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Is the virtue cone out of the standing
Democratic scare-crow.
That Mr. Jack Skelly, Caucasian and
Democrat, of Brooklyn, N. T., should be
pounded all over the stage, and finally
knocked outside the ropes in eicht rounds,
is an alarming demonstration of Negro
Domination in capital letters. Force of
this sort can never be permitted if tho
white race is to retain its supremacy. Is
civilization a failure, and is the Caucasian
played out? "What is to protect us against
the horrors of black supremacy if-the col
ored pugilist is permitted to slug the
white race in this barbarous but effective
fashion?
After certain esteemed Democratic co
temporaries have regained speech which
may be suspended by the first horror at
this awful thrashing of a white man by a
negro wo may expect a loud demand for
a new kind of force bill to prohibit such
terrible encroachments on the social and
professional sphere of the superior race.
Mr. McLeod's explanation which require
explaining, but Its mere statements are
enough to Illustrate how Inevitably the
monopoly wipes out Individual enterprise,
and how eternally it promises exactly the
opposite of what It performs. .
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PITTnURO. MONDAY. SKPT IS. 1831
WORK I" EARNEST.
The conference of the health authori-t-ties
of Pennsylvania, Ohio and West "Vir
ginia in this city yesterday shows that
(many public officials are keenly alive to
"the duty of the diy. The object of co
"ation in preventing the transmission
.JljCho'.era.shonld it get into the country.is
i a vital one, and all measures taken to that
end will receive the warmest public sup
port The energy with which Ohio and West
lrginia are taking hold of this matter is
commendable. West Virginia has already
begun the inspection of trains. Ohio has
provided for ten hospital camps, and has
the funds and force ready to carry out
stringent measures if necessary. There
is a humiliating contrast to this preparation
In the fact that the State Board of Health
of Pennsylvania is unable to do more than
issue orders, because the Legislature, with
an overflowingyreasury, has neglected to
providfunds for such an emergency. It
is onef the Idiosyncrasies of Pennsylva
nia politics that, while State funds are
superabundant for purposes which do not
benefit the public, they are doubly difficult
to obtain for the protection of the public
health and welfare.
It is to be hoped that the resolution of
-he conference in favor of securing a
temporary loan of 50,000 to provide pro
tection, will result in supplying the needed
'"ads. There can hardly be any emergency
clearly justifying extraordinary
nres than a situation Involving the
u of the entire population.
THE RETCHS OF PEARY.
The civilized v.orld will be glad to lear j
of the safe return of the Peary party f a
the glacier-covered plains of ice-girt C-om
land. A few days ago news camcrcen
the Arctic that the expedition h? from
ably met the fate of others that J prob
beforc. The special telegraphic ad gone
the Lieutenant himself inbetter from
The Dispatch the firsthis issue of
of his deliverance "i- announcement
all fears and-' urse sets at rest
hs- com ling to those who
e been awaiting news from the expe
dition as well as the public at large."'
But are the scientific, geographical and
geological discoveries of this last Arctic
adventure worth the anxiety and risk?
Human life is too precious to jeopardize
in expeditions to regions out of which lit
tle can come of great benefit to the store
-t-uiiman knowledge. A book of ad
from the pens of those
nough to survive may
r; a study of the Inhabitants
' de of living may be interest-
- of the mountains of ice and
plains of snow may be worth reproducing;
the bric-a-brac collected and brought back
to civilization may be worth exhibiting
and that's about all.
Commercially and scientifically these
Arctic follies are too r.sky and too ex
pensive. Still, the safe return of Lieu
tenant Peary, after the sacrifice of but
one life, will only fire the hearts of other
adventurers the more, and expeditions
will go even though few return.
POINTS TOR ACTION.
The Medical Hews of last week contains
a large addition to the cholera literature
of the day from the pens of eminent
specialists. The most prominent article
Is by Dr. E. O. Shakespeare, of Philadel
phia, and its points are such as should re
ceive national attention.
The two conclusions which Dr. Shake
speare makes clear by exhaustive dis
cussion are: First, what The Dispatch
has held ever since an incursion of
cholera was threatened, that a complete
safeguard is only to be interposed by the
suspension of immigration during the
period of danger. The facts which made
this already evident are addejj to and en
forced by this undoubted autnority.
Dr. Shakespeare': main point, however,
is the equally strong one that the Na
tional Government should take charge of
quarantine at all frontiers. The essay
shows at length that State quarantine
necessarily varies in efficiency, and in the
majority of cases is not sapphed with tho
accommodations and appliances neces
sary for such an emergency. It also
demonstrates that the money loss of a
single epidemic overbalances ths cost of
maintaining the best quarantine at all
points of entry for a century. It points
out that a national quarantine would be
uniform in its action, and, properly or
ganized, it would command means of ef-
Oun cotemporary, the Pittsburg Post, yes
terday colobratod Its fiftieth. anniversary,
and marked tho occasion by the Initial nnm
bar of Its Sunday edition. Oar cotemporary
has bad many deserved compliments on the
high standard of character it has main
tained steadily through the varying experi
ences of tho hair century. The .Port, as the
Democratic organ, lias of course often urged
views oat of harmony with the political ma
jority in this region. Hat it has generally
done so with such dignity and good temper
as to win the respect of opponents as woll as
f i lends. Its first Sunday issue promises well
for those that nre to follow. Among the
changes which have come in the SO years of
the-Poji's life is the notable one that with
some few exceptions the prominent papers
In the country nre now l9sned every day in.
the year. TheiW sensibly Joins the procos
sion; and the excellent character of its daily
issue will Insure its Sunday issao a success
ful reception from tho start.
KING ARTHUR'S COUNTRY.
The cruiser Cincinnati will be launched
and appropriately oil listened this week, but
the Pittsburg is still a phantom ship.
The ri'eor with which the Democratic
organs of Sew York are attempting to dem
onstrate that the Democratic statistical
officeholder Feck is incompetent and dis
honest, presents an awful example of tho
distressing exigencies of politics.
tlyris now reported that a yacht race for
.!...' .,.i. j-!,.- iv " America's cup will tako place next year,
ficiency Impossible under the present locn.;n whlcn tb0 mperor William's yaohi
The proposition to send young Sir. Cor
bett to Congress from Calllornia was to have
been expected. It Is mado in the case of all
successful pugilists, the example of tho
Hon. John Morrissey bavins started the
emulation. Perhaps Mr. Corbett would bo
an Improvement on some of the present
CaIi:ornia Congressmen; but he should -
strike out for something original, if pps,
ble. Cut as this closes to him the sty" j.
Legislature and the pulpit, all .o. the
have been Invaded by tho puc'" 0f "which
slon, it Is much to bo feared 4lstj0 profes
low one beatenpathormruat ue wlu foi.
Tothor.
It is not to be supw
was on the bill ofioged that boiled crow
Democratic bannrra at the reconciliation
thcless the h
quet
New York. Never
position to jrVnnniTp,! statesmen are in a
after theestlfy that they do not hanker
jfuish.
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A SEW STATISTICAL METHOD.
