THE PITTSBUKG DESPATCH. SUNDAY. AUGUST 7. 1892.'
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riTTMH'KG. SUNDAY. AUGUST 7. 1SK.
MAXDIU3I ENGLISH WAGES.
The letter on Londb'n lalior published in
this morning's DisrATcn makes a com
parison of the waues of bricklayers and
ilumb?r in England with those in the
United States. It is one of the parallels
between the countries that bricklaying
and plumbing are among the best paid
classes of labor in both. But there the
similarity ends.
The bricklayer and plumber of London
beloncs to what has been described as the
aristocracy of labor. Nevertheless, their
wages are by no means aristocratic. Im
RSine the scorn of the American brick
la) or and plumber If called upon to work
a week of 52J4 hours at the rate of 19 cents
per hour! Yet that is Ike wace rate which
the London bricklayers have succeeded in
obtaining as an improvement on the
former rate of 18 cents an hour. Plaster
ers, stonemasons and carpenters closely
approach this maximum, and thence the
reale declines to wages of 12 cents per
hour for common labor in the building
trades, and as low as 20 shillings, or $4 80,
fcr a full week of bard toil on the streets
at Greenwich.
These comparisons give a striking view
of the differencs between the status of
!. TirtumdTjn and the chief cities of onr
own country. On the other hand, it Is no
more than justice to recognize one point
in which England is in advance of this
country. The reference In our correspond
ent's letter to Toynbee Hall, the educa
tional center for London workingmen,
which one of them describes as his
"Alma Plater," gives us a glimpse of
private effort for the mental eleva
tion of labor, in which London sur
passes anything that this country
possesses, the nearest approach to it being
the Cooper Union, of New York. Yfith
all due recognition of this splendid work,
however and it is but a mere side issue
every American workman will agree that
the advantages of such splendid philan
thropies are no compensation for half
wages.
American workmen also find here a
comparison between wages under a free
trade policy and under a protection policy
which is more instructive and convincing
than any quantity of special pleading from
theorists and doctrinaries seeking office
and offering free trade in exchange. It is
a gift whose effects for the workingmen
may be estimated by the contrast of Lon
don wages and those of this country.
PRIVATE DALZELL'S RETIREMENT.
Our friend, Mr. Dalzell, of Caldwell, O.,
has made an announcement that he will be
known as "Private Dalzell" no longer.
Not that he has been promoted, however
much he may deserve the title of Colonel
or General, with which numerous gentle
men have been decorated, though they
never partook of any more serious war
faie than the conflicts of political conven
tions. But he retires to civil life in conse
quence of the discovery that the people no
longer take stock in privates, and, honora
ble as the title is, he finds no usufruct
in it.
His discovery further includes the fact
that a big bank account is of more avail in
political conventions than a record of use
ful service in the ranks. As the ex-Private
is tolerably regular in his attendance
on conventions, it Is to be presumed that
he knows whereof he affirms.
Thus it seems that een the persistent
ex-Private has the political encroachments
of wealth forced upon his attention. The
"act is one which numerous other privates
lve been obliged to notice. It contains a
'gestion that the most urgent need of
times is the cultivation of a kind of
.tics in which money shall not be all
powerful. If ex-Private Dalzell devotes the same
energy to Inculcating such a political re
form that he has done to being a private
for the past 30 years, we shall hope to see
some good results from his work.
THE SECRET OF THE SINGLE TAX.
The alleged single tax policy of Hyatts
viile", Maryland, Is again brought to public
attention by the decision of a Maryland
court in favor of its constitutionality.
Certain citizens of the town questioned in
the courts the power of the town commis
sioners to exemptimprovements from tax
ation. Since they were empowered by
express statute to do so, there Is room for
a suspicion that the suit was mainly in
spired by the wish to obtain a further
advertisement for the hitherto unknown
suburb of Hyattsville, or to lend further
eclat to the claims of a triumph for the
single tax school.
We have never had any doubt of the
authority of the Legislaturouinder gen
eral constitutional principles Vo exempt
improvements from taxation. We can go
v. step further and say that for 3 suburban
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district like Hyattsville desirous of at
tractingresidents who will build their own
homes, the policy may be a very good one.
But if the adoption of the sinjgle tax prin
ciple to the .extent ,of levying a total of
two and a halt mills on the valuation of
real estate apari; from Improvements is the
real single tax theory, that much talkrd
of cult has been wofully misrepresented.
If this is whar Air. nenry George lias been
hurling at us thajc half-dozen years it is
the most stupendous case of thundering
in the beginning arid sinking to a. soft and
sweet murmur in fhe ending, ever yet
placed on record.
We can find thousands of land owners
in Pittsburg who would ba.il with delight
the adoption of the single tax theory in
Pittsburg bv a levy of 25 cents prthe
$100 provided the single taxers win show
how the revende from that levy can be
made to cover the expensesof the city
government. THE ALABAMA RESULT.
The Alabama election mixes things up
to the extent that party views of Southern
politics are forced to take something like a
somersault. There Is still some dispute
about the fact; but the weight of testi
mony is that Jones, the Democratic candi
date, was elected by the negro vote. The
majority of the white voters supported
Kolb, the People's party candidate, but
the black vote came in strongly for Jones,
and elected him.
Now it Is a curious fact that not only the
People's party leaders, but the Kepubllcan
organs who sympathize with all third party
movements which hit the Democracy, find
in this result something wrong. It seems
to them an impeachment of the Democ
racy that it owes its success to the colored
voter. The idea that only white voters
should govern may be consistent with the
Southern Alliance people; but since Re
publican organs have made it a reproach
to the Southern Democracy for a genera
tion that it would not give the colored vote
Its fair weight, the appearance of a case
in which the colored vote is cultivated to
the extent of winning an election by it, the
indication, from a Republican point of
view, is on the Democratic side.
On the other hand, the old Democratic
views are subjected to a similar operation
of being turned upside down. White su
premacy standing on the foundation of
colored support really obliterates race di
visions. The cry of "negro domination"
raised for Democracy is also overturned.
When Democracy in Alabama is success
ful by the negro vote, the bugbear of negro
domination is saddled on the wrong horse
to make a Democratic campaign cry.
On the whole, the Democratic success
in Alabama is one that, from the Northern
point of view, can be regarded as quite sat
isfactory. No gain to the protective cause
could have resulted from the People's
party's success. But when the Democ
racy owes Its supremacy to colored voters,
it demonstrates to its own satisfaction that
negro suffrage is not so destructive a thing
as it has been held up to be for twenty
years or more. The color line is obliter
ated by such results, and with the color
line gone, the dissolution of the Solid
South is but a question of time.
A VERY. NICE SAVING.
