-v.- w '" THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH. "WEDNESDAY.' DECEMBER 2t 189a ' r flje Sigpafrli. ESTABLISHED FEBRUARY 8. ISM. Vol. 74. No. m-Enteiro. at nurture rostofflce fccveniber, lit;, as second-class matter." BUSINESS OFFICE, Cor.Sralthfleld and Diamond Street. Sew Boomi and Publishing House, 78 and 80 Diamond (street, New Dispatch Building. rATERX APVFRT1SING OFF1CF. ROOM TS. TRIBUNF BUILDING. NEW YORK, -where complete files ol THE DISPATCH can always be lound. THE msr ATI-IT is on saleatLF-ADIXr! HOTELS throughout the United Mates, and at Brcntano's, MTn'.ou Square. New York, and U Avcuuo de r Opera, l'arii France. TERMS Ol' TIIE DESPATCH. J-OSTAGE TREK IS THE UNITED STATES. rAiLT Dispatch. One Year. f S on Daily DisrATcn. Tliree Months ' CO IUilt DisrATCit. One .Month TO Dailt IHSPATcn, Including nnday. lyear.. 10 00 Dailt D.srATcn, including Sunday, 3 m'ths. 150 Dailt Dispatch, including fcuuday, 1 mouth SO fcUMJAY DisrA cu. One Year 2 60 Weekly DisrATcn. One Year. 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The area of implication appears almost unlimited, and while there is little doubt but that seme of the accused will be able on trial to establish their innocence, there is no wonder that an impulsive people deeming itself robbed at every hand is almost bereft of reason in its effort to find tome foundation for fault amid the repu tations ruined by the flood of disclosed corruption. One after another the popu lar idols are being shattered, and in the general iconoclasm French faith in French honor is threatened with almost total sub version. Duels to the death between Deputies consequent upon the interchange or such polite epithets as liar are merely significant incidents in the widespread upheaval. As our special correspondent remarks: "The expected never happens in France," and it is impossible to foretell with any pretense to prescience what will be the outcome of the conflicting forces. It is the unreliable volatility of the French nature and the resultant uncertainty as to what sudden turn events may take that make the serious gravity of the crisis through which the third Republic is un doubtedly passing. Friends of Repub licanism can only hope that the abuse of free institutions will not be confounded with their use to compass their do wnfalL. A wholesome purgation of the whole cor rupt political system in France may be the only and a truly valuable outcome of the passing frenzy. But if tnat be all, France will have a miraculous escape. The French people and the French Re public are passing through a perilous period. And their sympathizers can but trust that the inherent and essential qual ities of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity will be so recognized that their institu tions may peacetully survive, strength ened and purified by the terrible ordeal they are now undergoing by reason of their servants depravity. POST-FKANDIAL FINANCE. The utterances which ex-Secretary Fair child is credited with having delivered at the Boston Tariff Reform Club dinner are of the most unique character yet pro duced by the Democratic stump on bank circulation. The ex-Secretary is reported as referring to the right of a man to issue "his personal obligation to pay 51," with the dictum that there is "no sense in de priving the American people of one of the most useful devices of modem times be cause sometimes someone suffers," and finally proceeding to this conclusion: "Recognizing the Vast usefulness of a good bank note circulation, a good legal tender, lacking the vicious tendency in tuseu into our Government paper money, It is utter imbecility for our people to lie down and say that they cannot issue such currency." To luliy comprehend the value of this deliverance of financial genius we must warn our readers that "the vicious ten dency" is that to which the people have been exposed by the present circulation, which has circulated in all parts of the country at pir with gold for half a gener ation and by which no holder ever loses a cent On the other hand the "good bank note circulation" and "good legal tender," as set forth by the ex-Secretary, is the most astohibhmg on record. Taking his own word for it, he thinks that this is to be founded by permitting every man to issue his notes for amounts as small as $1, and to endue these promissory notes with the quality of legal tender. The wildest political schemers never conceived any thing more unique. -Jt is but charity to suppose that the ex Secretary has been greviously misreported or else that the portables at the Reform Club dinner were exceptionally and fatally strong. TROLLEYS AND SUBSTITUTES. There is material for public inquiry in tho assertion made by a writer in the De troit Irce Press, that a storage battery under a sixty days test in that city made a better record than any trolley motor in the city, but that street railroad men re fuse U recognize it. The assertion is turther made that experts employed by a Detroit company to report on storage bat teries made an adverse report without coming near the battery which is asserted to have worked so successfully. It is sale to assume that this is an ex parte statement;' but the allegation of such positive nostility to the electric storage battery is ground enough for a word of warning. The electric lines in all our cities have been given important privileged in the streets which are accom panied with positive public duties. One of the clearest of these is that they shall not maintain in the streets any longer than is necessary what must always be an encumbrance and may at times develop into a positive danger. The duty of the trolley lines, and th9 highest interest in the long run, is to find a substitute for their poles and wires as soon as the econ omy of that substitute is practically de monstrated. It it easily seen that the Invest- m'ent of the present companies in their poles, wires and trolley motors may make them loth to make tlip change. But that investment is slight beside their public privileges and public obligations. Beyond that, it is an especially wanton class of obstruction to seek to suppress the recog nition of recent inventions or to condemn them without an examination. If any such one-sided action has been taken as is reported from Detroit, it amounts to another example of the disregard of pub lic obligations by corporations which are enjoying highly valuable public fran chises. It cannot of course be positively affirmed on suclfevidence that the case is exactly as alleged. But it should be made a canon of public principle that when the storage battery or other acceptable sub stitute for the trolley has proved its use fulness its adoption by the present trolley lines will be made compulsory. PROMPTNESS IS DESIRABLE. In view of the evidence already pro duced in support of the charges of conspiracy to poison non-union workmen at Homestead, the District At torney could not consistently with a proper discharge of his duty avoid or dering the arrest of the men implicated therein. The nature and gravity of the charges are such as to demand prompt and careful action on the part of the Com monwealth. These cases are essentially of a public nature, and no effort should be spared to bring tbem to speedy trial. The men charged with offenses so heinous and dastardly should be given as early an opportunity as possible to estab lsh their innocence if vindication be within their power. In one case at least there is more