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THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH, WEDNESDAY, ' " JANUARY 6, 1892.
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piTTSBurG. Wednesday, januakyo.
GOOD J OK TDK POLICE,
There is ground for decided public satis
faction in the successful capture by the
police of a portion of the burglars who
have been plunderinc the residence wards
of the city. Merely as a reversal of the
apparent practice of letting the house
breaking industry go on undisturbed, this
is a change full of gratification for citizens
who hae a preference for being protected
from crimes against persons and prop
erty. But (here is specific reason for public
satisfaction in the detail that the arrests
were the result of .systematic work by the
police in following up clews, locating
-the thieves and in securing a portion of
the plunder. This can be taken as an in
dication that the era when the police give
up every burglary as an insoluble mystery
is ended, and that a new one of active,
earnest and intelligent ferreting out of
all criminals has taken its place. If this
promise is made good the citizens or Pitts
burg can rejoice in a renewed security on
the streets and in their home.
Let the police continue the good work
they have shown in this case and they will
give the best justification for their exist
ence for abolishing crane in Pittsburg
provided the criminals after they are once
lodged in prison, are not permitted to
walk out ot the jail or court house.
THE E4ST CHILE IX RUMOR.
The rumor, in jesterday's telegrams,
that the new Chilean Government has in
structed its Minister at 'Washington to ex
press its sincere apology "for the unfor
tunate and deplorable attack" on Amer
ican sailors at Valparaiso is to be taken
with a good deal of leservation. The
principal reason for awaiting confirmation
before placing much faith in it is that
nine-tenths of the news sent to the United
States from Chile, not only during the
present dispute but during the entire Bal
macedan conflict, has turned out to be
either absolutely untrue or materially
colored.
There is reason forthinkingthat a foun
dation for the report may i xist in the de
termination ot the Chilean Cabinet to ex
press its regrets over the occurrence, and
to show the best evidence of its regret by
the punishment of the rioters on whom
actual proof of ciime has been fixed. This
would be in accordance with the previous
course of the Chilean authorities, who,
during all the asperities of the correspon
dence, have held to the position that while
the Chilean Government was not properly
responsible for a sailors' riot, it was in
duty bound to use it best efforts to punish
the rioters, and to show its entire opposi
tion to what these ofiicialshave frequently
termed "that lamentable occurrence " It
might also suit some one in Chile to repre
sent this as an unqualified apology.
As for the difference between the two,
the people of the United States will be
fair enough to recognize that if the Chilean
Cabinet expresses its regrets for the riot,
and secures the punis.iment of the rioters,
it will have done considerably more than
the Harrison Cabinet was able to do with
reference to the New Orleans affair.
"OnitITY" FOK AMERIC.
The Duke of Marlborough, after the
proverbial stormy youth which seems to
be the regulation experience of the En
glish ari'-toeracu has taken to sociological
btudies on the United States. Looking atj
this country through the rose-colored
glasses of the Hammerslev fortune, His
Grace of Marlborough naturally thinks it
very charming, and says as pleasant things
about us as the first Marlborough ever did
to a woman whom he betrayed or a minister
whom he sold out. We can credit the
present "Duke with more sincerity, how
ever, for among his remarks, is a predic
tion which he evidently regards as favora
ble, but which believers of the democratic
system may look at in a different light
The Duke predicts that "in a not distant
future, America will be possessed of a
representative class of landed merchant
nobles, who will vie in luxury and in
wealth with an thing that the Old World
ever produced."
The idea tli3t the exhibition of "luxury
and wealth" by the favored few is some
thing which a nation should aim at is nat
ural to a Marlborough whose family great
ness is founded on the pursuitof those ob
jects b means of favoritism. But to a demo
cratic nation such an assertion is calcu
lated to suggest an earnest inquiry whether
that betrayal of the purposes and nullifi
cation of the principles on which this
nation is founded is actually taking place.
As a question of fact there is too much
real foundation for the ducal prediction.
The erection of a class of "merchant
nobles" is not an avowed purpose, except
among the ultra-silly of Xew York fash
ionable society. But the tendency of the
methods by which great fortunes are
created is to build up a privileged class,
among whose manifestations the founda
tion of great landed estates is becoming a
prominent incident
The details of the operation by which
this class of "nobles" is coming into ex
istence differ from those by which the
European prototype was founded; but the
essential features of the operation are
identical. The European aristocracy was
founded on success in the science of mili
tary force, which was the power of that
age; the American plutocracy rests on
conquests of money-getting. Both repre
sent a system of privilege and favoritism.
The friendship of a money king is as im
portant to the ambitious now as the
patronage of an earl was in the medieval
days. The privileges of the elder aris
tocracy are rivaled to-day by the escape
of individual responsibility through cor
porate organization, and the success of
Jmm
the corporations in ignoring and nullify
ing laws which ought to restrain them.
All of this is a complete betrayal ot the
democratic principles on which this Gov
ernment is founded; but it is the legiti
mate result of the earlier betrayal by
which corporate wealth has been left
free to ignore public obligations laid upon
It by the conditions of its creation. A pre
diction like this from a member of a de
cajing aristocracy, under the impression
that it is complimentarj, should arouse
the American people to a rigorous inquiry
whether they are content to let the in
fluences creating a privileged class com
plete their work.
A EOG-ROIXING IDfiAj
The devious tendencies of the human
mind are again illustrated by the latest
revival of suggestions as to what shall be
done about building naval -vessels on the
lakes. Eastern papers have had a new
intermittent fit of supporting an alleged
desire of Secretary Tracy's to carry on the
business of naval construction at what
they allege to be "the first-rate shipbuild
ing ports of Buffalo, Erie, Cleveland,
Detroit, Bay Cityand West Superior." It
is not proposed to build these vessels for
use on the lakes, and it is claimed that
merely constructing them there would not
be a violation of the treaty of 1818. The
purpose of the proposition seems to be to
build vessels there in order that the Gov
ernment may make a demonstration of its
inferiority in the matter of ship canals by
requesting permission of Canada to take
the craft through Canadian water-ways to
the ocean.
