Trrr m THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH.- ERIDAT, AUGUST 26. 1892. Ije Bi&rafrlj. ESTABLIbllED FEBRUARY IMS. Vol. 47. No. KM. Entered at Pittsburg Postofflce Kovember. 18S7, as second-class matter. Business Office Comer Smithfield and Diamond Streets. News Rooms and Publishing House 78 and 80 Diamond Street, in New Dispatch Building. EASTERN ADVERTISING OFFICE, ROOM 78. TRIBUNE BUILDING, NEW YORK. where com plete flies ofTHE DISPATCH can always be fonnd. Foreign advertisers appreciate the convenience, nomc advertisers and friends of TIIE DISPATCH, while In New York, are also made welcome. THE DISPATCH Is regularly on sale at Bron tano's, 8 Union Sanare. New Tort, and 17 Ave da POpera, Tarls, France, where anyone who has b.-cn disappointed at a hotel news stand can ob tain it. TERMS OF THE DISPATCH. POSTAGE FREE IN THE UNITED STATES. IUH.T Dispatch, one Tear f 8 00 Dult Dispatch, Per Quarter..- 2 00 Daily Dispatch, OneMonth 70 Daily Dispatcil, including Sunday, 1 year.. 10 00 Daily Dispatch. 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Starting with the Allegheny County Electric Light Company, and including the Pittsburg Gas Company, the East End Gas Company, the Consolidated Gas Com pany, the Monongahela Bridge Company and the Monongahela "Water Company, we find a number of corporations which enjoy special franchises in the city, and yet decline to pay taxes on their property for the support of the city government under which they exist, and at whose hands they are ever special beneficiaries. They enjoy and use the streets and fire and police protection in as great a degree as Jones or Smith, or as any bank, mill, or merchant, and are, beyond that, recip ients of immensely valuable franchises yet they demand that their property shall be exempt from city taxes and that their share shall be paid by the other tax payers. These are the only Companies so far designated as having been exempted. But if these are to be exempted, any cor poration which can make any show at all of dealing with the general public and getting usually paid two prices therefor will be a fool if it does not at once step around to City Hall with a demand to be put upon the free list. It is needless to say that there is not the slightest ground in equity for any of these exemptions. It is difficult to think that had the Assessors and Controller adhered to their original position of allowing the assessments against these Companies to stand, the Courts would have made a discrimination in their favor. The contention that be cause these Companies pay a specified tax on their capital stock to the State, there fore they are not obliged to pay a local tax for their real estate and personal property, should apply no more to them than to the hundreds of other companies which are subjected to a like State tax, and are yet, of course, obliged to pay the local tax also. There is no pretense of any special service being rendered by these corporations to the public in lieu of taxes. There is not a particle of supplies, privil ege or service of any sort rendered by these concerns either to the city or to in dividuals which is not charged for at top and salty prices. To permit them to shift the taxes on the property to the shoulders of other tax payers is simply a flagrant abuse. It would have been very much better had the Controller, and the Assessors ad hered to their orginal position and per mitted the assessments against these Companies to stand, leaving this inequi table doctrine of exemption to be enunci ated directly by the Court itself, if indeed it is to be assumed that such an evident, unwarranted and monstrous injustice would find sanction there. Now that at tention is drawn to the matter the abuse is one that will not long be permitted to stand. SEW YORK CARELESSNESS. Examiner Hoffman, of the Department of Charities, has sent back to New York a German dying of consumption, and his wife in destitute circumstances, that they may be returned to the Fatherland. It is about time that the Immigration In spectors at New York should learn that if they insist upon permitting ineligible pauper immigrants to land Pittsburg will not consent to be made a dumping ground for their reception. This is by no means the first case in which the Pittsburg authorities have found the New York In spectors at fault, and suffered incon venience and expense by their careless ness. There is no excuse for the negligence whatever, as the man was very evidently a sufferer from severe consumption when he landed, and the couple only had five cents between them when they reached Pittsburg. Such instances of careless ness as this are a very poor guarantee of that efficiency in the inspection of immi grants which is so especially essential at a time like the present TIN PLATE FACTS. A careful report on the present condi tion and an estimate of the future achieve ments of the tin plate industry in America has been filed in the Treasury Department by ilr. Ira Avers, the special agent de puted by the department to Inquire Into this subject He very clearly demonstrates that the manufacturers will do much more than comply with the requirements mado by the McKlniey bill for a continuation of the duty on foreign tin plate. He more than bears out all that the friends of Pro tection have claimed for this infant indus try, and 6hows the remarkable strides which it has already made. This Industry could never have been established without Protection, and it could not hold its own now If the barriers which defend it from competition with the products of foreign cheap labor were removed. The Democratic majority of the House, which signalized its inability to do more than disregard and break its pledges, secured its election by a series of misrepresentations. None of the free trade party's outcries were louder or more shrill than its false prophecies that the manufacture of tin plate could never be established In this country, and that the attempt so to establish it would result in a disastrous increase in the price of the com modity. Facts have established the fallaciousness of their statements In both respects. Tet the men who made these arguments and failed to try to put them Into practice, and who have received such unanswerable refutations of their flimsy 'calamity theories, are to the fore again with a more radical demand that American industries shall be disregarded than they,have ever made hitherto. Judged by their own utter ances, weighed by their own acts