v THE PITTSBURG DISPATCHl PITTSBTJKG, SUNDAY, FEBRTJAKY 22, 1891. ; r i : p PAGES 9 tO 16. SECOND PfiRT. BATTLE OF L OR It Will Soon Be on With Tre mendous' Force in Various Parts of Britain. CODDLING LABORING MEN. They Can Have Anything They Wish to Ask For Just Now From the Politicians, FOR THEM TOTES A KB HEEDED. In the Spring, However, Things Will Ba Different, as Employers Are Bent on Crushing Labor Unions. A POOE ODTLOOK FOE THE WOEKHEN. SatXl Eejs for Tidr Ccjiaj VKi Bneetss AgtlEtt lit Cigutls EUfjHi' OrgtnliiUcn Op- jciei to Thtn. ULTTKATUtt BSUZD BT THE EHPLOTXKB 1ST CABLI TO TUX EISrATCn.1 London, Feb. 2L Copyright Brit ish legislators, Lords and Commoners, Tories and Liberals, are justnow displaying a wonderful amount of interest in the wel fare of the working classes, which is to be explained by the fact that a general election, in which the labor Tote will be a most potent factor, cannot be far oft No fewer than four bills in the Commons and two in the Lords have been introduced this week, and it is probable that all will be referred to a special committee, whence they will emerge as one comprehensive measure. The bills fully justify Sir William Har- court's sarcastic remark in Parliament a. couple of years ago: "We are all Socialists now." As soon as they are passed into law, the Government contracts must be given only to firms paying "fair rates" of wage to their workmen. Ventilation and sanita tion, even in domestio workshops, must con form to the latest scientific ideas. Mills and factories must provide the amplest means of egress, in view ot fire. Machinery must always be fenced in. Operatives must be allowed to inspect thtir employer's books to parent cheating in piece work. Frotectlnc Women and Chlldreni Adult women must not work more than 12 hours daily. Local authorities, or, failing them, Government Inspectors, must see after the workpeoples' health and provide against danger in injurious occupations, snob, as white lead making and wool sorting. So tender is the regard paid to the suscepti bilities of the workingmen voters, that Horn) Secretary Matthews, in deference to their wishes, has struck out of his factories bill the clause raising to 12 years the limit oi age in the employment of children, notwith standing that such limitation was recom mended by the Berlin Conference and as sented to by the British official representa tives. So'far as the politicians are concerned, the BritUb workingman has but to ask and he will receive, and at the present rate of progress he will soon be in a position to in spire envy throughout the world. Never theless, with the advent of spring the labor world shows emphatic signs of an early con vulsion in the spring trade. The employ ers, taking a high hand, are seeking to break: up the unions of the seamen, firemen, dockers and affiliated workers. War Against the Unions. Trouble was started with the unionists' refusal to work with non-unionists. In one or two incipient revolts in London the men succumbed. At Liverpool, where the union lists demanded the right to wear union badges while at work, they were immedi ately beaten, two non-unionists being ready to fill each place vacated by the society men. At Cardiff fresh hands are permanently engaged to do the strikers' work. The dock directors decline to discharge them, and the strike there has only resulted in the fact that several hundred men have lost good situa tions. That was the position at the begin ning of this week. Naturally the men's leaders viewed the prospect with some con cern, and opened up communications with the employers, who naturally were as exult ant as the men were downcast The employers demanded that a certain maniresto should be withdrawn. This was done. Then they discussed a proposal for a union men and employers' organization of freo labor, the men to work amicably together; but the union men and free labor men will each show their tickets on being taken on for employment, and the unionists were profoundly disquieted by hints that the free labor men would have the prefeience over them in the matter of engagement. A Deadlock Between Them. Yesterday, the employers declared that tbey would not continue negotiations unless all the men returned to their work in load ing and unloading ships. Naturally there is a deadlock. The men talk of a general strike, but their funds will not stand the strain of maintaining so many thousands. They speak of other trades supporting them, and oi publio sympathy. That is an un known quantity, upon which it would not be wise to rely. When the dockers' and stamens' leaders called ont all the allied trades at Cardiff in support of the strikers, the response was not equal to ten per cent. It was an ill omen for the laborer. The employers on their side seem bent on crushing the labor organizations. The Em ployers' Labor Association of Liverpool has joined the Shippine Federation, which now represents 7,000.000 tons of shipping,. or about seven-eights of all the British vessels trading from British ports. It is a tremen dous organization and well calculated to crubh any union of labor. The cost of the struggle, U it is resolved upon, and the damage to British commerce which must result therefrom, will be incal culable. In Durham, also, the disturbance among the miners, which has just started, threatens to have far-reaching effects. The colliers at the Marquis of Londonderry's Silksworth pit have been at play for three months. Tho Marquis, seeing that there was no likelihood of the strikers' coming to terms, determined to evict those who resided in colliers' cottages, and accordingly 600 persons were yesterday turned out on the roadside. Thousands had gathered to witness the spectacle, and so incensed was the crowd that the men at 12 neighboring collieries forthwith ceased work, and to-day several other mines are idle. The men assert that they will not return to work until those evicted are reinstated, and as Lord London derry is equally determined not to yield, the prospects in the Northern coal trade can only be described as gloomy. FRAUGHT WITH PERIL. THE LATEST MOVE 0? THE TOBIES WILL BE CHALLENGED. Secret of the Opposition to Newfoundland's Proposed Commercial Convention with the United States A Strong; Feeling Against Sir John Macdonald. rBT CABLE TO THE DISrATCUJ London, Feb. 21. The action of the Government in withholding royal assent to Newfoundland s commercial convention with the United States, in deference to Canadian representations, will be chal lenged in Parliament at the first op portunity. A strong feeling exists that Sir John Macdonald has "nob bled" Lord Salisbury in the interests of the Conservatives, and it is maintained that in thus allowing ono self-governing colony to intrigue successfully with the Im perial Government against another, is a precedent fraught with peril to the empire. The feeling will be intensified when the secret history of the intrigue now given be comes generally known in this country. The question very nearly caused a Cabinet crisis here. Lord Knutsford, Colonial Secretary, ap proved the convention, and warmly supported it at several Cabinet councils; but before leaving England to join in the electoral struggle in Canada, Sir Charles Tupper had a long talk with Lord Salisbury, and actu ally persuaded that ordinarily wily dip lomat that the Queen's assent to a conven tion at the present moment would place in the hands of Canadian Liberals a weapon that might be used against the Conserva tives with such effect as to bring about the defeat of Sir John Macdonald. It was not difficult for Lord Salisbury to persuade the majority of his colleagues that the accession to power of Sir Bichard Cartwright and his friends would be fol lowed, if not by annexation, nt any rate by fiscal arrangements with the United States inimical to England, and Lord Knutsford reluctantly subordinated his own views to those of the majority. Lord Salisbury hinted to Knutsford that in the fishery dispute with France he will, by some juggling in Africa and else where, be enabled to arrange a settlement so favorable to Newlonndlanders that their re sentment about the shelving of the conven tion will disappear. So far as outsiders can judge, however, France is not in a complaisant mood, Eng land's clumsy hoof having once more trod den upon her corns in Egypt. But if it comes to the worst, Lord Salisbury thinks he can better afford to offend Newfoundland than Canada. LATEST LONDON SCANDAL, Ashmead Bartlett'a Santa Unpleasantly Connected With Domestio Troubles. 1ST CABLE TO TOE DISrATCII, Loxdoit, Feb. 2L The name of Ash mead Bartlef, M. P.r Js persistently con nected by a parliamentary rumor with domestW difficulties, which appear to be breaking up the household of Captain Hozier, who did such brilliant service as the Timet correspondent in .Germany in the several weeks' war, as it is called, between Prussia and Austria in 1866, and who is now secretary and manager oi the great es tablishment known throughout the world as Lloyds. Captain Hozier married in 1878 Xady Blanche Ogilvie, a sister of the present Earl ofAirlieand of Lady Clementina Milford. Her mother, sister of Lord Stanlev, of Alderley, is still living, and one of the best known and highly esteemed women in Lon don. Lady Hozier has two young daugh ters, and proceedings are now pending be tween herself and her husband for separa tion, which it is thought may be aggravated into a divorce. AS LttPBEQNABLE POSITION. The Big British Salt Trust Carrying Every thing Before It. BT CABLE TO THE PISrATCE.1 London, Feb. 2L The great salt trust is now in a position believed to be impregnable against attack, and although it has just de clared only a modest dividend of 8 per cent, the business of the coming year is expected to yield profit justifying a 20 per cent dividend. During the past year the trnst sold 629,000 tons of salt, or 80,000 tons mere than the previous year, and the price in creased by about 7 pence per ton. The severe winter increased the cost of fuel by 40,000, and to avoid conflicts with their workmen the trust increased wages by over 20,000. An immense expansion in the colonial trade is expected, and a friendly arrange ment has been mde with the North Ameri can Salt TJuion by which the British trust will pay a certain percentage on all salt above 150,000 tons exported to ports between Maine aud North Carolina. There is teasoo to believe that the trust will soon buy up the few remaining private salt firms, so that the outlook is cheerful indeed, except to the users of salt. NEED FOB BEFOEM. Shirts Supplied to British Soldiers i! opposed to Last Seven Tears. rBT CABLE TO THE DISPATCH.I London, Feb. 2L The House of Com mons discussed the army estimate Thursday, and sympathetic attention was called to the fact that a shirt supplied by a generous country to Private Thomas Atkins upon en listment is supposed to last him seven years. Furthermore, it remains to the last rag the property of Queen Victoria, and as snch, has to be returned into the store at the end of the period named. The impudent radicals suggested that Her Majesty could scarcely have any use for the tattered remnants of a soldier's un derclothing, and the sort-hearted Tories urged that until science shall have supplied an imperishable wool shirt, the wearer might be permitted to part company with it at the end, say of two years. But the bureaucrats of the War Department remain impervious to sarcasm and deaf to argument, while recruits decrease in numbers and deteriorate in physique every year. ATJBTBALIA'B WHEAT CB0P. The Surplus, as Now Estimated, Amounts to but 1,850,000 Quarters. BT CABLE TO THE PISrATCB.1 London, Feb. 21. A cable dispatch estimates the wheat crop of South Australia at 12,000,000 bushels, or about 2,000,000 bushels less than that of last year. The Victorian crop, on the other band, is be lieved to be about 6,000,000 bushels more than that of 1890, but the production in New South Wales aud New Zealand ia so much smaller than it was last year that the surplus of Australia cannot be great. One Beerbohm estimates it at 1,250,000 quarters for Europe, but it is considered doubtful here whether a sufficient allowance is made for the disastrous character of the New Zealand harvest, one of tho worst ever known in that country. NOT READY FOR WAR. THE PEACE SOCIETY HAS NOTHING TO W0BK OH IH EUE0PE. A Peaceful Outlook There Jnst at Present David Dudley Field Declaims Against Blood-Letting Words of Pleasant Im port Are Received Prom Him. rBT CABLE TO THE DISPATCH. London, Feb. 2fc The peaceful outlook in Europe has enabled the International