The Democrat, FRIDAY, AUGUST it, 1889. Talmaof. says " a good newspaper is the grandest temporal blessing that God has given the people of this century." Subscribe for the DEMOCRAT. Tub vulgar display of the gifts, de. scribed, at the Royal Wedding, "as a spacious curiosity shop," proves how near royalty and vulgar shoddy are to gether. The Queen of England is the liv ing representative of the fetisli of the monarchical system. How the drapery of gifts would have delighted the oriental fancy of Disraeli. Git \ what a pity that Disraeli was not having the Princes Louisa's wedding gifts. Tub example of the Soldiers' Orphan School syndicate ought not to be without profit both to this generati m and all com ing generations. It was a shameless syn dicate ol' foul plunder; . It was too late for restitution and : >r the punish ment of the rascals, but r.u example has been given of the power of : i incorrupt ible newspaper. It was the power of the Philadelphia Record that the entrench d and shameless syndicate of pensioners were overthrown. The harpies into whose hands the Soldiers' Orphans Schools had been securely drifted have happily been torn from the prey, and to the Record is this happy result due. MR. GEOIH.E ALFBKD TOWSSESD is writing from France a series of letters to prove that Lafayette was a poor, ml-'- erable, dawdling failure, who is a hero nowhere save in America, and yet un prejudiced meu who read history intelli gently concede that this same Lafayette was the most remarkable man. all things considered, that the world ever saw. It is a shams that he is not more honored in France, and a burning dis grace that he is not more remem bered in America. lie is the only man in history who entered upon a public career '>'Uh an Idea and remained con sistent to it unto tlie end- his life extend ing over n period of fifty of the most troubulous years the modern world lias known, lie was honorable, upright and faithful to his principles. He might have been three times a Kiug, and yet lie even refused to wear his own title of Marquis. His life and his fortune were devoted to Liberty, and the man who defames him or detracts, from his just glory would defile the tomb of Washington or scatter the dust of Lincoln to the wit ds. — World. AN ANA K< iIIST. How made? It is the easiest thing in the world to become an Anarchist. While the motto of all genuine Anarchists is, no civil law. but lots of what they call natu ral law, yet principles count for little in their creed. Let a man neglect the bar ber shop, and forgo t.io use of soap and water lor a month or m> an.l he naturally and necessarily gravitates into a first class Anarchist; and then, one other step, that of giving up all kinds of work so as to leave plenty of time to denounce all forms of government, will place him at the head of the institution. All this and much more is illustrated in the case of the brawling HerrMost, who is now in had odor among his brothers, even being called a traitor to the princi ples of anarchy. Because he had Ins hair cut, his fttco shaved, and submitted to the cleansing properties of n New York bath, and put on a clean shirt, he is denounced as a traitor to the cause he so stoutly ad vocated, and for which he suffered im prisonment. How has the mighty fallen ! THK WICKKD TltliiST-. They are becoming so numerous and so pernicious, that the people are asking for some law to suppress them. We have had them controlling nearly all articles of commerce, impoverishing the poor and enrielting the wealthy—in other words, robbing the poor to add to the coffers of the rich. The country has been cursed by Wrain Trusts, Flour Trusts, Coffee Trusts, Sugar Trusts, and all kinds of Trusts. They arc simply wicked combinations to buy up certain articles and thus con trol the market, so that exorbitant prices may be asked and received. It is an evil under the sun, one not enumerated in Solonion's list because financiering had not been reduced to one of the fine prac tical sciences away hack in his day. The world does move, whether the Richmond colored parson believes it or not. As Legislative enactments seem to be powerless in suppressing the evil, some think Congress ought to be called upon to try its hand in framing and passing a law. The desired end might possibly he reached by National legislation. The old laws of Kngland passed more than two hundred years ago, and that has been published in some of our newspapers lately, might do well, with a few changes, for an anti- Trust law in this country. Under the head of " Conspiracies," it reads •- " If any butchers, brewers,bakers, poulterers, * * shall