nsswrsBOBHH i--i,-m-i -"- -"5 f THE -PILTSBTJKGr DISPATCH, TUESDAY, AUGUST 9. 1892u Wat Btgpafrlj. ESTABLISHED FEBRUABT .8, 1846 Vol. T. No. I7 Filtered t Pittsburg Postofflce November. 1SS7, second-clus matter. Business Office Corner Smithfield and Diamond Streets. News Rooms and Publishing House 78 and 80 Diamond Street, in New Dispatch Building. TACTTRN AlVFBTISIGFrirK. ROOM T8. TRIBUNE 1HJIMHKG. NEW YORK. where com plete flies of THE DISPATCH can alwaTS be round. Foreign advertlfrrs appreciate the eonvenUitee. Bene idtenlsen and friend ofTHK DISPATCH. bile In NewTcrk. are alo made welcome. TITFDISPJ TCBtt recrvlart on talent gmtatu't. I rnimFqvan, Aw lore, and 17 Jve dtfOptra. Tartt, Prmee, vntr anynnt uAo hat beta Oitap I afnttd at a htiUl win ttand can ntitain tt. TERMS Or THE UISFATCH. j-orrinx rmi ix th nurrxD statb. ii.TUierATCH. OneTear f ro IUILT DiBPATcn. Per Quarter ICO DAlI.vDnrATcn. One Month 70 Dailt Dispatch. Including Sunday. I year.. 10 00 DArLT DiBPATcn, Including SnndaT. Sro'ths, 2 50 JUll.T DiBPATCDk including Sunday, 1 m'th.. 50 truDAT DisrATCH. One Tear ! IIKLT Dibp AT H. One Year 1 The DaII-T DISPATCH 1 delivered by carriers at J-crn is per week, or. including Sunday Edition, at ; rent per week. I'lTT-BOKG. TUESDAY. ACGUSjT . ISK. TWELVE PAGES THOSE GRADE CROSSINGS. There is at last some slight indication that Allegheny City means to be rid of its grade crossings. Three years ago Coun cils received an offer from the Pennsyl vania Railroad Company that if Ihe city would bear a share in the expense of al teration to the extent of 540,000 or$50,000, the railroad company would do the rest Since the offer was made the matter has been in abeyance until quite recently, s hen Councils appointed a Committee on Grade Crossings. The first meeting of the committee was called for last night, and though a quorum was not present Superintendent Starr outlined the position taken by the railroad. He stated his un derstanding that the offer made by the company still stood, and in fact asserted that property to a considerable amount lias been purchased and plans including a good many details have been made in order to carry it out In some cases it is proposed that the railroad shall pass below and in o'hers above the street, but the great thing is that the plan provides for the absolute abolition of steam railroad grade crossings in the transpontine city. Now that the consideration of the question has come up again, it should not be dropped until the work has been carried through. Alle gheny is in better and abler hands just nnw than has been the case for some time past, and the inauguration of a happier era could not be more fitly marked than by the banishment of a serious and dangerous public nuisance. Ali WOULD FEEL IT. Comparison of wages paid in the United States with wages which are paid in free trade countries is the best practical test for the w orkmgmen of the difference between the results of the two policies. IHs not merely the labor engaged directly in protected industries which is better paid in the United States, but all classes of labor each class being intimately con nected with and influenced by the condi tion of the other. The prosperity of the whole country becomes evident when its manufactures prosper. The extent to which all interests through the country dependupon its manufacturing industries is well known to every observer but the most superficial. tn Pittsburg and for- a hundred miles around, we see cities and towns built up and communities almost wholly dependent upon successful manufacturers. The same is largely true of Philadelphia, of thp towns of New Jersey and New Eng land, with the exception of a few Inch would of course survive though with far less prosperity, if relying solely upon their seaport functions. All classes of labor find such demand and under a healthy activity in manufactures as warrants the better wages which are paid in the United States. One class cannot be affected without affecting the others very soon. The only result of free trade would be to shut up American manufactories, and get the goods from Europe. That would bring down wages quickly in every calling. A GOOD EXAMPLE. There is room for emulation in the ex ample set before cities desirous of orna menting themselves by the announcement that the city of Washington contains in its streets and squares over 70,000 trees. This is the fruit of systematic work in the line of ornamenting the city by foliage commenced in 1872 and continued up to the present time. There is no doubt that more has been done in making the streets of the capital attractive, in proportion to the cost, by this work than by any other. It would puzzle a Pittsburger to count up one-tenth of 70,000 trees in the streets of our city. Perhaps an aggregate of one per cent of that total might be exceeded if a tree census were attempted. Yet with the paucity of shade trees on our streets we have illustrations of their value in the fact that whatever spots contain enough foliage to make it characteristic, that is among the most valuable for resi dence purposes. It matters not whether the buildings are neq Renaissance or old Pittsburg; whether ' the pavement is asphalt or cobble, the trees give a charac ter to the spot which has a definite value, greater in proportion to the cost than any other possible ornamentation. Every citizen can enhance his own property as well as increase his enjoy ment of it by planting shade trees. But might not the city, which is spending hundreds of thousands in other classes of embellishment, find profit in following the example of Washington by systematic tree planting. THE WHEAT PROSPECT. The question of the crops for 1892 Is full of importance to the whole country. It is the heaviest factor in the exchanges of foreign commerce, while its magnitude also bears on the question of bread for the working people of our section, of freight for the railroads .and of the pur chasing power on the part of the farmers for manufactured goods and supplies. The New York Sun has made an ex haustive inquiry into the present pros pects of the crop, from which it draws the conclusion that the season's yield will not be above the average. The Winter and early spring were unfavorable for winter wheat and delayed spring wheat sowing in the Northwest The later spring and summer were more favorable, and gave good hopes of a large yield. But the reports from threshing are less sanguine, while the spring