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IncludingSunday, 3 rn'ths. 2 SO D ily DisrATCH. including Sunday, 1 nTth.. 00 SCJfDAT Dispatch. One Year. 2 50 Wixklt Dispatch, One Year. 1 25 The Daily D;p itth is delivered by carriers at 15 cents per week, or, including San Jay EtUliou. at 23ecntb per .eek. PITTsEUEG. FBI DAY. XOV. G. IS11I. TWELVE PAGES HOW THE DIUTISU VIEW IT. The London papers show a better con coptmn of the significance of Tuesday's vote than do some of or.r Democratic- co. temporaries. They- admit that the in dorsement of McKinley means protection; and they arc candid in saying that British manufacturers can estract no comfort from it. Meanwhile, there arc some Democrats like Mr. Cleveland at Xcw York so infatu ated with the phrase, "tariff reform" that She victory of the protectionists in Ohio r:i!y moves them to shout that they will jipvcv MiiTciider their pet idpa. This cn-ihus-iann is very fine just now. But the rank and file of the Democracy will begin to inquire if it is not time to revise the po sition of the party upon issues affecting business of the country, and to cease stak ing evorvihhig upon a fad which, when twice squarely presented to the public, has each time been emphatically repudiated. Tin New York S-tn for several years past !m. seen the folly of this antagonizing t)f protection by its party. It sounded a timely warning lo the leaders long ago to tease thir fooli-.li pursuit of fanciful eco nomics and adopt the conservative protec tionist stand of the late Samu-1 J. Randall. The Sun and thop other Democrats who believe in protection will now gain a more respectful hcarin - It is too early to ex pert an osicnt .tious withdrawal ot the flag which Mr Cl eland foolishly sent up to the mast-head in '88. But between now and the assemblingcf the next Democratic National Convention we may look for an eager attempt by thcviser leaders to de velop other i-sups and to relegate anti-protection to an extremely subordinate place in the platform, if indeed they do not elim inate it entirely. WAITING NOW CrOS BLAIXE. The next question of interest in politics will be the attitude of the various men who have been named for the BepublTcan nomination for President. Undoubtedly Mr. Blaine continues to have the lead, with practically nobody second if be consent to run. The ideal ticket would seem to be Blaine and Mc Kinley. Mr. Blaine must soon declare himself. If he decline, President Harrison will of course have all the official backing and may possibly also be the legatee of some of Blaine's personal following. But, there are other strong favorites of the public whose friends will be sure to enter them for the race. It would seem alto gether likely that McKinley will be one of these, and so doubtless, also, General Alger. But Mr. Blaine must be heard frombefora the ball starts. TENNESSEE'S FKEDICAMEXT. Less than a week has passed since the convicts were released by the Tennessee miners. Already many of them are re ported to be starving and dj-ing in the mountainous region with which they are unfamiliar. This is evidently a result which the miners did not anticipate, for it Is hardly possible they would have turned out five hundred men knowing that they were to meet starvation. So far the released convicts have be haved better than was expected. They have neither robbed, murdered nor of fended against the laws, except in their efforts to retain freedom. But they are growing hungry, some are already in des perate straits for food and clothing; and it will be surprising if their peaceabij con duct is continued. These facts and pos sibilities may be considered as additional evidence that no matter how lax the Ten nessee Legislature may havo been, the miners were not justified in the course they toolc It is difficult, however, to see just how they can bo reached. Indeed, the only course open to the Governor is to get the convicts In prison again. AX IMAGINARY SLAVERY. The latest deliverance of Max O'Rell on American customs makes the discovery that this nation has freed itself from the dominion of monarchies and that its citi zens have become "the slaves of its ser vants." This idea is worked out by the widely observant Frenchman as follows: "In America the man who pays does not command the paid," consequently, he re iterates, "the paid servant rules." This is not an especially new observa tion. It has been heard before in differ ent forms, and it is founded on the super stition powerful in the Old World, and has even a wide-spread hold upon this country,that the person, who Days forgoods or sen ices, is in some way the superior of the one who sells the goods or renders the service. O'Bcll does not assert that when the Americans pay for anything they do not receive what they pay for ac cording to contract If that were so they would soon cease paying except in those departments of service ruled by exclusive privilege in which they cannot help them selves. But what plagues the mentality of O'Rell is that in a transaction in which one person renders stipulated service, and the other pays for it, the superiority of the latter is not so clearly recognized as to rank him as the ruler. The fact that in all just transactions there should be an equality in the service rendered is, especi ally in the matter of domestic employ ment, wholly beyond the conception of the clever Frenchman. It is to be recognized that the respective conditions of employers and employed, in domestic service, should seem paradoxical to a person regarding things from the Con tinental point The absence of that abject obseguiousacsSjiVhich is taken ai a matter of course abroad, is due to a variety of causes, the most important of -which is that the supply of domestic servants abroad is unlimited, while here it is the demand for them, that so far has not been fully satisfied. This seems queer to Max O'Eell, and it is the subject of wide lamentations among native commentators. But the condition does not less emphasize the emptiness of the idea that the person who pays money for anything has the right to command the one "who receives the money in any respect beyond the rendition of the stipulated condition. If the American people do not fall into any worse slavery than that which O'Rell denounces they will get along very well. Amore imminent danger is that of slavery to the vices imported as fashionable from the Old World. ARE SPIES BE1XG HARBORED? Charges against the representatives of the United States in Chile are rapidly ac cumulating. It is not only claimed that the officers of the United States warship Baltimore acted as spies upon the Con gressionalists, but it is