iisictsw' "fa&Wz9. rr; .3 " THE PlTTSBURGr DISPATCH, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9. 1893. 3 ' Uje Blgpfolj; ESTABLISHED FEBRUARY Vol. 47. No. H8. Entered at Pittsburg Postoffico November, 1887, 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. EA8TERN ADVERTISING OFFICE, ROOM 76. TRIBUNE BUILDING, NEW VORK. where com plete flies of THKD1SPATCH can always be found. Foreign adYertlsers appreciate the convenience. Home adTertlsers and friends orTHEDISPATCH. -while In New York, are also made welcome. THE DISPATCH Is regularly on sale at Bren tano's, 6 Union Sanare, New York, and 17Avede I'ODera. Paris, France, where anyone who has been disappointed at a hotel news stand can ob tain It. TEBMS OF TUB DISPATCH. POSTAGE WBEX IX THE UNITED STATES. daily DiFATcn. one Year 18 00 DailT Dibfatch, Per Quarter. 2 00 DilLT Dispatch. OneMonth 70 Daily DisrATcn. 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The spread of the disease indicates the ease with which it lays bold of large areas when once it has obtained a foothold. With all this ter rible warning before it this country must hasten in its preparations for an attack. It is much to he regretted that the strong measure of the prohibition of immigra tion has not been enforced in place of a quarantine that must almost of necessity leak sooner or later. So far, the Incoming cargoes of disease have been confined to quarantine. The fact that the scourge has not yet reached the main land is matter for surprise no less than thankfulness, and a long continuance of this immunity is not to be counted on. Meanwhile, the breathing space of ex pectancy should be occupied to the fullest extent in eradicating dirt and cultivating cleanliness. And such quarantine regula tions as have been authorized must be en forced to the utmost in lieu of the better preventive of prohibition. FOB XNCBEASED OUTPUT. Preparations are under way to add to the Edgar Thomson Steel Works by "mak ing ground" at Braddock for four new blast furnaces and a large foundry. It is not expected that the site will be ready for the erection of this plant for two years, but that makes the movement the more remarkable. By this foresight the manufacturers indicate a trust in the sta bility of the iron and steel industry in these parts which is most reassuring. In the first place this announcement shows a confidence in the desirability .of this neighborhood, which comes as a final and complete contradiction to the rumored removals. It indicates further trat there is no fear that American industries are to be damaged and to a large extent de stroyed, as they would be by any unex pected free trade victory in November. And, last of all, it appears from this an nouncement that these people at least do not believe that overproduction is to be a factor in deadening the iron and steel trade much longer. tennisonian progress. This season has shown a wonderful growth in amateur sport Cycling and tennis playing are the leading features of the advance in athleticism. The strides of the latter this year have been phe nomenal. Two large clubs have been es tablished, and throughout the city smaller local associations have been formed around every available court There has been, too, a notable increase in the inter est manifested in tournaments and con tests. And all this has come about in a pastime ridiculed still by those who have never experienced its delights as mere "girls' play." The game affords an amount of all around exercise in a degree that is hardly equaled in and not surpassed' by any other athletic recreation. It demands a smaller number to make a game than any of its outdoor competitors. And it is en joyable by those who have not time to be come experts in its mysteries. Herein lie the secrets of its success. Lawn tennis to-day threatens in no feeble way to be come in the near future the national ama teur game of America. not a. Gixjoarr showing. When the discharge of a; large number of laborers recently employed, we believe, on a branch road in the interior of the State, was attributed by an official of the Pennsylvania Railroad to the slackness of railway traffic it occasioned some dis quiet among business men. A good many people were inclined to see in it a har binger of protracted dullness -and to augur gloomily for the prospects of trade. A collection of statistics of trunk line earmnes made by the New York Finan cial Chronicle shows that there Is no foundation for the .idea that railroad traffic has undergone a serious diminu tion. The utmost that can be predicted of the present slackness is that -lull which nearly always intervenes between crop years. The returns of the gross earnings of the trunk lines for the first half of 1892 compared wth the same por tion of the preceding three years are reasuring rather than depressing In effect, and this is especially the case with the Pennsylvania Railroad lines. The gross earnings of the eastern lines of that system are about $700,000 in excess of those for the first half of 1890, which was larger than for any other year by over $500,000. The western lines of the same system are 51,200,000 in excess of 1890, ?2, 000,000 more than in 1891 and 54,000,000 larger than in 1889. This certainly does not indicate a slackness of traffic. The tale of the net earnings is not so positive; but they are about up to the average of the Jrst four years on the eastern lines, with $900,000 of an increase on the western lines. The showing for all the trunk ljnes tells the same story with a little less emphasis. The grow earnings for the first half of the year are $139,900,000, against $130,500,000 for the first half of 1891, 5131,900,000 in 1890 yd $117,900,000 in 1889. This in crease in the gross earnings has kept the net earnings at nearly the level of the last three years, the figures being $39,070,000 for the last half of this year, $39,568,008 for 1891 and 539,054,000 for 1892. It is thus shown that during the first half of the year the traffic of the trunk lines not only held its own but increased. Unless there has been some wholly subver sive factor recently introduced the pres entallegation of slackness can refer to nothing more than a temporary ML It seems that the railways have to do a larger business to main tain their net earnings; but so long as they do that, and keep the volume up tp the exceptional total of the first half of the year there is nothing in the railway situation to cause gloomy views for the future. . A FREE TRADE SQDTKM. The difficulty of the free trade organs in finding material for argument is illus trated by a discovery trumpeted in a re cent issue of the New York World. That journal seems to have concluded that it must concede