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AX EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE.
The Congressional Committee which is
sitting on the Homestead matter is living
np to the promises made by Chairman
Oates through TnE Dispatch before the
Committee came on. He said that the
questions between capital and labor had
assumed certain phases for whicli neither
political party had provided a prescrip
tion; and, to do justice to himself and his
colleagues, their spirit so far seems
broadly humanitarian rather than nar
rowly partisan. They appear to want tho
full light upon things. The most captious
observer could not classify the members as
Democrats or as Republicans from any
questions they have so far asked at the
Committees' sessions, or any remarks
thej have dropped.
This is very encouraging. It means
that however the two great parties
differ there are men in both parties who
are willing to address themselves to a
search for the facts whatever they maybe,
and no matter how much these facts run
against their preconceptions. A. com
mittee which has the disposition to do
this is also very likely to have the courage
to state the conclusions fairly, no matter
whether such conclusions run counter to
party prejudice or not. It is out of this
spirit of original research and fidelity to
the truth, despite traditions or party
exigencies, that real statesmanship arises.
Nothing could have been more unfor
tunate than the occurrence which sud
denly brough t this Com mittee to Pittsburg.
Nothing may be more fortunate than that
the Committee has come. While its
function is to inquire about the difficulty
between labor and capital, the Committee
incidentally gets at first hands a volume
of facts to contradict the wild and foolish
cry of unintelligent partisans that the
economic policy of protection was respon
sible for these disturbance! They have
discovered that the IcKiniey bill which
3Ir. Wattcrson, Mr. Carlisle, Mr. Mils
and countless other Democratic speakers
and writers have, ever since its passage,
been denouncing as the last straw whicli
the "robber barons" set upon the tax
paying camel's back in cold letter and
fact reduced in place of increased the
duty upon each and every item of manu
facture involved in the Carnegie scale.
They have found further, this which
must interest their farmer constituents
that the policy of protection, in
place of establishing monopolies in
the iron and steel business, has
done, as understanding economists know
it must do, to wit, reduced prices in the
long run to the consumer. They have
had, under oath, evidence of the reduction
in the prices of steel since 1889, with the
market quotations on each item. They
have, under oath, that this result has come
from what Chairman Frick, of the
Carnegie Company, designates as "over
production," an evident result of competi
tion for if there were monopolies they
would never "overproduce" merely to cut
down the selling price of their own prod
ucts. And the Committee well understand
that the competition has come about by
American capital going into steel manu
factures heavily at divers eligible points,
when, under the protection policy, the
profits of the steel business were demon
strated. These facts, if they have any meaning,
mean what the protectionists contend and
which has been demonstrated in glass, in
silk, in carpet and in many other lines of
protected industries, as well as in steel,
to wit: that the protection which enables
new American industries to start and to
be conducted at a time for a profit
quickly multiplies these industries through
the desire of other capitalists to share that
profit, and eventually, by American com
petition, reduces the cost of the products
to the American consumer much below
the prices which prevailed when the for
eign manufacturers had control of our
markets.
Meanwhile the committee must note
that, whatever the disputes which arise
over wages and trade organizations, or be
tw een employer and employed, American
wages, even the lowest paid anywhere
in the country, are far better than the
highest ever reached in free trade coun
tries. Is not this matter of the great industries
of all sorts in the United States this qucs- .
tion of the economic system under which
they best prosper and eventually lessen
the cost to the consumer a matter in
which Democrats and Republicans are
alike and equally interested? Should
not plain facts count for more than the
fine-spun theories of doctrinaires?
Would things be better if from the first
our new industries had been shutout by
free trade deprived of the favorable con
ditions of the protective policy which en
couraged them to start? How many of the
people who are shouting free trade as a
party shibboleth in the huntfor office have
as much light upon the actual facts of the
ase as this Committee has been able to
secure in even a couple of days' session?
Caii the members of this Committee,
when they go to Washington, afford to
say, in any interest whatsoever, that either
the American workingmen, the American
capitalist, or the American consumer,
would be as well off to-day if free trade
had been substituted for protection during
the past twenty j-ears?
FAILURE OF INDUSTRIAL WARFARE.
With the excitement that naturally ab
sorbs the public mind in this city over our
own labor trouDles, the fact that a strike
which earlier in the season attracted wide
attention has just been ended Is worthy
of a passing notice. This is the strike of
the granite cutters and pavers in the East.
The termination of this struggle by tho
"unconditional surrender," as it is re
ported, of the men illustrates the weak
ness of all attempts to settle wage disputes
by the trials of strength which produce in
dustrial warfare. The granite strike was
heralded as one which brought to bear the
most thorough labor organization, and it
stopped building operations for a time in
the East. Yet the men were forced to
yield by want, and they are worse than if
they had not struck by the loss of nine
weeks'"Work and wages.
This displays the way in which the
stnke method fails to benefit the working
men. At te same time tho situation in
this city shows that a system which creates
such intense antagonism on the part of
the laboring masses to capital is no less a
false one for capital. An industrial sys
tem that cannot be carried on without
fighting, either with guns, clubs or the
slower weapons of idleness, want and
stoppage of profits, requires reformation.
But the proper way to effect that reform
is not less impossible M discovery by the
methods of antagonism.
Employers and employed both have a
problem to solve. They should remember
that the surest way to reach that solution
is to work together in harmony, both as to
the means of approaching it and for main
taining industrial peace when the solution
is worked out.
FREE SHYER'S DEATH.
Free silver men rallied their forces for
a last effort on behalf of Stewart's bill in
the House yesterday, and met with a de
feat which is filial for this session at least.
