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TWELVE PAGES
TRYING TO hHTFT GROUND.
The correspondence between Senators
Gorman and Ransom on one side, and
Charles A! Dana on the other, by which
the latter is to write an extended article
on the allegad forco bill and the two
former are to push it as the issue of the
campaign, is the most modern example of
changing front in the middle of a fizht
The move is an undoubted indication that
the politicians inaugurating it have be
come convinced that their party will tight
a losing battle on the tariff question, and
are trying to switch it off to that bugaboo
of by-gone politics. It also contains the
interesting element of an attempt to shove
the Democratic Fresidental candidate
into the background and to give promin
ence to his most bitter Journalistic enemy.
It is possible that the latter motive has
really more influence than the former.
Nevertheless the move is anv empty
one, except as an indication of Democratic
division. That party has neverattempted
to shift its ground in a campaign without
suffering defeat for it The issue which
these managers wish to raise is largely an
imaginary one. There has been no "force
bill" in modern politics. There was a Fed
eral elections bill, two years ago, which
The Dispatch opposed as ill-judged and
impolitic; which was defeated by Repub
lican opposition, and which will not again
be made a party measure. The attempt
to fight the campaign on that supposed
issue may emphasize the Democratic di
visions; but it cannot have any especial
effect on the campaign.
Mesrs. Dana, Gorman and Ransom are
correct in supposing that the tariff fight
means failure for the Democracy; but that
is the issue of the campaign, made so by
the nomination of Cleveland, and only to
be settled by his decisive defeat
FARBIERS AND ROADS.
At the opening of the annual encamp
ment of agriculturists at Mt Gretna
yesterday the importance of improving
the country roads of the State was pointed
out Mr. J. B. Meyers, of Cumberland
county, called attention to the value of
the investigations made by The Dispatch,
and urged the encampment to give the
matter serious consideration. He indi
cated clearly that this question had a
more direct bearing on the prosperity of
the farmer than any of the much disputed
national political issues.
There haVbeen more than enough dis
cussion to demonstrate the wasteful folly
of allowing the present shiftless neglect
to continue. What Is wanted is united
effort to inaugurate reform, and once a
solid demand is made for a better state of
affairs the actual details of administration
will be comparatively easy to arrange.
Let this encampment start a campaign on
this issue and it will do the State an In
estimable service.
ONE POINT OMITTED.
Speaking of the political career of the
late Congressman Warwick, the Buffalo
Enquirer cites the following example of
that gentleman's political genius in the
famous campaign against McKinley:
His Inventive mind plannod the unique
tin-peddlers campaign. He sent a score of
ttagons loaded with tinware into every vil
lage of the Congressional district, where the
wares were offered for ale at an advance of
60 or even 100 per cent, as an illustration of
the efiect of the protective duty of the Mc
Kinley bitL His stump speeches were made
on the same novel lines. The result of his
aggressive fight was a majority of 302 over
Major McKinley.
This is well as far as It goes; but our
cotemporary omits one important fact
which aids largely in estimating the exact
value of this sort of "aggressive" politi
cal tactics. The Democratic Legislature
immediately preceding this election had
rcdistricted the State by a gerrymander,
one of the leading purposes of which was
to put Major McKinley in a Demo
cratic uisinci. me counties com
posing this district, in average po
litical years, were Democratic by about
1,500. In the campaign when the great
stroke of hiring tinware peddlers to
double their prices and lie about the Mc
Kinley bill was resorted to the Demo
cratic plurality was 302. In other words,
in 1890, the year of the general landslide,
Major McKinley cut down the Democratic
plurality in such a Republican year as
1888 by about 1,200.
Perhaps when our cotemporary absorbs
that fact it may perceive that the political
device of hiring tinware wagons to spread
lies about the tariff was not such a glitter
ing success after alL '
TROFITS FROM VICE.
The happy condition of Monaco under
the rule of its progressive Prince, who de
rives his revenue from keeping the gam
bling shop of Europe, Is .the most signal
illustration of fattening off the vices of
others. A generation ago Monaco was
one of the most tax-ridden and oppressed
principalities of Europe. Wood could not
be hewn, nor bread baked without the pay
ment of a tax. The infliction was so
great that the country districts revolted
and were annexed to Sardinia. Little was
left except the town of 3,000 in
habitants when the change came. Now
it has a properous population of 12,000.
Not only are they untaxed, but their wel
fare is looked after in a most careful man
ner. The exemplary Prince forbids his
subjects to gamble under heavy penalties.
No disorderly house is permitted in the
place. His sanitary arrangements are so
perfect that when cholera raged all around
4
it Monaco was untouched. This exem-
plary paternal government is wholly sup
ported by the revenues of the gambling
propensities of the rest of Europe,
The Prince of Monaco 1b the most signal
Illustration of the disposition to profit by
the vices of others while strictly eschew
ing them personally. But, while recog
nizing his pre-eminence In that respect,
we 'must not forget that there are very
signal examples of the same thing at
home. Some decidedly prominent cities
are very free in their toleration of com
mercial gambling for the revenue it yields
on the exchanges. They do not go the
length of the Prinfeo of Monaco in forbid
ding all their citizens to gamble on the ex
changes. But they are Very severe on
bucket shops, and It is universally under
stood to be very bad form to lose money
in speculation on the local exchange.
NOT THE CAUSE.
The purchase of all the potteries in
Trenton, New Jersey, by a syndicate at
tracts the attention of our free trade co-
temporary the Philadelphia Record. That
journal starts out by remarking that "the
duty on pottery is 55 per cent" It then
notes that a syndicate, having purchased
the works at $1,250,000, is capitalizing it
at $3,000,000. After repeating that the
dnty is 55 per cent, it continues that the
floaters of this capital expect to earn 33
per cent on their Investment It then
returns to the statement that the duty on
pottery is 55 per cent
Now if this collection of assertions
means anything It is that the 65 per cent
duty on pottery is responsible for the pur
chase of the Trenton potteries by a syndi
cate, their capitalization at 240 per cent
of their cash price, and the sustaining of
pottery prices by an agreement But, as
these are recent features of the
pottery trade, it becomes pertinent
to inquire when the 55 per cent
duty was levied. The Record' case
is not quite so rank an example as that
furnished by the New York World the day
previous, when it charged the McKinley
bill with raising the prices of wheat, flour,
beef, pork, bread and onions; but it cer
tainly produces an impression that this
pottery consolidation is produced by the
McKlnlybill.