than the individual character of the accused at stake. The labor organization which he represents cannot afford to be smirched by charges brought against him as one of its officials. There is no doubt that even were the worst proven in this case, the man as an ex-officio Individual alone would be guilty and his guilt would involve no criminality in and receive no extenua tion from the labor union he officially serves. But until the case has been tried it is as true as it is regretable that public opinion will allow itself to be prejudiced to a less or greater extent against not only the individual but those with whom he has associated. Let it be distinctly understood that men and organizations must alike be held innocent until proven guilty. But in the interest both ot justice and humanity the speediest analysis possible should be made of charges involving excessive crim inal brutality, so that vindication or pun ishment may be substituted for accusa tion and suspicion with as little delay as' possible. NEW FEATURES IN EXCHANGE. There are some curious features in con nection with the shipments of gold for which publicists have as yet failed to find an explanation. The draft upon the gold of this country is generally accounted for by the efforts o Austria to accumulate a cold supply a cotemporary illustration of the insufficiency of the world's store of the metal. But extemporaneously with last week's shipment comes the report from London of an almost unprecedented monetary surplus, due, it is stated, "to the fact that American gold exports are supplying European demands, which would otherwise have been made on Lon don." Such an assertion is surprising as inti mating that London has lost its old posi tion as the clearing house of the world. The usual process is that European de mands for money would be made on Lon don and if sufficient to cause a hardening of the money market there would produce a condition of exchange that brings ship ments, of specie from New Tort. Tiie apparent departure from this method of procedure is emphasized by the fact that while the London money market is ex ceptionally easy the gold has been taken from New York, where there was a tight ening of the money market sufficient to affect some of the speculative stocks. This allegation is an addition to the al ready unique feature of continued gold shipments m face of enormous balance of trade in favor of this country. If this process is not pushed to the depletion of our gold reserve it will be an advantage, for the only explanation is that United States securities are being returned to us in large quantities. This country can well afford to sell its products to Europe and take its own investment in return; and should be glad to continue the process until it holds ah of its own securities and perhaps a choice assortment of the invest ments of other nations. The question how near we may be to the latter goal attains a decided pertin ence in the presence of a statement that we are dealing directly with Europe in the matter of gold shipments, entirely inde pendent of the London money market. AGAINST THE GERRYMANDER. The Supreme Court of Indiana has joined the list of judicial tribunals declar ing the unconstitutionality of manipulat ing apportionments so as to serve party interests at the cost of equal representa tion for the people. The Indiana decision is the most sweeping that has yet been rendered, as it declared all the apportion ments of that State unconstitutional back to that of 1879, only recognizing the pres ent Legislature as a de facta body quali fied to enact law to take the place of the invalid one. So far the Indiana decision is thor oughly non-partisan, and confirms the as sertion often made in these colums that the vice of gerrymandering is not espe cially confined to one party, but is com mon to both. With the decisions that have been rendered this year excepting that of New York the judicial doctrine is broadly laid down that the Legislature cannot disregard the constitutional re quirement of impartial and equal repre sentation. This stand vigorously enforced by the courts may result in the abolition of the evil. It is one of the most encour aging features of the time that in render ing these decisions with the exception already noted the Judges have not per mitted party feelings to sway their views on constitutional law. At the same time there is one fact in connection with the method of the Indi ana court which is a little peculiar. The case was argued before that body last fall, but the decision was held, over until last week, and In the intervp the election took place. Does not the outcome of the case indicate that it might have been bet ter if the court could have arrived at its decision before another and purely de facto Legislature was chosen under an uncon stitutional apportionment? Kaileoad employes ia South Carolina would evidently "rattier bear the ills they have than fly to others that they know not of." They are vigorously protesting against Governor Tillman's signature of the bill to place tne rai roads of the State under a Supremo Commission. The Governor refer ring to the bill says: "The opposition, of 8,000 or 10,000 railroad employes does not amount to a compared with, the 60,000 or 60,000 farmers demanding Its passage." And therein the Governor was right. But whether, the farmers will In the Ions run profit by the -passage of the bill they de manded can only be decided by actual ex periment full of Interest andnotnnattended with risks for the farmers as well as the railroads. Adlai's az would have no opportunity for exercise in patronage matters this time, even If the spoils system were to necessi tate wholesale executions. But should any thing near a balance of party power ma terialise when the Senate's membership Is completed, the Vice Prcsidental casting vote ax wonldbe in great demand in execu tions more Important and far-reaching than those of jpostofflce employes. Mr. Adlal Stevenson may find Himself intrusted with a power the proper exercise of which wfll demand Infinitely more care and thoughtful patriotism than he displayed in his last official career. A export comes from Chicago that the epidemic of unpunished crime there preval ent is largely due to the sale of charms ,'uaranteolng the purchaser's immunity from punishment by a voodoo professor. Either the insufficiency or inefficiency of the police force would make a more rational and simple explanation. After much delay several persons" con victed of ballot stuffing in New Jersey were sentenced to eighteen months' Imprison ment. Their sentence had hardly begun to take effect, however, before the Governor In consultation with the Associate Justices of the State granted their pardon. The only conclusion at which the outside public can arrive, therefore, is that ballot stuffing Is not a crime which the Commonwealth of New Jersey desires to suppress. And the conclusion Is little likely to encourage purity at elections either in New Jersey or anywhere else. As usual, the announcement of Emin Pasha's lively Health followed soon after the publication of his death notice. If the pub lic really wish to know the state of his affairs at all times, some steps should be taken at once to-provlde tho Dark Continent with telegraphic facilities. As though this country were not bur dened with too great a variety of more or less militant seats already, an ex-American consul is raising funds In India to send Mauommedan missionaries