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THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH; SATtTRDAT, OCTOBER 1, 189&s
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' RELIEF OFJEHITC
Evicted "by Tory Landlords in
Ireland to Embarrass
tlie Liberals Is
THE QUESTION OETHE DAY.
Thirty Thousand Notices to Quit
Tending, Which, if Enforced,
WILL CAUSE A BITTER LAND WAR
The Gladstone Government Ts Called on for
a Grant of Money.
EOXGO CROWDS ENGLAND IN AFBICA
tcorciuGHT. lt irr s. t. associated rscsE.
Losdos, Sept. 30. The Irish eviction
question and the evacuation of Uganda
were the main matters discussed at yester
day and to-day's pabinet Councils. A de
cision concerning Uganda was postponed
because of the more urgent necessity lor a
solution of the difficulty in the way of afford
ing relief for the evicted tenants in Irelaud.
John Morley, Chiet Secretary for Ire
land, is understood to have advised n tem
porary grant of money on the ground that
the commission to examine into the evic
tions cannot complete its inquiry in time to
prepare a bill to be introduced at the open
ing oi Parliament. He said that while the
commission was deliberating the evicted
tenants would suffer.
The Irish Ewcted Tenants' Association
asks in the interim a grant of 250,000, with
due representation on the commission. Mr.
Jlorley has promised that the association
shall be represented in the commission, but
retrained from pledging himself on the
grant until he had consulted the Cabinet.
Winter Increases the Tenants' Clamor.
It is learned that "the Ministers are in
clined to concede a moiety of the evicted
tenants' demands, but "refuse to immedi
ately sanction any portion of the proposed
grant. Mr. Jlorley will now be able to
communicate to the Rationalist leaders the
intentions of the Ministers, whose assent to
the cram will be accelerated by duly nurs?'
public clamor over the suffering's of the
evicted tenants as winter approaches.
Another subject mooted by the Cabinet
was the appointment or an Irish Under
Secretary. It was announced a montn ago
that a well-known politician, George Fot
trell, who was once legal adviser to the
Land Commission, was Jilr. Morley's own
selection lor his office. There is some
Ministerial opposition, however, and this
appears likely to balk Mr. Fottrell's ap
pointment. Mr. Hidgway has not yet re
signed the post, though he is ignored by
the present Chief Secretary. Mr. Glad
stone wants a former Under Secretary, Sir
Robert Hamilton, now Governor of' Tas
mania, to come home and resume his old
place. If Sir Robert consents, it will only
be in deference to the solicitations of Mr.
Gladstone, who deems him the best man for
the critical transition period.
Tory Landlords Aggravate the Situation.
The gravity of the eviction troubles be
comes nmre Intense under the action of
Tory landlords. The number ot evicted
tenants now reaches 4,500. The number ot
eviction notices pending under the act of
1887 reaches almost 30,000. Many of these
are formal, but the tenants, unless they pay
their arrears within six months after they
receive notice, are liable to be ousted or
become mere caretakers ot their own Jarms.
If the landlords mean to try to foil the
Liberal policy by wholesale evictions, there
will be a bitter land war. The Ministerial
circle is confident that the Cabinet Will not
hesitate to sanction the boldest measures
the Irish Executive may require to foil the
Unionist tactics.
Whatever may be the effect of the Mc
Carthyite manifesto in America, it has
fallen flat here. The Liberal press gave it
scant comment, while the Conservative pa
pers dub it "A mendicant whine, its grand
iloquence of language failing to conceal its
real character; an appeal for funds to enable
the anti-Parnellites to live in comfort in
London throughout the next session."
Temperance Legislation Is Wanted.
The Government, believing that legisla
tion on the liquor traffic will be impossible
during the next session, proposes to try to
satity the eager demands of Jhe temperance
advocates by appointing a select committee
on the subject. The committee, will not
take evidence regarding the evils of in
temperance, but will simply report on the
best legislative means to curb the traffic.
Lord Itosebery's example, in resigning
his company directorships, has not affected
the practice of his colleagues in the Cabi
net. Mr. Fowler, the President of the
Local Government Board, remains in the
directorates of eight companies, and Mr.
Mundell, the President of the Board of
Trade, remains in the directorate of seven
companies. Among members ot the Gov;
eminent outside of the Cabinet, Lord Rit
blesdale is a director in seven companies,
and Mr. "Woodhall a director in six compa
nies. Mr. Marjoribanks alone is concerned
in the liquor trade, being a director of a
brewery.
Mr. Labonchere, twho persistently de
nounced Conservative Ministers lor taking
part in company spoils, leads a strong line
ot attack on the Liberal Ministers, 11 of
whom retain directorships.
The Kongo Encroaching on British Domains.
The appearance of the Belgian expedition
under Van Kerckhove on the Upper Nile,
within the British sphere of influence, has
Jed the English Foreign Office to intimate
that Belgium must withdraw the expedition.
