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Cholera at Lyons and Buda Pesth is a r.ot unnatural result of the mild climate of that latitude, which Tpermits the de velopment of sporadic cases from the In fection wide spread through Europe. But the arrival in Canadian -waters of a steamer with five cases on board is an evidence of the persistence of the disease een under conditions which are supposed to stop it. These farts show that the possibilities of cholera are not yet ended. It is most improbable that it can develop to -any extent during the winter months; but nothine, short of the most sleepless vigi lance K likely to prevent the"$-erm from cominj- lis, in some .unsuspected bale of poods or the bacpaj-e of some equally un Busrvctirg traveler. The influences which favor the introduction of the j-erm are illustrated by the almost unanimous attack which the press of Philadelphia is mtking on the United States authorities tor en forcing the President's .proclamation aqaiima essel that had been passed by the port officials. Commerce does not wish to be hampered by strict quarantine regulations, and will only acquiesce in them uuder the threat of the most im minent periL It should be clearly recognised that the safety of the country against cholera next year can only be secured by the most vigi lant and rigid continuance of quarantine throughout this winter and the coming sum mer. Even with thatit should be under stood that there is no complete assurance unless the city is brought to the highest sanitary condition. Pittsburg should take frtepijto maintain the praiseworthy smitary standard which she reached un der the pressnie of the peril last Septem ber. The State Board of Health should l)e armed with full powers and supplied with ample funds. It is a startling com mentary on our political system that while the State has ample funds for polit ical bankers to use as capital, it does not supply a State Board serving gratuitously with the funds necessary to prptect the people against all epidemic. That condi tion of affairs should not last longer than the first month of the next session of the L-eislature. It proper precautions are taken every wheie this country need not fear cholera. . Bat negligence -or over-confidence may be attended with the most fatal results. ONLY AX INCIDENT. Iii the light of the election returns, both Democrats and Republicans are likely to Rgrec that much more was made of Com missioner Peck than the case justified. But it js an Interesting fact that the pros ecution against the Commissioner for the alleged destruction of official papers has been thrown out by a decision of the court at Albany on the ground that the law neither directed him to preserve all his official do-uments nor provided him with a repository for tliera. Tins ends a case which is one of the most remarkable on record. It was a pros ecution by a political party of one of its own appointee.. By its own showing it accused the party inciting the prosecution of putting an unreliable and corrupt man 5n public position. Its real significance, boweer, was the practical assertion of a party claiming to urge a reform policy that a statistician put in office by one party must only produce the kind of htatistics desired by that party and must suppress any showing that does not suit it. Yet neither Peck's statistics nor the In dictment which the Democratic party brought against itself in indicting him, had much influence on the election. The people had made up their minds, and in the light of the event, it is now shown to have been no more than a campaign in cident SILYEB POSSIBILITIES. The possibility of a renewal of the silver Egitation is reviewed by the Philadelphia Ledger, with tho assertion that "Demo cratic success does not mean free silver." The defeat of the silver bill in this Con gress by the Democratic House, the national platform of the Democracy and the well-known opposition of the Presi-crdt-elect to that measure are good grounds for the assertion that so far as the Democratic control gained by the recent election is concerned, it does not imply free silver. But when this thesis is carried to the conclusion that there is "no reaon to fear" a renewal of the silver agitation, it ignores some very positive possibilities created by the results of the late election. It is not to be forgotten that the Third party successes which carry with them Senators from the Western States were based on free silver as a leading issue even, paramount to the tariff. The People's party Senators attain an importance much bejond thpir numbers or statesmanship by the fact that they will probably hold the balance of power, in the 50"- , importance cf such a - the fact that while, power is subject tp b Ice TU'C thirds vote In Congress, a party holding the Lalauce in either "House has an ' absolute veto over all pleasures' on which tbe larger parties are already divided. Now suppose that the People's parly Scnvtors should undertake to say that no strictJv Democratic measure should pass Congress until one or more of their favor ite measures should be enacted. We may credit them with sense enough to know .that they co'Old not force assent to any sub-Treasury, our Government control of railroads, or land loan schemes. But they all stand on a platform which makes free .silver a paramount ii.sue; and it is possible that they might be jcined by one or two -Democratic Senators on that point Let us imagine that his compact body in the Fifty-thlM Congress should say to tho .Democrats in the House, "Gentlemen, " vou wish certain tariff reductions passedCo which we are not averse. But we also ivish a free silver bill passed to which a majority of your members are favorably disposed. The passage of your measure will depend on the passage of ours; and we will see to it that no tariff bills get past the Senate until free silver coinage has been enacted into a law." What would the Democrats say to such a dilemma? If the decision depended solely on President Cleveland it is proba ble that his positive independence, and his clear ranking of the currency question as equal in importance to the tariff, would make him refuse such a dictation. But the decision does not rest on hiui alone. Concede that he would veto free silver, even at the- sacrifice of his favorite tariff measure, the bill then goes back to Con gress. Would there or would there not be enough Democrats in both Houses,swayed by the consideration supposed as well as their personal favor to that measure, to pass the bill over the President's veto? It is by no means certain that free sil ver may not by the .maneuvers of politics be pushed to priority over the Democratic tariff measures. It would not be strange if the Third party Senators should try to force other measures to enactment by vir tue of their position; but that course with the silver IssUe presents very tangible pos sibilities of success. A QUESTION OF GRATITUDE. The story of Mr. Thomas G. Shearman to the effect that Mr. Cleveland used the "big, big D" in refusing Mr. Sheehan's request that he would pledge himself to turn over all the offices to Tammany is re ceived by Hie New York Commercial Ad vertiser with a spirit of belief and also of bitterness. The Commercial Advertiser thinks the-story true among other reasons, because "it implies ingratitude, an 1 Mr. Cleveland is nothing if not ungrateful, and also because it involves profanity and Mr. Cleveland is -never so emphatic as when he has recourse to bad lauguage." This -exhibits the intolerant enmity which is characteristic of the recent con vert to any party or creed. The resort to the emphasis of the word usually and we believe in Mr. Shearman's report ex pressed by dashes, is not likely to be seri ously defended. Nor, we may add,, is it to be seriously attacked. It was a way of impressing the person, to which it was ad dressed, with the fact that Mr. Cleveland meant what he said. As to the charge of ingratitude that is more serious, but it is also disproved by the facts of the case. On the theory that the story is true, which our cotemporary proceeds upon, at the time that the remark was made Tammany had not even by the most wanton spoils doctrine, the slightest claim on Mr. Cleveland's gratitude. It had opposed h's nomination. At iliat lime it was making known its intention to -support him in the cam paign for reasons whicli were doubtless satisfactory to itself. When one of the members tried to exact a very high price for that service Mr. Cleveland emphati cally refused. With that refusal made before Tammany had done a thing to aid Mr. Cleveland's election, it is simply .pur blind political prejudice to assert that it was ungrateful Such a charge is the more pnerile when made by a Republican paper, 'because an opposition journal onght to be able to see that if there is any claim of gratitude in the case there is one wholly paramount to that of Tammany. Mr. Cleveland was elected by the vote of the people of the United States. If he is to be swayed by gratitude it should impel him to admin ister the office's for the benefit of the people and not for the benefit of the Tammany ring, which the Commercial Adtertiner for some inscrutable reason seems to think should be done. We are not Touching for the truth of the story. But we hope that it is true; for it is quite creditable to Mr. Cleveland and not entirely discreditable to Mr. Croker, who is reported to have endorsed Mr. Cleveland's language. VICIOUS COEPOKATE MANAGEMENT. The announcement that the prosecution of the Panama Canal Company's directors has been decided on by the French minis try is accompanied byrtositivo assertions of the most decided fraud and peculation in the operations of the company. It is one of the features of the case that men of such world-wide reputation as De Lesseps in the management, and Eiffel among the favored contractors are in volved in the charges that the funds of the company have been most dishonestly wasted. The payment of 68,000,000 francs to Eiffel for work that was never done and machinery that was never furnished is one of the allegations showing the scale on which fraud Is charged. The affair has two phases of importance. One is the evidence which it gives of the difficulty of exposing and correcting even the most flagrant dishonesty in the man agement of great corporations by in fluential men. Although unparalleled ex travagance in. the management of the Panama enterprise was proved by tha comparison of the work done with the money expended, it was impossible to secure a formu lation of the charge of fraud until the com pany had become bankrupt Even then the official liquidator showed a disposition to cover up rather than expose the traces of dishonesty. It required a Cabinet decision to determine the prosecu tion after the failure of the enterprise was absolute and definitive. Here we 6ee a new illustration of the adage that only transactions of this kind which score a failure, are brought to justice. Tne case also suggests that if tho pecu lations are anything on the scale charged, the failure of the enterprise is due not to tha natural cost of the work but to the wholesale stealingof the company's fundi. This has a reflex bearing on the Nicaragua enterprise. That work is estimated to cost less than the Panama canal; but tf its funds are used to enrich contractors, it may cost as macb: or more What is tho guarantee In the organization of the American enterprise against the repetition of the dishonesty? Certainly the features of asklncr the United States- Government to endorse a ww..v wu ,u4.vwu m ioan'M3,ouu.uwr greater than Urn-estimated 'post of tJjBcanal, and pf fprming a ppn. J struction company by which the directors contract with themselves for performance of the work, do not promise a complete freedom from the Panama Canal scandals. The experience of the Panama scheme, and that of our own Pacific railways, makes the pending Nicaragua proposition an excellent one for rejection. If private investors wish to put their money into the project they have the right to do bo, and take their own measures for seeing that the money is economically applied for the purposes of the company. A SIGNIFICANT STRAW. Senator Vest, of Missouri, has by a pub lic interview placed himself in the ranks of those Democrats who believe in cau tious and deliberate proceedings when it comes to dealing with the tariff. Senator Vest is liable as a result of the heat of conventions and campaigns to talk of "a war of extermination against protected industries." But the value of sober second thought is apparent when the Senator, confronting the responsibilities of legisla tion, declares himself in favor of conserv ative action. The newspaper interview reports tho Senator as saying that the tariff will be re duced on conservative lines, and as ridi culing the idea of an extra session with the remark: "Mr. Cleveland is too level headed for such nonsense. He does not believe in a cavalry charge upon the ex isting system of taxation and finance, and he will proceed slowly." When the radcals among the free traders find Senator Vest takiug the part of slow and careful action they will'per cei ve that the policy of smashing things can not obtain the support of practical men among the Democrats. This is as it should be. The Republicans who desire that the Democrats should ruin themselves by bringing on business troubles show that they care more for party interests than the welfare of the country. The radical Democrats who want the tariff reformed altogether and at once, show that they care more for theories than for conditions. Haiti affords the comic opera com poser an unrivaled field for the realistic de lineation of extravagant situation. The only trouble is that in depicting a revolu tionist amid tropical surroundings, ordoring -gorgeous uniforms and designing conspira cies in order to keep nprlils boarding house credit, it might be held that the legitimate limits of the imagination bad been passed. 