essbsi StKl?3 js ,WB TRf, "yr "4 s e.-v rv X ' .4s THE PITTSBTJW DISPATCH, TUESDAY, 'SEPTEMBER 6.' 189a 4 if W BtMaj; ESTABLISHED FEBRUARY 8. 1MB. Vol. 7. No. HS. Entered at Plttstmrg PoitoOce November, 1S8T. 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, ROOM 78. TRIBUNE nUII.ni.NO. NEVT TOItK. where com plete cies ofl H E IHt-PATCH can always be found, rorclzn advertisers appreciate the ronvenlence. Home advertiser and friends orTHE DISPATCH, while in New York, are alio made welcome. THE DISPATCH Is regularly on tale at Sren Uuo's. S Union Ponare, New Torn, and 17Avede 1'Open. Paris, France, where anvone who has been disappointed at a hotel news stand can ob tain It. . TLRSIS OF THE DISPATCH. r-OSTAGE FREE IN TTTK rITID STATES. DAILY Dispatch, one Year. I 8 CO D.n.Y DisrATOH, Per Quarter !M Iiaily Dispatch. One Month 70 Daily Dispatch. Including Snndav, 1 year.. 10 00 Daily DisPTCn, Including Sunday, ra'ths. 2 50 lAjt-r Ditatch. Includlas Sunday.l month f0 SctdaY Dtsr-cii. One Year. t'O XSKLT PlsrATrn. One Year 125 Tnc Daily Dispatch Is delivered hv carriers at 35 cents per week, or. Including Sunday Edition, at 10 cents per wee1!. IMTMII Hi . TUESDAY. bEl'T. 6. 1592. TWELVE PAGES AN INCISIVE I.ETTEK. The letter of President Harrson accept ing the Republican nomination for a sec ond term is tlie most complete and incis slve discussion of the issues of the day made of late years. It reviews the whole list of questions to be decided by the pending campaign, and constitutes an ex haustive statement of the Republican attitude. The President shows keen judgment, in taking up first of all the need of preserv in a stable and uniform national cur rency. The sop thrown by the Demo cratic platform to the Southern hunger fcr inflation, by proposing to revive the old State bank issues, is too favorable a chance to be neglected. The letter con vmcincly shows the evil of reviving the old system under v hich a man in Pittsburg could not be certain what the bank bills in his pocket would be worth if he journeyed to Cleveland, and plainly places be fore the people the results of voting lor such a policy. The Importance of reviving the ocean carrying tradeis next discussed. In connection with it the ex tension of commerce with American na tions is fully set forth with a graceful acknowledgment of the great credit due to Secretary Blaine for the vigor with which he pressed that policy to success. The statistics presented as to the increase of exports of agricultural products under this policy ktc lresh and convincing. From this point the President's letter naturally takes up the great and controll ing issue of protection versus free trade. Ilere again the President !s not slow to take advantage of the opening afforded by the Democratic platform. He recalls how the majority report in the Democratic con vention recogmzrd the maintenance of a difference between American and foreign w.iges by the tariff aud conceded trie de pendence of many industries upon pro tective leg'slation for their continuance. But the convention declared its supe riority to such considerations, and practically asserted that Demo cratic supremacy means a tar iff law without any regard either for wages or the maintemnco of industry. The President sits forth in plain lan guage the destnictiveness and disaster ;onipiiseI in the authoritative Democratic rolicy of "a fight of extermination" against all protected industries. The s'atistical evidences as to the beneficial effects of maintaining the policy of pro tection arc cited briefly but effectively. Altogether the letter is the strougrst as well as the most exhaustive presentation of the Republican cause that can be pre sented. It is noticeable that the legisla tion stigmatized by the Democracy as the force bill is retired to the rear, while the President brings into prominence the fatal errors of the Democratic position on currency and the tariff. This Is not only good politics, bnt it is political justice. The Democracy bavins: gone back to Bourbonism for their principles on bdnk issues and still further to Calhoun ism for their attitude on the tariff, it is a public service to expose the vic'ousness of their platform and the destructive results of their policy if it were given a chance to make itself felt By this letter the President forcibly and aggressively puts the Republican party in an attitude to push the campaign to vic tory. It puts the Democracy on the de fensive for their economic heresies, and exposes the fatality with which that party puts itself in the wrong whenever it hopes for success. A PKOPETt ORDER. The order of the Philadelphia Board of Health that John A. Clark, the local poli tician who was permitted to leave a de tained steamer by favoritism, shall be re turned is referred to by the dispatches as ''peculiar." The peculiarity is alleged to consist in the fact that the steamer has been passed as safe since the favored pas senger was taken off. Only those who have a very slovenly idea of the importance of impartially en forcing the law can see any peculiarity in this action. The safety of the whole coun try depends on maintaining the leeal safe guards without fear or favor. The per son in question made use of political influ ence to secure the breaking down of the law in a way which robs it of all value. The fact that the steamer was not in fected does not at all mitigate his offense in using illicit means to avoid waiting till the assurance of safety was established It is necessary to assert the efficieucy of quarantine by punishing thoso who vio late It If Mr. Clark, of- Philadelphia, does not return in accordance with the, orders ot the board the least that can be done is to post him as an offender against the public safety. DEMANDS INVESTIGATION. The description of the state of affairs existing between railroad contractors and their colored laborers in Luzerne county, as given elsewhere, calls for a prompt and searching investigation. If the county authorities fail to do their duty in 6lfting the matter, the State should take a hand, an d since there is an inter-State aspect to the case Federal officials would not be ill advised to lend their assistance. The charge is distinctly made that some three hundred men were decoyed from homes in Virginia to mountain fastnesses in Pennsylvania under the falsest of prom ises. They were attracted by a bait of $1 sn a day, and on their arrival found themselves isolated, nearly starved, supplied with the scantiest ac commodation", and forced to