THE P3TTSBUEG DISPATCH. TUESDAY, JDLT 5. 1892. IJje Bigpfrlj. ESTABLISHED FEBRUARY 8, 1840 Vol. 7. No. IK. Entered at Pittsburg Fostoffice JiOTtmber. 18S7, at second-class matter. Business Office Corner Smithfield and Diamond Streets. News Rooms and Publishing House 78 and So Diamond Street, in New Dispatch Building. rAPTERN ADYKKTTSINO "FFIOE, KOOM T8. TRIBUNE BUILDING. NEW YORK, where com rltte files ofTHEDlSPATCn can always be fonnd. Forelrn advertisers appreciate the epnTenlence. llome advertisers and Wends of THE DISPATCH. while in Sew York, are also made welcome. TEEDISPATCnUreavlarlvonsnleatBrentano's. U Union Square, -Vis lork, and E in del' Opera. Tariff. France, where anyone who hat been disap pointed at a hotel news stand can obtain it. TERMS OF THE UISPATCtt TOSTAGI ITVES CI THE UNrTZD STATES. Sjin.YDlFPATCn. One Year $ R 00 AILY Dispatch. Per Quarter SCO Daily DiRPATcn. One Month JO Dailt Dispatch. Including Sunday. 1 year.. 10 00 Daily Dispatch, Including Sunday, Sm'ths, ISO Daily DisrATCH. Including Sundar, 1 m'th.. 90 Sunday Dispatch. One Year S60 Weekly Dispatch. One Year. 13 The Daily Dispatch Is delivered by carriers at 3; cents per week, or. Including bunday Edition, at V eents per "week. I FITTf-BURG. TUESDAY. JULY'S. 1892. TWELVE PAGES SAME PARTY ASD CANDIDATE. When the People's Party Convention, after a lively " niiht session, nominated General James B. Weaver, of Iowa, for President, it did much to quiet the fears of those who have had apprehensions as to lue eneci 01 me umaiia aiuunuK upuii the prospects of the old parties. General Weaver 12 years ago was the chosen head of the Greenback party, and six years ago came to the front as a leader of the Union-Labor party. In reality it has always been the same party. When Henry George and others undertook to nationalize the labor movement in politics, which had been a partial success in sections, the old Green back guard with Weaver to the fore ap peared and took possession of the organi zation. That effort at once languished and soon died. Then the farmers under such new leaders as Simpson, Polk and Kyle achieved temporary success in 1890 and Weaver and his associates were prompt to c'aim the credit and assume control, wuh the result indicated by the Omaha conven tion. General Weaver possesses a pleasing personality, is a fairly effective campaign orator and has considerable experience in legislative work as a member of Congress. The old-Fne Greenbackers, hat are left of them, will rally to him most 'enthusi aMically, and with the fanners who can be induced to remain in the ranks may swell his vote something beyond the 300,000 he received in 18S0. But as the candidate of a new third party he will not eause a hegira from the Republican and Democr.t'c lines. The reason is that it is the saire old third party with the very same candidate, making the same appeals that proved fruitless so often before. A COINCIDENCE OF LEGISLATION. llicie is a singular, if not important, significance in the fact that when the free coinace bill was passed by the Senate the other dt, Tice President Morton was ab sent; from the chair and benator Hams, oi Tennessee, was occupying it in his stead. At the time when the same measure was taken up by the Senate in the last Con gress to the exclusion of the force bill Yicc President Morton was also out of the chair and the place was occupied, also, by Senator Harris, of Tennessee. On the first occasion a parliamentary rul ing from Senator Harris and his recogni tion of a particular one of his colleagues at a critical juncture had much to do with the result, and in the current instance there was a preliminary tie vote which would have postponed the measure until the next session. Perhaps, however, that need not be considered vital Inasmuch as the majority in the Senate, including representatives of the States of New York and Pennsylvania, were determined to pass this bill at some time, the country might as well take its dose sooner as later. The coincidence may not be especially significant or especially remarkable. But it does seem to suggest that when meas ures of national import are pending, the Vice President would do well to be pres ent and attend to his not very exacting duty of presiding over the Senate and giving the deciding vote when it is made necessary by a tie. THE SPREAD OF CHOLERA. With cholera in the Caspian provinces of Bussia, at the Italian port of Brundu sium, and reported to exist in the outskirts of Paris, it is evident that the time has come when civilization must be on the alert to prevent the spread of the disease. The recent regulations adopted with ref erence to the quarantine of cholera at the Suez Canal diminish rather than augment the obstacles to the passage of the conta gion through that channel of communica tion with the plague-infested East This course may be justifiable on the theory that cholera always does advance beyond the Suez Canal in any event; but It empha sizes the need for every nation to protect itself against contagion and to put its cities in the best shape for combating the disease. There Is not much danger of the spread of the cholera to the United States in time to become epidemic this year. But this fall and next year, when the tide of travel may set in this direction, we should be prepared to offer every check to its spread, both by the most rigid quarantine and the most thorough cleanliness. VERT INTERESTING FIGURES. The Secretary of the Treasury, in con nection with the balance-sheet for the fiscal year just closed, meets the assertions of the opposition that the Treasury bal ance of $126,692,000 was obtained by stav ing off the payment of claims, with the declaration that "expenditures had run $28,000,000 less than during the preceding year and this, notwithstanding all that had been said by unfair critics about postpon ing the payment of innumerable claims, had come about without putting off the payment of a dollar of just Government debt to anybody." This is certainly a much more satisfac tory view, if correct, than the ono assidu ously spread during the past that the Treasury was cooking up a favorable bal ance by putting off the payment of claims which must be met sooner or later. That would have amounted to a moral, if not technical, falsification of public docu ments. The alternative theory is that the administration in the exercise of its wise discretion has abstained from contracting all the expenditures which were author ized by the lavish appropriations of the last Congress. This appears more clearly in the state ment of receipts and expenditures made for the last two fiscal years. The receipts for the fiscal year ended June SO, 1891, were 5401,976,000; and the expenditures, 5389,327,000, leaving a surplus of $12,649, 000. In the year"st ended the receipts fell below the expenditures by nearly $5,000,000, the former being $356,933,000 and the latter 5361,348,000. The decrease of 528,000,000 in the expenditures is the moro noticeable because the appropria tions for last year exceeded those of the previous fiscal year by over 562,000,000. Thus the administration by its own show ing has improved on the work of Congress to the extent of 590,000,000. But there Is even a wider difference in the comparison of the total appropriations with the total expenditures. The total appropriations, annual and permanent, were 5525,018,000 and the total expenditures by the Secre tary's statement, were but 5361,348,000. It thus appears that the administration was able to get along on less than the amount appropriated by Congress, with the very neat saving of S163,670,000. It is pre sumed that 577,000,000 of this is due to excluding the totals of the postal de partment from the balance sheet, but the 5S6,000,000 difference remaining Is Impor tant enough to warrant some desire for additional information as to the details of the economy. If the Government has really made a saving of 585,000,000 to 590,000,000 on the appropriations of the last Congress, it will be decidedly creditable to the administra tion. Such a statement, on its face, takes away the ground for the assertion that appropriations cannot and should not be very materially reduced. - THE FOURTH IN THE PARK. The popular celebration of the Fourth of July at Schenley Park yesterday was unalloyed in its success, and gave the public an opportunity to see for them selves the immense gain secured to the city by the acquisition and improvement of its parks and the increase of its means for transit. No more perfect weather for an outdoor fete could be imagined. The bright sunshine, clear and bracing air, and vegetation freshened by the recent rains gave especial zest to the enjoyment of the people's pleasure ground by its owners. The ceremonies of observance were ap propriate and reflected no slight degree of credit on those who have energetically labored to complete their arrangements. But the enjoyment of the parks was the great pleasure of the day. Of the scores of thousands who roamed through that beautiful pleasure-ground there were few who did not recognize the beauty and Value of this new creation for the benefit of the public, or who would consent that the city should surrender these beautiful possessions for many times what they have cost. The lines of transit did well In transporting the myriads of pleasure seekers to and from the parks, but the packed cars showed that then- facilities were none too great. As the population grows and the park celebrations attract greater crowds, it is evident that the utmost transporting facilities, not only of the street lines, but of the steam railroads connecting with the park, will have to be brought Into use on such occasions as this. The Fourth of July in Schenley Park has already become an established custom, but it is one that will never grow old. Each year will increase the attractions of that charming place and swell the crowds who resort to It on public holidays. WAGES IN THE SOUTH. The reference of The Dispatch to the 80-cent-a-day wages paid to workingmen on the battle-field of Chlckamauga moves the Buffalo Courier to say that It is "a plea for higher duties" which is an error and to remark that "the line of reason ing is not clear enough to be followed readily." After which our cotemporary goes on to give other facts showing the low wages paid the labor of the South as compared with the North. It is not vital that our Democratic co temporary fails to follow our line of rea soning, so that it recognizes, as it does, the crucial fact that low wages in the South are the result of the conditions of labor in that section, irrespective of the influences which establish higher wages in our sec tion. The remarks of The Dispatch were in reply to another Democratic jour nal which made the 80-cent wages a re proach to protection, and even to emanci pation, by asserting that the laborers in the Chickamauga field were no better off than if they had remained slaves. When the Courier concedes the fact that South ern wages are far below the scale paid to Northern workingmen it furnishes the most complete reply to that style of argu ment, and points the way to the true con clusion that such wages are due to the traditional pro-slavery and ultra-freed theory still enforced in the South that the laboring elementmust be held in subjection by fab: means or f ouL Of course there are other influences be sides those of protective duties which affect the rate of wages. One of the most potent of these Is the prevalence of the principle and its maintenance, either by law or violence, that the proper lot of labor is ignorance and subjection to the ruling" race. THE POLITICAL CELEBRATIONS. The national holiday was celebrated yesterday by one or two demonstrations which were largely political in their nat ure. Tammany Hall returned to its original purpose to the extent of cele brating the day with political speeches and letters from leading Democrats, in cluding one from Senator Hill, declaring that fidelity to Democratic principles and the regularly nominated 'candidates was the duty of the hour. Inasmuch as party principles are supposed to be stated in the party platforms, it might be supposed that the New York Senator would take this opportunity to explain apparent lack of harmony between the Democratic plat form and his rote on free silver coinage; but he singularly omitted to do so. The members of the Cabinet were largely represented in 'the regular annual demonstration at Woodstock. They did not neglect the. opportunity to spread be fore the country a full statement of the benefits of the administration's policy of, protection and reciprocity. The balance In the prominence of political activity, however, seems to have been won for the Democratic side by Mr. Stevenson's ora tion at a Democratic celebration in Illinois. There Is nothing at variance with the celebration of the day In party leaders using It to Impress on the public mind those principles which they deem most important for the welfare of the country, at gatherings which are recognized as political In their character. Nevertheless, the most ideal observance is in recalling and Impressing on the public mind those broad principles of patriotism on which all parties can stand in harmony. PixtsbuboIi undoubtedly a most patriotio city. Even Its ball team plays the better for tbs fervor of a pnblio celebration. It won tiro games on Decoration Day and two more yesterday. It is evident "that tbere is something seriously the matter -with the Baltimore