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PITTSBURG. FRIDAY. NOV. 20. 3891.
TWELVE PAGES
A TIMELY DISCUSSION.
"While differing from those of our cotem
poraries who hold a three-pcr cent tax one
of the probabilities of the city administra
tion for the coming year, The Dispatch
thinks with them that now is the time to
discuss and decide the matter. We do not
think an increase of taxes will be neces
sary because, unless tbe bond proposition
fail, there will be no cause for it Even
should the bond proposition fail, the first
thing to do will be to apply the pruning
Rnife, and retrench as far as possible be
fore adding a mill to the .present levy.
But now if. the time to discus this con
tingency, and impress public opinion upon
Councils. It should not be left for hur
ried consideration of a committee of
Councils, with the appropriation ordinance
then to be rushed through in a race against
time, as has so often been the case in the
past.
Another good effect of discussing this
matter now is to be found in the necessity
it will establish for voters to think care
fully when electing their representatives
to Councils at the Spiing elections. All
political economists are agreed that taxes,
no matter how ostensibly levied in the
first instance, come in the end off the
profits of business men or out of the
pockets of the wage-workers. For this
reason the whole business of government
comes close to every voter touches his
pocket and he should post aud express
himself about it fully. .
The discussion beforehand is therefore
timely.
A MATTER FOR CONSIDERATION.
Our cotemporary, the Telegraph, apropos
of the interesting information presented
in the Dispatch upon the various aspects
of the management of the city's poor,
wages as a simple and economical
disposition of the whole matter that
ihe wards of the Department of
Charity be sent to the County Home. Ten
or twenty thousand dollars, our cotem
porary thinks, would be sufficient to
enlarge the county institution and make
it entirely adequate for the reception
of the inmates of the City Home. A
saving of S30.000 to $40,000 per annum
to Pittsburg, it insists, could be effected
under this arrangement.
The idea embodied in this suggestion
will commend it strongly to the public.
There is really no substantial reason why
one central institution should not take
care of all the poor of the county. Xoth
ing is gained, but a good deal is lost, in
economy by keeping up different establish
meats for the county, for Pittsburg and"
for Allegheny.
But this suggestion, while a good one,
and about the right thing for considera
tion further on, could not perhaps be put
into immediate effect. The A els of the
Legislature as they stand call forthee
eparate institutions. Xothing could be
done before the next Legislature meets.
3Ieanwhile, there is the necessity of
seeing that Pittsburg is not put in for an
extravagant and wasteful expenditure
upon the new farm, if it has to buy one.
It is first require'd that Councils emphatic
ally reject the proposal to buy for S3o0 an
acre land whose value the parties in inter
est a little whi"-; ago set at only $200 an
acre. It is net desirable that if any farm
at all is bought it shall be neither in size
nor price more than is actually needed.
The fact that it would be well to ask the
Legislature to cousolidate the existing in
stitutions only adds another strong argu
ment why any investment now made by
1he city in lands or buildings should ad
here as closely as possible to the actual re
quirements. The taxpayers are not in a
humor to encourage the throwing away of
a single penny either as extortionate
profits to sellers or upon an inflated esti
mate of what is wanted.
TWO EVILS FROM IDENTICAL CAUSE.
Simultaneously with the news of wide
spread damage by heavy rain storms and
great floods throughout Great Britain and
much of the European Continent, come
tidings of direful conditions from dearth of
rain in two important districts of the
United States But this contrast of evils
resulting from excess on one hand and en
tire deprivation of the downpour of rain on
the other, is of frequent occurrence, and
not by any means so curious as the con
trast presented by the two localities in this
country.
The great metropolitan mass of popula
tion constituting the congested portion of
Xew York have already entered upon a
water fast, and a water famine is seriously
threatened, with all of the gamut of at
tendant evils from simple discomfort, on
through disease and even greatly increased
danger from fire, because the Croton
water works are dry and rain refuses to
fall on the Croton water sheds.
The eonnd group of sufferers, by cause
of tbe long continued drought, are the
people of the Ohio river towns and ham
lets. They need water not a whit less
than do the Xew Tork folks, but instead
of wanting water simply for itself they
want it for what it will bring coal.
Improvident!-, as of old, they have too
credulently relied upon the capricious
current of the Ohio the continuance or
the quick recurrence of "high water" to
bring them their temporary supplies of
coal. As too often before, they find them
selves caught in a condition of want no
coal and the river low. Some of these
towns have inadequate railroad con
nections. Their only base of supply is
Pittsburg, their only line by which "supply
can come the Ohio and no signs of rain
to make high water and lift the embargo.
The curious contrast continues further
in the different means by which the two
groups of sufferers seek to avert the ex
tremity of disaster. While the good dwell
ers in the pastoral valley of the Ohio
were piously holding scores of special re
ligious services on Sunday, at which pray
ers were uttered from thousands of sup
pliants, invoking the Divine will to send
rain, the Gothamites simply telegraphed
General Dyrenforth at Washington "come
at once great haste answer paid."
WINTER TTAUS NOT POPULAR.
"War is not likely to break out in Europe
at this time of the year, though it must
be admitted that the movementrof Rus
sian and Austrian troops toward the fron
tier, coupled with other warlike manifes
tations among the Central European pow
ers, is ammunition for the alarmists. The
Austrian Emperor's slip of the tongue
the other day, by which he allowed his
belief that war might break out at any
moment to become public rroperty,ls still
agitating the continental bourses.
The chief reason given for this ac
centuation of the uneasy feeling
which is no new thing in
itself is that the Czar of Russia and his
advisers are at their wits' end to pacify a
famine-stricken and ill-governed people,
and think war might divert the latter's
eyes from domestic abuses. If Rus
sia's rulers were to go to war with neigh
boring nations to gain, so to speak, peace
at home, it would not be the first time"'
such a policy has been employed. Xapoleon
III. lost his "crown, and humiliated his
country, m exactly this way. It was a
favorite specific with that far greater man,
Napoleon L; and he was wonderfully suc
cessful in dazzling his countrymen's eyes
with foreign wars. In fact, wherever tyr
anny has had to face the murmur of an op
pressed people, war with the world with
out, commonly has been, resorted to as a
diversion and a stay of revolution.