The Baltimore Sun, in the same issue in
which it makes an obituary notice of
Whittler by charging him with having
grossly libelled Stonewall Jackson in
"Barbara Frietchie," adds to the squirms
of the Democratic organs on the report of
Statistician Peck, of Xew York. It dis
covers that Peck's figures were founded
on Reports of the employers of labor. Now
the Sun wishes figures collected from the
wage earners before it can have any faith
in the report even of a Democratic statis
ticianwhen his figures do not come out
as the Democratic organs wish.
The idea of obtaining exact and con
clusive statistics of money paid in wages
from the men who keep no books, and
most of whom could not remember what
has been paid to them for a year past, Is
unique, to say the least Thus, If a sta
tistician wishes to leara what has been
paid in wages to the compositors, press
men and reporters of that newspaper, he
must not accept the showing of the pay
rolls of the office. He must take each
compositor, pressman and reporter in the
Intervals of labor and ask him to figure up
with pencil and paper the weekly sums he
has received for a year past Only in this
way can wage statistics be obtained which
will satisfy the Democratic heart
This is hard lines for the statisticians,
but we are glad to learn that one of. the
cult has done his best to come up to this
latest requirement One Peele, of In
diana, has been Inquiring Into wages. He
is "a Democrat of Democrats," has held
office as such for 15 years, and his report
Is based on the testimony of the wage
earners themselves. Sadness, if not in
dignation, will agitate the esteemed Sun
when it learns that earnings "during the
past year have been larger than previously
to a material extent"
The country will now wait with breath
less interest to learn from the Democratic
gans whether Peele is another "traitor"
tvhetber be is simply an addition to the
list of "incompetents" whom Democratic
State administrations seem to ha ve a knack
of putting into office.
quarantine arrangements.
These conclusions are u:
They should prompt immed.'i
The Government should first cuaction.
main source of danger by stajwoff the
gration, and that step sbowrfpping immi
as soon as possible bylegiKd be followed
ing a thoroughly oratslation establish
system under natiojgfanlzed quarantine
borders. yl control at all our
TRANSF-
Mr. HjOKMATKJN 0F iHE POINT.
develogelow's foreign trips have so far
baclyfled the happy result of bringing
Thpsome decided benefit to the city.
VJ one from which ho returned last
eek Is shown elsewhere to have pro
duced a project that promises the much
needed and long hoped for transforma
tion of the Point district
A sixty-foot avenue extending from
Water to Sixth street, parallel to Penn
avenue and equidistant between it
and Duquesne way, would give
a stimulus to improvements that
should result in the rebuilding of
that locality in the next decade. The
place has been a disfigurement to Pitts
burg for 20 years past It Is, however, a
natural business center, and with the
Schenley management warmly committed
to its improvement we may hope to see it
filled with the best clashes of business
architecture by the end of the century.
This project, for which the Chief of the
Department of Public Safety has secured
the approval and co-operation of Mrs.
Schenley, the chief property-owner af
fected, with the attendant feature of a 100
foot square for the historic block-house,
foreshadows almost as radical improve
ments in the old Point district as have
already been secured by the same official
for the eastern portions of the city.
I Meteor and a new yacht to be built by Lord
I Dunraven will contest the ownership of the
.ble. I 0UP hy the Yankee clippers. This will add a
a.w n .. ww.. is, .v ms .11 n- urn. una. .vt.u.a
of 1S93, if the story does not prove a product
of leportorial imagination.
Pugilist Shelley, after beinsr thumped,
pounded and otherwise knocked out by
Pugilist Dixon, of African descent, is fully
prepared to adopt the New YorkiSun' cam
paign cry of "No Negro Domination-"
Governor Pattison seems to be of
opinion that municipalities should furnish
all the funds to fight the cholera. If a germ
should slip through quarantine and reach
Harrlsburg by rail be might change his
mind. Then ic would.be too late. Governor.
Now's the time to be generous and active.
Tnosc persons who persist in writing
annovmous communications pointing oat
unhealthy spots in different sections of the
city presumably have dirty backwards of
their own.
When all the Hamburg-American Steam
ship Company's vessels are quarantined in
New York harbor it will perhaps cease its
function of shipping infected people to this
country. That may be the one effective
method of stopping its efforts to spread the
cholera in this country.
TrfE Cholera Banks have furnished pleas
ure for New Yorkers, but the cholera ships
anchored on the port side of those shoals
are anything bnt pleasant.
WniLE hopes that quarantine will pro
tect the country are gaining ground, tbe
work of sanitation should be kept up. Tbe
testimonv of experience in Europe that
cholera cannot attack tboronghly clean com
munities shows where safety lies.
DoarrxATioN or the negro.
If not the force bill, at least force to a
superlative degree, and negro domination
without a doubt, was manifested In" the
unusual sphere of that great fistic sym
posium at New Orleans. If the Demo
cratic organs which have been raising a
campaign cry over the ghost of those Ideas
do not rise up and express Caucasian hor-f
aror at the concrete manifestation of negro
domination mat occurred nnder the,
ar )Icp" '" New Orleans gentry then'
I
MONOPOLISTIC PLANS.
The investigation of the anthracite coal
combination by a NewTork legislative
committee, which has been dragging along
for months, evolved some very remarka
ble testimony from Mr. A. A. McL3od
on Wednesday. At a hearing early after
the formation of the combination McLeod
testified to the effect that tho deal was
not expected to advance prices. On the
contrary it was its purpose to introduce
economies in the production and handling
of coaL This uniform purpose, in profes
sion, of all monopolistic combinations hav
ing resulted in the usual practice of ad
vancing prices about a dollar per ton, the
occasion seemed a very good one for Mr.
McLeod to explain.
No one can accuse him of having do dged
that function. He explained to a degree
that took the breath out of the committee.
It was a misconstruction of his remarks to
suppose that there was to be no advance
on the abnormal and depressed prices of
January, 1892. These prices were pro
duced by a ruinous competition, as Mr.
McLeod avers, with an unusual recogni
tion of the purpose of cutthroat wars to
force a combination. As compared with
the prices of July, 1891, there has been
an advance of 37 cents, and another of
25 cents is ordered. This little addition of
525,000,000 to the coal bill of the con
sumers, ho thinks, ought not to be ob
jected to since anything less amounts to
an actual loss on the production of
coal
However, McLeod is going to make mat
ters all right by a scheme which he un
folded for the first time before the dazzled
eyes of the committee. This Js nothing
more or less than the establishment of a
monopoly In the wholesale and retail
trade of New York City. Of course, like
all other monopolies, this will decrease
charges. They alwas do when their
prospectus is before the legislative com
mittee and McLeod puts the saving to
the consumer at 75 cents per ton. After
all the outsiders in the anthracite coal
trade have been wiped out everything will
be lovely. The only reason why the Read
ing has not introduced this charming little
reform already is that It has been "har
assed by inimical legislation."
A large amount of commentary Is pos
sible on the suggestions of this statement
The first Is that in its showing the litiga
tion is more Important than McLeod's
other utterances would suggest A short
time ago the decision of a New Jersey
court was of no more Importance to the
Beading than to the Sioux Indians. Now
it seems to have hampered his beneficent
scheme of extending the monopoly to the
point where the coal is dumped on the
consumer's sidewalk. Then, too, if the
scheme contemplates reducing charges to
the consumer 75 cents, why is it neces
sary to await a monopoly? The man or
corporation who sells coal 75 cents per
ton cheaper than anyone else should not
rely on external influences to shut out
competition.
