A L1TEIU0CKOUT
The Toilers Inyade tlie Capi
tol, Where aEeally Good
Time Is Had in
LAUGHING ATLAWMAKERS.
Government Printing Employes Com
pare Themselves to
STEEL WORKERS AT HOMESTEAD.
3Tiree Thousand Half Pays of Work Lost
to Hen and Women.
AN 1LLUNCE LEADER IN HOT WATER
rrsoM x arxrr cobmspoxdekt.j
"Washington, Aug. 1. If there was
not a quorum of the House present at pray
ersj this morning, there certainly waa of
the locked-out employes of the Government
Printing Office. They swarmed into the
galleries like a colony of bees.foremen,com
positon, pretty girls who feed presses and
work in the bindery, representing all
classes and conditions of the printing and
bookbinding industry, and all anxious to
know when the Tast machinery of their
office, blocked as a result of the work of a
filibustering minority, would begin to moTO
again.
Kb explanation of their identity was
necessary. Everyone knew they were the
employes of the great printing house in
Swampoodle, and that they had come by
hundreds to impress upon the House their
condition of enforced idleness. For the
first time in the history of that institution
it was closed for want of money to run it
A Xovelty fora Little While.
It was truly a novelty, but It was one
which the men and women most interested
were content to enjoy but for a little while.
In a jocular way they compared themselves
to Ihe "I octed-oiit Homesteaders, and at the
office in Swampoodte a few hundred of those
who did not come to the .Capitol indulged
in burlesques of battles between the militia
and locked-out printers, the tying-up of
fractious militiamen by the thumbs, and
other similar shams, ending by forcing the
painter of the building, whom they called
tjne "publie painter," to march at their
Mead while they paraded to the tune of
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, the Boys Are
Marching. "
At the Capitol they watched the proceed
ings with an intense interest, which broke
iiito applause when General Harry Bing
ham had concluded his denunciation of an
obstructing minority whose conduct had re
sulted in a stoppage of Government busi
ness. Hr. Holman bad sent to the clerk a
resolution extending the appropriations of
East year to and including August 4.
Reed Quoted to Silence Hopkins.
Mr. Hopkins, of Illinois, had Interposed
Shis objection that nothing was in order ex
cept a vote on the question on which the
previous question had been ordered, which
was the "World's fair amendment to the
sundry civil bilk Speaker Crisp had quoted
a decision of ex-Speaker Beed, which effect
ually flence3Mr. Hopkins' objection, and
General Bingham had made an impassioned
speech of five minutes onhe Holman joint
resolution. As he sat down he was ap
plauded loudly by Democrats and Republi
cans who iavor the World's Fair appropria
tion, and the printers who crowded the gal
leries joined in until the hand-clapping
swelled to a thunderous roar.
Speaker Crisp pounded angrily with bis
gavel and shouted for order, and when he
could make himself heard declared he
would clear the galleries if the ofler.se were
repeated. "Buck" Kilgore shouted, "Put
them out," aud Judge Montgomery, of
Kentucky, stood up in his place, shook his
fist excitedly at the galleries, and echoed
Kilgore with 'Tut them out, put them out
They are all Government employes and
have no business here," as though Congress
owned the place, and as though the printers
could not go where they please when locked
out by an act of Congress.
Tbe Wheels Soon Tarn Ones More.
After a brief and sharp discussion of 15
minutes on each side the joint resolution
was adopted and the printers promptly left
the galleries empty, knowing the wheels
would soon begin to turn again. The reso
lution went to tbe Senate and was there at
once adopted. It went forthwith to the
President and was immediately signed, and
at 2 o'clock the 3,000 employes' who had lost
upward of half a day were again busily at
work.
Aside from this loss the only inconveni
ence, resulting from this extraordinary epi
sode was the failure of members to receive
the Sunday morning Issue of the Congra
twncA Record, which still lay at the printing
office this afternoon for want ol drivers and
messengers to deliver it
General Bingham charged that Hr. Hol
man and his fellow filibusters advised and
connived at the absence of members for the
purpose of breaking a quorum. This is
literally true. There are in town upward
oi 30 members over and above a quorum,
and upon an understanding with their lead
em they absent themselves deliberately.
Upon a call oi the House a quorum is no
sooner secured than it immediately melts
away. A more contemptuous defiance of the
Demoeratie principle of the rule of the ma
jority was never seen. In another day and
in another country, such rebellion against
the numerical majority would have called
for the headsman's ax. It was impossible
at any time to-day to secure a quorum ex
cepting upon a call of the House, and an
adjournment was therefore taken at 2 o'clock
till to-morrow.
Watson's Foot Is In It.
it is pretty evident from the temper
shown br the "Watson Investigating Com
mittee, and tbe rather one-sided rulings of
of Chairman Boatner, that the Alliance
leader in the House will not get off un
scathed for his assertiou in his campaign
textbook that members reeled about the
aisles in a drunken state, and addressed the
Chair while in a condition of maudlin in
toxication. The committee held almost a
continuous session from 10 o'clock till 3 to
day, and practically closed the case, nnless
it be decided to compel Mr. "Watson, if
possible, to divulge the names of others
than Judge Cobb, of Alabama, to whom he
referred in his campaign flight If that be
done, probably the inquiry may be greatly
prolonged, to permit those others to clear
themselves. The fact, however, that the
others have not come forward like Judge
Cobb and admitted that tbe strictures of
Mr- Watson were directed at them, Indi
cates Jhat they are not sure of exculpation,
and that they prefer to remain incognito.
