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PRESIDENTAL STOCK
Fluctuating: Fnrionsly in tlie.
ftcw York 3rarket
Xow, Vitli
HILL 5ECUEITIES LEADING.
In
Spite of His Bad Breaks
Loose Tongue His
and
METHODS AKE QUOTED YERYHIGH.
The Decline of Harrison and tlie Eoomins
of Elaine Also
'FDEXISH PUZZLES JTOR THE TEOPLE
rrnOM a staft cORitEsrov-nrvr."
KEW YortK, Jan. & The New York po
litical market show s a good many fluctua
tions within the lat two weeks. Hill
stock has been on the jump one way or
another almost every day ot the fortnight.
Cleveland, are weak. Plait securities flut
tered, roe and fell, and finally tumbled to
the Democratic situation at Albany. The
bottom seems, to have fallen out of the en
tire rlatt-lliseock astern. This brings
about a strong reaction in Harrison first
mortgage preidentals and sends iilaine Con
tois to the front booming.
The wild fluctuations in Hill stock are
due to tlie success of that distinguished
gentleman's friends in getting control of
the State Legislature, to his Klmira free
coinage speech, to its subsequent modifi
cation, to his peculiar declaration of princi
ples and the resultant tangle anions his
admirers. Not een Senator Hill's wost
political enemies in this State deny him the
credit of having obtained the key to the
situation at Albany by his oun superb
political sagacity, legal astuteness
ami a pertinacity of purpose verg
ing upon obstinacy, and of hav
ing applied that key with success.
Hill's strength seems to lie in the
direction which indicated the creates! need
"of a master mind. These complications
arising out of the new ballot law muddled
the entire judiciary of the State Laws of
any kind arc in a comparatively crude state
until settled bv repeated and uniform con
struction of the iiropcr courts. When it is
a ballot law nnd the result of these judicial
deci-ions inolves the political power, the
excitement and unrest during their pen
dancy mar be considered quite natural.
"While both parties hung breathlessly upon
the will oi the Court of Appeals, neither
jmrtv lelt any loophole that could be
stopped against failure. The entire Democ
racy of the State leaned upon Gocrnor
Hill. They accorded him the personal di-
rection ol every detail and seconded cverv
laoie of their wily leader with confidence
and enthusiasm. They now cheerfully
credit him with the successful outcome.
Kill a Winner From tlio Start.
. Pitted against the solid Hill formation
stood Boss 1'latt and his broken machine.
In every respect the contest was an un
wiual one. The deeji-seatcd disgust felt by
ltepublicans geiwrallv lor the 1'Jatt domina
tion made it impossible to brine; the Ite
publican forces under control. AVith lac
tional enmity permeating every election
district in the State it is not surprising that
the preliminary steps to the adjudication of
the election case8 larked thoroughness, and
that those iLo had their management were
"wanting in 'he unitv of ; urpoe which
characterized the Democratic side. But
the most conspicuous cvataple of the
consequences of Republican misrule in
. New York is to be found in the novel po
sition of State Senator Edwards, It is most
'conspicuous now from the practical conse
quences to the party. Edward-, is a Itepub
lican. He lias always been a Republican.
But he was elected to the State Seuute on
the distinct is-ue of anti-1'l.ittism. Now, it
fo happened that e en with favorable de
cisious of the Canvassing Board and Court
of Appeals to the Democracy, Kduanis be
came a niot important quantity. "With
Edwards the Republicans could in a measure
dictate terms if thrv could not control en
tirely without LMuards they were to lose
the government thoy had continuously con
trolled through the Senate for ten years in
spite of the Democratic majority of the
State of New York. The Democrats did
not necessarily require LMwards vote
they only needed his presence.
By siding with the Republicans even
to that extent the anti-Platt Senator must
have placed himself under the l'latt thumb
and done exactly what his Republican con
stituency elected him not to do. He bravely
refused to stultify himself. He resisted art
lals and threats" aud temptations from the
boSs.that might hae rca-onablv moved
etherVj-u. But they didn't move Edwards.
He vjst his scat and did his duty. And
in doing it he knocked the already broken
l'latt machine into smithereens.
A Prestige That Is Formidable.
The favorable prestige of this victory to
Goernor Hill, so far as New York is con
cerned, cannot be over-estimated. For the
time being he rises above even his own
loolish utterance's Had he been satisfied
to abide tor the present by the results of
his political cleerness instead of plung
ing into the national arena before he got
.his Senatorial coat on and cssajiug to map
ut the work of the National Congress 3nd
lay down the complete platform for the
national Democracy Jlr. Hill would now be
enjoying some rosy national prospects. The
greatest of lost opportunities in politi
cal life arc opportunities for keeping the
mouth shut Senator Hill has lost just
such a golden opportunity. His most ar
dent friends here on e cry hand lament it.
if ot a few of them are surprised to discover
how weak a strong man can be in spots.
The fact that they will probably not ad
mit is that Hill is strong only as far as to
.2k'c YorK. political affairs. He is fully
learncd in State methods and splendidly
equipped for local political management.
Ju national politics he is new, crude and
wanting in the intellectual breadth that
comes only of national experience. Noth
ing could more forcibly illustrate this than
his queer jugglery with the siher question
and his platform upon which he would
hae the Democratic House of Representa
tives go le-T- the country. The idea of
setting the tariff back where it was before
the passage of the McKinlcyact as a na
tional Democratic campaign issue is un
worthy of a Texas cross-road politician.
The scheme ot simply tearing down what
tlie Jiepuuiican party nas built up without
attempting practical relief for the evils and
accepting tlie unquestionable benefits that
exist from former legislation is a scheme so
stupid and narrow ot conception that the
wonder is that any man. would have courage
to acknowledge his belief in it. From
ooe whose name rises to every lip
wherever the question of the Presidental
succession is discussed jt seems incredible.
Nor is the proposition of "Repeal-Repeal"
made any stronger by the reasoning of its
distinguished authtr, namely: that the
House cWi rcp-nl :t can only put the
other side in a hole. These hi eaks of our
lewly Sfsjg-J Senator indicate that Mr.