Arbitration aud Peace Association to turn its attention to the United States,-Africa and other benighted regions where quarrels involving the spilling of blood are proceed ing or threatened. Chile has caused these good people many tears, and the Egyptian expedition to Tokar has prostrated them with grief, but consolation has reached them from Venezuela and from Washington. A big map, obligingly sent to the Peace Society's office in London, has convinced the members that England ia in the wrong in regard to the frontier dispnto with Venezuela, and the Hon. David Dudley Field has informed them: "You may rest in peace reearding any serious complication on the Bering Sea question. If the dispute is not settled by the courts, it will go finally to arbitration. Public sentiment in the United States is in creasing toward a peaceful settlement of all international disputes. Nine persons out of ten are for arbitration instead of war." There was some talk recently about the Peace Society sending a deputation to every sovereign in Europe to urge them not to go to war. But, as every one of these rulers has for years past been swearing that his soul panted to preserve the peace, it was felt that the appointment of the deputa tion would convey by imputation that the Czar, the Kaiser and all the rest ot them were liars and perjurers and the idea was subsequently dropped. The peace societies, at the suggestion of Mr. Field, are just now actively engaged in obtaining signatures to a memorial to Lord Salisbury, urging him to persuade Queen Victoria to invito all nations to a congress on disarma ment. Lord Salisbury's Government has indicated in advance the character ot the reply which he will give to the memorial, by pushing on with almost fever ish haste the arming of the coaling stations, the strengthening of the forts and the manu facture of guns and repeating rifles, while his war and marine ministers are even now asking Parliament for more money and mors men. Mr. Field writes for the consolation of the English peace-mongers: "Europe is dancing on a powder magazine, but every Govern ment seems to be standing ready with a fire endue to put out the first lighted fuse that comes near." Lord Salisbury does not stand alone in believing that 'as soon as Bussia shall have completed her military reorganization, those fire enginea will be ex changed for gun carriages. But the opinion is practically unanimous that Bussia will not be ready this year, and the optimistic Peace Society has fixed next November, in Borne, for the holding of its annual international congress. TOBNINQ ON THE HOSTESS. The London Gambling Scandal Seriously Affecting Mrs. Wilson. rBT CABLE TO THE DISPATCH.! London, Feb. 2t The feeling in the Gordon Cumming affair seems to be grow ing more hostile to the hostess, in whose house the matter originated, than, to Sir Gordon Cumming himself. It appears to be undoubted that this lady allowed some of her own relatives, who were staying in the bouse, to prepare something like a trap, in which to catch the Baronet, and this of course from most respectable motives. It is becoming a question of social levels. Arthur Wilson, the host in question, is a man oi respectable origin at Hull who has acquired-a large fortune; but neithe he nor hi wife belong by birth to the circles in which they now move. His wife's relatives being very respectable people, were verv much scandalized by the card-playing and the sometimes more than lively con versation of the aristocratic coterie of gnests who came to Doticaster with the Prince of Wales. Thev were delighted to be boused under one roof with the heir-apparent and the lashionable circle, but their ideas of propriety got the better of their wor ship of rank and fashion and thereby led at the outset to all this trouble. MOVEMENTS OF ABTOBa Two of the Family Attending to a Sick Boy In Near London. rBT CABLE TO THE DISrATCB. London, Feb. 2L Mr. and Mrs. Will iam Abtor have now taken up their resi dence lor a part of each week at Lansdown House, but their boy is still at Brighton, at which place they spend Satur days and Sundays with the lad, to ensure his complete recovery. Mrs. Astor attended ofl Thursday evening a brillian: party given by Lady Constance Leslie in the beauti ul mansion of Sir John Leslie, in Stratford place. The house was built by the (amous architect Adams in the last century for the Eirl of Alborougb, of that time, and the ceilings are beautifully decorated with paintings. Lidy Randolph Churchill and Mrs. Johu Leslie were among the company. The ormer's father, Leonard W. Jerome, has greatly benefited by his removal during the lat week from London to Brighton, where he daily appears on the promenade in his Bath chair, so that hopes are really en tertained of his recovery from the serious illness which has so long prostrated him. HOT THE EIPFEB. No Doubt of the Innocence of the Alleged Whltechapel Murderer. ;HT CABLE TO THE DISPATCH.! London, Feb. 2L It is generally ad mitted that the prisoner charged with the latest Whilechapel murder is innocent. The probabilities are that he will not even be committed for trial, but will be discharged by the magistrate. He has an idea that the police are straining every nerve to convict him, but this is not so, lor the evidence, pro and con, is most fairly put. The Treasury, however, has decided that the case shall go on, maiulv ith a view ot satisfying that small section that believes him guilty. The prisoner's statements, np to the time when he became too drunk to remember anything, have all been fonnd truthful and the fact that he was at sea when lour, at least, of the previous Whitechapel murders were committed, proves conclusively that he cannot be the dreadful "Bipper." ABBESTED FOB TBEAB0S. A :Ketred Officer Accused of Complicity In the Oporto Revolt. Opoeto, Feb. 2L General Silva, a re tired army officer, has been suddenly ar rested and taken to the fortress. Other arrests have followed, a number of persons suspected of being connected with the recent revolutionary movement being taken into custody, WILD WOOD'S WEALTH The New Field Good for Six Million Barrels oi Golden Grease. HOW THE ESTIMATE IS BEACHED. Is Significance in the Question of 011 From the Southwest, RUSSIA IS BEC0MI5G AGGRE8SIYE ICOBnEBPOHPEKCE OP TIIB DISPATOB.I . New