asaaiisrrsiaPfsmmsjmiijmnmiWBamsvnssaim Prl5rft--'-ii5 v T ;j- -T yr!""-S -$&r ? I THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH, 'uOXDJiY, ' NOVEMBER -28, 1892. fBte Bif $tf4 ESTABLISHED FEBRUARY 1M5. Vol. 74. Ko. SB-Entered at ritubort rostofflce Jiovember, Its;, as second-class matter. BUSINESS OFFICE, Cor.SmlthBelil and Diamond Street. Ifews Rooms and FubUshing Home, 78 and 80 Diamond Mreet, New Dispatch Building. EASTERN ADVERTISING OFFICE. ROOM X TRIBUNE BUILDING. NEW YORK, -where complete flies of THE DISPATCH can always be lound. THE DISrATrn Hon sale at LEADING HOTELS throughout the United 8Utea, and at Brentano's, 8 Union Square. New Tort, and 17 A ventre do 1' Opera. Tarls, France. ' TERMS OF THE DISPATCH. postage rnsE re the ujcjted states. jiArtTDlsrATCn, One Tear. 8 00 Dailt DisrATcii, Three Moatus 1 00 Daily DlsrATCil, One Month 10 Daily Dispatch. Including Sunday. 1 year.. 10 00 Daily D srATcn, including Sunday, sm'ths. 2 to Daily Dispatch, Including Sundar. 1 month M EUSDAY Dispa en. One Tear 2 00 Wekkly Dispatch, One Tear. 1 3 The Daily Dispatch Is delivered by carriers at 31 cents per week, or. Including Sunday Edition, at l cents per week. REMITTANCES SHOULD ONLY BE MADE BY CHECK. MONEY OKDEit. OR REGISTERED LETTER. POSTAGE Sunday issue and all triple number copies, re: single and doable number copies, le. I'lTTsBUltG. MONDAY. NOV. , 1832. THE MAN FOR THE PLACE. The sucffestion Js renewed, that since Mr. Morrow has positively refused to run fcr Controller again, jda'yor Oourley would be the right man for the place. Time and again in fact, continuously during his term as Mayor The Dispatch has been able to commend the broad in tellicence and unflinching courage -with which Mr. Gourleyhas filled his present position. We feel obliged to say now that a more desirable man could not be. found for the Controller's office. , If the Republican politicians are wise they will take up Gourley for Controller; but his opposition to their policy and projects while he has been Mayor will make him undesirable m that quarter. At the same time they run a bigger risk by declining to take him, as if the Democrats put him on their ticket, or if he should run independently, he will not only carry the Controllership, but very likely influence the Mayoralty election also. Gourley was elected to represent the people and take care of their interests In thp Mayorls office. He has done that duty faithfully, fearlessly and with an uncom mon measure of p'ublic approbation. If he is willing to serve in the Conrrollqr's office, his record can break any slate that may be set up against him. The situation is highly interesting. A DUTY FOR MR. CLEVELAND. Those active Democratic -organs the New York Timts and World tike the oc casion of Senator Edmunds' declaration that the anti-Trust act Is all right, and only needs vigorous enforcement, to .at tack the administration of Attorney Gen eral Miller for his failure to enforce tne act, and especially for the absence of any movement against the anthracite coal combination. There is no slight degree of .foundation for their arraignment But, as it b the part of wisdom to look forward rather k than back, the greater significance of their ferror applies to the Incoming rather than outgoing administration. The warmth of their censures on the failure of the Har rison administration to enforce' the act emphasizes the duty of the coming Cleve land administration. We shall await with interest the ap pointment by President Cleveland of an Attorney General who will at once begin a vigorous and successful campaign against all trusts and combinations. And, if by any mischance he should fail to do so, we shall expect with impatience the scorching censures of the two vigorous journals which assisted to elect him. THE EVANGELS OF TEMPERANCE. The warmth of the popular feeling for Mr. Francis Murplry and the power which he Is able to exert in his missionary work were strikingly illustrated at the first of the series of meetings, held last night. The outpouring of the people and the en thusiasm displayed in the cause of gospel temperance were even more remarkable than the reception given to the magnetic apostle a few days ago. The best results may be expected from Mr. Murphy's re newal of his former labors In the reforma tion of drunkards. Side by side with the Murphy movement is the Salvation Army's work for the same purpose. While varying in methods and perhaps reaching different classes, both of these evangelical efforts have the same foundation the reformation of men by religious influence. In either form the work is a noble one, and gives religion a reality and vitality too often lacking. A MYSTERIOUS EFFORT. A peculiar example of the methods em ployed in this year's attempt to boost an amendment legalizing railroad pools through Congress Is afforded by the edi torial comments of the Washington Pott on the subject That bright coteniporary doesn't swallow the pooling doctrines whole; but it accepts some of the fables underlying the present efforts with a good faith that is touching. Thus we find it arriving at the conclu sion that something must be done, on the basis of the assertion that the "Inter State" Commerce Commissioners have felt themselves constrained by the anti-pooling provisions to the law to resist the asser tion of this right" to pool earnings. But their inability to enforce the law has according to the railway gentleman who furnished the esteemed Pott with this effort of the imagination for facts had the singular logical effect of convincing Judge Cooley and General Teazey "of the uncon stitutionality of the antl pooling section." If ability on the part of the railways to ignore and override the enforcement of law demonstrates its unconstitutionality our railway magnates have struck a new feature of strength in their position. In that case they stand in the happy attitude of demonstrating the unconstitutionality of the entire act With that logical result accepted either in whole" or in part the question arises, What is the necessity of repealing any portion of a statute which by the statement of the case falls to the ground through its unconstitutionality ? But the statement of the case by our es teemed cotemporary having predicated an effort to enforce the law, it becomes per tinent to ask it to specify the cases in which the Commission has made an effort to obtain proof of pooling, has declared Its illegality, or has,tried to enforce the penalty. Let our cotemporary examine the records as to this point Perhaps its search will be attendee 'With more fortu nate results than that '"U hu been made by other- peopk l H finds sraftde enforce Bases .In which the Comal' "' vigorous and sastafeedTe.. the section it will substantiate the statement of fact on which it bases its conclusion. But if it should fail to find any such cases at all It might change the aspect of the case Or, if it should disoover that in one case where the Commission stumbled by mischance upon plain evidence of pooling the extreme course was taken of omitting the publica tion of any decision whatever, it might conclude that things are not always exact ly as represented. No one will dispute that there is a neces sity of securing some change in the inter State commerce law; but a very respect able element are ready to affirm that the change should be that of securing a vigor ous snd honest enforcement of the law in its entirety. REGULATING IMMIGRATION. The question of regulating immigration is assuming a prominent position in the minds of legislators and thinkers, as will be seen iy our news columns. Besides the interviews with local students on the question, the Senate Committee is consid ering a bill for stricter regulation than has been heretofore established. It Is a hopeful