THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, , 1892. sWJfe Uje Bifeafclj. ESTABLISHED FEBRUAUY 8. 1340. Vol. 71. No. 2-Enterca at Pittsburg Postofflce Jot ember, ISM, as second-class matter. BCSDvESS OFFICE, Cor. Smltlifleld and Diamond Streets. News Booms and Publishing Bouse, 78 and 80 Diamond Street, New Dispatch Building. ZKSTEnS ADVERTISING OFFICE. ROOM 78, TKIBU.VF. BUILDING. NEW T0B.K. where complete files of THE DISPATCH can always be found. THE DISPATCn la on sale at LEADING HOTELS throughout the United States, andat IJrentano', E Union Square, New York, and 17 Avenue de ropers, Paris. France. TERMS OF THE DISPATCH. roSTAGE rnic ix tiie cxited states. PAiLTDlsrATCn, One Tear. f 8 00 Dailt Dispatch, Three Months 2 00 Daily Dispatch. One Month 70 Daily Dispatch, Including Sunday, l year.. 10 00 Daily Dispatch, lncludlngSunday,3m'ths. 2 60 Daily DisrATCii, Including Sunday, 1 month 90 SoxDWDlSPAlCIt. 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He -wishes more definite information as to the petition he s required to sign in order to avoid the un happy mistake of signing some petition not contemplated in the resolution; and, finally, wishes a clearer view of the func tion of the city- as a petitioner and the effect it will have on the project. Coun cils grasped the wisdom of the Mayor's words and sustained the veto. The improvement contemplated by the resolution is a very commendable one; but it should not be prosecuted by methods which are doubtful or uncertain in their results. The novel course of calling on the city to petition itself to do something, like the Lord Chancellor in "Iolanthe" creates a suspicion of the purpose ot the proceeding. Whether it is, as the Mayor's message suggests, that of "legalizing a petition that does not contain a majority m number and interest of the propertj -holders," or for some more legitimate purpose, should be made clear beyond dispute. The Mayor's veto of the resolution should have the effect of either putting the proposed petition of the city to itself in a clear and indisputable light, or of letting the project stand solely on the petition of the individual property-owner. The Dispatch believes in the widening of Diamond street. But it should not be done by any mysterious methods or by stefs that might result in saddling the damages of the improvement on the city at large. HOMESTEAD NEEDb ORDER, The renewal of disorderly proceedings at Homestead, and the display of a dis position toward popular disturbances, bring up again the necessity of a warn ing that the law must be respected. The terrible occurrences of last July, and the train of disastrous consequences that has followed it, should be evidence for the people of that town that nothing but strict observance of law and order will serv their cause. It seems to be the misfortune of that suburb, however, that an element of its population is unable to learn the lesson. The beginning of a riot the other evening was marked by the spirit of last July, even to the stoning of men who are m custody and therefore unable to defend themselves, and the defiance and threat ening of the officers of the law. Such ac tions can only injure the caus of the strikes and work irreparable damage to the already injured reputation of the place for order and safety. Of course men and women who try to mob obnoxious persons who are arrested by legal officers are beyond the reach of arguments in favor of law and order. But there should be men of intelligence and reputation in Homestead to arrest such pro ceedings by the exertionof their influence. Men ot that class must now be able to see that every riotous outbreak, every cowardly attack on people who being under arrest were reduced to inoffensive ness, has inflicted unmitigated injury to the cause of the strikers, and has been a great damage to the town. If the leading citizens will act on that understanding the recklessness of the mob element ought to be subject to restraint Homestead must learn to obey the law if her people do not wish to earn the reputation of requiring a constant military guard to preserve the peace. AX IMPORTANT REPORT. The Engineers' Society, of Western Pennsylvania, at its meeting this evening will hear the report of its committee on smoke prevention. That body has taken this important subject in hand solely for the public benefit involved in it It brings to the consideration of the question full expert knowledge, a disinterested desire to serve the public, and a complete and careful study of the question m all its bearings. 0 Under these circumstances the report presented to-night will be one of the most important contributions yet made to the literature of smoke preven tion, and will be read with universal in terest It need only be said further that the public will give a hearty and active support to whatever measures the society may present for the abatement ot the smoke evil and the consequent improve ment of the city. ENRICHJ.NG THE DESERT. There is a lesson on the possibility of utilizing the forces of nature in the ex perience which followed the overflow of the Colorado river into the Salter desert The Colorado carries the outflow from the western slope of the .Rocky Mountains into a desert famous for its aridity. The barrenness of this region has long been the despair of pioneers and the death of explorers. But the overflow of the river into the Salter waste proved that all which the arid desert needs to -make it blossom like the rose is moisture. Upon the subsidence of the waters in that barren region an immediate growth of verdure followed where as far back as the memory of man runs there had been nothing but barren and shifting sands. The Colorado, like the Nile, carries in its flood a burden of silt which when deposited on the desert sands results in almost immediate productiveness. The discovery has been followed by schemes to utilize the over- iSt J;s flow. The main one is only to be criti cised on the score that its magnitude may endanger its success. It proposes an irrigating canal 120 feet wide, 12 feet deep and 126 miles long, by which an immense area will be made productive. The highest success is to be hoped and expected for such projects. They give the promise not only of turning the desert into a garden but of improving the climate conditions so that the burning regions of Arizona will become the most delightful and equable localities in the world. Such results are greater victories than those ever won in war. A PARTISAN SUPERSTITION. The immediate