-,jr y THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH, TUESDAY. AUGUST 2. 1893. $5a&&. mm ESTABLISHED FEBRUARY 8, lSi6 Vol. 7. So. ISO Entered at Pittsburg P ostottlce ovemfcer, 1657. assecond-clssni alter. Business OfEce Corner Smithfield and Diamond Streets. News Rooms and Publishing House 78 and So Diamond Street, in New Dispatch Building. rATTRN AnVntTISIXO "1TICK. BOOM 78. TRIBUNE BU1I.DIXR. NEW ORE. where com-ir-Iete flies ofTHE DISPATCH can always be round. Foreign adTertlsers appreciate the convenience. Honn advertisers and friends orTHK DISPATCH. v. tile lnAew York, are also niaue welcome. TUFDJSPJ TCHU rttrularl on talent Brentma'i. r; niton .Sauore. ne Jor. arut 17 Uve deCVpcra. Farte. Trance. irAre anyone who hat been altaf twfnffa" atn hotelnewt stand can obtain it. TERMS OF THE lilSPATCH. yOKTAGK TT.S.X C" THE C2jrTXD STATES. -rtr DisrATcn. One Year I on Dailt Dispatch. Per Qnarter ICO Daiit DisrATcn. One Month to Daily Dispatch, Including Sunday. 1 year.. 10 00 Dailt Dispatch Including SundaT. Jra'ths, !M Dailt DisrATcn. Including Sunday. 1 m'th.. SO exrsDXT Dispatcii. One Year ISO V emcly Dispatch. One Year 1 1 The DArLT DiSPATcn Is delivered byearriera at ;: cents per week, or, including tunday Edition, at I' rentu per week. lTTTgBCllH. TUESDAY. AUGUST 2. IKC TWELVE PAGES' THE TIME KIPE TOR A TEST. The first State election since the open ing of the national campaign was held in Alabama yesterday. The contest has been exceedingly bitter between the Farmers' Alliance and Democratic candidates for Governor. The Republicans placed no ticket in the field, hoping to profit In the future by the dissensions in the formerly solid white column. Kolb, the Alliance nominee, was State Commissioner of Agriculture, and claimed a great popu larity among the grangers. Governor Jones was renominated by the regular Democratic Convention. A feature of the canvass has been the promises made by each faction that they would protect the colored voters who cast their ballots with them. The first returns received indicate that the old-line Demo cratic ticket has been successful, and claims are made that large numbers of negroes voted that way. While the result Is not directly satisfactory to those who have desired a break in the solid South, the fact that the colored citizens were allowed to vote at all is an encouraging feature. If later returns bear out the prediction of an overwhelming victory for Mr. Jones yesterday's election can hardly fail to act as a check to the third party campaign, not only in the South, but throughout the country. Western Republican farmers are not likely to allow themselves to be deluded into chasing chimeras while the Southern planters cling firmly to the Democracy. By thus opening the eyes of the enthusiasts of Kansas and Nebraska the result could hardly fail to be benefi cial to the Republican cause. And, even in Alabama, the future is not without promise. The Democrats may have defeated the Farmers' Alliance, but that does not afford a definite indication of the result of a three-cornered struggle, in which protection is an aggres sive feature. Animosities have been en gendered within the hitherto united white ranks which can scarcely be entirelj- ob literated before November. And then, too, the negroes having once been allowed to vote, may insist upon continuing to do so in the more important national contest. The matter should be thoroughly tested by an active and earnest Republican can vass in every Southern State. KTJSSIA'b RIOTS. Our cable dispatch gives the first full account of the Russian cholera riots at Jyre-Darya on July 6. Een Russian . officials are not altogether devoid of a tense of shame, as indicated by the rigid oansorship with which it is sought to keep accounts of these terrible troubles from the more civilized world. That the cholera epidemic should lead the peasants to attack their doctors is hardly surprising when their state of utter ignorance and superstition is remembered. And they would be the more ready to do so since the regulations to stem the plague were issued by a Government, that hasso recently demonstrated its disability even to protect its subjects from starvation. The extent of the suffering to which the Sarts have been subjected is indicated by the most unusually stubborn and furious resistance which the mobs offered to the regular troops. Truly Russia is in a sad plight, and its Czar may well shrink from the enormous and overwhelming task of reform. But, hard though it be to know where to begin, a start toward a happier condition of affairs must be made some where, and that right early, or the coun try and its people will even go from the present more than bad enough to a future whose horrors cannot be hinted at GOLD EXPORT AM) TRADE BALANCE. The renewal of gold exportations from New Tork $4,000,000 being reported as shipped by Saturday's steamers is taken by the New Tork Post as a text on the futility of certain spasmodic efforts to stop the outflow by raking the rate of dis count and endeavoring to meet drafts for sterling exchange with ordinary commer cial drafts. Thence the Post drifts into politics by referring to the- statement of Mr. Funston, of Kansas, in the House that last year's merchandise exports exceeded the imports by 5202,944,342, as follows: Mr. Funston concludes, cheerily, that ire thus learn "that a large amount of the world's gold has been placed to our credit. If not actually landed on our shores and coined Into currency." The McKlnley tariff, ho therefore infers, "has taken a long step toward a solution of the.questlon of Ameri can currency by bringing to our country in one year enough cold to supply every man, woman and child with $3 25." Tho only question remaining, after this lucid demon stration, is when the distribution of the European gold will begin. We presume that the Post does not mean to dispute the accuracy of the trade statistics showing the balance of exports over imports as Mr. Funston cited it That being the case the only cogency of its remarks is that he omitted to give due attention to the phenomenon of gold ex portation against a favorable trade balance. But it is evident with reference to the gold exportation that one of two things must be true. Either the foreigners are borrowing gold -from this country, in which case, as Mr. Funston says, the gold is placed