But war is unlikely to break out now,be
canse the winter has set in. Russia had a
taste of the horrors of a winter campaign
only a few years ago. Turkey was her an
tagonist then a far feebler foe than the
Triple Alliance would be. Russia had no
intention of prolonging the war into win
ter on that occasion, but Turkey was
tougher than her antagonist expected, and
though war was declared in April another
spring had dawned before peace was con
cluded. It is significant that most of the
great European wars in this century,
setting aside the almost continu
ous conflict which did not cease
till Napoleon I's final deportation,
began in spring or early summer. The
last Russo-Turkish war began in April,
1877. Napoleon IIL played into Bis
marck's hands with a declaration of war
July 15, 1870. The preceding war between
Austria and Germany, which likewise fell
in with the Prussian Chancellor's plans,
broke out in the glorious month of June.
The Crimean war was an exception, but
it was the slow concentration of the allied
powers for the invasion of Russia that de
layed the landing in the Crimea until
September 14, 1854, rather than a volun
tary choice of a winter campaign. The
logic of history is against a war so late in
the year, and that, if nothing else, may
save Europe from such a calamity.
THE AMERICAN POET'S BIRTI1DAY.
The good old poet Whittier will cele
brate the eighty-fourth anniversary of his
birth on the 17th of December, and his
friends are endeavoring to make the day
an occasion of something peculiarly fitting
to the character of the man and the po
sition he holds in American literature.
The demonstration, the exact character of
which is not yet decided, will probably
not be planned to occur at tho poet's
home (for personally he would prefer it
should not), but in New York, where a
large number of busy literary men can
quickly and conveniently assemble, and
the purpose will be to have some popular
tribute to the poet.
It is proposed that a score or mure of
the literary clubs of the East shall unite
to form a programme for the event and a
few of the foremost literary men shall be
charged with the work of carrying it out
In this way something unique aud worthy
of the man should be produced.
AVhittier, who is the most peculiarly
American of all the poets, is the
last survivor of a group of great
literary men Longfellow, Bryant, Em
erson, Lowell, Halleck, Poe and many
more, many of whom died so long ago as
to seemingly belong to another era in our
short literary history. He was a writer as
early as 1S29, and his first poems appeared
sixty vears ago. Americans will ever
honor him for his patriotism, purity and
directness of purpose, and love him for
the sweetness and simplicity of his song,
his tender humanity, and the broad cath
olicity of mind and heart, which made him
Quaker as he is alike the 6inger who
could celebrate the Puritan of New Eng
land and the "Pennsylvania Pilgrim."
AN EMBARRASSMENT ELiairNATED.
That the element usually found particu
larly embarrassing to the political prog
nosticators the third party is elimi
nated from the problem of 1892, seems
certain. Collapse threatens the Farmers'
Alliance: and while in some cases political
parties have such great vitality as the pos
session of a great principle entitles them
to, and recuperate from defeat because
destiny ordains them to make that
nrinclple prevail, this is emphat
ically not the case with the
Alliance. It was not the specially ap
pointed champion of any new or needed
idea, although it pompously promulgated
things which speciously secured tempor
ary place in the minds of many men be
cause of their surface resemblance to
needed ideas and principles. But they
soon found that what they mistook for
philosophy was merely platitudinous phil
andering, and hence the passing of the
third party into the limbo of obli ion. It
was an inflated thing that looked for a
time somewhat formidable, but collapse
came and the integument itself has not'
integrity or strength enough to stand an
other inflation.
METHODS OF TUNISHMENT.
Quite a discussion will undoubtedly be
aroused by the expression of the views of
Cadwallader Biddle as to the relative
value and propriety of corporal punish
ment and solitary confinement in institu
tions for young criminals. Mr. Biddle,
who is a prominent citizen of Philadel
phia and one widely known as a student
and thinker upon varied questions of pub
lic policy and morals, is a member of the
Shite Board of Charities, and is at present
making an informal but quite thorough
inspection of those institutions of West
ern Pennsylvania which come within the
province of the board.
It is Mr. Biddle's opinion that in such
reformatory institutions as Morganza cor
poral punishment is preferable to solitary
confinement This probably is far from
being the popular opinion; and it would
not be strange if Mr. Biddle's idea, which
we understand is to be laid before the
board he represents and the managers of
Morganza, and which will of course come
fully before the public, should arouse a
storm of opposition. Just at present, no
official utterance having yet been made, it
is too early to discuss the 'matter, hut it is
in order to say that while there are many
arguments on both sides as to whether
corporal punishment should be adopted,
there can be only one opinion in regard to
solitary confinement of the young that it
should go. "
PROTECTION IN THE SOUTH.
That some of the Southern opponents
of protection recognize its benefits to the
South has all along been evident And
now comes the Charleston News and
Courier thus: "To say that because the
people of the South oppose the policy of
protection they should have no part in its
benefits is the argument of a fool or a
knave."
Gently, gently, esteemed but heated co
temporary, your very violence proclaims
the fullness of your appreciation of pro
tection's legitimate production. It is a big
benefit and you are to be congratulated
upon receiving it, recognizing it and
testifying to it, though doing the latter in
directly and apparently inadvertently in
this Instance.
The South even now enjoys a greater
measure of profit from protection than the
Southern Democracy will admit, and in
the logical and inexorable order of events
must achieve a greater percentage of gain
in the future than will even the North for
her industries are growing and presenting
new conditions entitling them to pro
tection which will not be withheld when
those conditions are proved.
NO MORE FASTING CONTESTS.
G. Henry Stratton was announced a few
days ago to be the victor in a New Tork
museum fasting match, in which a dozen
others competed. Yesterday he died.
The world is probably very little the
worse for his end by what is practi
cally a suicide, but it is about time for
these exhibitions to stop. "When the craze
was started a few years ago it was con
tended that it would be a good thing to
find oirj; just how long a man could do
without food. The idea was advanced
that in cases where miners or others were
confined by any accident it would en
courage them to hold out for a possible
rescue.
If there ever was anything in this argu
ment enough tests have long since been
made. This thing of fasting for money
as an amusement attraction is far below
the level of bull-fighting, the prize ring
and other diversions which have been put
under the ban of the law. Of course, a
man cannot be'made to eat by legal enact
ment, but the arrangement of these pub
lic fasting matches for financial gain can
easily be prevented.
