THE PITTSBURG- DISPATCH, -"TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1891.
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Ii:CIK 1VANTI.D.
The communication Controller Jlorrow
win to Council-, yesterday, urging the
necessity or getting a jtiriicial ruling or.
Hie si reels before embarking largely on
new improvements is pertinent. While
f i ilUticiiit to we how the Supreme Court
can rule against an act drawn 'with such
wrupulous legard for its opinions, the
Mllosynrrseies of that learned body and
the exitrencies of the municipal buciness
in times past warn us that an attempt
rnould be made to set an early ruling on
' 'aw. J l is not clear thai, works neces
sary for (lie public health should be held
lack until such a decision can be ob
tained: but it v.ill be wise to have that
point fully settled before new work mount
Ina n in the millions is undertaken.
There i al-o another subject on which
Jlippfftirt should Vie even more pressing
lo secure ;m eaily judgment That is on
ihconstitutionniity of the curative act.
The presumption ihat this act will be sus
tained is ioi nearly as strong as in tho
easr of the street act, while both the city
ai large and a great number of property
owners especially should know at the
earliest possible moment how it is to be
1peidcd. in order that they can arrange
flieir affairs sccoidingly. It was an error
from the standpoint of the public conven
ience that the issue was not made tip and
srnt to the Supreme Court on the appoint
ment of viewers under the act If the act
is net sustained the work of the iewcrs
w;l lie a wasted expanse. If it is sns
ta;ned the city and the property holders
ptike would have leen benefited if the
ras" could have been presented to the
Supreme Court at this term.
The street act should be passed upon;
but the curative act should be urged to a
decision that will let all parties know
"(There they stand by next spring at the
latest.
3IU. BLAINE'S KKTCUN.
Mr. Blaine's return to official duty has
been accompanied by a legitimate exten
sion of opportunities to let the public
know through the press that he goes back
fully restored in health, and that he will
bring to his official work all of his old vigor
of both body and mind. The prominence
which the topic of Mr. Blaine's condition
assumed in the public prints earlier in the
3 car was a just measure of his political
importance, and tho assurance of his
complete restoration to health has a double
value now.
In the first place there is evident and
ample work for Mr. Blaine to do in the
Slate Department. Our relations with
Chile have been assiduously muddled
during the past few months, and have
reached a stage within the last week or
two tiiat will require all the Secretary's
adroitness and skill to let the Government
get out without either a backdown or an
aggravation of complications. In view of
Mr. Blaine's broad policy of strengthening
lii' peaceful ties between this conntryand
the South American republics, we have
faith that he will be loth to give that
policy the blow that would be dealt by an
overbearing attitude in asserting ririnci
ples which he himself denied in the New
Orleans case.
Next, though not by any means second
in public intere-.t, the Secretary's return
to public life las an intimate bearing on
the complexion 'of next year's national
contest It is demonstrated that the per
sonal obstacles to his assuming in name as
well as in fact the leadership of the Re
publican parry thei, do not exist as has
been allege'!. If lie should decide to
decline the candidacy that the vast major
ity of the party stand ready to offer him,
he must do so on other grounds than his
health. Ashe represents, in the broadest
nnd widest sense, tiic Republican policy,
iind stands head and shoulders above all
Ins co;crnporariPS in statesmanship, the
availability of such a candidate for the
Republican party is a matter of national
interest It fully justifies the prominence
given to Mr. Blaine's resumption of public
duties.
IMPKOVEMENT OF THE IUYERS.
Portable jetties are proposed by Mr. Grant
Marsh, of St. Louis, 31 o. In a news article
In- describes these as iron or wooden barge,
tint bottomed, pointed nt both ends, decked
and provided witi water tight compart
incuts. For cutting a channel through a
.hallow liar, lie. proposes to sink these in
".wo pursue1 or diverging Hues by admitting
water. And he believes that in the cae of a
!icak in n levee one or more of these barges
sunk outside of the break Mould stop the
uniting and allow the o.cak to bo readily
mended. They can be lifted by pumping
out the water, and used -again. lie is now
applying to the Government for au appro
pnation of $.';00,000 to build sis of these
jiortable jcttie". Tho matter will be dis--a-sedatthe
Waterways Convention to lie
held shortly at Evansvllle. Engineering
-Vnot
3Ir. Marsh h.-s promptly put himself in
line. The Dispatch, in its articles on
river improvement, published last winter,
advocated a substantially timilar ap
paratus, with this structural difference:
that Mr. Marsh proposes open-topped and
tight bottomed structures, to be sunk by
pumping water in, and raised by pumping
it out: while the proposition of the expert
who wrote The Dispatch articles, was a
structure with a tight top and an open
.-ottoni operated by compressed air, which
would expel water from the interior of the
portable caisson-jetty, to float it The dif
lerence in operating method, however, is
immaterial. What is important is tha
spread and general acceptance of sound
and progressive ideas on the important
subject of waterway improvement
The past year has witnessed a greater
display of intelligent interest in the ad
vantages of water transpoitation and
projects to secure the same thanjiad been
exhibited in any 10 years preceding.
WHITEWASH OK JUSTICE1.
The assertions of' some inspired organs
in the State that the case against Mr. Boyer
proved actually nothing against him is
principals important as an indication that
a weak and suicidal policy has been marked
out by the Republican leaders. But the
probability of the policy being carried out
is rendered doubtful by the fact that thero
is still an element in the Republican or
ganization which insists on having a mind
and principles of its own. The Philadel
phia Precs is unable to abjure its control
of itself so far as to refrain from saying:
The management of the S;a-c Treasury
under Mr. Boyer and his pi edcccssoi-s seems
to have been wanting iu that regularity, ob
servance of safeguards, clear understanding
of and close adhesion to the law which ought
to characterize the control of the finances
of a great Mate.
The Press makes haste to say that Mr.
