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THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1890.
1 - 12
THE PEOPLE'S COLUMN
A Kumber of Expressions Ujion Var
ious Subjects of Interest.
OiE AGAINST THE MAS ROADtfLAN
The Appeal of a Butter County Producer
to U is Associates. .
SOME SEEKERS AFTEK IXF0KMAT1UX
Against the Xen Koad Flan.
TotlieEdltcrwrTlie Dispatch:
I read your recent editorial, "The New
Road Plan" it should have read "The New
Loot Plan," a scheme to loot the public
treasury by the creation of more public of
ficials to be maintained at public expend.
I would like to ask the editor or the Farm.
ers Alliance a few practical questions,
which the editor is at liberty to answer on'i
this one condition that his reply will not
be the one universally made by the boodler
politician, to wit: "Oh, he is a kicker, or
lie is opposed to public improvements." My
firstquestion Is it in the interest of tlie
people or Siate to increase the horde of
public officials? Second Does it not
in every instance cost the city, county
or State more lor work or service per
formed than it does the citizens to do the
tame work? Is it net a fact that in addition
to the coto.' the work or improvement in
hand, there are additional public officials
to be supported at the public expense aiter
the work is done? Third Arj not the
people living along the hue of the
township loads as much interested in
h-iving them in good condition as any
other class, and will not their needs
insure the roads being put in as good con
dition and at much less exnensethan if done
by the State, with its high-salared officials?
Fourth Is not the compelling of people to
do lor themselves what is necessary for their
own comfort better than having them
depend upon the State to do it
ior them; in a word, is not
the "Parental Government Theory"
under any pretext evil and only evil, and
opposed to the best interests of our people
and nation? fifth If it is true that the
State has to piy more than double for all
classes ol service or work performed, is not
that an unanswerable reason why the State
tliould keep hands ofl and compel the
citizens to provide for themselves? Sixth
In view of the danger to our civil instiiu
tions and the continual threatening to the
satetyofonr nation and people, caused by
the strile between the two political parties,
resulting in such unbridled license with
public money, disclosed in the Delamater
Company looting the public treasury outf
$100,000, is not that an unanswerable reason
why every patriotic citizen and newspapr
should resist every device lor increasing the
horde ot public officials?
As an mcentive to the editor to answer
above questions ailow me to call your atten
tion, and through you the attention of the
Purmers' Alliance, and all other patriotic
citizens, to the proposed increase of the sala
ries of our connty public officials. It is an
open secret, that under pretense of the late
census returns, an act ol the Legislature of
3831 is to be taken advantage ot and con
strued, so as to do service in doubling up the
salaries of the county officials 100 per cent.
Jn a conversation recently, upon this
proposed increase, with County Con
troller Spcer, I asked him the
following questions: "What he thought
of the salary of the Controller at 54.000 per
year, as at present paid" He replied that
lie thought his salary for the service ren
dered was a very fair compensation, as was
aUothe salaries ol all the other county
officials, as compared with the labor and
liours of wnrfc. He said he thought the
couuty officials were paid above what the
same service, either in banks, railroads or
other private enterprises paid. He said he
was not in favor of low salaries in the
public service, but he thought the increas
ing of Controller's salary ironi 54.000 to
S8,000,and Sheriff's salary from $0,500 to
513,000, and County Commissioners from
52.500 to 5,000 per"year, and all the other
officials in same proportion, was a very
great wrong and ought not to be permitted.
Allow me, Mr. Editor, to ask, in view of
the fact that these tame county officials are
already cutting each other's throats to
see who will secure the office, why the
people should allow this outrage to be
perpetrated. Is not the fact that tens of
thousands of men, laboring men, like those
coal miners in the anthracite coal regions,
who have just received notice that they are
to be thrown out ol work, a reason why all
classes of citizens should resist the increase
of public burdens upon our industries which
will not affoid the people depending upon
them a decent living? Is not this class of
citizens more worthy or consideration than
the boodler clas, who, under one pretext or
anotuer, are continually laying seige to the
public treasury? Hoping The Dispatch
will take up this subject and arouse public
interest before this scheme has been con
summated, I am, with respect,
J. B. Corey.
PirrsnrKG, Dec. 15.
An Appeal to the Producers.
Come, producers, let us reason together!
"What is toe condition of the Pennsylvania
oil producers? The production of the Penn
sylvania oil fields, as stated by the National
Transit Company, is about 4,000 barrels less
per day than the consumption. The stocks
have been reduced from 30,000,000 barrels
to less than 9,000,000 barrels. Three years
ago the Standard whispered to the Pennsyl
vania producers that if the storks were
reduced the price would advance materially.
At the same time they shouted that Lima
oil could not be refined successfully. The
Standard, by the help of the leading pro
ducer, :ooled the producers and laboring
people in the oil districts of Pennsylvania
for one year, so that they might
empty the tankage in Pennsylvania
and fill it with Lima oil (at 15
cents per barrel), which was only
fit for fuel. There was no advance to speak
oi until doe lraig .5; Uo. built an independ
ent pipe line. This pipe line seemed to
lave more effect than the reduction ol stocks,
aud crude oil advanced to a fair price,
certificates being worth 1 05 or more in
February, 1890; refined selling for 7.20c per
gallon. As soon as the Craig pipe line was
absorbed (in direct violation of the law) by
the Standard, oil at once began to depre
ciate. It was also discovered tbat (by a new
process) Lima oil could be deodorized and
that about 30 per cent of good merchantable
oil could be taken from oil that before was
only fit for fuel oil. "Who with any brains
does not know, when they look at the large
refinery built at Lima, O., and the big pipe
line laid to Chicago, that the Standard knew
that Lima oil could be success ully refined
before they set up the shut-down? The price
of crude has depreciated, until to-day it is
selling at less than actual cost of produc
tion (03 cents), while refined has advanced
to 7.30c per gallon. Has not the Standard
Eimply ordered every man, womac and child
in the Pennsylvania oil fields to hold up
their hands, a la Jesse James style, while
they (I had almost said he) went through
their pockets and took the few millions they
have present use for?
