THE PITTSBURG DISPATpH. THUBSDAt. BBPTRMBEB 8, 189a St.- X igpafrfr ESTABLISHED FEBRUARY Vol. 47. No. 217. Entered at Pittsburg Postofflce November, 18S7, as second-class matter. Business Office Comer Smithfield and Diamond Streets. News Rooms and Publishing House 78 and 80 Diamond Street, in New Dispatch Building. EASTFRN ADVERTISING OFFICE. ROOK 78. TRIBUNE BUILDING, NEW TORE. 'where com plete flies of THKDISPATCRcan always be found. Foreign advertisers appreciate the convenience. Home advertisers and friends orTHEDISPATCH, -while In New York, are also made welcome. THE DISPATOII Is regularly on sale at Bren tano's, S Union Sauare, New York, and 17 Avfcde l'Ouera. Paris. Prance, where anyone who has been disappointed at a hotel news stand can ob- taln It. TERMS OF THE DISPATCH. POSTAGE FREX IK THE CHTTID STATES. junr Dispatch, one Year. .. 8 00 DaHY Dispatch, Per Quarter S00 Da ii.t Dispatch, One Month 70 " Dailt Dispatch. 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Thousands at New Orleans and millions all over the world have waited for and watched this contest with an intens" interest which has been productive of a comparative apathy on other and more intrinsically important topes. Sullivan has been before the country so long and he has filled it with his voice so Ion ily that his retirement cannot but be vcrv distinctly felt Thousands have fawned on the ex-chimpion with utter in fatuation, and scoffed loudly at whomso ever dried to impeach his claims. Cor bctt fought under all the odds that at tend the appearance of a new man, and he fought right well. Tilt' popular enthusiasm over prize firhts is as Mr. Cleveland would say a condition and not a theory that confronts us. Such being ihc case, it is at least satisfactory to find that in this, the O'ympian contest of the ring, real ath leticism and scientific skill got the better 'ot brute .force and abnormal physical developVer.t. A TOPIC FOR THE FREE-TRADERS. Since ail our esteemed cotemporarie3 Ime made much of the labor troubles at II mestcad in relation to the tariff ques tion, of course they will not fail to pub lish extended and profound commentaries on the similar difficulties in England winch have followed so closelyon our own disorders as to exhibit a decided rclation sh p. It is a por rule that will not work both ways. Our friends the Tjnemy are cer tain that it is a condemnation of protec tion that workingmen have gone on strike ag-.iiiist a reduction of wages, and have ben carried by the heat of conflict into violation of the law. What, then, will they do with the fact that the miners of the whole Durham district bave atter a long strike been forced to take a ten per cent reduction of wages already insufficient, and that strikers in the salt industry have carried violence to the exact extent of defiance of the law as at Homestead? Ot course our anti-tariff friends will not fail to take notice that strikes and riots are incidents of industry In free trade Eng land as in protective America. That is, they will not do so unless their dpsire to make a plausible argument at any cost of misrepresentation exceeds their wish to let the public know of the facts exactly as they exist. A UNIQUE UNION. An earnest attempt to straddle a peril ous situation is made by the enthusiastic E. Ellery 'Anderson, one of the most un wavering supporters of Cleveland. In a recent interview designed to reassure the public mind on the Democratic prospects Mr. Anderson states, first, that careful in vestigation shows that all discontent is disappearing, and that the coolness be tween the machine and the Syracuse Con vention will vanisb, after which he de clares, with regard to the Peck statistics, "that the motive of the report is apparent on its face." But hold on. The only motive that can be alleged from the Democratic stand point is such as to make the disappear ance of discontenta remarkably optimistic proceeding. Peck Is a Democratic offi cial, supposed to be attached to the for tunes of David Bennett HilL The in timation that his statistics were produced by a "motive" has no significance except as an assertion that they were cooked up to injure the Demo cratic cause. But when a public official goes to work to injure his own party can didate by producing statistics to suit that motive, as Anderson practically alleges, it is the most unique way of bringing the factions into united effort, as Anderson further alleges, that has been recorded in political history. Perhaps after the Hill Democrats have stuck-this statistical knife Into the vitals of the Cleveland candidacy they may be less discontented than before. But to suppose that Cleveland Democrats will re main contented under that process is to credit them with an amazing fund of stoic philosophy. A SIGNIFICANT TRAGEDY. The tragedy at the Garfield Park race track in Chicago, day before yesterday, is a. terrible Illustration of the growth of the idea that certain kinds of vice and ille gality are privileged. Thatrace track is a notorious specimen of the species em ployed for the fleecing of the unwary, which the supineness of the law has per mitted to spring up. No doubt exists of its illegality,but when ' the Chicago authorities, with an excep tional movement of energy, decided to suppress it the professional gamblers who have grown wealthy in that class of busi ness felt that their vested privileges were encroached upon. No trust capitalists could hold higher views of the sacredness of property especially their own property than these owners of the vested right of plucking pigeens through the pool-box. One Western member of this class deemed it necessary to demonstrate bis right of WljeB freedom by defying' the law. Accordingly, when the police attempted to arrest him he killed one and mortally wounded an other before he was himself shot dead by his second victim. Such an occurrence is even more sen sational in the intimation it conveys than In its destruction. A man who would at tempt to kill a police officer in defending one of his most sacred liberties would be adopting an extreme course. But here is a case in which the right to run - a race track for the notorious purpose of fleecing gudgeons is asserted to be so inalienable that police officers who attempt arrest are shot down until the shooter himself is necessarily killed by a well-placed bullet. With examples of combinations which defy the rulings of the courts, angry strikers who resort to acts of civil war, and wealthy gamblers who defend their vested rights in gambling by shooting police officers, the American people may perceive the necessity of requiring