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PITTSBURG, THURSDAY, DEC. 3. 189L
TWELVE PAGES
TIME TO DECHRF. HIMSELF.
A special telegram to a New York paper
dcclarps positively that Secretary Blaine
will accept the Republican nomination if
tendered. While it is easy for correspond
ents to affect certainty as to a matter
which is probable and the temptation
grows so long as the country continues to
call for Mr. Blaine and he shows no sign of
declining it is still well to recognize that
something direct and positive from the
Secretary himself is now about due.
Yery soon within a few weeks Repub
licans all through the country will begin
to pick upon men to represent them at the
national convention. Enough has already
reached Mr. Blaine to assure him that, if
he will accept, the great majority of the
delegates will be chosen with special ref
erence to his nomination. If he means to
decline the party is fairly entitled to know
it in time to consider the situation.
Eerything points to the Secretary's
willingness to accept a nomination which
will be tendered with enthusiasm. But
the circumstances are such as to make it
reasonable to have some direct acknowl
edgment from him by at least the opening
of 1892.
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I.OW POLITICAL MORALS.
The "point of view" is admirably illus
trated bv the comments of some Demo
cratic organs on the proposal in Ohio to
ra'se the question of Senator-elect Brice's
elegibility. The Baltimore Sun regards
it as "perhaps the strongest evidence of
the low standard of political morals in the
Buckeye State thathasyct been afforded."
Considering that this is predicted not upon
an expressed intention to turn out Senator
Brice anyhow, but upon a very doubtful
and cautions exnression of desire to in
vestigate and see if the chargs of ineligi
bility is well-founded, such a statement is
a remarkable illustration of the fact that
the lightest offenses of political opponents
are worse than the blackest ones of their
own party.
Indeed, the expressions of belief at the
Ohio meeting that Senator Brice is eligi
ble were such that the Buffalo Courier re
fers to them as "evidences of squeamish-
ness." According to the .New York Dem
ocratic plan of turning out duly elected
representatives it is quite possible that a
set of men who recognize that an oppon
ent is eligible, and confine themselves to
an investigation of his eligibility before
taking further steps, would be regarded
by Xew York Democrats as "squeamish."
Xothing can be plainer that if a man
has been elected to a positionfor which he
is ineligible under the Constitution, it is
within the limits of right to exclude him.
The general opinion with regard to Brice's
case is that he can prove his elegibility;
but so long as Ohio Republicans confine
themselves to an inquiry into his legal
elegibility, and to presenting evidence
against it to the Senate, they are acting
strictly within their rights. If no other
evidences of a low standard of political
morals were to be found than this we
could rejoice in a very pure status of our
popular Government
But unfortunately the esteemed Sun
need not go outside its own party lines to
find evidences of much lower political
morals. If the Democratic, machine of its
own city does not affoid it such evidence
suppose "that it casts his eyes upon the
means adopted to count out the repre
sentatives chosen by the people in Xcw
York.
AN EXAMPLE FOR PITTSBURG.
The history of the Manchester Ship
Canal, nearing completion, affords inter
esting instruction for cities in similar cir
cumstances. Pittsburg only differs from
Manchester, with regard to such a work,
mainly in having a greater benefit to gain
from the canal project, in proportion to its
present prosperity, by having a traffic in
which the cott of transportation is more
vital.
It is interesting to Pittsburg, therefore,
to learn that the canal project for Man
chester i not a novel one. Seventy years
ago Manchester, to escape the exactions of
the barge canal which then held a monop
oly, projected a rival canal by the river
Dee. But the railway system sprang up
which was expected to bring reliet Man
chester accepted the railway regime and
waited for relief with the patience that
we in Pennsylvania can find parallels for.
But the net result of this waiting was ex
pressed in 1877 by a resolution of the
Manchester Chamber of Commerce that a
ship canal was imperative to the prosper
ity of that city.
The effect of this resolution alone was
not satisfactory. The Liverpool Docks
and Railway Company declined to reform
its charges on the strength of a resolution,
and Manchester, after waiting five years
longer with exemplary patience, got a
sun ey for her ship canal and went up to
Parliament with her project But here
another obstacle was encountered. Im
mense corporate interests were opposed.
A traffic of twenty millions a year was at
stake. The canal would reduce charges
on cotton, wool and petroleum to less
than one-twelfth the railway rates; and
railway interests of a magnitude fully
equal to those which control the trans
portation of Western Pennsylvania threw
cold water on any such plan to lessen their
profits. Wc do not know certainly that
any theory of "vested rights" and charges
of "confiscation" of railway capital were
aired; but it may be persumed that no
such arguments were lacking. This power
ful opposition delayed the bill for years in
Parliament before It was finally got
through.
But this did not end the struggle. The
project was placed on the market and
subscriptions were called for to the extent
of $30,000,000. But the subscriptions did
not come. Capital looked coldly on a
scheme that was expected to jeopardise
its darling railway investments; and it is
no stretch of the imagination to suppose
that the railway interest was profuse with
demonstrations of its impracticability. So
after years of struggle the project was at
dead halt until Manchester struck
the idea of building her canal
herself. A committee investigated the
project and reported it sound.
Upon this Manchester capital took the
subscription. When this money was spent
the city of Manchester raised a loan for
the balance. The final result is seen in
the fact that ocean vessels will unload
their cargoes in Manchester next year.
The morarof this for Pittsburg is very
impressive. If you want to be sure a
thing is done take hold and do it yourself.
While the Ohio River and Lake Erie
canal Is within the line of enterprises
taken hold of by the Government, far
more than the Nicaragua canal project,
for which the moderate draft is proposed
on the government credit of $100,000,
000, if Western Pennsylvania wishes to
promptly secure the inestimable benefits
of cheap water transportation it must take
hold of the matter itself. There is capital
enough in Western Pennsylvania to build
the canal. The cheapening of freights on
two staples iron and coal will pay for
.it in six years. Why not realize this vast
incentive to our prosperity as soon as the
work can be done, and then when the
Government gets ready to provide the
country with a comprehensive system of
free waterways turn over the canal to it
at cost?
ERRORS ON TI1E IIOND 1S5UE.
