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THIK MILL-STONE.
No selection by the Drmocrats for
Speaker will give more satisfaction to the
Republican leaders than that of Roger Q.
Mills of Texas. The significance of that
choice, if made, will be that the Demo
cratic Congressmen mean to continue their
anti-protection canvass. Thej hsve been
beaten on that issue every time they have
pnt it singly and squarely to the front It
is. no wonder that the Republicans, from
the mere standpoint of their own party's
success, arc jubilant at the persistence of
their opponents in taking up again tho
burden which whenever shouldered has
borne the bearers down in defeat
But there must be many Democrats who
vtill protest earnestly against this folly
among their representatives. They will
see that until their party turns its back
upon the free-traders, and gets into sym-
pathy with the protection and fostering of
American industries, it can have no hope
of national success.
The message of Cleveland against the
tariff, the Democratic attitude against the
McKinley bill, and the Ohio canvass par
ticularly, have raised the anti-protection
tendency from a mere incident to a
cardinal principle of Democratic policy.
Only the choice of Jlills as Speaker is
needed to commit the party definitely to
this position.
But there is still time for the Democratic
majority in the House to study what
happened before v hen they went into a
Xational campaign under anti-protection
banners. They had then the prestige of a
successful and clean administration by
Mr. Cleveland behind them. Cleveland
was then, as he is to-day, admitted to be a
man of high courage and of the utmost
integrity. But he was wrong-shipped on
his economics; and the country could not
nsK wholesale unsettlement of its m
dustries. It will be so again in 1892.
A CONCLUSIVE CONSIDERATION.
The interview with Mr. John D. Carr,
of Fayette county, which appears in our
local columns, upon the work of the Com
mission to revise the lunacy system of the
State, gives some points which have the
strongest bearing on Pittsburg's poor farm
problem.
The fact that the work of the Commis
sion is in the direction of placing the care
of the chronic insane paupers in charge of
the State corroborates the position of Tjie
Dispatch on a number of points. In the
first place, it endorses the position which
we have always held, that the instrumen
talities provided for the care of paupers
are not, as a rule, fitted for the proper
care of the insane. The policy of the
Commission will result in a material sav
ing to Pittsburg, both because the direct
i-ost of maintaining the insane in State in
stitutions is about 40 per cent less than the
cost to Pittsburg at its poor farm, and also
because Pittsburg pays in corporation
taxes a large share of this cost, for which
under the proposed change it will receive
the benefit
But the most immediate effect of this
policy is in its bearing on the poor farm
question. The argument for a large farm
has rested entirely on the employment of
insane paupers in cultivating it Even
allowing for that employment, as TnE
Dispatch has frequently shown, one hun
dred acres would be ample. But with the
prospect that the State will take charge of
insane paupers the last remaining justifi
cation for purchasing a large tract of
ground and raising fifty-dollar-an-acre
crops on three-hundred-dollar-an-acre land
is wholly swept away. It now becomes a
question, which may well be considered,
whether Pittsburg needs a poor farm at
nil, and whether it cannot make abetter
arrangement by boar5ing its paupers at
the county home, using the revenue of the
money received from the sale of the old
farm for their sustenance.
This question is now one that requires
the most careful consideration. How
ever it may be decided the facts surround
ing the case show that any purchase of
land in excess of 100 acres will be a moat
wanton waste of the public funds.
THE WEAKNESS OF PATRONAGE.
The Philadelphia Press uses the present
situation of the Administration to illus
trate the fact, that patronage is a source of
weakness to a party. The fact has been
shown in numerous cases before, and it is
no less true than at present.
It is asserted by our cotemporary that
the only opposition to PresidcntHarrison's
renomination "grows out of the distribu
tion of patronage," which is a rather hy
perbolical statement The great mass of the
Republican voters in Allegheny county
did not expect to be recipients of bread
and butter; and their almost unanimous
support of Blaine for the nomination does
not grow out of several disappointments.
The Press goes on to point a dagger at the
party power In this State by declaring:
Even when one or two persons haVe been
allowed to control nearly all the Federal
offices In a. State, as has happened in Penn
sylvania, they have turned against
the President -when their further demands
were not honored, and have, with base
ingratitude, used the offices already in their
control to stir up opposition to the Admis
t ration.
This is more pointed than logical, as it
discloses the belief that when any person
secures appointments from an Adminis
tration it is "ingratitude" to fail to sup
port the head of the Administration for a
renomination. In other words, while our
cotemporary has the intelligence to recog
nize that patronage is weakness, it clings
to the belief that the favor of an appoint
ment to Government position puts the
appointee under a ioral obligation not
especially to discharge the duties of the
office faithfully, but to enthusiastically re
pay the obligation by booming the political
projects of the appointing power.
It is true that the Administration is
likely to learn the utter weakness of bread
and butter as a diet for further ambitions.
But if the lesson is a bitter one, has it any
one to blame for it but itself ? It assumed
office witlj the declaration of the Presi
dent that the good of the public service
was to be "the sole criterion" in making
appointments. Yet under the statement
of the Press itself is it not plain that if
one or two persons were allowed to con
trol nearly all the Federal offices of the
State, it was done with the expectation of
getting political service in return. If the
Administration fails to adhere to its public
professions, has it any reason to bo sur
prised that the politicians of less exalted
ideals go back on their private bargains
Willi it and fail to deliver the goods?
It is a well established fact, .however,
that patronage is a source of weakness
rather than strength to an administration
or parly. But the politicians are always
very careful to suppress this fact when
the patronage is to be distributed, for the
all-sufficient reason that it is not a source
of weakness to tho politicians who get the
offices.
FOR PITTSBURG'S rCTURE.
