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PITTSIIUIJG. TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 3.
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MISCONSTRUCTION IMrolBtE.
There is a disposition in some quarters
to insist that Mr. Blaine's letter is not con
clusive; hut, making every allowance for
its brevity and even -frigidity, we do not
see how ft is at all possible to maintain
the idea that he may yet be the Kepubli
can candidate for President The Secre
tary of State was already conversant with
the" popular understanding that he was
not a candidate in the sense of seeking
the office. He knew that the movement
was to lender him the nomination unani
mously if he would only consent; and it
would have been no vanity in him to be
aware that only his own distinct refusal
not the ambition of any other aspirant,
or the second choice preferences could
prevent that culmination of the canvass.
Under these circumstances, there would
he neither motive nor sense in his letter
yesterday published, if it was to be con
strued as admitting of a reading between
thp lines, conves-ing some other sense
than the one clearly expressed in its
n ords.
Mr. Blaine certainly has no reason to he
otherwise than frank and direct. Wc
rather think the letter if anything, was
meant to be specially frank and direct
Its very brevity almost curtness ap
pears to be meant in the spirit of conclu
siveness rather than of divided thought
or repressed ambition.
li is cause for national regret that the
Republicans are not to be led this year by
the brainiest man now in public life in the
United States. But nothing can be gained
and some harm may be done, by clinging
to the belief that there is still a possibility
of Blaine heading the ticket Too much
depends upon preparing for the actual
situation, and securiug hearty union
upon whoever is to take his place, to
waste time or lead to further diappoint
ment in mere imagination.
FAITH IX WORKS.
The report of some jubilant sentiments
entertained at Dolgeville, N. Y., puts Mr.
Alfred Dolge, of that city, rather strongly
in evidence. The invidious outside press,
particularly of the class which does not
hold with Dolge's political views, inti
mates that he is fond of bringing himself
strongly to the front; in response to which
it may be said that if other manufacturers
put themselves forward in the samcway
he does, society would be in a much more
satisfactory state than at present
Mr. Dolge, as could be inferred from
the name, is very prominent at Dolge
ville. In fact, Dolgeville is his creation.
But he departs from the custom of most
capitalists who own the town in which
his manufacturing establishment is located
by making it an especial ambition to
show what can be done in the
way of advancing the condition of
labor. Do'ge has attained prominence
by his position on two points. One was
his determination to give the policy of
profit-sharing a full trial in his factory,
and the other was his earnest support of
the McKinley bill The jubilant feelings
of Dolgeville are due to the fact that he
has backed up the first article of faith by
his works in distributing 516,000 as labor's
share of the profits of his establishment,
making a total of jl80,000 so distributed up
to date, and has followed it up with a
similar materialization of the second
article by announcing an increase of 10
per cent in the tegular wages of his em
ployes, which he says is due to the opera
tion of the McKinley act
It is not surprising that under these cir
cumstances the population of Dolgeville
wlio receive these additions to their in
come should indulge in jubilations. The
day may not be so far distant when Mr.
Dolge's example will be universally recog
nized as not only philanthropy, but the
truest business policy.
NO FEAK FOR THE SOUTH.
It is well to remember that accounts
concerning the depression of a whole sec
tion are eligible subjects for laree percent
ages of discount if we wish to arrive at the
truth. The recent reports which represent
the entire South as trembling on the brink
of bankruptcy and ruin because it cannot
get as much as might be wished for its
cotton, is an eminent example of that class.
It is not muqh over a year since the
press was filled full of similar and even
more hyperbolical statements of disaster
with regard to the Western States. The
entire corn and wheat raising population
was represented ss bankrupt; and one
highly impressive correspondent went so
far as to predict for the fertile State of
Kansas the fate of becoming a desert
That calamity being temporarily averted,
the Southern calamity of being too pro
ductive occupies the public mind with
equal nrominence.
