the Pittsburg dispatch, Tuesday. September 20. 1892. llje B$pKJj. ESTABLISHED FEBRUARY Vol. 47, No 23 Entcrw at Pittsburg I'ostofflce 2 ovember, 1837, as second-class matter. BUSINESS OFFICE, Cor, Smlthfield and Diamond Streets. News Booms and Publishing House, 78 and 80 Diamond Street, Sew Dispatch Building. EASTERN ADVERTISING OFFICE, ROOM 78, TRIBUrsE BUILDING. NEW YORK, where complete files of THE DISPATCH can always be found. THE DISPATCH lson salent LEADING HOTELS throughout the United States, andat Brentano's, S Union Square, New York, aud 17 Avenue do 1 Opera, Parts. Trance. Ttnais of in u dispatch. POSTAGE TREE IX THE UXTTED STATES. DAIT.T DisrATCn, One Year. 8 CO Daily Dispatch, Three Months 2 00 Dailt DisrATCii. One Month 70 Daily insrATCii, Including Sunday, lyear.. 10 00 Daily D srATCH, Including Sunday, 3 m'ths. 2 50 D MLY DisrATCii. Including Sunday, 1 month 90 Scxpai Dispa en. One Year 2 50 Weekly Dispatch. One Year. 1 25 The Daily Dispatch Is delivered by carriers at locrntsperweeL. or. Including Sunday Edition, at 30 cent per week. REMITTANCES SHOULD ONLT BE MADE BY CHECKS. MONEY ORDER. OE REGISTERED LETTER. POSTAGE Sunday issue and all triple number copies, 2c; single and double number copies, le. J'lTTM'.UIIG. TUESDAY. SEPT. 20, 1892. TWELVE PAGES THE rUNDS PROVIDED. Yesterday it was settled that the State Board of Health was to be furnished with funds by the activity and liberality of pri vate enterprise. The call of the Board v upon Pittsburg for 20,000 of the 550,000 fund reached here on Sunday night, and shortly after business hours had opened yesterday morning the money was at the disposal of the Board. The liberality and promptness of Mr. H. C. Frick, acting for his company, in ad vancing the necessary sum, is entitled to full public credit and acknowledgment It is not that the money cdSld not have ben raised elsewhere. But the element of time, which is of the most vital im portance in beginning the work, may in the end prove of greater importance than many times the fund asked for which, of course, the Legislature will refund at its next session. In recognizing thclmport ance of setting the agencies of protection at work without delay and In pledging the necessary advance as soon as the situ ation was laid before him, the Chairman of '.the Carnegie Steel Company fully rose to the situation. It is impossible to avoid the contrast be tween this prompt assumption of a public duty by private wealth and the failure to meet the situation by our State Govern ment It is a discredit to the Common wealtn that the State Board of Health should be dependent on the liberality of individuals for funds to carry on their work. The function which they are un dertaking is essentially governmental. The funds should be ready for it when necessary as promptly as for the calling out of the militia or the summoning of a Sheriff's posse. TnE Dispatch has, as is well known, appreciated lully the good points of Governor Pattison's career, and has given him its support; which renders it more pertinent to say that in this case tiie Governor has failed to meet the emer gency. His cool indifference to the public welf.-re in neglecting the earlier calls of the Board for funds and in leaving the State when it was his duty to be present to support the organization is a bitter dis appointment to his former admirers. As to the stupidity and narrowness of the Legislature in failing to put the Board in a condition of constant efficiency, that is a subject which beggars comment But the present situation shows the import ance of intelligent legislation on the sub ject. The work of sanitation which is being done now should be done con stantly. Legislation which leaves mil lions in the hands of politicians and can not provide thousands for the protection of the public health is something for which it is hard to find a polite descrip tion. It is gratifying to know that work will at once commence to protect the public against the threatened epidemic But it is a decided drawback to reflect that this provision did not come from the political agencies, from which It was due. THE ANARCHIST'S SENTENCE. The prompt conviction of Berkmau, the Anarchist assassin, yesterday, is a con vincing evidence that the Anarchist doc trine of murder and arson can gain no foothold in this country. The crime was sucha wanton and destructive attack upon individual rights and the maintenance of law that the only public regret will be that any punWiment possible under our laws is inadequate. The sentence of 22 years' imprisonment may be the utmost that the law will allow; but it is not enough to fully express the heinousness of importing murder and destruction into industrial disputes. Hardly second to the magnitude of the offense of the assault on Mr. Frick is the insult to labor given by the maun dering defense of the prisoner in assuming to be the champion' and avenger of labor. To connect bouest labor with plots of assassination and anarchy is a monstrous perversion. The whole nature of the prisoner's tirade to this ef fect indicates either mind so twisted as to be incapable of correct understanding or a nature so vicious as to be impelled into the most repulsive crimes. The sentence of the Court puts Berk man beyond the possibility of reforming society by killinc capitalists for the better part of his lifetime. But the fact that there may be others in the land, the scat tering outlaws ot an entirely foreign sys tem, renders it pertinent to inquire whether there should not be even more rigorous measures of repression for at tempts at anarchistic crime. TELL THE WHOLE TRUTH. The Buffalo Courier, in reference to the quotation by a Republican cotempo rary of the well grounded attack of the National Grocer en the Sugar Trust, takes occasion to drag that question into poli tics by saying: By a singular oversight, the Express, in ruprintlng this severe stricture from the National Grocer, neglects to state that the ltiw which aids the Sugar Trust to roh the people is the McKlnley law. That law gives to the trust its raw material, namely raw sugar, which the people cannot use, free of duty, and also gives it a protective duty tqualtofour times the cost of refining on i:s product, which is the refined sugar that the people consume. nere are two assertions made expressly lor campaign ammunition which it is wise to test by the comparison of facts. One of them, and the minor one, is that the law makes raw sugar free, which the peo i!e cannot use; the other is that the com Imation of sugar rcQners get a degree of protection from the McKinley act, which they would not have had unless that act had "been passed. With regard to the minor assertion, it