ffKBSsjgSVtsBJBfflfSfSBBSSKl iBBbsM yfrr- izwif ir 4 THE' FXTTSBUBG 'DISPATCH MONDAY, AT7QTTSL "29, 1892L lit Bigpafrlj. ESTABLISHED FEBRUARY Vol, 47. No, 20?. Entered t Pittsburg Pottofflce November. 1SST, as second-class matter. Business Office Corner Smithfield and Diamond Streets. News Rooms and Publishing House 78 and 80 Diamond Street, in New Dispatch Building. EA8TEKN ADVERTISING OFFICE, ROOM 78, TRIBUNE BDILDINQ, NEW rORK.where com plete Alee of THIS DISrATCn can always be found. Foreign advertisers Appreciate the convenience. Home advertisers and friends orTHEDlSPATCH. wlille In New Tork, are also made welcome, THK DISPATCH Is regularly on sale at Bren tano's, 6 Union Souare, hew Tort, and 17 Avcde I'ODera, Paris, France, where anyone who has bn disappointed at a hotel news stand can ob tain It. TEKSIS OF THE DISPATCH. rOSTAGE TltCE IN THE CSITTD STATES. DAILY Dispatch, ono Year 5 8 00 Daily DisrATcn, Per Quarter too Daily DlsrATCH. One Month 70 Daily DiPrATcn, including Sunday, 1 year.. 10 00 Daily DisrATCii. Including Sunday.Sm'ths. ISO Daily DisrATCU, Including bunday.l month CO Ecjiday Dispatch. One Year , 210 M EIKLY Dkpatlii. One Year 13 The Daily Dispatch Is delivered by carriers at IS cents per wert, or. Including bunday Edition, at 10 cents icr wee. rnT-Bl'HG. MONDAY. AUGUST 9. 119?. TDIEXVT POLICE WORK. The work that the police and sanitary inspectors will undertake to-day, as stated in our local columns, is one of the great est value for the city. They will make a thorough inspection of every section of the city. Wherever there is a harboring place for filth or disease they will order its cleaning up. Wherever people are using water from springs and wells liable to contaminate they will urge the discon tinuance of the practice. In short, a com plete and effective sanitary inspection is contemplated which if maintained will make Pittsburg proof not only against cholera but against more common epidem ics arising out of unsanitary conditions. This work should receive the hearty support and co-operation o every citizen. Every suggestion of the authorities as to places which require cleaning up should be promptly compiled with. Even if the directions seem unnecessarily rigid it should be remembered that a scrupulously high standard of cleanliness is the best guarantee of public safety. The work is a good one. It is for the public benefit, and it is especially timely. The whole community should unite in giving it active co-operation and assistance. It is to be hoped that this will be only the first of a continuous series of sanitary inspections. A second inspection, and that at an early day, will be necessary to see that the directions in all places where disinfection is necessary have been carried out; and vigorous prosecutions should be resorted to in every case where the work is neglected after such notice. Then monthly inspections should be maintained against the growth of fresh nuisances. With this work faithfully performed Pittsburg will have the best assurance against epidemics. SALVATION VS. ANABCHT. The appearance at the meeting of the Salvation Army in the Liberty Street ST. E. Churchyesterday, of an ex-Anarchist who has been converted from anarchy to salvationisra puts that class of religious organization in a new light. If the Salva 'lon Army can extend the work of con- ertiug Anarchists and inducing them to ive up beer and anarchy for salvation and the care of their families it "will com mand the liberal and enthusiastic support ot property and capital. It may be that unconverted Anarchists will dispute that any real member of their explosive sect can be brought to a belief in religion. The basis of the Anarchist cult is to deny all religion. Nothing could be a better demonstration of the power of religion than the turning of the lestroyers of law and beer into genuine out inoffensive soldiers of the Salvation &rray. Certainly we advise other Anarchists to follow the example of their ex-confrere and embrace salvationism. Better for them to worship, even if somewhat gro tesque, with the Salvationists than to Wow up with the country and their own dynamite. THE LOCAL PEOPLE'S PABTI". The address of the People's party to the ve'ers of Allegheny county, both in the names signed to it and in the representa tions by which it asks the votes of this sec tion, reminds us of the old Greenback Labor party of the 70's. We make no doubt that the gentlemen who advance the propositions contained in that address are as sincere now as they were in oppos ing specie payments In 1876 and 1877. But the fact that their opinions did not stand the test of debate and experience fifteen years ago may create a presumption with regard to the reliability of their political nostrams to-day. That presumption is strengthened by the character of their address. A large number of general assertions are made as the basis of the indictment of both the Democratic and Republican parties; but no more specific assertion is made than that bad laws are increasing the wealth of the rich and impoverishing the masses. Not a single bad law is specified, nor is it shown how their operation has worked that result The fact is that while, as The Dispatch has often shown, there are many and great privileges to excessive wealth, theyare in nine cases out of ten due to violations and nullification of law which if enforced would prevent such things. The same looseness of reasoning is shown by making the vote of the repre sentatives of this district against the silver bill the only specific indictment of the address. This follows close upon a para graph which makes the question of wages a paramount one. But they do not know t the shift to the silver standard means, ..oVof all, a reduction of the value of the dollar in which the wages of labor is paid bj 30 cents; and, second, the permanent taking away from every workingmau who has something laid by in the savings bank, as great a proportion of his savings. Whde the address fails to specify the bad laws that are to be repealed, it is more frank with regard to those that are to be enacted. An income tax is to drive mill ionaires out of existence if it is entorced; monopoly in land is to be checked by the party which seeks its votes with the class whom the alleged land reformers deem to be the land monopolists; the pauper work man and his products arc to be shut out which is gcod protection doctrine for a, party whose greatest success can bo to make ceitain the election of a free-trade administration; the Government' shall loan money at 2 per cent to Improve the high ways; and the old soldiers shall" have their pay in gold. Singularly enough, however, this distribution of universal wealth from a public treasury whence the surplus has w, vanished falls to do anything about thoss two great panaceas, sub-treasuries for agricultural products, and Government railroads to bo run by the politicians. AH this is very interesting to contem platewhen the People's, party get into power. But before that time the leaders of that party will have to cultivate a little more common sense and clearness of perception as to the great problems of the day. NOT YET ADEQUATE. The Supervising Surgeon General of the Marine Hospital service sends a letter to The Dispatch with regard to its editorial remarks of last Friday on the order fixing September 20 as the date at which disin fection of foreign rags was to be made compulsory. Surgeon General. Wyman quotes from a letter of August 26, to the State Board of Health of Illinois, to show that the order of July 8 required the dis infection of all baggage and merchandise from infected ports. The order of August 17 was supplementary to this, requiring the disinfection to be done on the