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POSTAGE All persons who mail the Snnday Issue or The Dispatch to friends should bear In mind the fact that the post age thereon Is Two (2) Cents. All double li ml triple number copies of The Dispatch require a 2-cent stamp to insure prompt delivery. PlTTSBUKt;. SUNDAY. AIJOUST a. ISM. THE LABOR SITUATION. The labor struggles yesterday presented an appearance of temporary quiet At Buf falo the strikers have shown a disposition for pscific settlement by the proposition for arbitration, which the companies have refused. This puts the corporation in the wrong so far as public opinion is con cerned. The unfavorable attitude of the railway managers would have been more pronounced If the proposition to arbitrate had not been preceded by acts of lawless ness. But even with allowance for that fnct the proposition to transfer a labor dis pute from ihe domain of force to that of reason should not be treated with slight consideration. In East Tennessee the military move ments have restored a temporary peace, the belligerent miners having promptly yielded at the first indication of energy. This shows how the supremacy of the law can be maintained; but it does not afford sny light as to the removal of the causes of the outbreak. At Home stead the dispute is now confined to allegations and counter-allegations as to the quality qf work done by the mills. So far as the public aspect of tho casejs concerned, this clavs of contro versy is' liarrrnless. If the opposing sides keep themselves within present limits, the public peace will be maintained, and no rights on either side will be violated. For the present, therefore, the suprem acy of the law can be considered as re stored. That being the case, Jt is perti nent to point out that the causes 'which ar ray capital and labor into hostile camps are still acthe. So long as no effort is made to remedy those causes, the ques tion is unsolved. It is necessary when ever the law is attacked to enforce its supremacy, but the trouble cannot be re moved unless we go deeper and try to re move the influences which put the inter ests of capital and Labor into such an acute state of antaconism. TO LESSEN THE SMOKE. As will be'secn from our local columns, the city's first effort to abate the smoke nuisance will besrm on September 1. The area with which the smoke preventing ordinance deals is a residential district, and one that does not include many great fuel users. But so far as it goes it is a distinct benefit to the comfort of the municipality, and should be rigidly enforced. The fines provided for offenders under the ordinance are not large, but in conjunction with public opinion as called forth by any necessary prosecutions, they should be enough to insure observance of the law. If this ordinance be thoroughly admin istered, it should, and Is likely to be, only the forerunner of larger enactments. In the meantime those outside the prescribed district will find it to their economic ad vantage to adopt the use of smoke con sumers wherever possible. And it is to be hoped that inventive genius aided by scientific research will ere long discover a satisfactory method for. the abolition of smoke even in iron and steel mills and manufactories. AX UNFORTUNATE ILLUSTRATION. "The advocates of high taxes now ad mit that the sugar duty was a tax upon American consumers, although they de nied it bitterly a long as the duty was in existence. They will hardly dispute that the existing duty on refined sugar is also an indirect tax upon consumers" remarks the free trade Philadelphia Bccord. Our esteemed cotemporary should be more ac curate in its statements. The Republican party insisted on re moving the duty on sugar, because it was a tax on consumers. Nearly nine-tenths of the supply being imported from foreign countries, the Republican position made a very plain recognition of the fact that the duty was added to the cost of the article. It -was the Democratic party which op posed the radical reduction of the sugar duty on the pretext that it was a revenue duty. But as the tariff fight was inaug urated under a plea of the necessity of re ducing revenue, we are left to the in ference suggested by tho fact that the people benefited by the sugar duties were the Democratic planters of Louisiana. The indiscretion of citing the sugar duties against the Republican party can be made very clear by a few facts. The first is that the Republican party re pealed the duty on raw sugar against Democratic opposition. The others are collated in the following comparison of the sugar duties in the Republican tariff measures, with those of the Democratic tariff measure: lIcKInley Jims bill. bin. Duty on raw sugar. . . .L152.2c Free Daty on refined sugar. 2.4Q2 8c c Margin to refiners. 6lc Jc "Where the tariff was unmistakably a tax m '3! M 1 -j-. - AMjii--v, 1 the Republicans took it off; and the Demo crats did not wish to. THE PRESIDENTS PROCLAMATION. As authorized by Congress on July 26, the President has issued a proclamation that retaliatory measures will be adopted against the Canadian rebate system on September 1. It is claimed that treaty agreements with this country have been violated by the establishment of a rebate system in the taking of tolls on Canadian canals which distinctly discriminate against American interests. Several post ponements of the proclamation have been made to allow opportunities for the Cana dian Government to consider tho advisa bility of abolishing the discriminations complained of. So far there has been no official communication from Canada de nying that the treaty has been disregard ed, nor has any offer been made to abol ish the objectionable rebates. Even this proclamation is tentative, and will be sus pended if Canada consent to the demands of the United States. But if the present intention of the Canadian Government to allow the discriminations to terminate only at the end of the navigation season, as they would naturally do of their own accord, then vessels passing through the St Marie's Falls canals will meet with a toll discriminating against Canadian ports in favor of American ones. This is an emphatic protest against Canada's injustice, and it remains to be seen whether it will call forth any concession within the ten days of grace now left. There has been plenty of forbearance exercised by the American Government in the matter, and Canada can only blame its own Min isters If It find the eye for an eye and tooth for a tooth method of diplomacy distasteful. FLIP-FLOPS ON THE TARIFF. TheBuffalo Courier says that TiieDis rATcn "insists lhat it is impossible for any tariff duty to raise the price of wheat, flour, beef, bread, butter, milk, eggs, mutton, potatoes," and thinks that this Journal is very indiscreet, -because Repub lican newspapers and Republican man agers are trying "to work up a boom for Whiteiatv Rcid on the ground that he did more than any other man to obtain an in crease in duties on farm products." Our esteemed cotemporary should learn to quote correctly in the first place, and in the second it should learn that tho Democracy cannot win the case by declar ing that the tariff will "be d d if it docs and be dd if it don't." What Ttie Dis patch did say was that it was ridiculous for the New York World to assail the McKinley act as having directly caused the advance on these articles of which several cannot be either exported or im ported, while of the rest with one