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TWELVEPAGES
THi! JURISDICTION EVASION.
The significance of the action of the
Senate in resorting to the plea of "no
jurisdiction," which yesterday's proceed
ings showed to be the slated programme,
is that the case is one in which that body
hardly dares to do the -whitewashing work
outlined in the report of the majority of
the Legislative Investigating Committee.
In order to evade action by the jurisdic
tion plea the Senate has to stultify itself,
nullify its own precedents and misread the
Constitution. But deliberate considera
tion has brought it to the conclusion that
it is better to do that than challenge pub
lic criticism by a vote declaring that the
accused officials have done nothing to call
for their removal.
.In the first place, the Senate took juris
diction by proceeding with the case. If it
had no jurisdiction every day's session for
the past three weeks was a monstrous
waste of time and money. Next, as the
Attorney General clearly showed, juris
diction in exactly similar "cases has been
taken heretofore without hesitation, and
it is only when the party managers are in
desperate straits that it is questioned.
Finally, the language of the Constitution
is a clear answer to all pleas as to juris
diction, and it is only by ignoring the
plain meaning of the section under which
the Senate is called upon to act that the
cover of this jurisdiction plea can be re
sorted to.
The plain meaning of the Senate's ac
tion is that the party management has
issued its edict that the juggling with the
State funds shall not be punished, or the
officials whose favoritism and neglect of
the laws have caused an immense loss be
removed from the power- to do further
harm. In carrying out that edict the fly
iug in the face of public opinion involved
in noting that nothing has been done
worthy of removal is avoided by the dodge
of declaring that the Senate has not juris
diction. There is really little difference
between the two lines of action; but the
politicians' idea that the people are easily
hoodwinked leads to the device of this
shallow evasion.
It is discreditable to Pennsylvania that
the vices of its political system should
lead to such official jobbery as has been
exposed by the Bardsley scand?,L It is
still more discreditable that the majority
of the Senate is so subservient to political
dictation that it evades the public duty of
stopping such abuses by the pitiful and
transparent evasion that has been de
cided upon.
BRAZIL'S CIYJX TROUBLES.
The situation in Brazil is becoming
more serious and Fonseca will probably
find that his experiment of declaring him
self Dictator is more costly than he antici-e
pated. Already the most populous State
in the nation, Bahia, is considering the ad
visability of throwing off the yoke of al
legiance. Other States have taken this
step and if Bahia follows in their footsteps
it immediately raises what might have
been merely a revolution to the dig
nity of a civil war of no small proportions.
Descended from the Portuguese who,
when they settled Brazil, were a brave and
warlike people, the Brazilians possess a
capability for fighting which, when turned
against their own countrymen, is bound to
be productive of a long and fierce conflict
It will be a pity if this should take plaoe,
Brazil is fast coming to the front as a
country of great productiveness and possi
bilities, and a civil war, such as is possible,
is a disaster more serious than earthquake,
fire or famine.
AN ILLUSTRATION ON SOCIALISM.
An aspect of the road question which
has probably occurred to very few people
is none the less worth the consideration
of thinkers. It is the illustration it gives
of the much vaunted theories of the State
Socialists.
The theory of the State Socialists is
that present social evils will be much
mitigated, if not wholly suppressed, by
placing in the ownership of the public the
means of transportation and inter-communication,
and all the branches of ser
vice which supply an entire community
from a single plant, like gas and water
works. Railroads and street railroads are
especially marked for public ownership
by this school the railroads by the State
or.nation, the street lines by the city pi
town.
Xow it happens that In the countiy
roads there is a splendid illustration of the
actual workings of this theory. They are
owned by the public They are univer
sally used by the public, and the duty of
maintaining and caring for them is also
laid upon the public The result of the
latter fact is that, not in isolated locali
ties, but as a rule all over the nation,
from Maine to Texas and from Florida to
Oregon, the work of maintenance and re
pair is not done. Public money is spent in
the pretense of doing it to a certain extent:
but the vital fault of a system of manage
ment in which the penalties of bad work
and the reward of good work are not im
posed on those directing it is that we are
practically a nation without roads.
While the railways furnish a gigantic
illustration of many modern abuses in this
respect they show the opposite effect of
the system of interested management
The system requires theailroads to keep
their tracks in repair, otherwise the cor
porations operating them would speedily
be wiped out "Where there is a commer
cial demand for a new railroad capital
sends a line, sometimes in anticipation of
the demand. The abuses' of the railroad
sstcm, like preferential rates, local dis
criminations, pooling and the rest of the
list, are not to be ignored; but their exist
ence is due to failure to insist on the pub
lic obligations of the highway as much
where it is under corporate control as
under political management
The illustration of this principle takes
us back to the country roads again. There
was a time. when a respectable percentage
of roads were improved and operated by
corporations. The early turnpike and
plank-road corporations may have pre
sented a mild and rudimentary illustration
of the modern corporate abuses, of inside
contracts, but they were whollyfree from
the great public injustice of discrimina
tions and pooling. This was because the
character of the public highway was main
tained In the right of every man to use his
own vehicle, such as was suited to the
character of the roadway. It is worth re
membering that as a rule the best roads
were those maintained by corporations.
The lapse, with but few exceptions, of
these roads to public ownership has been
an involuntary adoption of the Socialist
policy, and the result has been a distinct
retrograde in the character of the roads.
The State Socialists are right in the view
that there are many things in our corpo
rate system that require amendment, but
with the example of our country roads
before them, it is difficult to see how they
can advocate public ownership as an im
provement on any condition.
A CONTRAST IN VALUATIONS.
The marked difference between the
prices at which people value their land
for sale and that at wJiich they value it for
taxation has attracted attention at sporadic
intervals heretofore. But Allegheny City
has a case which casts all its predecessors
in the shade, and which may also bear
fruit in the matter of assessed valuations.
