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THE PITTSBURG- DISPATCH, THURSDAY, AUGUST 11. 1893.
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I'lTTsllUBG. THURSDAY. AUGUST 11. 163
TWELVE PAGES
A GOOD DAY'S WORK.
Yesterday prodded strong evidence of
the value of conferences between employ
ers and employes in the settlement of
questions at issue between them. Both
the Amalgamated Association of Iron and
Steel Workers and tho Window Glass
Workers yesterday came to agreements
with their employers as to the scales for
the ensuing year. In the latter case the
scale of the year expiring was adopted
with little discussion at the first confer
ence held, and the manufacturers and
their men are alike to be congratulated on
the absence of differences which enabled
them to come to an agreement more
speedily than has been the case for years.
With regard to the Amalgamated Asso
ciation the difficulties were much greater,
and the conference at which the scale was
acreed upon was the seventeenth of such
meetings extending over almost six weeks.
Fourteen large firms are represented in
the association of iron manufacturers who
agreed to the scale last evening, and of
course the eighty odd concerns which had
already signed the workers scale come in
on the new basis.
Nothing could show more conclusively
than this satisfactory termination of a
long-drawn-out discussion the advantage
of calm and deliberate interchange of
ideas. Ilerein lies the secret of success
fully dealing with such questions between
capital and labor. There must be consul
tations and there must be a give and take
and a splitting of differences. Both sides
are to be felicitated on the patience and
cpen-raindedness shown throughout a
lone and trying straggle. Both are to be
commended for realizing the necessity for
a compromise. And the only subject for
regret which is a comparatively slight
one under the circumstances is that it
took so long to reach a satisfactory con
clusion. possibly ncnox.
Reports come of the failure of Baron
Hirsch's colony of Russian Hebrews
in Argentina. The explanation is
that the emigrants being traders in
their own country are unaccus
tomed to agricultural pursuits, will not
work as common laborers, refuse to
assimilate with the inhabitants and are in a
condition of destitution, idleness and vice.
If this is true the founders.of the charity
would be justified in leaving them to their
own fate. Their natural bent may be
towaid mercantile work; but having been
taken in a condition of destitution and
put in a position to earn their own liveli
hood their failure to improve the opportu
nity would bring them fairly under the
action of the law: "He that will not work,
neither shall he cat"
But it may be well to use caution in ac
cepting these reports as final. In this
country it is known that a colony of the
samp people in New Jersey has improved
a large tract of waste land and is now
self-supporting. There is a suggestion in
the clause of the report which says that
the Hebrew colonists are "obnoxious to
the population of Argentina, and their
presence is not regarded as desirable by
any South American Government" Pos
sibly this frame of mind may have in
spired the Spanish-American news vendors
to have enlarged the truth concerning the
colonies to the effect stated in the reports
referred to.
It will be well to await authoritative re
ports before concluding that Hirsch's
magnificent charity is a failure. At pres
ent it is quite as probable that some one
down in Buenos Ayres is lying about them.
TOO rLATN FOR ARGUMENT.
An esteemed correspondent who states
he has always been in favor of the tariff,
but thinks the present law extreme, writes
to The Dispatch objecting to the state
ment that the high wages of plumbers,
carpenters and other artisans are in any
degree owing to the protection policy.
We have gone over this matter so often
that it is hard to believe it has not been
made plain to every attentive reader. It
is like the superfluity of demonstrating an
axiom to point out that, when the vast
number of manufacturing industries con
cerned in the tariff are brisk and prosper
ous, all other interests are thereby bene
ficially affected. We see great cities built
by prosperous manufactures. The im
mense number of operatives in the pro
tected industries require houses to live in,
clothes to wear, furniture, means of trans
portationin short, all the necessities of
life, together with such comparative lux
uries as good wages enable them to pro
cure for themselves and their families.
Pittsburg and hundreds of thrivinc
towns in this and adjacent States owe
their very existence to the success of the
protected manufactures. All over New
England, New York, New Jersey,
and, as is now becoming the
case in the South also, communities
have multiplied in numbers and
resources by reason of growth among
them of protected industries, giving em
ployment to great numbers of people at
good wages. Demand for the housing
and sustenance of the operatives in these
industries stimulates activity in other
lines which, if not specifically protected
or even named in the tariff bill, yet in this
way share the benefits from It The great
city of Philadelphia, with its more than a
million of population and its immense
number of bouses for worklngmen, is a
splendid illustration of the benefits which
come from manufacturing industries.
There bricklayers, plumbers, carpenters
and masons in great numbers have found
continuous employment at good wages In
the necessity of providing homes for the
great number of operatives in the manu
facturing concerns at and around Phila
delphia. It is not merely in creating this demand
for the labor in other lines of industry
that the protected industries help those
classes of labor not mentioned in the tariff
bill The absorption of a va6t number of
wage-workers by the protected industries
relieves the pressure of the competition of
labor in the other industries. Were the
protected industries to be killed or crip
pled by free, trade, the hands thus dis
charged or released would inevitably have
to starve or to go for a living into what
ever might remain of 'the unprotected in
dustries, thus pulling the wages in those
lines very quickly.
As for our correspondent's objection to
the tariff being too high, there is not much
In it It should be high enough to keep
the American market for American manu
factures, excepting where the articles can
not be produced in this country. Of
course there should be limitations so as to
guard against abuses of trusts; and a wise
discretion should be used as to raw ma
terials. But the Democratic platform
contemplates nothing of that sort whatso
ever. It is for free trade pure and simple,
excepting as to so much money as may be
needed for revenue. There Is no pretense
of, but on the contrary a flat disclaimer in
the Democratic platform of any pretense
whatsoever of interest in American in
dustries as against foreign industries.
NO COMPULSORY AKBITIiATION.
The communications pointing out the
utter unconstitutionality and unpractica
bilityof the proposal to settle labor dis
putes by "Compulsory Arbitration" are
published in this issue. That from Mr.
