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FITTsBUKG. SUN'DAT. JULY 17. ISM.
a local roruLARrrr.
The reduction in Mr. Gladstone's ma
jority in the Midlothian constituency, is
nude much of by the Tories as indicating
a popular rebuke to Home Rule. Mr.
Gladstone finds an explanation more satis
factory to himself iathe opposition of the
Scotch Church. Butthereisroomfordoubt
whether the actual and active cause which
cut down the Liberal leader's vote is not
the familiar one in all representative coun
tries, of local popularity against national
reputation.
It is an old experience that a man who
cultivates the local f eelinjj can often over
set the man who neglects that parochial
sentiment for the settlement of national
questions. It has been done time and
again in this country, and not infrequently
in England. In Mr. Gladstone's case
it only had the effect of a reduced
majority. The biographical sketches
of the opposition candidate indicate
that this was tire sentiment operating in
the Midlothian vote. Col Wamhope, it
is said, "could probably have been beaten
by no one but Mr. Gladstone himself."
lie was a large landholder, Iclosely con
nected with the local interests, popular,
with a good military record, and "he has
assiduously devoted several ynars to nurs
ing the Midlothian constitu "
This tells, the whole i places
ne decreased vote- ouUt, ufluences
-r 'qtjon")T)j!icy. It isvtue local feeling
. the national one and the main
wonder is that the national spirit came
out so well as it did, with 690 majority.
THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S PLIGHT.
The case of District Attorney Burleigh
in the matter of compensation for his
services, as disclosed to the Court yester
day, is one of undeserved hard lines. The
District Attorney was not among the
officers who reached out last fall for the
large salaries which they thought came to
them when the county exceeded 500,000
population. The enactment they took to
favor them did not cover the District
Attorney's office. Controller Grier made
a stout and successful resistance to the
iffort of these county officials to
get the larger salaries; and the opinion
of the Supreme Court made their last
state worse than the first by holding that,
under the law, they were entitled to even
less than they had been getting. It so
happens that, while the District Attorney
would not have been benefited had they
won, he is most damaged by their failure,
being thrown back to compensation fixed
by the act of 72, which provides practi
cally that in no case shall he have more
than 54,000 per annum, and that he get
nothing at all unless .there is a surplus
after the receipts of the office have paid
all expenses of clerk hire and the salary
of the Assistant District Attorney and his
help.
Controller Grier is perfectly right in his
contention that the Controller can only
recognize the law as it may be construed
by the Court At the same time the fact
remains that if adequate compensation is
not made for the District Attorney, that
official and it may be said justly of Mr.
Burleigh that he is one of the ablest and
most successful Allegheny county has
ever had must either relinquish the place
for more profitable private practice, or
else continue working brilliantly for the
public and board and clothe himself.
Mr. Burleigh no doubt is not insensible to
glory. But glory does not pass current for
beefsteak, nor should it be his sole com
pensation. Whether the courts can find
a way out of the dilemma is not soure. It
is clear, however, that Mr. Burleigh has
excellent grounds for asking an under
standing as to the quid pro quo which does
not seem to be forthcoming for services.
BEARING THEIR BURDEN.
A very readable article by W. A. Crof
fut elsewhere gives some interesting
views of noted millionaires on the misfort
unes of the extremely wealthy. In the
thoughts urged there is a good deal of
tound sense and originality. Mr. Depew
points cut that the man who has a million
can get all the personal enjoyment out of
his fortune that one with a hundred mill
ions can. The late Mr. Cyrus W. Field
credits the desire to accumulate vast fort
unes beyond the limit where wealth
brings additional pleasures to the same
feelings as Grant's -pleasure in his vic
tories, that of pre-eminence. Russell Sage
disclaims pleasure in swelling his hoards,
but he has to keep at lthecause that is his
trade. Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson bewails
the inability of great wealth to do good by
giving it to others; while a capitalist dis
cieetly suppressing his personality claims
that the greatest philanthropists are not
those who give money away out tnose wno
put vast industries in operation and budd
bttraiusiufB iuu. idmuauA
Underlying all this is the sentiment that I
the extremely rich are laboring under a
burden which makes them the objects of
special sympathy and toleration. To this
there Is a very evident answer. They can
very easily rid themselves of the woes of
wealth if they desire. Such an answer
does not of course apply to the complaint
of a philanthropist like Mrs. Thompson
that her benefaction are apt to do harm
than good. But with regard to the others,
who profess to regard wealth as a burden
merely from a selfish point of view, it Is
pertinent to remark that they can shift the
burdens to other shoulders if they desire.
So far from manifesting any especial de
sire of that sort, most of them are earnestly
engaged in taking that burden away from
others by means of stock market manipu
lations and the other prevailing ways of
getting hold of other people's money.
It is safe to say that when men of wealth
really and truly regard wealth as a burden,
they will cease to pursue It by fair means
and foul
FOOLISH REPORTS.
Among the silly reports growing out of
the Homestead trouble we are not sur
prised to find some indicating that other
cities would like to make capital at the
expense of Pittsburg. The Chicago paper
which said that the Camegie Company
contemplated moving the various plants
of the concern to Chicago tnought, per
haps, the statement good enough, hit or
miss, to advertise the Windy City a bit,
now that the World's Fair prospectuses
are becoming slightly monotonous. When
a Philadelphia paper, later on, came out
with a declaration that it was to Philadel
phia the Carnegie Company thought of
moving, nobody, of course, took that to be
a deliberate misstatement. The same
perception of the usual order of things in
the two cities compels us to believe that
whereas Chicago was doubtless trying to
advertise itself, dear old Philadelphia was
merely talking tn its sleep.
These Homestead occurrences the
whole affair of lock-out and strike and
bloodshed and ill feeling have been
deeply regretted by every good and sen
sible citizen of Pittsburg for Pittsburg is
the nerve center of the great industrial
rpgion of which Homestead is part; and
the interests of all these surrounding
towns are our interests. But the regret
does not come from fear that the Carnegie
or any other company will move its plant
out of Western Pennsylvania. To say
nothing of the absurdity of moving plants
worth millions of dollars hundreds of
miles through the country, there is no
place within its confines to equal their
present location. It is not by accident
that Western Pennsylvania presents the
scene of industry it does. This is the
place where all the great industrial plants
have made the money which built them,
and all their other assets as welL And, to
do justice to the Carnegie firm upon this
head, it is only fair to say that of all our
manufacturing concerns none has more no
tably pursued the policy of investing
and reinvesting, extending old works
and building new ones in Allegheny and
adjacent counties upon an enormous scale.