team, which was defeated on these occasions. There is a striking difference between the steamer City of Chicago and Chicago the city. The former is flrmiy fixed and foun dered on a rock, while tne latter is founded on a marsh." Popular enthusiasm and lung power threaten to become inconveniently com monplace, when a crowd goes wild in cheer ing such a conglomeration of fallacious sophistries as tho platform of the People's party for nearly half an hour in a midsum mer atmosphere. Patriotism and youth triumphed over nervousness and age in the loud and lusty celebration of Independence Day. As a protection against disappointment, it is welt for Bland's peace of mind that ho is able to express a conviction that the President will undoubtedly veto the free coinage bill if it should happen to succeed in reaching him. Schenley Park was full of opportun ities yesterday for those wno love the soli tude to be found in a crowd. Bourke Cockean is undoubtedly a man of great abilitv and oratorical power, but be fore he can hope to earn the confidence of the nation he will have to cut himself adrift from the political corruption of the Tam many machine Besides empty cracker cases there will be a medical Caie or two as the result of yesterday's explosions. The marvel is that the People's party should be able to find any one man with a versatility elastic enough to enable him to adopt all the tenetsrof its creed and repre sent it as a nominee doomed to defeat. The recoil has set in, and there is a lull in the firework and flag industries. To judge lrom its actions with regard to free coinage measures, it would appear that the Democratic party puts planks into its conventional platform in order to tiample on them Concessional! v. This is the day for gathering up the fragments. MUNDANE METEOES. Horace Scudder, editor of The Atlantic, has been ill, but is now able to lesume his duties. Rev. William P. Kane announced to his congregation yesterday that he had de cided not to accept tne presidency of Wa bash College at Crawfoidsville, Ind. The eminent Italian actor, Ernesto Bos si, has Parliamentary aspirations and pro poses to represent the city or Leghorn in the Italian Chamber if the voters will assent to it at the coming election. Archbishop Ireland was educated in France, and during his lecent visit to Paris delivered atno hourV address in French which has been warmly received by the ap preciative French people. Ben Tillett, the British labor agitator,, is an onuiiverous, but not altogether injudi cious, reader, lluskin, Carlyle, and New man are his favoi ites; and he is po w strug gling with Duff's Old Testament theology. The Archbishop of Canterbury is an en thusiastic horseman. He rides mainly to offset a tendency to corpulency due to a se dentary life. Uis costume when riding is a peculiar one, for with knee boots he wears his shovel bat and apron. Mrs. General Newberry, wife of Congressman Newberry, is dangerously ill. Her death is hourly expected. General New berry is somewhere in the East, but repeated telegrams bave failed to locate him. Mrs. Newberry has been an invalid for several years. Benjamin F. Cable, the young Demo cratic Congrcssmaii, -who made such chappy hit in introducing the resolution ''expressing sympathy with Mr. Blaine, at the' Chicago Convention, is immensely popular. Kate Field says of him: "He will bear watching, for he has a career." Abram S. Hewitt will shortly be the guest of the Duke and Duchess of Marlbor ough at their home, Blenheim Castle, the roof ol which took so many o Mr. Hamers ley's dollars to repair. The couple were married by Mr. Hen itt, it will be remem bered, when he was Mayor of New York City. , GOULD HAS B20NCHITIS. So Says Dr. Munn, His Personal Medical At tendant. New Tobk, July ti-During the past few days the newspapers have printed various dispatches, all dated Pueblo, where Jay Gould is now located in his private car. These dlspntohes have been to the effect that Mr. Gould is rapidly recovering his wonted health and stiength. A great many people refuse to believe these eheerful statements. They sav Mr. Gould is not only very sick but very danger ously sick.'dnd there is little or no chance of his . ultimate recovery. His illness is de soiibed by Dr. J. P. Munn, tils personal med ical attendant, as a bronchial trouble. The truth seems to be that Mr. Gould is suffering from consumption, or something that boars a striking likeness to it. Outside of all dliect Information as to Mr. Gould's condi tion, it need only be pointed out that George Gould and his wite left for Pueblo last Mon day, and probably joined Mr. Gould this morning. Many people believe George Gould and hls.'wife Have gone out to join Mr. Gould be cause of bis desperate illness. Mrs. George Gould has been ill for some time, and at present she is in no physical condition to undertake a Journey of 2,000 miles unless there is a very serious reason for undertak ing (A PRIEST ON THE WABPATH, He Is, Hot After City Officials Who Are fclow to Prosecute Liquor 3Ten. Elizabeth, N. J., July 4. The Eev. Father Gessner paid his respects to Mayor Bankin of this fclty from the altar in St. Patrick's CburchX Sunday over the Mayor's failure to close the saloons on Sunday, and said that a prominent lawyer had informed him that the Mayor could be indicted by tho grand jury fori his dereliction of duty. Father Gessner plainly intimated that it was his in tention to go before the next grand Jury and have His Honor, hauled over the coals tor his failure, to carry out the Sunday closing law. ' The priest said tho moral sentiment of the community would sustain bhnin taking the step. He then fiercely denounced the poli ticians of both parties, who, he said, were controlled' by tne rum element and were atraid to pass any law looking to.the cur tailing of tho liquor traffic This attack was provoked by the refusal of the city council to pass an ordinanoe in troduced by Father Gessner to close all saloons from 11 o'clock at night until 7 o'clock in the morning. Tbe board tabled the ordinance and the priest now vows to wage incessaht warfare on the liquor dealers and the subservient politicians who sustain them. ' Blaine's Thanks to the President, Washisotoit, July 4. Ex-Secretary Blaine has sent the President a cordial acknowl edgment ofitha receipt of his telegram of sympathy and condolence at the time of the death ot his Son, Emmons Blaine. The President's telegram was sent the day young Mr. Blaine died, jbut it was not received by Mr. Blaine until he returned to Bar Harbor, after the funeral la Chicago. Et To, Brute I Minneapolis Tribune. J I Tbe name, residence and occupation of the People's party candidate for Governor of Kansas are thus set forth in the City Direc tory of Wichita: "Lorenzo