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TWELVE PAGES
MIEIOIAN'S SERVICED
If the Republicans of Ohio retire John
Sherman from the Senate they mil be
parting with one of the ablest men whom
Ohio lias contributed to national affairs.
The argument against Mr. Sherman that
he has been nearly thirty years in the Sen
ate, and that the people think thirty years
long enough, is a singular instance, both
of ingratitude and of false logic, "Within
the period of this service Mr. Sherman has
been of immense benefit in protecting the
financial policy of the country from wild
schemes of isiouaries and incapables. His
experience is now greater than ever, and
the recent revival of the silver craze shows
there is as much need for his conservative
influence as ever. The allegation of long
service, therefore, should distinctly count
in his favor, and only with tho sballow
pated. No greater contrast could exist between
two men than between Sherman and For
aker. The latter, while possessed of
enough ability to keep himself before the
public, is not the cool-headed, safe guide
that Sherman has at all times been. To
replace Sherman by Foraker would give a
singular idea of the standard by which
statesmen are measured in Ohio.
A HEALTOT rOrULAK TSTE.
Vulgarity and indecency are not paying
factors in theatrical performances in
Tittsburg. It has been proved time and
again that a Pittsburg audience will not
swallow what may have gone down w ithout
a murmur in New York. Among theatri
cal managers it is an acknowledged fact
that extra care must be taken to avoid
offense when Pittsburg furnishes the audi
ence. Recently a manager complained
that a plaj that had been performed in
Xew York, Boston and Philadelphia with
out remonstrance from either public or
critics, was condemned by both on the
score of gross impropriety when it
reached Tittsburg. It is not that our au
diences are hypercritical; the feeling that
prompts the protest is rather moral than
mentsL The popularity of cleanly, whole
some plajs here and the disfavor shown to
those of an opposite character are feath
ers in Pittsburg's cap. They bespeak a
high moral tone in the community, and if
comparisons must be made it shows once
more that the manufacturing city, here a
majority of the population are workers, is
likely to be the moral superior of the me
tropolis, 'where culture cannot stay the
corruption that Idleness and inherited
riches entail.
MISGCIDED ANARCHISTS.
Simultaneously with the news that the
Anarchists in Bohemia are unusually
active comes the report that their. Ameri
can conf eres are again displaying their red
banners in Chicago. There maybe no sig
nificance or connection between these two
items, but of late there has been such a
lack of activity in Anarchial circles that
those in favor of good government can
afford to be suspicious.
There is no place in the United States
for the Anarchist. The incident at
Chicago conclusively shows that the few
in the United States are in opposition to the
countiy which has given them protection
from the tyranny of despots, and there can
be but one interpretation of their acts,
namely, that they are determined to plot
against the safety of srxty million people.
Fortunately as yet there are only a hand
ful of these misguided men in this country,
but that is no reason why they should be
permitted to assemble and discuss their
nefarious schemes. They should be taught,
by force If necessary, that there is no hole
or corner in a country devoted to the inter
ests of freedom and humanity, small
enough to hold them.
GOOD REPORTS FROM AFRICA.
The negro in Africa is more progressive
than the negro in the South, according to
reports from a British colony on the South
ern rim of the Dark Continent Some
level-headed Scotchmen only two years
ago located on a fertile tract in South
Africa. Now coffee plantations flourish,
and experimental sugar, tea and tobacco
tracts are well under way. All the work
lias been done, too, by natives who pre
vious to the advent of the whites devas
tated instead of cultivated, fought instead
of worked, spoiled instead of toiled.
In architecture and the labor incidental
to the creation of a city the native Africans
have shown an aptitude that seems in
credible. The homes, the halls, the
churches of the whites are all worthy
monuments to the aptness and skill of the
dusky workers who ran wild only a few
months previous. They baked the bricks,
made the lime, hewed the timber, chipped
the stones, in fact did all that a skilled
white worker would do under similar cir
cumstances. Enthusiastic settlers who
have written friends at home are confident
that the natives have solved tho problem
of residence in the Dark Continent
Those who have watched the slow de
velopment of the transplanted African in
this country will put on their thinking
caps when they ponder over this endorse
ment of his skill, and wonder what
has retarded his advancement in
the line of mechanical and in
dustrial work here. Has he been shoved
backward instead of forward? Has servi
tude fitted him only for service that de
mands solely exercise of the limbs instead
of development of the mind. Or has the
ease begotten of thoughtless toil unfitted
him for tasks that call for skillful calcula
tion as wen as muscular cnortv If tho
juncan ircsu irom tne jungle can apply
himself to the arts of civilization in less
time than it takes to train white workers
in the same lines there is surely a ripe
field for teachers in the sunny South.
There he follows the lines laid
down by the old taskmasters, seemingly
satisfied that to-day never leads to to-morrow;
that what was will be; that what
isn't never can be; that what is easy will
be easier simply for thelack of knowledge
thereof. The South needs skilled work
ers. Its climate handicaps the favored
whites. "Why not encourage, develop and
utilize the dusky drones whose kin are
building cities and making the earth fruit
ful in an undeveloped land.
SOMEBODT WANTS A JOB.
There is a proposal for a permanent
Census Bureau at "Washington. Coming
so soon after last year's census, the fact
that such a proposal has to be made is in
itself a striking evidence of tho dissatis
faction with Commissioner Porter's work.
"Were we sure that tho suggestion of the
"steady job" did not originate in the in
terests of some people for whom it is de
signed to furnish soft situations, it might
be easier to recognizo the necessity for a
permanent bureau to rectify the errors of
the temporary ones which come and go
every ten years.
Considering the probability that the idea
is meant in the interest of placemen the
public will by no means favor it. There
are now enough people fastened on the
Treasury at Washington to run a govern
ment twice the size of that of tho United
States. "When, , after much elaborate
preparation, a reliable census could not be
got in 1890, there is little prospect that any
great benefit would accrue from establish
ing a steady function with high salaries
for little work
The only way out of the controversies
innumerable which have arisen over the
census of 1890 is for the localities which
challenge the accuracy of Porter's figures
to conduct an enumeration on their own
responsibility. The rage for statistics is
not so strong with the public that taxpay
ers will want to have a continuous com
mission plying inoffensive citizens at all
seasons with all sorts of questions. Least
of all would they want a permanent
bureau created for Mr. Porter because of
his failure in the temporary one.
