rrm'TFi wuSiSBigffiiSisiiiiSMiVS IFFf TrWimT - ?! &rf ; ,'Hif'- Bpsr'n- 'rnrK ?y?5t e7,yj?----ri"1'-' r?"-;r ??-" .r? r-'-av,3:-v,-7 HSKUKfeT -Mra"'FMSMtVT-wE,,T SJ HWSJ .TJKW.'JIW TfHw'5ErrMKiil2l'S3KSPC?T TP"B.fflraa y v ' tfHE .PnTSBUEG DISPATCH, FBIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2. 1892. It $pa!t(j. ESTABLISHED FEBRUARY Vol. 47. No. 511. Entered t Pittsburg Postofflce November, 1SS7, 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. EASTERN ADVERTISING OFFICE. BOOM 78. TRIBUNE BUILDING, NEW YORK. where com plele flies orTIIK DISl'ATCtl can always be found. Foreign advertisers appreciate the convenience. Home advertisers and friends orTHEDISPATCH, while in New York, are also made welcome. THE DISPATCH Is regularly on sale at Bren tano's, 8 Union Sonare, New YorK. and 17 Avede l'ODera, Paris, France, where anyone who has been disappointed at a hotel news stand can ob talnlt. TKKMS OF THE DISPATCH. POSTAGE TREE IN THE UXITED STATES. DAILY DISPATCH One Year f 8 00 Daily Dispatch, Per Quarter 2 W Daily Dispatch, One Month 70 Daily Dispatch. Including Sunday, I year.. 10 00 Daily Dispatch. Including Sunday, m'ths. 250 Daily DisrATcn. Including Sunday, 1 month SO Susdat Dispatch, One Year 2.'0 Wekkly Dispatch. One Year 125 The Daily Dispatcii Is delivered by carriers at 35 cents per weel or. Including Sunday Edition, at SO cents per week. PIIMU'HH riZlDAY. SEPT. 2. 1832. TWELVE PAGES STILL TRUSTING TO MAKESHIFTS. The net result of President Harrison's consultation with his Cabinet yesterday is an order of a fixed quarantine period of 20 days for immigrants coming from in fected districts and the issuance of ad ditional instructions for strict disinfec tion. This is better than allowing the immi grants to step ashore upon transient view, as was done in the case of La Touraine's passengers cariy in the week, or than holding them merely long enough to give them a bath and steam their clothing and baegage. The 20 days interval will pro long the chance for medical examination. It may give the germs, if they exist, an opportunity to develop. But if President Harrison supposes that the public will take this step as a full measure of what the occasion demands he is utterly and wretchedly mistaken. Not withstanding the soothing talk of Secre tary Foster, of the Treasury Department who seems to regard this crisis from the point of view of revenue rather than hygiene there is no popular confidence whatever in the probability or possibility of continuously excluding the disease by mere quarantine. Notwithstanding all the boasted preparations and multitudinous circulars from the Treasury Department, we have seen how easily the vessels from infected ports got to the docks of Philadel phia and New York this week. Eye witnesses have borne evidence of hasty .and utterly worthless inspection of hund reds of immigrants who came upon the Touraine, even after full notice that the port of departure, Havre, was plague-stricken. Consider the immense coast line from New England to the Gulf of Mexico, and imagine how little likely an effective quarantine is to be maintained at the scores of ports at which foreign craft can discharge passengers or cargo from Europe! Let it be borne in mind also that these quarantine precautions will be rcquiied not merely for a few weeks or a few months, but that likely as not tho condition of things in Europe will require them to continue for the remainder of this year and for the greater part of next Imagine the meagerness of the probability of an effective quarantine at so many points through so long a period! It is utterly absurd to rely upon that policy for protection. In hesitating still about applying the only safe and sure prevention against the invasion of the dread disease, the ad ministration is simply sinning away its days of grace. Unless all signs and human experience fail, it will hereafter have a terrible responsibility to face for its su pineness and halting measures. Common 6ense dictates a total temporary stoppage of immigration, excepting only the com paratively few Americans returning from Europe, whose sanitary condition is likely to be good, and who can safely be allowed in after due precaution. But what sort of policy is it that opens the ports to thou sands upon thousands of native Europeans and Asiatics, rushing here fresh from the hot-beds of the plague and sure to bring it with them? Is Secretary Foster so desir ous of a fine exhibit of commerce for the November campaign that these risks must be run; or is the danger of offending or hurting the shinning and importing in terests of New York City to weigh down all considerations as to the health of the whole people? With painful concern the public will watch for some early evidence at Wash ington of a better perception by the ad ministration of its enormous responsibility in this matter. WjjeB LEADERS OF MEN TO-DAY. It is impossible to deny that public at tention in this country is to-day devoted more largely to the approaching prize fights in New Orleans than to any other subject True, the interest is in a large measure a fleeting phase of the fickleness of a public that seizes upon every passing event from which a sensation can possibly be drawn. Nevertheless, notwithstanding this is a Presidental year and despite the fact that the country is threatened with the invasion of a dread disease, public in terest is for the time being centered on the persons of ilessers Corbett and Sulli van. And the leading question is and promises to be until its solution is reached which of the twain will on Wednesday ' next succeed in proving his animal superi ority to the other. "Animal superiority" because the contest will undoubtedly be one or brute force, muscle, sinew, and physical endurance rather than of intel lectual skill. Here are two men whose every move ment is remarked upon and noted by the public Two men who have both, in varying degrees, devoted their lives to a cultivation of the act of fighting their fellows for a monetary consideration and the entertainment of the public. They are in truth, as one of them has described himself, nineteenth century gladiators. That is all there is in it Here is a nation of 65,000,000 laying claim to some sort of civilization and culture devoting itself in a large measure to the hero-worship save the mark of two such combatants as were hired for the amusement of rich and