A communication elsewhere takes strong
ground against the proposed bond issue,
on the assumption that if the bonds are
issued the result will be to relieve nroperty
owners who would be liable under the
curative act from the payment of their
assessments. We take this to be the
argument from the assertions (1) that "an
obligation is held by contractors against
local parties," under laws which prove to
be framed .in the interest of contractors
and minority property holders; (2) that
no one doubts that the curative legislation
will be the future fixed law of Pittsburg;
and that "here those interested see an
opportunity to saddle the taxpayer with
bills that they ought and nlust pay them
selves, if they wait until the courts pass
upon the justice of the curative act."
The Dispatch is by no means set on
the issue of the bonds. It has frequently
stated that, if the majority prefer
to have the money the city will have
to pay, before it can collect the assess
ments under the curative act, raised by a
single levy in the year it falls due, it is
right that such a course be taken. But in
order that the decision of the people shall
be intelligently rendered, it is well to have
all the details of the matter clearly under
stood. For tha5 purpose it is pertinent to
say that each position quoted from our
correspondent is fundamentally erroneous.
The obligation held by contractors is
not against private parties but against the
city. If the city can maintain the cura
tive legislation it can on its part collect a
claim whirb. it holds in equity against the
property holders benefited; but the con
tractors can only look to the city for pay
ment both under the terms of their con
tract and by the specific rulings of the
Supreme Court As to the question
whether the curative legislation will be
upheld or not, it is by no means so much
of a foregone conclusion as our contribu
tor thinks. That point need hardly bo
discussed at length, because it really has
no bearing on the issue of the bonds. The
assertion that by some means the issue
will relieve property owners who would
be liable under the curativa act would be
a very valid objection if there were an
truth in it; bnt it is wholly without foun
dation in fact
It has been expressly stated that if the
curative acts are sustained the city will
proceed to collect the assessments under
them, and apply the money to the redemp
tion of bonds issued for the payment of
the contracts. To suppose that the city
officials will refuse to perform this duty
when the bonds are issued is to accuse
them of a monstrous and purposeless
fraud, to be carried out by men
of such standing as Mayor Gourleyand
Controller Morrow. Such an accusation
should not be made without foundation;
and that it is without foundation is shown
by the fact that to-day, in advance of
either the issue of bonds or the decision on
the curative act, the city is proceeding
with the levying of all the special assess
ments and preparing for their collection
as soon as their legal status is indisputa
bly defined.
The whole question with regard to the
issue of bonds is simply this: There are
certain claims against the city which must
be paid. If the curative act is sustained
some of them though not a majority
must be paid befdre the assessments can
be collected. If the act is overthrown the
city must pay them all. Whether the
bonds are Issued or whether the city
raises what must be paid by a general
levy, the money will be collected to repay
the city from the property benefited, pro
vided the curativs legislation is upheld.
The question for the taxpayers to decide
is, whether they prefer to have what the
city must pay raised by an increase of the
tax rate or an issue of bonds. The
fact that the latter course will entail the
payment of interest would be an objection
if it were not that, as the city can buy
the bonds for its sinking fund, it will be
paying interest to itself.
On this statement of the case the voters
can make up their minds which course
they consider preferable and decide the
question accordingly.
THE PARAMOUNT OBLIGATION.
A very intricate question of casuistry is
that which is to govern the action of Mr.
D. T. Beales, the Kansas City millionaire,
with regard to the prosecution of the
people who kidnaped his three-year-old
boy, and got 8:5,000 ransom. Mr. Beales
holds that by the agreement under which
he ransomed his son he is in honor bound
not to appear against the kidnapers or in
any way contribute to their punishment
This is placing an extreme construction
on the obligation of a man's word. It is
the highest estimate of the value of per
sonal veracity; but unfortunately it runs
counter to some other obligations of equallf
not higher importance. Leaving them for a
minute it is worth whileto inquire whether
there are not limits to the obligations of
personal promise. It is to be remembered
that Mr. Beales was dealing with individ
uals who had declared themselves by their
acts, enemies to social safety, faithless to
all obligations, and ready to prey upon
him by the most outrageous acts. Is a
man bound by a promise extorted by such
means,or is he even compelled to keep faith
with those who class themselves among
the faithless? We do not hesitate to decoy
a wild beast to his slaughter by deceiving
him with the false promise of food. If a
raging maniac gets possession of a danger
ous weapon, we are ready to delude
him with soothing words nntil we can clap
him in a straight-jacket Why should the
morality which permits us to deceive a wild
beast who only jtollows the promptings of
a savage nature, or the maniac who is led
by the delusions of a disordered brain,
bind ns to keep faith with nnmitigated
rascals who prey upon us by the violation
of all faith and the disregard of all
promises?
' It is plain that whatever obligation
rests on a man in Mr. Beales position is
founded not on any claim whjch the kid
napers of his boy have against him, but on
hts claims against himself. In other
words, his duty to himself may oblige him
to respect his word So far as securing
any advantage to himself by breaking his
word is concerned, we are inclined to
think Mr. Beales is right He could not
honorably seek to recover back the 55,000
paid for his child's ransom, because that
would be seeking to obtain an advantage
by violating hls personal pledge. An
honorable man's self-respect would pre
vent that; but we do not think it can be
carried o the degree of freeing the hon
orable man from his duty to society.-
Here is where the limit to the personal
obligation is very clearly defined. A
man's faith to the public duty of protect
ing society from the ravages of outlaws
and thieves is more binding than his per
sonal "words to those public enemies.
There is good morality in the common law
principle that a man cannot make a bind
ing contract that is opposed to public pol
icy; and nothing can be more opposed, to
public policy than an agreement that crim
inals shall be protected from punishment
Strictly speaking, Mr. Beales has com
pounded a felony, and, while the public
sympathy for the terrible straits of a
parent seeking to redeem his child from
the clutches of a criminal act will condone
that fault, it is clear that the law cannot
permit him to disobey its mandate to give
his testimony when he is called upon for It
It is certainly to be hoped that the Kan
sas City court will compel Mr. Beales to
testify in the case of the persons arrested
for kidnaping his child. The protection
of society is of more importance than an
extorted promise to a criminal gang.
cmr LIGHTS.
The electric light bidding yesterday,
while not bringing any propositions from
outside concerns such as were expected,
resulted in a less price than before. The
charges for arc lamps are not above those
generally prevalent for cities, and are in
fact less by nearly forty per cent than
to private consumers, but the charges for
incandescent lamps are higher. With these
latter, however, the city authorities say
they will dispense wholly.