the strict enforcement of law against all classes alike, without fear or favor. SIB. BLAINE'S BROADSIDE. Mr. Blaine's letter following close upon the President's letter of acceptance puts the Republican policy before the people in a form which the Democratic organs will find difficult to successfully attack and even more difficult to ignore. While there may be personal differences between the two leaders of Republicanism, It Is significant that on matters of policy they are so completely In accord as to bring all their supporters heartily together for the victory of that policy. This union appears in the fact that both the Harrison and Blaine letters make the same points stable and reliable currency, reciprocal trade on staples which this na tion wants from foreign countries, and protection on the industries that we are building up. Each writer treats these points in characteristic fashion, the Presi dent exhaustively and with convincing care, Mr. Blaine with that striKing style in which a single sentence illumines the whole subject The ex-Secretary may be frail in body; but that he has his old mental vigor unimpaired appears when he recalls the fact that the Democrats gave reciprocity their support 'is long as tho Republicans refused to accept it, but when the Republicans came to approve it the Democratic support vanished," and shows that the "Democrats of the present day are indirect opponents of the policy which Jefferson outlined and ad hered to." Mr. Blaine cogently says that the three economic Issues of protection, reciprocity and a sound circulating medium are the controlling ones of this campaign. They are enough for any single canvass, and it need not go beyond these questions. The Democracy have taken pains, to place themselves radically and wofully in the wrong on each of these points, going back to the worst phases of their party record to do bo With the issues thus presented there is no reasonable doubt how the American people will decide them. A GOOD IJFE WEIX ENDED. Whittier is dead. The old Quaker poet whose genius a generation ago placed him In the front rank of the fight against slavery closed his long and peaceful life early yesterday morning. His death arouses memories of the old fight against the blot upon the nation's freedom when a few, courageous and gifted men carried on the agitation against the sluggishness, prejudices or self-interest of the great mass. Whittier was pre-eminently the leader of the an ti-slavery poets. O thers had per haps a higher poetic talent; but none de voted their gift with such exclusive fire and energy to the attack upon a great wrong as Whittier did. To estimate Whittier rightly his anti-slavery poems must be studied in the light of the pro slavery era. Such poems as "Snow Bound," "Maud Muller" and "Barbara Frietchie" exhibit his muse apart from the great issue as graceful in conception, simple In diction, and impressive in effect But none can show the fire, the energy and the sarcasm with which Whittier attacked the system of human chattleism. That constituted his real life-work. The re-' suits of the agitation in which he was a leader are written in history. To few men has it been given to see the work of their lives accomplished, and to enjoy a long and peaceful retrospect, as Whittier did. He reached an advanced age with tlie consciousness of devoting a long life to good work, of having joined in a good fight against the greatest powers, and of having seen it carried to complete victory. The termination of such a life so ended is not an occasion for mourning, but for plaudits and emulation. Such an end ing of such a life Is what all men might well wish for, but what few can hope.to attain. A FIELD FOB CONVICT LABOR. Mr. Francis P. Byrne, a Memphis law yer, makes a strong argument in the Ap peal of that city in favor of the employ ment of convict labor on the roads and in other public works now largely neglected. This policy was discussed in The Dis patch some time ago; but recent events in Tennessee make the suggestion an ex tremely pertinent one, and Mr. Byrne's presentation the case is very forcible. He points out that the amount which the State receives is $112,000 less than the cost to the State f maintaining its crimi nal machinery. The argument is that if foreign capitalists are able to make a profit from the hire of criminals in mining camps, the State ought to be able to do as well by employing them on works of a public character, largely in their own counties, "without taking into account the enhanced value of proparty, the saving in the wear and tear of vehicles and the increased facilities for bringing farm products to market." The objection to convict labor on the roads in this State has been from the humane standpoint This we believe to be largely an Imaginary objection, as humane principles can govern the work as well on the roads as between prison walls. But in Tennessee tho change would be unquestionably an improvement It would be a substitute for the conviot camps, which are a blot on civilization, and, where convict labor produces ruinous conflicts with free labor .already poorly paid, would turn the work of. convicts to a neglected field where their work would yield the best results. With intelligent direction there is no reason why work of that sort should not only make the con victs self-supporting, but should enable each of them, to earn a provision against the end of his term. . Tennessee should adopt this reform without hesitation. Other States might well do the same. But in those States which maintain the medieval feature of convict camps the change would be a double step forward to civilization. There are more than enough ocean grey hounds in New York harbor 'to form the nucleus of a first-class kennel clnb. Op course the destruction" of property during the process of fumigation Is of little importance as compared to the necessity for an absolutely thorough disinfection. 