wheat yield is still sub- ject to the hazards of the early fall frosts. It is thus concluded that there will be a very decided falling off from the heavy crops of 1891. The Sun figures the de crease at 130,000,000 to 140,000,000 bushels, or a total yield of 480,000,000 bushels. It does not seem necessary from the data given to regard it as yet certain that the total yield will be under 600,000,000 bushels. This, of course, works a material de crease in the exportable surplus as com pared with the abundance. of last year. But that the United States will be able to make large shipments of wheat is shown by the reference to the stocks unsold held over from 189L With this indefinite' quantity to be added to the exports, and with a decrease noted in the yields of most foreign countries, except Russia, which is an unknown quantity, the pros pect that the United States will be able to realize a large balance from wheat exports is more than encouraging. CARXISLX7S ANTI-TARIFF VIEWS. Senator Carlisle's speech on the tariff practically closed the Congressional de bates on the subject It was the most dig nified and careful of all Qie Democratic efforts, basing his arguments on at least a respectable show of authority instead of dogmatic assertion. It can "be accepted as the best statement of the Democratic po sition and fairly answered as such. Mr. Carlisle's position, based on the re sult of the Senate investigation into prices and wages, is that there has been for fif teen j ears or more a steadily declining tendency in the prices of commodities and wages; that the McKinley bill arrested that declining tendency for some time, and that the reduction in the cost of liv ing is the result, not of the McKinley act, but of the greater cause back of it Final ly, he devotes a great share of his speech to particularizing especial commodities in which he claims that the act has raised prices. These positions effect a great change in the Democratic position. In the first place, while Senator Carlisle distinctly protests to the contrary, he really aban dons the Democratic cry of 1890 about the universal increase of the cost of life owing to the McKinley act The tables he quotes show that at the beginning and end of the period food was practically where it started, although it had materially advanced in the interim owing to short crons; clothes and clothing, fuel and lighting were slightly lower; metals and imple ments, lumber and building materials, drugs and chemicals have undergone ft sharp reduction; while bousefurnishing goods and the miscellaneous class were slightly advanced. In other words, the protected classes of commodities are those in which there has been the most decisive reduction in prices. Another fact which the Senator forgets, or at least ignores, is that the decline in prices that he speaks of as general, so far as it applies to tariff legislation, confirms the protectionist claim that it goes on under protection by the force of domestic competition. As a world-wide phenom enon all men of intelligence recognize that it is due to some ultimate cause back of any national fiscal policy. But it is the testimony of Senator Carlisle's figures that the protectionist policy, as the protec tionists claim, keeps up the legitimate operation of exactly the same influence by domestic competition. Finally, the fact remains that wages do not decline in proportion to the decline in protected products. Th's fact was fully brought out the other day In these col umns. It is monumental and impregna ble, whether it is ascribed to "general tendency" or whatever theory is adopted to explain it away. " A COMMON ERROR. In discussing the probabilities of the silver question the Philadelphia Prett siys:'"The dishonesty of the free silver movement consists in the attempt to make the Government mark silver for one-half more than it is worth, and make a free gift of the difference to the bullion owners." This assertion is often made by opponents of free silver coinage; and there is no doubt that such a hope in spired the desperate set of the silver States to secure the passage of thebili. It is a singular fact that both sides to the discussion should be carried away by the acceptance of an idea like this, which has not the slightest foundation in fact If every man could get silver bullion coined by simply depositing it in the mints what would be the purchasing power of the coin? Simply the market value of the bullion. The necessary universality of this rule is shown by imagining that the holders of silver coin might for a short time be able to sustain a purchasing power above the bullion value. In that case every other man could 'simply pur chase bullion and have it coined. That fact would prevent silver coin from rang ing one per cent above its market bullion value. Under certain circumstances free coin age might, by creating an increased usefor silver, enhance the market value of the bullion. But in this country free coinage would succeed upon the yearly purchase by the Government of 54,000,000 ounces and would find the Treasury with some thing like $400,000,000 worth of silver that it would be forced to use the day the silver basis was reached. It is therefore clear that the bullion owners would not get a cent more for their 'silver than they now do. They, delude themselves with that hope, but it is a vain one. The dishonesty of the free silver propo sition is that it would take away from all creditors and give to all debtors exactly the proportion of the claims Indicated by the depreciation of the standard. If the Government could, as our cotemporary says, mark silver for one-half more than it is worth, or keep it up to the gold standard, there would be no debasement of the currency and no reason for com plaint. The avowed purpose of the act of 1890 was to sustain the price of silver; and it is singular that only' when that act threatens the reduction of the currency to the silver basis our Eastern friends begin to discorerthe enormity of legislation in favor of thesllver owners. HARD TO PLEASE. There Is no doubt. that some Journals, like some people, are hard to please. Here is the New York World, which has for some years been denouncing the in iquity of the McKinley bill for raising prices, but now comes and quotes the ex cellent authority of the Iron Age to prove the indisputable fact that the pig iron market is depressed; that 12 per cent of the furnaces have gone out of blast since March 1, and