The Philadelphia Inquirer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (2024)

1 THE PHILADELPHIA IXQUrREB-TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 6. 1S9I. during the winter and spring." This is a magnificent new quarters on the fourth floor of the City Kail. BLAINE AND SALISBURY. not shared by any other place in the country, and the suggestion that steps should be Highest of all in Leavening Power.

TJ. S. Gov't Report, Aug. 17, 1889. fufadcfpfua inquirer PUBLISHED EVERY DAY IN THE YEAR BY THE INQUIRER COMPANY JAMES ELVERSON, PRESIDENT 929 CHESTSCT STREET.

PURE ABSOUUTEKlf rr.ent with Great Britain touching the sea' fisheries, he wrote the following in his clos ing communication to his own goverpraent November 12, 1888: 'Much learning ha? been expended upon the discussion of the abstract question of the right ot mare elau-suni. I do not conceive it to be applicable the present case." THE PAPERS EL A HE ELAINE. tVbat tbe- English Editor ol the Con. troveisv. Loxdox, Jan.

5. The Pull tydl Gazette to-day says "The case tor arbitration in the Behring Sea'dispute is so clear, Lord Salisbury's offer is so ample, and the feeling in America in favor ot arbitration is so general and strong that it seems necessary to look for Mr. Blaine's motives for his warlike attitude elsewhere than iu the merits ot the case. That the American people would deliberately prefer a policy of exaggeration and would sooner embark in a fratricidal war with England than submit to arbitration is too sillv and absurd to need a monient'4 consid eration. It is clear Mr.

Blaine speaks not for the nation but lor his party, that he means bluff and plays to the ami-English gallery. It is earnestly to be hoped that the good sense and moderation of the American people will speedily make themselves heard. Even a paper warfare between the two great families of the same race would be a blunder a crime. The St, James' Cazette says: "There is no reason for alarm or to anticipate a rupture. Mr.

Blaine political party is at low water and resorts to the old device of 'twisting tbe British liou tail. The Standard, referring to the Behring Sea dispute, says that it "wears a very unpleasant aspect Even the possibility ot a rupture between England and America cannot be mentioned without feelings ot deep regret "America may count upon receiving the full measure of courtesy, patience and firmness which England has already displayed. But Mr. Blaine will do well to bear in mind that firmness wili be commensurate, should the moment arrive for its exercise, with the patience and courtesy with which he has so far been treated. He seems ex travagantly anxious to put himself wrong.

Mr. Lincoln cannot too soon on his return devote himself to ascertaining the resolutions of our foreign office and com municating them to his government There is not a person in England but would hear it proposed with profound regret that shots should be exchanged between British and American vessels except in courtesy. But it would excite greater regret to bear that the British nag bad been insulted and the national honor not vindicated by prompt re prisals. But we can never believe that the American people will suffer its public ser vants to force a conflict by wanton outratre upon otir flag. We will gladly bow to the tribunal of international law, but not to the nod ot Mr.

Blame. We trust that he will not persist in menace, which is certain to be resented and resisted." A Frron Cunelaslon. From the Potttvilli Republican. The Media American is pronounced in favor of lhe re-election of Mr. Cameron.

The Philadelphia Press in its opposition to the senior Senator has made his election almost a foregone conclusion. personal. General William Fatton, of Columbia, Pa is at tho Girard House. S. C.

Wagner, a prominent citizen of New-vllle, is at the Girard House. Henct C. Jarrett, the well-known theatrical manager, is at the Continental. Congressman elect Lemnal Ammkrman, of Scran ton, is stopping at the Lafayette. William Wharton, an extensive flour and grain dealer in Baltimore, is among the Lafayette's it uests.

The Queen-Regent of Spain received as a New Year's present from the Pope a splendid mosaic of the Madonna made at tbe Vatican factory. Marshal Booth gives this Succinct statement of the salvation methods: "Scrubology soapology, instead of theology, in doaling with the submerged twentieth of society." Senator Warren, of Wyoming, is six feet tall, and his form is as straight as a Kocky Mountain pine. He is a blonde, rather good looking, and talks and dresses well. He is 48 years old. Norman McLeod, a young Englishman of London, who registered at the Colonnade yesterday, is the representative of an extensive news syndicate.

His father was a writer of wide reputation. Whittier, the poet is fond of pets. He has three handsome dogs, two cats and three horses. When the poet goes abroad in pleasant weather a young St. Bernard dog is his constant companion.

Ellen Terry's son is a handsome young fel low of 20, who wears spectacles and has hair like his mother's. He plays the part of a younger brother to his mother In "Ravens- wood," and is said to play It well. Mo. William Lidderdalk, the governor of the Bank of England, who has been of late the hero of the business worll of London by reason of his management during tho late financial troubles, has' been offered a baronetcy. Archduke Charles Louis, heir presumptive to the Austrian throne, will allow his sons but fifty florins a month until they attain their majority.

At the age of 18 they become free with an Income of at least 20,000 florins. Among the railroad men in town are Charles E. Ways, freight agent of the B. and Walter Hawkins, traveling passenger airent of the Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West Railroad, who are registered at the Lafayette Major Jed Hotcskiss. who is now a guest at the Lafayette, is a Virginian of note, aud is known among the veterans of tha late war as the Confederate officer who laid out the battle of Shenandoah for the rebel army.