NOT EXACTET A l'ARADISE,
Another model colonization and co-operative
community scheme is revealed in its
true colors in a Kansas telegram to The
Disfatch published elsewhere in this is
sue. It is the old, old story. Lovely cli
mate, fruitful soil, tropical luxuriance of
crops, comfortable homes, long life in an
earthly paradise, on paper a sterile des
ert under a blazing sun, where 'double
labor produced a scant living for the
fever-stricken colonist, in fact The
ingenuity of this particular scheme
is rather remarkable. The com
pany within the company is a refine
ment upon the usual swindling method.
The aspirant for communal joy3 has the
satisfaction of being employed by one cor
poration that takes all he has and gives
him in return the scrip of another corpo
ration that calmly declines to nay, and has
no assets to tempt attachment. Mexico
and other Southern neighbors of ours
have been very free with their invita
tions, highly-colored ones, too, to us to
come down and share the delights of the
tropics and the riches thereof; and a
great many who have accepted tljese
invitations have met the fate of
the unfortunates who have experi
mented with the high-sounding "integral-co-operation
association" of Topolobampo.
The silver mines that require gold mines
to work them; the rich soil that raises
fevers and absorbs coffined colonists; and
all the other patented attractions of the
unknown that figure so bravely in circu
lars and advertisements, are generally not
worth traveling to look at, and as much
energy and capital put into enterprises
nearer home will much more surely yield
a harvest.
MOKE TACTOKIES COMING.
The visit of J. Murray Doelen, a manu
facturer of Nottingham lace in England,
to this country is another evidence of th3
attractive powers of the McKmley tariff
law. Mr. Dolan intends to remove his en
tire manufactory to the United States.
He has not yet selected the location, but
he long since came to the conclusion that
he could afford to bring his establishment
to a country where protection is afforded.
Mr. Dolan repeats emphatically the same
sentiments that have been uttered by other
English manufacturers. He says that he
cannot afford to make his goods in England
and send them to the United States with
the present tariff, consequently he will
make his lace in the United States. The
evidence in favor of the protective policy
is accumulating so rapidly that the free
trade prophets will soon be left without a
particle of ground upon which they may
base their fallacious arguments.
rrrrsBURG's chances growing.
The merchants of Chicago have shown
a magnanimity that was as unexpected as
it is pleasing to the other contestants for
the Republican National Convention.
They have declared that they will not en
deavor to have it meet in Chicago. Their
idea is that in securing the "World's Fair,
Chicago has its share of the public events
and that under the circumstances it is
only fair to other cities that Chicago peo
ple forego any claim they may have to the
convention.
This is a remarkably sensible view to
take of the situation, and it removes a
powerful rival from Pittsburg's path. But
those who are working for the convention
in this city should not relax their efforts
because Chicago has withdrawn. On the
contrary, they will need to strain every
point to carry the day and there is no time
to be lost in putting every wheel of the
proper machinery in motion. "With Chi
cago out of the contest Pittsburg's chances
for success have been increased about a
hundred per cent
The people of Tourat took the emissaries
of the Sultan of Morocco to their bosoms,
gave them a strongly built place to livo In
and kindly but firmly cut tho heads off five
of them. If the United States could make
up its mind to follow the same policy there
might be a few less Anarchists running
around loose.
Hawaiians are nothing they are not
sharp. Jast now they are after the Sugar
bounty, because that provision of the Mo
Kinley law has encouraged the producers
at home, and they find it hard to compete
even with labor so cheap as it is there. If
the Kingdom were annexed it would dispose
of this question. But there are many things
to be considered before we take in a terri
tory that is separated from the continent by
2.000 miles and more of ocean, and is also
virtually owned by a Yankee sugar king.
The Poor Farm selection promises to
drag Its slow length along until it will bo
come an issue in the councilmanic cam
paign next spring. The question of Mayor
Gourley's application to Councils for in
creased recognition will very likely grow
into a large issue about the same time.
Poor Chile i "What will she do now?
Tho representative of the British Govern.
ment feels offended because he was blocked
on his way to decorate graves by a rabble
which had gathered at the cemetery for the
same purpose Compared with killing a few
Americans and wounding others, this insult
to tho British Government is like a mount
ain to a mole hill. Which is th$ mountain
and which the molo hill the Chileans don't
know as yet.
The Australians are developing a new
trait. They lvaye become most enthusiastic
borrowers and are overjoyed because the
Victoria Legislature has just passed a bill
providing for the raising of $30,000,000. When
thoy'come to be taxed to pay it back their
enthusiasm won't be quiet so pronounced.
Balsiaceda proclaimed himself dicta
tor of Chile on a warm South American
summer day. Fonseca chose, a balmy South
American spring day, but it seems that
reither period was exactly the proper one.
The proclamations immediately thror both
Chile and Brazil into the "winter of discon
tent." South Americans cannot stand such
a sudden change of seasons.
"With twenty-seven plans for Tennsyl
vania's buildings at tho World's Fair to se
lect from, we certainly ought to find one of
which we may be proud. Still the building
is not so important as its contents, and
preparations for exhibits cannot bo com
menced any too soon.
As the Christmas holidays approach the
feminine portion of many families take a
great interest in Bering Sea difficulties. It
is said that some are particulary bitter
against the Alaska Commercial Company
just because it is the authority for the state
ment that th?re was no truth in the rumors
that there was a decline in tho price of seat
skins.
If we might be allowed a mild suggestion
to the Farmers' Alliance of the West, a good
motto to hang over the doors of their meet
ing rooms would be: "Keep off the Grass."
Tom Reed says he is a believer in the
brothcihood of mankind in the confedera
tion of the world, but not to-day and not to
morrow. Mr.Rced doesn't say when he thinks
the desired end will be reaohed. In fact, ho
has few hopos of its over being reached, in
tills he resembles a free trader who belioves
in fallacies which he never hopes to see in
practice.
