4 - - , THE PJTTSBHR& DISPATCH, ' SUNDAY, JTTLY 3. 1893. W$M$tit ESTABLISHED FEBRUAEY 8, 1816 Vol. 47, No. 150 Entered at Plttsburg-Feetoaice j November, 1SS7, as second-class matter, , Business Office Corner Stjlithfield and Diamond Streets. News Rooms and Publishing House 7S and 80 Diamond Street, in New Dispatch Building. rAmn?N Anvnmsisonmrn room ts. TFIBtTXE BUILDING, NEW TORE, where eorn rjete flies of TH E DISPATCH can alwaTa be frond. Foreign adrertlsers appreciate- the convenlence. Home advertisers and friends of THE DISPATCH, t Mle In New Tort, are also made welcome. STTBDISPATCBtsreirularlvonsaleatSrentana's. fj Vnlon Sevan, .Via lor, aai V Ave at f Opera, Taris, stance, where anyone who has been Usap pointed at a hotel newt stand can obtain it. TEIJMS OF THIS UISPATCH. T-OSTAGI rilCE TS THE UAIII9 STATIS. TurLTPisrATCnf One Year .. S s On n.T Dispatch, Per Quarter.....? SCO .tDispatch. OneMontl..i TO Dailt Dispatch, including Sunday, 1 year.. 10 00 Dailt Dispatch. 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All donble end triple number copies of The Dispatch require a S-cent stamp to Insure prompt delH ery. PITTSBURG. SUNDAT. JULYS. ISM. THE DEMOCRATIC POSITION. The Democratic attempt to represent itself as free from the old soft money taint has come to Rrief so early as to provoke the wonder what it was begun for. The ."invention firmly adopted a conservative and sound silver platform. The plank calling for the revival of the old State hank circulation without any guarantee of its soundness offset that, however, and now the Democrats in Congress have stepped in and by crowding the free coinage hill to a passage put the Demo cratic party on record as in favor of de preciation more indisputably than any platform declarations can do to the coun try. In addition to the object lesson as to the value of party platforms afforded by this action, it gives us another view of Demo cratic desires. They are to disturb indus try by reducing the tariff on a plan which, by their own action, it is declared, shall not have any regard for the interests of capi tl or labor; to impose a banking circula on on the people in which the man ilding in Pittsburg a bank note of Erie. nnsylvania, will have, as in old times, to trch a commercial report to determine ;heritis worth fifty or seventy-five cents-UffirfiTftlly to reduce the monetary (standard about 30 percent as a 'finishing touch to the operation of disturbance and complication. Tet we, in Pennsylvania, are, in a cer tain measure, estopped from putting too heavy a load of condemnation on the Democracy, in view of the fact that the senior Senator from Pennsylvania, the traditional and hereditary head of the Republican machine, is on record as hav ing aided by his vote in the passage of the free silver coinage bilL RAILWAY TELEGRAPH OPERATORS. A communication elsewhere, with regard to the salaries and employment of railway telegraph operators,makes some extremely grave assertions with regard to the prev alence of the employing of imperfectly trained operators at cheap salaries and of working them long hours. The subject is to closely related to the safety of the trav eling public as to demand attention. If theze statements are true, there is cer tainly a pressing need of remedial measures. Some years ago, when the abuses of 'way discriminations were occupying blic attention, it was argued on behalf of the corporations that .the principle of "enlightened selfishness" would prevent the corporations from carrying these abuses to the extent of injuring the mass of their patrons for the benefit of a few. The principle failed to work that way, however, as the result showed that en lightened selfishness could make a good deal more money for railway officials in that way than in any other, whatever it might do for the corporate stock holders. But in the employment of competent operators, involving the safety of passengers and property, it might be supposed that enlightened selfishness would dictate the employment of good men at living salaries. It is the worst economy imaginable to cut down salaries to less than good men can work for when a single accident may cost far more tfcan the entire siving. It seems al most incredible that intelligent manage ment should commit such an error; but there is no room or doubt that some-very serious and fatal casualties have recently occurred which were directly due to the mistakes of operators who were either in competent or overworked. 'he matter is one that deserves atten uon. There is an indisputable public necessity for a guarantee that railway telegraph operators shall be competent, reasonably paid and not over worked. LOGIC, JUDICIAL ASD JUDICIOUS. There is more than a suspicion of the art of dividing a hair " 'twixt south and southwest side" in the recent deliverance of learned judges of reasons for consider ing that indictment against the Whisky Trust magnates is really not worth.the paper it is written on. Consider, analyze and comprehend the logic of the follow ing, which is the crucial paragraph of the last ruliug: It is insisted that tbe paper set oat In the fourth count became a contract on May 1, 1S92, when the purchasers signed it, and that it is distinctly charged that defendant made such contract "in restraint of trade and commerce among tbe several States" on May 7, 1S9Z, But though It be conceded ttia t tbe contract set forth in tbe indictment was made on that" day It does not lollow that it vasa contract in restraint of trade, if is -t the actual restraint of trade that is vie illegal by the statute, but the making a contract In restraint of trade of a con- ,ct which restrains and is -.intended to re- lin trade. It is difficult to understand u what' principle it can be contended that trade is restrained by a contract when no contraot exists. Pursuing this train of reasoning we find! that the indictment Is held to be detective, first because there was no contract charged; second, because, though there, was a contract charged, it is not) enoufih that it restrained trade andi commerce, but it is necessary that it should be Intended to restrain trade; and commerce; and finally after tne learned Judge had perpetrated this minute division of the hair, as if suspecting that some irreverent person might contendthat rho nriRstion of intention was a matter to be settled by the evidence, he returned to the assertion that there cannot be a re- j straint of trade "when no contract exists. Or, in slightly changed words: conceding that a conspiracy was entered into it be comes clear that there was no contract, and therefore there could be no con spiracy. All of which appears to demonstrate most conclusively that certain ornaments of the United States Bench are determined to relieve the Government of the odium of failing to enforce the anti-trust law. GRESHAjrS POSITIVE REFUSAL. The nositive declaration of JudgeV Gresham that he will not accept a People's party nomination reduces to slight pro portions the probability of any material effect on the election of a President from the operations of that party. If the very wide chasm between the views of a man of Gresham's standing and the pet idiosyncrasies of that new political organ ization could have been bridged over, it is probable that his prominence and per sonal character might have made him a very formidable quantity in the politics of the West His unqualified refusal, how ever, puts an end to any such apprehen sions. Tbe terms of the thrice repeated re fusal indicate that Judge Gresham per ceives, as The Dispatch has pointed out, that the beliefs of the