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A leading Pittsburg manufacturer writes us enclosing a circular which an agent of the city of Buffalo recently distributed among our people, promising power at half the cost that prevails here and a handsome cash subsidy besides to any con cern establishing itself In BulTala Our Pittsburg correspondent contrasts this policy with tlie railroad discriminations and hitjh taxes, which work against Pitts burg, and nmowhat pathetically asks what shall Pittsburg manufacturers do to preserve theirtradc and supremacy. The question answers itself. Theymust bestir themselves for the interest of the town in place of relying always upon its great natural advantages. If Buffalo capital can harness Xiagara, it is the greater reflection upon Pittsb"t tlr we do not build the ship canal to I -...v Eric, which would be of immeasura bly greater benefit- If the railroads will not gie Pittsburg as good rates as they give other cities it is because our people have not had the energy and promptness in securing competition which has won at thp other places. If the tax rates in Pitt-burg are higher than they should be, it is largely because the very same people who cry out against the disparity decline to take a concerted interest in putting the sort of men thej want in power. In short, Pittsburg has to value organ- I7ed and determined effort. Its natural advantages have in the past been enor mous but energy at other points can dimmish them. As a class our manufac turers particularly have never felt the necessity of co-operation or of promoting tlie ueneral interests and prosperity of the town, but, with other places like Buffalo and Chicago reaching out and a reduction of the tariff probable, they may find new occasion to exert themselves. The phlebotomizing process is not pleas ant to contemplate, but it helps the brain and stirs the lect When Pittsburgers be come hardpr pressed by competition they will doubtless take the steps to meet it Up to date the policy has been the simple and lazj one of relying almost wholly on natural advantages and a helpful tariff and submitting incidentally to all the ex actions that these advantages can bear. prtciiiurnoN rN mhjth Carolina. There is novelty and interest in the an nouncement of a press dispatch from South Carolina that "if the Legislature obeys the will of the people as expressed at the recent election, South CaYollna will bs a prohibition State in the neartfuture." But it is not such a startling novklty as it would have been if Georgia had irqt pre ceded her in the same road. i Nevertheless the reversal which sNiith Carolina as a prohibition State must wvrse upon our preconceircdidcasof thePalme to Commonwealth invests the announce ment with extreme Interest to the whole country. If prohibition should be enacted there the proverbial remark to thcTJhlef Executive of that State would seem to as sume a prophetic nature, and the "long time between drinks" would surpass the most horrible dreams of the ante-bellum chivalry. Thc'colhsions which have here tofore furnished most of the news from that bellicose section, would bo replaced by the efforts of the law to suppress the illicit merchandising of speak-easles and the possible establishment among the cot ton fields and magnolias, of the exotic feature of law and order societies. It is well, however, to moderate our ex pectations by the reflection that Southern prohibition may be built on different lines from the Northern article. There is reason to believe that the Colonels and Majors may even under prohibition set out the seductive beverage to welcome their friends and still know no fear. In deed carping critics have gone so far as to assert that in these Bourbon States the purpose of prohibition is only to exclude the colored brother from the cup which biteth. In which case, the impartial mind will reflect, -so much the better for the colored brother. COBTLT EXPERIMENTS. English experts are beginning to be very positive with the opinion that began to be entertained some time ago, to the effect that the huge cannon which Europe has been making with such industry these many years are collectively a gigantic mistake. They are liable to burst after a comparatively few shots, they are very unwieldly in use, have to be loaded and moved by machinery that is liable o dis arrangement, and represent a cost wholly out of proportion to their effectiveness. The sum total of which is that the British Government has determined to put no more guns of over fifty tons in Its vessels; and these must be provlded.wlth means of working by hand if the hydraulic machin ery for their operation Should break down. There is no doubt that this decision is a wise one. It may quite possibly lead to the further decision,- which'',' " eople are beginning to suspecttr and costly battle 6hIpD.ffeflTTW't . -ter guns are accompaniments,- are equally un wieldly, cumbrous, costly and out of pro portion to their efficiency. The fact is that the battleships of to-day represent the expenditure of millions simply on theories, without any actual demonstra tion in practice. No contact of ironclads with Ironclads has demonstrated the superiority of the modern battleship. There has been no naval warfare in which this typo of vessels has been so pitted against the other classes to prove that they possess any such value as to approxi mate their"enormous cost The tests of naval warfare have given more demon stration of the value of the smaller craft with slight exposed surfaces beyond the turrets which contain the guns. For these reasons it will be no more than common sense for the United States Gov ernment to confine Itself to a tentative construction of the big battle ships, and give its attention mainly to the results to be obtained from torpedo boats, whale backed armored vessels, and coast defend ers of the monitor class. WHICH ASSURANCE? In an article affirming the foolishness of any manufacturer who reduces his work ing force or cuts down wages on account of the Democratic victory, the Philadel phia Times makes this declaration of the Democratic policy on the tariff: "No tariff bill will becomo a law during the Cleve land administration that reduces tariff taxes on any of our general products be low the point of the full difference be tween the cost of well paid labor here and abroad in the same calling." "We agree with the Times that any man who reduces his employes before the nec essity arrives is extremely foolish. But as regards its announcement of the policy to be followed by the Democratic parly, the country at large might like to know on what grounds this assurance rests. No one is likely to have forgotten that a reso lution was reported to the Chicago con vention by the Platform Committee, em bodvine exactly that policv. and was voted down by that body at the rate of five to three. The question therefore arises: Will that portion of the Democracy repiesented by the minority of the National Conven tion control the Democratic legislators, or will the majority of that convention be able to do it? The ordinary presumption would be that a convention representing the party would be .able to define its legis lative policy; and that when the Demo cratic convention repeated the statement of this policy, and adopted in its place its radical and destructive platform, that