New Yoke has a man with three tongues,
four chins, three cheeks and an elephant's
car. The question is, how did he get away
from Chicago?
The last act of the Senators at Harris
burg was to draw warrants for their pay
and mileage. They were a trifle slow when
it came to deciding as to their Jurisdiction in
the cases before them, but when they drew
their warrants there was an activity in their
movements that did not jibe well with the
character they had earned for tliemselvo3.
The rules of etiquette say that it is not
permissible to pass the plate a second time.
The church people will please take noto of
this.
Train robbers are fully alive to the im
provements of the age. They now employ
bombs to break open cars, but these failed
when they came to the treasure boxes.
Next time they will probably provide them
selves with one of the recently invented
armor piercing projectiles adopted by the
Government.
The chrysanthemum seems to be growing
wonderfully fast into publio favor. In no
less than 11 cities have shows been held dur
ing the past two weeks. Tho variety most in
favor with the young ladies is that which
has a head that is a tangled, disheveled
mass of long, stringy filaments. They say it
reminds them so much of a distinguished
foreign nobleman.
It is a poor day for news now that does
not bring out a new revolution of some
kind. The latest reported is in Greece,
where the natives are in arms against the
Government.
SNAP SHOTS IN SEASON.
Suspicious money changers frequently
bite the dust.
The Senate majority were cute enough
not to drag the question of jurisdiction into
the Treasury and decline the salary grab.
The Anarchist who refuses to honor the
stars should be forced to wear the stripes.
The economic woman now
Has not the time to flirt;
She's busy striving to see how
She can turn last year's skirt.
The man in the push is all right, pro
vided he's notTiarhessed to a push cart.
Harrison is playing second fiddle in the
diplomatic deals, and is sadly out of tune at
that.
If Baum's refrigerator worked as
should it would freeze him out of office.
it
SLElonrs'G parties arc incomplete with
out cutters.
The similarity of the mishaps to African
adventurers who live to reach civilization
again is suspicious. Bishop Taylor is the
last victim of unaccountable disfiguration
during a period of senseless somnolence,
somnambulistic somersaulting or hyp
notic helplessness that completely throws
into tho shade Emln Pasha's balcony act
on the edge of the black belt about a year
ago.
Idleness softens the hands and hardens
the cheek.
If the law reaohed those who break
women's hearts as well as it does those who
break their heads the criminal courts would
bcrbusier.
The shades of night were falling fast,
And lights were in request;
The waiter turned the button and
'Lectric'ty did the rest.
"Walking" advertisements are also paid
for by the square.
Silversmiths
sterling worth.
can turn out works of
Ir the women paid moce attention to din
ner ,plates than they do to fashion plates
there would be more good humored husbands
in the world.
It's only a step from the bench to the bar,
but fortunately the rules of most shops
make it a long while between drinks.
The phrase, "he's in the soup," probably
grew.out of thefact that everything left goes
In the bouillion.
It is more charitable to laugh at fools
than to deride them.
Never
shoulder.
give a warm friend the cold
Hygienic Benevolence.
Philadelphia Record.!
A portion pf tho Baron de Hirsch fund Is
being expended in New York in the con
struction of baths for the people of tho
tenement house districts. Thero Is little
doubt but that this experiment will be of
great hygienic value. The fact that bathers
aro charge a small fee removes the im
pression that the enterprise is a charity,
and fosters that spirit of independence
which Is always noticeable among the really
deserving poor.
Mills Has a Tariff Bill.
Boston News.3
It is as we supposed. Free Trader Mills
announces that ho Is preparing a tariff bill,
to be submitted to Congress, that will wipe
out the present "iniquitous tariff." If be
will only do it, and his Congress will pass
tho bill, Republican success in ls92 is assured.
INTERCHANGE OF RINGS.
Sacred Heart Church Frits on Autumnal
Garb for a "Wedding Bride and Groom
Give Each Other a Bine at the Altar
Scanning the Social Horizon.
Yesterday morning Miss Mary Emily
Keating was married in the Churoli of the
Sacred Heart to Charles Ludlow Livingston
at 10:30, remaining for solemn high mass,
which tho wedding immediately prooeded.
Chrysanthemums were selected to decorate
tho church, red and yellow being chosen to
reproduce the autumnal colors, and
branches of trees, as foliage, intensifying
tho conception of a November
day. Policemen were stationed at
tho church door, from which an
awning wa3 suspended to Center avenue,
to hold back the inevitable crowd. The
church was welj filled with the church
guests, besides those to whom invitations
for the house reception had been extended
and who occupied pews in front of the altar
marked off by white libbon. The ushers
were: Mr. Charles Griffin, Mr. Edwin Kent,
ing, Mr. Paul Dunlevey and Mr. Francis
Keating. After seating the people, these
gentlemen preceded tho bridal pair and the
presents of tho bride to the altar. Mrs
Anthony Keating, tho bride's mother,
went first, accompanied by the bride
groom.Mr. Livingston. Miss Keating followed
leaning on the arm of her father, Anthony
Keating. Thebride wore an exquisite gown
of whito silk, the bodice of which was cut
round, and over all a bridal veil fastened to
the coiffure by a spray of orange blossoms.
From her left wrist hung a pearl rosary, and
she carried in her right hand a ivory backed
prayer book. A daintv and pretty girl
always, as a bride Miss Keating looked par
ticularly engaging audlovely. Mrs. Anthony
Keating, a fine looking .woman with a
queenly carriage, wore a magnificent light
colored gown trimmed in a rich dark fur.
The ushers wore Prince Albert coats and
light-colored trousers, the bridegroom be
ing similarly attired, excepting that his
dress was entirely black or of some very
dark shado. Something very unusual in the
Catholic Church, was tho sight of several of
the reception guests in afternoon dress and
bare headed. When the ushers reached the
sanctuary railing they divided, Mr. Keating
giving his daughter to the bridegroom, who
then entered with her and knelt before
the altar. The father and mother with the
ushers fell back and took their seats in tho
Iront sews. The Rev. Father Kean per
formed tho ceremony, blessing the rings
which the bridal pair exchanged. Thebnde
and groom did not leceive holy communion
as is usual, having celebrated that mass
early in the morning. Rev. Father Murphy,
of Holy Ghost College, pi cached un affecting
sermon, in which he alluded to the bride In
a touching manner. He called atten
tion to her church work, and men
tioned with regiet the fact that her mar
riage was dopriving Sacred Heart parish
of one fits most efficient members. The ser
mon was listened to with deep attention.