conspire, cove nant, make promise, or oath not to sell their victuals hut at certain prices; or ar tificers, workmen or laborers conspire, covenant or promise that they will not do their work but at certain hours, and at certain prices, or shall not take on them to finish what another hath begun, or shall do but a certain work in a day; such per son upon conviction shall forfeit ten pounds," etc. How would tliat do with changes to suit, to suppress combinations of rich men who speculate upon the necessuricfc of life '< AVIIX HE ACQUIT HIMSELF? Will Senator Manderson tako the Phila delphia Times' advice and acquit himself of the affront to his honor as a soldier and his integrity as a Senator. Mr. Charles P. Manderson has heen a Senator of the United States for ove six years, and besides his senatorial salary has been for many years drawing a pen sion of sls per month; has • had his pen sion increased through a "slip call" of Corporal Tanner to $.lO per month, with $4,000 arrearages. Now the question is, will Uuitcd States Senator Charles P. Manderson resent this affront to his honor as a Union soldier and this open assault upon his integrity as a United States Sena tor. The Times requests the honorable gentleman to return the money fraudu lently obtained from the government, and resent the indignity offered him as a soldier, Senator and citizen by rejecting the money given him by corrupt, dis honest and dishonorable officials. The Times in a long, able and 'ouching article on the subject closes in the following im pressive manner: "The people of Philadelphia, the city of your birth, as well as the people of Nebraska, the State of your adoption,will wait with solicitude fur your acton in this crucial test of your public and pri vate integrity. What Is your answer? Your self-acquittal of this grave imputa tion upon your personal and.ofllcinl honor will be gratefully received and acknowl edged by, as ever, your friend." GLAI) TO KNOW IT. We havano words to express our high gratification over a hit of news that cauie from Deer Park the other day. Relieving in the plebeian idea of American De mocracy, we have been pained to hear persons say that a base ball pitcher,owing to his well merited distinction among the great, grand anil noble of carlli, resisted all attempts to put him on an equality with any of the other notable characters of earth. While always ardently admir ing him as one of the most distinguished oT the nineteenth century, and cheerfully ascribing to him the elements of notibility he so justly merits, we kind' of thought he would do well occasionally, not, too frequently, however, to unbend just a little, just enough to associate with a few of our dignitaries. Now we are more than happy in learning through the public press, that he did con descend to hold a btief conversation with the President of the United States, at Deer Park, on lust Tuesday afternoon. Which one of hint it was we have not learned, but that don't matter, as it is enough for us to know that it was one of him. Dispatches to the leading dailies say that " the pitcher was not in the least haughty, but was duly considerate, atten tive and polite." This little act of court esy on his part clearly proves that he does not consider it derogatory to Ids high mightiness to talk to one of the honored men of the Nation. And the fact that lie did not look upon the Chief Magistrate of our Nation as tieueatii his notice, will go far to show that kings and emperors of the Old World might, under propel cir cumstances and under certain conditions, hope to have the high honor and exqui site pleasure of speaking to him. Let the journalistic world make careful note of this encouraging fact. It demon strates that the autocratic ideas of Venice, and the exclusive principles of London, and the upper-crust notions of New York are not to dominate in base ball circles any longer. Just think of it! wlmt we fondly hoped for, but hardly dared to be lieve would ever take place, a base hall pitcher impliedly saying, by consenting to talk with the President, that he could he approached by a fellow-being. Well, well, wonders will never cease KATHKK DPI.!.. Whether attributable to local disasters that have followed one another in such quick succession in this and other countries during the past few months, or the absence of important State elections, one thing is certain there is very little interest manifested in politics this sum mer. In our own State the nomination of candidates for Treasurer has scarcely caused a ripple on the public waters as yet. A few of our exchanges have re ferred to the matter, and an