Xobk, Feb. 21. The article in last Saturday's Dispatch giving a history of the Wildwood field has led to some conjectures among oil men in New York as to the amount of oil the wonderful field ' may be calculated upon to produce. Taking Tub Dispatch's figures of 1,570,000 as the yield up to date, it is set down by some that the field, as at present outlined, is good for 1,000,000 to 6,000,000. Others have figured it higher than this. This business of figuring the possible out put of an oil field is interesting, and there is not so much blind work about it as might be imagined. Basing calculations on past developments, you will not be much out of the way to figure 1,000,000 barrels of produc tion for every square mile of territory aa the total output of any given field. This refers to -white sand territory. The Brad ford sand has done considerably more than this, and is still producing. The area in the Bradford and New York black sand dis tricts has been computed at over 131 square miles. The aggregate production up to the present time cannot be far Irom 176,000,000 barrels, which would put the production at upward of 1,305,000 barrels per square mile. It would not be unreasonable to ex pect Bradford to reach a production of 2,000,000 barrels per square mile before the territory is entirely exhausted. The Figures for Wildwood. Calculations of this kind on the yield of Wildwood should be made on the figures supplied by the Venango, Clarion and But ler fields. The white sand pools in these districts, which are now exhausted or reach ing that state, indicate that a million barrels to the square mile is the maximum produc tion, sav, for ten years. Some fields are pumped dry in this time while others con tinue to yield longer. There is something like 85 square miles in the Venango, Butler and Clarion group of white sand pools, so these figures will hold pretty good as to this territory. The fact that certain individual pools, such as Thorn creek, develop enor mously large wells, does not materially alter these results. The area of these rich pools, as a rule, yields no more oil than the same area where the wells arc smaller. The rule seems to be that a given area of sand, allow ing that it is good oil sand, will produce a given amount of oil regardless of the size of the wells. Wildwood has been producing but a little over 11 months and in that time has put over 1,600,000 barrels Into the pipe hue, with the production at the present time at 455,000 barrels a month. From this it would seem that the calculation of from 4,000,000 to 6,000,000 barrels as the probable total capacity ot the field is at least putting it low enough. A field that has produced 1,500,000 barrels in 11 months, with bnt a small decline, if any, in the daily produc tion, ought to be good for four times this amount Extent of the White Sand. How far south will these rich white sand pools be found? This Is a question that is being a good deal discussed. It is not long since it was thought the limit was reached in Butler county, but now we see "the belt" lapping over lata .West Virginia. C. A. McClintock, a former Venango countv man, at present a resident of Huntington" W.Va., was in New York the other day, and from him I learned that there is some inquiry for land for oil purpose as far to the Southwest as Huntington. This must be over 300 miles ahead of any developments, and it shows that the idea that oil is confined to any particular spot is pretty well exploded. Indeed, it may be said that this idea was exploded by the opening up ot the Wash ington county field. When Pittsburg becomes the center of the oil business it may be said that develop ments are moving to the southwest pretty rapidly. Where will the center be five years from now? Or by that time will the theory of the able geologists have become a condition, and the man who has enough petroleum left on his farm to grease his hair be accounted a lucky cuss? John McKeown on Oil Territory. The last time I saw John McKeown was on a Valley train between Oil City and Pittsburg. He had been to the upper coun try, and was on his way back to Wa hiug ton. There was at that time some talk in the Eastern newspapers about a generally letting go of the oil business. It seemed to be the journalistic view here that there wonld soon be much distress in social and business circles on account of alack of oil for light and for greasing machinery. The The newspaper mind was disturbed on this point, particularly as whales were scarce and wild, and getting wilder all the time. Mr. McKeown very emphatically did not snare with the Eastern newspapers" in their gloomy lorebodings. He said there would probibly be oil enough taken out of the ground to float a navv, and anyhow be ex pected there would be pleuty to supply all the wants of the people now on eurth. It is true that at that particular, time Mr. Mc Keown bad no apparent reason to believe oil was going to be scarce, as bis own pro duction was then in the neighborhood of 60,000 barrels a mouth. He was a man who did not believe the State oi Pennsylvania held all the illuminating oil, aud he said at that lime that be expected to see a good oil region over in West Virginia. Perhaps his investments in Turkeyloot had a tendency to change his opinion, but I do not btlieve they did. Big Producer in Kentucky. He told me of an old well in Kentucky that bad produced nearly 5100,000 worth oi heavy oil, which had been taken down the Cumberland river in boats, shipped to Peoria, 111., aud sold to the C, B. & Q. Railroad. Mr. McKeown thought there might be more oil around in th.t neck of woods, but he had no idea of going there to look fur it. He said the immediate terri tory had been pretty well tested, with poor results, but still he did not think thai one small pocket of oil was all there was to be found that iar.to the southwest. Altogether he seemed to be of the opinion that petro leum was a thing that waa pretty widely distributed. The Bussian oil statistics which have beenjpriuted in The Dispatch were in the nature of a surprise to many oil men who usually keep well informed on everything relating to oil. There was a general idea that Bussia was producing considerable oil, but it was very larfrom being generally known that the output of the Baku district was equal to that of