other side, and the time was given in order to permit the completion of steam disinfect ing chambers. "In the meantime," says the Surgeon General, "'it was considered that all previous circulars would hold good." This puts a somewhat different face on the matter, and is well enough as far as it goes; but it fails to reach the vital point urged by The Dispatch. The order of July18 only provides disinfection for baggage and merchandise arriving from infected ports. A supplementary order extends the action of the circular of Au gust 17 to all European ports. But that or der does not take effect until September 20, and in the meantime, according to the text of the circulars, rags and other mer chandise may be brought here from ports not declared to be infected without any precautions. This omission, especially with regard to rags, is something for which criminal neg ligence is scarcely too severe a term. Rags are well known to afford a special vehicle for the transmission of disease germs. Ordinary merchandise generally bear? on its face the evidence of its source; but a bale of rags is gathered from no one knows where. The fact that it is shipped from a port where there is no infection affords no evidence that it may not have been collected in the centers of infection. For this reason the loophole in the orders of the Government permitting such car goes for a month without disinfection is mildly described by the words "half-way measures." All cargoes coming from Europe should be thoroughly disinfected before they are permitted to land in this country; and rags should be excluded altogether. This country can get along with its own rags for a year better than to take foreign rags with the cholera thrown In. A DEMOCRATIC EVASION. A very striking case of shallow evasion is furnished by the editorial reply of the Philadelphia Becord to a correspondent who asks what is the aim and conse quences of the adoption of section 8 of the Democratic platform. Section 8 is that deliverance which calls for the repeal of the 10 per cent tax on the issues of notes by banks other than national banks. Our free trade Democratic cotem porary essays to. give a reply by saying that, as the national banking system must give way to some other because of the cancelation of the bonds of the Gov ernment, some safe substitute must be found. "To this end, the first movement must be the removal of the tax on the issues of the State banks." The Becord then goes on to enlarge on the varied needs of the country for currency, the fact that interest is high in one section and money a drug in another, and the growth of business in all parts of the country. From which it winds up with the assertion that a safe State banking system is the solution of the monetary problems, including the silver question; and that "the Democratic party will always insist that a dollar, whether of paper or silver, shall always have a dollar's worth of value in gold behind it" All of which is careful and painstaking misrepresentation. There are in this deliberate befogging of the question no less than six assertions on which It depends to make that remark able plank appear even plausible. They are: First, that the cancelation of the United States bonds must wipe out the' national banking system. This Is untrue. The Becord knows very well that the sys tem can be preserved by the selection of other securities on which the national banks may Issue notes, or by permitting the system to continue as banks of dis count and deposit, with circulating notes Issued "by the Treasury. Second, that the first step is the repeal of the tax on State bank issues, when It Is obviously the last step that should be taken without some guarantee for the stability of the circula tion to be put afloat by that repeal. Third, the talk about the need of the country for a more elastic currency system is mere verbiage if it does not carry tbe.assertion that the national system prevents the formation of banks of issue where more money Is needed. The contrary is the case. Under the national system capitalists can organize banks in accord ance with well-known and prescribed re quirements wherever they can find re munerative and safe employment for their funds. Under the State system they would be subject to the vagaries of legis lation in 44 different States. Fourth, the assertion that a safe State system is pro posed is entirely without foundation. There Is no such qualification in the plat form. It simply proposes to reopen the door to the old State system, notoriously the most unsafe and inflated known in financial history. Fifth, the idea that giving everybody the right to issue bank notes will settle the silver question is a gratuitous exhibition of monetary ignor ance. Even supposing that the redemp tion of these notes in coin was provided for, the question what coin should be available for their redemption would be just as pressing as before. Sixth, the statement that the Democratic party will always insist that the dollar issued by State banks "shall always have a dollar's worth of value behind It" has not a sylla ble in the Democratic platform to support it. The fact is, as the Becord well knows, that this plank in the platform was yielded to the demands of the South and the Southwest, where the hankering of the influential people, who could run wildcat banks and get the usufruct from them, is of equal strength with their hatred for the uniformity and stability of the national system. By so doing the Democracy in dorsed the most outrageous scheme of inflation and fiat money that this country has confronted for a generation. The proposals of the free silver men are sound financial sense compared to this. They simply wish to change from one positive standard to another somewhat lower; while the Democratic platform consents to fill the country with paper money without any guarantee that it shall have value at all. The theory of tho Greenbackcrs that the Treasury shall Issue all circulating notes without the Intervention of banks is widespread and uniform stability In. con trast with the Democratic idea of dollar notes which may be worth 7fi cento in Ohio, 90 cents in Kentucky and nothing at all in either State next month. The last period of Democratic supremacy was marked with a panic due simply to wildcat State banks. The Democratic idea of coming into power by going back to the same conditions is a unique display of besotted Bonrbonlsm. The postal slot machine, which proposes to purchase) envelopes, paper and postage stamps In return for the nickel drooped in, may yet come to the stage of writing our letters for us. Then when It reaches the further operation or mailing the letters, In stead of leaving them to bo parried in our pockets for a month, the art of machine made correspondence will reach Its zenith. After Messrs. Sullivan and Corbett settle their little dispute perhaps the country will consent to Messrs. Harrison and Cleveland monopolizing a share of its time and patience. The Philadelphia Inquirer, which has been swearing by the Beading deal for six months, has recovered from the shook of that New Jersey decision sufficiently to come to the conclusion that New Jersey courts do not amount 'to much anyhow. The only correct law is given out from the offices of the great corporations according to the opinion of their organs. The report that Senator Chandler's pa per is advertising New Hampshire as doubt ful creates a suspicion that the Senator con sider it needtnl that he also shall ho pla cated. The desire of Colonel MeOlure to get some one to debate the tariff question with him still remains unsatisfied. This is due to the Colonel's fastidiousness with regard to his opponent. As long as lie insists