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THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH, TUESDAY, AUGUST 23. 1893.
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CANADA AND THE MESSAGE.
Up to date the Canadian Government
has taken no official notice of the Presi
dent's retaliatory proclamation. But the
Canadian press has a good deal to say
.upon the subject All the newspapers ap
pear agreed upon one point: That the
bjll when in force will he a very practical
and emphatic protest from this country.
None of them make any serious attempt
to deny that the discriminations com
plained of are a distinct abrogation of the
Washington treatj on the part of Canada.
But in other respects their opinions differ
a good deal. Most are filled with a pain
ful surprise that the United States
should be unkind enough to do to
others what others have done
to them. Some blame their own ministers
for having brought the trouble upon them.
One thanks God, in the fullness of its pa
triotic pride, that the United States has at
last thought Canada of sufficient import
ance to repay it m its own coin. In some
quarters there is an attempt to account
for the whole matter by assuming it to be
a bid by the rival parties of this country
for the national vote in November. All
this is somewhat amusing and a trifle
ridiculous.
The proclamation has already accom
plished its main purpose in persuading
the somewhat dull intelligence of Canada
that this country means business. This
much done, Canada can please itself
whether it maintains its discriminations
and suffers our retaliation, or whether
both shall be called off.
FREE TKADE INANITIES.
The tendency of our psteemedfree trade
cotemporaries to ascribe everything to the
tariff is illustrated by a paragraph in the
Louisville Courier-Journal to Ihe follow
ing effect: "The plumbers' bill says:
Solder, 2 pounds, G9 cents; 1 foot 5-8 lead
pipe, 30 cents. If Mr. McKmley has
cheapened plumbers' materials, the
plumber must be getting rich at last"
Probably this was not intended to be
taken seriously; but it is an appropriate
companion piece to the simultaneous effort
of the St Louis Bepubltc, which proceeds
to charge the recent flouring mill consoli
dations to the tariff. That journal de
velops a theory that the farmers cannot
sell their wheat in Europe owing to the
tariff; therefore the flouring mills can
combine, make the farmer sell wheal to
them at their own terms and then sell the
flour to Europe at a profit All of which
is sufficiently answered by a reference to
the statistics of the exports of wheat
Such inanities would not be worth
serious notice if they did not illustrate the
disposition to attribute to the tariff the ef
fects of the industrial combinations. The
plumbers' prices are sustained at extor
tionate figures by the combination -which
carries Its tyranny to the degree of forbid
ding wholesalers to sell pipe or other ma
terials to the ordinary purchaser. The
flouring combinations in two cases are
schemes to sell stock at highly watered
prices. In the California case It may be a
grievous monopoly. But it is as indepen
dent of the tariff as was the parent and
exemplar of all these combinations, the
Standard Oil Company.
When our free trade cotemporaries he
come capable of distinguishini between
the prices fixed by illegal combinations
and those fixed by legitimate domestic
competition we may hope for a little in
telligent discussion of the tariff question.
ALLEGHENY'S WIFEBEATERS.
Alegheny City has too many wife
heaters. For some inexplicable" reason
there is always a great deal of this pe
culiarly repellent crime in vogue across
the river. There appear to be more cow
ardly, bullying husbands in Allegheny
than in any other American city of its
size. Something ought to he done to put
an end to this disgraceful condition of
affairs.
We are unfortunately too civilized now
adays to make a return to flogging of even
such offenders as these permissible. They
can ojly be treated under the general'
headT. disorderly conduct, hut even so
their sentences are seldom made as severe
as they might be. No community can
afford to have promiscuous con jural in
felicity of this kind continually going on
in its midst There should bo a deter
mined effort to suppress the practice, even
if new laws have to he passed to deal with
it
THE HABIT OF MOB LAW.
There is a peculiar note from East Ten
nessee in that story about the lynching of
Bob Lindsay.J the leader of the miners'
insurrection. We are told that Lindsay's
acts were so obnoxious to the conservative
miners and citizens that while away from
the protection of the military he was
seized and would have been hanged, ex
cept for his breaking down and promising
to turn State's evidence against his asso
ciates. Here we have a characteristic feature of
the popular evil. Lindsay's offense, in
common with most of the population, was
in levying a mob, and defying the law.
We are not told that the people of Coal
Creek are believers in homeopathy; but
they evidently have the principle of
similia similibui firmly implanted in their
minds. They could see no way of punish
ing Lindsay but by getting np a mob and
breaking the law exactly as he had
done. If all mobs were not equally
an attack on civil government it would be
permissible to think that the mob which
revolts against convict miners' camps is
WjjeB
more excusable than one simply to enjoy
the delights of a lynching. As enemies of
order the lynchers certainly placed them
selves on a level with Lindsay.
Another point is salient in the same con
nection. The presence is disclosed in the
center of the Insurrectionary region of a
large body of miners and citizens who were
opposed to the lawless proceedings of last
week. Nothing was heard of their oppo
sition till the military suppressed the out
break; after which they became ravening
wolves for the blood of the leader of the
mob. If they had exhibited half the
energy In opposing the mob, and In fight
ing against it at the proper time that they
do in pursuit of a lynching affair the out.
break would never have reached the stage
of civil war, the locality would have
been able to enfore the law itself, and the
spectacle of martial law to sustain a dem
ocratic Government would have been un
necessary. The great need of the American people
is to learn the lesson of more promptness
infighting to uphold the law and less
promptness in breaking it down by mobs
and plots.
HOW TO ABOLISH SMOKE.
The fact that the ordinance forbidding
the production of smoke in a considerable
section of the city will go into effect
within a few days make3 it pertinent to
refer to the experience of Chicago in the
same matter. The crusade against smoke
there has demonstrated two important
points. First, that smoke from steam
furnaces and ordinary fires can be reduced
to a minimum. The second is that this
will not be done until an active and
vigorous prosecution is waged against all
offenders.