'But whon an air of philanthropy is given to the plotter's schemes by his anxiety to post pone aotlon until the harvest hat been gath ered, lest over-hastiness should injure tho Island's trade, the ridiculous is swamped in the magnificent, and fact, indeed, proves 'stranger than fiction. This is an inconveniently late date for the resignation of World's Fair officials and talk of Concessional investigation. Every effort will be necessary in any case to have things ready for the date of opening. Mr. Gladstone's difficulties become more and more manifest as time goes on. Since it is evident that the framing of a 'home rule measure for Ireland involves se rious revenue complications, it is unlortu nate that no abler financier than Sir Will iam Hareourt should be Chancellor of the -Exchequer at this time. But whatever -weakness Hareourt might be expected to display if loft to his own devices for the de sign of n budget, it must not be forgotten that the Grand Old Man himself is among the ablest financiers that England ever pro duced, and more than competent to give his -Minister all the necessary advice. Russia is threatened with another fam ine. A few more seasons of this kind fol lowed by plague ana pestilence may be ex pected to place the Czar's domains in the hands of some international receiver. Senator Quay is expected to deliver an address to the Western University of Pennsylvania on Practical Politics. "Practical"-polItics Is a subject upon which the Senator may be expected to speak with that unimpeachable authority to be derived only from a long and intimate experience of the matter. It'would be a good plan to ha-v e this lecture followetl by one on Civil Ser vice Rolorm from Commissioner Theodore Kooievelt. BleIiA's comet or what there is left of it Indicates by its 180-mile-a-minute gait that it lias caught yie record-breaking mania which has been abroad in the earth this year. TrrnoiD fever, scarlet fever and diph theria are all diseases which lack or sani tary snrronndings do a great deal to en courage. And tbelr prevalence in a section of McKeesport should be a warning to resi dents there to look after their drainage and have a general cleaning up as soon as pos sible. Me. George Miller, Collector of In ternal Revenue for the Twenty-third dis trict of Pennsylvania, should be a con noisseur In the taste of dead sea fruit by this time. When members of the farmers' Alli ance unite to form a Cotton Trust, what will become of their anti-monopolistic pro fessions? But these gentlemen, after all ate no nearer to identifying their practice with their precept than most other folk in 'this ago when self-interest reigns supreme. This is the season when railroaders and telegraphers are apt to wonder whether it really would not pay them to bury their wires everywhere, and once for alt .1 There is no reason why Government employes In the District of Columbia' should not be put under the. protection of the Civil Service Beform Commission. Jlnd 'any enlargement of that body's sphere of useful ness is a reform movement to be encour aged. Henceforth police officers should learn that their professional occupation guaran tees no immunity from the dangers of toy ing with loaded firearms. There appears to be no doubt that those Belgian gas blowers were attempting to violate tho contract labor law, and Secre tary foster, of the Treasury, ought to need little more time to come to a decision on their case. FEOMJNKXT AND P0PDLAE. The President has recognized Jorge Madrilloy as Consul for Spain at San Fran cisco. It is reported in Montenegro that Princa Nicholas Is losing his mental faculties, and' that a regency is contemplated. Madeline Brohan, one of the most charming or the actresses of the Francais, turns ought to be the daughter or a Scotch man named Brown. Dr. William Walter Webb, of Phil adelphia, has been chosen to succeed Dr. Adams as President of the famous Episcopal Training School at Nashotah, Wis. William Dickey was tent to theMaine Legislature in 183, and they are sendinc him there yet. Ho wus re-elected at the re cent election, and is now 81 years old. The Duke ot Connaught, when appointed Commander In Chief of the British army, will have a salary of $60,000, and this in ad dition to his otheremoluments from military appointments. Terence John Temple Blackwood, an English diplomat, aged 26 veara. the sec. -end son of the Marquis of Dufferln and Ava- wiu wed Miss Flora Davis, daughter of John Davis, of Now York. Schubert was a rapid worker. He often composed tho music of three or four songs in a single night He died at the early age or SI, yet In his brief life ho com- vailjr l nosed onr m mnn. ! .. .. eto. , A LOOK AROUND. "There is no dqu,bt that a better feeling prevails in this city in regard to the effect of the nen' administration on business gen erally, since the deaily cut nnd dried assur ances made by Mr. Cleveland," said a lead ing Republican iron manufacturer yester day, "lie cannot Tue led to a radical course after two sueli speeches as ho lias made and retain any degree or public confi dence, and I do not know a man in our lino of business who does not feel relioved. We look ror changes in the tariff, of course, and changes which will benefit the import erf, bnt there will be no slashing right and left. It means much ton. firm doing a busi ness of several millions a year, ns ours does, and we shall take the President on his own declarations. Our money all stays in the country, the importer merely keeps bis profit as middleman, and this will bo considered fairly, we hope. So far ns tin plate is concerned thoproserit tai iff cannot be changed by a new administration for tliree years, as tho present tariff is a contract between tho manufacturersjind the .Government. If wo mako the required percentage in this coun try at tlio end of the contract we can then tetaln the tariff, if we do not it is our fault and wo cannot hope for a continuation of the existing arrangement, although some sort of protection will n o doub t be given. I nm willing to say frankly that Mr. Cleve land seems to have not only recognized the leeling of uncertainty which has existed, bnt has fairly dono as much to reassure those interested as any prudent man cciuTd under the circumstances." The sidewalks along Pifth avenue have been relald to un extent whicli makes walk ing into town from the East End something pleasant. You no longer require either an alpenstock nor hobnailed shoes to get safely over the pavement. It seems as though this pat ticular exercise is becoming decid edly popular among both scxesand all nges. With middle-aged and eldorly men an in crease iu the measure of the bottom of the vest or disinclination to look with interest on a pleading bill of faro is tho motive us ually. Tho ladles in some degree are simi larly ruled, but the younger ones find it a splendid aid ton ard sustaining the fatigue of a german or other exacting long drawn out dxneo. Between 8 .tnd 10 o'clock you can seo many a quiet father of a family briskly speeding towuward afoot. From 9 to 11 on a pleasant day you can see the softer sex doing likewise. There is little or no walk ing out, people are too tired after the work of tho day and there arc too many stiff hills to climb. Theatrical men, or rather those who nre inteiestedin looal theaters, tell me that the present season is a good one so far and bids -n ell to carry out as lavorably as it has begun. Aln ays a reliable town for circusos it has grown to he equally reliable in the support ot the rapidly multiplying houses of amusement. With the best paying thea ters in the United States among us there may be some reason to bolicve that the one proposed in tho East End will keep its head above water. Even Allegheny may be ttoard from in this line some day, but It is not at all probable. A day and an evening in New York or Pittsburg after you have been in Euiopeau cities for any length of time brings before you very sharply several things. First, that our women lolk ate the handsomest and best dressed with regard to individual fitness, but in the matter of figures and size they seein below par; next, that our men wear clothes that fit bettor, but are not or as good material as their English brethren, and that they are not as tidy and well groomed. Then at night you are amazed at the lighting or