People's party render it impossible for a man of thorough understanding to become its candidate. There is a vast difference between per ceiving the necessity of correcting cor porate abuses and political corruption, even by independent political action, and the swallowing of the sub-Treasury soft money and Government ownership of railways, which are the favorite and fundamental ideas of the Farmers' Alli ance. One policy might form the basis for a new party which should attract the independent and thoughtful elements of the country; the other can never arise to a higher level than the familiar one of soft money organizations of times past That is the status to which the nomina tion of a man like Weaver or Donnelly will relegate the People's party. Tet these familiar and standing candidates of Greenback-Labor days very nearly represent Hobson's choice for the new third party. NEED VESTED INTERESTS. It is interesting to learn that in a recent trial an "aerial torpedo thrower," dis played remarkable range and accuracy, j So testify nigu military aumoniy. xue interest is hightened on learning that the weapon is a pneumatic dynamite gun, purchased by the British Government from the Government of Victoria in Aus tralia, having been obtained by that Gov ernment from the West Point foundry at Cold Spring on the Hudson. The gun has traveled nearly around the world, to ob tain recognition in England. It is regarded as a rather peculiar de monstration of the English official mind, that this yreapon which was described in the papers of this country a year ago, has only been tested after it has gone to Australia and back. But the same con sideration applies with greater force to the attitude assumed by the military authori ties of our Government, since the English seem to have given the gun a test, and conceded its value before that was done by the Government within whose jurisdic tion it was manufactured. The naive opinion is expressed in England that this pneumatic torpedo gun will supersede all other weapons of the sort, "if the in fluence of vested interests in other inven tions to which the Government feels itself financially pledged, can be overcome." Such a remarkable qualification sounds very singularly; but it is more pertinent to inquire whether the "influence of vested interests" in this country proved an in superable obstacle to the ownership of the invention by the United States. Perhaps the recent successful experi ments with the Justin projectile diminish the vast significance of the English test But even if this gun is superseded by the Justin invention it is a pertinent question how this nation when in search of new ideas in warfare permits an invention of this sort to leave the country without first fully testing its value. NO NEED FOR THE3L The assertion of M. Naquet that Cap tain Borup was not justified in obtaining or receiving even for his own Government, the plans of the French defenses is chal lenged hy the New York Herald with the query "whether M. Naquet claims that this code of international morality has been respected by France." This'query would have some pertinence if any nation were bound by the rules of international conduct which it asserts as against others. The United States is no worse in this respect than the other powers of the earth; but was recently prominent in imposing on a smaller republic, international principles which it has failed to enforce in Its own case. Moreover the consistency of international law has not reached the stage of enforcing against a stronger power the principles which it would peremptorily insisted upon in the case of a weaker. All of which reduces that application of international law to the Borup case, to very slight value; but it is very plain that tbe United States has neither need nor justification for which a diplomatic repre sentative should buy or steal the secrets of a friendly power concerning its military defenses. It will never invade France and has no use for secret information about its forts. BESANTS PLEASANT PROPHECY. It is interesting to learn on no less authority than that of Walter Besant, that tbe United States is soon to expe rience an eruption of genius such as has never been known before. All the con siderations are favorable to development of the high but indefinite quality pre sumably literary which, in Mr. Besant's opinion, is predestined for our nation. Encouragement, honor, ambition, study, confidence and material all are ready for the coming of the natural aptitude which by these factors is sure to develop such a torrent as 'has not been known since the Elizabethan age. This is the comfortable message which Mr. Besant has to tell us of the immediate literary future of our country. Perhaps Mr. Besant has a roseate view of the conditions for the nurture of genius in the United States; but let us hope that he will be a true prophet He tells us another tale rom Mr. Depew's theory I ... 1 1 - - tJ ' . ,. . 8fe. - &. it. 0 ' . ,. ..-., ... . -i...i.'jL:..r- -'; , . . . ' .. :..- .. c.' . --. - v 1 i t. .. ---,-: -.- wt ic . i. fJrf.&. 1 K .vj.. -2ts iiiu -t . rf -r " r.. iu'-cr.i . ., i -f -;-?ms .jlv 1. ? .j3fl.rf.s&3irt, --.,. - sr.i..V'i-s-.asp .f -rwac that thesgenius of the day is so busy in building bridges, organizing monopolistic combinations, and reorganizing dropsical ;railwav3. tbatit has no time to fool with jsuch a trivial thing as 'putting fiinmorlal 'thought or vivid imagination on paper 'which is 1 consecrated to; theWriting of i contracts or the posting-' of jproflts and loss. ,But let ns not disdain our own prophet either. Mr. Depew tells ns what exists: Mr. Besant foretells what Is eom- f ing; and' we can hope that the next gene- , ration touns 01 tne material aspirations rwill make this words good. Mr. Besant's prediction; has an inde finiteness about it which permits our ex pectations for Its fulfillment to remain on the qui vita. The coming Shakespeares, Bacons and Titians may be in the high schools, or they may be- In the nursery. Pos slbly they are yet to be horn. When even they come, however, th9 nation should be ready in a-reoeptive and appre ciative frame of mind. We must greet them without prejudiced and invidious, comparisons'with the (Victorian. We must greet the procession of poets, painters, sculptorsand,masters of fiction with un qualified shouts of adulation iand .welcome as it breaks on the public. Let; it not be said of our comingmaster-mindsjthat thev 1 are not without honor save in .their own Lcountry. Aim jiauuii wiiii ue reauy unuuuui 113 xjommg era of' genius when,' it comes, jllr. Besant's prophecy cannot be fulfilled too soon. INJURIOUS TO HOMElRUXK. The length to which electoral disorders bav e been carried Jn the case of Mr. Stan ley's' canvass in North Lambeth is not onlydiscreditable. to English politics, but reflects an especialidiscredit on the oppo nents di" Mr. Stanley. To refuse to hear a candidate's arguments and.', to silence his speeches with hoots and, jeers is bad enough; but . to pursue the candidate to his carriage and to attempt actual ."mob violence is an offense- against manliness and decency. Whatevermay be Mr Stanley's errors of judgmenteas a candidate for legislative honors, his (beat -work for civilization' ought to protect him against the violence of a howling mob, in the-chiet capital of the civilized world. If English politics do not guarantee'tbe ordinary man against violence, therecertalnlysbould be manli ness enough torabstain from actual ruffian ism against the man who has opened up the interior of Africa to'theknowledge of civilized humanity. The