Bo er is not Jesponsible for this. But if a
State Ttcasurer is not responsible for the
improper management of his own office, i
would be very interes'ing to have the men
named who arc responsible for the present
stale of affairs. Beyond that, when the
lack of regularity, the disregard of safe
guards and the neglect of the laws have
been carried to the degree of losing State
money to the tune of millions, it is a per
tinent question what shall be done. If tho
absence of all that should regulate the
conduct of a fiduciary official does not
constitute reasonable cause for removal,
what protection is possible for the public
interests'."
A much more intelligent view of the sit
uation was taken by one of the Republican
Representatives from Philadelphia in a
speech last week. Mr. Riter"s utterances
are reported by IheZajcrasfollows: "He
did not see how it was possible for the men
now under examination before that body
sitting as a grand jury to escape. Their
letters, to his mind, were proof conclusive
of their guilt, and he was confident that
'the Republieau Senate will hew to the
line, let the chips fall where they may.' "
From a merely partisan point of view,
as well as irom the broader motive of
public honesty, this is the proper policy for
the Republicans in the Senate. But will
they take the course so tersely outlined?
Actions speak louder than words.
A RAIN-MAKING COKPOKATION".
The report that Melbourne, the rain
eompeller, has sold his alleged process to
a stock company in Kansas, and that the
corporation is going into the business of
furnishing rain for the Kansas farmers,
may sound like an evidence that Mel
bourne's process is a real thing and not
charlatanry. But one thing is to be re
membered. The rain process is accepted
as a genuine invention in the region whero
the sub-treasury is hailed as the sovereign
cure-all for the ills of the agricultural in
terest A community that indorses tho sub
treasury may be expected to swallow the
rain-making machine. But that does not
promise a smooth future for the moisture
manufacturing corporation. It will have
a monopoly of the rain-making business;
and, perhaps, to prevent too continuous a
strain upon its process, will be likely to
charge large prices for causing the rain to
fall upon the just and unjust among the
Kansas farmers. That will inevitably
produce complaints at the extortion of
the monopoly and provoke invidious
comparisons with the operations of nature
in furnishing rain without money and
without price. The characteristics both
of the corporation and tho Kansans fore
shadow a stormy and unpleasant career
for the former in the near future.
That could be regarded with equanimity
by the rest of the country if the Kansas
precedents did not indicate what will be
asked for the remedy. When it is de
manded that the Government furnish
every township with a rain-making
machine the whole nation will begin to
wish that Melbourne had never been born.
OPENING DP THE KUKAT, "iVAHD.
The benefits from Pittsburg's systems of
rapid transit and low fares are being in
tensely appreciated by residents and prop
erty owners in the suburbs, as at Wilkins
burg, wlicro the advent of electric cars is
hailed with delight this week. The reflex
action will in turn benefit the passenger
railway enterprises. When tho now vacant
acres of the suburban wards are thus
made accessible they will on be built
upon, and every house which goes up will
be good for a revenue to the line nearest it
of from 50 to 6100 per year. The third
beneficiary will be the city, which will
profit both as a corporation and in an in
dustrial sense. The building of houses
upon property now vacant, but made newly
accessible by the passenger railways, will
give a stimulus to the various trades;
while increased valuation for taxable pur
poses should help to lighten the burden of
millage heretofore imposed upon the
older wards.
Certainly cheap and rapid transit has
proved the greatest of boons to Pittsburg
so far. It is no wonder that the Wilkins
burg folk share in the gratification which
is caused by this new order of things
within the confines of the city.
1THEKE ARE THE CREDITORS?
In its partisan inability to be satisfied
with anything done by the administration
of the Treasury Department", the New York
World commits the followingauz pas:
Duiing tho first quarter of the current
fiscal year, which ended October 1, the ex
penditures of tho Government provided for
in appropriation laws should have amounted,
to something like $120,000,000, while tho re
ceipts were actually $OT,0S7,TS0 a deficiency
of about $30,000,000. The actual amount paid
out was SSI 171,733, eo that the Government
is In arrears to Its creditors for tho first
quarter about $36,003,000.
Here is a specific assertion that tho
Government is in arrears to its creditors
to the extent of $30,000,000. Now for the
Government to be in arrears to creditors
several conditions precedent are requisite.
It must first have made a contract by
authority of law under which the cred
itor's claim arises, or by other legal
process, as iu the case of pensioners or
other claimants, the claim must be recog
iueiL Next, in the case of contractors,
the work must be done according to con
tract, and in all cases the claim must be
audited and approved. Now if there aio
such creditors to the total of jG,000,000
whose claims tire established and who are
unable to get the money due them, it
ought not to be difficult to produce a few
of them.
But no such cases are specified. The
fact is that the World makes the assertion
that because the administration has not
spent all the money appropriated by Con
gress therefore it is in arrears to its cred
itors. But this is the merest moonihiue.
There is not the slightest constitutional or
business compulsion on the Executive to
expend all the money appropriated by
Congress; and above all, there is no debt
created by the mere fact of an appropria
tion. On the contrary, there is no better
method of rectifying extravagant appro
priations thau by wisely cutting down ex
penditures under them so as to keep ex
panses within the revenue, or even to
leave a surplus.
There might be room for criticism if the
Executive cut down tho expenditures for
objects which ought to be fully carried
out, and at the same time spent all tho
money provided in the extravagant appro
priations. But the World bases its attack
on the mere fact that the Treasury has
spent 536,000,000 less than appropriations
in a single quarter; which by itself is one
of the strongest possible claims of the
administration on the public gratitude.
TOO TREE PETITION-SIGNING.
Some of the gentlemen whose names on
the York county petition gave weight to
that document are now explaining that
they signed it without any knowledge of
their own concerning the abuses charged,
but on representations made to them by
persons circulating the petitions.
This puts these gentlemen in a rather
unpleasant attitude. The practice of
signing petitions for office without know
ing aivything of the subject matter may bo
a subject for jest; but that of attacking
official character without knowledge of
the proof of the abuses alleged is no,
laughing matter. TnE Dispatch has
maintained that it is the duty of the Sen
ate and the Governor to receive and in
vestigate all charges of official' malfeas
ance; but it is hardly necessary to specify
that such charges must be backed by evi
dence amounting at least to a prima facie
case of misconluct
Pending the production of such evidence
iu the Yoik cases, it might be interesting
to inquire who the parties are who per
suaded the loading citizens to affix: their
signatures to a petition the accuracy of
which they now profess to be ignorant of.