Here the immense concern has made its
profits. Here it has multiplied its inter
ests in such a way as should have con
vinced anyone there was not a shadow of
possibility behind the story of intended
removal.
When Pittsburg deplores the differences
which have culminatedso bitterly between
capital and labor, it is not only because of
the intrinsic loss which attaches to them,
but for the wrong impression they create
abroad. Strikes and lockouts are the
worst methods of settling differences.
It is like as if A. said to
B. ."We do not acree about this
natter; let us go down to the river and
toss our dollars into the deepest pool, and
see which of us will hold out the longer. "
This is not a rational way to settle any
matter capaDle of being adjusted by rea
son, by a mutual and honest comparison
of facts, and by the kindly and fair feel
ing which ought to exist among sensible
men. It is not pleasant to think that here
in a great industrial center, after so many
years of working together, some better plan
should not have grown up. We are not
surprised that Chicago with its mixed in
terests, the fantastic Ideas of some of its
fluctuating papulation as to the undesir
ablhty of steady government, and other
disadvantages, should have frequent and
extended strikes, and lock-outs in various
trades; but here, In Pittsburg, in indus
tries of long standing, where employers
and employed are the same people pretty
much from year to year, there is less ex
cuse. The present difficulties in Pittsburg,
however they terminate, will assuredly
not cost a single manufacturing concern
to this region. But it will be a sad thing
if they do not lead up to the-practical wis
dom that will guard better against both
lock-outs and strikes in the future.
THE ULTIMATE CAUSE.
A valuable contribution toward the in
quiry now so assiduously being carried on
in all quarters as to the first cause of
troubles similar to that at Homestead, ap
pears in this issue in an article by Mr.
Chace of the Bourne Mills, Fall River, on
profit-sharing. That writer, who advocates
this form of limited co-operation from his
own experience, basps his advocacy on the
policy of trusting labor to do good work
when it shares the prosperity resulting
from such.. He gives the most practical
argument in its favor by adducing the fact
that cotton mills which share their net
earnings with labor have by that incentive
to careful and intelligent.work paid divi
dends when other mills which refused to
tolerate the idea have paid no dividends at
all. Such results must enforce the pecuni
ary value of the new system upon manu
facturers. But the great strength of profit-sharing
in a public point of view Is the hope It
holds out of avoiding such conflicts as
those now going on in this neighborhood.
When the prosperity of an industry is ob--viously
shared between employers and em
ployed, the causes of dispute many not be
entirely removed but they will be greatly
lessened. -It is certain that such changes
as will encourage workmen to become
their own employers on a small scale give
a prospect worth thinking about of re
moving many of the causes of labor dis
turbance. THE EUROPEAN QUARREL.
There is a decided note of opera boufe,
or more exactly of the comic style cre
ated by Gilbert, in the last subject which
has been selected to demonstrate the irre
pressible enmity between France and
Germany. Whether the old topics of
quarrel have failed, or whether there was
a continental demand for a little variety
in the international gnashing of teeth, the
chronic Franco-German war appears to be
on the eve of a new outbreak over the
supposedly pacific matter of Industrial
Expositions.
It Is rather difficult at this distance
and it may well be at closer quarters
to tell exactly where the enmity started.
It seems that Germany pre-empted the
I right to bold a Universal Exposition in
Berlin in 1896, and France thereupon rose
up with the proposition to inaugurate the
century by the ehef-dauvra of all Exposi
tions in 1900. But this put the German
back up. Why the German choler should
be roused by a proposition to hojd a
French exposition four years later Is hard
to tell If the French had meanly slipped
in an exposition In 1895, the year before
the Berlin show, there might be cause for
wrath in Berlin.
But while the., cause is somewhat ob
scure, there is no doubt as to tbe fact
The German spirit was roused to a retort,
which was considered crushing. A Ger
man paper asserted that the Berlin expo
sition of 1896 will show the world that the
nineteenth century is ''the German cen
tury." This assertion, which calmly
wipes out the French achievements In the
exposition line, and hints indirectly at
German conquest, raises French wrath to
that point where, as Sergeant Maccombich
says of Fergus Maclvor, "blood generally
has to be let for these attacks." So, be
tween German umbrage and French irrita
tion, the question of exhibiting the tri
umphs of peace, becomes about as strik
ing a spectacle of quarrel as the world
need wish for.
Let us sincerely hope that If France and
Germany must fight, they will find some
thing more reasonable to fight over than
industrial expositions.
LABOR CONTRASTS.
A comparison of the condition of En
glish labor with American from the En
glish point of view Is made in the special
article by Henry Tuckley published else
where. The comparison is principally by
contrasts, and the contrasts lean rather
heavily to the advantage of the United
States.
First, it is pointed out that American
workingmen are less closely organized
and less unyielding in upholding their or
ganizations than the English. The reason
for this is the sufficient one that there is
less need for it here than there. It is also
pointed out that while politicians in all
countries profess friendship for labor, En
glish legislation has gone much further
with strictly labor measures than has ever
been seriously contemplated in this coun
try. This is explained by the same reason
as the other contrast. The American
workingman who can lay aside a provision
for old age, and frequently owns bis house,
is an almost unknown factor in England.
On the contrary, English legislation Is im
pelled by the repressing fact that of the
workingmen who reach the age of 60
nearly one-half are charges on public
charity.
The superior condition of American la
bor as compared with English does not at
all militate with the right of our workmen
to use all lawful means to maintain and in
crease their wages. Due weight, however,
should be given to the fact as gratifying
to American sentiment and as arguing
that the English economic system is not
necessarily one that this country is bound
to adopt
Such a contrast as that from an un
prejudiced source is worth many columns
of abstractions and generalities on the
beauties of free trade.
IN SEDUCTIVE FORM.
We have received a copy of the Pitts
burg Journal, devoted to tbe promulga
tion of the single tax idea, with a blue
pencil mark around an article copied from
the Standard and written by Henry
George, referring to Hyattsville, Md., as
"an outright single tax town." This we
suppose to be in answerto the recent com
ments of The Dispatch on the allega
tion that the single tax experiment was
being tried there.
Yet if Mr. George accepts the Hyatts
ville tax as his'long-advocate single tax, it
is the most wonderful case of transition
from the sublime of the appropriation of
land values by taxation to the ridiculous
of a very light rate of taxation. The
great and radical claim of Mr. George in
times past has been that property in land,
apart from improvements, should be
taken for the public by taxine it the
entire rental value. The local journal of
that cult contains a large number of
quotations, ranging from authorities like
the Book of Leviticus to Black Hawk and
the Brahmins, expressing the idea that
land should not be individual property.