happens to be the fact that the McKlnley act, by making sugar free up to No. 16, D. S., included a considerable proportion of light-colored sugars which the people can use. It is true that under the pros perity attained In this country In the past 20 years the great mass of the people use only the refined and high-grade sugars; but every man of 45 can remember the time under the free trade policy when a staple article of household use was the brown sugar of a grade considerably be low the standard now admitted free. The main pointthe assertion that the McKinley act is the law which has riv ited the fetters of the Sugar Trust on the people warrants the- inquiry, "What would have been the case if the McKin ley act had not passed? Two alternatives present themselves one the duty as it stood previously to the passage of that law; the other the duty proposed by the authorized Democratic measure. The margin of duty between raw and refined sugars in the McKinley act is Ho per pound; the margin by the law of 1883 was V4 to l3fe; by t!'e Mills bill it was to lic. The Courier commits an oversight more noticeable than that of its cotem porary in omitting to mention that the McKinley bill reduced the limit within which the Sugar Trust can raise the price to one-third what it was before the pass age of tho act, and entirely forgetting to say anything about the fact that tho Mills bill gave the eminent Democrats who operate tho trust a range of extortion averaging twice that afforded by the Mc Kinley act. The Dispatch has always held that the ytc duty on refined sugar is more than is necessary. But if tho Democratic organs wish to do anything more about the Sugar Trust than to make bogus political ammu nition of it they should tell the whole truth. HILL HAS SPOKEN. Senator Hill it Is well occasionally to be reminded that he is at least a Senator made his much advertised and fearfully awaited speech at Brooklyn last night In a dissertation of some ten thousand words he pledged his adherence to the Chicago platform, while controverting some of its decisions and indicating by studied subtiety that the party nominee was for him at least a pill so bitter as to demand great self-denial in the swallowing. On the tariff issue he confined himself mainly to arguments against the irrefutably established Co.isti tut onalityof Protection, lT'i ignored the discussion at Chicago in which tho inter ests of American labor and industries were deliberately set aside, by announcing his belief that, incidentally to revenue, Protection is a very good thing. Then he emphatically placed the ngro-domination bogy on a par with the tariff as a cam paicn issue. The speech may add something to Hill's reputation as a ward politician, but it can do nothing to bring to light any possible latent statesmausiiip that the speaker h:is concealed so well up to the present. Be tween the lines of the magniloquent pro duction may be read the immensity of the personal sacrifice which tho man con siders he is making for the party. And his only mention of his party's nominees at the extreme end of his speech by no means compensates for the bitterness of his utterance: "I plead not for individuals but for the cause. la a great contest like this men are nothing, principles are everything." From most speakers such a sentiment would call for nothing but commendation, but from such a practical, office-seeking politician as Hill the words hnve a secondary moaning which ob scures their literal interpretation. A WARNING TO BE HEEDED. Congress and State Legislatures receive a scattering reproof for their shortsight edness iri'failing to make adequate pro visions for dealing with disease from Dr. Irving A. "Watson, Chairman of the Inter national Quarantine Committee. "There is not," he says, "a single port on tho North Atlantic coast that is supplied with the requisite means and methods of modern maritime sanitary science. " This is a state of affairs both dangerous and discreditable to this country. If Congress or State Legislatures were now sitting, or if a scourge should fall upon us before they resume, there is no doubt that they would all be forced to take proper .precautions for the future. As it is, if the nation should bo spared from the ravages of a serious epidemic, the people must see to it that when the edge of this warning has worn off its lefsou must not be forgotten and go un learnt There is no great opening for log-rolling In providing proper systems of quarantine inspection and disinfection, but there is tho welfare of 63,000,000 lives at stake, and for once that must be deemed sufficient reason for proper action, A DEMOCRATIC MOVE. It Is noticeable that the Democratic or gans are felicitating themselves upon a prospect for fusion with the People's Party, or, as the New York World calls it, the Independent party of South Dakota. The significant point of the so-called fusion is that the Democrats of South Dakota will indorse the Independent electors. In such an arrangement the Democrats, as the World says, have nothing to lose and everything to gain. But will not the fact that the Democrats propose to sup port the Independent or People's party electors as a Democratic measure open the eyes of the former Republican mem bers of that parry to the real meaning of a victory for that ticket? It is true that to carry any formerly Republican State for the People's Party is as much a gain for the Cleveland ticket as if Democratic electors were chosen. The utmost that can be affected by such Independent suc cesses Is to throw the election into the present House, where tho election of Cleveland is a moral certainty. When the Democratic organs are warmly endorsing the proposition to make a free gift to the People's Party of the Democratic vote where there is a chance of success for that ticket, the Peo ple's Party should recognize that a vote for their electors is, for all practical pur poses, a vote for Cleveland. SHOULD MAKE UP THEEB MENDS. That same old habit of Democratic self exposure is going on. Hero Is an indig nant person writing to the New York Post, which publishes his argument as conclusive. He finds that his bills for "meat and vegetables" have increased 19 per cent over the cost of two years or more ago. "I charge this to Major Mc Kinley," says the aggrieved citizen, but he omits to say what measures he will take for collecting the charge. The assertion is significant, but It Is destructive of the free trade thunder. Hero have the organs been telling the farmers that they must vote against pro tection becaus it does not raise the price of their products. This is the backbone of the democratic appeal to the agricul tural vote. Yet here comes this