The long-standing Poor Farm struggle
was formally ended yesterday by the issue
of a warrant for the purchase of the
Neeld property, on Chartiers creek, at
the price of $G1,G87. The payment was
made the occasion for renewed assertions
of the desirability of the purchase, the fine
character of the farm, and the entire in
tegrity of the transaction. These asser
tions we have neither ground for doubt
ing nor desire to contradict
But there Is one feature of the occasion
which may be deemed worthy of passing
mention. When ordinances were pre
sented for the purchase of properties
costing 5250,000 to 300,000 The Dispatch
took the ground that the amount was ex
cessive. It held that the size of-the farm
need not bo over 100 or 200 acres; that a
river front was not requisite, and that
land suitable to the purpose ought to be
had for from 150 to 250 per acre. While
these positions were warmly controverted,
the point has been gradually reached of
taking a farm away from the river, which
is declared in the Department of Charities
to be all that the heart of a manager of
the Poor Farm could wish for, at a cost of
just about one quarter the price of the
early farms.
While it is not by anyjneans certain
that less land would not have answered all
essential purposes, The Dispatch is con
tented to have helped in securing such a
reduction from the original sum asked.
It is in round numbers $200,000; and $200,
000 ought to prove very useful In furnish
ing buildings of the best character and
most approved construction.
POSTOFFICES AND DEMOCRACY.
It can hardly be expected to escape com
ment that the postoffices occupy an ex
ceedingly prominent position in the view
of the Democratic campaign organization.
The work of organization has' not gone
very far but it has gone far enough to
present the following summary of post
official politics in the Democratic cam
paign. The Chairman of the National Commit
tee is William F. Harrity, ex-Postmaster
of Philadelphia; and famous for erecting
In that Institution a very active political
machine. He is seconded by Don M.
Dickinson, ex-Postmaster General, in the
position of Chairman of the Executive
Committee. In the subordinate positions,
George T. Parker, ex-Assistant Postmas
ter of Philadelphia, will act as auditor of
the campaign committee, and Wm. D.
Haynie, ex-Chief Clerk in the Postofflce
Department, will act as the Chief of the
Bureau of Information. The list of minor
ex-postmasters who will run the campaign
on local committees is too encyclopedic
for conception. But it is a central fact
that the former tenants of the postofflce
will unite their efforts to elect as Vice
President the ex-Assistant Postmaster
General, whose only claim to fame was
his industry in chopping off the heads of
45,000 Republican postmasters, and putting
45,000 Democratic postmasters in their
places thereby reducing the pledges of his
chief to a by-word.
The postoffices have never occupied an
especially modest place in politics, Demo
cratic or Republican, except perhaps in
1884, w hen the civil service reform attitude
of the former party won its only national
victory for thirty-two years. But the post
offices never were more evidently the
largest thing in the Democratic coup
d'oeutt than at present
A RESULT OF RECIPROCITY.
A striking and unquestionable evidence
of the success achieved in extending our
commercial relations is given by statistics
on the exportations of cotton goods from
the United States to South America. It
is a gratifying fact that cotton shipments
to the Southern continent have increased
twenty-two per cent in the past eleven
months." If this fact stood by itself it
might leave room for a claim that the in
crease is due to an enlarged demand in
that country or to some other extraneous
-condition. But when it Is accompanied
"by a decrease in the shipments of British
exports of the same nature to the South
American countries the significance of the
change is unmistakable.
Such records as this of extending trade
with the Spanish-American people as
they grow in magnitude form the most
eloquent demonstration of the statesman
ship of the Republican leader who urged
reciprocity upon Congress and by his vigor
and earnestness secured its incorporation
as an integral part of the Republican
policy. Retired as Mr. Blaine may be at
present his work as Secretary of State in
combining reciprocal trade with the pro
tective policy still goes on. It was one of
the criticisms of his Congressional career
that he never as a legislator originated or
pushed to completion any great measure.
But while others may have theoretically
urged the reciprocal policy prior to Mr.
Blaine, he is fairly to be credited with
putting the policy into active operation.
Partisanship has inspired the assertion
that the reciprocity policy was a sham;
but the utter baselessness of that assertion
is sufficiently demonstrated by one such
statistical fact as this increase of over one
fifth in the shipment of a single class of
manufactured goods to South America.
The same gratifying support is given to
Republican policy by this fact. Exten
sion of trade goes hand in hand with pro
tection to home industries. Prosperity at
.home is united with increase of dealings
jrith neighboring countries in the settled
Republican policy. A party which stands
on these actual achievements need not
fair the attacks of free trade theorists.
THE OBSERVED OF ALT. OBSERVERS.
Public interest in observations of the
placet Mars continues to increase rather
than diminish. Astronomers, American
and European, are all making the most of
our nearest stellar neighbor's visit Nor
are the astronomers with their scientific
methods of investigation by any means
alone in the matter. Something closely
approaching enthusiasm has been awak
ened even, among the unlearned. Ama
teurs possessed of varying degrees of
knowledge or ignorance are ready with
theories for the enlightenment of their
wiser fellows, which are for 'the most part
better fitted for private conversation than
for scientific consideration.
The observations now being made will
need a good deal of editing and collating
before they can serve as a basis for sound
reasoning. It is extremely doubtful
whether the present course of inspection
will actually establish or confute the idea
that Mars is inhabited. But one fact at
least has been demonstratedby the knowl
edge definitely obtained, and that is the
improvement which, has been accom
plished in the manufacture of astronomic
instruments and methods of research. And
it is worthy of note that this country, the
newest on this globe, is contributing more
to the knowledge of the scientific world on
this subject than any other, by reason of
its possession of a telescope at the Lick
Observatory which is superior to all others.
Stephen "Van Cullen White has
vindicated the honor of Wall street. He
failed for a million dollars and was given an
other chance by his creditors on no farther
security than his verbal promise to meet
ew:ry liability. Ho has made enough money
on the stock market to keep his pledge, and
the only question, is from. whom, did he
secuxe his gains.
In talking the Cake for an inspectorship
appointment Secretary Foster is likely to
find food for refiection,.and possibly matter
for indigestion.
CuraotrsxY enough, in speaking of,the
Secretaryship of the common wealth," no one
has hitherto-thought or mentioning the ir
reparable loss which Pennsylvania would
suffer by the barely possible and highly im
probable resignation of William F. Harrity
from that rumerative position of responsi
bility. NO doubt the crank is frequently a great
nuisance, but many useful and necessary
'things -would come to a standstill by its
banishment.
Since sockless Jerry Simpson has as
sumed oil the outer signs of polisned and
cultured gentility, it becomes painfully evi
dent that he will have to take his coat off
and do some remarkably hard labor to per
suade his constituents that he is worthy of
re-election.
