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TWELVE PAGES
ANOTHER FLAN FOR PUKE WATER,
An alternative to thiproject of taking
a -water supply from the mountain streams
to our cities is that devised by Colonel
Thomas K. Roberts for establishing a fil
tering station on Six Mile Island and tak
ing the water thus purified to the present
water works of the two cities. The plans
drawn by this engineer, on which our
local summary of the scheme is based, are
only des'gned to accommodate Allegheny
City; but the area of the island is stated
to be ample to accommodate filtering
chambers with a capacity of 125,000,000 to
150,000,000 gallons per diem.
The arguments in favor of this plan as
opposed to that of a mountain source of
water supply jconsist mainly of its econ
omy and immediate availability. The
proposed works could probably be es
tablished there at a fraction , of
the cost of laying a fifty-mile
conduit The water at that point is prac
tically pure at present Whether it will
remain so for the next twenty-five years
is a question for discussion by the ad
vancers of the rival propositions.
Colonel Roberts, hose views are the
result of thorough investigation, is of
opinion that with the plan of filtration
which he proposes, and the extension of
intercepting sewers a few miles up the
river as the future may dictate, a strictly
puresapply of water is to be depended on
at Six Mile Island for the future. The
fact that running "streams purify them-selves-in
a few milerand the very slight
amount of drainage now discharged into
the Allegheny form the basis of his
opinion.
The project as presented .affords a very
adequate plan for meeting Allegheny
City's present need. In the next decade
the whole community must intelligently
settle, the question whether it will use an
enlargement of the same plan to meet the
growing demand, or whether we must go
to the mountains for our water,
A QUESTION OF AUTHORITY.
In reply to a claim of Dr. Hamilton that,
as representing the Treasury Department,
he has higher authority than Dr. Jenkins,
the Ilealth Officer of New York City, the
Sun says that the Treasury Department
has no authority whatever '"in the admin
istration of New York's health office un
der the quarantine laws of the State of
New York."
Certainly not, as stated above; but Is it
the Sun' intention to assert that the rep
file Bi$pxqj.
resentative of the Treasury Department
has no authority in the administration of
national quarantine matters at a port of
the United States under the quarantine
laws of Congress? If it is 60 it is high
time that a change were made. But we
do not think that it is so. If the Sun will
adopt Captain Bunsby's advice and over
haul a little work called the Constitution
of the United States it may find a clause
asserting that the State's action in matters
like this must be consistent with and sub
ject to the authority of Congress. Con
gress having "given power to act, it is no t
necessary to go the length,of the original
package decision to show'that Dr. Hamil
ton is most decidedly higher In authority
than Dr. Jenkins.
This view the Sun denounces as thor
oughly and characteristically Republican.
But, inasmuch as it has the sanction of
the Constitution established a century
ago, it appears to be one of the cases in
which the Republican doctrine is the right
one.
GETTING OFF THE PLATFORM.
The Democracy are at present very
busily engaged in getting away from the
effects of their platform. The last effort
in that line is presented by the Massachu
setts Democratic Convention. That body
in its resolutions pretended to indorse the
.national platform and then proceeded to
explain it away, by asserting the Demo
cratic policy to be something essentially
different from what the Chicago platform
declares it to be.
Thus the Massachusetts document in
stead of heartily indorsing the -'tariff
plank of the national platform proceeds
to set forth the doctrine of free raw ma
terials with protection on the highly fin
ished products, and to assert on behalf of
Democratic legislation "full recognition
of existing business conditions and con
sistent regard for the welfare of the wage
earner" as "a sufficient answer to the at
tempts of the Republicans to arouse need
less fears," etc It would be a sufficient
answer if the DemocraticNational Conven
tion had not overwhelmingly voted down
a tariff resolution which used exactly those
expressions, and substituted for it the
famous and recoiling declaration of Cal
hounism. To claim for the party a line of
action which its National Convention has
distinctly repudiatedvmay not be very hon
est; but it is the best the Democrats can
do under present circumstances.
There is another method of getting
away from the platform in the plank on
the bank note question. The Massa
chusetts resolution favors "the issuance
of bank notes under such Federal super
vision as may be thought desirable."
"Hence," the resolution goes on, "we
advocate the removal of the national tax
on such circulating notes of State banks
as are so secured that their prompt re
demption in lawful money will always be
certain." This is a moderately good
plank: but it is not the Democratic plat
form. The national document advocated
the removal of the tax without any quali
fication whatever. It proposed to take
away the only method by which Federal
regulation can be imposed, and to throw
open the whole subjectrto the vagaries of
legislation furnished by forty-four differ
ent State Legislatures. Besides this radical
departure from the national platform,
there is room for the Massachusetts Dem
ocrats to explain in what respect the State
banks, when they issue bank notes under
Federal supervision, will differ from
national banks.
It is a significant fact that the entire
labor of Democracy at present consists in
escaping Irom the ruinous nature cf its
national platform. A party which com
mits itself to reactionary and dangerous
principles and then ruus away from them
when it finds out that the .people will not
swallow them does not commend itself to
the public confidence.
ILLOGICAL BUT PROPER,
The suspension, or, as it is .called, tho
revocation of the coercion acts by Mr.
Morley, the Chief Secretary for Ireland, is
one of the English methods which, when
closely analyzed, seem a little queer. It
was expected that one of the first'steps ot
the Liberal, majority would be to repeal
that characteristically Tory measure. Mr.
Morley, however, did not choose to await
that process, and he relieved Ireland from
coercion by boldly announcing the suspen
sion of the law.