Pittsburg has local demonstrations of
the possibilities of abolishing smoke. But
if the nuisance is to be lessened it must
be borne in mind that all offenders, how
ever influential, must be impartially sub
jected to the penalties. While preparing
for such enforcement of the ordinance it
will be wall worth while to inquire why
Pittsburg should confine its prohibition to
the section of the city where there is the
le:sl production of smoke and where the
smoke does the least damage, and where
the slightest results are to be expected
from such an ordinance.
The principle of the ordinance that
there are certain sections'of the city where
the prohibition cannot be enforced Is en
tirely correct To forbid the rolling mills
to produce smoke before an economic
method of making iron without it has
been perfected would be unjust and sui
cidal. But the point which will be ob-
vions to anyone who considers the
subject is that there is a section where
the damage done by the production
of unnecessary smoke creates a necessity
infinitely beyond that in the East End dis
trict, where the ordinance Is to have effect
The slicht number of smoke-producing
plants in the latter section makes the dam
age from smoke there unimportant, ex
cept as it drifts from tho manufacturing
districts.
On the other hand, there are scores of
boiler plants in the down-town section
which are constantly vomiting out un
necessary smoke. This is blackening fine
architecture, damaging large stocks of
good5!, soiling the clothing of the
people, and injuring the health
and eyesight It attacks the center of the
city where the injury is to the largest
numb?r of people. It can he prevented
as easily as among the scattered plants of
the suburban section. The possibility of
its prevention has been shown by public
spirited owners who have put in smoke
consuming apparatus, with the poor re
turn of having their buildings and goods
damaged by the continuous smoke from
plants of others.
The city should prepare for a vigorous
enforcement of the anti-smoke ordinance.
At the same time it should without further
delay extend the provisions of the or
dinance to the down-town section, where
the enforcement is most needed.
AN OBJECT LESSON.
There is a decided object lesson in an
explanation published yesterday of the
failure of the United States Glass Com
pany to earn more than 6 per cent when
the factories composing it earned inde
pendently an average of 11 per cent. The
explanation is simple enough. It points
out that the capital is 5700,000 more than
the capital of the separate concerns, in
cluding such items as $90,000 to the or
ganizer of the consolidation and other
items which represent a liberal supply of
water. This certainly appears to give
some explanation of the difference be
tween the earning power. But, as the in
crease of 700,000 does not bear the same
proportion to cash value as the decrease
from 11 to 6 per cent, it explains only part
of it
After due allowance is made for a de
crease in the general prosperity of the
glass business, does not this case indicate
that the "economy in management" which
we hear so much of In connection with
all these, consolidations is not yet realized
in the .case of the United States Glass
Company?
anssLssrppi axd the constitution.
The New Tork Post exhibits its passion-t
ate naenty to tue Democratic cause in
whatever shape it may be presented for
the present by asserting that tho Missis
sippi disqualification' does not come under
the provisions of the fourteenth amend
ment to the United States Constitution.
Thisls its argument:
But this provision has no applicability to
such lobulations as those in Massachusetts
and Mississippi, requiring a citizen to pass
an educational test and pay a poll tax be.
foro voting, any moro than to tho regula
tions in this State, which prevent a man
from casting a ballot unless his name Is on
the registry list n certain length of time
before the election. The State does not
deny a man the right to vote when It tells
him that he must loam to read, or that he
must nay a tax, or that he must go through
the process of registration, in order to ex
ercise it, so long as any such regulation ap
plies to all men, as Is the case In these re
spects, In Massachusetts, Sew Tork and
Mississippi.
This is very ingenious; but the trouble
with it is that it does not take into account
the language of the Constitution. The
provision is that when the right to vote is
denied, "or in any way abridged," except
for crime, the basis of representation shall
be reduced. All the jugglery with lan
guage that is possible will not conceal the
fact that when a man is forbidden to vote
because he cannot read.or has not a certain
amount of property, the right of suffrage
is abridged to exactly that extent
It is idle to say that prescribing these
qualifications stands in the same position
as requiring registration. Eegistration, or
the proof of qualification, is a regulation
to which every man can conform If he de
sires. But to say that the voter is not dis
qualified because he can learn to read or
can accumulate property enough is
simply idle mocker-. The disqualification
is a clear one and is undisputably within
the terms of the Constitution.
It is legitimate, and even praiseworthy
for Mississippi or any other State to adopt
an educational qualification sincerely ad
ministered. But such' a State cannot
honestly take a greater representation
than it is entitled to under the provision
of the Constitution which bases "repre
sentation on voting population. When
the disqualified voters of Mississippi have
been educated, as the Pott suggests, then
Mississippi can honestly claim a full
Congressional and electoral vote.
THE MARCH OF CHOLERA.
In addition to the reports of extensive
ravages of, cholera in Russia and Persia
the press dispatches yesterday report its
appearance in epidemic form near Char
Icroi, Belgium. It has existed with more
or less severity in the suburbs of Paris for
some weeks. Its spread indicates that- it
is not likely to be confined to Russia, but
that all of Western Europe may expect to
suffer from it unless sanitary conditions
are such as to render it harmless.
The same fact affords a valuable warn
ing to the United States. It is not likely
that the disease can reach this country In
time to make much headway before the
fall frosts; but if its seeds take root here
its spread may he serious next summer.
The most rigid quarantine should be en
forced against all possible methods of
bringing that unwelcome visitor the
cholera bacillus to the United States.
The place to effectually exclude the epi
demicJs at ourseaports. It remains to be
seen whether our health 'authorities can
establish a quarantine that will be im
pregnable. The next ten months, how
ever, is the time to -demonstrate that
ability if ever.
Pending that effort, every city in the
country should remember that a condition
of perfect cleanliness renders the cholera
innocuous. There are spots in Pittsburg
which, should the germ of 'disease reach
them, would prove prolific hot-beds for its
generation. They are breeding places of
disease already, but their work would be
manifoldly more fatal if an epidemic should
come. Every such place should be cleaned
up and kept scrupulously clean for the
next twelve months.