be came the party programme. It Is true that the President-elect took occasion dur ing the campaign to discard the party platform. But the President does not originate tariff bills. They must be framed in the Ilouse, where the element that dominated the Cbicaso platform is represented. Does the Times mean to in form us that the President will veto any tariff bill that represents the extreme measure and that Congress will sustain him? We sincerely hope that its state ment is correct, but we would like to have more positive information as to the grounds on which it is made. Incidentally we may further remark that if the tariff is not reduced below the difference in labor cost between articles manufactured in this country and Great Britain Including, of course, the labor cost of the materials the reductions from the McKinley schedule will be slight and unimportant MR. MORROWS RETIREMENT. The statement of Controller Morrow that he will not be a candidate for re election will cause general surprise, and even moro regret Few public ofliciils have so full' possessed the confidence and esteem of the people. Three years ago Mr. Morrow was upon both the Repub lican and Democratic tickets, and would very probably have been successful even if he had been upon neither. It Is certain that an effort will be made to induce the Controller to reconsider his determina tion, but he is quoted as positively declin ing to continue in the office beyond his present term. The announcement will undoubtedly call forth a number of candidates for the prospective vacancy. The position is eminently one which demands a com petent and vigilaht administration. Mr. Morrow's successor will be fortunate if he shall so thoroughly satisfy the public in these respects; the interests of the city demand the best possible selection. HARD ON THE REPUBLICANS. Something of a political sensation has been started in Massachusetts by the claim that a close inspection of the election re turns shows that Halle, the Rspublican candidate for Governor at the recent elec tion, was the real choice of the people, but that enough mistakes were made in the marking of the ballots to elect Russell. This of itself looks like something of an impeachment on the ability of the Massa chusetts Republicans to mark their ballots correctly; while the details of the claim make the impeachment even more posi tive. The grounds on which the claim is made are as follows: The officialliallot bore the name of Wolcott Hamlin, the Prohibition candidate for Governor, next to that of Ilaile, the Republican candidate; while Roger Wolcott, the Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor, appeared In Its proper place in another part of the ticket The claim is made, as certain tickets have been found with both Halle and Hamlin's names marked which resulted In throw ing out the tickets that the voters marked the name of Wolcott Hamlin under the delusion that they were thus voting for Roger Wolcott, the Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor. The claim seems plausible; but as there is a decided lack of evidence that enough of these mistakes were made to affect the result, the Republicans advance another one. Nineteen thousand ballots were cast without any candidate for Governor being marked. For no better reason tjian that this would about make the difference be tween the Republican vote for Governor and that for President, the assertion is set up that nearly all these votes or enough to elect Halle were intended for him. This is a very weak foundation for such a claim. The fact is that there was a larger blank vote on the other State offices than on the Governorship, running to 40,891 on tho vote for Secretary. It seems to be a feature of the ballot law in Massa chusetts that there Is usually a large per centage of ballots left unmarked as regards one office or another. There is nothing whatever to overset the presumption that these blanks would be nearly equally divid ed between the parties, whether they were left intentionally or by carelessness In marking. The argument derived from the fact that the Republican vote for President was about 30,000 larger than that for Governor is fully balanced by the record of Governor Russell in running ahead of his ticket abb .repuoncan siwmm to lei mem- selves down easily has not very strong foundations as a question of fact, and is- distinctly peculiar as claiming for Its own party a monopoly of the carelessness and errors in the simple task of marking the ballots. AN EXPONENT OF THE TIMES. The deatli of J. E. Crouse. of Syracuse, N. T., the other day gives new proof of the, tendencies of the day. Although the nation at large had not heard much of him except as a man of wealth whose tastes exhibited themselves in spending a million dollars on his stables, his obituaries dis close the fact that he was oue of the multi-mllliopalres, his wealth being stated at $20,000,000. Moreover, when we put a few scattered facts together we find a fresh illustration of the source of these very great fortunes. The Hepburn investigation nearly ten years ago disclosed the fact that Mr. Crouse was the recipient of discriminating rates in the wholesale grocery business which enabled him to undersell all com petitors. Very much greater fortunes than Mr. Crouse's have been built up by the same method. It is a significant and important fact that in nine out of ten cases of fortunes mounting up into the tens of millions it is to be found when we get behind the scenes that they take root In this or some other of the means by which railway management is able to enrich itself and its friends at the cost of the public. Another peculiar phase of the same subject is the readiness with which those who disapprove of this evil, accept the theories of those who are responsible for it, concerning its cause. The Philadel phia Press in calling attention to this cause of the Crouse fortune and after pointing out that the Standard Oil millions were created contemporaneously by the same method, proceeds to charge present favoritism to the Armours, to "the unfair advantage which the Canadian railways now enjoy because of their exemption from the Inter-State commerce act " The fact is that the Canadian railways do not enjoy any unfair advantage, for the sim ple reason that they are not exempted from the inter-State commerce act on the business which they carry in competition with the railroads of the United States. They may disobey the act as our own rail roads, by the showing of tho Press, are also doing with Impunity. The fact that is most important for the people to understand, however, is that the majority of the great fortunes which are a leature of the day, nre created by one or the other of the methods of railway favoritism. When the people understand that this is tlie use made of franchises given for public purposes, they will insist on reforms that will take away the cause of the evil. FUTURE OF THE PEOPLE'S PARTY. The futuie of the People's party and Farmers' Alliance has since the election been tho subject of learned dissertations by journals of the received regime. The fact that tho People's party in the lato elec tion presented enough strength to have turned tho scale of an ordinary election has been lost sight of in the general land slide. It is nevertheless worth white to Tcmcmber that the