MTTKnTTniri V3r Tgr- iwzS W? ry&WZ; p tjv-j . !-.,- j, i .- .- - .." a - ( ' X i . THE PITTSBURG- DISPATCH, THURSDAY, JANUARY 28; 1892. IIB ' UjeBippMj ESTABLISHED FEBRUARY IMG Vol. 46. No. rij. Entered at nttshurg Postoffiee November, 1S57, as second-class matter. Business Office Corner Smithfield and Diamond Streets. News Rooms and Publishing House 78 and So Diamond Street, in New Dispatch Building. fartkrv ATWfcrcnsiN'n office, nomrnt, TRIBUNE IIITII.DINR. NT.W YORK, whor-complete flies of! HE DISPATCH can alwavsbc found. roreJmi adrertiprs appreciate lite convenience. Home advertisers aud friends or THE DISPATCH, while in N ew York, arc alo made welcome. TBE D1SFA TCJI is regtfa-lj on ta' at Brrntano' I Union Square. Sew lorl. and 17 Art neVOpcra, Tans, trance, where anynnt tclio ha been disap pointed at a hotel news stand can obtain it. TEEMS OF THE DISPATCH. rOTAGF. TRFF. IS TITS UMTED STATE". daily Dispatch. One Year J R m DAIL-rDisrATCH, rcxQnartcr. IPO Daili Dispatch. One Month "0 Daily Dispatch. Including Sunday, 1 year.. 10 01 Daili Dispatch, including Sunday. 3m'ths. i50 Daily Dispatch. tncludingbundaj. 1 m'th.. !o SUNPAY Dispatch, One Year r sn Weekly-Dispatch, One Year 1 ? The Daily Dispatch Is delivered by rarriers at 3EcentsperccL, or. Including Sunday Edition, at 1C cents per w eck. riTTSBURO. THURSDAY. JANUARYS COJirLETl! SCUMIS5.ION. The cratification that is felt over the prospect of a peaceful and dignified settle ment of the Chilean difficulty is proof that however unanimous and earnest in push ing war, if such became necessary. lie people of this country fully appreciate that it is not a condition to bo lightly brought about; and that in the case of the distracted little Republic of South Amer ica, the magnanimity of a great power to a little one may well warrant such tem porary forbearance as might be liable to misconstruction if extended to a more powerful offender. The statement has often be.en made that the Chileans do not like citizens of the United Slates: that the Chil ean tone to our people there has been irritating and insolent; and that there should be no sympathy for Chileans anyhow if they brought punish ment upon themselves. Kow much of this is a true representation of Chilean sentiment, how much the expression of the specific ill-feeling produced last year in Chile by our minister's attitude in favor of Balmaceda. andhow much the spread of the idea of Chilean hostility comes from classes which desire war, it might be diffi cult to determine. It would be well to re member, however,that while there is no ob ligation upon the Chileans to like this conn try if they da not want to, there never has been in the settlement of any international dispute such a complete submission and singular expression of confidence in our institutions as is expressed by Chile's vol untary offer not only to apologize in the ierms dictated from Washington, but to submit the merits of the question after that to whatever decision our Supreme Court would make upon them. No doubt there are reckless, offensive and Ignorant factors both in thepoliticsand cit izenship of Chile. Torn so lately by cruel war, and with the Government hardly yet firmly established, it is not to be wondered that these elements have led to offense against the United States. Perhaps even, as charged, foreign influences were active that way. But, however .that be, the attitude of the Chilean- Government to day is well calculated to disarm further enmity in this quarter. In offering to do all that President Harrison requires for satisfaction in a preliminary way,and then to throw itself wholly in the hands of a United States tribunal for further con demnation or exoneration, it goes as far as anybody could possibly ask. Hot even the most ardent seeker after war for its own sake can find. a cause for quarrel, if Chile persists in thus putting the whole disposi tion of the matter in the hands of the United States. There ceases thus to be controversy, and the little power throws itself wholly on the magnanimity and sense of justice of the greater one. SECRECY NOT WAPfTED. The proposition mooted in Washington yesterday of a discussion of the President's message on the Chilean imbroglio in secret session of the House does not commend itself to an impartial judgment Secrecy is not called lor by the present state of affairs. It is true that secret sessions are pro Tided for by the rules of the House, when "confidential communications arc received from the President," aud that interna tional questions are most frequently deemed to require this secrecy. But in this case the communication received from the President was not confidential. The utmost pains were taken to.spread before the entire nation the argument of the Ev.- ....:.. : .. f ... TTJ- 11 - Z ' "Z """T. "?, " cumstances the proposition that the dis cussion in the nouse shall be secret smacks very strongly of a desire that the people of the United States shall not be allowed to learn of the official arguments on the other side. There has been too much of that sort of suppression already. If there is to be any fighting, the . people of the United State have cot to do it and pay for it It is their right to know fully what they have got to fight for. LEGISLATIVE INDIRECTION. The proposition to defeat the lottery by resorting to the taxing power of Congress Instead of the present methods of fighting is attracting considerable favor. Tne ar gument is that while the general govern ment cannot invade the functions of the State so as to prohibit a lottery chartered by a State, it can use the taxing power to strangle it out of existence. On that theory a bill has been introduced levying an internal revenue tax of 75 per cent on the gross receipts of any Irittery or agents selling its tickets. There is no doubt that an excise of tax of 75 per cent on the sales of lottery tick ets, if fully enforced, would wind up the business. If there is no other way of sup pressing that class of wholesale gambling houses it may be well to try this resort Nevertheless, the fondness of American legislation for this device is calculated to arouse reflections as to whether it is not open to the charge of indirection. Our Constitution does not allow the general government to legislate directly for bidding a given thing. So we scrupu lously respect the Constitutional pro vision, and straightway levy a pro hibitory tax on it and imprison the offenders for violating the tax taws of the United States. The same sincular contradiction is observed in other things. Congress was not quite certain twenty years ago that it could prohibit -State banks of issue; so it taxed them