the great Pennsylvania fields. I learn that producers are still pe titioning the Government lor permission to drill beyond the present limits, and that ac tional laud will be coueeded is almost certain. Getting Machinery From America. Some machinery was shipped irom New York this week for the Busjlan fields. It consisted of outfits for drilling wells, and was complete even to the cordage. The Volga is still closed, and on this account there is less activity in the prosecution of field work. More than the usual amount of stocks have accumulated at the wells and refineries on account of the obstructed navi gation, and the tendency of prices has been downward. Busiian refiners continue very aggressive in hunting new markets for their oil as' against the American product, and compe- X tltion. is sharp. As a rate cutter the Bus sian is a success, and this enables him to maintain a monopoly in a great many mar kets. His customers are not always stick lers for quality, and are often willing to ac cept a verv in lerior article so long as it is cheap. This condition of affairs accounts for the lessened value of refined oil exported from America last year, although the amount of oil exported was considerably more than the previous year. The exact figures are: 699,042,726 gallons, valued at $51,657,302, an increase in gallons from 676,191,455 for the previous year and a de crease in value from 852,792,473. The Bussian and his oil field will bear pretty close watching. B. W. Ceiswemj. GOV. HHIS TWO OFFICES. A Great Deal of Speculation as to Whether Be Will Beslgn March 4. Albany, Feb. 21. With the approach of March interest in Governor Hill's decision as to his future personal course is stimu lated, and tho important question. Will he get out of Albany or stay in it? is beard more frequently. The Governor declines to disenss his intentions except with his most intimate friends. The story goes that a well-known politician approached him the other day and intimated that it was about time for him to declare his intentions. The Governor listened attentively and observed that no law existed forbidding a man to hold two offices, providing he drew only one salary. "If I remember aright," said the Gov ernor, "Van Buren was Governor of this State and Secretary of State of the United States at the same time under President Jackson. And Van Buren did not sur render his office of Governor until the Legis lature adjourned, although he was nomi nated for the office of Secretary of State on March 5, 1829, and accepted It" Only some such utterance on the part of the Governor was needed to convince the people who are watching him that he was disposed to imitate Van Buren's example and bold on to his present office until,, the Legislature adjourns. But a vast difference exists between the two oses. In Van Buren's, an appointive office, discretion was given to the President to select a sub-. stitute to hold the post until the chief was teady to act. Iu an elective office, such as United States Senator, no choice or discretion is given to the person chosen or to any one else. The term of office begins on March 4 and the oath of office, except in case of sickness, ought to be taken on that day; nor can the authority of the office be delegated to any one but the person elected. It is held bv lawvers who have investigated the matter that Governor Hill has no alter native except to resign the office of Gov ernor on March 4. A VICTIM OF HYDEOPHOBIA, A Man Bitten by a Dog In December Dies In Agony. Albany, Ind,, Feb. 2L Nelson Pyle, with a wife and two children, was bitten by a dog December 20. The wound healed so rapidly that Mr. Pyle felt no uneasiness. Saturday last he complained of nervous ness, and this nervous feeling continued until Wednesday, when he was seized with slight convulsions. A physician was called and administered opiates. He slept well Wednesday night, but "Thursday the con vulsions returned much more seriously than before, and three physicians were called. Tbey were not long in diagnosing the case as one of hydrophobia. From'Tbursday afternoon until his death yesterday afternoon the convulsions were almost continuous. They were accompanied by frothing at the mouth, snapping with the teeth like a dog, and trying to bite those who watched over and assisted him. At times it took over five men to hold bim in the bed, and they had to take tbeprecaution of covencg their arms with heavy pieces of bedclothing to prevent htm biting tbem. His sufferings were agonizing during the last 12 hours oi his lite, and no opiates could be ad ministered to quiet or stupefy him on ac count ot the steadily recurring convulsions. CONFESSED HIS CBIME. A Murderer Willing to Return to Ohio Voluntarily and Answer for It. Chattanooga, Feb. 2L Jacob K. Johnston, wanted in Columbus, O., for the murder of Stephen Joyce, was arrested in this city yesterday. He was willing to waive a requisite proceedings, when a tele gram was received from Ohio stating that an officer was coming with the necessary papers. Johnston acknowledged the crime with which he is charged, saying that he stabbed his friend in a drunken quarrel and fled. He did not know that Jovce was dead. A CALTFOBNIA IXPEBIME5T. An Association Proposes to Establish Wine Houses In the East. Ban Fbancisco, Feb. 21. About 20 of the leading wine men ol this State have formed an association to establish an ex hibit of California wines and a cafe where wines may be sold at Chicago. It is the intention to also establish similar institutions in large E .stern cities if the Chicago exhibit is a success. Bombarded by French Ships. San Fbancisco, Feb. 21. At the Island ot Bailea two French ships, the Cbamplain and Volage. have been shelling the villages. Lauding parties Irom the ships have con quered the native tribes on the coast, but the natives living in the mountains have not been subjugated. DO TOU NEED CAKPETSt Do Ton Need Lace Curtains T If so, read the "ad" of the special in grain Carpet and luce curtain sale in another column. Note the prices these prices for this week, ut J. H. Kuukel & Bro.'s, 1347 1349 Penn av., two squares east of Union depot. Do Too More This Tear? Before renting consult the special to let lists appearing Mondays and Thursdays in The Dispatch. Lending agents contribute choice lats on those days. One more week of our clearance sale. Call at once. Michigan Fubnitubb Co., 437 8uiithfieldst, Bave Yon Fonnd a Bouse TetT If not, you can probably get one to suit by consulting the To Let advertisements to morrow morning. Mondays and Thursdays are special rent days. To-sioeeow Kaufmana'i 'store will close at 12 o'clock (noon). A high-grade beverage is the Pilsner beer, brewed by he Iron City Brewery. Kept at first-class bars. Good Tenants Are Soon Secured By advertising your bouses and rooms in The Dispatch. Mondays and Thursdays are special rent list days. , . Open To-Morrow. .Hendricks & Co.'s photograph gallery open all day Monday. 