iKBassfe SfiSSy-j mvKsnvBmqHnfiPQif l.ih ji.tf:wa3-jg(7sitfjgJjjp'rii,ii jawT" JFTT-'K -wr-flv ", ' Asi'AmSVW l ifpsl!?f f$f " jsf Hpi wp vyT" k "vzxFTT-ir ? ? yzr, . -r?wr, "?" TPelSpv THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH. SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER -17. 1893. iraajai GREAT ORATORS IN THE CAMPAIGN, -WITH- PORTRAITS BY DE GRIM, -IX- rm nm The Most Brilliant Features of Newspaper Literature. HERE ARE SOME OF THEM: Railroad Wages; Henry Tackier compares the En glish figures with those of Amer ica. Trade in Russia: Frank G. Carpenter on the busl ne9s methods of the Czar's land. English in Japan: EII Perkins gives some amusing quotations from the higher classes. Quaint Philosophy: l'rose and poetry by Nixon Water man, of Chicago, neatly illus trated. Gossip orPoIitics: Charles Theodore Murray fends an interesting letter from head quarters. A Day Xlitli Worth: Mary Temple Bayard tolls how ho reaches out for America. Diet for Fat Folks: A practical physician tells how to get rid of surplus adipose. The Keystone Fauna: Stuffed birds and animals pre pared for the World's Fair. JKanasing a Wife: Ahnmoious symposium by How ard Fielding, Opie Heed, Bill Arp and others. Grand Army Women: Amusing squabbles of the fair ones who will entertain at Wash ington. Thieves in Society: Detectives hired in Gotham to guard valuables at society func tions. A COMPLETE SHORT STORY. Careful Reviews of Amateur and Professional Sports. ALL THE NEWS. HEAD TO-MORflDWS DISPATCH. ESTABLISHED FEHRUAttY 8, 1S16. Vol. 47. No 235 Entered at Pittsburg PostoSce November, 1SS7, as second-class matter. rsrsrxiss office. Cor. Smithfield and Diamond Streets. News Kooms and Publishing House, 78 and 80 Diamond Street, Sew Dispatch Building. EASTERN ADVnitTlSIXG OFF1CF. BOOM 76, TitIBU.E BUILDING. NEW YORK, where complete flies of THE DISPATCH can altvajs be found. THE DISPATCH lson sale at LEADING HOTELS throughout the United States, and at Brentauo's, S Union Square, New York, and 17 Avenue de 1' Opera. Paris. 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But it must be remem bered that, however thoroughly th?sa plans are carried out, they will afford no means for the detection of any cases that may arise in transit from the border to Pittsburg or other cities of the interior. Thus it still behooves the local authorities to persist in their arrangements to estab lish a thorough, effective and independent b stem of quarantine on the railroads out side the city limits. The furthpr the State Board of Health Coos in this matter the more it finds itself handicapped for want of funds. It is im possible to find excuses for Governor Pat tuon's disregard of the danger, and that the State should be dependent on the lib erality of individual citizens, as such, is a serious reflection on the Executive of the CommouwealtlL Xo one has disputedthe Governor's right or ability to help to pro vide funds, and it is difficult to explain his apathy on any other ground than that of careless negligence. AN UNFOUNDED OBJECTION. The objeciions of citizens of the Hill disirict to the location of a cholera hos pital on municipal property, on Bedford avenue are not such as will commond themselves to the public at large. They arc not presented m the simc offensive and lawless form as those of the Long Inland people against the use of Fire Island; but they have their foundation in the idea entertained by many that the cholera may be taken anywhere elso so that it is not brought near them. Yet the matter is one that must- be de cided for the welfare of the general public, apart from the wishes of indi viduals. It is a necessity that a place be prepared for the reception of sufferers which can be reached from the various quirlers of the city with the least journey and yet be as isolated as possible. We know of no point in the city which meets these requirements better than the spot in question. Moreover, as the buildings will be some hundreds of feet from any dwelling in that vicinity, and as scientific disinfection will bo maintained, there is really no danger to the people of that locality. Indeed, If the cholera should become epidemic, as all hope it will not, llje BiMoj. it is a question whether it will not be an advantage to that section to have a hos pital close at hand where cases can receive prompt isolation and treatment ' We do not think the courts tvill inter fere in favor of individual interests to pro vent the use of the city's property for the public good. There is not as much dan ger of spreading the cholera from that point as there is of spreading the small pox, for which purpose the hospital has been frequently used. FREE TRADE INCONGRUITIES. In the prosecution of its attack on the reciprocity policy the Philadelphia Record is moved to the following declarations: "11 wes an abandonment of the protective principle to take, the duty off raw sugar. It was an equal abandonment of the pro tective principle to arm the President with power to put a tax on coffee, tea or other articles which we do not produce, as a means of levying commercial war upon countries which do produce them." Tet the present month has seen one recognized organ of the Free Trade party attacking Republican legislation for re pealing the duty on sugar, which was as serted to be a revenue duty, while another with no less authority than that of Mr. Henry Watterson, the standing framer of Free Trade platforms, has promised that Democratic supremacy, if it comes, will bring with it the restoration of the sugar duties. Are these Democratic authorities wrong, or lias the esteemed Record run amuck on the tariff question so madly that it is now unable to distinguish between rev enue and protective duties? Before the Freo Traders can justly ask the country to give thrm control of its legislation tliey should get a sufficient grasp of the question to bo able to avoid contradicting each other on the leading details of their policy. As to "levying commercial war" on other countries, might it not occur to the Record that a commercial war which h.is increased our trade with the objects of the w?r is a very good thing to have? Exports to an imports from Cuba, Porto Rico, Brazil and the other countries af fected by the reciprocity policy have in creased by a