charged that a ref ugee in the United States Legation is chief of a party plotting the overthrow of the present Government and the assassination of Colonel Canto, commander of the Con gressional land forces. These ciiarges, if true, are most serious, and an official investigation should follow at the earliest opportunity. The United States as a nation prides itself upon its justice and fair dealing, and it cannot af ford to have its reputation damaged by the acts of its agents. The charges arc of a nature to be almost incredible. It is hardly to be believed that citizens and agents of the United States could so far forget themselves and their honor as to act as spies or to harbor a conspirator. But the chanres have been made, apparently in all seriousness, and in justice to itself as well as to its agents the Government should not fail to investigate, if further light upon the subject justifies such a course. WAS IT A CELEDKATIOX? Pittsburg's smoke probably ifevex hung thicker above the city than it did yester day. If our manufactories were intent on celebrating the McKinley victory by an extraordinary exhibition of their trade mark in the sky, they could not have done so more successfully. Of course, thesmoke is a nuisancs in itself, and the efforts to abate it are laudabls. Yet since most of our people now live measureably beyond its reach in the suburbs, its volume, though greater than ever, does not pro duce as much personal inconvenience as in th old days when the population was packeC between the hills and the Point As an advertisement of Pittsburg's indus trial activity, a day like yesterday is simply immense. Otherwise the smoke is as useless as it is unornamentaL WHERE DOES IT LEAD? What the ultimate result of the advance ment in the science of offense and defense wiii be is a question which must soon be considered. Tlio.se who have kept track of the progress made in both branches have observed that neitherhas outstripped the other. No sooner has an armor been invented that will withstand shot and shell than a projectile is found that will penetrate it No sooner have fortifications been planned than means have been in vented which render them of no practical value. An immense battle ship is built and immediately a torpedo, or other facili ties capable of destroying it, is manufact ured. Of what use, then, are all these engines of war and these defenses? Is not the country practically in as good a condition without tlrem as with them? The report of the "War De partment, published yesterday in The DisrATCH, recommends the appropria tion of money both for the fitting out of fortifications and for guns and projec tiles that will make the former of no ac count The answer to these questions is very easy. So long as other nations possess the improved means of offenseanddefense, the United States must be provided with an equally effective equipment or else in c?se of war submit to defeat But in case of strife with the great nations, does not the equation remain the same? Is it not to be supposed that the other nations have projectiles that will pierce the armor we make and vice versa? In what way, then, are the improvements a benefit ex cept in the case where a nation is at war with another whSjfc- progress has been slow? It is net diiicult to foresee that there is a time approaching when in spite of the science and the art the nations will be on exactly the same relative footing as they were before great guns, torpedoes and impregnable armor were invented, when the whole question of war will re solve itself into one of endurance and numerical strength of men and money. THE STATUS OF THE BRIGGS CASE. One phase of the famous Briggs trial for heresy has ended, but the controversy still exists. Dr. Briggs was charged with utterances in his inaugural address not in accord with the tenets of the Presbyterian Church. He contended that the theo logians of the so-called orthodox school had read into the "Westminster Confession and related documents, which are the Creed of the Church, what is not found therein and what in many instances is directly contrary to the teachings of the Westminster divines and even to Scripture itself. He claimed, that traditional or thodoxy had shifted from the base laid down at the Reformation and from the positions of the standards. There was no trial before the New York Presbytery. The charges wre dismissed upon a motion, which the mover said was made because he did not think the trial of the case would bs in the interests of the Presbyterian Church. But the prose cutors do not intend to let the matter drop. They will cany the controversy to the New York Synod, where the merits of the case will probably be brought out The real prosecutors are the authorities ofr Princeton College, between which in stitution and the Union Theological Semi nary the fight is in reality being waged. It has gone too far nowto be dropped in the.summary manner adopted by the New York Presbytery. The efforts of those who believe that the proceedings will cause a split in the church to smooth over the difficulty haye proved unavailing, and every indication points to the continuance of the strife to the bitter end, split or no J split. Timothy Healy does not seem to have been intimidated by that horse-wbippin". He is repeating the offensive language toward Mr. Farnell's widow that was tho cause of his punishment. Either the-horse-whipper is absent or Mr. Healy derives his boldness from a security of some kind which has not been made public He did not show himself personally bravo when he was at tacked by a man who was not his s nperior in bodllv strength. Such language as he is employing cannot help his cause and it is not harming the opposition. CHAKACTEns arc cheaper in England than they are in the United States. Aa Italian opera sinsrer over there sued a Lon-I don paper tor $100,000 damages for. libel. Ho icot a verdict for half a cent, bat ho still has his character. OASrADlAXS disclaim against the impu tation that they are concerned in smuggling Chinamen across the border. -They are probably right. 