and con victed by the palpable evidences of the advantages of Protection, as shown by American prosperity and an approach to American industrial independence, noth ing but a sweeping defeat awaits the free trade forces In November. HALF-WAT MEASURES CRIMINAL. There-will be a general sensi through the country that the Government at Wash ington is too slow and too limited in its announced programme so far for keeping out the cholera. It sounds like criminal idiocy to hear of the Washington authorities proposing open ports for rags from Europe until September 20, When the notice is before the World that the cholera now abounds in Europe. This order gives a fullmonth's start to infected rags as against the health authorities. About as weak and unconclusive is the assumption that mere casual inspection and disinfection of immigrants from in fected ports will answer; and that they, can then safely be allowed to step ashore. The public sense and hi this matter it is better sense than official sense is that all traffic should be absolutely prohibited until the cold weather from ports like Hamburg and Havre, where the disease is known to be widespread and Virulent If this is thought too much there should at least be such a protracted period of quarantine as will make absolutely certain that no infected person or cargo is per mitted to land. Not only should that most prolific source of disease, the importation of rags, cease before September 20, but it should cease at once, and cargoes now on the ocean be sent back without future ado. It is a terrible policy to take half-way measures when dealing with such, a possi ble visitor as the Asiatic cholera. In no uncertain tones the country should at once make the Washington authorities aware of its sense of the utter inefficiency and unsatisfactory character of their pro posals. THE PROHIBITION LETTER. Nothing daunts the Prohibition people. Mr. John Bidwell, of California, their se lection for the Presidency, is the first can didate to publish a formal letter of ac ceptance of his nomination. After mak ing an urgent appeal for the abolition of the liquor traffic, an impassioned plea on behalf of female suffrage and a vaguely non-committal statement of the money plank of his party, the writer makes the startling assertion that there is no practi cal difference between the tariff policy of the Republican and Democratic parties. This assumption that one party posing as the protector of American industries, es tablishing and maintaining American in dustrial independence, is on a par with another which makes a point of being ut terly unmindful of these things, is thor oughly characteristic of a document which is remarkable rather for the force of Its fervor than the power of its logic The cure for all the ills that flesh is heir to is supposed to be found in the two fol lowing sentences: "Banish alcohol and make the people sober. Hake the people intelligent, moral and law-abiding." To begin with, the majority of the nation rightly believes that sobriety Is something widely different from the mere total ab stinence from intoxicating liquor. But the whole fact of the matter is that, apart from all differences of opinion as to this or that detail, good citizens cannot be made by act of Congress any more than by act of Parliament A good government does not necessarily make wise citizens, but wise citizens must produce good gov ernments. Centralization such as the Prohibition party demands is far too great an interference with the liberty of the individual to be countenanced for one moment by those who live under the American Constitution. AGRICULTURAL growth. A statistical point is raised by the New YorkPrm In dispute of an assertion often made as to the transfer of population from the country to the cities. The question is one which has an important sociological bearing entirely outside of the tariff ques tion; although the disputants regard the latter as its most important relation. The Frets says: While towns have grown and industries have developed under the Bepublican tariff system, the growth in agriculture has not been less remarkable. Indeed, when it is borne in mind that we were an Important agricultural country in 1850 the growth has been surprising. Here are the facts, in mill ions of dollars: I860. Millions of Dollars. Aggregate values 9.&M Farms Value of land, build ings and fences 6,015 Value of Implements and ma chinery .... 243 Value of live stock 1,089 Value of household furni ture 614 Value of products sold, con 1690. Millions or Dollars. 20,953 13.110 550 2,418 1.C30 a, mo sumed and on band 1, 163 The above shows that our agricnltnral wealth has increased US per cent since the war. The value of the land has Increased 97 per cent; of implements and machinery, 123 percent; of the live stock, 122 per cent; of the household furniture, 174 per cent, and or the prodnots sold and consumed, 1M per cent. While this is an undoubted exhibit of ag ricultural growth, we fear it will have to be admitted that, if the figures are ac curate, It shows a decidedly one-sided in crease. Thu3 we learn from the Press that the increase In the various items Tanges from 97 to 164 per cent But population in the same time has increased 200 per cent for the whole country,, and the growth of municipal and industrial wealth has been much greater. Of course, agriculture in this country has expanded. Everyone knows that But the fact that its growth has, especially of late, not kept up with the increase of city industries Is likely to prove indis putable. The tendency to concentrate into towns and cities is not to be attributed to the tariff, because the phenomenon is world-wide; but it is not less a fact which social students must recognize, and which may require a good deal of attention before it is solved. Country roads which make the rural re gions almost uninhabitable several months in the year; transportation conditions which give all the advantages to 'compet ing points, and the allurements of the cities all combine to draw population awav froni the country, and keep its rate of growth less than that of the cities. Pennsylvania contains half of the manufactories or American tin plate, and this Stat knows the value of Protection and is a fine ecrample of Its advantages! In his sbeech at Detroit yesterday, Mr. Springer hid at least the courage of hta con vlotlons to k degree whioh enabled him to recognize aariff for revenue only as the battle cry opposed to the protection of American Industrie. By