pagau R'jmans of old. Thousands are - attracted by curiosity strongly savoring of admiration to every spot whence a view of one of these men can be obtained or a sound of his voice be heard. They re ceive more attention than any statesman or patriot of the day. Europe has its effete monarchs and America its lusty pugilists as leaders in the land. Perhaps the advantage is on the side of America, and perhaps not. One thing is evident from this state of affairs; human nature has changed but little in its contact with religion, science, and invention in its passage through the centuries. Behind modern clothing and back of present social restraints there is still a Iargn element of savagery in the best-clad and most rapidly moving of tho race, and from all appearances there will be until the millennium arrives. THE NORTHERN FRONTIER, The dispatch from Detroit to be found in another column indicates that tho quarantine on the Canadian frontier is of the very flimsiest description and utterly inadequate to deal with cholera. A farce of. this kind is the prelude to a tragedy. There seems hitherto not to have been the slighte'st appreciation of the serious ness of the situation, and the strict meas ures necessary to deal with it Canadian health inspection Is so proverbially in efficient that it is hardly surprising to find that the Provincial Health Board of Ontario "has decided to take no steps to arrest the disease until it makes its ap pearance." Such procrastination Is noth ing less than criminal. Canada may choose to run its own risks, but America will surely not be foolish enough to follow suit There must be a strong and impassable cordon of inspec tion established along the whole of our northern border, and the entire cessation of inter-communication is the only prac tical method of excluding infectedpersons and baggage. This is no time to weigh monetary costs or individual conveniences. It is a time that calls for.the most strin gent measures on behalf of public safety. Americans must act thoroughly and inde pendently now, and cannot afford to wait until it is too late. RECOGNIZE THE FACTS. The remarks of The Dispatch the other day on the relation of the tariff to the pottery combination evokes dissent from the Erie Herald. It states our posi tion and criticises as follows: "The basis of the denial Is that the bill left the duty on pottery at 55 per cent, the same as it was under the tariff of 1883. But this does not alter the fact that the syndicate owes its existence and enormous profits to the 55 per cent tariff, which was a Repub lican enactment." It seems that the esteemed Herald has not grasped the state of the case. It is as follows: There.has been a tariff of 55 per cent or thereabouts on pottery not only since 1883 but for the past quarter of a century, and the last tariff act did not change the rate of duty. Within the past few years tho era of combinations both in protected and unprotected indus tries has sprung up. Is a recently formed combination to be attributed to the tariff, or to the combination policy which was introduced in an unprotected industry and of which the greatest examples are unpro tected? The original Democratic position which The Dispatch criticised was that tho McKinley bill introduced a new element, and that the pottery combination is one of the results. The nonsense of that was shown by the simple fact that the McKin ley bill left the rate of duty on pottery unchanged. Now since the esteemed Herald shifts the Democratic position and charges it to the general protective policy of nearly thirty years' standing, will It please explain why the pottery combina tion was not formed a quarter of a century ago, when the protective policy began to get in its work? The Dispatch has frequently held that the tariff should be suspended on staples which are controlled by monopolistic com binations, for the simple reason that these combinations seek to defeat the purpose of the tariff, namely, the increase of domestic competition. But to keep on with the assertion that the tariff causes these combinations in the face of the fact that the great and original monopoly was in an unprotected staple is mere fatuity. PROGRESS nr NEW ORLEANS. The fact that the march of progress in the South is steadily obliterating the color line is testified to in a unique Way. That is by the announcement that colored men will be permitted to be present at the tistic entertainment of September 6 on tho payment of the usual admittance fee. Here we may by careful investigation discern prugress with a capital P. The snortive gentry who love to see pugilists smash each other's physiognomy have been especially wont to spell negro with two "g's" and to resent his presence at such exhibitions of culture and refined enjoyment But, as the politicians of Ala bama found the' color line an unfortified border when the colored vote was wanted, so the high-toned patrons of the art of self-defense in New Orleans found it an effete distinction when admission fees are sought What more efficient guaran tee of good faith need be asked than the permission to the New Orleans citizen of African descent to contribute his dollars to the support of the aristo cratic organizations of that city 'which make a business of keeping one spot in the country where priza fights are encour aged? It always was bound to come. While the colored man has votes or dollars to contribute it is certain that tooner or later his bestowal of them will be solicited without regard to color. New Orleans is evidently making more progress with re gard to the -effete barbarism of the color prejudice than in abolishing the effete barbarism of prize fighting. TILLMAN'S VICTORY. The result of the Democratic primaries in South Carolina is to be regarded as a marked victory for the new,- or Alliance, wing of the party. Both factions rigidly bound themselves to abide by the result of the primanes, and a wholesale bolt is therefore not to be expected. Individual secessions, however, are to be looked for to some considerable extent, as the schis matic struggle waxed exceedingly hot The real significance of this defeat for the old guard of the South Carolina Democ racy is that the solid South doty. move. Taken in connection with the strong fight made by Kolb in Alabama, the Till man victory just won in South Carolina is indisputably a premonition of the gradual relaxation of the