King Leopold, however, is using his per
sonal inuuence wiin me isruisn court ana
the managers of the East African Company
to induce Lord Bosebery to consent to the
absorption of part of the Upper .Nile coun
try into the Kongo State. King Leopold
cites the fact that Lord Salisbury, when in
formed of the proposed expedition, offered
no objection, but documents in the Foreign
Office show that Lord Salisbury afterward,
on finding that the Belgians aimed to obtain
an outlet on the Unner Nile for the Konco
State, formally intimated that the whole of
the Nile provinces were in the British
sphere and that the presence of Belgian
lorces would not be tolerated. i
Secretary Husk's proclamation, declaring
' the United States lree from rjleuro-pneu-xnonia,
has not yet officially "reached the
Board of Agriculture here. The board offi
cials, however, accept the declaration as
valid and appear ready to respond to the
United Slates authorities' application for
the free admission of live cattle.
THE LATEST BYE-ELECTION
Carried by the Gladstonlan Candidate by a
Ilcduced Majority.
London, Sept 30. The elevation ot
Cyril Flower to the peerage caused a vac
ancy in the House of Commons, he having
represented South Bedfordshire. The Glad
Estonians selected as their candidate Samuel
Howard "Whitbread, who in the general
election was defeated in the south division
-of Huntindonshire by Arthur Hugh Smith
Barry, Conservative. The Liberal Union
ists selected Major Oliver Thomas Dnke as
their representative. Colonel Duke had
opposed Cyril Flower in the district at the
last election.
The election was held yesterday, and the
Liberal Unionists were again defeated. Mr.
Whitbread received 4,8.28 votes, against
4,396 cast for Colonel Duke. They suc
ceeded, however, in reducing the former
Gladstonia'n majority by 587 votes. The
temperance question' entered largely into
the contest. Mr. "Whitbread nledzed him-
self to support any scheme brought in by
tne -present uovernmem in lavor 01 tne ur
reet veto. He further expressed himself as
against giving pecuniary compensation for
the closing ot public houses.
AN ISLE OP MAN TRAGEDY.
A Liverpool Man Develops a Penchant for
Killing "Wives A Hotel Chambermaid De.
tects 1,11m Through a Keyhole Other Evi
dence Strong Against Him.
LoxiOir, Sept, 30. The inhabitants of
the Isle of Man are excited by a brutal
murder at Douglas, the principal town of
the island'- The victim was Mrs. Edith
Anne Cooper, a remarkably pretty woman
abont 25 years old. She and her husband,
George Baricer Cooper, a merchant of Man
chester, arrived in Douglas in the latter
part of Augast and took rooms at the Re
gent Hotel. y-
They had been there but a short time
when one night one of the chambermaids
heard the couple quarreling, and then she
heard a slight scream. The chambermaid
testified that she peered through the key
hole of tie door occupied by the Coopers
and saw Mrs. Cooper, almost nude, lying
on the floor. Cooper was kneeling beside
her with a towel in his hand. Cooper sub
sequently, left the room and notified the
hotel people that his wife was dead.
A constable was summoned, and when he
entered the room he saw Mrs. Cooper on
the floor, dead. The policeman saw that
the woman had been stabbed, and he asked
Cooper who had committed the crime.
Cooper replied that he did not know. He
added that he had been to a bank, and when
he returned he found his wife in a faint on
the bed.
He afterward said he must go down stairs
and get a drink, but the policeman, whose
suspicions were aroused, told him that he
could not go out of (the room. Cooper ex
claimed, "I must go," and made lor the
door, but was stopped by another officer,
who had arrived in the meantime. Cooper
was placed under arrest, and as he was led
awav in custody he exclaimed, "O, my
God, O my God; let me go back and kiss
her before I am taken away. "
The Coroner's jury returned a verdict of
wilful murder against Cooper, and he wn's
held for trial. Among the evidence intro
duced by the prosecution was the night
dress worn by Mrs. Cooper at the time of
her death. One of the sleeves had been
torn out. A knife with which it was
cleaned after the stabbing had been done
was also put in evidence.
Under the Manx law a person accused of
a capital crime can be sworn in his own de
fense, and to-day Cooper was placed upon
the witness stand. A most decided sensa
tion arose when he confessed that he had
had a quarrel with his wife and that he had
killed her bv stabbing her with a penknife.
He said he did not intend to kill her, but
had stabbed her in the heat of passion.
The murdererl woman was Cooper's second
wife, and they had only been married about
a year. About 10 years ago Cooper was
charged at the Chester assizes with snooting
at his first wife, intending to kill her.
BOHEMIA'S RATIONAL 8PIBIT.
They Hoist Their Own Flag at a Bulgarian
Fair in Defiance of Austria.
Prague, Sept 30. At the Bulgarian ex
hibition in Phillippopolis a special division
was reserved for Bohemia and attracts gen
eral attention, both by its richness and its
splendid arrangement. The Austro-Hun-garian
Consul remonstrated against the in
scription, "Kingdom of Bohemia." The
Bohemian exhibitors, however, refused to
heed him and hoisted the Bohemian flag on
the building.
