THE P3TTSBUEG DISPATCH. TUESDAY, JDLT 5. 1892.
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FITTf-BURG. TUESDAY. JULY'S. 1892.
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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,
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