KE2S -' vv i ' Ss.S'-!???' .? Y .w-7 A ' - -s-! . -, ,- -v fije Stftpafrlj. ESTABLISHED FEBEUAEY 8. . 1M6 Vol. 4S, No. 148. Entered at Plttsbnrg Postofflce November, 18S7, us 6econd-class matter. Business Office Corner Smithfield and Diamond Streets. News Rooms and Publishing House 78 and 8o Diamond Street, in New Dispatch Building. EATERK AnVEimSIXK OFFirE, ROOM 7S. TRIBUNE BUrLDIXO. NEW YORK, where com- ?lc flies of TITE DISPATCH can always be found, 'orelen advertisers appreciate the convenience. Home advertisers and friends of THE DISPATCH, while In New York, arc also made welcome. TIIEDISPATCms regularly on sale at Brentano's, t Vnirni Sqvare, Xeio Tori. ana 17 Ave aeVOpera. Parts, stance, where anyone mho hag been aisap pointed at a hotel neuw stand can obtain it. TERMS OF THE DISPATCH. postage free is the united state. tuilt Dispatch. One Year. S 8 on PAILT DisrATCH. Per Quarter.. - 2 00 Daily DisrATCH. One Month 70 Daily Dispatch. Including Sunday, lycar.. 10 00 Daily Dispatch, Including Sunday, 3 m'ths. 50 Daily Dispatch, Including Sunday. 1 m"th.. 90 Sundat Dispatch. One Year ISO Weekly Dispatch. One Year 13 The Daily Dispatch Is delivered by carriers at 35 cents per week, or, including Sunday Edition, at IC cents per week. PITTSBURG. THURSDAY. .TANTJARY 11. TWELVE PAGES UNAPPRECIATED ENHANCEMENT. While city officials have been talking about a probable increase of valuations this year, not exceeding 20 per cent, on the total, a great -number o cases are al ready reported in which assessments have been jumped from 50 to 300 per cent! It is needless to say that the reception of transcripts from the Assessor's Office in forming property owners of this immense enhancement of their holdings has led al ready to an acute stage of indignation; and unless the symptoms err, there will soon be a lively storm in the neighborhood of City Hall. It is perfectly intelligible that values have increased everywhere through the city since the last triennial assessments. But it will be an impossible task to satisfy a minority of property owners that their properties have doubled and trebled in value, while in other cases the enhance ment is taten as relatively trifling. So far, the great jump has been made upon the . rural holdings. Grounds around resi dences, and vacant tracts in the East End and Southside wards have risen over night quicker than yeast. In place of being estimated rural and agricultural as before, they arc now classed as directly in the market for buiiding purposes; and the squeeze has surprised not a few of the property owners out of their power of speech. Of course the contention at City Hall is that if the property holders in the rural wards now have merely a true "cash value" assigned to their holdings they have no cause to complain, even though formerly they vi ere assessed much below that. This, however, does not by any means cover the whole case. To much of the vacant ground there cannot be as signeda positive and precise "cash value." That is to say, the market could not absorb anything like the whole of the vacant properly in the city at anything like the prieo which is paid from time to time for occasional lots as they are wanted. Should the owners then be taxed for such prop erty upen a purely speculative basis? The whole plan of assessments is sadly in want of revision. The system itself under which we are now working, as fre quently demonstrated in The Dispatch, is incorrect in principle and always defec tive and inequitable in operation. A just and uniform series of valuations covering the whole city has never been and can never be made under It But that will not of course relieve the Assessors from the duty of proceedins slowly and cau tiously. "Wild advances had better be thought over carefully before, being at tempted. If the smaller property owners, or those in the business part of tbe city, were to get any advantage in the shape of reduced millage from the swelling of the rural dis tricts there would be so much of an ad vantage in that respect; but if the idea is to have a general increase all round and also keep up tbe millage so as to swell the appropriations and city expenses, there will justly be a tremendous kick from all quarters over the proceeding. A IREE BRIDGE IDEA, The suggestion of one of the city bridge companies that arrangements could be made by which the city could purchase free passage over all the Monongahela bridges for foot passengers is an interest ing and important one. The idea is ad vanced that free bridges for foot passen gers can thus be obtained for the same amount or less than the cost of a new bridge. Of course, the practicability of the plan depends on the amount for which the bridge companies would sell this privi lege. It would have to be a private pur chase for which it is competent under legr islativc authority to take a bridge, with compensation, for public use, the right of eminent domain could hardly be extended to the condemnation of the footwalks. If it Is true that the cost of a new bridge, would pay for making the bridges free to foot passengers, the privilege thereby ob tained would be far more valuable. But the accuracy of that view can hardly be determined except by actual negotiations. Theuggestion certainly seems to war rant investigations. It would be worth while for the city to take some steps toward determining the cost of such a pur chase. Or perhaps the bridee companies may perceive their interest in making an offer to the city? AN IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT. It is pleasant to read that the Chief of the Department of Public Safety proposes to devote his second term which he de clares will be his last to showing the de gree of vigilance and efficiency that can be maintained. "Efficiency will be the watch word of this department," Mr. Brown is reported as saying, and he reinforces that pledge with the statement of a valuable principle, in the following words: "I have always maintained that good government is good politics, and I will give this such a thorough opportunity to be demonstrated during my coming term that there will be no doubt on the subject hereafter." These are undoubtedly correct princi ples and such as should shape the policy vi every uuuuc umciai. it is encouraging also to find an official in Mr. Brown's posi tion commencing his second term with a recognition that there isroomfor improve ment and a determination to effect that improvement. The too frequent disposi tion is for officials to take a re-election as an evidence that everything is all right and cannot be bettered. If the Chief of the Department of Public Safety places it on the basis of the highest efficiency and