'The agents of the Chinese Six Companies are handling the whole af fair. When there is money to be made a Chinaman never takes a white, man into .partnership. Axothee Tichborne claimant has been found. This time he is a lunatic who has been in an Australian,asylum. It would be a pleasure to hear that some' one has secured the immense fortune even if he is a lunatic. A New Yoek man recently clung to the bottom of a capsized yacht allnight and was picked up in the morning. Thero's nothing strange in this. Many a man in Pittsburg has clung to the bottom of a schooner all night and has been picked up in the morn ing. Sm Charles T,urrEn has got into trouble with Canadian people by declaring that Canada must share the cost of British wars. His remarks show an ignorance of Canadian sentiment that is remarkable. "WnEX there is 12,000 difference between the estimates and the results in a city liko Cincinnati, it is absurd to speculate on the returns. Experience shows that it is as safe to bet on the turn of a copper as upon the human Judgment in an olection. Masked men robbed a train in the "West on Wednesday night. It is a relief to havo the cood old fashions come in again. .The public is tired of accidents and can read ac counts of train robberies with real zest. TnE President of this "Republic needs a new dwelling house. It is curious, however, that although thcre'is no law compelling a President to live in the White House, none of them so far have objectea to taking up a few years' residence there. The Presidental campaign, is on the verge ot starting out with an udprecedented boom. Everybody seems to have an over whelming desire to havo a nibble at the White House pie. -- Tiie Balmacedists are reported to be get ting ready to overthrow the present Chilean Government. They ought to be considerate enough to wait until ourlittlo difficulty is settled. Ferhaps there won't be any Gov ernment; to overthrow then. The Lick telescope is no longer a neces sity. Fittsburg has a railroad mat runs to the Moon. It was opened yesterday. Even nature sympathizes with the af flicted occasionally. It took on a gloomy aspect yesterday out of sympathy for tboso defeated at the polls 011 Tuesday. It was rather late, but then the returns were not all in on Wednesday. SXAP SHOTS IX SEASON. Salt River is a silvery stream this trip, at all events. . "When cats congregate on the back fence they are there for a purr puss. vard To err is human, but to correct the error as soon as possible is good policy. Most States choose men to guide them on their way, 1 Ana some choose knaves then rascals havo theii day; But Iowa kicked up an awful noise To placo her destiny in the hands of Boies. Tins is a better season for turkeys than it is for roosters. If Uncle Sam is compelled to crack the Brazil nut the new navy will have to bo rushed. "When Democratic organs put out roos ters the size of canary birds the other fel lows are eating quail on toast. A Business man is very weak when he cannot lift a note. The Flower that blooms in the fall in Xcw York is a tiger lily. Tite heartless woman is generally an art less one, too. Pexxsylvaxia takes kindlier to white wash than it does to crow. TnE birds have flown far away, Drear winter draweth nigh; Soon'hen fruit will be rather gay And also very high. - Mr. Quat should feel satisfied with his vindication and let bygones be bygones. "WniTE lies can blacken characters, but campaign lie3 are harmless. Gexebai, Apatjiy will have to carry the same old load until the people quit guess ing how it all happened.' MILITARY TRAINING. It Ha Physical Advantages That Are of the Greatest Benefit. The Cosmopolitan. In casting about wo find no better physi cal advantage to be gained than those de rived from the military exercise which youngmen undergo in the military service. Camping out in summer in well selected camps gives them an outdoor life which is a much needed change from the indoor life led throughout the long winters, during which so much vitiated air" is breathed in crowded places of ousiness and ill-ventilated sleeping apartments. Marching is the most rational exercise for the legs: tho man ual of arms always insures healthy chests and well developed arms.and moving at the double-quick improves tho breathing power of the lungs. Unlike the athletics in college there is hero noover training, which so injures the subjects by excess, and no break ing down after training has ceased. The marching and drilling under competent in structors improves tho gaitof tho recruit and gives him a firmer, easier step and a more graceful carriage. Military service has many advantages mentally. It cultivates intelligence among young men and does much toward improv ing the memory and curing absent mlnded ness. -The necessity of being alert, listening for each" word of command and acting promptly upon it, quickens -the wits and cul tivates the habit of firing the attention aud concentrating the thoughts. Marching to the sound of musio gives a young man a better idea of measure and rhythm and is caieuiavcu i matte uiui xnuxi metuouical in all things. His entering upon the duties of a soldier lea ds,him to studyniilitaryhlstory, which embodies the chief history of nations. The hardest less-on to be learned in life is that of amenability to discipline, lna land like this, where there is veiy little restraint amonevoung or old, where self abnegation is but little heard of, and where the race of life is pretty- much a "go ns you please," there is scarcely any school in which sub ordination and obedience are taught except in themilitary service. 1 , Cleveland's Foresight. Xcw York Commercial Advertiser. MrC Cleveland spoke in only two States and both went Democratic. Mr. Cleveland's foresight is one of the wonders.of the age. Won't Stand Prodding. Chicago Inter-Ocean.l Unc'e Sam is not sensitive over small in sults, but he won't stand still to be prodded in tho back with bayonets. General Surprise Was There. Philadelphia Inquirer. General Surprise seems to have carried tho election in a great many places. PLAYS IN" THE VALLEY. Sewlckley Dramatic Clnb Gives a Double BUI in Choral Hall Lady Henry Somer set to Speak in a Pittsburg Church Short Society Stories. This season's first entertainment by the Sowickley Valley, Club will be remenrbercd with additional pleasure as the occasion of the premiere appearance of Mrs. Theodore W. Xovin. She proved her self really an acquisition to the club in her capital characterization of Ethel Reed in TV. D. Howells" one-act farce, "The Begister." Mr. O. E. Pearson, Jr., who took the, part of Captain pharles Itadcliffe in the succeeding performance, "A Des perate Game," never appeared, cither, until last night, before a Sewiokley audience. The cast of "The Register" was as follows: Ethel Reed, Mrs. Kevin; JJm Henrietta Spaulding, Mrs. W. A. Adair; Oliver Ransom, nn artist, Robert P. Nevin, Jr.; Grinnadge, his friend, Harry M. Richardson. As Ethel Reed, a care less young sort of a girl, who acts as if she possessed a great deal less heart than she has, Mrs. Kevin's impersonation was very good. Moreover, though she bore the greater part of the dialogue, she never became tiresome, which is more than can be said of