The old style was to rob the producer
through the oil market, but the new style
nets just as well. You ask: Are these peo
ple whoare being robbed American citizens,
men who hare just cause to be proud of the
bravery of their forefathers? and have we
fallen so low as to become serfs and slaves
for the purpose of helping to make one man
the wealthiest man on the face of the earth?
"Willie "Winkle says "Gould and Kockafcller
don't want the earth, they only want what
is on tiie outside of it." Tlie producersonly
a-k for what they produce on their little
li-ase and are billing to give tbejaud owner
one-eighth of the production.
Is there no lymph in the oil country? Are
, there no Dr. Koehs to be found? "Who will
mobilise the gang at id start a ghost dance?
Let us quit trying to frighten the Stand
lard by suggesting big schemes. Actions
speak louder than words. Can't we build a
little pipe line and refinery lor a cent, as
the Standard d id in lb"2,and when the profits
will justify add a big Bland dollar aud as
we crow up with the country try and
market our own production? If we" have
not the brains and capital to do this, let the
producer take a pumping job from the
Standard, the land owners deed them their
oil lands for a song and the business men
run their company stores.
Remember, producers, there has been the
enormous profit of U per cent for the last
year in producing oil, and the poor Standard
has not made more than 500 per cent in
handling the stuff. The Columbia Conduit
Company pipe line, the Tide 'Water, the
Pittsburg pipe line, the "Western Atlantic
pipe line, did not clear more than 1,000 per
cent on their investments. Be slow about
investing in an enterprise that you cannot
clear more than from 200 to 500
per cent per annum. Go on produc
ing, take all the risk, and you
that are lucky enough to get a production,
give your profits to the legalized trust with
out a murmur. Don't say hard things
nDout a trust that is only "doing what yon
might possibly do if you had the opportun
ity. They only laugh at your calamity;
they make sport of your bellowing. Honest
competition is the only thing that makes
them look anxious. Come producers, let us
reason together. C.
BUTXrit, Dec 13. 1890.
One Clergyman Criticises Another.
To the Editor orrhe DIsiatcli:
"When a writer's chief object is the
pleasing of the multitude he is often tempted
to go outside the lines of fairness when criti
cising people and opinions as well as usages
not agreeable to his own views. He is also
led into the mistake of those who, from an
oversight of facts, state things which are not
exactly true. And yet we will not condemn
such a writer of being willful in his incor
rect stitements, or unkind in his criticisms.
For this reason we are tempted to call the
Key. Mr. Hodges' attention to an important
deviation ou his part frofci the excellent de
scription of "Old Oxlord" to a severe criti
cism of all who cannot exactly follow him in
his ideas of ritual, etc
AVe have waited be'ore writing a word to
you on this matter. Our delay has softened
our pen and calmed our temperature. "We
may now without severity ask why has the
reverned gentleman gone out of his way to
strike at those who have not one unkind
word to utter against his simplicity of
ritual? No one in the Church of "Western
Pennsylvania is burdened with the so-called
"non-essentials and extravagencies of rit
ualism." Those in England who are so
burdened (?) are perfectly satisfied with
their load and claim that according to his
tory they are doing the right thing in being
burdened.
But who is the more correct so far as his
tory bears witness the so-called Kitualists
of England or the Key. M. A. Hodges?
The writer is no Ritualist himself. His
service is as plain as an Irishman can possi
bly have it and yet be in keeping with the
Rubrics and historical usage. Still, he
must say that the so-called Ritualists can
give more evidence to sustain their position
than those who criticise them. The Bey.
Mr. Hodges' attack upon them is this in
substance, viz: That "the mysteries
of ecclesiastical dressmaking, "chasu
ble, wafer, sections of rainbow.
eastward position, green and purple
vestments and clouds of incense" are the
abuses practiced by the "yearlings of divin
ity schools" who claim to be walking in the
footsteps of the lathers of the Oxford move
ment. "We are afraid that our brother has
made two unconscious mistakes. First, he
has made a severe attack upon his Creator,
and second, he has erred in history. The
"mysteries of ecclesiastical dressmaking"
are traceable to Almighty God on the
Mount, when he gave commandment to
Moses .how vestment should be made
and what should be the colors. In
cense, unleavened bread, orientation
are of God ordering and o! scriptural and
historical usage. Surely no man will say in
dead earnest that these things so derided by
our brother are the extravagancies of the
outgrowth of the Oxford movement? How
can any one make such a mistake even if
the things themselves were absurd? Pre
Oxford history, as well as the history of the
Reformed Book of Common Prayer and the
better and purer days of early Christianity,
teach us all to the contrary.
AVe are unwilling tbat any reader of the
the Rev. Mr. Hodges' otherwise excellent
article should turn from it a despiser of
things dear unto many men who certainly,
though not in our way, are doing good.