The committee is composed of three
Democrats, one Bepnblican, Grout, of New
Hampshire, who has agreed with the Demo
crats in everything, and Jerry Simpson,
Alliance, who" has acted as counsel for Wat
son. It, is certain that with the exception
of Simpson tbe committee will unite upon a
report unfavorable to Watson, but just how
far it will go the committeemen themselves
have not yet decided. They will probably
report that the sweeping charges or Watson
are practically without foundation, and
leave it to the House to decide upon the
penalty for the misstatements. Altogether,
ft is a unique investigation, without its
counterpart in the history of Congress. To
iear one lot of members swear that a fellow
-nber was drunken, and to hear another
e that that member had all bis life
had an incurable case of sobriety, is intense
ly edifying.
a he Deadlock Not Yet Picked.
A loiie drawn-out caucus of Democrats
this evening, with heated speeches, brought
the deadlock in the Hou.se no nearer the
end, apparently, than it was at adjourn
ment this afternoon. Pennsylvania were
at the fore-front, both for and against the
World's Fair appropriation. Mr. Mutchler
came loaded with a resolntion to postpone
Until December 7 the whole matter, and
at that time take a vote without filibuster
ing. He had another proposition to appoint
a committee to Investigate during the reoess
the actual financial condition of the Fair
corporation, to report December 1 and take
a vote December 7. Mr. Keilly, of Penn
sylvania, offered a substitute providing for
an immediate vote on tbe previous question
now before the House.
Probably a dozen members spoke on each
side The most' prominent ones favoring
postponement were Speaker Crisp, Judge
McCrearv, of Kentucky; Dockery, of
Missouri, and Mutchler, Beilly. Wike, of
Indiana; O'Neill, of Missouri, and others
urged immediate action. Keilly's proposi
tion was defeated by a vote of 66 to 33, and
then Mutchler's proposition to postpone
was adopted by a vote of 69 to 22.
Dockery Can See no Daylight.
"I do not see that the situation is much
changed," said Mr. Dockery after the cau
cus to-night "The caucus binds no one,
and I know personally that some who voted
for postponement to-night would vote for
the appropriation to-morrow. Vet, I be
lieve if it were not for the Senate we could
carry the House for postponement I know
of a number of Republicans who would
vote that way, but they hold back because
they believe tbe Senate will stand out
against adjournment until the Fair appro
priation is accepted by the House. The
Senate is held by the "World's Fair people.
The Director General is closeted with lead
ing senators every day, and holds them
steady for the appropriation.
"As to a vote in the Honse at this time,
the result is problematic. So many have
cone awav that it is impossible to say which
side would now have a majority on a direct
vote on the appropriation."
Upon this point the World's Fair people
conld possibly give Mr. Dockery informa
tion. They claim they have ueen keeping a
close count on departing members, and that
they will have a majority any time a vote
in ta sAn Trio lvnYAnt ile a nP 4-1 a
vustgut J.UV au-iisw suid uuiwb Ul VUOi
matter is that a long and formal canons or
upward of 100 Democrats has failed to ac
complish anything tangible toward breaking
the deadlock.
The Senate like a Stone Wall.
Even though a majority could be gained
in the House for postponement, the Senate
stands like a wall of adamant Between the
House and adjournment until the World's
Fair matter comes to it in satisfactory form.
Both Blackburn, of the Democrats, and
Allison, of the Republicans, declared to-day
they were as firm as ever in their determina
tion never to agree to adjournment nntil the
Fair appropriation became an accomplished
fact
The mere fact that the filibusters are in
doubt as to whether they would have a
majority makes them fear to permit the
amendment to come to a vote. There is no
way for them to get there postponement
proposition before the House except by
first allowing a vote on Bingham's motion,
to table Holman's motion to reconsider the
vote by which the previous question was
ordered. Should they permit this, and
should the motion to table prevail, the fight
would be at an end, as there then would re
main nothing hut to take a direct vote on
the amendment
The only way a compromise can be ef
fected is bv a withdrawal all around of all
the pending motions, the elimination of the
Fair amendment entirely from tue snndry
civil bill, and the adoption of a separate
resolution, embodying Mutchler's caucus
resolution of to-night At present there is
not the least sign of a possibility of such an
amicable arrangement
THE PEOIECTIVE POLICY
And a Breezy Discussion of It Occupy the
Time of the Senate.
"Washington, Aug. 1. Almost all that
occupied the attention of the Senate to-day
were speeches on the tariff question by Mr.
Hawley and Mr. Hiscock, advocating and
defending the policy of protection, and a
statement by Mr. Vest respecting the profits
of the Arlington "Wool Mills. Mr. Vest
had in a former speech asserted that that
company had in 1891 paid a dividend oi SO
per cent and that there had been troubles
and strikes among its workmen. Both
these assertions had been characterized in a
letter from Mr. "Whitman, the Secretary of
the company, to Mr. Allison (jwhloh had
been read some davs ago and printed in the
Record) as "absolutely false," and Mr.
"Vest, in view of that denial, undertook to
prove from Mr. Whitman's own report to
the directors that his (Mr. Vest's) original
assertion was practically true, and that Mr.
Whitman's assertion was a suggestio falsi.
As to strikes and labor troubles at the
Mills, Mr. Vest sustained his first state
ment by various extracts from newspapers
of Boston and other places.
Eight-Hoar Law Signed.
Washington, Aug. L The eight-hour
law, signed to-day by the President, was
introduced in Congress by Bepresentative
John O'Neil, of Missouri, former Chairman
of the Labor Committee, and was prepared
bv the Labor Union. It prohibits all em
ployes of the Government from working
over eight hours a day, and extends the
rule to those working under Government
contracts.
BICHAED TENBKOECK HO HOSE.