The fact is that the 55 per cent rate on
pottery was enacted in 1883. Pottery was
protected by as high a rate before that
year, but was left unchanged by the Mc
Kinley act Will the esteemed Record
please explain why, If this consolidation
and emission of watered stock is due to
the tariff duty, it did not take place years
ago? Effects which follow a cause at so
very great a distance are in danger of
non-recognition.
The pottery purchase and the doubling
of stock are the regular features of the
fashionable combination policy. The ex
ample was set in an unprotected industry,
and it has been followed In a score of
others. Prominent among them is the
anthracite coal combine, for which the
Record has so warm an affection.
A NEW RECORD.
The Dispatch yesterday commented
on the performance of Nancy llinks in
trotting a mile in 2.-09 at Grand Rapids,
Mich., last week. The unfavorable circum
stances under which the time was made
were pointed out, and an expectation was
expressed that Maud S. might be de
throned "before the career of the
younger mare is ended, and probably be
fore the present rotting season is closed."
Yesterday afternoon Nancy Hanks
trotted a mile at Chicago on a regular
track in 2K)7 and robbed Maud S. of the
record held for seven years. It is notable,
too, that this is an out and out record, as
it beats Sunol's time on a kite-shaped
track. That all this should have happened
on the day The Dispatch called atten
tion to the merits of the new champion is
a singular coincidence worthy of a passing
notice.
A MONOPOLY IN FLOUR.
That California milling combination
which has just been formed has much
more of the possibilities of a monopoly
than the New York combination which
preceded it It controls all the mills of
modern appliances on the Pacific coast
It disavows the idea of being a "trust,"
the fact being tbat it is a union of all the
mills under a single corporation, the latest
and most approved organization of all the
trusts. Of course It does not intend to
raise prices. Oh, no. It is for "reduction
of operating expenses and the cost of
management, and the regulation of the
supply of flour to the demand," which is
the stereotyped periphrasis for what is ver
nacularly known as "squeezing the con
sumer." Not very long ago it was deemed im
possible that any combination should con
template the policy of making bread dear.
How rapidly we have advanced along the
road to placing all necessaries of life un
der the control of conscienceless combina
tions is sufficiently illustrated by the re-v
cent formation of two combinations one
,to sell stock under the pretext of
a flour monopoly, the other with
an evident view to the extortion
of advanced prices on that staple. The
New York combination is harmless to the
consumer, because the price of flour in
New York is fixed by the competition of
mills all over the country as far west as
Omaha and Minneapolis. The California
combination has it in its power to estab
lish at least a temporary levy on the price
of bread, and it needs no prophet to fore
tell that it will do so.
The check to such a combination's
power to levy extortion on. the people's
food is only In the ability to build new
mills, and the premium offered by high
prices for doing so. But one point sug
gests itself here. If the comDination is
able to get railroad rates, say five cents a
hundred cheaper on its wheat and the
same amount on its flour than are afforded
to its competitors, the new mills will be
sentenced to a slow and lingering death.
Where railroad competition exists such a
discrimination would be impossible. But
as the railroad business of California is
under the sway of a single corporation it
may turn out that the California flour
monopoly has a sure foundation. '
Extortion on tho price of bread was a
fruitful source of political trouble in
medieval times. It remains to be seen
what the American people will do about
an oppression against which the masses,
even in the Feudal Ages, were prompt to
revolt
The United States Treasury has shown
its ability to make gold payments by cash
ing a batch of notes tendered to the value of
a million dollars tendeied by a New Tork
banking firm. All that now remains to in
Bure universal satis ruction is a general dis
tribution of such notes.
Fayette county should bestir itself or
thegreward lor the capture of the Cooleys
may be secured by West Virginians.
It is reported that a torpedo station and
other defenses against any possible Invasion
of Washington are fo be established on the
Potomac. But it is understood that the pre
cautionary movement has no bearing on tho
Presidental or Congressional campaigns.
Pedestrians henceforth are to be pro-
Tided with-a. tTip of sidewalk, ton Liberty
street all olear and two yards vide.
Mb. FDXrrZER has contributed 10,000 to
the Democratic campaign rand for carry
Ids' the Western States, and Colonel Elliott
F. Shepard has offered I10.COO for the first J
$10,000 of those Columbian hair dollars. The
anxiety ot those New York editors to get rid
of their money is something phenomenal.
Two remarkable recoveries having taken
place at the Home for Incurables a change
of name for the institution la in rder.
Some Democrats wno seek to find an ex
cuse to support their party are making such
frantic and ludicrous efforts to relegate free
trade to obscurity that the bogle they setup
in its place as a campaign issue ought to be
known as the Farce bill.
Buffaxo, New York, appears anxious to
let the world know that it Is not extinct with
the rest of the speoles.
It will profit Cleveland little should he
save Democratlo votes In New York and lose
them throughout the country by acceding
to any demand that Hill shall be his Secre
tary of State if it so be that he should reach
the White Bouse. " N
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Gladstone Is a grand old statesman,
but even he cannot satisfy the demands ot
all who seek office.
A lady has received the People's party
nomination for the Attorney Generalship or
Montana. This party up there evidently has
lots of time and is unterrlfled by the pro
verbial length of a woman's argument
The grand parade is over, and the street
cars have the city to themselves once more.
Conferees in the Twenty-first district
should understand ,that there is a reason
able limit to the nicking and choosing of a
candidate, and get down to work and pick
tbat deadlock.
