THE PITTSBURG 'DISPATCH. TUESDAY. JULY 26. 1892. 1 B$pt4 ESTABUSIIKD FEBRUABT 8, 1S48 Vol. 7. No. ITS Entered t Pittsburg Postofflce November, 18S7, u second-clan matter. Business Office Corner Smithfield and Diamond Streets. News Rooms and Publishing House 78 and 80 Diamond Street, in New Dispatch Building. FAFTERK ATtVF-RTTSINO nmrj. ROOM TO. TRIBUNE BUILDING. NF.W YORK. where com r(ete nlesf THE DISPATCH can alwavs be found, foreign advertisers PPr:ate the convenience. Home advertisers and friend of THF. DISPATCH, . while In Mew York, are also made, welcome. jmtnitSPATCBU regularly enrateat Brrntana'i. f.Vnimk Strum, -Ve iork. and V Ave de ropcra. Tarlt. irones. vkm anyone toAn hat betn ditav feinltd ot a luM newt ttand can obtain it. t TERMS OF THE 1MSPATCH. roaTAOK ntU IK THE CICITXD 8TATXS. Tun.TltrATCH. One Tear DAn.TDt8r-ATCn.Fcr Qnarter 500 Dailt Disr ATCH. One Month , 70 Dalt DisrATCH, Including Sunday, lyear.. 10 00 DaILT DisrATCH, including Sunday, Sm'tht, ISO Dailt DierATCH. Including Sunday, 1 mth.. SO Sottdat DisrATCH. One Year S&0 WXKXXT Disr-ATCH. One Year 1 The Daily DisrATCH la delivered by carriers at 31 centa per week, or. Including Sunday Edition, at U cents per week. PITTSBURG. TUESDAY. JULYS. 1SK. TWELVE PAGES WITHOUT RECOMMENDATION. The Senate Committee on Judiciary crept out of a rather small hole as a com promise between Senatorial courtesy and public duty, by reporting Mr. Shiras' nom ination back to the Senate without recom mendation. This, it is said, will result In the confirmation of Mr. Shiras, so that the extraordinary method by which tfcat proper termination of the matter is reached will damace no one except the dignified Senate itself By any theory which supposes that the function of the Senate is to advance the welfare of the public service, the only purpose of referrinE a judicial nomination to the committee was to have an inquiry into the ability of the nominee, his char acter and general fitness for the place. If the committee found any good reason against Mr. Shiras' appointment it was its duty to report that fact to the Senate. But as it is well known that its inquiry would show his qualifications to be of the highest possible rank, that his legal abili ties and unimpeachable character were eminent and peculiar, it was no less its duty to report in favor of the confirma tion. Every one knows that the reason why it omitted to do so is the assertion of the in definite idea that certain Senators have a proprietary and individual ownership In certain appointments; and as the nomina tion was made without regard to that claim the committee reported the nomina tion without recommendation. As this theory overrides the Constitution of the United States, which vests the nominating power in the President, the report lndi cate that the honorable members of the committee prefer to stand neutral between government by the constitution and the office-gr.ibbing propensities of the Sena tois. There is some mitigation in the reflec tion that this idea of usurping the ap pointing power by the Senators is not to be carried to the degree of rejecting so eminently good an appointment as that of Mr. Shiras to the Supreme Bench. But it goes altogether too far for the reputation of the Senate when it prevents the Judi ciary Committee from making the report it ought to. rESTEKDATS EVENTS. The labor situation yesterday was quiet "While important incidents were taking place on both sides everything was con ducted in a peaceful and orderly manner. The pledge of the Advisory Committee on behalf of the men and the earnest counsel of the leaders for a strict observance of law was faithfully followed. Among the incidents of the day was the release of Hugh O'Donnell, and three other Homestead men upon ball, Judge Magee holding that there was nothing in Uie evidence to warrant his detention. A report that Andrew Carnegie had authorized the signing of the Amalgama ted scale caused a brisk temporary stir. It was received with expressions of great satisfaction; but, later in the evening, a denial was made by Secretary Lovejoy. Meantime reports from London state that Carnegie Is being severely criticised there for his silence. The Associated Press says he cannot be found. The condition of H. C. Prick was gener ally better yesterday and gave to his phy sicians increased hope of his recovery. The prosecution of the Anarchist Berk man was begun by six informations, and alleged accomplices were arrested. The notable feeling through the day was one of confidence and gratification at the disposition upon all sides to see that law and order are faithfully observed. It may reasonably be said that upon this score no further apprehensions are enter tained. THE ANTI-OPTIONS ERROR. The argument on the anti-options bill in the Senate brought out from Senator George the statement that on one day in the cotton exchanges 1,500 bales of wind cotton had been sold for one bale of genu ine cotton that actually changed hands. This is indisputably an illustration of the extent to which business gambling is carried on under the pretense of deal ing in commercial staples; but it does not make good the claim of the anti-options bill to be passed. In the first place that measure is urged on the ground that the market for genuine staples is depressed by the sale of options. But anyone who con siders Senator George's statement for a moment will recognize that If any man tried to depress the cotton market by selling 1,300 times as 'much cotton as there was in that market he made himself the prey of the cornerer. For every seller of the wind cotton there must be a buyer, and if the market was as largely oversold as in the case Senator George presents, the buyers would not miss the opportunity to squeeze the sellers and put the price up instead of down. But suppose that the support of the anti-option measure is dictated by a pure and selfish desire to slop the evils of business gambling, what does Sen ator George's illustration amount to. All the money that is wagered on race tracks is won and lost at gambling; but does that prove that the breeding of fast horses should be pro hibited by law. The legitimate uses of fast trotters and runners are in no respect more important than the legitimate pur poses of future contracts for the delivery of grain, cotton or other staples. Whether any measure for the suppres sion of business gambling is practicable or not, it'is plain that one which forbids legitimate transactions is not proper. A DOUBTFUL SUPERIORITY. It is related of Mr. Gladstone that once when he was asked to make a speech at a dinner party he rose and told the company that after-dinner speeches were not in