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TWELVE PAGES
CONGRESS MUST ACT.
The letter of Dr. J. H. McClelland upon
national quarantine regulation, given in a
local article, sets forth the necessity of
such a system authoritatively and conclu
sively. Hs statement of the case leaves
no possible doubt as to the necessity for
promntly putting the control of quaran
tine at the ports and borders of the country
into national hands.
A rational quarantine is necessary to
secure the fullest uniformity, economy
and fflciency. When these po'.nts are es
tablished, as they are by Dr. McClelland,
tin question is decided. The subject is
one la l.n especially and peculiarly under
national control. The protection of the
natcn against fatal epidemics requires
Uniterm and adequate quarantine every
where. With such considerations the
duty of Conaress to establish an adequate
and fully equipped quarantine system is
mrde manifest beyonj all dispute.
Oily the stupidest of our political vices
can prevent the prompt action of Congress
at an early stage of this session to meet
the imperative and vital need, so con
cisely stated by Dr. McClelland's letter.
A FKCITLEsS CONFEKENCE.
The week closed with our delegates to
the monetary conference on their way
hom-. The conference having laboriously
discussed the best way in which it can do
ndthu g has rdjourned till next year, prob
sbly v.i.h the hope that in the interval its
numbers may discover some method of
doing less.
Cat t'jat interval may be improved by
ac'"ou on the part of the United States
putting the onus on Europe. The confer
ence, while barren of other results, has
brcusht cut one- fact. That is that the
moneyed iutcrrsts of Europe while fight
ing any return in the direction of bimetal
lism is anxious that the United States
shall continue its present silver pur
chases. That the United Stites Treasury
shall continue to hold up the silver mar
ket and at the same time efford a gold
Ftipply for Europe to draw upon was the
ideal of the R Mhschlld proposition; and
that sufficiently indicates the desire of
the monetary powers which prevented any
tangible results from the conference.
The United States with this fact before
its legislators should no lonser play the
game of the European monetary powers.
It may involve a loss to put its siiVer cir
culation on the gold basis, and then to
accept market rates for the immense
stock of silver in the Treasury. But we"
can stand that loss better than to longer
permit our monetary system to act as a
combination of a milch cow to furnish
Europe's gold supply, and the beast of
burden to support the silver market for
the benefit of the Anglo-Indian inter
ests. A brief summary of the Brussels con
ference may consist of reporting that
Europe asked the United States delegates
what they proposed to.do about it If the
United States should stop sliver pur
chases and commence selling the Treas
ury bullion the next meeting of the con
ference might develop an onus upon the
European delegates of saying what they
propose to do about it.
MR. HABTER'S SUGAR DUTY.
A bill introduced by Mr. Harter, of
Ohio, the Democratic member who is as
suming a decided leadership, to make the
sugar duties uniform and to abolish the
payment of "bounties," has the merit of
brevity and inclusiveness. It's entire
legislation is included in the following
language:
That on and after February 1, 1833, a uni
form tariff tax or customs duty or one
half of 1 cent per pound be levied and col
lected upon all grades of sugar Imported
Into the United States from any part of the
world; and that the payment of all bounties
to producers of sugar In the United States
shall cease finally and absolutely on the
first day of February, 1833.
It is necessaryto say that, viewed sim
ply as an abstract measure, Mr. Hurler's
bill is much better than other Democratic
propositions to restore the old sugar
duties, and thus under the profession of a
revenue tariff maintain the protection to
the Democratic sugar-planters of Louisi
ana and increase the protection to the
Sugar Trust. The plan has the merit of
taking away the entire protection of the
Trust, and admitting the sugar refiners of
the world to equal competition. The
duty of- half a cent which now swells the
profits of that combination would go into
the public Treasury as an addition to its
revenue.
But exactly this feature makes the
adoption of Mr. Barter's proposition more
than problematic. The Louisiana sugar
planters have generously expressed their
willingness to accept the incidental pro
tection of a revenue duty of ljc on raw
sugar, or a 50 per cent duty; but that does
not assure their willingness to see their
protection cut down to a half, cent or a
16 2-3 per cent duty. .Besides which, in
proposing to wipe out with this brief en
actment the entire protection of the Sugar
Trust, Mr. Harter reckons without the
host of influence which that combination
is able to bring to bear on ways and means
committees, Democratic as well as Repub
lican. Besides this there is a factor in connec
tion with the sugar duties which Mr.
Harter appears to have entirely over
looked. .By treaties witlurarious govern
ments, through which important markets
are opened to products of the United
States, tbis Government has bound itself
to admit "to' tMs country various products
of the other, parties to the treaty duty
free. Sugar is one of the leading products
on that list. If Mr. Harter desires to
shut off the reciprocal arrangements for
American trade In CuDa and -South
America, there are such things as inter
national obllsations to be considered.
The Constitution makes a treaty obliga
tion "tho supremo law of the land;" and
International comity might suggest a
doubt as to the wisdom of smashing com
mercial treaties on such brief notice as
will elapse between the date of the enact
ment of Harter's bill and February 1,
1893.
We think the measure Is very likely to
slumber the sleep that knows no waking
in the pigeon holes of the Committee on
Ways and Means.
A POSSIBLE CONFLICT.
Our New York special elsewhere gives
additional reasons for expecting a conflict
between the New York Democratic ma
chine and the. administration. -Tammany
and Hill are intrenching themselves in the
patronage of all the New York cities by
measures designed to increase the power
of the leaders, and expect that with the
civil service policy of the administration
they can hold out more Inducements to
the political workers than the coming
President will da
All of which means, it the utmost
stress of .faction prevails, that the Demo
cratic machine of New York will pit its
strength against the national Democracy.
There will be nothing especially new in
such a trial of strength. It Is worth re
membering that this is no more
than the division on which the
party nomination turned this year.