Logically this was straining executivo
power to the last notch. The theory of
representative government is that the
statutory enactments form the supremo
law and that the executive arm must en
force them, whether it approves or not
Strictly, therefore, it was Morley's duty to
go on coercing Ireland until he could
bring in and pass through both Houses a
bill for its repeat But fortunately Eng
land is not so tied up to the letter of logi
cal deductions that it cannot find a way
out ot such a dilemma. Indeed, the illogi
cal features of English politics are some
times grotesque. But they are not so
grotesque as to make it necessary that
a Ministry chosen te repeal and abandon
a certain policy must continue to carry it
out until Parliament shall act. The Min
istry simply drops the coercion policy and
there is an end of the famous Balfour
method of maintaining peace.
In such cases as these the lack of logic
in English political methods is rather a
virtue than otherwise. The ends may be
reached by ridiculous routes, but the re
sult is that the ends are attained. .
ANOTHER WAT OF DOING, IT.
The arrangement by which the vote of
the Tammany Democracy of New York
is to be secured for Cleveland is revealed
in the recent expression of Doit M. Dick
inson, of Michigan. The distinguished
though exceptionally hopeful sponsor of
Mr. Cleveland in the campaign of four
years ago was asked for an opinion as to
the propriety of an independent Demo
cratic ticket this year, and his answer was
firmly in the negative. "Let Tammany
have the local offices!" he said; and. the
conclusion is that Tammany will get
them. The statement that Tammany will
also get the Federal offices for its baili
wick is less authoritatively corroborated. -
This arrangement is tacitly or openly
applauded by the Democratic leaders and
organs. At the same time the Democratic
organs are full of horror over an alleged
disposition of the Republican managers to
buy votes. One journal, whose attempt
to raise a fund "to carry the Northwest"
is only relieved from criminality by the
insignificance of the fund, goes. into
daily hysterics over the alleged
corruption of Republican managers,
but regards with great approval
the bargain for Tammany's support Tho
various organs of different degrees and
complexions of reform pretension accept
the same deal with more or less com
placency. All unite at the same time In
anathematizing the putative Republican
attempt to buy voteg, the moat cogent evi-'
dences of which are furnished by the
vivid Democratic imagination.-'
But when you come-to analyze the mat
ter, what is the moral or political distinc
tion between buying votes with money
directly or buying votes with offices that
yield money? Between a bArgaln which
says, "So much monev for each vote"
and one which says, "For such and such
a total of votes, so many offices yielding a
known revenue," is there any vital differ
ence as regards the obtaining of votes by
pecuniary considerations? Indeed, if we
are driven to the unsatisfactory alterna
tive of choosing between them, why is not
the corruption which buys votes with the
public revenue taken from tho people by
taxation on an entirely different'pretext?
Ex-President Cleveland's strength with
the people once consisted in his antagon
ism to the political system which depends
on the purchase of votes with offices. If
he has made friends with his former ene
mies, and made a bargain for the dellyery
of their votes, the strength derived from
his former independence becomes a nega
tive quantity.
Senator Sherman's description of the
issue before voters for Presidental electors
Is the only true one. Tnls la not a question
to he decided hy a comparison between the
personal characteristics or even opinions ot
the rival candidates. They aie called upon
tojudje between the expressed wishes of'
the respective parties as set forth at their
national conventions. A vote for Cleveland ,
means support for those who have declared
an Intention to disregard American indus
tries and establish a tariff for re vonuo only,
to upsot the stable currency of the nation
and set np a fluctuating: and unreliable mon
etary system iu Its place. A vote for Harri
son Is an Indoisoment of Protection and
reciprocity, sound money, and in genoral a
liberal consideration of American interests
and a patriotic discrimination on behalf of
American Industries.
"While the education of the campaign
Is in piozress free traders should seize the
opportunity to learn something of the pro
visions of the Constitution as to tariff.
The bitterest iree trader of them all can
not deny that wattes are to-day from fifty to
a hundred per cent higher in this country
than the corresponding rates of pay In
Europe. And It does not take a mind above
the averago logical capacity to see that the
competition bound to result from a tariff for
revenue only would most certainly tend to
an equalization of the rates on tho two con
tinents sooner or later and piobably a good
deal sooner than later.
Hawaii may wish to be annexed to the
United States; but tho latter would be ex
tremely foolish to annex it even though It
bogged hard for. that privilege.
If ex-Governor Hill really intends to
take the stump so viirorously as is reported,
he should say beforehand which of his
speeches Is really meant to express his opin
ions, in view of tho wide discrepancy be
tween his utterances at Buffalo and Now
Tort. Novelty and variety are attractive
qualities in a speaker, but campaign orators
must regard the law of consistence to some
extent. (
Toting according to the Baker ballot
law is a conspicuous example of thoe
things which are more easily done in the
wrong way than the right ono.
EoTwrrnsTANDETG all the agony of the
political campaign, that element of Now
York's population which finds its main In
tel est in tho vague and nondescript collec
tion of people called society still finds time
to noto tho dethronement of Ward He All la
ter and agitato itself as to who shall be his
snecessor as -the leading flunkey of the
Eastern metropolis.
Trm intelligence of the South will never
De properly vindicated until Its solidity on
Political questions, altogether apait from
heir merits, has been broken.
If only the corrupt politicians on both
sides of the fence conld be persuaded to
pair off and vanish Into the oblivion, which
Is their fitting resting place, the nation
would be all the better for their absence
an dj voters conld more freely concentrate
their attention on a pure ami unadulterated
consideration of tho questions at issue.
Councils must makeno mistake about
the best method of disposing of tho gar
bage. The city must collect it and burn It.
