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SO Sunday DlsrATCH. One Year. 5 50 Weekly DisrvrcH, One Year. IS The Daily Dispatch Is delivered by carriers at 15 cents perv.-eek. or, intruding Sunday Edition, at 33 cents per week. PITTSBURG. THmSDAY. NOV. 19. 1S91. TWELVEPAGES T3E COMING TAX KATE. A cotemporai y which on Tuesday pre dicted a thirty-mill tax rate, undertook to back it up yesterday by arguing that 2J mills will be needed to make up the defi ciency from this year, 10 mills for the street indebtedness, 2 mills to make next year's revenue equal to the estimates of last, and possibly an increase above that to meet the cost of fire boat, water tower, new Central station and other indefinite proposals for enlarging the city expendi ture. This is a distinct shifting from the asser tion of the day before that the millage would be three per cent if the loan was approved and three and one-half or four per cent if the street indebtedness had to be paid oy taxation, mat was ri diculous Even with the change ;the statement as to the millage is extravagant Five mills will meet all the payments for the street indebtedness that come due next year. The way to rectify a deficiency in the estimated revenue is to cut down appropriations to correspond. It is a well-known fact that of the ex penditures of the past two or three years a large share, probably about one-fourth, was in the line vof municipal improve ments which are commendable so long as they can be carried on without excessive taxation, but which must be curtailed v henever they impose on the people any thing like a two or three per cent rate of taxation. Repaying streets already pro vided with a sound though antiquated pavement, the expenditure of hundreds of thousands on park drives, nearly as much more for park property, and the enlarge ment of our municipal architecture in the line of ornamental station houses, are matters which can be postponed to the time when they may be paid for without squeezing the life" out of tax payers. For the new subjects of municipal expendi ture that are imperative, there must be a corresponding retrenchmenf in the de partments where expenditure has been liberal during the past few years, before the tax rate can be materially increased. Another city cotemporary referring to this subject says TnE Dispatch promises that "a beneficent finance committee will see that the taxes are kept down" without showing how it is to be done. If The DiSPATcn has said anything that could be tortured into such a position it was an ex pression of confidence that the managers of municipal finance are too shrewd poli ticians to arouse the public against them by a distinctly oppressive tax rate. As to showing how it can be done TheDis PATcn in its first article indicated very clearly that it must be done by a retrench ment of the expenditures that can be cur tailed or postponed. If the people should vote down the bond issue, an increase of five mills would be justifiable and unavoidable. But a two and a half or three per cent tax rate would indicate that our p resent municipal mas ters aie anxious to terminate their control of citv affairs. STIR UP THE CONGRESSMEN! Very soon now Congress will open. Apart from foreign questions which will likely be settled without taxing the time or in any great degree the attention of Congress, there is nothing to prevent that body from bestowing most of its considera tion upon business questions. It would be highly interesting to know how the people of each district expect to get value from their Representatives and Senators for the cost of the annual session. The Congressmen from "Western Penn sylvania, Eastern Ohio and West Virginia can render very full value by taking up the Lake Erie Canal project and pressing it upon' the national Government We do not know of any undertaking in relation to which our local Con gressmen are likely to make a more enduring record than they might by advocating the national advantages which lie behind this enterprise. The recent discussion of the need of the United States for access by water from the interior to the lakes, in case of future com plications with Great Britain, raises the question out of the merely commercial plane and invests it with a national interest . The Congressman who will make him self thus practically useful is far likelier to earn a long and favorable recollection from his constituents than the one who makes himself obtrusively conspicuous in small party squabbles or who shines In spread-eagle speeches upon subjects of large circumference, but cf no gieat pres ent moment at the core. Xow is the time for the thoughtful votertodoa good turn by quietly drop ping a word in the car of his Congress man, or penning him a line, telling him that the people of the district are watch ing for a display of effective interest in the canal pioject something which im mediately concerns them. A WORTHY EXAMPLE TO OTHERS. For a two-year-old concern Schenley Park is doing pretty well. A splendid gift in itself, it invites other beautiful gifts; and now a Phipps conservatory is coming to keep company with the Car negie Library. Schenley Park will be one of the most beautiful anywhere in existence within five years from now. But to those who help to make it such will belong most of the credit The fashion which Messrs. Carnegie and Phipps have set our rich men is a good one When some more of our millionaires overcome their native modpsty we trust we may expect a succession of gifts thus adapted to the instruction and delight of the public The generosity of Messrs. Carnegie and Phipps is grand and monu mental in its proportions; but they have left plenty of opportunity still open to those who have the heart and the purse to emulate their worthy example. FOSTER'S SILVER UTTERANCES. Secretaryoster tackled the silver ques tion once more on Tuesday, this time in an address to the Chamber of Commerce in New York. While the Secretary's pre vious deliverances on this point have been somewhat pecnliar, this speech fairly bristles with points, the chief use of whose sharpness is to let them impale each other. Tiie Secretary starts by asserting the principle that "gold alone furnishes too narrow a basis upon which to conduct the money affairs of the world." This, while disputable, is, we believe, correct. But the trouble with it in the Secretary's mouth is that the silver policy which the Secretary has undertaken to champion rests as com pletely on the gold basis as if all the silver dollars and all the silver certificates were so many promises to pay