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One Year...: S 50 Wkeklt DisrATcrr, One Year.. ..-.. 1 TBE Dailt DisrATTH Is delivered byearrlereat 15 cents per week, or. Including Sunday Edition, at 55 cents per week. PITTSBURG. THURSDAY, NOV. 12. IS91, TWELVE PAGES T1IK 3IEMNG OP THE VOTE. The Senate yesterday consummated its own stultification and burdened the Re publican party against, we believe, the true sentiment of the party with the condonation of official misconduct by the formal evasion of public duty in the Treasury investigation. The strict party vote declaring that the Senate lias no jurisdiction and the prompt adjournment immediately after have a variety of as pects all extremely unpleasant to believers iu the necessity for strict and honest ob servance of the laws by public officers. The immediate meaning of this vote is that already pointed out by The Dis patch during the time when the Senate was screwing itself up to the point of dodsing tho issue by this transparent evasion. It is that the Senate finds it easier to stultify itself and declare the Constitution unconstitutional than to apply the whitewash presented as the only other alternative. The Senate stultifies itself by asserting that it has wasted weeks of time and thousands of dollars in trying a case over which it has no jurisdic tion, and by falsifying the declarations of its leading members that its investigation and action were to be full and impartial. It declares the Constitution unconstitu tional by the assertion that it has no juris diction where the plain language of the Constitution gives it jurisdiction beyond a doubt. But there is a deeper and more serious meaning back of that. It is that political management has decreed that juggling with public funds, and the loss of hun dreds of thousands by the use of theTreas uiy surplus as the means of favoritism, is not to be checked. It means that the offi cials who disobey one law with regard to their duty in order to evade another, who leave vast sums in the hands of a corrupt and defaulting politician, and whose mis conduct has cost the State between one and two million dollars, shall be shielded and protected. Finally, it means that of all the members of the upper branch of our legislative body, elected by the Re publican party, not one has manliness or independence enough to dispute or disobey such orders. This is the meaning of yesterday's vote in the Senate. If the people like it they can continue to support the system which places'the shattering of official misconduct above the principles of public honesty or the protection of the people's funds. THE BRAZILIAN STRUGGLE. The latest news from Brazil indicates that while Fonseca in his effort to estab lish absolutism is following in the course marked out by Balmaceda the example set by the Chileans in their defense of consti tutional government has not been lost to the Brazilians, and that the representative government will not be overthrown with out a struggle. It is-practically undisputed that one of the strongest provinces has declared itself against the Fonseca usurpation, while re ports are that three others of the most populous and advanced States have joined in the movement It is thus cer tain that there will be a strong fight to maintain the reality of constitutional and representative government, and that the effort of Fonseca to establish a military dictatorship may be as hazardous and trasic an enterprise as that of Balmaceda. Against such opposition the measures of the dictator in suppressing newspapers and shutting off the news by cable take the character of irritants which can only increase public dissatisfaction. In such a struggle, of course the United States Government has no business to in terfere. But the people of the United States have the right to express their sym pathy freely with the people who are fighting for free government, and consti tutional institutions. And the administra tion should learn from its Chilean experi ence not to be too hasty in classifying those who are standing for the right of repre-sentativc government as "rebels' ' and "insurgents." The real rebel is the execu tive who overrides the Constitution and abolishes republican institutions. THAT ANTI-TRUST CAMPAIGN'. Theie is ground for earnest inquiry as to what lias become of that vigorous cam paign against.the Trusts which, according to Attorney General Miller's, circular pub lished earlier in the year, was to be pushed at once. It might appear strange to an impartial observer that when a law has been passed it should require instructions from the Government to secure its en forcement. But it is even more phenom enal if, when the statutory enactment of Congress is backed up by the specific di rections of the administration to Its legal officers and appointees, the same absence of all effort results. Tct what else are wc to conclude in the present case? The instructions of the circular were specific and unmistakable. The District Attorneys were to take steps to enforce the law against any combina tion wh'ich they found violating the act in their respective districts. Everyone with an understanding of the subject knows there are a score of districts in which the evidence of violations of the law can be found by anyone with official authority who chooses to look for it Tet no Dis trict Attorney has taken any action, though one such official down in Tennes see has vouchsafed a promise that he may do so against one ot the least of the com binations. The explanation of this omission to do anything arouses curious speculation. Do thf United States District Attorneys owe greater allegiance to the Trusts than to the administration, owing to the much su perior compensation paid to the legal pro fession for the monetary powers? Or is it the unanimous opinion of the District At torneys that while Attorney General Mil ler issued his directions in clear terms he did not really mean it? That view would seem well grounded if the subordinate legal officers of the Government can ignore the orders of their superiors without any ulterior consequences. . 