PrTTSBUEO will soon resume its custom
ary aspect as a study in black and gray.
It begins to lookas though some members
or the party believe that the Democratic
Convention meant to nominate Dana and
only named Cleveland by mistake.
Next to an electric fan comes the brass
band as a stirrer up of the atmosphere.
There were reports of another revolu
tionary uprising on the Mexican frontier.
But military, investigation again decides
tbat Garza is not to be found.
The coal wave is showing signs of in
constancy. SUCH Is the rapidity of international
arbitration that it is positively possible that
the Bering Sea question may be settled be
fore the next sealing season.
Pittsburg
property.
is rich, even in. untaxed
PrrrsBURG crowds have a way of show
ing their admiration for a procession by try
ing to get near enough to it to interfere
with its progress.
The length of the dog days Is getting
cur-tailed.
PEOPLE OP PROMINENCE.
)
President Gompers, of the American
Federation of Labor, leceives more than 100
letters per day. He owns a capacious waste
basket.
Sccci, the fatter, is insane, and now in an
asylum near Paris. His delusion has taken
the form of a belief tbat he is Ctesarand
Napoleon in one.
These is a bookworm on the New York
police force, John R. Keeling, who is on duty
in Cooper Union. He devotes much of his
time to the historical works.
Louis G. Brennan, the Irish-Australian
who refused an offer of $50, COO from Russia
for his famous torpedo, in order to sell it to
England for $550,000, has been made a Com
panion of the Bath by Queen Victoria.,
Prince Bismarck, who has just been
made an honorary member of the "Hann
overia" tho students' "corps" to which he
belonged while at Goettingen, has sent a
cordial letter of thanks for the honor done
him.
Henry Pettitt, the noted English
playwright, once wagered a man that he
would in seven days write, rehearse and
produce a play which would take an hour to
act. He not onlv achieved this, but the
play was a distinct success.
John Sartain, artist and engraver on,
steel, was one ot the most interesting char
acters drawn to the capital by the National
Art Congi ess. Born in 108, he is now in his
80th year, yet has the spirit of a boy and
walks with the elasticity ot half his age.
Queen Liliuokalani, of the Sandwich
Islands, is an earnest patron of temperance
reform. She pays the license fee for a coffee
house opened in her capital city by the
Women's Temperance Union, and has ban
ished.wine and spiritous liquors from her
table and receptions.
Marquis Guiccioli, the new Italian
Ambassador at Berlin, is a grandnephew of
the beautiful Countess Guiccioli, whom
Byron loved and who proved to be the last
ot the English bard's romantic conquests.
The Marquis was formerly Mayor of Rome,
and Is said to have inherited a fair share of
his great aunt's good looks.
MILITAEY VERSUS CIVIL LAW.
An English Officer Was, Once Hanged for
Causing n Mutineer's Death.
Once upon a time, about a hundred years
ago, there was a colonel in the English army
whose name was Wall: and Open Court says
it was his unlucky destiny to be governor
and military commandant of one of the
British West India Islands. During bis ad
ministration a mutiny broko out, which he
vigorously suppressed. Having conquered
the rebellion he arrested one of tho mut
inoers on the parade ground in front of the
barracks and ordered him to bo tried im
mediately by a drum-head court martial
The court met, the prisoner being within
sight of it but not near enough to hear the
teitimony. He was found guilty and sen
tenced to be flogged. Governor Wall ap
proved the sentence and the man died under
the flogglnjrr
When the news reached England Governor
Wall was indicted for murder. He evaded 1
arrest and made his way to Prance, where
he lived for about 20 years, and then, think
ing that the affair was forgotten, he re
turned to England. He was atonce arrested
and biought to trial, where his fate rested
on the following critical issue: Was or was
not the mutineer present- before the court
martialt On this point the Judges In
structed the Jury that if the prisoner
was not near enough td hear tho testimony
ot the witnesses agulnst him so that he
"might cross-examine them, he was not pres
ent within the meaning of the law; and in
that case his trial and punishment were
illegal. Thereupon thejuryfound Governor
KWall guilty of murder, and, in spite of bis
rank ana nis innuentiai inenas, ne was
banged. ,
EICHEST CASKET OH RECORD.
RusseU Benedict's Body to Rest in a Coffin
of Gold and Silver.
Daheukt, Comr., Aug. 17. The body or
Russell Benedict, who died at Marienbad,
Austria, July 25, reached here to-day in
what is probably the riotfest burial casket
ever seen on this continent.
The box is of solid silver and Is elaborate
ly embellished with gold. On the top Is a
gold crucifix two feet long. The casket is
carried by means of eight gold handles and
is supported by six lion's legs. Pestoons of
gold flowers are draped around it. On each
of the lour corners lifa gold angel six inches
high. It Is not known now much the casket
cost. Mr. Benedict fras a very wealthy man,
who had lived many years in Austria. He
was born in this city.
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Manommed to the Mountain.
Boston Herald.
The Isle of Wight couldn't come to Glad
stone; to Gladstone went to the Isle of
Wight-
A LOOK AROUND.
In the way of turning ont crowds on due
notice Pittsburg is a marvel. The number
of people who bring children with them
from outlying districts, from Woods' Run
or Wllkinsburg to lower Fifth; avenue, is
surprisingly large when there is to be toot
ing and matching and something to see. A
goodly parade, such as that of yesterday,
with plenty of musio and uniforms, is a
Sure thing on packed pavements in the flat.
I believe a greater number turn out on such
occasions here than In any city of,approx
imate size in the country.
That is an amusing announcement which
is made on behalf of the "ossified man."
The advertisement doclares that he has
made a will directing 'his skeleton to be
used as a monument of bone "above his last
resting place." What will they put in the
"resting nlace" his soul?
"I wonder what attraction "Western
Pennsylvania will next offer us," remarked
a New York n e wspaper man on his way
home from Homestead. "You. are sure to
turn np with something big next spring.