to the land of his birth. There really should be more care taken in the selection of men to fill the con sulates. The conventional method of con verting a peoplo to Islamlsm is by force of arms, and the outlook is trnly appalling, but there is room for hope since the howl ing dervishes met with a very chilly re ception. The. announcement that a well-known American banker is implicated in the.Pa nama scandal is not calculated to add to the credit ot this country. But a land that can produce a Jay Gould can produce almost anything discreditable in a financial line. Physical and moral health are the main considerations to be held In view in framing legislation to restrict immigration in a rational discriminatory manner. The admission of immigrants sound inmind and physique and honest In reputation provides nourishment that America can assimilate with advantage. The present systemless method of dealing with the matter admits unwholesome elements to tho population calculated to breed crime and disease in the social fabric of the country. Richard Ceoker announces that "Tam many Hall will ask Mr. Cleveland for noth ing in the way of patronage or places." Mr. Croker has evidently no intention of run ning his head against a brick wall. Toledo, O., is experiencing the evils of dragging religious sectarianism into the management of its public schools. Rancor, hatred and all nncharltableness are the ine vitable results of introducing so-called re ligious ideas into places where they have absolutely no legitimate right to make their appearance. The people of Toledo will do well to remember this when they next ap point their Board of Education. When Chicago has succeeded in sup pressing the Hawthorne gambling estab lishment, its polioe force will have more spare time to devote to the capture of high waymen. A Mexican officer was recently court inartialed for failing to find and capture Garza, the bandit border revolutionist. And now a Mexican General has lost himself ana is nowhere to be found. What horrible fate is in store tor him when his whereabouts l.ave been discovered can only be imagined with bated breath. "When Pittsburg's municipal accounts are regularly audited at stated intervals there will have been a growth of public Bplrit highly advantagoous to the munici pality. foi ks talked abodt. Ladt Randolph Churchill's health had so far improved a few days aijo that she was able to take the air in a carriage. Vice President Morton has appointed Senator Gray, of Delaware, a regent of the Smithsonian Institute, in place of Senator Gibson, of Louisiana, deceased. Miss Sadie Boyd, of Cheyenne, Wyo., and a student at the Denver (Col.) Univer sity, traveled 110 miles at the recent election to cast her first ballot. She voted the Re publican ticket. Once when a man' in Gould's presence was expressing sympathy for Cyrns W. Field after his loss of the Manhattan Ele vated stock, the great financier exclaimed: "O. we havo left Cyrus his real estate." F. Marion Crawford) the novelist, said recently: "I think there is a richer field for the novelist in the United States than in Europe. There are more original characters to be found hore and they are in greater variety." Florence Nightingale, the famous nurse of the Crimea, and whose deeds of simple mercy and charity were,, embalmed in song and story until she became Eng land's favorite be.roine, is now 72 years old, and lives in perfect seclusion. The Empress of Germany recently cele brated her 34th birthday and the christen ing of her only daughter by giving the maternity homes of the empire 100 sets of baby clothing. The Emperor released 100 women imprisoned for various offenses. General Grubb, recently United States minister to Spain, entertained the Clover Club, or Philadelphia, and a few other friends at his home, Edgewater Park, near Philadelphia, last Thursday evening. The solemnity characteristic of the Clover Club's gatherings prevailed on this occasion. PKOF. MacFablane, ol the Texas Uni versity, does not take much stock iu Gen eral Dyronforth's experiments. "Noise doesn't bring rain," In his opinion. The Professor is quite right. If it did Texas would have been knee-deep in water from the djay liogg and Clatk were nominated until now. United States Minister Robert T; Lincoln was at the Capitol, Washington, for a short time yesterday, and was-warmly greeted by his friends in the Senate. A luncheon was given him by Senator Aldrlch, Chairman of the Rules Committee, to which about half a dozen otuer. Senators -were invited. The late Secretary Windom told ex-Governor McGlll, of Minnesota, that when he was a young man he was induced to be one of the speakers at a political meeting in' Ohio. He began: "Mr. Chairman, ladles and gentlemen." hesitated, said it again, re peated it a third time and then made a rush for the back door and escaped. It was definitely settled yesterday that Dr. Frank W. Gunsaulns,'of Plymouth Con gregational Church, Chicago, is to be at the head or the great Armpur Mannal Training School. Dr. Gnnsaulus has for five years boen Mr. Armour's pastor. Tbedoctorcame from Baltimore and, though very young,' quickly took rank as one of the foremost clergymen of the city. i , - . LIVE NATIONAL NEWS. '. The Republicans Have a Senatorial Steer ing Committee, After All-No Two Mem bers of the Homestead ' Investigating Committee Can Agree on a PInkerton Report Bate and His Bill to Do Away With Federal Supervisors. "Washington, Dec. 20 The .Repub licans in the Senate have a ""steering" com mittee that will cross swords with the simi lar committee of the Democrats and en deavor to foil them in their endeavor to secure the election of UnltedStates Senators in the doubtful Northwestern States. It will be remembered that at the meeting of the Republicans last week Mr. Sherman, Chairman of the caucus, was authorized to appoint a committee to consider what, if anything, should be done by the Republic ans relative to the elections. It was not in tended thai the committee should have the powers of a "steering committee," but since the announcement of its members the Re publicans have been calling it a "steering committee." The Senators are Mr. Hoar, Chairman, and Messrs. McMillan, Obuudler, Teller and Mitchell. The committee has held two or three meetings and has come to tho conclusion that while it cannot offer the States of the Northwest any material roller it will keep Itself In sfiape to protect the interests of the people when the matter comes before the Senate for action, A mem ber of the committee said this afternoon tnat it was the intention or the committee to Keep track or the situation in the ques tionable States, and be informed as to the real condition of affairs, so that in case of cuntestn, which will no doubt come.befoie the Senate, they will be as fully equipped to make the fight for the seats as tho Demo crats, who say their committee is organized for the same purpose. A meeting to-day of the sub-committee of the House Committee on Judiciary charged with investigating the alleged mis use of Pinkerton men at Homestead was productive in showing that no to members agreed as to the character of the report to be made by the committee. General Gbeen B. Raum, Pension Commissioner, has expressed surprise at the publication of the statement that the Pen sion Bureau was holding up about 200,000 adjudicated claims because there was not money enough in the Treasury to pay them. "I cannot imagine," says the Commissioner, "how such a story