At that time he was a prominent engineer and made the plans for its iotrenchment. His home is at Staunton, Va. Van Houtens' Cocoa delicious made instantly pretty serious statement, taken by itself, but it becomes alarming when taken in connection with the fuither statement that more relief it needed in spite of the fact that in connection with the railway works, "several thousands of pounds weekly are already distributed in the form of wages in districts most in need." That must be a widespread and. tolerably complete famine which several thousands of pounds weekly will not relieve. Tbe proclamation says that relief cannot legally extended to persons' holding less than a quarter ot an acre of land, thus excepting the very class that would appear to least able to sustain themselves.

It not stated whether the same restriction applies to the railway relief works, but the implication is that private charity is solicited for this class which government aid cannot legally reach. Astonishing as it may appear, this singular law is defeuded the ground that its relaxation would be a public calamity, as it would turn the Irish peasantry into a nation of beggars. The whole situation as revealed in this official utterance simply confirms what was said in these columns in commenting on the failure of the potato crop that so long as Ireland depends on agriculture lor the main tenance of its people, so long will it be the scene of chronic poverty and lrequent famine. Nothing but the establishment of general system of manufactures will ever make the Irish population sell-supporting, A Rising War Clontl. Stand by your guns and prepare for action.

Unless the correspondents on both sides of the Atlantic are mistaken, our Northern Pacific coast will be the scene of decidedly warlike demonstrations before the daisies bloom again. A cable special from London printed on Suuday said that orders had just been sent to the commander-in-cbiet of the British North Pacific Bquad-ron to be prepared for active operations in defense of British and Canadian interests, aud that the German Government had been officially notified of the fact. This could mean nothing less than the protection of the Canadian seal poachers by open force, and that, of course, would mean war. 1-ollowiug this, but not in connectior witn it, a dispatch from Washington was printed yesterday which reported that an American fleet is being concentrated at San Francisco, and that orders have already issued for the assembling of no less than eleven war ships and four revenue cutters in the North Pacific, while it is rumored that seven steamers will be chartered and armed for duty as revenue cutters, aud also that the Yantic, now at New York, will be ordered to the same waters. It is believed that all these vessels will rendezvous at Port Townsend, Oregon, before the opening of the fishing season, which begins in May The same dispatch reports the combined strength of the fleet thus to be concentrated, aside from the chartered steamers, at twelve warships and four revenue cutters having a total of 2,625 men and 90 guns.

Two of these will be the new cruisers, San Francisco and Charleston, the others will be the old wooden vessels, which are now considered little better than tubs, but may give a good account of themselves in a fifht yet. The chartering of the seven vessels mentioned will increase the force to a total cf 3,000 men and 118 guns. The British fleet now in those waters is composed of the armored vessel Warspite, the cruiser Champion and four gunboat cruisers. It carries 1,229 men and 52 guns. The two big vessels carry the same number of guns as the' two American cruisers, but as to their respective calibres and effectiveness we are not informed.

They are slower sailers than the Americans, having records from fonr to seven knots an hour less. There is also a German fleet in the Pacific. It consists of two armored cruisers, superior to the San Francisco and Charleston, and five wooden corvettes. They carry about 1,500 men and 42 guns. This fleet is stationed in Asiatic waters, but is kept within telegraphic reach and could be concentrated in Chinese waters within twenty-five days alter the issue of orders from Berlin after which twenty- hve davs more would take it to our North Pacific Coast Supposing that Germany had issued orders at once on receiving the comruunication from Great Britain, the German fleet could reach the scene of action late in February, which is about the time the American fleet is expected to be ready.

The British vessels, with their usual foresight, are ready now. All this looks pretty serious, does it not? Are we really going to fight, and if so, for what? Surely not in order that one in ten thousand of our women may wear a sealskin coat. Better let all the seals perish and sealskin coats disappear forever than fire a hostile shot over them or let a man be killed on their account. Yet that is the only bone of contention. The dispute over the ownership of Behring Sea would never have arisen had it not been for the seal fisheries, which are all that make it valua ble.

But while we do not intend to fight over a few seals or over any question whatever unless driven to it, there is an abstract question of right in this dispute which ought to be settled, and as this will be a precedent for decades to come, it is right that the question should be treated seriously. Great Britain has always tried to gobble all the waters that are in the sea and nearly all that flow into it There is not going to be bloodshed over this affair, but the national dignity must be preserved. If American vessels should go to the Gulf of Ceylon fish ing tor pearls we think they would soon be driven out by British gunboats. Then why shall we not insist that our own maritime rights be kept inviolate Captain John Smith's Grave and Jamestown. There is a movement on foot in London to erect a monument to the memory ol Captain John Smith, the founder of Virginia.

His remains are Interred in St Sepulchre Church, London, and at a meeting of the church vestry a short time ago the church warden said that thousands of Americans annually visit the church for the purpose of seeing Captain Smith's grave. The vestry thereupon made an appropriation of $25 as the nnclus of a fund for restoring the tombstone. In the meantime the few remaining signs of Captain John Smjth's settlement at Jamestown, Virginia, are being obliterated by the stream which flows by it. It is only a question of time, and ot a very short time at that, when the entire island on which Jamestown stood will be covered with water. As the site of the first English settlement in the United States, and the scene of both romance and tragedy, in some respects this spot possesses elements of interest which are of the of of all it to Ten members of the Temple Baptist Church are to be tried for complicity in the circulation of false rumors concerning: the church and pastor.

The case of William K. Waldman, the bar- ber, convicted in the local courts of shaving on Sunday, is awaiting an opinion from the Su preme Court. Sports. Mayor Smith intends to put ft stop to prize fighting and boxing in Providence. An indoor base ball team is being; formed In St.