'Jharles A. Dana knew what he was talking
about when he. declared that Hill's Presi
dtntal strength lay in the Gubernatorial
chair :: New York when he stepped down
;rora that into the Sen. ti ol the United
States he -.733 a. dead duck.
llarrIon l)rlitic a Oncer Teatare.
Anolher interesting feature of the recent
contest is ; tie decline or President Harrison
f and the sdvaucement ol Blaine in public
er opinion. 1 can scarcely aeeonut for this
Btfv-rnf nn the ppnpral fivnntl,ncia 4l,ot l,i
Harrison and Piatt machine in New York
means to most New York Republicans
about the same thing. The poll ot the State
Legislature made bvthe 11 orid show s"a de
cided preference for the man from JIaine.
The proportion would probably hold good
throughout the State. The "Presidental
New York appointments have not been sat
isfactory to the Republicans here. This is
not .President Harrison's fault No.possi
blc combinations or compromises could
iiave been made by him that would not
have left a bitter sting behind. The ad
ministration would be better off to-day, so
far as the future i concerned, if it had no
New York patronace whatever, What ap
plies to this administration applies with
equal force to the administrations of the
past and will applv to those to come.
The Inch federal officers of New York have
split the party management beyond repair.
A patronage which was important enough
to cause Roeoe Conkling to resign his seat
in the Senate of the United States is not
tinlikelv to be a source of considerable irri
tation to the smaller men who sneceeded
him. In Cleveland's hands this power was
exercised and this patronage was distributed
in a way that will never be forgiven by the
Democracy of New York. He ljad the
same extremes to satisfy that Garfield had.
And the result killed 'him politically in
Ne.w York and Indiana. Now comes Presi
dent Harrison, and he will in his turn feel
tlie sharp iron of ingratitude and jealomy
and factional rancor when it comes to mak
ing up the New York delegation to the next
national convention.
Itlnlne's Popularity a Fnzzle.
Curious, isn't it, that James G. Maine
now overshadows Harrison in the public
mind just as he overshadowed Garfield in
1S81? Public opinion Republican public
opinion forced Blaine upon Garfield. The
same power made Blaine a State necessity
to Harrison. Nobody thought of the Gar
field administration except through Blaine.
And here he is now silently accepting the
laurels of the Harrison administration
where these rewards are won, and modestly
declining the responsibility for questiona
ble policv. "What is the secret of this
magnetic human force? "What has Blaine
actually accomplished that has placed him
16 near" tlie people that has impres cd his
personality upon the popular heart?
What does he represent that Har
rison does not represent? "What could
Blaine do as President that Harrison can
not do? "Would Blaine step down from the
Presidental chair at the end of four years
as popular and great in public estimation as
he is now; as he has been at any time dur
ing the last two decades0
I doubt it 3Iy own opinion is that
Blaine is largely a sentiment Put to the
trving test of chief responsibility for the
administration of the Government, and the
ideal "Only living American" would prob
ably crumble into ordinarv dust Blaine's
post mortem greatness will perhaps depend
on his declination of the Presidency when
it is reasonably certain he could have been
elected.
Yet it really seems necessarv for some
body's comfort that James G. Blaine should
be killed off again pretty soon.
Charles Theodouh Murray.
POWDEELY IS GEEATLY WOBBIED.
A n Address From the General Master Work
man on Chinese Immigration.
PniLADEtriiiA, Jan. 8. General Master
"Workman Powdcrly has just issued an ad
dress on the Chinese immigration question
which is to be read in all district and local
assemblies of the Knights of Labor. In the
address Mr. Powderly says that had not the
tide of immigration been checked there
w ould not be a white laborer now at work
west of the Rocky Mountains, while those
cast of that range would be retreating be
fore the barbaric hordes who work almost
for nothing.. In speaking of the Chinese re
striction act, Mr. Powderly says:
On May 0, lSS2,-that act was signed by
President Arthur: it went into effect 33 days
after lie signed it, and after the Ctli day of
next May it will nave expired and every
batricrto the immigration and importation
of Chinese cheap labor will be sweptaway.
Wages reduced to a level at which manhood
cannot be maintained, the substitution of
the Mongol slave for tho American freeman,
the abandonment or the home lor the street
nnd slum, tho prostitution of men and
women, talents aud bodies, and tlie final
overthrow of tlie republic, are among tho
possibilities if Congress docs not re-enact
that or a more stringent law for the prohibi
tion or this most servile of all races.
Some of the most powerful influences in
this nution are now at work on Congress in
tliu interceding for the Chinese. They are
at w ml: on Congressmen and Senators; their
missionaries aie laying plans for the con
version of the l'lesiuento'the UmtcdStates
to their theories Standing behind themaro
tlie Christian omplojers of this land, who
w ould ratlier import :v heathen willing to
work for barely enouijii to s.istnin lite than
re tarn a bt other Christian At a wag" sufficient
to enable a man to live an incomes a
Christi.iu. We do not want the opium or
the Chinese who srroiv it: both are curses
when planted w hero c:vi.iza' in li-is a foot
hold. Mr. Powderly makes a strong plea for
the restriction of immigration "of a kind
that is searcclv anv better than that which
flows from China." He says:
I believe that tho day has arrived for
those who love humanity to protest against
tho further immigration of these people,
llie United States and Canada should no
longer constitute the salety alve of Europe.
Self-pi enervation is the first law of nature,
and the time has come to state fearlessly
and unequivocally that the immigration of
to-day is a curse to those who are here as
well as to those to conic.
In conclusion Mr. Powderly urges all
members of the order to work for the re
striction of immigration and the election of
United States Senators bv direct vote.
MAIL is carried overland In Allegheny
county, jnst as in the far Wet. Stofiel de
scribes in THE DISrATCII to-morrow a
trip with one of tlie star-routers. He travels
30 miles for SI 44.
YELLOW JACK'S HAVOC.
Nearly 400 Deaths a Week tho Record at a
ISrazilinn Seaport City.
