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One Year. l a tie Daxlt Dispatch Is delivered by carriers at cents per week, or, including Sunday Edition, at cents per week. -EMITTANCES SHOULD ONLY BE MADE BY 2MECK.- MONEY OltDEtt, OR REGISTERED LETTER. POSTAGE Sunday Issue and alt triple number coplcvc: single anddouble number copies. 1c PITTSBURG. MONDAY. OCT. 31. 18M. WHEBE MR. STKYENSOX STANDS. Late last night a press Bulletin an nounced that Adlal E. Stevenson would before the dawn give out his letter of ac ceptance, and that It would contain 900 words, -nnd the elements conspired to prostrate the wires an anxious public would still be waiting for the Ion? de layed epistle. But the letter came some time after, the bulletin, andnow the battle can continue to the close with a full knowledge of the sentiments of all the participants. I Itjiad been rumored that Mr. Cleveland 1 was busy revising this delayed document, 1 he not being fully in accord with its senti ments on the vital issue of thecimpaign jthe tariff. However that may be, the fact remains that Mr. Stevenson, like his leader, in his opening chapter stepped off the Chicago plank and swallowed the re vised creed enunciated by Cleveland and promulgated by his alarmed managers. Judging from the few sentences in which the writer gulps down the presentation of the issues by Mr. Cleve land, It is safe to conclude that some one guided his pen in the beginning. But the reviser overlooked one sentence further along. After the usual Democratic utter ance against the protective tariff Mr. Stevenson says: "The platform of the National Democratic Convention demands the reform of this system and the adoption In its place of one which will insure equality to all our people. I am in full and hearty accord with its purposes." And just here is where Mr. Cleveland's running mate jumps the traces and boldly declares for Free Trade. Here he stands with his party and repudiates the mislead ing "tariff reform" creed he accepted from his chief in the first nages of his letter. , There Is no mistaking Mr. Stevenson's utterance on this point; and all who vote for the ticket which bears his name will cast a ballot against prosperity, against progress, against development and against the best interests of the masses. IT SHOULD BE PASSED. The ordinance with regard to placing n branch of the High School on the Fifth euue marketlioase property Is scheduled o come up in Councils to-day. It is to be Loped that favorable action will place that, very desirable improvement in a posi tionfor material progress. The. market lioijpe has been a burden and eyesoro to Ih; Important district for many years. V:mous plans for its improvement have btJbn mooted; but all have fallen through aild none have presented the advantages vlilch'the pending proposition does. In 'this measure it is proposed to devote pub lic property to undoubted public purposes, under which structures will be put up that will improve instead of disfigure the neighborhool . Moreover, the proposition presents narked benefits for the public school sys tem. The present High School building is somewhat difficult of access for all ex cept the Hill district in its vicinity. The ".perior accessibility of the new site Mild indicate the eventual probability locating the main High School build 1 there, and making the present one c branch. That would place on Fifth enue another important addition to our chitectural possessions, would largely ihance the facilities of our higher school stem, and confer an immense improve ent on a locality which has long endured barn and lumber yard in its midst Jiler the name and excuse of city prop rty. Such desirable results ought to insure he prompt adoption of. the .measure. There should be no more delay, but the project should he urged forward as a con tribution to the general good. IIALSTEAD'S PIVOTAL POINT. " Murat Halstead has been indulging in some forecasts which tend to put the tnrn-ing-point of the contest in a rather small compass. The fact that Mr. Halstead publishes a paper in the municipality whose vote he thus injects into prominence may perhaps excuse his advancing the idea that the result may turn on the vote of Brooklyn. The logic of this opinion Is to the following effect: "The contest is close in all probability depend ing on New York the State above the Harlem overcoming the great city, so that the pivotal point will be as it has been Brooklyn." If it were true that the vote of Brook lyn were able to make or unmake a Presi dent, it would be an additionally strong ITJument for changing the method of electing the President, so that he would be elected by the direct vote of the whole people. Not only is it unjust to give Brooklyn so much more political power than other cities of equal size and more positive character, but It is injurious to Brooklyn. The concentration of the rts of the politicians in that quiet urb of New York will be fatal to its ce of mind. ut It is not quite so bad as that New Ic is a pivotal State, as we have reason fknow for our political sins; but a vote the St Lawrence is as good as a vote the banks of the East River. Whether ooklyn increases or decreases herDem- jocratic vote may have a vital effect on the result; but a similar increase or decrease anv where else in the State will have ex actly the same effect Therefore Brook lyn shouldnot plume herself as about to elect a President all by herself. Large numbers in other localities will Join in that task and will have just as much to ay about it as Brooklyn. Mr. Halstead has pardonably.but nerer thelessegregiously, given Brooklyn several bunted times more impc-r-.-je in the election than belongs to her. His idea may be 'calculated to concentrate cam paign expenditures in the bailiwick where his paper circulates; but the campaign committee that pins its faith solely on Mr. Ilalstead's pivotal point will be in peril of recriminations after the election is over. COMCXRNINQ THE RESULT. The -week just opened is peculiarly a period of political predictions. The peo ple who are endeavoring to win reputa tions as forecasters of the course of tho political elements display the same cir cuitous caution as the forecasters of the less human meteorology. They also have a slightly better chance of hitting the mark, as either the Bspublican or the Democratic candidate must win, while the Weather forecaster has to take his chances between rain and shine, cold waves and warm cyclones and earthquakes. In our news columns this morning two predictions of Republican success come from different points. Our Washington correspondent finds a friend and supporter of Cleveland who has little confidence in New York, and thinks it probable that the Electoral vote of that State will go for Harrison. If that prediction should be fulfilled it might not be absolutely deci sive, but it would be as nearly so as any election could be before the votes were counted. From Ohio comes an interview with Senator Sherman, who with his cus tomary caution disclaims Infallibility, but gives his reasons for believing that New Tork, Indiana and Illinois are 'safe for Harrison. On the other hand the Democratic man agers pursue the Democratic precedent of claiming everything in sight That Is what they are there for. The fact is that the elements of uncer tainty in the canvass continue up to the last week of the campaign. But the Republican leaders in presenting conservative reasons for their cautious expectations show a better reason for tho faith that is in them than is presented by any amount of Democratic bluffing. A MEASUKE OF PROTECTION. A very cogent suggestion concerning the protection of this country against im ported infectiun is made in a