bonds of the Democratic party south of Mason and Dixon's line. Thereis little to choose between the actual merits of the warring factions from a Republican or Protective standpoint. But the mere fact that such internal differences and strife are possible is encouraging to the hope that the time is not far distant at which questions of policy will be studied and voted upon in the South on another basis than that of disregarding all other considerations to maintain a Democratic supremacy. John Bull's Premier had a narrow escape from an angry better. But Gladstone has shown his ability to get free from the horns of a dilemma'too often to sucouinb to the horns or a common cow, although he is certainly no Tore-ador. easier of accom- half Mayoe Goukley's suggestion for a house to house distribution of a clroular con taining advice as to the test methods to evade an attack of cholera, or euro it snould it come, is a good one and should be put into effect. Ten golden weddings were celebrated near Montreal yestered, but the price of the yellow was not affected. It is an agreeable change to hear of a bull fight in which the spectators got the worst of It as they did at Chihuahua, Mexico, on Sunday when a bull broke over a ten-foot fence and careered among tho crowd. Pittsbukg's ball team is actually third on the League Hit, but this standing is surely too good to last. Canada's so-called quarantine is ofjhe worst and weakest kind, and the whole of our Northern frontier is as susceptible to attacks from the importation of disease as is the entire stretch of our sea-coast. Labob day is the time for Pittsburg soholars to get to work, while the laborers take a holiday. . One of the war charges brought against Weaver is that ha confiscated $2,000 worth or spun yarn. Possibly his name is respon sible lor the yarn spun and the web or ac cusation woven to entangle him. The new navy might be used for blockade purposes with a great deal of advantage to this country. President Harbison's strength or weakness in dealing with the exclusion of cholera is of Infinitely more importance than the lucidity or obscurity of his letter of acceptance. Anonymous letters scare no man of cour age and reflect only on the cowardice of the writers. Pittsburg is insulted, for the great and only John L. Sullivan did not include this city in the route of his circus parade from New York to New Orleans. The price and sale of tobacco are not affected by thesmokepieventiveordinanco. HlIVL is not of sufficient importance for his frigidity to his party's candidate to be deemed a sufficient causa for the recent atmospheric chilliness. Nancy Hanks is a credit to the year that witnesses her triumphs. leap This year's peach crop it such a failure that the fruit is selling in New York at a price that does not cover the cost of picking, packing and shipping. This sort of thing is enough to make the swallow fly homeward in a hurry. President McLeod's defiance of the bench of justice is it typo of the monopolis tic lawlessness which is among America's most serious evils. The theaters will all be warmed up aud in working order in a day or two. There are multitudes of homes in this country containing tho works of Holmes, and none where the Doctor himself would not bo welcome. The harvest moon will of loving couples as usual. reap a full crop A blockade to keep out cholera would give a grand opportunity to demonstrate tho advantages of American industrial In dependence. Jupiter has put that nose of Mars out of joint for this season. All sporting visitors to New Orleans will be wise enough to see the necessity o providing themselves with a round trip ticket. Seals threaten source of discord. to become a universal Now that Tillman has secured the nomi nation he so much desired there may be less talk of political bloodshed in South Caro lina. Disinfectants saries of life. are among the neces- It is to be hoped that Corbett will abstain from writing a book if he should happen to defeat his illustrious literary opponent. TnAT Saltsburg deadlock is a pretty picklo. If there had been a census-taking in Pittsburg yesterday tno Boyd family would have made a wonderful showing. Marching clubs are beginning to march. "MASTERS OP MEN. Harrt A. Gaefield, the eldest son of ex-President Garfield, is to be a pioTessor in the now law school of Western Reserve Uni versity. "Jack" Meldon, who is to captain the Gentlemen of Ii eland in their coming trip to America, is a young man of 25, and a lawyer In Dublin. - Henry B. Fuller, whose recent work In the Century has attracted attention, is a Chicago man by-blrtn. Ho has traveled ex tensively. Kossuth, who will be 80 years old on the first of next month, is about to publish the first volume of the memoirs On which he has been engaged since shortly aftor the close of th'e American Civil War. Miss Ray Beveridge, California's "Lady Blacksmith," has been invited to take her hammers and anvils to the Chicago Fair and lorge some for the California State exhibit. It it believed she will aeceDt. Knute Nelson, Republican candidate for Nebraska's Governorship, will do much of his stumping around the state this cam paign in a wagon, furnished with kitchen, sleeping and general living accessories. Mr. and Mrs. J. R Wanjlmaker, of Philadelphia, tho former a son of the Post master General and the lattor the grand daughter of the late John Welsh, once American Minister to England, are sojourn ing at Atx-lej-Bains, in France, M. Pasteur is lying in a rather precari ous state of health at Yileneuve-I'Etang, near St Cloud. The eminent scientist is subject to an affection of the heart, and about a month ago he suffered from a bad attack that lett nim very weak. Hon. Michael D. Harter, who has become notable recently by his writings on political campaigns and campaign methods, first won national prominence by his work in the last Congress. Ho is about IS years old, a banker and an enthusiastic advocate ofrelorm. , Sh'irmont Sampatrao Gaikwak, son of the Gutkwar of isaroda, is one of the most enlightened and benevolent of Indian princes. He was a stndent at Oxford, and later, while in London, bought '7,OO0.Engllsh books and 3,000 volumes in Marathi, Sans crit and other tongues for a free public library in his native State, the first to be established that way in India. And Its Name Is Republican. St. Louis Glotf -Democrat Tho best party for the worklngman is the