D. Lewelling, capitalist, 1614 Hillside avenue." Banking on 'Sore Thine Buffalo Express. The DemooratJo party asks the people to forget Its record and think only of its prom ises. Tbe Republican party points, to its record as a guarantee that Its promises will be fulfilled. A LOOK AROUND. Within ten years time our Fourth of July has changed from a day of Icecream and Soman candles and firecrackers to one ofnoisoand speeoh-making. American in genuity has supplanted to a great degree that product of the Mongol, tbe small fire cracker. Time was when the boys were content with these noise-producers, and even when their ambition soared they wero satisfied with an accumulation of them un der a barrel or ( some other magnifier of sound. Bnt, bless usl tho boy is humble and meek, indeed, who is to be made happy by such means now. He wants cannon crack ers, big things looking like a section of paralyzed red bologne sausage and capable of arousing the neighborhood. As an adjunct to these ho must, forsooth, have torpedoes the size or English walnuts, which go off with tbe detonation of an old time shell mortar. Of course he wants rockots and Roman candles and fizzing things that fill the night air yrltb, crimson streaks, and children with delight, but above all he must have noise and a good deal of it all at once. If by any chance you are sick in a city on the Fourth, get your doctor to give you something to move you ovor a day without you getting awake. What a wonderful thing this new dis covery in photography is, which has been made by the French savant, Dr. Lippman. It was announced some time ago that he had found a process by which he could photograph the colors of the spectrum and now he gives to the world the views of his ability to photograph a bed of flowers or any combination of colors. It soems in credible at first glance and yet tho color waves which produce this result aro as tangible and efficient as ascents as the waves of sound which make the telephone a com mercial success. I wonder what has ever become of the process ot taking photographs In tho dark. Some years ago during a course of lectin es delivered in the chapel of tbe First Presby terian Church Prof. Langley announced what was news to nearly everyone in this country. It was that an English scientist who was experimenting with the camera, had discovered a process by which he could successfully take pictuies in the dark, and that he had gone so tar as to take the faces and figures of a group of a dozen parsons seated in a room which was absolutely dark. 1 remember trying to got some details of the mariner in which so curious a proceeding was made possible, but Prof. Langley said that the discoverer had asked him not to make the piocess public, as ho naturally de sired topi oclaim it himself in his own way. I may bo behind the age as to this process, but I certainly do not remember ever hear ing of its being brought to a sufficiently practicable conclusion to be given to the world. There seems to be a prospect of getting a big apartment house in the central part of the city somewhere about Oakland, I be lieve. It is doubtful if there is a street of its importance in any large city which is as spotted in the character of its buildings as Fifth avenue. John Glenn, late of the Auditor Gen eral's office and Secretary of the State Com mittee, has located in this city permanently. He is by profession a lawyer and will asso ciate himself in tbe future with the law firm of Lyon, McKee & Sanderson. "A woman is a queer thing," remarked a street car conductor. "One of them dropped a coin in my car the other day. We looked for it, but couldn't find it. She wasn't Sure whether it was a dime or a cent. She rode all theway to E ist Liberty and back to look for jt and finally on the way in she dis covered it and found it was a cent. Then' she had to go out again to the East End." I am told that a firm of real estate oper ators of this city recently bought some property in Scranton for about $8,000. They cut it up into lots, advertised it well and had a boom sale, the result of which was that they sold all tho lots for $60,000. How the town is spreading beyond Forbes street to the eastward of Craft avenue. All the way out to Shady lane there are signs of rapid growth, and where there were stretches of pasture or idle fields a few years ago, thereare nowabundantevidences of growth. A line of rapid transit through that section, would soon lead to its being built upon oxtensively. Walter, BROOKLYN EIOPEHS CHECKMATED. They Take With Them a Sam of Money Belonging to Boarders. New York, July 4. Thomas Bogart, Jr., 24 years old, son of a carpenter living in Brooklyn, and Mrs. Lizzie Field, 22 years old, the wife of Frauds Field, a carriage painter, eloped on Thursday morning from Field's home in Brooklyn. Young Bogart had been a friend of the young woman's family and had free access to the house at any time he pleased. Mrs. Field's parents, with whom she and her husband and two children lived, were much attached to Bogart, but never suspected the course affairs wero taking until the sudden departure of the young woman with her two children. Then it came out that Bogart had been making preparations for the flight for some time. He had induced Margaret Lonergan and Mary O'Neil, two women who board with his father, to withdraw from the South Brooklyn Building Association and permit him to get their checks cashed. Bogart got the money, and then he got young Mrs. Field to pack np and go. Their trunks were traced to Bridgeport, Conn. Bogart had $140 belonging to his father's boarders, and the detectives who were pat on tho case made up their minds the couple would not go far. They did not go to Bridge port, however, as they were traced to New Kocholle, where Detectives McCormick and Dennedy of Brooklyn found them on Satur day night. They had hired a small cottage furnished, and nad gone to housekeeping. Both were brought back to Brooklyn with the children, and are now locked up in the Fifth avenue station. Field took Ills chil dren home. Bogart's father has mado good the money his son took, and the charge of larceny on whioh the two elopers are held will probably be withdrawn. A GHOST OB A JAQ1 New Castle Toung Men Claim to Have Been Chased by a Giant Spook. New Castle, July 4. Special. About a year ago an old house near New Caslin post office, four miles from this city, was said to be haunted, but no person belief ed tbe storv until lately. About a month ago, as two persons were passing near, tho house, they.heard a curious noise coming from that direction. They went toward the house, when they saw a figure moving about. The figure walked about the yard for some time, when it suddenly disappeared. The two young men entered the house