Tories are nrairinp the charge that tbe disorders 1 at theipolitical. meetings are entirely tbe work' of the Home Rulers, and that theirparty permits Liberal and Home Rule speakers to be heard in peace. Whether this Is trueer not, ttis evidentthat such persistent and stupid blackguardism as has been used against Stanley In his district is in danger of hurting the Home Rule cause much more than -it helps it Whehe the ficeworks are, there will the hoys be gathered together. Where a pre mature explosion' occurs, there-is a scatter ing of fragments. Hail stories arelways in season, and a fall of a foot and'a half is reported from Harrisburg'. NoinrxG Is more aggravating than to have a merchant promise faithfully to de liver goods on a Saturday, and then keep one waiting fo them over Sunday and a public holiday on tbe next day. Such trades men ought to be suable for breach of prom ise, and the shock to tbe plaintiff's temper and hiB faith in human nature sbould insure bis receipt of heavy damages from an up right jury. Mohgan- finds himself big enough to criticise the Democratic party, and' the party is small enough to say he talks too much. Summer is a good season for fusion, but but the third and fourth parties are too hot to weld. t Judge Maoeg yesterday took occasion to rebuke anonymous letter-writers apropos of the transfer of a liquor license to a man. who had been slandered by them. There are no strictures too severe for tbe people who indulge in this practice of moral assassina tion. Wire nulling is said to be conspicuous by its nbsence from the Omaha Convention. But there is a Weaver at work on tbe strings. Uttered or silent prayers for fine. weather to-morrow will be numerous to-day. There was a time when the struggle be tween nismarck and Wilhelm might have appopriately been described as s. dispute between dignity and impudence. But there Is precious little dignity on either side at this stage of the game. A half holiday yesterday, a day of rest to-day and a whole holiday to-morrow is a very pleasing interlude at-this season. The name of the People's party is about the best and most deceptive part of it. Just keep your eye ou some of the men who spend most on fire-crackers to make good patriots of their children, nnd then notico how little apt they aie to bestir them selves in matteis of public welfare. The colored postmaster appointed in New Orleans seems to be regarded there as anything buta Crura of comfort The weather held up and the amateur sports held down the city yesterday. ' Market street property owners have withdrawn their opposition to the Market Street Railway in despair. So the already hard-worked Coroner may expect addi tional labor ere long. , Those absentee Senators have to shoulder a good deal of the responsibility for tho passage of Stewart's silver bill. Eoman candles are all right so long as they are made in America. Any man once persuaded to go through halt a day's shopping with his wife has a vivid realization of the extent to which woman is capable of sacrificing herself on the altar of duty. Prepare to forget everything but your self-respect and your love of America in to morrow's celebration. Park concerts and rain are an unwhole some mixture. That Prohibition Convention should have exercised its undoubted prerogative and have prohibited the introduction into its platform of all those borrowed planks. This is summer, but ear muffs will be useful to-morrow as a protection from patriotic detonations. A handybilly is a useful kind of camp ing club. The cry of free silver Is heard in the land and the Senate has passed a bill for it. Its cause will be led In the House by one Bland, who will see that they do not ignore It The Seat of War, Boiton Traveller. 1 No matter concerning the whereabouts of the eandfLten. Tlfl.hv Mi1Ta aid Ttdiv tlntl. are both herein Massachusetts. A LOOK. AROUND. Mayor Godrley-Is full of nerve. He was 1 out -driving yesterday afternoon on Fifth avenue, aocompanled by a friend. The horse took fright at a cable ear and seemed disposed to get on the roof of the car with the buggy and enjoy a ride. The people in tbe car were nervous, the grlpman pro ceeded with caution and the horse, as If de lighted with being the center of attraction, went through many rnanonvers on his hind legs. - His Honor proceeded to veto further foolishness, and tbe veto was isustained by his coolness and resolute grip on the leather of tbe reins. He calmed the horse and soon tackled a stranger and did him up a quarter stretch gait. It is a' pity the West Penn and 'other hospitals do not nave training schoolB for nnrsiss attached to them. There Is one con nected with .the Homeopathlo Hos pital, where some 20 to 25 girls are kept during a two years' apprenticeship. They are taught the usual duties of a professional nurse and are given ample opportunities to gain praotical knowledge of symptoms, treatment and other things needful in illness or convales cence. I believe that none of the other hos pitals have sucb training sohools, and the result is that it is almost impossible to get an efficient male nurse at short notice. As these nurses can readily earn irom $15 to tii a week, it Is an occupation worth studying. The number of competent and experienced nurses outside of those regnlarly employed In the hospitals is small. I am told, and physicians have much difficulty In getting nonghof them to go around among their serious cases. 'How does it feel to be ran over by a cable cart" I asked a man yesterday after noon. "You soon got used to it," he Bald with a laush. "I suppose I have been run over a couple of hundred times. In fact, I am run over nearly every day. At first it was uncomfortable and made my heart wob ble about In a nasty way, but that soon passed and all I do is to be careful not to let the grip catch my clothes or the dirt drop into my eyes. The manholes are large enough to he perfectly safe and we are always notflod of the approach of a car in plenty of time to crouch down and prepare. The cars sound like canons roaring sometimes ana at other times they merely rattle along like some old milk waoron full of nmrtr cans. I do the moit of the repairing and Inspecting of the caoie and so in that way can almost say tnat I get run over for a living." If one half the building schemes I hear of come to anything tbe town will be as big as Philadelphia in a short time. The itch to buy a lot is only equalled by the itch to build a house and both these irritations are being soothed with a rapidity wonderful to behold. Families that have lived together under one rqor for years have split up not on account of uncompatibllity of temper but purely because they have caught the in fection. One man builds a house and half a dozen others try to excel him in point of architecture; size or location. It reminds me or a remark a Pittsburg business man made of Cleveland once. "Clevelandl" said he, half contemptouslr, "Oh, Cleveland it a place where they get mad and build houses at each other." "I HAVE been in Pittsburg about three times a year for eight or ten years," re marked a New Yoik commercial traveler yesterday, "and every time I came here my business takes me out Fifth avenuo as far as East Liberty. On all those occasions, so far as I can lecollect, without exception, the street has been torn up and men nave beon at work on it somewhere, either laying pipe, or repairing pavement, ornxmg ouroscones, or laying tracks or something of the sort. I see they are paving it with asphalt now, and I have some hopes of finding it intact the next time I come." One of the most valuable