originated, unless it was based on a table contained in my annual re port. In that table I gave the conditlonof the business ot the bureau on the 12th or Oc tober, which showed that 184,796 claims were on the completed files, apparently complete. But those claims wero not and are not now held up. I shall publish a statement to morrow shon inz that the number bad been reduced to 150,000 up to the 10th of Decem ber." After hearing "Walter Griffin, who has been abroad investigating the condition of the labor classes, the joint committee on immigration to-day went into secret session and discussed the various measures intro duced in both Houses for the suspension ot immigration during the prevalence ot chol era abroad. The discussion was general, and resulted in an agreement that a sub committee on legislation, to consist of six members, three from the Senate and three from the Bouse, should be appointed by the Chairmen of the two committees. Tho. sub committee is to consider all measures now before the committee proposinz to suspend immigration, and is to perlect some measure for this purpose by Thursday, on which day they are to report to the lull joint commit tee. The members of the sub-coinmittoe have not yet been selected. The committee will doubtloss agree on a bill at an early date and press it to passage in both Houses. In the Senate, to-day, Mr. Bate, speak ing on his bill to repeal all statutes relating to supervisors of elections and special de puties, said ihese laws bad been in opera tion for over 20 years, and had not recon ciled the people in their harsh interference with affairs Delonging exclusively to the States, it is not surprising, he added, that the political revolutions in 3830 and 189-2 had swept from power the party which enforced tho machinery for Interfering with the elec tions or the States. The force bill had been a potent factor in the late overwhelming de feat of the Republican party. The law which Mr. Bate pioposed to have repealed was "tho germ or protoplasm of tne force bllL It was that bacillus which had poisonoa elections and inoculated them with fraud. From the supervisor of elections and the armed deputy marshal, the step to the army at the polls was bnt a short one. .The day had come to bring the Federal Government back to those duties for which it bad been provided." The anti-option hill was taken up in the Senate today and Mr. Palmer, Democrat, Illinois, addressed the Senate, explaining and defending bis objection to the bill. He said that when he was canvassing the State of Illinois as a candidate for the Sen ate, he had been frequently asked whether he would vote for such a bill, and he had said "No." The clauses against purchases of options were, lie said, less satisfactory- to his mind than the statute orillinois on that subject. Dealings in options wero prohib ited by k the laws of Illinois and were pun ished by adequate fines and penalties. He had, therefore, said to those who asked him that, there being a careful, well-considered statute in force in Illinois, nothing more could be done In that line by mere legisla tion. Bon. John F. Durham, Minister to Haiti, now in this country on leave of ab sence, has been Instructed by tho Secretary of State to return without delay to Port au Prince and investigate the facts attending the arrest and imprisonment ot Frederick Mebs, a respectable American merchaut'of that oity. IT the circumstances are as re ported, the Minister will be expected to bring the subjecttothe Immediate attention of the Haitian Government, with a view to a full Indemnification lor the wrong done. The Secretary of the Navy lias placed the "Atlanta" at the dispos.il of the State De partment, to take Minister Durham to bis port, and he will sail from Norfolk within a few days. General Superintendent White, of the Railway Mall Service, arrived in Wash ington tOjday from a tour of the West and South. Dining Ills absence. Superintendent Whlto arranged a new time schedule be tween Cincinnati, Louisville, Now Orleans, Jacksonville, St. Augustine, and Tampa, Fla., over the Queen and Crescent system, by which the malls, both north and south, between these points will be advanced about 12 hours, which is really a gain of 24 hours, as by the old schedule the malls ar rived ac New Orleans, Jacksonville nnd St. Augustine at night, whereas they will here aiter arrive in the morning. It is stated at the Navy Department that Secretary Tracy may award the contract for one or the two war ships, bids for which were opened last week, to the Union Iron Works at San Francisco. The bid of this company was slightly higher than that of the Cramps, but the difference allowed for construction between tho East and West 3 per cent would, it is said, more than wipe J!ut the excess of the Union Iron Works' bid. Senator Sherman to-day introduced a bill, which was referred, to tho Foreign Re lations Committee, providing that whenever the Government of the United States shall conclude any effective international ar rangement for the protection of fur seals in the North Pacific Ocean by agreement with any power, or us a result of the convention concluded last February between the United States and Great Britain (tho Bering Sea Convention) and so long as such arrange ment shall continue, the provisions or tue laws, so far as they may be applicable, rela tive to the protection or far seals within the limits of Alaska or Its waters, shall be ex tended to and over I hat portion of the ocean included In such agreement. IN the talk among Democratic members of Congress as to the probable recognition of the border States in the distribution of leading offices, the name of Eon. Joseph H. Miller, of West Virginia, whose adminis tration of the office or Commissioner or In ternal Revenue under Mr. Cleveland gave general satisfaction, is again used lu connec tion with that commisslonershlp. A RURAL SONNET. Those country roads, those country roads. How many a com their state explodes, And Imprecations strong and deep. Upon the supervisor heaped. And thus 'twin be when we are gone. Those country roadsjwln still live-on; Tne same mud paddies as or yore. Bnt stickler, deeper, than before. T. .,?." THE BIGHT SORT 07 TALE. "When the People Fully Understand Bene fits of a Ship Canal They "Will Get One. Pittsburg Commercial Gazette. Some day, surely, and probably at no very distant day, the wharves of Plttsourg will furnish a view of the tall, shapely masts nnd symmetrical rigging or sailing vessels as they do now of stern-wheel river tug boats. There will also bo in the Pittsburg harbor, along with the schooners,,blg steam ships, steel baiges and puffy tugs, the latter making more fuss and splutter than all the other craft on the three rivers.