It is not hazardous to predict that the
allegations concerning the South will he
found upon examination to be largely ex
aggerated. The South is at present suf
fering from the disappointment of re
ceiving the net price of 6 cents per pound
for a cotton crop on which it expected to
realize 8 cents. This is enough to make
any section feel poor, and those planters
who have formed their liabilities and ex
penses on the 8 cent scale are" liable to
feci the pinch as severely as the iron in
terests of Pittsburg did when the price of
bar iron went down from the 2c level to
the c basis. But that this will impose
universal bankruptcy on the South or
cause the abandonment of cotton planting
is suplrerogatory nonsense.
If the production of cotton has expanded
to such a volume as to make the price un
profitable it will restrict itself. The South
is fertile enough to yield other crops. But
so long as people eat bread and wear
shirts, so long there is no fear that the
farmers of both the "West and South will
be unable to find a market for their products.
ASTO DISCRIMINATION?.
There is a good deal of interest for
Pittsburg in the agitation of Philadelphia
over the existence of railroad discrimina
tions against her commerce. The Phlla
delphians are beginning to find out that
the practice of making lower rates to
ports where the railways met the strongest
competition and of successfully shutting
competition out of Philadelphia has re
duced the export trade of that city to ar
minimum.
They have found that while the rail
routes afford the means of bringing gram
to that city from the West, from the lakes
and from the interior of the State, the ad
justment of rates is such that the grain
obstinately goes to other cities. Their
latest discovery is that the rates estab
lished by the practical monopoly of the
railway traffic of the interior of the State
result in the fact "that immense stocks
of grain are held at this time by farmers
in Pennsylvania, and that an equitable re
duction in rates from the interior of the.
State w ould result in a resumption of the
movement of wheat, which, for some
time, has practically ceased from many
points naturally tributary to Philadel
phia." All this is not unaccompanied with a
certain unhallowed satisfaction to the
Pittsburg-mind. For it happens to be the
fact that the same or very similar inequi
ties of freight rates were the subject 'of
agitation for Pittsburg business interests
years ago; and the fact is to be noted that
the efforts to rectify these evils met with
very slight support from Philadelphia,
When Pittsburg, in union with other inter
ests, sought for legislation to regulate rail
way discriminations, the presence and
countenance of the few Philadelphians
emphasized the fact that the majority of
Philadelphia's business interests did not
care to take hold. When Pittsburg was
struggling against the nullification of the
constitution which suppressed the build
ing of a new trunk line through the State,
Philadelphia's support was conspicuous
by its absence. The supremacy of a sin
gle railroad corporation in the interior
traffic of the State has been largely due to
the subservience or indifference of Phila
delphia's business interests. The present
complaints may fairly be regarded as indi
cating the logical result of Philadelphia's
course for the past two decades.
If Philadelphia is now fairly awakened
to the degree of joining hands with the
rest of the State, something may be done
toward placing the railway business on
the basis of impartial justice to all ship
pers, interests and localities. It may,
however, be necessary for Philadelphia's
business interests to feel the squeeze more
severely before they are aroused to the
full necessities of the case.
WHERE IS THE RESPONSIBILITY?
The charge of Judge Nelson to the
United States grand jury at Boston indi
cates a further doubt in the mind of the
law as to the enforcement of criminal re
sponsibility for bank-wrecking even under
the national banking law. The Supreme
Court in the Buffalo case very decidedly
limited the responsibility of directors, and
intimated that the law must look to the
people actively engaged in the manage
ment of the bank. But in the case of the
Maverick National Bank at Boston, which
was notoriously wrecked by the President
and two directors, the Judge's charge in
dicates broad loopholes of escape for
those who actively manage a hank for its
destruction.
If this view should prevail it threatens
to become a vital question whether the
penal safeguards of the national banking
act have enough left of them to swear by.
It being judicially determined that direc
tors cannot be held responsible for not di
recting, and the doubt being raised
whether managers can be criminally pun
ished for managing a bank to its downfall,
while the administration presents an -unquestionable
exemplification of a Comp
troller who does not control, the condi
tions hid fair to afford a good deal of vin
dication for the ancient practice of doing
banking business in an old stocking.
THE LATEST ELECTROCUTION.