Death of the Noted Horseman at His
California Home.
San Francisco, Aug. 1. Special
Richard Ten Broeck, the famous Kentucky
horseman who was the first American to win
victories on the English turf, died to-day in
his home in San Mateo," which he had christ
ened "The Hermitage. "Death came when he
was entirely alone, as he bad driven away
all servants by his eccentricities. He had
made arrangements for , taking an inventory
of his furniture to-day, as he was hard up.
WTVian tit a Hsslav rpfv0il T vntinil fTV.
Broeck in bed dead.
Four years ago Ten Broeck's wife applied
to have him examined for insanity, but the
court held he was of sound mind. Mrs.
Ten Broeck then left and went East The
old man has lived alone ever
since, suffering much "from gout
He was over 80 years old. Ten Broeck
still owned a breeding farm in Kentucky,
bat it is heavily encumbered. He will al
ways be remembered as the breeder of Lex
ington, Ten Broeck and The Prioress.
With the latter he captured the English
Derby.
AS GOOD AS HEK WORD.
A Pretty Girl Elopes With the Man or Her
Choice, Accordine to Threats.
Asbuet Pabk, N. J., Aug. 1. Special
A sensational elopement, in which the
belle of the Hotel Brunswick figures as one
of the principals, has been the theme of
conversation among the guests of the hotels
here to-day. Tbe young lady was Miss
Mabel Tinley, of Philadelphia, while the
man is Bichard W. Boeloffs, who was
employed last year in the Philadelphia
postofflce. The couple were married yes
terday afternoon by Bey. Frank Chandler,
pastor-of the First Presbyterian Church on
Grand avenue, at the parsonage of the
church.
Mrs. Tinley seriously objected to Roe
loffs, and frequently told her. daughter so.
A week ago Roelofls came to Asbury Park.
To her daughter Mrs. Tiuley said: "I want
you to neverseethat man again." Mabel re
plied: "Jf you speak lite that before these
Eeople I will marry him before 6 o'clock."
he kept her word, and was married within
that time.
The people upon the two continents of
North and South America, without the Arc
tic regions, are less than 132,000,000 in Burn
er, or only eight to the square mile., ) -
1HE PITTSBURG
ALICE IN AN ASYLUM
After Weeping Bitterly 'Over the
Grave of Her Fair Victim.
THE MAHIAC " MURDERESS GONE
Into a Eelreat From Which It Is Not
Thought Possible That
SRE TTILL TR EMERGE "WHILE AL1TE
f rxcxjii. tzliqrjlm to tqx dispatch. 1
Memphis, Aug. 1. Alice Mitchell nas
taken to the insane asylum at Bolivar at S
o'clock this evening, but the last scene be
fore, she, left was a fitting close to the
strange drama in w"hich she was the central
figure. Testerdsy her two sisters, her
brothers and her father visited her in jail
and spent all day with her, talking over her
approaching departure. This morning early
her mother repaired to the jail to assist her
unfortunate child in the preparations for
her journey and indefinite sojourn at an
asylum.
All at once Alice begged, as the last
favor, that she be allowed to visit Freda
Ward's grave. Sheriff McLendon was tele
phoned to come to the jail, and on his ar
rival Alice's request was referred to him.
He had no objection. As. it was raining,
and the party was desirous of escap
ing observation, Mr. Mitchell telephoned
for a hack.
A. Last Look at Her Old Home.
It was necessary to go by the Mitohell
residence to procure the family lot
owner's ticket of admission to the cem
etery, since without tickets no one is ad
mitted. The carriage stopped, and Mrs.
Mitchell went in for j the tickets, leaving
Alice standing in the doorway, while the
Sherifi remained in the carriage.
It was the first time that Alice had seen
the home of her childhood since she left it
on the 25th day of January with the blood
of Freda Ward still warm on her hands, yet
no recollections seemed to be aroused, nor
did she evince any desire to step inside the
door nntil she observed two cats in the hall.
Then she ran in and took both of them in
her arms and petted them. They had for
gotten her and strove to escape. One got
away, and then, putting the other from her,
she said: "Well, go away; I don't love you
anv more, anyway."
t Mr. Mitchell was at home, and hearing
o'f the party's destination, he concluded to
go along. The quartet arrived at the ceme
tery, and a guide conducted the party to
Freda's grave. No stone marks the spot
where pretty Freda lies buried, but the
well-kept mound, beautiful and fragrant
with flowers, shows that -she is not for
gotten. Grler Softened by Timely Tears.
For a moment the girl who had consigned
the fair young creature .to this untimely
grave fixed her eyes upon it with a far
away, unseeing stare. Then the tears
came, blinding her eyes, and sobs that
shook her frame. Her parents looked in
silence, themselves moved at their
daughter's emotion, but under all the sad
circumstances unable to frame suitable
Then, bending over the grave, Alice 1
plucked a bouquet oi flowers irom her vic
tim's resting place. Gracefully she blended
them, to bear away with her to add to the
othermementoes to -remind her of her be
loved one whom she slew because she loved
her. Then the party re-entered the car
riage and was driven back to the jail.
Alice, in a corner of the carriage, never
once looked up. She wept and sobbed as
though her heart would break. She was
thinking of Freda. .
Into an Asylum for XJfe.
Shortly after 4'' o'clock a carriage con
veyed Alice and her mother, with Deputy,
Sheriff Perkins, to the Midland Railway
depot There they were' met by Mr.
Mitchell and Alice's brothers and sisters.
There were many r adieus and kisses ex
changed between 'the other members
of the family and this girl who had
brought so much trouble and distress on
them alt Then, at 5 o'clock, the cry of all
aboard was the signal for perhaps a life-long
separation.
Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell remained on the
train to accompany Alice to Bolivar, Officer
Perkins, ot course", going along. Tne sisters
and brothers of Alice jumped to the plat
form, then there was a last waving of hand
kerchiefs, and the maniac murderess was
'gone and the curtain had fallen on tbe
most sensational drama Memphis has ever
produced.
I0VEBS IN ANCIENT TIKES.
Shakespeare's Characters "Were Nearly Al
ways Very Faithful.
Tbe Chautauquan.
The modern subjective love story is made
wearisome by overmuch study of the moral
inwards of the lovers. Shakespeare did not
decline upon the psychologic analysis of
human emotions, and therefore we see
lovers in his plays as we see them in our
own world, and this is the wholesome way
of attending this everlasting spectacle. It
is no small cause oi the dignity love wears
in our dramatist that his lovers are not
often boys and girls. He has, so to speak,
ripened a fruit which is hardly to be . en
joyed when it is green. Indeed, he has
scarcely given us one pair of lovers about
whom we feel that "they are very young:"
and most of them present the appearance of
mature manliness and womanliness.
Ot the men. excepting Orlando, the be.
loved of Rotallnd, and the boy who runs off
with JtMina, bhylocK s daughter, we cannot
be far wrong in assuming that they have at
tained to maturity. And to what mind do
Imogen, Bosalmd, Portia and Ophelia seem to
be in their early girlhood? There is a
comfortable sense of matronliness about
all these women, and they are weighed,
too, with character, a thing Shakes
peare thought highly appropriate in a
woman.
Of one common condiment in love sto
ries, Shakespeare is verv frugal, that is to
say, faithlessness. His lovers for the most
part are as good as they engage to be, and
they do not seem to have discovered those
awful mistakes of choice which justify lov
ing another man's wife or eloping with an
other girl. '
JOHN HAHH0ND DYING.
A Very Well-Known Theatrical Man the
Victim of a Murderous Blow.
Cincinnati, Aug. L Special John
Hammond, the well-known theatrical man
ager, is dying at the Cincinnati hospital,
and it is thonght cannot live until morning.
Some unknown hand is responsible for
what will prove murder. An abscess has
developed in his brain which gives' -him a
very short lease ot life. ( It was while on his
tour for booking an attraction in tbe early
part of last May that he got mixed up in a
saloon row in Detroit and was hit on the head
with a coupling pin by an unknown hand.
He tell unconscious with a fractured
skull, and was taken to a hospital in that
city from which he was discharged several
weeks ago as cured. He was on his ray to
headquarters in Louisville when
a new development set in. While
at Elm and Liberty streets, this
city, he fell unconscious to tbe sidewalk
and a patrol wagon took him to the hospital.
;; Hammond is about 40 years old. He was
for many years a prominent producer of
ballads," and was.for some time stage mana
ger of Niblo's Garden, New
York. He was also connected for a time
with the Central Theater, of Philadelphia.
In the past two seasons he has been with
the Whallen and Martell Company, which
he organized. He is a member of Hobokea
Elks lodge.
DISPATCH. TUESDAY,
A DISH 07 KIXED POLIIICS.
The Minnesota Campaign Likely to Develop
gome Peculiar Features.
Si. Paul, Aug. L With the exception of
two counties, the delegates to the DJ&no
cratic State Convention are all cwken.
They number 788 all told. The
situation, so far as the Govejjnor
ship is concerned, is very badly nffied,
the vote being divided among Cfty J Ator
ney Lawler, of St Paul; ex-Congrejlman
Wilson, of Winona; ex-Marshal Campbell,
of Litohfield, and E. T. Champlin, Sf taker
of the House of Representatives otlMan
kato. Lawler has' about 500 delegates
pledged to him, a larger number than to
any other candidate, bnt the uninstructed
men teem very decidedly inclined, to com
bine on Champlin, who in tbe winter of
1891 was made Speaker of the House as an
Alliance man, although always a Democrat
up to the campaign of 1890.
More than a majority of the delegates are
instructed for Daniel Breck, Thomas Canty,
and "William Mitohell for Judges or the
Supreme Court Canty and , Breck, al
though both on the People's party ticket,
are Democrats. Mitchell is a Democrat
now on the Supreme Bench, and is on the
Bepnblican ticket named last Thursday.
This makes a queer and unexpected com
plication, for it renders it certain, whatever
may occur as to the remainder ot the State
ticket, that three Democrats will be ehosen
to the Supreme. Bench, giving them one ma
jority in the court of last resort, the two
hold-overs being Republicans.
In the event of Lawler's nomination for
Governor, the Minnesota- contest will be
one of the most unique in the history of
American politics. A bitter fight will be
made on Lawler because he is a Roman
Catholic, but a no less relentless war has
already been begun on Nelson, the Re
publican candidate, because he was born
in Norway. This fight was begun by the
American element, who protested against
tbe running for Governor any man not
born in this country. The warfare thus
begun is heartily seconded by the
Swedes, who hate all Norwegians
cordially, and in this campaign have a
special grievance, because Albert Berg,
their candidate for Secretary of State, was
disregarded for another Norwegian in the
Republican State Cvnvention.
The net result of all these unhappy se
lections, past and prospective, is that a
great many voters in both old parties, al
ready numbering thousands, have declared
their intention to cast their ballots for Ig
natius Donnelly as the least of three evils.
What effect these complications will have
on the electoral ticket is problematical.
THE FOOD OF PLANTS.
Cnrefnl Tillage Is a Prime Factor in Snc
cestfal Farming.