this recognition of his party's platform, Mr. Springerplaces him self in a better position than those other Dem ocrats who are seeking for dead side Issues to excuse their partisan allegiance. Bat his arguments contain nothing newer or more valuable than usual. There are the same fatuous misrepresentations of facts and the oustomary misapplications of figures as usu ally attempt to pafs muster as anti-protection logic A befboductiox of the Mount Washing ton electric searoh-light onght to -prove of immense value to future explorers of the Dark Continent. That assault on Grand Master Sweeny, of the Switchmen's Union, by one of the strikers is every bit as much an act of law lessness as the destruction of the railroad company's property, and it only emphasizes the existence of a spirit that must lead to the defeat of labor wherever it is allowed free scope. Honolulu ought to realize that it has troubles enough already without acoepting tempting offers from Louisiana Lottery people. A change in the policy governing this country is only Justified when it is followed by an improvement of national conditions. The idea that any advantage is possible of attainment by substituting a Free-trade President for a strong Protectionist is too rldlonlous to be seriously entertained. Even the parade of the Knights Templar at Denver oreated less excitement than the discovery of rich gold plaoers in Colorado. IT is perfectly natural that Cleveland should receive the support or European ed itors since he advocates a polioy for the benefit of Europe at the expense of Amer ica. These verypraises should be enough to Bhow the American people the extreme folly of voting for him. It needed no cyclone to lay waste the Iron Hall. It collapsed spontaneously by reason of its own Inherent weakness. With propositions for bull fights as ad juncts to Alabama's State Fair and the World's Columbian Exposition, it is evident that America might have made a good deal more progress in civilization than it has done since the tlmes'of Colnmbns four hun dred years ago. The police of Tiffin, Ohio, are to be pro vided with bloyclos. The common wheel should run smoothly there now. The chiet value of the Allegheny County Teachors' Institute lies in the fact that the most essential qualification for a teacher Is that she or he shall know bow to teach. A possession of knowledge is something vastly different from the ability to impart It to others. Strikes should join duels as an obsolete and non-determmate method of settling differences of opinion. These Is a greaf outcry in New York over the innovations of the trolley system. If the Tammany-rnled city were tioubled by no grosser and more dangerous evil than this it would not have become the by-word that It is for municipal maladministration. Apparently the Coolers are taking a vacation as well &s tne officials of Favette county. Hamburg with its free port and enor mous shipping not unnaturally sucenmbed to the cholera germ. And with such a cen ter for worldwide distribution the danger of the epidemic is increased tenfold. The S'm is making It -unpleasantly hot for the World these days In several direc tions. If the Canadian Cabinet prefer mulcting Its treasury to removing Its unfair discrim inations 'against America, that is its own lookout and the fault of its ministers' short sighted stubbornness. Wash and be clean is the motto for every municipality while cholera is abroad. When any reference is made to "the canal question" Just now, it issafetoassume that the matter of Canadian toll discrimina tions and not the appearanoe of the surface of Mars is referred to. That vagrant who escaped from the workhouse is still indulging in vagrancy. Canada would be ill-advised to abandon its exhibit at tho World's Fair in a fit of sulks. The loss to Canada would be a good deal greater than that to this' oountry or the Fair. A switch strike Is by no tomatlc block system. means au au- Thosh Republican conferees in the Twenty-first Congressional district are emulating Tennyson's brook too closely. They and their babble threaten to go on forever. Untaxed corporations can afford to live on their debts. MASTERS OP MEN. Anton Dvorak, the great composer, who may come to Now York and teach, was a poor butcber!s boy in Bohemia. The master piece of this graduate from sweetbreads is his Suite in D. MAJOR Wabneb, the Republican candi date for Governor of Missouri, is speaking in that State at political meetings which are attended by vast crowds. He makes a favor able impression wherever be goes. Lieutenant Governor Haile, of Massachusetts, now seems to have a sure thing of the Republican nomination for Governor this year, all other candidates, it is reported, having withdrawn from the field. The Rev. F. B. Meyer, whose preaching at Northfleld, Mass., has attracted so much attention within the last week or two, has accepted a call to the pastorate of the church In London to which Dr. Newman Hall minis tered so long. Field Marshal General Count von Bluxekthal, who celebrated the 82d anni versary of his birth last Sunday at Quellen dorf, near Koethen, is the oldest officer of rank higher than that of Colonel in the Prussian army. It is announced at Cedarville,near Spring field, where Whitelaw Held has been staying, thar Miss Ella Held, his niooo, will soon be married at Ophlr farm to Robert Carter Har rison, Judge of the Snpreme Court nf Cali fornia. He is 70 years old. The Prince de Carde, the well-known collector, has purchased the autograph manusoript of Tasso's prose treatise in de fence of his great poem. It is In 800 pages, and is belieTed to be, with its erasures, en tirely in Tasso's handwriting. Mb. Naoboji, the Parsee member of Par liament, appeared with a copy of the Zend Avesta, on which to take the required oath of office. He was told that he must either take tho oath .on the New Testament or affirm, and he chose the latter method. Prof. Huxley, Mr. Jesse Collings and the other newPrivy Councillors and a num ber of the newly appointed Ministers, pro ceeded to Osborne House yesterday for the pnrpOBe of kissing the hand of the Queen in accordance with the custom which obtains upon taking office. A Hew American Countess. Baltimore, Aug. 25. Count T. Harris Von Fleckensteln, of Chicago, and Miss Bate M. Forbes, of Southern Maryland, were married to-day by Cardinal Gibbons. The Count and Countess have started for Chicago, where they will reside. Always a Ceatnry Behind. Boiton Globe. The first omnibus appeared In Parts