the fact that the earning power of wages as a whole not only has not been reduced hut has been slightly in creased; but it takes refuge in a double as sertion that the statistical' sho wine proves the increase to be very slight In its editorial columns it trumpets the fact that Senator Aldnch's showing only gives an average of 9 cents a week increase to the laborer who earns 512 per week, or a little less than $5 per year. It also publishes a letter which makes the claim that Com missioner Peck's statistics only show a gain of $1 per week, or 552 per year, for the workincmen of New York. This may be slight; but slight Urines sometimes make up a very important ag gregate. The Peck report shows that that inconsiderable dollar a week made an aggregate gain in New York last year of over $6,000,000 to the means of labor. Suppose that 10,000,000 workingmen in the United States got an increase of but $5 in the year on the former wages. Labor in the mass would be exactly $50,000,000 bet ter off. If $50,000,000 should be shorn off the total wages of labor by any other de vice than pulling them down 6y free trade it is not bard to foretell that the free trade organs would make a lively out cry; and they would have good ground for doing so. Protective legislation has been based on the claim that wages are thereby main tained on the American standard instead of being reduced to the European level. The McKinley act has been attacked on the basis that it did not sustain wages. Now, when the esteemed World is forced to take refuge in the plea that the advance which it concedes is very slight when reckoned as to the weekly increase for each individual, why has it not abandoned the entire claim which its party has been fighting onfor the past year and a half? TRIAXS OF QUARANTINE. A great deal of mistaken sentimental twaddle has been written about the privations suffered and danger incurred by passengers detained on vessels quaran tined in New York harbor. Yet everyone with a particle of feeling will sympathize with the by no means trifling inconveni ence suffered and the actual risk run by the women, children and men who are shut off from their friends, homes and business engagements. But the greatest good of the greatest number emphatically demands that the quarantine regulations should be enforced with the strictest rigor. - Such risk as the passengers undergo on the embargoed vessels would be multi plied a thousand fold if the disease were once allowed to get beyond the complete control under which it can be kept on isolated vessels. Everything must be done for the safety of the public, and at the same time no effort should be left unmade to render the enforced stay of the unfor tunates as devoid of discomfort as possi ble. One of the passengers writes to com plain that the stock of clean clothing is giving out, and such a state ot affairs is in direct opposition to all the laws of health, decency and common sense. Since the Federal authorities refuse to prohibit im migration and so prevent the sailing of vessels the annoyance of detention is un avoidable. But every care should be taken not only to preserve the health of those detained, but to provide them with such comforts as are available. A DESTRUCTIVE CLAIM. It was to be expected from past experi ence that those should arise who claim that as Nancy Hanks first lowered the record with a pneumatic tire sulkey, and then made her marvelous record of 2:05) with the additional advantage of a kite shaped track, her record should not ho taken as beating those of Maud S and SunoL There is no doubt that these remarkable performances, supplemented by a further reduction of the regulation track record, were greatly aided by the improved track and vehicle. It is pretty well settled that the kite-shaped track Is nearly two seconds faster than the oval form, while the exact gain of speed from pneumatic tires is yet unsettled. But what of that? The whole history of trot ting is marked by the adoption of appli ances for making speed possible. The oval track was adopted because it wa3 faster than the circle. Sulkies came Into use early in the trotting era, because horses could be driven faster than they could bs ridden under saddle. Nancy Hanks has Just as good title to her record as Maud S to hers, which was gained on an oval track after that form had been found to be better for speed than the cir cla If records "are to be shut out by reason of improvements in tracks, harness and vehicles, then we must wipe out all the records and start de novo with top bug gies and country roads. As to the conviction of owners of fast flyers that their horses are still the fastest, they can easily settle that point by show ing what their steeds can do with pneu matic sulkies .on kite-shaped tracks. RUSSIA has refused to allow Pasteur to experiment on humanity with his cholera inoculation cure. And the hopes of reme dial or preveutivescienoe are now placed in the King of Slam, who has been asked to lend a few of his subjects lor the purpose, as the cholera conditions In his country are such as to offer abundant opportunity for an exhaustive test. That British press is not so blind to American merit as is sometimes supposed. It unites in paying a touching tribute to Whittier's life and work. The suspension from duty of the Ameri can Consul at Stettin by order of the State Department for absence from his post Is a satisfactory indication that the Federal au thorities are keeping a close watch on onr representatives abroad, and demanding the vigilance which the presence of cholera rea ders absolutely necessary. v Read, mark, learn and Inwardly digest the advice of the State Board of Health, and proceed to act upon It with thoroughness and promptitude : Republicans have principles worth lighting for and can easily afford to sink past minor differences as to men. But Democrats lacking principles calculated, to evoke enthusiasm are compelled to Indulge in a concentratott essence of bitterness among themselves as to personalities of their leaders. The leading local question 'now is, how far will the Pittsburg ball team -fall from second place on the League list beforo the 16th of October? WHlTECAPorgaaizations and their law less outrages are always a discredit to the neighborhood in whioh they operate. When they defy constituted authority in the name of virtue, as they recently did in Tennessee, there is something especially loathsome and repulsive in their abominations. And still there are some ardent sports to be found who stoutly maintain that it is better to have bet and lost than never to have bet at all.