Solemn high mass was then celebrated, and
at 10:30, the family and the bride and groom
left the church. A reception was given at
house in the afternoon by Mr. and Mrs.
Keating, who reside on Rebecca street, East
End, at which several hundred people were
S resent. Mr. and Mrs. Livingston will be iu
ew York this morning.
TnE Oakland Children's Hospital is
much exercised over the need of a new
fence and a large sum for household ex
penses. To obtain this it has become one of
the two beneficiaries of the expected Na
tional Pageant in the Auditorium next
month, the Church of the Ascension being
the other. The hospital does not
receive State aid, but is entirely
dependent upon private subscriptions
and the interest of a small sum in bank.
One source of income it has been entirely
deprived ot by the conditions of Miss
Holmes' bequest-ythe receiving of "pay pa
tients." Miss Holmes gavo her money for a
charity hospital, and so a charitv hospital
tho Oakland institution muse forever re
main while its present charter exists and it
lives in the house partly paid for by her
money. This can be got around, however,
by a patient upon leaving the hospital
testifying to tueir gratitude by the gift
of a sum of money covering incurred
expense. For some reason the hospital Is
not popular wiui mo poor m me city suae
is, with those who havo never experiencett
the benefits of its entertainment. The
matron says that those who are most op-
Sosed to permit their children to enter the
ospital are most averse afterward to have
them leave it. At present there are only 11
children in the house, though there are ac
commodations for 30 and upward. To see
tbeso 11 little children at nlay, or, at least,
playing as much us some of them can, tells
its ownt6tory about the happy home pro
vided for them. Some of them remain
in the Home a year and more, and none aro
ever promptly disposed of, the moment the
doctor pronounces them on the highway to
recovery, too often the case in other eleemo
synary institutions. When the fence ar
rives, which the manager expects tobe quite
handsome, tho hospital will be protected
from the four streets which surround it
Hamlet, Ophelia and Forbes street and Mc
Devitt place. During the summer tho den
izens of a rather uninviting part of town
turned loose every day on the lawn, totally
destroy its neatness, to say nothing of
its beauty.
One of the tortures which many of the
owners of handsome houses in Pittsburg
have to suffer from is the general insistance
by the public that their houses are for sale.
Only a few days ago a frequently recurring
report that the Hostetter house was soon to
be parted with by Mr. Hostoyer, was em
phatically denied in these columns. There
never was at any time truth in
the story, though somebody (with
whom possibly tho wish was father
to the thought) always had a new and
absolutely coirect recital to make of Mr.
Hostettcr's intentidn. This storv is on a par
with one in which Mrs. W. G. Park's house
was concerned. It was officially "gossiped"
about that for a ridiculously low sum her
house, its grounds and furnituie were tobe
parted with, but the story turned out to be
as untruthful and absurd as the one pre
viously cited. One man was so disgusted at
tne necessary iiequent ueniais ne was
obliged to make concerning his house, that
he told an interlocutor he was not quite suro
but "what his wife was for salo also, if he
could get a good price for her."
The charming residence of Mrs. Pinker
ton, 0:1 Fifth avenue, was the scene of a
pretty leception last night, given in honor
of Mrs. John Mattocks and Miss Elizabeth
Mattocks, of Chicago. Chrysanthemums,
American Beauty and La France roses were
in every room on the first and second floors,
as well us in the handsome leception hall.
The den of the host was turned into a room
wheio coffeo was served by Mrs. F. W.
Gerdes, Mrs. Harry C. Beggs, Mrs. Sutton
and Mrs. William A. Herron. Refreshments
were also to be found in the dining room.
Gernert's Orchestra played very.charmingly
during the evening In the parlor where
the guests were first received the host and
hostess awaited them with Mrs. and Miss
Mattocks, the guests of honor, Mr. and Mrs.
Goodard and Mr. and Mrs. Mills, of New
York. About 225 people were present. Mrs.
Pinkerton's occasional "at homes" are al
ways largely attended, for she is one of the
few women who have thoroughly mastered
the art of entertaining. Mrs. and Miss Mat
tocks are described as very charming, and
will doubtless receive numerous attentions
during their stay.
Though a small band compared with
some of the great city churches, one seldom
finds so many charming and cultivated peo
ple as the Unitarian Church brought together
at its supper Jast night in the old University
building. If the chronicler's memory is to
be relied upon, this wa the first entertain
ment the .church nas given in Pittsburg ol
so ambitious a nature. Delicious refresh
ments were served and all tho attractions
of a church fair, such as grab bag, guess
cake, etc., abounded. Tho absence of the
pastor. Rev. Mr. St. John, was regretted,
though he was very charmingly repiesented
by his wife. The merit of the admirably
conceived and carried out evening's pleas
ure lies with Miss Mary Semple, the Chair
man, and her assistants: Mrs. McCargo, Mrs.
Lee, Mrs. Whiten, Mrs. Mary Macrum, Mis.
Wallace, of Edgewood; Mrs. Lowry and Miss
Lyman. A number of young girls acted us
aids.
Cards of announcement were issued yes
terday by Miss Kate Edna Negley of a Wom
an's Emporium of Decorative Art and
Fancy Cooking, to be opened on Saturday at
S932 Pcnn avenue. It is said to be intended
to take the place In the East End that is oc
cupied in town by tho Women's Exchange.
Miss Negley is a clever young woman, who
has made a rapid stride siuco she first took
up the instruction of cooking in the East
Liberty Domestic Training School. Cook
ing is an inherited fuculty with the young
lady, who can point with pride to a mother
that people sav cannot be excelled in tho
culinary arts. Specifically mentioned on
the card are hand-painted china, fancy
needlework, homemade bread, cakes and
Jellies.
