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TWELVE PAGES
GROYEK DESERTS THE PLATFORM.
The long-delajed letter from ex-President
Cleveland accepting the Democratic
nomination appears elsewhere, and settles
the question whether the Democratic plat
form is repudiated by the Democratic
leader or not. It is repudiated in this let
ter not by Senator Hill's unique method
of perfunctorily indorsing the platform
and then urging the diametrically oppo
site policy, but by the equally effective
one of ignoring the platform altogether,
and giving as the views of the candidate
declarations which were distinctly repudi
ated by the convention.
The Dispatch has always been tree to
recognize Mr. Cleveland's good qualities.
He has made the record of being better
than his party in integrity, in the gift of
common sense Judgment as to popular
opinion, and in frankness in saying what
he believes regardless of party authority.
In his letter published elsewhere these
qualities, with some modifying appeals to
special prejudice for political, support,
appear very prominently. Mr. Cleveland
has taken ground as a tariff reformer; and
as that means enmity to the policy of pro
tecting and developing American indus
'tries, The Dispatch has and will con
tinue ' to vigorously oppose him. But it is
a significant expression of the judgment of
the candidate that by an eloquent silence
he distinctly repudjates the rash and de
structive doctrines adopted by the author
ity of the convention that gave him the
nomination.
It is a unique political feature that no
where in his letter does Cleveland indorse,
accept or assent to that remarkable docu
ment. Ou the contrary, after some im
posing generalities on the subject of free
trade, he proceeds to assert that tariff re
form means "no exterminating war
against any American interests," and can
be accomplished "without disaster or
demolition." But he ignores the fact that
assurances of that sort, proposed for the
Chicago platform by a majority of the
Committee on Resolutions, were voted
down by a two-thirds vote and the declara
tion of destructive principles put in their
rlace. This disavowal of the platform by
the candidate is evidence that the ex
posure of that reactionary document by
the letteis of President Hirrison and Sec
retary Blaine has had its effect The
same evidence appears in Mr. Cleveland's
correct statement of principles that should
govern the settlement of the currency
question and his complete ignoring of the
Democratic proposition for the most in
flated and unreliable currency ever
known. Tne -politician appears rather
strongly in Cleveland's appeal to special
prejudices on the subject of Federal legis
lation on elections and on the exclusively
State questions of compulsory education
and sumptuary legislation.
The letter is characteristic in its attempt
to substitute for the authorized platform
of the party the statement of policy by
the candidate. Simply as an admission
that the Democratic party gave rein to its
reactionary tendencies by adopting a plat
form which its leaders found necessary to
abandon, this is a severe exposure of
Democracy. But there is amuch more
vital condemnation of the party than that
in the situation. In cases where measures
not men are the crucial test, the attitude
of the whole party is more conclusive than
the attitude of the candidate. The voters
are not alone asked to vote for Cleveland;
they must vote for Democratic supremacy
it tncy vote lor Him. The desire of the
party at larje is expressed most authori
tatively in the wild and destructive plat
form which he finds it necessary to ignore.
Ko man can vote for the Democratic elec
toral ticket without incurring the peril
that by his vote the resuscitation of Cal
houuism and the inflated currency of
State banknotes will be accomplished.
Sir. Cleveland's letter puts its writer in
a better attitude; but it leaves his party in
the mire. The people cannot vote for a
party whose principles are so reactionary
and destructive that both the candidate
and his leading rival find it necessary to
ignore and tacitly abandon the platform.
THE WAY TO DO IT.
Avery successful experience in road
making is reported from Georgia, which
State in the actual work appears to be
going ahead of some of the Northern
States generally considered more enter
prising. Ten years ago the Commission
ers of Floyd county decided to Improve
the roads radiatme from the town of
Rome, its center. Convict labor was used
under the direction of a superintendent,
who still remains in charge of the work.
In the intervening time nine roads in dif
ferent directions, with a mileage of fifty
miles, have been built at a cost of 1,000
per mile, and Fioyd county now possesses
a road sj stem that mostNorthern counties
may well envy.
The cost of the road seems extremely
low, probably because the labor is put in
at no more cost than its maintenance and
direction. The North could afford to pay
a little more lor its roads, if for no other
purpose than the social humanity of giv
ing the men who work, whether on com
pulsion or, not, a reward for their dili
gence and effort Otherwise the South
ern road work as reported is a model for
the North. It is macadamized a foot
thick and sixteen wide, with a drainage
grade to the side of about eight per cent
The county now. enjoys a system of roads
which adds largely to the value of its pro
duction, and seriously decreases the cost
of repairs as-well as hauling power.
It is high time that Western Pennsylva-
nia should take the same course by bond
ing some good roads. The reform has
reached the stage where more can be ef
fected by actual demonstration than in
any other way.
A REAL EDUCATIONAL CAMPAIGN.
Th5 campaign of education on the tariff
has produced some remarkable educa
tional phases, such as the New York
World's attack on McKinley for raising
the price of agricultural products, and the
Chicago Herald's master-stroke of charg
ing the cholera to protection. Bat the
real educational campaign has been that
waged for4he past month against the filth
that famishes breed spots for the cholera
Entirely independent of its effect in pre
venting or postponing any immediate epi
demic, the sanitary work of three weeks
past has been invaluable in educating the
peojile. We have had a gigantic ob
ject lesson on the effectiveness and
availability of active sanitary work.
It took the spur of an impending
danger to start real worK in this direction;
but once started it has proved so easily at
tainable and so valuable that an intelli
gent poycy will adhere to it in the future.
We have seen how sanitary work has re
duced the death rate from ordinary dis
eases, and has placed the community in
an attitude of defense against any epi-H
demlc That lesson on the profit of such
work, both in ordinary conditions and as
a defense ajainst extraordinary emergen
cies, is worth all the money that has been
expended several times over.
