THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH FRIDAY, . JULY 22. "1892. e B$$tf 4 BSTABL1SHID FEBRUARY 8, 1MB I Vol. 7. Ko. 169 -Entered at Pittsburg Postofllce Jievember. 1857, as second-class matter. Business Office Corner Smithfield and Diamond Streets. News Rooms and Publishing House 78 and 80 Diamond Street, in New Dispatch Building. FARTERN AnVFRTOWrrirE. KOOM 78. TRIBUNE BUII-DINO. NEW YORK, where com ite Hie. of THE DISPATCH can always be lound. foreign advertisers armreclau 1 the convenience. Borne advertisers and Mends ofTHK DIBPArCH. hUe In New York, are also made welcome. THK DISPATCH U regularlv onsaleat Xrentano't. Iji-nion Sgvarc, Ji'ae lork, and V Ave OePOpera. Forts, France, where anyone tcho hat been disap pointed at a hotel newt stand can obtain it. TERMS OF THE DISPATCH. rorraGX raxa w thx tnrnxD statu. TurLTDisrATCH. One Year ...I d 00 Dailt Dispatch. Per Qnarter S00 Datlt Dispatch. Oie Month TO Dailt Dispatch, including Sunday. 1 year.. 10 00 Dailt Dispatch, Including SnndaT, im'ths, SM Dailt Dispatch Including Sunday, 1 m'th.. SO ECXDAT DlBPATCH. One Y-ar SM WrixLT Dispatch. One Year 135 The DAILY DlSPATCn la delivered by carriers at 31 eenU per week, or. Including Sunday Edition, at H cen ts per week. PITTSBDKO. FRIDAY, JULY 22. 1892. TWELVE PAGES B5WORTHT OPPOSITION. Senator Cameron has the reputation of feeing very pronounced in his likes and dislikes. He has frequently shown that he does not care much for the views of his constituents when they run counter to his own. But it is inconceivable that be cause of disappointment over the failure of his candidate, Mr. Brown, of Lancaster, to get the Supreme Court appointment, the Senator would persist in the notion at tributed to him of interfering with the confirmation of Mr. Shiras. Mr. Cameron must be aware of Mr. Shiras' qualifica tions. He must know that a universal tribute to the worth of the nominee from, the community in which he has lived, and the bar at which he has practiced, means something,and that the idea of indulging personal pique by trying to set such an appointment aside would be earnestly re sisted throughout the State. Not only has Senator Cameron no ground to oppose Mr. Shiras, but the Democrats in the Senate will be making a most serious mistake if they throw any obstacle in the way of the confirmation. A man against whom positively nothing can be urged, and in whose favor everything that is good can Justly be said, is an exceptional nomi nee. Tet Mr. Shiras fills that bill exactly. There should be no hesitation in confirm ing his appointment KOBWAT AND SWEDEN AT OUTS. King Oscar of Norway and Sweden is treading upon perilous ground. He is disregarding the expression of popular opinion as registered at the polls in Nor way, and the result of his action is that there are outspoken expressions hostile to the continuance of his kingship and fav oring the establishment of a republic. Bince the union of Sweden and Norway in 1811, one diplomatic and consular rep resentative abroad has been made to suffice for both. In the meantime, Nor way's foreign commerce has grown more rapidly than Sweden, and the inhabitants of the former contribute more toward the maintenance of the service than do those of the latter. Basing their claims on these facts, the Norwegians make the de mand that they shall be allowed a sepa rate consular representation of their own. Premier .Stang of Norway opposed this desire of the people, and his Cabinet was consequently succeeded by one in favor thereof under Mr. Steen. This last Pre mier, backed up by the Norwegian Storth ing at Christiana, made the above demand of the body representing both countries at Stockholm, and receiving a refusal there from resigned. Under these circumstances King Oscar, who despite his descent from the Marshal Brnadotte is an out and out Swede imbued with the feelings and prej udices of that country, has requested Stang to form a Cabinet notwithstanding his former defeat on this issue. What the result will be it is impossible to foretell, but it appears certain that there is trouble ahead. Bjoernson, the radical leader, talks openly of secession and republicanism, and the relations of the two countries are so strained that anything may happen. Either the ma jority will cease to rule in Norway, or some kind of amendment must be made in the Constitution of the United King dom of Sweden and Norway. THE PEOPLE'S PARTY'S ERROR. One of the most striking features of this year's political contest lies in the strenu ous efforts being put forth by the People's party. And the most curious part of this unprecedented endeavor by a third party seeking the millennium by making the Na tional Governmentga something between a day-nursery and a pawnshop is found in the fact that they can profit nothing and ma y suffer much thereby. Let them work never so hard for their Presidental ticket, they can at the utmost do no more than secure the election of the Democratic nominee by throwing the choice into the House. Perseverance is always praiseworthy on behalf of principle, but it becomes pitia ble as well when it is of so mistaken a na ture as to injure the party persevering. Like all the rest of the nation the People's party, -whatever that may exactly amount to, has everything to gain by the continu ance of Protection, and must suffer by the injury to national industries which would follow the election of a President pledged- to tree trade, under these conditions the kindest wish to be entertained on behalf of this amorphous aggregation of individ uals is that it may fail in its efforts to stultify itself and harm the country. CENSUS VAGARIES. Bulletins, extra or otherwise, issued by the Census Bureau are of more or less value according to their form and the rep utation of those making them. At a time when the drift of country populations to city centers and the consequent tendency to overcrowding are perpetually becoming more absorbing and important matters for consideration, a bulletin entitled "Dwell ings and Families in 1890" would be of peculiar interest and value under some circumstances. But, unfortunately for the credit of those responsible for the methods and results of this enumeration of statis tics, the necessary conditions for prac tical value are absent Aside from the general doubt cast upon the census returns as a whole by the ex posure of their gross inaccuracies in many respects, there is a vagueness in the definitions upon which the above bulletin Is based that makes it especially irritating M to the comparative ethnologist Here follow the definitions complained of: "A dwelling, for census purposes, means any building or place of abode in which any person was living at the time the census was taken, whether