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TWELVE PAGES
THE RESTORATION OF OKDEE.
The decision of tbe Homestead workers
to receive the State troops peacefully and
even cordially cannot be too frankly rec
ognized or too warmly commended. In
doing so they concede their duty to re
spect the power of the State, and justify
the hope expressed by The Dispatch that
an interval of reflection would produce a
decided change of mind from that which
created the bloodshed and violence of last
week.
The State troops represent government,
law and peace. To oppose or obstruct
them -would be to array force against
Government and to try to pull down the
fabric of democratic law. Such a course
would be avoided by all men who are
not driven insane by the passion
of conflict. But since the Homestead men
were so far carried away as to array them
selves in violent defiance of the law, last
week, they are entitled to credit for re
gaining control of themselves, and even
emphasizing their allegiance and submis
sion to the authority of the State.
It is possibly a factor in the promised
exhibition of loyalty and even friendli
ness to the troops that is presented by
the desire to show that the presence of the
troops is unnecessary,and to secure a short
duration of their stay at Homestead. This
is a natural wish and one that is quite
legitimate, on the supposition that the
law-abiding and pacific frame of mind is
thorough and permanent The military
power having been called in, it can be dis
pensed with when the danger of further
disorder is entirely past. TVhen that de
sirable consummation is to arrive involves
much uncertainty.
Now that obedience to law and the su
premacy of iud.vidual rights is in process
of restoration, the possible settlement of
the dispute between empl03'ers and men
comes up for discussion. The function of
the troops will be solely the maintenance
of peace. They will neither force men to
work nor prevent them from working.
The decision of the wages dispute will
thus be left to pacific methods. In these
the worklngmen can hope for success from
two sources, and only two. The first is
that with the evident sympathy and aid
from labor the whole country over, they
may on the one hand be able to maintain
their position, while the indisposition of
labor generally to take work in the mills,
will make it difficult to run the works
without them.
The other possibility, though now a
remote one, is that which the great
majority of the public would be glad
to see, the final reaching of a point
where the firm will consent to a joint
hearing of the case with a view to its com
promise, either by conference or arbitra
tion. It is neither necessary nor wise
to conclude that determinations formed
by the managers of the Carnegie
Company weeks before the recent events,
and perhaps reiterated now under the pres
sure of strongantagonisms, are not suscep
tible of some modification or amendment
The universal wish that employers and
employes shall prove an ability to live in
peace; the possibility of aid to the locked
out men bv sympathetic strikers; and the
popular belief that a settlement should be
made by which the men at Homestead
can obtain work at the place v here they
live and where what property they have
is located, all point to the propriety of set
thug tne dispute by conciliatory and hon
orable resort to reason.
This method of dealing with the subject
Is to be urged because it will be the
broader and wiser course. It is idle to ig
nore the fact that there are deeper mat
ters involved in such disputes than the
bare legal rights. There are questions
in such disputes that cannot be settled
by a simple enforcement of the laws of
property. They have got to be settled by
going further back than that, sooner or
later, and the better the feeling between
capital and labor, the easier will be the so
lution. Let us hope this wise course will be
adopted. Generosity toward antagonists
is a higher quality than pugnacity, and it
is highest even where pugnacity might be
successful. When legal peace is restored,
industrial peace should follow, as a result
of the combined efforts of both sides.
CHICAGO'S ESPECIAL .STRENGTH.
While the people who recently gathered
at the convention in Chicago came away
thanking Providence that they do not
have to live there all the year round, it is
worthy of the attention of other cities that
Chicago continues to wax and prosper.
The visitor finds much to revile, but the
fact remains that the city presents a rec
ord of commercial growth which no other
city can rival.
It is a subject of profitable study to take
ffe objections to Chicago which have been
heard and compare them with her muni
cipal achievements. Political delegates
find themselves attacked with more kinds
of weather than they can endure. Dele
gates to another kind of convention are
impressed with the failings of the Chicago
water; the city itself is presenting the as
pect of having got more to do with the
World's Fair than it has money for. Yet
with all this Chicago is bustling prosper-,
ous, the center of the western trade, and
the object of comment and praise for her
enterprise the world over.
There is more than ordinary significance
In this contrast between criticism and
commercial achievement Here.is a city
with an uncertain and unpleasant climate;
located in swamps, so that the drainage
of the city can hardly be separated from h er
m
water supply; prone to promise more than
she can fulfil in public enterprises; with
no Inlets to her commerce except what
have been created for her. Yet a million
people have been gathered together there
in the prosecution of commercial growth
that is absolutely without a parallel. This
is to be explained only by one factor not
yet mentioned, namely, the existence of
an energetic public spirit and the work of
enthusiastic civic pride. Chicago repre
sents those qualities to an extraordinary
degree. Her citizens unite enthusiasti
cally In pushing forward every work for
magnifying the city, and omit no oppor
tunity of sounding her praises abroad. This
is a policy ingrained In Chicago from its
very inception, and it is the real creator of
Chicago's greatness.
The application of this fact to other
communities is not hard to perceive. If
Pittsburg had Chicago's public ambition
and civic pride, in addition to her own
natural sources of wealth, we would have
at the head of the Ohio a community as
large as two Chicagos put together.
PENNSYLVANIA NOT ALONE.
The Couer d'Alene mines in far-off
Idaho furnished a very fair Imitation of
the Homestead trouble yesterday. There
was a lively battle between union and
non-union workmen, in which there were
killed and wounded upon both sides, with
such accompaniments as explosions of
cars of giant powder and wrecking of
mines. The non-union men finally sur
rendered, and, though this all occurred In
the wild and woolly West, after the capitu
lation the defeated ones were carefully
guarded from all harm.
There is another difference In the two
disturbances. Demagogues will hardly at
tempt to make political capital against any
American policy out of the trouble in
Idaho. It will be difficult to as
cribe the battle of the miners to
McKinley and protection. Yet in all its
main features it is almost identical with
the conflict which has so attracted public
attention for the past week.
EFFICIENT QUARANTINE NEEDED.
The need of efficient quarantine at our
seaports was never more pressing than It
is likely to be for the next twelve months.
With cholera at Paris and Moscow, and
yellowfeverraging in Brazil and perennial
in Cuba, any relaxation in the vigilance of
quarantine regulations may permit a fatal
epidemic to gain a foothold in this country.