There is still a good deal of educational
work to be done. It was shown last week
in Philadelphia that some eminent citizens
are still in need of education that the
time to provide the means of checkingand
isolating a disease is before and not after
it has appeared in a State. It is probable
that the public also needs a little more
practical instruction in order to bring it
up to the point of demanding a constant
instead of a spasmodic effort to maintain
sanitation and suppress nuisances.
This is the real point to which the edu
cational campaign should tend. Our
State and local health organizations
should be perpetually maintained on the
same footing of activity and efficiency as
has been the case for the past two weeks.
This is not necessary as a guard against
imported epidemic, but for the suppres
sion of the more familiar diseases, such as
typhoid, scarlet fever and diphtheria.
"When we reflect that such perennial dis
seases in the course of twenty-live years
destroy many more lives than cholera, the
importance of measures against them is
evident. Like cholera they are rendered
innocuous by complete sanitation, such vs
we have been approximating here in the
past few days.
If the late campaign educates us up to
the point of constant and well-organized
sanitary work it will be the most fruitful
work known for many years, whether the
cholera gets here or not
A LIBERA!. POSTPONEMENT.
The public hope for early results from
the movement to put electric wires under
ground was reduced to a minimum yester
day by the amendment to the ordinance
extendinc the time allowed for doing the
work from two years to four. This
change is made on the representation of
the companies that two years is insuffi
cient The reason might be a valid one for the
change when the companies have used
due diligence in the work of getting the
wires underground, and have fbund. the
allotted time inadequate. But to extend
the time eighteen months before the ex
piration of the shorter period is simply an
invitation to procrastination. No one in
the city would wish to see any electric
company crowded to the wall, if it tried
its best to meet the advance. But since
the entire history of the underground wire
business has been that of putting it off,
the effect of yesterday's amendment looks
like the parliamentary one of postponing
the motion to a day six months hence.
Let us hope that in the year of grace
1896 the city officials will so bear this
matter in mma tnat it win not De neces-H
sary to begin the whole matter over again.
To expect any relief from the overhead
wires before that year would be the ex
treme of rainbow-chasing.
GRADY AS A CLEVELAND MAN.
It is calculated to provoke reflections on
the strange bed-fellowship 3 of politics to
learn that Thomas F. Grady, one of the
police justices of New York, is traveling
throughout the South using eloquence to
keep it solid for Cleveland. It is Grady
whose interests were pushed on a certain
occasion regardless of the personal com
fort of Governor Cleveland; who opposed
Cleveland to the degree of civing a nom
inal support to Benjamin F. Butler, and
who was subsequently provided for by a
political deal which created a police court
with 8,000 salary for his express benefit
It is a strong indication of the differ
ence between the Cleveland ot 1884 and
the Cleveland of 1892'that his personal
comfort is not at all disturbed by Grady's
advocacy of his interests. That Grady
has not changed is manifested by the argu
ments which he uses to fire the Southern
heart We learn from Lynchburg, Va.,
that he told the citizens there of the.
misery inflicted on the South when 2,000
negro justices of the peace who could
not read or write dispensed justice in
South Carolina, and by assuring the
Southerners that such things would in
evitably follow Republican success in
November. This way of carrying the
South for Democracy is redolent of the
political class who were formerly the ene
mies he has made, but are the friends he
has made this year.
When Thomas F. Grady booms Cleve
land on the force bill bugaboo, with the'
knowledge and consent of the candidate,
we have a strong evidence that the can
didate of 1892 is avery different man in
principle and independence from the man
who triumphed over the Grady enmity in
1884.
TAX THE STREET CARS.
The proposal to tax each street car 5100
a year, as embodied in the ordinance pre
sented to Councils yesterday, should be
come law without fail. Time and again
The Dispatch has pointed our the ex
treme folly and injustice of granting valu
able franchises to the traction companies
without asking any adequate return there
for. The city has abundant use for
money, and the street car companies
should be made to contribute their fair
share toward the municipal fund. Com
mon sense and equity demand that these
corporations should be taxed, and Coun
cils should show no hesitancy in demand
ing the tribute which is the city's right
Cleveland knows as well as anyone else
that even a "tariff for revenue only" is not
compatible with absolute" fieo trade, but
It is "practical" freq trade such as England
has, and a quibble as to the literal definition
of terms is due to the 'difference between a
bid for votes and a declaration of principle
caused by political exigency and expedi
ency. These linat muoh to boiald for the
platform on whioh Wearer stands. But
tnat does not excuse the bigoted intolerance
which refused to let Mm 8ay it.
All trades unions should made their ob
ject the averting and not the causing of
trouble with employers, as .said Chief
Arthur, of tho Brotherhood of Locomotive"
Engineers. And employers should neverj
forget that their Interests He in the same di
rection, anil can only be secured by a wil
lingness to made concessions upon occa
sion. Overhead wires have as many lives as
the proverbial cat, and the repeated post
ponements of their burial make the public
heart sick with hope deferred.
'
Grover is at least wise enough to see
the impossibility of reconciling his opinions
as to stable currency and the Chicago plank
which would open the doors to wildcat
banklnir. And seeing the impossibility he
treats the question on general piinciples,
and seeks to smother the discrepancy under
magniloquent platitudes.
Victims of the Iron Hall will do wise to
abstain from throwing what good money
they have left after that which tbey have
lost, in expenslvelltigation.
California fruit Is gaining favor In
England, cornmeal Is Increasing its popular
ity in Geimany, and so others are becoming
more and more dependent on the .products
of America, while the needs of this country
become more self-contained and more self
satisfied under evory year of Protection.
After all Hill and Cleveland both find
their main objection to protection in the
fact that it is tho polioy of the party whom
they seek to succeed.
Circumstances alter cases wonderfully.
Tammany ruling Now York by politloal cor
ruption was one thins, tho same tiger fight
ing for Cleveland with the same means is
quite nnother fellow, according to various
Democratic organs of the Empire State.
"When the World begins to abuse a man,
thoughtful people instinctively look around
for any good qualities tnat may have caused
the assault.
