THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH.
SECOND PART.
PITTSBURG, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1890.
PAGES 9 TO 12
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CAP1TALPATR1AFSCHS,
Historian Bancroft Now at His
Washington Home for
the Winter.
HE IS YET HARD AT WORK,
Having Completed Bis Labors Down
to Polk's Administration.
SENATOR MORRILL STILL HEARTY,
Although He Has Broken All Eecords in the
Length of Service.
HOW HE CAME TO STDDI THE TARIFF
rCOEEtsrOXDEXCE or TUB D16rATCH.l
Washington, October 50. Fall has
come, for Mr. Bancroft, the historian, has
returned to Washington. Since he leit the
roses in his garden on II street to spend the
cummer at Newport, he has passed another
golden milestone in life, having reached his
90th birthday the 3d of this month. If his
snowy hair and beard is whiter or his spare
figure anr Jess vigorous, his old neighbors
do not perceive it. He frequents the old
familiar haunts, riding or walking as his
pleasure commands, seeking out old friends,
noting the passing changes which the city
undergoes in this busy age, and displays an
interest in all as keen and abiding as if he
were entering onlvupon his third score ol
rears instead of the last decimal of the cen-
ji'r. Bancroft's home is one of the land
marks of Washington. No cabman is
properly educated until he learns where it
is, and the visiting tourist who is not
allowed a jog-trot glance at it fares badly
indeed. The house is one of the old-time
structures bm t i.rj. square ana piain
ntsllrtan Bancroft
The seconil fhor belongs to the historian
or he belongs to it "With the exception of
one chamber it is devoted to books. Mr.
Bancroft's workroom is a Jarge front room
fronting south. Its walls have not oeen
papered for half a century. Indeed, no
body has seen the walls since Mr. Bancroft
took possession.
BOOKS OK KTEET SIDE.
They are surfa-ed with the costliest
decorations ever devised since man first
dabbled in rcstheticv. On all sides are
hooks. The ceiling alone escapes the deluge
of literature. The massive table where the
nonogenarian write or dictates is piled high
with the latest tomes from England and
Germany. In the corners of the room me
high towers of volumes, and in the middle
spaces of the room are numerous islands of
history, biography and science. Opening to
the east is another equally lnrge room and
that, too, is a mass, of books.tr Here and
there stand flower pots with new roses or
chrysanthemums making experimental
growth under the critical eye of their master
who, besides being 3 historian, is one of the
best indoor and outdoor gardeners in
America.
".Little Bancroft," as his classmates -at
Harvard called him 75 years ago, spends the
greater part of his precious time in his w ork
room or library. He rises arly for an old
man at 8 and before the schoolchildren are
well on their way to their daily tasks, he
has breakfasted and is making the tour of
his upstairs flower garden, and a few min
utes later is at his desk reading ordictatiug.
He is still toying with Shakespeare and
working into shape the story of President
Polk's administration. Of course at this
extreme age his progress is slow, but like
the real literary hero that he is it is sure, ami
the world will be the richer for the toil he is
doing as the shadows of the century fall
about him.
a.t susiBEn op visitors.
Mr. Bancrolt's visitors are numerous and
he always holds himself ready to receive up
to the limit of hie strength. His conversa
tion is simple and unassuming. You find
him dressed neatly in black, a small spare
man with a face covered with wrinkles
piled on each other in concentric masses
that remind you of the rings that mark the
growth of trees. His hair is like the snow
and his long beard seems a burden for a man
so small and aged.
He is always ready to talk. Do vou like
"Washington? Do you like the President?
Do you think he is a just man trying to do
right?
Mr. Bancroft is still a Democrat, and he
is sure to say something good of President
Cleveland and coin a compliment for Mrs.
Cleveland that would be worthy of a knight
errant. He will very likely ask you if vou
are fond 01 flowers and lead you around the
room to look at his choice specimens. The
magnificent yellow chrysanthemum in his
south window is his special pride.
The kindliness of Mr. Bancroft's nature
displays itself in his willing surrender to
the autograph fiend. I called on him not
long ago with the first volumeof my Ban
croit in my hand. I have never read the .a
mous history, for I do not want to impeach
that witty description attributed to Oliver
Wendell Holmes, who 6aid Mr. Bancroft
was the famous man who had written a work
that would never be read through.
WILLING TO OBLIGE.
The book on my arm was perhaps the open
sesame to the old scholar's heart. I said I
desired his name on itsflyleaf. forlintended
some time in the future to give it to mv son
as the -oundanon of his library when he
should drop out of the paternal nest and take
himself off to college.
"Ah, that is a true father's thoughtful
ness!' satd the historian, his dim blue eye
kindling with appreciation of mv compli
ment. "Such a chance seldom comes to an an-
Luut, '. iw uuiif ma iaoie ana Dean
to search along the walls of bookc. Hold
ing his lace close to the serried lines of
bacKS anu uucs lie pulled out volume after
volume but seemed never to find what he
was looking for.
"I want a line I remember from Goethe,"
he said at length. "I ought to remember
the German, but I don't."
He made half the circuit of the room and
finally drew a little gold edged book nerv
ously from the shelf.
"Here it is!" he cried. "It is simple
t d brief. I ralchl have remembered it
seems to me. But memory is fickle always."
lie opened the little a uodecimo, fingered
its leaves anxiously, and when he found the
passage he sought, turned the open book
lace down and took up a quill pea. Then
he wrote: "Happy is the father who has a son
to love." Beneath this, slowly and firmly
he wrote his name, then below that and to
the left of the line: " Aelat an. 90, dies 23."
A PECULIAE AUTOGRAPH.
This is one of the old scholar's idiosyn
cracies. Since his age has become remark
able he puts a charming little premium on
longevity by adding his age to his autograph,
even noting down months and days. May
he long continue to do sol The withered
hand that writes the treasured autograph
has made history in deeds as well as in
words.
