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Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-04-24
BREAKFAST BREVITIES.

Cabinets 81, Wykes' 35 Monroe-st.
Fresh tafiss at Morse's, saturday, Is
cents per pound.
''Snide Preachers see SUNDAYS
IELEGRAA-HERALD
The thirteen real estate conveyances
reported yesterday for registration
amounted 10 SIT ,0l0.
The Eroropthian Society gave pleas
ant entertainment AZ West Michigan
University last evening.
Gertrude Gaiety roasts the "Impu-
dent Women" IN her sunday special Tor
the TELEGRAa-HERALD.
Mrs. DR.. worden will deliver a free
lecture to women at No Park Place
this afternoon AZ 3 O'Clock.
The supervisors will hold a special
session next Monday 20 take action
upon the county building contract.
Charles A. Westoyer played ball on
the sland. and when he wenuto put on
his coat and vest, his silver watch had
disappeared.
The Silent Sixteen Club give their last
hop OF the season tais evening, AT SIM
mons Hall. northeast corner OF south
DIvlslon-st. and Flfth-aye.
The new Enterprise Lodge of Odd
Fellows held It's FIRST meeting N the hall
in the Tower block. Saturday evening.
iheir new hall on the West side is not
yet completed.
Mrs. George III. Oliver. of COS Madi-
son-ave. lost her watch while at the
funeral of Congressman Ford. The
police are on the lookout for tall col
ored man with an awning over one eye.
Thomas Crane, bookkeeper for the
past two years at the Owashtanong
Club, has resigned to take position as
bookkeeper with Murray 4 Sammons,
furniture commission dealers At %
lonla-st.
The active members Of the st. Cecilia
Society wall hold special session this
afternoon at the Ladies' Literary Club
House, 10 vote on the proposed amend
ments. The student members Will fur
nish the musical program.
Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-04-24

New jackets and wraps received every
day this week at T.. P.ikidder q Co. =.
Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-04-24
c,gars os cent. boz at Morse's.
WIN wiaa Up

Cooper has tie naesl lce cream soda,
corner Canal aud Brldge-sts
Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-04-24
Draving To a Cioss.

Ice cream soda 1T Cooper's, corner
Canal and East Brlage-sts.
Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-04-24

The attest designs IN wraps arriving
every day this week ~ kiddcr Il Co.'S
Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-04-24
JAILBKEAKEK LOCKWOOD CAUGHT

The police authorizes at Detroit
wired the department here last evening
that a man was held IN custody there
answering 20 the description of Henry
Lockwood. Lockwood is one of the
three fellows who escaped from police
headquarters some time ago, and had
been arrested for burglary. Deputy
Sheriff Meehan left for Detroit last
evening to investigate the matter.
Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-04-24
Here Is u Guarantee That Means some
thing.

We guarantee that this paint when
properly used will not crack, flake or
chalk; that II will wear as long, II not
longer; will look - well, If not better,
than any other paint. We claim this
paint to be unexcelled by any other
paint III the market. We hereby agree
10 forfeit the value of the paint and the
COS, of applying it If it is not found as
represented. Signed.
BILLINGS, TAYLOR Il Co.
The above paints are for sale at
wholesale and retail by Valley City
Wall Paper and Paint Co., 81 West
Brldpe-st.
Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-04-24

Cigars 90 cents box at Morse's.
Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-04-24

Dot,entbaIer' for fresh fish.
Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-04-24
a Few Days More

and the special sale that has been in
progress at Nelson, Matter q Co.'s will
be thing OF the past. During its pro-
gress many excellent bargains have
been secured by wide-awake buyers.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-11
FREE TRADE FooLIsHNEss.

The fact that Cubans will get the ad-
vantage out of the Reciprocity Treaty of
being able to buy American -four, meats
and manufactures at much cheaper prices
Is worrying the New York World. That
remarkable journal repeats its indictment
Of the treaty to the effect that it will di-
minish the cost of living to the Cubans,
which it regards as unjust discrimination
against the people of the United States
The theory of international trade this
represents dwaTfs the most ambitious
efforts of Colonel Elliott F. Shepard That
the producers of the;stapies consumed by
this country should have new market
opened TO them by the removal or lower
ing of the barriers heretofore interposed
by the Spanish duties, and that this gain
should be in addition to the cheapening
Of the cost of sugar TO American consum-
ers, is a distinct grievance to the World.
Its idea of reciprocity and international
trade is evidently that no other nation
must be permitted any benefit from trade
to be opened with it by our country-un-
less it is done by Democratic administra-
ton.
The World used to have an editorial
policy that was directed with good deal
of intelligence, both as to political and
non-partiSan topics; but it has got bravely
over that
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-11
THEY ARE GOING TOO EAR.

