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PITTSBURG. MONDAY'. MAR. 23. 1891.
THE MAYOR WANTS TO KNOW.
Mayor Gonrley's course in vetoing the
Pittsburg appropriation ordinance until its
provisions are made intelligible in detail to
liimself and tiie public will command the
entire approval of the tavpayers. It has
been the fashion to rush appropriations
through Councils at the last moment. Year
after year they. are kept back as long as
possible 3nd then put through under whip
and spur on the plea of urgency. This year,
as The Dispatch has already noticed, the
uncertainty of what might have tobe provided
for on account of Supreme Court decisions
gae an excue for the delay which in other
years was utterly inexcusable. But excuse,
or no excuse, when Councils undertake to
rote away 54 500,000 of the taxpayers
money, they and the public should know
the why ana wherefore for every dollar so
voted.
Mayor Gourie has pluck in rais
ing this Issue after some protesting Coun
tilmcn had quietly submitted. To
day they should have the cour
age of their convictions and make a
stand with the Mayor for knowing where
and how this money is to be expended and
the need for it in every case. They are the
judges and upon them rests the responsi
bility for what is being done, riot upon com
mittees or heads of departments. Let them
rant what is shown to be justly needed, but
let them at least be able to sny they know
"the reason why" for what they vote.
The Mayor's position is sound; and the
public are with him in his call for an exam
ination of the budget in detail.
MURDEROUS CRIMINALS.
The killing of Detective Gilkinson, by the
leader of a criminal gang whom he was
attempting to arrest for robbery, is an evi
dence that the day of desperate criminals
whose defiance of the law will carry them
any length is by no means past. The affair
as recounted iu yesterday's Dispatch is
not so bold a flight of murderous outlawry
as the Itaveuna train murders of a few years
ago, for which no one was punished, but for
awhile it seemed likely to leach the same
negative results. The recurring evidences
that there are robbers who are prepared to
commit murder rather than fall into the
bands of the law, indicates the necessity of
a more vigorous police system which shall
extend over the country as well as the cities,
nnd the making of arrests of such criminals
with force enough to insure that the desper
ado who undertakes to prevent arrest by
killing ciEcers will himselt be killed before
he gets off. The capture of the desperate
murderer, as told in to-day's Dispatch,
reflects great credit ou the men who ef
fected it.
A JERSEY VERDICT.
Another singular development of the jury
system in an opposite direction from that
which caused the New Orleans massacre,
isshown iu the conviction at Camden, New
Jersey, of the negro, Lingo, for the murder
of Mrs. Annie Miiler. The Philadelphia
newspapers all say that the verdict is a sur
prise, although some of them say that it
mmt be because the jury had a clearer esti
mate of the evidence than those who read it
which is a roundabout and timid
way of saying that the reports of
the evidence -did not shojr ground
for conviction. Anyone who reads
the Judge's charge to the jury can see that
the evidence was insufficient. It is a preg
nant but very uncomiortahle reflection that
if the accused had been an influential man,
instead of a poor nero with a bad reputa
tion, there would have been no possibility
of a conviction upen such evidence.
FAMINE IN THE SOUDAN.
Information Irom the interior of the Sou
dan is slow in reaching civilization nowa
days. But Eometmies that fact is compen
sated for by the importance of the news.
The latest intelligence from the vast region
which a few years ago was abandoned to the
forces of barbarism is of that significant
kind. The rumors that the Soudan was
afflicted by a terrible famine prove on in
vestigation to be true. The extent of the
famine is probably the widest on record, in
modern times. From the border ol Egypt
to Seunaar and from nearSnakim to Darfar,
the whole territory supposed to be under the
sway of the Mahdi, has been plagued by
dearth and destitution. The roads are
strewn witii skeletons, and every town and
village is filled with misery and death.
The cause of this devastation is plainly
stated. In the first place since the rise of
the Mahdi a great share of the Soudan has
been given over to tribal feuds, rapine and
plunder. A plague of locusts and three
dry seasons have completed the misery
of the people. The result ot the suf
ferings is still more important. The
condition of anarchy which has
prevailed ever since the Egyptian power
was overthrown, has increased until outside
of a few towns the Mabdists' control is no
longer acknowledged; while the Mahdists
themselves have been reduced to a shadow of
their former fighting strength by the ravages
of the famine The Hadendowas, who in
former campaigns were the most valiant part
of Osman Digna's force, refused to join
him on his last attack on Suakim; and every;,
where the report is that the tribes are ready
to throw off the last vestige of allegiance to
the Mahdists and to welcome any central
authority which will give them peace and
civilized trade
This view may be, and probably is, col
ored by the desires of those who would like
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Province. But it is based on the report! of
refugees who have come to Suakim to escape
starvation; and the fact that "the natives of
a country which threw off civilization are
cow seeking civilization for the means of
living speaks volumes. The Egyptian Gov
ernment of the Soudan was not much to
boast of, bat it was far better than the an
archy of barbarism. It would be instructive,
if the experiences of the Soudanese, in their
return to the rule, or savage Mohammedism
should be the most powerful influence in ef
fecting the restoration of civilized govern
ment along the entire course of the Nile.
LIBERALITr BUT NO JUNKET.
A circular has been received embodying
an address to the Pennsylvania Legislature
by the representatives of this State on the
governing bodies of the "World's Fair, urg
ing the appropriation of 5300,000 for the ex
penses ofr securing an adequate exhibit of
Pennsylvania industries there. The state
ment is made tbat it is intended to erect
for the Pennsylvania State building a
fac simile of Independence Hall, and
it is asserted in conclusion that to properly
carry out the plans will require the sum of
5300,000.
Tnn Dispatch has steadfastly urged the
appropriation of a liberal sum to secure the
best possible representation of Pennsylvania
at that Exposition, No investment of pub
lic funds can be made which if properly ap
plied Hill yield better returns to the people
of the State. The sum named is not excess
ive, and the only criticism that we would
make on it is that if the scope of the plans
could be enlarged so as to secure a finer ex
hibit, by greater expenditure, the State can
well afford to enlarge its appropriation up
to the limit of half a million. There should
be no hesitancy in voting this 5300,000, upon
any plan which will secure its judicious
and useful application.
But while giving the main proposition a
hearty indorsement, it is necessary to say
that the objections which were referred to in
our yesterday's Harrisburg special telegram
arc also pertinent and decisive on the bill
in its present form. Appropriations must
be made in nccordar.ee with the Constitution
and ior the legislators to provide civil offices
for themselves out of the appropriation will
be fatal to the bill. Even apart trom the
constitutional grounds, the idea of making
the money pay for a free junket for ten
members of the Legislature, without any
limitation on their personal expenditures,
places the measure in the category of jobs.
Liberal appropriations for the legitimate
work of the Fair will receive public ap
proval; but expenditure of money to pro fide
lavored individuals with fat offices and free
living at the Fair is not wanted. There
has been too much of that sort of thing at
Chicago already.
THE NEWFOUNDLAND DISPUTE.
The critical condition into which the New
foundland fisheries dispute; has brought the
relations of Englan . and France is at once an
illustration ot the hazards that lie concealed
in the intricacies of which seem at the outset
subjects for purely pacific adjustment, and
an explanation of some proceedings
in Canada, which have been thought to
squint toward possible hostilities with the
United States.
Some time ago it was announced ihat
some regiments of English troops would be
garrisoned n Canada the explanation be
ing that tbiii was intended to suppress a
possible uprising oi the Canadians in favor
of annexation t k the United States. The
idea either of such an uprising orthat Eng
land would put down a popular demand by
garrisons of troops was so supremely ridic
ulous, that the conclusion of a Tory Yankee
phobia which imagined a possible war with
the United States was all that was left.