Miss Ewart and F. "W. Van Osten were
married nt the Ewart house, on Center ave
nue, last night at P o'clock. The arrange-
inents were prettily carried out, and tho
brido was married surrounded by the pet
flower of the month, the chrysanthemum,
amid the foliage of palms. The brido, who
wore a pretty white wedding gown, was at
tended by her sister, Miss Bertha Ewart.
The bride carried whito chrysanthemums,
and the maid's bouquet was formed of pink.
The pretty decoration was the work of A,
M. andJ.B. Murdoch. Mr. and Mrs. van
Oston left last night for the East, and after
tho conventional two weeks' honeymoon,
will be at home in Center avenue. 9
"Wokshipers at the Cathedral may look
for a most elaborate musical programme on
Sunday.-Prof. Kirk has promised that there
will be a concerted vespers at Sundayeven
ing mass, with the additional accompani
ment of four horns played by four membere
of the Cathedral Band. Miss Bertha Galleii
tin will sing Gounod's "Ave Maris," to which
a violin obligato will be played by Mr. Ed
ward Rothleder, who is just home from two
years' study in German conservatories.
Signor Gille is to sing Dana's "Salve Begine."
This is all additional to the regular hymns
for tho day by the chorus choir.
Lady Henry Somerset is accompanied
onlier American visit by her only son.who is
away shooting in Yellowstone Paik while
his mother is attending the World's W. C. T.
U. Convention in Boston. Lady Henry is de
scribed by a visitor as possessing a beautiful
ice witn regular ieatures, ciowuuu nun
soft dark hair. She hai the trained English
voice which gives the listener perpetual de
light, and her stately, gracious presence
shows her inheritance of culture, refine
ment and wealth. All this says an admiring
Boston woman.
Unfortunately, it seems too probable
that those invited to the christening of the
recently organized Young Women's Chris
tian Association, will perforce remain for a
wake. It has begun a struggle from the
first for existence, and just when convales
enco was evident, a relapse set in through
Mrs. William Thompson's resignation. This,
followed by Mrs. A. P. Burchfield's an
nouncement, that she, also, retires from
office, looks like a deathblow.
Mrs. Hannah Irwin and Miss Irwin
received yesterday afternoon at their homo
in Western avenue, several hundred ladies
paying their respects to those charming
hostesses. A great many of the guests w oro
compelled to divide their time, owing to
Mrs. DePuy's reccution coming off at tho
same time. Mrs. Irwin wore a handsome
black toilette, and Miss Irwin looked ex
tremely attractive in a light gown finished
softly about the thiont with delicate lace.
A number of yonng ladies assisted.
The King's Daughters of St. Stephen's
Episcopal Church gave a delightful enter
tainment in the Wilkinsbnrg Opera House
last night. There was a very large attend
ance, and the affair was one of tho nicest of
the kind ever given in the borough. Tho
main feature of the programme wasTthe can
tata, "A Garden of Singing Flowers." The
stage was set as a garden, realism being car
ried out by the use of real plants and
flowers, instead of the usual painted canvas.
About 20 performers took part, including R.
Cannon, director; Miss Kate Anshutz. the
Misses Isla and Lida Hays, Miss Kate Hvle,
Mis. and Miss Bessie Goldthorpe, James
Hudson, Ed Rinehart, Miss Lizzie Ken
nedy and Miss Daisy Wells. There were
several tableaux, sentimental and humor
ous, "The Belles of the Kitchen," deserving
particular mention, and a minuet, danced
by 14 young ladies and young men. A large
sum was realized, which will go to the
church fund.
Social Chatter.
Mas.HEBr.ERT DkPuy gavo an afternoon tea
yesterday for Mrs. Theodore Hostetter, her
sister-in-lav. Mrs. D. Herbert Hostetter and
Mrs.Richard Wood asisted in receiving, and
in the dining room Miss Julia Watson, Miss
Nina King, Miss Alice Willard, Miss Lucy
Hawortn, Miss Amelia Oliver and Miss Myr
tle Bakowell presidod at the samovar and
served the tea.
TnE chat regarding Miss Retta Carnegie's
wedding trousseau declares it to be one of
the most beautiful and elaborate a young
laay was ever uiessea witn. lier presents,
it is said, excel everything of the season.
All of which, of course, is to be expected of
a fortunate young lady who is a charming
belle and a niece of a millionaire.
Mr. ahd Mrs. Oscar Grabt, of Rlppey
street, East End. last night entertained a
little party of card players, who are regu
larly organized to play every second Thurs
day during the winter.
Mr. ahd Mrs. A. G. Mills, of New York, ar
rived in town yesterday morning to be'pres
ent at the reception given last night bv Mr.
and Mrs. Stanhope S. Flnkerton, of Fifth
avenue,
Miss Nakcy Fisher, of Wheeling, a de
lightful young socioty lady who possesses
many personal charms, is the guest of Miss
Blanche Rees, of Fifth avenne, East End.
Mrs. Jonx Hayes, of Allegheny, with her
daughter. Miss Stella, gave a box Party op
Monday evening, at the Duquesne Theater.
It was lor several of the younger sot.
Convincing to English Manufacturers,
San Francisco Chronicle.
The election of McKlnleywill convince
certain English manufacturers who intended
to remove their plants to this country,
but who were detorred from doing so by
the result of the election in ISM, that
they were mistaken, in assuming that tho
people of the United States do no favor
protection. McKinley's success will cause
them to investigate the matter, when
they will learn that tho Democratic
Congress elected in 1890 is the product of
misrepresentation and fraud, and does not
represent tho sober judgment of the nation.
As soon as they find this out they will aban
don the hope that their Democratic free
trade friends will repeal the McKinley bill,
and, like sensible men, they will come over
to tnis country ana manniaccure tneirgooas
in the midst of the poople who will consume
them.
PERTINENT PERSONALITIES.
Mayor Grant, of New York, left for
Europe yesterday afternoon on the City of
Paris. He expects to be gone about three
weeks.
The King of Greece is an accomplished
linguist and is master of a dozen languages.