post-election period this year had rather less than usual of the partisan superstitutlon. that shows loyalty, to party by continuing to claim the victory after the returns have shown a defeat Still, there was enough of it to warrant a little comment Chairman Carter's claim of 226 electoral votes for Harrison, pub lished the morning after the election with Col Shepard's indorsement of it, are cases in point A more egregious illustration of the same idiocy is the accusation which one Republican organ of Philadelphia brings against another of "having been the first to haul down the flag under which a battle has been fought" This applied to giving the election news is a marked exhibition of the superstition that it is party duty to refuse to recognize existing facts. Every Intelligent man who saw the returns knew at half-past ten last Tuesday night that Cleveland was elected. When we are confronted with the propo sition that it was the duty of Republican newspapers to ignore, conceal or evade that fact for twenty-four hours it shows a remarkably obsolete con ception of the functions of a newspaper. Beyond that it provoked the question, what possible party advantage can be secured by delaying the recogni tion of defeat? The only conceivable re sult is that a few woula-be partisans might be led to make some bets on the strength of the refusal to concede the defeat; but it is hard to see how a party is to be bene fited by aiding in the plucking of its bet ting element The first function of the newspaper is now generally understood, even by the partisan organs, to be .the giving of the news, no matter which side it favors. But there are few survivals of the old party idea that it is a fine thing to obstinately refuse credit to-the evidence of the re turns until everyone else has given up. SUBJECTS FOB PBIZE ESSAYS. As a result of the convention held at St Louis the college students of fourteen dif ferent States are engaged in writing essays on the advantages of the Nicaragua Canal to the people of the United Stages; and to those of the Northern Central States in particular. The essays are written in competition for a prize of 100 to be awarded by a Chicago committee, which, we gather from esteemed cotemporarie3 tha"t are booming the project, has set the college youth to committing themselves to paper and the Nicaragua scheme. No doubt the ripe experience of the college youth will be able to furnish the, investors of the world with convincing ' reasons for putting their money into the Nicaragua enterprise if the investors wish to be convinced. But as affording fair exercise both for the talents and judgment of the undergraduate publicists would it not be more equal all around to see if a prize of $100 might not induce more con7incing.andlogical essays to show the greater benefit to the people of the Northern Central States of the expendi ture of the cost of the Nicaragua enter prise in waterways within the territory of these United States, which would carry their products and merchandise directly, and at much cheapened ratei? Another subject might afford scops for the prize essayist, but the reward of $100 is wholly inadequate. If the Nicaragua promoters could find a college student to devise some explanation, at once credible and creditable, for the fact that the Gov ernment is asked to guarantee a loan of 5100,000,000, on an enterprise estimated by its chief engineer to cost 565,000,000, a prize of a million dollars would be a cheap percentage of the plunder for tha t ser vice. TO AID BOAD REFORM. The agitation for improved country roads, in which The Dispatch was one of the pioneers two years ago, still goes on. The spread of the demand for the improvement, and the interest in the subject taken in all sections of the nation, are full of encouragement as to Its ultimate success. The propositions to appeal to Congress to establisha"RoadDepartment" in Washington, for the instruction of road engineers and to establish exhibits of im proved methods of road construction, are well enough in their line, but they are of little practical importance beside the one direct way of securing improved high ways. That is to bring personal influence to bear on all highway boards to com mence building better roads at once. The fact is that the agitation has reached the point where practical work is in order. All but the most stubbornly clamlike know the great gains to be se cured from durable highways; all but the most ignorant know the requisites of drainage, solid foundation, and hard surface for the construction of good roads. If every man interested in this subject, as every man ought to be, would join in trying to make tho local authorities so shape their road work as to supply these requisites more would be accomplished in a year than by a decade of national road departments A single township road af fording a smooth and stable route to the nearest railway in all kinds of weather will convince more farmers of the value and practicability of such roads than any quantity of exhibits of Improved roads in the cities where few of the rural popula tion will see them and none have an op portunity to give them a practical test. The time has come when the most prac tical way to aid forward road reform is to build good roads. A few progressive rural communities in the East have al ready inaugurated this work and are reap ing rich rewards for their enterprise. Every rural section that follows their ex ample will share the reward and hasten the day when good roads will be the rule rather than the exception. Now that the Industrial Alliance is giv ing evidence of municipal industry in these parts, it will add to its usefulness by ex pressing its intentions and aspirations in some manner more specific and deflnito than has characterized its announcements up to date. During the construction of the Demo cratic platform at Chicago, and throughout the subsequent campaign, Mr. Watterson's utterances were among the most radical of his party. 'Now that the election is over, therefore, it is matter for congratulation that the.lapse of time or tne sense of respon sibility tHat has accompanied the Demo cratic victory leads tho great .Henry to re mark: "We mean to proceed with this work" referring to tariff reform "like statesmen, not like mountebanks. and revo- siss&!