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If a constant stream of immigration from infected ports and infected districts is to be kept up, the ostentatious talk of quarantine and disin fection is only whistling up the wind good enough as far as it goes, but not covering one-hundredth part of the ave nues of danger. A cholera ship, which was the death bed of twenty-two persons In a brief voyage from Hamburg, rode boldly into New Tork harbor yesterday, threatening the seventy millions of people of the United States with an awful scourge. Mr. Harrison at that moment was mending his political fences at Ophir Farm with Messrs. Keid and Piatt Up to this writing he has made no intimation of any purpose to order back the cholera ships and their baleful cargoes of death dealing infection. President Harrison must act. It will be the grossest outrage ever inflicted upon a civilized and intelligent nation if through apathy or cowardice on the part of its Chief Executive, or for the sake of trade, or for favorable political balance sheets, or for any cause whatsoever, the cholera be allowed to establish It self in the United States when by at once prohibiting immigration from infected districts it can be stopped.. The talk of want of power in the President is utter nonsense. When the possibility, probability and almost cer tainty of a terrible visitation impends, it is the duty of the man in power to act,and to trust that if he transcends the bare letter of his authority, the Congress and the people will endorse aud indemnify him. If Mr. Harrison were even sure'he should lose the Presidency by applying the only effective prevention of this scourge, he could more creditably lose it than by inaction retain it where his in action might cost a single life, not to speak of the hundreds of thousands which are sure to be threatened if he fails to act The quicker the country impress upon President Harrison the clear conviction which exists that it is a great crime to permit immigration from the infected ports and districts of Europe the better it will be for the country. Plain talk to the President is needed. Temporizing with half-way measures, which are almost sure to prove ineffectual, will not da The country should communicate by telegraph and telepone with Ophir Farm, or wh erever at latest accounts the Presi dent's headquarters may be fixed, without delay. Since the above was written an Asso ciated Press bulletin announces that President Harrison has canceled his tour through New York State on account of the arrival of the plague stricken ship at quarantine. This is not enough. He should hasten to "Washington and take prompt steps to ward off the threatened danger. MR. HARKITTS ABSENCE. The plan by which Mr. Harrity, Secre tary of the Commonwealth andChairman of the Democratic National Committee, proposed to devote three hours a week to the duties for which he draws 13,C00 a year from the State, and to give the rest of his time to the Democratic campaign, is not working with exceptional success. It is reported that ihe republican and Democratic chairmen for this State have been trying to get an interview with him for some time with regard to the arrange ments under the new ballot law, but up to date they have not succeeded in so doing. The office of Secretary of the Common wealth is located at Harrisburg, a pleas ant little city on the banks of the Susque hanna. But inquiries for the Secretary at that place have proved lutile. It is stated that he has been at the office once since he assumed an active connection with the Democratic campaign. The State chair men have made several attempts to catch Mr. Harrity in Philadelphia, but with unvaryingly bad success; until it seems as if the only way to do business with the Secretary of the Commonwealth is to go outside the State of Pennsylvania and transact it at Democratic headquar ters, in the State and city of New York. This concatenation of circumstances carries the moral that the plan of doing party service and drawing a large salary for official services at one and the same time does not always work. Either the party work or the public work is sure to be neglected, and in the case of a poli tician like Mr. Harrity It requires no es pecial gift of foresight to know that the public will get left It Is possible that, as Mr. Harrity first proposed, the work for which he gets a large salary can be done by devoting a few hour3 each week to It; but when be devotes no hours at all each week it looks very much as if the State j were getting no return for the large stipend it pays to its Secretary of the , Commonwealth. j Ncvertlmess we have not heard that j Harrity has any intention of resigning his , position. The salary of ?13,000 per an- num is entirely too important a matter in Mr. Harrity's opinion to be thrown away for any such trivial reason as that he is not doing the work. THE LESSON OF THE NEWS. Last night's cabled messages from Europe indicate that the cholera epidemic grows in severity. Eecent news from Hamburg to the effect that the attack there was subsiding was either due to suppressal of fact or the conditions have changed to renewed activity in the attack and a severer loss of life than before. A large part if not all the loss of life in that immense port is due to gross municipal mismanagement The disease was ad mitted through defective quarantine. It found a welcome In insanitary neighbor hoods. And Its ravages are being aided by "a misdirected red-tapism that delays the burial of the disease's victims. The epidemic has obtained such a foothold that the wealthy and cleanly are now attached by the germs which found their first resting place among the 'poor and dirty. Himburg is in every particular an ex ample of what America should not do. "With such an example before us there must be fio hesitation in prohibiting en tirely all immigration, cleaning up and setting to rights the sanitation of every city, borough and township, and of fram ing a set of regulations in preparation for the possible arrival of the epidemic which shall be based upon common sense and not on round-about officialism. GEOKGE WH.UAM CURTIS. In the death of George "William Curtis announced