to investi gate. They unfastened the door and again heard the peculiar moving noise in one of the rooms, and whenever they went intoone room tho noise came fiom another direc tion. This continued for some timo until tho sounds suddenly ceased. Tho young men became te'rrlnea and ran out of the bouse. Tboy again heard the noise, and looking around, saw a terrible looking ob ject ten feet high on the roof. According to their story the eyes were about three inches in diameter. Tho objectpthen descended to the ground and came toward them. They started to run, with tho ghost alter them. Finally the young men reached homo, more dead than alive, and one or thein is now confined to bis bed with nervous prostiatlon. One or the young men said to your correspondent: "I suppose the people will notbelieve this, but it is positively true. It wore something like a sheet, and when on the roof it sv ung Its arms around and made queer gestures." Several other persons in that vicinity claim to have seen the object, and there is a gen eral tei-ror in the vicinity which keeps the peoplo in the house at night. A Rival of Victoria Woodhull. , Chicago Tribune. -v, , If Mrs. Henry M. Stanley will shake the dnst of old England from her shoes and bring her husband to this country she may not only electioneer for hint as much, as she ohooses, but announoe herself a eandidate for office without running the risk of her Hie. Where is tbe boasted English lova for fair play, anyhowf BISHOP WHITEHEAD'S VIEWS Are Received With Commendation Upon the Paclflo Coasts Portland Oregonlau. Bishop Cortlandt Whitehead, of the Prot estant Episcopal diocese of Pittsburg, has come out In favor of opening the art de partment of the World's Fair on Sunday, and. Indeed, any other department that can he opened without the aid of ma chinery. He argues that as Chicago alreody has tho continental Sunday, it is better to give the people interesting and instructive places to go to than shut the doois of these In their faces and drive them to the saloons and other places wherein idleness brews mischief. Although there is no reason why one department of tho lair may be opened on Sunday and another closed, it may be possible to effect a reconciliation of differ ences upon the question upon the basis pro posed, which would be better than to openly antagonize either the one side or the other by an arbitrary decision. Practical people have to give up a great deal when striving loaujusc matters or material interest to a work-a-day world, to meet the approbation of those who persist in dealing with society as it shonld be in their estimation, rather than In treating conditions as they exist. It is better many times to do this than to quibble with and hopelessly antagonize peo ple who are flrmiy convinced that they have a mission to overcome "the world, the flesh and the devil," and that this can be accomplished only by bringing everybody to conform, outwardly at least, to their own view of what is light and seemly. Bishop Whitehead realizes, probably, that It is conditions, not theories, that confront the Sunday question, and that whatever will contribute toward making Sunday a day of rest and recreation in the lives of the people will help them and help Christianity. THE F0UETH AT CHAUIACa TJA. A Patriotic Programme Carried Out, bnt Firecrackers Were Pew. Chautauqua, N. Y., July 4. Special. To day was so quiet as to cause ode of the ora tors, Colonel Francis W. Parker, of Chicago, to lament tbe fact that the small boy and his firecracker was not turned loose at an early hour and kept at it all day. A small, but patriotio audience assembled in the amphi theater this afternoon, and after Eev. Dr. Hurlburt nad read the Declaration of Inde pendence, Colonel Parker spoke of the glories of this great country and what should be done to educate the youth to a Eroppr appreciation of their opportunities. r. Flood followed ina very brief address, and incidentally made reference to woman suffrage. Dr.Hurlburt was .introduced to say something on the other side or the question. He said the women should consider them selves flattered that the burden of suffrage was kept from their shoulders. Continuing, Dr. Hurlburt compared America with Eu rope, whero no country can have peace without a million soldiers, while here it is hard to find emplovment for 20,000. Miss Margaret Goetz sang. "The Star Spangled Banner," and the entire audience Joined In singing "America." At 5 o'clock Mrs. Sarah Teal lectured about the pilgrim mothers. Her talk was mainly about tho fathers, with the addition that the mothers were with them and joined them In all their undertakings. This afternoon Pi of. Gilmore gave the first of his conrse of university ex tension lectures on the rise of American Soetry, his subjeot being William Cullen ryant. This evening E. Warren Clark talked about three styles of Moorish archi tecture,givlng some verv good Illustrations. At 9-30 o'clock tbere was a fine display of fireworks to close the day's patriotic pro gramme. Senator Hill's Course on Silver. New York World. Both the great parties have recently de fined their attitude toward silver in delib erate platform utterances. Neither has lent countenance to such a bill as the Senate, by both Democratic and Republican votes, passed on Friday. Both parties favor bi metallism, with dollars of equal value. Neither countenances the sort of silver in flation which the Senate bill contemplates. That is a "People's Party" measure pure and simple, a cheap-money bill, intended to effect a reduction of the dollar unit and the complete lapse to the single silver standard. The bill provides for the free and un limited coinage of all silver at tbe present false ratio. It directs the coinage even of the silver bullion in tho Treasury held as security for the notes issued In payment for it. It is a measure of inflation, of cheap money and of bad faith. Senator Hill has made himself in a peculiar wav responsible for the passage of this bill. He not only voted for it upon its final passage, but voted with its friends on a preliminary motlon.'on which his vote, if cast the other way, would have put the whole matter out of present consideration. In voting thus Sonator Hill misrepresented the declared sentimeat of his party as set lorth in its national plat form, and still more the known and em puatlcally expressed sentiment of his party in tho State he is commissioned to repre sent. THE NATION'S DAT OP JOI. Hurrah for the Fourth of July, protection and reciprocity. Ohio State Journal. The day we celebrate is more than a mere holiday It is an object lesson and a train ing school in citizenship and statecraft; Baltimore Herald. The leaders of the Democratic party of to day would not have signed the Declaration