occasional reference is made to a possible Demo cratic and a Republican nominee. Unless some new factor Is Introduced, or ad ditional issue is hunted up, this Fall's campaign will not be a very spirited one in Pennsylvania. Out in Oldo the only issue the Republi cans will have will be Foraker, and just what lie represents outside of his self assumed importance it would he difficult to guess. With the large faction in his own party against him, it ought to be a walk over for any passably popular Democrat. Our forecast of the Ohio campaign is one that foreshadows Democratic, success both in the Gubernatorial and Legislative contest. With a Democratic Legislature, insuring a Democratic Unitod Stutes .Senator, and a Democratic Governor, Ohio will take its place in the list of reconstructed and reclaimed States. Our outlook forebodes Republican defeat in 1892. The wide spread dissatisfaction with the Harrison Administration, in all sections of the country, augurs favorably for replacing him with a Democrat of the true Jcffer sonian type at our next quadrennial elec tion. In a word, the sky is bright, and unless all signs fail the Government will be administered on economic and consti tutional principles after Harrison stops down and out, which will be at the expi ration of his one term. NOT THE FACTS. Our CriticH Should not Bear False Wit ness. We regret to note a disposition on the part of some people from abroad to mag nify all our little irregularities—irregular ities growing out of our somewhat chaotic state of affairs. Instead of discriminating between citizens and strangers, all disor derly conduct is attributed to Johnstown people, which is not only inexcusable, but does great injustice to our moral and lawabidiug citizens. With the large in flux of loafers, bummers, tramps, drunk ards, coming from all sections of the country, the wonder is that so tew viola tions of law occur. It is quite safe to say that the worst elements of society are fairly well repiesented here from Cincin nati, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, New York, and all the large towns iu this and other States. Knowing how difficult the task is to control the bad elements in any one of the cities, no reflecting person should be surprised that the aggregation of thieves from so many different and dis tant points should cause trouble in Johns town, or even iu any place not confronted with the herculean work of bringing or der out of the confusion of a terrible dis aster. But unfortunately for the human race, there are too many good people who revel in the work of passing by all that is wor thy of praise and gloating over the work of finding defects and imperfections on which to exercise their magnifying tend encies. Under the garb of reformers and model exemplars of morality, their mis sion seems to be that of scavengers of tilth. In the name of ail that is good,and for the sake of the good name of Johns town we enter a solemn protest against their wholesale slanders. While we do not claim that we are pinks of perfection in our moral conduct and general character, we do claim for our resident inhabitants an average re spectability. We submit that our condition is snlHci ently bard to endure, withuut the gratu itous and unfounded charge of being a lawless and drunken set of idlers. We have always thought good people ought to possess a little of that grace, which a conspicuous llihlicnl writer says is the greatest of all the grnces. It is a grace that would add greatly to the qualities of some of our t houghtless and ungruci >as critics. '• It." says the same writer, " suifcreth long, and in kind; vauutcth not itself, is Mitpujfed up ; docth not be have itself uutcfmlg; thinketh no evil: rejoieeth not in uniquity, but re joiceth in tin truth ; bcurcth all things, hopctii all things, cndureth all things." And according to good authority, never bears false witness. A Story of the Flood. New York sun. As is well known, Christian 11. Micscl was a victim of the Johnstown disaster. He was the manager of the Mansfield, <)., base ball team, and had left that place for the purpose of visiting his family at New ark. N. J. He was positively known to have been a passenger on the unfortunate express which was destroyed. His body was not recovered for some days, and was buried under the belief that it was a man of the name of Manstiekl. The story from that time on is romantic. Mrs. Miesel lately wrote to a relative at Hartford, ac knowledging the receipt of SIOO, which was contributed to her out of tiie pro ceeds of a festival given jointly by the Governor's Foot Guard and Colt's hand of