In hardly any country of the civilized
world does aristocracy exert so marked an
influence on general politics as in Austria.
The feudal system, only in a somewhat
changed guise, still dominates in all its
vigor. Still n change for the better makes
itself gradually felt Many of the grandees
become impoverished by unreasonable
squandering, and even the crown, the most
aristocratic of aristocracies, does not hold it
advisable to rely even upon titled beggars.
D&H01IEYAHS TACKLE WARSHIPS.
The Frenchmen's Big Guns Knock Them
Out in Short Order.
Porto Novo, Africa, Sept 30, "While
the French gunboats, Opale and Corail.were
ascending the river Queme, at Tahoue, on
September 28, they were attaoted bv Daho
meyans, who were repulsed with heavy
loss the ground being strewn with their
dead bodies.
One Frenchman was killed and 13 wound
ed. The land expedition is in fine condi
tion, and has advanced to near Gitome.
Boyalty Detained at Quarantine.
Athens, Sept '30. King George of
Greece arrived at Corfu to-day on board the
royal yacht Sphacteria. Boyalty in this
case bas to give way to health officials. A
quarantine against cholera has been estab
lished at Corfu, and the" Sphacteria was de
tained for examination and observation as
if she was only a common merchant vessel.
Tlio German Military Bill Introduced.
Berlin, Sept. 30. It is understood that
the military bill, submitted to the Bundes
rath io-day, deals with the peace strength
of the army from October 1, 1893, to March
31, 1899. Thus the idea of a septuennate or
a quinquennate appears to have been aban
doned. A Nobleman Turns Catholic,
London, Sept 30. Lord Donington,
hitherto a staunch Protestant, has become a
convert to the Catholic faith.
CABLE letters from the leading capitals
of the world a feature of THE DISPATCH
to-morrow.
THE ST. ANDREWS' BB0THEBH00D
TracUcally Decide to Hold a Convention
Next Tear at Any Rale. '
Boston, Sept 30. At the convention of
the Brotherhood of St Andrew the weight
of opinion seemed to be in favor of holding
a convention next year, at any rate. The ,
Committee on Clnbs reported that the di
verse character of the formation and object
of clubs places them outside the province of
the Brotherhood of St Andrew, and that
the organization should not consider the
matter further.
Et Bev. Hugh Miller Thompson. D. D.,
Bishop of Mississippi, addressed the con
vention on "The Discovery of the New
World." The principal business of the
afternoon was the report of the Committee
on Besolutions relating to the inside work
ings of the brotherhood. They advised
that the next convention be held between
April 10 and October 12, 1893, and that the
place and financial arrangement be left with
the Council.
HUMOR of the cholera scare by Howard
Fielding in THE DISrATCH to-morrow.
Hark! What's That?
The dinner bell, or course. Not aparttcn
larly welcome sound to the (Uspeptic. But
it the stomach be put In working-oi der, and
appetite Insured with Hostetter's Stomach
Hitters, we welcome the tlnc-a-line-allng
that announces a meal with deltzht, The
bitters not only promotes digestion, but
overcomes malarial and liver complaints,
constipation, nervousness, rheumatism.
THE BIGGEST BARGAIN EVER OF
FERED. An Underwear Special That Will Open
Tonr Eyes -P. C. C. C.
To-day we will tell men's clouded wool
underwear, mixed gray and random wool,
alo solid colors and stripes, worth $1 and
si 25, at 59c P. C a a. Clothiers,
Corner Grant and Diamond streets.
8k axl in Ixe, great in results; De Witt's
Little Early Risers. BestpUl for constipation,
best for slbfc headache and soar stomach.
BLOWING A TELEGRAM
The Postoffice at London Is Now
Using the Pneumatic System.
J EOW THE PUBLIC IS FOOTED.
Better Time Made by the Tubes and Errors
Can't Possibly I'ccur.
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NO CHANCE TO YIOUTE SECBECI
LONDON, Sept. 23: Americans familiar
with Paris have probably often received or
sent a carte telegraphique, or, it they have
been lordly in their expenditure, they may
have invested an extra twopence on a
closed telegraphic letter. In either case
they have been able to send a message un
limited in the number of words, at a speed
that competes with the electric telegraph.
The secret is simple. Traversing Paris ia a
system of pneumatic tubes connected with
the different telegraph offices and the mes
sage, instead of being "wired," is blown to
its destination. Of course the actnal our
ney takes longer, but no time is lost in op
erating and transcribing the message. The
identical piece of card or paper on which
'the sender wrote is handed to his corre
spondent at the other side of Paris. Conse
quently, although the air current is to the
electric in speed as the tortoise to the hare,
yet, like the tortoise, the air message wins
the race.
An almost identical system prevails in
London, for the benefit, not of the public,
but of the postoffice. The actual form on
which the message was written is put into a
little'cioth box, called a carrier, and blown
through a tube to the central telegraph of
fice at St Uartin's-le-Grand; it is there
placed in another tube and blown onward to
its destination Bay, Leadenhall street So
far no operator or transcriber has touohed
it, and no electric needle has oscillated to
convey its meaning. The aetual piece of
paper that was handed in at West Strand is
now, alter the lapse of four or five minutes,
at Leadenhall street
Deliberately Deceiving tho Public.