Breen is especially conclusive In the argu
ments it advances to uphold the opinions
held and expressed by The Dispatch.
This is no subject for legislation, because
such Is impossible without causing so
gross an interference with individual
liberty as would be lncontestibly uncon
stitutional. Such an enactment would de
stroy distinct personal rights on the one
hand while attempting to set up artificial
restrictions in their place.
But even granting that such legislation
came within the limits of the Constitution,
everything points to the impossibility of
enforcing Its requirements. And the
country is already suffering from too many
unexecuted and inapplicable laws. Such
law must always tend to lowerrespect for
constituted authority, and to become a
constant source of ridicule therefor.
There is a dangerous tendency abroad
toward placintr in the hands of the law
questions which are outside Its lines and be
yond its control. Growmgly serious as are
the questions between employers and em
ployes, their solution is not to be found
either by act of Congress or of the State
Legislature. Their only solution lies in
the increase of sound common sense, eked
out where possible by some slight practice
of the doctrines of Christian charity and
brotherly love.
Where consultations fail, a voluntary
consent to arbitration may be, and is, at
times of great service. But the first at
tempt to make such arbitration legally
compulsory would rid that system of set
tlement of its entire usefulness.
WHERE CONSISTENCY IS POSSIBLE.
The ethics of superstition are raised by
a recent proposition as to the person who
Is to break the bottle of champagne on
the prow of the new harbor defense ram
shortly to be launched. It had been pro
posed that the wife of Senator- Hale
should be permitted that distinction and
pleasure. But it was discovered that the
precedents of the occasion required that
function to be performed by a maid, and
not a matron. The sailors superstitions
would be put into a condition of pernicious
activity if the matron were permitted to
perform the ceremony, and experts on
bottle-breaking refused to be responsible
for the consequences if that was done.
Consequently Mrs. Hale was retired and
Miss Amnien, daughter of the admiral,
takes her place. Numerous of our co
temporaries have made eloquent protests
against giving way to so stupid a supersti
tion. In that they we're wrong. Not that it is
necessary to observe any superstition, hut
that it is worth while to be consistent
when you can do so without too much in
convenience. It is pertinent that the
whole business of breaking a bottle over
the bows of a vessel to christen her is a
superstition, whether it comes from the
old Norse navigators or from the Greeks
presumably the latter because the for
mer were short of wine it is a relic of
pagan beliefs. It would be just as easy to
name the vessel by departmental order or
by painting it on her stern or bows. But
since the rite handed down by tradition is
observed it is consistent to do it according
to the full vigor of nautical belief. We
are not so consistent in the real matters of
life that we can afford to neglect consist
ency in the rite of naming a vessel
Let us be consistent in one thine at least
Since consistency is inconvenient in poli
tics, unprofitable and very disagreeable in
business, it is a mitigation to find it en
tirely practicable in the superstitions of
vessel-christening.
A DEFICIENCY NEXT.
A statement by Messrs. Dockery and
Sayers, of "the House Appropriations Com
mittee, places the deficiency in revenue
according to the appropriations made and
estimates of revenue submitted at $52,365,
000. The appropriations, including all
permanent ones, not omitting the pay
ments on account of sinking fund, which
have of late been excluded from such
calculations, are 5507,701,000; the revenues
are 5455,336,000. Of the shortage 548,632,
000 consists of the sinking fund appro
priation which the law requires to be paid
in "each year," but which Secretary Foster
construes to mean "any year" and takes
credit for the excess of debt payments In
the past To do this is to violate the pledges
with regard to the payment of the public
debt more wantonly though not so disas
trously as to pay the. interest in depre
ciated currency.
Yet these leading Democrats say that
Secretary Foster has no other option than
to omit the sinking fund payment this
year. The action of Congress which
necessitates that breach of the public
faith rises above party and is shown to be
due to the fiscal stupidity of both parties.
A Republican Congress wiped out the
surplus and set the example of appropria
tions far in excess of revenues; its suc
cessor in which the Democrats control the
body having the initiative of appropria
tions followed the example by appropriate
ing $52,000,000 more than the revenue and
making no provision for the stipulated
sinking fund payments. Neither Repub
licans nor Democrats considered the main
tenance of the high credit of the Govern
ment worthy a moment's thought beside
the politicians' idea of making political
capital by lavish expenditures.
It will be hard to lay an accountability
to either party for this blind extravagance
at present, since both
are guilty of It, I
But when the present brand of politics
has succeeded in breaking down the credit
of the Government the people may con
clude to bold both to account.
MR. WALKER'S ERROR.
Coincldently with .Mr. Aldace P. Walk
er's paper in the Forum, setting forth the
necessity of railroad combinations, came
the first steps which sent the associations
In which he was particularly engaged
into warring "fragments. This Is not to be
taken as an example of Mr. Walker's lack
of foresight as his paper indicated very
little faith In the stability of the existing
combinations. But it does, nevertheless,
furnish another illustration of the utter
failure of the combination theories to rec
ognize existing facts.
Mr. Walker recoenized In his paper that
the Western Traffic .Association was built
upon the sand. But he still asserts that
only by associations for the prevention of
what the combination calls excessive com
petition can the railways be preserved
from great losses. He, therefore, pro
poses new devices to maintain division of
traffic, agreement on rates, and the discip
line of the pool. All of them, like the
preceding arrangements, are In violation
of public policy and the direct provisions
of the Inter-State Commerce law, which
Mr. Walker swore to support and enforce
before he was withdrawn from his alle
giance by the larger salary of the Traffic
Association.