in gold. The Secretary himst-lf in his letter to the Bankers' Convention said that the silver certificates are redeemable in gold and that the Government is under pledge to maintain them at par. That puts them on the gold basis exclusively, and leaves the 5400,000,000 of silver in the Treasury sim ply as a useless stock. The Secretary then goes on to argue that the fears of reduction to a silver basis are groundle:s, because, so far, the Treasury has succeeeed in maintaining 5400,000,000 of the silver tokens, or the cer tificates representing them at par with gold. But does that argue that, at the present time, when the Treasury resources consist mainly of its immeuse stock of silver, and the gold surplus(outside of the reserve for the legal tenders and silver certificates) is nearly exhausted, that the Treasury may not by sudden drafts upon it be driven to silver payments. When the Treasury is forced to draw on its silver it can, under, the law, pay out only silver dollars; and when it does that the "parity" which the Secretary thinks is being maintained, would speedily become a minus quantity. On this same question of parity the Secretary develops some original ideas He thinks that the parity is maintained because the Treasurv sustains silver coins and certificates at par with gold, just as it does legal tenders. There has been a superstition that parity means the use of bullion of equal value in the coins of two metals. Thus the parity of silver is at the rate of 1.29 per ounce in gold. That makes the bullion in the silver dollar equal in value to that in the gold dollar. But the Secretary teaches us to rise above any such limitations, as that "if the price of silver were advanced from 51 to 51 29 per ounce," says he, "all silver in the world would be attracted to this country. To maintain the parity under these circum stances would be difficult" In other words, the Secret ary's great idea is that in order to maintain the parity we must jealously maintain the existing disparity. The Secretary is right in holding that it is his duty to study and administer the law, and we may credit him with doing this consistently in the practical adminis tration of the Treasury. But when he at tempts to take the position of public ex pounder and champion of the silver policy, which is really no policy at all, he speedily gets himself into logical difficulties. No better illustration of his limitations in this respect is needed than his assertion' that this act is the only possible compromise between free coinage and absolute gold monometallism. That is a politician's view; but a statesman would perceive that the real policy which makes the use of sil ver possible without a depreciation of the standard is to coin a silver dollar of equal bullion with gold, to issue certificates on either the coin or the bullion and to re deem with either the coin or the bullion. After Secretary Foster's recent efforts in the line of expounding and champion ing the law, it is a charitable wish that he should confine himself to its administra tion. That will be just as well for the law and a great deal better for him. On this point Foster's silence will be golden. JUDICIAL BEGULVrfON. The latest ruling by the United States Court in the Cleveland gas case, together with certain other decisions of a similar tenor in some of the recent railway cases, indicates a novel and until within late years unexpected termination for the theory of legislative regulation of rates. The court held that it devolved upon the city government to appear and furnish proof that the rate which it had fixed for"! the gas was just and profitable. In the western railway cases the United States Courts have held that a State Court cannot fix rates below what will be profitable, and have placed the burden of proof on the regulating power. The practice of granting monopolies to coporations in transportation, in the gas business, or in other branches of pub lic service has been justified up to the present era by the fact that the legislature had the power to regulate rates. This was the declaration from the earliest railroad decision, in which Chancellor Walworth held that the privilege of taking tolls was subject to legislative regulation, down to the Granger cases. It has even been laid down as the ac cepted corporation doctrine, in the latest effort to secure the legalization of pools, that the pool rates should be subject to Governmental regulation. But when the actual regulation begins to pinch the cor porations they are the most strenuous in throwing the doctrine overboard and in .appealing to the courts to restrict that power. The result of these appeals brings us face to face with a new regulating power. It effects no change in the situation to sav that the courts only require the regulating power to prove that the rates are just and profitable, for the real question is, who is to determine what rates are just and piofitable? Whoever decides that ques tion holds the regulating power, and the fact that the United States courts have taken jurisdiction of it in questions af fecting purely State regulation confronts us with the other fact that the doctrine of legislative rates bring3 up with the reality of court-made rates. The courts are to determine what rates asje just and profita ble and the anomaly is heightened by the practical decision that the United States courts are to exercise this regulative power over the subjects of State legisla tion. So far as practical workings are con cerned the regulation of the courts is as likely to be satisfactory as the regulation of the Legislatures. At present, however, there is a certain one-sidedness in the way the United States courts take the cases up. The Legislature or city government which undertakes to fix statutory rates are re quired to prove that their rates are profit able. No case is on record in which a rail way has been requited to prove that its rates arc no more than reasonable. Up to ante me supervision or the United States courts over State rates has been ex. ercised exclusively in the presumption that the corporation is right and the State is wrong. But the salient feature of this judicial doctrine is the disastrous and complete ending of the theory of the Legislative rates. No ono who wishes to see this sub ject permanently solved need regret its demise. There is-no more reason why either Legislatures, councils or courts should fix the price of railway services or street car fares or gas, than for the me diaeval idea that the Government should fix the price of bread or the rate of