Yet wo are presented, as a practical
realization of that idea, with the Hyatts
ville levy of one-fourth of one per cent on
the assessed value, or presumably about
one-twenty-fourth of the rental. More
over, while the Henry George propaganda
have heretofore proclaimed that the
system would wipe out the speculative
value of land, the supporter of the Hyatts
ville policy announces that its first result
will be to increase land values.
Every real estate owner In Allegheny
county would be glad to have his land
property taken from him in that way.
But the people who do not own land and
would have to make up the shortage in
revenue might offer very cogent objec
tions. Chairman Caster was born in Ohio,
and again the Buckeye State looms forth as
the producer of prominent politicians and
statesmen.
Sunday is a great day for criticism.
Those who don't go to church can criticise
what they are pleased to call the inconsist
ency or those who do. People who attend
places of worship can criticise the sermon,
the singing;, or the costumes or their fel
lows. And if these be not enough, there is
the all-absoiblng occupation of critical self
analysis to fall back on.
What a tunny sight Stevenson makes
traveling a thousand miles or sOjusttobe
told something he knows well enough
already. '
DID she but know how to appreciate her
blessings, the mature spinster would bo
duly thankful, during the sea bathing season
at least, that she is cappy and hairless while
her less fortunate ttiouglr more juvenilo
sister can hardly be happy and careless
while she has her hair to manage daring
and after every immersion.
Pittsburg would be bathed in reflected
glory by Christopher Magee's appointment
to the Secretaryship of the National Com
mittee. As the Pittsburg ball team won the first
three games it played and finished in the
sixth place at the end of the first division
of the League season. It Is quite a hopeful
sign that the second division was begun
with a tie for tile first and a defeat for the
second game.
Some of Bigelow'g options are likely to
prove a site too much for the city's purse,
when it comes to an actual appropriation.
It is said that one of the agitators who
brought about the explosion of the 'Frisco
mill is an Anarchist who speaks five lan
guages. He need only know five words in
each tongue to explain that "Anarchy
moans Indolent brute force." .
Since all's swell that ends swell tbe
party of fashion should pay special atten
tion to the pnrchaso of shoes and hats.
Ad the result of an accident in Texas it
mtht bo well for workmen to ascertain
whether there is a certainty that a side
tracked train will bo unmoved during their
sleep before proceeding to make their beds
beneath Its cars.
Our inland seas can now compete on an
equal basis with the oceans, as a sea serpent
has bean observed on Lake Erie.
It is now generally believed that the
heavy electrical storm on Friday night was
due to tbe unluckr nature of the day, and
tbe fact that a well attended concert was In
progress in Highland Park.
The Hotlse Is still suffering from inter
mittent no quorum, and the disease threatens
to become chronic.
The captain of a steamer on Lake Erie
reports' a sea serpent fifty feet long and fonr
feet in circumference, with a terrible look
ing head. It would be interesting to know
what brand tho boat carries.
Ix is not considered necessary to give
Hill any official notification of Cleveland's
nomination.
The conversational bore Is like Sara&on
in tnat he kill thousands with the Jaw bone
of an ass. But the Philistinism is generally
on blsldo and not on that of his victims.
New York banks are by no means the
only corporations loath to part with their
gold.
Land Commissioner Thos. H.Carter,
of Montana, will have a land office busi
ness to conduct as Chairman of the Republi
can National committee.
As this is Sandav a few showers need call
for no expression of surprise.
It is a long distance from Atlantic City
to Spain. Bat an attempt to make the pas
sago in a fourteen-foot boat Is little short of
indirect suicide.
MUNDANE METEORS.
Signor Bomero, Finance Minister
of
Mexico, is seriously ill.
General James W. Husted is in a
critical condition. He is prostrated by
heart failure, aggravated by the hot weather
last week.
Postmaster General Wanamakkr
arrived at Atlantic City yesterday and re
mains at his Cape May Point cottage until
to-moirow.
Miss Maud Morgan is canceling some,
if not all, of her concert engagements for
the next few weeks, on account of her
father's death.
William J. White, Congressional
candidate in one of the Cleveland, O., dis
tricts, has about $800,000, made in the manu
facture of chen ing gum.
The Emperor of Germany is on a whaling
cruise in tne North Sea. Ho is in excellent
nealtht and Willi eturn to Beilin in August
at the time of tbe accouhemont of the
Empress.
Mr. William Walter PnELPS yester
day gave a dinner in honor of ex-Senator
Ingalls, at Berlin. Many Americans were
present. The ex-Senator will start for
Vienna to-day.
W. Clark Noble, the sculptor, has
completed a statno of William Ellery Chan
nlng for the city or Newport, and is now
ready for casting. Tho flgure it is nine feet
high, and will stand upon a ten-foot pedes
tal. Lady Simpson, who was presented at
the Queen's May Drawing Eoom and whose
presentation was canceled by the Bt. Hon.
Earl of Latham, the Lord Chamberlain, has
been reported to he an American. She as
well as Mrs. Stratt, however, who presented
her, are both English. '
Bishop Phillips Brooks devotes hardly
more time to the composition of his sermons
than did the late Henry AVard Beecher.
Mr. Beecher used sometimes to delay that
essential proceeding till Sunday morning
after breakfast, and on occasions when in
tbe pulpit he would discard the material
thus prepared for a new idea that had
struck him.
POLLY WENT ON A LABS.
A Philadelphia Parrot Takes a Vacation
but Is Stopped by a Crow.
Philadelphia, July 16. Polly Mitchell, of
370 South Fourth street, returned home the
other day after an unexpected absence of
three days, and the Nineteenth district
police were busy until late in the evening
transmitting congratulations to their supe
rior officer for tho recovery or bis much
prized parrot.
Nothing was heard from her until Sunday,
when she was discovered by sevoral small
boys perched on the limb of a tieein St.
Peter's graveyard, Fourth and Pino streets,
shouting at the top of hor voice, "Polly
Mitchell!" "Polly Mitchell!" Lieutenant
Mitchell heard of tbe location of the missing
bird and repaired to the spot. After carry
ing into effect every scheme his mind could
devise calculated to dislodge the bird, and
listening with characteristic patience to a
thousand or more suggestions from the
neighbois and their numerous progeny, tho
owner of the obstinato Polly gave up the at
tempt. The bird retained her position through
out the night, and early in the inoi ning the
Juveniles before referred to held a council
of war and renewed the attack. A continu
ous bombardment was kept up during the
morning, duiing which nil the loose cobble
stones within several squares and an air gun
wcro called into requisition. It was pro
posed to summon Battery A to the spot and
try the effeot of Gatllng guns, but its ab
sence at Gretna nipped this proposal in the
hud, and the bird would in all piobabillty
still be in tho tree but for the opportune ar
rival of a crow.
