a
fund to carry on this campaign.-. If things
should result in bringing Gresham actively
in the field wit h the nomination of the
Indianapolis Convention, there might be
some very interesting and unforeseen
results to the campaign. But the fealty
of the Farmers' party to the sub-treasury
idol, and Gresbam's own declaration that
he is not to be considered a Third party
candidate, make it very improbable that
this disturbing factor will interfere with
political calculation. The latest talk of
Adams, of Colorado, as the Omaha candi
date, with Van Wyck and Donnelly as
composing the field, reduces that political
element to comparatively slight impor
tance. NO OUTLET FOR THE SILVER MEN.
The threatened bolt of the free silver
men has not materialized very strongly as
yet Mr. Patterson, of the Jiocky Mount
ain -Newt, is the only one who has pro
ceeded to overt acts in that behalf by
bolting the Democratic ranks. Other
Colorado Democrats will be slow to fol
low his example when they reflect
that such a bolt can do no one any good
except -the Republicans whose position is
practically the same as that of the Demo
crats on this subject The free-silver Re
publicans have an equally cogent discour
agement asainst bolting their party for
the same reason. Possibly the silver men
might mark their disapproval by having a
stated number of Democrats go over to
the Republican party and the same num
ber of Republicans join the Democracy.
, But they are deterred from this formal
protest by the fact that as this would in
jure neither party neither would care a
snap for it
By the action of the conventions the free
silver issue has been thoroughly removed.
Iron) the campaign. Both platforms per
mit the hope of the restoration of silver by
international agreement and a readjusted
ratio. The Republican platform is a little
more liberal in this respect than the
Democratic; hut both candidates present
an equal guarantee that no free coinage
bill will obtain the Presidental signature
for the next five and a half years.
The peculiarity of the situation is the
utter futility of any rebellion on the part
of the free-silver men in either party.
There is some talk of a general secession
into the People's party, which would
indeed permit the dissatisfied silver men
to stand on a platform suitable to their
ideas. But the utmost that the People's
party can possibly effect is to get a few
electoral votes and throw the election into
the House, thus insuring Cleveland's
election. When the dissatisfied Demo
crats perceive that this method of punish
ing their party would make its success
certain, and the dissatisfied Republicans
comprehend that their revenge would
simply elect the opposition candidate, also
an anti-silver man, they will see the nec
essary conclusion that their only course is
to grin and bear it This makes the tariff
the only great issue of the year, 'and the
friends of protection must rally all their
forces in defense of that policy.
THE WORK OF COUNCILS.
Councils prepared for-their two months'
vacation by polishing off arrears in short
order yesterday. A large number of
ordinances were hurried through with a
spurt as well as the resolutions dealing
with the payment of contracts. The most
important among the measures dealt with
were an ordinance authorizing the pur
chase of the Heeld farm and resolutions
instructing Chief Bigelow to close options
on land around Highland Park amounting
to $209,000. ,
The unnecessary sizs of the Neeld
farm for poor farm purposes and the
high price to be paid for it have already
been pointed" out as objections by The
Dispatch. But the city had spent so
much time over the exposure of earlier
jobs that it was to some' extent cornered
and had to choose between this property
and nothing. It is at least satisfactory
that the selection has Mayor Gourley's
approval and that this purchase Is less by
one half than the exorbitant prices origin
ally 'asked for other poor farm property.
With regard to the Highland Park reso
lutions it is evident that Chief Bigelow
has done the best he could for the city in
this matter as in all else that be has under
taken for the park sj stems. The earlier
the city gets into the field the cheaper
will it he able to purchase any land that
may be required. Whetner this enlarge
ment to Highland Park is to be made or
not will of dourse remain an open ques
tion until next year's appropriations are
submitted. If the state of the city's
finances should warrant the enlargement
of the parks the options will prove useful.
If, on the other hand, further park im
provements cannot be obtained without
increased taxation the matter must be
dropped, and the options will at least have
done no harm.
INFANTS TO THE BEAR.
A tendency to exalt the juvenile mem
ben of two prominent families in the com
ing campaign to a position of undue infiu
erce makes the suggestion exceedingly
pertinent that the babies shall be kept in
the nursery. The keynote of the disposi
tion to run the campaign on infantile
principles was struck In a set of rhymes
which appeared last week, representing
Baby Ruth Cleveland as ordering Baby
McKee to get out of the White House.
More than one manifestation of this class
of idiocy-is unnecessary to convince people
that if the campaign is to be placed above
the level "of utter 'drivel the infants shall
be left to take their sustenance in retire
ment. Of course, there are some weak justifica
tions for the tendency to make the na
tional campaign a competitive baby show.
On the theory that politics is simply a
struggle for pap there is a species of
poetic fitness in fighting for it under
leadership1 of :? the innocent- and
undeveloped class to which that sort of
sustenance justifiably represents one of
the main objects in life. The infantile
idea also is in harmony with the class.of
arguments which are apt to'flourish in
Presidental campaigns, and precludes
anv necessity for supposing that the
American people have cut their wisdom
teeth. If we are satisfied to keep the
campaign on the level of infantile men
tality the infantile leadership may he ap
propriate. But, inasmuch js the campaign involves
principles and policies wh.ch require the
exercise of sober and mature judgment, it
will be well to give prominence solely to
arguments and considerations addressed to
fully-developed minds. Let the babies,
Presidental and otherwise, be cared for in
that retirement which is most healthy for
them.
HOW FAR DOES IT REACH?
