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teens He was graduated at La Sale COL
lege in 1870, with first honors, and later
taught Latin there for q year. But the
bent of his mind was toward the law and he
finally entered the Office of the late Lewis
c. Cassidy. The latter, who was an astute
politician as well as an able lawyer, taught
his students both politics and law. Harrity
was admitted to the bar in 1873, becoming
an assistant in the office of his preceptor,
and at once began to take a hand in local
political management. He first carried his
division, and then his ward, and finally in
1882 was made chairman of the Democratic
City Committee in Philadelphia.
He organized the Democratic party In
Philadelphia as it had never been
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Their merry laugh and joyous shout
At noon and eve, rang gladly out
Across the street. my neighbours homo
Stood silent, like its master, dumb,
He sat with head bowed on his knee
And watched their sports-"mine enemyr'
One day we felt shadow fall
Across the threshold, in the hall
A coffin stood, and lying there
A face, sweet, marble-like, and fair,
The darling of our home was dead
And while our bitter tears were shed,
] heard a step, and rose to see
Before my door-"mine enemyp
looked and all my soul was stirred
With many bitter thought and word:-
"He comes to mock me in my woe;
He SCOTS at love he does not know
He hates me, and his presence hero
Proanes the dead upon the Dierl
A curse. lot this his welcome be;"-
And so cursed "mine enemyp'
When evening came and earth was st1n,
Beneath the starlight, on the hill,
Beside that little grave l crept,
And bowed my head, and mourned and
wept.
And, as knelt some flowers to twtne,
Behold. strangers hand touched minsi
l clutched it, frantic, rose to see,
There by that grave-"mine enemyr''
"What dost thou hereT"-in wrath, said
"What dost thou here beside my deadf
This place is holy, like a shrine.
ne W WOTSulp mere Is Iuln0-
Why come you here to mock ny woef
My grief Is sacred, treat it so.
Thou hast no love for mine or me,
Leave mo to weep, "mine enemyr'
With flaming words my wrath outbroke,
But he, he turned and gently spoke:
Forgive me, if do you wrong.
l loved your child-and love is strongy
My heart with mighty grief was dumb,
For mine has been a childless home.
My heart was bungry-God judge mo
l never was your enemy.
81 watched her as she played before
The golden sunlight of your doort
/ would have given worlds to feel
The joys saw your lace reveal
And when she died, 1 came and stood
Before your door, and. friend, I would
Have given ali 1 have to place
One flower upon that sweet, cold face.
''The flowers you found upon her grave
We're mine, brought them here. and gave
Each night long hours of love to her,
For !, too, was her worshiper."
My head bowed low, upon my cheek
The hot tears gushed, could not speak.
His hand claspeG mine, we knelt, for she
Had robbed me OF "mine enemy"
BYRON W. KNa.
PITrsBURa, September, 1891
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XLEPIoNANIA IN LITERATURE,

Trials OF Good Authors Due 10 Plag1a-
rizing Parasites.
The Gentleman's Magazine.l
The success of Henry Mackenzie's ssnti-
mental novel, 'The Man Of Feeling" was
very great Eccles, young Bath clergy
man, availing himself of the circumstances
that the authors name was very little
known, transcribed the whole work, with
erasures, corrections, smears and smudges,
and, on the strength of this manufactured
copy, gave himself out to be the author
and adhered to his pretension with SO much
pertinacity that Biackenzie's publishers
were compelled to adopt legal measures to
vindicate his claim. In our time we have
seen similar fraud attempted with regard
to "Adam Bede."
Among French writers no one has carried
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New York and again assume personal
charge of the national campaign. This he
agreed to do, provided the President would
remove Pearson from the postmastership OF
New York; Judd from the postmastershlp OF
Chicago, and Graves from the position OF
chief OF the Bureau of Prlnting and EngraV-
ing at Washington and appoint tried and
acceptable Democrats in their places
Cleveland consented to only one of the con-
dltions named, the removal o: Judd; Soma
tor German did not come to New York and
Harrison was elected This year 1t 1s safe
to say that. after William C. Whitney, Sena-
tor German is the man whose counsel Chair
man Harrity seeks most frequently and
gives the greatest weight.
Lieutenant Governor William F. Sheehan
Is the representative of the New YORK
Democracy ons the Campaign Committee.
Sheehan Is only 80 years old, but has Ter
years been active and prominent in politics.
Senator Matt W. Ransom, of North Caro-
lima, represents the Southern Democracy
on the Committee. Ransom was Major Con-
eral In the Confederate army, has bcen in
the Senate since 1872, and is counted one OF
the handsomest men in public life. When
in Washington he always dresses in the
latest style but-when campaigning in North
Carolina affects butternut suits and flannel
shirts. 1t catches the grangers. In former
campaigns Henry Watterson has been
familiar figure about headquarters, keeping
q close eye on Southern Interests, but this
year Tor some reason he has not been North
ward RUFUS & WILSON,
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A CRUMBL|NG CRUST
Responsible for the Earth
quakes That Are Occur
ring Almost Daily.
THE GREAT ONE OF JAPAN
In Which One Part of a Valley Drop
ped 30 Feet Below Another.
GRADUAL RISE OF THE COAST LINE.
Scientists May Be Able to Give Warning
Of Great Disturbances.
IMPROVEMENT IN BUILDING METHODS
WRITTEN FOB THE DISPATCH,