New York, Jan. 8. Special Nearly
every vessel from Santos, Brazil, loses one
or more of her crew by yellow fever on her
voyage into the latitude of frost The
British steamship Ptolemy, which arrived
to-day, left the stricken Brazilian port on
December S. Her chief steward, F. Rich
ards, an Englishman, 32 jears old, died on
December 1G, while tlie Ptolemy was on her
way to Santa Lucia from Itio Janeiro,
whence she sailed on December 10. She
was detained at quarantine last night for
fumigation. The steamship Plato was also
detained because her fireman, J. Habison,
a Scotchman, died of yellow fever on De
cember 14, when the steamship was two
uavs out irom 1.10.
Both men probably caught the disease
while on shore at Santos. The death rate
there for the wecc ending December 31 was
Sfl.7. The population of Santos is about
10,000. This means 397 deaths a week.
Many of the victims are sailors from vessels
in the harbor. There has neer been such
lrightful mortality in the town. As the
summer does not "end until March it is
probable that the death rate will increase
within the next few weeks.
Miss Marlowe's Health Tully Restored.
J. F. Durham, a former Washington cor
respondent, registered at the Duquesne yes
terday. He was once connected with the
Chesapeake and Ohio road. He is now ad
vance man for Julia Marlowe, and was -on
his way from Cleveland to "Washington..
Miss Marlowe will appeaT at the Grand
Opera House some time in March. Mr.
Durham says she has fully recovered her
health, and has lost none of her dramatic
force. Tvphoid fever either weakens the
constitution or makes it stronger. Miss
Marlow was fortunate, as the latter result
occurred in her case.
I'abst Bine Ribbon Tierr.
Parties wishing to get the Bine Eibbon
should not be deceived by dealers who are
handling cheaper and inferior grades. None
genuine without the blue ribbon.
PABbi Brewing Co.
Tt5-s
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THE SEW MUGWUMPS.
Tariff IJeform, Hard Money
Abolition of Spoils Urged.
and
FEEE SILVER LAWS DENOUNCED.
Jlr. Means Explains the Aims and Objects
of the Xew Party.
HE WOULD TOTE FOP. MR. CbEYEIiAND
Bostos, Jan. 8. At a recent meeting of
the Massachusetts Reform Club, Mr. James
Means delivered an address in which he ex
plained what the new party is. He said
the party was formed on November 14,
when a few men pledged absolute loyalty
to each other and to the cause. A commit
tee then appointed had since been busy in
circulating documents and circulars,
among which was the following address to
the public:
""We maintain that political parties have
no reasqn to exist, unless, for the general
welfare of the public, they are devoted to
the advopacy of clearly defined principles;
we maintain that the Republican and Dem
ocratic parties of to-day have outlived their
usefulness, and that they deem it more im
portant to perpetuate themselves than to
give to our country good legislation; we
maintain that both of the existing parties
have served "to make the public adminis
tration the mirror of the ill-concerted and
incongruous projects of faction." "We call
upon every citizen of the United States
who believes in the principles of the new
partv to take an active part in securing the
enrollment of new members. "We are
ready to furnish documents and printed
forms to those who are willing to undertake
the work of organization in the different
States. All who" believe in our cause are
invited to communicate with us. Address
the Committee of Seven, Box 5234, Boston,
Mass."
The Declaration ot Principles.
"Mr. Means read a declaration of prin
ciples which were to the effect that every
paper dollar issued by the United States
Government should be redeemable in gold
at the option of the holder; that there
should be a tariff for revenue only, and the
abolition of the spoils svstem w as demand
ed. Finding no existing party which advo
cates these principles they enrolled them
selves as members of the new party. '
Continuing, he said: "Whether or not we
like to admit the fact, it is none the less
true that the political affairs of our nation
are not approaching a crisis, but tha they
have already come to a crisis. I ha e been
looking over the files of the papers, and in
fancy I have been again passing through
the stirring experiences of those good old
times of no longer ago than the year 1884.
I have been reading the words which fell
from your lips, gentlemen; the types were
cold, but it required no effort to recall the
earnestness and the passion with which
those words were spoken, and as I read
them I rejoiced to know that they were the
utterances of men who always stand ready
to help their country in time" of need.
"In discussing the new party the question
we have to ask ourselves is this: Is the
time fully ripe for it? The words I have
quoted were spoken bv Mr. Lowell to the
N'ew York Reform Club, April 13, 1888,
At that time he thought that the old parties.
"the very instruments 01 destruction,
might possibly furnish the means of check
inggrowing evils. Conditions have been
changed since Mr. Lowell was taken away.
Conditions have changed in the last few
weeks. On the 19th of November one of
the leading members of the club wrote to
me as follows: "I think that the move
ment for a new party is premature. It may
become necessary if the Democrats do not
improve their position on the silver question.
I think that there is good ground to expect
that they will do so." Another of your
leaders, who in .November thought that the
time for action had not come, saidio me last
week: 'I never knew political events to
happen so rapidly as they have during the
last few weeks. "Whatever your opinions
are to-day, fellow-Mugwumps, are we not
all agreed that out duty is now loudly call
ing upon us for prompt and vigorous action
of some kind? Are we not all agreed on
that? 0
Methods for Organization Reviewed.
"Now there isone fact which we must face.
"We Mugwumps have never been and never
shall be as Mugwumps, popular or influen
tial in the great "West "We are not under
stood, we do not have a chance to be, we do
not go "West often enough, we are not
known; the only Mugwump known in the
"West is the fictitious "cold roast Boston"
Mugwump who was created by certain news
papers for purposes of their own. Now it
is time that we have a kind of an organiza
tion as independents, but our doctrines did J
not tane very deep root in tne westmisa,
and it is of paramount importance that at
this very time m e should find out tlie reason
why.
"People may talk about sectionalism; sec
tionalism, wliich, though waning in the
South, is said to be growing in the "West
But why should we fear this thing when we
remember that it is based upon nothing,
that under fair legislation we should all be
in the same boat, and that the sectionalism
of to-day, worked up, as it is, bv the worst
politicians of both parties, is nothing in the
world but a manufactured article, the
product of a too thriving industry which
will soon perish for want of our protection.