to our credit, or "they must be sending something hero outside of mer chandise Imports to meet not only the gold exports but tho large trade balance in addition. There arc extraneous reasons for be lieving the latter to be the case, the con sideration In return being the American securities sent here by Europe for the purpose of reinforcing its gold supply But if the United States can take and pay for its own Investments 'at a low market price in this way is it the worse or better off for the movement If the fact be that the result of last year's trade has been to transfer over 5200,000,000 -worth of Ameri can investments from foreign hands to those of domestic investors, the result is to be counted as quite satisfactory. W.e do not suppose that the Post, which is a well-known organ of Wall street, will maintain that this country is impoverished by acquiring such a large amount of its own securities at its own prices. The outflow of gold can be held to have a bearing on the silver questionj but there is more -than one opinion as to the direc tion in which it cuts. Its continuance after free coinage has been definitely shelved is more suggestive of such in adequacy of the world's stock of gold that Europe has to unload stock investments in order to get gold from the United States. DEMOCRATIC SOFT MONEY PLANK. The persistence and barrenness of Democratic organs in defending the plank of the Democratic platform calling for the revival of State banks of issue Is a feature of the early canvass. The New York World quotes Mr. David M. Stone as an authority to the effect that "in these days of close communication and conse quent quick collections 'wildcat' banking, to any dangerous extent is impossible." This amounts to little more than a varia tion on the previous dogmatic assertions that no one now would undertake to run a bank on unsound principles. The quick communication idea is a unique refuge which is mainly significant of the paucity of argument for the advocates of patch work currency. The fact that when a workman in New Tork gets a ten dollar bill of an Arkansas bank he has quick communication to satisfy himself that it is good, is interesting, but it does not af ford very much satisfaction to the work man. Let us see. Close communications and quick collections render wildcat banking impossible, do they? We believe that there was a case in New Tork not long ago in which some speculators bought a bank for the express purpose of gutting it If they had succeeded the note holders would have been protected by the national bank sjstem. But the Democratic organs pro fess to wish that class given the liberty for such swindling offered by forty-four dif ferent methods of putting bank notes in circulation in as many States. Commercial morality has not yet reached so high a standard that people would not be found to take advantage of the magnificent opportunities for cheating the public com prised in the freedom of issuing bank notes without security. It has not yet been made clear what malign influence secured the incorpora tion of this remarkable soft money plank in the Democratic platform; but the Democratic organs which strive to defend it make a pitiable exhibition of them selves. PENALTIES OF CITY LIFE. The Rev. Dr. Rainsford, of New Tork, yesterday delivered at Chautauqua an address on the general aspects of civiliza tion, lie will be remembered us the clergyman who recently astonished the world by proposing that the church should fight the liquor traffic by opening saloons under its own management Dr. Rains ford spoke yesterday on a subject he has studied much, and the wisdom of his re marks indicates his familiarity with it It is one of the most important questions of the day, whether from a social, moral, political or economic point of view. He said, "the church scarcely understands the city, and the poor certainly do not understand the church." And he clearly indicated that hitherto the fault has been mainly on the side of the church, by pointing to a district in New Tork where the population has increased by 100,000 in ten j ears, while the number of churches has simultaneously decreased by sixteen. Some idea of the extent of the field which is open to ameliorating influences may be estimated by his statement that there are 183,000 children under 5 years of age in New Tork, and that 160.000 live in tenement houses. The same thing is true in a less degree of Pittsburg and every city where men and women gather to gether in unnatural numbers. There is ample room for improvement here. Con trasts abound, and luxury is found within a stone's throw of drudgery. And surely the dwellers in palaces can do something more for the inhabitants of disreputable shanties than tbey have tried to do hith erto. From the most selfish point of view it is to their advantage to make the whole city as healthy as possible, and even in an age of competition it will pay to make comfort and cleanliness replace over crowding and filth. PAVEMENTS FOR THE FUTURE. A recent paper by Mr. Robert Gilham in the Engineering News gives a valuable statement of the experience of American cities with pavements and the results de duced therefrom. The article gives the mileage of pavements in the different cities. The mileage of first class granite block ranges from 321 in New Tork to 43 in Atlanta, and of second class from 490 in Philadelphia to 24 in New Tork. St Louis leads in macadamized streets, having 294 miles, while Chicago has 226, Milwaukee 201, and other cities less amounts. Wood pavements survive in Chicago to the ex tent of 410 miles,, while no other cities reach 100 miles. . Buffalo leads in asphalt with 135 miles. The average life of a granite pavement is 60 years -with light traffic, but under heavy traffic it is reduced to 10 or 15 years; wood pavements 5 to 10 years; asphalt 10 to 20 years, which evidently presumes a better pavement than some in Pittsburg's recent experience; but no better than one pavement of the sort which is now nearly 20 years old. The recommendation of Mr. Gilham for city streets is granite block for heavy traffic, and macadam for streets of light traffic The latter recommendation will strike most minds as rather singular. While it can hardly be approved for lead ing suburban streets, it Is worth consider ing 'for side streets. There are . many streets In Pittsburg left