on debating with McKinley or no one, it looks as If he were more anxious for an advertisement than for a debate. With Senator Hoar In Paris and Editor Dana In Jerusalem why should this nation he called upon to let the gray matter of it3 brain be exhausted with force bill talk. Mr. Dana's call upon Mr. Whitney to turn loose the fool-killer among the Demo cratic Workers is vigorous, but indiscreet. There is no telling how the Democratio ranks might bo decimated by that policy, or what vacancies might be created tn the edi torial force of esteemed Democratic organs. The latest triumph of human ingenuity is an infernal machine which is warranted to kill every time. It should be tested first on its nihilistic inventor. By crediting to the "murTJerous trolley" all theaccidents due to going faster than the effete horse car and some that would hap pen even with those illustrations of leaden footed time some of our esteemed New York cotemporaries are working that bug bear even harder than the McKinloy bill. It might be pertinent tor the law to step in and arbitrate the threatened Sullivan Corbett strike by sending both parties to the workhouse. The application of Judge Holman for ten free tickets to the World's Fair contains a grateful admission that the late cruel war Is over, and that all may be lovely when Chi cago comes in with its second wind for tho rest of that appropriation next winter. This seems to be a year in which the balloon parachuto is especially active in usurping the functions of fool-killer. Senator Brice comes forward rather tardily to remark that ho never had any faith in the rainbow-chasing of 1SSS. Mr. Brlce's opinion as to the rainbow-chasing of 1892 is still held strictly in seclusion. This is already a memorable year, and the defeat of the Free Trade candidate for the Presidency will make it more so. The rainmakers are to tackle their job anew in Dakota this time. Bain haying been predicted in that section, the science of ralnmaklng discloses Itself to consist in timing its efforts with judgment. If the McKinley bill could keep out cholera tho party that fathers it would be sure of success every time. The reported offer of 55,000,000 profit on Chicago's $2,500,000 issue of souvenir hair dollars is one of the things that Chicago should accept so quickly as to make the purchaser's head swim. Keixhek the rags nor the paupers of Europe are wanted in this country. Quarantine against anything and everything that- can possibly bring the cholera to this country is one of those things of which we cannot get too much for the next year or so. Keep cool and clean and the cholera will give you a wide berth. . UP NEAR THE TOP. Mrs. Richard Kino, of Corpus Christ!, Tex., owns 7OJ.OO0 acres and 103,000 bead of cattle and horses. Mrs. Ballinqton Booth is said to receive but $7 per week for her services to the Salvation Army. W. K. Yanderbilt has recovered from his sunken yacht Alva $1,690 in money and $3,000 worth of diamonds, Zola is said to believe that the time is not far distant when France will again take up arms against Germany. Herbert Spencer, the philosopher, is said to be a man of singular modesty, "with a gentle voice and almost feminine grace." Sarah Bernhardt is 48 years old. She was christened "Bosine," but cbangod her name to Sarah for a reason known only to herself. A letter from Mrs. G. F. Hoar to friends In Worcester reports that Senator Hoar has almost completely recovered his eyesight., Mrs. J. K. Burton, wife of the Repub lican candidate for Congress, in the Fifth district of Kansas, is a Democrat, bat she is stumping the district for and with her hus band. Br the death of ex-Governor Myron H. Clark, Hamilton Fish Ib now left the sole survivor of those distinguished men who have held the Governorship of New York prior to 1879. JLn dress Mr. Labouchere follows a style adopted by all well-born and well-bred En glishmen, from which expensive Jewelry and other ostentatious addenda are con spicuous by their absence. General John J. Perry, of Portland, Me., is one of tho few surviving Congi ess men of the ante-war period. He served two terms at Washington prior to 18JL He is well informed, gifted with 'an excellent memory, and enjoys fine health and has a wonderful store of reminiscences of the statesmen of that day ana generation. A Bevo't That Seems Unseemly. New Vork Evening "World.! Bevolt is unseemly in the Salvation Army. The warriors should remember that old church hymn; "We are not divided, all one army we." II U Apology Is Too Long. Chicago Tribune. Having carefully considered the matter General Bldwell accepts the Prohibition nomination lor the Presidency, but his writ ten apology for the act is entirely too long. V hero Is IngalU AlT Boston Herald.: ' Where s Orator InfaHs In this campalznT A PEEP INTO THE PAST. rwBirTsx ron ras dispatch.! Is is not always true that the old is better, but the old is almost always inter esting. Men are naturally interested in men. An old street along which men have walked time out of mind, .an old church in whioh men have said their prayers for hundreds of years, or an old custom which has come down ont of antiquity, provokes curiosity, inspires imagination, .takes one out of the present Into the past, and has an interest and a value whioh do not depend on the outward appearance. I am writing this at Canterbury, beneath the shadow of the most venerable and the most interesting of English 'Cathedrals. Almost everything here ts u window through which tolookintothepast. Testerday Canon Dremantle took me for a long walk out to Harbledown.a hamlet named in Chancer, from whoso hill, beside the windmill, thero is a wonderful view of the great church towering up over the low red roofs of the town. Tho path was that along which the Canterbury pilgrims went in the old days bearing there votive offerings to the shrine of Becket. We stopped at the old almshouse of fat. Nicholas, which was once a hospital for lepers in the days before scientific sani tation had dispelled that 'plague. In the little church, where there are benches which date baok to the fourteenth century, npon which generations of restless Chris tians Jmvo set to hear the admonitions of the preacher, we saw the lepers' chapel, where, with a scieeu of oakbetween them and the congregation, these miserable people said their pitiful prayers. ' Where the Past "Was Recalled. There is along flight of steps down into the road. And down these steps, in tho Middle Ages, hurried one of the brothers of tho Monastio family whenever tne sonnd of the feet of the horses of the pilgrims came along the way, and in one hand ho cariied a wooden bow, in the bottom of which was set a bis crystal which had once adorned the shoo buckle of St. Thomas a Beckot, and in tho other hand a small round wooden box.whose cover a as provided with a significant slot for pennies. And th.e pil grims would stop and kiss the relic of the holy, blisslul martyr and make their grate ful offering. One day Erasmus and John Colct passed along that road, and tho monk camo down and offered the buckle to be kissed, and they declined. It was a sign of the change of thought which was making ready the Beformation. I saw the money box which used' to be heavy with the pil grims' pennies, and the buokle which the pilgrims used to kiss. And all that old life Beemed to come back, and I could almost fancy that we were pious and oiednlous pil grims making a Canterbury Journey of tho old kind. The interest of travel depends not so much on what one sees as on what ono thinks. Every morning here, a little before 6 o'clock, one of the cathedral bells is rung. That bell rang in the Middle Ages, when everybody who heard it stopped a mo ment in whatever be was doing and recited