The Dispatch is of the opinion that the
city should be able to supply its light
cheaper by a plant of its own. But it is
fair to recognize that the figures at yester
day's bidding are by no means exorbitant
Life on the Chicago street railways has
its touches of excitement of which travel
on our traction lines is destitute. The other
day passengers on a West Chicago car re
fused to pay fares because the car was not
heated. The conductor, in a spirit of mean
revenge, left the door open and tried to
freeze the rjassengers out; but this was met
byaieversal of the usual procedure, and
the passengers promptly put the conductor
off the car. Then cries were raised for
smashing the car and Indulging in other
riotous proceedings; but the excitement
quieted down, and the passengers telt so
good'over their self-assertion that they paid
up their fares like little men. Thus docs
the long-snffering American street car pa
tron occasionally break ont and demon
strate that the worm will turn.
The trouble with the water supply in
New York, Brooklyn and Pittsburg moves
the Baltimore American to refer exultingly
to Baltimore's water supply, which, it
asserts, "can never grow less." It might
also add that owing to the nature of Balti
more thore does not seem to be muoh
danger of that city's doing what is the main
trouble with Pittsburg, namely, growing
beyond its water supply.
The reported organization of Democratic
ex-letter carriers and other ex-office-holders
of that political complexion is regarded by
the Buffalo Express as "a menaco to good
government." If the organization were
important enough to be a menace to any
thing it would be a menace to Democratic
success, both as an advertisement of the
hunger of the Democratic machine and as a
warning that Democrats who are not ex-rjlaca-liunters
will be in danger of as cold
weather in the event of Democratic success
as in that of Democratic failure.
It is stated by the Mexican Government
that Garza, the alleged revolutionist, makes
his raids as a cover to smuggling schemes.
This relieves Mr. Garza from the graver sus
picion that his raids were lor the purpose o
prosecuting the enterprise of surreptitiously
accrnlnsr illicit horseflesh and such other
unconsidered trifles as he could get his
hands upon.
A Xew Yoke paper asserts that Ameri
cans are too big to care what Rudyard Kip
ling or any other English writer says of
them. That is, we ought to be, especially
since Kipling was hardly more epigram
matical and sarcastic at our expense than
was to be expected of a writer of his moods.
But the fact that somo of. us do writhe and
raise a tnss over the smartness of our trans
atlantic cousins proves thai there is still an
element among us that has not attained a
realizing sense of our bigness.
The latest and most practical suggestion
with regard to Arctic exploration is that the
rescuing party should De sent into the re
gion first in order to bo on hand When its
services are needed. This would be a very
valuable suggestion if It did not leave open
the puzzling question, who will rescue the
rescuers? "
The New York Frets says that "unless
$10,000 is promptly raised work on the Wash
ington memorial arch must be stopped,
which, the Press remarks, "would be a dis
grace to New York," This condition is a
common fate forNew York's memorial enter
prises; but it hardly seems that the disgrace
will be any moro emphatic than the one in
connection with the Grant memorial. In
view of that $500,000 disgrace, what is the
use getting worked up over a little $10,000
discredit?
Sixteen thousand lives lost in the
Japanese earthquakes! This, if we could
realize it, would make even the Johnstown
calamity seem commonplace. But the
swallowing up of human lives on the other
side of the globe cannot become as real to
us as the lesser calamity at our very doors.
ABOUT two-thirds of the liberated Ten
nessee convicts have been recaptured and
the Governor of the State is quoted assay
ing that ''they shall bo returned to the
minesifittakes.every able-bodied man in
the State to dq it." That is more emphatic
than discreet. Some means should be fonnd
of asserting the supremacy of the law; but
convicts In the mines were a blot on civili
zation in the first place and will continue to
be as long as they are kept there.
The discovery pf Dr. Scott, the Presi
dent's ather-in-law, that Mr. Blaine, "al
though perfectly healthy is not the mag
netic and pushing-looking man" he used to
be, is important. Is the work of demagnet
izing Blaine expected to polarize the Har
rison boom?
THE SCOTCH-AMERICAN.
For Him Andrew Carnegie Claims the
Credit of Oar Independent Nationality
The Union ot the Two Races Forms
the Most Perfect People Yet Evolved.
In responding to the toast of "The
Scotch-American" at the annual dinner of
the St. Andrew's Society in New York, An
drew Carnegie, among other Shines, said:
'This is indeed the age of instantaneous"
phonography. -1 appear betore yon to-night
commissioned to kodak, develop and finish
tho Scotsman at home in four minutes, in
four minutes rnore to picture him in Amer
ica, and in two minutes moro to celebrate
the union of tho two varieties and place be
fore you the ideal, character of the world,
the best flower in the garden, the first prize
chrysanthemum, the Scotch-American. Gen
tlemen, no race pure in blood has ever
amounted to anything, either in the human
or in the lower varieties of the animal king
dom. The Briton sings 'Saxon and Dane,
Norman and Celt are we.' The American is
great chiefly because he is a conglomerate
of all the races of Europe. For the improve
ment of a race we must have a cross.
Taken by himself the Scotsman's qualities
give blm a high place; taken by himself the
American is also in the front; bnt it is only
through their union that the crowning
mercy has been bestowed upon the world,
and perfection at last attained in the new
variety known as the Scotch-American, who
in himself combines in one perfect whole
the best qualities and all the virtues of both
and stands before the world shining for all,
the sole possessor of these united talents,
traits, characteristics and virtues, rare in
their several excellencies and wonderful in
their combination. .
"The result of lack of fusion between the
races Is seen in the royal families of Eu
rope, most of whom are diseased, manv
weak-minded and not a few imbecile, and
none of them good for much. Tho nobilities
of the continent show the operation of the
same law, and the aristocracy of Britain has
been preserved from equal uegredation
only by the wise fusion which Is constantly
going on between the different classes of
our parent land. We must have these mix
tures if we are to live and improve; but the
greatest and best of all these that ever was
made is the union between the Scot and the
American.
The Scot a Love for liberty.