'At all events the" question The, Dis patch raised when the order was first published whether the power of the ad ministration and the law combined would prove equal to that of the Trusts has very nearly got an answer in the negative. THE AKCHITECTS' COMPETITION. The competition of architects for the Carnegie Library buildings is an interest ing event, not merely in a local way, but from a national point of view. It is stated to have brought forth a greater number of competitors than any other similar occa sion in this country. Only a portion of the exhibits is yet arranged, but all can be seen by the public, before the Commission will enter upon its task of making a selec tion. It is not merely an ultimate choice of a single design which the Commission has to make, but also of five other designs which under the terms of the competi tion will be entitled to prizes. Ve need not expect thus early in the constructive art of this country that a Michael Angelo can be developed even by the generous opportunity which is offered by this competition. The recent work of that undoubted master of his profession, Richardson, has, also, by its eminent vigor and excellence, made it but the more dif ficult for architects coming so soon after him to win distinctive and original laurels. Tet, notwithstanding this and the further consideration that all designs must neces sarily follow more or less closely the lines of something already celebrated, it is evi dent at a glance that there is a great deal of ambitious, intelligent, and careful effort presented in the exhibits now made at the Ferguson building where the plans are on view. It is not time yet to attempt to indi vidualize; but from -the whole collection the prediction may safely be offered that there is ample opportunity to make a choice for a library building which will be a worthy companion in merit not neces sarily in style to the County Court House and the Federal edifice which now adorn the city. It is the desire of the Commission that the public should thoroughly inspect the very interesting display. All that need be said for the present is that if the choice be as wise as that which dictated our county building, Pittsburg will have reason to feel immensely gratified. THE NEW DEPOT. The oft-discussed subject of a new and creditable depot for the Pennsylvania Railroad is to receive a demonstrated solu tion next year by the erection of a build ing commensurate to the magnitude of the city and tha importance of the Pennsyl vania Railroad's business in it The plan as stated by good authority is the removal of the Panhandle freight depot and the metal yard on New Grant street to another site secured elsewhere. This will give room for the erection of the new depot on Seventh avenue and New Grant street-, two squares from the Court House and a short one from Smithfield street This brings the passenger terminus of the Pennsylvania Railroad about four squares nearer the center of the city than heretofore. With this improvement and the adoption of low fares on suburban traffic it will be the effort of the Pennsyl vania Railroad to win back a share of the travel which the traction roads have taken from it In the same connection comes the re port that a new hotel project is to take the concrete form of brick and mortar on property nearly adjacent to the new depot site. These additions to the architecture of the city arc signs of its growth and im portance which are exceedingly gratifying to all public-spirited citizens. PROTECTED INDUSTRIES FOSTERED. A striking illustration of tfee progress made in the manufacture of glass is given by a contribution to the New York Press from a commercial traveler who has sold class for forty-six years. At the outhreak of the war fine goblets sold at $2 60 and the price was raised by the war to $3. Now the same goblet can be bought for seventy-five cents. The cummon tumblers which then sold at ?1 10 are now put on the market at 18 cents; and a proportionate reduction is noted in all the designs and styles of glassware, which are made in this country of better quality than the, European goods of like price. This has a bearing on the tariff ques tion in the proof of the splendid progress that has been made in this industry by the stimulus of a protective tariff. But it is worth while to remember that the pro cesses for turning ont large quantities of glassware at lower prices,f or improving the quality, and all the other devices by which this gratifying result has been reached, were developed under the stimulus of domestic competition. The building up of competition in the home industry js the purpose and justification of a protective tJfHff. If glassware or any other protected interest, therefore, puts itselt under the control of a combina tion by which domestic competition is suppressed and prices are raised ten, twenty-five or fifty per cent, as the case may be, it puts itself in opposition to the tariff which has fostered it It does so in a double sense as trying to defeat the pur pose of protection, and as affording to the free traders the most powerful argument against the tariff. Such striking examples of vriat can be effected by domestic competition in the protected industries make those who seek to stitle competition in those industries more dangerous enemies to protection than free traders will ever succeed in being. The point of view with regard to ballot reiorm Is admirably illustrated by the Al bany .4rjrus,whick, after praising Mississippi for adopting tlio Australian ballot system, proceeds to ascrt tliat "in. Pennsylvania .Quay lias defeated the proposition for a con vention wlitch wnu'd have adopted the Aus tralian ballot." Since Mississippi hasalrcndy aken pains to keep tho negroes awaylrom tlio polls altogether, it does not require very much of an advance for her to give tho whites a secret ballot. But with regard to Pennsylvania, the Argus provokes a couple of interested querits. Where did it get its eaily and exclusive information of tho in tcntionof tho Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention with regard to ballot reform? And what has it to say to the fact that Penn sylvania already has a ballot reform law which, however defective, is supeilor to tho ono that was mutilated in New York to suit the fastidious taste of David Bennett HUM TriE fact that Powderly received the low est vote in Philadelphia among the delegates to the Constitutional Convention is not so crushing as the fact that the convention it self received the lowest vote in comparison to tho vote against It of any measnre ever submitted to tho people of the State. It seems to be no more than in accordance THE PITTSBURG-' "' with poetical as well as political justice that the administration shall take action to place Mr. Thomas C Piatt among the list of those who have fallen outside of the breastworks. "Governor Pattisow's experiment of calling an extra session of the Senate will cost tho State not less than $40,000, and proba bly more," remarks the Philadelphia Bulle tin. And as $10,000 is Just