Despite the definite position taken up by
the Democratic party platform on the
question, there was a good deal of expec
tation that the Chicago document would
be ignored for various reasons. But after
all the opinion as to the expediency of
passing Stewart's bill was changed, and
just enough Democrats voted against it to
insure its defeat with the help of Republi
can support There Is little credit for the
defeat due to the Democratic party as a
whole, for it is noticeable that the victori
ous opposition was led by ex-Speaker
Reed, and that he wielded all his force
against the rule to take up the bill
Although the ultimate fate of the
measure was extinction so long as Har
rison is President, it is well that it was not
permitted to reach him. For the cause of
free coinage would have gained some
prestige by passing a bill through both
houses, even though its slight success had
been distinctly traceable to an inconsistent
disregard of its platform by the Demo
cratic party. On the whole there is little
credit due to the Free Trade party for tho
suppression ot the matter, as its majority
is such as to have enabled it to take a
much more emphatic stand if it had been
influenced by the platform on which it
appeals to the people rather than by con
siderations of mere expediency.
A LAW-BREAKING DEVICE.
An Eastern paper adds to the disclosures
recently made in the West with regard to the
violation of the law by railroad corpora
tions and their allies with the statement of
a practice reputed to be in vogue in New
York for the same purpose. The scheme
is nothing more nor less than the old one of
paying rebates to the shipper through the
agency of a shipping clerk in the shallow
disguise of a commission.
By this scheme the shipping clerk is not
supposed to be paid by the firm which em
ploys him. He conducts their business,
however, and ships freight at the full rates
on the surface'of the transaction. At the
end of each month, however, the railroad
sends to the shipping clerk a check for
fifteen per cent or more commission on the
amount of the freight bills. Anyone who
thinks that the shipping clerk is permitted
to put that fifteen per cent amounting to
thousands of dollars in his own pocket is
at liberty to do so.
We do not know whether any of the
parties to that bit of commercial jugglery
imagine that by so doing they actually
evade the provisions of a law which for
bids the granting of preferences or ad
vantages in freight rates "by any device
whatever." But it is evident if the state
ment is correct that they think that they
thus make it more difficult to trace the
Illegal transactions.
And these same leading railroad and
business men will hold up their hands in
wonder that laboring men can be so mis
guided and ignorant as to defy the Jaw
where their wages are at stake I
STORAGE SYSTEM OX STREET CARS.
While the managers of the great major
ity of electric railways continue to declare
that the trolley furnishes the only prac
ticable system, It is important to note that
a corporation, having a practical and pe
cuniary interest in adopting the best sys
tem, has determined to adopt the storage
battery. This is the Second Avenue Rail
road Company, of New York, which has
applied for permission to change its mo
tive power from horses to electric storage.
, The application cannot be taken as con
clusive evidence of the superiority of
storage batteries for two or three reasons.
In the first place the company states that
it will try storage batteries as an experi
ment, first using them on a limited num
ber of cars and on a portion of its line
only, and making their further adoption
depend on the success of the experiment
Then quite probably it makes this
experiment rather than adopt the tried
and proved trolley simply as a recognition
of the fact that it would not be permitted
to erect trolley poles and wires in the
streets of New York. Finally, it is quite
possible that the storage battery may be
successful on the low grades of New York
street railroads, while its extra weight In
its present form might make a very serious
difficulty for railroads which have to sur
mount the steeper grades, such as are en
countered on most of the lines of Pitts
burg. Nevertheless the experiment on this
line, as well as on the line using storage
batteries in Washington, is one of great, in
terest to all cities. If that, method of
using electric power can be perfected so
as to approach the utility of the trolley it
will be a great boon to have it replace the
unsightly and sometimes dangerous trolley
wires and poles. Municipal officials
should keep these experiments in view,
and when the storage system makes a
demonstrated success insist on its substitu
tion for the trolley system, wherever
practicable.
THE CYCLONE'S SWEEP.
The change in temperature yesterday
was clearly the effect of the cyclonic storm
which advanced from the Mississippi to
the Alleghenies during the previous
twenty-four hours. The violence de
veloped at different points furnished an
illustration of the theory that cycloues are
produced by the movement of an area of
lower temperature into a hotter area.
At Peoria, Illinois, the storm was vio
lent enough to capsize a steamer and
cause a fatal disaster, the extent of which
is not yet fully known. There it did not
THE PITTSBURG,
display force enough to wreck buildings.
At Springfield, Ohio, it showed destruc
tive force. A large share of that city is
reported to have been wrecked, with ser
ious destruction of life to swell the list of
victims already made at Peoria. By the
time that the cool wave reached Pittsburg
its force was hardly greater than a brisk
gale. . s
The season appears to cany out the idea
that disasters come in groups. Storms,
riots, conflagrations have followed close
on each other with such rapidity as to
mark the season as one of destruction and
gloom.
SECTIONAL VERSUS NATIONAL.
A striking illustration of one of the
features of the times Is the unanimous de
mand of the Philadelphia papers for Con
gressional favors to the project for a ship
canal between Philadelphia and New
York. The project of connecting tho
Ohio river with Lake Erie is treated by
them with cool inattention that for con
necting the Upper Mississippi with Lake
Michigan receives their enmity. But the
canal between Philadelphia and New
York must have in the first application for
a survey two and one-half times that asked
for the much larger Ohio river and Lake
Erie canal, and In the second place $12,
000,000 to build the canal, or its press re
fuses to be satisfied.
This is simply the manifestation of the
sectional spirit of grabbing whatever can
be got for any particular locality regard
less of the equity or importance of the ex
penditure. Anyone who has given any
study to the subject of internal water
ways knows that the canal pro
posed is one of tho least important
of the various projects. . It parallels
a waterway of Infinite capacity already
existing, namely, the unpent-up ocean. Its
sole commercial use would be the local
traffic between Philadelphia and New
York, the greatest shipping business of
of both ports being exports and imports
which go directly to deep water. It is
recognized by those who urge it that Its
main use would be as a protected channel
in case our coasts should be blockaded in
the improbable event of war.