"There is another point; in carrying on
the work of reform to which, as a club, we
are committed, we cannot get the thousands
of recruits whom we want unless we have a
drum and a fife and a banner. I think the
experience we had in '84 teaches us that the
average American voter wants a party of
his own all the time; that he would rather
go into a new party than go into a party
which he himself has been long in the habit
of thinking to be in the wrong; that he
doesn't like to 6cem to be guilty of the
disloyalty which is implied in going over to
the enemy; that he doesn't like to change;
that when he does change, he wants to be
sure that he will be suited; isn't it so?
"Is the time ripe for a new party? Can
any powerful new party be formed, unless
there is a great moral question like the
slaverv question, upon which men may
unite? Yes. A new party can be formed
whenever conditions are favorable, and
to-day the political atmosphere of this
country is in'a state of unstable equilib
rium, and when you, gentlemen, semi forth
the electric spark the precipitation is sure
to come.
Disaster "Would Follow Free Silver.
"I do not believe that this country could
escape general disaster under a free silver
law, as it has so fir escaped it under the
present tariff law; I believe that if a bill for
the free coinage of silver should become a
law, for a short time, we should have what
would be called a time of unexampled pros
perity, and after the period of inflation had
reach" its fated limit the silver bubble would
burst, and then would come the dire day of
'reckoning when the rich had run to cover
leaving the poor to pay the score. Now
what snail we do about it? How shall wc
avert the danger? How can the people be
assured of honest money unless they are
educated up to it? How can this be dene
unless the matter is kept constantly before
them bv the new party?
"I think that nearly all of us were glad in
'84 and '88 and woula be glad in '92 fo vote
for Grover Cleveland, but Clevelandisni
and Democracy are two distinct things.
That has been fully proved liy the very re
cent inexorable 'loxic of events. Of the
the first, Clevelandism, we, the members of
the new party, want as much as we can get
Of the second, Democracy, we have become
so distrustful tliat we want to leave it free
to follow its own bent. Perhaps some of
you are saying to yourselves, Cleveland
would not accept the nomination of the
new party; true, very true; of course he
would not accept the nomination of a little
struggling band of men such as we of the
new party now are, but fellow-Mugwumps
you have it in jour power to revolutionize
PITTSBURG-- DISPATCH;
the politics 'of this country. If you will
join this party, nnd work with it in the
months to come, if yon will work until the
month of May, you will then have built up
jx party which will give Grover Cleveland
the support he needs, and whose nomina
tion he will be thankful to accept, knowing
that he will have a party behind him which
will hold up his Tiands and will not try to
drag him down. I base that assertion upon
my belief in Cleveland as a patriot and a
statesman first, last and every time.
A Word or Two for Democrats.
"Now I have just a word to say to the
honest money Democrats who are holding
office. Most of them are men of integrity
and ability, and yet they do not have half
a chance to be themselves, because they are
weighted by the same fiendish party
pressure which Cleveland knew, and at
present it is a pressure which mortal" can
not withstand. "Wouldn't common sense
seem to dictate, that the best thing a man
can do under such a pressure is to stand
from under and let the whole concern drop?
"Now a word or two to those voters who
arc faint-hearted. "What is it to throw
away a vote, or to "vote in the air," as it is
sometimes called? Isn't it to vote with a
party you don't believe in? If the Amer
ican people are satisfied, year after year,
witii a choice between two evils, never ask
ing for anything better, they are- sure to
have evil as the result of their choice, are
they not? "What does loyaltv to an old party
mean? Doesn't it mean that voters sur
render their rights as private citizens into
the hands of the political managers? Can
our statesmen be expected to trouble them
selves about the general welfare of the pub
lic if the voters sav to them, 'Do as youi
please, wc are loyal to our old parties?
"'I have not much more to say. We have
started on'our course and we will not turn
back. I wish to repeat the words of the
revered Lowell, which I have aready quoted:
"It is time for lovers of their country to
consider how much of the success of our ex
periment in Democracy has been due to
such favorable conditions as never before
concurred to make such an attempt plausi
ble; whether those conditions have changed
and are still changing for the worse; how
far we have been accessories in this degen
eration, if such there be.".
"This club cannot rest upon the laurel it
won in '84; wc have a yet greater work be
fore us, and those who come after us will take"
note of our deeds. When the years have
passed bv, what shall our grandsons have to
say of us? May they not say, my grand
father was a member of the Massachusetts
Reform Club, and the Massachusetts Re
form Club was the alma mater of the new
party."
Keep Politics Out of tho Silver Question.
Yesterday Mr. Means issued a supple
mentary appeal to the members of the club,
in which he said:
"The Democratic party isall right now on
the currency question. " Do not say 'Keep
the silver question out of politics,' but say
rather 'Keep politics out of the silver ques
tion." It would kill Cleveland politically
if he were to accept the nomination of a
party formed especially for the purpose-of
advocating the principles which he stands
for. The anti-Cleveland Democrats will
have no use for Cleveland if they are not
left at libertv to treat him as they have in
the past The Columbian party ought not
to hurt the feelings of the anti-Cleveland
Democrats by taking upon themselves the
task of nominating so prominent a Demo
crat as Cleveland. We do not need a new
party, 'rah for Cleveland. These utterances
are all very well as free expressions of
opinion, but they have no reference to the
arguments which were presented for
answer.
"Within a vervfew days a member of the
Reform Club told me that Cleveland had
said to him personally that he (Cleveland)
couldn't work any more reform than he did
in the civil service without breaking up his
party.
"Of course that fact has long been known,
but it is interesting to know also that Cleve
land had been brought by party pressure
into a frame of mind which made him will
ing to make this plaint to a member of the
Reform Club. ,
"Perhaps it ought to be considered an ap
peal rather than a plaint The way to re
spond to this appeal is not to put him un
der his former handicap, but to give him a
party which will support him. It is impost
sible to get away from the fact that if he is
-not supported by the Columbian 'party he
will have no support at alt it woula lie
simple irony to call the backing of the
Democratic party 'support' Possibly in
their present straits the Democrats might
be coerced into nominating Cleveland, but
it isone thing to nominate a candidate and
another thing to support him if he is elected.