There are a great many other things in
The cholera anxiety is likely to give ns
a very short political campaign. The doc
trine of compensations insists on getting in
Its work.
fjiyorites of fortune.
The charge of heresy against Professor
Smyth, of Andover Tneologlcal Seminary,
has at last been dismissed for good.
Kino Humbert, of Italy, takes great
delight in amateur cooking, in which useful
occupation be shows great skill.
The Queen of Denmark is an enthusias
tic musician, and passes her leisure hours
playing piano dnets with her daughters.
Congressman Sphinges has entirely
recovered from his recent illnessand intends
to devote himself vigorously to campaign
work.
Professor James Halt., the venerable
State Geologist, of New York, will have
charge of the geological display of the Em
pire State at.the World's Fair. j
The Empress of Japan is noted for her
skillful manipulation of tbe koto, a Japanese
musical instrument that somewhat resem
bles tbe zither of German origin.
Bear Admiral Luce, on the retired
list of the United States Navy, has an lved
at Madrid to take charge of the American
exhibits for the Columbus Exposition.
The favorite employment of the Prince
of Montenegro is the composition of war
songs and historical dramas, in which he
delights to sing and act with great vigor.
Sir John Caldwell Abbott, Premier
of the Dominion of Canada, has been per
suaded to postpone his retirement from
politics for a lew months, and expects to
sail for Liverpool in a few weeks.
Mn. Bobert Garrett's coaching party
is creating a sensation among tbe residents
of the Austrian Alps. A five-horse drag heads
the procession. The party has already
crossed the St. Gothard, Stilfserjoch and
Flnstermnng Passes.
i
ritubargers In New Tork.
Nzw York, Sept. 1L Special. The fol
lowing Pittsburgers are registered here:
J. A. Alexander, Broadway Central; A
Avermann, St Denis; F. Bakewoll, Plaza
Hotel; n. L. Clark, Windsor Hotel; L. Close,
International Hotel; A. Cunningham, Tre
mont; A. V. Davis, Murray HU1; J. T.
Demlston, Murray Hill: J. W. Gillette,
Grand Hotel; Mrs. J. W. Gimpsay, Metropol
itan; S. Harris, Barrett House; G. Hodges.
St. Denis Hotel; H. C Hull, Now York Hotel:
J. O. James, Broadway Central; T. C Jen--
Kins, Hotel imperial; ii. h. Livingston, As-
tor iiousc; xr. ixiy, ou uenis Hotel; J. Ji.
MacFarlane, Hoffman; J. MoCanel, Metro-
Solitan; W. McCrelght, Morton House;
. S. McKee, Hotel Imperial; D. W. Mo
Xanghter, Gllsey; J. J. Miller. Hoffman
House; Mrs. E. Mills, St. Denis Hotel: H. B.
Moorhead, Windsor; J. P. Murphy, Oriental
Hotel; G. T. Price, bturtevant House; M. G.
Robertson, Sturtevant; G. D. Sells, Tremont
Hotel; J. U. Smith, Gllsey House; G. Welsh,
Hotel ImpenalKT. W. Welsh, Hotel Im
perlaLi NEW WEINKLE OF THE DTOES.
It's a Bontonnlere of Half a Dozen Roses
Instead of One.
New York, Sept 11. When Delia Fox, tbe
soubrette of the Hopper opera company,
skipped out on the stage of the Broadway
Theater the other night In Jinca Mataya'a
dress suit she wore seven white rose
buds bunched in the lapel of her Tuxedo
drers coat It was an odd and conspicuous
ornamentation of tbe coat front that at
tracted general attention.
It is a new fashion of the ultra dudes who
maintain that the proper caper is to sport at
least half a dozen rosebuds in place of the
single, flower of last season. Broadway flor
ists have already prepaied to meet tbe new
fashion. It is more profitable than tbe old
stvle. and it is 'estimated thnt tho awall
boutonntere will cost at least 1 as thU fall.
rWBITTMI rOB THE DISPATCH. I
We left the train at Tresmeer, where
the railway comes to an end, and rode down
toCamelot by conch. Here the Judicious
traveler, who has thus far journeyed with
his Bradsbaw In one band and his Baodekor
In tbe other, betake i himself to Tennyson.
For Bradsbaw pays no becd to coaches, and
Baedeker declares that Arthur and
Guinevere, and Launcelot and Merlin, and
all the rest of that Knightly and delightful
company never existed. And that, in the
midst of King Arthur's country, as ono rides
down to Camelot, and expects to-morrow to
push on to tho cliffs or Tlntagel who can
credit? The past is more real than the pres
ent Poetry is truer than tbe guide-book.
Here they lived and loved and thrust each
other through with lances; here they held
their Jousts and tournaments; on these
green downs they pitched their tenta of blue
ana scarlet, and on beyond, as we look to
ward it from the ooach-top, the roof and
turrets of many-towered Camelot rose
among tho trees.
On either side the river lie
Long fields of barley and of rye.
That clothe the wold and meet Hie sty;
And thro1 the field the road runs by
To many tower'd Camelot.
And up and down the people go.
Going where the lilies blow
Bound an island there below.
The Island of Sbalott.
There nre no towers to day in Camelot All
that the imaginative tourist sees is a wind
ing street lined with houses of grey stone,
built down close to the roadway, with ga '
dens behind, but moio in front, quaint ":
fashioned, interesting, picturesqne old
way, but not suggestive o t' " m 'their
A Knight in armor worf - Ilfe of courts.
of place. Enid at" -?ild loob; cunously out
tinue of whtfnfo Elaine, and all that "re
llttle In con- kJ-handcd women, would find
ingmen wVnjon wltn tn0 wives of the woik
the bar ao ,lv0 fn tU8 pla,n house9. But
lwr . ley fields still line the way into the
.n, and the little river, though sadly
shrunken, still winds through it, and they
still nave "blue unclouded weather" there,
as I can personally bear witness. And surely
he must have but a lame and feeble fancy
who cannot see the line old pictures gleam
in the old frame.
Where Knights May Hare Prayed.
I took a long walk in the dusk of a de
lightful evening through the meadows, fol
lowing the windings of the river, to a gray
church which stands solitary upon the green
summit of a hill. Tho Knights may have
said their prayers there as they sallied forth
In quest or chlvalno adventure. I conld not
find the island on which tbe ruins of the
castle of the Lady of Shalott ought to be dis
covered, coveied with ivy. Ihe river is not
anywhere, so far as I could see, big enough
to hold an island. But further search would
no doubt have brought it into sight And I
coald Imagine well the "four giay walls and
four gray towers," and could see the funeral
barge of Elaine come floating down the
shining river, and on the highways the
Knights come riding two and two.
Sometimes a troop of damsels glad.
An abbot on an ambling pad.
Sometimes a curly shepherd lad.
Or long-haired page la crimson clad.
Went by to towered Camelot
"The eve sees what it brines of seeing."
Every traveler knows how true that is.
No two people see alike. Between the
Camelot of Tennyson and the Camelford of
Baedeker, what a significant difference! I
met a man at Boseastle who told me that in
his opinion Camelford was the worst old
hole he had ever been unfortunate enough
to stay In "beastly stuffy place," he found
it. Either he had no eyes, or no Imagina
tion, or no Tennyson, or no dinner.
