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PITTSBURGH CQlICERCIAIi GAZETTE. SATURDAYS OCTOBER 16, .1807.. Ing more rapidly from Its lower form of life, and that suIUrg shortage of people reported from any quarter of the world. The race as such, with all its. acute and chronic dteaes due-to evil habits hd bad living, is surely a long way from extinction if the future may be Judged by the past.

TOO FAT Ty RFX FAST. A Wllkeabn rre Warden Vnable to Cateh EacapioK Prisoner. J. Wllkesbarre, Oct. 15.

Henry Evans of Scranton. David Sullivan of Pittsburgh, and Lawrence Sullivan Philadelphia, who were arrested last week, charged with being pickpockets, were ordered before the court for a hahea corpus hairing to-day, and while Jail Warden Roland was escorting them from the jail to the court house ail three made a dash for liberty and escaped, Boland is a heavy man and could not overtake the prisoners. to commune shall bo the number reported by synod by the pavtor. Hereafter the officers of s-Ttod are to elected on Monday moruirr. and take charge at the close of the convention.

The synodical constitution rutnnleted. after three days' discussion, waa adopted by a rising vote, and prayer, led by the chairman of the committee. Rev. Dr. Schwartz.

The parochial reports i-how a grand total of membership In the churches and Sunday whools of 23.74S: expense account. and vtlue of church property, In the evening a foreign mission service a as held. Rev. S. E.

Smith of PunxtnitRwney delivered the address. S. E. Slater and H. C.

Reller assisting. Rv. Dr. Hartmttn will address the syno.l on missions to-morrow night. THE QUIET -Mighty dry," observed a farmer-look-.

Irig gentleman. Just stop in. the next wet placs we enme to and take something to drink." replied his companion, who may have been his son. "Not with me you won't, for I never drink liquor, nor beer, nor nothing of the sort. And your mother's last words when I left home were to be mighty careful about city water, for it ain't fU to drink." "Excuse me.

I thought you said you were mighty dry." "Nothing of the sort. I wrb referring to the weather. It hain't rained a drop on our farm for more than three weeks, and there hasn't been a good lain in months. 'Tain like it used to be 'fore the trees were ail cut off the ground." "Do you reckon ihat's -whet causes droughts?" "That's what they say, and it stands to reason that it will do it." Commmial (Sajttte. PUBLISHED MOP.XINO.

(Except Sunday.) NELSON P. REED CO. PROPRIETORS. 318 and 320 Fifth Avenue DAILY COMMERCIAL GAZETTE Carrlrrt la Alle-Cbrnr a ad oarrcnadlav towns -r- for ccata week. Br mnll.

one year, 3i aim months. t.50l three moBthi, TS ceata. WEEKLY COMMERCIAL OAIETTE One Dollar a year hr vall. Specimen Copies aent free. JAY KOULD'S HONESTY.

Ills School Lay t'nrt of an preaie I'aarl rt eco rri Other Thlnars About Hint. When Jay Gould was 14 yeata old hi wrote an essay on 'Honesty." then attending rchcol at West Settlement Delaware county. N. V. This wsaiy be came a part of the records of the Yorlt supreme court.

It came ubout In the taking of testl mony to rebut the claim ot tarah Ant to recover dower In Ja) Gouid'a estate, which she claimed br vlr tu: of a marrlnge she uliruts wim jcr formed in 153. which marrlfge she Intel declared In new stuicr interview nevei occurred, and that nh only mw Goul otice or twice during hit life. llie esssv ha- been lrir tilled by then as in the Ian a rllli.g Jay Gould am was mcrked as an exhibit in the ca though what boating it bus on the ques Hon of whether S.irah Ann Angel! wat or waa not Goulds wife does not ap pr. The essay bears th lr.d.jcsement. 10 Crmposttloti.

ech wood Seminary April ISM." and la as foil Honesty la tbe Rest Poller "By this proposition wc mean that tc honest, think honest, and to hav ail our a tlona homstly performed to the best way. and moat accords with tht rrcept cf reason. "Hontety la of a nature; tt he-come honest It rerurs self-denial Ii requires that we should not acquaint ourselves tto much with the world; that wo should not associate with those 01 vulgar hiib'ts: also that rdioni.1 obej the warnings of conscience. "If are about to perform a dla-honeat act the warnings of consclnt txert their utmost influence to persuade ua that It la wrong, and should not do' It: and after we hav performed the art. this laithfut agent urbraids ua for It; this voice of conscience Is not the voice of thunder, bui a voice Ken tb end Impressive; it cloei not force us to -cmrly with Its request while nt the hams ilme It reasons tvith us, and brings forth arrumcnta in- favot of right.

"Since no theory of reasoning can sustained without Illustration. It will not be unbecoming for ua to cite one of th many Instances that have occurred, whose names aland high upon the scroll of fame, and whose deeds are recorded on the pages of history; George Washington, tha man "who never told a lie In all his life." "In youth he subdued his Idle pasalotis, cherished I ruth, obeyed the teachings ol conscience ani 'never told a Ab anecdote wh'ch Is much related which occurred when he was a boy goet to show bis sincerity. Alexander Pope, In his 'EfcKay on Man. says. 'An honest man la the nobleat work "And ngain we find numerous passaget lr the whii have an Immediate connection to this, tind summing up the whole, we cannot l.M t.vy Honeaty Is the best policy.

"JASON This eit was Idcntltlel first br Jay Oould a lsttr. Elisabeth, wife cf Gilbert E. Pulen of Oermantown. Pa. Hhe SHld are keeping back Ease Liverpool pottery shipments.

Martins Ferry (O.) police nrr-ste five men accused of wholesale robberies in that vicinity and found end recovered a room full of eood. Dr. Jose -ib. Eherweln. who claims to b.

over 1ia, was takn yesterday to the Stark county fO.) poor house. He once had a lucrative practice. Thomas Jefferson, a Pittsburgh n.gro just out of the work-house, was arrested at Butler, Pu. charged with robbing Al Ztepler's store at Mars. September 6.

An engine axle broke on the Chicago and New York limited on the Erii road at Greenville, Pa. Fortunately the tram was just starting and no one was injurea. The new Citizens National bank. East Liverpool. has secuTed temiK.r.iy quarters and will open November 15.