Senator Hill appears anxious to make
np tor the time lost during his solitary
silence, so that he may havo a stronger plea
than the mere statement, "I am a Democrat
.still," to the share of the good things that his
party are trying to get control oj.
New York Democrats seem inclined to
realize at fast that least said will be soonest
mended in that Peck matter.
Councils should understand that there
is a limit to the amount of discussion neces
sary to decide tho host location for a free
bridge. There has been so much talk on the
subject that It is about time to begin to do
something. .,
There are altogether too many columns
In the new ballot sheet to make itan artistic
or satisfactory structure.
Ghicago is making preparations to put
up prices all aronnd in a manner that will
discourage all but semi-millionaires from
visiting the city of high winds, high build
ings and high rates during the World's
Fair.
The third party is wanting in staying
power, besides being based on impracticable
principles.
Protection is not simply a local, sec
tional or geographic benefit;. Itls essentially
the policy upon which depends the pros
perity of the wholo United States of
America.
Political rainbow-chasers may be de
scribed as small piophets of big returns.
CELEBRITIES IN CLOVER.
Sir J. 'Whitaker Ellis, ex-Lord
Mayor of London, is in Boston inspecting
tho electric car system.
Captain 'Weissert, the new Com
mander in Chief of the G. A. K had a grand
public welcome upon his return to his home
in Wilwaukee.
Lord Breadalbane, at his domains in
Perthshire and Argyllshire, Scotland, Is
supposed to havo more deer than any other
landowner in Great Britain. '
Walter Sloan, of Burlington, N. J.,
who was supposed to havo been lost In the
Johnstown flood, has just turned np at Mt.
Holly to recelvo his share or a legacy left
him by an aunt.
Rev. Dr. Cranfield, the Vice Presi
dental candidate on tho Prohibition ticket,
Is on the stnmp through the' week and ser
monizes Sundays. This shows hard work
can be done on water.
Uev. A. N. Keigwin, a Presbyterian
minister of Wilmington, Del., prophesies
the end of the world in 1897. Ho has been
pleaching sermons for some time past with
the special object of preparing his flock for
the event.
"When Lieutenant Peary reports of
ficially to tho Navy Department he will
probably be assigned to service at League
Island, which means Philadelphia, tie Is a
civil engineer, and there Is said to be a
great demand for officers with such quali
fications just now.
Miss Annie Shepard Spooner, aged
18,has published Around the Lamp, a monthly
paper for young people, for three years at
her home In Hinsdale, N. H. She has always
bad a fish to edit a paper and is much in
teresteor In her work. She sets her own
type, solioits her own advertisements and Is
said to have 1,000 subscribers.
Ix is said that when the Shah of Persia
visited England some years ago he was en
tertained at Stafford House, the town resi
dence of the Dnke of Sutherland. So im
pressed was tho oriental visitor with the
magnificence of his host's surroundings that
he afterward privately advised the Prince
of Wales to have the Duke quietly strangled
and confiscate the estates.
THE HEAYENS FOR OCTOBER.
To the star gazer October skies seem to
mark tho turnl.,g point of tho year. The
Milky )&y. which with its soft, warm glow
seems so essential a characteristic of sum
mer evenings, during this month sinks but
of sight In the west, while the "stormy
Pleiades" rising in the east herald the com
ing of winter. But unless we prolong our
observations till after midnight the wintry
Orion and sparkling Sirlus are not yet with
us, and October presents to us a combina
tion of constellations peculiarly her own.
First, however, let ns take a look at our
nearer neighbors, the moon and planets.
Tilts month wo have what is known as the
Hunting Moon, which for several days be
fore and after it is full rises nearly at sun
set, and so Is supposed to light the belated
hunter on his homeward way. This consld
eiate action on the part or our satellite of
course occurs every fall, and people are
accustomed to looking out for the Harvey
Moon In September and the Hunting Moon
In October. But, as many probably have a
vague idea of this phenomenon, a few words
of explanation might not be out of place.
As we all know, the moon rises later and
later each successive day, no matter what
its phase or tho time of the year may bo.
This Is called its retardation In rising. Now
for several reasons which we need not dis
cuss here this retardation varies greatly,
being sometimes in this latitude as little as
23 minutes and sometimes as mue h as 1 hour
17 minutes. But we are not Apt to notice
this minimum retardation except when it
occurs at the time of full moon, when It be
comes very noticeable, as the full, round
disk then rises for lour or five ovenings soon
after'sunset. The minimum retardation, to
be sure, occurs every month, but occurs
only once in the year when the moon Is full,
and that always happens near the time of
the autumnal equinox at the end of Septem
ber. Then we have our Harvest Moon. The
Ocjpberfull moon comes protty near when
Hrotardation is least, and so gives ns a
jphilarly noticeable phenomenon. This
3ra(r, strangely enough.1 the Harvest Moon
ajjtt tho Hunting Moon aie just about
cauallv distant from the caninox. so that
"bne is just as lavorablo as the other, though
ordinarily the former Is rather more notice
able. The moon is full on the 6th, and on the
20th, having entirely waned, It lines up with
the sun, and pirtially eclipses it, which Is,
howovor, a phenomenon of no especial in
terest to ns as the shadow does not pass
over Pittsburg.
Mars Now Gives Way to Jupiter.