Yet while this need is apparent to every
one, it is a fact pointed out by the New
York Herald that the quarantine at that
great port of entry is by no means as
thorough as It should be. The careless
ness is shared by ship surgeons, and both
together present but a frail protection to
the country. This joint negligence per
mitted the Infection of typhus fever
to enter that port not very long ago,
and if it did not spread all over
the country, it was not due
to the vigilance of thtse officials.
More recently an Arabian woman afflicted
with leprosy was brought into the
country, and neither the surgeon of the
steamship company nor the doctors at
quarantine made the discovery which
ought to have protected first the steerage
passengers and then the country from this
contagion.
The quarantine system should be placed
on .the basis of absolute efficiency. If it is
not, and an epidemic of cholera or yellow
fever ravages the country, it may
extract what satisfaction it can from
the knowledge that thousands of lives
are sacrificed to running these branches of
public service on the political basis.
THE MARCH OF PROGRESS.
It is pleasant to observe enterprise and
and the spirit of improvement in neigh
boring cities as well as in our own. It is
therefore a subject for enthusiasm not to
say admiration in the original sense that
we discover in a recent Baltimore paper
the fact that late events have "revived
the question of a sewerage system for that
city."
The rest of the country should promptly
join in assuring Baltimore of approval
in indulging in the question of
a sewerage system, provided the
discussion of the much desired march
of progress dots not drag out an in
terminable lenglh before, they actually
begin the work of putting bnck and mor
tar together for the leal sewprs. Official
authority assures us that Baltimore is a
city, of some 500,000 people; and
we learn from the Baltimore news
paper which touches on this point that
she has a few sewers which are simply
noisome conduits. The paper referred to
thinks that this is not all that is required
to met public requirements and it urges
the revolutionary policy of a complete
sewerage system for tbe whole city.
A swerace system for a city- of 500,000
people! In the language of Gilbert's
jolly curate: Brethren, wo should think
sol Even if Mr. Gorman's efficient politi
cal ring should make the people pay four
prices, they should urge forward the
march of progiess to the degree of getting
the sewage of the whole city provided
for.
DOW NOT TO DO IT.
In the theories as to the duties of public
prosecutors, with regard to urging prose
cutions for the violation of law, inconsis
tencies are apt to be discovered which pro
voke a wonder whether the official mind
has not reached the stage of cultivating
the art signalized by Dickens the art of
"How Not To Do If ' '
It is not very long since a theory was
publicly developed that it Is not the duty
of public prosecutors to hunt for evidence
Of violations of the law. If people are
troubled by legal proceedings let them
make complaint and furnish the evidence.
Until they do that, the officials of the law
are justified in maintaining the position
that liquor is not sold illegally, nor disor
derly houses kept in full blast, nor -trusts
organized, nor railroad abuses perpetu
ated. This theory was announced very
specifically with regard to the duty of
prosecuting trust combinations, and it was
even more prominently made the excuse
for doing nothing witG regard to the prev
alence of illegal houses in New York. "
While this might raise a question as to
what public officers are paid for, some of
the people in New York accepted it to the
extent of undertaking the work of prose
cution themselves. They organized socie
ties for the suppression of" various kinds of
vice, hired lawyers, collected evidence,
and began the prosecutions. Whereupon
a change comes over the spirit of the legal
dream. No one but the District Attorney
has a right to prosecute these cases, it is
said; and upon taking that question to a
higher court, the last view is sustained.
Justice Lawrence, of the New York Su
preme Court, said: "I do not see of what
use a District Attorney is, if a 'private
society can come into a police court and
try to run it No private society has
the right to appear, by counsel on such an
occasion."
If no one but a District Attorney can
prosecute a case, and the District Attorney
will not do it in the case of certain influ
ential law-breakers, the publio will be apt
to agree with the learned judge thattbey
do not see of what use a District Attorney
is. But it is also a very decided conclu
sion that this class of- law-breakers have
what is slangily termed a dead cinch on
the law.
L Fbekcit justice has received a somewhat
tardy vindication, but at last the multi-murderer
Bavachol bos paid the extreme pen
alty of his crimes.
Owing to a deflection caused by a sand
bill a schooner was sunk four miles ont from
Sandy Hook on Saturday by a shot fired
from the United States proving grounds. It
would be well in future for officers to take a
sight before ordering the discharge of a pro
jectile, Just to sco that there are no sand
bills, schooners, or anything else In tbe way.
Mt. Etna is indulging in a pernicious
activity, for tbe suppression of which no
suggestions have yet been made.
It Is to be hoped that Tammany's po
litical immorality has been lessened by the
Christian Endeavor Convention. But tbe
hope is a rather forlorn one, since this is a
tiger that chancres its stripes only for its
own pleasure and temporary mundane
profit.
That People's party candidate must be
making bis F. P. C appearance before a final
retirement into obscurity.
The Kentucky treasury is empty and the
.State's Jnne telegraph bill is unpaid, so the
Western Union Telegraph refuses further
credit. But they are pietty slow down there
anyhow, and tbe deprivation will be borne
with a good deal of equanimity.
It would bo odd if baseball pitchers,
turned strikers in opposition to a louuction
of their salaries.
Now that Pittsburg has been made a local
forecast station, and the observer is to be
paid for making official forecasts for thirty
eight hours In advance, a great improve
ment in the weather is to expected.
LOVE is a highly appropriate name for
the President ot tbe Universal Peace Union.
TJxder the Baker law the ballot sheets
required for the fall elections will be of such
a size as to warrant tbe assumption that the
contract for their manufacture should be let
by tho aero.
A close atmosphere is the cause of open
doors and windows.
There are portions of this country where
cyclone pits will soon be regarded as ap
pendages to well ordered establishments as
indispensable as bear pits to zoological gar
dens. CELEBRITIES IN' CLOVER.
Budyard Kipling believes In ghosts.
Mr. Gladstone first spoke in the House
Of Commons on May 17, 1833, 9 years ago.
IT. S. Hobakt died in San'Francisco the
other day w orth $4,000,000. In 187uhe was a
carman in a mine earning $i a day.
Lord Silencer's library, which is said
to be unrivaled among the private collec
tions of books in England, and which con
tains a matchless set of Caxton publications,
Is to be sold at auction next year.
Marshal Patrice McMahon the gal
lant ex-President of France, although 82
years old, is as robust as at SO. He boasts
that serious illness has never been his lot,
and tnat only when wounded has he been
confined to bis bed.