the ''Hail Mary." Day after day, from that old time to this, through all tho troubles and all the changes, that bell which waked me up this morning has wakened sleepy peo ple into the light of the new dawn. The monks were listening to it before America was known. Old Customs and Ceremonies. Every night the watchman makes his rounds here in the preoincts, within the walls which stood guard when the cathedral was a monastery church and calls the hours "Twelve o'clock! a cloudy night! all Is well!" I remember at- Klpon, when the bell of the cathedral rings for curfew, how the watchman, whom they call the wake man, stands in the square before the town hall and blows a blast upon an ancient born. It used to be the summons tor the watch to goon duty. To-day it is only a relio of old times. The other day when Parliament met, among many other ceremonies which once meant a great deal more than they do at pi esent, they kept a custom which began in the days of the gunpowder plot. They sent down a company of men to search the cel lars of the Pailiament House for Guy Fawkes. And after looking into all the closets and corners, they came back and re-' ported that neither Guy Fawkes nor any other objectionable or dangerous Individual was to be discovered. I read of that with pleasure, a pleasure which was emphasized by the fact that Just at that There I was looking at the actual Jantern which Guy Fawkes carried, kept in tho Ashmolean Museum at Oxford. That bat tered old lantern was in his hand when they found him beside the casks of powder. What an addition of the picturesque it is to modern liro to have that old conspiracy re membered! The present gains Immensely by being tet against the dim background of the past. In these days of common sense we have need of all the sentiment that association can bring in. The ground was not made exclusively for the planting of potatoes, Flowers grow well in it, also, and we need all the flowers that we can have in our gardens, in our behavior. . Life is moio dignified and graceful and" pic turesque bore in this old country than it is with us. Conferring Degrees at Oxford. I SAW a number of degrees conferred one morning in Oxford. They were chiefly degrees of Master of Arts. The sight was an interesting one, and illustrated well that element of the picturesque in whioh they excel here. The great hall of the Sheldonian Theater was crowded with spectators. The dons and fellows were conspicuous in gowns and hoods, set out with brilliant colors. The conferring of the honors was pronounced in the old Latin. It had a most dlgnifled sound, was quite free from the continental pro nunciatlon which in most of our sohools makes gibberish out of the language of old Borne, and was listened to .with great at tention. So far as I could" understand it, consent was asked somewhat as in the marriage service to the procedure of the ceremony, tho names of the men being read out. Then two proctors, in cap and gown and hood, marohed up the hall and then down again past the people who were seated on the benches, and whoever would might, as n maik of disap proval, pluck them by the sleeve, and prefer complaint. Hence the slang term "plucking" as applied to a failure to get a degree. The prootors made their pi ocession uninterrupted. That, I believe, is the invar iable Way of it nowadays, though trades men have been known to make threats of interference in view of nnpaid hills. After the proctors' march, the gentlemen who were now permitted to write M. A. after their names went out by tho great gate where their "scouts" were in waiting, and there attired themsolves in masters' hoods or bright color. It was much more or a spectacle than the commencement day sight which is common among us, of a company of monotonous yonng men in dress coats reaching out their hands for rolls of sheep skin. Where the New Is Very Old. They make more of the past over there than we do. One reason is, of course, that they have moro past. "We are but of yester day. I dined the other - day with Edward Everett Hale, and be told1 mo that he had occasion some time ago to look up some old wills here in Canterbury. But when he went to the custodian he was told that, unfortunately, all the old wills had been taken up to London. "What date was it, sirt" asked the official. "Why, it was 1849 or somewhere thereabouts." "Oh, bless my soul!" cried the registrar, "that is one of tho new wills! Everything is new here after MOO!" It is a delightful experience to come out of a country where everything back of 3620 is ancient history and live for a time where everybody is on familiar terms with the eleventh century. In the little ohuroli of St. Martin on the bill, whose walls are bnilt of Korean brick which antedate the Nlceno creed, where Bertha, wife of Kthelbert or Kent, said her prayers wbon Britain was Pagan, where Augustine, the -missionary, sung the litany in 597, the past seems more real than tho present. And in the Becket transept of Canterbury, where the -Archbishop was murdered, and behind the high altar where his shrine stood, tho most mag nificent in England, imagination grows weary. Tou climb the stairs whose stones are worn by the knees ot praying pilgrims, yon stand whero they stood, in the line worn by their dusty shoes from generation to generation, and sljnt 'your eyes upon the empty space where all was gold and gems before the days of Henry Till, and all that old time seems both near and distant, distant in the vast change In the thoughts of men, in their beliefs, in their whole out look npon life. BetweenjFenn avenue and Mercery lane, between the Court House 'in Pittsburg and the Cathedral in Canterbury, between shrines and steel works, between the old times and the new, what a diameter of difference! BEPOBLiTJAN HOPES GROW. Colonel Cockrlll Believes Mr. Harrison's Chances Increase Dally. Colonel J. A. Coctrlll in New York nerald.l So far as my observation extends there is a steady growth of confidence all along the Republican lines. The hollo f of the party in its ability to re-elect Mr. narrison rests largely npon tho theory that the recall of the Democratic party to any share In the ad ministration ot Federal affairs would mean turmoil and disturbance. The Cleveland platform is a menace to the tariff and the wise, sa,fe and useful national banking system. Importers, merobants and manufacturers havo adjusted themsolves to the existing tarifflaw.and while it is trne that a Republi can Sonato stands as a harrior between the country and any l evolutionary legislation for tho next four years the business inter ests of the country must naturally array themselves against a party which appeals in a season of piosperlty and peace for a restoration upon a promise to "rip things." The business man who recalls the days of wildcat banking will not readily vote to destroy a systom which gives every State all the banking facilities it requires and makes eveiy bank note in circulation as good as pold both at home and abroad. The foolish longing and desire upon the part of the wild and irresponsible horde of finan ciers behind air. Cleveland to return to the old wildcat State banking system betrays tho reti ogressl ve chaiacter of the Demo cratic party. This alone serves to alarm tho friendB of progress, and is a sufficient notice served npon the solid business Inter ests or the country, I think, to keep the Domociatic paity in the state of exile which befits it undor Its present leadership. The feeble cry about the force bill is, I be lieve, losing its potenoy already. It Is chiefly put forth by the wins of the party in the North which despises Cleveland and is vet compelled by force of clrcnmstances to keep in step with the organization. In the South the