Yet at f he same time this class of public
opinion ignores the projects that are
needed to prevent great inland seas from
being the prey of the enemy, and which, if
war should not come, would be of the
highest commercial value. Everyone
should know that the Hennepin, the Ohio
River and Lake Erie, and the Lake Erie
and Ontario to tidewater projects are of
the first and vastest importance. But the
hunger for appropriations leads to ignor
ing that fact and clamoringfor appropria
tions of secondary Importance.
It is quite possible that the system of
waterways may eventually include the
interior channel much talked of in the
East But any movement for the creation
of such a system, that is to rise above the
level of a general grab game, must take
tho different parts of the system in the
order of their importance and necessity.
A PROPER PROTEST.
There Is good sense, as well as good
taste, In the general protest of both
Protestant and Catholic clergymen against
the project to transplant the Oberam
mergau Passion Play and to make it one
of the shows of the Chicago World's Fair.
There is decidedly bad taste in the pro
ject itself.
Even at Oberammergan the presenta
tion of the figure and sufferings of the
Savior would be very questionable, except
as the limitations and intentions of the
people of that primitive spot are consid
ered. The presentation on a dramatic
stage of what is to the Christian world
the most divine and sacred imagination
must necessarily vulgarize it To people
like the participants at the home of tho
Passion Play, the performance is doubt
less sacred and touching. To those who
travel there to see the show, it can repre
sent little that partakes of the sentiment
of devotion. But the Passion Play re
moved from its surroundings of sincerity
and simplicity and transplanted to the
atmosphere of Chicago, and the sufferings
of the Savior portrayed to a crowd of
sightseers as a dramatic speculation, is
something so closely approximating sacri
lege as to repel rather than attract every
discriminating mind.
It is to be hoped that this protest will
be heeded. Certainly, if the authorities
who hold the purse-strings cannot stom
ach the idea of letting people quietly walk
through the Fan: on Sunday afternoons,
there ought to be a very positive prohi
bition of the scheme of making a show of
the Savior's life and sufferings.
Whatever other accusations can be
brought against him, no one can truthfully
charge miserly economizer Holman with
being a man ahead, of the times. lie argues
that because tallow dips were enough for
lighting tho students when ho was a boy,
therefore the West Point appropriation bill
should not contain provisions for any better
system of illumination to-day. If it were
not for his obstreperous liveliness, one
would Imagine that the Hoosier statesman
had been dreaming in the back woods ever
since lie left school.
The great reduction of Gladstone's ma
jority in Midlothian is "the most unklnaest
cut of all" received by his cause In this elec
tion. It Indicates tho tremendous effort pnt
forth by his opponents as well as the Scotch
Jealously that Homo Rule for Ireland has al
together swamped Home Rule for Scotland
as a political Ivsue.
ANY political alliance between the Demo
crats and the People's party in Minnesota
will merely demonstrate that the desperate
straits of both organizations incline them
to an unholy disregard for their principles
in the struggle for the attainment of office.
Now that Pasteur is recovering from an
attack of cholera he may bo expected to
devote himself to an energetic research
having in view thediscovery of an lnocu
latorr process to prevent the spread of the
disease.
The establishment of a branch of Re
publican national headquarters at Chicago
should more than counteract any tendency
to demoralization due to the iato Demo
cratic Convention in that city.
The last ball game in the first division of
the National League championship season
should .have been, played by tho Pittsburg
nine yesterday, but rain prevented a repeti
tion of Tuesday's victory.
Boston may be a city of marvelous re
finement, bat its ball players lack the man
ners necessary to enable them to suffer
defeat with decency of behavior.
In the name of decency let the free
stiver men bury their bill before its extinct
presence becomes any more obnoxious.
The rain made an error in coming down
yesterday, there was no open air concert
scheduled.
To be well fed in a restaurant generally
necessitates that one's w alter shall be well
feed.
The House and Senate are once more to
attract a little public attention.
Acted hen He Could.
Philadelphia News.
Cleveland has extended a welcome to
Stevenson at Gray Gables. He will not have
an opportunity to repeat the aot in the
White House.
DKPATOH, THURSDAY,
PAT AND PERTINENT.
Not His First Time There.
John J. Long, of Lancaster county, has
been so busy a farmer since 1863 that he
never visited Gettysburg's battlefield nntil
the unveiling of the high water mark
tablet. On the second occasion he also en
gaged in combat, but hardly similar to his
first experience. It was a new kind bf a
foe whom he met with another sort or a
weapon, but with it achieving as signal a
viotory as no had helped to win 29 years
before. Accompanied by two of tho
"boys" he had almost anticipated the sun
on Friday morning, June 3, walkine out from
the townot Gettysburg to tho famous battle
field. Such a walk proved to be the mutch
of opportunity applied to the tinder of
recollection, and lor awhile It was not '92
but '63. Long always chaired. On the Held
it had been legendary that a bullet could
only get to him by catting through one of
his Jokes, and so just as the clump of scrub
oaks was sighted, Long prodded the ribs to
his right.
"Tom, is that the new fandango drill
you're apractloinsT Yon didn't walk like
that the last 'time we marched to Gettys
burg." A leg of Tom's had gone to a prema
ture grave when Picket charged.
In this view, they reached the "Bloody
bugle." There was a rope stretched along,
but tho vigorous ' farmer from Lancaster,
who had withstood Picket, cared nothing
for ropes. He stepped it while "Tom" was
slowly making his way under, just as a
young sprig of a college boy, big with office
as an usher, ruined lorward to explain tliat
it was impossible for anyone to euter these
reserved seats who did not possess a ticket
of permission.
"Youug man," said Long, in a tone of pity
ing dignity he always ielt sorry for anyone
who had never saw the war "when I was
here befere I could go in there."
"When were you here?"