Messes. John J. Platt and James B.
Piatt, brothers, who have long conducted
the Poughkeepsie Eagle, which was founded
by their father (Isaac Piatt) in 1828, have
just taken into partnership a representative
of the third generation of the family, Ed
mund Platt.
M. Bonnat the famons artist whose por
trait of Kenan is one of the salon's show
pieces, lives with his mother and slBterin
a beautiful cottage in tho Champs Elysees.
He is a great friend of Cardinal Lairgeri, of
Algiers, who lives with him whenever he
comes to Paris.
General Prist, who was Spanish Minis
ter of lVar for two years, held that office
longer than any of his predecessors during
the present century. The Military Weekly,
of Berlin, says that there have been 191 Min
isters of War in Spain during the century,
tho averago time of service being six
months.
The Princess of Wales left Copenhagen
yesterday on her way home. The Czar and
Czarina and the Danish royal family c.Mno
in from the royal palaco to see her off.
Afterward the Cabinet Ministers and foreign
diplomats boarded tbe yacht Polar Star to
pay tneir respects to the Czar, who is visit
ing in Copenhagen.
LADIES BAISE A CAMPAIGN FUND.
One Hundred Do lars Furnished by a
Frances Cleveland CInb.
Chicago. July 11 Contrary to tbe strict
injunction of ex-Presideut Cleveland that
Mr p. Cleveland's name must not be used for
oiganization purposes in the next campaign,
the Monmouth ladies have organized a
Frances Cleveland club of Warren county,
They not onlv have oigauized the club to
promote Democratic interests with their
moral support, but their determination
seems to be to raise n campaign fund, as
shown by tho subjoined letter:
PARLORS OF THE MoXMOUrir. H.L.,
Frances Cleveland Club, j
To Hon. Theodore Kelson, becretary Democratic
State Committee:
My Dear Sir I am directed by the Frances
Cleveland Club of Warren county, a woman's
Democratic organization, to send you the Inclosed
check for SlOO as our contribution towara the state
campaign fund; Though the sum Is small, -we trust
that it will assist In wresting our SUte from Re-
BuMlcan supremacy. With this hope and this be
er, I remain, very sincerely,
bARA BOXD HANLEY.
This is believed to be the first contribution
to the campaign expenses of apolitical party
ever made by an organized body of ladles.
KOBE OF CLEVELAND'S MODESTY.
He Decline to Famish a Portrait of Baby
Rath to a Nowgpaper.
Atlakta, Ga., July 11. The Atlanta
Journal this afternoon prints the following
lcttor, received from ex-Piosident Clove
land in answer to a reqnest for a picture of
Baby Ruth for publication in the Journal:
Replying on behalr of Mrs. Cleveland to 5 oar
letter of the lith Inst., I have to say that there
has never been a photograpn taVen of our child,
and it Is' Impossible for that reason to comply
with Tour request. It Is only (rank to add that If
there was any of her pictures lu existence we
should hot be willing to have one published In any
newspaper. We are doing all we can to check the
notoriety which would be increased by sucn a pub
lication. We would he glad to please you and the
paper wlUi which )oa are connected, but we can
not bring ourselves to the' point of giving our
baby's picture to be printed in a newspaper.
Tours truly, GROVXB Cleveland.
The Bight Coarse to Pursue.
Boston Herald.
Candidate BIdwell is said to be worth
somewhere from (3,000,000 to $10,000,000, and
it is sad to reflect that this handsome for
tune of the Prohibition candidate was
largely made in tho native wine and brandy
business. The least BIdwell can do is to
turn over his ill gotten gains to the Prohibi
tion campaign fund.
On the Rlzht Side of the Fence.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat. J
The great majority or the Republicans in
Congress are opposed to free silver, while
the great majority of the Democrats favor
It. This Is shown by tbe voting which has
thus far been had. The Republican is now,
as it always was, the Bound money party.
In a Tight Squeeze.
Philadelphia Press.
That interesting Vice Presidental impossi
bility (Stevenson) Is trying to explain to the
satisfaction ot Eastern Cleveland Demo
crats bow he came to be a Greenbaoker and
a Copperhead. He will offer apologies for
hit more modern bad reoord biter on.
AROUND ABOUT HOMESTEAD.
The Old Munhall Ferryman.
The old ferryman at Munhall, Just above
tho place where the Pinkerton's were
trapped. Is quaint and shrewd. He rejoices
In the not uncommon name of John W.
Smith, and as he rows you aoross tbe oily
waters of the Monongahela he Is likely to
tell yon that be fought three years in the
Army of the Potomac and draws a pension
of S10 a month for wounds. But he shows
no sign of hlsage or his wounds as he pulls
the crazy old ikiff across the river, tbongh
perhaps he does show a readiness to llo on
bis dars whenever a chance Is given him to
talk. The first ten days of July
have been golden to Ferryman Smltn,
for first in war and then in peace tbe de
mand for his eight skiffs lias been Incessant.
His patrons, he says, "come from every
wheres I never see such crowds" this
with a plaintive reminder that his charge is
only 60 cents, including a full view or tbe
battlefield, 'with a running lecture upon the
fight, which he saw from the gray dawn
when the Little Bill and her luckless con
voys hove in sight till tbe bloody finale of
that awful day. The bronzed old soldier is
heart and soul with the men, of course, in
their struggle, but he had one criticism to
make. "'Twasn't right to knock them
Plnkertons about after they gave in," he
said, "I've been a soldier and fought at
Gettysburg and pretty nigh everywheres
the Army of the Potomac did,
but that -was tbe toughest fight
I've seen. It's my maxim, "When a
man gives np, let him go!' The women
acted worse than the men my! how they
did belt them Plnkertons!" and there was
pride as well as pity in Mr. Smith's tones.
Tbe 'Women Sympathize With Them.
The sympathy of women generally with
the strikers was again exemplified Just as
the ferryman was speaking. The steamer
Lud Keefer, with two barges crowded with
excursionists, most of whom were young
women, passed us, and in response to the
hat-waving in onr skifl and another filled
with iron workeis, loud cheers for Home
stead came from the fair holiday-makers.