la 1825 and In New York live years later. It is rnnnlngln Philadelphia now. 0 PUMPKINS VS. PRIMARIES. Congressman Brosltu Says the Former BeeeiTe Attention Dne to tbe Latter Closing Day of the Farmer' Euoamp- xnent Republican Principles Advocated by Two Speakers of the Same Name. rrooM a STArr Correspondent.! Mt. Gbetna, Aug. 25. A number of disappointing features combined to mar the complete suocess or the last day of tbe farmers' encampment. Occasional showers undoubtedly affected the attendance, while anumDerof the orators who had been ex pected failed to put in an appearance. A telegram was received at the last moment from General Hastings, stating that a press of business, incluldng the -opening of a new railroad, would prevent his coming. A number of the Bepublican visitors to-day were especially disappointed by this intelli gence, as It had been understood that Gen eral Hastings had gathered an abundant store of information during his recent European tour, whioh was to be used with fatal effect on free trade fallacies. This am munition, though"; will doubtless be avail able later in the campaign. Lancaster county, with its 10,000 Bepub lican majority, produced the two speakers of the day, and both were of the same name Congressman Marriott Broslus and State Representative William 3rosius. The Con gressman announced that while he would discuss pontics ne would avoid partisanship. In the contse of his address he said: Bank and Power of Agriculture. ".What should be the rank and power of agriculture the noblest occupation under the sun in this Government? The position ofanyclassof citizens must dopend"in a numerical preponderance, intellectual su periority and .the energy employed. In Government by the ballot, where votes are connted and not weighed, numerical supe riority is a great advantaue. Half or the population of this country ;is engaged in farming. There are Are distinct Govern ments, the school district, township, connty. State and nation. If von choose and could thoroughly unite you could practically oon trol every one of them. Ton could have a majority in nearly every legislature and almost a working majority in Congress. "Our interests, though, aio so manifold and varied that the governing power, to secure the Dost results, should come from many diicctlons. The farming interests should have a large share, one in proportion to tneir importance, wunout- tnem no in dustry could operate efficiently. Cripple husbandry in America, and all other in dustries will perish. The farmers, then, should occupy a position and exert a power in the land commensurate with their num ber and character. There are two agencies ready to your hand in securing and main taining your proper position tbe ballot box and public opinion. Danger ana Power of the Ballot. "The most dangerous weapon in the hands of Ignorant and venal men is the ballot, and the farmers are charged with undisguised nnd culpable neglect or its use. The perils of tho ballot aie duo to two causes jood men neglect to use it and bad men abuse it. Unless intelligence and integrity combine and assume 'control In America, such con trol will be assumed by organized Ignorance, craft and venality, lhe primary meetings ot the dominant political party in any sec tion are the spring from.wlilch power flows, and too many farmers are guilty of culpable Indifference to the results of tne organiza tion of political power In their respective communities. Thev are with their pump kins when they shonld beat their primaries, looking after cabbage when they ought to be at the caucus, and cnltlva ing corn when they should attend their conventions. This policy keeps in 'ascendency in the commu nity the forces least adapted for such as cendancy, and gives faithless servants the opportunity for fraud and corruption. It fills the legislatures with incipables, thus making the statute books costly records of human folly. The farmer hns only done half ins uucv wiien ne noma rignc opinions, xno other half consists in making them prev alent in his community." Representative William Broslus, ih intro ducing his remarks, said thai lie was glad to peak from a platrorm which had within the week held representatives of all the tour parties claiming the suffrage of American citizens. Ho added: Farmers Benrfit by tbe Tariff. "Our Democratic friends yesterday dis cussed the tariff and endeavored to make the special point that the farmers were not particularly interested in protection, deny ing tho close relation existing between manufacturers and agricultural products. I sm a farmer myselT, 'and1 iby experience is that our chief concern is to) dlipose of what we.do not eat our surplus wheat, corn and 'twftor. Every column of smoke curling skyward from a manufactory in these val leys means an additional and increased market for our proUuoo. As we understand protection it enables tbe payment of hlzher wages which accrue to tbe beneflit of tbe entire country, and vry particu larly to the farming interest. Tbe Con gressional investigating cormnittoo which went to Homestead was astonished at the discovers- of the amount of wages paid there. The high figure received by tBe iron and steel workers were a revelation to tbo peo ple of the entire country. Ton were told yesterday that we should buy where we can buy the cheapest. That lg trne, as long as we buy in America. Those orators also called reciprocity free trade. It it tree trade as far as it goes: free trndo in articles whioh we can't produce. That is tho Republican policy, and under it the AIcKinlay bill gave ns free sugar, with the resulting low price of to-day. Experience has demonstrated that we cannot successfully produce enough sugar for our demands. With the iron which underlies our soil in such vast quan tities, and witli a myriad of other things it is vastly different. Indrpendence In State Affairs. 