fWHITrEN FOB THE DrSPArCH.I
A day rarely passes that the earth's crust
in one place or another is not shaken by
earth tremors or earthquakes Many OF
these movements are 30 slight that they are
revealed only by tho delicate instruments
invented to record such distur bances Mr..
De Ballore has recently reporte that nearly
400 of them have occurred in q single year
in France.
In Japan, the land of earthquak es, there
are at least 800 shocks year, and when
these shocks reach the proportions of ter
rible catastrophies and kill thousands of
people ], 1000 or 1900 shakings are added to
the average 500. Scientific men are study
Ing earthquakes with view to learn tact s
which may enable them to predict the
shocks and thus to warn the people of
earthquake countrieA They are studying
the effects of earthquakes with a view to
perfecting rules tor building and living in
earthquake countrieS
AReport on the Great Earthquake.
The lessons learned from the. last great
earthquake in Japan have been made known
in the reports of Prof John Milne and
will be indicated in this article. 1t is in
Japan and Italy that the science of seismol,
ogy has made greatest progress. For
eight or ten years the Japanese have en-
ployed force OF scientific men, headed by
Prot. Milne, for the special purpose of
studying earthquake phenomena
The great disturbance occurred about the
center of Japan in the island of Hondo,
Prefectures of Aichi and Gifu, on October
%, last year. The district which was most
severely shaken extends over 200 square
miles. Within this area the destruction of
buildings and engineering works was COM
plete. The area in which buildings were
affected reaches from Toxic on the east to
Kobe on the west, over "a, 900 square miles
The disturbance was felt from Sendai in
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In studying instruments recording earth
tremors, but have never yet succeeded in
foretelling the arrival of an earthquake.
"Still," says Prof Milne, Eve do not
despair.
Suggestions for Better Buildings.
The study of the last earthquake in Japan
is, however, resulting in new and import
ant suggestions for lesSening the damage
done by such disasters One of our pictures
shows the ruin wrought at Biwajima, and
the scene is typical of the appearance of
hundreds of towns The houses, some tiled
and some with matched roofs, fell along
the street much as row of dropped cards
would fall. Here and there buildings fell
across the street and the road was impass-
able. Soon after the observers in Japan's
service had studied the effect of this earth
quake upon buildings, revised and i'm
proved rules were prepared for future
building, and it is said that these rules are
receiving close attention from many build
ers in the devastated area
It was found that the river banks and tho
edges of cliffs where the forward swing of
the free face was naturally large were dam
gerous sites for buildings River banks
and the edges of bluffs are for the most part
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now being avoided as sites for buildings in
Japan. 1t was also observed again that the
movements at the bottom of pit or in
shallow railway cutting were less than those
upon natural surface This is leading
builders to dig foundations deeper, raising
the superstructure on basement walls.
Structures of wood built on European
models wthstood the shocks better than Or
dinary Japanese dwellings
Arches Will Not Stand the Strain.
In some places railroad tracks were car
ried on arches over the country roads The
arches were destroyed showing the unsuita-
bility of arches to resist horizontal dis
turbances. Japan, Italy and several other
earthquake countries, have now forbidden
the building of ordinary arch work.
Arches are exceedingly strong in resisting
loads placed above them but readily fall
apart when acted upon by sudden horizon
tai movements
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The picture of the railroad track throws
an interesting light upon the nature of the
earthquake motion. We see that either the
rails and sleepers were moved back and
forth on thei- gravel bed or else they re-
manned at rest and the ground moved under
them. The result of this motion was to
pile up the ballast between the sleepers so
that it presents the appearance of series
of huge holsters. The extent of motion was
five to six inches Another curious feature
was the serpent-like bending of the line. It
seems as if the country here and in many
other places was subjected to longitudinal
compression. At each of these bends
though not shown in the picture, there is a
slight depression in the contour of the
country which possibly may mark the line
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THE TWISTED RAILROAD TRACK.