about 2 per cent of tho sum that has been wasted by Treasury management, the expenditure would be cheap if the Senate . had independence enough to do Its duty. But on the Bulletin's basis of estimate it is worthy of notice that $30,000 of this $13,000 was wasted by thn Sen ate itself In taking testimony on a case In which it now declares it has no jurisdiction. A book is to be published on "The Plat form, Its Rise and Progress." If political platforms are referred to, a truly modern history should include a second part on its decline and fall to the point where poli ticians do not consider it worth while to re deem their platform pledges. Twenty-eight Senators record them selves to the effect that it is an easier dose to vote that they are donkeys and the Con stitution unconstitutional than to plaster the whitewash onto the State officials. Results of elections in two States are construed by n certain class of politicians to mean that they can do as they please. In New York tho victory of Tammany permits the appointment of Grady, the old assailant of Cleveland's personal comfort.to a Judicial position, and In Pennsylvania the Senate1 takes heart to vote that the Constitution does not mean what it says with regard to the correction of official misconduct. "Well, since the days when Jack Robin son declared in the House that hewas not prepared to endorse the Constitution, it has been a prevailing opinion among some Re publican politicians that the Constitution did not amount to much. A Chinaman in San Francisco with $403 saved killed two men and wounded a third for fear they would get his money. The irony of fate now appears in tho fact that a lawyer will get tho money. TnE work of defending Mr. Egan from the criticisms of the American press in duces tho Buffalo Express to remark: "A dip lomaf in a foreign country ceases to be a partisan." He should do so. Andespeclnlly he should cease to bo a paitisan of an execu tive who usurps legislative power, which raises the question whether Mr. Egan can claim the title of diplomat. When we read the reports of broken limbs and scarred faces from the college sports, it creates the impression that the one athletic game which is innocent of maiming and dismemberment is the gentlo one of prize-flghting. TJncle .Terry Rusk says he has no data on which to base conclusions concerning the rain-making experiments. Uncle Jerry evidently thinks that data is a new name for rain. If. as the enthusiastic Rochester Demo crat and Chronicle claims, "every one of these beautiful autumnal days has Uncle Jerry's trade mark on it," has not Uncle Jerry also to bear the omi3 for those scorching au tumnal days of September, and the far from bo.uitilul autumnal days which may inter vene between this and Thanksgiving? Considering that the "kangaroo ballot" was objected to by Ohio Republicans, the fact that it has put them on their hind legs and the Democrats on the Jump should vin dicate the title and reconcile the Repub licans to it. TnE Senate prefers to vote that it has wasted its own timo and tho public's money for the past thiee weeks rather than put a check on official Juggling with public funds. Now the ingenuous correspondents from Monte Carlo aro telling the world about an Englishman "with a system of his own" who' has won $3C0,000 there and will shortly go to Monaco to repeat his conquest. Thg adver tising agents of the European gambling con cerns are evidently in close touch with the correspondents. The manner of "saving the republic" ex emplified by Dictator Fonseca's abolition of the liberty of the press in Brazil, Indicates that when the republio is saved that way it will not be enough of a republic to swear by. Dear Ltvsey: Come back, and the Sen ate will passu resolution at its next session that all shall be forgotten. SNAP SHOTS IN SEASON" The returns coming in from the creed re visionists indicate that the -baby has been elected, too. "' Rolling land gathers no moss, providing it is cultivated. A few more harmless amusements along the narrow path would increase travel on that thoroughfare. Big hauls can be secured in Pittsburg,but they only offerseating capacity for the fellow who handles the reins. He walks on crutches, and his face Snows many an ugly seam. "When ho waswholo he fought for place In the winning football team. TnE orator who slops over soils his argu ment. All who invest in good deeds here will bo catting coupons in the sweet bye and bye. The clove plays the most important part between the acts at the theater. It is easier to run a bill than it is to file a receipt. From the activity displayed in naval circles those on tho ontslde are led to be lieve that Uncle Sam is scared as badly as Chile. It is just as easy to gladden a woman's heart as it is to sadden it. The price put on the city Poor Farm site is still out of sight. The waves frequently roar when the ocean is souuded. If the Senate has no jurisdiction what is it there for? Satan must rub his hands with glee every timo he hears that religious bodies have agreed that his flies are not as hot as they are painted. SHE lightly tripped across the lawn, Clad in u lawn dress 1 confess; But I learned after she bad'gono That she, too, was a good laundress. It does seem strange, but it is true, .that people who are sent up are pulled down. Convicts are demonstrating that the saw is mightier than the habeas corpus. The business man who idly drifts with the tide is sure to be stranded. Universal Penny Postage. New Tork Tribune. 3 The British Postmaster-General itakes a gloomy view of the outlook for universal penny postage among the English-speaking peoples of the world. Nodoubt'.ihIs'wlIl be a virtual impossibility' for a long, time to come, but some steps in that direction be tween Great Britain and tho United States' may easily be taken in tho near future. Whyf should it cost two and a half time's as muchc to s.end a letter from New York to London as from New York to San Francisco? ix-?&&U ? ,-b. a sMBBS?ww'SHiJSfaf??