Tnn qnotationman of the esteemed Phila
delphia Record is generally very happv in
his excerpts from the poets. Hut he arouses
cur curiosity when ho compares tho arctic
explorers finding an open sea at tho role to
stout Corl ez. when, with eagle eyes.
He Ftarcdat the Pacific and all his- men
Look'd at cac other with a wild surmise
Silent upon a peak in Darien.
This blank verse irresistibly impels us to
ask our cotemoorary what poet was guilty
of making his verse credit Cortcz with the
discovery of the Pacific Ocean.
Tun Delaware Indians have just received
HW.OO0, or hair the sum due them from the
Government. As tho Indians owned this
eoUntry at one time, and parted with it for
a much less consideration, they aro in a po
sition when receiving these payments to bo
impressed with the rise in real estate.
Tun United States ganger who has to
look alter the distilleries in Connecticut is
one of the persons who perceives the dis
advantages of a year of plenty. Tho apple
crop in Connecticut was so immense that
new distilleries for the production of apple
jack are cropping up every wheic and tho
ganger cannot keep up w itli tho production.
Besides the disaster of overworking a public
lunctionary tbisstato of affairs carries tho
thioatthat the land of steady habits may
corstract very unsteady habits next year.
When rival railroad receivers in Texas
get to trying the issuo with a brick-bat on
ono side and a cane on tho other, stockhold
ers and creditors of bankrupt corporations
will soltly breathe a devout wish that all le
ceivcrships be tried by such prompt aud in
expensive agencies.
THE young woman of Buffalo who tried
to commit suicide because it secjued to be
fashionable furnished a rather extreme
illustration of the tyranny of lemalo lashion.
But when we reflect how many women
shorten their lives by squeezing their in
ternal organs out of shape with corsets, or
by gathering up slush and dampness with
their long skirts, tho Buffalo idea seems to
present only the difference between doing
the thing np promptly and dragging it out
over a long time.
South Dakota trying the Louisiana
Lottery in the United States Courts, indi
cates that tho lottery's one-time scheme for
capturing the Dakotas and forming a new
home for itself in tho great Northwest is
among tho glimmering reminiscences of the
past.
IIalp a dozen men staggering along on
bicycles, so worn out that they had to be
driven to their treadmill tasks by their
trainers, constituted the spectacle during
thu last two days of the six-day bicycle
race in New York. Bnt considerations of
humanity or decency are overslaughed by
the glorious fact that one of tho poor
wretches ground off 1,413 miles in six days.
At this boon to the race let ns acclamato.
Ir the Democratio organs persist in mak
ing John Vanamaker'3 store an issue they
should consult tho talented advertising
agent of that establishment. He will make
it profitable for them as well a3 interesting
to their readers.
Sir. Edwin Arnold is welcomed to this
country by tho AVashington tar on condi
tion that he "avoid yielding himself to the
temptation that has overcome so many of
bis countrymen to 'write us up.' " But as Sir
Edwin has been in this country once before
without yielding to that temptation in any
way tnat can injure the tender American
susceptibilities might ho not be spared this
warning?
Now the Canadian census does not suit,
either. Will some one please devote at
tention to training up census takers for 1900
who can bo relied upon to make a full couut
and suit everyone except tho boom towns;
The energetic Vera Ava who first wished
to kiss 3IujorBundy, of tho Chicago Re'sglo
1'hiloxopJiical Journal, and then slugged hiui
for declining with thanks, produces the
latest illustration of tho fact that "Hell hath
no fury like a w oman scorned."' But if a ro-ligto-philosopher
does not know better than
to decline to bo kissed by a woman of avoir
dupois, what is religio-philosophy good for?
If YDEATr. of lime, vernacularly known
as whitewash, is not protected by tho Alc
Kinlcy bill; but that is no reason why tho
Pennsylvania Senate must use it to exccs3
in the present juncture.
Now the Philadelphia Councils' Commit
tea is complaining at the refusal if tho
Treasury Department to permit the broken
banks to be investigated. Tho mystorions
influences which havo interposed to pre
vent anything from being found out about
that plunder, lorm one ot thp. conundrums
which may return to plague the administra
tion in tho near future.
Tin: vigor that inspires both of the Ohio
candidates is not born of a desire to enjoy
nmeie Governorship. l!ach sees a Presi-ucnt-il
possibility looming up behind a State
victory.
Titat code of refrnlniinni in Wnclnn
t. nivei.iij uuoui muuuujj uieu calling oil
the young women has been abrogated. The
girls would not have it, This is a case where
tho self-government of the students is
mightier than tho faculty. The faculty
should havo known better thafi to abridge
tho social prerogatives of the sweet girl
under-graduate.
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When the McDonald gushers send out
their oil in such quautitj- as to flood tho
liiilwav tracks and ston trains thev nvn
j liable to the charge of pernicious activity.
We gather from that rabid Democratic
organ, the Cleveland Maindcaler, that it is
not pleased with the visit of the Americus
Club to Cleveland last Saturday. This is
.saddening, but Tre can console ourselves
and our cotemporary with Touchstone's re
tort, that there was no thought of pleasing
it when the clftb started on its trip.
SXAP SHOTS I.V SEASON.
LOVE leads women to the altar and men
to the halter.
One of the New York campaign issues is
a coat-of-arms, but the main issue in Penn
sylvania is a coat of whitewash.
Of course the solid man must have the
rocks.
Women are prettier than they used to be,
and necessarily come higher.
Next week the packet Politics
Up old Salt Kiver '11 go.
And leave behind some lnnatic3
To shout "Hold you so."
Some of the live issues of the present
State campaign aro in jail and some are out
of sight.
The crcmationist can rest assured that
after ho earns a living his ashes will bo
ii rued.
TnE dumb waiter never expects a tip.
The Gulf Stream is the only one that
has not figured in tho iJiver and Harbor
bill.
.If there were no kickers in the world the
slates of the schemers would never bo
smashed.