But it would never do to let this same
piece of paper fall into the hands of the
person to whom it is addressed. The secret
of its transmission would then be out, and
the public would clamor against being
charged telegraphic rates for a message that
is not telegranhio. So the 12 words are
carefully copied on a pink telegram. form,
and thus, blushing at the official deception,
are delivered to the addressee.
The method of working the tube system
is easily described. In the basement of the
Central telegraph office at St Martin's-le-Grand
are four powerful engines, which
work the same number of air pumps. The
pumps are so arranged that they exhaust
the air from a large cylinder, called the
vacuum cylinder, and press the same air
into another cylinder, called the pressure
cylinder. To these two cylinders all the
tubes that radiate underground from the
G. P. O. are connected. The tubes are in
most cases three inches in diameter, and
the "carrier" is a little .cylinder of stiff
'cloth, about six inches long, that fits easily
inside the tube. Into this carrier are
placed the messages, in bundles of perhaps
CO or 100 at a time. If the messages'have
to travel inward to the G. P. O. say from
the West Strand the little carrier would
be put into the up tube, wnich is connected
with the vacuum cylinder in the basement
of the central building. Directly it is
slipped into the tube at West Strand, and
the valve opened to let it pass, the little
carrier finds in front of it almost a complete
vacuum, and behind it the pressure of the
atmosphere. By this pressure it is driven
along at the rate of about
half a mile a minute, and delivered
into the central hall at the general post
office (West). A boy takes the carrier ont
of the tube, and the bundle ot messages out
of the carrier. These are rapidly sorted by
girls seated in the same room, and made up
into other bundles to go out to different
offices. As soon as a bundle of 60 or more
is ready for, say, Wet Strand again, an
outgoing carrier is filled, and placed In the
down-tube connected with the pressure
cylinder, and pushed outwards by the com
pressed air at about the same speed that the
other carrier had been sucked inwards.
The Whole City Is Tubed.
Some idea of the extent to which the post
office carries this system of blowing
messages which the public believes to be
wired can be gained from the fact that prac
tically the whole ot the city ip covered by
the pneumatic system, which tubes extend
as far as Southampton-row to the west, and
as far as the House ot Commons tr the
southwest In other words, throughout the
city and the West Central district that is,
throughout the heart oi London telegraphy
is now at an end, and the electric wire has
given place to the pneumatic tube.
. The speed, however, is not uniform: the
greater the distance from the pumping.
center me slower mc rate at wnicn tne car
rier travels. That is a consequence ot
mechanical laws, and its eflects can only be
obviated by having intermediate pumping
stations. The carrier would then be sucked
part of its journey and pushed the rest, and
in this way longer distances than any yet
attempted could be covered, and the whole
of London culd be brought under the pneu
matic system.
This change has been made for the benefit
of the postoffice revenue, not for the benefit
of the public, Bays Pall Mall Budget. Our.
proposal is tnat tne tuoe svstem should be
extended over the whole of London, and
that the public should be admitted to a
share in its advantages. Among these ad
vantages, the first undoubtedly is that a
long message can be sent by tube for the
same cost and at the same speed as the
twelve words of a sixpenny telegram. In
Paris the charge for a clo'sed telegraphic
letter is fivepence, and there is room for
more than 100 words on the sheet of paper
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is fivepence for ten words.
No Mistakes and Perfectly Confidential.
And in Paris, though the tube system
there is iar from perfect, the pnenmatic
message the pneumagram, let us call it
often outstrips the telegram. In London
the large telegram form on which messages
are now written by the public would, if it
were a clean sheet of paper, have room for
at least 200 words; and clearly it could not
cost more to the postoffice to blow a piece
of paper covered with 200 words in manu
script and the rest in official print In
deed, the pneumatic system, if its advan
tages were thrown open to the public, wohld
cost the postoffice less than at present- For
now in order to keep the public in" the
dark each message is copied out before de
livery. This is purely a waste of labor.
A 'pneumagram would be folded and
gummed down by the sender, with the ad
dress written on the outside; the telegraph
officials at the delivering office would have
nothing to do but to send, out the document
for delivery. Besides the sixpenny pneu
magram would be as free from the possi
bility of error and as confidential as the
penny letter. No operators would see it to
betray its contents.
Not Trying to Kill an Emperor.
Washington, Sept 30. The Depart
of 8tate is Informed by the Chinese Minis
ter that there is nothing in the certificates
lound upon the Chinaman recently arrest
ed in Detroit far being unlawfully in the
United Slates, to show that the society
issuing them had such an object in view as
the murder of the Emperor ot China.
The Reading Booming Production.
POTTSYILXE, Sept 30. The Beading
Company is pushing its collieries here
abouts to their fullest capacity, but a great
hindrance to the operating of the different
workings is the scarcity of rolling stock.
From 80 to 40 trains are dally sent to tide
water from this point.