The action of the New York Legislature
in permitting the presence of reporters at
electrocutions is nroper both because the
public have a right to know how the
sentence was carried out, and the publicity
given to the details of such events adds
immensely to their power as crime
preventers. While the witnesses
differed in their opinions they all
agreed that the execution yesterday
shows that progress has been made since
Kemmler suffered the electric death pen
alty. While tjiere should be no movement
to lessen the deterrent influence of capital
punishment, there should be no undue or
wanton cruelty in the process of "taking
off." Death is so awesome at its kindliest
that its terrifying capabilities can be little
affected, whether it come in barbarous
form or with the latest scientific appli
ances. On the other band, if the public
were inclined to believe that needless
torture was inflicted on a criminal under
the supreme penalty of the law, there
would he an increased difficulty
in obtaining a true verdict and
a great addition to the sentimental
sympathy for those under sentence, with a
consequent strengthening of the multitude
of mistaken petitioners. As more executions
take place the process will no doubt he still
further impioved, as increasing examples
will provide material for deducing the com
parative action of the current on subjects
of varying physique and constitution.
One of the greatest advantages of elec
trocution as compared to other systems of
execution is the removal of chances of
untoward incidents resulting from lack of
care, skill, or nerve on the part of, the ex
ecutioner. His personnel is more nearly
obliterated than in any other way of car
rying out the death penalty, and this is in
every way preferable.
The report of the commission which
went to Europe to investigate immigration
is on the w hole satisfactory. Tho two most
serious aspects of the matterare the number
of pauper immigrants whom we may expect
Irom Russian intolerance, and the quantity
of ox-convicts who are encouraged and
helped to come here by the British Govern
ment. AVith regard to the former it is only
fair to say that, while poor, this class of
immigrants is on the whole able, industrious
and thrifty, and is likely to make good citi
zens. Asforthe latter England should be
notified that rubbish may not be shot here.
The suggestion that steamship companies
be heldiesponsible for the return of unde
sirable persons is tho best yet made.
Persons visiting New York as strangers
wUl do well to make inquiries before choos
ing their hotel, as the Hotel Royal is said to
have been only one of 25 that should be con
demned. Madame Adam defends herself for
maintaining her salon by saying that there
are still thirty dr forty people in l'arlsirho
have conversational art. We do not doubt
that there -are many times that number of
people in this city who know how to talk.
Tlie only difficulty is to get them to talk on
subjects outside the ntirrow limits of their
own business and lives. Pittsburg is noted
for its business successes. The secret of
these is concentration of effort and thought
on one aim, and it is hard to have that with
out seriously limiting the interests of ex
istence. Those who believe that Mr. Holman is
actuated solely by tho force of honest con
victions would do their lelloivs a service by
subscribing a fund to provide him with on
economic education.
Wise men searching after truth are ac
customed to find it ir. unexpected places.
The truth or this is instanced when Ward
McAllister, the prince of foolish affectation
and artificiality, states that "society" needs
moro simplicity. But simplicity inuot not
be cultivated as .1 fashionable vittue, or it is
liko to become the hollowest sham of all. It
must be encouraged in home and family as
one of tho nation's greatest wants, and then
even society 'Hilt become leavened by its
power,
Theee is a strong scent of truth in the
suggestion that the Governor of New York
is only a Hill-side Plower and would die
were it uprooted from the rich soil which
has nurtured it.
The special delivery stamp is an institu
tion of great convenience. One drawback
to it is the absence of tho particular kind of
stamp and the distance Irom a postofiico
on many occasioni when it would other Also
"00 u-cd. The proposition that te-i cents
worth of ordinary stamps, placed on an en
velope clearly marked lor special delivery,
should take tho place of tho special issue is
a wise and useful one, and should meet with
tho support which is nocessary to make it
law.
Barbarous Russia is in sore straits, and
theprogiessof humanity is great when its
sufferers ate relieved by gifts from tho
Treasury of so small and uncivilized a coun
try asBokhara.
The order Issued to conductors on the
.Panhandle Railroad, that in calling out the
next placo at which the tram stops
they shall inform passengers on wliich side
they can alight in safety, should extend to
all roads without delay. It is a simple
measure, and will enhance the safety of
passengers, providing the information he
given with inoro distinctness than charac
terizes the announcement of the names of
many stations.