elsewhere, the country loses one of Its literary men and journalists of longer standing than any others of equal prominence. Mr. Curtis made his first mark in literature before any of the lead ing politicians of to-day had attained more than local reputation. No prominent writer of the day was known when he came before the public with "Nile Notes" and "Potiphar Papers" except Oliver Wendell Holmes and Whittier. He was active in newspaper and magazine work in the early fifties; while his acceptance of the editorial managpment of Harper's "Weekly in 1857 was the immediate cause of bringinc that publication into sympa thy with the anti-slavery movement and the active support of the Government during the war. The distinguishing qualities of Mr. Curtis' literary work were finish and con scientiousness, and the same qualities controlled his public attitude. His pol ished diction and careful' efforts in both writing and speaking, supplemented by fastidious and scrupulous attributes in his political convictions, earned some jeers from men of more haphazard methods and coarser political motives. Such things neither affected Mr. Curtis' course nor de tracted from his usefulness. He held the high position of a commentator of public affairs whose honor and truth were above suspicion and whose political convictions, however they might be differed from, were above impeachment as to their sincerity. Mr. Curtis was that man of many talents so evenly balanced as to prevent him from being great in any one line. As a novelist his success was moderate. His news paper work had not the burning vigor that makes a Greeley. His most poitive rank was attained in his essays and lectures. Yet it was the combination of all these qualities that gave George "William Curtis the useful and really imposing character that he; finally developed. He was of a type all too rare, and is one whom the country can ill afford to lose. A NEW SPECIFIC SUGGESTED. Elsewhere in this issue are set forth by Colonel Roberts some opinions as to Pitts burg's susceptibility to cholera which are well worthy attention at this time. Mr. Roberts makps a good case for keeping up the Davis Island dam bv arguing that such impurities as there are on the banks and bottom of the river are far less noxious while covered with moving water than they would be if exposed to the air by lowering the river. He suggests that natural gas or petroleum according to the nature of the cholera germ would be found useful as cures for the disease by reason of their destructive effect on vege table life. As it is generally acknowl edged that the cholera germ is brought into the Intestines by food eaten or water drunk, and not into the corpuscles of the blood through the lungs, the natural gas proposition seems hardly practicable. The suggestion as to petroleum, however, is worthy of and likely to receive the atten tion of physicians. The fact is that since the microbe theory was introduced, ten years ago, physicians have had no opportunity to make a scien tific study of cholera as an epidemic. They are therefore largely confined to a symptomatic system of treatment and are unable to agree upon any particular specific. But the doctors may be relied upon to make use of such suggestions as may reach them, and will not permit the loss of lives to result from neglect to try all available cures. As for the general public, they cannot do better than im plicitly follow the instructions of the State Board of Health. A CORPORATE MISREPRESENTATION. The Philadelphia Inquirer, which dis putes with the once-independent Record the position of special advocate of the Esadmg deal, has indulged in another blast at Chancellor McGill, of New Jer sey, for his unswerving declaration of the law. The deliberation with which this is produced permits the inference that it is inspired. "Whether it is directly so or not, the spectacle of an organ of monopolistic combination attacking a judge for assert ing well-settled principles of law is ex ceedingly suggestive. The Inquirer asserts that the New Jer sey decision "is based on theories thai have never before, so far as we know, re ceived the sanction of a court" If so, it is exceedingly ill-informed; but its further remarks permit a question whether the assertion is due to ignorance or deliberato misrepresentation. For it goes on to state as the Chancellor's theories that they are the same with regard to coal as Mr. Henry George's with regard to land; that he thinks coal must be free to the extent that it must not be put up; and the sum total of this argument Is that "he would take away from the miners, railroad employes and stockholders of Pennsylvania in order to give to a different set df workers and capitalists In New Jersey." All of which Is raising the cry of "stop thief" in order to divert attention from the real pickpocket It Is a well-settled principle of Anglo-Saxon law that, while any Individual has the right to ask what he chooses for his goods, or to withhold them from market, he has no right to make any agreement or combination to induce others to raise- prices or withhold goods from market In order to accomplish that end. A combination which attempts that was defined by Chief Justice Gibson two generations ago as a criminal con spiracy. Chancellor McGill simply made the last of an unbroken line of decisions from Sir Edward Coke down, including three prominent cases by Jhe Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, .two by the New York Court of Appeals, two by the Ohio Supreme Court and severally the United States courts. Under these circumstances the talk"of taking away the property of the anthra cite combination is a striking example of the rogue's bad opinion of the law. "When the combination by illegal agreements makes a consumer pay ten dollars more for winters coal than he would have to pay under free competition it takes his property away from him by illegal means. That Is not the only method by which law defying corporations take the property of individuals. The case of Coxe Bros, il lustrates a practice by which many inde pendent operators have been wiped out and their property taken from them at the corporations' own valuation. No