You have tried riots and floods and flies,
and I am anxious to Bee what will turn up
here next."
There is a good deal of inquiry into the
values of Fifth avenue property for two or
three squares above the Court House. I find
many people who believe the hump will
come down shortly, and then there will be a
boom in property on the main street of the
city. Alriady the nei Government build
ing has shown how the center of Interest
can be shifted by the movement of public
business. When the Carnegie building goes
up on Fifth avenue below Grant, it will do
much to shift attentlon'to a part Of the elty
which has slumbered for years.
People must have recently taken to por
traits. Have you noticed tUe number of
places run in the names of companies or of
individuals where you can get a lot of pic
ture and Bristol boardhfor a remarkably
small amount of money? They have been
springing np along upper Fifth avenue until
they rival the barber shops, grocery stores
and saloons. In some of these places really
clever crayon work is shown in the windows
botteiy indeed, than one usually sees ex
hibited in oils in the more pretentious down
town stores.
Speaking of paintings, why Is it that
such things as tho "Christ Before Pilate"
and the Holy Family, which are now in
windows on Wood street, are displayed to
the publicly Does anybody claim they are
worth evena casual examination? "In these
days of exquisite reproductions in colors of
really good pictures, when so many catch
ing processes are in operation for the mak
ing of artistic and effective cheap colored
prints and when good water colors painted
as "pot boilers" are to be had for a song, it
must be something worth mentioning in oils
which will find a market
household.
In the a.vrArA
"Why is it that the young men with
biceps well developed so utterly Ignore the
rivers as a place of recreation and sportT
Rowing seems to be dead so taras Pittsburg
goes, and all the old traditions of profes
sional and amateur glory appear to have de
parted forever. "Washington, Philadelphia,
Boston and smaller cities have their ama
teur navies, handsome clubhouses, pairs,
four oars, eight-oared barges and innumer
able skiffs, shells, launches and other kinds
of pleasure craft. We have two rivers
which are exceptionally adapted to rowing,
ana yet they seldom a.e rippled by. an oar,
unless it be In a crude way on" a Sun
day. Why don't the two leading amateur
athletic associations do something for oars
men? State Treasurer Morrison is in the
city, looking well and cheery as usual. Ho
says the talk from the back counties is that
there will be a big tariff majoiity for Har
rison this fall. He thinks, all the breaches
will be healed, and that Pennsylvania lead
ers, as well as those of other States, will be
found bard at work soon.
The talk of Republican politicians seems
to indicate tbat Commissioner Mercer will
not oe a caudicate for Mayor, and that ex
Sheriff McCandless will have fnore or less of
a walkover for the -.nomination. Theie
seems little doubt that Mercer will retain
his seat in the Board of County Commission
ers, as will also James Weir. The Demo
cratic end of the board is a conundrum not
easily answered.
They tell a good story on one of the city
officials who recently moved into a new
house. He took a friend home with him one
evening and nearly talked his aim off tell
ing of the advantages of the house and the
location. Patticular stress was laid upon
the electric fittings of the house, the lights,
callbells. Ac. After dinner the owner ex
plained that all he had to do when he
wantod his buggy and horse was to push a
button and the groom did tho rest.- Accord
ingly be pushed the call and then excused
himself a moment. He tore, through the
backhall, rushed to the stable and harnessed
up at top speed, drove around to the door
and then sneaked out of the rig and tbrough
the back door, while the servant girl ap
peared and announced: "James is here
with the buggy, sir." Walter.
8ENAT0K HOAR'S VIEWS.
The Democratic Party Flatly Opposed to
Encouraging Horns Industries.
Boston, Aug. 17. Senator Hoar will not be
able to take part In the Presidental cam
paign this year, but ho has' written a long
letter on the political situation, which
Chairman Draper, of the Republican State
Committee, received to-day. The letter
was dated, in Paris on July 27. Mr. Hoar had
this to say about the force bill:
"The Democratic party has pow fully and
practically committed Itself to the policy of
Calhoun ism and of the Confederacy. With
Calhoun, it denies the power'to encourage
American manufacturers, and would write
in our Constitution what is expressed in the
Constitution of the Confederacy, an absolute
prohibition to lay any duty for the piotec
tion of any manufacturer. ,
"Giovrr Cleveland, in the felicitous phrase
of Mr. Webster, is 'but a bob to the nullifica
tion kite. He seems to draw from Confed
eiato statesmanship lessons which were
never yet inculcated by American patriot
ism. "The attitude of the Democracy toward
our colored fellow-citizen is piacticallv tbat
which It has always maintained. To the
Democratic paity, North or South alike.lthe
negro is but a dog, clothed with no political
rights that a wmte man Is bound to respect,
although, perhaps, the bone of some small
office may be flung to him if he can be made
useful in some closely contested Northern
constituency.
"In this attitude the Southern Democrat,
the old Democrat ot the North, and the new
allies whom they tempt by the gratification
of personal ambition, are alike agreed.
"The purpose of all of them to deny to the
colored man his constitutional right, and to
win power by the destruction of the purity of
our. national elections is disclosed by their
outcry against what they call the force bill,
a sample proposition to give an appeal to the
courts of the United States, subject to the
final power of the' House itself, in any con
tested questions of the eleotion of-national
representatives amethnd pursued with the
completest success in England and Can
ada.' FUSION UT THS SOUTH.
Republicans and Peorle's Party' Men
Coming Together In Time,
New Oeleakb, Aug. 17. Special The Re
publican League has elected Andrew Hero
Captain General for Louisiana. It has an
nounced its intention to place no Republi
can candidate in the field in the First,
fourth and Filth districts, but to support
the candidate of the People's party. It will
support T. J. Grace in the Fourth, and any
one who will run against Hon. C. J. Boatner,
the sitting member, in the Fifth. Hon. J.
Toise will be nominated ns a stralsbtout
Republican candidate In the Sixth, and sup
ported by both factions of the Republicans,
Judge Taylor Beattle in tbeThlru, and An
drew Hero in the Scoqd all three very
conservative Republicans.