Louis. Madeira received eight votes to Bennerman's four in the election of a commodore of the Schuylkill Navy. Orattao. Oriental, Mackensie, Franco, and Fannie were the winners at the Gloucester races. Financial.

The stock market was active and higher although London was a seller. Tbe money market abroad is (totting; firmer and sterl njr exchangee advanced sharply. Tbe Lehigh Valley railroad has Issued 000,000 ot new bonds to pajr for certain improve ments. The new $10,000,000 stock issue of the Metropolitan Traction Company was all sib-scribed for. The Treasury redeemed $18,500 bonds and purchased 672,000 ounces of silver.

I he Philadelphia bank statement showB a large increase in deposits and reserve. Harmony at Harri6buri. The Legislature will meet to-day under most favorable auspices. The selection of Thompson for Speaker will prove a posi tive balm in the country, which was responsible for the recent Republican defeat. Thompson is essentially the candidate of the farmers, and the Grangers were in the movement behind him.

Although Philadelphia will be disappointed because of the deieat of Beooks, the selection ot Thosxf-bok will undoubtedly harmonize interests that have been in conflict, nd will have a soothing eflect all over the State. The new Speaker is entirely competent to preside, and in his bands legislation will be safe. The Legislature will meet in harmony, and in the same spirit of harmony will re-elect Senator Cameron, It is harmony that all Republicans are looking for, and the prospect is that they will have plenty ol it A Toons Woman's FalL Until a short time ago, according to the New Castle Guardian, Miss Nellie Shea, of Beaver Falls, was one of the most popular of the young women in the town and one of the most respected. She had good looks, and that she had ability was demonstrated by lhe confidence reposed in her by her employer, a Beaver Falls storekeeper. When he opened a store at Union City his saleswoman, Nellie Shea, was transferred to the new establishment.

The iact that the youog woman was engaged in earning her livelihood did not prevent her from being a social favorite. Young women are nowadays to be self-supporting. Olten circumstances compel them to earn a livitg. lhe business opportunities open to young women are increasing every day, but so sre temptations and dangers to which they ire exposed, to some of which Nellie Shea yielded. From Union City Nellie Shea volun- arily went to Meadville, where she also held position as saleswoman.

After a while her new employers grew suspicious over the lisappearance of articles of drv goods that could not be accounted for. Presently Nel lie was discovered to be the thief, and in her were found different articles of cloth-i ng in value to several hundred dollars. The account of the discovery came hinder the eye of her former employer at Jnion City. He remembered that many articles had been missing from his own store, and thinking he might be able to identify tome of them among the stock found in Nellie's room he went to Meadville, only to find that Nellie had disappeared, taking mth her several trunks. He pushed on to IBeaver Falls, and going to her father's liouse with a search warrant, enough goo Is uere found to stock a general furnishing store.

Boxes and trunks were turned upside town, revealing dress goods, plushes, linens, umbrellas, handkerchiefs, cutlery, etc So fir several thousand dollars' worth ot property has been recovered by the owners from this one girl's purloinings, and there re other stores to hear from. Nellie Shea probably began stealing ecause she had not been properly trained resist temptation. There were little things about her that she thought would lie i ice to have and she knew would never be tiissed. There had been nothing in hor 1 ome training to fit her to walk safely irough the moral perils that surrounded her when she went out to earn her living. Those perils are increased for everv yonng oman in direct proportion with the increase of her business opportunities.

Many avs" nues are now opened to her, but in all of them at some unexpected moment, she will n.eet temptation in some form or another. She will have opportunities to injure her nployer, or she will be offered opportun ities in some pleasing guise to injure hersel' This she should be taught to expect and ithstand. The responsibility for the young women who fall rests largely on those who through a mistaken kindness leave them to fice the world without giving them any idea what kind of a world it is that they will htve to lace. If the yonng woman knows and has some inkling of what life is capable, for evil as well as good, she cau run the gauntlet of temptation without be ii taken by -surprise, and this is a victory fc virtue already half won. There la Famine in Ireland.

"When a call was made, early in the fall, fcr contributions in aid of starving Irish ff rmers, snd subscriptions were solicited in tl is country, Chief Secretary Balfour and tl British Government organs pooh-poohed tl idea aud said there was very little suf fering in the island, and that little could be adily provided for at home. The Amen cm people were virtually invited to attend tc their own business and let England at tend to her Irish subjects. The protest was sc emphatic and was backed up with such strong assurances of the relief that was to be given at once, that the American contribu- ti ins were stopped, tbe organization formed for collecting them disbanded, and when tl Parnell excitement arose to claim at teation the condition of the tenant farmer) is forgotten. It is now suddenly brought to memory by ait official appeal from the governors of Ire Is nd for the very assistance which they re- jected so cavalierly three or four months ago Xiie Viceroy and the cniet secretary joui in an official declaration that in the vr ester a part of Ireland poverty is chronic in seme districts, aud will, it the people am net aided, reach a state of acute distress be be is on a taken for its protection and lor the preserva tion of its few remaining ruins ought to be carried out. The somewhat curious fact that thousands Americans annually visit the church where John Smith was buried at his own express wish, while almost no Americans visit Jamestown, is doubtless partly ex plained by the ignorance of American tour- sts as to the whereabouts of Jamestown, means of getting there and the existence the interesting ruins that are still to be seen.