unpaved on account of the cost of the regulation pavements, which could be made very attractive by macadamizing at a cost of about a dollar per foot front On a street where heavy traffic would not wear the macadam into ruts its smooth surface woulil make the roadway pleasanter for driving than any pavement except the costly and comparatively shortlived asphalt One consideration with regard to pave ments this writer appears to neglect He recommends block pavements on the principal streets for its durability. This Is correct as far as it goes, but it-does-not give full, weight to the economic value of perfect smoothness. This is affected not only by the wear and power required by present means of using the streets, but by the adaptability to future developments. For instance: We spend perhaps $40,000 a mile to pave a leading street with block; and then 60,000 per mile must be spent to provide a track smooth enough for rapid transit vehicles. If the whole street were made sufficiently smooth the day Is in sight when "independent coaches propelled by storage batteries could travel overthem without any tracks. The saving would pay for repairing with asphalt every 10 or 12 years, to say nothing of the superior convenience. It 'is well to judge by experience of pavements as of everything else; but the possibilities of the future are also an important factor, and pavements should be planned to meet them as well 83 present needs, WILLIAM AND BISMARCK. Emperor William is visiting England and much powder is being burned in his behalf. The echoes of the powder reach us through the cable dispatches, but fur ther results from the imperial visit are to be expected. In his early reign William undertook a large amount of traveling for the(purpose of visiting other royalties in the expecta tion of settling off-hand the problems of European statesmanship. He was rather disposed to snub England at that time for private reasons as well as the considera tion that it is assuredly governed by a rep resentative body. The changes of time have made him more assiduous in visiting England than any other country. What he hopes to accomplish there is not clear. Perhaps he desires to incite his grand mamma to the royal stand of refusing to have anything to do with Mr. Gladstone, and set up a claim to be the real ruler of England as strenuously as the grandson does concerning his imperial power in Germany. While tho Emperor is traveling and pos sibly keeping up the delusion in his mind that he is aldina to rule Europe, Bismarck continues to growl because he Is not al lowed to aid in that task. The changes effected by the whirligig of time are most apparent in the latest assertion of the man of blood 4and iron that "the will of the monarch must be brought into har mony with the people's convictions." What an Immense difference it makes even to a great statesman whether he is on the inside or outside of the governing power! It is a grand thing to be a Government servant during tho hot weather of a Presl dental year; for Secretary Foster, of the Treasury! clearly tells the Senate that under those circumstances the formalities of ask ing leaves of absence are very generally dis pensed with. e June made a record by its numDer of violent deaths, but July beat it with 123. At this rate the Coroner will bo killed with overworked Allegheny county is in dauqer of depopulation. A bull fight was one feature of the celebration at Cadiz when the copy of Columbus' caravel Santa Maria departed for Huelva. This shows the tremendous advance which Spain lias made in civiliza tion during the past four hundred years. To expect Congressmen to work that is to talk without the Congressional Record to report their pioceedln-js is much the same thing at asking actors to perlorm in an empty theater. If Canada should really entertain serious thoughts of draining Likes Huron and Eiie for the benefit of its shipping at the expense of ours, it would very soon appear that America would not wait to miss tbe water till the lakes ran dry. The only man ever elected Senator as a "Know-Nothing" is dead,but there are many Senators whom nothing but Senatorial cour tesy prevent from being known by such a description. Married women of course have a mo nopoly of church christenings, but the bal ance is adjusted by barring all but youthful maidens irom cracking a bottle of cham pagne on the launching and naming any seagoing cralt. "Wilhelm is to race his own yacht in an English tcgatta, and if he fall to win he will probably go to his grandmother with a pout, and soh out that he does not want to play any more. "Wilhelm is visiting the English coast, and if only his graudinaternal telative Vic toria would givo him a good talking to he might assume a more dignified position to ward Bismarck than the one he has lately occupied. Since a negro has demonstrated the feas ibility of cultivating cotron in Connecticut, It lb time to hear of wooden nutmeg facto ries lu Louisiana and tobacco plantations in Alaska. We are on excellent terms with Italy now, Dut it seems that the Mafia still needs exterminating, as a letter supposed to come from a member of that illicit organization states that a New Orleans Judge is held for a ransom. It maybe noticed that stealing water melons and rides on froight trains are both wrong, but the latter is the mote dangerous Indulgence of the two. Democrats of Wisconsin are so afraid of one another and of ci eating internal dis sensions that they hardly dare expiess a preference between "Vilas and Biagg for United States Senator at their State Conven tion. Hot waves prophesied for Europe have so far failed to materialize so the number of American tourists will continue to multi ply. Whes earthly mamas are in opposition youths and maidens generally get out of the way. But with stellar Mars things are just the other way, as an opposition Is tbe most lavorable time for increased Intimacy. Thirty howling dervishes ought to find themselves very much at home in Chicago when they get theie for tho World's Fair. Sousa has severed his connection with tho United States Marine .Band, and now someone else must be found to conduct that popular orchestra when it plays "Black Eyed Susan" or other ancient airs. Chicago lost a game to Pittsburg yester day, and thereby our players managed to rise one place on the list. Poor Chicago. Honduras has