The Columbians have made a good choice in
naming their party. For one thing, the
name means that they will .not turn back.
"It is a name especially proper for the year
1892, and it suggests struggles, disappoint
ments and final success which will surely be
the lot of our undertaking."
RESUME of the Treat happenings of the
world for the past few days will be a feature
of THE DISPATCH to-morrow.
STUDYING THE XABOE PROBLEM.
The French Government's Agent Confer
ring AVith Gompers Upon It.
New Yoek, Jan. & M. Paul Deschanel,
who has been appointed by the French Gov
ernment to study the labor problem in this
country, called on President Gompers, of
the American Federation of Labor, yester
day and asked him a number of questions.
M. Deschanel's first inquiries were: "Are
the public authorities of the United States
induced, through public opinion, to inter
fere, either by law or any other means, in
the regulation of social questions? If so, in
what way and how far do they act, and what
is the prevailing sentiment among Ameri
can statesmen concerning the pres
ent and future of labor?" He also
asked how the disputes of employer and
employes were settled, and if arbitration
was compulsory.
President Gompers replied that the labor
ers relied principally upon their own.organ
ized efforts to secure favorable conditions.
In borne instances States had regulated the
hours of labor for men, especially on State
work, and the hours of females and children
in factories. There was a growing feeling,
he said, in favor of securing the advantage
which legislation oilers in this direction.
The bcntiment among American statesmen,
he thought, is growing iii favor of arbitra
tion, and it is advocated by the best organ
izations. CHASED BY FOOTPADS AT BELLEVUE.
Two Men Attempt to Hold TJp John Loef
fler at the Station.
It would seem that the East End having
become somewhat warm for .burglars and
iootpads, they have removed their base of
operations to the other end of the city.
John LoefHer, a clerk in the engineering
department of the Eort Wayne Railway
Company, called on his lady love in Belle
vue Wednesday evening, and after taking
leave of her went down to the station
to flag a train. Here two men came to hira
and asked the time. They were tough look
ing customers and IiOefllef having a valuable
gold watch in his pocket feared to take it
out, and so told them he didn't know. They
then demanded tobacco and as LoefHer was
not disposed to be communicative they
maae au attempt to examine 111s pocKets.
He broke away and they chased him all the
way to Jack's Run, throwing off all disguise
and letting him know that they meant to go
through him for all they could "get Finalfr,
Locfiler,ninded and almost exhausted, made
a show of resistance, and putting his hand to
his hip-pocket, faced about. The thugs,
were cowards and fled at this demonstration,
and LoefHer finally got a train. His pant
aloons and coat-tails v, ere frayed by contact
with briars until almost unpresentable.
AN" ugly cough, even when it appears
deep-seated, can be alleviated, if not im
mediately removed, by Dr. D. Jayne's Ex
pectorant, a popular and long-ettablished
remedy for bronchial and asthmatic affec
tions, and for 50 years an approved helper
for all lung complaints.
SATURDAY, . JAlfUAiRT -
A TRAMPS PORTUGAL
Second Letter of Edgar L Wake
man's New Sketches of Travel.
LISBON "ft'OMEN AND MANNERS,
With Something Incidentally About the
?Ien and Their Ways.
THE WATER CARRIERS OP THE CITT
rCOHRES? OXPSNCE OF THE DtSrATrII.1
Lisbox, Portugal, Dec 2C There is
hardly another city in the world where neat
ness in attire is so general as in Lisbon. You
cannot find nn uncleanly or a slovenly per
son in the city outside of beggars, who are
numerous, licenced nnd therefore profes
sional, nnd who all affect both rags and filth.
The middle classes and the aristocracy are
faultlessly dressed, and spotless linen from
nobleman to lighterman and fisherman is
here as delightful a universality as in that
other elystum of the lavendera, fair and bril
liant Havana.
With menr throughout the various ranks
of tho aristocracy and among gentlemen of
leisure, gallants, merchants, professional
men and even with clerks, the normal con
dition seems to be one of faultless dressing.
It is also observable that no one seems got
ten up for any occasionfor as if only occa
sionally gotten up. You can never surprise
these Portuguese gentlemen, or discover
them, out of good form as to their attire.
They are never overdressed; but they are
always well dressed. It is difficult to say
how much of this is the result of national
good taste. But it is certainly more possi
ble with Portuguese men, where a finger is
never lifted in manual labor, than with
Englishmen or Americans, to whom the
idea of helping one's self and others, or
performing any duty necessary to the
furtherance of business is not repugnant.
IJest Served Men In the World.
The men of Lisbon are the best served
men in the world. More than 10,000 Span
iards are practically their slaves. These
are my old friends the Gallegans, from the
North of Spain, among whom I wandered
two winters ago. They are most docile of
all servants, and the best For the value of
an American 5-centpiece they will go any
where and perform miracles of services.
They are not usually attached to a single
individual or household. They are every
where, and are anyone's porter, servant or
valet at a moment's warning. The magical
hissing sound, "Sh-s-s-s-s!" uttered any
where in Lisbon, will bring one instantly to
your side. And so the poorest clerk may
have his valet, seamstress for he will mend
your clothing with the dexterity of a tailor
and all, in one, as much or" little as he
likes or can afford.
As much cannot be said for the women.
Their street appearance is not so character
istic nor so graceful as the Spanish women.
The beautiful mantilla is less worn here
than seems fitting, or as one would wish.
One feels, when a group of senhoritas are
met in the pracas or seen in costly equip
ages on the Campo Grande, that unlike all
other women of the Latin races they possess
no distinct air or style or presence of their
own. In dress they are in fact composite;
and like Bayreuth architecture which is in
Europe the universal simile for every man
ner of style incongruously composed, a
Portuguese lady often presents startling
combinations of date and style in her most
prized and sumptuous attire. She still pos
sesses a fine carriage and figure, and, as I
have previously stated, a certain honesty
and wholesctneness of face and look, and
particularly an everglowing radiance of eye
and smile, which command the best sort of
liking and respect.