There has been one allegation that ves
sels could be built more cheaply at the
lake shipyards than on the seacoast; but
the obstreperous Bates, who made that
assertion, has been so sharply suppressed
as to rob his statt ment of authority. Lake
cities how gratifying progress in the con
struction of lake craft, but there is yet no
evidence that they are supplied with facil
ities to build heavily armored iron-clads
or fast cruisers. The fact that they could
send no vesels to the ocean of greater
draft than 12 feet would limit their work
to the smaller naval vessels. If any bids
should prove that ships of that necessary
class can be built cheaper on the lakes
than on the seaboard we have no doubt
that the treaty of 1818 could be appeased
by leaving them in the ownership of the
builders until they were taken to the ocean
ports to be delivered to the Government,
armed and put into commission.
But it is remarkable that none of these
considerations of economy, availability or
standard of work receive much attention
in the current propositions to establish
naval building on the lakes. The idea
simply is that the expenditures on a navy
must be divided up on the log-rolling
principles of the river and harbor bill.
The same principle governed the con
struction of vessels on the Pacific coast
under the pretext that it was cheaper to
build ships there than to take them there.
But as all materials had to be transported
by rail to that coast, it would have been
cheaper to have sailed them there as ships.
The pretext is reversed in the Jake propo
sition. But the underlying principle is
identical of meeting the suggestion that
the lakes should be considered in our
naval policy bv proposing to give them
some of the pork. In that light the fact
that Chicago, Milwaukee, Thunder Bay,
Grand Traverse, Marquette, Toledo, San
dusky, Fairport and Ashtabula are left out
in the cold will produce strenuous dis
cord. All such ideas indicate a persistent
blindness to the main factors in the case.
The one respect in which this Govern
ment is at a disadvantage is that our more
far-sighted neighbors have connected the
lakes "with the ocean by ship canals. The
way to rectify that is to build the ship
canals ourselves. When that is done the
vessels can be built where the work will
be done best and most cheaply, whether
it is at West Superior, Pittsburg or
Chester.
AX ABSENT SArEGCtRD.
The parting of a brake chain on an
electric car coming down Troy Hill, the
other day, resulted in a runaway and a
smash up, from which the passengers
providentialty escaped without serious in
jury. The fact calls attention to the need
for a reserv e of brake appliances on the
high grades encountered by nearly all our
traction lines.
On these grades the sole precaution of
the electric lines is in their brakes. The
cable cars have the additional resource of
being able to grip the cable if their brakes
fail. But as experience has shown that
cable cars can lose both grip and brake
power the possibility of the loss being
simultaneous shows the absolute need of
addit'onal precautions, both on cable and
electric lines.
It should not be difficult for inventive
genius to devise some means of stopping a
car wholly independent of and in addition
to its brakes and motive power. When
that is done, and not before, will the full
measure of safety for travel on our hill
lines be attained.
A GOOD BUSINESS BVROIIETER.
The migration of business houses is an
interesting feature in the growth of cities.
The movement of such a center of attrac
tion as the postoffice always gives rise to
alterations in the direction of retail trade.
The recent change in this city is no excep
tion to the rule, and the owners of prop
erty in the line of the new postoffice are
reaping a legitimate harvest. Removals
are expensive undertakings and not de
void of some risk; so that it is encouraging,
as a promise of prosperity in the business
outlook, to note the number of such
changes now on hand in the city's favored
district
ELECTRIC AXD OTHER EOADs,
Another expected extension of the elec
tric railroad system is presented as the
prediction of "a practical man" that
within two years the hills of Southern
Chautauqua will be "strung with electric
roads for the purpose of moving the grape
crop." The advantage held out is that
the roads can be built more cheaply and
more quickly than macadamized roads,
and are therefore more availa ble for this
purpose.
If the electric road is materially cheaper
than the steam railroad of the same gauge
and capacity, there can be little doubt that
it is destined to extend itself into a great
many sections where traffic is to be found
in quantities of considerable volume,
though not large enough to attract the
steam system. But there is still room for
doubt whether the electric road is superior
in economy to the steam railroad, in places
where the latter can be used. The track
for one must cost as much as for the other,
capacity and durability being equal. The
question, then, is whether electric power
can be applied more cheaply than direct
steam power; and up to date that is very
far from being demonstrated.
The assertion that the electric road is
cheaper than a macadamized highway also
calls tor investigation. It is plain that a
railway to be of much use must be laid
upon a solid bed. If not, Its usefulness
during the muddy season will be very
slight and its hazards far greater than an
ordinary mud road. But with a solid
road bed the essential condition of a
macadamized road is attained without the
extra cost of ties and rails. There is no
real rivalry between improved wagon
roads and electric railroads; the two
serve distinct-functions.
The New York JVrw bis reached the
double-leaded stage of frothing at the month
for war with Chile, and its last effort is a
column and a half pronnnciamento, in
which the assertion is made that "in the
diplomatic communications emanating from
the Chilean Government there is nowhere
to be found a word of regret for the tragedy
or condemnation for the outrage oxcept in
one place." That is, there is not in the com
munications which the Prets lias published,
that journal having been careful to omit
publication of tlie communications which
referred to the "lamentable" and "regretta
ble" occurrence, and gave official assurance
that the guilty parties should be punished.
Of such misrepresentation as this is the
war howl manufactured.
Stiil we fail to observe that any of the
gentlemen so anxious to engage in the noblo
exercise of war have gone down to flght
Colonel Gaizn, who has invaded United
States territory and fired on United States
troops.
THE comments of esteemed Republican
organs and the communications of tho Pres
ident's message on the wickedness of ger
rymanders might gain increased force if
they noted the announcement that tho Ohio
Legislature is going to re-district that State
so as to make 16 Republican districts, and 7
Democratic. But the indignation on that
score will be confined to the Democrats.
The gerrymander which arouses the wrath
of the party man is the gerrymander of the
opposite pal ty.