When it comes down to a matter of rec
ords, free trade is altogether out of it in
comparison with protection, 'it cannot
show one Dranch of American industry that
it has aided, to say nothing of the prosperity
of the nation as a whole.
The Democratic letter of acceptance is a
political rather than a statesmanlike pro
duction, and is as rich in casuistry as poor
in logic
It should not take nearly sis weeks of
consideration to convince an overwhelming
majority of American citizens that there is
more reliance to be placed in Harrison's
than In Cleveland's letter of acceptance.
Cholera may never come, but typhoid
fever and other diseases are among us, and
dirt breeds thorn. Garbage should be burnt.
How much sinceritv there is in Cleve
land's remarks on public officers as agents of
the peoplo may be Judged from the support
which Tammany gives him simply and
soloiy for "what there is in it."
And now that Cleveland has written
his letter, what becomes of Henry Watter
son and others -of that outspoken ilk?
It is ridiculous of the World to expect
pnrity and principle to be the political mo
tives of others while both are so conspic
uous by their absence In Its own conduct.
Practice beats preceptl
Tariff reform is a most convenient ex
planation for the moro distinct phrase, "tar
iff for revenue only."
That Baker ballot law may fail in its
proposed object, but it shonld at least
demonstrate the necessity for conolse and
unmistakable language in legal enactments.
The scarcity of foreign rags will not in
terfere with the manufacture of tho Baker
ballot sheets.
Peck's rashness in burning his boats if
it bo proven that he did burn documents ho
regarded as confidential doos not invali
date the lacts which his repoit contained.
Gilmore's death is another blow at the
generally accepted fallacy that "Joy never
Kills."
Cleveland places himself about half
way between Hill and the Chicago tariff
plank and extends the elasticity of that
term "Domocrat" a little further.
WITH FAME AND FORTUNE.
Chauncey M. DepeW has consented to
deliver the oration at the Columbian cele
bration iu New York City.
Pueino his recent visit to Homburg,
Emperor William presented his mother with
the grounds and castle of Cronkerg, a pic
turesque ruin on a hill facing her new pal
ace. Kino George, of Greeoe, is so much of
a Democrat that court ceremony has be
come obsolete at Athens. The King wel
comes his visitors in a most informal way,
and chats with them on terms of equality.
Lloyd Tevis, who has just retired from
tho presidency or Wells, Fargo & Co., had
directed its affairs in San Francisco for
more than 0 years. Qe was born at Sbelby
vllle, Ky., in 1S24, and crossed the plains to
California in 1819.
Emilio Castelak, the great Spanish
statesman and author, is putting the finish
ing touches on a life of Columbus, which is
to be published early In October. Sonor Cas
telar has adorned nearly everything he has
touched in literature.
.Pieteo Mascagni, before his "Caval
leria Rusticana" made him famous, was a
poor school teacher in Sicily. A Milan pub
lisher offered a prize for the best serious
opera In one act, and amid vigorous compe
tition Mascagni came out victorious.
Henry Packard, of Rockland, Me., a
veteran of the war of 1812, in which he served
as a drummer boy, has just received from
the General Society of the War of is"l2 a
bronze medal. Mr. Packard fs lame to this
day irom a wound he received In a skirmish.
Cardinal Gibbons has been tendered
an Invitation from tne Joint Committee on
Ceremonies of the World's Columbian Com
mission and the World's Columbian Exposi
tion, to offer up the closing prayer at the
dedication exercises in Chicago on Friday,
October 21.
Prop. E. E. Barnard, of the Lick Ob
servatory, now famous as the discoverer of
Jupiter's fifth satellite, is only about 40
years old. Only a. few yeara ago he was
earning a scanty living as a clerk in a photo
graph gallery in Nashville, Tenn. He
possessed a natural fondness for astronomy.
However, and devoted his spare moments to
study. -
HEW IMKIGB&HT STEAMSHIPS.
A Contract for Two of Them to Be Awarded
to an English JTlrm.
Philadelphia, Pa., Sopt. 28. The Interna
tlonal Navigation Company intends in a
short time to award contracts to English
builders for twonew steel twin-screw steam
ships, to be used in tho trade Detween Phila
delphia and Liverpool and Antwerp. Tney
will probably be called Southwark and
Kensington, after the Philadelphia localities
of those names and will each be of 8,000 tons
carrying capacity and constructed ot steel
throughout.
The motive power will consist of triple
expansion engines of the most approved
type and the stenm will be supplied from
Scotch boilers. It is probable that the
Lairds, at Birkenhead, or the Thompsons, on
the Clyde, will secure the contracts. The
latter firm built the City of .Paris and City
of New York and the Lairds the steamship
Friesland and other vessels of the Red Star
line. Tho vessels are designed especially
for the general cargo carrying trade and
will not carry saloon pasiengarsi bat will be
lltMd up lor Immigrants.
CAMPAIGN NEWS AND COMMENT.
Pennsylvania Prohibitionists are ap
parently determined to make themselves as
troublesome as possible to the managers of
the old parties. Not satisfied wlth'polntlng
out the flaws in the Reodcr-IIensol con
struction of the Baker ballot law they are
nowproposlng to take legal steps to pre
vent the purchase of noil tax receipts by
political committees." Ex-Judge Amos
Briggs, who leads tho cold water State
ticket this year, has sent a lottertoTte
celver of Taxes Taylor, of Philadelphia,
notitying him that proceedings are to be In
stituted against him by the writer, in case
there sha!l appear any probability of
the receiver selling poll tax re
ceipts Indiscriminately. Ex-Judgo Briggs
argues that it is unconstitutional to issue
such receipts to political committees. Judge
Allison is quoted as saying, in Snyder vs
Hunt, "We have always been of the opinion
that he (the receiver of taxes) has not such
power." Judge Fell's decision that the stat
ute "surely means that he (the voter) shall
have made the payment with his own
money" Is also referred to, with this illus
tration: "The manrwho should have his
giocery bill or other debt pald,for him as an
inrtucomont or consideration to get him to
vote would be held clearly to violate this
law. Yet in payment there is no difference
botweon paying his taxes and paying anv
other of his dobts." Other cases in point
are cited, but the most interesting of them
rerers to the lne Justice Trunkey s decision
in Mark vs Park.Just before his elevation to
the Supreme -Bench, in which, among other
things, he said: "If the taxes can be raid
foe a person without his knowledge by
nnother, who holds the receipt till tho day
of election, and the poron who then gets
the i eceipt is thereby qualified to vote, one
of the ohjects of the law Is defeated."