Lewis V. Bogy, whose publication of. a
novel representing an unsavory condition or
thing6 in Washington departmental life led
to his being dismissed from the Pension De
partment, now has plenty of time to kick
himself, and cause to do so, when he reflect?
that the immense free advertisement his
hook is Retting can do him no pood, for tho
reason that no sold oat his entire right to
tho publisher for $1U0.
It looked as if the Russian bearhad struck
up an alliance witli the bulls of the Chicago
Board of Trade, till the statement that the
Czar had issued a ukae prohibiting the ex
portation Of wheat was declared a canard
yesterday. The price of wheat lost nil the
bulge that the bulls' bogus cablegram had
given it.
Miss Omaha would like her sister, Pitts
burg, to help her to get the Republican Con
vention. There Is nothing small about tho
Northwest's desires, but if Pittsburg uses
hergraees to promote anyone's cause it will
be her own on this occasion.
The New England Democrats are fairly
intoxicated with the idea that Russell is a
Presidents! possibility. It is well for them
that the boom is started early, for they will
have longer to play with it, and the conven
tion will end their cqmfort.
The cold wave came with energy and se
verity enough to satisfy even the most ex
acting, and is leaving with a promptness
which is in keeping with its business-like
coming and altogether commendable.
La grippe has broken out again in
France. It would be pleasant if a tariff bill
could be framed to protect our native dis
eases from competition with such products
of effete monarchy. as la grippe.
The enemies ot the Administration who
belittle tho President's "eagle eye and mass
ive brain" aro now confronted with the im
posing report that he lias shot at least tn o
ducks since he went a-hunting.
Last summer closely approached what is
vaguely termed the old-fashioned article,
and from the first taste of it the coming
winter" seems likely to recall the severities
of its frostiest predecessor.
PmSBtmo can sing with assurance in re
.the securing of the Republican- National
Convention: "Hove got the nail, we've got
the beds, we've got tho boodle, too!"
"Cavalleria Kusticana" has been
given so often heie of late that several
Pittsburgers are to be found who can pro
nounce the name without choking.
It is costing Servia 2,000,000 francs a year
to enjoy the absence of Ex-King Milan, and
great as the boon is the taxpayers are begin
ning to kick at the price.
City people are likely to know more
about farm values this winter than ever be
fore. PERSONALITIES.
Young Mr. Egan is a confirmed believer
in the theory that the old man is right.
United States Minister Pacheco
was tendered a grand banquet in San Salva
dor on Tuesday by President Ezeta.
Gail Hamilton says that she has dis
carded politics ana is devoting herself ex
clusively to jtheology with Mrs. Maybrick
8s-an"incidental diversion.
Mrs. Besant, who wears Mme. Blavat
sky's mantle, expresses admiration of
Americans' clear-sighted interest in theo-
sophic questions. Mrs. Bcsant is less than
just to Americans' senso of humor. 'Xcw
York Sun. And tuo "clear-sighted interest"
she thinks she sees is perhaps owing to her
lack of clear sight.
General Dyrenforth is a nice man in
his way, and, though a rainmaker, wants it
tobeunders-toodthat her likes a dry joke.
His latest is the claim that he is not a rain
maker, and that though lie makes experi
ments he draws no conclusions. It has gen
erally been understood that he draw rain
and good appropriations. Philadelphia
Times.
tM. PATEXOTRE, the newly, appointed
Minister of France to the United States will
shortly depart for bis post, says a cable spe
cial.. A number of his friends tendered hira
,a farewell banquet "Wednesday cvenin".
Among the moie prominent guests present
were Mr. Whltelaw Reid, the United States
Minister to France, and Mr. King, the United
States Consul General at Paris.
Patrick Egan is a small man physi
cally. He is wholly self-educated, having
begun life as a mossenger boy in a flour mill
in an Irish country town. He ros-e to be
managing director of his company In Dublin,
and afterward became an extensive dealer
In corn before he joined the councils or the
-Land League. He dresses quietly and neatly.
He does not smoke or drink.
IN SBADYSIDE CHURCH
Miss Louise Dllworth Becomes the Wife of
Otis Chllds Among a Thousand Friends
East End Women at the Benefit The
Days Doings.
In the "pretty modern Shadyside Pres
byterian Church, Miss Louisa Dilworth was
wodded to Mr. Otis Childs last night in tho
presence of tne large family connection and
hundreds of friends. Tho marriage was
solemnized by the Rev. Richard Holmes, D.
D., pastor of the cburcb, at 8:30 and com
bined the simple Presbyterian service with
tho impressive ring ceremonial. The bride
and groom are representatives of two influ
ential families of Pennsylvania! and a largo
partof the reserved pews were occu
pied by the numerous relatives. The
church was prepared early in tho day
for the bride's coming in the ovening. All
the recess where the organ is, ns well as the
dais and pulpit, was concealed by a bank of
tropical plants. The bnso was lovely ferns.
Bunches of bride roses tied with broad satin
ribbons marked tho reserved pews. White
satin ribbon was drawn along the pews and
across the entrances to the aisles, to keep
the gnests in place until the bridal party
left the church. After tho wedding
gnests were seated the family
of the biido entered, Mrs. George
IV. Dilworth being conducted to her pew,
directly facing the place where tne cere
mony was to take place, by Ur. Marshall
Childs. The ushers were Mr. Henry Graham
Brown, Mr. Marshall Childs, Mr. Robert Mc
Cook, Mr. U. Brady Wilkins, Jr., Mr. W. B.
Rhodes and Mr. George Singer. As the
Lohengrin March, played by Mr. Gittings,
began they ontered the church in proces
sion, followed by Miss Florence Dilworth,
the maid of honor, who preceded her sister.
Entrance of the Bride.
Then the bride came in, leaning on the
arm of her father, Mr. George W. Dllworth.
Sho wore a magnificent white satin gown,
embroidered with flowers, court trained,
and a Dridnl veil. In keeping with a certain
queenly manner of carrying the head was an
arrangement of the bridal veil in the form
of a crown. On her throat was a pendant
of superb diamonds. The bridal bouquet
was bride roses. Miss Florence Dilworth
was in white mousseleine de sole, simply
made, very much puffed on the arms and
cut just to show a glimpse of a pretty
neck. Tho skirt was knotted with satin
ribbon. The bridegioom, who was waiting
with Dr. Holmes and the best man, Mr. T.