Mr. Tom Ewing achieved another tennis
victory yesterday. The family Is as distin
guished on the tennis court as in the courts
of law.
What a number of complaints Allegheny
citizens have to make about the manage
ment of their city. One thing after another
comes up as a cause for grumbling. And
now some one over there is actually raising
a dust because the streets are not properly
sprinkled.
The home Democracy does not sanction
anarchy orthe Blue Laws. And the home
Democracy deserves commendation there
for. Thebe is always something or other stir
ring In progressive Japan. When the sup
ply of earthquakes, llres and hurricanes
runs short the necessity for excitement is
satisfied by distributing dynamite packages
to abnoxlous cabinet ministers.
What an ideal Democratic ticket Dana
and Hill would have made according to the
opinion of those two gentlemen.
Kansas farmery were not satisfied with
blocking the railroads with tho superfluity
of their harvest. Four of them held up an
oxpross train on Saturday and were cap
tured themselves on Sunday morning. They
had better stick to farming.
Pneumatic tires are not the only sulky
things brought into prominence by the
latest record manufacturers.
Philadelphia is receiving many con
gratulations, most of them strongly tinct
ured with surprise, on its decision to have
an elevated railroad. Yet, taken as a whole,
Pittsburg has far and away the best rapid
transit system in the world.
Sappers and miners have not been em
ployed by the Tennessee militia to over
come the rebels.
Bud Lindsay, the Tennessee desperado,
who promised to turn State's evidence to
save his life, has as little regard for the oath
he took -with his follow conspirators as for
the law 'which he led them to defy.
Striking switchmen have no general,
but the firemen who will not go out are led
by a Sargent.
It speaks well for the interest taken in
railroad affairs that seyenty-flve foreigners
should attend tho International Railroad.
Conference in St. Fctorsbuig, when cholera
is pievalent in that city.
As a subject for discussion and misinter
pretation the Baker ballot law receives the
macaroon.
Labouchere has hitherto edited Truth
and made speeches to make others look rid
iculous. He seems to be doing the same
thing very successfully for himself just
now.
Novembeb will be the fall season for
Democratic pride and unfounded expecta
tions. The campaign against street obstructions
promises to open vigorously. It is to be
hoped that no stumbling blocks will be
placed in the way of tho official crusaders.
Canada will find out some day that the
United States occasionally means what It
says.
A Pennsylvania woman has died after
eleven years of illness, although possessed
of the power to speak. Andyet shots spoken
of as having boen mentally unbalanced.
Even school teachers have a chance to
live and learn this week.
Havers appears abont as hard to catch
as tho Cooleys, and there is only one of htm,
and he is not supposed to be among the
mountains.
The theatrical season gets a stage nearer
every week now. i
Tea has now been-frown and harvested
successfully in South Carolina. Thev have
feaiscd cane down there for some time past-
sugar cane.
PEOPLE OP PROMINENCE.
Candidates Harrison, Beid, Weaver
and Bldwell were all born in Ohio.
Bismarck used to spell his name with
out the "c," German, usage, in words having
a similar ending, sanctioning either form of
spelling.
Kev. De. Henet Hopkins, of Kansas
City, a son of Mark Hopkins, will be asked
by the trustees to accept the Presidency of
Drury College.
Secretary Charles Foster, having
returned to Washington from his vlstt
to Ohio, resumed his duties at the Treasury
Department yesterday.
Colonel John Sobeeski, the Prohibi
tion candidate for Governor of Missouri, la
said to be a lineal descendant of King John
Sobieski, of Poland. He was a Union Boldier.
Miss Eat Beveridge, of SanFranoisco,
intends to establish In that city a shop and
school of design, where women may try
their hands at making articles of house or
namentation. A bronze bust of Pope Julius IL, sup
posed to have been modeled by Francia, has
been added to the Louvre collection. New
pieces and plaster casts after the works of
the French sculptor Bnde have been added
to the gallery named after him.
Sir Frederic Leiohton, President of
the Boyal Academy, is mentioned as likely
to be recommended .for a peerage. As liter
ature and science have" both already re
ceived this compliment, It is only right that
art should bo reoognlied In a similar man
A LOOK AROUND.
That the Western Union Telegraph
Company is a big thing is about" as fully
realized as that the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company Is another of the same Ilk. I have
had a pretty fair opportunity to learn some
thing of a telegraph company's business,
bnt I must confess I was surprised to notice
the number "1460" on a message which
came to me recently. It meant that fourteen
hundred and sixty messages had boen re
ceived that day by the Western Union Com
pany at the Pittsburg office. I made some
inquiries at the main office a day or two
later and was told that the a verase business
outgoing amounted to about l,8O0messages
daily, while the messages received numbered
on an ayerage 1,500.
In addition to this there is the tele
graphic money order division of the W. U.,
which in this city does a bnslness of
nearly $500,000 a year. . The clerks say
that about $20,000 is sent ont monthly
in telegraphic money orders and about the
samo amount Is received. This $10,000 a
month is divided usually into about 600
orders. If you ever have suddenly fonnd
yourself dead broke many hundreds of miles
from home you can appreciate the beauty of
a telegraphic money order, bnt otherwise
yon can form no Just Idea.