A pubiic movement for the protection the remains of Jamestown would change this, and there are enough people in the country who take a vital interest in American history to make it easy to carry the movement through. The number of Northern people who make tours through the Southern States, to the battlefields of Vir ginia, the capital of the Confederacy, the mountains of North Carolina and places further South is steadily on the increase and would be well worth while for Virginians take the first step for the preservation ot Jamestown. The successor to Judge McKENNAN.of the United States Circuit Court, mayor may uot be a Pennsylvanian. New Jersey and Delaware are both in the circuit, and the friends of Judge GitEEN.of the. District Court of New Jersey, are pressing his claims to the place.

Philadelphia has a candidate in the person of Samuel S. Hollixgswokth, and the leaders of the Philadelphia bar will no doubt be almost unanimously in favor of his appointment Mr. Hollings worth has the ability, ability, learning and experience that reflect credit upon the bench, and, what is a more unusual possession, he is noted for that pro bity of character which has marked the great leaders ot the Philadelphia bar. He cher ishes its best traditions, and, like John Sekceast, he is a man of affairs and interested in public questions as well as in lawsuits. If tiie Democratic -papers could have their way, they would hang every Republican soldier who shoots a hostile Iudian and pension every Democratic Southerner who shoots a peaceable negro.

Those canny Scotch strikers did not take long to find out that their bread was not buttered on the under side. Let us mark with emphasis the announcement that two bulldozers have been sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment by a Louisiana court It is one ot the few signs which indicate that the Southern popu'aiion is not entirely without a sense of justice toward the negroes. Pa knell has at last placed himself in the hands ot his friends. He has been in the hands of his enemies long enough to find that it is no joke. Donovan Rossa is to be the next Moses of the Irish party.

Rossa has been a good American citizen for the last two or three years. He has kept quiet and be haved himself. Perhaps he will be able to lead his followers to victory by ways ot pru dence and moderation. j. his seems to be a good time to renew the proposition to pay our Senators and Congressmen by the hour.

Emma Abbott has been one of the most severely criticised sinters on the American stase, but she has always been a popular favorite, and she will be more sincerely mourned than almost any of her content poraries. Gladstone will not retire and so it is probable that his adversaries wilL Wonder by the time the battle of Barnegat Park is reported in Dakota it will have grown to the proportions the Dakota battles have by the time their news reaches this part of the country. few Smiles. Two of tho hardest things to keep In thisllfc are a new diary and a sharp lead pencil. For-ristown Herald.

it is not wise to s.iy everything; you know, but how cau some people help it if they say anything at ail 7 bomcrvillc Journal. me man wno insists mat uoctor are robbery uiiirbt modify his language and refer to them as pillage. Washington Post. You never quite comprehend how moan other people are until you bejdn to compare them with yourself. Milwaukee Sentinel.

Misfortune has to spit on its bands, throw off its coat and hump itself to catch up with the man who has minded his own business all his life. Atchison Globe. Colonel Cutcheon Didn't your wife ask you to purchase a load of wood this morning? Major Smiles Yes, but 1 -compromised on a stack of chips. St. Paul Globe.

Scene, Newport How well preserved Lord Bawubawdt is is he not a Kreat swell? yes! (With a burst of confidence.) I)o you know when be arrived he was obliged to pay duty on himself as a work of art? Brooklyn Life. "Well, here is a photograph of the lady whom 1 have described to you." "But, my dear sir, according to this picture the lady Is much older than you (rare me any reason to believe," 1 assure you that is a very old photograph." Fliegende Blatter. She I understand there Is a tailor in London who just looks at you hard for a few moments, and when your clothes tome home they fit you perfectly. He That is somewhat dif-fereut from my tailor. He looks at me hard for a few moments, but fails to send tbe clothes.

Clothier and Furnisher. Chief Clerk (aside)" His royal nibs ain't himself to-day. Kind of silent and sad. Wonder what's up Unrejrenerate Office Boy (sotto voce) "Guess ray little plan worked. Know'd it would when I fastened the typewriter's yaller hair on his overcoat last night.

An' I'll do it every time he calls me a Pittsburg Bulletin. Watts "Aren't you ever going to get tired of shopping'? You never seem to bring anything home. Where's tbe fascination in it, I'd like to know?" Mrs. Watts O. I like to look at the new goods, you know, and to see what lovely things I could get if I had only married rich." Indianapolis Journal.

In a divorce case in a New York town the wife exhibits 165 love letters which her then lover wrote to her in three months. He sometimes wrote her six per day, and his shortest notes contain six pacs. He had been married only six months when ho boxed hor ears. Detroit Free Press. Mrs.

Slimpurse My dear, I was utterly amazed, shocked to hear you use such ungram-matical expressions while talking to Mrs. De Fashion. Why did you do it?" Miss Slim-purse I wanted her to think our family was rich enousjh to have me brought up by the servants." Good Ketcs. In color are my Marie's eyes, Like sapphires iu the night. And iu their joyous radiancies Like diamonds in the light Her lips are dainty rubles twain.

Like cherubs of the spring My heart doth yearn to hear again Her laugh of silvery ring Her ears unfold like coral sheaths In tint, in curve. In curl. Her speech perfume of amber breathes And falls with gentle purl Ah 1 true thou art a jewel, love, A masterpiece of old. But better still than all above, Her pa is 18-karat gold, Jcwelerf Circular, The Present Status of tli Contest Over the Belirii'C Sen. Washington; Jan.