Mr. Bancroft, as Acting Secretary of "War,
issued the order to march into Texas, and so
caused the Mexican war. It was his order
that caused the seizure of Cilifornia. He
established the naval academy at Annapo
Senator Mo'-rilU
lis. "While Minister to England his di
plomacv brought about the settlement of
tt-.e .Northwestern boundard qnestion, and
while Minister to Germany he established
the right of the immigrant to America to
abjure his allegiance to his native land, and
so opened wide the doors for the greatest
emicrHtion from one part of tho world to
another ever known in all history.
Mr. Bancroft suffers now and then from n
cold, but his mental and physical tenacity
usually carry him past such inadvertences,
and he seems likely to round out the cen
tury. He eats two meals a day, dieting on
simple, elementary foods, preferring oat
meal, white bread and pure white wines.
He takes in a good deal of fresh air, and
may be seen on all fair days with his Ger
man secretary walking about the streets en
joying himself thoroughly.
ELECTED SENATOR ITVE TIMES.
Another monument towering o'er the
wrecks of public life is Justin S. Morrill,
who has for the filth time been elected to the
United States Senate. On the third of last
December he completed 35 long years of ser
vice in Congress. " Of this 12 were spent in
the House and 23 in the Senate. "When
ADril comes again he will be 81 years old.
No other man was ever elected to the United
States Senate after passing tbe eightieth
birthday. His four score years sit lightly
upon him, though his tall, spare form is
bent and he has suffered severe illness at
times during the past year. Yet he has at
tended the sessions of the Senate, taken an
active part in debate, and in the committee
room has brought to tbe discussion of the
tariff tbe cumulative force of his long years
of experience in financial legislation.
"When Mr. Morrill came to Congress in
the prime of life, rich from keeping a coun
try store in a small Vermont town, he knew
nothing of the tariff. He was in Congress
one whole term before he paid any attention
to it, and even then wonld not have thought
twice of making a study of the tariff hut lor
a singular circumstance.
James li. Orr was Speaker of the Thirty
fifth Congress, and in making up his com
mittees he tried to put the weakest Repub
licans he could think of on the Ways and
Means Committee. He chose Mr. Morrill
as the New England member. The spare,
thin-faced Yankee merchant seemed to him
not a person to cause much trouble in the
committee-room when the questions of the
proposed low tariff were discussed.
a speakek's mistake.
But Mr. Orr caught a Tartar. Mr. Mor
rill buckled down to hard study, and four
years later he was the author of the Morrill
tariff, and had earned the title of "Father
of the tariff," which he wears to-day. He
was also the father of the agricultural col
leges of the country, laying foundations that
some day will bear worthy superstructures.
Mr. Morrill, when in 'Washington, lives
in one of the plcasantest homes on Massa
chusetts avenue at the intersection with
Vermont avenue and Fourteenth street, his
next door neighbor being Senator Allison.
The plain old brick house looks out to the
north and east over Thomas circle. It is
the frequent scene of cheery old-fashioned
hospitalities, and every one who has once
enjoyed one of the 40 dishes which Senator
Morrill can himself cook from Iudiau corn,
treasures the memory of it as one of the
most important experiences of a life time.
If the aged Senator survives the term for
which he has just been elected he will be 8G
years old, aud if he retains his strength and
vitality as well as he has in the past ten
years he may fitly be a candidate for his
sixth election to the Senate. He has long
ago surpassed Tom Benton's remarkable
period 01 public service.
AS AN AUTHOR.
Besides finance the senior Vermont Sena
tor loves books, and his houses at Wasbintr-
ton and at Stratford, Vt., are full of them.
He is himself the author of just such a
quaint work as might be expected from such
a cannv, dry-witted old fellow. Its title is
"Self-Consciousness of Noted lien," and it
ranges from Thucydides to Garfield.
The Senatorial 'author refrains carernllv
from giving specimens of cotemporaneousH
sen-consciousness, ana, as 10 nimself, says
nothing, simply vouchsafing this hint: "All
unite in the Scotchman's prayer 'Good
Lord give us a guid conceit o' ourseis,'
but all should agree with the ancients that
'it is not becoming to sacrifice to our heroes
till after sunset.'"
Julius A. Teuesdell.
THE Ghost Dance of the Sioux in honor of
the new Indian Messiah, will he fully de
scribed in THE DISPATCH to-morrow. The
writer Is Relieved to bo the first white man
who ever witnessed this weird performance.
The dance is the prelude to what promises
to be the greatest Indian uprising of recent
times. Tw enty rages. largest Circulation.
STATE OF, THE UHI0N PACIFIC.
"What President Adams Has to Say of tho
Present Situation.
Chicago, October 31. In an interview
to-day concerning the Union Pacific Kail
road President Adams said: "We have
made every arrangement with our Eist
ern connections to amply protect our traffic.
We have no apprehension that other lines in
the long run will decline to participate in
this traffic on these terms. If the existing
rates are sustained no line will hare any
cause of complaint. The difference, about
which so much talk has been made, is
purely temporary, and in our judgment by
no means a serious one.
"The Union Pacific, in common with all
the other roads of the couutry, has sus
tained a very great loss of traffic this
year and a corresponding loss of
income, from the fact that all
Eastern machine shops have been
overcrowded with orders. The gross earn
ings of the company for the current month
of October will be probably somewhere be
tween (54.000,000 and $5,000,000. Had we
had the motive power and equipment which
was ordered s:x months ago, we might juct
as well have eurned for October a rising of
$5,000,000 instead of rising $4,000,000."
Men's kid walking gloves.
James H. Aiken & Co., 100 Fifth are.
. WINTER WALKING
LIKELY TO BE GOOD, IF WE HAVE SOME
FAIR WEATHER.
A Number of East End Streets Fixed Up or
Under Way Pushing tho Work to Com
pletion Reletting the Craig Street Con
tractBenefits of Car Tracks.