Theke is reason to congratulate Secre
tary Foster on the brilliant success with
which his present form of statement con
ceals information concerning the condition
of the Ircasnry.
There is an intimation of the power of
the literary man who catches the public
attention in the report that the long-delayed
recognition or Sir Frederick Roberts'
services, as Commander-in-Chief of the In
dian fnices, bv his elevation tothe peeraze,
is due to Rudyard Kipling. The passing
references to "Bob's Bahawdcr" by Kipling's
three musketeers of this century have told
the world more of that general's foresight
and ability than it has ever learned from
blue books or official reports.
It is a delightful surprise that the cold
spell should have staved with us so long;
and jet there are folks rash enough to
prophesy a further duration of seasonable
weather.
The German Government will have
trouble with the Socialists very soon if it
continues the line of action indicated in its
circular to the Stito railways which in
volves a reduction of wages, a dismissal of
employes and a consequent increase of
work for the surviving servants.
Tnn confiscation by the German Govern
ment of the printers' strike fund is an act at
once most aibitrary and unjust, and it is
difficult to conceive any kind of defense
for it.
! Trr at the c.nrnoration of TJnhlin should
hesitate to congratulate tho Queen on tho
m image of the Duke of Clarence is not to
be wondered at. The "noble" dnko has
more than all the vices of his father's youth
and about as-much brain power as the av
erage chicken.
The fatal result of the quirrel at a
chnrch door at lit. Carracl, this State, is one
more argument foi tho avoidance of discus
sion on religious topics.
The famine in Russia has reached serious
proportions, and contributions for the suf
ferers are being subscribed in many di
rections. If America cared to raise a fund
it would bo a very palpiblc proof of the
superior prosperity enjoyed under a Re
public. TJkcee Sam should make haste to settle
amicably with Chile. The Indian ghost
dancers are at it again and the army will
have its hands full.
TnE double-leaded announcement of the
New York World that it is going to elect a
Democratic President this year leaves a lit
tle io be done outside tho offlcoof that organ.
ItViU permit the Democratic convention to
nominate a candidate; and it will do the
rest. '
KXOWX TO THE WORLD.
It is reported that the doctors who are in
attendance on the Queen of Roumania des
pair of saving her life.
James Whistler's portrait of his
mothei his been purchased bv the French
Government for the Euxurnbuig Gallerv.
Chairman Bount has decided to ap
point Mr. Barlow Willingham, of Forsyth,
Ga., clerk to tho Committee on foreign Af
fairs. ,
The Norwegian composer, Grieg, and his
wife have just been celebrating the twentv
fifth anniveisiry ot their first public ap
pearance. Thfodore von JIommsen, the famous
German histoiian, celebrated the thirtieth
anniversary of his professorship in the Uni
vei sity of Berlin a lew days ago.
Senator Stavford believes that mag
netism can be developed in men and
horses by intelligent effort, and in bleeding
thoroughbieds on his California stock farm
he has made experiments to that end.
Colonel "Dick" Howard a prosper
ous and,highly admired lesident of Cone
sett, R. I., (New Pnovidence), is believed to
be the only survivor now left ot John
Brown's historic party at .Harper's Ferry.
THE father of the Princess Mav Victoria,
who has very recently suocumbed to the
charms of Princo Collars and Cuffs, used to
be called the Duke of Tick on account of
the extremely precarious condition of his
finances.
Secretary Noble has appointed Thos.
Nary, of Gull River, Minn., and Charles
Hasden, of Champlin, Minn.. Exammeisand
Appraisers of Chippewa Indian lands in
Minn., under the act of January 11, 18S9,
with a view to their further sale.
FIQHX WITH A TARANTULA.
A Yonkers Grocrr P.nns Across a Surprise
Party in a Hunch of Bananas.
New Tork, Jan. 5 Christian Gaul.a Yonk
ers grocer, was cutting off the bunches ftom
a branch of bananas when honoticeda cone
shaped nest clinging to one of the steins.
While h" was examining it an ugly tarantula
dropped to the floor. Tho grocer hemmed
it in on every side by boxes, collected all the
penknives he could find and began throw
ing them point on at the insect, hoping to
pin it to the floor. Tlin first knire stiuck a
lood wide of the maik. Tho tarantula
leaped upon it like a flash and endeavored
to bury its claws in the handle. Suddenly it
maae a leap toward Mi . Gaul. Fortunately for
him it was benumbedby the cold in the store,
and consequently was not possessed of its
usual activitv. It struck the side of one of
the" boxes and fell back on the floor. Mr,
Gaul took a more deliberate aim and threw
another knife. Again the tarantula made a
leap and-endeavored to bury its talon in
the weapon. Kn-fe after knife was thrown,
with the same result.
Finding that his aim was not sufficiently
accurate to kill tho insect in that manner,
Mr. Gaul fastened a knife to the end of a
long stick and approachpd his foe from be
hind. Then he lowered his improvised
spear until the blade was within a few
inches of its body, and made u sudden jab.
Tho blade struck the tainntula fairly in the
middle or the back and pinned it to tho floor.
After a few convnlhivo movements or the
legs the fierce insect died: By actual meas
urement its body was 1 inches in length.
With Its legs spread it covered a diameter of
fi inches. Even in its benumbed condition it
could leap 2 feet irom the floor.
THE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA.
One more proof was afforded last evening
of tho dire need of this community for an
adequate and permanent muilc hall. The
octagonal Cyclorama Hall, with its single
central circle of lights placed well up toward
the lofty concave roof and streaming down
upon a brilliant audience numboring at le ist
1,500 of our best people, presented a most
pleasing picture, save for the big, paintlcss
sounding board hastily put up behind the
stage. But the requisite acoustic properties
were lacking, the sound was blurted and
muffled by a continuing vibration which was
not sufficiently broken up by the
streamers stretched from center to
circumference at Conductor Damiosch's
suggestion in the afternoon. More hangings
will be put up to day, it is promised; and,
maybe, if they muzzle tho Fort Wavno loco
motives and chain up the animal that keeps
ponnding lronin the cellar, this evening's
concert mayjie distinct and satisfying.