5. The Behring Sea correspondence sent to Congress to-day consists of a letter from Lord Salisbury to Sir Julian Pauncefote dated August 2, 1899, and one from Secretary Blaine to the same minister of date December 17 last Lord Salisbury's letter is confined to a discussion of the Russian ukase and the treaty of 1823. He argues that Mr. Blaine has misinterpreted Mr. Adams' position aud declares that the history of the case shows first, That England always denied Russia's claim of maritime jurisdiction in Behring Sea, that the convention ot 1825 was a renunciation of that claim and that Behring Sea was not then known by that name, but part ot the Pacific Ocean.

He closes with statement that if differences still exist government is ready for impartial arbitration by methods to be agreed upon in concert with Mr. Blaine. Secretary Blaine's letter begins with an insistence upon the correctness of the position assumed by the United States. He believes that the controversy turns upon one point, whether the phrase" "Pacific Ocean" used the trealiasof 1824 aud 1825 included Behring Sea as contended by Great Britain. the United States can prove the contrary her case is complete and undeniable.

There- lore Mr. Blaine enters into an exhaustive argument based on Bancroft's History and maps to show tht Mr. Adams and his contemporaries had a distinct understanding that the phrase Pacific Ocean did not include waters of Behrins Sea. then known to all the world as tbe Seaot' Kampschatka. The becretary points to the large wealth ot the Bussian-American Company which, he says, would have been carelessly'thrown away by the Kussian nobility in a phrase which merged Behring Sea in the Pacific Ocean.

He cites the long years of abstinence from the seal waters by the adventurous jeople ot tbe United States and Great Britain as a presumption of their lack ot right to enter. As stronger-evidence of bis correctness. Mr. Blaine cites tbe protocols of the Treaty of 1824 to show that Russia's relinquishment of jurisdiction applied only to the territory between tbe 50th and 00th degrees. Also an explanatory note from Kussia to Mr.

Adams in 1824, positively excepting the Aleutian islands and country north of 50 3' from the concession the United States of right to fish and trade. Further the Secretary says Lord Salis bury has det uied it proper in his dispatch to call the attention of the Government of the United States to some elementary principles of international law touching tbe freedom of the seas. For our better in struction he gives sundry extracts from Wheaton and Kent our most eminent publicists and, lor further illustration, quotes troni the dispatches or fcecretaries fceward and Fish, all maintaining the well-known principle that a nation's jurisdiction over the sea is limited to three marine miles from its shore line. The course of this'govern-uient has been uniformly in favor of upholding the recognized law of nations on that subject While Lord Salisbury admonitions are received in good part by this government, we feel justified in asking his lordship if the government of Great Britain has uniformly illustrated these precepts by example, or whether she has not established at least one notable precedent which would justify us in making greater demands upon her Majesty's government touching the Bebnng Sea than either our necessities or our desires have ever suggested The precedent to which I refer is contained in tbe following narrative The Secretary here rapidly reviews the captivity ol Napoleou at St Helena and including the special law assuming the power to exclude ships of any nationality from the island and forbidding them to hover within eight leagues of the coast" The water thus controlled was scarcely less than 2,000 square miles in extent Ot this the Secre tary ''It is hardly conceivable that the same nation which exercised this authority in the broad Atlantic over which, at that very time, 800,000,000 of people made their commercial exchanges, should deny the right ot the United States to as sume control over a limited area, for a fraction of each year, in a sea which lies tar beyond the line of trade, whose silent waters were never cloven by a commercial prow, whose uninhabited shores have no port of entry and could never be approached on a lawful errand under any other nag than that of the United States. Is this government to understand that Lord Salisbury justifies the course ot England Is this government to understand that Lord Salisbury maintains the right of England, at her will and pleas ure, to obstruct the highway of commerce in mid ocean, and that she will at the same time interpose objections to the United exercising her jurisdiction beyond the three- mile limit, in a remote and unused sea, lor the sole purpose ot preserving the mostvalu able fur seal fishery in the world, from reme diless destruction I The Secretary next invites attention to another case.

He says: "Even to-day while her Majesty's government is aiding one of her colonies to destroy the American seal fisheries, another colony, withjliei-jcon- sent, has established a pearl fishery in an area ot the Indian Ocean, GOO miles wide. And so complete is the assumption of power that, according to bir George Baden-Lowell, a license fee is collected from the vessels en gagcu in the pearl fisheries in tbe open ocean. The asserted power goes to the ex tent of making foreign vessels that have pro cured their pearls lar outside the three mile limit pay a heavy tax when the vessels en ter an Australian port to land cargoes ana refit "I am directed by the President to say that, on behalf of the United States, he is willing to adopt the text used in tbe act of Parlia ment to exclude ships from hovering nearer to the Island of St Helena than eight mar ine leagues, or he will take the example cited by Sir George Baden-Powell, where, by permission ot her Majesty government, control over a part of ocean (500 miles wide is to-day authorized by Australian law. The President will ask the Government of Great Britain to agree to the distance of twenty marine leagues, within which no ship shall hover around the Islands of St Paul and St George, from the 15th of May to the 15th of October of each year. This will prove an eflective mode ot preserving the seal fisheries for the use of the civilized world a mode which, in view of Great Britain's assumption of power over the open ocean, she cannot with consistency decline.

