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STATE QUARANTINE
The provisions for inspecting immi
grants bound for this State, as outlined at
yesterday's meeting of the Board of
Ilealth at Philadelphia, promise to make
an effective link in the chain of protection
against cholera. 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.
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