The cries from tbe steamer and barges were
clearly distinguishable above the general
cheering, and they were: "Hurrah
for Homestead!" and tbe like, all
showing a hearty cood feeling
towards tho men. It was I think the loudest
cheer I have evor heard fioui feminino
throats. The significance ot the Incident
was deeponed by the fact that the cheers
were given Just when the steamer was
abreast the cinder bank where tbe charred
ropes which hnd moored tbe Pinkerton
barges still lay at tbe water's edge, and black
fragments of tbe burned craft recalled the
bloody events of last Wodnesday. The
cheats from those fair young throats echoed
ai-ain and again from tho shore, and the old
ferryman allowed the boat to drift a hun
dred yatds befoie he lecovored from the
ectay into which this manifestation of fem
inine sympathy threw him.
The Toang Hen on Guard.
At the end of the high fence, with (ts triple
barb-wire fringe, a stone's throw from Mun
hall station, four lads were playing cards.
They were all bright-looking boys in work
ing clothes, and they gave ns a gooa-natured
greeting as we approached them. One of
them, a lad of 20, with good square brows
and deep blue eyes, speaking of tho
advent of the National Guard, said:
"We'll help 'em euard the works. Why
shouldn't wot The Carnegie people don't
want to tako care of the mills any more
than no do. Why, my father's inside the
works now on cuai d for the Carnezies." Yet
these joung fellows were a picket oTthe
woikeis, as much on watch for Plnkertons
and other foes as any of their elders. This
was proven five minutts later when the
ancient mariner, Mr. Smith, having rowed
us a dozen strokes from shore, tbe same
quartet bailed ns from a skiff which they
had by some short cut reached before us,
and were then pitrollng the river bank. Mr.
Smith kindly vouched for our innocent in
tentions, and the young watchmen steered
for tlje shore again Thus the perfection of
the system by which the workers are guard
ing the mills was once more illustrated.
Slightly Nervous but Pacific.
Outtdo O'Bi ion's restaurant about II
o'clock yesterday morning I met Burgess
McLuokie. He is a tall man with gre.it
breadth of shoulder and a pleasant, good
face, which an unmagisterial mustache
adorns. A cloud rested upon his features,
however, yesterday.
"The militia will be -welcome," ho said;
"we are glad to know they are coming, for
It shows that bigger men than Mr. Frick ap
preciate the importance of our protest
against his arbitrary, attitnde. When the
soldiers come here we shall greet them as
friends, and if any man so much as hoots
them our people will take him to the rivor
and duck him."
All the same Mr. McLuckie seemed anx
ious and wroubt-up, bis nervousness shott
ing itself in a slight quaver that tripped his
tongue at every sentence.
The samo anxious air was on the faces of
nil the leaders, ana tbe atmosphere at head
quarters yesterday morning was decidedly
gloomy. The bUr loom where tbe Advisory
Committee and the big guns among tbe
workers meet, 13 not a cheeiful place any
how; its most impressive points being the
deep sawdust on the floor and the even
deeper mystery that characterizes tho be
havior of the men who assemble there. The
visiting newspaperman experiences the
latter to the full when be is hold no there
for identification and branding. The sen
sations of the yearling as be awaits the
branding-iron at the annu il round-up, must
be something like the reporter's these days
when he first stiikos Homestead.
Brlnton's Brief Fame.
It was snpposod for the best part of yes
terday that the troops were to rendezvous
atBtinton, a place 11 miles from Pittsburg
on tbe Pennsylvania Railroad, that is re
markable for nothing particular but a
labyrinth of railroad tracks marking the
Junction of the main line and tbe Pittsburg,
V lrginia and Charleston branch. As a mat
ter ot lact, nobody gathered there yesterday
but half a dozen reporters. It would not
have been such a bad place for tho brigades
of the National Guard to go into camp prior
to moving as a division over tbe Virginia
and Charleston tracks to Homestead, lor
there is a tolerably wide and level tract of
unoccupied and uncultivated land between
tbe hills and beside the Pennsylvania
tracks.
The first reporters who ariived sought tho
shade of some trees about 100 feet above the
lailroad, and they had considerable fun at
the expense of their fellows who came later.
As tbe latter appeared upon the track below
the leporters on the hillside tied a handker
chief to an umbrella and imitated as best
tney could with this flag tbe notions of a
signal corps of Homestead workmen. Ono
at least of the newspapermen below who
saw this singular performance was
taken in, and sat for SO minutes
on a barrel in tho sun trj ing to make out
the signals which were apparently being
sent to some other watchers on tbe hills
toward Homestead. As he tried to Interpret
tbe mock signals by the Morse alphabet it
may be imazinod he wearied himself rather
more than the 'gnterprisimi party with the
handkerchief and the umbrella. He was
still more fatigncd when having climbed
tho hill he discovered the truth.
Homestead's Health In Peril.
The town of Homestead certainly did not
wear 11 warlike air yesterday, and the most
hostilo thing about the placo a
casual visitor would surely have de
cided to be the smells in
tbe streets. Open drains and neglected
water courses and gutters, full of green
coated water and refuse, load the air with
noisome odors. A hose with a good head of
water wonld do much good, and some at
tempt at modern di-ainago would save the
town from a worse enemy than even Pinker
tons. If the population of Homestead Is
doubled for any length of time without some
attention to these evils, the consequences
arc bound to be terrible. Whether this
nezlect 01 sanitary safeguards is the lesult
of the people's anxiety about other matters
or not, and it is strangely out of keeping
with the plenty of pietty homes and trim
3ards,and the personal cleanliness of the
great majority of Homestead's population,
tbe matter is worth attending to, and
that right soon. Hefbubn Johxs.
Chicago Sends Aid to St. Johns.
Chicago, July IL Thirty-five former resi
dents of St. Johns, N. P., held a meeting at
tbe Grand Pacific Hptel to-day and took
steps toward extending aid to the stricken
city. A Central Committee of ten was
formed and a subscription immediately
started. Mayor Washbume and the Board
of Trade will be asked to co-operate. It is
proposed to call a mass meeting.
Bow Stanley Will Live In History.
New York Advertiser,
Mr. Stanley will live to some extent In his
wry as the man who was lambasted In Lambeth.
SENT BACK TO DIE.
A Syrian Woman Leper to Be Returned by
the New York Authorities.
New Tons, July 11. In a small and dark
room on the steamship Amsterdam, careful
ly secluded, Mrs. Jamna Chadad, a Syrian
woman, aged 35, Is in keeping till the vessel,
now lying at its dock at Sixth street, Hobo
ken, shall start on its homeward passage to
Rotterdam, when she will go with it, the
reason of her enforced return being that Dr.