labor under threats of violence, while the promised pay was not forthcom ing at the end or the month. Attempts to escape were frustrated by a show of fire arms and warrants for arrest of the would be fugitives secured by false accusations. Such are the charges made against the employers and a refutation should be in sisted upon or the severest penalties In flicted therefor. CLIMAX OP FREE TRADE LOGIC. There is nothing like carrying your doc trine to its legitimate conclusion. For that reason we are disposed to rejoice over the energy of our ultra free trade cotem porary the Chicago Herald, which discov ers that the McKmley bill Is responsible for the cholera! The logic of the Herald is to the effect that as the McKinley bill shuts out the products of foreign working men from the Un'ted States they must flock to this country, bringing the cholera with them. The fact that they have not brought the cholera in yet and are now practically excluded makes no difference to the energetic Herald. What it means is that if the cholera had been brougnt in the JIcKinley bill would have been to blame for it. Tnis Is not much worse reasoning than a good many other efforts of free trade logics. It involuntarily discloses the un derlying conviction of our free trade co temporary that protection has made wages good in this country. If wages were not good by comparison with Europe tht-se immigrant? would not come, and if pro tection were not the cause of good wages it wou'd not be responsible for their com ing. The Herald is careful not to admit" that it is the prosperity of labor under protection that brings immigration here; but that fact rests at the bottom of its entire argument A little Inconsistency like that, how ever, is no obstacle for a wild WV stern free trade organ in search of a theory on which to howl against McKinley. MR. BI,ATNE GIVES TIMELY ADVICE. Nobody will feel surprised at the ex pression of views by Mr. Blaine that the Pres'dent'has the power to stop immigra tion in the face of the dangerous menace of the cholera, and that it is his duty to do so. Mr. Blaine justly says that there is no possible loss from the temporary suspen sion of commercial relations with other countries that is at all comparable to the safety of human life. He thinks the situ ation grave enough to break silence; and he voices with his usual perspicacity the common sense of the country. In the face even of any perverseness, stupidity or consideration of political phases of the question at Washington, the public will always hope for the best But the iteration and reiteration from all quarters of the opinion in favor of shut ting down upon immigration must weigh heavily upon the conscience of the ad ministration hereafter if the luck of es cape upon which it is banking eventually fail and disister follow. The warning of Mr. Blaine reinforces the general public opinion. It would be well for President Harrison to hearken to it, as the judgment of a statesman whose opinions may be said to have the habit of going direct to the heart of difficult situa tions, andof being almost invariably right Mr. Blaine is a better adviser for the President in tlrs matter than either of the Secretaries Foster. SATISFACTORY THOUGH TARDY. Those gorgeous "floats" which were to illustrate the "procession of centuries" at the inaucural ceremonies at Chicago have been suppressed Satisfaction over this sensible act is only partial, however, because the "float" idea should never have been entertained to the extent of in vesting Exposition money, hard-earned by the workers at Washington, in it; but it is pleasant to perceive that some one in Chicago has a correct idea of the proper scope of the enterprise, and is able to quash the project of going into illustra tions of the rudimentary grotpsque and medieval style known to the admirers of Mardi Gras tomfoolery as "floats." The float business should have been stopped before It cost the enterprise 570, 000; but even that loss is better than start ing it on the level of a circus parade or Veiled Prophets show. THE LIBERAL PROGRAMME. The programme to be adopted by the Liberal Cabinet has been the subject of much discussion in England. No official light is thrown on it further than Mr. Gladstone's declaration that home rule roust come first and the unofficial report that the bill is already framed as regards its main features. But a rather strong indication of the course that will be taken can be drawn from the utterances of Mr. Labouchere on one hand and Mr. Mc Carthy on the other. Neither of these gentlemen is authority as to what the Liberal Cabinet will do; but their relation is such that their diver gent views may be taken to comprise. the possibilities of the LiDeral programme. Mr. Labouchere strongly urges that En glish reforms shall take precedence of the Irish, supporting his position with the assertion that this is the way to secure the latter. The pe culiar position of Labouchere to the Gladstone Cabinet, however, permits a suspicion that, like a famous editor of this country, he is outlining policies for his party with a view to making trouble. Mr. McCarthy on the other hand, -while agreeing with Mr. Gladstone that home rule as the leading issue of English poli tics must come first, represents a sensible position on the part of the Nationalists by suggesting that the English reforms as to "one man one vote" and the new sys tem of registration can foliow before an other general election. He does not re gard It as imperative that Gladstone shall dissolve Parliament when the Lords re ject the home rule bill He proposes that the Commons shall pass the English meas ures and thus put the Peers in the di lemma of rejecting two very popular re forms or accepting them with the cer tainty of strengthening the Liberal party. This being done, it is not considered by McCarthy necessary to hold another elec tion at once. Tho home rule bill can be introduced at a second ses sion, with the prospect of a decided Liberal victory staring the Peers in the face. If they should still prove fractious, McCarthy points out, as The Dispatch has dono heretofore, that Gladstone has within his power a Jever -which has been before used in English politics with unfailing success. That is the creation of new Peers enough to en sure that the House of Lords shall do as the Ministry directs. Mr. McCarthy thinks that the mere threat of such a step would bring the Lords to terms. With this course outlined by the Nation alist leader, and Mr. Gladstone's assur