AVhat does it matter after all about nones
sentials if those who love them make them
the means of saving some souls from shame
and sin? AVhile in London last October, I
visited two churches whose services struck
me in a forcible way. The one was that of
the Bev. Mr. Spurgeon and the other St.
Albau's Holhurn. Both churches were
crowded. The ministers in both were ex
tremists in their ritual. Mr. Spurgeon was
assisted by numerous deacons, etc., in their
ordinary street dress. The service was
hearty, yet peculiar. The preacher
was in earnest. At St. Alban's
the service was of the high type of
ritual the Bev. Mr. Hodges describes, but
I was impressed deeply by the reverence of
the poor aud the aged. The body of the
church must have had in it about G00 men
and boys and the side pews as many women.
AVhich church .shall we condemn? Mr.
Spurgeon's, whose congregation is made up
ot the working men and women of London,
or St. Alban's Holburn, before whose altar
are gathered a great multitude saved from
lives ol vice and shame?
Believe me, rcspect'ullv yours,
I.'N. AV. Ievixe.
Br.ADDOCK, Pa., Dec. 12.
A Booin for Cooper
To the Editor or The DiSDstch:
The result of the recent election shows
that the Republicans must stand together
in 1891, or they will be beaten in
1892. Hon. Thomas V. Cooper,-, through
his long and brilliant service as chair
man of the Republican State Committee, has
gained the hearts of all Republicans. Cooper
seems to be the unanimous choice of the Re
publican people for State Treasurer in 1891.
Cooper's boom comes direct trom the people
and his candidacy will bring the independ
ents back to their old love, the Republican
party.
On December 6 I wrote to Collector
Thomas V. Cooper and made known to him
the wishes of the Republican people, and
asked him if he would be acandidate forthe
Republican nomination for State Treasurer
in 1891, and on the 11th inst. I received the
answer that he would very apt bs a can
didate for State Treasurer in 1891.
Yonrs very truly, G. F. AVebek.
Mt. Oliver, Pa., Dec 15.
The Australian System.
To the Editor of The Dlscatcn.
AVill you kindly tell me through fho col
ums of 'XnE Dispatch the object and
manner of election by the Australian ballot
system? AVonld like to know the entire
workings of aforesaid system.
SUBSCBIIIEB.
Pittsburg, Dec. 14.
The system has already been frequently
explained in The Dispatch, and to give
in detail its workings would require many
columns of space. By procuring a copy of
the Massachusetts State law upon the sub
ject you will get the law in its entirety as
applied in America.
FoUtics in the Dominion.
To the Editor of The Dispatch :
As a constant reader of your paper, would
like to ask if you will be kind enough to
give me some information about the politi
cal parties of Canada. AVhich of them
would adopt legislation most favorable to
this country? G. L. B.
Btjtlee.J'a., Dec. 10.
Accordiug toErr.s-tu- Winan, the Liberal
party, which is i.oi m p.iwer, is the one
most friendly to the United States.
A COUGH needs quick and eSective'treat--xnent.
Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup furnishes
thus
W SOUTH AMERICA.
Just How (be People Live and Act
Down in Tbat Hot Country.
MEXICO AS SHE WAS AND KOW IS.
What the Portuguese aud Spanish
Done Further South.
Have
cniiiiAN Women toe host indolent
So marked and rapid has been" the growth
of the interest lelt in this country in regard
to everything connected with the sister re
publics of Mexico and South and Central
America that a conversational article from
which statistics shall be rigidly excluded
may be opportune. There are doubtless
many scores of statistically inclined persons
in Germany and other parts of Europe who
could give the area of the city of New York
in square yards or the remaining fraction of
a yard could, if not upset by Mr. Porter's
late census, give all vital statistics and a res
ume ol our commerce and manufactures
yet hardly know what the people look like
and are sublimely unconscious of the differ
ence between a 5 o'clock tea at Mrs. Van
Niederland's on Fifth avenue and a Baxter
street jollification, where the "growler" is
"rushed" and soused pig's feet and tripe
make a supper to be long remembered for
Lucullus-like luxury.
Of the Mexico of to-day, with its railways,
its telegraphs, its telephones, its horse cars
and its polyglot hotels, we all know, or if
we do not it is not from want of books, a
flood of which have been poured upon us.
AVhat we want is a point of comparison, and
the general idea of life in the capital 5
and 40 years ago before the conquest
and dismemberment of the country by the
United States and the incessant and bloody
pronunciamentos and revolutions from the
close ot our war to the execution of Maxi
millian may perhaps suggest the probable
trend of future affairs.
THE CITY OF 3IEZICO in 1840.
In the first six years of the "forties" no
other American city could compare in
gayety, or in the bravery and show of wealth
with the City of Mexico, which was far
more important than ever Paris was to
France, or London to England. It was not
only the seat of government, the residence
of foreign representatives and the largest
city; it was in many senses the only one.
There were commercial places along the
coast and some inland towns that had gone
to sleep a couple of centuries before and
never wakened. The climate is simply per
fection. A GBA2TD, GAT, LIVELY PEOPLE
Perfect horsemen, they caracoled through
the streets on their lively stallions, smiled at
and kissed their hands to the ladies on the
passes, wagered heaps of doubloons upon
their favorite chicken, went from theater,
concert or opera to the ball, and in the hours
before dawn won or threw away a few thous
ands at monte in the public gambling houses.