Mars is still bright in the South, but the
effect of its rapidly increasing distance from
the earth is plainly seen in its diminished
splendor. It Is now not half so brfsht as the
giant Jupiter, which rises in the east about
sunset with his retinue of flvo satellites. If
you please, and shines all night with unsur
passed brilliancy. The four moons discov
ered by Galileo In 1610 may be seen Itb a
field glass or a good opera glass, hut It would
bo advisible for ambitious observers not to
strain their eye3 hunting for Prof. Barnard's
pride, the recently discovered fifth satellite,
as, according to Piof. Keeler, it is probably
beyond tho range of his Allegheny obsorva
tory tolescope. The orDlt lies within those
of the other four moons, and as a conse
quence it is mora nearly concealed by the
dazzling rays of the planet, which fact ac
counts for its having lain undiscovered and
quite nnsuspoctedforsomanyyears. Jupiter
is in opposition to tho sun on the 12th, and
Is then of course at his brightest. Unlike
Mars one opposition of Jupiter is about as
favorable as another, as his orbit is much
less eccentric than that of Mars, and at any
rate Ills distance is so vast (about 400,000,000
miles) that a few million miles more or less
makes scarcely any appreciable difference
in his brightness.
Saturn and Venus do not rise till after
midnight.
The old familiar Dipper is sinking out of
sight in the west at 9 o'clock this evening,
so wo mut take something else lor a land
mark if we wish to fish out somo of the not
able stais and constellations this month. If
we look toward the northwest at this hour,
about half way from horizon to zenith, wo
see four bright second magnitude stars set
zig zag in the midst of the lnstremainlng
lemnantof the Milky Way. This is Cassio
peia, or Cassiopeia's Chair as it is sometimes
called, and is conspicuous enough, to serve
as,a starting point. It is well to remember,
by the way, that the Pole Star Is Just abont
half way between Cassiopeia and tho handle
of the Dipper. Between Cassiopeia and the
horizon wo find Persons with several britrht
stars, though none of the first magnitude.
This constellation can bo recognized by a
curved line of stars pointing upward to
Cassiopeia.
A Hlost Remarkable Star.
In a line parallel to a tangent to this
curve are two other bright stars, the upper
and brighter one of which is probably the
most remaikable star In the w hole heavens.
It is the famous Algol or Demon, as the
Aiabs called ic, and has this year been of
specHl interest to astronomers on account
ot the startling investigations into its pecu
liarities by Mr. S. C. Chandler. For many
centuries this star has waxed and waned in
brightness with the most systematic regu
larity. For about 60 hours it shines as a star
of the second magnitude; then ic begins to
fade and in lour hours and a half it sinks to
the foutth magnitude. But this obscuration
lasts only for a few minutes and then It te
gains its former brilliancy in about four
hours and a half moie. Many ingenious
theories have been put forth to account for
this regular variation. The most teasonalile
seemed to be that its loss of light is caused
by the Interposition at regular intervals of
a huge dnikbody between us and Algol. Or
In other words hat Algol, which is a sun,
and some dark body revolve around a com
mon center of gravity in a regular period.
Observations by Vogel with, tho spectro
scope have confirmed this theory in the
most remarkable way, and the evlderfle in
its favor is now accepted by astronomers as
almost conclusive.
The brightest star in the curved line of
Perseus Is Algenib. If tho reader will
troublo himself to take a Look at this star
through an opeia glass on a clear nlgiit, my
word for it th.it he'll bo astonished at tho
beauty of the field of stars which the glass
brings into view about it. Ranged In curv
ing lines a host of stars follow Algenib from
the east and south, a countless snarmo:
tiny lights that even a glass of very moder
ate power will Dting into view.
One of the Conspicuous Objects.
.Now start from the Pole Star and follow
an imaginary lino from It to the most west
erly of the bright stars of Cassiopeia. This
line continued about as far beyond Cas
siopeia as Cassiopeia Is from the Polo Star
will bring the eye to two second magnitude
stars in the same line us the one we follow,
and about 15 degrees apart. These two form
one side of tho great Squaie of Pegasus,
which can now be easily lecojnized, a con
spicuous object hUh up in the western sky.
The gieat irregularly shaped constellation
of Andromeda lies Just southeast of Cassi
opeia and next to Pegasus. The "great"
nebula of Andromeda may bo seCh witu a
good opera glass about the middle of the
constellation. Though but a faint speck to
us itis one of the telescopic marvels of tho
heavens. .
Of first magnitude stars tho beantiful
Capella can now be seen Just rising far up in
the northeast. Turning to the south we seo
the bright gleam of the lone stur Fomalhanc
near the horizon. Vega is half way down In
the northwest, and in a line between It un I
the planet Mars we may see the glitter of
Altair in the Eagle. Mars, however, will
soon move from this line.
On tho whole bright stars aie rather scarce
Jusinow, but the wintry splendors of Tau
rus, Orion, Canis Major and Cants Minor
will soon be with us. The stars are in the
positions described above at about 9 o'clock
on October 1, at 8 o'clock, Octoper 13, and at
7 o'clook on October 31. " Wtlie.
Not for the Commau MortaL
Baltimore American. 1 j
It takes a man with a bi; heart and n good
sized bank aocodnt to aprociate the beauty
of a fall opening in dressgoods.
Patriotism lu Pugilism.
Washington Post.
If Corbett will only put Charley 'Mitchell
to sleep the AmeneAn "people will orglve
him tor licking Sulllvan.
HOMES AND HOSPITALS.
V, P.'s Open ay Worthy Charity at Wilktas
bnrg Arranging for the Southsido Fair
A Y. SL C. A. Project Gossip of City
and Suburban Social Circles.