'In State affairs there are a number of principles upon which Republicans and Democrats, and especially Bepublican and Democratic farmers, should act in common. This is particularly the case in regard to taxation. Corporate property in Pennsyl vania is of much more value than real estate, yet the latter pays $30,000,000 in taxes, and all other forms or property only $8,000,000, Hero is a mutual ground upon which we can stand- The Pennsylvania farmer needs no favors, but lie should have an equal chance and a fair field." At the conclusion of the address of Mr. Broslus, President McSparran, of the En campment Association, briefly announced the termination of the gathering. He charged tho Republican State Chairman witu tne re-ponsioiiity or not having the orators announced hero to-day, as it is said ho agreed to do. Numerous improvements are to be made and a new auditorium erected before noxt year's encampmont. Bancroft. MOEQAN MISREPRESENTED By Many Ohio Democrats Who Claim to Be Good Republicans. To the Editor of The Dispatch: Mr. Morgan, Bepublican nominee for Con gress in the McKlniey distriot, does not deny the right of laboring men to organize, as stated by the correspondent of The Dis patch of August 23. Nor does be prevent any of his workmen from Joining any or ganization they desire. He is aware of the fact that many of his employes belong to labor organizations, and believes them to be a good thing when properly conducted. The price of labor was never the question at the Morgan Engineering Company. Mr. Morgan does object to employing incom petent workmen who .misrepresent them selves and claim they are skilled workmen. If they are not competent to. perform such work as they pretend to have' a knowledge of, they are promptly.discbarged regardless of wages. Wo find tnat these soreheads arc principally Democrats, who pretend to bo Republicans, and aro making an unsuccess ful attempt to prej ndlce tbe laboring classes against their best friend. Those who make suoh false assertions against T. R. Morgan are not Republicans and are no credit to any party toey pretend to belong to. A Republican. uolumbub, v., .august za. A Cabinet Falls by One Tote. WnraiPEO, Aug. 25. Last night, in the Northwest Legislature, a want of confidence Tote was carried against the Government by one vote. Premier Paultaln will thus be compelled to retire, and a new Government will be formed. No Looser to Be Scared. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. 1 This is a bad year for the wild-cat cur rency crusade. The people have been study ing up finance questions a good deal lately. A Much Easier Job. Washington Post. Salisbury will soon find out that there is much more fun In finding fault with the. Government than being a statesman. Got His Eye oniWlllie. I Washington Post ) Tbe downfall of Caprivl will not satisfy BWmarok. HelRrterTHirerene. A LOOK AROUND. -There is a prospect of a decided change in an important branoh of house building. Several architects are considering the use of structural steel or Iron In dwellings for framework. Flooring boams, the supports of stair cases, window frames, roof girders nnd other portions of brick or stone resi dences can be advantageously made of this material. While it is true that at first cost this would be more expensive than wooden Joists and beams, it Is declared that the sav ing in wear and tear would Justify the addi tional investment and in addition to thU the houses would mbre nearly approach be ing Are proof. The large makers of struc tural steel are very desirous of building up a trade ot this description, and it is likely they will soon have an opportunity, to bid on a number of houses In the East End. The cholera scare has had its effect upon the programmes of several Pittsburg fami lies who had expeoted to go to Europe. I bear that four families who had engaged passage for the early part of September have canceled their orders and will try some thing nearer home. "I doubt very much whether the United States will be troubled with muoh cholera this year," said an old physician yesterday. "Perhaps some sporadic cases may develop in sea coast cities, bat it is very unlikely that it will try its hand on ns until next spring if it comes at alL The Government hasbeen very lax thus tar and has permitted too muoh time to elapse before it took pre cautions. There are hundreds of immi grants in tho West from tbe cholera districts of Russia, people who left after tbe cholera was severe and well defined. It will be a luoky tiling if wo do not have a bout with tho' disease next year. It is 33 years since we bad it here badly last, and tbe town is in condition to take kindly to it now." One of our iron manufacturers remarked tbe other day that there were about 20 kinds of business in which the Pittsburg district had the largest plants in the world. I can not recall all tbe things lie enumerated, nor all the names he mentioned, but here are some of them. Steel, rail mill, pig Iron production and coke, all Cam egie & Friok; cork, Armstrong Bros.; coffee roasting, Arbuckle; window class, McKee's Jcannctte works; tumblers, Rochester Tumbler Com pany; plate glass, Ford's; pipe, National Tube Works; railroad brakes, Westing house; screws, bolts and spikes. What has become of tbe Southside free bridge? Is it taking its usual vacation and will we have it with r-s again Ih tne fall? An Ohio man recently announced his candidacy for Congress, and a leading pollti clan publioly remarked that he was crazy to think of such a thing. Tbe candidate promptly sued for $25,000 for slander. A Cleveland paper published the story with comments and was at once sued for $20,000 for libel. An TJrbana paper then took up tbe matter and it also was sued for $20,000. This Is a good year for Ohio politics. "Do you remember Daboll, the tall come dian who played the thief Rixvy in 'Er minie't" said a lady to me on the street yes terday. I said I remembered him perfectly, and inquired as to the cause of her question. "Well, it's so queer," she leplied with a laugh, "I have beemtbinklng' about him all the morning. I woke last night suddenly and his face seemed to be before me. It has followed me around all day, and I can't Imagine why it should, for I never saw him but twice. Where is he and what is he doing? I have not even seen his name in print in months. What do you suppose made me think ot him?" Of course I said it was as dark to me as to herself, and I added that I supposed we would hear something about him in a day or two. Last night my tele phone bell rang and on answering I found it was my fair questioner again. "Did you read the evening papers?" she asked. "Yes." "Wasn't that wonderful about Daboll?" "What is it?" said I, "I have not noticed anything." "Oh, haven't you? why, he com mitted suicide in Massachusetts last Mon day." This is about as dearly deflnod a case of "What is it?" as I have met with. There is some talk to the effect that the Pennsylvania Railroad Company intend to build a new depot at East Liborty. There was suoh talk, as nearly as I' can recollect, abont ton years ago. Considering the amount of business and travel at this chief suburban stopping place, the company can well afford tospond some money there for a handsome building. "Nioe place, Florida, " said a Pitts burger to me, "but I think Dick Quay's de scription of It hits it off exactly. 