ance that home rule is to ba the leading measure, the Liberal programme is toler ably clear. The real struggle is to be when the House of Lords opposes itself to the Ministry. It will be a matter of world wlda Interest how long tint offeto lnatitu- tion will be able to block the measures of the Government with the support of the popular branch. ' Our ootemporary, the Pittsburg Post, an nounces that In response to the demands of Its readers it will, beginning with next Sun day, publish a Sunday edition. Tho itj has had an opportunity pf hearing all the objur gations of Law and Orderltes upon the Sun day editions of newspapers, but it concludes very sensibly that whether such issues have a good or bad influence depends wholly upon the character of their contents. It promises for ltselfa first-class paper; that It will fur nish this and meet fully the suecess whloh it anticipates there is no doubt. As fop room, there is more room for our cotemporaries on Sunday than on week days, tor Sunday is the only time large classes of the people have for reading; and, tho variety of inclina tions among icaders'-will always continue as It has been, much greater than the num ber of newspapers daily or Sunday. Things which are equal to the same thing are generally supposed to be equal to one another, but no luslon has yet Doen heard or between Republicans and Demo crats, though both are said to be fusing with the third party In various dections of the country. Discrimination between different classed is as much out of place in quaran tine inspections as elsewhere, and it is dangerous, too. XiONO postponed thongh it has been, the arrival of President Harilson's letter of ac ceptance must have come as a great surprise to one or two of our wise cotemporarie, if their prophecies with ley aid to it were in tended seriously. For a study of American brain and as a center for scientific and artistic culture. New Orleans offers unrivaled attractions Just now. Europe continues to furnish ample evi dence of the risk this country runs by sub stituting a quarantine which cannot but be detective for a prohibition ot Immigration during tho prevalence of cholera abroad. It Hill really intends to play David to Grover's Goliatli he is more likely to use mud than' a smooth, round pebble in his sling. I This is a campaign of principles to be conducted on educative lines, and Har rison's letter of acceptance is an essentially educative document betting forth tho stiength of tho principles ot his party. Yesterday's "Scotoh mist" must have been quite congenial to tho competitors at the Scotch athletic meeting In Allegheny. . Hill has remarked that until Congress reassembles his "headquarters will be in the saddle." He has already made quite a repu tation as a strnddlor, so the vagueness of his speech is not surprising. Tired mothers have a chance to get a little leisure now that the almighty young sters are back at school. Turtle Greek borough holds its first election of local officers to-day, and candi dates are so much more numerous than offices that a good deal of snapping is looked lor. Bain rendered some slight assistance to the city cleaners in flushing the sewers yes terday. The single organ of the single taxers has died of inanition and lack of support. The followers of the do.unct B.anAard wero so few that its absence Is hardly noticeable. A letter of eight thousand words natu rally takes some time to compose. No end could have been more becoming than the bursting of its boiler to a last steam yacht with the name Yankee Doodle, which is so suggestive of a high-pressure race. Democrats are naturally disinclined to trust Peck's statistics. Peck is a Democrat. Inclemency -of weather interferes with such trifles as ball games, but matters of such supreme import as the New,Orleans flouts transpire whether or no. Harrison's letter of acceptance is as rich in quality as quantity. - It is time for Cleveland to relinquish his promiscuous correspondence and get down to serious business now that Harrison has been heard from. The porch is beginning to give way to the fireside. PEOPLE OP PROMINENCE. Empress Frederick, of Germany, will spend the first part of the winterin England with Queen Victoria. Chairman Hackett, of the Now York Republican State Executive Committee, is a short and compactly bnllt man and an in teresting talker. Rev. Dr. Milburn, the blind preacher and ex-Chaplain of the House of Representa tives, has completed a work on the early history of the Mississippi Valley. Joel Chandler Harris, author of the "Uncle Remus" sketches, is about to revisit his birthplace on the African coast, where his parents weie once engaged in mission ary work. Stephen A. Douglas, ton of the famous Illinois statesman of that name, will marry Miss May Tudor, a student in Wells College (Aurora, X. Y.), next spring, if his present hopes are realized. Hall Caine says that all he complains of in the humor of the day is that it is not guileless enough; it is too knowing al together, too wideawake. "The modern jester Jes(s with a wink and under his bteath." The Empress Frederick recently granted an hour's interview to Mrs. May Wright Sen-all, of Indianapolis, who is traveling In Europe for the purpose of seenring foreign participation in the International Congress of Women to be held In Chicago next 3 ear. SARDOU, it it said, frequently drops into a theater to see one of bis own pieces played and sends round word with gratifying ef fect that "Sardou Is in front," if the com pany is acting badly. This Jceeps actors and actresses up to the mark during a long run. The first negro novelist has appeared in Miss Sarah E. Farro, of Chicago, a woman of good education, aged about 20. Her melan choly story of "True Love" is not a book of especial promiso, but the first edition Is nearly exhausted, and the author is writing another story. Padeeewski, when traveling, has his piano in his bedroom, and immediately on rising commences practicing.and It Is a mat ter of great difficulty to eet him avv ayjrom it. When ho was at Manchester in the winter of 1890, he remained there exactly J8 hours, and out df that time he was at the piano 27. EABTHO.TJAKES EVEEY DAY. They Have Lasted In a Certain Fart ol Mex- lc Already Three Months. . Guadelajaua, Mzx., Sept. 5. There has been hardly a day within the past three months that this city has not been severely shaken by earthquake. The shocks have been increasing in severity, and last night considerable damage was done by another tremble to the already