Great Britain prescribed eight leagues at St Helena; but the obvious neces si ties in the Behring Sea will, on the basis ot this precedent, justify tweutv leagues for the protection ot the American seat He speaks ot the enormous injury inflicted by vessels under the British' flag upon the United States fisheries, and sug gested that she send an intelligent commis sioner to the seal islands. Again he objects to the form of the proposed arbitration, and says it will amount to something tangible if Great Britain consents to arbitrate the real questions discussed for the last four years: NVhat were the rights exercised by Russia in Behring Sea? How far were they conceded by Great Britain? "Was Behring Sea included in the Pacific Ocean? Did not the United States acquire all of Russia's rights? What are the present rights of the United States? And if the concurrence of Great Britain is found necessary then what shall be the protected limits and the close season? The repeated assertions that the govern ment of the United States demands that the Behring Sea be pronounced mare clausum are without foundation. The government has never claimed it, and never desired it It expressly disavows it At the same time the United States does not lack abundant authority, according to the ablest exponents of international law, tor holding a small section ot the Behring Sea for the protection of fur seals. Controlling a comparatively restricted area of water for that one specific purpose is by do means tbe equivalent of declaring the sea, or any part thereof, mare elausum. Nor is it by any means so serious an obstruction as Great Britain assumed to make in the South Atlantic, nor so groundless an interference with the common law of the sea as is maintained oy British authority to-day in the Indian Ocean.

The Ptesident does not, however, desire the long postponement which an examination of legal authorities from' Ul-pian to Phillimore and Kent wouldinvolve. He finds his own views well expressed by Mr. Phelps, our late Minister to England, when, after tailing to secure a just arrange- to The lirQCTKEB Is delivered by carrier at Six Cents a week, payable to tbe carrier or agent. By mall, Twknty-fiv Cints a month, otThbee Dollars per annum, in advance. uLday Edition, fl-50 per year.

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Every facility will be given them to satisfy themselves that the above figures are absolutely correct. The Weather. Local Forecast for with occational flight flurries slightly warmer. -Generally of snow Tokecast from Washington For Eastern renmylrania. Sew Jersey and Delaware, fair, tlightly warmer, northerly winds.

For Maryland Slightly warmer, northwest- ly winds, becoming variable. testebday's temperatube, 8 A. 20 Highest 29 8 F. 25 Lowest 19 Mean U4 Mean 15 years 33 WashlnC'Oil. In the Senate yesterday the Federal Election bill was side tracked and the Financial bill taken up.

lhe silver men were at the head of the scheme and eight Republicans voted with the Democrats to make the change. In the House the simply routine, the day being passed in attempting to get quorums and talking about public buildings. The Secretary of the Treasury has made the following appointments in the Internal Re-. venue Service: United States Storekeeper. John B.

Cuddy, Pittsburg, Henry B. Hun, Pittsburg, United States Storekeeper and Ganger. The President has transmitted to the House further correspondence on the subject of the Behring Sea controversy between the United States and Great Britain. The Committee on Rules hold an informal meeting, at which the DoeSery resolution, calling for an investigation into tho alleged silver pool, was again considered. The secret session of tho Senate yesterday was to enable the Committee on Foreign Relations to make a report relative to the Nica- ragua Canal Company's affairs.

Foreign. Fifty persons were killed outright by the explosion that occurred in the Trinity coal pit in Polish Ostrau on Saturday. Joseph Mullett and Dan Delaney, two of the Invincibles sentenced In connection with the Phoscix Park murder, were discharged from Downpatrick prison, their terms having expired. At a meeting of the local branch of the National League at Longford, there was such a warm exchange of views uuon tbe subject of Parnell that the assemblage was disrupted. Mr.

Timothy D. Healy, M. has loft Dublin for Paris with the intention of consulting with Mr. William O'Brien, M. previous to the meeting of the next conference between the Irish leaders The total number of deaths up to date as a result of the school house disaster at Wortley near Leeds is now nine.

A number of the suffering children are not yet out of danger. The will of the Archduke Johann is to be opened in Berlin shortly. It is known that the greater part of his valuables and money will go to the Emperor of Austria. Etate. Harry Staufler.

a boy, is dead and Samuel Weaver, a companion, both of Mechanicsburg, Is dyinir from the efTects of liquor administered by a Hungarian known as "Big Georje." "I am in favor ot taking all patronage away from the Judges," was the reply of Judge Pershing, to an inquiry made by a reporter; as to the memorial which will be presented to the Legislature by the Judges of Philadelphia. The County Commissioners in nearly all sections of the State met and elected their oificers and clerks. The opposition to Brooks, of Philadelphia, for Speaker concentrated on Caleb C. Thompson, of Warren their candidate, all of the others withdrawing in his favor, and Thompson was last nigbt in caucus declared the Republican nominee. Chester's City Councils passed a series of strong resolutions declaring the Lazaretto Station a menace to tbe health of that city and surrounding country, and they ask the Legislature to take prompt action for its removal.

Geoerul. The oath of office was administered to Governor Peck and the other State officers of Wisconsin by Chief Justice Cole. The son of Banker Dow, of Denver, who was married on Friday, attempted to murder his bride and then shot himself. Both shots missed their mark. Judge D.

C. Trowbett died at his home in Chattanooga, of softening of the brain. The Republicans and Democrats of the Nebraska Legislature are trying to form an offensive and defensive alliance, and In this way hope to be able to organize the House In spite of the alliance majority. The residents of El wood, Indiana, are much excited over an earthquase shock. The old feud between the Polish Catholic Church of St.

Stanislaus and its close neigh bor, tho Holy Trinity Church, of Chicago, has again broken out. There are fears of a riot. Emma Abbott, the actress, died in Salt Lake City. An account ot her remarkable life will be found in another column. Local.