his line. The New York Sun says that any one who ever heard Gladstone make an after-dinner speech will believe this; which Hibernianism is less importanj than the comparison which the Bun pro ceeds to make. Mr. Gladstone's after-dinner speeches, we are told, are just what they ought not to be. It is full of erudition, or a solemn sermon on the moral laws with a practical application thereof, or a vehement harangue on some exciting question of party politics. Moreover, hardly any of the eminent Englishmen of the present day can make good after-dinner speeches. England once had a good post prandial orator, says the Sun, namely, Benjamin Disraeli;' and the only approximation to that class now is Henry Labouchere. On the other hand, our cotemporary promptly remarks: "We have scores, hundreds, thousands of perfectly delightful after dinner speaters among our American pub lic men." When we turn over this comparison in our minds, it may produce a doubt whether after all it is to the advantage of the oratory of this country. We believe that Mr. Edgar Fawcett remarks that suc cessful after-dinner speaking requires qualities incompatible with the higher plane of oratory; and the Sun's statement of the Gladstonian disqualification in that art goes far toward corroborating the as sertion. The exercise of oratory where wide learning, earnestness of conviction, or high principle are out of place, where there is no use for close reasoning, or any applicability for the talent of convincing the public on subjects of moment, is not one in which our alleged superiority affords any good ground for pluming our selves. When we find that the English exemplar of after-dinner eloquence was the great charlatan of nineteenth century statesmanship, a man to whom convic tions were a joke and principles only useful for the convenience of discarding them, and whose one attractive feature was bis opinion that the whole game of public life was a gigantic farce, it permits a doubt whether it is complimentary to this nation to hear of its superiority in so second-class and meretricious an art Perhaps these qualifications for festal spouting may explain the way in which some of our noted orators present a new illustration of the "never Is but always to be best," each by being constantly on the eve of the greatest effort of his life, and never achieving it HAMBURG'S PECULIAR QUARANTINE The measures which some of the Euro pean cities are taking to quarantine them selves against the spread of cholera, em phasizes the necessity for extreme vigil ance on the part of the United States au thorities. Thus the city of Hamburg im agines that it serves its own protection by enacting that infected Russians if any, bound for America shall be shipped straight through. They are not to stop anywhere, but will be hustled on with the infection to reach their destination and spread the disease in the shortest possible time. The selfishness which is willing to spread epidemics over the whole world so that Its own city is protected is not peculiar to Hamburg. But there has rarely been a more egregious example of gros3 stupidity. This silly way of hurry ing on people supposed to be infected, to whatever point they wish to go, is the best that Hamburg can do to spreading the epidemic all over the world. And if that German city should succeed in keep ing clear of the infection by this policy of hustling the emigrants through her rail ways and port, how much better off will she be when she has exposed herself to contagion from all sides. Intelligence might reccognize that the clearest self protection lies in localizing the disease, instead of spreading it to the widest degree. If Hamburg ships us steamship car goes of 'cholera, it will be regretted that humanity prevents our shipping them back to her. But before that is done might not our consular agents have something to say, as to that pleasant method of sending a pleasant epidemic. Perhaps orders that the United States will refuse papers to vessels sailing for its ports under such arrangements might interfere with Hamburg's pleasant little sanitary arrangement NO PROGRESS IN DRESS REFORM. The annual meeting at Chautauqua has brought out anew the subject of feminine dress reform. Its most vigorous mani festation was in the form of a discourse by Mrs. Parker, of Chicago. That lady as serts that the heavy skirts, the tight bodices, the high-heeled shoes, the bands, collars and trails of women's dress are un sanitary, unaesthetic, barbarous and de grading. While this is strong language, the im partial mind cannot impeach its -accuracy; but the impartial mind can ask what is its outcome. Last year dress reform was agitated at Chicago with such enthu siasm and organization as to produce some hopes of definite results. But after the lapse of a year, the visible results can be summed up as consisting" of the sus penders which would be a mitigation If they were worn for use instead of show; the trained skirts on the streets which is an aggravation; and the same old con tinued reign of the corset Perhaps an explanation of this last actual reform may be found in the .fact that this year's dress reformer at Chicago does 'not approve of die reform garments in favor last year. In other words besides the appearance of thefemina zarium et temper multibus in dress reform as in fashions, the femin ine mind, not less than the average mascu line, requires a standard and model to dress its earthly frame by; To change the fashion is easy -enough, but to emancipate ourselves from the, standards df Parisian haberdashery which turn out the fashions is as yet impossible. Fashions- have long demonstrated xheir superiority to reason,, to aesthetic principles and to' considera tions of health. Dress reform, therefore, may be a possibility when' the feminine mind is so altered as to prefer comfort, health and true art to the whims of some unknown authority the "reverse of repu table, on the other side of the ocean; 'but there is little prospect of its coming sooner. Perhaps this reform may be hastened by some change in the methods of female education. But in the belief that-the women of to-day are quite good enough for the men, the zeal for this fundamental improvement Is not manifest Thebe is little enough to be said in de fence of Commissioner Baum, bnt Justice demands the recognition of the fact that a Democratic Congress would view bis actions with a good deal less disfavor If lie were not a Republican appointee. Alleghenians are erring out for pure crater, And It is a blessing as ranch to be de sired a.9 it is hard to obtain In these parts. Congress appears muchly inclined to cripple the World's Fair by ro fusing