Walker's mistake lies in supposing that
the cut-throat wars which he summons
the devices of combination to prevent
are the result of competition. Tho
contrary is 'the case. .The present
outbreak, like scores of Us prede
cessors, illustrates the law that they
are caused either by quarrels over the
pools or by the desire to drive competition
into them. In this case one railroad
thought it was not fairly treated in the
pooling arrangements, and cut rates. The
other railroads tumbled head over heels to
cut rates still further to discipline it, and
so the quarrel grew. So long as the pools
afford either the hope of recuperating the
losses or the subject of quarrel these wars
will go on. When-there is no such stimu
lant to rate-cutting every railroad will
cease competition at the point of loss, be
cause it knows it will Inflict the loss on no
one hut itself.
The dogma on which Mr. Walker's
theory is founded provides the funda
mental error. The way to save the rail
road world from losses is to let each cor
poration stand on its own bottom, and if
it cuts rates to a losing level let it bear all
the loss.
Congressman Watson is reported to
have suffered a physical collapse, and stag
gered from tbe platform after opening the
campaign In bis district of Georgia with a
two hours' speech on Tuesday. Perhaps ho
will now place a more kindly construction
on Judge Cobb's condition of exhaustion in
the House than he has done heretofore.
From Hill's remarks about failing to find
Cleveland at Buzzard's Bay, it maybe as
sumed that G rover and David are indulging
in a game of hide and seek.
Jcdoino from the expensive experiences
related by visitors to the Democratic Con
vention at Chicago, anyone who can suc
ceed in obtaining souvenir hair dollars In
that city for a payment of only twice its
face value may be congratulated on having
secured a cheap bargain.
It is very evident that the State Weather
Service is inclined to take time by the fore
lock, as it is already offering to furnish flags
for frost warnings.
Ailai Stevenson is beginning to un
derstand why the glorious possibilities of
American citizenship make it necessary for
a man to live and walk circumspectly from
his youth up on the chance ot becoming a
campaign issue.
Georgia Democrats show that they are
trying to forget the divisions of the war by
selecting a Northern nominee for the
Governorship.
Again those street signs are promised in
black and white, but the public has grown
aweary of disappointment, and will not ex
pect the long-delayed boon until it has it
actually before it in working order.
Safemakers are putting their trust in
combinations now, and outsiders may find
it a bard matter to break in.
Ex-Senator Blair should feel better
now Cliina has recalled irs own Minister
from Washington in order to replace him
by somebody whom the Emperor or his ad
visers like better.
Latest accounts from Alabama indicate
that Kolb is one of those men who will never
own themselves beaten.
A tire coMPANT-on Wisconsin refused
to turnont for a $20,000 file because it was
raining bard. The independence displayed
is only surpassed by the wonderful trust in
Providence.
Sullivan having gotten down to fight
ing weight, the campaign may proceed with
out further delay. x
England had better hurry up with
home rule or It will find itself governed by
Ireland again, as the representatives of the
Emerald Isle hold the balance of power
once more.
That Cooley gang onght to seize the op
portunity and take ajourney to join Garza's
insurgents.
It was appropriate that Lamplighter
should win the Champion stakes at Mon
mouth Park just when the shortening of
daylight was becoming noticeable.
And ever beneath the summer son the
heat of the flagstones grew.
Those South American Republics seem
to, feel It incumbent on them to keep
the political pot boiling between them, and
it is Bolivia's turn now.
MASCOTS EN MASSE.
Senator Colquitt will be removed to
day to the mountains in Georgia, having
sufficiently recovered.
It is rumored that Mme. Fursch-Madi is
about to bo married to the Baron Leon de
Vey, an accomplished violinist and a scion
of a distinguished house.
Henry M. Stanley has. become quite
soured at the fun which has been poked at
him by American papers, and -protests that
he will never visit this country again.
SECRETARY OP THE INTERIOR NOBLE
and party arrived at Ashland yesterday
morning lor a few day's outing. They will
spend several days at Camp Cedar, near
Brule, fishing.
Miss Mart E. Wilkins is another of
New England's "little women" who, like
Louisa M. Alcott, have straggled for fame
and attained it. She is only five feet
tall and very slender.
Here ton Bismarck, brother of Prince
Bismarck, whom the ex-Chancellor is now
visiting. Is about 79 years old. Despite the
exalted rank of the unifier of Germany, his
brother belongs to the lowest grade of
nobility.
Owen Chase, a Maine hunter, knows
tho forests of the Ptne Tree State by heart,
having hunted and worked in them for
nearly 60 years. He.has killed 222 bears dur
lnsr that rjarlod. and entertAlna v Htt-t
respect for.brutn's courage. .
ACROSS .THE CONTINENT.
"Those shoes will not shed the snow
water," remarked the mining engineer, as he
glanced down on my city-made footwear
early on the morning of the day set for the
final examination of the location far above
the camp. "But I'll fix you out. Bore, BUI,
get a couple of gnnny sacks, cut them into
square widths and tie them on tlie tender
foot's feet." The coarse bass were ripped,
and, after adjusting stout leggtns that
reached above the knees, the squared pieces
were folded diagonally and then roped
securely to the feet and ankles. This
footwear looked nngainly and cumbrous,
but it kept me from sinking knee-deep and
averted a bad case of chilblain. Then
masks blue, white, green' and yellow, the
same as worn nt Yellow Dog socials were
passed around. The stock of blue-glass
spectacles ran short, but the -expert was
equal to the emergency., "Get some burnt,
cork, Bill," Mid he. This minstrel necessity
was carefully laid on above and under the
eyelashes, care being used not to put any on
them. "That's as good as glasses," said onr
manager. "Whenever yon are short of specs
and need something to keep glare of sun
from blinding on snow or water just draw
burnt cork circles under the eyes. It will
work like a charm." And it did.