new party displayed enough strength ta have turned the bal ance if tho Republicans and Dcm ocrats had been more equally divided. This may be the inspiration of the editorial divagations on the future of the new organizations; but if so they take pains to conceal the fact. For the editorial wisdom of the organs comes, to the conclu sion that the third pwty is an ephemeral organization carried away by the familiar crazes incapable of learning anything and suro to resolve itself into its original elements in a short time. A good many political parties either have been, or are open to the charge of inability to learn anything or abandon stereotyped ideas; but inas much as the Fanners' Alliance is princi pally remarkable for its readiness to take up new and untried expedients and for tho abandonment of the old standards, that indictment against it is extremely in apposite. Of course it is indisputable that the People's party as a political party is at present pledged to impracticable theories. If it cannot bring itself to more sober and practicable objects, it will be a transient phase of the movement But those who can see in popular protests against some prevailing influences nothing but their blindness and impracticability place them selves in the same class as those who have rejected all new movements with con temptuous references to the wildness and crankiness of their advocates. For many years the Bame, sneers were the only notice given to the Abolitionists; but that did not abolish the fact that the abolition movement was evoked by a gigantic wrong and was destined to an eventual and overwhelming triumph. The magnitude which the, third party movement attained in its first national campaign Is an exponent of the popular dissatisfaction with the positive abuses of the day. It is by no means impossible when that party has settled down to definite and practical measures of reform, it may not become a powerful engine in removing those abuses. Tjie movement to hamper real discussion at the Monetary Conference by holding dally sessions -nas rightly routed. While there is no need for a waste of time, an opportunity must bo given for tho prepara tion, tianslation and interpretation of speeches if there is to be any outcoino to the meeting other than a great deal ot use less perfunctory palaver. TnE electric traotion companies cannot do better than accede to, the demands of their patrons that motor men shall bo pro vided with somo protection against the weather. An electric car traveling at its customary speed in tho teoth of frost-laden winds makes its front platform an abiding place fit for no one who has not a positive penchant for tbo discomforts of semi-nnmb-ness. Motor men have onough to do to avoid accidents, without dovo ting any attention to keeping themsolvos watm. And if the com fort of motor men be considered unimport ant by traction magnates, the safoty of pas sengers should certainly reoolvo some atten tion. There is no objection to the provision of cabs except the tiifllng expense, and that ought to be beneath consideration.' Between the esthetic culture aiming solely at "sweetness nnd light," and the utilitarian ttalnlng looking only to a prep nration for hunting dollars and cents, there is a happy medium which should bo sought in modem education. If the future demonstrates an inclination on Senator Hill's part to lose no oppor tunity lor discommoding Presldeat-eloot Cleveland, the former will be the greater sufferer in the long run. Mr. Cleveland Is a man or greater caliber, as well as greater opportunity, than or-Govornor Hill. And what might cause serious inconvenience to the former would bo more than likely to in volve tho political ruin of tho latter in any national capacity. It'is to be expected that Mr. Hill will bo shrewd enough to see his own Interests despito his friends' assertions that porsonal plquo is to bo his ruling mo tive. i..,nr.i..L i-ia tr,m.rti - nrha'w mn Mtnnn.tn rn portion to its population thjin any other American olty. Tbo roeord li likely to bring the resort more, .notoriety than tame. IN matters of public safety, the interests of .private corporations should bo the last subject, ror consideration. Tho physical health of this country demands proper quarantine regulations. Tho moral -welfare of America calls for tbo enforcement of some practical legislation to restrict Immi gration, ir steamship companies shonld lose some of their profits by such measures that is simply tbelr misfortune which is of infinite unimportance compared to tho benefits to be obtained. Even Uncle Jerry Simpson sees the evils and dangers ot a wildcat currency. Surely no further condemnation of the proposed repeal of tho national bank tax is neces sary. Cabdinal LAVIqerie's death is a loss not only to the church of which he was so prominent a leader, but also to the whole human race, of which he was so progressive a member. His work in the suppression of tho slave traffic, nnd in mediating between the Pope and the French Republic are mon uments that will long bear witness to his ability as a man and his sincerity as a Christian. Pbesident Mcleod is as candid at times in admitting features of tho Beading combine which are illegal, as he is in defying tho law to suppress them. PEOPLE OP rnOMINENCE. The German Minister at Washington, Dr. Von Halloben, is knowmthere, from his Invariable good humor, as ''the man who laughs." Samuel Morris, who married General Hat rUon's sister, is couit reporter for tbo Indianapolis Journal and has romainod vir tually unknown outside that city. Empebob William has entirely recov ered irom his leccnc indisposition, nnd will resnme outdoor work to-day. To-morrow he will start on a hunting expedition in Silesia. The young King of Spain is not in vig orous health, and his mother deemed it ju dicious not to let him participato freely in tho festivities attending tho visit to Madrid of the King and Queen of Portugal. Captaix lLLiXE,whose death has just been reported from Russia, commanded "tho terrible battery" which made such havoc at Sebnstopol. Tolstoi has immortalized this battery in his work on tho operations in that siege. Jr. Mabinoxi, who commenced life as a factory lad, is now chief owner of Le Petit Journal, cliculating nearly 1,253,000 copies dally, and proprietor of several valuable patonts, including tho famous rotary print ing machine that bears his name There are renewed rumors of a probable alliance botwecn Lord Rosebory and the Prin res Victoria. Additional weight Is given to tho rumors, becauso of tho frequent appearance of the Foreign Office Secretary atgatheilngs of tbo royal family. The Grand Duke and Grand Duchess Sarglus cxclto admiring conduct by the free dom they display in sauntering about Wind sor and their lover-liko devotion to each other. They are a handsome couple; he finely b-iilt and a herculean statute, while the Duchess is tall nnd of queenly ben ring. A call was recently extended to the Rev. Mr. Stephonson, a well-known English Wesloyan divine, to take the paitotatoof tho Metropolitan Methodist Church at Washington, D. C. Tlio Weslcyans aro at tempting to persuado Mr. Stephenson not to accept tho offer: He is still undecided as to what course to pursue. Mr. Stephenson presided at tho last Wesleyan Conference. TELEOEAPHINO WITHOUT WIBE& A Revolutionizing Problem Solved Off the British