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GLADSTONE PKEM1EB AGAIN.
The British Parliament yesterday
reached a division on the amendment to
the Queen's speech, as had been expected.
The vote of "no confidence" in the Tory
Ministry was supported by exactly the
majority which had been estimated as
backing Mr. Gladstone by including both
the Parnellite and anti-Parnellite croups
of the Irish members. This indicates that
so far the Irish party, in spite of its inter
nal divisions, has been a unit in support
ing the Liberal leader, and that he is to be
given an opportunity to formulate and in
troduce a home rule measure.
Whether or not captious criticism will
be indulged in on the details of the bill
when introduced is quite another ques
tion. But if it be, the loss will be Ire
land's and the Irish members will be re
sponsible for the indefinite postponement
of the satisfaction of their country's de
mands. They have now an opportunity
whose recurrence will be distant.indeed if
they fail to make a united use of it In
the meantime Salisbury and his Cabinet
officers resign, while Gladstone will set
about the construction of a Ministry after
his return from seeing the Queen at Os
borne. The probability is thsft Parlia
ment will very soon adjourn, and that the
real difficulties of thenew government will
only become apparent when it gets down
to constructive work at the opening of the
new session.
NATAL SUrERSTTTTON- DEFIED.
Yesterday brought a big celebration to
Boston, when Cruiser No. 11 was chris
tened the Marblehead and given to the sea.
The new navy is the richer by another
well-equipped vessel, and each addition
marks a step in our advance toward a
naval power coramensnrate with our im
portance among the nations. Contrary to
expectation, naval superstition gave way
and the christening ceremonial was per
formed by a wedded woman in opposition
to all precedent. And now the observ
ance even of naval superstition is proven
as inconsistent as all other modern earthly
things.
A tradition has been violated, and a
superstition defied, and it remains to be
seen what will result to the new cruiser.
Probably its career will be as unmarked
by mishaps or just as checkered as it
would have been if the launching had
been conducted in the orthodox fashion,
by the breaking of the champagne bottle
in the bands of a maiden. But there is
one direction in which the disregard of
naval customs may turn out a real prac
tical evil. It is just possible that it may
add to the difficulty of obtaining seamen
for the new vessel. This, however, is
already so hard a matter to deal with satis
factorily for the navy as a whole that any
triflingadditional obstacle is hardly worthy
of note
NOT QUITE SO HARMLESS.
"When capitalists organize they do not
try to scare off their rivals by calling
names and throwing brickbats. They in
vite the rivals into the combine and form
a trust which can fear nothing from the
outside," remarks the New Tork Herald,
from which it proceeds to deduce some
good advice to the workingmen about the
inadvisibility of trying to shut out non
union men from employment
But the esteemed Herald shows a very
slight comprehension of the facts by ig
noring what the combination capitalists
do when some Independent competitor
refuses to come into the pool and com
mits the offense of trying to do business
by honest competition. The fact is that
the combination then tries to kill off the
competitor, in a business sense, as effectu
ally as any union would do with a non
union man who tries to go to work. The
combination, whether railway pool or in
dustrial trust, attacks the Independent
competitor by cutting rates or prices, and
wages a systematic war by harassing him,
all for the avowed purpose of making
competition so disastrous as to drive the
competitor into submission to the pool.
After such fights have attained their
purpose the combination magnates appear
before the next legislative committee and
solemnly refer to their self -chosen methods
of suppressing combination as an illustra
tion of the disastrous effects of com
petition. SHORT OF HIS THEORIES.
Mr. Walter Besant's recent paper on
"Literature as a Career" presents the usual
illustration of a leader in a profession
bewailing the insufficient returns from it.
It is so common to find doctors, lawyers,
writers and statesmen not to say poli
ticians declaring that the income from
their work does not equal its value that
another case of that sort need hardly
arouse surprise, nut air. Besant's ap
pearance in ihat character has some
especial features which call for comment
This leading author's indictment of so
ciety's attitude toward authors may be
summed up as consisting of two counts.
First, the author cannot become a peer;
second, he is not paid all that he should
be. Of course Mr. Besant does not put it
so boldly as that He amplifies his case
under the general head that, while brew
ers and contractors rise to the highest dig
nity, authors are looked down upon; and
that the publisher absorbs the profits of
book trade by taking the author's work on
his own terms. All of which states a consid
erable degree of undoubted and unques
tionable fact But it is rather singular to
find Mr. Besant in the role of complain
ant That gentleman's works more than
any other of the day have set forth the
beauty and nobility of rising above the
world's meretricious honors, and secur
ing base pelt It is true that the hero and
heroine aje nearly always left in the en
joyment of more or less unlimited means;
but that is only after they have earned
the reward by higher aims. Tet so pow
erful are these measures of worldly suc
cess that Mr. Besant, after teaching us
through half a dozen novels their empti
ness and falsity, discards his theory in
writing of his own -nrt and proceeds to
measure it by the standards of title and
monetary proceeds.
Apart from the consideration that when
we review the general average of current
literature we find that the ordinary au
thor is treated mercifully in that he is not
set to hard work on the roads, the literary
profession is beyond the ordinary stand
ards. The really successful literary man
is he who has something which he must
say and knows how to say it It Is pleas
ant when his saying it leads to recognition
and income as in Mr. Besant's case. But
tliat is not an essential point The real
writer writes because he must free his
mind of its conception, and when that is
done the principal purpose of the writing
is attained. The reward and honor which
should rollow good work are subsidiary re
sults of which the more the better.
So that Mr. Besant's advice against
adopting literature as a profession is good,
although his reasons are earthy. The idea
of making a profession of literature and
grinding out books as a lawyer grinds out
briefs should be ranked as a misdemeanor.
True literary work must be inspirational
and not professional. While we may
hardly hope that this rule will be univer
sally observed, its partial recognition
might decrease the plethora of mediocre
and ill-paid literary work.
PROTECTION NOT PANIC.
The dangers of epidemics are rather in
creased than diminished by any tenflency
toward exaggeration in reporting them
likely to be productive of unnecessary
fear. But there is a vast difference be
tween panic-breeding and advice for the
adoption of all proper precautions. That
the time is ripe for a stricter enforcement
of quarantine and other hygienic rules of
life thin is usual is evident from the con
dition of affairs in various parts of this
country, and the epidemics of cholera
prevalent in large areas of Europe and
Asia.