Thus harnessed for the expedition we
began onr climb. The expert set his
barometer and led tho way. Flower
carpeted mounds, from which tho hot sun
had melted the snow, were soon left below,
and wecommenced a gradual ascent on tho
white foot-trackod slope. Part of the trail
took us across tho lower edge of a living
glacier one of the few remaining in Uncle
Sam's original domain. It had snowed
lightly the night before on the trackless ex
panse of ice, and crossing and rectosslng
our trail well-defined bear tracks led np to
lairs in the lastnesses of the granite hills,
far across and high above the bine
creviced frozen formation. We hugged tho
deep snow on the edge of this
dnngerouB and deceptive ice plain and
began to lag. On the bouIder-buUt moraine
the tired, breathless ones lay down. From a
steely sky tbe sun, like a ball of fire, sent
down direct and scorching rays. Back from
the snow came a" refraction that burned
while it blinded. The air was cool, but in
that sunlight small streams were born on
the exposed slopes of the uplifts and sent
down to Join the swelling river that ran
under the blue depths to dash over the
mountain side thousands of feet below.
Leaving the crest of the moraine we
again entered the limb-tiring, softening
white pathway for a final pull to the ga
lena-veined peaks. They did not appear to
be very far away. But the distance was de
ceptive, and time and again we spread gum
coats on the steep stretch, -dug heels into its
yielding bosom, and thns secured for a slldo
that might land us in a soft valley tar
below, fairly gasped for breath. Above ns
plgmy-ltko people came in and out of the
sides of the bleak walls tnat shot straight
skyward. We shouted and their voices
came down to us, mingled with laugh and
jest at onr slow progress. But wo finally got
there. And what a sight rewarded ns. The
lower opening of the location, which
wna very close to the edge of tho glacier,
was bolow the snow. To expose it the
miners had run a tunnel 40 feet long nndcr
and into the deep white bank that chilled
the base of the mountain. In its arched ice
coated roof and sides the dripping waters
from above had carved enrions caverns and
woven strange designs. There were
chambers, tiny rivulets nnd waterfalls,
stalagmites and stalactites of purest ice a
veritable miniature Mammoth Cave, cool,
clear, entrancing.. There we drank of water
that had never touched soil or stone cold,
uncontaminated.
1
Near a tunnel 175 feet above the drillers
were putting a hole in a huge pinch of solid
silver-bearing galena. Whon the blast was
leadyfortbe match we slid down behind a
rocky wall and there heard the muffled
boom and watched the glistening chunks fly
through and over the snow, all with agoodly
portion of their weight in gold. Then the
expert and his man went to work. Alone
they traversed and toot1 samples from the
leads laid bare by pick; bd drill In the big
bores on whose roofs'and floors the pay
streak was well defined. Clear across the
mineralized material between the two
porphyry walls samples weie secured. Not
one of the Interested owners of the claim
were permitted to catch a peep of tho places
selected. Only four hands handled tho ore
and only two persons knew where It came
from. Much time was thus spent and
more was consumed in tape-Mine meas
urements and geological study. Then
the two workers sought a ledge and
for several hours pounded the pieces into
small fragments- Each pile was quartered
and pounded finer, quartered again and
further pulverized, and carefully put up in
clean, strong little sacks which were sealed
and guarded. This continued until over a
dozen samples a fair average of the claim
so lar as exposed were bagged. No one but
the engineer and his assistant touched even
a tiny piece of the ore. An attempt made at
the beginning brought forth such an em
phatic protest that further offers of assist
ance were not tendered. The pieclous little
bags were then tenderly cared for by those
who filled them.
The ore lead could be traced from the
snow line to tbe peak of the location, a dist
ance of 1,500 feet, where it was lost In the
white covering on the very top of the range.
Along this we crawled and sampled. Cling
ing with hands to the crevices on the granite
lace of the side wall, with toes barely find
ing a leverage on tiny ledges, we got to
where we conld throw our arms around a
steeple-shaped pinnacle and rest, and adt
mire. We seemed to be in the center of a
vast amphitheater of snow and ice. Its base
was fringed with giant forest lost in deep
green valleys. The bright sun fantastically
colored the bleak mountains whoso t snow
spotted walls and white heads bouiided the
eyo sweep. Far as vision could travel range
upon range appeared. Above all towered
two huge humps of everlasting snow
mountains whoso crowns are spotless, whose
brows are never bared to the sunshine.
There we clung in speechless bewilderment,
listening to the thunder-making snow-slips,
mentally measuring the distances sitting
for natnre to place -a photograph on the
mind that memory will ever retain.
The beauty of the scene had long before
led us to cast off the masks and secure unobstructed-views.
When we-turned our faces
downward they wore smarting and swelling.
But the-pain was paralyzed by the pleasuio
of that slide, and roll campward. Down tho
steep declivities we ran and tumbled, tiled
but playful under the mesmeric spell
worked by scene and snow. Fiom the
moraines we rolled big and little boulders,
and gleetully watched them dance and
speed out . of sight over the fur
rows made by the winds. On sun
warmed flower-docked mounds wo
rested and saw the source of a roaring river
guarded by the ragged blue ends of a gor
gcousglacier. Soon tho blue smoke of a camp
fire twisting against bluer sky came to view,
and the pace was quickened. Under tlie
tent that night the expert's man sewed with
stout cord in canvas cover the precious bags
of samples. On them ho pillowed his head
and slept in peaceful, undisturbed repose.
George A Madden.
One Campaign Liar .Less.
Cleveland Leader.
It Is early In the campaign, but the Demo
cratic tin plate liar already seems to have
been knocked too groggy to talk. '
Almost Worse Than Nothing.
New York Becorder.l
What has the big Democratic majority in
Congress accomplished? Nothing, but it
has succeeded thoroughly in disgusting the
country. '
Left In the Cold.
New York Recorder.
"Where am I at?" One thing Is certain, Mr.
Cleveland, you will not.be at the door of the
White House March 1, 1893.
No Boom ibr.Berkmans.
Bftltlmore American, t
There ATA nrnftftYilv Tin Amavntifafra In Mi
flery planet, for Martial law always reigns
mere.
1
THE KNIGHTS IN DEHVEB.
A Day Devoted Mora to Pleasure Than
to
Dry Basinet.