"In '63, and this man was here, too. He left
a leg behind hitn then."
Though the yoang fellow had been born
since the war, he was still good enough an
American to take off his hat, while tho two
soldiers selected, unmolested, tho two best
seats there and sat down.
How History May Be Repeated.
In the days of the old volunteer fire
department in Pittsburg Colonel William
Phillips, who was Councilman from the Sec
ond ward and Chairman of the Finance
Committee, got into opprobrium through de
feating a bill for an appropriation to meet
the current expenses of the department.
The boys were not aware that Colonel
Phillips had already provided a much larger
sum out of his own pocket,and at the ensuing
election they attemDted to defeat his return
to Councils. Colonel Billy was as hot as he
was geuoious, and for revenge indulged in
a pretty bit of financiering. J: or his original
purpose to aid the "Volunteers," he had
bought a block of compromise railroad
bonds, then selling below par, and hud made
a trust deed, so that the interest woulu' be
applied to the needs of the department In
the consequent mnss ho created instead a
compromise railroad sinking fund commis
sion, which whs to hold these bonds in
trust, reinvesting the interest for the pur
pose of wiping out the debt itsolf at its ma
turity. The arithmetic of it is this: The 79 bonds
cost 17i,000 and the accruing interest to-day
amounts to $100,000. Tne total debt is $2,000,
00U, and the bonds, which will mature in 1913,
by their interest will have wiped out half
the debt. This was a big gilt, und by the
law ot natnre it was a still bizger sum to
lose.
A Little In the Way ofEpltaph.
Poor Kate Castleton had wit, facility in
repartee, was generous, good-natured and
odd. Being a trifle cynical, she was not
disposed, to set life to music, and had a good
deal more faith in dogkind than mankind.
This affection for herfour-footed friends was
indulged in to tho utmost, and tnoy almost
formed the furnishings of her parlor; so it
was nothing uncommon to find yourself
mistaking a big Newfoundland lor a rug, or
after poking your elbow into a cushion-like
bundle, to discover it to be a tucked-up
Prince Charles.
She was more than generous lavish you
might say In money dealings. I have seen
her refuse change (when a "tip" was per
missible) that must have been no lnconsld
able amount. Of course she was the objec
tive point for the amelioration of a horde of
impecunious relatives. To oblege a
persistent interviewer, Miss Castleton dar
ing her last visit to Pittsburg remained in
her dressing room alter the matinee and
was obliged to dine there on accout of tho
briefness of interval before the evening
performance, which she afterward went
through.
.Perhaps none of these are great qualities
in an age or Trances Cleveland Influence
Clubs and Daughters of the American Revo
lution, but they were good comfortable
idiosyncracies to come up aznlnst.
Mahion Crawford Ga.lla.uer.
CHAUTAUQUA'S PLEASURES,
The Singing and Lectures Continue to Im
prove Greatly Daily.
Chautauqua, July 13. Special The
young ladies had the leading feature of
Chautauqua pleasures to-day. The first re
ception of the Girls' Club was given this
afternoon. Their young gentlemen friends
were present and were given a very enjoya
ble time. A glee club was formed among
the young ladies, who sang several excel
lent selections in voices soft and sweet
Miss Mather, who has charge of the Girls'
Club, is very successful in its management
and is quite popular with her girls. Pi of.
Starr gave bis second leotnre on anthro
pology to-day.
Prof. O. Zaman gave his third lectnre on
Ancient Greece this afternoon and after
Prof. Parker's lectnre on the Civil War this
evening, gave some good steropticon illus
trations of Greek art At 7 o'clock this
evening a meeting of the Y. P. S. C. E. was
held, and Miss Livingston, delegate to New
York, gave a resume of tbe work done by
the great convention there.
The Shenandoah Oat-Sailed.
Saw FaAircisco, July 13. The ship Tarn
O'Shanter, from Baltimoro, and tho Shenan
doah, from New York, reached port to-day
after an ocean race of 111 days, which is con
sidered an excellent passage. The Tarn
O'Shanter passed in about two hours ahead
of the Shenandoah.
COSMOPOMTAN CULLLXGS.
JlAKSHAL MCJIAHON, ttlOUgh nOW In
his 85th year, is hale, hearty and vigorous as
a man 20 years younger.
Duke Charles of Bavaria has been
made an M. D. by the University of Dublin
for his skill as an eye doctor.
The German Emperor has presented to
Lord Salisbury, as a memento of his visit to
England last year, his full-length portrait.
The Emperor is represented in a naval uni
form. President Carnot has conferred the
Chevalier's ribbon of the Legion of Honor
upon Henry Haydie, Vice President or the
Foreign Press Club in Paris, and Henry
Mosler, the artist Both the gentlemen thus
decorated are Americans.
De. Peters, the African explorer, has
discovered enormous saltpetre beds between
Mount Kilima-.s'jara and the volcano Donjo
Ngai. Tho whole great territory between
Kilima-NJaro and Donjo Ngai is reputed to
be one great saltpetre bed.
Me. Hamilton Disston, of Philadel
phia, has a party or four down with him on
his Florida sugar plantation, showing them
how matters work. ' They are Congressmen
Huff and Palmer, ot Pennsylvania; Hatch,
of Missouri, and Price, of Louisiana.
William "Waldorf Astok passed a
comfortable night and his physicians report
lie is making steady progress toward recov
ery. No clew has' been found' to the sender
of the announcement of Astor's death to
New York. He signed himself "Clement."
Ehiie Zola is a great lover of curios.
His home in Paris and his country seat nt
Medan are filled with artistic treasures, and
he spends much of his spare time in the
auction rooms. He only romains three
hoars at his desk, and those in the morn
ing. The President arrived in Washington
about midnight yesterday in excellent
health, though somewhat fatigued. He says
that Mrs. Harrison was steadily Improving
when he leit Loon Lake, and there is every
reason to believe that she will now regain
her strength rapidly and soonbe on the road
to entire recovery.