The Philadelphia newspapers are im
proving the interval between the elections
of the fall and the political booms of next
year by discussing measures to create the
New Philadelphia. This is a laudable ef
fort for the pres3 of any city, and our
Philadelphia cotemporaries belie the pro
verbial character of their city for somno
lence by their energy in pointing out meas
ures for its improvement The example
is a good one and it has especial force for
Pittsburg. For while mucli can be done,
in improving the Eastern city, the value of
growth and improvement that can be se
cured by intelligent and united effort to
build up the Greater Pittsburg is so far
superior as to hold out by many times a
larger inducement to such work.
The Greater Pittsburg can be defined as
the entire community engaged in the in
dustries of which this city is tho center,
developed to its utmost capacity for in
dustrial production and carried to the
highest degree of improvement and orna
mentation. The geographical limits of
this industrial and commercial entity
are ill defined; but a man which
located its lines to include the Wash
ington oil and gas fields, the
Beaver Valley manufacturing district, the
towns of Tarentum, Ford City, Wilmer
ding and Charleroi, would not take in any
interests but what are fully identified with
Pittsburg capital and enterprise. The
possibilities of this section are already
shown by a vast scope of industrial enter
prises. When we reflect what progress
lias been made during the past decade by
the casual and transient realization of im
provements in transportation and fuel, we
can gain a conception of what might be
secured by constant and organized public
effort to utilizo everything that can en
hance the industrial growth or contribute,
to the municipal improvement of the com
munity.
In this work there is room for the ex
ertion of private invention and enterprise,
of municipal action and of governmental
work. Some of the most important ob
jects to be secured for the advancement of
the community lie in the field of private
effort The freedom of the city from
smoke during the six years from 1884 to
1890 was a revelation to its citizens of what
a smokeless city might become. Private
effort should secure the universal use 'of
appliances to use coal without wasting 40
per cent of it in disfiguring and
defiling smoke. It should develop
the production of artificial fuels from
coal or oil to rival the purity and
convenience of natural gas. It should
also turn its utmost efforts to preserve and
maintain the advantage of natural gas for
the whole section as long and as economi
cally as the resources of nature will per
mit Beyond that the example of Mr.
Carnegie, Mr. Phipps and Mrs. Schenley,
together with the suggestions in the
Mayor's message of Monday, all show
how effectively private wealth can contrib
ute to the adornment and improvement
of the city.
Another important domain of work lies
in the line of municipal action. As the
community we are considering includes
three cities, about a dozen boroughs and
more villages than need be numbered, It
is manifest that the objects requiring
municipal action, in order to extend their
benefits to the entire community, require
also some means of united action. For
example, when the time comes to draw
our water supply from the Loyalhanna,
Conomaugh or Mahoning creek, it will be
far more economical to supply the entire
section from Jeannette to Beilcvue than
to leave in existence half a dozen sepa
rate water systems all incomplete and in
sufficient The dream of a single city need
not be urged as imperative; but some form
of union which will permit united action
for improved water supply, complete fire
protection and thorough police guardian
ship over the whole district, will accom
plish the imperative needs, leaving each
municipality, so long as it insists on ita
segregation, to raise its standing by the
creation of parks, boulevards and first
class pavements, or to injure it by their
absence. The Dispatch prefers to look
to the eventual consolidation into a single
great city, which, besides the purpose al
ready named, will fulfill the standard of
scientific civilization by making the sewer
age of the whole community enrich the sur
rounding country instead of letting it de
file our rivers.
Beyond all this is the question of trans
portation. In the past decade, improve
ments in transportation and fuel furnished
the utmost stimulus to Pittsburg. In this
decade Pittsburg must stimulate the im
provements that are to exercise that bene
ficial reaction. The line in which our
greatest gain in transportation is to be
secured, that of internal water navigation,
has been assumed by the Government; but
1'ittsburg should take the lead in the work
of directing the Government expenditure
on the broadest national lines. It is not
merely that the improvement of the rivers
and their shin canal connection with
tho lakes would make Pittsburg the
great city of the Ohio Valley; but
it is that these enterprises, properly
unified and separated from the log-rolling
features that have heretofore given river
and harbor legislation its unsavory flavor,
will be for the highest interests of the na
tion at large. On this project Pittsburg
cannot only join hands with the West and
South, but it can lead these sections in tho
effort to create a system of waterways
whose cheap transportation shall enhance
the wealth of all from tho foot of the en
tire Mississippi basin. The governmental
work of creating adequate and connected
internal waterways offers to Pittsburg tho
opportunity of assuming a political leader
ship outside the lines of partisanship not
less important than the industrial and
j
commercial advancement to be gained by
the same policy.
"This shows a wide scope of effort in the
task of building up the Greater Pittsburg
that may be if our people resolve to real
ize it Fortunately the immediate aims
that are most sought are clear and well
defined. If private enterprise devotes it
self to giving us cheap and smokeless
fuel, and the common effort is directed to
culling into existence cheap water trans
portation, the future of our community
will make its past growth seem common
place and dull.
THK SUPREME JUDGESHIP.
The appointment of Judge Hcydrick, of
VCnango county, to the Supreme Bench is
generally accepted as due to the desire to
secure to the large and important interests
of the Northwestern part of the State
representation in the court of last resort
It is .recognized by the press of both par
ties that this was the controlling motive,
which, while really a secondary considera
tion, may turn the scale when the more
important qualities of integrity and legal
ability are evenly matched.
The nomination of Judge Heydrick is
also recognized as making him the Demo
cratic candidate in the election which will
be held to choose a successor to himself
and Judge Clark. The Philadelphia Press
says that this also indicates the necessity
of a Republican from the Western part of
the State, if not from the Northwest So
far as the geographical distribution of the
Supreme Court judgeships is concerned,
this is an entirely fair claim.
It is of course worth while to recognize
that the assignment of judges to one part
of the State or another is a minor consid
eration. Both for the political and judicial
purposes involved, the standing, integrity
and legal qualifications of the candidate
arc far more important But as Western
Pennsylvania has abundance of judicial
timber which present these qualifications
in the highest degree, there is no reason
whythis-end of the State cannot confi
dently expect to see one of its legal repre
sentatives permanently placed in the posi
tion made vacant by the death of Judge
Clark.