There is ground for the fear that the
movement for dress reform begun at Chan.
tauqua is open to the charge of going too
far. A very radical suggestion is certainly
extended Dv the declaration of one of the
leading dress reformers that "the skirt, the
corset, the hustle, the garter, the collar
and the high-heeled shoe must CO." II
this platform is to be literally carried out,
it opens up dreadful possibilities, beside
which the troubles in regulating bathing
dresses at Asbury Park are mere baga-
telle.
But, Joking aside, there are serious rea-
sons for urging the dress rcformers not to try
TO make too radical changes in the dress of
women. The most obvious is the practical
one that it is better to undertake change
for which there is some chance of success
than to advocate radical departure which
is sure Of failure from the beginning.
There is every reason for desiring
a reform of some of the most extreme
evils of female dress. The health of
our wives and sisters cannot but have a
direct effect on the physique of the next
generation, and the vices of dress
which affect one will show their results in
years TO come.
Thepast has shown that the attempts to
discard skirts, and to clothe women in gar
mentS approximating the male kind, are
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-11
TERMS OF THE DISPATCH.
PITTsBURG, TUESDAY, AUGUST IL, 1871.
A SURPRISE FOR TKEESPoRT.

The discovery of the position of the
thriving little city Of McKeesport, with re-
gard TO county poor management, is funny
TO the rest of the county, but may not ap-
pear in that light to McKeesporters. Ac-
cording TO the law quoted in our local
columns that city has got TO wipe out all
its old connections with the County Poor
Farm and start de n0Uo.
Heretofore McKeesport has regarded it
self as a leading portion of the county in
the operation of that institution. At the
last convention the McKeesport delegates
participated in the nomination of di-
rector. and nominated a citizen for the
position. But the law of 1879 declares
that any city shall be regarded as outside
the county poor district McKeesport is a
very growing city, and the conclusion is
somewhat obvious.
1t thus appears that so far from nomi-
mating and electing directors of the County
Poor Farm our growing suburb is more
likely to be called upon to provide for its
own poor, and to take away the inmates it
has sent TO the County Home The late
ness of the discovery raises the question
why it was never made before.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-11
THE BRUSSELS TREATY.

An explanation of the failure Of the
United States Senate to ratify the Brus.
sells treaty for the suppression of the slave
trade in Africa, and the regulation of the
liquor traffic on the same continent is
made the subject of explanation by Sen-
ator Chandler in letter to the Congrega-
| tional Club of Chicago. The Senator
claims that he and his colleagues were not
opposed to the objects of the treaty
already named; but that a majority of
the Senators were opposed to the ratiica-
ton of a treaty which committed the
United States to an approval of the parti-
ton of the African continent by the Euro
pean powers which have seized territory
there.
The objection is a valid one If the
treaty required as an essential feature the
ratification of the seizure of territory re-
ferred to. But, even supposing it did so,
there would have been obvious wisdom in
a declaration by the United States Govern
ment that it was ready to- JONI hands in
mitigating the horrors of these twin evils
of barbarism and civilization, but that it
declined to indorse the territorial ag-
grandizement of the European powers.
Further, it is pertinent to draw the dis
tinctiOn between recognition and approval
The acquisition of territory in Africa is an
accomplished fact, and to recognize their
possessions as matter de facto is not
committing the United States to any ap-
proyal of the way in which the territory
was partitioned out. 1t is to be presumed
that the United States does not approve of
the form of government which obtains in
Russia or at Stamboul; but it recognizes
both governments. 1t is hardly possible
to accept the statement that the treaty
signed by sixteen other powers, called for
a worldwide ratification and Endorsement
of the English and German land-grabbing
in Africa, unless it is backed UP by the
plain language of the treaty itself.
1t is pleasant to know that the Senate
had better excuse for failing to ratify
this treaty than dlscreditable willingness
to serve the traffic in liquor to Africa
But it is not by any means clear that the
excuse is more than pretext
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-11
ON THE TOP ROUND.