General v. h. Hastings is on tho
stump in Connecticut, telling the voters of
that very close and doubtful State what he
learned of the disadvantages of free trado
during his recent European trip.
The question as to whether there shall be
two Democratic candidates for Mayor of
New Toik Clfy is worrying the Cleveland
managers these days. They very muoh fear
that such a contest, as in 1SSS, will cause tho
trading of votes to the 'injury of the Demo
cratic national ticket. The antt-snappers
want to put up a candidate against the one
to be named by Tammany, and have ap
pointed a committee to consult with'the na
tional party leaders upon the subject. When
questioned about the matter Chairman Har
lity said: "I am not prejudging the case
which the committee may lay before me,
but it is now my impression that no such
ticket should be run. However, I want to
say that tho resolutions which I ,have read
in the papers, and which empowered a com
mittee of those interested to wait on the
National Committee's members, do not In
dicate that tho question of-a third ticket is
likely to he presented to us. From my read
ing I should Judge that the committee nro
poses to call upon us for the purpose of as
certaining what it can do to advnnce the in
terests of tho Democratic national cam
paign." Chairman Don M. Dickinson or the
Campaign Committeo of the Democratic
National Committee said .that, while not
trying to dictate in Now Yoik City affairs,
it was his opinion that a Democrat o split on
the city ticliet would beamisiortuno. It may
be that enough pressure will be brought up
on the Mugwumps to keop them Irom openly
opposing Tammany this time, or their zeal
for free trade may even lead them into an
alliance with the tiger which they have so
frequently and vigorously denounced.
In discussing the general-situation Chair
man Harrity, with rainbow cheerfulness,
says: "We have no news but good news.
The reports I get from the doubtful States,
especially the South, nro entirely satislao
tory. The outlook everywhere is bright, and
we are pushing the canvass all over the
country."
Secretary McComas, of the Eepubli
can National Committee, conld hardly bo
more enthusiastic over the political outlook
than he is. He has not the slightest doubt
of a decisive protection triumph in Novem
ber, and says: "Chairman Carter is doing
prodigies. Ho is reserveful, tireless and
alert, but every stroke is counting. He is
ably leading the committee and General
Clarkson is seconding his efforts wisely 'and
loyally. The other National Committee
members are all at work, and documen'ts
and speakers are now commencing to pour
out on the people. I am confident that the
drift is continually toward Mr. Harrison,
and each day it becomes stronger. The situa
tion in New York and the Eastisono to in
spire the greatest confidence among well
wishers for Republican success. Tho free
trade plank of the Democratic platform has
proved a bombshell of tho worst description,
and the shell has exploded in tho Demo
cratic camp instead of reaching us in any
way. Another explosion with an almost
equally disastrous effect to the Democratic
party has been Peck's statistical report.
Another tnorn in tne democratic siae is tne
wildcat bank plunk with all its absurdities
and disregard of common financial reason
ing. Nothing has been so significant as the
declared intention of tho People's party men
of Alabama, Tennessee, North Carolina and
Georgia to volunteer as deputy marshals to
watch the count in their States, which they
testify has been and is fraudulent in every
way. We have fonnd a great demand for
President Harrison's letter throughout the
country, combined with an equal demand
lately lor Peck's report."
General Weaver found the aucient
eggs used by Georgia Democrats to bo very
strong arguments.
Unlike the majority of political leaders
Senator Carlisle does not claim everything
in sight. While In Washington the Ken
tucky free trader, whom the Democrats re
gard as their ablest debater, said: "Well,
we think we will carry New York. There is
a great deal of confusion and uncertainty
prevalent in the Democratic organization
In the State, but we think it will come
around all right in time. I don't like to
criticize, but you cannot gauge politics in
these days by any cast-iron methods. The
people of this generation think for them
selves. Therefore you must think with the
people or you will get loft. This is often a
mistake with pnbllo men and it invariably
results in disaster. This is more particu
larly the case in the Northern States, where
intercourse among the people by rail and
wire is more frequent. It is claimed that
the understanding and agreements between
the leaders of the different Interests of the
party are sincere and will be carried out,
butitis hard to say now what will be tho
outcome In New York. Mr. Cleveland can
onlv carry the State through the efforts of a
united leadership and a solid party vote.
If that is not given ho cannot carry the
State." Senator Carlisle was one or those
Democratic loaders who before the Chicago
convention entertained serious doubts as
to Cleveland's availability, which ho has
evidently not yet entirely abandoned.
IN the Erie-Crawford Congressional dis
trict Sibley is the nominee of the Demo
cratic, Prohibition and People's parties,
and now some of lvls followers want to know
for whom he Is going to vote for President.
Ko decision has yet been rendered as to
the placo which J. D. Hicks, the Republi
can candidate for Congress In the Twenti
eth district, will get on the official ballot.
In discussing the subject the Philad olphia
PreM8ays: "The only question that will
arise is as to the position- on the ballot
which his name shall occupy. If It shall be
determined that the certificate of a regular
nominating authority of tho party is re
quired to entitle the name to be printed
with the- party groups, Mr. Hicks' name
would be printed among the names of inde
pendent candidates, and the ballots for
that district would go out without the
name of the Republican candidate for
Congress in the proper place.'" As no
Republican candidate has been certified,
however, the use of the Bepubllcan paity
designation In Mr. Hicks' nominating papers
ought to be so construed ast to give him the
advantageof going ou the ballot along with
tne other Republican nominees. This would
bo an obviously reasonable and fair conclu
sion, since there is nobody to question the
fact that Mr. Hicks received the Republican
nomination in due form, in exuet accord
ance with the rules and practices of the
Iiarty, although a day too late to come wlth
n the provisions of the new law. If his
name Is to goon the ballot apart from his
party groups it will make Unnecessary for
the llepubllcans In all the four counties of
the district to keen their wits about them
when they vote or a Congressman will bo
lost In "one of the most deoided Hepuollcan
districts of the State. That Is a calamity
which should be avoided by all means."