That idea was strengthened by the work
done in fortifying Canadian ports on both
sides ofthecoutinent.
The gravity of the Anglo-French dispute
over the Newfoundland fisheries imbroglio af
fords a possible explanation of these move
ments outside our own relations with Canada
and England. Yet if there could be a war
that would equal iu absurdity and madness
one between England and the United States
over tiie seal fisheries, it would be one be
tween England and France over the New
foundland trouble. The gravity of the situa
tion, however, is in th-j fact that it places
both powers in a dilemm ;, If England con
cedes the French view she inflicts undoubted
hardship and even oppression on her own
subjects. If France recedes she gives up
clearly defined and fully conceded treaty
rights. The problem thus created has goni
from bad to worse, uuti. war is a possible
result of the difference.
But we cannot regard it as a probable
one, because it would conta n nothing but
loss and peril to both coun "(f. England
cannot afford to suspend her commerce with
France, and undertake the hazards of a
naval war with a power so nearly her equal
ou the sea. France cannot afford to expend
strength and treasure in fighting England
over a few miserable lobster factories in New
foundland when she needs all her strength
to guard the possible continental complica
tions. This is so obvious that the only
explanation on which France could be
expected to undertake such a war would be
as an outcome of the recent Russian alli
ance, by virtue of which France should
act as cats-paw while fiussia secured the
chestnuts in Asia. But even on that
hypothesis it would seem tbat the French
aud Russian alliance would avoid a policy
which would throw England with her navy
into the arms of the Driebund.
We do not think that there will be a war
between England and France any more than
between England and the United States.
Either is too foolish to be possible uutil the
whole world goes mad.
Jersey juries are not different from the
Louisiana kind. The conviction of Lingo for
the murder of Mrs. Miller the other day, in tbe
absence of conclusive evidence, was based ou
the belief of the jury that "Lingo was a bad
nigger anyway, and it is time this thing was
stopped."
Concerning the reported intention of
the Union Pacific Railroad Company, to float a
consolidated mortgage lor ?50,000,OCQ, to be
applied to various purposes, including the set
tlement ot the Government loan, a Wall street
journal says: "This, if it be true, cannot be
done without tbe concurrence of Congress."
If the settlement referred to means tbe pay
ment of what tbe company owes tbe Govern
ment, there need be no .uncertainty about the
concurrence of Congress. When the Union
Pacific adopts the honest business policy of
offering tbo Government tho principal and in
terest on what it owes it will get taken up so
quickly as to make its head swim. But we
tail to see what there is in that offer for the
Gould crowd.
Kidnapping millionaires is alleged to
be the latest lorm of criminal enterprise in the
West. It is calculated to create a popular
feeling In favor of keeping up the supply of
millionaires that the kidnappers may not be
driven to extend their industry to ordinary
people.
"The refusal to adopt tbe Australian
ballot is an excellent way to keep Maine and
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method of reaching the vital objects of the re
form, In Pennsylvania, Is doing the Democratic
best to keep the Republicans in good odor.
The anxiety of one branch of the New
York Legislature to reach an adjournment on
April 17. is asserted to be due to the perception
or David Bennett Hill that the longer the Dem
ocratic Assembly continues In session the worse
It will be for the Democratic party In New
York.
A Philadelphia cotemporary relieves
its feelings by the sarcastic, remark: "The only
thine lclt out ot the tax bill is a tax on people
for dying. They are taxed pretty thoroughly
for daring to live." Does our cotemporary
suppose that the legislators would dare to en
croach on the prerogative of those dignified
gentlemen, the funeral directors?
Senator Felton, of Calilornia, rises to
remark that ho did not spend a dollar to be
elected. In view of the reputation of Califor
nia politics this leaves the public to exercise
its guessing qualities as to who did spend the
dollars.
Thb.ee houses were lost the other day by
the collapse of a Kansas City bluff; but that is
nothing to the loss of countless thousands of
property by the collapse of other bluffs, in that
scientific amusement of which Colonel Bill
Brown, the Hon. R. C. Schenck and the Hon.
Boyd Winchester aro leading professors.
There is a significant coincidence in the
fan that as soon as Senator Palmer declared
himself out of the Prcsidental race, that letter
of congratulation from ex-President Cleveland
promptly made its appearance.
Mk. Inoalls is doing some very lively
and pointed talking on various subjects j ust at
present. But the trouble with Mr. Ingalls Is
that his s not otfly a deathbed, Dutapost
mortem conversion. If a Senator ho had voted
the same way tbat he now talks as ex-Senator,
things might havo been different.
That kettle of sh in Newfoundland is
rapidly reaching the status of an international
stew.
If the Italian Navy should carry out that
reported intention of sMIing over to this con
tinent with a chip on its shoulder, the obvious
course of our own navy would be to decoy the
invaders into the vicinity of Gays Head, Mass
achusetts, and let the forces oi nature do the
rest of the work.
PERSONAL FACTS AND FADS.
Sam Jones is so ill that he is unable to
fill some Missouri appointments.
Mrs. Ann M. Smith, a sister of Mrs.
Abraham Lincoln, died suddenly at San Fran
cisco Saturday.
The Empress Frederick will prolong her
stay in England until the eve of the arrival of
Emperor 'William In London.
Secretary Blaine continues to im
prove, and it is thought he will be able to be at
his desk at tbe State Department to-day.
Bev. John G. Stranger, who recently
died at Warrentown. Mo., at tbe age of 84. was
the oldest evangelical missionary in tbe United
States.
The late Prince Napoleon had a remark
ably open countenance, says the Atlanta Con
stitution. He yawned regularly onco every
two minutes, on every occasion and in any
company.
Haret Smith, an ex-slave, who has not
only prospered, but has been able to extend
the hand of charity to his old master, lives near
Milton Junction, on the Grand Rapids and In
diana road. He is having his biography writ
ten up for publication.
Count Leo Tolstoi reads, writes and
receives bis friends in bis bedroom. It is an
apartment somo 15 feet square, without a car
pet and always uuderhca cd. In one corner
stands an old grce leather sofa, on which he
sleeps with a single rug. His couch is qujto
unincumbered wltu a mattress, sheets or pil
lows. Near the sofa there is a pile of boot
lasts, an Is, knives, leather strips and all sorts
of shoemaker's material?. Weaving machin
ery, half-finisbe I cloths, pitchforks, picks and
shovels lie in the wildest confusion all over tbe
rest of the room.
STEALING FAMOUS GEMS.
The Worlds Finest Diamonds Have Been
Thieves Rooty.
Thieves have stolen and broken into several
pieces for better safety of sale some of the
earth's finest diamonds a worse sacrilege than
the wanton vandalism of the Goths and Huns,
says David Graham Adee in LippincotCs Maga
zine. What stones have been so treated? Notably
the French Blue, which was reduced by cleav
age into one large and two small fragments. It
originally weighed 113 carats and was worth
3,000,000 francs. Tbe famous Regent itself was
once stolen from tbe Tuileries. On tbo morn
ing of September 17, 1791, Monsieur Sergent
and tho two other commissioners of the Paris
commune perceived that some time during (ho
night robbers had made their way in by scaling
the colonnade from the side,of the Place Louis
.XV, and through a window in that direction.
Having by some means obtained access to tbe
great balls of the Garde Meuble, they had torn
if the seals without forcing tbe lock, carried
away the enormous treasures contained In tbe
cabinets and. vanished without leaving any
other trace of their presence. Several sus
pects were arrested, but were released after a
protracted Inquiry. An anonymous letter was
addressed to the Commune, stating that some
of tbe stolen ieu els wonld be found in a ditch
in the Allee des Veuves, Chauips-Elysees. M.