many professional people. Tiie Story of the Flay. This is.the story of the farce conceived by Mr. Howells: The plot hinges on the prox imity of the room in which a young man lives, to the room in which lives the young man's sweetheart. A regis ter in one apartment acts as an out let for the conversation going on in the other. The young lady tells her best girl friend of the quarrel she has had with her undeclared lover the artist. The artist hears it as he sits disconsolate in his room. He, too, is indiscreet, and, while he tells hl3 best friend, Grinnadge, his misfortune, the listening girl at the other end of the regis ter hears the story of his hopeless love. She entices her sedate friend into beingan eaves dropper alo. The artist comes ami humbles himself. She enjoys his misery in a thor oughly womanish fashion, and then gives him a receipt for the money, about which their misunderstanding began, and her hand and heart also. In the bit of work over the register, between curiosity and principle, Mrs. Nevin is at her best. She doesn't quite come up to the necessities of the tender scene, where her lovor reads tho re ceipt: but then, how can one he tender with one's uncles, aunts, cousins to say nothing of a husband not ten feot away? Sirs, Adair was ail that a de sirable, rather elderlv maiden, could be, as Henrietta tlpauld'mg. Though Mr. Xevin was a little nervous, it wa9 hardly a fault, for it wore an air of diffidence that added to tho reality of his part. Mr. Richardson filled the small part allotted to hinr satisfactorily. It is unnecessary to nraise the stnire settine. beyond saying that it was quite equal to that of former plays in Choral Hall. It was exceedingly pretty; thoroughly in keening with the play and everything worked like n charm. There were no amateurish botchings and delays. ' A Walt lightened by Music. There was, however, a long wait (only to bo forgiven, by reason of tho delightful musio which Teorge's orchestra played) during the interval between the farce and the comic drama which followed. Tho word forgiven is used, because of the uneasiness felt for fear people, who had to catch tho express to town, must enjoy the wait, at tho expense of the second performance. However, it came along finally, though hardly in as satisfactory a form as the pre ceding one. This was not the fault of the players, but laj- with the author. Morton, who created something absurd and impossi ble in tho plot cmbouied in "A Dcsperato Game. Doubtless, too, it was cut, at least for Morton's sake it is to be hoped so, as the plot was intricate, and its clearing up hurried mid uncertain. Tho com plete cast in "A Desperate Game" was: Mrs. Somerton, Mrs. Frederick S. Burrows! Peggy, her maid. Miss Ainellia C. Swnrtz welder; Oit. Charles Jtaddiffe, A. L. Pearson; Percy rosttewaite, S. Harry Scovel; David, John M. Tate. MrsV-Burrows made a very beautiful Jra. Somerton. and Miss Schwartz- welder was an orthodox Reggy, whoso glasses gave her a touch of pe'dcgojfury. The Percy Postleicaitc of Mr. Scovel, was a decided imitation of Robson's Bertie the Lamb but consistent throughout. The difficult role of Radeliffe "was well suuported by Mr. Fearson, and Mr. Tate's Thvid was just such n servant as we should liko to engage. Tho stage setting was as pretty in tho second as in the first play. After tho townspeople withdrew.which they did. when the curtain went down on "A Des perate Game," tho chairs were removed and dancing was the final act in tho first per formance by our clever suburban dramatic club. rrobably one of tho most interesting En glish visitors that tho temperance cause, has yet brought.to'Amorica is Lady Henry Som erset, President of tho British Christian Temperance Association. She is penetrat ing further into the country than tho usual lriwsu merlin 111 iiit:a itiuus, .mu. uaucuid to be in Pittsburg on Saturdav evening. It is not improbable that her ladyship will be accompanied West by Fiances E. Wil lard and her English compatriot, Mrs. Hannah Whitehall Smith. The object of Lady Henry's visit to Fittsburg is told best by a letter written by her from "Rejst Cottage," Miss Willard's residence, to Mrs. E. D. C. Mair, of Pittsburg. Lady Henry writes: Dear Madam Miss Wlllard tells me 6ho feels sure you will help ine about a subject I have much at heart. There are In the two great steel works at Tittsburg many men from South Wales, es pecially from 1 . I promised the clear Welsh Iron ami steel workers I would go to them and should much like to meet them. Could a meeting be arranged for Sunday week? I could perhaps meet them In a church or hall after Sundav service and speak to them for a Utile while. 11' notice of such a meeting eould be given out In the works it would be a great help, bhould any printing be necessary, I would gladly def rav the cost. I hare a mission work at D . aud am anxious on iny return to be able to say I have seen tho dear mends at Pittsburg. Forgive me for thus troubling you. Believe me, always sincerely yours in the cause of God and souls, ' Isabel mmebset. . Various accounts have been given about Lady Henry Somerset's work in London and Wales, wliero ner missions aro established, and many interesting things written about her personality. The primary cause of this notable English woman's presence in America is tho convention of the World's W. C. T. U. in Boston, from Xovember 10 to 18, inclusive. Against her contemplated visit, Mrs. Mair and other ladies are making preparations. An advisory telegram will announce tho hour of her arrival on Satur day. On Sunday she will speak to the W. C. T. U. of Allegheny county in the Smithfield M. E. Church at 3:30, ana in the evening Lady Henry will make an address in the same church at 7:30. This, as her let ter says, tfill be somewhat in the nature of n message from the British iron workers of Great Britain to the British iron workers in Pittsburg. A general response is expected from tins sterling element of our city. Social Chatter. Miss Mabgabet Sloan, daughter of Dr. J. M. Sloan, chief pension physician' of Monon gahela City, was married yesterday to W. W. Medill, M. D., of-Douvcr. Col. The cere mony was performed at 3 o'clock in the First Presbyterian Church' by the Rev. Dr. Max well. The ushers wore Denver friends of Dr. Medill. Tho maid of honor was Miss Carrie Reinhart, of Lebanon, Pa., and a number of young women of Monongahela were tho bridemaids. The Xew York Symphony Club gave a concert at Carnegio Hall last evening, and was well attended. The programme in cluded Charles F. Hiegins, Miss Enrichetta Edica. Miss Agnes Florian, Rudolph Von Scarpa and II. Cornelius. Mb. and Mas. Henrv A. Davis, of Sewlck ley, have issued invitations for a reception, Friday, Xovember 13. Dr. and Mrs. Medill leave in a few days for Denver. 