pieces of prop erty or the Westinghouse Air Brake Com pany is a contract of a perpetual nature with tbe New England Pump Company. This concern is one of the oldest and tight est monopolies in the country. It was formed into what is practically a trust long before the Standard Oil Company or any of tho other big monopolies wore heard of. It controls the most valuable patents on steam pumps and all kindred appliances. In tbe early days of the airbrake, long before it was adopted by the railroads or known to fame, the two men in charge of its fortunes were George Westinghouse and Ralph Baga ley. They soon found that in order to suc cessfully operate the brake it would be nec essary to nave a steam pump andsomoof the patented properties of. the New England Company. After some thought they hit upon a plan to get these privileges. They devoted all their time, attention and skill to tho devising of a steam pump, and finally turned one out that was far ahead of any in existence, with a number of improvements and entirely new features, for which patents were promptly applied. Then Mr. Bagaley went to tho headquarters of the pump company and showed them his designs. "It is a good pump," said the monopoly; "nay, more, it is the best pump we have any knowledge of, but you cannot use it or make it, as you infringe on a number of our pat ents." "1 know that," replied Mr. Bagaley, "and you cannot use it either, for some of its best points belong to us." "What do you propose to dot" "Give it to yon." "Give it tons!" "Yes. We will give it to you if you in re turn will give to the Westinghouse Airbrake Companv the right to use any or the articlos patented by you or which in the futuie yon may patent for our airbrake, we to pay nothing Tor this privilege beyond the con veyance of these patents or ours." "What do you mean by an airbrake t We have no knowledge of such a thlnir." "It is an appliance to bo used on railway trains and is not yet in use." That was tbe gist of the talk, and the pump company at once agreed to the terms, thinking they bad a soft thing. As years went by they found out what an airbrake was and theyalso discovered how shrewdly the Pittsburgers had protected themselves. Tho contract has saved tbe brake company thousands of dollars in royalties, prevented vexatious patent litigation and been a good thing all around. Will some gentleman kindly rise in his seat and explain to an anxious public the whichnesi, the wnenceness and the whvness of the word "slnch" "lend pipe slncll" pre fened? So FAR the Keeley gold cure has not proven of much avail to a number of the Pittsburgers who have been ticated by its Inventor. More than that, there havq been relapses in a sreatnumber. if not in a ma jority of the cases, and some deaths here nave oeen attributed to it. There is a grow ing belief that Keeley 's famous gold, bi chloride is in reality a sell-chloride. There is some quiet gossip afloat in re gard to the European trip. Just begun, of President George B. Roberts, of the Penn sylvania Railroad Company. It is said that one of his objects in visiting England Is to talk with those who can control the proxies of the bulk of tho English stockholders to prevent their falling into the hands of agents of Drexol, Morgan St, Co. lie is said alto to be looking out for stanch financial support in the event of any complications arising out of tbe strained relations between that notable firm, whose London house is a potent factor in English Unance und close to the Bank of England management, and tbe present management of the greatest rail road company in the United States, or the world for that matter. It is an open secret that the. Democratic National Committee has ut least two expert fact perverters in this city gathering mate rial in connection with tho operations of the tariff, the trouble at the Homestead works and such other crumbs as they can gather for campaign thunder. Walter. HIS ITJQQAQE FULL OF FILLS. A 6tetrage Fassenger .Brings Trunks of Them Across the Deep. Philadelphia, July 2. The lnggage of John Marriot, a steerage passenger on the steamship British Prince, from Liverpool, has boen sent to tbe public stores for exam ination by tbe customs officers because of Its peculiar contents. Whether .the mer chandise shall pay dnty will be determined by the appraiser of tbe port. When the officers opened Man-lot's trunks they found under a covering of clothing mady thousand of pills packed away in scores ofjars. Tbey were all of a dark color and.neariv the size of a bullet. Tbe owner claimed they were English regulators for toning up the system and purifying tbe blood. - - . - Where Things Are Reversed. New York Press. J All acoounts agree that Candldato Steven son, while great as a war man in times ot peace, was greater still as a peace man in times or wi MUSIC IN THE PARES. A Discussion as to Selections Interesting to Uttiburg Jut Mow. Apropos of the discussion as to musio in the parks the following interview with Mr. George Grossmitb, in- Pall Mall Budget, 1s interesting. "Certainly tbe people ought to have bright and good musio," he said speak ig of London County Council's objection to .dance musio being played on Sunday. "As to what musio is to be played, wuy, tnat does not so much depend on the musio Itself as on the conduotor. A good oonductor, who has his band well in hand, can turn the noisiest waltz, into a thing that; to tbe average man and woman, will sound as much like a hymn tune as any that are plaved in church on Sunday mornings. It all depends on the time he beats. If be s a PODular polka in the ordinary time, is dance is sura tn bA ncAnmnanled. if not by his audience actually dancing, at all events by a general stamping of feet and beating of time with sticks, umbrellas, or anything that comes handy. "I have had some experience in that kind of thing: For lnstanoe, it has happened very frequently that wben I was playing 'You Should See Me Dance tbe Polka' my whole audience began to beat time. But only as long as I played the tune in the ordi nary quiok time, when the' publio accom paniment beoomea too muoh for me I slm Sly play more slowly, and put a somewhat liferent expression into the music; the stamping ceases immediately, and I have got niT way without ruffling the feathers of a single person in my audience." "Then, Mr. Grossmitb, you advocate a compromise of this kind with regard to tbe Sunday musio in tbe London ParksT You would play, let us say, 'Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay, ' but play it like a funeral march or a hymnt" "I don't quite know about 'Ta-ra-ra,' al though, mind you, I consider it vastly superior to almost any of the utterly vulgar tunes to which the Salvationists -sing their hymns. These tunes are simply horrible, from the musical point of view, while the eternal 'Ta-ra-ra' is not by any means an in artistic production. It would make a lovely hymn tune, and as a voluntary nobody but the initiated would recognize it. Just listen." And turning to his American organ in the corner, Mr. Grossmitb transposed the ditty intoa voluntary, sweet and soft, and alter nating between strains toucbed with a tinge of sadness and burst of Jubilant fervorand devotion, which again and again leminded me of that most charming of airs, "Bobert, toi que Jaime, adieu." "That is how I would play the 'Ta-ra-ra, but otherwise I should advise it to be left severely alone. For this reason: The song is associated with kicking. But 1 cannot, therefore, see that all dance music should be left out. We have delightful dance and opera music which is associated with no