Mayor Gourley is of the opinion that the
streets of the East End will be in very bad
shape this winter. This view is .not alto
gether borne out by the Department of Pub
lic Works. His Honor, however, holds
that it is largely the fault of the property
holders. They refuse to sign petitions for
paving and grading the streets they live on,
and then kick about the mud. Another
trouble that worries the Department of
Awards is that the petitioners often fail to
agree upon the character of the pavement to
be used. Many of them insist on firebrick,
and this material the Department of Public
Works has decided to be unsuited for the
streets of Pittsburg, where heavier loads are
hauled than any other city in the country.
His Honor says, and he generally knows
what he is talkincr about, that there has been
more paving done in the East End this year
than in the preceding five years. Among
the highways in the East End graded and
paved, or on which this work is being done
are Amberson avenue, Aiken avenue. Cope
land street, Westminster street, Roup street,
Morewood avenue, Center avenue, Dennis
ton avenue, Carnegie street, Fifty-first
street, Keystone street, Garden street and
Holmes street The cost of this work falls
upon the abntting property holders, and not
npon the city.
Among the streets which have been or are
being repaved are Ellsworth avenue, Pcnn
avenue from the forks of the road to the city
line. North Highland avenue, Stanton ave
nue, Edraundsstreet and Frankstown ave
nue. WEST END IMPROVEMENTS.
In the West End the work of paving
Wabash avenue is being pushed, and on the
Southside heights several streets are being
paved, among them Grandview avenue.
President Holliday, of Common Council,
who lives in the Thirty-fifth ward, says that
some of the streets up there are in fairly
good condition, but others are almost im
passable. Walnut street, Sbadyside, is in a bad con
dition, but the property holders will not
petition lor the paving of the thoronghfare.
They will benefit lareely by the actiou of
the Duquesne Traction Company, which will
run a track down this street, and will pave
between the rails and one foot on either side
with Belgian block.
Chief Clerk Bingaman, of the Depart
ment of Public Works, said yesterday: "I
think we will have the streets in very fair
shape this winter. The rainy weather has
hindered us terribly and kept the work
back, but now, if we have a little dry
weather, everything will be cleaned up and
put into shape. The contractors have been
losing money op their contracts. They have
been working in the rain and mud, and
much of the work has to be done over sev
eral times. Of course the streets are in a
bad condition where the work is only par
tially completed, but I think all the con
tracts now under wav will be completed this
fall."
Booth & Flinn, who are paving several
East End streets, are laying heavy plank
sidewalds for the benefit of pedestrians un
til the work is completed.
CRAIG STREET UP AGAIN.
The Department of Awards met yester
day afternoon and opened bids for the pav
ing and curbing of a number of streets, but
the bids were referred to Clerk Bingaman
lor tabulation and the contracts will be let
at the next meeting.
Among the bids opened there were several
for the paving andcurbingaf, Craig-street,
which improvement has been for two years
delayed on account of. a contest among the
property holders whether the street should
be paved by Booth & Flinn or another and
lower bidder. The decision of the Supreme
Court, rendered three weeks aco, settled the
matter as far as the contract was concerned
and it was readvertised. The street will
now he paved and it is more than probable
from the bids offered yesterday that Booth
& Flinn will get it to do.
Other bids opened were for paving Thirty
sixth " street, from Charlotte to Kailroad;
Virginia avenue, ivearsarce to Wyoming;
Woolsfaver alley, Thirty-seventh to Thirty
eighth streets; Poe alley, Filty-second to
McCandless streets; Hopper alley, Overhill
to Koberts streets; Clark alley, Overhill to
Boberts streets.
Mayor Gourley did not visit the ground
on the Marbnry street vacation in the Four
teenth ward yesterday, but says he will not
sign the ordinance until he gets time to per
sonally investigate.
The Board 01 Viewers were out yesterday
making assessments on sewers on Webster
avenue ard Kirkpatrick street
FATHEB AND SOU UNITED.
A Runaway Boy Who Returns With a Bride
to Find a Fortune.
Kolston Maxwell and his father were
united yesterday after a separation of 18
years. William Maxwell, the father, is a
farmer in Washington county, near Bur
gettstown. When 10 years old Bolston
ran away from home and went West After
some years he returned to Pennsylvania
and settled in Rostraver township, West
moreland county. He fell in love with a
neighbor's daughter, and they came to Pitts
burg to be married.
The notice of the marriage license was
seen by the lather, and he at once started in
search of his son, and found him yesterday.
During his absence Kolston's grandfather
has died, leaving him several thousand dol
lars. THE CODHrs HARROW ESCAPE
From Being Crushed to Death Between the
Wheels of His Train.
New York, October 31. The Comte de
Paris had a narrow escape from a horrible
death during his journey from Montreal to
New York yesterday.
At PlattsBurg the Count got off the train
with others to get some lunch at tne railroad
station. Not understanding the signal for
departure, he remained on the platform
until the train was fairly in motion. Then
he made a spring for the high platform of
the Wagner car. He missed the guard rail
with one hand,, but, holdiuz on with the
other, swung in between the oar platforms.
For an instant it seemed inevitable that he
wonld fall and be torn to pieces. Several
trainmen, however, rushed to theirescue and
succeeded in hauling him on to the plat
form. COMBINATION, OR CONSOLIDATION!
Rumored Arrangement Between the B. & O.
and Northern Pacific
Chicago, October 31. Beports are again
circulating of important negotiations in
progress between the Baltimore and Ohio
and the Northern Pacific roads for
an agreement offensive and defensive
which, if consummated, will practically
amount to a consolidation of the two sys
tems. It is said that a close traffic contract
has been drawn up and agreed to by both
roads, covering both ireight and passenger
business. . '
The arrangement will be very similar to
that now in operation between the Chicago
and Northwestern and the Union Pacifio
roads.
Country Store Burglarized.
Inspector McAleese received a telegram
from Tresher & Schad, drygoods merchants at
Irwin, Pa., stating that their store at Irwin
station had been robbed, and that two of the
thieves with two webs of silk warp henrietta
Bilk were on their way to this citv.
