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THE PITTSBURG DISPATCHl
PITTSBTJKG, SUNDAY, FEBRTJAKY 22, 1891.
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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
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