In the First district the People's party
candidate will receive the Republican vote.
This indicates a complete understanding
between the two parties with these Republl.
can candidates In the field, Second, Third
and Sixth distriots, and three candidates of
the People's party, First, Fourth and Fifth.
HAVAL TBAHBFSBS COMHG.
Rear Admiral Gherardl to Be Detailed to
.Duly at Ran Francisco.
New Yobx, Aug. 17. Special On several
occasions in the past two years it has been
said tbat Rear Admiral Bancroft Gherardl,
Commander of the North Atlantic squad
ron, was about to be detailed to other duty,
so that Commodore John G. Walker, Acting
Bear Admiral, who is in' command of the
squadron of evolution, might continue to
hold his acting rank by being sent to the
command of the North Atlantic squadron.
This change Is now about to take place. The
Philadelphia, how at Bar Harbor, Is to leave
there on Wednesday of next week for New
Tork, and upon arrival here Admiral Gher
ardl is to haul down his flag and proceed to
asnmgton to receive his instructions rela
tive to the programme for the naval review
next spring, after which he will go to San
Francisco to take charge of the vessels that
are to be sent to New York. These vessels
will be the Baltimore, Charleston, San Fran
cisco and Yorktown only, as the Boston has
started for Honolulu. These vessels will
make the cruise to Hampton Roads in a suc
cession of short trips from port to port.
After Admiral Gherardl has gone to Wash
ington the Philadelphia wiU become the
flagship of Acting Rear Admiral Walker
withont any further ceremony than that her
commander, Captain John F. McGieney,
will report to Admiral Walker, who will
then haul down his flag on the Chicago and
hoist it on the Philadelphia. Admiral
Walker ,will then be commander or the
North squadron, and as the Chicago will
not be ready in time he will proceed with
the Philadelphia and Atlanta to Newport.
where will be the Concord, Vesuvius, )
.oiianconoman ana uusuing in waiting to
take part In the opening of the Naval War
College on September 1. The Chicago will
Join the squiidron about Septembers, when
Admiral Walker will probably transfer his
flag back to her. The fleet will remain at
Newport to take part in the maneuvers ot
the college during the whole of next month.
CHAUTAUQUA'S RECOGNITION SAY.
The Graduating Exercises the Most Inter
I estlng of the Season.
Chautauqua. N. Y., AU(j. 17. Special
ThlsJs the day to which all good C. L. 8. C.
people look forward with Interest and en
thusiasm. Hundreds come here especially
for tho grand celebration of "Recognition
Day." This year there are only a small
number of graduates, as compared with
other" years. Though .there are thousands
reading the Chautauqua course, only about
400 graduated this year, and a majority were
here for the graduating exercises. The gradu
ates and alumni formed in six divisions
and marched to the Hall of Philosophy.
There the usual recognition responses were
read and an address was made by Pror. Har
per. At 11 o'clock the graduates were es
corted through the Golden Gate out Into the
cold world, after which thev are supposed
to care for themselves. The procession
marched to the amphitheater, where the
class oration was given by Dr. Gunsaulus.
This afternoon, in the amphitheater, a plat
form meeting was held, at which Dr. Har
per presided. He made a short address to
the graduates and addresses were made by
a number of the counsellors. They sang the
eong of 1KB, and diplomas were presented,
At this evening's meeting short addresses
were made and the Lotus Glee Club sang.
The whole day was given up to the gradu
ation exercises. The Chautauqua proces
sions are the most unique of -all unique
things, here- Representatives of all the
graduating classes are present and march
proudly in l'ne. The first class is made up
of old men and women, but it has not a
monopoly on age, as each class has gradu
ated some aged people, and the classes lange
m age lrom 20 to 80 years- One of the best
features of Recognition Day is that the
weather clerk always does his best on that
day of the Chautauqua year. In tho 19 years
there has not been a rainy day at Chautau
qua when the graduating exercises aie to be
held.
THE LATEST OUTBREAK.
ButtaLo has been the scene of an outbreak
of lawlessness that all true friends of labor
must deplore. Any cause, no matter how
Just, must suffer tbrough such scenes of riot
and destruction "on the rail." Boston Globe.
SucB acts as those committed by the stri ic
ing switchmen at Buffalo furnish an excuse
for Finkei tonisin, and even make it respect
able. Sometimes it seems that organized
labor i3 its own worst enemy. Chicago
Times.
Beginning with a Just grievance, which
brought them tho sympathy even of those
who condemn strikes, the striking switch
men of this city have already made the fatal
mistake of adopting methods which no
right-thinking persons can approve. Buffalo
Express.
Thk appearance of the State military on
the scene or the Buffalo railway strike will
probably have a quieting effect. It is a mel
ancholy fruit of the loreign anarchist in
fluence exerted on labor troubles in this
country that the aid of troops has to be in
voked before order can be restored Wash
ington Star.
The riotous spirit of deviltry that leads to
such outbreaks of lawlessness as are re
ported from Buffalo is alien to this country
and to civilization. Railway strikes accom
panted with violence are least of all to be
tolerated, since tney menace dtrectlV the
interests of the entire population. Philadel
phia Record.
The great associations of organized labor
should at once come forward to condemn,
denounce and oppose these crimes, and to
aid in briginng their perpetrators to Justice.
Otherwise they will afford reason for the be
lief that they sympathize with the rioters
and tho incendiaries, "and approve of their
dangerous and destructive deeds. New York
Sun. i
The only attitude for upright, conserva
tive and patiiotio Americans, in the present
crisis.is the attitude that insists on preserva
tion of order, enforcement of law and equal
and exact administration of Justice, under
the constitution and the statutes, whether
measured out to organizations, to corpora-.
tions or to the individual citizen. Brooklyn
Eagle.
Ir the Buffalo strikers really are responsi
ble for the outrages reported In the nay of
ditching trains and incendiarism they have
taken a sure method to injure their cause.