- As further details reach the light as to the Inward history of the adoption of that free trade plank at Chicago, it becomes so much the moio evident that the Democrnftlo party deliberately set Itself ou record as dis regarding all the interests of American in dustry andlabor. Quarantined passengers aboard the City of New York can' never be low spirited with the genial Chauncey Dopow in their midst. An express robbery near Kansas City, where the messenger was bound and gagged by ono man, points to some serious in efficiency in the arrangements made for the safety or treasure and its supposed guardian in transport. Negro supremaeyis a phantom idea enough in the world of politics, but it seriously threatens achlevementintheprize ring. Political organizations will do well to place more reliance on the songs produced by the campaign lyre than on the canards turned out by the campaign liar. And the two things should never be identical. If the conferee system be buried along with the deadlocks, the lattor will have achieved something desirable after all. Pennsylvania is beforehand in com parison with other States in its preparations for a suitable display at the Wotld's Fair. Pittsburg as a city 1b a good deal behind hand, and has not by any means made the most of its opportunity. This is the time at which the inspection, of meat and milk should receive the most thorough attention. Sullivan has at least one career open to him. He might form an alliance with the Prohibition, paity and take the stump as a dieadfnl example of the disastrous effects of over-indnlgence. Those sewer outlets are among the fall openings that are attracting a great deal of attention. Italians were celebrating the discovery of Ameiica at Genoa yesterday. Italy has much to be thankful for in the New World, New Orleans and petty differences notwith standing. Springer failed to spring anything new or effective in his last night's speech. Alleghent county tops the country in its provision for public schools. This is matter 'for congratulation, but the county mnst go on and prosper, and never rest satisfied. It takes qnite a good deal of water to wash the rivers satisfactorily. The migratory season has set in already in Tennessee. Eighteen jail birds flitted from Chattanooga on Tuesday night with out awaiting the formality of a discharge. Coebett is now the champion iconoclast of the woild. C IT mnst be' dreadfully galling to cul tured Boston that its adept exponent of the fistic art should have been worsted by a man from the extreme, untutored West. PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE. Nathaniel H. Miller, of Company A, Seventh Pennsylvania Veteran Cavalry, one of Jefferson Davis' captors, is living iti Shelbyville, In.d. Woodbbidge Clifford, Postmaster at Edgeeomb, Me., holds the second oldest postmaster's commission In the United States, dated 1835. Ambroise Taomas, composer of "Ham let," had so far recorered his health as to be present at the award of prizes to students in the French Conservatory last month. James Matdwell and wife, of Cincin nati, have had 21 children, all bnt one of whom are living. Nineteen of them reside at home. There are three pairs of twins in the lot. MrBudyard Kipling was once offered 500 to write an article descriptive of hlsim presslons of the Melbourne Cup, the great racing festival of the Southern Hemisphere, but be lefused. The French actor Got, whose name is pronounced "Go," is expected to return in 1831, on the completion of bis 50th year with the Theater Francais. He will not ask for a benefit, as he has saved up C, 000,000 francs. Bishop Paret's return -from Europe by a slow freight steamer not a sailing vessel, as was once stated was designed to secure immunity .from cholera. He knew no im migrants ould be likely to sail on such a steamer. Judge Thomas Moore Paschal, the Democratic nominee for Congress in one of the Texas districts, wears a mustache that measures 18 inches from tip to tip. When it comes to a hirsute show-down it will be found that Fasohal is as broad as Ppffer is long. A banquet was tendered last night in the Crystal Palace, London, by 70 Non-Conformists to Key. Dr. T. DeWitt Talraage. During the entertainment the guest of the evening was presented with a handsome gold watch, the money to purohase which had been subscribed by English friends. DEATHS HERB AND ELSEWHERE, General Jams It, Anderson. General James E. Anderson, of Rich mond, Vs., died Wednesday at the Isle of Shoals. He was 80 years old, a graduate of West Point, ana entered the Confederate service In 1851, bat re signed, and through the war manufactured cannon for the Confederate army. For many years past he has been President or the Tredegar Works at Richmond, the largest iron works south of Penn sylvania. Perry K. Harris. Perry B. Harris died at the Allegheny General Hospital Wednesday night of trphoid fe ver, after a few weeks' Illness. He had been in the drug business in Allegheny for years, and was to have been married next week to Miss Nellie Speer, of Oakland. The funeral will be held at the Speer residence. 851 Atwood street, baturdav afternoon, and the burial will take place at Moundmue, W. Ya. , the early home of the deceased. Obituary Notes. VICTOB Wilder, the musical critic of Gil Bleu, died yesterday in Paris of cholerine. James B. Miller, a millionaire planter of Little Bock, Ark., Is dead at his hotel in Saratoga. Abtoub Marks, of Winchester, Tenn., died Wednesday. He was a son of the late ex-Governor Marks, and a lawyer. Mr. Marks was ap pointed Secretary of the American Legation In London daring Mr. Cleveland's administration. After remaining In London a year he was trans ferred to the American Legation at Berlin. Pbebie LAVAUX. of New Orleans, died Wednes day night. He served in the Confederate army during the war. and afterward engaged in the commission business ana sugar planting. His only Ettlltleat office Was as a member or the last Stat onstltutlonal Convention In 187V. At the time of his death he was a member of thn Demoeratia JtUto Central Committee, v CAMPAIGN NEWS ANL? COMMENT. The fact that Candidate Adlai Stevenson Is to devote a goodly portion of bis time to stumping North Carolina naturally suggests that the Democratic managers are not en tiiely satisfied with the condition of polit ical affairs in that usually solid State. The latest Information indicates that there is at least soma ground for this alarm. The People's'pai ty is making an a ggressive can vass, and in a three-cornered contest the Republican chances are by no means hopeless. .Capt. S. A. Ashe, of Raleigh, one of the Democratic leaders, claims that the recent movement of the colored people to the West had de creased the Republican vote, and predicts success for both the National and State Democratic tickets. He