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VlTTsBUUfi. SUNDAY. JULY 10. lye
BRIGHTENING roSSIBlXnTEX
There are signs that the situation at
Homestead is clearing somewhat The
position of the men, as announced in their
statement published this morning, of will
ingness to yield if the Chairman of the
Carnegie Company can sustain the state
ments made in his published Interview is
a challenge to reason the matter out, and
therefore commendable. The fact that,
coupled with this offer, they express confi
dence of their ability to show that the
company's representative erred in his
view, does not detract from the merit
"n hich attaches to a proposition to com
pare notes and find where the error is and
submit to tlie finding.
The attitude of the Carnegie Company
lins so far, since the month opened, been
against conference. Tct is it not possible
that conference now, in the right spirit
might result in removing most of what the
company complained of. and in nreservinc
to it its old employes on a mutually satis-
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laciory uasisv bo long fas there is a
chance of such an ending of an otherwe
sad business, it is worth trying for. !
Also, there is another hopeful sicra. The
special committee of Congress 'makes a
call through The Dispatch thi morning
fqr testimony from all sideVasto the facts
of the whole sit'iaon, at a session to
lc" i" morning in the United"
States Court room in this city.
That is well, too. There will be peace
at least while the committee is here. There
will be an investigation that must show
approximately the cause of tlie trouble.
There will probably be opened the way to
a better understanding between the com
pany and its late employes.
A PRACTICAL RESUXT.
"While the politicians are rejoicing over
the practical revival ofthe spoils idea in
the political campaign, the people at large
may find some instruction in studying the
actual results of civil service where they
have been demonstrated by a moderately
faithful experiment
A receut letter of Commodore Folger,
of the Ordnance Bureau at Washington,
gives an illustration of what is effected by
making appointments on the basis of fit
ness, instead of as a reward for political
work. Since the introduction of the re
form the cost of labor in making eight and
ten inch guns has decreased fifty per cent,
and in making cartridges sixty per cent
Tlie time required for making the guns
lias been reduced from one-half to two
thirds. This is not due to any decrease in waces.
It simply represents the increased effi
ciency secured by selecting men for their
capability irrespective of political favor.
It seems that when men are paid by the
Government solely for their services, and
know that their appointment and promo
tion depend on efficiency and industry,
they do fiom two to three times as much
work as when party heelers are given
places as a reward for wire pulling in con
ventions and campaigns.
The political worters may not like a
system which diminishes the supply of
salaried places available for their sus
tenance. But will the people at large ob
ject to a plan which cuts down the cost of
Government work fifty per cent without
diminishing wages by a penny?
THE CANADIAN CANALS.
It is stated by the Buffalo Express that
Canada has practically abandoned the
project of increasing the depth of her ca
nals beyond the twelve feet already estab
lished. The fact that ocean-going vessels
have to be lightened to twelve-feet draft
, in order to navigate the St Lawrence is
referred to as conclusive evidence that the
work of deepening that river as well as
the canals is beyond the financial re
sources of the Dominion.
A proposition has been made to invite
the United States to do the work. While
there is perhaps just as much reason for
the United States to build canals through
Canada as through Nicaragua, it is safe to
say that our Government will not build
any canals in Canada unless it is given
territorial rights over the canals. As Can
ada is not yet ready to do that, it is taken
as conclusive that for the present the Ca
nadian canals will remain at their depth of
tweh'e feet
This makes the work of the United
States in digging its waterways consider
ably simple. The twenty feet waterway
which recently cut such a figure in Con
gress appears to be a superfluity if it is to
terminate at Buffalo. If the water
way is to be extended to the ocean "the
vast expenditure necessary to secure
twenty feet Is in the light tf this fact un
necessary. Fifteen feet of "water connect
ing Lake Erie with the Ohio; fifteen feet
connecting Lake Michigan with the upper
Mississippi, and fifteen feet connecting the
lakes with the sea board, will give as a
permanent control of the lake commerce.
While this statement of the Canadian
position is favorable to the ambitions of
the United States with regard to lake
commerce, it is best to remember that
twelve feet of water in the Canadian
canals is just twice what the United
States has at this time and twice what it is
likely to have during the present century,
unless a systematic and energetic project
of canal construction is promptly adopted.
THE STTR IT CREATED.
The Homestead events have been almost
the exclusive topic of the week. Coming
like a clap of thunder from a clear sky,
they have set people writing and. talking
not only from one corner of the country to
the other, but across the ocean as well.
Everyone hereabouts knew for some
weeks that there was likely to be a con
tention between the Carnegie Company
and their men, but the points of difference
were apparently so small that the general
opinion of outsiders was they would be
easily accommodated. How far off this
calculation was, the narrative of the week
has shown. There is still so little differ
ence on the mere wages part of the ques
tion that, between two parties amicably
disposed and upon other details agreed, a
complete settlement could doubtless be
had, if they were to meet, in a few hours.
But, it is to be regretted, there is as yetno
assurance of such a meeting.
Meanwhile the grave incidental ques
tions the affair has brought up are holding
national and international attention, not
to speak of the interest they have locally.
There are so manv phases to them that
everyone with a taste for public utterance
in the press, in Congress or upon the ros
trum, has had a chance to give his views
on the law, the political economy or the
social aspects of the disturbance. At first,
as was to be expected, the partisan politi
cians took hold with a view of making
party capital, but the subject was too big
for that; and now it is freely conceded
that any public consideration of the mat
ter that can help to prevent or mitigate
such conflicts in the future must proceed
from a far broader "basis than mere parti
san advantage.
No recent public occurrence has been
so quickly provocative of so many sharp
controversies on large side issues growing
out of it Congressmen McMIllin and
Dalzell in the House, and Hale and Voor
hees in the Senate, took it as the occasion
for.a hot contest between Republicanism
and protection on the one hand and De
mocracy and free trade on the other.
Governor Pattison and Sheriff McCIeary
are still WTestling over the question as to
when and where the functions of the posqc
comitatus end and the duty of the State
authorities begins in repressing JvTolent
outbreaks. The two representative na
tional organs of the Democrao,; the New
York Sun and the New YojtK World, are
violently attacking eac'jranotner the
former in support jot the position that
Governor Pattison Should have interfered,
the latter back'up his waiting policy.
Tliis is notall.VPublic meetings have
been heldin maiW of the leading cities
under tb.tf auspicesf the trade organiza
tions .tin sunnort the Homestead people.