neces sary funds. But the majority of the House should remember that the national credit is now- pledged for the success of the Chicago undertaking. A remarkable accident happened yesterday. The Pittsburg ball team de feated the Brooklyn -players. Lightning and locomotive sparks are about equally effective in the destruction of property, but they differ In the faot that the former is at present unpresentable while the latter can be utterly stopped. When a pork packer's establishment is In flames he naturally remark's that the fat la In the lire. To-night Allegheny Councils will en deavor to eleot an auditor to keep their finances in order and prevent the losses which they have suffered In the past. Patti tares so well on farewell tours that they are naturally a frequent occurrence. Me. W. K. "Vanderbilt may find more difficulty In raising his sunken million dollar yacht than he usually experiences in raising; funds. Habrtty will soon find that Carter has the whip hand. If the adjournment of Congress be further -adjourned, Congressmen will have only themselves to thank for their overheated discomfort. The sun takes no rummer vacation. America has seldom shown a more united falling than the prevalent one now of physical dampness and atmospheric warmth. MASTERS OF MEX. Mrs. French-Sheldon is hard at work on her forthcoming volume describing her African experiences. The widow of Se nator Plumb declined to receive the $5,000 which it is customary to pay to the families of deceased Senators. August Babel, the leader of the more temperate branch of the German Socialists, is abont to publish a book entitled ' 'History of German Social Democracy." John Tenniel, the veteran cartoonist of London Punch, is in his 73d year. .Tenniel ts a one-eyed man, having lost his left optic while fencing with a incnd at the age of 20. It is stated in Quebec that the Prince of Wales will visit Canada next year and make a trip to the Pacific ooast over the Canadian Pacific, stopping at the World's Fair en ronte. The first woman dentist in the world is said to have been Alme. Hlrschfeldt, who afterward became dentist to the family of the late Emperor William. She Is a graduate of Pennsylvania College. The youngest officer in the Union army to wear the "double stars" was General Pennypacker, of Pennsylvania. He was a colonel of volunteers at 20 and a brevet major general when but six mouths past his 22a birthday. Mr. Gunter, the author of "Mr. Barnes of New York," "Mr. Potter of Texas" nnd various other successful transatlantic novels, is just on to the right side of 0. He was lor many years a railway clerk before he made his great success. Harold Marsh Sewall, whose resig nation as Consul General at Samoa has been accepted by the President, s 31 years old, and has been for seven years in the diplo matic service. When appointed to Samoa be was Vice Consul at Liverpool, bis first diplomatic post. Hale Caine, the most popular of living English novelists, complains that the spirit of modern flotlon is cynicism, lie also ac cuses modern literature, especially that of England, with lacking invention; and fol lowing the side tracks ol dialect, descrip tion and local manner in order to cover this defect. THE EXPOETATION OF GOLD. It Is an Item That is Often Forgotten In the Statistics. Boston Herald. It is said that nothing can be made to mis represent facts more effectively than figures. They are twisted and turned, and made to convey false impressions, with a view to de ceiving the unwary constantly. An instance of this Is seen just now in a method that is fashionablo of representing the exports of the United States from the years IMS to 1850 so as to leave one of the most important ex ports of the country out of the list ot articles represented. That article wa gold. Gold whs discovered In California at that time. Many thousands ot the American people were engaged for years in producing It. It was sent out of the country in scores of millions of dollars in value. It was a thorougnly legitimate article of export, and one of the most valuable that could be. To appreciate this, let us suppose that we had been denied the opportnnity to ex change it for what was needed here, and gold had been compelled to be kept in the country, we should have been in the condition of the fabled Midas. The gold In California was valuable to us just as far as we could put it in circula tion. In exporting It, and receiving in return other things that we wanted lure, we had an article of production ot un equaled value to us. Among the richest nations of the world have been the nations that could mine gold for export, because gold commands the leturn most readily ot everything else of value. Yet these figures, seeing gold exported, and this nation growing rich as it never grew rich before as one of the results, sap lently put. It aside as not belonging in the nation's resources Cor exporting purposes. Figures were never quite so bewilderlngly misleading as they would be if such pro ceedings as this w ere allowed to pass with out questioning. The same wiseacres, of course, counted the balance of foreign trade against us because we were so fortunate as to have this gold at our command. WANTED TO HEAR BEECHES. An'Aged Block Island Couple Was Grlev onsly Disappointed. Sew York, Jnly 25. She had on a black silk dress of the stiff and starchy sort that our grandmothers used to wear to church on Sunday morning, and her bonnet was a black Leghorn grotesquely trimmed with artificial cherries and a green twig or two. She was bent and sere and her face was deeply lined with wrinkles. Her face had a kindly look, though'she peered through her old-fashioned silver-rimmed spectacles with a tired and timid look. He was old, too; older than his wife, and even' more quaintly dressed. His face was sharp and.weazened, but his eyes had a cer tain shrewdness in them still. They were standing yesterday morning in Mont of Plymouth dutch in Brooklyn; and both were" reading with considerable diffi culty a placard on the Iron seated entrance, wbioh stated that the church was closed for the summer. Dear-ine," sighed the dear old lady, "can it be, Joslah, that they shet up the meetin' houses here on the Sabbath day jes' 'cause it's sort of a warm spell?" , "Seems .so, t'uny rate, Maria," replied (Josiah, chewing vigorously on a cud of something or. oiher. "Seems so. Well, we might's well so back, I reckon." -It' too bad," said the old lady. "I did want t' hear Mr. Beecher, too, 'nd no mis take,' They say he's a right smart talker." Tliey were from tne west shore of Block Islani 2l ISnllilngJn the Democratic Camp. St. Lists Globe-Democrat! TheBepubllcans who opposed