or two exceptions, this country exports a considerable surplus. In the next place we do not think that any intelligent Republicans are claiming for Mr. Rcid the credit of increased dutis on farm products. They are probably claiming credit for him of increased foreign mar kets for American farm products, which, if the esteemed Courier will bring its in tellect to bear on the subject for a time, it may perceive to be a very different thing. As to the question whether the general policy of protection, by creating home in dustries gives an improved home market for farm products which would be a re sult impossible to trace directly to any sin gle act that, of course, the free trade pa pers may be expected to deny. But we must warn our cotemporary that cam paigns are not to be won by wildly attack ing the McKinley act for an advance in farm products at one end of a State and at the other end of the State claiming that protection is a failure because it has not done exactly that thing. THE WRATH OF LABOUCHERE. It is understobd that the lively but somewhat uncertain Labouchere is onthe warpath with blood in his eye. The rea son for his sanguinary disposition is as serted to be that he is not in the English Cabinet. Wherefore, it is asserted that the neglected Labby will stick the knife of ridicule and scorn into the new admin istration, and will turn it around and jab it up and down to such an extent that the new ministry will speedily wonder what it was begun for. We can hardly believe the report, for if it is true it will make the most complete exposure of Labouchere. That trenchant journalist and parliamentary wit has made his reputation bysarcastic jeers at those whose political course is swayed by self interest Can It be that after a career of stone flinging Labouchere will expose his own house of glass by advertising the fact that his own allegiance to Liberalism de pends on his getting into office? The thought is impossible. The ways of a neglected politician are apt to be as un reasonable as those of a woman scorned; but the Thersites of England must be wiser than 'to do what he has jeered at others for doing these two decades. Moreover the reason for Labouchere's exclusion is not far to seek. He has posed as an opponent of the Queen and royal family. In that he has our sympathy. His attacks on the royal grants are among his successful public sarcasms. But after gaining fame m that way, what can Labby expect but that the Queen shall strike his name off the list The traditions of roy alty still exist to the effect that a Cabinet Minister must be persona grata to royalty, if not too inconvenient; and Labby has taken pains to make himself pertona non grata. Moreover, after earning fame as a Republican, how can Labouchere insist on being counted as one of the Queen's Ministers? It Is to be hoped for Labouchere's sake that he will not kick over the traces. Still if he -does, it will be, interesting to learn whether he intends to go into the Tory camp or flock all by himself. INVESTMENT INSURANCE. A new corporate function has been developed in England in the form of com panies which guarantee the payment of dividends by other companies. Thus re cently two issues of bonds were put on the market with the statement the secu rity insurance companies were prepared to insure the payment of principal and interest nt rates of half per cent per annum in one case and a cash payment of six per cent on the other. The first thought that occurs In contem plating this new branch of business Is that the companies must, like the life insur ance companies, or even more rigidly, pick their risks. It is learned that the six companies engaged in this business with a capital of $13,000,000 are doing a'pros perous business. But a company which should undertake to insure dividends on mining stock, or principal and interest on 'all the "water in the railways of this country, would enjoy what may be correctly described as "a smashing business." To select the risks, how ever, makes the function of these com panies, like those of the title guarantee companies, merely a certificate and guarantee of the soundness of the invest- .. - ,. 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The corporate system affords such slight pro tection to the ordinary investor that one company gives Its guaranteo that It will pay a certain principal and interest, the investor must yield up one-tenm to one sixteenth of his investment to get another guarantee that the first guarantee Is good. That is the practical presentation of the case by the very existence of these com panies! But when a man yields one-tenth of his interest on a five per cent bond to get such a guaranteo he likes to have some assurance of the validity of the second guarantee. The imagination can easily picture a man seeking the additional insurance and yielding up further tithes of interest to get until his entire income from the investment is gone, and the ultimate and unimpeachable insurance is not yet obtained. The ease with which such a business can run into wildcat'operations has already been illustrated in this country. The mortgage investment companies under took practically the same function with regard to mortgage securities. Yet the business' afforded such opportunities for practical swindling that it was not very long before the unguaranteed mortgages were worth more than the guarantees. The conservative British mini may move less promptly to that conclusion. But the opportunities for using that sort of busi ness to pocket the money of the unwary, are too great for the hope that they will be overlooked. IMPOSSIBLE OF ENFORCEMENT. Criticising the argument of Carroll D. Wright that compulsory arbitration would mean "slavery" to the decrees of a-court, the Chicago Jfews-Becord asks: "Can it Le that the decrees of a court or other tribunal would be more harsh and more exacting than the demands of the parties to the quarrel?" It would seem improbable to say the least, and yet that admission does not in any way Invalidate the ultimate point on which compulsory arbitration must inev itably make its failure. It is evident that any means of arbitration which is equita ble must be binding on both parties alike. Such a law might result in forcing the em ployer to invest his money subject to the demands of the State. But what means are to enforce employes to accept the re sult of an arbitration? Are they to be forced to work, if they refuse, by the military power? Are men to be driven to labor as a chain gang is? If this is to be undertaken the liberty of an employe to accept a better position or to seek other work would be in questionable shape. At present, while the liberty of men to work is sometimes interfered with, tho liberty not to work is maintained. The compulsory arbitration idea, to be efficient, must take away that liberty. That is what Mr. Wright very justly terms slavery. The question how compulsory arbitra tion is to be enforced is made very perti nent from the fact.th.at the labor record of Western Pennsylvania includes two strikes against the findings of voluntary arbitra tion. If men will refuse to accept a verdict that they have first willingly called for, why should they not do so In a case where tho tribunal judges their case with out their consent If they should do so, the task of driving men to work by the civil or military power is one, at which nineteenth century democracy might well stand aghast Such a legal effort