This unfortunate condition makes it im
possible to blame certain shortcomings in
the effectiveness of last night's concert upon
tho distinguished performers whom the Al
legheny Musical Association has had the en
terprise to engage for the occas'on. Enough
could be heard of the orchestra which,
with its gifted young conductor, ap
peared here for tho first time to
make it clear that Mr. Walter Dam
iosch's tact ard good fortune in securing
that $50,000 annual guarantee fund enable
him now to command permanently a bettor
body of players than have for tho past dozen
years been wont to play under him and his
more eminent father. Tho addition of such
artists nx Brodsky, Hekking nnd Koert, for
example, counts for something, to say noth
ing of the enlarged opportunity for re
hearsal. This orchestra has a clearer title
than ever to rank among the thieeor four
best in the country; though it will take
some time and, probably, some other things
to make in all respects the equal of the Bos
ton Symphony Oichestra, with which Pitts
burg is most familiar.
The programme opened with the "Tann
haeuser" overture and closed with the
"Rakoczy" match two sterling woiks of
their kind, but which should have been re
placed by selections which all the orchestras
and brass bands havo not combined to make
trite and stale even in Pittsburg. The same
remark applies to the two woiks for full
orchestra piogrammed this evening. Where
people nie limited to one, or at most two
visits of a complete orchestra each year, the
constant repetition of the same pieces is a
genuine grievance. Plenty of equivalents
can be found in orchestral literature, Just
as pleasing to those who know and care lit
tle about what thry aie to hear and much
more valuable and satisfying to tho grow
ing class that does care and wants to know
more.
The oftheard overture was, moreover,
played with less perfection of detail and
general effectiveness, than on several
former hearings. The wood-wind, not hav
ing warmed up. opened it with slightly false
intonations and the strings failed to swell
as they should in the passionate pulses that
throb mj ottcn in the Venus music. Aveiy
exciting climax was produced, however.
Mr. William J. Lavix, happy Bene
dict though he is, was sadlv circumstanced
in the big echoing hall and with the over
loud orchestra and did not attain tho suc
cess of his former appearance with the
Allegheny Association. His mellifluous
tenor had not the resonance, nor he, last
evening.the passionate forcefulness to carry
Walter's beautiful prize song ("Die Meistei-singei'-)
over the richaccompaniment winch
Wagner meant to be subdued to a difficult
degree of softness.
The tempo of the charming allegretto
which stands for the usual slow movement
in Beethoven's Seventh Symphony is one of
the moot points upon which the doc
tois difter among themselves. Mr.
Damiosch's pace was the slowest of the
slow and the music lost some of that sunny,
lomantic character peculiarly belonging to
this one of the immortal nine. Mr. Dam
loschitnpiovcd the time which ho thus ex
tended to cultivate refined dynamic effects
with marked success. In respect of delicate
nuances and general tonal balance this was
the best larger woifcof the evening.
The one important novelty was tho Theme
and Variations that foims a finale to Tsch
aikowski's third orchestral suite the same
which the flerv Russian conducted himself
at Carnegie Music Hall, Xow York, with
such superb effectiveness. The theme is
rhythmically striking and characteiistic: it
is simplv announced by the violins.
In its treatment the leader 'Of the
younger Russian school displays at
once his learning and the sponta
neous outflow of his national traits. After
halt a dozen distinct variations, all sharply
'contrasted in treatment, there is subjoined
an extended rhapsody by way of finale, iu
which the theme is led throughout tho
whole gamut of orchestral expression. The
prominent part lor solo violin occuinngln
this latter section wasglven by Mr. Brodsky
with u lovely, sensuous tone and artistic
interpretation. Mr. Damrosch read tho
work intelligently, though the defects of
the hall muddled his eftects to a considera
ble extent.
Anotjifr novelty was the "Norwegian
Artists' Carnival," by Svendsen, the dean of
Danish composers and conductors since
Gade's death. It should hae been called a
"picnic" lather than a "carnival;" it was
moie gay than giddy, more frolicsome
than furious had more archness than
abandon. Two morceaux foi strings
were also new. One, a "Serenade
Francaise," by Burgmein (nom Ce plume of
Ricordi, the Italian composer) was a dainty
imitation of the old French style of Rameau
and his i!k, a very naive bit of woik. The
other was a Xorwegian melody, by Grieg
suipassingly lovely in its tender, haunting
pathos, and displaying a variety of effect
not often got from the strings alone. It was
interpreted con amore by Mr. Damrosch nnd
his men; quite tho most admirable perform
ance of the evening.
Mrs. Ida Eulcr-KIein showed an increased
strength and lichness of voice as com
pared with hflr former appeaiances here
and was able to move tho audience to
actual enthusiasm, compelling a repe
tition of her number, Elizabeth's greet
ing to tho hall of song, fiom "Tannhaeusoi."
She sang with passionate intensity
though without quite the breadth and
dignity of style requisite. The "Rakoczy"
mnrch the form in winch Berlioz, for his
"Damnation of Faust,-' cast the old national
airinhented by the Hungarians from valiant
Franz Rakoczy of the eirly Eighteenth Cen
turywas played with much vigor and
spirit, bringing the evening to a close in a
blaze of brass.
This evening Mr. Damrosch will begin
the programme with Weber's "Freischuetz"
oveiturc. Ml. W. A. Laffeity will then lead
the forces including, besides the oichestia,
the Allegheny Musical Association chorus,
with 31i s. Ida Klem, Miss Mary Binkerd,
Mr. J. W. Lavmand Mr. Homer Moore, in
solo paits through Sir Julius Benedict's
enntata, "St. Cecilia." Mi. Damrosch will
conclude the evening with Haydn's "Kaisei"
quartette, played by tho string oichestra,
and Liszt's symphonic poem "Lea Preludes,"
inserting possibly one otheroichestral woik
in the second part, if tho piogramme be
not found too long. C. W. S.
Money In the State Treasury.