Philadelphia Record. 1
The substance principally used by plants
as food is carbon, and yet it is the cheapest
of all substances on the farm, for the reason
that the plants derive it from the atmos
phere. The atmosphere is almost four-fifths
nitrogen, and it is now believed that plants
also have the, power partially to derive
nitrogen from the air as well as carbon. The
nitrogen in the atmosphere is always in a
free (or uncombined) condition, but carbon
exists in a stale of combination, principally
as carbonic acid gas, in which condition it is
united with oxygen.
"When the leaves of a plant absorb carbon
from the carbonic acid gas of the atmos
phere the oxygen is set free. In that man
ner the leaves purify the air by lessening
the amount of carbonic acid and liberating
the oxygen. The carbon is then utilized by
the plant as food, and is converted into
many other substances, such as oil, starch
and sugar, according to the characteristics
of the plant. From the plant the animals
derive their carbon- as food, and they in
turn convert the carbon into some other
product Carbon, which costs the farmer
nothing, therefore is the prime substance of
his butter, lard, fat port, and of many of
his crops. Butter takes little or nothing
from the soil, and the same may be said of
lard.
Plants derive tbe greater portion of their
nitrogen through the agency ot their roots,
and in the form of ammonia or nitric acid,
although nitrogen is so abundant in the
atmosphere. It plants were capable of de
riving the whole of their nitrogen from the
atmosphere (as with carbon), there would
be no necessity lor manure or fertilizers,
except tor the mineral elements, and bread
would be the cheapest ot all substances; yet
many ot the foods derived from carbon are
cheaper than those more nitrogenous, owing
to the labor required in their production.
If the leaves and roots can convert the car
bonic acidOf the air into food, and derive
from the rains that which- is brought dowu
in the form of nitrogen compounds, the
farmer's duty is to promote rapid growth of
the roots and leaves of his plants, in order
to increase their capacity for deriving these
substances. An early start given the plants,
by preparing the ground properly, makes
tne cost of production less by enabling the
plants to procure a portion of their food,
and in this respect they do not differ from
animals, as the more favorable the con
ditions the lower the Cost and the greater
the increase.
A COLLECTION OF OLD BELICS.
Many Bare Old Specimens Promised for
the World's Fair.
Chicago Herald.
The objects of historical value and in
terest which will be shown at the "World's
Fair will be legion. One of the best con
tributions will be shown by Pennsylvania,
the collection being furnished mainly from
Philadelphia under the auspices of a com
mittee of its city Council.
Among the objects of this collection are
the chair occupied by Thomas Jefferson
when writing the Declaration bf Independ
ence; the table on which it was, signed; the
silver Inkstand used on that Occasion:
Thomas Jeflerson's sword; nhair of memorial
woods, including parts of Columbus' house
in Spain; bell rung at Valley Forge when
Washington occupied that place with his
army; sofa belonging to George "Washington
and" used by him when he lived in Phila
delphia; bench from pew in old Christ
Church occupied by Washington and
Lafayette; pupch bowl -used by Gen
eral "Washington and other officers
of the Revolutionary army; baby
clothes made by Mrs." John Adams for her
son John Quincy Adams; ale mug that
belonged to John Paul Jones; Peale's
portrait of General Washington, the first
ever painted; first lightning rod invented by
Benjamin Franklin; eleetrical machine in
vented by Franklin: original model of John
Fitch's steamboat which ran between Phila
delphia and Burlington from 1787 to 1790;
unsigned copy ot the Declaration of Inde
pendence; fans used by Franklin at the
court of France When he was minister there;
cast of "Washington's face taken during life
from original mold used for Hodon's statue;
clocks of Benjamin Franklin, William
Penn and Oliver Cromwell, running and
keeping good time; Gilbert Stuart's por
trait Ot Washington; Thomas Jefferson's
thermometer; lock of Jefferson's hair; Poca
hontas' necklace; surveying instrument
used by William Fenn in laying out the
city of Philadelphia, and the famous liberty
A SEBVIAN SOJG.
The Centary.
"Mother, a dear little lad
Alone through tbe night Is creeping!
Be has lost bis way, and Is sad;
I hear him bitterly weeping.
I kno w ho Is coming to me:
Go to the door and see."
"Daughter, woman's undoing
Is to be won without wooing.
When sbo meets her lover half-way,
Be holds her favor light
As the cup be drains by day,
Or the lamp he burns at night."
"Mother, no more.
But open the door; ,
I have his heart, he mine;
He must be housed and fed:
I will give him kisses for wine, .,..-..
Ana my eyes enau iignt mm to Deai"
.jo, u, ovjwmxvu-
2, 1832.
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THE BUSINESS WORLD.
Court Refuses to Appoints Receiver
lor the Lehigh R. K. Co.
KO INJUNCTION WILL BE ISSUED.
Ihe Evidence Given Shows No Conspiracy
'to Ruin the Company.
FIRES, FAILURES AND BAIMVAY NEWS
Eastox, Pa., Aug. L In the North
ampton County Court this morning an
opinion was. handed down in relation to the
Philadelphia and Beading aud Lehigh
Valley Railroad deal. Tbe case came up
on a motion for a receiver for tbe Lehigh
Valley Bailroad Company, and for a pre
liminary injunction. The motion for a
receiver is .based on a number of allega
tions, the purport of which is that the
directors of the Lehigh Valley Bailroad
Company are engaged in a conspiracy to ruin
that company in the interest of the Phila
delphia and Beading Company. The Court
states that from the high character of the gen
tlemen concerned aside from the inherent
absurdity of such a charge, there is not the
slightest evidence to support it. The mo
tion for a receiver is therefore denied. The
opinion runs thus:
Are the complainants entitled to a prelim
inary injunction? Tbe present controversy
is the outgrowth of a lease by the directors
of the Lehigh Vulley Katlroad Company of
that company's property, including all its
franchises excopt tbe franchise of being a
corporation to the Philadelphia and Bead
ing Railroad Company.