Newiaws have been introduced in some
Staes where the Legislature is in session,
as in Kentucky, making it a criminal of-
,Ffense to introduce such bodies as Pinker-
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ton men within the State confines, and
finally the veteran Ben Butler comes out
with an article urging nothing less than
the indictment of Carnegie and his asso
ciates. Even so much is, however, but small
part of the commotion that the tragic
events at Homestead have stirred up. The
Londdh papers use it as a text to prove
how defective and unstable are American
institutions. They give with great gusto
another whack at their pet aversion, the
McKinley bill, and take a great delight in
proving to their own satisfaction from
their accounts of the Homestead affair
that Andrew Carnegie's philanthropy is
a sham, and quote to plague .him his
criticism of British institutions and his
laudations of triumphant Democracy. As
Mr. Carnegie is in the Highlands Just now,
accessible to every sharp observation of
the London press, it can be imagined the
occasion must be anything but agreeable
to him. Its pleasure cannot be heightened
by hearing a proposal that the city of
Aberdeen refuse a new library which he
tendered it quickly re-echoed from this
side in resolutions of labor organizations
asking Pittsburg to return to him the $1,
000,000 gift which he made for the library
at Schenley Park.
All this is only a little of the vast stir
that has been made in a few days. "We
bad omitted to mention for instance the
Congressional Committee which comes to
Pittsburg Tuesday to find out all about
the trouble, and which, not unlikely, will
be followed up by a Legislative Commit
tee fcjim Harrisburg.
But is it not enough even so much as
has been described to arise out of a situ
at'on which was not originally one in
which the parties were so far at variance
that they might not have conquered each
other by simple generosity of concession,
instead of fighting with guns? There are
a good many preachers who are billed to
speak on this topic from the pulpits of the
two cities to-day. If, instead of long dis
courses upon the ethics and religion of
the dispute, they were to offer a short but
earnest prayer for common sense and
Christian charity all around, it occurs to
us they would be covering most admiraTBg,,
the whole subject
AN EXAMPLE FROM GERMANY.
One feature of the account given else
where by a correspondent of The Dis
patch: of the fete given by Prince Bis
marck on his estate at Friedrichsruhe,
calls attention to a point of marked dif
ference between Europe and this country.
That Is the reference to the management
of the forests on his estate. The fact that
no trees are cut down without others
being planted to take their places; that
while a mill yields a constant revenue
from its output of lumber, the process of
growth is kept up to replenish the supply;
that only the mature trees are removed
and that therefore no spots are denuded
and Jef t barren, constitutes a short sketch
of what can be done for the preservation
of forests, that is practically unknown in
this country.
Forestry is one of the matters in which
the United States is far behind Europe.
It is more so even than In the matter of
road making. "We make some pretense at
keeping up country roads; we make none
whatever to secure the greatest usefulness
to our once unrivaled but now rapidly
disappearing supply of timber. The
reason is plain enough. Europe has
learned from experience the necessity
of preserving forests and of using every
acre of waste in the growth of timber.
The experience of the United States has
been up to a time within the recollection
fif middle-aged inen that our forests con
tained such a superfluity of timber that
the question was how to get rid of the
trees at the slightest expense. That time
is past aad'Uie timber supply is rapidly
disappearing. Yet the old practices ob-
tain. Each year many square" miles of
territory are ruthlessly denuded without
any attempt to preserve the young trees
for future revenue. The land is left bar
ren with most injurious results to climate
and the flow of water.
This is an example of wastefulness of
the bounties of nature which should be
improved upon.. We know that Pennsyl
vania has thousands of square miles of
mountain land practically useless, which,
under systematic foreign cultivation,
might make a valuable addition to our"
natural wealth; and the possibilities ore
even greater in other sections. The ex
ample referred t at Friedrichsruhe is one
that the United States should not neglect,
if we are to take any thought for the pros
perity of the future. ,
CLOSE CORPORATION TRUSTS.
A New York correspondent In 'yesteri
dav's issue directed attention to the status
of four great corporate or trust estates in
that city whose aggregate value is nearly
5250,000,000. In the case of two of them
there is more than suspicion, and of one
more a very tangible belief that the reve
nues are used to pay a maximum of
salaries to persons performing a minimum
of service; while the secrecy with which
these trusts are managed exclndes the
actual knowledge of such abuses from all
except the sharers of the favors.
These cases as alleged illustrate the
facility with which great trusts can.be
perverted from their original beneficial
purpose, while maintaining a profession of
fidelity to them. They'have parallels on
variously reduced scales in many places
and they represent an undoubted abuse.
The obvious remedy Is absolute and com
pulsory publicity in the management "of
all trusts for charitable or beneficial pur
poses, with a suggestion from the magni
tude of the values involved, that there
should be some limit to the size to which
such trust investments may be expanded.
Nevertheless, the reform of this class of
abuses arising ont of overgrown wealth is
not the most urgent one. The only suf
ferers from these abuses are beneficiaries
or cestui qui trustent Other varieties of
evil, such as monopolistic combinations,
railway manipulations and favoritism In
rates, impose their burdens on the whole
public and add to their magnitude by un
fairly taxing the masses.
The problem of excessively concentrated
wealth is a great one, yet far from solu
tion; and the cases referred to show that
there are branches of it which have yet.
hardly come within the public recogni
tion. "x
DECLINE OF BASEBALL.
Another awful doubt Is cast upon the
permanence of one of our institutions by
the assertion of the Chicago News that up
to date the baseball season is a failure.
While the excessive and pernicious general
humidity is charged with a portion of this
ill success, the fact that the crowds
surrounding the baseball bulletin boards
have undergone a perceptible shrinkage,
and that the baseball crank Is several
degrees less delirious than formerly, Is
taken to be conclusive that the public
interest in hired and high-price baseball
is diminishing.
Perhaps this view of the baseball situa
tion from Chicago may be slightly tinged
by the fact that the Chicago team is
lagging along near the rear of the League
procession. But inasmuch as Pittsburg
maintained a persistently hopeful
enthusiasm during many successive
season's of that location, It does not seem
as if a single season of viewing the contest
from the bottom of the list ought to
destroy Chicago's vociferous interest
If it is true that the public is losing its
enthusiasm over professional baseball, it
furnishes a new Illustration of the
transitory nature of human greatness.
Phenomenal pitchers will command
no longer the envy and admiration
of the public, or the bank accounts of
baseball speculators. The "beauties"
and "mascots" of baseball teams will re
tire promptly to their original obscurity.
The umpires can, after passing through
the dangers of the field, hang up their
shields and masks to enjoy an unsalaried
but secure rest How great a fall is por
trayed by the probability that the pro
fessional player, after stalking across the
land in his greatness these many summers,
will now be forced to earn his living, per
chance even with hammer, pick and
shovel!
One phase of baseball, however, is not
losing its popularity, we are informed.
That is amateur and non-professiona!
playing. In that case it is possible to re
gard the change not as a loss of interest,
but a gain. People are becoming enthusi
astic enough overbassball to. play it them
selves instead of hiring others to play it for
them.
A VERY MJXD 8ES'GLETAX.
It is announced that a village in the
vicinity of Washington is going to try
Henry George's plan of the single tax on
a small scale. Under authority from the
Legislature the Commissioners of Hyatts
ville, MrL. have resolved to exempt all im
provements from taxation and to levy
only on the land values. In pursuit of
that policy a millage of 2J4 or 25 cents on
every hundred dollars of appraised land
value has been made.