communica tion published elsewhere. Our correspond ent refers to the intention of continuing the suspension of immigration until the danger is past, but suggests a further remedy. That is that steamships once in fected shall be excluded from all United States ports for a sufficiently long period to at once insure protection and make the remedy severely felt by steamship com panies who engage in the business of transporting infection to the United States. The suggestion Is a very sensible one, and should be adopted in that form or some other accomplishing the same re sult. Perhaps it would be a little more forcible to put under the ban the whole fleet of any steamship company which has wantonly disregarded the requirements of public safety or concealed the existence of infection on its vessels. One such com pany made itself prominent this season by introducing typhus in the early part of the year, and bringing whole shiploads of cholera to New York in September. The exclusion of that company's vessels from all United States ports during the next spring and summer would not be too severe a penalty for its course. In one form or another our contributor's suggestion is a pertinent one, and should be taken Into serious consideration. The way to make ocean transporters cautious about bringing epidemics to this country is to make them feel the penalty of their own neglect or cupidity. KEEPING THINGS EVEN. An en terprising reporter in New York who took it into his head to maka a per sonal investigation of the colonizing busi ness in New York City by applying in tho guise of a tramp for employment in that line worked up a good item. He found no trouble in getting a 'fillet and provisions from the Democratic committee, and he also secured credentials for the same pur pose from the Republican organization. Honors or dishonors therefore seem to be about eveu on this score. Further investigation show3 that the New York police are promptly arresting all Republican colonists, with a blind eye for Democratic colonists, and the United States deputy marshals are energetically arresting Democratic importations and letting Republican waifs pass unmolested. Here also honors appear to be nearly matched; but the signal way in which the balance would fly up if the United States officers did not keep things even may explain the real foundation of the Demo cratic indignation over Federal interfer ence with the polls. Under this vigorous if jug-handled de fense of the purity of the polls there ought to be a reasonably honest election in New York. Meanwhile it is interesting to note how the practical politicians and organs of botli parties continue to hold up horri fied hands, each side exclusively at the sins of the opposite party. A COGENT EXAMPLE. Some weeks ago The Dispatch took occasion to dissent from .the reported remark of a Pennsylvania Railroad official that the corporation was discharging large numbers of Its employes on account of the dullness of its traffic , Besides the doubt whether the slackness of business was at all such as the reported remark would indicate, we urged that the proper policy for the railway corporations was to use the periods of lull in business to prepare for the time when the business would surely tax their resources. Now in a recent Interview President Roberts of the Pennsylvania Railroad de clares that the bnslness of his corporation is all that could be desired and its pros pects are entirely flattering. Eveu more cogent as bearing on this point is the sen tence in Dun & Co. 's last weekly review: "There is a car famine from Pittsburg to the Rocky Mountains." It is evident that if tho Pennsylvania Railroad discharged men and restricted repairs or purchases of rolling stock last summer it by just so much failed to prepare .for the present harvest We doubt if it did so, and under stand that tho report referred to was based simply on the discharge of laborers who had been at work .on a branch road that was completed. But the evidence furnished by the present glut of traffic of the good policy of preparing for such things when there is leisure is too cogent to pass over. When the railroads use the slack periods to lay in supplies, put their tracks in good order, and bring their rolling-stock to the best condition, they will accomplish two results. They will first relieve the slack ness and they will also put themselves in full preparation for the revival of traffic TnE New York rod has lately been en gaged in the arduous task of proving that the colonies beforo-tno establismcnt of onr independence were models of prosperity under freo trade. This of course proves .that a certain set of men who declared the independence of the colonies in 177 among uf - xr other returns bee tusethe King or England "has out off nuf trade with All parts pf the World," wol-o a worully misguided nndinls talcon lot, Who lacked the guidance of the Pott. The New York HetaH assert that in one 'respect the State banks are far superior to the national banks, and then 'proceeds to quoto a provision which is in force (in one State out of forty-four. The logic that because a single Stale lias some provisions Intended to Keep banks solvent, therefore the stabil ity or banks under the legislation of two core States is guaranteed. Is a unique out come of the Domocratlo sop to the Southern' hatred of national banks. ' The return of Adlal Stevenson to cam paign -work in the South indicates that the region in which the arguments or opponents are suppressed by over-rlpo'eggs has an especially pleasant atmosphere for Adlal. The Philadelphia Time editorially calls attention to the fact that it reprints a charge concerning an alleged grab of the Sugar Trust under the McKlnley not which reduced the Trust's protection, lint It carefully avoids saying anything about the faet that a bill repealing the duty on the Trust's prod ucts was smothered in the last Democratic Honse although the Republicans challenged the Committee on Ways aud Means to re port the biiL Before voting on the Fifth avenue mar ket honse High School project to-day Coun cils should go out in a body and take a look at the wreck. Then the ordinance for Its removal wonld surely go through. A Democratic organ thinks that possi bly 1892 will be known as the great Flop cam paign. Considering the agile manner in which General Daniel E. Sickles ana others of his class ha vo flopped out of tho Demo cratic rants and then back again, a word of one syllable tails to fully characterize it. nothing less than the fllp-floD campaign will da The news that one of Buffalo Bill's In dians returned from Europe is named Eat Crow Indicates an appropriate reinforce ment for the Hill-Tammany supporters of Cleveland. The facts and figures presented by the Union League of Philadelphia, puDlishcd elsewhere, should convince all wno have the interests of the country at heart that a vote against tho party whoso legislation has fostered homo industries is a voto against its welfare and future advancement. October gave us something of a chill at tho close, but there has rarely been a month of such steadily rairand cloudless skies. The occupation of the calamity poli ticians lias undergone a change from pred icating universal disaster to claiming that all the prospects aro most cheering" for Dem ocratic success. Such are tho changes in color wrought by the October frosts. Next week the Salt river ticket will be causing more comment than the Baker ballot. ' , FAYOKITES OP FORTUNE. Mr. JIeridkth, the novelist, has re covered irom the illness from which ho was suffering. Padeeewski's season has been delayed, bnt only temporarily. It was only his arm that was Injured. His hair remains intact. J. V. N. SrANDisir, the