- V t SDLLWANWASSTARYSD! DE. GBIEE'S REPORT CENSUBING THE PUGILIST'S TRAINERS IN . TO-IBEOFS OHE ThoDootor Says Hercules Could Not Have Stood tbe Treatment. CEYEAKD'S COTERIES Portraits byDeGriin -with sketches of 'Ms closest friends: POLITICS OF THE DAT. OTHER SPLENDID fEATURSS -ARE: Ghosts ia a Well How a section or Virginia Is wild -over a very remarkable superstition. Astronomy III Fad A Pittsburg business man has put a for tune into an observatory for publlo bene fit. E ugl&nd's Mails Hemy Tuckley finds Victoria's postoffleo employes are paid about one-half what Uncle sam's get. Stole From Himself Troof tliat the lamous Guy de Maupassant plagiarized from bis own novels. Religion ofBaddha E1I Perkins investigates it in China and tin ows a sidelight on theosophy. Domes ofPure Gold Frank G. Carpenter describes chnrches of Kusta in which millions on millions are invested. Women as Doctors . Columbian University at Washington lias decided to exclude the fair sex from its course. 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The latest thing the device of milling the ballots so large that it is equally impossible to get them printed and to handle them properly after they sue ready for voting is the most remark able step in tbe effort to so discredit ballot reform as to produce a universal de mand for its repeal. The effort is certain ly a success in thoroughly discrediting the law under its present administration. It is beyond dispute that if any ballot re form law is to be distorted in passage, misconstrued in applying and muddled in execution as this one has been itiamuch bttter to do without it It must be recognized that the managers have succeeded in getting the law in such a thorough and utter muddle that extraor dinary and urgent steps are necessary to prevent a wholesale disfranchisement. The opinion of Mr. Shiras that if the voter is not furnished an official bal lot he has the right to present and vptc a ticket of his own is important as in d eating a method of defending Individual rights. But as that Involves a practical nullification of the law it is plain that unless the managers find away to dis entangle their own snarl a special session of the Legislature should be summoned to repeal the law. If that is done it is vital that there slkmld be a clear understanding of the re sponsibility for the burdening and break ing down of ballot reform. It has been done by the politicians from first to last, and obviously for their own purposes. In the first place the law was twisted from its purpose by the Senate amendments designed expressly to hamper independent political action. Next by the joint action of Democratic and Republican politicians the provisions of the act were violently misconstrued. Finally the monster ballot, for which the Democratic State officials are responsible, threatens to resolve the whole business into a break-down. As The Dispatch has heretofore pointed out, if those .engaged in this business desire to break down and defeat the law they could not have gone about it more successfully. It is worthy of notice that there is no requirement in the law for such a mon strous poster as the Secretary of State has (prescribed. The standard of the law is .that the ballot shall be not less than four by six inches, and shall leave room for tbe 'voter to designate Ms choice by a cross mark. A space equal to two lines of the size in The Dispatch is large enough for such a mark. A page of The Dispatch would afford room for the printing of over five hundred names, and that is a quarter the size of the announced ballot - 'It is p'ossible that a way out of the mud VffcWffimii Mlr rTi ilsi Mi ii ilii r "mstr'wvem dle can be found, If the State officials will reduce the size of the ballot It they will not do that, a special session of tbe Legist lature will be needed to set the matter straight ANAKCHTST "WORK AT HOMESTEAD. The resort to Anarchist methods at Homestead, by the attempt to blow up a boarding house in which workers in the mill were lodged, cannot fail to react se verely on the cause of the union men. It was, as is usual with resorts to dynamite, of the most cowardly and despicable char acter. It had not the poor virtue of the courage shown by Anarchist assassins who venture their own lives to kill others; but was a nocturnal and pusillanimous at tack on sleeping men and hardworking women. A cause that Is supported by such acts cannot command public sympathy. We are glad to credit tbe assertion of tbe strikers that none of them were engaged in such work. But it is asserted on their behalf that it was probably done by a "sympathizer." "When a conflict finds its sympathizers among those who are willing to commit crimes whoso murderous char acter is only exceeded by the cowardly and nocturnal manner in which they are per petrated they alienate from themselves the sympathy and goodvwill of all who have any interest in the maintenance of good order, the protection of life and the supremacy of the law. TTnleS3 the Home stead people can put a severe stop to such outrageous acts they can write the epitaph of their strike as one which alienated public sympathy by the violence and law lessness of its sympathizers. No pains should be spared to discover the cowardly and murderous men who perpetrated this outrage. When they are found It will bo a subject of regret that the severest penalties the law affords for their offense will be inadequate punish ment JUDGES ABOVE PABTISANSHIP. There is a decided gratification in the evidence afforded by the decision of the Wisconsin Supreme Court in the appor tionment case that the Bench rises above partisanship. Two Democratic and two Republican Judges concurred in declaring the last apportionment of the Legislature invalid because it does not obey the con stitutional requirement that the' State shall be divided into districts as nearly equal in population as possible. Tho same superiority to politics was shown in tho Michigan case where Chief Justice Morse, now the Democratic can didate for Governor, overruled the Demo cratic apportionment, declaring that "there is no higher privilege granted to the citizen of a free country than the right of equal suffrage, and thereby to an equal representation in the making and