Coast, BY CABLE TO TnE DISPATCH. Losdo:?, Nov. 28. Copyrighted. It is an nounced that the revolutionizing problem of how to telograh without wires has bean solved. SInco Juno last, constant electric communication has bcon maintained bo tween the Needles lighthouse and theshoro, without any diteoc metallic connection. Wllloughby S. Smith, who has been incharge of the experiments, has reported to a royal commission on the subject. He says; "An ordinary submarine cable has boea laid in Alum Bay, to within CO yards of the Needles lock, where it terminates with its copper conductor attached to a small anehor. This ancbor isinflve nnd half fathoms at dead low water. The sboie end of tho cable is at tached to tbo signaling instruments, whilst to establish the circuit a simple earthplato is immersed in the water. "Close to the shore.on the lighthouse rock, two strong bare wires dip into the sea about ton yards .apart. These t-no wires are in connection with the signaling instruments in tho lighthouse. Thus, through the inter vening space of 60 yards of water, the men on the rock can oali the attention of those on shore, or vice versa, by means of an elec tric boll, and communication can be estab lished by means ol a single la Blanche bat tery cell." BAKEE'S FAMOUS BUBKABlNE BOAT Tested at Chicago by Officials or the United States Torpedo Service. Chicago, Nov. 26. George C Baker's fa mous submarine bo&t was informally tested in Lake Michigan, off South Chicago, in the presence of two members of the Torpedo Board or tbo United States Navy. Tbo cigar-shaped vessel was taken down the Calumet river and a mile into tho lake. Thomas McCarthy, electrician, and John Roe, engineer, were tlie only persons aboard the submarine boat. At the flcst trial the boat would not sink, ns somo of the ma chinery, which was removed before the Journey from Detroit besan, was not re placed, making the craft more buoy an tt linn when it was tried at Detroit. Tho party re turned to the dock, where' ballast was se cured, and another trial proved moro suc cessful, but whether wholly so was not made known. The torpedo officials will report to Commodore Folgor, chief of tlto Ordnance Bureau, and he may make an official test of the crait in the torpedo service. UHCLE 8AM EEDUCIHO HIS FOECES. Land Office Agents and Census Clerks Have to rnok Up Their Duds. Washihotoit.Nov. 26 Within tho next few days about SO of the 9 special agents of the General Land Offloo will be dropped from the rolls because of Insufficient appropria tion. For the same reason ten of the 150 special agents of the Pension Office have been recalled from the field, and probably ns many more will shortly be notified to report at the offioe at Washington. About 70 clerks in the Census Office have been dismissed, and it is expected that be fore tbo 1st of January this number Vt ill be materially increased. Always Looking Oat for Itself. Baltimore American.) Germany is not for war, so Caprlvl says; but Germany is for Germany all the time. MX LADY PERPETUA. Prond she is Indeed; why shonld yon wander that . I lore her? Prond Is. too, the Illy fair that bends npoa Its stem. Distant as the stars sho seems, 'glowing so far above her. Yet my thonghti may travel upward, even unto them. Cold, is she? Perhaps so, since you will Insist upon It. So Isles; hut ice, you see, is clear and pure alway. Scan her closer; say not she's" unworthy of my onnet Object of my dreams and hopes, my passion night and dsr. When I woo her, she evades me like a oonscloas spirit; If I then pernio her, she is coy and turns her bead: BUll, tbongb cold and prond and coy, my whisper she will hear It, And a vagrant color comes to cheat the rose's red. .Hard old cynici loyal friend, but never sympa thizer. Ltrtatlus that cruel film which shadows your true heart: Were she yours to worship, you would play the ardent miser, Fr my sweetheart's pseudonym la always Mis tress Art. -Manor rfodit Barftr'i WnUf, I METROPOLITAN FEATURES. FItOM A STAFF CORBISroXDrNT. J New York, Nov. S6. What is good and what is bad luck is often very confusing. I met a man recently whom I had missed from tho "strand" for a month or two. Ho was hobbling painfully along with the aid of a cane. He told mo he had fallen into a stone pile In the Bowery and sprained his ankle had been laid np for a month. "That is certainly bad luck," said I sym pathetically. "I'm in luck that I didn't Dreak my neck," he leplled. "But it must have como hard for yon to bo laid up during the exciting end of apolitical campaign," I remarked. My friend is some thing of a political sport. "It was. But I'm lucky there, too, for I'd nave bet on Harrison." ' Which reminds me of the following news paper paragraph following tbo cable intelli gence of a street accident to Gladstone: "The Grand Old Man seems possessed of a charmed life. Within a twelve-month he has twico been knocked down by a cab In London, and then tossed by a heifer while in hisparkatHawarden, in Flintshiie." Very charming life, indeoib Is it good luck to bo run over by cabs and tossed by heilorsT or is it merely. good luck he was not maimed for lire, or killed? A Chicago friend once met me on State street and introduced mo to a couple ef gentlemen as the "luckiest man alive." "Why, this man," said he, surveying me at arm's length, "was shot three times in tbo army; shot in evory battle he was in; shot since through the lungs, in tact sets shot whorevor there Is itny shooting going on, and Just look at him now! Well, I never saw a luckier man in mv life!" "I have." said I "the man who never gets shot at all." "But isn't it areatlnckvou wasn't killed: You might have been Killed" I was thinking of this the otber day when 1 dodged acio-s Paik Row between the cars, wheio poorBedpath met his ignominious end by being run over by a horse car after having survived the mlllion.danxers of war, of the ocean, of trnvel, qf pestilence nnd other things, when I suddenly confronted a gentleman comlnir up from Hitchcock's cellar. Ho had plainly been dining on "pork and" among the bums and boys. Scolng that he was noticed be mado a bold fiont ot it. "I'm light down to hard pan," said he. "Had to do It. Election Just cleaned me out. Worse I'm a cool $1,000 in the hole. I put up every cent I had and all I could borrow. Lucky for me my credit wasn't very good, den't you know, or I'd bo in It deeper." Thoio was such au air of cheerfulness about this man, whom I had known as a nrntcv hlirh tnllAr filtnuf: thA nntnwn rules. that t couldn't condole with him. I laughed. He laughed. 