3ut the loss of any part of their scant ward robe and personal belongings is no light Hardship to the Immigrant who readies this country more laden with hope than cash. And It would seem only fair that some com pensation should be made to those who suf fer this deprivation through no fault what ever of their own. Strange to say, the stock market quo tations were not is any way affected by the war news from the Crescent City. The more it is inquired into, the more dirtiness there is found in the olty, and the clearer It becomes that it cannot bo gotten rid of without universal individual effort to Supplement municipal endeavors. Prize-fight bulletins last night drew a bigger crowd than either of the politioal conventions. They believe in. vigorous fumigation down nt Bio Janeiro. A steamer from Ger man ports whioh tried to enter the Brazilian harbor without submitting to quaran tine inspection was fired upon. - It takes something more than, a vine-clad porch to make a home oomfortable .these evenings. Such a thing as too much precaution is impossible against anything so dangerous as cholera. There cannot be any mistake made on the side of cleanllnoss and exclu slveness in this matter. Natural gas is beginning to figure once more as an important factor In domestic economy. Sealskins are causing various inter national complications already, and they are likely to be the source of .more than one domestic Imbroglio as the severity of tne weather increases. Blaine's indorsement of Harrison's letter was prompt, powerful and to the point. When the Mayor and Chief of Police of Chicago give ono another the lie In a conrt ol law. It becomes painfully evident that truth is a rare commodity in the city of big wiudinoss. Hill hardly needs a private secretary to assist him in his very non-committal silence. After winning nine games in succession, even the Pittsburg nine cun be forgiven ror losing the tenth. But it might have suf fered defeat in a more crodltablo manner. Whittier's death robs the worl4 of a great poet and a notable, manly man. The fight is over and the Presidental candidates have only the danger of cholera and tho excitement over baseball to con tend with in securing national attention. Summer cars have gone into retirement to receive their cold weather outfit. From the number of stars seen there last night anyono would be justified in mistak ing the Olympic Clnb at New Orlea ns for an astronomical observation. Cleveland should write soon, now that tho fights have Doen fought. The provision for railroad quarantine stations outside the city limits is a wise forethought at a time when no risks must be run. Vermont knows as usual what is best for itself and the country. Since it is to represent the party of ne gation, tho Democratic letter of acceptance may be expected to abound in contradic tions. There is any amount of room for im provement in Arkansas. i Pittsburg's Exposition is open for its fourth season, aud the cousins from the country are more welcome than over. The "Democratic Maine chance has all the odds against it. WITH FAME AND FORTUNE. Mb. Kuskix's health this last summer has been much, better than for several months previous. Charlemagne Koehier, formerly a well-known actor In Booth's oonlpany, has decided to become a clergyman. Lord Bosebert is credited with this sarcastic comment on the taste of the peo ple of Sydney, New South Wales: "They sit on 22 guinea chairs and look at 16 shilling oleographs" Frank B. Stockton, the novelist, is now in England, and appears to have taken as kindly to the Britishers as they have to him. His speech at the Authors' Society banquet was much applauded and appre ciated. John Boyd Thacher, of Albany, has presented that city with the original bill, Bigned by Queen Anne and Earl Godolphln, to compensate-Albany's first Mayor, Peter Schuyler, for taking four Indian chiefs to England in 1710. For several years to come the Emperor of Germany will reside at Potsdam both winter and summor. The rea'son for tnls change is said to be the Emperor's Intention to have extensive alterations -made in the royal castle In Berlin. Bason Hampabtzoom Garabed-yau, of Armenia, now a resident of Washington, has been appointed a member of the Psy chical Science Advisory Council from Asia, and will be a delegate to the Theosophical Congress at Chicago next year. A Philadelphia authoress, Miss Laura X. Ford, has purchased 10 acres of land on one of the highest summits of the .Green Mountains In the heart of the wilder ness, where she proposes to,olear the forest, pioneer fashion, and to found a summer colony. Alderman Knill, who is next in ro tation for the London mayoralty, has in formed bis fellow aldermen that, as a Bo 'man Catholic, be cannot attend the cere monial services which the corporation holds at St. Paul's Cathedral and the city churches. Aimee Tessandier, the successor of Madame Bernhardt at the Coinodio-Fran-caise in Paris, was an absolutolailure at her first appearance on the stage. It was not untll.sho was quite of mature years that she gained her great triumph as Lady Macbeth. She Is tho daughter of a Bordeaux laborer, and her early life was spent in great poverty and wretchedness. A 80-TON CHUNK OF 0EE Mined In Centre County and Is Blasted to Pieces for Shipment. Bbixeeohte, Sept. 7. Special Yesterday the men employed at the Carnegie ore mines at Scotlaiear here, raised without a doubt one of the largest lumps of iron ore ever found. The dimensions of the lnmp are as follows: 1GK feet long, 10 feet wide and 13 feet high, weighing no less than 60,000 pounds. When the lump fell from the embankment upon the railroad track It crushed both rails deep Into the gronnu. It bad to be blasted to pieces before it could be transferred. A Pittsburg Wise Man Is Treasurer. Laboaster, Sept. 7. The Supreme Lodge Order ofileven Wise Men this morning elected its officers. Grand Master; Christian Dederlle, Philadelphia! Grand Treasurer, Conrad bchlegel, Pittsburg. The next meet ing will be held at Willlamsport. The "con stitution was changed to admit members at 18 years of age. Keep OS the Pole. Chicago Tribune. Of what use would it be to discover the north pole, anyhow; John Bull would at oncede6Iarea protectorate over It ana es tablish a coaling station there. CAMPAIGN NEWS AND COMMENT. The vigorous letter addressed by Mr. Blaine to Chairman Manley, of the Maine Bepubllcarf Committee, will awaken ad ditional Interest in the canvass in the Pine Tree State, which terminates in the election next Monday. There are five tiokets in the field, and the number of speakers on tho stump has been unusually large even for Maine. At tho September election four years ago the Republican plurality was 18,053, and in 1890 this was Increased to 18,899. . While It Is true that the Democrat are bet ter organized than usual this fall and will make extraordinary exertions to get out their vote, the opinion of the best informed Maine politicians is that the Eopublican candidate for Governor wBl go In over his four opponents by at least 15,000 plurality. Up until the last day or two the disposition of many of the Republicans was not to claim a lead of over 12.000, but the Blaine lotter and the substantial victory In Vermont will cause an Increased confidence all along tho line. Some nncortalnity