The Bepublican demonstration at Wash
ington, Pa,, this week will be . dayllaht af.
fair, and-Governor MoKinley Is oxpeated to
let daylight through the fallacies of the
free traders.
A CBOSS FE0M NAPOLEOH.
It Was Found Among Other Relics in a
Quaint little Boston Store.
Boston Herald. 1
In a queer little store, heaped with all
all sorts of curiosities, a reporter a .day or
two ago discovered among the old pewter
mugs and time-stained prints a heap of
medals from the scattered collection of
some enthusiast. There were several bear
ing the head of her Most Gracious Britannic
Majesty, with different Inscriptions noon
tho reverse. Upon ono wai a sphinx
nnd 'the -words "Egypt, 1385." Another
had beon the reward or some poor
fellow who endured the hardships of the
trenches before Sebastopol when the allies
held the Russian bear in check during that
terrible winter. A Turklsh'medal referring
to that same campaign was also among the
lot.
Bat most interesting of all, and of course
most valuable, was a cross of the Legion
of Honor of the great Napoleon. These
are very rare, although those dis
tributed by the bead of the third empire
with Bnoh a lavish hand are rather common.
But the one in hand, hanging from the worn
orlmson ribbon, had been presented to some
biave or learned man by the great leader
himself.
The white enamel had been slightly
chipped irom the ends of tlfe five-pointed
cross, but the jewel was remarkably well
preserved. The center was or gold
and bore the head of tho Emperor,
with a green wreath of oak and
laurel surrounding the medallion. On
tiie reverse' and corresponding to the
later weie the tricolors, crossed with the
words "Honneur et Patrie" enclrcling'them.
So rare are these crosses that it is thought
the one now in Boston Is the sole speoimen
in tills country. There nro several collec
tors in this city who prize such treasures,
so it will prooably remain here la some pri.
vate cabinet.
BPIBITS KEEP HES ABED.
Strange Whims of a New York
State
Woman Who Has Ability.
Buffalo. Sept. 26. Mrs. Anna Hallock, of
Wayne, Scbuy.er county, is a spiritualist,
owns one of the finest tarm3 in the county,
is quite wealthy and has more than ordinary
business ability and intelligence. A little
over ten years ago she claims to have re
ceived a message from the spirit world
directing her to go to bed and stay there for
ten years. In the meanwhile she was not to
allow anv water to touch her body. Mrs.
Hallock went to bed and no persuasion or
arguu ent could make her get up. She would
not allow people to wash her under any cir
cumstances, although she accepted clean
clothing.
She was apparently a strong, healthy
woman, had splendid color, ato hearty meals
and never complained of being 111. When
clergymen called to urge her to get up she
was deal to their entreaties and said the
spirit ordered her to stay in bed for the
purification of her soul. She continued tho
management of her farm, kept herself
posted on the market prices of farm
Eroducts and did a great deal of writing,
nt nothing could persuade her to arise.
Recently the ten-ybar limit ""xplred and she
got up and dressed herself. She was slightly
bent in stature Irom being in bed so long,
but wasi seemingly in good health and
spirits. .
Last week she received another message
from the same spirit. She declares she was
oidered to go back to bed and remain there
until tho dav of her death. She Immediately
complied. She will not allow herself to be
washed, either. &
G2BMAN CATH0LIC3 IN CONGBESS.
They Gather In Largo Numbers and Have a
Big Procession.
Newakk, N. J., Sept. 26 The city is
crowded with strangers who have come to
attend the four days' German Catholic Con
gress. There are several hundred priests
among the delegates. In the various thor
oughfares decorations of every huo and de
sign can be seen. American flags and bunt
ing of the American national colors predom
inate, closely interspersed with the white
and black of the Fatherland. All five of the
German Boman Catholic churches are pro
fusely decorated, while St. Benedict's Col
lege makes a splendid display with the
shields of Iowa, Texas, Colorado. Maryland,
Wisconsin, Nebraska, Maine, Bhode Island,
Ohio and North Carolina.
Shortly before 2 o'clock to-day the meet
ing of the delegates from the German yormg
men's Cathollo societies was held in St.
Peter's School Hall, and resolutions wore
offeiednnd referred to committee. To-night
the public exorcises of the Sixth German
I'ntrinHn PnniriABfl tritrA hitM TlipmwArA
' over 4 COO men in line in to-night's proces-1
sion, an carrying iigntea torcnes. xnirty
flve bands furnished the music for the ow
caslon. The affair was one of the finest
pageant" ever seen in this city. The pro
cession was headed by a platoon of mounted
Eolicemen, and the mauy banners gave it a
right anpearance. Upon the arrival of the
procesllon at Caledonia Paric there was a
grand welcome reception. Addresses were
made by Bishop Wigger, Governor Aubett,
Dr. Faerberand Mayor llaynes. A concert
and fireworks followed the procession.
TEE LUTHERAN SYNOD,
No More Attempts to Develop the Cate
chism Will Be Made.
Lancaster. Pa., Sept. 26, At this morning's
session of the Lutheran Synod a report was
presented recommending that furcher at
tempts at the development of the catechism
known as "General Synod Cateohism" be
abandoned. The recommendation was ap
pioved. The consideration of the revised
constitution was resumed, and a long dis
cussion ensued over the section providing
that ministers coming from a foreign coun
try shonld not be received Into membership
of the Synod until after a residence of two
years In the country. The paragraph was
stricken out by a close vote.