The breath of nature is offensive in the
vicinity of a soap factory.
WnEN women go into business silent
partnerships will have to be abolished.
Dress according to your means even if
you have to dress mean.
No more the sharp-billed 'skeeters sing
Around tho dreamer's bed;
In some snug spot, with folded wing,
They gloat o'er those they bled.
Now lookout for roorbaelis, smoothbores,
fresh campaign lies, bluff bets, straw votes
and other Incidents connected with the
close of a campaign in this laud of pros
perity and politics.
SnARP weather frequently causes dull
days.
JUDfJlNC from the antics of the amuse
ment folk on earth there will be a dearth of
amusements in heaven.
TALK OP THE TIMES.
The price of a crust of bread is beyond the
reach of suffering thousands in Germany
and Russia. What calamity howler dare
compare this country with those. Kansas
City Times. And 3-ct the Times is an expo-,
nentof free trade doctrines.
"Calico Charley" has a brass conscience
and a copper plated-mouth. This is tho
equipment required for Republican states
men who make JIcKinloy speeches in tho
agricultural States this year. SI. Lams Re
public. He will have to borrow them, then,
irom tho other side. They have a corner in
these kind of equipments.
The Farmers' Alliance has adopted tho
plan of excluding all newspaper reporters
from its meetings. That means death to
any organization of a political nature
Toledo Commercial. The Alliance has not
?iven many signs of political life yet, and
lie accounts ot its proceeding won't be
missed by the public.
Somebody has stolen the manuscript of
ono of Candidate Flower's speeches, but tho
base thief piobably will not have the cour
age to stand and deliver it. Bmton Herald.
He probably discovered an idea in it, and is
holding it for a ransom.
"Newspapers aro the nation's best safe
guards, but I can't find a paper that gives
me all the news." Governor Iffil. Terhaps
he was hunting foran acconntof his indorse
ment in one of tho Fasgett papers.
Unlike most vegetables tho tin plate plant
will leavo in November. Chicago Times.
This isamistake. It has already blossomed,
and tho fruit will bo gathered on Novem
ber 3.
Thero is no manner of doubt that there
has been a distinct improvement in the
Democratic outlook In Ohio during the past
week, or thatMcKinleyi9mns a consequence
lias retrograded. Detroit Pree Pras. The
Free Prcs must havo been reading last
year's almanac and got the signs mixed.
"McKinloyism" never was so far in tho lead
as it is at present.
Senator Sherman says tho McKinley tariff
bill is a beneficent piece of legislation.
Yes, it is for tho manufacturing syndicates.
Omaha World-Herald. Why don't the
Vi'orid-Herald continue the list, including all
industries-, the laborer aud farmer ana tho
whole country?
PERSONALLY PERTINENT.
James Gordon jjesxett of tho Now York
Herald returned from one of his periodical
trips to Europe yesterday. .
Rev. Mn.Srnr.QEox has so far recovered from
his illness as to be abl,e to bravo the Chan
nel seas. Ho has gone to Calais.
Usited St vtes Treasurer Nebeker has re
turned to Washington to looic after tho
country's coin. He has been in Indiana.
Husky Villaud the famous railroad man
was once a reporter. Ho was not a favorite
aud threw up his job to become a million
aire. RnDYAHDKirLc has gone to the aborgi
nees for material lor new tales. He is now
in South Africa and is going to New Zea
land. Mayor Willis Holly, of Albany, is said to
resemble Mayor Grant, of New Yoik, so
closely that it is difficult sometimes to know
just which is who.
Mas. Pottee Palmer is preparing to drive
the last nail in the woman's building at tho
World Fair. It is made of gold, silver and
copper and the hole where it is to go will be
carefully prepared in advance.
Timothy HorKixs don't seem to be cast
dow 11 by his ill luck in getting hold or bis
adopted mother's monoy. Ho spent Sunday
iu Lawrence, Mass., ana it is rumored that
he and Mr. Searles will have a conference
this week.
The beautiful Archduchess Margarito
Sophia, the Saint, as she is called, of tho
House of Austria, is seriously ill with ty
phoid lever. She was bom in 1S70, and
elected, a few years ago, abbess of a female
community 01 noble ladies.
It Has Serted AH Purposes.
Cincinnati Times-Star.
A great "point" urged by Governor Camp
bell, Mr. Mills, and the Democratic pros, 111
their attacks on the new tariff, is that wages
have not been raised. They say the advo
cates of the McKinley bill promised that
labor should have higher nay nil round.
Nobody promised anything of the sort. Tho
bill was designed to prevent the reduction
of wages, to preserve tho homo market lor
tho fanner, to enlarge tiie foreign maiket,
to still lurthor dlveiaify industry in the
United States, and thus widen the field of
employment; and ono other great object was
to reduce the revenue. It has obviously
served all of these purposes; and, moreover,
it is found that the cost of commodities is
lower now than ever befoie. The aim and
dffect of this law afford u useful lesson in
political economy. Democratic criticism or
the new tariff affords a lesson in political
hebetudinosity.
Apt to 'Slake Cleveland Tired.
St. EouUUlobe-Dcmocrat.3
Governor Hill's ostentatious declaration
that his nomination for tho Presidency de
pends on the victory of his ticket this year
is not calculated to make Mr. Cleveland
very enthusiastic iu favor of the ticket.
THE SOCIAL SWIRL.
Things to Read Over tho Morning Coffee
Tlio Woman's Club lecture aud Recep
tion Club's Bidding lor Debutantes
Crisp Review of tlio Day.
A series of brilliant receptions will bo
given this season by the Drill Corps of
Pittsburg Commandery No. 1, Knights Tem
plar. Tho first will be given at Turner Hall,
Forbes stieet, on Friday evening next. It
promises in every wav to surpass any pre
vious effort or the corps since its first recep
tion eight years ago. Tho demand for cards
for the present affair lias been so great that
tho committee of urrangeraents lia3 bem
compelled to increase thelimit and alter its
piogramme. With all this, the maximum
will probably bo reached, and although tlio
ruling spirit is a dIro to accommodate as
many of the fraternity as possible many will
be disappointed. Owing to the number of
guests certain to bo there the programme has
been changed to drop tho drill that was to
have preceded tho dancing, ns thero will not
bo room sufficient to handle the knights.