IlAnniSBCRO, Jan. 5. Special. Tho Stato
Treasurer's monthly rcpoit shons $762,703 25
in tho sinking fund and 5,i30,C71 17 in the
general fund. It is out of tho latter fund
that the schools of the Stato will receive
the annual appropriation of $3,000,000 in
Juno. After that date the general fund is
not expected to be very large, except Just
before the school payment is made each
ycai.
Garza's Eccentricities Explained.
Chicago Tribune.
The statement that Garza is an ex-sewing
machine agent may explain some of the
eccentricities of his recent career, but is
certainly no palliation.
Canada's Opportunity. ,
Chicago Intcr-Ocean.l
Chicago might take advantage of leap
year to propose annexation.
WHY HABEISOH "WAS CHOSEN.
The Queer Barzain Said to Havo Been Ar
ranged by Secretary Elkinn.
CLBVELAJ.D, O., Jan. 5 Special. A point
of great importance is announced by a gen
tleman of this city who knows what he is
talking about, in regard to the nomination
of Benjamin Harrison in 1S8S This point
explains many things that havo heretofore
not been well understood and makes plain
why several subsequent events have taken
place.
While the convention was .in session in
Chicago and tho result was still in doubt,
Stophen B. Elkins, who was practically in
charge of the Blaine interests, took a fast
train for Indianapolis and held an interview
with Benjamin Harrison, laying the follow
ing proposition before him:
"We c-innot nominate Blaine," siid Elkins.
"The doubt that exists about his heilth and
the qnestion as to whether he would accept
are insurmountable obstacles. We have de
cided that ou are the roost available man.
We can nominate you. We will do so on
one condition viz: that you will accept with
the understanding that you shall hold the
office for one term onlv, that at the end of
your first term if James G. Blaine's health
is in such condition that he can accept ho
shall have the nomination without opposi
tion on your part. You cannot be nomi
nated without our help that is a settled
fact. Womifeethe further stipulation that
aou shall put Mr. Blaine In j our Cabinet as
Secretary ot State and shall permit him to
make as much of a record as he can in that
office, without let or hindrance."
Mr. Elkins insisted that there was no time
to waste in delay nnd that the decision must
be made immediately. He insisted further
that Harrison could not be nominated with
out tho accession of the Blaine men, nnd
that this accession could only be had on the
conditions named above. After a short de
liberation ami consultation with the friends
at home Mr. Harrison decided to accept tho
conditions.
Mr. Elkins toofe the train to Chicago and
the outcome is well known. Hnmsonwns
nominated. Blaine was put into the Cabinet.
The great record has been made by him and
Mi. Harrison well kuows, according to tho
claims of the gentleman who informs us, that
he is held to the agreement he hns made.
Tho selection of Elkins as Secretary of
War is a manifestation of appreciation of
the service the latter gentleman peformed
in nominating Mr. Harrison.
Should anything happen so that Mr.Blnine
cannot accept the nomination this j ear, of
course Mr. Harrison will be renominated
nnd his managers feel that it will be a mat
ter of advantage to have Mr. Elkins in line
with that end in view.
It is considered, however, by those who
know most of the matter tint Mr. Blaine
till be demanded bv the great mass of the
Republican paityand nothing can prevent
his nomination.
TALK OP THE TIMES.
It is a little eailv to be worrying about the
ice crop. Boslort Herald. We may be happy
yet but it's a long time coming.
TnE West will probably furnish the Re
publican Presidental candidate. St. Louis
Globe-Democrat. Mr. Blaine may have a
woid or two to sav about that.
Xow France wants a lociprocity treaty
with us. She is speaking lather late, hut
perhaps she can be accommodated. Buffalo
Express. Let the good work go mat ching on.
The proposed now wings to the White
House w ill cost 41,000,000. They must be try
ing to convert it into a flying machine.
Omaha World-Herald. It is a living ma
chine that is it makes money fly.
Colovel nEMvr WatteksoVs mind is just
now in the condition of a tightly coiked
bottle of apollinans Chicago 2?ctvs. On the
contrary, Mr. Crisp has pulled tho stopper
out and the Colonel went oft with a fizz
some time since.
The country will soon have an opportunity
to size up the statesmanship of David B.
Hill and see how little there is of It.Xew
York Recorder. Jones, who pays the freight,
thinks"!). B." has already shown too much
statesmanship.
Ox old Ohio's flghtmg-ground John Sher
man's tents are spread, and John himself is
pnncingiound to punch Foraker's head
Chicago Tribune. Ho seems to have already
accomplished his -puipose figuratively
speaking.
Ir ex-Senator Ingalls could swear off from
the contemplation of himself for one year
he would be a greatlv improved man in 1893.
Chicago Tribune Too late now for puch a
course. A bad hnbit is not broken off readi
ly at such a short notice.
ELECTEICAL MOTIVE POWER.
A Schema tS Revolntionlz" the Process of
Minnfactnring Flour.
St. Paul, Mt:: , Jan. 5 An event of in
terest to manufacturers and scientists is to
occur here within the next twp months, viz,
the election of a great flour mill to be oper
ated entirely by electucity. The structure
is to be on the site of f he St. Paul Roller
Mill, burned two years ago. and is to bo
under the direction of Kingsland Smith, f
St. Paul.
If the experiment proves a success, all of
the great mills of St. Paul and Minneapolis,
including those of Washuum's and the
Pillsbury English syndicate, wrll use elec
tricitv as motive powei. The watr of the
falls of the Mississippi is being used only tor
the uenemtion of electucitv. Kingsland
Smith some j ears ago invented the loller
piocess, which then created a revolution in
flour making. He has been expenmenting
w ith electricity, applied to a mill model, for
tho past year, and announces that he has
solved the problem of manufactuiing flour
with "harnessed lightning."
He says: "I have become thoroughly con
vinced of iis cheapness and its entii'e prac
ticability in tunning even the heaviest flour
millmachlneiy. Moreover, I think that it
will revolutionize tho whole question of
motive power, and in the next two years all
great manufacturing concerns will be run
by electricity."