thorough protection, there is no doubt that it will prove the best politics possible, and will secure the enthusiastic endorsements all the citizens. But another remark is attributed to Mr. Brown, which, if correctly reported, seems to call for further specifications. "I will not be handicapped as I was In my first term," he is reported as saying. Here is an allegation which Implies something about which the public have the right to full information. If thero are any influ ences or any methods in connection with the city government, which burden the efforts of the head of the department to secure compl se efficiency in the fire and police bureaus, the people are entitled to know exactly what they are. Indeed, the complete efficiency at which Mr. Brown is aiming cannot be realized, unless It Is made certain that the influences which militate against it will be exposed and corrected. If it is true that Mr. Brown was handi capped during his first term in his efforts to raise the efficiency of his department, he owes it to himself and the public to let it be known just how it was done. ' THIS USUAL MISREPRESENTATION. The report about -the Chilean Govern ment refusing its safe conduct to the refugees on board of the Torktown, hav ing been used to the utmost to inflame the war spirit in this country, the truth comes out that instead of this being an act of enmity it was the direct opposite. Anyone who took time to think could have seen ih the original statement of the case that there was ground for suspicion of its use as fuel for the fires of war. If the Chilean Government had changed its mind and desired to recapture the refugees, it need not have given warning. It could have taken them from the pas senger steamers, when they touched at the southern ports of Chile; and in so doing would not have given the United States the slightest cause of complaint The most comprehensive view of the functions of our Government cannot be stretched to include the protection of German and En glish steamers from the Chilean police; and the arrest of the refugees if tho Chilean Minister hadheld his peace would have been entirely an affair between Chile and Germany or England. It was therefore to be suspected, what the fuller explanation makes clear, that this warning which Mr. Egan took care to report in such shape as to rouse the wrath of Fighting Bobwas a warning in good faith to prevent a miscarriage of the understanding by 'which Chile permitted the refugees to be removed from her terri tory by the representatives of the United States. It was simply to prevent the charge of bad faith that might be made if the magistrates at ports where the passen ger steamers touch should cause the arrest of refugees. It was rather an act of friend ship thr-n of enmity; but the parties inter ested in producing war took care to distort it into the latter character. This, together with theoffitialarjnounce mentthat Chile has offered reparation, but that the administration is disposed to make war on the question of language, should be enough to open the eyes of the country to the realities of the situation. TREASURY DEPOSITS OUT WEST. The termination of the law suits by which the State of "Wisconsin recovers in terest on State deposits made with numer ous banks which paid the interest to a line of State Treasurers from 1878 to 1891 Is one in which Pennsylvania might feel a sort of sympathetic interest The law suit and one of its collateral ramifications in the dispute as to whether Senator Saw yer tried to bribe Congressman La Fol lette or not were referred to in these col umns some time ago. The result of the suits is a decision under which the State recovers some 5350,000 in interest The impression has long prevailed in this State that the political influences sur rounding the management of the State funds was something unique. The Wis consin suits; however, disclose that the Western State has had something in that line which rivaled, if it did not surpass, Pennsylvania's peculiar institution. It is notable that the Wisconsin affair is ele vated into national importance by having a United States Senator at the head of it Whatever dispute there may have been about the attempted bribery, there was no concealment in that dispute of the fact that Senator Sawyer was vitally interested in defending the suits. Is it possible, that the amiable old Senator, whose liberality has occupied the admiration of Washing ton correspondents, drew a large share of his revenues from this interest paid to State Treasurers who held office by his favor? In one respect, however, the Wisconsin case has a radical pqint of difference from the Pennsylvania Treasury management Wisconsin seems to stand a very fair chance of getting her mojiey back. GO SLOW, GENTLEMEN! If the effect of the general increase in city valuations for taxable purpose is meant, to be a reduction of the millage rate to 5 or 7, or even 10 mills in place of 15 as heretofore, that is one thing. Per haps such a programme would be a pleas ing surprise quite a stroke on the part of the powers that be. But If the Idea is to swell the valuations along the line, and still keep up the mill age so as to get more money for spending purposes, it will not do, at alL At present tbe property-owners will have to bear these increased taxes. But before the year is out the workingman will find the principal burden upon him ip. the shape of increased rent and cost of living. Rigid retrenchment of "city expenses must come before increased' taxes. Go slow, gentlemen! DEFIANT CKTMnJAtrrr. The contest over the suppression of what might, by adapting the phraseology of the gambling rooms, be termed the "brace" race tracks at Guttenberg, shows some remarkable features. The move ment at Chicago for tho suppression of a similar nuisance there seems to have been attended with prompt results. ,But the Guttenberg shrine of gambling has become so rooted in the politics of its New Jersey habitat, that up to tbe present time it has been able to defy all legal attempts at its suppression. The nature of this strength Is of a char acter which it would be pleasant to de scribe as singular, If it had not existing parallels in the country to-day. The re ceipts of the track from bookmakers and other sources amount to ?2,50Q,000 a year, and when the profits of the bookmakers from their gulls are added, it is estimated that the gross revenue of the business is $6,000,000. Given the additional factor of a notoriously corrupt political ring in Hudson county, New Jersey, it is easy to conceive that the local powers of that neighborhood turn a very blind eye to tBe disgrace and criminality of the place. But it is startling to find ail