THE' PITTSBURG" DISPATCH, FRIDAY," ' OCTOBER; 30, :1891. tHje Bi&mfrg. ESTABLISHED FEBRUARY ISIS. Vol. 46. Xo.tS5. Tntered atrittsbnrgFostofflce, November 1SS. as second-class mutter. Business Office Corner Smjthfield and Diamond Streets. News Rooms and Publishing House 78 and 80 Diamond Street, in New Dispatch Building. KATFRV ADTEUTISINO OFFICE. ROOM SI, TRIBUNE BUILDING. NEW YORK, where com plete fllea of THE DISPATCHcanalwaTs be found. Foreign drertl-r appreciate the convenience. Home advertisers and friends of THE DISPATCH, hl!e In New York, are also made welcome. 77777 BISPA TVItis rt-mhrl on ncZe at Brtntma't, B UnMi Square, beta Fork, and 17 Ave de ftowm, runs. France, where anyonf who has been disap pointed at a hotel news stand can obtain it. TERMS Or THE DISPATCH. rO'TAGE TRET. IN TBB UXITED STATES. Paili'DiFPATCH. One Tear t . 00 Daily DisFATcn. Per Quarter. 2 00 I) uly Dispatch. One Month TO Dolt Disr itch, lrcluding Sunday, 1 year.. 10 00 I) tlLV Disr TCH, lucludmgSundar, 3 m'ths. S 30 D ilt Dispatch, Including Sunday, 1 m'tu.. 90 Scvda DisrATCH, One Year. 5 50 Weekly Dispatch, One Tear. 1 25 Tilt D kilt Disr-ATTH Is dellTered by carriers at 35 cents Tier week, or, including Sunday Edition, at 20 cents ir "week. PITTSBURG, FRIDAY, OCT. SO, 1SD1. TWELVE PAGES TAKEN TO THE LIBEL COURT. The turn taken liy Senator Quay yester laj in ordering suits for conspiracy and libel againt Chairman Kerr and some of tiie newspapers which charged him with being a sharer in Bardsley's illecal spoils adds a -vast deal of interest to what at first promised In prove a tame and uneventful campaign in this State. If the Senator rops upon the sfand and supports his ex planation, already jiien m these columns, thpt the B.irdslej transaction was merely the discounting of a note, afterwards paid, for campaign purposes, .ind further testi fies, as he sas he is readj to do, that he neerhad een a personal acquaintance with B.irdsle, he will easily secure a per sonal indication from this charge. I!ut. as stated j esterday, no matter how completely Senator Quay can clear him self personally, the other fact will remain that the transaction shows theparty man agers used Bardsley for party purposes in financiering ata time when he was receiv ing illegal favors from Boyer and McCam" ant. then representatives in office at Har risburg. Had Chairman Kerr confined himself to this admitted and pertinent fact he would have accomplished as much in the way of influencing otes as by trying to fasten on Quay personally a serious charge-which the accused party appears to be eager and quick enough to rebut in libel proceedings. It is not probable that the defendants in the threatened suits need apprehend, as a result of them, any protracted suspension of their liberties or deprivation of their shaie of this world's goods. The most serious result will be if in going much too Jar in their accusations against Senator Quay as an individual they liae given that astute politician a chance to occupy public attention for ihe balance of the week with the grievance against himself and thus divert notice from the State officials who occupy a very much worse position. "Whether this orjersonal vindi-" cation is the mothe of the suits will have to be shown by the continued prosecution or the dropping of them after the election. IJAriD MEDICAL ADVANCEMENT. Medical science has rapidly advanced within the past few years. It is only a short time since that hydrophobia was considered to be incurable, and now it is demonstrated that it can be successfully treated. Dr. Paul Gibier, Director of the Xew York Pasteur Institute, in his first annual report claims that out of 25j cases treated onlj one patient died. When it is considered that 70 of these cases were of pel-sons bitten by dogs known to have been mad, and that they applied for treat ment during the first half j ear of the ex istence of the institute, the success of the tieatment seems phenomenal. It is such results as those claimed by Dr. Gibiei that lead to the belief that at no far future date all ills to which the human frame is subject will be under complete subjugation. Experiments in all directions are being constantly carried on, and every day new light is obtained. It is to be expected that there will be some failures, as in the case of the Koch Ijmph, but the results obtained by the Pasteur inoculation for hjdrophobia. and the Keeley bi-chloride-of-gold cure ior the liquor appetite, give us the assurance of a final triumph over even the most obstinate of diseases. PIUCTICALITr OR THEOBT. Considerations of sentiment or theory should not enter into a decision between the policies of protection and free trade. As the Chicago Journalof Commerce says: "1 he question must be determined in the light of experience, facts, and the appli cation of these in accordance with the dic tates of plain business sense." On the one side theorists insist upon taking every economic proposition into cloudland, and on the other the good business man finds no mystery in its make up only the plain fact of cost and condition enters into his alculations. The plain business man finds there is an abundance of natural re sources in the United States, and the question with him is: Shall these remain untouched and undeveloped while millions of stalwart men are waiting to carve out personal fortunes, at the same time adding to the wealth of thenation? The theorists claim that the way to make a people rich is to let them buy in, the cheapest mar kets. There their philosophy and theory begins and ends. The practical man of business knows, however, that foreign products will not be imported unless buyers are ready to take them at a price that will give the importer a profit Experience has demonstrated to him that the only way in which a people can become purchasers is to furnish them with work and wages sufficient to give them more than a competency for food. He also has learned that when men have undertaken to utilize domestic resources combinations of interested foreigners have dropped down the prices of desired prod ucts, and kept them down until all efforts 1 at domestic competition had been starved out The business man, knowing these facts, announces his willingness to join in home production enterprises, and con cludes an arrangement by which all can be given work and every buyer can secure enough money to keep himself on the high leel of independence. And when it conies to the choice of fiscal policies, the business man invariably chooses that which will foster the industries and enable him to offer work to the people. His ex perience has taught him that the protect ive policy is the only one of any practical benefit, and he takes this side of the ques tion firmly and dedicedly, -while the the orist stumbles