. Vzxvxb, Aug. 10. The Knights were view
ing Denver and its suburbs to-day that is,
those who were not attending at the Grand
Encampment or wno were not engaged in
looking after the comforts of guests in vari
ous clnbs and headquarters. Tbe weather
was delightful. Courtesies were exchanged
between different clubs in the form of visits.
Bands marched to and fro all day, and there
was good cheer everywhere.
The principal event of the day, ontside the
meeting of the Grand Encampment, was the
exhibition drill in Elver Front Park. It is
estimated at least 5,000 spectators witnessed
it.and although only two commanderies had
entered everybody was well satisfied.
Grand Master Gobin had forbidden a com
petitive drill, and many companies which
had entered declined to take part in the ex
hibition drill. St Bernard's, of Chicago,
and California No. 1, the only two com
manderies which entered, will receive hand
some presents from the Denver Chamber of
Commerce. They will probably be the sli
ver bricks which were Intended for prizes
in the competitive drill.
It was stated .there is only one Indian
Knight attending the conclave. This is a
mistake, nccardlng to Sir Robert W. Hill,
Eminent Commander of Muskegon, the only
eommandory in the Indian Territory. lie
says lie has six Indians in his commandery,
representing respectively the Cnoctaw, the
Cberokee and tbe Creek tribes. All of them
are leading chiefs in the Indian Nation. Mr.
Hill says there are S6 lodges la tho Indian
Territory.
The Grand Secretaries of North America
this morning has a short meeting and ap
pointed Meyer, of Pennsvlvanla: Mason, of
Canada; Miller, of Maryland; Brown, of
Kansas, and Bowen, of Nebraska, a Com
mittee on Rules with Instructions to report
at another session to be held.
To-night's bicycle parade was a grand
affair. There were nearly 1,000 wheelmen in
line, and tbey made a uniqne spectacle ns
they rode along with their many colored
lanterns and other decorations. The line of
march was on tbe asphalted streets in the
business section of the city. To-morrow the
Knights will be treated to a parade and ex
hibition by the Denver Fire Department.
Tne routine business of the Grand En
campment was polished off expeditiously at
to-day's eossion. Reports from each of tbe
grand officers of the different States and
Territories under the jurisdiction of the en
campment were presented and adopted.
They showed the Knights Templar of
America to be in excellent shape, both nn
meilcally and otherwise. The total num
ber of members of grand and subordinate
commanderies is 92,791, while the net cash
resources in the hands of the Grand Treas
urer amounts to 23.325 97.
Committees were appointed on credentials,
doings of grand officers, finance, un
finished business, grievances, next place
of meeting and dispensations and new
charters.
The report of the special Committee on
Ritnals ot the Bed Cross and tbe Templar
Orders, occupied the attention of the en
campment the greater part of the day. The
committee has been working for three years
on this report. It was adopted unanimously.
Of course the proceedings were secret to out
siders, but the information was given out to
the press officially.
A HOUSE DIVIDED AGAINST ITSELF.
Ohio Democrats Not to Have Mnch Back
ing by Their State Committee.
Columbus, Aug. 10. ISpeciaL The devel
opments at the meeting of the Democratic
State Kxecutlve Committee to-day empha
sizes in an unmistakable manner that the
organization was constituted and is being
perfected with a view to doing what it can
to compass the defeat of Grover Cleveland.
Little business of consequence was trans
acted and nothing said which had the ap
pearance of an effort on the part of tho or
ganization to aid the State or national
ticket. The anti-Cleveland element in the
committee was strengthened by the formal
announcement of Chairman Farley's pri
vate secretary as Secretary of the commit
tee and Captain G. H. Bargar for Treasurer.
Captain Bargar is well known as being hos
tile to Cleveland, and Mr. Hyneman, the
Secretary, will be truo to bis relations.
There was a proposition soon after tbe
convening of the committee to relegate to
the rear nearly all the members and. place
the management in the hands obfour or five,
to consist of the chairman, secretary, treas
urer, vice chairman, and possibly one more.
The result of this effort to get a corner &n
the influence was a resolution adopted tnat
the committee- sbonld from now on bold
meetings every two weeks until the flrst'of
October, and after that meetings are to be
held every week, so the committee, as such,
will have the glory of doing whatever is
done either for or against tho ticket. As an
evidence of the intentions of a majority of
the committee it can be stated that John A
Sarber, who has been the faithful treasurer
of the State Committee for many years, was
thrown overboard for the simple reason
that ho was a Cleveland man. It is stated,
however, that Mr. Sarber prefers to not be
identified with the committee nndcr the
circumstances. It was decided to open the
campaign about September 20 at Woodsdale,
Butler connty. A committee to have charge
of this meeting was appointed, also a com
mittee of finance. Chairman Farley was
not present at tho meeting, and will not re
turn Horn his outing in Canada till some
time In September.
BOLIVIA'S LITTLE BEVOUJTION.
A Bad State of Affairs In the Warlike
Politics of That Republic
La Paz, Bolivia, Aug. 10. A revolution
was started yesterday at Sucre, and troops
were at once sent from La Paz to suppress
it. A general uprising is feared all over the
country. The Liberal party openly avows
its Intention to oppose President-elect Bap
tista at all odds.
It is hard to get at the exact condition of
affairs awing to the embargo on the tele
graph lines. Arms are said to he going into
Bolivian oonntry from Pern. The Indians
are receiving flrearm3 through the Argen
tine republic, and it is said that General
Camacho will get back into the country via
Molllndo and put himself at the head of the
Liberals and wage war against the clericals
headed by President Baptista.
MUSIC AHD MICE08C0PES
To Be Among the Prominent Features at
the World's Fair.
New York, Aug. 10. Prof. Florence Zieg
feld, of Chicago, arrived from Europe this
afternoon on tho Spree. Acting as Commis
sioner in tho interest of an International
Musical Congress at the World's Fair, he has
secured the attendance of many of the best
musicians of France, Germany, Italy, Eng
land and other Europeau nations. His mis
sion has been eminently successful.