When it is not too pitiable for mirth, it
is highly amusing to watoh some people
trying' to get cool by vigorous exercise with
a fan. .
Chicago is a city of such vast propor
tions that it is quite natural to hear it al
leged that forgers there should not stop
short of fabricating deeds to a million dol
lars' worth of real estate when once they
get started.
As to that wretched Fifty-second Con
gress,' the least said about Its first aession
the better for what little reputation it has
left. '
Statisticians would find a rich field for
their research in estimating how many peo
ple make an annual trip to a summer resort
from sheer force of habit, and how many
stay at home tor a like lack of reason.
Denver Is undergoing an invasion as
immense as it is peaceful, and the Incoming
forces are received with open arms.
Russian movements in the neighborhood
of the Pamir Indicate that Mr. Gladstone is
likely to have some trouble in the foreign
office to add to his 'domestic difficulty in
passing a home rule bill for Ireland.
Notwithstanding the fact that this is
a Presidental year, the most prominent
American national figure is still $.
The first session of the Fifty-second Con
gress must haredemonstrated Its extreme
unrullness to a degree that will cause an
after-glow of credit to fall around ex
Sneaker Tom Reed. '
Inhabited or not, a good many years
Trill pass before Mars has any practical bear
ing on the immigration question.
Strangers studying corner loafers on
Pittsburg streets on Saturday evenings
would forma peculiar opinion of the busi
ness push and enterprise prevalent here
abouts. It goes without Baying that there is a
mystery about Mars when it is remembered
that there are women in the case.
Those recent electrical displays described
as an aurora are -out of the running with
the latest gas well, generally spoken or as a
roarer to be heard twelve miles olC
This is a great country and it was a great
day for railroad wrecks yesterday.
Since the Commonwealth does so little
for the roads, the common -wheel and its
rider are taking a. hand in the matter of
seeking improvements.
Congress ran down long before the
session was wound up.
Not to Be Forgotten.
Baltimore American.
Wages in this country are 77 -per cent
higher than in England. Workingmen
should keep that fact clearly in mind.
A LOOK AROUND. .
"We have been trying- to get a club
together which will last for five years with
out important changes," remarked Presi
dent Temple,' of the Pittsburg Baseball
Club, yesterday. "The longer the men play
together the better they understand each
other, and if they are good, conscientious
players thoy will improve steadily as a team.
There have been many difficulties to over
come, bnt r. tbintf by next Season we will
have things in good shape. Oar chief weak
ness has been our field manager, and wo
have been trying to eet & first-rate man. To
show you how much effort we have made in
that direction let me tell you that we have
offered a high as $15,000 to ft man to oome
here and take charge of the team. We have
not succeeded in getting him, but we will do
the best wo can in that direction. Our clnb
stood better after the first half of the season
than it has stood for several years. ,
"We have broken several of the club hoo
doos. For instance, for three years we did
not win a game on the Boston or Cleveland
grounds, and this year we have done both.
In spite of bad weather we had within 17,000
as many people at the first 42 games this
year as we had all the season last year. We
have done better than any club in the
League. We should have made $30,000 this
yetr, butour salary list began at a $30,000
rate instead of $15,000 as it should have done,
and besides we have paid visiting clnbs
$12,000 more on home games than they have
paid us on games abroad, which Is a good cri
terion of the average difference in attend
ance here and elsewhere. a
"An important change will be made in
onr contracts with playeni this iall," con
tinned Mr. Temple. "All our contracts will
be for twelve months instead of seven. The
reason for this is that a number of good men
are improvident and at the end of the sea
son don't have more than $100 coming to
them in pay and there are five months of
winter before them dnrlng which they must'
hustle to make a living. Many of them go
to tending bar or doing something' else
which has a decidedly had Influence upon
them. Our new system will be based upon
monthly payments. Say a man gets $2,100 a
year. For six or seven months he can
draw say a larger proportion of his pay than
tho balance of the year, but he will
get at least $100 a month during
the time bo is not actually at work for ns.
Several of the other clnbs will adopt tho
same idea, but we do not care whether they
do or not. for it will go with as. I think that
next season we will be in a position to hold
our own and stand well up among the lead
ers right through. Wo will have a hastier
at the head of things and the Pittsburg peo
ple wilt see better average ball playing than
they ever have."
There is a good deal of buncombe afloat
about this country being rnled by foreigners
who cannot vote. The difference between a
man who cannot vote and docs not try and
one who can vote but does not is the answer
to any political conundrum which may arise
on this point. It is not a bad. idea that sug
gested by Attorney General Miller to take
the franchise away from men who do not
use it after a reasonable period of probation.
The street car manufacturers are so busy
they cannot half fill their orders. Brill, of
Philadelphia, and the St, Louis Company
are both months behindhand. Anamberaf
cars were promised to the Duquesno Com
pany by tho St. Louis makers at tho first of
June, but they have not arrived yet. The
Plttgburg Traction Company ordered nine
double deckers from Brill, to arrive early in
the summer, but after a long wait it was
found that the cars would not be ready until
the end of September, so tho maker was told
to hold them until next summer. Traffic
on leading lines in all the large cities has
grown enormously with the Introduction of
electrio rapid transit systems, which ex
plains the piling up of orders for cars.
In a few days the Schenley property in
the Fourteenth ward, between Center and
Fifth avenues and Forbes street, will be
ready for the market on 50-year leases. It is
understood that the erouncl rents will aver
age about 3 per cent "on the valuation, and
that builders will at once take np all the
available land which fronts paved streets
for rows of new houses or houses in pairs.
Several new streets are to bo opened so as to
make tho big tract between Center and Fifth
available. '
Adjutant General Greenland, wearing a
becoming roft soldierly hat and a smile
(other things, or course, also), left tho city
yesterday afternoon for his home in Clarion.
"How much will this Homestead episode
cost the State of Pennsylvania for troopst"
I asked him. "About $SOO,000 will cover
everything as near as I can now tell," was
his reply. "I mado Colonel Norman Smith
happy to-day by giving him the
money to pay off tho Eighteenth Regiment.