'It is the loveliest and most amusing place on the globe,' says Dick, 'but you have to stand in with the black snakes and coax them to live under your house, bo they will drive away the rattlers, copperheads and mocassin snakes.' That's Just about the size of it." Walter. ECONOM18T8 AT CHAuTAUQUA Listen to Lectures A most Tooclentlflo for th Genrral Pnb'ic. Chautauqua, N. T., Ang.25. Specto. To day's sessions of the Economic Association were held In College nail, because of the bad weather. There was not a very largo attendance, but those present are very much Interested in tho work. The meeting has resolved itself into a stiff scientific dis cussion of theories, though thero are occa sionally some practical evory-dav facts dropped in. S. N. Patton made an address on the Interpretation of Ricardo, his chief point being tnat everybody interprets him to bis own liking, and to suit his own theories. There were several addresses by other proressois on subjeots treated in too scientific a manner to be understood without hearing tiiem in their entirety. This alternoon J. 11. Hollondor gave a study in municipal activity, telling tho his torr of.the Cincinnati Southern Railroad, an enterprise designed to hold the trade tor that city, which was tbreatcnedby anew rail road built for tbe benefit of Louisville. This evening the Committee on Statistics was in obargo. nnd gave a great volumoot statistics on private indebtedness. To-morrow is the last day of the meeting. There will bo but one session in the morning, and tbe afternoon will be given up to business meetings. DEATHS HERE AXD ELSBWHEKE. Jaren M. B. Hrackmeyer. Jared Jl. B. Brackmeyer, late book keeper for.S. D. Ache & Co., of Wood street, and well known In Pittsburg and Braddock, died at the residence of bis parents, 221 Vonrth street, llrad dock,'of hoart failure, superinduced by typhoid fever, on Sunday, aged 24 years. The dec-aed was the youngest son of A. J. Br&ckmcyer, of tho Union insurance Company. Ho was a member of the Masonic lodge at Braddock, Bev. J. 1. f'arl , itllstlonary. Bev. J. D. Paris died on July28 at Kona, Hawaii. He was the oldest missionary In Hawaii. He was married to Miss 'M. Grant, of New York, In 1840, and one month later sailed for Hawaii as a missionary, Mr. Paris at uncc started work among the Kanakas and labored among them to the day of his death. Chief Justice Irving, of Maryland. Chief Justice Irving, of the First Ju dicial Court of Maryland, died at bis home. In Princess Anne, lid., Wednesday, axed 64 years. Judge Irving, before his elevation to tbe bench, was a prominent member of the bar of Maryland. He was at one time a practicing lawyer in Cincin nati. Obituary Notes. Commander Hasenclever, military attache of the German Embassy in London, Is dead. He was very popular both among military men and in society. v William Murfree, father of tbe well-known authoress. Miss Mary Murrree (Cnarles Egbert Craddock), died at his home near Murfreesboro, Tenn., Weanesday night. Judoe L. T. H. Irving, of the Maryland Court of Appeals, died In Princess Anne, Md., Wednesday night. He had a sunstroke a few weeks ago, and Immediately after was striken with paralysis. Joiik Dinole, colored. Past Grand Treasurer of the Grand Lodge of Masons of New Jersey, and also Past Grand Treasurer or tbe Grand Chapter, died at hit home In Camden Wednesday nlglit,aged S years. Enoch Mat, Sr., the oldest printer In the West, died at Burlington, la., yesterday, aged 91. He was born In. Boston In 1801. and was connected with the early Journalism of tbat city. He went to Burlington in 1840. Thomas Todd, well known among the glass workers of Western Pennsylvania, died at New Castle Wednesday. Hit death resulted from an In jury to his head, baring struck against a atone while swlmminir thw wfks ajrn. ' Ml,'tmTniT!rthT-wfitsafn. MUSIC IN THE AIR. Sweet Strains Furnished by the Butler Street M. E, Church Torn a Vacant lot Into a Festive Scene Choirs Gather Again Beforn Their Lend-r' Batons. The Butler Street M. E. Church has been forward in an endeavor to give Lawrence vllle people some pleasant outdoor amuse ments. One of the most agreeable was an open air concert provided by that church last night in tho vacant space at the corner of Forty-fourth and Butler streets, where for several hours music was discoursed by a brass band, aided by Messrs. Clark E. Stew art and B. C. Taylor. An admission of 10 cents was charged, this small lee being im posed merely to prevent tbe consequent overcrowaing that an absolutely free adinls- siou wuuiu cause in so connnea a space. Tho crowd was large, orderly and appre ciative, and thanks to the church, a most enjoyable evening was spent by the citi zens of that part of town. Bt next Sunday tbe choir of Shadyslde PresDyterian Church will be gathered again after an absence from work since August 1. Its members have been enjoying themselves, each in his varions way, some going to the tbe country and others to the seaside This evening they will meet for rehearsal under the supervision or Mr. Samuel M. Brown, tbo organist and director. The full choir is composed as follows: Miss Zetta Stewart, soprano; Miss Alice E. Parmlee. contralto; Mr. Morris Stephens tenor, and Mr. William Sutley, basso. Mr. Clark E. Stewart has entire charge of the mnsic in tbe Sunday school and at .the religious services on Wednesday evening. ioclal chattrr. The First Presbvterian Church of East Birmingham, whose incumbency is held by the Rev. F. K. Farrand, are about to sustain the loss of their soprano siugur. Miss Sadie Pitts. The young lady will leave in a lew weeks for New fork to enter the National Conservatory of Music there to prosecute musical studies with diligence under the best American masters. Miss Pitts holds a recognized place as a singer of churcb music. Mr. Samuel M. Brown, organist of Shady side Presbyterian Church and director ot its cnoir, is contemplating a pleasant greet ing in the nature of a suitable musical serv ice, for the Bev. Dr. Richard Holmes, the pastor, now traveling In Europe. He is ex pected home In early September. The town Is beginning to enliven a bit since the return oi the stragglers from the watering places and the mountains. The duties of fashionable social lire will not be delaved much longer, and