assss! iK, r-T -V-ST" yjr- "t THE PHTSBUEG DI5FAT0H, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10. 18931 Wit jffigpaftfr. ESTABLISHED FEBRGABT t 1846 Vol. 47. No. I8S Entered at Pittsburg Postofflce overobcr. 18S7, as second-class matter. Business Office Corner Smithfield and Diamond Streets. News Rooms and Publishing House 78 and 80 Diamond Street, in New Dispatch Building. TAFTKirs AIWTRTHrvO OFFICE. ROOM 78, TKinUNKntJlI-PJIfO. M?W YORK, where eom rl'Ie tiles ofTHEDISPATCH can always be round. Foreign advertisers appreciate tte convenience. Some advertisers and Mends of THE DISPATCH. vnUelnftcw York, are also made welcome. TJJKVIUPATCBU rtffvlarlv mmleat Brentano't. flnimt-a-vare, Jiete lork, and V Ave defOpera. rarity France tehere anyone toho ha teen disap Zirird at a hotel net9 stand Cttn obtatn it. IBUS OF THE UISrATCH. rOKTAOI TPJX IX THE CKITXD STATXS. tii.t Dispatch. One Year fin Dailt Dispatch, Per Quarter 200 DAttT Dispatch. One Month To Daii.t DiSPATcn. Including Sunday, lyear.. 10 00 Daily Dispatch, Including; Sunday, Jm'ths, 5 SO Daily Dispatch, Including bandar. 1 m'th.. 90 ECKDAT Dispatch. One Year JM Weekly Dispatch, One Year 1 a The Daily DlSPATcn Is dellrered by carriers at ;: cents per week, or. Including Sunday Edition, at I' cents rr week. PlTTsIlUltG. WEDNESDAY. ACGUbT 10. 1891. TWELVE PAGES DEBATING FOR POSITION. The debate in the English Parliament so far may be described, according to in dividual tastes, as "sparring for wind," "maneuvering for position," or trying to get the weather gauge. The debates of the minority Government allege that there Is nothing to do until the opposition de fines its policy; the Home Killers take oc casion to assert that they are in opposi tion now, and vail retain that traditional position if the coming Liberal Cabinet does not put Home Eule to the front first, last and all the time. Mr. Gladstone very forcibly j esterday declared that the peo ple having shown that they do not ap prove the policy of the Salisbury Cabinet, thf first thing is to form a new Govern ment in accordance with the popular will. All of which means that the Liberals are not ready to show their hands, and that the Conservatives will try to make them. The amendment to the address will, it is clear, be debated on these lines till the vote; and all the debate will have little more effect on the vote than a debate on the tariff in Congress. Mr. Gladstone will form a ministry; and the conscious ness that trouble will commence then is undoubtedly the cause of reticence on the part of the Liberal leaders now. The Irish party's professions sound somewhat exacting; and by their letter it indicates that Mr. Gladstone cannot go far without another general election. The Home Rulers have the right to insist on a Home Rule measure; but m the work of framing the bill they will have the question presented to them whether it is not wiser to take what can be passed than to postpone the success. 'With the possibility of a control of Parliament that can be secured by conservative and united counsel", it is incumbent on the represent atives of Ireland to be sure that they do not throw away the substance in grasping at the shadow. A BUGABOO LAID. The last census is discovered on careful examination to allay the bugaboo of negro multiplication and the "Negro Domina tion," which, with the disturbing emphasis of capital letters, is largely employed by an esteemed Democratic cotemporary as a campaign scare. A recent bulletin from the Census Bureau sets forth the fact that the white race is growing more rapidly than the black. It is explained that the census of 1870 was so inefficiently taken in the South that the thorough census of 1880 produced an apparent excess in the growth of the black population. But in the last census this erroneous showing is corrected. The negroes form 30.7 per cent of the popula tion in the Southern States, and 1.44 per cent in the rest of th'e country. The growth of the white population during the past decade was 26.7 per cent, while the colored rate of increase was only half as large, being 13.5 per cent. This will reassure those who have been affrighted by the bogie of an overwhelm ing increase of the negroes until their grandchildren should be swallowed up by the dark-hued masses. That Is, it will do so until it enters into the minds of some of them to question whether Mr. Porter's census-takers may not have been as inefficient in counting the colored population as were those of 1870. Such a hypothesis would fully account for the change and leave us as much in doubt as ever as to the actual natural increase of the two races. It would be an illustration of the irony of fate to have to explain an apparent preponderance of colored increase in 1900, on the ground that the census of 1890, like that of 1870, did not get all the Southern negroes who should have been counted. HALF DOLLARS FOR DOLLARS. There is matter for admiration if not amusement in the manner with which Chicago rises to the occasion and proposes to make the best of the Concessional aid granted it on the principle of a fifty per cent compromise. The Inter-Ocean has Improved on Director" General Davis idea and proposes that thefivemiilion souvenir half dollars given by the Government be sold for a dollar apiece. Thus bicago vwll get its 55,"O00,000, to say nothing of the seignorage on the coinage. The idea is entirely in accord with the spirit of Chicago in the World's Fair matter. The call upon the people to come to the front with their money in their hands to exchange dollars for half dollars Is one cf the things that only the Chicago mind can originate. Of course the uses of the lialf dollars so obtained will amply compensate the fie million ppople who are expected to put up their dollars for them. This will be unique to the degree of an issue of 5,000,000 of them. Holes can be drilled in them with only a small percentage of loss considering the real value of the metal, and in that shape they can be used for babies to cut their teeth on. The future citizen could no doubt" take great satisfaction in reflecting that he had cut his teeth on thirty-five cents worth of Columbian silver, and the fond parent who paid a dollar for that coin could have the reflection that he had also used them for cutting his eye teeth in a metaphorical sense. The Inter-Ocean's plan has one defect It proposes that the sixty millions of the American people be persuaded to give up dollars for half dollars by this unique exchange. The sale should be limited to Chicago. That enterprising city now claims 1,250,000 population, and It only would take four dollars from eaoh