about blindly, seeking to convince himself and others that his free trade vagaries are the only solutions to the" vexed question. Fortunately for the coun try, the voters nowadays follow the lead of practical experience rather than theory and philosoplry. TT IS A NATIONAL QUESTION. It is a source of unmixed pleasure to see that the more progressive men of the country are now recognizing the need of water-ways to supplement the work of the railroads, a proposition frequently and comprehensively demonstrated in these columns. "With promptness as grateful as it was in some quarters unexpected, the public voice in conventions and through the press is making itself felt on this sub ject from Chicago to New Orleans, from Pittsburg to Montana, and results may soon be expected. The stage has been reached of understanding that the inter ests of all are bound together, so hence forth we mav look for co-operation where formerly there was senseless jealously or indifference. Those who remember the series of elaborate articles prepared for The Dis patch last winter by a well-known en gineer, on the improvement of our rivers and the advantages of canals connecting the lakes therewith, will be clad to observe that the agitation is following closely the lines therein laid down. Already an ex tensive list is needed to comprise the im portant enterprises being urged in differ ent parts of the country. For instance, it is now projected: To make a 20-foot water-way from Chi cago to the gulf; a 20-foot water-way from the lakes to the Ohio; a 20-foot water-way between Lakes Erie and Ontario, and from Lake Ontario to the Hudson river. Details, surveys and estimates have been made for all these. They have all been found practical from an economic stand point After years of experience with dykes and dredges, which resulted only in disap pointment and failure, a movable dam has been introduced upon our flowing rivers with unqualified success, and it is the avowed policy of the general Government to build movable dams to develop interests in all our streams. Seven great reservoirs have thus been made at the headwaters of the Mississippi and navigation greatly im proved, and its period extended thereby between St Paul and Grafton. The Hennepin Canal project, for years a football and laughing stock, has now ad vanced to the stage of completed surveys and condemnation of right of way, and will in the near future extend traffic from Chicago to Rock Island in almost an air line. The great lock at SaultSte. Marie, which now .accommodates a traffic one third greater than that of the Suez Canal, is being reinforced by a new mammoth lock 100x800 feet and 21 feet deep on the Amer ican side, and of nearly equal capacity on the Canadian side. To overcome the difficulty of navigation of the shallow and contracted St Clair Canal, and to keep a better stage of water n the channels between the Great Lakes, it is suggested to dam the Niagara river and raise the level of Lakes Erie, Huron and Michigan to a height sufficient for commumcanoii at an tunes. A strong interest is pushing a canal across the Michigan peninsula to reduce freights to Chicago to a level with those of Duluth; and the Stats of New Tork, ever a leader, is doubling the length of the locks, and thereby the carrying capacity, of the Erie CanaL Everywhere is progress; everywhere en thusiasm; everywhere a recognition of unity and dependency of interest It is thoroughly to be hoped that while all -the rest of the country is awake to the im mense benefits to be had from water navi gation, the people of "Western Pennsyl vania, Ohio and "West Virginia, who have most of all to gain, will not lie dormant in respect to the Ohio and Lake Erie Canal. Now is the time to move. "Congress will soon be in session. There is not a city, borough or township within 100 miles of us that can be excused for failing to send a petition to the local Congressman and to the general Government to take up this project at the coming session. It is not at some indefinite time in the future the matter should be agitated, hut imme diately. Here is something practical for the Government to do, something of im mense value to be had out of politics. AN ALLIANCE IN POLITICS. Every little while some member of tbe Farmers' Alliance breaks out with 'the assertion that the organization is political in its nature. This time Colonel L. L. Polk, the President of the Alliance, says emphatically: "The Alliance is as full of politics as an egg is full of meat" Such utterances are not needed to convince the public of what it has known all along. So far as a third party is concerned, how, ever, there are no signs on the political horizon that indicate that it will receive even so much as a lukewarm support at the hands of the Alliance. It is particu larly noticeable that when election days arrive the members of the Alliance vote just as Mr. Polk says he intends to do for whom they please, just as they have done before and will do again when ever occa sion permits. HOT-HEADED CHILEANS, The answer of the Chilean Government to the message of President Harrison, if correctly reported by Minister Egan, is certainly a rather belligerent document In the denial of the right of a foreign Government to interfere with the judicial processes of the Southern Republic it may be claimed that tho (precedent established by Secretary Blaine in the Italian affair is being followed, but the language of this communication lacks the diplomacy and adroitness displayed by the Secretary of State in the New Orleans matter. It Is certainly to he hoped that no seri ous rupture of our .hitherto friendly rela tions with' all the American Republics will occur. The United States, while fully maintaining its power and dignity, can afford to -be reasonably magnanimous toward a hot-headed nation so recently distracted by the horrors of a civil war. A EW EDUCATIONAL WRINKLE. The science of educating the young is making rapid strides, and new theories are put into practice as soon as they are demonstrated to be better than the old. In France a year's trial has been given to a new distribution of time for schools for young girls, and the results are reported to have been excellent Instead'of forcing the children to attend school both morn ing and afternoon, and making 'them travel the streets four times a day and keeping them from home for a large portion of their waking hours, they were only required to attend school between 9 o'clock and noon, leaving the afternoon free for domestic and personal work. It is now reported that never was such good work, done by tbe children. It was not difficult to keep within the limit of five mornings all the instruction really needed, and the children, with the pros pect of being free at noon, are said to havo worked with a