administering of the laws of tbe land." Partisan greed has cost one special session in Michigan and will cost two in Wiscon sin; but that is trivial beside the value of these assertions of the constitutional right of equal representation and of the superi ority of the Bench to partisan legislation. The fact that Chief Justice Morse, who wrote the Michigan decision, is now the Democratic candidate for Governor, would be a strong argument in favor of his elec tion, except for the obviou3 consideration that it is well to keep Judues of sucb ster ling independence on the Bench. TOO MUCH CHEAPNESS. The discussion of the probable railroad rates to be offered excursionists to the World's Fair reveals an alleged prospect of very cheap railway fares. Some rail road men say the probable rpte will be from eight to ten dollars for the round trip. A considerable number of raijroad authorities hold out the prospect of five dollar round trip rates, while a few, in cludingthe superflously good Colonel Shep-i ard,-of New York, declare that tbe rail roads will come down to the unprece dented figure of one dollar for the round trip, and make it pay them by running trains carrying-five hundred excursionists to the train. It is reasonable to suppose that a five dollar round trip rate for the carrying of large crowds en masse will ba fairly re munerative to the railroads. It would also be cheap traveling for the public. It was considered a great reduction when it was made for excursionists to the National Democratic Convention; and if the same rate were thrown open to the public next summer it would enable tens of thousands to attend he show who might be deterred by a higher rate. But we are inclined to view the talk of a dollar excursion rate with suspicion. It may possibly be offered in good faith; but it has about it the surface indications of a gift of the Greeks. When such extraordi narily cheap rates are heard of in railroad circles they are generally the outward and visible sign of an attempt to dragoon the railroad lines generally into a combination to maintain high rates. If the dollar rate, as talked of, should be followed by a com bination to exact a ten or twelve-dollar rate it would be a modern example of promising bread and giving a stone. If the railroads can make a profit on a dollar excursion rate to Chicago it demon strates that ordinary passenger fares are wildly extortionate. The Dispatch has frequently expressed Its opinion that pas senger rates should undergo a reduction commensurate with' that which has taken place in freights; but it has not expected the railroads to furnish their own demon stration that their usual rates are so ex ceedingly exorbitant as this would signify. TOO OBVIOUS FOB SUCCESS. The New York World notes with glee the extension of fusion of tho Democrats with the People's party to North Dakota and Idaho. It uses laudatory terms of the "sacrifice of personal ambition" to effect a "union against the common enemy." The exact meaning of this is that the People's party in the Northwest is being worked for the express and now unconcealed purpose flf aiding the Demo cratic party. The Third party movement there takes no other aspect than that of an adjunct to Democracy under another name in the hope of catching the votes of former Republicans. But the ex-Republicans of the North west are hardly to be imposed on by such a shallow disguise. The attempt to wheedle them into tho Democratic annex will be most likely to restore the old party lines. Female suffrage would probably strongly favor the latest design of ballot sheets, for the samples would be extremely convenient for making dress-patterns, temporary win dow screens, putting under carpets and various other household uses. But, then, these are not exactly tbe ostensible purposes for which the sheets are required. The evils of a fluctuating and utterly un reliable currency would be felt by people of all Kinds, and nothing but the desperation of the Democratic party could have called for a return to wildcat banking. Lady Frederick Cavendish andtht Duchess of Bedford ought to know some thing of the haVitsor the British! aristoc racy. And they expose a condition of affairs that should find plenty of work for Lady PEETSBUEG- 6etnerset to do In her own class In her own country. Philadelphia must be getting rid of Its old-time slowness, but the process ap pears to be painful from the nnmber of prominent business men who have com mitted suicide there lately. One of tbe best reasons for the summer travel of Americana in Europe is found in tlie fact that thoy are glad to get home again to a oountry where abject misery and pov erty are, thanks to the benefits of Protec tion, conspicuous by their absence. It is satisfactory to know that the water taken from Highland reservoir is pure and wholesome. Bat constant watchfulness will be necessary to keep it so during the next few years. And now New Orleans is to have a big chicken light. That city must be about the mose progressive in the country. Or at least It is to be hoped that It is, if carnival, prize fights, cock fights, lotteries and so forth be the signs of progress. The Eskimos on their way to the World's Fair will arrive at Boston in a few days, and ought at once to bo interviewed as to their opinions on culture, baked beans and prize fighters. Hoosiers are complaining because the ballot sheet In Indiana is two feet Jong. A comparison with the size of the papers in Pennsylvania ought to make them thank ful that they are not neaily so badly cir cumstanced as they might be. Thh late, not to say the very late, lamented Christopher Columbus lias -a larger following than any or the Presidental candidates. And he was not American-born, either. There is little to choose between the pur veyors of olectrio light and those who deal in natural gas. From the householders' point of view, the ways or the one are not calculated to bear the light and tho others are fit subjects fur roasting. The object of the new, ballot sheets should not be the maximum consumption of paper with tho minimum of convenience to the voter, but Just tbe contrary. From all accounts Tammany's methods have lost none of their wonted crookedness since the formation of an alliance between the most notorious