new President of Lombard University, Galesburg, 111., Claims descent from the famous Puritan captain of that name. Thomas Lincoln, an octogenarian, who resides at Fountain Green, Hancock county, Ili.,is a cousin or the late President Lincoln, and is the owner of a fine life-size portrait of the latter. Emperor Francis Joseph yesterday visited the cholera hospital at Vienna and made a searching inspection of the wards. He expressed himself as pleased with the precautionary measures adopted by the medical authorities. The city of Salzburg, capital of the Duchy of that name, publicly celebrated yesterday the eightieth anniversary of the birth of Count Maximilian O Donne, a de scendant of the Irish Earls of Tyreonnel, who saved Emperor Francis Joseph's life in 1854. It is rumored among the Episcopalians of Washington 'that St. John's Church, in that city, contemplates calling to the rec torship of the church, made vacant by the resignation of Dr. Douglass, the Kov. Joseph H. Johnson.rcctor of Christ Church, Detroit. The Duke of Veroqua, with his brother, the Marquis Do Barbales, has accepted tho invitation extended to them as the descend ants of Christopher Columbus by Congress to become the guests of this country at the opening of the Columbian Exposition in May next. The Queen of Spain, in response to a letter of invitation from President Har rison asking her to visit tire World's Fair as the guest or this country, expressed her gratification at the kindness of Congress in a letter to the State Department, and re gretted that the Constitution of Spain pre vented her iroin accepting. THIBTY THOUSAND LEAD DOLIABS Worked Off on Bostoniang, Mostly Drng Store Proprietors. Bostoit, Oct. 30. A man giving his name as William D. Fuller and his address Chicago, was arrested in East Boston last night for passing counterfeit silver dollars. His operations were confined to drug stores. When arrested a bogus dollar was found in his possession, and the only genuine money lie had was a quarter. The counterfeit was a poor imitation of tne issue or 1890. It was of lead and showed plainly '.lie maiks of the mould. Fuller bad a companion who was traced to this oity. Later in the evening officers made a descent upon the house on Norman street, where they arrested John Denipsev givlnc his residence as Providence, E. 1, and William Power, claiming to hail trom Buffalo. A search of the premises resulted in the confiscation or the gang's outfit, con sisting or moulds, melting kettles, ladles, etc., together with several counterfeit dollars. Fuller claims that the gang has floated $30,000 in spurious money in Boston. WHY BUNKO 0'BEIEN ESCAPED, Prison Officers of No Experience Chosen Because They Are Good Democrats. Nbw York, Oct. 3a W. SI. F. Bounds, who has Just returned from Europe, where he went as a United States Relegate to the International Prison Conference, made an address on prison reform this evening. Ho attacked the political system prevailing in this elty, county and State prisons. lie said that tho law forbids partisan appointments In the prisons on penalty or expulsion from office: yet, on examination of Clinton prison, he round the 67 officers to be intense Demo cratic partisans, who had no experience in rison work Out who were drawn from the ldustrial trades. The greater number of these were from Edward Murphy's district. Warden Tuber, with ten years of satisfac tory experience, was thrown ont of his po sition on 48 hours' notice to make room fora man with ho experience whatever. After this came the escape of Bunko Sleerer O'Brien. Havana IUvals Chicago and New Torlt. Hataka. Oct. 80. The great civic parade In connection with tho .Columbus celebra tion took place last evening and was a splendid success. The procession started-at 6 o'clock and was not concluded until mid night. In the lino were 29 floats, one of which represented a sugar mill In o Deration. Effective bnt Very Costly. iTew Tort Evening World.. Milwaukee's illumination was seen In Chi cago, 85 miles away, and may be set down as effective, though costly. The Favorite Question Nowadays. Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.! ' - v Tho favorite question of the politician in these latter days of the campaign: "I this hot enough for youl1' THE'MONOMteNTAt'ClXt. IWMTTKW FOB THS DISPATCH.) TnE housemaids were all upon their knees sornbbtng the doorsteps when t ar rived in Baltimore. Baltimore is like Phila delphia in its projecting doorsteps. People wlio are not rich enough to have marble bulla steps of 'wood and paint them white. If the honse is of brown stone, as some of them are, the stops are brown. Bnt they always descend into' the stieet, never Into the briefest kind of a front yard. Along all streets run these rows Of houses, block after block. , " Many of these blocks are handsome; some of them will hear comparison with any other company of residences in any other city. Especially along Eutaw Place the various fronts, enriched with carving and relieved with porohes and bow windows, are a pleas ure to the most critical of Visitors. But If the visitor is from Pittsburg he misses tho pleasant lawns which make the East End one of the fairest suburbs in the country. There may be an East End somewhere In Baltimore, but I failed to find It Every body, rich or poor, Is elbowed by aneighbor close on either hand. A Big City Without a Boom. Baltimore is a city of small houses. Street after stroet, the red brlok rows are of two stories only, with six rooms in a house. Even when the houses are larger the rents, by comparison with ours, are small. Now that I think or it,-1 did not once notioe in all Baltimore the sign board nor the advertisement or a dea.er in real estate. No doubt I might have found indi cations of this industry if I bad looked: but in Pittsburg the visitor cannot help know ing that there is land for sale, and plenty of people who waut to sell it, whether he looks or not. Evidently there is no real estate "boom" in Baltimore. Indeed, Baltimore Impresses the transient visitor as being somewhat destitute of any kind of "boom." Tharo are a great many people on tho sidewalks in tho business part of town, especially along Baltimore street And they all hurry on some sort of errand, in gonnine American fashion. Yet in other prominent streets the grass peeps up between the paving stones. For Instance, Charles street is one of the most 'notable thoroughfares or Baltimore, yet the grass grows in it. In spite or the throngs of Balti more street, there is an air or leisure in the city. -The street cars are drawn by jogging horses. There is only ono line of cable cars. I was told that there is an electric lino somewhere, but I did not see it. Horses are almost universally in use, as tbey were in Pittsburg In tho Middle Ages. The spirit of lelsnro is notably pronounced in the waitors of the hotels. ..The "quick lunch" which Is so popular in New York, and is not unknown in Plttsburg,4s unheard of in Bal timore. It takes the average waiter 15 min utes to arrange six oysters and tho half of a lemon on tho dishes of the first course. Then you tarry SO minutes between oysters and soup. Half an hour after soup comes fish. And by the time you get to tho biscuits and cheeso and coffee, it is time for supperl Breathing Spots nnd Decorous Throngs. The lack of lawns is made up in some favored, portions of the city by pleasant grass-plots in tho midst of the street, with flowers ana playing fountains. Eutaw Place is a long vista of green with sprays of dancing water. We have nothing like it in Pittsburg. Mt. Vernon Place, where tho Washington Monument stands, is still more remote from anything that we have here. There are two parks In Baltimore, and one of tuese