EXPOSITION AND ART.
Some Criticisms and Suggestions
Concerning the Gallery.
STILL ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT.
A Kumber of Good Pictures Were Upon the
Walla This Tear, bat
TOO HANI 01? A MEDIOCRE Q0ALITX
fWBlTTXn FOB TUB DISPATCH.
At first glance we may seem a little late
to critically discuss the recent Exposition
collection of paintings. I fear it will so
appear to the editor of The Dispatch,
who honored me with an invitation to write
upon this subject more than a month ago.
A paiuter cannot, however, even though he
feel an interest in the development of
testhetic taste in the community, lay aside
his brush in the very heat of the harvest
time to write for publication.
The influence of a collection of paint
ings exhibited during six successive
weeks, aud viewed by hundreds of thousands
of people, is 'of almost paramount impor
tance, and, as this influence is not spent in
a day, the topic may still be considered
timely. It is from the educational stand
point that an exhibition of art works is of
highest importance, and it is beyond dis
pute that a widening influence is always ex
erted by such exhibitions.
u A PROFOUND IMPEESSION.
Indeed such is the popular method of art
education, and as such this means should be
jealously guarded. The most profound im
pression, aesthetically, ever made upon the
people of these cities was that exerted by the
Loan Art Exhibition which graced the
opening of the Carnegie Free Library in
Allegheny.
The influence of that notable collection
cannot be overestimated. Therefore, many
of our people had enjoyed little opportunity
of examining the collective works of for
eign painters, or of discovering by compari
son and research the higher qualities which
exist despite the wide difference in treat
ment and subject. This privilege was en
joyed by the lew who could make frequent
pilgrimages to New York and Washington,
and who had the entree into the private
galleries in tbe East
The Carnegie loan exhibition offered the
golden opportunity at home, and tbe tre
mendous pressure upon the art gallery set
forever at rest all questions touch
ing the earnest desire of our peo
ple) "to enjoy and understand
the creations of art It did more it fixed,
for all who carefully and thoughtfully
studied the works there exhibited, a high
standard, and at least this number of people
will never be satisfied with an inferior col
lection of paintings. Tbe pictures parted
with this influence, and are unless valuable.
Our people experienced a great testhetic
impulse, and theconsciousness of increased
capacity for enjoyment, and are vastly
richer. It is this thought which makes the
dedication of an art gallery or library to
public use grand.
THE final estimate.
Of course in the examination of any col
lection of paintings the final estimate is de
pendent upon some standard of judgment
deliberately or unconsciously adopted.
There is a wide difference between the
original application of the word art, derived,
as it was, from the Greek, or probably,
Aryan word, which meant to plow, and
which, in this sense, was intended to de
scribe any jacxpt dexterity; and tbe more
modern application of the word, as used bv
Palixenes, when she reminds Perdita that
"there is an art which doth mend nature
change It, rather, but the art itself is na
ture." If we" accept the standard which requires
dexterity simply, the careful reproduction
of objects and colors upon canvas.then there
was a reasonable percentage of merit in the
Exposition collection of paintings. If, on
the other hand, we adopt the higher
standard of judgment, then simple hon
esty compels me, since my opinion
has been asked, fo say that the collection as
a whole was a very inferior one. It is just
ns ncii bu suiie jacis ui mis Kino piaiuiv.
Iu all that pertains to art our citv has made
rapid progress in the past few "years, and
the most potent influence for good has been
that exertedby paintings of sterling worth.
A common interest in the development of
sesthetio taste in our midst should prompt us
all to seek only the truth in relation to any
collection of paintings exhibited. Nothing
is ever gained by dissimulation.
NO INDIVIDUAL DISCUSSION.
It is not my purpose to discuss the
pictures 01 the collection individuallv.
Nothing is to be gained at this time by"
review of that kind. A considerable num
ber are very good, comparatively few pos
sessed any of the highest qualities, and a
large majority of the entire collection were
of very mediocre quality. A large majority
of any collection, of course, give to the col
lection its distinctive character.
It is a pity that through motives of econ
omy, or for any reason whatever, a collec
tion of this kind should be exhibited to such
a vast multitude of people. One of the
highest purposes of the Exposition is that
of education. If the musia and art fur
nished by the Exposition Society each
year is of a high order the influence will be
great, because the opportunity for exerting
such influence is magnificent.
It may be replied that the highest class of
paintings cannot be secured for an art exhi
bition connected with an industrial exposi
tion, but the St. Louis Exposition Society
secured this year one of Munkacsy's impor
tant works, the "Death of Mozart," and a
large number of works by the most eminent
painters of the Barbizon school. Pittsburg
is destined to be an art city ot no mean pre
tensions, and these matters are worthy of
our most careful and conscientious consider
ation. John W. Beattt.
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H00SIERS IN CHICAGO.
Tho Sons of Indiana Will Organize a Society
This Month.
Chicago, October 30. Indianians who
are residents of Chicago will have an associ
ation to be known as ihe "Sons of Indi
ana." Last Tuesday evening n meeting was
held for the purpose of preliminary organi
zation, but owing to inclement weather the
meeting was postponed until Tuesday even
ing, November 11.
Since the adjournment of tbe first meet
ing, Messrs. Alfred Moore. C. F. Sheldon
and L. P. Conpland, sons of Indiana resi
dent in Chicago, have set about ascertaining
the names and residences of Indianians res
ident in Chicago. It has been ascertained
that many reside here, and all are to be In
vited to the Shcrmnn House meeting.
MINERS W0ST STRIKE.
The Indiana Convention Decides to Abide
by Their Agreement
Teebe Haute, October 31. A dele
gate convention of Indiana miners, began
its sittings here to-day, under the auspices
of the United Mine Workers' Union. Many
of the delegates represent unorganized
liners.