&Ss,-Tp DISPATCH, THURSDAY. - OUR MAIL POUCH. Edison's Philosophy Not New. To the Editor of The Dispatch : The philosophical ideas of Mr. Edison, published in Sunday's Dispatch, are by no means novel: yet, if he has not been a stu dent of Greek philosophy, It is remarkable that lie should have brought to light theso old ideas through his own researches. AYe read in Noberweg's "History of Philosophy," section 11: "The philosphy of the earlier Ionic physiologist" is Hylozoisfh, I. e., the doctrine of the immediate unity or matter and life, according to which matter is by nature endowed with life, and life is insep arably connected with matter." Thales of Miletus, born B. C. 640, was the father of this philosophy. Anaxlmander, who followed him, taught that "living beings arose by gradual development out of the elementary moisture under the Influence orheat." That the intrinsic lifo of matter is a conscious llfo, is not altogether new, for Empedoclos. about TOO B. C, taught that two ideal principles were joined to the elements of nature, "love as a uniting and hate as a separating force. Daring certain periods all hetei oeneous elements are separated from each other by hate: during others they nre everywhere united bv love." It was not long, however, before these crude notions gave place to the grander philos ophy of Plato, who recognized not only the distinction between the soul of the world and its material framework, but also between tho animate world and the God from whom it came. The philosophy of ma terial life reached, as I think. Its culmina tion when Origen, in the third century, tauzhtthe Immanence of God. "God, who in Himself is spaceless, is by Ills working power, everywhere present in" the world, just as the architect is present in his work, or ns the soul, as organ of sensation, Is ex tended throughout tho bodv." (De Orut., p. 2KS: De Trine, ii., 172.) I nm glad that Edison, along with Herbert Spencer, recognizes the "infinite and eter nal energy." Then ir this energy is imma nent in his orks. there is no need that atoms should be alivo and conscious, anv more than that a brick should be alive and conscious which a builder Joins to another bi ick in erecting a house. Your readers will see by this that Edison's philosophy is nothing new under the sun, but that he is a sort of a philosophical nec romancer, bringing up ghosts which modern philosophers have thought were long since laid. But if he will invent a flying machine all will be forgiven. Ingcrsoll's comment wns about the most sensible of any; bnt lot me ask him, please, not to become sarcastic in his old age. I, as a minister, would like to agree with him in not knowing anything about "life." I only know th t human life, :is Walter Besant says, is serious, and that the old philoso phies of Plato and of Christ, with their at tendant godliness, aie the best philosophies by which to live, "having the" promise of tho lifo that now is, and of that which Is to come." (I. Tim., iv. 8.) J. D. Herrott. Trinitv Church.New Castle, NovemberlL Frotrst the Game. To the Editor of The Dispatch: It is a long time before the regular session of the Legislature, but not too long to begin an agitation for the reformation of that part of tho State's game laws relating to birds. The true sportsman in this part of the coun try gets more pleasure from hunting quail than any other game, and for that reason they should bo protected. The existing laws permit the shooting of pheasant on nnd after October 1. The season for quail begins No vember 1. The season for both should begin on the qnme day. If all who sro into the fields for came were sportsmen the change would notbonece"-sarj-. Tho trouble is a gre it many men go out in October ostensibly to shoot pheasant, bnt really to kill any kind of game that gets up'. The consequence is that when the sportsmen get out in November they find the coveys of quail decimnted. Early this year the reports wero that quail as abund ant. Spoi tsmen who have been out tho past fn o weeks find comparatively few of the noble game bird, especially in the mining districts. During the miners' strike the fields wore scoured by pheasant hunteis, who shot every quail they could. Perhaps all such hunters are not to blame, for when a quail or rabbit gets up it is not every man who has the hunting instinct that can lesist taking n shot. But the temptation onsht not to be permitted. Prosecution bv the official who gets com pensation for such work or by the Sports men's Association does n great deal of good, but you cannot art est and prosecute the whole armv of October hunters, especially as pheasant hunting is legal. The law should be changed so that any man out with a gun in October need not if caught with a quail in his game bag bo convicted. Pittsburg. NovemberlL 8. A Defender ot Trusts. To the Editor of The Dispatch: I cannot ngrce with your editorial in Sun day's Dispatch on "The Courts on Trusts." The rulings and decisions of the courts in all our States, as well as those of Enzland, have been in harmony lor many long years, hence tho Tildcn will case gives nothing new or different from those of scores of de cisions in other trust cases: and if yon will look into the decisions you will find "as rigid views of tho courts on the subject of trusts" iu every Instance in which their protection and aid have been invoked, as you could desire. If the Standard and Sugar trusts "flourish untouched" it is lair to assume that the publlo or no individual!!, havo been injured oraggrieved by either of theso com panies to an extent that will justify them in calling for judicial interference, and so far as the general interests of the people are concerned, we are inclined to believe that no case could be made out azainst either of these great "trusts." And for tho very plain reason that oil was never so cheap before as it has been since tho Standard got control of the business: and we aie quite sure that never, since our Government was founded, was sugar so cheap as at the present time. These two facts are conclusive proof that, whatever may have been the original do. sign, neither company has put up the prices, and hence have not done tho people any wrong. E. Pittsburg, November 1L A Halt Should Be Called. To the Editor of The Dispatch: If the Rebecca street electric cars are not run more carefully thero will be troublo be fore long. Some of themotormenand con ductors do not stop the car when asked to at crossings. To-day I was standing at the gas works on Rebecca street at about' 2 o'clock when car 30 approached. I held up my hand, but the motorman did not even slacken up, and I had to make a. wild leap at the car as it swung by: It was going ten miles an hour, and I complained to the conductor, whose only leply wns an insolent grin. This ought not to be. If the Rebecca street cai a aie not to be stopped at street Intersections, some appliance of the cow-catcher kind should bo employed to scoop up passengers who are not aerial artists. J. 11. Pittsburg. ALLioiiEsy, November 11. Need for Pnbllc Baths. To the Editor of The Dispatch: New York has public bath houses, why can we not have one in Pittsburg? Surelv it is not for