Harrison at Minneapolis are now all supporting him, but the Democrats who opposed Cleveland at Gaioago have not yet accepted the situa tion. . Staking Fan of Himself. Boston HentVl.3 .General Bngg is sure that Wisconsin is go ing Democratic.' It Is just possible that he is funning on his name, however. .THE AURORA IN DISPUTE. rWJHTTKT FOR TUB DISrATCn.J The auroral exhibition on the night of July 18 was on a much grander scale than usual. The magnetic arch was very clearly defined, the pedis or columns of flame came and went in quick succession; but the finest featuro was the rapid dashing of the white, misty light, which might be likened to the storm-tossnd snrges of some magnetic ocean. This leaturo, in its rapidity of motion, ex ceeded anything of the kind ever before ob served by the writer, and it is evident that the phenomenon was unusually near the earth. There were also the peculiar coloring, tints that are hard to define, probably our basic oo'.ors, but with sucliflne distinctions of shading as to suggest something outside of our primary order. All storms are disturbed natural forces seeking equilibrium. Winds represent un equal atmospherio temperature and pressure in the effort to equalize again, and when' this Is accomplished there is qulesoence untU this equilibrium is again too much dis turbed. Causes or tbe Aurora. Lightning and thunder are the phenomena that represent the disturbed electrical forces again regaining normal relationship, which, when once established, Insures tranquility until another ebulition comes with similar consequences. A magnetic storm, better known as the aurora borealls, is simply the exhibition that attends tbe restoration of the disturbed magnetio forces of a given area, and is generally found attendant to a sudden change of temperature, either from cold to warm, or warm to cold, preferably the latter. Unlike winds or thunder and lightning, which are equally recognizable in the day time or night time, and the first mentioned, during cloudy as well as in clear weather, this exhibition is only seen on a clear night, though the forces may be at work at any time. Only when the disturbance is much creator than usual, when the magnetic cur rents poleward are greatly interfered with, is tho storm of such magnitude as to be vis ible. We may consider the equatorial belt as the magnetic "divide," over which an auroral display would necessarily be very unusual, If not altogether impossible. The magnetic current there receives its initial Impulse, or rathor, its impulse, which is really from the sun, there finds its initial effect, and, having the entire circumference of the globle and consequently being most uncoucentratcd,is least liable to disturb ance. But, as from nil sides the current travels polowurd, it more and more concentrates, until a latitude is reached where an occa sional storm is manifested, and this ten dency increases until, as we go within the polar circles, the long polar nights are one continuons luminous display of almost In describable grandeur. An Invisible Exhibition. The same thing is going on during the Ion; polar day, but is, of course, invisible. Since the above was written The Dispatch has come to hand, with Prof. Brashettr's explanation, referring such phe nomena to solar disturbances. Some years ago the writer had occasion to differ from about the entire corps of scien tific people In this country, as well as in Europe, on what caused the singular alter snnsetglows which took place In Octobernnd November.1883. Whether by chance or what ever be had the satisfaction of seeing one by one abandon his first announced solution and take the ground announced within three days of the commencement of the phen omena. The potency of the sun spot, or the solar phenomena of whatever character, should not be limited or restricted in its magnetio generative or what ever it is that we recognize as the aurora borealls, to just a given number of hours, not to a given locality. The hypothe sis lr it hRs reached such a stage utterly fails to explain the continuous magnetic displays in hlh northern regions. The writer pi efers to stand by bisposition, which he thinks lie has reached by a careful analysis, and In doing this no discourtesy is intended to other investigators. Let us gather what we can on the diamond-studded shores of knowledge and devoutly and reverently lav. what contributions we mar. to the common store of 'Tneans to lift us1 higher to a knowledge of the universe. N. A ST0B7 ABOUT F03TEB. During His College Days He Showed Up a Pmnrt Profemor. Philadelphia, July 25. The first stir Sec retary Foster made in tbe world was back In his college days. There was a professor who considered himself nn authority on ancient history. He had written several books and was apparently a talented man. He used to deliver carefully prepared lec tures to the students, and when they proved successful the professor would arrange for a vacation, and take his lecture out to en lighten audiences who regarded him in the llsht of a. sreat man. Finally, a lecture had made an unusually -good impression upon I tue ciass, ana tne nroiessor iook as usual to the platform. He was scoring uncommon success with his careluliy arranged facts and brilliant opinions, when a young student named John W. Foster created a sensation by drawing tho deadly parallel on the professor. In one colnmn was the great educator's last and most wonderful effort, while side by side with it were extracts from an old Greek author that conclusively proved that the professor was hand In hand with the less familiar classics, and had more ability to quote than to be original. Foster's attaok 011 the professor was so well upheld that the college hsd to take oognizance of the pro fessor's peculiar action. The State was aroused by it, the papers took it up, and it even entered into that year's politics. As a reiult of It all. the proiessor was finally compelled to leave the place. IN BALLOON ABOVE GOTHAM. A New York Company Organized for the Carrying of Passengers. New York, July 25. It is proposed that about August 1 and for some time thereafter New Yorkers and others shall have an op portunity to view the metropolis from an altitude of 1,000 feet The Manhattan Air Ship Company, re cently organized under the laws of New Jersey, will begin to carry people through the air as soon as the arrangements can be oompleted. E. B. Yaesard as general man ager, and Leon Laix as chief aeronaut, have the enterprise in charge. A baUoon, said to be the largest ever brought to this country, will be used. It is 60 feet in diameter, with a basket nine feet In diameter. The balloon is made of the finest pongee