that there Is yet no tangible evidence of Improvement On this show ing the World concludes: This li tbe manner in -which the McKinley act has realized the fond expectations ot ita orisinators. and promoters, and the sooner It is repealed and something better pat In its place the 'better for American Industries and American labor, as veil as for Ameri can consumers. Since the McKinley bill did not change the tariff on pig iron In any respect the policy outlined by the World is rather surprising. It attacks -the act for an ex- iireme illustration oi wnat tne auvocates of -protection assert, namely, the re duction of prices under domestic compe tition. It is rather unique to find.tue journal which has already vMified the law for raising prices now condemning it for falling to do so. Are we at liberty to quote the World as maintaining that if the McKinley act had advanced the price of iron it would have been all right, and as suggesting m the language quoted that the hppecL for Democratic tariff measure shall put up. the duty on pig iron? We fear we shall not be allowed that pleasure.. There is room for the belief that whether the McKinley act does or does not advance prices it cannot please the World. There may be some consola tion for that harassing fact Jn the reflec tion thatthere was no thought of pleasing the World when the act was drawn. If there beany truth in the assertion that Stanley was so displeased by the criticism which American newspapers devoted to him while a candidate for Parliament as to have made np his mind never to visit this country again, the time is evidently ripe for a most humble apology: since such a visitation of displeasure is too awful to contemplate with anything approaching equanimity. PrrrsBtTBO's ball team manages very successfully to keep low down in the League, but it has a great record for lower lng'the leader. Is" Congressmen wrre troubled with such things as consciences they would have little chance of getting rested during a recess from Washington. But the gentlemen in question havo bo entirely obliterated all symptoms of regret or remorse that they may be expected to thoroughly recuperate their overtasked vigor for business. CObbett and Sullivan share the public attention with Harrison and Cleveland Just now, but they will be out of the way before November. Why does not New York State manage things so that people of either party can vote as they want to, instead of as they are told, by insisting that Piatt and Hill shall pair off on an evet lasting leave of absence. Adlai Stevenson Is paying the penalty of comparative obscurity by the concentra tion of campaign record inquiries on his case. The last Queen's speech appears to be more remarkable for its brevity, its con sideration for a hard-worked Parliament and its evasion of debatable questions than for any great brilliancy in its composition. One of the last of Australia's bushran gers has Just died, but the railroad robber continues to flourish in America. A member of the Ottawa Cricket Club is said to have committed suicide because he was blamed for losing a match with Philadelphia. But a baseball player of like sensitiveness has yet to be heard from. The opposition of Mars attracts a great deal of attention, but it will not affect the result of November's election. Foub cases in which men suffered by drinking oarbollc acid by mistake having been reported yesterday, it is about time to mention that even iced water is less harm ful as a summer beverage. Cl.Eyxi.AN'D and Hill have not met on the beautiful shore up to date. So gorgeous are the headquarters of the Domocratlo party in New York that one is immediately reminded that a great number of the organization are Democrats for rev enue only, - - V.j Senatob Sawyeb. lived np to his name by making a fortune in lumber. Contkabt to expectation, the train bear ing t),t)OO,OO0 from the San Fianclsco mint to Washington passed through Chicago yes terday without molestation. 'J.HERE is no failure in the crop of rail road casualties and fatalities. Between getting drnnic and going to church, tne Cooley gang seem to be doing their fair share to let somebody earn the re ward for arresting them. Weather market reports indicate that mercury has gone np again. It should be made a criminal ofiense for doctors to order a change of air tor hand-to-mouth patients unless they explain how the wind is to be raised. MABS is beginning to be passe. Hill evidently fears that the result would be disastrous if he gave Cleveland an opportunity to fall on his neck in a meeting ot reconciliation.' And Washington is at peace. Some Congressmen lave to spend their time sawing wood whenever they are free from .the labor of log-rolling, even if the weather be hot. WITH FAME AXD FORTUNE. Edward Wauobd, M. A., the famous English antiquary, has been granted a pen sion by Mr. "Balfour. Senatob Hili and companions on the recent yachting trip as far East as Buzzard's Bay returned to New York yesterday. Senatob Hawxet, of Connecticut, is one of the fastest speakers in the Chamber, and when ho is warmed np to his work the reporters have to hustle to keep blm in sight . Congressman Holman is a very popular loan with the ladies. He wouldn't be so if he objected to their little bills as persistently as he does to those in the House. John Tenniel, Punch' t famous cartoon ist, is 73 years of age, and though he has lost his lert eye ho can yet see fun enough in the world to make htm very sad when he thinks abont having to leave it. M. PATJliE, who recently died in Paris, was the inventor of the "peg top" trousers which were so much worn by American volunteer firemen and village "sports" a quarter of a century ago, Pbof. Barrett, the Chicago electrician, has been in the service of that city for 30 years. His first' employment, upon whioh he entered -August 2, 1862, was to, ring the fire alarm bell in the old Court House. The name of Mr. Marshall Cashing, the private .secretary to Postmaster General Wanamaker, is prominently mentioned as a probable' successor to First Assistant Post master General Whitfield, who is soon to retire. John A..BOTZUN, the Ohio newspaper man who has been making a tour of the world on foot, arrived at Ban Francisco on the China steamer recently, and after a needed rest continued on his pedestrian Journey to Ohio. Alderman Caldwells, the man who defeated Henry M. Stanley in North Lam beth last week, began life as a gardener's boy, and subsequently worked