The serious illness-of Rev. Dr. William D.
Baum, ot Philadelphia, was announced
Dr. Baum was removed to his home. At
the afternoon session the new constitution
was completed and adopted. The report of
the Advisory Board of Foreign Missions
was presented, the Synod having exceeded
their apportionments $2,728,892, earning the
title of the banner Synod.
Wb,ere Is Colonel Eliot F. At?
Washington Post.3
New Tork may well stand up and confess
that Corbett can attract a larger crowd to
Madison Square Garden than young Mr.
Damrosch and his Wagnerian fiddlers.
The Sonth Is Wakening Up.
Kansas City Star.
General James B. Weaver has abandoned
his canvass in the South as a hopeless Job.
The rainbows In that section are quite scarce,
this year and unusually shy.
DEATHS IIERE AND ELSEWHERE.
Mrs. Emma E. Kelly.
Mrs. Emma E Kelly died yesterday at
the home of her parents, 202 Perrysvllle avenue,
Allegli;nv, nired 25 yeas. Tho deceased was the
wire of J. n. Kelly, edllorof the Erie ZJatfj ffau!rt,
ana eldest daughter of John J. Ticnzlns, superin
tendent of the OH Well Supply Company's Pitts
burg shops. Mrs. Kelly had been suffering from
consumption fur several months, and In June was
brought from Erie to her parents' home. The fun
eral will take place to-morrow.
Mrs. Hattle McNalr.
The funeral ot Mrs. Hattie MoUair, wife
of James A. McNalr. the ticket agent of the Ft.
Wayne road, will take place this afternoon at 2
o'clock. Mrs. McNalr died on Saturday of typhoid
fever.
Ex-Judge A. Pratt Adams.
Ex-Judge A. Pratt Adams, one of Geor
gia's most eminent Jurists ana public men, died at
Savannah Sunday after a brief illness. He was
special counsel for the Georgia Central Railroad.
Obituary Notes.
The Comte DeTrapanl, son of King Francis I.,
of Naples, is dead.
Sib William JomssTou Ritchie. Chler Jus-
tlce of the Supreme Court of Canada, Is dead, aged
89 years.
Judqb SA.BIX D. PUTERBAUdK died at Peoria,
III., Sunday, after an illness of only a few days.
He was a veteran or the War of the Rebellion, hav
ing enlisted under Colonel Robert G. Iugersoll, and
was made a Major.
JIbs. Elizabeth Clark, of New Wilmington,
Pa., died at her home there Sunday night, azed 70
years. For 29 days prior to her death Mrs. Clark
had taken no food whatever, and her phenomenal
vitality at such an age 'has exelted much Interest
among physicians, tthe was the mother of Captain
Al Clark, the well-known oil produeer, and of Mrs,
David Moore, also well-known In this community,
who now rcsldu is Nebraska ..
ONE PRE GRACE NEEDED
To Make Pittsburg- Women the Most Charm
ing In the World A Change of Gait Sug
gestedWedding's Without Number
Gossip of Society.
The women of Pittsburg enjoy the repu
tation of being beautiful, soft spoken' and
refined, bnt bow Is it that so many of them
walk with a heavy step such as one does not
expect In a woman? The other day a num
ber of ladies were' coming down the steps
from a piazza at a bouse in the East End. It
was noticeable that they descended' upon
their heels each time, so that their step was
generally like that of an elderly woman, in
stead of the young one that it really was.
It was evidently only carelessness, and no
doubt ir tho matter were called to their at
tention, they would try to improvo their
manner of walking. It is very simple, ac
cording to an authority. AH that is neces
sary Is to put the ball of the foot down first.
throwing the weight upon it and letting the
heel reach the ground a shade of time latr.
This gives a light steu, and there Is nothing'
or. the ungraceful, flat-footed gait that Is
seen so( often. in Pittsburg where, it should
not be," considering that the person walking
thus is! in ninu cases out of ten a woman of
refinement. The women of Pittsburg have
pretty feet, as a rule.. Now let them learn
to use those feet properly.
This evening the marriage of Miss Jen
nie W. Dickson to Mr. William J. Reno will
take place at the home of the briao's step
father, John H. McElroy, President of the
Pittsburg Gas Company. Walnut street, East
End. Rev. George Hodges will perform the
ooremony. Tho groom-elect was a Pltlsburger
at one time, but has been a resident of Min
neapolis for some, years. The young couple
will take up their abode in that city.
A wedding in which many Pittsburgers
are interested is to take place at Mansfield,
Pa., this evening. The bride will be Miss
Violet Bedell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.
Charles Bedell, of that place.and Mr. William
L. Monroe, of Pittsburg, groom.
A very pretty home wedding was that
which united the lives ot Mr. Elmer H.
Weltzel and Miss Florence MoEnulty Tues
day evening, Septembe'r20, at 8 o'clock. The
ceremony was performed at the residence
of the brides parents, Mr. nnd Mrs. Charles
McEnnlty, Franklin street, Wilkin3burg, by
the Ifev. S. H. Moore In the presence of rela
tives and a few intimate friends. After the
ceromonv Mr. and Mrs. Weitzel left for a
two weeks' trip to Cleveland, Detroit and
the lakes. They will be at home to their
iriends after October 10 at their now resi
dence, Franklin street, Wilkinsburg.
Mrs. Amelia- Spencer, of Cypress
street, Shadyslde, has issued Invitations to
the marriage or her daughter, Miss Lillian
A. Spencer, to Mr. Joseph Simmons Myers.
It If to be a quiet family affair, and will .take
place Tuesday evening, October 4, at 9
o'clock at the home or the bride's mother.
Miss Spencer is a niece of Mr. Edmond
Watts, of this citv, and Mr. Myers is con
nected with the Post.
A meeting of the Ladies' Aid Society
oftheSouthside Hospital, will ba held this
afternoon in the Guild house, on Eighteenth
street.
Dr. George S. Proctor. President of,
the Orneida Club, has called a meeting for
this evening to be held in the Linden Club
house. An October wedding will be that of Mr.