The conservative element ruled, and the
convention decided to stand by the contract
signed in tbe spring with the operators, and
will not demand an advance in wages. The
contention adjourned at noon,
THREE COLTS POISONED.
SCOUNDRELS AT WORK IN NORTH FAY
ETTE TOWNSHIP.
Stomachs of the Animals Entirely Destroyed
by Strychnine or Lead Wild Cherry
Leaves Hooted at Robinson Township
Formers Troubled by a Dog Poisoner.
People" iu the neighborhood of Imperial
were in a ferment yesterday morning re
garding what appeared to be a case of fiend
ishness in North Fayette township. Dur
ing the night a valuable colt belonging to
William Armstrong, who lives on the
Miller farm, died and two others were
found to be very sick. Soon after daylight
a sscond died and the third during the fore
noon. Dr. Crawford examined the animals
and stated that they bad been poisoned, but
he would not say by what kind of poison.
It was thought it might be either strychnine
or lead. Dr. N. Eecktenwald, a veterinary
surgeon of the Southside, was sent for and
he brought the animals' stomachs' to the city
for analysis. He said the lining of the
stomachs was entirely destroyed.
The colts were Hambletonians worth con
siderable money enough to wipe out Mr.
Armstrong's profits for one year at least
He makes a specialty of fine stock.
Some people in the vicinity speak lightly
of the matter and sav the animals were
poisoned by eating wifd cherry leaves and
bark, but the explanation does not seem
plausible in view of Dr. Recktenwald's
statement that the coating of the stomachs
was eaten away. Beside wild cherry
grows all over that section and no other in
stances of horse poisoning are reported
though there are hundreds running in pas
tures where it abounds, and no horse is
likely to eat enough wild cherry to poison
him when he can get other green food.
Some scoundrel has been poisoning dog?
in Robinson township, and suspicion points
to a certain individnal, but he is not likely
to have anv motive sufficient to take him to
North Fayette. A short time since a dog
poisoner was operating in Stowe township,
but from the way his work was distributed
it was supposed he was animated by pure
cussedness and was not wreaking his malice
on any one in particular.
Mr. Armstrong stated that he hadn't the
least suspicion of any person. He stated
that he had some trouble with a neighbor
some time ago, but would not for a moment
suppose his antagonist mean enough to do a
dastardly act of any kind. People about
Imperial were talking of offering a reward
for the apprehension of the scoundrel, and
there is no doubt that they would pay hand
somely for knowledge that would convict
In the northern part of Indiana county
there has been of late a reign of terror.
Horses have been poisoned at intervals for
years, and some were mntilated by having
their tongues cut out. The poisoner is also
supposed to be the cause of the burning of
several barns in Indiana county.
ANOTHER CIRCULAR NAILED.
Why Governor Pattison Vetoed the Mercy
Hospital Appropriation He Merely
Obeyed the Law An Explanation From
Ex-Postmaster Larkin.
The Republican State Committee has
issued a circular charging ex-Governor Pat
tison with having vetoed the Mercy Hos
pital appropriation on religious grounds.
The circulars are being sent to Catholics
everywhere, with the hope of arraying tbat
denomination against him. The following
letter explains Governor Pattison's position:
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
The charge that Governor Pattison vetoed
the Mercy Hospital appropriation on account
or its sectarian character is a vile slander on a
liberal, high-minded ccntleman, and Is without
an atom ot truth. When this worthy institu
tion was In greatest need Governor Pattison
was Irs friend. During tbe Legislative session
of 18K2 the directors of Mercy Hospital, one
halt of whom are Protestant centlemen, made
application to the Stato for 30,000 for bnildine
purposes, ine unopirai was crowded, and. as
it was one of the oldest and best Institutions in
this citv. ana bad always opened Its doors to
every race and sect, rich and poor alike, tbe
request was respected and Governor Pattison
signed the bill. At that time we were ignor
ant ot tlm law, and did not ask for the
ncproval of the State Board ot Chanties, until
the time for such npprovaMiad expired. In
consideration, however, of tho meritorious
character of tbo institution, an examination of
the proposed improvements, and their neces
sity was made, and a supplemental report made
to the Legislature favoring tho grant We
were then advised Dy the State Board of Chari
ties that any further appeals must be made
through that body at least 60 davs before tbe
Legislature convened, as required by law.
In 1884 (I must depond on memorv for dates),
notwithstanding we had raised $30,000 by pri
vate subscription in addition to the 530,000
given us by tbe State in 18S2, wo were again
compelled to ask for State aid and again neg
lected to eomp'y with thelawasto tne time fixed
hy tho act. The Board of Chanties again very
kindly approved of tho charity, and sent a sup
plemental report to the Legislature. The bill
was passed and vetoed for the reason that the
revenues of the State were not large enough to
meet the amounrs appropriated tn State Insti
tutions, whoso applications were made accord
ing to law, and within the time required by the
act. Governor Pattison treated tbo late Colonel
James P. Barr, T. D. Casey. Mr. O'Lcary,
myself and other members of tne Board ot Di
rectors with the utmost courtesy and consider
ation, and bis reasons were consistent and en
tirely satisfactory. The fault was our own,
and there is not now and never has been any
complaint against Governor Pattison for his
action. His whole course was that of a
man who wanted to do right, and
to discharge his duty as the law re
quired it should be. Tbe attempt to
misrepresent him and to accuse him of un
worthy motives will meet with the jnst Indig
nations of fair-minded men everywhere, and no
respectablo man In this community would at
tach his signature to such a statement. I was
a member of the Board of Directors at that
time and a member now. and this statement of
facts Is In the inteicst ot an honest, courageous
public officer whose every public act 13 as un
assailable as his personal integrity.
1'iTTsnuno, October SO. J. B. Larkin.
POLITICS of tho Presidents and interest
ing gossip about their lives In the White
House are admirably treated forTO-3IOK-KOW'S
DISPATCH by Frank G. Carpenter.
Tho letter contains some entirely new facts,
and is worthy of a place among recent his
torical works. Twenty 8-column pages.