This money comes, as you rio doubt
have seen stated, from the genoral fnnd in
the State Treasury, the law giving the Gov
ernor pon er to draw on any funds in the
treasury to pay troops under such circum
stances. A good deal of this will go to the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company to pay for
the transportation of tho troops. Right
here I want to acknowledge the great aid
given to us by the railroad authorities. Mr.
ritcolrn showed great military as well as
railroad ability by the manner in which he
made the arrangements to gather
up the troops in various parts of the State
and rendezvous them at Bodobaugh. It was
at bis suggestion that the change was made
from Blalrsvillo to Rodebaugb as the gather
ing place, and it was a masterstroke as we
we were able to mass the men there without
the knowledge of anyone bnt myself and
the railroad people. The engineers were
ordered to remain at the point
of gathering, with fires lighted, steam np
and engines headed toward Pittsburg in case
of sudden need. It only took 21 hours to
mobilize over 8,000 troops, and if there had
been urgent need we could have done it in
five hours less. It was a surprise, I can tell
you, to most of the men to find themselves
at Bodebaugh. Not a single Colonel except
one knew where they were going,
and, for that matter, neither the Brigadier
Generals for some time. The men did
not know where they- were even after
they got there. I think the conduot of the
officers and men on the whole has been ad
mirable, and the money spent by Pennsyl
vania fcr this work of her militlalias been
Invaluable to every State In the Union as it
has shown that inch troops can be handled
promptly, can be fully lelled upon and con
duct themselves in a soldierly manner.
They have realized tnelr double capacity as
citizens and soIdUrs and I am croud of
them."
When Oscar Wilde was over in this
country there was a general impression that
he was merely an ass. This 'Judgment was
later softened to 'the extent tbat he was a
well bred ass with marked traces of intel
lect. Since that time it bas been proven we
are not good judges of asses In this country
for Wilde has shown himself to be a brilliant
fellow, a good husband, and a clever all'
round man. The Lord Chamberlain having
interdioted Wilde's new play, "Salome,"
because it is based on a Bible story, Wilde
has retorted in a scathing interview In whioh
he scores by saying that the poot, the artist,
the novelist, the sculptor or the historian
may take the most sacred portions of sacred
history as the basis of almost any kind of a
production and it is sactioned, bat the
dramatist who should be as grqat a teaalier
as any other is looked upon as an outsider
and sat upon without ceremony. Oh, if we
had a lord chancellor in this country to hold
ante-mortem Inquiries on "farce comedies."
The land that holds English-born people
together is as elastio as it is strong. As the
sun never sets on British dominions, so is it
true that it always brightens British family
ties, whatever the story writers pay say. I
have an English friend who has a number
of brothers. One lives in Londin, another
in China, another in New Zetland and
another in Pittsburg. The Mother in
London keeps a journal in 4rblch he
gives graphic sketches of what lsoing on,
what he sees and hears, with dejlriptlons
of people of note, good stories o'all man
ner of interesting gossip. This jotrnal first
goes to the mother of the boys wht reads it
and Jots down comments. Then It V sent to"
the brother In rit-tsburg who adds its quota
and forwards It to New Zealand where it Is
enlarged and whence it goes to China and
then It finds Its way back to London. Thus
this widely separated family is kept in
formed of each other's movements and
thoughts. This Is a common practice and
some hill station in Bengal, a post in Natal,
a rnnctie in Dakota, a mine In Borneo, a
tea house in China, a sheep ran in Australia,
a lnmber camp in Canada, and a home in
Kentish hop fields or TJmbrian moors mingle
in this mate family messenger. Waltkk.
A HOT LETTER FB0K 0TJBTIJT
Referring to Adjutant Gsnaral Fhlsterer's
Attitude on the G. A. B. Encampment.
Philadklthia, Aug. 8. In referenoe to a
letter from Adjutant General Fred Phls
tererof the Grand Army of the Bepnblio,
refusing the sanotlon of the Commander in
Chief to the participation of the Pennsyl
vania reserves in the parade at Washington
September 20, .Andrew Curtln, War Gov
ernor of Pennsylvania, writes as follows to
an offloer of the reserves:
"1 do not know the writer of the letter;
never heard of him In connection with the
military service, and cannot but regard his
letter as very ill advised and very Improper
in reply to a real soldier. I take it altogether
as a remarkable communication, and I re
gret that he should, as Adjutant, leel it to be
his duty to make such a communication to
you or to any other soldier of this State. I
have spoken to some or the survivors of the
reserve corps in this neighborhood and who
have never been connected .with it, and
have told them of my mortification of the
letter il now Inclose. I will make some
effort to correct it in some way if I can, and
in the meantime I lhlnk it proper for you
and Captain Taylor to lot the subteot of this
communication be known in Philadelphia,
as I will through the Interior."
The survivors nt the reserve do not intend
that the high officials ot the Grand Army
shall prevent them Irom having a reunion
if they do keep them out or the parade as a
body. It has been decided that this reunion
shall take place during the great Washing
ton meeting at Tennallytown, some miles
oat of Washington. This is the place at
which the Pennsylvania Reserves first got
together after the battle of Ball Bun. They
had gone to the front In separate commands.
DEHVEE'S HAY0B AF3AID
That the City Won't Be Equal to the Task
of Entertaining the Conclave.
Dexveb, Aug. 6. Mayor Rogers has not
only become convinced that Denvorls going
to be taxed to the utmost in furnishing en
tertainment for all her guests during the
conclave, bnt is convinced that tho citizens
generally do not appreciate the vastness of
the undertaking nor the responsibility the
Individual mast assume, It the event Is sno
cesslnlly held. This morning he Issued a
proclamation embodying his fears, and call
ing upon all citizens to do their utmost.
All arrangements for the location and ac
commodation of the visitors who arrive in
their special cars have about been com
pleted, and while there yet remains prepara
tion to be made, a large force Is at work and'
will have all the yards in readiness by to
morrow morning when the arrival of tho
first specials is expected.
LASS 8OTEBI0B BHIFP2BS HEBVOUS
Over tbe Threatened American Retalia
tion in the Canal Tolls.
Dclutit, Aug. 6. There is decided opposi
tion here among the heaviest wheat ship
pers and vessel brokers to tho imposition of
tolls on Canadian boats passing through the
Soo Canal. It will knock vessel men, so thoy
claim, out of a large amount of business,
and will cripple heavy wheat exporters by
removing Canadian competition for carry
ing business. This will be particularly so
this year, because tonnage is in great de
mand at stiff rates.
It is probable that the President will be
memoralized either to defer aotion or at
least give Interested parties due notice be
fore Imposing tolls as provided in the bill
lately passed by Congress. Parties inter
ested in tbe lake-carrying business claim
this end of Lake Superior will be more In
jured than benefited by such a measure, as
there is very little of our tonnage passing
the Welland Canal anyway.
SEVER CANADIAN CUSSES
Drlre Kanucks Orer the Line, nnd One of
Them Is the Plague or Faddlen.
Mosthsal, Aug. 8. M. Tetreault, member
of the Provincial Parliament, one of the
members of the commission appointed be
fore tbe close of tbe last session at Quebeo to
inquire into the causes of the emigration of
farmers to the United States, has made
known his conclusions.