a room above a workhouse or factory, a loft above a stable, a wigwam on the outskirts of a settlement, a boarding or lodging house, a large tenement house, or a dwelling house as ordinarily considered. "The word family, for the purposes of the census, includes not only the normal family, as generally understood, brrt also all persons living alone, and all larger aggregations of people having only the tie of a common roof and table, as the inmates of hotels, hospitals, prisons, asylums, etc" Under such widesweeping and indefi nite definitions it is of little use to leam that Pennsylvania with 999,364 has over a hundred thousand more dwellings than NewTork which comes next on the list Or that this State has an -average of 5.26 persons to a "dwelling in' compari son to 5.87 as the average for the North Atlantic division,- and 6.45 for the whole United States. Then, too, it is impossible under these conditions to draw scientific comparisons between Pitts burg's possession of 37,725 dwellings with 6.33 persons to each and, say Philadel phia's 187,052 dwellings with only 5.60 persons inhabiting each of them. But, so far as any conclusions are to be drawn, it appears that there Is an Improvement going on in this city as the average of per sons to a dwelling has decreased from 6.44 in 1880. CHAIRMAN HARRITY. There is a question as to just how Penn sylvanians in general should receive the im plied compliment involved in the frequent choice of a citizen of the Keystone State to conduct the national campaign of one or the other of the great parties. Dis gruntled individuals In neglected Common wealths are apt to intimate that the selec tions are made because of the eminently practical nature of Pennsylvania politics, and a desire to extend the scope of ma chine methods to partisan advantage. It is certainly peculiar that the Democratic campaign manager should be chosen from the strongest of the Republican States, and the one most vitally interested in the triumph of the protection candidate In the present contest Mr. Harrity has of recent years secured quite a reputation as an organizer. To be sure, he has made but little permanent impression on the adverse majority in Pennsylvania, but when it is considered that his party is conducting a crusade against the industries of the State this lack of success is not a cause for wonder ment In attempting to persuade the voters of the nation at 'large to ac cept fallacies which his neighbors have so often and so emphatically re jected Mr. Harrity has undertaken a prodigious task. Its difficulty will hardly be lessened by the fact that he was prom inent in the factional struggle within the Democratic ranks preceding the Chicago nomination. Mr. Carter resigned as Commissioner of Public Lands when he was chosen Chair man of the Republican National Com mittee. "Win Mr. Harrity follow his ex ample and give up the position of Secre tary of State in Pattison's Cabinet while he devotes his energies to an attempt to turn over the Federal Government" to' the Democracy? Judging from Mr.- Harrity's previous Teoord of holding on to the bird he has with one hand while reaching for the -others in the bushes' he is likely 'to continue in his Harrisburg office, nomin ally at least, for the present A SOCIAL CHANGE. The visit to New York of thousands of delegates to the Christian Endeavor Con vention recalls to a paper of that city the old practice bf which the "delegates to re ligious conventions were generally enter tained free of charge in the private homes of the city where the convention gather ing was held. It is not many years since that custom was nearly universal. Now as a rule it has become extinct, and dele gates stop at hotels or boarding houses paying for what they get Our cotempo rary says: On the whole the change Is a good one , though nobody who remembers when the old-fashioned method prevailed can help feeling some regret that new conditions made the change necessary. There was something very pleasant, oftentimes, for both entertainer and entertained in the hearty welcome to house and home given to the stranger, and in his. grateful, genial, social assimilation of himself for a few days with that hospitable family. As originally designed, and so long as a more simple style of living and n more equitable division of responsibility made it practicable, the free entertainment plan not only worked well, but had distinct advantages over the less cordial but more practicable arrangement of the present day. That the old plan has not only become impracticable but would, under present conditions, be liable to decided abuses may be admitted. But it may be ques tioned whether the social change which makes it impracticable is for the better. The very language quoted above suggests that a simple style of living and a genial and fraternal hospitality which made the sys tem of welcoming strangers engaged in good work, without calculation and with well-founded confidence In their Integ rity, is not a social condition the departure of which is to be regretted. How much public gain Is there in a new order which by substituting complexity for simplicity, creating social divisions and generating" the liability to abuse of hospitality'on one side, and the distrust of unknown people on the other, has wiped out the free, hearty and unsuspecting hospitality of the old gatherings, and reduced to a nul lity the ancient virtue of entertaining strangeis7 There are many respects in which social organizations and socjal customs have altered from the standards of a" genera tion ago. It may give us ground for a clear judgment of the general tendencies if we inquire with regard to each of them whether the alterations represent an im provement In social qualities or the re verse. GLADSTONE'S HEALTH. There is of course no doubt but thaj; Gladstone's majority is such as to involve the veteran statesman in a most difficult undertaking, with the practical certainty of having the fight to make all over again in the near future. Next to the narrow margin of supporters that be has secured in the House of Commons Gladstone's greatest danger lies in his own advanced age and consequent physical debility. It is said in some quarters, already, that the labors of the campaign have left a distinct mark upon him, and those labors are as nothing compared to the task he will have, when the actual work in Parliament com mences. There is no man in England competent to completely fill Mr. Gladstone's jjla'ce, and his' health is therefore the leading factor in the political situation. That the opposition will take every advantage of this fact to worry the Grand Old Man I goes without saying, and it is even possi ble that his own adherents will indulge in intrigues that