the Druid Hill Park-is extensive, and well laid out by nature and by man. Druid Hill Park, on Sunday afternoon, when I saw it, was full of people on foot and in carriages. The day was fine and the con duct of the people was appropriate both to the day and to the sky. But a great park is not enough for a city. There ought to be open spaces in the heart or the busy f treets, where the grass is green, and the flowers grow, and the fountains play, and tired men and women can sit down for a moment and look at good statues which have soma- merit and meaning. Baltimore is blessed with these breathing places. . In the midst or Monnt Vernon Place stands the Washington Monument, a great, round, well-proportioned pillar, mounting high In air, bearing on its top a flguro.of the hero or onr independence. One naturally compares it with the monument in 'Wash ington. They are both fine and effective. I greatly like that plain shaft whioh - towers np over the roofs of the Capitol, and am not willing to say that it is great only 'after a John L. Sullivan fashion. It is genuinely impressive. Seen agaiust the brilliantly blue sky, which made a background for it the other day when I was there, it is a sight as fine as one can see in any foreign city. By and by, after 400 years or ho are added to it, it will be sublime, venerable, and of sur passing interest. The monument in Balti more is very different, not so mnssivo.not so high, but more graceful, moro beautiiul. Monuments and Meditations. At the base ot the monument, by the paths which wind through the green spaces of tho littlo parkin the midst or the street, are several line Barye bronzes. There are rour small groups, representing War and Force on ono side, and Peace and Order on the other. A fine figure of .Armed Valor, by some French attlst whose name is not fa miliar to me, is at one end. At the other, mearest the monument, is one of Barye's famous lions. Tho statues, if I read tbem rightly, mean thai prosperity is the achieve ment of war. They are a glorification or tho military side or national lire. They em phasize the'flghtlng which won our liber 'ties. Well, let the statues stand. I am not prepared to contend that they speak false hood. But I used to look beyond the monu ment to the fine figure of George Peabody, the philanthropist, sitting reflectivo in his chair, beside the library and hall which he gave to Baltimore, and I confess he was greater in my eyes than a whole regiment or "Armed Valor." A goou man muy not solve the problems, and Case the blunders, and redress the wrongs of aggrieved socioty, so rapidly as a stout stick, or a sharp sword, or a gntling gun, but he will so help that tho uplift will bo permanent. "Armed Valor" is a most dangerous und uu certain rorormer. It is rather amusing to see the great lion sitting so defiant, looking up at tho figure on the top of tho monument. The British lion, somo bright observer said, has at last treed George Washington! And it docs look like It. There is the hero on the summit of the Btono stump and tho lion below, waiting and watching, dares him to come down! It is a great thing for a city to have such generous benefactors as Baltimore has, and has had. George Peabody gave the insti tute. John Hop Kin 3 gave tho university and the great hospital. Enoch Pratt gave the library. I was especially Interested in the library, as being the place where Mr. Carnegie found the idea which is to be such an enrichment to tho lite of Pittsburg. Tho reading room was full or readers and a con stant stream or people besieged the oook counters. The whole building was In pos session or alert workers, at the desks and below at the book stacks, and in the mend ing and numbering departments. Tho five branches, they told me, are equally busy with borrowers of books. The central building Is not a handsome one, outside nor in; nor is it improved by wainscots of marble, like the corridors of a hotel. The Pittsburg Library will be on a larger scale than they, have any idea of in Baltimore. - 'Tho Cathedral Severely Classical. I went one morning to the Cathedral, a great plain building, with a central dome, looking somewhat like St. Paul's in London, seen through the wrong und of a telescope. It looks stilt more like St. Paul's insldo than it does without. I confess that even in Washington I have no admiration lor classic architecture. I am sorry that the National Government stands so irrevocably com mitted to It. These unmeaning porches, held up by rows of unnecessary pillars, do not seem to me either graceful or beautiful. And tho vast, square shouldered buildings, heavy as Vesuvius, awkward as the giant at the top of the bean stalk, nngular'as the illustrations In tho pages of Euclid, are much more big than beautiful. The new postoffice is a fair example. Comparo it with tho court house. They are as different as the pictures in tliOcWs Hlc American are different from the pictures in the Otntury. The Baltimore Cathedral is severely class ical; ,lt lacks the' warmth, the picturesque ness, the homely-charm, the suggestion. of mystery, the upward pointing to-heaven, which ona Snds in the croat go thio churches over the 'ocean. Even 'such dignity as it Seems at first to have within is taken away when the great columns of' colored marble are found to be only stncoo' imitations, and the etatues of angels by tho "door are dis covered to be made or painted wood. The Cardinal Archbishop, whoso rather Unim posing throne is in tbe.ohoncel, ought to have a better church. A lot of little boys and girls came in while I was there, in charge -or sisters, evidently frotn some parochial school. They dipped their fingers very properly In the holy water stonp beside tho aoor, and made the sign of the cross devoutly upon their fore heads; and then most of them gleeruliy flipped the remaining drops with the thumb ana finger into their neighbors' faces! Even consecrated water cannot banish human nature out of small boys and girls. HA72BI0K INDICTMENTS 8TAND. Fifty-Six Oat of -83 Counts Sustained, and Only Two Defendants Discharged. Boston, Oct. 80. In tho United States Cir cuit Court yesterday Judge Putnam gave his decision on-the demurrers filed by the defendants in the Maverick bank cases. The indictments anainst ex-President Potter. charging him with 'the illegal certification or checks, were sustained, and the de murrers filed by the counsel for tho defend ants were overruled. "No allegation of de livering the checks by the bank was necAs sary. The Court held valid tho counts charging the illegal certification by Potter, but held invalid those charging him with aiding and abetting. Filty-sljt counts were sustained out of the S8 and tlie remaining 32 were overruled. No questions were docldeu that were not raised by counsel. The Indictments asUlnst Thomas Dana and Jonas H. French are held invalid and the demurrers sustained. Or the indictments charging Dana and Frenoli with niaklilir raise reports to tho Comptrol ler, the Court nays: "The allegations or the indictment aro not sustained by the statute." The other indictment against Potter, oharglng false entries, is not passed upon by the Court. Dana and French were dlsohargod from custody. A CHOECH FATBOLLED To Prevent a Discharged Organist and Choir From Usurping the Loft PorrsTowif, Oct. SO The nnnsual specta cle of a uniformed policeman patrolling the aisles of a church during religious services was witnessed here to-day at St. Stephen's Reformed Church. For some time past there has been trouble, between the church au thorities and Organist Koch ana his choir. Mr. Kooh was informed this week that a successor to him had been secured, and that his services ahd that of the choir would no longer be ncoded. Mr. Koch