will without either fatigue or impatience. The school teachers also devoted themselves more thoroughly to their labors, knowing that they could have the afternoons for their own studies. Even the parents were grateful. A large proportion of the children wererom poor families, and parents not only secured their assistance in household duties, hut they made the home influence felt. In the United States the tendency has been of late to cram the brains of the children, and the question as to whether or not this was not hurtful has often been discussed in educational circles. "With a reduction of the hours of tuition there was a cutting off of some extra studies, but re ports show there was a greater proficiency in the essential studies. If it can be shown that the half-day system is an im provement, there are many reasons why it could be adopted with propriety here. The fact that it leaves a full half day free would he an incentive to poor people to force their children to attend schools until they attain a greater age, instead of as at present removing them for the purpose of setting them at work. It is a system that should receive careful consideration at the hands of the educational bodies. Those -who prophesied that Parnell's death would unite the factions of the Irish National party must now concede that they were mistaken. The tecent breaking of heads in Dublin was indicative of quite an other kind of patching up. At present there is a lurid glare of boodle ism covering the whole of Quebec, and the Liberal party is a curious anomaly. The Toronto Empire says: "While thousands of dollars of stolen money were being applied to protect Conservative seats in the Interest of Mr. Laurler, that gentleman was posing in the House of Commons as the champion of Canadian purity." This is not an aston ishing occurrence, hut it is painful to see how apt the Canadians are in imitating the methods in vogue in some of the United States. CAMPBEtn says he intends to "croak up to election." The dictionary says that to croak is to take a desponding view of everything. No wonder Campbell croaks. The situation as regards himseir admits of no other point of view. It is a common complaint among Ameri can importers that the United States cus toms authorities treat them as rascals whose constant aim is to defraud the rev enue. A committee of New York merchan ts went to Washington a few days ago to pro test because the valuation of their goods had been raised. According to customs ethics it seems that every man is guilty until he proves himself innocent. The Kaiser's scanty whiskers; they had a brief renown. 'Tis said those tiny friskers wero naught hut yellow down, and that the wind went through them, a rushing with such glee, that o'er the seas it blew them, into eternity. The number of missing embezzlers and boodlers increases rapidly. Several Can adians have Joined the ranks, and it is be coming evident that some of them ought to bo captured occasionally. If they could be gathered together in some spot, with Marsh as general in chief, what a grand showing they would make on dress paradel Matters are warming up in the in terior arrangement of the Pension Bureau. If Howard" remains steadfast to his purpose, there will be enough scandal in Washington to keep the gossips busy for an indefinite period. x. The only reason tariff reformers, meaning free traders, object to reciprocity is because it is not a free trade measure. If iron ore, coal, wool and perhaps cotton, paper and some other of our long established manu factures were added to the reciprocity list, tariff reformers w,ould be better pleased with reciprocity. This time it is not a railroad wreck, but tbe burning of a Mississippi river, steamer. It is, indeed, a dnll day that does not bring forth a disaster of some kind, either on sea or on land, by. water, fire, collision or earth quake. Jap Air has been visited by another de structive earthquake. These features are the great drawback to tho material improve ment of the cities and towns. The people even in Tokio'and Yokohama are afraid to build good buildings, and they continne to exist in bouses with as many exits as are possible. IF Great Britain had been treated to the same dose given the United States, its news papers would have been eager to insist upon both explanation ana reparation. It is strange how circumstances alter cases. It is just possible that Miss "Willard and the, other "water maidens" who are so bitter against the Keeley cuie for the liquor ap petite are actuated by monetary considera tions. They have been realizing snug little incomes from their speeches and pamphlets and are afraid of losing their Jobs. The Ohio tariff reformers have decided to stand or fall together with the accent on the fall. Fboji far away across land and water a band of the Queen's 'officers stretch out their right hands of fellowship to boodlers Murphy and McGreevy and cry, "come back to Ottawa." But they won't. They have joined Marsh and others in free exile where "no man pnrsueth." ' SNAP SHOTS IN SEASON. Those who look too long into the pier glasses at the seaside resorts become dizzy. The diplomatic chickens hatched in New Orleans came home to roost soo ner than Uncle Sam expected. The closest shave Emperor "William ever had was'when ho 'told the barber to remove those whiskers. We have guns and men behind 'em, But we have no ships at sea: That's why Uncle Sam's insulted By such whiffets as Chile. Politicians never realize that there is such a thing in life as declining years. The winter -circus will soon open at Washington with a new ringmaster and some fresh clowns. . The candidate who Cork gets a stone. asks for votes in Some women have won the matrimonial race by a nose. A woman can throw a stone, but, thank heaven, she can't hit anything. The organs say the last card played by the Democrats in this State fell flat. This tsa way they have of intimating that tho voters are nars. cannot "Woman is like a cigar. Ton judge the filling by the wrapper. The patient hen does all the work, While the rooster does the crowing; Some women, too, toil like a Turk, . And their men do all the blowing. The sons of Ham dote on ham and hominy. "When the babies are up in arms the security or tho home is guaranteed. Those who have lived right will not need to prepare for death. Did Carnegie's Scotch whisky have any thing to do with that warlike dispatch to EgauT , CDEB AND CORRIDOR. About Sharks Not Biting. "There was nothing at all surprising in the 'Sharks Don't Btte' story to me, as pub lished In to-day's DtsrATCH," said a prom inent resident of Homestead yesterday. "I spent years at sea, and sailed into almost all the ports in the world where the so-called man-eaters are wont to disport themselves, and never yet saw where they