spoils hunting maohine and the man who professes such deep anxi ety for civil service reform. Venezuela appears to be doinir its best to attract American attention, and unless it be careful to respect American rights it will get more than it wants. Difficulties experienced in the selec tion of a Democratic candidate for Hew i ork's Mayorality s'lnk into insignificance beside the obstacles in tbe way of honestly secnrlng Democratic Presidental electors in the Empire State. Free Traders are hard up for campaign funds now, and they may expect to be even more embarrassed Dy a want of votes on No vember 8. Confusion to the Third party has been the chief itsult of iusion. so fur. And that strange, heterogeneous unknown quantity is apparently destined at an early date to re turn to the oblivion from which it tried so hard to emerge. Technicalities of tbe law aside, the man who gets someone else to pay his taxes ought in all equity to be deprived of his vote. Now that Mr. Charles Mitchell has been sentenced to two months' hard labor as a punishment for his brutal bullying, the readers of the English language will be well rid ot his blatant boasting for a Beason all too short. , Voters have to turn over a new leaf this year. It puts tlie old common-or-garden, leaves altogether iii the shade. A severe course of expensive freight wrecks without the loss of life or the in jury of men would perhaps open the eyes or railroad companies to tho necessity for im provements in their running systems. Such men as Tennyson are international in their greatness and universal in their sym pathies. WITH FAME AND .FORTUNE. Herr Laseer, the famous Berlin chess player, is a dapper-looking younggentleman with a studious air. Late advices from Lake wood, N. J., say that Edwin Booth, the actor, has recovered slightly after his last attack of sickness. Emperor William left Potsdam yes terday for Weimar, wliero he will attend the golden wedding celebration of the Grand Duke ofSaxe-Welmar. There will soon ba celebrated at Scran ton, Pa., the golden jubilee of BlshOD O'Hara, with one exception the oldest Cath olic priest in this country. The German Emperor's money matters have steadily grown more harassing. He is said to be so deeply involved with money lenders that tho court officialsliave difficulty in getting their salaries. Mr. T. Jefferson Cooleoge, the Amer ican Minister to France, is in Venice. He will piobably continue traveling in Italy for a lew weeks unless some important event recalls him to bis post iu Paris. A PIECE of tapestry, the' work of Miss E. J. Stearns, of Washington, has been hung in the rotunda ot the Capitol at Washing ton. It represents General John A. Logan rallying the Union tioops at Atlanta. Madam Schliema and Dr.Dorpfeld, who were sent by the German Government to make excavations on the supnosed site of ancient Troy, were obliged to postpone operations on account of the cholera scare. Pierre Loti thinks the mania for divid ing literature into schools, calling this writer a naturalist, that one a realist and so on, is somewhat silly. He prefers the old fashioned way of classifying writers as either good or poor ones. ' Elihtj Veddeb, the well-known artist, was employed by the director of decoration at the World's Fair, Mr. Millet, to assist in 'that work. In the few weeks he has been in Chicago he has made Initial sketches for the four panels in the art palace, which were as signed to him. ' PERSONS WHO COME AND GO, Miss Mande Davis, with "Peck's Bad Boy" Company, is the guest of Mrs. Dr. Rowan. 160 Third avenue. Miss Davis is only 17 years old, and has been with this troupe two seasons. Captain Joseph Walton returned yester day irom a three months' tour in Europe. He visited all the principal cities. Max Drey, President of the Charleroi Plato Glass Company, is registered at the Dnqucsne. F. M. Axton, the shipbuilder of Browns ville, is stopping for a day or two at the Cen tral. James M. Duffy returned last evening by tho Chicago limited from Harris burg. Frank H. Taylor, of London, England, is a guest at tbe Monongahela House. Harry Skillinger, the oil man of Butler, Is stopping at the Anderson Hotel. Plttsbnrgers.in Hew York. Nbw Tore, Oct. 1. Special The follow ing Pittsburgers are registered at tbe .hotels here: W. B, Rhodes, Firth Avenue; J. Cald well, C. E. Speer, H. H. Westlnghouso. Wind sor; L. . Clark, H. G. Duff, Hoffman House; J. S. Clarke, Everett House; L. Dyer, Broad way Central Hotel; J. E. Gerhard, B. O. Mason. Ashland House; G. F. Greenwood, Bartboldl; C. F. McKenna, Astor House;' 8. B. Rogers, International; E. W. Belfom, Mr. J. Dalzell, Westminster; T. M. Carnegie, Gllsey House: A. and W. Kennedy, Holland; E. F. Mason, Morton House; Mrs. W. H. Bea, W. H. Rea, B. 8. Law, Imperial; C. H. Bead, St. James Hotel; J. u Bead, notel Bruns wick; H. C. Saual, Sturtoyant House. mMmakte 'DESPATCH, SATURDAY,-' CAMPAIGN NEWS AND COMMENT. , . "Keep an eye on calico," is a favorite expression of Irrepressible Buckeye Demo crats these days. Tbe remark is rather non committal, but Is intended to mean that some sanguine members of the party of free trade believe their Acause has made progress In the State of Sherman and Mc Elnley. It Is difficult to Imagine on what ground this idea is based, unless it is the propensity of Ohio for doing the unexpected In politics once in awhile. Ex-Congressman Ben Butterworth called at the White House theother day, and afterward said ho bad no doubt Ohio would give Harrison and Eeld an overwhelming majority, as that State had always been re liably Bopublican. "While Ohio is not ex treme on tho protection idea," said he, "the State is none the less earnestly in favor of the protection system, and has also always been equally sound on tbe. currency ques tion. The idea or supplanting the present system by the old State bank system will not find favor in our State, I am sure, and that is true generally in the West. The trouble is tho Democrats have always been extiomeon tho money question, and w.111 not stop on any middle ground, while the Republican party hasbeen conservative and safe on all propositions concerning the cur rency. Of course, gentlemen like Senator Hill are trying to hedge, bnt it won't do to say to tho American people that