wages. WHAT TO GIVE THANKS FOR. With reference to the Thanksgiving season the Chicago Times takes occasion to put considerable stress on the fact that much of the prosperity for which we are to give thanks is due to the suffering of others. "Our farmers would have found little prosperity in their plenteous crops had not dire famine come upon Eastern Europe," says the Times. "The starva tion of Russian peasants is a potent factor in the well-being of our people, and for it we impliedly give thanks." This is a rather narrow' view of the sub ject Of course, no one who partakes of the real spirit of thanksgiving is going to express his gratitude that people in the other half of the world are suffering for his prosperity. But it is not necessary in professing gratitude to adopt the form of prayer of the Pharisee and to thank God that we are not as other people, nor is it necessary to take a thanksgiving for pros perity as a jubilation over the misfortunes of other nations. If our prosperity were the cause of the Russian destitution to give thanks for it would be close to blasphemous, but to say that to be grateful for the prosperity is to rejoice and give thanks for the misfortune from which it is indirectly derived is to assign the meanest motives to some of the highest joys of life. A student- wins a prize. Is his joy rejoicing over theill-success of oth ers? An architect's plans are adapted for a great building. Does he congratulate himself that the other competitors have lost their effort? The fact is that the view taken by the Times is even more unjust than those to which it has just been compared, because our prosperity really has a different foun dation. The advanced price which West ern farmers are getting for their wheat Is an expression of the fact that they have the thing which the people of Europe most need. Their prosperity is not then due to the famine in Eastern Europe, but to the fact that they are able to furnish the food which will prevent famine in West ern Europe. They can therefore give thanks both for the prosperity and its proximate cause, the fact that their indus try will save the people ef Germany and .ngiana irom tne suttenngs that oppress the Russians There is both philanthropy and com mercial principle in being thankful that we can supply Europe with the food it needs and prosper by it THE DEFENSE OF THE LAKES. The attention of the New York Press has been attracted to the need of a navy on the lakes. It reports that Secretary Tracy will recommend the abrogation of the treaty of 1818, in order to permit the United States to put a squadron of mod ern vessels on the lakes, and supports that policy with the argument that in its pres ent form the international agreement "is grossly unjust to the United States" be causj England can send war vessels to the lakes through the St LawTence and the Welland canals, and the United States has no means of doing the same thing. In other words, because Great Britain and the Dominion of Canada have been far-sighted enough to provide water ways whose commercial value repay their cost, and which can be used for war vessels in case of need, and the United States has exercised no such foresight, therefore a treaty which antedates that enterprise on the part of England and the lack of it on our part is "grossly unjust." It might oc cur to the mind that the remedy proposed for it will continue the same kind of injus tice. For whatever expenditure is made by the United States in building a navy on the lakes will be dead capital except in the improbable event of war with Great Britain. A sea-going navy can be used in all parts of the world. England can use hers wherever she needs it, and if she ever wants a force on the lakes can call her vessels there from the four quarters of the globe. But whatever the United States provides to meet that remote contin gency must lie idle and useless in the interior and, if built now, would probably be as antiquated, before the need for it came, as the vessels of our war era are on the ocean at present The utter stupidity of the policy proposed by the administration organ is plain from the fact that the cost of building a fleet on the lakes, which would be adequate to cope with the force that Great Britain could send there from the ocean, -would go far toward building the water ways that would place us on equality with Great Britain. In one case the cost would be a dead loss unless war should arise before the vessels rotted. In the other the cost of the canals would be paid back in the increased prosperity of the country, whether they were ever used for war purposes or not The propriety of building the canals whidh would give light draft war vessels access to the lakes from both the Ohio and Mississippi rivers is emphasized by the fact that the journal from which we have quoted is the organ of a movement to have the Govern ment sink 100,000,000 of its credit in the Nicaragua Canal. That sum would amply provide for the commercial and naval needs for the interior waterways, and save the cost of a navy on the lakes which could never be used anywhere else. The true way to restore our equality with England on the great lakes is to build the Pittsburg and Lake Erie and the. Hennepin canals, ana to improve the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. With that done.we can build light draft war vessels for use all over the world, and, if the re mote contingency, war with England, should occur, we could send them to the lakes as fast as Great Britain could send hers there. To leave the canals unbuilt whilespending more than their cost in vessels to lie idle on the lakes and in canals a thousand miles away from United States territory would be the class of stupidity that is criminal. While monetary panics are the order of the day in Continental capitals, the United States moves serenely along undisturbed. Tills proves how little the monetary stand ard has to do -with business stability and how much the lict that this country in the granary of the world. In an article which undertakes to mini mize the abuse of stock w.iterlng the Phila delphia Press ays: -'According to Poor's Manual the stock a-i.l bonds of the 161,420 miles orrailrond in tm'Uiiited States rxceed tho actual cost by fil.CiU.Oll, the average be ing $3,734 per mile." Tills statistical ellort suggests two things. The flist is that the Press has omitted to study that outburst of frankness on tho part of Poor's Manual a few years ago which asserted Urn half the stock and bond "capitalization of the rail- ways was a liberal estimate of