the streets. Amer ican cities are as noon to midnight with trans-Atlantic communities, and it is just as well they are, for the pavements are worse in an equal proportion. Mrs. Schenley's London home in Prince George's Mansions in London is not at all a pretentious house externally but is said to be beautifully lurnished throughout. It is on the left hand side of Piccadilly going towaid Hyde Park ana Is Just below the entrance to that park, va the' corner just above her lives Sir FredeiickLelghton, the painter, and President or the Royal Society, while a sqnaro around the corner in Victoria Mansions is the home of tho Wilsons, of Tiauby Croft ani baccarat lame. Mrs. Schonley has a lovely villa near Cannes, in which the Royal Duke of Albany died, it being rented at tho time. This lady who is of so much Importance to Pittsburg is much liked in London and so arojier fair daughters nnd son. The whole family are enthusiastic on the subject of yachting and tbey take part in cruises about the Isle of Wight and along the channel a laige part of the year. This reference to Mrs. Schenley reminds me or the remaiks made by a very old Pitts buig merchant to me recently. "It is not generally known," says he, ''that Captain Schenley was not only an English officer, but took part with his countrymen under Gen eral Packcnham at the battle of New Or leans. My father often told tue of conver sations which he had with Colonel O'Hara, who gathered together the great estate owned by the DennysandSchenley. He had been Quartermaster of Anthony Wayne's aimy, and while busiest in handling stores and other things for the troops, ho ran completely out of stationery. He had actually no paper on which to keep ac counts and could procure none, so he jotted down tho data on white batk with sharpened sticks blackened by fire. When he came to settle up with the Government be handed in all the regularly kept accounts first and settled them and then turned over the char coal affairs, l'ou can imagine the howl raised by the department officials and the protests made by them. It turned out all liglit, however, iu the end and there was a settlement so satisfactory that Colonel O'Hara had a piofit of $80,000 in cash. This he Invested In Pittsburg real estate, buying up soldiers' giants and all sorts of available pieces. Just before he died he had the talk with my father to which I have referred. 1 am a poor man in ready money,' said he, Tiut some day my de scendants will be all the better lor my in vestments. The good God never put all that coal in the hills around Pittsburg with out intending that the time would come for Pittsburg to be a mighty manufacturing city. If those who own the property there are wise enough to hold it intact they will have a royal fortune.' I have heard esti mates ranging from $20,000,000 to $30,000,000 as the present value of the Schenley estate, so the wise old man knew whereof he spoke. I see it is announced that Captain Wat kins, of the Inman Steamer City of Paris, and his brother skipper, of the City of New , lork, have not been able to become Ameri can citizens in time to retain their com mands when tneso vessels are placed on the American register. This will be resetted by many Pittsburgers who know both men. When the new registry goes in to effect the line will run to Southampton to compete with the North German Lloyd line, and many hours" will be gained by this to travel ers between New York and London. It is said in London that a combination of Amer ican aiftl English railroad and steamship capitalists intends to rnna line of fleet ships between some point in high northern lati tude on the American coast, say on Now Brunswick, and some place on the Irish coast. These terminals are to be connected with New York and London respectively by railroads running fast trains. It is figured that this would enable tho trip between the two capitals to bo made in close to five 4ays, but there is so much danger from Icq a greater part of tho year In an extreme north ern passage, it is not likely this scheme will ever come to much. Speaking of this and of fast trip", it will seem strange, but It tt a facr.'that a sailing vessel way back In the '30's made the voyage irom this country to Great Britain in a lew hours above five days. The passage was. Jrom St. John's to some Irish port. v Waitze. Between ScyUa and Charjbdls. Washington Poit.1 Perhaps Senator Hill fears a matrimonial alliance would mean a divorce from poli tics. I. ; , So Tott en Was Bight After AIL St. Loan date-Democrat. Lloutenant Totten Is the only- man who MnitithiTii lid a Tn-emooltion of tha - 1til-.Ui1a nt th Itth fnthint 1 I -' - HI8T0BY OF BIILA'S COMET, It Was Discovered in 1830 and Has Been Missing Five Times. New York Tribune. Blela's was a small comet 68 years aso, a short one, and remarkable for being a double one. It was discovered in 1826 by an Austrian officer, whose name it bears. Its Dei iodic character was first detected by Gambart. Its orbit brought it within a few thousand miles of the earth. The comet returned in JS33. Then it was pxpected that an encounter with the earth would take place, which created a panic in the south of Fiance. It passed the point where the expected collision was to occur a month before the earth arrived, and the nearest the two objects came to each other was 15,000,000 miles. In 1839 it was again seen In 1H6 two comets were seen to grow from one, tho first recorded instance of the kind. The first discovery of the division was made in New Haven. For four months tho pair traveled along side bv side, 100,000 miles a part. Sometimes one was brighter than the dUier. On the night of November 27,1872, there was a wonderful meteoric shower. In No vember, 1886, there was another, nnd it was concluded that the Blela comet was no more. That comet has been missing five times, and more than once under favorable conditions of visibility. It is once more the recuirence of its time, and perhaps it has flared up again for the final time, lighting its 11 res in honor of tho Columbian period. l'rot.Pickeilng, besides observing the comet nightly with tno C-lncli and the 15 inch tel escopes, has been photographing it and its spectrum with the 11 inch and 8-lnch glasses. NOBLESSE OBLIGE. Upon a Firth avenue car the other even ing was enacted one of those pathetic little comedies ol everyday life, that, amid the world's hurly burly, go far to.ard giving one a keener and better appreciation of human nature. A gentleman returning from town was seated, bearing upon his lap some choice flowers, doubtless destined for some dear friend or relative. The car stopped for the admission of three buxom colored women: one of them, by the sudden starting or the vehicle before she was seated, was precipi tated rorwiud, and lalllug upon the flowers, completely destioyed them. . Not by the movement of a muscle or a single change of exDression. did the bearer or the flowers betray his mortiflcatloa-Ktid; disappointment; out preserved an nit' rufflsu demeanor and sat apparently un moved and unconcerned amid tho ruin of the blossoms. A lady sitting on the opposite seat, notic ing the Incident and appreciating its sig nificance, requested her husband who ac companied her, to beer the gentleman's ac ceptance of a beautiful chrysanthemum she carried, that the dear one for whom the de stroyed flowers were intended, should not be disappointed. The delicaoy of the offer was appreciated and