THE QUORUM QUESTION.
The case of the United States against
Ballin, Joseph & Co., before the Supreme
Court this week, Is interesting as involving
the .constitutionality of the practice of
counting a quorum introduced in the
House during the last Congress. Among
other issues raised by the defendants, who
are importers, the point Is made that the
bill with regard to the classification of
woolens was passed when there was less
than a quorum in the House, the count of
a quorum by the Speaker being alleged to
be invalid.
It Is difficult to see how this claim can
be made good against the express provision
of the Constitution giving each branch of
Congress power to prescribe its own rules
and the manner of procedure under them.
With "this authority the right to establish
by rule the Speaker's count as a means of
determining a quorum is as well founded
as to fix the same thing by a count
by tellers, or the calling of the roll.
It is true that the Speaker's count
may be erroneous, as that by tell
ers or roll-call may also be. This may be
a possible ground for contesting legisla
tion under such circumstances, although
theijeneraj rule that the courts cannot go
back of the testimony offered by the
records of the legislative body would be
likely to block that procedure. But the
theory that the House exceeded its power
by adopting the rule is not one that is
likely to receive the sanction of, the
Courts.
Indeed the serious question with regard
to tms mucn discussed project is not tne
validity of the rule, but its justification in
parliamentary policy. The House can
adopt a rule preventing or restricting the
discussion of measures before it; hut it
would be very unrepublican to do so.
While there is more room for discussion
as to the propriety of a rule for counting
a quorum, there is no doubt of one thing,
that is, that the Republican leaders took
one view when they were in the minority
and another when they wanted to force
their party measures to passage. Mr.
Reed was a conspicuous example of the
sort
Parliamentary principles are at the
foundation of representative government;
and the man who can shift principles of
that fundamental sort to suit the exigen
cies of party has a very elastic idea of
the value of principle.
If parents are obliged to ransom their
children from kidnapers, and trains are
robbed in the suburbs of the great cities, is
there hot a pretty strong intimation that
civilized government needs to reconstruct
itself?
CniCAGO now announces that its World's
Fair -w ill cost $21,000,000, of which $16,000,000
must be spent before tho revenue jcomes In.
These arc interesting and imposing figures,
but their growth from the original $10,000,000
size createsasuspicionthatthey are intended
to soften the heart of Congress. It would
look like a pertinent rejoinder from the rest
of tho country that If Chicago wishes a $21,
000,000 fair she must find the money. Other
wise it might be suggested that the experi
ment of retrenchment bo tried in the re
duction of a salary or two.
In the trial of the Northside officials the
prospect that a verdict will be reached that
means something is very much enhanced by
tho fact that no means exist for getting tho
cases within the jurisdiction of the State
Senate.
The suggestion that the $100,000 profit
made by the fashionable horse show in New
York should be given to tho Grant monu
ment fund presents two objections: 'First,
the fashionable element of Ne w York have
no intention of letting their money go to the
Tedemption of the pledge to build-Grant's
monument, and, second, ir the money was
turned into the monument fund it would be
subject to the awful doubt whether it would
go to increase salaries or advertise Colonel
Elliott F. Shcpard.
Both the Farmers' Alliance leaders and
the Czar of Russia ordeied tho farmers to
hold their wheat: and both discovered there
were some things beyond the jurisdiction of
either demagoglsm or absolutism.
The young German Emperor, who has
already reformed everything in the alpha
bet, lias now tackled the Bourse. Wo
thought after the report that some of the Ira
porlnl family had been fleeced by the stock
bubbles of Berlin that reformatory measures
would be undertaken. But it is to be feared
that even the Imperial zeal "will not find
any means of reforming tho stock specula
ting Institutions short of the radical measure
of cutting off the tail just behind the ears.
-In the report that Gideon W. Marsh is in
Brazil we find a full explanation of the fact
that the Brazilian finances are disordered,
and only the wonder is left that Brazil has
any finances to be disordered.
The decision in the injunction case
against tho striking printers is exactly what
as to be expected from the very well-defined
principles already laid down in such
cases. The strikers must not congregate
about tl-e place of business of the complain
ants, or seek to intimidate, obstruct or annoy
non-union workmen. But the-right of or
ganization and reasonable argument Is not'
to be denied by the courts, and the Pittsburg
courts do got wish to deny it.
The masked train robber now makes his
appearance in the suburbs of St. Louis.
This encroachment on the field of author
ized plunder is highly obnoxious and will
have to be sternly suppressed.
The fact that Senator Sherman voted to
seat Ames, of Mississippi, whose qualifica
tions were challenged on the same ground as
Brice's, is quoted as binding the Ohio Sena
tor. Do the people who are bringing up this
point imagine that a precedent twenty years
old can bind a politician if the interests of
his party point the other way? Such a
theory argues a very slight acquaintance
with the-nature of politics.
Milwaukee plays a strong card in her
application lor the Democratic National
Convention. The Milwaukee beer is strong
and in its native jungles it is reported to bo
exceedingly alluring.
The Hon. Richard Croker is reported to
have engaged "very swell rooms" at one of
the Washington hotels for the winter. This
will make it necessary for the House to take
urgent steps to demonstrate that the Hon.
Richard Croker does not boss that body, if
It has any desire to retain a vestige of a
chance for Democratic success In the cam
paign of 1892.
Fon a sport which furnishes bodily exer
cise and'fresh air, without being vulgarized
and run into the ground by a craze, it is well
to remember that the skating season is with
us once more.
What a task is set for the Executive
mind to endeavor to review the affairs of
the nation and the world in an optimistic
message when tho news comes from Indiana
that pernicious factionists there are trying
to set up a Blaine delegation from Indiana
to the National Republican Convention!
If Dr. Keeley wishes to make a success
that cannot be disputed lie will invent a bi
chloride of silver cure for politics.