The crow scented Polly and swooped
down on hor with hostile intent. Polly met
the crow half way and there was a thrilling
midair battle, during which several of
Polly beautiful feathers fluttered to the
giound. After retreating to Filth street,
Polly's attempted to i etum to tho foliage of
the graveyaid, but the ciow blocked the
way, and after a short trip to the noithwaid
Polly dropped into Union street, tuckered
out. A fireman from tho Union streot truck
house rescued the blid and received a vicious
bite on his ii-'ht thumb. Polly was then
turned over to her owner.
THE SHERMAN ARII-TKDSX LAW
To Be Tested by the Electric Light People
in n Boston Municipal Cns?.
Boston, July 16. ISpecial -Still another
attempt is to be made to test the validity of
the Sherman anti-trust law, and this time
the defendants are the General Electric
Company, of New York; the Edison General
Company, of New York; the Thomson-Houston
Company, of Boston; Sidney B. Paine,
A. R. Bush and C. A. Coffin, of Lynn, and
Eugene Griffith, of Boston, tne latter officers
and agents of the defendant companies.
Tho bills aro brought under the anti-trust
statute and, alleging that the defendants
are endeavoring to cieate a monopoly and
drivo the plaintiff out of business, ask for an
injunction.
It is alleged that the plaintiffs have, in re
sponse to an advertisement by the State
House Annex Commissioners, made pro
posals to furnish clcctrio light lor the
annex, nnd that, although they are the low
est bidders, they nio in danger of losing the
contract because tho defendant, the General
Electric Company, whioh is a consolidation
of the two other companies named, has
fraudulently represented to the commis
sioners that the plaintiff is infringing pat
ents of the defendants and that it cannot
fulfill its contracts. Tne court is naked to
restrain the defendants from interfering In
any way with the plaintiff or its business.
Judge Colt refused to grant a restraining
order, nnd set tho caso down for a hearing
July 25.
Too Good a Business Man,
Philadelphia Press.
Bearing in mind that William a Whitney
is a man of fine business ability, it doesn't
seem strange that he snould refuse the chair
manship of the National Democratic Com
mittee. No business man of any judgment
wonld care to invest his time and money in
an enterprise so risky and Insecure.
Dodging the Real Issue.
Baltimore American.
The "force bill" issue, which the Demo
crats are endeavoring to shove to tho front
to the exclusion of the tariff and free silver,
is altogether too transparent. It is simply
an expedient for a bad situation, and it will
not woik.
A LOOK AROUND,
What a Jot of money is turned into
ashes in this city Cigar ashes, I mean. And
yot it is called tho City of Tobies, and that
particular form of an early demise is snp
posed to supplant other and higher priced
tobacoos. Cigarettes sen enormously, tbe
gross sales running up into tho millions, but
x muse coniess I was lather sumriseu wnen
I was told yesterday by two leading dealers
that their combined sales of clgarsaraounted
to 1,600,000 annually. That runs into money,
too, for the average is not too high at $100 a
thousand or $790,000 for two concerns alone.
It is true, however, that they do the bulk of
the importing and handle nearly all the
trade in fine Havana or Key West goods.
Of the 5,000,000 of cigars which wo sell,"
remarked ono of the men referred to, "at
least 3.600,000 are imported. Some of thorn
run up as high as $800 for 1,000. It is wonder
ful how the trade in finer grades of cigars
has grown in Pittsburg in tbe last half
dozen years. The 2 for 5 and 5 cent business
is not what it wits to legitimato dealers, bnt
to druggists and small dealers, who buy di
rectly from the manufacturer, it is still
enormous."
There is something singularly fitting in
the drifting of trade in 2 for 5 cigars to the
drugstores. You can got tbe cause and tho
remedy from the same dealer out of the
same bill.
There is agood deal of talk about the diffi
culties In the way of good asphalt pave
ment, but Washington does not seem to find
It difficult to get a first rate quality, which
wears evenly nnd stays put. In hot weather
it cuts up, to be sure, and foot prints are
as clearly marked as on the sea beach at low
tide, but it seems to sink to a level again
and does not lun off into a sewer or disap
pear entirely as some pavements do. Boss
Sheppard, who started all this sort or thing
in Washington, is at the bead of tbe asphalt
combination which rules things In this coun
try, and ho seems to still have pride in his
old kingdom, and sees to it that good mate
rial is usoa.
I met a man yesterday who said he had
come to Pittsburg because he heard it had a
good climate. I recommended him to Sam
son around on Sixth avenue.
And so Colonel Kyarter, of Montana, is
to boss the National Republicans for a
while. This is the flist direct appearance
of the reinstatement of the influence of Rus
sell Harrison in this campaign. Tbe new
Chairman is not exactly a giant, but he will
work hard, nnd if he has help will show up
well. His weakness will be his lack of
knowledge of men, methods and manners
in the country at large. He will have to
lean on Clarkson for details and introduc
tions to the leaders.
The new single reduction cars on the
Birmingham road are the best things of that
sort the Westlnghouse Company has ever
turned out. Tbey rido smoothly and run
almost noiselessly, so much so, indeed, that
if the motormen do not give ample warning
there will be many accidents. It is evident
that these small, light cars will entirely
drivo the heavy ones out of use on this road,
as they have on the Duquesne.
Iirthe way of little public nuisances,
such as I have been calling attention to
recently, I want to ask why it is that the
East End cannot have at least the somblance
of a messenger service from the Central Dis
trict Company. As it is, there is next to
no chance ot getting an uniformed mes&en
rer boy at the East Liberty office of the
Western Union. In many cases in order to
get a boy to co a mile away on an errand
yon have to telenhonc in to the city office
nnd add abont five miles to tho distance
traveled by the boy. It may be said that
there are not many calls for boys in the East
End. This can be met with the answer that
it might have been true in the old days, bat
it would be different if people knew they
ooula depend on getting a boy when tbey
sent for one.
James P. Burke, Secretary pro tern, "Be
publican National Committee I i
Waltzb.
A HEW TELEPHONE LINE.
It Is to Be Cheaper and to Connect Phila
delphia Willi Chicago.
Philadelphia, July 18. A New York tele
phone syndicate, which has offered to fur
nish a service in this city at less rates than
those of the Bell Telephone Company, in.
consequence of the leccnt effort of the
Trades League for lower rates, has informed
Thomas Martin dale, Chairman of the Trades
League Telephone Committee, that it is
leady to connect Philadelphia with Chicago
by a long distance te e phone.