During the excitement connected with
the location of a new postoffice site there,
a very striking appreciation of realty was
noted. The fact that the United States
Government was the purchaser created a
belief in the minds of property owners
that their sections of terra firma were
exceedingly valuable. The assessors have
made the discovery that in most cases the
valuation for taxation is one-third to one
half the valuation when a purchase was
proposed, and the rectification of such
cases, with a general revision of tax, valua
tions, is expected to raise the total of Alle
gheny's valuations fifty per cent
Still, over here in Pittsburg, it looks as
if the Allegheny assessors should not raise
a fuss over a little thing like that The
prices asked for the property needed for
an extension of the jail reveal the fact
that the owners think it is worth, when
the county wishes to buy it five times
what it is when the county wishes to tax
it Before this glaring discrepancy the
Allegheny contract hides its diminished
head.
It needs no argument to show that there
should be greater harmony between valu
ations of land for taxation and valuations
for sale. There can be no law to restrain
a man's privilege to put a prohibitory
price on his property to private purchas
ers; but, might it not have salutary effect
if the law should make the tax valuation
the basis for valuation wherever land is
needed by condemnation under the right
of eminent domain for public purposes?
OUR BRAZILIAN RELATIONS.
It is rather petulantly remarked by the
New York Tribune that:
The Anglomaniacs among us who have
been harassed by tho success of the reci
procity policy, are now abusing President
Fonseca o-tlieir-hearts' content and wonder
ing whether the State Department will rec
ognize the military dictatorship. They will
probably come to their senses in a few days
and admit that it is not the function of
American diplomacy to interfere in any
way with the domestic 'affairs of South
American countries. President Fonseca was
legally elected and now represents the only
dc facto Government in Brazil. The State
Department will naturally continue its re
lations with him as though nothing had
happened.
If it is Anglomania to draw a sharp dis
tinction between military dictatorships and
popular self-government, it is proper to'
offer up thanks that this nation from its
earliest foundation has been Governed on
Anglomaniac principles. Otherwise it is
difficult to see what relevaney the refer
ence to Anglomania by the organ of the
Anglomaniac plutocracy has to the Brazil
ian question.
Xor indeed is it much plainer what perti
nence there is in setting up a man of
straw, in the shape of an alleged proposal
that the United States shall "question the
validity of his action in suspending the
sessions of Congress," solely for the sake
of overthrowing it No one has proposed
either to do that or to cease to treat Fon
seca as the de facto ruler of Brazil.
But a very little attention to the
lessons of experience should en
able our Government to remem
ber that, if the representative branch of
the Brazilian Government should deter
mine to assert popular rights it is not the
part of this Government to treat it as "in
surgents or rebels." Nor is it the part of
this country to let its diplomatic and naval
representatives establish close terms of in
timacy or friendship with a professed
usurper of absolute power.
Beyond that, as this country somewhat
prematurely and indiscreetly bubbled with
enthusiasm over what was alleged to be
the establishment of popular government
in Brazil, it is no more than our right to
make an equally prominent recognition of
the fact that the popular government was
a pretense; that Fonseca, under the dis
guise of a republic, concealed a military
rule more arbitrary than Dom Pedro's
ever was, and that he has now thrown all
disguise aside and rules simply by the title
of a military usurper.
CIVIL RIGHTS AT THE BAR.
It should be understood that the award
of damages to the extent of several hun
dred dollars to T. Thomas Fortune, the
able editor of the colored organ of New
Tork, as a result of a refusal to sell him a
drink in a fashionable saloon did not arise
from that cause. At least it is so stated
by the Commercial Adcertiser, which de
clares that the Judge's charge based the
claim for damages on the fact that when
the editorial gentleman of color remon
strated against-the deprivation of his alco
holic refreshment the floor was needlessly
wiped with his editorial person,and he was
lugged off to ignominious incarceration.
The "New York law, according to our
cotemporary, rests a large discretion in
the saloon keeper with regard to the dis
pensing of spirituous beverage. He may
refuse a man a drink because he has red
hair, because he votes the wrong ticket or
because his clothes do not sit on him to
suit the fastidious taste of the Boni
face. But he has not the right, if the
person refused wishes to discuss the
grounds of refusal to use thejdjsputant's
person for a floor-mop or to escape the
logical consequences of the argument by
casting the debater into durance vile.
Hence the damages, which have fully
made up to the able T. Thomas Fortune
for his inability to get that drink.
Nevertheless, we would not advise our
.dispensers of alcoholic stimulants to fol
low this construction of the New York
law by courteous refusals of the Afro
American applications for drink. The
New York theory may not jibe with the
Pennsylvania theory. In this State, as is
well known, all our saloons exist for the
entertainment of the traveling public In
order that the wayfarer may be. cared for
duly and orderly, it is tho duty of the
licensed retailer to reject the applications
of minors, females, drunkards and dis
orderly characters; but there is no author
ity for refusing a man a drink because his
hair is red or his skin tawny. On
the other hand, in the theory of the law,
colored travelers from the regions of lower
Allegheny to the wilds of Fulton street,
Pittsburg, have the same claim for spirit
uous refreshment as the white voyager
from the East End to the Jungles of Dia
mond street
At all events the average Pittsburg sa
loon keeper will, upon application, give
the colored citizen his drink for the usual
consideration on a strictly cash basis.
Whether the colored citizen might not,
however, justly claim damages for the
quality of the. whisky he gets is another
question.
For a devout believer in the principle
that its political opponents are desperately
wicked, commend us to the Elmlra, N. Y.,
Adertiser. Here are a few of the evil deeds
which it charge to the desperate "free trade
advocates": "Thoy have stirred rip trouble
in Chile. They have created a baseless
panic in Brazil. They have undertaken the
same thing in Cuba." Under which circum
stances we shonld say that the task of sup
pressing them lay decidedly with the Span
ish American peoples.
