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sECrIONAL yERsUs NATIONAI.

A striking illustration of one of the
features of the times is the unanimous de-
mand of the Philadelphia papers for Con-
gressional favors to the project for ship
canal between Philadelphia and New
York. The project of connecting the
Ohio river with Lake Erie is treated by
them with cool inattention-that for con-
Meeting the Upper Mississippi with Lake
Michigan receives their enmity. But the
canal between Philadelphia and New
York must have in the first application for
survey two and one-half times that asked
for the much larger Ohio river and Lake
Erie canal, and in the second place S12,-
0OO,O 900 to build the canal, or its press re-
fuses to be satisfied.
This is simply the manifestation Of the
sectional spirit of grabbing whatever eau
be got for any particular locality regard
less of the equity or Importance of the ex-
penditure. Anyone who has given any
study to the subject of internal water
ways knows that the canal pro-
posed is one of the least important
of the various projects. 1t parallels
waterway of infinite capacity already
CAioUiLS, udiuCly, 0ilO ulipoHG-up VCOotu. 1oo
sole commercial use would be the local
traffic between Philadelphia and New
York, the greatest shipping business Of
of both ports being exports and imports
which go directly to deep water. 1t is
recognized by those who urge it that its
main use would be as protected channel
in case our coasts should be blockaded in
the improbable event of war.
Yet at the same time this class of public
opinion ignores the projects that are
needed to prevent great inland seas from
being the prey of the enemy, and which, If
war should not come, would be of the
highest commercial value. Everyone
should know that the Hennepin, the Ohio
River and Lake Erie, and the Lake Erie
and Ontario to tidewater projects are of
the first and vastest Importance. But the
hunger for appropriations leads to ignor-
ing that fact and clamoring for appropria-
tions of secondary Importance.
1t is quite possible that the system of
waterways may eventually include the
interior channel much talked of in the
East. But any movement for the creation
of such a system, that is to rise above the
level of general grab game, must take
the different parts of the system in the
order of their importance and necessity.
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MOSQUITOES AND MILITIA.
No Force Short of These Seems to Be Able
TO Cope With Loose Elephant.

No Force Short of These Seems to Be Able
TO Cope With Loose Elephant.
BANGOR, ME-, July 13.-The elephant
Charley" of the Washburne show, broke
away Monday night in Bucksport when
being taken to the train and escaped
mounted keeper by climbing. Mount Olive.
Going down the opposite side, he crossed
fields and pastures and hid in an extensive
swamp. Fires were built about this and in
the morning he was captured. One hundred
and twenty-five pound of chain were used
to hold his trunk down and to fasten him to
tree ten inches thick. He pulled up the
tree and broke the padlocks in the chains,
cleared himself and again got away. He
charged team of horses in a hay field, but
they got away, and the huge beast killed
and after charging the circus men who fol-
lowed him, again got into the swamp. No
one dared approach, though he could be
seen.
The mosquitoes drove him into a watery
muck hole, where he remained through the
day. The circus men built fires to keep the
insect pest away and contented themselves
with watching him. Meanwhile the farmers
moved their stock, in some cases miles
distant. Many cattle fled, and the people of
the town are nervous in the extreme.
Washburne gave a horse to replace one
killed Sunday and paid out $500 for damages.
His show is 40 miles away. 1t will be decided
to-day whether an attempt to capture the
company will be employed to kill him. A
keeper suggests giving him buShel of oats
and a half pound dose of opium and then
kill him.
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NATIONAL GUARD OF PENNSYLVANIA
Its Emciency and Quickness Of Action
Pointed Out as Lesson.

Its Efficiency and Quickness OF Action
Pointed Out as Lesson.
New York TiT1es.1
The National Guard of Pennsylvania has
had its full share of the duty imposed by
labor troubles during the last 20 years. 1t
numbers, according to the latest returns
published by the Adjutant General of the
Army, about $50 officers and men; and of
these probably 7, 900 or more are available
for the Homestead disturbances. Large as
this force is, it was surpassed numerically,
Is years ago, in the great railroad and mining
riots, when 9,453 E1en were called out at
times extending over ~ period of four
months. But the organization then was
more unwieldy and much less effective and
perfect than that of to-day, and, indecu,
probably the militia strength OF the State
was never so efficient as now.
Some of the official reports Of regular Off
GERS who have inspected the Pennsylvania
troops of late years have specially dwelt on
the Preparations made for putting the Ma
tional Guard rapidly into the field, well
armed and equipped. In a State where
vast manufacturing interests are liable to
lead to labor disturbances of the sort now
seen, the need of having q numerous and
competent militia force to rely upon for the
preservation OF public order and tine execu-
tion of the laws is obvious, and other COM
muniries may well take to heart the lesson
taught by the present experience of Penn
sylyania
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A Little in tho Way OF Epitaph.