A new bank building will be erected next year. William McNaughton of Wilmington township was fatally crushed on top of a load of baled hay while driving into a building at New Cattle. Pa. He died In the hospital. Throe men.

were arrested at Emlen-ton. on suspicion of having attempted to rob the St. Petersburg bank. One of them had beer, wounded. A check cvelghman's association has been organized by Clearfield district miners.

One-half of a cent per ton goes to the fund. The Cumberlard Pennsylvania railroad has heen sued for $20OJ0 fr the deaih of Dr. Thomas, killed at a Frost-burg tMd.) crossing. Rev. George C.

Cooke, a prominent minister of Jchnstown, charge of the Claysvilli (Pa.) United Brethren church to-morrow. Mrs. John K. Trevo of Slxtoenth street. Altoona, awoke to find her house on fire.

She escaped, climbing out on the kitchen, roof. Dr. John H. Martin has been el cted captain of Company K. Fifteenth regiment.

Greenville. succeeding Harry Donaldson, resigned. City Solicitor Seits of Harrisburg has brought suit against the bondsmen for Isaac W. Guile delinquent tax collector during 193. to recover 36, which remains unpaid.

r-An association hi been formed by the farmers of Raccoon and Moon townships. Beaver county. to prevent hunters from trespassing on their grouiwis neur the mouth of Raccoon creek. William Stuart of French Creek township. Mercer county, attempted suicide, snooting himself in the head.

He may recover. His barn had recently tu'-ntd and he was despondent. Levi Martin and William Jodiff at Wooster, have sued the Pennsylvania Company for damages each for false imprisonment. They were arrested for alleged attempted train wrecking, but not indicted. William N.

Wh.Iteley, once the "reaper king" of Springfield, has invented a combination corn and wheat harvester and it is said the big shops will reopen with l.Oow men at work. C. T. Duval, a Baltimore Ohio dining car conductor, was arrested at Bell-aire. changed with sellintr adulterated liquors on trains.

The food inspoctor made the complaint. Henry Beegle of New Castle. claims to be the youngest poldier of the rebellion, having enlisted in the Sixty-seventh Ohio at the age of 12 years and 9 months. Mrs. Martha Malta, aged 53 years, a widow and a professional nurse, died in In the roasts he Is now receiving even the creditable fact if Ignored that Weyler once came down good and hard on Look agents.

Aastvera to Correspondents. Junior, Espien, Pit. Tf you are sure of the number of the regiment In which your relative enlisted you can probably find out the facts you wish to know by consulting Bates' It contains a sketch of all the regiments that served in the war from Pennsylvania, with the names of all the officers and private soldiers. S. Erookville.

Pa. There are a dozen or more states in which aliens who have declared their Intention to" become citizens are entitled to vote. Citizenship is conferred upon aliens by the laws of the United States, but the suffrage is a privilege conferred by the states. Thus, in many of the states the privilege of voting on the part of aliens who have declared their intentions precedes their admission to citizenship. O.

City The erection of the present City hall was commenced in the summer of lSS. Previous to Its completion the sess'ons of councils were held in the upper rooms of the market bulldlis on the west side of the Diamond. Jean R. Allegheny. The last great epidemic of yellow fever in the United States was in 2.

Tha great cholera epidemic In Pittsburgh was in 1S54. 3. Never heard c' such nurses. THK DEATH HOLL. Robert 1,.

Crouch. Robert I one of the best- known citizens of the South Side, died at 6:20 a. m. yesterday at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Henry P.

Haas, at Castle Shannon. Crouch starved throughout the war as first lieutenant of Battery First Missouri light artillery, and was a member of the Union Veteran Legion and the Grand Army of the Republic. He is survived by his wife and three children Mrs. V. Clifton McCaus-land of Oakland.

Mrs. Henry Haas and Harvey L. Crouch of Castle Shannon. Trie funeral services wiil be held at the residence of Mrs. Haas upon the arrival of the train which leaves the Castle Shannon incline on the South Side at 8 p.

m. to-night. Interment wiU be privately made in the South Side cemetery Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Maricaret Mlell.

Mrs. Margaret Shields, mother of James W. Shields of the Osceola Coa! Company, died at 6:20 Thursday night at her home In Greenoak. Elizabeth township. She was 71 years old last Sunday, having beer, born near Glasgow, Scotland.

October 10, i2. She came to this country with her husband, the late Thomas a well-known coal operator, about fifty years ago, and located at Greenoak. where she has resided ever since. Mrs. Shields was Identified with the Free Church of but when she came- to this country affiliated with the Methodist Episcopal chureh.

and has been a strict member of the Greenoak She has eight children James the coal operator, of Pittsburgh: John Mrs. Margaret Cloman. Mrs. Bella C. Mrs.

Mary E. Waltrow of Greenoak and Mrs. Rebecca H. Thomas of liawsou. Mr.

laabella (jarro Ilalr'L Mrs. Isabella Garrow liaird, wife of John C. a prominent citizen of Cheyenne, formerly well-known newspaper man of Pittsburgh, died October 7 at Der.ver. after a surgical operation that had been hope.t would save her life. The relatives of Mrs.

Baird In Pittsburgh were not informed of her death until yesterday, when a letter came from Cheyenne announcing her burial. Mrs. Baird was well known as Isabella Gar-row, daughter of one of the most respected families of the South Side. Capt. John 1 Garrow of No.

17 engine company is her brother, and she ws a si'ter of the wife of Dr. J. D. Criss of Allentown. Her health had never been very good.

Mrs. Tan or Hayes. "Washington. Oct. 15.

(Special. Mrs. Nancy widow of the late William Hayes, died here to-night of paralysis of the brpin at the home of her daughter. Mrs. S.

M. Charlton. Hha was a native of this county and was years of age. During the past four years she tesided in Pittsburgh, but came to Wash-ii gton last Mav. and while here was stricken.

Mrs. A. H. Jolly and Miss T. O.

Hares of Pittsburgh are daughters. Dr. J. W. ollins.

Monorgahela. Oct. 15. (Special Dr. J.

W. Collins, a prominent resident of this city, was stricken with paraiysli this afternoon, and died this" evening. lie came here from Uniontown last spring. He served in the late war. and was for 25 years a practicing physician in Wst Virginia, nnd two years in the Cumber land hospital, but has lived a retired life i since 3S90.

He was 64 years old and is survived by his Wtfe and nine uhildren. Dr. Fretlerlek A. Saunders. Liverpool, Oct.