evidently reached a state of civilization beyond muu-slinging, shilla-,leh-play or fisticuffs, as it is reported that the revolution there is coming to an end for want of arms and ammunition. Cleveland's letters are more remark able for tbelr numbers than lor their bril liancy or variety. One of the moons of Mars is new three times a day, so an excuse for a lover's walk can never bo wanting up there it that planet be occupied by beings at all resem bling those here below. August began very well, and may it long maintain its comparatively oool be havior. The Farmers Are Prospering. New York.Press.1 Farmers In the great West are offering as much as $2 and $2 60 a day to men who will turn In and help harvest the grain crop the Highest wages paid for unskilled labor any where in the world. The calamity howlers of the People's party will donbtless accept this fact as proof of the impoverished con dition ofagrioulture. A LOOK AROUND. A young wife who is at a, famous sea shore resort writes a breezy description of the situation to a friend: "You cannot imagine how homelike it is here," she says. "At tho hotel with us is the man we buy our groceries from and his family is with him. At a place across the street is our butcher and his wire. The man who comes to us with vegetables drove past this morning in a yellow dog cart. The woman I get chick ens from in tho market is at a hotel on the next square, and Tom spoke to a man this morning who, be says, is tne policeman on, our street down here on an excursion. My dressmaker is here taking hot baths, and Tom declares his tailor is making love to her. A man went past tho hotel singing last night and Tom laughed and said: 'That's the man who diives tbe wagon of the man I get bottled beer from.' It's a good thing our bills are paid or we would have a time of it." There are some artists at work on tho lawns which sIodo down to Filth avenue, between Belloflold and Shady lane. Within a few years lawn gardening, bedding effects and artfully contrived shrubberies have been made much of by people of means who hitherto planted a few cannas or lilac bushes and thought that was all there was in it. A few days ago I took up the street car conductor nuisance. As a result, one of the chief owners in a large city line said to me: "I wish such cases wet o always called to our attention. People who ride on our lines, or any other lines, are to be politely treated, and if they are not it is their own fault. A report as to any deliberate misoonduot will always be attended to promptly. We cannot afford to have patrons ill-treated. You must remember, howover, that conductors have to meet all sorts o' trying people and they are but human." In view of this I want to speak of the conductor of car No. 10, on the Pittsburg traction line. He seems to have made a contract to go through lire with his arms folded. Fat and helpless women, or women with chlldicn, can go lurching thiough the door, or feeble old men can tumble In somebody's lap for all that con ductor cares. It seems to tire him out to lift nickels into his pockets. Several ladies have spoken about this man, so his com plaint seems chronic. "Why don't you ride a bicycle?" I asked a young lady who was talking abont need ing exerotse. "If I had started in some years ago it would have been all right, but I can't do it now that everybody else does it. I am waiting for something new to turn up and then I will get in early." The glass exhibit at the World's Fair will bo interesting in one way at least. The famous Atterbury glass weaving process will be in operation there. This is tho process by which glass is woven into cloth like silk. Fanny Davenport had a dress made of this glass cloth lor one of her plays two or three years ago. All sorts of articles ofdiess have been made or this material, bat it does not 'seem to have become as pop ular as it was supposed It would. 1 told a Frenchman about It once and his comment was characteristic, "Heavens, what a thing for opera cloaks and bonnet trimmings!" "So & So'S business is about run down," remarked a man last night. "That's the reason it is going to be wound up by an as signee," retorted a lawyer. Smooth streets are an economy which will lead to a city's wealth. There was a tlmo when tne rolls of cable for the traction roads had to be hauled over temporary tracks laid for that purpose. Now that the streets to Shadysido station are asphalted, the horses pnll the huge roll along to the power bouse without much trouble. These new cable outfits are expensive things. 1 am told that an outfit of cable for the Fifth avenue line costs about $12,000. Is not hydrophobia an accompaniment of dog daze? THE City of, Pafis, which sails to-morrow, will have no less than 41 Pittsbnrgers on board, and almost SO others sail on other vessels within a week. From what is said of these concerts In the Allegheny Park I should think it would not be a bad Idea for some officers in plain clothes to keep an eye on them, or rather on some of those who attend them. "What kind of people come here for Dooks?" was asked of an employe of the Car negie Library. "At least 75 per cent are peo ple who could not afford to buy books," was the reply. "If you examined the vol umes yon would find that text books and aids to study are used to a very great extent by young and middle-aged working people." Two systems of free baths are sadly needed, and they should be operated col lectively. In one they could wash the water and in another tho people who cannot afford to pay Tor tho privilege. Walter. No Us for the Anarchists. Homestead News.J None regret and condemn more than the people of Homestead the attempted assina tlon or H. C. Fnck, on last Satuiday week. It has been amply shown that Alex Berkman and his associates are unknown here and in no manner whatever connected with labor.organized or unorganized. Anar chists have purposes all their own. Home stead has never harbored any nor does It wish to. In Need of a Guard. Boston Herald. 