Sergent at once Hastened, in company with
his colleagues, to the spot Indicated. Here,
sure enough, was unearthed, among other
valuables, tbe Regent diamond, which prob
ably, because of its vast worth, had been
obliged to be abandoned by the thieves them
selves. Finally one of tbo culprits surrendered
himself to the police and made a complete con
fession. Hisname was Baba but not Ali. The
criminals were convicted and condemned to
the galleys, except Baba and Burgeois, who
were imprisoned at Bicetre, where they died.
This ended the affair.
PEEPAEING TO NEGOTIATE,
Canadian Cabinet Members to Have
an
Informal Talk With Blaine.
Ottawa. March 22. Sir Charles Tapper,
Minister of Finance; Mr. Foster and Sir John
Thompson, Minister of Justice, are ready to
start for Washington at any moment to have
an informal talk over tho question of reciproc
ity with Canada with Secretary Blaine and the
British Minister.
Secretary Blaine has now given it to bo un
derstood that he will not recommend the ap
pointment of a Commissioner on tho part of
tho United States until he has been furnished
with some substantial proof that tbe Canadian
and British delegates are not going to Wash
ington with somo impracticable scheme
trumptedupto carry out pledges made to the
electors of Canada. From what can be gath
ered. Secretary Blamo has intimated to Sir
John Macdonald. through tho British Minister,
tbat he will not enter into a formal conference
until tbe Canadians have informally discussed
tbo question with him.
WANT A NEW CLUE
Miss Desha's Admirers Are Urging Iler to
Establish One.
IFItOM A STAFF COItnESPONDENT. I
Washington, March 22. Miss Mary Desha,
who, some weeks ago, resigned her position as
Secretary of tho Wimodaughsls on account of
tronble about tbe admission of a colored young
woman to tbe school, has been requested by a
number of her admirers to start another club.
Mis Desha says that just at present she will
not attempt tbe formation of a new club, as It
is too late in the season, but that the coming
autumn she may make the attempt.
DEATHS OP A DAY.
John A. Verner.
John A. Verner. President of the Hum
boldt Insurance Compiny, died at his late resi
dence, 1M Locust street, Allegheny, in His 70tli
vear. Deceased was well known and highly re
spected, and will be missed by a large circle of
Triends and acquaintances. The funeral will take
place from his, late residence, to-morrow after
noon, at 2 o'clock.
Mrs. B. C. WHIson.
Emma 1C, wife of Barker C "Willson,
proprietor of tbe Seventh Avenue Hotel, died at
tbe hotel at 10 P. v. yesterday, after a brief. Ill
ness. Mrs. Wlllsou waSrWclLknown and highly
respected tor her charily and kindness to the un
fortunate, blicwlll 'beunisscd by many. Mr.
'Wliiionnuthi sympathy ora host orrrieriasl -
THINGS IN GENERAL,
A Case of Revolution Without Much Re
formationAn Idea Advanced fcy Fres
dent Eliot Tho Only Real Difference
Between Individuals.
I have no sympathy with tho English parson
who declared that he bad preached so long to
bonnets that he bad forgotten how to preach to
brains. Bonnets and brains both begin with
tho same letter, but tbat Is, not all that they
havo in common, by any means. John Bunyan
got pretty close to the truth when be described
bow they cleaned bouse in the palace of the In
terpreter. The man began it. He got a firm
grip on tbe big broom and went at it with a
will. And the breezes blew, and the anst flow,
and iu two minutes you could not see from one
corner to the other. There was plenty of revo
lution, but no reformation. Things only got
worse. Then the woman took her turn. And
she sprinkled water here and there about the
room, and cooled the air and laid the dust, aud
then deftly and daintily, as one learned in the
art of the broom, she made that room
as clean and neat as a new pin, in no time.
And the room was swept.
So there are some things that women can do
better than men.
How many things there ara in which women
are more efficient than men, the professor of
things in general is not prepared to say. Can
she preach better, doctor better, argno better
in law, vote better? Perhaps so. Far bo it
from this professorial chair to deny any possi
bility along the road of the fcminlna future.
We need all the good preachers, and doctors
and lawyers, and all the intelligent and honest
voters we caii have.
A Tory Foolish Theory.
The foolishest theory of human life is that
which puts a great company of people together
into a class and judges them all alike.
That is a wise aud true interpre
tation of life which is aware that
there is no such thing as a "class" outside- tho
statistics of the census. Human beings are
individuals. This Is one of the lessons which
the race has found, somehow, very hard to
learn. Once it was held tbat the only indi
viduals in tho world wero the fathers ot a small
number of aristocratic families. Nobody else
bad any rights, or deserved any consideration.
To there heads of families their wives, their
children, and their slaves belonged, as their
cows, their horses, and their pigs did. If the
fatherchose.be might kill his children. Ho
had a right to do that, as he bad a right to kill
his sheep.
Little by little human souls gained emancipa
tion. First, more men. Then women, partially.
At last, even slaves. Little by little
human souls escaped from "classes" and
got to be recognized as Individuals, each
with a right to live, each with a personal're-
sponsiuiuty to mo Most High, each wjth a
character of his own. The race has not yet
been altogether enfranchised. There is still
slavery, and denial of individuality. But the
mlllenium is coming.
An Idea of President Eliot's.
President Eliot, of Harvard, told us the other
day, when ho was here in town, that the one
'chief characteristic of the most advanced ideas
of education is just this emphasis upon indi
viduality. Students aro no longer treated as
classes, but as men. The aim is to bring out
the best that is in each man. The fiction of
the "average mind" Is vanishing put of the
beads of teachers, and the face of tlie individual
mind is taking its place. Hence elective
courses of study, and a change in the whole
aim of education. Knowledge is no longer the
thing which the good school tries to give, but
power. And power means tho mind of each
individual trained to do its best.
We are as yet only serai-civilized. But we
are crowing. There is plenty of reason for
encouragement. Year byyear wo are pushing
over the walls which our barbarian ancestors
built. We are tumbling down tbe barriers
which Interfere with the great fact of human
individuality. We are learning to estimate a
human being as a human being. Iho street on
which the human being livos is less and less
entering into account. The peculiarities of
nationality and color are coming to "count for
nothing. Of course, there are still old fogies
and semi-civilized people, as was shown the
other day at Washington. But there aro
alwavs backward swirls an-t eddies along the
shore. Tho great current is toward the open
sea. Black or white, what matters It?
The Real Difference Between individuals.
And thus, among other things which we are
learning in our blundering way. wo are coming
to realize tbat tbe only real difference between
individuals is a difference of gifts, of aptitude,
ot efficiency, of power. When we really get
that learned, women will jret their rights.
There will be an end to paying unequal wages
for equal work. There will be an end to all in
quiry at the gnte of all professions as to
whether the candidate wears skirts or trousers.
However, in the meantime, there are a good
many things which women not only can do
better than men, but are actually doing, and
doing better, to-day. Most of all. In tbe way of
philanthropic work, Mrs. AnnieNathan Meyer,
in her late book on "Woman's Work in
America," puts the philanthropic record
last; but she makes up for it by as
signing to tnis ueaa no less tnan seven
of her 18 chapters. "Charity." "Care of the
Sick," "Care of the Criminal," "Care of tho
Indian," "Work of Anti-Slavery Women,"
"Work ot tno w. v. i. uv work oi the Red
Cross bociety," are the titlos of these chapter..