"What are the elemental traits of the
Scot? Two are prominent: An inextinguish
able love of liberty, both civil and religious,
and a passion lor education. Before he was
educated, away back before the days of Ban
nockburn, in the days of Wallace and Bruce,
imbedded in the Scotsman lay the inRtinot
of freedom and independence; he was born
to be neither slave nor sycophant; he would
have liberty if he had to fight for it, and in
dependence if he had to die for it. Lot it
never be forgotten that these sentiments
have been powerfully moulded by his re
ligion, for while the church in other lands in
Europe, when connected with and supported
by tho State, has always been the tool of
fmwer in England, the Church of Scotland
las sprang from the people, and has re
mained true to its origin, the Church of the
people. In all the crises ot Scottish history,
among the most powerful advocates of the
cause of the people havo been men in the
Sulpit, and this jrom tho days ot Knox and
ellvllle to the present.
"His mountains and his glens, his moors
and his heather, his babbling burns, his re
ligion, climate, everything surrounding him
has inculcated in the core of the heart of the
Scotchman this intense and all-consuming
love of liberty and independence. What,
gentlemen, is the greatest glory of a State?
The universal education of its people. In
this Scotland stands pre-eminent.
An Educated People.
"Education has done its work with the
Scotch. One might be challenged to produce
a Scotchman who cannot read, write and
cipher, and cipher well, too, and who knows
just where the balance lies and to whom it
belongs. For the educatiou of their chil
dren the poorest Scotch family will suffer
privation. They may starve, but rear their
children in ignorance they will not. Frugal,
shrewd, prudent, peaceable, conscientious
in the discharge of duty to a degree, and
above all other races gifted with the power
of concentration, the Scottish race of 4,000.
000, as is acknowledged by all, has produced
an effect upon the world which no other four
millions of human beings, or double that
number, can pretend to lay claim to.
"Every Scotchman Is two Scotchmen; as
his land has the wild, barren, stern crags
and mountain peaks, around which temp
ests blow, and also the smiling valleys be
low, where thewildrose, the loxglove and
the bluebell blossom, so the Scotsman, with
hls'rugsed force and haid Intellect in bis
head above, has a heart below capable of
being touched to the finest issues. Senti
mental, enthusiastic, the traces of a hare
brained race floating about- him from his
Celtic blood, which gives him fire, he is the
most noetic belnr alive. Poetry and song
are part of his very nature. He is born to
such 'a heritage of poetry and song and
romance as the child of no other land en
Joys. Touch his head, and he will bargain
and argue with you to the-last; touch his
heart, and he falls upon your breast. Such
Is the scot as ne find him at home.
Founders of the Nation.
"Who made the American nation ? A
little more than a century ago what was the
American? A puny, miserable colonist, a
depen dent of another nation. Who gave the
American a country? Bancroft tells: 'The
first voice for dissolving all connection with
Great Britain came not from the Puritans
of New England, the Dutch of New York or
tho planters ot Virginia, Dut iroin the Scotch
Presbyterians of Noith Carolina.'
"The great claims of the Puritans, of the
Virginia planters, are gladly admitted; and
to tne Dutch of New York every ono is will
ing to express our gratitude for the part
they played, but these races only followed
the first voice crying aloud to the poor, de
graded colonists to rise and be men; that
voice was the echo from the heather hills,
and rightly so, for ours is the race of whose
main work for centuries as the mainten
ance of the independence of our country at
home, against England. The same great
task devolved upon the Scot here. It Is the
mission of the true Scot ever to lead the peo
ple wherever he goes, in the cause of liberty
and independence, and in any struggle for
liberty our place Is ever in the van. ' And
when this Scotch idea hud electrified the
laud, and the second declaration
was signed, no le.-s thnn six of
these great scotch-American leaders
attached their names and pledged
their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred
honor. The part that our race played in the
Revolutionaiy struggle, taken in compari
son with our numbers, both in council and
in the field, is one worthy of a race of heroes.
Wherever the Scot goes he cannot live with
out a country. The development of tiio
Australian Commonwealth to-day is another
pi oof of his ineradicable yearning lor a coun
try of his own. If there benocountry.hecalls
upon his less alert, less independent lellow
citizens to follow him and create one. He
found this a colony, and he summoned it to
rise and become a nation." Applause.
PDEELT PERSONAL
The Emperor of Japan celebrated the
39th anniversary of his birth on November 3.
F. D. Millet, the famous American
artist, arrived in New York from England
last week.
Mb. Albert Bieestadt has sold his
great painting, "The Last of the Buffaloes,"
for $50,000.
Mayor Grant, of New York, will sail
for that city from England Thursday, in the
Teutonic.
Mr. Blaine's grandchildren, the Cop-
h pingcr boys, are named respectively Blaine
and Carnegie.
Sib Edward Arnold says that the late
Lord Lytton was the best after-dinner
speaker heever heard, and superior to our
own Dr. Depew at his best.
A son of the sculptor, Powers, has a
studio in Denver, where he is engaged on a
work entitled "A Closing Era." It repre
sents a lonely Indian standing over a pros
trate and dying buffalo.
A London cable dispatch says Her
Royal Highness Princess Helena Augusta
Victoria has given her consent to be Presi
dent of the English Committee on Women's
Work for the Columbian Fair.
Secretary Foster continues to improve
slowly, but does not gain strength as rapidly
as his friends expected. He will go to some
point South, possibly Asheville, N. C, early
next week for a few nays' recuporation be
fore resuming his "official dntles at the
Treasury Department.
THE condition of Dora Pedro, ex-Emperor
of Brazil, is exciting the gravest ap
prehension. He was attacked by a chill
Monday, and despite the attentions of his
physicians he has since continued to grow
worse. His daughter, the Countess d'Eu, is
constantly at his bedside. Drs. Charcot and
Boachard have called Dr. Mattamaia in for
consultation,
STEAT STATE TOPICS.
He Had Pluck.
Chambersburg Valley Spirit.
-To walk three miles with both hands
blown off, with his face burned and his legs
injured, requires a man of extraordinary
nerve, yet such a man came to Chambers
burg this morning for surgical treatment.
John Bash, of Shippensbnrg, is his name,
and his injury has excited the sympathy of
everybody, while his pluck hns aroused
everyone's admiration. John Bash has been
a railroader for years. Recently he Joined
the civil engineer's corps employed in build
ing the Chambersburg and Gettysburg Bail
road. Tuesday morning he was working on
tho extension from Caledonia station to the
'Wolf Hill tunnel, and was about to throw a
dynamite cartridge into a crevice on an 18
degree bank when the powerful substance
exploded with terrific force. He was hurled
40 feet away from where he stood. Both his
hands were blown off, his face was burned
and his eyes were injured, although it is not
yet known whetherhe will lose their sight;
and he was inj ured abont the legs. The pain
he suffered must have been Intense, yet he
undertook what no man of less nerve could
have accomplished. Ho started to walk the
entire distance to Caledonia station and he
made the three miles without a groan.