sign-that opinion is crys tallizing in the direction of regulation looking to the quality rather than quan tity of immigration. The measure under consideration by the Senate Committee, as outlined elsewhere in this issue, how ever It toay be open to criticism other wise, has that characteristic It proposes in brief to place the responsibility as to the health, morality and solvency of im migrants on the steamship companies bringing them here, and to impose heavy . penalties for the transportation -of immi grants without first being able to give definite assurance that they come up to the standard. While the theory of this measure may be plausible, it is doubtful if in practice the plan of placing the responsibility on the agencies whose interest it is to evade the laws will work welL There is much force in the opinion expressed locally, and at the same time in the Eist, that the only effective check on undesirable immigration will be by examination on the other side of the ocean. The in spection should be held where informa tion as to the character of the immigrants is accessible and it should be made by rep resentatives of the United States. In other words, a system of inspection by consular agents affords the proper solu tion for the problem. While Congress is about the matter it might as well settle it by a carefully di gested measure of this sort And in order that the consular inspection' may be efficient and impartial the consular service should be taken out of politics at the earliest possible moment WHO CAST THE VOTE? The intimation against Senator Quay that he did not accord a vigorous support to General Harrison is replied to by the Philadelphia Inquirer, as an organ of tbe Senator, with a reference to the election returns. "The figures in this neck of the woods proclaim Pennsylvania to be the banner Republican State," says the In quirer, and rests its case there as if that were a complete answer. Perhaps it is. It is well known that the Junior Senator has the exercise of some remarkable political functions; but this is the first time we have seen the claim that he casts the Republican vote of the State. It has been understood for some time that he, and others like rum, select candidates, organize primaries, distribute offices and pass upon laws; but it has b een supposed that they left it to the Republican masses to do the voting. Inasmuch as the vote of Pennsylvania is alleged by .Senator Quay's organ to represent his personal at titude, it seems that we must revise our opinions on that point also. It must be admitted that the novel idea finds support in recent allegations as to the manner in which some portions of the Republican vote are cast in job lots to suit political deals. This makes it perti nent for the Inquirer to produce a defense to the recent charge that the Republican vote which would have given the party another seat in Congress was traded off for the consideration of two or three State legislators pledged to vote for the re-election of one M. S. Quay to the United States Senate. MTXED METAPHORS AND TAFFY. The Republican press of the organic class is disposed to display a good deal of in dignation over Mr. Cleveland's message to the South referring to that section as "at once the cradle and the guardian of civil liberty." Of the allegation of a special nurture and guardianship of relig ious liberty in the South in times past it is not worth while to say much. If any weight were to be attach ed to it it would be a new historical discovers But, as a candidate is expected to administer a liberal ration of sweet sayings to a section which comes up to the Electoral College with 155 solid votes for him, it can be suffered to pass as the conventional sweet meat There is more ground for criticising the semi-barbarous mixture of metaphors which makes the South a "cradle" and a "guardian" in the same breath. It would be almost unpardonable to join together two such incongruous comparisons, if a characteristic of Mr. Cleveland's were not shown by it which is not entirely un satisfactory. When the President-elect expresses his own independent ideas on administration, or declares his convictions of reform, his lan guage is generally straightforward, vigorous and happy. When he has the task of administering taffy to support ers he is apt to fall into platitudes, as in those letters during the campaign, or to" fall back on the encyclopedia, as on former memorable occasions, or to perpetrate a jumble of metaphors, as in this missive. The quality sufficiently characterizes the expression; and the people may not be less satisfied with a President who is forcible when saying what he believes and shows a distaste for the heavy task of distributing verbal bon bons than for one who is always felicitous in flattery and exhausts his talents there. There seems to be an urgent necessity for disciplining the exuberant imagina tions of the gentlemen who furnish the weather reports. On Saturday afternoon the dispatches told of a blizzard which was raging all over the Northwest, and which was to strike this section on Sunday. On Sunday morning the report was tmtt there was "not a cold wave or a storm anywhere In the country." The hiatus between the two is too great to be filled by anything In the line of explanation, short of undue Thanksgiving festivities prolonged to tbe close of the week. Between Democratic assertions that the internal revenue tax on whisky must be abolished, and Democratic proposals that it be Increased fifty cents percallon, there seems to be a first-class prospect for a clash before the great Democratic policy gets into running order. t Mk. -Cleveland's commendation of the South as "at once the cradle aud the guard ian of eivll liberty" Is not the only bit of 'taffy evolved by tbe times which oollilei with history. Mr. Phelps at BerJIp. declared that General Harrison had siren ua "the cleanest snd most successful administration In the annals of American history." Con sidering that we have had suoh adminlstra- I tins as those or Washington, J acicson ana Lincoln, Mr. Phelps' offering of verbal In cense lias about the same distant relation to historical truth as Mr. Cleveland's. The claim that Mrs. Lease is ineligible to a seat In the United States Senate is based by the New York press on usage.. New York usage has long held that It is unconstitu tional to give women seats In any public place. Hew York society has about decided that it is not good torm to celebrate Evacua tion Day. It Is so displeasing to the British and so inimical to the true aristocratic idea, don't yon know. To live up to its aspira tions the New York arlstooracy will eventu ally have to abjure this country altogether, always with the exception of its dividends. The American delegates to the monetary conference are engaged in tbe duty of mak ing proposals. But the British representa tives are exhibiting decided coyness about listening to the voice of the wooer. PEKHArs Mrs. Cleveland uJes unneces sarily strong language in asserting that the report of her narrow escape Irom death in a runaway is "infamous;" but it Is a remark able illustration of the' disposition to sensa tionalize everything that the fonndation of the report was simply that her carriage locked wheels with another vehicle. The partisan Republican way-of looking at the political situation illustrates more than ever the poetic adage that "tbe Shallows murmur while the deeps are dumb." President McLeoddij been edifying a Congressional committee by again exhibit ing the breadth and depth of his ignorance about anthracite coal combinations. The power of the corporation magnate to forget anything that he does not wisn known is ope Of tbe social phenomena of tbe age. As to the comet it appears to have been principally effective In demonstrating