Arranged under seven heads, they are as
follows: Poverty of the French Canadians;
large families; difficulty of establishing
homes; defective cultivation of land; taste
forlnxury; seizure of household effects and
wages lor debt and tbe plague of peddlers.
PEOPLE OP PROMINENCE.
Lillian Russell sailed from Liverpool
yesterday on tho City of Now York.
Governor Rcssell, of Massachusetts,
and Actor Joe Jefferson have returned from
their salmon fishing trip to New Brunswick.
Congressman Dalzell left Washing
ton for Cape May yesterday afternoon and
will return to Pittsburg in about two weeks.
Chatjncey M. Depew can sleep for
18 hours oat of the 21 when on an ocean
steamer. This explains why he is not popu
lar with the stewards.
The Pope has appointed Archbishop
Clasca, an Augustinian, to be Pro-Secretary
of the General Propaganda and the future
successor to Archbishop Persico.
Mrs. Mary B, Willard, mother of
Francos E. Willard, is slowly dying at her
home In Evanston, 111. She is not expected
to survive more than one day longer.
Mrs. Guild, an American sculptress, has
recently completed a bnst or Mr. Gladstone,
which is very highly commended by the
critics as a portrait and a work of art.
Lord Alfred Tennyson celebrated his
83d birthday yesterday. He received many
.callers at 'Hazelmere, besides a large num
ber or congratulatory letters and telegrams.
Thomas E. Watson, of Georgia, who
has oreated the rumpus in Congress, is tall,
lean and lantern-jawed, something of a wit
and one of the readiest talkers on the floor
of the House. He is 36 years old, a lawyer
by profession.
When Prof. Asaph Hall discovered the
two moons of Mors be showed his apprecia
tion of the fitness of things by naming them
Delmos and Phobes, after the two Homerlo
attendants of the god of war from whom the
planet takes its name
M. Charles de Struve, Russian En
voy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipo
tentiary to the United Stat:s, lias been
transferred to the Hague. He will bo sncT
ceededin Washington by Prince Contacu
zene, at present Chancellor of the Russian
Embassy at Vienna. '
George Moore, who, like Of car Wilde,
Is an Irishman, bas announced his intention
of forsaking England and writing hereafter
In France and in French. Mr. Moore, whole
the son of the late George Moore, M. P., has
written several notable books, among the
number being "A Drama iu Muslin," and
"The Confessions of a Young Man."
G0IHQ 10 VOTE FOB GB0VEB.
Pennsylvania's Single Tax Tbtorlsts Will
. Stand by the Democracy.
RKAsrso, Pa., Aug. & Special Over 100
single tax delegates, representing the lead
ing cities and towns of Pennsylvania, held
their first State convention here to-day.
Charles 8. Prizer, or Reading, was eleoted
President, John Tillard, of Altoona, Vice
President, and Edmond Yordley, of Pitts
burg, Secretary. A-large number of dele
gates made speeches in favor of Henry
George's single tax idea. A platform of
principles was adopted, tbe principal points
of which are that no one should be per
mitted to bold land without paying to the
community the value of the privilege thus
accorded, and from the fund so raised all
expenses of the Government should be paid.
Resolutions urging single tax believers to
vote the Democratic national ticket were
enthusiastically passed, as "the platform of
the Democratic party urges tbe abolition of
the protective tax and the tax upon note
Issue." To-night a pnblio meeting was held,
at which SjOCO people were present.
A Change of-Name,
Toledo. BUde.
Now they call Wm David "Burled" HlU.
EDWIS ARNOLD'S NEW PLAY
rSPXCUI. TILZOBAlt TO THE niSPATCH.1
San Francisco, Ang. a The news that
Sir Edwin Arnold has written a play founded
on Japanese legends and Intended to be
produoed at the World's Fair has excited
much.interest. It is impossible to get any
extracts from the drama, whioh will bo
copyrighted in Washington on Monday, but
Mr. Deakln, who superintended' the pub
lication of "The Light of the World," bas
kindly allowed your correspondent to see
the notes or tbe plot, prepared by Sir Edwin
himself. Here is tbe poet's introduction to
"Tbe Story of Adzuma," which gives tha
motive of tbe play:
"This true, tender, noble and patnetic
story in all its incidents the highest degree
dramatic and heart-stirring, has never yet
been told in English, although for many
years popular in Japan. Those scholars
who have given to the Western world other
famous pieces from Japanese history have
either feared to deal with the' tragic par
ticulars Of the tale, or have nnt fnnnrl jacrtnaa
to good versions of it. The present
uuwiur iias sparou no pains xo ootain
full narratives and has written his
play with the donble purpose of composing
a literary work In the dramatic form
worthy, If it may be, of the beautirul
heroine who is a, nure and true type of tbe
highest Japanese womanhood, and also of
supplying ror the modern English nnd
American stage a tragedy in all respects
actable,' and illustrating with close fidelity
the manners and motives of the Japanese
people."
There's a Mystery in It.
A strong Buddhist "birth story" forms a
background of mystery to the facts tbat
compose tbe play. Adatma, alio called Kesa
Goztn, lived in the reign of Tori Halo, the
great Shojun of Japan, In Kioto, the former
capital of the Empire. Her first life was
that of a serpent, and she was instinctively
drawn to Komorgaroa, who afterward bore
her as a woman child and for her sake
helped to kill the eagle, Tamato, which eagle
was afterward born a man, called Mortto.
Thus tho destiny of two were fatally linked.
Here ends the mystery and begins the facts.
Morito's parents dying, he is left to the
guardianship of strangers. The play illus
trated the fidelity of these retainers, a char
acteristic or mediaeval Japan. Guided bv n.
dream Adzuma weda a knight, Wataru Wa
tanake, and dwells with him in happiness,
never having known ATortto, for whom she
bad been vainly asked in marriage. Morito
asses his days In knightly exercises at the
hojnn'8 court. Now the villain, a oralty,
designing friend of Mortto, by Sakemune,
secretly envying and bating Mortto, and
still more Adzuma and her husband, ap
pears. The method or Bakemune's hatred is
Iargoly traceable to tbe tact that he was' a
suitor for tbe lovely Adzuma.
The Trap Laid For the Heroine.
Knowing that the woman's virtue is im
pregnable as her beauty Is Irresistible, Sak
emune lays traps and snares to entangle her
with Morito. The young knight is instantly
enamored of Adzuma, bnt resists his pas
sion. Sakemune tells him of tbe bitter wrong
done by his aunt, Adzuma' s mother, in re
jecting Morito, and adds an element of
hatred. Tbe villain contrives another meet
ing, and makes Morito to believe tbat Ad
zuwa has fallen in love with him. A gener
ous deed of the husband arouses Morito's bet
ter natnre and he puts asldo his unholy love
or thinks he does. Mortto rescues the hus
band, Wataru, from robbers, and the beauti
ful wile is Innocently grateful to her hus
band's resouer.