that city. Miesel was manager of a Hart ford ball teuni in the latter part of 1883 and the whole of 1884. The team of 1883 went to Hartford from Newark, and was composed of many players who have since won considerable notoriety. The team included Dave Orr, Gilbert Hatfield (now of the New Yorks), "Tip" O'Neill, Grace Pierce, Jones (now of Worcester), Frank " Tonoy" Murphy, Edward Cramer, Creden (of the New York police force), Corcoran (brother of Larry Cor coran), and Dolau. This team played ex hibition games, and walloped nearly every team in that section. The next year Hartford had a Connecticut State League team, which Chris also managed. Dur ing the time lie was at Hartford Miesel and Hatlield run a small cigar store, which Chris mauaged, but Hatlield was there but little, being engaged on the ball field. [ This business venture was not success j ful, and Chris went into base hall again ! elsewhere. He was a competent scorer, | and his score hook was a model of neat ness. He often conferred favors on the : writer by furnishing scores for the press. His love for his little girl (he had but one j child then; was something touching. He j once told the writer, and he cried at the j time, how she had suffered when sick, and how gladly he would have been sick i in her place, as ho was able to hear it and I she was not. ! Chris was lost in the flood. The facts J furnished by his wife are: He had left a ear for some baggage and was swept down stream, and buried under the name of " Mansfield," there probably be ing some papers on his person directed to Mansfield, O. Some of his Jersey friends who went to Johnstown to identify him were satisfied that a mistake had occurred, and induced the local authorities to send to the Mayor of Jersey City a ring taken from the body of "Mansfield." This ring had initials on it other than Miesel's, and so the body was regarded as not his. The following day, however, Mrs. Miesel re ceived a letter from a friend of her bus. band, telling her that he had lent money to a young man iu Oil City, taking n ring as security. This young man was found at Dansville, N. Y., and his uame corre sponded to the initials of the ring. In this singular manner the body was identi fied beyond question as that of the un- j fortunate Chris Miesel. IMPOSSIBLE TO AVERT IT. Thai Will l> lite South Fork Line of l>e feiiHe in That Suit. Attorney J. 11. Heed, of Pittsburgh, Saturday stated the line of defense which the South Fork Fishing Club inteud to pursue in the forthcoming Little suit. They will plead that the flood was an ex traordinary event, entirely unforseen by the club, and that the breaking of the dam was not the cause of tin .iood, but merely an accident to it. The dam was quite strong enough to stand a great pressure; but the volume of water which destroyed it was something no one could liavo been possibly prepared for. " Wiseacres are of course to lie found," he says, " who cry, ' I told you so :' hut the fact is they never told anybody. The dam was always held to be perfectly safe. I don't think the other side can prosecute each individual member of the club The dam was common property, and if any one man was responsible for its bursting, the whole corporation was equally re. sponsible." Mr. Heed wound up by saying lie could not Imagine how the other side expected anything but defeat. Is leu Water u Ileal!liy lli-luk ? In the opinion of the editor of the Sun ttary Volunteer, the ollieial organ of the New Hampshire Board of Health, there is a great deal of sentiment and many opinions regarding the use of ice water that vanish when the light of reason and experience is turned upon tliem. The fact is that ice water, drank slowly aud in moderate quantities, constitutes a healthful and invigorating drink. There is no doubt that ice is a great sanitary agent, and every family ought to be pro vided with it during the warmer months of the year. It is true that the inordinate use of ice water, or its use under some special conditions or circumstances, is at tended with great danger ; so is tue im proper use of any other drink or food. The assumption that iced water is dan gerous, and that iced lea or iced coffee or iced lemonade is a harmless substituie. is simply a delusion. As the source of dan ger feared by some is the degree of cold, we fail to see clearly how flavor modifies llie effect of temperature. There are in dividuals, undoubtedly,who cannot drink ice water without injury, and who ought never to use it. tint to a great majority of persons it is refreshing and healthful. Its use, temperate and discreet, is in no way to be condemned, which cannot be said of some of its substitutes.