accepted, thus completing the incident in the true spirit of "Noblesse oblige." F. J. G. TWO SIHGEBS CHIME 10GETHEB. One the Leading Man of an Opera Com pany, the Other a Divorced Wife. CiBciKiriTi, Nov. 19. A peculiar wedding party visited the Court House this morning. The groom was Chos. Hoyden Coffin, leading man of the Lillian Russell Opera Company. Ho gave England as his native land, and said lie was 30 yeais old. The bride's" name was announced us Adelaide M. Deleuw, a native of Germany and a member of the same company. ' It is said this is the denouement of a ro mance which began in London, where the btlde of to-day wus the wife ol the famous musician, IlandigKer. A divorce has been procured, and to-day the English tenor and his handsome pupil were married. DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE. William Harbangh. William Harbaugh, one of the oldest, and best known residents of Allegheny connty, tiled at his late home In Seitickley yesterdsy morn ing at tbe age of 73 rears. Mr. llarbaugh came to this city when a youth. He engaged In the com mission business with his brother. Springer Har bauglf. on Second arenne. and after a'successful career retired from active business. The deceased had been an iuvalld icr years. At the time or bis death lie nas connected with theSenlcUey Pres byterian Church, was a director ot the First Na tional Bank. Allegheny, and fora longtime was Interested In the management of the Sewlckley Gas Company. Mr. Harbaugh leaves a wife and sev eral children. They aie Charles T. U.irbaugb, of Mansfield & Co.. Mrs. Soplirna .Norln. Miss Springer Ilarbaugh, Mrs. Victor Stroble, of Phlla delDbia. and Miss It. Harbaazb. The arrancpe- lneuts for the funeral have not Dee 4 completed. Ex-Congressman Milton Saylor. Ex-Congressman Milton Saylor, of Ohio, once temporary Speaker of the House of Repre sentatives, died suddenly at his residence in New lork Thursday. .Mr. saylor was alanyer, but had not practiced much In the past Arc years. He was unmarried, 61 years old, and In comfortable cir cumstances. He was born In Lewisburff, Preble county, O., November 4. 1831: was graduated from Miami University In 1852, and afterward from tho Cincinnati Law School. He practiced law In that city, and was ele ted from there to the State Legis lature of 1862-3. In 1872 he n as elected Representa tive to Congre s, and served continuously In the House until 18S0. In 1S7C he was elected Speaker Ero tempore. Owing to the death o speaker Kerr e was Acting Speaker for several months. Captain Perry Brown, Rochester, Pa. Captain Perry Brown, who has been ill for a week past with what developed into conges tion of the lungs, died at Rochester, Pa , Friday morning. Ho was 72 years old, and leaves two children, his wife having died about four years -ago. Hon. H. P. Brown, or Kochtster, President ..7.1. Ila.Hl.ta l-l.nt.l. Otaun, ta.lli..i I. a,.... a. F the deceased, and Mrs. S. 1J. Campbell, of Beaver Falls, is a daughter. Captain lirown was well Known anion! the river toatmen. and particularly as captain between Pittsburg and New Orleans. He retired from stcamboatluir 20 rears asro. arid has lived at Kocbes ter on his Investments In real estate. Mr. lirown was a member of tnellridge water Presbyterian Church and a public-spirited citizen. Obituary Notes. WiLtlAM CUVILAXD, second cousin of Tresl-dent-elcct Cleveland, died Friday at fcellersburg, Iiid., ol tvphold-pneumonia. Mr. Cleveland was 4.0 years old. MISS Kittie CYI.EK, or Mt. Clemens, Mich., died last Tuesday from consumption. She con tracted the cold this summer when out fishing with a party ofPitisburgers. Thomas C. Love, who .has been a traveling agent for the Druramoud Tobacco Company, it. Louis, the past three years, dropped dead ofheart disease in tbe office of the Central Hotel, Altooua, Friday evening. Rev. Da. James CAsrAn Cluttebbucx, a clergyman of the Church of England, who was senteuced at j.ondon a year ago to imprisonment for four years for obtaining money by false pre ,tenses, has died in prison of syncope. W. W. EfrO ar, editor of the Virginia Lancet, a newspaper published at Petersburg. Va. . In tbe in terest of the colored people, died Friday. He af one time represented Petersburg In the Virginia Legislature, and always took an active part in pol itics. SCHDUZ FOR TUB SENATE. Mb. Scucp.z is an able rhetorician nnd nimble- adventurer in politics. Sew York Sun. It will not be Senator Carl Schurz from New York, whoever may be chosen os suc cessor to Hiscock. Boston Globe. Caul Schubz seems to be under the im pression that Cleveland's election was the dawn -of resurrection day. Rochester Jem& crat. Ottb swipe ot the Tiger's pw and the Schurz boomTfill dissolve into thin air with a faint report, followed by a mephitie odor. Minneapolis JTrUnmt. These are too many way stations on tjho Schurz routa to tbe Senate. Besides, the New York maohlne is greased for the Mur phy limited. Washington Post Sous Mugwump papers advocate Carl Schurz for the Senate from New York. These papers don't understand yet that tbe Tam many tiger has swallowed them. Toledo Blade. The present talk about electing Carl Schurz to the United States Senate is merely a "joke." It doubtless tickles Mr. Schurz and doesn't scare the man who fs going to get the plate. Sew York Press. (.am Schubx, he or unsavory political pre dilections, is a candidate for Senator fronr the State or New 1 orlc'. on the nomination' of the Mugwumps. He will never know that he is in the race. Grand Hapids Berald, CAitE Soaniiz Js sufficiently a philosopher to thinf that if the Senatorial lightning docs not strike him there will be enough of him left over to be a constant reminder that he cannot be overloolod when politics is on the cxpt! Philadelphia Tim t. Now that tho,Xew York machine has de clared that Murphy shall" go to the United. States Senate, the Mugwnmps may us well pick the shoe peg from their coa tails and oonslder their case settled. They are knooked Silly as wsqal,- Pjtf KPtoter. fTfW. , . IN NEW YORK COBBIDOBS. trBOM A STAFF COHBEgroKDIKT. New afoKK. Nov. ID. I met ''Steve" Dorsey In Wall street tbe other day, and was sur prised to see how well he was looking. Dor sey came out of the celebrated Star Route trials a bruised and broken man, physically, mentally and financially. He was probably more hurt at the desertion of piominent men whom he had made and whom he bad thought his friends tban-from "ail his misfortunes- Before the great Star Boute scan dal, with which his name' was coupled, Dor sey was a man who made and unmade Presi dents. In the long and bitter trial, how over, that followed the exposures he found himself not only deserted, but pushed to the verge or tbe prison bars by the very" men he had been chiefly instrumental in lifting into high official station, . He found himself hounded down by newspapers that had tried and convicted him before he appeared before the legal tribunal that acquitted him. Treated as a" felon and denounced as an outlaw on every hand, his naturally open hearted, genial nature Decome soured. Ho, drew into his shell ahd away from tho rest of the world. Most of his time was spent In tbe solitude of his far Western ranch, although be had headquarters and' a business connection in lower Broadway. His occasional appearance uptown was invariably the occasion lor tho idex finger ot the idler and lounger, so he came up seldom. His habits or life, very liberal always, became