Howe Childs, came forward to meet Mr. Dil
worth and his daughter. He remained at
Mr. Dilworth's right hand until that gentle
man stepped back, when the bridegioom
took his place. Thouzh in a Presbyterian
Church and at a "Presbytorian cere
mony, the congregation, following tho
example of the family, lose when
Dr. Holmes began tho opening words,
"Dearly beloved brethren," and lemained
standing throughout. The ceremony over,
the bride left the church with her hnsband,
and the procession followed, Mr. Dilworth
coming out with the best man. Then he re
turned for Mrs. Dilworth, who left the
church on his arm. The general audience
was obliged to wait patiently until all the
guests to the leception weye escorted to
their carriages. It was almost 10 before this
was accomplished.
Some of the Smart Gowns.
Among tho many magnificently dressed
women were the following: Mrs. George
W. Dllworth, in pink brocade wearing a
pink pompon in her hair and carrying
chrysanthemums of the same color.
Mrs. Childs, the bridegroom's mother,
was in black velvet.
Miss Childs, the bridegroom's sister, wore
an exquisite blue brocaded silk.
Miss Sarah Lippfncott was in red and
black.
Mrs. John Lippincott's dress was green
and white.
Mrs. George Berry, the bride's grand
mother, wore a superb gown of black velvet.
Mrs. c. C. Beggs, the bride's aunt, was in
green and pink.
Mrs. Bnghman wore a delicate pink silk
gown.
Mrs. George Blair was in white pink.
Mrs. Childs' gown was of black lsce.
Mrs. William Frew wore a black velvet
robe.
Mrs. W. N. Frew had a most lovely toilette
of pink brocaded silk. Mrs. Charles E.
Clapp was daintily gowned in white crepe,
trimmed with chiffon, and was one of the
Siettiest voung women at the church. Mrs.
ohn Leishman woro steel gray clinging.ma
terial, trimmed with chiffon and passemen
terie. Mrs. Tavlor wore blue and her sister,
the bride, Mrs.'Omar Scott Decker, woie her
wedding gown of white satin and lace.
Jliss juaiy jucuieiiana wore an exceeuingiy
handsome toilette of black silk, combined
with black lace. The sleeves and front of
the skirt were of heliotrope silk. Three
jeweled flowers ornamented the bodice.
Mrs. Peacock wore pink. Mrs. Robert Pit
cairn's dress was white silk. Mrs. Will
Jones' dress was a soft silk striped in pink,
green aud black and trimmed with pink
chiffon.
Mrs. Lippincott wore a white satin, Mrs.
William H. Thompson's dress was black,
Mrs. William L. Abbott wore blue. Mrs. H.
Kirk Porter's dress was white silk. On
leaving the church she threw over it a rich
wine-colored velvet wran reaching to the
ground. Mis. Frederick Kavwore a dress of
black velvet and Jet. Miss Louise Linger
was in pink. Mrs. Charles J. Clarke's dress
was blue and black. Miss Ricketson wore
black lace.
The colossal benefit for the Southside
Hospital closes to-morrow fittingly with
what is known as East End Ladles' Day.
The dining hall will be in charge of the ladies
of the East End churches ns follows:
East Liberty Presbyterian Church Mrs.
Christy, Mrs. Quincy Scott, Mrs. J. M. Jones;
aides, Mrs. .Tames Dickson, Mrs. E. M. Bige
low, Mrs. M. W. Henderson, Mis. Thomas
Liggett. Mrs. J. C. Shame, Miss Vinie Scott,
Miss Effle Irwin, Miss" Bessie HIggs, Miss
Gill, Miss Agnes Gill, Miss Jenkinson and
Miss Wishai t.
Point Breeze Church Mrs. WilHsm P.
Woolrldge, Mrs. Helen Meyers, Mrs. William
Berger, Mrs. Norman M. Smith, Mrs. Robert
B. Brown. Mrs. T. A. Gllle-pie. Mrs. M. R.
Montgomerv. Mrs. D. W. Bell, Mrs. Eugene
M. O'Neill, Mrs. Slocum, Mrs. E. T. Norme
cutt. Mrs. J. G. Stephenson, Mrs. Charlos
Arbuthnot; aides. Misses Normeciltr, Mary
Bailey. Ella Stephenson, Nellie Davis, Rolfe,
Mury"Benham, Duff and Dogs.
Bellcflcld Church Mrs. Henry T. Mc
Clelland. Mrs. W. J. Holland, Mrs. D. A.
Hengst. Mrs. Anna JL Wallace; aides, Miss
Orth, Miss Foster, Mis Wilson, Miss Russell,
Miss Carlisle, Miss Krike, Miss Frazier, Miss
Danson, Miss Mary Wilson, Miss Wightman.
Shadyside Presbvterian Church Sliss
Dawson, Miss Rees, Mrs. Kenned v Moorhead,
Miss Lizzie Stevenson, Miss Bird Faber,
Miss Blanche Street, Miss Blanche Rees,
Miss Florenco Aiken, Miss K. Lippincott.
Calvary Church Mrs. George H.Thurston,
Mrs. Clark, Mrs. W. H. Allen, Mrs. John
Wpodwell, Mrs. John Garner, Miss Sellers,
Miss Gertrude Smith, Miss Grace TaTlor.
Emorv M. E. Church Mrs. William F.
Aull, Mrs. C. V. Wilson, Mrs. M. Blatten
berger, Mrs. Thomas Hobson, Mrs. Charles
H. Anil, Mis. S. M. Wallace, Mrs. M. Dumm,
Mrs. Sarah Bulger, Mrs. B. F. Long, Miss D.
Mitchell.
St. Mark's Church Mrs. A. M. Volght.Mrs.
B. Wolff, Miss Nellie Volght, Miss Mary
Wolff. Miss Nettio Henderson,"Mrs. W. Mac
kev, Mr. D. L. Gillespie.