these au thorities combined in an effort to defy th I PZTTSBT7EG law, as was the caselast week. One mag istrate having been found to issue war rants for the men openly engaged in defy ing the law against pool-selling, the own ers of the track revealed that they had the police, the bench, the clerk of the courts ready to back them up in their defiance of tbe law, and the interesting spectacle was present ed of-rival aldermen of Jersey City set ting up 'their courts in corners of the rac ing grounds and each promptly nullifying the efforts of Ms brother magistrate to enforce the law by releasing the offenders on trivial ball. It is also a noticeable feature of the case that it rises Into the plane of State if not national politics. We can hardly endorse the assertion of some newspapers that Governor Abbett, of New Jersey, is di rectly responsible for this defiance of law and decency. But as the back bone of his political strength is the corrupt ring which manifests itself in this case, and as he is taking good care to look the other way while it is going on, it certainly makes an expose of his affiliations which must be anytbine but gratifying to a pub lic man with aspirations toward national reputation. From all that has recently developed it would be strange if there were not a good deal of business to lie done at tbe meeting of the Allegheny Councils to-night. The City Boilerlnspector of Chicago con demned a boiler: hut it was continued in use with the result that five men lost their lives by an explosion. The owner, his superin tendent, engineer, and two firemen are held responsible by the Coroner's jury, and ac tion is to be taken against them. This is right, and should be a lesson to thrjse who persist in various forms of carelessness in the use of boilers. The French Chamber of Deputies has once more shown its childish lack of dignity and good manners by disgraceful scenes leading to two alleged duels. The announcement that John A. Brashcar has completed an instrument to be used as a standard for weights and meas ures Is one of which Pittsburg may be proud. Yain efforts were made to get such an instrument made in Europe, but Pittsburg's practical soientist bad to be called on to accomplish it. The vague information received through one of Garza's officers losos any little value it would have had by reason of its source. The news of another case of body-snatching for medical purposes, this time near Indianapolis, again calls publio attention to a repulsive crime, and raises the question of the necessity of bodies for dissection, ana the absence of arrangements for legally se curing subjects, in case tho necessity bo proved. That Pittsburg is a cosmopolitan city is evident from the fact that thiee inter preters were needed for obtaining evidence in a small trial. The most pathetio incident yet reported in the Russian famine is the spectacle of a whole Tillage uniting in tbe last sacrament in preparation for their expeoted death from starvation. If further appeal to the charity of any nation were needed, it is surely sup plied herewith. Pittsburg has fogs, it also has the grip. London has both in much severer form. v i America has much to learn in the de tailed finish of work of all kinds from China and Japan. We are too apt to rest satisfied if we turn things out so that "they will do." Make hay while the sun shines and sleighing while there is snow. KrE having been .cornered by the Whisky Trust, 'there is now on hand a similar, though smaller, movement to pro duce an artificial rise in tbe price of rice. PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE. The Archbishop of Canterbury canters about London on a fine cob. Hiss Searing, of New Orleans, who is described as a young and charming woman, is conductor of a large orchestra. , Eobert Barrett Browning has leased a studio in Florence and is executing a por trait order for an American friend. Mr Eider Haggard pronounces his name "Keeder,"' and the critics are begin ning to ask if his new African tale is going to turn his readers pale. Randolph Sogers, while yet a boy, showed his talent by carving curious cane heads on gnarled sticks wbich ho found in his rambles in the woods. Bichabd Henry Stoddard's hand writing is so minute that he can compress tbe equivalent of half a column of newspa per type into a single pago of manuscript. Miss Auguste Inuje, the daughter of the former Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs, is now a pupil of the famons Augusta school in Berlin, supported formerly by the late Empress Angusta. The new Bishop of Carlisle, Dr. John Waring Bardstey, comes of a sturdy English family which contributed seven sons to tbe Church. Seven American brothers have rarely, if ever, become preachers one after the other. William Gardner Hale, the Cornell professor whofcoes to Chicago to organize the Latin department of the new Baptist University there, is known among classical scholars from hisbookon""thecum construc tion," which was honored by a translation, into German. . ,, Congressman Dubarrow, of Chicago, Is called the "Adonis of the West," the "handsomest man In Congress," and is oth erwise referred to in complimentary terms. He is a bachelor of only 81 years, and has not yet made his maiden speech, either within the House of Representatives or without. PE0F. LOVEBING'S FUKEBAL. The Students of Harvard Fay a Last Tribute to His Memory. Cambridge, Jan. 20. Special Joseph Lovering, Professor or Harvard College for more than a half century, was laid at rest in the family lot at Mt. Auburn to-day. Histo ric old Appleton College, where the funeral services were held, was crowded with men and women, and a large delegation ol stu dents stood throughout the exercises, their last tribute to the honored educator. The venerable Professor of Christian Morals, Bev. A. P. Peabody, D. D., used the King's Chapel burial service. The body reposed in a black broadcloth casket in front of the pulpit. A few sprays of palms and bunches or calla lilies were the only floral offerings. Tho pall bearers were President Charles W. Elliott, Charles E. Choate, Dr. Morril Wyman. Prof. Alexander Agassiz, Librarian Justin Winsor, Prof. John Trowbridge, who officiated but honorary. No sermon oreulngy was delivered, tbo entire service lasting but hair an hour. Among the distinguished gentlemen at the chapel were President Charles Elliot Norton, Pror. Charles F. Dun bar, Prof, William W. Goodwin, Prof. Eph ralm Emerton, Prof. Benjamin O. Pierce, Prof. Frederick D. Allen, Prof. Joslah Koyoe, Prof. George M. Lane, Pror. H. W. Terrey, representlne the faculty of Harvard College. The Hon. Fred L. Ames, Dr. Henry S'alcott, the Hon. Martin Brimmer, tho