' A SHORT-RIB CORNER
That May Be Carried Into the Courts
Largo Packors Who Are Being Squeezed
-No Effort Made for Weeks to Protect
the Shortage.
Chicago, Sept. 30. SpectaK Not since
the great McGeogh lard corner has a deal
attracted so much attention as the present
Wtight-Cudahy corner on short ribs.
Charles Wright engineered the scheme, and
has been backed by the Cudahy packing In
terest, which has plants at Chicago, Mil
waukee, Kansas City, Nebraska City and
Omaha, and others at St Louis, Sioux City
and other points. The shortage now repre
sents from 10,000,000 to 30,000,000 pounds.
Unless the brokers are mistaken the
shortage is among the big packers, who
will, from present indications, be badly
squeezed. The1 name most mentioned is
that of Armour. Nobody pretends to say
how many million pounds he is short, but
every pound represents a difference in
Wright's favor, at the present time, from 2
to 4 cents. The next heavy shorts are
thought to be Swift & Co. and Nelson Mor
ris & Co. The Chicago Packing Company
and the International are also credited with
a short interest
The brokers and speculators on these big
concerns have stood by from day to day and
watched the price of October ribs marked
up as high as $1 in a day without making an
eflort to protect the shortage. The price
has jumped from fG 60 to $10 SO, and it is
expected that the final settling price will
be $12 50.
The attitude of the packers supposed to
be short allows of but two conclusions.
First, they must attempt to force a lot of
hastily-cured ribs on the manipulators, and
thus settle their shortage, or they must al
low the deal to go ou as it has done until
extreme and unreasonable figures are
reached, and then do as others have done,
honorably default on their contracts and
ask for settlement by arbitration before a
committee, or, perhaps, carry the matter
into the courts.
A commission house which has executed
a good many orders, several weeks ago gave
it out that the indications favor a clash be
tween the shorts and the manipulators
which will end not short of the courts.
FEATEENAL GUABDIANS ASSIGN.
Supreme Officers Claim They Will Be Ahle
to Pay Dollar for Dollar.
Philadelphia, Sept 30. The Order
of Fraternal Guardians has made an assign
ment to Attorney Joseph L. Tull. The
order was chartered in December, 1888. It
was of the usual short order character with
the exception that it paid a death benefit of
about $625. The membership at one
time numbered about 10,000, but
from lapses and withdrawals it has
fallen off now to about 8,000. The first
series ot certificates matured in June last,
but owing to the quo warranto proceedings
they were not paid. Now that the Dauphin
County Court has decided that the suit must
be heard before a jury, the Executive Com
mittee of the order decided that as it would
probably be several months before a de
cision was reached, it would be more equit
able to all the certificate holders to make an
assignment
The total amount 6f certificates held by
the members of the order, it they had
matured, would be about $4,000,000. The
certificates will not be paid, however, but
each member of the order will receive the
amount he or she has paid in. At least,
this is what is claimed by the supreme
officers, who say that they can pay dollar
for dollar that has come into the treasury.
The total amount paid in amounts to about
$760,000. Against this the order has in its
treasury $200,000, nd about $010,000 in
first-ciass bonds and mortgages. During
the period that the order has been in exist
ence some $60,000 has been paid out in
death benefits. This sum, it is claimed,
has been more than made up by the interest
accruing from the order's investment
About $70,000 has also came into the treas
ury from lapses and withdrawals. Outside
of its indebtedness to its certificate holders,
it is claime'd'tbat the "order bas practically
no liabilities.
Riding on the Tracks and Fell Offi
Columbus, O., Sept 30. Special
This morning Conductor E ward Baymond,
on train 6, Baltimore and Ohio Bailroad,
found the body of a man dragging on the
brakebeam of the rear Bleeper, between
Hunt's and Utica. The remains were left
in charge of the agent at Utica, to be
turned over to the Coroner. The man was
Henry Edwards, home Newark, O., un
married and aged about 25 years. It is sup
posed he was riding on the trucks and
fell off
Willlamsport Depositors Paid in Full.
Williamsport, Sept 30. At a meeting
of the stockholders of the First National
Bank, called by the Comptroller of the Cur
rency, Daniel B. Dickens was chosen agent
Receiver Collins, who has completed his
work, will turn the assets over to -the new
fiffinml nfc nnne. All the denositnrs have
been paid in full with interest, and the only"
loss will be to the stockholders, who will
realize about 65 per cent
The Concord Sails for Carthagcna.
Washington, Sept 30. A telegram re
ceived this afternoon at the Navy Depart
ment stated that the United States steamer
Concord sailed from Colon for Carthagena,
having on board the United States Consul
General and the Local Commissioners of
Panama, who go to confer with the Presi
dent of the United States of Colombia and
endeavor to secure an amelioration of the
quarantine regulations.
QUEEN VICIOEIA'8 BOTAL BOOS.
The Canines Are Treated Better Than
Many Human Beings.