The Tammany-Hill interest may
fortify itself in the State and
municipal patronage of New York-; but as
it already has nearly all of that patronage
it cannot increase it very much. In the
contest of 1892 the division was between
toe Tammany Hall Democracy with all
this patronage and the Cleveland Democ
racy with no patronage at all. The out
come of that conflict does not give ground
for fearing that even with clyil service re
form the national administration will be
forced to terms with Tammany.
This will be especially the case if, as
the correspondent intimates, tho national
patronage is to be controlled on the theory
tha it exists for the benefit of the whole
people instead of as the property of a fac
tion. A contest azainst the administra
tion waged by the most unscrupulous
machine politicians of the country would
attract to the support of the former the
vast majority of the people who believe
that the public interest is to be placed
ever party spoils.
GENEROSITY TO THE WORTHY.
Thr? is a deal of talk just now as to
the immensity of the pension rolls and the
probability of their being cut down. No
patriot can for a moment begrudge one
cent paid out from the national treasury
to relieve tho necessity o increase the
comfort of thos3 handicapped in the
ttruggle for existence by services rendered
to their country in its hour of supreme
need. But such are the first to suffer
from the expenditure of vjss sums on be
half of those who need no pensions and
those who have no just claim to them.
The whole subject should bo treated
aside from all partisan a filiations. It is
indisputable that there are to-day thou
sands of dollars paid out in pensions
to people who are nothing more
than impostors. Lit the men who
bore arms for the Union and suffered in
their fortunes thereby be recompensed
with jnstlce and generosity. L?t their
widows be compensated so Liras nossible
for the Ios of husbands in the nation's
service. But the men whose careers were
rendered no more difficult byservlcs in
the armv, those who are well supplied
with the' necssities and comforts of life,
and those who never bcre arms at all,
Fhould have too much pride to accept a
pension in the one case and should have
no chance to steal one in the other.
The pension agent, the widowed post
bellum wife, and none of the unworthy
must be permitted longer to fatten at the
expense of the deserving and the needy to
increase the burdens of a p2ople that Is
ready and anxious to deal falriy and be
fair.y dealt by.
THE INTEREST OF WHEAT GROWERS.
The Secretary of Agriculture, in his re
cently published report, asserts that "the
time has come when the American farmer
must cease his efforts to neutralize the
low price of his wh.at by producing a
larger quantity. The only proper
course lies in a reduction of acreage and
production."
All of which may be true if the time
has come when a larger quantity cannot
be produced by means of machinery at a
less rate per -bushel than the smaller
quantity. But inasmuch as it is an es
tablished fact that on the Western-farms
by means of machinery for plowing', drill
ing, reaping and threshing, a farmer can
make more money by producing' 10,000
bushels of wheat at 70 cents than byjpro
ducing 5,000 bushels at 51, we are
obliged to differ with the Secretary. If
the farmer can develop more profitable
crops or diversify his production he will
be wise to do so. But the idea of an arbi
trary restriction of production, which the
agricultural report seems to recommend,
if it-were practicable atall, would simply
mean handing the European markets over
to the wheat growers of Russia and
India.
The interest of tho wheat growers of
this country lies in efforts to cheapen pro
duction by organizing so as to obtain the
fullest use of machinery In farm opera
ticms and in the cheapening of transpor
tation. For the latter purpose the devel
opment of internal water ways is of the
first and most lasting importance.
AX ILLOGICAL PROCEEDING.
The difficulty of carrying out with con
sistency the principle If we may dignify
the subject by that term of discarding
the law, Is demonstrated by the attempt
of 'a mob in M ssissipplto.lynch the son of
Congressman Money for killing a political
opponent. The fact that the attempt to
lynch a person with influential friends
was not so successful as the old massacres
of negroes in that district is an interest
ing incident; but the important point is
the utter failure to appreciate tha logic of
their own system.
"Why should a mob which asserts "for it
self the right to condemn people without
trial and kill them, without law, object to
the exercise of the same right by another
person like young Money? If Tom, Dick
and Harry are entitled, under the excite
ment of indignation and whisky, to decide
that Jack Is an enemy to society and to
hang him to the next tree, why shall not
Jack have the right to say that Bill is
dangerous person and remove him by the
instrumentality of a revolver or shotgun ?
We protest that by the principles of lynch
law young Money had the same right to
kill bis man as the mob had to lynch
young Money.
The recognition of this right all around
till -the' shooters and lynchers are fully
disposed of, may afford the most practical
and lmtnediate solution of the lynching
and shooting tendsneies of the Sunny
South and boundless West After that
violent; element was properly planted the
new generation might conclude that it is
worth while to live undsr a government
of law.
A doubly unique method of viewing our
political system is afforded by the Now
York Tribunal comment on the consultation
of Gorman, Brlce and Carlisle with Sir.
Cleveland concerning the Western Senator
ship contests. The Tribune justly thinks
that to undertake to Influence such elec
tions by consultations In New York is very
reuiarkaDIe, and says of these gentlomen:
"They probably forget that the body to
which they belong is the Bolo arbiter of
sneb an issue.1' TV hlch Is an enrichment of
the unique features. We had snpposed that
the State Legislatures had something to say
on that point.
Two House committees are in the throes
of a wrestle, with the silver question, and
at last accounts the silver question re
mained. Perhaps the delegates to the in
ternatlonal conference now on their way
homo can add to the stock of information
alreadyin possession of the committees, to
the effect that they don't know what to do.
There may be a wide latitude for dis
cussion as to the xact valao of the airing
that that extremely good Colonel Shepard
got in the recent trial at New York; but
there is hardly room for doubt that the New
York Tribune' editorial assertion that "as
for the testimony, he has the satisfaction of
knowing that it has not affected public;
opinion concerning him in tho slightest
degree," is the, finest bit of unconscious
irony perpetrated in the last two decades.
Now St. Louis is torn up because her
.Mayor was not invited to a Democratio
dinner. These political dinners are more
than npt to be ruinous to party digestion.
A retrospect of political dinners for the past
eight years should add to tho political rnle
against writing letters a special addendum
against political feasts.