No strike ever succeeded In this country
without enlisting some measure of popular
sympathy; and actions like those referred
to effectually alienate such sympathy. De
troit Free Press.
Pittsburg Up to Date.
Cleveland Leader.J
Pittsburg is alive to the value of fine parks
and boulevards, and not only has a Jewel in
Schenley Park, but will build a splendid
boulevard also. Meanwhile Cleveland does
nothing, and lets the best of opportunities
pass unimproved.
R fleeting on Her Age.
St. Lonls Globe-Democrat.
Gladstone Is the Grand Old Man, but Vic
toria evidently doesn't like to be called the
Grand Old Woman.
Wants a New Job.
Bt. Lpu!sloce-Democrat.
.There Is some reason to believe that Whit
ney istired playing Gannymede to Cleve
land's Jupiter.t
DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE.
JudgA Daniel Kirtland Morse.
Judge Daniel Kirtland Morie died at his
residence In Carbondale, Pa yesterday. He was
born In Green county, N. Y., In 1821. The de
ceased entered the office of D. N Lathrop
as a student at . law, completing his
studies In 1843. Judge Morse was promi
nent In politics ana affiliated himself
with the Democratic party. He was chosen Asso
ciate Justice of Lnzerne county in 1886. and served
in office for many years until Luzerne county was
divided. The deceased accumulated a Urge for
tune, which be leaves to bis wife and daughter.
- Obituary Notes.
Mas. JENimrMiACO, wife of the wen known
I theatrical manager. Tom Mlaco, died at the home
of her brother In Medina, N . Y., Moaday night.
Jacob N. gbathill. a bishop of the Blver
Brethren Church, died at his home In Manor town
ship. Lancaster county, Tuesday afternoon, aged
81 years.
Baron Fischer, cbler of the German expedition
for submarine investigation In Africa, has died
near Victoria Nranza. , Dr. Baimanhas been ap
pointed In his place.
Alice Hamilton-, a cornet player widely known
In the West, died suddenly In Kansas City last
wee. She was the wife of J. SV. Elchley, and
bad recently made her home in that city.
ID ward Iitobabjw, President of the Ingra
ham Clock Company of Bristol, Conn., died Tues
day, aged 2 years. He was the son of Huts In
graham, the pioneer la dock manufacture la
.Bristol.
SOMETHING IN A NAME
When IPs a Postofflce and Mots Rose Dire
Result of xjvlng la Edgewood Park
When Ton Move in Society What Yes
terday Brought Forth Socially.
If Edgewood changed its color as fre
quently as it does its name we. would be fn
cllned to hint at a relationship with the
chameleon. Within two years it has had
three names Edgewood, Edgewoodvlllo
and Edgewood Park, the last of which is its
present cognomen. As a postofflce, Pitts
burg's suburb was frequently confounded
with an eastern Pennsylvania town, also
Hgewood.and too often Invitations to social
affairs and dinners went ovor the Pennsyl
vania Railroad to Philadelphia and did not
return until their value as invita
tions was a tnlng of the past. These
mishaps brought about a change,
and the cumbrous and rather unmusical
Edgowoodville was adopted. But people
either forgot the "villo" or would have nono
of it; for letters addressed to Edgewood still
oontlnued to go East and then meander
back, sometimes weeks behind time. After
another effort, Edgewood Park was selected,
and that is the name now given on the list
of postofflces, though the railwav people
still persist in using the old Edgewood,
"which makes an annoying confusion.
How long the present name of Edgewood
Park will be retained Is an unsolved mys
tery, but in order that people living there
invited to pleasant dinners should not be
disappointed by their letters, they had bet
tor be delivered by hand.
Garfentebs and house decorators are
taking advantage of Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Donnelly's presence at Crcsson. Their Fifth
avenue house is receiving a thorough over
hauling and will be modernized and beauti
fied greatly before the family return in Sep
tember. It is a large substantial brick resi
dence or the older style, being one of the
earliest built in that vicinity and surrounded
with a magnificent lawn, receding in the
rear into a most picturesque embankment
clothed always in a rich, green velvety turf.
The situation of Mr. Donnelly's house Is one
of the most charming in the East End.
At the annual picnic, which will take
place to-day at Rock Point, the various
Chairmen of the culinary and dining depart
ments chosen from the auxiliary circles of
the G. A. R. are: Braddock Circle, Mrs.Mar
garet Edwards: Lysle Circle, Mrs. Mary
Sample: Geary Circle, Miss Marv A. Jones;
Clark Circle, Mrs. Shreiner: Hays Ciicle,
Mrs. Tillle Craig; Custer Circle, Mrs. Re
becca Sallade; Garfield Circle, Mrs. Brooks:
Rippey Circle, Mrs. Drakei; Lincoln Circle,
Mrs. Hannah Turner; Thomas 'Circle, Mrs.
Fannie Black: Lowrle Circle, Mrs. Annie
Lambing; Hnmbert Circle, Mrs. Sarah Beck;
Humphries Circle, Urs. Mary Darman: Grif
fin Circle, Mrs. Mary Sweitzer: Moody Circle.
Sirs. Alice Ballmnn; Connor Circle, Mrs.
Amanda Moffatt. Chairman Executive
Committee, Mrs. Smith: aids, Mrs. C. V.
Sherriff, Mrs. Snead and Mrs. Doran.
Among other bright young college girls
of Pittsburg are Mr. Samuel Hamilton's two
daughters, Miss Grace and Miss Nanna, whj
will enter the Baltimore Collece for Women
at the opening or the autumn term.
Baltimore's college" is celebrated for its
fine gymnasium, where the girls are trained
with a carefulness that puts the system on a
par with any men's college In the country,
and for this reason was chosen by Mr.
Hamilton. The Misses Hamilton are Penn
sylvania College students.
Social Chitt-r.