And ho know3 how to hold his tongue in all
of them.
Patrick Egan was an errand boy in a
flour mill before he became the manager of
a Dublin milling company and a fiery integar
in Irish politics.
Governor Bussell, of Massachusetts,
has appointed Thursday, November 26, as
Thanksgiving Day. Governor Campbell, of
Ohio, has not yet been heard from.
Mr. John Bedmond, the new leader of
the Parnellito party, who aspired to repre
sent the constituency which returned his
late chief to Parliament, is only some 31
years of age.
Miss Fannie Bice, youngest daughter of
Ex-Senator Rice,of Arkansas.aud Mr.Cbaries
C. Basse tt, of tho United States Geolog
ical Survey, were married yesterday by the
Rev. Dr. Bartlettin Washington.
Pere Hyacinth is not a theosophist.
The report recently circulated that the great
French preacher had abandoned his work in
the "Galilean Church" and becomo a dis
ciple of Theosophy, turns out to have been
a canard.
Miss Lotta Crabtree denies the ten
der impeachment that she Is going to be
married to Douglass Shirley, of Louisville.
The merry little millionairess is certainly
old enough to know about it if there had
been any truth in the rumor.
The Chrysanthemum.
Indianapolis Journal.
I am the Chrysanthemum.
I know I'm yaller,
And sometimes yallerer;
But 1 am in it
Just the same.
I am aware I'm built
Somewhat
After the pattern of a mop;
But yet
I am an efflorescent epitome
Of the great American spirit
Of get thar.
For I struck this country
A stranger
Without a scent
And no capital,
Except my blooming shape.
But I stood straight up
And held my head high,
And do yet.
And to-day myself
And my descendants
Are In the floral 400.
And the more
Frills
We develop
The more we're admired.
FRIENDS OP THE CZAR.
Reasons Why Two Persons Sharo His Best
Confidence They Are the Only Ones
"Who Are Treated by the Russian Ruler
as Relatives.
Of all tho members of the Imperial Court
of Russia, says a St. Petersburg correspond
ent of the New York Timet, tho Count and
Countess Scheremetiew are the only two
who aro treated by the Czar and Czarina as
personal friends and relatives. They aro
the sole persons having, access to tho
monarch and his consort who are permitted
to say what they please and to talk to
Alexander and the Empress in a perfectly
free and unconstrained fashion. Indeed,
they may be regarded as the sole means of
communication that exists between tho
autocrat and the masses of the population.
The otho? dignitaries of the court, though
honest and devoted to theirimperial master
and mistress, endeavor to keep the latter
from knowing anything disagreeable.
Of course their object is to spare the Em
peror and Empress from trouble and annoy
ance, but the result is that tho latter are
kopt In ignorance of many things that it
would be far better that they should know,
especially in so far as public opinion and the
sentiments of their subjects are concerned.
Count Scheremetiew and his wife are indebt
ed for their exceptional position to the fact
that the Countess is a daughter of the Em
peror's aunt; the Grand Duchess Marie, and
of her second husband. Count Stroganoff.
Moreover, the Count himself is the son of a
natural daughter of Czar Alexander I., and,
besides holding the post or Grand Huntsman
of tho Empire, he is one of tho wealthiest
nobles in Russia. This wealth has been fur
ther increased in the last few days by tho
death at Odessa of old Count Stroganoff, the
father of the nobleman by that name who
married the Grand Duchess Mario, and the
grandfather, therefore, of Countess Schere
metiew. The Terror of the Russian Press.
The terror with which the press avoids
the possibility of giving any offense to the
imperial f.imily is strikingly demonstrated
by tho fact that in the obituary notices of
the old Count not a single paper mentioned
that ho had been father-in-law to n daughter
of Czar Nicholas. Count Alexander Stroga
noff was at the time of his death ovr97
years old and without exception the best
known and most popular fluure nt Odessa,
where ho had resided uninterruptedly for 50
years. Ho was the Dean of the Order of St.
Andrew and of all other Russian orders, an
Adjutant General of tho Emperor, and a
member of the Grand Council, hut for over
half a century he abstained from exercising
any of the functions connected with these
offices and dignities. At the time of his
self-imposed exile he was Minister
of the Interior, but quarreled with
Emperor Nicholas on the ground
of "his sonN relations to the Czar's
daughter. Tho Grand "Duchess was at the
time married to the Dnke of Leuchtenbcrg,
w bo was a granason of Enmrcss Josephine
of France and of the Iatter's first husband,
M. de Beauhamais. The Grand Duchess,
aCera few years of marriage, declined to
live with the Dnke any longer, and had
given her heart instead to Count Gregory
Stroganoff, whose principal title to fame was
that of being the most gigantic and most
powerful man in the entile Russian army.
Immediately on tho death of the Duke of
Leuchtenbcig the Grand Duchess contracted
a morganatic marriage with the Count,
greatly to the mortification and disgust of
her father and brothers, who insisted that
thenceforth she should reside as much as
possible abroad. The Grand Duchess and
her husband spent most of their time in the
French Riviera, and it was there that tho
Count became implicated in a disagreeable
scandal, which would havo resulted in his
trial for murder had it not been for the per
sonal intervention of Napoleon III., at that
time President of the French Republic.
The Hairdresser Was Too Familiar.
It appears that one day the Count, enter
ing his wife's dressing room, found the
coiffour arranging her hair with far too
much empressement and familiarity. Al-
tnougn not orainarny jeaions iora jealous
disposition would be out or place in the
husband of a Russian Grand Duchess the
spectacle presented proved too much for his
feelings, and, seizing the unfortunate figaro
bv his neck and his nether garments, he
hurled him bodily through the window into
the garden, two stories below. The man
died a few hours later from his injuries, and
It was only by the personal intervention of
tho Grand Duchess, who proceeded to Paris
for the purpose of invoking the assistance of
Napoleon and of his slster.Princess Mathilde,
that criminal proceedings against the Count
wore averted. A heavy indemnity.howover,
had to bo paid by tho Count to the family of
his victim.