a national convention does not mean what it says as our iriends the enemy are attempting to ao. I have no doubt what wev lose in one place' wo will more than make up in another. But ono thing is certain, Ohio is going to re main in the Republican column." f . . TnE remark: "Where am I at?" which Third party Congressman Tom Watson, of Georgia, attributed to a Democratic col league, would now apparently apply very pertinently to Mr; Watson himself. The Philadelphia courts, while holding that taxes may be acceptod by the Treas urer when paid by political committees, does not decide that suoh payment is good for voting purposes. Judgo Briggs' ruling in full was tii follows: "The Tax Reoeiver Is a revenUo officer whose duty it is to roceive taxes and to give receipts therefor, but it is asked that the tax collector should decide whether the money tendered to him was the money of the taxpayer himself. There was no suoh right vested in the receiver nor in the court. The ground upon which the court was asked to grant the restrain ing oider was that the person receiv ing the receipt might uso it for somo ulterior purpose. We might Just as well be asked to restrain a person fiom moving from one division to another on the allega tion that when he had removed he might do something wrong. Tne court could no more do that than it could restrain tbe Receiver of Taxes from accepting money tendered to him in payment of taxes and giving receipts therofor. The court Is not deciding whetuer a tax paid in this way would entitle a man to vote. That is a very different question andir I had time to give utterance to my opinion on the subject of tho elective fran chise I might coincide with much that Judgo Briggs has said, hut the question be fore the court Is a narrow ono, and, nuder all circumstances, it must refuse to grant the injunction prayed lor." Not a single Republican candidate for Congress has yet made an appearance in New Toik City, a fact for which the recent Democratic gerrymander is doubtless in a large measure lesponsible. Interest in the situation in the Empire State will be on the increase from this time on, and vigorous claims will bo made by the leaders on both sides. Senator Uiscock says: "Everything is going our way np the State, and If ever I conld seo a victory in the air I do now. The Republican party in New York was nover better organized or more thoroughly harmonious in every quar ter. Thero is not a symptom or discontent, and everyone is working with his fellows for the election of Harrison and Reid. I do not know or n single disgruntled or inactive Re publican in all Central New York." On tlie other hand, Senator Carlisle says: "I think Mr. Cleveland will carry New York beyond any question, and I found many well-informed Republicans of the same opinion while theio a few days." He thoueht from five to seven districts of Michigan would go Democratic, and that a Demo cratic Governor would be elected. Russell in Massachusetts and Atgold in Illinois ho thought were certain or election, ana there was a good fighting chance in many or the Northwestern States. He and Judge Gresham had a conversation some time ago, in whioh the Judge had expressed great dis satisfaction with the Republican tariff Usue, and said that if they did not lecede from it ho had cast his last Rcpuolican vote. Sena tor Carlisle was not surprised to nee It re ported that Judgo Gresham would vote for Cleveland and Stevenson. Judge Gresham was a couseivative man and would not be led off by tho now party. Ex-Governor Campbell has sufficient ly recovered from his last year's encounter with McKinley to piomlse to cross the Penn sylvania lino nnd make two speeches for kite-shaped track Sibley in the Erie-Craw-lord district. He will be on the stump Octo ber 13 and 14 at Meudville mid Erie. This will practical Iv be tho opening of tho Demo cratic campaign in Western Pennsylvania. That it is not necessary to attack ex Attorney Genoral Wayno MacVeagh per sonally to point out the mistakes of his position, is shown by the Philadelphia Pu& tc Ledger, which sijs: "Hon. Wayne Mac Venghhas Joined hands with Judge Gresham and Judge Cooley in declarations favorabla to the Presidental candidacy of Mr. Cleve land. These are all names i of eminence in the list of Republican statesmen; they are the names of men whose character, achieve ments and patriotism have conferi ed dis tinction upon their party. In tho fullest meaning of the phrase, Mr. MacVeagh is a publicist. With regard to anything that affects or concerns tbe happiness and pros perity of nis countrymen helms not only thought, but felt deeply. He has'refusod, us others as intellectually strong ns h himself did not, to tolerate or exouse a wrong against the people; he has always indignantly rebuked and aggressively contended against it. He is too honost and blunt a man to be conservative; his integrity makes him radical. It is his lino sense of publlo virtue, his love of country, that makes him contentious, that places him in the fore front with those who Have wrought with tonguo andpenror good government and for honest politics.- We fear that Mr. MaoVeagh, astute leasoner as be is. has per mitted the real point of issue to escape his notice. Tho vital issue or the campaign, virtually the only Important ono, is tbe tariff, as Mr.'Clevelaud is as certainly com mitted to honest, pafo financial principle us is Mr. Harrison. Upon that issue tho Presi dental contest of 1892 will be fought and de cided, and it will be determined not by how this or that candidate, or thistor that dis tinguished political leader interprets the re spective platforms or tlie two parties, but as tho great body or the people interpret them. Assuming that both platiorms.mean what they say, tho meaning or each is so clear as to need no oracle to interpret it; even Mr. MacVeagh's 'average Voter' !an do it as well as the wisest." Under the direction of the National Committee, Bepublican orators in rural dis tricts hand out to their audiences a bundle of the old 8tato bank currency. It always comes back to the platform. Then a dollar bill or two of tho present day is handed down, and it never comes back. In speaking of the Baker ballot muddle the Harrisburg Star, Independent, says: Everywhere in