Sergeant Dunn, the New York Signal
Service man, has resumed his old post and
modestly promises that there will be an im
provement in the weather tips as a result
of his restoration. This holds ont the un
pleasant idea that the public will be re
duced to a condition of uncertainty In place
of the present admirable system of know
ing what the weather will be by expecting
the exact contrary of the predictions.
Those riotous representatives of the
modern scholastic system who recently
raised a disturbance at a New Haven thea
ter have been fined $100 each. Haw serious
ly this affects the paternal pocket may be
the element which, determines whether it
includes any punishment to tho disorderly
collegians or not.
"The inter-State Commerce law was a
clumsy attempt at what experience seems
to show ws an impossible good," says the
New Vork Recorder. Possibly, but its failure
Is more significant, as the proof by expert
ence of the sncces-ful manner in which
great and. aggravated wealth can nullify
and set Aside the statutory enactments of
their charter obligations.
Senator Peffer's assertion that his
party will fight to the bitter end the hill
legalizing railroad pools contains a promise
that th Feople's party is to make good the
title to its name.
At present one of the most popular works
of literature among Democratic workers is
tho official Bine Rook, containing a com
plete list of the 180,000 offices at tho disposal
of Uncle Sam. A year hence it may be
found, whether civil service prevails or not,
that the perusal of that work to the large
majority who will be disappointed will be
like Dead Sea fruit.
'PERTINENT PERSONALITIES.
It is asserted. ,hat Actor Mansfield is the
real author of "Beau Brumtnel."
The richest-man in Kansas is J. B. "Wat
kins, oi Lawrence. He is worth $3,000,000.
Charles Dickens' daughters taught
him to dance polka, but he couldn't master
the schottische.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps isn't so
much older than her husband, after all.
Though only 47, he has been writing for
publication over SO years.
A few weeks before his death the late
Duke of Muilborough wrote for tho Fort
nightly Review an article on the "Art or
Living," which will be published before the
end of this year.
Chauncey M. Defew is a believer in
pcrap book. He has eight or ten of them
which contain clippings Irom newsptpers
and periodicals relating to himself. All of
bis printed speeches are preserved in this
way.
Bishop Spalding, who has just returned
from the St. Louis Conference, said, when
spoken to about bis proposed appointment
ns coadjutor to Archbishop Kenrick, that
he does not want to go to St. Lonls,undis
satufled to remain Bishop of Peoria.
Here is Georee Francis Train's latest
scheme: Organize several large parties to
travel around tho world in 40 days, celebrat
ing their return by attending the World's
Fair, making Chicago their stnrtlng point
and also the terminal of their raco against
time.
Mme. Modjeska plays "Chopin,"
speaks half a dozen different languages, in
cluding English, which few can understand,
and rea'ls the best literature In them all.
Albanl cultivates the domestic arts, making
splendid npple dumplings, and writes enter
taining letters. Paul is proud of her needle
work, esDeelaUy of her darning, but it's a
cold day when tho diva works.
KES. GLADSTONE A V0IEB.
She OwnsProperty In Ontario That Entitles
Her to Suffrage There.
'Niagara Falls, K. Y., Dec. 18. Special
Considerable prominence is being given of
'late to the fact that Sirs. Gladstone, wife of
William Ewart Gladstone, the English Pro
mler, is a property-owner at Niagara
Falls, Ont., and consequently entitled to
vote for' Mayor, School Trustees and
councillors of the town. Her name appears
on thq voters' lists. This property consists
of three aorcs of land situated on the fam
ous bluff of ttie falls jnst back or the Falls
view station of the Michigan Central rail
road and is considered one of the most valu
able plots in that vicinity.
Parties are negotiating with Mrs. Glad
stone for the purchase of the land, and let
ters have passed between the parties. The
plot is considered quite valuable, nnd
at present prices is quoted at $5,000
an acre. It will prouably increase
in price when the big hydraulic water
power tunnel is completed on the Canadian
side. The three acres were a present to
Mrs. Gladstone from her husband about the
tlmo the Niagara Falls Queen Victoria
Jubilee Park was opened to the
ubllc Tfcere is some talk of
rs. Gladstone visiting the Falls If she and
her husband come to the World's Fair next
year. The lady has never yet taken advan
tage of her rights as a voter in the Canadian
town.
Tho End of Senator Stewart.
St. Lopls Globe'Democrat.
Sonator Stewart's days of potency are
numbered. Nevada will soon be annexed to
some of the adjoining States or Territories,
and then his career will end.
Bnt Force of Habit Would PrevaU.
Los Angeles Times. J
When an astronomer Is taking pictures of
planets and Comets you never hear him say,
Nowlopkfpleasant.'please.", It -wouldn't
count for much If he did.
More Fitting Than Football.
Phllaa'elDlAa.TImes.l
TmiiJ trlrl ftrn ffnfntr tn nrntfn.. il l M.
gono"la Greek. Many as a college play will
xomm'iaa tuu more tuta looioaii.
MAFS INHUMANITY TO MAN.
rwitlTTES FOB TUB DtSrATcn.l
I saw a house the other day, in this
town, that Is rented, I was told, for more
than $3,000 a year. And It is not in a very
good neighborhood, either. Good nelgbor
hoodt I should think not! It Ironts upon a
narrow alloy, deop with mud. It Is crowded
on three sides with stables and plgpons and
hoasos fitter for the occupancy of pigs and
cows than of men and women. Across the
narrow alley stands an obtrusive row of
pestilential outhouses. And the people who
live in this houe pay for this privi logo the
sum of over $2,000 annual rental.
For that amount of money they ought to
be'supplied with all the comforts and con
veniences of llfo. Thoy ought to have elec
tric light, and natural gas. and water hot
and cold, and bathrooms and hard-wood
floors, and tiled hearths, and furnaces.
None of theso accessories to respectable
existence were visible. Indeed. I observed
some of the women who live there going out
with buckets to the hydrant at tho corner.
The staircases are dark and perpendicular.
The rooms aro small and uncomfortable.
Tho house looks from a little dltance like
ad old abandoned brick barn. You would
not think or it as a human habitation. Yet
it rents for $2,000!