Blood was dripping from the strips of flesh
hanging from his wrists and was pushing Its
way down his throat. His sufferings cannot
be described, yet he said no word except
that he wished to reach a physician's office
in Chambersburg quickly.
He wns taken in a box car from Caledonia
to Fayetteville, and then was driven to
Chambersburg, where his wounds were
dressed, and he was then taken to his home
in Sh'ppensburg, where both his hands wero
amputated above the wrist.
Foolish Farmers In Two Counties.
Irwin Standard.
We remember a couple of years ago when
a number of our farmers were taken in by
some fruit tree swindlers, that some of the
Allegheny county papers made consldera,
me mn aDouc it ana aavisea tue vv escmure
land county farmers to hire somebody to
pen them up, etc. Well, Just now there are
a lot of farmers in Allegheny county that
had better have guardians appoin ted over
them and have themselves painted a bright
green so that their outward appearance
may correspond with their mental capacity.
They have been caught by some sharpers on
n fake so thin that a Chestnut Ridge sheep
would not have bitten at. Some slick
tongued fruit tree agents persuaded a num
ber of them residing in the southwestern
part of the county to purehase a lot of fruit
trees on long time. The farmers gave their
notes pnvable in one year, but the wily
agents told them they would not have to
pay the notes for three years, and If they so
desired the time could be extended longer,
and, though they only had the agents' word
lor this, the silly coots gave their notes pay
able in ono year with legal interest. The
year is now up and they find their notes
have all been discounted at different banks.
They are ottering big wages for strong men
to kick them.
First Iran Tipple in the Coke Region.
TTntontown Standard.
A company of It machinists from the Key
stone Bridge Company, of Pittsburg, passed
through town Tuesday morning from Lel
enrlng No. 2 to Pittsburg. The Keystone
Bridge Company has been constructing an
iron tipple at Lelseniing No. 2 Coke Works.
This is the first iron tipple to be constructed
in the coke regiou. About five months ago
the H. C. Frick Coke Company gave the con
tract to this company. Three months ago
the old tipple was torn down and the work
of erecting the new one begun. Tho new
tipple was completed yesterday all except
the roof. It stands 87 feet high and Is a unique
structure. Another is to be built soon at
Leith.
Want the Crawford County System.
Meadvllle Republican.
Tho Republicans of the Twenty-fifth Con
gressional district, composed of the counties
of Beaver, Butler, Lawrence and Mercer
counties, are thinking seriously of adopting
the Crawford county system of nominating
candidates for Congress thns abolishing
the conferee system with its annoyances
and delays. It the Crawford county plan
had been in vogue in the counties named,
last year, a Democrat would not to-day be
representing that district on the floor of
Congress.
THEATfilCATi GOSSIP.
One of the best war plays ever written,
Bronson Howard's "Shenandoah," will be
played by Mr. Charles Frohman's company,
which lnoludes many old favorites in the
important roles, at the Bijou Theater next
week.
Ox Friday nigbt Mr. Mantell will put on
"The Louislanlans," a rotnantio drama by
E. M. Allfrlend. As a curtain-raiser at the
Bijou to-morrow night John Ernest Mc
Cann's "A Lesson in Acting," whioh has
been praised generally, will be done also.
AT Harry Davis' Fifth Avenue Museum
next week, Linus, the $100,000 Oregon horse,
will be on exhibition. Linns is a beautiful
animal. His tail is 12 feet 3 inches in length,
and his mane nearly 10 feet. He has created
a furore in nearly every city in the country.
Rbillt & Woods have some big features In
the show they will give next week at the
Academy. One of them is Peggy Pryde, the
daughter of Jennie Hill, about whom New
York raved last summer; and another is the
spectacular farce comedy, "Hades and the
400."
The World's Museum-Theater will have a
special treat for women's eyes next week, in
the shape of one of Mrs. William Astor's
ball dresses, that was seized by the New
York customs officials a few months ago for
undervaluation. The costume is by Felix;
of Paris.
Miss Pfoixiott Paget, who will be remem
bered as the jolly impersonator of Aunt Jack
last season, will play at the Grand Opera
House next week in "The Last "Word," a
comedy of Daly's, and a pretty funny one If
reports are to be believed. Miss Paget has
been amusing people successfully elsewhere.
The sensational fall of Varney through the
trapdoor in the bridge, in the last act of
"Amy Robsart," makes some woman in iho
audience scream every night. Mr. Barton
Hill, It may be remaiked for the benefit of a
correspondent who Inquires, does not risk
his life nightly. Tho dummy is very human.
If there is such a thing as novelty on the
stage the pantomimic absurdity "Eight
Bells," which comes to the Duquesne next
week, seems to come under that head. It is
said to be something like the Hanlons'
"Voyage en Suisse," In that its fun is acro
batic, but it is laid in; a different scone alto
gether, on ship-board, hence its title "Eight
Bells.'
Sib Edwin Arnold, the poet-editor and
distinguished Englishman, will have a
brilliant audience no doubt in Carnegie Hall
to-night. There is one comfortable thought
for those who hive not bought their tickets
yet, namely, that all the seats In Carnegie
Hall are good. The Rev. Dr. Holland's, in
troductory address will be to many almost,
as interesting as the poet's readings from his
own works.
TnE matinee at the Alvin yesterday was
largely attended by actors of the Wain
wright and the Crane companies, who had
an afternoon off. Professional audiences
have tho reputation of being nwfnlly chilly,
but Messrs. Hoey and Evans and the other
clever people in "A Parlor Match" had no
reason to comolain of the andlence's atti
tude. Beautiful Mario Mainwright, In black,
satin one of the boxes, and in another was
Joe Howard, the New York newspaper man,
with his ward, Miss O'Neill, of the Crane
company.