Smallpox appears to be spreading In
New Tork, a disease closely resembling
cholera has made Its appearance with
many fatalities in New Jersey, and yellow
fever has been found aboard vessels on
the coast of Florida. The moral is ob
vious, great efforts must be takeirto de
tect cases of contagious diseases and
isolate them where detected. And scru
pulous cleanliness, that simplest and most
powerful of all preventives, is to be
encouraged and insisted upon in every
way at all places and under all circum
stances. The use of disinfectants cannot
be too largely indulged in, and railroads
and public conveyances should be
especially lavish in the adoption of such
protections.
TENNESSEE TO BLAME.
Tennessee lias a Governor that it is dis
pleased with, and the country as a whole
sympathizes with the unfortunate State.
But outsiders can see more clearly than
citizens of the State are willing to admit
that they are themselves directly re
sponsible for the election of their Gov
ernor. The courts of Tennessee had been
congratulated for the decisive manner in
which they sentenced to death and con
firmed the sentence of a man indisputably
guiltv of a cowardly and indefensible
murder. They had been congratulated
because in many regions and not least
in'that State the bare performance of a
duty is nowadays considered matter for
commendation. But the courts and their
awards are set aside by the legal though
ill-advised exercise of the Governor's
pardoning power.
Colonel H. Clay King was a man of
feeble character, whose own actions and
speech gave another the power of casting
aspirations on the honor of Mrs. King.
And this other was shot down in cold
blood in broad daylight on a crowded
thoroughfare that an offense due to the
murderer's own criminal folly might be
wiped out in the blood of a brutal assassina
tion. Justice had doomed King to hang,
and nothing but the Governor's com
mutation of sentence could save his life.
And the Governor was weak enough to
exercise his power, to override the verdict
of the courts and save the life of a worth
less criminal human being. And to mark
their displeasure with the Governorwbom
they helped to elect the citizens of Memphis
threatened to lynch the prisoner. And
thereby they showed how such a Governor
was elected, and by their lawlessness
added to the disrespect for law which the
Governor's sentimentalism and regard for
class distinctions had produced by a legal
but Inequitable performance.
THE BANANA AS A FOOD PRODUCT.
It is interesting to recall an assertion of
Alexander Von Humboldt, after examin
ing the capabilities of the banana, that a
single section of Central America could
feed the world with a farinacious food not
inferior in nutritive quality to the best
grains. This statement is recalled by the
report that bananas are now being made
into flour and shipped to this country and
Europe. The statement of Von Hum
boldt was hardly in accordance with scien
tific economy, Inasmuch as an enlarge
ment of the food supply of the world
means an enlargement of its capacity to
sustain population. If the banana can
double or quadruple the marketable food
supply in simply doubles or quadruples
the population. The only limit of popu
lation in the world is the limit of the ca
pacity of the globe for feeding and cloth
ing the race.
There is little fear, therefore, that
banana fiour,although it is asserted to make
excellent bread and cakes, will ever dis
place wheat and flour.
The Anglo-Saxon
race at least will always have a preference
for wheat, or rye flour, or oatmeal as its
staff of life, no matter how much the
tropical races may enjoy the banana.
That new epidemic near New Bruns
wick, N. J., with symptoms like cholera,
and described by one or the attending rjhvsi-
cians as a violent form of dysentry, gives
such evidence of severity and contagion as
Indicates tee necessity for a speedy and ex
haustive inquiry with a view to the adop
tion of repressive measures to prevent its
f urther spread.
All the improvements and internal
alterations of the offices in the Union station
augur ill for Pittsburg's chances of a new
and better erection in the near future.
The extremely business-like manner in
which the Sundry Civil bill was Iramed is
shown by the inconvenience caused in the
Postofflce Department by tbe omission ot
any item of $5,000 supposed to be Included
to provide for the assortment or several
millions of paid money orders, without
which postmasters' accounts cannot be
audited.
The American navy has another cruiser
now that the Marblehead has been launched.
It will soon be necessary to obtain more sea
men at this rate of progress.
One cablegram describes Chamberlain as
having appeared In the House of Commons
yesterday with an orchid in his coat In addi
tion to his usual apparel. Bat the orchid
inevitably makes its appearance in Joseph's
adornment on great occasions, and is as in
separable from his personality as is bis real
eyeglass or his metapborical coat of many
colors.
Gladstone has a double chance to-day
to study Home Rule as practiced at OsDorne
ariU to persuade the Queen of its adaptabil
ity to tbe needs of Ireland.
If Tolb really think that he was legally
elected Governor of Alabama, he must seek
Ills remedy in tbe courts and should at once
suppress tbe lawlessness of mobs claiming
to be bis friends and threatening tbe lives
of election officers accused of fraud in re
turning Jones.
Bellamy might find Mars a more re
ceptive field for bis Utopian doctrines. Tbe
earth is too busy to pay much attention to
or experiment with them.
The discovery that the Bepublican nomi
nee for Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska is
ineligible by reason of bis lack of citizen
ship indicates that politicians thereabouts
care as little for the requirements of their
Constitution as did the gerrymandered of
Michigan.
Cleveland even had to write a letter
about Murderer King.- He seems to leave no
subject untouched, and to throw little light
on any of them.
The severity of discipline in the German
army may be j udged from the drowning of
seven men ordered to go out of their depth
while bathing by a preceptor ,who believed
they could swim. They died without a pro
test and made no sign that they were drown
ing. All obstacles between manufacturers
and the Amalgamated Association having
been scaled, work may proceed at once.
Dameosch while conducting a concert in
Madison Square Garden obtained silence by
rebuking his audience for their noisiness.
His nerve and its success will be admired
and commended by all who attend concerts
in order to enjoy tbe music
When the reservoir basins of Allegheny
have been washed, some attempt might be
made to clean the water supply.
Hill has evidently been wronged when
longing for office has been asoribed as his
ruling motive. From his stubborn implaca
bility it is clear tbat be is actuated rather
by a craving lor notoriety than anything
else.