one that insures good wages and keeps tho money in -which they are paid at par with gold. Travels on His Shape. Boston Globe. That John L. makes a very good sneeoh is generally agreed, but his gestures are the things that catch the crowd. pllshment and more efficacious than measures" of quarantine. CAMPAIGN NEWS AND COMMENT. Next to the task of convincing the work ingmen and fanners that America would be more prosperous if England bad a monopoly of manufacturing, the attitude of David Bennett Hill is causing the Democratic manageis more worriment than anything else. They are laboring faithfully, though, to convince themselves and the public that the manipulator of the Empire State machine is in line for the Chicago ticket. In answer to a question Senator Voorhees said: "I have just returned.! torn New York and I know from those who are managing the nffairs of the campaign that there ii abso lutely no alarm there on account of Mr. Hill's position. At the proper time and In his own way Mr. Hill will give the country and his party Indisputable evidence of his completo and unwavering loyalty. Mr. Hill is a brave man aud a wise man, but, like all men, he makes mistakes. He nas an avowed candidate for the Presidency, treated as such by the friends of the opposing candi datesoftentimes fairly treated, sometimes maliciously and unfairly, I thought yet he kept his temper. After the convention he showed courage and nerve and has acted perhaps better in tho party than he did be fore the nomination. I think he should have wired his congratulations the next morning to Mr. Cleveland. The onlv thing, in my opinion, for a defeated candidate to do is to get in line. When a man sulks he loses his prestige with his nartv. and the self-resneot or his friends. But, though Hill did not do as I would have done, I know, of my per sonal knowledge, absolutely, that he will vindicate his loyalty to the ticket. I know what ne Intends to do, and I can assure every Democrat that his course will be sat isfactory and commendable." ' But, according to the Hartford Courant, "Senator Hill's speech at a reoent Con necticut clambake wasn't a long one, but about half way between the ex ordium and peroration we come upon a sentence that is chock fnll of cotemporaneous human interest 'For rea sons too numerous to mention,' said David, 1 am a gentleman of leisure this summor.1 " Mr. Hill ought to know. Perhaps the most lively canvass yet in progress in the Keystone State is that in the Twenty-sixth Congressional district, com posed of Erie and Crawford counties. Not since tho time of W. L. Scott's candidacy has the district been so agitated. Rev. Dr. Flood secured the Republican nomination practically without opposition. His op ponent, J. C. Sibloy.is the combination nom inee of the Democratic, Piohibition and People's parties, and has just been Indorsed by a convention of Northwestern Pennsyl vania colored men held at Oil City. The two candidates have met in' Joint debates before gianger audiences, and their respec tive partisans are indulging in personalities of a every viperous character. The Dela mater bank failure and the workings of the Chautauqua Association are rival issues with the tariff and the force bill. The friends of Dr. Flood lely upon the fact that it is a Pres idental year to defeat what they term the "unholy alliance of the free-whisky De mocracy and cold-water cranks." The most popular scheme at present to receive a little political notice is to chal lenge Governor McKinley to a tai iff discus sion. Ex-Governor St. John and Congress man Bynnm are tho latest onos to soolc "addi tional notoriety in this manner. The moving cause of the challenge is sued by Bynnm is the announcement that the Republicans will hold a great tin plate rally at Elwood, Ind., to celebrate tho estab -lishment of a tin plate factory in that nat ural gas town. The Republican State Com mittee proposes to make it ono of the great est demonstrations of the campaign. Visit ing delegations will bo present from every county to witness with their own eyes the practical fruits of the new tariff. Elwood is in Congressman By n urn's district, and he wants to be present at the rally to persuade the people that what they see is merely a figment of the imagina tion. Tho challenge Issued in his behalf by the Democratic committee leads: "The issues that divide the pni ties in the present campaign are clearly defined and of paramount importance. Whether the present protective policy of the Repub lican party tends to promote the industrial prosperity ot the country or is injurious to the interests it 'is supposed to benefit, whether it has a tendency to furnish wages or lestricts production, causing in many protected and heretofore prosperous indus tries a l eduction ot waces, strikes and lock outs, aie questions which concern the pros perity, the contentment and welfare of the people. Believing that a public discussion of these questions pro and con would not -only prove interesting, but highly instruc tive to tho people, we hope an arrangement fnra joint discussion will be made." Tho matter has beou reierred to Governor Mc Kinley. but It is not likely that the chal lenge will be accepted, as it is believed tho Democrats are merely working tor an op poittinity to address the immense crowd which will assemble at Elwood. Farmer A. L. Taggart has been nomi nated tor the Legislature for the fourth con secutive ttme, and will undoubtedly be elected. But will ho be a bolting candidate for United States Senator again next winter? The reasons given by ex-Postmaster B. F. Meyers, ot Harrisburg, for declining to run for the Democratic nomination for Con gress in the Perry-Dauphin-Lebanon dis trict are as follows: "I have just been re quested by the Democratic National Com mittee Jo make tariff reform speeches in Maine, and my orders are to report in that Slate next week. I suppose that the com mittee will keep mo on the stump during the coming campaign, and this fact alono will ureclude any thought of mv running for Congress. When my friends know that I am naming lor my party tn otnor states they ought to feel satisfied that I am doing my duty." Perhaps the additional fact that the district is Rennhllcan by an average majority of about 4,000 had something to do with tho modest sacrifice of Mr. Meyors. Here is one vigorous sentence from Gov ernor McKinley's pen: "Campaign prices have