From the time of his dispute with Emperor
Nicholas, Count George's father never re
visited cither St. Petersburgor Moscow. He
lived In a beautiful house looking out on tho
sea at Odessa. His household was on a
princely scale, as befitted a man of bis rank
and immense fortune. .Exceedingly courtly
and generous, age and experience had
rendeiedhim much of a cynic, and he pro
fessed a profound contempt tor mankind.
HU friends weio few In number, and strange
though it may appear, his most Intimate
and confidential companion was an aged
Hebrew, almost as old as himself. About 15
years ago the Hebiew lost his entire fortune
through no fault of his own. The Count,
within 24 hours of receiving the news of his
friend's loss, appeared at his house and laid
on the table "a paokat e containing bank
notes to the amount of money which the
Hebrew had lost.
"I am your oldest friend," said he. "Pov
erty at your age"ls hard to bear. From me
you can have no compunction about taking
the money after outyears of close friendship
and intimacy." "Do not be offended, my
dear Alexa Gregorovitch, if I refuse your
kindly offer," replied the Hebrew. "We
have been close friends for many years. I
do not know if either of us will live much
longer, but I would not for the world that
anyoue should be able to say, during the re
mains years that we have to live, that my
menusuip uus oecn 01 an interested charac
ter "
First on the List of Citizens.
Tho Count appreciated the delicacy of his
friend, and after excusing himself with
drew. A few days later, however, the He
brew was, through his Influence, appointed
to an almost sinecure Government post,
which placed him beyond want for the re
mainder of his days.
The old Count was almost as tall as bis son
and maintained his erect carriage to the
last. There was not a man, woman or child
In Odessa who did not know and venerate
the grand looking old man, with his long,
snow-white beard and superb air. Mis
name figured first on the list of the citizens
of Odessa, and so proud was ho of the fact
that he omitted all mention of his Adjutant
Goneralship and of his various dignities on
his visiting cards, upon which he Invaria
bly described himself as the first citizen of
Odessa.
The fortune which he left amounts to ten
or fifteen million rubles In money, besides
immense estates. Nor is this wealth of re
cent origin, for the Stroganoffs have always
been among the richest nobles in the land,
and the Stroganoff Palace, near the Police
Bridce of St. Petersburg, is one of the show
places in the Russian capital, and was de
signed by the nrchitect, Rastreli, who was
likewise the deslgnerof the Imperial Winter
Pnlaco and of the Annitchoff Palace. It
contains a superb collection of pictures, that
is second in importance only to that at the
Hermitage. The palaco has always been
known as a center of great charity and phil
anthropy. During the old Count's residence
there, he was, in the words of several of the
St. Petersburg newspapers, "the eye of the
blind, tho foot of the lame, and the friend of
all." In his early years ho took part in the
war against Napoleon I., and was nresentat
the occupation of Paris by the allfea troops
in laid, ueing aisacneu iu tun stau 01 .emper
or Alexander as one of his aides-de-camp.
A Lady Who Is In Royal Favor.
One of his elder brothers had been killed
three years previously while pursuing Na
poleon's army on its disastrous retreat from
Moscow to tho Berisina. Strangely enough,
the two brothers were educated by a French
tutor, who was no other than the younger
brother of Marat, the French revolutionist,
who was killed in his bath by Charlotte Cor
day's knife. After the latter event he
changed his name to Boudri, and subse
quently became the French tutor of the cel
ebrated Russian poet Bnshkin, whose grand
daughter, Countess Sophio Merenburg, con
tracted last summer a morganatic marriage
with the Grand Duko Michael Michael
ovitch. The only lady of the court who enjoys in
any way the same consideration as Mme. de
Scheremetiew is tho wife of Count Woron
zow Dasckow, who holds the rank of Minis
ter or the Imperial Household. The Coun
tess has been a member of the snito of the
Empress since the latter came to Russia, to
whom she has endeared herself not only by
her tact and sympathetic character, but by
her domestic qualities. She lias a large
lamily of children, to whom she is devoted,
and who have been brought up in the in
timacy of the young Grand .Dukes and
Duchesses. Like Count and Countess Schere
metiew, tho Woiouzow Dasckows aro
enormously rich their fortune, indeed, is of
royal proportions and it is probably the
knowledge that they aro placed thereby
above tho temptatiou of that dishonesty
and corr.iptjon which Is so rife In every
class of Russian society that Induces Alex
ander to imDose such lmnliclt confidence In
I their friendship.
CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS.
The first "English clocks were made in
1C08.
Two centuries and seven different men
claim the invention of gunpowder.
Young men in Boston have turned the
tables by clamoring to be admitted into the
Normal School.
As late as 1850 ahuman skeleton 19 feet
long was discovered at Rouen, France. The
skull, which was perfect with the exception
or the under jaw, held over a bushel ot
wheat.
In Samoa the King's adviser lives in a
handsome house, and the Kins in a shed
alongside; the adviser receives a salary of
$3,000 a year and the King 1810. The Chief of
Police even gets $I,S0J a year.,
Out in MaSionaland, Sputh Africa, but
ter is $3 10 a pound; Jam. and milk, $1 56 a tin;
cheese, S3 GO a pound, and brandy has been
sold lor $19 SO a bottle. And with this pros
pecting is very poor, no gold being discov
ered. By far the greater number of diamonds
brought to Europe go to Amsterdam to be
cut by the Dutch workmen, who are unsur
passed In skill in this way. Twenty years
ago there were only two steam diamond
cutting establishments In this city. There
are now no fewer than fifty-six:
Everybody knows the poem, "The Old
Oaken Bucket," but who knows the grave of
its antbor? It will be news to mst that
Samnel Woodworth, the writer of that piece
or immortal verse, is buried either in San
Francisco or Oakland, Cal., probably the
former; but such is tho case.
There is said to be a cat in Bussia that
was born with only two legs, the forelegs
being absent from the shoulder blades. "It
is healthy, and goes about easily, the body
in normal position. When startled, or
watching anything, it raises Itself to the
attitude of a kangaroo, using the tail as a
support."