on. Leverett Saltonttall, of tbe corpora tion: ex-Mayor Greene, or Boston; Dr. John L. Nichols, or Cambridge; a .delegation from the Academy of Arts and Sciences, .Prof. Taussig, Prof. Hart, Pror. Brooks, J. G. Will iams, E. W. Wilson and others. Scratching Initials on the Dollars. Chleaio News. Mr. Holman is reported to be scratching his initials on the dollars Jn the United States Treasury, so that none may get away -without his permission. THE DISPATCH, THTIRSDAT, ART AT THE FAIR. The Part That Pennsylvania Will .Take at th. World's Exposition-lCommitteeorf'hf1"fbur5er-3 , . Srvtn to Pass Upon All the Works for Exhibition. Philadelphia, Jan. 2d Sitting in secret session under the act of the Legislature, which created the Pennsylvania Commission of the World's Fair, there was a meeting of the Committee on Fine Arts of that body, and the Auxiliary Committee on Art in one of the rooms in the Art Club yesterday after noon. Executive Commissioner Benjamin Whiting was also present, prepared to ex plain tho progress making toward a proper display or the riches of the State at thegreat Exposition, both for the benefit of the mem bers present and the public, but the doors were nevertheless closed notwithstanding the fact that Committee K, as the Commis sions Committee on Fine Arts is designated, is working under a, State appropriation. B. L. Bromfleld is the Chairman of the com mittee. Commissioner Whiting, who is untiring in his efforts to push things, was armed with a mass of information regarding tho outlook. "I think wo will ha e an extraordinary ex hibit," he Baid to a Teporter, and then refer rine to his lenort pointed out that the vast oil, gas, mining, lumbering, agricultural, dairy, horticultural, floricultural and quar rying interests of the State were of too dif fuse a character to be pioperly shown through individual efforts, and that steps would have to be taken to meet the difficulty in this direction. Trnnnpirtatlon Left to tho Rallrondi. In the matter of the transDortlon exhibit he saTB they mav be safelv left to the lead- 'ing railroads and the ship builders of tbe State, as may that of olectricity and elec trical appliances to the parties whohave em barked in that growing branch of enterprise. "Yes," he said,vb.urriedly, as tho Chairman called lor tbe secret session, "we will un doubtedly present a wonderful exhibit. In the matter of live stock and poultry, liberal premiums are offered by the National Com- mission, while in respect to machinery and manufactures it is believed that the firms and corporations that are engaged in their line of industry will be wideawake enough to their own advantage to exhibit on an ex tensive scalo. As to the art display, to consider which the secret meeting was held, there are $3 000 ap propriated for the committee's expense. Aside from Mr. Bromley, the members are Lewis Emerv, Jr., of Bradford: Mrs. Harriet A. Lucas, of Philadelphia; Mis. Mabel C. Jone, of Harrisburg: H. J. McAteer, of Huntingdon; William Hassar.of Oil City, and A. G. Koenicrk. of PIttsburA About a month ago this body asked for tho appointment of j an auxiliary committee oi seven ro po com posed of men n ho are known to be experts, they to hive power to pass on all woiks of art submitted from the State of Pennsyl vania. Work Ahead for the Committee. As a result of themeeting these flvegentle men were named, the remaining two to come from Pittsburg later on: William Dalliba Dutton, Chairman; Clifford P. Grayson, Sec retary: Charles E. Dana, Henry Pettit, Frank Miles Day, all of this city. All of these gentlemen are prominent in tbe art and architectural circles of the city, especially Charles Dana from his important connection with the Academy of Fine Arts, and Mr. Pettit, as tho Centennial architect. This committso will have the authority to receive or reject tho works that will be offered, and will be recognized at Chicago in connection with the State Commission. That a great deal of work of tho moat per plexing character will devolve upon them is evident fiom the statement of a member of the commission proper that tho exhibit of Pennsylvania is limited by the World"? Fair management, while there will be offerings from nearly every little town in the State. Commissioner Whiting is confident, how eycr, that this branch of the display will re flect credit upon the Commonwealth, as will all the other exhibits whicli it will send W estward. C0EHEEED THE COIN MAESIT. A Neat Revenge on the Ranks Played by a Detroit Baker. Detroit, Jan. 10. The banks of Detroit will not accept any considerable deposits to the credit of mercantile accounts in 1-cent pieces, and this rule has often been a source of inconvenience to merchants who have L-reeelved1aTeekquanttticsr of this character of "chicken feed" in the course of trade. Barrie & Saladln, proprietors of a bakery on West Fort street, suffered in common with other merchants whoso respective trades call for an extensive use of small change. This firm could not deposit US "pennies" at its banking house, and so laid plans to reap a sweet revenge. All the minimum frac tional currency which came, their way they threw into a barrel, tho lid or which was se emed by a padlock, and time was allowed to pass by. I the course of several months there was a scarcity of 1-cent pieces. Merchants would call upon each other for change, the banks would be applied to and newsboys found it necessary to either sell 5 cents' worth of papers or elso open an acconnt with their customers. Tbe pen nies kept on growing scarcer and scarcer and the bhrrel at the store of Barrie & Saladin kept growing fuller and fuller. Finally there came a real famine of 1-cent pieces and merchants weie obliged to con tent themselves in either raising their goods up to lialf-diino marks or- in cutting the price. The situation became painful for the banks before the cause n as ascertained. iSariie & Saladin had accumulated $700 worth of pennies and thero was a universal de mand inado upon them for change. In buy ing, out their corner in oopper coins the banks were glad to pay a slight premium wbich Barrie & Saladin charged them. C0BFSES PEEBEEVED BY HATUBK. They Are Not Changed Though in the Ground for Several Years. DiifVHt, Col., Jan. 20. A most singnlar fact in l elation to the i eir.arkable preserva tion of human bodies interred at Glenwood Springs, this State, presumably by the chem ical properties of the overlying lime strata, has just come to light. On account of the growth or the town it was decided to remove the remains of the pioneers from tbe old to the new cemetery. Little general attention was given the matter beyond that shown by the local authorities in seeing that the work