While in the way of talking ot telegraph
business, it Is quite fitting to call tho atten
tion of the company to the wretched accom
modations afforded to the publio by the
Western Union in the East End. The main
office in East Liberty, is In the stockyards,
where a lady naturally doe' not care to
venture. There is another oflice somewhere
in a loft on Penn avenue, but it is not worth
considering. At the stockyards office there
are four messenger boys. If a first-class
office should be opened on one of the chief
East Liberty streets, where a good mes
senger service could be had, it would be an
improvement which would bo highly
appreciated and liberally-patronized. -
A fat man in his shirt sleeves sat on a
stool whloh he tilted so he could lean
against the wall near the entrance to an
alley. At hlgrlght was a two-story building
with a front made np of big glass doors ana
windows on the lower floor. It looked' as
though It had been a barber shop or perhaps
a saloon in the time of low licenses. A
wagon was driven within flftv feet of the
man on the stool and halted. On the wagon
were a dozen or more beer Kegs. The driver
of the wagon looked not at the man on the
stool nor did that personage look at the
driver. lie merely looked at a cow grazing
on the hillside opposite and nodded. The
driver at once began to carry the beer kegs
into the mouth of the alley and then disap
peared for a few moments. All the kegs
were thus unloaded. The lounger arose as
the last keg went br and sauntered into the
alley behind the driver, who came out pres
ently with his hand in his right reeches
pocket. In Ave minutes, he of the stool re
appeared and wiping his mouth with his
sleevo, relapsed into a reverie. It was early
on Saturday morning. The speak-easy was
loaded for Sunday. The policeman on the
beat soon after walked Dy. He saw nothing
not even the cow on the hillside which had
been nodded Unto.
Americans abroad just now w.ho have
expected to lay in a stock of London clothes
will have an annoying experience through
the lockout of 5,000 Journeymen tailors in
the English metropolis. It seems Tunny to
read the high tone of some English pipois
on American labor troubles at a time when
they have so much unrest among tlieir own
workmen.
"MonetI" exclaimed a banker who was
asked about a loan yesterday, "why, there is
more iale money at this time in Pittsburg
than ever belore in Its history."
Chicago real estate has great attraction
for Plttsbunr capitalists. Among those who
are heavy investors in the Windy City in
business and residence properties are John
Walker and Henry Phlpps. Their pur
chases within the past ten years have
amounted to hundreds of thousands of
dollars. Several other Pittsbnrgors are
heavy holders of real estate in Minneapolis
and St. Paul.
It may be paradoxical, but sr hard-working
clergyman should hold a slnncrcure.
There is a mint ot money to be made bv
some man who will build oheap, but safe
and substantial tenement fiats in the lower
part ot Pittsburg or out Penn avenue, some
where between Tenth and Twentieth
streets. The property which is now used
for somewhat similar pnrposes, is usually of
a tumbledown description, but it pays from
15 to 20 per cent., tho real estate agents say,
ana is held largely by sharp speculators,
who constantly watch for such opportuni
ties. Walter,
FOUB TRIALS OF JIAVAL VESSELS
To Be Made in Connection With a Course of
Lectures.
WAsmuaToir, Aug. 22. In connection with
Naval Constructor Taylor's lectures on speed
trials at the Naval War College.there will be
four trials of vessels over the measured mile
course. The vessels tried will be tho Phila
delphia, the Vesuvius and the Cushlng. Ves
sels of entirely different types are taken, so
as to secure the greatest varloty of data.
The trials will De conducted with the great
est care, as the speed curves obtained will
be utilized In the designing of future ships.
Each vessel will co over the course a num
ber of times at different rates of speed, so as
to get tho equivalent speeds for different
horse power.
In connection with the trials a revolution
recorder Invented bv ex-Assistant Engineer
Weaver, will be used for getting nn accurate
record of tho revolutions per mile per hour
at tho different speeds, and it Is believed a
curve can be laid down for each vessel, from
the results obtained,' that will enable her
trpeed to be acenrately estimated thereafter
by simply ascertaining the number of revo
lutions her engines are making.
A BEMINDER OF 1877.
How the Lite Colonel Scott Rewarded a
Faithful Servant.
New York Press.l
It was during tho strikes of 1SS7 that Au
gustus Dowdell was handling tho wire in the
Union depot, Pittsburg. Colonel Scott,
President of the Pennsylvania, was camp
ing out at the station in Phila
delphia at Thirty-second and
Market streets. He ate and slept there for a
fortnight. Dowdell, at tho Pittsburg end,
was keeping the wire hot with the nows of
the riot and the destruction which ho wit
nessed from his window. His last message
was cut short with the laconic explana
tion: "The station is on Are,
and this instrument is so hot that I
can't work it nnv longer." But he did not
leave his post until he had detached the in
strument and carried It away with him, not
knowing how soon he might find it neces
Bary to use it somewhere else. President
Scott kept that young man In mind. A fow
months later he sent for him and took him
to Europe for a year's trip as his Private
secretary.
To Pursue a New Smdy.
New York Press.!
Candidato Stevenson has come East again.
Possibly he is en route to Gray Gablos to
take a few lessons in the fine art of lotter
writing from an Old Master.
Mnst Work In Harmony.
Washington Post. r
Labor and capital appear to have lost
sight of the faot that It would be Impossible
for them to get along without each other.
Breaks All Previous Records.
Detroit Free Press.
This will go down into history as a record
smashing year. Even in the matter of
strikes it Is bound to take the medal.
On Boom Oat of the Way.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat. 1
Tue name of the Republican nominee of
18S6 won't be Gresham. This much, is set
tled. '
Grover Ought to Be Thankful.
Baltimore American. I -
Mr. Cleveland Is doubtless glad that his
term as Sheriff of Buffalo expired years ago.
CHAUTAUQUA'S LABI WEEK
Opens With a Proenmme Somewhat
Shorter Than Usual at This Season.
Chautauqua, N. T., Aug. 22. Special.