lack of water. Thero is plenty of this, such as it is, and it need not be drawn out of the reservoirs. It could be taken out of one or tho other of the riveis and Altered, and then it would answer nil purposes. If the outlay Is too large for a city tho size of Pittsburg, then let some benevolent citizen, or several of them, club together and build a suitable public bath house. Cleanliness is next to godliness, It is said. If this be the case, then n large part of the population is lar from the desired state. Bako. Pittsburg, November 11. ALBERT'S WEARY WAIT. Albert Epwaud has just comploted the first ha If century of that dreary wait. Chi cago Globe. The Prince of Wales has lived a remark able life 50 years without a drop of reign. Boston News. The Prince of Walesjras .W years yester day, and still that throne seems toiiim "ever so far away." Boston Otobe. Albert Edward Gclph's semi-centennial pictures look ns though they,ttoo, had been mauled by a Gorman barber. Aeur York Com mercial Advertiser. The Prince of Wales celebrated his Both birthday yesterday, and the general oplnlou or his loyal subjects is that he'sgetting a big boy now. Chicago Times. Exglakts coming ruler, the Prince of Wales, will reach his 30th mile post to-morrow. The indications are that ho will be a mature man when called to the throne. Chicago Inter Ocean, All England was apparently pleased that the Prince of Wales could colcbrate his semi-centennial of earthly existence, and that he isstill permitted to parade ns the perpetual heir apparent, with no very im mediate prospect of his accession to the throne. flieu" Tork Advertiser. KBHTOWimMiuii s pw ra i NOVEMBER 12.. 1891. . THEaTKICAi, GOSSIP. The formal opening of the Auditorium is to take place on Tuesday week, the 24th instant, when the lloyal Austrian juvenile Band will appear in Pittsburg for the first time. The advance sale of seats for next week's attractions begins to-day at the Alvin, BIJou and Duquesno Theaters. The sale began on Monday, at the Opera House, for the Jnch engagement. At Harry Davis' Fifth Avenne Museum one of the coming curiosities is Ella Ewing, a young lady who is said to be the tallest human being ever seen in America, one is a member of a distinguished Virginia family. at the World's Mnsoum-Theater, Al legheny, next week will be seen Prof. Matthews' troupe of performing goats and Shlntaro's Imperinl Japanese acrobats. The wonderful "Electra," the living human bat tery, will remain another week, as does also Minnio Bell, who is considered one of the handsomest mammoth Venuses living. At the Dnquesne Theater, commencing on Monday, the Rudolph Aronsun Opera Com pany, from the Casino, New York, will ap pear in nn elaborate production of Pietro Mascagni'sjustly celebrated melo-dramatic opera, and Franz Von Stippe's one act opora comiqiie. "The Jolly Students." The first named opera has been heard here already this season, but it was then sung in Italian. The Aronson Company, however, will sing the opera in English, and from the original score and to tho accompaniment of the original orchestration. Pauline L'Allemand willnssume tho role of Santuzza, while that otAlflo will be In the hands of Henry Leonl; Villa Knox appears as Lucia, and Ferdinand Schuetz as Turridu. "Tho Jolly Students," which will be given as the first part of the programme, Is said to be a comic opera of merit. Tho leading characters are inter preted by Louise Beaudct. Villa Knox, Charles Renwick.Harry MacDonaugh.Edgar Smith and A. W. Maflln. There Is no denying that unusual interest attaches toDe Wolf Hopper's visit to tho Bijou next week. The comic opera he brings, "Wnngf is by J. Cheever Goodwin and Woolson Morse, who wrote the very amusing "Merry Monarch" for Francis Wilson. "Wang" was performed in New York for 150 nights last summer, and it was praised highly on account of its fun and bright music, but chiefly because it con tained comedy that was new and amusing. De Wolf Hopper still has the able aid of Delia Fox, who made a deep impression on Pittsburg audiences last year, and a strong company, including Jennnette St. Henry, Anna O'Keefc, Marion Singer, Samuel Reed, Alfred Klein, Edmund Stanley and otheis. "Wang" Is oriental from De Wolf Hopper's clothes to the big elephant which figures in the piece, and the scenery, costumes and life of Slam form a picturesque frame for the opera. It is promised that in every way the production will bo identical with that seen in Now York, and therefore magnificent. "Jake," tho attraction at the Alvln Thea ter next week, is a comedy, a very fnnny one, if all that has been written of its 400 nights in London and 14 weeks at the Madi son Square Theater, New York, be true. It Is an adaptation of an English work, itself translated from the French, by William Gillette. "Jane," by the way, will be the only non-mnslcal attraction at a first-class theater next week. Mr. Charles Frohman has employed a very good company, and the production will bo up to ;he best Madison Square Theater traditions. About the com pany no doubt can be entertained, for it contains such people as Miss Johnston Ben nett, formerly with Richard Mansfleld; Mr. Paul Arthur, so long Comedian Goodwin's leading support Mr. M. C. Daly, a well known character actor; Mr. R. F. Cotton, an English comedian of considerable note; Miss Amelia Summervllle. who was the "simple village maiden" with DIxey in "Adonis:" Miss Elaine Ellson, tho charming Louisville girl w ho Is yet new to tho stage: Miss Maggie Hollowny, Mr. E. S. Edwards, Mr. Herbert Fortier and James Totten. The Emma Jnch Opera Company is said to be in bettor condition than ever, and despite reports to the contrary will reach the Grand Opera House with all the princi pals whoso names havo been advertised. The Jach Orchestra is under tho bnton of Signer Enrico Bovignnni, who for years has been considered the foremost conductor of Europe, he having succeeded Sir Michael Costa as the Conductor of the Royal Italian Opera at Her Majesty's Theater, London. Slgnor Bevignanl is a composer of note, his works being well known on this side of the Atlantic ns welt as through all of Europe. His opera, Catcrina Bloom, was given at the Theater San Carlos, Naples, with the great est operatic cast ever gotton together. The Jnch Orchestra, under the new conductor, Is the largest nnd ono of the finest orches tras connected with n traveling organiza tion In the world, numbering 40 celebrated solo musicians carefully selected by the dlrectbr for tho difficult repertoire pre sented this season. The Jnch chorus is the largest in America and has