already beon disposed of as campaign lies." While most States have abandoned the plan of holding Stnte elections before the Presidental contest Florida has Just adopted it, becoming an "October State" this year. The change was caused by tho fact that a Federal election law might bo enacted, and a desire to have voting tor State officers, at . least, escape its provisions. Colonel Tellfalr Stockton, oi Jacksonville, was at Demo cratic headquarters in New York tho other day explaining the situation and asking for aid. He said: "Tho October plan was adopted In anticipation of the probable passagoofthe foice bill by the FiHy-flrst Congress. I have no doubt that Florida will go Democratic at botn the state and Federal elections, and 1 look for a majority up to 15,000. For the State election the guberna torial contest is between Judge II. L. Mitchell, or Tampa, our candidate, and A P. Baskins, the Third party candidate. We realize-that the election is not one which our opponents will allow to go to us by de fault, but we have no doubt whatever of a decldelv Democratic result, and the Re publicans will not succeed In transferring their whole strength to tho third party nominees." An. audience of 15,000 at a protection mass meeting in Vermont is an indication that the Republicans of the Green Moun tain State are thoroughly aroused and will give a good account of themselves next Tuesday. PHIZES FOR TAEIFF ESSAY8, One of Which Is Captured by a University of Pennsylvania Roy. Nkw York, Sept. L The American Pro tective Tariff League annually offers a series of valuable prizes to the members of senior classes of colleges throughout the country for tbe best essays upon the tariff question. The subject for this year's essay was, "Hhs the New Tariff Law Proved Beneficial ?" The first prize of $150 is awarded to Her bert W. Damon, Oherlln College, Oberlln. O, Tho second prize of $100 is awarded to Lis-, ton Leon Lewis, Cornell University. The third prize of $50 is awarded to Walter Ed ward Weyl, of the University or Pennsyl vania. Can't FBSt on Himself. Baltimore American.! No ono can blame the oyster for not show ing his appreciation of the fall opening. 'Tanta Something to Stiffen Him. Chicago Mall. The impression obtains that Govern kr Buchanan needs a brand new backbone. STOP THE PLAGUE SHIPS. The President Has the Power. Pittsburg Evening Leader. The Leader agrees with The Dispatch that President Harrison has the power and the opportunity to keep the cholera out of the United States, and that inaction on bis part will amount to a crime; for the imperiling of the lives of seventy millions of people is nndoubtedly criminal in its consequence, if not in intent. The only way in which cholera can be ex eluded from this country Is by putting an instant stop to immigration. It is not enough that immigrants from cholera-infected ports are quarantined. Quaratlnlng is only partially effective. It is not and never has proved to be an effectual barrier against tho importation of disease germs. In order to shut out the plagne, there must be absolute prohibition of lmmigran t travel. The law licenses immigration, but when there is genuine danger to the nation the President is vested with discretionary power superior to the law, and It now de volves upon him to use that power instead of wasting precious time looking after his political fences. The state of affairs which is before the Chief Executive Is too plain to be miscon strued. Let immigration continue, quaran tine or no quarantine, and the cholera must Inevitably reach tne United States and prob ably destroy tens of thousands of lives. Xet immigration be stopped now for an indefi nite period, and the ohances of the coming of the disease will be reduced almost to nothing. There is no exense for the avoidance by the President of what is his clear duty. He has the opportunity now to prove hlB mettle and it is painful to contemplate the conse quences if befalls to avail himself of it. The President's Duty. Pittsburg Evening Press. The demand for the suspension of immi gration is virtually unanimous throughout the United States. There should be a total stoppage of lnlmieration at onoe. Indorsed by the press and people of the whole country. It rests with the President to prove himself equal to the grave situation. He could con vene Congress If he would, and Con gress could adopt measures forbidding the importation of any persons or things from Europe till the imminent danger of Asfatio cholera had passed away. But this convening of Congress would necessarily be a comparatively slow process. Tho Presi dent should take tbe bull by the horns and orderthe Federal officers in all ports on the Eastern coast to quarantine everybody and everything arriving from Europe. No doubt Congress would indorse his action when It convened, and, in any cae, the people, who aro the hlghor power, would do so in Novem ber. It would be the most popular thing Harrison could do now. Dofeng?, and How to Secure It, New York Times. Tho only measure of defense that prom ises, if not absolute safety, at any rate a reasonable certainty of immunity, is to hold the cholera away from us, not at arm's length, but at ocean's breadth. Itis too late to do that altogether now, since the disease has come to our doors aboard the Moravia. But dre we going to allow other ships in un ending procession to come to us from European ports with thejr cholera-bearing immigrant passengers, and lift no hand against the enemy until he comes into port? That appears to be the present national policy. Docs the President propose to con tinue that policy? What are the objections to putting a stop to immigration altogether until the danger is past. It is our Judgment that no less rigorous measure will suffice to keep out the cholera this year and next year. President Hat rison, we trust, will he able to see the necessity of immediate action. Should Fight Plagues at a Distance. New York Herald. President Harrison started for Washing ton last night to consult with his Cabinet as to the advisability of calling an extra session of Congress to empower the President to suspend Immigration from infected ports. This is a timely step. There is no question that tbe President should have such power, to be exercised at any time in case ofan emer gency when the publio safety demands it. It is far wisor and, safer to keep an epidemio at a distance than to fight it at our doors. It is simply reckless to permit an ocean traffic in ravaging disease. No considera tion of humanity, national hospitality or publio policy dictates that vessels be al low od to bring to our shores Infected living cargoes from plague stricken ports. Na tional defense is essential to national exis tence. Tho Action Would Be Justifiable. Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. There has of late been a growing senti ment in favor of a prohibition of immigra tion into the United States dnring the prevalence ot cholera across the water. It is said the Health Board of tbe State of Illi nois has been intending to memorialize the President to issue a proclamation in accom plishment of that purpose. On tbe other hand, it is pointed out tbat the President has no such power; that it resides only1 with Congress. But that does not banish the idea that snch a proceeding would be Justi fiable in a serious emergency, either because of cholera or of other diseases, physical or moral, among tbe Immigrants. Why Not tho President? New York Press. The Governors of all the Atlantic coast States ought to lose no time in using to the full the legal power that they have to re strict immigration so far as their respective States are concerned till the cholera danger Is over. They should consider at once what is tho best thing to do whether to suspend immigration indefiuitelyor for some definite period, tay 20 days and then do it without hesitation, equivocation or apology. Here is a foe that Is a dozen times worse than any domestic violence, and that must be met at a cost, If need be, of some Inconven ience to hundreds, or even thousands of travelers, in order to preserve the safety of 65,000,000 of people. Cold Weather No Check. Philadelphia Press. It seems tbat even cold weather cannot be relied upon to stop the spread of the disease. At least Prof. Affllck, Medical Examiner at the University of Edinburgh, declares In an article on the subject that some of the most severe cholera epidemics known have raged with the greatest fury in the winter. Under such circumstances the restriction of immi gration is all the more important. l No Half-Way Measures Now. Washington Star. Anything short of absolnto stoppage of Immigration for a time and tbe closing of the gateways against all comers is a half way measure, which may be regretod in ter ror and in mourning when itis too late. A Wlsn Pr-cautionary Measure. Zanesrllle (O.) Time). Were President Harrison to issue a procla mation suspending all immigration until tho cholera scare Is over, be would be up held by the vast majority of the people in so wise a precautionary measure. The Force or Hub it. Baltimore American. I . Tho Democratic candidate's letter-writing mania is so strong that he is even dropping Hues to the fishes in Buzzard.s Bay. Forgot the Main Point. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. 1 The men who have pledged Tammany's support to Cleveland haven't consulted either Hill or Tammany. something Rotten In Denmark. Boston Triveller.1 The recent silence of the Democratic can didates is even moro than profound. Itis suspicious. Chance for the Patriots. Washington Star. The claim has not yet been put in that Adlal'cax is. George Washington's hatchet matured. AN ORANGE FETE, A Brilliant Novelty Introduc-d atNEdgs- wood Reception at the Now Homewnod , School Tonne People Have a Pleasant TImo in the Wood Society Gossip. One of the most artistic lawn fetes seen this summer was tbat held on the grounds of Mrs. A. W. Cadman, Washington street. jsagewooa, last evening. It was called an orange fete, the idea being carried out by the draping of the booths with orange colored cloth, while golden rod, ox-eyed daisies and other pretty yellow field blos soms of the fall were twined abput and hung in profusion everywhere. The mantels and grates In the parlors were banked and filled with golden rod, and the chandeliers were hidden with the lovely 'flower. The young girls who sustained the part of aids were gowned in orange, relieved by white lace. The lawn was lighted by electric Chinese lanterns and locomotive headlights, and the scone was a brilliant one. The tea booth was a fac simile of the traditional gipsy tent, orange in hue, or course. The service was silver and rragile china, and the tea and wafers In the booth were dispensed by Mrs. Hill and Misses Mand and Bird Stevenson. The supper table, in the honse, was draped with orange scans across the snowy damask, and was attended by Mrs. M. Bigger, Mrs. T. A. Estep, Mrs. Wallace, Mrs. J. H. Orr, Mrs. J. T. Miller and Mrs. B. F. Dake. Frnit and flowers were in charge of the Misses McKee, Roberts and Anderson. Candy Mrs. McElroy, and Misses Mar gretta Alexander and Elizabeth B.irt. Lemonade The Misses Crump, Fennlken and Wright. Ice cream First table Mrs. Lloyd, aided by Misses Florence Harlow and Nellie Mc Kelvy. Second table Mrs. Thorp; aids, Misses Mary Estep and Bess McKelvy. Third table Mrs. Hodill; aids. Misses India Ste venson ana Diary mil. Fourth table Mrs. Tomb nnd Mrs. Anderson; aids. Misses Allen Kerr and Mary King. Fifth table Mrs. H.J. Bigger; aids, Misses Mary Cadman and Mary Crump. Sixth table Mrs. McCance: aids Misses Laura Crump, Mary Davis and Harriot Kerr. The cashier was Mrs. Corbett, and the gate keepers Mr. King and Mr. M. Cadman. The proceeds of the fete will go into the fund for the purchase of an organ for the new Pres byterian Church, Edgewood. The ladies of the congregation have determined to pay for the organ, which Is expected to cost $3,000. The social affairs of Edgewood are always very pleasant, and the orange fete last night was no exception to the rule. The new public school at Homewood was thrown open formally yesterday, an all-day reception being held. At 9:30 o'clock in the morning the Philharmonic Prchestra, under the direction ot T. F. Kirk, played "The Star Spangled Banner," and the chil dren, who had been waltingito be the first to enter the building, went in pell-mell. They saw a beautiful interior, decorated with plants und bunting, and were delighted with tho general appearance of everything. The building ii indeed a handsome and conven ient one. It is three stories high and con tains 15 school rooms, besides an exhibition hall and teachers' library and reception room. The building cost $0,700. Lemonade was served to tho visitors on tho different