what a great many people pretending to be ex perts do not know about comets. PROMINENT AND POPULAR. Emile Zola is now paid for the right to publish his novels serially lit the rate or 3 cents a word. That beats Alexander Dumas' 7 cents a line. Governor and Mrs. Pattison will be at borne in the Executive Mansion on Decem ber 8, when their daughter will make her debut in society. General Eosecrans and daughter re turned yesterday morning from Fortress Jionroe to Washington. The General's health is slightly improved. William J. Thompson, of Gloucester, N. J"., won $80,000 on the electioifof Cleve land. It would be hard to convince him that betting on elections is wrong. Mr. Poster, Secretary of State, upon retiring from his present office next March, will go to Paris as American agent, to take charge of the Government's case before the Bering Sea arbitrators. TnE Emperor of Annam has 200 wives, bnt he keeps them in separate houses, each of which Is surrounded, by & high wall. He doesn't believe iu family gatherings when there is only one old man's hair to pull. The ex-Chief Geronimo, who with other subjugated Apache Indians is living near Mobile, has been made a gardener at the military station where be is a captive, and is also a Justice of the Peace for his tribe. The engagement is announced of Major Winsloe, the Court Marshal of the Princess of Schaumenberg-Llppe, to Miss Stono, nn Amorican girl. Miss Stone's father is well known in New York as the owner of fast horses. Florence Nightingale, the famous nurse of tbe Crimea, and whose deeds of simple mercy and charity were embalmed in song and story until she became Eng land's favorite heroine, is now 72 years old and lives in perfect seclusion. Emperor William, of Germany, re- cenuy intenaea to aecorate count una no with the black eagle, but he sent him a red eagle oy mistake, and as etiquette would not allow him to take back what ho had once given, he was obliged to let the Count have both decorations. IW0 WOELD'S FAIB ATTEACII0NS. Tbe Relics of Columbus and a Counterpart of an.Old Viking Ship. Washikotow, Nov. 27. The Department of State has i ecelved through the United States Minister at Madrid a formal note from the Duke of Veragua, granting tbe request of the President for tbe loan or the relics of Columbus in the possession of Ills descend ants for exhibition at the World's Fair. Secretary of State Foster is in receipt of a dispatch from W. W. Thomas, Jr., United States Minister at Stockholm, stating that in view of the great risks attending its trans portation, it will be impossible to secure the presence of the viking ship at the World's fair. A fao simile of the ship is, however, now belue built in Norway, which, manned vrith a ere w of hardy Norwegian sailors the vikings or to-day will next spring sail across the Atlantic, up the St. Lawrenco river and across the lakes to Chicago. A FLOOD OF 8ILVB POSSIBLE If Dr. Emmens Latest Discovery Proves to Be a Complete Success. Washington, Nov. 27. Special. Dr. S. H. Emmens, of Youngwood, Pa., who is widely known as the inventor of the high explosive known as Emniensite, and who has devel oped a new and valuable process for the re duction of nickel ores, has worked up a. method of reducing the zinc-lead sulphides carrying gold and silver that exists in such large quantities in Colorado and other silver-mining localities. These ores have hitherto proved too retrnctory for reduction by the oidinary process and millions of tons of them are now on the dumps in the mining regions. Experiments are now being made with common quantities of the ore which, if they bear out the laboratory results, will have the effect of pouring a flood of silver into the market; DB. EC0IT WORSE AGAIN. His Low, Consuming Fever Returns and the Outcome Is In Doubt. Washington, Nov. 27. The condition of Dr. Scott, the,' venerable father-in-law of President Harrison, is not so favorble to night as it was last night, whon the indica tions seemed to favor his restoration to health. The unfavorable chance is attrib uted to a slight return or the low, consum ing fever which has such a prostrating offect on the invalid. He has, theiefore, been more uncomforta cle to-day, displaying greater weakness and being less bright and cheerful in manner. The outcome of the latest change in the case may depend very largely upon the progress of the lever, the natuial tendency of which is to increase as the night wears cy i. THE COMET. The Comet! He is on his way. And staging a he files; The whizzing planets shrink before The specter of die skies; Ah I well may regal orbs born blue . And satellites turn pale, - ' Ten million cable miles orhead. Ten billion leagues of Ull I ' On, on by whistling spheres of light, lie flashes and he flames: He tarns not to the left nor right. He asks tnem not their names; One spa tn from his demoniac heel Away, away they fly, fl here darkness might be bottled np And sold for "Tyrian dye." And what would happen to the land. And how wonM look the sea, If In the bearded devil's path Our earth should chance to bet Fail hot and high the sea would boll. Full rea the fores s gleam; Metbomrht I heard and saw It all In a dyspeptic drum t ,,.. -OUvtr Wendell tiohui to Au Ibrk Wbrli, IMPERFECT, DEMOCRACY. tWUlTTKN' FOB THE DISPATCH. 1 Politically! we are all democrats. I spell the name with a small letter, lest any one' should mistake the statement. There is no offensive partisanship intended In it. It appears, indeed, by the testimony of the recent election, that a majority of us are Democrats with a capital D. But the small letter is larger than the big one and takes us all in. We are all agreed in our belief in democracy. There is no king In this country and no desire for one. Nor have we any titled people, except the officers of our mili tary establishment. We are all democrats. That is, we are all democrats politically. Cut wo stop there. We set all men upon an equality in tbe voting booths. One man is just as good as another there. The righteous and tbe rascal, the man who works with his brains, and the man who works with his hands, he who can read and writo and'he who is as dostitute of these accomplish ments as woie ever the nobles ot the Middle Ages, the man who has a character and the man who has no character at all except bad one, rich and poor, hizh and low, Christian and pagan, Saxon and Slav, white and black, all drop their ballots into tbe box, and every man is counted one, only one. There was a picture in one of the papers before the election, which represented the good goddess Liberty holding up a .pair of scales, with a well-dressed and intelligent looking gentleman in one side, and a ragged, frowsy beggar on the other side; and the scales exactly balanced. That was a picture of political democracy. And that is the kind of democracy to which, wisely and unwise ly, for good or ill, this country stands com mitted. We believe in it. If wo have lost faith in it, then we are political heietics. Onr Political Democracy Imperfect. But we go no further. One man is as good as another during the first week in November, but not at any other time. All men aro equal at the polls, but not at any other place. Even our doctrine of political demociacy is singularly imperfect. .Any roan may vote, no matter how ignorant of public interests, no matter how opposed to all that is ,of advantage to the com munity. But the women must not vote. The illiterate, the iniquitous, tho freed slave, the foieigner who has not even learned our speech, and every rascal out of, jail, may share in our decisions of all gieat questions. Bnt the most intelligent, the most respectable, tho best behaved, and, all things considered, the wisest class of people in this country arc excluded. Of course I mean the women. An absurd prejudice, which