The Sportsman's Bevlew. J
Dogs were first admitted to the court of
England in the reign of Henry YIIL Un
der the reign three dogs have been elevated
to the highest canine dignities on account
of their aristocratic families and their own
peculiar merits. The names of the aristo
cratic trio are Marco, Boy, and Spot.
Marco is the Queen's favorite, and he used
to be very jealous of John Brown. His an
cestry can be traced back to the Crusaders.
He is what they call in England a Pomer
anian, and at one of the recent dog shows he
won the first prize, the mug of honor. The
other favoite, Boy, Is a collie, and Spot is a
fox terrier, with a record of twenty-two
rats in u quarter of an hour.
These canine lords have their residences
with their special names Her Majesty's
dog place is divided into three parts, the
Queen's veranda, collie court and um
brella conrt The veranda is the principal
one. It is a oovered galley around tne ken
nel, and the Queen likes to walk there.
Each kennel has a dining room and a bed
room. The floor of the dining room is sep
erated from the veranda by an iron grating.
It is paved with red and blue bricks, and
the furniture consists of a trough, always
full of fresh water. The bed rooms have
two large windows, generally kept open for
the purpose of ventilation, "aud in a snug
corner in each room there is a very low bed
with a mattress of fresh straw.
Umbrella court gets its name from the
big umbrella in the middle of it under
which the big dogs can shelter themselves
from the sun and rain. A host of servants
wait upon the canine nobility, and the
Queen is very severe with the officials who
do not pay proper attention to her dogs. A
chef is provided for them, and his instruc
tions are to vary the menu of the dinners of
her Majesty's pets and to consult their
tastes.
Monkeys as Cherry Pickers.
The Siamese monkeys have been trained
by Aaron Howells, who owns a oberry farm
near Goshen, N. Y., to pick cherries. They
piek more and eat less than any boys that
has tried. H e estimates that the monkeys
thai tare bim 80 cents a day.
MAKING OF SERMONS.
Bishop Newman Doesn't Believe in
Dancing Master Elocution.
MANY KRW MINISTERS RECEIVED.
leaver Falls Gets the Methodist Conference
for Xext Jear.
BISHOPS' CHANGEfrTiND TRANSFERS
IFrZCIAL TILZORAM TO TOT DISPATCH. 1
Blaiesville, Sept. 30. The third day's
Methodist Conference opened with an ad
dress by Bishop Newman to the younger
ministers. His subject was "Practical
Homiletics," and for 30 minutes the elo
quent Bishop gave' his ideas of what consti
tuted sermon-making, incidentally touch
ingupon the results following the delivery
of sermons having asa fonndation and cap
stone earnestness and strong internal faith
in the sentiments uttered. Bishop New
man Jias no use for the tricks of the actor,
the dancing-master-like graces of the elo
cutionist, nor the intonings of the priests
belonging to the ceremonial denominations.
There is but one great thing, and that leads
to all others earnestness and sincerity. The
minister must have resting upon him the
burden of souls, and preach the gospel in
spirit and in truth. Then, and only then,
even though action be awkward and speech
uncouth, the pentecostal showers follow.
These half-hour talks of Bishop Newman
have been the feature ot the conference ihus
far, and eachone is eagerly listened to by
vast audiences.
The Next Conference in Beaver Falls.
The conference then entered upon its
business session. Bev. T. C Hatfield was
granted a superannuated relation. The
question of where the next meeting of con
ference will be held was considered. Baver
Falls and Washington extended invitations,
and the former place was finallv selected.
The committee appointed at the last meet
ing of conference to report upon the
Woman's College at Baltimore, presented a
report, which was adopted. Bey. J. A.
Danks was continued in the supernumerary
relation. This gentleman has been some
what under a cloud, and the action just
taken was not without much opposition.
The Bishop then announced the transfers
of ministers as follows: From Pittsburg
conference John H. Miller to the Erie
conterence, J. F. Satchell to the Philadel
phia conference, Charles E. Locke to the
Oregon conference, C. V. Wilson to the
Genesse, N. T., conference. To Pittsburg
conference From Erie conference, A. C
Ellis; from North Nebraska, P. S. Merrill;
from Cincinnati, J. A. Storey; from Gen
esee conference, H. V. Givler.
The fifth discipline question, "Who are
admitted into full connection?" was taken
up, and William W. Hall. Eobert L. Hick
man, John D. Hazleton, Weldon P.Varner,
George A. Flinn, Mark A. Bigg, Henry A.
Giles and Albert H. Davis were called
forward aud received into full connection.
William W. Hall was elected to deacon's
orders, the others having been previously
ordained.
Meetings of Auxiliary Societies.
The afternoon was taken up by the
Woman's Foreizn Missionary Society, Mrs.
William Van Kirk, of Pittsburg; the Secre
tary, presiding. The Secretaries of the
Pittsburg, Allegheny, McKeesport, Wash
ington and Blairsville districts were all
present and submitted their reports, show
ing the society to be in a very healthy con
dition. In the evening the Freedmen's Aid and
Southern Education Society of. the confer
ence held their anniversary. Bev. Dr. J. W.