TnE United Presbyterians literally" took
(possession of Wllkinsburg yesterday. The
occasion was the opening of the new Home
for Aged People,,"Maple Shade," In Wllkins
burg, which was purchased by the Woman's
Association oRbe U. P. Church. The Home
has sprung into existence full grown. The
estate was formerly the property of the Bis
sau family, and was In fairly good condition
when the ladies came into possession of it.
j Tho grounds were all laid out with magnifi
cent oiu ioresc trees, grape vines and flower
beds with the blossoms as bright and fair as
If they had been tended carefully every day
since they had sprnng Into being. The
ladles bad, therefore, little to do to make
the place fit for their purpose. Booms were
repapered, new carpets put down, paint
used liberally both inside and out, new fur
niture donated by different churches and
generous Individuals, put in its place, and
tho nonse lreshened up generally.
The house and grounds were full of visit
tors yesterday afternoon and evening, and,
as one of the ladies remarked, It was like
nothing so much as a grand United Presby
terian reunion. The dining room is one of
the prettiest apartments in the house. The
table linen, chiua and silverware are of the
finest quality, and the furniture is of oak.
Tho walls are papered in handsome gilt de
sign and the carpet is a wood color, to har
monize with the rest of the room. The bed
rooms are very brisht. The furniture is
oak, with the carpet in harmonizing wood
tones, while the bedsteads are of ir. n,
painted white, with gilt trimmings. The
w indows are shaded by cream-tinted blinds
that allow a sott, sunshiny glow to pene
trate to the room, with long white lace cur
tains to complete the chprming, homelike
effect.
The exercises of the day were opened
with prayer, and addresses wpre delivered
by Rev. M. M. Patteison. Kev. John G.
Brown, D. D., Rev. Dr. Robinson and Rev.
Mr. Kittiick in turn. The rest of the dny
was given up to social Intercourse andan In
spection of the house. Refreshments wore
served all the afternoon by the ladles of the
board.
An important meeting is called by Mrs.
M. F. Hntchins for next Monday afternoon
at 3 o'clock, In the First Presbytorian
Churh, in connection with the fair for the
benefit of the Southside Hospital. Mrs.
Hntchins is chairman of the committee In
cnarge of the "Pittsburg day." All the
ladies of the churches of Lawrenceville,
Oakland, West End and the surrounding
small towns are requested to be present to
arrange for their tables at the fair. She has
not time to go to each district, so she ex
tends an invitation through the dally press.
She would like to get a chairman from eaoh
cburph. To day the work or tearing out the
boxes at the old postoffice building to make
way for the fair will be commenced. On the
Uth of the month the ladles will be given
possession or the building, and will have it
till the opening of the fair on the 7th of No
vember, and as much longer as thev want it.
On election night, the 8th, they will serve a
midnight lunch for the benefit of those who
sit up to learn the election news.
The opening meeting of the Travelers'
Club was held yesterday afternoon In the
rooms of the Helping Hand Society, Arch
street, Allegheny. Miss Matilda Hindman,
the President, delivered an Instructive ad
dress on the timely topin, "Queen Isabella."
The musical portion of the entertainment
was given by Miss Kate Ockleston-Llppe and
Miss Chalmers, who rendered several vocal
selections in a pleasing manner. There was
a huge attendance, and much interest was
manifested in the proceedings. Meetings of
the Travelei s' Club wUl be held regularly
during the winter.
An energetic campaign has been inaugu
rated by the young men of Wllkinsburg
looking to the erection of a Tonng Men's
Christian Association building in that place.
The town Is growing so rapidly and so large
a portion of the population is composed of
young men that such a building, having all
the usual conveniences, gymnasium, baths,
lecture room, etc., is badly needed. The as
sociation has secured the services of a gen
eral secretary, and under nls direction an
effort will be made to raise the necessary
funds. A union meeting of the churches
has been called for naxt Sunday evening to
be held In the Presbyterian church, and
several good speakers nave been secured to
present the matter to tho citizens.
Gossip of the Social World.
Is the Smithfield Street M. E. Church last
evening there was a very creditable musical
and literary entertainment, given by the
Epworth Leasue. Tho participants Included:
The Misses Emma Boddington, Anna Reese,
Carrie Powelson, Martha Christian and
Messrs. A. Farlane, H. C. Brickell and W. H.
Wee den.
Micb Annie T. Eilit. of Altoona, Pa., who
graduated with class '92 from St. Joseph's
Academy at Greensburg. is the guest of ber
collegian. Miss Mollie V. Wilson, daughter
or Mr. John Wilson. Miss Wilson also grad
uated with class '92.
Mr. Charles M. Carothers, a young elocu
tionist of some note, who is well known in
Pittsburg society circles, will leave next
week for a tour of the West. Mr. Carothers
expects to give entertainments during his
trip.
The semi-annual meeting of the Mononga
hela Presbyterian Society of Our Young Peo
ple's Christian Union will be held Tuesday
evening, October 4. at 7:43, in the First Pres
bj terian Church, Wilkinsburg.
Next Monday tho ladies of the Saturday
and Sunday Hospital Association will con
vene to elect officers.
No Need for Schomlng.
Baltimore American. I
The country is feeling too well to try any
dangerous experiments with either free
trade or wildcat currency.
The Effect of Eggs.
Washington Post.
It will not be at all surprising to learn
that General Weaver's beard is turning to a
rich omelet hue.
Afraid of Facing the Ilnslc.
St. Lonla Glote-Democrat.
There is a dodging of the issues among all
the big Demociats. Hill did it and Cleve
land does It.
Another Fall Opening. t
Philadelphia Tunei.1
The chestnuts are preparing for opening
their fall campaign.
DEVTHS IIEUE A$D ELSEWHERE.
Ex-Congressman Jacob Benton.