70URHALISTIC JABS. See the Tiger lick his chops. Sew York Advertiser. Colosel Alles and W. E. Russell can now shake again Boston Seles. Mb. Tiji Healy should change his name to Dennis. St. Louis Chronicle. To the .beaten: Accept defeat philosoph ically and stop holding autopsies. Philadel phia Press. It is presumed that the voting population of Cork must contain a great many floaters. Boston Herald. v Xot all the Lodge scarecrows, nor all the Lodge men, can e'er set young Allen up again: Boston Globe. ' The friends of Columbus insist that it is a Columbian, not Chicago fair. Let him havo the credit. SU Paul Globe. Cavtaiw Schley has been earning his salarjr lately by his industry in the making of war like reports. Sew York. Telegram. "Tee man recovered from tho bite, it was the cfog that died." The Democracy are doing even better than could be expected Brooklgn Eagle. New Jersey is Democratic . again. 'Tis well. The Republican party doesn't wish to bo held responsible for all the, sins Xew Jersey has to answer tor. Philadelphia Inquirer HEAT HANUFACTUBE. It Is More Wasteful in the United States Than Jiecessary. The Century. Meat Is a manufactured product for which a largo amount of raw material is required. The manufacture 'of meat is a process of transforming the vegetable protein, fats and carbohydrates of grass and grain Into the animal protein and fat of beef, pork and mutton. The same principle applies in tho prodnctlon of milk, oggs and other animal foods. In tho most economical feeding of animals it takes a number of pounds of bay or corn to make a pound of beef or pork. In other words, let tho farmer make animal protein and fat from vegetable materials in the best way he cm, and still he must con sumer large quantity of soil product to pro duce a small amount of animal food. Hence animal foods are costlier than vegetable. This is the simple explanation of the fact that in most parts of the world meat is the food or only the well-to-do, while the poor live almost entirely on vegetable food. Thus ' ordinary people in Europo eat but littlo meat, and in India and China they have none at all. It is hard enough' for them, to get the nutriment they need in vegetable forms. Meats they cann ot afford. J3ut meat-making in the United States to day is far more wasteful than it need be, on account of the excessive fatness of our meats. This comes about very naturally. We have a great excess of soil-product in the valleys of the Ohio and Mississippi and on the ranches of the West. At present the pork-maker and tho ranchman convert a large portion of this into very fat meat. The producers of the great corn growing States select the breeds of swine which, as they say, -will take the most corn to market," and havo thus got into the way of growing animals that are little else than fat. The beef-growers of tho Western ranches, and those in the East as well, produce ex cessively fat meat. Part of tho fat is trim med out of tho meat by the butcher, part is left on our plates at the table to go to the soap-man or garbage-barrel, and part i eaten. Unfortunately very many of us eat much more than fat, both "in meat and but ter, than is needed for nourishment, and thus do injury to our health. "WHEEE THE BISHOPS 00. Assignments Blade by the Board to tbe Coming Annual Conferences. Cincinnati, Nov. 5. The Board of Bishops of tho Methodist Episcopal Church has made the following assignments of Presid ing Bishops to the annual conferences for the next six months: Bishop Stephen M. Merrill, Atlanta, Jan uary 13; Anniston, Ala., January 20:Hunts ville, Ala., January 2, and Columbus, Miss., February 3. Bishop William F. Mallalieu, Meriden.Miss., January 6; New Orleans, Jan nary 13; Littlo Rock, January 20; Van Buren, Ark., January 27. Bishop Randall Foster, Baltimore, March 2; Flattsburg, X. Y., April 15. Bishop John P. Newman, Oklahoma, January 7; Chillicothe, 3fo., March 2; St. Louis, March 9; Carthago, Mo., March 1C. Bishop Edward G. Andrews, York, Fa., March 9; Wilmington, Del., March IB. Bishop Bishop Vincent, Xcw Brunswick, X. 0., March 10; Salisbury, Md., March 24. Bishop James X. Fitzgerald, Anderson, Ind., March 30; Brooklvn, April 6, and East Maine, Apx-il 13. Bishop William X. Xinde, Jacksonville, Fla., January 13; Fornandino, Fla., January 20: Orangeburg, S. C., February 3; Xewman, Ga., January 27. Bishop Henry Warren, Kansas City. Kan., March 2; Ottawa, Kan., March 9: Winflcld, Kan., March 1; Con cordia, Kan., March 23. Bishop hn 31. Wnl den,Falls Church.Va., March 2; FhiladelDhia, March 9; Indianapolis, March 23. Bishop Daniel A. Goodscll, Wyoming, March 3; Brooklyn, March 30: Augusta, 31c, April 13. Elshon Thomas Bowman. Morristown. X. J.. March 30; Utica, X. Y., April 13. Bishop John F. Hurst, Xcw England, April 6: Lynchburg, V., April 9; Haverhill, Mass., April 13. Bishop Cyrus D. Foss, Philadelphia, X. Y., March 30; Xcw Bedford, Mass., April 6; Mont pelier, Vt., Anril 13. The foreign confer ences are assigned as follows: To Bishop Taylor, Africa; to Bishop Thoburn, India; io Bishop I. W. Joyce, Frankfort. Germany, June 30: Palermo orlernl, July 6: Drammea, Norway, July 28; Coteburg, Sweden, August 1; Lausanne, Switzerland, June 23. CUSTOM UNDERVALUATIONS. Goods That Are to AH Intents Smuggled Into the Country. San Francisco Chronicle. If a large quantity of Sumatra tobacco has been allowed to pay duty at 33 cents a pound when it should pay $2 75 a pound, there is a screw loose somewhere. The tobacco has been,- to all inteuts, smuggled into the coun try, and should bo dealt with like other smuggled goods. While theio is no differ ence in the ethical quality of smuggling, whether one thing or another evade, the payment of duties, there is a very great dif ference in the practical aspect of tbe matter. A man, for instance, who smuggles io a suit of clothes for himself defrauds the revenue, but that is the end of it. He derives the benefit of his act, but he does not take any thing from anybody but tho Government. The tobacco man, on the contrary, who can get tobacco in at 35 cents which should pay $2 7J, not only makes a profit out of the Gov ernment, but an undne profit out of his cus tomers, for he sells to them at the same rate that ho would have sold had he paid the full duty of $2 7j. It is the same with all other kinds of smuggled merchandise. The successful smuggler robs the Government and then in turn robs his customers. He undersells his business rivals by just enough to secure trade, as he Can easily do with the manrin which