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A BLOT ox civilization;
There is public satisfaction in the knowl
edge that the military forc?s of Jfew Tork
State will be employed in reducing the
rebellious and cowardly mob in the
vicinity of Fir Island to subjection to the
kvs. There was the 6ime need for the
assertion of the supremacy of the law in
thN ease as at llomestead or Buffalo.
It has often been said that a public peril
brings out the noblest and the basest
qualities in man. The people of Babylon
and the Great South Bay district in Long
Island have taken pains to enroll them
selves in the latter class. The men who
could drive off women and children to a
night on a stormy sea for fear of an infec
tion which has no existence and which
could be controlled and limited by the re
sources of science bplong to a class which
it is base flattery to dignify as men.
A mob is airs ays cruel and cowardly,
but the Long Islanders managed to com
bine both qualities to an extraordinary
dugree in the same action. The relieving
feature of the case is that they will be
taught the lesson that they cannot defy
both humanity and the law with im
punity. TOE SUGAK COMBINATION.
The combination being formed to con
trol the price of sugar bv the wholesale
trade is an admirable illustration of the
wnvin which monopolj'at the source of
any distributive trade extends throughout
lis ramifications. Assertions that the
Sucar Tiust does not support this project
can safely be received with credulity. The
SiiL-ar Trust furnishes the agency by
v. hich it is enforced. Without that com
bination it vould be impossible. The
same scheme was proposed in virtually
its present form once before when the
Su?ar Trust had control of the supply,
but the moment that competing refineries
made themselves felt the wholesale com
bination went to pieces. The Sugar Trust
being restored to power, the plan to ad
vance wholesale prices makes a new ap
pearance. The proposition is simply that the liberty
of wholesalers to make their own prices
to their own customers shall be takeu
away. The man who commits the com
mercial crime from the trust point of
view of selling sugar cheaply is to be
punished by cutting off his supply. Of
course the small merchant is discriminated
against to an extent which will make it
impossible for him to compete With the
larger one who can afford to buy sugar in
hundred-barrel lots.
Of course this is notoriously against
public policy and has been declared to be
against the laws time and time again. It
is one of the uravest features of the Trust
era that leading merchants, all of whose
interests are on ihe side of maintaining the
law, are ready to set the example of break
ing it down for the sake of an extra profit
ot i cent per pound.
GIVE THE LAW A CHANCE.
The questions which are likely to arise
under the construction of the Baker ballot
law now reported to prevail among the
authorities will not be the fault of the lajn
hut the inability of peoph to agree on' a
common-sense construction. There is
much about that enactment that is faulty
r.nd some points that are evidentlj vicious,
but with regard to the form of ballot there
is no difficulty, if ordinary intelligence is
used, in arriving at the intent of the law.
The law distinctly provides that in the
case of nominations by parties "the names
of all the candidate so nominated by such
political party shall be arranged in groups
as presented in the several certificates of
nomination," et. In the case of nomina
tions by nomination papers "the names of
the candidates for each office shill be ar
ranged tindor the designation of the office
in alphabetical order." There is little
that is difficult to understand in this. A
different treatment is prescribed for party
and independent nominations. The sep
aration of party nominations into groups
. of State, local or national offices may be
possible under the law, but it is by no
means imposed by it.
Perhaps the Baker bill may have virtue
enougii in tlie direction of ballot reform
to make it important for the politicians to
confuse and obstruct its wjrkmgs. Other
wise we see no reason w.iy a -traigbtfor-ward,
reasonable adoption of the pro
visions concerning the form of the ticket
6hould not be satisfactory to all parties.
"UNMASKING PECK."
The campaign work of the Democratic
organs and committees m New York at
present consists exclusively of "unmask
ing Peck." Peck, let it not be forgotten,
is the labor Commissioner of that State,
whose recent statistics made the wrong
sliowing for the free trade cause; and the
Democratic labor is urgently devoted as
6howing him up as a fool or a knave or
both rolled into one. Orthodox Demo
crats are not particular whetherit is either
or both, so that Peck is "unmasked."
Now since Peck is an eminent example
of the Democratic officeholder, and it was
never considered necessary to "unmask"
him till his statistics went the wrong way,
the position is, to say the leastj comic
The idea of a party organization in the
midst of a campaign forced to the declara
tion that one of the results of its supremacy j
is uie appointment ot men who are tithcr
Incompetent or dishonest to important
office is sufficiently humorous in
itself. But when "it is embellished
with the assertion of the great public
principle that the necessity of unmasking
only arises when the office Is not run' In
the party interests, the situation is de
licious. So long as Peck abstained from
pernicious statistics he was an eminent
andortb6dox Democrat But his statis-
l tics were fatal to him or the Democracy,,
perhaps to both.
The instructive phase of the situation is
not to be overlooked. While the Demo
cratic organs are laboring with the un
masking act they will do wisely to give an
occasional thought to the greit public
duty of keeping men out of office who will
not have to be unmasked.
Yt'OKSE THAN THE HINDOOS.
When the Hindoo pilgrim bathes in and
drinks of the holy and dirty water of the
Ganges, he spreads the cholera: but ho has
the justification to his mind that he is pay
ing reverent tribute to the immortal gods,
it may indeedbe questioned whether in the
ecstasy of his religious devotion he thinks
nt all of that transmission of the plague
for whMi indignant Christendom hohls
him rcsi-onsibJe. In any view of the case
he is doing the best according to bis
lights.
A calm reading of recent literature con
cerning the water supply of Allegheny City
and part of Pittsburg seems to raise the
question which would be grotesque if in
certain circumstances it were not liable to
become appalling whether our good peo
ple at home are not duplicating tha pesti
lential methods of the Hindoo, without
any of the extenuation which can be
pleaded for the benighted heathen. Per
haps here it is well to take into account
the plain and pointed words of Dr. Lee, of
the State Board 6t Health, who designates
the local offense not as folly but as crime.