'Yos, 1 got stuck pretty badly but I'll be able to bo around uptown again in about tluee months. Meantime, it's lucky for me, probably, that I didn't win. I'd been warned by a medical ft lend that 1 was living too high jou know I like good living and I'd Have lived higher If I'd have scooped in that $7,500 I stood to win. Doctor proscribed simple diet. I'm taking doctor's ptescrip tion now. Only doctor's prescription I ever took. I'm living down about as low as they get." Ho looked down into tho famous cellar whence he had Just emerged and whore scores of men and boj's sat with tlioir hats on at the baie tames, and laugneu again. "Did you over dine on 7 cents? No? Of course not; but it isn't half bad. For 15 conts you can net enough to eat. I tell you, most of us don't know how simple a thing living is. Tho moro ciowded parts of town afford the best examples. I don't eat here all the time sometimes go up tho Boweiy. The thing amuses me. I have a room with a Irlcnd nice lellow no cTmrge. He Is under the impression that I still take a uollnr table d'hote at Muschenhclm's, and w ould go broke for me If he Knew this." -I said that tho change seemed to agree with him. And he did look better than I bad ever seen him before. "Yes," he has a curious, musing way of pulling on that "yes" "it's the diet, you know. It's great luck to have circumstances glide into each other, as it were. If Harri son had been elected, I'd have been drink ing champagne and eating Welsh rarebits after 12 o'clock, una the doctor said I mustn't. Now I'm not drinking anything and eating little. So everything comes in Just right." Ai.d I went on my way up the crowded walk, believing a man of such a philosophic temperament certainly a very lucky man. I Taking Desperate Risks. Why don't more peoplo die of pneumonia, quick consumption and other lung troubles? That is wbat I think everynight in unpor Broudway. There you'll see a score or two of men coming out of tho super-heated the aters betweon the acts to stand in unpio teoted full diess around the cold nnd diaughty lobbies, or out on tho sidewalk for a chat or a smoke. You'll see them at tho Mndison Squaro Garden squaie acres of white shirt front sitting for hours fn an atmosphere suggestive or overcoats. Thoy pour out of club houses and hot restaurants at all times of tho night, ofton in a dripping perspitatlon from excrclso or wine ana with careless or no provision against tho evils of a sudden chango ot temperature. You can meet them on Bioadway with top coats thrown nide opon atid the chest exposed from necktie to waistband. Yet it is only now and then that we know of a man who wns out around town in apparently good health tho day beloie yes terday w ho is a corpse to-day. There are more than a thousand men tak ing such despciate risks every night duiihg the fashlonaule season in New fork. If you were to tell one of these that he was running a greater risk of sudden death than If he were going into tho heat of an ordinary battle he would probably laugh ut you. Yet it would bo tho solemn truth. American Women and Hotels. Tho swellest looking women can be seen about tho Fifth Avenue Hotel every day. They aro guests of the house and como from various cities throughout the Union. It used to bo that American women wore chary about being seen about the hotel corridors lrequentod by guests nnd loungers or tho male sex, but that is all changed. I note that these women bear the stamp of tho cos mopolite. They have tho air of women of the world, who are not afraid of the world and who aro rather glad they are in it. Tho matrons have a charmingly "comfortable" look botween fashion and benevolence, of the sort of people whoso position in tho great game of life isassuried. Tho young women aro comely to look upon as a rule, and aro oftenor dowiuight haudsomo than downright plain. It is pleasing to the eye that they dross, for the most part, with ex cellent taste, being given to plain, well-fitting traveling, street and carriage gowns, and in this respect form an agreeable con trast to the American women of 20years ago. When I see them hovering around the post office end of the office couuter.orat the book stall, or in fiont of the hotel theater ticket desk, I lecall the similar knots of Btyllsh icminunty ono iueeis aDouc ine ouice oi tne Continental hotels. The American woman is known abroad for her independence of oharactor and her ability and willingness to look uftor herself, as well as lor her fine figure and facial beauty. In the big New York hotels you will see the same fine types, doing the same thing in the Bamo quietly effective lady-like manner. At the Windsor, Bruniwick, Savoy, Holland, Murray Hill and other Bwell modern hotels that partako of the Continental type you will always seo these well-bred and attractive women about the ground floor, lending n charm to New York hotel lite but a fow years ago unknown. Jesting Under Difficulties. The actor out of an engagement at this season oi tho year hangs upon the "Strand" like the blasted fruit to the leafless orchard tree, overlaoked or not woith gathering. You may know him by the shortness or his trousers, by the closely buttoned summer coat about his neck and the absence of an overcoat or the piesence of one palpably made for somebody else. The jaws begin to work nervously and to look thin and hungry. Yet, to hoar him converso in a little knot or professionals similarly situ ated you would suppose that it was a matter of no moment. He is rarely gloomy of countenance never of conversation. I have known men who hadn't the price of a glass of beer about them for days at a time who were very entertaining and who would crack their best jokes at their own expense. In hiding their own individual sorrows un der the cloak of merry demeanor many an unfortunate is a greater nctOr than ho would even claim to be behind the foot lights. And this is saying much. But there are always clever men and women walking the streets or Now York who are infinitely better qualified to entertain the public than half of their professional brethren who are drawing salary. It is the lack of business taot, or forehandedness, or something aside from artistic merit. A 'Possnm Hnnt on Broadway. Tho avoruge man ofgnnsnnd dogs would scarcely think or hunting "de possum an' do coon" on Bioadway. Yet down in the thick est roar of metropolitan traffic I bavu scon a frantioband of street urohlus chase the, nimble coon. A day or two ago a market man crossed over from the postofflce carry- to a Wg Mok r 8tnff towotd fno rket. He stopped to avoid a street car, got a close rub from a truck and bad bis sack knocked off by the crowd on tho walk. Alot of stuff rolled out and among otber things a round ball of fur that puzzled the bystanders. "It's & hedgehog," said one. "No, it's a coon," said another. "Coon I It' a 'possum! exclaimed a third. "I meant a 'Dossam." exnlaintid the mini who had said it was a coon. Meanwhile a great crowd had gathered and only a lew could tell why they were there. "He's dead," shouted one of these. "Who's dead?" asked a man ontheont side. And people began to say somebody had been killed. Somebody had been run over by a truer. They were waiting for an ambulance. So the crowd grow blgirer and bigger and in two minutes it hud blocked up the street. Then two policemen swooped down upon it and scattered it rlghtand left. One of tho policemen picked np tho round ball and held it up by the tenia" of the neck. Two very keen eyes half unclosed and shut quickly up again when they saw a fascinated man in the crowd. " 'Deed he ain't dead, boss," said the col ored man. "lie ies' playin' 'possum. Jes' give 'im to me. I do like 'possum, I does!'' The crowd roared: "Give 'itn to Ole Vir ginnyl" it said. "Give im to tho solid South!" Finally, the market nun having disap peared in the mob, and nobody claiming ownership, tho officer handed his 'possum ship to the darkey who bore it an ay in tri umph. Charles Theodore Murrat. ODE FOREIGN CARRYING TRADE. Not Much Hope for Its Improvement Under the Coming Administrntlon. NewYork Press. J The official figures show that while in 1SS0 17.1 per cent of our foreign