The Contentions That Were Made.
The contention of the complainants Is that
this lease Is Illegal, first, becanse it was not
within the powers ot the directors to make
it, and in the seoond place because, as the
complainant allege, tbe lines of the Lehigh
Valley and Philadelphia and Bending Rail
roads were, at the date of the lease, "parallel
or competing," aud theiefore the lease was
in violation ol the Constitution.
It is one of the peculiarities of the case at
liar that the lease was in violation ot the
Constitution. It Is one of the peculiarities
of the case at bar that the lease, which is the
binder of tbe complainants' complaint, In
stead or being an Injury, has been a positive
benefit to them. On this point we have affi
davits of the Dliectois of the Lehigh Valley
Bailroad Company. Still further, it is now
nearly six months since the lease was made,
and the stocic has steadily advanced in price
ever since and Is still advancing.
Hero, then, we have the anomaly of a set
of complainants without a grievance assert
ing a doubtlul right and asking for an In
junction that would do them no good, wliilo
It would work incalculable injury, not only
to the defendants, but to the public, by the
interruption of travel and transportation on
all the lines of the Reading system.
An Injunction tVonld Be TJt-Jast.
To grant on injunction under snch cir
cumstances would be to invite revolution or
rather it would be to inaugurate revolution
by ourselves leading the way In showing
Contempt for the authority of the law. The
present motion must theierore be dismissed.
We are free to admit that we would willing
ly have leached a different conclusion If we
could have done so without trampling tbe
safeguards which the law has thrown
around the exercise of the most excellent,
but at the sxme time most dangerous juris
diction by injunction.
If reports bo true, and we have no reason
to doubt them the worklnjmen, anxious to
work, with families dependent on their
earning, are being turned out of their
places by soores and hundred Hit as little
ceremony and apparently with as little
thought as If they were so many cattle. So
ono denies the right of the stockholders or
the Philadelphia and Kendlru Railroad to
receive dividends on their jstockj At the
same timo the claims of long-continued
faithful service have 'been recognized the
world over, and 1 it not worthy 6r consider
ation whether dividends earned In con
tempt of these claims may not be achieved
at too great a cost. But It is merely by the
way the.blll belore us has been filed by
private parties for their own prlrate ends,
and tbe equities alone are in the balance.
REFINERIES ANSWER.
Tbey Deny TliRt They EntereJ In'o Any
Illegal Combination.
Fhii.apki.fhia, Aug. L The position taken
by the Philadelphia sugar refineries and
sundry Individuals In the recent Sugar
Trust deal was mom fully defined to-day by
numerous answers filed in the United States
Circuit Court to the salt bronght for the
Government by District Attorney ElleryP.
Ingham to have the consolidation declared
Illegal. The answer of the E. C. Knight
ComPany says:
"We admit that on or about tbe 4th day of
Karoh, 1892, John Kserlax, Jr., did enter into
a contract with the parties holding all our
capital stock, viz : Edwaid C. Knight. Ed
watd C. Knisht, Jr., Thomas Cochrnn, Fred
erick D. Laneehhelm, Richard E. Clay,
George Franklin Davis, Edward Biownlng
and out selves for the sale by them or by us
for valuable consideration of all the shares
or stook of onr company, or In lieu thereof
of the refinery, machinery, real estate, etc.,
belonging to us. We deny that we ever
entered Into any concert, collusion or com
bination of any sort or kind with any parties
to do any of the acts set forth in the bill.
We joined In the contract of salebecauso
we were conditionally offered a fair price
for our refinery, machinery and real estate,
and for no other reason and With no dther
purpose. We aver that our said contract
wai not witbin the pi o visions of the act of
Congress of July 2, 1330; that it did not con
cern Congress and that It is not within the
Jurisdiction of the courts or the United
States Wo deny that we agreed to make
sale of our property for the purpose of
giving complete control of the price of re
fined sugar in the United States to the
American Sugar Refining Company or to any
other person. Our agieetnent to sell was
made solely for the reasons we have stated.
"Weaver that we entered Into no other
contracts saving the ono we havj
stated, viz, to sell our rennery, etc., for n
satisfactory price, and with the intention to
obtain such-price and with no other Intent.
The contract we made, as we have said, was
never consummated, because the purchaser
took from our stockholders their shares of
stock and did not bay oar refinery, etc.
We pray to be hence dismissed, with, our
reasonable costs in tbis respect most wrong,
fully sustained, and we pray that we may be
entitled to the same benefit of exceptions of
law to whlob we would have beii entitled If
we had plead In bar or had demurred to this
bill or to any part thereof."
EHD OP THE V0TIHG TRUST.
New Stock of the Philadelphia and Beading
Company to B Issued To-Day.
Philadelphia, August 1. The exchange of
the voting trust certificates of the Philadel
phia and Reading Railroad Company for cer
tificates of stock begins to-morrow, and will
continue until October 10. August 1 marks
the expiration of the voting trust, which
during the past five years of reorganization
has bad possession or the stock. This work
of reorganization has been one of the most
weighty and extensive undertakings that
has entered American financial circles for
years and has been attonded with conspicu
ous results.
The total capital of the stock will be, in
round numbers, $45,000,000, which Includes
$5,000,000 convertible third preference bonds;
$200,000 of the certificate of Brown Brothers
& Co. representing stock 'deposited under
the reorganization plan, whose holders have
not exchanged them for voting trust certifi
cates and ,4100,000 of the old common stock of
the company, which was not deposited un
der the plan, all of which are exchangeable
lor the new stock certificates.