shibboleth of "No Negro Domina tion" has political value, but it cannot bo used to secure a single close Notthein State lor air. uieveiann. Intelligent residents of tho West with whom I have recently talked have an idea that the Populists, as they call themselves the third party will not figure so largely in Kansas, Nebraska, Minnesota, Michigan and Wisconsin as was anticipated in the opening of tho campaign. The theory is that the farmers have had fair crops and good prices and they are, therefore, less resentful than tney wore a lew years ago. it is tne mort gaged and hopeless agriculturalist who is disposed to pull down the pillars of the temple. The proposition to raise here a popular fund for the education and enlightenment of tho West on the tariff question Is not meet ing with the encouragement which its free trade promoters hoped for. There is noth ing cyclonic about the desire of the Eastern f i ce trader to furnish salvation to the West ern beatoen. That belongs to the profes sional politician who looks for bis cash re ward in Washington. Up in Maine the Republicans aro entering into the campaign spiutedly. Tho Democrats do not seem to legard Maine as good ground for missionary work. The sad attempt last spring to revolutionize Rhode Island has caused them to rest the eye of hope upon the land of the sunset. Maine's response next month will convey to Cleveland and his fol lowers assurances that the party of protec tion, progress and National integrity is still invincible. CATHOLIC TEMPEEAHCE PEOPLE. Their Union in This Diocese Increased Over CO In the st Month. Bbaotjock, Aug. 2S. Special Over 60 dele gates, representing 25 branches of the Total Abstinence Socletyof tbePittsburgDlocese, assembled in St. Thomas' School hall this afternoon. It being its regular monthly meeting. Bev. Father Lambing, of Scott dale, President of the union, meslded. Addresses were made byJoseph A. Wel don.tVice President; W. H. Griffin, Miss Bertha MoAfeo, P. W. Joice, Miss Mary Doogliertv ana James Brown, of Pittsburg, and William Laughlln, of. St. Bridget's con gtegation. Tho reports showed tliat tnere weie 1,247 members, an Increase of over SO since they last met. It was decided to dis tribute literature in the interestot the cause. PATENTS FOB A TEAS. Interesting Figures Gleaned From the Re port ot Commissioner Slmonds. Washihotow, Aug-23. The annual report of W. E. Slmonds, Commissioner of Patents, to the Secretary of the Interior shows that during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1892, 15,915 applications for patents and caveats were received. There were during that period 23,626 patents granted, Including reissues and de signs; 1,563 Made marks registered and 6 label registered; 12,127 patents expired dur ing the year; the receipts from all sources during the year were $1,263,727; expendi tures, J$L1U,134; leaving a surplus for the year ot $154,593. SELAWABE TO GET THE FLAT IRON. Commissioners of Thar State and Pennsyl vania Will Becommend Its Cession. WrLMisoTOS, Dei., Aug. 23. The lesnrvey of the boundary lino between Delaware and Fennsy lvania.authorized by the Legislatui cs of the respective States, has been in pro gress since tne miauie oi may. The commission will recommend the cession to Delaware of the lamous "flat lion," a triangular southward projection of 700 acres of Pennsylvania territoiy between Delaware and Maryland, over which Dela ware has long exeiclsed a quasi-juris-dlctlon. Cleveland Entertains C. . Brief. Buzzard's Bat, Mass., Aug. 28. Sunday at Gray Gables was as quiet as it usually is. Although the weather cleared, Mr. Cleve land did not go out. A part of the day he devoted to his family, and a part to enter taining Calvin S. Ilrice and C. E. Baldwin, who spent a few hours with him. It was purely a social visit, the subject of politics not being even mentioned. DEATHS JJERK AND ELSEWHERE. Bev.- William Ware Howland, missionary. A cable message announces the death, Friday, in Jaffna, Ceylon, of Bev. William Ware Howland, for nearly SO years' missionary or the American Board on that island. Mr. Howland was born at West BrooRBeld. Mass., in 1817; graduated from Amherst College in 1841. and was ordained for the work In 1843, after completing a course In Union Theological Seminary. Three or his children became missionaries. Mr. Howland was the oldest missionary in that small field, and had not visited Ms native country since 1861. He lived to see the Jaffna mtkslon grow until It has nine self-snpportlng churches and 2,700 members, while there are 135 mission schools and 8,510 pupils. 'Sqnlro Alassla Beasley, Abrrdeen, O. Aberdeen, O., a small town opposite Maysvllle, Ky., has been for years the Gretna Green or eloping young Kentucklans. There dwelt Esquire Massla Beasley, who was always ready, day or nlrbt, to tie the nuptial knot. The remarkable Justice of thePeace, who has married 5.000 couples, died Saturday morning, aged 81. He has held the office of Justice of the peace since 1883. A Very Old Chnrcb Bededloated. Carlisle, Aug. 23. Special. The old Presbyterian Church at Middle Springs, this county, whioh is ovor 130 years old, having been remodeled, was to-day dedicated with religious services. Persons from all parts or tho Cumberland Valley and surrounding country were in attendance. "William ainrphy. William JIurphy, a prominent member of the American Flint Gliss Workers' Union, died yesterday, axed 3) years, at his home, 039 Fifth avenue. Obituary Notes. P. H. BOLKK. an old citizen of Memphis, is dead, leaving an estate of S15O.UJ0. His will pro vides for large charitable bequests. William DEmznT, one of tho oldest residents of Schuylkill county, died at his home In Land ingvUJe," Pa., yesterday, aged 82 years. He was lor many years a prosperous boat builder. James 0. Arnold, 68 years of age, died in WTorceiter, Mass., .baturday. He wasoneofihe leadinAQuakerS'or that part or the country. He wasapuent attorney and a man of great Inven tive genibs. CiiaclE s ANDRE DB LA J.ULLE. Vlscomtc, Gen eral and formerly Senator, is dead in Paris. He won miliary fame in the Crlineau War and in the Italian campaign. As a Senator he represented me jnonartnisu, FEATURES. OF THE CAMPAIGN. Vermont and Main Will Bo lively for a Week or Two Rainbow Claims of Peo ple's Party Leaden Some Interesting una Pecu'lar Political Situations. One week from Tuesday occurs the first State election in the North since the Presi dents nominations. Vermont will then choose a Governor and other State officers. Until within the last few days the campaign has not been of an exciting description, but now the Bepubllcans are working with energy to seoure a majority which by its proportions will point to a sweeping victory n November. Tho statement is made that the Democrats have been carrying on a still hunt in the Green Mountain State with the expectation of reduomg the usually over whelniing'Bepubllcan figures, and' then claiming the result as indicating a decided pain for the cause of free trade. The an nounced purpose of the advocates of pro tection to make the last week of tho cam paign one of earnest, aggressive work will force the Democrats to contest in the open field, a feature whioh the Republican leaders of the State claim will insure a majority not far from 23,000. Six days after the Vermont election, on Monday, September 13, Maine will speak. The Governor and other State offloeri are to be chosen, together with legislators and four Congressmen. Ex-Speaker Keel is already on the stump with Boutelle and other Pine Tree orators. McKinley is to be ono of a party of visiting statesmen who will partici pate tn the closing work or tne canvass. It is uncertain yet whether Mr. Blaine will be able to take the platform, hut