would be impossible under a leadership as strong as his has been of old. There probably has never been a state of affairs in which one man's health had a further reaching importance, and which was rendered so precarious by nothing in the nature of disease but sim ply, by the gradual collapse of a frame that has undergone far more honorable wear and tear than falls to the lot of most men. The very clever lyrical sketches of prominent Pittsburgors which, with illus trations, have enlivened the "All Sorts" column of our cotempbrary, the Leaderlor more than a year past, are now published in book form bv their author, Mr. Arthur G. Burgoyne. It is not too much to say that these sketches are the brightest work of the kind that has lately come under our notice fiom any quartr. While Mr. Bnrgoyne's humor takes the widest range, he has been singularly fortunate in refraining from per sonal offense. It is seldom that newspaper verses exhibit .either the facility or felicity shown by Mr. Burgoyne, whose resources in that line of delineation seem to be at once ready and illimitable. The portraits by Mark Fender son are also Quite clever and wholly in the spirit of the text. The book shonld have a handsome local circulation, as the talent of the author is of an order that compels recog nition. Ireland's total vote shows 315,329 in favor of home rule and 73,979 against it; so the minority baa better cease their bellg erentand incendiary language and accept their defeat In a proper law-abiding spirit. The New York, New Haven and Hart ford Railroad is fitting up a double track seventy-four miles in length between New York City and New Haven for the use of electricity as a motivo power. The whole experiment as a great innovation will be watched with attentive interest, but its most striking feature is found in the fencing in or the track and the absolute abolition of grade crossings. This part of the programme could be emulated with a great deal of ad vantage all over the country, without wait ing for steam to be ousted by electricity for traction purposes on a large scale. Republicans of the Twenty-first dis trict ot this State have more trouble in se lecting a man to represent them in Con gress than the country will experience in electing a Republican President. If the value of political speeches were dependent on the average speotflo gravity of the words and phrases used, Cleveland's ponderous periods would carry irresistible weight. But since the effect of a speech de pends to some slight extent on the logic of its author's reasoning, the oracle of free trade is seriously handicapped in compari son with the orators of Protection, whose words are lighter and whoso arguments more enlightened. v Thebe is no l&ck in the quantity of in vestigation devoted to the Beading deal, but practical results depend rather upon the quality of the inquiries. A PBOrosiTlON to issue bonds for the erection of new water works in Cincinnati has been deleated by a majority of 10,000 in a total vote of "0,000. But the large propor tion of beer drinkeis in that city is so well known as to be quite enough to account for the contempt for water. Moreover there has been a Prohibition National Conven tion held there recently, and the conse quent reaction mnst be taken into account. Ibish members hold the balance of the newly elected Parliament, and they will do well to remember that it is dangerous play ing with edge tools. A THppaAliJi parrots are on their way to Chicago rabartict'pate In the Fair when it I opens andin the. meantime to learn how to swell tne praises oi tne city or poastrm wind. From the constant relterance of Chicago's merits by its inhabitants, the re peating birds should have excellent oppor tunities to learn their lesson and forget all else. It is reported that canned foods are scarce in the market, but there seems to have been no falling off in the crop of pois onings. No Senator narrow minded enough to oppose the confirmation of the last appoint ment to the Supreme Court can reap any. thing but discredit from an action which would be so evidently due to personal feel ing in a matter of national Importance where a man with a record more than stain less Is in question. From the number of roadways at present impassable It cannot be doubted that pav ing improvements are actually taking place. Cleveland's latest speech is as full of polysyllabic platitudes as any of his former utterances, and it is even more marked by baseless charges against his political oppo nents than have been his public expressions of opinion heretofore. As the Baker ballot law becomes more widely known the possibilities for mistakes, in voting thereby multiply. Summer holiday makers will do well to be careful" of their matches and other com bustible property, as the vast majority of resorts for the hot season are frame struct ures, admirably designed for bonfire pur poses. Cleveland's words are as emphatically vague as they are ntterly mistaken. INTERNATIONAL INNINGS. Harbison, Cleveland, Reid and Sher man are all Presbyterians. The average ministerial salary in the United States Is $700. Dr. Morgan DIx, of Trinity, gets $25,000 and Dr. Talmage $12,000. Mrs. -Harrison is improving greatly each day: Yesterday, for the first time, she walked out some distance from her cottage at Loon lake. General MacIver, the redoubtable Scotchman who has been a soldier of fortune in many lands, Is campaigning in Alabama In Governor Jones' cause. James A. Bailey's real name is James A O'Shaughnessy. At the age of 10 he was adopted by a circus man, General Bailey, who was a prominent character in his time. " SUPEBTNTEKDENT BYRNES, Of the New York police department, is SO years old, bat he has had more press notices than most men would get If they lived to be SCO years old. , Blackburn, the English chess champion, feels his defeat by Lasker very acutely, be cause he is only a new player and but 24 years of age. A veteran rarely relishes a beating by a novice. , The visit of the Ameer of Bokhara to St Petersburg has been postponed, as it is feared he might bring cholera among his retinue and he might himself take ill in Bus. liawhicli would alarm his subjects. Jules Lebaudy, the great Pans sugar refiner and speculator, leaves a fortune which is estimated at 360,000,000 francs. This Is probably the largest in dividual fortune in Fraaoe, the land oi moderate fortunes. Keep the Streets Clean. v Toledo Commercial. , THt-PrrrsBuao DispAtch, in referring to the precautions taken by the Health Depart-, ment of New Tork City to guard against the Introduction of foreign epidemics, most truthfully says that "the full measure of protection will not be reached until every city, town and hamlet puts Itself In a con dition of spotless