gradually worse. He was a brainy man of restless energy and proud courage struggling in vaiu against terrible odds and pretty soon he was down. He was very much down, too with suits knee deep. But Dorsey had lots "of pluck. Hebeganagalnjattbe bottom, by changing his whole course of lire. Tie disappeared tor a wlfile; now he returns. to New York look ing like a man who bad renewed both youth and hope. He is interested in Colorado irri gation, and it is reported that he will soon he on his financial feet more solidly than ever he was. The Latest Swindling Scheme. "Jack tbe Weeper" if well known about the lower town. Ho has been exploited in the newspapers in connection with arrest and incaiceratlon, has been interviewed and had his portrait printed and on various oc casions has sworn off from professional weeping. "Jack tho Weeper" Isa"dimlnu tive looklng-speclmen of 7-year-old boy, with a 20-year-old face and a stock of experience and cunning rarely accumulated by mankind this side of SO. He is ostensibly. a newsboy,, but the fraternity hold him in ''great con tempt or know htm only to thump hlnr. His "racket" has been to gut a bundle Of papers together late in the evenirig and weep at the foot of the elevated stairs downtown. -. Sym pathetic people cast him pennies and niokels and dimes, and sometimes an occasional quarter or hair dollar found an abiding place in the weeper's inside pocket all on tho supposition that ne was an honest lad whp had2beenN"stuck'-IlTus the weeper found that tears could be coined into cash more eoaily and profitably than by the or dinary coarse of the news trade. But just as Jack" had worked up a fairly regular trade in comes a policeman a cold and cal culating man or the world with a club and broke np business by arrest, examination and consequent publicity. At tbe foot ot the downtown stairway of a Sixth avenue elevated station in the most fashionable part of New York recently oc curred a scene which demonstrated that "Jack the Weeper" had not only not gone out or business, bat-had vastly Improved upon former methods.. , It was about the fashionable shopping hoar and the swell women and dilletanto young men were flocking to tbe down-town trains. A delicate lad with a consumptive cough and a bundle of cast-off morning newspapers stood shivering at tho foot of the stairs, two great big homemade tears plowing their way through the dirt on his cheeks, as the muddy waters of the Missouri seek the sea. Several of us stopped out of sympathy and began to question tbe boy. At the same time nearly every handln'the crowd instinctively sought lorcliange. An exceedingly sharp-eyed lady imnulsively pulled out a bill and pushed" it 'into his trembling fingers, accompanying tbe act witnanaDpeaiinirtooKaroununpon moresc or us. And It worked. Everybody in sight gave silver and an old lady wno came in later on tbe scene pressed a two-dollar noto upon the child. I missed two trains to note tho goodly sight and I felt proud of my fellow creatures and tbe beau tiful sympathy of my kind. The boy never said a word he merely coughed and wept and scooped in the coin. In the excitement or the moment I forgot an errand I had at the next station and went past it. Then 1 got out, went up the otner side' and ' rode back. There was a little mob gathered on the downtown side at the foot of the stairs. So nearly like the other mob was it that at first I thought I had made another mistake and gone back to my starting point. But no; it was the next station. Well, "shiver my timbers," as the old salt says, icheie wasn't the same boy with the same graveyard cough, the same weep, the same old papers; and, what was more aston ishing, here was the same sharp-eyed benevolent lady in the midst of a group of sympathetic women just starting a liberal subscription. My first impulse was to jump in and grab her and yell lor tbe Dolice; but I conquered it and walked away, wondering how uinch money there as in this new snap of the woman and the weeper; A JTeature of Metropolitan Life. It must strike any observant person' who uses the elevated muph that some women exhibit a good deal of stupidity. At the down-town stations in the late afternoon, and especially at those stations of the Sixth avenue line in the great shopping districts, women pour upstairs in solid columns and crowd theplatforms In droves. As a rule they attempt unanimously to board the particular cars directly opposite or nearest to the ticket chopper. There are a few who have profited by experience 'and seek the first or last car of the train. These cars are frequently unfilled when the three middle cars are packed to suffocation. And those ft ho ai e in the first and last cars are usually men. I have olten seen from 40 to SO women hanging to straps in the middle of a train when there were vacant seats in the end cars. Yet every station will add its quota to tho lull cats. The end cars are particularly desirable in winter because there is little ornono of the terrible draught that sweeps, through the cars that are opened at both 'ends every time the train appioaches a. 'station. But this apparent stupidity of woman is still more apparent in tbe fact that many women w ill hang to a strap with vacant seats one way or tbe other a few feet distant in the same car. You can seo this ovary day and every trip. Itlsono of the curious' things of metropolitan every day life. My obser vation compels me to say that women in a crowd have no more sense than a drove of pigs. A Poor, but Wise, Professor. There is a well-known gentleman in this city who,, when a young man'at 'college, fell in. love with a protessor's daughter. Of course there is nothing remarkable about that. Both were young, and she was beauti ful. The professor was poor; dui he was wise. There is nothing' remarkable about that. Wisdom i often associated with pov erty, especially that sort ot wisdom that comes irom books. The young man was also poor; but he was not wise he wanted to marry the girl right off. And there was nothing remarkable about tbat. But the poor wise professor told the" poor unwise young man: "Go forth go and do something. I don't care what you do, but- go and do it. Then we'll see about the girf. If she reulrythinks she can't get along wlthoufryou she won't mind waiting a year or two. If she won't wait you.won't want her." t The poor unwise youngman filed the nsual demurrer, but. it was promptly overruled. Then he went forth. The first thing-he did wa3 to go nnd buy a package 'of cigarettes and sit down and think. lie did so much thinking of this kind that he nearly sfarved to death. Then he tried Something else and picked np $2 a week and $20 worth or self-respect. But he didn't see any opening for matrimony and, tried something else. This, too, failed. Then he tried something else. The professor said lie was a shiftless fellow a tolling Btone. The daughter said he was a noble young fellow and would get there. Tho yauns. man had that girl in his eye all the time. Yet he seemed to monkey with the great world. He tried literature news paper literature. The pfrofeswr said, that settled'ie, ' So did the girt. -, - It did settle it for the young man, now nnwise and young nolonger, grew to fame and wealth us the head or a great syndicate makes $15,000 a year, married tire professor's daughter and hires the professor at $15 per f week to kill copy. More of a Millinery Shaw1. "The horse show," said a visitor to New York who had