the expecta tion is that his voice will be heard before the day for voting. Such an event will make the Maine campaign always of im portance in a Presldental year, a most inter esting preliminary to the November con test. The State and Congressional struggles are being conducted almost entirely on national issues, although the prohibition question, as nsual, enters somewhat into the choice of the Legislature. This Legislature will choose a sucoessor to Senator Hale, whose term expires March I next. A num ber of Republican statesmen are more than willing to take the place, though the Senator is a Candidate for re-eleotion. The modified Australian system will be tried for the first time. A Democratio Factional Quarrel. The straggle for the Democratio nomi nation in the one Demooratie Congressional district of Philadelphia has assumed a prominence apparently much greater than its importance justifies. It Las even gone heyond State lines, and is being used- as an argument in the factional quarrels of the Empire State. This is, of course, largely because of Chairman Harrity's interest in the contest. The primaries will be held this evening and there are predictions that blows may play as powerful a part as bal lots. Congressman McAieer's friends claim to have an overwhelming majority of the Democratic voters ot the district, and pro fess to be only afraid of trickery on the part of the supporters of Captain Ker, the administration candidate. The matter of the temporary chairmanship of the coming convention has been taken into court, on the principle so frequently exemplified in Pennsylvania politics that the side with the chairman gets the nomination, the function of tho majority of the delegates being of comparatively little consequence. McAIeer has the support of tho Irish-Americans be cause of his attitude on the Gallagher case, and it is announced that he will run in No vember whether he secures a renomination or not. The contest in this district two years ago, it will bo remembered, was between two Democrats, McAIeer and Saux, the latter having been chosen to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Randall. McAIeer was then the regular nominee and Saux the candidate of the bolters. The Republicans then took no hand In the struggle except to utilize it for trading purposes with telling effect on the Democratio State ticket. The same polloy will probably be pursued this year in case tne lacnonai struggle is comin ued until November. Balnbow Claims of the New Party. N. A. Dttsjntnq, of Washington, one of the most active organizers of the People's party, in defining the plans and pros pects of that party the other day said: "To my mind there is absolutely no doubt that our electoral ticket will be chosen in Col orado and Nevada, and I look: for similar re sults In the other silver States. I honestly believe that in Colorado General Weaver will receive more votes than Har rison and Cleveland combined. The up rising In that State is practically universal. The old parties cannot get enough people together to hold their regular county con ventions. The Democratio organization is practically abandoned, only a few of the old-timers making even a pretense of sup porting the Chicago nominee and platform. Such Bepublican leaders as Senator Wol cott and Teller, while not openly supporting Weaver, are taking particular pains to give neither aid nor snpporf to Harrison. The situation in Nevada is almost identical. "In Kansas, too, we expect great results," . continued the sanguine Popullte leader. "A few months ago many of us were a little afraid that the vote secured in an off year would not stand the test or a Presldental contest. This idea has been almost entirely dissipated. Our reports indicate no back sliding in any direction. Senator Peffer, Cpngressman Simpson and a host or other local UUU visiting Bpoaticia aiu ni&ouu vigorously campaigning in Kansas. The Democrats will vote for onr electors, and in some cases the Congressional and county tickets are the same. It can hardly be called fusion, though, for the reason that our or ganization has absorbed the Democrats, lho struggle in Kansas is between Weaver and Harrison. "In tho South the case is Just reversed. In Alabama, Tennossco, Georgia, the Caro Unas, and even in Texas, with its 200.000 Democratic majority of two years ago, the issue will be between "Weaver and Cleve land. In these States, according to locality, we have eliminated cither Bepnblicanism or Democracy, and are no longer the third patty. 1 wish our organization were equally advanced in the East, but while we may not elect our candidate this year, we will take a long stride in that direction." The Only Danger In Ohio. Ohio politicians are mourning the ab sence of tho lively times occasioned by the foimer October elections. The changing of the State contest until November has Stopped the flow of oratory and more sub stantial arguments in the Buckeye State in the early fall. The Democrats have not ret recovered from the crushing defeat admin istered to free trade by McKinley last fall, and are much less vigorous in their claims than usual. A well-posted Ohio Repub lican (temporarily in Pittsburg) said yes terday: "xne only aanger in our oiuto iui your is from over-confidence and a quiet campaign on tho part of the enemy. The Democrats in Ohio usually win when everybody, in cluding themselves, believes it is going the other way. In 18S3 Hoadly, the Democratic nominee lor Governor, gave up the contest in disgust, and went to the seashore for his health. Practically everybody conceded Bepublican success, and yet when tho re turns were countea it was found that Hoad ly had beat on Foraker by 12,000. votes. In 1835 the conditions were reversed. The Ee- fmbllcans were discouraged by the change n tho national administration, and their opponents were claiming the earth, at least within the Ohio boundary lines, apparently without much opposition. Bat Foraker de feated lloailly easily, and It was not until 1839, when tne Republicans had again be come over-confldent by repeated success, that Campbell surprised everybody by his remarkable victory. Not until within a few dftjs of the election did the Republican managers realize their danger, and then it was too late. "Allen W. Thnrman a few days ago con coded that the Stuto would go lor Harrison bymoiethan 20,000, and tho election of 13 Republican Congressmen. The Bepublican Campaign Committee, though, is thoroughly on tho alert, and no chance will be given the Democrats to conduct a successful still hunt. Remembering the emphatic Buckeye tariff verdict or last ear, it is difficult to see how Cleveland's ir lends cin have a ray of hope in our State, as be is not as personally popular as Campbell. The Prohibition and People's pai ties will cut no particular figure and the Republican majority will be about the same size as four years ago." Interesting Congressional Situations. The Eepublican conferees in the Twenty-first Concessional District will spon bo confronted with the necessity of ending their prolonged summer vacation and making a nomination, or practically surrendering the nistriet to the opposition. Months have already been devoted to use less balloting, and only abont two weeks now remain before-the certificate of nomi nation must be filed with the Secretary of the Commonwealth at Harrisbnrg. The conflicting elements still show no signs Of weakening. Huff has made a number of propositions, which the other candidates have declined to fall Into, and the DOSSlbil- ity of the Intervention of tho State Commit tee 1 becoming more marked every day. Just across the State line InXlbio the Dem ocrats have an ennallv tntnrnstlnir situation to deal with, which is