cleanliness In order to abolish all breeding grounds for the seeds of disease." It is absolutely necessary if the country desires protection against con tagloh that this shonld be done, and the au thorities "of every city and town in the United States will fall far short of their dntv if favy negleot to inaugurate a thorough oleaatns; o; A LOOK AROUND. A-clear headed broker, capitalist, gen eral operator and manufacturer, who Is a Democrat by birth and a non-partisan by na ture, was talking abont the trade outlook yesterday. "My' diagnosis," said he, "is that we will have an extremely dull summer and fall in Pittsburg, and, for that matter, throughout the country. By midwinter the labor problems will be solved for the next year or two, a good crop will probably have been harvested and the political policy of the country will be fixed for the next four years, probably with Cleveland at the head of things. I look for a .grand rush next spring and a most prosperous period beyond it. This year capital will slumber and only the big operators will reach In 'new dlrec tlons, at low prices, for future develop ments." There are clubs and rumors of clubs in the air; not riotous clubs, but social ones. There is much talk among men who like to drive good horses of the need of a coun try club somewhere near the park. Several definite schemes have been dis cussed and several locations examined, bnt so far nothing has come of it. It is not un likely that a site of several ncres will be se lected bordering on the park and not far from one ot the entrances, and that a honse will be erected with handsome grounds abont It and ample stables, the clnb to be managed by a good caterer. This is sure to come sooner or later. Senator Bates, of Union county, who represents the Twenty-seventh district, was in the city yesterday. He is in Homestead visiting some of the soldiers who come from his part of the State. Senator Bates was one of those who helped the Allegheny county delegation materially at the last session on street legislation, and is much lilted by the politicians here. He is a shrewd man and understands the game which helps to make life worth the living. The reported opposition of Senators Quay and Cameron to the conflmatlon of George Shiras, Jr., as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States has, of course.brou'glit forth a great deal ofgosslp of mixed complexion. It is recalledby some of the older politicians and members of the bar that it is a matter of record that a Penn sylvania appointee to the Supreme Court was once turned down by the Senato, and that a Cameron was the Senator whose hand moved the lever. One of the most notable jurists of Penn sylvania was George Woodward, whose record as a lawyer, Common Pleas Judge, Justice of the Supreme Court and finally Chief Justice of that body is something that the Pennsylvania bar can be proud of. Mr. Woodward was brought into prom inence in the Constitutional Convention which this Commonwealth held in 1838. He was an active member of that body, made a number of speeobes and bad a goodly share of the results of the convention's deliberations. Mr. Woodward was an ardent Democrat and attracted the attention or President Jackson, who took a great interest in him. In 1S36 Jackson ap pointed Woodward to a vacanoy on the Supreme Bench and in so doing he riled a number of those political hornets who wcro so active in the time of that first great Amorican spoilsman. In some way Wood ward had aroused the animosity of Simon Cameron, who was then a power in Pennsyl vania politics among the Democracy, to which party he then belonged. Cameron succeeded in influencing James Buchanan, who was at that time one of the Pennsyl vania Senators, and with his aid and that of Samuel McKean, the other Pennsylvania Senator, the nomination of Woodward was rejected. Cameron used with muoh force the fact that the appointee was only S3 years of age and he misquoted a portion of Wood ward's speeches in the Constitutional Con vention. The contest was very bitter, but in spite of all Jackson's efforts to save his protege the Senate squarely voted him" down. Some questions have been raised as to how the toUfcraphicompanles dame to send ont a bulletin on Wednesday afternoon that Mr. Shiras had been confirmed and. which they contradioted a few minutes after it had been posted on the boards. Frankstown avenue, from the gate to the Homewood track to its Junotion with Fifth avenue, bears traoes of being a via dolorosa to some of those who buy small pieces of pasteboard at exorbitant prices. Holders of pool tickets on the other horse have apparently nnitcd in a determination to pave the avenue with some of the same material used In Hades good intentions, and they give evidence of this by scatter ing fragments of torn-up tickets along the route. The difference between the purchas ing and selling price of these bits is an illustration of the security of a life on a farm or on shipboard. "Isn't that Balph Bagaley?" asked a Phiiadelphlan the other day as he walked down Fifth avenue with me. I told him ho was correct, and he went on to say: "There is the only man who came out ahead on the famous South Penn deal. He was the first man to sign the agreement to build the road and the last one to sign the agreement to sell It. He brought suit for damages against the Yanderbllts and others and held it over their heads until all the other stockholders had been closed out. Then he had a settle ment on a private basis which was very satisfactory to him. Part of this settlement was an agreement not to tell anyone about the terms he received. Go ask him and see for yourself." I asked htm, and now I am in the unique position of a man who has been told the truth by a Philadelphia lawyer. Somebody, cried "Kick him!" Some body else shouted "Hit bim with a stoneP and then about 300 neople gathered to see what was up. It was about 8:30 o'clock last evening, and It occurred beside the old post offlce, on Fifth avenue. "What's the matter?'' went from Up to lip. "The're beating a non union man from Homestead," declared a big red-headed man. "Ob, it's dreadful," ex claimed a frightened woman. Just then the crowd separated and dispersed. Two news boys a little one with shoes on and a big one barefooted had been fighting. They are the only persons who have a right to fight on the streets, so as soon as they were accommodated the affair was over. It shows, however, how quickly a crowd can collect, and how little will gather several hundreds of enrious lounger. They were going to the seashore, and in tended to leave the honse in care of the servants, and of course worried about all sorts of thingswhile he was aggravatingly unsympathetic, "What shall I do with