rsateria! percentage since this "commercial war" began. The Record will have to deny the trade statis tics a good deal more strenuously than it has yet done before it can make the peo ple believe that this kind of commercial war is a bad thing. Possibly, indeed, it is the supplanting of European trade in South America with American products that is disturbing the soul of our Demo cratic cotemporary. "When the Free Trade campaign im pels its organs to contradict eacli other on the nature of a leading duty, and requires mournings over the increase of American commerce, the Free Trade campaign is in a bad way. A CASE FOR VIGOROUS MEASURES. At 11 o'clock yesterday morning the odor from the Soho street dump, which was the subject of that animated colloquy at the health conference on Wednesday, enforced itself on the cognizance of all who passed in the vicinity. The vast mass of rubbish dumned there in defiance of public welfare and against all protests is a threat to public health. It will take tons of disinfectant ana hundreds if not thousands of yards of clean dirt to reduce it to mnocuousness; but no effort should be spared to bring its threat to a large share of the population and its offense to the public nostril to a minimum at the earliest possible moment The people who have been dumping and permitting to be dumped dead animals, garbage and refuse matter should be sub jected to vigorous and repeated prosecu tions till the practice is suppressed. One of the remarkable features of the dumping business in that locality is that while re formatory measures have restricted tlis dump on one side of the street to clean dirt, the other side is permitted to receive the fiith which creates a smell over the whole locality. We have here an evidence that the dumping of improper stuff can be prevented and an example of the need for applying the restrictive measures to all alike. Tne public health requires that every such source of pollution shall be thoroughly cut off. Vigorous measures are necessary, and one of the first steps is the retorminirof a health official who is unable to perceive an odor winch smeds to heaven over the whole neighborhood. HARD ON HARTER. The doubtful compliment is paid to. Hon. 1L D. Harter, of Ohio, by the Boston Herald of insisting that he is the parson who introducjd to the public the idea in corporated in the Democratic platform of repealing the prohibitory tax on issues of circulating notes by other thin national banks. That journal insists that "his advocacy of the project may safely be taken as a sufficient guarantee that there is no wildcat purpose about it, for he is one of the most sincere and Intrepid supporters of honest money to be found in either party." In a proposition of such positive charac teristics as the revival of banks of issue under whatever regulations maybe passed by forty-four different States the' reputa tion of the proposer cannot suffice as a guarantee. Indeed, if the Herald's asser-1 tion is correct, the matter is not one in which the measure takes character from Harter, but instead Htrter takes charac ter from the measure. That gentleman has won fame as opposing the deprecia tion of the currency by free silver coin age. But if he is sponsor for the proposi tion to throw open the gates to all kinds of State bank issues he has taken up a scheme of depreciation and inflation of the currency beside which all the propositions of free silver man or even Greenbackers were sound and conservative finance. The depreciation of the currency by freo silver coinage would be limited bf the bullion value of the silver. The deprecia tion and iufl ition of the currency by the Democratic proposition would be limited only by the regulation of forty-four differ ent legislatures and the cupidity and greed of wildcat bankers. Moreo ver the free silver dollar reduced to its Gj-ceiit bullion value would have a uniform worth every where. Under this precious banking ida a workingman in M iss ichusstts " whon tendered a bank bill from Ohio or Illinois would have no means of determining whether it was worth one hundred cents, fifty cents or nothing at all. The Democratic proposition Is to sub stitute for a national and stable bank cur rency, a sectional and unreliable circu lating medium. If Mr." Hrter has in troduced it to the publis he Has brought his reputation for sound financial view to a .sudden end. There is far more reliability and conservatism in the green back doctrine that all circulating notes should be issued by the Treasury. A SIGN OF PROGRESS. The fact tnat we are within fifty days of the national election, and that neither party has commenced to throw mud, is one of the most encouraging evidences of im provement in our politics. TJp to ho pres ent time tho campaign has been conducted on the basis of discussing measures and their results. Some of the arguments necessarily approximate the idiotic as, for instance, the Chicago Herald's theory that the protective, policy has produced the danger of cholera; but as It whole the cam paign has proceeded, though somewhat languidly, on the high plane of sober dis cussion of economic policy. This demonstrates a decided advance from the state of things within the mem ory of every adult The last Presidental election was comparatively free from mud-throwing, but before thatnearly every campaign was overslaughed by personali ties and appeals to prejudice. In 1884 "the tattooed man" and the indiscretions of Cleveland's salad days shut out nearly everything else, except the final allitera tive slip, which intended to appeal to preju dices in one direction but aroused them from another quarter, and lost New York to Blaine. In 1880 the Morey forgery, the 5329 libel and the ".good man weigh ing 250 pounds" wore prominent features. In 1876 the principal debate was as to which of the wealthy candidates was most remiss about paying all the taxes that ho ought, and so on ad infinitum. The growth of the country above per sonalities indicates steady progress toward the rule of sense and decency in politics. We may still be very far from an ideal of reason and dignity as the ruling qualities, hut the good tone of the present cam paign is evidence that we are steadily im proving. Somk of the political rainbow chasers should remember the ancient adage