would be utterly futile as It should be. Voluntary arbitration," or rather the spirit that calls for it, is very valuable as an emollient for labor disputes. But for the complete remedy we shall have to go deeper into industrial organization than that MISSISSIPPI'S WEAK POINT. The Mississippi plan of restricting the suffrage still evokes a good deal of discus sion. It is obviously within the right of any State to place an educational limit on the right of suffrage, and that is what Mississippi has ostensibly done. So far as the prima facie case Is concerned the en actments on that point are legitimate. It Is true that tho tests as to the educa tional qualifications of the voter may be administered so as to favor white voters and exclude black ones. That will, of course, be an act of public bad faith; but it may be expected to work out its rem edy. The day will come in Mississippi, as it has done in South Carolina, when one party or the other will need the votes of qualified blacks, and when that Is the case the 'color line will be obliterated. But there is one point which the Mis sissippi people seem to have overlooked, and which, under the Constitution, de prives her of representation. The Con stitution provides that when the right to vote is denied to any citizen for other cause than participation in the Rebellion or other crime, "the basis of representation shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens over 21 years of age in such State.!' This, according to the last registration in Mississippi, would reduce her repre sentation In Congress and 'the Electoral College very materially. She is now en titled to three representatives in Congress instead of eleven, and five electoral votes instead of nine. Until her representation Is reduced, she will commit the injustice to the rest of the country of casting votes in both bodies to which, by the express terms of tho-Constitution, she has no right When the Mississippi plan was under discussion in her Constitutional Conven tion The Dispatch said that State bad a perfect right to impose an educational qualification and accept the corresponding reduction in her representation. But to reduce her vote by the qualification and to try to retain her old representation Is an act of public dishonesty. It is announced that all surviving war Governors are to be invited to attend the Grand Army of the Republic Encampment nt Washington next month. But Governors Pattlson, Flower, ana Buchanan are not in eluded. At its present rate of increase the cholera epidemic will toon hare little of Bnssia left to ravage. The calamitous condition of Kansas is clearly shown by the indignation whioh greeted Jerry Simpson's highly colored pic ture of misery and by the freight congestion caused by the enormous harvest. Ik the matter of cutting records, ocean greyhounds are as proficient as Amertoan race horses. Columbus himself will be all that is missing from the furthcoming celebration of his discovery, and aa his absence is un avoidable the aflalr will be made a great success without him. As a scapegoat for hot spells and labor troubles, Man is useful to dreamy theorists. How that the Twenty-first district eon- J ferees are tof resume their apology forbusl- A ness at Saltsburg, it is to be hoped that they will Do cureu oi tuo ueauipcKaumeub, As oil eomes up in Dew quarters the. price of the commodity is apt to no down, ' Canada has ten days left in-whichtb re form its wars, and If it fall to depart from the path of wrong doing, itmustbe prepared to take the consequences. Bibb took a hand yesterday hi tne much talked of removal of the stockyards. World's Fair officers are paid handsome salaries, though their work seems to have been confined almost exclusively to solicit ing national funds. Pedestrians are to be free to use ,the Liberty street sidewalks henceforth. The most dangerous thing that ever was seen, is lighting a fire with kerosene. For the can will generally explode, and desolate the whole aboae. General Oabnes is well fitted io pat an end to Insurrectionary carnage. Those discontented English Radicals will gain little popular support by showing that they love office holding as well as a Tory of the deepest dye. "N Keenness of competition is being dis played in the cutting of records. His bitterest enemy cannot deny that Whitelaw Rcid is a vigorous worker, and Ills vigor has a good common-sense backing. ' That smoke prevention ordinance falls to deal with tho cigarette. It is evident that American missionaries still have a good chance to Buffer glorious martyrdom in Turkey. Coal Creek suffered a disaster at great as that of Oil Creek. Tennessee has been behaving more like a South American Bepubllo than one of these United States Bicycle repairers are generally of a re tiring disposition. It will soon be time for summer suits to pass through tho dyers' hands and come out in mourning. The snn might easily take a rest on Sun days. As campaign funds come to hand the Tammany tiger will naturally be kuown as thejagur. WITH FAME AND FOBTUtfE. The Prince of Wales Is at Homburg. Thero la a large muster of English and American visitors there, and ninong others also Dr. Cliauncey Depew. Rev. De. MlLBtritN-, the blind preacher and ex-chaplain of the House of Representa tives, has completed an extensive work on the early history of the Mississippi Valley. The President has recognized Francisco Villa Corta as Consul General of Guatemala at New Orleans and Franotsco Geneva Vloe Consul of tho Rcpnblic of Uruguay at St. Augustine, Fla. Senator Perkins, of Kansas, wears a rather conspicuous light blue snit; Vest, of Missouri, a crenm colored costume, and Blackburn, of Kentucky, and Quay, of Penn sylvania, pure white. GdstAVE Dore, it is said, had question able taste on women's looks. lie .seldom drew a beautiful woman. His abnormal sense of the grotesque seomoa to have de stroyed his sense of actual loveliness. Chief Justice Fuller has been lay reader at St. Mark's Church, Chicago. It is said that every memberof the United States Supreme Court has been actively interested in some phase of Christian endeavor. Ben Butler is said to be sadly bent with age. His face has the look of health, but his massive frame has beoome an unmistakablo buidcn. His hands move unsteadily, while his eyes appear swollen and almost hidden by the thick folds of flesh on his cheeks. Great regret is felt in the artistic circles of Denmark at the death of Hans Kits, tho' lamous landscape painter. He was still a comparatively young man, having recently celebrated the fifty-third anniversary of his birth. He was rich, owning a fine estate on the Isle ot Falstor, and able to devote his time to his profession. Edward Blake, the brilliant Canadian Liberal, who was regarded as a possible member of Mr. Gladstone's Cabinet, de clined the honor of Knighthood offered by the Queen a few years ago, and has set his face against the introduction of Old World ideas into the Dominion. He has a com manding presence, a fine voice, and the oourage of his convictions. HIGH JIHKS AT XAKBW00D. A Parly of PIttsburgrs Get Up a Burlesque of the Roaring Variety. Lakiwood, N. Y Aug. 20. Biecial. Hart McEee, Charlie Clark and Miss Elizabeth Harmon entered into a conspiracy yester day afternoon which resulted in an Irish german given in the Kent Honse office court last night. The affair was designated as a burlesque on the tony germans recently danced at the hotel and of a fake mind-reading performance