A Walk Beside. tho Sea.
The next notable stopping place in
King Arthur's country is Tlntagel. We
took a pony trap to Trebarwith, along by
tho slate quarries, where the sea rolls m
finely overabeaoh without a pebble. The
great cliffs stand guard on the sides of Tre
barwith strand. There is a vast rockontin
the sea, around which gulls are flying. The
bases of the cliffs aro black with mussel
shells.
Here we started in upon a walk beside the
sea, along tbe edge of the steep cliffs. From
Trebarwith to Tlntagel, from Tlntagel to
the Bocky Valley, there is a winding path,
sometimes np and sometimes down; some
times by tho ocean and sometimes through
the meadows among the sheep. Most of It
easy enough, but here and there descending
the perpendicular face of a great bluff and
climbing np again on tbe other side. There
is nothing finer in England than this walk
along the cliff tops of the Cornish Sea, You
get tbe breath of the ocean in your face, and
the wide reaches of it stretching on and on
westward toward America shine in your
eyes, and the rocks are black and brown and
red at your feet, and the green meadows are
dotted with white flocks, and always some
where on the sky lino there is the square
tower of an ancient church.
So you arrive at Tintgel, where, in the
story, Arthnr was born, and where there are
stU the ruins of an old grim castle which
they call King Arthur's, part of It on the
mainland, with the round keep crown
ing tbe cliff, and part of it on a broken
Island up whioh yon climb along a precip
itous path. One reads "The Lady of Sha
loth" at Camelot, but at Tlntagel "The Com
ing of Arthnr." You sit upon a weather
beaten stone of that old fortress and palace,
which the Knights did really live in even
Baedeker allows ns to believe that and
look down into the chasm whore in Merlin's
day tho wave of Are rolled In bringing the
babe, and there read the svory of tbe "Idylls
of tbe King," and you possess thereafter an
edition of Tennyson which nobody can buy
lit any bookstore, which you will alwaya
read with the blue sky and the blue water
In the wide margin, and the oastle on tho
frowning cliffs set in for Illustration be
tween the pages.
Fast Picturesque Places.
At Boseastle, whore there is one of the
queerest little harbors in the world, we took
the coaoh, and thus made tbe remainder of
Journey through Cornwall and Devonshire,
which lasted nearly a week, included
Clovelly, the most picturesque plaee in Eng
land, and Lynton and Lynmoutb, which
would be most wonderful If Clovelly
had never been dlsooverod, and even beside
Clovelly are well worth a visit, and ended in
a ride of 20 miles from Lynmouth to Mine
head through a blinding rain,"whlch made
sight seeing impossible, wrecked umbrellas,
and drenched all the adventurous tourists
who undertook it, dampening everything
except good spirits.
Even in a rainstorm there is delight In
tho top of a coach. Nobody has seen En
gland who has not seen it from a coach top.
The roads are hard and smooth, without a
rut, without a hump or a pnddle or a ditch,
and wide enough for two great eoaohes,
driven four-ln-nand, to pass. There are
highways in the wildest part of Cornwall
and among the moors of the Lorna Doono
county in Devon, which are as good as the
best avenue in Pittsburg. As for the worst
avenue and tbe name of it is legion its like
cannot be fonnd in English speaking lands
on this side tho Atlantic ocean. I suppose
there is no thoroughfare on all this island
which Is not at least a hundred times better
than a great many well settled streets la the
East End.
Though this, after all. Is an encouraging
faot, not a discouraging one. It means that
wo are still growing. We are still unfinished.
We are still looking forward rather than
back, and placing our golden age In the
future, not In the past, Imperfection la an
essential element of progress. Every coun
try haa the defeots of Its qualities. And
there are compensations manifold about
living In a town which grows too fast for Its
good streets to keep up with it
PBEJUDICE AQAINBI GLADSTONE
Plainly to Be Seen Among German States
men and Politicians.
rBT C1BI.1I TO THI DISPATCH.
BEBtnr, Sept. 1L The dignity or Emperor
William's rescript suspending the maneu
vers In the annexed provinces is In pleasing
contrast to the recent ebullitions of Presi
dent Carnot, who bns been hugging children
in Russian colors and booming generally, in
eccentric ways, tbe cause of the dual alli
ance. Tho rescript, which was ad
dressed to the Stattbalter, has been
posted throughout Alsaco and Lor
raine. It expresses His Majesty's
regret that the welfareof the empire,in view
of the prevalence of tbe cholera, compels
him to abandon the boped-for sojourn
among his true subjects, to whom he has be
come so cordially attached. President Car
not's performances are leferred to contemp
tuously, find the newspapers seem to find
little significance in bis Journey and inti
mate association with the people of theCzar.
In well-informed quarters the matter is not
passed over so light, as it is believed to prcs
sage increased Busso-French aotlvlty against
England in Morocco, Egypt and Asia.
It is taken for granted here that Lord
Salisbury had bound himself to aid the
Dreibund in certain emergencies, one of
which was an attack of France upon Italy.
Few doubt that Lord Boseberry will repudi
ate the understanding in question and thus
sacrifice all claim upon the support of the
Dreibund in the expected time of trouble.
The prejudice against the Gladstonian
government is strong amonc German
politicians and statesmen who prophesy
that it . yiP " -"ollow
tho . . -f
v . . trv- to - 1
traditional British noltov " .
waving Continental States pull Great Brit
ain's chestnuts out of the flie for her. Men
of Influence with tbe Berlin Government
smile when It Is suggested that Lord Bose
berry expects to enjoy all the moral advan
tages of the Dielbund's friendship while
CAMPAIGN NEWS AND COMMENT.
Hushroom political clubs are to be ad
mitted to the State Bepublican League on
an equal footing this year. The" Dalzell
Koblnson struggle was the emergency which
called for their exclusion, and there is ap
parently no contest of any kind this time.
In discussing the subject, President Robin
son said: "This is a Presidental year, and I
believe in lotting down the bars and admit
ting every club that is able to raise the initi
ation fee. We want to arouse the interest
and enthusiasm of the young men of the
State, and I know of no better way of doing
it than by forming them Into political
clubs." Arrangements for tbe State con
vention of clubs at Wllliamsport are being
completed, and it is announced that there is
every prospect of a large attendance. The
national club convention meets at Buffalo
this week, commencing at 10 a. it. Wednes
day. Over 1,000 active delegates, from every
State in the Union, together with represen
tatives from the College League, Women's
Republican Association and nearly 1,000
more workers, are expected to be on the
floor when President Claikaon delivers bis
opening address. A notable feature of the
convention will be the great women's Be
publican mass meeting to be held on Friday,
September 18, under the ansplces of the
Women's Bepublican Association of the
United States, with Mrs. J. Ellen Foster,
President, in the chair. Among the speak
ers who will address the convention are
Governor William McKlnley, Jr., or Ohio; J.
Sloat Fassett, E. O. Woleott, John M. Thurs
ton, J. P. Dolllver, Charles S. Morris and
others of equal prominence. Pittsburg's
clubs are to be well represented.