Poor Kate Castleton had wit, facility in
repartee. was generous, good-natured and
odd. Being a trifle cynical she was not
disposed to set life to music, and had a good
deal more faith in dogkfnd than mankind.
This affection for her four-footed friends was
indulged in to the utmost, and they almost
formed the furnishings of her parlor; so it
was nothing uncommon to find yourself
mistaking big Newfoundland for a rug, or
after poking your elbow into cushion-like
bundle, to discover it to be a tucked-up
Prince Charles
She was more than generous-lavish you
might say in money dealings. 1 have seen
her refuse change (when "tip" was per-
missible) that must have been no fnconsid-
able amount OF course she was the objec-
tive point for the amelioration of horde of
impecunious relatives To oblege q
persistent interviewer, Miss Castleton DUR
ing her last visit to Pittsburg remained in
her dressing room alter the matinee and
was obliged to dine there on accout of the
briefness of interval before the evening
performance, which she afterward went
through.
Perhaps none of these are great qualities
in an age of Frances Cleveland Influence
Clubs and Daughters of the American Hevo-
luton, but they were good comfortable
idiosyncracies to come up against.
MARION CRAWFORD GALLAHER.
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GIRLS OF THE PERIOD

Don't Mind the Rain When There Is q
Chance for Tennis-The Pittsburg Ten
mis- Club Grounds Gay With Finely
Dressed Women at the Opening.
The ladies had no opportunity yesterday
afternoon to show of their smart gowns at
the tennis tournament on the Ptttsburg
Tennis Club grounds. Rain caused dwin-
ding down of the 200 interested women of
the day previous to some half dozen vent
uresome young girls, who, seeking the first
shelter, watched the games as enthusias-
tically as If 1t were as sunny as it was act
ually gloomy. 1t was really inspiriting on
the first day to see all the pretty girls, with
their fresh faces and fresh dresses, discuss
ing the points with a scientific fervor that
argued well for their muscles. 1t is rather
curious that games in which men only were
playing should draw gathering OF which
two-ffths was women, except 1t probably
proves, what Is being suspected. that the
women are the athletic sex of to-day.
The committee of which Miss Mary Nc
Candless is Chairman will meet at 8 o'clock
this afternoon in the Wylie A. M. E. Church
mittee of that church regarding representa-
tion at the Columbian Exposition.
Calvary Church will hold q picnic
to-day, the arrangement being as In past
years for the hosts to be the several classes
In their order. This picnic is the first of the
series.
Some Pittsburgers will be interested in
a wedding for which invitations are now
issued, that of Miss Florfnda NJ. Knox and
Alfred S. Moore, of Beaver. The bride to
be is the daughter of Mrs. Rachel Knox, of
Beaver Her brothers are the Rev. E. j..
Knox, of Beaver N. E. Church, and Robert
Turney Knox, of the Press editorial staff
at which a great many Pittsburgers expect
to be present.
Miss Emma Loomis, of the Episcopal
Church Home, is visiting in Lexington, with
her sister, Mrs. Jesse L. France, well known
as our leading lady artist at one time in
PittSburg.
News has reached us here at home of the
arrival at Boulogne of Mr. Fl. s. Stevenson,
the Pittsburg portrait painter. en- route for
Northern Africa, where he is going to make
study of Andalusian types of beauty.
Mrs. A. Lewis Egts, of st. Louis, passed
through Pittsburg this week en- route for
New York, accompanied by her daughter,
Miss Helen Egts, and Senator and Mrs. Nc
" WI o. L., sS Is Hcll-kIOWH III ltGSOuIS.
She possesses fine contralto voice es
pecially suited for devotional music, and
may be heard every Sunday morning in one
of st. Louis leading Episcopal churches.
Either because the day of service of the
placard is over or that the W oman's Health
Protective Association is away for the sum-
mer, the notices requesting people to ab-
stain from expectorating have nearly all
disappeared from the Pittsburg Traction
nor hny hnd ir1of anah kI,rr <.Ir,k k<.f
reaping the reward of their importantly,
too.
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A MYSTERY IN HONOLULU.
A Woman and q Cow Change Places at the
Entrance to Cave.