in church circles particularly evidence is manifold of the passing summer. The Morton villa, on Marchand street, at' the oorner of Denulston avenue, was opened a few days ago against the arrival ot Mrs. Howard Morton and her two young chil dren. The family arrived yesterday from their summer quarters at Point Chautauqua. Mr. amd Mrs. B. S. Davis will goforapleas ure trip of several w eeks to Bedford county, where they will be established within a pleasant distance by driving of the lashlona ble resort of Bedford Springs. Miss Alice Lehman will leave ror Cresson Springs on Saturday to spend a rew weeks or the autumn, where its kaleidoscopic iului ui ucauiy jnu&es some oi tue grandest presentations. Mr- McCullouoh and the Misses McCul lough, of Marchand street, who have been enjoying at considerable length a visit to Asbury Park, returned home this week. Mb. Thomas Kirk, Jr., assistant treasurer of the Alvin Theater, arrived in the city yesterday after a visit ot several months' duration in Atlantic City. Mr. William Lyon, junior member of the firm of Messrs. J. G. Bennett Co., is enjoy ing a few days rest and recieation at Atlan tic City. Mr. Samuel Hamilton, of North Highland avenue, returned yesterday from a huiried visit spent with his family at Lakewood, Ji. Y. Mr. and .Mrs. L. E. Hewitt, of Forbes street, and their daughter, Mrs. Gray, are spenuing a lorinignt at Atlantic uuy. Mr. and Mrs. James YouNoand farody, of Marchand struct, East End, are home from a vacation spent at Cape May Point. A musical and literary entertainment of unusual merit will be presented this even ing at the Smithfield M. K. chuich. Mr. Charles Meuck; of tho Konmarwr Hotel, left town yesterday for Chicago, to be gone a few days. Mr. and Mrs. Bailet, family and maids are enjoying tbe late autumn weather at Atlantic City. Mrs. Stevenson, of Columbus, O., Is a vis itor at the house of Mrs. JL K. Valiant, Mey ran avenno. y Mrs. Sydney Omohcndbo, of Meyran av enue, Oakland, is visiting at Bidgeview Park. Mr. Edward H. Williams, of tbe Kenmawr Hotel, returned this week fioin Morgan town. Mr. William H. Mtlick is visiting with his people near Zanesvllle, O. F0NSECA A FAILDKB. Da Fosseoa, Brazil's first President, is dead. But the now republic still lives. New York World. Marshal Foxseoa, of Brazil, will only be remembered as the figurehead or a revolu tion conducted by abler men, who oast him aside when they were through with him. Philadelphia Frets. Marshal Da Fosseoa, tho recent first President of Brazil, has Joined the great ma jority. He can now explain to the late Emperor Dom Pedro Just how it all came about. ClUcago Mail There is an aching void in Brazil on ac count of the death of tho first President of tho Bopubllc, Fonseca. nis latest ccts while in office were those ofa weak though head strong nsurper rather than a constitutional chief magistrate of a republic. Washington Star. Fowseca rode to power on the wnves ot his military success and retired from it in a storm of financial disaster. If he had been as good a business man as he was soldier he might bavo been still directing tho affairs of the newest American republic Brooklyn Eagle. t Ges. Deodoro da Fonseca, the er-Fresi-dent of the Republic of Brazil, who has tust died, was a man of power, an audacious rev olutionary leader, a competent military commander, an ambitions politician, and a believer in "Republicanism nnder a dicta torship." New York Sim. Fonseca was no doubt a brave man and really won all the honors awarded him by tbe good Emperor, who was much more of a man than a monarch.. But Fonseca as a General in the imperial army and Fonseca as the Presidont or a republic were too very different beings Brooklyn Citizen. It Fonseca had tho genius which tho occa sion demanped be might now be mourned ns a nineteenth century Washington. Instead, he has died in forced retirement, stamped with the disgrace of tailuro, "and his death hardly creates a ripple on the surface of South American politics. Buffa o Express. LONG-HEADED EAINMAKEES Select IS loo Cloudy Time to Woo the Vapors Out of Hven. Pierre, S. D., Aug. 25. General Dyrenfnrth and a party of Government rainmakers are expected in Pierre to-day to make some ex periments In rain-making. They have se lected a high point about two miles from this city, on what is known as Snake Butte, to make the experiments. Conditions are moro lavorable now for rain than they have been for months ptst, as half an inch of rain has fallen the past two days and it Is now cloudy. During the past month, up to two days ago, no rain has fallen in this immediate vicinity. Freeport's Chances fo.a a Bridge. Freepobt, Aug. 25. ISpectaLJ The Board of Viewers appointed by the Courts of Westmoreland and Armstrong counties to consider the advisability of erecting a bridge over the Allegheny river at this place mot here to-day. All business houses and manutaotories were closed during the meeting to enable the business men or tho place to appear before the board and state their cause. The viewers expressed them selves as In favor of a bridge. The question will come up before the grand jury in the September terra of court. Working His Vtay Op. Cleveland Leader.! McKlniey is In great demand as a speaker this fall, but four years hence be will bo still more in demand as a candidate. Wants to Eat Borne Crow. Chicago Matl.l Isaac Fnsey Gray has come out of the forest and expressed a desire to sit on 'the tallboird of the bund wagon. CURIOUS CON DENS ATI0NS. New York makes 63,000 watches a week. American street railways employ nearly 7L0OO men. II takes nearly five years to,tan an ele pbaiit's skin. An irrigation canal in Utah and Idaho will irrigate 100,000 acres of land. An ice yacht has been known to travel a mile in one minute and ten seconds. New York City is reputed to eat 60,000 bushels of huckleberries every season. Decatur, Ala., has one negro Alderman, one negro Justice and two negro policemen. The first postoffice opened its doors in Paris in U92; in England, 1531; in America, 1710. In May the New York police found 3,157 children who could not tell where they lived. Insects are destroying whole forests la Virginia, and among other trees tho famous pope's pine. A Chinese sect believes that women, by embracing vegetarianism, will become men on Judgment Dry. An Atlantic City bath-house keeper bas a sign reading "Hire a suit and try my as sortment of cool waves." Chicago postal clerks are charged with soaking off rare stamps from foreign letters