12 elegant cabinets 51. G8 Federal street, Allegheny. Oun immense assortment o chamber and parlor suits cannot be surpassed in the city. Call and see lor yourself. Michigan Fubnitcbb Co., 457 Smitnfield iticet. J T lfl t- c 1 TBEY TEOUGBT FOSTER WASN'T IN IT, BUT BE WAS. A PRICE ON DISEASE. The Lame, Halt and Blind Can Sell Themselves to the Doctors IP THEIR CASES ARE PECULIAR. Odd Result of Competition in the Line of Medical Discovery. SOME AILMENTS WILL SELL FOB $600 rconKzsroxDExcx or thz DisrATcn.i New Yobk, Feb. 21. So eager is the rivalry among famous surgeons and physi cians to excel in the discovery of the new and strange phenomena of disease and in new processes ot treatment or bold work with the knife to alleviate or enre morbid pneumonia, that the poor man who develops iu his system novelties of suffering, may, from a purely worldly point of view, deem himself fortunate indeed. He has only to apply at the clinic of any well known operator to find himself at once the center of respectful attention and almost affectionate interest. Here, as well as in Paris, Vienna and Berlin, there is known to the few initiated to be a ready market for curious maladies if their possessors know where to go and offer themselves for sale to the surgeons' knives.. And not by any means do these willing sacrifices go to death. For the redeeming feature ol the whole question is the unques tionable fact that if human skill can cure them tbey will be cured. Not the income of money kings, could buy better treat ment. Human- Vivisection a Myth. 'Nine out of ten of the horrible stories of human vivisection are baseless. With the other one of the ten the victim and the surgeon and the law, which never bears of them alone have to do. The most obvious purchasers are, of course, eminent medical men, connected either with some famous public hospital or who bave a private hospital or residence in which they can pursue scientifio researches. Often they are clinical professors who wish to show a rare form of disease to their classes at the college. The value of the purchase is as material fur experiment or demonstra tion. But when this bargain and sale is effected, the patient, who from the drees of life passes at once to the enjoyment of the choicest blessings, is assured that' if he dies and leaves bis body for further and indefinite in vestigation his estate will be paid a much greater sum still. For the surgeon who makes such an offer well knows that fame and fortune may well await the result of such an autopsy. The Price a Cas Will Bring. An assist 1 n t at one or two private hospitals says he l nows of several cases in which $100 to 300 has been paid to persons suffer ing from peculiar diseases for the privilege of experimenting on tbem. A yonug doctor at one of the dispensaries was consulted by one of the worst-looking specimens of bnmanity imaginable, such an one as one of the laity might call a "Dum. xnis man, who did nut know the money value of his complaint, had come to the dispensary to be treated for u severe pain in the chest. On examining the chest the doctor found that the patient was suffering from aneurism of the innominate artery, one of the rarest and gravrst conditions known, for which no treatment so far has proved successful. On that indeed Drs. Valentine Mott, Wilard Paraer and W. T. Bull, of this city, have all tried their skill in vain. Now, clearly enough, the doctor who cures a patient of this condition will be made famous by it. But as such cases are rare it may be some time be'ore one is suc cessful. The young dispensary doctor told the patient what was his trouble, and offered to get him into a hospital, which offer was greedily accepted. He was given some medicine, aud told that he might wait until a hospital could be found ready to receive him. Hunting the Highest Bidder. The young doctor then went to a well known surgeon and offered him the patient .or $500. The surgeon demurred at this sum, but was willing to pay $350. The youug doctor then went to another, who iau illy agreed to pav $383, and to several more who would pay $400. He returned to the dispensary without deciding which he would take, when he found all the surgeons whom he h.id been to see waiting for him. Tbey all wanted the case, and soon bids ran high among them, nt last, says my inform ant, $033 was settled on and the success.nl bidder gave the dispensary doctor his check for the amount, and iuvited bim to come to his private hospital and see the operation. He then drove away with his purchase. Whether or not the operation on this patient will prove a success cannot be con jectured, but doubtless be ore long a p iper will be read by the operator iu the case be fore some one of the scientifio societies which will give him $633 worth of attention Irom the medical papers of tbia country and Europe, and prove a grand advertise ment. The Element of Secrecy In It, Of conrse, private hospitals are usually rnn In secret, and, as has been suggested, the snrgeous owning them do not like to be investigated. Tbeir secrecy and profes sional standing place them above the dan gers of the law if tbey do any operation or experiments not allowed by the authorities. On, the whole, though, they are of great ad vantage Co the profession, and their abuses are never discovered by the public The prices paid tor rare surgical operations, which when nald carry with tbem the privi- Uefie f treating the patient only in inch a J manner as the cure the disease may require, no actual experimenting outside of the de termined lines of justified treatment being allowed, vary greatly. For such a case as the one cited above $500 is the standing