their real cost. The second is that 11,15,791 per mile is the actual cost or the railways, the element of water In the capital Is over nine-tenths, as the stock ana bond Issue per mile is more than ten times that amount. If any one else besides Mr. Phipps has been thinking of giving a conservatory to Schenley Park, the fact of Mr. Phipps' gift need not deter a second one. The park is happily large, and will bo found hospitable to all offerings for its ornamentation. ' Chile has always been an oligarchy, the President for the time being, governing with the consent and advice of other oligarchs. Balmaccda tried to role as a President of the people and was overthrown," remarks the New York .Press. As BalmaCeda's man ner of being a President of the people was to make himself a military dictator, usurp the powers of Congress, and to disregard the liberties of the people by hauling them be fore military tribunals, it will be seen that the esteemed Press' idea of popular govern ment is an exceeding unique one. The discovery thai Mr. Flower's cam paign expenditures only amounted to $5,000 suggests the reflection that if Mr. Flower has solved the secret of making so little money pay so many expenses, It is no won der thaft he is a millionaire. A lot of German students in Heidelberg undertook to run the theater to suit them selves by howling down whatever they did not like, until they finally got the audience to howling at them. The result was that the city and university authorities have ex cluded all students from the theater. The edict, that ir the students cannot behave themselves at the theater they must stay away from it, is away or making tho punish ment fit the crime that bids fair to put a check on collegiate hoodlnmism. Twenty degrees below zero as the tem perature of a blizzard up In Minnesota will produce a general wish In this locality that the blast may not come our way. Sixteen above Is cold enough for us. It is announced by the Secretary of the Treasury that under Public act No. 71, It Is Illegal for any person to publish engravings or pictures of coins, new or old, American or foreigner even topubllsh tho inscriptions thereon. If Public act No. 71 enacts any thing of that sort it is about as silly an en actment as has been perpetrated for some time. By the way, what is a Public act, and how docs it differ from an act of Congress? Considering the entire absence of any disturbance in Brazil the news from there indicates that it is the most lively peaceful nation on tho known earth to-day. Examination of the Ohio vote indicates that tho Democrats did not poll their full strength. Ex-Senator Thnrman may be right in asserting that the free-coinage reso lution injured Governor Campbell. But is it certain that the free-trade attitude of the party did not do the same? It Is to be re membered that Ohio went the same way last year when the tariff was an issue and sliver was not. The cold wave has been with us long enough to let the public have practical dem onstration whether their heating arrange ments are all in order or not. The fact that Colonel McClure prophesied a Democratic! majority of 16,030 In Pennsyl vania and Colonel Sheparda Hepublican ma jority of 10,000 in New York, is being thrown up to those distinguished warriors by their envious cotemporaries. It seems to Indicate that they should leave political phophecy to the botters and confine themselves ex clusively to their military profession. The early bugle notes of a contest be tween Quay and Dalzell for the SenatorshlD give promise 6t a lively time and lots of it. GovERNon Pattison is very clearly of the idea that where an act of the Legisla ture stys a thing it means what it says. " Tho Governor has no sympathy with the Senator ial theory of construction, that the constitutional- or statutory legislation always means something else than the plain senso of the words. PERSONAL POINTS. John G. Whittier will be 84 years of age the 17th of December. The Princess of Wales is on a visit to her father, tho King of .Denmark. Mrs. Logan has become a good writer, and her literary ventures are prosperous. Lotta denies the tender impeachment that she is going to be married to Douglass Shirley, of Louisville. Mrs. Poultnet Bioelow, who is the latest New York society woman to break Into literature, Is said to possess $1,000,000 In her own right. General Samuel Smith, of Balti more, had the longest Congressional career on record In this country, being continu ously in Congress for 40 years either as Sen ator or Representative. Ex-Minister Palmer, President of the World's Fair, has a farm near Detroit which he makes his summer home. On it is an artis tic old cabin, which Mr. Palmer has filled with antique furniture and ruga ana bric-a-brac. Edgar Allen Poe, formerly conspicu ous as a football player at Princeton Col lege, and now a law student at Baltimore, is an earnest worker In the Young Men's Chris tian Association. He declares that many Princeton football players havo become ministers. Dr. Gatling says his famous gun should bo regarded as a philanthropic invention, Lfor It has saved no end of lives by scaring riotous people into submission. So he calls the 'deadly gun "the peacemaker." Tho doctor is getting old, but he Is still a hand some man and in robust health. Count Herbert Bismarck, who is at present in London, accompanied by Sir John E. Gorst, the newly appointed Finan cial Secretary to the Treasurv, yesterday attended the session of the Royal Labor Commission in Westminster Hall and dis played much interest in the evidence given by witnesses who appeared. Mme. Blouet, who is now in America with her husband, "Max O'Rell," has had a large share In cieatlng his literary successes, and is said by some people acquainted with both to be more clever than her famous and witty spouse. A good many folk will find It very easy to believe this solely on the ground or what they know or mm. The oldest living college graduate is said to be AndrewParker, whose home Is in Fitz wllliam, N. II., the town in which he was born. Ho is over 100 years old, and was a companion of Lafayette during his fourth and last visit to this country in 1824. Ho graduated from the University of Vermont in 1813, standing second in his class. Queen Victoria has again "derived very great benefit from the bracing air of the Scottish Highlands." Her Majesty has been equally fortunate nearly every year during the greater part 6f her life. Tho Highland air Is very sure to dispel anv mal-ndp- with which she may be afflicted or threatened. She is a firm believer in It, and