badly wrecked build ings. The municipal and State building here were among the most elexant and tuostnn tinl, but their walls are now badlv craoked, and fhe lives of their occupantsare. menaced dally. It is believed the earthquakes came from the same cause that is keeping the Collma volcano In a state of eruption. Paid In Their Own Coin. Washington Post. The medical students who pronounced It "cholerine" must not find fault If tbay aro refnrietl ton loetorlno CAMPAIGN NEWS AND COMMENT. There 1b one section of the Baker ballot law whloh will demand an authoritative de cision in the near future. If the faotlonal Re publican quarrel In the Twenty-fourth Con gressional district Is continued. The pro vision in question reads thus: "That no words,shall be used in any nomination pa pers to describe or designate the party or policy or political appellation represented by the oandldate named in suoh nomination papers as aforesaid, identical with or simi lar to the words used for the like purpose in certificates of nominations made by a con vention of delegates of a political party, which, at the last preceding oleotlon polled 8 per cent of the ' largest vote caBt." In the Twenty-fourth dis trict E. F, Aoheson has been nomi nated by the Republicans of Washington, Fayette and that part of Allegheny in tho district, while Campbell Jobes has been placed In the field by the Republicans of Greene. Aoheson, of course, will go on the official ballot as the regular candidate in the three former counties, but what of GreeneT And If the proper authority de cides that one or the other candidate shall be placed on the ticket as the regular Re publican nominee in that county will tho remaining candidate be allowed to call himself a Republican at ally The Common Pleas Courts are the tribunals to whioh all Biich questions are referred bv the provis ions of the new law, and, when, as in the Twenty-fourth distriot, there are several such courts, tho Judge with the oldest com miislon has Juiisdictlon. He is likely to have some knotty problems to pass npon before November. According to the New York Recorder, "American tin plate has the same effect on the Democracy that the traditional led flag has on the Spanish bull." The irrepressible ex-Governor Campbell has been distributing some or his valuable political knowledge throughout the Rocky Mountain region, where he has been on a business trip. In answer to a question at Denver the other day he said: "I do not think the sliver question will play an Impor tant part in thU oampaign In the Northern States east of the Mississippi river. The tariff is unquestionably the Issue there. In the States west of tho river and In those south of Ken tucky the silver question Is very prominent. The people of tho Ease do not feel called upon yet to take a deep interest in silver. It is a subject to which thoy have not glvon much attention. Since coming West I have heard more about silver than I would near in Ohio in a year. I have no doubt Cleve land will be elected by an overwhelming majoiity. He will carry Indiana, New Yoik, Connecticut, New Jetsey and the whole South. West Virginia is tho weakest of the Democratic states, but I think he will carry it The vote there is close and Secretary Elklns is a man of strength." When the part which the silver question played in the Mc-Klnley-Campboll campaign of last year Is 1 emembered It Is not to be wondered that the ex-Governor does not think much of it as an issue. In the West the members of the People's party have been using the term populate and now the Denver Republican has chris tened it the Popgun palrty. Southern Democrats regard the situa tion in Alabama as deoidedly alarming. E. N. Batrett, a delegate to the reoent Chicago convention, in writing from Birmingham, saysthatthe Democratic convention which nominated Jones for governor on the 8th of June nominated an electoral ticket. The Republicans have jiot put out an electoral ticket, and will not. They are waiting on the disgruntled Kolb Democrats and the third party. The combination will hold a convention on the 15th to nominate an elec toral ticket, nninstrut ted, but divided be tween Democrats and third nartyites. The Republicans have agreed to support the ticket. Such a combination would compose a majority vote of the state, and may de feat tho Democracy. The moio conservative Democrats are attempting to persuade Kolb nnd his lieutenant not to put out an elec toral ticket at tho convetlon two weeks hence, but to endoise the Cleveland ticket alieady nominated. The third party people and the Republicans, who compose more than half of the Kof party would not sup port an el ectoial ticket tor Cleveland, but both yould support a Weaver ticket. In order to bola all this vote together the Kolb people have agreed upon-the plan of put ting out an unlnstructod electoral ticket, pledged to nobody, but against both Cleve land and Harrison. They deolate such a ticket would carry Alabama. The regular Dcmoornts depend on a change of feeling befoie November. The latest claim from the Stevenson bureau in Illinois is that of the 85 German papers in the State 78 ate supporting the .Democratic uckou Hon. M. D. Herter, the Buckeye Dem ocratic Congressman who took such a prom inent part In knocking out fiee silver, has written a magazine article advooatlng cam paign method whloh would closely ap proach a political millenlum. Mr. Harter has been gerrymandered Into a heavily Re publican district, which fact may account for his present frame of mind. He says: "Tho present methods of campaign commit tees are largely perfunctory and antlqnated, and the idea that doubtful and devious paths lead to success should be set aside, and the doctrine advanced that direct and open courses are to bo preferred, not only on the ground of greater political courage, but also because they have the merit of greater efficiency and will secure greater results. At the end of the fight the National Commit tee should publish a statement of its re ceipts and expenditures, and when taken In connection with the results accomplished, the pa'ty and the country would recognize the truth that a moderate sum of money de voted wholly to a campaign of education, and none of it wasted In doubtful and al most unltormly futile efforts at outwitting or misleading the opposition. Is moie ef fective than a much greater sum spent in the usual manner. Campaign publications should be brief and tract-like, never exceed ing in length a short catechism, and illus trated as often