as a tailor. ilr. CsddweUsmade his money in building speculations. He is an Alderman of Croy don, an earnest temperance advocate, and an advanced Llberal-Labortst, A A Thing Worth Copying. Boston Herald. I .She sentence of nine Anarahlsti in Brus sels to penal servitude for terms ranging from S toss years ought to strike home in this country Just at present. A LOOK AROUND. "I beoret exceedingly .that inch affairs as tie burning and blowing up of Martin Beed should take place," remarked a lead ing banker who Is slow to speak but says many things worth listening to. "It is a deeper blow to Pittsburg than many of the careless, thoughtless element of the commu nity imagine. If the newspaper accounts of the affair are correct,and I assume that they are, it was as bad a case of mob rule and mob law as any of those horrors whioh have given Texas and other Southern States or some of the Western States a bad name. It Is absurd to sny that this man conld not have been arrested by the proper authorities if they had shown nerve enough to protect the man. He de served hanging, but it should have been a hanging by the Sheriff of Washington county. Unless you are brought into con stant contact with, Eastern business men? men of large means'whoare looking fornew ventures into which they can safely place capital, yon can form no notion of the evil effects of such lawlessness. Already Pitts burg has a bad reputation as an unruly, law less city, where strikes and labor troubles of some sort are constantly occurring." "I know two groups of men in New York who have been desirous of establishing two large manufacturing plants here. They have been looking into the labor situation and they have decided to go elsewhere. They would bare employed several thousand men and spent hundreds of thousands of dollars In wages and for material, but they say that there is too much danger of strikes, too many complications of one kind or an other to be dreaded. It is Just the same with Eastern men who thought this city was growing rapidly and was a good place in which to invest capital 'in real estate and buildings. The big strike among the build ing trades last year cost Pittsburg mil lions directly and Indirectly and It will be a long time before the olty recovers from such a blow. Then the Homestead and other labor troubles of this summer have been added to the already heavy load, and unless some active and concerted effort is made by the leading men In various kinds of busi ness our city's name will be something foal in the nostrils of the country. It Is a matter for the Chamber of Commerce to take up and show some Interest in, or for the men who recently met at the "loom banquet" to take cognizance of." "These is no nse mincing matters or pretending that there is nothing but grumb ling or scare in such talk as this of mine." He continued: "There is not a man in active financial business in Pittsburg who does not know at heart that what I say is true, and that what I suggest is necessary. We do not need to gloss over or hide the trutb. What we should do is to dissipate the false impres sion which la growing abroad in regard to us and to what is occurring here. Blots, such as have occurred at Homestead, are sporadic, and not a normal condition and it is necessary to impress this on the outside world. We have a community which in the main Is law respecting and self-controlled but this fact Is not apparent to outsiders. To sit down and calmly sub mit to such comments as I bave read or heard uttered in Boston, New York, Phila delphia and several of the Western cities, is the height of folly. The press of Pitts burg should take up this Issue fairly and squarely, show the injustice of many charges against us as a community and call a halt." J. B. Flnley, th?banker and politician of Monongahela City, was in town yesterday and talked politics, among other things. "I do not look for much trouble to Acheson from the Greene connty bolt," said he. "The Republican majority lor Bay was 4,000, and the bolters will not be able to pull away more than 1,000 Besides, the party is in good shape in our district, and all the counties outside of Greene are harmonious and united. Andy Stewart is the logical candidate for the short term, having' been fairly elected by Republicans in a Republican district. He should be renominated and would be elected by a majority too large to upset. I think that this will be done." It is not unlikely that the Baker law will be tested on the ground of giving unconsti tutional privileges to political parties. It permits the Beuublioans and Democrats to make party rules which govern piimaries and other elementary operations under the act, which is something the Constitution did not contemplate. Then the act declares the rules, whatever they may be and however thev may be changed, are good, and binding on other parties and on the public at large. It is not improbable that a test case will come np after the fall elections. A sbtjnken, ragged man leaned against a lamp post on Fifth avenue yesterday aft ernoon, tired and silent. Several yonng fel lows came up andnbegan talking to a dude who began telling how be had won a big pile on poker. "I ain't had no such luck in years" satd the dnde. "No sir, I got more money than I seen in years." The ragged man braced up and in trembling tones ex claimed: "Mister, say, Mister, yon'' take an old man's advice and go and buy a gram mar. Walter, ALL QUIET OH THE POTOMAC. Few Government Offlcla s to Be Found at the Capital Daring Dogdays. Washiitotow, Aug. 8. Officially, this city is practically deserted, Secretary of State Foster being the sole representative of the Cabinet here. At the White House things wear a decidedly abandoned appearance, owing to the absence of the President and his family and the usual snmmer overhaul ing of the building, which is now being done. The carpets have been taken up and aired, the furniture completely hidden with white linen, and over the huge chandeliers folds of netting hang, to protect them daring the hot weather. At the War Department Assistant Secretary Grant presides as the head of the depart ment, Secretary Elkins having gone to Deer La 1.6 to visit his family. The affairs of the navy are likewise looked after by Assistant Secretary Soley in the absence ot Secretary Traov, who Is north, while Attorney Gen eral Miller. Postmaster General Wanamaker, Secretary Noble and Secretary Rusk are all away. Mr. Wharton, Assistant