AN INDIAN SKELETON DUG UP.
It Was Found 'W ith Other Kcllcs by
Workmen Digging a Cellar.
PBiLADiLrHiA, Jan. 5 The skeleton of an
Indian has been found by workmen digging
a cellar nt Fiankford avenue-and Ontauo
street. The exc nation for the cellar,
which is 80x100 feet, is almost complete d,
and during the progress of the work several
Indian relics hao been exhumed. OnSat
uiday, in a strata of bluish clay, a toma
hawk and several ai row heads weie d tip up,
and near them, in a sitting posture, with his
lace looking toward the east, sat the skele
ton of the red man.
The oones weio carefully collected and
pliicod in a thed used as a tool house, and
invitations will be sent to a number of
scientists to make an examination of the re
mains, which aie in an excellent state of
preseivation. A quantity of numpum, in
closed In an caithcm pot, shaped like a
cocoanut, was found at the feet of the
skeleton. It is supposed the skeleton is
that of a waiiior, and Horn the quantity of
wampum, or Indian money, and other ai
ticles lound by his side, must havo been a
prominent peionage in his tube.
Iteclornclty Goes Mnrching On.
New York Recorder.
A new commeicial treaty with San Salva
dor! So reciprocity goes marching on.
CAXADVS INDEPENDENCE.
Lahocchkre has scarcely given John Bull
time to digest his Christmas dinner until he
piods him with Canadian independence.
Omaha World Herald.
Canada is on the verge of independence,
but she has not decided jet whether sho
will go it alone or tomo into the Union. Wo
will welcome her as a sister. Boston Ifews.
Canada comp.ains that none of her public
men was made a knight on New Year's Day.
When she comes into the Unioi we'll make
all her people sovereigns. Sew York Re
corder. '
Miss Canada, this is leap jear. Do you
hear? II 3 ou want a union with Uncle Snra,
populai opinion will uphold you in "pop
ping the question" any time during the year
lS'tt. Think it over. Philadelphia Press.
LABorcHEREmay be right in his statement
that it would bo u sad tiling to turn the
Canadian Indians over to ourconupt Indian
Bureau, but Canadian annextion has its
perils'lor us whites, too. Think of our Treas
ury at tho mercy of Mei cier and idlleagued.
Omaha World'Herald.
DANCING IN PENN'S WOOD.
Sirs. Christopher Magee Entertains Grown
up Friends In the Afternoon and Young
People In the Evening Endles Go West
With the Journalists Lire In the Tollte
World.
Mrs. CHKisTorHEK L. Magee cave an
afternoon reception yesterday Iroml to6,sup
plementing it with a danco to 'the younger
people in honor of her nieces from 9 o'clock
in the evening. Peunsjlvan. the beautiful
Magee lesidencc, which might be said to
Join all the characteristics of a gentleman's
country house to the advantages of a su
burban villa, was beautifnlly prepared with
flowers. It is n large house, many rooms of
which would not be strained much in ac
commodating tho dalpty Queen Anne,
in which this generation revels. The re
ception was held in the music room, where
intheevenihg the young guests disported
themselves in the dance. Roses were the
principal decoration, and In suitable places
about stood great vases of long stemmed
American Beauties. The guests were served
with refreshments in the dining room at
small tibles which stood round a center
table, on which weie vnses full of the beau
tiful Mis. Lung rose. The dressing rooms,
which are all on the second floor, were not
lorgotten either, and the wraps of the
guests had as much of tho flowers as had
their wearers. The brisk fall ot snow of tho
diy before gave the grounds a beautiful
winter garb. Mrs. JIagee was assisted in re
ceiving by her Hters, Mrs. Frederick
Magee and Mrs. Pease, of Masillon, O. Tho
fashionable world was fully repreiented.Mr.
Magee came home in time to greet a few of
his wife's guests, but the greater part of
them had made their adieus before that gen
tleman's ariival.
Mb. George H. "SVelshoss, who left
last night for San Francisco, by way of
Erie, where the Eistern delegation will be
joined, is accompanied by Mrs. Welshons
and liis sister, Mrs. Cameron. The only
other lady in the Pittsburg party is Miss
Sophia J. Keenan, sister of Thomas J. Kce
nan, Jr., President of the International
League PressofCIubs,which convenes in San
Francisco next week. Fittsburg's feminin
ity is not to be largely represented at the
convention, nnd women in jonrnali-m not at
all: for Miss Keenan, who could lav claim to
tho title, is going pnvately as the guest of
her brother.
Mrs. H. Kirk Porter is superintend
ing a series of extensive and elaborate im
prdvements in her East End lesidence
which, when completed, will make it one of
the most perfect establishments for the dis
pensing of private hospitality in the city.
Mr. and Mrs. Porter being art co moisseurs
as well as art patrons, an art gallery is
among tne additions being made, some at
tention will hereafter be given to private
theatucal performances, in which Miss
Hegeman is said to takealivelvinterest.and
to this end a small theater i3 being beau
tifully fitted up.
' Colonel and Mns. J. M. Scnoox
makep. Mrs. Carter C nrtis Begas, Mrs. Le
Moyne, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Kirk Porter and
Mv-s Hegeman have signified their intention
of becoming patrons of tne Max O'Rcll lect
ure in aid of the French Mission on next
Saturday eveuing. It promises to be one of
the most fashionable events of the season of
this kind, and undoubtedly w III be the most
aiistocratic audience Mr. Blouet has ad
dressed m this city. An absurd lumor has
gone abroad that Mr. Blouet will speak in
French, possiblvbv some one confounding
tho cause and the lecture. Tho public may
disabu-o its mind of this, as the lecture,
"America as Seen Through French Gla-ses,"
will be delivered in English. Rooms lime
been prenarcd for the distinguished French
man's ai rival at the Kennmwr Hotel, where
he will bo tho guebt of Prof. Henri Rolliu
Parker, Secretary of the French Mission.