Faemers are inclined to believe that a
little grasshopper goes a long way in the
destruction of his crops.
Sheriff McCormick has dispatched
twelve citizens of Fayette county, armed
with Winchesters, to arrest the Cooley gang.
He is evidently not over foud of violent ex
ercise himself.
It is understood that the expansion of the
straw hat brim is due to tbelormationof the
umbrella trust. -
Ten policemen were suspended by Chief
Brown yesterday. At this rate it will soon
he necessary to swear in deputies or special
constables to keep the regular police force
in order.
Speaking of the cold wave, "I am
aweary aweary, it comoth not, she said."
When Pittsburg really gets its street
signs, strangers -and even residents should
be able to find their way about with less
vexation of spirit and less lost of shoe
leather.
PEOPLE OP PROMINENCE.
, THB-yEarl of Hnntingdon is about to
'inarry-Miss Maud Wilson, a wealthy Austral
ian beauty. . '
Mrs. Somekville was 61 when her
"Mechanism of the Heavens" appearedjfrom
the Cambridge press.
The condition of M. De Giers, Russian
Minister of Foreign Affairs, who has teen ill
for a long time, shows much .improvement.
He will shortly depart for the Italian lakes.
The condition of Cardinal Lavigerie,
prominent in tbe movement for the extinc
tion of tbe African slave trade, is again very
precarious. His complaint is paralysis of the
tongue.
S. C Macdona, the new Conservative
M. P. from Rotherhithe, is officially de
scribed" tbus: "Was a clergyman of the
Church of England, Is a barrister; President
or the Kennel Club."
Edward C Spoffabd, who gave a li
brary ot 550 volumes to the West Point mess
and another of 00 volumes to tbe cruiser
New York, is a New Yorker about 37 years
of aire, interested in the shipping trade.
Sib, John Kichabd Somees Vine pre
sided at the farewell dinner given in
honor of Mr. E. J. Moffatt, the American
Deputy Consul General, in London. One
hundred guests were present, including
many prominet Englishmen and Americans.
Chables T. Caldwell, the nominee of
tbe Republican party for Congress in the
Fifth district of West Virginia, is a lawyer, a
preacher and a farmer. As Mr. Caldwell has
beou successful in three important callings,
he will doubtless make a good member of
Congress.
Mrs. Potter Palmer, president of the
Board of Lady Managers of the Chicago Ex
position, will spend the months of August
and September on the upper St. Regis Lake,
in the Adirondacks, having rented there
"Camp Elslnore," the summer home of Mr.
and Mrs. Edward H. Coates, of Philadelphia.
Announcement is made of the engage
ment of Miss Louise Beccher, daughtei-wf
Eugene F. Beecher and grand-niece or Mrs.
Harilot Beecher Stowe and tbe late Henry
Ward Beecber, to W. E. Chancellor. Miss
Beecher is a tall, handsome blonde of about
2L Mr. Chancellor is a teacher in the Pratt
Institute, Brooklyn.
JOHN BULL AND M'KINLET.
The English Foreign Office Has Not Re
monstrated Against the Tariff Act.
Loudon, Aug. 1L In tbe House or Com
mons to-day Mr. J. Lowtber, Parliamentary
Secretary of tho Foreign jOtfice, said
that the Government bad made no
representations or remonstrances to
the United States Government con
cerning the McKinley tariff bill. No
communications had been received at the
Forelan Office at Washington relating to the
alleged interviews on the subject.
j.iio Ah. jiuu. oil uuuu uurst, financial
Secretary to the Treasury, stated that no
loan had yet been advanced to British Co
lumbia. The object or the loan referrod to
by Sir John is to aid in paying for tho pro
posed fortifications and other defenses to be
constructed at Victoria, B. C.
VENEZUELA. EEBEL8 OBDTJBATE.
"Will Prevent Any Venezuela PresldenUl
Election Till They Take Caracas.
LA Guataba, Aug. 11. General Crospo is
now at Los Teqnes with his cavalry and
4,000 infantry. Generals Quintara and Vega
are co-operating again with what is lei t of
Mendoza's army, which is at Cua. Crespo
on August 1 foutrht and whipped Mendoza's
army between Victoria and Villa de Cura
and moved his own forces toward Caracas.
On August 3 his outposts, which had been
lor several days at Parapara, reoccupied
El Guayabo.
The revolutionary majority are firm in
their determination to prevent aPresidental
election unless Crespo'g army ocoupies tbe
capital, and they re 1 use to participate in the
sittings of CODgresi, thus preventing a quo
rum of either the Senate or the House.
A New Plate for Clanks.
'Washington Post.:
lr It be true tbat there are no people on
Mars, Jerry Simpsqn and Tom' Watson
might move their party up there and have
things all their own way.
ACROSS THE CONTINENT.
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"Now, boys, we've a tough long day's
trip before us. Get up, 'hustle your packs,
eat a quiok breakfast and .we'll reach the
foot of the mountain be lore tbe sun crawls
over tbe white caps yonder. I propose to
sleep at Marble Mount to-night." Thus al
most shouted tbe expert about, 4 a. m. His
word was law, and we were soon ready for
the tramp downward. The stout assistant
lashed the heavy bag of samples to his back,
the packers distributed tbe. bulky bundles
or blankets, overcoats and camp mat
tresses equally as possible according
to their strength, and we' were soon
plodding in Indian file through tho hard
snow on which the cold winds of the night
had woven a crust tbat crackled under foot
and on which pretty crystals shone like
star-shaped diamonds. The downward
Journey was made in an hour less time
than the climb a few days before. We slid
and fell toward timber line, and then over
the rooty, rocky, zig-zag pathway, clinging
to grass-tults, branches and boulders,
the tendcrfeet pained their limbs and
envied the strength or muscle and wind
possessed by the packers. We had rid
den up to the face or the granite wall where
the ropes were stretched, but we walked, or,
rather, scrambled from that point to the
cabin. "Then it was that the dangers or this
portion of the trail weie exposed. How a
horse could keep Its footing on that narrow,
loose-stoned, ravined ledge was past under
standing. I was perfectly satisfied to reach
the cabin afoot. If Shakespeare's Richard
had been on that trail he would not have
offered his kingdom for a horse.