recommends It in her "Journal in the High lands." THE MTiXE THINGS. The little tilings that hurt us day by day The unkind words our dear ones sometimes say 1 The times they fall to see we do our best When undci standing not, with merry Jest They turn aside, while we are craving so For sympathy! To them our grief, our woe Seem chlldUli all unworthy of our J ears! When tliey grow quickly weary of onr tears I These "little tilings" have missions tlicy should teach Us, how our hearts with faithfulness should leach Into our dear ones hearts ! Eternally Striving to comfort them ! Always to see The best in them to kiss their tears away ! , These are the lessons they should teach each day! S. F., C'AL. M. Y. T. CARNEGIE'S LAST GIFT. Plttsbarc's Millionaire Magnate Bestows Uli Niece Upon a Grandson of Abram Garrison The Coremony at Calvary Concise Chronicle of the World oT So ciety. Though comparisons are odious, neverthe less it must be declaied that Miss Carnegie's wedding brought together more beautiful gowns than have ever been seen at a nuptial in Pittsburg before. The house leceptlon being' correspondingly as large as the at tendance at the religious ceremony was the cause of t-his brilliance. Those Invited to the house sat in the front of the church, and never was there such a brilliant array of beautiful and magnificently gowned women. They camo in in dozens, wrapped in long opera cloaks, which the exi gencies of a low thermometer demanded. Nearly all were in low cut gowns and bare headed. Jewel botes had been rifled of their entiro contents by their owners, and were glittering on throats and heads every wheie. Black men and maid servants stood at the doors to remove wraps, and either re tained them or In several cases carried them to tho pews, and flung them over the backs or the pews until the place had an appearance not unllko an opera night when a favorite prima donna sings. The church was decorated in a simple man ner and very beautifully. There wa no banking of plants, but instead, the chrysan themums were grouped under the windows by the communion table and near the chan cel railing. It was one of the most artistic arrangements used at any wedding so far. Nothing of the beauty of the chancel fur nishing was destroyed, rather It was Ml discovered and emphasized to an unusnal degree. Tho hour of the ceremony was fashionably late. The in vitations lead 8 o'clock, but the bride as serted her privilege to keep the bridegroom waiting and did not arrive at the church door until 8.20. Then the vestibule door swung open and those of the vestry room likewise, and as Dr. Hodges and an assist ing clergyman with the groom, Mr. Rlckct son, and the best man, 31 r. McCllntock came along a side aisle, up tne central aisle came the bridal procession. First the ushers, Mr. B. S. Crossan, Mr. W. II. Price, Mr. Dawson Speer, Mr. Nathaniel Holmes, Mr. Joseph McCoid, Mr. Wiufield Shiras, Mr. Andrew Carnegie and Mr. Frank Carnegie. Next came the bride maids. Miss Harriet Watson, Miss Johnston, of Chicago; Miss Sallie Ricketson, Miss Snsie Dilworth, Miss Hopkins and Miss Bessie Howe. These young ladles were In white satin, with veils fastened to tho hair, the folds of which mingled with those of the heavy drapery of the skirt. They carried huge bouquets of chrysanthemums. Two tiny sisters of the bride came next. They were small enouzh to be exceedinzlv cunning and large enough to be a bit abashed, holding their heads in a very dtnty, timid fashion. They were also in white, with a profusion of rib bons and bows. An older sister followed alone, and her dress also carried out with consistency the idea of a white wedding. It was a pretty girlish gown made wholly of brocade. Mr. Carnegie camo next with his niece leaning on his arm. Though not a vory tall young ladv. Miss Carnegie was nearly equal in height to her distinguished uncle. She wore a white armure imported robe, almost concealed beneath a heavy bridal veil, and lavishly trimmed. Tho bridal bouquet was formed of lilies of the valley. The btidcmatds wore wreaths of the bride's flowers In their hair and the ushers sprays of it in their buttonholes. "Returning from the cere mony, which was performed by Dr. Hodges, the flower girls came first, then tho bride and groom, next Mr. Carnegie with Mr. Mc Cllntock, and last the ushers and bride maids. Mrs. Thomas Carnegie, the bride's mother, sat among the guORtsin the reserved pews and was the first to leave the churcli after the bridal procession. She wore a handsome robe of black velvet. Mrs. Ricketson, the bridegroom's mother, in a srown of silver sra silk walked down the aisle on the arm of her father, Abram Garrison. When the near relatives hadall been conducted out, the reception guest re tired. Then the general body of the people left. Mr. and Mrs. Ricketson weie given a reception at Mrs. Thomas Carnegie's house, alter which they left for the East Rev. Dr. Alfred Arnndel, the recently appointed incumbent of Trinity Church, will preach his first sermon on next Sunday morning. The rector has Just returned ffom England and will be joined here shortly by his family, who are still on the Contiiient. Mrs. Arundel and Der cniiarcx-iMo-ianf living in Europe for some time, having gone thero for Mrs. Arundel's Health. It had become nono too good, thanks to the exalted altitude of Colorado, where Dr. Arundel's charge was until he was removed to Pittsburg. Ho is described as a high bred, cultivated man and a delightful companion, and has created so great an interest in his coming parishners that a large congregation is expoctcd on Sunday morning. Dr. Arundel Is the guest at present of Mr. and Mrs. A. E. W. Painter at their Irwin avenue house. It is not unfitting amid all these wedding festivities to say a few words about one who was a bride herself only a year ago. When Mrs. Harry Fitzhugh's death became known in the community forming her little world, thero was a sorrow felt as if each of Its households had lost a beloved member. No young bride, a stranger In a measure, was ever welcomed as she was upon coming to Allegheny from Detroit Inst season as the wife of young Mr. Fitzhugh. She entered the house of her husband's mother and oc cupied n place, as a real daughter, that never before had been filled. Her friends speak with regretful pleasure of this lovely young woman's observance of every duty, social. Christian and charitable. The uni versal grief has disarranged ton degree many social obligations of the early season some being deferred and others given up entirely. Mi s. Fitzhugh was the daughter of General