authority with his arguments published in the Post, to convince the public that meat and vege tables have risen in price nearly one-fifth during the past two years and that tho reckless McKinley is responsible for it Would it not bo wise for our free trade friend3 before proceeding further in the campaign to settle definitely between themselves whether the tariff does in crease the price of agricultural products or not? It is announced that the distance from New York to San Francisco is to he short ened 800 miles by an atr lino to he opened to traffic at the close ot the century. This will he beneficial, since all Increased facilities for internal communication are benefiolal to tho nation. Hut it should never be for gotten that safety Is of far greater Import ance than speed in railroad travel, and everything else where human life is in ques tion. TnE Parnellite section ot the Irish party should go slowly and remember that home rule in their hands is of far greater value tlmn the satisfaction of all their demands in detail in tho bush. Possibly stern measures will be taken to abolish the sweating system in England now it Is suggested that tho Duke of Clarence met Ills death by disease germs carriodfrom a sweater's workshop. The problematic death of royalty is of far more importance) than tho certain unhappy lives of thou sands, r A cow derailed three cars, killing one man and injuring another at Dayton, Ohio, yesterday, and one is constrained to ask, what became of the cow-catohor? Peck proposes to compile parallel col umns showing the romaiks ot Democratic organs on nlm and his achievements in times past and timo present. It is a good idea and wonld make a striking examplo of "before and after" administering a doso of muoh needed medicine. TnE American eagle and David Bennett Hill are both bald-headed. Bat the re semblance ceases theie, for the former screams while the latter squeals. Chicago's citizens are proverbially de voted to Chicago. The latest proof of the public spirit so prevalent thore Is found in a gilt to the city of twenty acres for the build ing of four hospitals. Pittsburg coujd do with moro of Chicago's municipal spirit. What patriotism achieved for Washing ton City and tho country 30 years ago, Pro tection is doing all the timo lor Ameiica's industrial prosperity. Inspection, disinfection and isolation form an invincible triple alliance for offen sive purposes against tho spread of any epi demic. Hut better than all is theprovontivo defense against disease found In perpetual and sciuuulous cleanliness. Cincinnati is face to fate with a big strike now, nnd it is to bo hoped for labor's own sake above all that the law will bo properly rospected. The question of entirely closing the World's Fair on Sundays lies in a nutshell. The saloon keepers aie united in favor of the shut down, while the Tiados nnd Labor Assembly of Chicago is opposed to it by an overwhelming majority. G rover evidently has no soft snap in trying to placate the Snappers without an tagonizing his real oricinal supporters, the anti-snnppers. Berkman's sentence to twenty-two years impiisonment should bea world-wido nam ing to anarchists that if their theories are tolerated, the practice of their preachings will not go unpunished in Pittsburg or any other American city. Hot what men shall distribute or occupy offices, but what principles shall rule this country, is the issue of tho year's campaign. Labor problems are becoming recognized, as they should, among the loading questions of the day. But the rapid weed-like growth of trusts is still far too little noticed as one of the most menacing conditions of Amer ica's national life. If the Iron Hall had observed the golden rule, tho Golden Rule would have suffered no loss by the fall of the Iron Hall. Wire-pullers must leave well alone and lealizo that the G. A. It. encampment is to commemotate past and present patriot ism and not to play into the hands of this or that clique of office-seekers. THAT smoke preventive ordinance was intended to be useful, but it has not even been ornamental so far. A prominent politician's son is to be tried for mail robbery in Ohio, and the case deserves close watching that no insinua tions may be made against the law as a re specter of persons. Morton has at last an opportunity of roalizing that he is the second officer of the Government. WITH FAME AND FORTUNE. David B. Hill has purchased the Fritz Emmet villa on the Hudson and the home of the ever welcome comedian now becomes a lair for the Tammany tiger. Peop. Harold M. Fowler, of Phillips' Exeter Academy, has accepted the Chair of Greek in the University of Texas at nearly double the salary he was receiving at Exeter, N. H. So many vandals are visiting Whittier's grave that extra pollcemon have been put on to see to it that memento hunters do not steal the gtound in which the dead poet sleeps. There is a veteran in the pension office at Washington, Captain Thomas J. Spencor, who was nrosent in 43 battles, was captured throe times and escaped twlco, nnd saw the inside of seven Confederate prisons. John Jacob Astor is credited with being tho inventor of an automatic road sweeper, which, it is claimed, will remove the dirt from a street without throwing it upon tho people walking or riding upon it. Secretary of War Elkins, who de livered a long speeoh to the Republicans of Davis, W. Va., night beforo last, was taken ill on his way to Cumberland, Md., early yesterday morning and was compelled to leave the train at Harrison and return to his home at Elkins. Mr. T. Jefferson Cooltdge, the United States Minister to France, who vis ited Cherbourg recently for the purpose of investigating the sanitary condition of the port, returned to Paris yestoi day. He will now join his family, who are spending a holiday in Switzeiland. Dr. Susan Janeway Coltman, of Germantown, Pa., owns a unique collection or cats, which she values at $3,000. There are 22 of her pets, and among them are in cluded Skye, Zanzibar and feather-tailed Turkish cats, tailless Manx pussies, white Maltese, yellow Persian, and English tiger' cats. Colonel Roosevelt, United States Consul at Brussels, who recently returned to his post from a cure at Homburg, is con fined to his house, suffering greatly from his old wounds, which have re-opened. He lost a'leg at the battle of Gettysburg, and received a "Medal of Honor" from his Gov ernment for gallant and meritorious con duct during the War of the Rebellion. They Had Their Crow. New York Press. The anti-snappers have about made up their minds not to snap this year. They are afraid they might 'bite off more than tbey could chew. CAMPAIGN NEWS AND COMMENT. The position of,the