Is it too much to hope that one result of
indigestion in high places may be to accent
uate the necessity for a change in the na
tional characteristic indiscriminate and
hasty eating?
The destructive and fatal fire at the
Hotel Royal s likely to make things un
pleasantly hot for New York's Superinten
dent of Buildings, as there is evidencoof
gross neglect of duty on his part in permit
ting such a death trap to remain unaltered.
Serious catastrophes of this kind are potent
warnings to citizens to trust their interests
to competent and honest officials rather
than to men of political power.
Improvements in the reports of
Blaine's health may now he expeoted, hut
he will not be out of danger until after the
nominationat least.
"Woman in America is justly considered
to have reached a further stage of emanci
pation than she enjoys in England. She has
greater opportunities for business occupa
tion, and thatis no doubt the reason why we
have not yet heard of a woman in this coun
try who can shoe horses as well as any man,
although there is such a one in an English
village whose husband is a blacksmith.
Political weather observers may be
sure-of many changes in the direction of
wind-blown straws in tho near future.
From the number of papers which claim
the credit of foretelling Blaine's letter i is
difficult to believe that there was any doubt
about the matter yet there was a great deal
of uncertainty in many misguided quarters.
Tariff reform movements up to date
mav be described as "much cry and little
wool."
TnERE will no doubt be an enormous
amount of postal business transacted at the
World's Fair, and the Department is wise in
taking early measures for the establishment
of an office competent to cope with it.
E0MB OP THEIR TEilTS.
Sir C. Gavan Duffy has one of the
finest collections of rare and little known
gems in the world.
Miss Ethel Mackenzie, daughter of
the great throat doctor, is the London cor
respondent of a Chicago daily paper.
The young Empress of Germany is a
champion knitter, and uses big wooden
needles for most of the work she does.
The Lord Chief Justice of England, Lord
Coleridge, is a great believer in the univer
sal penny post, and has signed several peti
tions to that effect.
The King of the Belgians always sleeps
on a camp bed. He is an adversary of capi
tal punishment, and no execution has taken
place in Brussels during his reign
The Empress Eugenie always has on her
writing tahle'a miniatnre statue of her son
made by the late Prince Victor. It is of solid
bronze, and supported on a pedestal of four
Trench eagles.
Mr Arthur Balfour, the late Irish
Secretary, says ne owes much of his success
in life to his sister. Miss Balfour is devoted to
her brother, keeps house ror him, and sees
to all his private and unofficial correspond
ence. The most eloquent pulpit orator in Can
ada is Dr. George Douglass. He is blind,
and his hands fall helpless in front of him
from paralysis, so that he appears hal f dead.
But no one that hears his voice can remain
insensible to the charms of his oratory.
A FIONEEE SHIPBUILDER. GONE.
Death in New, Orleans or Captain John
Unghes, a Man With a History.
New'Okleass, Feb. 8. Special. Captain
John Hughes, the pioneer shipbuilder of
New Orleans, "died here last ntght, 87 years
ofage. He was born in New York in 1803
and came to New Orleans in 1876, when he
went into the shipbuilding business. He es
tablished himself in Algiers, opposite New
Oilcans, and was largely instrumental in
building up that town. He built the first
dock there, and did a lanre business, both in
docking and building vessels. Ho was
elected to the legislature in 1853
and triod in several other important
offices. He built the Confederate ram
Manassas, which was burned when Farra
crut's fleet pissed the fovp, and a number or
other vessels lor the delenso of Xow Or
leans, and retained to the time of his death
a large amount of Cbnfederato bonds in pay
ment for these vessels, the bonds being thd
first ever issued by the Confederate States.
His docks were sunk in the capture of the
city by Farragnt, for wliich a claim of $2(i0,
000 against the United States Government is
still being pressed.
After the capture of New Orleans Captain
Hughes went to Georgia, whero he had
charge of the iron works of the Confederate
Government. He returned to New Orleans
after tho war, and went to work again and
acquired a large fortune.
Died In the Odor or Sanctity.
St, Louis Post-Dispatch. 3
TheLouisianalottery monster has decided
to die in as much odor of sanctity as pos
sible, but it did not make this decision until
It had received its death thrust.