A speedy mountaineer had been sent
ahead, and when we reached the cabin our
"coyuses" were neatly saddled with their
noses pointed toward civilization. Alter
carefully adjusting the packs on the intel
ligent beasts of burden and tightening the
girths we bade adieu to tho old cook and tbe
few miners and prospectors who had gath
ered from the locations above to see us off.
We knew the hard road we had to travel,
but there was more of it down bill and better
time could be made. Our schedule was to
reach the half-way cabin for dinner, the
night station by nighfail and it was carried
out.. I bad never ridden a horse before set
ting out on the expedition. In all we had
covered about 60 miles in the saddle. It was
a ratherrough riding lesson, but the puro
air, the shifting scene, the grand views in
lorest and from hill salved the stiff joints,
banished the sharp aches, and sleep came
quickly in tho tbatobed shack on the edge)
of the deep forest, whose giants cast long
shadows on two swift, cold and noisy snow
fed rivers. Beforo turning in an Indian was
sent six miles np stream to order two
Slwash canoos for 3:30 the next morning.
This Indian's name was Jim Aleck. On our
up journey he had been treated to a hand
ful of tobies, which he critically examined
and then exclaimed, "This make me close to
you." Thereafter ho was our friend.
"We breakfasted in the dawn at 3:30, and
were in the canoes at 4:30. Before embark
ing I went to where tbe little Indian pony
that bad carried me safely to and from the -mountains
was tethered. I caressed and
thanked him, and believed he understood
me, for he rubbed his nose on my shoulder,
whinnied and looked wistfully after me
when I disappeared down the steep bank
and deposited myself on a tufc of hay
amidships. The Siwash canoes of the Skagit
valley of Washington are reasonably safe
craft, and tbe Indians who man them are
skllltul navigators. Tbe canoes are hollowed
lrom tbe trunks of huge trees, round-bottomed,
high at prow and stern. They carry
from 1,000 to 3,000 pounds of freight. Our
party chartered two, one smaller than the
other, and distributedour persons and packs
accordingly. The moccasined, well-armed
half-breed knelt down in the stern and
with a short paddle sent the light-draught
craft out into the boiling blue.. We sat
down on tbe hay with our backs against tbe
packs, our limbs stretched straight out on
the bottom or the craft. Forty-eight miles
below we would strike tbe railroad. The
train left at 11:20 a. Jf. We covered the dis
tance in less than seven hours, with only
one paddle most of the time. And what a
memorable Journey! Rain poured down
from start to finish. The air was raw and
cold. Gumicoats were useless. When we
landed, stiff and soaked, we were a bedrag
gled, sorry-looking crowd.
But, as before, here too'the novelty of
the thing and the magnificence of tbe sur
roundings compensated for tbe danger and
the discomfort. Tbe Skagit is broad, deep,
blue, cold and swift. Snow-topped hills
kept us company nearly to our destination.
Thick forests, over which fantastic mists
hung and ont of which occasionally came
sound or ax, sloped dark and green upward
to tbe bare walls or the mountains. On
sandbars and gravelly points, in grassy,
shaded nooks on low-lying banks, the lonely
tepees or the Indians, sheltering a fat
squaw, nearly naked progeny and a lazy,
rum-loving Siwash, were seen. As we shot
past they yelled "Kle-hi-yah I" (How are
you t) the spelling is my own and waved
their dirty, red-hued arms and were soon
out of view. At intervals the roar of the
rapids on the riffles below came up to us.
Tbe canoes were skilllnlly guided through
tbe shallows, past the rocks and around the
sharp bends. Benumbed with tbe cold, wet
with the rain, we sat there without a mur
mur, chilled but charmed. Only one brief
stop was made at the half-way station, where
the liver ran slower and the hills began to
recede where the snow patches on the tim
bered sides grew smaller and at tbe feet of
which tbe ranchmen harvested goodly crops
from stumpy, but fiuitlul black-soiled fields.
"Good fishing? Yes, sir; in season. Only
netting now. But in the fall the river is
alive with salmon." This from a native of
the valley in our canoe in answer to a query.
"But it's no use lor a white man to attempt
to fish with a hook and line when there's a
Siwash around. He will pull them out as fast
as he pleases, but you wouldn't get a nibble.
Why this is a fact I can't explain. But I've
fished beside one, used bait out of his can,
saw him land the trout at will and got. nary
bite myself. The Siwash seems
to charm tbe salmon. When he
drops in his line he begins to whistle in a
peculiar key. He keeps up the rolling note
until be lands his fish and resumes it after
baiting again. It's singular, isn't it? But
it's a fact." I had been told the very same
story by a bright little boy who strolled with
me one night along the banks of the beauti
ful river. His father afterward corroborated.
The tbird narration led me to believe the
Btrange tale.
Wj reached the station that wet and cold
Saturday and entered ' tbe cars shiver
lug and rain-soaked. Not until nightfall did
we secure dry garments. But there were no
rheumatic twinges, tuffed noses, running
eyes or tickling throats as a reminder. Tbe
train we boarded was out of Victoria, B. C.
The smallpox raged there, and quarantine
had been established. Ere Seattle was
reached I submitted to attempted vaccina
tion from ,a doctor who was evidently mak
ing bay while the sun shone. 1 had gone
through the same ordeal once beiore on a
quarantined train on the Canada side of
Niagara Falls. It took then, but this time
the scratch didn't raise a blister. I don't
believe tbe points were loaded. But the
Seattle doctor got his dollar just tbe same.
Geo. a. Maddsx
A LIBBASY SENATE FOBBED.
Leading Librarians Organize a Sort of
.American Academy of Book-Keepers.
Albakt, N. Y., Aug. II. The American
Library Association, comprising 300 or 409 of
the leading librarians of the country, has
established, under tbe name of tbe A. L. A.
Council, a kind or library senate, which is
really among American librarians what the
French Academy is among French scholars.