the non-payment of duties gives him, and yet charges tho buyer an exorbitant price in view of the actual cost gf the things sold. Probably it will take some pretty sharp lessons to break up smuggling In this city. It is said that it has been growing of late, and that frauds and evasions of the revenue have increased very much. An ex ample should bo made of all detected smugglers, no matter who they may be, In order to break up the practice as soon as possible. ON THE TOP KUNG. Secketaey Foster has returned to Washington, no was in Ohio watching the election. Mrs. Paknei.Ii 13 not dying. On the contrary she is recovering, although she is said to bo still prostrated with grief. Major "William DiCKEr, known in Aroostook county as "The Duke of Kent," is one of tho most picturesque figures among the pioneers and politicians of Maine. Samuel H. Ixgebsoll, of Minnesota, met his twin brother, John B., at Xutley, Dak., the other day. ,They are 75 years old, and had not seen each other for 33 years. The Duke of Xorfolk has taken his deaf, dumb and blind 12-year-old son to the shrine at Lourdes, France, noping to secure a miraculous cure for the unfortunate child. The-Chilean Minister in "Washington is described as a rich, dapper and bandbox like gentleman. He is small and delicate, and doesn't care much about discussing in ternational matters. " Just like a woman. Emma Thursby tried to ship her baggage from British Co lumbia to Chicago, and got it aboard a schooner bound to Japan and China. What was worse, it sailed away.. The supposition that St. Gaudens is the only sculptor to whom General Sherman sat for a bust is, the Boston Transcript declares, erroneous. It says that Sherman gavo numerous long sittings to Franklin Sim mons, the American sculptor, in Rome. Kathalixi Chebueiski, the Siberian Frinccss, has arrived in San Francisco. She is only 14 years old, and took the trip on the Russian schooner Leon from Petropau looski, where she residos. Her father is a Swede and her mother a Kamtchatkan Princess. The most curious character on the Island of Borneo is tho white Sultan or Rajah of Sara wall." He is an Englishman, Sir Charles Brppke, and tho United States is the only nation that recognizes his sovereignty. Ho rules over a part of Borneo as large as Ire laud, and his subjects pay tribute to him in rice. The Issue in Doubt. Xew York Telegram. Election is over, but it is not so easy as might be supposed to pronounco exactly what issue has been settled in the State. Judges on Deck Again. Boston Herald. The United States Supreme Court judges aro all on deck again and aro prepared to dispatch business, Flatjustitial . OUE MAIL POUCH. IngaUV Jefferson's "Inconsistency.'' To the Editor of The Dispatch: YourXew Brighton correspondent, in de fending ex-Senator Ingalls, who Is charged with misquoting the Declaration of Inde pendence in a lecture delivered in Boston, displays a vigorous grasp on old-time methods of logic. The quotation which was published in The Dispatch was a reprint from a flipping of a Boston papor.whose editor is in political sympathy with Mr. Ingalls and should have no reason to misquote that effervescent gentleman. Your correspondent flies to the rescue or tho sparkling orator and says it was "somethln'T he did not say," and then proceeds to settlo the v matter by this very original and exceedingly uniqne method of closing the case: "We venture to assert that he (Ingalls) did not in Boston misquote that famous instru ment as reported in the newspapers." It is difficult to see Just what can be set up' to offset this courageous "venture," which has stopped on mere denial. It puts the newspapers in as bad plight as it places tho .undersigned, as it was on their authority that the writer, as your corre spondent puts it, "called ex-Senator Ingalls to account." Bnt, as there is no getting beyond or be hind, over or under this adamantine "we venture to assert," abont. all that can be done, is to swallow one's "excited wrath" and "learned indignation" and retire from tliis part of the controversy as gracefully as possible. As those who did not hear the declaration misquoted aro vastly in the majority, that probably is a settler. Tho following in its wav is a gem: "That all men are created eqnnl by their Creator; this has reference simply to bring ing them into being and has no connection to what follows." Indcedl As this seems to ignore such constructive proposition's are involved in complex and compound sentences and modifying clauses, it may be necessary to rearrange some of our modern conceptions of the common -principles and rules of English grammar. After our critic has thus given ns n sample of the suppleness and elasticity of his logic, he comes back with this specimen of bis aerial fancy: We are. therefore. In view of all the stubborn facts of hlstorv and especially the one that Jefler sou. with o'.he'r leading men of the day. laid the foundations of our Government, In part, on the corner-stone of a barbarous Institution, which lias been well characterized as the sum of all villainies, and which even tualiv drenched his country in fra ternal blood, we are driven to the conclusion that Thomas Jefferson equally with the modern poli tician, was prone to indulge in rhetoric and unn combe. quite as much, if not more, than ill fact ann 111 principle. Alia we leei sale in sayuiK mat. in declaiming on the equality and lualieuahle rights of man. while at the same tlmehewas dealing in human belugss though they were born only equal and endowed with no higher rights than the beasts of the Held. Thomas Jefferson affords an historic example or inconsistency which th most reckless and audai-ious of statesmen of the present day will not dare to imitate. Mr. Jefferson, "with the other leading men of his day," including snch men as the great father of his conntry, was not to blame for his unavoidable environment. The great Washington was also boru to the heritage of that "barbarous institution," but the men of that period must be judged, as all men arfd measures must be, if judged justly, by their relations and surrounUings.. Both the men mentioned had slaves, "had dealing in human beings as though they were born only eqnal and endowed with no higher rights than tho beasts of tho field." They were not to blame for the sentiment into which they were born and which had come down to them through gen erations of Christian ancestors. It was grand in Jefferson, that his voice rose higher than and superior to his sur roundings, ahd while himself a victim to perpetrating 11 wrong, he yet had the moral courage to proclaim the inalienaole rights of man. This is what the pioneer