— The Sanitary AW. Getting oil raster. According to Governor Heaver, every thing is all right at, Johnstown, and has been all along. Meanwhile Treasurer Thompson took hold yesterday and, with less hired help and less red tape, shoveled out the money to the beneficiaries just twice as rapidly as Judge Cummin had been doing. Governor Beaver is an optimist of the superlative degn e. It would be unjust not to give him full eredi- for meaning well in wha'evcr he undertakes. Prob ably no one means belter. But he is possessed of the idea that once he lias settled on a plan, it is the only right plan, and that what he doesn't happen to include in his first view don't exist. In short, lie is a man not easy to lead and about impossible to drive; and the members of the Pittsburgh Belief Com mittee who have been lugging at the halter need not feel surprised that while they were getting His Excellency a few steps nearer speedy distribution, he. still seemed by his speeches Wednesday to tie heading in the same old direction of delay, impoihi i\ to go faster, etc PUhburg/i Jlin/ utrli. A l>ecinild it ten or a dozen years afterward for $1,100,000. He invented the fan-box used iu nearly all of,the condactorless, bob-tail street cars of the country. His royalty fn a this was and is many thousands of dollars a year. He invented the improved street ear rail by which an iron stringer was made for the flat top, and all cast in one piece so that the whole is laid us a steam railway is on cross ties. The old style was wooden stringers lirst laid and the flat rail spiked on top of them. Tom Johnson lias remarkable business presci ence, can overcome opposition and " make his point" with that almost inevitable quality which characterizes genius, lie iias, yet in early middle life, already ae. cumulated a vast fortune. Ills last turn after leaving here ami since he walked into Cleveland against tiie opposition of the street ear companies and took streets from right under their nose, is to become Henry Georgeite. The Chicago Neion puts it. He has endeared himself to the work ing classes by an enlightened radicalism which offers no apology to the fetich of high taxes, lie slapped that fetich in the face last fall and came within a few hun dred votes of carrying what had been on ultra protection congressional district time out of mind, losing the election only by a scratch in the remote country pre cincts, after a tight in which the Standard Oil Company and the protectionists of high and low degree spent money lavishly to secure his defeat. Iu personal appearance he is William Penn, according to the pictures of that geutleman Were he to wear long hair a photograph of him in costume like Penn's would he a twin picture. As it is, with his soft, short, brown hair, clinched on his head as it were, by numberless lit tle crispy curls; his fat, round, smooth face with its dimpled cheek and chin ; lit tle how-like mouth, witli a perpetual laughing expression and bright blue eye, he looks comically like an over-grown cupid. If the Democrats should nomi nate him there would he a piquancy aud life in the coming campaign, rare even for Ohio. The amount of hustling that Tom Johnson would make the other fel lows do would be cdifyiug to see. But he won't be nominated. The machine is fixed for Campbell. Will Tiirlll'Organs Explain. Will the tariff organs please explain things ? As great manufactories are shut ting down, a thing which they predicted would be the event if the Mills' tariff bill passed and had Cleveland been re elected. The Mills bill did not pass and Cleveland was not re. elected, and the factories arc shutting down. Now, why do the manufacturers shut down, when the tarill was saved and Harrison was elected ? Will the tarill or gans please explain ? BLAVER'Sf OMMISSIOiY TDK PITTSBURGH COM.MKHOIALS AS SUMI'TION AMI AliltOfiAXCK. A Daniel Come t Jaugment I Yea, a Dan iel—Tile l.oril Di.l Not Ituihl the Ue- Htractive Darn—providence Not Kenpon- Hllile for tile llad Knginoiirlii);. Just what interest the Pittsburgh Com mercial has in Johnstown mutters it would be difficult to set—we mean he kind of interest it lias. It is about the only news paper in Pennsvlvauia, or tor that matter in any other State, that has continuously and persistently defended Governor Beaver and his Commission in all they have done, or lather for what litev have not done. \\ Idle as we havi previously said we arc disposed to forget past troubles grow ing out of possible misun derstandings which led Ij lo -riy "all's well thnt ends well,'- wc liave yet to be convinced that