about counting chickens boforo thoy are hatched, so that thev may save themselves the ti oublo .of trvin:r to account for tho manner in which the milk was spilled when the No vember election is over. .Tdtiter will soon be found to have as many satellites as a ward boss has heelers, if the present rate of discovery continue. TnoSE who spread unfounded cholera rumors aro as bad as authorities who con ceal recognized casos of infectious disease and as culpable as every citizen who neg lects to do his nart in the work of hygienic cleanliness, which Is the community's best security. Mrs. Schenley cannot be too generous. Her habit of giving ground to the city ia ono that should be encouraged and kept up. In deciding to withhold information from trade reports as to the amount of grain on hand, elevator companies aro introducing an even larger element of gambling into transactions in cereals than has hitherto been present. V Nancy Hanks' claims to recognition should be brought to tho attention of tho World's Fair Hoard of Lady Managers. If the Beading combine gets into the Illinois law courts President McLeod will have another opportunity of comparing himself to a Sioux Indian. But he ought to find himself legally scalped one of these days. That Western campaign fund of the York JJ'orfd will never die of dropsy, though no effort has been spared to inflate it. Pkesident Harrison has a terrible load of anxiety on his shonlders during the serious illness of his wife, but it is one that overy American citizen lightens so far as sympathy can lessen such loads. Tin: panic bacillus has not hitherto been located, though its effects are quite aa dis astious as tUoso of the cliolcia germ. In noticing the danger from disease during the G. A. R. encampment at Wash ington, it should at vleast not he forgotten that veterans ate the best material for re sisting a panic It is necessary this year to educate voters in the technicalities of voting as well as in the principles of government. The Democratic party is respectfully but emphatically informed that the nation has absolutely no use for that dangerous com modity known as a shin-plaster at this stage of its history. Allegheny citizens should persist in cooking thoir water until their influent pipe has giown to a proper length. There was some sound sense in Judge Bulllngton's remark, "A good husbtnd will makr a good citizen," apropos ot an applica tion for naturalization papers yesterday. Sullivan has nearly as much to say as ever, hut tliere is just tlie least suspicion of modesty in his tone now. That announced rise in the price of coffins was unauthorized, so theie is no necessity for increasing lifo insurance policies to cover the expense offunetals. Asian is out of the fashion nowadays if he has no quarantine experienco or cholera reminiscences to relate. Now that Sheriff McOormick has been lined for contempt of court he should go And the Coolers and restore his reputation by arresting them for contempt of him. Is it the composition or the fumigation of Cleveland's letter that is taking so long! New York Democrats would be none the worse for a campaign of education in good manners, if their present politeness may be Judged by yesterday's Peck episode. The lawless Sugar Trust even stoops to derive nouilshmont Irom choleia. Allegheny has its Police Justice for the central district now, and the Mayor will have the more leisure for his business of looking altor the citj's interests. Pools were anatural result of the rain at Homewood. Revolutionary troubles in Costa Rica and Venezuela are ulTordlng plenty ot evolu tionary exercises for the new American navy. Quarantine Stations on Railroads. Cincinnati Commercial Guette.I The PiTTauolto Disvatch discusses the project of establishing railroad quarantine stations in the vicinity of that city, and ad monishes care lespecting drainage from places. The outbreak in Hamburg is as cribed to the. rIlntIon of tho river Elbe, above that oity, fiom Russian cholera pa tients. It is not a new idea that cholera usually follows streams in the course of thoir flow. Drainn-o from quarantine station on tho principal railroads entering Pittsimrg would naturally go into the Youghlogheny, Jlononalieia and Allegheny rivers and thence into the Ohio. Should cholera be taken to Pittsburg by rail, and quarantined, as The Dispatcb explains, "a single act ol carelessness might be the means ot spreauiug ttio diseaso far and wide, not only throughout these cities (Pittsbuigand Allegheny), but down the Ohio Valley." Archbishop Porcell's Creditors in Lucli, Cincinnati, Sept. 10. The ci editors or tuo Purcell estate are. to be mado glad with an other dividend. The claim of tho trustees against this diocese for money placed in the churches by Archbishop Purcell has been allowed, and nearly $72,0J0 has been repaid, and will bo divided among the thousands of poor pooplo who committed the folly ot miking their beloved Archbishop their banker. What "Will Catch Dave. Bt. Paul Pioneer Press. Only an office of the largest size with no string attached will do for bait to inveigle DfcVe mil into the patent duplex placating naoblce. I CAMPAIGN NEWS AND COMMENT. "There is still another feature of tho At torney General's opinion on .the Baker law which, will reauiro further explanation, to say tho least," remarked a county official yesterday. "There is ono phase of the group' question which seems to have es caped his attention. Jir. Ilensel decides that whon in conn ties liko Philadelphia and Allegheny nominations for the respective offices are made by separate conventions each such nomination 'shall constitute a district group. If, as has frequently hap pened, any party names all its candidates in one county convention, and the other organization has a delegate convention for oaoh office, how shall we vote fhenT Will the county candidates of the one party be bunched as a 'group' and thoso of the other divided into three or four so-called 'groupst' The point is not likely to affect Allegheny county this fall, owing to tho lack of local contests, but it casts a serious reflection upon the manner in which tho ballot law deoision was propared. Judge Stowe and Coroner McDowell wore botlC renominated by the samo Republican oonrentlon, and the Judge was indorsed and Festus King