and the choir members declined to accept this summary dismissal, and intimated that they would be in their Usual places to-day. To prevent the threatened invasion the church authorities secured the services or Policeman Arnold this morning, and the ciders guarded the steps to the choir lolt. when Mr. Koch and his discharged choir urnvou at me cuurcu tney were usheroa into seats in the body of the building. Although- prevented irom taking their usunl places, the deposed organist and his choir levengea themselves by completely drown ing the voicos of thoir successors during the singing or the hymn, despite the remon strances of tho uniformed preserver of the peace. AN 0BE STEAMER'S CLOSE CALL. A Ileavy Sea on Lake Erie Puts Out Her Fires and Disables Her Crew. Erie, Oct. 30. Snccat Vessels have been bi ought into this port to-day that were caught in the gale on Lake Erie yeB terday, and damaged or dtabled. Tugs outside got aline to tho big steam barge Veronica during last night and towed her in here. She was from, Escanaba with ore, and her captain reports that he got ont of the Detroit river .Friday morning and was soou after caught in the gale sweeping east ward down the lake. The crew had a ter rible experience. Saturday a big sea stove iu her ueck housings, swept into the engine room and put out her fires. Fireman John O'Brien was thrown into tho mnchinarv. his leg crushed and otherwise injured so he will probably dfe. The barge was on the point or loundeiing when the crew got sail on her. and beat about in the lake off port until the tugs got hold of her. Scarcely a man of her large crow is able to do duty. IfhdllV thn Inrnl flehlnir flAAhmranhlatn "determine the amount of damage done the nsmng Dnsiness nere through loss or nets, etc:' Nearly all the nets the fleet had out are swept away or destroyed. A LESSON IN THE LAW For Nearly One Hundred Meu and Women Seven-Day Workers. New Yore, Oct. 30. Special Joseph Bar ondess appeared in the Jefferson Market Police Court this morning in the 'role of complainant. The nominal defendants were Ilertel and 62 other men and Mamie IJocli and 22 other women, employes of the real defendants. S. M. Levy & Co., cloak makers. The defendants tilled the prisoners' dock to overflowing. "Your Honor," said Uaron des, "I am hero for my people. I don't wuiit these working people held. I only want them to learn the law. They work the seven days of tho week. - Their employ ers induce them to do it. I want their em ployers also to learn that there is law in this land." The nominal defendants refused tp regard Baron doss as a benefactor. They said they worked only six days a week and had Satur days off.. Justice lit an quoted section 261 of the laws of New York, explained the labor statutes and discharged the prisoners. Bar ondess then announced totheieporters that ho was perfectly satisfied, but that he would bring 300 more cases Into court during the coming week. PROVIDING AGAINST DBOTJIHS. The Coko Regions Slay Draw Their Supply of Water Prom Cheat Klver. Consellsvilue, Oct. 30. Special. Coke opciatois aro completing a project that will no,t only protect them from the conse quences of drouth like tho present, but will givo them a better supply of water, particu larly in the territory south of Uniontown. It is proposed to pipe water from the Cheat river, in West Virginia, because, as one or the operators snys, the Cheat is the only source Trom which such a supply as desired can bo secured which Is practically lice from sulphur. There ore thousands of acres of nntoucbed coking coal which will lie opened up by tho Baltimore and.01iio KnIIroad. which will be gin operations berore January L The new system or water supply will bo Introduced in this connection, when tt is said the pro jectors contemplate the building or n reser voir in the vicinity otSmithfleld. The pres ent situation is such in many or the coking districts, that even the usual supplies or sulphur water are going out, DETAINED IN QUARANTINE, An Anchor Line Steamer Brings Over Sixty Busslans in Its Steerage. New York, Oct. 30. Special. Tho Anchor Lino steamship Anchoria, which arrived to day from Glasgow, may be detained 20 days at Quarantine for bringing 60 Russian He brows in the steerage fiom Glasgow. They landed at Glasgow from Uambure August 20, when cholera was at its worst in the stricken German city. Bosldo her steerage passengers the Ancuorla has 21 first cabin und 170 second cabin yoyagors. There was no sickness aboard. The Anchor Line will have to get a special permit from tho Treas ury Department to laud her passengers aud discharge her carao. The Hamburg-American steamsnlp Rus in which arrived to-day. is the first vessel of the lino which has sailedsTrom Hamburg- lor more tuar. a montu. sue carneu nniy cabin pa'sengers. Her luggiise ana carco w 111 bo dlsinlectcd and she will be allowed to come up to her pier. All her; passengors are well. , DELAYED BY HOMESTEAD SERVICE, The General Inspector or Bide Practice Ex tends the Season Two Weeks. HAMUSBtnto, Oct. 8a-Colonol n'erman Osthaus, General Inspoctor or Eiflo Practlco, National Guard of Pennsylvania, has scut out the following speoial order: "Owlns to the loss or time for rifle prao-X tloe, occasioned by the Homestead service, it is found advisable to continue the season two weeks longer to November It.. Qualifi cation scores mado within 'that time will (thereforo be received. Company commander will maKO-repur ot quuuuou men iuiujkhji upon tho closo of tho season, and Kogimental Inspectors or Itiflo Practice "ill report not Inter than November 17. Reports not re ceived by the General Inspector of Rifle Praotloe by November. 22 will not be in eluded in the reirjtnenial retinas and Will be too late tor publication.!' CHEAP FOtfD AND FUEL rFFECTAt..7ZLKOBAlI TO TOE DIStATCH.1 New York, Oct. 3a Under the caption of "Coal ahd Wheat," Matthew Marshall writes as follows for to-morrow's Sun: Tho latest mystery connectod with the affairs of the New York and Now England Railroad Company was partially dispelled last week by the election of the President of the Reading Railroad Company to the Presi dency or tho Boston nnd Maine Rallroo1 Company, coupled with the announcement that these two corporations have indirectly acquired control of the New York and New England. The outcome of the arrangement Is asserted to be another gigantic combina tion of capital, the result of which will be the control of the anthracite coal business of the Interior of New England. Precisely aowtnoisew lorkand New Englana Com pany is to be benefited by it is not yet ap parent, and if the price of the company's stoek is a criterion of public opinion, tho benefit is not now supposed to be so great ts somo per.ions evidently at one time expect ed it to bo. The remuneration for carrying coal, like that for tho carriage of other articles, is lim ited by competition. All along the coast of Now England, and for a distance of CO miles or so inland, the price or water transporta tion for the mineral controls that or the railroads, and no railroad combination can SUCce-'SfultV Contend aifnlnsfc thA nronnllrft and schooners now enuaged in the busi ness. Northern New England is occupied by the railroads affiliated with the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company, and is rur nished with coal by the way of Troy. A Limited Field to Furnish. This leaves as a field for coal supply for the New York and New England Railroad and its connections only the intermediate zone lying between that on the coast and that on the north and extending as fur as, say, to within 60 miles or Boston and Provi dence. That hitherto the coal transporta tion within the territory has not been prof itable to