& Us.ii lutiouists."v Such assurance 'from such a source is worth something as an indication that no hasty warxf extermination is to be waged against American industries after all. There is always, or at least generally, n. nntnlile difference between the utterances J of a political body when it is out of power and Its intentions wnen it gets in. Ana ic is especially well for America that this var iance should be sharply marked in this case. Election returns gave some indication of the number of voters included within the elastic limits or tho Democratic party, but the rush of applications for offices tends to show that the election returns made only a modest estimate of the party's strength. Prohibition would be bad enough if it managed to prohibit. And tho Governor elect of Kansas is right in determining to abolish legislation that by encouraging lawlessness in one direction casts disoredit on constituted authority as a whole. Vice is little likely to increase in Kansas as a result of removing sham Prohibition. Fotile attempts to explain away the surprise of last Tuesday, or show that there really was no reason for surprise, are now about sufficiently out of date to be classed as history or fiction, according to their deserts. There would be some satisfaction for tho general public in the occasional inter necine strife among the associates in pools, trusts and monopolistic combinations in general but for the met that the aforesaid public Is always made to foot the bill for such incidental outlays, as well "as for the usual current expenses. Possibly the advocacy of the London Timet for a moderate use of opium ex plains some ot the vagaries to which the magniloquent thunderer has committed itself in dealing with American questions. Dr. Nansen proposes to explore the un known polar regions by way of the North Pole instead of doing vice versa in common with most or his predecessors. Meanwhile no one has come forward to explain in just what way humnnity can profit by increased knowledge of uninhabitable regions. Discussions of heresy have once more been removed from the political to the re ligious field. And they are conducive to about an equal amount of brotherly love in both places. President-elect Cleveland no doubt devoted a cood deal of time and energy to sawing wood duilng tbe campaign. And he may find that he has more lumber on hand now than he can conveniently find use for in the construction of a Cabinet or the fill ing ot minor offices. It is to be hoped that Miss Ella L. Knowlesis unwomanly so far ns her logic goes, lor she is to be Montana's next At torney General. There was some semblance of excuse for tho attempts to marry Senator Hill when his name was occasionally mentioned as a pos sible tenant for the White House. But at this stage of tho game the ex-Governor should bo allowed' to manage his own matri monial business. The office is busy seeking the man in its usual back-handed fashion. PEOPLE OP PROMINENCE. United States Minister Thayer, at La Hague, denies the leport that he intends to resign. Queen Victoria is quite a successful farmer, and has taken 417 prizes at English cattle shows. Grand Rue Ernest Renan is the name recently bestowed on a prominent thoroughfare of Paris. It is reported that the English Govern ment has decided to send Captain Lugard as British Commissioner to Uganda. The venerable widow of the late Bishop Alexander Campbell, who lives at Bethany, W. Va., celebrated her 90th birthday last Saturday. At a recent hunt on the domain of Gen eral von Wedell, Emperor William killed with his own hands 236 hares, 90 pheasants and 25 raDbits. Mrs. Thomas Gilroy, wife of New York's Mayor-elect, has a passion for china painting. She has quite a collection of china coffee spoons which aie painted in tiny French figui.es. C P. Clapp, of Tacoma, has been ap pointed byGovernor Ferry as Commissioner to represent the State of Washington at the International Nicaraguan Canal Convention at New Orleans. The late Thomas Nelson, the publisher, of Edinburgh, left $300,000 in legacies for the erection and equipment of five working men's clubs and reading rooms, which will be erected gradually, and will be so fitted as to attract workiugmen. The late Queen Olga, of Wurtemberg, though a beautiful woman, was ot strong and almost masculine character. Her hus band, the late King Karl, was nicknamed 'King Olgus" in recognition of this fact. Theirs was a "mariage de convenance." M. Galland, the well-known French artist, is giving the finishing touches to a fine series of panels Intended for tho "mar ble room" of Mr. Whitelaw Keid's Madison avenue house. The artist means to exhibit them in Paris publicly before sending them to the United States. TBYINQ FOR CO-OPEBATIOIJ: Locked Oat Bottle Men Endeavor to Secnre Control of the Sumner Works. Stkueexville, O. Nov. 14. Special. Since last Jane the Sumner Bottle Works, of this city, has been shut down. Tho company has made efforts to start the works with ap prentices, to which the local Flint Glass Workers' Union objected because the rules of the organization declared against apprentices. About a month ago the com pany brought new men here to operate the plant, but the men who were locked out held a meeting and induced the company to defer the resumption for the time. Since then tho locked 'out men have canvassod the place, and now enough money is sub scribed to bay out a majority of the stock. The subscriptions aggregate $25,000. Messrs. Graham andJohnson, although virtually owners of the plant, cannot operate It be cause they cannot start tho works with ap prentices, as the minority stockholders can control a majority of the Board of Directors. "who are opposed to operating the plant in that way. The men have an option on tho works un til December 1. If the transfer Is not made at that time Graham and Johnson will hold out for an additional $5,000. If the deal re mains open until Jnnuary 1, Graham and Johnson will use their control of a majority of the stock to elect a Board of Directors to salt them Bclves, and run the plant with nppren lices or non-onion men. The case presents somocuiious complications. The company has plenty of orders on band, and wants to either sell out nr be permitted to run tho factory. Cot. Hugh Sterling, of Whoeling, will be secretary ;of the new company in tase the deal now on is made. If it is not, teubenvllle will have a non-union glass factory after January 1. ' KEN1TJCKIAHS EISE IN A BODY. They Provent tlio Sale of Land for Delin quent Railroad Taxes. Gbatsox, Kr., Nov. 14. The' citizens of Grayson, were reminded of wnr times to day, when moro than 300 mounted men entered the town and rode through the prin cipal streets, followed by nearly an equal number-on foot. The demonstration was caused by the railroad tax. Collector Peter Brown .bad 'levied upon some land and advertised It lor sale to-day at tho Court House door, and the citizens of the country bad risen in a body to oppose the ale. A committee waited on Brown, and he was induced to forego the sale and resign his collectorshlp, alter wiiich tho citizens retired in nn orderly manner to their homes. This settles (be railroad tax question in Car ter county, its it will ba impossible to find anyone to acjeopt the collectorshlp. i Rattier Late In the Season. Chicago Trlbitne.l Mr. Cleveland 'has one sure refuge from the avalanche of office-seekers. Ho can'so Jflshtag."