Keystone State in a Preiidontal contest in which protection is involved is so universally recognized that the canvass naturally lacks much of the vigor common to more debatable localities. Even predictions as to the size of the Repub lican majority have been scarce up to date this year, though the election is only seven weeks away, Tho few prophets who have been quoted as to figures range in tholr estimates all the way from 60,000 to 100,000. These are Republican calculations, of course, but nobody has yet ventured to deny them. Whatever gains they may make olsowhero it is evident that tho Democrats cannot depend on cutting down Harrison's majority of four years ago in the city of Philadelphia. Singerly's Record concedes more than this, saying: "Never beforo in this city or State has tho great Democratic organization fallen so low or betrayed such feebleness. In 18SS Mr. Harrison carried Philadelphia by 18,000 majority; to-day it looks as though he would havo 40,000 majority in the city in the Novembor election. This would certainly have been cut down to 10,000 or less but for tho malignity of the attacks upon Mr. Mc Alecr. All over the city Democrats by huu dieds are all eady saying that they will not vote. They realize not only that their bal lots will be unless, but also that if cast they would be used merely to perpetuate a heatt less and selfish political cabal, tho chief end ot which is to persecute faithful Democrats and to nullity the will of the people. As the Republicans of Xew York State in 1S82 adopted the heroic method of disciplining their party managers by permitting the elec tion of Cleveland as Governor by nearly 200, 000 majority, so a great many Democrats of Pennsylvania are now talking of conveying a similarly useful and necessary lesson to the men who have disrupted tho Democracy of the Keystone State." Cleveland has written a letter to a Philadelphia Democrat in which he says: "It seems to me that the friends and neigh bors of such a good Democrat as your pres ont Governor havo abundant incentive to Demociatic enthusiasm. I am sure that those who piofcss Democratlo doctrines cannot co wiong if they follow the lead of Robert E. Pattison." With tidings the reverse of encouraging from Philadelphia it follows that Democrats throughout the Stato are not in a remarka bly hopeful frame of mind. A well known party leader In conversation tho other day said: "I think we will cut down the average Prcfddcutal majority in Pennsylvania. If it were not lor the Philadelphia tangle it would bo cut very materially, and I am still in hopes that the muddle there will bo adjusted. Elsewhere throughout the Stato the Democrats are certain to make gains, the size of which cannot yet be accurately estimated. Part of this change will be due to the labor troubles, and the Australian ballot system will have some effect. I am not one of those who claim that employes wero intimidated to any great extant, and do not expect much of a gain from that fea ture. But in many parts of the State and even in Allegheny county the party has been so poorly organized that votuis in some districts have not been able to get a Democratic ticket without considerable trouble. Now all tickets will be on the offi cial ballot and on an equality. Then, too, I think that in this State at least a larger pro portion of the voters likely to make mis takes under the now system are in the Re publican ranks. But wo can toll better about November 9." Kansas gave Harrison a slightly larger majority than Pennsylvania in 1883, but since then Kansas has been afflicted with Simpson and PelTer, and the odds aro that tho Keystouc Stato will ajain assume the baunor. Tnc list of Congressional nominations in this State is complete, that of Hicks, in the Twentieth district, being tho last. The Pennsylvania delegation in the presont House consists of 17 Republicans and 10 Democrats, and theic is one vacancy caused by the death of Congressman Craig, who was admitted to his seat on a contest against Colonel Stewart. The ceitain Democratic districts aie the Third, Eighth, Ninth, Seventeenth, Nineteenth and Twonty otghth, thomajotitles ranging from 3000 in the Third district to more than 11.CO0 in the -Ninth, and it. is a significant fact that the only district in which the Republicans have not nominated a Republican Is tho one giving the smallest Democratic majority. The Democrats renominated who are cer tain of election are Mutchler, Wolverton, Beltzhoovor and Kribbs. With them will bo Erdman, tho new man nominated in tho Democratic Ninth district. The Schuylkill and Lackawanna districts are very close and exceedingly doubttul this year, and Luzerne Is debatable (.-round. In nearly all tho distiiots the Prohibitionists have maae nominations, and in a number of them, par ticularly in the western pait of the State, theie are candidates of the People's party. Not one of those outside candidates have any show of success. In overy instance a Republican or a Democrat will be elected. TnE result in the Twentieth district may depend on whether the nomination of Hicks was filed in time to go on tho official ballot under the regular party heading. TliERn are two Western Pennsylvania dis tricts naturally Republican, over wmch pe culiar circumstances, throw something more than a doubt. With the situation iu the Twenty-fourth district, comprising part of AUeghony county, Washington, Fayette and Greene, the public is sufficiently familiar. Political flgurers think the chances are about even whether tho candidacy of Jobes and Cox, backed by the Groeue county kick ers against unfair representatlon,will suffice to take the long term Ironi Acheson and the short one from Stewart. Sipe is making a vigorous canvass on tho part of the Democ racy, and is certainly not discouraged by the apparent confusion in the ranks of his opponents. The other doubtful district is that composed of Erie and Craw foid counties, whoie Rev. Dr. Flood, the Re publican candidate, is battling with Sibley, of kite-shaped-track fame, who is the nom omineo of iho combined Democratic, Pro hibition and People' parties. Mr. Flood is also handicapped by disaffection in tho Re publican column in his own town of Mead ville. The normal party majority in the district is large, but Crawford county in particular is in a chaotic state politically. Tho district will attracta great deal of at tention until the returns aro minted. The Democratic National Committee is distributing as a campaign document part of T. V. Powderly's article on "Labor and protection" in the North American Review. There are Judges to be elected m No vember in seven Pennsylvania districts, two being to succeed Judges now sitting by