Orlando M. Poe, of the United States Army, and is buried in Detroit, the home of her girlhood. In Hazel wood last, night the marriage of Miss Katherine Margaret Barbour and James B. Howard was solemnized nt the Christian Church. The hour wa3 6.30; the Rev. Thomas Garland and the Rev. Mr. Mc- Wayne, of the Christian Church, officiating. Tho guests were ushered to their pews by Messrs. George Getz, of Chicago; Henry Price, of Indianapolis; Robert Barbour and William Ogden, of this city. Mr. Howard's best man was Mr. William Shervin. The bride was unattended, and wore a dark green traveling gown, with harmonious ac cessories. The bride a'nd bridegioomleft after the wedding for au Eastern honey moon. Mr. Howard Is a Virginian, in business In Richmond, and his wife belongs to a family which, though now Its representatives live in the North, was once strongly Identified with Southern social life. Mr. and Mrs. Howard will be in Richmond after Decem ber 8- Tho wedding festivities began on Tuesday evening with a farewell dinner given bv the bride to a number of young women 'friends. The ushers at the cere mony the next evening were included In the invitations. Miss Nina van Zandt, whilom Mrs. Augustus Spies, appears to havo made a very happy choice of It in her second matri monial venture. Stephano Malates, now an American conespondent for European papers. Is the only living male representa tiveof a noted old family whose estates are near the city of Palermo in Sicily. The members of his family, consisting of his mother and his three sisters, received the American girl, upon her recent visit to Euiopc.with ooenarms, and showcieil at tentions and gifts upon her. Sheieccived lhe jewels which go to the wife of the oldest or only son.aud which i re said to be exceed ingly valuable nnd beautiful. Mrs. Malates is iu love w lth her husband's native coun try, though thoy huvo decided to mako the United States their permanent home. Mrs. Malates is described as a clever as well as beautiful giil. Sho was educated at Vassar College and is related in this city. The Union League Club issued invita tions this eek for its second annual recep tion to- morrow night at tho clubhousojon Penn avenue.The list of patronesses and the committeo accompanying it are as follows: Patronesses, Mesdames J. Dawson Callery, Edward Grcetzmger, Alexander M. Voigt, Frank E. Moore John II. Sawyer, John G. Bennett, and W. DicK&on Webb. Committee, Wallace G. Muzzy, Chailes B. Callery, Lawrence C. Phipps, George B. Morrow, Charles E. Pop?, Elliott Rodgers and Frank E. Stowart. The hours.oftho leceptlon are fi-cni 8 to 12 o'clock. ifocial Chatlrr. Jin asd Mra. Cuarles B. McVay, of Se wlcklev. have gone to Old Point Comfort. Mr. Mc'Vay's health has been nono loo good ot late, and it is hoped that the lest and some incidental hunting, for he has taken fishing tacklo and guns, will benefit him. The orphans' tea party came off with all its old time s access at Lafayette Hall last night. About 1,100 people were present, tho tickets admitting two, being limited to 600. Mas. David C. McCobmick and Miss Mc Cormick, of Cedar avenue, Allegheny, will give a reception on Friday, .November 20, from 3 to 5. The third day of the fair for the benefit of owuiusiae .Hospital, J" uucnuuacB showed no abatement in publie interest. Miss Wilheljiixa. Shields, of Edge worth, expects to return to Kew York shortly to resume her art studies. The Academy of Medicine holds its an nual dinner on Monday, November 30, at the Ivenmawr Hotel. Mr. Edward O'Neil and Mr. Charles Doyle, of ewlckiey, havo gone hunting. TnE Harvard Glee Club will not visit Pittsburg this season. OUB MAIL POUCH. That Chinese Club Scliem:. To the Editor ofThe Dispatch: Mention has been made In the dally papers of an application to the courts by certain Chineseor this city foracharterof Incorpora tion for a "clubhouse'' which they propose to establish for tho benefit of their fellow countrymen. The plain English of the mat ter is that they desire to thoroughly inaugu rate "Chinatown" in our midst, as it lives and thrives in several cities on the Pacific slope, to the horror and reproach of all who respect decency and virtue. Dissatisfied with the present methods of tho police to pounce down upon them at the most unex pected hours, they are anxious to have a place where they can gamble at their own sweet will, smoke opium until they float away in vision to realms of Celestial bliss, and inveigle sillv young girls Into their in famous den, without fear of molestation from the guardians of the public virtue. It has also been slated that it was my purpose to resist the granting of any charter for suoh an abomination in our midst. Now while It is my earnest desire to do all in my power to promote public nnd private morality in our city, I wish it to bo distinctly understood that I am not running a private law and order so ciety witn the Intent of enforcing tho laws and bringing to justice those who defy the same and persist in debauching their neigh bors, no matter how praiseworthy such a work might seem to bo. If the Department of Publie Safety, with all Its expensive machin ery, whose duty it is to look after such mat ters, nro going to tolerate such an Iniquity as a Chines clubhouse, and if the conrts of Allegheny county are going to grant these barbarians the right to conduct an opium Joint and gambling hell under solemn sanc tion of their authority, unless I, a private citizen residing in a remote portion of the city, exert mvself to oppose it; and If the press of the city Is to allow these persistent violators of law and enemies of civilization to carry oat their villainous purposes with out lebuke.I do not see why I should trouble myself about it. True, tho ring-leader in this latest scheme has been conducting a notorious aen in which gambling and opium smoking have constituted the chief amnse ment. True also, he has been repeatedly raided by the police and all tho parapherna lia of the gamblers art captured and borno off as trophies of warand the leaderand his confederates heavily fined. True, as is familiarly known, both to many Chinamen in the citv and certain of the police force, this blue-blooded Chinaman has a family in China, and in addition a woman of color to do tho honors of his household on special occasions in this city still, if the police, the courts, the press, "and the long suffering public can stand a licensed abomination such as I have faintly hinted at, I believe I also can stand it, though I do think that it would be Infinitely better for tho peace and order of