sank those horrible teeth into anything save the offal tossed from the sides of the vessel. I almost circumnavigated the globe, and never came across one native who knew of an instance where one of his kindred had been injured bv a shark. A dim, uncertain tradition has recited such an event, but Kb. the amulet wprn around the ankle or waist It was per fectly safe for the natives to enter the water. The natives always when entering the water made a great noise and sans their shark ban ishing songs, and the shaiks vanished every timo. Had I the time I could prove con clusively that the shark Is not the monster lie is represented, and not nearly so danger ous to the human family as is his brother land lubber." Too Fiery Fire Laddies. The Sowlckloy Are company has done enough in the past to make the community grateful, and its volunteer members can af ford to stand the chaffing they have bad since the lire on Tuesday night. The boys got the hose cart to the lire at Mr. Wilson ..Miller's house on Broad street all right, but in the hurry to begin one party of Are lad dies lanoir with the end or the hose that should have been attached to the hydrant, and had carried it half w ay upstairs before the others found they couldn't screw the noz zle on the hydrant. When this discovery was made the men with the nozzle end of the hose hurilod with it into the house, and the others return ing soon had the water connection complet ed. But in tho running back and forth the hose somehow tied itself in a knot, and when the water was turned on the nose burst. Under the circumstances it was creditable to the firemen that a single stick of Mr. Miller's house was saved from the flames. Women's Wages Stand Still. "It makes me tired to hear so much about higher wages for men and to see women get ting paid precisely tho same as they re ceived 20 years ago," said an Allegheny housekeeper yesterday. "Nearly every trade in which men have control and are employed has seen a gradual but great in crease since the war. With women it is dif ferent. Twenty years ago a woman who came to my house for a day's work got a dollar that's what she gets to-day. Twenty j ears ago I paid my cook S3 a week; I pay another girl tbe same wages for the same work to day. As far as I know, the scale of wages for -women in the lines which they monopolize is exactly what it was a generation ago. I don't complain, be cause I am an employer. Perhaps it is just: perhaps -n omen were worth so inuoh in 1S60 and exactly the same in 1890 in certain lines of work. But if thisis sodoesn't it seem sin gular that men's wages should all have ad vanced in the same time: and advanced as much as 100, and ev en 200 and 300 per cent in some cases? I know that all men's .wages have not grown in this way, but there are enough to make a pretty strong contrast. I fell to thinking of ft when my husband was talking to me the other day about the com parative value of men's and women's work, and perhaps some profonnder student of economics can give me an explanation of the phenomenon." Smoked While Sleeping. "Talk about the cigarette habit," said a clerk at the Seventh Avenue last night, "the worst case I ever struck was that of a man who drifted into the hotel last week. He anticipated fashion, and appeared! in what maybe the custom 25 years from now, if loudness of dress continues as it has during the past three or four years. The paper-covered weed was in his mouth all the time, the only period when he would remove it being for the purpose of lighting a fresh one with the old stub. I supposed, of course, that he took a rest when sleeping, but evidently ho didn't, for one morning about 3 o'clock the bell in his room rang, the porter went up, and when be came down he oonveyed a message from his dudelets to the effect that If a package of cigarettes were not sent up at once a corpse would be waiting for a claimant in the morn ing. After breakfast the youngman thanked me for the cigarettes I sent him, and said they saved his life, for he had run out of smoking material at midnight, and his misery bad become so great at 3 o'clock for cigarettes that suloide was the only alterna tive." '" TILDElfS PUBLIC LIBRARY TRUST. After all, the main lesson of the fate of Mr. Tilden's will is that men of. means should execute their benefactions while they are alive. Kew York Telegram. If Samuel J. Tilden sees from the further shore anything of present mundane Interest he knon s from the defeat of his will before the Now Yoilc Court of Appeals that "the best laid plans of mice and men gang aft agley." Washington Star. How many ills Mr. Tilden drew for other people cannot be stated now, but if he could not draw a will that would effectually dis pose of his own .property as he desired, what reason Is there to suppose that the wills he diew for other persons would stand the test? Brooklyn Citizen. Our late uncle, Samuel J. Tilden, was a great lawyer and shrewd man in every way of dealing with the affairs of this world, but he was not able to make a will that would withstand the assaults of heirs from whom he sought to divert his fortune, their law yers and the courts. Rochester Advertiser. The Tilden Free Library might now be al ready doing good if Mr. Tilden had builded and endowed it in his lifetime, instead of intending to build and endow it bv testa ment. Tho greatest purpose of his life has failed of achievement only because he left to others to do that which he himself should have done. Philadelphia Telegram. The Tilden trust has been Anally declared void, and New York loses what promised to be a great public library. The highest court has decided, fuithermore, that one of tbe most eminent lawyers New York has had for a generation didn't know how to make a valid will. Fact is a gieat deal stronger than fiction nowadays Boston Herald. Again is the lesson enforced and never with greater emphasis, that the only safe time for philanthropists' to do their giving is while they aro still alive and can see that their philanthropic purposes are carried out, rather than to let out the job to others to do after their death. The way of Peter Cooper and of George Peabody was the bet ter one. Syracuse Courier. TALK OF TUB TIMES. - High duties make high prices. .Borton Her ald. Yes, for foreign made goods, but they give the people money with which to pay for them if they must have them. MoKislet and Beed and Foster! How the echoes will wake this week. Toledo Blade. Might as well let the echoes sleep. They ate not needed in this campaign. Johs Hull Is opposed to the brutal and cruel practice of war whenever it threatens to Injure his own interests. Chicago News. It makes all the difference in the world upon whose foot the shoe is tried. Fasbett is making three speeches nightly In New York City. On his