of Independence because they are enamored of the British policy. Indianapolis Journal. The best way to celebrate tbe glorioas Fourth Is to show by sober, orderly, law abiding conduct that you are worthy of the country whoso birth the day commemor ates. New York Press. Ixdepeiiuekce Dat is the great Home Bule anniversary. It celebrates the assertion of principles that should always find lodgment in the thoughts and hearts of all lovers of liberty and just, sound and safe popnlar government Buffalo Courier. The brisk skirmish firing kept up for the past few days admonishes us that the vast army of patriotio Young America is once moro upon us. We are ready to capitulate. Our hearts are with them. It is a peculiar method we have of giving expression to our pent-up patriotism in noiso and smoke, but it is popular. It answers the purpose. Cleveland Plain Dealer. Whether the American citizen of to-day indulges In fireworks, rests himself in the park, or goes off on an excursion to the sea shore, he will have his patriotio memories quickened by the newspaper press, and in the enjoyment of rational liberty will bless the country whose day he Is freo to celebrate in his own way, so long as he respects the rights of other people. Philadelphia Ledger. Hesce is the Fourth of July the greatest of all holidays the day of gratefnl reverence for patriot sires by patriot sons the day on which to draw lessons from the past for the strengthening of our trust in the future the day for music, and ode and oratory the day for flinging our unstained banners upon the outer walls the day of gonornl Jollifica tion and jubilee for a free, united, God-fearing people. Washington Post. The Norwegian This Time. Bltlmore American.! The Swedish Cabinet has resigned. Reslg- nation is about the only means these busy" times a European Cabinet has to keep itself before the public. DEATHS HEBE AND ELSEWHERE. Msj or Richard ,T. Falls. Major Bichard J.Falls,a veteran of the war with Mexico and war of the Rebellion and leader of the famous charge at Cedar Creek, died Sunday of general debility, at his home In San Francisco. Major Falls was born In Hortimer Cou ntjr, N. Y. When the war with Mexico broKe out. he enlisted In the cavalry, engaged in several battles, and In every Instance dlsUngulshed himself. Several j ears after the war he went to California and en gaged In farming. When the war of the Rebellion broke out he again offered bis services to hi country. He joined the Second Cal ifornia Cavalrv and was sent East. He then Joined the Flrs't Pennsylvania Cavalry and became Major or a battalllon. At the battle or Cedar Mountain he was under General George D. Bay ard, and there led the cavalrv charge on the Con federate ranks, which for daring and boldness of execution had but few equals during the war. Af ter he was mnstered out he returned to ban Fran cisco, and on March 27. 1875, was appointed a mem ber ofthe police force. In a short time he was pro moted to sergeant, and In 1839 was retired on half pay. - Mrs. John H. Stotz. The wife of John H. Stotz and mother of William and Edward Stotz died at her home-In Bellcvue Sunday morning. Mrs. Stotz had been ill for some time, and death came not unexpected. Sbe was well known as an earnest Christian woman and deeply devoted to her husband and children. Obituary Notes. . W. TJ. 8CHAVLE, editor of the XhiehU of the Wstie Chain Journal, the official orgaa ofthe Mys tic Chain Order of Pennsylvania, died Sunday night at Wllkesbarre of blood poisoning. PEOPLE'S PARTY PLATFORM. The St Louis Instrument Nearly Dupli catedFree Silver Coinage Demanded Tub New Candidate for Suffrage Claims to Be the Only Genuine, All Others Are Tile Imitations. Ox aha, Neb., July 4. The following is the platform adopted enthusiastically to-day by the People's Party Convention: Assembled npon the one hundred and six teenth anniversary ofthe Declaration of In dependence, tho People's party of America, In its first National Convention, Invoking upon its action the blessing of Almighty God, puts forth, in the name and on behalf of the people of this country, the following pi eamble nnd declaration of principles: The conditions which surround- us Dest Justify our co-operation; we meet in the midst of a nation brought to the verge of moral, political and material ruin. Corrup tion dominates the ballot box, the Legisla tures, the Congress, and touches even the ermine of the bench. The people are demor alized; most of the States have been com pelled to Isolate tbe voters at tbe polling places to prevent universal intimidation or bribery. The newspapers are largely subsi dized or mnzzled; public opinion silenced; business prostrated: our homes covered with mortgages: labor impoverished, and the land concentrating in tho bands of the capitalists. The urban workmen are denied the light of organization for selr-protection; imported pauperized labor beats down their wages; a lilreling standing army, un recognized by our laws, is established to shoot them down, and they are rapidly de generating Into European conditions. The fruits ot the toll of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes for a few, un precedented in tho history of mankind; and the possessors of these, in turn, despise the Republic nnd endanger liberty. From the same prolific womb of govermental injus tice we bleed the two great classes tramps and millionaires. A Bitter Attack on Bondholders. The national power to create money is appropriated to enrich bondholders; a vast public debt, payable in legal tender cur rency, has been funded into gold-bearing bonds, thereby adding millions to the bur dens of the people. Silver, which has bean accepted as coin since the dawn of history, has been demonetized to add to the pur chasing power of gold by dcr,easing the value of all forms of property as well as human labor, and the supply of currency is purposely abridged to fatten usuries, bank lupt enterprise and enslave industry. A vast conspiracy against mankind has been organized on two continents, and it is rapidly taking possession of the world. If not met and overthrown at once, it forbodes terrible social convulsions, the destruction of civilization or the establishment of an absolute despotism. We have witnessed for more than a quarter of a century the strug gles of the two great political parties for power and plunder, while grievous wrongs have been inflicted upon the suffering peo ple. We charge that the controlling Influ ences dominating both these parties have permitted the existing dreadful conditions to develop without serious effort to pre vent or restrain them. Neither do they now Eromlse ns any substantial reform. They ave agreed together to ignore, in the com ing campaign, every Issue but one. They Sropose