gives some figures, which are vigorously disputed by the Re publican leaders. They admit that the Re publicans lost some votes by the exodus, bnt assert that 6,000 would be a fair estimate. They say that thero are no. vat least 110,000 negro votes in tho State, and positively as sert that there are over 60,000 white Re publican voters in North Carolina. "So," said one of them, "we would bo reasonably certain of polling at least 150,000 votes in a straight light with the Democrats, and they would probably be able to muster 155,000. Dut hore js this third party. Four-flrths of it is taken from the Democrats and one-fifth from the Republicans. All agree that that Is about the proportion. Now, if it polls only 25 000 votes for Weaver, what will tho result be? But the chances are that the Weaver itos will poll at least 40,000 and possibly 50, 000 or CO.OOO, and I expect to see Harrison's plurality foot up somothlng like 20,000." While this prediction .Is undoubtedly over sanguine, there ! enough in it to Justify Democratic anxiety and Candidate Stovon son's trip. James F. Burke, who has just returned to National Republican headquarters alter an extensive speech-making tonr through Maino, has reported to Chairman Carter that the Republican majorltrin the Pine Tieo State ill be at least 12,000. Perhaps the wish is an intimate relation to the" thought, but ex-Congressman Phil Thompson, of Kentucky, profosses to be lieve that the new-party is going to make a great sweep in the farther West. He has Just returned from a careful political in speotion of that seotton and says: "I talked with leading Democrats and loading Re publicans in the State, and am satisfied from what I saw and heard that the People's party will cat ry Colorado this fall. The lead ing Republicans of the State are so strong for free silver and the Republican party is so hostile to it that they are determined to give an exhibition of the strength of the stiver people in Colorado by allowing the State to go lor the third party. It looks as if neither of tho old parties, or at' least the men who control them, Intend to make any issue with each other, and will quietly allow the State to go for the third party. In Wyoming the same feeling prevails as in Colorado, although no actual fusion has as yet been agreed upon. It looks to me as If Nebraska would vote for the third party this mil. and there are some hopes of the third party carrying Kansas, though Kansas is xuch an Intensely Republican State in Presl dencnl years that I hardly expect it. I rto not think thoro is any danger of losing any of the Southern States. Possibly it may 10 aulre a heavy effort to hold West Virginia tills time, greater than heietofore, on ac count 01 the inciease of negroes in the min ing districts and other men who work in the mines, most of whom are Republicans." Mr. Thomson should visit Alabama. Tennessee and a few other Southern States from which such peculiar reports come to Detnocratio headquarters. "WnEN Harrison was nominated at Min neapolis George A. Knl!ht,'one of the dis gusted California delegates, grabbed his valise and left on the first train, vowlntr vengeance. But Mr. Knight has thought betierof it. and was one of the principal orators when the Republican campaign was opened at San Francisco the other evening. . Evidence daily accumulates of the truth or that remark atti ihuted to Senator Hill, to tho effect that the Chicago platform had made every factory a Republican recruiting station. Even many who are personal ad mirers of Cleveland) find thomselves unable to support hi,m ajalnst their own material interests. Mr. Flprien Guijean is the mem ber of a firm manufacturing agate iron ware at Woodhaven, Cong Island, and employing 1,100 men. He has been a life-long Democrat, but has just written to Chairman Carter thus: "Both times that" Mr, Cleveland ran I voted and worked for him and helped in the party's hurrah, but I can no longer an tagonize my own interests and the Interests of the 1,400 men in our employ by lending encouragement to a free trade pi opa anda. It is plain to me that the establishment of a free trade system would eventually force us to close our factory and throw out of work the operatives, the most of whom have now comfortable homes on Long Island. Per sonally, I would strain a point to vote Tor Mr. Cleveland, but practical experience has given me a fear of the results or free trade, which no argument, personal or political, can overbalance." Hon. William I. McConnell, re cently nominated for Governor by the Re publicans of Idaho, was a gold-seeker of '49 who bought a trnok garden and turned its produce into the precious metal by selling cabbage at 75 cents apiece and turnips at 45 centB a pound to hungry miners. Under the title of "A Picturesque Can vas?," the Philadelphia Tress treats of the situation in the Erie-Crawford Congres sional district, saying: "The opposition, after going thiough the district in tho vain effort to find a candidate to run against Dr. Flood, dragged tho western part of the State and finally brought up Mr. Joseph C. Sibley, of Venango county, located in another Con gressional district. Mr. Sibley is rioh rich enough to make the Democratic mouth water; and he owns a kite-shaped race track and otber.tnings in which the boys are likely to take more or less interest. He proved to be accommodating as well. Having, even before the time of his discovery, received the Prohibi tion nomination, the People's party candi date was forced out or the way to give him a second nomination. And then the Demo crats toolr him up; or, rather, he took up the Democrats. The esteemed' Mr. Sibley is now engaged in the rather hazardous feat of bal ancing these three nominations on his sboul dei s, while the boys are shouting for Sibley and as much of his lortune as they can get. The combination oandldate has met one of the objections to him by taking up his resi dence within the dlstiict; bnt there are other obleotions whioh he does not get rid of so easily. He cannot answer the question as to -which or the Presidental candidates of the three parties supporting him he intends to vote for. Mr. SJbiey is loaded 'down with too many nominations, and Is hopping aronnd on entirely too many platforms. The one nomination whioh he did not get is the only one worth anything in the Twenty-sixth dtstrlot." Nevertheless, the friends of the kite-shaped track candidate seem very con fident that he will dlstahce his opponent. It is getting very close to the date when the Baker ballot law will necessitate the interment of Pennsylvania's numerous deadlocks. A lively campaign is in progress in the far-off State of Washington. Thero are now four candidates in