nominated for Coroner by ono Democratic convention. This lact will prevent trouble upon this particular feature In Allegheny county this time, but in case of an extensive and hotly contested county struggle, it can readily be seen that Attorney General Honsol, or somebody else, will have to come to the front with a supplementary opinion." General Keedeb, Chairman of the Republican State Committee, is quoted as saying: "Attorney General Hensel's opinion on the form of the Baker ballot is potfectly satisfactory to me. It is all I contended for, amluiovideu bettor method lor the voter to make his choice known." The ruling of the Attorney General has cientod a commotion throughout the State, which is finding voieo through the columns of the press. Agicat number of both Re publican and Democratic papers criti cise and condemn the opinion, and a few of each party sustain It. The Harrisbnrg Telegraph (Hep.) says that "the insistence by the Republican State Committee that the form of tickot pre pared by the Secretary of the Common wealth is not a compliance with tho law, when it is regarded from a partisan stand point, is Just about as smart as the indorse ment of Mo.Ueerin the Thiid district. Un der the ticket prepared by Secretary Har rity all the Republicans and Dctnooiats and Prohibitionists are grouped tegether, and tho voter votes his whole party ticket by making one mark. The committee insists upon a form of ticket that will invito scratching. If tho Repnhllcans were in the minority thero might he some reason for their insisting upon this soparntion;'but as their majority makes it only necessary for them to secure a fair nttendnnoe at the polls of thoso who will vote straight tickets to win, its objection to Secretary Hairity's form of ticket, we may say aain, is incum piehensible." TnE Philadelphia Te'egraph (Rep.) thinks that, "the decision rendered by Mr. Ilensel, as to tho marking of ballots, will it self create no end of confusion. It was tho plain intent or the law to permit voters to finish the whole business polling a straight tickot, by a single mark, at tlie top, opposite the party name." On the other hand the Public Ledger is pleased with the deoision, saying: "It con forms with the apparent meaning of the law, and will give independent voters a fair opportunity to express their wisbes with out top much labor. In the sample ballot heretofore distributed one mark would carry tho whole party ticket, general, State and local. But in tho ballot form approved by the Attorney General tho candidates will bo grouped, tho electors in one group. State officers in another, and so on. A strict party vote will require a cross mark at the head of each group, while an independent voter need mark each candidate's name only in that group or groups where he has "scratched" some ono or more names from his party tickot. By the original form the independent voter would havo been obliged to make about 40 marks; bv the new form five or six m.iy suffice." But the Ledger for gets that tho general principle t3 for the cieatest convenience for tho greatest num ber, and that an overwhelming majorty of the voters desire to cast straight party tickets. ' UrON the blank space question the Philadelphia InquirT, Rep., says: "Tho law says tho blank spaces shall be placed after each group. The At torney General says they may be bunched in a column off on the right sido or the ticket. Perhaps tlie Supreme Court would sustain him, lint why take the lesponsibil ity of not carrying out the letter of the lawt" That Chairman Keeder and Attorney General Ilensel went to a good deal of trouble to make the voters' task as hard as possible, is tho verdict of tho Butlor Herald, Dem., which sums up the matter thus: "The construction p. need by Attorney General Ilensel on the now election law, that a cioss must be plnccd at the head of every division of a ticket instead of at tho head of the ticket, seems to bo a strained one. He is certainly wrong in bis construction of the law. The effect of the opinion, ir it stands, is to compel the voter to make several ciosses instead of one if he wanti to havo his rote counted on tlie 'whole ticket. It will re-oilt in more contusion in voting and contribute largely to tho dofective ballot INr. It reverses all the teachings oi tho ap plication of the law thus far and sots at naught all education of electors thus lar in the canvass. TnE Erie Timet, Eep., after a careful study of the subject, concludes that "the tricks and turas or the new blanket ballot are past finding out. New discoveries are being made every dav in relation to the law and it still remains a fertile field for more discoveries." As showing the confusion created by the Hensel decision it is interesting to note that even the intelligent country editor has not altogether fathomed it. The Blooms burg Republican gravely informs its readers that "It will now be necessary to make a cross opposite the head of each office for tho candidate for whom you want to vote." The Republican should hasten to correct this impression among its constituency. A cross mark is not required for each office, but for each "group," which may be composed of one or more offices. This year, according to the Attorney General, the first "group" will consist or the Si Presideatal electors, the caudldato for Supreme Judge ana tho two Congressmen at Large. 'Then tho District Congressman will constitute a "group" all by himself. Tho number of the othei'groups tone voieu win vary in uuierens counties according to the manner or making nomina tion", the number and character of offices to be filled this year. In no ca-e will there ho less than threo "groups" and flvo will be about the average number. The intimation is heard Irom various quarters that the strained construction placed upon the Baker law at the instanco of Chairman Eeedor may be part of a gen eral plan to lender genuine ballot reform unpopular with tho Keystone votors. DEATHS HERB AND ELSI.WIIBRC Alexander T. UlcCracken. Alexander T. McCrackeu, 70 years old, was found dead In his bed in New Castle, yesier day morning, borne ypan agoHhe old gentleman was wealthy, hot lie became Involved, in a pett law suit. In the prosecution of which lie was re duced to beggary. Recently the city authorities have Iisd to assist him. He was known to almost everyone in Mercer and Lawrence counties, his larinblng ou the line between the two counties nearLcesburg. Ex-Governor Thomas II. TYatts. Ex-Governor Thomas H. 