"A test will bo made this afternoon. The
syndicate will pay all expenses of clearing
the wire and placing the instrument in this
city, while theTrades League will defray tho
expense of sending two men to Chicago to
do the same. The Leagrc will alo consider
the offer of the syndicate to build a tele
phone system in this city, provided it can
teem e a chaiter, and to inrnisli 'phones at
$00 a year, or one-half the present rate of
the Bell Telephono Company. The New
York capitalists claim that they have cer
tain patents which give it the right to oper
ate tho telephone system without infringing
upon the patents of tbe Bell telephone.
HE GAVE UP THE C1GAH&
A Quaker City Man Attempted to Smuggle
n Box Ashore.
Philadelphia, July 16 Customs Inspector
Pepper yesterday seized a box of cigars
which a visitor to the steamship Switzer
land endoavorcd to smuggle ashore beneath
his coat.
As the man passed him Inspector Popper
noticed an unnatural protubeianco under
his left arm and that, notwithstanding the
excessive heat, he had his coat buttoned.
Tho Inspector stopped him and compelled
him to open his coat, discloing then ickage.
Despite his entreaties to be allowed to keep
it, the box was taken from him and sent to
tho seizui e l oom in the United States Public
Stores, where, after it has remained a year,
it will be sold.
A NEW VOICE FOB SUNDAY CLOSING.
World's Fair Resolntlons Passed by tbe
Baptist Tonne; People at Detroit.
Detroit, July 16 This morning's session
of the Baptist Young Poople's Union Con
vention opened with an open parliament on
' Local Methods," conducted by Rev. 8. A.
Nortlinp, or Ft. Wayne, Ind.. and partici
pated in bv many present. Tho following
was passed:
"Resolved, That tho Baptist Young Peo
ple's Union of America, in convention as
sembled, most earnestly calls the attention
of Christian people of America to the im
poitanceof Smiciay closing of the World's
Columbian Exposition, and requests tbe
IIoiiso of Representatives to pass the Senate
bill containing the provisions for dosing the
Fair on Sunday and prohibiting the sale of
Intoxicating liquors on the ground."
An Invisible Aurora Borealls.
Cincinnati, July 16. Electricians in the
Western Union Telegraph office here report
an unusually heavy electrical storm passing
over the country from east to west. It was
observed first about 10 A. v., on the New
York wires, later on tbe wires to Atlanta
and then at St. Louis. If It were night the
storm would be visible In an unusually
bright aurora borealls.
OUTBOUND.
July Century. J
A lonely sail In the vast sea-room,
I have put out for tbe port of gloom.
The voyage Is far on the trackless tide.
The watch Is long, and tbe seas are w lde.
The headlands bine In the sinking day
Kiss me a hand on the outward way.
The fading gnlls, as tbey dip and veer.
Lift me a voice that Is good to hear.
The great winds corns, and the heaving sea.
The restless mother, is calling me.
The cry of her heart Is lone and wild,
btarthing the night for her wandered child.
Beautiful, weariless mother of mine. r
In tbe drifl of doom I am here, I am thine.
Beyond the fathom of hope or fear.
From bourn to bourn of tho dusk 1 steer.
Swept on the wake of tbe stars. In the stream '
Of a roving tide from dream to dream.
i Bliss Carmen.
,A CASE FOB TBS C0TOT&
Legal Methods Which Shonld Havo'Entirely
Averted the Trouble at IlomesteaJ.
Philadelphia Pnblio Ledger.
Under the provisions of tho act of June 16,
1836, power is conferred upon the Courts of
Common Pleas for "tho prevention or re
straint of the commission or continuance of
aots contrary to law and prejudicial to the
interests of tho community or the richts of
"individuals." Under this act the remedy is
plain, simple and direct. The Homestead
workmen, contrary to law, were preventing
the owners from access to their property
with such new men as they might wish to
introduce. This was prejudicial to tho in
terests of the community and also to tho
rights of the owners as Individuals. If tbe
owners had filed a bill in the Allegheny
County Common Pleas alleging the nnlawf ul
acts, and showing that they were preju
diOIal to their rights as Individuals, and
making the leaders of the workmen par
ties defendants, the Court must havo
entertained the lurisdtctton, and.
Upon the facts helnc- pstnhHh.l r.int Ii&vm
granted the injunction restraining tbede
londants and their confederates from their
unlawful acts. Tills could have been done
proroptlr. A preliminary injunction conld
have been granted neon presentation of the
bill, a day appointed, 21 or48 hours after
ward, for hearing amotion todlsBOlve, and.
If the injunction had been contlnuod, the
Court could have issued tho nocessary proc
ess to compel obedience to Its orders. If
the dotendants and their confederates per
sisted in their unlawful acts, the Court could
have attached and imprisoned them for con
tempt, and, if need De, could have com
manded tho whole force or the county to en
foice obedlenre to its mandates. And
further, if required, the Governor could
have been calleu upon to aid with the whole
armed force or the State.
With such a movement as this, the angry
ana threatening mob surrounding the mill
would have been disintegrated and broken
up. There is a Dower In the majesty of the
law, when enforced thiough the processes of
the court with intelligence, dignity and firm
ness, that strikes awe into wrong-doers.
These men would soon have realized bow
powerless they weie. They would have
given up the unequal contest and abandoned
the lawless struggle. Had some suoh course
as this been promptly taken, tho terrible
scenes of the 6th instant would have been
averted, and the mill owners would now
have been well on their way in the vindi
cation and successful establishment of their
rights and control of their property.
Precipitate and hysterical action seldom
achievoi success, and often creates and in
tensifies difficulties which conld have been
avoided if the proceedings had been orderly
and taken alter due thought and delibera
tion. We have faith in the law-abiding character
pf all classes of American citizens. The
leaders ot the Homestead operatives nre
men of intelligence, and many of them men
of property. They could not have afforded
to stand out in defiance of the orders or the
Court or in open resistance of its authority.
A resoluto Judge could have brought these
men Into subjection to the orders of the
Court with the employment of no more
force than Is oidlnarily required in attach
ing ordinary offenders agaiu-t Its decrees.
Aagaln, it is to be remembered that the
troops now at Homestead cannot be kept
there always, and when they withdraw
there is danger of a revival or the angry and
threatening attitude of the workingmen.
If a bill wero filed and an injunction ob
tained this wonld be continuous, and its
remedial process could be put into force at
any time, whether one or six months hence.
A BEMAEKABLE SUN-SPOT.
Results or Some Observations Taken at
Chicago Observatory.