given here a few days ago by Ellington and Cook. It proved a roaring success and was productive of more merri ment than any other event of the season. JIcKee was the leader and the patrons were Messrs. Clark, Fox and Walker. The favors were tin pails, penny flags, obewlnggum, paper flowers and tinhorns. Clark was boss mind-reader and his original pootry l eel tod from a screen cabinet was loaded with witty and appropriate shots for various subjects selected from the dancers and guests. Among the favors danced was a novelty denominated "Moses in the Ball-Rushes." It was performed with the aid of an enor mous laundry basket deposited In the mid dle of the floor and decorated with cattail rushes. A young, lady was requested to stand near the favor table, and two young men would take seats on the rim of the basket facing each other. At a signal they were to leave the basket and race for the lady, the first one to reaoh her securing a partner for the next dance as his reward. The scramble to get out of the basket with out tipping it over and going down in the wreck was invariably funny in the extreme. The affair closed with a grand march, flag waving, horn blowing and cheers for the originator of the burlesque and the hotel. A ltep In the Bigot Direction. Bsltlmore American. I The country is getting to the point where it recognizes lawlessness as lawlessness, under whatever name it is committed. This is civilization. Wonld Fat an End to Strikes. St. Louts Gloee-Denioerat. It is a great pity that the good sense of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers does npt control the other railroad labor organi zations. Too Much Stuck Up. Cleveland Leader. The working Democrats of New York don't like Mr. Cleveland' beoause he and his friends think he is so muoh better, than his pavty IN AUGUST. The echo of a whispered word, A fleeting cadence law and swee t. Fresh as the songs the streams reseat. Taint a the croon of nesting bird. A deeper axnre In the sky. Fields gleaming gay wit green a nd gold, Closed wings that droning half unfold. As summer passes slowly by. A breath of sadness scarcely caught, , A minor note to swell the str aln, A blossom bowed by falling rain. Gold strands with silver su buy wrought. O, rare unrathoraoi August days, Hlch,wlth the glories of th e past, - What will you bring ns forth at lastt -. What lurk beneath your hovering gas? , May Lennox fit Ladies'' Moms Journal. ALLUREMENTS OF SOCIALISM. lrjtOMA BTXrr conniBroNDisT.I Mr. GriETNA, Aug. 2a The allurements of socialism were placed berore tho Farmers' encampment this afternoon. This had been designated as -'Labor Day," and A. W. Wright, or the General Executive Board of the Knights of Labor, appeared in behalf of his order In general and Master Workman Powderly in particular. Mr. -Wright is a residenfof Toronto, OnU and thinks that while the agriculturist in botn sections are in bad shape, those of Canada have a shade .the best or it. He was the principal Bpeaker of the day. Alter some introductory re marks of a oharacter to be agreeable to the grnngeis in tho audience, Mr. Wright said: "Tho labor question, as it Is called, is at tracting a great (leal of attention throughout the world nt present. The reason for this can be readily discerned if we scan the his tory and developments ot the past quarter of a century. Wealth has enormously increased, and only one-tenth Of as muoli physical labor Is lequired to pro duce now as a comparatively few years ago. Notwithstanding all this, is the individual mnn on tho farm, mine or factory any better off? I do not say that the condition or the workingmen and evert of tho farmers has not improved at all, bnt if it hasn't improved teniold thore is something ladically wrong with our boasted civilization, and the pres ent industrial system is a failure. Distribution of Wealth at Funlt, The production of wealth in the world to day is all that could be expected. It Is the distribution which is at fault. There are too many millionaires and too many tramps. We aro drifting towaid a plutocracy on the one hand and a helpless peasantry on the other. Do not understand me as preaching tho gospel of despair, l believe that this condition of affairs can be improved and the disastrous ending preventeil. H'.hat wo need is the application of the golden rule. Instead of the maxim of 'tho devil take the Hindmost' which now dominates the com mercial system. Both workmen and em ployers take advantage of circumstances. The manulacturer finds a man who Is in debt or has had sickness in his family, and he resolvos that while the man is worth n 60 a day he will only pay him $1 50, be cause his necessities force him to take J nst what he can get, and, in retaliation, when the Workmen finds the employer with A con tract on hand which must be out at a cer tain time, he Insists on $3 SO a day when (2 SO would be tho proper figure." Mr. Wright then reterrcd to the railroad strike now in progress at Buffalo, but did not enter into the merits or the controversy at any length. Ho said: "It has been asked or me how I am going to apolozlzo for the violence during the recent labor troubles. That task does not fall on me. Our organi zation, the Knights of Labor, never coun tenanced nor tolerated violence Wo recog nize that the only way to better tho condi tion oi tne toners is by nrousea puuiio senti ment. Thn Winner Never Batter Oft "It makes llttlo real difference In the end whether these strikes are Won or lost. How much better.off is the striker, even after be ing successful? The vital issuo Is that tho men who produce the wealth get scarcely any of it, whilo those who do practically nothing toward its production get nearly all of It. You ask whether this can be possible under republican institutions. You do not live under a republic. A plutocracy rules here Just as it does in Canada, my own coun try, and just as it does in the limited mon aichy of England, tho more absolute mon archy of Germany aud the despotism of Rus sia. "The leading parties-oT this country aro jnst now divided upon a meat issue tho tariff. The discussion of this question will be a good thing if It sets you to thinking, but it will accomplish no other good. You wfll find in free trade England and tho pro tected United States tho same conditions. That is, the woikers ot the people aro robbed of all they produce except a baro living. A little less or a little more tariff is not the way out of tho woods. You will find the cause of the evil just ns widely extended and ramified as the evil Itself. It is not a question of the foiin of Government, even, but under all farms as they now exist, the producting classes are robbed. Call Down for the Beading Combine. "Examine the laws by tho standard of the golden rule, and you wllfsoon ascertain the source of the evil, as well as its roraedy. What right has tbo Reading combine to put a tax on consumers of nnthraoite coal, an article placed in the ground by Providence rortne Denoncoi aumanaino. uorpoiations tare a new creation, a soulloss monstrosity, 'and in themselves constitute one of the 'greatest problems of -the latter half of the nineteenth century. ThejKmnst be wlpod out of existence. Remember, I don't approve of tho methods nsed by the hotheads at Homestead, in Idaho, Tennessee or at Buffalo. This matter must be thought out, not fought out, and the contest is one for ballots, not bullets. "Now," continued Mr. Wright, "there is need of radical reform in the