The wicked Sakamune alters a verse which
Adzuma has written about tbe beauty of the
landscape, making it appear that she has
expressed dislike for her husband. This
makes Morito cast consoience to the winds.
He denounces his aant, Adzuma' s mother,
and threatens to kill her unless she procures
a meeting with Adzuma and favors his
suit. Indignant but alarmed, tho mother
sends ror Adzuma ,who comes innocently to
meet the passionate lover. This is one or
tbe thrilling soenes or tbe play. Morito
pleads his passion furiously,.! dzuma repudi
ates the vlllian's forgery, but Sakamune has
rorged another letter which Morito now pro
duces. Love on Condition of Murder.
Convinced of her daughter's infidelity
Koro Kogaiea strikes her. Afraid that Morito
will kill her mother, and perceiving that
there is no way savo one by which she can
extricate her honor, she comes to a silent
and sublime resolution. She agrees to give
herself to Morito, but he must first kill her
husband. She arranges the murder. Morito
is to enter her house stealthily at
night. She will wash her lord's hair
so that he may know it in the
dark by Its being wet. and he must cutoff
her lord's head and take it away. Then she
will grant his desires. Morito accepts.
With sleeves pushed back and naked sword
in hand he enters the apartment, finds tho
sleeping form and strikes the wetted head.
Hurrying to view his ghastly trophy be rolls
from the cloth tho head of bis dear love, the
beautiful Adzuma,
She has lulled her master to sleep, wetted
her own hend and laid down to die to prove
her honor and to save her husband and
mother. On the bloody pillow is a letter,
tender, true and noble, explaining it all.
Morito, grlef-strloken, implores the husband
to put him to death. TV'atoru refuses, and
the two become Buddhist priests. Kamelna,
the lover's guard and retainer, kills tbe vil
lain nnd the nure spirit or Adzuma is seen in
a drdam by Wataru ascending to the world
of the purified.
Hie Details of the Flay.
The play is in four acts with from four to
eight scenes in each. There are twelve
principal characters and an army or warri
ors, retainers, attendants and priests. The
third aot is devoted to a tea party in blsh
lire, which permits the introdnction or
Geisha or dancing girls and Jngglors. The
scene is laid in Tokio, and the time is
about 1200 A. D.
Sir Edwin first heard the legend on which
the play is founded at a party in Tokio,
Wheie it was told him by Ammenermol, tbe
most distinguished linguist of Japan.
Arnold was so strnok with tbe heroism of
Adzuma that he bad the ancient records
searched and secured the original version
with every scrap of corroborative detail.
He also secured photographs' of the scene of
Adzuma' s tragic death as well as of other
scenes of tbe play and had them colored.
These with colored plates of the costumes
of the period will furnish the scene painter
and costumer with ample hints. The drama
is written in blank verse, Interspersed with
lyrics.
Arnold will arrive In this country next
month, and will superintend the production
or the play, whicn ho wishes brought out
during the World's Fair In Chicago.
ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND TENNIS
Occupy tbe Time and Attention of People
Sojourning at Chautauqua.
CBAUTACqUA, N. Y., Aug. ft Bpeciall The
English language as it Is spoken in the best
society furnished a good tbeme for Mrs.
Florence Howe Hall, this afternoon. There
are two errors of conversation, she says,
talking too much and too little. Of the two
she prefers the lormer. Tbe main points to
be followed In conversation are truth, good
sense and goodhnraor. Dr. J. if. Buckley lec
tured on Aaron Burr, to-day. He analyzed
his character as a man who pursued an ob
ject to its utmost limit, whether it be good
or bad; that it was bad and ended with Burr
as the opponent of Hamilton on the duelling
field, was worse for the former than the lat
ter, as it cut off his political advance
ment and prevented him becoming
President, while Hamilton's fame was as
well established as though he had reached
that high office.
Tbe annual tennis tournament ended to
day, alter some very fine exhibitions of the
sport. The prize for singles, a tournament
racket, was won by Chris. Payne, orTitus
ville. He had several hard struggles be Tore
his final battle for tbe Chautauq.ua cham
pionship. A ITuallade Among Sunday Schools.
BotToir, Miss., Aug. 6. The County Sunday
School Convention of the colored Baptists
met to-day at Cbappal HlU. A difficulty
ooenrred over the riding of a "flying
machine," which resulted in a, riot. Some 10
or SO pistol shots were fired, one man being
killed and seven wounded, including two
women and a child. Several arrest3 have
been mado.
DEATHS HERE AXD ELSEWHERE.
William Reese, Centenarian.
William Beese, an old Pittsburg pioneer,
was yesterday laid to rut in Allegheny Cemetery.
Hit rtraalns were brought to Flttaburg at 10:90 and
were taken to the First WeUh Baptist Church on
Chatham street. The services were very impres
sive, and the church was crowded with friends
and relatives.
John C. Bandy, Spiritualist.
John C Bandy, for many years editor and
publisher of tbe BeUaious Philosophical Journal
and a man or international reputation among
spiritualists and oculists, died at Ills residence in
Chleagoyesterday after abrieruiaets. lie was 51
years old.
Obituary Notes.
BlSTEBMABYFABtAX, aged 23 rears, of Dover."
N. H.dled at St. Joseph's Convent, at Borden
town, N, J., Thursday.
A SOUTH liAXOTA BOJtAHCB.
Tbe Lover Foor as Ha Is Frond, bnt He
Wins His Bride.
Sioux Falls, Dak., Ang. 61 A South
Dakota romance, with alt tbe features of a
modern novel, has developed in this city.
In 1SS9 Miss Nancy Lee was the belle of
MemphU society. She was the daughter of
J. Thomas Lee. a Memphis wholcsalo mer
chant or wealth and high position. There
were two suitors for Miss Lee's hand,
Edward Stanton, of Norrolk, Vo., and H.
Charles Akers, of Morrlstown, Tenn. Both
were accomplished. Akers bad the most
wealth while Stanton was poor, but proud.
Tbe father of the girl favored the man of
wealth, but Miss Nancy was In love clear to
the roots of her raven tresses with Eddie
Stanton. The father was firm and refused
Eddie admittance to the Leo mansion.