the small, common silver, George!" she de manded plaintively. "Have the girls vacci nated," he replied calmly. "Whyt" "Then maybe they won't take it." Walter. HISTORY AND LITEBATUBE. One Disappointment bat No Gap In the Mt. Gretna Exercises. Mt. GrarnrA, July 21. Specie A good at tendance was present at the Pennsylvania Chautauqua to-day. Dr. Clark Boblnsou leotured on "Schiller's Wllhelm Tell." This morning at 10 o'clock Dr. Werner gave two public talks on the Old and New Testa ments. Hon. G. B. Wendllng was to have, been present in the afternoon and give his famous lecture, "Is Death the End?" but was called to Washington by sickness. His place was well filled by Prof. Klrscbbaura, who Melivered a lecture, on "Helnrlch Hinc," the great German poet. In the evening Dr. Charles Tonng pave the third of his series of asti-onomic.il lectures entitled, "The Planets." Edward P. Elliott, the great Boston Impersonator, preceded the lecture of Prof. Kirschbaum. by several of his bet .impersonations. The second course in English literatuie was commenced this morning under Dr. Clurke Bobinson, taking op Chancer, Spencer, Sliakospeare, Tennyson and the origin of the En gllsh drama. The Executive Committee met in the afternoon and sold a number of cottage and lots. The sale will be continued. What Is In a Name, Anyhow? Bolton Herald,! , Buigess McLuckie, of Homestead, isn't quite so fortunate a man as his name would seem to imply. G00DBT TO TEE NEWSBOYS. A Chicago Company 'Will Fnrnlsb Papers by an Automatic Machine. Chicago, July 21 In a very short time the newsboymay be outofaJoD. Papers have been filed with the Secretary of State for the incorporation of a company that will under take to distribute newspapers automatically and do away with the necessity for human news purveyors on street cars, suburban trains or any locality. The Automatic Newspaper Distributing Company, of Chicago, with a capital stock of $200,000, is the outgrowth of a' movement on foot for several months past to perfect the device and to secure patents. This has been accomplished, and, according to the pro moters of the company, the financial back ing is ample and its snecess assured. The .next step is to arrange for the manufacture of the machines, and negotiations to that end are on foot. The general principle of the automatic machine to distribute newspapers is similar to the "nickel-ln-the-slot" machines, by means of which the pnblle occasionally re gales itself with perfume, cigars or chewing gum. A penny or two cents, as the case may be, is dropped in a convenient slot and a handle pulled. Forwith the purchaser Is confronted with the paper ho desires, which he removes and gives way to the next purchaser. The newspaper distributors do not stop at merely banding out to the cus tomer his favorite sheet; they will make change when required, and it Is claimed will never make a mistake. If a customer drops 1Q cents into a certain slot or a quarter into another, a 2-cent paper machine will Im mediately produce 8 or S3 cents in change, as may be necessary. Other developments are being studied out, but for the present the Automatic Newspaper Distributing Com pany considers its field sufficiently large. FOUB BIBS BEHOVED. Sklllfal Surgery Removes Stony Substances Surrounding a Patient's Lung; Qhicaoo, Julv 21. Major Towne has been confined to his bed for nearly a year from a growing abscess in his right lung. Two months ago the lung was opened and the abscess cut and drained. Major Towne be gan to recover rapidly, but recently his con dition became worse, a continual discharge from the lung bafflng the skill of the sur geons. Last Sunday Dr. Andrews determined on another operation. After the surgeons had made an incision they found almost the entire lung diseased, and accordingly went further than they at first intended, and re moved the fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh rib. This opening was largo enough to admit the surgeon's hands. In this cavity was fonnd a great quantity of stony substance, sonic of the pieces being as large as marbles and as hare as stone), while that which was In the bottom of the cavity was as fine as sand. The wails of the cavity were also covered with the stony'substance. Every particle of the stone was removed and the wound covered and dressed. Twenty-four hours afterward Major Towne had im proved wonderfully, and he now feels very much better and there is every prospect of his recovery. Nothing similar has been re ported in medicine. A TBSAT FOB THE CLEVELANDS. They TTill Fly Through Maine In a lUilroad President's Private Car. Sorresto, Me, July 2L Unless something of a political nature prevents, Grover Cleve-tl land, Mrs. Cleveland and a small party of friends will leave Boston August 4 for Mt. Desert Ferry, wBere they will be taken on board the steamer Sebenoa and come here, where they will be guests of President Frank Jones, of the Boston and Maine Bail road. They will ride in his private car, the Sorrento, and a special palace car attaohed to the regular train, which is the fastest ever run into and across Maine. The ex-President has accepted the invitation, and al ready a programme for each day has been mapped out. When Mr. Jones was a member of Con gress he formed the acquaintance or Mr. Cleveland, and when tne latter was Presi dent they became Iriends. At that time Mr. Cleveland promised to visit this place, but an all-summer session of Congres pre vented. Later he prepared to visit Mr. and Mrs. Lamone here, but a nending lawsuit ? rerouted. This time he Is likely to make he trip, and while here will live in Mr. Jones' summer residence, one of the most beautiful on the coast. CONGRESS AND THE FAIRV If Congress wishes to aid the Fair and maintain its self-respect It must blot out the obnoxious proviso and make the $5,000,000 appropriation an unconditional offering. JVeto York Herald. It is not now a question of the financial success of the enterprise. It is rather one of maintaining public faith and national honor against worse than sixteenth century intol erence. Chicago Times. Of course Chicago saloon keepers favor the closing of the World's Fair on Sunday. That is precisely one of the main reaso ns why good men who always think ought to favor the Sunday opening of the Fair. iVeio Tork Evening Telegram. Cakhot something better something more worthy of the Government, something broader and more patriotic be done In con ference? Let the appropriation be agreed to and leave the Sunday business to the dis cretion of the managers. Washington Iost. The laws of the State of Illinois are the supreme authority in Chicago with regard to Sunday observance, Inside as wall as out side the Fair grounds, and the managers of the Fair, under those