Ii (Special.) Dr. Frederick A. Sauiders. a prominent WelisvPie physician, died at his home roil of dropsy. 72 years.

For years he had ben oor.net ted with the Pennsylvania He left a request that his remains be kept 72 hours, a post-mortem held end his body cremated. Thomas tf. Foley. Thomas M. Foley, assistant superintendent of the registry division of the Pittsburgh postofrVe, a son of Patrick Foley died yesterday of typhoid fever at the Mercy hot-pital.

The deceased whs ore of the most "ulnr and efficient men in the iocal service, i nd his death is regretted by his late associates. Ol.ltoary Xote. Sir Chas. Moriaunt, bart, of Walton, Warwickshire, is dead. Mrs.

Kesiah Predmore, aged 70, died yesterday in Yovmstown. O. She was born and always lived in that vicinity. The Very Rev. Chas.

John M. I. dean of Uandaff since 1S79, died at Llandarl last evening. Mrs Annie Griffith, wife of Isaac E. Griffith, a prominent North Braddock citizen, died Thursday night of pneu-morla.

used 40 years. George W. Allen, aged 70. one of Philadelphia's oldest wholesale hardware merchants, haviiuj oeen connected with the trade over fifty years, died yesterday at his home, at Biyn Mawr. Mrs.

George Howard, a prominent tem- nerance worker I' ranklin. di ld vesterday of consumntlon. Her fathtjr. Kiley Peters, is a well-known oil oper ator. TKRSK TELEGRAMS.

Boston has registered 95.321 qualified voters, t2 less than last year. Ex-Judge Vincent continued his argument in defense of Luetgert yesterday. Emperor William and the empress yesteiday received the Potsdam leprosy conference. W. J.

Moore of Pittsburgh was yesterday elected treasurer of the National Horse Snoers' association. Secretary Henry White of the United States embassy and Mrs. White dined with the tiuec-it at Balmoral castle yesterday. James S. Dodg of Elkhart, department comnai iler of the G.

A. has declined appointment as consul at Nagaskl. Tfco stinre-ne court of Iowa decided that certifca es in fraternal Insurance orders like rre Ancient Order of United Workmen car.not he assigned. Th- Sotial Democrats of the German it is tinnouiiced, intended to proves the abolition of the lese majeste paragraph in the penal code. TROtllLES.

Philadelphia, Oct. 15. The Wharton Raliioad switch Company to-day assigned to Joseph T. Bunting. The deed cenvevg no real estate Tne works of the company are at Jenkintown.

The companv nvikes steam track such switches, frogs, crossings, etc. It should not be confused with William Wharton. A Co. The two companies are entirely dlstlnct. FIKE Johnstown.

Oct. 15. Fire last night destroyed Josepn tirlf-flthS atwinlli at Jernertown. Somerset count" Lrf-a No insurance. EOl'CHT THE HOTEL.

A Stranger Cleverly Seearea Free Hoard at Reaver. Beaver, Oct. 15. (Special.) The neatest way yet discovered of getting free board at a hotel was revealed here to-day. when a stranger, hailing from Rochester.

left, owing Landlord H. C. Winters a three weeks' bill. The stranger also owed Harry Anderson a livery bill and had borrowed Prof. G.

B. Waychoff's goM watch, which Is gone. Tho stranger contracted with Proprietor Winters for the purchase Of the lease and fixtures of the National hotel and was to take possession at 8 o'clock this mornjog. At a much ee.rlier hour he had taken his departure. Vetera aa' Reunion.

Grove City, Oct. 15. (Special.) The survivors of the Fifty-seventh regiment, Pennsylvania volunteers, held their annual reunion here yesterday. The town was gayly decorated and the Woman's Relief corps furnished supper. MaJ.

Cunningham, made the address of welcome for the town snd Dr. S. A. Hughes for the a. A.

W. R. C. and S. of V.

J. M. Martin. of New Castle, responded. A business meeting was held In the afternoon and the campflre was in the college chapel in the evening.

Dr. I. C. Ketler was present and proffered the use of the college. J.

M. Martin, New Castle; Col. J. Strawhecker, Coopers-town, find Hon. Hrry Watson, Grae-n-vllie.

delivered addresses. Harrlsburg, Oct. 15. The reunion of the Thirteenth Pennsylvania cavalry regiment was held here to-day. A business session at the rooms of the Ijcal G.

A. R. post this afternoon, was followed this evening by a campflre at the supreme court room. These officers were elected: President, Col. Michael Kerwin of New York; vice-president.

Capt. P. D. Brickc-r, ltarrisburg. and secretary and treasurer, Lewis M.

Mackcn, Philadelphia. Murdered in a Restaurant. Huntington, W. Oct. 15.

(Special.) At 5 o'clock this evening William Webb, aged vears. was shot and killed by Frank Wolcott. aged 22 years. Webb had entered a restaurant, and as he was leaving Wolcott confronted him and fired. ebb Is a son of Dr.

J. W. Webb, who was for a quarter of a century a presiding eider In the Methodist Episcopal church In West Virginia. Wolcoit's father Is very wealthy. Wolcott is now In jail.

He gives no reason for the shooting. Wolcott had been drinking heavily. Friends of his victim, who tfrere witnesses of the tragedy, state that not a single word had been spoken when the shooting occurred. Wolcott has made two attempts upon his own life within a year, and not long ago shot Fred Miller, the bullet striking Owen Bartman. a prominent citizen, snd seriously wounding him.

Site for a New Station. Beaver Falls. Oct. 15. (Si ecial.) At sheriff's sale a few days ago John Duss.

trustee of the Harmony society, bid in the site of tho Whitla glass works that was destroyed by fire five years ago. To-day he begn to clear away the debrta. He has entered into negotiations for the sale of it to the Pittsburgh Lake Erie Railroad Company for a new station. Miller Held for Manslaoabter. New Brighton.

Oct. 13 (Special.) Charles F. Miller, the employe of the Citizens Gas Company, who turned on the gas that caused an explosion, resulting in the death of Mrs. McKenna, was this evening held for court on the charge of manslaughter. The caBe before Justice Duff attracted intense interest.

Candidate Accused of Assault. Uniontown, Oct. 15. Robert Watson, Democratic candidate for poor director, was this morning arrested and placed ui'der bail on a charge of assault and batt-ry. William Rankin, a coke worker from Hopoodr alleges that because ho would promise to vote for him Watson assaulted him on the street, striking him several blows.