One Hundred Faturs Citizens.
The house is occupied by more than 20
families, with the usual number of chil
dien. Say a hundred children. One hun
dred citizens of Pittsburg are growing up
within this oxpensive lodging, making mud
pies in the adjacent alleys, nnd learning
patriotism, good cltiz enship, virtue and all
the decenoles and graces of life in the'
neighboring street. That is to say, in plain
language, they are taking 'dally lesson s In
iniquity, and are making ready to become
both dangerous and expensive citizens.
Presently we will be paylnr out for law
yers' fco, for policemen's wnges, for board
and clothes at the workhouse and the peni
tentiary, almost as extraordinary an
amount of money as the parents of these
children are oxpendlng for their miserable
rooms. He Is not to be envied who has the
responsibility upon hi soul of taking $2,003
out or the pockets of his poorer brothers
and sisters, nnd giving back in return such
a place to live in as is certal to degrade
them physically and spiritually.
One of the meanest things that a man can
do is 'to take advantage or his neighbor's
misfortune. Human nature has got down
about as low as it can get when it breeds a
race of wreckers. Here is a brother of ours
cast ud by the sea. The wind and the
waves have torn his ship to pieces.and have
barely spared his life. Somehow he has
mado his way to tho cold shore. He has got
within tho reach of help. There he lies half
drowned, half-frozen, gasping for breath,
half-dead. Let us pick his pockets! Let us
steal his watch and his purse! We have
him at a disadvantage. He cannot help
himself nor harm us. Let us enrich our
selves at his expense!
Breaking One bf the Commandments.
That, it seems to me, is but a fair de
scription of every landlord In this town
who is -making 100 or 200 per cent upon his
money by exorbitant rentals.
It Is not the amount of the rent that makes
it exorbitant and iniquitous. It is the dis
proportion betweon what Is given and what
Is received. I wish that the "Point" were
full of houses worth $2,000 a year. It would
bo a different place to livo In. As it is both
tho "Point" and all othor similar districts
in this town are crowded with tenements in
which slum accommodations are provided
at prices fit tor palace i. I hold that any
man who lakes $9 iioin his brother and de
livers him $2 worth of goods in return has
broken one of the commandments. And if
by his thaft his fellow man is forced into
such environment of degradation tbat
crimes are committod in consequence, I
maintain that for such further breach of the
eternal laws of God the Initial dishonesty is
actually responsible.
A great many people in this city are pay
ing $9 for $2 rooms, and the $7 which ought
to be spent in making th ese rooms decent
habitations lor human beings Jingle ta the
pockets of reputable citizens. Men and
women and little children go hungry and
unclean In body and soul In order that other
peoplo who already have more money than
they know what to do with may have more.
A Pilgrimage to the Point.
I MADE a pilgrimage, the other day, to
the "Point." It nng one of those days last
week in which earth and sky were in con-
splracy to make the waylarer uncomfort
able. The Point roekod with mud. But
mud Is better than bad smell. And theasun,
I am informed, is pot so kind to the Point as
the clouds. So that I saw the place at an ad
vantage. There are streets there which are
lined on both sides with entrances to the
bottomless pit. Corner after corner shines
with lUlits that are kindled at the nether
fires. At temples of Venus and Bacchus hu
man sacrifices are offered every day. Con
spirators against tho good of the city, cor
ruptors of our youth, have here their meet
ing places.
There are two notable places in this dis
trict which are headquarters of civilization,
of good citizenship and of Christianity. One
is the Exposition building, which has al
ready done much by Its presence at the
Point. The other is Father Sheedy'a church
and school. No doubt there are other sym
bols of progiess and centers of hope, but
these I noticed particularly. Father
Sheedy's parochial, school superseded a
speak-easy. It is a busy factory where
darkness is being made into light. There is
no cleaner snot In the whole city. The very
look or the schoolrooms is a lesson to the
children. And tho copy books that I saw
thero are proof that tho lesson is well
learned. Those fair pages were written
with clean fingers.
A Possible Headquarters for Inspiration.
Father Sheedy's church and school
are open every day. I wish that as much
could bo said or the Exposition building.
Thero is that great structure full of all man
ner or fine pos-iblllties, unrealized, open
only for a low 'months In the summer. It
might be a great lecture room, concert
room, plcturo gallery, muieum. It might
be headquarters 'or Inspiration and encour
agement and progress. If seems a pity,
with all these open doors inviting into
houses which are a menace to the town,
that these wide gates should be nailed up.
The Exposition building ought to be used
all tho year round.
There are stteets at the Point which are
lined on each side with a double row of
houses; a row along tho street and another
row behind them, where the children's play
gronndouzhtto be. And theso houses are
so crowded, so ill-built, so uncarod for, that
the people who live in them lose all interest
in life. Human life, to go on wholesomely
and well, needs more than bread and butter.
Thero is need of decent pleasure, or attrac
tive sights and harmonious sounds. Tako
the most promising bov in Pittsburg out of
his cheerful home, in tho East End and set
him down in the dirt at the Point. Clothe
him in ragged breeches, serve him a scanty
dinner off a broken plate, and give him the
breeding of the tenement; ten to one he will
go tolhodevlL That Is where hundreds of
bright boys and girls are going In this town
to-day for lack of more Christian land
lords. 1 wish that the thoologians might post
pone their persecutions lor heresy till they
have rooted out the one only lata! heresy
the heresy of Cain. What does it matter
whether there were two Isaiahs or one?
But it does matter whether two families or
one live in a single room. Let the people
who are so much interested in the author
ship or the books or tbe Bible tranafer somo
of that Interest to the ownership ot the
tenements of our great cities.
Let's Have It Strong.
Chicago Tribune.:
Football played on pontes is the latest
Eastern diversion. Males would be better.
They can kick harder and hurt worse.
The Advantage of Stockings.
Dallas News.
Mrs. Lease will doubtless have a great
advantage of Jerry Simpson when they
wafco up Christmas morning.
Bank Brings Elsks.