of disinterment was properly carried out, which was left in charge of the sexton. There were about thirty bodies to remove and they were all in time interred in the new cemetery The work was done slowly and scarcely anybody but the sexton and hia assistants were present when a grave was opened, and when the remains were taken out they were not disturbed, but left inclosed in the coffins, which were found in a remark aolo state of preservation, considering the fact that they had been buried, in many cases, from flVe to seven years. This finally led to an inspection bv the sexton, out of mere curiosity, of one of tlo bodies, and what wai his surprise to find the remains in the condition of those that have been interred only a short time that is, be foie decomposition has set in. The body was not shrunken or in any way changed apparently from what It was when first buried: but on the contrary the flesh nas soft, tbe limbs pliable and the leatures as natural as life. Many of the other bodies, in fact nil of those that were exhumed after the condition or the one mentioned was dis covered, were found to be in the same ex traordinary state of preservation. STATE EDITOBIAL 'ASSOCIATION. Officers Elected nd Resolutions Adopted Concerning the World's Fair. HABRiSBtmo, Pa., Jan. 20. These officers were elected at the annual meeting of the State Editorial Association held to-day: President, P. Gray Meek, Bellefonte; Vice Presidents, Hi L. Taggart, Philadelphia, William B. Givln, Columbia, and B. J3. Mc Kee, Freeport; Secretary and Treasurer, IL H. Thomas, Mechanicsburg; Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. Wolfe, Shlppensburg; Exec utive Committee, W.Hayes Grier, Columbia; H. A. Kuttor. Hughesville; J. Irvin Steele, Ashland: E. F. Acueson, Washington; E. K. Meyers, Harrisburg; S. E. Fleming, Hunting don; John A. Mellon, Beaver. A resolution was adopted heartily reoom mendlng the World's Columbian Exposition to tbo consideration ot the newspaper press of Pennsylvania. A new Committeo on Legislation was appointed, with J. Somer, of Carlisle as Chairman. The ExecutiTO Committee will1 arrange for next summer's excursion. It Iin't Cutting Much Ice. Toledo Commercial, The Democratic majority in Congress is making quite a noise but It isn't cutting -muehice. .- - 5-; JANUARY 21 1892L THE BLUE LAW CRUSADE. Plotting Against Legitimate Business. Jiun. bllU Ul UU11QUUUCS WUU UUllBtlkUlO vuu Law and Order Society ought to have the thanks of the publio for beginning a contest which means the obliteration of the Pennsyl vania blue laws of a century ago. In their attack on Sunday newspapers, by the arrests of agents and carriers, they have opened up on themselves and the nonsensical laws they work under, the batteries of the most powerful weapon of modern times the public press. It requires somo move like this to awaken the public to the power any two or three men can use to interfere with matters that do not concern them, and we look for a public upheaval that will not only wipe out tbe blue laws, but put an end to the Law and Order Society and that ilk. In confmunities in which police protection is guaranteed, there is -no more need for an adjunct like a Law and Order Society than theie Is for Pinkertori detectives to help the polico keep the peace. The Law and Order people have done nothing since their organi zation that the polico could not do, and tho money and time they have spent would be thrown away In the suppression of speak easies and other business, clearly illegal, if the police had not actually done the work. The observance of the Sabbath isthede siro of every right-minded man, and publio opinion Is such that illegal or unnecessary business will not be allowed, whether or not a law and order society exists. In our judg ment a society like the L. and O. people have, by their harassing those engaged in necessary occupations, such as the publish ing of Sunday papers, running street cars, etc., ie clearly guilty, though these blue laws exist, of what tho laws of Pennsylvania term conspiracy. They certainly meet and plot together to do barm to legitimate busi ness, and as the Judges of our courts can so easily convict striking workingmen of con spiracy, surely there should bo no trouble for those most interested to convict tbeL. and O. people. It is also trne that the detec tives in the employ of the L.'and O. folk are paid wages for working on Sun d&v, gather ing evidence, and they are as guilty of vio lating the blue laws, and subject to fines, as are their victims. Wo shonld like to see tho Sunday newspaper proprietors tesi these points in the courts. Likely to Repeal the Law. New York Times. J Weare not aware whether the effort of the Law and Older Society to stop the sales of Sunday newspapers is the work of honest fanatics, or is Instigated by vindlotive saloon keepers whose business has been in jured by- the enforcement or tho Sunday laws. This latter was the case with an at tempt made a few years ago to enforce those laws in Newark, and the Law and Order Society is reported to be about to include Newark in its sphere of operations. At present those operations are particularly active in Pittsburg. It Is not necessary, in order to condemn such an effort, to go into the general question of Sunday laws. If Is necessary only to point out that there is not an American city where tbe prohibition of the Sunday trafflcin newspapers is sustained by publio opinion. That is a conclusive reason why no effort should be made to en force the legal prohibition, where it exists, although it may bo of service in suppressing Sunday traffic as to wbich tbe public sup ports tho prohibition of tho law, and may therefore properly be left on the statute book. An effort to enforce the Sunday laws indiscriminately and in all their nor wonld be likely to result in tho repeal of those laws. That would meet the views of the Law and Order Society only if that body is tbe instrument of the liquor dealers. The Lines Drawn Too Closely. McKeesport News. The move made by the Law and Order So ciety of Pittsburg against the Sunday papers, resulting in a hearing, before an alderman on Satnrday and a decision against the de fendants, suggests that this would be a very proper time for a popular move for a l epeal of the "Blue Law," under which the informa tion was-made. There are otherrestriotions in this measure, the enforcement or wbich doss not seem to bo justified. The rigid re striction of the sale of soda water, lemonade, milk skakes or confections on Sunday in Pittsburg seems to be drawing the lines just a little closer than is desired by even the best church going people in that city. Mc Keesport has had a visit from tbe