the field for Governors John H. McGraw,or Seattle, President of the First National Bank ot that city, Republi can; H. J. Snively, a well-known lawyer of Yakima, Demoorat; C. W. Yonng, of Pull man, a farmer who was onee a lawyer, and Judge Roger S. Green, -of Seattle, forme Chief Justice of the Territorial Supreme Court. The Seattle canal is an issue which is overshadowing national qnestions. The Prohibitionist platform and that of the People's party are silent on the canal question. The Democratic platform de nounces Senators Squire and Allen far favoring the canal, to the detriment of the rivers and harbors of the state. The Re publican platform wants the national gov ernment to build it. Free silver also figures somewhat in the contest, to tho disadvant age of both the old parties. The Republi cans, though, have uniformly had a com paratively large majority of recent years, andxpress great confidence that the state will be carried for Harrison. The district plan of choosing Presiden tal eleotors, adopted by Michigan, is now to be carried into the United States Supreme Court. An utterapt is being made to ad vance the case for a hearing on Octobers. But the law, however unwisp, 1s undoubt edly constitutional, and will stand. Mlcni igan's vote will bo divided this year, at least. Thn Knd of Desperation. Toledo Blade. Canada may get so awfully mad that she will ask for annexation. BPRINGEE ANSWERS CULL0M. Be Devotes Most or His Time to the Presi dent, Though, After AIL Joliet, III., Sept. a Hon. William M: Springer, Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, was the principal speaker at "Demooratio Day" of the Illinois State Grange Chautauqua at New Lenox, to-day. The weather was cool and bracing, and thousands of people were assembled in the shady grove. Mr. Springer directed his ar guments principally to replying to Senator Cnllom's address of yesterday, and com menting on the letter of occeptance of Pres ident Harrison. "President Harrison," said Mr. Springer, "attached great Importance to, the report of the Senate Committee at the close of the last session of Congress, upon the prices of protected products and or the cost of such articles as enter into the living of the people of simple means and stated that the report upon this subject was signed by all the members of the Committee, thus giving the impression that the Damocratlc members of the Senate Commlttoo on finance conenrred in the report to which he referred. He claimed that no such wide and careiul inquiry had ever been made beforo, and asseaming that it had the concurrence ot the Democratic members of the Finance Committee, mno'i greater importance was attached to it on this account. The period covered by the investigation was tho year precoding and the year after the passage of the McKinley bill. "Now the fact is," said Mr. Springer, "the report to which the President leferred was strictly partisan and concurred In by tho Republican members only." The speaker here exhibited a copyot the report us pub lished at the public printing office, and demonstrated from this official publication that no member of the committee had nttached his signature to the report, that it wn simply made by Mr. Aldrleli, a Re publican member, ns the report of the com mittee, a paragraph at the conclusion stat ing that the Investigation upon which the roport wns based was made by a sub-committee, consisting of himself ns chairman and of Messrs. Allison, Hlscock and Jones, of Nevada. Republicans, and of Messrs. Harris, of Tennessee, and Carlisle, of Ken tucky, Democrats. "The Democratic members of that com mittee," said Mr. Springer, ."did not concur in that leport presented by Mr. Aldrlch. benator Carlisle, speaking for the minority or tho Finance Committee on the 23:h of July, after Mr. Aldrlch's roport had been submitted and printed, eznressly dissented fiom the conclusions of the report and said he would show that the prices or com modities In the United States were enoi mons ly increased by the parage of the McKinley act and the a-ritation which preceded it, and the cost of living was Increased during the period covered by the investigation moro than $-295,000,000, ncd that over $185,000, 000 or that increase occurred alter the passage of the McKinley law. He further said he would show that the rates of ua-tes in 15 substantially unprotected Industries, selected by the committee, were Increased durine the neriod covered bv the investiga tion, and that during the same period the rates of wages in 15 protected industries, also selected by the committee, fell, and that the fall as greater after the passage of the McKinley bill than it was during the whole period preceding its passage. Senator Carlisle pointed out more than 250 articles which entered into the consumption of the people the puces of which had been in creased since the passage of the McKinley bill. "Thus it appears that, inBtead of being a report agreed to by the Democmtio mem bers, as President Harrison states, 'it was merely a partisan soreed, distorting facts and stating partisan conclusions not war ranted by the investigation itself." Ap plause. "One thingis gratifying," wild Mr.Springer, in conclusion, "in reference to the three im portant documents recently made public namely, Harrison's letter of acceptance, Blaine's letter on the tariff, and Senator Cnllom's opening speech of the campaign. None of these high authorities of the Re publican party, notwithstanding the vol uminous character or their products, have stated that the 'foreigner pays the tariff.' Laughter, From this we may infer that this pretension has been kicked to d-ath by the irrefutable logic of facts." Laughter suu applause j. y PEARY IS ICEBOUND. Grave Fears That the Belief Expedition Will Not Be Able to Bench Him. Philadelphia, Sept. 8. This year's first nens from the far North was brought here yesterday by the bark Salina, which arrived from the southwest coast of Greenland. Nothing was heard of the Peary party or the steamer Kite which sailed from St. Johns, Newfoundland, in July last for their relief. Captain Peterson says that it Is an impossi bility forthe Pearvs to leave their icebonnd home and that the Kite cannot forco her way through the field ice. The Salina sailed from lvigtut on June 3 with "CO tons of cryolite. After being out a few das she put into Kajartallk, 60 miles fiom Ivlgtnt, and remained there until August 14, Icebonnd. Captain Peteison, the. Salina commander, ascended Story moun tain, near Aritik, more than SCO feet high, to take a survey as far as the eye conld reach. Nothing was vlslsle bnt a solid barrier of floating ice, impeding the progress of any vessel attempting to work her way toward clear