'Watts died sud denly at his home in Montgomery, Ala., this morn ing. He was on the street yesterday. He was At torney General In the oufederatc Cahlr.ct and was Governor of Alabama during the Civil War, Obituary Notes. Cxbpiitai. Edwakd Howard died at Brighton, England, jestcrday of pneumonia. JOHN K. IIowdex, aged 48 years, an ex-alderman and ex-councllman. died at Read ug yester day of.beart disease after a few minutes' Illness. Herbert 11. Coleman; a leading business man and eldest son of Joseph Coleman. President of the Union National Bank, Massillon, died yeitcrday alter a brief illness from neuralgia of the stomach. He was 38 years of age. Colonel D. V. Ahl. ex-President of the Har rlsburgcand Potomac Railroad and well known throughout the State as a leading Democratic poli tician, died suddenly at Newrllle. Pa., yesterday morulas from heart disease, aged 70 years. MORE LABOR STATISTICS. How "Wages Jump Up Under the Republi can Protective Policy. Boston, Sept. 16. Chief Horace G. Wadlln, of the Bureau of Statistics of Labor, has completed a volume or statistics bearing on tho manufacturing industries and wages of operatives in tho Bay State, which not only furnishes food for reflection as ty the pros perity of the times, but "shows niat wages have increased ever sinco the McKinley bill went into effect. In 1890 the average number or persons employed in all establishments represented was 287,900, and the average number of per sons employed in the same establishments in 1891 was 293,868. This is an increase of 1.72 per cent in the average number em ployed. The total amount paid in waues in the establishments increased 2.C5 per cent. In onrpetings the lncreao was 3.61 per cent: in the cotton coods, 167 per cent; In machines and machinery, 8 63 per cent; in metals and metallic goods, 3.28 per cent; in paper and paper goods, i.70 per cent, and in woolon goods and worsted goods, 7.15 per cent, and 1.S3 per cent respectively. In boots and shoes, however, the total amonnt paid in wages decreased 3.75 per cent, and in the leather 8.82 per cent. Tho average yearly earnings per individual without regard to sex or ago employed in tr.e 75 industries was $137.93 in 1890 and JI11.90 in 1891. The range from the highest to lowest avnrago yearly earnings ns from $67(! 3" to $278 93 in 1891, and from $687 76 to $287 22 in 1891. Tho highest earnings ruled in the in dustries doinandinc: greater skill and em ploying ma.es chiefly, and tho lower factory industries employing a laige proportion of females and youn-r persons. The report shows that the increase in capital devoted to production in 1391, as compared with 1890, amounted to 2.31 per cent. In cotton goods thelnciease was 2.60 per cent; in machinery and machines, morals and metallic goods, musical instru ments and material", and paper and paner goods the percentages of increase were 8.25. 9.26, 5.18 and 1.97 respectively. In the establishments returned in boots and shoes, caipeting, leather, woolen goods and worsted goods, on the other hand, slight decreases are reported, tho percentage of decrease being L02. 2.76, 9.M, LM and 1.19 respectively. In the ten leading Industries is invested 64.33 per cent or all capital returned in 1631, and in them is found 59.61 por cent of the in dustrial capital of the Commonwealth as returned in tho decennial census of 1SS5. Tho Increase lh the value of stock used amounted to 2.77 per cent, In carpetings, papers and paper goods, woolen goods and worsted goods tho percentages of increase were 6 02, 7.33, 8 71, and 19.90 respectively. In tho six other leading Industries the value of stocK used in 1891 was less than in IS90, the percentages of dceieaso being as lollows: Boots and shoes, S 35; cotton good", .7: leather, 11.8; machines and machinery, 1.71; motn.1 and metallic goods, LSI. and musical instruments and materials, 1.57. HiWS FB0M EYDEE'S PABTY. He Is Making Good Progress in Exploring Greenland's East Coast. New Torlc Sun. News of the safe return of Lieutenant Peary from his expedition to North Green land is closely lollowed by information from the party that Lieutenant Rider led to tho coast of East Greenland a year ago. His expedition, consisting of nine mem bers or the royal Danish navy, left Copenhagen on June 8 last year on board the Norwegian sealei Heklo. Seven weeks later the party arrived on the northwest coast orf Iceland, and thence they proceeded to Scoresby's Sound, on the east coast Jut south oi the shores explored by the Koldewey expedition in 1S7U. Their pur poso was to make collections along this coast and to explore the entiie region as tar south as Angmagsalik flord. tho Tiorthern limit of the explorations of Lieu tenant Holm. They spent the winter in camp at Cape Brewster. 70 27' N. latitude, making large collections and taking ob servations. They did good work during tho spring also, but wore unable to complete their survey of the coast and connect their observations with those or the explorers further south. On August SXieutenan t P.yder left Green land and returned to Iceland, but ho started again on Augnst 26 for the Green land coast, expecting to land about 6j north latitude and to complete his woik. Great scientiflo results ate said to have been already achieved by the expedition. When this work is completed the entire coast line Irom Cape Harwell to Capo Blsmaick will have been outlined, and Byder's labors, together nith the information brought home by Lieutenant Peary, will enable map makers to give an approximate idea of the outline of the east, northeast and northern coasts, and then the contour of Gieenland in its entliety will be fairly well known. It U worth noting that althougn the east coast has been regarded as almost inaccessible, Kyder roaehed It last year, and ho had every confidence when in Iceland in August that he would reach it again this year. TEAT GOAT'S EAIB CASS. The Government Sustained and a Dnty of 13 Cents a Pound Leviable. Bostox, Sept. 16. The United Statoi Gov ernment has been sustained by the United States Court of Appeals in the cele brated goat's hair case. The decision is of vast importance, involving