The decision by which" the use of the
trolley is forbidden to the Philadelphia
street railroads may have a wider interest
than to that city alone. The decision is
reported to be based on the ground that
the law providing for changes of motive
power on street railways is unconstitu
tional. If that is the case, in what position
does it leave our numerous traction com
panies? Did they change their motive
power under this law? If not, what law
are they operating under, or are they con
ducting their operations under no law at
all?
It would be interesting if the courts
should find out that the street railways
cannot adopt a new motive power after
they have been demonstrating that they
can do it for two years'and more.
ONE COMBINATION CONTICTED.
All the prosecutions against trusts and
combinations are not perfunctory and
futile. A case was terminated in Lock
port, New York, the other day where the
usual combination, alleged- to be an "ex
change," was under indictment for a con
spiracy in restraint of trade. The evi
dence showed the case to be an ordinary
one of n agreement for fixing prices, pro
hibiting members from selling t below
state! prices, and prescribing penalties
for violation of this rule. Upon this
showing the jury convicted the members
of the exchange of conspiracy, and while
the case will go through the long course
of appellate proceedings, a very decided
characterization of a very usual business
policy has been authoritatively made.
A significant indication of the, times is
afforded by the course which capital
adopts in view of the decisions against it
Every time a case involving a combination
to restrain competition has reached a fair
trial before courts of authority-the illegality
of all such decrees has been declared in
the most unmistakable terms. Yet the
corporations keep right .on, secure in the
notion that an appeal to a higher court
justifies their continuance in the course of
law breaking. When the ultimate courts
decide against them there is a pretense of
obeying the decision by. a reorganization
which carefully preserves the illegal feat
ure. The law is unmistakable, the dec
larations of its principle by the courts are
unswerving, but aggregated capital, owing
its creation and preservation to the law,
seems to have come to the conclusion that
it is greater than its creator.
Another striking peculiarity is the ease
and celerity with which a judgment can
be obtained against combinations of small
and local character as 'compared with
those of" national scope and offending.
This is, of course, simply a measure of the
greater power to fight the case through
'the courts commanded by the great com
binations. But even that statement of the
advantage - which wealth has "before the
law is sufficient to set men thinking of its
departure from the ideal justice where
rich and poor are supposed to be exactly
equal.
Judge Gresham is said to believe that
the Third party is the party of the future.
Elther the opinions of that party must
.change and assume definite and other shape
or there must be a great alteration In the
beliefs of the nation before that prophecy
can come true. The People's party is cer
talnlynot the party or the present, and
whatever showing it makes this year will he
to its own disadvantage as-well as to that of
the nation.
Express robbers are a progressive set ot
gentlemen. One of them has made use of a
safe deposit company's vault to secure his
booty.
Nothing could be more dignified .than
General Claikson's withdrawal from the
Chairmanship of the EopuUIican National
Committee, and his outspoken declaration
that he will work hard to support the tlcKet
or his party shows the position that all true
.Republicans will take. He and they place
their party and their country's interests be-
foie their Individual preferences for this or
that 'man to represent them.
One of the advantages of living in Pitts
burg is that it Is an easy place to get out of
on high days and holidays.
If Doctor Marv Walker should have her
way and be placed In charge of a costume
department at the Woild's Fair it Is safe to
presume that the floctor would by most
visitors be looked upon as the most inter
esting feature of that particular exhibit.
Pittsbubg ball pitchers never play their
best until they have been discharged from
the Pittsburg team.
Socialist organizations in America have
two reasons for chiimlDg recognition as a
political party. They haveno end of in
ternal dissensions, and their members are
continually accusing one another of being
"boodlers."
The third railroad wreck of the series is
anxiously awaited by superstitious persons
desiring to travol.
Patriotism is an excellent and desirable
thing, but the piemature explosion of flie
crackers in tho streets is somewhat of an
annoyance to the nerves. Enthusiasts might
at least wait until the Fourth arrives.
Councils are to take a rest, and the city
will be at peaco for a little moie than two
months.
Senator Gorman is suffering Just now
from a superabundance of criticism. Some
of his tormentors should lemember that It
is unmanly to strike a man who is down to
such a depth as Gorman.
PmsBUEG's ball players may have high
aspirations, but they do little to realize
tbeui.
Mexico is certainly not cursed with
monotony. When there is no revolution on
hand there are earthquakes or something of
that kind just to keep things going.
Pat your water taxes within three days
or lose the five per cent discount thereon. '
Prohibitionists in convention at Cin
cinnati cannot afford to overlook the brew
ery war which is expected to reduce beer to
three cents a glass at St. Louis.
JUKE promises to establish an unsavory
reputation as;& month of sudden deaths.
Campbell will make it his special busi
ness, s Chairman of the. Republican Na
tional Committee, to see that Stevenson is
modest enough in Illinois. '
Another prize fight is over and public
attention leturns to politics.
The block system on railroads will be as
fanlty as any other if tho conditions of ser
vice be such as to leave its actual working to
the care of blockheads.
As an inspiration for fervid invective
Tammany is unequaled.
It is easy enough to suggest remedies and
preventives lor railroad accidents, but the
difficulty lies in getting the railroad com
panies to adopt them.
The House was surprised by the presence
of a quorum yesterday.
The House yesterday passed the general
deficiency bill. But there is a general de
ficiency about this Congress that will not
pass unnoticed.
The Sonthside is indulging in a festive
turn just now.
There should be plenty of education in
this year's campaign. The better the facts
are known the stionger is the case'for Pro
tection. MUNDANE METEORS.
President Koberts, of the Pennsylva
nia Railioad has started for Europe.
John G. Whether is said to be color
blind, but the same charge was brought
against Homer. Mr. Whlttier probably Isn't
worrying, much about it.