side, Flower is scarcely saying anything. He doesn't need to. Macon Telegraph. All he has to do is to sign checks to keep his barrel full on elec tion day. Ose week from to-day the cause of tariff reform will have received nn indorsement in Ohio which will send its piospects a long way up In the scale of public oplnfon. Kan sas City Times. It is going up now, but it will come down next Tuesday like a skv rocket stick. Foreign nations will do well to take notice that four new war ships of flrst-class'power and speed are soon to be added to our navy for the purpose of promoting the Interests of peace. . Louis Globe-Democrat. It they weieonlyin Chilean waters, a good deal oft talk might have been prevented The golden age of our republic. has not yet come. We have as yet only passed through certain preparatory stages; the golden age will be when tho horizon of American states men will be expanded, so that it will be pos sible for them t o take in the whole country. and to be willing to legislate for the good of all. Salt Late Tribune. The nearest ap proach to perfect legislation we h.ive had yet is the McKinley tariff law. It benefits all. It even gives the calamity croakers something to talk about. CHURCH AND HOSPITAL. A National Pageant to Be Given In the Auditorium To Help the Church of the Ascension and a Children's Hospital Wedding and Other Gosslp A benefit which will rank hereaiter with the Homeopathic Hospital fair, and the benefits for the-West Penn Hospital and the East Liberty Training School will be the National Pageant in the Auditorium on De cember 4 and 5. Its dual object Is the Church of tho Ascension and the Oak land Children's Hospital. The pretty little Church of the Ascension is struggling under a heavy indebtedness and the hospital is equally hampered in an en deavor to attain a solid foundation. To do something has been the pi eject for neailva jcar. Dining thru time plans have been dis cussed, some lejectedand others accepted, until Anally the Nations l Pn-reant crow into I general favor. It is something thatieccom- menaeu usoii, uecause it is both new ana good. In neaily every largo city, with the excep tion of Pittsbnrg, tho entertainment has been given, and never failed to delight as well as to pi ove a veritable mill to grind out money. Alt the Eastern cltie have had the National Pageant, and Cincinnati and Miu neapolis as well. The ladies in Pittsbnrg in terested in the church and the hospital are down to work. A preliminary Execu tive Committeo has been formed composed of Mis. D.-1J. Clapp, President; Mis. S. S. Pinkerton, Vice President: Mrs. Pier, Treas urer; Miss Martin, Secretary; Miss Sallio Killikelly, Mrs. Joseph E. Dilworth. and Mis3 Mary Speer. The Ladies t- the Rescue. To this committee others will be added, talten from various sister churches who are attached to this weak vessel, as well as a number of the offlceis of the hospital. There w ill probably be 25 on this committee when It is completed. In addition, for the sake of wider scope, there w ill be a committee of fifty patronesses, the 'prominent women ot the East End and Allegheny, and an honor ary associate committee iormea oi ou laaios and men. So much for the auspices under which the pageant will be given. As to itself, this popular entertainment is composed of II or 12 tableaux lepresenting the development of the United States of Ameilca, and divided into these periods: "Ante-Colonial Times," "Colouial," "Kevo lutionary Period," and "National and Re formatory Times.'- There will be one tableau in the ante colonial days representing Columbus at tho Court of Queen Isabella. Colonial days will have three tableaux, "Landing of the Pilgrims" "Courtship of Miles Standish," and "The Col onial Kitchen Woman's sphere, 1620-1830." The stirring revolutionary times will bo in troduced by a reception to Wushhigton and Lafayette, in which the stately minuet will be danced them. This will be in charge of Miss Mary Sneer, and the most graceful dancers that Pittsburg possesses. The other two tableaux of this period will lie "The Battle of Bunker Hill" and "The Declaration of Independence." Down to Modern Times. In the last period the introduction tableau selected Is "Ihe first departure of the Pittsburg Volunteers to the seat of war, I860." and the three succeeding aro "Woman's .patriotism. Her sphere from 1861-65, Tho "Hospital," "The Emancipation Proclama tion" and "Woman's work, Her sphere to day." What will add interest to tbe tableau is the intention to introduce into them dra matic action, singing and speaking, There will be as exact a reproduction as it is fiossible to have of the first regiment which eft Pittsburg to go to the ,war. It may be, too. that some of the then volunteers will reappear in this same role or 31 years later. Some of the most prominent townsmen have proffered their aid in the stupendous work required It will take between two and three hundred people. A host of little children have been promised by their mammas. As soon as the tableaux are given over to their chair men practice will begin. Each chairman selects two aid, so that each tableaux will be In charge of three people, who will have mo cnoosing ana training oi tno aozen or so rennlred in the nresentation. Miss Fond, of New Yoik, the sister of the well-known Major Pond, comes here Novem ber 14 to remain until the benefit is over. It will be given under her superintendence, as it was in evry city where it yet has been produced. All these tableaux will require elaborate stage setting, which will also be chronologically correct. It will bo the largest benefit of this season. iN-'Calvary Church last night Miss Ella McElroy was married to Wilson Denny Totten by the Kev. Dr. Hodges. The bride, a pretty brunette, was dressed in a robe or white satin fashioned, out of deference to her artistic nature, after a Greek mode. The maid of honor. Miss Emma McElroy, wore a pale blue gown that was very becoming. The duties of ushering was performed by Dr. B. M. Ilanna, Thomas Burton, Frank Neal and William McMillan. Calvary's organist, Carl Better, presided. Mr. and Mrs. Totten's "at homos" will be held Mi Pittsburg from No vember 19 until the 21st. After that they will be "at home for ever and aye" in the St. Clair Hotel, Cincinnati. The meeting yesterday called by Mrs. M. F.Hutchins in connection with Pittsbnrg Day at the Soutbslde Hospital benefit, was very satisfactory. Of the 20 churches in town that were notified 18 responded by sending delegates to the Second Presbyter ian Church, where the meeting was in session all afternoon. Bills of fare wore provided for each churoh. A glance at them Indicates that Pittsburg day will not occupy a secondary place in the calendar. Pro vision is being made for 800 people. A meet ing tor the same purpose is