Jebkv Simpson's prediction that the
People's Party would cast 150,000 votes and
the reality of 12,000 warn the cometary
statesman from Kansas that the political
prophet, who makes a success, is he who re
strains his prophecies until the vote is
counted.
The antipodal people are determined to
lead the world in new political ideas. New
Zealand proposes to leavy a progressive
land tax and an income tax either pro
gressive or proportional. The theory of the
new scheme of taxation, which is urged by
the labor party, is attractive, but the rest of
the world will be likely to wait and see what
its practical results are after some years of
trial before following New Zealand's ex
ample. The naval-court of inquiry has exoner
ated the officers who wrecked the Despatch.
Nothing further remains to be done unless
the court should adopt a voto of censure on
Assateag'ue shoals for getting in the Des
patch's TJourso.
According to the sworn statement of
Boswell P. Flower, Governor-elect of New
York, his entire contributions to the cam
paign, "directly or indirectly, bv himself or
any other persons," were a check of $5,000 to
the State Executive Committee last October.
According to the-asseverations of the Re
publican organs they foot up $500,000. Who
can account for this remarkable discrep
ancy of $195,000.
The cyclone of Audaman and the earth
quake of Japan should mako us thankful
that we live in a quarter of the world whose
cyclones-by comparison are brisk breeze3
and whose earthquakes are gentle tremors.
Now, we are invited to give our attention -to
the tradition that on Martinmas Day,
which is to-day, certain infallible weather
signs are to be noted. If the trees have re
tained their foliage until to-day there will
be a cold winter; and if the geese slip on ice
to-day, they will walk in mud at Christmas.
The geese and trees will please take notice
and govern themselves accordingly.
To the constitutional doubters of the
Senate: If your dignified body has no Juris
diction what have you been, wasting yonr
time and the State's money about, during
the past four weeks?
The late campaign was more than usually
prolific of libel suits, for an off year. Judge
McAdam, of. New York, has sued John I.
Davenport for defamation of character, in
some remarks made by the latter with re
gard to the former's conduct of naturaliza
tion proceedings. And the Judge indicates
that he' is in earnest by bringing suit after
the election.
If the Administration repairs all the ves
sels of the navy with its presont reckless
haste the question to bother the politicians
will be: What good will the navy yards be
In 1892?
The remarkable contrast between the
prices "asked for postoffice sites and the
valuations of the same land for taxation has
attracted the attention of the assessors in
Allegheny. A similar discrepancy with re
gird to the land wanted for a Jail extension
may have a corresponding effect on this
side of the river.
Indian summer has been all too brief,
if it does not return to us after the passing
storms.
Noticing a comment in the Buflalo
Courier about an experiment in the flax in
dustry to be conducted by "a Scotchman
from Egypt," the reader is irresistibly lead
to the inquiry whether the enterprising ex
perimenter must not be distantly related to
the proverbial Italian from Cork.
SNAP SHOTS JN SEASON.
HOESEvyeople should enjoy course din
ners. In driving a bargain you frequently split
the difference.
A blunder buss Kissing the wrong
girt
Evert flower has a thorn, but the lucky
ones can handle them with gloves.
Though Albert Edward, Vic's sole heir,
Doth bear no royal crown, nor,wear
The robes orKifag", he doth loud swear
Because his hairless crown is bare.
Grass wicWws do not have to wear the
weeds, and are usually in clover.
Smoke consumers that don't soot are bet
ter than those that do.
The chrysanthemum girl is in her glory,
but she's not mum by a long shot.
Some think Cleveland will win with
Boies, and others think the little girl is the
best campaign card.
She posed when'er she had a chance,
Looked sweet with eyes half closed;
She chose fresh partners every dance,
Still not one youth proposed.
Some of the wall flowers at the chrysan
themum show came from the pothouse in
stead of the hothouse.
IF drunkenness is a disease, it can be
cured by cutting off the medicine swallowed
by the afflicted.
There's a good deal of shoddy in the
world, and it's not all on the bargain coun
ters, either. .
Marriages are made in heaven, but all
the matches smell of brimstone.
The proper study of mankind -is woman
nowadays.
A sound sleeper The one that snores.
Judging from the sunshiny weather,
Old Sol mast still have his overcoat in
pawn.
ODR MAIL POUCH.
The Processes of Toughening Steel.
To lie Editor ofThe Dispatch: . '
Ever since the first test made some months
ago with' tho 3-inch nickel-steel plates with
hardened surfaces, a vast amount of inter
est has beeC awakened on the process of
surface carbonization, or, as some Eastern
papers are pleased to term it, "Harveyiz
ing." But now a keener Interest is taken in
the subject since the more important tests
of the thicker and heavier plates (dimen
sions, 10f inehes thick, 8 feet high.and 6 feet
wide), took place at Indian Head, on the Po
tomac river, near Washington, D. C, Satur
day, October 31.
It is not my Intention to criticise the Har
vey process nor to dispute their claim to a
discovery for which they have been recent
ly granted patents, but I will say, and. that
roost emphatically, that iron and steel
workers now that they have been let into
the secret-fall to see anything that is new
in it. The principle and r ought to say the
practice was discovered so long ago that
the namo of the discoverer has been forgot
ten. It has been known more than 200 years
that when wrought iron Is enveloped in
powdered charcoal and heated to redness
for a long time it gradually becomes carbon
ized and' converted into steel, the deposi
tion of carbon commencing at the outside
and gradually penetrating inward in pre
cisely the same way as that in which the de
carbonization of iron, proceeds in the manu
facture of malleablo cast iron, a longer time
being consequently requisite for" carboniza
tion of thicker than of thinner bars: the
name of the inventor of this process, how
ever, has been forgotten.
Practiced in the Sixteenth Century.