laws, are tho persons who alone have, as they should have, power of discietionary action Rochester Advertiser. Tub public wilt justify the Senate in re maining in session until the House has made this appropriation for the World's Fair. We have no doubt that Chicago will acqnlt her self with credit, no matter what Congress docs, but the honor of the country is, In a manner, involved, and the House should be compelled to do its duty. Baltimore Ameri can. It does not fall within the function of Congress to make Sabbatarian ordinances for the government of any State or for any part of the community comprising the State. If the managers of the Exposition can consistently call on Congress for the desired aid they are entitled to have It, without submitting to conditions which in volve the religious or conscientious scruples of anybody. Brooklyn Eagle. The directors and leading citizens who have not done their whole duty In the prem ises, but have let this business drift along, should now go to work energetically and place the case before Congress iu such a light that all may see the exact situation and realize the importance of aiding instead of criDpling the World's Fair, as a matter upon which dopend "the national honor and the public faith." Chicago Tribune. DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE. Edward C Knight, Sa?r Refiner. Edward C Knight, aged 79 years, died at his cottage in Cape May early yesterday morning from the effect of the grip and a complication of diseases, which attacked his constitution abont three month! ago He was brought from his Philadelphia home abont a month ago In hopes of regaining his health. His illness has been serions for the past two weeks. He was a prominent Philadelphia sugar reSner. a member of the Union League and several financial lnstltntlons. and was reputed to be worth (7,000,000. The body was tacen to Philadelphia yestf rdar erenlnjr, and the funeral will take place Saturday. He was a large property owner In Cape May. Charles K. Dackers. Charles E. Dackers, son of Sir Sydney Dackers, late Admiral of the English navy, died at his home, a few miles east of Yankton, S. D Tuesday night from Injuries received ina wrestling match Stindayj This man's history Is remarkable in that for 3) years lie has led a nomadic life and decMned repeatedly to return to Kngland and enjoy the life of aristocracy. He was 35 years old. Prof. P. IV. Ilrdrord. Prof. V. VT. Bedford, of New York, ed itor of the Pharmaceutical Record, who had a para lytic shock on Holiday while attending the meeting of the Pharmaceutical Association at the Trod le House, Littleton, N. Y., died yesterday morning. Obituary Notes. Andrew Bohab, the oldest man In southern Indiana, died at Newmarket yesterday, aged 93. llENRr Livingston, descendant of Chancellor Kingston, Washington's friend, is dead in England. ' Captain Isaac Fecuebt. farmer and prominent Republican, died in Penn township, near Carlisle, yesterday. He was "i years of age. Cardinal Oicseite D'Annbali, prefect of the Congregation of Indulgences and Sacred Relies, is dead In Rome. He was born at Borbona in 1315, and was created a Cardinal in 1839. HuiAJt T. DoTLE, a well-Known resident of Washington, editor of the Venter Market Xt and brother of J. Hadley Doyle, of the Sunday Herald, died Wednesday morning at his residence in Ta koma Park, aged K. TO MEMORY DEAR. Thousands or Miles Away, lady Henry Somerset Says a Kind Thing or Two Abont America Calls Herself an Acci dent of Birth -A Day's Cnatterlngs. Mrs. Brtce, County Secretary of the W. C. T. U., received an interesting ac knowledgment of Lady Henry Somerset's appreciation of Pittsburg hospitality In the form of a printed copy of an nddress made by Lady Henry In London, which arrived by Tuesday evening's post. At least all tem perance people know that Lady Henry is the Frances Willard of England, being the President of the British Woman's Temperance Association. The pamphlet sent to Mrs. Bryce is a copy of the President's annual address, more than usually interesting since it came hot on the heels of her return from America, and deals in great measure with her many ex periences in the United States. To quote from some of this pleasant reading of the words spoken by onr recent distinguished visitor bofore the buge gathering of British women: The welcome that awaited me. said Lady Henry, as I telegraphed to Miss Willard on the day of my arrival, "made America home." Sweet voices greeted me: women's hands were stretched ont to draw me to their loving hearts; the press was everywhere most cordial: flowers were strewn along mv path wherever I went, and the warmth or the New Wor'd's reception was a troe proof of Its enthusiasm for tho cause by which we are nnlted. . Again as a delicate subtle compliment to Miss Willard at the National Convention of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union In Boston last yean On the crowded platform there stood the slender, delicate figure ofthe woman who led that conven tion with a in aster hand. We are told that when Sir Michael Costa, the greatest conductor we have ever known, wielded the baton and gave the signal for the mighty orchestra to commence, as the great harmony filled the air with a burst of melo dious sonnd. the violins leading In plain tive refrain, supported by tho volume of a hundred instruments, on a sudden thegrcat master paused, and looking np said. "Where Is. the piccolo?" The magic cultnre of his sensitive enr missed that one small sound in the harmonious whole. Miss Willard. with the same Infinitely fine perception, knows cacn rote that should be struck, each tone that should vibrate in the great white ribbon chorus. Her marvelous power in calling forth the best arises perhaps chiefly from the fact that, as sbe expects the best, each one wishes to fulfill the standard by which she is measured by her leader. And this from a woman nf rank, wealth and lineage, succeeding closely on a six months' residence in this democratic coun try, to a gathering of Englishwomen, than whom none in the world rock the cradle of rank, wealth and lineage with a kinder hand: We must look with level lids Into each other's eyes. No accident of birth or material circum stance must make the smallest separation between us. I cannot tell yon the sense of unity I felt in the New World, when no thonght of lineage or inheritance hedged me away from my white ribbon peers, but all flocked round me in a sacred eqallty of service. The speech is voluminous; 41 pages octavo, and its greaterpart, though bearing directly fin America, Bhows a largo influence of Lady Henry Somerset's travel throughout the American continent. The pamphlet bears the wishes, "With kindest and best remem brances." Superintendent