The method of applying the excess of
money over expenses realized by the itiner
ant concert of the Yale College Mandolin
and Glee Clubs is not generally understood.
The funds are eritiiely used for scholarships
for young men who either can pay but part
of their college exnensos or must put them
selves t rough byieason of their own dili
gence alone. The faculty of Yale is given
control of the inonev, nnd it is left in their
power to put it to the best possible nc. It
is a very practical wav of aiding gentlemen
who are unfortunately situated regaiding
this world's goods, and, at the same time, an
agreeable wav, as there is no unnecessary
tinkling of cymbals.
Social Chatter.
A coMijro spirited discussion between Mrs.
Andrew Easton and Mr. 3Iooron "Celtic
Feudalism versus Chartered Ownership"
is being looked forward to with great in
terest bv the Traveler's Club of Alleghenv.
Both ladies are foremost in the club, and in
consequence when the debite takes place,
as it win on next i nuay in uarnegte nan at
2 o'clock, there will be a lull representation
present.
1 Horon it has been stated as such several
times, .Miss Margaret Brown's german at the
Pittsburg Club on Thuisday evening is not
a coming out ball. Miss Brown is one of tho
debutantes of the season, but the forth
coming dance is not an affair at which she
is expected formally to blossom forth, but
simplv an elegant function given in her
her honor by some of her relatives.
Mr. Walter Damrosch. as the son-in-law
of Mr. Blaino and protege of Andrew Car
negie.attracted a fashionablo audience to the
Cvclorama Auditorium, Allegheny.last night.
Such a gnthering only empha-ozed more
stronglv thin ever the need in Pittsbnrgof
a fine music hall instead ot the miserable
mikeshifts in the way of auditoriums that
it enjoj s at present.
.Tames Whitcovb Rilet is being enter
tained with true Pittsburg hospitality, and
all that lemains to make the Hoosier poet's
visit a svmphonv in fact, is for him to
rhyme about that "true Pittsbnrg hospi
talitv." Mr. Rilcv Is as good a dinner com
panion as he is a singei.
A rxvASTT event of last night was Miss
Rose Cillery's evening party in honor of
Mrs. cnanes i.tvingston, oi .New ioik. Mrs.
Livingston was Miss Keating, and her wed
ding in Sacre1 Heart Chinch wasalashion
able fnnction of a month ago.
Mrs. Thovus M. Carieoie goes to her
Southern home on Fi id ly to rem lin for the
w inter and will he accompanied by her
family. During her absence her town bouse
remains closed up.
Thf friends of Mrs. H. K. Porter will be
distressed to le irn that sho is confined to
her bed and quite ill. Mr. Porter will ac
company her South as soon as a journey is
feasible.
Mrs. Marv SnrrER. sistcr-in law of ex
Alderman Shaeror, of the T-ventv-ninth
waid, was married list night to John" Pasha,
of the Souihside. I
Mrs. Charles Livixostov is visiting in
Pittsbnrg, and Is receiving many attentions
from her friends in town.
Misstelh.Havs gives a lrnchoon this
afternoon for Miss Fiances Inman.
Mrs. Dewtes Wood gives a card party to
night for Miss Fulton, of New York.
GREENLAND'S GLACIEBS.
A German Expedition 1 III Devote a Year
to Studying Their Movement".
Berltv, Jan. I. Tho Berlin Geographical
Society will next year' begin the study of
glacial phenomena in Greenland. The pre
liminary expedition sent outlast summer
has returned. The pai ty, under the leader
ship of Dr. E. Von Drygalski, spent six
week3 in Southwest Greenland for the pur
pose of selecting the most desirable place
for the study to advantage of the ice move
ments. After visiting a number of tho
largest gliclal stream-., Karijak Glacier in
about 70 34' north latitudo was selected as
the beat place to carry on their vi ork.
A house and a complete equipment for a
year will be carried out next spring, and the
party will c my on their observations for at
least 12 months. The Geographical Society
hopes from the study of these enormous ice
movements in Greenland to derive impor
tant data Tor studying the glacial age, which
at one time coveied North Germany with
ico.
DEFECTIVE B0ILEES.
Seventeen British Warships Cannot Get Up
Sufficient Steam.
Lojidox, Ja A. 5 Tho Pall Mall Gazelle says
that 17 British warships are furnished with
a certain class of boilers, which are unable
to generate steam sufficient for the vessels
to attain tho speed with which they are
credited.
To make the changes nccessnrv, the Gazette
savs, will involve an outlay or X10U.000. The
Vulcan, tho new protected torpedo depot
ship, is now being repaired at n cose ofX30,
000, and. according to the Gazette, the Thun
derer and tho Devastation will be the next
vessels to have their boilers changed.
He Got There Just the Same.
Toledo Blade.
The first name of the new Senator from
Kansas, Mr. Perkins, is not Ell, though ho
"got there" just the same.
CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. Jf,
Alexandria has the largest artificial
harbor in the w orld.
Over 20,000,000 copies of hymns have'
been sold since 1872.
Moneylenders in England frequently
charge COO per cent.
The total income of the Church of Eng
land is about $1,000,000 a week.
The Italian Government raises 515,000,- "
000 yearly by holding lotteries.
The smallest parish in England is Hil
cot. It has but seven persons.
-wPetitions to the British House of Com
mons must be written, not printed.
Forty-five per cent of the water drawn
for domestic purposes in London is wasted.
Turkev is rarelv boiled in this country,
while it is a dish highly estimated in Eng- ,
land.
A fir tree 33 feet in circumference has
been found in Whatcom county, Wash
ington. Over 160.000 couples have been married
in the Manchester Cathedral during tho last
33 years. ,
Barbers usually gamble with the money
eirned by shaving dead men. It brings luck,
they say.
Three times as much spirits are con
sumed in Scotland, according to the popula
tion, as in England.
The three longest South American
rivers outsidn of the Amazon are the Rio
Mederia, Rio Negro and Orinoco.
Eggs are fried in shapes of hearts, stars
and other devices by means of pans having
sunken places in these shapes.