Buffalo Expreii.l
The Countess Clancarty never fell from a
Jumping horse when she was Belle Biltoa.
F0STEE Off, GOLD SHIPMEHTS
He Tried His Best to Antlclpats the
Present Pressure.
TVASHiifOToa', Deo. la Secretary of .tho
Treasury Charles Foster to-day expressed
hlmseir freely respecting the alarm felt in
financial circles over anticipated large gold
exports. He said ho looked upon the situa
tion not simply as a spectator awaiting his
retirement from office: -'I am Socretary of
tho Treasury," he said, '-ami will bo until
relieved on the fourtli of March next. My
duty will De performed in the interest of
the public welfare as vigorously as if my
time were poty goon to end. Every rosourco
at my command will bo availed or to pre
serve the gold and silvor as I am com
manded by law."
"How about tho reservo in tho Treasury?"
"No one can obtain gold from the Treasury
without paying mnnev for it, and with the
money thus received I can recoup tho gold.
There Is also the right vested in the Secre
tary of tho Treasury to sell bonds. If neces
sary, to maintain tho gold reserve. Tho
Treasury situation as to the casli balance is
such ns to permit the free use of cash re
ceived for gold'to again obtain the gold."
"Will the gold reserve be maintained?"
"It will be." This was stated with the ut
most emphasis. "I firmlv believe that with
the resources at the command of the depart
ment I shall not be- seriously embarrassed
in more than maintaining it. I recommended
to Congress'In my nuiiunl report that the re
serve be Increased lroin $100,000,000 to $125,
000,000." As the Secretary's report was prepared
beroro the present abnormal drain of gold
to Europe started, Secretary Foter reason
ably claimed credit lor Hilly anticipating
the present pressure and taking all precau
tious to moet it.
EEGTJLAE MEH-0F-WAE.
England's New Bovenue Cutters Capable
of Knocking Out Every Lake Port.
Toledo, Dec. 18. The Blade to-night pub
lished a long article descriptive of the three
English alleged revenue cutters now lying
at Owen Sound on tbe south shore, of
Georgian Bay. These vessels, the Petrel,
the Constance nod tbo Curlew, are, accord
ing to the I lade's representative, who visi
ted the place, men-of-war, any one or which
i- capable or knocking into splinters all the
floating armament which tho United States
now has on the Great Lake". They have a
draught of less than ten feet, and are ca
pable of running through tbe smallest canal
in the lake system.
Their armament is the most complete of
its kind known to modern naval warfare.
Each vessel has three Maxlm-Nordenfeldt
U-pounder rifles, capable of doing execution
at 6.000 yard', and of piercing tour Inchos of
solid steel. In addition each vessel has four
rapid-firing Hotchklss guns. Tho fleet is
manned by British sailors, nnd orders are
received direct from the British Admiralty
olflce in Loudon. The Canadian officers
have nothing whatever to do with them.
The old man-of-war Michigan, which alone
upholds the flag of tbe United States on the
Great Lakes, is, according to the UJia'e.orno
use on land or sea, and the three revenue
cutters, Perry, Johnson and Fessenden, will
beof oven less utility In time ot war. There
1 then, absolutely nothing to prevent tho
English laying in ashes overv lake port in
tho States. Chicago, Cleveland and Detroit
would, in case of war, bo lorced to sur
render n lthln 48 hours.
JOHHUICAKE'S WIDOW WIK3.
Settlement at Last of an Important Contest
for Valuable Lands.
Kansas Citt, Deo. 18. Special. When
Chief Isaac Johnnycake, of the Delaware
tribe of Indians, died about 15 years ago, in
tho nation, he left about 1,800 acres ot land
in Wyandotte count', Kan. It Includes the
town site of the village of Vance, and the
farms of J. M. Myers, H. Malcot, and other
citizens. His will, drawn according to the
laws of the Cherokee Nation, left every
thing to his sons, excluding tbe daughters.
Mrs. Sallle Smith, one or the daughters, con
tested the will in the Supreme Court of
Kansas, ana has jnst won the sntt. The
1,800 acres in tho Johnnycake homestead
now comes Dack to tl'e widow, Mrs. Jane
Johnnvcako and her children, to be divided
according to law.
Johnnycake became possessed of the land
under the Delaware allotment treaty. The
tribe amalgamated with tbe Cherokees soon
arterward. and the old chief followed his
people. Hiram Malcot came in to possession
o." several hundred acres under deeds of the
hlrs under the will. Myers nlso held n simi
lar title. Numerous conveyances have been
made. Vance has beep subdivided and sev
eral hundred lots sold by the town site
company, under the decision and treaty
stipulations. These conveyances are
worthless. The proporty is very valnable,
and hai been In litigation lor 12 years or
more. Tho confusion that will result will
be incalculable.
A FAUIL7 AFFAIR.
Father and Two Daughters to Bo Wedded
In a I?anch in Indiana.
Jeffebsonyille, Isd , Dec. 18. Special
A triple wedding in which a father and his
two daughters will figure will take place
'Christinas. The persons who will bo
married aro Alcxandor M Knth
erford nnd Mrs. Constance Matthews,
Miss May Kuthorrord and Albert Totrnsend:
Miss Maggie Ritherfnrd and James N. Ben
nett. The Ituthorfords live in Ohio Falls, a
suburb or the city. Rutherford him
self is 50 years old and his daughters
nre 18 and 20 years. Only one cere
mony will bo required to unite
tho llvos for bettor or worse of this sextotto
of lovers. Three handinmo cottages have
been erected by tho giooins on adjoining
lots. The father will occupy tbo middle
building and his daughters and their re
spective husbands the others.
A Boon to Newspaper Headers.
Chicago DIspatch.3
Singular, isn't it, that Garza always times
his outbreaks so that they occur during tem
porary lulls in tbo news market?
-Where Does Mr. Carnegie Come In?
Omaha World-Herald.
Child?, Stanlord, Drexel, Rockefeller,
Armour come, Mr. Astor, it's your turu
next.