That gas company fight in New York
has been settled. It was dangerously near
the disclosure of a $2,000,000 distribution of
stock among politicians to secure its fran
chises, and with that scandal impending of
course the interested parties bad to come
promptly to a compromise.
PERSONAL MENTION.
Mr. Gladstone manages to get along
without stenographers for secretaries. His
clerical assistants are long-hand writers.
Joseph" Eanson, who died recently in
Cincinnati, leaving an estate amounting to
$6,000,000, was tho largest holder of United
States bonds in that city.
Jessie Benton Fremont is reported as
being engaged on an important piece of
literary work, which has engrossed her at
tention for the last six months.
George Vandekbilt expects to spend
$1,000,000 a year upon his new chateau in
North Carolina until it is completed, which
will not be for ten years to come.
Sm Alexander Campbell, Lieuten
ant Governor of Ontario, was attacked by a
stroke of paralysis last week, and is now
considered in a critical condition.
General Butler's condition, says a
special from Boston, is very serious, and the
gravest doubts of his recovery are enter
tained by those who are in a position to
know most about him.
Hassan Ben Ali, Morocco's chief com
missioner to the World's Fair, has arrived in
New York. He Is a splended looking fellow,
a icet 4 inches in hoight and is got up in
magnificent Oriental style and wears a
richly Jeweled white turban.
As showing how unexpected Governor
Boies' first election was to him two years
ago, hisdaughtermentions that she and her
father had trunks all packed for a European
tour at the time, and when the news camo
of his success the journey was abandoned.
Mator Grant says that he will hurry
home now, bd it is doubted. They are call
ing him Lord TIayor over there. Resistless
are the sweets of adulation. When Justice
O'Shea, of the Marine Court of New York,
was in Ireland the newspapers there called
him the Chief Justice of the United States.
General Franz Sigel is still greatly
interested in art and artists, and may at
times bo seen examining the pictures and
works of sculpture in the Metropolitan Mu
seum or Art, In New York. If he had not
been a revolutionary leader in Germany in
his early life he would probably have won
fame as an artist or poet.
Rev. Charles H. Spurgeon, the noted
preacher of the Tabernacle, London, who
has been seriously sick for a number of
months, and who left for Mentone, Italy, in
October, has written a friend here, saying:
"My progress toward recovery is painfully
slow. I am tossing up and down upon the
waves of disease. lam so weak sometimes
that I am utterly prostrated. I shall re
cover, however, for this is the tenor of the
prayers which God has so far answered, but
there are no signs of rapid progress."
FTJSIOH OUT OF THE QTOSTIOir.
The Farmers' Alliance in Kansas Serves
Notice on the Democracy.
ToritKA, Dec. L The People's party Cen
tral Committee this morning gave to the
public an address of 5.CO0 words. A large
part of the address is taken up with the old
time waii of distress, but the announcement
is boldly inado that the People's party in
tends to become a political institution and
use nil legitimate means for success. The
committee roviows the election returns,
claiming that the People's party polled 6,288
votes more than were cast for Wlllets, and
the Republicans polled 23.000 less than were
cast Tor Humphreys. The action of the
Democrats has made the committee indig
nant, and it selves notice that fusion is out
of the question.
In discussing the results of thnifiine In.
dustrial Convention at Toledo and Indian
apolis, the committee declares they wero
eminently satisfactory to the People's party.
The Farmers' Alliance, the Knights of Labor
and other organizations are declared to bo
political, though not partisan, organiza
tions. The claim that the People's party is
composd of anarchists and obstructionists,
is answered by the charge that this is an in
sult to the rural people of Kansas, who con
trol tho new party and compose its member
ship. Low Water in the Great Lakes.
CniOAao, Dec 1. Tho light rainfall for the
past four seasons has caused an unusually
low stage of water In all of the chain of the
great lakes. This has caused much trouble
to vessels recently at Bnffalo, and vessels
with more that I3J4 feet draft can't pass
through the "Soo" canal. The water in the
lake here this morning was lower than ever
beroro recorded. This was due to the low
stage of water primarily and secondarily to
the fact that there was a strong wind from
the South, which drove the wnteraway from
this end of the lake. The water was'so low
for a short timo that the city water supply
was seriously threatened. The pumps could
oniy gee uuouc nan oi tne usual amount.
Tho Disputed State Boundary.
Isdiaxapolis, Dec. 1. Professor T. Men
denhall, Chier or the United States
Geodetic and Coast Survey, investigating
tho Ohio and Indiana boundary lino, made
his report to Governor Chase this morning.
It Is a duplicate of that made to Governor
Campbell at Columbus yesterday. Ohio has
disputed tho correctness of the Indiana line,
claiming that it was too far east at the
northern extremity. The survey of Prof.
Mendenhall and assistants shows that it Is
one milo east of Its proper place :it that
point, and converging to the proper point at
the southern extremity. This would give
Ohio nearly 100 square miles of Indiana ter
ritory. The Cherokee Strip Negotiations.
Tahlequah, I. T., Dec. L The information
is given out by ono of the negotiating com
mitteemen who were appointed by tho Cher
okee nation that nearly all of the prelim
inaries of the negotiations for a sale of the
Cherokee Strip to the Government of the
United btates have been settled. The United
States Commission has telegraphed to Wash
ington for further Instructions before pro
ceeding further, and the conference is post
Soned until an answer can be had from
eadquarters.
- CULTIVATED NEEDLES.
Mrs. Merrill Says Fancy Work Can Possess
Individuality and Display Feeling A
Man's Dislocated Thumb the Reason of
Some Highly Emotional Acting Tues
day's Chatter.