"The Dancing Girl," In which E. H. Soth
ern will bo seen next week at the Alvin
Theater, is a more serious and ambitious
vehicle than ho has hitherto tried. It is a
drama or English ltfo by Henry Arthur
Jones, who wrote "Tho 3Iiddleman," in
which WHIard played here recently. "The
Dancing Girl" excited a good deal of atten
tion in London and New York, and it Is at
least a play that deserves a respectful hear
ing. Mr. Sothcrn's DuUe of Guisebury Is said
to bo a powerful study of character. It Is
promised that the play will be produced ex
uctly as it was in New.York.
Good People and Good Conntrj.
New York World.!
Now England and the northeastern por
tions of Pennsylvania seem to be remark
ably productive of people who live to a great
age. The "oldest inhabitant," if he or she
attains to the age of 103 or 104. immediately
becomes at least a local celebrity. In the
early part of the century Scotland seems to
have been famous for her centenariais. The
"Laird or Berulllon" lived to be 120 years
old, and "was married 17 times." Dr. Beaton
wrote In 1831 some ol his experiences at the
battle of Drumossle in 1746.
PITTSBURG ORPHANS
The Beneficiaries at a Dinner To-Day A
Bride Disappointed In Trying to De
prive the Public of Its Bight to Be
Amused.
The mammoth annual charity for the
United Presbyterian Orphans' Home begins
to-day in Old City Hall, which has been
elaborately arranged until its grlmness
seems to have departed from it. Booths
dressed In gay bunting surround the four
sides of the hall and stand in the middle,
thus permitting an aisle on either side.
Dinner and supper will be served at the left
side and up toward the door, where tables
have been temptingly arranged. The entire
list of committees is as follows:
Treasurer-Mrs. M. F. Reed.
Printing Commltter-SIrs. H. C CampbeH.
Purchasing- Commntee-Mrs. H. C. Campbell,
Mrs. M. F. Reed and Mrs. Wm. Campbell.
Frnlt and Flowere-Mrs. A. P. Bnrclifleld. Chair
man: Mrs. B. A. Elliott. Mrs. H. C. Bair. Mrs. E.
W. Hill. Mrs. D. D. Bruce. Mrs. D. K. Bryce,
Miss Sallle Armstrong. Miss Mary Armstrong.
J!!s ?f "81' Mitchell. JllssSIirgaret Lockhart,
Miss Belle JlcCrea and Miss Bessie Ritchie.
scales Commlttce-MIss Bessie MrMlllan. Chair
man; Miss Annie Robinson. Mr. William Jamison
and .Mr. Walter Wltherspoon.
Common Sense-Mrs. R. s. Smith. Chairman:
?Ir'-.GKorF.e Sands. Mrs. M. F. Reed, Mrs. Joseph
Mitchell. Mrs. J. A. Bosncll, Mrs. S. E. Long, of
Beaver Falls; 3Irs. W.C. Haunch. Mrs. Eshelman.
Mrs. D. M. B. McClaln. Mrs. J. O. Atchcson, Mrs.
Edward Thompson, Mrs. Snmuel Long. Mrs. D.
W. Drape. Mrs. A. 31. Campbell. Sirs. 31. J.
Stevenson. Mrs. E. 8. McKlttrlck. 3Irs. J. A.
Evaus. Mrs. W. C. Hodge. Miss Marr Lockhart.
Miss 3Iargaret Hodge. I)r. C. Jane Vincent. MIm
Lily I.onf, Mies Jennie Brown. Miss Lizzie B-Ter.
Miss Clara llennlng. JIlsi Isabel Cummlngs, Jllss
Slay Munroe and Miss Jennie Darlington.
Ice Cream Committee Mrs. A. K. Duff, Chair
man; Sirs. William Campbell, Mrs. Albert Koe
nlk. Sirs. D. A. DnfT. Sirs. Andrew Miller. Sirs.
J. F. Neely, Mrs. Samuel Mdlinod. SIlss Slargaret
McMlllen. Miss Bnrclifleld. Jlks Mary Dickey,
3Ilss Anna Dver and 51 bs Mary SIcCance.
Doll Committee SIlss Jennie Leltcli. Chairman;
SIlss nirdle II. Brown. Sliv. Agnes Young. Miss
Jessie Hurdle. SIlss hmma Wilson. SIlss Aifalllll,
Miss Emma Boston, Miss Ida K. Beatty, SIlss
Clara Eckert, Miss Agnes J. Slltchell and Miss
Nannie W.itson.
' Lemonade Co-nrolttec SIlss Slary Echols. Chair
man; Miss Nannie Clark, MUs Nona Hill and Miss
JosieSIcIIenry.
Candy Committee SlrsGeorge B. Hill. Chair
man; Sirs. Albert stcvensou. Sirs. W. G. Stewart,
SIlss Clara Wilson, Miss Anna Murdoch. SIlss
JielllcSchore, SIlss SlinnleSIcClaln. Miss McNeill.
Slits Bessie Lamble, SIlss Hallle SIcKcown, SIlss
Anna Trimble. SIlss Anna Vincent. SIlss Enla
Stewart, Miss Enima Fettcrman. SIlssBlanchc Cal
houn, SIlss Cora Thompson and SIlss Florence
Davis.
Literature Committee Sirs. W. A. Greer. Chair
man; Sirs. J. J. Porter. SIlss Slargaret Doty and
SIlss Slargaret Swartwood.
House Committee Mrs. M. Patterson.Chalrman;
Mrs. J. F. Neelr.'
Check Committee Slaster "Kl" Duff, Master
Ralph Hill, Master Willie Keed and Slaster Samuel
Stewart.
' Supply Committee Mrs. D. B. Stoner, Sirs. Lot
tie Brown, Sirs. George Shaw, Sirs. Shaw, Sirs.
Robinson, Sirs. Joseph StcN'augher, Sirs. Emma
Hamilton, Sirs, Oliver Anderson .and Sirs. Robert
Stewart,
Fancy Table Sirs. Edwin Hill, Mrs. Robert Blc
Cague. Sirs. 31. W. Stevenson, Mrs. J. B. Herron.
Miss Emma Mahon, SIlss Etta Clark, Miss Zo
SIcClure. of Wheeling. W. Va.: Sirs. John E.
Shaw. Mrs. Joseph Reeil Vincent. Sirs. E. E. Heck,
Mrs. W. R. Ford, Sirs. Young. SIlss Agnes
Slltchell ana Sirs. J. It. J. Slllllgan.
Glass Table-Sirs. SI. Patterson. Chairman: Sin.