DEATHS 11EEE AND ELSEWHERE.
Henry A. HUUard, Diplomat.
Henry A. Billiard died at Atlanta Sat
urday. He was born In North Carolina, passed
his boyhood In South Carolina, at the college of
which State he graduated, studied law and re
moved to G;ogla. In 1S33 he became a citizen of
Alabama, occupying a proressorsnlp In the Uni
versity or that State. He was elected to the State
Legislature in 1833. and In 1810 he was a PreslUental
Elector. He was appointed Minister to Belgium In
1542 Dy President 1'ylcr. and was a Representative
In Congress from Alabama from 1WS to 1831. He
was also a Urgent or the Smithsonian institution,
and devoted some attention to the pursuits of lit
erature. A volume of his speeches was published
In 1&--5. and in 1877 he was appointed MluUter
Plenipotentiary to Brazil.
Sirs. B. Smith.
Mrs. B. Smith, widow of John Smith,
died at her residence, Xo. 49! Forbes street, of
paralysis yesterday morning after a week's Ill
ness. She was 63 years of age and bad Uvea In
this city since 1810. Mrs. Smith was a native or
Huntingdon, Pa. Two sous, Joseph and Oliver
Smith, and two daughters. Itoseha Smith and
Mrs. Marv Leonard, suriive her. Mrs. Smith
lived on High street for many years. The funeral
will take place at 2 o'clock to-morrow afternoon.
Hugh J. Monroe, Centenarian.
Hugh J. Monroe, who hod a ranch on
Mills river, Moutana, died Friday aged 110 years.
He lived in Montana 89 years, reaching that State
prcvlousto Lewi sand Clarke, the explorers. Ills
stirring experiences on the wild fro itler are prob
ably unequajcel by those of any man now living.
Obituary Notes.
Lioxkl SETjiotm William Dawsox-TIamkb.
the fourth Earl of Portarllugton, Ireland, died
Saturday.
judge J. T. SmrMAjr.one of the oldest and best
known lawyers In Xew Jersey, died at his home in
Helvldere, N. J., yesterday. Judge Slilpman was
74 ) ears of age.
Dr.. W. Lue Bur.TOS. a popular and well-known
dentist, died at Uichmoml. S iturday. He was the
Inventor of the Burton electric heater, used for
cooking and street car purposes.
ECQESn B. HOYETTK. or Hagerstown. Md.,
died Friday at Bessemer of pneumonia. The de
ceased was SS years old and had held a good posi
tion In the Ediar Thomson Steel Works.
CArTAts John P. Munriiv, Vice President of
the Confederate Veterans' Association, is aead at
Pine Bluff. Ark. He was one of the largest cotton
planters ou the Arkansas river, and was well
known.
JonN riTEB Tuorel, known to all traveling
men a an o'.d hotel man, died of heart,dliease at
tho breakfast table at his home in Dtnvlllc, Ky.,
Friday morulug. He was 69 years old and a native
of France.
COLOXEL AND BBEVZT MAJOR GENERAL JOHX
Miltox BitANXAX.oa the retired list or the armyf
died Friday afternoon. In 1870 he commanded the
trooptatOgdensbu.at the time or the threatened
Fenian raid Into Canada, and commanded tha
troops lu Philadelphia daring the railroad riots In
U77.
HOMESTEAD CHILDREN.
The Little Ones Will Be Made Happy
Santa Claus Will Come Laden With
Girts Generous Kesponses Enlarge the
Fund.
It is gratifying to all concernod to know
that tho kindly idea now boing carried ont
of contributing to the Christmas happiness
of the children at Homestead, whose lives
tust now are not ns bright as might be, is
meeting with success.
Nothing pretentious is designed or in
tended; but simply a calling- together of
these children on Christmas Eve, and a dis
tribution among them of something they
may either need or wish for; and where so
many kindly disposed people, unite In issu
ing so practical an invitation to Santa'Claus,
ho can scarcely fall to respond becomingly,
aud.see that our little friends be not dlsap
poln ted.
That there is a great deal of genuine dis
tress in Homestead is beyond question, and
it can but affect the Christmas hopes and
wishes of these children; but that they
should not be the sufferers at this time of
peace and plenty. It Is pleasant to note. Is
the outspoken expression of many char
itable people.
Homestead. Dee.
TO Santa CLAtrs-PIease send me a pair ofboots
and handkerchief silk. I want a sat or clothes.
age 9.
HOUESTEAD, PA.. Dec. 13.
DEAn Santa CLACs-Homestead have had such
trouble. We hart a strike. I live on youth Ave.
I go to school every day Please bringme a ptlr of
sllnpers and a story book.
HOMESTEAD. Dec. 17.
TO Santa CLACS-ricase end ine a loot ball,
salt cloth aEe g.
Homestead.
To BANTA CLAUS-FIease send me an alrgun and
suit of clothes: pare boots. ages.
Homestead, Dee. 18.
TO SANTA CLAUS Please send me an alrgun.
Please send me a pair or boots. Please send me a
new bat. Please send suit orclothes.
ageO.
Homestead. Pa.. Dec. 16.
TO SANT CLAUS Please send me a loll. Please
sendmeanewdresj. agCa.
HOWZSTEAD.
To SANTA CLACS Please send mearlagand a
dress. lu ye irs.
Homestead.
To SANTA CLAUS-riease send me a rifle and
suit of clothes. axeff.
Forth av Homestead. Pa., Dec. K. 1S92.
DE4K Santa-I do not think I will very many
hlnir. thl. f 'hi-Llm-i heeailii the strike was here.
We have six children in our family and I hope
they 111 get presents. I wonld like to have a doll,
u buggy, and a set of dishes for my Christmas gift.
age 9.
Contributions already received:
Mrs. W. E. Schmertz. Jr W CO
THE PlTTSBUnO PfSPATCH
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A Friend. Package of books and
Cash
A Ladv, Package of shoes.
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Baby
J. W. Einstein
Willie M. liitc! ey :-.