Out of an Indian population of 250,488
there are but 2 619 voters. The Indian vote
will not be an issue in the next campaign.
"When Columbus discovered America
he found that the Indians possessed dogs.
They were direct descendants of the wild
coyotes of the plains.
Thousands of men, women and children
in the mountains of Spiin and Portugal are
busied in cutting cork. It is a domestic
trade, nnd it occupies whole villages.
Lobsters often travel in regiments,
seeking new feeding grounds. Their mi
grating armies are always led by the biggest
and strongest ones, while tho maimed and
weakly struggle along behind.
Many of the London photographers are
introducing electric lights in their studios
Doth for taking the pictures and printing
the negative, the long periods of fozgy
weather preventing the uso of direct sun
light. During the 2T years ending with 185.",
1,491 new papers were started in New York,
including 60 dailies and 611 weeklies. Of
these papers 1.105 died before tho end of tho
25 vcars, leaving a percentage of about 33
survivors.
A French physician claims to have
cured 12 caes of consumption bv placing
tho patients for two or three hours every
day in a compartment filled with com
pressed air containing the vapora ot creosote
mixed with eucalyptus.
A remarkable family of eight old wo
rren is living in the same house at Vexo,
Sweden. Three are widows and five are
old maids. Their ages aggregate within a
year or two of 700 years, each of the women
being nearly 00 years of age.
Consul Heath savs that many of the
houses in Catania uto built of the lava which
poured forth from Mt. Etna in great streams
on the neiahboring clay beds. This mixture
of clay and lava is now mixed and used to
great advantage in building.
The largest part of the coast of France
that is suitable for the growing of oysters is
divided into spaces of 30 yards square. These
pirks are sold to the fishermen for $60
apiece, and the beds under proper cultiva
tion are made to yield enormous returns.
The Mormon temple at Salt Lake City,
which is of enormous dimensions, is built in
the form of a true eclipse, and a person
standing in the focus at one end can carry
on conversit'on in a whisper with another
who places himself in the focus at the other
end.
Large ships were not unknown to the
ancients and some of the most roomy at
tained dimensions equil to ships of modern
times. Nevertheless they were unmanage
able monstrosities, almost at the mercy of
wind and wave, and utterly unfit to cope
with the fnry of a hurricane.
An Oroville bootblack has brought suit
against a "Native Son" of that place for im
personating him at a masquerade, ne alleges
that he has Ven guyed since the ball to the
extent of 51,000 and that his feelings are
lacerated to the extent of $2,500 more. Hence
he brings suit for $3,5COlamages.
In Ireland only one shamrock is known.
It is an indigenons species or clover, which
trails along the ground among the grass in
meadows. The trefoil leaves are not more
than one-fourth the size of the smallest
clover in America, and are pure green in
color, without any of the brown shading of
white and pink clovers.
The longest electric railway in the world
is to be constructed in Russia. The project
is being considered of constructing a line
from St. Petersburg to Archangel, a port of
the White Sea. a distance of more than X)
kilometers (I'M miles). The electric current
is to be lurnished by a series of generating
stations distributed along-the line.
So late as the middle ages cats were
comDaratively scarce in Enropo and were
so highly prized that anyperson who killed
one were obliged to pay aflne. This penalty
sometimes was required to be paid In the
shape of a pile of wheat big enough to cover
the slain animal when ib was held vertically
by the tip of Its tail, the nose touching the
ground.
Three miles an hour is about the aver
age of the gnlf stream, ithongh at certain
places it attains a speed -of 54 miles. In the
Yucatan channel, for instance, where it is 90
miles wide and 1,000 fathoms deep, the cur
rent is not over a auarter of a mile an hour.
In the Straits of Beminl Che current is so
rapid as to give the surface of the water the
appearance of being a shebof fire.
Zerah Colburn was the most gifted
mathematician ever known. When only 8
years old he raised tho number 8 success
ively to the sixteenth power, and in naming
the last result, which con ?isted of 13 figures,
he was right in everv one. On being asked
the sqnaie root of 10o,929, he answered 327
before the old gray-haired philosopher ques
tioner had time to put it dcynm. He was next
asked how many minutes there were In 48
years and instantly replied eSiSS.SOO. and five
seconds later gave the astonished savanta
the exact number of seconds.
MEDDLING WITH TEIIIXES.
Fifth avenue nurse The children want
to know, mi'am, if they can wash their faces.
Fifth aTenuematron-Certalnly not. Marie. This
Is Fldo's diy for a bath. Judaer
The people are not feeling gay
To-lay. becan'e tlicy nnd.'
That when the old year went away
He left his grip behind.
Srw Tork Press.
Baggs- Say. W fellow, there's a new ten
dollar counterfeit out.
Jaggs I know it. and that's henr I happen to be
onl" to about the same extent. Boston Courier.
"William Ann Are yon going to send
your con through college. Uncle Treetop?
Uncle Treetop I guess so ir the President ever
write me how much the tuition it.
Wil llam Ann What college ha-re you in mind?
Uncle Treetop I understand that the Electoral
College Is about as likely as any on 'em. Harper's
Bazar.
, She rises up relieved to-day,
For rest has come at last;
"Now heaven be thanked." wie hear her say,
The shopping craze Is pastl"
Colorado Sun.
Barbara That was "Comrades" the band
was playlnjr Just now.
Annt Kate (who Is not musical) Why. how did
you know? Somtrxille Journal.
Nickleby I never knew of a man whoj
did so little quarreling with his wife as Rankin
does.
Snuecrs Whr, they don't live together!
I know It!" Boston Xaes.
Blest be the New Year's Day that saw
The man who loudly swore
He never would In all his life
faing "Comrades" any more.
. Washington Star. f
Mephisto If St. Peter doesn't stop send
ing American crank Inventors dowa here I'll
throw up ray job.
Asmodeus What is the trouble?
Mephisto Why, one of these fellows came to me
to-day and submitted plans for having this place
heated witi' steam and hot air Instead of brixa
tone. Sew lark Herald. 1