In the middle of the sixteenth century it
was known that when a bar of wrought iron
was kept immersed a long timo in molten
cast iron it gradually became a derated by
taking up carbon from the cast iron; this
process is closely allied to cementation in
solid carbon, and was probably tho forerun
ner thereof. We may presume that in the
first place it was the result of accidental ob
servation. It was described as being in ac
tual use about that period by various
writers, notably Biringuecio in 1540 andAg
rieola in 1561.
Early in tho eighteenth century Reaumur
investigated the character of the process,
and found that under similar conditions a
bar of Iron of 0.2 inch in thickness was car
bonized in six hours to the same extent as
another bar of the samo metal of 0.45 inch in
thickness in about 36 hours.
Let us i.ee now what relation the -Harvey
process bears to case hardening, which, of
course, means, too, surface carbonization.
Tills operation is essentially the reverse
of that by which cast iron is converted into
malleable iron. In the latter the carbon is
gradually removed, the outer portion being
first affected; In the former carbon is added
to tho exterior layer of a malleablo iron ar
ticle so as to give it great hardness, strength
and power of resisting wear and tear by
superficial conversion into steel.
The Operation Practically Cementation.
As applied tp larger articles in which the
steely coating is required to be of more than
just perceptible thickness, the operation
is essentially that of cementation, the iron
articles being 'packed In an iron chest or
box in charcoal reduced to very coarse
powder (burnt or charred leather, hoofs,
bones, etc., answering best), nnd then
heated to a red heat for a sufficient length
of timo, when tbo chest is withdrawn from
the furnace and tho articles chilled by
quenching in water or oil so as to harden
the exterior coating.
It was the practice before the advent of
steel to carbonize tho surface of the iron
rail, which was effected by tho fo'lowing
method: Charcoal, soda ash, and limestone
crushed small were mixed together in the
proportion of 1 cwt. of the first to one
stone of each of the others, and charged into
the case-hardening furnace between succes
sive tiers of rails. The rails remained in the
furnace 60 hours; when taken out they were
covered with sand till cold. In some of the
rails treated by this process invented by
Dodd, it was found that carbonization ex
tended inward for nearly a quarter of an
inch.
Similar to the Case-Hardcnlng Process.
Kow were I to describe the so-called Har
vey process it would be aside from a few
unimportant details but a repetition of the
description given of the case-hardening
process. In the specifications sent to the
Patent Offlce,we find that great stress is laid
on the manner of oharging the plate in tho
furnace; in imbedding it in finely powdered
clay so that its uijper extreme sur
face only will be exposed. We also find
in case hardening, when only a portion of an
iron object is required to be case hardened,
n coating of clay is applied to that part of
the material not required to be hardened.
This prevents the ready access of carbon
and carbon oxide to the covored up part
and entirely prevents adoration thereat.
Knowingall this, and being fully convinced
that tho Harvey process is but a modifica
tion of case hardening or cementation, the
question naturally will arise why were they
granted a patent for a process that belongs
to every man?
But after all their case has a precedent.
Tho conversion of cast iron Into malleable
iron and steel by decarbonization wa
described bv Reaumur in 1722. and we find
that In 1S04 a patent for this process was
granted one Lucas, and Brown and Lennox
some 50 years later. Di Oxide.
rrrrSBCBO, November 9.
Manual School Training.
To the Editor of The Dispatch :
I saw by your paper a short time ago that
the manual training school of this city was
giving satisfaction and that It promised to
be as great a success as it has proven in
other cities. It is evident that at no very
distant time more of these schools will be
needed. Considered in the light of experience
they are becoming a necesisity and they
shonld be so distributed about the city as o
give the youth in all the localities a chance
tobebenefitted. It is only by means of manual
training schools that we pan restore the
anciont pride of the workman in his work.
Those schools will do more for tho artisan
of to-day than did any of the guilds for
those of the past. They will mako
work a noble, intellectual pursuit
instead of a routine of drudgery. They will
work toward the brotherhood of man by
bringing the rich and poor boy into gener
ous rivalry, and they will beget honesty In
work, beauty In design, just appreciation of
tho relations between labor and capital and
an infinite confluence in tho progiessionof
tho human race. By all means let us have
more thanone manual train ins school in
the chief industrial city of the Union.
Pittsburg, November 10. L.
A Distinctive Festival.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
Cannot some one suggest a plan for a fes
tival that Bhall be Pittsburg's alone? Ex
positions, chrysanthemum shows and the
like are all well enough in their places, but
they don't fill the entire bill. What Pitts
burg needs is a festival as distinctively its
own as the Carnival is to New Orleans, the
Ice Palace is to St. Paul, or the Corn Palace
to Sioux City. No city, Pittsburg included,
is so prosperous that it needs not to adver
tise itself, and this is oneof thebestmethods.
Besides, it gives the people something new
to talk about and to work for with all their
energies. Expositions and the other minor
shows are common to every city and they
only attract within certain perse ribed limits,
whereas a festival like the New Orleans
Carnival or the others mentioned will draw
visitors fiom all over the world. The first
of the Pittsburg Carnivals, or festivals or
whatever it may be called, could be given
next year, and by the time the World's Fair
is in progress it would be so widely known
that it might not take a laborious effort to
draw the majority of tho mighty, crowd in
the direction just to see it. Such apian is
worth trying. ' Festus.
Pittsburg, Nov. 10.
Hotels and a Hall Needed.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
The suggestion first mado by The Dispatch
for Pittsburg to reach out for the Republican
National Convention has borne good fruit.
No better place could be secured, provided a
guarantee could be given that all would be
"taken in and cared for." It is a well-known
fact that Pittsburg's hotel accommodations
are not sufficient, nor have wo a hail of
proper size. If Pittsburg's offer is rejected
these drawbacks will be the ones to blame.