King Humbert of Italy has inherited
none othis father's qualities, and Instead of
wine he drinks water. Were it not for
Queen Margaret, who has earned the reputa
tion of a high liver, gastronomy would stand
in risk of being, exclnded from the Court of
Italy, where tbe dinner service, even for
every day, is of solid gold.
JOLT 14 189a
A DIFFICULT HAVAL JOfc
The New Hampshire to Be Towed to New
York by Tne Boats.
New York, July 13. One of the most diffi
cult naval enterprises ever attempted is the
bringing to New York from New London of
the old United States line of battle ship
New Hampshire, which Is to be used
by the Naval Reserve at the practice cruise
which becins on July 16 in the lower
bay. The work of transierring the New
Hampshire to this port has been placed in
the hands of Captain John H. Woolly, of the
New York Tow Boat Company, who sent the
tug boats Louis Pulver and C. A. Evans to
New London last night. The tugs are the
most powerful in the harbor and are com
manded by Captains'E. Beidenbnrg and Phil
Dick, recognized as two able navigators.
The tugs will reach New London early
this morning, and it is oxpeeted that tney
will be able to tow the New Hampshire out
of the New London harbor this after
noon, but as the anchors of the old
war ship are buried it may take a
conplo or days to unearth them. The Pulver
stopped at the Brooklyn Navy Yard on her
way to jNew ijonaon last night, ana se
cured tackle, blocks, hawsers and anchor
stocks, which are to be used in bringing the
vessel down. The New Hampshire will prob
ably arrive some time to-morrow, and will
be moored at Twenty-eighth street and East
River. She will be met at the head of the
sound by the Navy Yard tng boat Narkeetn,
which will give any assistance that may be
needed in going through Hell Gate and
mooring at Twenty-eighth street.
The New Hampshire is one of the old-time
battle ships, with a saluting battery of
smooth boro gnus. She is painted yellow,
2.C00 tons register,196 feet keel, 51.8 feet beam
and 23 feet depth of hold. She has three
decks and is housed over from the loremast
to the poop aeck. Tbe spars and yards are
still standing.
MOSQUITOES AND MILITIA.
No Force Short of These Seems to Be Able
to Copo With a Loose Elephant.
BAsaon, Me., July 13. The elephant
"Charley," of the Washburne show, broke
away Monday night in Bucksport when
being taken to the train and escaped a
mounted keeper by cllmbingMount Olive.
Going down the opposite side, he crossed
fields and pastnres and hid in an extensive
swamp. Fires were built about this and in
the morning he was captured. One hundred
and twenty-five unund of chain were used
to hold his trunk down and to fasten him to
a tree ten inches thick. He pulled up tbe
tree and broke tne padlocks in tho chains,
cleared himself and again got away. He
charged a team of horses in a hay field, but
they got awav, and the huge beast killed a
cow in a pasture, broko down wire fences,
and after charging the circus men who fol
lowed him, again got into the swamp. No
one dared approach, though ho could be
seen.
The mosquitoes drove him into a watery
muck hole, where he remained through the
day. The circus men built fires to keep tbe
insect pest away and contented themselves
with watching him. Meanwhile the farmers
moved their stock, in some cases miles
distant. Many cattle fled, and the people of
the town are nervous in the extreme.
Washburne gave a horse to replace one
killed Sunday and paid out $300 for damages.
His show in 40 miles away. It will be decided
to-day whether an attempt to capture tho
beast will be made, or whether a military
company will be employed to kill him. A
keeper suggests giving him a bushel of oats
and a halt pound dose of opium and then
kill him.
A MYSTEBY IN HONOLULU.
A Woman and a Cow Change Places at the
Entrance to a Cave.
Hawaiian Gazette.
The Kau mystery is still occupying the
minds of the people in Kona. Abont two
weeks ago Mr. W. P. Fennell, a trustworthy
man, on his way from Pnnalnu to Pahala,
saw a cow grazing near a cave. According
to bis own story, he said that as he neared
the cave the cow suddenly vanished. He
looked around, but on looking at the cave
again he saw a woman standing on the spot
where the cow was grazing a few moments
berore. Ho turned his face away for awhile,
bnt on looking again, to his amazement tho
woman had disappeared. Determined to in
vestigate the mystery, he went to the cave
and viewed it in every direction, but he
could gee no traces or the woman. Ho
thought it very Strang that the woman
should disappear so suddenly, no left the
cave, and proceeded on his journey. When
ho was n little distance off, he looked back
at the cave, and to his great surprise, be
hold, the woman was again standing on tho
very spot where he first saw her.
Mr. Fennell continued on his way, and
told his strange story to everybody'he met.
The natives or Kan are fearing that thero
will soon be another overflow of the vol
cano. The Portuzuese are also Irightened
at the coming catastrophe, and they liavo not
decided what they should do in the near
futuie, whether to vacate the place or con
tinue cultivating.
PIRATES IH THE SOUTH SEA.
An Unknown Sailing Vessel Mysteriously
Kidnap Three Natives.
Saw Frahoisco, July 13. During a cruise
of tho steamer Archer in tbe South Sea, she
called at several islands at which a mysteri
ously manned schooner has visited. At one
place three natives were kidnaped by the
unknown sailing vessel. Eventually the
Archer reached the Marshall Islands, and
while there a schooner named the Microne
sia arrived with the particulars of the ar
rest of a master and mate at Ponnpe, inthe
Caroline archipelago, and the detention of
their vessel. From the Micronesia's de
scription these men and vessel were identi
cal with the schooner that had called at tho
islands visited by the Archer. The arrest
was made on the statement of the cook of
the schooner, who affirmed that the two men
known as the master and mate had captured
the vessel by shooting the former master
and the supercargo and poisoning the other
members of the crew. The Spanish Gover
nor at Ponape sent tbe two prisoners by
man-of-war to Manila for trial, and detained
tho schooner at 1'onapo awaiting its identifi
cation. INSURING OF THE BABIES.