By accurate count of the main arteries of
sewage which pour into the Allegheny
river above and near the point from which
the sister city of Allegiieny obtains her
supply there arc thirteen large and foul
sewers stated to bo contributing the
agencies of disease to her reservoirs. Tins,
like many other unpleasant conditions, has
beeu borne for the sake of economy. It is
alone the menace of the cholera which now
arouses officials and physicians and think
ing citizens to take a note of the state of
affairs, and to contemplate the enormous
possibilities for a plague which are thus
established. What wonder that Dr. Lee
designates the negligence as criminal, and
the liquid which enters into daily con
sumption in Allegheny as raukly poi
sonous? It is not, however, Allegheny alone that
is concerned. The Soutnside of Pittsburg
gets its water from sources also notably
contaminated. Some ears ago The Dis
patch caused examinations and analyses
to be made that were far from agreeable
then. The conditions since can hardly
have been improved.
In time and but a short time at that if
our suburbs go on growing Pittsburg's
chief water supply will invite just such
criticism as :s now visited upon Allegheny.
We see towns multiplying along the banks
of the Allegheny and can conceive of the
period not far distant when the future
officials of the State Board of Health will
be as shocked at Pittsburg's water as those
of 1 o-day are at that upon which Alle
gheny depends.
The manifest fact is that if Allegheny
would cease to invito pestilence it must
look out immediately for a supply of
pure water drawn from a point far Higher
up than the present source. And, if
Pittsbmg does its duty, it too, though
under less pressure of urgency, will begin
at once a little investigation. The dreadful
experience of Hamburg is proved to be
largely owing to the vitiated, disease
laden waters of the Elbe. Wlieu the
cholera came these waters proved a most
powerful agency for its spread and main
tenance. In ordinary times, it is said, the
constitutions of those who use such water
may become, by constant use, hardened
against what may be termed the ordi
nary and resident bacteria; but
the energetic bacilli of the Asiatic cholera
seem to acquire a death-dealing potency
in such fluid which is enough to startle
even the most lethargic community into
measures for self-preservation. Even
without the cholera there is scientific tes
timony that j olluted water is bad enough.
The State Board of Health of Pennsyl
vania estimates upon statistical inquiry
that no fewer than 20,000 deaths are
caused in this State every year by infec
tious diseases, for which polluted water is
mainly responsible. We turn up our eyes
at the heathen Hindoo because he spreads
the cholera by his cercmouial ablutions in
thi Ganges; and yet, without the warrant
of sanctified ceremonial, and in the face
of nineteentn century science and civili
zation, we support a condition of things
in our own cit.es and State which, if that
be possible, is even more disgraceful.
This matter should be rectified. There
should be a commission of citizens repre
senting the best intelligence of the two
cities and surrounding boroughs to devise
a plan for securing pure water from the
mountain streams so easily accessible. It
should bo a commission of scientific men
to secure the best method, and of business
men to see that the work is done at the
least cost and without jobbery or unneces
sary delay.
AX EXAMPLE OF PROTECTION.
Governor ilcKmley opened the cam
paign in Indiana with his promised speech
at Ellwood yesteiday. Bad weather made
the audience smaller than was expected,
but in nowise chilled the enthusiasm of
listeners or speaker. Protection lends
itself more readily than any other topic to
tlie production of strong verbal argu
ments. The Governor of Ohio is an able
speaker and a master of logic But the
most striking arguments that can be made
on behalf of Protection are such palpable
facts as those which were evident in the
surroundings of yesterday's celebration.
In ten years tlie population of Eilwood
has grown from 700 to 6,000, and Ellwood
is in the interior of Indiana! The leading
industry of this thriving town is the manu
facture of tin plate from steel ingots and
billets from Pittsburg. And Ellwood is
only one small though striking example
of the immense advantages by which Pro
te ction insures the prosperity of America.
THEIR MONET DON'T TALK.
The New Tork Prexa declares the in
dorsement of the Nicaragua Canal project
by the bankers' convention at San Fran
cisco as extremely important. "For,"
says the Presx, "money talks."
All right There is one way for money
to talk, and that is to put itself up. If
the bankers at San Francisco -wish to put
their own money not their depositors' or
the Government's into tfce Nicaragua
Canal project they have a perfect right to
do so. But money does not talk to the
value of an old-fashioned copper cent
when the monetary powers indorse a pro
ject and urgently advise that it shall be
built by other people's money than their
own. The American bankers may be
very good judges of commercial paper,
but when they propose that the United
States shall invest its credit a thousand
miles away from its borders while more Im
portant improvements' in its interior are
left untouched they show themselves
worse judges of public policy than the
American peorle a larK0-
Finally, the Prat neglects to explain,
as it has been often asked to do. why the
United States should be asked to loan its
credit to the extent of $100,000,000 on work
which the engineer's estimates put at the
cost of $(55,000,000. Until this point is
cleared up all the bankers' conventions In
the world cannot make it appear in any
other light than that of a 35,000,000 rake
for some one.
In all probability scientists will continue
to emulate Peary and his gallant predeces
sors, risking their own and other humn.ii
lives in order to go a few miles further
north and see a Httlo more than lias been
seen and lecorded by man before. The gain
to human knowledge Is not worth the risk,
but it will go on until tho north polo has
been discovered and used up in making
souvenir walking sticks.
Republicans of the Twentieth Con
gresional district will perhaps realizo now
that pi oerastination is the thlof or Congres
sional lepre-ontation.
It is as ridiculous to say that Italy hates
America because a lodging house keeper
murileiedan American seaman on account
of his nationality as it was to assume that
Amoiica hated Italy because some members
of an Italian socrotsociety wero lynched at
New Orleans.
That new Sixth street bridee will event
ually bo a bridge of size. Tho inconvenience
attended upon its erection makes it a bridge
ot sighs at piesent.
Some of the Kansas farmers have discov
ered a novel way of displaying their dis
tressful circumstances and petting rid of
theit surplus crops. A contribution of
twenty-six wagon loads of wheat was made
yesterday to Jerry Simpson's campaign
fund.