the community at large if every lasting one of these heathens, whose skins aro saturated with opium and whose morals are detestable In the extreme, were made to understand that the atmosphere of this town Is altogether too rare for their blood. Pittsrcro, Nov. 13. E. R. Dohehoo. Winter Amusements. To the Editor or The Dispatch: The presence of cold weather bringsbefore us visions of its accompaniment skating. Sltunted as Pittsburg Is, with plenty of water at Its command. It seems strange that a better provision has not been made for the enjoyment of this healthy sport. In speak ing of enjoyment, I mean free enfoyment, in the open air. not that which can be pur chased in a covered, crowded rink. It cer tainly would not be a very difficult or ex pensive matter to create ponds in some of where tlie nuHie at lam could onlov 1 self! During the winter many of onryonng girls ana Doys aro-nuront rrotn amrertc tnrcrvunrr Tbey cannot take out their bicycles nor can they indulge in lawn tennis, therefore In place of these let ns provide an amusement that is as healthful and as attractive and suitable for both sexes. Jack. PlTTSnrjRQ, November 18. A Correct Account, To the Editor of The Dispatch: I want to express my appreciation both of the correctness of the statements made (as I understand the subject) aid the literary style embodied in the article on the gold cure for the drink habit, on dipsomania, signed "M." in last Sunday'sDisrATCH. It is by all means the ablest one of the many I have read and will be productive of im mense good as well as proving Intensely in teresting to all students of the subject or even the "general reader." I am gratified that so much can be claimed and convinc ingly though temperately and conserva tively clalmed.for the Keeley cure, and that tho ranks of our Pittsburg graduates con tain tho ability to put the matter so bril liantly and forcefully bofore the public. A Keeley Institute Graduate. Pittsburg, November IS. " It Blooms in the Fall, Tra-Ia. Chicago Times. 1 There's a flower that blooms in the fall, tra-la, They call It the cAryjanthemum The place where that accent should fall. tra-la, Won't do for my purpose at all, tra-la, On the ante-penult it should come, On the ante-penult it should come. And that is the reason poets merrily trill, "Oh, bother an accent you can't shift at will." The Effect Is Noticeable. 1st. Lonls GIobe-Democrat.l A falling off of nearly $3 000,000 per month in the exports from Great Britain to the United States shows how the McKinley law is working in the interest of American labor and enterprise. GOSSIP OP THE STAGE. Plump and pretty little Fanny Rice, having deserted comic opera, will be seen at tho Grand Opera House next week in "A Jolly Surprise," which is described as a merry musical comedy by Arthur Wallack. It is said to be free Irom horse-play and vulgar ity an announcement that seems necessary in these days when anything like farce comedy is concerned. Claka Mourns will present a now play at the Alvln Theater next week, Sardon's "Odette," In which this remarkable actress has made a great impression else where. Miss Morris is in much better health, than she used to be, and she will die as usual as Camilla at the Saturday matinee. Ella Ewixg, a girl of 19, who stands 8 feet 2 inches and is still growing, will be at Harry Davis' Fifth Avenue Museum next week. Then Pittsburg will have an oppor tunity of answering the query that has stared at us from every billboard for the last two weeks: "Where is Ella Ewlng?" Fbaxk Dasiels in "Little Puck" Is the Duquesne Theater's bill for next week. The travesty upon Anstey's whimsical "Vice Versa" and Mr. Daniels' droll rendering of the chier character nre both familiar In Pittsburg. As optical illusion by which a man ap pears to decapitato himself will be the World's Museum Theater's chief attraction week, while Den Howe's Specialty Company will give a new variety show. The curtain-raiser at tho Alvln, "The Bet ter Part," is as sloppy and scrappy as such a brief thing could be. Any one of the old time farces would be better than such under done sentimentallsm. Chables A. Gabdneu trill sing and act at the Bijou next week in "Captain Karl," Sidney R. Ellis' new play. A genuine Tyro lean quartet assists Mr. Gardner. Miss Jccu as Elsa in "Lohenarln" last night delighted a largo audience. To-night "Carmen" will be given with Miss,Juch in tho titlo role, DeWol Hopper, a3 usual, Is testing the capacity of tho B'jou Theater. There will bo matinees at all the theaters on Thanksgiving Day. CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. " Cent coins are a legal tender only in sums of 25 cents. The number of Prcsidental electors on the new basis will be 444. Eli Terry founded the manufacture of clocks in America in 1793, and the centennial is to be celebrated in less than 18 months in Terryville, Conn. The Czar, it Is reported from Russia, is both enraged and depressed by the official corrnDtion which could no longer be con-' ccaled when' the famine set in. Herbert Spencer says "the first requisite in life is to be a good animal,'by which ho meant, of course, that the basis of all excel lence in human attainment was good physi cal health. Seventeen mummies in the Imperial Museum of Berlin were found by a commit tee of archaeologists to be recent fabrica tions of Alexandrian dealers in antiquities. The mnseum bad paid $200,000 for these forgeries. . It has been computed that between 36,0,000 and 37,000,000 babies are born into the world each year, or about 70 per minute. A line of cradles containing them would ex tend around the world unbroken, but the silence would be broken in several places. The "Pillars of Hercules," to which reference Is so frequently made in classical literature, were Calpe, now Gibraltar Rock, and Abyla, opposite to It, In Africa, at the entrance to the Mediterranean Sea. A Greek story says they were torn asunder 'and sep arated by Hercules about B. C. 1220 (while Gideon was Judge of Israel). Hercules, ac cording to popular myth, toro these rocks or mountains asunder, and hence their name. Inauguration day was fixed on March 4, not by any provision of the Constitution as is popularly supposed, but through an act of the Congress of the Confederation in 1733, providing the first Wednesday In 3Iarch of the ensuing year as the time for putting In operation the new Government, and the date thus became the one for the expiration of tho Congressional term every second year, and for the expiration of the old and begin ning of the new Presidental term in tho quadrennial year. As