water. A winter in the Arctic would have been inevlteable had it not been for a southwest wind which blew open a clear space, allow ing the Salina to escape. The barks lvigtut. Fluorine, Flatlna, Traveler and the Danish steamers Thetis and White Bear were simi larly fortunate. This channel remained open onlv long enough for these vessels to get clear. It is believed that the barks Argenta, E. O. Clark and Serene, now bound to lvigtut, will not be able to get within sight of the Greenland coast and will have to return without cargoes. Seven hundred miles north of lvigtut Is McCormaok Bay, where the Poarys are en camped. If the Kite should be able to reach that point theie is little doubt that she would not attempt to return, or if she did, the mistake would be soon discovered and a landing made at the nearest point on tho coast. The Esqulmanxs who travel along the coast during the summer report that the ice is worse than ever beioro known. THE GOOD OLD POET. , Iw Whittier's death America and the world loses one of the purest, sweetest and most sympathlo bards this earth-ever knew. Brooklyn Standard- Union. Whittier was dear to the American people. He was the poet of the home and the fireside His life and his labor were alike free from reproach. Buffalo Enquirer. Whittieb's poetry is the mirror of the poet himself.' It is full of his faith and purity, his love of nature, and his deep sym pathy with the woes and aspirations of hu manity. Cleveland Leader. He was a valiint soldier of the true, a sin cere worshiper of the beautiful, and served these complementary forces so as to add to the sum of human goodness and human happiness. New York Tribune. His eyes were fixed on the stars; his heart was as stalnlest as that of a child, respons ive to each emotion ofgood, and beating in sympathy with everything that ennobles and refines. Philadelphia Szcord. His poems were not of passion, but of purity and peace. His literary work inspired with highest purposes those who lent vision and mind to its perusal. He is gone, but the good he did lives after him. Sarrtsburg Patriot It may almost be said that what Scott did for Scotland, Whlttler did for New England. The most salient features of his verse were those also observable in his personal char actersincerity, simplicity, earnestness and manliness. London (.Ena.) Times. To his countrymen ot this generation and the last he has been the great anti-slavery bard. But he left no rancor after the contest closed. HU was the noblo warfare for a prinolple and contained no element of per sonal animosity. Wuhington Star. His conception of tho poet was rather of the vat t, or baid, who elevates, than that of thepociu, or maker, whose exclusive purpose is to please. In his view the possession of artistic powers implied a divine commission to lift, invigorate and purify mankind. New York Sun. Fon Mr. Curtis, Mr. Dougherty and other eminent Americans recently removed by the hand of death there are not wanting successors, but for tho quiet Quaker poet who has charmed two generations with his songs of love, hopoana patriotism thero is as yot no successor in sight. Cincinnati Times Star. As jl poet, he used his lyre with graco and skill and'thoughtfnlness, and his sweet mel odies, especially those of his younger days, won for him a high place in popular esteem. As a reformer, his nature underwent an in credible oha'nge and his pen became as a flaming sword to brand the offenders against tho laws of busjanlty. PfriJqdf'ptya Ledger, SEPTEMBER WEDDINGS. A Pretty Ceremony at-McKeesport Other Marriages at Wllklnsburg, East End and Allegheny City Eennion of the Wlne- mn Faml'y Gossip of Society. One of the Important weddings of this week was that of Miss Delia M. Chester, daughter of Captain L. P. Chester, of Mc Keesport, and Rev. Charles L. Smith, son of Rev. C. W. Smith, editor or the Christian Advocate. The marriage was performed by the father of the groom, at the residence of Captain Chester, in McKeesport, Wednesday evening. The wedding was to have taken place last evening, but was anticipated bo cause the boat upon which the yonng couple were to go to Les Cheneanx, in Canada, started on Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Smith will divide the neriod of their honeymoon betweon Mackinaw and Les Cheneanx. The bride wore a handsome white silk gown, elaborately trimmed with point lace, bright ened by diamond ornaments. She carried white roses. During tho service the bridal pair stood under au arch draped in apple green silk, looped up here and there with n lute rosebuds. Miss Chester was a grad uate of tho Indiana State Normal school, and white nnd green wero the colors of her college society. That sh was "true to her colors" was demonstrated by the lact that she had the whole honse decorated with them in variou forms. There was a large company to witness the ceremouy, nearly all of whom were rela-' tives or either the bride or groom, including Dr. and Mrs. Norcios. Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Smith, W. A. Lewis. E.q., and Mrs. Lewis. Dr. and Mrs. H. S. Lindloy and Dr. L. W. Lindloy, of Ferryaville; Dr. and Mrs. S. L. Blacklv, of W nshlngton county; Dr. T. H. Woodring, of McKeesport; Rev. S. W. Ter beush. pastor of the FlrU M. E. Church, of McKeesport; Rev. T. H. Wilkinson, assistant editor or tho Christian Advocate; Captain and Mrs Freoland Chester, Mls Cnllie O'Neil, Mr. and Mrs. S. F. Finloy, Miss Lizzie Stone, Miss Carrie Stone, Miss Jennio Knox, Miss Bertie Ludnick. Prof. Shanor and Harry Murphy, all of McKocsport; Miss Minnie Boyle, Braddock: John' Armstrong and wife, or Brownsville; Prol. T.D. Blalsdell, or Allo gneny High School; Mrs. J. M. Hemphill and daughter Edna, or Allegheny, and Mr. and Mis. Byam, of Bellevue; Miss Mary Murphy, Mis. Burt Collingwood and Miss Win Tied Miller, or Swissvale; Rev. and Mrs. M. A. Rtgg, of Hoynoldton, mid Dr. and Mrs. J. E. Riir-', or Wllkinsburg. The groom is paitor of tho First M. E. Church at Brownsville, Pa.,- where the couple will reside on their return from their honeymoon trip. Some very beautiful presents were received, which will add to the beauty as well as con venience of their new home.- Rev. C. W. Smith, Sr., presented the couple with a handsome volume entitled '-The Wedding Diy." Its contents are the mar riage certificate and the autographs of all the witnesses of the ceremony. A number of beautiful poems in addition, all relating to love and conjugal happiness, tend to make the book essentially a wedding gift. Last evening Miss Clara E. Muntzig, of Wllkinsburg, ecame the bride of Mr. E. R.' Baldingcr, of Allegheny City. Tho service was performed at tho homo of tho bride, Rebecca street, Wilkinsbnrg, Rev. Mr. Shue, of the German Lutheran Chnrch. Allegheny, officiating. The wedding was a quiet, home one, only the relatives and intimate friends being present. The attendants were Miss Louisa, sisterof the bride, and Mr. Frank J. Kummcr. After a supper, Mr. and Mrs. Baldlnger left for an Eastern trip. Their permanent home will be on Arch street, Allegheny. The residence of Mr. "W. H. Banker, Ellsworth avenue, was the scene of an in-' teresting ceremony last evening. His daughter, Miss Florine E.