This drill will be given at ono of the follow
ing receptions.
The Drill Corps of No. 1 Commandery has
gained a reputation as wido as the country
lor happily entertaining their guests, and an
evening spent with tlieni means a season of
pleasure. Tlio only fault that can ho found
with them is that they do not entertain with
enough frequency. "Three more entertain
ments will follow this Friday. The dites
fixed are November 27, Jjtnuarj-23and Feb
ruary 2G Tlio committee in charge consists
of Sirs Eli Kdraiindson, Jos. G. 3Ionis. E.
Shallenbergei, Herman Junker aud F. J.
Shidle.
The Woman's Club was in extra session
yesterday, due to tho expected visit of Mrs.
Charlotte Emerson Brown. Mrs. Brown,
who, they say, is a very beautiful woman,
will lecture on Wednesday evening in Car
negie Hall on "Club Confederation." Sho
arrives here on Tuesday evening, when
either an hotel or privnte house will bo
offered for her accommodation. Mrs. Wade,
the President, has pi offered the hospitality
of her charming house in Wilkiusuursr, and
Mrs. Taylor, tho Yico President, is also
good-naturedly combating to entertain
tliolectuier. Other plans lor Mrs. Brown's
entertainment during her necessariiv short
stay were suggested. Mrs. Wadp ami Mr'.
Taylor will drive her through the city on
Wednesdav morning. From 4 to 5 a recop
tion wlil be held at tlio Seventh Avenue
Hotel, and after that there will be a dinner.
Tlio same evening tho lectmo will bo held.
Polite circles in the city are interested in
Sirs. Brown, for in pdditlon to being a
chii-ming and cult' vatcd woman, she is the
niece of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
The indications are for a close contest
between the Duqucsue and Pittsburg Clubs
about the coming-out balls of the season.
It is promised that tho Pittshurg Club, now
under repairs, when completed will be very
handsome.
Social Chatter.
TnE tenth anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. M.
Himmelrich's wedding "was pleasantly spent
bv them last night with a number of their
friends. Remembrances in the form of hand
soma presents had been leceived early in
tho day, and in the evening tho giers of
them arrived with their congratulations.
The gicatcrpart of the time was spent in
listening to musical selections. The guests
present wore: Mrs. Hauli, Mr. and Mrs. II.
Schloss, Mr. and Mrs. M. Rosenbaum, Mr.
and Mrs. S. L. Fleishman, Mr. J. D. Bernd,
Mr. and Mrs. B. May, Mr. and Mrs. S. Rocdel
lipim, Mr. nnd Mrs. M. Bouu, Mr. and Mrs.
Josiah Cohen, Mr. and Mrs. S. A fielder, Mr.
nnd Mrs. B. Fost, Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Aarons,
A. I.ippmau, Captain S. Phillips, Rev. Dr.
Mayer, Mrs. S. Benswauger, Mr. and Mrs.
M. Kaufman, Mr. and Mrs. S. Ring, M. II.
Hecht, Mr. and Mrs. II. Ceri", Mr. and Mrs.
S. Kleinordlinger, Mr. and Mrs. Philip Ham
burger, Jacob Himmelricii, Mr. and Mrs. S.
Strauslmrger, Mrs. Joseph Morganstern, of
New York, Mrs. Morris Morganstern, Mr.
and Mrs. J. Kaufman, Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Reuben. Mr. and Mrs. M. Lehman, Mr. aud
Mrs. Falk.
Mr. im 31ns. Edmhsd Moor.EwooD Fehou
sox and family aie homo fiom Fisher's
Island, where they spent they summer. It
will he remembeied that Mrs. Ferguson en
tertained tho Admiral and the officers of the
White Squadron whilo thov were anchored
off the island. With New Y'ork hotel
keepers in love with Pittsburg guests and
New Yorkers charmed by Pittsburg hos
tesses, it is no wonder that this is a very
popular city. Thev still talk on board the
fleet of thp pleasant days with the rergusou
tntnily, and the brilliant ball given by Mrs.
Ferguson and several other ladles. Mr. and
Mrs. Ferguson, us usual, will return to
Fisher's Island to spend the month of
November.
Max O'Rell is to bo given a reception this
year when he comes to Pittsburg. This
clever man made many friends during the
few hours he spent in the city when he lec
tured here a couple of years ago. The
promised reception is the outgrowth of a
friendship begun at that time. Another
secret of O'Rell's popularity, besides w hat
is caused by his witty conversational
powers, is tho open house he keeps in Lon
don for American visitors. He and his w ife
have mado the big city a much more con
genial place for our people than it other
wise could have been. They became much
attached to Miss Elizabeth Bisland now
Mrs. Wetmore upon meeting with her just
after her ictnrn from the trip of tho world.
Invitatioxs have reached this city for tlio
wedding next week of Mrs. J. S. MacConnell
and George S. Young, of Parnassus. Mrs.
MacConnell, as the wile of the lato Rev. J. S.
MacConnell, pastor of the Lawrenceville
Piesbyterian Church, has a wide circle of
friends in Pittsburg, who will welcome her
return from the East. Tho briuo-to-bc, who
is a rcallv beautiful woman, is a niece of the
Rev. Dr. Scovcl, the predecessor of Dr. Pur
vis at the First Presbyterian Church, and
cousin of Charles W. Scovel, the musical lit
erarian. Ax'other meoting was hold yesterday aft
ernoon of tlioso interested in the oung
Woman's Christian Association. No busi
ness or importance was transacted, but, in
stead, tho ladies listened to a lecture, or ad
dress rather, by Miss Tarr. The lady out
lined tho spheio in which the association,
upon its formation, would woik and some
thing of the influence it would wield. Tho
parlor of tho Seventh Avenue Hotel, where
tho meeting was held, was filled with ladies.
Mis3 Tare's discourse was considered most
instructive and encouraging.