AVell within the tropics, but on a table
land 7,500 feet above the sea. it has the
charm and somewhat of the languor of eter
nal spring. Below lies the "Terra Cal
ient:," from whence at early morn come,
fresh from the plucking, all the luscious
fruits of the sun-smitten plains. Above
and immediately around rise lofty peaks
whose summits, clad in everlasting snow.
yield from their gorges ice that might sup
ply a world, and to be had on any day in the
year for the cutting. Every owner of a
mine or haciends, every prominent mer
chant, indeed, every man of means in the
whole country Lad his town house and spent
at least halt the year there with his family.
The wealth of these people was enormous.
But few of the families long resident in
the country could boast of pure Castillian
descent on both sides, but in their hands and
in those having at least a fair infusion of
Spanish blood lay all the wealth and power,
and both classes together were numerically,
even in the cities, not much larger in pro
portion than the English and Eurasians of
India. Rather oddly, lturbide was not,
strictly speaking, of the Spanish race at all.
He was a Basque, and, like Rosas the most
bloody tyrant who ever set loot on American
soil, he who so long ruled over the Argen
tine Republic was fair-haired, fair-skinned
and bine-eyed. But lturbide was as much
an exception as the Corsican Bonaparte.
The ladies were gay, often, even generally,
pretty when young, and though possessed of
plenty of vivacity and always ready for a
ball or a bull fight, had a languorous charm
that played havoc with the masculine heart.
DOVTN IN SOUTH AMERICA.
In South America there are a few points
of interest, as Caracas, Bogota and Quito
lie inland high among the mountains along
the northern coast. The Isthmus of Panama
belongs to Colombia, but seems a place
apart. Para and Maranham have some
commercial importance, but it is not until
we have passed Cape St. Roque that we come
first to Pernambnco, then Bahia, and at last
to Rio de Janeiro, the only great city of
Brazil.
Had not an immense immigration from
Europe flowed of late years into Brazil and
crowds of mercantile men of all grades set
tled in her cities the number ot those of
purely white blood would be small indeed.
Nor is the miserable Indian, who still roams
at will or lives in his hut, as much a savage
as his ancestors were f'00 years ago, princi
pally responsible lor the mixture. He has
leit his mark, but the negroes brought to
the country have marvclously increased in
numbers, and'their blending with the Portu
guese, with the Indian and with all sorts of
shades between the two, has made a most re
markable mixture.
POBTUGUESE AUD SPANIABDS.
The Portuguese at home are far less inter
esting than the Spaniards. Run, as I have
done, from Cadiz up to Lisbon and note the
difference. AVhat artist goes to Portugal to
paint her girls? AVho ever felt there the
half maddening feeling that the lovely
Spanish maiden gives when, knowing she is
perfectly safe, being always followed by
some old woman and olten bv her mother
also, she will smile to show a row ot pearls j
between rosebud lips, give you a glance
from glorious eyes in which there is just a
hint of far off sun lands, will, if you are
clever in selecting a place by some pillar in
her church, flirt desperately with eyes, lips
and fan while telling her beads, and on go
ing out touch a rose to those perfect lips and
let it fall for you? No one.
Thus too, notwithstanding her theaters
and operas, her crowded streets and brilliant
shops,native society in Rio, besides its variety
in tint,andtbecreepyieelingof having to take
a cafe noir girl to supper, is said to be dull;
that of the many legations and that among
the members of the foreign mercantile class
being far more agreeable. The charm of
Rio, where the dread vomito makes his lair
aud yearly stalks abroad in search ol vic
tims, lies in the neighboring mountains
where one may find cool air and health
laden breezes, for there grim Yellow Jack
dare never come.
DOWS IN BUENOS ABES.
As we journey down the coast we come
again to Spanish lands. Turning the corner
of Uruguay we find ourselves in the vast
estuary called the Rio la Plata, or as old
time American and English merchants and
sailors have it, the "River Plate," whose
banks and bed of finest sand slope so grad
ually that even so far up as Buenos Ayres
the smallest vessel cannot go within a mile
or more of the shore. Passing by Monte
video, as we did Bahia, we come to what is,
although the second in size, really the
Queen City of South America, Buenos
Ayres.
Situated about in the same distance from
the equator as the northern edge of Georgia
and South Carolina, it has not the ever
varying climate of our Southern States. A
beautiiul city it is, whose only drawback is
that the problem of draining its flat surface
has never been solved, but rich, gay, health
ful ana thoroughly cosmopolitan. Buvjfor
0 years an immigration averaging 20.000
souls has yearly reached the country. Most
come from Italy, hut there are many-Xrefich,-
and English and few Germans. Enrlv in
this decade the city contained about 300,000
people and was growing rapidly. - But as
the Gaur-ho of the plains has been pushed
westward and southward until the vast
plains on which his fathers so successfully
raised their stock that good horses could be
had for 51 and were killed by tens of thou
sands for their skins, manes and tails those
plains know him no mere.
THE AGOEESSIVE CHILJAXS.
On the western coast of the continent the
warlike, pushing, blustering, yet com
mercial people ot rainless Chili are not per
sonally very agreeable, but they are an ag
gressive and ambitious race, from which
much may be expected. Valparaiso, the
principal port, is entirely commercial and
contains a large number of foreign mer
cantile houses. Santiago, the capital and
larger city, is dull. The softer and more
gentle Peruvians are far more pleasant, and
their capital, Lima, is still bright and gay.