Is felt as to the first trial of the Australian system, but Colonol Potter, of the Eopublican Com mittee says: "Onr majority will be about 16,000. The Republicans are waning up everywhere and will turn out and vote. The new way of voting will cause lots of mistakes bnt will tnjnro the Demoorats more than us, in my opinion, because our voters are less liable to make mistakes." The Democrats are making a fight in-each or tho lonr Con cessional Districts, though devoting most of their attention to the bailiwick of ex Speaker Reed. There Is no reasonable donbt of the re-election of all of tho present Re publican representatives. W. Eusn Gillan labored industriously to secure the Democratic nomination for Congress in the Dauphin-Lebanon-Perry district and then declined it. He is now trying to poso as a martyr to the end of tho Harrlty machine. The inner history of the adoption of the radical free trade plank in the Democratic National platform is coming to the surface. Col. C H. Jones, of Missouri, Chairman of the Resolution Commlttoe says: "The tariff plank submlttod by me, as Chairman of the Committee, to the Convention, and which was rejected by the Convention, was not the .original draft of the plank prepared by me. My original plank was of practically tho" same tenor and scope as the Neal substitute, which was finally adopted and whioh calls for tariff for revenuo only. My plank, how ever, was a little moro carefully and dip lomatically drawn. When the tariff came up it started a fight in the committee room which lasted about seven hours. During til at time there was a recess, before which tho plank was again decided npon, Dut aftor which it was ugaln changed. Finally the original plank drawn by me had been so amended as to becomo unrecognizable, and I. as Chairman, reported it to the Conven tion in behalf of tho majority of the Com mittee. It was practically a compro mise plank. Did tho plaak, as reported by me, represent my porsonal .views! Oh, no: not at all. After it wag all over and Mr. Nlol's substitute had been adopted, Mr. Cleveland wrote to me and asked me to tell him all abont lc and how it all happened. 1 did so, gcine over the entire gronnd very carefully. I even sent him the draft of my original tariff plank, and explained the process of evolu tion by which it became the plank whioh was rejeoted. Mr. Cleveland expressed him self as entirely satisfied, and I feol I have tho right to say bo would have been satisfied with the plank as originally drawn by me. And now some one should explain how the State bank blunder slipped into the plat form. Ikert, who has just been named for Con gress by tho Democrats In the old McKlnley district, ran against the redoubtable cham pion himself four years ago, and was beaten by about 5,000 votes, running behind his ticket. He will have to improve on this record considerably to defeat manufacturer Morgan this year. Perhaps the most interesting political episode of the recent session of Congress was the Bookwell-Noyes contest from Sena tor Hill's district in Now York, and its sequel is significant. The Republican mem ber, it will be remembered Jtas sustained by nearly the unanimous vote of the contest committee, but Mr. Hill brought all his in fluence to bear and he was unseated In the House, Rockwell taking his place. Now that gentleman declines to go boforo the people of the district this fall.' A Demo cratic committee visited Major Rockwell at Elmlra, and, In the coarse -of an Informal conference, learned froirfbira that under no circumstances would 'be accept a renoml nation.' Ho stated in substance that had the district remained the same and Colonel Noycs been renominated the logic or the situation might hare required his renomina tion, and in that case he would not have shirked the responsibility nt however great personal sacrifice. But, under the changed conditions, he aid not deem It necessary to again bo a candidate. That is one way of avoiding the verdict of an indignant con stituency. Miss Ella Knowles has been nomin ated by the People's party for Attorney General of Montana. A Democratic organ of the new State is gallant enough to say that she has a "fair, young face," and to ex press a doubt whether she has seen enough summers and winters to reach the age quali fication for the office. Perhaps these com pliments will console Miss Snowies for de feat in November. Opinions as to the. situation in the only Democratic Congressional district of Phila delphia are remarkably divergent, even among those of the same political faith. "Mr. McAlcer has nothing to fear from the nomination of a Republican candidate In the Third Congressional district," says the Public L-dger. -"He would naturally oom mand many Republican votes, as well as a majority ot tho Democratlo votes, for the simple reason that he has been a good and faithful Congressman, doing good service to his city and district. The party vote of the district in 1SS8 was 10,027 Republican to 16,637 Democratic. Even with a Republican can didate commanding the party vote, Mr. McAleer would piobably bead the poll, his opponents In the Democratic party being mainly committeemen who do not llvo in the district and havo less influence thero than their success in twisting paity rules to pack a convention would seem to imply." This feeling largely accounts fer the Republican indorsement of McAlber yesterday. The Oswego Timet thinks that "when Senator Hill makes that call, ir he ever makes it, on the statesman of Buzzard's Bay, he should bo accompanied by Labor Commissioner Peck. Otherwise confidence in the complete harmony and unification of all the Democratic elements will be at a serious discount." Senator Peffeb has been witnessing the signs of the protection revival, and is now of the opinion that it is tho Demooratio instead of the Republican Organization which will first be broken up by the People's party. In a speech at Topeka be said: "The People's party will carry the silver States, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota and North Dakota in the West, and Georgia, Alabama, North and South Carolina, Mississippi, and possibly Texas. In the South. This will thiOH the election of a President Into the House. I expect to see the memersofthe Southern States awake to a realization of the revolution in public opinion and follow tho wishes of their constituents by voting for Weaver instead or Cleveland. Tho peo ple of the South will no longer submit to the domination of the Eastern party bosses." Evidently Don Dickinson no longer has a monopoly of rainbow pre dictions. Money will probably win in the Fourth