price. The person who told the writer of the in stance says also that the dispensary attend ants had a regular understanding as to a scale of prices, of course, in secret. The price for a case of ovariotomy is ordinarily $-10; skin diseases from $10 to $100; tumor of the brain or spinal cord, $100 to ?4C0, accord ing to circumstances, and the various nerve diseases are quoted at from $10 to $300. Whenever any rare case turns up the doctor keeps the patient's address, and if on going among possible purchasers he finds sale for the case, he goes or it with a coupe and takes it directly to the place indicated, by the purchaser. The Cases That Are Hopeless. Some cases are so rare and so hopeless that any treatment of them at all is in the line of experiment. These are very desirable and bring the highest prices, bnt it is seldom that they survive the treatment and it is of little matter whether they die of the treat ment or the disease, as death is all they could expect in any case. Cases have been known to the writer where sucb a patient was taken to a hotel and all his expenses paid for months by a -surgeon who wished to see the course of his disease, and who thus took care of him until he died. Private hospitals and laboratories are the latest development or surgery and medicine in this city. Within these institutions many of the most important operations are being daily performed, and patients who desire to avail themselves of the exclusivcness they offer are here treated in secrecy. Here, too, operations are performed on a poorer class 01 patients of such an experimental nature that it would hardly do to perform them at the public hospitals, and even vivisections on animals for thestudy of disease and liie are here carried on under the best of condi tions with the utmost impunity. Some of the secrets of the private hospitals wonld rnin the surgeons who own them if they were puolished,and attempts are often made at blackmail by people who by chance dis cover them. Perhaps, after a time, if the army of scientific students continues to increase as it has done of late, the doctors will pay most sick men for the privilege of attending them instead ol the patients paying for such treat ment. It wealthy men' continue to enter the medical profession and practice and study simply for the scientific interest of it, such a time is not so far distant as some may Fuppose. CONTRABAND CHINAMEN. A MONGOLIAN TJNDEB(JE0TfflD BAI1E0AD IB BH0KEN UP. A Trio of Smugglers Arrested Near Sackef s Harbor, Near Where They Were Res cued From Drowning One la tho Agent of an Opium-Smuggling Enterprise. Watebiown, N. Y., Feb. 21. Special Treasury Agent H. A. Moore, Inspector William Funess and Deputy United States Marshal L. Nathan Briggs, last alight ar rived in Watertown roni Sacket's Harbor, having completed the arrest of a trio of smugglers of Chinamen across the frontier via Kingston, Grenadier Island and the vicinity of Backets Harbor. The prisoners are William and Bobert Graves and Winfield S. Mather, but it is believed that the latter, who was captured at Johns town Tuesday night, is an agent of ah ex tensive opium-smugsling enterprise. He has a number of aliases, among them Mc Glokin and Fitzgerald, and he answers the description of a man lor whom the United States officials have been looking lor some time. The trio have been in the business a num ber of months, but Mather has been making all the money while the others got only fair wages. Their perilous pass 'ge across the St. Lawrence, December 24, with three Chinamen and somesuspicious baggage, and their rescue on the icehonnd shores of Lake Ontario, near Sjcket's Harbor, where tbey h d vainly tried to effect a secret landing', led to their arrest. The Graves brothers were taken to Borne this morning to appear before the United States Commissioner. Mather's bail has been fixed at $2,000, and the examination will take place March 3. CHILEAN BEBELS STILL VICTOBIOT8. Their Vessels Still Bale the Ware, bnt Val paraiso Not Blockaded. Vauabaiso, Chile, Feb. 21. A Gov ernment steamer has arrived here from Mariti, Tarapaca, where she landed troops. The steamer reports beine pursued by the rebel imps Huascar and Esmeralda, and had a narrow escape being captured. The insurgents have captured the steamer Cousino. The Government is sending fresh troops to recapture Pisagna. The latest news received trota the rebel squadron is that the insurgent vessels are scattered along the coast, but Valparaiso ia not in a state of blockade. AN EX-MILLIONAIBk'S T20TJBLES, Milton Weston Confesses Judgment on a a Grocery BllL Chicago, Feb. 2L A confession of judgment has been entered in the Superior Court by E. A. Bobinson, wholesale grocer, against Milton Weston and H. D. Amber son, for $114. The note was given by the two joiiuly on a grocery bill. Mr. We&ton was once a millionaire, oper ating mines in Pennsylvania, and was sent to the penitentiary for five years for alleged complicity in the killing of a man at Mur raysville, Pa, He waa aiterward pardoned and returned to Chicago, where bo ia en gaged in business in a taall way - SUCCESSIHTHE UW. The Golden Rules of the Pro fession Laid Down by Its Ablest Exponents. MR. CLEVELAND'S IDEAS And Wise Words From Men More Prominent as Lawyers, DAHGER IN STOCKS AND POLITICS. The Student Who Suit Eminence Hut Hot Hope for Riches. H0ADLI BANES BiSATILI ON FACULTI Thousands of young lawyers are daily ask ing the question, "How can I succeed at the bat?" The profession is undoubtedly crowd ed, yet each year brings hundreds of fresh graduates to the American bar anxious for distinction in an arena in which the greatest statesmen are trained and developed. With a view to answering the question of this large class of young lawyers, Edward W. Bit:, an occasional correspondent of The Dispatch, submitted, not long since, tbe query, "What are the essentials of suc cess at. the bar?" to a number of tbe foremost legal lights of America. Their answers con tain the experiences of years of labor and triumph. Among the first to respond waa ex-President Cleveland, who wrote at fol lows: If I were to tender any advice to yonng men in tbe legal profession or contemplating such a career, I think I could not refrain (rum asking them to dismiss from thair minds tne idea taas tbe practice