ESCAPED FROM SD3EHIA.
The Exiles Are Greatly Encouraged by
American Sympathy.
London, October 31. A Russian named
Kelchvitsky, who succeeded in making his
escape from Siberia after having served 14
years there, has arrived iu this city. He
was arrested iu Vitna, when only 18 years
of age, on suspicion of having in his pos
session revolutionary doenmeuts and of
being concerned in a conspiracy against the
Government.
M. Kelchvitsky is unwilling as yet to
publish an account of his life in exile and
his escape, for fear that by doing so he will
endanger bis comrades left in Siberia. He
states that the exiles there are greatly en
couraged by the expressions of sympathy
with them" in their late by the American
people, and claims that the Russian Gov
ernment is much disturbed thereby.
SUICIDE OF A LUNATIC.
End of an Escaped Maniac From the Michi
gan Insane Asylum.
St. Johns, N. B., October 31. A luna
tic named Blais, who escaped some time ago
from a Michigan asylum, and who on
Wednesday morning last committed a mur
derous assault upon Constable Lareau and
Joseph Lajeuse in Lacolle, was this morn
ing found dead, haying committed suicide
by twisting pieces of his sheet into a rope
and hanging himself with it from an iron
bar in the corridor of the jail.
SOUTH AMEBIC AN travel is an absorbing
subject. Fannie B. Ward, THE DISPATCH
correspondent, is now on the Western coast
One of her best letters will appear to-morrow
morning. Largest Circulation. Twenty
Pages,
CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR
The Almost Phenomenal Growth of
the Society of That flame.
AN OUTLINE OP THE MOVEMENT.
Started in a Terj Hnmbla Manner Scarcely
Ten leara Ago.
COMING CONTENTION IN PITTSBURG
The Pennsylvania State Convention of
the United Society of Christian Endeavor
will meet in tbe Fourth Baptist Church of
this city next Wednesday. This is one of
the most rcmarkabje movements of this
country. Within ten years it has spread
like wildfire. Christian Endeavor societies
have been organized in every State in the
Union, as well as in Canada, Great Britain
and in many foreign lands.
In the number ot societies in tbe country
Pennsylvania ranks third, having 484. At
the present time the total enrollment, rapid
ly increasing, is nearly 12,000 societies, with
a membership of over 700,000. These so
cieties are becoming an important basis of
supply for church membership.
THE CHEISTIAN ENDEAVOE IEADEE.
Little did Dr. F. E. Clark, the president
of the organization think, when he organ
ized the society ten years ago, of the vast
proportions to which it would grow. He
Rev. Charlet Wood, D. D.
was then the pastor of a Congregational
Church, in Portland, Me., and felt the need
of enlisting his young people iu Christian
work. Dr. Clark was born in Aylmer,
Quebic, in 1851, but he was of Massachu
setts descent for generations back. He
graduated at Dartmouth College, in 1873,
and at Andover Theological Seminary in
1876. After being pastor some time in Port
land, Me., he toot: charge of a Congrega
tional Church in Boston, from which work
he was called in 1887 to take control of the
Christian Endeavor movement as its presi
dent, and ' to become editor of the Golden
Rule, the organ of the organization which
has an euormous circulation. His work
makes him a very busy man, and modest as
he.is, with, great administrative ability, a
competent leader, he is universally popu
lar. He will be the most prominent actor
in the Pittsburg convention.
In 1880 there was a revival in the Port
land Church under tbe ministry of Dr.
Clark. A great-many young people came
into "the church. The pastor and older
members felt anxious to keep them from
falling away, and felt to do this they mnst
Rev. W. R. Harper, D. D.
get them to work. They felt the Sunday
school, the voung people's prayer meeting
and the regular church prayer meeting was
not sufficient to mold the character of the
young converts. Hence it was the pastor
drew up a constitution, essentially the same
as the one in use to-day, and got his young
people to sign it. From that on the history
of the movement is one oft-told tale. For a
long time the movement was confined to
Congregational churches.
A BROADER FIELD.
For some years the convention and officers
were of that denomination, and the Congre
gatfonalists deserve full credit for originat
ing and fostering the society. It has now,
however,got a foothold iu all denominations
and isespecially strong among the Presby
terians and Methodists. Tbe latter have re
cently organized a movement ot their own,
calling It the Epworth League, aud are en
deavoring to run in the Christian Endeavor
societies, but with limited success. There
is some agitation in Presbyterian circles for
Rev. F. F. Clark, D. D.
a Westminster League, but as yet the idea
has no visible form. There are a great many
Christian Endeavor societies in this city and
the number is constantly increasing, and
they are felt everywhere as a controlling in
fluence in the church. The movement brings
the young blood of the congregations into
vigorous circulation.
The Society of Christian Endeavor is not
designed to be :ui organizition independent
of the church. In Jai-t, its purpose is to
enlist the wholo church iu work, especially
for and with tbe youug. As the societies
exist in all the Evangelical denominations,
the basis of union is one of common accept
ance. No doctrinal or ecclesiastical basis
Wk F'ft
is made prominent, but the religious feat
ures of the constitution are made para
mount All temperance and true moral re
forms get sympathy, and especially the
cause of missions at home and abroad, but
hobbies aud 'cranks are not encouraged. The
expenses of the society are chiefly in the
dissemination of literature and in the sup
port of a general secretary.
a thousand delegates.
More than 1,000 delegates, from all parts
of the State, will be in attendance udou the
convention in Pittsburg. Among the noted
frff
Rev. J. F. Patton.
speakers will be Dr. F. E. Clark, or Boston,
President of the United Society; Dr.