Secretary of State, returned this morning from Tuxedo, and was at his desk later in the day. The warm weather has bad the effect of causing the different departments to be closed an hour earlier than usual, and altogether the with drawal of Congress, the President and his Cabinet, has caused the olty to assume an air of dullness, so far as concerns official business, -. SOCIETY KEN IN A PBIZE TIGHT. They Battled TVith Bard Gloves to See Which Was tbft Hardest Hitter. Saratoga, Aug. 8.lSpeetaLA sensa tional prize fight in which the principals move in highest social circles took place to day in a barn in Ballston. The parties were Sid ey Smith, son of a millionaire family of Ballston, and Daniel W. Shea, of Boston, a Harvard College student, a mem ber of the Harvard College crew and foot ball team. Both men are scionced boxers and the meeting was the ontcome or Jeal ousy as to their respective merits. Edwards was reseree, Jimmy Larkin, of New York, was second for Shea and Wally Edtfards second for Smith. The fight was .wlthfbard gloves. There were to be two rounds of two minutes each. Both men were spoiling for a fight and could hardly be restrained from going at each other. At the end or the second round the referee de cided that the match bad not been fought to a finish. Shea was badly punished. Shea Is prominent in Boston society, and Smith equally so In the highest circles of Saratoga and New York. About 25 'friends of the principals witnessed the fight. A New FosIUon for Grover. Boston Herald. They say Mr. Cleveland does all his letter writing between 10 o'clock r. ir. and 2 o'clock A. it. He seems to have been cut out for a night editor. 1,015 New Yorkers Die In One Week. Nxw Your, Ana;. 6 The record of deaths In this city during the heated week of July 21 to 30 is made np, and the total was 1,615. Thn Calm Before the storm. Toledo Blade. J The sUence of Mr. Brlce leads one to think that he U still chasing rainbows. IN A'PEBSONAL WAY. Melange Containing tbs Proper Propor tion of SplcV, News and People Tennis Clubs in Foil Bloom Clnb Men In Despair Takoto Chicken and W riffles. Tennis Clubs are as numerous now as summer flowers, and like the flowers, they are springing up wherever is found a plot of fostering gronnd. The Oakland Terrace Tennis Club is one of the youngest but sturdiest blossoms and numbers among its membership several very fine exponents of the noble game of tennis. The club has Its courts in a lawn behind the Terrace, which is a very pretty rolling piece of ground that has been laid out most carefully -in courts that the players claims to bo unusually well prepared and taken care of. It is a stag club comprised of 10 young men, who occasionally are chivalrously Inclined and permit their wives, sisters or sweethearts, provided they can handle a racket, to disport themselves and display their art. Usually every even ing ot this pleasant weather is devoted to tennis, and also every Saturday alternoon since the inangnratlon of the pleasant enstom of concluding business at noon on that day. The entire list or members Is H. M. Rose, J. W. Grove, Thoma Neely, Av .Nicholson, B, C Porter, B. L. Portar, MrvParker, Dr. Haines, Mr. Ewart. Mr. Parker is probably the crack plaj er or the organization, with a very close second in either Dr. Haines or Mr. Porter. He was distinguished for his good play in the tournament of the Pitts burg Tennis Club. , Club men obliged to stay at home are drowning their sorrows since Pittsourg's fair sex has deserted them for the attrac tions of the mountains and seaside, to say nothing of far-away Europe, by a wild coarse ot chicken and waffles suppers at Heating's. Stag parties are all the go, and not an evening but some of onr best known men make part or a merry set driving ont the Perrysvllle road. Those easily acoorded the honor of being "belles" are Mr. Frank Dohrman, Mr. Norton Van Vorhlss and Mr. James Marshall, Jr., among the most popu lar fellows In their set. When the girls come back home, however, the stag parties doubtless will wane before the brilliancy of the "dove" fnnotions that will take place in the old-fashioned Keating roadhouse. An attractive wood in the vicinity of Glenfleld, known locally as Frank Ban mann's grove, will be the scene of the picnic of the German Lutheran Church of that suburb, which will begin on Wednesday at 9 o'clock. They are always most enjoyable, as the church people save themselves no trouble in an endeavor to have the Sunday school youngsters enjoy themselves. There will be tenpins and sack races among the many expected pleasures. The committee in charge la the Superintendent, Mr. John H. Hoffmann, Mr. Charles Freazer and Mr. John Heckmann. The engagement has been announced of Miss Nellie B. Hurd and Mr. Grant Murray, a member of the firm of Messrs. Murray Bros. It is stated that the marriage will take place in the early autumn. A fine allegorical subject in a memorial window has been prepared by Mr. Ludwlg G rosso for the Church of the Good Shepherd in Hazelwood, erected by the family or yonng Mr. William Johnston, who died last 'year at the age of 19. The subject is almost entirely treated in the mosaic, excepting the head of the angel and a few points emphasized in the drapery, to which the brush alone was used. It Is altogether very chaste and lovelv. The frame is circular and probably three feet in diameter. "Blessed are the pure in heart" in old English text forms a scioll around the top oi the window. Social Chatter. Mb. Szahox Attzrburt will leave for the East to-morrow night. Mb. li. W. Grove, Mrs. Grove and "Baby" Grove aro at Atlantic City. Mr. Williax H. Mem'ck, Jb., of Marchand street, will leave on Friday for Atlantic City. Mr. aiid Mrs. Nicholsoit and their family will arrive in PittsDurg this weekr from At lantic City. Dr. D. A. Raskin and family, of Lincoln avenue, are among tne iasnionaoie sojourn ers at Jamestown, R, L Axotbzr 'Atlantic City sojourner from Pittsburg la Mrs. Thomas .N eely, who went down there last Satprday. Auoho seekers of pleasure ai Asbury Park are Mrs. Duncan and her son, Mr. Harry B. Dnnoan, and Mrs. A. H. Heisey and family. A holiday in the West has sent Mr. J.MoD. Bryce, of,Mt. Washington, home with a com plexion almost us tanned as a roasted coffee bean. Mb. G. J. Wioht, of New York, is expected in Pittsburg in a few days. During his stay here he will be the guest of Mr. Charles Mc Feely. Miss Stepbewbon, of Point Breeze, is at Hyannesport, the guest of bor fiance s, Sir. Will Humphrey's family, who have a pretty cottage there. Miss Marion G. Bryce Intends to make a short visit among her friends in her former Connecticut home, leaving for the Hast some time next week. Mr. Cbables F. Melicx, of the Eenmawr Hotel, returned on Monday morning from a Western trip, including a short visit to his former home in Zanesville, O. , Mr. H. W. Boss returned on Saturday last from Maine, where be and Mrs. Rose have Deen spending the warm weather. Mrs. Hose expects to remain for a fortnight longer. 