one proposes to take the property of corporations from them unless they for feit it by misuse and abuse. But it is time to suppress the illegal acts and pur poses of these which do not respect pub lic policy as sternly and sharply as we would suppress the lawless acts of work men on a strike. The first of the mysterious disappearances foreshadowed l)y Totten has occurred, yet no one has announced his intention of tak ing a trip to Mars. Thebe must be something wrong with Dana's mental spectacles or he would not mistake the vague and shadowy nogro dom ination boie for a campaign issue when the stern reality or free trade and disregard of American Interests is soevfdently before the public Hamburg's sufferings are a terrible ex ample of municipal mismanagement and the evils of suppressing the facts of the case. A MAN who makes a pretense of rescuing a passenger train from a wreck in order to apply for a reward, by placing ties across the track and removing them just in time, Is not quite so bad as an out-and-out wrecker, but lio Is pretty low down in the social scale. The Marquis de Mores might, with great advantage to the public, nrrange to meet the survivor of the Corbett-SulUvan encounter. Cleveland's supporters plaintively complain that Peck published his report on wages In New Tork at a time when it seri ously injures the cause of free trade Instead ot suppressing a document of value to the public and being guilty of political pecula tion. Promptness Is no less urgent than thoroughness in cleaning up Pittsburg and Allegheny and every other American city. Paupers and even contract laborers can be supported by this country under protest, but disease must be kept out at all hazards. And immigration must be entirely pro hibited until the conditions of Health abroad have been radically changed. September is with us, the hours of day light aro shortening and frost are no longer thought of as utter impossibilities. Now that De3I ores has been acquitted for killing Captain Myer in a duel ho will probably resume his quarrelsome wav until such time as the public can rejoice that he has met a man more skilllul or lucky than himself in tne use of arms. Pittsburg makes a good showing among the Daughters of Liberty, as it should in all patriotic societies. The stoppage of the President's special train from New York to Loon Lake on nc count of the cholera cases in quarantine is an indication that the serious condition of affairs is beginning to be realized. At times like these poor plumbing and bad sewerage are likely to prove disas trously expensive. It would be too much to expect a clean atmosphere and a clear sky as the first day's work of a smoke preventive ordinance that is confined to an area where there never has been much smoke. Red tape is aiding the ravages of cholera in Hamburg', and thereby hangs a serious warning. "With the examples of unruliness set by civilized white men up and down the coun try before them, it is hardly surprising that the Apaches of Arizona aro indulging in depredations. That Saltsburg conference would be better described as the Saltsburg confusion. A taste of legal coercion would be a good medicine for the Reading combination. The Borden case is one of those in which it behooves the Jury to remember above all things that the defendant is Innocent until actually proven guilty. Men countenancing the use or existence of bad drainage are bad citizens. ARBrrnATlON seems as difficult to com pass in the selection of a-candldate for the Judgeship of the Lawrence-Butler district as in most labor disputes. Stores and schools are both about ready for tueir fall opening. The State Board of Health and its advice at this season are of far greater importance than any -political organization and its campaign orders. PEOPLE OP PROMINENCE. Secketaey Charles Foster returned to Washington last evening from Asbury Park. ' A bust of Louisa Alcott, by Mr. Bicket son, has been given to the "Old Concord" Public Library b'y Miss Alcott's sister, Mrs. .Annie B. Pratt. Professor "WiiLiSTON "Walker, of the Hartford Theological Seminary, has decided to decline the recently extended call to the chair of Church History in the Oberlin Thec locical Seminary.' Professor' Wallace, of Edinburgh, tells the British 'Association, in session at London, that, according to his belief, the American whe'at tinde with Europe is yet in itsiniancy. Bismarck is as fond of dogsas "Onida." His inseparable companions are two largo Danish hounds. At dinner they eat beside their master, and occasionally he feeds them with his own bands. Mr. Feoude, who is passing the summer In South Devon, England, intends to be in resldenco at Oxford during Michaelmas term, when he will deliver a course of lec tures on the Council of Trent and the coun ter reformation. John T. Bich, Republican candidate for Governor or Michigan, has taken the stump. Ho spoke for an hour and a half to a de lighted audienco this week in North Branch. He avoids "mud slinging," and talks in a clear, terse, convincing style. Mrs. Grace Stewart Lynch, the wife of Joseph D. Lynch, owner ana editor of the Los Angeles Herald, and formerly on the writing force of The Dispatch, who is very well known in Los Angeles and in New Tork, is to become an actress. She was yesterday engaged by Manager Charles frohman, and will be known on the stage a Grace Stewart. Thursday: THE STARS TO-NIGHT. iwrnnci ron ran dispa.tcii.1 One thing is certain and that is that if the much discussed communication with Mars could be at once established the first mes-age our astronomers feend to the old fellow ought to bo a sincere vote of thanks for arousing so much popular interest in the dignified and ennobling 'science of astron omy For several weeks he has obligingly hung ont his glowing shield as a sample of celestial glories and having done UIs duty as a first rate advertisement of heavenly won ders, he is now modestly falling behind our swifter earth in the flight around the sun. So let us turn our own eyes to the skies and take a look at the September programme, w htch ought to furnish something at least as interesting as the old war-god who has so selfishly monopolized our attention dur ing