out of existence. More recently it was not con fident enough of its ground to directly prohibit the manufacture and sale of what it deemed to be a bogus article of food; and it levied an internal revenue tax. Besides, the paradox of using this de vice to do indirectly what we do not con sider the National Legislature authorized to do directly, there is the suggestion that it gives a plan for the prompt solution of a gocd many problems. As a cognate sub ject to the lotteries why not have Congress tax "snide" race tracks and stock and grain gambling out of existence. We want uniform divorce laws, and without a Constitutional amendment Congress can not enact, one directly. But can it not levy a prohibitory tax on all divorces issued except for the few and agreed upon causes? Indeed the device permits a whole code of national legislation to be built up without interfering with the State prerogative. We would not trench upon the State right ot dealing with burclary, em bezzlement, riot, and the keeping of dis orderly houses, on any consideration, but we can levy a scheme of prohibitory Federal taxation which will cover the whole ground of felonies and misdemean ors. It is a far reaching idea; but if Congress is to do any or all of these things, would it not be as well to amend the Constitu tion, and let the result be accomplished by direct legislation instead of by indirec tion. THE WATER QUESTION; The energetic measures taken by the Department of Public Works to locate the source of the pollution of the city water by petroleum has borne fruit in the report of Superintendent Wilcox. This paper, published in yesterday's Dispatch, shows sources 'which make it no longer appear strange that the city water contained a mixture of petroleum last fall, and leaves a ground for mild surprise that the flavor is not there all the time. Between Oil City and Parkers the Allegheny river drains no less than thirty petroleum producing fields, and there are . uncounted districts beyond Oil City. From Brilliant to Oil City there are twelve refineries in operation, and still another increment be yond Oil City. Pipe lines unnumbered lie along and cross the river. From the oil wells an escape of crude oil and sedi ment onto the ground is constantly going on, and rains wash it into the river. The refineries near the city are careful to prevent refuse escaping into the river; but farther away they are beyoud the jurisdiction of the city. Pipe lines were not observed to leak except in one instance. When we sum up the multi plicity of actual causes of oil in the river and the reserve of contingent ones there is no room for surprise that oil is nearly always floating on the surface of the water and that occasionally the stream is so charged with it that it gets into the city mains. This complete view of the causes per mits us to form an accurate judgment of the propositions for curing the trouble. Legislation can undoubtedly be obtained to prevent oil refineries and pipe lines from contributing to the pollution; but it will not be so easy to forbid oil wells from flowing, unless their output is securely stored. Besides this no legislation can prevent accidental escapes. Another measure is that suggested by the Chief of the Department for additional reservoir capacity, which can be made to avoid in addition the necessity of pumping two thirds of the city's water supply 160 feet higher than necessary. But neither safe guard entirely removes'the difficulty, and when we take into consideration the practi cal certainty that the cause of pollution will increase rather than diminish, the con clusion is forced that -all such measures must be regardedastemporaryexpedients, and that there is no complete and perma nent remedy under the present system of water supply. It is almost self-evident that all these measures should be resorted to, in order to protect the purity of the present sup ply. But it will become a live question for the near future whether all the cities of this district shdiild not unite in bring, ing a permanently pure water supply from mountain districts where pollution can always be prevented. FAMINE AND DESPAIR. , Terrible accounts of the acute sufferings of the Russian peasantry, in an ever-increasing number of districts, follow one another in quick succession. And still we are told that the facts exceed in horror any accounts that have yet been published. Can we wonder thattheCzarewitch should find it impossible to believe that the ac counts which reach him are colored by ex aggeration? He has never known a want, his father is the absolute governor of the Empire which is in the throes of des titution, and it is difficult for him to believe that the subjects of a man, especially remarkable for his strong family affections, should be in a position which cannot fail to reflect dis credit on the methods aud systems of the rule under which they live. This is no time for the discussion of the JL1H3 lO ii" MHJV. lu luv u,umiuu Ul IUC best measures to remedy the sources of the evil. It is a tune for immediate relief. But the very state of affairs which has led to the famine, the immensity of the country, its lack of means of communica tion, the childlike ignorance of the peas antry and the dependence they manifest on their ouperiors all these things in crease the difficulty of obtaining accurate information on which to act, and render remedial action well-nigh impossible in many cases. There is no wonder that these ignorant sufferers should become crazed in their affliction and seek to relieve their pangs by blinded outrages on all in better cir cumstances. Money is of use, but per sonal help is what is most needed for effective palliation of the evils. There must be an immense amount of starvation whose only relief can be death, and we can only hope that, once this famine is struggled through, such reforms may be undertaken as will prevent the recurrence of so sad an era in misguided Russia. THE "WRONG APPLICATION. A rich Chicago banker is reported either by his own disclosures or by the indiscre tion of some friends to have been playing the role of detective upon the charitable societies. "Attired in rough clothes," says the story, "he made a tour of the societies and solicited aid; but he obtained snly a few cents from some destitute men whose acquaintance he had formed in his rounds." A commentator goes on to re mark: "The story reads like romance, but there is too much reason to Relieve that it is grim reality," upon which are predicated some further remarks uncompli mentary to "official and professional charity." We do not know whether the story is true or not, and we are by no means