inhah' itant to make this sale a great success. By this means Chicago would do some thing toward redeeming her original pledges In the matter of raising money for the Fair, and might In addition set the example for a grand coup In the future. Her next attack on Congress might' get $2,800,000 in silver quarters, and by selling them at a dollar apiece the profits would . be much larger. THE SOFT-MONEY FLANK. Concerning Secretary,Foster's speech at Vermillion, O., with regard to the inad vkability of replacing the national bank circulation by State bank notes the Phila delphia Record says: The Secretary of the Treasury insists that the national bank system as it exists is far preferable to a revival of the 8tate bankis sues. There Is not the least doubt of this. A better system for seenring note holders against lots was never devised. But how are the national banks to increase or con tinue their issues, with tho national debt steadily declining and with the growing competition of Treasury certificates at the ratcorj70,000,C00 K yeait As an alternative proposition to a revival of the State bank is sues Secretary Foster mentions a plan to extend the $510,000,000 of per cents lorM j ears at 2 per cent, as a permanent basis for national bank circulation. While the Secre tary carefully refrains from commending this suggestion he thinks that it would be better than a revival of the State bank sys tem. But it admits of very grave doubt whether a large volume of the public debt should be perpetuated for half a century even for so excollcnt a system as that of tho national banks. The admission that the national bank system of circulation is the best, and the statement that the Democracy do not at tack that, but only seek something to re place It as its circulation is retired, by the extinction of bonds, only emphasizes the indictment against the Democratic policy. That is that the Democratic platform se lects the worst possible remedy for the disappearance of national bank notes by going back to the system it replaced, and reviving the old irregular and unreliable State bank circulation. There i3 more In flation and financial uncertainty In that policy than in the greenback theory of is suing notes directly without the Interven tion of banks. There were several other courses to he proposed. One is that suggested by Sec retary Foster, which is admissible. The debt should not be perpetuated simply to keep up national bank circulation, because that would make it an unnecessary burden on the public. There is also the plan of Issuing treasury notes direct, which, while not advisable, would be better than wild cat circulation. Neither of these proposi tions need be considered at length, how ever, because the obvious policy is for Congress to designate classes of securities other than United States bonds which can be used as a basis for circulation. Munic ipal and railroad bonds could be accepted under prescribed conditions so as to fur nish complete security. Even land mort gages with careful safeguards could be made available consistently with stability. But the Democracy with its usual fatuity rejected all these Ideas and de clared in favor of bank circulation with out any security at all. The wildest dreams of the greenbackers never formu lated a more egregious soft-money scheme than this reactionary plank of the Demo cratic platform. THE SMILING TIGER. While the question whether PJatt and Hill are placated may still agitate polit ical gossip, it is beyond dispute that the Tammany branch of the Democracy is fully in the saddle as to the campaign or ganization. This is made evident by the recent choice of Lieutenant Governor Sheehan of New York, the executive officer of the Hill-Tammany combination for legislative matters, as Chairman of the National Executive Committee. It is worth while to note that a short time ago the Mugwump organs who sup port Cleveland made protest with regard to the presence of Sheehan on the Na tional Committee in any capacity. The effectiveness of the protest is illustrated by the advancement of Sheehan to that Important position in the campaign. In digesting this morsel of political crow the New York Times and Post will have as much trouble as their neighbor the Sun. We see no other course open to them but to fly like it to the solace of contemplating the force bill and the ghost of Negro Domination with, a large sized N. D. Sheehan In charge of the Executive Committee is a decided intimation that Tammany, Hill and the spoils Democracy are In charge. The lady who smilingly took a ride on the back of the Tiger re turns to her usual quarters, and the smile Is on the face of the Tiger. Yet some significance might be given to the fact that the one national success won by De mocracy in thirty-two years was when the element now running the machine was distinctly retired to the rear. ROADS AND FARMERS. Two points on the subject of road im provement recently brought up are worthy of note. The first is an estimate from the State of Tennessee that the bad roads of that Commonwealth inflict an annual loss of 57,000,000. The estimate to that effect is made in a memorial of the Memphis Board of Trade to the Tennessee Legis lature. It is based on such facts as that the hauling to the single market of Knoxville costs a million and a quarter dollars more each year, and the statement of the State Commissioner of Agriculture that the working capacity pf each horse in the State is lessened 515 by the same cause. Those figures are applicable to each State in the Union. Placed side by side with them the objections to a State levy of a million or two to remedy the evil is seen to be the worst economy. In the same connection it is pertinent to notice a widely quoted assertion of Gen eral Beaver that the fundamental defect of the law of Pennsylvania Is that It per mits the taxpayer to work out his road taxes. It Is necessary to differ with the Governor on that point. The fundamental defect lies far deeper than that It is in permitting a system of patchwork by which roads are merely leveled up for the summer without any attempt at creating a permanent roadway. If the State offered aid to every county, township or road dis trict which built a permanent and durable roadway there would be an attempt to cure the fundamental defect whether the road was built by working out taxes or by hired labor. There is no question that a great deal of inefficient work is done by farmers in working out their taxes. But the same fault can be found with hired gangs of street cleaners. When the work of road improvement is commenced In earnest it will be found that honest work can be