Would it not be well for the committee to
stir about and place itself in position to
guarantee both? There's time to build hotels
and a hall, and our enterprising capitalists
have the means, too. All that is needed is
push and perseverance. If the effort to se
cure the convention only leads to 4 Move
ment in the direction indicated wf will
profit, even though we lose the convention
jji '92. . Taxpayer.
Pittsburg, November 10.
. Give the Smokers a Chance.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
Why, are there no smoking cars on the
Duquesne line? Nearly every lover of the
weed enjoys his after-breakfast cigar or
pipe, and the half hoar between the East
End and tjie city is Just the time fotsuoh
indulgence. People who live close to the
Duquesne prefer to walk a few squares In
order to secure the smoking facilities af
forded on the other line. Would the man
agement not profit by setting apart a few
cars for the benefit of the tobacco lovers? A
great many think it would pay. The dtrec--tory
should put this matter in their pipe
and smoke it. Gabcia.
Pittsburg, November 10.
Old Enough to Be Pensioned.
To the Editor of the Dispatch:
Who Is responsible for the flaunting of the
torn- dirty, disreputable old flag floating
from the vacated postoffice building. Surely
Uncle Sam would give the proper officials a
new, bright-starred, clean-striped emblem If
they would onlv ask for it. If such a
weather-beaten banner was hauled up ct
the gatewavs of the nation foreigners would
be excused for thinking that we did not caro
much for the old flag unless accompanied
by an appropriation. Vetebait.
Pittsburg, November 10.
TALK OP THE TIMES.
The orange growers of Florida shipped
nearly 250,000 boxes of oranges in October,
which is about double the shipment of Octo
ber, 1S90. Chicago Inter Ocean. And yet the
Florida Democrat wants free trade to let
foreign oranges compete with our own in
the markets.
It Is becoming more and more evident that
the Fanners' Alliance Is a wreck. New York
Commercial Advertiser. Yes, there were too
many shoals in its path.
How can California expect to get the next
Republican National Convention when in
order to got there the delegates are forced
to pass through one prohibition State and
by some routes would have to pass through
two? Chicago Times. California need not
worry. The delegates won't pass through a
prohibition State this campaign.
A man unused to manual labor could easily
grow weary before voting through the
tickets this year. Omaha World-Herald. A
little exercise occasionally is good for
some people.
Speaking of the third party, it is still the
Prohibition party, as usual. Had there been
a fourth party the People's party would
Have bebn the fifth. Cincinnati Times-Star.
Verily, the way of the People's partylead
ers is paved with stone.
All the jokes about the New York Flower
being frost bitten in November are off.
Come, fellows", let us talk about something
else. Peoria Transcript. It is about time
there was a change. Even the public Is get
ting tired of the subject.
Wo are not at all concerned about In
diana's claim to own Chicago. Chicago News.
There's no need for concern. Since In
diana has learned that Chicago would come
within the new limits, it has renounced all
claim to the territory.
TIME 10 BBEAX TEE SEAL.
The Only Way In Which to Gain a Knowl
edge of Alaskan Territory.
Columbus Dispatch.!
The only way to acquire and diffuse in
telligence concerning Alaska is for the next
or some succeeding Congress to make an
appropriation which will fully cover the
expenses of an exploring party com
posed of geographers, astronomers, min
eralogists, and scientists and practical
men of every kind needed to obtain a full
and accurate knowledge of the country to
be gone over. An appropriation to cover
the cost of such an expedition failed to ae-
cure recognition during the closing days of
the last Congress, but it can be easily re
vived in the coming session.
It is absolutely necessary that an enlight
ened government like this should have an
aocurate idea of its territory. Everyone
knows that we have no such knowledge of
Alaska. The north coast has been definite
ly located all the wav from Cape Prince of
Wales to Point Barrow; the mighty
Yukon is known for a comparative
ly short part of its length, the
height of the mountains near the
western const has been approximately de
termined, and well established report has
told us that there are great forests, vast
'mineral beds and some arable land. But
beyond this ' we know little. The Indians,
the fauna and flora,. tho climatic conditions,
the features of the country back from the
rcast are all as the contents of a sealed book.
It is time to break the seal. -
THE CEIME 07 FAMINE.
The Handwriting on the Wall Points to
the Removal of the Outrages.
New York World.
The Russian famine is bearing the Inevit
able fruit of famine. Typhus has appeared,
and men, women and children are dying by
thousands of that most dreadful disease.
This famine is a crime. The Russian Gov
ernment has produced it and is responsible
for it. That Government keeps about 2,000,
000 men under arms. That Is to say, It with
draws 2,000,000 men from productive indus
try and taxes the rest of the people to sup
port them, not in idleness but in the most
costly and wasteful activity known to man.
Hence the novertv and the starvation.
Militarism in Russia has wrought famine-
ana pestuance- in tne otner great Conti
nental countries- it entails poverty and
suffering npon millions. And militarism
Is simply the device of.kings and aristoc
racies to keep themselves in power, to pre
serve their hereditary privilege of taking
ahd oppressing tho people," to maintain in
the end of the neneteenth century a false,
nnjnst and cruel mediaeval, system of gov
ernment which denies the equal rights of
men and outrages humanity by Its very ex
istence. Sooner or later, and with such vi
olence as may be rendered necessary by tho
obstinaoy or the wrongdoers, the people of
Europe will sweep away this system and
with it the evils it entails. That is the hand
writing on the wall.
BECIFBOCITY'S SUCCESS.
i
The New Treaties are Bearing Abundant
Frnlts and Increasing Trade.
Lewlston Journal.
The new reciprocity treaties are already
bearingftruit. Our exports to Brazil havo
increased, and the shipments to Cuba are
improving- The steamship company run
ning from New York to Havava has been
obliged to put on three extra steamers to
carry the freight offered. A leading pro
vision merchant of Havana estimates that
when the treaty provision as to the reduc
tion of the duty on flour takes place Jan
uary 1 next, the imports from the United
States to Cuba will reach a 1,000,000 barrels
per annum, or more, than double the' pres
ent total consumption.