They suggest tender mercies unnumbered. It
is indeed "a joy and an Inspiration," as the
writer of one ot these chapters puts it, to know
that "all over , this vast continent intelligent
and unwearying women are thinking and work
ing and praying for the needy, the wicked, the
ignorant, the weak and the down-trudden."
What are the women of Pittsburg doing?
Tbev aro doing their share; we may be sure of
that'beforehand. I have here at my hand a bi
pile of pamphlets, whoso business it is to tell
how much that share amounts to; to tell it,
tbat is, so far as it can be set down in figures
added up, set at the right hand of dollar marks,
and presented in reports at annual meetings.
And tbat, as everybody knows, is the very
smallest part of it.
Work of Women in Churches.
This pile of pamphlets has nothing to say of
the work of women in the churches. It gives
no record of the millions of stitches which help
to fill the missionary boxes. Every church has
its company of faithful women who are every
week busy fn good works. Tbe "sewing so
ciety" used to bo,a place of gossip. So the
grandmothers tell us. But to-day the women
who belong to it have no more time for gossip
tban tbe men who work in a tack factory. Of
all this the pamphlets take no account.
I know a church where every week flowers
are sent to all the sick and afflicted people in
the parish. Thanksgiving and Christmas din
ners are sent to all the needy families, aud
every Friday a crowd of poor women aro pro-
are paid for; besides all tbe missionary boxes.
This providing of work Is done on the most
extensive scale by the Women's Industral Ex
change, at 628 Penu avenue. Tho Exchange
receives all salable articles made by women.
Tho articles are priced by the consignors, sub
ject to the approval of an examining committee,
and a commission of ten per cent is charged.
The Exchange conducts not only a show room,
but aluncb room, and the women who work
for it provide not only the fancy articles but
the bill of fare. In 1887 the Exchango paid
consignors of work, $4,2.55 09; last year it paid
512,548 bo. During the few weeks of the Christ
mas season just past, the Exchange paid more
than during the entire first year of its work
Here arc a few glimpses of tbe benevolences
of this good enterprise, taken from a private
letter: "One woman reports that she has not
been able to do her own work, but
has made enough at tbe Exchange
to pay for a competent servant.
One young girl has paid her tuition at the
School of Design. A mother has been enabled
topiocnrethe best medical advice for au af
flicted child. A cripple In a chair reports th.it
the employment and diversion wero more to her
than the money received." Tnis good work
will be adequately paid for in heaven. But It
hasn't to wait altogether till then. A year ago
it had raoro than ?2,000 in Its treasury. It must
bave a good deal more than tbat this year.
One Necessary Feature.
But in order to get the benefits of the Ex
change, a woman mnstknow something. sno
must know how to work well. Tho tenderest
hearted manager will not pay a penny for heavy
bread. There are several sewing schools in
town which try to teach little girls to nse their
fingers. There is one extensive cooking school.
This is tbe Domestic Training School,
on Penn avenue, near Highland, East
End. This school started out gloriously
with a course of lectures from MissParloa. It
was thought at that time that nay courses In
"higher cookery" might support the charity
part of tbo school. That hope missed of ful
fillment. Hipner cookery had but a fleeting
popularity. But the best work of the school
goes on. Here a hundred little 'girls are in
training for good housekeepers. Here, too. is
an intelligence office, meant for people who
want trained servants with "characters."
The most oxtensive organization of women
for charitable work in these two cities' is the
Women's Christian Association. This Society
Is a branch of a wide federation which, at Its
last general conference, received reports from
more than a score of cities. This association
in Pittsburg and Allegheny, conducts, wholly
or in part, a host of excellent enterprises.
One of these is tho Temporary Home for
Destitute Women, at 920 Penn avenue. "Tbe
only Institution in this city where a patient dis
missed from the hospitals City Home, or in act
from any of our charitable Institutions can find
a temporary place of snelter." Deserted wives
with ranilliesof starving children, unprotected
f-irls seckinceinnlovinenL, find Christian vm.
patiijr inside these opatOdoors;' .The -Board oi
Managers of tbe Home for Agod Protestant
Women made report to the Women's Christian
Association. Fifty or sixty aged women find
here a comfortable, qalet. and pleasant abiding
place. Tho Christian Home for Women is a
refuge for poor girls who havo fallen into sin,
and show a desire to get oufagain into decent
and Christian living.
A Hospital for Sick Souls.
Here tbey aro taught housowork, laundry
work, nursing, and, religion. There is a hos
pital department, tho inmates of It being all of
ttictn poor, aged women. Tbe whole home Is a
a hospital for sick sonls. Another charity,
under the care of the Association, is a Home
for Colored Children. Fifty little dark-complexioned
waifs and strays are 'here cared for,
and given a decent start in the direction of
manhood and womanhood.
The Young Women's Christian Association
of the East End. is a branch of the larger or
ganization. They have a good house now at
219 Collins avenue, and are making good use of
it. These busy young people hold prayer and
Song meetings in houses andhosnitale: conduct
"gospel meetings," teach a sewing school. carryV
on a boy's club composed of particularly active
boys, most of them in the newspaper and blaok
ing business, and employ a district visitor who
looks after the unlooked-af ter poor of tbe East
End. She Is the pastor of the sheep who
are not counted in the folds,
Ye, there is no end to it. There are the hos
pitals, West Penn. Homoeopathic, Allegheny
General, Sonthslde, and tbe new one for the
children. There Is tbe Home for Incurables,
and tho Home for Aged Couples at Wilkinsburg,
and the Church Home and a dozen other de
nominational charities. And not ono of them
could get along without the good women. Tbey
could better dismiss the doctors. And there
are the Day Nurseries and the Women's Chris
tian Temperance Union and tho Christmas Let
ter Mission. And there is the Society for the
Improvement of the Poor, with women for its
managers and women for its agents, and tbe
whole city for its parish, doing splendid service,
carrying light into all the" blackest corners of
darkest Pittsburg. Nobody knows into how
many wretched homes these faithful Christian
women go. Sisters of charity, without uni
forms, bringing blessings with them.
A GEEAT SCHEME.
A Jovial New Yorker's Plan for Breaking
the Drink Habit
New York Tribune.
"I read something the other day," said a
jovial fellow who is classed among tbo "good
fellows." "about breaking off the drink habit. 1
have been a drinking man for a number of years,
drinking as much for tbe good fellowship of
the thing as for anything else. And this kind
ot drinking, I want you to understand, is the
worst way to drink. My wife Is the most sensi
ble woman in the world. She never tried to
get me to give up the rum habit, but what she
did say to me was this: 'Now, Frank, you are
very likely to lniure your health if von
keep up this drinking habit. Why
don't you limit yourself to so many drinks a
day? Of course if you were to broak off entire
ly you would feel disgusted with yourself when
you really wanted to drink. But allow your
self so many a day to go on and use those up as
you see fir.' Of course my wife Is always right
In everything she advises, so I tried it 1 al
ways allowed myself six drinks a day. Now
here's the funny part of it. I was so afraid that
I might exhaust my six and then find that I
wanted one tbat I hoarded them up until late
in tbe day. Tbe result was tbat I frequently
came home with some of my drinks to my
credit. 'Jen.'! said to my wile, "your scheme
works beautifully; only I find that mv limit is
too high. I seldom reach it now.' 'Well,' she
said, 'try five then.' 'No.' I answered, 'I'll try
four.' I tried four and generally bad some
thing coming to me, so I cut it down to two.
Sometimes I do not take a drink at all. Mean
while my wife smiles and tells me that lama
sensible man and I begin to believe her."