Hamilton holds a prodigious invitation, as big as If six ordin ary brides were rolled Into one and a single wedding invitation Issued to Include all, sent by the World's Columbian Exposition, which reads as follows: "The World's Columbian Exposition Invites you to partic ipate In the ceremonies attending the dedi cation of the buildings of the World's Columbian Exposition at Jackson Park, in the city of Chicago, October 11, 12, and 13, 1892, and requests the favor of an early ac ceptance. Appended are these committees: On Ceremonies Peter A. B. Widenor, Chairman; John D. Adams, Arkansas; TJr sinins D. Griner, Virginia, and William Lindsay, Commissioners at Large. World's Columbian Commission Adlal T. Ewinp, Illinois: George H. Barbour, Gorton W. Allen, Commissioner; Thomas B. Eeogb, North Carolina. World Columbian Exposition Edward F. Lawrence, Chairman; James W. Ellsworth Charles T. Terkes, Ferd W. Keck, Charles H. Schwab, John S. P. Odell and William D. Kerfoot. "Wilma," remembered as the breezy writer of Southern letters, whose work The Dispatch Introduced to the reading public someseasons ago, has lately taken ur)a new work In the same field. A series of smart articles has appeared In the Untied JPresbiierian, In which, by the clever guise of several more or less fic titious characters, were prcsonted in a captivating manner the projeot of Maple Shades. The new home for aged people of the U. P. Church has brought fame to the writer and money to the home. It is very well recognized that of the 118,000 already raised. "Wllma" is to be credited with ob taining a large portion. The clever woman's identity is naturally become pretty thinly veiled through the great suc cess attendant on her philanthropic pen. The ladles whose drawing room windows command a view of the parks at Mont gomery avenue are complaining bitterly be cause beautiful Intents are being spoiled by utilitarian practices. When the Baptist Church was pulled down, the refuse timber was piled along a path under the trees at Sandusky street, and carefully guarded from careless -pedestrians after dark by a red lantern. Its unsightliness is protested against by one witty woman in that locality, who declares "Sbe prefers to take her trees in another form than timber." Social Chatter. Of the 21 applications for the position of matron at Maple Shades United Presbyte rian Home for the Aged, a sifting process has reduced the number to three, on which judgment will be passed nt the board meet ing on Tuesday next. The salary connected with this position is $100 annually, which is virtually pin monev, since all else is pro vided, saving a wardrobe. The problem which the county W. C. T. U. must face nextautunm ls,"How to do without Mrs. Porter and who to have as a President in her stead?" The news that Mrs. Porter's health is so uncertain' a to preclude her continuing to hold an office hitherto so capably and conscientiously filled will be received with exceeding sorrow. The State Convention of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union will be held In New Castle, Lawrence county, in October, beginning on the Cth and continuing to and including the 13th. it will be proceeded one week by the W. C. T. A. Convention. Dr. awd Mbs. 8. B. Mathiot, of Walnut street, are summering at a farm belonging to Mrs. Mathint's father, which is situated in that beautiful region near Unlontown. The Misses Gertrude and Clara Fry, daughters of H. C. Frv, of Rochester, are gone to Nantasket Beacli for the summer. Mb. ahd Mrs. Gkoroe Reed, or Fifth ave nue, will leave this week for Rhode Island. The Medical Association of Allegheny county spent yesterday at Ellwood. Mb. aitd Mas. W. E. Schhebtz are in Bed ford. A PBE8IDEHTAL PE0CLAMATI0K, Thi Four Hundredth Anniversary of the Discovery of America to Ilea Holiday. WABUiiroT03r, Jnly 21. The following proc lamation was issued this afternoon by the President of the United States of America: mOCLAKATION. Whereas, By a joint resolution approved June 29, 1892, It was resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States.of America la Congress assembled, "That the President of the United States be authorized and directed to lssne a proclamation recommending to the people the observance In all their localities of the four hundredth anniversary of the dlscorery of America on the 21st day of October. ID92. by public demonstration and by suitable exercises In their schools and other places of assemblv." Now. therefore, I. Benjamin Harrison. Presi dent of the United States of America. In pursuance ofthe aforesaid resolution, do hereby appoint Fri day. October 21. 1892. the four hundredth anniver sary of the dlscorery of America by Columuus, as a general holiday for the people of the United States. On that day let the people, so far as possi ble, cease rrom toll and devote themselves to such exercises as may best exnrcss honor to the discov erer and their appreciation of the great achieve ments ofthe four completed centuries of American life. Columbus stood In his age as the pioneer or prog ress and enlightenment. The system or nnlrersal education Is in our age the most prominent and salutary reature of the spirit of enlightenment, and It Is peculiarly appropriate that the schools be marie by the peop'.e the center of tne day's demon stration. Let the national flag float over every schoolhouse in the country and the exercises be such as shall impress upon our youth the patriotic duties of American cltizsnslilp. In the churches and In the other places of as sembly of the people let there be expressions of gratitude to Divine Providence for the devout faith ufthe discoverer and for the Divine care and guid ance which have directed our history and so abun dantly blessed onr people. llrXJAMIX IIAHEISOX. Abont Time to Adjourn. Chicago MaU.l Members of the House ought to go home for awhile. They have been away so long that they have forgotten, if they ever knew, what their constituents want. CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. Japan's theology hai eight hells. American street railways employ 70,76 men. A Cincinnati doctor recommends eatint lemons for rheumatism. A "Windy City Judge last week grantet 8 divorces in SO minutes. Trego county, Kan., paid 5190 for 3,801 pairs of rabbit ears the other day. Queensland, Province of Australia, owe. the largest national debt $310 a head, A German naturalist says feedinj canary birds on cayenne pepper will mat, them red. Addison Moore, colored, of Meridian. Miss., who died recently, was claimed to b 131 years old. Castellina marble, of which parloi statuary Is made, is not marblo at all, but boiled alabaster. A New Brunswick. N. J., minislei recently married an old love who rejectee him 23 years