Werine-lay s meeting of tlie Commission (at which two Johns town men in addition to who is called our Finance Committee w< re present by mere accident), was such an overwhelm ing vindication of the Governor and his 'omiriissi< n, ns the editoii i in Friday's <■nmmrreiai e! duo. If "the era of good feeling lias been reached in Johnstonn,"ns per - i I paper, our people will lie both ast-uiMied and glad Hi kno-.v it. To "full ol frank talk between members of tilts btatc Commission and representative citizens" is good, very good in the light of the fact that our representative citizens business nnm and prop.viy hoi crs — were -101 invited to be present, ami have so said privately and pin liclv. lint tiic coolest piece of newspaper ar roganee we have ever read is the assump tion that Governor Heaver's plans were opposed only by tire people of no conse quence, and " that much of the distrust was created by bail newspaper advice, not unmixed witli personal spleen towards Governor Heaver, because in sternly re fu-ed to be led by the uose by a few eal low editors who imagined themselves bigger men tlmu the Governor." Well may i' In- asked. "'Now, in Hit' names of ail the gods at once, upon what moat doth this our ( ii'v'r ft-i .1, timt ho is grown so groat; " a * ■ in Uoiii bestride tho narrow world, iilio a Colloßstis." Tho editor of tho ('ommrein' knows it all. ilia knowledge is past rinding out for ho has discovered, just as iio always be lieved," that it wnuiii have boon a groat mistake to havo made the oitizona of the stricken town tho custodians and disbursers of the funds contributed for their relief" True, lie does not say that many Jolinstownors believe this, but bis faith failetli not. for he adds a most wonderful bit of in vs to be veri tied liereafle.. " The morn . telligent of them (Johnsinwncrs) will, ere long, if indeed, they do not already, fully appre ciate the force and value of tins sugges tion." And, finally, we have the assur ance that, '• time is vindicating the wis dom "of the Commission's course. We wish the .alitor, wno assumes to know how our re iresentntive citizens feel upon the subject, would come up and Inter view few or them. If his eyes would not open wider than they have ever done in discovering truth, we will agree to pay the expenses of his trip. As a further illustration of the feeling of the Commercial, on Johnstown matters, its editorial in Thursday's paper is ap propos. The leading article in that issue, under the head of " 'The Turning Point," discusses the question of the South Fork Hunting aud Fishing Club's responsibility for our disaster, in which it Intimates that the respot'slbilii v rc-ts upon Providence. It very eon Iderately ilia * i line between the moral and legal aspect of the case by saying that so far as moral responsibility is concerned " each oue is left to makeup such judgment as to him may seem just and reasonablebut witii reference to the legal question, quotft; approvingly from a .Maryland newspaper the state ment, that " the law does not expect any one to provide against Providential visi tations." In thus relieving the South Fork Hunting and Fishing Club of all re sponsibility by charging it upon God, one is reminded of the whereases and resolu tions upon the deaths of people who killed themselves by over-eating and drinking. Societies to which they be longed usually declare, " Whereas, Al mighty God in His wise providence," etc. The Commercial might formulate a similar whereas, and delinitely lix the responsi bility of the dam disaster, and thus save litigants, courts, lawyers and juries a deal of trouble. Hut as the Lord didn't build the de structive dam, and evidently had very little agency in engineering it, it will re quire several more Commercial editorials to convince a jury that Providence is re sponsible for the damage resulting from its breaking. - Attor a liiiiinawav. Braddock Dally News, Saturday. Detective George Gibson left this after noon for Johnstown, with a hnlf a dozen warrants in his possession, for the arrest of parties there. They were sworn out. before 'Squire Edward and comprise nu merous charges, lie will also make an effort to bring back a young man from Braddock, who ran away from his home here about a week a ago, and whose pa rents are very anxious about him. It is said the boy is working in Johnstown. Emphatically Denied. A prominent member of the local Finance Committee emphatically denies that it was due to the dictation of the local committee and not to tho State Com mission, that tho community were led to believe that they were not welcome at the meeting of the State Commission.