Miss Blaxciie Wektueimkr was givon a
vcrypiotty coming-out ball by her mother
and father, at tho Monongahela House last
night. Those in attendandance were mostlv
or the Concordia Club set, who turned out iii
compliment to a popular young lady. 31iss
Westhcimer is a pretty girl, who has gath
ered about her already a train of admiiing
friends. The dance, for which Toerges Or
chestra played, took place in the hotel as
sembly room, the supper being served after
ward in the oruinar3'.
TnK Tuesday Night Club expects to in
cieasoits membership this season. It has
hitherto been hampered a good bit by a
large non-acting contingent, perfectly
pleased to allow others to do the work for
it. As tlio clnb only permits a certain num
berof members, it is likely that some of tho
less useful will drop but to make room for
those by a plentiful winter or debutantes.
The business of tho club is prospering, but
the amusement committee as yet have done
nothing.
The indications aro for a close contest be
tween tho Duquesne and Pittsburg Clubs
about the coming-out balls of the season.
It is promised that tho Pittsburg Club, now
under repairs, when completed will bo very
bandsome.. As both cities have a strong
feminine contingent, the preterence possi
bly will be in favor of the club which pro
vides a dining room for ladies. It remains
to be seen which will bo oftenest the scene
of "a rosebud garden of girls."
SnADYsiDEPnESBTThniAi- Ciiurch will again
bo tile seeue of an interesting wedding,wnen
Miss Dilwoith is married next month to Mr.
Cliilds. Mis Dilworth, to borrow from
Burns, has "learned bon-tou and seen tho
world," for she spent n year or more in
Europe about 12 months ago. She was an
enthusiastic traveler, and when at Rome
omitted no sight nor ceremonial of the Holy
City.
Conveyances displaying a good bit of ele
gance arc being set up iu the East End, as
thediiect result of good streets and our
magnificent Sehenley Park. Among the
handsomest is a landau bclougi-.ig to
Henrv Kirk Porter, in which Mrs. Poiter
and Miss liegeman may b seen any of these
fair daj s driving along Fifth uvenac.
Mr.". I). A. sTEWAivr, of Ridgo avenue, who
has been all summer at Conncnut Lake,
eomes home with hor lainily on Thursday.
It is not likely that Mrs. Stewart can carry
her Lares nun Penates to her new house for
another six months, as things aro not pro
gressing with the celerity o: greased light
niug. Invitations have been issued for the wed
ding of Miss Melissa McKee and William
Erwin Curnahan, to be celebrated at tho
house 01 tlio bride's mother, Mrs. Melissa
McKee, on Friday evening, November 10, at
j o'clock. At homes will ho held after tho
honeymoon.
Tuesk will bo a special service this even
inc in -t. Andrews Church, Ninth street, at
8 o'clock, in the interest ot" the Brother
or St. Andrew's. Rev. II. L. Duhring, ol the
Philadelphia City Mission, and Henry A.
Sill, of New York City, will speak.
Mrs. Samuel Linn, widow of the late Judge
Linn, will spend the winter with her son-in-
law. Charles W. Fleming, and his wife. I
A CHEEBFuT. OUTLOOK.
The Effect of tlie McKinley Tariff Upon the
Ohio Situation.
Cincinnati Times-Star.
Ohio is prosperous. Agriculture has been
unusually profitable this year and the neces
sary exneuses of the farmer have been evea
less than they woro at anytime in tho past.
In the great manufacturing industries there
Is universalactivity. They employ an army of
people and wages to-day aro as good as wero
ever paid before. The same thing may be
said of the less important branches or in
dustrv, so that tho general condition is the
opposite or gloomy. Tho cities and towns,
large and small, of Ohio are filled with the
music or spindle, forge und hammer; every
where the factories uro busy and many of
thorn hao orders lor weeks and months
nheail.
Whilo tho established industries are thriv
ing, new branches of inanutacture have
sprung up since the McKinley law went into
effect. There are at least half 11 dozen towns
in this State to which that law has given a
decided impetus by opening manufac
tories, calling into existence other enter
prises or great benefit to the public, giv
ing employment to labor and putting
money into circulation. All classes in the
State are thereby benefited, the merchant as
directly as the workingman for Ills trade is
increased, and the farmer as directly as tho
merchant, inasmuch as he has an improved
home market. Tho present situation In
Ohio is therefore cheerful aud the outlook
bright.
GERMAN IMMIGEAHT3.
They Are a Desirable Class for the Good
of the Country.
Philadelphia Press.
Germans mako excellent immigrants in
this country, in tho English colonies to
which they go, and in parts of Sonth Amer
ica; but German officials seem utterly un
able to govern savage races. German influ
ence might havo been established in Samoa
if tho truculenceofa German Consul had not
brought on an outbreak. In tho German
colony In Southwest Africa one German ex
pedition has been cut off, another defeated,
and the cost or suppressing insurrection has
made the colony at Angua Pequcna so ex
pensive that it will probably be abandoned.
The East African German colony has twice
been in revolt and is now for a third time in
a blaze from the lakes to the ocean. Ger
man officers are painstaking they learn
their work thoroughly in colonial adminis
tration, they rapidly torn tho natives into a
lairly drilled soldiery: but they seem utterly
unable with a small 'force to maintain tho
ascendancy over large savage tribes and
their chiefs, which English officers do in
all parts of the world ifnd which our own
army officers do in dealing with the Indian.
Recognition of Women.
Wives and Daughters.
Tho World's Fair project is interesting
women the world over. Tho women of
England, Germany and Mexico are manifest
ing a desire to a nil themselves of thLs op
portunity to display woman's work in all
departments. The various States differ
largely in their preparations. In Illinois
there are eight women members of tho State
Commission. and a special appropriation of
$8,100. or 10 per cent or the entire amount
appiopriatcd by the State, has been placed
at the absolute disposal ot the women com
missioners. Colorado has also given a .special place to
women in the State Commission; two wo
men have been appointed to canvass the
State with a view to interesting tho womon
in the project, and one woman has been del
gated to collect the flora or the State. In
Massachusetts three of the five commission
ers :ue women. Rhode Island hus appointed
lour women in tho State Commission of 16
membeis, and a woman has been elected
Treasurer anil Secretrry. A very fine show
ing of the silk industry, in which women
are largely engaged, is expected from Penn
sylvania, Georgia and California.