In 1824, near the castle of Danphine, a
monstrous tomb was discovered. It was 30
feet long, 16 wide and 8 high. The inscrip
tion, "Kintolochus Rex," was cut in tho
hard, gray stone. The skeleton was found
entire. 15& feet long, 10 feet across the
shoulders, and 5 feet from the breastbono
to the back.
Snuff is often allowed to Sisters of
Charity in France, as it renders the nose in
sensible to tho bad smells of slums and hos
pitals, and acts as a disinfectant of the air
taken in by the nostrils. The greatest num
ber of pipe smokers are along the coast from
Nantes to Calais. Fisher-women as well as
sailors use the pipe.
According to an author, there is a very
astonishing cariosity in Thibet in the shape
of a plant that flies. It resembles a dog in
shape, Is the color of a tortoise-shell, and is
very tame. If lions or elephants see it they
are frightened, "hence it 13 the king of
beasts." There is also a kindof blackdonkey
which can cope in fight with the tiger.
Seventy li from Lh'asa, in Thibet, is a
convent on top of a hill and a great bole
full of white clay that is good to eat. As
fast as the clay is eaten more takes its
place. Behind the convent Is a largo lake,
and evil doers who go near always tumble
into it. The Thibetans used to cast Bnddhas
in copper, and the smaller they were the
more they were worth.
-It is said that the locating of St. Paul
where it is was dne to too much whisky
elsewhere. According to Father Galtier, the
officers at Fort Snellinu drove away the
settlers who had located across the river
because they furnished too mnch wbi3ky to
tho soldiers, and they settled at various
places along the river. Many having located
at "the Cave," now St, Paul, a church was
built there and a city grew around it.
The Hindoo, though as primitive in his
bread-making as the Bedouin, is a little
more dainty. He waits until the wood fire
he has built on the ground has been burned
to coals; then, putting two or three stones
around it, he places on these a shallow
metal bowl, the under side being np. When
his dough of flour and water has been
pressed and pulled into a cake of an inch
and a half In thickness, ho bakes it on top
of the bowl. It is by no means a bread to
bo despised.
Death by spear wound or stroke of
waddi the aboriginal Australian can under
stand, but death by disease or old age he
does not believe in, attribnting it, in every
case, to sorcery, exercised by the wizards of
some alien tribe. This death by sorcory it
is the religious dnty or every young man re
lated to tho deceased to revenge by the
slaughter or murder of a member or the sus
pected tribe, or of any other. Including
American blacks. Chinamen or Kankakas,
but not white men.
In the vicinity of Quito, the capital of
Ecuador, a city about twenty miles from the
equator, yet having in sight eleven snow
capped monntain summits and possessing a
climate liko a raw New England spring,
earthquakes are the weather sharpsstrong
hold. Quito Ismainlynoted for its luxuriant
crop of earthquakes. There was a
very severe shock of earthquake
there three or four weeks ago,
followed by a still stronger shock two
days later. The last shock wa3 followed by
a heavy hail storm, "which," a local paper
says, "is sure sign that the winter will be
as severe and as long as the summerwe have
had this year."
Stones ot healing are far from uncom
mon. In Carmarthen aro still to be found
traces of a belief iu tho allnrinz stone,
whose virtue Is that it will cure hydro
phobia. "It is represented," writes Mr.
WlrtSIkes in his "British Goblins" (1830,363),
"as a soft white stone, about the size of a
man's head, originally found on a farm
about twelve miles from Carmarthen. Grains
were scraped from the stone with a knife
and administered to the person who had
been bitten by a rabid dog. And the
peculiarity of the stone was, that though
generation after generation had scraped
it, nevertheless It did not diminish in size."
Eflp?Ss and inscriptions have been
found in an underground city in Central
Asia, and also designs upon gold and silver
money which lead to the belief that the
town dates back to two centuries before the
birth of Christ. There are a number of
streets and squares surrounded by houses
two and three stories high. Urns, vases,
cooking pots and other utensils have been -found
in great abundance. The symmetry
of the streets and squares and the beauty of
the baked clay and metal ntensils, attest the
fact that the people had reached an ad
vanced Btage of civilization. It is suppoed
the town was concealed in the earth to give
the population a refuge from the Incursions
of savages and robbers.
V
PICKING3 FROM PUCK.
Hager Those cloud-compellers experi
menting in the Southwest seem to be wasUng their
time and Government money to no purpose.
Wager-Msy be so; tint I'U bet they're aU patting
by something for a rainy day all the same.
She knows all sciences under the sun,
She beats the Dutch;
And thats why she's slnjtle at forty-one
She knows too much.
Teacher What was the title the Indians
bestowed npon William Pcnn?
Bright Pupll-Dnnno. His Nibs, I guess.
Tenn de Foote I heah they give a man
plenty of chances In the West.
Colonel Yellowstone-Well, It depends on what
he has done. Ordinarily he has a chance with the
vigilantes, and a chance with the Judge, and a
chance with the Jury-even after he has a chance
of the rope being shot In two before Ufe Is extinct.
Mr. Mercer Do you think advertising
pays?
Mr. Mercnr Itdldn'tpayme; Host money By It.
Mr. Mercer What did you adTertlse?
Mr. Mercur I advertised for a wife and got her
He took a rose and kissed its heart,
Then witn deft hands the petals closed. - "
She placed It on her breast, where It
Like Cupid fully armed reposed.
When all alone, she blew apart
The curling leayes to ilnd the kiss.
And forth it flew on fragrant wings.
And breathed on her a moment's bliss.
"And has Miss Amateur given up her
theatrical arplrations? Why, I thought she was
wedded to her artl"
"Oh. no; It didn't even go as faras an engage
ment." Kitty I think it is horrid for girls to
swear. I only said damn" once: and then I
meant It.
Tom Yes ; one usually does.
In him is habit so ingrained
From constant Sunday search,
That when offdotyhe wiU seek
The side door of his chnrchl
Tom Bigbcc I can't see, my boy, what
yon can find to do with a valet.
Howell Gibbon Well. I don't old man, doneher
know. But he knows what to do with met
His Mama I suppose this young, lady,
you are in love with Is of some good old family? t
Van Rentsy Oh, yes. Mama! One ot the oldest
In Chicago.
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