At Valley Camp on Friday evening, a
number of well-known musical people will
pieentk well arranged literary and mu
sical programme. Their names are: Miss
Mamie Reuck. Mr. Franz Wilczsk.Misslinth
Reiick, Miss Millie Gardner and a quartet:
E. H. Dermitt. baso: Miss Lizzie Reed, con
tralto: Miss Wilson, soprano; Mr. D. T.
Thompson, tenor, and Miss Nellie Jackson,
tenor.
Mas. T. B. Cole3, of Walnut street. East
End, is in town again after a prolonged
Southern viit with her little daughter to
her husband's relatives, who are lspresenta
tives of an old Virginia family. Mr. Coles,
who was called to Louisville through the
illness and death of a brotherresident there,
went South and brought Mrs. Coles back
with him this week.
The Women's Club will take up work
again in September, when tho first meeting
may be held at the residence of its Presi
dent, Mrs. Charles I. Wade, of Edgewood
Park. Prior to the September meeting the
.executive committee win meet mere to ar
range the winter's programme.
Tns Young People's Society of Christian
Endeavor connected with the First Presby
terian Church of Braddock is arranging a
ia.wn lete ana api on" social ior to-morrow
and Saturday evenings on the extensive,
beautiful grounds nf the old Wood's home
stead in West Braddock.
A itECENT delightful addition to Point
Breeze society has been made in the person
of Miss Clara Bowe. of Orange. X. Y., who is
visiting Miss Thompson, of Lang avenue.
Miss Rowe is a former Fittsburger and a
niece of Mr. Wallace Rowe, of the Braddock
Steel Works.
The Alleohent Liteixabt Club, of which
Mrs. Andrew Kuston is President, is prepar
ing for a winter course in Ireland. The club
meets usually in Carnegie Library Building,
with a variation now and then of an even
ing at the house of a member.
The Edgar Thomson Steel Works Cornet
Band, of Braddook, composed of 40 mem
bers, will give an open-air concert in High
land Park to-morrow evening under the
direction of Mr. Floyd J. St. Clair.
Miss Rebecca Clark, sister of Mrs. Syd
ney Omahnndro, of Meyran avenue, Oak
land, and her guest for some time past, has
returned to her East Liverpool home.
A Progressive heart party was given on
Monday evening by Miss Stevenson, or Lang
avenue, in honor of Miss Clara Rowe, of
Orange, N1. S.
Miss Lucket, the young daughter of
George Luckey, Esq., Superintendent of
Public Schools, is sojourning at Atlantic
City. N
Miss Clara Rowe was a guest of honor at
apartylriven a few evenings ago by tho
Mioses Weeks, of Point Breoze.
Owing to a misnnderstanding playing by
this
visiting uanu was ueierrea iiom i
last
week.
Miss Sallie Killikeixt Is spending a few
days at Ciesson.
WAGES IN SCOTLAND.
They Are Low and the Cost of Living Is
Nrarly as Hlsh ns In America.
New York correspondence Philadelphia Ledger.!
Wallnco Bruce, Consul at Edinburgh, has
returned home on a vacation, and has some
thing to say about the comparative wages
and cost of living in Scotland and the
United States. "The rate of wages in Seot
land," he says, "is about two-thirds less
than American mechanics receive The
same is equally true of clerks and laborers.
Young men have to serve an apprenticeship
of five years before they even receive a
living compensation, and when they have
completed the term the average compensa
tion will not reach 20 shillings per week.
Dairymen, who work from daylight and
davllght in Scotland means about I o'clock
until nightfall, lecelve about $50 per annum
and board. Car drivers and conductors,who
work about 11 hours per dav, average 23
shillings per week. Then take the cost of
living. It is almost equal to the expense in
the United States. The exceptions are rents,
which about conmare with Philadelphia.
while house labor can be had at from $60 to
$90 per annum. Meat is dearer than in the
United States, and butter fully one-quarter
more. Fruit is about twice as dear. How
then can the foreign workingman be con
tented or happy when his earnings only
scantily supDort himself and his family!"
Government Buildings at the Fair.
WAsniWQTOif, Aug. 17. Supervisor Archi
tect Ed Brooke has left here for Chicago for
the" purpose of selecting sites for four Gov
ernment buildings for the World's Fair.
One will be used to exhibit the practical
operations of the 'signal service in taking
observations, etc.; another will consist of a
fully equipped army hospital; a third will be
devoted to the exhibit from the Indian
schools at Carlisle, and the fourth will be a
facsimile of the naval observatory at Wash
ington, fitted up with an equatorial tele
scope and other astronomical apparatus.
Sir. Carnegie In a Novel.
Losdojt, Aug. 17, Mr. Andrew Carnegie is
about to reap the fruits of his famous coach
ing trip to the Highlands, on which hen as
attended by Mary Anderson, Walter Dam
much. William Black and otber clever peo
ple. Mr" Black has Just announced that hel
will make Jir. uarneie tne central ngureOt
his forthcoming novel.
Hard Question to Solve.
Chicago Tribune.l
How do the Demoorats and the People's
party of Iowa expect to come together when
the Democrats themselves are unable to
unite.
CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS.
Telescopes were first made In 1590, ' '
The Bible is being translated into the
Corean language.
St. Louis boasts of having the first lady
advertising agent.
Creur d Alene are three French words,
meaning "heart of an awl."
Minnesota paid the enormous sum of
$S2,000 last year for wolf scalps.
The altitude of El Paso, in the trans
Pecos territory of Texas, is 3,830 feet above
the sea.
In England, when printers take a vaca
tion, they are said to be enjoying their
wayzgook. ,
More United States vessels visit the
Mexican ports than those of all other na
tions combined. "
Workmen are not allowed to work, on
the streets of New Bedford unless they have
been naturalized.
The origin of football is unknown, bnt
the first mention or the game is in the reign
of Edward III. (1349).
' A Berlin Jnventor has Invented an In
strument which measures the one thou
sandth part of a second.
At an ordinary temperature mercury
in an equal quantity in bulk weighs about
two-thirds more than gold.