Congressional district of Mississippi. A would-be statesman of that name has se cured the regular Democratic nomination. The Reading Claims to He Losing Money. New York, Sept. 7. By a prooess of rea soning at the meeting of the Senato Coil In vestigation Committee to-day, President MoLeod, of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, gave figures to prove that tho company is losing S cents per ton on all the coal It now ships to Jersey City. Dolly Varden in Politics. Washington Star. The political field all over the country is profusely blossoming with new varieties. It might be called a Dolly Tardea year. Afraid of the Cznr. St. PaulPioneer-Press, ( Every time Tom Beed gives his pilk sur cingle, a hitch the Democrats involuntarily dodge BLAINE'S BUGLE BLAST. Only One Opinion at the Capital as to Its Strength A Masterly Presentation of tba Principal Issues of the Present Cam paign. IFBOK A STAFF COBBESFOITDEVT.I Washikqtok, Sept. 7. It "Is no exaggera tion to say that the Interest excited by the letter of ex-Seorotary Blaine to Chairman Manley, or the State Republican Committee of Maine, Is boyond that which followed the publication of the letter of acceptance of President Harrison yesterday. It was the common topic throughout the departments and on the street, and not even the contest between human brutes at New Orleans could wholly outshine the importance of the Blaine letter. Nearly all of the higher officials are out of the city, but among tho less exalted Gov ernment servants, and especially among the clerks who are not dependent on the Presi dent for their tenure, of office, there seemed to be but ono opinion, and thatwas that whllo the President had written a'good let ter, Blaine's utterance is far more forcible, for the reason that it Is written in a vastly more spirited and aggresslyo tone, drives straight at the weak points of the enemy, and brings out the strong points of tne En publican side of the case In loss than 2,000 words, whore 8,000 were required by the President. One of the brightest officials in the Treas ury Dopartment is a Pennsylvaninn who is a veritable "hnstler" for tho party in his connty and Congressional dlstrior. There is no man in the departments who has a keener sense for the practical side oraffairs and tho value of words in a campaign. He had volumes of high praise yesterday for the letter of President Harrison. When I dropped in on him to-day he was bemoan ing to a circle of Republicans the (act that Blaine and not Harrison could not bo the standard-bearer In this campaign. Terse and Pointed Utterances. "Look at that letter," ho exclaimed, en thusiastically. "What a model presentation it is of the issues upon which the Repub licans should fight tho battle of this ycarl Can anybody think for a moment after read ing it that the anthoroflt is the least bit impaired in any of his faculties? It Is the tersest and most pointed political utterance since the days of Lincoln and Grant. The tariff, reciprocity, and an honest and safe currency with no wildcat banks are his trinity for the campaign, and he puts into newspaper lorm arguments in support of each of uis propositions. He does not fool with tlie force bill question, even to the ex tent of a single word. Ho does not even waste ammunition with praise ot the .ad ministration of n hloh he was for more than three years a member, and bo does not think Harrison worth mentioning. It is the party he lauds, Its acts in Congress and the em bodiment of its principles In the official ut terances of Its accredited delegates in con vention. "Funny he forgot to refer to Harrison In the laintest way, isn't it? But those Repub licans in Maine have a fashion of doingsuch things. Tom Reed hasn't mentioned Harri son in any of the grand speeches for the Re publican party. Fnnny, too, that the letter of Blaine should come before the public ex actly one day after the lotter or President Harrison was published. Isn't it queer that so many or the bright lights ol both of the old parties should be willing to speak for the party without saying a word about the nominees? A Bid That Was Neglected. "I don't think I ever took part In a cam paign in which the party loomed up so high above the candidates. And Harrison made a nice bid, too, for a compliment from Blaine. After doing his best to steal Blaine's thnnder In regard to the origin of the plan (or reciprocity in the speeches be made on his long Southern and Western tour, he gives a tardy recognition of Blaine's services in behalf of reciprocity in his let ter of yesterday. Blaine knew there was a hook concealed in the bait, however, and he did not nibble worth a cent. "Confound It, I'm so mad yet on account of tlie defeat of Blaine at the National Con vention that I could almost make up my mind to vote for him anyway. If we could vote direct for president I'd do it. I seo now that Harrison's letter-with all its skill In composition, is shifty and cringing. It is not so gioat as an utterance of principles and battle cries as it is a pititul plea lor votes. Blaine's letter has an honest and straight-torn ard ring to It that is lacking in the long effusion of Harrison, "What a villainous sliama it is that the old house on Lafayette square is untenanted, the rooms dark and silent, the windows and doors nailed fast, the yard grown high with weeds, and all because this cold and repel lantman Harrison made It so disagreeable for the owner when the people insisted on bis nomination for the Presidency that the great Secretary n as forced to resign for very self respect. His letter shows htm to be a greater man In retirement than Harrison is as the National candidate of the party, and it will awake a responsive thrill in the hearts of Republicans that will be of a thou sand times more benefit to tho party than anything that Harrison conld say." THE DEATH OP DOUGHERTY. Ma. Douohertt was a man of versatile and brilliant abilities, and as, a platlorm orator ranked with tlie first, Wailmtgton Post. Iv thero were moro Democrats like Dan Dougherty but then, If there were, the party wouldn't bo the Democracy long. It would become Republican. Brooklyn Stand ard Union. In the death of Hon. Daniel Dougherty the country loses one of its greatest orators of the present period, and the Democratic party tho most finished speaker in its ranks. Toledo Blade. The story of Mr. Dougherty's career.ls singularly Interesting. It carries to all a lesson well worth heeding a lesson as to the valne ot'determination and grit, ns well as of devotion to duty. Boston Globe. FBiEaDSHips wore perhaps stronger with him than political