A Woman and q Cow Change Places at the
Entrance to Cave.
Hawaiian Gazette.1
The Kau mystery is still occupying the
minds of the people in Kona. About two
weeks ago Mr.. W. P. Fennell, a trustworthy
man, on his way from Punaluu to Pahala,
saw a COW grazing near a cave. According
to his own story, he said that as he neared
the cave the COW suddenly vanished. He
looked around, but on looking at the cave
again he saw a woman standing on the spot
where the cow was grazing a few moments
before. He turned his face away for awhile,
but on looking again, to his amazement the
woman had disappeared. Determined to in
vestigate the mystery, he went to the cave
and viewed it in every direction, but he
could see no traces of the woman. He
thought it very strange that the woman
should disappear SO suddenly. He left the
cave, and proceeded on his journey. When
he was little distance off, he looked back
at the cave, and to his great surprise, be-
hold, the woman was again standing on tho
very spot where he first saw her.
Mr.. Fennell continued on his way, and
told his strange story to everybody he met.
The natives of Kau are fearing that there
will soon be another overflow Of the vol
cano. The Portuguese are also frightened
at the coming catastrophe, and they have not
decided what they should do in the near
future, whether to vacate the place or con-
tinue cultivating.
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COSMOPOLITAN CULLINGS.

MARSHAL MCMAHON, though now in
his s5th year, is hale, hearty and vigorous as
| q man 20 years younger.
DUKE CHARLES of Bavaria has been
made an NJ. d. by the University OF Dublin
| for his skill as an eye doctor.
THE German Emperor has presented to
Lord Salisbury, as a memento of his visit to
England last year, his full-length portrait
The Emperor is represented in a naval uni
form.
PREsIDENr CARNor has conferred the
Chevalier's ribbon of the Legion of Honor
| upon Henry Haydie, Vice President Of the
Foreign Press Club in Paris, and Henry
Mosler, the artist. Both the gentlemen thus
| decorated are Americans.
DIR. PETERS, the African explorer, has
| discovered enormous saltpetre beds between
| Mount Kilima-Njara and the volcano Donjo
| Ngai. The whole great territory between
Kilima-Njaro and Donjo Ngai is reputed to
| be one great saltpetre bed.
MR.. HAMILTON DIssToN, of Philadel-
| phia, has party of four down with him on
| his Florida sugar plantation, showing them
how matters work. They are Congressman
| HUFF and Palmer. OF Pennsylvania; Hatch,
| OF Missouri, and Price, of Louisiana.
WILLIAM WALDORF AsToR passed a
| comfortable night and his physicians report
he is making steady progress toward recov-
| cry. No clew has been found to the sender
| of the announcement of Astor's death to
| New York. He signed himself "Clement."
EMILE ZoLA is great lover of curios.
| His home in Paris and his country seat at
| Medan are filed with artistic treasures and
| he spends much of his spare time in the
auction rooms. He only remains three
hours at his desk, and those in the morn
| ing.
THE President arrived in Washington
| about midnight yesterday in excellent
health, though somewhat fatigued. He says
that Mrs. Harrison was steadily improving
| when he lett Loon Lake, and there is every
reason to believe that she will now regain
her strength rapidly and soon be on the road
| to entire recovery.
KING HUMBERT of Italy has inherited
none of his fathers qualities, and instead of
wine he drinks water. Were it not for
Queen Margaret, who has earned the reputa-
tion of a high liver, gastronomy would stand
In risk of being excluded from the Court Of
Italy. where the dinner service, even for
every day, is Of solid gold.
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CHAUTAUQUA's PLEASURES,
Tho Singing and Lectures Continue to II
prove Greatly Daily.