- ' ' A LOOK AROUND. The bees in the bonnets of pnblic men those hardy bees which do not swarm until November used to be followed by hornets, yellow jackets and wasps who stung a curiously largo number of people. The stings remained hot for a long time and the result was full or" .danger. Four years ago there were fewer stingers abroad except the bees themselves who found no hives eady for them, but this year there really1 seems to be a swarm of harmless blue bottle files in the train of tho bees and they all buzz together. Never in my recollection has theie been so complete s, political col lapse except in the Greeley campaign, and never have I seen so little soreness and so much gennino good natured acceptance of the result by tho defeated party. If this be true in Pittsburg it must be largelyghe case elsewhere, for this Is a city of strong feelings, consistent clingings to tho old and tried doctrines of the fathers. I do not mean that the upheaval has been taken lightly and welcomed, tor It has deeply moved the community, but 1 do mean that it has caused to be set up the motto "And if it so be so be it." "No it wasn't tariff or free trade or trouble about labor mattors alone that did it," said an old workman to a couple of his companions in a street car yesterday. "I know many a man nowadays among tho fellows in the mills and in other trades who votes for tho man whom he likes bost. Thore s no t tho old party spirit there nsod to be.and if the peoplo like n man and think he will fill an office better than the other candidate they will vote for him, and that is what I think cost Harrison many thousands of votes." Travelers abroad pick up a number ot souvenirs of pleasant visits, but they usually take the form of bric-a-brac or some sort of manufactured wares. In a, big box over there by the window, where the sunlight falls full upon them and shows how healthy and strong they aie, are & couple of dozen cuttings of English ivy, each labelled. They are mementoes of lovely fall days across what I found to bo an exceedingly smooth ocean even in October, whon wo "broke all records" on the City of Paris. To begin with there is a hardy bit from tho wall of tho Curfew Tower at Windsor, another from the inner court of Westminster Abbey, an other from tho edge of Rosamund's Maze at Hampton Court, two from the mined walls of tho room of the St. Cloud Palace, whero there were many negotiatlonsbetween the German Emperor and Bismarck and the French representatives aftor the great war. Thoy are tearing these ruins down now partly in search of buried treasures and partly to make way for other build ingsand the day I saw them the ivy had been trampled by the workmen from the stones where It had been growing since the days of Louis the Magnificent. Then there is a piece a very bright one, too from the rooms of the First Napoleon in the Grand Trianon, and one from below the windows of the room where Mario Antoinette went out from Versailles to meet the mob and death; Kew gardens furnished two slips, Power Cathedral another pair. These and others from less notable places did nobly in a jar of water orpacked in a tin box with moss, and are now ready to flourish here at home. It is better than chipping tombs and monu ments, this ivy gathering, and 1 would com mend It as worthy of trial, 'What a gain it would be to the public if the money which is spent for lithographs, portraits and gaudy posters by theatrical managers should be instead invested in bet ter companies, better scenery and the train ing of the roinormembers of the companies? Instead of being a gainer by these dead wall and shop window allurements, I fancy many people who stop to consider them will exclaim, "Thank heaven for this forewarn ing!" A Sioux Indian has become a conductor on a St. Paul street railway. He is one of the braves who deserve the tare. During the honeymoon visit of Presi dent Cleveland and his bride to Deer Park, whither it will be remembered they were at tended by about two score newspaper corre spondents, tho bridegroom ono day went fishing for trout. He was tho guest of Fish Commissioner Delowder, ono of the best all round sportsman of the AUeghenies, who had a trout preserve on a small stream Deep creek, I think it is called in the shadow of Roman Nose mountain, ten miles from Deer Park. The day's catch was satis factorysomething not always to be counted on, even whon trout aro carefully guarded, and ono of the party' alluded to tho fact as an instance of the famous "Cleveland luck." "I bollevo I am lucky," replied the President, "lucKy in private as well as public affairs." A few moments later referring to the same subject ho said, with a laugh: "At a whist party, years ago, before I had much chance in politics a very queer girl told my fortune with cards in Buffalo. Several things which she piedictod things I had not dreamed of have come true. She said I was to be Gov ernor and that I would be President," and with somewhat of hesitation in his speech he added: "Not only Presjdent once bat twice." This was told me on the evening of tho same day it was said but I was asked not to print It. Some years later I met the man who told me and a3 Mr. Har rison had defeatod the trout fisherman I re minded him of tho propneoy and its ap parent non-fulfillment. "Wait awhile," said he. "Cleveland is a very lively defeated candidate and, it may turn out right after all." These happy guesses aro rarely forgotten; that Bnffalo young lady should at once hang out a sign. Walter. JUDGE SHIEAS' FIEST. Ills S tyle of Delivering an Opinion, at Once Commends Itself. Washixqtox, Nov. 14. Special. Justice Shlras delivered to-day his first opinion since his induction to the bench of the Su preme Court. It was not a case of general Interest, but the clear manner In which the opinion was written attracted the attention of the court and of the lawyers in