Mrs. Merrill's exhibition of fine art
needlework opened yesterday at tho Monon
gabela House. Her beautiful articles of
every conceivable variety occupied the
large room overlooking the river, known as
the giant bedohamber, and attracted many
visitors all day. As well as to sell her work,
Mrs. Merrill desires to interest Pittsburgers
In her needlowork classes, established In
Columbus and Cincinnati. She desires to
add this city to the repertory of her travels,
and expects to visit it every fortnight for
three days. The work which Mrs. Merrill
exhibits is undoubtedly a proof of her
claims as a teacher. The colors are selected
with due regard to harmonv, and the pat
terns are very original. Tliese patterns,
Mrs. Merrill sas'S, she buys, borrows,
takes or originates. Some of them
date back to Persian times: others
nntedate tne Renaissance: while not
a few are no older than yesterday. Already
a number of classes are being formed, and
doubtless Mrs. Merrill will have gratifying
success. To us utilitarians it sounds rather
strange to hear people talking about the
feeling and thought embodied in a bit of
needlework. We can understand such
words in connection with painting and its
sister arts, but somehow needlework seems
only to bo needlework. It is Mrs. Merrill's
hobby, though, and judging by her woik
she seems not to be far wrong. The lady
has been teaching needlewoik for 13 years,
and in that time has hnd to deal with some
3,000 dtfferentdispositions,and, allowing two
hands to each, about 30.0C0 flneers. She has
been very successful. Mrs. William H. Dalv,
who has interested herself In Mrs. Merrill
and her work, kindlv remained with her
the greater part ot the day and introduced
her friends and acquaintances to this bright
woman.
Adapting Lady "Wolverton's famous
witty saying about building a bridse from
"Work to Want," the Needlework Guild in
Pittsburg wants a bridge built from the
guild to Public Interest. A meeting has
been called for next Monday afternoon at
tne Dispensary building, and every mas,
woman and child who is willing to buy or
make two article ol any kind and contribute
them to the nulld, is earnestly Invited to
be present. Tiie guild has come to Pitts
burg but recently, though it has existed in
America for some years, and for a still
longer timo in .Europe, Ladv Wol
verton organizing it in 'London
earlv in the eighties. The branch
in Pittsburg was established this autumn
with Mrs. William A. Herron as President;
Mrs. William J. Reed, Vice President; Mis3
Mary E. Dawson, Secretary, and Mrs. S. S.
Plnkerton, Treasurer. There is no fee re
quired to become a member, no need of any
particular sect, no color, no nationality de
barred, and no social distinctions drawn.
All that is demanded is a sufficient quantity
of the milk of human kindness to make one
desire to contribute a tithe of their moans,
great or small, for those who, perforce, de
rive their income from the world's generos
ity. If this article does not fully explain
the requirements, Mrs. William A. Herron
says she will gladly answer all inquiries by
post, or on Monday at the meeting.
A meeting was held last evening by the
ladies of St. Stephen's Episcopal Church,
WHkinsburg, to arrange details for an enter
tainment, bazaar and supper which they
propose giving the 10th and 11th of this
month. Tne church was maintained up to
about a year ago by Calvary Episcopal
Church, Dut it is now trying to support
itself, and, as the membership is not large,
it requires constant work to make both
ends meet. The ladies are determined to
help their pretty chapel all they can. They
are making every effort to raise money with
that end In view, as well as giving several
evenings of genuine pleasure to their
friends. The bazaar will contain all sorts of
fancy and useful articles. Art needlework
and hand-painted china as well as kitchen
implements will be on sale. A good supper
will be served each evening, and there will
be music by' the Philharmonic Orchestra
and several well-known soloists. A minuet
will be danced by the King's Daughters of
that church, and a number of recitations
will be rendered by some of Pittsburg's best
elocutionists.
, Dr. Kellogg, of Toronto, has had another
bay leaf added to hisalready luxuriant
wreath.-'Principal Cavan, of Knox College,
the Presbyterian seat of learning. In
Toronto.has requested the late distinguished
Pittsburg olergyman to occupy the theo
logical chair during his travels In Egypt.
Principal Cavan is one' of the most learned
and revered men in Toronto. Nor the least
of his virtues is his punctuality, which
caused the flippant youngsters who flock to
the numerous col leges, boarding schools and
institutes along College avenue, to dub him
"The Clock." Dr. Kellogg could hardly re
ceive a greater honor than this, though It is
doubtful if he can accept it. The Stone
lectures at Princeton, which he promised to
deliver, will be all. possibly, that his arduous
labors at St. James' Church will permit of.
The compliment, however, remains the
same, whether or not the position is ac
cepted. A little bit of realism that left even
Miss Morris in the shade happened at Satur
day evening's performance of "Odette." In
the scene where the Identity of the cheat at
cards is discovered and he is thrown out, by
some misadventure, the man who throws
him out dislocated his thumb. The audience
saw him sink down in the corner, and
thought it just a part, only some of the au
dience noticed Miss Morris, as the curtain
fell, cross the stage and bend over him. The
man had fainted, and a physician In the au
dience was hurriedly brought to his rescue.
The audience was all the more deceived as
the injured man, though suffering, pluckily
sustained his role to the finish.
The Women's Exchange, recently opened
in the East Liberty Training School, will
doubtless change hands this week by the
withdrawal of Miss Kate Edna Negley
from the management. The Board of
Women Managers found upon a week's
trial, or rather thought they lound, that the
location was unsuitable, and intend .to open
in Shady avenue, where they think lies the
promised land for Women's Exchanges.
Miss Negley being well content with what
the old Dlace. now thorouehly well known.
has done for her, will remain to do business
for herself alone. Consigners are invited to
call to sec Miss Negley. Miss Negley, who is
very popular, is sure to meet with nattering
success.
Social Chatter.
Mrs. Chables E. SrKin, of Oakland, gave a
dinner yesterday.
Sia Edwik Artcold on Thursday evening
at Carnegie nail.
Thk Art Society on Thursday evening at
the Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Mrs. J. B. Vasdegrift gave a ! o'clock
dinner on Saturdty to a few friends.
Mrs. George WELsnos gave a theater
party last night at the Duqucsne to see
Crane in "The Senator."