A dlsiatch fiom Rochester, N. T.. says:
The American Microscopical Society began
its fifteenth annual convention here to-day.
The World's Fair Committee commended
the calling of a Microscopical Congress in
connection with the Exposition, and also
tbe making of a suitable exhibition at Chi
cago. The matter was left in the bands of
the committee.
DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE.
T. L. CLAT, who was notedt in England as a
writer of songs, pantomimes, etc.. Is dead at an
advanced age.
JonxLANEv a prosperous farmer living near
MUIersburg. O., was overcome by tbe heat yester
day and died In a few mlantes.
Louis Vkrone, the ventriloquist and sleight-of-hand
performer.'died recentlr In an English ho
gltal. lie was once famous for his cleverness, and
ad traveled over the world.
Dn. Thomas J. Livers, of Tlffln. died of
Brlght's disease yesterday, aged 56. He was a
leading Republican, and served SO years continu
ously to his death as a pension medical examiner.
George A. Leach, manager of the Interna
tional Telegram Company, died at his home In
New Tork CUT yesterday of Brlght's disease. He
as about W rears or age. Mr. Leach had been
promlnentlv Identified with varioui news associa
tions for the past 30 years.
Antoxio Quaqliexi, the Italian circus director
and bareback rider. Is dead at his residence in
Brescia, Italy. Forty years ago he toured France
wlth a big circus of his own. In 183) he went to
.England, and In 1862 he bail a circus In Wales. In
I8TU he retired and went back to Italy a rich man.
Joint B. Wkstexdobf, an ex-actor and circus
manager, is dead at his home In urland. Me. He
had traveled many years with the Barnum show
and was a war veteran and a Mason. Some years
ago he managed a theater in Bridgeport, Conn.
He nas a brother of Thomas P. Westeudorf. the
song writer-
Farther Away Than Man.
St. Louis Glote-Deniocrat.
Even with the help of a Lick telescope
Cleveland will never be able to get a glimpse
of tbe White House again.
Stevenson Ought to Be Careful.
Chicago Tribune.
When 'Squire Stevenson points with pride
he should be careful which way he points
and whioh hand he use.
UNDER A FAN'S SHADOW
Society's Moll Goes on With tho Ther
" mometer Telling Ninety-Two Degrees
in the Shade The World a-Uarrylng
and Pleasuring as of Old.
Miss Bailie Keenan, daughter of Thomas
J. Keenan, Sr., Esq., of Superior Station, is
projecting a three months' residence in
Paris this autumn for tho study of miniature
painting at either the Jullen Academy or
others of the famous French art schools.
As a pupU at the School of Design for
Women, Miss Keenan already has achieved
a pronounced success and "particularly
of the painting, the study of which she will
prosecute abroad, has commendation been
excessively ardent. She is gold medallist of
the same school. Miss Ida Smith, a fellow
aspirant for wider artisWc recognition, and
well known as a member of the Art Stu
dents' League in town, as well as a former
student at tho School of Design, wlU be Miss
Keenan's companion, and both young
'ladles will be the guests of Miss Smith's
relatives in Paris. Mr. and Mrs. Herd in
tend to accompany them across the ocean
when they sail, which will be some time, in
September. The return trip will probably
be made by way of England; but going over
tbey will make directly for a French port.
Four young hostesses, Miss Margaret Tay
lor, Miss Marlon Rae, Miss Bessie Holyland
and Miss Alice Thomas, gave a very pleas
ant watermelon parry on the shore of De
wittevllle Bay last Monday evening.
The head prize tor guessing the number of
seeds was awarded, to Mr. Will Hadley, of
Allegheny, and the booby prize to Miss Cora
Shallenberger, also of Allegheny.
Among the guests were Miss Jessie Keyt,
Miss Jennie Dnncan, Miss Jane Cartwrlgnt,
Miss Mabel Barnes, Miss Mamie Smith, Miss
iu A,yon8, Messrs. win snore, Anarew jun
ior, A. B. Montgomery, 8. F. West, Harry
Crider, B. Taylor, Harry Cartwright, Smith
and David McCntcheon.
A young Pittsburg girl, Miss Emma
Griffith, daughter of Mr. W. G. Griffith, of
Allegheny, has had tho compliment of an
Invitation to sing next Sunday in one of tho
Methodist churches, and also at the morn
ing bervlce in the Presbyterian Church at
New Castle. The young lady has a very
pleasing soprano voice, which she manages
with a good deal of taste and feeling. She
Is now in New Castle visiting her grand
parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Griffith, di
viding her time between them and the
family of Dr. C. H. Lee.
1
Miss McKown is chapero ning her young
niece and nephew, Miss Flora Snyder, and
her brother. Mr. Henry Snyder and a party
or menus at cook House, Glenville, on Lake
Erie. The young people lelt yesterday and
will not return for three weeks. As well as
the Snyders, there is in Miss McKown's
party. Mr. Harry Farren, Miss Delia Parle,
and Mr. Johnston, and Miss Burns, of
Cleveland.
To whom does the moral apply? Tester
day a man as he passed a couple of fashion
ably dressed women on Fifth avenue, men
tally commented on the peculiar odor of
something burning, and almost instantane
ously saw a young iellow dash forward and
seize her smoking tniin. Some creature in
different to the lives about him had thrown
away his cigar so carelessly that it had
lougeu in me joius 01 me lauys areas as she
passed. Had it not been for the keen-eyed
young man, equally quick to aor, there
might have beeh a greater fatality than a
ruined gown, and something more than caie
lessLess laid-to the door of that smoker,
whoever he is.
A marriage has been arranged between
Miss Nellie Dauler, daughter or Mrs. Eliza
beth Dauler, widow of the senior member of
the firm of Messrs. Dauler, Close & Johns,
and Elliott Rodgers, Esq., of Pittsburg. The
date of the wedding is mentioned as an
early time in September.