Circuses, expositions and race-meetings
notwithstanding, rain is a cleansing bless
ing that cannot De too highly appieclated
these days.
The Baker ballot law has become a good
deal more intelligible since the Attorney
General's expression of opinion, but it will
need actual experience and the probable
loss of some votes to show up all the un
certainties of ameasuie so complicated.
If Hill and Cleveland really are to speak
In the same building at Brooklyn, the root
should bo thoroughly inspected beforehand.
WniLE cholera is, so to speak, in the at
mosphere, such an important matter as the
selection of a site for Allegheny's postofflce
must join such unconsideted trifles as the
Presidental campaign in comparative ob
livion. While disinfecting its telephone trans
mitter. New Jersey might as well fumigate
some of its politicians and ballot boxes.
In aPresidental year, when politics are so
phenomenally dull as just now, it is not sur
prising that Republicans havo failed to turn
out in full lorco here they kno that their
party's victory was more than safe.
Even the coffin-makers assembled at Chi
cago yesterday urged the necessity of keep
ing cholora out of America.
A LOCAL politician is quoted as speaking
of a man's disability to write as a "physical
nffection." After this it is useless to expect
tho newborn babe to increase in knowledge
as it gi o ws in years.
All parties concerned are to be con
gratulated on averting the strike threatened
in the Reading system.
ANOTHER idiot has announced his inten
tion or going over Niagara Falls in a ban el.
Given a wish to get off the earth, this route
to post mortem notoriety Is about as direct
as any.
Fire Island residents may have to be
fired or flred upon yet if they persist in their
baseless fears.
Councils ought to be reminded before
long that there was some time ago a good
deal of talk about providing a much-needed
and oft-promised fiee bridge to the South
side. And still the Cooleys are allowed to do
whatsoever pleases them.
There could be no creator wastefulness
nt this time than stinginess in the use of
time, labor and disinlectants to promote
cleanliness and sound sanitation.
Kaiser Wilhelm may now rest as
sured that ho Is not to be the victim of that
ancient monkish piophecy, since a daughter
has ai rived as bis seventh child.
Bailroad wrecks are keeping well up
to the rccoid these days.
TEOFLE OF PK0MIXENCE.
Governor Pattison has left Harris
b:ug for Saranac Lake, whore he will spend
ten da s in lisning and hunting as the guest
of tho Saranac Club. '
Emperor William yesterday at Berlin
presented his photograph, to Mr. Stein way,
tho piano maker, beating the Imperial auto
graph with the date of the presentation.
SIR. AVlllTTinR in a recent letter said:
'For years I haye been desirous of a move
ment for uniting all Christians, with no
othor cieed or plodgo than a simple recogni
tion of Christ as our leader."
A brother of H. Eider Haggard, Frank
Haggard, has bpen lusticatiug lor nearly a
j ear in Manitoba, and is now seeing a little
of the United States before returning to
England. Ho disavows any fitness for liter
ary work.
Home Secretary Asquith is not only
"one or the very youngest Cabinet officers
on lecord;' he is declared by high authority
to bo the most finished of the younger race
of Parliamcntaiy orators, for "lestralned
excellence of style"' comparing with Air.
Gladstone.
Clara Schumann, the widow of the
composer, is said to bo in failing health.
Kobeit Schumann fell in love with her when
she was but 13 years of ago. Sho was already
on tho concert stage, and, with her maiden
name of Clara Wieck, ha I won a reputation
as a pianist.
Ex-Empress Eugenie, of France, re
cently sold at auction her summer home at
Biairltz, known as the "Villa Eugenie." Al
though bcaiing the name of villa it is a
stately building in the stylo of Louis 3CI v.,
and surrounded by a large park. AJParis
bank puichased the villa for $80,000.
George Augustus Sala has the pleas
ant leuiembrance that the first money ho
earned with his pen was paid him by Charles
Dickens By tho way, speaking of Dickons
the inteiesting statement is made by Mr.
Chapman, Diekons' publisher, that the sale
or hU works last year was four times as
large as that of 1S60, tho year before Dickons
died.
ADVAHCIKQ UPON. WABHINGTOH.
The Grand Army Veterans' Advance Guard
Now on the Way lo the Capital.
Cnicioo, Sept. 13. The moveme'nt of Grand
Army Yetorans toward Washington has set
In. Soveral carloads or the advance guards
from Iowa and other Western States passod
through the city to-day going East over tho
Pennsylvania road. Considerable anxiety
exists among managers who are not at all
certain that they will bo able to pro vide cars
enough to accommodate tho crowds that
have already engaged transportation to the
Capital.
There will be a heavy Increase In the move
ment to-morrow, but the great ciowd will
not stmt from Chicago before Thursday. It
is estimated that no less than 30 special
trains will bo sent out or this city on that
day. Railroad men predict that the encamp
ment will attract to WashlDgtonabout200,0u0
people.
CAMPAIGN NEWS AND COMMENT.
The decision of Attorney General Heu
ael as to the form or the ballot required bv
the Baker Law makes the confusion created
Dy tnat contradictory statute considerably
more confounded. ur. Il8n8el practically
rules that tho points raised by Chairman
Boeder, of the Republican Committee, are
woll takon. Boeder's position is that the
law requiies the names of candidates to be
arranged under State, district and county
heads, instead of being-grouped as parties,
as on thesample ballots sent out. This schotne
will render it impossible Tor a voter to cast
a straight ticket by making one cross-mark,
no will have to maik his choice In each
group or candidates. There is a great dif
ference of opinion among politicians as to
the exact meaning of tho law. Many Re
publicans agree with Harrity as to the lorm
or the ticket and some Democrats side with
Boeder. Representative Bakor, who rathored
the bill in the House, holds to the belief
that the ballot as originallv prepared by
Mr. Harrity in the form of" legular party
tickets is correct and according to the spirit
VL , "opiesentative John II. Fow
says that it was the understanding or mem
oors or the House that the candidates wore
tO be ffrOUnad linnn tl,a Hollnt- ..,rtot tllA
designation or the office for which thoy
joie nominated. He holds that General
Keoder's interpretation or the act is the
E roper one and bcllees that the rorm will
avo to bo changed. The other ohange
which it is Intimated will be made, in sink
ing the Democratic candidates an inch below
the Republican, Is caused by a complaint as
to tho possibility ot mistake to which atten
tion wns first called by The DisrATCH. But
it is difficult to see how this proposed altera
tion can be carried out lr the names or can
didates are to be giouped as now scheduled.