land system. Of Course I admit tho right of one individ ual person or several of them to beoome Sossessed of real estate and make use of it. ut under the present methods there is a pos sibility that some one man or corporation may acquire all the land in the country, a State, or even the nation. What is there, then, to prevent the command: 'This is my land; get off of it!' And remember that what reforms are good for the workingmen are good for the farmer. Gover&mnnl Control ot Kallroada. "The idea that their interests conflict has long since been exploded, and a great ques tion that confronts both classes is that of taxation without representation. That is, a dozen railroad corporation representa tives get together in a back parlor, and by an increase in transportlon rates raise the price of living for millions of people. The inter-State commerce law has been tried, and it is only a farce. That is the Govern ment control or the railroads, and it has proved a failure. Why not try Government ownership? "You have hsen discussing the question of good country roads. After you have such roads will you permit a corporation to get bold of them and charge you for their use? Yet the railroad is just as much of a public highway. Of course, I know that wbon the proposition of the Government railroads is made the cry of paternalism Is at once raised. The average politician is very much afraid of paternalism, when his party is not in power. Some countries, even under monarchy, have successfully operated Gov ernment railroads. Cannot a ltepubllo do as much? In two States of Germany Prussia and Bavaria all the railways are owned and run by the Government, and the destruc tion of nfo nd property In the operation Is much less than on the lines In this country. "But I bear some one say, 'That's social ism.' Well, I am a socialist. Don't Jump. I have no dynamite with me, and I don't think I would know how to use it if I had. You all favor Government management of the postofflce system, do yon not? Of course you do, and to that extent at least you are all socialistic, and if the postofflce, why not the railroads and the telegraph, and perhaps later on, even the coal mines? Explanation of Mr. Wright's Theory. "Now, don't misunderstand me. The things that individuals can do best should be done by them, and that whioh can best be done by tho community should be accom plished in that manner. The product of a man's brain or brawn should be his, and no body should be able to take it away from him. I believe that nine out of ten employ ers would like to be fair and Wfcmld rather pay high wages than low ones. But the trouble is with tho competitive system. "It is the favorite remark of many orators that the interests of labor and capital are identical. On the contrary, they are abso lutely opposed to each other. By that I mean capitalism and the capitalistic system. The employer must buy his labor as cheaply aud sell his goods as. dearly as possible. The Interests of the two can not be identical. Before the war the slave owner of the South was forced by self-interest to see that his colored help had at least enough clothes and food to maintain exist ence. Now he doesn't care if his negro laborers die; there will be plenty more, forced by necessity, into eagerness, to take their places. That is the sentiment whioh dominates the entire industrial system of the present day, and that system must be totallv changed." J. A. Bower followed Mr. Wright and dis cussed "Free Silver" in a most exhaustive manner. But one speaker of the day. Prof. Uelges, or York, confined himself to agri cultural topics. The attendance at the encampment throughout the day was large, and much interest was evinced in the proceedings. Bahckott. A Priest to Do Penance Two Tears. St. Louis, Aug. 20. From inner Catholio circles it Is learned that Father J. C. Kuhl man, recently dispossessed of the parochial residence at Mitchell, 111., will do penance for two years at some monastery. Father Kuhlman's trouble with Bishop J. Ryan, or Alton, began last year, the Bishop having been eustalued by Borne. Ho baa the privi lege of entering an American or a foreign monastery. J Salisbury la a New Role. Toledo BtWe'.l 'lord silisbuTy might find a job editing a Demooratlo newspaper in Boston, KLEPTOMANIA IN GOTHAM. Strange Tales of How Ibe Mania Has Afferttd Swell Society People. The amount of thieving in New York, right under the noses of the deteotlves, is amaz ing, and that, too, not by professionals, but by persons In respectable walks of life, and in many instances moving in the best society in the metropolis, says a writer In the New York Press. A few days ago a lady living in one of the fashionable apartment houses in the neigh borhood of Twenty-third street called a messenger boy and requested him to take her dog out for an airing, as she was not feeling well enough to go herself. The boy returned in the course of hair an hour look ing quite woe begone, and stated that he had lost the dog. The lady wax wild with grief at the loss of her pet, and insisted upon having the boy accompany her Just where he had been. He said that some one in Park A Til ford's told him that the dog ran in the store and that a lady patted him and took blm out with lior, but as shs did not seem to know his name they thought he could not belong to her. The name of the lady wa3 given as one of their customers, and the owner of the dog proceeded to the address given, in Twenty-flrst street. It was a private house. She rang the bell, was shown Into the house, and the lady soon made her appearance. The story of the loss of the dog was related, and tho subsequent Information which had been gleaned at Park & Tflford's. She expressed the greatest sympathy for the lady in her loss, bnt stoutly denied hav ing seen or taken the dog. The lady then repaired to the district messenger office and reported the loss, say ing that she would hold them responsible for it. The Superintendent asked her if she would accompany him to the same house from which sbo had just come. She replied that "it would do no good, as the lady said she knew nothing about the doe." He insisted, and together they went to the house on Twenty-first street. The lady again assured them she knew nothing what ever about the dog. After a Short pause the Superintendent said: "Madam, that dog is in this house, and unless yon produce him I will have to get a search warrant for the promises. She was indignant, and said that she would make him suffer for his impudence. This aid not move the officer, who started toward the door to put his threat Into execu tion. She turned vory pale and requested him to "wait a minute." She then left the room, but returned In a lew minutes with the missing dog, who flew into his mistress' arms, where he received any amount of caressing. Not a word of explanation was given or asked, for tho owner was so delighted to re cover her pet that she hastened out of the house as soon as she had him safely in her possession, A guest at the Malborouzh had a young woman friend at luncheon a few days ago. Shortly after her arrival another friend called, whom she went downstairs to see, at the Bame time throwing a roll of bills which her husband had handed her into her trunk. She returned to her apartment after the departure of her caller and found the young friend whom she had Invited to luncheon reading a novel. She left soon after luncheon, and the lady having ocoaslon to go to her trunk