- That time will.be when the Lake Erie and Pittsburg ship canal is completed. It will be a proud day for Pittsburg and Allegheny and all the little cities, towns and boroughs in Western Pennsylvania when the first big, black lake steamer plows the waters of the Ohio in the wake of a fussy tug from Davis Island dam to the Point. It will be a lucky day for Dulutb, Superior, Milwaukee and the broad areas of Wisconsin, the Dakotas and Wyoming, too. We can then sing we've got the ships, we've got tho men and wo've got the luel, too, to make the greatest center of popula tion on this continent. There is only the one thing wanted to give this section all the advantages which cause great growths of industrial and commercial interests. That one thing is an outlet by water. All the other things are hero. Some people even in Pittsburg, think the Lake Erie ship canal is a chimerical project, and flippantly inquire or more, thoughtful people whether they "do not know that canals have had their day?" Bless these in nocent souls, they have never seen any thing but the old-time towpath canals, operated by mule power and profanity, or, perhaps, havo only seen the picturesque re mains even or those ditches. They should go outandsee some ot the canals of to-day. Ship canals are very different things from mule-power canals. They are not back numbers and memories of a former age, but realities of the present and the bow of com mercial promise of the future. There are the Welland canals around the roaring cataract of Niagara. The old canal with ten feet of water, and the new canal admitting the passage of vessel drawing 14 feet of water. Last year a vessel went through the Welland canal, loaded, from Port Colborue to Port Dalhonsie without a hitch or delay in the whole 23 miles, and tlrongh the 23 locks on the last 12 miles of the canal. And that fame barge, with the same load, steamed ncros3 the Atlantic, buf feting the waves of old o:ean, steamed back again, and' then went its way down the coast and around the torriblo Cape Horn, the roughest known navigable water, and up the Pacific Ocean to Puget Sound. WAR VESSELS ON THE LAKES. Some Startling Reports Emphatically De nied by Sir Charles Tnpper. Ottawa, Ont., Dec. 20. Special. Sir Charles IL Tuppor, Minister of Marines and Fisheries of the Dominion, whon shown to-day a Washington dispatch in whloh Lieutenant Cordon stated there was great excitement on both American and Canadian sides of the "Soo," regarding the building of gunboats bv the Canadian Government, said: "We are not building war vessels, but we have built a couple ot small vessels at Owen Sound, which we are using in connec tion with the fishery protective service. The Petrel, launched recently, is not yet completed. It is built on the same model as the other two, the Constance and the Curlew, and Is 120 tons net, carrying 13 hands. That is all there is to the story. Some parties in the States are looking for an infraction of the treaty on the Canadian side, as far as building war vessels is con cerned, so that tbev may go into the busi ness themselves. We have not violated any treaty rights." A telegram from Washington says: Tho report does not excite any apprehension or alarm at the Treasury Department. As sistant Secretary Scauldlng says he has no fear that England will at any time ondeavor to rush a flout of SO vessels through the St. Lawrence to the lakes, nor that the British vessels now on the lakos will ever seriously menace either the commerce of the inland seas or the great cities that lie on tho bor ders thereof. Owing to the absence from the city of Captain Shonhard the report has not yet been officially communicated to the oflloials or the Treasury Department, and hence its contents have not been tiansmitted to the Department ot State. Secretary J. W. Fos ter stated to-day that no information of the building or vessels on the lakes by Canada had been received by his department since the dato of his recent report to the Presi dent npon the treaty of 1317. regulating the force of armed vessels to be maintained on the lakes, which whs transmitted to Con gress week before last. "Is it tire policy of the United States to meet an increaso or foico on the lakes by Canada by a similar increase of our own armaments," wan asked. "Speaking only ror the State Department," was the reply, "I should say tho United States will not build any revenue cutters on the lakes unless it needs them. That is a auestlou for the Treasury Department to etermine. When additional ships are necessary in the current business of the country, they will be constructed, ana not before." A NEW GAME LAW To Be Urged Upon the Legislature by the Lawrence Connty Farmers. New Castle, Dec. 20. Special. The Law rence County Farmers' Institute will neither condemn nor advocate Arthur Kirk's new road bllL . A. L. Martin, a member or the institute, who was elected to the Legislature at tue last election, will introduce a new game act during the coming session. The bill would prohibit hunting in some sections of the State for five years after its passage, and in the mountainous regions it will extend the hunting season. The' law proposes to pro tect the slaughter of quail, as the Farmers' Institute is or the opinion that these birds are great insect destroyers. HEALTH OFFICER JENKIBS REBUKED. "lhe New Tork Chamber or Commerce Calls for a National Quarantine Law. ' New York, Dec. 20. There was an unusu ally large attendance, at the meeting or the Chamber of Commerce this afternoon, which discussed the report ofn, special committee on quarantine. At the meeting last week, the committee recommended a scheme for a national quarantine. This wns taken as a censure for Health Officer Jenkins. Resolutions were offered to-day to adopt the report of the special committee, and l e questinf the co-operation or the various Chambers of (jommeice throughout the country. Tho report was unanimously adopted. ; Prof. Smith Loses Another Move. Cincinnati, Dec. 20. During the last days of the Cincinnati Presbytery, in its trial of Prof. Smith, Dr. McGiffort, of the Seminary, filed a formal protest -against finding Dr. Smith, guilty ou heresy charges 1 and 2. Yesterqay the committee appointed to con sider the protest made its formal reply, in which it refuses. to grant the petition. Remains of a Temperance Worker. Tokio, Japan, Dec 20. The remains of Miss Mary A. West, the noted temperance advocate, leave Yokohama to-day for the United States. A delegatian will be sent to Vancouver I rom Chicago to receive the re mains and act as escort. It is probable that if the remains are in good condition they will lie in state at the Woman's Temperance Temple during a memorial service. The Pennsy Buys Another Branch. Hollidaybbueu, Dec 20. The Cresson, Clearfield and. Mew York Short Line Rail road Company has been sold to and merged into the Pennsylvania Railroad Company's system, taking effect January L This linn is SO miles long, extending from Cresson to Irvin, Clearfield county. It has two branches running to coal mines. DEATHS 11EEE AND ELbfiWHEEE. The Marquis de SandovaL president ofthe Union Club, Havana, is dead. Pbof. B. NEELXTdled in Rome, Ga., Monday. He was Superintendent of Public Schools there for nine years. Bev. George Rogers, aged 99, probably the oldest pensioner In Kentucky, died at his home near LoulsvlUe Monday. William Russell, founder or the Fall Mount ain Paper Company, of Bellow's Falls, Vt., died 'Sunday. He was the oldest paper mater in Amer ica. William W. Palmer, literary editor on the New York Prut, died (Sunday in his 68th year. In early life he officiated as a Presbyterian minister, but several years ago left the ministry to engage in literary wars. CHILDREN OP HOMESTEAD. A Big Bnndlo of Letters tor Santa Clans The Appeals Touching Only a Tetr Days Left in "Which to Swell the Xmas Gift Fund. About 1,600 letters from Homestead's school children were received at The Dis patch office yesterday. A representative of Santa Clans Is reading them over and will report the result to his employer, who, after finding out the wants, will fill his pack as near as possible with what the little ones desire, and go to them next Satnrday even ing prepared to give them lots of happiness, and at the same time demonstrate to them the goodness of the people of Pittsburg. Contributions continue to come in, but the time is short and lest yon be too late hurry along your mite. A llttlo from you means a great deal to these youngsters. Read the following letters and bear in mind that we have In our possession over 1,500 similar, and don't attempt to bo so coldly judicial an to say to yourself you will not help to cheer 3,000 and more childron because you don't agree with their parents' position last summer on tho labor question. December l?, ISM. Dear Santa Claus We hare had trouble to lire. My papa is not working. Please send rae a dress. Homestead. Pa., December 12, 1892. Dear Santa riease bring me a sled my papa is not working. Santa will you brine inc anew suit or c.othes and a hat. Age 9. Homestead. Pa., Dec. 12, WK. Dear Santa Claus You are a kind man. I hope you wont forget us. Homestead is in trouble. HoMESTrAD. Pa. Dear Santa Clause I want you to bring me a pair of gam boots. Uomesteaa has been on strike. 