been there on the opening night, ougbito be called tu6mil.iry show. .Nine-tenths of the real display was' in dress goods, the other tenth In-hOrces. .After, all.. Itae Iotk shows, beach, tbovs ad. the aW horse fairs, etc., are bnt copies of old "En- fllsh customs. There is more horse in the Ingiishman's show nnd less attention to millinery. Tbe -most conspicuous feature or tbe Madison Square Garden entertainment was tbe acreage or stylish bonnets and white shirt fronts. Very-few people paid much attention to the horses. What the swells came to sec was each other tbe rest of the world went to seo-the swells." Chares T. Icbbat. CENTS XHAI atfZAH DOLLABS. First of the Columbian Half-Dollars Turned Out in Philadelphia. PHiiAnEirBiA, Nov. 19. The most valuable half-dollar ever made in this country, and probably the most valnable coin in exist ence, the first of the new World's Fair souv enirs, -was turned out .at the United States Mint here to-day, and delivered to James W. Ellsworth, Chairman of the Committee on Liberal Arts of the World's Columbian Exposition. In addition to this valuable piece of money, for wbich a bid of $10,000 has been made, there were also coined and de livered to Mr.Ellsworth the four hundredth, fourteen hundred and ninety-second and eighteen hundred and ninety-second of the new halt dollars. Over2,000of thesourenirs were struck to-day, and the work will con tinue nntil all of tbe 5,000,000 donated by Congress are completed. With the exception of, the four valnable coins specified the re mainder will be held at the Mint nntil orders for their disposal are received irom the Treasury Denartment. When the hour arrived Superintendent Bosbyshell was summoned to the press room by Cniei Coiner William S. Steele, wuile Engraver Charles Barber, who designed the famous coin. Chief Clerk M. U. Cobb and Others assembled as witnesses. The first coin struck had a flaw in it, but the second waspenect and was placed in a box with a certificate to the effect that It was the first or the 5,000,000 half dollars. One hundred proof piece were tnrned out by band before power was applied to tue machinery. BACK .DI.I.S OF VETEBANS. The Old Qnestien of Making Good Paper Depreciation Is Kovived. WA-SHrsoTOH, Nov.19. Second Auditor Pat terson, in his annnal report, devotes con siderable space to a consideration of the musty question of paying soldiers who served during the War of the Kebellion, or their widows or legal heirs, the difference between currency and gold. He estimates the amount to pay these men the difference at $114,922,5000. which amount would be swelled to $200,000,000, provided commis sioncd officers were, also, paid on the gold basis. The Anditor says tbe present indications are that the balance on hand for tbe pay ment of claims for back pay and bounty will be exhausted long before the close of the present fiscal year, and tbatmany claimants will have to wait for their dues nnless Con gress provides for their pay ment during the coming session. , THE PENH8Y TO BE SH0ETENED By a Short Cnt From William Fenn to Shenandoah Via Mount CarmeL Sunbcry, Pa., Nov. 19. Pennsylvania offi cials here confirm the report tbat the com- -pany proposes building a raiiroaa irom William Pcnn to Mount Carmel. it is be lieved that ultimately a connecting link will Join Mount Carmel and Shenandoah, giving the Pennsylvania what it needs a more direct route to Philadelphia. The company, too, is on the bunt for coal tonnage, and the. e Is no doubt there Is room for it west of Shenandoah. Tho new lino will follow the track to Mount Carmel col liery, and then take the south side ot the mountain to Centralla. , .. Mineral Lands for Settlement. .Washibotox, Nov. 19. The President to day issued an executive order, restoring to the public domain all the lands described in tbe Executive order of May 17, 18S4, by President. Arthur, that llo west of the 110 west longitude in Utah. The ordsr or Presi dent Arthur withheld from sale and settle ment and set apart for "Indian purposes" a very much larger tract. The lands now re stored are only the western half of the small part lying in Utah and there is strong reason to ooneve it is very ncu in mineral, gold, silver and copper. Should Bun for Congress. Philadelphia Tlmes.l Mrs. Lease, of Kansas, Is not likely to be sent to tho Senate. There is a pretty well established feeling in tbl3 country that woman's place is the House. Borne Wasn't Unlit in One Day. New York World.1 Pittsburg again bestirs itself over a rumor that Its lata Superintendent of Police was poisoned. It would have been a good plan to settle that report when it first came np. Don't Use Fire-Crackers. Evening Wisconsin. A cannon cracker thrown by an election jolllfler at Pittsburg totally blinded a 7-year-old boy. Isn't it about time the size of fire-crackers was limited by lawt MB. P0WDERLY IN ST. LOUIS. Uroif tho question of the restriction of im migration Mr. Powderly strikes the right key. Philadelphia Telegraph, There Is nothing novel in Mr. Powder ly's views, but they possess significance by rea son or the office whicli he holds. Sew York Tribu'ie. Mb. Powdeblt is one of the few leaders in labor organizations who appreciate the im portance or putting a check on immigra tion. Philadelphia Press. Mb, Powdebly's address at St. Louis con tained some good suggestions, but as a whole it was addressed to a single class and a single interest. Indianapolis Journal. The Knights of Labor, in session at St. Louis, heard Mr. Powderly tell them that immigration should be restricted, and that no one should be allowed to vote unless he could read his ballot. And Mr. Powderly was right. IlarrUburg Telegraph. Me. FowDEBLvappears to be more strongly in favor of restricted immigration than ever. The plan he proposes is certainly sweeping enough, and is worth reading, whether one agrees or disagrees with the head of the Knights or Labor. Boston Globe. These will not be any loud dissent in any quarter on this side or the Atlantic from Mr. Powderly's protest against indiscrim inate Immigration. The next session of Congress ought to pnt a law on the statute books that cannot be evaded or neglected. .Deii-orf Journal. Mb, rowr.Eni.Y's suggestions ror tho restric tion or immigration and an educational qualification ror voters are both wise. If he would bend all his energies to tho accom plishment of these two great end. important and substantial reforms might result. Cleveland -Leader. Mb, Powdebly's proposals will assume im portance ir ho is re-elected Master Work man. It is reported that 4b ere is serious op position to his nf-election, but a similar re port baa prevailed at every General Assem bly of the KnUhts, and may not mean more now tban it has heretofore. Haltimore American. DEAD LEAVES OF AUTUMN. Ye dead leaves of Autumn. HoWye call 16 mind The fallings, misfortunes And wrecks of my kind. Blown hither and thither The gale recks not whither. By Nature resigned To the wind and the weather! Ye dead leaves of Autumn, All sudden and sere. Mere rags that encumber The fast tailing year. Though Spring's bridal garments When April ran rhyme And the pride and the glory or summer's tull prime I .Ye dead leaves of Autnu.n! No sun can restore. Nor dew balms replenish Tbe sheen as of yon;; Bnt restlessly shirting And tossing and drilling In the sunshine no mora Your blight beauties lifting: Yedead leaves of Autnmnl ' My heart Is as dead. With the glad light around ms And bine sky o'erhead t ( My hopes are as scattered; Life's promise Is gone, .7 And toward Time's dark whiter I drift hero, alone! , I V r-Mmtgotntry M. JPAtom in AiSania JVtrnaU . CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. Ice cream was first made la Paris, Frcnee has G9.350 public schools &nd 11,100 private ones. There are 76 different kinds of punch known to the trade. Spears are found in the earliest hiero glyphics of Egypt. Billiards.were invented in France by Devigue about 147L There are nearly 500 buffalos in tht Yellowstone National Park;' Sapper, eaten in a recumbent position, was the principal Boman meal. Between-1659 and 1700 nearly 100 dra matic poets flourished in England. A Georgia woman has a set of silver teaspoons which she claims are ISO year old. Four-fifths of the refuse iu London to be carrifd away consists of ashes and cinder. The Milford, Ind., Mail announces edi torially that it will take no more wood for subscriptions. The production of distilled spirits of all kinds in this country last year was 117. 