Never Held Two Offices at Once."
hlcajco Inter Ocean. 1 .
Grover Cleveland may shoot ducks and
fish well, but ho never held two big offices
at the same time and grabbed the salaries of
both.
Tojlnjf With a Toboggan.
Chicago News, j , '
Mr. 'Politician. 'Hill, having become an
ominous possibility, will presently find him
self toying with the playful toboggan.
THE TAX PROBLEM.
A Rental Value Basis Endorsed The Paris
Plan Why Non-Property Owners
Should Take an Interest in Municipal
Elections.
To the Editor of Tho Dispatch;
With teusuai quiek-sightedness when the
public weal is concerned, The Dispatch has
discerned tho only remedy for the present
unjusfrmethods of assessment, namely: A
system of taxation based upon rental
values.
Theprospeiity of Paris is founded upon
Just such a system. If we are to believe a
closo observer.who has recently given to the
public the lesult of his studies of the Paris
municipality, tho tax per individual in that
city is 10 per cent of tho rental value of tho
property ho owns oV occupies. That includes
everything.
Our city government would deerrLJtself al
most paralyzed if it were allowed Jo spend
annually but 10 per cent of the rental value
of tho property of tho city, and yet tho
municipality of Paris is maintained upon
that tate, its various officials paid, its boule
vards kept in repair, its every street aqd
alloy kept immaculately clean, its magnifi
cent parks constantly beautified and
adorned.
Revenue Thrown Away.
To be sure Paris exacts a tax-from corpor
ations. The tax from the street car and
omnibus lines is moro than sufficient to keep
the streets clean and injood condition, and
the levenue derived from the gas and elec
tric light companies reaches such a goodly
total that thero is no fear that the individual
tax need ever climb abovo tho 10 per cent
rate.
How much did tho city of Pittsburg re
ceive for the privilese of laying the miles
and miles of natural gas pipe beneath her
streets' How much for tho artificial gas
pipes? How much for the privilege of dis
figuring her highways with telegraph and
electric light poles and wires? Nothing!
How much is paid by the traction companies
,Ior their priceless franchises? So little that
it is laughable, while in Pari3 10 per cent
of their gross leceipts go to lessen
the tax on real estate. Wo can look
for 110 improvement until wo havo
a thoroughly leformed. civil service.
Under oar piesent methods the temptations
are not to efficient service but the opposite,
ai office holders know that 110 amount of
Jaithfnlnessand zeal willallow them to retain
their nlacowheii nolitical rtower chansres.
Neither can wo have any radical municipal
reform so long as our Councils ate composed
largely of non-property holdeis. It 13 all
very ell and democratic to say that one
man is as good as another, and so he is, yet
we can plant onrselvos firmly upon the
Declaration of Independence while we de
mand if it is fair that a non-property holder
has a right to legislate on property matters
for property owners.
Whnt Property Owners Would Do.
If even one branch of Councils could be
composed of real estate owners theie would
be a speedy end to the wasteiul dealing with
the public money. A Council composed of
leal estate owners would see that corpora
tions as well as real estate bear a fair sharo
of the burden of taxation; that street im
provements bo solidly made, as poor work
costs three times as much as good. They
would see that, w hen sanitary science points
to the prevention of smoke and the crema
tion ot gaihage as means to promote the
public health, sanitary laws In accord,
unce be enacted and rigidly enforced, for all
that affects the public health affects
property.
Theie are thl ee stepping stones to muni
cipal prospeiity: a retormed civil service,
taxation based upon lental values, and a
Council of real estate owners. The Disr-ATCH
is sound upon the first two, how about the
third? Mrs. Joun il. Oakley.
Pittseukg, February 8, 183 .
tin respect to the suggestion of Councils
to be composed exclusively of property
owners, The Dispatch does not agree with
its valued coriespondent. All classes aro
interested alike in police and fire pro
tection, in proper water supply, in good
streets, and in the other incidentals of city
service. All should have a chance to help
in legislation. The more important thing to
do as to the class of voters who do not own
property is to have them lully understand
that the taxes eventnallj' fall in largest
measure upon them. While collected from
property-owners in the first instance they
are soon added to rents and to the cost of
living in its various forms, and must be
borne in the end chiefly by non-property-owners.