received great praise from the musical critics of the cities so far visited by the company this season. The principals of the opera company are nearly the same as when the organization visited us last season. TALK OP TnE TIMES. The more the Republicans hng to them selves tho delusion that McKinleyism, in consequence of tho result in Ohio, can now safely be made the essential plank in the platform for the whole country, the brighter will grow the prospects of the Democrats. Providence Journal. There things aro easy to say but somehow they are very hard to prove. The Increase in farming products in 1F91 over 18D0 is $700,000,000. It is too bad the country is going to the demnitlon bow-wows. BostonNews. Such signs of decay aro posi tively alarming to the calamity croakers. Even tho postal service is demoralized by tho'Lonisiana Lottery. New York Commercia Advertiser. Is it possible to find anything that is not affected that way by the lottery? The ventilating apparatus of the United States Senate chamber has been overhauled. Boston Herald. This Is as it should be. Many of the Senators havo opinions tliev want aired. Secretary Blaine will see to it that Ameri can interests are protected in the Brazilian and Chilean difficulties, as he did in the Italian and Samoan matters. St. Louis Globe Democrat. That is exactly what everybody supposed he would do. If the nobility of Europe are going to marry all the American git Is in this country the native American man Is going to suffer. Chicago News. No ho is not. He Is a lucky man to escape being tied to one of that kind of girls. Over 200 kinds of American mushrooms will be exhibited at tho World's Fair. Chcago Tribune. It Is to be presumed that some varieties of the political clubs aio in cluded in the list. M0DEBN ARMS FOB CADETS. At Last They Have Been Provided With Weapons of the Age. New York World. The naval cadets at Annapolis have at last been provided with n modern weapon. A six-inch, 15 calibre high-power gun has been mounted on the shore. It has the protec tive shield, which is an attachment familiar to all who have visited cur modern ships. In few months this gun will be mounted onboard shin, and the cadets will be prac ticed in tho art of shooting at a target with a gun that can really accomplish something in modern warfare. With the exception of a modern field piece which wns some time ago put on exhibition nt West Point, this is the first effort made by the United States Government to instruct its future officers in tho use of modern arms'! Having been taught with tho utensils of the nld-lnshioncd, smooth-bore ordnnnce, the fledglings aro put aboard new vessels and told to teach the sailors how to handle new guns. Suddenly It has dawned upon the authorities that a smooth-bore officer cannot effectually command a breech-loading gunner. The Government is to be con gratulated on its belated perspicuity. San Francisco's Rival. Seattle Telegraph. The claim of San Francisco to the Demo, emtio National Convention' cannot be al. lowed. If the convention comes to this coast, Tacoma has tho first application, on file and should win. -i sajlsssW, i WsabWBWt ETCHERS AND ETCHINGS. Art Reception Appealing Directly to the Polite World A Fashionable Morning Wedding What Is Fast, What Is Here and What's to Come. Society has taken up the etching fancy, ns l eprosented by Mrs. Frances Sumner, of New York. Mrs. Sumner came here from the East yesterday in the interests of the New York Etching Club, besides several huudrcd artists, whom she represents di rectly. Already anumber of society women havo become interested; so that it Is likely Mr Sumner vi ill give an art reception in a short time. At it she will display a number of gems, which she alone possesses, having obtained them directly trom the artist, if they are original, or from the etcner, if they are after some famous painting. Sirs. Sumner will be in town for some time, but will possibly introduce her self to the social world by this art reception nt the Monougahela House in. a few days. These affairs aro made very exclusive by in vitation cards, which alone obtain admis sion. Some or the world's famous paintings, excellently reproduced bv zreat etchings, will then be exhibited. Mrs. Sumner has the works of every important American artist now residing in France, to say nothing of the" home artists whose works occupy places of boncu- in Pittsburg households. To-night will open in the Rev. Mr. Gor don's house, O'Hara street, East End, the two day's bazaar for the benefit of the new Church of the Covonaut, now being erected. The women of the church have come for ward as they usually do to aid the members in clearing off the Indebtedness, and accord ingly the Ladles' Aid Socloty of 'the Presby terian sanctuary Is sponser to the pretty fnlr. The officers and committees are: Presi dent, Mrs, Hnntlngton; Vice President, Mrs. Moss; Treasurer, Mrs. Steytler; Secretary, Mrs. Waddell. Fruit Committee Mrs. Thompson, Chair man; assistants, Mrs. Snively, Mrs. Dew snapp, Mrs. Agnew and and Mr-. ightm.m. Art Table Mrs. Stein. Chairman; assis tants, Miss Snivelv. Miss Agnew, Miss Thompson, Miss Wightman and Miss Annie Wightman. , , , Fancy Work Table Mrs. Fulton, Chair man, assistants. Mrs. Ruffley, Mrs. Shields, Mrs. Ree and Mrs. King. Doll Table Mrs. Waddle, Chairman; as slstants, Mrs. Moss, Mrs. Graham and Miss Jt"ed. Candv Table Mrs. Hnntlngton, Chairman: nssistaiits. Mrs. Gordon. Jlrs. Cromllsb, Mrs. Shields, Mrs. Richmond, 31rs. Hoffman and Miss Wilson. Loan Art Exhibition Mrs. Steybler as sisted by Mrs. Van Hook. Lafayette Ham.,, as of old, is the spot where the Catholic orphans' tea party will be held this year on November 18. The usual degree of enthusiasm, nlwsys marking this event, is being evinced and commltteemeet ings ahd the like are rife. The hall is not an attraction nor nn ngrceable place, and noth ing proclaims better the quality of the hos pitable entertainment given on these occa sions, than the hosts of people who turn out. Nouody over saw Lafayette Hall with less than a crowd in it at the tea parties. The officers in charge are: Miss Olive Jones, President; Mrs. Leddio GIoninger.Treasurer; Miss Phelan, Secretary. The lemonade booth is in charge of Miss Mary Dunlevy and Miss Giles. Mrs. Katherine Oldshoe and Mrs. J. Ledlle'Glonlnger with aids, Mrs A. V. D. Wattcrson, Miss Alice Gloninger, Miss Walsh, Miss Mary Barr, Miss Annie McAleer and Miss Rose Caller'- Only COO tickets will be sold. Miss Lottie Hawes will entertain the opening dance of the season of the Ben Venue Club on next Friday evening. The