Pennsylvania there con tinues to be an uneasy feeling on the subject of the Baker ballot law, the most intelligent and experienced voters, as well as the least educated and inexperienced, regarding it as an imposition and a stumbling block in the way of a successful exercise of the elective franchise. There never was such universal disgust within the State over any law en acted by the Legislature thereof, and what adds to the general displeasure is that tbe statute is regarded by great lawyers as un constitutional, and, therefore, good citizens believe It to be an imposition on their po litical rights and an outrage on their per sonal feelings. Just what the result will bo in contests of the November election after it has been held is hard to tell, but that such litigation will bo bad many olear-sighted men are convinced. As a present muddle of an election before it has been held the new la w is certainly a factor of all sorts of possi ble mischief. Possibly when the Georgia Democrats get through counting they will announce the exact figures of that majority. A Bather Pertinent Question. Minneapolis Tribune. 1 Whitney will try to bring about a meeting between Hill and Cleveland, so the gossips say. With or withoutilovest OCTOBER - 8, 1892. NOT 10 BE FB0ZEN OUT. Colored Odd FeHows Pay an Extortionate Price for Marine Band Music WAsmifQTOjr, Oct. 7. Special Several of the members of tbe famous Marine Band declared emphatically last week that they could not be induced to play at the head of a negro procession. Finally one of tho Ger man members of tbe organization of a thrifty disposition suggested that If tbe negroos wanted the band there might be a chance for speculation. "How many pieces do thoy want?" inquired ono of the band. "Twenty-flve," was tho reply. "Tell them we will serve them for $500: that's 120 for each Instrument. It is more than they will stand, so we can get out of playing lor them," said an Americanized Italian. The subject was freely discussod In the bandroom, and the general feeling among the members was aaalnst playing Jorthe colored Odd Fellows. The next morning the colored Committee on Music visited tbe barracks to ascertain what arrangements could be made to secure the baud. The committee appeared to bo very anxious to make a deal, bnt tho members or tne band never for an instant dreamed that the $300 prioe would be accepted. When the ques tion of expense was raised the committee accepted without a murmur, so the Marine Band marched at the head or the colored, Odd Fellows' parade yesterday. i - A HEASUEE AGAINST FAMINE. The Anti-Monopoly fiiU Which Will Prob ably Become a Law In Mexico. Crrr o Mexico, Oct. 7. There is much dis cussion throughout Mexico, especially among ranchmen and farmers, over tbe anti-monopoly bill presented to Congress, and which is likely to become a law. The measure is for the taking possession of the stocks of cattlo, cereals and other articles of first necessity, which are private property, bv tho Governors of the respective States under the following basis: "First All persons wboypossess stocirs or cattle, cereals and articles of first necessity in quantities specitlcd in regulations at tached to this law shall present a detailed statemoht thereof to tho authorities of their district. "Second When the said stocks bavo been 'taken possession of -a valuation shall be made, each party appointing an expert, and, in case or dlsagieement, an umpiie shall be chosen. The said valuation shall be made in view or tho qnantitles named in state ments and the value thereof rnling previous to the present crisis in the scarcity of food products of tho country." MTEAGII, THE MUttWTJHP. Wathe MoVeaoh is out for Olevoland. If Cleveland can stand it the Republicans will be grateful. Grand lipids Herald. Mr. MoVxAon has had his say. Bus whether it will help Mr. MoVeazh or Grover Cleveland is very doubtruL Philadelphia JPrus. The decision affects precisely one vote that of Mr. MoVeagh hlmseir. His bolt can not bo called a thunderbolt. Philadelphia Bulletin. Another Mugwump, Wayne Mc Veagh, has announced his intention of supporting Cleveland. The next thing we know Grover will come out for hlmselL Evening Wis consin. The Republican party has survived tbe withdrawal of tho discontented or the dis appointed before now, and been able to elect its Presidents without their aid. Detroit Journal. Tire arguments Mc Veagh uses are rather those of a campaign speaker than of a lawyer trained to appreciate the valne nnd force of the losuo before him. Baltimore American. Mit. Watse McVkaqh has at last plncked np enough courage to become a Mugwump. Stanch old Simon Cameron was not far wrong when he said that his son-in-law was a fool in politics. New York Recorder. Jtrsr what oflleo the Hon. Wayne failed to corral under tlie Harrison administration does not yet appear, hut like Don Cameron he has for some time held a high place in the ranks of the unappreciated. Ohio State Journal The letter or Wayne Mc Veagh, stating why ho will support Cleveland, is a work of su poreroaatlon on the part of that gentleman. It has about as much importance as an an nouncement that the Dutch have taken Hol land. Tolido Elad;. The ex-Attornoy General is a good lawyer out or politics, nnd so was not a bad man in tho Cabinet, except when his force of intel lect carried him beyond the bounds of his department. Then he was fonnd unservice able, exceptas an entertainer; When he" consents to vote, he counts one. Brooklyn Standard Union. Abolished the Cane Bush. Pbhtcetos, Oct. 7. At the recommenda tion of the Athletic Executive Committee of Princeton College, a mass meoting was held yesterday and it was voted to abolish the annual cane rush. Working In Another Field. Washington Star.3 There is a suspicion that the dearth of American poetry is due to the fact that most of the poets have become campaign orators. Keeping Them on the Jump. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. 