- William C. Whitney, now the nation
al "Boss" of the Democratic party, first
came into public life when he was ap
pointed corporation counsel by Mayor Wick
ham. Poultnet Bigelow, who with Fred
erick Remington, the artist, was recently
expelled from Russia, was a school friend of
the German Emperor,' by whom he has
always been well liked.
Adlai E. Stevenson, is another of the
many Kentuckians who have become promi
nent in public life as citizens of Illinois,
among whom Lincoln, Yates, Browning and
Oglesby are the most famous. Douglas was
a native of Vermont and Grant of Ohio.
Mrs. McKee will 'not accompany Mrs.
Harrison to the Adiroodacks this summer,
but will spend the season on the Massachu
setts coast instead, either at Marblcbead or
Nahanc She has already gone to Boston to
join her husband in a pielimiuary survey.
Ex-Empress Eugenie of Frahoe, will
spend a part of the present summer at the
Castle of Arenberg, in the Canton of Thur-'
gan, near Constance. Napoleon III spent a
part of his youth at the castle, and the peo
ple of the neighborhood tell many stories ot
his pranks as a boy.
Prince Alexis, of Russia, missed the
last train that wonld reach the Derby in
time, and telegraphed a polite request to
have the races delayed, as he was exceed
ingly anxious to see them. When he arrived
at the Derby, however, he found that the
races had come off as a matter of course
'The venerable James W. Bradbury, the
oldest living ex-Senator or the United
States, recently celebrated his ninetieth
birthday at Augusta, Maine. He is excep
tionally well preserved physically as well as
mentally, his form being as erect In his ad
vanced age as one of the pine trees of his
State.
The Indiana Commnnoement.
Ihdiasa, Pa., June 27. Special. This is
commencement week at the State Normal
School. Last evening Bishop Whitehead, of
Pittsburg, delivered the baccalaureate ser
mon. Wednesday morning the annual meet
ing of the alumni wUl be held. In tbe aiter
noon come the exercises of Class Day, and
In the evening the students will present the
opera, "Little Tycoon." Thursday is Com
mencement Day, with the alumni reunion In
the evening. ,
A LOOK AROUND.
The novel readers are saying that this is
a season without a book, meaning by this
that there is nothing strikingly good among
the summer's crop of Action. These views
are borne out by the book men, who are un
able to name a story which Is selling well.
.Surely somebody is due with a tip-top good
thing of an all aiound nature. By the way,
what has become of that Anglo-Indian story
alluded to by Kipling in one of his sketches,
and -which was spoken or as being on the
stocks a year and moi e ago?
Speaking of Kipling, I met a young
lady not- long since who saw considerable
of the erratic young giant killer during his
month's visit to the family of Dr. Taylor, at
Beaver" The young author did not make a
particularly favorable impression among
tho American girls whom he met here
casually. They found him disposed to have
grievances on slight grounds. Although at
that time Kipling was not a lion, he was dis
posed to roar like one. . Ho did not like
American social usages, and - did not
hesitato to discuss them adversely. One
he went to a reception where
he met an extremely bright young lady, in
whose witty comments and breezy views of
the universe, its Inhabitants and its laws
Kipling took great pleasure. She was one of
those who w ei e aiding the hostess to receive,
and naturally had demands upon her time
from other guests. She gracefully excused
herself and turned Kipling over to a legs
brilliant entertainer, and the immediate re
sult was that he became sulky and silent
like a boy when he finds another fellow be
fore him in the parlor of his best girl. He
declared afterward that the proper thing to
have done under the circumstance was for
the lady to devote herself solely to his enter
tainmont. To a young geutleman of Beaver, in
speaking in regard to himself and his liter
ary future, Kipling took an extremely
modest view of his own merits. He thought
he had a career before himf and he said, as
near as my Informant can remember his
words: "I have some special knowledge
-which Is of -value because it is new to
Europe and America. I shall not attempt to
use.any of this material for, mere pot boilers,
for I cannot bear to think that my matter
will carry where niy manner will not. How
ever good my story may be in Itself I shall
always give It the best of my attention. I
have been kindly treated so farby European
publishers, and some of them have 'en
couraged me by kindly comments. T. shall
do my best to deserve the same encourage
ment in the future." All this was said two
years ago, before Kipling became well known
and before he reached England on what has
proven to be a triumphal tour.
It has been stated in some of the city
papers that the famous agreement between
'Senator FUnn and Chief J. O. Brown on one
side and Senator Quay on the other in re
gard to Allegheny county politics has ex
pired by limitation. This is not true. The
agreement does not expire until some time
after the 1st ot January next, and none of
the parties to this tieaty of peace have
shown any indications of a desire to arrange
matters differently than they have been
since the treaty was made. It is doubtful if
a political agreement to which there were
many parties was ever so faithfully ob
served by all concerned as this one has
been. It is in writing and has been care
fully preserved in a safe in this city.
There are the usual number of castles
in the air at present and in addition there
unto there are hotels also in the blue. No
less than three projects of this sort are in
course of construction and it is to be hoped
the buildings themselves will soon be so as
well.
What a lot of people are out of town I
If you want to see a score of prominent
people you will find they are away. This is
rather earlier than usual for such a general
exodus.
We were talking of burglars and mid
night piowlefs the other day when a well
known civil-engineer remarked: "The odd
es occurrence of that kind I ever heard of
happened to the wife of a friend of mine in
Louisville. Her. husband was away one
night and as she lay half asleep two men
clambered iu tlirougn the window and came
directly to the , bed. There was not light
enough for her, to see their faces nor could
they see hers. One of tho men placed his
arm beneath her and lifted her up while the
other man turned a faint light npon her.