The difference between the Limited and Day
express
Little Freddie
Ireland
Adieu
Plum I'nddlng
llarrlster
Shrlock
Doctor
A Silent Friend
A Check
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BIG AHD LIITLE BABIES.
Honesdale and Vicinity Claim the Prize for
Midgets nnd Giants.
Honesdale. Pa., Deo 11 &frfoZ.-Wlien
Mrs. E. A. Kingsbury, of Autumn Leaves, this
county, a lew days ago presented her hus
band with a daughter, and ns It was found
to welzh Jnst two pounds, the lather felt
elated over tho fact that tho child was the
tiniest specimen of living humanity in the
State. It undoubtedly was at that time, but
It is not now. for Mrs. Adelbert Brannlng, of
Wnlto Mills, five miles from IloneBdnle, lins
since presented her husband with a (laugh
ter that weighs only Impounds. These two
mites nre apparently in the best of health,,
although neither of them is a foot long.
The day that the Kingsbury midget was
born Mrs. Jacobus Decker, or the adjoining
county of Pike, gave birth to a boy baby
that wolglmd 20 pounds, and tbe wife or
Christian. Kopff, in the samo county, has
since become tho mother Qt a girl that
weighs ISM pound'. T1" corner or Penn
sylvania wants It recorded thatltclnlms
the two smallest nnd tho two largest babies
for their age In this or any other county.
QEBMAHY A GOOD FBIENB.
She Gets 10 Per Cent of Her Imports
From the United States.
Washington, Dec. 18. The first published
official Information concerning the foreign
trade of Germany for 1S90 has Just been
transmitted to the State Department by
Consul General Edwards at Berlin. It shows
that 10 per cent of Germany's imports came
from the United State, while 12.2 per cent
of her export came to the United States.
Great Britain headed the list or countries
with whicli Germany did business, furnish
ing 15 per cent of imports, absorbing 20 per
ceut of exports.
TDK H03IESTKAD 1ICER0B.
The poisoning story may ho true. Tho
chances are that it is not. Harri burg
Patriot.
Fob the sako of humanity It is to be hoped
that tho storv will be found to be utterly un
true. Xew York Adverser.
Homestead continnes to fnrnlsh grim sen
sations. The last one is the grimmest or the
lot, if it Is true. Boston Herald.
It were better for the Amalgamated As
sociation that It were cast Into the sea than
to havo rostered such a hollish plot. Ohio
State Journal.
The story is a sensational one, but it will
havo few believers unless some pretty
strong facts aro obtained to support it.
Bavannan news.
Without doubt nothing could be more in
jurious to the cause or organizid labor in
this country than tho -jonQrination or the
report. Inllan-ipolii SnVinel.
If It should prove to be true it would go
far to shake onoVfbolIof in tho sanity ot tho
men who could approve or commit such a
monstrous crime. jrnuaaeipni i siazoru.
Tue step from nssasslnation with bullets
to murder with poison Is short, and lack or
knowledge would seem to bo the only
hludrancu to the taking of it. Brooklyn
Eagle.
That Homostoad poisoning story reads
like a canard, but if It ha any basis of truth
the penitentiary is the only place for every
man connected with the plot. Chicago Vis
patch. The accusation has reached a stage where
it must be prosecuted to the end, and the
men accused, if they are guiltless, will be the
most anxions for the fullest possible investi
gation. dlumbus Dlipatch,
If there is any truth in the affair, it will
go far to show that Homestead has become
a center of act! ve anarchy'and nihilism, and
that the labor troubles there are being made
a pretext for the propagation and practice
of tbo most shocking aud terrible crimes.
Xfew Orleans Picayune.
A LITTLE LOVE SONG.
The love that beams In my dearest dreams
Hath none of the world's mad blisses:
Its wayward wiles, or Its splendid smiles
For It comes from a wife's sweet kisses!
The songs that flow from my Hp3 are not
The songs that I dream or render;
They are roses sweet irom a garden spot
Kissed by a wife's 11 ps tender!
And not to me shall their glory be.
Though the world should bow and bring It;
ira song I sing, 'tis a holy thing
For she taught m) lips to sing It!
O, storm and strife of the world's mad life.
When I fadu from your gloom and blisses.
Let my heaven above be the lips I love
Sweet with a wife's sweet kisses'.
Drank L. Stanton, in Atlanta Constitution,
CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS.
HaadcutB are used only in the TJnitsd
States.
A baby carriage with pneumatic tires i
one of tbe latest.
China has a porcelain tower, finished in
J1JO, which cost $i,000,000.
ES Three steamers now connect American
seaports with tho Eermndas.
The year 1000 will not be a leap vear
though it is divlsiblo by four.
Chicago is aiming for a 51,500,000
menagerie for the World's Fair.
In the last 50 years the number of zoo
logical gardens has more than doubled.
One-half of the French Foreign Legion,
are allen, and nearly all are socal outlaws.
Aunt Sarah Battle, of Jlidway, Ga.,
witnessed tho marriage of her great-granddaughter
the other day.
The last of the Mohawks still lives in
Schenectady. Ho Is James Hartley, a giant
In stature. He peddles roots and herbs.
The destruction of forests has afflicted
Southern Enrope with frequent drouths,
but has made the winters, on tho whole,
more pleasant.
A Gibbon ape has a voice comprising a
scale or three octaves, and muslcnl enough
to mystify passers-by, who hear a savage
yell subside in flute like cadences.
Narrow houses and small rooms in fiats
are necessitating many modifications of
life In New York. One result of present
conditions is the narrowing of the bedstead.
Mince pie with a "slip" on it is one of
tho dishes now offered in a New Toric
restaurant. The monosyllabic adornment
is Welsh rarebit poured over tha crust of
the pie. It is served hot from the pan.
As a merchant on Louisiana avenue,
Washington, was unloading a wagon load of
bananas a small boa constrictor dropped
from one of the bunches. There was a gen
eral stampede,
The jewels worn by Mrs. Langtry in
the different acts or the "Queen or JIanoa
worn altogether worth between 30,000 and
70.000. She is said to bo watched by a de
tective when leaving the stage.