of right and truth must do, however "inconsistent" it may appear to those who view the situa tion and get the Kink and warp of a distort ing lens Wrenched from the circumstances and conditions under which it was extended, how would the great proclamation or emancipatiqn appear a centurv hence? When by its terms the assailants of the nation's life were asked to lay down their arms, retire from the contest, come back into our common nationality and that they might then hold their "barbarous institution" intact! This too, after they kindled the fratricidal flame, after years of tho shock of war and while they stood red-handed and ready, and not in the panoply of patriotism, as they stood in Jefferson's time! Will Lincoln, "greatest of our mighty dead, whoso memory is as gentle as the summer air when reapers sing amid tho gathered sheaves," will he also now, for this, "present an historic example of in consistency which the most reckless and audacious statesman of tbe present day will not dare to imitate?" Must he too, in later years, when the smoko has cleared away, when the air is clear and quiet calm prevails, have ignorant obloquy attempt to bombard his revered character and immortal' fame? X. Wamtom, Xovember 4, 1891. TO LIFT THE SMOKE. Xew York Is Urged to Use Fetrolenm In stead of Coal. Xew York Advertiser. If burning petroleum will lift tho pall of smoke which too often hangs over the city, then let us bum petroleum in our big furnaces.- The Chicago Tribune announces that several large concerns in that city which have been making experiments with oil as fuol are satisfied with the results, not only in the matter of cleanliness, but economy, and are now preparing to change from coal to petroleum. The largest of these are the Chicago City Railway Company, tho West Division Street Railway Company and the Chicago Sugar Refining Company. These establishments have been thethief offenders iu tho matter of smoke producing, and the vigilance of the Smoke Inspector had some thing to do with the changn in the method of firing their boilers. Perhaps a little vigilance in the same direction in this cily would not bo without good results. While Xew York has less to complnin of in the matter of smoke than many other cities, there is still too much df the evil here, and it should be abated as far as possible. The greatest oil field this country has ever known Is now being developed near Pitts burg. Wells producins above 10,000 barrels a day have been opened np. Many thousand barrels of oil have gone to waste, and many thousand more are likely to. If this is a better fuel than coal, let it bo utilized. The producers of petroleum will welcome a new 'market for their product. With an ap parently inexhaustible supply in the fields of Pennsylvania and Ohio, there need, per haps, be no fear that there will not be plenty of the new fuel for many years to come. TALK OP TnE TIMES. Russia has made a contract for 2,000,000 rifles to be ready in JSD1. This gives invent ors at least two years to discover a new en gine of death. that shall make this variety of rifle obsolete.' Chicago Times. Or else the in ventors may find some kind of armor that its balls cannot penetrate.. The sum of $1,000,000 is not large for a great city like Chicago to run in debt. Chicago Sews. Xo, it is not large for Chicago, but other great cities don't envy her this posses sion. Those roosters got out of their inclosnre yesterday, and, seeing a flock of wild geese high in the air, flew South with them. This climate was to chilly for them. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. They were probably of the wrong variety. If they had been a little more game they might have crowedjust orico anyway. if the Pacific coast people did not get all the fighting they wanted in the Civil War, they will have Chile handy in case we come to blows with that pugnacious but ill-in formed country. Kansas City Star. Tnrn nDouc is oniy lair piay. xn 13 tue Jacillc coast's turn now. The Grand Old Man tells the people of tho United Kingdom that Parliament could get along nicoly without the lords. But how would the lords get along? This is a part of the problem that Mr. Gladstone does not ap pear to have solved. Milwaukee Journal. Perhaps Mr. Gladstone has lost interest in the lords and don't care what becomes of them. Emin Pasha is going to be lost again, if ho has to break a leg trying to get there. He is about to explore a country never yet visited by civilized man. ChicagoSews. Could he not be induced' to explore Chile to see what really is the matter down there. Rev. C. A. A Taylor, n Florida Methodist, says hell is Just 53 miles below the surface of the earth. William G. Thompson and the late Mike Dee combat this opinion and locate the place risht here in Detrol fc Detroit Jour-, naU , Rev. Mr. Taylor Is a Chicago man. What is the use In trying to deprive Chicago of any of its honors? CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS t Throughout the entire world about 35,- 000,000 people die every year. . A "Washington girl killed a 400pound, bear last week. He was destroying tbe sheep, when she went to the rescue of the flock. A meteorite, found a few weeks ago in the rotten roots of a willow tree at Lysablld, Denmark, was seen-by tho finder to fall into . the treo in August, 1843. The custom of sending souvenir cards at Christmastide hasbeen declining in England for several years, and the indications aro that it will soon die out. In future the kilted Highland regiments of the British army will be supplied with seven yards of tartan per man for kilts, in stead of five yards as heretofore. The first ship's doctor on record is be lieved to have been St. Luke, who is shown by recent research to have been a physician in the Troad- when he first met St. Paul. A runaway lopomotive on theBlairs town (X. J.) Railroad beat aH previous re-, cords last Friday by making the 12 miles be tween Bairdstown and Portland in sir min utes. A Hebrew paper printed in this city declares that every Hebrew young woman should resolve to dress plainly, and thus tieble her chances of getting married within a year. The latest and most gigantic hunting story comes from Caithness, Scotland, where, it fs said, a lad of 16 years performed the extraordinary feat of killing two stags with one shot. , A Flint man named Osbund claims to havo resided in Michigan longer than an7 other person not born in tho State. He went there in 1823,, living for many yeara at Xankin, Vayno county. "Within the past month work and wages have been offered to tho Russian Hebrew exiles by 3,5:0 industrial establishments, fac tories and mining corporations