Chicago, July 16. The active snn-spot in
high southern heliographic latitude, which
crossed the sun's central meridian July 13,
was the seat yesterday of a very remarkable
phenomenon. A photograph taken with the
spectro-hollograph or the Kenwood Ob
servatory at II o'clock July 13, showed noth
Ing remarkable in tho foculae around the
spot. A photograph taken about 11:13 (Cen
tral time) showed, however, an intensely
bright hook-shaped form extending across a
bridge in the spot. In 27 minutes later tho
brilliant mass had become very complex In
form, and. at 1:31 it hold practically disap
peared. This solnr phenomenon is a very excep
tional one, nnd possesses coiiMderabfo
scientific interest, centering chiefly in the
qnestlon what effect will be shown in the
daily records of terrestrial magnetlo dis
turoances secured at various observatories
throughout tho world.
WHITECAPPED INTO SPASMS.
A Brutal Anonymous Threat Kills n Pretty
Michigan Girl.
Jacksoh.Mich., July 16. The death or Miss
Rose Woodtufi, the adopted daughter or
Mrs. George Woodruff, of this city, has
cansed a sensation here. On Wednesday
she was taken with spasms, which resulted
in hemorrhage of the lungs nnd heart
trouble, from which she died yesterday. She
was a beautiful girl, 28 years of age. About
two weeks ago sho received a Whito Cap
letter with a skull and cross bones printed
in red ink upon It. At tho bottom was
written: "You are Whitecnpped bv 13 of
your best friends. Look ont. "We give you
but two more of these warnings."
Miss Woodruff was greatly distressed by
this letter, and became noarly frantic with
grief. It is believed that the matter preyed
upon hor mind to suoh an extent as to cause
the pasms. Officer are investigating the
case, and will attempt to punish the author,
or authors, of the letter.
MACKEY AND BENNETT SUED
For Shares of the Cabin Company By Connt
Dillon, of Luxemborg.
New Yokk, July 16 Count Arthur Dillon,
of tho duchy of Luxemborg, bos brought an
action in the Supreme Court growing out of
the Commercial Cable Company. Dillon
says he interested John W. Muckey and
James Gordon Bennett in the enterprise,
and he brings the present suit on an alleged
agreement by which tho company was to
issue 1,003 shares of preferred stock with an
assured dividend of 15 per cent. He, Mackey
and Bennett were to got among thorn 00
shares In equal proportions.
'me planum states tne capital or tne com
pany has been increased first to $u,000,000
and then to $10,000,000, and ho wants his
shares of the preferred stock, which Dillon
claims have nevorbeen issued originally,
an dhe further wants the proportionate in
creased by leason of the incieased capitaliza
tion. Two Pieces of the Same Cloth.
St, Louis GIobc-Dcinocrat.J a,
Senator Palmer's Anarchistic speech has
dono the Democratic party almost as much
harm as if it had been one of Mills' charac
teristic free-trade harangues.
DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE.
George W. Civilian, Railroad Man.
George W. Clyman, General Baggage
Agent of the Lake Shore Railroad. In New lork.
whose death occurred Thursday, was well-known
among riiisuurg raiiroau men. lie was lormeriy
Assfstant Baggage Agent at the Union station.
Ihe remains will be brought to Pittsburg this
morning, and will be burieU at the family resi
dence, r a) ette City, on tne Pittsburg, Vlr j.nia
and Charleston Hal I road. In the afternoon. The
following railroad men of this cllv will act as call-
bearers: O force Jenkins, C. Hanson, John Fix
and Herbert Ilauson.
Rev. f. A, E, Simpson,
The death of Eev. J. A. E. Simpson, a
member of the Pittsburg Presbytery of the Pres
byterian Church and well known In this city, oc
curred Friday night, from paralysis, at the ramlly
residence, near Cannonsburr. Tbe deceased was
aged foyears, and was a brother of Miss blmpson.
of the Forbes school, lie spcut most of his pastor
ate In Ohio. Ill health caused him to retire from
the ministry eight cars ago. Mr. Sla.pson leaves
a wife and a large family.
Colonel George W. Slanypsnny.
JColonel George W. JIanypenny died Friday
night at his residence near ilowle, Md., aged 81.
He was born In Unloiitown, Pa., In 1308. He re
moved to Ohio about 1S30, and during his residence
In that State was appointed Commissioner of In
dian Afialrs by Presiiknt I'lercc and served on In
dian commissions under Presidents Grant, iiares
and Garfield. He was general manager ot public
works of Ohio for 17) cars, and also editor of tbe
Ohio statesman from ISol) to lasi.
Hugh McCatohron,
Hugh McCutcbeoo, aged 86 rears, died at
8:50 o'clock yesterday morning." The faneral
services will be held at tbe residence of bis son. K.
8. McCutcJieon, on Hooker street, MUlvale
borough, to-morrow morning at 9 o'clock. The
deceased Is one or the oldest and better known
residents of Pittsburg. He came to tbls cltv In'
1838. where he engaged In business as dranian.
His son. B. S. Mcutcheon. Is tlpstove In Common
Pleas Court No. 3.
I
- llltnnry Notes. v
Mas. E. Rockwood Hoar, wife or Judge Hoar,
and mother or Congressman Sheridan Hoar, died
in Concord, Mass., Thursday, ac IK, v :
General Slit Abtitur Edward lUnDisoz. K,
C B., C. I. E., Equerry to the Queen, and Thomas
Cooper, tbe former Chartist leader, are dead In
London-
3E0RT STORIES IN SEASON.
A New Way to Found a Zoo.
'lUET have a zoo in TJniontown, and the
people get agood deal or fun out of it. It is
a select gathering of animals; in fact, I am
not sure that there are many more beside a
small monkey and a medium-sized bear.
But what the zoo lacks in numbers it makes
up in the quality of the monkey. Like
Artemus Ward's kangaroo, tbe monkoy is
an "amoozin' little cuss." It is a great pet
with the drivers and conductors of tbe
electric cars that are also a new and excit
ing feature of Uniontown life. The way
Union town came to get this zoo is some
thing out of the ordinary, and may furnish
Mr. James McKnight with an idea of how
he may Increase his little floek or animals
out inScbenley Park. A few months ago
the park, which belongs to tho electric
street car lino, contained nothing bnt trees
and a good deal of landscape in the dis
tance. A circus happened to come to town,
and as they often do, the circus men tried to
ran the city and the inhabitants thereof.
But they bad not calculated upon the ex
existence or, Mr. William McCormick, a
prominent official of the street car company,
and a brother of Sheriff McCormick. Just
when the circus men were at their most
rampant height, Mr. McCormick appeared
npon tho scene and took a hand. Now Mr.