to the origin of the meteoric masses that have fallen from time to time on tho earth innumerable theories have been ad vanced. Astronmners are now trying to solve tho problem of their origin In two ways, first, by tracing tho paths of the great periodic star showers, and comparing them with the paths of the well-known comets; and, secondly, by examining their light by the spectroscope. The generally accepted theory among astronomers Is that they are solid masses, and are formed By the breaking up of comets. Cigars, according to the figures of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, in creased in consumption in this country tho last fiscal year 3S7,002,7!!4. while there was an actual decrease of 29,710,729 in the number of cigars imported. The sum or these two amounts may, therefore, be accepted as rep resenting the increase in the consumption of our domostic cigars. It is interesting to note, in this connection, that the consump tion of domestic cigarettes is increasing in a similar ratio, notwithstanding the ontcrv against them, the increase being 431.2S4.050 in number (luring the year. Remarkable cases of precocious intel lectuality, preceding future power rathor than weakness or early decay, were John Stuart Mill, who read Greek at 3: and Macau lay, who read Incessantly from the time he wa3 3 years old; but ordinary humanity is slower, and should nocbeundnly hastened. It is found to be undoubtedly the case that progress In learning is far more rapid In the great majority of children when they are left without any systematic attempt to teach them until the seventh year at least has been reached. This rapidity will more than counterbalance any apparent tardi ness in beginning, and there is much less chance of evil consequences. To insure a pure and fragrant atmos phere, "you must," says a writer on the sub ject, "accept from nature those tall, green chimneys called trees, which imbibe) and carry aloft into the air those hurtful gases which, if admitted Into the lungs and brain, niteht disease tho former and obstruct tho delicate movements of the latter." At vari ous points in the country may be observed "? F"? ; healthy, chiefly, because jvsuov;- rvu it,.., i ajjifca Ul JUUltV BlbUabKJnS, Li, , ;roneV . ? f wncn sneiter -SSSBJ.SSBl W2..iU&l,i5iC'?,-riSJPtf!Sf!r9d SSiVn,",J5 fns.1mf.r r5.T.e.nE JSLs5??Si and ranid evaporation which after hejivv rains may generate disease. With the passing of -1891 there have gone over to the silent majority many of the eminent or conspicnous ones of the earth. The list includes Bancroft, Lossing and Klnglake, the historians: Pan. ell, Bal maceda, Boulanger, ex-President Grevy, ex Vice President Hamlin, Sir John McDonald, Secretary Windom and William Henry Smith. In politics; Lowell and Winchell, in general literature: Lawrence Barrett, Mario Wilt and Emma Abbott, on the stage: Sher man, on Moltke and Joseph E. Johnston, the soldiers: George Jones, the editor, and Kalakaun, Karl I., of Wurtemberg: Prince Jerome Napoleon and the Ameer of Afghan istan, kings and the like. Baron Munchausen, the father in liter ature of prodigious stories, whose name Is a synonym for exaggeration and wild creation of misinformation, was Karl Friedrich Hler onymus, a member of an ancient and noble family of Hanover, was born on May 11, 1720, at Bodenwerder, servod as a cavalry officer In the Russian campaigns against the Turks, and died in February, 1797. A collection of his marvelous stories, or stories attributed to him, was first published in London in ' 1785, the compiler being Erich Raspe, an ex patriated countryman of the Baron's. In 17S6 the German'poet Berger published a German version. Several of the adventures ascribed to the Baron arc known to have appeared previously in Rebel's "Faeetlaa," In the sixteenth century, and others In Lange's "Delicia? Academical," of 1763. The most remarkable place of echoes in the world is perhaps in the old palace of Simonetta, near Milan, which forms three sides of a quadrangle. Tne report of a pis tol is said to be repeated by this echo 60 times. Addison, who visited the place, counted 56 repetitions. At first they were quick, but the Intervals were greaterin pro portion as the sound diminished. The echo at the Eagle's Nest, on the banks of Killar nev, is renowned for its repetition of a bugle cail, which seems to be repeated by a hun dred Instruments, nntll it gradually dies awav In the air. At the report of a cannon the londest thunders reverberate from the rock and die In seemingly endless peals along the distant mountains. There is also a famous echo on the Rhine, between Cob lentz and Blngen, which repeats a word 17 times, while in the sepulcher of Metella, the wife of Sulla, In the Roman campagna, there Is an echo which repeats five times. TAKEN FltOM LIFE. He Old Smitbers, the misanthrope, turned philanthropist before he died, and said he would leave all his money for the relief of suffering humanity. She Did he endow a hospital In his will He No. He left his fortune to the Inebriate Asylam, with the condition that the Income be spent in drink for the inmates. Reginald "Why, Chappie, what's -the matter are you ill? Chappie I Just had an awful nightmare, old feL, Idweamptlwas awaltah. bah Jove, and had to wear a dwess suit in the daytime. Gay Bachelor Do you think there is any thing in the theory that married men live longer than unmarried ones? Henpecked Friend (wearlly)-Oh, I don't know seems longer. He Don't you think it is wrong-for peo ple to marry their intellectual inreriors? - She Yes; always wrong, and In some cases quite Impossible. " . "Has she a true sense of humor?" ., "No. Why she's the girl who was married for f un at Lenoa.." Jack Rounder Isn't Miss Belle a beauty? MUsA Yes. But you know beauty Is only skia deep. t .i J. Kounder-WeU, I'm no cannibal. That's deep enough for me. "Mother, did God make me?" Yes. my son." Did he make Pop?" " Certainly." .- Well. I think after He saw what a failure Pop's face was lie needn't have been mean enough to put the same style on me." L'EI.ROI THE TIRED JESTER. I have sung my songs. I have danced my measure. I have played my part. Let me rest awhile. For my soul is sick of this thing called pleasure. And my lips are tired of their painted smtlo. I have lived for your laughter. Striving to please. I hare wntug mirth drv. You have drunken the my cap and bells. I hare earned my leisure. 1 am out of time, Uke an Ill-strung viol. . ,, Harlequin, Zs&Jt&LL. tiSBji' i-.t.w&.'R; F - in -tiTTr sTrrTrwrv.iiy!rji
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