Ex-Congressman Jacob Benton was
thrown from carriage in Lancaster. N. II.,
Thursday, and received injuries from which be
died two hours later. Mr. Benton came from the
same ancestry as Thomas H. Benton, of Mis
souri. He was born In W aterford, Vt.. Angnst 14,
J819. He served in the New Hampshire Legisla
ture during 1651. 185 and 1ST9. He was a deicgato
to the Chicago Convention of 1830. and served In the
Fortieth and Forty-flrst Congresses as the Repre
sentative from the old Third New Hampshire Dis
trict, commonly koown as the "Comet District.1
Mr. Benton as a stanch Republican, and during
thls Congressional terms served on the committees
or Land Claims, Retrenchment, Pensions and Ag
riculture. General G. T. Morris Chester.
One of the most prominent colored men in
tho United States died at the home or his venerable
mother in Harrisbur yesterday. General U. T.
Morris Chester was one who devoted his whole life
to the welfare or bis race. He had a line educa
tion, and daring tho ww was a newspaper corre
spondent at the front. He studied law in England,
and was adinltted to the bar In that country. He
held various Federal offices in the south, and was
prominent In various ways In New Orleans.
Conrad Derringer.
Conrad Berriner, Esq., died Thursday
at his home in Ben Avon. He was 67 years old.
His remains will be Interred to-dv. Sir. Der
ringer was for a number of Tears a prominent
Pittsburg real estate agent. He retired from active
business several years ago.
s
Obltuarv Notes. I
Stephen McClemknt. President of the Marine
Bank ol" Buffalo, is dead.
Oeneiul Cakl Moxleb, tlwh'laat surviving Ger
man ofllcer who was present at Waterloo, is dead
in Berlin. He was 93 years fld.
The Shereef or Wasan, ,k great religious func
tionary, held throughout Morocco in a reverence
second only to that shown; the Sultan, Is dead.
Jo.in P. Febeino a prominent wholesale
grocer, well known lnbnslness circles throughout
the West, dropped d6ad at his home in Dubuque
yesterday at noon. Apoplexy was the cause.
E. L. OrniEL. International President of the
Emerald Beneficial Association, died at his home
in Altoona Thursday midnight. He was one of
the most widely .known and Influential citizens In
the central partof the State. He served for sev
eral years la th, City Councils.
CAMPAIGN NEWS AND COMMENT.
Perhaps the most notable accession to
the People's party, next to that of Republi
can Senator Stewart,' of Nevada, is Demo
cratic Governor Pennover, of Oregon.
Pennoyer has been elected and re-elected
ns chief executive of the far-off Pacific
State, where every other office went heavily
Republican. Now he has practically de
serted the Democratic party because of the
hostility of tho Chicago platform to fre'e
silver. In an article In the current
number of the North American Review the
Governor says: "The great paramount
issue, therefore, before tbe country in the
pending political struggle is In regard to the
character of tho paper money to be fur
nished to the people. On the one side tbe
People's party declares that all money shall
be issued by the Government direct, and
shall be sound money or full lecal tender
money. On the other side, the Chicago Con
vention has virtually committed itself to
the scheme, brought forth In the banking
Interests of the country, of restricting lezal
tender money to gold alone, hampering the
coinage of silver and providing for an un
limited issuance or bank money based upon
railroad and municipal securities. In our
whole country's history there has never
before been exhibited such a complete
change of front upon an important issue by
any party as that mrnlshed by the conven
tion at Chicago. Ignoring tbe most sacred
traditions of tho party, and wheeling its
well-drilled columns to the right-about-face,
it places Itself in alignment with the great
banking interests of the country. It would
not indeed require any great stretch of im
agination to believe that the bones of Old
Hickory turned uneasily In his grave when
the party thus proved false to his teachings
and lalse to its whole past record."
The one feature of Pennsylvania poli
tics which most requires reforming justnow
is the Baker ballot reform law.
That all Englishmen are by no means
in favor of free trade Is becoming more evi
dent every day. The Bntley, Yorkshire, Ex
aminer, ot September 17, in discussing tho
subject, says: "No other trading community
on the faco of the earth pursues tho policy
which England has for 40 years adhered to.
It Is perfectly true that 40, nay 20, years ago
England prospfered antb was prospering; that
her trade increased by le ips and bounds,
that wages were higher and fortunes rapid
ly made. And free traders took the flat
tering unction to their souls that all
tho improvement was due to the
adoption of tho Cobdenito shibbo
leth, forgetting that England was
the pioneer lu manufacturing, in the crea
tion of railways, in the adoption of the elec
tric telezruph, and that her commercial
maritime fleet gnvo her advantages which
no other nation on the face of tbe eirth en
joyed. But by taking advantage of EuglUh
discoveries, employing English loremen,
getting English machinerv to nso as pat
terns and excluding English sroods from
their markets by high tariffs, France, Ger
many and America have brougnt themselves
In line with us, and whilo the business of
froo trade England to-day increases, but at
a snail's pace, the forelcn tsade or foreign
cotintries is leapinz forward and bidding
lair to quickly equal onr own." With Eng
gland turning toward protection it is most
strange that thero should be Americans who
are endeavoring to start the United States
on the way to tree trade.
Governor Etjssell, of Massachusetts,
breaks tho record for consecutive nomina
tions. He is now rnnnlngas the Democratic
candidate for,tho fifth time, having been
twice'defeated and twice elected.
The Independent Republican warfare
against Aclicon and Stewart Iii tncTwenty
fourth Congressional district is being
pushed in a most vigorous manner.
John F. Cor, of Homestead, has formed
a combination with Campbell Jobos,
of Greene connty, that is expected
to prove very troublesome. Mr. Cox said
yesterday: "I met Mr. Jobes at Washington
last Wednesday, and we agreed as try the
course we will pursue in the campaign. He
ngreed to support mo for the short term, and
I will use all my influence in his contest for
the lona term. I niU'ht not have made a
fi'.'ht against Acheson. but he is reported as
having said that I did not amourrt to any
thing, and could be easily pulled off. I will
show Mr. Acheson thit he made a mistake.