The Produce Exchange adopted a resolution approving tho construction or an enormous Central Exchange for business purposes. The Board of Port Wardens approved an act relating to tho storage of freight and passage of persons on wharf properties, and appointed a committee to go to Harrisburg to look after its interests. The two Chestnut Hill properties of John J. Macfarlane, the fugitive president of the do- unct American Life Insurance Company, were sold by the Sheriff. The Board of Education and also the sectional school boards in every ward in the city reorganized and elected officers for the coming year.

Tit Supreme Court opened lti session In the GOSSIP FOB WOMEN. alzac has said that a woman of 30 is at her most fascinating and dangerous age, and it is indeed true that all the women fatuous lor power over the hearts of men, irom Cleopatra to Helen down, wire nearer 40 than 20 when in the zenith of their power. Perhaps the secret lies in the simple fact that the woman of 20 must be pleased, while the woman of 40 tries to please and the older woman's power not as has been so often said, in understanding and making the most ot her own 'harms, but in comprehending and with happy tact calling out and making the most of the good qualities ot tiie man whose favor she seeks. A man admires a clever woman, but he enjoys himself better with a woman who makes him feel that he is clever. He likes being entertaiued for a little while by a well-informed woman, but he eujoys much better the happy tact which him believe that he is entertaining the well-informed woman and tellinsr her a great many things she never dreamed of.

And the woman a man likes best is not always the one who is most brilliant, but the one who has the happy knack of discovering the subject he talks best on, and is well enough informed to listen intelligent and draw him out with happy queries until he is astonished at bis own brilliancy. A RECENT PORTRAIT OF ASK A DICKIS60N. Athletic Girls Deid. "WAS surprised, says Blakely Hall, to see in the newspapers the other day notices of the death within two days of two young women, who, according to all the signs a year or two ago, were destined to long and healthful lives. Both ot them were types ot the modern athletic girl and one of the two had found distinction as an amateur tennis player.

They were in no wise related nor. I believe, acquainted, tor that matter but they were both carried oft bv consumption before thev had grown into womanhood. Neither ot these young women betrayed the slightest trace ot consumption three years ago. So many athletes have died of the same malady recently that the question is suggested whether the recent extraordinary growth of the athletic craze is in anyway related to the increase ot consumption in New York. The State Board of Health has drawn attention to the extraordinary increase in this number of deaths from consumption, and the project is even seriously discussed of the advisability of putting con sumptive patients in quarantine, if a gen eral inquiry into the subject is to be mode the relations, of extreme athletics to the white plague" would be well worth going into.

V-Yv A RECENT PORTRAIT Or KATE FIELD. On the Window Ledsra. heed young man stood at tbe window of his room iu his house on one of the upper cross sttcets Christmas afternoon and looked at the windows in the big, long brownstone block on the other side of the street. He saw, savs the New York Sun, on the ledge of a third-story window of the house directly opposite a Dottle ot cham pagne. It had evidently been placed there to get cool.

On the leoge ot a second-story window of the same house he saw a photo graphic frame with a glass exposed to the light. Another ledge was the resting place of a pan filled with something which he could see was smoking hot. Tbe young man owns a spyglass, and, looking through it at tbe smoking pan, be concluded that the girls in that room across the way must have been making molasses candy on ft gas stove and bad put the stun out to harden. Turninz his spyglass to the window-ledges ol other houses on the block he noted these ex hibits A milk-iar partly filled. A large pot ot some face preparation with a French label, the words of which were not easily discernible.

Two baskets ot oranges, apples, and crapes. A wooden butter-tray, the paper cover be ing turned up by a breeze, and dust sprink ling itself on the butter. A German seltzer-jug. Two bowls, each covered with a plate. Another bottle of wine.

A tardboard box, such as is used tor ice cream. Besides all these things which lodgers had put ou their window-ledges the sweep of the spyglass up and down the row of houses showed seven tin pails ana eight pitchers. Senator Stanford' L. berality. I A kiting of Senator Stanford's liberality, VV gavs a Washington correspondent.

calls to mind his usual custom here. The dav before Christmas Captain Isaac Bassett, who has served over fifty years in the Senate, received an elegant suuflbox from the Senator, while the little Senate pages, seven teen in number, each received a crisp 3 bill. The Senator servants each received a month's extra pay. while Private Secre tary McCarthy's reminder is understood to have been a check calling for an amount equal to one year's salary. New Year's day all the messenger boys employed Jby the four companies here are invited to the Senator's residence, where they are given an decant dinner.

Each one is also given a new fur-lined cap, a pair of gloves, a scarf, a bag of candy, and a $1 bilL As there are at least 200 ot these bovs an estimate can be formed of the cost of this remembrance. Now, Too Know All About It. The coulomb is an ampere multiplied by a second, a volt is one ampere multiplied by an ohm, a farad is a coulomb divided by a volt, a jdule is a volt mnltiplied by a coul omb, and a henry is a second multiplied by an, ohm. Professor Crocker, in "Modern Light and JleaU" The Frets" la for Calvin Walls. From the HarrUburg Telegraph.

The Telerraph repeats, and it calls on the Republicans of Pennsylvania familiar with the politics of the past ten years to bear it out, that the attacks ot the Pres on Senator Cameron are made solely in the interest ot Calvin 'Wells, the proprietor of the Press, and that the Press in State politics has always worked with an eye single to Mr. Wells' advancement, and is always classed aa a "doubtful" in State political matters. 'MM wM'm as the his iu It GOSSIP OF THE DAY. A man with the air of prosperous merchant stepped up to the desk of the cashier of the Continental Hotel yesterday and, giving his name, asked how much he owed. "Your name is not on the register," returned the atfable clerk after having insDected the book.