young ladies are taking particular pains to have this event an agreeable one, as the club has ncquired a reputation for having thoroughly enjoyable evenings, though the door Is piomptly shut upon any unfortunate man who ventures near. This club has been in existence for a couple ofyears, the dances boing given atthe houses of the members once a fortnight.. Several visitors will be present on Friday evening, and the small sisters of the members have promised to do their guests honor by displaying their skill in fancy dancing. Social Chatter. Sliss Marv Keati:.g's marriage will be cele brated with the solemn accompaniment of High Mass this morning m Sacred Heart Church, East End, ut 11 o'clock. Rev. Father Kain will perforin thu ceremony and after wards officiate at mass. It will be one of the lashionable events or the week, a reception at Mr. Keating's home on Rebecca street be ing supplemental to tlio cuurcu ceremony. .Morris STErnExs. formerly a singer 3t,St. Peter's Episcopal Church, prior to thatrat the Second M.P. Church, has been cngagod as tenor in the Shadyside Presbyterian Church. The appointment is a compliment to Mr. Stephens, who was one of numerous contest ants. The gentleman is just returned trom Europe, where he was the pupil ofSignor Kandegger, in London. At a little informal gathering yesterday morning wns settled the matter of the Lin den Club euchre parties, which will begin at an earlv date in the Linden Club house. They will be carried on iu a more ambitious manner than heretofore, and those inter ested In arranging them promise unusual good entertainment. Miss Caruik Schmertz, of Howe street. East End, with Mrs. Strain, a relatlvu and traveling companion, is at present the guest of the Hon. Roland J. Hemmick, U.S. Consul at Geneva. To-sigiit Mr. and Mrs. S. S. Pinkerton re reive in honor of Mrs. John Mattocks and Miss Elizabeth Mattocks, of Chicago, Bid well and Fifth avenue, Shad side. Mccu Interest has been excited by the mysterious "Blue Jay T." to be given by the King's Daughters at Patterson's Hall, Butler street, Thursday, November 19. Mr. A3D Mrs. A. V.D. Wattersox, of Lin coln avenue. Ease End, have issued invita tions for a progressive euclue on Friday evening, November 20. Mrs. Robert Mcskoe, of Sheffield street, receives this afternoon, and in the evening Miss Munroe will be hostess to a younger set of friends. Mr. axdMrs. E. A. Ford will entertain a few friends by a box pnrtv at the Dnquesne Theater on Friday night. Anxiety In the Northwest. Portland, OfegonlauJ In no part of tho United States is there more interest and anxiety felt in the out come of the Chilian affair than in the lumber producing regions of the Northwest. The effect on the market for our lnmber was very seriously felt all through the Balma ceda 'Insurrection, nnd now it will be felt still more until an understanding is arrived at and the trouble ended. While it may be come necessary to cut off relations with Chile, and recall our Minister, and all that, that course will never get the snnction of the large lumber concerns. They would any of them prefer a short war to a long lay-off. Novelty in Prison Business. Detroit Free Press. It is a novelty in prison business to make the convicts build their own prison, as is be ing done in Philadelphia. There should be snug watch kept on them to see they do not leave any loop holes. 'ox the top euxg. Mrs. "e, the wife of the Corean Minister at Washington, has learned to talk English. Governor Russelx, of Massachusetts, don't believe in riding on passes. He has re turned all he received to the corporations. Mrs. Sarah Althea Hill Sharon Terry is becoming a noted California char acter. Her name alone gives her' promi nence. Dr. Brown-Seqcahd don't say much nowadays about his elixir of lifo. He is talk ing about coughing and sneezing, for which he thinks he has a cure. Dr. Helene Druschkowitz, one of the first women in Austria to acquire the title of Ph. D-, became suddenly insane a few days ago in Vienna. Senator Davis, of Minnesota, has a pretty wifo who creates something of a sensation by driving a very swagger En glish dogcart. She was once a governess and Is remarkably pretty. No woiider Archduke Johann's ship went down, or was badly strained at least. .His full name, which was used Tor ballast proba. bly, was Johann Nepomuceno Salvator Mario Joseph Jean Ferdinand Balthazar Louis Gonzagne Peter Alexandor Tenoblns Antonin. K. S. Witherbee, who is known as the "Sapphlro King of Montana," says : "Insi ie of five years I thorougldy believe the value of the preciou stones produced inIontana will equal the valuoof the annual output of all the precious metals produced in this country." CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. Missouri cherry trees are flowering for the second time this season. The Indians in the neighborhood of Fort Benton, Mont., have made money this' vyear. They have sold 1,700 tons of hay to tho Government for 17,000. A Vermont farmer picks the apple seeds from his cider presses and sells them for use in the manufacture of prussic acid. He gets about one bushel of seeds from 110 bushels of apples. The rare phenomenon of red snow oc curred in tho past spring at Salt Lake City. This is caused by the development of a minnte fungus liich likes to germinate in snow under favorable conditions called Pro tococens nivalis. When Currier Downing, of Ripley, Me., left home 75 years ago he planted an acorn In the doorvard. When be returned the other day he found that his acorn had produced an oak tree nine feet in circumfer ence, with branches extending 40 feet. The germs of yellow fever; it is thought, may be conveyed from tropical conntries by the pet birds exported in so large number. Recent cases or the disease in Marseilles could be traced to no other source than a pair of parrots from the Australasian' Islands. The water in the lakes and streams of Western Connecticut is so low that many mills have stopped running and others have had to return to steam power. Cider mills, however, are in active operation, and if tho threatened water famine comes the farmers will be the gainers. , A floating island in Sadaga Pond, which is about a mile In length, near Jack sonville, Vt., covers about one-third of the surface and Is about two feet in thickness. It beara cranberries, and it drifts from one part of the pond to another, according to the direction of the wind. Twenty-one specimens of fossil shells have been found In the vicinity of Boston. Some of these fossils were found In tho Mntldy river, on the border Of Brookline: some have