Wonderful Social Organization.
N. Y. VolUzcitung.
Ours is certainly a wonderful social organ
ization! The present favorable grain quota
tions have influenced the farmers to send all
their crop to market. They will absolutely
fatten no more cattle; they find it more prof
itable to convert their corn directly into
money. At first glance it is difficult to grasp
tho whole horror or the situation, but what
else can it mean than that the farmers would
rather seo their cattle starve than teed them
at a loss? The position is logical, bnt It is
no less brutal. "A bird in the hand is worth
too in tho bush," nnd they resolvo to make
sure or a good price for their corn rather
than feed their cattle in the empty hope
that beef will advance proportionately in
price. But what shall wo say of an economic
system that yields sunh rcnlts of a system
in which everyore soeks only his own imme
diate advantage ii utter indifference to the
effect upon the general well being?
A Greeting to Mr. Blaine.
Brooklyn Eajjle.
Mr. Blaine is well again. His restoration
to health will be hailed with gratification by
his countrymen. During the trving ordeal
through which ho has passed his condition
aroused tho interest and awakened the
sympathy of his fellow citizens Irrespective
of party. Regret for his Illness was uni
versal. The desire for his recovery was sin
cere und unreserved. Wherever his name
was mentioned his condition became at
onco the uttermost topic. Of tho concern
which his indisposition piovoked und tho
kindly expressions that it everywhere
elicited, Mr. Blaine has reason to feel proud.
Theio uro few Americans to whom In like
emergency, would be tenderoi such a noblo
tribute of com Tort and consolation. Upon
none could it be moie graciously bestowed.
Proud of the History.
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
Ex-Speaker Reed, who is enlivening tho
Onio campaign with his appearance on the
stump here, said in a recent speech in Bos
ton: "If any man will take the picture or the
United States of America as it stood in I860,
trembling upon the brinkof destrnction.and
compare it with tho magnificent nation
which to-day confronts the world, ho will
seo n picture of Republican rule that I am
proud to have become a part of the history
or the world."
Ho Is Not an Average Man.
Chicago Trlbime.l
An exchange says: "A man whose entire
lile has been n constant combat for tho pos
session of wealth might naturally bo ex
pected to cling to what he has gained; Jay
Gould for instance." That is the cruelest
cut of all. Tho idea of calling Jay Gould an
average man, when the truth is the country
maybe congratulated upon the fact that
there are very few like him!
Tlio Benevolence orDespots.
St. Louis Republic
The Czar is giving away his private for
tune to his starving subjects. If ho would
set them free they w ould not need his private
fortune. The benevolence of despots is a
part of the curse of their tyranny.
CUERENT WESTEEH C0HMEKT.
If the alliance co-operativo plnn is carried
out it w ill develop into one of the most pow
erful trusts In the country. Kansas City
Tinus.
Lord Salisbcey has called for a report on
the defenses of Canada. Just now it is the
offenses of Canada that have the call. De
troit Tribune.
A EEDrcTioN of granulated sugar to 4 cents
a pound is reported from Philadelphia. An
other of the direful effects of the McKinley
bill. Colorado Sun.
It will bo noticed that Governor mil
dodged Ohio, but took In old Virgiula. Is
there any menace to Democracy iu the Old
Dominion? or down in Georgia? Chicago
Inter Ocean.
The fact that Governor Hill bad twobroth
ersin tlio Confedeiate Army will do more
for him In the South than all tho gpcuches
that lie can make from now until the meet
ing of the noxt Democratic National Con
vention. St XoHi'j Globe-Democrat.
The Czar has given 3,000,003 roubles out of
his own private purse to the famine fund.
As this money came from tho people and was
part of a lund ra'scd to maintain him nnd
I113 court in idleness, the act does not argue
a superior goodness. Restitution is not par
ticularly meritorious. St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The Anaconda Standard, in an article
headed "Which is the Liar?" questions the
statements that the Temescal tin mines aro
turning out block tin. We venture'to answer
tho Standard's conundrum by saying that
whoever say3 that tho Temescal mines are
not turning out block tin in considerable
quantity is tho liar. San Francisco Journal.
CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS.
Missouri has 800,000 German people.
Hartford, Md., rejoices in a pig with
seven legs.
Strawberry plants bear fruit the vear
round in California.
The Pacific coast has never had a case of
sunstroke nor mad dog.
The tides on the coast of Maine were ex
traordinarily high last week.
The postal card factory at Shelton,
Conn., turns out 2,500,003 cards a day.
3Iore gold has been obtained from
Spanish America than any other part of the
world.
Children under the age of ten wear no
clothes In the West Indies and on the Span
isli Main.
It has been calculated that a bee must
suck 218,760 flowers for every ounce of honey
gathered.
Lopez Island, off the Washington coast,
is n rendezvous for opium and Chinese
smugglers.
Kansas ladies nowadays, when they
want to go to the theater, have to advertise
for oscorts-
Readfield, Me., has an car of corn
shaped exactly like a hand, with a thumb
and four fingers.
The ladies of "Venezuela use fire-fliei
for decorating their hair at night. They are
fastened with silk thread.
In Germany the men as well as the
women wear marriage rinss. Should either
die the survivor wears both.
An Emmet, Mich., county farmer
counted over 2,009 grains of buckwheat on a
single stalk in his field. It is one ol the
Japanese variety.
The average French family embraces
three members and the average Irish family
five. In England tho average number of
members of a family is four.
A block of pure asphaltum, weighing
2J J tons, was recently taken from tho as
phaltum mine near Santa Barbara. It is be
lieved to be the largest pieco of asphaltum
ever mined in one block.
A few days ago Mrs. Ereeman Crosby,
of Valparaiso, Ind., entertained a party of
twenty ladies, whose combined agos
amounted to 1578 years. The average ago
was afraction over'78 years.