These reciprocity treaties, which are in
tho line of the protective policy that puts
on the free list what we can produce for our
selves, but secures from the nations produc
ing such articles importaut preferential
privileges for American surplus products in
return for the free admission of their sur
plus which we don't prodnce, are proving to
be most valuable.' Treaties have already
been concluded which cover Brazil, Cuba,
Porto Bico and Germany's sugar, and it is
understood that other treaties are in prog
ress which cover Venezuela, the Argentine
Bepnblic and the sugar of France.
Opinions in Georgia.
Chicago Inter-Ocean.
Now we have it direct from that enlight
ened districts-Georgia! The Atlanta Consti
tution says- "The result in Ohio shows that
it is useless to make a campaign of education
among the ignorant and ungodly."
PERTINENT AND PERSONAL,
Freddie Gebhaed spent the season with
his sister, Mrs. Nielson, at Lenox;
Thoias Nast, the great cartoonist, is
living quietly in Morristown, N. J.
Hon. William H. English, the In
diana politician, is preparing a history of In
diana. -,
Sorrow does not agree with royalty.
Ex-Queen Natalie of Servia has grown short
and stout.
The Earl and Countess of Aberdeen are
in Chicago, where they wre given a recep
tion by the Hybland Association on Monday
evening.
PbesidenT Habkison's private secre
tary, E. W. Halford, has returned to his du
ties at Washington. He has been 111 for sev
eral weeks.
Joseph Cook finds that a prophet has no
prestige away from home. He has been
drawing poor bouses in the West, where he
has been lecturing. , '
Even preachers live to a good old age.
The Bishop of Chichester, England, is 86
years old, but he still performs his regular
xoundTof diocesan work.-
A BELVIDERE BRIDAL.
The SIcKee-Carnahan Nuptials Celebrated
in tne East End Teas and Church Sap
pers Reign Supreme Sewlckley Blooms
as a Center or Social Gaiety.
At "Belvidere," the residence of Mrs.
Frederick McKee, Miss Melissa McKee was
married yesterday at 5 o'clock to William
E. Conahan. The spacious house stands
back from Fifth avenue, and, of substantial
style in architecture, looks very pretty
within. The rooms reserved for tho bridal
festivities were decorated with'yellow roses,
and the place were the brlda stood was can
opied with roses and smilax. Flowers
and vines also extended into the hall and
up the stairway.
The bride, wearing a handsome-white silk
gcrn with accessories of pearls and lace,
had the way "cleared" for her entrance to
tne parlor by a pair of little flower girls, the
Misses Bessie Carnaban and Agne Grier.
Two other children, Miss Adelaide Foltz and
Master Harry Grier, held back the curtains
of the parlor doors. The maid of honor was
Mise Carrie J. Carnahan, also In white like
tho bride. Mr. Carnahan was attended by
Lewis Schmertz as best man. The officiat
ing clergymen were the Rev. C. V. Wilson,
of Emery M. E. Church, and Bishop Silas D.
Foss. r
Social Chatter.
The regular monthly announcement that
the Hostetter house Is on sale has again ap
peared, though its efforts in the past have
been unavailing.- Mrs. Hostetter seems to
appreciate her. house and wish to keep it,
just as much as other people seem to appre
ciate it by wishing to get it. Mr. Hostetter,
a short time ago, said there was no truth in
the rumor, and it is rather likely that Mr.
Hostetter knows whereof ho speak. But it
is a wise man who knows more abont him
self than his neighbors do in the year of
our Lord 183L
A committee of Dr. Sproull's congregation
have issued invitations for an oyster supper
and bazaar to-morrow evening. Dr. Spronll
kindly permits the use of his bouse, 299
North avenue, and a little "aside" on tho
card says: The oysters and cream will be
unequaled In excellence.
Invitations have been issued by Mr. and
Mr. John Johnston, of Sewickley, for the
wedding of the daughter, Miss Jennie Guy,
to Daniel DePutron Linn, of Sewickley,
November 19. The wedding will take place
at the Methodist Episcopal Church) at 7
o'clock.
The season of church suppers is upon us,
and among others that do not forget this is
the Sandusky Street Baptist Church. It will
serve supper on Thursday and Friday even
ings, under the direction of tho Young Peo
ple's Society of Christian Endeavor.
Tho Sewickley Valley Club Is not resting
on the honors won at the first dramatic per-"
formanco of the season. The cast for the
next prodnction, which will be Charles Dick
ens' "Cricket on the Hearth," has been set
tled and rehearsals have begun.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles T. Harbaugh, of Se
wickley, left on Monday for a three weeks'
tour of tho South, and Mr. Harbanj h expects
to have some sport, for he has taken his dogs
and guns with him. Master Willie Harbaugh
accompanies them.
Mr. and Mrs. Wilson-Miller, of Sewickley,
whose home was burnt recently have taken
one of Mrs. Jndge White's new houses on
Board street, Sewickley, and moved In there
yesterday.
Mrs. Mansfield B. Cochran has issued in)
vitations for an afternoon card nartv to be
Lgiven upon Thursday, November 19, at her
resilience in sewicKicy. .
Mrs. Herbert De Puy will be assisted on
Thursday by Mrs. Theodore Hostetter, at a
reception she gives in Mrs. Hosteler's
honor.
. .
Mrs. Sullivan Johnston, of Western ave
nue, has issned Invitations for a childrens
party to-morrow afternoon.
Mrs. Joseph Watson Craig, of Sewickley,
will give a card party on Thursday evening
next.
Miss Carnegie will be married in Calvary
amida blaze of chrysanthemums.
VIEGIHIA ROAD MAKING.
Over a Million Dollars Raised by Taxation
by the State.