STATE BANK CIRCULATION.
holding himself free from all pledjies to the
three peace powers. Germany and Austria
niojamiorave ugreeu to ine sansoury un
derstanding solely to please Italy, whose
long sea coast causes Tier much anxiety In
view of the powerfulness of the French
navy.
THE POPE APPJ10VES THS BELIC3
Majqr HenrtWutn heads the P
" " ""wo' -eople's
party tlLkvS iu Massac...!. ..s.' He will
probably pronouce it differently after November.
In a Latter Sent From the Vatican to Mgr.
O'Kellly, New Tork.
New York, Sept 1L It any proof were
-seeded that Romo sets the stamp of authen
ticity upon the relics of St Ann. recently
brought to New York, a communication re
ceived yesterday by Mgr. O'Reilly from the
Pope should bo of Interest to all concerned.
It is dated at Rome, August 22, and reads as
follows:
The Holv Father has received your two letters of
the 3d and 4th of the present month, and has learned
from them, to the great consolation of his soul, the
details of the religious movement that has .taken
place among your people during the last month:
and of the salutary eflects produced br the impulse
given to the devotion toward the Holy Mother of
the Most Blessed Virgin. He lias, therefore, charged
me to thank you for tho comfort you have given
him by these accounts, and to communicate to you
the apostolic bcnedlctlo, which he gives you from
tbe bottom of his heart.
While thus most gladly fulfilling His Holiness'
sovereign commands. I have the happiness of ln-
twiiuiujt juu .nab iiig xiuiy ramer uas receiveo,
with pleasure the petition or the Canadian Bishops
and has appointed jou Prothonotary Apostolic.
Reserving to myself to send you In due time the
brief regarding tnls appointment I beg to sub
scribe m seir. with sentiments of distinguished es
teem. Your most affectionate and devoted servant,
M. Card. Raupolla.
MOR. BERNARD O'REILLY, 1(CW York.
The foreiolng letter from the Vatloan was
in responso to a letter from Mgr. O'Reilly to
the Pope, giving him an account of the safe
arrival of thoiclics and the extraordinary
scenes that followed their exposition in the
New York church where they now repose.
TO MOVE ON BEADING.
AH the Labor Leaders to Visit and En
deavor to Impress McLeod.
Philadelphia, Sept. 11. Chief Arthur, of
the Brotheihood of Locomotive Engineers,
arrived here to-day, and with Chiet P, H.
Morrissoy, of the Brakemen, Chief S. A.
Wilkinson, of tbe Trainmen's Brotherhood,
held a conference with the committee of
Reading Railroad employes who
are here submitting their griev
ances to the Railroad officials.
The men expect Chief Ramsey, of the Tel
egraphers, clerk of the conductors' organi
zation, Powderly, of the Knights of Labor,
and Gompers, or the Federation of Labor,
to Join them in tbelr.next visit to President
McLeod, when it is believed that an em
phatic protest will be made against the atti
tude of the railroad company toward organ
ized labor.
A special from Hazelton savs that 200
members of tbe Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers held a secret meeting to-day, in
wblob the differences between the Reading
and its employes were discussed.
TnE Democratic canvass is progressing
very ravorably in England according to
A. C. Bowen, who haa Just arrived at New
York after a four months' sojourn in
Europe. During his residence abroad he
made a complete collection of British news
papers bearing upon American politics.
with particular reference to the tariff. "I
paid close attention," he said, "to all tbe
political conditions. I was surprised at the
bitter feeling which seems to exist among
the manufacturing Interests against tbe
people or the United States. And It's the
tariff that has caused It Englishmen Inter
ested in manufacturing deeply resent tbe
recent changes In 'our American tariff law,
upon the ground that they attack directly
the dearest interests of the British trade.
They don't relish having Americans using
American products to the detriment of Great
Britain. Throughout England there was a
?;eneral feeling of relief and pleasure at the
allure of Mr. Blaine's nomination, but this
Joy was turned to deepest sorrow by the
adoption on the part of the Democrats of a
free trade plank, because the English would
much prefer that the Democrats In this
country should appeal to the people on a
lauu sbiauaie, wnicu wouia nonnguien one
of the Democratic party Democratic protec
tionists. At this Juncture, Just after the
Demooratio Convention at Cbicago, when
the Tlmt learned of the. free trade plank, it
concealed its bitter disappointment In this
characteristic sentence of Jnne 21, 1892: 'The
question is whether the Democratic party
generally are prepared to go so far." Mr,
Bowen has arranged his foreign dippings in
a book, and turned them over to the Repub
lican Committee for use during the campaign.
A Good Democrat KepreU That nil Party
Is Committed to an Unsound Financial
Measure Matthew Marshall's Objec
tions to a Ravlval of a State Banknote)
Issue.
rsraciAi. iiaaiiK to the dispatch.!
New York, Sept 1L Matthew Mar
shall's article for to-morrow's Hun, on "State
Bank Circulation," is as tollows:
Party managers are evidently going to
make the most they can out of the Demo
cratic declaration at Chicago in favor of re
viving tho circulation of State banks by
repealing the 10 per cent tax which tbe act
of Congress now imposes upon it. President
Harrison denounces the proposition vigor
ously in his letter accepting his renomina
tion, Secretary Blaine urges that opposition
to It shall be one of tbe three prominent
issues of tbe Republican Presidental cam
paign, and the Secretary of the Treasury
prepared an elaborate argument against It
for the bankers' convention at S?n Fran
cisco, which, though not read a3 it was in
tended to be, is still available for future use.
The Republican newspapers have obediently
taken up the cry, and they will doubtless be
followed by the Republican stnmp orators,
all over this section of tbe country at least
As a good Democrat, desiring the success
of my party in the coming fall elections, I
must confess that I regret its having been
even apparently committed to a measure
which seems to me so be sonnwise as the ad
dition to our already redundant paper
o'tman ' ap" banknote "
money li oUua wii. .Trunlim-
ited in amount and necessarily of varying
current values must surely be. The
section in the Chicago platform which
does this must I think, have been
adopted without duo consideration,
and I hope that Mr. Cleveland, In his forth
coming letter of acceptance, will not only
not give it his approval, but distinctly repu
diate it.
Not at AH a Democratlo Principle.
So far from embodying any Democratic
principle, it is opposed to all the ancient
traditions of the party. Denunciations of
banks and bank shin-plasters, accompanied
by eulogies of hard money, were, until the
war, lndispenslble Constituents of 'every
Democratic platform, and though latterly a
few Western Democrats havo coquetted
Wjjth the greenback and tbe free sliver her
esies, they are recreant to the faith of their
fathers, and deserve expnlsion from the
company of true believers. The new re
cruits to tho party from this part of the
country, who seem to fancy that everything
which the Republicans denounce must be
supported, and who, therefore, are feeling
aronnd for specious arguments in favor of
State bank clrcnlAtinn. are not Pennine Dem-
f ocrats, but only mercenaries who have tein-
poriiy joined usior purposes of their own,
CDRI0US CONDENSATIONS.
A writer in the Boston Transcript has
figured np that heaven contains 1,800.000,00(1
soul against a population in hell of 175,000,
000,000. There are ten places of the earth, distant
from each other 300 milea and upwards, and
Jot none of the ten has either latitude or
ongitnde.