A Twelve-Months School Year. Moreamo W. Oct. .15. tSpecIal.) At a meetirt of the loard of regents of the West Virginia l.fj yesterday, tt wa 'leoided to hnhi th.

st-h nil ibruuah twelve months. Anutder ohanse is of admitting young the preparatory department. R. It. McMahon offered two prizes-of each to be tdven to the tst drilled cadet and the leader of the IbW class.

Fiva hundred students will go to Fairrr.nnt in the morning, and two or three hundred writ on this evening's train. Klah-ora'e preparations have been made for the iratne with Marietta Marietta won the ft; st Kume. Morgantonn won tne second jeur. r.nd thib came decides it. Government lluildlnc; Completed.

Beaver l'all. Oct. 15. (Special.) Postmaster liawkins announce! to-ucy that t-nvirow niffht he would begin the removi.J of the posti'filie to its new quarters in the lately erecte.t government buildinr on Seventh avenue. In addition the government building will Contain iha office of the pension examiner of Beevr 'ounty.

ant) the of jee of the loca! board of civil pervlie The appropriation for the building an.l grounda waa reaiie in It was JoO.OOi). The ground and tha building The building wus beaun a ear kro. ft I Italloou Colinnaed. Alliar.ce, tX. 1.

(Special.) Tha ascension at the street f-ilr here this afternoon came near rejujltinir In a fatality After ascending oi4 fet the balloon partially collapsed and came down oulckly into the raUroad yards. Charles Wilson of Cleveland, the aeraiiaut. was dracfred over the top of several box eira and then fed cn the railroad traok on his had. He evaned with but small Injuries. His aeronaut dog, "Nell," fell on a rati and waa k.iica.

A Jfervy Roller Thief. Rutltr Oct. 15. (Specie Samuel Mc-Kan 1 much wanted in Vonango thta- county. He is accused of several thefts of live viock, and aiso of forg-ery.

Information have leen maiie asainsi him, but cannot be found. It claimed he stole a valuable colt from Hugh Coiilr.s, traded It fc.r a horse, then tried to eit the horse to Collins. A lot of plunder found in a coal bank Is sup-pored to have been stolen by iiim. Hog Cholera In Ohio. MaasHion, Oct.

13. 'Special.) Karmers north of town are much worried because of an outbreak of violent hog cholera. John Dally, a prominent farmer, has 20 animals now sick. Relialre Steel Worker' Strike. BeHuire.

Oct. 13. (Special.) It ia stated that the Steel Company's works are to be started Monday with new men. Notices have been posted that th' men who quit are diohaiged, but those not identified wi'n te movement could have work by applying. The trudes council has posted notices klng workers to keep away.

An Atalanehe of Stone. Akron, Oct. lj. (Special.) At an hour thW morning a ton wall cn r. IdH a novo t'i.

home cf A. Oreeley on North Maple street, this city, fell, crushing the houne and tnakin it a total wreck. No men'ber cf the family was injured. STATE AST NEIGHBORHOOD. Woodsfield (O.) Methodist have dedicated a fine new church.

James Henry Disncr, pgM 2, burned to death at a Wilkes tarre. brush fire. Jacob Ponca waa ru-i over and killed in a mine at Mammoth. Westmoreland county, Fa. Murray Henry, McTCeesport Jeweler, was ai rested at Lr.irobe.

and said to be violently insane. William McMahon. oged CO, was killed by a fall of stone in the Franklin mines, near Hellaire, O. N'-ncy Keister. who suddenly disappeared from Franklin, lias returned.

She had been at rchool at Tyrone. Albert Bowers, a Greenville' (Pa.) clerk, has concussion of the brain, from a fall from a bicycle, and is likely to die. John Starkweather was robbed in an Alliunce (O. resort of and a watch. Two arrests have been made on suspicion.

The farmers in the vicinity of Fre-donia, are organising a company and propose to ere-ct a creamtry costing about js.iyv. The Altoona health board is hunting for a butcher who made sai'sap of a pi? that went mad after a dog had bitten It. Scarcity of cars and freight blockades cn Oe Cleveland Pittsburgh, railroad International Association. Montreal, Oct. 15.

The session of the international convention of the Board Women and Young Men's Christian association opei.ed to-day. An hour was devoted to devotional exercises, after which Mr. J. F. Stevenson, vice president of lh Montreal branch, read an address of welcome, which was replied to ly Mrs.

A. l'orman, presid-nt of the International board. The remainder of the session was taken up with the reports of officer which showed that thcro were f4 association with 21.143 numbers owning real estate amounting to i.340.(4. CANADA FOR GOLD. Stronsr Argnmenl for the Yellow Metal Engrllsh Views on Money.

London. Oct. 15. The Canadian Bankers' association. In view of the action here in riemorializing the chancellor of the exche aer on the silver question, has cabled at great length to the chairman of the Ijndon clearing banks, heartily Indorsing all opposition to bimetallic measures.

The resolution ends as follows: "They finally reiterate their conviction that a double standard of value cf obligations Is delu3ive ond impracticable; that of the two standards, gold Is incomparably the most desirable, ar.d that the Dominion of Canada, having all its obligations, public; private and corporate, resting on. and being so ljng and honorably established ori ihls most solid basis, any at tempt to disturb the same or any measures having a tendency In that direction should be met with strenuous resistance." Following ia a copy of the memorial to the chancellor of the exchequer. Sir Miohitel Hlcks-Besch. which ban extensively signed by the leading Englh bankers, discount houses end merchants: "Sir We, the undersigned, are engaged In various mercantile, banking and financial enterprises In the cily of ondon of no alight magnitude, and. we are therefore, deeply interested in all tht a.Tects the monetary position of the country, the credit of the bank note, and the solvency of banking Institution.

We are aware of the visit of the delegates from the president of the United States to thin and othe countries, but have no authoritative information as to the nature of their pro posals. From the communication of the governor of the Bank of England to yourself, lately made puhllc, and from general report, we cannot but assume thai negotiations of some sort touching the currency of this country are proceeding. We feI impelled by a strong sense of duty respectfully to Isy before her majesty's government the following four considerations, the great Importance of which we trust may be apparent: 1 That no alterations should be Introduced affecting the circulating medium of this country. 'except after fall discussion In parliament and by the public at large, so that the changes ironosed may havo as ample consideration aa their Importance deserves. "2 That under no circumstances whatever should the pledges of succe-itdve governments as to the British pound Met ling and 'he K.ngle gold standard of this country he act aside, either directly or indirectly, and that no steps should" be taken by or with the consent of our government which has for Its object any alteration In the value of that standard.