of an ancient water course. The track cross
ing such depressions would be crossing
lines of weakness where yielding would be
relatively easy and the total movement was
greater, bending the track in and out.
A Forest Moved Sixty Feet.
The greatest destruction took place along
the river banks, which, being unsupported
on one side, were shot forward into the
river. A curious thing was observed at one
place where the river bank was entirely
gone for couple of hundred feet. A large
bamboo grove and few pine trees had stood
some distance back of the bank This little
forest was pushed forward distance of 60
feet and yet all the bamboos and trees re-
manned upright.
The stupendous movements to which
parts of the earth's crust are sometimes
subjected almost pass belief 1t is said that
in the great earthquake of 1873, among the
Calabrian mountains of Southern Italy,
some of the mountain summits rose and fell
with "a hopping movement"
Mountains Tipping to Each Other
The chroniclers of the great conyulsion
in Southeast Germany in 134S, whose aston.
isbing effects are still to be seen In the Gail
Valley, reported that tve great mountains
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the man runs after US holding out the va.s

the man runs alter US holding out the va.s
as he cries:
"Can haveei Can hayeeP'
The most provoking thing in China IL the
money question. The only coin issued By
the nation is "cash" or brass pieces with
holes in them. It takes ten of them to
make cent and !, 900 to make dollar. II
you should go shopping with Chinese
money it would take jinriksha to carry
your purse. There being no silver coin is
sued by the Government, the Mexican
dollar has crowded its way in. This fuc-
tuates in value every day. To-day 1t is
65, tomorrow it may be 63 or TO- Nine out
of every ten of the Mexican dollars have
been tampered with by either cutting or
drilling. Counterfeits are everywhere.
The Stores Stamp the Money.
Each store stamps every dollar it pays
out with a private stamp. If it isn't good
you can take it back. Sometimes the poor
dollar has been stamped so much that it is
unacceptable as a Mexican coin, but the
store or bank which has put on the last
stamp must redeem it. The counterfeiting
Chinese have ruined the Mexican dollar,
the only currency they had. It is q dollar
now without q country behind it; no, not
oven q friend. The Chinese have free COIN
age. Anyone can make what they call Q
tael piece This is a chunk of silver shaped
like Chinese woman's little shoe. The
piece is worth about six Mexican dollars,
but it goes up and down with the price Of
silver in America
1t is the poor that are losing BY this
vitiated money and not the rich. believe
if I could see an American dollar now with
O nation behind it, always true, always
worth dollar, that could press it to my
lips and kiss it Americans, do keep your
dollar sacredl Keep the nation behind it
The Energetic Jinriksha Men
The Chinese jinriksha is Just like the
Japanese. Japan stole her religion, art and
literature from China, and China has stolen
the jinriksha, or baby carriage, from japan.
A horse is rare animal in Shanghai Men
haul both people and merchandise.
The jinriksha men are wild with delight
when they can make 40 cents day drawing
us around Shanghai. They seem to know
intuitively where we want to ride to and
always start of on a jaunty run. The hard
est thing is to get them to turn around and
return. They know if they get us good
way from the hotel that they'll have to
bring US back. Yesterday they seemed bent
on running clear through Shanghai into
the open country, and before we knew it We
were riding over broken levees, past grave
mounds and in among the farm houseA
When we would say, John, go back" the
jinriksha man would look up pleadinglJ
and reply: "Littee more. No muchee far
Jes littee more far ELI PERKINS.
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tipped until they met each other and then
settled back to their places We might
dismiss this story as a fantasy of the middle
ages were it not for the frightful catastro-
ply at Tasch in Northwestern Persia in
1890, when, the few survivors say, two
mountains bent their tops until they
'fkissed one another" and the hamlet be-
tween them forever disappeared from view.
Considering the wide area over which
last years convulsion in japan spread COM
plete devastation, and its effects upon the
strongest engineering works, we must con-
Gude that these earth movements were
among the most stupendous that have ever
been recorded. CYRUS O. ADAMS.
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the profession of the literary brigand to
such an extent as Mme de Genlis. In 1880
her evil ways brought her into the courts of
law under very discreditable circums ances.
Bout, the publisher of a series of Manuals,
engaged her, for a sum of ZIG, to write a
''Manuel Encyclo pedique de PEnfanco. I"
The manuscript, which had been paid for,
was discovered TO be an exact copy Of the
book of the same kind pub
blished in 1920 by NJ. Dassacha- An
other time she contributed to Paris news
paper q feuilleton which turned out to be a
close reproduction of a romance printed
some twenty years before. Surely the
poer woman suffered from literary klepto-
mania
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Whitney, the most adroit and forceful Of
the Cleveland leaders. That Missouri
dropped Morrison and decided to vote solid
for Cleveland, and that Indiana finally con-
cluded to drop Gray and support the e1-
President was due in the main to the efforts
of Harrity. At any time during the con-
yention, had he chosen to subordinate his
fidelity to Mr. Cleveland to his personal
ambitions, he could have scored . memora-
Bile triumph. 1t was possible for him to
have beaten Cleveland by making Pattison
the rallying dark horse candidate, and re-
peatedly the anti-Cleveland men offered
him 800 votes for Pattison to start with, if
Pennsylvania would have put the Gov
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The loftiest point so far as yet Known to
have been attained by mountain d aimber is
2S,7oO feet, which was acomplisbed ID few
years ago by Mr.. Graham in theHi imalaysa
He states that in spite of the great altitude
he did not find any difficulty in Sreathing,
nor did be experience nausea, bleeding at
the nose or temporary loss of sight or hear
ing The motion of his heart was, however,
perceptibly affected, as its beating became
audible and its rate was decidedly incrcas-
ed
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Imposing ON Passengers.