Percy F. bmith. Sirs. 3Iary W. Porter. Sirs. 3Iary
Aldred. Sirs. R. It. Wallace, Sirs. Bidet-haw. Miss
Jeanuette Lockhart and Sirs. Andrew Easton.
The presence in the city of a former Pitts
burger, now of Cincinnati, for whom an
afternoon tea was given this week, recalls a
story told about her wedding tour. If there
could be any distinction, this lady was 'the
most popular and charming of several sis
tersall belles in Pittsburg some years ago.
'After the wedding, and when the rice bad
been thrown and all the addios spoken, the
newly made bride found herself, with her
husband, among a host of strangers on the
train, beginning her married life via the
orthodox honeymoon. She had heard that
young married people never could pre
serve tho incognito of their new
found happiness, and the the publio
in general nailed a bride and bridegroom
quicker than a wink. In her way she had
prided herself in the possession of this same
intuition, which she now so dreaded in oth
ers. She caukht sight of a small boy sitting
near her and at the same moment a thought
was caught in her brain. She leaned over to
him and expatiated at bis beauty, which,
she said, audibly, reminded her of her own
small son. . To her chagrin she observed
symptoms of hilarity among her fellow pas
sengers. The rhapsody over the counter
part of her supposed darling continued In a
louder tone until interrupted bvan explo
sion of guffaws. The people had measured
her, and besides, some chattering friend had
toldtlie-story Just before the car left Pitts
burg and it had quickly spread. Tbe young
lady found there was something still more
embarrassing than being a bride. She never
looked In-the direction of the small boy
again, nor said a word regarding a son and
heir to the end of the Journey.
Soelai Chatter.
A small girl, Miss Maldie Schildecker, of
Federal street, Allegheny, Issues invitations
to-day for a party on Saturday afternoon,
December 12. The invitations in every in
stance includes the doll family of the In
vited youna lady. Littlo Miss Maldie is'a
most agreeable hostess, to whose parties
her friends alwaysenjoy being invited.
Mrs. Albert H. Childs, of Bidwell street,
gave an afternoon tea yesterday lor Mrs.
Beecher, wife of the Rev. Sir. Beecher, of
Cincinnati. There was a fashionable turn
out of East Enders.
A teligram last night annodnces that the
Harvard Musical Club will give a concert in
the Pittsburg Club Theater on Thursday
evening, December 24.
, Miss Jane Parker, of Parker City, is stay
ing with her sister, Mrs. v. Reynolds Kerr,
at the Park Place Hotel, Sewlckley.
Mrs. Thomas J. Graff and her daughter.
Miss Agnes, of Highland avenue, are in New
York for a brief visit.
The first of the poverty germans will be
given at jnrs. uenry jjavis- noase this even
ing. OUR MAIL POUCH.
Farther on the Bond Issue Question.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
Some phases of the bond, issue question
are: Does tbe taxpayer desire to foolishly
and unnecessarily precede the action of the
courts, which everyone believes will pass
favorably upon.the curative act of the Leg
islature within three months from now?
By such hasty action he will saddle tbe city
with an additional $2,000,000 debt which
properly belongs to local properties, tho
owners of which are with scarcely an excep
tion willing and ready to pay these assess
ments as soon as the Court decides
the curative act Constitutional.
The courts will do this undoubtedly.
No other valid reason can be given
for this bond Issue than that the street con
tractors want money that is not now due,
nor will any part of it be due until next
year, and then only about one-fourth of it.
Tho remainder will not be due for two
years.
The case is like this: An obligation is hejd
by contractors against local parties who are
ready and willing to pay, but the laws under
which payment was to be made prove to bo
framed chiefly In the interest of contractors
and minorities of property holders. These
take alarm and hasten to get curative legis
lation that will prove to be found Con
stitutional. They do so, but in order
to bo snre. tney suDmit test cases
to tho courts, that a precedent may be made
that all is right, based upon a proper regard
for a majority of property in a given local
ity. No ono for a moment doubts that this
curative act will be tho future fixed law of
Pittsburg, and no one for a moment wants
anything better or more just. But here
those interested see an opportunity to sad
dle tho taxpayer with bills that they ought
and must pay themselves if they wait until
tho courts pass upon the justice of the cura
tive act.
But if they wait, what then? They must
pnt their hands Into their own pockets and
fiay for their own streets that they have so
Iberally opened and -paved, and upon
which we will venture to suspect
there has not been any assessment paid yet.
It will be very convenient for them, in
deed rorall of us, to pav for these, yon
know, by voting for this bond issue, hence
the "Harry up, boys,"'or we'll get left.
Does the taxpayer see tho sltnation? If
not. he had better sit down and make him
self a diagram before he goe3 to the polls on
December 7 to cast his vote.
There was a time, Just before the decay of
the Roman Empire, when private interest
was so monstrous and indifferent to publio
woal and safety that the unscrupulous and
powerlul suburban aristocrats secretly at
tached nnd emptied their sewage pipes into
tho public aqueduct which supplied thoir
fellow citizens with drinking water. They,
the citizens, wero poisoned in their
physical constitution?. Onr political and
financial constitutions nre poisoned by those
who are loading us with debt that they may
reap mora personal gain and convenience,
nnd for our comfort wo are told our children
will also suffer after us. Let us vote against
the bond Issue. Wentworth.
Pittsburg, December 3.
CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS.
There are spoken in Europe 587 langu
ages. There are 300,000 .blind people in
Europe.
The temperature of man is 98$, that
of fish 77.
The Teutonic steamship consumes 300
tons of coal per day. '
Thirty-fonr pounds of raw shgaxmtke
21 pounds of refined.
As a rule clouds are about a mile above
the surface of the earth.
A Birmingham, England, man collected
540,000 pennies during his lifetime.
The cost of making a 1,000 Bank of
England note is less than a penny.
There are about four yards of very close
sewing in a lady's ten-button glove.
An average acre of grass newly mown
weighs nearly two and one-half tons.
Silver articles are called "plate" from
the Spanish wordplata, which means silver.
The pin factories of the United States
manufacture about 18,000,000,000 pins a year.
More than half a million dollars' worth
of gold ir used every year"for the purpose of
filling teeth.
There are 5,000 vegetarians in Boston
and 2,000 in Chicago, besides others in New
York and elsewhere.
Aluminum' ore is reported to have been
discovered in large quantities and unusual
richness in New Mexico.