bad its origin in the turbulent days when service to the State consisted in the ability to smite with the fist and to thrust with tbe spear, and human beings were of value in proportion to the toughness of their muscles this prejudice still influences' even this democratic country. The man who keeps a saloon may vote, and welcome; but the woman who keeps a school may have no voice in the affairs of the nation, which is her country as much as his. Wo aie lather narrow minded as yet, even in onr political democracy. But other than political demooracy, we have none at all. The only democracy that really counts, that amounts to anything, that promises much for the betterment of tho nation, and that is genuine and honest, is social democracy. I mean the kind of ap preciation of human brotherhood that brings ceople together, all sorts of people, into relations of friendliness. This we lack. We are social aristocrats. We are glad to associate with people who have as good fur niture in their houses as wo have. We are quite opposed to very close intimacy with any, other people. The dwollers in the palaces are sometimes rather unpleasant citizens, with remarkably few ideas, and these expressed with aline disregaid for the principles of English grammar. While the people who pay house, rent at the rate of twenty dollars a month are frequently people or good manners, of education, who rend more books In a week than their richer neighbors In a year, and who think wise thoughts about the world they.iive in. A Misunderstanding Somewhere. It seems absurd that in this democratic country there should be such aristocratic lines drawn and so foolishly drawn. If tho pleasure of society consists in eating ex pensive dinners and in exhibiting expen sive clothes, then by all means admit to it only thoso who can affoid these baser de lights. But if the best of life, as Emerson said, is conservative, welcome then to all "people who can talk. Much is lost on both sides of this arbitrary line. Plainer still Is the distinctloifbetween the educated aud the uneducated, Between the people who live comfortably and the peo ple, who live uncomfortably. The privi leged classes aie on one side and the un privileged masses are on the other side, and there is a great gulf between them. They live each in their own quarter of the town. They do not even see each other. Theyaio open on both sides to those unrounded prejudices which are brought by ignorance. The classes think ot the masses as improvi dent and untidy and unclean people who would be a great deal better off if they did not put their wages into the saloons rather than the banks: while the masses think the hardest kind of thoughts of the classes. The words that were spoken last summer in the midst of onr industrial excitement by uneducated people, by the poor, even by tho pastors of churches who did not know what they were talking about, words of abuse of the rich as hard-hearted tyrants, show what must happen whore tlieie is no social democracy. There must be misunderstand ing. What a misfortune it is'to have all the poor and ignorant people kept to them selves, and all the rich and cultured people kept to themselves, and no fraternal inter course between them. It is the old story of putting the dough in one dish and the yeast in another, and expecting bread. It is a bar, which oughtto beevldenttoevorybody, in the face of national progress. How can betterment be expected in what we call the lower classes, when the only peoplo who can help are parted from thoso who need help by tho conditions of our social life? Taking a New Look at Life. I .REJOICE that this unpatriotic, un- fraternul and unchristian state of things is getting to be recognized. There are a great manvvoumrneor.le who would balnrt ih many young people who would be glad to be of service to their less fortunate neigh bors. They havo learned that noblesse oblige is capable of translation not only into English but into daily life. They desire, as Buskin says, to make their minds not prisons but treasure houses or knowl edge. The growth of the social settlement idea is an indication of this new look at life. The University Extension Society, whose Pitts burg branch holds a public meeting to nigut, is another sign of progress. 'It seems tome that the chuiches might do a great deal more than they are at present doing in furtherance of social democracy. They succeed after a fashion, In 'getting all kinds of people together to say prayers and hear sermons: they might get the same peoplo together socially and double their good work. The time will come when aristocracy nill be declared by all good people to be im moral. Social democracy alone Is Christian. I may as well attach a text to this dis course. And, as I did not set it in the con ventional place at the beginning lot it stand at the end. I.mlgbt have found no end of text in the Bible. But we know all those good words so well that they do not make the impression upon us that they might. So here is a text out of this month's .R.i'um.rroin tho article, "A New Impulse to an Old Gospel": "The .time may come when tho politician who sells one by one to the high est bidder all tbe offices in his grasp will not be considered more base in his code of morals, more hardened in his practise, than the woman who constantly invites to her receptlobs those alone who bring her an equal social return, who shares her beautiful surroundings only with those who minister to a liking she has for successful social events. In doing this she is Just as unmind ful it the common weal, us unscrupulous in her U!,o of power, as Is any city 'boss' who consults only the Interests of the 'ring.' !' Coming of the Comet. AUsnU Journal. J At this stage of the gamo it could be sui oidal to spring anything about a cosae oomecmy-ua, - - - A CALL FOB MEECY. The Industrial Blacklist Called Un-American and Despotic. New York Recorder.! There teas one dark and oesolate blot on tho happy Thanksgiving picture. It was around the great Homestead iron, mills. Starvation, or something akin to it, was there in all Its horrors. The fires in the fac tory furnaces blazed brightly, Dut the fires on many a hearth wero out. It Is sad to read about little children gathering drift wood from the river, lighting it in a vacant lot, clustering around It to keep warm, and roasting potatoes in the embers for their Thanksgiving feast. Worst of all, there is hardly a ray of hope ahead. The unfortunate men who have struck cannot obtain work at tho mills, and with indict ments hanging over tnera they are liable to be arrested and put in jail if they leave tbe place to seek work elsewhere. The prison or the poorhouse what a terrible al ternative! There is a handful of men, the ring-leaders of the riot, who richly deserve to be punished. The law must be fully vindicated In their cases, for they wore the instigators or violence and murder. Innocent blood is on their hands, and the penalty for its shed ding must be sternly exacted from them. But the great body of tho strikers, while they participated in the ontbreak of mob fury, were but the poor, misguided tools of the craftier and wickeder men who acted as their leaders. , Their situation calls for mercy the mercy or the law ana tbe mercy of capital. The one should come from the executive cham ber at Harrlsburg, the other from the castle in the Scottish highlands. The strikers were wrong. No one will, no one can, de fend their acts or lawlessness; but have they not been sufficiently punished? Is no clomoncy to bo shown them? Mr. Carnegie and Mr. Prick have won. Is there no com passion in their hearts? Win nothing satisfy them except the utter ruin of their old em ployes? That terrible blacklist should be burned, Put it into one of the furnaces and destroy it forever. The yi'e