appointment. In three of the seven dis tricts the Judges now on the bench will be re-elected without partisan opposition. Theso are Judge Arnold, Democrat, in Phil adelphia, who has been regularly nominated by the Rerjublican as well as the Democratic convention: Judge Stowe, of Allegheny, and Judge McPhorson, of the Dauphln-Labanon district, against neither of whom will there bo a Democratic candidate, in accordauco with the growing sentiment in favor of non partisan j udiciary e'ections. In the McKean l'otter district tlioDcmocratio opposition to Judge Olmstead does not amount to the dignity ot a contest. Tho only district in which there is a teal con test against an elected Judge now on the bench is in Schuylkill. Judge Pershing, al though elected twice, has now received the Democratlo nomination for tho first time, and the charge is openly made by Demo crats who do not favor his candidacy that it is due to corporation support. A portion of the party has protested against Judge Pershing by naming John W, Ryon as a can didate, and, the Republicans having nomi nated District Attorney Koch,there Is a very interesting three-cornered contest. As will be seen there Is comparatively little of a partisan nature in these elections. IT does not take much of a Democratic gain to induce Chairman Harrity to send out a bulletin, but from present indications he will baldly issue one on tho result in Pennsylvania this year. Strictly a Business Han. Washington Star. New Tork has discovered that its guber natorial Flower is not forpurpoBes of orna mentation purely. Money No Object Now. Baltimore Amerlcan.i The cholera must be held in check, no matter what may be the size of tho check required to do it. No Way to Check This BacUlus. Chicago Tribune. And still no way has been found to check the ravages or the coal trust bacillus. OTIS APPLIANCES BEHIND TEE AGE. Philadelphia the Only Atlantio Port Well Equipped to Resist Cholera. Cokcobd, N. H., Sept. 19 Dr. Irving A. Watson, Chairman of the International Quarantine Committee, recently appointed by the Internal Conference of Boards of Health for tho inspection of tho quarantine facilities at most of the prominent ports on tho North Atlantic coast, has returned. "There is not," Dr. Watson said, "a single port on the North Atlantic coast that is sup plied with the requisite means and methods of modern maritime sanitary sclonca. It Is a sad commentary upon tho intelligence and wisdom ot the national Congress, as well as of Stato Legislatures, that so little protection against diseases like cholera and yellow fever has been provided for. The re cent sad and even outrageous experiences at New York show that that grerjt port Is very inadequately supplied with means that constitute a properly equipped station against contagion, and it is especially through tho unflinching determination of tho port health officer, In the face of greater difficulties than had ever before confronted a quarantine official, that so few cases have reached American soil'. "At no single port was there found a suita ble plant for quickly and efficiently disin fecting plague-stricken ships. Antlauitated methods woro mostly employed, like, lor example, burning pots of sulphur in th,e holds of vessels Instead of forcing sulphur by pressure from a blast furnace Into every portion of tho vessel and thereby insuring complete disinfection in a few honrs. "While many of our ports are deficient as regards quarantine stations, cholera is not very likely to be admitted through these ports during the present year, although thore is a constant danger ever present of itsintioduction, and all immigration fiom obolera-infected countries should be abso lutely suspended for a year or moie. "I have no fear of an epidemic in New York during tho presont season, and tho public should not bo alarmed at the appear ance of the disease. This city is remarka bly clean and looks as if it had been swept over with a new broom. The Health De partment has done an enormous amount of work in tho past few weeks upon a system atic plan. "The commission found the port of Phila delphia to be really tho best equipped of any of the ports examined. Tho appearance of a cholera-Infected vessel in that port ought not to cause the least public alaim, so well Is such an emergency provided for. Thus far, there is no reason for alarm in this country nothing that shonld interfere with domes tic travel. The lateness of the season is in our iavor for this year, and to Congress and subordinate legislative bodies must wo look for the necessary means to strengthen the weak points in tho dofencos that aro re quired to prevent the introduction of cholera or any other disease." O0VEBN0BS AND ODD FELLOWS. The Order Welcomed to the Metropolis of Oregon by the Slate Executive. Portland, Ore., Sept. 19. The grand rep resentatives to the Sovereign Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows assembled to-day. They were formally welcomed to Portland and tho State of Oregon by Mayer Mason and Governor Pennoyer. Governor Pennoyer said: Under the provl'lons of oar State Constitution the Governor of Oregon is anthorlzed to repel any Invasion which may be made upon its sacred soil by an alien force: but, coining as you do, not bear ing in your hands hateful implements of warfare, and not intent UDon er 1 to your neighbor, but marching rather under the white ensign of peace and good will to all, I cordially welcome your In vasion and extend to you the treedom of the whole State. Although not a member of your organiza tion. I hare always entertained lor It a high social regard. Its beneficial results have been clearly perceptible, even by alien beholders. No other than inilulte knowledge can. perhaps, ever meas ure the wide scope of its salutatory power. Calcu late Its unnumbered benefactorles or establish boundary lines to the vast domain of Its elevating Influence. There Is no service beside that we al low to the great Giver of all good, that Is more cnobllng thau bestowed In benefitting our neigh bors." Grand Siro Busbee said. In pirt: Yonr Excellency has generously granted us the freedom of all the State. The magnltudcor the glftoerwhclms us. We know not how to fitly use the abounding opportunity, hut from our hearts we thank yon. I beg to assure you. Mr. Governor, we appreciate vour presence here to-dav. We know of your dcllgent devotion to the duties of your high office, and we congratulate ourselves upon the fact that for the first time during your service as Chief Executive of Oregon you are absent from your office on Monday. I regret, ladles am! gentlemen, to hear your Gov ernor say lie Is not an Odd Fellow. Ills name Is not strange to- us. A e knew him before we came to Oregon, for his reputation as a stateman. patriot nnd gentleman Is not confined to the limits of his own Suite; hut he needs one tiling to make hliu a perfect man. 1 aided not long ago In initiating Into our order a North Carolina Governor. Will you pardon me. Governor, for being a little personal, and permit me to para phrase an ancient and hospitable observation of a Governor or the old North Mate in the olden time to the Governor ofSouth Carolina, and say to you. 