The lovers met clandestinely and agreed to
a runaway match. This as frustrated by
tne lamer ana no swore oyau mat was
holy that Akers should De his next son-in-
So in October, 1889. with sobs as if her
heart was breaking, Nanoy was married to
Akers In Memphis. They lived a year and
a half together when thy met her-former
lover, who told her that In a moment of
anger and spite he also had married. He
swore that he still loved his Nanoy, and
proposed that they both come to Sioux
Falls. Tbey did, and last December eaoh
began housekeeping here. When their resi
dence was perfected they applied for a
divorce. Each was suooessful. Judge
Smith, or Yankton, in July granted
a decree to Mrs. Nancy Akers, or MemDhls,
on the gronnds or cruelty, while Eddie
secured his decree in Watertown rrom
Judge Andrews two Weeks before on the
ground of desertion. 'The next day after
Nancy's decree was filed a minister In this
city united them in marriage, and they are
now living in Norfolk, Va., as hapnyas
clams at high tide.
COLONEL WHITFIELD TO BETIBE.
He finds a Postage Stamp Business That
Be Expects to Fay Better.
WAsnrsoTOJT, Aug. 6. Colonel S. A Whit
field, who has been connectod with the Post
office Department since the advent of tbe
present administration as Second Assistant
Postmaster General, and the retirement of
Hon. J. S. Clarkson as First Assistant Post
master General, will shortly tender his
resignation to the President. Ho has been
elected Vice President and director of tbe
United States Postage Stamp Delivery Com
pany, of Boston, of which company Hon.
Can oil D. Wright, United Stntes Commis
sioner of Labor, is President. Colonel Whit
field, on resigning his position, will take
charge of the Western business of the com
pany, with headquarters at Chicago. The
business of the company consists of a coin
operated apparatus to facilitate the sale and
distribution of postage stamps to the public,
combined with a unique and effective sys
tem of select advertising which will be put
in public use through lessees or territory,
and which system, it is believed, will effect
ively supplement tbe present stamp dis
tribution or tbe Postofflco Department, es
pecially in the larger towns and cities.
With the retirement or Colonel Whitfield
the Postofflce Department will lose one or
the most efficient and popular officers or the
administration. He bas at all times posses
sed the confidence or tho President and tbe
Postmaster General, and his relation with
Senators and Representatives havo been of
tho most intimate and cordial character.
His determination to leave the public ser
vice is regretted by President Harrison and
nil with whom he has had personal or offlcLU
association.
ENGLAND DOING NOTHING WBONQ
When She Establishes a Coaling Station in
the Harbor of Pago-Pago.
Washkiotoit, Aug. 6. Very little interest
Is displayed in official circles in Washington
in regard to the report that Great Britain
has arranged to establish a coaling station
in the harbor of Pago-Pago, Samoa, for the
simple reason that such a coarse of action
is in strict accord with tbe terms of a
treaty conclnded between Great Britain and
Samoa in 1879, and does not interfere with
or impair the rights, or interests of the
United States in any respect. Section 8 of
the British treaty provides that Great
Britain may establish a coaling station any
where on the shores of a Samoan harbor,
except at Apia, which is a neutral harbor,
at Saluafata, which was previously ceded to
Germany, and tbat part of tbe harbor of
Pago-Pago which may be selected by tho
Government of tho Lnited States under its
treaty of 1S78. . .
Tbe United States .lias already selected
the site for Its station and acquired full
legal title to the property, ana arrange
ments are now being made for tbe con
struction of a wharf and necessary build
ings. So far as known Great Britain has
not attempted to interfere with our rights
in tbe least in this matter, and In nreDar-
ing to establish a coaling station in the
same harbor is merely doing what she has
a perfectly clear right to do under the
treaty.
ABCHBIBHOP IBELAND DENIES BUM0B3
That Ha Is to Get a Cardinal's Hat, and
Thinks They Do Much Barm.
5t. Paul, Aug. 6. Archbishop Ireland,
questioned as to the renewal of the old
story that he is soon to be made a Cardinal,
to-day said: .
"I am much pained by these constantly re
curring rumors about me. Whether they
onglnato with well-meaning, bnt Impru
dent, friends or with sinister enemies, they
result In giving deep displeasure and harm
ing the cause of religion. I repeat what I
have previously said, that for all theso
rnmors. those who speak them havo no
foundation for their words. Matters grow
worse when It is sought to implicate in tbe
matter persons of prominence."
r
Secretary Noble on His Vacation.
Washihotox, Aug. C Secretary Noble will
leave Washington to-morrow ror his summer
vacation. During tho last year the Secretary
has been very closely confined to his desk
by the press or public business, and tbe re
sult is bis health has suffered so that com
plete relaxation and a change of air and
scene aro imperatively demanded. The Sec
retary will be accompanied by Mrs. Noble,
and alter spending a week or two with St,
Louis friends, at Cedar Island, in one of the
interior lakes In Northern Wisconsin, a trip
will be made across the continent to Wash
ington and Vancouver. The return will be
made in September over the Canadian Pa
cific by way of Montreal.
THE GBAND OLD MAN.
Mn. Gladstone was on hand in grand
shape at the opening or Parliament. Appar
ently there are ten years or good, solid work
in him yet. St Louis Globe-Democrat.
Teat wonderful old gentleman, Mr. Glad
stone, Is pretty nearly as well as usual azain
and has resumed work. The great dream of
home rule may bear him on until it is ac
complished. Baltimore S'ews.
Mr. Gladstone, the Grand Old Man, is to
be congratulated on having sufficiently re
covered to be present at the opening of
Parliament. So is bis party to be congrata.
lated. Likewise his country. Detroit Free
JPress.
A change of IKS votes denotes a radical revo
lution in public sentiment, which needs but
an effective'eoncentratfon of its power to
afford Mr. Gladstone the greatest and prob
ably crowning triumph of his lire. Washing
ton -POit.
Is again taking the prodigious burden of
Government at an advanced age, Mr. Glad
stone is honored with the cordial good will
ot enlightened Christendom and the bitter
enmity of the British Tories. Cincinnati
Times-Star.
Tbe antique fornn which attended tbe
opening o'f Parliament yesterday paled in
publio interest before tho fact that Mr.
Gladstone was able to be present, to all np.
pearances fully recovered in health. Xtw
York Press,
The Irish members were enthusiastic in
greeting Mr. Gladstone, and we trust that
for their own sukes, and ror the safe or their
country, they will bo equally so in the snp
port they give him in the present Parlia
ment Bostoi Eerald.
Gladstone received an ovation as ho en
tered the house or Parliament and he cer
tainly deserved it.. Members regardless of
party crowded around him and offered their
congratulations upon his splendid victory.
Gladstone is, indeed, a 'Grand Old Man."
Philadelphia Call.
Mk.Ui.ad.3to.ieI3 reception in tbe Honso of
Commons was suohns to bode no good to tho
Queon in case alio should permit the Salis
bury Government to remain longer in power.