Chautauqua opens Us last week with a pro
gramme somewhat Bhorter than is usual for
this season. The interest is still good and
the audiences are quite as large as could be
expected. At the Glee Club concert this'1
afternoon there was quite a large audience,
and the programme was as good as any
offered during the season. The readings of
Mi 8. Helen Babcock made an excellent im
pression on her auditors. The Lotos Glee
Club has been here for some time, and its
members are great favorites with all'Cbau
tauquans. It is one of the best glee clubs
ever heard at Chautauqua. At 11 o'clock to
day Mr. Flakier gave a mnsical lecture with
Bfcliard Wagner as his subject, giving num
erous selections from the master's works on
the organ. At i o'clock Miss Anna Hayden
presented descriptive delineations or soven
types of beautitnl women. The eeventh
was presented as the embodiment of that
harmonious life advocated by ancient ana
modern philosophers as a type of the truest
education. In presenting these different
types of beauty Miss Webster pointed out
the numerous necessary conditions in
thought, habits of lire, diet, dress, voice and
manner which must precede harmonious
womanhood. The theories or Plato, Pytha
goras ana Sappho, as the truest exponent of
harmonious lire among the Greeks, were
considered and compared with modern views
of life.
An Ideal home entertainment, consisting
ui ureeK ana .English sonsrs with guitar ac-
compnntment, followed the lecture. ArterJ
the lecture Miss Webster invited her audi
ence to ask questions, and that started the
nnril.
mo. one looiceii npon the ideal as the mgn
est being. Miss Webster is a Christian
scientist, and some one asked ner what she
did when she got sick. "I have never been
so foolish as to get sick," she replied, and a
fatman in the rear of the audience sroaned.
Miss Webster's posmgs and the majestio
wave of her hand when she thought she had
made a point wonld startle Delsarte. This
evening Wallace Brnce entertained a large
audience at the Amphitheater! with a talk
about the haunts of Robert Burns.
THEASUSY M0USEES DHOW5ED.
Retrenchment and Reform Strlko In at the
Drpartment In Earnest.
Washington, Aug. 22. Special Re
trenchment and rerorm is the motto of the
Treasury Department. The cats of that in
stitution, which have been a growing feat
ure of interest, if not of principle, for some
timo, have been abolished to the very last
Tom and Tabby of them. Years ago a few
or the felines were introduced, that they
might make war on the rats and possibly
also vary the monotous dally routine of the
many excellent maiden ladies of the depart
ment. Without act of Congres, and with
out tho authority or the Civil Service Com
missioners, new offices were created and
filled by inheritance until nearly a hundred
of the most favored positions In the depart
ment were occupied by mousers who never
troubled themselves about rats or mice, so
long as they bad kindly maiden ladles to
gorse them with gingerbread and pie and
milk.
These numerous positions were a complete
slnecnre for their occupants, bnt the civil
service people, and more especially the San
itary Inspector, recently decided that these
appendages so useless except for the
Sloasure or the maiden ladles should go.
ox traps have been set for the past week
each nizht, and every eat has been caught
and drowned, the last one being taken last
nlsht. A wish is pretty generally expressed
that a considerable number of bipeds in the
department who are quite as useless as the
cats may bo disposed of in a similar man
ner. A NEW DEFINITION FOB SOKE.
It Slay Mean Two If It Is More, or More
If It Is Less.
Washihqton, Aug. 22. Special. A letter
from the Superintendent of the Llghtnouse
Board to the Commissioner of Customs, re
ceived hero to-day, asks for an opinion of a
somewhat unusual kind. A clause of the
'sundry civil bill, which was passed Just be
fore the adjournment or Congress, provides
an appropriation of $30,000 "for the estab
llshment or some 37 lights on the Sault Ste
Marie," and the lighthouse people want to
know what interpretation they must put on
the word "some." The legal authorities of
the Bnreau of Customs have been laying
thoir-heads together to solve this problem
in theEnglish language "as she is spoke,"
and they have about come to the conclusion
that in this instance the word "some"
means one or two more or less than 37, but
doubtless not more than two more or less.
This is not official, however, and It is
possible that a more profound research Into
yet unexplored legions of legal philology
may develope more certainly the intent of
the distinguished law-makers who wrote
and discussed and enacted this passage of
the sundry civil bill.
DEATHS HERB AXD ELSEWHERE.
tvnilnm B. Rushrortb, Inventor.
William Henry Eushforth, a well-known
Inventor of railroad appliances, died at his home la
Kutlierfonl, N. J., Saturday, after a long Illness,
Mr. Kushfortb. was born In Leeds, England, July II,
1814. He came to the United States in 1878, aud
soon afte rward became engineer of a silk factory
In Camden, N.J. He patented a smoke and spark
consumer for locomotives In 1S30. and afterward
Improved the Invention, which was first used on
the New York. Lake Erie and Western Railroad.
In ranid succession patents were secured for a fire
escape ladder, a Jewelers show window, a com
bination parlor and Ice skate, an extension skate
blade, a combination cine and mnslc stand and a
ticket box for booking; offices at railway stations.
Ills most Important Invention followed a scries of
automatic safety car signals, which are attached tu
trains in such a way that auplylng the brakes dis
plays the signals. At the time of his death Mr.
Rushforth was still engae-d In arranging for ths
development of his latest Invention a reed water
heater, designed to utilize the heat wasted la the
smoke-boxes or locomotives.
Dr. Joseph Colvl, Colored Physician.
Br. Joseph Colvis, the eminent colored
physician, died Saturday at hU'home In Paris.
Joseph Colvis was born In New Orleans In 1831. At
the age of 8 years he left for France with his rela
tives, where he was placed In Ihe Lyoee Bonaparte.
He was a bright pupil, and on leaving college re
ceived the degrees of B. A. and B. S.. being subse
quently admitted as resident surgeon at the at.
Louis Hospital, whence he emerged four years
later and took his degree of M. I., fully equipped
for active practice. He soon won prominence In
the proresslon and his practice was one of the
richest. He was repeatedly decorated by the
French Government for public services rendered
In the line of his proresslon, notably during tho
.franco-Prussian war. and a few years ago he was
awarded the Cros3 of Ihe Legion or Honor. To tho
last he retained his American citizenship, which
contributed much to delay his advancement, which
nevertheless was very ranid.
Samuel Lnty.