There is a large and famous country on
the continent of Africa, many of whose in
habitants are born perfectly deaf and others
stone blind.
The "Moving Stone" at Lexington ia
one of the most remarkable freaks of
nature In the State of Kentucky, tbe great
caverns alone excepted.
It is said that the n nderslze of the French
and their physical shortcomings as a nation
are due for the most part to the heavy drain
made upon the race 'jy Napoleon.
The snake tribe, Punjab say that
that the bites of an J. -ot hart them
and if tbey And a dii J Mr dress It
in clothes and iveies do
Tii. ...i..i ad serpent the.,
The ancient ita gnperb funeral.
wTnea'ga "TV???
gold, haa come rf,8hlnS the Maharajah of
T, ,.st an equivalent weight of
It appears Jnnd again in Hindoostan.
fo7Kanghrom the Kew SulUtin that
this exMnslT8 Deen drinking orchid tea
of late. ,Bnd hat the consumption of
.. i delicacy has much Increased
'.Company ick' Dear Ware' 1".
- - Premises of the Smokeless Powder
. . the only works of the kind in the
kingdom. These works cover no fewer than
128 acres of ground.
The quantity of heat accumulated In
Lake Leman during the summer is,
according to M. Forel, equivalent to that
nhloh would be given out by the burning oi
51,000,000 tons of coal. -
THE VEBMONT BETDEHS,
Fuller's Majority Over All Abont 18,000
Democrats Lose Representatives.
White River Junction, Vt., Sept It Re
turns have been received from all of the 232
towns in tbe State except Groton and Stan
nard and Caledonia county. Assuming that
the vote of the two towns not heard from
is relatively same as those reported Fuller's
majority over Smalley is 19,625, and over all
17,900 In the whole State. Comparing the
vote with 1SS3, tbe Republican loss is 9,678,
and the Democratlo loss 341. Comparing
with 1S90, tbe Republican gain Is 5,339, and
the Democratlo loss Is 121.
The returns show 41 Democratic represen
tatives elected, 19 less than in 1890, and two
Citizens' candidates. Richmond, a Repub
lican luwn, uauoteu until tnis lorenoon,
when Thomas Hently, Democrat, was
elected.
GERMANY MAKES HEB CHOICE
Of a Delegate to the Monetary Conference,
Bnt Doesn't Relieve In It.
fBT CABLE TO THE DISPATCH. 1
Berlin, Sept 1L The JVetfionor Zettung an
nounces that Privy Councillor Glaznapp, of
the Imperial Treasury, will repiesont Ger
many at the International silver confer
ence. The National adds that nobody expects
any definite result from the conference,
and that only politeness to tbe United States
has moved European countries t'o accept
the invitation to dlsouss the sliver question.
Judge Norman Martin Nominated.
New Castle, Sept. 1L Special. The Dem
ocratlo conferees of the Butler-Lawrence
district met at Ellwood last night and se
lected J. Norman Martin as their candidate
for Law Judge. The result was not an
nounced until this morning. Judge Martin
was selected by the Governor soon after tho
death of Judge McMlcbaels to fill the unex
pired term ot mat gentleman.
A Catholic Demonstration at BraddocS.
Braddock, Sept 11. Special. Braddock
was thronged with Slavonic Catholics to
day, It being tbe occasion of the blessing of
two banners belonging to theSt Michael So
ciety of Homestead. Catholic societies from
Pittsburg, Alleghenyand surrounding towns
took part in the procession.
Good Fortune of a Farm Hand.
Berlin, Sept 1L Franz Llndhartz, a farm
band near Stockerau, Austria, dug np an
iron vessel Thursday containing 2,900 ancient
florins, valued at 7,000 marks.
ANOTHER NEW CSUISEB,
The Cincinnati to Be Launched and Chris
tened by a Lady of That City.
New York, Sept, 11. The Cincinnati will
be lannched on Saturday, September 24.
The honor of ohristentng the new cruiser
will fall to tbe lot or a Cincinnati lady,
whose name bas not as yet been announoed.
A trial of tbe 10,000 horse power engines of
the Cincinnati, whioh was made under the
direction of Chler Engineer James H. Cbas
mer at the machine shop in the yard last
week. Is said to have proved satisfactory.
These engines will, It is claimed, drive tho
ship through tbe water at 20-knot speed.
All tbe maohinery for the ship will be ready
early next month. '
DEATHS HEEB AND ELSEWHERE.
M. W, Stutson. -M.
W. Stutson,of Pittsburg, died at Ardora, Pa.,
yesterday morning. He was lu his 21st year, and
had many warm friends in this city, to whom his
death will be a sad surprise, as he was in good
health np to a recent date. He wa a nepheirot
Mr. and Mrs. D. O. Shaver, of Mnrtland avenue.
East End. The remains were taken to Mechanlcs
burg, 0.,last night and will he burled there to-day.
Mrs. Margaret Qalnn, New Castle.
Mrs. Margaret Quinn died at the resi
dence of her son-in-law, Harry Watson, In New
Castle, Saturday morning, aged 72 years. Tbe
deceased was tbe widow or John Qalnn, who lived
In Allegheny for a number of years, she was born
In Ireland and oame to this country when a youug
gin. The funeral will take place this after
noon in Allegheny.
Mukat Halstead says: "The Demo
cratic campaign Is sporting all the hues of
the rain dow, but the party color after the
November election will be simply blue."
The Congressional Campaign Committee
at Washington are complaining or the back
wardness of tbe contest In their particular
lines. TJd to the present time the Demo
crats have made 172 Congressional nomina
tions, the Republicans 151 and the People's
party 83. This is considerably less than one
half of the fall number of nominees, al
though the election is only two months off.
The Eastern States are particularly tardy.
Massachusetts has made only one nomina
tion out ot 26 in the two leading parties. In
tbe 34 districts of New York State, with 63
nominations between tbe two parties, only
four nominations have been made. Tbe
Western States are much further ahead.
Illinois has only three or four nominations
to make In order to complete her full list
Indiana is also full, Iowa has completed her
nominations, except the Republicans In the
Eleventh district and the Democrats In the
Firth. Michigan's quota is full, with the
exception of one Republican and two Dem
ocrats. Kansas has only two nominations
to make to complete her Congressional list
Some of the Southern States are very far be
hind. Louisiana has not yet made a single
Congressional nomination. Kentucky and
Missouri have made only a few. Mississippi
and North Carolina bave full Democratlo
slates, bnt neither State has nominated any
Republican candidate, as their districts are
abandoned to the Democrats. Tbe Virginia
itepuDiioans also appear to De Daokward, as
thev have made only one nomination In
their ten districts, although the Democrats
bave completed the list.
The assignment of David Martin, the
Keystone member of the National Commit
tee, In this campaign is to watch the Penn
sylvania Democrats who go to national
Democratic headquarters in New York and
report their movements and methods. Per
haps Carter thinks Harrlty will try some'of
the schemes which proved so effectual
against Gnffey and Wallace.