A Death by Teething Reveals a Novel Prac
tice fn Philadelphia.
Philadelphia, July 13. Deputy Coroner
Dugau was called upon yesterday by an in
surance company wbo requested a duplicate
certificate in the case of Gwynne Davis, 8
months, 2230 Taylor strcet,who died a couple
of days aso. An inquest by tho Coroner on
Monday showea that death was due to ex
haustion caused by teething.
The request was such an unusual one for
Insurance companies considering tho age of
the child that the Dopiitjj asked if the baby
were insured. The ageutunswered in tho
affirmative and Mr. Dugau observed "why,
1 didn't know you insured them so young."
"Our company Insures children at birth,"
was the reply. "Gwynne was insured in
February last, the parents paying 5 cents
per week."
COLUMBIA'S BIG DAT.
This Will Be the Greatest Day or the
Week's Festivities There.
Columbia, Tens., July 13. The first or the
week's festivities was a success in every
particular, except that the rain about 1
o'clock prevented the racing in the after
noon. Tho Columbians are much gratified
that the attractions offered havo drawn so
many people beie- from a distance. The
parade ol 300 troops this morning made the
largest display seen In Tennessee during
recent years.
To-morrow will bo the great day of the
week. Tho raising of the flag ovor tho
arsenal, the completion of whicli forms an
epoch in Columbia's history, will bo attended
wltn most Interesting formalities, and the
ball at night will De one of the grandest
affairs of the kind that the South has ever
known.
DEATHS HERB AND ELSEWHERE.
Cyras Howard, Engineer.
Cyrus Howard, one of the oldest citizens
of Pittsburg, passed away yesterday, at the home
of his 6on, H. C. Howard. 21 Church avenue, Alle
gheny. Mr. Howard has resided here since 1861.
lie was civil engineer on the Panhandle Railroad,
and built the Urst mile between Pittsburg and
Mansfield, and afterward had charge or the con
struction between Pittsburg and Columbus until
1805. Aiterward he went Into contracting, and
built several levees in the South. At time of his
death he was constructing water works at It.
Wayne, Ind. '
As Much as Possible.
Chicago Iuter-Ocean.1
We need more protection, not less pro
tection, against the pauper labor ol Europe,
as well as protection against "the product of
pauper labor in Europe. Enforoe the immi
gration laws tp the letter and American
workingmen will soon have no one to under
bid thorn In the markets of labor.
GIRLS OF THE PERIOD
Don't Mind the Sain When There Is -a
Chance, for Tennis The rittsbnrg Ten
nis Club Grounds' Gay With Finely
Dressed Women at the Opening:
The ladies had no opportunity yesterday
afternoon to show off their smart gowns at
tbe tennis tournament on the Pittsburg
Tennis Club gronnds. Bain caused a dwin
dling down of the 200 interested women of
the day previous to some half a dozen vent
uresome young girls, who, seeking the first
shelter, watched tbe games as enthusias
tically as if it wete as sunny as it was act
ually gloomy. It was really inspiriting on
tho first day to see all the pretty girls, with
their fresh faces and fresh dresses, discuss
ing the points with a scientific fervor that
argued well for their muscles. It is rather
curious that games in which men only wero
playing shonld draw a gathering of which
two-fifths was women, except it probably
proves, what is being suspected, that tbe
women are the athletic sex or to-day.
The committee of which Miss Mary Mc
Candless is Chairman will meet at 3 o'clock
this afternoon in tho Wylie A. M. E. Church
for the purpose of arranging with a com
mittee of that church regarding representa
tion at the Columbian Exposition.
Calvary Church will hold a picnic
to-dav, the arrangement being as in past
years for tho hosts to be tho several classes
In their order. This picnic is the first or the
series.
Some Pittsburgers will he interested in
a wedding for which Invitations are now
issued, that of Miss Florinda M. Knox and
Alfred 8. Moore, of Beaver. Tho bride to
be is the daughter of Mrs. Rachel Knox, of
Beaver. Hor brothers are the Rev. E. J.
Knox, of Beaver M. E. Church, and Robert
Turney Knox, of tho Press editorial staff.
The ceremony will take place this month,
at whioh a great many Pittsburgers expect
to be present.
Miss Emma Loorais, of the Episcopal
Church Home, is visiting in Lexington, with
her sister, Mrs. Jesse L. France, well known
as our leading lady artist at one time in
Pittsburg.
News has reached us here at home of the
arrival at Boulogne of Mr. H. S. Stevenson,
the Plttsbnrg portrait painter, en ronte for
Northern Africa, where he is going to make
a study of Andaluslan types of beauty.
Mrs. A. Iewis Egts, of St. Louis, passed
through Pittsburg this week en routo for
New York, accompanied by her daughter,
Miss Helen Egts, and Senator and Mrs. Mc
Grath. Mrs. Egts is well-known in Pittsburg.
She possesses a fine contralto voice es
pecially suited for devotional music, and
may be heard everv Sunday morning in one
of St. Louis' leading Episcopal churches.
Either because the day of service of the
placard is over or that the Woman's nealth
Protective Association is away for the sum
mer, the notices requesting people to ab
stain rrom expectorating have nearly all
disappeared fiom tho Pittsburg Traction
cars. They had Just reached the point of
reaping the reward of their importunity,
too.
NATIONAL GUABD OF PENNSYLVANIA.
Its Efficiency and Qaickness of Action
Pointed Ont as a Lesson.