9 m Homestead. Pa.. December 12. 1892. Dear Santa Claus We have hard troubles In Homestead. 1 am xomg to hang myttockln up and get pop corn to It. Homestead, December 12. 1S92. Dear Santa I am going to school every day. I am alrnld my father wont see you. Our baby is a year old. Homestead, Pa.. December 12, 163:. Dear Santa We have bard trouble to keep our living. And I want you to bring me some candy and a dress. My brotlier Is not working. Contributions up to yesterday, Dec. 19 243 SO Received yesterday: Cash 2 CO Tuck 100 Mrs. H. S.Hill t Kity I CO Cash 1 OU Mother 10 00 K. C. I! 100 00 yards laurel wreathing, t Xmas tree, 3 pine needles J. K. A A. Murdoch FIGHTING AH OLD MAN'S MAKEIAGE. A Little Matter of Money Between His Heirs and His Proposed Bride. Steubenville, Dec 20. Special. "I will marry the girl in spite of ," said John Garrett, angrily, as he was stood off in the. Probate Court whence he had tried to get a license to marry. Garrett is a white-haired man of 75 and the girl he proposes to marry Is 10. Garrett Is wealthy, while the pre.tty Miss Maude Miller he wants to wed is poor. There are children of the aged lover who fear that Miss Miller will beguile him out of his fortune and they will get nothing. They filed a petition asking for the appointment of n guardian. The petition alleges, It is said. Imbecility and general irresponsibility of the old gentleman, and it was when he bumped up against this proceeding fhat the old man made the declaration quoted. The young lady is a daughter ot Edward C. Miller, who was long an engineer on the steamers Abner O'Nell and the C. W. Batche lor. An anti-nuptial arrangement is being made to-night, by which the other heirs to his estate are. to get a rake-off before the new Mrs. Garrett hns an opportunity to got in her hand. The old icentleman got on the warpath and threatened to cut off the whole brood wituout a cent it they per sisted in opposing his marriage. Mr. Gar rett states lute to-night that the peace over tures have fallen through, because the chil dren insist on bis so disposing or his estato that the young wife will be left without a cent in case she survives him. Also, coun sel for the petitioners states, that the matter will be fought in court. D0IHG BUSINESS OK BOGUS CAPITAL. Two Philadelphia Financiers Come to Grief In the Windy City. Chicago, Dec. SO. Edward Wildman and Herman Wittig were arrested to-day, charged with using the malls for swindling puroosos. Tho men were doing business under the name of the Illinois Lumber Com pany and Wildman & Co. They came here from Philadelphia, and the complaints are sworn out by Inspector Griggs, of that city. It is said the scheme ofthe men was to obtain lumber from firms in other States and sell the lumber without having paid for it. Coming to this city the men deposited $15,000 in a bank, and by this means secured a commercial rating by one or the agencies. A day or two ago Theodore P. Hopkins, as attorney for an Indianapolis man, who, it is said, had lost money by the firm, learned ot this deposit and commenced an attachment snit to recover $720. The suit came up be fore Judge Clifford to-day, and wben the men appeared they were arrested. TOO BIO 70B THE EAILE0AD3. Chicago City Council May Compel the Com panies to Elevate Their Tricks. Chicago. Dec 20. Railroad men are much disturbed over an ordinance introduced in the City Council, providing that every rail way company having terminals in Chicago shall be required to elevate its tracks IS feet above the street level within five years, and attaching a penalty of $200 a day lor viola tion of the ordinance E. P. Ripley, Second Vice President of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad, declared he voiced the opinion of every man connected with his company when he said: "Such an ordinance would result in driving the railroads into the outskirts and bring great loss to every Industry located along their trucks. Furthermore, tho railroad companies have not the money with which to pay for elevating, and they cannot get lu" Only One Way Out of It. Minneapolis Tribune. The Pittsburg Dispatch hits the nail fairly on the head when it says: "The way to get rid of Pinkertonlsm and its accom panying dangers Is to be round in so per fecting the public service that private agencies of this kind can no longer find an occupation. When the law is enforced by its own qualified instruments, as it should be, the public peace will not De endangered by the hiring ot private force to protect pri vate property," As long as the people, by their indifference, make a market for Pink ertonlsm the goods will bo forthcoming. The remedy is plain. The Andrews Commission Larger. Meadville, Dec 20. Special Several witnesses were examined in the Andrews Higby election contest to-day relative to illegal votes and Imperfect papers in a num ber of precincts. Two. new members were added to the commission to-day, one Demo crat and one Republican, making the num ber six who are now serving at commission ers. General interest will center in the re port of the commission, as it is expected the real flirht will begin then. Nebraska Republicans Drop a Stitch. Lincoln. Neb., Dec 20. The State Su preme Court this afternoon refused to issue the writ asked for in the Clay county con teat, thus throwing the matter out of the courts. Tho cases were brought by the Re publicans, who tried to secure n writ to compel the Clerk of Clay county to isue certificates to the three Republican candi dates tor the Legislature instead or to the Independents, who were elected on the face of the returns. Connty Officers Get Their Commissions. HABMSBrma, Dec 20. The State Depart, ment to-day issued commissions to all county officers elected who have filed a bond. In counties where there aro contests commissions were issued to the candidate receiving the highest vote on the face of the returns. Wish It Wore Already Over. .Philadelphia Record. J A poet mourns that the Christmas spirit does not laft all tho year. The salespeople will fail to see any poetry in this fancy. . Something Rotten in Denmark. D aDAJ News. There is something wrong, otherwise there would not be so much need of charity In this country. A SOCIETY PILGRIMAGE To Witness a Brilliant Marriage The Tot-ten-Reymer Nuptials Improvements at the Linden Clnb Election or Officers Several Pretty Weddings. TnE North Presbyterian Church, Alle gheny, was the Mecca toward which all society