A wine merchant in Cadiz, whose repu-
tation is unimpeachable, makes the astound-
ing disclosure that an imitation brand Of
sherry is fnrn ished in immense quantities to
''one Of the largest mail steamship compa-
mics In the world" at the low price of ~
pence per bottle. This beverage, which is
unfit to drink, 10 sold to passengers at
txslye Nmss IT. cost
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HARRITY IS SUPREME.
Invested With More Absolute Power
Than Any Chairman in History.
AQUIET BUTVERY HARD WORKER.
Why Senator German Didn't Make Fight
for Cleveland in 1888.
STARS IN THE DEMOCRATIC SKIES

CORRESPONDENCE OF THE DIsPATCH.1
NEW YORK. Sept. A.-Chairman William
F. Harrity, of the Democratic National
Committee, like his rival, Chairman Carter,
of the Republican Committee, is a new and
striking figure in national politics. Both
Harrity and Carter are young men, Harrity
a little over and Carter little under 40; both
are of Irish descent, both are lawyers and
both in the brief space of five years have
become prominent and masterful figures in
the political world.
But here the resemblance between the
two men ceasea Carter is short, blonde
and spare, and has the shrewd and good hu-
mored face of New England Yankee, while
Harrity is six-footer, large of limb and
broad of shoulders, with handsome oval
face, keen grey eye, and curly brown hair.
He is somewhat careless in his dress, throws
his shoulders forward when he walks, and
his gait is loose and rolling one. His ad-
mirers say that he is not only bold and
dashing, but suave and diplomatic as well,
and that while his disposition is easy going
he is one of the staunchest of friends and
one of the best of hatera His manner is
quiet but marked by ease and confidence;
he has the personal magnetism that wins
and holds friends without seeming effort,
and the straightforward manner in which he
looks at you when he is talking to you
shows that his nature is frank and open
one.
Harrity Once Taught Latin.
Chairman Harrity's> career has been in
many respects remarkable one. He was
born in Wilmington, Del, and received his
education there and Philad elphia, whence
his parents moved while he was yet in his
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Purses Shaped Like Hearts