August. The latter will still continue to lead the march of planets across the sky, and at tho close of twilight on September 1 Is well on his way to the meridian. About 8:30 each evening Jupiter appears in the east and as soon as ho hat risen well out of the mists of the horizon, shines with a brilliancy even surpassing that of Mars, even though handi capped by a distance of over 400,000,000 miles, which seems quite formidable ion pared with Mars' insignificant little 83,000, 000 miles. But then Jupiter makes up for that disadvantage by his vast size, for, as befits the king of gods and men. he is not only 7,000 times as largo as Mars, but is evon larger than all tne other planets put to gether. The third and last to appear is. Venus, the matchless queen of the skies, who will peep above tho eastern hills a little beforoS a. m.. Just in time to give a sweet smile at the distant Mars in tho van before he sinks out of sight in the Southwest. A rieiivrnly To.-chllght Procession. And so we have a royal torchlight pro cession which will move across the sky every night of the monh an array, though small in number, vet so brilliant that Messrs. Harrity and Carter would doubtless bo glad to engage it for tho coining cam paign. To be sure the laskdivision is rather late appearing; but the belated and muddled citizen returning after a night at the lodge or club can have in this circumstance a brand new excuse with which to appease the lady in white. The moon of this month Is tho well-known harvest moon; co-called bocauso Its ronnded disc rises about sunset lor several success ive evenings and help3 tho busy haivoster by adding a little moio light to tho now rap idly shortening days. The moon is full on the 6th, but two davs earlier, on the' 4th, it affords us tho first interesting sight of the month by passing within less than a degree or Mars. The two in close conjunction will make a very stiiklng appearance, but two days later the full moon will pass even nearer to Jupiter. In lact, the loid of the heavons narrowly escapes an occultation by our satellite. It is hardly necessary to re mind the reader that these near approaches to the planets are only apparent, as even Mars is more than ISO times as far from us as the moon is. But we mnsn't be so narrow-minded as only to tako an interest in onr puny little solar system where distances ate measured only by tlio millions of miles. Let us cut loose from the earth and try to grasp tilings as they really are, not as they seem from our tiny planet. Then our sun immediately dwindles Into an ordinary star, perhaps smaller than tho average, and this handful of satellites, even the great Jupiter, -sinks into a nothingness so absolute that a 40-foot object glnB could never even detect them from the depths of space. In the Eta'mj or Infinity. We are now in the realms of infinity; trillions of miles at the lowest calculation must be traversed to reacli one star from another. These self-luminous bodies which seem so tiny to nn observer on the earth surpass our planets in size as a mountain does a mouse. The figuies repiesentlng their distances from the earth are meaning less to onr finite minds; but wo can form a f.ilr idea cf tho immensity of these dis tances in this way: Glance ,at a group of houses or trees a quarter of a mile away; then take a dozen steps and you will see they liavo noticeably changed their positions 'with' reference to each other! Wei perform , the same experi ment on a large scale every'six months, but not with tho same result.' Perhaps you no ticed the Dipper last March. If so, look at It now. Has it ehanged its shnpo or appear ance in the slightest? Not a bit of it; and yet since March the earth lus changed its position by the diameter of its orbit, or 190, 000.000 miles. Wo must conclude then that 190,001,000 miles is quite an Inconsiderable quantity when applied to stellar distances. If you have never tried to realize this face before, tho stars ought to have a new meaning for you as you take another look at them and make an attempt to grasp their immensity. Brighter Stars Now Visible. Some of the brightest stars in the sky are now visible. Follow the handle of the dipper toward the southeast, and you can not miss the glitter of Aicturus, the chief twinkler in the constellation of Bootes. Now look dtiectly overhead and you will see an equally bright star shining down on you from the constellation of the Lyre. This is Vega, and a close comparison of it with Arcturns will show a decided difference in color, the former having a oluish tinge and tho latter a ruddy glow like Mars. About 11 o'clock a third star of tho flist magnltnde may be seen rising in tho northeast, Just un der the well-known constellations of Cassio peia and Perseus. Glittering in the midst of the lesser'lights which form theconstella tion of Anrign, the pearly white Capella comes up to disputo the sovereignity of the northern heavens with Autumn and Vega. These aro sometimes called the three north ern brilliants, and with the exception of Sirius, are the brightest stars visiblo in this latitude. Though forming a notable trio they can scarcely rival tho beauty of our three neighbors in the southern skies- There are many other easily distinguished con stellations but we have no: space this morn ing to enumerate them all. The observer certainly ought to potjee the beautiful Northern Cress set in the milky way a little to the northeast of tho Lyre. It Is com posed of second magnitude stars and is a part of the constellation of tho Swan. The square of Pegasus is easily recognized ris ing in the southeast, nnd the writhing Scorpion with the reddish first magnitude star Antares ought not to be overlooked. It lies far to tho south near the horizon nnd a little, to the west of tho Milky way. Besides being a very fair imitation of the figure of a scorpion, thls,-constellation also presents the figure of a large kite upside down with An tares at one corner. With the exception of Auriga these con stellations may be seen In these positions at 9 p. st. September I this evening. The Dispatch readers should look outfox them. ' Wylie. "WON A BEIDE AHD SAVED A FOBXUNB. The Beneficiary or a Celebrated Ann Arbor