tho New York and New England road is not disputed, and an improvement in it is expected to come entirely by the Ponghkeepsle bridge and from the special favors to bo granted by tho Reading Com pany. Whatever increase of earnings from coal carriage the New York and New England road derives by virtue of Its new connection with the Reading must. It Is plain, be the re sult cither of an increase of the quantity carried or of an increased share of profit allowed it out of the total rates Irom the mines. An increase of total rates is not possible, because that wonld narrow the field of operations by encouraging the en croachment ot competing carriers. An in ciease of tho quantity transported cannot be expected immediately, but will require time lor its development. Unless, therefore, the managers ot the Reading Company mag nanimously allow the Now York and New England a larger percentage or thefrelent on coal from its mines than it has hitherto had It will gain nothing at present by the change in its ownership, or the probability or such action by the Reading everyone mustjudgo for himself. One Way That Slight Be Left. There remains, to be sure, the possibility of an advanced price or coal which will yieid a sufficient profit upon it to justify the iteaumg company in allotting a larger sum to freight than it has done heretofore, and oat or tho larger allotment to apportion to the Now York and New England Company a share which will enable it to pay small dlvi-' dends on its stock. This, while it would diminish the net earnings of tha Reading Company directly, would return to it some thing upon the New York and Now England stock held by It or in its behalf. The ultimate failure of any attempt to raise artificially the price of a commodity of general uie above its natural level is con spicuously shown by tho recent course or tho price or wheat. A year ago it was dis covered that the wheat harvests of Europe had been unu,nally bad, while ours had been unusually good. At once the growers of wheat became infatuated with the idea that by holding it back from the market they could command any price for It almost that they chose to exact and they did, in fact, raise tUc price considerably. Hut this very rise, besido Inviting competition from othor wheat-growing countries, reduced the consumption or the cereal and now, although Great Britain lias had another harvest quito as bad ns that of last year, she has more wheat offered to her than she wants, and our railroads aud our elevators are ciammed with the surplus of last year's crop, as well ns of this year's, waiting for buyers at the lowest price ever known. Effect on the Price pf Silver. This depressed condition of the market ior wheat, which is completely explained by its excessive supply, will perhaps renew talk which was common two or three years ago about the influence of the fall of silver in stimulating exports of grain from India, and thus by competition reducing the price of that exported from this country. That the fall in the gold value of the rupee had something to do with the matter at first is indisputable. The Indian wheat grower who sold his wheat in tho London market when silver first fell, got more rupees for the pound sterling than he would have goi with silver at its old value, anl thus, seemingly, was better rewarded for his labor. But this, in the nature of the case, could not last long. The prices or other commodities have gradually adjusted them selves to the new value of tho rupee, and now tho net proceeds of wheat from India aro no greator in purchasing power than they were at the old rate. Other causes, too, have stimulated the ex port of wheat from India to Great Britain nnd make it a competitor with ours in the British market. One of these was the open ing or the Suez Canal, which made the voy age around the Cape of Good Hope unneces sary und thus avoided the long exposure or Indian wheat to tho tropical heat, which ex perience showed spoiled it ior use. Another was the repeal or an export duty which, un til 1873, was laid upon it in India. Another, and the roost important, was the perfection or the Indian rail nay system, which now furnishes an easy and cheap means of trans portation between the vast wheat fields of the northern portion of tho country and its seaports. Similar Suffering From Competition India suffers irom our competition as much as we suffer fiomhcrs. While her railway system has been orlnglng into com munication with the markets of the world vast areas of wheat-proaucing land, ours has been doing the same thing. The addi tional supply thus furnished has for the moment swamped prices, though a larger consumption may eventually restore them. Tho anthracite coal producers of Pennsyl vania have indeed no ground for fearing a catastrophe like that which bus overtaken the growers of wheat. No mines or anthracito exist nearer than Colorado, and both these and the anthracite mines in Wales aro too faraway to be for midable. If the producers 'can succeed in perfecting and maintaining the combina tion at which they aim and toward which tho recent acquisition by the Heading Rail road Company of the Now York aud Now Enttland Railroad is said to bo the latest step, they can maintain the prico ofnntli'ra cite at something like its present level. But anthracite coal is not the only ruel in tho world. Bituminous nnd Beini-bltuminous coals exceed It in available amount and in cheapness or extraction from the earth, and while the mines which yield them are moro distant from this part of tho country than those of anthracite and their heat-producing value is less tlioy can easily be substituted for anthracite whenever the difference of price Justifies it. The public is therefore not so completely at the mercy or tho threat ened anthracite coal combine as seems to be supposed. As to wheat, whtlo wo must expect some reaction Irom tha present low market, the area or land capable or producing it in this conntrv alone, to say nothing of tho rest of the world, is too vast for anv combination to control its price. It is true that tho West ern farmers indulge in the delusion that the proposed anti-option law will enablo thorn to sell wheat at a highor price than they have been doing, but that law has not yec been enacted, and if it Bhonld be it would fall of its Intended purpose. Our coal supply nnd our wheat supply are both alike pale against monopoly, and u our immenso cotton crop guarantees us an abundance of cheap clothing so are we snro of plenty of cheap lood and of cheap fuel. Stolen, Strayed or Lost. Ohio State Journal. A suitable reward will bo paid for any in formation leading to the, political where abouts ot Senator Crice. TEARS, IDLK TEARS. Tears, ldla tears." of which the poet sings. Come from tho heart's deep fountain unawares, Vcd by the soul's imperishable springs y "Tears, Idle tears'" TliVougli tnein the sympathizing spirit hears - Sort threnodies of unrorgotten tilings, AnU. tender requiems for the vanished years. Theyaro apt dumb as harps with shattered strings, Notvolcek'sa as the world's uuuttered prayers. But rail like dew on memory's deathless wings "ieart, imetearsr- William 11. Uayr in Harper'i Bator. ODE MAIL POUCH. How to Check Infection From Abroad. To the Editor of The Dispatch: Surgeon General Walter Wyman, in a re cent letter concerning the views aud pur poso of the Government with reference to Immigration and the dangers of cholera, writes as follows: 'So far as the contemplated immigration in the spring is concerned, I can only say that it is the present determination of the Government to maintain the suspension of immigration which has been accomplished by means ot the circular of September 1st. Donbtless there will