3 The Alabama Congressman who moved that the appropriation for the World's Fair be rednced to $5 had better take a dog along next year wbeu he visits Chicago. A Suggestion for Revenge to Holman. Chicago News.3 By way of revenge we suggest that Mr. Holman cut a round five millions from the very noxt river and harbor appropriation bill that comes up. BRAINI, BRILLIANT AND BRISK. Prince Bismarck: arrived at Schoen bausen night before last. The Queen has knighted the Lord Mayor of London, conferring upon him the order of St. Michael and St. George. Chairman Carter wears a light colored goatee and in many personal features is a respectable reproduction of the traditional Uncle Sam. Mr. John S. Sargent's "Carmeneita," in the Champ do Mars Salon, Paris, has been, purchased dy the Minister of Public Instruc tion and the Fins Arts. George W. Steele, of Indiana, ex Congressman and ox-Governor of Okla homa, is urged as a good chairman for the HoosierHepublican State Committee. M. Saint Saens, the famous Fren ch composer, will "on invitation visit the World's Fair. Ho wilt conduct his own com position and appear as organist at concerts du cbambre. The class of '53 at Yale included Andrew D. White, Wayne McYeagh, Bandall Gibson, .Edmund C. Stedman, Isaac H. Bromley, Charlon T. Lewis, George W. Smalley and Judge Shiras. RoBERr H. Folger, of Massillon, O., is claimed to be the oldest practicing attorney In the United States. He was born In Ches ter county, Pa., 1812, and began the practice of law 30 years thereafter. Miss Grace Lewes, eldest daughter of the late George Lewes, or England, the hus band of the famous novelist, George Eliot, is on a visit to Mr. Daniel H. Harking, also of England, but now occupying a typical country'home at White Plains near Ophir Farm, the residence of Mr. WhltelawEeld. M. BuRDEAtr, thenew French Minister of Marine, first went tor the Chamber of Deputies from Lyons, In 1885, and he speedily made his mark there. Subsequently he was one of M. Jules Simon's colleagues at the Labor Conference at Berlin, Viisre ho was highly esteemed by all, tbe Emperor in cluded, for his fairness. CANADIAN ANNEXATION. One of Uncle Samuel's Nephew Does His Part to Solve the Burning Question A Flttsburger Marries a Toronto Girl So ciety's Energy Expended on the Flutter ing of Fans. The following notice will be of interest, the event whloh it reoords succeeding so quickly as It did on the announcement of Mr. Wigley's engagement: At St, Stephen's Church. Toronto, Ontario, Wednesday, July 29, Arthur B. WUIey. of Pitts burg, to Marion Louisa, second daughter of tbe late George Green, Esq., of Brampton, Canada. It will be remembered that Mr. ' Wl.ley's fiancee, who is now his wife, has resided long enough in Pittsburg to be counted as one of this city's belles. Miss Green's engagement to Mr. Wigley was not announced until several months after her return to Canada to visit Inends, and, in fact, not until after b er entire family, now summering at Prince Edward's Island, had broken up their Pittsburg establish ment and gone North. It is now guessed that the engagement was of very recent making and antedated the marriage but a jew weeks. When Mr. Wigley left with his family for the East a short time ago he significantly responded to some enzagement congratulations offered htm with the suggestion that they be deferred until bis return borne. Hig family and sev eral relatives accompanied tbe happy, though at that ttme unrevealed, groom-to-be to Toronto. The general supposition among his friends, though, was that Mr. Wigley's summer trip was going to evolve Itself Into a wedding Journey; all or which succeeding events prove to have been a happy conjec ture. The bride is the youngest daughter of an old English famUy, whloh removed to Can ada a oouple or generations since, and whoso membcis have taken a nromlnent part In provincial, civil and political affairs In Ontario. The family residence 'bad been in Brampton, near Toronto, but tbe ceremony took place in that beautiful city, where tbe bride has many Iriends among its influential families. St. Stephen's Church is one of tbe most aristocratic honses of worship in Toronto, and there, it U said, high church creed found its most fervent exponent in that Scotch and Irish settlement. The biidem-omis a well-known clubman or Pittsburg, and extremely popular. His establishment, In tho East End, is said to be very uneiy appointed, 'rue marriage nas pleased all of Mr. Wigley's friends, and his return no doubt will be the signal for a shower of congratulations. Mrs. and Mrs. Wisloy are now traveling, and no date has been set for their arrival in Pittsburg, though it is well known that that event will not be long delayed. Invitations have been issued by Mrs. B. Frank for the marriage of her niece, Miss Pauline Blssinger, to Mr. Samuel B. Frank, this evening at 6:30 at her residence, 2G2 Western avenue. A reception will follow at Cyclorama Hall. An Eastern honeymoon has been decided upon by the yonug people. A marriage has been arranged between -diss Violet Bedell, of Mansfield, and Mr. William L. Monroe, of this city. Socinl Chatter. Mb. William Muldoox, the wrestler, will bo tho guest during a professional engage ment iu Pittsburg of tho family of Charles H. Reed, Esq., of the Eenmawr. Mr. Mul doon is said to be a beau Ideal host and a most charming companion. Mbs. David Moreison Is enjoying a sort of social partnership with Mrs. Charles Henry Harlow in a Newport cottage. These two exceedingly handsome women have set Xewporterg on tho qui vive tc see more of feminine Pittsburg. Tbe Eastern train last night bore away among its Pittsburg contingent Mr. and Mrs. Christopher L. Magee, Mr. George H. Welshons, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. llagee. Miss Mai garet Magee and maid and Miss Alargai et Graham. Mb. FitEDEitiCK Ha worth will sail on the City of Paris for Europe on next Wednes day tojoin his relatives now traveling on the Continent. Mbs. Wabden of Sewlckley, with her two daughters, will leave lor Lakewood, N.Y., on Wednesday. This afternoon and evening the Columbus Club lete at the delightful picnic grounds at Silver Lake. ' Mb. and Mbs. John Moobhead and family will leave for Xarragansett Pier on Friday. Mb. Prank Ammon has taken bachelor apartments at the Kenmawr Hotel. Mb. and Mrs. Ueorqk Abraham, nee More land, are expected home this week. EVANGELIZATION OF THE CITIES. A Badical Address Dy aew York Preacher Delivered at Chautauqua. Chautauqua, N. Y., Aug. L Special.' Kev- Dr. Balusford, of Xew York, is one of the deepest thinkers on city evangelization of the period, and his address at the Amphi theater this evening was consequently very Interesting. Dr. Bainsford has studied his