Will to Fo'fil Its Conditions. Waukesha, Wis., Aug. GL Toward the latter part of September James L. Babcock, or Ann Arbor. Mich., will be several hun dred thousand dollars richer than he isnow. It will all be brought about by a wedding in which he will be one of the principal figures, the other contiacting party being Miss Ella Stanley Butler, of this city. In 1889 James Lane, a wealthy uncle of Mr. Babcock, died in Ann Arbor. Mr. Lane in his will, after comfortably providing for all of his rolatives, inclnding Mr. Babcock, made provisions that the residue of his es tate.amountlng to several hundred thousand dollars.should be hold intact for five years.lf befoie'the end of the five years his nephew, James L. Babcock, had married, he was to receive the entire estate; otherwise it was to be divided among all of the heirs, includ ing Mr. Babcock. Nearly every newspaper in the country noticed this strange win, and, as a lesult, Mr. Babcock was the recipient oi hundreds of letters from maids willing to share the fortuno with him. The bride was born at New Haven, Conn., and for a time lived at St. Johns, Mich. Or late years she has lived in Waukesha with her stepmother. Even Worse Than Cholera. Minneapolis Tribune. There are some things that cannot be kept ont by quarantine. Oscar Wilde is coming over late in the fall. I BETEMJ3JfiK' ' 1, NO HALF-WAY MEASURES! Sbonld the President Call an Extra Session to Suspend All Immigration? The following communication, which voices the attitude of The Dispatch, appears under the above caption in the New Tork Bun of yesterday: If Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States, knows and does his duty, lie will, without a day's delay, convene both Houses of the Congress, under the power lodged in the Executive by the third section of Article II. of the Constitution. Thi3 power applies to extraordinary occa sions. The present occasion is indeed extra ordinary. Upon the meeting of -Congress the Presi dent will recommend the passage of legisla tion so amending the immigration act of March 3, 1S91, as to enable him by proclama tion to suspend immigration, altogether until such time as the bar ean be let down with safety to the health and lives of the people of the United States. It the President already possessed the power to suspend immigration without fur ther legislation, there Is no doubt that he wonld now exercise it promptly. He does not possess that power. If Congress were now in session, there Is no donbt that the enabling legislation would be adopted speedily and unanimously. Con gress is not in session. ' The assembling of Congress daring a vaca tion ot that(body is a costly and inconven ient proceeding. This consideration should not weigh one centigramme. Nor should tho slightest regard be paid to the Idea that the call of an extra session will seem like a precipitate measure, and perhaps occasion an unnecessary panic in the community. No essential measure of protection is pre cipitate. The adoption of such, a measure wonld quell panic, rather than excite it. It would be better if the bars bad been put up ten days ago. It will bo immeasurably bet ter to put them up now, than 20 days, or 30 days, or 40 days hence, when the mischief of delay has already been done, and the pesti lence has gained a foothold upon this conti nent. I believe that all physicians, all health officers, all persons of common sense will agree that the total prohibition of immigra tion during the season of danger is the only certain and effective way to shut out the Asiatic cholera. The State Boards of Health in no fewer than 24 States havo already de clared for the policy of complete isolation, and have recommended that immigration be suspended fiom cholera infected coun tries. But immigration from cholera in fected countries can bo shut out only by closing our doors to Immigrants coming from any European port. The tide turned back from one infected seaport will find its way hither through a dozen other channels. There is the same danger by way of Bremen, Glasgow or Liverpool as by way of Ham burg, Havre or Antwerp. The gross inV efficiency of the British quarantine against the continental ports has already been dem onstrated. Anything short of the absolute stoppage of lmmigiation for a time, and the closing of the gateways at Ellis Island and elsewhere against all comers, is a half-way measure which may he regretted in terror and in mourning wnen it is too late. Will President Harrison hesitate? The traditions are against summoning the Con gress suddenly to Washington in any emer gency less urgent than the imminence of war. But here is a power whice has already declared war against the people of the United States, which is even now mustering its forces for invasion, and which wages a warfare from. six to nine times deadlier than the mortality of the battlefield. STOP IT NOW. The Flood or Immigration Now a Menace to Public Health. Pittsburg Press. 3 In spite of tho attempts in some qnartors to convey the lmprossion that cholota is not so bad in Hamburg and other Infected cities as has been represented, it is well under stood that the epidemic Is raging with terri ble violence across tho seas, and that it will be almost a mlraclo if this country escape. IOndon has several cases now, the direct consequenco of allowing people to land from a Hamburg vessel. Tho lesson to us is obvi ons, and it shonld be acted on before it is too late. It is simply to suspend Immigration altogether. So long as hordes of foreigners are allowed to come into the country every weak at New York aud other ports, so long shall we be inviting the Asiatic cholera to come, too. The quarantine regulations are good, and will exercise a powerful influence in pre venting some dangerous persons and things from getting into the United States. But they will not overcome the danger alto gether. . The way to do that is to strike at the very root of the evil and to forbid abso lutely the landing of steerage passengors until the winter has fairly set In. Had this regulation prevailed at English ports, it is' possible there would not be any cases of cholera In London to-day. After tho disease shall have got a foothold in the