thing is un American, it Is the invention' of Europearr indus trial despots. Give tbe men at Homestead one more chance. No better woikmen can De found anywhere. Let Mr. Carnegie take pity -on their hapless wives and children. Here is the best opportunity he ever had for tho exeicise of his philanthropy. MILLER'S NICAEAGTJAN CANAL In Need of Another Boost in a Message Prom the President. Washington, Nov. 27. Special. Warner Miller was here to-day fora lew hours to pro mote his interest in the Nicaraguan Canal, project. The scandal connected with the Panama schome, which is now occupying the atton tion of tho Frenoh Chamber of Dep uties, is said to operate to the advantage of the Nicaraguan enterprise. Although it was Sunday Mr. Miller went to the residence of the Secretary of State and Ifad a long con versation with him on the subject of the canal. Mr. Miller would like to havo Presi dent Harrison again make favorable men tion of the Nicaraguan 'enterprise in his forthcoming message to Congress. The bill which passed'the Home last session, author izing the United States Government to guar antee the canal company's bonds, is hung up in tho Senate Committee on Foreign Isola tions. Mr. Miller assumes to bo indifferent about the pending legislation, and insists that tbe patnotism and enterprise of the American people will furnish the means to complete the work without Congressional aid. But a Governmental guarantee to thecompanv's bond is not an objectionable feature. Aile termlned effor: will be made during the coming session to secure the passage of the bill througn the Senate, and in mat event the President will probably sign it, for he hasuppiovedit in all of his annual mes sages. The discovery of tho lact that an at tempt to retrict the American trade across the Panama Isthmus is now being made, it it thought, will create a strong sontimeut in fayor ot the Nicaraguan Canal. THEIE FIEST ANNUAL MEETING. Great Growth of the Young Women's Christian Association in a Year. Tlis first annual meeting of the Young Women's Christian Association was held in the Fourth Avenue Baptist Church last evening. The President's repoi t was very satisfactory. A house was rented on.Penn avenue down-town. It was lurnishod by the various denominations. Lunches and meals were served, but the rush became so great that Anally only members were ad mitted. One week the association fed 1,000 women. Classes were organized in Bible study, English Iiteratme, French, German and physical culture. About 175 students aro oniolled. Mrs. L. M. Gato, a member of the State Committee, was introduced. She explained the object of the association. It is an organ ization of young women of ail classes and conditions for mutual benefit. It Is not a church ocioty or a homo. It is not a char itable or phllanthrpic organization, either. She hoped tho people of PittsDurg would take an inteiest in the association. Miss S. E. Pence spoke next about "Our Needs." She said their work was not among the outcasts. They are trying to help young women live honestly. Tho growth of the local branch has been phenomenal. The society wants a gymnasium and a library. Committee!! are now looking for a suitable site. Au Eastern man bas offered to oe one of five to give $10,000 apiece toward a new building, provided they do lor women what the Y. M. C. A. is doing for men. A gentle man here has alteady given $1,000. A CEIPPLE CUBED BY PBAYEB. Almost Miracle Is tho Case of a Little Connecticut Girl. Mipmetown, Conit, Nov. 27. Special. Little Miss Mertina Underbill, daughter of Frank F. Underhill, or Bedding Center, had a spinal disease for 23 months and was prac tically paralyzed. She did not hope to get well. She read a great many books ,ir, bed. One day she read the story or an Invalid cured by prayer. Thereupon a ray of hope came into her heart, and'&he began to piay for health and strength and that she might recover the use of her limbs. She prayed continually except when sho slept, and be gan to mend at ouce. One day she said to her mother, "Why, I can begin to move my lees a little." She kept on nraying and mending. She took no drugs and she had a good appetite. One day 8lle sa'd, "I think I can get up," and with the help of her mother she got up. She was able to stand a few minutes, and next day she took a lew steps In her bedroom. Next she sat up all day, and this week walked about as well as any one and Is about well, bhe still prays daily. She Is 12 years old and a bright, pretty child. " MINISTEB COOLLufJE ACTIVE. Will Try to Conclude Two Important Treaties Before Cleveland Gets In. Pabis, Nov. 27 It is stated hero in diplo matic circles that United States Minister Coolidge has opened ' negotiations' for a commercial convention and an extradition treaty with France. Minister Coolidge will endeavor to com plete these diplomatic compacts before the appointment of his successor by the Incom ing administration. Keeping tho riiotographers Bnsy. Philadelphia Record. The Kaiser has sat for his one hundred and thirtieth picture. It cannot be said, therefore, that there re - willing subjects in the German Empire. DEATHS HEBE AND ELSEWHERE. Captain A. TV, Uossman. Captain A. "W. Ilossmnn, who had sailed on lake steamers for over half a Century. -dlcJ at his home lu Chicago. Saturday, aged 75 J ears. Iu the days of the old 1 oi theru Transportation .Coin pany. Captain Kossman was its fleet commodore and sailed In the different boats of that line for 30 years. When the company went out of business Captain Kossman accepted a place with the Good rich Company. He care up active service five weeks ago. Captain Kossmau was tbe veteran of all tbe vessel captains on the lakes In point of ac tive service. Obituary Notes. - BIONOB Sanhov, the Italian Minuter of Marine, died Saturday. MBS. AHitDatis. died at Schnylklll Haven Sat urday in the almshouse. She was 101 J ears old. Sho was born In Wales, Matthew Goleie, for IS years head proctor of Princeton College, died suddenly iu Philadelphia Friday afternoon. Mr. QoldleVasO years or age. Ha was born in Edinburgh and took parr, in the great Indian mutiny with the Madras ArtlUcrr.and i erred through tbe civil war. HARD LOT OF THE FARMER. TEFECIAL TJXXOHAM TO THE DISPATCH.! New York, Nov. 27, !ihe. Agrioui. turist'g Hard Lot," is the title of Matthew Marshall's article for to-morrow's fun, which is as follows: Saturday's shipment of $600,000 gojd seems to havo been taken by operators for a fall in stocks to be only the precursor of other and larger shipments of the same kind soon to follow, and therefore to indicate an ap proaching stringency in the money market. That more gold may be exported from this country before the end of the year is not Only possible, but probable, but tbe export when it occurs, should no more cause a stringency in money than shonld tbe export of any other commodity of which we have a surplus. Ii, by some ingenious artifice, we could make printed pieces ot paper answer the practical purposes 61 lead or or copper to the extent, say of LW0.000 tons, we should needjnstl.OOQ.OOOtons less of thoso metals and could export It, ire had It, without in convenience. The $110,000,000 of coin notes which we have created since the act of July, 1890, went into operation, have taken tho place of that amount of gold as a basis for loans and a medium af exchange, and havo thus sot free the" gold to be disposed as we may find It most profitable. How much of It we still require lor our own use can be de termined only by tho event, but nothing tends to show that any great quantity will ao to Europe without so reducing tbo rates of interest tbeie as to put an end to the de mand for it. England, France and Germanv havettll of it that they want at present, and the needsof Itussiaand or Austriaare pretty nearly satisfied. A