Heart-shaped purses are being sold.
They are small, made of leather, and the
entire side is covered with gold monogram.
Attached to the summer girls chatelains
Is heart-shaped case of openwork gold.
Into this she slips the bright red purse,
which, 1t need not be said, Is much heay-
Ter when she first trips abroad than when
she returns
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MINE ENEMY.
WRITTEN FOR THE DIsrArcE.I

WRITTEN FOR THE DIsPAfcH.I
liked him not; upon his face,
Stern, grave and silent. I could trace
The signs of doubt and discomfort
In every strong wrought lineament
He passed me in the crowded town.,
With eyes aslant and head bowed dovni
He had no smile, no word for me,
And SO, l said-"mine enemyp'
The swift years passed, in sun and shade
Around my door my chtidren played;
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Close to the SlzieA

Copyright 1897, By Tinotson q Son.
Morning journal and courier., 1892-09-23
STATE OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES



Sept. 22.-Among the Grand Army vet
Grams from this place who attended the re-
union in Washington, D. O., are Chauncey
N. Hall, Henry s. Allen, Frank A. Hotch.
kiss, Thomas J. Csfey and wife, Edward
A. Atwater, @. R. Booram and wife and
their son VERNE.
Next Sunday evening Rev. Mr.. Hoyt
will deliver an address before the L. A.
Thomas lodge of Odd Fellows.
On Sunday In the Congressional church
Rev. Mr.. Davenport of Waterbury preached
| q fine sermon in the morning in exchange
with Rev. Mr.. Hoyt.
On Saturday afternoon at 2:30 the JUNO,
Endeayor meet in the chapel of the Con.
gregational church.
Mr.. Samuel Trythall spent Sunday with
friends in Waterbury.
Quite number of Cheshire people viii
| attend the state fair this week, which Il
being held in Meriden.
| Mr.. Merritt Hotchkiss, who met with 9
severe accident last week, is not able to b.
moved and it will probably be two weeks
before he will be able to be moved here
Mrs. Hotchkiss is with him acting q
| nurse.
Postmaster Beadles, with Rev. Mr.. Phil
lips drove over to Meriden Tuesday to at
tend the state fair.
Mrs. ]. d. g. Durant and child and Mrs
Stroud, both of New Haven, were the guest
OF Mrs. j. r. Palmer two days last week
Morning journal and courier., 1892-09-23
EilIatIl1aI.

The Market opens at Slight Changes
Stocks OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES In
the Amount OF Business-The Close
Strong at About the Best Prices OF
the Day.
NEW YORK. Sept. %.
The stock market to-day opened at only slight
changes from last evenings prices but was tame
and the pressure upon Louisville and Burlington
was continued with some effect, but there was
no pressure to sell in any other portion Of the
market and while both lost large fractions both
later in the day were lifted materially, yielding
to the firm temper displayed by everything else
on the list. With the growth Of the bull senti-
ment in the board there was gratifying increase
in the amount of business done among the load
ing shares. Prices moved up almost stea Oily
throughout the day, and while Reading monopo-
lized most attention Louisville and Nashville was
specially prominent in the late dealings reacting
again after the substantial rally 1t had under
gone. The transactions, however. were still al
most entirely professional, and excited little in
! terest outside of the board. Among the other
stocks which became prominent for activity and
strength late in the day were New England Nor
thern Pacific preferred and Distilers, and they
all scored substantial gains. The market closed
strong at or near the best figures Of the day.
Railroad bonds were quiet. Sales 81 ,ss0,00o
Following are the closing prices, reported BY
FRINGE & WHITLEY, bankers and brokers, "a
Broadway, N. z, and Is Center street. New Hs-
ven, Conn.
Morning journal and courier., 1892-09-23
Health In Old Age.

Edward Collinson, Queens, N. Y, says:
81 commenced using Brandreth's Pills
over fifty-fve years ago. I first bought
them in London, and have continued using
them since came to this country in 1886.
I am now over seventy-five years old, hale
and hearty, and attribute my wonderful
health to the persistent use of Brandreth'f
Pills. Occasionally have a bad cold OF
severe attack of rheumatism, indigestion
OF biliousness, but four or five doses Of
Brandreth's Pills always cure me. When.
ever my children have been sick with scar
let fever, measles, acid stomach, disordered
digestion or costiveness, few doses Of
Brandreth's Pills restored their health al
once"