United States, we may hear the wondering cry: "Why were immigrants allowed to como In, when we knew thtfy might Dring the germs or disease with themt" Quarantine and fumigation are very wel in their way, Dut they can hardly be termed preventive measures when the disease has got here. Prompt stoppage of immigration may help us now. In another week another day it may be too late. Immigration Should Be Prohibited. Philadelphia. Inquirer. Health Officer Vealo says that if he were President and nad tho power, he would issue a proclamation to-day prohibiting all immi gration. The inability of the authorities of Great Britain to keep cholci out of England, Scotland and Wales, !u all of which countries it ia reported to have found lodgmont, confirms Major Vcale's opinion that safety is only to bo found in the entire prohibition of immigration. The Western States are foremost in asking for an entire prohibition of immigration, and snch action would have the approval of tho country. Sof ty tne Supreme Law. New York Press. The safety of the people is the supremo law, and the interests of foreigners must give way to the paramount issne of our own security. The press and the public will up hold the strictest 'measures that may bo deemed necessary for the protection of tbe American people fiom the scourge of Asia and Europe. Hnrsh Quarantine Advocated. New York Recorder. With the example of Hamburg's terrible' affliction before us it wonld be criminal negligence on our part not to enforce quar antine to its fullest and harshest limits. 6TJGAB PBODUCTION GH0W1NG. Nearly a Fifty Pnr Cent Increase In the Nnmbir of App Icints for License. Washisotox, Aug. SL . statement pre pared at the Tieasury Department shows that there have been filed 6,763 applications for licenses, as sugar producers, during the fiscal year 1S93 under the law paying a bounty lor its production. They were mado up as follows: Cane sngar, 649; beet, 6: sorghum, 2, and maple, 6.10C Last year the applications-aggregated 4,930. The increase in the number of appli cations is in those produolng maplo sugar. The Summer Girl in La-k. Baltimore American. It is wellvfor the summer girl that the season is nearly over, since a suspender strike is imminent. For Once Thry Are In Llna. New York Press.! Even the free traders favor protection ai applied to the seaboard against cholera. i -. . A HARVEST HOME Under the Ausplors of Grace Episcopal Church Reunion of the Boyd FomI ly An Orange Fetn Tills Afternoon Gossip of Society Circles. THE Harvest' Homo festival, under the auspices of Grace Episcopal Church, Mt. Washington, commenced last evening on grounds surrounding the residence of Mr. Thomas H. Ash ford, corner of Virginia avenue and Keursage street. Hundreds of Chinese lanterns and several locomotive headlights threw tlielr reflection upon the grand old maples and sycamores that over shadow the broad lawn. The grounds were relieved here nnd there with stacks or wheat, carrying out the idea or a harvest home. There were two handsomely decorated booths devoted to the sale or lemonade, ice cream, cake, etc Their ornamentation was rather odd, consisting mainly of sheaves of golden-rod, garlands or sunflowers twined about the posts, and festoons of fruit and vegetables, melons, beets, carrots, grapes and other products of the earth. A large dauolng platform, with the Americas Mili tary Orchestra In attendance, was a power ful attraction to the young people, the dancing lasting from 8 to 12. Mrs.. Thomas F. Ashford, Sr., is the ceneral manager. She has arranged this festival in the hope of raising $140 to pay for the ar cade connecting the church with tho choir room, where the members of the choir change their regular apparel for episcopal vestments, and hack again. This arcade was finished recently. Hitherto tho choir boys have had to go out in all weathers during the service, but the arcade will keep them under cover now. The lemonade and candy booth was under the direction of Mrs. Turbett, assisted by Miss Cora Bowman and Miss Mary Ashford. In the other booth ice cream was dispensed by Mrs. Nlven, her aids Doing Miss Reeky Torrence, Miss Hattie Lowe, Miss Nettie Ashlord nnd Miss Jennie The floor managers of the dancing plat form were Messr'. Thomas Ashford, Jr., George Brokaw, Harry Bowman.Call Hunter and Harry Braun. Tho cashier was Mrs. Samuel Harper and tho doorkeepers were Messrs. Goorge Jobnsonand Thomas F. Ash ford, Sr. Thore was a very largo attendance, visit ors going rrom tho East End, Sharpsuurg and otherplaces. The festival will continue to-night and to-morrow night. The seventh reunion of the Boyd family of the United States is in progress at the, tbe Seventh Avenue Hotel. The family Is very large, and one or the best known In this part or the country. Some 200 members were present when C. N. Boyd, or Butlor, Pa., made the address of welcome in tho or dinary or tho hotel, at 2 o'clock in 'the after noon, most of whom had been meeting each other and renewing old acquaintanceship in the corridors and rooms of the building. There are a number of ministers among the Boyds, nnd professional men predominate. Besponses to the address of welcome were made by Dr. J. F. Wilson, of Poulun, Go., who represented tho family in the South, and Bev. A. E. Boyd, 9 Irwin, Pa., who is the Eastern representative. Bev. T. S. Neg ley, or Kenneth. Pa., President of the con vention, then dp'.lvered an interesting ad dress, telling of tho early days of the family in this country, and' recalling many events in which the listeners were concerned more or less directly in nearly every instance. The addiesswas received with breathless attention, and was heartily applauded at Its clove. Altor the address there was a busi ness meeting. In the evening there was a social gathering In tho same room, when music added to the general enjoyment. To-day a reception will be given, most likely, to the Fultons. Tho first Mr. Boyd married a Miss Fulton, and there is a large kindred of Fultons In this neighborhood. An address will be delivered this afternoon by Mr.Sllas W. Fnlton, of Llvermore, Pa. The orange fete on the grounds of Mrs. A. W. Cad man at Edgewood, which will take place this afternoon, will