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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,
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