particularly compli cated by the recent frequent Buckeyegerry manders. The death of Warwick makes It necessary to nominate to All the vacancy for the district composed of Stark. Wayne, Medina, and Holmes counties, while the new district which the Congressman to be chosen for tho next term will represent consists of Stark, Mahoning and Columbiana counties. One district has a normal Democratio ma jority of 8,000, and the other usually goes Be publican by a slightly larger figure. If, as seems possible, the same candidates are nominated by the two parties for both terms, one will probably be successful in one race while the other would have the short ses sion as a consolation prize. The friends of John McBrlde and B. F. Wevhcott, though, Ciaim that either of them could wrest both teims irom candidate Morgan. L. D. B. WHO SQUELCHED THE EEBELLI05 1 Several Ohio Beglment Claim tho Honor and May Flht It Ont Yef. STXumnrvilXB, Aug. 28. ISpeelaL Grand Army circles in this city and Easi Liverpool are threatened with disruption over the question: "What Ohio regiment put down tho Rebellion and saved the day at the battle of Cliickamaugat" On the evening or the camp fire held by G. M. Stanton Post, G. A. B,, held August 15 in this city. Comrade W. H. Surles, of East Liverpool, gave a history of the 2nd O. V. culled from the official roster. He took- especial occasion In his history to give all the credit of the battle to the 2nd regiment, O. V. I., whose heroic deeds ho said completely eclipsed the light ing of others. A comrade of the 98th. whioh is known as "The regiment thatpnt down the Rebellion" when the soldier boys Joke, took Comrade Surles to task in a card. Then J. D. Porter, another member of the 83th, came out and said the 2nd O. V. L were ready to run When the 93th eamA tn thnir nacnp. f?nm. rnde Surlos cutting replies All the columns of the papers almost daily, and the citizens are expecting that the 2nd and 98th will be called out and settle the dispute by a battle on Brown's Island some day. The 67th, known as tho "blood lappers," has been brought to the rescue or the 88th in several articles. It is expected that the outcome for whioh all are watting will be that all three regiments will appoint a committee to arbitrate, and then decide that the 157th, a three months' Fort Delaware regiment, squelched the Rebellion. EX-G0V. BEiVEB PAV0B8 THI0H8, He Thinks It Brings the Best Man to the Front In Labor Problem. Altoowa, Aug. 2a Special Ex-Governor Beaver, who has long been a student of the labor question and is well versed on all its phases, says he favors the organization of laboring men, because it usually brings the best men among the workers to the front, and the companies can deal much better and more intelligently with them as officers of unions than they could with all the men In dividually. "President TVeihe, of the Amalgamated Association," said he, "is an example of what I mean. He is intelligent and con servative, and in discussing matters affect ing capital and labor is on a level with the shrewdest of the manufacturers. Of course, there are cases like that of Grand Master Sweeny, at Buffalo, where the wrong man Is at the head of the organization: bnt,a3a rule, the best men govern the unions." When asked what he thouzhtortheplan of having State and National Commissions for the arbitration and settlement of labor difficulties, he said: "The idea is all right, so far as it goes. I am of the opinion, how ever, that any law making such arbitrations compulsory would be unconstitutional; and while it would work admirably where both sides agree to submit the matter to the com mission, there would be no way ofsettling difficulties by this means where either side objects to the plan." AMEBICAN 7BTJIT TEE FAD. bines the Kefrlgorator Shipments Began Cockneys Are TTi'd for Onr Goodies. New York. Aug. 28. Cable advices this morning from Liverpool say there is a great demand for American fruit. The first ship ment of thL season's apples was sent over last week. The cable tays they arrived in good shape and sold very rapidly, bringing from II shillings' and 6 pence to 15 shillings a barrel. California Bartlett . pears are in great demand in England, and the last shipment sold for II shillings and 6 pence a box. TJMBBELIAS AS BAB SCBEEN3. A Mississippi Jadgo Deciles It fs an Indict able Ofiense to Cse Them. Jackson, Miss., Aug. 23. Quito a sensation has been produced by Judge Williamson, of the Fourth Judicial District, who has charged the grand Jury in Leftore county that it is an indictable offense for a man to screen himself by holding an open umbrella across his shoulder while taking a drink in a saloon. The Annotated Code abolished bar screens, since which time the umbrella has been used as a substitute. CBES70 STILL TICT0BI0TJ3. Mendon's Army Forced Back Into Car acas by the Legalists. NeWYobk, Aug. 23. News comes from Venezuela from a reliable source that the remnant of Mendoza's array, some 2,000 men, after a series or disastrous fights with Crespo's men, have been loreed to re-enter Caracas. The Castillo at Pnerto Cabello, which has for a long time been the object of Mora's attack, has surrendered to Crespo's lieuten ant at last. AllIED IT Till COAfi TRUST. The injunction against the Beading com bine does not seem to have any effect in pre venting the combine from pnttingup the price of coal. Alto York Evening World. The decision is plain common sense. But the Reading combine snaps its fingers in the face of the New Jersey court, defies public opinion and marks coal up another notch for September. Chicago iVetp. This decision is sound in law. It is also sound in its interpretation of the law, as de signed and intended to protect the people from organized attempts or wholesale injus tice, from contemplated robbery on a vast scale. Chicago Tribune. Now this decision is a clear knock-out for the Reading Coal Trust, of which A A. Mc Leod is the moving spirit. The opinion is by an eminent jurist, yet In the mind of A. A McLeod it is not worth tho paper on which It is written. ChKago Mail. The decision made against the scandalous coal combine by the Chancellor of the State of New Jersey Is as clear and strong as can be. Ho rules it to be wholly illegal. "Wo re gret to add that equally clear and strong is the defiance of law by President McLeod, of tho coal trust. Chicago Inter Ocean. ' las managers of the combination are likely to resist and endeavor to continue their robbery in spite of the decision. Thero is need of prompt and forcible action to carry out the decision, 'and wo trust that tho law officers of Now Jersey will take such action. Tho coal combination ought to be squelched. Rochettrr Democrat. No doubt President McLeod, of the Phila delphia ana Reading Company, is an author ity on tho subject of the practical effect of the decision of Chancellor McGlll on tho operation of the railroads in the coal "com bine," but when be undertakes to criticise the regularity of the court's action he goes out or his province Kew York Times. People generally will hail with Joy the announcement that the coal combine has been robuffed in New Jersey by an opinion of Chancellor McGlll. There will also be as general a denunciation of the insolence of President McLeod, of tho Beading Company, in commenting upon the decision of the Chancellor. MUwaukes Evening Wisconsin. Another Chjtnoe to Bet. Washington Post.1 A New Tork diver offers to walk a mile nnder the sea forapurseof$l,003L The book makers will soon be offering odds on the McGlnty handicap. Can't Satisfy Everybody. Boston nerald.l Premier Gladstone appears to be going through the nsual experience. There are more pegs than there are peg holes. CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. Scientists say that a laboring man dur ing a day's work consumes five ounces of muscular tissue. A woman's tombstone is the only on in England npon which the epitaph is writ ten) in shorthand. . The first inhabitants of the far iTorth dd not employ dogs, but drew their walrus-rib sleds themselves. There is a particular place on the earth, where the winds, though veering around tho compass, always blow from the north point. As an example of the amount of gold in. the world, the mines of New Zealand bava alone produced $250,000,000 worth of the prcc-' lous metal. A hundred years ago William Mnr-t aoch "illuminated his homo with gas ma'de) in an Iron kettle, and burnt at the end of aoj open iron tube." At the head of the Gulf of Bothnia there' is a mountain on the summit of which the) snn shines perpetually during the five days' Of June 19, 20, 21. 