Our boldest bridge jumpers were out
done by n Sam Patch or the Middle Ages,
the Austrian Knight Harras, who survived
a leap from the top or a cliff to tho valtoy
i riir ZonPPan river a vertical distance
of 4C0 feet.
The highest point of the world ever
reached by human feet is probably the top
f J,& Acontagna. In the Chilean Andes,
53,000 feet nbovo the level of the Pacidc and
nearly.2,000 feet above the summit or Mt.
Cbimborazo.
Horses for cavalry service are pur
haj ed mostly in St. Louis, and occasionally
in Louisville, Kansas City, Omaha, San
Francisco and other polnt. The prices
paid for them under tho contract system
rango from $140 to $17.3.
By means of extra sensitive photo
graphic plates, sunk in the Mediterranean
on one of tho calmest days in the year, an
Italian scientist has demonstrated that the
almost vertical rays of the midday snn in
mIdummor do not penetrate beyond a depth
of 150 latboms.
A prominent Germantown manufactur
er owns a setter doj which has a slnsular
penchant tor hunting snakes. After killing
one, be places one paw on the reptile's head
and, seizing tho neck with bis teeth, be pro
ceeds to skin it, much after the manner of
skinning an eel.
The hottest place described outside of
Dante's Inferno seems to bo tho valley of
Amargosns, in Southern California a glen
descending below sea level and hemmed in
on tho east anil vest by high, treeless moun
tains. Tne avorage summer temporature is
95, ith a minimum of 81 aud a maximum,
of 122.
--The Tucson Indians, of Southern Ar
izona, haveioraus inhabitod a valley sur
rounded by an old stone wall, and blessed
witii tbo only good springs of that neigh
borhood; but they are now dying out, and
ascriba their fato to tbe coal smoke of tbs
railway trains passing thu loot of tbea
mountains.
The population of the Indian Empire
has risen within the memory of the present
generation irom 220.000,000 to 2SO.000.000; it
bas been Increasing at the rate o. 2.500.000
annually, and is now rising at the rate ot
3.OCO.00O. If no largo famines occnr it will,,
considerably exceed 300,000,000 at tbe end jf
tho century-
A curious clock has been made by a
clockmakerat Warsaw, who has worked at
it. six years. The clock represents a railway
station, with waiting-rooms for the traveler,
telegraph and ticket offices, a very pretty,
wcll-lightedjplatform and u flower garden,
in the center of which Is a sparkling foun
tain of clear water.
A great change may come over tha
dreams of onr winter tourists If the Mex
ican Central Railroad should ever get com
pleted lo the mountain paradise of Oaxaca.
nhere winter resembles a rainless May, and
the Sierras exhibit evor variety or vegeta
tion, from tho pines of the summit torests
to I he palinsuud oranga groves ot the loot
hills.
A man registered at a Madison, Gx,
hotel a short time ago. Alter retiring he
dreamed he was on a railroad train, when
he dlscoved that another train was coming
toward his on the same track and a collision
wns inevitable. The conductor called out,
"Jump!" and nt that moment the dreamer
jnmpeii out of the second story window. lie
escaped injury.
What is believed to be the fastest time
on record was made by a compound loco
motive of the Vanclain type on the Bound
Brook routo between Philadelphia and New
York, November 18. The record was broken
between Plainfleld and Elizabeth, where
one inlio was run lu 37 seconds, and two suu
ccssive miles in 75 seconds, or u: the rate of
97 miles per hour.
As a protection to oysters sgainst star
fish, Long Island oystermen use a "mop
dredgo." ThU Is a bar of iron, mounted on
two small iron wheels. From IC to 20 ropes,
affixed to the bur, trail behind it as it is
drawn along over the sea bottom. The
"stars" affix themselves to the ropes and
warp and aro lilted out of tho water and
killed In hot water tanks on the dredging
boat.
The superstition about the number IS
being unlucky is put into multiplied test in
the now 25 cent piece. On one side or the
coin thero is no less than ten repetitions of
the number 13. There are 13 stars, 13 letters
In the scroll held in tho eagio'i beak, 13 mar
ginal feathers in each wing, 13 tail feathers.
13 parallel lines In the shield, 13 horizontal
bars, 13 arrow heads In one claw, 13 leaves
on the branch lu the other claw, and 13 let
ters In the words "quarter dollar."
The plan of curing, pulmonary com
plaints by the influence of a low tempera
ture has been tried with sneeess in tno case
of many far-gone consumptives, and has
made the fortunes or several Colorado and
Vow TTmnnahtrH lintrtl kenners: DUttherO Is
.r-nn nrnhuhiilMr that winter lro-ti
rouid serve the purpose as well as the cold
air of the Sierras, and that thousands of
health seekers could flndrelierat home by
opening their bedroom windows.
HEE, HEE! HA, HA! HOO, HOOI
TOO LiTE.
I pave my laundryman five shirts,
But when they were returned
There were but four; I was enrazed.
With Inward wrath I burned.
And straightway on that laundrymaa
I paid a speeur call,
Alas I tbey said he was not In
He'd gone out to a ball.
Tom Motion In tlte Vloth'er and Furnisher.
A XBASUBE ot capacity.
"Did Mrs. Justrich wear many diamond
at the bah?"
"Haifa gallon. .Bi'.yhJo Courier.
AUBIOUOCS.
Dudley I would like to look at soma
collars, please. Fourteen Inches.
Furnlshcr-Dld yon base reference to the helgat
or tne iength?-2aM siflinss.
SPORTS.
I love to see the green, green grass,
For when It grows It growses;
I love to see a football game.
And watch the bloody noses.
Washington star.
VEST MCE.
Mrs. Tonsey "Whom did you dance with
at dancing school this afternoon?
( Little Edith-Booby Norrls.
Mrs. Tonsey-And was he nice?
t Llttla Edltb-Ob. yes, mamma! JoitMSlcawa
flill-VhrUtmat Puct,