Francis L. Patton, President ot Princeton
College; Dr. Harper, ot Yale; Dr. Cuyler,
of Brooklyn, and Dr. Charles Wood, of
Germantown, Pa. Dr. Wood is the clerical
gentleman who made the sensation two
weeks ago by his speech in the Academy of
Music, Philadelphia, in opposition to Dela
mater. Dr. Harper is one of tho leaders in pro
gressive theology and by his advanced
views creates some consternation among the
old-fashioned orthodoxers. It is not known
whether he will indulge in higher criticism
in Pittsburg. Over 1,000 delegates are ex
pected to be in attendance, Philadelphia
alone sending about 300.
WAGES in England have been carefully
investigated for THE DISPATCH by Colonel
Frank A. Burr. Ho has gone among; the
mechanics, talked to them and eaten meals
In their houses, thus making himself thor
oughly acquainted with the facts. See to
morrow's 20-page Issue for the results of the
investigation. Largest Circulation.
STORY 0FA SABER
NOW IN THE POSSESSION OF A NASHVILLE
FAMILY.
It Vfos Once the Property of A. 9IcD. Mc
Cook From West Folnt to the Wild
West-Itlse of a Cadet to Brigadier
General.
The appended letter from Nashville pos
sesses much interest to many people in
Western Pennsylvania, Eastern Ohio and
New York:
Nashville, October Z). 189a
To the Editor or The Dispatch:
Dear Sir-Will yon please publish tho fact
that an old saber is now In the possession of a
family here, tbe saber tearing this inscription:
"A. McD. McCook, Third U. a Infantry."
There must be some of the McCook tamily yet
about Pittsburg or in Ohio who would value
tbo relic. Further information may be bad by
addressing Mr. H. G. Herrick, Nashville, Tenn.
Very truly yours,
J. P. Dake.
The writer is of the firm of J. P. Dake
& Sons, physicians.
The letter was shown Willis F. McCook,
Esq., aud he said at once that Alexander
McD. McCook was a cousin of bis father,
Dr. George L. McCook, and, consequently,
second cousin of the speaker. Mr. McCook
said that Alexander lately commanded the
Third U. S. Infantry, as Colonel, and is now
a Brigadier General iu the regular service.
He graduated at West Point, and then went
West and fought Indians for some time,
after which he was sent to West
Point as an instructor, about 1858.
When tbe rebellion began he
asked to be assigned to active duty,
and entered the volunteer service' as Lien
tenant Colonel of the Second Ohio Infantry,
succeeding Schenck as Colonel when the
latter was appointed Minister to England.
Colonel McCook rose from this position to
Major General of Volunteers, and served
under Sherman in the Army of the Cumber
land. Alter the war he was chief of Sher
man's staff, and on Sherman's retirement
took command of his old regiment, the
Third United States Bezulars.
While stationed at Ft Douglas, Salt
Lake Citv, he one day gave the Mormons
five minutes' time in which to raise the
Stars and Stripes on the Tabernacle under
penalty of having it shelled. The gunners
weie awaiting orders to fire, but the flag
went up within the time prescribed.
A PATERNAL government seems to he the
tendency of the times according to a lawyer
of tho Northwest who has talked entertain
ingly to Charles T. Murray, one of THE DIS
PATCH'S New York correspondents. It is a
new idea. See to-morrow's mammoth Issue.
All tho News.
BEE KEEPERS ADJOURN.
Their Next Meeting "Will he Held in Al
bany, N. Y.
Keokuk, October 31. At the last day's
session of the International Bee Keep
ers' Association the following offi
cers were elected; P. H. El wood,
Starkville, N. Y., President; Eugene
Secor, Forest City, la., Vice President; C.
P. Dadant, Hamilton, 111., Secretary;
Ernest B. Boot, Medina, O., Treasurer.
Albany was chosen as tbe place of next
meeting.
DEED OF A MANIAC.
He Kills His Brothers-In-Law and Probably
Commits Salcide.
Westpobt, Cal., October 3L Frank
Mason shot and killed Charles and Matthew
Vann, his brothers-in-law, this morning,
and fled to the woods.
Other shots were heard, leading to a be
lief that the murderer had committed sui
cide. He is believed to be insane.
DOOMED TO THE DEATH CHAIR.
Wood is Denied a New Trial and Sentenced
to Kemmler's Fate.
New Yoek, October 31. Becorder Smyth
to-day denied tbe motion for a new trial for
Joseph Wood, the colored man who shot aud
killed a man named. Euffin at Shaft 21, on
the new aqueduct, April 17, 1889, and fixed
tbe day of execution during the week begin
ning Monday, December 1.
An Agent Held for Court
F. M. Stewart, the agent in charge of the
Interstate Manufacturing Company, C33
Wood street, who was arrested on Thursday
last on a charge of false pretense preferred
against him by John Russell, of Allegheny,
waived a hearing yesterday for trial at the
December term of court, and gave bail in
$3,000. .
Camping In Palestine.
Kev. C. C. Hayes, of the Westminster
Presbyterian Church, "Camped Outin Pales
tine" last night, interesting and instructing
his audience on the features of the Bible
lnnd. The lectnre was given in tbe Second
U. P. Churcb, at the corner of Stockton
avenue and Sandusky street, Allegheny,
and the proceeds were for the benefit of Dr.
Hays' church.
$20,000,000 A YEAR
Expended Upon the Game and fish
Preserves of Scotland.
THOUSANDS OP ACRES ARE IDLE
Except as They Are Used Ij the Wealthy
Sportsmen of England.
A EICH YANKEE'S BIG LEASEHOLDS
1COREESPONDESCE or THS DISrATCHI
ToaiiCH, Scotland, October 15. On
coming face to face with the fact of the de
population of rural Scotland, and especially
of the Northern and Western Highlands, it
is astounding that any system of land laws
is permitted to exist which will work such
fatal resnlts to a country. There must be
a practical reason for all this, you feel. You
dig and delve for that reason, and you are
still more astounded. Inqnire where you
may, there is iu effect but One answer:
"Highlanders are not worth to the great
landlords so many red deer. Crofters are of
less account than partridges and rabbits.
Human beings in the form of Scottish
peasantry are les valuable than their weight
in pheasants or fish!"