W. A. Uoobler, of this city, and Miss Ada V.
Bono, of Bellevne.
Miss Maria Belle Low and Mr.
William Warren ilorehead will be wedded
this evening nt the home of the-bride's par
ent, Mr. and Mrs. George A. Low, Hamilton
avenue.
PESTEEED INTO HATBIMOHY.
Florence Blythe Had to Take a Husband to
Get Kid of Her Lovers.
Bath Fbahcisco, Sept. 20. -Special.' The
real reason why Florence Blythe married so
suddenly is said to be that sho was pestered
to death by proposals from at homo and
abroad irom men who had position and title
to give iu exchange for her millions. The
constant receipt of letters of this
kind and cue attempts of adventnfers
to get personal interviews with her so
wore on tho girl that she was glad
to escape in matrimony from what
had become an unendurable nuisance.
Her grandmother, who is a comparatively
young woman, also contemplated matri
mony, which would have left Florence
alone.
Florence's lawyer, General Hart, said to
day in regard to the oauscs that led to her
sudden marriage: "I do not think that
there is a woman living who has had so
many offers of marriage."
HUNGARY'S AGED HERO.
Louis Kossuth is the oldest pnblic man of
prominence in the world, we aro inclined to
believe. It looks as if he might complete a
century of life. Baton Herald.
Patriotism is all very well, but the old
gentleman at Turin insisting that he never,
never will be reconciled to the facts of the
situation, Is not, after all, a truly patriotic
flgnro. Philadelphia Telegraph.
TnE lesson or Kossuth's career Is not fonnd
in the cry of despair whioh tyranny and
fancied Ingratitude-wrung from his wearied
soul, but in the faith anil work of his primo
and their spreadingand strengthening influ
ence. St. Louis Post-D 3 alch.
Kossuth's statesmanship is an exaggera
tion of the sort of statesmanship that always
hampered the work of Mr. Gladstone. There
is a hard heartedness and shiftiness that go
side by side with the higher qualities in all
successful captaincy. Neto York Tel-gram.
Now that Kossuth has passed his ninetieth
birthday it is in order to hear a rumor of his
death within a few days. None of the
younger generation can ever feel really old
unttl the news of the passing of the aged
patriot Is flashed across the ocean for the
last time. Buffalo Inquirer.
Let us think, not of tho broken, "rer-sen-sitive
and peevish nonogenarian, bat of the
eloquent nnd dauntless patriot of forty
years ago, whom America so gladly wel
comed as a man Infinitely more enviable in
the hour of his defeat than his enemies in
that of their bloody victory. Boston Trav
eller. It is no wonder that tho Hungarian poo
ple, while sincerely loyal to the sovereign
they once detested, worship Louis Kossuth.
He stands, In his venerable age, the living
monument of their glory and of their sacrl
fices, the embodiment of aspirations none
the less sacred because they have been par
tially gratified. New York Press.
Detepjiiskd never again to set foot on
Hungarian soil, Kossuth dwells in Turin, de
clining public tributes and private aid and
supporting himself with his pen. There,
doubtless, ho will die, regarded 'with tho
sympathetic respect, not freerom commis
eration, which the slnceiy and self-acriflo-ing
fanatic always commands. Brook'yn
Eagl:
WOEK AT C0HN4.TJT HABB0B,
No
Truth in the Iteport That a Big Area
of Kock Was Strnck.
Coskeaut, O., 6ept. 26. Special. Pitts
burg iron men have been here to-day to in
spec t the work ot deepening the harbor to
accommodate the big ore boats from the
upper lake mines. A dispatch sent out from
Ash tabula that tho dredges had struck a big
area of rock in 13 leot of water was probably
what hi ought the visitors here to see for
themselves.
The report is unfounded, and by the first
or October everything will be in shape to
nnndle oro rapidly iu great quantities. Tho
tracks or the Pittsburg, Sheuango and Lake
Erie road run under two hoists at intervals
ol 20 feet. These hoists are 200 feet long.and
ore lifted irom tho vessels can be dumped
directly into the cars.
ANOTHEB MAN WHO FLOPS.
Leon Cohen of New Tork Leaves the Demo
cratic Camp for Good.
New Yobk, Sept. 26. Leon Cohen, Demo
cratic candidate for State Se'nator In the
Ninth district at the last Senatorial election,
has written to Chairman Jackson ol the
New Tork County Democraoy, resigning his
memnership in tho organization, the county
committee and the Committeo of Twenty
fonr. Ho says he will vote for Harrison and
Beld and asks his friends to do likewise.
He says the Democratic party, by Its ac
ceptance of Cleveland and h j free trade and
wildcat currency ideas, has forfeited the
title of Democratic or to represent the prin
ciples of Jeffonon, Jackson and TUlan.
CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS.
Maine barbers go from house to houie.
Ice was first made by 'machinery by
Carre in 1860.
A New York beggar makes 12,500 a
year at the business.
In the fourteenth century axes wert
fixed on the shafts of lances. ,
The Japanese revere woman andbeliev
that she originally grew on a tree.
"William "Wordsworth wroto "An Even,
ing Walk" at 13 and the "Excursion" at
Dr. Agnus, of Chicago, claims to hava
hypnotized men at a distance of eight miles.
The first time electricity was used In
the execution of criminals in New Tork was
in 1890.
The namo of Wayne is the title or part
of the title or moro places in the TJnite4
States than any other.
Perterze Irnohzizkowskelowskl is a San
Frnneisoo cabinet maker. He Is said to oc
casionally use his name for a saw.
The lasso is an invention of the South
American Indians and was in use when tha
country wai discovered by Spaniards.
One million dollars in gold coin would
Welsh 3.683.8 nonnrln. The, same amount of
sliver coins would weigh ES.939.9 pounds.
Ouida has written 27 novels, and they
have paid her more than any history pub
lished within the last quarter of a qentury.
The Salvation Army, evory member of
which must be a total abstainer, Is now tha
largest temperance organization in tha
world.