22 and 23. Pegasus ("born near the source of thej ocean") was the winged horse of Apollo and the Muses. Bellerophon rode this animal when he charged the Chimera. Platinum is the most infusible of all metal", melting only before the oxy-hydrcv gen blowpipe or in a very powerful blast furnace Its fusing point is 1,779 C The lands included in the territory known as tho Cherokee Land Strip were given to that tribe of Indians in 1821 in. ex change for their lands in Georgia and Ala bama. The Central Sahara registers a mean of 97 in July. Central Australia boasts of 9t in January a mean which is attained in South Carolina and Inner Arabia in mid summer. There is a certain island in the Baltio Sea to whose inhabitants the body of the sun Is clearly visible in the morning before he arises, and likewise in the evening alter ne is set. Even to this day certain communities of Buddhists and Mohammedans pray by tho hour before their favorite plant or flower. In India this species of worship seems to be most prevalent. Sleipnir ("the black horse of Odin") had eight legs, and could carry bis roaster on sea as well as land. This animal is be lieved to typify tho wind, which blows from eight principal points. There is a certain hill in the Sonth of Bohemia on whose top, If an cqninoctinl sundial bo duly erected, a man that is stone blind may know the hour of the day by the same if the sun shines. Tokio, the principal city and capital of Japan, was formerly known as Teddo. It Is a very old city, and August 2G. 1S89. the peo ple of this city celebrated the three hun dredth anniversary of its founding. During the last financial year a profit was made in the Scotch prisons of 4,03;; out of tho labor of the prisoners. Tho expendi ture for implements and material waiX7,5K, while the receipts amounted to jC U,10. Between January 1, 1890, and June 30, 1891, 7,150,350 silver dollars were coined in the United States mints. Tho total value of the production of silver in the United States from 1831 to 1S90, inclusive, was $1S1 035,000. There are divers places on the conti nent of Africa and the Islands of Sumatra and Borneo whero a certain kind of sun-dial being duly fixed, the gnomon thereof will cat no shadow at all during several seasons of the year. There is a certain village in the King dom or Naples, situated In a very low val ley, and yet the sun is nearer to the inhabi tants thereof every noon by 3 000 miles than when he riseth or settcth to those of the said village. There are two observable places belong ing to Asia, both lying under the same meri dlan.andofa small distance from each other, and yet the respective inhabitants of them In reckoning their time differ an entire day every week. The total work performed by the human body during five hours of mountain climbing is equal to 1,320,000 foot-pounds, not count ing other forces exerted, which Dr. Buch eister says will run tho grand total up to I,3S0,0O0 foot-pounds. Al Borak ("the lightning") was the horse commlssioneJ by Gabriel to carry Mahomet to the Seventh Heaven. He had a human face and tho wings of an eagle. Every step he took was equal to the farthest range of human vision. Of the 2,790 counties in the States and Territories the Methodist Episcopal Church is represented in all sive 585. Ithas25S61 organizations, with 2i841 churches, with a seating capacltv of c.302, 70S and an aggregate valuation or $9S,7i3,S. What are known as ptomaine poisons aro a recent discovery of chemical analysis. It has been known for a long time that spoiled fish, oysters, sausages and such things aro very dangerous substances, on account of their poisonous qualities. There is a certain island in the Atlantic Ocean which, being described by a ship, and bearing boing? due east of tho said ship, at 12 leagues' distance, the truest course for hitting the said island is to steer six leagues d'je east and as many miles duo west. -A lady of Detroit originally had black eyes and hair, bat In the course of time, when she had attained the age of about 70 years, her hair turned pure white. This was exnected, but about a year ago her hair began darkening and is now as black as Jet There is a certain island in the JEgean Sea upon which if two children were born at the same instant, after living together for several years.should both expire at the same minute, the life of one would surpass (in length) that of the other by several months. There are divers remarkable places on the terraqueous globe whose sensible hori zon is clear and serene, yet it is impossible to distinguish in it any one of tho interme diate points of the compass: nay, or so much as two of tho four cardinal points themselves. There is a remarkable place of the earth of very pure and wholesome air, yet of such a strange and detestablo quality that it Is absolutely Impossible for two of the best friends that ever breathed to continue in the same, in mutual love and friendship, for the space of two minutes. On July 18, 1891, tho New York meteorologists had the uncomfortable ex perience in Death Valley of spending a day in which the maximum temperature was 120. the minimum 99 and the mean of all hours 103.6; while the hottest spell of all occurred from this day onward to July 2t when the minimum never fell below 83 and the maximum ranged between 119 and 151 LIGHT LITTLE LAUGHS. Hello Jingle I suppose you spent you vacation In the mountains. Jingle No, since I've married my salary Is all that Is spent up there. Chicago Jnter-Ocean. I When there's talk of the weather, it's sif to declare. ' That much nonsense Is sure to be spot en; Don't Imagine because September Is near That the backbone of summer is broken. ' Aeio Tork Evening Sim, Will Where's your chaperone? j Florence Oh, I took pity on the poor thing, X thought she was being overworked, and gave her a day off, Brooklyn Eagle. The wind went wooing the roses, For the rose was fair. How the rough wind won. who knows? Bat he left her there. Far away from her nool, he blows. Does the free wind care? Louut Chandler JfouZtoa, Genevieve Miss Somerset paints atro clonsly. " Gladys (sweetly) How do you think she ought?, to paint? Chicago Sews. New England maids are chillier, The Southern lassies tawnier, Chicago maidens sUUer. Thau girls of California. San Rvnctoco Sites Letter. .Mrs. Swayback What is meant by the, phrase. The church mlUtant?" ! Swayback I suppose It has some reference to the) canons; don't you? TruUi. He threw his arms around her neck, And strained her to his breast. And there they stuck, for he had caught His whiskers In her Test, Clothier and Furnisher. Mrs. Sharpe We are going to house,, keeping right away. I ua slct of t1" boardlna house. Mrs. Bangs Did you find a hair In the batta too? . t Mrs. Sharpe-No: It was on Herbert's eoattolv lir. Colorado Sun, k.4 J". .! j . -fS 4 1
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