cer tain that there may not be charitable societies of which the main usufruct goes 1 ln.salaries. But the tact which is indis putable in this case is the egregious mis take which those who tell this story make in supposing that it tells against the chari table societies. On the contrary, whatever j effect it has is to vindicate them. One purpose of charitable organiza tion is to prevent ihc waste of charity upon impostors. The secondary purpose i but littlo less important than the relief of the actually needy, and it is one for which organization is far more necessary. With that fact in mind, what is the real mean ing of the story as it is told throughout the country? A person pretending to be in need of re lief solicits aid of all the charitable organ izations, ne is not in need at all. So far as the purposes of the organization are concerned he is an impostor. If" he had obtained the relief he asked it would have shown that the charitable funds were ex pended' in a manner to permit and en courage imposture and mendicancy. But he did not get relief from any one of the organizations. Perhaps the charitable agents might say that the imposture was such a shallow one that they were able to detect it on sight Whether they do or not, the failure of an attempt to get char itable funds bestowed on a man whose pretended need- was a fraud is an unqual ified vindication of the charitable organ izations. The astonishing thing about the whole story is the uumber of people who tell it, as if the purpose of charitable organiza tions were to bestow aid on the first fraud who comes along. The latest news from Washington indi cates that the Government is maintaining its stubborn nttitudc of secrecy with regard to the messago from Chile. "They seem by no means anxious to publish anything likely to prove that submission -was a foregone conclusion. The London Chronicle, in the article which it publishes from an American cor respondent, succeeds in displaying its vast ignorance of the Chilean question. But the gross misstatements that have been current in the press of this country on the matter, in other directions, should lead us to forgive an English paper for its misconception of the opinions of the American public. The severity of the influenza epidemic in London may he Judged from the statement made by the medical adviser of a large life insurance company. He said that it had cost the company two and a half times as much as the cholera epidemic ot 1812. The workers of the Delphic Oracle would have had an inestimable treasure in the phonograph. It is said that Cardinal Manning delivered a message to one of these instruments last Easterwhlch was not to be published until alter his death. Consider able interest -will attach to this posthumous speech when it is allowed to become gen erally known. Chairman Blount's saying, "The line of safety is the line of deliberation," should be illuminated and sent to the Piesldentto form an adornment to his loom, where he could not lall to sec it night and morning. Seldom has a Circuit Court been the scene of a more tragic event than that wit nessed in the sudden death of Justice Knapp, of New Jersey. The Judge was ad dressing the grand jury on what he consid ered a serions miscarriage of justice, and the depth of his conviction was emphasized most-forcibly the fatal finale of his speech. The movement for turning over the arsenal grounds to the city for park pur poses should receive strong support. Such a place is mnch needed and would be dearly prized in Lawrenceville. So far as Can be judged from the progress already made the enlistment of Indians as soldiers has led to encouraging results. Whether they will evince the necessary qualities of being able to face known and" appalling danger, or whether their courage is simply of a fanatical, emotional kind, can only be decided by the proof of battle. Woman's .latest organization in this country is a Daking company in Chicago. It is right and proper that they should make a specialty of using none but the purest ma terials. It is significant that, in his speech at the Manhattan Club, Senator Hill said: "I have always labored to discharge my duty to my State and to my party." No mention was made of the Nation, and it would have been more honest if the sentence had said: "I have always labored to discharge my duty to myself and to my party." "Let us have peace," said V. S. Grant, "War is all hell," said W. T. Sherman. A second term is of prime importance, thought B. Harrison. A cotempobary, in speaking of the probability that English women will obtain the suffrage before long, mentions that tho Woman's Liberal Society has 100,000 mem bers, and says that the Primrose League is still larger. It should be noted that mem bership of the latter is by no means confined' to the fair sex. One of the greatest difficulties in recall ing Egan is the puzzle of,flnding out how to put up with him when we get him back. "The honor that arbitrates is lost," wails the New York Sun. Was there ever a more ridiculous and immoral assertion? On the contrary, the honor that seeks vindication in strife, before all peaceful methods are ex hausted, is everlastingly tainted with "the scent of blood. FAVORITES OP FORTUNE. The mother of the Empress Elizabeth of Austria is dying of the grip. The Princess of Wales does not think that children ought to be allowed to read Shakespeare. Goveenok McKiNLpsjhas promised to make campaign speeches in Massachusetts a few months hence. Ex-Conobessman J. G. Cannon, of Illinois, declines to run for Governor, but will accept a renomination to his old seat at Washington. -William E. Barrett, Speaker of the Massachusetts Assembly, pri editor as well, has been chosen to membership in the New England Club. Sib Charles Russell is a valuable friend to his clients, for he alwayB tries to dissuade them from going to law if their caso can be arranged out of court, Gounod, the composer, is a fine-looking old man with white hair. He is an erratic worker, and derives his best inspiration when he is in a church or a cathedral. ERNHARD Gillam, who is by some de clared tolje the best-known caricaturist in America, says ho used to be bashful about meeting public men whom he had abused pictorially. , .The Czarina of Austria, who. was just re covering from an attack of the trip, has been so badly affected by the death of the Czar's uncle, the Grand Duko Constantine, that she lias bad a relapse. JIr. Lorimer Stoddard, the actor, is a son ot the poet, Richard Henry Stoddard. He has made a success of his stage career, and is remembered as the funny little lord in Robson and Crane's "The Henrietta." After Dr. Smith's Chair. Canton, O., Democrat, It is currently whispered around that Rev. L. H. Stowart has got tired, or playing Pre siding Elder, and is laying the ropes to be come editor of the Pittsburg Christian Ad vocae in place or Dr. Smith, who, ho thinks, has had it long enough. Why shouldn't Stewart be an editor? His education and literary attainments eminently fit him for the position. Another Effect of the Cigarette Habit. Chicago Times. 