called for this day week, November 6, also at the Second Presbyterian Church. Social Chatter. It is arranged to serve luncheon to the delegates at the International Indian Con vention, November 18 and 19, In the Cyclo rama building, Allegheny City. The pros pect of the convention is the canse of more than usual interest, since hitherto only im portant eastern towns nave Deen iavorea by its presence. The expectation is that guests and hosts will be well pleased with each other. At the mass meeting, for which the entire programme is not yet arranged, the quartette of Arch Street M. E. Church, with Edward Austin as leader, will supply the singing. Mas. William Rhodes, Superintendent in Pennsylvania, has been appoint ed delegate at large at tbe coming World's Convention of W. C. T. U. workers, which meets in Boston, November 16 and 23. Mrs. William Peoples is the delegate from Allegheny county. A pleasant remem brance to the people of Bradford, in connec tion with the, late convention theieofthe Pennsylvania W. C. T, U.. comes In the form of a resolution made on the floor and after waid Bent to them. The sentiments ex pressed in it aro a pleasant intent to the hospitality of McKean county. The home of Miv. George Shiras, on Alle gheny avenue, was prettily decorated yes terday with American beauties and yellow chrysanthemums for a reception given to her sister, Mrs. Jopling, of Marquette. When Mrs. Shiras introduced her sister to tbe guests she was surrounded by a group of assisting ladies, as follows: Mrs. George Hamilton, Mrs. Henry Fitzbugh, Mrs. James Kay, Miss Forsythe, Miss Howe and Miss Darlington. A. M. & J. B. Muidochmade the pretty decorations. Last night at the old University building, which is also the place of worship for tho Pittsburg Unitarian Church, n reception was given ior tne itev. jur. at. J onn ana ins wife. Though formally installed some time ago this was the real "church warming" for tue pastor, a great-many oi jus people were piesent to welcome him. Mrs St. John, who is a niece of the famous Edward Everett Hale, is a charming and pretty woman, and already has won the devotion of her hus band's congregation. Last night the Hon. Alfred Mnrland's daughter, Miss Ignatia, was man led to Sam uel Washbun Harper by the Rev. R. J. Cos ter in Grace Episcopal Church. The bridal procession, as ft came into the church, wns preceded by the boy choir in surplices. The biide was attended by her sister, and the other attendants weie a bride and four ushers. A roccption afterward was held at Mr. Marland's house on Southern avenue. The bride Is a pretty girl, who has just re turned from a continental school. The. Dorcas Day Nursery No. I, corner Noith avenue and Linden street, and Dorcas No. 2, on Nixon fctrect, Manchester, will hold their icceptlon days next Thursday, No vembers. One-half of tho boaid will be in attendance at the one nursery while the re mainder aie oh duty at the other. Miss Shattcck, niece of Mrs. M. Bennett, who wa with Mr. and Mrs. Bennett at their New Jersey farm all summer and afterward accompanied them to Pittsburg, left for Minneapolis yesterday. Miss Shattuck's de pal ture Is regretted by the many who met htrin town. The Household Committee for the bazaar and fair of tha Ladle' Aid boclety for the Southside Hospital will bold a special and very important meeting at the residence of Mrs. Sophia Miller, No. 81 South Sixteenth stieet, this afternoon. Oliver S. Bichardsok, Fsq., is once more out and about, having recovered from the serious illness which-had confined him for borne time to the house. In Sewickicy and in and out of the city courts Mr. Richardson's lec-iyery is pleasant news. . Tbe Women's Guild of Trinity left the church on Wednesday evening Just $1.5 richer than when hey went there In the morning. Their stock of cake and fancy work gave out completely. A wEnorifo of public Interest, although celebrated at home, took place in Wilkins burg, uniting Mlns jtargaretEUaBeattyand Horace B. Lowrie, editor and proprietor of the Indiana, Pa., Times. There were few piesentnt the ceremony beyond tho rela tives, and the occasion was marked by an absence of display. Rev. James Mechem, the- new pastor of the Wilkinsbnrg M. E. Church; performed the ceremony in the par lors of the bride's late home, on North street. Mr. and Mrs. Lowrie went East on tho fast line. The bride was prominent in church and W. C. T. U. work She is a sister of Pittsburg's well-known artist, John W. Beatty. The marriage of Mfas Anna Lawtop and John O. Foster was another event in Wil kinsburg last night. At Mr. Lawton's house on Swissvale avenue the ceremony was per formed by the Key. James Mech, before 100 guests. A reception and other festivities in tervened before Mr. and Mrs. Foster left for their own home in another part ofWilkins burg. A edding tour was dispensed with. The bride is a popular young lady, who spent the greater part of her leisure in tbe interest of her church and work growing out from it. TUisa Elkat.or JIcKee, daughter of W. H. McKee, and Percy Lin wood Craig were mar ried last night at the bride's home. The bride was in white, and wns attended by her sister. Miss Valeria McKee. The ushers weie Pressly T. Craig and Harry E. McKee. Mrs. . B. Hkij.eb, of Kittanning, and her daughter, Mis. Core, of Wilkinsburg, passed through the city yc3terday, on their way to visit the fhmily of the late Captain B.' G. Heiner, U. S. L' at Washington City. Miss Helen Sohmid aiid Joshua Wright were married last night in EnitnucI Church, Allegheny, by Key. Morrison Byllesby. The bride was attended by her sister. The Chancellor of the Western University and Mrs. Holland were entertained at tea S esterday bv Mrs. Eliza Lloyd, assisted by trs. II. J. King. The Ooraopolls M. E. Church will give a reception to-night for its new pastor, the Rev. W. G. Meade and his wife, at "Burn's Hall. Mrs. J. H. Edisoer, of Luthersburg, Pa, and Mrs. J. I. Goodlander, of Clearfield, Pa., are visiting in Pittsburg and Wilkinsburg. OUR MAIL POUCH. A Legislative Crime. To the Editor of The Dlsmtch: According to an interview, published in your last Sunday's columns. Jay Cooke, the vetcranjlnancler, stigmatizes tho demone tization of silver act a? a legislative crime. This is a well-chosen and most appropriate term to apply to an act which is bound to appear in deeper shading as the years roll on. Mr. Cooke well 'says it W3S "against the history of finance the world over, and leaves U6 in a position to be preyed on by .England whenever they tare to levy contributions upon us." And anyone who is, conversant with England's policy.whcthor with her own colonial dependencies, or her dealings with other nations in general, knows that she has frequent occasion to "care to levy contribu tions." Our mines produce almost one-half the