Forecast That Can't Be Made. What will happen a few months hence, when tho further issue of paper shall have sent gold to a small premium, it is impossi ble to forecast exactly, but unless people1 lose their heads and become panic stricken, tne most to be feared is an advance in the price of everything except currencv obllga gations and the speculative excitement which will accompany it. That the tailing off in the exports of our breadstuffs and our cotton this year, as compared with: those of ayearago, accompanied by anincrease of our imports, tends to hasten a ciisisinour currency system, is too plain to be disputed. Durinu the four months ending October 31 last we exported only 4I.579.E60 bushels ot wheat, against &1,5Q3,187 bushels dnring the corresponding period of 18P1, and the total value of flour and of all kinds or grain exported was only $70,311,7.1. .against $101, 15S.3J1 last year. Of cotton tbe exports for the two months ending Ooroher 31 this year have amounted In nil to 1:78,375 bales, of the value of $33,511,387, against 1.099.CC3 bales." worth $50,181,676, during the corresponding two months of 1891. The consequence has been that, while for the four months ending Ootober 31 our total imports of merchandise have amounted to $300,739,885, nur total ox ports havo been only $273,632,299. leavinsran excess of imports over exports of $27,087,- The remarkable thing connected with the diminished exports of our breadstuffs Is that they occur in the lace of a very bad harvest in Gieat Britain, and nf nut un usually good harvests on the continent. It is also remarkable that while the short crop of cotton has stimulated speculation In 4c, and thus sent up its price, the demand for it for consuntptlon has not increased with the cheapness of tood. Unusual Condition of Affairs. It used always to be said that when bread went down cotton went up, for tho reason that the less people had to spend for food the moie they spend for clothing. Wesee now food cheap and plenty, and jet for purposes of consumption a slack demand for cotton. The cotton planter, it is true, is getting more for bis cotton than he did last year, but then he has very much less to sell, while tho wheat grower nere as well as abroad both has less to fccll and gets less for ib. .nuiuruuy me wneat growers, Dotn nere and in Great Britain, who are suffering from iius conjunction oi aiminisneu crops ana low prices, clamor for relief. In Great Britain there is a cry for a pro tected duty on imported wheat which is not likely to be heeded, and a more pluusiblo and more probably successful domand for lower lents of farmlands with less onerous lease. In this country, as I have frequently pointed out, the mostpooular measure with the agricultural community is free silver coinage, or in other words, a smaller dollar. Evidently if the price of wheat, corn and cotton could bo computed in dollars worth only two-thirds as much jis the present gold dollar, thev would bring half as much more in money than they do now, and tho burden, or lnieresc nnu taxes on mose wno raise them would be proportionately lightened. Tbe truth is, that while the past few years may have been exceptionally bad for agri culturists, the business Is one which from its nature can never long be very remuner ative, and those who carry it on with tbe expectation of getting great profits out of it will always, except on rare occasions, be disappointed. The Canses of Agriculture's Decadence. In this country, during the war and a lit tle while after the war, when the products of the soil brought high prices and new land could bo had cheap, farmers and planters made enough money to encourage them to Duy more land ana run in deoc lor it. So in Great Britain, where tbe land is made to yield bettor returns than it does here, the farmers a few years ago could afford to fiay liberal rents and yet have something eft over lor themselves. But as all profita ble business Invites competition, and the more easily it can be undertaken tbe sooner competition comes, so has It been with agri culture. Not only has this country enor mously increased its acreage of tilled land and with it the quantity of wheat, corn and cotton the land produces, but India has come into the market with large additions to the wheat supply, and the building of railroads in Russia has added to tbe exports from that country. It would seem as though the moro food there was to be eaten tbe more people there would be to eat it. But this remedy for low prices works slowly, and its lull re sults are hindered by tbe inciease of luxurv and by the higher standard ot living which prevails. From time Immemorial agricult ural countries have been poor in comparison with those which devoted themselves to commerce and manufactures. However populous tbey have been, and however fru gal and industrious their inhabitants, they have never done much more than support themselves, and by their labor, whereas na tions of merchants and.craftsmen have usu ally increased In riches. India to-day, witli her vast area and her hundreds of millions of cultivators of the soil, has not a tithe of tbe wealth or the lsUnd of Great Britain, which produces only one-third of the food her inhabitants consume. The citizens or the little Stato of Rhode Island are richer than thosu of the great State of Texas, and tho money capital of Now England, New York and Pennsylvania equals that of all the other States together. Skilled Labor Always the Best Paid. - It is not labor alone that creates wealth, but labor directed Dy skill, and the greater the skill embodied in the product the more valuable the product. It is true that the progress of improvement has benefited agriculture as well as it has every other urancn oi numan inaustry. steam ana ma chinery have come to tbe help of brute strength and manual labor. Although ploughing by steam has not been extended tb small farms, the processes of sowing, reaping and threshing nave been facilitated by ingenious labor-saving devices. There suit has been to Increase the quantity of tbe agilcultural product yielded by a given amount of effort, but not to improve the quality of the product Itself. Iron converted into steel, and tho steel again worked up Into hairsprings for watches, is worth a thousand times us much as It was in its original form, but a bushel of wheat or of corn and a pound of cotton get' no added value from the skill devoted to raising them. It Is only tiie artisan who uses them for food und for raw material who accomplishes these results, mid he alone, of course, gets paid for it. Unfortunately, too, for the agriculturist, while the productive value of his labor is thus limited by the nature of its product, his dcsrre3 for ex-' penditure are stimulated by witnessing the lot of tho more favored merchant and mechanic. It is not in human nature to see other people enjoying luxuries and not de sire to share them. Altogether, the lot of tbe agriculturist, from a money making point of view, is not a happy one, and it is no wonder that he complains.. BB0UGHT TO HEB SENSES. A Columbns Girl "Who Corresponded Re jects a Texas Admirer. Columbus, O., Nov. 27. Anna H. Diohl. or No. 863 Mohawkstreet, returned from Dal las, Tex., to-day. She went there to marry George Perkins, of that place, with whom she became acquainted as an "Unknown Correspondent." On exebanga of photo grabhs oacb was pleased with tho other, and Miss Dienl accepted Perkins' pro posal.' When she saw" him, however, she was disappointed, and, hearing that he was a gambler, declared the engagement off. She. returned to her home here to resume her position as lorewoman in a manufactur ing' company at $30 per week. Getting as Bad Themselves. Chicago News Record J One of the words which, wilt presently be Imported to franco for idiomatic us ia