Not Much of the Rhapsodic
The artist and sentimentalist in general
will not find the poetic and rhapsodic type
so frequent here as in Spain, Italy and
Algiers; but the compensation is at hand
in a better type of womanhood. In what
may be termed the middle classes there are
few Tavishingly beatifnl women. They are
often tall and angular or short and stout, in
either of which cases the rather small and
oval face has not the same attractiveness as
with daintier women of petite and sym
metric figure. Women of the latter type
are oftener found in Lisbon in the two
farthest removed classes, among the nobil
ity and peasant and servant classes. The
latter are most invariably beautiful in face
and figure.
So many of the female servants as may be
seen upon the streets can always be readily
observed at the fountains, where with the
Gallegans they perform the duties of water
carriers; while they often to the number of
two and three accompany their mistresses
for-promenades or to the shops. Then the
flower market is full of beautiful girls; the
daily procession of the fish-women from
Belem contains many extraordinary types,
though painfully straight from always car
rying their fish upon their heads; and the
peasant women who come with flowers, but
ter, milk, eggs and cheese from the outlying
farms are almost invariably wenches of
graceful carriage, perfect figure and piquant
and often lovely fnce.
No kinder-hearted, more hospitable or
polite people exist than those ot Portugal.
Politenessnere has not the flippancy of the
French nor the unmeaning .pretense of the
Spanish. It is more redundant and opulent
than with either of the former, but it pos
sesses genuine sincerity. The eflort to
please comes from right feeling rather than
through form and custom, with" cold-hearted
calculation of profit behind. This extends
to, and is even most marked among the
lowly, who seem to be the most sunny
faced and kind-hearted people who live.
A Chivalry Seldom Seen.
Among every manner of city serving men
and women there is a chivalry and apparent
earnestness in interchange of greeting and
commonest civility which often reaches the
ludicrous to brusque Americans. Their
gravity and dignity in this'regarti are really
wonderful. The cnmulative adjectives ap
plied to intensifying the formal expression
of mutual regard and leading up to those
highest titles of respect, senhor arid senhora,
never are less expressive than "most
adored," "truest regarded," "most heart
thrillingly beloeh" or "exceeding and
most illustrious."
Even the beggars speak to each other in
precisely these courtly terms, and if you
should refuse them alms with the custom
ary phrase, "Pardon! in the name of
God!" they will follow voir only to bless
and shower benedictions upon you.
You can never tire of the street scenes
of Lisbon. From Belem, nearer the sea,
every morning comes the processions of
fish women. J.ney are most picturesque in
their blue kirtles, huge black felt hats,
bare feet and legs, massive gold earrings,
complexion brown and eyes as piercing
black as Spanish Gipsies, and their baskets
of white and gleaming fish. They remind
one strangely of the same class of women
who come up from the Claddagh every
morning in traiuway. -uut tne lives ot the
former are sunnier, and they are a genial,
kindly lot, without a vulgar word on their
endlessly chattering tongues.
Over from Scixal, Aldea Oallega and
Alcochete every morning come boat loads
of market stuff and peasantry, while down
from the mountain villages behind the
city, stream the peasant men nnd women.
The women among these bring along,
with every manner of small produce,' some
of the prettiest feet and ankles the bare
footed habits of many, and the short-skirted
petticoats of all, ever give unconscious
display.
Necks Developed by Burdens.
The crates, casks, pouches, baskets,
ewers and wheel-like and gigantic
wooden platters these women brine with
tncru, carrying nearly everything upon
their heads, are of incredible size and
weight Thick, goitre-like necks are the
result; hut their grace and brightness as
beasts of burden are winsome surely. In
termingled with all these during the morn
ing market hours are capote-hidden
9, 1892.
women from the hills, smart city servants
with their endless castanet-like clinking
of wooden shoes upon the pavements;
grim men from the fields, leaning upon
their huge qx-goads which in Portugal
always become the traveling staffs; noisy
youths hawking fighting crickets in
cages scarcely two inches square; all man
ner of men, many of twhom have fallen
out of .the ranks of the aristocracy,
and boys sellins halves, quarters and
eighths of lottery tickets, for ever in Lisbon
it is a true saying that -'To-morrow the
wheel goes round;" important and wasp
waisted military attaches dancing here and
there in blue, "bluff and green; grave and
comfortable padres, impervious to forgiv
able chaffing and badinage; half naked
urchins with wonderfully bright faces; beg
gars with piteous though sunny looks, as
cheery over rebufl as 'reward; and a hun
dred other folk and factors so touched with
the semi-barbaric and oriental, that one
awakens' from the weird fancies conjnredby
sight and scene, in a sort of half dismay
that in this spot, where onr own wondrous
civilization had its very beginning, every
thing seems a thousand years behind even
uie urowsy progress ot the .Europe to-uay.
Antics or the Cocheiros.
Here and there throughout the streets
bevies of giggling senhoritas, never alone
and always convoyed by some bright-eyed
old difcnn.i, pass- from shop to Bhop, ever
seeming to avoid, but ever in reality corn
polling most ludicrous antics on the part of
r.ll males from 18 to 80. Roaring and tear
ing down the heights as if pursued, comes
one of the cocheiros of the town with his
ramshackle baronchc, to which are often
harnessed three donkeys abreast. He has
been nowhere. He is coing nowhere. He
lashes and screams and vents maledictions
upon his beasts. Suddenly the outlandish
outfit comes to a halt. In an instant the
violent cochciro is asleep on his box, and
the donkeys' head droop dolefully between
their knees.
Now and then a strange horse and rider
will be seen. The horse is a piebald. The
rider is a gentleman farmer; "moreado" he
is called in Portugal. He sits upon his
beast in a semi-military and semi-cowboy
stylo, holds his bridle reins high in air,
wears a spur and mustachios of wonderous
dimensions, and ambles through the change
ful scene like a hesitant, humble Quixote.
Everywhere are little donkeys carrying fat
people; burdened with furze, brushwood,
charcoal, dried corn leaves and stalks.
rushes and straw, completely hiding them;
packed wifh twice their own weight in
merchandise going to or" coming from the
quay; or driven double with great timbers
across their backs. "Ande ! Ande 1"
their drivers shout, as ihey prod them with
blunt, irod-pointed pikes as long and as
heavy as our own pitchfork handles.