The women, the most indolent in the
world, when some time in the afternoon they
condescend to stop smoking, take off their
night gowns, loose slippers and messed up,
formless dresing gowns, to don their bravery
for the street, the opera and the ball, are
pretty and have some of the charm ot the
women of old Spain. The disastrous war
with Chili har, however, made the men both
poor and surly, and seepinglv gives the
military officers the feeling, "AVell, if we
can't whip the Chilians we can shoot any
of our own citizens who do not obey us to
the letter."
GONE AFTER BROSI.
Inspector MeXclvy and Special Officer Car
rlgan Left Last Night The Prisoner
Soon to be In the Clutches of His Pitts
bury Accusers.
Just before thp 520 train on the Pittsburg
and Lake Erie Railroad pulled out of the
depot yesterday afternoon Inspector Mc
Kelvy and Special Officer Carrigan, of
the Third Police district, were seen to
jump aboard. On inquiry it was learned
they were leaving for Toronto, Canada, to
bring John C. Brosi, the extradited iorger,
home for trial. They will go direct to
Toronto, but could not say just when they
will arrive in Pittsburg with their
prisoner. AVhen they, arrive Brosi will
first be taken to the Twenty-eighth
ward police station, and thence to the
county jail shortly after.
Inspector McKelvy had in his pockets
the necessary documents for the delivery of
his prisoner, and as the Supreme
Courts of Canada have decided Brosi's
case conclusively there will be
little formality to be gone through "at
Toronto.
Brosi has now been living in Canada over
four months. AVhen he returns there arc a
number who only await a chance to con
front him with more charges, such as lar
ceny by bailee, etc. The extradition law,
under which be will be delivered
to the United States authorities, specifies
that he shall be tried on the charge em
bodied in the text of the extradition papers,
which is forgery. Therefore, when he ar
rives he can be tried for forgery, and, if found
guilty, sentenced accoraingly.but can neither
be arrested nor tried on another charge until
he has been again given his freedom in
Canada, after serving his sentence forforgery,
if such should be imposed. After he
served hia sentence and was again in Canada
he could be extradited on other charges, a-a.
A COG'S BRUTAL USAGE.
It Famished Sport for a Crowd of Men, and
Was Then Butchered.
Testerday morning when the employes of
William Boder's slaughter house went to
workthey found a valuable Newfoundland
dog dead in the yard, on Spring Garden
avenue, Allegheny, having been chopped
and mutilated with an ax. An investiga
tion was begnn at once, and it was learned
that early on Sunday morning a crowd of
men had gone to the place, untied
the dog and also another one, a bull
dog, and set them to fighting. After tbo
brutes had been furnishing the sport for
the crowd for half an hour the men tried to
separate them, when one man, said to be
named John Bausinger, was bitten badly on
the hand. He became angry and secured
an ax and attack the dog, chopping its body
almost to pieces. The crowd then left and
the bulldog disappeared at the same time.
AVhen the matter was learned by Mr.
Bader he at once put the case into Chict
Murphy's hands, and declared his intention
of prosecuting the men. Some time ago
Mr. Bader's slaughter house was broken
open at night and a calf's throat was cut and
its heart taken out.
THEY HAD TOO KTJCH BEASS.
Three Men Held on Suspicion of Kobbing
the rittsburs Steel "Works.
Thomas Boggs, Frank McKenna and
Frank Fisher were committed to jail, yes
terday, by Alderman McKenna on charges
of larceny preferred against them by In
spector of Police McAleese. The allegation
is that the men have been engaged in steal
ing large amounts of brass irom the vards of
the Pittsburg Steel Compauy at Twenty-fifth
and Sinailman streets.
The men will have a hearing before
Alderman McKenna on AVednesday.
Don't allow yourself to trifle with a cold,
and so encourage the development of some
latent pulmonary or bronchial disease, which
often ends fatally. You had better cure your
cough or cold by promptly resorting to Dr.
D. Jane's Expectorant, an old-time remedy
ior all coughs, lung and throat affections.
For Christmas.
Pendants being shown by Hardy & Hayes,
Jewelers:
A most beautiful crescent.
A very unique chrysoberyl pearl and
diamond one odd design.
Very dainty and tasty painted portraits.
An exquisite emerald and diamond star.
Rarely beautiful fretwork in gold and
enamel.
A sun mounted in platinum and dia
monds; very brilliant
Pansy and double violets, with diamonds.
Pearl necklaces, large and lustrous.
Brilliant diamond necklaces.
And many others, at Hardy & Hayes',
Jewelers, 529 Smithfield street.
Holiday Goods.
The Michigan Furniture Co. have in stock
a fine line of fancy chairs, rockers, desks,
china closets, bookcases, card tables, and, in
fact, any article of furniture suitable ior a
Christmas present Call at once while the
selection is large. Store open in the evening.
Michigan Fuknituke Co.,
437 Smithfield street.
Itpad Our Holiday News Advertisement In
in Tills Paper.
AVe are doing an enormous holiday busi
ness from calicoes to silks and from shawls
to sealskin coats. Come and see.
JOS. HORNE&CO.,
609-621 Penn Avenue.
Do you work hard? A glass of pure
lager will help you. Call for Iron City
Brewing Co.'s make at any good bar, or
order direct. Tel. 1186.
Portieres, a great bargain, choice as
sortments Chenille, Turcoman and silk
valour, were $25, 530 and 45, reduced to
15 and $20 per pair to close.
ttssu Husus & Hacke.
'For Christmas Presents The h an d
somest line of ladies' desks in the city,
Michigan Furniture Co.,
437 Smithfield street.
Scarfs for Christmas presents. Nobby
pufTs, tecks and fonr-in-hands.