silk. Twenty-two halyards, fastened to anchors In the ground, will keep tbe balloon from moving away. A cable, operated by a 40 horse-power engine, will control the ascent and descent. Adyna momoter will indicate the tension of the cable, and a telephone will make it possible to communicate from the balloon with the engineer. ' The company has engaged the block be tween One Hundred and One Hundred and First streets and First and Second avenues, and ascents are to be made there as soon as the machinery arrives and is put in working order. A STATUE OF ANDEBSEN. A Monument to Be Erected In Chicago for the Child-Poet Chicago, July 25. Chicago will soon have a statue of Hans Christian Andersen, the sweet Danish singer. About six months ago the -Danes of the city appointed a committee for the purpose of erecting a monument to the memory of the charmer ot childhood, the gentle bard ol Norseland. The committee has done good work and has nln-ftdy accepted a design lor a statue to be erected in one of the parks. The successful sculptor is Johannes Ge lert. His conception at once chaste and ap propriate, beautiful and artistic ill the best senxe. and unmistakably Inspired by the subject of the work. The design represents the singer of nature's charms sealed on a tree stump by the edge'of water. Coming up to him is a swan, one or thoe graceful birds tbatthe poetloved so woll. The gliding bird does not disturb the poet, who Is pic tured as writing. The idea to be Immortal ized in bronze is Andersen writing tho ex quisite poem which tells of "The Uzly Duck ling That Became a Beautiful Swan." The committee has computed that $10,000 will be needed to complete tbe monument. Of tho required sum $1,000 have already been subscribed. Cleveland Making Lore to the Tiger. Chicago News. Mr. Cleveland is apparently trying to con ciliate the tiger belore meal-time comes. THE S0AD QUESTION AGAIN. Both Foderal and State Legislations Are Urgod as Proper Bleasnres. Portland Oregonlan. The free and continued discussion of the subject of good public highways, which has been going on In the press for the past year, has evidently done a great work of educa tion. People everywhere are beginning to look upon It as an Important public question. Persons who do not go nut into the country and travel the highway from one year's end to the other are beginning to take an Interest in the subject, because they are learning how Important it is to them from a business point of view. It is not only the farmer who suffers from poor roads. His expenses are increased by bad roads, and his products net him les. yet he Is not tho only one who loses. If he cannot go to market he cannot buy hlsgoods, and the country merchant, blacksmith and all others who depend upon him for trade suffer also. The next stazels the stagnation of business in the cltv because of dml times in the country. Every man, woman and child whose living depends unon the pros perity of the community and the regular transaction of business suffers from the em bargo the wretched roads place upon business in the country, because ot the in ability of the farmer to reach lown with his products. Good roads xre essential to prosperity. It is a question that affects everybody, and one well worthy the attention of Congress and State Legis latures. Already the sublect hoy been brought to the attention of Congress by senator Man derson, who has introduced a bill creating a national highway commission. In Senator Manderson's bill the advocates of good pub Ho highways have something definite to support and urge, and disousslon of the sub ject is likely to do good, whether or not it shall appear upon reflection that building or country roads Is a proper function of the Federal Government. While this discus sion is going on, State legislation should not be neglected, since it is Irom local effort that the greatest progress must coino. The local highways must be built by tho coun ties or district" through which they run. Whether the National Government takes hold of this subject or not, emancipation from mud and business stagnation must be achieved by the effort of those who would enjoy it A FIGHT WITH A BEAB Which Brings About tno Happy Meeting of Sister and Brother. Santa Fe., N. M , July 25. James Moore, a native of St. Louis, for years a piospeotor In the Magdalena Mountains, had a hand-to-band encounter with a wounded she-bear near Magdalena four weeks ago. He now lies at St. Vincent's Hospital, in this city, with six deep gashes in his fao e and nock, and one of whleh would have brought death to a man of le-s nerve. He has tho use of but one eye, and wounds In his chin and throat pre vent him from eating. Quite a little romance attaches to the nervy man's Western life. Thirteen years ago he left his home In St. Louis, and has for ten years past been mourned as dead by his lister, Mrs. Thomas B. Miller, of that city. When so severely mangled by the bear he confided to a Socorro county friend his sister's nameyand address, and said in case he died he wanted his sitter notified. 'The friend, deeming his recovery Impossible, notified the lady 01 her brother's mUlortuno and gave her news of bis whereabouts. This was the first tidings his sister had heard of him in all these years. In the meantime she had man-led Mr. Miller. The latter gentle man arrived here and brought with him many gifts for the sufferer. In order to identify himself he also brought a number of handkerchiefs, a music-box and other articles which formerly belonged to Mr. Moore, and which he had, upon leaving home, left In care of his sister. Although entile strangers to each other, the meeting between the men was a happy one. Mrs. Miller arrived from St Louts yesterday, and will remain until her brother's recovery is lully assuied. THE HEAVENS WOULD NOT OPEN. Rainmakers In South Dakota Failing to K-ep Their Contract Herhosa, S. D., July 25. The "rainmak ers" representing the Goodland Artificial Bain Company, of Kansas, left after five days' unsuccessful effort to produce rain. The terms of the contract under which they came were that rain should be produced ar tificially without a reasonable doubt in the minds of the committee. They were to have a trial of five days. If the conditions as to wind and temperature were Unfavorable the trial was to extend to ten days. Ifsno cesslul they: were. to have 1500 for their "sample rain" and a specified sum- for) the "lights", to this section. The conditions were all favorable. Almost daily thunder storms, having their sources either at the head of Belle Fourohe or the Cheyenne, would pass either to the north or south of Hermosa. sometimes overlapping the town sufficiently to