prilgrims turned last evening. Their pilgrimage wai generally made in comfort able carriages, and their dresses did not sug gest the pious wayfarer with scrip and gown so mnch as a procession to one of the gayest events known to humanity. And it was fitting that it should he gay, for was not the occasion that ot one of the most impor tant weddings, from a fashionable point of view, o'r the season? The bride was Miss Elizabeth A. Reymer, and the groom Mr. Robert Duncan Totten. The church and the house or the bride's parents.were each a mass or greenery, with pink roses and carna tions sprinkled among the foliage here and there to relieve the monotony of verdancy. Tne organ was ringing out tho stirring strains of Mendelssohn's Wedding March, as the bridal train entered tho chnrch. The bride leaned on the arm of her father, and was met at the altar by the groom. Her gown was of wnite satin, trimmed with duchesso lace, and gar nished with cypress, while hrr veil was held to her coiffure by a spray of orange blos soms. She carried a largo bunch or lllles-of-the-valley. The maid or honor. Miss Mc Gregor, or New York, wns in pink silk, cov ered with wnite tulle, while the gown9 of the bridesmaid were or pink silk and tulle, also, with high pink velvet sleeves. They were Misses Jennie Hutchinson, Maiv Law rence, Mabel Hnssey, Nellie Metcalf, and Saran Scott. Mrs. l'feymer, the mother of the bride, was in black velvet,wlth dnchesse lace, and presented a queenly flgnre. The ushers were Mr. Alexander Stewart, 'of Chambersbnrg, Mr James S. McCord, Mr. LdriardO. Robinson. Mr. Abraham S. Val entine, Mr. Harry Oliver and Mr. John C. Oliver. The best man was Mr. William F. Timlow, or New York. After a reception at tho house tho couple left ror a tour. Upon their return they will reside at the Reymer mansion nntil their new home in the East End is ready lor them. Theee have been a number of improve ments made at the Linden Club bouse. Among them is the putting of a now celling into the ballroom and the fitting or it with a heating apparatus. Last winter the hall was very cold and comfortless and the Board or Managers are determined that the same complaint shall not be made about it this season. A new reading room is to be added to the clnbhouse, all the principal magazines, monthly and weekly, being sup plied lor the benefit ofthe members. The clubhouse is one of the most cheerful in the two cities nnd with the added comforts and conveniences it will De more so than over. The following officers have been elected lor the ensuing year: President, D.McK. Lloyd: Vice President, D. P. Black; Secretary and Treasurer, F. M. Laughlln; Board of Direc tors, E. M. O'Neill, F. B. Langblih, G. P. Bal maln, W. K. Woodwell, D. V. Black. J. G. Stephenson and W. J. Morris: Membership Committee, J. It. McCancn.J. G. Stephenson, Jr., N. S. Wooldridge, E. S. Fownes and Robert Bailey. At 6 o'clock last evening Jliss Fanny Ashwortb, of Allegheny, became the bride of Mr. George J. Gorman, of the Mechanics' National Bank. The ceremony was per formed at the residence of the bride's mother, Mrs. Frances Ashworth, ana it was a home wedding in every sense of ths word, only intimate friends and relatives being present. Rev, Dr. Crockar White performed the coremony. The bride wore a white silk, trimmed with dnchesse lace, and the usnal long white veil. The house was decorated with terns and palms, with cut flowers in terspersed. After a quiet reception, the bride and groom departed on a wedding tour that will embrace the principal Eastern cities. They will be at home to their friends in their new home on Shields. street upon their return. A PRETTY home wedding last evening was that of Miss Ella n. Carson and Mr. George E. Roberts, at the residenco of the bride's parents ou Arch street, Allegheny. Rev. J. R. Sutherland officiated. The bride wore a simple gown of white silk, and cat rled a buncn of white flowers. Only the relatives of the couple witnessed the cere mony. Among the interesting weddings last evening was that of Miss Cornelia Butler Reno and Mr. Charles Bolen, which took place at the home of Mr. W. L. Foulk, an aunt of the bride. Revt William Cowl was the officiating clergyman, and the best man was Mr, R. R. Foulk. The bride wore white silk, trimmed with lace, and the maid of honor, Miss Ada Reno, sister of the bride, was in pink. Sho and the bride carried white roses. The bridesmaids, 3Iises Mar garet Hlel and Cora Sumerel, wore white silk, and carried pink roses. The dining table was a mass or yellow roses, and the same beautiful blossoms were arranged in other'parts of the house. An interesting concert was given under the auspices of the Young People's Orches tra of St. John's Church, last evening. In Union Hall, Thirty-second street. A well selected programme of popular mnslo was firesenteu, and the frequent applanse or the arge andlence testified to the enjoyable na ture of the entertainment. The ingathering of the Southside branch or the Needlework Guild will be held the first Thursday in January, in the Guild House, Eighteenth street. It is expected that there will be a good showing or maclo up clothing, which will mean much comfort to poor families that cannot afford to get necessary warm clothing. Miss Emma Dean Anderson, a re turned missionary from India, delivered an interesting lecture on "An Evening in India" in the Etna U. P. Church last even ing. Invitations are out for the marriage of Miss Emma E. Gray to Mr. Robert C. Gon dennan, Wednesday evening, the 28th inst., at St. Paul's M.- E. Church. Liberty avenue and Cedar street, East End. SAKTA ULAUS IS C01I1NG. Santa Claus Is getting his skates on. Buffalo Times. Santa Claus is a bigger man than Mr. Cleveland these days. Cleveland Leader. Next week Santa Claus will be bigger than old Grover Cleveland himself. Columbus Dispatch. Santa Claus Is going to be overworked like everything for the next couple of days or so. LoiAng-.les Tim-i. Santa Claus seems to have had as many styles ot wearing his whiskers as Christo pher Columbus. Chisago Ifews Record. Consideiunq the steady advance in the price of whisky it wilt be simply irony on the part of Sinta Claus if he distributes many corkscrews on Christmas. Washing ton Star. It looks very much as if Santa Claus would be compelled to lay a-Ido' his reindeer and his furs, and come to town in a mackintosh, and with an umbrella over his hoaJ. Balti more American. It is altogether probable that the urbane Santa Clnus will make his usuj! round this year; the habit of a lifetime is not easily broken away from, and Santa is most too old to turn over a new leaf. Washington Xews. GBAIH BLOCKED UP IN ST. LOUIS. River Too Low for Any Except Hair Car goes of Wheat or Corn. St. Louis. Dec 2a The St. Louf.3 grain market is glntted so that a grain blockade has resulted. There are about 7,C0J.000 bushels of wheat in the elevators and a lawe amount on the tracks. Tho stock of corn is increasing at the rate of over 203,000 bushels a week. Tho consequence is that tht-elevators cannot handle the receipts. The cause of the stagnation Is the condi tion of the river. There is ample barge capacity, bnt the barge can at most carry half cargoes, owing to the low stage of the water. Not Behind, hut Beneath the Throne. Indianapolis Journal. 