question in all Its bearings, and has lived among all clashes of people, which gives him superior advantages in this line. "City Evangelization is my subject," said he, "but we might as well say the evangelization of tbe whole land; as it is in the cities that the battle must be lought and won. The first part of the difficulty is with tho church it self. Tbe church scarcely understands the city, and the poor certainly do not under stand the chuich. Theie Is a spirit of un common hatred of the poor man against tbe ohurcces. lie considers the church the rich man's church, and the action of tbe church to some extent warrants it. Within the past ten years 100,000 people have moved into the district south of Twenty-third stieet, in New Yoik, and lCchurches moved out. Thus the church weakens its lorces in the very place where the battle should be the strong est. The church must ohange its views, and it is growing in this education last. Look at some ot the demands of the church. In New York there are 183,000 children under five years of age, and 160,000 live in tenement Iiou-ea. While it is well to say to rescue the elders, the church must save tne children before they get to the position ot their elders." Dr. Bainsford pointed especially to tho want ot enjoyment in tbe lile of the factory girls, and tne men and women living in tenement bouses as well, and says that tne church must go among them and give them opportunities for honest, wholesome pleas uie. The rich must be educated us well as the poor. The former mutt be shown what to do and the latter to accept the good. Kev. Dr. W. F. Oldbam, of Pittsburg, interested quite a laro audience on the missionary work in Malasia, He gave an excellent description of the country in which he worked, and told of tbe dangers to be over come. Dr. Oldham was the fii st missionary to earn a foothold on that group of Islands. Ho made frieuds with the people very read ily, and was able to easily make his mission self-supporting. Mr. Oldham is an enter taining talker, and after his address a great number of people went forward and shook his hand as an evidence of their apprecia tion of his work. Soon to Be Home Again. New York Kecorder.i Brave Tom Beed has been renominated. This is tbe first step toward the Speaker's chair for the next Congress. DEATHS HERE AXD ELSEWHERE. Hon. Anthony Kinnedy. The Hod. Anthony Kennedy, the only man ever elected to the United States Senate as a Know-Nofhlng, died yesterday In Baltimore. He was born in Baltimore In 1810, and when quite young mored to Virginia, where he entered poli tics, serving several terms In the State Legislature, After an unsuccessful effort to get Into Congress he removed to Baltimore. In 1SS7 hu was elected as a Know-Nofhlngto the Maryland House of Dele gates, and made a strong tight to secure the elec tion or his brother to the United States Senate. Among others contesting was Henry Whiter Davis. After a hot fight Mr. Kennedy was himself elected. After serving a time he became dissatisfied with the manner in which the Kuour-Nolhlngs behaved, land Joined tho Democrats, voting with them. 'After his term expired he retired from politics, but rnnsented to serve as delegate to the Sute Conven tion which framed the Constitution now lu force. Death resulted from old age. ' ' Miss E. II. LrcKy. Miss E. H. Lecky died suddenly of heart trouble yesterday morniug at S o'clock. The de ceased was well advanced In years and was a daughter of the late cx-Sherlff William Lecky. She had made her home with Mrs. B. H. Lecky, of Bayard street, near Neville. Miss Lecky had al ways been prominent in church work; she was a member of the" First Presbyterian Church, of Alle- f:henr. She was the last of one of the oldest fam-lii-sintbls vicinity. Her father, William Lecky. along about 1840. was three times elected Sheriff of Allegheny county. Obituary Note. Mb. Hoobabth Sahgloaard, Vice Consul of Sweden and Norway at St. Paul, 1 dead. Spinal trouble was the cause. Mrs. Margaret h. Haddock, wire of ex Alderman Matthew Haddock, died at 10 minutes weiorc is o-giock last mgnt as ine x&mny resiaence wu t.wu luai, x vanceaui waru. ACROSS THE CONTINENT. This is a great country. If you doubt this time-worn but patriotic sentenco go across the Continent and verify for yourself. This is also a peculiar country every day on wheels a fresher surprise, a strans er folk, a newer novelty, a better Idea of the land you live in and the habits, fads and foibles of the people thereof. Those of you who have never been hauled over the Northern Pacific road along the low, weedy shores of the Northern Mis sissippi, crossed, further north, the chocolate-colored Missouri, bitten the volcanic dust stirred up by the whirling wheels in the Bad Lands, gazed on sleek herds beside the green banks or the s wilt Yellowstone, passed the gateway or the world's wonderland, Yellowstone Park, climbed slowly up to the Continental Divide, sped down to and over long stretches of sage-brush desert dotted here and there with an irrigated oasis life and death side by side on into fruitful valleys fed by streams of silver tinkling over red and brown and white and yellow-tinted mountains capped by purest snow, on and up and down again beside swift and sweet and cold blue-green waters into the giant forests ot fir and spruce and cedar, on and out along broader, slower, daiker rivers, past struggling towns and into the balmy trade winds wafted from the docile Pacific those of yon, I say, who have never viewed this shirting panorama of natural surprises, who have depended upon the talks of travelers and the tales of tour ists for a conception of tbe Woolly West, have but a laint idea of Its vastness. its diversity, its glories, its disappointments. For instance: I didn't see a live jack rabbit. I didn't see a village of pralrlo dozs. I didn't see a coyote, except in captivity. 1 didn't see a "Wild West" cowboy. I didn't see a flclit. I didn't find traces of a. cyclone. I didn't see a savage Indian. 