landings by daintily-dressed little damels who heartily enjoyed the experience. Vis itors were welcomed to the school and shown over the building by members of the Board of Dliectors, consisting of Joseph A. Tyson, George Bradley, Win. B. McFoll, J. R. Mccreary, Cyrus Browneller, Rob ert McMillan, Pror. E. D. Hickman and the following teachers: Jennie Treffinger, Anne P. Bostwick, Mary McFarland, Tillle J. Crawford, Mattie M. Shaw, Carrie Mallck, Jennie S. Davis, Lizzie Harbangh, Mary Work, Ethel Evans, Alice M. Lowry, S. A. Snowden and Alice Sloan. In tbe evening there was a pleasant meeting in the school hall, which nas literally packed with visitors from all parts of the city. After an overture by the orchestra, under the direc tion of Prof, Kirk, and prayer by Rev. O. A. Emerson, George Bradley read a historical sketch. Then City Superintendent George J. Luckey delivered oneor his chaiacteristlc addresses, and Americus Coucll Jr. O. U. A. M. presented a flag to the school, Mr. W. T. Kerr making the presentation speech. There was some pleasing singing by the children and an address by Mayor Gourley, the enter tainment closing with a bright selection by tbe orchestra as the people filed ont of one of tho handsomest schools in the two cities. The reception of the Boyd family at the Seventh Avenue Hotel continued yesterday, and a very pleasant time was passed. Last evening old songs and hymns were rendered in tbe padors of the hotel, tbe Apollo Musical Clnb, under the direction of a mem ber of the Boyd family, taking the lead therein. Most or the delegates will return to their homes to day. The new public school at Brushton, that wes commenced about a year ago, is to be dedicated on Monday with appropriate cer emonies. Hitherto the children of Brushton have had to attend a little frame strncture, but will henceforth enjoy the use of as fine a schoolhouse as they could desire. The rapid increase of population in tne East Liberty valley renders new public buildings necessary at many points, and it is noticea ble tbat scboolhouses aie going up at fre quent intervals all the way from East Lib erty to Swissvale. TnE" Toung People's Society of Park Avenue Church had a great time in the woods yesterday, Tho young lolks started out early in the morning with baskets full of good cheer and the fixed determination of enjoying the proverbial "good time." They returned late at night in. wagons and with enough golden rod and purple astors to dec orate their rooms for a year. Social emitter. Some of tbe Edgewood residents are incon solable over the departure of Prof, and Mrs. J. W. Langley, who left yesterday with their lamllv for Cleveland, where they will make their home permanently. Tho Pro fessor is a brother of 3, P. Langley, formerly of the Allegheny Observatory. The Allen School Drum Corps, which is to accompany Post 2SG, G. A. R., to Washing ton, D. C, is to give a watermelon and ice cream social on the 15th, 16th and 17th, at tbe old Allen sch03lbouse. The twenty-fifth anniversary of tho wed ding of Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. McFeely, Is to be celebrated with a reception to-morrow evening at their residence on Bates street, Oakland. Mrs. L. E. Harrisox, of Bellefield, gave a dinner to 20 friends. The guests of honor were Mrs. E. Ewing and Miss Ewing, of Columbus, O. The favors were orchids. Pro. W. U. Kexmzdt, of the Allen School, who, with his family has been camping near Burg Hill, O.. has returned to his city resi dence. Mb. aud Mas. Geokoe D. Ripple, of North avenne, Allegheny, have returned trom Denver and tno Rocky Mountains. It is announced that Miss Mario Renck will give a violin recital in the Freeport M. E. Church this evening. Miss Maooie Slater, of Washington, Pa., yesterday became the bride of Mr. Sterritt Metheney. Miss Bessie Harris, of Emporium. Pa., is the guest or Mr. and Mrs. G. '. Urban. DE1I0CRACTS BAD BOY. Commissioner Peck's report shows that the New York free traders ought to be disin fected, too. Philadelphia Inquirer. New York's Democratic Commissioner of Labor Peck is disposed to make a bnshel of trouble for Mr. Cleveland. Wcuhington Post. McKinley prosperity has ceased to be a Republican campaign hallucination. -Itis a reluctant and compulsory Democratic con fession. Sew -York Tribune. Would not the Democrats have done bet ter had they framed their tariff plank after Labor Commissioner Peck's facts were sub mitted to themT Sew York Advertiser. The truth is out at last. The Democratic Labor Commissioner of New York has told the truth because he "had to." He could not have falsified to 0,000 answers returned to his inquiries without instant detection. Chicago Inter Ocean. The real Democratic quarrel with Com missioner Peck is not so much on tbe ground that his facts are not fncts as on tbe ground that it should have been his duty as & good Democrat to hold them back until after the election. Philadelphia Bulletin. He's a Peck of'trouble to tbe Democrats, is Mr. Peck, the New York laborstatlstlcian, whoso report shows how the McKinley bill has benefited the State. But they onght not to try to disown him for telling the truth Indeod, they ought not. Baltimore Amer ican. This report is, for Democrats, as one of them says, awfully embarrassing. The (act that the Labor Commissioner is a close friend of Senator Hill does not suffice to lift tbe gloom from the brows of the thoughtfal citizens of the Democratic party. Brooklyn Standard. CDRI0DS CONDENSATIONS New York has a ?46,000 plana The first elmanaoln German was printed in Hungary in M70. The Death "Valley in California' U tho hottest region on earth. Diamond cutting by machinery was first done In Holland in 1133. A cubic inch of soil contains from 60,000 to 2,250,000 minute organisms. - A young woman in Port Jefferson If reported to sleep with her eyes open. There are 266 cities in Kansas contain ing less than LOW inhabitants apioce. The Government provides 75,000 new mail bans annually at a cost of t0,000. In the southern part of Europe 38,000 oranges have been picked from one tree. A'giant's skeleton ha been unearthed at Brunswick. Ga., which Is nearly nine feet long Immanuel Kant's "Critique .of Pnra Reason" appeared when tho author was SI years old. The project of an Atlantic cable was first started In the year 1853 by Cooper, Field and others. A new lining for bearings is reported from Germany as composed of a