many millions of dollars ami affocting tho rights of manufacturers and importers all over the country. The ruling reverses tba decision Judge Colt, of the Circuit Court, who decided in lavor of L. C. Chase & Co., the firm that brought the test case, and against the Board of General Appraisers and Collector Beard. Tho last mentioned official assessed the dntv at 12 cents a pound on goat's hair goods, which the importers contended should be admitted duty free. The Col lector claimed that h was authorized to assess the duty under tho McKinley bill, and the Board of General Appraisers to whom the importers appealed, hold the samo opinion. Judge Colt thought differ ently. In summing up, Jntico Gray says: "The present act not only clearly directs that all goat hair, without regard to its value or to the purpoes lor which it is used orsuitablo, shall be subject to a duty of 12 cents a pound, but it avoids every form of expression which had created doubt of difficulty In the con struction of earlier nets upon tho subject. Tho inovltablo conclusion appears to us to be that, under the tariff act of 1S90, goat's hair, even ir not fit for combing. Is subject to a duty of 12 cents a pound." WITH FAME AND FORTUNE. General Francis A. 'Walker lias finally decided to accept his appointment as a member of tho International Silver Con ference. "William Dean Howells has resigned his position as editor of tho Cosmopolitan after only three months' connection with that mnt...zlue. Miss Ellen Terry is seriously ill at Winchelsea, England, with a second attack of influenza. She has suffered from it dur ing the last three months. Miss Elizabeth Net, of Hempstead, Tex., a descendant of Marshal Ney, of France, will execute in marble the statues of a number of Texas heroes for exhibition at tho World's Fair. One of the society events of the season was tho marriago last evening of William E. Bailey, ot Seattle, Wash., to Miss Fay Algor, of Dotrolt, at tho residence of tho brido's fathor, General r.usell A. Alger. Herman Celman, the South American millionaire, owns a Sl.OOO.O-JO yacht, tho Southern Cross, is only 23 years of aire, and has an income of SJO0.O00 tiycar. Ho is the only son of ex-ProIdont Celman ot tho Aigentme Republic. The only known lady chime-player, it is stated, is "jliss Betthii Thomas, assistant organist of Giace Church, New York. Sho dce-m't havo to climb into the steoplo to play the chimes, which she handlos from below by the aid of an electrical device. Mr. Richard Mansfield and Miss Beatrice Cameion.wero married in New York yesterday. Tney weio to have been married this summer at a iriend's house in England, but a change in Mr. Mansfield's business plans made it impossible for him tomafto the Journey abioad. Dr. Carl Bock, formerly professor of medicine at tho University of Lelpsic, recommends ns preventives of cholera tho wearing of a flannel bandauo about 11 inches wide and the di inking oi boiled water. He treated about SU0 casos in the last cholera epidemic in Poland. Frederick Douglass addressed an audi enco of a thousand or moru peoplo In Itlch monu last Tuesday at the second annual exposition of the colored people of the two Virginias. His subject was tho dignity of labor und tho duty of tho colored people to work out a ureat destiny. OPENING OF THE SEASON. The Society "World Trembling on tho Brink of the Fall Campaign A Number of Pretty Affairs Already Scheduled. The opening reception of Maple Shade, the new United Presbyterian Home for aged women in Wilkinsburg, will occur Sep tember 30. The house was bought somo months ago by tho Women's Association of tho United Presbyterian Church, and it has boen in the hands of painters and paper hangers ever since. It is now about com pleted, however, with the exception of put ing down carpets and adding new furniture here and tliere and giving the general finish ing touches that are necessary in order to make a house worthy or the name. The programme of the day includes re ligious exercises, refreshments anda musical entertainment. Mrs James H. Orb's house at Edge wood will be turned Into a fancy fair Thurs day and Friday, December 'l and 2. The ladles of the Presbyterian Church of that place ,are all busy even at this early date palntjng on china, dressing dolls and mak ing fancy and useful articles that will sell tapldlv for Christmas presents. Supper will be served each evening from C to 8 in the dining room and rofrcshments will be on sale throughont the nfternoon and evening of eacli day. The proceeds aro to be used to fnrnish the new Presbyterian Church now in course of erection at Edgowood. A series of lectures and entertainments aro to bo given tho coming winter under the direction of Mr. J. D. Anderson, principal of tho Wilkinsburg public schools, that prom ise to be instructive as well as pleasurable. The lecturers and their subjects are: "The ilan of Galileo." George K. Wendling; "Tho Model Wife," Dr. A. A. Willitts; "Electric ity," Prof. J. B. DeMotte: "Patrick Henry." Levin P. Handy. The entertainments will consist of a concert by the Schuman Quar tet, which is composed of ladies; "Cnalk Talks," by Frank Roant, a concert by the Edward .Moro combination and readings by l'ror. S. T. Ford. The proceeds aro to bo de voted to replenishing the school library that -was destroyed by fire some years ago. The lawn fete under the auspices of the Butler street M. E. Church that has been such a pleasure to the young folks of Law? rencevillo the last two nights of this week, will clcse this evening. The series of winter dances under the auspices of the Orinila Club will be inaugu rated on October 7. Mr. John Davies, Mr. E. E. Kohew, Mr. Charles Smith, Mr. W. B. Stieren, with the president, Dr. Georzo S. Proctor, are appointed a Commltteu of Ar rangements for the evening. Miss Susie Turner, of Auburn street. East End, leaves to-day to visit friends in Indiana, Pa. A lawn fete will be hsld next Thnrsday evening on the church grounds of Emory M. E. Church by tho Ladles' Co-Operative Aid Society. Kev. Anna SnAv. the national temper ance reformer, will deliver a lecture In tho North Avenue M. E. Church Sunday, tho 25th Inst. NO CAUSE FOR ALAR1T. CnoLZKA. is in Now York, bnt there is good reason to believe that It will not spread, and no oxcuse whatever for a