through the United Hebrew Charities. Western "Washington loggers tell of an immense log, recently floated down the Snoqualmie river, which Ave oxen had diffi culty in hauling. It was a fir log, 32 feet in length and S3 inches in diameter at the largest end. Moose are so very plentiful in North ern Maine that, as a sportsman can legally kill but one in in a season, it is some thing of a disappointment to throw away the only chance on an undersized or lean ani mal, or one with poor antlers. A French journal announces a cure for. obesity. This is to never eat more than ono dish at each meal, no matter what that dish may be, and a person may consume a suffi cient quantity to fully satisfy the appetite. Xo condiments, soups or desserts aro to be allowed. The salaries of Mayors throughout the British Kingdom show this list: Liverpool, .2.700: Cardiff, 750: Bristol, 7i'K); Swansea, JC300; Gloucester, 240: Bath. 200; Preston, 150; Canterbnrv, 110: Ipswich, 103: rjov; entry, X 100; Lichfield, 63; Oxford, 32 10s Walsall, 00. "Athletic lung" is a medical terra used to designate the abnormal development of lung posseted by some athletes. The condi tion is produced by those forms of exercise that call for the constant use of the lungs at their bfcrhest power. The result Is an enor mous development of lung capacity. To the long list of food fishes caught in Oregon waters is to be added tho mackerel. Fivo fishes that looked to' be mackerel were caught at Astoria ono day last week, two off tue wnananu tnren in a uoat. une 01 tue fishes will bo sent to the Smithsonian Insti tution. Washington, to decide upon, its classification. A war of extermination on "Euglhlj sparrows will begin, in Illinois on December. 1 next, when a law passed by the last Lesis-I lature, offerirfgabonntyof 2centsaheadforl sparrows coos into effect. The Secretary of 1 State or Illinois is now sending out illus trated descriptions of the English sparrow to every locality in the State. Only three golden eagles were eyer shot in Maine so far as known. The last of these was killed last week in a field a few miles cast of Bangor. .The eacle was discovered feasting upon a lamb by a fanner. Two foxes came along and attempted to joiq in tbe feast, but the great bird fought them off and continued its meal until the farmer put a stop to the banquet with his shotgun. A wealthy Georgia farmer lias liad bad luck in his matrimonial ventures. Abont 20 years ngo he was engaged to the daughter of a neighbor. The day before the date-set for the wedding the girl decided she did not wish to marry and tho engagement ' was broken.. Four or five years ago he married the daughter of his old flame, and recently she eloped with the farmer's hired man. There is now said to be no animal or bird in the Central Parte menngerio that docs not eat peanuts. Mnny species in tbe cages wera nt first much averse to peanuts, but the persistence of tho children in forcing them upon every creature there has has had such an effect that even tho lions and the. pelicans, and everything except tho snakes. have felt obliged to acquire the peanut habit. A remarkable fish was recently cap tured off the Ardglais const, Connty Down. According to Land and Water, "it was three quarters of a pound in weight, and had a head similar to that of a pike. From the gills to the tail on either side there was a bright blue band: the top3 of the tail fins were also a bright blue, and around the head and shoulders there was a network of deep blue lines, which gave the fish a very com ical, unnatural aspect." It is unknown to fishermen of that section. , Among the many hermits in Maine, John Hallou, of Key's Corner, in Wakefield, is the queerest. He lives in a tumble-down hut, through the roof of which rain and snow, sunlight and starlight have easy access. Ho cooks his own lood. makes' his own bed and does all the work about his "estate," including the care of an emaciated horse. He believes in witches, and every night, despite his 70 years, he mounts guard with a shotgun to shoot any hobgoblins that may issue from the hedges. A few days ago two girls, both handy with a ropo or gnu. were riding along tbe highway in Rocky Canon, when unex pectedly they met a bear, says the Wilbur Register. They did not faint or even offer to run. On tho contrary, they drew straws to see which would get the first hug. They had often heard of tho hugging qualities of a bear, but had never had an opportunity or testing the truth of tho statement. During the controversy, however, the bear "took a tumble" and climbed a friendly tree. Of course the girls could not condescend to climb a tree, so one of them rode several miles after a rifle, and in a few minutes after her return the bear was lying on tho ground dead. JOKELETS FROM JCDGE. Fanning Chadwick says few genealogies are as flawless as his. Channlng It runs back to the time of Edward tbe Confessor with but a single flaw. Fanning Some doubt as to a younger or elder branch? Channlng Yes; his grandfather was a foundling. "One after another we see them pass Down the dim-lighted stair; We hear the sound of their steady tread In the steps or the centuries long since dead. As beautiful and as fair." " First "Walking, Delegate "What'll we do. Jake? Everybody's contented, an' I can't git no one t strike fer love or money. Second Waiting Delegate I've got It. Casey, over in th' stoncyard, ' hoistin' rock by horse power. Let'&go over an' agiute th' horse. Gazzam The style of hanging the framed marrianc certllkate In the parlor is not followed in cnicao. Madaox Xo; the parlors aro usually only of the'. average size. She Has she treated you falsely and broVen off the engagement? . He Xo; that's the trouble. She keeps heren-' gagements all of them, you know. "What's the matter inside, Gabriel?',' asked Peter as he heard shout! inside the gate. . Charles I. Is kicking the stufflng out of Crom well and smashing his halo." '" Mrs. Cumso (to 0-year-old daughter). But are yon sure that this Utile girl you have been playing with Is of a respectable family? ' ' Mabel Oh, yes. inueeu. uer papa auu iiiaiiim& have onlv one child. "What ho, for the'crackle and tingle that1 -ft come when the weather grows sharp: When the world moves' along to a jingle and time drops his scythe for a harp. When sparks through the chimney go dancing and snowflakes with terror are tossed. When rainbows through lcc-gems are jhraclng- what ho, for the season of frost? " "Yon claim descent from one of the first families of Virginia. 1 believe." . ' "Yes: oar crest Is a representation of a scene in the Garden of Edcs." && i&& -
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