1, A party of young fellows, including Mr. George Ihuisen and Mr. Harry Grander, left Pittsbnrg on Sunday evening bound for Duluth and a vacation of ten days or a fort- mguc. The attractions of Jamestown, now fast becoming a Pittsburg resort 'of the most fashionable character, are being explored by Mrs. Scott Ward and her sister. Miss Sev erance. Mr. J. M. Garrison's famllv are enlovlno- life on the banks of the Cheat ilver, where Mr. Garrison was with them until yesterday, when he returned to his now temporarily bachelor quarters at borne, in Shady Lane. Mr. J. Denniston Lvof made a flying visit for over Sunday to Ebensburg, where his mother, Mrs. Andrew Fleming, is at picsnnt. Mrs. Fleming and ber daughter, Mrs. Fell, of Philadelphia, occupy rooms at the Park Springs Hotel there. Midscvmer In Pittsbnrg is pleasant enough to recall Miss Lizzie Singer from the Joys of an Eastern watering place, that young lady having returned on Saturday and already taken up with her favorite amusement of horsemnnshlp. Mb. John L. and Mr. Frederick McFeelt ate enjoying Atlantic City at present, while Mrs. McFeely with ber maid .and family, is established at the Eureka Hotel. Saeger town, where Mr. McFeely occasionally makes flying trips to see them. Mb. and Mrs. John D. Davis, Mrs. John Phillips and Mlss.Katherlne Phillips are en Joying metropolitan pleasures in New York for a few days, after which a short sojourn will be made among the mountain scenery in the northern part of the State. Akono other Pittsburg cottagers at Hy annerport are Mr. and Mrs. James L Kay, whose charming villa overlooks a fine view of the ocean, and is always filled with visit ors from home or elsewhere. At present their party has been' agreeably added to by the presence of Miss Byiner and her be trothed, Mr. B. J. Lotten. Mr. and Mrs. Joshua Rhodes, of Western avenue, with their family aie enjoying the delights of a seaside resort at Manhattan Beath, their headquarters being the fash ionable Oriental Hotel. Their visit will not extend beyond tt week or ten days, alter which the address will be for the remainder of the summer, Jamestown, E. L Florence Cliite, the country house of Mr. W. Y. Casey on the banks of the Allegheny river, near Schenley station, will be occu pied after Wednesday by the family and Mr. and Mrs. K. C Porter and tho baby. Mr. Casey Is the fortunate owner of an ideal place, where all the pleasures of conn try gentry life abound. The ladies spend their entire time divided up between riding. Ashing and yachting. Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Scott, Mrs. W. H. Scott and Mr. Swift Scott left yesterday morning on the Buffalo express for Chautau qua Lake. During the visit the party will be established at the Grand Hotel, Point Chautauqua, but. will vary the time by short excursions of several days duration each to Toronto, Thousind Islands and Niagara Falls, returning to Pittsburg about the last of the month. r Mr. and Mas. Samuez; A. Avmon left on Sunday evening for Atlantic City, where they fro to Join Mrs. Amnion's mother, and Miss Minnie nud Mr. O'Hara Darlington, Mrs. George F. Denniston and Miss Bobb, of AUegneny, n ho are all living at the Argyle. A rnnior exists, the truth of which wonld certainly be regretted, that Mr. and Mrs. Amnion, who aro probably as popular a jonng bride and groom as Pittsburg pos sesses, will seek permanent residence in an other olty, whose climate is kinder than ours. It eventually such a move be made their filends will look upon it as n unwill ing loss to the circles hi whichMr. and Mrs. Amnion move. ACROSS THE CONTINENT. Did yon ever climb a mountain? Did yon ever see how a mining expert determines the value of a .deposit of gold or silver sizes up the proposition, figures on the out lay, demonstrates the feasibility or imprac tlcabllltyoftbo undertaking? . Did you ever contemplate the dangers, the risks, the toil, the adventure associated with such a workt If you have then you know why the coveted minerals are now and will ever be precious why their production is profltlessor profit able. The mining expert who studies the leads In the high hills- must of ne cessity be a man of nerve, sound in body, qnlck in resource, firm must be as agile as a mountain goat, a walker; a climber, a rider, equal to all emergencies and a comforting companion under all circumstances. Such a one was ours. He has been on the peak and in the drilled depths of nearly all the mineralized mountains of Old and New Mexico, Idaho. Colorado, Montana, Utah, California and British Columbia. So nnder his guidance ourexpedltlon, toilsome though it was, became a pleasant Journey full of scenic enchantment and restful surprise. "Deuce take a rotten eggl" This exclam ation loudly emphasized, accompanied by a small-noised but large-smelling explosion, made me lift my head lrom a hard pillow and glance at a bulky, frowsy-headed, not overly clean shadow outlined against the huge fireplace that occupied tlte end of the cabin. It was mine host who had met with misfortune while mixing a batch ot dough for our morning meal. The bad egg went out of a psneless window instead of into the batter, and the break fast was more palatable than could have been expected if the order of business had been reversed. Our saddle and pack animals stood in readiness at dan for the final mount to the end of the horse trail. An hour's ride through fallen" timber, over sharp-edged, loose boulders, into and ont of narrow rocky defiles and up tho steep side of the base of the mountain brought the nose of the lead er's bronco against a wall of rock, down which ice-water lan on to swell a white crested current several hundred feet below. Here the packers took charge of the equines and the packs here the climb afoot began. "Now, boys, breathe through your noses and don't talk. If anyone has a heart affec tion he'd better go back to the cabin. Now go slow and keep quiet." Thus advised