secured and at the same time farmers can be given the privilege of paying their taxes in labor If they prefer. This can be effected by the simple device of paying for work by the quantity. Farmers with teams can be paid by the cubic yards of stone hauled; those without by-the cubic yards of stone i broken or gravel spread. Even If local supervisors should eive higher Tates for work- done In this way than would secure the 'same work by reg ular hiring, the loss would fall only on the district So long as the State offers a stated sum per mile for roads with a pre scribed thickness of macadam and grav eled surface, the local districts can be left to work out the problem of creating those highways In their own way. The great need is to impress on the agri cultural mind the heavy loss the farmers are suffering by bad roads. Such a fact as that the earning power of every horse in the country will be increased $15 annu ally by good roads ought to bring a strong light to conservative farmers. Since the alleged areas of water on Mars are supposed to vary regularly according to the seasons, and as Mars is certainly a celes tial habitation if habitation it be at all it is surprislngnthat no wiseacre has hitherto promulgated the theory that the planet is under the entire control of a Chinese colony which makes use of it mainly as a rice field. Moreover this would admirably account for the muddy color which is so prevalent over large areas. There is altogether too much enthu siasm about the thermometrlc mercury Just now and some repressive measures ought to be adopted, it Gladstone seems to have even a greater number of factions to pla'cate than the aver age American Prosidont. And the latter, is secure for his four years' term anyhow when olico ho has been elected, while the Grand Old Mnn may have to undergo another elec tion at any time after fairly getting down to business. It may be officially stated that Chief Bigelow's sudden return to Pittsburg was not occasioned by the arrival of alligators for Highland Park. Cleveland has had a good many un kind things said of him by those whom he is supposed to lead. But the cruelest cut of all comes from the Democratic leaders of Illi nois, who fear that the party's slim chance of success in that State would be injured by puttlnjr their Presldental candidate on the stump. Republican marching clubs are to be organized by the 15th instant, so the tem perature had better think seriously of tak ing a tumble. That special session of the Michigan Legislature has more than made up for past unconstitutionality in the apportionments of politicians in that State by the astonish ing and unprecedented performance of passing an apportionment bill whioh is sat isfactory) both parties. Cleveland's calendar most be jnst filled with lead letter days, to Judge from the number of his epistolary communications. Bismarck should call attention to the fact that Kaiser Wilhelm's return to Ger many yesteiday was signalized by au earth quake. So shocking a coincidence cannot be allowed to pass unnoticed. All the crusades put together could not make so immense an assemblage of Knights Templar as is now gathered at Denver. Afghanistan, China, England and Russia all appear to have suddenly awak ened to the desirability of the Pamir as a summer resort, but each of them seems anx ious to take exclusive possession. Even Garza is said to be coming to the front again with the other unpleasant ac companiments ot the hot season. When railroad telegraphers have reasons to air it would be only natural tb hang them out on the wires, and they must be very weighty to make it necessary to hold up the lines for that purpose. Of course brass bands take their wind in struments to the parks in order to provide some fresh air for the people. The small boy with the hose pipe lays the dust and cools on the sidewalks, so the pedestrian must bear up bravely and Just be content with keeping his weather eye open for waterspouts. Sportsmen in want of a vacation cannot do better than Indulge in stalking the Cooley gang in Payette county. A man that tries unsuccessfully to find one of nine different ministers to marry him and finally accepts the services or a police magistrate can hardly be accused of marrying in baste. Harbtty is just beginning to realize that he has undertaken a rather large order. From the amount of attention which he is receiving from the scandal-monger, Adlai Stevenson would be almost justified in be lieving himself the only candidate in the country. As a subject for suppositions Mara is un surpassed. That announcement that the next inau guration is to take place under canvas pro vided by circus proprietors has all the ap pearances of a fabrication from the whole cloth. It is about time somebody fired the sun. Columbus did more than discover Amer ica, he provided the subject for a celebra tion which is finding representatives of sev eral war.ike navies with a peaceful occupa tion. MASTERS OF MEN. Empebob William arrived at Pottsdam yesterday and was greeted by the Empress. Carl Schubz has built apretty cottage at Lake George, and will be able to summer in one of the prettiest spots in this country. Ex-Pbesident Hates is sensible enough to wear a neglige shirt when the weather is hot enough to take tho starch out of a sumj mer hotel clerk. "Dick." Cbokeb, the Tammany chief tain, was the engineer of the first steam fire engine used in New York. And he has been looking at a political high pressure gauge ever since. Secretary White, of the American Le gation in London, will sail on the Fuerst Bis marck, Saturday, for the United States. Mrs. White and family will go to Braemar for a few weeks. Henby C Bowen has bought another tract of laud in Woodstock, making his estate. Homeland Park, famous for its Fourth of July exercises, a square, three-quarters of a mUe on each aide. It is stated that the Prince of Wales will visit Canada next year, and that he will make a trip to the Pacific -coast over the Canadian Pacific Bailroad, stopping at the Chicago Fair en route. The adjournment of Congress completes a SO years' service in the House for Mr. O'Neill, or Pennsylvania.