panic or occasion for dismay. New York Tribune. If the eity officials are equal to their duties there will be no epidemic as the re sult of the few isolated cases already found. The safety of the metropolis is a question of efficient administration. Cleveland Leader. TnE pi csenco of a few sporadic cases in a single place, promptly recognized and placed under proper control, does not pre sage a common outbreak of the disease or its visitation elsewhere. Philadelphia Led ger. Tub cases of disease aro fortunately few; the resources of the Health Department are many and practically inexhaustible. The country looks to her chief city to speedily expel from her borders this unwelcome vis itor. Boston Glube. Br a rigid enforcement of sanitary meas ures in New York tho phviue may be restricted. If the health officers and the in habitants do their dntv by taking proper precautions -cholera will not become epi demic. Ci 'dnnatt Times-Slar. Tiiehe is no occasion for alarm over tho cholera reports from New York. Five deaths in nine days in widely different portions of a dity or 1,500,000 people can, wo venture to say, be duplicated by the vital statistics of any year in tlie past 20. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. OsLTa few cases haveasyet bcn reported and it is probable that tho thorough cleans ing the metropolis has received and the great care that Is being taken to perfect its sanitary condition will prevent any very considerable spread of the, disease. Balti more News. The action of the authorities in suppress ing all knowledge of the plague's presence In the city for an entire week or even fora day is of questionable wisdom. The people have the right to be informed immediately when an epidemic lias broken out among them. Chicago Herald. The appearance of cholera in this city shows that tho sentimental complaint of hardship imposed upon the pasicngcrs al ready quarantined was in the highest degree iuconsldoiato or the public welfare. It was impossible to exert too gieat rigor lit deal ing with tlie pest. yew York Sun. Tub dangers of tho situation should nei ther be underrated nor exaggerated. That the public and their representatives may grapple adequately with the evil which has entered our borders it is essential that its proportions, so far as human agency can at tain that end, be carefully measured. Brooklyn Eagle. A DEADLOCK IN HAWAII. The Triangular Tight r the Parties Stops the Wheels of Government; Hosolulu, Sept. 10. There is a deadlock in the Legislature relative to the question who shall fill the new empty seats In the Cabinet. The vacancies were caused on the evening of August 30, when Ministers Parker, WIdomann, Spencer and Neumann were retired by a resolution of want of con fidence being carried against thorn by a vote of 31 to 10. Neumann had only been in offlco about a dozen hours, nnd by the action of tho Legislature not only lost his position in the Cabinet, but his seat as a noble in tho Legislature. From August 30 to date there has been do harmonious action by the three parties in tho Assembly, and a consentient deadlock ensues. Queen Lilunkalani has called upon Hon. Arthur P. Peteiseu to form a new cab inet, but, although nearly a week at work, he has not yet succeeded. In thn meantime no work is being done by the Legislature. Thero is some probability that Marshall Wilson mav have :o reconsider his position upon tho formation of a nnw Ministry, and inmiirsaro rlfs as to tlie position he would succeed to, those or Chamberlain and Crown Laud Commissioner being mentioned. Fioin a reliable miuico, however, it N inti mated that he would bo appointee! Hawaiian Consul at San Francisco. CIKCIHHATI WIEE3 TJHDSBaEOTJSD. Tho Telephone CompauyComplctcs Its Sub way and Sets a Good Example. Cixcikxati, Sept. 36-Captain Gcorgo N. Stone, general manager of the telophouo Iiiie3 of this city, has given official notico to tho police and fire departments that tho subways for telephone wires are now com pleted In tlie central portion of the city, ex tending from Third to Court streets and from Broadway to Central avenue. The wires; ho says, will he drawn into tho tubos within tho next 90 days, and by noxt .spring,if tho polico and fire departments are piompt in leinoving their wires to tho sub way which tho telephone company has pro vided tor thorn, all pbles and wir9 now dis figuring that portion of the city can bo re moved. The work or tho telephone com pany has been done in a most thorough manner. v lint It aiy Coma To. Washington Star.J New York Journalistic enterprise may yet ai rive at a point where special moil are em ployed to bluo-pencll microbes out of,re porters,' copy. At the Foot of the Ladder. Baltimore American.! ' Tho croakers are pot all dead yet, but tho list grows shorter and shortor every day. , CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. Whalebone is S15,000a ton. Chinamen drink all their wines as hot as it is possible. Furnaces for puddling iron were In vented by Cort in the year 173L Bishop Berkeley wrote the "Principles or Human Knowledge" whon he was 28 years old. The largest pyramid in Egypt has by late measurement been proven to be 438 leet high. Chinese women are not tanght to wnta or read. 1 hoy are not considered of enough Importance. The New Jersey Court of Chancery fc decided that oysters are not real estate, but personal property. Small electric lamps are being tried by the London police in place of the old fash ioned oil bull's eyes. The hardest known wood is said to b cocus wood. It turns the edge of any ax, however well tempered. At the siege of Jerusalem the Eoraan had a catapult that throw a stone weighing 170 pounds a distance of 500 yards. India rubber trees grow wild all over Lee county, Fla, At Fort Myers they are the chief shade and ornamental trees. Horticulturists tell ns that the orange was originally a pear-shaped fruit about the size of a common wild cherry. Its evolution is due to 1,200 years or cultivation. There is a tree in Jamaica known as the lire tree on account of its leaves growing; even after being severed from the plant. Only by fire can is be entirely destroyed. Investigation of rain drops lead to the conclusion that some of the large drops must be more or less hollow, as they iail when striking to wet the whole surface