found that a t20 bill had been taken from tho roll. A tew days after tho same lady Called and showed a pretty dress that she bad just purchased. As she had told her friend on the day of the previous visit that she was entirely out or funds and would be until her next allowance came, her suspicious wore confirmed. She Went to the store from whioh the purchase was made; saw tho clerk from whom it was made (who mb.3 a friend of both parties) and fonnd that the crisp $20 note had been paid out for tho dress. She did not accuse the young woman, but she has avoided her since. A detective was summoned a few weeks ago to one of the fashionable uptown apart ment houses to see if he could And any trace of a handsome pair of pearl opera glasses that bad mysteriously disappeared. The usual number of questions were asked and answered. The lady of the bouse stated that no outsider except an intimate friend 'had been in tho room in which tho glasses were kept. The officer asked her if she would give the name and address of the friend "That would be useless," she re- SUcd, "for she knew nothing about them." he gave the desired information, however, and In the course of two days the detective brought tbo glasses to the house. He had written to the lady in question, stating that unless the glasses were Bent to him at a given time an exposure would be made. A young bride recently laid her Tings and other Jewels in the upper drawer of her bureau, intending to put them on after the marriage ceremony, when she should don her traveling dicss. One of her attendants was the only person who saw her place them in the drawer. When she returned lor them the handsomest diamond ring was missing. In the hurry of departure she could not wait for a thorough search, but went away sup posing it was only misplaced. Search was instituted next day, but it was not to be found. Susplolon pointed so strongly to the voung lady attendant that an anonymous letter was written to her, saying that unless she returned the ring measures would be taken to make her do so. It was returned. A reception was given last winter in a Madison avenue mansion. The best people in the city were present. After the recep tion a valuable solid silver hand glass was missed from the ladles' room. None bat the guests had been in the room. The servants had been in the family ten years and were above suspicion. Some gnest had not been able to stand the temptation of look ing at her fair presentment in a solid silver back handglass. Lea-ring the Men Far Behind. Boston Herald. Now the dear girls have taken to wearing diamond buckles on their suspenders.. This seems to emphasizo their gross usurpation. DEATHS HERE MD ELSEWHERE. Mad am AppnrncI, the Female Tf orth. 3Iadame Apparuci, formerly editor and owner of the Fashion Journal and lor some time the female Worth, is dead In St. l'etersbnrg. She was undar arrest for manifold frauds. Soon after her arrest the poured petroleum on her nightgown and set fire to It. she was severely burned and was sent to the Evangelical Hospital for treatment. There a few days ago she cUpped with a pair of scissors the veins at the root of her tongue. She died Tuesday. About 100 criminal charges were pending against her, and the Paris police wero only awaiting her recovery from burns to bring her from St. Petersburg for trial. The amount which the was accused of obtaining by fraud was between 2, 000, COO and 3,000,000 franc. Edward J. Doncherty, Detective. Captain Edward J". Dougherty, Assistant Superintendent of Plnkerton's Detective Agency In Philadelphia, died Friday. He was born on the banks of the Brandywlne, near Wilmington. Del., in 1834. At the breaking out of the Rebellion he enlisted in Company C, Fonrth Regiment, Dela ware Infantry, and served with bravery and dis tinction. At the close or the war Captain Donrb erty settled In Wilmington, servlnff two terms as Chief of Police of that city. He afterward went to Philadelphia and became connected with the Plnkerton agency, and has succeeded in bringing many notorious criminals to Justice. Bar. John Van Nest Talmage. Bev. Dr. John Van Kest Talmage, brother Of Bev. T. DeWltt Talmage, died la Bound Brook. N. J., Friday. He wa born In Somervllle, N. J., August IS, 1310. and was graduated In Ruger's College in 1843, and the New Brunswick (N. J.) Seminary in 1845. He received a license from the Classls of Philadelphia, and In 184S became a mis sionary of the Reformed church In China. Obituary Notes. Da. JOHX DBTSniXl, the well-known home opathic physician of London, is dead. HON. Jonif A. Hatdin, of Bath. Me., died Fri day, aged 84. He was a scholar and scientific man, and had been Mayor, Representative and Senator. Djlniil Kkhsthno. aged years, the oldest man in Sunbury. died yesterday morning from the effects of Onjurles received by being struck by a rrelglit car. "William A. Bees, connected with the Phlla aclphla postofflce, died suddenly yesterday at Green Castle from paralysis. He was well-known throughout the slate ai a prominent Republican. IIkitbt T. Heddex, Commissioner of Seneca county. O.. dropped dead of heart disease In Tiffin Friday evening while attending X social gathering. He was about 55 years old. t - Db. Leopold V. 15LIIVXRS died in Washing ton Friday alter a brief illness. He wasa man of brilliant attainments, and was for many years pro fessor of Freucu at the United States Naval Academy. Edwaed F. Majot, General Superintendent of the Concord and Montreal Ballroad, died at his residence in Concord. N. H., Friday, la the 47th year of bis age. Mr. Mann was bora ta Benton, N. H., in 1943. Charles Kshtoju formerly a circus proprietor of Gardner & Kenyon's show and other onee noted theatrical enterprises. Is dead t bis home in Peoria, UU Two or bis daughters, Ella and Minnie Kenyou, are actresses. Mas. Jons Kekneot of Ererson. Ta., died Thursday night, aged about 75 years. She was the mother of M. J. Kennedy-prqprtetoror the Seott dale distillery, and John W. Kennedy, one of the principal stockholders of the Soottdale Brewing uompany. THE OLD LOO 8CH00LH0USE. tWBITTXX FOB TUB DUrATCIt.l Fond memories go back to a little, old, log sohoolb ouse on the border of a wood located on the side of a country road, and another, a small nnpainted frame, near what was then a village, but what is now a thriv ing, prosperous city. In Hie lapse of 33 years what changes have cornel But those old-time school-bouses havo vanished, the teachers have long since laid down the ferrule and the birch and most of them, "Sleep the sleep that knows not waking." The girls with their sweet young faces, are girls no more, though others with forms ns fair, with cheeks as red and eyes as bright, have taken their places; and the boys, as thoy occasionally show up, how changed they arc. Changed? Yes, all or them, and not a few only, have names on graven stone, telling the passer-by the old, old story, of having lived and that they now live no more. And some are sleeping where no man knoweth; resting beneath the cypress in far off fields where surged the martial fray and rolled the crimson tide of valor, some,"where the marsh reeds qniver," bnt all so silently sleeping, only awaiting the archangel's triumph. A Picture the Elders Will fiecognlz. But no palatial edifice can evoke more tender recollections, nothing can more en twine into kind remembrance, than those little, plnin, unpretentious, but honest and well-meaning common scboothouses of tho long ago. Simple and rnds