1 Dodging the platform gives the Demo cratic leaders all the exercise they want these days. A Change of Gait. Grand Baplds Herald. Weaver's stumping tour in the South has developed into a sprinting matoh. DEATHS IIEKE AND ELSEWHERE. Mrs. Mary A. Wray, Actress. Mrs. Mury A. Wray, said to be the oldest representative of the American stage, dleilatlier home In Newtown village. N. Y.. on Wednesday evening, aged 87. Her maiden name was hetan and in 1828 she married Mr. Wray. Shortly after lier marrlaze she made her first appearance on the stace as a dancer. In the Walnut Street Theater In Philadelphia she ptsyed with Kdwln Forrest In "Macbeth." On her return to New Yorlcsliewas at the Old Bowery Theater in New Tork for six years, where she plajed In the same cast with the father or Edwin Booth. She made a Southern tour with a cjmpany in which Joseph Jefferson and John Ellsler appeared In Charleston. In 1818 she was a member or the Seguln Opera Company and in 1864 she retired from the stauo One or her sons, Billy Wray. a minstrel, was lost in the burning of tne steamer Evening btar while on the way from New York to New Orleaus In 1806. Thomas Semans, Fayette County. 'Thomas Semans, one of the oldest citi zens or Fayette county, died at his home in South Union township Thursday morning. Mr. Semans bad been sick but a short time aud his death was rather unexpected. Ho was born In Unlontown, April 16, 1S0S. He learned the tannery business and operated a tannery In Soutli Union townshln for 4S years. He was married tbrce times and was the father or 15 children. He was Horat Arch Mason, prominent in lodsco and chapter, and, served one term as District Deputy Graud Master. He laid the comer stone or the old Court Hocse that was built in 1846 and was called upon to lay the corner stone or the new Court House, now being built. Miss Elizabeth A. Edwards. Elizabeth A. Edwards, one of the best known teachers In the ward schools, died at an early hour yesterday morning at the home of her brother. Fred W. Edwards, In Braddock. Miss Edwards taught the Infant class In tliePeeble's school. Twenty-third ward, for 1 years. She had been sick for some time aud bad not returned to her work this year. Obituary Notes. Butus K, Wisstow, the well-known Cleveland ship owner, died suddenly at his boinc In that city yeMerday afternoon. Mlle. Zoxlxia. who was tbe first female to do the double trapeze act and leap for life act iu Amer ica, Is dead in Montreal at the age of 33. Edwabd Dillok, a variety comedian, who for a doz'Mi years was associated with Henry Doyle, was uron ned ner Portland, Me., recently. John MnnuTWEATHicn Ttnslet, colored, who was born In Itlchmond In 1783. died Wednesday in Toronto, whore he bad lived for the past fO years. Joiar, A. Faff, a well-known citizen of Beaver Falls, was found dead In his bed yesterday morn ing, having died a natural death. He-was aged 63, anu formerly lived In Plttsbnrg. Dn. Dunxili, died in tho Uenera Hospital at Kingston, Ont, Thursday Trom dropsy, ne wai a veterinary surgeon and served nnder Jeff Davis la tbe Confederate ranks. He was a Canadian by birth. t Lottie Sinclair, iho sonbrette. died recently In Boston aged 27. She went on the stage in x children's "Pinafore" troupe, and since 1882 bad played In the laudcvllles anil various farce come dies with her husband. Frank Kennedy. Hon. Albert G. Wakefield, one of the most eminent lawyers In Maine, once a Mayor of Ban- 5 or. and a member of the House orKepresentatlves, led Thursday ereulng. aged 81 years. Next to Hannibal Hamlin ba was Bangor's most emlneut Iclttxea. JEWEIS AND CIVILIZATION. Women of the Nineteen Century Have a Weakness for Barbario Splendor The Latest Things In Kings and Combs A Wedding; Anniversary Gossip of So ciety. It is the opinion of some people that the wearing of Jewelry is a taint of barDarism still lingering in the nature of humanity or femininity, for, of course, masculinity scorns everything that is not strictly on tho userul order. Bracelets, earrings and necklaces were the ornaments our foremothers of long ago were wont to deck themselves out in to tbelr heart's contont, and it is these bits of supposed personal adornment that Dame Fashion says we must not wear now under the penalty of its being "such horrid taste." So, surely this is one sign or our becoming civilized. Whether it is that Jewelers re fuse to shut up their shop3 or that women refuse to be civilized, certain it is that there is as much money spent In Jewelry at the present day as at any former time. Business 'men are smart enough to know that if they can launch' a new orna mental work on the market they will be sure to find purchasers among tbe "women folk." Just now the craze is for pretty rings and hairoombs, the various styles, beauty and numbor of which make up In a great measure for the loss of the three first named articles. To say that finger-rings are tbe fad is to put it mil dly. It Is not at all an unusual thing to see eight or ten rings or Just as many as the white fingers will hold np to the first Joint worn at present. To get too many colored stones on one band is an impossibility. Diamonds and opals will be embedded in one little ring, while' an other delicate circlet on tbe same finger, will be of pearls aud diamonds, and still another will be set with rubles, emeralds and papphlres. With all these ornaments on her lingers, the dainty wearer can congratu late herself with the thought that she Is a true girl or the period. Nothing could be more beautiful than tho back combs, now lasbionabie. Thev are seen in the Loubc XIV, or Mme. Pompadour style, and are very striking. The useful part of the comb that Is, the teeth Is of celluloid. This substance has taken the place or the old-fashioned tortoise shell, .being not only more inexpensive than the shell, but more serviceable. The ornament ation consists or gold, in fllugroe patterns set with precious stones, generally dia monds and pearls, although opals, sap phires, rubies, etc., are also seen. When the comb is only or gold and celluloid, its price is generally about $10 to $20. When there are Jewels iu them they come as high as $100. Jeweled combs make appropriate bridal gifts, being nearly always or pearls and diamonds. Something entirely new in Jewelry this season is white enamel, fash ioned into small brooches, which are some times made with n pendant of diamonds and pearls. As the brooch itself is set with tbe same Jewels, the two make a very deli cate and chaste combination thattindsmuch favor in the feminine eye. These are being