-Mr. Holman comes next in length of representation, as he has been for 28 years a Congressman. Alp Taylob is one ot the two Republican members of. Congress from Tennessee. He is serving bis second term, and has been re nominated for the third. His district is strongly Eepublican, and there is no ques tion of his re-election. Countess Komrod,, the Mme. de Kole rnine, whose brief morganatic union with the late Grand Duke of Hesse will be remem bered and who has been quietly living in Dresden the past few years, Is reported to be engaged to a young Russian diplomat. Not a Change of Heart. Baltimore American. From all accounts. Quean Victoria does not like Gladstone less, but she hates home rule more. A LOOK AROUND. Even those who can hit them, and who- nsually make good bags, complain of the badwoodcook shooting in this part of the country. The wet weather during the early summer and spring scattered the birds badly, and few of them have been reported. Or course just now they are moulting and are in the cornfields or grain stubbles. Later in the year, when they will be on the hill sides and on the edges of the woods, they may show up in greater numbers. It has been a wonderfully pood year for the sporting and outing godds people. Hun dreds of fishing rods, thousands otr dollars' worth of reels, lines and tackle, as well as outing costumes, tennis outfits, all sorts of bicycle rigs and other thlnes affected by the people who are not, or pretend they are not, afraid of taking exercise in warm weather, hare been sold in immense quantities. Most of those who deal In such things report it to be the best season known in years, and the present hot weather will give an additional impetus to their sales. ' What a lot of sickness there is in the city, and especially among those who have ever had a touch of grip! It seems to be an unusually unhealthy summer all around. Down on Montour way, just oft Sixth avenue, back of the churches and Tariff Club, theie is a band which seems to think it can knock Sunday afternoons into smithereens without fear of the police. Nearly every Sunday this band practices on all sorts of pagan music, such as "Boom De Ay." It is close to several churches, and it is a source of much annoyance. Is there no police regulation to put a stop to this sort of nuisanoeT The Y. M. E. T. a, which being put into the vernacular means the Young Men's Re publican Tariff Club, is beoomlng a sort of local Tamman Hull. It has a membership of several hundred, and among them are nearly all the active and potent Republican politicians of the cities and county. It is here that many candidacies are batohed and put through to a successful conclusion, and others which have budded outside its limits are chilled by early frosts. If the club pulls together it means business, for it can take an array of wards and precincts to the polls which is next to impossiblo to overcome. It is more or less a Magee club, but has among its membeis a large number of those of dif ferent factions. Taken with its neighbor, the Americus Club, about all that amounts to much in Republican working politics is summed up. Adjutant General Greenland was in town yesterday with Gon. John A. Wylie. The latter is about as fine looking a soldier as one could desire. When he and General Hastings were In full uniform and mounted it was ten to one no civilians need apply for recognition fiom the ladles who happened to be along. What I quoted yesterday from a banker in regard to Pittsburg and the need of look ing after its leputation as a peaceful and law-abiding city lias brought out a number ot similar expressions fiom other people. I trust the Chamber of Commerce Is not all at the seashore or in the hills, and that it will not allow too much time to pass with out acting earnestly and practically on this issue. There used to always be war on the border in the old days when Scotland had a lord of its own and England lay within harrying range. Equally sols it to-day on the Northern frontier of India aud the Afghan country, and if a young English officer whom I met recently is not an alarmist the old mossy Eastern question will come up for sharp answer soon. The Bussians have grown bolder with years of peace and the Englishman says that in military circles in India all tho present troubles of the Ameer are due to the proverbial Russian intrigues among the tribesmen. Already there have been encounters between bodies or Cossacks and the Afghans "not far from Herat and it is not much more than a year since that arch-schemer, that boldest of all Russian agents in the East, Colonel Ali khonoff, was arrested by the English in Cabul, disgaised as a MusslemarT dervish. "Is Gladstone strong enough to handle such an Issue?" I asked his countryman, who is a stanch Liberal, "From what I hear at home I fear not. Of course, I mean phys ically. I don't believe he conld stand the strain of a great war, and it wouldbe a risky thing to put the reins in the bands of some of the others. 1 must say that Salisbury has held his own In India and has inspired a reeling of confidence in his courage and ability to hold his own against Russia. So far as that goos, though, there is no great Chancellor at the head ot foreign affairs in Russia now. The Czar has taken much into his own hands for several years, and the generals run tho diplomatic end of affairs as well as the military." - Congress has adjourned, and the silver men are in the bouillon, so to speak. Walter. A VETEKAN'S GOLDEN WEDDING. Pleasant Surprise by Post 88 to Mr, and Mrs. Alex. Gray. The was last evening a nnique golden wed ding celebration In the rooms of Post 88, G. A. B.. on Sandusky street, Allegheny. The principals in the celebration were Alexan der Gray and his wife, of No. 23 Orchard street. Mr. Gray is a member of the post and a pleasant surprise was arranged for hiin and his estimable lady. At abont 7.30 o'clock a carriage called for them at their home and they were told that a few of their" friends wished to see them at the post headquarters. It was with difficulty that Mr. Gray coulcTbe Induced to go out, but he flnallv consented, and he and his wife were diiven to Sandusky street. When they entered the post room they found about a hundred members of tho post and of the ladies' auxiliary. Agteat taDle occupied the loom, and it was laden with good things toeatandmagniflcent bouquets of flowers. Mr. nnd Mrs. Giay were led to seats on the glutlorm, where Commander James B. tewartof the post presided over the cere monies. There' was singing by two granddaughters of the aged couple, Mrs. M. J. Hillings and Miss Ella Irwin, recitations by Miss Maggie Stewart and Evans J. Paulin and instiu mental music by Miss McAIoos. Mrs. Eliz abeth Jones, Chaplain of the Ladles' Aux iliary, then made a brief address, presenting to Mrs. Gray a pair of gold-iimmed eye glasses. Past Commander Samuel Scott presented to Mr. Gray an ebony gold-beaded cane. The ladies oi the Auxiliary Corps having adopted a new badge, oue of the new emblems, in gold, was presented by Com mander Sienait to Chaplain Mrs. Jones. Snnper was then served. Mr. Jones was born, on February 1, 