to drown the outcries of a plun erod people with the nproar of a sham battle over the tariff, so that capitalists, cor porations, national banks, rings, trusts, watered stock, the demonetization of silver and the oppressions ofthe usurers may all be lost sight of. They propose to sacrifice our homes, lives and children on the altar of Mammon, to dettrov the multitude In order to seoure corruption funds from the millionaires. Plea tor the Plain People. Assembled on the anniversary of tho birthday of the nation, and filled with the spirit of tbe grand generation who estab lished our Independence, we seek to restore the government of the Republic to the hands of "the plain people," with whose class It originated. We assert our purposes to be identical with the purposes or the Na tional Constitution, to form a more perfect union, establish Justice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide for common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure tbo blessings of liberty for ourselves and our posterity. We declare tbat this Republic can only endure as a fres Government while built upon the love of the whole people for each other and for the nation; tbat it cannot bo pinned together bv bayonets: that the civil war is over, and that every passion and re sentment which" grewout of it must die with it, and that we muse be in fact, as we are in name, one uuited brotherhood of freemen. Our country finds itself confronted bv con ditions for which there 13 no precedent In tho history of the wotld. Our annual agri cultural productions amount to billions of dollars in value, which must, within a few weeks or months, be exchanged for billions of dollars of commodities consumed in their production; the existing currency supply is wholly inadequate to make this exchange; the results are falling prices, the formation of combines and rings, the impoverishment of the producing class. We pledge ourselves that if given power we will labor to correct these evils by wise and reasonable legisla tion in accordance with the terms of our platform. Expansion of Governmental Powers. We believe that tie powers of Govern ment In other words, of the people should brf expanded (as in the case of the postal service) as rapidly and as far as tne good sense of an intelligent people and the teach ings of experience shall justify, to tho end that oppression, Injustice and poverty shall eventually cease in the land. While our sympathies as a party of reform are naturally upon the side of every proposi tion which will tend to make men intelli gent, virtuous and temperate, wo neverthe less regard these questions important as they are as secondary to the great issues nowpreSsing for solution, and upon which not oniy our inaiviaual prosperity, Dot tne very existence of free institutions depend; ana we asc ail men to nrst neip us to deter mine whether we are to have a republic to administer, before we differ as to the condi tions npon whicn it is to be administered; believing tbat tbe forces of relorm this day organized will never cease to move forward until every wrong Is remedied, and equal rights and equal privileges securely estab lished lor all tho men and women of this countrv. We declare, therefore: First, Tbat the union of tbe labor forces of the United States this day consummated shall be per manent and perpetual. May its spirit sink into all hearts for the salvation of the Re public and the uplifting of mankind. Second, Wealth belongs to him who creates it, and every dollar taken from industry, without an equivalent, is lobbery. "If any will not work, neither shall he eat." The interests of rural and civic labor are the same; their enemies are identical. Third, We believe that the time has comewhen tho railroad corporations will either1 own tbe people or the people must own tbe railroads, and sbonld the Government enter npon the work of owning and managing all railroads wo should favor an amendment to the Con stitution by which all persons engaged in the Government service shall be placed under a civil service regulation of the most rigid character, so as to prevent the in crease of the power of tho national adminis tration by the uso of sucn additional Gov ernment employes. Finance and Transportation Planks. We demand a national currency, safe, sound and flexible. Issued by the general Government only, a fall legal tender for all debts, public and private, and that without tho use of banking corporations, a lust, equitable and efficient means of distribu tion, direct to tbe people, at a taa not to ex ceed 2 per cent per annum, to be provided as set fortn in the sab-treasury plan of the Farmers' Alliance, or a better system: also by payments in discharge of its obligations for public improvements. A We demand free and unlimited coinage of silver and gold at the present legal ratio or 16 to 1. B We demand that the amount of circu lation medium be speedily increased to not less than $50 pel capita. C We demand a graduated income tax. D We believe that the money of the coun try should be knpt ns much as possible in the hands or the people, and hence we demand that all State and national revenues shall be limited to the necessary expenses of tho Government, economically and honestly ad ministered. E We demand that postal savings banks be established by the Government for the safe deposit of tho earnings of the people and to facilitate exchange. Transportation being a means of exohauge and a public necessity, the Government shonld own and operate the railroads in the interest of the people. The telegraph and telephone, like the postoffico system, being a necessity for the transmission of news, should be owned and operated by the Government in the Interest of the people. Tho land, including all the natural sources of wealth, is the heritage of the people, and should not be monopolized for speculative purposes, and allon ownership of land should be prohibited. AU land now held by railroads and other corporations In excess of their aotnal needs, and all lands now owned by aliens should ba reclaimed by the Government and held for actual settlers only. .. CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. King Solomon was a sportsman. Most sheep die before they are a year old. - The oldest building in the world ij the Tower of London. The American gooseberries require pruning every year. The mouth of the Mississippi is three miles higher than its source. The polar diameter is 28 miles shorter than tbe equatorial diameter. The Young Abstainers Union in Lon don has now over 8,000 members. The best draft horses in the country are reared in Ohio and Pennsylvania. The flavor of an ostrich egg is excellent and one egg makes an ordinary meal. The largest university in the world is at