1 didn't see Bosalle, the prairie flower. I didn't see a bad man with a gnu. I didn't see any rustling worth mention ing. I didn't seo a counterpart of Buffalo Bill. I didn't see a mountain goat outside the stuffed ones in tho museum at Mandan. I didn't see any more wickedness than In the effete East. But, on the other hand: I did see life civilized, hard-earned life struggling on sandy, sage-bru3hed stretches. I did see tbe desert blooming like a rose where the life-giving waters turned the alkaline soil into a rich black loam. I did see, miles upon miles away bnt seem ingly near, snowy peaks upheld by parti colored giant buttresses. I did see for miles upon miles, far as eye could reach, fantastic wind-fashioned mon uments, mlghtv dunes of white and yellow and red sand, turreted castles, walled cities, grand palaces whoso architect was nature, freakish bnt fascinating. I did see wheiomind has trinmphed over matter where genius has scaled and leveled and penetrated rocky walls, spanned mighty cracks lu grand old mountains, cut a path way for the world through a defiant barrier whose crests glvo birth to rivers. I did stand upon a spot and see three tiny streams start off in different courses one south to the Gulf of Mexico, one west to the Pacific ocean, one north to Puget Sound. Threo mighty rivers ere they reached three seas. I did soe the gold hunter tolling on and hoplngon the sod-turned red-soiled slopes of the Rockies. I did see collieries sending out carloads of fairly good coal for distribution East and West of the great Divide. I did see where the Marquis de Mores killed one and pinked another cowboy; also the remnants of some of his fathcr-ln-law's liberality. I did see prohibition strictly enforced on the Pullman "diner" as it rolled through North Dakota. I did see lands of great promise for the coming millions lands untrodden, un- touched, virgin: lands thirsting for tbe , waters, wafting for the ax, sighing lor the plow. I did bear some frightful kicks against the failure of the froe coinage bill. Surely this country of ours is great and grand. It cannot be studied from books or Imagined from pictures. These deal with spots don't average up, lack diversity, lose panoramic effect. Still they must suffice for many, more's the pity. Some other time I'll snbmlt another chap ter of "Across the Continent." Geo. A. Madden. TWO BEAUTIFUL MEDALS Prepared In Phllatlnlphla for Friends of the Bar Association There. New Yobk, Aug. L Tbe American Bar As sociation has had struck off at the Philadel phia Mint two gold medals, each containing $100 worth of pure gold, to be presented to David Dudley Field, of this city, and Sir Boundell Palmer, Earl of Shelbourne, of the English bar, for distinguished services in thi advancement of tbe science of jurispru dence. The medals were awarded by the Bar Association at its meeting a year ago this month, and have been prepared under the direction of Francis Bawle, of Philadel phia, who Is the resident lnomberor the as Hociation's Executive Committee there. They were designed by Charles E. Barber, chief engraver at the Philadelphia Mint. On the obverse side of eaoh medal is a sit ting figure or Justice In boldrelier, encircled by tbe words. In raised lettors: "American Bar Association; Founded A. D. 187S." The reverse bears an oak wreath surrounding the inscription: "Awarded to for Dis tinguished Services In Advancing the Science of Jurisprudence." There will probably be no foimal presentation or the medals, but in a few days tbey will be sent to tbe gentlemen to whom they have been awarded. CANADIAN CATHOLIC SCHOOLS TO GO. The Decision That Separata Schools Can not Be Maintained Sustained. Ottawa, Out., Aug. 1 There Is consider able excitement among Boman Catholics over the judgment of the Manitoba school case by the Imperial Privy Council, tho highest court in the British empire. British cablegrams indicate that the decision over rules tbe judgment of tbe Dominion Su preme Court, and maintains the constitu tionality of the act passed by tbe Manitoba Legislature abolishing Catholic separate schools in tbat province. A test case resulted in the refusal of tbe Winnipeg Catholics to pay taxes In support of tho public schools. The Catholics won In all the Inferior courts until they reached the Privy Council. The Cathollo Assembly Opened. NewLohdoit, Cons., Aug.1. The Cathollo Summer Assembly was formally opened this morning with a pontifical high mass In St. Marv's Church, Bishop McMabon officiating. His assistants at the throne were tbe Bev. Morgan . M. Shoedy, of Pittsburg, and the Bev. James Nihil, or Bridgeport. Already there are registeied at the rooms or the bureau of Information nearly 200 names of visitors to attend the opening lectures. The committees are placing all applicuuts for accommodations as fast as they come in. Stamps lor the World's Fair Year. ;New Yoke, Aug. L The Metropolitan Phi latelist, in its next issue, will annonnce tbat the Postmaster General has adopted the de signs for a new series of postage stamps, to bo issuod in commemoration of the discov ery of America. The issue will Include all values, and will bear designs of a historic character, each representing some Incident in the life or Columbus or picturing some thing appropriate to its purpose. Two Birds With One Stone. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The large audiences tbat greet Governor McKinley wherever he goes have the double advantage of hearing the greatest exponent of protection and of looking upon the man who will probably be elected President in 1893. A Now Brand of Tobacco. Chicago Inter Ocean. The balance of trade Is thus far in favor of Uncle Sam to tbe amount of $203,000,000. Let free traders put that In their pipes Xor an evening's smoke. CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. Ships were not copper-bottomed unth 1783. .The Mavor of Lancaster, Pa,, has Ma deira wine In bis cellar! ot the vintage of 1703. The Church of the Pilgrims In Brook lyn has a piece of the Plymouth rock In itg wall. On careful calculation it is now settled that two rabbits In ten years will multiply to 70,000,000. The bagpipe, the favorite Scotch and Italian lnstrnment, was Invented by the Greeks in 200 B. C. t "Window glass was used in Italy in the churches in the eleventh century and in En- gllsh houses in 1557. Among the South Sea Islanders black and white striped goods are even now worn as a sign of mourning. Over 60,000 tons of cottonseed oil are consumed annually. Not many years ago cottonseed was thrown away. - The dry land of the globe equals 55,- 000,000 square miles, and the area ot the ocean 137,200,000 square miles. There are no great woolen factories in Egypt, but looms are scattered