1 Virginia Is too poor to pay her debts. -An-, other example of the results of the cigarette habit. THE 8UPBKME COUBT VACANCY. Why Justice Bradley' Snccessor Snoald Como From Pennsylvania. .New York bun. 1 The death of Mr. Justice Bradley makes the third vacancy which has occurred on tho bench of the Supreme Court or the United States during tho present adminis tration at Washington. Since P-osldent Harrison was inaugurated Judge. Stanley Matthews; of Ohio, and Judite Samuel F. Miller, of Iowa, have dlea, and their places have been filled by tho promotion to tho . Supreme Court of Henry B. Brown, who was District Judge ol the.United States for the District of Michigan, and David J. Brewer who was the United States Circuit Judgo for the Eighth Circuit, which comprises Minne sota, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas and Ncbrakj. The laws of tho United States require that each of the nine Justices of the Supreme Court shall bo aligned to one of tho nine circuits into which tho country is divided; nncl in addition to his duties as an Appelate Judge at Washington he must hold court in the circuit to which ho is thus assigned, at least as often as once in two years. Mr. Justice Bradley was assigned to the Third Circuit, which includes Pennsylvania, Dela ware, and his own State of New Jersey. While the President, in choosing a Justice of the Supremo Court, is not under any legal obligation to observe geographical considerations, it is not improbable that some resident of the Thitd Circuit will be designated a3 Judge Bradley's successor. No doubt the question of promotion will first be considered. There is one Circuit Judge, William McKennan, of Washington, Pa., who has been in office many years; and there is George M. Dallas, the additional Circuit Judge recently appointed under the new act ot Congress establishing Circuit Courts of Appeal. Mr. Dallas has not yet been confirmed by the Senate. As lie is a Democrat, his promotion may be regarded as" out of the question. Th6re are four dis trict judges in the circuit: Edward T. Green, of Trenton, N. J.; William Butler, of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania; Mar cus W. Acbeson, ot the Western District of the same State, and Leonard E. Wales, of the Delaware District. If it is determined not to promote any ot the3e judges, the natural thing to do would seem to be to appoint as prominent and able a Republican lawyer as can bo found in Pennsylvania. That State is usually strongly Republican, and in this respect has claims upon the consideration of President Harri son which do not exist in behalf of New Jersey. With the sinclo exception of the nomination of Judge Woods, of Indiana, to be one of the new additional Circuit Jndges, his judicial appointments have been admira ble; and this has been notably the case in the Supreme Court, where the appoint ments made by President Cleveland were by no means so worthy of commendation. Probably the new Justice or the Supreme Court will come from Pennsylvania. HETEOBIC SHOW DESCENDED. It Contained a Substance That Looked Like Mill Middlings. La Porte, Ihd., Jan. 27. An extraordinary meteorological phenomenon occurred in the eastern part of this county by tho recent fall of about one inch of strange looking snow. It was of a darker color than ashes and looked like mill middlings or shorts. This snow when melted makes a muddy water, and when allowed to settle deposits a fine sodiment, which to the naked eye pre sents four different appearances, viz.: Two powders, one of a gray and the other of a black color, among -which are mixed ragged flakes that jook liko sawdustand others that icsemble scales of mica or copper filings. When seen through a microscope the gray powder appears to be the debris of myriads of broken-down, semi-transparent cells and libers. The black powder, which is about five times as coarse as the former and about one-tenth in quantity, appears to be made up of little pear-shaped, bug-like animal cule. The copper-colored scales are ot hard sub stance and when magnfied become trans lucent and appear to be of a fibrous, cellular structure, of a purple or blood-like color, In which are set the little black, bug-like crea tures befoia described. This is considered the original life substance from which all the other is -derived. The little ragged, sawdust-like Hakes are but the former in course of disintegration and look like white, fleshy, cellular tissue in which the black ob jects are set like seeds in a Hz. The sub stance can easily be found, as it forms a uni form dark crust like stratum, with a con siderable depth of ordinary snow both below and above it. The tall extended over quite an area of country and has attracted a good deal of attention. The matter is no doubt worthy of a thorough scientific investiga tion. WHAT COLLEGE YOUTHS EEQUIEE. Foker Chlp, Cigarettes, Dimo Novels and Guns Found in Rooms. Peekskill. X. Y., Jan.27. There have been a large number of petty thefts at Peekskill Military Academy of late. Three valuable gold watches were stolen one after another. Among the losers were Cadets Paikor and Brooks. The latter made a thorough search for his. He finally locatedit between three or four students. The matter was then placed in tho hands of Inspector Byrnes, whose men think they have traced it to one student. Small sums of money have also been taken. Dr. J. N. Tilde.n, the principal of tho Academy, which is a Government school, decided that something must be done to ap prehend the thief or thieves. Yesterday an Inspection was ordered. The rooms wci e all searched and also the persons of the cadets. No trace of the stolen property was found, but a rcmaikable array of contraband articles was seized. Thero were a hundred yellow-covered books and dime novels, as well as surreptitious literature, old pipes and cigars and cigarettes by the gross. Then there were firearms, cards, poker chips and other paraphernalia of alike nature. The bovs received severe lenrimands. Comoral Hulbert was i educed to the ranks, and it is' saia otner reductions win ue made. HEW CHAUTATJlttA 0FFICEE3. The Famous Assembly Shown to Eo Gratifying Financial Shape. Buffalo, Jan. 27. At the annual meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Chautauqua Assembly to-day the following officers were elected: President, Lewis Miller; First Vice President, H. Root; Second Vice President Clem Studebaker; Third Vice President, John Brown, of Chicago; Chancellor, Bishop John H. Vincent; Secretary, Dr. W. A. Dun can; Treasurer, E. A. Skinner; Executive Committee, Clem Studebaker, E. O. Cuni paugb. Dr. J. T. Edwards, F. H. Root, Will iam Thomas and William Gifford; Principal or the Chautauqua Scheme of Education, Dr. W. B. Harper. The l eport of Chancellor Vincent was of a very gratifying character. The report of Secietary Duncan showed additions to the pcrmanet value of the grounds o the amount of $21,700. and a reduction of the in debtedness to the amount of $10,430. GROYER DOWX BOOTH. While "Rip Van Winkle" Jefferson and Cleveland are out hunting we fear "this one don't count." Detroit Journal. Mr. Clevelasd (reeling in a fat bass) "This is heaps more fun than writing special war messages, anyway." Pawtucket Times. Grover Clevelasd lost more when he "fished on Decoration Day" than he will gain by hunting -while Hill is sawing wood. Chicago Inter Ocean. It is rumored that Grover Cleveland went to Louisiana to play the lottery. This can not bo trte. The Presidency is about lottery enough. Toledo Blade. f Mr. Clevelaktj having gone hunting in Louisiana, is likely to be accused by his political enemies of pursuing the shotgun policy down South. Chicago News. There is a report that Mr. Cleveland has withdraw n from the Democratic Presidental field, which reminds us of what Andrew Jackson said of office holders, that "few die and none resign." New York Press. Cleveland Don't Share the Belief. Chicago Nes. In tho opinion of a New York paper, Mr. Cleveland will refuse to become a Presi-" dental candidate. There is not much to support the belief that Mr. Cleveland shares this opinion. , Designate Them by Number. Chicago Tribune.! It is becoming almost impossible to keep track of the railway accidents. They should be designated by number , : ART IN EXPRESSION, As Explained by tho Daughter or the Famous Del Sarte A Fashionable Com pany at Mrs. Schoonmaker's House Vliat a Day in Society Brings Forth. The fashionable event of to-day that will break the present somewhat monotonous nature of lite in exclusive circles is Madame GeraldyDelSarte's exposition of Delsart ism in Mrs. Schoonmaker's house to a com pany of that lady's friends. Mrs. Del Sarte will arrive early this morning from Phila delphia, where sho lectured yesterday, and bo driven at once to Mrs. Schoonmaker's house. The distinguished lady will rctiro to her room at once, so as to be In capital form for theaftemoon: for Madame Del Sarte is not accustomed to a country whero one can breakiast in New York and dine in Pitts bunr all in one day, and therefore she has not us yet become a particularly good traveler. Her flrat lecture will be given this afternoon at 3 o'clock. Mrs. Schoon maicer has kindly granted the use of her reception hall, which is said to be one of the handsomest in Pittsburg for this pur pose, and last week invitations were Issned to her friends acquainting them with the fact. Another lecture will be given at the same place and under the same anspice3 on Saturday afternoon. Madame Del Sat te ex pects to sail for France on r ebruary 23. Mis. Schoontnaker Is particularly desirous that everyone interested in the French Mission will consider themselves Invited guesti, though he or she may not have re ceived an invitation. Some may havo been oveilooked by reason of the many who had to be remembered, and it is to avoid a con sequent misunderstanding that Mrs. Schoon maker desires an explanation. Madam Del Sarte will appear at 2 o'clock. The through Duqucsne cars pass by Colonel Schoon maker's house, corner Ellsworth and Moore wood avenues A special correspondent at St. Paul notifies The DisiwrcH of the notable wed cing of Mr. John F. Wheeler, a prominent Pittsburg business man, and Miss Mary Yandes. Miss Yandes is the daughter of one of St. Paul's wealthiest townsmen, now dead, and a beautiful and at tractive young woman. The nuptial was celebrated at the house of the bride's sister, Mrs. A. E. Clark, who owns an establishment of much elegance on Bates avenue, the ceremony being peiformedatS o'clock in the parlors, which were beauti fully decorated for the interesting event. Mr. and Mrs. Wheeler left St. Paul on tho evening train and are now journeying eastward on a wedding tour. Friends in Pittsburg will have an opportunity of pre senting congratulations alter February 15, at which date they expect to arrive in town. The fourth annual lecture course, under the auspices of the Mission League of Christ Lutheran Church, is half over with Dr. Bel four's lecture on Tuesday evening. The re maining two of tho series are as follows: A lecture on tho Tung familv by the Rev. J. Q. Waters, on Tuesday evening, February 9, and one on Tuesday evening, February 23, when the Rev. W. A. Passavant, Jr., will make clear the mysteries of the religion of Salt Lake City, in a lecture entitled "An Inner View of Mormonism." A weddino of more than usual interest in Connellsville yesterday was that of Miss Gertrude Tenant and Mr. L. K. St. Clair, a popular young resident of Wilkinsburg. The marriage was solemnized at 5 o'clock at the residence of the bride's uncle, the Rev. Oliver Meachem, who also assisted Rev. Mr. Pershing in performing the ceremony that made life partners of the happy couple. Thp bride is a beautiful girl and looked charming in a white gown fashioned after a pretty girlish mode. The wedding was a quiet one, only the near relatives of the young people beimr present. Mr. and Mrs. St. Clair dispensed with the conven tional tour and will arrive in Wilkinsburg this morning to begin their new life in a dainty establishment on Wood street. Social Chatter. Miss Ashie W. Hehdersox, principal of the School of Design for Womon, issued yes terday invitations for the coming art recep tion on next Monday evening. The art re ception is preceded by an examination to day, and succeeded by an exhibition for the remaining chiys of next week. To-mobhow afternoon and.eveninghas been set apart for tho formal "opening of the Phipps annex for the use oi nurses at the West Peiin Hospital. Id vltations have been plentifully issued, and everyone who lias anv interest whatsoever in the hospital is invited cordially to be present. The familiar cantata of "Queen Esther" will be presented this evening in the Wil kinsburg Opera House, when tho leading roles will be enacted by such well-known Seoplo as Mis Irene Sample, Mr. J. Harry orner and Mr. Harry