Under tho Attorney General's opinion tho
Work Ot those nhftnnfhvnntal- whn harn
been conducting voting schools is woise
than useless, as they havo been educating
the people the wrong way.
The Democratic Congressional nomina
tion in tuo Twelrth district, which L. D.
Woodrull, the Johnstown editor, secured
so easily a weok ago, has appreciated In
value at least 100 por cent becauso or the
deadlocked Republican conference- running
up against tho provisions ot the Baker ballot
law.
In discussing the tangle in the voting
system a well known attorney or Republi
can proclivitlos, who has been examining
the mcasuie, raises some fresh objections.
Ho says: '-On Mr. Harrity's ballot the
blank spaces aro all in the last oolumn.
That is all wrong, and it is a defect in tho
ballot. Tho law distinctly says that there
shall be left at tho end or the list of candi
dates for each different officer (or under the
title or the officer itseir.ior which an elec
tion is to be held, in case thore be no can
didates legally nominated therelor) as many
blank spaces as thereare persons to be elect
ed to such offices in which the voter may
insert the name or any person whose name
is not printed on tho ballot, for which he
desires to vote as a candidate for such of
fice, and such Insertion shall count as u vote
without the cioHS-nntrk. There can be no
mistaking whoio the blank spaces shall lje
placed undor that clause. Tiiey must come
at the end or the list or candidates lor each
different office, and not at the end of the
ballot. I know that a uieat many politi
cians think it nould be more convenient to
have all the blank spaces in one column at
th end of the bailor. But this is not a
question of convenience; it Js a question of
iuw mm mo jaw says tne DianK spice sna.ll
be placed at the end of the list of candi
dates? for each different office and that is
where they will ha e to appear if the ballot
is to be legal."
HcGrxTT will not stay down. Recorder
J. J. McGinty, who was defeated by Senator
Hmes lor the Democratic nomination lor
Congress in Luzerne county, talks about
being an independentcandiUate.and getting
on the official ballot.
There is still one more question of a
peculiar character which may be raised
by the ruling of Attorney General
Hensel. A number of special elections
throughout the State, including several
in Allegheny county, have alieady been
held, using the rorm or ticket pi escribed by
the Secretary oi the Commonwealth. Ono
section of the Baker law reads as follows:
"Whenover, in anv contested election, the
tribunal trying the case shall decide that
the ballots used in one or more election dls
dricts were, by icason of the omission, ad
dition, misplacing, mlsspollmir onnisstate
ment or one or more titles of offices, or
nmei orre3ldencesorcandidatcs,or parties
or policies lepresented by them, so defective
as to the office in contest as to be calculated
to mislead the voters in legard to any of
the candidates nominated for the said office,
and that the defectivo condition or said
ballots may have affected the result or the
entire election tor said office,
the said tribunal shall 'deolare the election
to be invalid as regards the said office, and
shall leport their decision to the Governor
oi tne commonwealth," who Is instructed to
order another election. As the Attorney
General rules that this form or ballot was
entirely "nilsplacod," the question as to val
idity ot elections in which it was used may
come to the lront.
John James Ingalls is expected home
from Europe to take tho stump in Kansas
shortly. If he still believes the purity or
politics to be an iridescent dream he will
probably keep the thought to himself this
time.
The Populites are making vigorous
claims that they will carry Nevada because
ot tho silver issue, and they have ceitainly
secured a row converts from the old parties.
William E. Shaion, in a letter resigning his
position as member of the National Repub
lican Committee for Nevada, gays: "Owing
to the complications in Nevada among Re
publicans, cansed by a difference or opinion
as to the means and methods that should be
pursued to sccuro the rice and unlimited
coinage of silver (our pai amount industry),
my earnest desiie to aid Nevada and her
peoplu at this time may lead me into inde
pendent action uliich may not be regarded
as striotly consistent ith party fealty, for
1 lf-alize that the destruction of our mining
industry means ror tho ruture a picture that
is not pleasant to contemplate. Thereioro
I heieby tender my resignation as a mem
ber or tlie National Committee for Nevada."
But Nevmla Republicans will probably le-
turn to their senses before November.
One explanation of that reduced ma
jority in Maine is that while the Pine Tree
State is loyal to Republicanism there Is still
Just a little disappointment that ner favor
ite &on was not honored at Minneapolis.
The list of notable additions to the pro
tection column increases daily. Colonel
Noah A. Plympton, or Boston, a veteran
Democrat, has announced that ho will vote
the Republican ticket this year. He says:
"Ihavejuit returned fioni Pniladelphla,
where I attended a directors' meeting of a
coipoiation I am interested in. There are
27 directors and four years ago there were
soven votes for Cleveland among them.
This year there Is but one. The force bill is
simply a piece of playing to tho gallaries.
It has had tho effect, howover.of uniting the
South nuainst the Republican party and put
tinu off the time when the colored vote
will be counted. That will never be until
the South has been lot alono long enough so
that the whites down there get to dividing
and quarreling among themselves, and then
they will cater to the ignorant vote Just as
we do at the North."
Instead of a Peck of trouble it nows
looks as though tho Democrats would ox
tract several bushels or agony out or the
Now Tork statistician's report or the bene
ficial effect of the MeKinley tariff.
WAYNESBTEG8 j?1KST ILLUMINATION.
Natural Gas 'Benches tho Town and tho
People Light Up tho Streets.
Watbesbcbo. Sept. IS. Special. Fonr
years ago tne Waynesourg Natural Gas
Company commenced to lay their pipes in
Waynesburg ror fuel, tho goa being brought
from the Worley well at Blacksville, W. Va.