were the in- toriors, long, slanting desks against the walls and long benches; somewhat uncouth perhaps, and not over educated, were the teachers, "the jolly old pedagogues long aro," but still there was a heartiness and a wholesomeness, and tbe very atmosphere was bracing and every urobin felt elated that he lived. It is true, the modern ornateness was lack ing; those who drank from tbe fountains of knowledge in those days did not stagger underloads of constant! v chancrln? books. tbe day or mental cramming had not yet set in, there were no "examination days" to show off a glittering sutface tinsel to school committees, but what tussles there were, what wrestling with the spelling book and readers, and what a Goliath in learning was he that had vanquished the "single rule of three." It seemed so surprising that so much could be accomplished by one person in a lifetime! Grammar? There still comes an echo something like this: "Indicative mode, present tense, flrst per son I love, second person you love, third person he, she or it loves" etc., etc, with the other properties and forms or tenses, and the younger fry would indulge in wonderful Jtrimaces, for the science of the thing was as ogarithms to them, but the verb in the case was beginning to unfold its defin ition. Glory or the Old Day Scholars. There were two great pinnacles of am bition, one, to write as good a hand as the master, the other, to be the best speller. The intricacies of English orthography are such that ready and correct spelling is sim ply a matter of prodigious memorizing, thero being an absolute lack of reason, order, method, ense, propriety, precedent or justification in tbe orthographical Cast of tho letters that form multitudes of words and whicb, once authorized, it seems, have to bo endured. But, there wero those who got the ways Of these words packed away in the graymatter or their juvenile brains, and who, in a duel of orthography, could "stand up" after whole battalions were downed. But the great function of the common school is not comprised alone in letter. It is there that are Imbibed the flrst grand lessons in true republicanism, there it is that is laid, par excellence, the true founda tion of genuine American democracy. That meeting on a common level, that wiping ont of all petty clannish distinctions, all rank save that of clean-cut inherent merit; that common' jostle and common hustle, and polishing off of protruding angularities, this is tlie supreme condition for practical citizenship in a representative government. In the common school are learned grand lessons in toleration, forbearance, equality and homogeneity. Here may meet Jew and Gentile, rich and poor, dull and bright and learn tnat. to be simply an honorable, in telligent American citizen, nprlght, moral, cultured, is enough; Is to be the peer of any people anywhere on the earth. What the School Has Undertaken. The common school proposes to deal with the entire weight of tbe whole rising genera tion. It proposes to elevate the entire men tal avoirdupois to a nlgber horizon think of itt What a grand, what n stupendous conception! Does tbe process seem slow? Certainly. One may not see tbe motion of tbe glacier, as tnac oi a snownaae, ana yet, when wo. measure and compare their relative movement, how superlatively greater is the former. Our wise and grandly far-seeing forefath ers declared and committed themselves and tbelr all to tbe great proposition that "G ov ernments derive their Just powers from the consent of the governed." How necessary, then, that the governed should be intelli gent, that they may delegate their "con sent" intelligently. No government of tne people, by the people and for the people can long endure that does not look carefully to the welfare of all the people. It is the only hope, tho one and only anchor of safety. In tbe common school all the children, the children of toil, of narrow means, the humble, the bare-root boys and girls all these are bidden to come to takean equal chance to alms in life, to that goal to whioh leads no royal road, but which must be ap proached by rendering an exact measure of mental effort for each gain that is made, where neither money nor flne raiment can avail, where tbe treasure can only be seenredbytbe digger, and where no dele gate can gain admission. A Foundation Not to Be Shaken. Tempests may come to shake and rock, foes may assail, but so .long as lives In the American heart one spark of the love of liberty and equality, so long the common school the Jeweled star in the galaxy of American institutions will be safe. Then prosperity and perpetual youth, to the common school, tne people's soh ool, the great lever that lifts tho grand total of all the weight of the whole body politic, that gives to the humblest child the same oppor tunity as any other, that takes the human product of many climes, of varied races an d dlverso faiths and molds them into a homo geneous mass, broadens them, expands them, transforms them, eradicates all nar row warp and kink and stands them on their feet in a newer, nobler and higher life. May this grand agency then live, the proud pillar of the Ropnblio and may tho starry flag that waves over its roofs be maintained andsustainedlongas the con stellations these stars typify remain to glit ter in the heavens. My alma mater, grand and great. Hold to tbe breeze this snowy sail And safety rulda the Ship of State, When strike tbe tempest and the gale. On thee depends her human fretcht. Her freight of hopes and tender fears With all the hopes of future years CoinmDia's Dinner, noio eiatei August, 1892. N. THE QUEEff OP THE TURF. Maud S is deposed and the American pub lic bows to a new queen of the turf. Long live Nancy Hanks! Buffalo Express. Nakct Hawks Is not an aristocratic name, but there are few who would not bo proud of an acquaintance with the owner of it. Indianapolis Journal. Tbe evolution or the two-minute horse is being watched with great interest, and there is good ground for the expectation that it will soon appear. Baltimore Herald. Nasot Hawks, Budd Doble and the pneu matic sulky made a grand combination at Washington Park, and Chicago, as usual.has set the pace for tbe rest ot the world. Chi cago Sews. Grkat is Kentucky and great are her quad rupedal offspring. The statesman who said that the cyclone, oompared with her horses, became "a puling paralytic," was not far oat of his reckoning. Brooklyn Eagle. Great Is Nancy, and the track and tbe record tremble beneath her feet, and Jove's courier, the sight-outrunning thunderbolt, has a hard timewithheratthe quarter. Our most distinguished salutations to Nancy. Ntv York Sun. Nawct Hasxs covered herself with new glory by covering mile in the unprece dented trotting timo of 2:0 It was a great feat, the greatest of a year which has abounded in brilliant performances on both the trotting and running tracks. New York World. Now Nanoy Hanks has trotted a mile in 2:07 w 1th perfect ease, and Bubb Doble, her driver, believes that she can do much better than tt is. In view of this fact, it seems al most pertinent to ask ir a Dorse can make a recordtwhlchsome otner horse cannot break. Bostdn Globe. AT lojst the mile trotting record on a circu lar track has been lowered, Nancy Hanks having; trotted tho distance at Chicago In 2-.07& As tbe breed of trotters Improves and trainers and drivers become more skill ful the ooveted mark of 2:00 seems not so far ATrti-Fhiladetphia