Tho Singing and Lectures Continue to I'M
prove Greatly Daily.
CHAuTAUoUA, July 13-[SpeciaLl - The
young ladies had the leading feature of
Chaurauqua pleasures to-day. The first re-
ception of the Girls Club was given this
afternoon. Their young gentlemen friends
were present and were given a very enjoya-
bic time. A glee club was formed among
the young ladies, who sang several excel
lent selections in voices soft and sweet
Miss Mather, who has charge of the Girls
Club, is very successful in It's management
and is quite popular with her girls. Prof
Starr gave his second lecture on anthro-
poloSy to-day.
Prof. o. Zaman gave his third lecture on
Ancient Greece this afternoon and after
Prot. Parker's lecture on the Civil War this
evening, gave some good steropticon illus
trations of Greek art. At o'clock this
evening meeting of the Y. P. S. c. E. was
held, and Miss Livingston, delegate to New
York, gave resume of the work done by
the great convention there.
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STORAGE SYSTEM ON STREET CARS.

STORAGE SYSTEM ON STREET CARS.
ity of electric railways continue to declare
that the trolley furnishes the only prac.
ticable system, it is important to note that
a corporation, having a practical and pc
cuniary interest in adopting the best sys-
tenn, has determined to adopt the storage
battery. This is the Second Avenue Rail-
road Company, of New York, which has
applied for permission TO change it's mo-
tive power from horses to electric storage.
|. The application cannot be taken as con-
elusive evidence of the superiority of
storage batteries for two or three reasons.
In the first place the company states that
it will try storage batteries as an expert
ment, first using them on limited num-
Der of cars and on portion of its line
only, and making their further adoption
depend on the success of the experiment
Then quite probably it makes this
experiment rather than adopt the tried
and proved trolley simply as recognition
of the fact that it would not be permitted
to erect trolley poles and wires in the
streets of New York. Finally, it is quite
possible that the storage battery may be
successful on the low grades of New York
street railroads, while its extra weight in
its present form might make very serious
difficulty for railroads which have to sur
mount the sleeper grades, such as are en-
countered on most of the lines of Pitts
burg.
Nevertheless the experiment on this
line, as well as on the line using storage
batteries in Washington, is one of great in
terest to all cities. If that method of
using electric power can be perfected so
as to approach the utility of the trolley it
will be great boon to have it replace the
unsightly and sometimes dangerous trolley
wires and poles. Municipal officials
should keep these experiments in view,
and when the storage system makes a
demonstrated success insist on its substitu-
ton for the trolley system, wherever
practicable.
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display force enough to wreck buildings.
At Springfield, Ohio, it showed destruc-
tive force. A large share of that city is
reported to have been wrecked, with SER
ious destruction of life to swell the list Of
victims already made at Peoria. By the
time that the cool wave reached Pittsburg
its force was hardly greater than brisk
gale. =
The season appears to carry out the idea
that disasters come in groups. Storms,
riots, confagrations have followed close
on each other with such rapidity as to
mark the season as one Of destruction and
gloom.
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PIRATES IN THE SOUTH SEA.
An Unknown Sailing Vessel Mysteriously
Kidnap Three Natives.

An Unknown Sailing Vessel Mysteriously
Kidnap Three Natives.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 13.-During . cruise
of tho steamer Archer in the South Sea, she
called at several islands at which a mysteri-
ously manned schooner has visited. At one
place three natives were kidnapped by the
unknown sailing vessel. Eventually the
Archer reached the Marshall Islands, and
while there a schooner named the Microne-
STA arrived with the particulars OF the ar
rest of master and mate at Ponape, in the
Caroline archipelago, and the deten tion of
their vessel. From the Micronesia's de-
scrlption these men and vessel were identi-
cal with the schooner that had called at the
islands visited by the Archer. The arrest
was made on the statement of the cook of
the schooner, who affirmed that the two men
known as the master and mate had captured
the vessel by shooting the former master
and the supercargo and poisoning the other
members OF the crew. The Spanish Cover
nor at Ponape sent the two prisoners by
man -of-war to Manila for trial, and detained
the schooner at Ponape awaiting its identifi-
cation,
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THE DEADLY ANNIE ROONEY.
A Black and-Tan Pup Shot Dead for Sing
ing the Popular Air.