precious metals of the earth, and with tbe sagacity of real financial statesmanship and the daring born of true patriotism, we might be tho money masters among the nations, but our tyros in finance, either ignorantly or knavlshly, demonetize and stand aside like boobies to accept tbe dicta tion of their masters of London and Liver pool. Mr. Cook only gives,utterance to a fact of history when he says the act "was smug gled through Congress with few of those who v oted for or'against it knowing what it meant.' Just so. Tfi the night time of the supreme crisis, when the enemy comes seeking with staves and torches, not one of the 12 only, but 11 are either found sleeping or stand ready to be tray. A goodly number of the so-called states men who have been pi ominent in the affairs of the last two decades are destined to be come fossil imprints on strata which a com ing catachysm of wider intelligence will soon deposit, and to the future political paleontologist they will be Interesting and be recognized only as the evidence of the legislative reptiliae of a grosser age. Wampum, Pa., October 27. Car Accommodations Wanted. To the Editor of The Dispatch: Is there no law to compel the Citizens' Traction Company to run more cars when traffic demands It? Twice recently my wife and other ladies have been compelled to leave tbe cars when a row was started in re gard to crowding. Upon one occasion an Italian drew a knife upon nn old gentleman who remonstrated with him for shoving, leaning upon and insulting a lady passenger who was .standing. It is an outrage that weak, delicate women must stand, "be shoved, tramped upon and have their clothes almost torn off them when they endeavor to alignt from a car. Poor, hard-working men and women who are hardly able to perform manual labor are compelled to stand such abuse day after day, week after week, and Is there no'redress? 1 wish the officials of the road, with their families, were compelled to travel upon the road between the hours of 5 and 7 in the evening and be subject to the treatment their patrons aie. I feel certain that some change would be inaugurated for the better accommodation of abusod human ity by a monopoly. A. L. Pittsburg, October 28. KK0WN THE WORLD OYER. Sin Edwin Arnold modestly admits that he Is a poet. New York people are now giving William Wilde, the last husband of Mrs. Frank Les lie, chaiinlng dinners. Not to be outdone by her colleague in ca-. lamity, Senator Pfeffer, Mrs. Lease is begin ning to boast of her whiskers. . General. Proctor, according to Colonel George W. Hooker, of Vermont, possesses more of the qualities and characteristics of Abraham Lincoln than any living man. The Czar and the rest of the Russian im perial family left Copenhagen yesterday for Dantzig. They are going to have a party at Llvidia in celebration of the royal silver wedding. Mrs. Besattt will be inexpressibly pained to learn that the head of the American the- osophists, William Q. Judge, emphatically declares that Blavatsky has communicated with no one since her death. The Prlnco of Wales is preparing for a high old time on his 60th birthday, which occurs November 9. London will give. him an address in a gold box. His. friends 'hint that he is not proud of his age. Lord Salisbury, when he. was plain Rober Cecil, was a reporter, and was always ready, after a night In the gallery, to go out with the hoys and invoke nightmare on a supper of Welsh rarebits and London sfcont. The most eloquentpulpitorator in Canada is the Bev. Dr. George Douglass. Ho is blind and his bands fall helpless in front of him from paralysis, so that he appears half dead. Bnt no one who hears that marvelous voice can remain insensible to the charm of his oratory. Hlvry N. Smith went to New York from Buffalo with a few thonsand dollars and a desire to make a fortune. His first venture in Wall street succeeded and he kept on get ting nah until he failed. It's a long lane that has no turning, a short caieer in "the street" that knows no failure. PBUNES PEOTECTED. American Growers Can Now Afford to Un dersell Foreigner. San Francisco Chronicle. A dispatch fiom New York states that Cal ifornia prunes are underselling French prunes. This is the natural result of pro tecting the prune industry. In the begin ning the consumer undoubtedly paid a little more for his prunes, but now he is able to buy them cheaper than he overdid. But, asks the free trader, if California prunes can be sold more cheaply than French prunes, why retain tbe duty? Well, there nre sev eral reasons. The best one Is that tho pro tective tariff is an equalizer of taxes. No prunes can be raised in California with out the producer feeling the burden of American taxation, therefore every pound of prunes raised in this country pays a tax. This being the case, why should French prunes be allowed to come into tho country and go to the consumer untaxed? Tho En glish maybe Idiotic enough to imagine It first-class political economy to make the home producer pay taxes 'and exempt Ills foreign competitor, but so long as the Yan kee nation retains its proverbial shrewdness it will not adopt the insane free trade theory of taxing non-competing products and ad mitting freely those which come into com petition with home prodacttt CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS." "We are all wrong as to dates. Thef Chinese reckon this to be year 7,910,51L ij" There are 487 schools in Irkutsk, Sibe-" ria. The population of Siberia is' nearly 000,000. " -f An inventive genius in Brooklyn hasV patented an apparatus for automatically -making tea or coffee. Massachusetts has more free circulating and referei.ee libraries than any other State. It leads the list with 176 free libra ries and 11 reference libraries. Gladwin county, Mich., boasts of hav ing the largest frame barn in the world. It is 156 feet long, 60 feet wide, and in its con struction 500,000 feet of lumber were used. Juniper berries used in the preparation of juniper oil are now Imported from Hun gary and Italy, though the juniper bush 1 distributed all over Norway and could be made to yield quite a little revenue. Thousands of bushels of peaches and apples arc going to waste and being fed to the hogs along the Snake river frnit belt, Oregon, and all because the fruit raisers aro not prepared to take care of the crop as it comes on. ' It has been roughly estimated that tho cost of making over the lawns of Central Park in accordance with the Olcott system of grass culture would be $1,000 per acre and that tho whole acreage could bo done in 10 or 12 years. Mr. Nathan Harris, of Rich "Valley, Va., has a daughter 19 years old who is only 2 feet 10 inches In height and weighs Just 40Jpounds. She is well proportioned and intelligent, and her hair sweeps the floor when she stands