Samuel Luty, au old resident and con
tractor of Allegheny, died at 8 o'clock yesterday
morning at his home, corner Linden avenue and
Federal street. In his 77th year. The cause of death
was age and general debility. The funeral services
will be held at 10:30 o'clock to-morrow forenoon.
Mr. Luty was born la Berne, Switzerland. He
came to the United States and to Allegheny when a
young man, learned the cirptfnter's trade and then
went South. He returned to the Nor thslde In ISH,
aud for many years successfully followed the busi
ness of contractor and builder. He erected manv
houses In the upper part of the Second and Third
wards, aud had a wide acquaintance. He left a
wife, five sons and two daughters, the latte being
unmarried. The sons arc: Adolnb. of the Oil Well
C....I1. fAMn-nv. llhjl.r X? .rfl.t cnntrlll. CI. .
Samuel F., of the Pittsburg Cnrnmerrial-auette;
Milton N a printer, and E. F.. of tho editorial
staff of the American Ifamacturer,
Fdward II. Gibinn.
Edward H. Gibson, a well-known traveling
salexman.. and tormeny a prominent business man
at bbarpsuurg, died at No. 335 Western avenue,
Allegheny, at 6:30 yesterday morning. Typhoid
fever, which attacked him three weeks ago, was the
canse of death. Mr. Gibson was a son of T. II.
Gibson, of Sharpsbnrg. the leading bnslness man of
that town, and one of the oldest residents of the
county. The deceased was 31 yiars of age.
Wherever known he was popular and his demise
will be monrn'ri by .1 legion of friends all over this
county and in other sections of the country. Asa
member of the Commercial Travelers' Protective
Association he was a leading figure, commanding
the regard of all with whom he came in contact.
The funeral services wlU be held at the residence of
T. II. Gibson, on Clay street, Sharpsbnrg, to-morrow
morning at 10:31 o'clock. Interment private
at a later hour.
Obituary Notes.
Dr. John Caesox. a prominent physician of
Saltsburg. died very suddenly yesterday morning
lnbaltsburg.
"Pbincb" Charles A. Perkins, a widely
known resident, was found dead in his chair yes
terday morning of heart disease, at his home lu
Syracuse, N, Y. He was formerly Secretary of
Legation at Stockholm and Consul at Barcelona.
He married Princess Maria Isabella, of the Span
ish roral family.
Dr. IlmAM Buck, one of the best-known Metho
dist divines in the West, died suddenly Sunday
at his borne in Decatur. 111., In the 74th year of his
age. He was born in Steuben county, N. Y In
IW9, entered the Illinois Conference in 1843, and
has preached In nearly every good charge within
the bounds of the Conference.
HITHER AND THITHER.
Gossip of Pittsburg's Population That Is
Still on the Wine Lady Henry Somer-
. set's Boyal Invitation Mr. James Helzel
Writes a Plrasant letter from Europe.
The quartet choir of the 'Wilkinsburg
Presbyterian Church, has a vacancy lor a
contralto singer, through the resignation of
Miss Edna Jack, who has accepted a posi
tion as singer in a Sonthside church. Miss
Jack is parted 'with, with great reluctance.
and, indeed the chnrch at Wilkinsburg
would have gladly equaled the offer made
their singer by tho Southside church, had it
known of her intention to leave, before she
had signed the new contract. She
is considered to have a very
sweet contralto voice, and by reason
of her charm of manner as well as her gift
or singing was a great favorite in Wilkins
burir. Before the changes the choir was
composed as follows: Mrs. Bairn, soprano;
Mr. Frederick, tenor; Mr. Jamos Hetzel,
baso: Miss Jaok, contralto and Mrs. H. H.
Wallace, organist. Mr. Fuller is now fulfill
ing Mr. Hetzel's duties, Mr. Hetzel being In
Europe with his father and family.
Cresson Springs has introduced the
new "Crab Claw Grip," which is raging in
the East. It is a new method of waltzing,
though adapted equally well to the polka
or gavotte, in which the man places his
right arm aronnd his partner, putting his
hand as high as possible between her shoul
ders. She elevates her lelt arm, nntil it is
at right angles with her body, and then
bends her hand nntil the fingers rest on her
,i,irt, . r hn.rtMri.im
I "-'' v t f
With his lelt hand he takes her riitht wrist.
her right arm being in a similar position to
herloft and holds It nearly nnder horcbin
with her hand flapping. This method of
dancing might be described as a composite
of tho various fads in handshaking that
have shaken our social foundations from
the Four Hundred of New York to that of
San Francisco.
A pleasant letter from Bavaria, written
by Mr. James Hetzel, of the Western Uni
versity, was received yesterday by Mrs. H.
H. Wallace, the summer tenant of the Het
zel house, at Wilkinsburg. Hetzel says that
onr "veteran" artist is revelinir in every
thing musical, and going wherever there is
a chance to hear opera. In a short time the
family were o be in Paris, where they ex
pected to meet Chancellor Holland and
Prof. Henri Bolltn Parker, of the Western
University, both of whom are staying at the
Hotel de l'Arcude, and one at least, Mr.
Parker, will sail for America this coming
Saturday. The Hctzsels will sail from a
German port about September 3 and expect
to bo in Pittsburg September 23.
It will be of interest in temperance cir
cles to hear that Miss Frances E. Willard is
to spend a few weeks in England as the
quest of Lady Honry Somerset. Further,
Lady Henry Somerset emulates Her Majesty
the Queen in her gracious hospitality.
When great personages visit Windsor the
royAl carriage meets them at the station.
Lady Henry's carriage is rather different,
but equally agreeable, for the entire trip Is
made at Lady Henry's request and at her
expense.
Judge Arnold, of Philadelphia, Is con
sidered a most popular man at Cresson
Springs. He spends the entire summer
there, and devotes all his time to sleeping,
eating, reading, walking and playing euchre.
His companions say that he will forego all
other pleasure for a game at cards, though
like many other enthusiasts ho never wagers
anything.