'It Is a long time between Initiations." We be lieve In Odd Fellowship because we have tested and proven the underlying principle that Inspire It and make It strong. It Is the largest iraternal or ganization In the world, the strongest In the point of numbers and resources. Dispensing larger beneflclence. throbbing with more abundant vital ity, its growth during the past few years has been phenomenal. Its membership now numbers more than 800,000, and It dispensed for the relief orits members during the past year more than f3.000.COO. It stands for the love of country, for devotion to wife-and child and fireside. BTJBIED IN A SPECIAL COFFIN. Peculiar Circumstances Surrounding the Interment of a Large Woman, Wasiiisotos, Pa., Sept. 19. Special. A peculiar funeral occurred Sunday at Ruff's Creek, Greene county, south of this city. The deceased was Miss Rachel Johnson, 34 years old, who at tho timo of her death weighed S52 pounds. About a month ago she was attacked with something like strangulation, supposed to be caused by superfluous flosh about tho neck and chest. Tumor of the stomach developed rapidly and caused her death. Sue was buried in a special coffin made for her. It was C feet long, 2 feet and 10 inches wide and 21 inches deep. No hearse largo enough could be found and it as necessary to uso a wagon to get the remains to the cemetery. Another sad feature connected with the case is that the father of the dead woman mysteriously disappeared a few days before her death and has not been heard from since. Wilmerdmg Improving Its Streets. Bbaddock, Pa., Sept. 19. Special. The people of Wilmerdlng borough, which was Incorporated last year, will vote to-morrow on the question of increasing the boiough's indebtedness '$73,000. The present debt is something over $10,000. If the proposition carries the money will be used to build a sewer and pave all the principal streets ot the town. The measure is expected to carry by a large vote. Hamlet Not in It. Philadelphia Press. Simon Hamletrewskl, of Allegheny, has petitioned the courts to change his name to "Trowski." Eviaently Simon wants to play Hamletrewskl with Hatnlot left out. DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE. Luther Beecher, Millionaire. Eccentnc'Luther Beecher, ol Detroit, is dead. His more pronounced eccentricities have co6t directly more'than $l.CO0,O00. His stores and the big Bid. lie House have been Idle, with few ex ceptions, for IS years. He had an exaggerated Idea of the renting value of his property. He had paid a ground rent of $10,000 a year lor 25 years on the Kiddle House property, with but little return. Then Itcostfi.ooe.t jear lor care and repairs. He had paid $.1,000 annually lor many years rental of a royalty on an Iron mine in the Upper Peninsula that be would not allow to be worked, lleecher made his money by buying rtaleoUte In an early d.iv and by a lucky railroad deal, lie sold the road ror over $,,000,010 and to his death had 577,00.1 an nual Interest Income. Ho leaves $.,000,uu0 aud a sou. Colonel Nicholas Anderson. Colonel Nicholas Anderson, father of Larz Anderson, of Cinciuuatl, died at Lucerne, bwltzerland, Sunday, Colonel Anderson was com mander of the fclxth Ohio Infantry In the Civil War. He was the son of Larz Anderson, de-c- ated, and a grandson of the HteNlcnulas Long norlh.br. He has of late years lived in Waau lngtou His sou, Larz, Is Assistant Secretary of the American Legation at London. Obituary Notes. Mrs. Matilda Kekk, of l!ot ton. Pa., one of the oldest residents of that vicinity, died yesterday aged 91 years. Her death is the result of an acci dent, JAMIS D. r.oms?or. President of the Grand Raplas Savings Bank and of the Firth National Bern k, of that city, died Sunday night, aged 70 ynars. Ex-MAYon Edward F. Spince. of Los Ange les, Chairman of the California delegation to the National Republican Convention, died of heart failure yesterday morning. He was 58 years old, a native of Ireland, and went to California la lS3i FASHION PERMITS BLACK. Pittsburg Women Can Tiovr "Wear Gloves That WlU Not Show Dirt Some Styles In Bonnets A Home "Wedding Gossip of Society. Black kid gloves will be worn more by Pittsburg ladles this winter than for sevoral years. The return to coal and coal smoke in this city renders black the only color that is sale to wear in gloves. It is only possible to wear a pair of gloves once before they are soiled, and Pittsburg women have discov ered this to their cost while they have been using the tans and slate-colored gloves that havo been fashionable. In spite of the dirty atmosphere of Pittsburg there seemed to be no escape from the lighter hues of kid gloves so long as they were fashionable, hut now that tho edict has gone forth that black can bo worn, there will be a general return to the gloves that will not show dirt and that always look respectable, even when they are ragged and getting near the end of their period of usefulness. Black cloves will be worn in moasquetaire and button styles, as thoy have Deen in the colors. Tho -'sack" glovos, that havo been rather popular, will continue In black. They aro suitable for shopping, Decause there are no buttons and they can be pulled on or off like stockings. Everyone knows that there is not a moro important item of woman's dress than her glovos, and any oliun.ro in the fashion of thein is of deep in terest to the woman who desires to be well dressed and what woman does not? Bonnets just now are trimmed in various ways, but decidedly the most hideous adjunct is what is known as the "Alsatian bow." It consists of two extravagant wings of ribbon or velvet, lying flat against the crown nnd sticking out at either side like miniature sails. In tho center Is a bug or butterfly, and sometimes a buckle of the same shape as the bow itself, holding it down. The combination is as ridiculous as can bo imagined, Dut since fashion orders it, the women are meekly wearing it, as they will wear anything under tho circum stances. It Is not likely to last long, how ever, for the pronounced arrangement Is ono that women of taste cannot admire, and that they will not submit to longerthan they can help. One charm about the "Alsatian bon" style is its