This may be the Henry George theory,
but If so it comes in a shape that is espe
cially attractive to the land owner who is
to bear the sole burden of taxation. It
has the earmarks of abolishing taxation
on improvements, and of levying only one
tax. But there is a wide departure from
what has been supposed to be a vital part
of Mr. George's theory, namely, that the
entire rental value of the land itself shall
be taken in taxation. There are tens of
thousands of property owners In Alle
gheny county who will joyfully welcome
the single tax theory when they are con
vinced that it carries a levy of only 2
mills on the dollar.
But such levy would give an unex
pected corroboration to the Dispatch's
doubt whether the single tax would fur
nish enough revenue to furnish a tithe of
what Mr. George outlines as to be sup
plied by the income from land values.
Combines and trusts continue to grow
and multiply in spite of all prosecutions.
It is to be hoped that the majority report of
the trust sub-committee of the House Manu
facturers' Committee may, in Its severity,
do some real good in causing the enforce
ment of existing laws and Introducing sup
plementary legislation where necessary.
A PEACH crop that has not been pro
nounced a failure at some stage or other of
its existence is altogether too unconven
tional to be allowed in the market.
At. last the percentages obtained by the
candidates in tlie Pittsburg Hkth School ex
amination are given to the publie. .And the
results will now be of some real practical
use beyond that of testing the students' At-,
ness for entrance to the High School.
England will be out of its agony for a
while in a week or two, but everything
points to a repetition of, the general election
' dose in the near Tutnro.
Feoji the persUtent manners in which
the Pittsburg ball players maintain a posi
tion as nearly as possible half way between
the bottom and top of the Leaguolstiit must
be assumed that there-is something J'liiean'
about our team.
Bismabck and Wtlhelm both show powers
or endurance only exceeded by their
capacity for undignified folly.
Bland's bright views on the chances of
free-silver coinage are beginning to become
tarnished in the atmosphere of 'doubt as to
the bill's fate in tlie House and the certainty
of its death if it should reach the President.
Bitterness of feeling and lawlessness of
action appear to increase as the Irish elec
tions progress.
Now that Chinese rebels have taken to
the use of dynamite, the Celestial Empire
can hardly be truthfully spoken of as "alto
gether unprogresslve. But this kind of
progress is a beginning at the wrong end.
THE wild waves 'are taking a restwhile
the summer girl does the talking.
The elaborate preparations under way
for the notification of Cleveland and Steven
son are natural and excusable when it is
remembered how minnto their chances are
of enjoying an inauguration.
MASCOTS EN MAS8E.
Miss Ademste M. Tir-sojr has retired
from the Cambridge corps of teachers after
a service extending through SO years.
Mr. F. Makion Crawford, the novelist,
wants it to be distinctly understood that in
spito of the fact that he lives abroad he is
an American in every fiber.
Realism and Idealism seem to have met
in Boston last week. William. Dean Howells
Is reDorted to have called on Edward Bel
lamy.on Friday, at the office of the latter
gentleman. "
Cardinal Gibbons starts next week
for a month's outing in Nova Scotia.
Unlike most clergymen who go to that re
gion in summer time ho will take no rod
with him, not evon a pastoral staff
Marie Corelli, whose novels hav nb'.
with the approval of Quo"-., "rictoria, uses a
pen name. The rscl'name of the writer is
Marlon Maclray.' She is tho daughter of the
lutoCv Cuurles Maokay and a sister of Erio
Kackay.
Mrs. Harbison has improved wonder
fully in spirits since her arrival yesterday
at Loon Lake. The President held a lecep
tion yesterdav afternoon to which all the
guests of the Loon Lake House and the ad
jacent cottages were invited.
The marriage of Helene Boulanger, sec
ond daughter of "le brave General," to M.
Paul Angnez do Sachy, was celebrated in
the most quiet manner at the Cathedral of
Versailles, in contrast to the wedding of her
yonnger sister, who married il. Driant in
1883.
The Assistant Secretary of War, General
Lewis A Grant, is a stout broad-shouldered,
bald man of medium height, with long iron
gray side-whiskers. Previous to the crea
tion, two years ago, of the office he now
adorns, he was a Minneapolis lawyer. Dur
ing the war lio was General of Volunteers.
PlETBO MASCAQNI is putting the finish
ing touches on a loneer opera than "Caval
lerla Rusticana" or "L'Amico Fritz." It is
based on the "Xiantznn" of Erckmann-Chat-rlnn.
He Is alto writing two other short
one;, giving a musical -setting to Heine's
one-act tragedy, "William Katcliff" and
Francois Coppce's idyl, "Le Passant."
EEID IS FOB TJfUONS ROW.
He Helps Put Organized Libor In Control
in New York's PostofQce.
New York, July 8. Specia'. Organized
labor will hereafter bo in control of the
Government printing in the New York Post
office. Postmaster Vancott to-day put the
clerks who have been detailed to do tho
printing baok at their regular employmeut
and organized the printing office by the ap
pointment ofP. P. Hurley as foreman at a
salary of $1,400 a year; James Quest and Jo
soph Brannigan, compositors, at salaries of
tl.OiO: E. T. Johnston and Charles R. Rltcliey,
piesBmen, at $1,111. and George Felkor and
James Baylen, leeders, at J65X All of these
men are union printers. Hurley, Quest and
Brannigan are members of Typographical
Union No. 6. Johnston of Pressmen's Union
No. 9. and Kitchey and FeiRer of the Frank
lin Pie.-smen's Association.
Clerks have hitherto been detailed to do
the work. Their employment has been a
sonrce of dissatisfaction to the typographi
cal unions. For eight years or more efforts
have been made to eet union prin
ters into the postofflce, but they
were unsuccessful until President Kenny
and other officers of the Big Six
selected John E. Milholland, who was in
strumental in settling the war between the
Tribune and the printers, together to go to
Washington to confer with the administra
tion about ten days aao. Whltelaw Reid
lent his assistance and the Washington au
thorities acted promptly as is indicated by
the action of Tostmaster Vancott whioh uas
taken unricr the direction of Postmaster
General Wanamaker.
WITHOUT FOOD F0K 900 DAT3.
An Allentown Woman Completes Her
Bemarknbln Starving Fent.
Aixektown. Jnly9.-It Is 900 days to-day
since Mrs. Adam Wuehler, of Whitehall, be
gan her memorable fast. The family this
spring moved into a house some distance
from tbelr old homestead. Mr. Wuehler
bore the strain without serious results. She
has been taken fiom the second floor of the
house to the first floor.