Social Chat.
Mb. Max K. Becker, of Ellsworth avenue,
left on Tuesday night for the West.
Mr. and Mrs. B. M. Boles, and Mr. and Mrs.
N. X Dravo, are at the springs, Mt. Clemens,
Mich.
Mas. Tuxait, of Westminster place, will
spend August and part of September at
Cresson Springs.
Os Friday Mr. and Mrs. McElroy, of Lang
avenue, and Miss Edith Ramsey, of Shady
Lane, will join the sojourners at an Eastern
watering place.
Dr. J. S. Walters, of Penn avenue. East
End, and' Mr. John Leggett, of Walnut
street, wUl sail on Saturday via steamer
Etruria for the continent.
Mb. akd Mrs. Alexander Murdoch, corner
Forbes and Boquet streets, will leave this
morning tor .Niagara FjIIs. making a short
visit theie, en route to Buzzard, -where they
wUl be for the remainder of the summer.
Mr. Charles E. Locke, city editor of the
Press, who has been summering at Atlantic
City with Mrs. Locke and their family,
returned home yesterday. Mr. Locke has
several very charming young daughters;
who become favorites wherever they go.
The Rev. Richard Holmes, D. D and Mrs.
Holmes, Miss Bees and Miss Aiken are in
England, where they will be joined soon by
Judge Reed's party, which lauded on Tues
day at Queenstown, Ireland. Friends in
town were apprized of the fact by cable yes-
tcruay.
The dreadful shock and ensuing sad loss
which came to the Young family a few days
ago will for the time being break up an in
teresting family circle, as Mr. Young Intends
to take Ills wile abroad in the hope that now
interests will induce a reaction against her
overwhelming grief. They will sail on Sat
urday. A number of Southslde people will be
entertained by Calvary Church Sunday
school to-day at Schenley Park. Tnese
pleasant picnics are at the expense of the
church, but under the dlrectio'n directly of
iub society jor me improvement 01 tne
Poor, whose beneficiaries are the guests
always.
A seasonable entertaipment containing
musical and liteary features has been ar
ranged by the Epworth League of Buena
Vista Street M. E. Church Sunday school, to
be given on Friday evening. Among the
performers chosen are Miss Hague and Miss
Jennie McKelvey, who will afford pleasure
by reading and singing, respectively.
A partt of Plttsburgers, Dr. French and
family, Mr. and Mrs. McCreery and Miss
Maud McCreery, Mr. and Mrs. William
Laird and family, Mr. and Mrs. Durbin.
Mrs. Bobbins, Mr. W. G. Griffith, Jr., Mr.
Bennie, Mr. W. M. Pollock, the Misses Shal
lenberger, Mr. and Mrs. McCarthy and Mr.
nnd Mrs. Lashelle, are gone to Burt Lake,
Mich.
FROM THE THRONE.
Tbe Queen's speech was a very dismal af
fair. As a spellbinderess Victoria is ala
mentablo failure. Washington .Pojf.
The Queen's speech to the present Parlia
ment is tbe shortest thing of the kind on rec
ord, which implies that Gladstone's victory
has already produced one reform. St. Lends
Oldbe Democrat.
Ts her speech to Parliament Queen Vic
toria has beaten tbe record for bievlty. Her
private comment as to the result of the elec
tions would doubtless be far more interest
ing as well as more prolix. Votumlus Vis
pqtch. The speech from tbe throne on the open
ing of Parliament was boiled down to a
nicety that tickled tho night editors of this
country. Anything her Majesty says hence
forth will go at the head of the column.
Chtcago Tribune.
The Queen's speech opening Parliament is
one of tho shortest on record. Perhaps she
felt that, though the English language is
hers, it is not extensive enough to do full
justice to all she would like to say on this
occasion. Baltimore A meriean.
Queen Victoria's speech at the opening of
Parliament is practically an Invitation to
adjourn. There is not much in the speech to
object to, but before the end of the week it
is pretty snre that thero will bo a vote of "no
confidence." Philadelphia Ledger.
Victoria tells Parliament tbat no immedi
ate work can be expected of the members so
soon after the fatigues of the general elec
tion. Victoria knows that the election made
her tlied, and she thinks that Parliament
must feel the same way. Boston Globe.
The Liberal members of tbe Houe of Com
mons so far forgot their loyalty to Her Most
Gracious Majesty as to groan when they
llstened'to what she had to say. The message
was really an insult to a largo and intelligent
body of English representative members of
Parliament. Xew York Recorder.
The Qaeen's speech Is the briefest deliver
ance from the throne ever read In Parlia
ment. It formally insinuates that Parlia
ment has not met for the transaction of busi
ness. The message reveals the pique of a
disappointed woman and the intolerance of
a rock-ribbed Tory. .Kama City 9tar.
CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS.
Mohammed began the Koran at 35.
Of "Waterloo veterans Prance has eight
left.
Fewer suicides occur in Ireland than in
any other country.
A Maryland widow set a bear trap and
caught a young man.
A petrified log cabin has been un
earthed at Waveland , lnd.
"Wars during the last 33 years have cost
2,500,000 men and $3,000,000,000.
One-eighth of New Yort City is owned
by 117 individuals and estates.
They have shot a leopard in Bengal
credited with destroying 151 persons.
An adult laboring man uses up about
five ounce of his muscle every day.
A Kansas farmer recently sold his farm
-for the unique price of 100,000 cigars.
Twenty-seven ot the States and Terri
tories have compulsory education laws.
More divorces are granted in the United
State than in all tbe rest of the Christian
world.
Live fish have recently safely been sent
in tbe mails from India to the British
Museum.
In the year ending June 30, 1890, the
railroads of 'this country carried 192,430,000
passengers.