James H. Aiken & Co., 100 Fifth ay.
For the best assortment of winter under
wear for ladies, gentlemen and children, go
to Arthur. Sohondelineer &.Co.. 63 and 70
-Ohicstreety Allegheny, srasw
STORIES OF ALASKA
Told by Captain A. M. Brown, Indian
Fighter and Army Officer.
THE NATIVES ARE SUPERSTITIOUS.
Mosquitoes That Can Give the New Jersey
Article l'ointers.
THERMOMETERS HIM BE EXTENDED
Little is known about Alaska, except that
it has an immense territory with a popula
tion of 35,000,Jndians and whites, and that
it is very cold in the winter. The Indians
are retiring and superstitious, and have
little to say.
Captain A. M. Brown, an old Indian
fighter and retired army officer, has been
stopping at the Duquesne for several days.
He has explored part of the country, aud
last summer made quite an extended trip
along the coast up to Bebrings Strait
I see by the morning papers," he'
said yesterday, "that fears are expressed for
the safety of the Frauk Leslie party. I saw
them last summer at Departure Bay, and
took dinner with them. They divided into
two parties, one going to Mt St Elias,
where they remeasured the height of tbat
peak, and found it was not as high as re
ported, and the other crowd struct out for
the Yukon river, intending when they
reached it to go down to the coast in canoes.
A LONG THEBMOMETEB USED.
"In the interior where this last party is
supposed to be now it must be
at least 90 degrees below zero
and the farther you go back from the coast
the colder it gets. The Japanese hot cur
rent with a temperature of 75 degrees flows
along the shore and up through the Behring
Strait The water warms the atmosphere tor
35 miles all along the shore, but back of this
stretch of country it is very cold during the
winter. Along the shore it is never more
than 35 degrees below zero. I still have
hopes that the boys will pull through, but
they are bound to suffer intensely. They
were a stalwart, determined-looking crowd
of young fellows, and prepared to undergo
great hardships. I remember having a long
talk with AVells.
"I have been through the country the
party was inClast summer. The articles
that have appeared in the magazine about)
ttte snow and their snow snoe adventures
are not true. During the summer the
climate is fair, and these accounts are ridic
ulous.
JUS MOSQUITOES LOCATED THERE.
"The greatest drawback to living in
Alaska are the mosquitoes. The soil is cov
ered with a low moss in which they breed in
the summer and under which they live in
the winter. It is wet and can't
be burned off to get rid of
them. The Jersey mosquito is no
comparison to them. They are large and
small, some being so little, indeed, that
they can penetrate even the smallest bars of
ordinary mosquito netting. AVhite men
cover their faces and hands with towels, and
tie the trousers around the ankles to keep
them away from the body. The sting is
painful, and they would soon worry the life
out of anybody unprotected. Their num
bers are countless, and they swoop down
upon yon by the thousands. The Indians
smear their faces and hands with a pitch
which gives them a black appearance.
They remove the bark of the fir trees, and
scrape ofl the sap on the inside layers. This
they use as their protection against the little
animals.
INDIANS AEE SUPERSTITIOUS.
"Little is known about the country. The
Indians are not posted, and I don't believe
they have been very far into the interior.
It is a great territory that has not been ex
plored by white men. There are valuable
veins of gold and silver along the coast that
will many times over repay the purchase
money for the territory.
"I never saw the Indians murder their
female children and wives, as reported.
They are very superstitions, and if
they think a person is a witch they will
kill him. Not long ago, in sight 'of the
settlements at Fort Rangell, the natives
threw an old woman over the dock and she
was drowned. I also know of a case where
they cut the throat of a boy and threw the
body over a glacier because they thought he
dealt in witchcraft. I had a tough time
rescuing another Indian lad whom they
were going to kill on the same charge. Any
thing that they don't understand becomes
mysterious to them, and they invariably
fall back on the old superstitious idea of
witchcraft to explain it."
To Arrange for a Fair.
A general meeting of all committees of
the United Presbyterian AVoman's Associa
tion will be held in the First United Pres
byterian Church, Seventh avenue, this
afternoon at 2 r. ll., to perfect arrange
ments for the fair bazaar to be held Decem
ber 18 and 19, at Old City Hall.
Americans liny a Mexican Mine.
City of Mexico, Dec 15. The Ramos min
ing district, in the State of San Luis, Potosi.
one of the richest in Mexico, has been sold to
an American syndicate headed by Mr. Kirk
land, ot Milwaukee.
LATE HEWS IN BltlEF.
The Central school building at Muskegon,
Mich., was destroyed by lire, inflictinc a loss of
155,000.
Governor-elect AVinans, of Michigan, is re
ported to be seriously sick at his home in Liv
ingston county.
During a row in an Italian boarding house
at West Asbury Park, N. J., two Italians were
proDably fatally stabbed.
Neil Campbell was burned to death at Buf
falo by tlie explosion of a furnace at tbo Barber
Asphalt Company's Works.
Hancock. Hallams & Co., proprietors of the
Gracey tobacco warehouse at Clarksville,
Xeuu., have failed for about 5180,000.
An Alaskan exploring expedition that
passed through Ban Francisco five months
ago has been split up, owing to dissensions
among its members.
A girl at Hamilton, Ont, tried to poison
her employer's family and then took her own
Ufa becanso she had been scolded.
An attempt is being made by the Charles
AV. Norton Company, ofjjChlcago, to manufact
ure tia plate it competition with the tin plato
makers of Wales.