183,111 gallons. About 250 B. C, a fashion of goods with star and dice patterns became popular all over Greece. Among the Digger and TJte Indians there is no edible so highly esteemed as tha common grasshopper. Several prominent ladies in Somerset, England, have discarded the woman's saddle for the man's saddle. The English clergy was at first very - bittei against the fork, one man declaring imi Aba ua wus ..lupiuua. Cargo steamers are growing in size. A 9,000-tonner was launched two weeks ago, and another one similar In size i3 being laid down. Brown University claims to be one of the first colleges in this country to act in tbe matter of making a scientific exhibit at the World's Fair. The English Cabinet has decided that for the future the Attorney General and Solicitor General shall relinquish their pri vate practice. It does not seem to be generally known that tbe turkey was domesticated by the In dians long before the discovery of this con tinent by white men, but such is the case. Paris gardeners buys toads, which theyt use as insect destroyers. There is a regu lar weekly sale of these hideous little ani mals in the French capital. They cost $1 a dozen. One of the largest hides ever tanned was received In Boston the other day from a San Francisco tannery. It is U feet In length, 8 feet In width, and weighs TOO pounds. Some of the boys of Berlin seem to pre fer suicide to life. In the last It months 63 of them committed suicide. Fifty-four ol them were under 15, and one of them was not 7 yours old. Tbe Turkish Government has not ex actly Introduced civil service into its army, but it has decreed that no officer below tbe rank or Major shall have more than. one wire. Tho number of a major Is a minor matter. The cities that claim to be the birth place of Columbus outnumber those ancient cities that claimed Homer, Italy, England, Ireland and Spain all having their advo cates. Only two or three, however, insist that they have bis remains. The largest specimen of extinct animal ever found in the world was the skeleton of a Dinosanrian reptile, discovered in the Bad Lands in 1882. The'weight of the sknll alone was 691 pounds and of the whole skeleton 1,000 pounds. It is now in the rooms of the Academy of Natural Science, Philadel phia. The German Socialists report that they control 70 newspaper organs, of which 22 are political d lilies. Tbe subsidies granted to some of them amount to 66,000 marks- a vear. The Yarwarts, the leading socialist organ, circulates about 37,000 copies and makes money. The Socialist book trade Is also growing. ' The fumes and exhalations from the sulphur springs 'or Colorado can be distin guished at a distance of fully 20 miles. The peculiarly pungent smells resulting from bush and prairie fires may be perceived at a distance of 30 miles or more. The delicious perfume or the forests or Ceylon is carried by the wind 25 miles out to sea. In 1889-90 12,686,973 pupils were en rolled in tbe elementary and secondary pub lic schools or the nation. In 18S0 there were but 9,867,305. The average daily attendance in 1S90 was 8,114,938. For the support or pub lic schools in 1890 tho stun or $110,274,484 was appropriated, or an expenditure or $2 24 per capita. School property is valued at $73,334, 729. It is said tbat Christian missionaries in foreign countries have more trouble to con vert Mohammedans than any other class of people. Pagans are much more easily reached. Even tho followers of Confucius and Brahma occasionally yield some of their number to the appeals of the Catbolio or Protestant missionaries, but the disciples ot the prophet are as impervious as stone. The last year is said to have been one of general prosperity to the Oklahoma farmer. The real and personal property of the Territory the Governor estimates at$40, 000.000. There are 5 national banks in the Territory, with a deposit account of $150,000 each.and 4 incorporated banks. 2 with $50,000 capital and 1 with $30,000. There are also 14 private banks with an average capital of $15,000. Public executions in Paris prove very profitable to the owners of houses com manding the scene. Windows are let out for tbe occasion, the landlords watching for the first sign of the execution, and then at once sending word to the persons who have hired the room. IT an ordinary criminal is executed the charge is usually about 15s per place, but should the offender have com mitted any remarkable crime the price runs up to-CG. In Tokio, Japan, surgical operation are very successful, and the healing process rapid, owing to the abstinence of the people from alcohol, and their not being flesh eat ers. The mortality is only 20 per LOOO, in spite of the large infant mortality due to lack of care. It is not unusual to see a week old baby strapped on tbe back of a child about 8, and sent out to be Jumbled about as its infant nurse disports itself with other children in the streets. . ORIGINAL AND JOCOSE: too rotrrE. "I thought young Hopetobe was on your teaai? 'No, we only tried lilm." "Wasn't he any good?" "I don't know; he wasn't on the Held long enough to tell." Why, did be get hart?" "o: be ran into fellow and stopped to bei his pardon." "Oh!" HE S.3EW THE SIOXAL. "Do you see tbat blonde gentleman com ing down the street yondert" "Yes." "Well, watcn him run. 14-lS-:t-l" On number two the, blonde gentleman started o a a dead gallop, dodging everything. Including tele graph poles. He was Willie Eountzjam. the foot ball player. BAD, BAH, BAH, YALE. . The battle's o'er, the victory's ours, Wave hlsh the flag of bine. And rah for Yale a mighty rah. Come, every man or yon." Another feather's in our cap, , .Old Cambridge now is dead; So let us shake the blue to-night. And use fair Harvard's red. Footballs and coming out balls are very seasonable. A TEW BACKS. "Mirandi, when my boy first went to col leege they called him a mossback. and now I see by this here papeVthev're calUn' him a full back." "Can our boy be drlnklu'. Cyrus!" "I don't know, but I'll pack, my grip and ga right on. and If lie Is he'll be a called back quicker than greased llghtnlnT' TOIt ASTr.OKOMJO BEA303S. "Why do,you play that brutal game? "It's lull o'r knocks and Jars." That's exactly why! play it, dear, 'I'ui stud jlng np the stars." - .- .- - '. - Cbcs&I- U'V.IC' .-WV?S . .4i ,- . & "aMl "-1 S xj ' , a. . -t XMfit. t&MMlBIilfl
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