be legislation early in the next session of Congress giving direct and absolute power to stop all immigration when the public health demands It without the necessity of recourse to tlieqnarantino laws of the several States. The steamship companies have been repeatedly warned that any attempt to evade the present re strictions oh immigration will be met with marked severity on the part of the Govern ment." "I will add that in my opinion there is quite as much need of extreme care at the present time, and during the next year, as there has been during the last lour months, and this bureau will relax none of Its vigil ance." This is certainly satisfactory, and evinces a determination on the part or the Govern ment not to continue to be victims of the carelessness and cupidity of trans-Atlantlo transportation companies. I would suggest, however, that the only avenue to the sensibilities of corporations is through the pocket nerve, nnd if the Gov ernment win adopt tho rule that all ships once Infected may not attain load for any portswithin the United States forsix months or a year thereafter, the dangers from cholera will be greatly abated. The German ocean transportation com panies during last summer illustrated their Utter disregard of the consequence or Im porting infected immigrants into this coun try anil oi their dntles as carriers. Under the rnle suggested above, their acts would undoubtedly have been in marked contrast with tuose of last summer. H. . Collins. PrrTSBtmo, Oct. 29. EUROPE ILL AT EASE. Other Powers Don't Like the Looks of Chan ' cellor Caprlvi'sBUIltary BiU. , Paris, Oct. 30. The German military bill is tho singlb thought of all Europe, except ing France. Nobody understands why Ger many should Increase her effectivo force to such an extent as to be able to throw next spring 200,000 men in 21 hours upon her east ern or western frontiers. Numerous notes have been exchanged between the different European Cabinets. Mr. Gladstone, at a Cabinet council on the 25th, Instructed Lord Rosebery to get nt the bottom or tho real intentions or the German Government. The soln-objcct of Germany is to make up for tho deficiency in tho Austrian and Italian forces, the financial condition of thoe countries not permitting them to in crease their armies ns members of the triple Alliance. Nevertheless, the tendency is baa. The bourses are weak and Hi at ease. This is especially the case in France. In ad dition to the fears she has or tho causes lor the lnoreaso in the German army, she has her own difficulties to contend with. TWENTY KINDS OF MARBLE Fonnd In One Unopened ynarry In the In terior oC.Idalio. Boise, 'Idaho, Oct. 30. F. B. Schormerhorn, the mineralogist und geologist employed in collecting and classifying Idaho's exhibit for the World's Fair, arrivea in Boise this morning from Cassia county. In that county he encountered a wondor in the shape of a vast marble quarry, 15 miles one way by 22 the other, and In some places SCO feet in thickness. Not one but 20 kinds of marble are to bo found within the boundaries of this vast field of unhewn headstones. There aro still other vast quarries besides this yet un claimed and owned by tho Government, which consist of a grade of puro white mar ble equal to tho famous Italian article. STRAWS THAT P0IST. The big registration means that every Re publican voto will be polled this year. No iree trade. New York Recorder. Reoistkatiox in Ohio cities is unusuallv heavy this year, which Indicates a large Republican plurality in the State. Som-rsel REPiiBLicA:r managers begin to feel it will be no more than fair to givo Lawyer Wayne MacVeagh a retaining foe if ho continue the good'workfor Harrion he has already put In. Peoria Actus. Tom Reed's guns are firing grape at close ranee these days. Did somo one say Tom Reed would lie in tho grass In this engage ment and never let General Harrison's em battled host hear the music of his batteryt Chicago Inter Ocean. It is a significant fact that Governor Mc Klnley has not received a warmer welcome in any ot the many States he lias visited than was given him in Missouri, and the meaning of it will be seen in a largely in creased Republican vote if. Louis Globe Democrat. The most exuberant Democratic estimate of West Virginia's vote is that she will go for the Cleveland ticket by 03. When the Democratic imagination cannot spur ui a better showing than that. West Virginia may as well be conceded tothe Republicans. l'ew York Commercial Advertuer. To rainbow vision of Democrats carry ing Western States, distance lends enchant ment. The most iridescent cotors now ap pear to bo visible in Now York. Views aro indeed moro highly colored there now than are optical Illusions of Mr. Cleveland carrying New York State. Cincinnati Com mercial Gazette. A Trunk Factory for Beaver Falls. Beaver Falls, Oct. 30. Special. A meet ing of business men and capitalists held here last night considered a proposition from M. A. Heals, of Detroit, to establish a big trunk manufactory at this point. Tho meeting was favorably disposed toward the project, ana as the offer involved the rais ing oi some monoy nere ln'aid of the ar rangement, 320,000 was subscribed on the spot. The nnu-ed buildings of the Beaver Falls Glass Works will bo utilized. The factory will be running within 60 days. One hnndred and fifty hands will be em ployed. England Will Stick to Uganda. Losdos, Oct. 30. Tho OV'Crver announces that it has loirned on the best authority tha: at the last Cabinet meeting t was defi nitely decided not to retire trom Uganda. Not in It. Chicago Tribune. 1 It is said there are 20,000 speakers on the stump this campaign. Governor Gray, of Indiana, is a very lonesome man. Worse Than Johnny Bull. New York Press.! President McLcod has annexed Now Ens land. DEATHS IIERB AXD ELSEWHERE. Thomas Hill, Thomas Hill, of Hillsboro, N. C, a con nection or the famous IIIU family of that State and slid to bo a cousin or the Confederate General Ben Hill, died Saturday night In a cheap lodging house In Clinton place. New York City. Hill came North a few mouths ago to take a course of treatment In the Keelcy Institute at White rialns. X. Y. After zraduatlng from the Institute he did not reform, but drank moro than CTer, hl friends sat. He dictated a letter to his wirentlllllsboro Saturday, lie begged her to come quickly If she would sec lilm allrc. for he was djrlng Sown after ward Hill's landlady round Mm dead In his room. Among his effects, which consisted only of a Dhlal or nitre and a package or letters, was found a letter from hl wife. In which she said that she was disposing or the cotton crop on the plantation and beseeching her busuanil to come home. Sister Avcllln. Sister Avellln, who died early Saturday morning at the Mercy Hospital, was ten years ajco, berore entering upon the labors of lore In which she laid down her lire, a young lady who bore an Important part In the social lire or Iiraddock. She was Miss Kate Shields, bora Si years ago In Port Perry. She entered the order or the Sisters of Mercy ten Tears ago. taking the name abore men tioned, and proved one of the most successful teachers In the parochial schools. She Is the daughter of Mrs. Charles shields, of Iiraddock. and a sister or Alice. John. Daniel and Kdward Shields. She will he hurled from St. Xavler's Academy. Ucatty station, this morning. Obituary Notes. TnE Dowager Queen of Wurtemburg Is dead. Miss Missis Clat died at her home near Lex ington, Ky.. yesterday morning or a cancer. She was abont 43 yean old and was the daughter of Thomas H. Clay, a ion of the great commoner. CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS: John J. Taylor, of Streator, IIL, one wrote 4.10O words on tbo blank side