"My God ! It's a woman !" exclaimed the
man who held hor, and he quietly replaced
her, and then both men quickly retreated
by the way they had come. There were
jewels worth several thousands of dollars on
the bureau and other valuables were also in
the loom. Not so much as a glance was
,given to these stealables, and it has aln ays
been a mystery wnat tue visitors wanted
and who they expected to find. It evidently
was not the right house, but no clew of any
description has ever been found as to what
it all meant.
One hundred people killed by accident so
far this month in Allegheny county ! A good
many notable skirmished in famous wars
have had less of a death record.
Walteb.
PB0GEESS OF BUDDHISM.
A Siamesn Frinc3 Raports and Describes
II How Buddha Preached.
Bangkok Free Press.:
During Prince Damrong's recent stay in
Calcutta hlsRoyal Highness was'intcrviewed
by Mr. Dharmapala, who gave a highly in
teresting addicss on tho platform of Sonlay
Pagoda a few weeks ago in aid of the Buddha
Gva Maha Bodbi Society. On his arrival in
Calcutta from Rangood, Mr. Dliannapala
called on the Prince, who received him
kindly.
"Mr. Dharmapala," the Prince said,
"Buddhism is not briok and mortar: you
may spend a lac of rupees iu buying up the
sacred temple, but betoie you do that you
ought to prepare the nay for the dlisemina
tlon of the moral truths of Buddhism.
Later on you mav direct your attention to
the temple. You should establish the
headquarters in Calcutta Immediately, and
set to work. The road must be prepared
first. To levive Buddhism in India is the
best work that could be done, and you have,
my sympathies; and I may say that the
Siamese would be only too glad to help you
in this matter. Use your efforts to popular
ize the moral trutus of Buddhism before
going into the deeper metaphysics. You
know how Buddha, before he expounded
tho pure path, pi cached on chanty .morality
and the usefulness of leading a good life.and
when the mind was prepared he discoursed
upon the problems of nature. You should
adopt the same course. The psychology of
Buddhism is so abstruse that unless the
mind is prepared by simpler ethics the or
dinary people cannot comprehend it, bnt I
know this is the very thing which some of
the Bhikshus do. By all means carry on
your-good woik, and try to work in harmony
with the Hindus. Concentrate-your efforts
onthe diffusion "of knowledge, for that con
stitutes Buddhism.
"I have watched with interest your move
ment, and no better work conld be done, x
saw tho High Priest "Sumangala in Ceylon,
and I mav say that I have hardly met so
good a priest. Prince Cbandrat Is my
brother, senior by two years. He is a de
voted Buddhist, and in him you have found
a good worker in Slam."
Linen Dusters for a Cold Day.
St. Lonls Globe-Democrat.1
Democrats will bet a great deal of money
on Cleveland this year, and most of them
will bo wearing linen dusters in January in
consequence of their rashness.
Gray Had a Ban of Lack
Chicago Ncws.l
Ex-Candidate Gray, of Indiana, says he
did not desire the nomination for the Vice
Presidency. We congratulate Mr. Gray on
his run of luck.
Th Weevil In Ohio Wheat Field.
Zahisville, June 27. 8pecial The.
weevil has made its appearance In the Mus
kingum county wheat fields and is doing
great damage. Unless the weather turns
warmer ana-dry much of the crop of this
county will be ruined.
Plenty or Time to Think Tet.
Boston Herald.
It is now just I3S days before the Presi
dental election. This will give ample time
for the doubtful voter to make 'up his
mind.
HO PBEE TBADE FOLLY.
The Amerlcm People Will Continue to
Thrive Under Protection's Banner.
Toleao Commercial.
This year the Democracy is denying noth
ing of its real position on the tariff question.
In former campaigns it made a pretense
about protecting industries while raising
levenue, but this' year it drops the mask
completely, declares against the protective
policy and for a tariff for the sole purpose of
revenue. Not merely that, but the Demo
cratic party expresses the belief that the
Government has. no right to levy a tariff
with any other object in view than procur
ing revenue. It prates about the high prices
of necessities due to the tariff and intimates
that luxuries shoula pay the whole of the
necessary indirect taxe. '
There may be ome difficulty in deciding
what aie luxuries and what necessities, but
it is fair to assume" free trade standards will
be adopted in settling the question. Ameri
can workingmen habitually useai tides that
are considered luxuries by the pauper la
borers of Europe, such as tea and coffee.
These luxuries will have to bear a good bit
of the burden of raising revenue. Not be
ing produced in this country to any. extent
the revenue is rendered certain. Mean
while clothtn?, stoves, carpets,, agri
cultural machinery, in fact all . the
great lines of manufactured goods
must be admitted free or at much
lower rates of duty because they are neces
sities. The free trade Democraoy wonld
never see its mistake uutll the wages of
American labor were so low as to prohibit
the purchase of the luxuries from which it
is proposed to raie revenues and the im-
Jiortation and revenue would stop together,
eavlng the free tradeis the necessity for
raising revenues from necessities.
Happily it is not necessary to contemplate
the possibilities of such a time. This coun
try Is not going to fool with fieo trade. It
will contlirue to thrive and prosper under
proteotlon as no other nation of the woild
has ever prospered. The workingmen will
vote the honest Bepublican tickot In No
vember. WHISKY STOBED IN CATACOMBS.
Prohibition Officers Are Bafiled in Saloons
In Creston, Iowa.