agents of this society during the summer season. The crusade against Sunday newspapers seems to be furnishing winter employment for the aliened reformers, who in summer eke out an existence trying to put down the innocent' miuisuaKe ana narmiess lemonaue. Cannot Be Hade effective. New York Commercial AdTertlser, Pittsburgers bad their Sundaynewspapers yesterday in spite of the Lawand Order peo ple and the prosecution of newsboys and dealers last week. A law that has not the sanction of public sentiment can seldom be made effective, and there is no publio senti ment worth speaking of that opposes Sun day newspapers. This Is Not 1794. Philadelphia Inquirer. The law of 1794 has been resurrected by the Pittsburg Law and Order Society as a weapon against the Sunday papers. This is not the year 1791, but some people seem to wish It was. NATIONAL DIVORCE LAW Iir the vicinity of Sioux Falls Senator Kyle's new bill is looked upon as the pre cursor of 'an iniquitous and monopolistic divorce trust. Chicago News. Se s atob Kyle's printed resolution look ing to a constitutional amendment giving Congress power to enact a national divorce law is worthy the snpport of Congress and the nation. Minneapolis Journal Sksatok Kyle's bill for a national divorce law is a good starter for a discussion of a very crave American problem, and there is no person more eligible to start It than a Senator from the neighborhood of Sioux Falls, S. ft. Minneapolis Journal As to adopting a constitutional amend ment that will interfere with the popular ity South Dakota enjoys as a resort for ma trimonial ailments or with the reverence Chicago desires irom the proceedings of her divorce courts it can never be thought of. Dultith Tribune. ' Sehatok Kyle's bill for a uniform and na tional divorce law cannot bo enacted ex cept through an amendment to the federal Constitution. The necessity of legislation to control thegrowing evil of lax divorce laws in the several States has been recog nized, and suoh an amendment wonld prob ably seenre the approval of the requisite number of States to make it law for theen tire lan(L Minneapolis Times. ? A BEIDE WITH A BEAED. The Cruel Hoax That Was Played Upon a Chicago Tailor. Chicago, Jan. 20 Charles Bosenberg, who objects to a bride with a beard, swore out warrants this morning for Jacob Zeman and Jennie Lambosky, charging them with fraud and conspiracy. Thereby hangs a' strange tale. Sunday afternoon Bosenber? was married, but he afterward discovered that his wife was a boy and that he was $25 out of pocket. A few weeks ago Rosenberg, who is 33 years old and a tailor, decided to many. He knew no damsel who would share his late, and ho called upou Jacob Ze man. Afte' stating his case and banding over $10 to Zcman, that individual took him to Hulsted street and introduced him to Jennie Lambo3ky, a maiden or 20 summers. Jennie agreed to many him, and the wed ding was set ror Sunday afternoon. Bosen berg called npon hi future wire several times and all went well. Saturdayniglit she told him they would have a lunch after the wedding and ho gave her $10. Sunday after noon at 4 o'clock he was on hand. A man who was introduced as tho rabbi demanded $5 and Rosenberg gave up the money. Then tho supposed brid was led forth heavily veiled. The ceremony was performed. When tho veil was removed Bosenberg ob served that the bride Jiad a beard and has tily loft the place. The others remained and enjoyed the benefits of his Hard-earned cash. They claim it was nil a Joke, "but Bosenberg cannot see tbe joke, and says he will prose cute them to tbe end. Not Afraid to Attack Sheep. Boston Traveller. Mr. Springer la a man of courage. . He Is not afraid to attack sheep. COUSIN TO A MILLINER. A Smart Bonnet Maker In Vanity Fair Claims Kinship With Lady Henry Somerset She Is of Noble Descent Also Pittsburg rarlor Paragraphs. IjAdt Henry Somerset, who has been such a success in New Yorkj is the daughter of the third Earl Snmner, and daughter-in-law or the Dukoor Beaufort. She was-known before her marriage as Lady Isabel Caroline Somcrs-Cocks. She is a tremendous social reformer and teetotaler, and goes about everywhere in the slums preaching reform ation and a sort of Robert Elsmerian gospel, diluted. She Ht waswho added largely to the dowery given by the Duke of Bedford to Miss Bachel Gnrney on her mar riage with Lord Dudley, arid who lent tho young couple' Eastnor Castle for the honey moon. A very great many ardent reformers kno w an d admire her ladyship, but it is only tbo very few who are aware that her cousin also born a Somers-Cocks keeps a bonnet shop, and a very smart one, too, in Ebnry stieer, Belgi-.ivia, trading under, the firm name of Mmc. Zero et Cie. The presents for Princess Mary, some of which continned to -arrive oven after the young Prince had been dead some hours, came by tbe wagon load, and the Duchess of Teck was -at a los to knpw where to house everything. There w,ere sent no less than three pianos, sufficient furniture for a dozen boudoirs, two landaus, a door cart, an organ, two jsewing machines and a skiff among the other useful gifts, which the Duchess Intimated would be as useful to the young people as plate or Jewelry. She hardly dreamt that she was going to be taken so liberally at her word. Intimation has beea received in society in tho form of announcement cards or tbe marriage or Miss Delilah Madison, daughter of J. Eussell Thornton, Esq., or Uniontown, to Alonzo Caneden Hagan, on Thursday evening, January 14. The bride is promi nent socially, her father being a representa tive of a very old and distinguished family in Fayette county and Mr. Hagan is a yonng attorney standing well among his legal associates in Uniontown. The announce-' montsof the marriage ere issued in the names or Mr. and Mrs. Bussell Thornton. "At home" cards accompany them, dating Aprlld, at 1C3 Gallatin avenue, Uniontown. Social Chatter. The Secretary requests the publication of the following intimation: The final meeting of committees working lor day nursery en tertainment to be held in Old City Hall, Jan uary 28 to SO inclusive, will be held this afternoon in the Eighth Street Befonned Presbyterian Church at 3 v. if. Mrs. Edwakd Graham Ferqcsos, who was Miss Burt, Hill hold her first "at home" on Thursday afternoon, January 23, tollowing it with anotheva week later. The "at homes" will be held at the house of Mr. Ferguson's mother, Mrs. J. Scott Ferguson, Forbes ave nue, Oakland. , ' The Orihda Cotillons will be supple mented by three more dances, as follows: Friday, Januarv22, Friday, February 12, and Tnportnr- March 1: when the same ladies. Mr. Curry, Mrs. Normscutt and Mrs. Lind say, will perform the duties of