The Grand Falls of Labrador are said
to be more than twice as high as Niagara
Falls, being SCO feet in height.
A farmer in Delaware clains to be able
to preserve watermelons for winter use by
coating the rind thickly with varnish.
The interesting fact ha3 been developed
in the case case of table glass that the much
admired Iridescent film is slightly soluble
in water.
The first thing a Japanese does in the
morning Is to take down the entire front of
his building, leaving tbe whole of the in
terior open to view.
Itussia has been visited by eight na
tional famines during the present century,
in 1801, 1308. 1811, 1812, 1833, 1SJ0, 1860 and 1301.
In addition to these, there have been sev
eral provincial famines, as severe, if notns
extensive, as those which affect the whole
population.
The famous Eutherford photographs of
the mcon, now in possession of Columbia
College, were the earliest made, and they
nre esteemed as remarkable examples of
lunar photography, even by those who have
seen the photographs of the moon taken at
the Lick Observatory in 1SS3.
The light of tbe sun and the moon exer
cises a deleterious effect on edge tools.
Knives, drills, scythes and sickles assume a
blue color if they are exposed for some time
to the light and heat or the sun; the sharp
edge disappears and the tool is rendered
absolutely useless unless it is retempered.
Steam pipes have been made in England
from the ramie fibre. The material is sub
jected to tremendous hydraulic pressure,
and, having the property of being unaffected
by molstnre, will neither shrink nor swell,
beside being a non-conductor of heat. The
pipes have twice the tensile strength of steel
pipes.
The first iron mined in this country is
generally supposed to have been in Sangus,
Mass., aDoUt 1613. Iron ore and smelted iron
have just been found in North Beverly.
This pnzzles the "oldest inhabitant,"' as no
person living ever knew that iron existed
there. The smelting must have been done
at an early date, very possibly before 1643, as
there were settlements there as early as
1640.
Bhode Island is the only State having
two capitals. The State had two large towns,
each claiming to be the political center, but
neither agreeing to surrender its alleged
prestige. The result wns the selection of
each as a capital city, with sessions alter
nating, opening at Newport with an ad
journed session held at Providence. Con
necticut had two. New Haven being the sec
oud, but Hartford became the State capital
in 1873.
Rio de Janeiro, situated in the bay of
tbe same name, has probably the finest
harbor in the world. It is entered from the
south through a passage not more than 1,700
yards wide, between steep hills rislngjnore
than 1,000 feet and extending Inland about
IS miles, thus forming one of the most
spacious and most beautiful harbors in tho
world. The entrance, girded on both sides
with lines of -impregnable fortifications, can
be made without pilots, and the largest ves
sels can anchor immediately at the quays
of the city, and enter its magnificent docks.
In Thomas county, Ga., was Iamonia
Lake, of large extent, which has, within a
few months, almost entirely disappeared.
As faras the vision can reach lie waste and
bare the bottom of the lake, with nothing to
mar its barrenness but the countless num
bers of turtles, terrapins, fish and eels,
which wriggle, squirm and crawl about in
the mud in a vain search for water. There
is supposed to be the mouth of a subter
ranean passage, through which tho waters
of tbe lake have escaped. Once before in
1830, it is said, the lake ran dry.
"Washington was called by many sobri
quets. He was first of all "Father of his
country." "Providence left him childless
that his country might call him father."
SIgourney call3him "Pater Patriae." Chief
Justice Siarshall, the "American Fabius."
Lord Byron, in his "Ode to Napoleon," calls
him "The CIncinnatus of the West." For
having a new world on his shoulders he was
called the "Atlas of America." The English
soldiery called him by the sarcastic nick
name of "Lovely Georglus." Red Jacket,
the Seneca Indian chief, called him the
"Flower of the forest." The Italian poet'
Vittorio Alfleri, called him "Deliverer of
America." In the "Gazette of the United
States" he was called the "Savior of his
country." nis bitter opponents sarcastically
called him the "Step-father of his country,"
during his Presidency.
SUSPECTED OF BEING FUNNY.
ntAJTSWEKABLE.
"Remember, James." said the sorrowing
parent to the family scapegrace. "If you spend
your money In ilrlnk yon will ne-rer get ahead."
"But. father," responded the unrepentant prod
igal. "I was out with the boys last night, and gee
whiz! but I've got a head to-dar!" Chicago
Times.
Bearded Stranger Madam, you may not
recognize me. but years ago. when bnt a child, I
lived next door, and one day In my childish romps.
Host a button from my coat; I had no mother, as
you know, and shall I eter forget, madam, that
you took me In and sewed anotner button on for
me. Ah, madam, (brushing away a tear) through
all these years I have treasured that little button as
a sacred relic, and here it is.
Kind Lady Well, my good man, what can I do
for tou now?
Esirded Stranger AU I need is another coat.
Clothurand Furnisher.
"Did yon hear that Channcey "Winthrop
had broken off his engagement with Forkentlna
Bacon!"
'Yes, bnt he couldn't help It. He was from Bos
ton and she from Cincinnati, but lie didn't mind
that until she asked him one day whether It was
John Grcenlcaf Emerson or Ralph Waldo Whit
tier thatwrote the "Scailct Letter." Brooklyn
Eagle.
'Sue got on her high horse again this
afternoon' said SIlss Bleeckcr to her Boston
friend.
"What was the present occasion or her mounting
her altltudlnons equine?" asked Miss Emerson.
Judge.
"What caused the real estate agent to
commit suicide?"
"Well, you see. It was this way: A couple ap
plied to him to rent a house which he had to let.
Having satisfied himself that they had no children
for he wouldn't have any children In his houses
he gave them a five years' lease of It."
Well?" '
"Well, the couple had hardly moved in and got
settled before the lady had triplets.!' Sew lor
Press.
BOCK Or AGES.
Rock of ages, time may roll
Lethe waters o'er onr way.
But each world worn, weary soul.
Dreaming still, will backward stray
To that early coign of rest
Where ten thousand ages slept.
Doubly sheltered, doubly blest. t
While safe guard a mother kept.
Cradle of onr Infant race,
Blother Earth was there beside.
Never yielding watch or place.
Weal be shown or woe betide: .
Taugbt each mortal mother then
or an an than none forget;
Happy are the sons of men.
For the cradle's rocking yet. m.
Sexo Tori Herald.
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