tbe verb "to boodle." ,- - t PBACflCAL BKSTJLTS EXPECTED By Delegates of'AH Shades of Belief at the Monetary Conference. Bbusskls, Nov. 27. It is now under stood that the proposal which Alfred Ue Bothschild, of the BritisludelegAtton. will submit to the Monetary Conference, Is a well conceived and long-thought-out plan for an international monetary agreement, Land not a mere project of air. x feeling of greater connuence nas Deep created among tbe delegates that the conference will have. practical results. The attempt in certain quarters to ridicule the conference and the false impressions conveyed, bv certain Enropean newspapers are strongly resented by the delegates of all opinions. Indeed It has caused the Uussian delegate, a well . known opponent of bi-metalllsm to-night, to announce ms intention 01 orlnging tne matter before the convention to-morrow and to protest against the circulation of such reports. The interest taken by the Indian Govern ment In the conference, is shown by the attitude of its representatives, who do not conceal their opinion that IndiaMias every thing to gain and nothing to lose by inter national 'bi-metallism. Though thev hardly expect such a settlement to result from tho firesent conference, thev are working leartlly at the task of finding a solution in that direction, and are co-operating with all who hope that Rothschild's plan can be made acceptable to ull sections. The general feeling is that unless the conference comes to a solution satisfactory to all, the adoption of a gold standard by India must follow, and for India to face this would be as much a leap in the dark as would any other new scheme, and would be fraught with the elements of perturbation and panic. MBS. HOST'S LAWYER SUES HEB. The Movement Brings Forth a Bit or Inter esting Family History. Dexveb, Nov. 27. 6rfcr. Lewis H. Quimby, an attorney, has entered snl'. against A. Marie Hoyt for $1,053 attorney feos. Quimby alleges that he collected $17,, C00 for Mrs. Hoyt, having to rake three trips to Philadelphia for the purpose. Mrs. Hoyt denies It all, and says that Qnimby railed In the object for which he was em ployed. Mrs. Hoyt's history is strange and interesting. She was an actress and a singer, and in the course of her travels met young Eberiy Hovf, nephew of the famous ex-Governor of Pennsylvania. Hoyt became enamored of her and they were mar ried. She left the stage and came to Colorado to live, where "Charles Hoyt. already a wealthy man. invested in inside property which has since greatly increased in valnt. They had not been here more than a year when Hoyt died. Mrs. Hoyt lias large landed property of berown in Texas, and one of the thrittit hotels in the Lonn Star State. Since the death of her Husband she has lived a secluded life. Her house out in the suburbs of this city sits in the midst of a whole block, and she maintains a stable of the finest horses in the State. She is also a great dog fancier. Some mis understanding on the part of the Hoyt family Drought forth litigation In which Quimhv claims to be a leal partici pant. Mrs. noyt's attorney is ex-eenntor lieasan. of Texas. The Hoyt estate I val ued at many millions, and the first install ment of Mrs. Hoyt's share, $224,000, was re ceived through Mr. tteagan last May. WAB BELICb FOB THE WOBLD'S FAIBJ Old Libby Prison to Be Made a Museum of Belligerent Articles. nniADELrHiA, Nov. 27. Fpectal. Four trunksful of war relics and two distin guished men were at the Continental Hotel for a few hours tbls afternoon. C.F.Guntber and Eev. F. W. Gunsalus, 6f the Plymouth Tabernacle, Chicago, stopped over In town ontheiipvayback to the Windy City from tbe Soutn. They have been collecting the relics for the World's Fair, and neithertime nor money has been spared in the effort to gathor everything. The s,tuff too bulky to be packed in the trunks is shipped by ex press. Three years ago Mr. Gnnther bought the old Libby prison for $14,000, and at heavy expenso had it shipped to Chicago, where brick by brick and board by board, it was put exactly as it stood dnring tho war. The relics collected now are to bo arranged in side this structure, and tho, whole thing will bo open to World's Fair visitors. ,"Ir. Gqntber wanted to transfcr.Indepoudenco Hull to Chicago, too, but to-day lio admitted that tbe transfer was a physical impossi bility, even if Phil3dciph!ans would let lt'g'o.' GAINING IN STBENGIH. Encouraging Keports Bead at the Sleeting of the Lawrencevillel. M. C. A. The thirteenth annual meeting of the Lawrencevlile Branch of the Young Men's Christian Association was held last evening in the Thirty-ninth Street Presbyterian Church, Samuel W. Hays presiding. The annual report showed tho Association to be in a good condition, and gaining in strength and numbers overy day. At tbe beginning of the year the membership was 141 and at the close they had 207 members, a gain of b6. During the year extensive im provements were made and paid for from subscriptions and money otberwlse raised to pay off all debts and have a small surplus in the treasury. After the leading of the report Peter Dick, of the East Liberty branch of tbe Y. M. C. A., made an address, in which he gave a history of the association, of the work it was doing and the possibilities for better work, ne was followed by Hugh Kennedy and W.K. Jennings in snort addresses. The meeting adjourned with the bene diction pronounced by Rev. A. E. Linn. PHYSICIANS WILL BANQUET. Third Anniversary of the Pittsburg Acad emy of Medical Science. The Pittsburg Academy of Medical Science will celebrate the third anniversary of its organization to-night by a banqnot at tho Monongnhela Houso.jrOno hundred cov ers will be laid, and tlieathering of physi cians of the old school will include nearly all the most prominent men of the profes sion in this city. The Pittsburg Academy is composed mainly of tbe yonnger medical men, and is patterned alter tbe New York Academy, Its object being to develop the science of medi cine in' every way possible. At the banquet to-night an.e!aborate list of toasts will be offered by tbe members and responded to by prominent guests. The Banquet Com mittee consists ot Drs. Stuart Patterson, William Scntt, S. O. Brnmbough, I. .1. Mover, W. H. Mercur, W. B. Henderson and P. J. Eaton. , Neglecting Her Domestic Duties. Omaha World-Herald. 3 There is one man in the United States who has the heartfelt Bjmpatlij- of people of all parties and creeds, and he is the husband of Mrs. Lease. SIR. BLAINx.'d RECENT IMAESS. As Mr. Blaise is neither in office nor a can didate for office, the sincerity of his illness will liot be questioned. Lot ns have no ex aggeration. New York Advertiser. As he has taken care cf himself for some months past the probabilities aro that he is not so serious ns his most alarmed friends would have us believe. Philadelphia Call. Evebt printed word regarding the condi tion of the ex-Secietary is eagerly read. Ho Is still, even in his retirement, "a part of tne history of the times iXeto Tor!: World. The American poople will be a unit in tbe hope that he will be spared and restored to health, and that he will yet enjoy many years of uselulncss Iree from fnrther affile lions. Buffalo Inquirer. It was well for Mr. Blaine that he adhered to bis refusal to accept the Presidental nomination of his party. The strain of a political campaign nndoubtedly would have greatly hastened his end. Wheeling Register. We cannot afford to lose such a man. The Republican party needs him. Tho nation needs him. And so there will be throughout the country prayers for his recovery and general wishes that he may regain bis strength. Baltimore American. Mb. Blaise's friends ard anxious about him more so than during any recent illness. He is somewhat botter.but still a very sick man. It is