atten dance. It was a case against a railway company which had como to' the court on an nppeal, and the Justice affirmed the decis ion of tho lower court. The opinion was read by the Justice in the plain and practical way which has characterized all of his dis tinguished presentations in the local, State and national courts, in the capacity of an attorney, all ostentation being carerully avoided, the matter being put before court ns a plain question of law without flourish of rhetoiic. It was expected that the opinion In tho cause oi tne juononganeja navigation com pany would have been handed down to-day, but it was not'mentioned. It will probably be known next Monday. DENIES THE ENGAGEMENT. Mrs. Fannie Iverson Said Not to Be the Affianced of Senator Illll. Atzahta, Ga., Nov. It Tho report of Senator Hill's engagement to Mrs. Fannie Iverson, of Atlanta, is unequivocally de nied.. She met Senator Hill five years ago on bis first visit to Atlanta at one of the receptions tendered him here. Tho report of their engagement was circulated a bhort wlille after Governor Hill's visit to Atlanta at that time and the report has been re vived at intervals. Mis. Iverson has not met Senator Hill since then and those who know her bost say there is notauordof truth in the report. She is One of the most beautiful women in the South and she has been widowed abouc sir years. Her lilends laugh at the report that she is engaged to anybody. . GAVE AWAY MILLIONS, A Michigan Millionaire Retires and Deeds His Property to His Children. Gbaitd Rapids, Mich., Nov. It This morn ing Delos A. Blodgett filed 'deeds dividing his whole property into three parts, one third being given to his son, John W one third to his son-in-law, Edward, and wife, and retaining tho other tulr.1 liImsiHi. Tho total value of ibo propel ty divided is $7,200,000, and includes 5J0,(M) acres of South ern pine lauds, Northern Michigan pine, valuublo Chicago realty and personal prop erty. Mr. Blofigett now retires from easi ness, and learss his son and son-in-law to "airs. Jaatg. Jto A- AH IMP0BTAHT DECISION By the United States Supreme Court In a Mansfield Railroad Case. WABrrrsQTon, Nov. 14. In an opinion de livered to-day by Justice Brown, the United States Supremo Ccurt affirmed tho judg ment of the Circuit Conrt of tho United States for tho Northern district of Ohio iu favor of the Mansfield, Cold water and Liko Michigan Railway Company in a suit brought against the company by Charles Foster, now Secretary of the Treasury. I n 18S7 the road was sold under foreclosure proceedings for $500,000 to satisfy a mortgage or $1,000,000 and debtors' claims aggregating $600,000. Ten years later Mr. Foster, who was a stockholder in the Mansfield road, brought suit to have the proceedings set aside, alleging a fraudulent conspiracy be tween the company and the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. The lower court and this court both dis miss the bill on tho ground of lachos, hold ing that tho tilings complained of might, by reasonable diligence, have been discovered long boforo. BUBE DEATH IN A CUEE, Tho Silver Ash Treatment for Morphine Fiends a Failure. Sabatooa, Nov. It. Special. About a year ago there was opened in Ballston, in this county, tho "Silver Ash Institute," where, after the order of "Gold Care," vic tims of the alcohol or morphine habit wero to be easily, safely and permanently cared. Among tho few patients who wont there for treatment was, about two months ago, Byron Cole, of Northvillo, Fulton county, N. T.. to be cured of the morphine habit, to which he had been addicted for the past 20 years. " As a supposed result of the silver ash cure treatment an abscess Tormed under tho loft arm of the patient. Upon this abscess an operation was performed last Friday, and on Sunday tho patient died. Cole was 50 years old. MAEGAEET DENIES IT. Tier Niece Also Says Miss Mather Is Not the "WHo of PaDst. Los AifOELEs, Cal., Nov. 14 Margaret Mathor left for tho East last night. Just be fore her departure a reporter called and asked to see her about the rumored mar riage. She positively refused to see any one. Her nieco was seen and positively denied the marriage. Tho niece further denied that she admitted the marriage in San Fran clsoo. Miss Mather, her niece and Mr. Pabst came up from San Diego November 10. Mr. Pabst registered the party at the Uollenbeck Hotel desk. HIS BSAIN IS BABE. An Arkansas Negro "Who Had a Fart of His Sknll Burned Off. ForLAR Grove, Ark., Nov. 14 Sam McKiel, a negro of thi3 place, is a living curiosity. Some time in August he was sitting near a fire. He had a fit and fell on the fire, his head striking a heap of led coals. His face, neck and bead were burned until not only the hair and flesh fell off, but the skull was burned to ashes, and a piece as large as a man's band came off. He is now un and tho flesh wounds are healing. He has a plaster over the brain . Any one can see thu biam when the plaster is off. EFFECT OF TIIE ELECTION. Apartt in absolute power is apt to ba conservative. Philadelphia Inquirer, Cleveland and the Democratic leaders may be trusted to reform without destroy ing. Kansas City Times. Exouqh has been shown to reassure even the most timid, that the business interests of the countrv aro in no danser because of tho great Democratic landslide on Tuesday last. Brooklyn Citizm. We do not believe that the Democracy has the honesty or the courage either to undo the legislation of the Republican party or to fulfill the promises of the Chicago plat form Elmira Advertiser. Industry, economy, intelligence, careful business methods and well directed effort will continue at premium. The individual nill wore out for himself prosperity or poverty. Minneapolis Tribune. The country is all right it isn't going to the dogs. Republican policy has made It so rioh and powerful and prosperous that neither four years nor eight years can turn its progress backward Neva York Press. Tuis is a great and rich and powerful nation, and It cannot bo utterly rained by four years of misgovernment, even If the Democrats do all that tlioy said they would do. But the chances are that they may be sobered by power. Evening Wisconsin. We trust the Democrats will do well in office, for that will be for the good or the en tile nation. To'suppose that they will not mako an earnest effort in that direction wuld be to assume that they are enemies to their country, and that wo do not da New York Recorder. Wnra the debris of progressive reform has been cleared away American manufac tures