She was propped up in bed. Her eyes are
bandased with a white cloth, whioh makes
her blaek hair appear still darker by con
trast. She says she cannot see at all, neither,
she avers, has she taken a mor-el of food
since she began her last. She Is exceedingly
attenuated, but her strength or mind is re
markable. Hor voice is firm, but she sobbed
when she spoke of her pastor's wire. The
subject of her conversation was entirely of
a i elisions nature.
God knows how I have suffered and He
alone ismyjudee," she tald. "I pray for ro
ller, but fear it will only come by death; how
soon I cannot say."
Mr. Wuehler and his sons are no longer
constantly" at the house, as thev were for
two years, and now pursue their daily
labors. Mrs. Wuehler is nursed by ber
daughter, Sarah.
The neighbors havo long ago ceased to
place any confidence in the story ot the fast,
and laugh it to scorn.
THE WOMAH WAS VICTOR
A Husband Whose frnoklng Was Stopped
by His Determined Wife.
Detroit Free Press.
We were going through Canada, and as
soon as we entered the Queen's dominions
a St. Louis man who was in the smoking car
with us began to talk.
"No petticoat government for me." he
was saying, "1 want to yet out of' this coun
try as quick as I can. I tell you, gentle
men, I never did believe In petticoat gov
ernment; women are all right In their
proper spheres, but when it oomes to gov
ernment" At this moment tho car door opened, and
through the volumo of smoke h stem-vis-aged,
spectacled woman presented herself.
"Is that you, Hiram. I guess you've
smoked about enough. Come back into the
sleeper. It makes me sick and dizzy to
tay here- Come, hurry up," and she held
tho door open whllo she waited.
And Hiram meekly followed her, without
a single protest against the home article of
petticoat government. .
HUE. MODJEBKA SMOKES.
She Started It Vn'Her Youth When She Was
With Her Brothers. .
Baltimore News.
Cigarette smoking is a fad to which Mme.
Modjeska is addicted. This is less harm
less, in the opinion of many, than that
which lias possession of most other women,
on or off the stage, but she Justifies it as
follows: "I do smoke.but I am not a smoker;
my clothes never suggest the smell of to
bncco, mv Breath is not tainted, and there is
not a trace of nicotine on my fingers.
"t no not shop or gossip; lam neither a
candy eater, a tea drinker nor a wine
drinker. I require something to quiet my
nerves and I tnlnk I have chosen the least
Injurious of all stimulants." She smokes
only a package a week, and contracted the
habit lu her girlhood, when she was so much
witb her brothers and had to smoke tn self
defense, because the fumes of their cigars
made her oough.
. A LOOK AROUND.
AS was predioted soma weeks ago there
I is every prospect of a stubborn fight In the
Thirty-seventh Senatorial district. In 1883
there was a fight between George W. Hood,
the Republican candidate from Indiana
county, nnd William a Bond, the candidate
from Jetlorson. Hood got 1,503 votes, Bond
4,155 and Hannibal E. Sloan,.the Dcmocratio
candidate, who had 5,801 votes, was elected.
There is an apparent likelihood Of the same
thlng.occnrrlng ajralh Unless some compro
mise can be effected, and as there is tianxer
of the Senate being close every effort will
be made to prevent losing the district to the
Republicans.
In Indlana'eounty Hon. M. Clark Watson
has received 'the Republican nomination
after a hot fight against 6xDlstriot Attor
ney Jack, who was supported byjjohn El
kins and bis friends. Mr. Watson pledged
himself tS stay in the fight to a finish. In
Jefferson county Alexander- Mitohell was
nominated, nnd he, too, is pledged to not
yield. These gentlemen are warm personal
friends and political associates, but they
are compelled to remain firm. It is salt that
some or tile Elklns people are backing
Mitchell nntl telling him he can get a largo
Tore In Indiana county sufficient with his
own countytvote to elect htm Over the Dem
ocrat. It Is admitted, however, that Mr.
Sloan may ttsain take the nomination, and
as he is personally stronger than his party
he wonld p'robably main defeat both Re
publicans. ( As can readily be imagined
there is much dismay among Republicans
over this complication, and harmony will
be preached pn a large scale and 99 9-10 pure.
In the Congressional fight in the Twenty
first distiict, which includes the Thirty
seventh Senatorial distriot, there is even
more gunpowder scattered around loose
than lu the Senatorial matter. George Huff,
of Greensburg.'ls said, sometimes, not to be
seeking tho re-nomination, and at other
times he is eagei) for it. It can be set down
as a faot that if" Huff can get the plum he
will shake the tree like a young whirlwind.
Huff has the conferees from West Moreland
'only, as each of the four oounties has a can
didate of its own-' Heiner, of Armstrong,
aqd Neshlt. of Inoinna, havo united forces
against Huff, ami It is understood that Jef
ferson's candidto is also with them, which
will in all probability ensure the selection of
a man from one of these counties.
"I wonder' where the new people coma
and where the old ones have gone," raid an
old merchant yesterday. i'X walked up and
icwn-rKVu avenue" twice to-day, mil-was
struok with the number of new faoes I saw.
I have lived here all my life-and have always
had a large acquaintance, but I can better
realize how rapidly the town is growing
after my experience to-day. Of course it has
occurred to me before bnt in a lesser degree,
and I have never so fully realized how many
well-dressed, intelligent looking men and
women have been drawn hither within a few
yeais."
Yooko John Ford, son of the man who
made a largo fortune for himself and others
ont of the first plate glass works in this part
of the country, is successfully engaged in a
new industry in Detroit. He has a superb
soda-ash plant, in which it is said $750,000
have been Invested. A great many attempts
have been made to manufacture soda-ash in
the United States, but up to this time none
of them have beon particularly successful
I am told by those who use this article In
tho making of glassware. The bulk of the
trade is held as a monopoly by the Bruner
Mond Company, which has an enormous
plant not iartrom Liverpool. This concern
has control of patents and processes, which
have enabled them to hold their own and
evervbody else's for years. It is said that
the Fords havo obtained processos as good
as those of tho English company and will
soon turn out a large prouuee
There are many more ot these trade
monopolies than peoplo fancy. For in
stance, one English maker controls the
trade in black crepe for mourning goods.
Nobody else has ever been able to produce
the kinky, wrlnKly effect which Is regarded
as the proper thin?, although large sums
have been spent in the attempt. Russia
leather, such us to used for brown sboes in
this country, is made by but one American
firm, nnd they cannot turn out enough lo
supply tho trade. I presume there are
plenty of others in the same position.
Eecipes, too, have built up enormous
fortunes for their owners. Cross A Black
well's pickle dressing and Lea's Worcester
sauce aro two famous English examples,
while Host otter' s blttors is a local Instance
of the value of a formula.
It is current gossip that a leading busi
ness man among the best known of local
financiers is likely to be one of the first .to
get a long lease from the Schenley estate
agents for a portion or the property lying
between Fifth and Contor avenues, about
midway up the slope. It Is said- he desires
to rent about three acres around which he
will erect a brick wall somowhat similar to
that around the Filth avenue entrance of
Mr. Kirk Porter's place, and within this he
will lay out elaborate grounds and build a
fine stone mansion. All this is contingent
upon his seeming a lease for a poriod ap
proximating 60 years.