Hamilton, Secretary ot the General So
ciety, delivered the address.
The ex-soldiers of the conference, in con
junction with the local Grand Army Posts,
held a campfire in the old Methodist Epis
copal Church to-night Addresses pathetic,
patriotic and humorous were made by
Bishop Newman, and others. After the
campfire the citizens gave a banquet at the
Hotel Naugle.
A LITTLE C0KPSE Iff A CELLAR.
Constable Lang Unearths a Case of In
fanticide in a Railroader's House.
McKeespokt, Sept 30. Special. At
Ellrod to-day Constable John W. Lang had
occasion to visit the cellar of the residence
,of Edward Brown, a railroader. There he
dug up the body of an infant girl. Acting
on other information he swore ont warrants
for Grace, Jane and Margaret Brown and
arrested them on a charge of murder. The
Coroner has been called on to hold an in
quest The information alleges that the child was
born on September 22 and that the mother
is Grace Brown, the 17-ycar-old step
daughter of Edward Brown. The father of
the child is charged with being an acces
sory to the crime. The officer will not
divulge his name.
AMATEUR and professional sports spe
daily treated lor THE DISPATCH to-morrow.
A VISIT TO EJ0BNS0N.
How the Sturdy Norwegian Patriot Im
pressed an English Visitor.
Fall Mall Budget
In an introduction to "The Heritage of
the Hurts," the latest volume in Heine
mann's International Library, Mr. Edmund
Gosse gives an interesting account of a visit
paid to the author, Bjornstjerne Bjornson,
20 years ago. Mr. Gosse went armed with
a letter of introduction from Hans Chris
tian Andersen. He 'found Bjornson in a
small house in Munkedamsveien, a long
lane in one of the suburbs of Chrlstiania.
"In a pretty little room with trellised
windows," says Mr, Gosse, "a large and
even burlv man. who was sitting astride a
small sofa, rose vehemently to receive me. .
His long limbs, his athletic irame, aud es
pecially his remarkable, forcible face, sur
rounded by a mane of beautiful wavy brown
hair, and illuminated by full blue eyes be
hind fashing spectacles, gave an instant
impression of the poet'j physical vigor.
He was truculently cordial, and raised his
ringing tones in cordial conversation."
"Besoming his singular attitude astride
the sofa," adds Mr. Gosse, "Bjornson en
tered affably into a loud torrent of talk,
lolling back, shaking his great head, and
suddenly bringing himself up into a sitting
posture to shout out, with a palm pressed
on either knee, some question or statement
His full and finely modulated voice, with
his clear enunciation, greatly aided his
slightly terrified visitor in appreciating his
remarks, but he spoke with great rapidity,
and it strained the attention of a foreigner
to follow his somewhat florid volubility. It
has not been my privilege to see Mr. Bjorn
son save on that solitary occasion 20 years
ago, but the memory ot his heroic presence,
abounding vitality,' and cordial fierceness
is as vivid as though I had visited him yes
terday." WOSIEN of Russia by Frank G. Carpenter
In THE DISPATCH to-morront,
Cats In Various Eangaagcs.
Those who are fond of eats will be inter
ested to know that they are known'in the
various lands by names not very different
from that by which they are known to you.
In Danish and Dutch aud Swedish the
word differs from our own designation only
in the spelling, being kat in the first two,
and katte in the last To the French the
cat is known as chat. Ip Germany the cat
is called katze; in Latin, catus; gatto in
Italian; gato in Portuguese and Spanish;
kot in Polish: kots in Busslan; keti in
Turkish; cath in Welsh; catuain Basque,
and gtu or kati ia Armenian.
30 MOUTHS IN ICY LANDS.
A .Whaler Makes the Largest Catch on
Record, but ataFrighttuICost to Human
Life and Health 400,000 Worth oF
Bone and OIL
San Fbancisco, Sept 30. The whaling
steamer Mary G. Hume, some details of
whose remarkable voyage ia the Arctic have
already been telegraphed, arrived in port
to-day,14days fromOunalaska. Thesteamer
has been gone over two years and a half
and for two winters was housed in the ice.
She came back with only six men on board.
Two oi her crew were drowned at Onnalaska,
one died in the far north and a number died
before the Arctic Ocean was reached. Her
catch for the cruise has been 38 whales,
whose bone and oil represent a value of
$400,000.
The Hume was out abont 100 days when
the first accident occurred, resulting in the
lou of two of the crew. A small boat was
capsized, and a sailor named Briscoll and a
German named Paul were drowned. Stew
art Myers died from inflammatory rheuma
tism the first winter spent iu the ice. Both
wiuters the steamer was quartered at Hire
scfael Island and in the spring went to Cape
Bathnrst and MeKenzie river.