Becord. CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. Nutmegs are very strong narcotics. The Michigan penitentiary has a large class in telegraphy. The small boys in Omaha, Keb., make money by selling cat tails. A resident in Honcksville, Md., has an old cow that eats chiccens. It is computed that nearly 5700,000,000 are invested in electricity. The English Derby was established la 1870 by 'the twelfth Earl or Derby. Squirrels have taken to eat watermelons in some parts of tbe State ot Oregon. The first training school for teachers was organized In Prussia in the year 1733. A. cannon ball was recently fired nearly seven miles from an 80-ton gun in Dover, England. The New Orleans messenger boys struck because they were ordered to wash' their faces. A scheme is now worked in Scotland by which a high grade of brick is being made from chipped granite and clay. Nickel 3-cent pieces of 1877 are worth 75 cents cacb, while those of 1S78, 18S2, 18S3 and 1SSG aro worth 5 cents eaoh. Ice cream is served at seaside resorts In the shape, size and color of billiard balls. It is an idea borrowed from Geneva. Bergen, Norway, boasts of a church built entirely of paper and perfectly water proof. It can seat nearly LOCO persons in comfort. New York will exhibit at the World's Fair sections of all the trees which are in digenous to tbe State. Of these there aro forty-three species andeighty-flvo varieties. Three men in France competed to sea who could drink tbe most water. One swal lowed twelve quarts, the second nine and tbe third seven. All three died from thn effects. A new clock ("Great Paul") is being built for St. Paul's Cathedral in England. The bell upon which the clock will strike weighs 17 tons, with a hammer weighing 6S0 pounds. Two women have been appointed bridge tenders in New Jersey, one at Green Bank and the other at Lower Bank. These are be lieved to be the only female bridge tenders In the world. The Indian Government has voted 40, OOOrupees for the purpose of making an ex hibit of teas at the Chicago fair and 10,000 rupees for tbe decoration of the Indian pa vilion and grounds. A single glass eye can rarely be -worn more than a year without being polished, for the surface becomes roughened by tha action or the tears, etc., and Irritates tbe lids as they rub over it. Stockings made from human hair are worn by Chinese fishermen as tbo best pre ventive of wet feet. They are drawn over ordinary cotton stockings, being too rough for putting near tho skin. A young couple at Eockford, 111., have signed an agreement to be married and make their wedding trip in a balloon. Hockford .merchants will present the conple with some $800 worth of usernl articles if they re turn in safety from tbe trip. The Chinese make what is called "Chi-wa-bl," or grass cloth, from tho flber'of the common nettle. It is said to make a splendid cloth for tents, awnings, etc When made Into belting for machinery it is said to have twice the strength of leather. At the Palais de l'Industrie the Old Salon has made way for an exhibition of art objects produoed by women. There are cm vases by old masters and groups of wax figures, as well as oil paintings and watev colors by tbe women artists of Fans. Of the 11,000,000 women in Italy nearly 2,000,000 are employed in industrial labor, and over 3,000,000 ln.agricnlture. They are in the majority in the cotton, linen and jute industries, and in the silk trade there are 117,000 women employed and but 17,700 men. A country newspaper correspondent in Maine recently sent the cheerful bit of news to his paper: "Brooks is at last provided -with a nice hearse, and our citizens can now be conveyed to their graves in decent shape This Is something that has long been needed here." Daring the year 1892 thus far, the as cent of Mount Blano. once considered p among the rarest of achievements, has been successruHy accomplished Dy nve Germans, four Americans, three frenchmen and two Englishmen. In a recent issue of the Churchman there appeared an advertisement from "A West ern Priest," setting forth that he was out of employment and wanted a Job. He under took to "keep a congregation awake on the hottest day.,T ; Although whales grow to enormous size, sometimes 80 and even 90. feet long, the , throat is so small that it cannot swallow a bite as large as a tea biscuit. This applies to the common whale: the spermaceti hasa, i mouth large enough to swallow a man. ' In a recently invented watch for tha i blind, a small peg is set in the middle of each figure. When the hour hand reaches a given hour, tbe peg for that hour drops. The i owner, when he wants to know the time, ; finds whioh peg is down and then counts back to XIL. Savages in various parts of the world plait the inner fibres of tree bark for fishing lines, and the Indians on the Pacific coast ot' ' North America use for the same purpose seaweed a sort of kelp which is plenty strong enough to hold fast a finny captive ot 130 pounds weight. Large families are very common among j the factory population of Lewistown, Me, Henry McCraw has raised 19 children, of , whom 13 are now living. The mother is a healthy woman of 43. Noel Gandette has raised 19 children, of whom 11 arelivlng, tha youngest 11 years of age and tho eldest 33. Russia has still many old and curious marriage customs which would be Interest IngtotheMona Calrd cult. One is for tha bride and bridegroom to race madly down , the aisle as soon as tbe bridal procession enters the cbnrcb, because of the belief that wboever places a foot flrst on the cloth in front of the altar will be master in the house hold. ASTEROIDS IN AUGUST. She (on the piazza) Thanks, I don't cars for the steamer rug. but I should like something to put aroundmy neck. He What shaU I fetch, a shawl? She No, anything with arms to K.Claai'Jls vUio. "How are yon fixed financially?" inquired) the packing case. , "Well, to tell the truth," replied the trunk, "Tm busted." AndL" "Id the packing ease, "an strapped myself." Baltimorqltoo. The typesetter sat with his Sunday girl, And his heart with love was warm: And he sUpped his arm round her waist and said "This is only a matter of 'form. ' " Brooklyn Eagle. Cholly I do despise a man with no fanv fly pride. Besgy Hswf Cholly Haw. There's that wich uncle of mint faw instance. Saysheeawn'tsee what difference, ltlatohlmwhethahlweahalawstyeah'a suit of not. Indianapolis Journal. THX DBJCAM AND THE aaULITT. Eis wlfie showed him her new hat, Her eyes with Joy agleam. And, having pretty phrases pat. He said, 'It Is a dream." She then brought forth the bin to Mm He eyed It gloomily; That Is," he said, with visage rrlm. "Astern reality." iro Tor Prtm "Waiter, bring me a dish of ice cream. Tas'm." "And. waiter." Tas'm." "Let it be pink ice cream to match my gown." Chicago Seas. About the girls there's one thing sure These Coras. Mauds and Alices. Although suspenders they procure, They'U never can them gallnses. Washington Star. Husband (to wife, who is a lady Commit slouer)-How are you women getting along wlta your end of the World's ralr? Wife (donhtfully)-AVeU, we've got all ttsj money we want. Husband-That settles it. You'n make a howl ing success. -Detroit Irei Press. Miss MeBean (tourist, from Boston) It's strange that the Sphinx keeps silent la the face of the remarks or these vulgar peop'e. Mr. Bacon (ditto, from Chicago) it would nt, I reckon, if It didn't have lots o' aai.-SaltK Gray 4 Co. ' Mmthlu?
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