bought freely for bridal girts, their proper place seeming to be among white silks and soft laces. The eagernoss with which women seek Jewelry snggests that perhaps we are not becoming so very civilized after all. The love of barbaric splendor that characterized tbe ancients of all countries of which we have knowledge is Just as pronounced to day as it was 3,000 years before the birth of Christ. It must be snld that women Wear jewelry with more taste than they did 20 years ago. At that time it was the custom to wear a largo broooh, with Immense pend ant earrings ta match, chain bracelets with bangles, nnd aMong. heavy cable ota watch chain wound around the neck two or three times and tucked amy Into a watch pocket, but not before It had desoribed a big loop in front of the bodice. We wear a good deal of jewelry now, but at least we wear it with taste. The wedding anniversary of Sir. and Mrs. Thomas C Dickson, of Negley avenue, is to be celebrated this evening with a reception nnd dance. The managers of tho occasion will be the two daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Dickson Mrs. Robert W. Downing and Mrs. Robert J. Scott. The reception given yesterday by the Central Young Women's Christian Assocla: tlon, for Miss Battle Dyer and Miss Lillian Cobb, was an enjoyable occasion. Somo hundreds of friends of the young ladies called at the rooms between 3 nnd 6 r. si. Later a tea was given to Misses Dyer and Cobb. The young Indies loft on the 9 20 train for the West. They will leave San Francisco on a Pacific steamer on the 26th inst. They expect to reach China about tho loth of No vember, where they will engage in mission work at Shanghai, devoting their time to educating tbe children in Christian methods of work. The school they will direct is called the Bridgcman. TIey expect to re main in China for the remainder of their lives. TnE siegers who will take part in the Spanish comic opera to be given early in the winter for the benefit of the Kosalia Hospi tal will hold their first rehearsal next Wednesday evening at the residence of Miss Lizzie Maladey, Clin street. Miss Mutndj: Cuekan, of Washington, Pa., is the guest of Miss Lizzlo Maladey, of Ciiif street, Pittsburg. The entertainment in Wilkinsburg last evening, under the auspices of the Young Ladles' Missionary Society of the M. E. Churoli, was a complete success. The Apollo Club did their part, and Prof. George M. Sleeth rendered several selections in good style. Tho doll drill by 16 little "sir's was n pleasing feature or the entertainment. The attendance was very large, the Opera House being crowded. Dr. Andrew Fleming, who has been spending the summer in Spain, has returned home. Miss Bernice Agnew, of Dnqucsne Heights, is sponding a few weeks with tho family of ker nncle, H. P. Agnew, and Mr. Garbcr, of Cleveland. SUCCESSFUL SKIN GBAFTING, A Woman's Torn Scalp Keplaced by the Hide of a Dog. New Yobs, Oct. 7. Mrs. Minnie Emma Wilck, whose scalp was tarn from her bead by the machinery in a Bteum laundry, two years ago, has been subjected to tbe sixth skin-grafting operation at Bellevue Hos pital. This time a llttlo black and tan dog furnished the grafts. Tho operation, as well as can beTjudged at this stage, was huccoss ful. One or ttfe girl friends of Mrs. Wilck volunteered to supply skin ror grafting, and strips of akin weie removed from her legs and transplanted to Mrs. Wilck's soalp. These did not take root. Four unsuccessful experiments were made. A week ago the house surgeon arranged for the experiment with the dog. A piece of skin 0 by 9 inches was removed from the animal. With the blood still warm the patch was placed over Mrs. Wilck's skull. Several small grafts were taken off to com pletely cover the wound, and the whole was stitched in 20 pieces to the natural skin. The time occupied was 40 minutes. TEHH-SOff IK 8030. A Poetic Tribute From Edwin Arnold The Laureate's Last Beading. Sir Edwin Arnold publishes the following poem in the London Telegraph: No moaning ofthe bar; sail forth strong ship Into that gloom which has God's face ror afar llnht. Not a dirge, but a proud farewell from each fond lip, And praise, abounding praise, and fame's faint starlight. Lamping thy tnnefol sonl to that large moon Where ihou sbalt choir with angels. Words of wos Are for the unrululled not thee whose moon Orgenlus sinks, full-orbed, glorious, aglow; No moaning of the bar, musical drifting. Or Time's waves turning to the eternal sea. Death's soft wind all tby gallant canvas lifting And Christ thy pilot to peace to be. Just before the Poet Laureate died he called for a book of Shakespeare and turned to the song in Cymbeline. The following lines were tho last on whioh Alfred Tenny son's eyes ever rested: Fear no more the heat o' tbe sun. Nor tbe furious winter's rages; Thou tby worldly task bast done, , Home art gone aud ta'en thy wages. Golden lads and girls all must, . As chimney sweepers, come to austf Fear no more the frown o' the great; Thou art past the tyrant's stroke; Care no more to clothe and eat: To thee the reed Is as the oak; Tbe scepter.! learning, physic, most All follow this, antfeome to dust. Fear no more tffc lightning flash. Nor the all-dreaded thunder stone; Fear not slander, censure rash ; Thou hast flnphed Joy and moans All lovers young, all lovers must Consign to thee J and come to dost. CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. ' Japan will build two electrio roads. Hindoostan is about 25 times as Ur29 a the State of New Yorfc. There are 10,000 mile of overhead tele graph wires in London. The greatest day'" run of an oceaa steamship was 515 miles. The London Zoological Garden contain, now no less than 3,100 animals. Epping Forest, England, is the largest publlo recreation ground in the world.' Among Queen Victoria's choice chin a Sevres dessert service valued at $200,ooo. The cholera germ propagates so rapidly that in 8 hours one will produce 2SO,ow,ooo others. The first book imported from Europa was brought over by John Labln, of Pna. delphla. In proportion to their number sailing vessels are lost nearly hair as frequently as steamers. The English "Primrose League" La M.0C0 members, of whom V compose the Grand Council. The largest sized railroad engines eaea require from 