sprinkle, the sprinkle of Sunday rising almost to the dig nity of a shower. It Ts stated tbe "rain makers" claim credit for Sunday's rain. The storm, however, was central over Rapid City or some point even further North, ami Hermosa was not paying for rain for Bapid City. B0HANTIC AND YET MATEEIAL. A Man Marries After a Few Hours Ac quaintance and Then Gets Left Paris, Tex., July 25. An interesting bit of romance Comes from Ardmore, I. T.. in which a man named Strain and Mrs. Biffle, proprietress of tne Planters' Hotel, were the hero and heroine, and who have demonstrated that with them marriage Is a failure. The contracting parties In this drama had been acquainted only a few hours when they were married. Strain had offered $100 to any one who could find him a wife. By accident he went to the Planters' Hotel to boaid. On meeting Mrs. Biffle he was deeply smitten, and at once proffered his heart, hand and fortnno to the widow. She accepted him, believing him to be wealthy, while he was seeking a home. They were married, and for a part ot a day and night everything moved along pleasantly, but she was a business woman, and coolly demanded of her husband the payment of his board bill. He coolly Informed her that ho had no money, whereupon she unceremoniously turned him out o. tne house. HABBIS0N AND HUMBEBT. Exchange Vieanant Compliments Over the King's Gracious Proposition. Washington, July 25. The following is the correspondence between President Harrison and King Humbert: Washington, Jnly SI. 18M. His Majesty, Humbert I., King of IUIy, Rome: The offer to send an Italian cruiser to participate in the ceremonle at New York, la October, affords me occasion to express to yoar Majesty my gratifi cation atthlsslgnal tribute to the long and steadfast friendship or the United States and Italy. Benjamin Harrison. To this telegram King Humbert responded as follows: MONZEA. Royal Castle. July 23, 1892. Benjamin Harrison, President of the United i-tated: In the solemnisation at New York of glorious re membrances, my will was that, by its participation, my Government might attest tbe sound friendship which binds Italy to the great people of the United States. I thank you for liarlng so nobly received this, my sentiments. Humbert. Cafs-Paws for Grover. Chicago Inter-Ocean. Chairman Harrity's motto is: "To the vic tors belong the spoils, and the man who says they don't can't prove it." Mr. Cleveland is the man' who pretends to say they don't, but he always takes care to appoint to office Just suoh men ns Harrlty and Stephenson. Tney wield the ax while he does the talking. DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE. James Nee!. James Heel, one of the most wealthy, prominent and philanthropic old citizens of the Monougaheli Valley; died at St Francis Hospital. Pittsburg, at 10:45 o'clock Sunday night, aged 76 years, and yi lth his demise closes the life of one of the most worthy pioneers of t lie Monongahela coal region. The deceased was a resident or jlonon- f;ahela City and was a pioneer coal, uralier and river man. He was born In MIBlIn township. opposite this city. Scpu-mber 24. 1317. and 35 years ago established a lumber business In McKeeeport frm which the firm orMeel Jfc Wainpler formed. He established the first lumber yards in McKeesport In the days of the early river coal business he also engaged In the coil business and ran coal to ew Orleans, aud'was the owner of tbe famous steam boat Grand l.auc. He was very wealthy, held inant positions of trust and was a stockholder In the Farmer' Deposit Bink of Pittsburg, and also a director In the Monongahela City Machine Com -pany. He leaves a wife and live children, namely: Mrs. Clark, of Coal Centre: Jamea and C.iarles. who arc at home; Thomas S.. a lumber dealer at Fuller, l'a., and .William,, abo in the lumber business. Obltn.lry Notes. ' THE Bight Rev. Thomas Leigh Claughton, re cently Bishop at St. Albans, is dead at London. Thohas Nicxebson. 'aged SI years, died at his residence in Boston Sunday evening. He was the tint President of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, and had been Presldentor.the Mexico Central Railroad. r AS TO RAISING HATS. Point In Correct Behavior Made by a Center County Inquirer Back From Atlantic City Notable Visitors at Bedford Gossip of Society. A young gentleman of Center county is in a predicament, as follows, which he has requested The Dispatch to free him from: "Suppose," he says, "that two gentlemen are walking down street togethor and, should meet a lady with whom only one of the men Is acquainted. Would it be proper for both gentlemen to 'Hd' their hats, or only the one who is lier acquaintance?" It seems scarcely necessary to In lorm the inquirer that if he should replace the number 2 in his question with 26, there would be 26 hats raised in greeting to the lady. The 25 other men raise their hats in deference to the friend of their friend. To embrace a still wider Scope.a greeting In any party where there are ladles, no matter how nnmorous the strangers or few the acquaintances, every man should un cover his bead. A Party of Pittsburgers returned yester day from Atlantic Citv.among whom where: James S. McKean, Esq., D. Nelson, Mrs. Thomas L. Daly, Miss Daly nnd Mr. Hurry C. Daly, Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Kramer. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel B. Hnbley, Mr. and Mrs. R. A. JlcKcan, Miss Agnes McKean, Miss Annie ft. McClnre, Mr. W. B. McKean. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Poplcin. Mnjor and Mrs. Pollock and Mrs. H. H. Penney. Among the distinguished visitors at Bed ford is Sirs. P. J. Haldcman, of Harrisburg, a daughter of the late Simon Cameron, and a leader in the social circles of the Pennsyl vania capital, which or late, through Mrs. Paulson's influence, has become more bril liant than' the past. Mrs. Haldeman led a fashionable gorman at the hotel on last Weanoxdnv evening. Mrs. William H. House, of Pittsburg, is a conin of Mrs. Haldeman, being a nioco of Mr. Cameron. Social Clutter. A partt of peonlo chaperoned by Mrs. D. P. Blnck, of the Boulevard, came home yes-, terday from Llgonier delighted with one of the most attractive mountain spots in West ern Pennsylvania. Another set of Sewick leyans returned nt the same time from Ell wood, where Sunday and Saturday were spent. Floating In on the waves of a fan: Next summer the ladles' and children's stockings must bo the exact shnde of their boots and shoes. The special manufacturers of hosiery In Pittsburg al ready ore in communication with the shoe dealers about the various shades of tan to be used the coming sum mer. Mr. George N. Botd, Assistant General