as possible by cartoon work. After such a campaign local politics would also be left in better condition and in .more efficient shape for the succeeding State, county and city struggles, whloh are annual throughout the country." The single tax fever is having a run at Reading, and a Berks county candidate for the Legislature is to be nominated on' that platform. Charles D. Prizor, president of the Reading Stove Company, la the man who will probably be named, k Vert soon now the New York. City cam paign for Mayor and other offices will begin to attract an attention whioh is usually only necond to that of the Frosideutal contest. Tammany Hall will bold her nominating conventions for municipal offices as late as possible this year. The date of meeting, however, Is no longer within the control of the leaders ot organizations, as it was formerly, being governed by the provisions of the electoral ballot law, which prescribes the time for filling eleotlon certificates and furnishes an opportunity for outside organizations to put tiokets in the field alter the reznlar nominations have been closed. In the election of 1SS8 the Tammanv Hall municipal nominations were made on Friday, Octobers; those of the County Democracy on Tuesday, October 9, and those or the Republicans on Thursday. October 1L As the- canvass progressed the Tammany ticket grew stronger bteadlly, and a thorough canvass was made. The new ballot law provides that municipal nominations by local parties- In the cities of New York and Brooklyn must be filed at least 20 days before election, which woul d give such organizations until October 20 to put their respective tickets in tho field this ear. The indications now are that Hugh J. Grant will run for. Mayor for the third time. In the three-cornered canyass in Arkan sas terminating in yesterday's eleotlon tho Republican, Democratto and. People's party candidates for Governor held frequent Joint debates. Some of them wound up in very much disjointed rows. All Noses Turned One Way. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. All roads lead to New Orleans this week, and the tide of travel can not? bo turned in any other direction by low rates or counter attractions. Will Soon Have Passed Away. Baltimore American. 1 There are signs that Tammany's esteem for the Dflmooratio tleket Is only a summer flirtation. Bl-AINB 05 THE QUARANTINE; He Would Favor Complete Suspension of All Traffic With Other Countries. Bakoob, Me., Sept. B. Mr. Blaine has re cently expressed to a friend his views on v-wbat the clear duty of tho Government in the matter of the cholera danger, and what the President and Congress should at once un dertake. An attempt was made last night to secure a complete interview with him on the subject, but it partially failed, owing to the arrival from New York, at the Bar Har bor residence of Walter Damroscb, the son-in-law of Mr. Blaine. Mr. Blaine said that at the time of the seizure ot the fishing schooner Adams, Just after Harrison became President, his foreign policy In all things was thought to be a strong one, and that be ought not to express himself before the President had a chance to act. But this time, he says, the duty Is clear and the path plain. In sub stance it is to close traffic between the old country, Canada and tne United States to everybody and everything, save the malls and citizens of this country now abroad, and to admit these only after perfect pre caution. - Mr. Blaine's idea is that there aro not and cannot be commercial relations which for a moment are to be considered in comparison to safety to life. He has always held this country to be dependent on no other, save for some of the luxuries of life, and he thinks that while we may lose and may cause loss in some quarters, such matters can be easily adjusted. He wants everything now on the water on the way from the Old World kept from the land and a discontinuance of all foreign railroad traffic across the States. Then he would have the border policed to perfection, a rigid examination In all cities and towns of fruit, and he believes President Harrison has the power to so order by proc lamation, and that there are no treaty rights to prevent it. Mr. Damrosch somewhat startled Mr. Blaine by telling him that he rode Saturday night from New York to Boston with two persons 'who had then Just left one of the ships on board of which deaths bad occurred by oliole,rlne,and It will be some days before Mr. Blaine becomes entirely serene In mind. tJEUGTJAY AHD QEEMANY Conc'nde a Treaty of Commerce and Navi gation Advantageous to the Ixttnr. WASniHOTOir, Sept. 5. The Bureau of the American Republic has been officially informed of a treaty of commerce and navi gation that has Just been negotiated be 'tween the Republic of Uruguay and the German Empiie. Under this treaty the citizens and subjects or the respective coun tries are given all tho rights and privileges in the territory of the other that bglong to the citizens of that country. Uruguayan vessels and cargo In German ports and Ger man vessels and cargoes in Urnguayanports received the most favored nation privileges, except in the coastwise trade, which shall be governed exclusively by the respective laws of each country. No higher duties or charges of any kind are to be levied on German nrticles of com merce imported into Urugnav. or on Uru guayan articles of commerce Imported Into Germany, than those that are levied respec tively on the same articles from the most favored nation, unless they are Brazilian, Parazasyun or Argentine articles imported into Uruguay which mav be granted special favors not extended to Germany except by special-agreement: but when such an agree ment Is made the favor shall be granted to her on equal terms. The treaty shall last three yeais from tho date of ratification, and for one year longer, unles either of the contracting parties give notice to tho other of Its desire to withdraw from the agree ment one year before the date of termlna-' tion. The Bureau of tho American Republics has Just received a copy of a decree recently issued by the Costa Rloan Government, de claring free of all customs duties and port charges the following articles or consump tion: Corn, rice, beans, rye and oats and other forace. The duty on raw sugar, meats of all sorts, dried, smoked or pickled, ex cept hams and sausage, has been reduced to 1 cent a pound. HARD TIMES FOB PEAEY. Non-rprearance of Cryoliters Indicates That the Kite Is Ica-Bound. Philadelphia Becord.j . ' It is