The mains in the town required about seven
miles or pipe, and last night the gas was
turned on for the first time.
Two stand pipes were erected in front of
the public square and tho town was brill
iantly illuminated. Several attempts to get
gas nearer town have been made, several test
wells having been put down, but all were
failures. The people Welcome the gas, not
withstanding coal can be bought cheap.
Tho End or Sullivan.
Chicago Tribune.
Hope foraseason bade baked beans fare
well. And Freedom shrieked as Boston's slugger
fell.
ALLBOHBUys BAD WAIEB.
Some Suggestions Offered Work for the
Women of the Northslde.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
I have often observed tho fllthv condition
of the water supply of Allegheny City the
sewerage, the taii-bark solution from the
tannery vats and blood and offale from
theHorr'sIslandpIant.and wondered how an
intelligent people couldendure such distress
year after year.
I believe that several lines of 8 or 10 Inch
wrought-lrou pine could be laid very rapidly
on the b6d oi the river troin the water works
to the same point where our works receive
their supply. A sufficient number or lines
can be screwed together from a barge very
rapidly, and as good a supply be had as that
whioh we now have. Ours is above all Pitts
burg sowor.
I believe that if all tho water works in this
county would add a simple device that
would permit a solution of alum In propor
tion ol ono gallon solution to 60,n00 gallons
or water to bo drawn In by the pumps and
delivered with the water it would precipitate
almost all foreign mattor and render tho
water clear and good. The Allegheny folks
should have some get up about thotn and
quit drinking filth when it is so easy to do
better.
I would suggest tnat the women of Alle
gheny City organize ageneral parade and go
on masse np River avenue to tne vicinity oi
their water works to see tor themselves the
kind ol stuff thoy are compelled to use.
Then walk up all tho way to Herr's Island
and size up the situation. I'll bet there will
be more "chinning" done on the subject
than has ever been known before, and tho
probabilities are that they will Just simply
make the men get there without much red
tape. Then and not till then will Allegheny
City have such a Mipply of water as she
shou Id and can have. Joun M. UnccE.
Pittsbubo, September 13.
OHIO METHODISTS IK CONFERENCE.
They Listen to Reports showing an Encour
aging state of the Church.
STEruBKirviLLB, O., Sept. 13. Spectat
Muskingum M.P. couforen e adjourned here
last night after a four days' session. The
ground hero has been hallowed for almost
a century by Ulcksitl and othodox Quakers.
Here on the waters of Short Creek, in 1803,
was built the first Methodist church in Ohio,
lending additional interest to the confer
ence. Here In 1820 Alexander Campbell had
ono of his famous debates with Dr. John
Walker. Conference convened Thursday
evening, Dr. M. L. Jennings, of Cambridge,
presiding. Rev. W. R. Kairnes preached the
opening sermon. Friday Dr. M. L. Jennings
n as ohoson for the third time to preside
over tho conference, and Rev. D. C Coul
born, or Adrian, Secretary.
The conference was addressed by Prof. W.
S. Fleming, of Pittsburg; Rev. T. E. Culborn,
Corresponding Secretary of the Board or
foreign Missions; John Racy, a lay delegate
or 60 years' membership, oi Wellsville; Miss
Dotson, representing the V. F. M. S.; F. M.
Hussy, and S.S Tlnapp, of this place, each
lead a paper or reminiscences. Sunday
'uurmng tne oruinntion sermon was
preached by Rev. J. H. Hamilton. Tho en
tire day to-day was devoted to hearing re
ports and examinations of candidates. The
conference has 13,030 members, 65 ministers
and about 400 pas. oral cnargts. The con
ference recommended an appropriation of
JMUfiom the church extension fund to the
Urlchsville Mission, an appropriation of $100
irom the same tnud tobe madeat Wellsville,
also an appropriation from the same fund to
be made to Fostoria. Tho conferenoe ad
journed to meet at Wellsville on the second
Thursday or September, 1893.
EMPER03 WILLIAM MAT COME OVEH
Ills Visit to Chicago Next Tear Depends
UDon European Politics.
LoSjdoit, Sept. 13 The Standard: corre
spondentat Berlin says: "Bmperor William,
in his interview with Mr. Stemway, gave
that gentleman the impression that a visit
by him, to the Chicago Fair would depend
upon tho stato of European and home poli
tics. Mr. Steinwav was surprised at the Em
poror's knowledge of the bositlon of tho
Germans In America. Referring to the fight
against the cholera and the supremacy or
the Washington Government over the indi
vidual State, the Emperor remarked that he
wished tlie same system was f dlly in force in
Germany. It Mas so, ho said, regarding ani
mals, and it must soon also be so for the uni
form treatment of human epidemics. He
begged Mr. Stelnway to convey his kind re
gaids to Mr. John Bigelow and his regrets
lor Mr. Poultney Bigelow's illness.
When, some months ago, the Emperor
hinted to his private circle his desire to visit
Chicago, it was suggested tnat a secret visit
be made, while somebody personated him on
a tour to the North Case, but the suggestion
found no favor. Many people hero think
thero is no more objection to be made to the
Emperor (toing to Chicago than there was to
the Czar's visit to tho Paris exhibition in
1SS7.
EVER COFFIN MAKERS OBJECT,
Thry Think th Cholera Will Italn Their
Business If It Comes.
CniOAOO, Sept. 13. The National Burial As
sociation commences a two days' session at
'the Auditorium to-morrow morning. The
members do not have so sad a task as the
undertaker, being simply the suppliers of
the goods which the latter uses. "We are
here," said Secrelary J. T. Rich, "simply to
discusl business. We do not discuss epi
demics. The cholora would havo a very
damaging effect on our business, .because
people would die so rapidly that thev would
no put an ay in the veiy cheapest boxes and
the dealers would not be tailed upon lor
goods."
"That is right," said Jceph Shaw, Presi
dent of the Muskegon Coffin Company. "I
consider that the business would be hurt Dy
cholera.. However, our business was almost
doubled last year on account ot the grip.