B. Brockett, Jr. A nECKPTioa' will be given to-morrow even ing by Mrs. Moore, wire of Rev. S. H. Moore, of the Wilkinsburg Presbyterian Church, at her residence, on Wood street, for the Moore Mission Band, at which the hostess will be assisted by Mrs. Cleavender. Messes. William and Frank Becker, of Edgewoodville. gave a leap year party last evening at their handsome home on Swiss vale avenue. Fifty young folks participated in all the pleasmes that pertain to so agree able a function. The first "at home" in honor of Mrs. Ed ward Graham Ferguson, who was Miss Burt, of Allegheny, will be held this even ing at the house of her mother-in-law, Mrs. J. Scott Ferguson, Forbes avenue, Oakland. The already deferred opening reception at the Pittsburg Club will not take place .to-day, as was Expected, but on to-morrow 'evening week, for which between 500 and 600 invitations were issned yesterday. Me. Samuel T. Paislet issned invitations yesterday for the marriage of his daughter. Miss Carf ie, to Mr. Henry L. Graff, in Point Breeze Presbyterian Church at 5:S0 en Wednesday, February 10. A pisK tea, at which about 25 ladles were piesnt. was given yesterday afternoon from 2 to 5 by Sirs. C. L. Dunn, or Bruhton, for her guest, Miss Mary Bates, of Cleveland, O. The IxDEriJTDEST Literary Soctett will meet at the residence ot Miss Grace Cun ningham, 23 Kingston Block, Charles street, this evenmj, January a. AK afternoon i eception for Mr. and Mrs. James Neal will be the event in Kenmawr Hotel circles. Mrs. Neal is a recent bride. Miss Annie Ferguson, of Hampton dace. Wilkinsburg, left yesterday for a sojourn of four montns witn menus at r-nuaaeipnia. Mrs. Charles A. O'Bries will entertain to-day at her home, on Mt. Washington. To-hiobt the annual Paeso Club dinner will be given at the Duqucsne Ilotel. CUBE JOB SHAKEBITE3. A New Antidote Discovered by a Medical Student. New York, Jan. 27. An antidote for pois- onous snakebites is reported as the latest discovery of medical science. This will be good news to the Prohibitionists when they remember that as mnch hard liquor as a man could possibly drink has heretofore been regarded as the only hope for a human being into whose system the poison of the reptile's fangs had been injected. 'The dis covery is credited to Albert Calmette, a sur geon in the French navy and a director in tho Pasteur Institute at Saigon. Experi ments with the substauce which he regards as an antidote for snake poisoning have been made upon patients bitten by the deadly Najas snakes, which, it is asserted, kill 20,000 persons every year, and it is said the antidote has proved entirely effective. The antidote is a liquid, having for a base a salt of gold. Subcutaneous injection of tho preparation, it is declared, not only de stroys tlie effect of a snakebite, but makes a man snakebite proof for life. Only one ap plication of the remedy is necessary to de stroy the effect of the worst sort of bite, ac cording to nil accounts, and the remedy is alike efficacious for man and beast. Some of tho antidote is to be sent to this country so. that experiments may be made on pa tients who havo been bitten by the crotalus. which plain people call the rattlesnake, and the trigonocephaly, which is the scientific designation of the viper family. Dr. Cal mette is well known as a disciple of Pasteur. He has become prominent through his ap plication or the Pasteur method to the yel low fever and cholera. GKATIITOE 0? SAILOBS. The Crew of the Baltimore Give Away a Fictnre of Their Boat. Baltimore, Jan. 27. The crew of the United-States cruiser Baltimore, including all the men from petty officers down, have sent overland from California to the BaltH moro Sun, a magnificent oil painting of the Baltimore. The picture, on a canvas 5 feet 2 Inches long by Steet 2 inches high, shows the man-of-war leaving Naples for Chile, whither she was ordered before the Itata chase. The Sicturc which is a portrait as well of the ay oCNapIes, was painted in Italy while the Baltimore -was there. The portrait was sent in acknowledgment of a fine library presented the ship by the Sun. ! OUR MAIL POUCH. Americans Well Treated in Chile. To the Editor of The Dispatch: I was a resident of Valparaiso, Chile, for several months shortly after the difficulty between that country and Porn, and for four years and a half I wandered about the various countries inhabited by Spanish Americans, and I never beard of an Ameri can being treated badly by the people. On the contrary Americans were everywhere) received with the greatest cordiality and respect. Especially was this the case in Chile, where the people of all classes seemed to take pains to make Americans as comfortable and their visit as pleasant as possible. This feeling was prevalent even in the lower classes, and It was considered absolutely safe for a citizen of the United States to visit even the worst part of town without arms. In Valparaiso Ihave seen the natives turn aside into the street to give the narrow sidewalk to an American who was passing, and I am satisfied that it would require a very grave offense against Chileans to pro voke them into an attack upon a white foreigner of any nation and particularly of the United States. Horace J. Hill. Pittsburo, January 27. A Weil-Known Character Defended. To the Editor of The Dispatch: I feel I must question tho allusion to tho hero of "Pilgrim's Progress " In the admira ble article, "A Few Words on War," in Mon day's DisrATCH. The City or Destruction has always typified to me the sinful state in which we are born as brought out in the conversation between Chistian, Pliable and Obstinate early in the beautiful oldallegory. Christian's flight from the place of his nativity represents that forsaking of sin which must come with conversion, not a cowardly retreat from the duties which lay nearest him. Inasmuch as Christian aids many in his Journey to the better country, the mention of him'ns "a one-sided sort of Christian" seems misleading. I trust your able contributor may view these lines with- an understanding ot the spirit of honest protest In which they are written, and resolve to do justice to a char acter believed in by so manv genera tion. Louise SiLLCorr. Kimersbubo, Pa., January 27. THE PAttIHE IN MEXICO. Indications That the Suffering Is Now Being Kapidly Believed. SA3 Aistoxio, Tex., Jan. 27. Special. Rev. John C. Cavener, an American mis sionary stationed in the city of Duranso, Mexico, is using all the mean3 at his command to relieve the suffer ing of the famine - stricken people of that place. L. M. Johnson, general man ager of the Mexican International Railway, wrote to V. Gregory, the commercial agent