trade was carried in American ships, in 1B92 the amount had decreased to 12.3 per cent. This decay has occurred In what used to bo, while it en joyed the protection devised for it by the fatliors of the Government, our greater and proudest interest. The foreign carrying trade has shrunk to its present proportions, while every other American Industry has beon astonishing tho world by its growth because it is the only one among them all which has been stripped of tho protection extended in tho early years of tho Govern ment to all interests alike Even tho amount of foreign shipping which remains to us is succumbing In the uuequal warfare which it Is compelled to wage with subsidized foreign lines. The cairying trade between our own and West Indian, South American and Mexican jxirts, which a few years ag'o was largely done In American bottoms, has been gradually absorbed by tho subsidized lino? of Great Britain, Germany, France, Holland and Spain. The trade of the west coast ot South America has been absorbed by Lngland. Sue bus killed the American line which ian irom San Francisco to Austtallu. ana is pay ing uu annual subsidy of $500,000 to a line from British Columbia to China and Japan, which is running tho American carrying trade with those countries. In the mean time the Canadian Pacific Railroad, built and sustained with a subsidy of moro than $100,000,000, is permitted bv this country to tap our Inland trade and thus feed its allied subsidized steamship Hues on both oceans. Unfortunately the incoming administra tion and Congreis promise no relief from these hard conditions. Even the inadequate provision mado by the Fifty-first Congress will probably be nullified. When Mr. Cleve land whs President before his Postmaster General refused to givo American vessels the benefts of mail pay to which they were entitled by existing laws, andwemayozpect Horn his second administration not only an assault on the remainder of our foreign car rying trade, but a porsistent attempt to ruin the American ship building industry us v, ell by the passage of a free ship law. THE WEARING OP THE BLUE. Prikcetow was simply ripped V-shape up the back. Washington Post. Yale's victory over Princeton rounds out a magnificent football record. It was ox pected. Philadelphia Inquirer. The sons of Yale would be unworthy of her if they did not rejoice with hilarious glco over their well earned honors. Ifew York Press. Yali.'s kickers fairly annihilated Prince ton. Lot Princeton imitate the Bepnblican party and organize for the future. Aew York Advertiser. Well, it was a great game, and we suppose that in football, as in cooking, yon can't make an omelette without breaking eggs. Boston Herald. All honor to the blue, and all honor to the orange and black as well. To be defeated in such a game as that is no dishonor. Balti more Avierican. What matters lc that the struggle for su premacy was over a football only. Is not the football a globe, and does not tho globe rep resent tho world? Yalo can congratulate herseir on the omen. Brooklyn Standard Union. Too much praise cannot be given to Cap tain McCorraick and the Yale coacbers, who drilled the green men so thoroughly in the technique of the garao that thoy were able to dofcat teams which were composed of older and heavier players. Philadelphia rPress. There seems to be a spirit in the old uni versity at New Haven that cannot tolerate defeat. Until this spirit is subdued or ox plies than whicn there is nothing moro un likely in the world we shall have to go on repeating the usual succession of Yale vic tories New York Herald. Now Mexico's New Silver Bonanza. Silver Citt, N. M., Nov. 26. The largest body of silver ore ever struck in Mow Mex ico is being oponed at Lone Mountain, about ten miles southeast or this city. The prop erty belongs to John Brockman, or this olty. It is believed the 500,000 tons of ore already taken out will average $20 per ton. A Wild Bear in Hollidaysburg. Altoona, Nov. SO. This morning residents of East Hollidaysburg were oxcitcd by tho appearance of a big black bear, which camo sniffing around the back doors of several residences, it is being pursued byannm "bor of men, but shambled' off to Bush Mountain. A Plea for University Hall. BY CABLE TO TUE DISPATCH. 1 Lonnoif, Nov. 20 Copyright, University Hall, the institution which grew out ot the agitation awakened by "llobert Elsmere," is languishing, and Mrs. Humphrey Ward lias written a powerful appeal, commending the oxpeiiment to popular support. DEATHS JifcKE AND ELStWHERE. Mrs. Anna Jones, Centenarian. Mrs. Anna Jones, aged 102 years, died last Monday at the home of her daughter. Mrs. Lizzie Bright. In Cleveland, who Is herseir GO years old. She nas born In Wales, and licr husluud, long since dead, was a Waterloo veteran. Julius Posslel. Julius Possiel, senior member ofthe firm of fosslel A Kese. died yesterday morning at his residence In Allegheuy. He was 6-i years of age. Ills funeral will take place to-morrow. Obituary Notes. M. GuizoT, the son of the historian, is dead In Paris. BEY. Mr. McCrea, the celebrated 'Baptist tem perance reformer of England. Is dead. General Settelli, the French novelist, who wrote under the nom de plume of Paul de Lucca, Is dead. Michael Fritz, ofFrledcnburg, died yesterday at the advanced age ofuijears. liewasa veteran of the War of 1812. Edward Daniel Boler, or Amsterdam, N. Y., for over 43 years at the head of the Mt. Lebanon Shakers, Is dead, aged 90 years. EdwaRd Mott. for many Tears an agent of the Rarnum-Hatley circus, died on Thanksgiving at hit home In New York of consumption. JOH-N CUSICK. a well-knoirn Iron worker of East Brady. O.. with many relations In PIttsbnrg and McKeesport, died on the 18th lust., agrUfc8. Hermax Sachs, cntoiuollglst, whose specialty was lepldoptera (butterflies and moths), ladpad la Newport:. He fought with -Franz Slegel In the German lleroiutlon of 1918. , Milliam D. DEAN. City ClerK In Indianapolis for several years and a delegate at large to the Democratic National ConvenUonVblch nominated Hancock and English in Cincinnati In 1830, died Friday In Indianapolis. FLORIAK Odorski, one of the most accom plished pianists and musicians of New Jersey, died At the St. Joseph's Hospital In Paterson Thursday night. He was born in Poland about 60 vears ago. lie was the author of the tactics for the govern ment of color guards now in use in the army. THOMAS C IIODCKISS, of bctaukct, N. Y.. died Thursday, lie was 83 years !d, Mr. llodgkhis v as a philanthropist. lie gave 3.1), WJ to the Itoyal Institute, of London: 00,000 to the Smithsonian Institution, $100,000 to the Society for the Preven tion or Cruelty to Children and an equal sum to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. He alio founded a free library la his village. A, LOOK AROUND. A, dark night gives you a better idea perhaps ofthe rapid growth or upper part of the Soutbside, than even a view on a clear day. To anyone who can remember how it looked ten" years ago, this growth seems marvelous. The house lights twinkle from the lowland up to the tops or the hills like the moonlight on wavotops when there is a broken sea. What was a barren stretch of bleak hillside five years ago is nowa thickly populated district. Tho growth or the city has not been confined to tho eastern wards by any mean. Two "promoters" were discussing a scheme