Passenger Agent of tho Pennsylvania Rail way, is solournlne with Mrs. Boyd and young Mr. Oliver Royd at Congress Hall, Cape May. The Inte intense heat has driven Mr. Al bert Ulricli, of Allegheny, to the country near Ingram, w here ho lias taken a cottage for his wile and tamily. Mr. J. Jat White, who for the past few years has been traveling in the South, is in the city on his way to Brookville, to visit his parents and friends. Mr. W. H. McCleixand. of Pittsburg, was a recipient in Philadelphia or the hospital ity of the Athletic Clnb of the Schuylkill Navy. . Mrs. Willis H. Smith, of Oakland Sqnare, Is visiting her sister, Mrs. W. W. Stevens, of West avenue, Buffalo. Mr. George Lies has left the city to spend a few weeks at Kelley's Island. Miss Lide Severance, of Lincoln avenue. Is at Jamestown, &. I. A LOST XIHE FOUND. After an Eibantlv Search Three Hen Strike It Very Rich. Boise City, Idaho, July 25. Lost mine sto ries are common in the West, and as a gen eral thing people place little reliance in them. A true story of the discovery of a lost ledge comes from Leinlle county, in this State. The incident has caused a wide spread sensation in Idaho mining circles. Late in tbe fall of 1S61 F. B. Sharkey, BUI Smith and O. E. Mulkey, all of Salmon City, were up on a hunting trip to Fish Lake. One day, while starting a deer, one of the men accidentally discovered a marvelously rich deposit of decomposed gold quartz. So completely disintegrated had the quartz formation become that tbe gold could be washed out, and within a week the three men had secured 50 ounces of the precious' metal. Their supplies running 'short and winter coming rapidly on, the men concealed the opening they hiid made and returned to Salmon City. Early In the following spring they purchased nu expensive outfit and started ont to work their bonanza. To their dismay they could not find the ledge. The storms of the winter had obliterated every landmark, and a month's hunt resulted fruitlessly. They returned to Salmon City, and tbe story leaked out, and they were laughed at. From that time np to two weeks ago or ganized parties of prospectors have contin ued to hunt for the bonanza. Smith and Mulkey long ago gave up the search in disgust, but Sharkey persevered. Last week he and William Burrows and P. Amonson ran across the ledge, which they nt once lo cated. They will work the claim, having already refused several tempting offers. A Boise expeit says the .men have one of the richest and most inexhaustible gold mines In the world. MET AFTEB MANY YEABS. A Denver Man Is at Ist Reunited to His tost Plancer. St. Louis, July 25. Byron Baker, a Denver "commercial tourist," at the Richelieu Hotel here last night, in a most romantic manner, was rennited to his lost fiancee, Miss Anna McKlnney, of Petersburg, Va. Some seven years ago Sliss McKlnney and Mr. Baker, during exercises at Washington Lee University at Lexington, met and be came suddenly attached to each other. An engagement was the result of their meeting and tb'elr marriage was to have been con summated a year later. Miss McKlnney re turned to her home and Baker left for Colo rado to accept a. position as a commercial tourist for a boot and shoe house. When the appointed time lor their marriage rolled around, the wedding was postponed on account or the death of Miss McKlnney's mother. The young lady lert her old home after the death of her mother to reside with her aunt Mrs. C. B. Hosier, of Dubuque, la. Mr. Baker was constantly on the road, and, not being advised of the change In tbe ad dress of his Intended, thev lost sight of each other until last night, when Mr. Baker, ar riving at the Richelieu from Denver on his way back to Virginia to pay a visit to friends, learned that bis long lost love had arrived at the Richelieu Wednesday even ing. Two . hours later there was a happy meeting in the parlor, and as Miss McKln ney was en route to visit her old home, the happy pair left this morning-together for Richmond. LECTURES TO CHAUTAUQUANg, The Women's Club Listens to Discussions of Two Interesting Topics. Chautauqua. N. T., July 25. Special. This morning tho Women's Club listened to a lecture Dy Miss Alice Stone on "The Nurse and Her Duties." Though there is no nurse like a mother, even she can be improved upon by sickness in her own family to bring out her loving kindness and faculties as a nurse. Trained nursing is growing to be 'a great profession, and Miss Stone gave some very interesting facts regarding the work as well as telling of some of the duties devolv ing upon her. President Gates, of Amherst, talked of the "Duty of School to State," finding food in his snbject for much serious thought. "The school does not do its duty," he said, "whon It simply teaches the young people such facts as appear in books, but it should Inculcate in them a devout respect for laws nnd the powers of tbe State. As from the ranks of the college men come the majority of tho rulers of the country, It is well that in them should be bred a love of Justice and right that they may not go astray through other motive than an 'error ol judgment. The forms of all governments should be taught that their mistakes can be passed by and' their successes followed." This morning Prof. Duryea lectured on Shelley, giving a large audience a great lit erary treat This evening Prof. Merrill, tbe Chautauqua teacher of elocution, read the story of fismarelda to a large audience. Getting Off Bather Cheaply. Buffalo Express. Calvin S. Brlce says the last Democratic campaign cost him 1500,000. Mr. Harrlty Is to be congratulated. The Democratic House of Representatives Is printing; his campaign literature for him. The Issna of tha Campaign. New York Morning Advertiser. Protection tempered with reciprocity is what tbe American people will indorse at tbe poll in November. CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. Brandy was first made In France ii 1310. In Mexican theaters one has to pay foi each act separately. There are 1,000,000 and more species 0 Insects to the world. The first dictionary was made by Cain ese scholars B. C. 1109. In California there are oak trees in ex istence nearly 1,000 years old. The bronze cents, such as are in circuit tion now, were first coined in. 186t Drie'd reeds of the sunflower are eater by the poor at Bengal and Bombay. Rhode Island is the only Eastern State in which they allow Sunday baseball. The Davy safety lamp for miners wai invented by Sir Humphrey Davy in 1815. Peter the Great inperintendid th management of the first Russian news paper. Strawberries measuring 12 inches in circumference were grown this suinmet near Colville, Ore, There is a red kangaroo in the