patronesses. The Spanish -Orchestra being trained in the music chambers belonging to M. Charles W. Fleming will proDably lend its talents to a benefit that is talked or in the spring for the Allegheny General Hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Francis Mcehhy and daugh ter. Miss Ella Gibson, orMillerstown,Pa.,are paying a visit to Mrs. B. F. Leech, of East End. Mrs. William S. Fraser's first "at home" this evening ut her homo in Stanton avenue. Mrs. John P. Knabie receives with her sis ter. Invitations have been issued by Mrs. Charles A. O'Brien, of Mt. Washinirton, for a reception on Thursday, January 23. Ulna. T:nwARn Riddle, ot Arch street, AUe- heny, will entertain the Dinwiddle Street E ucure uiUD tnis evening. Miss Oline akd-Mb. Jesse Jones' dance this ovenine at the Jones' residence onDu quesne way. Miss Ruth Bailey, of Penn avenue, gave a luncheon yesterday for her lriend, Miss Small. Mrs. D. T. Watson's luncheon at I o'clock to-day, Western avenue, Allegheny. Mrs. Christy's dance at her house, Wash ington avenue, Mansfield. Miss Ewino's tea this afternoon for her guest, Miss Hancock. First of the ladies' evenings at the Linden Clubhouse. On Dlt. It is said that nothing larger than a No. 2 boot is worn by the fair fashionable resi dents of Bidge avenue, Allegheny. WILDCATS IS C0HNECTICTO. A Family of Them Commit Depredations Near Norih, Bridgeport. Bridgeport, Conn., Jan. 20. The popula tion of North Bridgeport, three miles above this city, is all excitement over the depre dations of a family of wildcats which has been working havoc for the past two weeks in that thriving suburb. On Sunday even ing Tommy, the 9-year-old son of Timothy Collins, was attacked in the back yard while carrying a bundle of wood from the barn to the house. He was knocked down and fearfully lacerated. His ci ies aroused his father, who drove off the cat with a cart stake. It was a verv laigennd safageoneand weighed at least 35 pounds. Two calves belonging to another resident were killed and mangled, and in numerable chickens have lost their lives. Women and children arc afraid to venture out alter dark. A hunting party will be organized to-night. From the howls in the woods it is thought that there are two old ones and two cnbs. Wild cat have been in creasing in numbers in Fairfield county for several years, ana aiounu uanuury tney are especially numerous. It Smoketh Every Day. Chicago Tribune. And the smoke it smoketh every day. PLAYS TO COME. On Monday evening next the world famous 'dramatic company, "The Meininger," will make its first appearance in thl3 city. An unusual reputation has preceded this com pany, and heater-goers are, therefore, en titled to expect more than ordinary merit in their performance. The "ensemble" of "The Meininger" has never been equaled on the American stage, it is said. Even tho small est part is played by a competent artist who may be called upon to play a principal part in another play. The scenery, the costumes, the armor and alt the properties are from the court theater of the Dnke of Saxe-Mein-fnjren. The claimed snnerloritVof this com pany's productions lie? in the perfection off tne cast nna too correctness oi every uowh. There is no play in the extensive repertoiro of this company that affords such excellent opportunities for the strength of the entire cast as Shakespeare's "Julius (tesar." This will be the only play given dnringthe entire week's stay of "The Meininger" at the Du quesne. The most successful comic opera of tho season on the road is "The Tar and the Tar tar," which pays Pittsburg a second-visit next week. Its 800th performance win ue celebrated at tne Grand Opem House on Monday next by tho distribution or souve nir silver spoons among tbe ladies of the audience. The theater is also to be deco rated with palms, ferns and flazs for the oc casion. The company is the same as that which Manager Askin Drought here earlier in the season, and includes the Inimitable Dieby Bell, Marion Manola, Laura Joyce Bell, Herbert Wilke, and others or promi nence. "My Colleen," by James A. Heme, author of "Hearts or Oak," will commence a week's engagement at tne Bijou Theater next Mon day night. It is described as a story of Irish life, intensely Interesting, with tho drollest or Irish comedy and catchy songs. Tony Farrell, the yonng comedian, is said to be especially well equipped for the portrayal or the role ho assumes, that of a generous hearted, rollicking Irish lad, whose courage brings happiness to his family. Mr. Farrell nightly sings bis charming Irish ballads, which have aided essentially In making "Jerry Doyle" a wonderful success. Bichard Golden returns to Pittsburg next Monday evening at the Alvin Theater, where he will present his successful stage picture of New England rural life, "Old Jed Prouty," of Bucksport, Me. Nearly tbe same people are in the cost as there were last season, and all the accessories, inclnding the old-fashioned "fire tub,"buckboard and "fust horse," will be used in tbe forthcoming engagement. Lowanda, tbe strong man, now at Harry Davis' Museum, 8 certainly a wonder. He possesses jaws of iron, lifting a 1,000-pound weight with his teeth. The show this week, at a whole, is a big one. The popularity of Hyde's Vaudeville Com pany is attested by the large audiences which are attending Harris' Theater. ,Tt !- " --" CDKIODS CONDESSATfoM Acnbic foot of newlyfallen snowwelgha Impounds, and hai 12 times thebnlkofau eq'ual weight of water. A New York man, who was liberated from a hospital a few days ago, danced so violentlvfor Jby that he burst ablpo ves sel and died. It is probable that Cornelius firebbel, a Hollander, in the year 1630 first discovered a method for indicating changes of tempera turcby means of a glass bulb. The passenger cars of the world are capable of seating 1,500,000 people, and upon the frelsht cars conld be loaded th6 weight of all the pyramids of Egypt, and all the State capltol buildings in the United States beside. Some univalves do a great dealjof dam age by destroying oysters in beds, drilling through the shells with theirflle-like tongues and sucking out the occupants of the houses into which they have thus forced an en trance. ' The members of the Japanese Club In New York City issue a Japanese newspaper. It is printed on a hektograpb, and only a small number of copies aremade. Itis in tended chiefly for the information of their friends at home. The bronze statue of Liberty which has" crowned the dome of the Capitol building at Washington for the past 29 years 19 feet 8 inches high nnd weighs 14,935 pounds- The figure was cast in five sections, the heaviest being of 4,740 pounds weight. Snuff has been made