1816, and his wife, whose maiden name was Miss Eleanor McUowan, waB born in 1825. They were married at Peter's Creek SO years ago yesterday, and have lived nearly all the time since in Allegheny. Mr. Jones was an ax maker, and Ik yet a man of robust health. He served during the Civil Wnr in Company 33, of the One Hundred and Twenty-third Pennsylvania Volunteers. At tho same time he had two sons and two sons-in-law in the service, Robert and John A. Gray, ex-Mayor Thomas McGraw and George" L. Irwin. There are living seven children and 17 grandohildren, nearly all of whom were present last evening. CONGEESSMAN COGSWELL ILL. He Receives Too Many Callrrs and a Serious It elapse Occur. Salem, Mass., Aug. 9. Special. Congress man Cogswell is seriously ill at hU home, having suffered a relapse. Last week he was about to sit up and reoeived a laice number of callers. As a result he became physically exhausted, and on Friday con tracted a severe cold. Satui day and Sunday he grew w orse, and yesterday bis physicians ordeied that no visitors be admitted to the house, and callers were obliged to leave their regrets without seeing him. The General Intended passing the re mainder of tbe summer at some health re sort, but in view orthe fact that his doctors have stated the necessity of absolute quiet and freedom from business, he believes that such can be best obtained at his home, and there he will remain. General Cogswell Is suffering from overwork in Congress and at the National Convention, Out of the Way. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Cleveland would like to see Tammany go to Europe and stay there till about the mid dle of November. ONLY' A LITTLE BILL, But the Summer tilrl Sees a Cloud In the Blue of Her Sky Buttonholes a Luxury That Counts Three Slices Among Four at Atlantlo City. M. Quad, of the New York World, who is Mr. Lewi when he takes his pen off, is an" old friend of Mr. C. A. McFeely's family in Pittsburg, with which he still keeps up at least a fishing acquaintance. The warmth of intimacy was naturally somewhatWlmln ished when Mr. Lewis went to New York, but still occasionally Mr. McFeely and his distinguished friendooff on famous fishing expeditions, more remarkable for expostu lations from the first named gentleman and a.tot?,. disregard of all conversation by "Quad" as long as an inspiration lasts than for any enormous catch. It Is said, that Lewis will hold his tongue for hours to gether, when he gets a rod and line in his nanu, anu tnougn a rasolnatlng conver sationalist when no chooses, can alo be lamentably and supremely tight of talk at other times. , The girls of the period are groaning under the burthen of laundry bills. The fashionable young woman would go into shirts and collars and cuffs; and only after doing so did she discover the disagreeable stern reality that makes a pretty dip every week into -her pin money. Somehow girls ald't get any encouragement from the world in their present masculine leaning. Even the laundry man poses as a public in structor of correct dressing, and by put ting it on pretty heavy, is causing a wail of distress that may turn to a howling' reform. A man's collar is always a collar; a woman's is never a col lar to the laundry man lexicographer, who will make it a chemisette if he has to put in an additional buttonhole to prove the as sertion. Then he triples the price on it; for the laundry man is nothing if not philan thropic to his own purse. A sliding scale governs the price, which is estimated by the number of buttonholes, and the provi dence taking care of. laundry men suggests a minimum rato of oharge but no maximum a beautiful economic arrangement that re dounds very much in favor of the laundry man. Thero is no doubt, if the gentleman who washes our cuffs and collars does not soon relent ot his sharkish appetite, it will be death to the summer tailor-made girl. Pittsburg travelers are paying the price of their own folly down at Atlantic City. Family after family and party suc ceeded party on last Saturday, who bad arrived there without makingarrangements for accommodations beforehand,and in con sequence they were obliged to put up with being "put up" in the best way at hand, which was usually exceedingly Indifferent in the matter of comfort. Atlantic City, with its phenomenal summer population, is not the place for anyone to arrive in, for whom due anticipatory preparations have not been made. Even somo women have been known to be foolish enough to go, or thelia male relatives foolish enough to permit them to go, to Atlantic City, with out their having the slightest idea oi where to lay their heads upon the night of arrival. Some of this summer's experience will surely bear trait, and teach intending so journers in Justice to tbe hotels there, not to speak of their own dignity, to Invoke the aid of a short previous business correspond ence with a hotel or cottage. "Pot luck" is a good emergency meal, but a courso din ner is decidedly preferable. 'A handsome memorial window will shortly be placed in the McCune vault at Washington, Pa. The subject is allegorical, containing the figure of Christ knocking at a door. The coloring is extremely rion, due to the use of the Mosaic largely in the preparation of the figure, and the choice of the pieces for tho draping has been won derfully successful. The face of the Savior is the conventional ideality, the long flow ing fair hair parted in the middle, the full beard and whiskers and a most benign ex pression of oountenance. The window Is similar in form and size to that intended for the Church of the Good Shepherd at Hazel wood, in memory of Mr. Johnston. Social Chatter. Mrs. Nettie McEee Grahax's family is somewhat scattered at present, with her daughter on her way to England, young Leonard Giaham at Mr. Eaton's ranch out West, and she and her youngest boy MoKne, a part of the gay life at Lakewood. Mrs. McKee will leave Lakewood in a few days for an Eastern watering place, leaving behind her, as she always does, a host of reerets at her departure. Ok their way home from the East, Mr. Bennett's family concluded to remain among the mountains for a few days, and with this in view aro now comfortably Suartered at Frank's Hotel in the lovely ilgonier Valley. The young people aro hav ing a fine opportunity to rest after the pleasures of Atlantic City, where Miss Ben nett, a young mlss,becaine one orthe sought after belles of that watering place. Coxsecratiok services at the Church of the Good Shepherd, in Hazelwood, will be celebrated September 25. It is a very pretty new edifice which the uarish heretofore mentioned has erected for itseir. Dr. Robert McClelland, of Fifth avenne, will sail to-day lor Euiope and be lost to the society, which undoubtedly regrets his ab sence, for the ensuing six weeks. Mr. add Mrs. Charles P. Walker, of Coi tal t Square, Oakland, are en route to-day for California and the West in general. MrL and Mrs. George Sherwak Scuxlt are enjoying the resorts belonging to the Great Lakes. Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Young, of Eigeworth, will sail for Europe on Saturday. Yesterday was the picnio of St. Peter's Episcopal Church. DEATrJS HERE AND ELSEWHERE. Joseph S. Leaeb. Cape May. Joseph S. Leach, aged 76 years, died at his home in Cape May yesterday morning from the effects of general broken health. Mr. Leach came from Central Massachusetts when a young man, and has been a prominent cltlzeaDf Cape May. He has been In the City Council: Recorder of the city for many years; was a member of the Boara of Chosen Freeholders, and was during the war editor oi me jape juaf iceun nuve. ana a leaaing writer In the Republican party. He was deacon In the Cape May Baptist Church and au ordained minis ter. He leaves a widow and six children, all mar ried. They are Colonel J. Granville Leach, Ad prslicr of the Phil 'eights port; Frank Willing Leach. DeputySherl I Philadelphia, former pri vate Secretary to eenor Quay Leach, of CaDe Mar: Mrs. L. H. Dr. Alonzo L Leach, of Cape May; Mrs. L. Townsend, Mrs, Frank Leslie Clart, of Pittsburg, and Mis. KeT.Dr, T. H. Price, of Tuckerton. N. J, General James W. Denver. General James. W. Denver, of Wilming ton, O., died In Washington yesterday evening shortly after? o'clock, of uracmle colson, aged 73 Scars. His Illness was of short duration and his eath very sudden. General Denver1 wife and one of his sons reached his bedside from Wilming ton about half an hoor before his death and were with Mm at the end. The remains will be taken to his late home to-day, where the burial will take place. Harrison Shlrls, Washington, Fa. Harrison Shirls, one of the most promi nent and wealthy citizens of Washington, Pa., died at his home here. Monday evening. He was for many Tears proprietor of the old 81. Charles Hotel, Pittsburg, and was well known here and hi Philadelphia. he deceased was 45 years of age. Miss Ida B. Lape. Hiss Ida B. Lape died yesterday at her home in Troy, Ji.Y.'. after a brief Illness She was the sister of Mrs. Geo. S. Davison, of Fist street, this city, and made many friends during several extended visits here, who will be sorry to hear of her death. t Obituary Notes. William White, Grand Secretary of the Odd Fellows of tbe United States, died of heart disease at Louisville Monday. Ho was 75 years old. William H. Fatkan, who for more than a dozen years managed the Grand Central Hotel in New York, died lu Shepherdstown, W. Va., July 31. Clara Maroarxt Grubzr, inrant daughter of John H. Gruber, sporting editor ot the Fust, died yesterday. The little one was 4 months old and was very bright. John B. Cantlin, Chief Engineer of the Phila delphia Fire Department, died at his home Sunday. He was made Chief Engineer of the Fire Depart ment In February, 1879. H. A. Txr.RY, mauager of the Russell & Irwin Manufacturing Company of Philadelphia, died at his hotel In Atlantic City of heart disease early yesterday morning. Mr. Terry was 51 years old. Jonif Vadgiht Clark, one of the most promi nent citizens of Chicago, and President of the Hibernian Bank and father-in-law of Mayor Wash bnrne,dled Monday morning of catarrhal gastritis, JonN'V. Clarke. President of the Hibernian Bank, of Chlo-go, and the father-in-law of Mayor Hempstead Washburn, died early yesterday morn ing. His Illness was the result of a surgical opera tion. Mrs. Mason, the aged mother of tbe Commis sioner of Internal Revenue, died at ber residence In Washington Sunday, and her remains have been removed to her former home, Grafton, W. Va., for burial. HON. Joseph J. Davis died of paralysis on Sun day night at his home In Loulsburg. N. C. He served many 5 ears in Congress, and since 188S has been Associate Justice of the North Carolina Su preme Conn. His age was 70. JOHN V. Mooax. or the big cotton firm of .Beck ham A Moore, of New Orleans, whose fallnre for 1290,000 was announced a week ago. died Monday of organlo troubles, whoa fatal culmination was hastened bT his financial olmenltles. . ACROSS THE CONTINENT. "What's that?" Over the mountains and across the rook-ribbed canyons came a faint rumble like the echo of a far-off dis charged battery. Louder it grew until it out-noised heaviest thunder. Seeper.denser, seemingly narrowing, the sound waves came until they clashed and broke in circular combat above our balsam beds. Minutes multiplied before tbe disturbing forces drew off whence they came, dying in echo-making defiles behind precipitous peaks which rose and fell in long white lines north, south, east and west, where the sky's blue curtain shut out tbe enchanting scene. It was a snow slide. Day and night these thunder-making slips swept down the smooth black sides of the pinnacled mount ainsveritable cataracts of snow, huge waterfalls of white, sprayless, resistless, re lentless. Over the gnlch on tbe steep side of another range tbe miner drove his drill in veins of silver-bearing galena. Out or tbe months of the tunnels came tbe muffled noise of the shots at regular intervals. But these were only faint sounds as oomnared with the sudden and prolonged tumult of the slipping snow. "Dinner!" piped the stoop-shouldered, crippled-armed cook a couple of hours after our climb. Down a big bank of snow wo ran to the log dining halt, where coarse food disappeared with a rapidity that made the chefs eyes dance with delight. All had been cooked in the open air over glowing embers. The round-loafed bread was baked in a camp oven from flour prepared for quick action. The beans had been browned in hot ashes, tho spnds boiled on the backlogs, the bacon fried on the coalB, the apricots stewed without being smoke-tainted. Hunger seasoned that meal and water dis tilled by the sun from purest snow was the wine that made it digestible. The afternoon was spent by the expert aud bis assistant in taking barometrical measurements from the camp to the openings in the galena-bearing rock, several thousand feet above and over tbe thick covering of ice and snow; in ex amining the extent of the leads, the adjoin, ing locations, the length and breadth and height of the tunnels and cross-cnts. the to pography and geography of the district, and in directing the miners where to put the shots for the minute examination on the following day. Up and over the snow they went until they resembled