A well-kxowh club man has carriod a flat
tened rifle ball about with him as a souvenir
for several days. It is a mementoof the bat
tle of Little Bill landing at Homestead.
Connected with the ball is a long story, all
of which is not usually told. The gentleman
in question is very frank and notably truth
ful, so his statement was taken as all right
until yesterday. It opened up with his wit
nessing the battle, the appearance of blood
thirsty sharpshooters, who sin-sled him out,
took aim with great deliberation and fired,
the bullet going into an adjacent tree.
Some evii-mindod person, after hearing that
end of the story, asked: "Where wore you
stahdimrt"
"On the bank Just across from the Darges."
"Where was the man who shot at you!"
"On the bank too."
"Which bank."
"The other!" WAlteb.
HUGE FBAT7D3 IN COTTON.
Crooked Work Which Led to the Big Fail
ure In Liverpool, England.
Liverpool, July 9. Percy Lamb, cotton
biokcr, and John Wilson, a salesman, have
been charged here with embezzling $60,000
from their employers. The prisoners de
clared that they represented a syndicate
formed to buy and hold cotton to the value
of $1,COO,000. Their statements wero believed
in manv quarters, and the prisoners entoied
into enormous speculations in cotton and
stocks.
The failure yesterday or Isaac uooko
Son is believed to have been connected with
these Irauds. Lamb and Wilson -admitted
the charges and were remanded pending an
investigation of the firm's books. Further
revelations are expected. The cotton mar
'ket is greatly excited.
BELATED TO S0TALTY.
Claimants lu Indiana Who Are the Possible
Heirs to a Fortune.
Richkond, Iitd., July 9. Several members
of the Douglas family in Central Indiana
have employed a Scotch attorney of this
city, who is looking up a legacy which is said
to belong -to them as descendants of the
great Earl Douglass, of Scotland. It has
been found that tho only relative of the
wealthy Earl was a brother who was
drowned at sea. It now remains to be seen
who his direct descendants are.
The attorneys believe the Douglasses here
are ot the royal family, and, with the aid or
an attorney in Scotland, are pushing their
claims. The fortune amounts to $8,000,000,
and there are 11 claimants.
A VEST SLICK FEEHCHMAN.
When He Oats Into Trouble for Frauds He
Dodges Bshlnd the Stars and Stripes.
CnicAoot July 9. M. Muzati, arrested
here charged with swindling the Parisian
millionaire.. De Escombrera, was granted a
continuance without ball, to-day. The
French Consul says the accused has a long
record of crime, and has been imprisoned 11
times. The Consul ndds:
"Muzati is tlie Frenchman calling himself
an American citizen who was arrested in
Tangiers last year for swindling. He then
gave the name of Adams and escaped
thiough the Intervention of the American
Consul."
Aa It Ought to Be.
Buffalo Enquirer.
President Harrison is expected to attend
the convention of Republican Clubs to be
held hero this fall. The President willre
celvo a hearty welcome from the people of
Buffalo Irrespective of party.
' Out of "Sight.
New York Recorder.)
Tho Kansas Democrats have resolved to
fuse with the People's Party. This means
that they have resolved to fizzle out of existence.
BI-CHLOEIDK ARO BTM.
The Untaxed Whisky Used In the Gold
Care to Be Investigated.
PmtAWtvniA, July . Collector of Inter
nal Revenue William H. Brooks will to-day
take steps looking to the investigation or
the Keeley bi-chloride or gold treatment es
tablishment at Media, for tbo cure of drunk
enness, with a View of compelling Dr, Keeq
ley or nis representatives to pay the Inter
nal revenue tax of $25 per annum for selling
liquor at retail.
The Internal Revenue Department at
Washington have made a ruling on the sub
ject of the gold cure, and. In view of the
faot that Dr. Kcetey and the physicians in
charge of his institutes in different parts of
the country supply their patients with
liquor by the dram and bottle, they havo
been rated by tho United States Govern
ment as -regular retail liquor establish
ments and liable to the Government tax as
suoh.
Tlie Collector of Internal.Rsvenue at Kan
sas City notified the Keeley Institute of the
decision of the department a few days ago.
The Keeley Company at once made a vigor
ous protest to tho department at Washing
ton asalnst being classed with saloon keep
ers. Uncle Sam's rules, however, are Inflex
ible, and the protest brought-a letter from
Commissioner Mason, in which he explains
tho matter very plainly. Commissioner
Mason savs that every druggist who sells
whisky or other spirits, not combined with
drugs, though he furnishes tlie spirits on a
physician's prescription and for medicinal
use only, is required to pay a special tax as
a retail liquor dealer.
Under this decision the Keeley instltntes
aro simply classed as drug stores which dis
pense liquors, and Colieotor Brooks, whose
attention was called to the matter yesterday
for tho first time, stated that he would at
once proceed to ascertain whether or not
liquor was actually dispensed at the Media
institute, and if he finds it to bo the case he
will promptly levy the Government tax.
A LOT OF PABNELL'S MONET.
The Irish Leader's Mother A sks for Admin
istration in New Tork.
New Tons. Jnly 9.-tSveciaL Mrs. Delia
F. Parnell, mother of Charles Stewart Far--
nell, applied to-day to Administration Clerk
O'Brien for letters of administration on her
son's estate in this country. She says he has
no real estate but has personal property to
the amount of $15,000. Mrs. Parnell asks
that Lawyer Alfred H. Byrd be appointed
administrator of the estate. Mr. Byrd,
who has an office at 59 Wall street, said to
day: "Mr. Parnell made a number of invest
ments of securities in this country, some of
which was disastrous and some fortunate.
The estate in this country consists ot about
$15,000 In securities. These Investments had
nothing to do with tho moneys raised in this
country for the Irish cause. I understand
that money went to Paris. This was his
own money."
Mr. Byrtt said that Kitty Parnell, tho
widow of tne Irish leader, was not a party
to tho present proceeding. He declined to
say whether the application had been made
with her consent or where tlie securities
are. He said that the widow had been made
administratrix of the estate abroad, bnt she
could not act as such administrator here.
He believed she knew of her husband's pos
session of the securities in this countrv Dnt
he said she had tnkon no steps to obtain
them. Ho believed that the mother wonld
be entitled to a sixth of his property hero.
Parnell had died without making a will.
Mis. Parnell lives at 770 Amsterdam avenue
with Mrs. Knonde. She was not at homo
this afternoon, but Mrs. Knonde said the
securities were with a bankor named MoAl-
lister, who bad recommended Lawyer Byrd.
CLEVELAND DOESN'T LIKE IT.
r
He Objects to the Use or His Wife's Name
for Political Clubs.