A Black-and-Tan Pup Shot Dead for Sing
ing the Popular Air.
NEW YORK, July ia tired Italian planted
his organ in front of the fiat at 23O East
Eighty-fourth street yesterday morning and
began to grind out anciont melodies. He
worried through the "Marseillaise" and 1.-THE
Wearing of the Green,'' and then the notes
OF "Annie Rooney" stirred the sitting at
mosphere. A black-and-tan Cog, the pet OF
Janftor Slattery's household. began to sing
as the first sound struck his ear. Then he
yelped, and, bounding into the air, executed
double fip-flop. His eyes turned green
then, Mrs. Slattery says, and he ran out of
the house into the back yard. He tried to
jump the eight-foot fence, but couldn't. In
desperation he ran into the street. Some
body cried "Mad dog!'' The Italian grabbed
his machine and fled.
The pup ran back into the house. He went
upstairs and waited for the excitement to
subside. Policeman August ferreted him
out, though, and as the pup leaped forward
to explain, the bluecoat laid him low with
blow of the locust. The poor dog was then
carried to the cellar and filled full of lead.
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THE CYCLONES SWEEP.

The change in temperature yesterday
was clearly the effect of the cyclonic storm
which advanced from the Mississippi to
the Alleghenies during the previous
twenty-four hours. The violence de-
veloped at different points furnished an
illustration of the theory that cyclones are
produced by the movement of an area of
lower temperature into hotter area.
At Peoria, Illinois, the storm was vio-
lent enough to capsize steamer and
cause fatal disaster, the extent Of which
is not yet fully known. There it did not
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C0LUMBIA'S BIG DAY.

This Will Be the Greatest Day Of the
Weeks Festivities There.
COLUMBIA. TENN, July 13-The first of the
weeks festivities was a success in every
particular, except that the rain about l
O'Clock prevented the racing in the after
noon. The Columbians are much gratified
that the attractions offered have drawn so
many people here. from q distance. The
parade OF 3e0 troops this morning made the
largest display seen in Tennessee during
recent years.
week. The raising OF the flag over the
arsenal, the completion of which forms an
epoch in Columbia's history, will be attended
with most interesting formalities, and the
ball at night will De one of the grandest
affairs of the kind that the South has ever
known
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INsURING OF THE BABIES.

A Death by Teething Reveals a Novel Prac-
tice in Philadelphia.
PHILADELPHIA, July l3.-Deputy Coroner
Dugan was called upon yesterday by an in
surance company who requested duplicate
certificate in the case Of Gwynne Davis, 8
months, 22S0 Taylor street, who died a couple
of days ago. An inquest by the Coroner on
Monday showed that death was due to ex-
haustion caused by teething.
The request was such an unusual one for
insurance companies considering the age of
the child that the Deputy asked if the baby
were insured. The agent answered in the
affirmative and Mr.. Dugan observed "why,
L didn't know you insured them SO young"
"Our company insures children at BIRTH"
was the reply. "Gwynne was insured in
February last the parents paying cents
per week"
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WHATEVER other accusations can be
brought against him, no one can truthfully
charge miserly economizer Holman with
being man ahead of the times. He argues
that because tallow dips were enough for
lighting the students when he was boy,
therefore the West Point appropriation bill
should not contain provisions for any better
system OF illumination to-day. If it were
not for his obstreperous liveliness, one
would imagine that the Hoosier statesman
had been dreaming in the back woods ever
since he left school,
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DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE.
Cyrus Hownrd, Engineer.

Cyrus Howard, one of the oldest citizens
of Pittsburg, passed away yesterday, at the home
of his son. H. q. Howard, q Church avenue Allie
gheny- Mr.. Howard has resided here since 1861.
He was civil engineer on the Panhandle Railroad,
and built the first mile between Pittsburg and
Mansfield, and afterward had charge of the con-
struction between Pittsburg and Columbus until
1866. Afterward he went into contracting and
built several levees In the South. At time Of his
death he was constructing water works at 1t.
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THE great reduction of Gladstone's ma
jority in Midlothian is "the most unkinuest
cut of all" received by his cause in this elec-
ton. 1t indicates the tremendous effort put
forth by his opponents as well as the Scotch
jealousy that Home Rule for Ireland has al
together swamped Home Rule for Scotland
as a political issue.
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As NJ uch as Possible.

chicago 1nter-Ocean.1
We need more protection, not less pro-
lection, against the pauper labor OF Europe,
as well as protection against the product Of
pauper labor in Europe. Enforce the immi-
grafton laws to the letter and American
workingmen will soon have no one to under
bid them in the markets of labor.