In small numbers over the whole country. A child jnst born has, on account of the softness of its system, less chance of living a year than an octogenarian. For the first time the Bnssian -coldiers are to be furnished with handkerchiefs this year at the Government's expense. Mrs. Lucy Jerrell, of Edinbnrg, Ind., ij S3 years old. She has Just finished a quilt wnicn contains o,ts'J3 pieces oi ciotn. . Rubber heels for marching have been introduced by a French army surgeon. The infantry have tried tbem with good results. The Mull era seem to be the Smiths of Germany, as there were 629,987 of them at the last census or one In every 73 of the popu lation. A Pennsylvania inventor has devised a pair of eyeglasses with a mirror mounted so as to reflect objects in the rear of the wearer. The first carpets made in Europe were manufactured in France, in 1661. in, imita tion of some which had been brought from Turkey. The first newspaper in the modern sense was issued monthly at Venice In 1536; tba first English newspaper was published In 1622; tbe first American in 1701. Bibliomaniacs are usually men. "Women have a rage for collecting old china, old lace, fans, miniatures and the rest, but not often rare and curious books. Fifty thousand rare trees have been ordered by the Empress of Austria to be planted around the statue of Heine, to be erected on her property at Corfu. A colored man who went over to Ger many from Boston and got naturalized is now reported to be on tbe roll of pensioners of the State Insurance for tlfe aged. In the tactics formerly in nse in the Italian army there was an order "Look fiercel" and when it was given the men all put on an air of implacable ferocity. , A curious judgment hu been Tendered in a St. Louis court to the effect that ali mony in a divorce case could not be col lected from a man who was on strike. A lame man while hobbling along on' cratches In Hartford. Conn.. tho other morn-0 ing, was asked by an acquaintance" if heA aian c want 10 ouy a ucsot xor a uaucot "Elocute," "orate," "enthuse," "an niverse." "philanthrop" and "revolute" arte some or the newspaper verbs now apparent ly fully adopted into the American lanj- guage. The oldest capital in the United State is Santa Fe, which was the seat or govern ment in New Mexico as far back as 1610, and yet its population is only e.itu, according t sorters census. A tall pyramid of granite is tobe the body of the monument which tbe colored people intend to erect In Springfield, HI., to she memory ot the men of their race who died in tbe army. The sweets of power must be.njore of .nn. attraction .Ulanthe, jsppilf Office in some places In Missouri. 'The MAyor of Sweet Springs, In that State, receives a salary ot $60 a year. The Lieutenant Governor of Bengal stated recently at a religious reunion in India that the number or Christians in his jurisdiction had increased in the last ten yean. Irom 122,009 to 1S9.000. Newfoundland exhibits has originality in its stamp designs. It has on various issues a seal, a codfish, a Newfoundland goz's bead. Her Majesty In a widow's cap, the Prince of Wales in uniform, and a whaler in fall sail. The costliest meal ever served as far as history shows was a supper given by Aellus Verus, one of the most lavish of all Bomans or the latter day, to a dozen guests. The cost of this supper was 6,000 sestertia, which would amount to 43,500, or nearly $250,000. The diflerence between the so-called "chemical" focus and the visual focus of a telescope may De little or It may be half an inch. In either case the photographed im age will be decidedly out or focus if allow ance for this difference be not. carefully made. The rate of progression of a storm is often 50 miles an hour, and a series has often been traced in a direct line from North to South a distance of iCO miles. Tho average altitude or thunder storms Jias been round to be not over 500 feet above thesuriaceof the earth. A careful examination of the cata logues or English dealers In games shows that the" popular games in England, are in everv way identical with those"" In tho United States, and not a single game conlrf be found in any of them that is. not v known and current here. Some interesting Byron relics sold in London next month. T"' a small silver traveling lnksta. wit n the initial "B" and coi-od. four snuff boxes, the poet's patci silver pipe that was once Napolt jl Bobert Burns' tobacco box. ' Among the Slovaks of North-Hungary the coffin of a young girl Is red. In Spain the poorer class use no coffins. Aniule with the dead body thrown across it, or olten two corpses, miy he irequently met on the way to bnrial, and. though to us such a funeral seems insulting to tbe departed, the natives reverently uncover their heads as It. passes. If 13 persons were to agree to dine to gether every day, but never sit exactly in tbe same order round the table, it would take tbem 13,000,000 years at the rate of one dinner a day, and they would-bave-to eat more than 170,000,000 dinners before they could get through all the possible arrange ments in which they could place them selves. rOETICAL AND PIQUANT. H DBXW TH LHTX. He played the races all day long; With never falling zeal. And In the noble game of draw JIuch still did be reveal. But when his wife entreated him In voice both high and low. To view the new church festlral. He said he would not go. ClotMer and Purntihtr, He had fainted dead away, . . L And they thought be was ailed with remorse. Bat they found when he came to He had bet on tbe winning horse. Chicago Inter Ocean, jl :ntw STILE. If architects would bear in mind The frailty of mankind . They'd Introduce a kind of stairs That now Is hard to find. They'd put another step on top. Regardless of remark; The step a fellow reaches for n ben going up In the dark. Smith, Gray 4 Ce.'tXbnlNt. It's nice to feel whatever is, is best; Yet one Is oft convinced tbat It is wrong. Those who most often go away for rest Are Jnst the'onts who Idle the year Ionr. Hew Sork Evening ffios. THE LAWX ilOWIK TlrND. 'Tis now the jolly time of year, The agricultural blower With eye that's strained and back that's bent "Doth woVk the new lawn mower. And as be strikes a bidden snag. He takes a double ender And then bis wife cries ont "There, John. There goes your new suspender." -CteaXBnm..
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