principles, and while his death leaves a place not to be filled among Democratic orators, it will also be sincerely mourned by countless friends in all parties. New York Press. Ik private Hie in the family, in the church, and in society, Mr. Dougherty was a pnre, upright, honorable man, and a model American citizen of the old school". His death is a public loss, . and will bo so re garded thiougbout tho country wherover he was known. Rochester Union. His gracious and winning personality, his wit, his humor, his varied skill in all the social arts, were all expressions of the same genial character, the warm heart and lofty mind that made Daniel Dougherty one of the brightest ornaments of professional and social life in Philadelphia, and will -make his death a universal loss. Philadelphia Times. DEATHS HEBE AND ELSEWHERE, Ex-Senator Francis Kernan, Ex-United States Senator Francis Kernan died lnUtica, N. Y., at 4 o'clook-yesterday after noon. He was born In Wayne. N. Y., In 1316. He was reporter of the Court of Appeals from 1831 to 1857, and was chosen a member of (he State Assem bly la I860. He was electe I to Congress In 18S2 over Roscoe Conkling. the Republican candidate, serv ing from 1833 to 1863. He was a member or the Constitutional Assembly In 1807. As the Demo cratlo candidate for UoTernorlnl872Iie was de feated bv General John A. Dlx. Mr. Kernan was elected United States Senator In 1875 and scrTed until U81. W. O. Christie. William G. Christie died yesterday at the advanced age of 81 rears at the home of his son. Dr. J . H. Christie, at" No. 23 Arch street. The rnneral services will be held at 7:30 o'clock Thurs day erenlng In order to Uke Ihe remains to Ash land, O., Where they will be Interred Friday morn ing. Obltnar.T Notes. Colonel William McKnioiit, a prominent Republican politician of Chambersbnrg, died Mon day evening, aged 7 Fbascis H. Root, the Buffalo millionaire church builder and tanner and father-in-law of Bishop Hurst, of the M. E. Church, is dead. Mus Sabah Robinson, an agea and highly es teemed lady, died at her home in Canton yester day, aged 60 yea s. blie has for years been a resi dent of Canton, and was well-known, Antoikeije Walpmann, once a famous op eratic vocalist, is dead aged 75. She was the mother of the celebrated Verdian prima donna, blcnorina Waldmanu, now the Duchess Ha&san of t errara. Fkedeiuck Mahtijt, who died In liondon re cently, axed 72, was a well-Vnown violinist, and was formerly leader of the Italian opera orchestra at Her Majesty's Theater, Loudon, under L,um ley's famous regime. Mrs. 11 AI'.hlet A. Gutelius. mother of W. K. Gutelius, managing editor of the Times, died on Tuesday eTcningat the home of E. S. Gutelius. he soa. Sue was 80 years of age, and was au esteemed member of Grace Reformed Church. Eight chil dren surrlre her. Mrs.'ellsk TnoiipsON, relict or George W. Smith, died at her residence. Knoll street, Alle gheny, yesterday morning. Mrs. Smith, was born near Unlontown. April 7. 1811, and came to I'ltts bnrg in 1815. She was a resident of Allegheny since 1S2). and was an active memiier of the Metho dist Episcopal Church, and at the time of her death was a member of the North Avenue Church. OLD SCHOOL-REUNION. Directors, Teachers and Fupils of the Sul phur Sprinc District Will Celebrate The smltnfleld Lutheran Church Will Not Hold a Fair This Tear. A eeunion of the directors, teachers and pupils of Old Sulphur Spring sohool district, near Sbaner's station, is to be held Saturday and Sunday next. The reunion will include those who were connected with the school from 1837 to 1SS0. It Is the inten tion to eat dinner on the "old playground," where tho boys and girls of 40 years ago were wont to play marbles, hopscotch and tag long before the boys and girls of the present generation were bom. The pro gramme as arranged by the committee Is a comprehensive one. Tho first thing that will be done, when the visitors meet on the old playground will naturally be to exchange greetings and talk over the days of auld lang syne. Then those present will organize a meeting and adjourn fdr dinner. If it can bo called adjournment when the dinner is to take place in the same place. After dinner the members of the reunion, seated by fami lies, will sing a hymn of "Ye Olden Times." The rest of the day will be devoted to read ing the Scriptures and prayer by A. M. New Hn, calling the rolls of 1837, 1850 and 1SS0, and address of welcome by B. C. Christy, vocal music, In chnrgo or F. M. Squibb, historical address by Cyrus Smith, address by Eev. C P. Cheoseman, short addresses by toach ers nnd others, and a biography by John Gnffey. On Sunday there will bo a Sabbath school, of 40 years ago, in charge of "Charle3 H. Ewig. tolloned by preaching by Eev. Whit marsh. After dinner a modern Sabbath school will bo conducted, supplemented by ?renchin? by Ttev. C. L. E. Cartwrlght, of rwin. Then there will be music, and the reunion will bo over, save for tho memories of happy days of yore, that, it is hoped, will last long after the actual meeting. The committee for Saturday's exercises is: Mr. C. W. Gaut, Mrs. T. H. Irwin, Mrs. Silas MoCormack and Messrs. A M. Price, O. L. McGrew and W. C. GufTey. Tne Sunday Committee Is: Mr. John M. Shanor, Mr. IL T. Wiley, Mrs. Chas. H. Ewig and Mr. Cyrus Smith. Eev. Me. Houff, of the Smithfield Street Lutheran Evangelical Church, has decided not to boldn fair this year. Thero was some Intention of giving a series of en tertainments for the benefit of tho Old Peo ple's Homo, at Falrviow, but the projeot has Deen postponed till next year. The mm of $9,600 was cleared from the fair given for the benefit or the Mt. Oliver Orphans' Home, in City Hall last (all. The ladles worked so bard at that fair that It is not thought ad visable to hold one now. Next year, how ever, a fair will be given, when it is ex pected that at least $10,000 more will be raised, when a home for old people will be bnilt at Oakview, to take tho place of tho frame struoture devoted to the same use that is there now. An evening with Milton and Handel, fol lowed by a mnsicale, was given at the resi dence of Mr. D. C. McWhatters, at Hazel wood, Tuesday. Handel's IAllegro was given by Wilhelm G. Helnrich, the cele brated blind vocalist of Boston, assisted by Mrs. MIna McWatters Miles, a pupil of Madame Noble's school of elocution of De troit, and Charles Gernert at the piano. In the mnsicale Miss Alberta Fisher, of Minne apolis, sang a duet with Mr. Heiurlcb, and also several solos, assisted by Mrs. Bickel and Mrs. McClelland. Among those present were Dr. and Mrs. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Bickel, Dr. Manchester and Messrs. Hartje, Woods, McWatters and Lyons. Tne Bishop "Whitehead Circle of Dn qnosne Heights will entertain their friends and all interested In Episcopal mission work at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Richards, Meridian street, this evening. A splendid piogrammo :or a parlor concert has been arranged and a platform out of doors for dan clng. No admission fee Is to be cltarged, bnt cream aud cake will be the ladles' hope, the source of improvement in the condition of the treasurer's report. With the return of the summer pilgrims to the city there is a general looking for pretty things in napery and tablo garniture. Among the novelties that have made a par ticular impression upon the maidens and matrons of Pittsburg during the last week or two are diminntive dovlies of white linen, buttonholed in v.fiilte silk. In each corner Is a bnttei fly, with wings outspread, en mashed in a web of delicate lace. The but terfly is outlined In some distinct color.blue, orango or violet, while immediately above it Is another butterfly ennght by Its' body. The effect is striking as well as beautlinl. Social Chatter. A laws fete and festival In connection with the Butler Street M. E. Chnroh, is to be held on the evenings of Thursday, Friday aud Saturday of next week, on tho Dr. Clarke lot. corner Forty-fourth and Butler streets. The committee are Dr. J. J. Covert and Messrs. J. W. Folsom and George See blck. Miss Dollis Cochran and Miss Birdie Sloan, of Nunnery Hill, Allegheny, havo re turned from an extended trip to theJEast. They have visited Boston, New York, Phila delphia and Atlantio City, but are glad to bo at borne again. They aro prominent in tho society circles of Allegheny. The V. P. Theological Seminary on North avenue, Allegheny, opened yesterday for the winter term. CULL0M OS THE TARIFF. Higher Wages and Less Cost of Living Under Protection, He Says. Jolikt, III., Sept. 7. The Chantauqua So ciety's programme dovotes to-d.iy and to morrow to a political dlscns3lon of the issues of the nay by Senator Cullom, of Il linois, and Congressman Sprlnger.Chalrman of the Ways and Means Committee of the House of Representatives. Mr. Cullom made the first speech to-day In the presence of many thousands of spectators and Mr. Springer will respond to-morrow. In the course of bis remarks Senator Cullom said: "At this late period, after nearly 100 years of tariff legislation, beginning with the fonnders-of the repablio immediately after the adoption of the Federal constitution, we are for the first time told that It is un constitutional to so shape a tariff not as to give protection to American manufactures in securing the necessarv revenuo to carry on the Government. The Chicago Demo cratic platform is a direct assault on all the Industrial interests of the republic. It is an attack on tne prosperity of the people of-tuo United States. The London Aeics, in re ferring to the re-nomination of President Harrison, said ho would stand as an ex ponent of protection, which blocks Ameri can markets against British manufactures, and that a Republican victory would retard for a long time the progress or the sound dootrines that undorlio the commercial greatness of Great Britain, and alone main tain British accendency. "The Bepuilcan party has maintained a consistent nnd unvarying position upon the question of protection. In the convention held at Minneapolis this year wo declared that all articles which cannot be produced In the United States, except luxuries, should be admitted free of duty, and that on all imports coming in to competition with tho productsor American labor there should bo levied duties equal to the difference be tween wages abroad and at homo. This, fellow citizens, is a plain, simple, unequivocal declaration or what the lie publican party now believes, and what it has believed ever since its organization. The struggle of our party has been to give both to American laoor and American in dustries reasonable protection against the unequal and Injurious competition of the Industries and labor of foreign countries. But tho declaration has nover ooen so plain ly made as In the platlorm upon which tho party zoos to the country this year. "Follow citizens, let us examino a little as to the cost of living, wages, etc. What we lill desire to arrive at is tho exact truth in ro'ation to tnls subject. In March, 1893, the Senate passed a resolution directing tho Committee on Finance tq investigate and report from time to time to the Senate tho efleot of the tariff laws npon the prices of manufactured articles, agricultural prod ucts at home and abroad, and npon wages, domestic and foreign, etc Tiie resu.t, as given in thoir report, 1 that the cost of liv ing or a family in ordinary circumstances was forty-four hundredths of one per cent less at the ond of the period included in the Investigation, September 1, 1331, than it was at the beginning. And that on the 1st of May, 1893, as compared with September 1, 1891, tho cost of living was 11 per cent cheaper, and as compared with the last quarter of 1889, the cost was 3.4 per cent cheaper. "By virtue of the third section of the tariff act or 1890, true statesmanship in tho person of onr wlso and brilliant Secretary of State, James G. Blaine, has secured to our farmers and manufacturers largely increased for eign markets for their products. Reciprocity has been the means which has brought to successful conclusion tho negotiations which havo culminated in more extended and better markets for our wares by the abolition of all duties by tho countries with whom reciprocal trade relations havo been established." CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. New York, has 200,000 working womei The carnivorous birds croak, graii eating birds sing. Boiler skates were invented by Plymp tan in tho year 1SC3. The first pair of spectacles was made b Spina, an Italian, in 1299. New York has 8,162 dwellings whit contain over ip families each. American factories are said to produe nearly J5.00) watches every week. According to the Talmud Daniel wrot his first prophecy at theage of SO. The first stock quotations by cabli from Paris to London were sont across th Channel In 1851. The "Watkin Tower, at last decided t be built at Wembley Park, London, will 1 150 feet higher than the Eiffel tower. In 1867 51,317,000 worth of diamond were imported into this country. Last yea the Importation amounted to $15,090,000. There are 133 American students at tonding Berlin University and only 21 En gllsh. Of the 3,783 students 3,181 are Prus sians. Richard 