Mrs. Merrill's exhibition of needlework
continues to-dny at tho Monongahela House.
Her classes will open in two weeks.
Dimmer served in the Methodist Protestant
Church, abnvo Smlthfleld street, on Fifth
avenue, Thursday from 11:30 to 2 o'clock.
Mr. akd Mrs. Mark W. Watsox will zivo
their daughter, Miss Julia Watson, a coming-out
ball at the Pittsburg Club on New
Year's Eve.
Joseph jErrERSoif is a great friend of Mr.
and Mrs. W. Dowees Wood, and will likely
be thoir guest during the week of his engage
ment in Pittsburg.
Mrs. Albert H. CniLDS, of Amberson ave
nue, has issued invitations for a tea this
afternoon in honor of Mrs. Beecher, Mrs.
David Morrison's sister.
Mr. and Mrs. Wysjt R. Sewell, Miss Julia
Watson, Mrs. John Dickson, Mr. and Mrs.
Harry Sproul and Mrs. C. C. Beggs returned
lrom New York yesterday.
Miss Nellie Duncan, of Franklin street,
Wilkinshiirg, gave a euchre party last night
for Miss Una Swcetman. of Baltimore, and
Miss Hnrtwell, or Oil City.
A "tag social" will be given in Nixon'
Street Baptist Church, Allegheny, by the Y.
P. S. C. E. to-moriow. It includes a short
programme and refreshments.
Mrs. Josr.ru Brown, of Stockton avenue,
will receive on Tuesday in honor of her
niece. Miss Maido Slebenock, and Miss Clara
.Chillis, both of whom make their debut this
winter.
Saturday here, as in the East, is likely to
become popular for large afternoon wed
dings, for the reason tluit it gives the men a
chance to attend. Since teas have been
given on Saturday afternoon they have be
come masculine as well as feminine crushes,
and the girls, 'consequently, have becomo
deliriously happy.
Mrs. Julias Rogers, of Oakland, gave an
afternoon 'recentlon yesterday, at which
Miss Frances Rogers, her daughter: Miss
Leila Zng and Miss Elizabeth Tuidle, formed
the receiving party to aid the hostess. The
afternoon affair was supplemented by a
Herman in the evening for Miss Rogers'
young friends. A german was danced, led
by Mr. William Faber. There were several
favor dances.
It seems the proper time, with carfare
rates on tho rise, to mention the propriety
of putting on additional street cars. The
Christmas shopping season has begun, and
the land is filled with murmurs against tho
shoppers. But the shopperbas Just as much
rishtto work ten hours a day as has any
body else. Neither should she be obliged to
stand In a car when returning home. Nor
should she sit at somebody else's expense.
There ought to bo cars enough for seats to
go round.
"tt'KINLEY MAKES APP0IHTMEHI8.
He Chooses His Private Secretary and His
Chief Executive Clerk.
Cakto: Dec. I. Special. Governor-elect
McKinley to-day appointed James Boyle, or
Columbus, Private Secretary to tho Gov
ernor, and Charles M. Bawsel, of Canton,
Chief Executive Clerk. Mr. Boyle came here
this morning from Columbus in answer to a
telegram from Majar McKinley. He will re
main here for a day or two, and then, after
a trip to Columbus, return to Canton to re
main Here much of the time. Mr. Boyle is at
present correspondent of the Cincinnati
Commercial Gazette, with headquarters at
Columbus, and in that capacity he accom
panied Major McKinley all through the
Gubernatorial campaign just closed.
Mr. Bawsel is a young gentleman of good
address and pleasant manners, Is accustomed
to public men and public life, and by train
ing and acquirements is admirably adapted
for the Chief Clerkship of the State Execu
tive Department. For some time past he has
served as Private Secretary to Major Mc
Kinley. Tne appointments are rather favor
ably received here. Some little dissatisfac
tion, however, is being expressed at the ap
pointment of Bawsel, who, though well
thought of. Is a comparative stranger in the
district, and only came on when the Major
started in on his campaign.
INDIANS AT THE WOEID'S FAIK.
A Partly Civilized Canadian Band to Ex
hibit Their Mode of Living.
Cnicioo, Nov. 1. A proposition for a novel
exhibit at the World's Fair will soon be
made to the officials on behalf of a band of
half-breed Cree Indians, who live on the line
of the Canadian Pacific Railroad, between
Letcllicr and St. Noibert. The Indians are
more civilized than the average redskins,
but they retain their old enstoms and are
famous horsemen and hunters.
The proposition Is that 110 of them will
come to the World's Fair, traveling the en
tire distance on their horses and bringing
with thorn all their camp equipments, tents,
etc., and a primitive Indian village, and
give an exhibition of Indian dances and
horsemanship, and. In fact, act just as they
do in their own homes and camps. Daniel
McDonald, a pioneer of Winnipeg, offers to
exhibit one each of all the species of animals
found in British America.
POLlTICAh PARAGRAPHS.
Will Governor Hill leave New York un
represented by bis voice in the United
States Senate next week? If he does, his
seat should be declared vacant. X. Y. Press.
Ir ought to be possible for the 100,000 Re
publicans in Philadelphia to send to Minne
apolis a delegation that will do something
more than sit in their seats like a lot of doc
ile Jays. Philadelphia Bulletin.
Ohio has, at one time and another," bad
many great men in Congress, but the only
man of the sort she has there now is John
Sherman. She cannot afford to retire Sher
man. St, Louis Globe-Democrat.
ISrice isn't saying much these days about
politics. Ho is probably too busy trying to
figure out bow much he will lose on bis
Senatorial investment In Ohio in case he is
ousted from the seat he purchased. Cleve
land Leader.
Flower, of New York, is "the pot plant"
for President in 1892. It will not be safe to
set him out nntil the frost Is out of the
ground. "We lost the World's Fair" won't
be a winning card in the Presidental cam
paign. Chicago Inter Ocean.