Dryden wrote "Heroic Stanzas on the
Death of Oliver Cromwell" at 27: thefamoui
'Tables" at C9.
The fastest time in which a train has
boen known to travel a mile is 49 seconds
and a fraction.
At the age of 41 Milton issued the
"Paradise Lost," which had been in prepara
tion for 20 years.
"London Assurance," the first play of
Dion Boucicanlt, was put on the stage when
the author was 19.
The maximum speed of the fastest pas
senger elevators which have over been made
Is 1,500 feet per minnte.
An indignant Justice ot the Peace in
Barry, in., fined a poor marksman $6 for
firing six shots at bis wife.
It is slated that 40,000,000 of Qneen
Victoria's snbjects in India never know
what it is to get enough to eat.
On the icy peaks of the Himalayas, in
India, there is a "snow maggot," weighing
nearly a pound, and excellent to eat.
The Viceroy at Canton reports the exe
cution of 109 criminals within the last vear
charged with piracy on the Canton coast.
A French artist has succeeded in pho
tographing a flying insect. The time of ex
posure was but one-twentv-five hundredth
of a second.
One man in "Wicomico connty, Md., on
tbe eastern shore, shipped this season nearly
22,000 quarts of huckleberries in a single
week, and a near neighbor of his shipped
nearly as many.
A Cincinnatian has a pair of 2-months-old
fox terriers which are curiosities. While
their heads, bodies and hind legs are all per
fectly formed, neither of tho puppies has
any sign of forelegs.
Among some young salmon fry hatched
in the hatchery on tbe Elver Deveron there
were found two fishes joined together at the)
back fin, from which there is only one body
to tbe tail. Both heads are perfect.
When seeds are at their best and the
conditions for germination good itis surpris
ing how long a way a little weight will go.
As many as 5,000 plants havo been obtained
from a single ounce of onion seed.
Women mostly commit suicide by
drowning, and men by shooting. Suicide is
less common among miners than an 7 other
class of people: and self-destruction Is said
to be most prevalent among soldiers.
What is called th'e "vezetable boa con
strictor" a species of climber which, it is
said by romancers, twines about great trees
so tightly as to strangle them to death, is
claimed to have been discovered in India.
The English of our day is considered by
a high authority' almost perfect, alike for
the purpose of the orator, tbe nhilosonher.
tbe lecturer and the poet. The purest En
glish Is said to be spoken in Lincolnshire.
King Malietoa, of Samoa, is not paid
his salary ($25 a week) with regularity
enough to keep him in easy financial con
dition, so he has been having his wives do
washing for the well-to-do white residents of
Apia.
The branch observatory which Harvard
instituted at AreqnlDa, Pern, is 8,000 feet
above the sea. The glass is a thirteen-inch
one. Naturalfadvantages at this place
are good for some valuable observations of
Mars.
There are seven brothers and sisters in
New London, Conn., whose combined ages
are 512 years. Their family name is Corn
stock, and their Christian names are Emily.
Orlando, Cordelia, John, Frank, Ezra and
Stephen.
The 15-inch aerial torpedo thrower, now
introdnced ns a British service weapon for
coast defense, resembles In appearance a
powder gun, having the axis of its trunnions
at or near the center of gravity of
the barrel.
An Albino lobster, a rare and remark
able specimen, was recently found In a
cargo or lobsters from Now Brunswick. It
was bluish white in color, and has been sent
to Washington to the United States Fish
Commission.
Three young Frenchmen are soliciting
funds in New Tork in behalf of a Socialise
colony to be founded in Paraguay. South
America, winch is said to be self-supporting
when established, as "all the members will
be required to work."
A memberlof the City Council of Paris
has Introduced a proposition to have les
sons of history and biography impressed on
the public mind by having them printed on
tho enameled s'gns at the corners, which
now merely give tbe names of the streets.
An immense bald eagle, properly
stuffed and spread, will be suspended oyer
tbe main stairway of the Delaware building
at the Chicago show. The bird was shot not
long since about two miles from the eastern
terminus of the Chesapeake and Delaware
Canal.
In Maine a physician made gestures
when giving a nurse directions for a pa
tient, and his horse, noticing tbem from the
street, made straight for the window, think
ing himself called to share in tbe consulta
tion. He broke several pane3 of glass be
fore he could be controlled.
. ASTEROIDS IN AUGUST.
Prof. Potterby Whence do we derive th
word "helpmate," Miss Edith?
Mijs Edith-From the fact that If she didn't help
him to propose tbey often wouldn't mate. I guess.
Indianapolis Journal.
If there's a game he plays above
All others. It Is tennis;
Tet In the other game of love
He finds hit name Is Dennis.
Sew Tork Evening Stm.
"What do yon call that deal for 90-cent
hosef" asked old Mr. Taxpayer of tne city, of
ficial. Why, a 'contract,' of course," was the reply.
"A contract!" growled the old gentleman.
"Well, it strikes me more like an expansion.''
Baltimore Sews.
THE SCXXER GIRL.
We thought as we saw her tripping down
The street la her cape of fur.
And sealskin cap and heavy gown.
There was nothing could equal her.
But we saw her In a fluffy dress.
All white and of texture Ught, T
A vision of radiant loveliness.
At the beach on a summer night.
And we said to ourself, as we looked at her
In the waltz's giddy whirl.
Away with your capes and your muffs of fort
She's best as the summer girl.
Sea TortPress.
pjtng Do yon want to know how to aav
pr
Slug You bet I do.
Plug Lend me ten and I'll give half or it-back
to you in five minutes. Detroit Free Press,
Lost influence returns no more;
The thought his soul must blister;
The man who called him "Judge" of yore,
Kefers to him as "mister."
Washington Star.
"Do you' think your father would ever
forgive us l( we married without his consent?"
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ill, mamma be hanged if the old man "
Harold: poor nana basn't a penny
n-lt's all Is mamma's namel" CMeasw
would."
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