There are said to be over 23,000 Indiana
in the United States who can read Engllstt
and over 10.0JO who can read Indian Ian- '
guages.
In England they do not chew gum, con
sidering the habit. low and vulgar, but in
Australia the people seem already to hava
taken kindly to it.
Telfair county, Ga., boasts a smart
baby. Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Johnson have an
8-mnnths-old son who can walk and talk,
and weighs 53 pounds.
In Germany they are using strawberry
tea, decocted from the young leaves of tha
strafwberry plant after they have been dried
and prepared like Chinese tea.
A breakfast in Scotland consists chiefly
of cold grouse, salmon, cold beef, marma
lade, Jelly, nonev, five kinds of bread, oat
meal cakes, coffee, toast and tea.
An orange fadis among the possibilltiei
of the day. Free consumption of the frnlt
is said to be good for 'the complexion and
many ladies are testing the claim.
The longest day of the year has 19
hours at St. Petersburg, 17 hours at Ham
burg, 16 hours at London, 15 bonrs at New
York anu 3 months at Spitzbergen.
In the siege of Syracuse, B. CL 213,
Archimedes burned Boman ships In the
harbor by concentrating tho son's rays on
them by means of an arrangement of mir
rors. When William Henry Harrison, tho
grandfather of Benjamin, ran fpr President
in 1836 he received 41,281 votes in Indiana.
His grandson received fu the same Stats in
1888, 263,361.
Petersham is one of those primitive
Massachusetts towns that the railroad has
never reached. It was the scene of the end
of Shay's rebellion in the days succeeding
the Kevolutlon.
The plans for making Paris a seaport
bavo been doposited at the Hotel de Tllle.
The proposed canal from Rouen to Paris is
to be 110 miles Ions and about 20 feet deep,
and will cost 135,000,000 francs.
An English experimenter, Mr.bEl
Chaplin, has given an account of hypnotiz
ing a laying hen, and inducing her in that
manner to sit on a sitting of eggs until
seven of them had batched out.
Several Japanese editors have been
sentenced to four years' imprisonment, with
hard labor, for speaking disrespectfully of
the Emperor Jimmu, who. if he ever ex
isted, lived about 600 years ago.
The coronach, or mourning for the dead,
kis still heard in many parts of Scotland, as
well as In Ireland. It Is a weird obant, cries
of lamentation being mingled with remon
strances addressed to tne departed for leav
ing his friends and relatives. "-
Oar English ancestors, in the thirteenth
and fourteenth centuries, had fonr meals a
day; breakfast at 7, dinner at 10, tea at 4,
and supper at S or 9, soon after which they
went to bed. The tradespeople and laboring
men had only three meals: breakfast at 8,
dinner at 12, and supper at C.
A prominent woman doctor of Birming
ham, England, goes her rounds on a tricy
cle. In a neat and pleasing dress, equally
salted for the sick room or saddle, she glides
along through the crowded streeta an object
of interest to sill. In the suburbs or Boston
women go calling, shopping and marketing
on their safeties.
At a recent matriculation examination
at the University 'or Bucharest, 27 female
students proved successful as, compared
with 255 maIo-: at Jassy the nnmbers'who
presented themselves were 82 males and
only 26 females, and only one failed to
satisfy the examiners: whereas, out of the 83
males 28 were rejected.
An Englishman named E. J. Crowley
has taken out a patent in Great Britain for
opening np direct communication with
Mars. His plan consists In the arrangement
of a series of mirrors to collect and reflect
the light, these to be connected by electricity
and operated by a telegraph key.
The Chapter of St. Peter's Catnedral
has snbmitted to His Holiness tho Pope tho
designs for the golden throne which tha
Chapter, in co-operation with all the other
Boman Catholic Cathedrals of the world,
will present to His Holiness. The throno
is designed in Gothic form, and will cost
500,000 francs.
For the past 15 years a prophet in Java
has received from his fellow natives about
$400 a year "ror not predicting a tidal wava
which will sweep clear over the Island."
The people look on tho man as a great
magician, and think he has the power to
create or attract a wave which would wlpa
out the island.
In South Carolina there are 102,000
white voters and 132,000 colored voters. In
Mississippi there are 120,000 white voters
aiidl50,0C0colored voters a coloredmajorlty
or SO, 000 in each State. Louisiana has mora
white than colored voters, but it has, on tha
other band, more colored voters native born
than White voters native born.
POETKX EN PASSANT.
SEPTIjrBEB STAXZA3.
I think of my summer girl so trim,
Who fonnd me a willing dupe.
Alas I that she who was In the swim
Should now oe In the soup.
Wlih nature now the maiden grieves.
These ember days 60 ?ad;
She goes and gathers autumn leaves,
.fjecause It Is a fad.
Sew York 5tm.
"Pull down your vest," "Wipe ofl your
chin."
"Where did you get that hat?"
As slang terms are quite out of date.
The very latest of the late
is this "Where was I at?"
Brooilyn Easts.
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SKPTESIBEB..
Fields as soft an' meller as' your sweet
heart's hair;
Reapers slngln' In 'em music In the alrl
All the world'n-smllln' np'ards to the b.ua
An' the wind a-pilln' white clouds, two by twol
Ain't the world a plcter? Pears to me the son
Is Jest a-khsln' of her, goln' on the run I
Bat 'mongst all the beauties and melodies that
float
One voice kills half the music: "How much far
yervote?"
Atlanta Constitution.
She was a strong and handsome gray,
And could trot at a rattling gait,
Bnt It didn't take long for her to catch on
And kick If her hat wasn't straight.
Chicago Inter Ocean,
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The autumn glory we now behold,
A richer beauty adorns the plain, 4
The groves are tinted with red and gold.
And the sumac brightens the rural fane.
The swamps are glowing with wondrous hues.
But, alas, with her beauty no more wa'r
cheered.
The radiant girl with the milk white shoes
And the frills and flounces ha disappeared.
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