inclosed within the drop. If the sun gave forth sounds loud enough to reach the earth, such sounds, instead of reaching us in tho space of about eight min utes, as light does, would only arrive altera period of nearly 11 years. The new university of Chicago will in clude in its departments a school of elec trical engineering. A school of arts will be or-anized, in which tho electrical section will be a prominent feature. Crystalized nitrogen is one of the great est chemical curiosities. By cooling nitro gen gas down to 3073 below tho freezing point and then allowing it to expand, Bolid snow-like crystals are formed. The new sub-treasury building at San Francisco has an electric burglar alarm in stalled between the rows of bricks so that any intenerenen with either the bricks or cement will cause an alarm to sound. Edison's carbon transmitter patent ex pired in England July 3v. The Blako Amer ican patent for a transmitter expires here on January 20, 1833. The Bell telephone patent does not expire until March 7, 1S93. An inmate of the Bates county (Ma) poorhonse died lately whose head was 33 inches In circumference and the weight of the brain found to he 144 ouncos, while the normal weight of the average brain is but 13 ounces. A heavy plate glass shade, ornamented with gold and securely locked to three sta ples set in the marble top of a pulpit in a church in Brussels, is said to cover one of the thorns winch formed a part of the Savior's crown. Flies have long been accused of spread ing disease, but it is assorted now Irom Hav ana that mosquitoes have a use, for if they inoculate anyone after biting a yellow fever 'patient the disease which follows is so mild that latal results are rare. The Chinese make what is called "chl wahi," or grass cloth, from tho fiber of the common nettle. It is said to make a splen did cloth for tents, awnings, etc. When made into belting lor machinery It Is said to havo twice the strength of leather. If yon could cut sections out of the side of the soap bubbles and then had some delicate contrivance with which you could handle the pieces, you would find that it would tako M),000,00) films laid one upon an other to make a pile one inch in height. The new colors have odd names but little suggestive or tho tints they represent. Three of the now reds aro "Kol," "Prim rose" and "Francis I." "Angellquo" is ten derly expressive ot, palest apple green. "Pygmalion" and "Diavoia" aro both, browns. The discovery of an onyx mountain in Mexico is leported. The onyx Is stated to be of superior quality, finely grained and beantifully marked with streaks of varie gated color. The find is situated 30 miles south of El raso and 11 miles from the Mex ican Central Bailroad. Twenty millions of acres of land in the State or Washington are covered with a growth of wood which will cut an average of 25,000 feet of morcan tiio lumber per acre. Much of It in the vicinitv of Port Crescent will cut an average of 100,000 feet and more to the acie, while single trees are common that will cut 3,0.0 foet. Of the 2,322 Swiss factories which em ployed motUc poner at the close of 1SS3, 1,111 exclusively employed water power.and only K8 exclusively steam power, while 137 emploved both waterand steam; and, taken altogether, these 2,322 notaries used 61,243 horse-power of water and 27,132 of steam, and only 717 of gas and electricity. In many parts of England, in Germany and in the North ot Europo there are numer ous superstitions concerning the cuckoo, all of which, however, unite in ascribing to it oracular powers. In the Maritime Highlands and llubridus, if tho cuckoo is first heard by ono who has not broken his last, some mis fortune, it is believed, may be expected. In 22 of the largest cities in the United States 17,127 women who are working lor a living were questioned by Government agents. Of these 15,383 are single, and the avorago age is 22 years and 7 months. They represent 312 vocations, and their average wages are $5 51 a week. A partial census in ltJ showed the average wages to be $1 95. A long tunnel near Paris has been lighted in a novel way. Reflectors throw the light from many electric lamps 16 feec above the rails to the sides of the tunnel, where it is again reflected by burnished tin, covered with glass, into tho coaches, making a soft and agreeable light. The trains au tomatically turn the current on and off in entering and leaving the tunnel. On the shield of Achilles, described by Homer, wero represented the earth, tho sky, tho sea, the sun, the moon, all the constella tions, two cities with crowds filling the forum3 and armies besleginga town, bosides battles, tingle combats, rural scenes, har vest scenos,"vlntnge scenes, pictures of homo li.e dance, cnttlo herding, Hon and bull fighting aud a vast variety of mythological suujects. PinOUETTES FEOJI PUCK. Clnbson Is Spongely much given t drink? Trcatly Quite the reverse. Chi bon What! a total abstainer? Trtstly No; much" drink 1 given to Sponger. "When Music, heavenly maid, was young, To stately measures she gave tonzue; Ilutsenlle now. the live longday She chortles "Ta-ra-boon-de-ayl" Skipley See' that woman talking to JIaJor Urassey? She and I are engaged. ltijiley Engaged, you idiot? Why, that's your wile! fcklplcy I know it cut we are engaged to be divorced. nis KEASOy. She is charming and stylish and clever, She is fair as a flower, and yonng Asa morning in May. No one ever To a lovelier creature bath snog. Her beauty possesses a glory Tliat makes my besrt quiver and throb. Bui I never will tell her my storv; for I've seen her eat corn off the cob. offman Howes I see by the papers that thcPwInce started walslng bosses five veins ago. owcll ti'.bbon Ya-as. And we must do every thing the Pwlnce lois. Hoffman Howes But how the dooce can we start alslng hosses live yeaus ago? "This leap year is an awful bore," Saia Cupid, In a huff; "For. when I Bhoot for girls, a score Is never deeaied enough 1" Smithe I don't see how you make ont that American laborers are no better off than the pauper laborers of Europe; they sometimes get twice the wagesl Tompkins Yes; bat br being on itrlktasif tin, time thoy mansje to even tbat up. I i.-uL.'4yB.'l MfcferfiA. ijjjjO KSSHSSK3SMS Rf2tfjsMMB32K'3A2w'-a'if3
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