and commerce will be on a- sound basis. Thoy will flourish without restriction in fair and profitable trade with the world. And the earnings of the people will be enjoyed by tho people. St. Louis Post Dis patch. No doubt Mr. Cleveland will, as President, recommend to Congress revision of the present tariff, and, equally without doubt, he will if consistent with his tariff record, recommend nono that will disturb or dis tress the business interests of tho country and so interrupt the present great prosper ity of capital and labor. Philadelphia Ledger. THE AEHY OF THE TENNESSEE. Large Parties Bound for tho Annual Meet ing at St. Louis. CiifciKifATi, O., Nov. 14. Resident mem bcrsofthe Society of the Army of the Ten nessee aro rocoivingnows of many members who will be here to join the party going from hero to St. Louis to attend the annual meeting Novomber IB and 17. General Schofield is to deliver the annual oration. Secretary Noblo and Secretary El kins are expected to be present. General G. M. Dode is tho President. The old re quirement that members must pay dues irom tbe organization of the society has been rescinded, and the fees are now fixed at $10 upon joining and $1 a year thereafter. Tries to Please Everybody. Baltimore American. Tho weather Is acting with a striking im partiality. It is supplying sunshine and tears, in an attempt to suit all parties. How They Do It In Texas. Dallas News. Shoot the individual who says, "I tola you so." DEATHS HEBE AND EISEWHEBE. Chief Justice Merrlman. Chief Justice Augustus S. Jlerriman died at his home at Raleigh, N. C. urdlauctej. yesterday morning after several months or ill ness. He was born September 15. 1830, in what was then partofBuncomoe county, and early iu lift, after liaTlng received only a common school edu cation, showed nigh ability. He served In the State Legislature and was In the btate militia service duraig thu first mouths of the war. Then he became solicitor and later Judge, reslgulng In 1S65 owing to some conflict wltn General Canby. He practiced law In 1872. and. after a remarkable contest, lie was elected United States beuator. In 1S83 he was appointed Associate Justice and two years ajto was elected Chief Justice. He will be given a Mate funeral. Obituary Notes. The widow of Ralph Waldo Emmerson died yes terday at Concord. Rev. Dr. J. E. Moffett. pastor of the Baptist Church iu Nerth Danville, Va., and the recognized Prohibition leader, who was shot by J. T. Clarl., a lawyer and prominent Democratic politician, last Friday, Is dead. Mil. Amos Siiinbxic. a prominent and wealthy resident of Covington, Ky., died Sunday night in his 71th year. Only on Thursday last the flf tlcth anniversary of his wedding was celebrated. His estate was valued at t2.Ouu.0U0. f Lysahder Tuohpsox, the veteran actor, who lias been confined in the insane pavilion of Belle vue Hospital, New York, since November 4, and been pronounced insaue br the lnsamtr experts, died In the Institution list nig lit. He had played many prominent parts In p ajs under A. M. I'al lu.'.. IJlsiiop II. Milks, senior Ulshoa of the Col ored ji Ihudtsl Eiiisvopjl Church in America, died at his uome In Loulsvlllo yi stcrday morning. The lllsli p was a Kentucklan, and lie at all times en joyed the couiideiiCe or the whites as well as those or his own race. He was the organizer of his church and a Bishop 22 years, preacned more than, 40 years and n as 05 years, of age. A.-W Bwj-. --" t..aY.&jlM&..jWj3Jcii POSING WITH GRACE. Mrs. Edmond Rnssell Talks to Ladles in an East End Mansion A Peculiar Com bination or Natural Beauty Profits or the Southslde Hospital Fair. The handsome music room, and the wide staircase and hall at Mr. and Mrs. Magee's residence at Oakland, yesterday afternoon, was literally packed with a fashionable audience. Alarge proportion of the promi nent society ladies of the two cities were there. The magnet that attracted them was a didactic lecture on "Tho Art of Expres sion," by Mrs. Edmond Russell, tho woll known exponent of Delsartism. For nearly two hours tho speaker held her listeners' close attention, her method of delivery, as well as her subject, having the charm of novelty, as well as conveying a number of useful lessons. She commenced with the warning that if anyone expected hor to tell something new they would bo disappointed, h er Intention being to remind them of facts that wero familiar to them in their infancy, but that they had long sines forgotten. The burden of hor talk was the beauty of naturalness, a quality that Is possessed by everybody until it is spoiled by supposed civilization. "There is nothing more beau tiful than a baby," said the speaker, which assertion she followed by calling attention to tho graco of movement of colored wait ers. They are natural, as a rule, because they have never learned to bo anything else. Going f nrther, she said that savages in their native wilds and animals ot all kinds, wore usually graceful and picturesque in their movements, because utterly uncon scious of themselves. Humanity becomes stiffened and nwkward bv congregating in largo communities. Mrs. Russell gave many illustrations of the right and wrong way to walk; of the riant and wrong way to do work or all kinds, even laborious work. She showed the way to sit down gracefully, and to arise with ease. She said that we do not nso enough muscles in our ordinary movements, but make ono set do the work of three or four. Sue made the assertion that there should not be such a thing as awkwardness in the human frame. She does not believe in making the study of either physical or mental culture separately the work ot our Ilvos, but holds that both should receive attention alternately and together. The corse or woman's liro is hard work, becanse it Involves a strain on one set of muscles perpetually either washing or anv other monotonous woik. This monotony or labor is not good for either man or woman. Reverting to her former statement, that there should not bo such a thing as nwk- waruness in the human family, Mrs. ltusscll said that when she sees a dull, awknard woman she usually traces it to sin. sickness or sorrow. Her illustrations of the points of uer lecture were mucn enjoyed uy tne ladies, and when she showed them in her own person how to sit, walk or stand there was a general rising of tbe assembly so.tliat not a movement should be missed. The ladies seemed to like the seeing as much as the hearing. Mrs. Russell made a very favorable impression. She I a charming woman, ana, as everyDoay in Jrittshurg