Wheeler, of the Ellis Island staff, bas, in
spite of her passing Quarantine.pronounced
her to be a leper.
The Amsterdam reached the port Friday
afternoon last, with over 300 steerage pas
sengers aboard. Health Officer Jenkins'
assistants, Drs. Talmadge and Skinner, gave
the sbip a clean bill of health. At Ellis
Island, however, while tbe immigrants were
paraded for inspection in single file, the
keen eye of Dr. Wheeler noticed a peculiar
reddish scaliness on the face of Mrs.'Chadad
as she walked past him with her hands care
fully concealed beneath her shawL He had
her called back, and It took but a short ex
amination to convince him that she was a
victim of leprosy.
Her sister and brother-in-law, who had ac
companied her on the voyage and had eaten
from the same dish with her, were also ex
amined, but were found to be exempt from
the drend disease. The leprous woman was
as quickly as possible taken back to tbe
Amsterdam, where she was Immediately
isolated from all.
Dr. Jenkins is disposed to lay tbe chief
part or the blame for Mrs. Chadad's netting
by him on tbe ship's surgeon, Drt Hubert,
who negleoted to report the woman's con
dition to the Quarantine authorities.
FBIENDS OF SILVER AT W0EK,
But Only Two Brpabllcans Show TOp at a
Night' Caucus.
Washhtotos, July 11 The call for a
caucusto-night was addressed to "alt friends
or the'free silver bill," but only two Repub
licans (Bowers, of California, and Clatk, of
Wyoming,) felt called upon to obpy
tho summons. There were about SO
or 60 Democrats present, and Mr. Dockery,
of Missouri, was in the chair. Mr. Bland im
mediately took tbe floor and mane an argu
ment in favor of the bill. In the course of
the argument he stated that the anti-silver
men would tako every possible method to
obstruct silver legislation, and cautioned
the friends of silver to be on their guard.
Representative Culberson, the chairman
ot tbe Committee on the Judiciary, argued
that tho Stewart bill was legally defective
and his speech was listened to w'ith marked
attention. He was ably seconded by Mr.
Terry, of Arkansas, who spoke in the same
vein.
After further deDate the caucus agreed to
recommend that the bill be amended in two
particulars: first, by providing tbat it shall
not affect the legal tender quality of the
Treasury notes Issued under the act of 1890,
or the obligation of the Treasury to redeem
them; and second, that the authority given
to ooin bullion no w in tbe Treasury shall not
interfile with the coinage of silver when
firesented by private parties. The follow
ng committees were appointed and the
caucus adjourned: On parliamentary pro
ceeding', Mei-rs. Bland, Williams, of Illi
nois; Pierce Bartine and Culberson: com
mittee to summon absentees, Messrs. Pierce,
Bryan, Robertson, Dungan and Clarke.
8T0LE AWAY FB0H HOKE.
A Twelve-Year-Old Boy Ran Off to Visit
New York and Philadelphia.
Philadelphia, July IL Little Harry Sei
bert, of Millertown, Pa., only 12 years old,
was discovered yesterday by a conductor of
a train at Tbiity-second and Market streets
crouching underneath the cars. He gave
Lieutenant Miller, of the Sixteenth police
district, a history of his escapade. He Bald
he bad become Imbued with the idea that
Philadelphia and New York were great
cities, and he had heard so much about
them he wanted to see them.
He accordingly arranged a plan to leave
his native town and steal a ride to Philadel
phia. From what be had heard from other
boys he accomplished this In safety, al
though he was a whole day on the Journey
without food or drink. He reached Broad
street station safely yesterday morning, and
not being pleased with the location tried
to steal another ride to New Yoik on tha
same plan, but was detecterl by an in
spector and turned away. He. however,
begged something to ent, and found his way
to Thirty-second and Market streets and got
nnder a train of cars that was going to New
"rork from Bioad street station, but was
again caught. The boy is of well-to-do
parents at Millertown, his father owning a
mill. Tbe authorities have communicated
with him regarding his runaway child.
CHATJTATJQrjANS ENTERTAINED.
Trof. Seamon and Dr. Wllbnr' Deliver ' In
teresting Ijectnres.
Chautauqua, N. Y., July IL Special. To
day Chautauquans for the first time bad the
pleasnro of listening to Prof. Seamon, of Ox
ford, Eng., in a University Extension on
"The Art and Social Llfeof Ancient Greece."
Prof. Seamon has condensed 12 lectures into
six, to be given here. The first was given here
at 11 o'clock. This afternoon Dr. W. G. Wil
bur talked very entertainingly about "Capo
Cod, Its People and Pecularitles." As its
people are mostly seafaring, and their pscu
larlties ate best illustrated in their yarns.
Dr. Wilbur was, of course, compelled to tell
some or them. .Mr. Wilbur's lecture through
out was very entertaining.
Mr. Stagg, who was to have given an illus
trated Ioctuie this evening, on the modern
athlete, bad his plans completely upset by
receiving the trunk of a San Francisco lady
instead of his own, in which were his pic
ture slide. Tho lecture could not be given,
but will probably come later in the season.
The spelling match this evening was won
by Miss Edith Woodruff, of Marietta, O., and
Miss Lou Louvell, of Woodhaven, Miss.,
won second place. The matoh was quite in
teresting. DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE.
Captain Francis K. Webb.
Captain Francis Copes Webb, who was
stricken with paralysis on July!, died yesterday
morning at Cbula lsta, a suburb of San Diego,
Cat. Captain Webb was In the naval service dur
ing the war, serving under Admiral Porter. From
lbfl7tol374 he was located at Zanzibar, as United
buiti-a Consul. To his efforts was largely due the
negotiation of a treaty. In the latter jcarofhls
consulship, for the suppression of the slave trade
on the east coast or Africa. Stanley was indebted
to him for material assistance In fitting out Ills first
expedition of exploration of the a ark continent. In
1831, Captain Webb was appointed consul to New
Zealand, and retained that place until last Novem
ber, when he resigned. He was born in Salem,
Mass., ISO.
Mrs. Elizabeth Betts.