of the road, at Durango, a few davs ago. for a statement concerning the condition of the people of that city, inclosing a donation. A reply has just been leceived from Mr. Greg ory, which says: "For your information, I would state that all deserving- poor can obtain from the police depart ment n ticket which entitles them to purchase corn and beans at the reduced price arranged for bv the Government. Tho poor who apply to Mr. Cavener will bo sup plied daily with funds to purchase corn, and there are some families whom be will visit andielieve with money and medicine. Mr. Cavaner has promised to furnish full infor mation as to expenditure, and desires to ex press his sincere thanks for tlieiind dona tion. He has now nbmt $25. "It was desired that the entire amount be expended for corn, which could be stored at Mr. Cavaner's house, and distributed fiom there. But tho Government will not permit the sale of more than 12 pounds to any one person daily. The price of the corn will be advanced February 1. to U cents for 12 pounds. It is now sold by thn Govern ment, 30 cents for 12 pounds. A fine soak ing rain fell yesterdav and last night, Sunday, January 17, and it saves the cattle, insuring also thn necessary crop rains in May and June. Parties here, familiar with the season and country, assert thatthel-year-old drought is broken at last, and that next year Durango will have corn at 60 cents a fanegn (141 pounds). It Is now SS. In the meantime, however, theso people must he fed, and the charitably disposed can find no better outlet than Durango." A H0VELTY Iff HEW T0BK First Marriage of a Chinese Couple at the Metropolis City Hall. New York, Jan. 27. Special. Lem Soon, a Chinese merchant on Mott street, and Ah Kim, a pretty Chinese woman, were married at tho City Hall at 11:30 o'clock this morning by Alderman Clancy. Lem Soon has been in America Ave years, but his bride is a recent arrival a?nd is quite ignorant of American customs. She was the first Chinese woman ever married at the City Hall, and probably one of the first ever married in this city. The bride is 20 years old. and a daughter of Ah Ling, who lives in China. She was be comingly attired in a loose-fitting under dress of black silk and a large cloak or wrap of gray Chinese silk, lined with red and green, and trimmed with black and green silk. Her dainty little feet were thrust into silk-covered sandals, red, blue and old gold in color. The groom gave his age as 25, and said he had lived five years in this city. His father's name is Lem Wy and his mother's name is Geo. When the blank legal document had been filled out. Alderman Clancy ordered them, through tho interpreter, to stand up and join their right hands. The bride save one timid glance at the Alderman and a ques tioning look at Lem Wab, the best man and interpreter. The Alderman read the cere mony, which was repeated to the couple by Lem Wah. They responded promptly, with a nod of the head and something that sounded like "he yike." Since her arrival in the city, the exact date of which could not be learned, thebride bad been concealed in a back room at 17 Mott street, awaiting the completion of arrangements for the wed ding. TALK OP THE TIMES. Tho ulti pomatum has been given. Omaha World Herald. Yes, and it was so highly per fumed that peace is tho result. "Variety is the spice of life," but it can be overdone. Chicago Inter Ocean. It seems to have been overdone in tho Chile affair. The trouble was that there was too much spice. Governor Russell has no idea of running for President, as he is trying to have his sal ary raised. Detroit Free Press. It is to be hoped that he will be successful in his effort. He might if unsuccessful, conclude to change his mind. The cold snap was a failure. It couldn't freeze up the handorgan from sunny Italy. Detroit Journal. But It seems to have come to stay this time. By the way. Sir. Cleveland, what is your opinion of the lottery business In Louisiana? Chicago Tribune. Such questions will not be answered until after November next. The high tariff has not made California so rich as to enable her to sell her wines with out French labels. Louisville Courier Journal. No, but it has enabled her to produce wines which dealers can sell for French, and no body knows the difference. The current year promises to be as remark able for itsproductiveness as its predecessor. New York Commercial Advertiser. Even the President has contributed an extra message as his share of the products. CHANGED HIS BELIOI0N. Bean Kelfer Brands AH Millionaires as Thieves and Tarns Socialist. Pueblo, Col., Jan. 27. Episcopalians here are earnestly discussing a"lectnie delivered by Dean Eeifer, of Colorado Springs, in the Church of the Ascension. All the clergy of his denomination in Pueblo were present. Tbe dean astonished his hearers by declar ing that any man who had accumulated 1,000,000 was a thief. The church has several communicants worth more than $1,000,000 who have always been classed among honorable rrfen, and their friends and families are exceedingly Indignant. "The dean declared himself a Socialist and called on tbe clergy present to express thelrviows.butnone of them exactly coincided with the dean. Mind and Matter. What is matter? Never mind. What is mlndT No matter. WhatisMattat Not Chile. What says Chile No Malta. BUI Has One Bad Habit. Omaha World-Herald. David B. Hill docs not chew, smoke, drink or gamble, but lie has one bad habit politic-. CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. Hacks in California are being' fitted tr wlth electric lights. . "" Chicago boys have killed 12,000 spat rows since December L An Italian editorhas been fined for put lishing a cartoon of the Saltan of Turkey. English has been recognized. as th official language of the Imperial Univcrsit; orTokio. A Georgia dude has a necktie mad' from the skin of a rattle snake and ho wear the rattles as a pin. Chinese women can now enter th United States. All tliey havo to do Is ti marry an American citizen. 3Iore than 40 per cent of all prisoner." between theagpsof20and0dieof consamp tlon and other tubercular diseases. It is estimated that the cost of main taining the some 100,000 inmates of the vari ous penal initntions in this country ex ceeds $15,000,000 annually. The last language into which the Xew Testament has ben translated is the Motu language oTNew Guinea, the latest tribe to become English sibjects. There are 10,000 Catholics in Portland, Me., out ofa population ofle than' 10,000. In Lewiston there nr-j nearly 12,000 Catholics out ofa population ol about 20,000. nubia's inhabitants live to a good old age. In ll. K53 died between the nge of ICO and 105. 