New York Times. 1
The National Guard of Pennsylvania has
had its full share of the duty imposed by
labor troubles during the last 20 years. It
numbers, according to the latest returns
published by the Adjutant General or the
Army, about 8,5.0 officers and men; and of
these probably 7,000 or more are available
for the Homestead disturbances. Large as
this force is, it was surpassed numerically,
15 years ago, in the great railroad and mining
riots, when 9.-153 men wero called out nt
times extending over a. period of four
months. But the organization then was
more unwieldy and much less effective and
perfect than that of to-day, and, indeed,
probably tho militia strength of the State
was never so efficient as now.
Some of the official reports of regular offi
cers who have inspected the Pennsylvania
troops of late years have specially dwelt on
the prepaiatlons maae for putting the Na
tional Guard rapidly into tho field, well
armed and equipped. In a State where
vast manufacturing interests are Hablo to
lead to labor disturbances of the sort now
seen, the need of having a numerous and
competent militia force to rely upon for the
preservation of nnblic order and the execu
tion of tho laws Is obvious, and other com
munities may well take to heart the lesson
taught by the present experience of Penn
sylvania. THE DEADLY ANNIE E00NEY.
A Black-and-Tan Pnp Shot Dead for Sing
ing the Popular Air.
New York, July 13. A tired Italian planted
his organ in front of the flat at 230 East
Elghty-lourth street yesterday morning and
began to grind ont anciont melodies. He
worried through the "Marseillaise" and"The
Wearing of the Green," and then the notes
or "Annie Eooney" stirred the stifling at
mosphere. A black-and-tan dog, the pet of
Janitor Slattery's household, began to sing
as tbe first sound struck bis ear. Then ho
yelped, and, bounding into the air, executed
a double flip-flop. His eyes turned green
then, Mrs. Slattery says, and he ran ont of
the house into the back yard. He tried to
Jump the eight-foot fence, but couldn't. In
desperation he ran into the street. Some
body cried "Mad dogl" The Italian grabbed
his machine and fled.
The pup ran back into the bouse. He went
upstairs and waited for the excitement to
subside. Policeman August ferreted him
out, thongb, and as the pup leaped lorward
to explain, the bluecoat laid him low with a
blow of the locust. The poor dog was then
cairled to the cellar and filled full of lead.
Why It Is Victorious.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat. 1
The Republican party does not seek to
carry elections by pandering to the riotous
element of society, but by appealing to tbe
intelligence of law-abiding and patriotic
citizens.
A Phenomenon Explained.
Cleveland Leader.!
Protection stimulates invention. That
accounts for the many absurd reasons dis
covered by Democratic editors for opposing
the tariff.
FAREWELLS TO FIELD.
His deeds will live after him. Tho pity of
it all is that his mental light was snuffed out
before the physical flamo had burned away.
llarrisourg Patriot.
Let us call Field the embodiment of pro
giess, and we do not belittle him. The word
which is used does not matter much. The
fact of his lite and of his achievement is tho
important thing to consider. Brooklyn Eagle.
John Bright pronounced Field the Colum
bus ot modern times, who, by his cable, had
moored the New World along side of tho
Old. What greater fame hath man achieved
except where man has died for mant
Columbus Dispatch.
Tub sufferings and death or Cyrus W. Field
touch a chord wherever the great Atlantic
cable has flashed the news. His name is
linked forever with the achievement by
which the continents have been brought to
gether. Washington Star.
Yet, now that he is gone, the memory of
the good ho accomplished in developing and
furthering civilization will always remain
among men. He will ever be known as tho
projector and promoter of the Atlantic tele
graph cable. Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Ctbtjs W. Fieed is one or tho names that
the world will not let die. By one brilliant
achievement, born or genius and courage, he
lius not only shed lustre on the land that
gavo him birth and benefited all mankind,
but rendered his own name Immortal. Sew
York Commercial Advertiser.
Although a man or great wealth, who
figured in many gigantic projects. Mr. Field
will be remembered mainly for his work on
the Atlantic cable. Tbe success of that un
dertaking gave him a place in history no
less illustrious than those which the other
members of his distinguished family will
occupy. Philadelphia Bulletin.
He has rounded out one life's simple gran
dour in a manner ever dramatic and ever re
taining a strong hold upon tho fitting and
tbe-faithful, which kept him and his ideas
above the merely theatrical and in touch
with the world's most dramatic sublimity.
He thoroughly earned his earthly fame.
Peace to his ashes and honor to bis memory!
Chicago Mail.
CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS.
The King of Greece speaks 13 lan
guages. The Gulf of Mexico has risen over one
foot since 1S5L
The leaf of the banana is usually six feet
lone by two feet wide.
Mackerel in great numbers and of large
size have struck the Maine coast.
Bovusboro, Md., has a pink cup cactna
containing 198 flowers in full bloom.
A man in Fisherville, Pa., recently
captured a coon weighing 13 pounds.
The tallest oak tree in Great Britain is
known ashe "dnke's walking stick."
The Czar's, throne is said to be worth
four times as much as Qneen Victoria's.
There are more than 2,000 square miles
of valuable timber land in Newfoundland.
Four pounds of gold were recently col
lected from the soot of the chimney of the
royal mint in Berlin.
The richest heiress in Berlin is said to
be a Franlein nildegard von Loucadon.
She is worth $2,000,000.
" While a colored resident of Lebanon,
Conn., wns sleeping on Wednesday night he
swallowed his false teeth.
Every cubic foot of air expired from
the lungs contains on an average 0.01151
milligrammes of ammonia.
It requires upward of 148,000 acres of
rich land to produce the sugar yearly con
sumed in the British Islands.
The fashion in bridesmaids bouquets
lately has been the horseshoe. wita the nails
worked ont in contrasting blossoms.
It is just 100 years since the Cornish
man, William Mnrdock, discovered that
coal gas might be used as an illuminant.