Mrs. Elizabeth Betts, widow of Peter
Betts, a revolutionary soldier, died In Harrlsburg
bnnday. aged 92. Before she was 18 years of age
she married George Eppley, of MIlIersTlUe,
Lancaster county, the place of her birth,
and was left a widow at 22. Two
years subseqnently she became the wife of
Peter Betts. who was then 75 years old and who
fought with General Washington for independ
ence. In 1810 Mrs. Betts was left a widow again,
her husband having died at Harrlsburg. bhe was
a remarkably bright woman for her age, and told
many interesting stories of her husband's experi
ences In the Revolutionary War. She received a
pension of $16 a month from the Government.
Captain David 31. Dryden.
Captain David M. Dryden died at Bland
vflle, Ky., Friday or tumor of the stomach. He
served In the army as First Lieutenant of the First
Kentucky Infantry, United States army: also in the
navy as Commander of the steam ram Queen of the
West at the battle of Memphis. He had a wide
reputation as a steamboat captain on the Ohio river
from 1838 to the close of the late war, when he be
came fall pilot at Louisville. Captain Dryden was
born February 4, 1810, at Palestine, Clermont
county, O.
S. H. Brasco, Klverman.
S. H, Brasco, a well-know pilot, died in
Jeffcrsonvlllc yesterday morning. He was knon n
all along the river on which he ran. and admired
for his lalthful attention to duty. He was always
ready to lend a helping hand toasteamboatman.
He ran on the Ohio, Tennessee, Cumberland and
Mississippi rivers.
Obituary Notes.
LiKUTENAKT COLONEL CHARLES E. BLUOT. Of
the Engineer Corps. United States Army, died Sun
day In Boston.
Baron Wixxarleiqh (John Wilson Patten)
died in London yesterday, aged 90 years. He was
Chief Secretary for Ireland in 1888. The title,
which was created in 1874, expires with the Baron's
death.
Isaac D. Garfield, who was one of the promi
nent leaders In tbe receut Cleveland movement In
Syracuse, was found dead at his mother's home In
the village of Cardiff, Sunday. Heart disease was
tbe cause of death,
Hox. JOHJf C. Wadi, ofDIgby' N. S.. dled"Sat
urday in his 75d year. He represented Dlgby
county in the Dominion Parliament for over a
qnarter of a century, and It was on his vote as
bpeaker of the House that N ova Scotia entered Into
the confederation.
Hox. Boscoa L. Bowees, one of tbe Maine
Railroad Commissioners, died suddenly of heart
disease at hli home in Stco July 7, aged 57 years.
Mr. Bowers was twice Mayor of Saco, bad repre
sented the city in the Legislature, and was a mem
ber of Governor Boole's council.
SHADED BY MAPLES.
Under These Trees Aged United Presby
terians Will Walt Until Time Closes With
Them The Home a Homa Indeed Miss
Bowan Marries and Then Travels.
To THE long list of its eleemosynary in
stitutions, Pittsburg will have a notable
addition to-day, when Maple Shade is opened
to the public It is all the more delightful
for Its purpose; that of a place of retire
ment for the aged people of tbe United Pres
byterian Chnroh; since it bears none of the
"earmarks" nor prevailing characteristics
attributed generally to corporate charity.
The house has been in the possession or tbe
gentle folks and tbey have stamped that
fact upon it. The managers are wisely in
tending to destroy none of the
sentiment with which Maple Shade
is redolent. Tbe house has
its peer In tbe grounds with which It is sur
rounded. A beautiful circular stretch of
gronnd unbroken save by an occasional
sbrnb lies to the front formed by two sweep
ingavenues,beginningat tho gate.separnting
and then Joining again at a flight of steps to
the porch. Bordering the onteredge of these
avenues are the luxuriant trees of many
years standing which either suggested the
name of Maple Shade, or were afterward
planted to make the cognomen a trnthful
one. As well as ornamental trees, there are
those combining embellishment with
utility. Perhaps tho bouse first stood in an
orchard; at any rate there are now fruit
bearing trees enough to stock a small one.
About half an acre of ground behind tbe
house is devoted to an old fashioned flower
garden. This part everyone thinkB is tbe
point of beauty of Maple Shade. A porch
runs irom the billiard room window to the
library window. A vigorous grapevine
almost conceals it. But there you might sit
if of an age for sitting, a most asreeable
occupation and lookout tn tno runny oiu
walks and beds when tbe flowers nre the
despots and gardeners are Invisible you
migntsee all this, and thinic that tnereare
worse things than being old in such a scene
as this. Tho former occupants must have
loved red, for among all the varities that
color of a blossom Is most plentifully
present, and makes a brilliant "splatch"
among the green.
Beyond, and bv wav of a small cate is the
kitchen garden. A tooth for fruit would
find busy occupation here.
The dwellinz house Is of fine dimensions,
which can be easily understood after one
wanders through its It room, all of them
nearly large enough to accommodate some
of the small modern houses in which Pitts
burg families now feci fashionable. The
lower floor is devoted to front and back
parlois, dining room, library, butler's pan
try, a multnm in parvo in usefulness, kitchen
and a long, wide hall. The idea of
turning this into a chapel was probably un
consciously projected by tho rich stained
glass doors tbat open from the hall to the
porch. The proper religious light prevails,
and if it should become a place lor
Joint devotions, there certainlv could be
chosen no more suitable spot. In evidence
of Mrs. Bissell's generosity are several car
pets, and some furniture, which lends to the
house a quite homelike air. On the second
floor at o six bedrooms and a bathroom. The
two very large rooms on the right side cf
the hall will have their dimensions some
what diminished by taking off one a largo
bathroom and from tbe other a hall to con
nect with a proposed western wing. In the
meantime these rooms can accommodate
two bedsteads. This floor is Intended to be
used by women only and the ball may be
partitioned off to be used by the maid in at
tendance on that floor during the night.
The root of the front porch is utilized for a
balcony on tbe second floor, but stranse to
say there Is no means of egress. It Is
intended to cut a French window at once.
Old men will have exclusive right to the
third floor, and the male caretaker is to
sleep in tbecomfortable servants' quarters
adjoining bnt not connected with the honse.
At tbat side of tho bouse facing Alfred
street is a very beautiful billiard room,
which is to be used as a bedroom. When the
Bissell furniture, now stowed there, is re
moved. Tbe contemplated annex will be
built by the billiard room, and. as there is a
good many feet from it to the street, it will
be equally as pretentious a building as the
house proper.
The managers think that tbe bouse and
grounds, for which they paid $45,000, will
provo an exceedingly wise investment.