90 to 100 gallons of oil yearly for lubrication. Eleven million eight hundred andthret thousand bales of cotton were used by the world last year. Somewhat more than 1,000,000 Cana dians have crossed over into the United States since 1S3L A woman's chance to be married is cal culated to be only 2K per cent when shi reaches her 40th year. The South Carolina Eailroad wastns first one in this country to use the steam locomotive regularly in 1S3L A broken wooden horse, with which Napoleon Bonaparte played when a child, was recently sold lor 1,000 francs. The nautilus is a navigator; he rise and lowers bis sail, casts and weighs ancho and performs other nautical acts. An eminent scientist asserts that ii shape and general appearance the head of Turk is like the head of an American. The Greek Government has voted 305, 000 drachms to bo expended on tho repro duction of antique works of art for th& World's Fair. . The Lord Chancellor of England, on rs tlrlng from office, h.is a pension of .5,000 a vear for life whether his term of office ba. been long or short. - A rhinoceros bos been in the London Zoo for 23 years. This is stated to bo th( longest time an animal of this kind h lived in captivity in London. In the first three months of 1S91 the ex port of Indian corn to Germany was l.OM.HX bushels. Thii year during the correspond ing period it was 3,755,435 bushels. Three new crematories were built in Germany last year, nnd in Italy there are 22 nov in operation. In France 3,711 bodies were disposed of in 1S31 by burning. If you wish to increase your chances of lire, marry, for, as a rule, married men live) longer than bachelors; yet we are told that out of every 1,000 persons in England mort than 600 are unmarried. " Gutta percha was first introdnced int0 Europe -from Malaga in 1842. The annua: consumption now amounts to 4,000,001 pounds, and-the Kast Indian trees which supply the demand are diminishing at an, alarming rate. Among the many remarkable inven tions at the late paper exhibit at Berlin was a set of paper teeth, which were made In 1876 byaLuueck dentist. They have been in eonstant use for over It years and are In first-class condition. It is not inspiring fo hear that only 54 per cent of the poor rates are spent in re heving tho poor, and to reflect that over r quarter of each generation die before at tatnmg the ago of 17; bnt a manor 32 yean of age may expect to live for another 32. At the Food Exposition in Madison Square Garden, New York City, a lot olargi vegetables are being shown. Among the collection are cornstalks 17 feet high, pop pers two leot and a half long growing on the vino, nnd white plumed celery two feel and a half long. , "We are told that children's hair growi more qnickly than that of adults. ome sa; that light-haired people are longer live" than their brethren with dark locks, wblc is not so concolinir to the latter, since mor than half of tbe inhabitants of this countrj have dark-brown hair. In addition to the ordinary coins w el known in tlie United Kingdom, tho Mint produces silver and bronze pieces in cent! for Canada, piastres and half-piastres foi Cyprus, cent pieces for Hongkong, nickel pence nnd tnrthlngs for Jamaica, and cent pieces for the Straits settlements. All those beautiful German beer mugs of bluo earthenware have a little holt drilled near tbe top of tho handle. This li designed to make it easy to have lids fittet to tho mugs. No German regards his mug a complete wthont a lid, but many of tbi mus are Imported in that condition. In the villages the taverns used to b dark by 11 o'clock, and early risers coult have breakfast before 6. Now thero are pec nle in tho bar until after midnight, ana the first meal is seldom served until 8 o'clock Formerly the transient ratos were 23 cent each for meal3 and lodging; now they are S cents. A cure of Les Aubiers established sort of clerical table d'hote for those wish ingto take communion. Whoever dcslret to communicate had to dine and pay. Thre young women resisted the charge, and npot being refused communion tbeir fathers np pealed to tho court, which decided in thui. lavor. One of the first effects of introducing parliaments into Japan has been to stimu late inventors to discover some means o doln? uway with lbby divisions. Prol Zamakawa, of the University ofToklo. ha devised an electrical machine by which eac', membor can record his vote without leavin his seat. The Eskimo who has no harpoon bot rows of him who has an extra one. If tin lender had more than two there would be n probability of the borrowed weapon bein; returned. There is nothing surprising abou this, however, for no man can use three bar oons, and a second it ample for a reaerTI l case of the loss of one. t PrBOUETTES FK03IPTJCK, "Been south, I understand?" "Yes: I was dow n there nearly all ram . "Great country. Very hospitable people." "Yes. Indeed. Butter flows like waterttere 1 the summer." Back to your childhood's halcyon Urn Kegretrnl memory strays; Though spanned for many a trivial crhso, They were our palmy dajs. Dicker So yon are fitting your son fo a Wall street career; does he show any signs c adaptability? Ticker Oh. yes! he plays a game of poker thJ Is simply abute, , If I were a worm and had to turn As worms will do, I bear. It seems to me that I'd turn and fle Ere the early bird came near. Mrs. Beacon Philips, dear, your Iste doesn't like you to ask Mr. Penult so manyqaa tlona when be calls. PhiUps-Oh. I don't bother him any ; Idon'tn him any Hard ones. Since Earth upon his shoulders Atlas tool He's never seen what's done on top It. Could be but crane bis neck Just once and loot How quick he'd drop It. Mrs. Hasbcroft Ton must regret losi' Mr. Gildersleeve. You bad Mm so many years. , Me. STn.ii Vp- Indeed. He was the oa boarder I had who really liked stewed prunes. The harp that once through Ta-Ea-BJ lioom-De-Ay's halls The soul of music shea. Must soon hang silent on the walls Or we will all be dead. . "Goodbyj am going away to get materb for a book I am going to write." "What's your book to be about?" "I shall call it Travels Among Wild Men. U barlans and Savages.' " Theu you are going to Africa?' "No; I am going to spend a week at BariM aodlsllp." '
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