This mean disease gave the friends of the
patient time to put them a ay respectably,
and then as tho disease was not regular
burials could take plaoo. We prefer to have
people die naiurally and not thiough any
epidemic. We are bound to get them In the
end anyhow."
PEVEHS BAGING IN NEARBY TOWNS.
H ashlncjton, Va It sldents Alarmed at the
R'pid spread of Typhoid.
Washington, Pa, Sept 13 -Special. The
residents of Washington aro becoming thor
oughly alarmed at tlie spread of typhoid
fever in this city, there being fnlly SO caes
in existence, Tho condition of some of tho
alleys and yards is something terrible, and
unless these nuisances aie abated the cold
weather will find the opidemlc prevalent to
a great extent.
The Boaid of Health Is doing all in its
power to overcome the spreading or the dis
ease. The cholora is also feared, and imme
diate steps will be taken to dlsiniect tho
place. At a meeting or the board last nignt
it was decided to compel each child which is
in attendance at school to be vaccinated be
fore the beginning ot the next term. Unless
the children possess a certificate from the
physician to this effect they will not be ad
mitted to the schools. The West Washing
ton schools have closed on account ot tho
scarlet lever.
Got Store Tlmn They Wanted.
Minneapolis Tribune.
The young ladies now quarantined in New
Tork harbor won't ask papa to take them to
Europo for at least two years to come.
Once Was Enongh for Him.
Baltimore American. I
The country gave Grover Cleveland one
trial, and has no Intention of giving him an
other. DEATHS HEEE AND ELSEWHERE.
Miss Clarissa Caldwell Xathrop.
Miss Clarissa Caldwell Lathrap, of Xew
York, founder and national organizer of the Lun
acy Law Relorm League, died in Saratoga'on ban
day night. She was a daughter of General Will
lain L. Lathrop, of Rochester, and some vearsago
was Imprisoned in a lunatic asylum until, alter
many efforts, she managed to have u writ or habeas
corpus lhsued and was adjudged entirely sane. She
arterward devoted herself to rescuing other'tane
prisoners, and was very successruU
Archibald Austin.
Archibald Austin, an old and respected
citizen of Lawrcncerlle, -died Monday evening
from the effects of surgical operation performed
!?,,hi.,wo ?eeka " Hls disease was of long
S.5.J . i. For 5 numr or ywrahe was In the
??.lt.Kln, ud, commission business on LlbT
SJSh iff SSut..of iale Tars has been connected
3JJ." lhe Westlnghuuse Electric Company. A
widow and six children survive him.
Obltnaiy Notes.
Tin: Most Bev. A. VlncentlnL Archbishop of
Aqulia, died at Rome yesterday.
Beak Admiral John Cbmmiicq Ho well, of
Hie United States navy, died st Folkestone Mon-
SEEN THROUGH A GLASS.
The Microscopical Soclely Oflprs Sevoral
Tnlusble Prlzss Sonthslde Ladles Ar
ranging for u Hmpltnl Fair Work of
Temperance Worn -n Gossip of Society.
The Iron City Microscopical Society held
its regular monthly meeting last evening.
There was a fulr attendance, most of the
members hav ing returned from their sum
mer outing and being ready to take up
microscopical research with renewed vigor.
Mr. C. C Melior told tho society what was
done at tho meeting of tho American Micro
scopical Society at Rochester, N. IT., held in
August. Ono of the principal things done
at that meeting was the offuring'or prizes
for tho encouragement or microscopical
research. Mr. Mcllor undertook to raise
$2t0, which is to be given as follows: Two
pii7.es of $30, two prizes of $30, two prizes of
$.15, two prizes of $15. These are to be given
for papers on subjects connected "With the
study of microscopy, and cover a rather
wide range. Mr. Melior expects the sum to
be contributed by those interested in this
matter. At tho conclusion of Mr. Mellor's
address, which was listened to with the
deepest attention, Dr. Chevalier Q. Jackson
made some remarks on "Animal Respira
tion" that weio distinguished by a depth of
tnougnt very cieaitauie to the speaker's re
search. There wore some very Interesting
specimens of various kinds suown in the
micro-cope3 of the various members, and
the society declared its first meeting of the
fall season a decided success.
The Ladies' Aid Society, of the South
side Hospital, held a meeting yesterday af
ternoon. It was decided that the fair for
the benefit of the hospital shall be held
November 7, in the Auditorium, Penn
avenue. Preparations are going on, and the
ladles are woi king hard to insure the suc
cess ot the entertainment. It will last a
week, as did that of last year, and two meals
a day will be served throughout that period
to business inen and Irieuus or the hospital
generally. This teaturo or the lair was a
great success last year, it giving entire sat
lsliiction to those who partook or tho hospi
tality of tho ladies, a3 v, ell as adding a L-ood
lound sum to the treasury. There will be a
bazaar and a different musical and dramatic
entertainirent every evening. Theladiesof
the various churches of the two cities, who
assisted so willingly last year, will be asked
to take part again.
A reception was tendered last evening
to Rev. Dr. Holmes and Mrs. Holmes, by the
members of the Doctor's congregation, of
the bhadyside Presbyterian Church. Dr.
and Mrs. Holmes have just returned from
Europe, and a leature or the evening was a
short, imormal talk by the Doctor upon
some of the sights of the tour. It was a
pleasant affair in every way.
An all-day sewing meeting was held yes
terday at the Day Nuisery or Storrett Union
W, C. T. U., North avenue, Allegheny, therd
being a laige attendance in spite or the
wretched weather. There was a great deal
or ork done, aprons being the articles that
occupied the attention of the meeting. An
apron social is to be given at the end of this
mouth, the proceeds to go toward the re
clamation or confirmed inebriates. The so
ciety lias taken up the case or ono man who
was a piominent professional man of Pitts
buig, Holding a high place lit society, but
who has lost nearly everything through
strung drink. Thoy have placed him in the
care of a physician, and hope to bring him
back to health and self-respect. The com
mittee in charge of the apron social are Mrs.