black ants on the side of a white black-crested slope. The tenderfeet fed the camp stove and gathered fresh balsam boughs for a mattress from two big green-branched trees the cook felled while his batch of bread burned. Before the shadows fell on the deep,sunleis valleys the mining men came sliding down the snow on gum coats and shovels, shouting their approaoh playful as young folk in a coasting frolic. Kioirr came late. In that altitude dnBk and dawn are olose the sun lingers long by night and the pale old moon is its companion far into tbe day. So we lolled on the damp branches and shivered, for tbe packers had not yet climbed up to us with their bulky burdens of blankets. Beforethe supper call, back-Dent and slow-paced, they were seen plodding along tbe slippery trail. They finally landed and threw themselves, with the loads tied to their stont backs, almost breathless, white-faced, speechless, at the door of the tent. One was Whiskers tired oat, faint, foot-soro. His pack weighed over ISO pounds. He had carried it about 8,000 feet. But in the invigorating but thin air Whiskers and the other bearers quickly recovered to tell ot packing feats, mountain and forest tramps, accidents and close calls. Their narratives .drew out yarns from the miners and the prospectors, whose sun- dyed, hard-skinned faces fairly beamed as they were invited to make themselves at home in our roomy oanvas bed-chamber. "I CAN vouch for a packing story," said Mr. Farisb, "but I never told it before for fear of being put down a fabricator. I did some work for an English syndicate down In Mexico a few years ago, and the fact I'm about to describe came directly under my ooservatlon." 'Tes," interrupted William Davis, -bis assistant, "I helped to put tbe pack on the Greaser's back." "1 had put a shot in on the lower level and dis lodged a rich specimen of silver ore. The representative of the syndicate was de lighted, and vowed he'd get that chunk out some way. I didn't tbink he could, but ne pleaded so hard that I indnced the superin tendent to send for the strongest packer in tbe region and see what could be done. Soon a thick-set, big-necked, short bunch of bone and muscle stood beside ' the precious piece. On each side of his spinal column muscles large as an ordinary man's wrist stood out. He eyed and weighed the lump, but shook his head. The Englishman offered him S10 to get it to the mine's month. The super intendent put another tenner on top of it, and I raised the pool ten more $30 in all; quite a fortune, for the peon. Then he stooped and we put the load on his back. He had to squeeze through cross-cuts, go up steep tunnels and climb four Mexican mine ladders mere poles with notched footliolJs before he got out of the mine. Well, be got the piece to the surface. It weighed Just 420 pounds. He was laid up for three months, but tbe $30 was his medicine. What do you think of that. Whiskers:" Whiskers put a few more flrblocks on the fire and said not a single word. So the long wintry twilight in July was whiled away. Under the warm blankets spread on the sleep-Inducing boughs we listened to the wind whistling, well nigh shrieking, through the trees. So bright shone the moon that the canvas covering barely dimmed its mellow light. The waters sent up a restful roar, through which when air current shifted the high-falling cascades made softer sounds. But into that night came no sound of rude-trafficked life, no human discord. While cities afar off slept in the darkness that comes before the dawn the daylight crept over the white-capped ranges, and soon the sun was lifting the mists from the valleys and sotting diamonds in tho crystal snow. Geo. A. Madden. THE MONETARY CONFERENCE. The Monetary Commission appointed by the President could not be surpassed in this or any other country. New York Commercial Advertiser. The monetary conference will attract at tention to monetary questions and educate public opinion. It may suggest a plan from which a later conference will extract prac tical results. Baltimore Sun. The five men appointed to represent this country at the conference are well known students of financial problems and will at tack an unsatisfactory question with ability if not with assurance of success. Buffalo En quirer. Geographical sections, political opinions and business interests have received careful consideration at the hauds of President Har rison in the appointment. The commission is one that will command respect at home and abroad. New York Tribune. It the conference does nothing to help forward the solution of the silver problem it will at least show that the .Republican Ad ministration which called it into being did its own part toward bringing tho solution about. St. Louis Globe Democrat. President Habrison has appointed five ex perienced and well informed men to repre sent tbe United States at the approaching International Monetary Conference. A com mission better fitted for the duties imposed could not have been chosen. Brooklyn Eagle. The International Commission appointed by President Harrison are very happily chosen. While they represent different politi cal parties and different pbases of the silver question, they are all able advocates of American ideas and interests. lndtanapoUs Journal. All shades of intelligent opinion on ques tions of finance and currency are fairly re presented In the members of the Interna tional Monetary Conference. Whatever may be tbe outcome, the distinctively American side of the currency question is certain to be clearly and cogently set forth in the pro ceedings. PhUadelphla Record. Envied by a Lot. Washington Post. For a man who is not supposed to ride on . Q....U J-ahm..h MtanaMAM t (AU ICO fflfUUt mUSHJI UU1JJMH WIIPHW " keep vary cool these days. CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. One person in every nine is lefthanded. Quakers are said to bo- unusually long lived. There are nearly 270 religions In tha United Kingdom. Spaia has fewer daily papers than any other European country. Malhear county-, in the State of Ore gon, has a petrified, forest. Express trains in Eussia rarely travel faster than 22 miles an hour. Iowa is named lrom the river of that name, the river from tbe Ioway Indians. According to Edison but very few peo ple know tbe sound of their own voices. It is estimated that nearly 20,000,000 is spent in America yearly in advertising. Gilding with gold leaf was done first by Margaritone, an Italian, in (the year 1273. In Great Britain- the yearly loss in wages throulrn ill health is about $35,000,000. The alphabet was first brought into Greece from Phcsnlcla 1,433 years before Christ. A