the hope of tho country, which bas profited so much by his counsel and labors, that he may be spared many years longer. Leuistcm Journal. The frequency of alarming reports of late regarding the condition of the health of ex Sccretaiy Blaine is an omen that cannot fail to arouse tbo greatest anxlety-among his friends, and thousands are his friends now who misunderstood .him in tbe days of his power. Evening Witmmtln. v CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. The word beer is of German origin. Calves' head soup is first mentioned in 827. There are at present nine 110-ton guns in the British navy. There are fully 110,000 species of flow e'ring plants on the globe. The dyeing of one piece of linen re quires IS distinct processes. If perfectly white cats have blue eyes they are nearly always deaf. The first Chinese drama was the "Death of Lin Lu," presented B. C. ID00. The first book stereotyped in this coun try was a New Testament in 1314. A cave full of human bones has been discovered In Tuolumne county, Cal. Nails can be driven into hard wood without bending if first dipped in lard. Tablecloths and napkins were unknown in France beforo tbo thirteenth century. About 1,000 fishing boats engaged around too British coast are named Mary. Tbe weight required to crush a square inch of brick vanes from 1,200 to4,5C0 pounds. -r-Tbe ancient Mexicans used wooden swords in war that they might not kill their enemies. The natives of Liberia prepare a singu larly intoxicating beverage from a common mushroom. During the past three months the num ber of visitors to Carlyle's birthplace, Eccle fechan, ran up to 300. The Hoosac tunnel in Massachusetts, which is said to be the longest in this coun try, is 4i miles in length. A fork-tailed petrel was recently picked up by a man at Macclesfield, England. Tc nnd a bird of this specios so far inland is said to be a rare occurrence. Charlotte, K. C, boasts of a double faced potato. One side is claimed to be a perfect representation ot a bear, and the other, it is said, is a fair mold of a calf. The clerks of a certain large provincial bank jointly own a cottage by the sea, M miles awav, where they all pass their holi days, occupying it in detachments during the summer. The City Council of Vienna recently suppressed a gymnastic society for adopting the colors of the German Empire for its own and passing a resolution to admit no for eigner except Germans to membership. A good story is told in Germany of e letter which was retcrned to tho general postoffice with these words written by the postman on tho envolope: "The addressee has hanged himself; present address un known." The college of the propaganda at Eoms announces the conversion of 40.000 persons tn Christianity in tho first six months of 1832. The greater portion of the converts were in Asia. West Africa, and a consider able number in the British provinces. The Emperor of Russia recently drove in tho first rivets of the keel or tho new coast defonso vessel, Admiral Oushtkofl. The vessel will bo 277 feet In length, 52 feet beam, 17 feet deep, with a displacement of 4,126 tons, and engines of 4,200 horse-power. A new soldering melal lor aluminum has been prepared by Mr. Alexius Kader, of Christiana. Norway. It consists in combin ing cadminm, zinc and tin mixed in sub stantially tho lollowlng proportions: Cad mium, 50 parts: zinc, 20 parts; tin, the re mainder. The remains of all the French an d Ger man soldiers who tell during tbe siege of 1370 and were interred in the aifferent ceme teries in and around Kronenberg were dis interred on the 2d instant and deposited in a single tomb in the cemetery of St. Urbain ic Strasbura. The great high bridge of the Southern Pacific Railroad over Pecos Canon is re markable for tbree things. It t the highest bridge in the country, being 323 feet above the river bed; it was constructed in six months, and only one man was killed in the course of its erection. In the islands of 2Jew Britain a man must not speak to bis mother-in-law. Not only isspeech forbidden to his relative, but she must be avoided: and if by chance the lady Is met, tho son-in-law must bide him self or cover his face. Suicide of both par ties is the outcome if the rule is broken. Physicians-are now able to wash out the system tbrough the natural channels of circulation by means of injected fluid, and Dr. Max Uilderband, of San Francisco, states that it is possible to infuse into the veins, without danger to the animal, an amount equal to four times the normal quantity 01 blood. American analyses show that the oyster's flesh and Iiquid3 contain from S4.3 to 9L5 per cent of water combined with the putients which vary from 8.5 to 18 3 per cent. The average of 34 analyses gave 37.3 per cent of water with 117 per cent of nutri ents. The liquids in the oyster aro chiefly water and sea salt. A new saw sharpening machine has been introduced in England, in which a re volving emery wheel Is fixed on a counter balanced arm, so that it can bo brought down by band upon the tool to be sharpened. It is so arranged that it will top, gullet and bevel either frame, crosscut or circular saws, with nny form or tooth. The bracket carrying the saw is adjustable, and can be fixed to give any amount of lead to the tooth. Probably tbe smallest painting ever made was the workofthe wife of c Flemish artist. It depicted a mill with the sails bent, tbe miller mounting tho stairs with a sack of grain on his back. Upon the terrace where the mill stood was a cart and a horse, and in tbe road leadin? to it several peasants were shown. The picture was beautifully finished, and even object was very distinct, yet it was so amazingly small that its surlaco could be covered with a grain or corn. A correspondent of Xature offers the following suggestions as to the formation of lunar craters. A shallow dish contain ing a layer of damp sand, half-inch. Is flooded with one-inch coating of Paris plas ter, of the consistence of cream, and the dt,sh set to dry over a llunsen flame. As the plaster sets the surface is pitted with crater-like holes, formed by the escapes of steam from the sand at the bottom of tba dish, giving a perfect representation of a lunar surface. PrROULTTES FBOM TCCK. "She's a fine girL No flummery. A straight up-atid-down philanthropist." "But I don't like these straight up-and-dowa girls. They're bad form." New' Clerk That young lady bought a whole list of things without ouce asking the price. Old Clerk Tlicy never bother about prices when things are to be chargcu. We pulled the wishbone, Sue and I I wish to kiss you!" my heart's sigh Bhe won; bat I've since understood That she was wishing that 1 would: Mrs. Penns So their marriage was secret? Mrs. Forcus-AIas, yes! 31 r. Penns How was It discovered? Mrs. Porcns Xhe dlvorte proceedings were by publication. Now that the nights are growing cold, The copper on his beat Will pause before the glnmilldoor And stamp to warm his feet. Then he will look from left to right. Hi head thrust quickly In. Politely ask the time of night. And then wipe off his chin. Horrified Stranger You sav that four men wtre carried away unconscious, three were badly crushed, and the doctors were busy for aa hour setting broken bones? On wliat railroad did tbe accident occur, sir? Animated Narrator-Railroad? Accident? II was the biggest football game of the season. He smilingly turns the grindstone Although his dinner waits: Oh. he works away with pliasnre For he's sharpening his skate ! Schoolma'am TVhy was it that hit great discovery was not properly appreciated until long after Columbus was dead? Nineteenth Century Schoolboy Because he didn't advertise! Lawyer Foggs Madam, I am compelled to ask yonr age. Miss Sears I don't remember, exaeUy. 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