QUIET WEEK IN SI0EE.
The White Honse Social Season Is Now
Practically at an End.
I FROM X STAFF COBBESFOXDENT. 1
Washington, March 22. It is, not probable
that tbo close of tbo Lenten season a week
hence will make much difference in the social
enjoyments of the capital. Tho season has
been ratber loosely observed at best, and tbe
'fact that so many prominent families are in
mourning, and so many others out of tbe city
since the adjournment of Congress, will tend
to modify somewhat the gayety which might
otherwise follow tbe period of fasting and
prayer. This week Mrs. Harrison will refrain
from anythlng-of a public social natnre. It Is
said, however, that during Easter week she
win give another luncheon, to lar as tile
larger entertainments are concerned, unless
some special emergency may occur, tbe season
is over at the White House.
Of several notable spring weddings an
nounced. 'possibly the one most interesting to
the public, and ono which will bring out the
entire White House contingent, is tbat of Miss
Fuller, ono of the many daughters of the
Chief Justice of tho Supreme Court, and Mr.
Archibald L. Brown, of Chicago. On their
wedding tobr to Europe tbe bride will visit her
sister. Miss Mary Fuller, who is still living in
the musical atmosphere she most enjoys that
of Berlin.
DO LIN YIM YUNG.
Mongols Boared at Dop Toy Du'g Buse in a
Farce-Comedy.
New York World.:
"Do Lin Yim Ynng" was the title of a roar
ing farce-comedy at tbe Chinese Theater Sat
urday night. Translated into English the play's
name means. "My Sister Was Engaged to a
Man, but Another Man Won Her." Dop Toy
Du scored his greatest hit as a funny man. He
was just too funny with his white painted nose
and cnrled mustache. Laundiymen, fantan
players and storekeepers all laughed until they
split their blouses.
Seu Shane Hong was the hero. He loved Me
Yun Gim, a sister of Dop Toy Du, Ho loved
her so hard tbat even opium lost Its charm and
he told tbe audience he would surely die if he
didn't win tbe girl. He was a tricky Celestial,
and when he found out that the fair Mo was en
gaged to a rich nobleman be sent his aunt to
abduct the girl. As soon as she was brought
into his house he married her. Death uolonger
had a fascination for him and shark's fins tasted
bettertban ever.
This high-handed way of wooing his sister
made Dop Toy Du as mad as a Mongol can get
when he beard of it. He demanded satisfac
tion, and wanted to fight a duel withSeu Shane
Hong with swords at a distance of about 50
paces. He was finally pacified with 40 cans of
opium 15 years old.
Then Dop bought a slave and palmed her off
on tbe rich man as his daughter. The rich man
dian't know the difference, but the audience
did, and all Mott street went home laughing.
THE CHICAGO SPLIT COMPLETE.
Cregier and Harrison Nominated by
Dlf-
ferent Democratic Factions.
Chicago, March 22, The Democratic City
Conventionjtor the nomination of a candidate
for Mayor was the scene of an unexpected ses
satiou at 2:15 o'clock, yesterday afternoon, when
from 100 to 150 of the delegates, the supporters
of the candidacy of ex-Mayor Harrison, with
drew from the convention in Turner Hall and
organized an independent convention in
Olrich Hall. The split was due to the dissatis
faction of the Harrison following with the
seating of tho contesting delegates.
In tbe regular convention, after the usual
preliminaries. Mayor Cregier was declared the
nominee for Mayor. George Weiss, a wealthy
German brewer, was nominated by tbe
Cregierites for City Treasurer: Jacob Kern for
City Attorney, and James C. Strain for City
Clerk. The other faction nominated Harrison
by acclamatloms
BLAINE'S ALLEGED RETALIATION.
Restrictions Placed Upon Shipments
in
Bond of Canadian Goods.
Montreal, March 22. It Is reported that the
United States customs authorities have issued
a peremptory order that detailed invoices must
accompany all shipments carriod through
Maine for inspection.
This is regarded as the first retaliatory meas
ure for the Liberal's defeat.
A Photographer's Trick.
Washington Star.J
There is a special apparatus in use at tho
coast survey office for preventing photographs
of maps from shrinking unevenly, as to affect
their accuracy. Any photograph is smaller
than tbe negative, becauso the paper on
which it is printed, having been moistened,
shrinks. Unfortunately, In shrinking It does
not preserve its proportions, tbe shrinkage
across the grain being something like twice as
great as with the grain. Next time you bave
a photograph taken get tbe pbotograpber to
make one copy with the grain of tbo paper
turned one way. and another contrariwise, and
you will find that one will make you look fat,
while the other will cause you to look lean.
The effect is very curious, and.'it Is said, some
times to be taken aavantage ot by photograph
ers when customers want to be made to look
stout or thin in their pictures.
Judge Lynch Is Popular.
Atlanta Constitution.)
Tbe people of this couutry have reached tbe
point where tbey prefer justice .and order out
side of the law, to injustice and disorder under
tbo law.
' 0UEErPEOPLfONE MEETS. '
Sketches of Eccentric Folk Slet'in Arkan
sas' Health Resort Colonel John Fiske,
the Weighty Man From New York Mill
ionaires in Masquerade.
IFItOiT A STAFP CORKESFOXDBXT.
Hot Speings, Ark.. March 19. The whole
community, visitors and residents alike, i is
mourning tho loss of Colonel John A P. Fiske.
Tho Colonel is not dead, but in a sleeping car
on his way to New York City, which is almost
as bad, so lar as wo who are left behind aro
concerned. And who is Colonel Fiske? you
may ask. Well, the catalogue of his titles and
virtue s is a long one. In tbe first place, he is a
good man, weighlngjit least 450 pounds. When
be came here last November be weighed 500
pounds, and he succeeded in leaving 50 of them
behind him. It is a peculiar thing about the
baths, that you may. take them to increase your
flesh or to diminish it and apparently the
water is accommodating to all comers.
But Colonel FIske's adipose tissue had little
or nothing to do with his weight In the commn.
nity. It served merely as an effective back
gronnd to tho rare good qualities of its pos
sessor. Such a combination of good humor and
kindliness, ot warm sympathy and practical be
nevolence, as exists in Colonel Fiske is very
rarely found at a resort of this kind, where the
selfishness of sickness predominates. The New
Yorkers gravitated naturally more than others
toward the Colonel, but everyone here recog
nized his amiable rule. Colonel Fiske is Presi
dent of twofat men's cIuds, I believe that of
New York ana that of Connecticut, both ac
knowledging him lord, and during the past
winter he seems to have presided over the
hot water club here with equal success. For-
cer uereauer stout men wno visit me springs
will rise up and call Colonel Fiska blessed
when they revel witnin the ample limits of the
monster bathtub which tbe proprietors of the
Park Hotel built specially for tbe mighty New
Yorkei's nse.
The Immense void left by the departure of
such a man is painfully evident. The table at
which he sat In tbe dining room wbereunto
some facetious friends one night wheeled him
on a baggage truck to-day looks Iiko a band
without a arum major, or a newspaper without
a display head. For 13 years he has been com
ing to the springs, and it follows that
be is chock full of lore about the
place and its patrons. Upon this
store of information Colonel Fiske freely al
lowed his friends to draw, and now that he is
gone a great crowd of his subjects paid a tear
ful adieu to him in the drawing room of tbe
Pullman sleeper yesterday his worth is more
keenly felt than ever. What is Hot Springs'
loss, however, is the gain of the thousands who
eat at Colonel Fiske's table in New York.
A Millionaire Bunko-Steerer.