rowdiness. Take Sullivan's operas as an example. Why, everybody would be charmed with selections from them, and tbey could offend no one. Again, why should not some of Strauss' beautiful waltzes be played? This one, to take the first that comes to mind." And in a moment Mr. Grossmitb, was at the piano, playing the first bars of "The Blue Danube," that hackneyed air full of the irrepressible charm of innocent merriment. "I remember hearing that tune," said Mr. Grossmitb, "on a beautiful summer Sunday evening at Frankfort in the Fitlmengarten. Tbe gardens were crowded; the band played the liveliest nnd merriest of dance tunes, but there was not the very slightest sign of unseemly or noisy behavior." MASTERS OP MEN". Ex-Empress Eugenie will arrive at Carlsbad next week to spend the summer. Brigadier General J. O. Keltojt, retired, will be appointed governor of the Soldiers' Home at Washington. The Duke Max, of Bavaria, has a pecu liar success to boast of. He has traveled around the world incognito without once having his identity discovered. Mrs. M. "W. Zewall, President of the National Council of Women or the United States, is now in Chicago in the Interest of a Woman's World Congress there. Prince Pheen, of Siam, will return to Denmark on the Steamer llecla, sailing to morrow. A dinner in his honor was given on board the steamer this afternoon. Jules Verne isw no engaged writing his eevonty-lonrtli novel. The famous French novelist has for muny years written on an average of two books every 12 months. The President has decided to appoint Colonel Robert Williams, Senior Assistant Adjutant General, to be Adjutant General of the army, vice General' J. C. Eelton, re tired. Victorien SaedOU, the author of "Theodora," "La Tosca," and other famous plays, has a very happy domes tio life. His aged father lives with him, and has J ust cele brated his 00th birthday. Sardou has several children. He does most of his work in the early hours of the morning. Princess Badizwell has intrusted Minister Phelps with the sale of a collection of letters of Count Von Moltke, written in Fiench at the time Von Moltke wos a young officer. It appears from the letters that be had an affaire de cceur with the Princess. They are charmingly written, and give a fine insight into tho character of the great General. United States Circuit Clerk of the United States District and Circuit Courts and United States Commissioner Samuel B. Crail, at Louisville, Ky., hasiesignedat the suggestion of District Judge John Barr. Captain Thomas Speed, nephew of James Speed, Lincoln's personal friend and Attor ney General, Will have tho place. Cratl has held the placo for 21 years, and has been very efficient. Ho has o r late been ilL OF 1NTEBEST TO MUSICIANS. A List of the Immense Number of Composi tions by Beethoven, According to tbo-St. Louis Globe-Democrat, the great Beethoven furnished, in his 'com positions, an illustration of tbe saying that genius is an immense capacity for hard labor. The Hoc of his published works contains tho names and titles of nine symphonies, al of giant pioportions; nine overtures, which any other composers might have called sym phonies; over 300 orchestral movements, trios, quartets and the like, 10 sonatas for piano and violin, 3$ sonotas for piano, besides an immense number of vari ations, minuets and other movements for theniano alone or in conjunction with otber instruments, to say nothing of songs and choruses. Vast as is this body of music, however, it is interior, so far as mere quantity is con cerned, to the amount produced by many otber composers, some of whom are credited with over 100 complete operas, besides otber works. As a rule, the greatest musi cal genius has also been the most fertile composer, and Beethoven's faculty of com position aptly illustrates tbe statement. llh-n the Junior Order Celebrates. GnsESSEUno, July 2. Special. Tho Amer ican Mechanics of the counties of Allegheny, Washington, Greene, layette, Somerset, Indiana, Westmoreland and Armstrong will celebrate the Fourth in Greensburg. Over 10,000 men are expected to participate. A parade, a dinner, exercises in Electric Park, various out-door sports and music, consti tute the programme. Addresses will be made by General W. 1L Kountz, of Myers dale, and Bev. J. F. Cote, of Taientum. Pittsburg will bend a large delegation. Going Back to Bis Old Love. St. I.oulf Fost-DlBptch. Stanley seems to have found that explor ing in Africa is not near as .dangerous as campaigning in England and lie may yet have to seek safety among tbe wild and troolly savages. DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE. TT, II. Pip;' ' "W. H. Pipes, until recently State Treas urer of Louisiana, dropped dead of heart disease at his home In Clinton. la., Friday. He was one of the largeit planters and stockbreeders lu the Fellcianas, if not In the State, and was descended from a prominent South Carolina family, which was among the pioneers of that section. He was graduated at the University of Virginia, went Into the war as a private and came out a captain, anu was one of the most popular Democrats In the State. He was a man or wealth. Introduced busi ness methods into the conduct or tne Bute finances, and was the first to (discover ex-Treasuror Burke's defalcaUon. In the last campaign he was one of the strongest anti-lottery men. Colonel Benjamin Gresham. Colonel Benjamin Gresham, brother of Judge W. C. Gresham, died or dropsy Friday night on his farm at Lanesrllle, ten miles lrom New Albany, Ind. He was 65 years old. He was In the Mexican War in the First Indiana Inrantrr. and enured tbe civil War as a private of the Sev enth Indiana cavalry, becoming colonel of the reg iment. ,' A FACE AT THE 'WINDOW. n Grew Thinner and Paler and at Last Disappeared Sending Flowers by Cable Leaving Children Instead of Dollars The Bootblack's Credit -Business, IrXOX X 8TATT CORHXSPOXDZKT.I About four years ago I saw i face from, the Sixth avenue elevated, Just as we see a thousand faces every trip, taking no note, remembering not oneor,alL This faoe was bent over a typewriting machine In a stuffy and crowded office. It was that or a fair young girl. I had. merely glanced up from my morning paper and saw It as a sort of flash light picture and foraot it. I mar have passed the place .a hundred times or more afterward, when, returning up town one afternoon with thoughts astray from my evening paper my eves accidentally fell upon the same face, bending with strained eyes over the machine. We went by with a thun dering roar and it was gone. But I had seen tbe girl's face from a different point of view and half recalled the fact that I had seen it before. That was all. Then I went on with the article I was reading. It had made no more impression on me than a brick wall. . That night, however, I was working late. Intbemtddleoranartiole'on dry political issues I closed my eyes a "moment and the face of that young girl came before me un biddenJust as all sorts of whimsical things play upon the brain of the dreamer. I saw it exactly as I had seen it that afternoon, and on that morning d month or so before in two positions, only now tbey appeared at once. The one was a three-quarter view and showed a pale, light haired, slightly freckled faced girl with outlines that might have been oval under favorable conditions, but which were thinned down by toll and con finement. The other view was a sharp pro file so sharp that the projecting chin, the parted lips, the nose, the brow, seemed filed out like the teeth on a saw. The evea vers "blue and strained painfully upon the short hand