"3 That this country a one of th great nations of the world enjoys under her mint regulations coinage system absolutely free from embarrassments, internal or external, and we conceive that any departure therefrom In the direction of reliance tqion engagements with other countries would be a fatal nilstske. "4. That the mints of India being closed, as to the policy of which we express no opinion, a state of circumstances has arisen In which the greatest cjution Is necesse. ry. whatever may be the next step which the Indian government may be adv'scd" to take, but we urge that no retrograde step be taken except upon as exhaustive an Inquiry as that which led up to the rresent position, and then only if Indian interests will be primarily benefited thereby.

"Wo most strongly urge the foregoing considerations upon her majesty' government, speaking as we believe we are Justified in stating with some little knowledge of the problems involved and of the Interests at stake, and we are prepared. If necessary, to give out reasons at length, if It ba your wish to receive a deputation." CLAIMS 'TWILL FLY. Ckicnaonn lleslans ew and Powerful Aerodrome Had an Accident. Chicago. Oct.

15. Chicago has developed an air-ship factory. It Is located a sunburned field with the gray walls of the drainage oft observation on the one side ar.d the powerful odors of' the Chicago river warding away mere delittante curiosity seekers on the other. William Paul, under whose directions the experiments and trials have bc-n made, yesteiday finished his tesls and djsmfii-tled his machine. He had to make a final flight, but the wind proved contrary, and his ascension had to be dropped from the program.

The aerodrome, for this Is the accepted name for his style of flying machine, waa sent up laden with ballast and mounted to a height of approximately 4oy et. There it careened and dodged In tne shifting cross currents, and then dived, like a kite with an Inadequate tall, and lauded in tha sandburs with Its membranes torn and its skeleton broken. This Is not by eny means Paul's first experience with flying machines. All P'st year he was at Octave Chanute't experimental station In the sand dunes of Indiana. It was he who took the first and last trip in the great, bird-like contrivance from which ro much was expected but whose end was so Ignominious us the hopes of Its designer had been high.

The present device Is constructed mu'-h the same lines as Its pred-CLSHor. The wings which projected from th sides of the first device have been done away with, as has the boat-like framework in which the operator waa confined. In other respects the general design is tht same. The air tunnels, in the shape of triangular prisma, nine fet long and three feet on each aide, support and direct the craft. Between them la a space two feet wide.

Above this main frame-work are two aeroplane each five feet wide, but the lower sixteen feet, and the upper t-n feet long. The operator sits cn a roiling seat, hung three frtt helow the framework, and, by moving forward or lack from the renter, tilts (he airplanes for ascent or deacon t. The total weight of the machine la thirty pounds. it is hoisted like a huge kite, snd r1ea dhectly In the face of the wind, bring held by heavy piano wlr. When he proper elevation la reached, the wire la flipped from Its fastening on the machine by the operator, and the descent is begun.

Py a aeries oi gentle undulations, the aerodrome reaches the ground, a constant gradient of about ten feet of ad-vnce for one of fall being maintained. The machine has heen aent up with ballast as high as l.iwfl feet, and Paul hlm-telf haj risen 40 feet ftom the rurface in It. A larger machine has been constructed on the same principles as the one which broke down yesterday, and a series of more ambitious experiments have been planned for next year. World's Gold Production Since lAO. The statist puhliahes an article on tha wjrll'a gold iroductlon ine J8S0.

With the i tela a hart aiven showing the variation In production In each jear from ini.1 tu from wh' the first atrlklng fact to he sith-ered ti.at tne jo-oductlon cf 1W. eonire.i w-ith th averuiie of the years Psl K) 1 prat'tlt-Mly double the value. Approximately the yiaid of gold for 189 may ttd Mo.i-m.Ojo. against aa average c-f for the of ll-i Hoc tbe I reduction hr ftelda as follow: I nlted pU'tn. HI S.iO '0, Aumraiaata.

f.M.0; Tranavaai. ami other countries. or a total cf 13.0',V The grand ot t'e rdd prxxui' t'on I'Bce if), Inclusive, Is, In rmirtd fta-urea, U. la.iif"'.'''0, or, approximated JWI.OXi.Wg von-va of And that is what they do say. and it is to try to mend matters that the governors of states appoint: arbor days in the spring and fall, and call upon farmers, business men, school children, ond everybody to plant trees.

In some places these tree planting days are observed, but almost everywhere they are not. nor will they be until the people have learned to appreciate the value of forests. Here In the city we know comparatively nothing about droughts, except by the lncreasel amount of dust ind dirt. As for rains, we. are not anxious, because they make the streets so sloppy and disagreeable.

Of couse we have a care for our farmer friends, being willing to allow them all the rain fliey want if they allow us plenty of dry, clear weather. And yet in a dicker of this sort we would be getting the worst of it, because the city needs a good soaking now and then, bi'sHej frequent baths. Without these it would soon become a regular hot-bed of disease. Tf you have ever been through timber districts, and particularly the pine regions, you could not have failed to notice the "slashings." These are the sections in which loggers have cut down all the trees fit for lumber, and broken down nearly the others, leaving only a mass of tree tops and crushed sappiings, which together form an immense brush heap ready to take fire at the first opportunity and destroy the few trees lemaluing and th. undergrowth.

It would be bad enough were these limited to a few acres, but they spread over thousands and thousands of acres, and the forest fires originating in them destroys thousands of acres of good timber. There will have to be an accounting for such recklessness, and It will be a sal time not onlv for the people in this but in every ate. Even those which never had much timber are made to suffer from drought an-I low water In the larger rivers. Were the timber all removed the earth would burn up not literally, hut become so dry and parched It could hardly support life. Trees, shrubs and weeds shelter the ground from the hot rays of the sun, and from dry winds, so that i's moisture Is not taken up.

If you will give the matter a little attention you will find that timber lands are always moist, and their nprirg.A rivulets and creeks never dry up as they do out among the bare fields. You have a sort of theoretical knowledge of this, but you do not realize ita hearing on the health of the peopla and prosperity of the country. The' re those living here now who well remember when steamboats ran regularly on the Ohio river all summer long, with the exception of an occasional dry season, when the packets might have to lay up for a few weeks. That was before the timber on either side of the Allegheny and Alonongahela rivers, and the streams leading into them was cut oft. and the earth exposed to the direct action of sun and wind.