Londot zoological garden. Its color is caused by 11 secretion from the skin. The rarest and most desirable coin of the regular mint series is the silver dol lar or 1801, which Is worth $600. Coins are classed, according io their state of preservation, as "proof," "nnclrca lated," "fine," "good," "fair" and "poor." A Philadelphia physician asserts that clam broth is nn elegant suD3titute for alcohol, and cheers but does not Inebriate. All the chickens in the western part of French Guinea are perfe ctly white. It ii impossible to find one with a colorec feather. Underground London has 3,000 miles o sewer's, 34,000 miles of telegraph wires, 3,2r miles of gas pipes and 1,500 miles of watei mains. Quite a popular cigar among some o the rich men of New Tork is a special Henri Clay, which comes in a handsome box wrapped in gold foil, and retails at $1 O apiece. A Massachusetts man has invented a recording device for scales. Upon a roller is placed a piece of paper upon which a marker records the weighings of the scales as desired. The costliest cigars ever brought to this country wre a box ot the brand especially made for the Prince of Wales in Havana, the manufacturer's price for which was $1 87 apiece. There are said to be 13,972 artesian wells west of the 97th meridian, which irri gate more than 100,000 acres of land; 200,000, 000 gallons of water often Sow from a single welL Arthur Bloche, valuer of the Frenoh crown diamonds and an export on the sub ject of gems, states that a transparent pearl 12 carats Is owned by an Eastern potentate and is held at $200 000. The German Government has expended $400,000 in building a factory at Epandau fot the preserving of all kinds of pro visions for the army, and abont 550 operators are to be regularly employed there. Four different peaks in the mountains of Idaho are from' 13 to 23 foot lower by acre ual measurement than they werelSyears, ago. Geologists do not attempt-to explain the "why" of their settling. ( The Empress of Germany has'requested the Minister of Public Instruction to pre vent tbe admission to the art museums of Berlin of young girls unless under the guid ance of teachers or parents. The invention of drawing wire is as cribed to Radolph of Nuremburg, about 1(10. Mills for this purpose were first set np at Nnrembnrg, in 1563. The first wire mill in England was erected In Mortlake, in 1663. The longest tunnel in the world will be that now to be commenced through thi Slmplon. According to the final plan' adopted it will have a-length of 12.6 mile or 3.1 miles more than the St. Gothard'J.'' nel- It is thought that in the giant fern . the tropical regions we have a plant wbic) was largely instrumental in tha formatioi. 'of the coal beds, and that these beds repre sent the enormous swamps of the early geo logic-ages." ' . -!-: A day or two ago what is said to have been the largest fruit train that ever left California" for the East, pulled out of Sacra mento. It consisted of 27 cars, and theso were loaded with peaches, plums, apricots, apples etc. As compared with gas illumination the advantages of electricity on health Is the result of two things. In the first place, the electric light does not draw on the oxygen, and in the second place It gives off no noxious gases. Mr. A. Eea, the Superintendent of the Archaeological Survey, Madras, "has reported and important discovery he has made of another casket, some relics and Inscriptions in the Buddhist stupa at Bbatuprolu in the Kistna district. A piece ot ordinary gingerbread makes a capital barometer. If the atmosphere is In that condition which threatens rain, the gingerbread becomes moist and pliant, while the approach or dry weather restores it to its normal condition. The Belgian Minister of 'Public In struction offers a prize of 25,000 francs for the best memoir of tne meteorological by drological and geological condition of the countries of equatorial Africa, regarded Irom the sanitary point of view. The French Canadians in the United States own $105,328,500 worth of real estate, and 10,696 of them are in business for them selves. There are now 800,000 Frenoh Cana dians In tbe United State. 500,000 of whom are In New England and New York. That wbieh is popularly known as the funny bono, Just at the joist of the elbow, Is in reality not a bone at all, but a nerve which lies near the surface, and which, on getting a knock or a blow, causes the well known tingling sensat ion in the arms and fingers. Asphalt is often fonud combined with limestone a very curious mixture of the vegetable and the mineral. It Is believed that this has been brought about by hot vapors irom decomposing vegetable beds passing through the porous rock: and leav ing the bitumen behind. FLIGHTS INTO rUNNTDOM. "What a jam we had at tbe wigwam!" "Yes, it was not a strawberry Jam either." 'No more like a jlm-Jam." VMcago 31ml. Bellows Now ,if you were in my shoe what do you think you would do? Breeze (examining them) Well,I certainly think I should get another pair. fotton Courier. "When in her bathing suit she trod ', The ocean's sandy bed. Young Cupid, without smile or nod. Just turned his back and tied. Washington Slur. Mr. Van Astor (settling his hotel bill at Barboransett Pier) I say, landlord, I don't object generally to bills, but some of these items areout raieous. What's that S3 for on the 10th. The Landlord (with dlgnlty)-You forgot, sir. that on that day we had your valise moved al your own request from one side of your room to the other. Chicago Feyx Record. A good many people are puzzled just now, And their brains are set in a whirl. For they really want to know, you know, Whence comes the summer girl?" In answer to those who do not know I would simply briefly stale That the now summer girl. Just a month ago. Was a "sweet girl graduate." Brooklyn Eagle, Briggs Did yon know 'that Robinson died suddenly coming over on the train from itostoa the other day? Grtgrs-Oreat heavens, no! What was tha cause or it? Briggs He succeededln openlngthecarwlndow and the shock killed him. Detroit Free Prut.' Bis after-dinner speech was good, Though strung with Latin thick. He said the snbject would be this. But it very sooa was hie, Chicago Inter-Ocean. "Watts I usually manage to swallow most of these newspaper stories, but wh'en'they ten of aa Indian in NewMexIco digging his way out of the Jail with two toothpicks, I weaken. ' Potts I guess you never saw aJNewMexlco tooth pick. IndumapoUt Journal. Chappy I almost inspect Dickey of trying to eut me oat with Laura, don't you know. Penelope Why? Chappy-I taw him kiss her last night. flw Rr EtraU. 4L-U. ,H,l:. SiaEiiskBs
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