notebook in the rack. The aotion in tho profile was so vividly intense that it fairly startled me. From that moment I never forgot. The matter occurred to me next morning, and I mentally 1 evolved that I would get a look at that face axaln and see what it was tbat sbould thus involuntarily Impress me. With the recolleotion tbat I had merely hair a sec ond's glimpse of the realltv, it seemed in credible that my picture could be more than Imagination. That morning I carefully seated myself next to a window on the right side of the car. I had no idea of even the block in Which the hutldina- stnnd. sn HtUn bad I thought of the matter. But the morn ing was warm, and the windows would be open, so I watohed. It happened that a train ahead, or something else, compelled our en gineer to slow down, and this occurred di rectly as we passed tbe window where the objeot of my curiosity worked. I thus got not only the uptown view, but the down town view; and I was astonished at the extraordinary likeness to tbe double picture in my mind the previous evening. The same position the chin advanced, the lips parted, the eyes strained on the notebook the bands poised on the finger tips above the keyboard ready to strike. On the dark background of the room the effect was won derful. But I noted additionally that the thin lips were colorless; that the fingers were long and bony, and tbat two suspicious red spots made the cheek prominent." Then we were gone. From that time on. going and coming, I either watched for that face, or, when I didn't watch, or was on tho wrong side or the car, I invariably thouzht of it wheu I went by. If I was buried in my newspaper or in conversation my mind re verted to the girl unerringly as we swiftly passed tho window. Tbat face began to haunt me. Sometimes I was out of town for weeks. When I came back I was sure to think of it at the exact moment. Just as if I had seen it hourly. Winter came and tbe oar windows and office windows were closed, and when I glanced at the latter I could see, tbe young girl back in the gloom leaning like a spirit over .the machine. Summer came again and there she sat, paler and thinner and sharper of profile tbon before. The spot on her cheek was redder and some times she wns leaning her head Upon the thin white hand. 1 saw her nearly every day all summer, morning, noon and night always slaving at that machine and every time I saw her she seemed paler and thinner and sharper of outline. When winter came again she seemed to appear iiregulorly. I strained my eves occasionally, and fancied I saw her at tho keyboard as usual then, one gloomy day, when tho gas burned within, the form or a young man was at her chair operating her machine. That was the lait. And that night the double picture of a fair young girl rose before me in all tbe vividness of the first vision grew fainter and 'fainter went out. I have never- seen ' ber'on It again, but rarely think of her, and never have been able to account for the ex traordinary impression of the time. The Nlc3 Part About Visiting ChJca;o. The peocle,wlio went to Chicago-for the first time last week enjoyed a new pleasure the pleasure of getting out of it. That It about the only substantial pleasure most of us experienced there. Telegraphing Flowers Over the World. "Flowers by telegraph to any part of tho world" is a blr sign of a Fifth avenne florist. Sending bouquets by wire would seem to be a new and gigantlo scheme. This enterprising florist is under tbe impression tbat there are plaoes in the world where flowers are unobtainable. Of course, if there are any such places and somebody should die or get married suddenly before proper arrangements could be made for hav ing the .flowers sent by mail, express or freight, the telegraphic facilities would come hahdv. A very few people really know probably that flowers can be sent by telegraph. If thoy did we should hear of some such orders as these: London, Jnne 27. Iborly. New York: Please wire me at Criterion Theater S10 bouquet In time for, third act. First act now on. Hoppxr. LoxdOx, Julyl. nodgson. New York: , Telegraph for dinner table to-day basket of flowers with ray compliments to Victoria. Windsor Castle, and charge to me. Toil OCHILTREE. The American in London or Paris would probably take a good old-fashioned Ameri can cooktail in preference to flowers by cable, for the cocktail is an unknown art abroad, and flowers are there in abundance. Until arrangements are perfected to this end. however, he will have to content him- selr with straight white whisky from tho barmaids at tho Criterion, the Adelphl, tho Grand or some other London resoit, and dallv with vermouth or wino in the gilded lobbies or the Eden, Paris. The Bepth of Tammany's Woe. Tammany is in a hole. If Cleveland is defeated in New York Tammany will be charged with it whether Justly or not. Tam many must carry the Cleveland weaknesses and the Demociatlc follies or bust. The Slate of tbe Bootblack. "Oh, yes," said a corner bootblack, as a gentleman got down from the chair and went away without paying for his shine "we give credit. No, I don't keep books, excopt here," tapping his bead; "but it's all right. Most people are honest,and pay up every now and then. We have to trust sometimes, and very ofton have regular cus tomers who live in the neighborhood. 1 say 'we' because all the cornerTjootblacks, fruit stands, newsmen, etc., civs more or less credit. Very, often gentlemen have no change, or else they don't like to bother with it, and not Infrequently men have no money at the time. Now that man whojust left well dressed, flower in his buttonhole; airy rellow probably bus the fraction of a dollar in his pOoket which has tn last him tilUalnry day, and be really can't pay for his sliino without being squeezed, lie's all right. He won't kick irl run in an extra shine on him by wav or Interest. "Do we get left? Yes,somoHmcs not often. You see wo ddii't know any names and don't know where they live. Of course some work In the office buildings nearby, nnd wc know all of them bv sight. I have Irom $5 to $10 out In Sc and SQo accounts all the time. Tho loss is less than it would be if we should re fuse to black a regular customer's boots be cause be hail no change. In fact, they don't usually ask just get, right up here and nave a shine and with a short, fno change tUU morning' 'pay yon to-merrowT 'chalk that' they bolt away for the car. I don't know a single one ot mv creditors by name. As soon as I see ono I remember what ho owes me." A Bad Way to Get the News. The man who 'stops in the middle of the wnlk to read a newspaper bullotiii ought to have his shoulders greased, so the crowd could slip past blra. A good many people would probably preter clubbing him. Leaving Ih- World a Family. t-One of the most striking things in New York Is the contrast between the. miles or brown stone fronts on Fifth avenue and the neighborhoods of the artisan and laborer in the matter of children. If you care to ob serve tho wayB of your fellow man .try .the fashionablo neighborhoods for children then wander among tbe homes of tbe great middle classes la' Brooklyn. Never mind the tenements you know; the whole world j knows, there are swarms or children there. The condensation of families renders this inevitable. But the homes of single families as they are to be found only in Brooklyn niay be fairly contrasted with tbe homes of ingle families as tbey are lound in rich and fashionable New York. Just why dollars and children are lncom patlable Is one of those things not to be named off band. Nobody ever witnessed the annual May