Samuol MoNauiiiicr, Mis. William nice, Mrs.
C. A. Newell and Mis. James RIchoy.
David McAllister, son of Ke v. David
McAllister, pastor of the Eighth Street Re
foimed Presbyterian Church, is to be or
dained as a minister of that creed, in his
lathers chuich, to-morrow evening.
Rev. David McAllister, Sr., will preach the
ordination sermon, and will be assisted in
the ceremony of ordination Dy Rev. Mr.
Kerr, who arrived in Pittsburg from bcot
laud a short time ugo. Presbytery meets on
the occasion for the express purpose of or
daining the young man. He was licensed to
preach about a year ao, and has beeu con
ducting sei vices in different churches since
that time. He will leave tor Oakland, Ca!.,
w ithlu a few days. Ho is to do missionary
work among the Chinese at that place.
frocl.il Chatter.
Mb. and Mrs. Edwis La be and daughters.
Misses Alberta and Adelaide, returned irooi
their sojurn in Luke wood, N. 1'., last week.
The fall opening of tho Shadyside
Academy Is to take place tlds morning.
Rev. H. T. McClelland is to deliver an ad
dress on "Some Lessons From School and
College Lite."
There was a very plcrsant party at the
Union Depot last evening, the occasion be
ing the departure of Miss Fannie Kerrigan,
for her home In Toronto, Canada, she has
Deen visiting in Pitisburg this summer,
and leaves many lriends.
As informal reception was tendered to
Rev. and Mrs. Charles Edward Locke last
evening at their residence on Dinwiddle
Btreet. Mr. Locke is to go to the far West
very soon. He will preach his farewell ser
mon in the Smithtleld Street M. E. Church
bunday, tho 25th Inst.
The Pennsylvania College for Women has
engaged Miss Louisa McCaun to take chargo
of the department or fine arts. Miss McCann
has spent five years in Paris, where she
studied under M. Jules Lefebore, M. T. R.
Fleury, and M. Bouguerean. For a time she
wasa pupil ol M. Lasur.an American teacher
of painting In Paris.
HOME PROM THE ARCTICS.
NEWSof the safety of Lieutenant Peary
and his brave wife, with his paity, will re
joice all hoarts. jVeta York Teleyrant.
The Peary expedition was a success. So
was the relier expedition. Does this mean
a few new lecturers and authors? Buffalo
Inquirer.
The announcement that the Peary expedi
tion is safe in Newfoundland will carry Joy
to thousands beside the personal friends of
the little party. Washington 6tctr.
The return of the Kite with Lieutenant
Peary and party is a matter or universal in
terest, and so is tho success or his expedi
tion to Greenland. New York Tribune.
LieutexaktPeaby's Arctic expedition was
a splendid success. At tho highest northern
point yet reached by civilized man ho un
furled the Stars and Stripes and brought
homo with him material which will add
many new chapters to what we know about
tho frozen North. jVcw York Rtcortler.
Lieutenakt Peabt has been triumphantly
successful. His exploits place him in tho
foremost rank or the Arctic explorers or the
day, 11 his single-handed achievement does
not entitle him tobe fiistorthe heroic band
which begins with Baffin and Frobisherand
ends with Greeley and Peary. 1'hitadelphia
Pros.
Ir is a great satisfaction to record tho
rescue or Lieutenant and Mrs. Peary, for,
how over one may admire their exhibition of
raith In themselves and their pluck, this ad
miration is coupled with tho reflection that
Mrs. Peary, at least, should not have ex
posed herself to the dangers attending such
an expedition. FhVadelvhia Ledger.
The Peary expedition donbtless has ac
complished at least a laige part of the pur
pose ror which it was fitted out. Scientific
knowledge has beeu increased in a measure
by the observations of the polar party among
tho glaciers and Ice fields. Boside this, the
possibility of sustaining life and conducting
researches in a vei y high latitude has been
shown. Philadelphia Bulletin.
TnE expedition places Lientenant Peary
in the highest rank of explorers; Ho has not
only accomplished what ho set out to do,
and proved the valne of his Ingenious
theory, but he has accomplished all this at
far less cost than other explorers of tho
North polar regions. America ought to he
proud of Peary, and it is probably safe to
say she is. Brooklyn Standard-Union.
THEIR MONEY P0B THE HEALTH,
A Political Committee Donates Its Surplus
to the Cholera Fand,
New Toek, Sept. 13. Tho Committee of
One Hundred in charge of the notification
ceremonies of Cleveland and Stevenson in
Madison Square Gnrdcii'on Jnly 20 last met
to-day to uccido what should be done with
a balance of $1,311 94 left over after the pay
ment of all expenses.
By unanimous vote It was decided to turn
the money over to bo used In the payment
or expenses lncnrred In warding ofT,tbo
cholera, or in caring for Immigrants or
cabin passengers detained as suspects on In
coming vessels.
CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS.
-Rubber paving is gaining favor.
Greek Infantrymen were always trained
I in stone throwing.
Out of 10,757 farms in Utah, 9,72 are
made fertile by irrigation.
The velocipede was invented by a
Frenchman named Drais In 1317.
A new remedy for warts is the applica
tion of the blood of the porpoise.
Women of to-day are on an average two
inches taller than they were -5 years ago.
By virtne of his oSce the Lord Chief
Justice is the principal Coroner of England,
Superstition ha3 it that the milk: of red
cows is better than that given by any other
color.
"William Tyndale beean his translation
of the Bible into English when be was JS
years old.
Chrysanthemums, served as salad, are
are a favorite article of diet among tha
Japanese.
Knightly lanoes were from 13 to 20 feet
long, tho heads l to 8 inches broad and from
12 to 20 inches long.
There is a village on the Northern Pa
cific Railroad which has 5( inhabitants and
two churches, both Presbyterian.
There are about 700,000 houses in Lon
don whioh, on cold days, consume 10,000 tons
of coal, emitting 430 tons of sulphur.