Oakland M. E. Church Mrs. Perrine, Miss
Smythe, Mls Katherine Perrine, Miss Alice
Lawrence, Miss Annie Vankirk, Miss Essie
Little. Miss Margaret Stewart, Mrs. Black
horn, Mis. Murray, Mrs." Davis, Mrs. Mc
Brlde, Mrs. Lawrence.
Sixth U. P. Church Mrs. A. P. Burchfleld,
Mrs. H. C. Bair, Miss J. Lock-hart. Miss E. J.
Bntler, Miss Ella Sleeth. Miss Mary Arm
strong, Miss Kiitherine Carnahan,
The Dorcas Society of the Edgewood
Frcsbyteuan Church hold a bazaar yester
dny afternoon at tno lesidenceof Mrs. M.
McWhinney, on Franklin street, Edgewood.
A number of pretty booths and novel
amusements were the features of thebazaar.
Supper was served by pretty young girlsin
fancy costumes, and two little girls in tho
Swedish national dress, carrying baskets,
did a brisk business. The proceeds -are lor
the now church, for which ground is to be
broken in the spring, on Swissvale aveilue,
Edgewoodville.
The Young Ladies' Aid Scciety of
the Wilkinsburg Methodist Chinch gave an
entertainment last nigh in Academy Hall,
Wilkinsburg, for the purpose of raising
money for an organ for a church building
now in course of erection. The important
feature of the ovening was a flag drill bj- 24
young ladies in red, white and blue cos
tumes, who performed intricate maneuvers
under the direction of Mr. C. W. Smith,
captain of the Sheridan Sabers, of Wilkins
burg. The hall was beautifully, decorated,
and the stage was hidden bv drapings of the
national colors. Recitations and songs by
Messrs. R. I). McFredericks and C. W. Car
inthers, Mrs. R. Russell and Prof. Lamb.
The entertainment will be repeated this
ovening.
A very pleasing and most enjoyable en
tertainment was given last night by Prof.
George M. Sleeth and tho students
of the Western Theological Seminary
in the Seminary ouilding on Ridge avenue.
The nature of the entertainment was I
novel and an innovation thoroughly ac
ceptable to the students and their friends.
A large number or the Presbyterian pastors
of tho city and members or the various
churches were present.
Social Chatter.
The First Regiment of the Select Knights
of America navo its fourth annual reception
at Turner Hall, Forbes street, last night.
The handsome uniforms of the Knights and
the ladies' pretty gowning made a pictur
esque sight.
Mrs. Dkibert, ofTorrens station, gave a
fancy work party yesterday afternoon rrom
4 to 6 o'clock.
The Alvin Cotillion gives its first dance
this evening.
To-sioht is the Union League Club reception.
TOPICS OP THE TIMES.
Perhaps New York's water famine is a sly
advertising dodge to attract Kentucky vis
itors. Baltimore American.
Query, and answer, from Puck: "Doesn't
Philadelphia remind you or a checker
board it's all squares." "Yes: and so does
Chicago. It's got a move on it." Philadel
phia has a move on it, too; it reminds one of
a chess board, though, rather than a checker
board. It's a very slow move.
It is said that Italy is anxious to forgive
and forget the Now Orleans incident and
only hopes for a small indemnity from Con
giessso that ifcan return its minister to
Washington and still maintain its dignitv.
Baltimore American. Well we that Is TJ. S.
will pay his fare, if that's what's wanted.
Sometimes we find mpst serious things
where least expected, as witness this
from Puck a whole sermon albeit one
preached from worldly wisdom: "A word for
would-be leaders Remember, if yon stand
in the front, von rre in the place for tho
I whole mob to trample over you when you
iau.
Does Rev. Anna Shaw know whereof she
speaks when she says that the Associated
Press dispatches are controlled by the
liqnor intorests, or was her statement to
that effect in her Sunday sermon a slip of
the tonguoT Boston Herald. It simply sug
gests the old-time truth that there is more
than one kind of intomperancc.
General Dyrenforth has declined' to make
rain for the Croton watershed. At the same
time come reports from Texas that Just two
one-hundredthsofan inch fell there while
bis experiments were going on. and this
from natural cause. iVeu? York World. Why
would it not be well for the General with
the suggestive name to lease himself to a
fruit evaporating firm or work the drying
room of a big laundry?
The most amusing thing in current pol.
itics is the ferocity with which free traders
assail the reciprocity policy. They hate it
because they are afraid of it, and cannot
argue rationally against it. Reciprocity
does not Involve abandonment of the char
acteristic features or the American protec
tive system. At the same time it is based
upon a free market for non-competing pro
ducts, and promotes tho removal of restric
tions upon international trade. It Is a pol
icy which is markedly helpful both to con
primers and to exporters. Our free trade an
tagonists show signs of demoralization
whenever they approach the subject. New
York Tribune.
There are two sides to the rain making
stories sent out from Texas. George Ed
ward Curtis, an assistant in the Smithsonian
Institute, Washington, who was piesent at
Dyrenforth's Texas experiments, says that
only two one-hundredth3 inches of ralu fell
during three weeks of experiment, and the
explosions had nothing to do with the pro
duction of rain. There were showers all
over Texas on the dn v the rain fell at the ex
periment station. This is an almost com
plete contradiction of previous reports on
the same experiments, and is of speoial im
portance, because Congress will surely be
asked to make a big appropriation to con
tinue experiments in rain making in spite
of the small support such experiments
receivo from meteorologists. Philadelphia
Ledger.
CUPJ0US STATE TOPICS,
Costly State Publication.
The bird book written by a young Chester
county naturalist named Warren and pub
lished by tbe State proves to beas expensive
as the ilnteUigencer predicted it would be.
The Punlto Printer's report Jnst issued
shows that $57,423 79 was expended for the
free picture books that were distributed by
members of the Legislature. The cost of
printing the report of tho geographical sur
verys was somewhat less $20,231 99. Lan
caster Intelligencer.
MeadvlIIe's Dream dr Wealth.
Who knows what there is in store for
Meadville? If tho story told in other
columns of tho discovery of lead and tin in
paying quantities is confirmed, altera thor
ough examination, this whole section will,
intime.be made'tobud and blossom like
the rose. .Surely there must be something
concealed beneath the surface, or wherefore
the gas, the mineral water and the speci
mens of stiver, float which have been found
here and there by prospectors; From all
appearances Crawford county "is in it," and
much can be realized bv taking advantage
or our opportunities. jaeaaviue roune.