McCormick is a small man, but ob, my! He
is a bundle of muscles and pluck, and en
tirely unassisted he sailed into the brawling
mob of circus men, and carried two of the
biggest to the Jail. So far, Mr. McCormick
played the warrior; he next put on the
peaceful garb of the diplomatist. By some
arrangement, tho details of which I don't
know, the circus men were allowed to de
part unpunished, but not scot free; they
had to deposit a bear and a monkey as
ransom. And this is how Uniontown ob
tained a promising nucleus for a zoological
garden.
A Boycott Born of a Bit of Cord.
One of the most pathetic and powerful
of Do Maupassant's stories shows what a
peck of trouble came upon a French poasant
all ou account of a little bit of string. A
story not quite so tragic was woven in real
life about a bit of window cord in this city
last week. The story in fact has more of the
elements of Scribe's comedy, "A Scrap of
Paper." On the morning or Orangeman's
day a well-known restaurant keeper on
smithfield street found that he needed a
new pulley rope on his cellar door; he there
fore went out and bought siome window cord.
He had bat ely returned to the saloon when
the Orangeman's procession Began to file by
tho door. Mine host went out naturally
enough to seo the bands and banners pass,
nnd he still had in his hand tho piece of
cord. Presently there parsed a cavalier
who bestrode a magnificent Normandy
draught-horse. Thehore was such a beauty
and was ridden so woll that the restaurant
keeper In Jlls doorway could not restrain his
enthusiasm, and ho waved hi hand con
taining the window cord at tho horseman in
token or hti admiration. The caallor re
turned the salute and the procession passed
on.
The restaurant keeper never gave the in
cident a thought again, and tho cord was
nBed upon the cellir door. That evening,
however, a pnrty of Orangemen entered tho
place, and told the landlord's son who was
tending bar In his father's absence, that
they and all Irlhmen who thought u they
did, inlander) to boycott the place because
the old man who kept It had sbuken a noose
at the paraders a thev passed, as if to say
that thev were only fit for hanging. And so
the matter stands and the restaurant keeper
with an amused, yet perplexed mind doesn't
know whether he is being boycotted or not,
but he hopes bl explanation which is un
doubtedly true will set him rL:ht with the
aggrieved Orangemen.
Ears Educated In Reading; Noises.
Is the big lumber mill at Austin, Potter
county, there is an engine of remmkable
beauty and power. It is a 330 horse-power
engine which drives tho complicated ma
chinery or the sawmill. Standing beside the
immenso flywheel of thli engine the other
night it struck me that the everlasting clat
ter and roar or wheels, bolts, and pistons
must be awfully trying to the nerves of the
engineer, who had to be nlways In that room.
I asked him if it were not so, and ho replied
at once:
"Not at all; on the contrary I feel the still
ness of the night outside more than what
seems to yon to be the confused uproar in
this room. Every sound that goes to swell
the total has its peculiar meaning to me. and
sitting here I can distinguish by tbe sound
the slightest deviation of nnv part or the
engine rrom its proper course. If, as I some
times do, I drop into a doze, not the smallest
thing could happen to that onglne, not the
most insignificant part of its complicated
mechanism could get out of gear, but the
change of sound would waken me instantly.
The ear becomes accustomed to any class or
sounds and the conglomeration of any num
ber of them does not make it more difficult
lor a man accustomed to them to distinguish
eaah one separately.
The President Wnt the Truth.
It is not generally known, but it is a fact
all tbe tame, that President Harrison has
taken the pains to post himself privately
and precisely upon tho details of the dis
pute at Homestead. The day after the
Pinkerton3 surrendered to the workmen a
warm personal and political fiiendof the
President wired to a gentleman in this city
asking for certain information abont the
wages paid, the number of men employed,
and the changes in the scale nt Homestead
which caused all tho disturbance. This In
formation, together with other -matters re
lating to the Homestead affair, some of
which were furnished by the officials of the
Carnegie Steel Company and some by the
men on the other side, undoubtedly reached
the President some time that day in hU re
treat at Loon Lake, N. Y.
It is characteristic of the President's con
scientious attention to detills in the dis
charge of whatever ho considers his duty,
that ho did not rely upon newspapers or the
ex narte statements of interested individu
als in order to comprehend the situation at
Homestead. My authority for this account
or President Harrison's methods also in
forms me that it is the President's invari
able custom in public matters as important
as the Homestead affair to prosecute an in
dependent inquiry on his own account
through the medium of trusted friends in
private liie.
Sanol Alono Was Barred.
One of the New York correspondents
wired his home office as soon as ho knew
that tho troops were coming to Homestead
the request to be allowed to hire a horse.
The managing editor's reply was this:
"Buy a horse, by all means. Sunol barred;
that would be extravagant."
HErBints Johns.
COUINli OF CHOLERA.
Its advent upon our own shores is as cer
tain as is the fact that tho sun will rise to
morrow. Toledo Oomme aal.
While there is no occasion for a panic, the
real possibilities of the case ought to be rec
ognized ' both by public authority and
private intorest, and every sanitary precau
tion taken which science suggests. Detroit
News.
While tbe cholera is raging in Paris and
Moscow and yellow fever in Brazil and
Cuba, there should be no relaxation in tbe
vigilance of those who are intrusted with
the important quarantine servloe. Phila
delphia Jfeics.
Judoikq from the experience of the past.
It is therefore highly improbable that it will
come to this country at this late stage of tbo
summer, especially as it has not yet been
known definitely to have advanced beyond
the bordeis or Russia. Philadelphia Bulletin.
The question is one for the cities to study.
To them the great crowds of emigrants
floek. To Bhut out one erajgrant might mean
the salvation of 10.000 people. Toclean up
tbo alloys and filth of tbe city means the
easier control of the epidemic, should it
gain a fast bold in the United States. Toledo
Blade.
It is probable that we will have more than
tho usual number of cases of summer disor
ders this year, but tbe opinion, expressed
generally by the medical fraternity, that we
are not likely to have an epidemic of any
such dread disease as cholera, is assuring.
Minneapolis Tribune.
It is not at all impossible that New York
should suffer a visitation or oholera this
summer. There is no uioro sense, in denying
the possibility than there is in getting
scared over it. The thing ror the town to
do and for every inhabitant to do U to"
adopt every hj glenlo and sanitary measure
calculated to resist tho disease. If It is a
good thing in time of peace to prep ire for
war.lt should bo equally sound policy in
time of health to guard against pestilence.
New York Prcu.
CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS.
Dancing is taught in many of the public
schools in Scotland.
Abont a quarter of the people in Pari
live in apartments.
There is njbaby at Heppner, Ore.,which
weighs loss than a pound.
There are said to be 1,000 so-called
haunted houses in London.
London has paupers enough to fill all
the houses in Brighton, England.