I object to millionaires masquerading: They
will do It Jay Gould, the last time he declined
to converse with me on the platform of his pri
vate car, wore a shabby and shiny coat that
most of his employes would decline contemptu
ously. But Jay Gould usually has a hedge of
servitors about him who make known bis dig
nity betimes.
A friendly Flttsburger warned me on my ar
rival to keep an eye open for bunko-st'eerers,
v. ho he said were rather numerous. It has been
my experience tbat by somo subtle instinct tbe
bunko-steerer seems to be able to identify a
newspaperman, no matter how guileless his ap
pearance, and I hoped but did not expect to be
tackled by one of the gold brick and lottery
ticket gentlemen. Ihat very afternoon, as I
emerged from an interview with a hotel clerk,
an erect, elderly man, with gray hair and a
nicely trimmed mustache, walked up to mo
and, just touching his hat politely.adaresaed me
as "Mr. Stephens. I believe." He looked so
thoroughly respectable, albeit his clothes were
a trifle rusty, tbat I was off my guard and sim
ply replied that mv name was not Stephens.
"Excuse me, sirl" replied the old gentleman,
"I took you for an old friend's son, your name
Is ?"
He was so polite and so venerable looking
tbat I never thought of confidence men or their
tricks, and I gave him my name. He bowed,
apologized for making the mistake and went
away. As he disappeared in the crowd, it
struck me that I had been incautious, but I
forgot all about the old man in the excitement
of a hunt for a trunk which an enterprising
expressman had carried away.
The episode came back to me vividly when a
very well-dressed young man, with a good deal
of showy jewelry, engaged me in conversation
an hour or two later, and before I knew it had
discovered what town I hailed from, and was
airing his acquaintance with Pittsburg and
its people, including two police judges,
bv the wav. with a great show of friendliness.
Before things got really interesting! was called
away, and I never bad a chance to discover the
character of the bejonelled young man who
had such a love for Pitfsburg. I suspected tbe
old man, however, of having prepared the way
for the other fellow, aud for several days I
watched him aud privately decided tbat be was
a hoary-headed sharper of the most dangerous
kind. It wa3a Western friend who gave me my
next surprise. Re was talking to me when an
old man I took for a Dnnko-steerer passed us,
and I tentatively vented my suspicions. My
Western friend laughed heartily.
"I shall have to tell M that," said he;
"I guess he's never been accused of bunko yet.
He doesn't look much like a man worth 5,000,
000 or $0,000,000, either, I'll admit, but every
body In Minneapolis knows that's about the
size ot old M -'s pile."
Rich Enongh to Wear Anything.
And so it goes. Tbe swellcst people here are.
for the most part, the poorest, and in this Ar
kansas is not unlike the rest ot the world.
There is an old man to be seen about the baths
and lobbies of the hotels, and even on tbe
street, whose coat Is greasy and lacking in but
tons, whose trousers are frayed at the bottoms,
and who for some inscrutable reason wears a
rubber overshoe all tbe time on bis left foot.
To all appearances he might be worth 50 cents,
and many a crippled Deggaron tbe streets here
has a more opulpnt air. Yet the eccentric in
valid who shuffles along with ono foot In the
grave and the other in a rubber shoe is more
than a millionaire, and owns agood part of the
new town that is taking the place of tbe rattle
trap and tumbledown village wmen Hot
Springs was until very lately.
A Southern Self-SIade Croesus.
There have been several fortunes made in
the rapid rise of the new town. Last night I
asked an old visitor here who a quiet little man
of middle age 1 bad noticed about tbe bote!
might be. Tbe man I referred to wa3 of medium
height, slightly lame in the right leg, and of
dark complexion, though I could tell you little
about bis face but that it was lighted by a pair
of keen, searching eyes that even the broad rim
of a soft felt hat worn low ou the forehead
could not obscure.
"That is Ed Hogaboom." was the answer I
got: "a representative American money-maker.
He came to the Hot Springs years ago, to see
what tbe water would do for the muscnlar
rheumatism which be had contracted in the
Civil War. Tbe water practically cured him,
though it left him lame, as you see. Whenhe
came here he clerked In a drugstore, and when
his emDlover died he bought tho business from
the latter's widow. He prospered exceedingly
and bought other drugstores in the town.
Then when a bank was started in the town his
fellow-citizens thought so well of him that tbey
made him president. The bank has done very
well, and Mr. Hogaboom now is also president
of tbe savings bank here. He obtained an In
terest in the Kentucky etables. which controls
the express and livery business of the town,
earlv in bis business career, and tbat invest
ment has paid wonderfully. When the East
man Hotel was projected Mr. Hogaboom took
$25,000 worth of stock, and he owns a large In
terest, indeed he is tbe principal proprietor of
the latest hotel, the Park, which rost pearly
$500,000 to build. Now there is hardly an en
terprise started in Arkansas that Mr. Hoga
boom Is not Invited to join, and it can be said
to his crodit that he has always been ready to
help anv young man who shows a disposition to
help himeir. To-day he is reckoned more
than a millionaire."
Such self-mado men seem tobe rarer here,
than in Pittsburg. Perhaps the warm climate
keeps a fellow from more tban half making
himself, as it were. Hepbttrn Johns.
BRIBERY IN MICHIGAN.
A State Senator Says He Was Offered
$30,000 by Republicans.
SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.!
Lansing, Mich., March 22. The Democrats
have unearthed what they believe to be an at
tempt at bribery in the State Senate, and tbey
say tbat not less tban $30,000 was promised. It
so happened that tbe Senate was composed of
an equal number of Democrats and Republi
cans, with three Patrons of Husbandry hold
ing the balance of power.
Early in the sesion Senator Wilcox, one of
the Patrons threw out vague hints about the
Republicans offering him money, and yesterday
the Democratic Central Committee pinned him
don n, and be admitted that the sum of $30,000
was offered to him to be divided, if he could get
two others to stand with the Republicans.
STRANGE HYBEE03 AT COVINGTON.
The Offspring ora Cat and a Rabbit Exciting
Great Interest.
trECIAL TKLKGKAM TO TUB DlrPATOIt.-.
Covington, Ky., March 2a Hundreds of
people are visiting the county jail to see six of
tbe most curious animals ever seen here.
They are the offspring of a cat and a rabbit.
Tbey have cats' heads, rabbits' ears, and feet
and tails like a cat. They are beautifully
marked and very playful.
AN UNDERGROUND HABITATION.
Hunters Lost in a Forest Make a Remark
able Discovery.
tsrECIAi. HtlOBAM TO THE PISrATCIM
Snow Hill, Md.. March 22. A party of
'coon hunters lost their way the other night in
what is known as the "Burnt Swamp," near
Wbaleyville, in this county. With tbe aid of a
pine torch they pushed their way through tbe
roots and water, when one of the party called
attention to a pathway wbibb had evidently
been made many years ago. After a consulta
tion it was decided to take the beaten track
with the hope tbat it would lead them out of
the labyrinth. Tbey had proceeded only a
short distance when their leader suddenly dis
appeared from sight. Hastening forward they
found that their companion had fallen Into a
bole "which seemed to have been made by an
uprooted tree and filled with about two feet ot
water.
Upon further Investigation, however, it was
found by removing a large stone imbedded iu
the earth on one side, that this was tbe en
trance to a subterranean cave. There was
plenty of room to crawl through, and the first
to.enter found himself in a partly furnished
room. Ho called to his comnanions. who were
only too glad to find shelter for the night. A
further examination revealed two other apart
ments leading from the first. All were of good
size, dry and comfortable. In one was found
tbe remains of a rnst-eaten cook stove, and in
the third six bunks partially filled with decayed
straw and swamp moss. The supposition is
that this underground habitation was made
during tho latter part of tho war.