leared that tho relief expedition sent away on the whaling steamer Kite to bring home Lieutenant Peary and his wife from Greenland may end In failure. This cryolite traders which run between Ivigtut and Philadelphia have not yet arrived here, but have been seen off Cape Race. They generally make two trips every year and sometimes three. They have been Ice .bound on the southwest coast of Greenland since June 1, but have not been able to clear the field drift, which lines the coast as tar as the eye can reach from the highest mountain peak. Tho steamer Fox managed to clear the loe and report the vessels loaded on her arrival at Copenhagen. Ivtgut. the crvollte traders' loading point, is 500 miles south of Peary's ice-bound home If the Kite should reach this high point, which Is considered donbtful, the return trip would be even more hazardous. An open winter In the far North has sent down such a mass of berg) and field ice as to not only endanger every vessel running there hut threaten the fast .liners, having drifted into the routes used hy the regular liners many miles farther south. Adlal's Loss and TVhltelavr's Gain. ' Chicago Tribune. The more yon see and hear of Adlal Ste venson the more you are constrained to ad mire Whitelaw Reid. A Thing That Never Falls. Boston Traveller. 1 The lawyer's bill may be fairly said to "follow suit," , THE SOCIALISTIC WING. Mr. Wikq, the Socialist candidate for President, is doubtless fly on politics. Louit vilte Courier Journal. m Tbs selection of Wing as the Presidental candidate of the Socialists is very appro priate as his sole support will be wind. SU Ism JPosl-Dispaich. The Socialistic Labor party consulted the eternal fitness of things in nominating Wing for President. Their campaign will all be in the air anyway. Cleveland loader. r Simon Wiko', a Boston tailor.hasbeen nom inated for President by the Socialist Labor party. He Is, of course, expected to repair the rents In that organization. Ohio State Journal. , Tns Socialists do not bellevo In a -President, and yet they have nominated a man for that position. There is leallyno harm done, as Mr. Wing will never know that hk mil. iwuu j! 1 v rrrss. The Socialists have nominated Mr. Wing for President. Mr. Wing comes from Bos ton. He is a tailor. Akind05g00.se Wing, perhaps. Not an eagle Wing. He will not fly far. Baltimore American. The Presidental nominee of the Socialistic Labor party, Simon Wing, is a Boston tailor. Wing reports the condition of the cam paign about tew sewjustnow, but proposes to make things fly alter awhile. New York JPnu. If the names of Simon Wing and Charles H. Matchett do not suggest anything in par ticular to you, try to remember that these gentlemen are candidates for the Piesi dency and Vice Presidency on the Socialist party ticket Chicago News. Sisioit Wijcq, ot Boston, has been nomin ated fpr President by the Socialist Labor party. He Is a tailor by trade. Andiew Johnson was also a tailor so no new prece dent has been established. But Simon 4s soaring aloft. Kansas Cdy SCar. Thk Socialists have nominated a Presi dental ticket consisting o: a tailor nnd a car penter. We hive had one tailor for Presi dent, and every President has been a cab inet maker. But we ai e not yet educated up to wanting Socialists. -.PAUati ilphut Prut. The Socialists have nominated Simon Wing, a Boston tailor, for President, and Charles IL Machett, a Brooklyn carpenter, for Ylce President. In spite of the outbreaks of Anarchy In the recent strikes, the Social ist ticket will cut uo more figure on election day than the Victorla-Woodhull ticket. Ritffnlo EKirrnt. PITTSBURG WOMEN'S TASTE" Said to Be Eqnal to That of Their Sisters Anywhrre Beauty In Bonnets Just a Little Too Pruning Lawn Fete This Evening Society Qossip. In one of Pittsburg's most fashionable millinery stores yesterday were seen 700 new French bonnets and hats that had Just arrived from Paris. This announcement alone is enough to send a thrill of delight to the soul of any ordinary woman, even be fore she bas the least Inkling ot what the bonnets are like. It is tbe opinion of an authority on millinery, no less a person than the one that purchased the 700 hats and bonnets In Paris referred to, that the Pittsburg woman is equal In refinement of taste to any of her sisters in any part of the world. She never goes to extremes. She has lots of money, as a rule, and she knows bow to spend It. She gets more and better things for her money than the average woman elsewhere. The same authority, continuing, said: "There will be no extremes in millin ery In Pittsburg this winter. The wide, flai lng bats, bent Into fantastic shapes, will not be seen at all. They aro worn generally in Paris, London and New York, but they do not suit Pittsburg. Another thing that the Pittsburg woman has found out is that tbe hat that fits closely to tbeforehead cannot be worn becomingly by many women, and in the majority of cases positively detracts fiom the attraotlveness Of the race beneath it. It may not be generally known that showing a good deal or tne forehead and dressing the hair tastefully give an intel lectual appearance to tho wearer, even If nature has not so endowed her." Evening bonnets will be more beautiful this winter than they have been for several seasons. They will be small, and everything about them win bo in harmony. For in stance, tho beautiful satin-flnlsbed velvets. In colors of wood-brown shot with grt-en, will be formed into headgear of the loveliest designs conceivable The pretty light shades of pink and blue that were formerly seen in velvets and satins will be revived, together with ostrich feathers In tints to harmonize. Jeweled bnckles of the most fanciful shapes will glitter In the electric light with every movement, and will give a brilliant finish to any toilet. The harmonizing ideas will be carried out in the street hats and bonnets. They will usually De of felt In solid colors,trimmed with velvet and ostrich feathers, artfully blended so as to present a restful as well as elegant appearance. Sometimes women know when they have a good thing, and take caie to keep It. There is nothing more beautiful than the combination of flowers and furs. Lovely velvet flowers, that were the fashion last winter, will be used again in connection with furs, and the effect is snre to be pleas lug. The milliners snpply the taste for winter bonnets, but the wearers or paterfamilias, must supply tho cash for them. It will take a goodly sum of meney to purohase one of these winter