erect. A singular case came to light recently of an ola-tlrae contract in Saco, Me. A lessee of a farm of a Saco man was to give him half the proceeds. At the end of the year the man's wife came down and broucht two cats as tbe Saco man's share. One of the popular superstitions of the negro of antebellum days was that if a honeysuckle had forced its way through tha chinks of the cabin nnd was growing inside, as It often did, it was a sure indication that they had not led uprlghtllves. A stout Indian woman, whose weight is over 300 pounds, fell through a wooden side walk in Bath, Me. "The injury to the wallc so annoyed the Street Commissioner that he told tho woman that hereafter she muse walk in the middle of the street." The British debt is so large that if it were divided into XI notes they would com pletely cover the State of Ohio three times over. If paid in penny pieces, and each cent piled one above the other, it would make seven columns of that coin reaching to the moon. It is said that fully 25,000 deaths oc curred in one of the recent epidemics of small-pox in Guatemala, but notwithstand ing this frightful mortality and the fre quency of small-pox scourges, the Govern ment has taken no pains to introduce-any scheme of vaccination, and tbe State is with out any vaccination laws at all. It has been noticed that gray squirrels are very scarce In the woods near Middle town, N. Y., although the nut crop is plenti ful. Last year, when the nut crop was a failure, the sauirrels were very numerous early in the season. As the squirrels aro great travelers, it is believed that when they arrive at a locality where nuts are scarce they continue on for a larger abun dance or food. A 68-foot whale, consigned io Dr Angelo Heilpin of the Academy of Natural Sciences, arrived in Philadelphia Tuesday last. It was shipped in sections. The huge creature was stranded f ecently near Ocean City, N. J. The professor superintended the work or stripping tbe bones of flesh and dividing the frame. The bones will be bleached and strung together and set up In the museum of the academy. A Sonth Paris woman, Mrs. Chandler Swift, lost and found a pin in a queer way the other day. She was feeding her chickens and caught one of them, and while talking to it It pecked her Initial pin from her throat and swallowed, It. Her husband came up, cut the chicken's throat and extricated tha pin. He then closed the wound by taking & few stitches. The chicken is now alive and scratching and so is the pin. Canary birds are a good deal troubled by mosquitoes. The toes of the bird ara ' amply provided with small veins, and as the membrane between the toes Is extremely thin an observant mosquito may see bis fa vorite fluid circulating in plain sight. A bird with a swollen bind, toe was brought to a bird fanqier recently and he pronounced the trouble poisoning from a mosquito bite. He said the thing was not uncommon. Few people know the significance of the figures in playing cards. In olden times hearts represented "cboirmen," or ecclesi astics, and the early cards of that suit have a cape, which In form resembled a heart. The spade was originally a pikehead. typify ing the nobility of the soldiery. The arti sans were represented by a stone tile, now known as a diamond. Farmers were repre sented by a trefoil, or clover leaf, now called a club. The four kings were originally David, Alexander, Coesar and Charlemagne, representing the four great monarchies. The queens were Arglne, Jndlth, Esther and Pallas, representing birth, fortitude, piety and wisdom. The knaves were either knights or servants to knights. Just off a wagon road, leading to Sonors, Mexico, stands an Immense mesqulte tree, which attracts attention on account of its size. It is a prominent landmark, and it has many tragic memories. The trees nearby are twisted, crooked and stunted, but tha mesqulte is straight and has regular, mass ive branches, and a trunk thicker than that of shy other tree in the Colorado Valley. It is known as tho dead man's tree by the Mexicans, who hurry past it. Years ago tho cattle raisers had to take advantage of tha strength of the lower branches of the tree to rid themselves of many cattle thieves. The last cattle thief that was banged there, about 14 years ago, was one Sanchez, a mighty tough customer. The Sultan of Morocco has been empty ing the -vials of his wrath upon the Benl M'TIr tribe, who had declined to pay tribute. After punishing them severely in a sharp battle nboiit 100 of their women came into camp to ask the Sultan's pardon and humble themselves before him. For hours they sat before his tent, weeping and crying for mercy, their faces unveiled In token of deep contrition. They asked the Sultan to have mercy on their husbands, their brothers,ana, their children. The next day they contin ued their piteous wailing.and in tbe evening the Sultan bade them return to their homes and send their husbands into camp. He comforted them with the assurance that if their tribe obeyed blm and refrained from highway robbery he would not attacc them again. PICKINGS FKOH PUCK. Little Bobby Your new brother is awful little. Little Harry (lortUy)-Oh, he'll be bigger yeH We are getting him on tbe Installment plan. Ploddy Why are you walking about with your eyes half closed? fahoddy I'm looking for work. "I want to diet" the youth cried out; "Things are not what they seem. But I will not smote a cigarette I'd Join a .football team." Ned Did old Mr. Threads say any thing about a dot when yon asked hhn for Sylva? Jack No: he used dashes. Dowter The archdeacon prayed for rain , last SumJay. but it hasa't come yet. i Showtcr Next time you'd better send for tlm Canon. r "Good night!" she said; and laid her -head - Upon hlamanly breast; And he, accepted, homeward turned, - His soul with Joy possessed. j-ft He fancied still above his heart "S He felt that cheek so fair. ." On hanging up his coat he found ,-, Its ghostly imprint there! Sir Scadless Scaddsby Yahs, I may say? my only books are woman's looks, re know. ' jf, 3I1S3 Brlte Then I presnmo you would dislike any further examination of international copy-j right. . "J-.-. Miss Hollyhock (from the country) I, cannot understand why he doesn't come. I wrote hlnj wc would be ready at 8. Miss Ampclosls (of New York) That accounts " for it. He supposed that meant 8. It always does inNewlork. r ' Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers their time to lade, Ana winter underclothing ; It's time to be displayed. Tom de "Witt These trousers hold their -shape well, Schneider. .rjji Schneider It's all In themaklng, sir. Si j, Tdmdevvni 1 inougni so; you securer Daraea. sat tbe knees the first day I ware tutxa, and th8r!T9f kept U: tame auapc ver ataw. i
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