FAITH CUBE POLLIES.
A DanbnryMan Who Believed the Lord Re
quired a Human Sacrifice.
IRPXCIAL TKLXOSLAX TO THI DISFATCir.1
Danbubt, March 22. Brldgewater. a quiet
little village eight miles from here, is In a state
of agitation over a number of alleged faith
cures, and Oliver H. Jessup, a well-to-do resi
dent ot the place, has gone insane over tbe
craze. A number of tbe villagers profess to
have been cured of various ills by simple faith
and prayer, and when Jessup was taken sick a
week ago he refused to allow his family to call
a doctor, relying on his recovery solely upon
faith-cure advbeates. who surroundsd his bed
at all hours of the day and night.
Jessup finally conceived tho idea that the
Lord required a human sacrifice. He was left
alone for a few minutes on Thursday, and he
prepared to carry out his insane freaks by con
structing an altar from bis bedroom furniture,
and pllingabout it a lot of combustibles. Then
he seized his little granddaughter, a tot of a
lew months, who was sleeping In the next
room, and placed her upon the altar. A mem
ber of the family, attracted by the child's cries,
entered the room just as the insane man was
toncbing a match to the inflammable material.
The child was rescued without injury, but the
bouse narrowly escaped destruction, aud tbe
crazy man nearly lost his life before he was
overpowered and carried away.
DAN. DOUGHEETY'3 BE0THEB DEAD.
He Asked for Food at a Philadelphia Honse
and Perished From Exposure.
rSPICIAt. TXLXGnAM TO TH DISPATOII.t
Philadelphia. March 22. William Dough
erty, a brother of Daniel Dougherty, was found
dead yesterday evening in tbe cellar of tbe
residence of Rev. Dr. George Dana Boardman,
on Walnut street, where he had applied for
food. He was very wet from tbe fierce rain
storm when he came to the door, and tbe ser
vant Invited him to come inside. Tbe heater
in the cellar was out of order, and Mrs. Board
man asked him to step Into the cellar and try
to fix it. Dougherty went Into the cellar,whers
he was heard moving around.
In tbo meantime food had been prepared. As
the stranger did not put in an appearance in a
quarter ot an hour, tbe servant was sent to see
what bad become of him. Tbe man whom she
sought was dead, and lying on bis face. When
taken to the station house, a search ot tbe
man's clothing failed to reveal his identity.
While the body was lying at tbe station bouse
it was viewed bv an old man well known in
Irish circles. He recognized the dead man as
William Dougherty, brother of the well-known,
silver-tongued orator.
THE CALICO EAILE0AD.
A Case in the Courts for Years Is Finally
Settled.
rsrXCIAL TBLIOBAH TO TH DISPATCH.I
Zanesville, March 22. The "Calico" Rail
road suit is ended after many years of litiga
tion, and when the Circuit Court meets here
on tbe 31st, an order will be made that 'will
finally end It, and clear the case from tbe
docket.
The Calico road wis originally projected as a
lino between Pittsburg and Maysville, Ky.,
passing through Cadiz, Cambridge, Washing
ton and McConnellsville. Active preparations
to build it were begun in 1856, about the time
the Central Ohio was building. But the latter
was a heaw load for the projecters, and the
Calico road was still heavier for its backers,
for they bad to lay down after expending a
large amount of money. In 1871 an effort was
made to revive it, 40 of the leading business
men of tbe counties interested forming a syndi
cate lor tbat purpose. It is believed now that
the road will be put upon a good basis.
O'KELLY IS NOT CHEEEFUL.
ParneU's Envoy Recites tho Odds Against
Which He Is Contending.
.-SPECIAL TELEGRAJf TO TIIK DISPATCff.J
Ne-w York. March ''22. James J. O'Kelly.
one of Mr. ParneU's envoys, left yesterday for
Lincoln. Neb. Until be has consulted with
President Fitzgerald,of the Land League, there
will be little done in the way of vigorous drum
ming for subscriptions.
Speaking of the feeling of the Irish people
toward Mr. Parnell. Mr. O'Kelly said: 'The
men who are really tbe bone and sinew of
Ireland to-day aro with us. Tbe trouble is that
the old men are against us. In Ireland people
live to a great age, and the head of a bouse
clings to his patriarchal rights most tenacious
ly. As these old men were bred in the bard
days when there was little chance for educa
tion, they take a narrow and prejudiced view
of things. They wield the influence in politics.
while their sons, who are more intelligent, can
ao nothing."
LOOKING AT GRANDPA.
General Garfield's Grandson Makes
His
First Visit to the White House.
IFBOM A STAFF COBBESPONDBXT.l
Washington. March 22. A day or two ago
a nurse accompanying a baby boy came into
tbe Wbite House, and after strolling through
tbe East Room asked permission to show her
little charge the other parts. Stopping in front
of the portrait of President Garfield she said
to tho little one: "See grandpa." and the boy
laughed up at the picture. Ho was James
Garfield Brown, tho son of Mr. and Mrs.'Stan
Iey Brown, and was making his first visit to
the White House. I
Mrs. Garfield has been visiting her dau?ntnr
for somo weeks, but going our, as she does, so
little, only ber more intimate friends have
known of herpresence In the city.
A Neat Compliment.
KxchanRe.j
A neatly turned compliment was that be
stowed by Charles Bertram, the English presti
digitator, upon Dr. Walsh, the much-beloved
Archbishop of Dublin. Bertram, at a private
seance, bad taken up a pack of cards and asked
Dr. WaisU to select one. "The card you have
drawn," said the juggler, "is the king of
hearts." "No." replied tbe Archbishop, "it is
thefive of clubs." "Well," said Bertram, in a
tone of assumed astonishment, "it is the first
time I have ever failed in that trick. Would you
look at tbat card again?" Dr. Walsh assented,
and in the place of the five of clubs be beheld
an excellent portrait of himself. "I wasn't so
much wrong after all," remarked Bertram, "for
Your Grace is tho king of hearts in Ireland."
Italian Idleness.
New York Snn.f
I have seen happiness." said a traveler. "In
Naples there is a long sea-wall, with a broad
top. Ononesido is tbe bay, on the other tho
mountain. You knour the sun generally shines
in Italy, and you have read how brightly, how
gently, how deliciously it shines. Well, every
day tbousands of Neapolitans come down to
this wall and stretch themselves upon It, and
lie there in a line several miles long from early
in the morning until sunset They scarcely
move. They breathe gently. They doze. They
look at you with unspeakable content in their
eves If you pass wttmn easy range of them. It
takes only a littlu f ruit, a little wine, and tbe
fewest rags to make life possible. Their wives
do all the work. They enjoy. I envy them."
An TJnfortnnato Simile.
Detroit Journal.!
A writer in tho Lo Roy Independent winds up
an item about women by saying they should
"be bandied like eggs." The writer, evidently
a woman, seems to forget that eggs are often
beaten and havo to be broken before tbey are
any good.
Tillers or the Earth and Sea.
'Philadelphia Times.
The warships would not have been wrecked
If the tiller had been rightly managed. The
moral ot this is tbat the great parties bad better
look out for the farmers. '
CURI0DS" CONDENSATIONS
Sleighing in Maine is still excellent
Twenty-seven railroads terminate In
Chicago.
The little city of Spokane Falls, "Wash.,
contains 4,000 Swedes.
The winter just ended in Iceland was
the mildest ever known.
A man In Salina, Northern Kama', has
already planted a patch ot potatoes.