Gainesville, Fla,, has a hen which
cackled incessantly for four days.
Desertions from the army in Great
Britain cost the country about $600,000.
It cost over ?200 recently in lesal fee.
In South Carolina to settle a claim of$5.
Six thousand. men are now working
upon tbe Chicago Exposition structures.
It is estimated that about 250,000,000
bricks are used monthly in the United King
doms. A dealer in artificial limbs estimates
that 300.DOO Englishmen have lost one or
both legs.
A boy near Grand Rapids, Jlich., is
raising crickets by thousands and sells them
to anglers for bait.
Asparagus is reported so numerous in
London that it is fed to the cows and sheep
by the basketfaL
It is calculated that within 90 years at
the present rate of increase Australia will
contain about 40,000,000.
Lady Jenne estimates that there ars
1.803,406 domestic servants in England, of
whom 1,330,000 are women.
Three of the four prizes offered to grad
uates or Boston high schools for historical
essays were won by women.
The number of juvenile criminals con
victed in England In 1S91 wns less than half
tho number convicted in I37L
Arizona claims to have more newg.
papers In proportion to its population than
any other section of the Union.
The managers of the Columbian Ex
hibition are now in debt more than $2,000,000,
and the debt la increasing daily.
The mines of the world produce 23 tons
of gold every week, and yet the precious
metal remains as scarce as ever.
In the Bank of England at least 60
folio volumes or ledgers are filled dally with
writing in keeping the accounts.
Guineas were so named from the fact
that they were first coined with gold
brought from tho coast of Guinea.
There is a lighthouse to every 14 miles
of coast in England, to every 34 miles In Ire
land, and to every 39 miles in Scotland.
Few lovers of Walter Scott recall tha
fact that he wrote five plays, none of which,
however, has over been pnt on the stage.
The heart ol the poet Shelley is pre
served in the house of his son, Sir Percy
Shelley, at Boscombe Manor, Bournemouth,
England.
Harvest hands are so scarce in Barton
county, Kan., that the farmers gather at the
railway stations and go through tbe trains
seeking laborers.
' At Messina, Siena, and three other
Italian university towns the number of stu
dents is so small that tiioro is a professor to
every four pupils.
In the Pasteur Institute of 3Iilan, 233
cases of in drop hob in have been treated
within tho last two years.and only four of
tbe patients have diod.
Bees are said to have such an antipathy
to dark colored objects that black chickons
have been stung to death, while white ones
of the sama brood were untouchea.
According to the official returns, 6,345
pipes or wine were last year expirrca from
the Island of Madolra. valued at X 171,493, as
compared wltii 5,192 pipes daring 1S90.
A greyhound mother at Nevada, Ho.,
having had two pups carried off, hunted
hunted them up, carried them home, dug a
hole under the house and hid them.
The students sent abroad by the Japan
eso Government number sir each in Ger
manv and England, and one each in the
United States, Austria,Belgium and Switzer
land. '
At the World's Fair an oyster exhibit
will be made by the Miell Fish Commission
of Connecticut. An oyster bed. models o.
oyster boats, the system of dredjingetc
will be shown.
According to the rules of the Hew York
Mercantile Exchange, egg3 to pass as new
laid cannot loe under the test more than
10 eggs tn a case of 30 dozen, or 12 eggs to a
case of 36 dozen.
The organist at a Cardiff chnreh found
several of the notes soundless. An examina
tion revealed the fact that no fewer than
six birds, including u robin, bad built their
nests in the pipes.
A bill-posting machine, which sticks
bills on walls, even ns high as SO feet, with
out the use of ladder or paste pot, is doing
successful work in Paris. Theatrical people
are delighted with it.
The German Government has expended
80,000 in building a factory at Spandau for
the preserving of all kinds of provisions for
the army, and abont 550 operators are to bo
regularly employed there.
The largest pyramid in Egypt Is 149
yards high that is, about 90 times the aver
age height of man; whereas the nests of the
termite are 1,000 times tho height of the In
sects which construct them.
The workers alone in the London hos
pitals amount- to 6,030 persons, of whom
some 1.300 are honorary medical officers who
devote their time to tho treatment of dis
ease without fee of any kind.
A Presbyterian Church in Lancaster,
Fa., decided to give a medal to each person
who attended all the services throughout
the year. Last year the sexton was the
only person who won a medal.
The greatest day's run of an ocean
steamship was 515 miles. The steamer in
question was 562 feet long and had pre
viously been known to make 500 miles per
day for three days in succession.
In the Oriental department of the
British Museum, a tablet has been de
ciphered as containing an offerof marriage
made by a Pharaoh to a daughter of tha
King of Babylon about 1530 B. a
METER. AND MIBTH.
Attalie How wonld yon like to marry a
European nobleman?
Amelle Aht They are too new. Give me a dear
old Chinese mandarin, with a pedigree longer than
his cue. Ifew l'ork Herald.
"Do yon know Jonathan Mixer?"
Oh. yes."
"What Is be by profession! He loots Ilka a
bartender."
"Bartender? Not- mnch-he's a regular bar
tough 1" Chicago Sties Becord.
"She treated ma shamefullv."
"Ah! bnt she treated me worse."
"Impossible! She Jilted me."
"Yes; but she married me." E altimon Sews,
Gnmmey It would never do to have girls
on the police force.
Gargoyle Why wouldn't It?
Gnmmey You see. every arrest they wonld make
wonld be a miss-apprehension. Detroit FntPrts,
Her eyes are soft and languorous,
Her teeth like purest pearl.
Her bangs and frizzes see how they
Bewllderlngly carl!
In charming negligee she moves
Amid the season's whirl.
Piquant, serene, chic, self-possessed
This summer's summer girl.
Chicago TrOnm.
"You said that girl, Mary Batefnl, would
never love anybody."
"Sheneverwlll."
"She loves Charlie Brown."
"How do you Inow?"
"He asked bsr to be his wife, and she refused."
JVeio lork Prtss.
"Give me the treasury, please," he cried,
To a maid with a dark brown curl;
1 11 do It with pleasure, sir." she replied.
For sbc wss a telephone girt.
Washington Star.
"Look heah, Fitzaltamont, I thought yon
told me tne acquaintance yon brought to our dab
was a gentleman."
So he Is."
Oh, comenow! Ills cook told my man that ha
had only four suits of clothes to his name."
"ByJawge! Tills Is serious. We'll have to cut
him." Brooklyn Eagle.
Mrs. Brown What good will It do ma
to rub this liniment on your rheumatic shoulder?
Brown What good? Why woman. It will keep
Ijouirom uaviuji .as fucuiaausm in your nan
Ssia Ink Evening Son,
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