- Banker, was foincd in ina'rimony to Mr. G. T. P.Ice, Rev. Mr. Schmidt, of the East End. being the officiating clergyman. The wedding was a very quiet one, the bride wearing a dark 1 travolmg dress, and leaving foran extended Wes'ern tour on the Pennsylvania Railroad immediately after the ceremony. A noon wedding took place in Alle gheny City yesterday. Miss Helen R. Gilles pie, daughter of Mr: and Mrs. William K. Gllleopie, of Western avenue, was married at the house of her parents to Mr. Barker C. Wilson, proprietor of the Seventh Avenue Hotel. Rev. David Jones, .of the First M. P. Church of Pittsburg, read the impressive ritual of the Episcopal Church, using the ring and conforming to all the usiges of the Episcopalian;. This is something rather unusual, but It was dono- at the request of the younjj lady, who admired the marriage service ot that denomination and has always de'clared that it xhould be used when she be 'carne a bride. She wore a handsome white silk, garnished with point laco, while a long tulle veil enveloped her as in a cloud, and waB held in place by a spray of orange blos-J soms. one carne'i a oonquet 01 wince rose buds. Her little slsrers, Ada and Mabel, gowned In white silk with rosebuds twined prettily in thdr corage, were flower girls, and charming they looked, with their long dark hair banging loosely over their shoulders and their eyes glistening with the unwonted excitement. They walked before the bride to the arch of smilax and rosebuds near which the minister stood jeady to receive the couple. After the wed ding breaklast Mr. and Mrs. Wilson left for a Western trip of three weeks' duration. They will be "at home" at the Seventh Avenue Hotel on the 1st of November. Invitations are out for the marriage of Miss Josephine Carlotta Renshaw to Mr. Samuel Clarke Barbour, which is to take place Thursday evening, the 22d instant, at the Oakland M. E. Church. Rev. T. N. Eaton will perform the ceremony. The ushers will be Messrs. Frank Stewart, Isaac Jenkins, Chailcs Bradshaw, William Winterhalter, Lew Breeht nnd James Home. After the wedding there will be n reception to tho intimate friends of the couple at the resi dence of Mr. -and Mrs. George C. Roll, In Oakland. Among those who will be present will be the only st-ter of tho bride, Mrs. A. BUkovsky, of Boston, heiself a bride of last sprinsr, and Mr. Montague Renshaw, of Detroit, a nephew of the bride. After the reception the young conplo will leave for a two weeks' trip through the East, taking np their permanent residence in Oakland upon their return. Mr. Barbour holds a position of trust with the firm of Home and Ward and is an active memDer of the Oakland M. E. Church. Both he and the bride are well known in Oakland social circles- B. C Willson, proprietor of .the Seventh Avenue Hotel, was mawrled at noon yester day to Miss Helen Gillespie, a daughter of W. K. Gillespie. Tho knot was tied at the bride's homo on Western avenue by Rev. David Jones. The flower girls were Mabel and Ada Gillespie. The couplo left la the afternoon fora trip to the Pacific slope. The descendants of John and Maria Wineman, who came from Philadelphia and settled in Indiana township, this county, in ( 1814. assembled in R'dgeviow Park, West moreland county, yesterday. Bright skies and a glorious yet solemn mountain view furnished a fitting snrrounding to the pleas ure of the living and the recollections of the once stnrdy pioneers dead. John Wineman was a descendant or that family well known in Wurtemberz for two centuries ns the makers 01 Weinberger wine. Mario, his wife, was a Von Soverlgn, a family noted for its patriotism during the Revolution, and was first married to a son of Bertram, the celebrated botanist whose achievements recently furnished an elaborate article for Scribners. Among the manypresent were the three surviving children Frederick Wineman, of New Derry, Westmoreland county, Mrs. Rosanna MoMulIen and Mr. Mary J. Myler, wife, of ex-Postmaster Myler, of Allegheny. With them was the widow of Leonard Wine man, formerly of Tarentnm. this county, and tho widow ofJohn Wineman, Iato of Pulaski, Pa., while letters were read from the widow of James Wineman, late of Lead vllle, Col. After a dinner John A. Myler called the meeting to order, and it wns opened with prayer by the Rev. Frederick Wineman, Jr., songs of praise were sung, the family his tory was told by Lewis McMulien, Esq., aud family characteristics and lore bi ought ont of John C. Porter, Jr., Robert J. Davis, J. T. Atylor, Esq., and many of the sisters, couiins an nunti. All fervently sang "God Be With You Till We Meet Again," and adjourned for another yoar. Social Chatter. These was an 'Ice cream and cake social, with a lawrT lete, at 27 Locust street, Alle gheny, last evening, -under the auspices of Allegheny W. C. T. U. There-was a large at tendance, and the affair was a success from a social as well as pecuniary standpoint. Miss Grace Miller will resume her position- asIcadtng soprano at St. Paul's Cathe dral next Sunday. She has been at Frank-fore-on-the-Main, Germany, pursuing her musical studies. Her voice is much im proved by her foreign experience. There will be a meeting of the Women's Missionary Society or tho Allegheny Presby tery of the V. P. Church this afternoon in the Fourth TJ. P. Chhrcb, Allegheny. The objects and work of tho society will be dis cussed. Miss E,hma AhdebsoiT, who has been doing -missionary wort In India, is announced to give an illustrated lecture this evening la Canoosburg. CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. The woman tramp is increasing. Puget Sound furnishes 60-pono oysters. Machines for setting type were invente by Mitchell in 1354. . Kansas has seven newspapers edit and published by negroes. There are 30 towns called "Washing ton" in the United States. On an average between 2 and 3 p.m. li the warmest hour of the 24. Thucydides wrote his "History of th Peloponesian War" after he was 60 year, old. The moon Is apparently brought withlc 60 miles of the earth by the largest tele scope. The first telegraphic line in Ameritt was laid between Washington andBaltimcri in 1844. The linen manufactured yearly in Eng. land conld be wrapped round the