been found in the dredging of the Charles river near the Back Bay. Some of the oyster shells are ten inches long. Between two small lakes near Boras, Sweden, a strip of land 'has interrupted traffic, but engineers have overcome the dif ficulty by constructing a ship railway across it anil building n small steamboat that can run Itself across from one lake' to the other. The vessel has accommodations for 60 per son". The Dalles (Oregon) Chronicle tells of a waeon load of produce recently brought to that city which consisted of but six head's of cabbaee. the half dozen filling the wagon bed. These mammoth cabbages were raised on the dry hills near the Des Chntes river, nnd were the wonder and admiration of alt who saw them. It is not at all certain that the white race has a prior claim even upon the inven tion of the cigar. In all parts of New Guinea, the largest island in the world, that have yet been visited, tobacco is cultivated, and income or thee districts thn humble pipe contributes nothing to the enjoyment of the weed, nnd is not even known. Just what a young woman can do when she sets her mind to it is shown by tho achievement of a good-looking widow near Oshkosh, Wis. Her first husband's name wns Slayd. and when she married again it wns observed with some reusonnble snrpriso that she had become Mrs. Wyffe. Hnving been maid and wife she is now a widow. The Russian newspapers are reporting a singular discovery in Central Asia. They say that in Russian Turkestan, on the right bank of the Amou Darin, in some rocky hills near the Boknaran town of Karki, a number of large caves have been explored, which were lound to lead to an underground town built apparently before the Christian era. Chrysanthemums" eighteen inches in circumference are not uncommon in Australia, andfhany varieties grown there surpass in size and equal in color the finest exhibited at the flower show. AH this is not remarkable, however, In a land wh.ere the heliotrope grows to be a good-sized tree and tho fuchsia clambers to the second story windows. A. M.Burton, of Corinna, Me., is a very strong man, nnd his strength serves him well at times. The other day his horse balked upon a railroad crossing as a train was approaching, nml everybody expected a crash. Bnt the strong man got ont, seized the horse bv the bridle.and pulled the whole outfit off the track in time to avoid a collision. A wealthy and religious merchant' in New York has sent a clergyman down Into the dark corners of Maine to wrestle with the ungodly, and he has been surely shocked by discovering that in some places farm work is rognlarly carried on seven days in the week nnd that there is a very dense ignorance prevalent as to the fourth com mandment. That curious plant commonly called the mother-in-law obtained its name in a enri ous.way. An expert of botanical gardens attached to the Smithsonian Institute, in ex plaining tho carious properties of the plant to a reporter, mentioned the fact that ft bad the power of paralyzing the tongue. "A good thing for a motber-ln-la w,"' said the re porter,and then and theie tlio name motuer-fn-law was applied to the plant. During the past ten years there has been a decided increase in the fishing inter ests df 'Washington, notably in the oyster fishery, the yie'd of which has advanced from 15,000 to 60,003 bushels: in the salmon fishery, in which the catch in 13S0 was re- Iiorted to be 350,000 pounds, and in 1833 was 6,319,736 pounds; in the vessel fishery for food species (including halibut and salt salmon) which has been established In re cent years, and the product of which in 1883 amounted to 686,000 pounds. The fur-seal fishery has declined considerably in value, though to a less extent in number of skins. A curious story comes from "Wenghsi ang. The town suffers frqm inundations of the Yellow river, and two yoarsago a move ment was started, by the local magistrate to build a breakwater. The chief difficulty lay in the want of sufficiently large stones. Sud denly, however, to the astonishment of the community, a heavy storm of wind nnd rain deluged the country, and brought down an endless quantity ot huge stones exactly suited to the purpose Tue people naturally regarded the incident as a direct manilesta tion of divine power fn aid of -a great public undertaking, and the Governor of the dis trict cites a fact which conclusively proves the supernatural origin of the event. One of the stones, he says, which was as large as a house, was Inscribed with seal characters, two of which, meaning "work" and stone" respectively, he was able to decipher. BAZAR IllIZZIN'GS. Parkins My son is a'smart fellow. He'll be a rich man some day. Marrowfat What does lie do? Parkins He Is an Ice-man In summer, and'in winter he runs a combination business of plumbing and coal. "It's little things that count," said Hicks. Ye-es," returned Mawson. "Hut very lnaccur ately.'My boy can't count 11 without making about JO mistakes." The odor of hay in the meadows green 19 token of summer so fair; And we know autumn's here when camphorine Doth permeate everywhere. "Say, Bronny," said Hicks, entnusiastie- ally, "you never saw my baby, did " No," returned Bronson. shortly. "But I've seen plenty of others. Let's go play billiards." "Look here," said a new tenant, "this house was totiaYe been furnished, and It is abso lutely empty. " '1 have kept my agreement, sir." replied the owner. "I have furnished the house, and I expect you to furnish the furniture." "Is he a clever man?" "Well, I should say so. He can raise money on a personal note, and then borrow enough from the same man to pay the Interest upon It." Mrs. Hutchings How are yon getting along now, Mr. Duucan, In the literary line? Mr. Duncan-Poorly, enough. AU my articles have been rejected. Mrs. Hutclilngs-Oli, well, I shouldn't mind. Why. sometimes good articles are rejected. Churchill (showing friend his pen and ink sketches) What do you thluk of them, Gassett? . Oassett-Tliey are good-very good. But I know a fellow wno can draw an eagle without lifting his -pen from the paper. He Is a professor iuabusli . ness college. The odor of roses on April's day Betokens the comlug of spring: The odor of crackling logs, they say. Shows that winter Is on the wing. , . Miss Klinker I saw you out riding yes terday with Miss Wcllthy. Mr. Softer(linrrledly)-Pardonme. MlssKUnkcr, you are mistaken. Thit was that homely, cross eyed little shrimp, Guy Manners. Miss Kllnker-Dear wol I could have iwora tt' was you. Such a striking resemblance 1 .. . . .:
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