Prices ol Coal Advanced.
Philapsxphia, Aug. 1. Beginning to-day,
the circular prloe of coal for this city is ad
vanced IS cents at the mines by the Reading
and Pennsylvania roads, making tno rates
as follows: E3g,$2 65; stove, $3 75; chestnut,
$3 55. This makes an Increase or about 50
cents since the first of the year. The retail
dealers are expeoted to add about 50 cents to
presont quotations.
An Iron Mine Closes Cp.
MAKquETTZ, Mien., Aug. L Operations at
tbe Champion Iron Mine were this morning
suspended for an indefinite period andthe
entire force of 600 employes discharged. The
suspension is due. It is said, to tbe fact that
the company Is unable to market its ore.
' Charters llanarf Yaattrd'ar.
' HakbiWao, Aug. L The following were
AUGUST
Hiw ADTliRTMErtKNTiA
TO THE LIES!
We Will Quote the Bargains Only
In the Special
MUSLIN UNDERWEAR SALE.
Ladies' Bleached Gowns, embroidered trimmed, at 47c;
finer quality at 60c and 68c.
A few boxes of Gowns '(fine tucks and embroidery) at
74c.
Ladies' Bleached Chemise 24c, 35c (or 3 for x) and 48c
A lot of 38c Drawers at 24c; this sale only; we will have
no more of them.
Ladies' Bleached Corset Covers, low and high neck, all
sizes, 24c, 35c and 48c
Ladies' White Skirts, 48c, 73c and 97c.
A lot of full size White Aprons at 24c Ask to see these.
We will include in this sale our entire stock of Ladies' White
Lawn Waists at exactly half price 780,1, $1.25 and 1.50.
POPITLA.K BAKGAUi STORES,
435 MARKET STREET. 187
chartered to-day: The Bellevue Lfglit and
Power Company, of Allej(liehy county, cap
ital $10,000; Tube City Brick Company, of
McKeesport, capital 125 000; Soutn Fork
Water Company, or Cambria connty, capital
$15,000: Prospect Land Company, of Pitts
burg, capital $5,000; J. l). Chantler Leather
Company, of Pittsbuig, capital $3,000.
EXPRESS BUSINESS TBAN8F2BBE1X
The Adams Retires In Favor of Wells Fargo
& Co. an the St L. Jt S F. Road.
New York, Aug. I. A transfer of express
business of some magnitude from one com
pany to another took place to-day. Up to
yesterday the express business on the lines
Of the St. Louis and ?an Francisco Railroad
had been conducted by the Adams Express
Company.
Tins inornincr the wbolo business was
trans erred to Wells, r'ar-ro Co., the Adams
company retiring. The lines or the St.
Louis and San Francisco are run West and
South from St. LouU, and are now part of
the Atchison. Tnpeka and Santa Fe system,
the express business of which Wells, Fargo
& Co. operate.
THE PANHANDLE'S EXTENSION.
Work 'Will Begin at Once on the Camber
land IJrincli.
New CtrMBEiUASD, W. Va., Ang. 1. The
contract lor the extension of tlio Cumber
land branch of the Panhandle Kallroad has
Doon let and work will begin Immediately,
The branch extends from tbis city along
the east bank of the Ohio by way of Hearer
Falls to Pittsburg, and pasiei through rich
pottery clay beds lying opposite Wellsville
and East Liverpool. A large number of fac
tories have been located along the line of
the load. .'
Falturn of a Trzas Clothier.
GaI-vebton, Txx., Aug. L The failure was
annonnced here to-day ot M. Sohram, retail
clothier. Liabilities $73,000 including $00,000
prelerrud. -N'o statement of assets.
BUSINESS BREVITIES.
Tna Old Colony Railroad has declared a
$1 75 dividend payable September 1.
The 900 sawmill men who struck at Merrill
Wis., last 1 rlday, leturned to work yester-,
day and will settle the trouble by arbitra
tion. Ysstxbdat tbe Blandon rolling mill, at
Blandon, and the Hamburg rolling mill, at
Hamburg, resumed, and together wbon in
full operation will employ nearly 400 hands.
Tbustie Sweet-laud, of the Sprague estate.
Is now paying at Piovidence, R. I., the
Spraguo creditors a final dividend of 2 3-20
percent, making in all 273-20 per cent for
the creditors. The original ci editors have
In many eases passed away, and their de
cendants are widely scattered.
The men employed In the sawmills at
Stevens Point, Wis., are on a strike. Just
what is wanted is hot definitely known,
some claiming they want an advance In
wages, while others say tbey will be willing
to work at the former wages provided the
time is changed from 11 to 10 hours for a
days work.
, Is reference to the discharge of employes
of the total number of 100 by tbe Philadel
phia and Reading Company at its three
shops In Reading, Palo Alto and Schuylkill
Haven.lt Is stated that they were merely
put off for one month owing to tbe scarcity
of certain kinds of lumber which must be
well seasoned in order to be used with ad
vantage. The rallnre Is announced of the well
known cotton factorage firm of Btckhara A
Moore at New Orleans. So statement has
been made as to assets or liabilities, but the
firm's business was large. .The house has al
ways borne au excellent leputatlon and the
active partner, Mr. John V. Moore, is one of
tbe best known and most popular men In
the cotton trade.
THE FIRE RECORD.
Carlisle, Pa. At an early Hour yesterday
morning lire destroyed the large new build
ings belonging to the Carlisle Meat Com
pany, together with a large stock of smoked
meats, apoaratuj, eto. The loss Is estimated
at about $5,000; partly Insured. It is sup
posed to be the work of an Incendiary.