EX-GOVERNOR RICHARD J.OGLEsBY, of
son in appearance.
"wHEN freedom from her mountain
height" looks down over Hunters Point, N.
Y, she sees renovnted monument to
Joseph Rodman Drake, the author of that
famous poem.
COLONEL HENRY INMAN is busy prepar-
ing manuscript for the history of the old
Santa Fe trail. The book will be published
in March, 1892, and will be graphic history
of the pioneer times of the great desert.
THE late Archbishop of York, DR.. Magee,
according to Canon Macdonnell, used to di-
vide speakers into three classes: The speak
er you cannot listen to, the speaker you can
listen TO, and the speaker you cannot help
listening to.
THE Deaconess' Home, to be established
In memory of Mrs. Lucy Hayes, the late
wife of Ex-President Hayes, will be located
in Washington. The purpose Of the institu-
ton is the proper training and education Of
deaconesses, and it is proposed to make 1t a
lasting credit to the Methodist denomina-
ton.
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH'S piano has
Just been put into condition by piano
maker at Gohlis. The instrument is now
the property of Herr Paul do Wit, of Leip-
sic into whose possession 1t came about 26
years ago. Before that 1t belonged to a
Count Boss, who purchased it ffom the CON-
poser's son, Friedman Bach.
THE death of Lord Peterborough recalls
the rumors current years ago of his attach
ment to the then unmarried Queen of Eng
land. She was said to return his affection,
and to be desirous of making him her escort.
.y-l.
for this, and he was sent to India, where he
was afterward made Governor General.
Mrs. ELMA STUART has been an in
valid for many years, during which time she
has had 3s different DOCTORS all Of whom had
different treatment for her disease. Strange
to say, Mrs Stuart lived through it all, and
has written a book on GLOW to Get Well and
Keep Well" Doctors and their pills are
mot in it." Her recipe is, in brief, to cat
rare beef and drink warm water.
Mrs. ANNIE MEYER, author of a recent
ly published book on the work of women in
the United States, is beautiful young wo-
man of a. with fair face from which her
dark brown hair is gracefully rolled back.
Mrs Never is sister of Emma Lazarus, tho
Hebrew poetess. an was the first woman to
take an examination at Columbia College,
She was also among the enterprising women
to whom Barnard College for Women owes
its existence.
BAYLEss w. HANNA, who died the other
day at Charlottesville, Ind, was probably
the most remarkable talker and story teller
the State ever produced. Two of his neigh
bors were discussing him one day, when an
old crony said: "Bayless is great individ-
uni" Don't speak of him in that way" said
a famous politician in q tone of mock reproof
"Bayless is not an individual; he's an insti-
tuition" Strange to record, the paralysis
that carried him off deprived the once great
talker of the power of speech for almost
year before the'end came.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-11
Obituary Notes.

JUDGE OGDEN HOFFMAN died early Sunday
morning at San Francisco, of paralysis of the
heart He had been Ill for a long time, Judge
Hoffman was a United States Judge for over 40
years longer than any other Federal Judge in the
country.
BISHOP JABEz P. CAMPBELL. of the African
Episcopal Church. died in Philadelphia Sunday
night in the 6sth year of his age. Bishop Camp
beii was ordained bishop in 1858 and for the past
four years has been the bishop of North Carolina,
Virginia and Maryland.
HoN. GEoRGE 7. MULLIN died to-day In his 6sth
year, at his home in Manns Choice, o. The de-
ceased has been leader in Republican politics for
the past 40 years. He was the party candidate for
sheriff on three different occasions and was de-
feafed each time by less than a dozen votes. He
elected Associate Judge, his term expiring last
January.
MRS LEILA ROBINSON SAwTELLE member of
the Massachusetts bar and authoress, died yester-
day morning at Amherst, N. H. Deceased was the
first woman in Massachusetts to be admitted to
practice as o lawyer. She graduated at the Boston
University Law school in 1881, and at first was
fused admission to the courts but the Legislature
promptly enacted law making women eligible.
She published Law Made Easy and.'. Law OF
Husband and Wife,: was ardent woman suf-
fragist and vigorous speaker and writer.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-11
PLAYFUL RATTLERS.
Stories of the Venomous Reptiles Which
Were in o Pleasant Mood.