Ckestoit, Ia., June 27. A lively war is
going on here against saloons. The feeling
has been Intensified by the swearing out of
search warrants by deposed Chief-of-PoJice
Maxwell. Searches at every place where
liquor is sold disclosed the fact that the
saloon men have good hiding places for
their stock, as but little liquor was secured.
In the basement of the Devoe block is a
saloon known as the "Catacomb," so named,
because of the mvrlad of entrances, exits,
dark rooms and Inexplorable places it con
tains for the secretion of liquors. This is
supposed to be the hiding place 01 a car
load or more or liquor, but it cannot be dis
covered. Last night, at 11 o'clock, two
policemen hastily entered this place, pre
sented two revolvors and a search warrant
and demanded that every drop or liquor in
the building be turned over to them. The
proprietors told them to take it, and the two
officers commenced their search, which was
rewarded by finding a half pint of whisky
and part of a keg of beer. Ten minutes later
whisky and beer were being drunk over the
counter as previously. At the other saloons
they fared little better. Lively times nre
expected, as the antls propose to loot the
saloons, while the saloon men are as deter
mined to stay.
STILL SHORT OF A QUORUM,
The House Struggling Alone Until the
Campaigner Get Back.
Washington, June 27. The telegrams sent
out by the Sergeant at Arms demanding the
return of absentees seemed to be productive
of some little fruit, but still, when the House
met, at 11 o'clock", there was no quorum. Mr.
Sayres.of Texas, asked consent to vacate the
order for the yeas and nays on the
final passage of the general deficiency ap
propriation bill, but Mr. Watson, of Georgia,
objected. The bill was passed yeaa, 18J;
nays, 4.
Mr. Wheeler, of Alabama, submitted tbe
conference report on the military academy
bill. The conference leportwasnot agreed
to, the vote standing yeas, 88; nays, 91. Mr.
Oates, of Alabama, from the Committee on
Judiciary, leported the bill establishing a
unifoim system of bankruptcy. House cal
endar. The House then accorded the floor
to the District of Columbia, bnt in the ab
sence of, a quorum no progress was made,
and an adjournment was taken.
ANTI-OPTIONS IN A SNARL
Hard to Tell' How the Senate Committee
T Is Golne to-Vote. -" -
Washington, June 27. Tbe Senate Judici
ary Committee this morning had the anti
options bill again under consideration.
There was not a full attendance, In view of
which fact no attempt was made to act
finally upon the bill, and it will -be further
considered at the next meeting of the com
mitteeprobably Thursday.
Nearly two hours were spent at the meet
ing to-day in a critical analysis and dis
cussion or the bills. So far there has been
no such expression of opinion to warrant
any politicians as to how the committee will
vote upon re porting- the bill to the Senate,
and it is probable that at least one more
meeting will be consumed in the discussion
before any effort is made by the friends of
the bill to reach a vote upon the measure in
committee.
THE GEESHAM BOOM.
The Tribune may have Its desire of four
years ago gratified. Judge Gresham may
yet be a candidate. Chicago Olobe.,
Judge Gresham is a good man. Perhaps
that is tbe reason he will not head the Third
party ticket for President. New York Adver
tiser. It the nomination of the People's party is
offered to Walter Q. Gresham, he will proba
bly reply: "I am a Bepublican." Buffalo
Express.
The nomination of Gresbam by the Omaha
Convention, if It can be encompassed, would
be a great card for the Third party. Omaha
World-Herald.
Of course Judge Gresham will not consent
to allow the Omaha Convention to nominate
him tor President on the platform contain
ing all tho crazy fads, freaks and isms or all
the lunatics in the country. Denver Bepub
lican. The motive which usually dictates Presi
dent Harrison's appointments will clamor
loudly lor Walter Q.'Gi estmra. It will be a
great stroke of "politics" if he takes the
Judge out of the Presidental race and puts
him .on the Supreme Bench in Bradley's
place. St. Louis Poit-Dispaicn.
Should Judge Gresham decide to accept
the nomination of the People's party tbe
candidate would be more than tbe platform.
An Incapable faction would have found a
capable leadership. But there is no dan nor
that Judge Gresham will lay aside his gown
and put on a cap and bells even to press a
thorn into the side of his enemy, Benjamin
Harrison. Philadelphia Record.
Vacation of the President and Family.
Washington, June 27. Mrs. McKee ODd
her two children left Washington this after
noon lor BeVerly, Mass., where they will
spend the summer. The President and Mrs.
Hariison will leave heie next week for
Loon Lake", in the Adlrondacks, where Mrs.
Harrison will remain for several weeks. The
President will spend the summer at Cape
May Point, with .Mrs. Itussoll Hairlson. Tne
latter will have charge ot the cottage, and
will take possession some time next week.
The President will go there as otten as he
can, but will not take up his headquarters
permanently tor the summer until alter the
adjournment of Congress.
DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE.
Sir William .Utkcn, Surgeon.
Sir William Aitken, the noted British
surgeon and professor of pathology. Is dead. He
was born In Dundee, Scotland, his father being a
snrgcou of that place. In 1843 he was selected
demonstrator of anatomy at the University of Glas
gow, and was also pathologist of the Glasgow
Itoyal Infirmary until April. 1853, when he volun
teered for service In the army hospitals during the
Crimean War. lie was one of a commission ap
pointed to investigate the nature of the diseases
from which the troops were Buffering. Dr. Aitken
was a corresponding member of tbe Royal Imperial
Society ot Physicians of Vienna, of tbe Society of
Medicine and Natural History At Dresden, and the
Imperial Society or Medicine at Constantinople. In
I860 he was appointed a prolessor of pathology In
the Army Medical School. He was knighted in
1S87. He was the author of a "Medical History of
the War With Kussla" and various other works.