attract a very large attendance. It has been looked forward to for so-long and with so much pleasurable an ticipation that it may be called one of the principal society events of the month. The proceeds will gu toward the building fund of the new Presbyterian Church of Edgewood that is expected to bo ready by the spring. The mute school at Edgewood is to be opened next Wednesday. Tho building has undergone general lepalrs, nnd everything Is in excellent condition for tho resumption of study for tho wmter. The industrial school for girls that was to have been ready Dy this time, will not be opened until some time in Novembor. The industrial school covers all branches of housekeeping, In clnding cooking, bedmaking, sweeping and dnsting, washing and ironing and every ac complishment necessary to good housekeep ing. The girls are away from their homes ten months In the year, and the manage ment of the school consider that instruction in housekeeping duties Is essential to a com plete education for American girls. Social Cliattir. Ma. akd Mrs. W. B. Kuhn, of the Kcnmawr, will celebrate tho filth anniversary of their wedding September 5. It is to be one of the principal society events of tbe fall season. Assisting Mr. and Mrs. Kuhn in receiving will be Miss Minnie Kuhn, niece of Mr. Kuhn; Mrs. Woodhuil nnd Miss Klncald. The Homewood avenue school, a verv handsome building, will be formally opened to-day with a public reception. The florists wore busy with the decorations alt day yes terday, so that It is fair to presume tne in terior will present a pleasing appearance when the guests arrive. A BAicquKT was given in Braddock last evening by the St. Thomas Cornet Band to celebrate tbe twentieth anniversary of the organization, xne guests lncinaea a num ber of tbe most prominent business men of Braddock, who are active or honorary mem bers of the band. "MArLE shade," the new U. P. Home at Wllklnsburg, will present a Dusy scene to day. An all-day sewing meeting is to be held by tho members of tho Board of Mnna- ?;ers. They will work on ciothing and house iuen for the Home. Dr. Holmes, of Shadyside Presbyterian Church, who Is on his vacation, is expected home by Sunday, the 11th Inst. On that will commence the regular two Sunday services. The Sunday school will reopen Sunday, the 4th. Mrs. Maurice L Coster and family, ot Summeilea street, East End, has returned from Cresson. Mrs. Charles Clapp, of the East End, has returned from Cresson, whore she has been summering. The Church, or the Ascension, Shadyside, will open next Sunday with the regular ser vices. The Pennsylvania College for Women will open Sep teinber 8. The Fatn of tho Elcker. Minneapolis Triinae. ' Plenty of work, good pay, fair weather, big crops, reasonable prices the man that complains these days ought to live in a desert and be kicked to death by a camel. DEATII3 I1ERG AND ELSEWHEPwB. Colonel John P. Linton, Johnstown. Colonel John P. Linton died at Johns town jesterday In his 53lh year, from Drlght's disease and pneumonia. He wa3 the Democratic candidate for President Judge of his district last year, but was defeated. He was prominent In State politics and was close friend of William A. Wallace. He was largely interested In secret society work, and was Past Supreme Chancellor Of the United Starrs or the Knights of Pythias, and Supreme Commander of the KulxhtSof the Slystic Chain. He served throughout tha war. entering the service as captain of toe Citizens' Guard ou the day following President Lincoln's first call, and was afterward promoted to Colonel of the Firty Xourth rerlment. He was a lawyer of great ability and unimpeachable Integrity. William GafT'fj, Plonoer. "William Guffey, one of the pioneer Bottlers of tbiscouuty, was buried at his home near Sater vllle Wednesday. Mr. Guffey was Jl years old and died Monday night of cholera morbus. He was a cousin of J. M. Guffey. the oil magnste. Jlr. Guffcy's hrnfhcr. Scott, is iTlng In a very critical condition at his home In BIjthedale from an attack ofparalybls. CoIonM Jesse It. ParnelT. Tiellalre. Captain Jes3e K. Pornell died in Bellaire yesterday eicning of hemorrhage after a lingering Illness. He was a 33d degree Mason and the only one in Belmont county. Mr. Pe" J;?iS Hied In West Virginia and was Grand Master Mason of that atate lor a long time. r Obltnnrv Notes. ' W. H. JE5KISS, a SaltsDurg resident and promi nent Kepuhlican politician of Indiana conntr. died yesterday morning. He was aged about 63 years. THE wife of Ex-Judge Samuel Hepburn, of the Carlisle District, died at Carlisle )esterday, aged 88 years. She was one of the most prominent ladies in Southern Pennsylvania. MRS. Emma McClosket. a well-known lady of Elizabeth, passd away last Sunday uliht at the ige of 89. Deceased was the mother of James Mc Closkey. a one-time prominent river man. and a lstsr of Mr. James Blah-, of the Blair boiler works, of this city. -f-yfiry9- 'JsWM . v , ; ;- ?r CURIOOS CONDENSATIONS." Pekin boasts of 80,000 beggars. The 23,000 newspapers in America em ploy 200.0CO men. There are nearly 3,000 stitches in s pair of hand sewed boots. Covered carriages were first used la. England in the year K80. Molasses has lately been used as boiler fuel by Louisiana planters. The circular saw was invented by Bent-' ham, an Englishman, in the year 1700. The Swedish mile is 7,311 yards Ion-, and the Vienna post mile is 8,290 yards. A patent has been issned for a lock which can he operated only by a magnetized key. According to statistical reports 20,000 Chicago husbands are supported by their wives. A Brooklyn man has invented an elec trical apparatus for automatically winding a clock. "Jane Eyre" was the first work of Charlotte Bronte, .written when she was 23 years old. "Westminster bridge in Xondon was first brilliantly illuminated by the electrio light in IMS. Indiana is claimed to have but one sur viving soldier of tbe war of 1812. There are 252 widows. The United States Is the richer by $2,000,000 in money orders never presented lor payment. A family in Karinette, Mich., has ru out ornames, so their latest arrival has been christened "Thirteenth." Solomon's Temple was 107 feet long, 38 feet wide. 54 feet high and