A oloso competitor In devotion to euchre
is Manager Dunham, of tho Mountain House,
whilo pretty well forward as a devotee is
Captain Porter, of Sewickloy.
Social Chatter.
Mrs. Goodmak. of West Philadelphia, Is
spending some weeks with her sister-in-law,
Mrs. Goodman, of Ellsworth avenue. Her
gilt or instrumental music has drawn to the
house or her hostess a little circle of wor
shipers of the art. who spend manyoveninzs
of pleasuie. When a girl Mrs. Goodman
prosecuted her musical studies diligently,
under Mason, of New York, tne famous
inusio master, to make it a profession. Mr.
Goodman came along, however, and suc
ceeded in changing hor intention.
Mr. asd Mrs. George W. Boyd, who spent
the early summer at Congress Hall, Lane
May, Intend to enjoy the pleasures of
Cresson Springs, during Anzust and Sep
tember. They reached tho Pittsburg resort
on Friday night by the limited, on board
also of which was Mr. and Mi s. Russell Har
rison. The President's so" occupies a
Mountain House cottaire.
Auoxo recent sojourners at fashionable
Watch Hill were Mr. and Mis. William N.
Frew and family, who returned to Pittsburg
during last week. Pittsburg's smart set is
largely represented there, out already it is
dwindling down by the frequent home
comings.
Mr. aito Mrs. a. E. W. Paihtib gave a
domino-whist party at their Cresson Springs
cottage on Saturday eveningfortheirguests,
General and Mrs. Charles Lann Fitzbugh.
Mrs. Frederick M. Maoee Is home from
Columbus, where she spent part of the sum
mer and is now at hertonn house on North
Highland avenue.
The Traymore Hotel at Atlantic City has
on the latest page of its register Mr. Milton
Balrd and Mrs. John E. O'Connor, of Pitts
burg. JIrs. Harry Pasoavaitt, or tho East End,
Is aeain In town, having returned from a
summer outing in the mountains.
Mrs. J. A. McEelvet and Miss INina
McKelvey, of Highland avenue, are home
from Atlantic City.
Me. akd Mrs. JonxsTOT, of the East End,
camo home on Satuiday from Atlantic City.
Amoso newcomers at Ocean Grove are Mr.
and Mis. J. C. Kohne, of Pittsburg.
Mr. Frank Clark, of Pittsburg, is regis
tered at the Stockton, Capo May.
Mr. aud Mrs. W. C. Moroas are at the
Mansion House, Atlantic City.
Mr. O. S. McIlvaise, of Pittsburg, is at
Atlantic City.
Miss Anna Flock is home from Cape May.
POINTERS ON PANAMA.
Work nn tho Panama Canal is to be beznn
again. They'll get that canal dug some day,
if they aren't careful. Boifon Q.obe.
Aoain work is to be begun on the Panama
Canalt Would it not bo advisablo to tako
the canal over to Paris, build a fence aronnd
it, appoint M. de Les3eps gatekeeper, charge
admission and dig It there? Then tho share
holders could encamp on their own ruin.
Hew York Herald. ' ,
Wrrnduo respect for the project of our
own Warner Miller, most Americans would
bo glaU to see tho Panama Canal con
structed. M. de Lessep3' ronte takes the
bull by tho horns and attempts to pierce the
isthmus along the shortest line which scien
tific and capable engineers pronounced
procticable. Bufftt'o Enquirer.
The prize of Panama stock on the Paris
Bourse rose last week about $100 a share,
which was a rather notable advauco for
shares that had been quoted at about $2,
with no market even at that price. The in
dications nro that tno "resumption of work"
will take place on tho Paris Bourse and not
on the isthmus. New York Timet.
Now that science has discovered that there
are no canals on tho planet Mars, attention
is directed to tho Panama Canal, and a new
French syndicate is going to take the work
in hand. When It Is completed the syndi
cate will go to Mars and make canals on the
distant planot. The prospects for both en
terprlbos aro equally bright fliitadelphia
Bulletin.
It is reported that the Panama Canal pro
ject is to be revived, but that no appeal will
bo made to the public until the work is well
under way. It Is not probable that tho
schome can be successfully revived unless
government pationage is secured. Millions
have already been expended and millions
more will be required to complete the enter
prise. Detroit Free Prea.
There is a rumor that the Panama Canal
project Is to oe revived, but that no appeal
lsto bo made to the publio for funds until
tho work is well advanced. It is doubtful,
however, If that enterprise can be galva
nized iuto new life without government aid.
Millions of dollars have been sunk In it, and
it will take millions more to make a single
dollar or the outlay productive. PhUadtl
phlt Ledger.
Fishes and Ants, lint No Bain.
City ot Mexico, Ang. 22 The writer of a
letter from Sasabe, State of Sonora, to the
newspaper El JPartido Liberal, says that In
the recent hurricane there fell In that
region a shower ot fishes three inches long
and a number ol small pellclans, but no
rain, while at Mazatlan the ground was
covered with dead winged ants.
CDRI0U8 CONDENSATIONS.
Switzerland has a 000-year-old hotel.
A Brooklyn actress named Brown spells
her name Broughne-.
It is now claimed that fast trains are
safer than slow ones.
The Bank of England requires 60 folio
ledgers for its dally accounts.
New Mexico is enjoying the first rainy
season It has had for four years.
There are 800 bath houses In Tokio,
Japan, in which a bath can be had for 1
cent.
A man of science in Germany maintains
that It is from meteors that all our diamonds
come.
The cost of shipping a barrel of flour
from Atchison to Liverpool amounts ocly to
.73 cents.
The English system oi postal telegraphy
was begnn in 1872 and proved an Instanta
neous success.
Near Astoria, Ore., there is an ancient
deposit of clam shells which covers an area
of over four acres.
A New Jersey minister has struck
because the congregation owes him money
and refuses to pay blm.
A clothes-washing contest was a novel
attraction at a colored church picnic sit
Westminster, Md., recently.