It is claimed that the largest floating
dock in the world is at Bermuda, ills 381
feet long and 123 fee b wide.
An oil painting constantly hung in a
dark place loses some of its vividness and
tberetore depreciates in value.
According to a census bulletin just is
sued there are only 97,000 female persons to
every 100,000 males in the United States.
One man in "Wicomico county, Md,, on
the eastern shore, shipped this season nearly
22 COO quarts of huckleberries in. a single
week. ,
In the. Executive Mansion at Raleigh,
N. C, is a card table presented to Governor
Barrlncton by King George IL about the
year l'ii. ,
The Danish Government has issued a
decree forbidding the importation of dogs
fromny foreign country except Sweden
and Norway. .
An old soldier in Kansas recently re
ceived from the Government 3 cents, which
had been due him without hU knowledge
for more than 30 years.
An anti-cancer league has been organ
ized in Paris, its purpose being to seek
means of relieving humanity from one of its
most dreadful scourges.
The guests at a Springfield hotel re
cently presented one of the waitresses with
a pair of roller skates', in hopes of being
waited on more rapidly.
English medical authorities are coming
to the conclusion that the smoking of pure
opium is not nearly so injurious to China
men as has been supposed.
A Maiden man has invented a device
fpr lilting the lldot a street letter box by
touching the foot on a treadle at the foot of '
the post to which the box is attached.
How do you prononnce Cwm? Easily
enough, koom. Piancenza? Why, pee-ah-tchent-sah.
ThrondhJemT Just tronn-yem.
ErzczeckiT Simply k(e)rzh-tchets-kee.
An Indianapolis, Ind., beggar displays
a queer sign which reads as follows: "Help
a blind crippfe. Was run over by a baby
carriage and struck in the eye with a para
sol." Manufacturers of obituary monuments
in the United States have the right to re
move their handiwork from graves in tho
event of its not being paid for within six
month.
A fishing party in Texas took the follow
ing with them: Six fishing rods, a loaf of
bread, 'three cans of sardines, a frying pan.
one towel, one bar of soap, 13 bottles and
two Jugs.
The Fisheries Department has received
advices to the effect tbat the mackerel
catch of the New England fishing fleet to
date is 22,000 barrels-exactl y twice as much
as last year.
New Tork is named -from the Duke of
York, the original grantee. In the charter
he was given all the lands "from the west
side of the Connecticut river to the east side
of the Delaware bay.
The Menhaden steamer Alaska ran into
a school .of blue flsb off New London, Conm.
Wednesday. A big net was set, and it is
estimated about 6,000 fish were caught which
averaged fourpounds each.
The elevation of Denver, CoL, being
8,370 feet pver one mile above sea level,
makes the atmosphere rare, dry and clear,
there being on an average less than six days
each year without sunshine.
The natural configuration of many
mountains suggests the human face, and
such physiognomies cut out of the rocks on
a gigantic scale are commonly regarded i)y'
savages as objects of worship.
The taxidermist of the Smithsonian In
stitution at Washington denies that the Dea
cock has ngly feet a condition of affairs
which has been very generally accepted as
truth as long as the peacock has been
known.
A new method of qnickly rendering
glass transparent during the process of
manufacture consists in forcing into the
melted materials a stream of oxygen gas.
the enormous heat generated oxidizing all
deleterious materials.
A feature of a picnic at Farmington,
He., was the reading of one of Edwin Ar
nold's poems, whereas a local newspapor is
much elated and declares that Farmington.
is "one oi the few spots on God's earth where
a picnic is not invariably associated with
beer."
German-born residents furnished 8.7G
per cent of the strength of the Union army
during the War of the Rebellion. The En
glish were represented by the smallest per
centage, 2.26, as asalnst 2.33 lor other for- I
elgners not classified, and 133 of unknown
nativity.
The triumpn of art over natnre is illus
trated in tho fact -that an artist recently
make a painting of some beech trees in an
old pasture tbat he sold for $280. The owner
of the pasture parted company with his
propel ty at about tbe same time for $150, and
called it a good sale at that.
JOIXYISMS FR03I JUDGE.
Matthews 'Why, hello, Benson! "What
yer been doin' aU summer?
Benson Ob, I've been pltchen.
Matthews-Fer de Baltimore nine?
Benson No; fer a coal yard.
"There is something wrong with the sun,"
said Mawson. "I believe tbe whole solar system is
out of gear."
'Why sol" queried Hicks.
"Why, by my watch the sun was three-quarters
of an hour late rising this morning."
Charlie Hardup Ab, for the day, dearest,
when 1 can call you my own my dear, true love, la -our
own dear little bomel
Mm Croesus Beside the sea? .
Charlie Hardup Ob, anywhere tbat you choose
to build It.
Corner "What's yer got good ter drink
back there?
Barkeeper Gin fizz, mint Julep, seltzer lemon
ade, apolllnarls, whisky, beer, ginger ale, Bass ale,
white label.
Corner Well, It does me good to bear about 'em
occasionally please give me a glass o' Ice water
a straw in It.
Miss Sharp Do you know, your expres
sion reminds me of the steps to an ancient sern
pie?
Mr. Staylate So elevating. I suppose.
JJiss Sharp No, Such a vacant sure.
Jim Padlewski and Flannigan were
both kicked out of the Prohibition party.
Jam Why was that?
Jlm-The former was born in WIen, the Utter la
Cork.
She I want to look at some bustles.
Clerk Why, madam. busUes are no lonrer worn.
She-You don't know what you are talking lof, I
am going to vlsltfriends in St. Louis.
"Why do birds in their little nests
agree?" asked the pretty schoohna'am of Freddy
Fangle.
' 'Cause they'd fill out If they didn't," Freddy
replied.
Mrs. Gazzam Is there anything in the ij
paper, dear? fl
Gazzam I see that Fosdlck wants a divorce. 3
Mrs. Gazzam-From his wife? i i$M
Gazzam The paper doesn't sax.' JtM
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