I beg your pardon, it is." said the truest "I 'l registered upon mv arrival 3k here, about an hour before noon. Then they looked over the book again, but the signature could not be tonnd. "I know I pnt my name there, anyhow," persisted the guest crowing somewhat excited. Well, it doesu't make any difference," explained the clerk, satisfied that the man was mistaken. "How long have you been here "I have only had my dinner.

"Yourbill is S1.2.V' i "Isn't this the Girard House? "asked tbe visitor, becoming red in tbe face. This is tiie Continental." Well, well," exclaimed the visitor, showing more confusion aud surprise, "I registered at the Girard." After registering at the Girard he had gone ont and wandered into the Continental thinking he was returning to the same boteL Chief Clerk Anderson and Clerk Stokes, of the Continental, nearly split their sides langhing after the man bad got out ot hearing distance. There was a curious and unwitting error made by The Inquirer of last Friday when it stated that H. H. Dunham, son of tiie proprietor of the Logan House, Al-toona, accompanied by his wife, was registered at the Girard House.

Mr. Dunham was there, but his wife was not, for the very good reason that he has no wife and was not accompanied by anyone, as stated. Mr. Dunham is well known in this city and the error was due to one ot those cases of mistaken identity which unfortunately will occur. The most that The Inquirer can do is to correct the error and hope that in duo time Mr.

Dunham may become a benedict, when no such error can occur again. Among the great throng of pedestrians on Chestnut street that hourly pass the magnificent Penn Mutual building much interest and curiosity is manifested in the disappearance of the quaint statue of Penn, which until recently stood on a bridge in the arch over the doorway. Always an ob ject of interest and an attractive point to the eve, the figure has been much missed, and it is no uucommon thing to see a little knot of people on the opposite side of the street wondering to one another why tha statue was removed. He is only gone into retirement temporarily," laughingly said an official of the company yesterday. "The figure was merely a plaster cast, and this has been taken away in order that Mr.

Penn may be reproduced in marble. When, he is finished he will be put back, and, I trust, the kind and curious public will be satisfied." The est matlon in which the late Rev. Dr. Peddie was held by bis con feres in the pulpit was not confined to bis own particular sect "One of the most noticeable things in the late Rev. Dr.

Peddie's character was his simple and earnest belief in the beneficence of God's providence," remarked a prominent Presbyterian divine yesterday. His reliance on his Heavenly Master was really child-like. Nothing could disturb the serenity of bis belief in the application of the precept, 'Cast all your care upon Him, meaning Christ Christianity can 111 afford to lose such a self-denying, pure-minded expounder of the Gospel." "Dr. Peddie was a sincere Christian, and, ai such, all followers of the Saviour must mourn his loss, said an Episcopal clergyman. "If shows how frail are the barkers which separate the different Christian churches when tbe decease of such a man as the late Baptist minister is mourned by all sects alike It really gave me quite ashock." he continued, "and tbere are tew Episcopal clergymen in this city who do not feel as I do in tlx matter." William Castle, late of the American Opera Company, and now, in conjunction witn xroiessor b.

Behrens, conducting in this city a school for the practical education of ladies and gentlemen desirous of serving in the chorus of operatic troupes, througU the death of" "Charley" White, the minstrel, yesterday in Kew York, becomes the sole survivor of the original Christy's Minstrels. Charles T. White died of an attack of pleuro-pneumonia, brought on partly by being obliged to shave ofT a full beard in order to take a certain part at Harrigau's Theatre, and partly to exposure at the burning of the Fifth Avenue Theatre. He was able to play his part in Keilly and the Four Hundred" Saturday night, but was so much worse Sunday morning that he coul.l not get up. HewasC9 years old, and had been famous as a minstrel since 184G, when he opened White's Melodeon at Ko.a5:J Bowery.

Afterward he joined Christy's Minstrels and became one of the famous leaders, with Campbell, Castle, Geone Christy, P. Christy, Prendergast aud others, all of whom, except Castle, have gone. He was a prominent member and long time treasurer of the Kew York lodge ot Elks, and his funeral will take place on Thursday under the management of the order. A Genuine Republican Paper. From the Snyder County Tribune.

The Philadelphia Press having armed itself, Don Quixote-like rushes to the fray determined to defeat Senator J. Donald Cameron in his re-election to the United States Senate. That the press of the country is a power when it advocates a just cause and is backed by the sentiment of the deople, no thinking, intelligent man will attempt to deny, but wheu it undertakes to attack an object merely to vent its spleen or show its power, it generally makes a lamentable failure of it Such a fool-hardy undertaking the Mugwump Philadelphia IVess is now engaged in, its senile attempt to defeat Senator Cameron. Apparently not satisfied with the disaster which overtook the Eepublican party in the elections last November, it would aid to dig its grave still deeper, by joining bands with the Democrats to defeat Senator Cameron. If the Press would possess tho ordinary amount of prudence suggested by the Good book, it would first have "counte I the cost" involved in its undertaking.

Senator Cameron's re-election is a foregone conclusion. What good then can the course taken by the Pi-ess do the Republican party? None whatever, and can only result in harm to the party. We trust that the Eepublican members of the present Legislature will answer the croakings of the Mugwump Press by making Senator Cameron's election unanimous. We would suggest to our Snyder county Republican friends that if thev want to subscribe foe a genuine Philadelphia Eepublican dailk The Philadelphia Inquirer will fill the bilL CITT ITEMS. Diamonds and all other rrecions Jewels are Investment if bought at'H.

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