of the law Is made up In an im portant decree of oratory and eloquent ad dresses before courts and luriest So ons sbould enter this profession who Is not pro pared to do very bard. conUsuons, anil often irksome work. 1 shall follow tbis advice by saying tbat there Is no mistake about another fact, to wit: In tbe practice of the law, as in everything ebe, honesty and frank, fair dealing; Is not only enjuii ed by eood morals, but is tba best policy. It ia a uelnslun to suppose that tba noble profession of tbe law can be faitbfully t pursued or successfully practiced by trickery and overreaching subterfuges. Groveb Cleveland. Among the answers received from other great men, the following are selected as the most concise and serviceable: A COBPOBATiOK LAW EXPEBX. Speculation and Politic, to Ba Avoided and Sociology Studied. The nature of the question implies that success in tbe profession of tbe law is due to elements which are not common to other walks in life. Industry, intelligent perse. verance, fidelity in the performance of duly and a certain amount of good fortune, and withal good health, all conspire to maka what the world calls success in any and every walk of life. But to succeed at the bar means all this and something more, in asmuch as tbe profession of the law is beset by temptations peculiar to it, and to which too many men, who wonld otherwise have been successful, succumb. First, the temptation in the higher walks of the profession to take a speculative part in tbe enterprises of which knowledge comes through clients or with which client are connected. This at once destroys the calm judgment of the lawyer and irequently givea him an interest which at the critical moment may become adverse to that of his client. Clients themselves, not knowing what they ask, frequently urge tbeir legal adviser to join witn them iu such enterprises, and to the lawyer it seems tbat no moral harm can flow to him from a participation in which he ia invited by his client. To every young man striviog to rise in bis profession I would say, avoid this temptation altogether. The second temptation which besets the lawyer who has the requisite capacity for the profession be has cbusen. and is on tba bigb road to success, and which may deflect bim from it, is bis active participation in politics. There is, of course, no class in tbe commu nity which can form so intelligent a judgment on general politics a. tbe lawyer, and far be is from me ever to recommend non-participation in public affairs which every citizen owes to bis country, aud wblcb no one owes more clearly than the lawyer. Huch a participation in poli tics is very far Irom tbe kind tbat usually falls to the lot of tbe rising lawyer If be yields to tba temptation to enter the political arena. In bis caao it is really the adoption of another and an additional profession. Tbe law is, to-day, aa ever, a jealous mistress, and allows of no divi ded working day devotion. Tbe leisure of tho lawyer may be given to poll levas It may ba given to many other relaxations, and when so given is the. noblest relaxation of tbem all. Of all things, that which is necessary for tbe lawyer to enable bim to obtain the highest suc cess in bis profession is (iu connection with all thoie other qualiniation. aud the element ol eoud fortune, which lead to success in other grulession.) the careful study rt sociology, ased upon principles of political economy, to as to understand tbs farcer relations of Ufa around and abont bim. Tbe lawyer Is becom luir. from year to year, more and more tba business adviser of tbe community, and his oc cupation is becoming les and leas important in the trial of ordinary cases. In the vat enter prises of tbe modern financial world tbe lawyer is called upon to guide bis client safely through tbe labyrinths of new affairs. To do so intelli gently requires not only a knowledge of tba law, hut ol business relations and tbe social or ganization ot communities, tbe knowledza of wuieb not only kerpa him in touch with tbess "enterprises of great pitu and mument," bus also enables bim, to tome extent, at l.ist, to forecast their future development. BOIOK Stxbxx. THE LAWYER OF THE SOUTH. Advice From John S.'Wl.e, Who Is Botb Brilliant and Successful. Tbe essential foundation of success for a law yer is thorough elementary preparation. Law is not an exact science and the field of legal effort has been aptly described as a garden re quiring constant culture, and yet one in which tbat which is prized to-day as a rare and valued, flower may to-morrow become a weed and re quire eradication. The great William B. John son in bis day called tbe Napoleon of tbe turf was once asked by a novice to give tbe best form of code from which to select a race horse. Bis reply was, -Tbey all rnn in forms." Tho same may be raid tonclilng tbe success In law vers. I have known young men whose parents Cave them every opportunity ot thorough, preparation, and bare seen them prepared br the best schools of Eunpe and America and thoroughly grounded In tbe elements beforo tbey were allowed to deal with their practical application, and yet utterly fait On the otbar band, some ot tbe m"t successful lawyers I have ever known, ai.a men wbose acenrata knowledge of principle as well as of practlco made 'hem .xceedingly stron'ir. bave begun their legal studies in the clerk's offlre and worked tbeir way upward to theoietical knowl edge from a beginning of tbe most Isolated knowledza of a few points of praotlca. It Is hard to define what Is the best method f or the beginner. Before entering upon prac tice every ynune man ihould be s? Grounded In gt neral principle, as that when a case I brought to bim be will be able 10 give It general classifli cation, as tbe ornitbulogist would aisizn a specimen brought to bim to be classed with the birds to wnich it belongs. Tbis bablt of general classification broadens and strengthens tbe be Sinner's powers nf thought an J generalization. If, upon having a case presented to bim. ba merely resorts to bis veport to And another similar case, he will probably not find tba ease. and will narrow nismtnu ana reasoning power juraic power in peeping cedajgeroul as ne woula narrow nis vision m Vthrough a keyhole. Nothing Is more t i i 1
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