November 9th next will be the twentieth
anniversary of Boston's great fire. The fire
destroyed over $I00,0O0,OC0 worth of property.
The right side of the body perspires
more than the left, and the palm of the hand
four times more than the skin of the
chest.
The Pope can master the English, Ger
man and French languages to the utmost
perfection, besides being a fine classical
scholar.
Portsmouth, N. H., bears the proud
distinction as the place where the flrstnews
paper was established in tUiscountry. ThU
was in 1756.
A blood beet measuring 15 inches in
in length, U inches in circumference and
weighing four ponnds, is a curiosity of St.
Tammany, La. .
The auction of the Borghese art treas
ures at Rome on April 14, realized only 1,300,
000 francs, a mere traction of the real valuo
of the articles sold.
The household of Secretary Eusk, of
tho National Department of Agriculture, is
managed by his daughter. The marketing
is done by herself.
Paper quilts are becomiflg"pbpUlar in
Europe. They are cheap and' warm. Tney
are composed of sheets of perforated white
paper sewn together.
The little one-story house at Pan in
whicli Marshal Bernodotte, the first King of
Sweden, was born, Is still standing and was
recently offered for sale.
The little Island of Jamaica sells an
nually to the United States bananas exceed
ing in value th entire apple, peach and
cherry crop of this country.
Girls from 10 to 13 years of age fetch ia
Morocco about $50 to $150 each, and the slave
merchants find the females more profitable
from 10 to 20 years of age.
A greyhound mother at Nevada, Mo.,
having had two pups carried off, hunted
them up, carried them home, dug a hole
under the house and hid them.
During a recent storm at Hopkinton, 2T.
n., an elm tree, under whlh Lafayetto ana
hii party stood at a reception given them In
1S35, was struck by lightningand demolished.
A farmer near Martinsburg, Mo.,
plowed up a perch in his field some time
ago, and whon he placed it in a tub of water
it revived and swam about as lively as an7
fish.
A short time ago the Moorish Kaids
gave the Sultan of Morocco and his son a
present of 209 male and female slaves to cele
brate tho event of the marriage of the beir
to the Moorish throne.
The Empress of Austria lately rordered
that 50.C00 rose trees should be planted '
around the statue of Heine, to bo erected on
her property at Corfu, on a rock over 2,000
feet above tho level of the sea.
Business women of Buffalo have formed
a club. They begin with a membership of
75. Among other provisions is one that a
clas shall be opened in any subject of edu
cation on reqnest of ten members.
Seals, when basking, place one of their
number on guard to give the alarm in case
of danger. The signal is a quick clap of tho
flippers on a rock. Rabbits signal with their
rorepaws, and have regular signals and
calls.
They are fond of old things down in
Delaware. A Sussex county farmerpreservos
with pious care and exhibits with pride an
ear of corn grown upon hi father's farm in
1835, and another produced from the ances
tral acres in 1735.
There is only one factory in Russia for
the manufacture of playing cards. It has a
monopoly of the business and belongs to the
Foundling Hospital. It is figured thatthere
are 30.000,000 people in Russia who play
cards, and to snpply the demand this fac
tory puts out 6,000,000 packs of cards an
nually. The newest great city of Europe is
Budapest, tho capital and metropolis of
Hungary. In Kossuth's day, less than half a
century ago, the combined population ot
Budn and Pesth, lying on opposite sides of
the Danube, was about 100,000. Tho consoli
dated municipality now has a population of
fully 500,000.
A tradesman on Flatbush avenue,
Brookly, has a big sign stretched across the
front of hi3 store bearing in large black let
ters tho legend, "Dealer in Green Goods."
He sells vegotable3 and general garden
truck, bnt if tho sicn doesn't bring him
many rural customers, eager for unhallowed
speculation, there is no virtue In appealing
to their inclinations.
The gatling gnn is now worked by an
electric moter in the American navy. The
motor is attached to the breech of tho gun.
Hitherto a couple or men were required to
serve the gun, one to train the piece and
drop tho shot, the other to work the firing
crank: but now one man is sufficient. By
touching a switch he can train and operate
the gun tit will, so as to fire either a single
shot, or at the rate of 1,200 a minute.
JOLLYLsaiS FKOM JUDGEL
Mrs. Snooper Don't you think there is a
great deal of noise on Wagner's sleeping cars?
Jlrs. Snmwav les. 1 ao. xncj are aimoai.
noisy as his music.
"'Itastus kissed me on bofe lips larst
night, "said Dinah.
' Gwuffnm hyan I Not bofe at once, chile. "
They say that abroad he has gone,
I smile: the trick Is old. sure!
The truth is he has Just withdrawn
A wlii'e to take the gold cure.
Ba;ley I say. Downey, did it ever strifes
you that pretty Miss' Yerkes was way off in her
grammar?
Downey-No: I have never noticed It.
BajtleT-WelL I have. Confidentially, I askti
her to marry ine the other night arid she said.
Mr. Downey, I'm not going to marry nobodr-"
"To quarrel with your husband
So often can't be pleasant."
"But. yes." she smiled,
For, reconciled,
ne always brings a present."
Clubberly Do you think your reception
is going to be as much of s success as illssTia
Winkle's?
Miss Plnkerly Oh dear, yes I Why, she had only
five detectives at hers, and there are six here.
I love a girl of Juno sort.
lint ill-luck did my suit befall.
Better to hare loved a girl that's short
And ntrer to have loved a tall.
,rWhat a delight Harold's verses are,
Penelope"' '
To the ear, Helen, yes: but not to the eye."
And why not?"
"To the ear spot and yacht are good rhymes, raj
dear; but to the eye ah, met what frightful dis
cord they present."
Snively Do you believe that virtue if its
own reward?
Snodgrass I think it ranst be. The areraga
salary of clergymen In the United States is HXf par
annum.
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