from a very early period, first and most la'gely by the Span ish, who prepared it with care andscentad it with various materials. Next the low countries, Scotland and England, extended and popularized the use ofsnufi. Swords of prehistoric and even much later times were often of bronze, but for many ages steel has been the material ex clusively employed, except that ocacsion nlly some other material has been, used for swords designed for state occasions and pageants. The opal was once looked upon as a thunder stone, and although many women now appear to have strong superstitious ' prejudice against wearing one, it was in by gone days held in the highest estimation, for it wg supposed to combine the virtues of several other gems. The chief element in the composition of a tear is water, but with water is associ ated minute proportions of salt; soda, phos phate of lime, phosphate of soda and mucus, and when seen under the microscope a tear after evaporation looks like a very ' small fish bone, owingto tho (-alines forming thom selves into lengthened crosslines. A most curiously wrought funeral pall, nearly 400 years old, presented some time previous to the year 1316 to a fraternity or brotherhood, dedicated to St. John tBe Bap tist at Dunstable, by Henry Fayrev nnd Agnes bis wife, has Just been forwarded to Canon Macanlov, the rector, and church wardens of the parish church, in trust as a valuable relic. In a TJtica brewery the iron nozzle of a hose used in steaming out barrels was acci dentally dropped into a keg, and tbe keg was filled with beer. Some time afterward a customer reported that he had received one keg of iron bitters with his last load of beer, which gave his patrons snch appetites that threo men and a boy couldn't keep the freo lunch counter stocked. Dan, the male ostrich of jftobinson's Circus, died on Thursday afternoon in Cincinnati of la grippe, wito which he was telzed orae days ago. A post-mortem was held. The lungs were found congested and the throat was enlarged and ulcerated, while flrmlv fastened In the coating of the stomach the $S0O diamond that Dan picked last Bum mer Irom a gentleman's shirt front in Mon treal was found imbedded. The Eoyal Library at Berlin contains 800 COO volumes; the library at Copenhagen, 310,000; "the liDrary at Dresden, 500,000; the University Library at Gottingen. Germany, 600.000. The Boyal Library at Vienna has 400,000 volumes, and the University Librarv in the same city 370 000 volumes: at Buda. Pesth the University Library has 300,000 book, the corresponding librarv at Cracow nearly the same number, and at'Prague 203, 000. The latest count of the population of the city of Bio de Janeiro, the Brazilian capital, computed np to about a year ago just published in the Diario Official, gives the population at 515,559, classified as folio ws: Males, 237,491): female. 22S.0G9: wbife, 212,233; blacki, 61,035: native Indians,17,2St: Mentlzos, 11L9S7: sinele, 3710C6; married. 113,633? wid dowed, 30,432, nnd divorced, 155. It Is esti mated that the present population is be tween 600,000 and 700,000. In 1870 it was 235, 000. It was largely the fashion in the six teenth, seventeenth and eighteenth cen turies with ladies of wealth to have their watches richly Intrusted with precious stones. A lady's watch made toward the end of the reign or Queen E'izabeth hada gold case Bet with 200 turquoise stones ar ranged in eight concentric circles with a single one in the middle. On the upper por tion of the case was a Tudor rose ot crimson and green in translucent enamel, and on the margin crimson and blue leaves and fruit in enamel. The balance wheel was protected by a gilt cock. One of the first settlers of "Wayne county, Pa., was John Swingle who settled in South Canaan nearly 100 years ago. He came from Germany. His wife presented him with a child every two years for 50 years, and was only 63 when she died. When Swingle died tho 25 children were all living. Eighteen of them married and had .largo families. One of the children, Mrs. Catharine Haines, died a few days ago in Dunraore in her 90th year. Sho was tho last but 2 of the 25. 2 brothers being alive, both octogenari ans. Besides them she is survived by 6 chil dren, 12 grandchildren and 18 great gran d .hiiiiren. It is estimated that the descend ants or John Swingle in Pennsylvania num ber over 600. Patrons of an unpretentious restaurant in New York have been interested -in a curious case of heredity. A year or more ago a small and extremely lively Jet black kitten became a feature of the restaurant. As the kitten grew a small lump appeared on its belly, and by the time the xitten had reached cathood this lump had developed into a wen as big as a small hen's egg. In dntr course the cat Decame tne mother of five black kittens, all of which, save one, were entirely normal. That one, however, inherited the maternal wen.and the custom ers are waiting with interest until the old cat shall become a grandmother, and won dering whether the wen will extend to the third generation. JOKELKTS FROM: JUDGE, "You are a prohibitionist, eh?" " Yesslr: to my dying day." 'From choice or necessity?" "Neither, sir; from Toledo." - THE BOSS FOOL. Ot all the fools, who leads the van? If It were put to vote I think he'd be the silly man Whojumps to aatch the boat. DtTBIOCS. "I think I'll let my beard grow for week," said Chappie. Do you think It will?" asked Ethel. "Is she in society?" "No: I don't believe sbeever took a tosoola Delsarte in bar lire." LCCK IS WEALTH. If I conld have the thing I want, In all this world of good and bad; ir I could have the tiling I want. And wnat I wanted could be had. With wenlth and fame I'd have uo traez, " I'd jost take Hosscll Sage's lock. POPULAR SCSJECT3. Professor Mr. Smartman, you may name some of the more prominent 'ologles, Mr. Smartman Biology, sociology, geology, as trology and doxologr. Mrs. Kingsley (proudly) Do you know, as long as I have lived with my hnsband I- have never known him to utter an oath- . . Mrs. Bingo Then he doesn't tie hi own neck ties. Gentleman 'What is your name, little flil? Little Girl-Evelyn Antoinette Billings Smith Bedfern Hathaway Jacobs StratomoreClnm. Gentleman You have a long name for a llKle glrL Little Girl Yes, sir; but ma lived in Chicago seven years. "This must, be a female turkey," ob served Hunker, at tbe dinner table.' , "What makes jou think that?" askel Mrs. Small. vf&l "It has such rich dressing." fl Sunday-School Tcscher Now? ehild,rg what do you suppose became of the Bed ge wlfet; It rolled back for the hosts? ;k,-o '" Johtrny Parker I know. Itwent,lnwetorfs reservoirs, " """ ' LSFUnS&a&1
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