A gentleman who recently j.uld a visit to the haunts of his boyhood says it was a really saddening sight to see the creeks and brooks and springs dried up. timber groves hanged into sunburned fUUK and bhady lanes into dusty roads. old swimming hole' which, in the deepest place, used to be over anybody's hesvi. is hardly knee deep to a duck, and the little water there is In it Is dirty an! not fit to wade in, much less to swin in. He missed the woods where he used to gather hickory nuts, hunt squirrels, and chop wood for winter fires.

Instead of a green, well-watered, healthful country he says it is dry, dusty and dreary. The jieople do not appear to he as healthy and thrifty as when he was a boy, nor are the boys as rugged and happy as he and his associates. Almost everyone he talked with seemed to he seeking some sort of excuse to leave the farm and move to town. Well, what is to be done about It? That something ought to be done is as plain as the nose on your face. To" a fellow up a tree there appears to be only one method of procedure, and that is to plant trees wherever there are places for them, and to make it a rule, or a law, that for evory trea or sapiriitig cut down a good, thifty young tree shall be planted.

'There, isn't a farm, big or little, la this state, or any other Ftate, that hasn't patches of ground fit for nothing eise than to raise trees. In most sections walnut, chestnut, hickory, and sugar maple grows well. All of these are profitable aside from the timber they produce. They are hardy, make good shade, and enrich the ground. An acre planted in any one of theso will, after a f-iW years, yield an income that will average well with that of any other acre on the farm; besides it wiil require no plowing, no tending, no fertilizing.

A correspondent of the Ohio Farmer, writing from Sugar Uun, advocates the pU-nting of sugar maple on account of the Income It will yield. In support of his suggestion he cites the last census reports. In lfj'y. according to the census of 1890, the six stutes of New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Michigan produced 31.S02.276 pounds of maple sugar and 1,529,47 gallons of maple syrup from trees which grew naturally and were spared from the ax of the woodman. The state of New York produced nearly ten and a half millions of pounds of maple sugar, and about half a million gallons of mple syrup.

The small stale of Vermont produced pounds of maple sugar and 21 ..252 gallons of maple syrup. Careful estimates show that if waste lands of New England had b. planted In sugar maple twenty year ago that section would now be pro lucing more sugar than Louisiana and he West Indian islands combined. A single tree yields from- two to six pounds, according to the size of the tree and the favorttMeness of the season. In Ohio, as well as in New York and New England, the sugar cam 3 is esteemed the most profitable part of the farm.

If maple sugar and svrnp can be made at a profit now, on a sma'i scale, from scattering trees, according to ail business rules they could be made nt a greater profit on a larger scale, from trees thickly planted. "I know of many Irllaides in Pennsylvania," says the Sugar Run correspondent, "which fbould never hf.ve been cleared They are difficult to jiow and cultivate and when plowed are liable to wash and Whcn seeded vith ar.y of the valuable grasses they soon run out and are succeeded by weeds aid wild, worthless grasses. It would be folly to think of enriching these hillsides with clover or cow peas. It would viuire a good coating of manure to maic clover cat' and then It would last bvt a year or two. A farm thirkSj covered maphs fees would alwuys be valuable, because maple sugar and syrm.

owing their peculiar, delicious tl.ivnr, will al-v -ivs be in good demand at an ex, -silent price. There would be no t-ulay ror fertilisers, fences, agricultuftu irr-idenients or ueecs." SATURDAY. OCTOBER 13. 17. TEN PAGES.

POLITICS IS THE SCHOOLS. What a howl would go us from the PcpulUt and free silver presa gent-rally if certain feature were reversed of a new note which cornes from Kansas! It is to the effect that the Debs contingent of the Kansas Populists expects to us the collages and -schools of the state for the propagation of the Debs Idea. It is asserted that "tack of the scheme are some of the Fopulist leaders of the state, and that most active in the work of the organization are appointees of Chief Justice Poster of the Kansas supreme court. The plan as outlined is to employ teachers the schools and colleges Mho are in sympathy with the Debs idea, and follow up this action by the organisation of Debs Democracy clubs among the students. As the Debs idea is what may be termed advanced Populism it may be considered natural ihtt the Kansas Populist should be taken by it, and as Populism has already been made to dominate the educational Institutions of the state, it may be Inferred that the latter will be further converted to political purposes by the -volution to Dob inauuctars.

Th reader will look In vain for any disapproval this course In the publications that were atlrring up such a teapot tempest over the of Andrews, find referring to it as the closing in of gold and capitalisation on American educational Institutions. No disapproving comments on the Kansas plan will be found In the papers that denounced the alleged work of "Northern Ishmaelltes" in the Texas state dntversity. These illega-tlons were Investigated by a legislative corentiBslon, which. Democratic though it was. and deairoua of substantiating the charges, had the humiliating duty to report that thty were not true.

TAG OtTtOOK VS OIL. With the daily production- of Pennsylvania oil above IGO.tXJO barrels, a couple of gushers which to presage the opening of a couple of new pools in Tyler and Marion counties. W- and the priceof crude down to 7 cents a barrel, the situation In oil Is not at present a very cheering one for the smaller producers. It ia not pleasant, of course, to the larger producers, but they can stand It better. In a drop In the market often aeerna only to stimulate some of them to seek to make up with quantity what is lost in price.

But in the main the stocks are swelled most by the activity of what are classed as the smaller producers, and the lack of stimulation to increase their output soon tells on the production, unless some of the big fellows, who can afTord to take the rlaks. offset the shrinkage by tapping a field or a prolific pool Therefore it would see.m that the rmaller producers have nothing to do hut to grin and hear It white 'the larger chaps keep nn. drilling, or else seek to find additional wyes, or market for product. The production of the einat! operators Is a larger factor In the aggregate than it is ordinarily supposed to be. In one of the so-called shutdown movements it was thought that It could he easily brought about on the assumption that a comparatively few producers held the great bulk of the cnsumptlon.

but It-was sown discovered that this was a mistake and that much more production was distributed than had been supposed among an army of small producers. Undoubtedly a similar effort now would di3cloe a greater volume of production among the small operators than it is generally supposed they hold. If they can't find a market for some of the surpiua themselves the only course (pen to them seems to be to hoid to their territory, curtail their operations and hope that while waiting decreased stock? and higher prices the luck of the big- felloas. who can afford to take more elbow room, will ruu more to dusters than gushers. ROOM FOK IHIRK.