Indiana's campaign is unquestionably
the most lively of the Northern States up to
aate. Hundreds or meetings have already
been held by both parties and thousands
more are announced. Adlai Stevenson has
been devoting the post week to the gas ahd
manufacturing belt of the State. He did not
tell the crowds who came to bear him in
that section tnat the tariff was unconstitu
tional and a fraud, but explained the Demo
cratlo position thus: "Our present tariff
laws need careful revision. The glaring In
consistencies should be corrected. It is to
tbe interest of manufacturer and consumer
alike that in the main raw material be ad
mitted free of duty. Working the raw ma
terial Into the finished product would give
employment to our skilled workmen. The
reduction of tariff tax to the minimum
upon the necessaries of lire is Important to
all of our people: It would prove of Inesti
mable value to the millions who earn their
bread by daily toll." It will be Interesting
to compare thisutteranoe with the speeohes
the Demooratio Vice Presidental candidate
will deliver on his coming North Carolina
trip.
South Carolina is one of the States
where primaries are more important than
elections. In the primaries last week there
were cast 13,927 votes, all Democratic In
the election In 18S8, South Carolina cast only
42,33-i votes, and In 1866 only 17,399 votes.
Happily, their efforts have not yet been sec
onded by tbe regular party leaders, and I
hope they never may be.
The fundamental objection to reviving
the issue of State banknotes to serve as
currency is. as I have alreadv said on this
and on other occasions, that our paper
money Is not only ample for the business
needs of the .country, but perilously near
tho limit at which any further addition to
It will lead to its depreciation below par in
gold, which will be manifested by a
premium on that metal.
What We Are Carrying at Present
"We are now carrying 5346,000,000 In
greenbacks, 3110,000,000 in coin notes Issued
under the act of July, 1890, $173,000,000 in
national banknotes, and abont $110,000,000
of silver dollars and silver certificates
representing dollars. This mass of intrinsi
cally inferior money.amonntlng to $1,033,000,
000, is at present at par with gold coin, be
cause it is accepted by tbe Government for
duties and taxes tbe same as gold, and is re
deemed in gold whenever gold is demanded
for It Fortunateiy.tbese demands are as yet
rarely made, and In small amounts, but tbe
stock of gold in the treasury available for
meeting them is now run down to about
? 113,000,000 and is likely to diminish hence
orth rather than to increase. The gold In
the banks and in private bands Is of no use
for redemption purposes, because the banks
can pay all claims upon thorn with legal
tender notes and with silver, and so can
private porsons. When the currenoy now
circulating at the West and Southwest
among tbe farmers and planters comes
back to this center, as it probably will by
February 1. and is re-enforced by tbe addi
tional coin notes issnea mommy under the
act of July, 1890. the strain on the treasury
will become greater, and a very slight in
crease of tbe present shipments abroad
would compel a suspension by the treasury
of gold payments, with all Its accompanying
evils. To enoourage further issues of paper
money In tho face of these facts is financial
foolishness.
A New Argument for Kpubllcans.
Neither President Harrison nor Secre
tary Blaine have taken Into consideration
this objection to tbe revival of State bank
circulation. They base their opposition to
it entirely upon the minor point of tbe in
convenience to the pnbllo resulting from
the want of uniformity in value of such a
currency, and from tbe inevitable discount
which would attaoh to so much of It as was
Issued at remote points and by institutions
of oubtful solvency. Still, what tbey say
on the subjeot Is undeniably true, and comes
In well to reinforce the main argument
against tbe measure.
Those of ns who are old enough to remem
ber the state of things which prevailed be
fore the war, when only a few experts knew
whether the bank bills they took in and
paid out in dally business were good for
their face or worthless shams, and when,
as President Harrison savs. "a money
changer's office was the familiar neighbor
of the ticket office and the lunch counter,"
need no exhortation to make us oppose a
reversion to It. The younger .generation
may rorm an approximate Idea of It from
the example of Europe and from the annoy
ance and inconvenience which travelers
are put to every time they cross a frontier
and pass from one country Into another.
Bnrope's Avoidance of Danger.
In Europe, however, the inconvenience
has been reduced to a minimum by Judicious
arrangements at railway stations and ho
tels, and the loss in exchanging one cur
rency for another Is small and not often in
curred, whereas that on the State bank cur
rency, In old times, was large and frequent
A bank would fall, and its notes would be
come comparatively worthless lon before
their holders were aware of the fact, and a
Constant reference to the banknote de
tectors, In which snch catastrophes were
chronicled, was practicable only by shop
keepers and people In active business.
The scarcity of circulating medium com
plained of In certain localities, and popu
larly attributed to an insufficient supply of
It in the country at large, is really nothing
more than an Indication of the poverty of
the people wno resiae in tnose localities.
Obituary Notes.
Daubbat, the celebrated Palais Royal comedian,
died in Paris Saturday.
Thomas Flaherty; husband of Mrs. Jennie
Kimball and stepfather of Corlnne. the actress,
died at Boston Friday.
M. BoebnsteiN died Saturday in Vienna. He
was at one time an American Consnl and was con
nected with tbeAtazto Zeituna, of Chicago.
Jamks Trow, ex-Member of parliament for
South Perth, Ontario, drooped dead on tbe street
AAuu vi vsuuituuus lor maj jvtki
16 was 07 ttn old.
and one
House, hi
A partial fusion has been effected by
the Democrats and Populists In North
Dakota, and they are now making vigorous
claims of carrying the State. Colonel Ben
ton, the Democratlo leader, strongly advo
cated fnsion and his Influence contributed
very largely to tbe adoption of the scheme.
In arguing for the combination Benton said
tbat two years ago the Republicans bad
polled 18,000 votes, tbe Democrats 13,000, and
tbe Independents 5,000. This year tbe Inde
pendents would increase their strength to
li.uou. The Democrats would about hold the
vote of two years ago, and tho Republicans
would suffer as a result of Independent in
roads. The combined Independent and
Democratlo vote would defeat the Republi
cans from 4,000 to 6.000. The protection man
agers of the State, it is needless to say, do
not admit the correctness of tbese optlmistlo
figures. They admit they have a hard fight
on hand, but confidently expect to carry tbe
new commonwealth for Harrison and Held.
The Baker ballot law is finally furnish
ing tbe key to tho Pefnnyslvanla deadlocks.
Otherwise some of them would probably
bave remained locked until early Nov
ember. A Bolt Against Ex-Senator Blair.
Concobd, Sept lLx?The Portsmouth Chron
icle, tbe leading Republican Journal of Rock
ingham county, and, the oldest paper in
New Hampshire, bolted the nomination of
ex-Senator Blair for Congress. It says the
nomination Is a disgrace to the party and an
Insult to the great majority of the loyal Re
publicans or the First district and counsels
all Republicans who bave the future wel
fare of the party at heart to leave Blair's
name off the tloket when tbey vote In No
vember. It Will Go on Just the Same.
Chicago Globe.l
81r Edwin Arnold does not Mile ve In our
quarantine. Bat the quarantine will go on
just the tame.
Tbe national banks are safe for fifteen years
longer at least, and when tbey come to an
end the ourrency they now furnish can eas
ily be replaced by notes Issued directly by
tbe Government At all events, I trust that
the era of "shin-plasters," "wildcat,"
"stump-tail," and all other kinds of depre
ciated paper money, has passed away never
to return.
STJiPATuT FOR PASSENGERS.