The City of Brotherly Backwardness,
It was baa enough when Now York
snubbed Philadelphia, but what can be said
when "Little York" criticises its big neigh
bor. The York Gazette has a long editorial
in which it spanks its big neighbor rigor
ously, among other slaps giving these:
"To the people up tho State, Philadelphia
is simply an overgrown place, possessing for
them "no attractions, socially or commer
cially; and ir it were possible to collect
statistics detailing tbe number of large and
small business men in the interior of the
State who buy their goods in New York,
instead or in tho City or Brotherly Back
wardness, the showing would amaze tbe
Phlladelphians.
"But what has caused this deterioration?
Why should this beantifnl and great State
metropolis retiograde? Wliv is it that Penn
svlvnniansontsideofit prefer to go to New
York? Simply, we believe, because tho
larger portion of her ruling people are not
bro.id-mindod.
"Thev have been reared and have vege
tated in a placid and lazy atmosphere,
which has been made lazy and placid simply
because of tbe eternal howl that 'Philadel
phia is good enough.'
"And now the Pennsylvania Railroad is
ignoring the city, even to the extent of
building tracks along the outskirts in order
to keep flne trains of cars from reaching
Broad street. And why? Because the Penn
sylvania Railroad Conlpany carries more
and more passengers every year from tip tbe
State and from other States who want to get
to New York.
"Even politicians have begun to ignore
the citv and hasten to New York or switch
off to Washington, or go the opposite direc
tion in order to land in Pittsburg. Even
Harrisburg Is becoming more popular to
strangers, and solid old York, with its 23,000
Inhabitants, is not moro demure on Sunday
than is the Quaker City."
Marrieil Sixty-Two Years. .
Mr. and Mrs. John F. Reynolds, of New
Castle, were mai ried j ust 63 years Wednes
day. Their childien and gland children
thought it would be a good idea to call upon
the old folks Wednesday evening and let
them know that the event was held in re
membrance. .Accordingly the i datives re
siding In Now Castle made the call, much to
the plcasme of Mr. and Mrs. Reynolds. The
Reynolds family is one or the oldest in Law
rence county. Mr. and Mrs. John F. Rey
nolds have every prospect of spending many
more years or happiness together. Xew
Castle A'eus.
Past Convention Cities.
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
Ill the last thirty-flve years only three
National Conventions or the leading parties
have been held in Cincinnati. In 185tf the
Democrats'hore nominated James Buchanan
for tho Presidency, aud in 1880 nominated
General Hancock. In 1876 the Republicans
nominated Govenor Hayes for the Presi
dency, in Music Hall, Cincinnati. In l72the
Liberal Republicans, in convention in this
city, nominated for the Presidency Editor
Horace Greeley, whose nomination was in
dorsed by the Democrats in convention in
Baltimore. Since 1S79 three Republican Nat
ional Conventions all or them, in fact
have been held in Chicago, and in that time
tho Democrats have bold one convention
there. Notwithstanding this showing, it is
not apparent that the Windy City is entitled
to a moi.opolv of the Republican Conven
tions. Two o tbe three Cincinnati nominees
were elected; three of the six Chicago nom
inees were beaten. In the last thirty-flve
years National Conventions of the two prin
cipal parties have been held only in Cincin
nati, Chicago, Baltimore, Charleston, Phila
del phla. New York and St. Louis.
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TALK OP THE TOWN.
The Cold Snap Good for Oie Tailors Why
Wasn't Photography Invented Sooner
A Giant's Irrnption Gossip at Street,
Store and Corridor.
"It is surprising htfw men put off getting
winter clothes till the cold weather drives
them to it," said a Firth avenue tailor yes
terday. "I don't object to confessing that
the cold snap is a blessing to me. It Is not
so much the actual demand for ray winter
stock that is a blessing, for of that I have
reason to believe I" am assured, but while
the weather kept warm nobody ihonght or
buying a winter suit, and I was beginning to
fear that all my customers would come In a
crowd about a week before Christmas. Now
tho drop in the mercury has scared every
body, and there will be more time to get tho
work done before the severest weather
or tho winter sets in. The fine rail
has delayed the winter business
in my line at least three weeks this year.but
there is still a margin of time left us. and I
can hope to look after all my customers. I
know this is tho general experience among
merchant tailors. They all expect to have
their hands full for the next six weeks, and
fiom what I can see up to this time the pros
pect is encouraging. Pittsburgers, if they
are not making as much money as in some
former years, are getting enough of the 'long
stuff' to supply their needs, and tho tailors
ought to have a better season this winter
than last. Overcoats and heavy suits are, of
course, tho principal articles in request just
now, but a significant sign or social progress
in this city is the increasing call ror full
evening dress. I never had so many spike
tall coats to make as I have had this year."
Where She Got Her Cold.
In the throng of patients that filled the
waiting rooms of n noted Pittsburg physi
cian the other morning was a little aiitc or
a girl. The doctor singled her out first or all
and with her mother Invited her to enter his
consultation room. The child was a victim
to our extraordinary climate, and had avery
bad cold indeed.
"Maggie," said the doctor, solemnly, as he
listened to her labored breathing, "ivbeie
did you get such a dreadrnl cold?"
Maggie looked up fully as solemnly as her
interroga tor and replied in a hoaise whisper:
"God gave it me!"
A Giant's Soliloquy.
He was very tall and broad and 03 he
swung himself on the rear platform of a
Manchester electric 'car ho shouted rather
than said: "Don't talk to mo about yer Pitts
burg fire department I say don't!"
The conductor mildly ushered the big
passenger into the car, which was halt-filled
with Alleghens- people returning from the
opera, who looked at the giant who wanted
nothing said about Pittsburg's Are appar
atus with astonishment. When he had sub
sided somewhat suddenly into a scat in the
farthermost corner of the car be remarked
again with emphasis: "Them Pitts
burg people make me tired. They
think we ain't got no fire engines, nor
Btreot cars, nor streets, nor nothin' in Alle
gheny. But they can't talk to me. You can't
tell me anythin' about Pittsburg firemen."
ho added, fiercely looking at a little man
who sat opDOSite him between two pretty
girls with gay theater bonnets. The little
man looked out of the window steadfastly!
the passengers near him smiled, and those
further away laughed. The disputatious
giant laughed, too, much to the little man's
relief, and went on: "Allozhony don't have
no hundred thousand dollar flres once a
week." This statement he seemed to think
a clincher, for ho repeated it In lond tones
again and again. He was -still saying the
same thing when the writer left the car.