and a mutual acquaintance also a promoter. "You can vouch for his discre tion." "Oh, yes." "no Is not likely to talk about thl3?" So, I think not. He's very close mouthed. Why you could lend him a hundred nnd he'd never mention It even to yourself." " One of the most important arrangements Of electrical machinery ever made by the Westinghouse Company is the piaDt wnicli they propose for tho Niagara Falls Power Company, and which is to be inspected shortly by the representatives of that com pany. If the suggestions or theWestlng- houso engineers are accepted it will be a matter or congratulation to them and to the company. It is a matter of fact, which is readily susceptible or proof, that nearly all the small alleys in the eastern part of the city are in an extremely filthy condition. This is especially true or those which aro un paved. There should bo a thorough cleans ing of the byways of the city this winter, in view of the uneasy feeling as to the coming of cholera. If it does not come, there is no harm in being clean; if it does come, so much the better will the city stand the scourge. Lieutenant "Watkins, of the Royal Naval Reserves, of England, was discuss ing the new naval reserve scheme of the United States with some or us not long ago, and I was struck by the good sense of his objections to the present arrangement or things. "It is a capital plan in the main," said he, "and one which should have met with consideration years ago. It goes with out saying that a trained force' of reserves capablo of manning such extra vessels as might be built or pressed into service in wartime is extremely necessary. The fault with tbo present reserve is that it does not include such material as the fishermen of New England or the harbormen of the large coast cities. Of course, it has some active seamen and yachtsmen among the officers, but the rank and file is mado np of dry goods clerks and other young men who would be seasick two hours out and of no service whatever. To get the right kind or men into tho reserves and to subject them to training and discipline requires wbat the English service gives in part. There must bo a small annual payment to tho man, an lnforcnd drill to last at least two weeks ovory year, during which the men should bo paid for loss of time. The very men you want in such a branch of the service aro the ones who cannot afford to leave their work to drill or to help others in the working of a ship. Another thing is that your regular naval officers and seamen have a contempt for this reserve scheme which is perhaps 'natural, but is certainly unfortunate." "Where is Pittsburg now that the Mc Kinley bill is doomed?" a New York comi mercial traveler jestingly asked of a bote clerk in my hearing last night. "You can bet Pittsburg is still on the map," retorted tho clerk. That reply recalled a story I heard years ago of t most peculiar affair at a time when Pittsburg was not "on the map." There was considerable of a town here although I cannot recall the date when Colonel O'Hara built a sea-going three- ,mast sohooner below tho city and loaded her with furs for a trip across the ocean. She was successfully floated down to New Orleans with her cargo aboard, and started to cross to Portsmouth. When about half way over the schooner was hove-to by a; British frigate, and a subaltern was sent aboard to inspect the schooner's papers. Thoy showed clearly enough that sho cleared from Pittsburg, where sho was built and owned. "Whero's Pittsburg?" de manded the young officer. "There's no such port that ever I heard or." "It's at the head of the Ohio river," replied tho captain, "and it's a good-sized town." The sub said ho did not like tho look of things, and de clared the captain and the papers must go aboard the frigate. Her Majesty's navy, a3 represented by the commander of tho war vessel, listened to tho story of the officer and asked what tho Yankee skipper bad to say. "I'm. from tho port of Pittsburg," said the representa tive or Colonel O'Hara: "that's where I was loaded, where tho schooner was built and wheiosho is owned." "Pittsburg! Pittsburg!" replied tlie captain. "Never heard or any such port," "Well, yoh'll find it on the map," retorted tho skipper. Ho was mis taken. Tho frigate's map did indeod show a tiny black dot at the junction of the Monon gabcla and Allegheny, but the dot bad no name. The skipper tried to explain and told his interrogators that Pittsburg was old Fort Pitt and close to where General Braddock was defeated. That settled it. The British captain said Braddock had fought Indians in tho forest, as everybody knew, and it wasn't possible for ships to be built there. The result was that the schooner was put in charge of a prize crow and taken to Plymouth, where tiro mattor was laid betoro the authorities. Of course in time Colonel O'Hara proved his rights and sold his furs, and schooner, too, at a good long pi ice, but still it nas somo timo before Pittsburg got upon the admiralty maps. I hear from a number of Pittsburg sportsmen that the grouse and quail shoot ing through tbo mountains and fields this side of UarrisDurg is excellent, better than it has been lor years. Be that as it may the market is certainly well supplied with game of all sorts this winter and that it is plenti ful is borne out by the reasonablo prices asked by dealers. Chicago rea! estate seems to be particu- larly attnftivo to Pittsburg investors this winter and I hear several very considerable investments hayo been made within three months. In one case tho amount put into good, activo realty, likely to be benefited by the Fair, was $450,000. One of the results of the flurry In the affairs of tho Pennsylvania Railroad Com pany, conscd by tho report that Dretol, Mor. gan & Co. intended to endeavor to change tho management of the company, is said to havo been tho taking on of a large amount of stock by the friends of the present officers.. Although some of the English newspapers took a very de cided hand in the fray and sought to arouse a sentiment against President Roberts dur ing the stay of that gentleman in London, it did not result in much. Tho heavy En glish stockholders declared that thoy were satisfied with tho present sfe and conserva tive policy which had brought them fair re turnf, and l hear that proxies were obtaina ble in sufficiently large quantities to show that the rank and filo had confidence in their home leaders. It was claimed that 60 per cent of the stock was held in England, but if that was true last year it is not true this, if Philadelphia experts in such matters are to be believed. They say that steady buying has pnt the control absolutely into hands which will support Mr. Roberts and his associates. That erratic monitor of the town, the big boll fn. Municipal Hall, tolled out at 7:15 last night in response to an alarm of fire, and much to the astonishment of the crowds on the streets, who wondered if it was a re turn to the old alarm days. At the time the Government showed a disposition to finish work on the new Smith field street building, it was claimed by the chier architect that the city was obliged by. an old contract to cut tho hill on, Fourth avenue. There wns a good deal or talk at tho timo in tho pipers on the matter, bnt it finally died out. Does anybody have a doar notion as to how tho thing stands, and is the