ago. A vocabulary of the Eskimo langnaj has been compiled by M. Sybery, a DanisL official in Greenland. A new edition of Shakespeare in word.' of one syllable is under contemplation foi use in primary schools. Cuban barbers lather their patrons with their hands, from a bowl made to fit undei the chin. No brush is used. On a farm near Carthage, K. Y., there is an elm tree which is said to have beec struck by lightning three times. The Province ot Bhopal, India, is cele brated for the unusually great administra tive powers of its female sovereigns. A mysterious ringing of electric bells It a bouse in Switzerland was traced to a spider, whose web had connected two wiras. The largest floating elevator in the world was launched on January U, 1832, in Brooklyn. Its tower rises 71 feet above lti deck. A piece of ground was recently sold in Chicago at a price, which in silver would, cover tho entire lot with three layers of silver. Grasshoppers attain their greatest size in South America, whore they grow to a. length of five inches, and their wings spread out ten inches. A man with a mind for statistics haa computed that over sixty-five quadrillions! of people have lived on the earth since the beginning of time. Parchment used for covering drums, banjos, etc., is made from the skin of asses, calves, or wolves, tbosepf the wolves being considered tho best. The total income of the French nation has been estimated by M. Lerov Beaulieu at X 1,000,000,000, of which three-fifths 13 the pro duct of personal labor. The Romans used the first shavinj brush and razor 300 B. C, and Plintus tells ns that Sciplo Africnnus was the first indi vidual Roman to shave dally. The hair dressing of ladies was an ex pensive affair in the sixteenth century. Queen Elizabeth' at one time was possessed of no fewer than 80 attires of false hair. One of the simplest and most efficient means of fumigating a room is by droppiuz vinegar slowly npon a very hot iron shovel; a cover from the kitchen range will answer very well. A king snake and a black snake had t lively fight near Chokee, Go., a short time ago. The fight lasted about IS minutes and ended by the king snake swallowing the black snake. Japanese auctions are silent Each bidder writes his name on a piece of paper, which he places in a box. The box is opened by the auctioneer and the goods declared the property of the highest bidder. A very fine collection of tropical plantiv inclnding some of the largest specimens, will be sent from Jamaica to the World's Fair. The arrangements for their trans portation have already been made. Newcsstle-oq-Tyne spent ?50,000,000 some years aso in digging out a shallow stream. The income from that investment has since been $23,000,009. beside tho. increase in tradeand the enhanced value of property. As an instance of how waste materials are now utilized, the product of combus tion from iron furnaces are made to yield sulphate of ammonia to the amount of about 6,000 tons a year besides a quantity of tar. It is a custom of the Carpenters' Union, of San Francisco, to build houses for one another without charging anything for their labor. The owner supplies the land and materials and the carnenters do the rest. There is preserved in Trinity College, Dublin, the harp whose notes were heard in Tara's Hall, when Brian Born was King, and the sight of which insolred Thomas llooro when he was studying at Old Trinity to write bis famous song. About one-half the area of Algiers, which comprises 330,000 square miles la the boundaries of Sahara, is being put under successful cultivation by means of artesian well irrigation. Ihere are now over 13,000 wells In active operation. The old battle-flag of the Forty-third Georgia Infantry, a dilapidated piece of bunting, torn and riddled by bullets, was found the otbor day among the unclaimed packages sold at public auction by an ex press company in Atlanta. It is predicted that the coming mobili zation of the British naval forces will be on a very large scale. With the exception of the Minotaur. Indefatigable and possibly the Latona, all the ships of the Portsmouth Fleet Reserve will be commlsioned. The highest viaducts and bridges in the world are St. Glustina, Tyrol, 160 feet high, 167 feet long, without piers; Garablt, France, 406 feet high, 1,852 lection:.', stone and iron; Du Tiaur (proposed), France, 383 feet hL;h, 1.5C8 feet long, iron arch: Forth, S75 feet, steel. An East Boothbay, Me., man is en gaged in supplying New Tork and New Jer sey summer resorts with se.il3, which are plentiful along the Maine coast, Theso seals do very well for seashore attractions, being objects of unfailing interest to the summer visitors. MXTTEK AND B1IKTU. "How do you get along with your bl- "Well." replied the truthful yonngman."some tlmes one way and sometimes another. Sometimes the bicycle rides me and once in a while I ride the bicycle." Washinoton Star. Mr. Epstein Kachel, I haf planned a pleasant little holiday for you. Rachel Veil, my dear, vot can it be ? Mr. Epstein-I am going to haf a slaughter sale, and you can spend de whole week marking d goods up, tar dear. Chicago Inter-Ocean. Juvenile Soda Clerk Do you live hers, mister? Customer Yep. Then you'll have to wait until the boss comes back from dinner. I ain't allowed toputnpper scriptlons 'cept for strangers that's travella'." Indianapolis Journal. HER SECRET. 'Twas twilight. In the shadow of the porch We sat and watched the coming of the moon. And when at last we saw night's silvery torch, , We both regretted it had come so soon. Then suddenly she Jumped up from her.seat. And with a cry Into my arms she fell; I clasped unto my breast the burden sweet. And gently urged ber secret she would ted. She was a summer maiden, and I knew Full well she suffered not from love's attack: And I was right, for when her breath she drew. She gasped: "That horrid bug's crawled dowa my back. Jg or1t Etentng sun. "If it hadn't been for one thing." said a tough. "I'd a licked that slugger clean on the earth." What was that?" inquired hls.wlfe. "He knocked me out in the first round. " He troit Free Press. "There goes little Mr. Sissy," she said, as they strolled down Charles street, "Isn't ha effeminate in his dress?" Do you think so?" replied her friend. Yes. indeed. Why. he wears suspenders, high collars and sashes Just hke a real womant"-Battf-vwre .Veto. Tapper So you don't altogether like th new pastor's sermons, eh? Dapper-No. they are too profound-they neces sitate too much headwork. Tapper Quite true; I noticed you were nodding thro' his entire discourse yesterday, orioss Oossr-ier. i7 ', ,. .,.... OJM.. fl-l2yTV 4. -T ., . r - SIS . . ?- -J!St-- a..HJ-.tw3 L.TSWntjffl.wHwi- L
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