Obituary Notes.
Sidney c Putnam, General Freight Agent of
the Old Colony Bailroad, died Saturday morning at
his home in Boston.
John M. Adams, a well-known San Francisco
angler and clubman, died suddenly last week on
the Klamath reservation in Southern Oregoni
CHARITY AND SOCIETY.
Philanthropic Work of the French Mission
Indiana's Normal School Commence
mentA Pittsburg Girl With a Bright
Mailcal Future Gossip of Social Circle.
The Mission Francaise, of Pittsburg, had
again an opportunity to prove its usefulness
in tbe field of philanthropy when it came
noDly to the succor of the poor suffering
Frenchman, Prlvot, bnrnt so horribly when
attempting to rescue his wife trom a death
by fire. The man, unconsciously a widower.
Is lying in a ward at the Allegheny General
Hospital, where, if kindness, care and
sympathy can restore to him his
former health, that health Is already
an accomplished fact. The Secretary
of the Mission was immediately on the
spot, upon hearing of the sad occurrence,
proferring aid and doing all In his power
to alleviate the present distress of the un
fortunate man. The brother-in-law of
Privot, Jacques, the remaining member of.
the little Fiench family, through the prompt
intelligent assistance of the Mission, has
been enabled to retain charge of the house
hold and its effects until the recovery of its
owner. The case Is a very sad one, as the
little money laid by for a rainy
day during the past U months
they have been in Pittsburg was
the means of procuring the passage from
France to America of Jacques' wife and
two children, who, in a sadlv coincident
manner, sailed fiom Europe on the day that
proved so'calamitous to their relatives in
their ndoptcd home. Privot. when he leaves
the hospital, will be entirely dependent
upon the kindness of friends, and particu
larly that of the French Mission, until he
has thoroughly recovered. It must be gen
erally known that the Mission has no stand
ing fund to help in an emergency of this
kind,- mid so, whatever Is done, must be
done through tho generosity of individual
members" This, however, is only a part of
the Mission's wotk. From a point ot senti
ment, its kindness is of a much grander
order, for-all that sympathy and even love
could do to make that hospital bed, hard
from suffering, a bed indeed of roses, has
notbeen neglected by the Mission Francaise.
Invitations have begn received for the
week or commencement at Indiana formal
School of Pennsylvania.' This final "feast
and flow" begins witli the annual meeting
of the alumni on Wednesday at 10 a. M., fol
lowed by class day exercises at 2 p. 21. and
presentation of the opera of "The Little
Tycoon" at S .o'clock in the evening. Com
mencement exercises proper will be held on
Thursday morning at 10 o'clock. The
alumni leunlon will be in the evening nt 8
o'clock.
This is the entire graduating class whose
motto sounds like the echo of a good old
Moody and Sankey hymn, "We Pass This
Way but Once:' The Misses Pearl Bash, Luc
ile Irene Carter, Charlotte Clark.Ada Cathar
ine Coder, Ellen Blanche Cooper, Loretta
Mary Dickie, Mary Belle Dun widdie, Eleanor
Ray Dver, Mertewjn Elizabeth Dyess,
Marguerite Jane Elder, Mary Isabel Foster,
Caroline Marshall Getsler. Kosana Hamilton
Gibson, Mary Lotta Hay, Anna Martha liaz
lett, Cornelia Elizabeth llile, Agnes
Jennie Hill.. Emma Elizabeth Hurst.
Matilda Krebs. Anna Lee, Clara Blanche
Lupton, ' Emma Linn, Vlrde Monte
Lytle, Jennie Blanche McCormick,
Eliza McMullen, Jennie Mitchell, Sarah Eve
lyn Kelson, Sarah Catherine Xugent, Martha
Reed Paisons, Elvira Patterson, Almyra
Payne, Margarette DavU Panngton, Marie
Elizabeth Smith, Veima Barnes Smith, Grace
Exley Taylor. Idella Walker, Lucy Watkins,
Fannie Virginia Williams, Ruth Mnulton
Tiffany, Flora May Trimble, Helen Wilson,
Mary Agnes Work; Messrs. Albert Carter,
Hairy David Condron. Irvin Lawson Fiscus,
Joseph McDermott, Harry McConnel Tarr,
Dubre Thomas, Joe Clifton Frees.
Miss Gektrude Cosgkave, who make
her first actually public appearance on
Thursday evening, when she plays at the
closing concert of Dnquosne College Con
servatory or Music, is considered Mr. Carl
Retter's stellar pupil. Hitherto the young
lady has been in reserve for parlor enter
tainments alone, and fashionable people
have taken her up accordingly. Her success
has been marked; lor alls' Cosgrave fortu
nately continues nn extremely attractive
personality with an equally well defined
ability, all of which will doubtless give her
many a helping hand in her career. A very
bright future awaits this young woman, if
she be disposed to recognize heradvantages.
She will suit very well, too, as an example
of heredity, as she has a mother who was a
beauty when a girl, and Is to-day a fascinat
ing and clever woman. Miss Cogra e is
a niece also of Charles W. scovel, Esq., the
attorney, anda recognized music liteiarian
of Pittsburg. t
.' Social Chat.
The wedding of Miss Zng and Mr. King
occurs this evening in the Bellefieid Pres-1
byterian Church at 9 o'cIock.
The engagement is announced of Miss
Belle S. Ramsey, daughter of James S.
Ramsey, Esq., of Allegheny, and Daniel O.
Gehr, of Chambersburg.