Williams street The alarm from "tation
So. ill shortly before 12 o'clock last nfght
was caused by a fire in the residence of John
Johnson on Williams street, t-eventeenth
ward. The blaze started la tho kitchen, the
woodwork catching Irom the stoVe. Tbe
damage-ampunted to about $150. The house
Is owned by , Thomas Jlles.
Portland At 8:30 last night fire broke out
on the third fioor of Whlttier, Fuller 4 Co.'s
paint and oil store on Front street and
an hour later threatened to destroy
the entire block, a four-story brick, 200x100
feet, occupied by Wadham & Co., wholesale
grocers, and Prank Bros., and inuy reach
$500,000.- The building is owned by United
States Senator Dolph and D. P. Thompson.
Penn avenue The feed store of John J.
Brady, at 316 Penn avenue, caught fire last,
night and about $300 worth or balled hay was
consumed before the flames were ex
tinguished. An alarm was sent in from box
five, and by the time the engines arrived the
fire looked fierce enough to destroy tho
entire building, a two story brick. Prompt
work on the part of tho firemen, however,
confined the names to the rear or the second
story and in half an hour tbe fire was out.
It Is not known "what canned the fire, unless
It was spontaneons combustion.
Highest of all in Leavening Power. Latest V. S. Gov't Report
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HOW MUTES MAEE LOVE.
By the Sense or Touch Ihrj Are Able to
Coo to Each Other.
Pearson's Weekly. J
A gentleman who enjoys a wide acquaint
ance among the deaf writes that the Court
ship of a pair of mutes is one of the most
singular things on record.
"I know a young man who is now deep
in the toils of a fair and speechless girl,"
he said, "and he has taken me into his con
fidence. He is perfectly happy in hit in
firmity, for from conversation he has held
with ordinary lovers he has come to the
conclusion that silence Is, after all, the best
form for lovers.
"Daring the progress of his love he ex
perienced but one difficulty, and that in a,
short time he surmounted. The thorn that
lay in his bed of roes was a gas jet
which, as he of coarse conversed with hit
adored one in the sign language, It was al
ways necessary to keep ablaze a wofully
embarrassing thing for lovers.
"Finally they discovered that tbey could
Utilize the sense of touch in deciphering
their sign language. By holding one an
other's hands they found that they could
carry on a conversation with tolerable facil
ity, and in about a week were adepts. Thus
deaf, dumb, and practically blind, they en
joyed all the pleasure of love. Tbey have
spread their discovery among their friends,
and I believe that the idea has taken fast
hold Upon deaf lovers."
GOLD EPZNT BT 10UEISTS..
An Immense Amount Is Annnslly Dep 0
ltd In the Eternal City.
Pearson's Weetly.j
How Italy, a country without goldmines,
finds the gold to pay the ten millions a
year dne to foreign holders of her bonds,
has been something of a mystery. The
Secretary of the British Embassy in Rome
declares that the only solution of the ques
tion at which it is logical to arrive is that
this amount of gold is annually brought
intor the country by foreign travelers, who
swarm during the four seasons of the year
in one part of Italy or the other.
from calculations made by the United
States consular representatives in various
parts of the country, it has been computed
that for tbe last ten years the average an
nual expenditure in Italy of American
citizens has been above seven millions ster
ling. It would scarcely be an exaggeration to
place the collective expenditure of British,
French, Australian, German and other
foreign travelers at double this amount.
This, we are remindedis irrespective of the
money spent in thecountry by the 60,000 or
60,000 pilgrims who annually visit the
Eternal city, and of the amount of which
they are the bearers in the shape of dona
tions to the Holy See.
BIG PUKSES AT SIUBQIi
Past Trotting and Pacing Kaces Interest
the Talent.
Stctbois, JIicii., Aug. L It was not a
large crowd nor a last track that greeted the
Association to-day, but tbe racing was of
the gilt-edged order. The talent hod the
2:30 .s ake down fine and backed Mnta
Wilkes for a winner, but in the 2:17 pace
Mintado would not go and a rank outsider
carried away the money.
230 class, trotting; purse $5,000
Mnt&WilKes 1 1 3 5 2 1
Geneva 3 10 114
DotL 4 2 0 2 3 3
Answer. , 2 9 6 14 3
Independence 5 3 3 2 5 8
TomPngb 8 5 4 7 7 7
JeflleLee 6 6 7 8 8dr
Dewoir...- . 7dr
Cod....... dls.
Time, 2r22, Ml, 2:23. 2ril)i 2:23, 223.
2:17 class, pacing; pur9e, il,00o
Snyder Colfax S 3 115 4 1
Johnnie Smoker 7 12 3 4 12
Mikado i 4 2 3 4 1 S 3
Saboya -.1 4 e 3 3 3 4
Tommy White 3 6 4 2 2 ro
Ivorlne 2 3 3 dls.
W. W. P dl.
Time, 2:19X. 2:1 2:16K, 2:1SK. 222, 224, 22o.
Uctated Food Kept Her Weil.
Mr. J. B. Henderson, of Bnrlincton. Vt.. sayst
'Tlie photograph of mj little JUrJorle, which I
end rou herewith, shows
that her use of lacuted
food his been perfectly
satlsfaetorr. Living ex
clusively upon this food
for months, without a
sick day. Is the bestevl
deaea that Uctated food
thoroughly ooarlshes. Sbe
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IIARJOME.
bad but little trouble while cutting her teeth, and I
-ascribe this to tbe bone-forming properties of to
food, and that It prevents Irritation of the stomad
and bowels."
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