creations, but we may be sure that the women will have them lit spite of this rather discouraging fact. A. OIRL walked into a big drjgoods store yesterday and asked the head of one of tbe departments whether he wanted any more girls In the work room. Tbe gentleman said no. The girl, who was respectaDie in ap pearance, and presumably of decent family, would not accept the negative answer, but put the question again, in a slightly loader tone. "I have all the girls I want," was the reply. "But won't yon want someone after a while?" "No." "I was told that yon did want some," per sisted the applicant. "You are mistaken. I do not." The girl looked doubtfully and defiantly at tbe gentleman and walked out. Turning to a lady with whom he was talk ing, tbe gentleman said: "Did you see tbatT 8he saw that I was engaged, but she stalked up to me and interposed as boldly as possi ble. I have no use for girls of that kind. If she pushed herself forward now, how would she be upstairs with the other girls? I would not tend such a girl np to my young ladies. A girl without a certain amount of modesty and apparent diffidence in her composition will never get above a lowly position." From which 16 seems that the "push" of the independent American girl can be carried a little too far, after all. The lawn fete at the residence of Hill Burgwin, at Hazel Hill, this afternoon and evening, Is announced to be for the benefit of the Church of the Good Shepherd, for which a new stone edifice hai just been built. It is expected to be 'one of tne pret tiest entertainments given In Hazelwood this year, and it is hoped that tbe weather will be favorable. Tbe proceeds will go toward the lurnlsbment of tbe church. A pleasant opening entertainment was given in CurryUniversity Hall last ovoning. Music and elocution were the main features of tbe performance, In which tho following ladies and gentlemen took part: Misses Lillie Mackintosh, Kate Ball, Blllle MoAr thurs and Messrs. simeon Bissell, H. G. Archer and Charles F. Kahn. These were the singers and Instrumentalists. They were reinforced by Messrs. A. Mellon, Charles Stevenson and Thomas Bird, who gave read ings and recitations. St. Joseph's Academy, Seton Hill, Greensbnrg, In charge of tho Sisters of Charity, opened yesterday for the fall and winter term. Alargennmber of young ladles from Pittsburg and Allegheny went np to the school. The management of tho acad emy are building a large theater In addi tion to the building proper, and it Is In tended to devote a great deal of attention to dramatic work. 'Hamlet" was given by the pupils last tall in a very creditable man ner,nnd this year other Shakespearean plays will be presented. It is said chat there is considerable latent dramatic ability among the young ladies at Seton Hill. Social Chatter. Miss Lillian Chaubebs gave an art recep tion at Duquesne College yesterday. Ms. and Mrs. W. H. Banes, of the South side, and Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Morrlsdn and family, ol Shadyslde, have returned from their summer sojourn at Ridgevlew Park. Miss Casey and Mr. and Mrs. R. C Porter, of. Oakland teirace, gave a progressive euchre party Saturday evening. Miss Rose won first ladles' prize. Miss Nioholson sec ond; Mr. McElbaney first gentlemen's, and Dr. Haloes second prize. Bey. and Mas. S. Y. Tait, nee Pflasteros, who bare been spending the summer be tween Braddock and New England, have re turned to their home In Anadarka, I. T., where Mr. Tait is laboring bb a Methodist missionary among tbe Indians. Mrs. Tait was a resident of Braddock berore her mar riage. Tnxas will be a tea party under tbe aus pices of tbe ladies of St. James' Roman Catbolio Church, Wllkinsburg, on the 21th Inst. This will be the first tea party ever given uuderthe direction of St. Juraes' con gregation,althoagh other forms of entertain ment have been common enough with them. It is expected that there will be a great deal of interest taken In the tea party on this ac count. ' HEBREW COLONIES IN MICHIGAN. A Plan or Gradual Settlnment and Amsrl canzatlon Witb Hlrsch's Money. Kalamazoo, Mien., Sept. 5. The Hebrew congregation of this city have determined topuichasea (arm In the vicinity of Kala mazoo for tho purpose of colonizing three hr four refugee families. This philanthropic Iplan Is largely in tho nature of an experi ment; but should It prove sucoesftrf-'the Hebrews of this city will have access to the immense fund donated, -soniVi'me ago by Baron Hirsoli jowtliat purpose. 1 he idea'isrto get together a few families and thoroughly Americanize them, grad ually Increasing the colony. This scheme Jias provod successful elsewhere, and it Is pelloved It will be here. s V nriTnc tltlPlT iN'n EI.SEWTIRrtP!. Mrs. Mary Sherwln, Norlh Bcaddoclc nvrro TVfarv Rherwin. of North Braddock, died yesterday. The cause of death was a stroke or apoplexy reccivea wraiwri .ui"j. ou did not recover consciousness. Mrs. Sherwinwas bfirn In Washington county of an old revolution ary family, and was 63 years of age at the tlmeof herdeatb. bhe wasmarried three times. Herflrst hSsband to John Holmes, whom she married Un 18 J8, and who subsequently died of the cholera; the nejxt was Elijah uean. wno uieu ,m io . yckr she married John Sherwln, of North Brad doelf, who survives her. Dr. John J. Beese, Toxlcologist. r. John James Keese, tho eminent tox- icoloWlst, died at the residence of Dr. J. A. Joy. Atlantic City. Sunday night. After 23 years of servlc Dr. Reese resigned the chair of Medical Jurlsplrndence and Toxicology at the University of n....krinla !t I ipfaihep and vu elected Pro fessor Emeiitus. Since then he had lived at Lans- downeA lie was born in l'Duaaeipma dune 10, 1818, Obituary Notes. HuobBebxard O'Rbilw, editor of the New Tork AeWonaKf. died at the Nw Tork Hospital Frlrtnr or meningitis. CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. Illinois leads in railroad mileage. The folding envelope was first used in the year 1839. Diamond catting by machinery was first done in Holland in 1189. I Chinese control almost the entire shoe 1 making business In California. I Tbe early Christian writers say Pan! wrote his first eplstlo when 48 years old. People in London write on an average 67,511 letters a day, requiring SO gallons ot Ink. In Turkey they call the bioycle "tit devil's chariot," and the Sultan forbids' Its use. Last year 3,000,000 books were issued to the people of London from the free libra ries. The manufacture of the Atlantic cable was begun In 1357 and 8.800 miles