Miss Benhak's marriage takes place in
Point Breeze Presbyterian Chnrcn at 8
o'clock to-night. The Rev. William Benham,
the bride's brother, will officiate.
A makbiage has been arranged between
Miss Mary Cochran, daughter of tho late
Robert T. Cochran, of Allegheny, and Will
iam H. Woodrupp, of Auburn, N. T.
TIiss Grace McCuixouGn and Miss "Lou"
Childs McLain. of Merchand street. East
End, are visiting in Delaware, O.. where tbe
commencement of Delaware College Is tak
ing place this week.
Friends have been formally Informed of
the engagement existing between Miss
Nellie Danler, or Oakland, and Elliott
Kodgers, son ol L. T. Rodzers, of Allegheny,
and a nephew ot Mrs. William McCreery.
J. J. Miller. Esq., and Thomas M. McFar-
lane, Esq., will leave this week for Europe.
On their return home, they expect to have
the pleasure of Dr. Hodges companionship,
who also leaves this week for Europe, but on
a different steamer.
3In. and Mas. Joseph Albbee, accompan
ied by their son. will leave Pittsburg for
New Toik on Saturday, on their way to
Europe. The society norld of i'lttsbnrgis
rapidly being deserted, foreign travel espe
cially making excessive inroads amoug the
fashionable people.
The Chancellor of the Western University
of Pennsylvania, Mr. Holland, and his fam
ily le t in the evening train yesterday lor
New York, sailing this week for Europe,
where Dr. Holland will spend a well-deserved
vacation. The leturn will be made
about the end of August in time for the
opening of the university September It.
Miss Sui'dam, of Ridge avenue, left last
night for New York en route to Paris, where,
with other Continental cities, she purposes
spending the summar. Miss Suydam is one
of tbe most charming of our society girls,
and made a deep impression in several up
pearancesor the Tuesday Night Club a sea
son ago. Beside this, she is a clever French
scholar, a language which she speaks and
writes with elegance and facility equal to
her mastery of the English tongue. Mr.
and Mrs. "Lawrence, of Allegheny, are her
traveling companions.
Next Thursday afternoon and evening an
ice cream festival will be in progress at the
Ninth U. P- Church, corner ot North and
Grant avenues, Allegheny. It is under the
auspices of tbe Young Men's Organization,
assisted by the lauies of the church, and
will be in the nature of a lawn fete. Tbe
spacious grounds in the rear of the church
have been newly arranged, and with tables
under the trees and lighted up with many
colored Japanese lanterns it will look very
inviting. As the chuich is within asquare
of the park, where Jubilee Dav will be cele
brated, piobably the outpouring from the
last will be an inpourlng to the least.
DEATH IN A CHDHCH.
While the Bells Cbime Above Him the Old
Sexton BrrathesHls Last.
New Yoek. June 27. When C. P. Jackson,
sexton of the Church of the Incarnation, at
Madison avenue and Thirty-fifth streets, of
which the Rev. Arthnr Brooks Is rector,
reached the church at 10 a. si. yesterday he
found several of tbe choir who were ahead
of time waiting outside.
"We can't get In," one of them said.
"Where's Willie?" asked Mr. Jackson,
meaning the aged assistant sexton, William
Garvin, whose duty it was to open the
chuich.
"Oh, he's dead, " was the reply, said laugh
ingly. "
'ihe words had been uttered but a moment
when Mr. Jackson, unlocking one of the
doors and entering the church, found his
assistant lying dead in the south aisle. Gar
vin bad evidently been dead many hours,
and apoplexy was apparently the cause of
deatb. As his keys lay near tho body it is
supposed that he was stricken after locking
up the church at 5 o'clook on Saturday after
noon. He had not yet put the church in order,
and there was much to do be-ides removing
his body in the short time that remained be
fore the congregation assembled. The body
was not removed far. It was taken to the
basement, where it remained until a deputy
coroner had viewed it and given a death
certificate. While the dead man's body lay
In the batement, morning service was held
overhead. The congregation knew nothing
of the death.
CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS.
Cosmetics cost American women S3,
000,000 a year.
In China cat'sjneat is a remedy foi
lung diseases.
The mines of New Zealand have turned
out $330,000,000 of gold.
Over 5,000 murderers are believed to b
at large in Great Britain.
The best parchment used for banjos Ii
made out of the skin of the wolf.
A 110-ton gun can fire two shots 1
minute,, each discharge costing $1,S75.
The only free labor bureau in England
Is maintained by the Salvation Army.
The average life of the baseball nlayei
on the field is estimated at ten. years.
The plumes in the helmets of th
French dragoons are made of bnman hair.
Victor' Hugo, the famous French poet,
had as pet a ca t of unusually vicious temper
In England the city of Chicago U
called "the food dispensary of the unl
verse."
A man in Maine, 84 years old, shot foui
foxes in one day making a total of 0 for th
season.
Georgia bas a mocking bird wbiclLcgr
not only talk, but whistle almost any tune It
hears.
In 100 years 5500 worth of pennies
would be worth only $250, so quickly doe!
copper money wearaway.
Of the 328,000 divorces granted in the
United States the past 20 years, 316,000 were
granted at the request of wives.
February is the month in which the
greatest number of births occur; June the
month in which occur the fewest.
There is a man in Georgia who had his
arm dislocated at the shoulder 33 times and
his leg dislocated at the hip eight times.
The deepest hole in tbe world is bored
at Schladcbacb, Germany. It is 5,735 feet in
depth and is for geological research only.
Some very odd single names can be found
in the Registrar's office in London a:
"ence," winding up with a triplet of "Faith,'
"xiope" anu "unanty.