walk of the Brooklyn schools without feeling that in hand these tens and scores of thousands of children are worth all tbe money of the world in the bush. And as for the influence upon the future, the man and wife who are blessed with a large family are leaving a living im press upon tbe future of this country such as dollars can never make. Dollarsare dis sipated with the death of the accumulator. In children, our children's children, -and their children's children we live asialn live always possibly forever with multiplied force and indefinitely broadened purpose. No thoughtful man can go among the silent mansions or tne 100 or now xotk ana not feel a sort of pity for those who are doomed to fill so short and narrow a space in the great scneme 01 tue worm. Chables Theodori Mubrat. New York, July 2. BATES FOB TELEPH0HE3. Quaker City Patrons are Benefitted by the Underground System. Philadelphia, July 2. In pursuance of a desire on the part of the Bell Telephone Company to establish a uniform rate of tolls throughout the city, an order was issued yesterday making one rate of $120 a. year to all subscribers between the Delaware and Schuylkill Elvers and Vine and South streets. The work of putting the wires underground has been nearly completed in this district, and it is only a question of time when the mileage system will be done away with entirely, as It has been eliminated in this district by yesterday's order. This will come as soon as the entire system has underground service. Heretofore a rental of $60 per mile bas been charaed to all subscribers whose places of business were located more than a mile from the general offices of the company. With the new order, however, the subscriber whose telephone is located at the farthest extremity of tbe district pays no more for his service than the subscriber whose phono is located within half a block of Fourth and Market streets. This change will make glad the hearts of at least 230 subscribers. Dr. Plusb. the company's general superin tendent, said: "It is our intention to reduce the tolls as soon as we can secure privileges for the extension of the underground sys tem." A FBENCH-CAJTADIAH EX0DTJ3. They Flock in Great Numbers to the Fertile Soil of New England. "A quieter Immigration movement on a scale so extensive as tbat of tbe French Canadians to the United States has never been witnessed," says Prosper Bender in the July Kew England Jlfagaztne. "The majority of our citizens have as yet no idea of its ex tent and results. It is chiefly within tbe last generation that this 'new nation,' as it may be styled, has noiselessly overspread these Northeastern States. To-day, this new popu lation througbout the United States num bers considerably over 800,000. In New England and New York there are more than 200,000; in Massachusetts alone the figures reach 120,000. This is an astounding aggre gate for the brief period of their immigra tion and the extent of tho sources of supply. This result far exceeds, proportionately, that to the credit of either Ireland or Ger many. According to Le fiuide Francalt des Etats XJnis (1891). thev own real estate to tbe amount of $103,323,500; and 10,696 of the race are doing "business tor themselves. As we have already seen, this people, chiefly agri cultural, backward in education and primi tive In habit, numbered but 65.C00 at the time of the cession or Canada to England 1759-60: while at the pi esent time there are 1,709,000 of them, not including the outflow to adjoining provinces and the United States. FBIKCB BISMAKCK'S TBIUMPH- Great Throngs Greeted the Iron Chancellor During His Stay in Vienna. Harper's Weeklj-.l The honors bestowed upon Prince Bis marck during his recent Journey to attend the wedding of his son at Vienna were of tbe most remarkable character. It is doubt ful whether a more extraordinary series of demonstrations have been in recent times accorded to any otber continental states man. -At every point of importance on his route he was greeted by the populace with tbe utmost enthusiasm. At Vienna he was welcomed by a concourse so great that for a time the'streets were completely blocked, and it was finally found necessary for the police to use their sabres in dispersing the multitude which had assembled to do him honor. His welcome by the students was es pecially hearty, and the wave of enthusiasm which swept over the city is not inaptly de scribed by one writer as a "whirlwind." He was escorted to the palace which had been assigned him by an immense procession, the students singing "Die Wacht am Bhein" with sturdy persistance all the way (some eight miles,) and it is no wonder that the Prince was profoundly affected as no list ened to the inspiring hymn. YANKEE FLAGS IN M0NTBEAL. They Are Mighty Scarce on Holidays Since the Incident on the Queen's Birthday. Mostreai, July 2. Yesterday, Dominion Day, the Stars and Stripes floated from the store of Large A Co., hatters, from which placo tbe flag was forcibly removed last Queen's Birthday by militiamen. No de mand was made lor the removal of the flag, thnuTli several parties of volunteers as thev passed the store Jeered at. the proDrietors tor flying "that rag." It was a noticeable circumstance that few United States flags were displayed in tho city yesterday. Formerly, on Dominion Day and other public holidays, United States flags were to be seen all over the city, espeoially in tbe French quarters. It was probably on account of the unpleasantness on Her Majesty's last olrthday tbat caused the rule to be departed from yesterday. COLD WATER CATCHES. We might suggest to the National Prohi bition Convention that too much water is not popular. Toledo Blade. Tnine has been entirely too much water this year to make the Prohibition outlook good. Thlladelphia Bulletin. It Is Just as hard to get tbe Presidental nomination at a Prohibition convention as though It amounted to something. Buffalo Inquirer. Thb Prohibitionists have adopted a gen uine vote-catching platform. That shows that there are more politicians than tem perance men in the party. Cleveland Lender That the Prohibitionists were never more in earnest is evident from the largo attend ance at nnd spirited manifestations In their Convention. RochesUr Union and Advertiser, The $20,000 Prohibition campaign fund sub scribed by the delegates to the Cincinnati convention shows that they are more willing to give than to receive. This is where they differ from the average delegate Boston Herald. The Prohibitionists showed remarkably good Judgment in holding their national convention at Cincinnati. No other city in tho country presents such an excellent op portunity to study tho American beer gar den as an institution, and the dry contingent apparently lias been Improving its chance. Chicago. Mall. The Prohibitionists have heretofore been credited with engaging in Presidental cam paigns with Intent to sell out to the highest bidder, the Democratic party usually being the successful competitor, but on this occa sion there Is to be no bargain or able, but a square fight to the cad.' So much thebettor. Ph'ladtlphl'i Evening Telegraph. -CANNOT BE FOUND. St. Louis Republic Oh. the pretty girl It a winsome pearl, --And hrr race Is ralr to sec. . But the homely girl Is nearer ralr tVhat a nice girl ought to be ; For a pretty girl Is proud and vain, And-Blie frets the heart or man. And the does Just what she wants to do, Because she Knows she can; Ah. ycSI , Because she knows she ci. Oh.1 wonld wed could I find a girl Who quite combines the grace . Of a homely maiden's honest heart With A pretty woman's face. To win this prize I would search for aye. But, alas. I fear I shan't: Though I explore the whole world o'er I know fall weU I can't; And alack! I know I can't. .