the expert as he grasped the roie dangling over the precipice and soon stood on its smooth, wet face, where he was Joined by his anile assistant in a canter. The tenderfeet arrived later. "Look there, boys! Did yon ever see anything finer than that! Why do painters go to Europe when such brush-tempting views as this are boret And over the gnlch, too. See there!" Our guide and counsellor stood still with ad miring eye and pointing finger, both of which we followed. Nearly in front of us a silvery veil spun by tho snow water partly hid the face of a moss-covered cliff. Wke an endless belt or whitest floss it seemed to unwind falling so gently on the granite floor at onr feet as to make no sound, no splash. Across the deep abyss on the brown, red-stained, sun gilded sides of hlsh mountains streams that looked like ropes of molten silver came down from ice-bound reservoirs. Over all the roar of the young Niagara far below, the creaking of the firs and spruces, the sharp chirp of some high-flying bird. There silent admiration took the place of uttered praise. "Up we go, boysl Take it easy, and don't try to keep up with me. You can't miss the trail." And our guide, his man and the strongest of the pirty were soon far above. Two of us did take it easv. There was about 8.000 feet of perpendicular between us and the tent on the edae of timber-line. We crawled, we clung, we rested. Breathing be came faster, air was thinner, heart pumped quicker. Half way up my pulse was 126. Ex-Sheriff McCandless' beat at the same gait. His face was bluish, and he. said worse things about mine there. J. P. Brown proved to be a climber, and was ont of sight But we tugged up and on, going three or four minutes and resting Ave to ten. Ere the top was reached we walked through a mist clodd, he moiitureof which was refreshing. It hovered' over a blotoh of snow upon which I sank and in which T played like a child my first snow feast in hot July. Up through the timber above all was white and trackless, save where the trail defiled. We were over two hours reaching timber-line, which ended as ab ruptly as if some giant with huge scythe had cut it to aline no scrnbbundergrowtb, no undersized trunks, all giants from river washed base to edge of living glacier. "There's the camp where the blue smoke curls over tbe trees. And now it's a walk on the snow," sang out a guide who stood on the white pathway to pilot us past treacher ous, snow-hidden crevices and over swift ice-bridged cascades. Snow is all very well in its place and in its season. But it's hard on the pedestrian who suddenly comes across it on hummocks and hillsides on a July day. How it tired while it rested. For on the few bared spots be tween timber and tent the hot sun made a warm carpet a velvety seat of deep dyed mosses, grasses, broad-leaved, bud bearing vegetation and golden-yellow, lily llke flowers. Up to tbe very edge of the winter tbe summer beauties flourished. Through the cold covering on that moun tain side, within a few feet of a blue-iced, deep-creviced glacier, yellow bursting buds bored and bloomed. Flowers grew there through the snow, posies scentless bnt rich colored. We found onr tent pitched on a spot from which several leet of snow had been shov eled. A Are roared in a box-like sheet iron camp stove. Freshly cut balsnm-besifng boughs partly covered the soggy interior. There breath was recovered in an air pure, cool, rarlfled. Down under a huge snowbank the quaint-looking cook poked and shook pots and pans over a Are of green logs that tried his patience. Tho human packers veritable beasts of Durden bad not yet arrived with onr blankets, and on tbe damp bongh-spotted floor of our canvas habitation we. stretched sore limbs and longed for dinner. Hunger once more took me back to tbe station of thenlght before to Whiskers, his doj and horn-soup. After dinner some nine thousand feet to climb on the snow to the big bores on the red-stained leads on the crests of granite walls that were so near and yet so far away. Geo. A Madden. THE EAGLE SCREAMING 1GAIX. It is true we are on iriendly terms with England Just now, but, as the poetess has it, we may be strangers in good time. There fore, let England hustle around for a coal ing station of ber own. New York Record. Ir tho facts are as reported, tbe attempt of Great Britain to establish itself in Pago Pago harbor is almost as violent and defiant a proceeding as would be the seizure of Gar diner's Bay by a man-of-war flying the En glish flag. New York Sun. I Tbe news of tbe "selection" of the harbor of Pago-Pago as a British naval station is extremely well calculated to arouse Amer ican susceptibilities. Whether the "selec tion" proceed lrom ignorance or from con tempt, it is the not the less humiliating to us. New York Times. The question all turns upon the extent of the Jurisdiction of the United States, and whatever that may be a vigorous foreign policy should ba prompt to maintain. The size of the offending party, If there be offense, is not to be taken into considera tion. Wcuhtngton Pott. The report that a British man-of-war has taken possession of Pago-Pago harbor for the purpose of a coaling station will aonbt less'be acted upon by the Government at Washington. If it be true, It is a piece of British aggressiveness which the United States will insist shall be retracted without delay. Philadelphia Bulletin. Tax reported seizure by a British man-of-war of an American coaling station in the Samoan Islands is an act of which tbe Amer ican Government should take prompt and decisive notice. The right or tbe United States to tbe coaling station 'at Pago-Pago is beyond question, argument or arbitration. NtwYorkPreu. . CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. The silver dollar of 1801 is worth $600. Thirty-four posBids of raw sugar make 31 pounds refined. The Gulf of Mexico has risen over one foot since the year 1S51. The Turks always eat their ostium while the men of China smoke it. Kangaroo farming is to become an es tablished institution in Australia. The bronze cents, such as are in cir culation now. were first coined in 1864. Apples were worth from 25 cents to SO cents each in the reign of Henry TIL It takes 25 seconds for the blood to make the entire circulation of the system. A farmer living near Furlong, Pa, dug np 110 stone knives in bis garden the other day. In China there are no telegraph poles, because the people have a fixed superstition against them. Seven-eighths