had heard that she was Iarge'ly endowed with that gift known as personal magnetism, the ladles yesterday afternoon were pleased to find that she had not been praised unde servedly. She was attired in a white robe, draped in classic lolds. confined loosely at the waist with a white girdle. Her hair hung in clusters over her broad, white brow and down the sides of her face. She is a model of grace In every movement, and was said by many of the ladles to remind them strongly of Mme. Bernhardt in her manners and motions. A great deal of interest is manifested in the tea to be given under the auspices of tbe Ladies' Society of the Allegheny Gener al Hospital to-day at the residence of Mrs. M. M. Riddle, 287 Ridge avenue. Allegheny. The proceeds will be devoted to the placing of a young woman in the Homo for Incutablci. Mrs. Riddle, Mrs. U. H. Boggs and Mrs. J. T. Patterson are managing the affair. Great preparations are being made for tbe tea party in aid of the St. Paul's Orphan Asylum, Wednesday, November 18, at La fayette Hall. Sapper will be served lrom 6 until 11 o'clock, and there will be an attrac tive display o' all sorts of fancy article in gaily decorated booths, presided over by jhe charitable ladies interested in the asylum. The supper room will be beauti fied with flowers, pictures, etc., and it is ex pected that the whole entertainment will be a remarkable one in point of interest and beauty. The ladies having it in charge are Mrs. Oliver Jones, assisted by an Executive Com mittee consisting of Mrs. Albort J. Barr. Mrs. Jas. P. Quinn, Mrs. Henry Dallmeyer, Jr. The ladles having charge or the tables are: Table No. 1. Rod Mrs. J. J. Torley, Mrs. D. J. Cullinan, Miss Costello; aids. Miss Devliir, Miss Smith, Miss Brophy, Miss Behan, Miss O'Callahan, Miss O'Donnoi. Table No. 2, Yellow Mrs. M. L. Malone. Mrs. R. D. Brent, assisted by Mrs. Daniel Beach, Mrs. M. McLue, aids, Miss Annie Briley. Miss Fannio Malone, Miss Maggie Flanagan, Miss Lizzie Cabel, Miss Katie Mc Avoy, Miss Madge Byron, Miss Rose Siebert, Miss Grace Dashbach, Miss Camilla Brent. Table No. 3, Pale Blue Mrs. John B. Lar kin, Mrs. John McNulty; aids. Miss Garvey, MiS3 Bessie Pertzman, Miss Amelia Hermes, Miss Sadie Totten, Miss Kate JIcNulty, Miss Mary McKeever, Miss Minnie Buckley, Miss Jennie Neban, Miss Alice Larkin, Miss Katie Rico. Tablo No. 4, Pink Mrs. James P. Irwin, Mrs. Sadie Rodgers, Mrs. J. H. Lanahan, Miss A. McKeown. Aids Mr. McCorkle, Miss Hopkins, Miss Maud Barr, Miss, Auguite Abel, Miss Jennie Callaghan, Miss Alice iveiiy, jiiss A.1ZZ10 coney. Floral Booth Mrs. Albert J. Barr, Mrs. George A. Wilson. Aids Mrs. E. CSchmertz, Miss Mary Barr, Miss Katherine Brennen, Miss Grogan, Miss O'Lenry, .Miss McFarland, Miss Marie Phelan, Miss Coletta Phelau, Miss Lonegan. Lemonade Booth Mrs. Frank J. Wiexel, Mrs. J. J. Flannery. It is expected that when all the accounts are made up it nill bo found that nearly $15,000 has been realized from tho hospital fair in the old postoffico last week. It is intended to payoff the debt of '$1,500 re maining on the ground purchased tor tho hospital, and to mako arrangemiaits for the building itself without delay. A PLEASANT musical and literary enter tainment was given last night by Encamp ment No. I, U. V. L. There was a large audience and a great deal of amusement. The annual suppers of the Ladies' Mis sionary Society or the Fifth TJ. P. Church will commence this evening and continue Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. As adjuncts to the suppers, there will bo a bazar, a fruit and candy stand, and a com mon sense booth. Tho ladies have made careful arrangements, and the entertain ments are expected to bo as successful as they always have been. Mrs. E. D. McCandless and baby, of BIdwell street, Allegheny, are visiting her mother, Mrs. Cook, at her country home near Cincinnati. Mrs. McCandiess is a niece ot tne late Mrs. itutnerioru is. Hayos. Mrs. E. W. Stoke, of Edgewortb, is ex pected to return home this week from At- A pleasant reception was tendered to Mrs. Margaret Brecht.of Forty-fourth street, last night by her children in honor of the thirty-ninth year of her marriage. The Ilaydon Orchestra, with John S. lirechtas leader, was In attendance. The affair was of tho nature of a surprise party. FAEMEE ADAMS' SANITY. Judgo Haven Orders Hira Removed From DIxmont to the Lawrence Connty JalL New Castle, Pa., Nov. 11. Special. There is a carious complication growing out of the "Farmer Adams" case. Adams is tho man who was sent to the insane asylum as an irresponsible, after placing railroad ties on tho Ft. Wayne tracks near Enon and then trying to make a rescue case outof it, claim ing he was shot by train wreckers while clearing the track to save an exptess train. A few days' ago articles appeared in the Pittsburg papers qnoting Dr. Hutchinson, of Dixmont. as saying that Adams was and is sane. Sheriff Doutliltt, of this county, wrote to Dr. Hutchinson for Information. He has received a letter, in which the doc tor flatly denies ever having made any statement that could be construed into a declaration that Adams is sane, and disposing of tno whole bnslnoss bv saying "it is only newspaper talk." Nevertheless Judge Hazen, who made thu order on which Adams was sent to Dlxiiiont aftor his conviction to-dny, maao an order lor the fellow's .removal irom thu itsyiuni 10 tho Ltwrnco county Jail, and the prisoner will bo brought from Dixmont to-morrow. The Judge is con vinced that Adams, is shamming. County Detective Marshal went after Adams this BtternoQU. y .J.jiM,t ....- ' - - -K. -. - --..-.. (..,. ' iiP..-dri jiifttMpjfcK&-u-riJifffi Kfzta TrmrWiwiMnhMryHBBBMMsMBMflBlirfft MMJsssSMri CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. There are"4,000,000 metal miners. Over 1,700 different kinds of soup ars known. Chess is taught in all the Austrian pub lic schools. The first Sunday paper appeared in London in 17S3. The.Gatling gnn was invented by Gat ling in the year I86L The personal estate of the late Date of Manchester was worth only $3,165. Reno, Nevada, has a brass band coo posed of 15 beautiful young women. The South Sea Islanders make au in toxicating drink from corn ana decayed fish. The number of deaths in tho entira world in a century is estimated to be 4,000,. 