In Switzerland the waiters not only dc
not receive any wages, but must pay the
hotel keepers forpermission to work. Thej
make their living exclusively from the tlpt
they receive from the guests.
A resident of Columbus, Ind., has s
game cock which was recently attacked by
a bull, but in a very few minutes tbe bull was
minus an eve. About a year ago he killed
in one day 7 geese, 11 turkeys and 3 roosters.
Chicago women connected with the
World's Fair have incorporated a stock
company under the title of the Women'
Dormitory Association. Shares are Issued
at $10 each and the estimated cost is $150,000.
The Scandinavian races think that spir
its can be driven away and witches Kept at
baybyaknire stuck in the bouse or nails
driven up. These races have held from time
immemorial the idea that it was lucky to
find a piece of iron.
A Pottstown lady is in search of an
owner for a silver thimble which she de
clares she found imbedded in the centei
of a hum which she was slicing. She would
also like to have some explanation of how
the thimble got there.
Harvard University is spreading her net
over a very wide extent of territory this
year. It is announced that examinations
for admission to that institution are to bn
held simultaneously in no less than U
places, including England, Germany and
Japan.
Four cities in Europe stand wholly or
in part on islands'. Venice is the best known
on account of its historical past; next comes
St. Petersburg, tho capital of Russia, and
the two last are the cities or Ghent and Am
sterdam, situated respectively in Belgium
and Holland.
A Frenchman recently brought 500 par
rots from Brazil to dispose of in Paris. An
epidemic broke out among the b'irds, from
which all but two died. The contagion then
spread to the persons who kept them,n
several have succumbed to an infection!
pneumonia.
The ancients believed that iron as a
metal, had great secret powers, and they
drove nails into their walls p.s a protection
against pestilence. The Arabs, when over
taken by severe storms in the desert, cry
out "Iron, iron." which.thev think- will pro-
.pltiate the eyJl spirits.jrho have raised the
The jIcium light man ia a Cincinnati
theater tumbled out of the gallery and fell
Into the audience. He was reprimanded for
bis unprofessional conduct in trying to
draw attention to himself to the detriment
of the stage periorraance, but after promis
ing not to do it any more he was allowed to
go to woik again.
In parts of Massachusetts it is thought
that if a girl puts a piece of Southernwood
down her back the first boy she meats will
be her husband. In Boston, if a mar
riageable woman puts a bit or southern
wood under her pillow on retiring, the first
man she sees in the morning will, so says
the superstition, be tho one whom she is to
marry.
A canons book, in which the text Is
neither written nor printed, bnt woven, has
lately been published nt Lyons. It is made
of silk, and was published in 25 parts. Each
part consists of two leave, so that the entire
volume contains only BO leaves. Inscribed
with the service of thn mas and several
prayers. Both tbe letters and the bordez
are in black silk on a white background.
In the Middle Ages every family who
could afford tbe luxury kept a dwarf, whose
principle duties were to look as ugly as po
.ible and to receive with equal manifesta
tions of gratitude the chldlngs of his mis
ues and the kick of her guests. No royal
court was considered complete without a
dwarf, who, as a court Jester, amused by his
wit, or. more commonly, served as a butt for
the wit or others.
The umbrella is of high antiquity, ap
pearing in various forms upon tbe sculptured
mpnnmenta of Egypt, Assyria, Greece &nd
Rome, and in hot countries it has been used
since thn dawn or history as a sunshade a
nse signified bv. Its name derived from the
Latin umbra. "meaning a shade. In the
Orient the umbrella has been a symbol of
Sower and royalty, and in manv countries it
as become part of a religious as well as a
royal symbolism.
Friday people who were in the vicinity
of the Union depot were surprised to find
the ground literally covered with crawfish,
and it is the general supposition that they
fell with the rain last night, which came
down very heavy for awhile, says the Cam
eron, Mo.. Observer. Their appearance . can
not be explained on the ground that they
come up out of the earth, because for some
distance south or tho depot the ground is
bedded with rock and cov ered with cinders.
SMILE 3 IN SEASON.
Gabriel had blown a Wast on the last
trump, and Cholly crawled from under a tomb
stone. "Deuced wacket!" he exclaimed.
"It's the resurrection," explained Gabriel.
Vnn've been dead, you know."
Have I. weallj? Thanks, awfully, I assush
you. Nevah should have noticed It."
- Zii6
"Why does the maiden next to me
Turn red and then turn pale?
I never saw the girl before.
And yet I'm on her trail. DetroUFree-PrtM.
Featherstone I wish you would come
and help me select some trousers, old man.
Rlngway I don't believe my taste is any better
than yours.
Featherstone (hopefully) No. Bnt yonr credit
1. Clothier and Furnisher.
The small boy goes to Sunday school,
And he is good with reason;
For little Johnny is no fool
Throughout tbe'berry season.
Seu York Evening Son.
Papa (teaching little Barrhis numbers)
Now. Barr. how much Is ten times sine?
B irr-Nlnety.
Papa-And ten times eight?
Barr-Elghty.
Papa Then how much Is ten times naught?
Barr (studying) Well, I des ten times naught
must be naughty. Atlanta Journal
Thev traversed the city from north to south,
Bnt every Georgia Gunnel
With wise precaution lnsnred his lira
Before he rode through the tunnel.
Chicago Tribuns.
Husband "Wife, hand me out my Sunday
coat.
Wlfe-But. my dear, this is not Sunday; it is only
Saturday.
"I know It's only Saturday, bat I'm going to at
tend a fashionable dinner, and It will be Sandal
before I get back." Texas Sittings.