of9 the forest growth of the State of Washington consists of the Douglas fir. Finme is tbe harbor in the Mediter ranean, which is the fastest in loading and unloading vessels. It is estimated that 40 per cent of those who start in business fail, March being the slackest month for business. The first volume of the "Waverly series appeared when Scott was 43. He pnblished his first book, "Ballads," at 25. Nebraska takes its name from the Nebraska river. Tbe name is or Indian ori gin, meaning "shallow river." The "History of Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain" came ont when Prescott was 41, his "Conquest of Mexico" at 47. February is the month in which the greatest number of births occur; Jane the month in which occur.the fewest. A famous Vienna actress who recently went bankrupt, had a bill for dressmaking alono amounting to 700,000 florins. "Within the last 30 years there have been on the British coasts 66,377 wrecks, with the fearful loss of 22,312 lives. Irvine's "Knickerbocker's History of New York" was written when the author was 26, his "Life of Washington" at 71 As a rnle, married men live longer than baohelors; yet out of every 1,000 persons in England more than 600 are unmarried. Leibniz, who never forgot anything ba read, could recite Virgil and other classical poets, even when he was quite an old man. Alaska has yielded (33,000,000 in seal skins already, and tbe price which the United States paid to Eusslaf or it was $15, COO.OOO. Twenty thousand words have been added to the English language In tbe depart ment of biology alone since Darwin's dis coveries. Twenty-five per cent of the women of England earn their own living. There are nearly 350 female blacksmiths in that country. In the churchyard at Darley Dale in England is a yew tree, said to be the oldest in the world. Local tradition makes it 3.000 years old, The name of Maine was given to that State descriptively, since In the origirlal charter it was considered "the Mayne LaJud of New EnglaniU" An Australian pearl diver says that ne of the strange effects of diving is the inv rl able bad temper felt while working at 1 he bottom of the sea. One of tbe New York theaters is e n- ploylng tbe incandescent lamp In a noi manner, namely, to give the effeot of st rise on the stage. It is curious to note that it is the bac 1 elors in the House of Commons, who lotert 1 themselves most persistently in the womai suurage questions. The State of Nevada is named from 1 : Sierra Nevada Mountains, which in turn c said to have been named from the Sierra. v .Nevada or Grenada. The gastronomic law that oysters should not be eaten in the months without an "ft" In them, was laid down by a person named Butler, nearly 300 years ago. The private apartments of Queen Vic toria are hung with a series of paintings represeuting incidents in ber domestic Ufa since thetlmexjf her marriage. A Mr. Haines'of Quincy, Minn., has been asleep for the last 17 years, with the exception ot 18 months in 1S8M882, two months in 1889 and two weeks in Jnly, 1893. Among the most interesting things shown at tbe recent successful naval exhi bition in London was the'very beautiful model of Nelson's celebrated flagship, tb Victory. There is a country superstition that a baby must not be allowed to see its 'face in a mirror, as. If it does, it will be certain to have "tusk" teeth, and may possibly get Its eyes turned. They manage their criminal business very carefully in Borne. It has taken the authorities three years to complete the ar rangements of the trial of seven persons for forsery. Meanwhile tbe suspects have been InJaiL In a graveyard at "White Pine, CaL, there bave been found recently petrified human bodies In many "kinds of dress, miners, desperadoes witn their pistols and knives buckled round their waists, and per sons of all degrees. Dr. Colin, a French army surgeon, has been studying the effect of regular march ing upon soldiers, and he asserts that the regularity of the step causes a shock to the brain and the bones, which will often break down tbe strongest men. Peeresses of Great Britain, Scotland or Ireland, by birth, marriage or creation, are free from arrest or imprisonment In civil process; and in tbe event of a peeress being charged with a criminal offence she would be tried by tbe House of Lords. A curious utilization oi carrier pigeons was recently attempted in Belgium. This was making them carry contraband goods into France. For a short time 24 pigeons were let off regularly from the Belgian dove cote, each burdened with a small coll of to bacco. Boarders in a Newburyport, Mass., house contemplate a blackboard every time they enter tbe dining room. It is behind a glass door, and on It are ohalked tbe names of boarders who have failed to pay their board for two weeks. When they pay up, the names are rubbed out. MIXED AND MERRY. ,rWhy, Inquired Sing 1144, "is the letter S' like an unpaid wssn bill?" "Is this one of those new progressive likes?" sm plcioatly asked Slug 711. "Naw. An unpaid wash bill Is like the letter "S' because It mltht make a sorlnter of a printer. In dianapoltt Journal. ''Her lovely lips" he spoke abont, While In the twilight they were walking Bat In a temper she called oat: '1 DSte one who wastes time In talking. Chicago Sew Secant. "We've got the biggest mosquitoes in the country." said the summer board proprietor confi dentially. "Isn't that a disadvantage?" Inquired the gnest timidly. "Not by a good deal. When one eomes at 70a you hit It with a club, and thst's U there Is to It." Washington Star. OT COCBSE NOT. When onr Professor entered school Ere ehus-Ume did beglsv And unsuspectingly did sit Cnon a lurking pin. He leapt Into the sir so high There surelr were no grounds For anyone to ay of him His anger "knew no bounds." Boston Courier. Cadmann I see no reason why I should Join the Washington Club. Snarlelgh Nor do I except that If yoa were a member. It would be In your power to mke all the other four hundred members feel extremely hippy. . Cadminn How would ltf i Snsnelxh Ton could resign. Toe Clui. -, To take her bets I can't refuse, Though It Is me she's playing; For when her horses ebance to lose. She never thinks of psylng. 4 New lork Evening Sun. A Bich patient "What is the aliment? vj Doctor (after medical examination)-It Is a bad cue of gout. i Bleb patient (with a groans-Thank heaven, yon . can't resort to intubation, anyhow! 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