of a postal card. The Egyptians and the Phoenicians are joint claimants fortho honor of tho inven tion of water craft. Bees never store honey in the light be; cause honey so exposed granulates and Is thus useless to the bees. The Austrian consume more tobacco than any other nationality of race on taft globe, civilized or savage. Nineveh, the ancient city, was 14 miles long and 8 miles wide, surrounded by a wall 100 loot high aud 29 feet wide. There is a lighthouse. to every 14 miles of English coast, to every 21 miles of Irish, coast and one to evory 39 miles of Scottish shore line. Paget Sound oysters are sometimes as much ns V;i fuet long ana 20 to 25 luobes broad, and weigh, exclusive of shell, from 40 to CO pounds. Testing; the big Krupp guns is said to be responsible for the cracking of every brick nnd stone house in Essen, the seat of tho gr eat armory. At York, Pa., in the orchard of Simon Mucnier, there is a treo that annually bears a crop of three different kinds of fruit: Pears, peaches and apples. The moth has a fur jacket and the but terfly none because the nocturnal habits of the moth require it. The diurnal movement! of the butterfly do not. At Dundenong, Australia, there is a blue gum tree which has an estimated height of 4M feet. It is believed to be the tallest tree In the world. The largest and oldest chestnut tree in the world stands at the foot of Mount Etna. It is 213 feet in clrcumloronce, and is known to be at least 2,000 years ord. In England many of the peasantry still plant tho house leek, "Jupiter's Beard," on their house roofs as a preventive against thundor, lightning and evil spirits. Leaves attract dew; boards, sticks and stones do not, because. leaves have a chem ical use lor dew nnd detain it, while boards, sticks and stones have none and do not. A chain made for the United States Government at Troy, N. Y., In J883 was six miles and a fraction in length. It was made of bars of iron each 1i Inches in diameter. The New York Sun building is provided with tho largC3C thermometer in existence. It has a dial plate 10 inches in diameter, set situated as to bo In plain view of passers-by.' Six brothers of the Frost family at Kansas City own the following odd Jot of names: Jack Frost, Winter Frost, Whita Frost, Cold Frost, Early Frost and Snow Frost. Cape Colony is the natural habitat of tho largest known specie? of earthworm. It is a soft, scaleless thing between C and 7feet long, and much resembles our common angle worm. Bed hailstones fell at Amsterdam in 172G, at London in 1663 (during the timo of - the great plaeue). and at divers places in! Ireland nnd France in tho early part of the present century. Sallie McAlister, a colored woman of Springfield, Ky Is believed to be the largest woman now living. She measure 36Lf inches (overthreo feut) around tho arm, and weighs C32 pounds. The two greatest stamp collectors in the world nre M. Philippe Ferrari, son of tha late Dnchcsse de Galllern. nnd the Czar, tIiiko collection is said by experts to be worth 3,000,000 francs. When healthy horse is enjoying; per fect rest his pulse beatv at the rate of 40 times per minute, that of an ox S3 times, while in sheep and hogs the average cardiac pulsations are 7S per minute. A Berlin chemist claims to have dis covered tho art of reproducing colors true to nature with the camera. If true, the dis covery is ono of the most imnortant that has been made in the line of photography. It has long been known that diamonds (especially the class known as "rose dia monds") are likely to explode ir subjected only to what would seem a very ordinary degreo of beat, such as strong rays from the sun. During the winter of 188C-87 a petrified frog was found in a quarry near Elmira, X. Y., which was 8 feet 8 inches in length and weighed ovor ICOpounds. This U tuo largest specimen of fossilized irog-yor- Drought, to light. ' The largest steam derrick in the world Is at the Hamburg shipping docks. Those who hnvo seen it nt work say that it picks up an 80-ton gun or a 10-wheel locomotive as easily as a largo man would lift a 10-pound weight. The frizzled glass threads from which cloth is woven are said to surpass, in fine ness not only the finest cotton, but even the threads of the silkworm's cocoon, their soft ness and elasticity beinz even greater than that or manufactured silk "lint." Media, Pa., is the home of lour of the largest families in the United States, that of Samuel Field, who ba3 23 children; Joseph Chandler, whoiu the proud father of 25 chil dren; James Barrett, with a record or IS, and William Wright, who has 13 little Wrights to f-sed. The giant of giants and titan of titans, as far as sewing machines are concerned, has recently been finished at Leeds, Eng land. It weighs exactly 5!i tons and is spe cially adapted for general manufacturing Jmrposes oi the heavier sort. This particu ar machine will he used for attaching cot ton belting. In the northern part of Peru, in what is otherwise an arid desert, the celebrated "rain treo" grows. This species, Batas vapero, though not largo or of much com mercial value, ii a vcritablo South Ameri can wonder, having tbo extraordinary prop erty of condensing what little moisture there 13 in tho atmosphere so as to cause a continual mist to exude (soomingly) from its leaves and branches. Halloween Etiquette for Gentlemen. If you take your best girl to a tally pull and Tommy Jones should happen to be there with a beautiful strange lady, duii't try to kUs tha strange lady unless your best girl Is in another part ofthe house. A simple kl94 has turned many a taffy-pull Into a halr-pml. If you desire to pay your hostess a com pliment rail to put flour on your hand3 and then tell her you are stack on her taffy. In the best society this Is considered very Sue. All chestnut jokes should be avoided. The social records of the Thirty-ninth ward till of a society leader having been ostracised for simply mentioning E. P. Boe's "Opening of a Chestnut Burr," If you are asked to dive for the apple in the tub, do It by all means. Many agent's reputa tion Jias been injured by showing an aversion for water. When you receive your invitation ascer tain bow many ladles are to be present, and then lar In a supply of pbllopena presents; at least one for each lady. Some years ago a gent attended a Shousetown blowout and took enougn to go around twice. He was married a week after. If yon are talking to your best girl's brother when the elder Is passed around.lt Is rather pretty to refuse the proffered mug. saying as yon do, that the only cider you like Is bcslde'er. This bon mot Is made much more effectlrc by pointing to the lady In quesUon. If your lady, or in fact, any lady desires to stick taffy on the bosom or your dress-shirt, ap pear pleased, and patiently await your oppor tunity to tangls a bit in her frizzled locks. An ex-militiaman of the X. G. P. and his .friend were seen coming down the Court House IIU1 the other day. and as they nearedSmlthfleld street the friend pulled a couple of nuts out of his pocket and said to the ex-inUluamau, "Have a nut." The ex-private replied. 'Thank you, I will," and taking the nut, which was already cracked, nibbled it a bit. and then tossed tbe re mainder la the gutter. He saw in an instant that ho had offended bis friend, and hastily said. "You must forgive me. old feUow. but that nut bad such a bad kernel that It recalled unpleasant recollec tions." Ah, boys, yon'ye been most cruel to-night, It grieves me much to haTC to state My swing and kiss I did not get. For, darn it all, you stole her gate. Budd Doble Well, Nancy, how do yon feel to-nlghlf .,.- Nancy Hanks I feel sure of my gait, thank ye'
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