What had evoked the outbreak was a mvs
tery that nobodv cared to investigate, for
the man who guarded it was as big as any
two men in tbe car.
The Ancients Knew Not the Kodak.
A well-known Pittsburg artist walked
Into a Liberty street bookstore a day or two
ago and nearly paralyzed a salesman by
saying: "Yon deal in photographs or celebri
ties, I believe; now, I want photographs or
Moses, Pythagoras, Socrates, Alfred the
Great, Zoroaster and Courucius."
"I'm afraid we haven't got them." said
the salesman, when he had found his voice,
and the artist left the store greatly put out,
apparently. The bookseller says he never
felt till now how remiss Moses and his co
temporaries were in not submitting them
selves to tho photographer.
POLITICAL .POINTS.
Senator Siiermas says that he is powerless
to prevenWBrice, of New York, from taking
his seat as a Senator from Ohio. ,
A check for .5,333,050 sterling, paid ror the
Kimberley diamond mines, is said to be the
largest check ever drawn. But it is a ques
tion whether the check received by the
Farmers Alliance leaders in thelast election
was not a greater one Xew York World.
The calamity criers aie placed at a disad
vantage. They have nothing now to look to
ror the production or disasters, except a
Democratic Congress. But even this re
source will fall them while a Republican
Senate and a Republican President remain
on guard. Xew York Tribune.
Mr. Roger Q. Mills, candidate for Speaker,
has been talking entirely too much to please
his friends, wbo are now in dismay, since he
has begun to write letters to explain his
position. , It is an old saying that mills that
churn only wind are not good for grists
Cincinnati Commercial-Gazette.
President Low, of Columbia, says that
New York is better governed in 1893 than
1850. Well to speak in the language of that
epoch slightually! President Low's remark
reminds one of the speech of the katydid as
described by the bard. She says an undis
puted thing in such a solemn way. Xew
York Sun.
Free traders will bo deeply distressed by
the dispatch from Wales announcing that
5,000 tin plate workers have bean laid off in
consequence of dullness in the export trade.
A goodly part or the tin plate used In
America is now being manufactured here
and before long the American tin plate mills
wiH make this country independent of
Wales. That consummation will draw tears
to the eyes of the hidago-like Head that
directs the policy of the New York Evening
Post, but will give pleasure toevery patriotic
American. Philadelphia Press.
In Ohio the Republicans proposo to keep
their machine running rrom now until the
election of next year is over. What has been
gained is to be clinched if possible: the tariff
impressions of the people aie to be rooted
and grown into convictions that's the pro
gramme. Now is the timo ror intelligent
work by Ohio Democratio newspapers. It
remains to be seen whether they are equal
to it. Some or them did very little or it
during the last campaign. Xew York Times.
It takes considerable time ror the Ohio
Democratic newspapers to fully show how
little they can do, but they will keep right
on at it as long as they continue publica
tion. .
Leadinr News in Philadelphia Tillage.
New squirrels are tasty.
. Quinine is good for the hair.
Tnere aro papier-mache oil cans.
There are still a few seckel pears.
The Concord grape is on the wane.
Philadelphia Record.
A LITTLE SONG FOR BEDTIME.
A little song for bedtime.
When, robed in gowns of white.
All sleepy little children
Set saU across the night
For that pleasant, pleasant country
Where the pretty dream-flowers blow,
'Twltt the suiiEct and thd sunrise
For the Slumber Islands, ho!
When the little ones get drowsy
And the hea y lids droop down
To hide blue eyes and black eye3.
Gray eyes and eyes ofbrown :
A thousand boats for Dreamland
Arc w aitlng In a row.
And the ffrrj men are calling v
For the Slnmber Islands, oh!
Then the sleepy little children
Fill the boats along the shore.
And go sailing off to Dreamland; ,
And the dipping of the oar
In the sea orsleep makts mnslc
That the children only know
When they answer to the boatman's
For the Slumber Islinds, oh!
Oh. take a kiss, my darlings.
'Ere yon sail away rrom me
In the boat of dreams that's waiting
To-bear yon o'er the sea;
Take a kiss and give one.
And then away yon go
A-salllng Into Dreamland,
For tbe Slumber Islands, ho!
Charles Kiely Shatteelt, in Boston Courier.
CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS.
Chicago is to have a statue of Benjamin
Franklin, 21 feet in height.
The Government of Japan gets a large
proportion of its revenue from the railroad
and telegraph companies that it owns and
operates.
The more delicate orchids will not re
cover in a year from tho effects of the
flower show, say experts. They suffer great
injury from unevenness of temperature.
Many of the' Jewish Tabbls refuse to
perform tbe marriage ceremony after tho
sun has set: bnt their refusal is not sus
tained by any law or the Hebrew religion.
The Florida orange crop is now being
shipped to New York and other localities.
The yield or the State this year was over
3,000,000 boxes, and an average box holds 150
oranges.
The locomotive Charles Dickens, on the
London and Northwestern Railway's spe
cial express service between 3Ianchester
and London, has run 1,000,000 miles in nine
years a reat without parallel in English
railway traveling and never had a break
down. There is a logging chute near Clifton",
Ore., which Is three-quarters or a mile ia
length one of the longest in the country
was built in 1SS0 at a cost of $60,000. For a
considerable distance the bottom Is lined
with iron. It takes a log jnst 20 seconds to
travel down the incline.
A kiss, according to the definition
which took the prize in a London competi
tion in which 7,000 were considered, is hero
given: "An insipid and tasteless morsel,
which becomes delicious and delectable in
Eroportion as it is flavored with love." JGood,
ut not as satisfactory as the thing it de
scribes. In Eussia in times of famine like the
present millions of the Czar's Slavic sub
jects would leave for the United States if
they could do so. But all persons, with th a
exception of Hebrews, who desire to leave
Russia mnst give satisfactory reasons for
indulging in the desire, and are put to ex
pense and trouble if permitted to go.