were IN o tleaSant MOOD.
Forest and Stream.l
Perhaps the following notes are worthy Of
recording as instances that rattlesnakes do
not always bite. Both occurrences I can
vouch for:
About the first of this month three chill
dren, the oldest being years of age, near
Whitmore, in Shasta county, were found
under the house, which was raised some
what from the ground, having O fine time
They had been there within hearing of their
mother for about an hour, shouting and
laughing. Curious to know what enter
tanned them, the mother finally looked in to
find them playing with a rattlesnake. The
snake pleased them greatly by coiling and
sounding his string of rattles, l2 i'll number.
The children were taken away unframed
and the snake was killed.
At Pauls Mine, near this place, yester-
day youngster of years came down the
hill to the mine carrying rattlesnake
with five ratties in his hand. The boy had
carried the snake in view of the workmen
who could not determine what he had, for al
least 200 yards. The little fellow held the
snake somewhere near its middle, while both
extremities of the reptile dangled about
his bare feet and legs. The boy was told to
drop it, which he did reluctantly, and the
men killed it. The snake was three feet in
length, seemed active and in full possession
of its faculties.
Now, in the first instance noted here, the
snake may not have had sufficient aggrava-
tion to cause 1t to strike; but in the latter
instance this reason cannot be advanced.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-11
PEOPLE COMING AND GOING.

Patrick Barrett, the popular confectionel
| of the Fifth ward, ex-Councilman and pres
ent School Director Of the Hancock School
| Mt. Savage, Md. 1t Is 80 years since Mr.
Barrett visited the scenes OF his childhood
| and the longing to once again roam over the
| days. While there Mr. Barrett will be the
| guest of his sister, Mrs. Catherine Burns.
Patrick Murray and wife left yesterday
morning via the Baltimore and Ohio Rail
road road for 2aPn Proionged visit Throughout the
Philadelphia, New York and Atlantic City,
William Reynolds, yardmaster at the
Union depot, and Joseph Miller, of the
Adams Express Company, returned yester.
day from fishing trip up the Pittsburg and
Western road.
John III. Ricketson and Harry w. Oliver
returned from Cresson last evening. Mr..
hot it had been in the city during the day.
George Campbell and son Calvin left yes.
terday morning for the East. They will
visit New York, Saratoga and Atlantic City,
returning in about ten days.
Thomas S. Shields, Secretary of the AL
legheny Heating Company, returned home
yesterday from Worcester, where he took
his family to visit relatives.
w. j. Mcdonald, Assistant United States
Mcdonald, of Allegheny, left last night for a
trip to the Catawba Islands.
Miss Hamilton and Miss kirkpatrick, of
Allegheny, have gone East to spend their
vacations. They are clever tennis players.
Magistrate Succop, of the Southside, is
once more soaking offenders mt the old
stand. He enjoyed his visit to Detroit.
J. B. Barbour, Of Oil City, and H. P.
Gilmore and John Boyle, OF Uniontown, are
registered ut the Monongahela House.
W. B.. Updegraff, private secret tary to
George Westinghouse, returned from a
Western trip last evening.
]. " Ritts, Butler banker, and Curtis
johnson, of CORY, are among the guests at
the Seventh Avenue Hotel.
&c. Darley, of j. p. Witherow & Co.,
left for Roanoke last evening He says busi-
ness is dull in the South.
Father Woelfel, of st. Leo's Church,
Woods Run, is back from fishing trip to
Lake Superior.
H. H. Shinkle, of Du Bois, and W. e.
Deville. of Wheeling, are stopping at the
Schlosser.
G. III. Blackster and II. f. Wells, two
young electricians, went to Baltimore last
evening.
George b. Anderson, of the Central Ho-
tel, has returned from a two weeks stay at
Bedford.
George E. Moore, Of Jeanette, and E. o.
McNair and son, of Warsaw, are at the Du-
quesne.
Alfred Belts, machine manufacturer of
Wilmington, is registered at the Anderso on.
Miss Josephine Means and Miss Grace
Tindle, of Glenfield, are at Chautauqua.
Fred NJ. OFT and Thomas j. Bell, of Har-
risburg, are stopping at the Anderson.
Judge Slagle went East last evening to
put in the dog days at the seashore
A. NJ. Byers and A. H. Mercer have left
on an extended tour of the West.
James B. Oliver and wife came home
from the seashore yesterday.
Edward Patterson. of Allegheny, went to
Chicago yesterday.
Gilbert 7. Rafferty, returned from New
York yesterday.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-11
TREASURY RESERVES AND BALANCE.