The general association elected by written
Ballot whom they esteemed the ten leading
librarians or the country. These, in turn, in
like manner, enlarged their number to make
the council number 20. Each member serves
for five yoars. Tbe body has important ad
'visory powers, and it is expected that the
smaller body, being more manageable, will
be able to hold more frequent meetings and
to undertake certain Important library
work which wonld be impracticable for tbe
general association with Its hundreds of
members,
A DAMP GALA DAT.'
Little Chantauquans In Session at aBflmlo
National Congress.
Chautauqua, Ang. 11. Special This was
about the wettest "gala day" Chautauqua
has ever seen. Notwithstanding it rained
in torrents all last night and muoh of to-day,
fully 2,000 excursionists came to assist in
celebrating the Sunday School Alumni Re
union. One excursion of over 1,500 came in
over the Erie from Pennsylvania. This was
under tbe auspices of the Elpworth League,
of Franklin, and there were excursionists
from Warren, Corry, MeadvUle and numer
ous other points.
This is one of the largest parties ever
brought to Chautauqua. It required two
steamers to bring them from Lakewood to
Chautauqua. There Here more people in
Chautauqua to-day than ever before
in its history, and the crowd would un
doubtedly have been greater had the
weather been better. But the sun came out
this afternoon, and everybody had a good
time.
As it rained at noon Jerusalem was filled
with people eating lunches, and all other
covered places were taken advantage of by
tbe visitors.
At 9 o'clock the Woman's CInb discussed
the public schools, and all tbe reasonable re
forms ever proposd were advocated by
some one of the members. '
At 11 o'clock one or the greatest features
of the season was given a public session of
the Boys' Congress. Little tellows not yet
In their teens arose, and with great deliber
ation, discussed the leading questions of the
dny with as much apparent wisdom as was
shown by tho late Democratic Hou-e. The
tariff and labor issues were, of course, favor
ite themes with the young statesmen, and
they aired their views with great earnest
nest. One of the youngest of the able statesmen
was Senator Morton, a Virginia lad of not
more than 13 years. He quoted Patrick
Henry and other American saints. When
in the heat of bis address he said with great
eloquence, "Let us see to it that our feet
may be gnlded aright in the future by the
experiences of the past," a great body or the
audience applauded, though some wero ir
roverent enough to laugh; but tho youthful
oiator stuck to his text and finisbed in a
blaze of glory.
Tbe concert this afternoon was equal in
all its details to any or the series given by
the distinguished artists now here. Marie
Decca was to have sung, but illness pre
vented her being here. Though the audi
ence was somewhat disappointed, as Miss
Decca is a favorite here, yet the programme
was such as to please all.
Bishop J. M. Thoburn gave an interesting
missionary address on India this morning,
giving some statistics and valuable tiacts
about the work. This evening Dr. J. L.
Hurlbut led a platform meeting ot the Sun
day School Alumni and made an address on
tho value of Sunday school work. Others
made short addresses. ,
In'the Dull game to-day Captain Stage's
men slaughtered the Cochran t no,. Pa., team
24to4.
The illuminated fleet, the finest spectacu
lar event or the Chautauqua season, was
spoiled on account of tbe heaw rain, which
has lasted all tbe evening. The boats were
elegantly decorated, but the grand effect
was completely lost.
MRS. FILLHOBE 105 TO-H0EKOW,
Anniversary of the Birthday or a Consln
of an Ex-President.
Clabenoe, N. T., Aug. 11 Special. Mrs.
Lavinla Fillmore, relict of Rev. Glezen Fill
more, and a cousin of Millard Fillmore, a
former President of the United States who
died in 1874, will be 105 years old on Saturday.
There will be no birthday celebration this
year, but her relations and nearest friends
will call to pay their respects to the old
lady. The omission to have a public obser
vance of the anniversary is due to Mrs Fill
more's wish. When her centennial celebra
tion occurred she said that she did not like
to have so many strange people gaze at her
through curiosity, and since then there have
been no public birthday celebrations. Mrs.
Fillmore was living wben George Washing
ton was inaugurated President of the United
States. She was born In Waterbury, Conn.,
in 1787, and moved to New York State when
very young. She was a convert to Methodism
when 17 years old, and was married to Rev.
Mr. Fillmore when she was only 23. After
livJng here awhile the Fillmores removed to
Bunalo, and were there in 1812, when that
city was burned by the British. Mrs. Fill
moro tells a thrilling story about how she
and her husband were obliged to flee from
their home. She also remembers seeing tbe
tnrce xnayers nangeu lor murder in -Niagara
Square in that citv, in 1825.
Rev. Mr. Fillmore built the first church in
Buffalo, a small affair, 25 by 33 feet. He was
its pastor lor 14 years, and a presiding elder
for twice as long. He officiated at 209 wed
dings, and that wad quite a record in those
days. He died in 1875. Mrs. Fillmore bas
lived quietly oh her farm here since her bus-'
band's death. She has never ridden on a
railroad train, has never seen'the telegraph
or telephone in operation, and has evinced
no curiosity in these fruits of science, pre
ferring to live her last days amid the peace
ful surroundings or her quiet home. She is
not ignorant, however, ot the Improvements
which have been made in the world, for she
has been a constant newspaper reader. Her
Bible has been read and re-read until she
pretty nearly knows it by heart. So well
preserved, comparatively, is she, that her
neighbors thjuk she will live for many
ycai3.
EEIUEN 10 THE W0ELD.
The Pope Permits a Nan to Saver Her Con
nection With the Church.
Hartford, Aug. 11. Miss Lulu Wilcox,
formerly Sister Callista of the Sisters 'of
Mercy, of the Hartford diocese, who ran
away from tbe convent last March, has just
received, through Bishop McMahon, a dis
pensation from her religious vows granted
at Rome by tho Pope. Miss Wilcox is the
handsome nun who, by her flight from the
church, created consideiable talk last
spring. It was said at the time that she had
run away to Join an opera troupe. Her
relatives claimed that she had no Intention
of doing any such thinz, but her musical
taste and abilities lent color to the assertion.
Miss Wilcox is now in New Tort. She is
organist in a Catholic church, instructs on a
harp, and will enter a conversatory of music
in the fall. She is 34 years old, and has been
in tbe Church 15 years. On her mother's
birthday last March, she invited her mother
tqthe convent, doffed her saDle robes, and
walked out into the world in a street dress.