PExysYLVAXiA, of course, has no candi
date for the Speakership. But the Keystone
delegatidn does want something in con
nection with the organization or the House.
This is the Chief Clerkship. As amatterof
course, however, there are two applicants
for this place, both ex-members. It is sig
nificantly stated that the Democratic Repre
sentatives are "holding off," in the Speaker
ship fight, to see what kind or "terms" they
can make for Mr. Kerr or Mr.Malsh. How
characteristicl Philadelphia Telegraph.
PEESIDENTAL P05TOFFICE8.
Quite an Increase in Their Number for the
Fiscal Tear of 1891.
Wasbtnqtok, Dec. 1. The annual report of
First Assistant Postmaster General Whit
field on the subject of salaries and allow
ances, will show the adjustment of Presi-
dental postmasters' salaries in effect July 1,
isai, resulted in izs offices being assigned to
the first class, 602 to the second class, and
2,215 to the third class, making a total of
2,984 Presidental offices July 1, 1891. This
was a net increase of 12 first class, 51 second
class, and 188 third class office, the aggre
gate amount of Presidental salaries being
$5,047,700, or an increase of $131,200, or 9 4 per
cent as compared with the same for 1890.
The total gross receipts which accrued at
Presidental offices for the four quarters
ended March 31, 1891, amounted to $50 305,057,
being an increase of $4,875,696, or 10.7 per
cent as compared with the same item for
the previous year. The aggregate expendi
ture for compensation to postmasters for
the fiscal year ended June 30, 1891, amounted
to $14,520,999.
The New Windom Notes Oat.
WAsmxaTox, Dec. 1. The issue of the new
Windom $2 silver certificates began this
morning. There was a brisk demand for the
early numbered notes, and the flrt 500 were
soon taken up as sou von ire. No. 1 was
alloted to Mrs. Wlndo'm, No. 2 to Treasurer
Nebeker and No. 3 to Assistant Secretary
Crounz. The new notes will be put into cir
culation as rapidly as possible.
FOR SECOND PEIZE.
Now, by St. Paul, the fight goes bravely on
for the Democratic National Convention in
that town. JJoslon Herald.
Now that the Republicans have decided to
hold their national convention in Minne
apolis every public-spirited citizen of St.
Paul will prepare to voto the Democratic
ticket. Charlestoum (.Mast.) Enterprise.
Over 103 booming and blooming American
cities have presented to the National Dem
ocratic Cemmlttee their claims to be chosen
as the place for the meeting of the National
Democratic Nominating Convention next
year. Aero York Sun.
MisxEAroLis is hard to please. She gets
tho national convention that will nominate
tho winning Presidental ticket, and now she
wants the body that will name the loser. In
other words Minneapolis is reaching out for
the Democratic National Convention. Ohio
State Journal.
The twin city, or, rather, the half city, of
St. Paul, to-day s dispatches toll us, has en
listed in the campaign for the Democratic
National Convention for the war, unless
sooner discharged. The people up there
have pledged to spend $100,000 in building a
permanent convention hall. We doubt the
efficacy of that sort of an investment. Aew
York Telegram.
St. Louis has about as good a chance as
New York to secure tho Democratic Conven
tion. In fact, since the war this city has
had twice as many of these gatherings as
the big town at the mouth of tho Hudson
has had. The convention which nominated
Seymour met in New York, while that
which put Tilden in the field and the one
which nominated Cleveland the second
time were held in St. Louis. St. Louis Globe
Democrat. If there is to be an open contest between
the Western cities for the Democratic con
clave of 1892, a sentiment is likely to de
velop in favor of meeting the enemy on nls
own chosen new ground. The Democracy
have been looking more and more hopefully
to the West and Northwest every year. Sup
pose the Democratic Convention should go
to St. Paul, meeting within a fortnight of
the Republican national gathering at
Minneapolis? The Twin Cities would be in
an cc'stacy of satisfaction, and the cosmo
politan Democracy of the Northwest would
have their fighting clothes on for six
monthi. Philadelphia Telegraph.
CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS.
The cooperative movement is gaining
favor in California.
Large numbers of Kus3ian Hebrews are
arriving at various points in the South.
There are now over 100,000 Jewish resi
dents below Fourteenth street and east of
the Bowery in New York.
The Supreme Court of Massachusetts
once decided that the use of the word
"damn" is not profanity.
A blacksmith's tools of the present day
are almost identical with those used in the
same trade over 300 years ago.
The oldest liquor in any New York
club cellar is supposed to be some Savlllao
brandy or the coinage of 1S03 at the Union
Club.
The largest brandy still in the world is
located about two miles from Stockton, on
El Pinal, the pioneer vinevard and winery
of San Joaquin county, California.
The name Bridget is from the Celtis,
meaning strength; the name is found in the
French, Spanish and Italian as well as tha
English language: though varying from tha
common Irish form.
The tonnage of the Majestic is 9,861;
that of the City of New York Is 5,783; the Ma
jestic Is 582 feet long, longer than the Citv
of New York, while the latter is broaderand
deeper than the former.
A black bear jumped aboard a con
struction train, near Falmouth, O., and was
apparently enjoying the ride until some of
train men made their way to him from the
caboose and clubbed him off.
The Lombard poplar never seeds; it is
simply a variety or another poplar, and has
to be increased wholly from cuttings. The
pollen bearinc form, so far as known. Is not
In this country. The plant is wholly pis
tillate. Somebody besides the fishermen must
be making considerable money out of
Columbia rivor sturgeon. It sells readily in
New York and Boston at 25 cents a pound,
while on tho Columbia it is worth at most 1
cents.
The Chinese mechanical reckoning table
to be seen in laundries and "Joints" and
gaming houses is called the swanpan, and
has been In usein China since the fourteenth
century. The Romans In ancient times had
a Bimilar device called the abacus.