brain specialist says that nearly a Suarter of all the cases of insanity are here itary. Curious to note, clergymen come next in number to mechanics under the head of in ventors. Expedition Island, off the coast of Australia, has mysteriously disappeared from view. John is said to have written the Gospel which bears his name at 60, andthe Book of Kevelatloirs at 95. The "History of the Eeformation in Scotland," by John Knox, was published wnen tne autuor was ia. Goethe published his "Die Leiden des Jungen Werther" at 25, tbe "Wilhelm Melster" at 46, and the "Faust" at 56. Alabama is named from an ancient Indian tribe of the Mississippi Valley. The name itself signifies "here we rest." The baby clothes made by lira, John Adams for her son, John Quincy Adams, will be exhibited at the World's Fair. An ice yacht has traveled a mile in lm. 10s., a running horse in lm.358., a torpedo boat in lm. 60s., a steam yacht in 2m. 123. A quarter of each generation die before attaining the age of 17, but a man S2 years of age may expect to live for another 32. Portsmouth, N. H., bears the proud distinction as the plaoe where tbe first news paper was established in this country. This was In 1756 Ohio takes its name from the river on the southern boundary. The word Is from the Wyandotte Indian dialect, "O-he-zah," and means "something great."' Samples oi tea grown and cared at Summerville, S. C, have been received in Baltimore, which expert dealers have pronounced superior to East India tea. Four men in every six use tobacco. A medical man in Vienna asserts that diph theria is thrice as prevalent among smokers as those who deny themselves the luxury of the weed. A sow on a Kentucky farm recently gave birth to nine pigs, of which one was born with only three legs, while the right forefoot of another is that of a dog with sharp claws. Thirty-five millions of people die everj year few of these from old age. In a doc tor's opinion nearly as many peODle shorten . their career by over eating as from exces sive drinking. Few blue-eyed people are said to be col-l or-bllnd. Women as a rule have better eye-l sight than men, but, on the other hand, three I women have lalse teeth to every two men.' who wear tnem. A New Yorker has made a clock from 34,000 pieces of wood, comprising over 300 varieties. For 16 years he has bad sailors bringing him rare woods from every quar ter of the globe. There are fonr times as many words in our language as there are in the French, yet a philologist estimates that tbe coinage of new words In our tongue goes on at the rata or lou annually. It may surprise many people to learn that there are in-the United Kingdom nearly 4,000 miles of inland navigation, upon which, on an average, 38,000,000 tons of goods aro carried in the course of a. year. Three hundred thousand, people in Europe suffer from blindness. Spain ap pears to be tbe greatest sufferer in this re spect. An oculist says that scarcely one in 20 of watchmakers suffers from weak eyes. Seals, when basking, place one of their number on guard to giver the alarm in case of danger. The signal Is a quick clap of tbe nippers on a rock. Rabbits signal with their iorepaws, and have tegular signals and calls. The self-registering thermometer that was left at the Mount Washington signal station last autumn when tbe station was closed showed on opening this year that the temperature last winter went to 49 below zero. Colonel Powell, of the United States Army, is authority for the statement that among the Cheyennes a man is never per mitted to speak to his mother-in-law except through the intermediation of a third person. A curious superstition prevails in Nor way. When people are in quest of a drowned body they row to and fro with a rooster in the boat, fully expecting that the bird will crow when the boat reaches the spot wheio the corpse lies. A citizen of Southport, Conn., was ar rested lately at Fairfield for "vain sport and recreation by then and there riding about said town upon a certain vehicle, known as a bicycle, to the great disturbance of tho good people of the State." " The largest school of porpoises ever seen in Long Island Sound appeared offi Koton Point on Wednesday night. Hun dreds of people watched them gambol within 500 leet of the shore. They drove all tho bathers out of the water. The British chancellor of the exchequer acknowledges the receipt of one-hal f of a flva pound note from a conscience-stricken man who cbeated the government in the matter or income tax, and who, perhaps, retained the other ball as his receipt. Caffeine, the active principle of coffee, has recently been recommended as an excel lent local anassthetic, and is said may, fpr many purposes at least, advantageously replace cocaine, tbe use of which is not alto gether liked by many medical men. The State-line monument, standing on the shore of Lake Michigan, marking tho boundary line between Indiana and Illinois, was erected by the Government in 1833. Is is of soft limestone, and so worn by the elements that part of the inscription U illegible. JOLLTISMS FROM JUDGE: Anxious mamma "Where is Miss Ethelf Mald-Yott'll And her anting on the sand at the beach, ma'am. Anxious raamma-I hope she hasn't ventured into the snrf f . Maid-No fear of that, ma'am. She put ou Mr SnndaT Dathlng suit. ' Though much was said in his behalf, By graveyard poet shriven; I donht much If his epitaph Will get him Into heaven. He (ot New York) Can I get yon some refreshments? She (of Boston)-I don't think you can. I saw some college football men here this evening. THE S. O. "In summer time the bitter tears. Adown onr cheeks do trickle Because we find the oharmlng dears We love so much are nckle. Bat when the world grows cold and dark. With wintry skies above It, We do not mourn the quenched spark In truth, we're darn glad of It, Miss Plypp don't believe that s woman should marry ber opposite. Miss Trlvvet-Bon't youT JIlss Flvpp-No. I don't. Do you suppose I eould be happy with a man who possesses neither beautr nor mental attainments? Although It's all the rage just now, In getting In be Humble; Too find, unless you know Just how. You're apt to take a ramble. "There's my train!" exclaimed tha Sub urbanite after swallowing a mouthful of hot coffee. Why. you aever catch the 7:10, James." "No; but if I start for it I f eneraily get ths fcOJ, and I don't want tab late this morning." Aa4 moment later he was running for dear Ufa. 0- - hJ. .- B Kstetssmasivsff: -. - v & JjjJBBiy.fflifSifcyiSgaw 'y?F'iRIBRMlLLwlBLyqigffPf. BBLLsLlsisisisisiVLLIsBLsastlVsWi sffaM -Kmite3mtoltHKKBfJBKHtKKKtMflE
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