It la Intimated that one reason tbat led lior
to the step is that she has fallen heir to a
fortune. One of the vows a sister takes is
povorty, and had she remained a nun all
money left her would, at her death, have
gone to the church. Miss Wilcox's friends
say she is very happy :
She is as good a Catholic
in ner woriaiy me.
c as ever.
The Center of Attraction.
Boiton Herald.
Mr. Howells is unable to see how anybody
can love New York. He could if he were
running for President. All the Presidental
candidates yearn for New York.
DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE.
Colonel Louis Eaili, New Orleans.
Colonel Louis Bush, one of the most
prominent citizens of New Orleans, Is dead at
Palmyra. Mo. He wai 72 years old. and a native of
Assumption parish, Louisiana. He w?s promi
nent in politics before the war. He was a mem
ber of the Legislature and of the Constitu
tional Convention which took Louisiana out of
the Union. During the war he organized and led a
rerlment In tbe Confederate Army. He returned
toNew Orleans after peace and went into the sugar
business. He was elected to the Legislature In
3876, chosen Speaker, and was largely Instrumental
In ousdne the Republican government and install
ing the Democratic administration under Klcholls.
William Raymond.
"William Raymond, the well-known resi
dent of Point Breeze, died suddenly yesterday at
the advanced age of 94 years. Mr. ftaymond Is the
father of Mr. Carr, of Penn avenue, near Fifth,
the widow of William Carr, the late banker. The
funeral will take place to-morrow. The remains
will be bared In FrankUn Cemetery and the inter
ment will be private.
Obituary Notes.
Crnus Lawall, senior member or the drug firm
ofC. Lawall, Son & Co., ofEaston, oneofEaston'a
wealthiest and most prominent citizens, died
Wednesday aged 71 years.
Very Rev. A. Mandinx, C. M Superintendent
of the Sisters of Charity In the United States, died
yesterday at Mt. be. Joseph's College la Emmitts
burg, Md. He was 60 years old,
Helen Holman 'Habnet, a grandchild of
representative Holman. of Indiana, died yesterday
at Hamilton, Va. The child was a great lavorlte
with Sir. Holman, and he was deeply affected bv
.her death.
Rev. David CROW died at Falls City, Neb.,
Tuesday. He was born iu 182! at Emporium, Pa.,
and was graduated in 1811 at Allegheny College.
For 0 years he preached In New York State In the
Methodist itineracy. '
Daniel M. Zimmerman, of Philadelphia, Is
dead In Ponterlsno, Switzerland. Mr.Zlmmerman
was born In 183. He has been In the employ of
the Camden and Atlantic Hallroad as Secretary
and Treasurer for many years.
John G. Weaver, senior proprietor of the
Ocean House at Newport, died Wednesday aged 80.
He was largely kngwn throughout the United
States, having been one of the original proprietors
of the Ocean House and connected with It ever
lac, ,
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JEWELRY VS. FLOWERS.
Polite Society Decides In Favor of the Lat
ter as the Proper Gift for a Young
Woman Tho Carats Troubled by Those
on Matrimony Bound.
A florist asserts that the right thing in
gifts hereafter from a young man to tbe
young woman he loves, or even only ad
mires. Is to be flowers. To offer Jewelry Is
very bad form, and Is only exceeded in bad
taste by that displayed in the acceptance of
it. The only Jewelry a young woman sbould
receive from a man, except he be a very
near relative, is her engagement ring, and
then, on the eve or her wedding to him, the
regulation pendant, or, if tbe gentleman is
fortunate enough to have heirlooms of gems,
ho is perfectly privileged to put the Jewelry
case in her hands.
In the ordinary relations or genteel society
a man should offer only a book or flowers,
and a woman decline all else of a more pre
tentious nature. If she has a sweet tooth
she is at perfect liberty to take candy also.
But a self-respecting woman will wear no
man's rings, unless it is one typical of a
serious sentiment existing between them.
A woman cannot afford to put herself under
so great an obligation ns must exist after the
acceptance of diamonds, or emerald, orsuch
gems or value. .A book or a flower signifies
equally well the bon comaradie or good fel
lowship that exists, and women may deny it
or not, as they ciioose, but a course or gifts
costing great money imbues them with a
grasping, avaraclous spirit that Is as un
womanly as it is mean and nasty.
A young curate has had the embarrass
ment or rites "nring tho warm weather
by an unprecedented run or marriage
ceremonies, which be lias been called upon
to perform, in the general dearth of divines
in Pittsburg now. As many as three inter
esting couples visited him in one evening.
In fact, it became a mooted question if the
church wouldn't permit, under the present
state of the thermometer, a royal way out of
it all, by which the brides and grooms might
be grouped and married in a body. The
ignorance of aspirants to matrimony Is
alarming. One man said when he was asked
if he wonld have this woman to be his
wedded wile. "Wilt tbouT" continued the
clergymen. "Ah, yes," interrupted the
swain, and then it had to be gone all over
again, while the clerical countenance was
with difficulty smoothed out. Anotber man
imagined that tho duty or giving away tbe
bride lay with tbat fellow who was quick
enough to speak out first.
"I'll do it,1' he said, with the nir of a man
who was about to perform an eight-hour
Job. In another instance, a small partv, in
cluding a tiny lady, took possession of tho
parsonage parlor, and for a few seconds the
curate drifted between the Charybdis of a
christening and the Scylla or a wedding.
Then he saw an exceedingly haprjy man and
a warmly blushing young woman, and in a
firm, self-possessed voice he began the mar
riage ceremony. The baby was only an on
looker and not a "contracting party,"
Frank B. McQuiston, of the Commerctal
Oazette, and Ida L. Rankin, of Essen, Pa.,
were married yesterday morning at the resi
dence or the Eev. C. W. Wycoff, Bethel town
ship. After a reception tendered the young
couple at the residence of the groom's
parents in Beltzboover they left for a trip
through the West.
Social Chatter.
The Smithfield M. E. Church Sunday School
will have a picnio to-day at Idlewild.
Tjjkhis circles will welcome home Mr.
O'Hara Darlington, who returned from At
lantic City yesterday.