--. i-vSk.'srz. -lii &Lyju&B&ii&& CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. In Topekaonesetof "Councilmen" Is women. The militia of the various States num ber 110,00a - There are 7,500,000vyonns men In the United States. The Metropolitan Tabernacle lis 28 mission stations. Forty-nine per cent of thttdays in Lon don are said to be wet: Wine clariflers in France use mors than 80,000,000 eggs a year. The smallest quadruped in the world is tbe pigmy mouse of Siberia. The English Derby was established la 1780 by the twelfth Earl of Derby. Of every hundred baby girls that are born in China about SO are put to death. Over 2,000,000 postal cards are necessary to meet tbe dally demands in 'this country. Insurance aggregating 13,000,000 is now carried on the buildings at the World's Fair. There are 360 mountains in the United States, each exceeding 10,000 feet in heighth. Kansas has four cities in which the. vote of tbe women is largertbaa tbat of the men. Statistics prove that the negro in the South lives longer than a negro In the North. Life is shorter intthe valleys and low lands than among the 'hills and mountains. The most ancient piece ot music still in existence is named the "Blessing of the Priests." A letter addressed to George "W. Eight quarts was deliveredito George W. Peck, in Kansas City. The nnmber of juvenile criminals in England shows a reduction from 9, 9S3 la 1371 to 3,892 in 1891. A Chicago paper estimates ithat it will cost $22,000,000 to elect the next President of the United States. For every four shillings spent in Eng land on drink, only half a penny Is ex pended on education. ' Mineral wood, or asbestos, is incom bustible and is tbe most perfect-non-conductor of heat known. Iron expands with beat, and the Eiffel Tower is said to be eight Inches higher in hot than in cold weatber. The roe of the codfish-contains more latent living creatures the whole human population of the Germany has a boarding' establishment for birds, where the feathered ones are taken care of while their owners are away. Moscow's famous broken bell Is 22 feet in diameter and 21 feet 3 inches high. It weighs 413,772 pound3 and is used as a chapel. The value of sealskins shipped from Alaska since that territory came into the possession of the United States'is given at 133,000.000. A San Francisco gentleman possesses a $5 gold coin struck by the Mormons in 1349. The metal is soft and unalloyed and Is wear ing away rapidly. The Indian measures distances while canoeing by "pipes.". Ono pipe is the in terval between the baitings lie is allowed to make for a smoke. At a recent meeting of a surgical socletyin Paris it was developed that out of 260 accidents from byperdermic injections) 21 terminated fatally. Not less than 60 per cent of the people) in Alaska are afflicted with chronic diseases.! Two-thirds of the children born do not live, (. or rather do not outlive their parents. A bit of steel w,as removed. from tho cerebellum of a patient at Belle vnoJIospital, New York, so qulcaly and painless that the patient laughed aloud wben tbe operation was over. Tn Balakany, near Bakn, the center of the Busslan petroleum industry, 13 witnessed .V the anomaly of the water used for the steam J boilers in tbe several establishments costing more than the fuel. The three longest rivers in the world, in tbelr order are as follows: The Missouri from its souice'to the mouth of the lower Mississippi, 4,573 miles: the Amazon, 3,941 miles, ard tnenie, 3.S00 miles. -- ' J A deposit of ?20 made in the Newbury port Institution for Savings in 1320-now calls for Interest amounting to $893. No one has ever claimed the original deposit and no ad dition bas ever been made to it. Marine architects are interested in a discussion of whether iron is not better for ship building purposes than steel. Tho cases of Great Britain and Great Eastern are quoted as upholding that assertion. In Anderson, Ind., there is an organiza tion of young men known as the Brother hood of United Matrimonial Seekers; but tbe snzgestive word spelled by the initials of this name tbreatents to break it up. At Hirnisketscher, Bohemia, the un equal working of nature in the destruction of rocks has resulted in a most colossal and ruggedly beautiful nrcb, the summit of which lsj upward of 1,400 feet above sea level. Caterpillars from six inches to a foot long are common in the vicinity of tho Dar ling river, Australia. The natives twist them together and boll them in kangaroo grease, which is said to make a palatable dish. In Forsyth county, Georgia, is a craved or Incised boulder of fine-grained granite, about 9 feet long, 4 feet 6 Inches high, and 3 fpBt broad at its widest point. The flsures are cut in the boulder from K to Ji of an Inch deep. The centrifugal force developed by the earth's rotation tends to throw bodies off its surtace as a stone is propelled by a sling, and in consequence of this fact, l-293th pare of weight of every particle of matter lying along tbe equator is employed in keeping is on tbe earth. An Austrian proyincial paper lately contained the following advertisement: "X widow, who still possesses tho entire ward robe of her deceased husband. Is disposed to enter into correspondence with a suitable gentleman, if such can be found, with a view to matrimony." There are some remarkable monoliths in China. They were used in the construc tion of a very remarkable bridge connecting; two small towns called Yun Lan andLoey Eon, standing on opposite shores of a large lagoon or arm of tbe sea near Chin Chen, in tbe province of Fro Eien. Some of tbe blocks composed or gray granite measure 40 feet In length and S feet in tbiebness and width. FUSILLADES OF FUN. Tailor I am afraid your snit won't be) finished by Wednesday, sir. Clauson But. Great Scott I man, I am to marry an heiress on that day. Tailor That makes a difference. You may coual On me to have it there. Clothier and Furnisher. With swimming holes and fireworks iree, The times forebode some slaughter; The small boy. It is plain to se. Is now 'twlxt fire and water. Washington Star. "Shall I dress the chicken, ma'am?: said the domestic to the young housekeeper. "Dress the chicken T Oh, yes, of course: and' see that It is well dresed. So much depends oa I appearances nowadays." Detroit Dree Press, A CONTBETZMrg. His manlv arm was round her waist, Her head "was on his shoulder. And while her cheek warm blushes graced Love's tender tale he told her. And as he marked each crimson flush Across ber fair race flitting The hammock came down with a fnsn In which the pair were sitting. .vo lark Press, "What a ridiculous fellow " you are, George: you know you hav no use for that yacht -ing suit!" "Oh. I shan't sail In It, or course." "Then why did yon buy It?" Why. Just as you bought your bathing suit you'll never get In the water with it." Chicago Slews-Record. From off his clothes, day after day, She does not seo the buttons roU; But she Is quick to notice when His trousers pocket has a hole. I Smith, Gray A Co.U Uonthly. Bulfinch How are Naggedat and his wife getting,along together? Wooden-Oh, I don't know; what makes you ask? BullUnch-Ob. nothlnt; only when they got mar ried they had one or those mottoes. God Bless OuiCHome," in tbe sltUng room; and now he has it up In his smoking room with "As kar As PoaaW ale" written underneath it. Boston Courlsr, JL.. .... -, i. ir !:si!iiita&!t .v
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