compressed vegetable parchment. The telegraph has been used with soma snecess as an adjnnct to the herring fishery off the coast of Scotland. A Mexican while prospecting near Castle Dome, in Arizona, found a silver bar claimed to weign 1M pounds. A Chicopee man, just dead at the age of 75, boasted that he never voted, could not read nor write, and never rode In a railroad car. The Shnt-in Society, composed entirely of invalids, was started by Mr. Conklln, at Madison, N. J., 15 years ago, and Is still flour ishing. Washington is to have a museum for all sorts of curious life-savingapplianees. In cluding the earliest kinds of lifeboats, rock ets and life preservers. A wash made of witch-hazel and cocnlno, to bo applied to the nasal pas sages when the asthma comes on, Is an ef fective cure for hay fever. The famous Treadwell mine in Alaska, which has yielded more than $3;00O,00O in gold bullion, was purchased by the man for whom it was named for $300. The largest greenback extant is a $10,000 bUl, and only one such note has been printed by the Government. Of the $5,000 bills, the next largest, there are seven. Cliquout, known as "the hnman os trich," is reported to have swallowed a watch, and allows people to listen to It tick ing in his chest for the small sum of one dime. AU old way of interrogating fate fn. love affairs is to slice an apple in two with a sharp knife, lfthls can be done without cutting a seed the wish of the heart will be fulfilled. The followinc odd advertisement ap peaied in an English paper of late date: "Home Work Good Plots for Novels for Sale. Apply Miss Smallwood, The Lees, Great Malvern." The Romans had their raille passuum, 1,000 paces, which must have been about 3,000 feet In lenztb. The German mile of to day is 21 318 feet in length, more than fonr and a hair times as long as our mile. An Indiana girl started out in a honse dress and wi thout a head covering, to visit a nearneighoor, met her sweetheart on the way and was Induced to board an approach ing train, and was married at the next sta tion. An officer in the British Army thinks that ducks would be preferable to pigeons for. carrying naval dispatches over the sea, because they wonld drop down and sit on the water when tired and resume their flight after resting. One hundred and fifty of the songs and ballads of Bnrns aro soon to be published In Czech by the editor of a Prague newspaper. In every instance the Bohemian translator has preserved the metrical form of tho original, a feat of apparently very great skill. Engravers in Germany are said, lo harden their tools vory satisfactorily; in sealing wax. According to this the tool Is heated to whiteness and plunged into tba wax, withdrawn after an instant and plnnged in again, the process being repeated until tbe steel is too cold to enter the wax. A tight-rope dancer was performing at a music hall at Rouen, Fran ce, some time ago, when tbe wire suddenly broke, and she fell from a great height on the conductor of tne orchestra. He was so overcome by tho shock that he fainted, and when he recov ered conscionsness was discovered to be deaf and dumo. In the dining rooms of some of the large cafes in Russia there Is a pool of fresh water, in which fish of various kinds and sizes swim aDout. Any patron of the res taurant who may wish a course of fish for dinner goes to the pool, picks out the par ticular one he may desire, and in a moment after no is served with it. Currents of water serve to a vast extent the purpose of distributing seeds. Walnut, butternut and pecan trees are fonnd close to streams, where tbey drop theirnuts into tho passing flood, to be carried far away and, start other groves perhaps hundreds of miles distant. Tree seeds of many sorts aro carried Dy oceanic currents. In Cochin, a town on the coast of Tra vancore, a state in the southwest of India, there is a small body of Hebrews who ara called White Hebrews because their skin is fair and their hair light. They were once very numerous along this coast, bnt in Cochin, where they have a quarter all tq themselves, there are now only somo 200 of them. The earliest chest was simply the trunk of an oak tree BcoopeU ont and cut down tha middle, one-half serving as a lid, which was at first kept closed by a strap of leather, and later by one made of iron. As late as tho fourteenth century tbe oak chest, in addi tion to being a repository for valuables, served as a seat and sometimes, also, as & table. A boy, 14 years old, who lives near Waycross", Ga., is said to greatly resemble an alligator. ScaIes of a delicate textnre can, be seen all over his body. He has a flat bead, a long, wide mouth, and eyes like an alligator. His lees and arms are flat and crooked at the Joint. He can neither talk nor walk, but bellows and crawls like a reptile. XXIGHTS INTO FUNNYDOH. St. Peter Who ar yon? Shade I was the chairman of a committee aj pointed to award a diamond pin to the mother of the prettiest baby at a jammer hotel. St. Peter Step ln.'my boy, how yoamast cars suffered '.Brooklyn Eagle. Though bowed and bent by the frosty pair urace, man nas no sail ror Haling; For think of the great amonnt of J aw He may turn loose and cet no licking. mdlanapoUt Journal. "Her taste in music is improving wonder fnlly. " eald one young woman. Why," repUed the other, she never plays or sings now." "Yes.' was the rejoinder, that 1 how .1 know." Washington Starr BACK TO BTJSnTESa. From ocean's shore and mountain's height They're coming back from their vacations. Thus time remorseless easts Its blight Again on summertime flirtations. The days of gaiety and dash " ' Are past; they could not last forever. The youtn once more is shooting. "Cashl" The maid, "Fish balls, bash, tripe and liver." Weto lork Preit. - Assistant How is old Bronson now, doctor? ' Doctor His Is an encouraging case. Think he'll get well, ehi" "Oh. no. I think 1 can keep him as he U for years tofome." Spare Moments. This wrinkled old planet will whirl round and round Through space In its regular orbit. Whether Corbettdrlves SalUvan into the ground. or soiuvin swallows Jim Corbett. ' " Chicago Tribune. "Can yon swim?" asked Miss ifunn of . IToJick. who had been caning twice a week for about six months. ' S . "Why, no. Ican't.1' "Then I would advise you to learn." "Because I am going to throw yon overboar."J -Detroit free Press. , k 9
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