1 If Hill goes into Cleveland's Cabinet the Tammany tiger will be on top ot the ccun .cll tabic But tho report Is ridiculous; the "tiger w"l he under the table, wiujre it can give Mr. Cleveland some sharp hints with its claws, when-necessary. English, as She Is Spoke. New York World.1 Paderowski Interpreting Tchalkowskl will be outorsightski. CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. There are 150,000,000 Bibles. American perfume equals the French article. The Danes lead the world in butter making. An aluminum buggy is amoDg the com ing -possibilities. The jackal is a greater lot to Indian humanity than the tiger. A quilt with 1,231 names written on It has been made in Florida. The bell on a church at Cedar Farm, Iud., can be heard seven miles. ' The first counterfeiting was done in 1753 by a man named Richard William Vaugh. "Crossing the Bar" in "Welsh begins: "Hwyer-ddydd a seren naion." A horse at Osceola, io., stands 17 .hands high and weighs 1,840 pounds. A pair of George Washington's breeches wero lately sold at auction in Philadelphia for $540. , A music box that was accidentally tonched off in St. Louis the other night frightened away tbo burglars. A Chicago paper waxes cheerful over the prevalent crime in that city as follows: Drop a nickel in your vest pocket and watch itgetstolen.' Artificial legs and arms were in use in Egypt as early as B.C. 700. They were made by the priestp, who were the physicians of that early time. ' The Swiss "wine of blood" is so called from the battle ot Birs, fought on the vine yard:! COO Swiss opposed 20,000 French, and were all killed but IS. The carelessness of householders in London is shown by the fact that 26,323 doors and windows were found open by the police nt nigh tin one year. In the consular district of Piedras Negrns, Mexico, there Is not a single Ameri can commercial honse. Trade is entirely in the hands of the Europeans. John "W. Grantham, a resident of John ston county, N. Ci, has seven grown daugh ters, six of whom are married, all to men whose baptismal name is John. The new brewery tax is causing gen eral depression in 'the beer business in Germany. The Altona Brewery Union has already raised its price three pfennigs the hair-litre. Having found himself unable to raise money with which to meet a note for $100, George Sellers, a young man in Uoston, mortgaged his parents' graves in Mount Hope Cemetery. A man down in Elaine has found a peti tion to Parliament written in 1G43. It is written in ink on hand-made paper, and the brass pin stuck into tne paper is doubtless older than the petition. It is estimated that England's wheat crop for this year is about 55,000.000 bushels, or less than two bushels for each inhabitant. She mnst buy at least 130,000,000 Dnshels more from some outside source. The Courant has been published in Hartrord since October 29, 1764. and Is tho oldest newspaper in the United States of contlnnons publication in the same town and under the same name. Aiumiuum is found combined with 105 other minerals, and, therefore, constitutes a large part or the crust of the earth, bnt until recently has been very expensive, because of the difficulty or separating it. A man in Columbus, O., has patented an electrical device intended to automat ically loner and raise railroad gates ac grade crossings at the approach and after the passing or trains. The apparans is ex pected to supplant flagmen and gatetend ers. According to the best and most recent calculations 100,000,003 tons of water pour over NIngara every hour. This represents 16,000,000 horsepower. The annual coal production or the world would not furnish steam power sufficient to pump it back again. Switzerland is not drinking more liquor this year than last, and has not increased in her consumption of alcoholics for threa years past. There the Government controls the sale of liquor.and the profits are divided among the cantons. A third goes toward, remedying the effects of alcohol. r A Roman has ofiered 'King Humbert a novel instrument ot warfare. This is a pro jectile which on being shot from a cannon and striking an object will produce a lumin ous disc of 100,000 candle power, and thereby expose to view tbo enemy's position by night at a distance of from three to four miles. Thebilliard table at the White House was purchased for the use of General Gar field. He had a billiard room fitted up in the basement or the Executive Mansion, and played there a great deal with his inti mate friends. Garfield was also fond of cards, though be never played a game for money. French notions about English customs and langnagja are often, ir not always, ex tremely amusins. A recent French writer on games gives an interesting resume of En glish sports, and refers to "slogging," "row lmrmen," "yachting women" and "footing" as technical words current among English sportsmen. The oldest horticultural association in Europe is the lloval Society or Agriculture and Borany of Ghent, established in the year 1803. Its annual exhibitions are al ways of great interest, and every five years itholds international exhibitions, tho thir teenth of which is announced to open on the 16th of April next and to close on the 23d of the same month. There has been a decided stand against wearing crape for some years past, but tha Princess of Wales gave it the coup do grace by dispensing with it dnrlng her monrning for the late Duke of Clarence. Now there is a further protest against the heavy crape worn by widows, and doubtless before an other year has come and gone the modifica tion in this direction will bo vory percepti ble. Sheridan's little skitgiving the charact eristic of eaeh month is as applicable now and in this latitude as it was when he wrote it for England: January, snowy; February flowy; March blowy: April, showery; May, flowery; June, bowery; July, moppy; August, croppy; September, poppy: October, breezy;November, wheezy; Decem ber, freezy. The passion for gambling finds many forms or expression in Spain. A dealer in. matches in Madrid makes epch box of bis wares, which are sold for a cent, a ticket In the lottery. The boxes aro labeled "Light and Money. The holder of this box is en titled to participate in the ticket number so and so of the Natioual Lottery of such and ; such a day." Each box is numbered, and tho purchaser becomes interested, willy nllly, in ; tho ensuing drawing. ORIGINAL AND JOCOSE. SOT SO BAD AS IT SEEMED. "i "You will not give me just one kls, v - Before I say farewell?" ' 1 An. Mortimer, my lore for you VI Is more than words can tell." sf3 'Tis false." hecrled: "I've been deceived, 1M You leare my honse to-day." ft The words he spoke unto his wire, , 1 While acting in a play. J ADVICE TO T0UN0WT7E8. '"g In buying your husband's cigars for Jf Christmas don't be carried away by any well ex- fj edited picture on the lid or the box.. The prettiest '. or them are easy drawing when compared with the . - 1 cigars. f A LETTER. My Dear, Dear Santa Claus: h Please, oh, please. Dring me a i;aomsi. Very Truly Yours, . Quotes Cleveland. ' ON THE EDGE OT THE TOUR HUNDRED. "Are you going to the cotillon, this evsu lng?" "So." "Let's go to the theater." 'Can't do It." Wbr?" "All the swell people will t at the dance, and Ifl'mseea at the theater they'll think I'm not in It." HE'LL SOON BE NUMBERED WITS THE ABSENT. "You seemed to be very well pleased," said the good man to lltue Tommy, who was smll. lngfrom ear to ear. I is," repuea Tommy. WhvJ" ' V 'Cause I only have to go to Sabbath kbosI otm j aereto getaboxof canay." ; ifcl v - -' . j .. ...... :. ui. tsra-Aia -MMkth,,U :. ithL .-. jifsMrii r it II ii -' -JSMX
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