earth seven times. The wardrobe of a gentleman who died In Connecticut the other day Included 5a pairs of stockings. Among Sir "William Harcourt's sup porters at Derby were two voters said to b 102 and 103 years of age. The largest sample of gold quartz ever mined in Montana was taken out of the Mo Intyre lode. Its weight Is 1,785 pounds. An Oklahoma girl was married by t judge, divorced by the same Judge and married to thesame Judge all in six months, In the official household of the Turkish Sultan nearly 20,000 pounds of bread are said to be used dally. They knead an awful deal of flour there. In the past century it is estimated that over 19,000,000 persons have been killed in the wars of civilized countries and 1,200,000 during the last 30 centuries. A fresh egg contains the same amount of nourishment as one and a half ounces of fresh meat and one ounce of wheaten bread, but in a more digestible form. A blue crane, a rare bird in that region, was shot the other day near Manistee, Mich. It measured six feet from tip to tip or wings and Ave feet from head to feet. An English scientist has thrown out a fanciful calculation on the number of ideas of which the human mind in the aggregate is capable, and arrived at a total or 3,655,760.- oca The new South Australian Ministry has a Premier aged 42, the Hon. Frederick Holder. The Chief Secretary of the ministry is 42. Tho Commissioner for Crown Lands Is 34. A recent survey has resulted in thy award to Delaware of about 700 acres here tofore counted Pennsylvania territory. The next peach crop should be unprecedently large. Holland has found a new remedy for wireworms in strewing good-sized pieces ot potatoes over the infested land which, when collected, are found to contain several worms. The German telegraph service has adopted copper-bronze wires and is replac ing all its iron and 9tecl wires by the new metal, which is used of a small dlameterand weighs about 180 pounds to tho mile. Anna Hallenbecb, an Albany widow, aged 40, who was taken to the Utlca Hospital for the Insane, has refused to partake of food for several days, becaue, she says, if she breaks her fast she will be stricken blind. A strange custom is followed by Mexi can farmers. They use oxen of one color in the. morning and another color in the after noon. They do not know why, but they know thnt it must be thn right thing to do, because their forefathers did It. The hunger cure wa3 at one time a very popular punishment in Siberia, but ths latest punishment invented Is thn eating of salted herrings. This is regarded as espec ially useful in the case of prisoners who re fuse to disclose secrets. Ireland has now a population of 4,704, 750, and has lost since the famine 3,415,400 by emigration alone in the same period. An other striking fact is that five-sevenths of these emigrants have been young persona between the ages of"20 and 45. The following advertisement appeared in the Birmingham Daily Post: "New Re ligion. Young gentleman is founding a new religion, which is sure to become popu lar, and desires a lady of means to assist him In the work Address ." Chickens have been acting as gold col lectors for J. A. McConville, of Butte, Mont. In one chicken's crop and gizzard he found some gold nuggets. Ho therefore killed the remainder of his brood, 31 in number, and found in them gold to tne amount of $387. An xrolite weighing 44 pounds fell on the farm of Lawrence Freeman, near Bath county, S. D.. the other day. The advent of the stone was heralded by several sharp ex plosions, w hlch were heard a distance of 15 miles or more and in some instances created considerable alarm. In "Bellavista, near Fortici, a small colony includes more than 20 people who are more than 90, years old, headed by a farmer azed lOS.who still works in the fields. They are all natives, and have lived with hardly any moat In their diet and drinking only rain water from a cistern. It is proposed that one ot Montana's contributions to tho World's Fair, to bo made by women of the State, shall be a foun tain made of natural ore. The design will be selected by open competition. It is sug gested that the base be made of native min erals, the bowl of silver, and the cup of gold. The most active volcanoes known are those on the island of Stromboli, in the Mediterranean, at Sanger, in Peru, and 3Iount Etna. For moro than 3,000 years the I Stromboli Mountain has discharged lava constantly: the one in Pern has been throw ing out masses of cinders, attended by terrific explosions, for 150 yearn, and Etna has a record of 81 eruptions since the sixth century B. C A florist says that the law governing the coloring of flowers makes a blue rseo impossible. According to this law the three colors, red, blue and yellow, never all ap pear in the same species of flowers; any two may exist, but never the third. Thus we have the red and yellow roses, but no blue; red and bine verbenas, but no yellow: yel low and blue in the various members of the viola famdy (as pansles, for instance), bnt no red; red and yellow gladioli, but no blue, and so on. ' SPICT SEPTEMBER Sl-RINKLE. Tommy Say, paw, Mr. Potts lost tha use of bis eyesight for near an hour last night. Mr. Flgg Why, I never heard of that. How did it happen? Tommy The 'lectrle lights went out. Indianap olis Journal. They say she's a creatnre of whims and moods. With nothing stable about her; This may be true, bnt she's chimin g, too. And we can't get along without her. Sew York Press, The Newly Wedded Of course I don't come to the clab any more. My wife makes home perfectly delightful to me. The Bachelor Why, I thought she was ont of town. The Newly Wedded Tea. she 1, Chicago Sew. THE SECRET OF HER SORROW. tin Boston. Sunday morninj. The maiden It weeping bitterly. 1 THE STKAKGER. "What sorrow gnaweth at thy heart? What grief Is In thy soul Hath name of parent. lover, friend. Been placed on Death's dark scroll?" THE MAIDEN. ' 'Ah. woe Is me 1 Alack I al as I Far worse than thai my plight; This day can h old no Joy for me The beans were bnrned last night." Frank Leslie's Weetlf. "Do yon think yon will always love m as much as yop do now?" he said, as they sat to gether on the sofa. "Toucan, gamble your last red I will." said the sweet and coy maiden, who iad been born and Jironght up In Chicago. Brooklyn Eagle. No words except of love he'd find, And when the end had come. Shesald: "What bills if Cnpld blind. Were also deaf and dumb?" Washington Star, Miss Eustique (to swell New Yorker) Do yon speak anything else than English, Mr. Clubman? Mr. C Aw, nnfawehnnately I do not, doncher- MImB.- 1 1 beg yoar pardon. I -thooght poedbry yoa ipoks xAnerlean. 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