Mn. Biddle Arthurs, of Center avenue,
has gone to Sunbnry to bring home Mrs.
Arthurs, at present the guest of her father.
Miss Jennie Mabkell Btkrs. of New Cas
tle, was in Pittsburg this week visiting her
nnclc, W. G. Markell, Esq., of the East End.
The two sons of Mr. Schmertz, of Howe
street, Mr. Albert Schmertz and Mr. Edward
Schmertz, are now at the Brighton, Atlantic
City.
Miss Gertrude Poland, of Fortv-fourth
street, is enjoying the mountains of Western
Pennsylvania, where she expects to remain'
for a few weeks.
Mr. and Mrs. John A.Thomp30N will enter
tain at their Valley Camp cottage on Satur
day evening.the amusement taking tbe form
of a watermelon party.
Mrs. Edward Cass adat and Miss Kate Cas-
saday, of Center avenue, are home from the
East and Atlantic City, where they spent
the greater part of the summer.
Mn. Woods, cashier of tbe Liberty National
Bank, East End, will leave on Saturday to
join nis wiie nc Atlantic lacy, wnere jurs.
Woods has been staying for some time.
Mas! Vandeobift, of Hazelwood, and,
Miss Vandegrlft are at present' enjoying
Canadian travels, and expect in a few days"
to reach Chautauqua, homeward bound.
Miss Kathebine Hooo, or New Haven, Pa.,
a handsome young girl and a sister or Mrs.
Stewart Johnston, or Howe street. East End,
with Miss Hellen Fuller, of Uniontown,
were visiting Mrs. Johnston yesterday.
Several men, including Mr. Oliver Mc
Clintock, Mr. Willock, Mr. Phillip Ham
burger, Mr. Harvey Bishop. Mr. A. J. Barr
and Mr. Joseph T. Kevin have formed a stag
Earty to take in a number or Eastern water
lg places.
The Misses Anna and Clara Slebert, daugh
ters of Mr. John Siebert, or Penn' avenue,
left for the East yesterday to visit relatives
in Philadelphia. They expect to take in all
the principal -watering places before return
ing home, which will not be until early Sep
tember. Mb. and Mbs. Joseph Pniuira, a bride
aild bridegroom now of a year's standing,
are home from a summer outing at Flank's
Hotel, Ligonler, and are staying with Mrs.
Phillips' mother. .Mrs. Bown, of Negley ave
nue, who is a sister-in-law ot Mr. J. G. Ben
nett, or South Higland avenue.
Cablegrams from England on Tnesday an
nounced the safe arrival on Brit sit soil of
Mr. Frank Whitesell and his bride, who
was Miss Lillian B. Reed and who spent the
first stages of their honeymoon on board
tbe City or Paris, bound for Europe. Sev
eral mouths will certainly elapse before Mr.
and Mrs. Whitesell turn their steps home
ward. Mb. Bunting's cottage on Mlllvale avenue,
Bon Venue Place, was the scene yesterday
evening or tbe marriage of Miss Nettie
Bunting and Mr. W. Clark Daugherty, of
Jeannette. Pa. The weddlnr was very nn-
ostentations, and viewed by relatives and a
few friends only. Mr. Daugherty is a pros
pering young business man in the new town
and a great favorite, especially in the circle
in which his bride moved.
Tho Slan Made That Name.
St. Loots QIote-Democrat.1
Gladstone doesn't want to be called Lord
Liverpool or Lord anything else. William
E. Gladstone is a bigger name.
No Excuse for Holman.
Chicago Mall.l
Mr. Holman bas been 23 years in the House
of Representatives almost long enough to
have some sense.
GOLDEN GATE TO GOTHAM.
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The gold train parsed across General
James B. Weaver's State without a single
protest from tbat distinguished bedfellow of
silver. Washington Post.
Uncle Sam has now the snug sum of $111,
000,000 in the sub-Treasury, the gold train
having increased the treasure yesterday by
$20,000,000. He has no rears about his big
Thanksgiving turkey and his supply or
winter coal. New Yurk Recorder.
Fbom the sub-Treasury vaults in San Fran
cisco to the sub-Treasury vaults In New
York in less than 112 hours. Tho deed is one
to mark witn wonder and admiration and
with well-drserved plaudits for the actors
In tbe stlrring.drama New York Herald.
The shipment or $20,000,000 in gold from
California to New York Is a striking re
minder to the people of to-day that tbe
greatest gold-producing country tbe world
has ever known has not yet exbausted its
storehouse of treasures. Philadelphia Frets.
The trip of that treasure-train across the
continent makes the market reporters
smile. It isn't often they get a chance to
work a JokoWto their departments, and yet
every mother's son of them wrote "Money
moved easily," and thought of the train
running 60 miles an hour. Buffalo Expreu.
The $20,000,000 of gold sent from the San
Francisco-Mint to the sub-Treasury in New
York arrived safely yesterday. There is
now $141,000,000 in gold in tho vaults in Wall
street, an elegant sufficiency to silence the
Democratic carpers that there isn't enough
on hand for the business needs of the coun
try. OAio State Journal.
That $20,000,000 of gold passed safely
through Chicago, and its prompt arrival at
New York was tbus assured. There was an
impression in some quarters that the World's
Fair Committee would attach tbe moving
millions and play Illinois law against tbe
United States Government until tbat "half
a loaf " was handed over. Detroit Free frit.
CDRI0US CONDENSATIONS.
The Illinois militia has a bicycle corps.
The first horse railroad was built in
1S26.
It is believed China has 20 times as much
coal as all Europe.
Atlanta is to have a park for colored,
people exclusively.
A man in Salmon Palls, Mass., has
double teeth all around.
Sixty dollars is the yearly salary of the
Mayor of Sweet Springs, Mo.
One thousand and seventy-eight acres
constitute an orchard in Kansas.
Eight Indiana counties bear the names
of heroes or the battle of , Tippecanoe.
The name of Minnesota is from the
Indian Minisotah, meaning "colored water."
The cavalry brigade of the Salvation
Army has been disbanded by General Booth.
The name of a lake in Massachusetts Is
Chargoggagoggmanchaugggoggagungamaug
The Lick telescope magnifies 700 times,
and brings Mars to within a range of 50,000
miles.