I am in this contest to its close. I may not
be in tbe race on November 9, but I will be
on band until the close or the polls on the
8tb. There Is a great deal of talk about me
committing political suicide by entering
this fiVht. I am not afraid of anv snch re
sult. If the flsht Is continued asiilnst me I
will organize the Sixth Legislative district
in a manner that will give some peoplea
great deal of trouble. I havo organized that
district in the past, and can do it again. I
went to Washington last Wednesday to tnko
a personal ohsetvation of the McKinley
meeting. I think the most conspicuous
features were the lack of enthusiasm and
the small crowd that attended the meeting."
Mr. Cox said he had received assurances of
support from all parts of the district. All o f
this will be encouraging tidings for Mr.
Slpe, the Democratic nominee.
Tite Prohibitionists are probably opposed
to tbe new ballot because it is apparently so
delapldated that It will not hold water.
At Topeka, Kas., yesterday, after a con
sultation that lasted ten hours, the leaders
of tho Stalwart Democrats prepared a state
ment for publication declaring for Grover
Cleveland, and appointing a central com
mittee of flvo to arrange the preliminary
details for the mass convention to be held
October 7. It has been virtually decided
not to pnt a ticket in the field, but to turn
down and forever squelch the old:timo
Democratic leaders by defeating the com
bination ticket. The recalcitrants claim
their protest will bring 20,000 Democrats to
the polls who will vote for the fusion elec
tors who would otherwise remain at homo.
The Democratic Central Committee will
make no statement. The effect of this new
movement upon the already mixed politics
of Kansas is hard to estimate. Tbe Repub
licans are hard at work, and very hopeful of
delivering the electoral vote to Harrison
and Re id.
In at least a week no ambitions tariff re
former has soneht to advertiso himself by
challenging Governor McKinley to a joint
debate.
-The conservatively Republican Phila
delphia Public Ledger, in discussing tbe situ
ation in New York, says: "Both Senator
mil's entrance upon the campaign and the
manner of it imply that the numerically
strong and the tactically powerful faction
of which ho is the bead, and which centers
In and about Tammany Hall, means to give
the Democratic national ticket united,
earnest support at the polls. In view of the
scarcely questioned probability that tbe 33
electoral votes of New York will decide the
choice of the Presidental candidate, thepro
claiined purpose of the Hill faction to unite
with the friends of Mr. Cleveland In deter
mined efforts to scenre the triumph of the
Democratic tickot is a political incident the
giavlty of which ca'inot be ignored. It
gives an entirely new character to tbe cam
paign, and should be no less impressive as a
warning to the llepnblicins to put forth all
their strength iu the Empire State than
were the results of the Vermont and Maine
elections. New York can scarcely be re
garded as a IlCDUbllcan State; it should
rather he considered a Democratic State
which is souietimescarried by the Republi
cans. Last year, nnder conditions must fa
vorable to the latter and not so favorable to
the former, It was carried by the Democrats
on the Gubernatorial ticket by nearly 43,000
plurality. That lact does not furnish conclu
sive evidence that the Democrats will carry
New York this ye.ir by a similar or by anr
plurality. But it does suggest that tho 38
electoral votes of the Empire btato will not
fall liko'ripe fruit into tne lap of the Re
publican party, and thnt their possession
will havo to be contended lor." There 13
evry indication that the Republican leaders
are contending with might and main, and
aie not missing many points.
It is more than likely that General
Sickles will cut offa number of Democratic
votes, especially among the veteran soldiers.
For Once Protectionists.
Chicago Tribune. 1
The Democratic papers, so far as we have
observed, have not yet taken the McKinley
tariff to task for excluding the cholera from
the country.
Yet in the Same Class.
Philadelphia Times. '
Close-cropped hair and the hizh hat never
look too well together. Thl is because the
plug and the short-cut aro two different
brands.
The End Not Yet.
Detroit Free Press.
Victoria Woodhnll has not yet tonohed off
her big campaign guns, bufshe promises an
awful cannonading when they are out loose.
CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS.
. "Wormseed is nnexpanded flower buda. I
There are bat 190 colored voters in j
North Dakota.
St. Louis claims to have 70,000 incan
descent lights.
One church in Chicago 1 fami1
with regular opera chairs.
Great Britain and Ireland have about
tho same number of sqnaro miles as Ari
zona. Caterpillars attain a great size in Aus
tralia, some of them even reaching the one
foot mark.
It is calculated that within 90 years, at
the present rate of increase, Australia will
contain about 4O,00O,0C0 people.
The greater nnmber of heads a man cuts
offin Borneo the greater a hero he is, Is a
popular superstition on that Island.
Street cars in Bombay are mostly of
American manufacture, and the promoters
of the street car lines are Americans.
Two doctors are reputed to have, ob
tained 19,000 germs from tiro banknotes that
had been long In circulation In Cuba.
Since football became popular in this
country there lias been anarkerl Increase In
tbe sale of arnica and sticking plaster.
The native newspapers of Japan are
lamenting loudly the decay of good manners
among' Japanese girls educated nnder West
ern civilization.
Five copies a minute of the Bible, or
part of it, are sent out by the British and
Foreign Bible Society every week-day
throughout the year.
The records of the Census Bureau, show
that there are now living 1,073,857 soldiers
who acted with the Union Army during the
War or the Rebellion.
The only city in the world on the line
or the equator Is Quito, and there the snn
rises and sets at the same time all year
round, namely 6 o'clock.