Cairo, Egypt, which has 11,000 students. It is barely 50 years since the postal stamp was introduced Into the United States. , The first regular passenger railroad! built in the world Is the Baltimore and Ohio, 1 built in 1827. A copy of the first edition of Poe't ' " "Tamerlane" has been sold at Boston for the sum or $1,480. The distance from the North Pole to the equator, measured along the earth's sur face. Is 6,000 miles. At the time of the First Temple every Hebrew home was a Monte Carlo, as regards betting and gambling. Two of the best conservatories in the world are to be found in London and in the Jardln des Plants, Paris. The blood of dogs fatigued by log rac ing, when injected into other dogs, makes them exhibit all symptoms of fatigne. The Chinese houses are generally orna- mentedwith so many quaint turrets and! games that tiiey resemme toy nouses. In many places it is believed that the person who hears the whip-poor-will in the I day time win cue oeiore tno ena 01 tne year. The religious fatalism in the Hindoos' life extends also to th eir Intellectual state. In grammar as in laith kismet rules su premo. Somebody has discovered that eggs laid in tbe spring and early summer are su perior in quality to those laid late In the summer. The longest span of telephone wire across the Ohio riveris between Portsmouth, 0.,and South Fort smoutb, Ky. It is 3,733 feet long; A German, living at Pottstown, Pa ate one dozen angle worms on a wager re cently. He says they are Just as palatable as oysters. In a little hamlet in Africa 1,500 men wore recently employed In destroying thi crickets, a passing army of lo casts had left behind them. It is said that 20 years ago there were not 20 canoeists in tho country, while now thereare 20,000 or them who write their names "In water" every year. A Dexter woman became so infatuated with the Christian Scientist theory that she laid away her false teeth thinking her natural ones would grow again. Out of a total of 73,034 paupers in alms honses in the United States in tbe year cov ered by the eleventh census 91.15 per cent were white and 8.S5 per cent were colored. In China they tie a red cord afound a baby's wrists, so that it may grow up quiet and obedient. Should a child turn out bad they sav, "His parents forgot to bind bis wrists." According to a published guide to the railroads of the United States, there are, or I latelvwcrc. seventeen different gauges in tbe country, varying from 2 feet to 5 feet 7 inches in wiutn. A Lancaster county farmer claims to own a pair of horses whicn are so wei' broken that they will pull a harrojr: , larly across a field from morning to n withont a driver. -r If the earth should cease to revolve u together, the oceans of the equator wouli forsake their beds and hasten.toward the Soles. Probably the entire globe north of oston would be submerged. Hew York, has -8 company established for the manufacture ot. small bomb? about the size of Frankfurter sausages, with which a farmer can bring down showers of rain whenever he sees clouds over bis land. Last year there were over 2,500,000 pieces of mall sent by special delivery, ond the average time consnmed in the delivery of each parcel after it reached tbe post- . office of the addressee was only 20 minutes. 1 If wool is left on a suckling ewe till after the usual shearing time and her lamb is meantime weaned, the wool will start "a second growth and will show a joint or break in tbe fiber that will injure it seri ously. A gold coin passes from one to another 2,000,000,000 times before the stamp or im pression npon it becomes obliterated by iriction, while a sliver coin changes between 3,350,000,000 times before It becomes entirely effaced. Gentians were once as common in the Alpine pastures as daisies are in our meadows; but the Alps have been rifled by the root-grubber, and gentiana aeaulis has, now to be sought on spots hitherto aneX-plored-on spots where hardly a goat can find foothold. The palace of the King of Siam is in closed in high white walls which are a mils in circumference. Within them are con tained temples, public offices, seraglios, stables for the sacred elephant, accommo dations for 1,000 troops, cavalry, artillery. war elephants, an arsenal ana a tneater. The so-called "snake stones" of Ceylon are celebrated for the efficacy which they aro supposed to have in curing the bites of venomous serpents. Secrecy Is maintained . as to the method of their manutaoture, which Is a lucrative business earned on by monks, who supply the merchants of India with them. Ceylon is a great place for bugs. Most beautiful of the numerous strange kinds of inscct3 found there are the'golden beetles," the wing cases of which are used to enrich Indian embroideries, while the lustrous joints of the legs are strung on silken threads, forming necklaces and bracelets of singular brilliancy. The champion coin counter in this country is a lady in the Treasury Depart ment at Washington, who. It is said, can count 75,000 coins a day. Her fingers are so sensitive and familiar with the touch of good money tbat a counterfeit cannot slip through tbem, even when she Is counting at this lightning speed. FLIUHTS INTO FCNNYDOM. "This is the year the women shonld put np a Presldental candidate." "Why?" x "Because the trained dress is In fashion and they have but to come out and they will sweep every thing before them. "-.Vw Xork Press. He dropped a nickel in the plate And meekly raised Ms eyes. Glad the week's rent was fully paid For the mansion In the skies. Chicago Ihter-Ocea. Johnson Been away on your vacation? Jackson xes: went down to Medocskenecasls la Maine. Lots of fishing and that sort of thing yoa know. That's the klndl Anygame?" Ton bet! poker every night In the week and ad Sunday. Texas Siftinas. he who laughs last. Love laughs at locksmiths, ere the knot U tied. And night and day the door swings open wide. But when at 2 A. M. poor hubby comes. In search of key-holes, lingers turn to thumbs. Then love at locksmiths does not laugh; Let them but tarn the bolt, and they may chaff. Smithy Oraj Co.'s Monthly. "These infernal machines are getting a great deal too numerous, " said Mrs. Bloobomper after reading or another dynamite outrage. "That's so." assented her husband. "There's young Rlcketts next door got a cornet and hej practices on 11 without Intermission." imtm Frte Presi. That women is an optimist Who has a costly bonnet: Bnt her husband is a pessimist Whene'er he looks upon It 2kw Tort Bemld. Bellows I shonld think you would begin to think about getting married. Breeze Oh, I hare; I've given it a grass deal oX thought. Bellows Wen, when does the event eome otl Breexe Never. Boston Courier, ( A fc 1 ' - : v I'
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