A "Wichita, Kan., youngster, aged 2
years, knows all tbe letters and figures.
The largest copper mines in the world
the Anaconda in Montana have shnt down.
Japan's first Parliament contains 11
Christians, one of whom is the presiding offi
cer. Local item in the Albany, Kan.,
Iitdaer: "John Thompson's dogs are ail dead
but 12."
lo some parts of Australia locusts and
caterpillars ara several inches thick on the
ground.
A resident of Balrdstown, Ga., is buy
ing Confederate money, paying 5 cents on tbe
dollar for it.
There has been skating on ihe Thames
at Twickenham, which has not Deen possible
for over 30 years.
Tbe G. A. B. of Cincinnati are making
an effort for reduced undertaking rates for de
ceased members.
It is said that the natives of Alaska
spend so much of their time in boats tbat their
legs are crooked and weak.
The United States ot Columbia leads all
the South America countries in active prepa
rations for the World's Fair.
A Kansas woman began saving dimes
a year aud a half ago, and she broke ber bank
open the other day and counted out S113 70.
The most expensive street car in the
world Is owned by the Scott Electric Railway
Company ot Cleveland. The car cost 110,000.
A soldier at the battle of Wounded
Knee, wno was shot from arm pit to arm pit
through both lungs, is as well to-day as he ever
was.
Two enterprising homesteaders In Colo
rado stole a completely furnished house tho
other day, hauling it 14 miles to laud of their
own.
Tbe Bell telephone patent soon expires
in England. In the United States it runs until
1893. 17 years from the time the patent was
Issued. Jackson, Ga., has a freak in the shape
of a four-footed chicken. The fore feet are
normal, but the hinds are placed for walking
backward.
In a recent fox chase at Albany, Ga.,
Miss Leila Venable. of Atlanta, spent seven
hours continuously in tho saddle, and was in at
tbe death.
In a small river island near Abbeville,
Ga., a party of boy hunters found a regular
army of rabbits. Hundreds of tbe animals
were killed.
Scientists have demonstrated that it is
possible to change every gas into liquid form.
It is simply a question of securing the proper
temperature and pressure.
Mrs. Erastus D. "Williams, of Athens,
Me., bas not spoken aloud for nearly three
years till within two weeks before her hus
band's death, which occurred recently, her
voice came again.
An interesting curio sold at the Bray-ton-Ives
sale was a flawless crystal ball, 657-100
inches in diameter. In Japan such spheres are
objects of worship, and those five Inches in
diameter are exceedingly rare and costly. This
one 13 flawless and sold for $2,800.
The Lummi Indians, located on a reser
vation a few miles from Whatcom, Wash., now
number only about 200. They were once a pow
erful tribe, but have dwindled to their present
number by warfare and disease. They are
peaceful, industrious and religious.
Greenfield, O., is all astir over the visi
tation of a strange apparition in the garb of a
woman dre3sed in black, making its appear
ance about midnight. A number of the young
men of tbo town have attempted to follow it,
bat it seems to vanish in the air when closely
approached.
Captain Steigena, of Holland, Mich.,
has a big company of Dutch boys drilled entire
ly after the tactics of the army in which ne
served that of the Netherlands. It bas se
curod a full equipment of arms from tbe Gov
ernment, and may attend the next encampment
as a separate affair.
The difficulty in the way of thepeasants
in Russia attending mass has been overcome in
those sparsely inhabited tracts of country
which are crossed by a railway by a traveling
church capable of seating 70 persons and per
forming parochial duties at several stations
during the day.
A Teesville, Mo., woman was sitting in
a wagon watching her son cut down a tree. Tbe
tree fell toward tbe wagon, and the boy, called
to bis mother to get ont of the way. Sbo
seemed unable to move. The tree crashed
down just behind tho wagon without touching
Mrs. Trollinger, but sbe fell over, dead.
Iowa owns 5,921.100 hogs; Illinois,
4,944,258; Missouri, 4,586.400; Kansas. 3,144.324;
Nebraska, 2,309,779; Ohio. 2.74L565. and the six
New England States, 342.039. Tennessee has
2.287,059, Kentucky, 2,300,204. The hog-uroduc-Ing
States are in tbe Ohio and Mississippi Val
leys, A Southern genius has made out of a
drygooas box a clock that keeps 13 different
times with perfect accuracy. It shows the
time in Atlanta, San Francisco, Cairo, Egypt;
Shanghai, China; Paris, France; Quebec. Can
ada; Melbourne. Australia; City of Mexico,
Dublin, Ireland; Berlin, Germany, and Rome
in Italy.
It has long been a belief among con
noisseurs in art that Phidias Praxiteles and the
Greek scnlntors did not leave their work in the
pure wbite marble, bnt tbat it was tinted and
colored. To tbis doctrine Edward H. Robinson,
curator of the Greek art department in the
Boston museum ot fine arts, bas long been a
convert, and under his direction a collection
illustrating color in sculpture will be opened. .
A woman once consulted a seer regard
ing a way to retain the affection of ber hus
band, and this was the advice received: "Get a
raw piece of best sirloin steak about half an
inch thick. Rub with a central slice from a
wild onion, salt and pepper. Toast over a
bright coal fire on a gridiron which is bandied
only by yourself, never by your servants; then
pnt a little sweet butter over tbe beef. Give
him halt a pound of this each morning and do
not speak while he eats it."
The latest census. A Swiss scholar has
heed taking a census of the inhabitants of a
cheese. Tbo microscopic examination of one
"gramm" of a fresh Emmenthaler cheese, such
as Is sold in England under the' name of
Gruyere, contained no fewer than 90,000 so
called microbes. This prodigious encampment,
after 70 days, proved to bave increased to a
tribe of 800.000. Another sort of cheese con
tained within a single "gramm" board and
lodging for about 2,0W),0OO microbes, while ic a
"gramm" cnt from the rind ot the same cheese
hnfnnnrlabont 5.OUO.U0O of theso Inhabitants.
A piece of cheese upon our tables, of a few
pounds' weight, may consequently contain
more microbe inhabitants tban there ara
human inhabitants in the whole world.
FACETIOUS TANCIES.
She sped along the icy street,
A-coming out young bud; '."
She slipped, alas '. out flew her feet
There was an awful thud.
The man who helped her to arise
Told me with bated breath.
That the word she used, to his surprise.
Means something after death. puck.
"Some people," said a clever observer
speatlng of an over-sensitive friend the other
day, "leave their reelings lying around for othef
people to step oa."-ioston Traveller.
Turnkey Ennis Did yon search that man
in No. 51?
Sergeant SInkkIng Yes; what's the matter?
Turnkey Ennls-Why. he wants 'to know If
you've uot his false teeth out here. He wants to
eat supper. Cincinnati Enquirer.
The short comings of the English baronet
at baccarat may be due to the fact that Cummlngi
was "short." Sew forft It'orW.
Hardf ace I used to be a regular caller at
the Bellows mansion.
CheeLleiKb-Oh. come off!
Hardface It's a fact. Used to drive a milk
wagon; course I did. Epoch.
Biffles This-is a pretty high wind.
S 1 lffles-I suppose it's due to the JIcKln
Billies' Gun-Bang t
Sniffles' Corp.e Thud ! ,
Coroner's Jury -Justifiable. Hunsey't irw(yi
Judge What do von .In ilnrinc the week?'
Tramp nothing.
And on Sunday?
Then 1 tale a day oft. Texas SiUngt.
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"My daughter can sing in all the Ian-
Knages." ...-rt.3
"So I see. She's doing it now, is she noMJf?
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