Not satisfied with assertions and general
ities, you delve and dig again, it is easy
enough to find proof of depopulation. But
it is difficult for the average American to
realize how land proprietors can find ade
quate compensation for the iSss of popula
tion and its labor which ordinarily alone
give to land the greatest value possible for
it to possess. Agents and factors every
where tell you that the income from hunt
ing and fishiDg privileges is more than re
paving proprietors. This seems so inex
plicable that you delve and di a?ain. u I
did, and finally arrive at some most as
tounding fact3. The great overwhelming
fact is that a greater area of land in Scot
laud is now devoted to the exclusive pur
pose of game reserves than is occupied by
farmers for the exclusive cultivation of the
soil, and that nine-tenths of all land and of
all rods ot locb, brook or river shores in the
kingdom are annually leased in shooting
and fishing privileges to British sportsmen.
TEASAItTS IX THE TV AY.
Naturally Scottish peasantry are in the
way of game and fish. But passing a dis
cussion of the efiect of this land policy upon
the sociologic and economic condition of
Scotland, we Americans have no conception
whatever ot tbe stupendous sums annually
paid by British titled and gentleman SDOrts
men for their few weeks' delights with rod and
gun. The amounts received by single owners
for single privileges are equallysurprising.
Mrs. Chisholm, owner of the Chisholm
estates, which border Strathglass here, must
receive 14,000. I find that for 69shootingn
and fishings the Duke of Sutherlandreceives
rentals amounting to 23,096. As he has
more than 100 for lease, hi3 income from
this source alone must reach 35,000 or
40,000. In Forfarshire, on the estate be
longing to the "Tators of the Earl of Dal
housie," these privileges whose rental prices
I have been able to secure reach 10,400;
and of those of tbe Countess Dowager of
Seafield regarding Trbich information is
available, 13 shootings and fishings in
Elginshire give her 3,189; 8 in Banffshire,
566; and 14 in Iuverness-ihire, ,4,605; or
a total of 8,360; which is probably not
one-third of her entire income from this
source.
As I am quite certain the facts have never
yet appeared in the public prints either in
Great Britain or America, I have been to
the pains of putting into tabulated form
the actual rentals known to be annually
paid for these shooting and fishing privi
leges in Scotland:
Shires. Shootings. Fishings.
Aberdeen 21.412 1,915
Argyll 33,518 5,801
Ayr 10.120 994
Berwick 1,513 2,523
xnt6 , 0017
Caithness 11.1U3
Clackmannan SCO
Dumbarton 2.5S7
Dumfries e.77 LS50
Kdinburzh or Midlothian 1,313
E'gin or'Moray 11,162 10,191
File 7.155
Forfar 25.196 5,717
Haddington 3,910
Inverness oi,vS S65
Kincardine 7,360 11.475
Kinross L3G2 L030
KirkudOright 11,971 1.2KJ
jjinarii,ll..l.aa,a,((ll.,(((t JfjOlo
Linlithgow. &J8 45
Nairn ..... 555 1,200
Orkney and Shetland ISO
Peebles 7U0
Perth 19.322 17.4SJ
Renfrew l.lai 56
Ross and Cromarty 11,727 6.SS2
Roxburgh 5.552 2,361
Selkirk 3,010 Hb
Stirling 3,411 1.4S2
Sutherland. 26.201 3.325
Wigtown. 16.590 513
Total 331.123 35.181
AN ENOKMOTS AGGBEGAXE.
The total of these known rentals, 469,612,
exceeds 2,300,000. There are. altogether,
3,578 "shootings" and 636 "fishings." The
above sum represents only the rentals paid
on not quite one-fourth of the entire 4,234
shootings and fishings; so that a moderate
estimate of the entire sum paid annnilly in
rentals alone would probably not fall short
of $10,000,000. This vast sum is actually
annually secured by Scottish landlords ex
clusive of all other rentals for grazing ahd
agriculture which their lands secure to
tbem.
But it is by no means the principal ex
penditure by titled and gentlemen British
sportsmen. It is of common report here
that their other expenses equal or exceed
this first cost of possession. An army of
conveyancers are employed making and" re
newing leases and in modifying their term
and conditions. Nearlv every shooting and
fishing has its factor or a?ent who mulcts the
absent tenant with innumerable petty
charges. Hunting lodges with tbe appoint
ments and accessories ot palaces must be kept
in repair, occupied and in order. Accouter
ments for the chase or moor require large
original investment and constant renewal
and addition. The average annual cost of '
the support and care of a pack of 25 couples
of fox or deer hounds is $5,000. A host of
game keepers is supported the year through,
and, during the hunting season, an average
deer forest shooting will employ, aside from
a half dozen huntsmen, from 30 to CO gillies,
or general utility men.
These gillies are recruited from two classes,
the hangers-on of stud-stables in the large
English and Scotch cities, and from later
day crofters' families; the latter causing a
complete change iu the character of young
Highlanders. Just enough crofters are per
mitted to remain npon these great northern
estates to assist in furnishing a supply of
this class of human cattle; and the trifle of
16 or 20 per year for a few weeks' attend
ance upon the sportsman lord, with the cor
ruptions ot kennel and saddle rooms at the
lodges, and utter idleness for the remainder
of the year, ars making a sad and unworthy
lot ot a class that iu former times possessed
many of the highest qualities of the sturdy
Scotch race.
OIHEK EXPENSIVE FXATUBES.
The item of transportation of studs, ken
nels and innumerable forms of luggage from
the English and Scotch capitals, when now
the greatest number of British gentlemen
sportsmen reside, has become one of such
importance that all the northern-bound
railways in the two kingdoms not only an
nually employ 'large numbers of 'agents to
solicit this particular traffic, but daring
August and September they are sorely taxed
to supply adequate accommodations. The
expense of entertainment ot a bevy ot ladies
and gentlemen for two months st one of
these splendid hunting lodges is very great.
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