Some plan of separating those persons
actually stricken with the disease from those
who have simply been on board the ship
with them should be carried out promptly.
Chicago Keiis.
It is brutal to keep the passengers pris
oners on a ship where tbe germs of dlseaso
are confined with them. They should at
once De removed to a place of safety on
shore. Philadelphia Inquirer. .
The cruel confinement of healthy peoplo
on the quarantined ships could not be
avoided. Hereafter the lot of tbe unfort
unates who arrive here from infected norts
will be greatly ameliorated' New York Ad.
vertlstr.
The parchase of Fire Island, with Its hotel
and cottage, is a step in the direotlon'of tbe
alleviation of the worst danger and the
most serious discomfort to those who mnst
remain In quarantine for tbe common safety
which cannot be too much commended.
Philadelphia lmes.
Admittino that the officials have been
handicapped in many ways by old fogy
laws,, by tbo laok of an adequate force of
trained Inspectors, etc. It is still palnfuhy
manifest to all who read tbe newspapers
that there has been a vast display of unnec
essary red tape in New York. Philadelphia
Record.
It was only yesterday that active meas
ures were taken to provide for the safety or
cabin passengers on Infected steamers, and
these measures are taken by authorities in
dependent of Dr. Jenkins. This Is the sort
of quarantine administration naturally to
be expected when Its chief officer gets his
appointment solely because he is the
brother-in-law of the Tammany boss. Phil
adelphia Press.
Comparison of the results of the snnshint
recorder of Greenwich, England, for four
teen years shows that throughout tbe year
the average daily amount of sunshine Is lit
tle more than three hours.
Hitherto perished rubber has rep
resented a waste material for which no use
could be found, but by a process recently
Invented the perished rubber can be made,
It Is said, once more serviceable.
The Irish language is dying out Ten
years ago 64,000 people spoke Irish only. In
1891 these were 38,000 In 1831 there were
885,000 who could speak Irish and English,
and last year there were only 612,000.
There is a certain city in the southern
part of China whoso Inhabitants ;observo
the same gait In walking tbat we do. and yet
tbey frequently appear to strangers as If
tbey were walking upon their heads.
Almost a third of the total population of
tbe globe a round 400,000,000 human beings
speak nothing but the Chinese and allied
languages. One hundred million more speak
Hindoo only, and 93,000,000 speak English.
Forty thousand pounds was tbe cost of
the armchair presented by the city of Augs
burg to the Emperor Rudolphus IL,of Ger
many, about tho year 1573. The chalr.whfch
is of steel, took the artist about 30 years to
make.
A writer in Nature states that the lim
pet, deprived of its shell, pulls In the air
1,984 times its own weight, and about double
when Immersed in water. Fasting fleas, on
an average, pull 1,193 times their own dead
weight
The rivers of Enssiagrow shalloweryesr
by year, and the Vorskla, once an abundant
tributary of the Dnieper, and comparable
to the Hudson or Delaware, 250 miles in
lengtb, has completely and permanently
dried np.
A pastile, which is said to take the
place of food and drink, was lately tested
on a company of Roumanian soldiers, who
completed a march or 73 miles in 27 hours
and whose sole food during that time was
In the form of these pastlles.
A French novelty in the way of a time
piece is a floral clock, the long hands of
which sweep above twelve flower beds, each
bed being different from all tbe others In
the color and a variety of flower. The hands
are moved by subterranean mechanism.
The Russians and consumptives in
America and Europe use mares' and asses
milk; because of all milk ids freest from
batter fats. Ab is well-known, tbe Russian
drink, koumiss, is made from mares' milk,
as Is also another drink, which Is intoxicat
ing. Odd as it may seem, the first pair of
arctics brought into the United States wore
imported from Rio de Janeiro in 1830. They
were a rough pair of India rubber "sun
boats," painted and glided like a Chinese
pagoda,and were sent as curiosities to a New
York gentl eman.
Natives of Africa once a year kill a
cobra de capello' and bang its skin to the
branch or a tree, tall downward. Then all
the children born during the last year are
brought out and made to touch the skin.
This, tbelr parents think, puts them under
the serpent's protection.
The alleged connection between gypsies
and the nails used In tbe cruolflxlon has
frequently been referred to. It Is said that
tbe tinkers are descendants of tho one who
made the nails for tbe cross and are con
demned to wander continually without rest.
This tradition Is very common In the High
lands of Scotland.
The oldest herbarium in the world is la
tbe Egyptologist museum at Cairo, and con
sists of an Inconspicuous collection of dried
portions of plants. These portions of plants
and flowers were taken from wreaths and
garlands in the coffins with mummies,
where they were placed by the ancient Egyp
tians as death offerings.
A mosquito's bill is an elaborate con
trivance, and consists of two sharp saws
and a lance Inclosed In a sheath, which is
also employed as a pump. The raws are.
bony, but flexible, and the teeth are near;
the end, which Is pointed. Tbe lance is per
haps the most perfect instrument known in
the world of minute things.
M, Adam Paulson, of theBoyal Danish
Academy, has been conducting a series of
experiments to measure the heights of the
aurora borealls. AtGodtbaab the approxi
mate height was from 1 to 4 miles, at Cape
Farewell from 1 to 10 miles, atSpitzenbnrg
from one-third of a mile to 13 miles. Tbo
measurements were made with theodolites.
Corals of some kinds are found In all
seas. -Those stony formations popularly
called corals are mostly produced within
the tropics. Probably the variety best
known is the red or pink coral, long
esteemed for ornaments. This was fonnd in
tbe Mediterranean from a very early period.
Now, however, it bas become so rare as to
be practically extinct
FALLTTME FANTASIES.
Helen If papa doesn't like George why it
he so cordial?
Tom He savs It's such a saving of the gas for
him to visit often.-CAfcajo Inter Ocean.
Alas! hearts are no longer trumps
la Cupid's little game.
But diamonds, that are held by chumps.
Still get there Just the same.
Smith Oraa's Monthly.
Minnie I simply couldn't have refused
Jajk after he offered me this beautiful engagement
ring.
Gladys Yes. Jack bas always placed great reli
ance In that ring. OMcago Sews.
She wears a collar and necktie blue
And a man's straw hat with a ribbon gay.
And she wears a pair or suspenders, too.
But thev don't keep anything up, they say.
- Detroit FrtePrtss.
"Don't you think Mr. Twiddles is very
absent-minded?" said a young woman.
"No." replied Miss Pepperton. "He display
admirable caution. What little he has he always
brings with him." Washington Star.
Some men are born wealthy;
Some men are born great:
But all men are kicking ,
Forever at Fate. Puck,
Hell Yes, dear, I am sure Jack loves me
devotedly.
Belle I think myseli he does. He lores yon
with that earnest, passionate, absorbing lore
which is forever blind to all defects lathe adored
one.
Nell It on hateful thing! How dare yon hint I
hare tnj.Somerellle Journal.
Now city people think it makes
Their country cousins glad
To visit them: but goodness sales!
Last winter when the "country Jakes"
Called on them weren't they mad?
Inland Printer.
Sammy Mamma, when are we going
on our vacation?
Mamma We start the last Thursday in August,
Sammy.
Sammy (critically examining the calendar)
Why, mamma, how can we? The last Thursday la
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