city obliged to push the cut if the Govern ment presses the claim? , Waxteb, CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. In Holland many women are practicing dentistry. Austria is reported to have only 133 periodicals. All twisted boring tools are said to bo of American invention. The town of Tide, "Wash., has been re cbrlstened Leavenworth. Great Britain has 80 miles of tunnel, their cost exceeding $32,500,000. Millions of butterflies are eaten every year by the Australian aborigines. No British sovereign has vetoed a par liamentary bill during the past 1S5 years. The list of musical prodigies.ia Boston at present includes a young Cberctkee Indian girl. Last year Arizona -produced. ?3,000,000" in gold, $2,200,000 In silver and $4,500,000 in copper. Queen Victoria is quite a successful farmer and has taken 447 prizes at English cattle shows. For the first time the Russian soldien are to bo furnished with handkerchiefs at tbo Government's expense. Very few of the Scotch peasantry now wear the hilt. Most of the peasants dress after the manner of Englishmen. A blast fired in a quarry at Granite ville, Mo., recently dislodged 160,000 cubic feet of stone, all in one solid mass. The smallest inhabited island is that upon which the Eddystone lighthouse stnnc's. At low water it Is only 30 feet in diameter. Flies are so pestilential in Siam that every soldier is compelled to assdst In reduc ing their number by catching enough every day to fill a matchbox. The chief art decorator of a well-known New York carriage manufactory a woman, who has 20 women employed In the depart ment which she controls. There are seven British species of wasps. In one of their nests the number of cells is sometimes more than 16,000, almost all of which contain eitboraa egg, a grub, or pupa. A resident of Sanford, JS". (X, claims to have unearthed a petrified snail tho other day from tho bottom of a well. Ho states that the shell and flesh bave turned tx pure stone. The English Court of Queen's tBench has decided that grocers may weigh, paper with tea, coffee, sugar and such commodities without being guilty of fraud upon tho pur chaser. . In 1549 Henry IX of France interdicted trimmings, borders, gold lace, gold and sU ver cloth and satins. Great lamentations from the women ensued and tho edict was modified. Tiger hunting in India, as now con ducted, is perilous sport. Formerly the ani mals were shot from a platform erected in the forests. Now the daring sportsmen hunt them on foot. The Babylonians had a wine called cuttach, which .they said, "obstructs the heart, blinds the eyes and emaciates the body." They also had a proverb: "It is Detter to eat stinking fish than drink cuttach." A message from Quebec states-that Mr. Allard, or Lewis, the blacksmith who has discovered a method or tempering copper, has triod the same means to temper alumi num, and is reported to have succeeded satisfactorily. The longest electric railway in the world is reported to be contemplated in Russia. The project is toconstruot svline from St. Petersburg to Archangel, a port on the White Sea, a distance of more than 720 kilometers (450 miles). Sir Archibald Gertie, of the British Association, after much careful thought and patient investigation, together with a good deal of figuring, has come to the con clusion that the world Is between 73,000,000 and 650,000,000 years old. A woman 5 feet 2 inches in height shonld weigh at 30 years of age. from 7 st. 8 lb. to 8 St.; at 40 sne will be 2 lb. heavier; a JO nearly 4 lb. heavier; at CO she shonld ba about the same weight as at 30, and she should get lighter as she grows older. The hump on the back of the drome dary ij an accumulation of a peculiar species or fat, which is "n store or nourishment ben eficently provided against the day or want to which the animal is often exposed. The? dromedary. or camel can exist for a long pe riod upon this hump without any other food. The giant of giants and Titan of Titans, as far a3 sewing machines are concerned' has recently been finished at Leeds, Eng land. It weighs exactly 5J tons and is spe cially adapted for general mann'acturlng purposes of the heavier sort. This particu lar machine will be used for attaching cot ton belting. According to Dr. Goss, of Berlin, sul phur is not an element,but a compound. From recent investigations, he has come to the conclusion that this substance is a com pound body, consisting of a bicherto un known substance combined with hydrogen. The alleged separation was made by the aid oi electrolysis. The first "World's Fair or universal ex position was held in London in 1831, and tho second in New York in 1&6. The credit ror tho first World's Fair is generally awarded to Albert, tho Prince consort of Queen Vic toria. Tho first exnositlens in Paris werar held In 1855 and 1SC7: the first in Vienna in 1373, and tho first in Berlin in 183L Photographing udder water has actu ally been carried out, so it is said. Experi ments were made in 1S89 in tho Mediterra nean to ascertain how far daylight pene trates nnder the water. In very clear water, near Corsica, and 18 miles from land, the limit of daylight was found by means of photographic plates to be 1,530 feet. A Bangor, Me., business man bad occa sion to have the lock repaired and the com bination changed in his safe. When the bill was presented he refused to pay lor it, claiming that the charge was too much. The locksmith thereupon closed the sale, gave the lock a few turns, and walked back tohisstovo. The owner soon weakened In his declaration and paid the bill, on whicu the safe was once more opened by the tri umphant locksmith. A large lake has been found, it is said, on the ridge of the Olympic Mountains, in Washington, between the Duckabush and Snohomish Rlvors. It is situated in a deep basin or tho mountains, at an altitude ot about 5 000 feet, and the basin Is claimed to be, in all probability, the crater of an ex tinct volcano. It Is further stated to be two miles long and half a mile wide, with depth unknown, as the cliff descends per pendicularly into the water on all sides, POETKY EN PASSANT. A FAISPCL REVELATION. "For, oh, my love, I love her sot" He sung and all the people listened; The ladles' tears began to flow And tears within the youth's eye glistened. They did not know, they could not know. That when at home Herr Slngeroldlsg Would also make his wire's tear now By giving herein awtul scolding. Chicago Sou Record. She made for the critic, did this soubretta. And she was a brawny lass. For he had put her (to his regret) In the "old-tlrae-favorlte" class. Washington Star. ' BIS SACRtTICE. He used to come into the stora la fancy vest arrayed. And oh! tne neckties that he wore. The colors he displayed I Bnt now no tints about him lurk. On different plans he's built. Alas! his best girl's hard at work Upon a crazy quilt. The Clothier and FumUhtr, In eddyirfg airs the red leaves whirl Where wild flowers droop and fa'de. And presto, change! the summer girl Becomes an autumn lnaiJ. Sea Tort Free. IT'S HERE AOAIX. Now, mournful feelings to provoke Against aU human nature. We resurrect the ancient Joke Upon tho Legislature. And ere the members take their seats, Or at tbelr desks can turn. The editor that cry repeats: O, wnen will they adjourn!" -Miami OmiUMtim, A -fc-MULJ?
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