Toward the sum total of their indebtedness
thev have raised $18,000; paid don n of this
$15,000, which Jnst leaves $27,000 to be ac
quired to pay for the building. This, it will
be understood, provides nothing for tho run
ning expenses, nor for tho purposed im
provements. The fete to-day ts being given
tointerest the church at larse.and through it
a great deal is expected. Yesterday a party
of ladies were working busily in prepara
tion. Twenty applications by prospective in
mates have been leceived, nnd these will be
acted upon as soon as possible. As yet there
is no matron, but applications aru being re
ceived and the matter will be decided upon
when the Board or Manager? meets in execu
tive session, ns it will very shortly. The
peimanent Board of Managers consists of
Mis. W. W. Grier, Mrs. Andrew Eniton, Mrs.
J. B. Hill. Mrs. D. K. Bryce, Mro. E. D.
Brown, Mrs. J. A. Boswell, Mrs. X. McQais
ton, Mrs. J. r. Cameron. Mrs. Joseph Gilles-
Sle, Mrs. H. Clay Balr, Mrs. James Lockhart,
rs. Joseph Mitchell, Mrs. Campbell, Mr.
Samuel Mahood. Mrs. McCullv, Mrs. Blair
nud Miss Clara (lennings. Thofete begins at
3 to-day and ends at 10. To reach them take
the Wilkinsbnrg cars in East Liberty, alight
at Brushton avenue and walk one block to
where the cars make tho loop. This is Al
fred street and Maple Shade is the corner of
Penn andiAllred.
Last evening, Miss Katherine Fleming
Rowand was married in Trinity Church to
Mr.Edward GoJfrey Miller. Tbe ceremony
took place at 6 o'clock and was pei formed
by the rector, tho ltev. Alfred Arundel. The
bride was given away by her brotber, Mr.
Asaph T. Rowand. She was unattended
and woie a cray goinz-away dress. Mr.
Miller's best man was Mr. H. C Mylar. The
ushers were: Mr. Frank E. Stewart, Mr. J.
S. Cook, Mr. T. D. Melksell, Mr. K. M. Dain,
Mr. C. F. Foster and Mr. Harry llowand.
There was little ostentation about the wed
ding, owing to the deep mourning of the
bride's family.into whicli they were plunged
by the death of her father, A. U. Bon and.
TnE Board of Directors of the Art So
ciety have organized by tbe selection of tho
following ofBcets and committeemen: Presi
dent, Mr. George A. Macbeth: Vice Piesi
dent, Mr. Joseph Albrec; Secretary, Mr.
Charles W. Scovel; Treasurer, Mr. Ross w:
Drum; Proposal Committee, Mr. William B.
fid wards, the Be v. George Hodges, D. D.,
and Mr. Charles C. Mellor; Art Committee,
Mr. John W. Beatty, Mr. Martin B. Beisser
and Mr. Joseph Albree; Music Committee,
Mr. William B. Edwards, Mr. John a Slack,
and Mr. Boss W. Drum. At tbe last meetlnz
another score of names wero added to the
very large accessions recently made to tbe
membership of this flourishing society. The
new members are these: Mrs. George P.
Balmain, Mrs. Cartar C. Beggs. Mrs. William
D. Corcoran, Miss Matilda W. Denny, Mrs.
Louisa Dllwortb, Mrs. Julia G. Gavley, Mrs.
Harry Hilliard. Mrs. T. H. Jones, Mrs. J. B.
Mellon, Mrs. F. B. Ximick, Mrs. Dewees
Wood, Messrs. Marcus Aaron, William
D. Brereton, Harris Buchanan, T. Bissell
Everson, George B. Gordon, W. C Lyne, G.
Grant Pannock, Hon. James H. Becd and
Joseph Wood.
Social Chatter.
Mr. James Maoee, eldest son of F. M. Ma
gee, Esq., leaves this week with Mr. and
Mrs. William B. Kodgers, of Allegheny, for
England, where they will spend the ensuing
six weeks.
STAirnorE S. Pikkebtoj, Esq.. is summer
ing with his family at their cottage in tbe
mountains beyond Altoona.
Mrs. Clarke and Miss Chella Clarke, of
Negley avenue, will leavo for Chicago this
evening.
A STKANGE GHOST SI0BT.
A New York Compositor Obeys a Spook
and Stnrts on a Jonrney.
New York, July IL Lewis Friend, a com
positor employed In the World office, disap
peared several weeks ag( taking with him
$130 belonging to the members of tbe ITorZcf
chapel. His friends decided that he bad been
robbed and murdered, bnt he returned on
Satnrday alive and well, with a remarkable
story to tell in explanation or his sudden
departure.
He says tbat just as he was starting homa
from work on the night that he disappeared
be met his father's ghost at Park row and
Frankfort street. The ghost told him that
It was absolutely necessary that he should
go to England at once. In obedience to
the ghost's behest, Friend left for England
within 31 hours; hut when he got there he
found that the ghost had abased his confi
dence, so he came back at once, arriving
here on Saturday. He still bas the $130.
It Has Been Dono Before.
Brooklyn Eagle.
Thx Pittsbubo Dispatch calls Mr. Cleveland
"the prophet of English prosperity." Ho
has also been called "the staffed prophet."
The trouble with these critics is that tbey
can't knock the staffing out of him.
CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. r
In California they catch fish by wheel,-
York, Mont,, has a natural ice mine la
a"gulch nearby.
The number ot dwellings in tha United
States in 191 was 8,955,812.
The most expensive American curtaia
sells for $1 60 at wholesale.
A hive of 5,000 bees wilj produce about
SO pounds of honey annually.
There is claimed to be a snow-wbit-squirrel
at Yellow Springs, O.
A 6-year-old boy of Bridgeport, X j.f
is reported to have lived four days on bark.
Persia has a race of pigmy camels, who
are bnt 25 inches high and weigh bat 60
pounds.
The Esquimaux manufacture fishnets
from strips of seal hide and from thin Bltcss
of whalebone.
Minneapolis has the largesfgrain eleva
tor in the world: its storing capacity Is 2,000
000 bushels of grain.
A German geologist estimates tbat tea
Dead Sea will be one mass of solid salt with
in less than 500 years.
Herod the Great was the first Hebrew
King who Imported into his realm Bomao.
modss of "society life."