Richmond, Ind., has 'an organization
known as the "1827 Society" composed en
tirely of persons born in 1817.
The fourth cable across the Atlantic was
laid by the Great Enstern, from Ireland to
Newfoundland, in the year 1871
The official title of the Governor of
Rhode Island is Captain-General of Bhode
Island and Providence Plantations.
The Columbia river contains trout with
larze red spots on their bodies. They have
been named "Dolly Varden" trout.
"Masrinm" is the name, of the new
chemical element which has been discov
ered in the bed of an ancient Egyptian river.
A bushel of wheat for every citizen of
the United States, with enough more for fall
seeding, is the product this season in Kansas.
At the poles, where all meridians con
verge, there cin be no natural standard
time, for It is every hour of the day at once.
Southern California produces 180,000,
000 oranges a year not enough to give three
ornnses to each inhabitant of the United
States.
The longest canal in the world is the
ono which extends from the frontier of
Cntna to St. Petersburg. It measures is all
4,472 miles.
Leaden-headed nails are used by some
tinsmiths for roofing purposes. The last
stroke flattens the head over the hole la the
tin and leaking is so prevented.
The coach that carried President Lin
coln's body from Washington to Illinois is
now stationed at North Platte, Neb., and
will be sent to the World's Fair.
According to the last census returns
England possesses no fewer than 76,000 coach
men and erooms. 56.250 male indoor servants
and 1,230,000 female Indoor servants.
The gnadalonpe bees lay their honey in
bladders of wax abont as large as a pigeon's
egg, and not in combs. The honey never
hardens and is of an oily consistency.
In South Greenland the color of the
hair ribbon which woman ties round her
head denotes the social condition of the
wearer, whether she be maid or wife or
widow.
A mare belonging to a resident of Eipler,
Me., was lately found In a pasture with its
hind foot caught in her mouth In such a
manner that it took several men to extri
cate her.
An immense glacial field is said to have
been found in Central Idaho, which will
probably cover an area nearly as large,
though not ns thick, as the great glacial
field of the Alps.
The workers alone in the London hos
pitals amount to 6.000 persons, of whom some
1,300 are honorary medical officers who
devote their time to the treatment of disease
without fee of any kind.
As an indication of the thrift amongst
the working classes of France it is stated
that there are now 6,000 000 depositors in the
French savings hanks, with an accumulated
fund or not less than Xll2,CO0,00O.
A feather merchant of Paris has lately
received 6,000 birds of paradise, 300,000 Indian
birds of various species, and 400,000 bum
mini birds. Another dealer has received
40,000 birds from America and 100,000 from
Africa.
A man at Macon, Ga., has a $10 note of
tho State of North Carolina, printed In 1773.
On one side is the inscription, "Persecution
the Ruin or Empires," while on the other
side appears the words, "Death to Counter
feiters." In the German artillery they have tried
a three-legged ladder of steel tubing for en
abling the captain of a battery to survey the
enemy and direct the fire. The ladder Is
erected in a wagon and the officer climbs to
the top with his field glasses to reconnoitre.
International expositions are in progress
in Stockholm, Munich. Schevingen, Vienna
and Genoa, besides the Paris Exhibition for
Feminine Arts and the demonstrations at
Palps and nnelva. Last week Bulgaria
opened a national exhibition at Phlllp
popolis. The Swedish Government has adopted
a new smokeless powder which is said to
have the following advantages: It Is easy
of manufacture, produces no flame and does
not heat the rifle. It gives the ball an
Initial velocity of 2,100 feet with a pressure
of 2,260 atmospheres.
Put a buzzard in a pen about six feet
square and open at the top, and It is aa much
a prisoner as thongh It were shnt up In a
box. This is because buzzards always begin
their flight by taking a short run, and tbey
either cannot or will not attempt to fly
unless tbey can do so.
M. Maxim Lecomte is about to intro
duce a bill into" the French Senate provid
ing a maximnm penalty of a year's im
prisonment and a fine of 2,000 francs for
engaging in a duel. If the duellist shall
have killed his man the maximnm penalty
will be three years' imprisonment and 10,000
francs fine.
The Eotbschilds have a unique way of
providing a birthday present for all the
girls of the family when they come of age.
At the birth of each little girl, six pearls,
valned at a specified and not Inconsiderable
snm, aro pnt aside. Six more are added at
every birthday, and when the young ladv
reaches the age of 21 she is presented with
the valuable necklace.
A long tunnel near Paris has been
lightod in a novel way. Reflectors throw
the light from many electrlo lamps If
feet nbove the rails to the sides of the tun
nel, whore it is again reflected by burnished
tin, covered with glass, into the coaohes,
making a soft ana agreeable lignt. The
trains automatically turn the current on
and off in entering and leaving the-tunneL
POETICAL AND PIQUANT.
AN OBJECT OT BYXPATHT.
He has a weary, wandering gazey
He pictures sad unrest.
He murmurs, "Which of many ways
To spend my time Is best. "
Behold him pause awhile to fetch
A sigh that means dismay.
This hapless, hopeless, helpless wretch
Who has a holiday.
Soon, soon will come the autumn sere,
Soon will depart the flies
Soon, soon the season will be hers
For nailing campaign iles.
KioTorJcPrtlM.
Thl TIE THAT BINDS.
He held her little hand in his
And looked into her eye.
And then he asked her ir she llxed
Ills brand new Ascot tie.
T like it very well, " she said,
"And yet, my dearest WW.
There Is another tie, I think.
Would suit me better still."
-Detroit PrteFTts.
The seashore girl is sweet, no doubt;
But when you go to meet her.
,Tls J ust as well to take a box
Of sweets to make her sweeter.
-CloaXBnUa,
TnS TBEACHZaOVS KAUJIOOX.
They sat in a hammock
Did be and she.
And she was happy.
And so was he.
But when he attempted
To steal wee Uu,
The hammock upset, and
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