130 between 115 and 120 and S were re ported to be more than 150 years of age. 3tore than 53,000,000 were invested in new manufactories, or in t'ie enlargement and improvement of thoe already estab lished, in Malno last vear, and the new and enlarged industries employ more than 4.0C0 hands. The people of Cole Harbor, X. S-. are reported to be much excited and terrified about a strantre animal tbat, o tbev av,hn-. npnearcd In the wood near that place." Tho animal i3 "7 feet high, and looks like a gorilla." On the Pacific Coast are numerously found little shells of e?a snails of a species called the "olivella." because of their re semblance toolive,outofwhichtho Indians used to cut disks that were extensively ned for coins. The latest whist story comes from War. amganj well authenticated. The dealer held all the trumps but the ac, and the plaver with the ace was so paralyzed with Ifarnini the state of affiirs that he revoked and g?vo away the game in the deal. In the Supreme Judicial Court at Bnu gora droll conntryman.wlien asked what compensation ho had received for 11 years' work on a farm, replied, "Mr board, a few-pair- of old pants, a second-hand overcoat or two, some tobacco and a licking." In the natural history collection that is beimr formed for tho Maine State College is a handsome doe, which has a small pair of antlers As only two other antlereddoes have been seen in Maine in 23 year', the State College specimen is quite a curiosity. Bur-eyes, the characteristic craft of the Chesapeake, have crept down to the North Carolina coast, where they are used by oyu terraen. Thebug-eye is along, narrow boit. sharp nod at both end, and marvelonOy swift and stanch. Somotlme it is made liko a canoe, of tree trunks hollowed and clamped together side by side. A mouse, it is said, was found some time ago by a Colnmbus, O., gentleman, caught in a spider's web. The rodent, when found, "had been hoisted three Inches from the floor, and the spider, which was not bigger than the pnd of a lead pencil, was, by dint of hard work, verv slowly hauling it up further, the captive being alive and strug gling." "; Among the most curious crabs are those which are not known otherwise than as parasites of the oyster. However, only the females livo in the oyster shells, where soec'mpus have been found bveverv lover of the bivalve on the half shell. Funnily enouch the males do not dwell with oysters, but when seen are found swimming at the surface of the water. The largest driving belt in the world, 120 fest long, 7 feeet long and nearly an inch. thick, tile weight being a ton and a half, to pntnflvwheeI22ffeetin dlamofer In com munication with a pulley over f feet in di ameter, to rnn with a speed of 67 feet per second, has been made in Paris for a factory in Amiens. It is made of many leather bands laced together. In Arabia they say: "As weak as a bissectilo camel," and in Turkey and Tartary they call all hunchbacks, dwarfs and other deformed men. women and children Meap vear freaks," but there- are exceptions to this as well as to all other rules, for we find that in Italy, Greece and Sicily the rural proverb says, refenlns- to leap yean "Plant much corn and vine, it's (the year) good for bread and wine. Cuttle bones for feeding to birds are mostly obtained from Chinese waters, al though they are also collected floating in the Mediterranean: bntno American species affords satisfactory bones. The blue-black ink which thee animals vent when fright ened is dried for commercial purposes into little cake, which furnish the sepia of art ists, usually much adulterated. This sepia also enters into the composition of India ink. Many of the red-skinned people of the West dispose of their cadavers by putting them in trees and upon high scaffoids,partlr to keep them from being devoured by beasts and partly also for the sako of exposing them advantageously to the mnmmifying effects of the dry air. Tree burial was not uncommon among the nations of antiquity. The ancient Tartars and Scythians envel oped their dead in sacks of skins-and bung them to trees. An action for damages was being heard at the Bridgend County Court, England, re cently, and oneimportant witness remained to be examined, when the tlmo arrived for tho Judge to leave by train. It was desired to finish the caso without adjourning it to a future date, so the Judge with the coun sel on both sides and the v itness traveled togetl-erto Llantrissant. The witness gave his ovidencejn the carrage during the jour ney, and the Judge cave his decision in the station master's office when the train ar rived at Llantrissant. SIDE-SrLlTTING SPLINTERS. "What progress are yon making .with Miss Sweete?" No perceptible progress as yet. bat I hope for a favorable change in a day or two." "Indeed? Oa what grounds?" Heriaotber lia3been warning her agalnstme." Sea Tort Press. Girls have no use for the man who chews, Yet chewing Is one of their sins. They neer let up from morning till night. Changing off from gum to plus. .Vw York Herald. First Chicago man (confidentially) It seems to be utterly Impossible to abate the gsiafce nuisance. What shall we do? Second Chicago man (cheerily) Boast of ltl Pact. "I suppose your father can do almost anything.'", remarked Bobnr. "No, he'ean't." answered Tommy: "he can't top the baby crying at night." litrper's loanj People. Her lover came to Jtaud one night A little fuddled, and his plight Did cause her tongue's Ignition: Go, -wretch I" she said. In tone tbat cut. "No man who lo-red would eTcr put Himself in such condition." . As tottering Romeo forward tipped, A guest, so coy and rosy lipped J. Replied, "Tho I accord you An Interval's forgetfulness i Of love, bis actions yet confess He has a leaning to'rd you." Iloston Courier. "Spatts!" called out Hunker from, the other end of the breakfast table. "Well?" "Turn the butter la this direction and tell It to come." Judge. - Hicks I will attend to your case after, breakfast, young man. - . Dick What have I done? r Hlcks-Yoitrnckyourmotherfora dollar ana , you've got to divide. Seie Tort Herald. I said "hello," and so did she, Although her name I ne'er have known: Tct thus It is she speaks to me. The girl who runs tbe telephone. - J Washington Star. "Do you keep cornraeal?" inquifeS the man with the basket on his arm. "No, sir, "said the grocer. "Wetellilt. now mnch do yoa want?" - xwia "Did I say I wanted any? " mildly asked tha man with tbe basket. , , . . i) And he went ont and hunted up- another grocery store where the salesmen werenotqulteso smart. Chicago Tribune - i- ll.',;l.;ri kristtiH ilIM jyjgy jjg
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