Washington Post.1
On of the problems to which the Legisla
ture of Virginia is about to address itself is
the building of a system of good roads
throughout 'the State, and the making of an
ample provision for their-, efficient main
tenance. Oneof the plans to be considered
is that which Captain Browne, of.-- Cape
Charles connty, presented before the
State Agricultural Society. This scheme
contemplates an expenditure of $1,093,809,
whioh it Is proposed to raise by a State tax
of half a mill on the dollar, bv a county tax
of a tenth of a mill on the dollar, by a per
sonal road tax of 50 cents a year, by a tax of
11 a year on each horse and mule in the
State, and by one of 50 cents each on all its
vehicles.
It will be noted that while the amount to
be raised is quite considerable, yet (he bar
den of taxation to be incurred is so distri
buted and apportioned that it will not be
felt in any quarter as a serious inconveni
ence. The portion allotted to the counties,
which Is one-third of the entire sum re
quired, is left to the counties to he
raised in the way mot convenient to
them, and to be controled by them, In ac
cordance with a general plan. Monev spent
In this way will be money well expended,
and will yearly saye farmers and others
more than four times the amount in the
wear and tear of vehicles, in increasing the
facilities of transportation, and in many
other ways.
Dom Pedro and Brazil.
Buffalo Express. m
. There can be no doubt there is one Brazil
ian who is a patriot, whether there are any
others or not. Even those who have no
sympathy with kingship as an institution
cannot read what ex-Emperor Dom Pedro
says abont his relations toward his country
without a feeling of admiration for the
brave old exllo. He loved his country and
its peace and welfare better than be loved
power for himself. Believing in 'republican
institutions, it was easy for him to see that
he could do his people more service by pro
moting the bloodless revolution than by op
posing it. There are few kings who will
stand higher in history, so far as honor is
concerned, than Dom Pedro. .
Scrambling for the Corndodger,
New York Advertiser.
There is great excitement in the corn
market in Germany. We hope that they are
finding out over there what a fine thing our
corndodger is, and as the boys say on tho
Stock Exchange, "are scrambling for it.".
We have been telling our German friends
all the time that our corn is as good' "as
wheat," so to speak. Next thing we hear
from Germany there will be a bear panic in
American pork.
It Is His for tho 'Taking.
Wheeling Intelligencer.
If Mr. Blaine will accept the Republican
nomination for the Presidency It is his for
the taking. He never was so strong with his
party as he is to-day. Men who have always
opposed him have voluntarily wheeled into
line or been forced in "by the pressure of
popular party opinion. The one man who
can defeat Mr. Blaine's nomination is James
G. BJaine. What he will do the party does
not know.
' JOURNALISTIC JAYELIN8.
The Prince of Wales was 50 years of age
yesterday old enough to know better.
'Washington Post.
Coustikg Presldeotal chickens is the pres
ent political "fad." New Tork Recorder.
Mills seems to have done McKlnley a very
good turn by his stumping tour through
Ohio. Cleveland Leader.
Wheeler's addresses to the deaf and dnmb
voters of Iowa probably reduced Democratic
majorities somewhat. Kansas City Timts.
The United States Governments now ex
perimenting with nnsinkabie ships, bnt
whether ns a means of defeating the deadly
aims of hostile gunners or guarding against
the little errors of Annapolis graduates is
not specified. Chicago News.
Dowx in South Omaha the City Council
meets In "the old jail." In Omaha an effort
is making to locate some of its 'Council per
manently in jail. Omaha World-Herald.
Who shall give bonds for the straw-bondsmen
and who shall examine the bank ex
aminers? These be tho all-important ques
tions of tho day. Chicago Times. .
Builpisg toward heaven in Chicago has re
sulted in the development of a three-pound
pocket Are escape, which every citizen is to
carry about with him. But what he will
need most will be. an elevator to hoist him
self out of the mud into which he is sinking.
New York Oornmerdal Advertiser.
CURIOUS CONDENSATION. .
Musical notes, as now used, were in
vented In 1330.
Coal costs $23 per ton in Venezuela, but
then few people need flres.
A JJuremburg watch in the form of an
acorn has a tiny pistol which serves as an
alarm.
A giant exhibited in Eouen in 1830,
Prof. Williams says, measured nearly 18 leet
In height.
Spectacles were invented in the year
1330, but were not in general use until nearly
200 years later.
The giant Galabra, brought from
Arabia to Rome during the reign of Claudius
Cxsar, was 10 feet high.
The natives of the Friendly Islands
spend most of their time in the water. They
are great swimmers and divers.
San Francisco resembles London some
what. It has a fog almost every afternoon
and the wind blows in from the ocean at a
high rate.
"Vjld turkeys are plentiful in the
Southern Mexican States. As many as half
a. dozen varieties can be seen in a short
hunting trip.
The natives of the "West Indies drink
rum and gin, which they can purchase for 1
cent a glass, the glasses being about as large
as a wine goblet.
The giant Ferregus, slain by Orlando,
the nephew of Charlemagne, was 28 feet high
and so heavy that no horse could be found
that was strong enough to bear him.
Melons were first called canteloupes
from being cultivated at Canteluppl, a vil
lage near Rome, where they had been intro
duced from Armenia by missionaries.
The streets of Caracas, the capital of
Venezuela, are so narrow that the street
cars that were imported had to be sawea in
two In order to allow them to turn the cor
ners. Chevalier Scrog, while exploring a
cavern in the Peak of Teneriffe, found a
skull which mint have belonged to a man at
least 15 feet high. It contained 60 perfect
teeth of monstrous size.
Pennsylvania has 12 towns orpostoffices
with very peculiar names, viz: Stnmptown,
Bullskin, Shlntowh, Jngtown. Puckerty, Sin.
Sis, Scrubgrass, Her. Man's Choice, Maiden's
Choice and Bird in Hand.