simplicity. Any woman can trim a hat now, because all she needs is to buy a cheap lelt hat and stick ono of theso bows thut aro sold ready made upon it, and there she is. Another peculiar fashion is to fasten a bunch oi plumes on cither side of tho bon net at the back, where the strings nro at tached, but rather higher, so as to be over the ears. The feathers, curled forward, look like inverted sleigh runners, and the genoral effect is one ot absurdity. It sug gests that the milliners, in their despair of finding anything artistic, havo gono out or their minds, and made something at ran dom. There aro some women who like things extravagant In design, and it is among such that theso bonnets will find a sale, but surely it will not bo tor long. A pretty home wedding is to take place at the mansion formerly occupied by Col onel Bayno, Thursday evening. Tho bride will be Jliss Blanche S. Stackhousc, and tho groom Mr. William A. Thompson. Rev. Newton Donaldson will offleiato. and there will bo a largo number of guests from Alle gheny nnd Pittsburg to witness the cere mony. The mansion is now the home of tho bilde's pircnts. It is on Lincoln avenue, Bellevue, and Is ono of the grandest old places in that borough. A benefit concert is to be tendered Prof. Thomas T. Kirk in Old City Hall Octobor C. It will celebrate the Professor's fiftieth birthday, and will be managed by Mr. J. C. Breil, who will enlist the services of a large numbcrof musical people in tho two cities, all of whom aro waim friends of Prof. Kirk. It is expected to be the musical affair of the season, for the beneficiary is one of the most popular musicians, both professionally and personally, In Western Pennsylvania. Preparations have commenced for the annual luncheon at the home for aged protestaut women to be held Thursday, Septombcr29. This will bo the 21st anniver sary of the founding of tho home, and it is intended to make tho occasion a notablo ono. Thero are no moro popular gatherings thau those at the beautiful retreat at Wilk insburg, and thoy are always well attended. The old ladles do a great deal of fancy work during tho year, and they expect to dispose of It at these annual celebrations. Alto gether, they are ery pleasant, and besido they afford tho managers an opportunity of seeing that their 1 iboi s on behalf of the old ladies are appreciated. There will be re freshments served between the hours of 12 and 4 p. xr., and, if previous vears aro to bo criterion ot this, thero will be a good many to partake of the hospitality of the Board of Managers. Social Chatter. TnE annual meeting ot the W. C. T. IT. of Alleghenv county is to commence- to-day in the SmithfioIdStrcet M.E. Church. There will bo tlnee sessions, morning, afternoon and evening, and a irreat deal of important busi ness is to be transacted. A tea is to be given this afternoon by Mrs. H. M. Brackenride, of Bracken ridge, from 4 to G. The family lias held the place for over ltO years and an eutertainmeut at their home is always a delightful event. Mr. Haivrv Y. REirsjfTDEit and mother, of Ellswoith avenue, East End, have gone to Philadelphia, Now Tork and surrounding points, expecting to return about October 1. To-dat tho marriage of Miss Eleanor V. Daulerto Mr. Elliott Rodgsis is to take Biace in the Bellefield Presbyterian Church, cv. Henry T. McClelland will officiate. A meetiso of tho Ladles' Aid Society of the Southsido Hospital is to be hold this afternoon. Mas. Edwin R. StrixrvAW, of Oakland, will hold the first of her "at homes" to-day. Sins. Jonx II. ScnoENBEr.oER is paying her annual visit to Pittsburg. , JOTU.NGS OX JUPITER. 1 there aro any unknown moons careless ly left out o' nights, Professor Barnard Is prepared to discover 'em, by Jupiter! Sew I ork Prist. That fifth satellite makes Jupiter tower as far above .Mars with its two satellites as Corbett does over Sullivan. St. Louis Globe Democrat. The Democrats ought to be real glad to hear that Jupiter has a fifth moon. It may divert attention from that tariff plank. Brooklyn Standard Union. As Jupiter's day is only ten hours long the need of five moons to look after the night part of it i3 apparent. It's turn and turn about with them. Philadelphia Times. Tiie gentlemen who aro engaged in discov ering new satellites on Jupiter cannot hope to keep up with tho political scientists who at o locating new parties in Texas. Washing ton Pott. The discovery of tho fifth satellite to Jupi ter ought to encourage the telescope-hand-leis in the pending political campaign. If they search around the twcTchief luminaries they may bo able to JUiscover some of the lesser lights at workafter awhile. Baltimore Herald. Loveiis on Jupiter onjoy five moons, as ngaln3t our one, and perhaps before our scientists get through "mooning," our courting adjuncts will bs evon further Into nowhere in comparison with those of tho planet with a quintette (according to latest reports) of satellites. Evening Wisconsin. It would be interesting if the mathema ticians finally find that tho new satellite so nearly partakes of tho principal's motion, as to show that it is new in every sense. If the satellite were a part of Jupiter, say up to 1878, the iaiiure of astronomets to observe it may bo partly explained. Rochtster Demo crat. Paop. Bauxakd's addition of a fifth moon of Jupiter to the lour found b Galileo in 1610 is not only another great triumph for American astronomers, but is apparently the most Important contribution yet made to science by tho Lick Observatory, from which so much has been hoped. New York Timet. A Lady Manager's Badge Selected. New York, Sept. 19. To Miss Martha D. Bessey, of thts city, has been awarded the prize lor the best design of a badge to bo worn by the Board of Lady Managers of the World's Fair. Tho ctfolcn was made by Sculptor St. Gaudens from 217 designs. Suggestion for a National Elower. Chicago Inter Ocean. Why not niako the cactus the national flower? It has more fine points than any other yet mentioned. CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. Steel rails average 18 years. China's foreign trade last year aggre gated rao,ooo,coo. Mount .Stna had its first recorded eruption in 423 B. C. Greek helmets covered the head, back of neck, ears and eyes. The steam printing press was Invented by Richard noe in 1812. The Democratic wheelman of Nashua, N. H., have formed a bicycle campaign com. pany. The British Government in 1880 ordered 20.C00 telephones for use In the postal service. When Cortez Invaded Mexleo for the second time he had SO xnusketers and 80 crossbowmen. De Quincey published "The Confes sions of an English Opium Eater" when ha was 18 years old. At the castle of Siinonetta, Italy, there