New York, July 9. Grovor Cleveland has
sent the following reply to the letter to Mrs.
Cleveland from Mrs. Mary Frost Ormsby
President of the Frances Cleveland Club No,
1, informlnz her of the formation of the
club and saying it has taken the liberty of
using her name:
Gbkt gable. Buzzard's Bat, Mass., Jnly g.
Mrs. Msry Frost Ormsby:
MtDeab Madam-Mis. Cleveland has referred
to me your letter Informing her of the organization
of the "Frances CleTeland Influence Club." It Is
by no means pleasant to dissent from methods
which sincere friends aiiopt when their efforts not
only demonstrate tneir friendliness, but when they
seeK to subserve the public good, and are there
fore engaged in patriotic service. It is, however.
impo&sli
iUlU iU
approve of the useofJIrs. Cleveland's
name in tne designation oreinbs neslcn-d to do po
litical work. We trust you will not undervalue
our objection, because It rests upon sentiment that
the name now sacred In the home circle as wife
and mother may well be spared in the organisation
and operation of clubs created to exert political In
fluence. Yours very truly,
UBOVEB CLXVEXAltS.
ANGST. MOUNT ETNA.
Dense Smoke and Llehtnlng Flashes Aris
ing From the Crater.
Rome, July 9. Mount Etna was unusually
active to-day. A thick column of smoke, in
which lightning flashes were seen, issued
from the crater and rose to a great height
in the air. Then, blown by the wind, it
covered Catania with an immense cloud.
Quantities of lava and ashes were also
ejected from the crater. Tlie phenomena
lusted for an hour. Several shocks of earth
quake occurred during the morning, the
tremors being felt throughout the whole
district.
WOTEN ABOUT Wh'AVER.
Weaver heads the People's party's ticket.
It will be Weavers and weft this time. 'Also
Weaver and wept and Weaver and left.
Wheeling Rsgister.
It there is any crankylsm before the
country that James B. Weaver hasn't In
dorsed Mr. Weaver hasn't heard of it. In
dianapolis Sentinel.
How can a good Greenbacker like Mr.
James Weaver accept such a preposterous
compromise between a gold dollar and a
sheet of paper as C9 cents' worth of silver?
New York Commtraal Advertiser.
As Presidental candidate of the Green
back party James B. Weaver received 307,000
votes in 18S0. This is about as large a total
as he can count on this year as standard
bearer of the People's party. St. Louis CHobe
DemocraL -
Weaver is as high a type of statesman as
could be induced to stand as its representa
tive, Its true exponent is the swarthy sage
of Madison Square. It should have nomi
nated not Weaver, but George Francis
Train. New York Timet.
The Omaha convention resolved in favor
of "limiting the office of President to one
term," then nominated General Weaver for
President a second time. Which of the two
terms offered him is the one be shouldn't
haveT CfnemnoM Times-Star.
The best thing to be said about General
Weaver is that he was formerly a newspaper
man. If he had stnek to his business, in
stead of going into politics, the chances are
that he would have a greater future before
him than he seems to havo now. Boston
Berald.
The nomination of Weaver for tho Presi
dency by the People's party should put an
end to the talk of a possibility of an election
of the next President by the House of Repre
sentatives. There is not the slightest likeli
hood that Weaver will carry a single State,
and he will be lucky If he polls more than a
half million votes in November in the South
and West. Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.
Whera Silence Is Golden.
Indianapolis Journal.;
If "Gencrar1 Adlal Stevenson had not
talked so'maoh since his nomination his
peculiar t coord might not have been brought
into such prominence According to all ac
counts of tv episode, the. less he says about
his 13 days' "army service" the better, If he
wishes to preserve his -military standing
among admiring Demooratlo veterans.
DEATHS HKRb' 1ND ELSEWHERE.
Obituary Notes.
CARDINAL TRAXexsco BATTAOLtNI, Archbishop
of Bologna, Is detd. He was born In ISO, aud was
made a cardinal in ISM.
Isaac EdwaiiD, a retired Cincinnati merchant,
died Saturday night at IlartwcII after X hours' se
vere illness of cholera morbus.
Samuel Bickerstaff, a highly respected citi
zen of Phlltlpsburg. near Beaver, 71 years of age,
dletl suddenly Friday night at 12 o'clock. He had
worked hard in the garden that afternoon, and on
retiring at B:S0 o'clock rell over nueonsclous, ex-
lrlng at the time stated. He was born In Phllllps
urg, where he resided all his life. It Was said
overheat produced appoplexr. r
ST0BIES OP THE STATE. -
One would think that some memorial of
its deep historic Interest would be found at
Fort Necessity, the Spot In Fayette connty
about which cluster so many legends of
Washington. There is little or nothing to
distinguish the site of the fort from the rest
of the Great Meadows, as General Washing
ton called this fairly open valley. A farm.
roads leads down from the turnpike to the
swampy hollow in which the Virginians
chose to await the onset of their Indian and
French foes. Three of us tried the other
day to make out the lines of the embanked
stockade with which Washington fortified
bis position, and a slight but regular eleva
tion oi cue ground couiu oe traced, inclosing
a space of perhnps two acres. A little
sluggish stream flows through the place,
which is little better than a swamp,
and tradition says it was so in Wash,
ington's time. Why that shrewd
soldier chose it for a camp seems rather
hard to comprehend, for it is commanded on
two sides bv rising grouud and has no nat
ural defensive features. Perhaps tho supply
of water had something to do with it; or
were the Great Meadows the only consider
able clear ground in that wooded region,
and a fort desirable there because the ap
proach of the stealthy red man could be
more readily observed? Seeing that Fort
Necessity was the only place worth men
tioning that the Father of His country ever
yielded to a foe, it seems probable that it
was really a very weak position.
To-day its strong point is snakes. A
numerous and variod assortment of serpents
make their home in Fort Necessity, which
Mr. Fazonbaker, the farmer who Owns the
ground, says bas never been cultivated and
is to all intents worthless marsh land. The
subscriber did not know about the snakes
till he had emerged from tne long
grass and ditches of tho fort, bnt he
attributes nis immunity to the presence
-of two lights of the Fayetto county
bar. It Is a well-known scientific tact that
snakes never bite Unlontown lawyers, for
reasons that are good and sufficient.
A shore distance from Fort Necessity a
clump of trees within a square inclosure
substantially fenced in marks Braddock's
grave. A fund to supply simply-Inscribed
stones to mark these interesting localities,
one would think, could be easilv raised. In
a country with a short history like ours we
ought to makethe most of it.
Where Iiogs Are Devoured.
It is seldom that a small place has such a
big Hon to show visitors as Austin, Potter
oounty, has. The inhabitants of that very
new little town are, I believe, 2.7C0 in num
ber, and all above the age of 2 will tell you
at an early stage of the game that the saw
mill there is the largest in the United States.