The number of Americans in Paris is
small, despite tbe maxim that "all good
Americans go to Paris when they die." Of
the 380 962 foreign residents of the gav city,
only 4,237 are set down as Americans, LS70 of
them men and 2,367 women. It is a curious
fact that there are 497 more American
women than American men living in Paris.
The Armenians, a few of whom are now
to be found in this country, principally en
gaged in peddling, are exceedingly sharp
traders. It was a member of tbe great He
brew family of Rothschild who once said:
"Shut up all the Hebrew with all tbe Armen
ians in an exebnnae, and in less than a day
all the Hebrews' wealth will have passed into
Armenian hands."
The biggest head in all the world is car
ried by Lortus J. Parker, of Washington,
who is 48 years old and in excellent health,
contrary to the predictions of physicians,
wh o said 20 years ago that he wonld soon dio
or become an invalid. Mr. Parker's cranium
is 32 inches, or nearly a yard, in circumfer
ence, while the ordinary man's is but 20 or
21 inches in girth.
New Orleans, according to one of its
newspapers, will become the greatest ship
ping port of the country within the next ten
years, greater oven than New York. They
say that the producers in tho Northern States
west of the Ohio river, and in the Southern
States west or tho Alabama river, have
round out that they can ship zrain, cotton
and pork to Europe from New Orleans more
cheaply than rrom any other port.
Moose are said to he plentiful in tha
forests or the Province or Quebec this sea
son, and tbatthe stalkers look for good re
turns from thiir rifles. The sport of moose
hunting in Canada requires hardihood alert
ness and skill, for the came is wary and
sometimes dangerous while roaming through
the brush and among the rocks and snow.
The meat, the skin and the horns of the
animal are valuable In the market. The
male moose often wcigh3 rrom 1,000 to 1,200
pounds.
A German professor has now discovered
thatthe habit ol kissing is damrerous from
physical causes. He has counted and classi
fied the bacteria in the human mouth, and
found 22 distinct species. Some of these are
sure to be taking the air, or promenading
upon the lips at all times, even those most
8.scred to the intercbnnge'of the emotions.
The professor Is too well acquainted with
the weakness of human nature: to enppoe
that this information will put kissing out of
iasmon, dui ne adjures tnose wno aro
addicted to it to wear respirators. Good
heavens!
Bucaramanquina is the name of a new
mineral substance discovered in Colombia,
Sonth America. The substance is something
.like asbestos. It is amber in color, is per
fectly transparent nnd incombustible. Ex
periments made at Bogota are said to indi
cate that it will be of great value in the
mannfacture of bank note raoer. It can be
reducpd to a pulp and molded into light rlro
and waterproof shlnzles for houses, and can
be woven into pliable, fireproof cloth, or
shaped into firemen's helmets. A white
varnish can be abstracted from it, and the
material is said to bn superior in many re
spects to asbestos. The deposits appear to
be of great extent.
The "Gingerpop School of Poetry" was
a term bestowed by David Macbeth
Moir (1798-1S51) in his "Sketches of the Poet
ical Literature in the Last Half Century," in
the school of poetry represented by John
Hoopham Frere. the anthor or the humorous
poems, "The Monks and tho Glints," who
wrote nnd er the pseudonym of William and
Robert Wnlstlecraft. This species of poetrr,
Moir says, was characterized more especial
ly by its approximating and blending to
gether seeming incongruities, bv its airy,
rapid, picturesque narrative: by its com
mixture of the grave, the pithetlo and ma
jestic with the frivolous, farcical and tha
absnrd, and it bore tho same relation to
hign imaginative verse thatgingerpop bears
to champagne.
A man who periodically, snake like,
sheds his skin, is reported to the Chicago
Medical Society. The shedding began in bis
first year, and has since then occurred regu
larly every July. He is taken with feverish
tremors, increasing almost to paroxysms.
He undresses, lies down, and within a lew
minutes the skin of the chest begins to turn
red. The redness rapidly extends over the
entire skin, and the feverish tremors con
tinue uninterrupted for about 12 hours.
Then he rises in perfect health. The skin
now begins to peel, and ten hours later It
comes off in great patches. From the arms
and the legs it can be peeled off exactly llko
gloves or stockings. As the old.skin comes
away, a new epidermis, as soft and pink as a
baby's, is revealed.
Of Columbus there are in the Jfew
York State Library SSdifferent portraits. It
was not believed until recently thaj a por
trait of Columbus that had been painted in
his liretime was in existence, bnt Librarian
Howell has announced that an original por
trait has been found in tho mneumat Como.
In the sixteenth century Paolo Giovio had a
museum of paintings and statuary near
Lake Como, and it has been presumed that
ho thought Colcmbns was ns worthy of a
portrait as a statue in marble. It is known
that tho Grand Duke of Tuscany directed
Christofano to copvnearlv 300 portraits in
the Jovian JIuseum for tho Florentino Gal
lery, and that one of them was that or Co
Inmbus. The Massachusetts Historical Soci
ety has a copy or the portrait in the Floren
tine Gallery.
PLUCKED FR03I PUCK.
Pupil (in class in punctuation, reading)
I saw ATce a charming girl.
Teacher Well, what wonld you do?
rupU-Make a dash aner.Auce.
Teacher Right!
Tom Bigbee I beg 'your pardon, Hoffy;
but what in thunder's the matter with your
clothes?
Hoffman IIowes-My dcah fellah, they were made
on the othah side.
Tom Rlzbee Oh! then why not tarn them the
other side out?
Rome was not built in a day;but Romulus
didn't have half the advertising advantag-a that
are enjoyed by the modern suburban reat estate
boomer.
"A little nonsense now and then,
Is relished by th wisest men."
But e'en some wjse men think their wives
Must stand their nonsense all their lives.
Should modern dress reformers' arts
Pervade theatrical soce esses.
The actresses, to dress their parts,"
Wonld haTC to part their dresses.
"Is that man the'trafn dispatcher?"
"Yes- What he saysjroes.
The clothes of some men inspire us with
the same feelings as the sight of a tree-calf binding
on a Government report.
"I dou't see how you ever got into the
New York Yachting Association. Yon have no
yacht." -
"No; but I've got a wine cellar and a yachting
cap." . -t
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