Yesterday's statement of the treasury balance shows the gold reserve" above the 15O.0OO.C)O mark, Meanwhile the Imports of gold continue, and In spite of foreign efforts to check them it ta expected that tha cotton movement will add to the favorable trade conditions In giving them a special stimulus. It may therefore be tx-pected In addition to presenting comparison Intended to show what a rueasly thing the present tariff law ia as compared with the luscious Wilson bill, the Democratic papers will be devoting extra apace to the task of showing what an undea'ratde state of affairs it is to have such a large amount of gold piling up in the treasury vaults which ought to be in circulation. That was the argument offered against "the troublesome surplus" which existed before the Democratic doe-tors persuaded- a majority of the voters that the country needed a change: but the argument has been given so much rest that It is noi about as good and car. be made available for application to tha geld reserve. Meanwhile there will be a considerable number, of people -in this country who wiil be so stubborn as to believe that Is better to have gold piling up In the reserve this country than In other countries, with the United States chasing after It with bonds instead of with business.

They will also be so thick headed as to wish this country may keep moving on toward commercial supremacy until, by the superiority, and protection of Its great It become the creditor ratlin and controlling tlnanctal power of the world. FAR FROM K.TIC1 iO.V. Some of the doctors who have been In attendance at the civic philanthropic congress at Battle Creek. have been painting the future In rather tough colors in the papers presented by them. They fear that race extinction is approaching.

As tf the pictures dravn In this way were not dMk some of the commentators upon them have been them as subjects for essays to the point that the world Is likely tj play out soon kef-aus It Is breeding from its IncupaUes. It is pointed out that children are coming Into the world by the whore parentage dooms theta to a Ufa which will be a pitiful struggle against disease ar.d poTerty, whereas fewer children are coni-li lrf tha homea of tha world's au-jcess-t ul people. It requires no extet lve research to find people brought into the world by people unfit to be parents. They are everywhere, and everywhere are according evidences that tha world exercise more practical concern In the reproduction of stock than of This and much more to the same purport Is but In predicting a rapfl detirloration of the race, resulting In extinction, the warning philosophers seem to Ignore the- fact that for thousands vf years tb world ha teen brt'j-- she waa the daughter of John P'trr Gould anJ Maty More. She Imd thie slaters, Sarah Burr, Anna Nancy and Mary, and brother, Jason, mho waa fenerallv known aa Jay.

He. she aMd. wag bom May 27, The famllr iled at VVeat Settlement. Delaware county, unt'l 1813. when they moved to P.oxbury, or Beavar Dam.

Their mother died In 142. Her father te-marrled twice, the last wife being Marjr Ann Orbln, by whom he had ope thlid, Abraham. Her brother. Jar, moved to Oouldsboro In IST-s, and In 111 came to New Yftrk. where he married Helen Miller in 10C2 or Kt.

During all these ycara she saw htm constantly, and she bad never heard cf his being married before he wedded Mlaa Miller. Her first recollection of her brother Ja waa when he waa about a year and a half old. His mother had Junt made a new gown and she wore it as she ast before the fire at their old home at West Settlement, washing the bahy. Jay. Their father waa a farmer there, but when lie moved to Foxburv he opened a hardware store.

In which Jay helped him. keeping the Tbe old account books were introduced In evidence and Mrs. Palen Identified many entries In her brother's hanrtwrltlna. In ISfiZ he tiegen surveying Ulster county. On October of that year be wrote the following letter to Dr.

A. Uju.l: think there Is point; to be a great pollllcal rally at the prdln this fall. Moth parti's seems pretty well united and fully prepared for action, but it may be the Whigs will git disappointed In the ex-pectatlon of miking the fourteenth president of Gen. Wlnfieln hcott; at least I hope not. 1 think the United Ieraoracy ought to put In Franklin Puree." Mra.

Palen told how one Sunday morning In April, 1S'2. Jay said he would cook an Albany steak for thein. and It took them all the afternoon to clean up the dhhes he had used. lie used, she said, while su-veylnar Albany county In ShS. to write constantly home In 1K14 he waa laid up at home with typhoid fever, and two physicians watched him all night on August 1 of that Ehe aall her brother Intended publishing a history of Delaware county and border warfare of New York, and por tiona of si'ch a book in his writing were put evidence.

Irem It. More, with whom Jay Gould ftayel in Aibanv In 1S53, said they slept together. His father whs a brother of Gould's motner. He and Gould vlsltod this city in March. 1813.

Gould had with him a model of a mousetrap Invented by his grandfather which he wanted to get patented. They delivered It to the Crvs-tal palace, where It remained on exhlbl lion. The trap waa stolen while they were going on a street car to the exposition building. Thoy rat. after the thief and held him until a policeman came up and took th all to the police station.

Where Gould entered a complaint. More said be neve- heard thut Gould was married unit! he married Helen MH1.T. James Oliver, the school teacher at West Settlement, after telpng about Jav Gould's esay on "Honebty." said Jay "aa a quiet boy. never anxious for company, but rather of a tiring deposition. "He used." Oliver ald.

"do more listening than talliitiiB. Ha was a boy of uncommon Intellect and vf ry independent in his way of tb.r.klng. was sIko a studious reader. Mid was never rude or boisterous. His penmanship and drawing were always tiet.

He never used profane or vulmr Unausge nor said anytnlrg to hurt other people a feelings." Youthful Oklahasia Mnrderer. Guthrie, Oct. IS Thirteen-year-old Johnny Matthews waa arrested today, charged with murdering the S-year-old'aon of Capt. L. L.

15rldr.es.' a well-known attorney formerly of Fedalln, Mo. The boys quarreled yesterday and this morning the murdered boy waa found dead, lylni In front of his fnther's house with a bullet wound In his head. The bullet tame from across the street, apparently from the Matthew house. Conscience Money In the 1'rrasary. From tha Pt.