Whether the saws of Austin convert more
trees Into boards of all sorts and sizes than
any other mills or not, there Is no disputing
the extraordinary dimensions and the per
fection of the machinery, which is gobbling
up the forests of Potter county at a fearful
rate. The trees that are chopped down on
the sides ot tho Slnnamahonlng Valley, and
along tributary creeks, find their way to the
mill at Austin by rail. The trees travel, cut
into lengths of 30 feet or so, on specially con
structed cars, from which they are
tumbled Into a bis pool of water above
the mill at Austin. In this sort of
stockyard men with elongated boat-books
are continually at work day and night guid
ing the logs to tho slnnghter. The last Jour
ney of the unsuspecting log, like that of its
rhyming mate, tho hog, at Chicago, is swift
and terrible. An endless belt with teeth of
upward inclination snatches the log from
the pool and hurries it up into the mill,
where it is deposited npon a platform, phelv
inc on cither side like the roof of a house.
Sliding down this declivitv the log is re
ceived upon a running carrfase, to which it
is firmly fixed a great iron claw, called In
.k- 111 it. I 1 I, I .1 ,1l
! timber, in to the fatal embrace "Theuigger"
and Jerking around. the logs, and when it has
done its work, slips out of sight with dia
bolical suddenness. Then the car to
which the log Is bound rushes madly
away over the rails toward the
ciroular saw, revolving at lightning
speed. The saw makes a sharp exclama
tion, sounding like: "Whow! how good r
as It enters the log and cutsslices off a board
as easily as your grocer will a pound of
cheese. The loz stays on the carriage till
the last of it disappears in the shape of
boards. The board is not touched by human
hands, but falls as it is cut by iho saw upon
an endless belt which bears it awny to the
other end of tho mill, where the first man
who has handled the log since It left the
pool stacks the board in Its proper class.
The reluse, from slabs to slivers, is carried
automatically from under the saws upon an
endless belt furnished with cross-pieces to
a gigantic furnace outside the mill. Tho
sawdust is used to feed tho furnaces under
the boilers. The mill runs 22 hours out of
the SI. winter and summer, and the millions
of feet of lumber-sawed the numberdoesn't
matter represent a business of -$1,500,000 a
year at the least, which is a good deal in a
little town about which the bears still roam.
Austin is built upon the sawmill.
A Prohibition Center.
The beauties of prohibition are displayed
in the bountiful supply of drugstores to be
found in Austin. Upon entering the town
the stranger will remark with alarm that
out of SO stores on the main street one-third
deal in drugs and must be doing a big busi
ness at that, for tbey are handsomly fur
nished. Visiting of malaria and an enorm
ous demand for quinine float before his eyes.
He is uncomfortable till he asks the hotel
keeper If he can have a nice, cool glass of
beer, and is told that he is in a prohibition
district, but that any one of the neighboring
druggists can sell him a bottle or malt tonto'
"which." the landlord adds, "is quite as
good." Upon trial it is found that the tonio
beats beer as an intoxicant. The whence
ness of the drugstores' prosperity is ap
parent. Another proof of the efficacy of
prohibition is to be noted in the fact that
the big locomotive on tho Slnnamahonlng
Vallev has to null two extra cars loaded with
fa C UlU3h W4KAOUI 1IUIUUI1 vvav Uk Uttllglll(
beer and whisky in bottles and kegs over
the mountain to Austin tne aay uerure July
4 dawns. Potter county enjoys all by its
lone-iome some unique legislation, a speci
men of which is the law prohibiting the sale
of liquors in the county, exceptin Germanla
township, w'teio the German settlers are
allowed to brew, sell and ergo, drink ale
within the township's limits.
Sewing Machines as Monuments.
Among the supplies furnished tiy the Be
lter Committee to those who lost everything
in the Are ar.d flood at Oil City and Titus
vine are sewing machines. An agent of one
of the Pittsburg sewing machine houses
told me that his firm had sent 50 ma
chines to Titusville alone. Walking among
tho ruins at Titusville a few hours after the
disaster it was a common thing to see a
cooking stove and the iron frame of a sew
ing machine standing alone in a little waste
of sand all of a comfortable ho ne that fire
and water had been nnable to destroy. It
was a pitiful and peculiar feature of the
ruins at Oil City and Titusville that the
woman of the destroyed home wa3 con
stantly suggested by them: now by a sewing
machine, now by a cooking stove, now by
the skeleton of a baby carriage. Warped
nnd washed by flame and flood theso scraps
of iron were an eloquent monument to
many a woman's worth.
Up Among the Bruins.
The- very word Slnnamahonlng suggests
boars, "Walk up, Cinnamon, two by twol"
and if you hadn't been posted you'd suspect
the presence of "B'rer Bai" among the
blackberry bushes that All up the valley
from the trout stream nt tho bottom to the
hill-tops which the woodman's nx has made
well-nigh bare. The Slnnamahonlng Valley
Railroad does Httlo to disturb the pence of
this Potter county wlldorness; rather is it
one of tho romantic features of the region.
The locomotive that hauls the train of two
cars from Keating Summit to Coudersportis
a powerful freight engine with four drivers.
When you have travoled from Keating Snm
mit to Austin, climbing mountains and
making curves that recall lailroadlng in the
Rockies, you understand why strength
rather than speed is desired in the locomo
tive. One day recently when I made the
trip, the traveling exhibition of Florida's
products in a car about the size of a Pullman
sleeper formed part of tho train.
The curves were almost too sharp for the
long car, and the wnary-looking alligators,
the pineapples and preserved fruit, the pho
tographs and the cash legister, and the rest
of Florida's choice products, not omitting a
choerrul little darkoy, who preferred to sit
on the steps of the car every time we came
to a curve, narrowly escaped a toppling
over among the rocks and blackberries. It
is a novel sensation in a train of two cars to
see tho locomotive that is hauling you pass
your window in the opposite direction. You
can enjoy it frequently during the voyage
from Keating to Austin.
The road Is new and well built, however.
Down in the valley below you can be seen
the roadbed whlch'was in use till Just lately.
It was abandoned because the new route
showed a saving of several miles and I be
Iiove because the grades and curves of the
old road were too tame for the natives.
HxrBtmx Johhs.
No MonejV no 'Votes.
Indianapolis Sentinel. J
The People's Party Excoutlvo Committee
opens the campaign bravely with a sturdy
appeal for funds. We thought tbo use of,
money in elections was one of the things the
party was organized to combat.
CORIOUS CONDENSATIONS.
The German Emperor's train ebst alto
gether trw.ooo.
A hen at Hawthorne, Fla., hatched 19
chickens from 13 eggs.
One pound of cork is sufficient io sup
port a man of ordldary size in water.
A Brooklyn inventor proposes to tan
the earth's Interior for heat and thus save
fuel.
The hardest known wood is cocus wood;
it turns the edge of any ax, however well
tempered.
It is reported to have rained alligators
during a severe rain storm at Ottumwa, Ia
on Friday.