Emil Sirnsen. son of a wealthy merchant In
Denmark, who disgraced himself in his native
country by robbing the mails, tried to commit
suiciae yesteruay m umcago.
The bodies of Joseph Marshall, his son
Charles and Herbert Cooner, ot Harbor
Spring?, Mich., who wero drowned last Satur
day, were ashed ashore yesterday.
SnrLOn'sConghanfl ConsnmptionCure is sold
by us on a guarantee. It cures consumption.
Bold by Jos. Fleming fc Son, 412 Market st
For Cheistmas Presents The hand
somest line of ladies' desks In the city.
Michigan Fueniture Co.,
437 Smithfield street f
Fine silk initial handkerchiefs for holi
day presents.
James H. Aiken & Co., 100 Filth av.
Watches.
Elgin, AValtham, Dueber, Hampden, Col
umbus, Rockford, Howard, in beautifnl
gold cases, ior ladies and gents, and for boys
in silver cases, plain or engine turned; guar
anteed good timekeepers, at
Henby Terhetden's,
The Smithfield Street Jeweler.
Read Our Holiday News Advertisement
in This raper.
' AVe are doing an enormous holiday busi
ness from calicoes to silks, and from shawls,
to sealskin coats. Come and see,
Jos.Horne.5SCo;.
6fiW01J?ena Avenue. ;
ONLY : EIGHT : BUYING DAYS : BEFORE : CHRISTMAS.
The Leading
Dry Goods House.
JOS.HORNE&CO'S
PENN AVENUE STORES.
EVERYBODY DELIGKHTET-)
With Our Magnificent Stock of Goods for
The Size and completeness of the stocks that each department here shows and the very low
prices are a surprise to people who have made the rounds of the big New York stores, and the
prompt and polite attention that our customers receive has no little to do with the immense holiday
business that is going on here in constantly increasing volume every day.
A HALF A MILLION OF DOLLARS
($500,000)
Worth of goods In our store. This may give you an idea of what a range of choice you have in
making your holiday selections in this store.
OUR SILK DEPARTMENT
Is a store in itself, and right here is a magnificent, a grand exhibition of the best goods that foreign
and American looms produce- We mention a few lines of Silks that are specially
good at the price, and in 15 to 18 yard lengths are just
the thing for a nice Christmas Gift.
BLACK GROS GRAIN SILKS,
BUflUUUC BUU UIJUICC.
BLACK FAILLE SILKS, he.ivr
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BLACK SATIN RHADAMES, very rich in finish, 21 inches wide 51, $1 25 and upward.
BLACK SURAHS, superior values, 24 inches wide, 75c, 85c, 90c and 51. A special grade, 27 inches wide, at 75e a yard.
It will pay you to see these Black Silks and make your Christmas purchases here.
COLORED SILKS.
Every known weave, every shading of color, every best make, every latest novelty is represented in this enormous stock,
A special line of Colored Faillei at 75e a yard: nnequaled at the price.
Handsome Satin Rhadames at 65c a yard. ""a big bargain.
The larpest stock of Colored Surah Silks, in greatest variety and extent of styles and colors.
A complete line of high class Colored Silks, Bengalines, Crystals, Epangalines, Failles, etc., etc
Also, rich and elegant Brocades for costumes.
Our stock of Evening Silks is unusually full and complete, comprising all colors, grades and shades of Canton Crepes,
Plain and Brocade Crepe de Cbene and high class Lyons Art-AVeave Brocades.
VELVETS, in all the new shadings and at bargain prices. For an elegant Holiday Present what is nicer than a Dress
Pattern of our Pure Silk Lyons Velvet, which we are offering at extremely low prices?
Dress Groods Department!
This is the place that is especially popnlar with our Holiday patrons.
Think of it a serviceable Full Dress Pattern at 52 50 and np to $15.
AVhat a wonderful range of styles and prices.
Yon can't realize the novelty and extent of this dress goods stoctc unless yon nse your own eyes.
Scotch Goods, English Goods, German Goods, French Goods, American Goods.
The r-est and the most here.
So far we have only been speaking of the goods in one of the five big rooms of this store.
Now a hurried look through other departments.
TAKE
Here yon find the best and cheapest in Stockings for Infants, Children, Hisses and Ladies, all winter weights, Cotton,
AVool and Silk, from 20c a pair up to the finest goods made.
THEN LADIES' GLOVES!
If you are giving Gloves for Christmas Presents yon want to give a good glove. Here yon find represented the five test
makes of fine gloves in the world:
ALEXANDRE, JOT7VIN, TREFOUSSE, REZNIER, FOSTER.
All these gloves will fit perfectly and wear well. Everything you cculd desire,;aIso, in the way of Ladies and Children's
Cloth Gloves, Heavy Kid and Cloth Gloves and Mittens, lined and unlined.
As to the Fancy Goods Department,
Especially Holiday in character, Knick Knacks, odds and end3 and quaint conceits a thousand and one little usefuls, orna
mentals, in leather, silver, paper, celluloid, etc, etc.
Our more practical things are shown as we pass around the next corner to the Lineus, where we have everything made ia
ihe best and purest of linen adapted to the wants of the housekeeper.
Table Cloths and a dozen Napkins from 53 25 to 575 a set.
Also, a wonderful display of our celebrated Irish, Scotch and German Table Damasks in the piece at the lowest prices
by the yard ever made.
Napkins from 51 a dozen up to the finest qualities ever produced.