Is an anglo in the building which re-echoes a pistol shot 61 times. A woman who died in the Norristown Insane Asylum last week bad, although not dumb, not spoken in 11 years. Any bicyclist traveling into France will have to pay tho regular duty of $15 or $20 on his machine, according to weight. Nearly three-fourths of the fires in the United States last year were the result of the upsetting or explosion of lamps. The last censns shows that while 33,163 lawyers received $35,000,000 every year la fees, 37,000 ministers get only $6,000,000. "Jlasrium" is the name of a new chemical element which has been discovered in the bed of an ancient Egyptian river. i'or putting grass on the bottom of "baskets of strawberries," a Manchester wholesale fruitdealor was recently fined. A trial of speed between English and American locomotives will be an interest ing and novel featuro of tho World's Fair. Vulcan, the British ironclad, is pro vided with a rudder weighing 22 tons or something like six tons heavier than the) Great Eastern. The white horse has been taken out of tho German cavalry, it having besn proven thit it can be seen at such a distance as to make it a. special mark for an enemy. Numerous experiments to determine the best fire-resisting materials for the con struction of doors, nave proved that wood covered with tin resisted the flro better than an iron door. There is still burning in India a sacred fire that was lighted by the Parsees 12 cen turies ago. The fire is ieod with sandal and other fragrant woods, and Is replenished five times a day. There will he an unprecedented boom in the ship building yards on the shores of the great lakes this winter. It is said that tho vessels under contract for the season of 18s3 will aggregate 47,000 gross tons. The healthiest trade is said to be that of a waller, a man who attends to tho pans In saltworks. If he mils in ho dies, but while ho lives he is free from cholera, smallpox, scarlet fevorand probably Influenza. Last year New York City ezpendei $4,000,000 on its schools and $4.20e.00o for It police. In three years the increase ofthi cost of tho police has been G3 per cent, am tho increased cost of the schools 17 per cent The Salvation Army poke bonnet ha been replaced in England by a broad brimmed straw hat, trimmed witn stalks o corn. Salvation meetings are now greatci with cries of "Where did yon get that hat? The most powerful electrio light in the world is at llantsholm, on the coast of Jut land, in Denmark, where, from the light house situated ac that place, there Is flasiie. nightly an electric light or 20,000,000 candl power. S A clergyman in Oxford has invited th men who frequent the river on Sundays t come to church in their boating flannel' Hitherto such costumes had been frownc. upon, and the boatmen had not gone u church. The railwavs of the United Kingdorr of Groat Britain have 16,600 locomotives, ol which only 1,841 are in Scotland aud 705 in Ireland. The London and North Western have the most, 2,644, followed by the Mid land, with 2,020. The sea water originally put In tho great aquariums at the Crystal Palace, Sydenham, in 1851, is still nsed there, having been used over and over since that time, a record without parallel iu the history of similar institutions. The largest and most powerful search light in the world is destinod for the statue of Liberty In New York harbor, and will ba visible for 100 miles and capable of transmit ting messages that distance. It will be a 50,000-candIe power and will cost about $4,b00. The Oriental Congress, recently held in London, has astonished scientific circles by the deciphering of records in stone and clay which go back thousands of years to the in fancy o; tho race, and aro held to corrobor ate, independently of Holy Writ, the ac counts of the creation and tail of man. A wagoner was one day driving his team along the road in the cold fields, when his wheel, in turning up the soil, suddenly I exposed to view a considerable lump of souio shining matter. The wagoner stopped j to pick it up, and by doing so became tho I owner of a nugget which proved to be worth 1 JEL600. Agent Lucky had a bottle of whisky which he obtained at tho Warm Springs Indian Reservation analyzed and found it contained chiefly fusel oil, choloroform and ether. It would kill tho germ3 of any dis eftse, as was show by the fact that three Indians who drank half a bottle of the stun all died. Every Koman had the use of the public baths ou payment of about half a farthing. Those were not such structures as we call public baths, but superb buildings, lined with Egyptian granite and Nubian marble. Warm water was pouted into the capacious i basins through wide mouths of bright and ' massive silver. Someone calls attention to the gradual abandonment of the use of dogs with guns in England. Tho chief reason for it is sup posed to be the change in agricultural methods. After the mowing macnine had supplanted the scythe tho pointer found the stubble too short to lie in; and another reason Is offered in that "the turnips are drilled in regular lines, and make passages along which the birds may run." POETRY EN PASSANT. Next winter "broke," With coat In soak. He'll shiver as he mlsse3 Ills summer girl Of gulden curl. And then he'll try to keep himself from freezing entirely by the memory of what the novedsts are pleased to call "burning klssea." Indianapolis Journal, The youth goes round with gloomy face At the beach, and existence he thinks a bore; He is getting ready to leave the place: Short bathing dresses are seen no more. Xew TorkPres. She sprinkled it with perfume rare, That letter long since dated. He knew It not when It got there. It had been fumigated. Washington Stxr, nis source or won There's trouble on the poet's face Now chilly days are near. His dearest wish is for a space To stay the waning year. One might suppose some summer girl Her smile had changed to frown. Had he, through silly season's whirl, Not stayed right here In town. It Is not love, as one may note. That now he grieves about; He's thluklng of his overcoat; And how he'll get It out, Kew Tort Sim, They told me when I married her My ardent love would fade away. But as I buy her gowns. I and My wife grows dearer every day. Cloak Revtem. 'Tis said that only gents wear pants, Iu hovels or in palaces, And may it not be true, perchance. That only gals wear galluses Chicago Trfbunt, He didn't have a dollar of his own, So he struck a lordly banker for a loan; But he didn't And it pleasing. For the millionaire waj freezing And requested him to seek a warmer zone. -Detroit FruPritr, :.. :. C: ,,:;:. .wi-Jte-. 'BS'iT'XsB
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