A 14-year-old boy at San Jose, CaL,'
thrashed his father because he ordered him
to bring in some hay.
A train on the Florida Central and
Peninsular Railroad killed seven cowsio
one day near Leesburg, Fla.
A blacksmith's tools of the present day
are almost identical with those used in tha
same trade over 300 years ago.
Georgia professes to have a girl from
whoso mouth there runs constantly a stream
of water as from a small spring.
It would take 40 years for all the water
In the Great Lakes to pour over Nlazara at
the rato of 1,000,000 cubic feet a second.
The Begylrar General's returns show
that for every 100 deaths in English conntry
districts there are ISO deaths la the towns.
A collar button was recently found con
cealed in a cow; and this has caused wonder
as to how the cow crawled under the bureau.
The gavel used at the convention of the
People's party was made of timber from the
first homestead entry in the United States.
The German and Austrian Alpine So
ciety has erected 419 taverns lu the mount
ains where students can board at reduced
rates.
Russia now exports 14,000,000 pounds
of caviare; and she Is believed to Import
great deal of American sturgeon roe to main
it with.
Jewelers report that gold dollars art)
extremely scarce,and many other persons
note a similarity In the silver and the paper
varieties.
The auction of the Borghese art treas
ures at Borne on April It realized only LS0O,
00O francs, a mere fraction of tho real value
of the articles sold.
It is reported from Paris that H. B
Blaedel has invented an apparatus by which,
a driver of a vehicle can release a carriage
from runaway horses.
The mortality among cattle at sea, re
sulting from cruelty, want of water, etc- was
formerly stated at IS per cent, while at the
present timo it is 1 per cent.
An interesting literary relic has just
been unearthed by tho London Johnson
Club, viz., an original copy of the sals cata
logue of Dr. Johnson's library.
Miss Catherine V. Curry, of Syracuse,
can type-write 1S3 words a minute, a speed
that is believed to top off the record. She
has been operating five years.
A young man in Texas started to town
tbe other day to get a marriage license, but
the clerk had sold out. He invested in a
pair of sboes and went home perfectly satis
fied. There are in Great Britain and Ireland
no fewer than 2,788,000 acres of woodland.
Notwithstanding? this fact, timber to tbe
value of 10,000,000 is annually imported into
tbe country.
The largest town clock in the world is
in the tower of tho Glasgow University at
Glasgow, Scotland. The clock weighs about
a ton and a half and has a pendulum weigh
ing 300 pounds.
A Spanih lady has succeeded in cross
ing the Andes in a carriage, a distance of
300 miles. The Journey was completed in 11
days, tbough nearly a mile of the road had
to be built for her use.
Few families can show a record like
that of the Gross family ot Richmond, Ind.
There are six brothers and five sisters of the
family and there has not been a death
among them for 50 years.
The nebula in Orian is a fine telescopic
object now. The great black space In this
nebula is known anion; unpoetlcstar-gozers
as the coal note, no star nas ever oeen seen
in tbis hole in tbe universe.
: Pope Leo XIII. owns a pearl left to
him by his predecessor on tho throne of St.
Peter, which is worth 20,000, nnd the chain
of 32 pearls owned bv the Empress Fred
erick is estimated at 35,000.
Elizabeth More, a pretty young girl of
Fdgowortb, with tbe help of a girl friend,
has recently built a little cottaee for herself,
laying tbe foundation, doing all the carpen
tering and plastering tho rooms.
They are fond of old things down in
Delaware. A Sussex county farmer pre
serves with pious care and exhibits with
pride an ear of corn grown upon his father's
lanu in 1S35, and anothcrproduced from the
ancestral acres in 1735.
France points with pride to its Tunisian
colony, where tbero are now 32,000 French
citizens and persons claiming Frenoh pro
tection. Great results are expected from
the opening of the harbor of Tunis next
year and of Bizorta tbo year following.
In ancient times Greece possessed some
thing like 7,500,000 acres of dense forest, and
she was comparatively rich in timber until
half a century ago. Many forests have now
disappeared, ana tne result is seen oocn in
the scarcity or the water supply and In var
ious injurious climatic effeots.
A good deal of the dew which we see in
the morning covering the leaves or grasses
and other plants comes from the interior of
the vegetables themselves. The extremely
fine dew. as a rule, is atmospheric, but the
larger drops, which we find on the margins
of leaves, are in general exudations from the
plant tissues.
It has always been generally believed
that snow keep3 the ground warm, bnt no
very accurate data on tbe subject has hith
erto been forthcoming. Accordingly it is in
teresting to learn, from observations recent
ly made at Katherinenburg, that at a depth
of H inches the soil, when covered with two
leet of snow, was 10 warmer than at the
surfaoe.
Vlights into fcnnydom.
"Clara,I'd give a thousand Cellars foryour
complexion."
"Would von. dear? What did the color you' v
got on cost you? ' ' Chicago Seios Stcord,
Briggs Spriggius had a hard time the
other day. He put a porous plaster on his chest
and thought he would try to -get it oft by getting
down on the carpet and ribbing himself back and
forth.
Griggs Old be succeed?
Briggs No. The carpet came ap.Heio Fort
Berald.
I cannot sing the old songs
This noisy crowd amid;
Icannot slcg the old songs
They'd mob me if I did.
Detroit Free Press.
Mudge Judge Billigus is a remarkably
easy man to get acquainted with, don't you thins.?
"Vabsley I never noticed it.
Undge Hois, though. I na'In't known hln for
over an hour before I borrowed a dollar of him. and
Inside of the next boor we got so weU acquainted
that he refused to lend me xaolher.Indianapoiis
Journal.
With.types and paper, and hand-press,
And' faith serenely glowing.
He settled in the wilderness,
And set bis mill a going.
They wondered what he'was about
Wnen in the woods they found him,
Bat when he got his paper out
They built a town around him!
Atlanta Constitution.
'I had a narrow escape yesterday," said
Biggins.
"Is that so?" rejoined Bnggins, with Interest.
Tes, I was nearly choked to death."
"Highwayman?"
"No. Flannel shirt. I wore It out in the rala."
Washington Star.
There seems little left to wish for,
She has pleasure, wealth and fame;
But still she Is not happy.
For she sighs to change her name.
Chicago Inter-Ocean.
Corydon (at the picnic) Let me get yon
a glass of lemonade, dearest.
Phyllis tblnshlng) Lemons do not agree with ne.
CcrydOiKbrighUyl Oh, bat there isn't enough of
lemon in this to do you any harm. Aeu Tor tret.
Dr. Emdee Have you anyx vices?
Dadler I smoke cigarettes.
Dr. Emdee You have softening of the brala.
Dudley Would cigarettes give me that?
Dr. Xmdee Yon Wouldn't smoke ehrarette sa
less you had lt Bmtth, Gray co.'i Jfonthlf.
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