| TREASURY RESERVES AND BALANCE.
Secretary Fosters recent statement,
showing net balance in the Treasury of
S155, 900, 900, is vigorously attacked by the
| Democratic papers. They assert instead
that when the funds required for reserve,
and not applicable for current payments,
are taken out there will be deficiency
rather than surplus in the Treasury.
There is modicum of foundation for both
views, and at the same time both asser-
| tiOnS are extreme. The idea of a deficiency
in Treasury known to be full to reple-
ton with coin appears absurd on its face.
| Yet, If the precedents established in some
cases are adhered to, the cash balance will
/ be very much smaller than the statement
represents. That balance has to be made
up by including the 500, 600, 600 reserve
for the legal tender notes; nearly $50, ,O00,-
900 of subsidiary currency which, though
not full legal tender, is an undeniable
cash asset; S25, ,0O0, ,OO0of balances with dis
bursting agents and national banks; leav-
ing SIC, ,OO0, 900 of balance But it is al
legged that this makes no provision for over
Sc, ,000, 900 due on the redemption of ma
tional bank notes, which assertion, if
correct, vitiates large share of the whole
balance.
The inconsistencies of Treasury book
keeping. largely forced upon it by law,
make the statements as to balance or sur
plus hardly worth discussing. The law re-
quires reserve of 100 per cent to be held
against the coin certificates, while usage
only has fixed 80 per cent reserve to be
held against the legal tenders. There is
justas much reason for protecting the legal
tenders as the coin certificates; yet the
hundreds of millions of the former cannot
be touched, while the 80 per cent reserve
of the latter is turned bodily into the
cash balance and treated as available
funds. But the treatment of the fund held
for the redemption of national bank notes
is more wantonly inconsistent This fund
was, more than any other in the Treasury,
trust fund. 1t did not belong to the
Treasury at all. 1t was furnished by the
national banks for payment to holders of
national bank notes. Yet this entire fund
has been turned into the cash balance of
the Treasury with no provision at all for
the redemption of those notes above other
payments of the Government.
If there was an intelligent treatment of
the reserves on the coin certificates there
is no question that the United States could
have balance available, not for current
payments, but for the purchase of bonds
to be held as share of that reserve, ex-
ceeding the amount shown in the Treas
ury statement. But under the incongrui-
ties of the present system the statement
has either to confess to a small reserve or
commit the remarkable inconsistency of
leaving the legal tenders without any re-
serve whatever while retaining hundreds
of millions of coin for 100 per cent re-
serve on the coin certificates.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-11
MOST UNEDUoATED COUNTRY.
India Still In the Most Dense Ignorance,
With Little Promise.

India Still In the Most Dense Ignorance,
With Little Promise.
Spare Moments
India is practically uneducated Tho
total number of scholars in schools and col
leges of all sorts is only three and quarter
millions, or ~ per cent of the entire pop
ulation. These are mainly confined to the
cities and towns; but out of 25o,0O0, 900 in
all India less than II, 100000 can read and
write A census of the illiterates in the
various countries of the world places the
three Sclavic States of Roumania, Servia
and Russia at the head of the list, with
about 80 per cent of the population unable
to read and write. OF the Latin-speal<ing
races, Spain heads the list, with 63 per cent,
followed by Italy with 4S per cent, France
and Belgium having about 10 per cent. The
illiterates in Hungary number 43 per cent,
in Austria 30 per cent, and In Ireland 81 per
cent.
In England we find 13 per cent, Holland 10
per cent, United States (white population)
per cent, and Scotland per cent unable to
read and write. When we come to the
purely Teutonic States we find q marked
reduction in the percentage of illiterates.
The highest is in Switzerland, rs, and In the
whole German empire it is per cent, while
in sweden, Denmark, Bavaria, Baden and
Wurtemburg there is practically no one
who cannot read and write.