The recent invention at Arbon, Switzer
land, of a new steam machine for making
embroideries threatens to revolutionize the
most Important manufacturing interests or
tho Swiss Republic. Eaxer-sSwitzerland.
with St. Gall as a centp, ror ICS jeara has
been headquarters c-fthe embroidery indus
try of tte world.
It is a singular fact that in the borrow
ing of Western or Frankish clothing an Ori
ental invariably begins w ith the shoes. The
transformation of an Eastern to a Western
Is ever from the feet up, and his headgear
the lost that ho parts with. On the other
band, tho headscar is the first part of the
Oriental that Westerners are tempted to
adopt.
The celebrated Walker twin steers were
raised in Jasper county, Mo. These cattle
were registered at the Chicago Exchange ns
the largest in the world. The railroad com
pany which hauled them to Chicago had
them insured for $10,000. They are 6 years
or age, 12 reet 6 inches long, II feet around,
the chest, and their aggregate weight Is
8,010 pounds. Ono is called Benjamin Harri
son and the other Grover Cleveland.
In the beginning of 1890 the total num
ber of the world's locomotives amounted to
103,000, representing from 5,50O,CO0 to 7,CC0,caj
horsepower. Taking the figures as K,000,000
only, this gives the total horse power of the
whole of the steam encrir.es and locomotives
on the earth as 49,000,000. The horse power
of a steam engino may be estimated as
equivalent to the power ot three horses, and
the power of a horse as equivalent to that
of seven men.
Very little pare wheat bread is eaten by
the middle and lower classes In Germany.
Tho "staff of life" to a vast part of tho Ger
man people is black bread, made with flour
ground from a mixture of ryeand an inferior
quality of wheat. Tho consumption of this
material is so enormous that German v Im
ported 8.612.5CO0 metre centners in 18U0, or
917,375 tonscfrye.of which 7,500,000 metre
centners, or 85 per eent of the entire import,
as well as 55 per cent, of the whole import of
wheat into this country, came from, Russia.
Here is the programme of an entertain
ment given by Passamaquoddy Indians a
few days ago:
War Whoop and Descriptive Talk by the
Chief.
War Dance by full Company.
War Song, by Chief and two Squaws.
Snake Dance, by the Company.
Clog Dance, by a young Indian.
Mohawk War Dance, by the Company.
Micmac War Dance, by four Indians.
Quickstep by tho Band.
More Maine hermits are coming to
light. John llallon, at Key's Corner, in
Whitcfield, is a recluse living in a little un
pretentious house through the roof of which
he can see the stars twinkle. He cooks I1I3
food, makes his own bed and does his own
work, at 70 years of ago. He almost always
wears a paper collar bpsidds a few other
items of clothing. His stock consists of one
horse. His neighbors pay he believes in
witches ana goes out upon the ledges and
watches the cracks to shoot the hobgoblins
if they come forth.
Over 200 years ago the Spaniards intro
duced the peach treo into Texas, and seed
lings wero raised from these continually un
til a race has been produced which appears
to be entirely free from all diseases which
seem to be connected with trees raised in
other sections. Seedlings Irom these old
Spanish peaches raise plants which, side by
side with tho othera, last a numqer of years,
frco Irom all disease, while those introduced
from tho North are short lived and soon dis
appear. There is no doubt, from these facts,
that whole races may become enervated from
some peculiarity in the method of cultiva
tion, or from conditions of climate.
The largest beekeeper in the world is
Mr. Harbison, of California, who has 6.000
hives producing 200,000 pounds of honey
yearly. In Greece there are 30,000 hives
producing 3,000 0U0 pounds of honey; in Den
mark, 80,000 prodncing 2,000 000; in Russia,
110,000 producing the same; in Belginm, 200.
000 producing 5,000 000 pounds; in Holland,
240,000 producing 0,000,000 pounds; in France,
950,000 producing 23,000 000 pounds; In Ger
many, l,4."i0 000. and in Austria, 1,550,000, each
producing 40 OOO.COOpounds of honey. But In
the United Statps thero are 2,800,000 hives be
longing to 70,000 beekeepers and producing
62,000,000 pounds of honey yearly.
SEVERAL LITTLK SMILES.
"Why don't you go to work instead of
leading the life of a tramp? Are youIaz)?"she
asked.
Madam, If yon had ever been a tramp," he
replied, "you wouldn't ask that question. There
is no harder work In the world than tramping, and,
what's worse, there's nomoney In It." Judge.
She No, I will not marry you.
nc (bitterly) Thank you. I have done every
thing I could to please you. (Very bitterly. la
there anything I can i!o for yoa before I leave you
forever.
She Oh, if you really feel under oblljrations to
me you may .mention the fact that I have declined
you to your friends. It will save me heaps of
trouble. llrooklyn Euole.
I love the crisp, cool autumn days,
They Ml my soul with glee.
For then In peace I go my ways
With not a fly on nie.-.V. T. Herald.
Hellow Some people have very queer
taster.
Bellow For example?
Hellow I beam a man talking over the tele
phone this morning. He asked for Jersey City.
Pucli.
"I tell you," said the enthusiastic young
athlete. 'that young Elfkuis was the, Moses of oar
footbaU eleven."
It.ee, "she said. Interestedly, "and yon alscov
eredhim in the 'rashes, didn't you?" San lYan
ciico Jrsonaut.
The heap who quailed before his girl,
The subject or her will.
Docs take his gun when frosts appear. '
And go a quailing still. Coloirtdi) bun.'
Jack By Jove! You're in luck, old fel
low. Jim-How?
Jack Why, yonr girl Is oermltted to- go out with
yoa without a cliaperone.
Jim nuinph! She is a Boston girl; she doesn't
need one. -v. T. Press.
For torrid tipples now jve call, "
Anil piss the schooner by:
And dodders now upon the wall
The sorry, senile By. Puck.
"You'll be a man like one of us some -
day " said a patronizing eportsman to a .lad who
5s throwing his line Intd the same stream."
"Yes. sir." he answered, "I a'poseTwUlsome
day, bnt I b'lleve I'd rather stay (mall : and ketch
a few ash." mtsMnstm SUr. ""
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