000,000. The output of the cigar factories at Readinc. Pa., so far this year has been over 100,000,OCO. Beer was the universal drink of the English until the introduction of tea and coffee, about 1G30. Both Greek and Roman ladies painted their faces; for white, using white lead; lor red, tbe juice of an unknown borb. The battle ax was originally a Celtio weapon. The ancient Irish carried axes as tbe men of other nations carried swords. Cancer has been discovered in Ameri can brook trout in a pond in New Zealand. It was supposed that the disease was un known to fishes. General Sheridan's sword, which he is said to have used while at Fort Yamhill, Ore., is reported to be in the possession of an Oregon Indian. The proposed underground electric rail way in London, if sanctioned, will be 16 feet under the Thames, C3 feet beneath Regent's Pars, and 85 lect below Oxford street. The profits of the Paris postoffice, which last year amounted to $10,000,000,have moved the postofflce clerks to consider what steps they should take for getting their salaries raised. Tbe big panniers of 1720 were worn witht a "creaker," a bustle made of linen clotbl gummed and folded, which squeaked out-j rageously with the slightest movement or the wearer. A pie served to Charles IX was made of sparrows, potatoes, eringoes, lettuce, chest nuts, oysters.citron.artichokes.eggs.lemons, barberries, pepper, nutmeg, cloves, maoe, currants, sugar and wine. The production of distilled spirits of all kinds in the United States in 1S91, was 117, 1S0.114 gallons. This exceeded the product ot any previous ye.ir, except 133L when tho aggregate was 11S,ES,U1L One of tbe largest manufacturers of microscopes in Germany has made an ir strument for measuring the curves of lenses which is of such delicacy that it wUlindi cate the 1-2000 th or an inch. A freight car 36 ieet long has been built of steel in Manchester for tho Mexican Kali way Company. It is said to be no heavier than a 34-foot wooden car and will hold nearly three times us much. A Manitou, Mich., young woman re ceived a letter from a Kansas man, in which, he devoted seven pages in telling or busi ness, crops ttnd politics. In a pos'script ho said be would like her to marry him. There are chicken factories in Sexr Eng land that are turning oat thousands of motherless chickens every week more suc cesslully than by the old method, In tha Incubator art leaves nature in the rear. A number of remarkable figures of hammered silver, representing men, womer. and animals, havo been exhumed from a peat bog in Jutland, Denmark, and placed in the National Museum at Copenhagen. The buffaloes in Sumatra, according to an English traveler, in fear of their enemy, the tiger, take refuge at night in the riven, where they rest in peace and comfort with only their horns and noses sticking above the water. The common daphne grown in flowe gardens is ono of tho most deadly poison known to the botanist. Three orfour of th berries will till a man as quickly as stryeb nino and one has been known to kill'a child in halt an hour. From experiments made by English scientists it appears that camphor and oxygenated water are tbe most energetic excitants of growth, not only as regards the acceleration of geruiiiiutionDut as affecting the vigor of plant. ' German piano manufacturers are re ported to be in great distress. Formerly they sold many instruments in Russia, but the present dutyof SlCOonagrandpianoand $60 on an upngiit has almost pat an end to tne export or pianos. The Chinese Empire and dependencies, Mongolia, Manchooria, Chinese Turkestan, Kokanor and Thibet, occupy an area of at least 5,000,OJO square miles, or about one third of Ashi. Que population Is estimated at from 36O,0uO.00O to iao.Wj.W). The frizzled 'glass threads from which cloth are woven are said to surpass in fine ness not only the fines? cotton, but even tha thread of the silk-worm's cocoon, their soft ness and elasticity Dclng even greater than that of manufactured silk ' lint." It is stated that a new departure is about to be taken by the Bank of France with re gard to tho material of its paper issues. Tho notes have hitherto been made from the best rags, but ramie fibro is now to be used, as it is not only stronger but lighter. Labouchere recently printed in Truth tho following as a record of a year's doings of the British clergy: Breach of promise. It cruelty to animals, IS; bankrupts,254; elope ments, lit sniciues, in orunsennes', u;i( aa saults, 10!); various other charges, 84. The United States contains 70,000 law yers, 11.000J of whom are in New York City, making the proportion thcro about one to every 160 of the poDnhitlon. France, with s population ol 40,000,000', has but 6.000 lawyers, and Germany has only 7,000 out or apfapula tion ot 50.003,000. An Englishman has invented a rubber stud for floors and stairs. It consists ora small iron plate with nail projecting front under tho surface, around which rubber ij molded. It is fixed in place by a blow of thi hammer, the advantage being that when worn It can be easily removed and replaced by others. Eacc meetings in India generally in clude some comic feature, and the latest novelty is a "white-tie race." introduced at Klrkee. The competitors ride a certain dis tanco and dismount and kneel before a lad; while she ties a white tie round their neck in a neat bow, then they remount and rnl for tbe winning post. Much depends on tu lady's deftness. ORIGINAL AND JOCOSE. LACE OP SESTIUEST. As I sit and gaze at the lilies (air. That make n her bridal bouquet; I do not marvel at Nature's fine work, Though others who see them may. I do not rave about the delicate scent. On me all such beauty Is loit, ' But I silently tlgure at this time of year. At how many dollars they cost. POIt BABT BCTH'3 BECETTIOX. "What are you doing there," asked Nursy ofBabyMcKec. Fixing it.'! replied Baby, "and say. I m not going to use my high chair any more, so I ami. "Why?" asked Nursy. , 'Cause." said Bany. ( And on investigation it was found the little rascal filled the seat with bent pins. ' 1 ' THAXESaiviso is connto. Crower, the rooster, and Gobler, tha tnrkey. were expatiating on the merits of some of the different members of the fowlyard. wnen m, fine looking young tnrkey passed by. That's a good steady fellow, at all times, said the Gobler. , . . "O. i don't know," replied the Crower, "he's liable to lose his head." as rsrAl. "He put his foot in it this morning.' ' , How!" "By pulling." , " "Pulling what?" His shoe." j oxe wrra a gait. "Give me a Nancy Hanks," said a gar young fellow to the stamp clerk at the postofacei the other day. "What's a Nancy Hanks," asked -the clerk. "Special delivery," replied tbe gay young fel. low. Clues. f i
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