Whatever tbe outcome of this sitting of
Parliament may be there is no doubt tbat
Gladstone will be Premier. Indianapolis
Journal. '
CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS.
Chinamen dislike water as a drink.
London has over 700,000 houses inside) l
its city limits.
A Cincinnatian is the possessor of
pink diamond.
Thimbles madeof lava are extensively
used in Naples.
There are about 50,000 muscles in an
elephant's trunk.
The donkey is the longest'lived of onr
domestic animals.
A Lauerville man has a steel pen that
ho has used for 27 years.
The London mint has an electric ma
chine which counts the-colns.
In ten years tbe descendants of two
rabbits will number 70,000,000.
A mare in Alabama has given birth to
three mule colts within a year.
It is said that the skin of an elephant
usually takes about five years to tan.
In tbe dreary deserts of Arabia tha
rosemary and lavender flourish to perfec
tion. A Chicago merchant has on exhibition
in his show window a pair of live Japanese)
babies.
An alloy of 78 per cent of gold and 23
per centof aluminum is the most brilliant
Known.
Seven widows of Revolutionary ol
diers are on the roll of the Knoxvllle pen
sion office.
India has one missionary to 273,000
people. Persia one to 300,000 and Thibet one
to 2.000,000.
One child in every five in the northern
half of tbe United States dies before it baa
lived a year.
The Government weather bureau has
Just-attained its majority thai is. its twenty-first
year.
A New Jerseyman gives as a new cura
for hay fever tho smoking of pine needles
with tobacco.
A Moscow dentist has successfully
made false teeth assume a fixed place in
toothless gums.
Pythons are abundant in the Philip,
pines, tbe species being identical with that
found in Borneo.
There are 12 obelisks in Rome, one in
Paris, five in London and one in Central
Park, New York.
The United States manufactures 65,000
hats every dav. while England manufact
ures about 10,000.
In China they believe that women by
clinging to vegetarianism will become men
onjndgment day.
A corncob in Georgia Is shaped Hike a
human hand, having jour well defined fin
gers and a thumb.
The lawyers get 5658,000 of the 923,783
paid by the city of New Orleans'to the iiyra
Clark Gaines estate.
There have been twenty-seven cases of
insanity in the Bavarian royal family dar
ing tbe last lOOyears.
If cork is sank 200 feet deep in the
ocean It will not rise again on account of the
pressure of tbe water.
Europe consumes about ?30,000,000
worth of gold and silver yearly for plate,
lewelry and ornaments.
Three hundred lawyers were candidates
on one side or the other for seats in tho
present British Parliament.
The first suspension bridges ever built
were made in China 2,000 years ago, being
constructed of iron chains.
The biggest of fresh water fish, tho
"arapaima" of the Amazon In South Amer
ica, grows to six feet in length.
"Bailroad Jack," the mcch traveled
railroad dog, which left Buffalo on July 5,
arrived in San Francisco-on July 19.
A Belfast, Me., man lends young men
money to go into business gratuitously. Ho
says he rarely foils to get his money baok.
Lace making was first done by Barbara
Uttman abont 1550, though the invention Is
claimed for an earlier dato by France and
Italy.
The magnifying lens Is believed to have
been known to the ancients, but in modern
times was brought into use by Roger Bacon.
In 1262.
A blood beet measuring 15 inches in
length, II inches in circumference and
weighing i pounds is a curiosity of St Tam
many, La.
Statistics recently compiled show that
about 1,200 miles of new railroad were built
in this country during tbe first six months
of this year.
The highest viaduct in the world has
Just been erected in Bolivia, over the River
Lea, 9,333 feet above the sea level, and 4,003
aDove tbe river.
A man in Maine lost nearly 6,000 lob
sters lately, that he bad confined In a pond,
by a quantity of fresh water flowing into it
and killing them.
It is estimated that on a fine Derby
Day from 750,00 0 to 1,000,000 people gather ou
tne Downs, and it has been computed that
about 250,009 race cards are sold.
Nearly all the small silver coins of
Cuba have holes in them. The holes serve
to keep tbe coin3 in that country, as they do
not affect their changeable value there.
For the first time the Canadians have
began shipping ice to Philadelphia, several
cargoes having already arrived there and
been found equal to tbe best Maine product.
There are now over 250,000 words in the
English language acknowledged by tbe best
authorities or about 70,000 more than In the
German, French, Spanish and Italian lan
guages combined.
Mrs. Salome Anderson, of Oakland,
Cai.. is the only woman Free Mason In tho
world. She secretly entered a lodge-room
in Paris, witnessed some of the initiation
ceremonies, was discovered, and received.
Into the order.
It is only a little over 40 years ago that
a Rasslan farmer began the cultivation of
the sunflower in order to extract oil from
the seeds. Now 700,000 acres in Russia are
in sunflowers, and the original founder of
the industry- is a millionaire.
Hunters near Caledonia, Pa., are ex
cited over a snow-white deer seen several
times recently in the mountains. It is said
to be a large buck with spreading antlers,
and as fleet as tbe wind. A party of hunters
who saw tbe animal last fired at it, but failed
to hit it.
FLIRTING WITH FUN.
"I saw you making eyes at Miss Tufcrusi
at the party. Look out for yoarseif."
"Why?"
Every member of her family is dead."
"What of It!"
"She did the cooslng. " Brooklyn Eajls.
Oh think of the king of tbe cannibal isle,
Thou hot and unfortunate man;
For he's dressed when he dons in agreeable smile.
And flatters s palm-leaTfan.
Washington Star,
Twemlo There's the nickel in my vest
pocket tbat I should have paid Tor my fire down
town. Wad3le1gh Well, I wouldn't cheat even a street
railway company.
Twemlo Neither did I. You see I forgot and
paid the fare out of another pocket l-Chicago Stat
Record.
TUX CIGABITTZ.
To smoking cigarettes he took
A drain upon Ufe's cup;
And would no admonition brook
Refused to give them up.
But soon a change the scene came o'sr.
And It Is safe to say
He'll smoke the cigarette no more
They burled him to-day.
XtwTork Press.
"I hear that Montgomery has taken his
sonoutorcollejre."
"Is that to? Was the youth (ratting rapldr '
"Oh. no; but his teacher asked him to work out
a problem In mathematics and ha objected; said
none or ids rolks had ever worked out, and the
rather sustained the objection." Dttrott FrU
Press.
"Man wants but little here'below,'
As some wise one has said it.
"Nor wants that little long?" Just so.
Provided he bas credit.
Indianapolis Journal.
"So Jones has gone into literature, and ia
wrltingfor the magazines?"
Tes."
"But I always thought him such an miters
chap." .. .
"True enough; but. than, you see ht IS ailMsg
dialect stones. oaavmon .too.
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