The Only Means of Freightage.
These and ox-carts, each with a box like a
half section of a huge wicker basket, and
solid wooden wheels with iron-spiked rims,
wjijch creak and shriek like a Red River
train on its way to Minneapolis and St.
Paul in the sixties, are ceaselessly wending
their way along the thoroughfares to and
from the country, the only means of freieht
age; while each donkey and cart is accom
panied by more able-bodied, ever-yelling
muleteers and cartmen than necessary to
convey every ounce of produce and mer
chandise thus disposed upon their own
hacks.
Water is brought into Lisbon in one of
the world's greatest aqueducts, the aque
duct of Agoastiores, from the mountain vil
lage of Bellas, ten miles distant. It extends
across the near valley of Alcantara upon a
series of 30 arches, 107 feet from pier to
pier, the point of the highest arch rising 264
feet above the valley bed. The water is
poured from this aqueduct into an immense
covered reservoir, and is from this conveyed
to the many chafariz or public fountains of
the city. From these fountains, since the
timeof Joao V., nearly all private houses,
public buildings and shops have been sup
plied by water carriers, men and women.
Most of these, particularly the men, are
thus solely employed. Many of the women
are simply house and shop servants of the
peasant class; and probably the most inter
esting studies for tourist, writer or artist
are to be found among these lowly folk be
side the fountains.
Edgar L. Wakeman.
MABK TWAIN'S crest story. "The Amer
ican Claimant," In THE DISPATCH to
morrow. DEATH OF MEa MAEY YOUHO.
One of the Best Known Women In the
County Fasses Away.
Forest Grove suffers a great loss in the
death of Mrs. Mary Young, who for 70
years has been a personification of all the
virtues that go to make up the good citizen,
mother and Christian. She wasa'Woman
who might have shone in a more extended
connection, on account of her mental ac
quirements, but had'no desire for notoriety
and rounded out her career as a pattern of
all that is excellent in woman. She was 81
years of age and resided in the same house
she entered as a bride 67 years ago.
Through the exemplification of the char
acter of a virtuous woman described in the
Proverbs of Solomon, chapter xxxi, Mrs.
Younir had alwavs an earnest desire after
knowledge, and Itev. Dr. Beacom states
that she knew the contents of his library as
well as he did himself.
She has two sons both engaged in this
city. A. B. Young in the agricultural
implement and seed business, and Joseph
C. Young an attorney. Quite a number of
yeart ago, A. H Young made an arrange
ment by which his mother was to have the
use of his share of the family estate in
Robinson township for life, the arrange
ment being that under no circumstances
could it be alienated until after her death.
It proved a very profitable thing for Mr.
Young, as about three years ago a 1,600
barrel well was struck on the farm and oil
was worth producing then. The well's
production is still worth 520 a day even at
the low price of petroleum.
It does not pay to let a cough con
tinue. Stop yours now with Piso's Cure
for'Consnmption. 25 cents. All drungi'ts.
ius
.Kxcarsion to Washington, D. C
Via the Baltimore and Ohio Bailroad.
Thursday, January 14. Round trip tickets
$9, and good for ten days. Trains leave B.
& O. station nt 8 A. m. and 9:20 p. m.
Through parlor cars on the morning train
and sleepers ou the night train.
To the mother who bakes for her little
children use Minnehaha flour lor your
bread. It makes bread that is as wholesome
and nourishing as bread can be made. The
gluten is not all milled out of it as it is in
so many fine white flours.
Underwear Department.
Winter underwear for ladies, gents and
children in scarlet, camel's hair, natural
wool and merino. Closing out cheap at H.
J. Lynch's, 438-440 Market street. Thssu
S4 Louvre 34.
Attend this glove sale 10 dozen odds and
ends in kid gloves reduced to 23c a nair.
Xouvice, 24 Sixth" street
Natuiiai. wool and Scotch wool under
wear. James ir. Aiken & Co.,
100 Tilth avenue.
SIR MORELL MACKENZIE
Says in tho Journal of Laryngology, Novem
ber, 18S7: "Compressed. TastlUes of Sodeii
water are now an article of commerce us
n ell as the ininei al waters. These are mado
from two of the well waters, and containing
n large amount of chloride of Sodium, are
particularly serviceable In pharyngeal ca
tutrhs, and rany even In some degree be used
where It Is desired to obtain the effects of
the Soden treatment In persons who are un
able to make the necessary Journey to the
spa Itself."
NONE genuine without the signature of
"Eisner & Uendelson Co.," Solo Agents for
the United States, New York. u
' - - SEVf ADTEKTISEMESTS. "T JSfflylg- 5
DISSOLUTION OF FIRM.
&om& OUT OF
25 CENTS ON THE DOLLAR.
WHAT DOES IT MEAN!
It Means That There Is to Be a Dissolution of the Firm of
SIFLlIISriEIR, & RICH,
CLOAK MANUFACTURERS,
819 LIBERTY STREET, - PITTSBURG, PA.,
And that we havepurchased their entire stock at one-quarter value,
and we shall use this immense bargain, not to make extra profits,
but as an advertisement to crowd our store during January.
CHILDREN'S
LONG COATS.
Children's Plaid 1
Beaver Gretch
en Coats, with
military capes-
S2.50
former price, $6, J
Misses' Plaid
Beaver Gretch
en Coats, extra
heavy and fine,
wfth military capes;
former price, 17.25,
Misses' Plaid
Beaver Jackets, I
extra fine qual- V
lty; former price,
$7-50.
Ladies' Reefer
Jackets in black
diagonal cloth;
former price, I
$9.00, J
Ladies' Long"
Cloth Capes,
newest and best;
former price,
$15.00,
FLEISHM
GRATEFUL COMFORTING.
EPPS'S COCOA.
BREAKFAST.