Everything in the way of Table Accessories, such as Tray Cloths, D'Oylies, Fancy Napkins, Side Board Scarfs, Small
Squares, Fine to Superfine Towels, with every variety of finish in the way of Drawn AVorkand Fringe.
THEN COMES OUR LACE DEPARTMENT!
Dnchesse Lace Handkerchief from 535c to 525 each.
Beautiful Fancy Lace Trimmed Toilet Sets and Hats, Odd Pieces in Dnchesse and Real Point Lace.
Big variety of Hand Run Spanish Lace Scarfs and Fichus at low prices.
Fancy Collars and Bibs for the Children. Ruchings in neat boxes.
Holiday Umbrellas by tlie Thousand,
Umbrellas from 50c to 530 each. All the newest mountings in Solid Silver, Gold, Ivory, Crystal, Dresden China and
rare woods tight roll, feather-weight, London style TJnbrellas for gentlemen a specialty.
Umbrellas in 24, 26, 23 and 30-inch sizes.
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Of every description the most thoroughly equipped (.is to stock and service) Men's Furnishing Department in the country.
Specialdisplay of Smoking and Lounging Jackets, Dressing Gowns, Bath Robes and Slipper, Neckwear, Suspenders, Fine
Shirts, Gloves, etc, etc. Our prices on Fine Furnishings will always be much lower than are demanded by big stores in East
ern cities, while our stock is equally complete and choice.
clo-A-Ik: -A-hstid stjii- idejitiett!
Shawls from 75c to 5250 each, including a very choice line of Black Cashmere and Hemstitched Henrietta Shawls, salt
able for mourning.
Ladies' Suits in all the fashionable and popular materials, and in just the styles your dressmaker would show yon and
advise vou to take. Beautiful Tea Gowns and AVrappers.
Fine Imported Carriage AVraps, 550 to 5200-
All through our Jacket and Cloak Department we have made extraordinary redactions ia prices. AVe never before of
fered such great advantages. A saving of many dollars to buy here, and it's not on a few, but on all. Special redactions have
been made in stylish and handsome fur-trimmed Jackets and Lorn: Cloth Garments. Very low prices in Plash Garments.
Fiue Black Cashmere and Silk Embroidered Fichus from 52 50 to 535.
. OMlcLren's Department.
Infants' outfits complete; Children's Dresses and Cloaks; Misses' Dresses, Jackets and Long Coats; Boys' Salts np to
10 years. All these in greatest variety of materials and styles, the prettiest and the best and at lowest prices.
Special values now offered in Children's and Misses' Furs.
FUR DEPARTMENT.
Our magnificent stock of genuine and superior Alaska Sealskin Jackets and Coats is uneqaaled to-day, nor has It ever
been equaled by any ever shown in these cities, and the prices are fully a third to a half lower than the present actual cost of
like qualities, two most interesting facts for holiday shoppers to keep in mind. If yoa want to give a substantial and really
elegant Christmas gilt visit our Seal Department.
"WTZfcTTIEIR, BBDDIlTa.
Blankets, Comforts, Quilts, etc., etc A well appointed and thoroughly stocked department. Gray BlanketSl and up.'
Fine Country AVool Blankets, 53 50 and upward. Comforts, 51 to ?25. The fiue Eider-down satiu-covered Comforts start at
55 and rise. '
FLANNELS of every description and for all purposes. Recent purchases of fine French AVrapper Flannels, selling
now at 65e and 70e a yard. Full lines of Fancy Flannels for Children's Coats, Stcques aud Dresses at very low prices. Heavy
AVinter Skirting Flannels and AVann Flannel Skirt?.
A special sale of choice French Satines at 12c and 15e a yard, and genuine Anderson's Scotch Ginghams, regnlar 40o
and 45c qualities, for 20c and 25a a yard. These prices are selling thousands of yards of these goods for holiday giving.
The biggest ana best assortment of AVinter Underwear for Ladies, Gentlemen and Children ever shown in these cities.
Every make and every grade; every size and every style.
HOLIDAY MILLINERY AND RIBBONS.
Trimmed Hats and untrimmed that we will trim to your order, and prices that will make thera of great interest to Christma
shoppers. You can easily find someone to give a nice new Hat to, and what more acceptable or serviceable gift can yoa give? Tens
of thousands of yards of beautiful Ribbons for fancy work, etc., at extremely low prices. Beautiful exhibit of Flowers for holi
day decorations. Very low prices.
FANCY ART MATERIALS Stamped Designs, Yarns, Silks, etc, etc. One of the most popular departments in the
whole store around about Christmas time. Here also are the Baby's Caps and Hoods and Biz Hats and Socks, etc,
NOTIONS Articles of everyday use by thousands things yoa need so constantly yon seldom think of the cost. Let ni
tell yoa to consider. Farther, we will save you money on your notions. Scissors, Hair Pins, Garters, Combs, AVhisk Brooms,
Clothes and Hair Brushes, Pins, Needles, etc, etc, etc an endless variety of these useful things will be found here, Yoa
are treated just as courteously here baying a paper of Pins as a Sealskin Sacqae.
The Store is in holiday attire.
JOS. HORNE,
KEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
24 inches wide, at 51 a yard.
cord, 21 inches wide, at ?1 vard, and finer
THE
HOSIERY!
Pittsburgr, Pa,
Tuesday, Deo. 16, 1890.
And finer makes at 31 25, $1 50 and up to 54 a yard, all
grades at ?2 a yard.
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