JIusk in its natural state is said to be the
national perfume or many tribes, who annu
ally slaughter thousands of the rats for their
musk pouches and their skins.
Among the uneducated whites in Ala
bama there is a popular superstition that
ir a colored person kisses a baby twice in
the mouth the teething period will be easy
to the child.
Every New York dealer , in foreign
books intended for the use of immigrants
finds it necessary to keep in stock always
the life of Washington and a history of tha
United States.
British newspapers are discussing earn
estly tbe question of cloakrooms in churches,
referring to absence or, and absoluto neces
sity for. facilttios for disposing of wraps,
hats and overcoats.
The cigars made in France last year
realized a total of about $10,480,000. Cigar
ettes made In France were sold to a total of
about $4 029 000, while t obi ceo for smoking
in pipes fetched $J4,430.C03.
In 1801 a cricket match for a stake of 500
guineas was played by the ladles of Hamp
shire against the ladies of Surrey. After a
close contest, which lasted three days, the
former team proved victorious.
The Germans are trying the experi
ment of introducing coolie labor into East
Africa. It may prove a failure, as the
Chino-ie hardlv can thrive under the nn
favoiable condition in eqnatorlal Africa.
Alcohol was invented 1HQ years ago by
the son of a strange woman, H.icar, in
Arabia. Ladies used ic with a powder to
paint themselves that they might appe.ir
more beautiful, and this powder was called
alcohol.
Mademoiselle Sarmisa Bilcesco, the first
woman admitted to the bar in France, Is said.
to have taken the highest rank in a class of
600 men at the Ecole du Droit, Pans,
where she studied niter receiving tho degroo
of Racnclor of Letters and Science in
Buchaiest.
In 1891 1.1G8 persons were killed on
railways In the British Isles, according to
the report or the British Board of Trade. Of
these only 103 were passengers, and mora
than 40u wore persons neither passengers nor
emploves, the nnmber including trespassers
and suicides.
Therejire 40 women doctors in India,
two in France who nro exercising their
calling in peace half a dozen In Spain, two"1
in Rrramanla, one only in Belgium, and one
in Portugal. In Germany women may
analify, pass examinations, and obtain
Iplomas, but they cannot practise.
At the present time the whole number
of double stars known and recorded by as
tronomeis Is something over 10.0CO, far ex
ceeding the number of stars visible to the
naked eye in the entire firmament (abont
6,rO0), and others are being frequently dis
covend by tho great telescopes now in ex
istence. .
The shopkeepers of Bangkok, the cap
ital of Slam, have been greatly disturbed by
a notice that their rents are to be Lirzely In
creased. The big market In Bangkok be
longs to one of tho favorites of the Sultan's
harem, and she has increased the rents of
the small huts composing the markot about
60 per cent.
The importation of olives 30 years ago
was so small as to be scarcely worthy of
note in statistics of the period. Now, how
ever, there is an enormous demand here for
the best French and Spanish olives, and the
United States are regarded by tho olive
producing countries ns affording the best
market for their products.
The geographical name Brazil has been
mi-jratory in space ana singularly change
able in form. An early geographer lays ic
down not only on the Eastern coast of North
America, but also gives It as the namo of an
Island between "Irlanda" and the Isle of
Man. A map of 15CG calls bv that name an
island southeast of the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
Of tho entries for the long distance
ride between Berlin and Vienna, to begin in
October, very few are cavalrymen. Most of
them are infantry and artillery officers,
Abont 200 Germans will start from Berlin,
and nearly as inany Anstrians from Vienna
Several Germans wlU havo their horses
shod with aluminum on account ot its much
greater lightness.
At Cahoes, France, the workmen on
the foundations for a convent unearthed a
large houo of the Gallo-Roman period, tha
mosaic floors or which aro in place and,
enough of tho walls to reveal frescoes in a
fair state of preservation. It is supposed to
have been destroyed in the sixth century,
when Theodebert sacked the town. Pottery
fragments, bronzes and co.ns wore found on
the site.
PIKOUETTES FK03I PUCK.
Tapely Yon are an orphan?
Miss SomerEurl Yes.
Tap-ly (much disturbed) Well, whose consent
mu-1 1 ask. in orcer to marry you?
Miss Somergurl Well, you might ask mine.
The heart, relenting, still is prone to smother
The angry feelings which arise 'twixt men;
But when balloonlsts fall out with each other.
They seldom speak again.
"Ton had bad luck with that duffer,
didn't you?" asked one banco sieerer of another.
"Yes. ne stole S3) from me. '
'Who was he?"
"He's a Chicago World's Fair promoter."
PTTEIXA. -SSTrVALIS.
Through various kinds of slimmer weather
Hot, humid, cold and dry -
We walked and sailed and swam together.
My summer girl and 1.
Ahmet It was a pleasant season;
But I did not reftret
When autumn came for this good reason
That summer's with me yet.
For summer sunshine round ber hovers
Through winter's frost and snow,
Andl "cut out" a score or lovers.
And won her. years ago!
Penelope Jack stole a kiss from me last
night. It made me awfully angry.
Her Uncle I should think It would. The courts
have decided that such athlhg la equivalent to a
blow. ,
Penelope I know it so I turned the other
cheek.
Sweet "Patience on a monument,"
Sounds very pretty, we'll admit
But succCiSful doctors sec
More oft their patients under it.
Mr. Younghusband "What is this, dear?
Mrs. Younghnsband Ice waltr.
Icewaterl Why, It's hot!"
T know it, and It seems strange, too, for I only
followed the directions of that French doctor who
said that the only sure preventive against the ehos
era was to boll the Ice,
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