had a veranda or portico 36 feet long and 18 feet wide. "Uncle" Wash Couch, who lives near Senola, Ga., has four sons who are said to have been born on the same day of the month a:- different years. The boundary line surveyors have so far found no variations of tbe line between Mexico and the United States that will af fect tbe original survey. A hunting horn in Limoges enamel, mede in 1530, and which is believed to have .formerly belonged to Horace Walpole, wai sold recently for 6,300 guineas. In speaking of the solidification of a body by coollng.Prof. Dcwar sajtj that water can be made to become solid hyhe evapora tion of a quarter of its weight. A Florida silver half dollar of 1760 U worth 410, while tho Virginia silver half dollar ot 1773 is valued at $2. The pewter continental dollar of 177S is worth $3. Small electric lamps are being tried by the London police, in place of the old fashioned oil bullseyes. The experiments have proven highly satisfactory thus far. Comparison of the results of the sun shine recorder at Greenwich, England, for 14 vears shows that throughout the year the average daily amount of sunshine i3 little more than three hours. Investigations of rain drops lead to the conclnsion that some of the large drops must be more or less hoUow, as they fail when striking to wet the whole surfaco la closed within the drop. The nebula in Orion is a fine telescopic object now. The great black space in this nebula Is known among nnpoetlc star-gazers as the coalhole. No star has ever been seen in this bole in the universe. Crystallized nitrogen is one of the great est chemical curiosities. By cooling nitro gen gHS down to 367 degrees below tbe freez ing point, and then allowing it to expand, solid snowlike crystals are formed. If the sun gave forth sounds loud enough to reach the earth, such sounds, in stead or reaching us in the space of about eight minutes, as light does, wonld only ar rive after n period of nearly 14 years. Here is au idea of what a little spot of land may do in the w ay of production: The Inland of Jamaica sells annually to the United States bananas exceeding in value the entire apple, peach and cherry crop of this country. The German Government will not nse any white horses in the army in future. It is claimed that, owing to the adoption of t smokeless powder, whito horses could be seen from n distance during a battle, and could be easily killed by the enemy. ' Black glass was once used for mirrors, as well as transparent glass with some black substance on the back. It is related that the Spmiards found mirrors of polished black stone, both convex and concave, among the natives of Sonth America. Caterpillars from six inches to a foot long are common in the vicinity of the Darl ing river, Australia. The natives twist them together and boil them in kangaroo grease. Travelers who have tasted this del icacy say that it is not altogether unpala table. The open fireplace in the new publio lihiary building at Machias, Me., will be constructed of stone which were nsed for ballast on hoard the British war schooner Mnrgaretta, captured by the Americans near MachUs during the early part of the Revolution. A device to be used in signaling along a length of lire hose 13 a recent invention. Wires are carried in tho hose and insulated therefrom, so that by making battery con nections a fireman from ono end of aline can send a signal to the other without leav ing his post. The African is better protected against the evil effects of the excessive heat than his white brother in two ways. The tdxture ofhiscuticlo Is exceptionally well adapted to encourage fieeprespiration and his nat ural temperament does not incline him to borrow trouble largely. The free lunch eaters of New Tork City consume daily two tons of potato salad, a ton and a hair of beans, 250 gallons of beef stew and n hundredweight of caviare, not to mention the large quantities of cheese. Frankfurter sausage, pickles, olives, corned beef, inacarroul, etc. ' It ia not olten that asparagns,the daint iest and most expensive of vegetables, is nsed as food for cattle, but tho asparagus crop has been so large all over Bruns wick, Germany, that in some villages no body can be found to pay acent for a pound, nnd whole basketslul were given to the cows and sheep. Tremont street, Boston, is to be made wider, not by cutting offa slice from the fronts of the buildings from top to bottom, but by taking a portion of tho first story of each house to form an arcade extending the length or the block, thus furnishing a toot-. nay sheltered trom snn and rain and ob-talnin'-aflne architectural effect with the least possiblo encroachment on private prop erty. j JOLLTISMS FKOM. JUDGE. LubVr How are we going, captain? CsDtiln-Oh, about eight knots an hour. Lubber (with commercial instlucts)-Ketr Madge Why did yon dismiss your car riage and abandon your afternoon shopping expe dition when Mrs. Tedweller called yesterdayf jlamma Because she said she hadn't a minute to say. These Italians coming over here are tha ruin of this country. Bosh! If It hadn't been for that dago Colnm bus the country wouldn't have been discovered. REORnnSATIOS. I knov a woman fair as she can be, Endowed with charms that Venus could , nnt ll!m! Whoso smile Is USe a ripple on the sea. When Urhted up by tender sunset's flame, But do not ask me Ifber soul is kind. Do not Inquire If she aright can read j 1 She Just now told me I ne'er nad a mlndj Or if I had It sure had gone to seed. "Ton didn't succeed very well with th; young heiress!" No; she was superstitious." What was the cause?" She said she had twelve engagements on hanil and feared that he thirteenth might be nnlnexy." Biegerstaff I saw a most remarkable' thing to-day. GlIdersleeTe Wbat.wasit? Blggerstaff A eha'elalne watch, carried by young lady, which indicated the correct time. "Didn't I see Mr. Hnnker wink at you? demanded Miss Bleecker of her friend. Mr. Hanker merely communicated ocnlaxly with me," replied Miss Emerson, of Boston,' iyf t .-: i 'i i :t i '4 i&y" " .&& b. ' rfoic3ft?gMBjiasAS5iftaa5aa..aBMgastt 3i ryHBBiBiMMWjMHaaHBBiiKfiB , .ta-twA. ,aatbfeiaaiiit'Ml
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