com pleted. The American combination of printing- telegraphs conveyed 2,000 words an hour "Within the last 30 years there haTft been on the British coasts 66,377 wrecks, with the loss of 22,312 lives. On August 20 a meteor fell at Brnnean Falls in Idaho whioh a local assayer says shows traces of gold. A man in Missouri named Galladay claims to be tbe lineal descendant of tho original Mother Goose. Lady Jeune estimates that there are 1,803,(06 domestic sorvnnts in England, of whom 1,350,000 are women. Forty dogs are said to haTe been smuggled Into this country In the last, flye years by a fireman on the Bteamer .Ari zona, At Bombay all the Hindoo sentries sa lute any passing black cat, thinking It may possibly be the soul or an English of- Twenty-five sharp quills were extracted from the nose of a Franklin county dog tho other day. He bad been interviewing a porcupine, A toy'dealer in Philadelphia made the shocking discovery the other day that near ly ICO of his best dolls had melted dating tbe recent hot waves. Chicago is to have a belt line railroad of eight tracks and covering a route of nearly CO miles. It is to connect with every road running into the city.. r In the boulevard St, Germain,-in Paris, yon can drop a small son In a slot In a cir cular column publicly situated, press a but ton and catch eight quarts of hot water In a pail. Place 500 earths like ours side by side yet Saturn's outermost ring could easily In close them. Three hnndred thousand earth globes could be stored inside the Sun, if hollow. , There is a large carriagemanufaetoryln New Tork in which tbe chief art decorator is a woman, Caroline Kllby, who has H women employed In the department which she controls. In one of the Canary Islands there is a tree of the laurel family that rains down oc casionally In the early morning quite a copt ons shower of tears or water drops from Its tufted foliage. Penny savings banks are connected with the public schools of Belgium, and 170,. 000 of the 600.000 primary pupfls have de- posited over .100,000. Great Britain has also established penny banks in schools. The discussion of the tallest sunflower is still going on in thn country papors. Reading has one H feet II Inches high: Land lngvtlle, Schuylkill county, one H feet high, and Lancaster one 11 feet 6 inches high. A magnet at "Willett's Point, Long Isl and, is considered the largest and strongest in the world. It is made of two IS Inch DahlgTen euns, wound around with eighO miles of cable and charged with eleotrlelty. A gold coin passes from one to another 9,000,000,000 times before the stamp or impres sion npon It becomes obliterated br friction, while a silver coin changes between S,!50t' 000,000 times before It becomes entirely effaced. The passion flower derives Jts name from an Idea that all the Instruments of Christ's passion are represented, viz., .the) five wounds, the column of pUIsr of sconrg ing. besides the three nails, the crown of thorns, etc. A London lady is in search of an owner for a silver thimble which. sho declares she found imbedded In the center of a ham which she was slicing. She would also -lfJca to have some explanation as to how the thimble got there. ' Of the 2,700 counties in the States and Territories the Methodist Episcopal Chnrott is represented in all save 6S5. It has 25,881 organizations, with 22.P41 churches, with a seating capacity of 8,303.708 and an aggre gate valuation of $96,923,408. The largest lunatic asylum in England is at Prestwich, where tbe Lancashire County Asylum has over 2,300 patients.-. COI ney Hatch, in the parish of Friern Barnet, in Middlesex, six miles north from London, will accommodate 2,250 patients. To form some idea of the largeness of the earth one may look npon the landscape from the top of an ordinary ohuroh steepfo, and then bear in mind that one most Tiow 900,000 similar landscapes to get an approxi mately correct idea of the size of tbe earth. A lady of Detroit originally had black eyes and hair, but In the course of time, when she bad attained the age of about 70 years, her hair turned pure white. This was expected, bnt abont a year ago hor hair began darkening, and Is now as blaok as J ot, Newark, N. J., bas a woman manu facturer of umbrellas 'and parasols. Bhe learned the trade because It was her father's business and she liked It better than tcaon ing or sewing. She is a shrewd business woman, and notwithstanding the competi tion with big stores and tbe misfortune of having been twice burned out, has a fairly prosperous Duslness. A new process, it is stated, has been discovered for making tin plate. An In ventor at Braddock, Pa., has been making tests for some time, and finally succeeded. In getting a perfect sheet from one dip In tbe terne. The process also saves one man on. the Tolls. A local company, with a capital of 100,0C0, has been organized to carry on tbe work by the new process. At Cahoes, Prance, the workmen on the foundations for a convent unearthed a Urge house of the Gallo-Boman period, the mosaic) floors of which are In place and enough of the walls to reveal frescoes in a fair atato of preservation. Ids supposed to have hoen, destroyed In th sixth oenturr, when Theo debert sacked the town. Pottery frag ments, bronzes and coins were found on the site. POETICAL EN PASSANT. A cBAitoE OB ornnorr. ' He was obedient to her nod. Was her atte ndant everrwhere : , He loved the ground on which the trod And said no hand was e'er so fair. ,--Th' Tl ir maiden Jilted him one day Ills words of love reeelTed with 10010. And now he's often heard to say A homller girl was never born. Sea Tbrifnn, Whence comes that nightly clamor? 'TIs like the (ratline's roar! Tis the breaking of engagements Alcng the ocean's shore. WatMngtm Star, ALWAY3 AT WOBK. ' When the pugilistic thumper Isn't thumjn, lng. Isn't thnmpina-. " , Nor s-neelsg from the minions of the law. Of the law; Ha loves to keep the yonrig reporter hmnpmr.' 'Porter hnmplng, - A taking down the oatpnt of hlsjaw, - .OfhUJaw. Indianapottt Journal . Tbe time is here, alas, alack! To lay by clothing thin; ,And don the derby hat, became . . A The "straw dice" Is "called in." ; SrooUtfn EagUi TEE VSEVUI, ASP THZ OBXUtrXT.lL. A white rose In a garden grew, . .. As delicate and rare As nature ever gave the world To make It beauty fair. And near the rose in humble way A 'tater vine began ' ' The bite rose faded, died tad fell, u The 'tater ted a man. . -Detroit rrufrttt. Tfc " . . - ', .j-
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