passing through the malls. Telegraphic communication by land and sea was first established between Lon don and Constantinople in 1838. London bas been experiencing "a cold summer, in which the thermometer langed between the 40and the 7u marks. Queen Victoria's private cabins in tho royal yacht are said to be the only parts of the boat not lighted with electricity. When a child dies in Greenland the na tive parents bury a living dog with it, the dog to be used by tbe child as a guide to the other world. A Miiford, Ind., woman was bitten on the check by a mosquito a few days ago. Blood poisoning resulted and her life was saved with difficulty. The pioneer vineyard of Northern Ohio, now tamous for its American wines, was planted by Hiram T. Dewey, in 1837, one mile irom the city orSandnsky. A blast set off in the "Wenrich mines be tween .Toplin and Webb City, Mo., blew a boulder weighing L000 pounds clear out of tho shaft, which is 133 feet deep. The ornithorbychus of Australia lays eggs like a bird, suckles its young like other mammals, and in general appearance and habits resembles the beaver of this country and Europe. Abilene, Kan., is the possessor of a man who keeps himself supplied with news papers by writing a postal card every week to some large paper office asking far a sample copy. During one week this month 313 car loads containing 3,816 tons of green fruit were shipped East from California. So far this season 6,O00,0CO more pounds of fruit have been shipped than last year. At Opelika, Ala., a large carrier pigeon, kllled'the other day by Henry B. Thompson, had a small gold band clasped around Its loft leg with the numbor 130 engraved on It. This was the only message it bore. The largest man in Kentucky is Boss Skaggs, of Lawrence county, who weighs 821 pounds and is 6 feet 8 inches tall. His arms measure 2 feet in circumference and his thighs 3 feet. He Is 31 years of age. The total number of gold pieces struck at the English mint lost year was 87,686,317, as against 70,S24,5 In 1890. This was by far the largest number ever executed in one year. Tho value was 8,325,303 9s 40. Patsy Sears, the oldest -woman in In diana, is dead at tho age of W8. She was born in Virginia, and did not learn to read until sho was 80 years old. She smoked for ninety years and never was sick a day in her llfo. Photography has determined the cause of the recent glacial avalanche in tbe Alps. It was hydraulic pressure beneath and be- . hind the "lacier, produced by masses of lea failing into connecting wator above and ac considerable distance. The trainwaya ;n London consist of.117 miles of line: but these are shared by sever al companies, the North Metropolitan own ing 41 miles the London nearly 23, the Lon-' don street about 13, and five other compa nies 11 miles between them. The centennial anniversary of Frye burg Academy, at Fryeburg, Me., was cele brated a few days ago. Daniel Webster is reputed to have begun his study of law while In this institution, and made his first public oration while principal of the acad emy. A factory at Lynn has asked for space at the World's Fair to show pneumatic dyn amite guns and projectiles, one dynamite field gun to be shown on a wheeled carriage fifteen by six feet over air; one coast delenso pneumatic dynamite gun, stationary, mounted on carriage with turntable track, tube eight-inch bore, three feet long. The present population of the globe is supposed to be about 1,467,000,000, and it Is estimated that the maximum of inhabitants that can be sustained on the entire land snrface of tbe earth is 5,991,000,000, and that this figure will De reached A. D. 2073, or in abont 180 years at the present ratio of in crease, which is 8 per cent per decade. A valise was received at the United States Express offlco at Jaokson, Miss., ser. eral days ago, showing from the hundreds of stamps and tags on it that it bad been in most of tbo express offices in this country. It was stuffed full or hundreds of odd and queer articles, including a human sknll and the left foot of a female graveyard rabbit, The town of Canton, Minn., isexcited over a picture whioh suddenly appeared in a small round window in the steeple of tho Roman Catholic Church in that place. Tho nlctnre is that of a grotto in which is seen tl-o figure of a woman with a baby lying ou her left arm, and slightly above the woman is another face looking down on the pair. At Farmington, Me., the other day, a cat captured one of a flock of martins which had their nest in a little house provided by tho owner ofthe feline, and was makimj off with the dainty morsel. Attracted by tho piteous cries or the bird, its mates came to the rescue, alighted upon pussy's back and pecked, scratched and screamed so fnrtou9ly that sho was soon glad to drop her prey and escape indoors. ASTEROIDS IN" ADuUST. Uncle Jack Well, Tommy, did you graduate? Tommy 'Course I did. Uncle Jack What was your average? Tommy One bnndred and tbree. Uncle Jack How do you make that ontf Tommy Easy tnongh. You see, the extras ar for what was left over from last year when I didn't get quite enough to pull me throogh. Bojtos Conner, She kissed me when she was a child, I spurned it then, alack I For now I'd give all I possess To give tbat first kiss back. Sew Tart Herald. "Has yo got a razzer, B rodder Perkins? "I has. but wbaffo?" "I'se borrowed eight diamon' studs to appeah la at oe cake-walk to-night, and I spec's some gea 'l'mnn will be envious. Chicago Aacs. AJAX TUB ELDER. Ajax defied the lightning in The good old days long gone. Before the present tvle of things nad near approached their dawn Bat Ajax, In these modern times. Would pull In bis defy; And if he saw a broken wire Tou bet he'd sneak right by. Detroit Free Prut. Prof. Potterby "Will you illustrate the difference between belief and faith. Mr. Blnk'sf Bulks Tes, sir j the father believes that Ms chil dren are the smartdt In the neighborhood, while tbe mother knows they are.-JiafcnajH Journal "Here is the ring," he cried. "Now will vou be L From this time, forth engaged to marry me!" F "Wait till papa can see It, " said the elf. "I'm not ajudge of diamonds myseir." Washington Star, "Dismissed from your boarding house! Why?" "Well. the landlady said I would either have to reduce my weigbt or go, and I can't reduce." "But why did she want you to get thin?" she said mi appearance aroused expensive hopes on the part of the other boarders," iroot- ivnmyia. I 1 4 'i a t4Vgg
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