One hundred and twenty thousand
dollars is the flrstliid for the exclusive priv
ilege of selling peanuts at tho World's Jfalr.
The Roumanian crown is made of metal
from the cannon that wero captured from
the Turks by the Roumanians at Plevna In
1867.
Ireland has only 80 theaters three for
Dublin, one in Belfast, ono at Cork, one in
Limerick, ono at Waterford and one for
Londonderry. "
The women of one of the churches at
Hutchinson, Kan., gave a supper the other
night which was composed of articles of
diet beginning with "B."
The impact water wheel, so much used
for furnishing power for mines, metallurgi
cal works, and electric plants, has lately
been improved by a new arrangement of
multiple nozzles.
An advertiser in the Birmingham Post
announce: "Yonng gentleman is founding
a new religion, which Is sure to become
popular, and desires a lady of moans to as
sist him In the work."
It is not generally known that the sprat
is one of the most difficult of fish to capture
alive, a, when canght In the ordinary way,
the fish dios when it comes In contact with
the meshes of the pet.
An Indiana stone quarry company ii
having a life-size figure of an elephant
chiselled out of a solid block or stone. It
will be 11 leet high and weigh 30 tons, and is
intended for the World's Fair.
Japan is appearing in a new character,
as, nccording to tho Mninlchi, the ; Japanese
Government recently accepted an order
Irom the Australian Government for the
manufacture of u quantity of swords and
rifles.
Eight thousand five hundred red, G.OOO
white, 4.200 bine, 1800 green and 800 yellow
Incandescent electric lights wero used for
street displavs along the line of march of
the Knights Templar parade in Denver re
cently. The great search light on top of Slonnt
Washington, which is now in successful
operation, by the intense beam of light it
projects has enabled people to read course
print at the Fabyan Houso, seven miles
distant.
The little bla;k spots on the end of tha
snail's hums are the animal's eyes. He can
seo with them very little, but they serve to
distinguish for him light from darkness, and
enable him to observe obects at a distanoa
of au Inch or two.
The balance sheet of the French tele
phones lor 1S01 shows gross receipts
amounting to X223,000, the length of line at
the end of that year being nearly 1,200 miles,
and the number or subscribers 18,191, to
which total Paris contributes no less than
9,003.
Glass, as far as research has been abls
to determine, was in uso 2,000 years beforo
the birth of Christ, and was even then not
In its infancy. .In the State collection at tho .
British Museum there is the head of a Hon
molded in glass bearing the name of an
Egyptian king of the eleventh dynasty.
The bugle horn was onca called tha
buffalo horn, and It apparently derives its
name from the bugle, or extinct aurocb, tha
wild ox of Great Britain. In the Isle of
Wight the bull's head on Inn signs Is ofton
accompanied by the word bugle, and tha
French term for the lowing of cattle is still
bengler.
An Abilene (Kan.) man recently ad
vertised that he would liko to buy a second
hand mower, and to address "X L." post
office. He received one answer that struck
him favorably, and, after corresponding
some time, hunted the rartv urj and found
It to bo his wife, who was trying to sell him
their old one.
Twice a year a jumping procession is
held in honorofSaint WHIobrod, the Apostle
of tho Frisians. The fashion of the proces
sion, which goes around the towni and to
the chapol, is this: The worshipers sing;
prayers in an autiphonal manner, and Jump
two steps forward and one back, thus pro
gressing one step to every three.
Progress in the "manufacture of matches
is noted by a German authority. Sodium
chlorato is now used Instead of potassium
salt for "headless matches," which Ignito
throughout their length, and may bo used
repeatedly. The groninir scarcitvof suit
able wood has led to the nse of match-sticks
reported to be excellent moldod from
peat.
An order has been issued from tha
Siamese military headquarters that tho
troops in ono of the largest garrisons are to
bo employed every day In fly catching.
Every man Is expected to capture each day
a match box lull or blue flie, and if he does
not perform: tho duty he will be compellod,
as a penalty, to row around tho Island where
the troops are In camp.
The origin of the "name America has
been disputed, though tho weight of testi
mony leaves no doubt that it comes from the
Christian name of Amerigo Vespucci. Soma
early authorities contended that tho name
came from the Peruvian word Amarn, mean
ing tho sacred "yrabolof theoros, made of a
serpent and a stick, and the snflir ca, mean
ing country. Thus derived, America means
the land of the holy animal.
SriCT SEPTKHBEIC SriSINKLE.
Husband Did you cook that steak?
Young Wire Yes, dear.
'How long did It take you to cook it?"
'About 20 -minutes."
Iliimplil.lt will take me three hoars to cat Ik
Give It to me raw next time." Tcxa Sitings.
Said the sparrow to the reed bird
Of towl you're talked of most,
But at least we meet as equals
When we appear on toast."
Washington Star.
Hogan It do look pnrty tough for the
walkin' dllhget jist now.
Groiran Fwat's up wid 'Ira?
Hogan He has lost his Job, he has. The union
ordered him to go out on the strike. Indianapotit
Journal.
Reigning belle,
Big hotel.
Summer day.
Chappie gay.
Sweet mustache:
Mutual mash.
Sunnv hours
'Mid the flowers;
Autumn's come.
Chappie glum;
Reigning belle
Waves farewell.
" All a Joke
Chappie broke.
.Veie IbrS Herald.
"Who're yon for, Cleveland or Harri
son?" "Don't know."
"Darn it, holier for somebody."
"1 won't. Didn't airy one. on 'cm ever holler
forme, fur's I've dlsklvered." Chicago Xecs.
Ho. all you nation's bosses,
We'll tell yi u what to do.
You'd better catch the cholera
Before It catches you.
Detroit Free Prus.
Leftbridgo Did yon hear how Smith
broke up his wife's progressive euchre party, the
other night?
Throckmorton-Wby. no. What did he dor
Leftbrldge He drew four aces In the first hand
and titer couldn't ret htm to nliv anv mora.
amun, urai a uo.'t juntlU.
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