Of the fires of 1891 64 per cent were
due to lamps and only 5 per cent to elec
tricity. The total value of matches made yearly
throughout the world represents a sum of
$185,000,000.
Carriages fitted np with electric lamps
were used by speakers during the late En
glish elections.
A medal won by De SotCythe discoverer
of the Mississippi river, will biexhibited at
tbe World's Fair. v
Rousseau wrote tbe "Emile"aVso, after
sending five of his own children the
foundling asylum. ,
Allen Milton Browning of Huntingdm
W. Va., .is 60 years old, has been married six
times and has 67 children.
The aggregate wealth of the United
States is placed at $63,648,000,000, and tbat or
Great Britain at $50,000,000,000.
The heat was so intense in Madrid
about a month ago that birds dropped from
the trees and died in the streets.
Probably the heaviest rudder on record
is tbat made forthe torpedo boat Vulcan.
It was forged in a single niece and weighs Si
tons.
Vermont was also a descriptive name,
being Tormed from two French words,
"verd" and "mont," meaning green moun
tains. A Mississippi man who brought suit
against a railroad company for the value of
a ticket which he bought and was unable to
use won his case.
Mineralogists now exploring Northern
Thibet claim to have discovered valuable
mines of gold and many varieties of the rich
est precious stones. (
A silver quarter dollar of 1827 is valued
at $40, while tbe issue or 1823 is worth $20.
Twenty-cent pieces of 1S77 and 1878 are
marketeable at $1 each.
It is stated that in the last six months
150 people have been killed by cars in Chi
cago, and 450 persons were permanently dis
abled from the same cause.
Joseph Colwell, of Birmingham, Conn,,
want3 a wire and offers to marry any good
looking girl who will make a balloon ascen
sion with him on August 13.
A man in New Orleans wore a card
with the word "Yes" on during the recent
hot spell, and, in consequenee, no one asked
him if it was hot enough for him. i
A Parisian meteorologist has written a
book of 300 pages to prove that the electric
ity of thunderstorms is caused by the Kric-
tion or rain drops on hail stones.
aennesEee is supposed to have bean
named from Tenas See, one of the chief vil
lages or the Cherokee Indian, which wis
located on the banks or the Tennessee rive
The most poweriul and heaviest gun ill
the world weighs 135 tons, is 40 feet in lengtl
and has a 13'-incli bore. Its range Us 11
miles, with a projectile weighing LS
pounds.
Colonel John B. Graham, of Dahlonesa;
Ga., received a check for $250 the other day
from a man to whom he had loaned the 4nm
over 40 years ago, and who now lives In Brit
ish Columbia.
Whatjis considered to bj one of the
greatesrarchrelogical discoveries In years
has been found near Lebanon, III., in the
shape of tf serpent mbund, 190 feet long and
10 leetthrOugh.
A Frenchman has invented an envelope
which exposes part of the letter to the
stamp tbat makes the postmark. Thus the
inclosure will bear official proof of the date
on which It was posted.
A rural pastor, in the north of Georgia,
has stuck up tbe following rather unusual
notice on the door of tbe meeting house:
"Keep politics out of tho church, unless the
preacher is running for coroner."
If all reports are true, Greenwood, Me.,
s the sportsman's paradise. Bears roam
around the edges of the village in the day
time, and at night tbe wolves keep up such
a howling that people are unable to sleep.
The beds of onyx in Arizona are ot
such vast extent tbat several carloads are
shipped dally from one mine. One mine is
said to represent an almost solid body of
tbe beautiful stone measuring one mile by a
mile and a bail in area.
A young man residing at Lavilla, Pla.,
has suffered a strange affliction within a few
months from a spinal trouble. He was for
merly five feet 11 inches tall, but is now only
four feet seven .inches high and much
changed in appearance.
The women of Hungary are erect, vig
orous, with fine figures, small feet, pretty
bands, rich complexions, and are said to be
among the most beautiful women in the
world. They aro fond of athletic sports,
and are especially graceful walkers.
MacrocyBtis, a seaweed of tbe South
Pacific, it is said, often grows tobe 30 or 40
Inches in diameter and 1,500 to 2,000 feet in
length. In no case do any of these have
roots in the proper sense, tbeirnourlshment
being absorbed from the water by ail parts
alike.
It is announced from Tunis that exca
vations are now being made in the famous
two-headed hill mentioned by Virgil, which
hill Is situated about eight miles from Tunis.
Many interesting remains have already been
nneartbed, and it Is confidently hoped that
better wiU follow.
A peculiar boycott is in progress at
Fargo, N. B. The business men of the town
have boycotted the Northern Pacific Rail
road because the company won' t build a new
station and botel there. They have Issued a
circular to air their business connections
asking them to ship their goods over other
lines.
POETICAL AND PIQUANT. ,,
A COOL IDEA.
'It may be fun to sit and broil
Beside a brawling stream
And see the fish you cannot catch 1
In sunlit waters gleam.
But I detest the tangling lines
And curse their snarly strands I
Iwanttojump right In the pool X
And catch fish with my hands.
iea Tork BeracSt
Back from the country to the town,
Back from the Tana where a week we spent.
With onr faces tanned to a deep, rich brown
And our pockets drained to their last red cent.
SeioZorkFru.
XXXFINQ UP THE AVXBAOE.
The sealskin sacque is put away,
The winter cloak's non est.
And now we see her stroU along
In blazer and In vest.
They do not cost her quite as much t
They're cheap because they're tbla.
But she will eTen things up wnen :
That hotel but comes In.
Cloai SeeUa.
"How to keep cool?" That is easy enoughf
Just follow one simple, short rule ,
Don't warm up your intellert reading the staff .'
Thai Is written oa "How to keep cool." '
-Emith, Oray JkCo.'t MmtMf. j
THE RHTHE WOULDN'T TIT,
"Mary had a little lamb,
With fleece as white as snow,"
Suppose the fleece had been Jet bUcr.
Or yellow as new towf
Suppose the fleece had been light green, j
Instead of "white as snowf '
Why. "everywhere thatMary went" i '
The Umblet couldn't go. ' &
-BrooVvn&it,!)
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