3L Bent, a New York piano maker, stood his boarding house landladj off for 30 years. He now has a bill of $9,773 to pay. A white female child born recently in Washington has "six toes on each foot and seven well-developed fingers on either hand." Beginning in October, Russian will be taught in two of the Paris colleges, and per haps be put on the same footing as English ana German. Fine rabies are enormously more vale able than diamonds. A fine ruby of real pigeon-blood color and eight carats Is worth irom $45,000 to $10,000. These men in France competed to see who conld drink the most water. Ono swal lowed 12 quarts, the second 9 and the third 7. All three died from tlie effects. A pair of gloves passes through about 200 bands from the moment that the skin leaves the drossers until the gloves are pur chased by the intending wearer. The Fish Commission steamer, the Al batross, has brought from Alaska an assort ment of blackbass, with which it 13 proposed to stock the waters of Puget Sound. Crystallized nitrogen is one of the greatest chemical curiosities. By cooling nitrogen gas down to 367 below the freezing point, and then allowing it to expand, solid snowlike crystals are formed. Elizabeth Moore, a pretty young girl of Edgeworth, with tho help of a girl friend, has recently built a cottage for herself, lay ing the foundation, doing all tho carpenter ing and plastering the rooms. King Malietoa of Samoa is not paid his salary (825 a week) with regularity enough to keep him in easy financial condition, so he has been having his wives do washing for the well-to-do white residents of Apia. George ILL, in his reign of nearly 60 years, summoned but 12 Parliaments, whllo Elizabeth and George IL the only two other reigns of considerable length during the pe riod called add dissolved but ten and nvo respectively. A heavy plate-glass shade, ornamented with gold and securely locked to three staples set In the marblo top of a pnlpit in a church in Brussels, is said to cover one of the thorns which formed a part of the Savior's crown. The number of volcanic vents still existing was fixed by Unmboldt at 407, of which 225 havo been active within the lust century; it has since, however, been esti mated that the Indian Arcbigclago alone contains more than 930. A contortionist at an exhibition in Halifax, N. S., twisted himself into a ludi crous shape, and said: "This is an imitation of an Albion Hotel bedbug." The audience lanuhed. but the hotel proprietor couldn't see the joke. He bogan suit for $5,000. Fat men are in demand in London ai advertising mediums. They wear 'clothing on which spaces are arranged for various advertisements: and thus arrayed they parade the streets. On their caps they bear this Inscription, "spaces to be let on 60 men." A valuable goblet has been purchased for the snm of 312,000 francs byamemberof the Frankfort branch of tho Kothsehlld family. The goblet is of exquisite workman ship andjs Said to have formed part of the municipal treasures of Osnabruckin Ger many. An original method of inducing the residents of Alsace-Lorraine to become Ger man has been discovered by the Volk, the organ of Herr Stoecker. This journal pro poses that the State shall give a dowry to every native of Alsace-Lorraine who marries a German. A wealthy Scotch gentleman who had Intended to ,give each of I1I3 daughters a legacy or her wohrht in 1 bank notes had ah official or the Bank of Scotland to figure on the matter ror him. It was lonnd that the larger would get as her share 55,311 and the slimmer 51,200. A device to be used in signaling along a length of fire hose Is a recent Inven tion. Wires are carried in tho hose and in sulated therefrom, so that by making Dat tery connections a fireman from one end of the line can send signals to the other with out leaving his post. At the reunion of the One Hundred and Twenty-third Regiment atSalem, Wash ington connty, N. Y., it was stated that tho last Confederate killed in the war, was shot by the One Hundred and Twenty-third, and tho last Union soldier killed by a bullet be longed to that regiment. In a cave in the Pantheon, the guide, by striking tho flaps of his coat, makes a noise equal to that producd by firing a 12 pound cannon. In the cave or Smellln, near Vlborg, Finland, a stone thrown down a cer tain abyss makes areverberatingecho which sounds like the dying wail of some wild animal. The longest cataleptic sleep known to medical science has been attracting atten tion in Germany. The latest report states that a man a miner of Silesia has been un conscious for four and a half months, with no unnatural apoearance except absolute rigidity of the limbs. During thi time the patient's hair has grown, but his beard has remained stationary. Fine voices are seldom found in a country where fish or meat diet prevails. Those Italians who eat the most fish (tboso of Naples and Genoa) havo few fine singers among them. The sweet voices are found In the Irish women of the country, and in most of the towns. Norway is not a country for singers, because they eat too much fish; but Sweden Is a country of grain and song. JOLLYIS3IS FKOM JUDGE, Mrs. Newed Oar prospect seems ao clear. Mr. Newed Clear? A perfect paradox, so far. Mrs. Newed Oh, George! Mr. Hewed Yes, before we were married the prospect Intoxicated me, now It makes me mighty sober. Chollie Why, old fellah, whatjs ths matter? Come. come, old boy: be chirpy Woute Can't, old boy. Head this letter that I Ju3t recelTed: Dear Sir If you do not pay your flower mil l win sena eacn young ikit a scFar" bill, and feel assured they will be paid. Yours, E. KOSCS. Nellie Fosdick Papa, yon might M well take down the front gate and fence. Fosdick Pere-Why, daughter, you always have objected to their removal. Nellie Fosdick Yes. but the city authorities have hung an electric light rlgnt in front of the house. Agnes! when I swore constancy, That time we kissed and parted, yet. Believe me, I could not forsee That one may love and soon forget. Misa Bleecker In that discussion with Sue you had her where the hair was short. Miss Emerson (orBoston) Yes: I secured her at a point where the capillary appendages wer abbreviated. TCimtern visitor fat San Francisco"! And so that is the Golden Gate? San iranciscau les. wnat are you looting for? Eastern visitor Where's St. Peter? Telescope fakir Step right np, ladies and gents, and view the planet Mars. Flrecents, mum, Oldlady-Oh. laws I hain't It round and slimy? Telescope fakir Will the bald-beaded gent pleas step away from In front of the Instrument? rV s ! J . : I
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