The health of those on board was good
during the first year, but the second winter
proved less fortunate. Scurvy broke out
on board, and there were seven men down
in the forecastle at one time. A lad named
Baymond Lapierre was taken to the Marine
Hospital in this city almost a wreck, his
legs and arms being destroyed and full of
sores from the eflects of scurvy. Boat
Steerer Ned Halstrom had his left foot
frozen, and it became necessary to ampu
tate it
The Hume left here April 18, 1890, and
from July of that year until August, 1892,
those on board did not receive aword of
news from home. Ouce Mate Mozg went
300 miles to the soutward'in tho direction
of Porcupine river in British America.
The people there told him Queen Victoria
was still alive, and that was the latest they
had heard.
DEEE'S TALLOW A DISH.
It Also Serves the Purpose of Being flit
CIrcu'ating Medium in Alaska.
"The most luxurious article of food in
Alaska is deer's tallo k. A piece of deer's
tallow, just as big as the four fingers of
one's hand will cover, sells for the value of
$1, although in that blessed realm they
never bother themselves with greenbacks,
silver nor gold, and therefore know nothing
about dollars; the circulating medium is
deer's tallow; the currency can only be ex
panded by a freer propagation of that
animal and there is consequently no petition
to Congress on the subject: there is not a
"per caplter" in the whole or Alaska, al
though the poorest American renter would
be fabulously wealthy among them; they
live quiet lives and count only up to 20,
which leaves out all the hundreds of mill
ions of billions of trillions so familiarly
toyed with in the political speeches of a
neighboring State. There is not a dry
goods box along the whole Kuskoquim
river and the People's party has never ob
tained a" foothold there," says a missionary
in the Kansas City Star.
"One reason why deer's tallow is so
precious is because it is used in the manu
facture of a palatable dish that links New
York, Chicago, Alaska and Kansas City in
a common biotberhood and proves that
there be ties that bind over mountain,
rivers, lakes and seas. The Alaskan shows
bis fitness to be a citizen of the Bepublic
by bis taste for ice cream. The ice cream
of that frozen countrvis not made just like
the Kansas City article, but it nevertheless
answers the purpose. The first and basal
article is seal oil. Into this the Alaskan
sprinkles scow and puts in a bit of the
precious deer's tallow to strengthen a
mixture that already rivals Samson. He
Btirs it up, adding Bnow till it comes to the
requisite density. Then he tops it out by
sprinkling a few frozen cranberries over,
and there is a lovelv dish that no Kansas
City caterer could duplicate, at least not if
the nealtb olncers were arounu, lor it nas a
pungent odor that combines the active
aromas of assafcetida, limburger cheese and
O. K. Creek sewer. But it is considered a
great delicacy up north, and the aurora
borealis summer girl take it in a way amaz
ing to the thin-pursed prigs who play the
dude in the Arctic Circle."
Many Tons of SteeL
The steel trusses that support the manu
facturers' building at the World's Fair, Chi
cago, will be the largest in the world. Each
truss will cover a span of 386 feet, and from
the center of the roof inside to the ground
there will be a distance ot 206 feet Each
truss weighs 200 tons, and 6,000 tons of
steel will be used in the roof of the build
ing. i
Substitute for the Keeley Cure.
A practical joke caused Jthe reformation
of a toper in Peoria. While he was in a
drunken slumber his partner entered his
room and filled the bed and his pockets
with living horned toads. Halt an hour
later he saw the toper on his knees praying,
and vowing that he would never touch in
toxicants again.
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Startling and Alarming Condition
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Beyond All Hops and Skill of the
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The most beautifnl and lovable thing on
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the heart nones hardest when the little one,
thebrightest star in the world's ornaments,
suffers In tho grasp of a terrible disease
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153 Blooznlngdale street, Worcester, Mass.,
when ber darling little 4-year-old child, a
child of most singular sweetness and beauty,
was seized with severe and Serious nervous
disease, and parents alone can appreciate)
the depth or her Joy and thankfulness wnen
the little idol or her heart was snddenly
snatched back from the grave, as it were,
after doctors and friends had elven up all
hope.
Wo will let the happy mother tell tha
story.
"My little daushter, Ethel May, was ter
ribly and alarmingly sick. She had 26 con
vulsions In two years. Her nerves were
very weak, her appetite very Dad; she could
not sleeo nfcjlits, her limbs would draw up,
and she suffered, oh so much! She was as
yellow as saffron, and Weak and doll
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Is now perfectly well and healthy. Thli
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my little girl."
LITTLE ETHEL MAT WATSOX.
Another grateful mother Is Mrs. Henry
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her under the care or physicians at tne
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for three months. She grew worse until she
entirely lost her speech, and the right arm
became useless. I tried other remedies
without benefit
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Tho American Breakfast
The breakfast party is almost unknown
among us, being confined to a very limited
circle ot the fashionable classes; not that
we are less socially inclined than the En
glish, but that the busy active life of this
new country forbids devoting the early
hours of the day to merely social enjoy
ment It is usually a hearty meal, consist
ing of coflee, meats, fish, toast, a variety
of hot cakes, and in the Southern States,
hominy and rice, cooked in various ways,
and several kinds of hot bread.
"Kosalia" and "Our Best" are the flour
you wunt to use. Try either of them. They
will give sntisiaction.
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