"By a thorough knowledge of the natural laws
which govern the operations of digestion and nu
trition, and by a careful application of the line
properties oi weu-seiecica lxcoa, Jtr. Jiipps 1103
Srovlded our breakfast tables with a delicately
avorcd beverage which may save us many heat v
doctors bills. It is by the Judicious u of such
articles of diet that a constitution may be gradually
built up until strong enough to resUt every ten
dency to disease. Hundreds of subtle maladies are
floating around us rvuly to attack whcreier there
U a weak point, "We may escape many a fatal
haft by keeping ourselves well lortined with pure
blood and a properly nourished frame." Civil
oeruice utixcHe.
Made simply with boiling water or milk. Sold
JAMES KI'l'S & CO., ilomccop.ithic Chemists.
mivinnaii-nouna tins. Dy
mnd tins, by
grocers, labelled thus:
uic unemlsts,
ni)l(WO-Tus
jjonaon, fjigiana.
JIEE'S
K
BULLETIN.
Theseare the dark, dull days of Cliristmn,
adjust to stir up tiling a little,! have con-
and,
eluded 'to sell for a little while at price
away down. Just think of California Apri
cots at 10c per can; California Ezg Plums, 10c
per can; Columbia River Salmon, fresh pack.,
l...-in. ,. cm . v.-. .!... vo, .1
lb can, full weight, only a)c; 3 cans Apricots
for 50c. Corn and Tomatoes, all cut prices.
How docs 3 lbs California Dried Apricots for i
25c strike you? You can get them at JlcKee's,
butnowliKie else. Large California Ruby'
Prunes only 10c and some 3 lbs for23c. I
need tho money and you need the goods.
Let us aet together and mako the exchange.
0 lbs Evaporated Itaspberrles for Jl. For 50c
wo will sell you a flne Cclon .As-am Tea that
has not been In this market before. All
lovers ornno Assam should liaveat least one
pound. Just to try the novelty., Sloney re
funded If It does not please.
Get up clubs and buy $.1 worth and get
5 per cent on.
Goods sent as f.tr as 200 miles, frciaht free,
on purchase of $10 worth and npwai d.
Send for circular and order inclosing P. M.
O.
. JOSEPH iVTKEE,
Ja9-SAT
38 OHIO ST.. Allegheny.
Liebig Company's
Extract of Beef.
BEST
Purest BEEf JEfl Cheapest
JI.SI
aa
51
JI.H
M
INVALUABLE
In the Kitchen Tor Soups, Sauces
and Slade Dishes.
BLACK BELGIAN
LYNX
CAPES,
That h av e')
Been belling
Readily
At
$10.00,
Astrakhan
Capes,
U
Long and Full;
Former price,
$9.93,
Rock Marten
Fur Capes,
splendid
Values
At $18.00,
Ladies' P 1 u s h 1
Jackets in sizes
32, 34 and 36;
have been sell
ing at $18.00,
Ladies' Long"!
Plush Jackets J
in sizes 2 and V
34, would be
cheap at $30 00;
coin
they I
504, 506 and 503
VHY IS THE
, DOUGLAS
hSOE GENTLEMEN
I THE BEST S H O E If. THE WORLD FDR THE MOMEf ?
I It is a seamless shoe, with no tacfci or wax thread
to hurt the f eetmado of the best Una calf, stylish
! and easy, and because ve male viore shots of this
' prade than any other manufacturer. It equals hand-
f BPCTort chnec nf Inty f mm filjIO in S.1) (JO-
ffiK OOGenuinoHand-ewed, thoflnestcaK
Snlct ttrt&fZ'g&l'
Dj OO Hnml-sewed Welt bhoc, flno calT.
JJ stylish, comfortable nnd durable. The best
shoe ever offered at this price ; same grade as cus-
tom-made shoes costing
go 50 Police Sho
PJ andLetterCarr
fromG.00to).(.
oe i Farmers. Railroad lien
Letter Carriers ail wear them: flne calf.
eeamiess, smootn insiae. neavy inrea soiea, exien-
slonedze. Onopair will wear a year.
fiJO 50 flue cnlfj no better shoe ever offered at
uSfiis thl3 price; one trial will convince those
who want a shoe for com fort and service.
CO '25 and 82. OO Worhinsman's shoes
3fioB are very strong and durable. Those who
hare given them a trial will wear no other make.
tSirWI e S-.00 and SI.73 school shoes are)
DuJ9 worn by the boys everywhere; they sell
on their merits, ns the increasing sales show.
3 curl toe 83.00 Ilnnd-wred shoe, bes
itaadlllCO VongoIa.Terystylishtequalsl'renca
Imported shoes costing from Stxo to SSiXi.
. Ladies' ti.50.S--2.00 and Sl.75 shoo for
JI15SC3 are the best line tmnzola. htylisn and durable.
Camion. See that v. L. Douglas name "i
price are stamped on the bottom of each shoo.
tor TAKE NO SUBST1TTJTE1
Insist on local advert! wd dealers srpplylnc you
W. L. DOUGLAS, Brockton. Mass. &Sabj
1. Carter.Tl Vlithavenne: J. N.mhrlni.
I avenue: II. J. a . 31. Lap?, 4T01 Butler street.
nr,3tMItii
imvuurg. iicur. jiu-.it, .o. ivn j) eaeral street;
K. G. lliillman. No. 72 Itebeces street. Ailechtny.
Ja5-01-TTS
JtSTABLlSHED 13ft,.
BLACK GIN
KIDNEYS,
Is a relief ami sura mirs for
asg'he Urinary Organs, Gravel
f and tjlironlc Catarrh of tua
Bladder.
The Swiss Stomach Bitters
are a suro cure for Dyspepsia,
trademark Liver Complaint und every
species of Indigestion.
Willi Cherry Tonic, tliemost ponular prep
aration for cure of Coughs. ColdsBronchitia
and lung troubles.
Either or tbe above, tlper bottle, or6for
S5. Ifyonr druggist doei not handle these
goods write tp Wll. P. ZOELLEK, sole WVe,
Pittsburg, Pa. . Ja2-57rr3
TAILORING.
Correct "Winter Suitings and Overcoatings' -U.
& C. F.-AIILEKS,
Merchant Tailors, 420 Smithfleid 9t,c -
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