The enlargement of the Hebrew colony
at Woodbine, N. J., has given great en
couragement to the manners of the Hirseli
Fund in New York, someHwhotn, however,
regret that the colonists are more desirous
of engaging in manufacturing pursuits than
in agriculture. ' -
Calvary, the hill near Jerusalem where
the crucifixion of Jesus occurred is formed
of limestone. The shores or the Dead Sea
are lined with pumice stone, showered out
of some volcano that destroyed Sodom and
Gomorrah, which cities finally sank beneath
the waters of the Dead Sea.
Two young men near Los Angeles, Cal:,
are rapidly making a. fortune slaying
coyotes. Last April theywere not worth
$50, but now they have $3,700 to their credit
in bank, and they are adding abont $155 a
week to their deposit. At $5 a scalp there is
more money in trapping and shooting
coyotes than in grawing grain or fruit.
A French Eoyalist journal gives the
number of the Dukes in France at 62. Of
these 30 date from the old monarchy, 17 from
the first empire, 9 from the restoration, 3
from Louis Phillippe, and 4 from the second
empire. The oldest Duke is Due de Morte
mart, who was born in 1794, and the young
est the Due de Guiche, who was born in 1879.
Electricity has been tried in Sweden
for blasting. A deep hole is drilled In the
rock and a Jablochkoff candle is- inserted
and the current turned on. The intense
heat causes the rock to swell at that point,
and internal strains crack the whole rock.
Holes are best drilled into the solid parts,
not, as in blasting, in the seams and soft
places.
An old adobe house built by Captain
Stephen Smith in 1848, and known as the
Bodega ranch house, in Sonoma county.Cal.,
was burned recently, and now tho only
thing that remains to mark the spot that
was once an important Russian settlement
Is the flagstaff erected bv Colonel John C.
Fremont in 1845. The loss is estimated at
about $5,000.
The difference between the English and
the Continental methods of writing numbers
(tho latter ours) may be thus stated. The
former increases In this way: One; ten; ten
squared (100); 100 multiplied by 10 (1,000):
1,000 squared (1,000,000:) 1,000,000 squared
equals one billion (1,000,000,000,000); and then,
logically, squaring each denomination to
obtain that next higher. Our system mul
tiplies every denomination from a thousand
up by a thousand to obtain the next higher
denomination.
Hypnotism is defined by Prof. Bern
beim, on of its chief students and experi
ents, as "The induction of a psychical con
dition in which the subject's susceptibility
to suggestion and ability to act npon it are
enormously increased." Sometimes the sub
ject is in a sonnd sleep, sometimes in a half
waking state, and often in full possession of
the senses and the intelligence. Sometimes
this state is self-Induced, but more often it
is produced by Rome mysterious influence.
of another on the nervous system of tho
subject.
In I860, the year before the war, there
were published in New York 19 daily papers,'
besides 42 weeklies, semi-weeklies and
monthly periodicals. During the 23 years
ending with 1883, 1.491 new papers were
started In New York, including 60 dallies
and 611 weeklies. Of these papers 1,103 died
berore the end of the 25 years, leaving a per
centage orabont 33 per cent surviving. This
is a remarkably beaw mortality. Among
the weeklies 460 died, 55 of them in less than
a year and 103 in less than two years.
Opium smoking is absolutely forbidden
in Japan. The sale or opium, except by
druggists, is forbidden, and even they are
not allowed to sell tho drug except upon
doctors' prescriptions, under penalty of fine
and forfeiture or license. No opium Is per
mitted to be imported. That used in medi
cine is grown in a district near Osaka, and,
as soon as the crop is gathered, is bought by
the Medical Bureau of the Japaneso Gov
ernment and again sold to licensed drug
gists to be used only for medicinal purposes.
The Chinese occasionallv smuggle opium
into Yokohama, but, when found, it is for
feited. One of the most curious wells in ths
West is on the place of Henry M. Henderson,
on Oakes avenue. This well can play a. tune
on a dozen different Instruments at the
same time. The well is about 100 feet deep.
At nearly all hours of the day or night a
wind blows np from the bottom of it, and
whistles throngb the cracks in the tight .
board covering. One day not long ago Mr.
Henderson collected all the musical instru.
ments he could eight. He bored holes in
the boards covering the well and atone
aperture placed a cornet, a,t another a bass
horn, at another a clarinet, then k fife, an
immense tin horn about three yards long, a
mouth organ and other instruments. One
after another they began to blow as ho put
them in. When all were going the din was
terrible, and there did not seem to be a good
note sounded. The wind does not come up
from the well in a steady, blow, but in gusts
of more or less force, and it was amusing as
well as astonishing to hear the old bass and
the nine-foot tin tube snort together.
CHIPS PROM TnE CLUB.
Miss Myllion Do you believe in Dar
win's theory. Count, that man descended from a
m .rokey?
Count Spaghetti Noa, no! Bat T have da
g-r-r-eatamnclia times seena da monk' descend
froma da man when I used to gr-r-indada org' er
or gee da man plays da org' lna da street.
Drake Do you think women will ever
cnt much of a nsnre In elabdom?
Moore If she does, it will no longer he elan
damb. Bizz Heavens! man, that typewriter of
yours has a face ugly enough to stop a clock.
Kncss Ever see my wife's? It would stop an
elevated train. She comes here often, and It
wouldn't be comfortable for me to keep a stenogra
pher with a better looking face than hers.
Club Member (in restaurant) These are
mutton chops. I ordered a brace of lamb chops,
waiter.
Walter On! monsieur, ze cook eez valry slow.
Ze chops hav gronn.
TJppsy Down Well, old man, how do
yon feel thla morning?
Wrongsy Duppfartera night at a big dinner)
Like a successful man I feel as though I'd got a
head In the world.
It isn't always men of brains,
Who have the greatest money gains;
There are exceptions to all rule.
And fortune often favors fools.
Julia Look at that girl's back hair, in
front.
George BeautlM, Isn't It? I never saw such
hair behind before.