On the African shore, near the Gulf of
Aden, and connecting the Lake of Assal
with the main ocean, may be found one of
the most wonderful rivers In the world.
This curiosity does not flow to, but from,
the ocean toward inland. The surface of
Lake Assal itself Is nearly 700 feet below the
mean tide, and it is fed bv this paradoxical
river, which is about 22 miles in length.
Near Horn Head, County DonegalIre
land, there is a hole in the rocks called Mc
Swlney's gun. It Is on the sea coast, and Is
said to have connection with a cavern.
When the north wind blows and the sea is at
half flood, the wind and the waves enter the
cavern and send up jets of water from the
"gun" to a height of more than 100 feet. The
Jets oX water are accompanied by explosions
whienmay be heard for miles.
There is a dog in Philadelphia who ap
pears to have a great fondness for smoking.
He is frequently seen promenading South
Ninth street with a corn-cob pipe in his.
mouth and, from all appearances, he seems
to enjoy himself Immensely. He is often,
followed by two r three canine friends,
who apparently have an admiration for hU
accomplishment, for they gambol about
him with many expressions of delight and
envy. ,
Among the natives of the Philippines
there are many centenarians. Men of 80
years of age are seen working vigorously in
the fields. Even among the Hottentots in
stances of great age occur. It is, in fact,
worry among civilized people that kills, and
from this savages are exempt, as they are,
also, from tarningnight into day, and many,
if not most, of the other follies that seriously
interfere among the civilized nations with
chances of longevity.
There are seven penitential psalms and
seven; deadly sins. The seven joys and the
seven sorrows of the virgin mother are fre
quently represented in the art of the Middle.
Ages. The first, series comprises the sn
nnnciation of the kings, the presentation In
the temple, the finding of Ohrist among the
doctors in the temple, and the assumption..
Tne seven sorrowsare the prophecy of
Simeon, the flight into Egypt; Christ mnued
in the temple, the "betrayal of her son, the
crucifixion, the deposition from, the cross,
and the ascension.
The daughter of a New York Judge has
for more than two years made her home in
a watla, in Honduras, the walls being
draped with muslin, and- the ceiling with
pink mosquito bar in plaits, radiating from'
the center. The watla is a cottage made
withodt nails. The Japanese decorations
harmonize with the walls and the shelves
of bamboo.-fllled with choice books. More-"
over, there is a floor of pine lumber, pictures
on the wall, an easel in the corner, and
tables wherein bashets of oranges, mangoes,
bananas and other luscious fruits, in their
season, tempt the visitor.
A curious pile of rocks in the parish of
St. Cleer, known as the cbeesewring, was
noted in days past for the same peculiarity.
It was generally supposed, too, that a spe
cial feature of he "rocking stones," which
are more or less plentiful all over the
country, was that they would immediately
rock at the slightest touch of the innocent,
bnt still remain immovablo when pushed by
the guilty. Occasionally, however,, they
were reported to vibrate .when touched by
the guilty, a feature which tradition affirms
is the case with one at Island Magee, on
Brown's Bay, which begins to oscillate atthe
approach of "sinners, landlords, and mala
factors generally,"
In Pembrokeshire there are the well
known dancing stones of Stackpool. Of the
many stories told of these strange stones,
one Is to the effect that on a certain day
they meet and travel to a certain spot to
dance; and, at the completion of their revel,
return home and resume their places. Sim
ilarly, there is a peculiar stone with many
rock basins on lt3 surface In Looe harbor,,
which Is now covered by every tide. "This
stone." says Mr. Hunt, in his "Popular Ro
mances of the West of England," "once
stood on the top of an elevated roctc near it.
and when in this position, whenever it
beard a cock crow in the neighboring farm
yard of Hay, it turned round three times."
POINTED, PICKINGS.
She Ah, Jack, I'm afraid I'll make you
a sorry wife.
He I've bo doubt. Any one who marries me
wlU be sorry. Colorado Sun.
Peace reigns throughout prosperous land,
Our labori we renew with zest.
The orator Is silent and
The campaign liar talcs a rest.
Hiw Tort Press.
Clarissa You had your likeness taken at
Camera's, you sayr
Ethel-Yes.
C. Why did you go there? He is not much or an
artist.
E. He took a very handsome portrait of me.
C He did.' Then he mast be very cleTer. lot
Angeles Times.
Lasher Dasher says that you are a t ooL
Masher Deah me! I shaU certainly cuthlm when
I meet him. . ...
Lasher-Don't. He wlU feel mote Insulted If you
recognize him. Puck.
"When Gould was a boy our own Jay,
Gould
He ued on a farm, they say.
And leaded the Dock and wateredJhe stock
In a most commendable way. '
Now Gould Is a man-our own Jay Gould
And his farm-life recalls they say.
Since he shears his flock, and waters his stock.
But not In the same old way.
Sew Tork Press.
Doortender Very sorry, sir, but I can't
let you go in. The lecture Is exclusively for ladies.
Long-Halred Applicant-lam a Browning reader.
Doortender-Oh. pardon me, pardoa mc, pass
right in. Boston Courier.
"What a bright lot of darky boys!" ,. ,
"Yes-all but that little one over there-a refnlar
little pickaninny, isn't be?"
Weiiycs. if I were going to pick a ninny out,
of the lot, I should take him.' '-Philadelphia Press.
O, obituary writer, most uncanny are thy
tasks;
For thee the devil shudders, and St. Teter, never
asks. .
Against thee lost souls well may rail; and pale
ghosts wildly vapor.
For while they He within their graves, tnou llest In
thy paper. . Sew TorkUcrald.
Twynn I do all my writing .with my left
""d- ' . .. ' ...
Trlplett Tbea. of course, you cannot obey the
Scriptural injunction.
'What Injunction?"
Let not your left hand know what yonr writ
tanoTBoes J ' 'Smith, Qrav Co. 's JContMj.
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