A Persian potentate owns a pearl of 12J4
carats which is quite transparent. It is to
be had for the sum of $200,000.
The San Francisco police last week
seized 13.C00.000 Chinese lottery tickets,
weighing in all about 13 tons.
A newspaper foreman has invented a
device whereby compositors are enabled to
set type with both bands at once.
The orange was originally pear shape!
and about tbe size of the wild cherry. Iti
evolution has required 1,200 years.
An 8-year-old girl of Philomath, (X,
fell into a well 25 feet deep. Sbe clnng to tha
bucket rope and was rescued uninjured.
The projectile thrown from the Boyal
Sovereign will weigh 1,200 pounds, and that
thrown by our Massachusetts 1,000 pounds.
In Philadelphia, the largest city of thj
greatest iron producing State in the Union,
there is one borne to every five inhabitants.
The difficulty of soldering together two
pieces of aluminium is said to have been
overcome by tho nso of chloride of silver at
a fuse.
It is estimated that in the United Sfatei
there are 2.800,000 hives beloniing to 70.000
rearers, and producing 61,000,000 pounds of
honey yearly.
It is claimed that there is a lighthouse
to every 11 miles of coast in England, to
every 31 miles in Ireland and to every 33
miles in Scotland.
A postage stamp of the original value
of about 16 cents was sold at auction In Lon
don recently for $240. It was a Moldavian
81 paras postago stamp.
A man at Kings Mountain, 2f. C, ha? a
Jersey heifer. 19 months old. that bas never
bad a calf, but gives about one and a half
gallons of a milk a day.
A woman was arraigned in the Harlem,
N. Y., Court recently, and, upon being
searched by tbe matron, a loaded revolver
was fonnd in ber stocking.
Athens, O., has an 8-year-old boy who
is the possessor or double-Jointed limbs
arms and legs which have the singular
advantage or bending with equal facility
either way.
The 15-inch aerial torpedo thrower, now
introduced as a British service weapon for
coast defense, resembles in appearance a
powder gnn, having tbe axis of its trunnions
ut or near tbe center of gravity of the
barrel.
Coal is mined in Turkey, in Heraclea
and Koslu, both on the Black Sea and abont
100 miles from Constantinople. The ooai ob
tained is inferior in quality to the English
mineral, especially to the Cardiff and New
castle coal.
Six Hebrews were converted last year
by means of the Scottish Mission to the
Hebrews. The ontlay of the society was
$29,290, or nearly $5,000 a Hebrew. At Jeru
salem tbe cost ot each Hebrew convert is
about $50,000.
Pigeons, as letter-carriers, traditior
tells ns, were employed at the time w
Johoshna invaded Palestine, as medium
communication between the beadquart
and camps in lands far off on the others
.of tbe Jordan.
The official, report from Japan of th.
firing pf guns made for thatf oountry by
Canet emphasizes the fact tbat the, accuracy
offlrlnsrwns superior to that of anv guns
that had been previously bought by the
Japanese government.
The investment of 4,000,000 made by
the British Government in the Snez Canal
shares ill in a year or two, according to
Mr. Goschon. be worth jE19.O0O.00O, whloh
proves it to have been an excellent stroke
of business as well as diplomacy.
Sir Henry Bessemer sutrgests the sub
stitution of aluminium tokens for bank
notes of small denominations. He says that
with the recent progress in the science of
metnllnrgv these tokens could be made in a
fashion that would set all the art3 of lorgers
at defiance.
There is now playing in Paris a Enssian
horn band, each horn being capable of pro
ducing a single note only. So perfect is the
training that tbe Dand prodnees the effect of
one cqnipped with ordinary instruments,
and even running scales with the rapidity
and precision of a violin.
Plans are being examined for the con
struction of a railroad' across tbe main
chain of the Caucasus Mountains. The Una.
will have a length of 100 miles, anfi'Will pres
ent great engineering difficulties. There are
to be two tunnels, one four and a third and
the other six and three-quarter miles long.
The most important literary "find" of
recent years Is undonbtedlvtho purchase by
Mr. Davey, or London, of a lot or waste
papor which turns out to be three thick
volumes of notes of Victor Huso's table
talk, dnrine five years of his exile at Guern
sey, transcribed by his son, Prancols Victor
lingo.
The sisal grass of Yucatan is one of the
most remarkable vegetable products known.
It grows In long blades, sometimes to the
length of fjur or five leet, and when dry the
blade curls ud from side to side, making a
cord which is stronger than any cotton
string of equal size that bas over been manu
factured. METER AND MIBTH.
Shrinker Do you think, Miss Longwayt,
that you like me enough to marry me If I should
ask yon?
Miss Longwayt Why. Mr. Shrlnkerl You ought
to know weU enough that I do.
Shrinker Thanks. If I ever get over this darn
bashfulness enough to ask you, blame me if I don't
come;aronnd here some evening and try it. Boston
Courier.
Magistrate You are charged, sir, with
hitting the prosccutlnr witness, McFadden. with a
brick. Guilty or not guilty.
Mr. Grogan Please y'r anner. twora very soft
brick. Mr. McFadden 13 a friend of mine. IndUm
apolls Journal.
The milkman got ahead in life)
By selling watered milk
And, quite apnroprlately, his wife
Wears go irns of watered silk.
Sea lork Prat.
Jeannette Does Miss Boardmaa get her
lovely complexion from her father or her motherf
Gladys fsweetly) From her father. He's la
the drug business. Chltaao Xew-Becora
He never goes there any more,
Thelrhparts now beatas two;
Though formerly be went each night.
This maiden fair to woo.
The reason is, tbat one sad night
Her lips being In a poet.
He gave her a swif : and sudden tjsa.
And her store teeth all feU ont!
Brooklyn EajU.
Skipp Why do yon say that old Miserly
reminds you ofa bloodhound?
NIpp-Becanse he holds so well to a cent, CAJca
go Inter-Ocean.
"When love first made the world go round,
'Twas Just for pleasure through all seasons.
But. selnsh grown, love now seems bound
To spin it for financial reasons.
Sew Tori Herald-
Bangs What kind of a war record ha
Major Cascabel?
SUotts-None; he's a bachelor. Detroit Ire t
Press.
He had brought her a cbair, then a fn, ,
then an ice, and as he went after her shawl her ',
friend remark ed :
"Yon teem to think a great deal of Mr. 811m- X
mint?" -
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