Louis Republic. The lajent contribution to lh "consclenca" fun of the national treasury la tt fr.im an unknowa person in an anveiote with an Utcgibia postmark. The amount of tha coatrtti.ln Just before thta wj cents, in r-eot year vcral contributions of cent wera aeceivea. T'ie largest eer received waa IM.Oiyi. It was aunt ttis aiate department from London by rector, snd then urn-d over to the treaeur.

If was from a iwnlient Amenrn. who Ind defraud'd tbe sovernnirnt of that amount. So larrer contributions lo tha fun.l hava te received It. In yer. The "eon science account the ttensury whs ord in Itul, and aiii' that time there haa ln received about lAMt.W").

Theae moneva go Into tue treasury UKe celpta of my other k.hd, bnd ae aMu-tidei! 'n tha rntr of tunln. T1i Impression that he fjnd Vept separata fioin all uthera Is a ntlslf.ke. CAPITAL Erifiland absents to a met ting of srs! experts ut Washington. Available rath balance, $211 S30.MS; gold reserve, JloO.lM.lie. The president has appointed D.

bhep-hetd postmaster at Norwalk. O. The appointment of John A. Hart tea la In place ot another Illinois man iNeu-men). who was short time ago rejected by the German government.

Mtuil G. Paditley, a clerk in the general land office, committed bUlclde by Jumping from Cabin Johns bridge, a drop Ol aUittt 12.r. feet. Tbe retirement of Col. A.

O. Robinson, assistant quartern.aster-general. results In the promotions cf Lieut. -Col. Jmn GUllS to be colonel: Ma).

Charles F. HuiT-phey to be lieutenant-colonel; Capt Batumi R. Jonea to be major. OeoiTfa Purhln Oakdale. was committed to tall for court laat nlglit on a charge of larceny.

He la accuaed by 1. N. Ktliy. i od driller and rbg builder, of stealing from h'm act of tools. Tha complaint was mad before Justice of tha rea.es Vi.

W. Land of Oakdala. i St. Joseph's hospital. Reading.

from the enects of morphine, taken, it is believed, with suicidal Intent. She had been arrested, accused of assault and felt disgraced. SIMPLY THK CHTKUl. Mtlwnuk.ee Dloecan Thinks Protestant Eniacopal Snpcrtf uoas. Oct 15 The Protestant Episcopal church of America wiil be known in the future simply us "The Church." if the movement formally inaugurated in the meeting of the Milwaukee diocesan council to-day Is taken tip by the dioceses generally throughout the country, as the clergymen and layiucii firmly believe it In amending tho constitution of the diocee the words "The Protestant El is-cupal Church" were stricken out and "Tho Church" inserted in their stead.

This change has been under discussion for nomp time. I'M i Form i ty i.v work. ChrNflau Minsion Laborers Form a Branch Ansorln ion. Indianapolis, Oct. 15.

The most important development of the Christian convention to-day was the organization of a branch association, composed of the state and national presidents and secretaries of both home and foreign fn'ssions. The new association is to be known as the Secretaries' association, and it will hold a day session each year just prior to the convention or- the C. W. B. which has hitherto opened the series of conventions.

Tne organization was effected by the adoption of a constitution and election of officers, as follows: President. G. A. Columbia, vice-president. Benji mln L.

Smith. Cincinnati; secretary. H. Goodacre. Richland Center, Wis.

Among those present at the organization meeting were Robert Mot-fett, Cleveland. and F. F. Bullard, Greensburg. Pa.

(Jr. A. Hoffman presided and H. Good-acre acted as secretary. The object of the organization is to establish uniformity In the Ftate mission work the various states.

The first step was the preparation of a memorial to the American missionary convention, which meets next week, asking tho convention to establish a uniform state mission day. when all of the Christian- churches will be asked to contribute to the various state missions. This afternoon Miss Mattle Pownds. national suoerintendeni of the peo ple's department, reported receipts were $10,035 SsT. an increase- of $1,627 F4 over last year.

Of this amount. Jo.Std 13 was contributed to the builders' fund, and 71 to the orphanage, fund. The Illinois department was presented with a banner for having the most Christian and other yours people's societies contributing to the young people's work for the, first time. To-niht Miss Birdie Farrnr of Virginia and Miss Jennie Kneel! of New York gave addresses. The attendance was r-o large that an overflew meeting had to he held.

Indianapolis. Oct. 15. The forenoon set-uon of tiie National Christian church convent ion was devoted to the department of Christian woman's board of missions. After devotional exercir-es Mrs.

C. N. Fearre of Indiana delivered nr. address of welcome, to which Mrs. 8.

M. Stahr of Texas responded. The committees were also announced. President Mrs. 0.

A. Burgess then delivered her annual address. The secretary's report showed 1.503 auxiliaries In the United States with an aggregate membership of ard contributions last year oi In India. Jamaica and Mexico there are twenty-six missionaries at work and thirty others do'ng special wotk in this country. The treasurer's report showed total receipts for the year, including a balance of at the beginning of it.

of $72,723, and disbursements of leaving a balance of The report of the foreign missionary society of the church to be made to tho convention will show that the society represents over l.OOO.OOfi communicants. Their total missionary offt r.ngs for the year aggregate over JriUfl.Oon, nearly all of wh'h is spent in the United States. The pnt year has been the most successful In the society's history, more than in excess of any previous year having been raised, bringing the total receipts up to 10. The foreign Christian missionary society has workers In India. Janan.

China. Turkey, Africa. England. Norway. Sweden and Denmark.

It has upon the pavroll missionaries and native helpers. The Gospel is preached at 63 stations and 40 outeUilons. There are nearly 5.O0O chi'drbti In the Sunday school and over 1. W0 under instructions In the day schools. CONSTITUTION COMPLETED.

Lutherans llenohe to Hare All Students Go to Get ty abui-ir. Oct. (Special.) The half-hour praise service of the Lutheran synod this morning was ld by Rev. J. K.

Hilty of Venango. The syi od opened with prayer by Rev. J. C. Nicholas.

The syn-odical. constitution waa taken up and cottpltted except the enabling act and date of goip? into effect. An Important article was one referring to ministerial education, which waa adopted, after being amended to read that students shall make 75 per cent grade, and none, except in special cases, shall be received on the funds until able to enter the freshmen rhiss of some Laitheran college. All such boref claries arc to glvj a note for receive. lake the last two college years and theological seminary at Gettysburg.

The by-laws were taker, up and each pastor, by them, is required preach a sermon on mlss'ons annually. Th number oi nicn.fct.rs actually entitled.