When non-property-owners un
derstand this lully, they will be as care
ful as real estate owners about their votes.
Ed. Dispatch.
XIVED ON DEY BEAHS.
Hard Experience of a Trio ot Maryland
Dnck Hunters
Chestirtowk, Jla, Feb. 8. Three sports
men of Betterton, this county, had a most
unique and uncomfortable 'experience dur
ing the cold spell qf last week. Thomas
Lockard, II. Owens and Trott, just before
the close ot navigation on the Sassafras
river, crossed over in a small skiff to Crown
hart's fishing shore, on the river side of
Grove Point, for the purpose of enjoying
several days ducking. A sufficient supply of
game was taken to last the party for several
days, and headquarters were taken up in a
comfortable fishing shanty.
Navigation suddenly closed about the
same time that the young sportsmen's sup
ply of provisions exhausted, and they were
forced to resort to dry beans, which were
fonn'i in tho shanty, and some stale crusts of
bread. Friends at Betterton were watcning
the proceedings at the duckers' camp from
across the river by means of spy-glasses.
When finally one of the party was missed,
serious fears were entertained concerning
the Welfare of the castaways. A rescuing
party was placed on a sled and crossed the
river and broughttwo of the men over. The
third man, Trott, having become weary of
the novelty of camp life, had in the mean
time started for home on font, and footsoro
and weary after a walk or S5 miles around
the head of the Sassafras, reached home JiiBt
an hour and a half later than his com
panions. The game secured duiing the trip
was four ducks.
Not Yet the Democratic Party.
Boston Herald.
Dave Hill is a Democrat, hut we believe he
is not yet the Democratic party.
BLAINE'S WITHDRAWAL.
Without Blaine, what? An open-to-all
race, with the chances in favor of the per
petually reappearing dark hoise. JVeu; York
World.
Unto, Mr. Blaine makes a more definite
statement than is contained in his letter to
Mr. Clarkson, he will still be a factor in tho
coming convention. But of this we shall
probably know more as time passes on.
Philadelphia Inquirer.
Eepcblicaxs who will accept his letter as
a positive declination will do so with sincere
regret, believing that the result or the cam
paign und the good of the country are by
this declination given some uncertainty.
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
The great American statesman has an
nounced a decision which is a renunciation
of the Presidental office, and lie must now be
taken at his word as to docided aversion to
the candidacy or 1S92, whatever tho future
may bring Iorth. New York Recorder.
Mb. Blaine's letter will be very disap
pointing to those who have been counting
upon seeing him in tho field at the, head of
his party in the coining contest, and many
will insist upon urging his nomination not
withstanding his declination. Cleveland
Leader.
No mlsunderstandine of Mr. Blaine's terms
is possible. For the second time the brilliant
statesman whose splendid services to the
Republican party and the nation have mado
him stronger with the people than any living
man has resolutely declined the nomination
for the Presidency. New York Press.
This formal announcement will cause sor
row and disappointment to thousand of Re
publicans, aud there is no reason for dis
sembling that fact. No other living Ameri
can has inspired such ardent devotion, and
upon no other have so many Ameiicans'
longed tb confer the greatest distinction
within thoir gift New York Tribune.
Fob months past Secretary Blaine has been
the only man in the Republican party who
could prevent his own nomination for the'
Presidency. The letter .which he has ad
dressed to Mr. Clarkson removes him irom
the field. Direct, manly and unmistakable,
It leaves no question as to his intentions and
ends all doubt as to his candidacy. Philadel
phia JPrett, . .
THE STAEBY SXEAHQEE.
No Observation of the New Scotch Discovery
Tet Made In the United States.
San Fbancisco, Feb. 8. The news received
from Boston of the discovery of a lemarka
ble newstarbya Scottish astronomer created
much interest among scientists on the Pa
cific coast. A telephono message was sent
to Trof. S. W. Burnham at Lick Observatory
last night requesting any information that
ho might have gained from an examination
of the star, but ho explained that every
night recently the 'Mt. Hamilton astrono
mers havo been hindered by a totally ob
scured sky, and that there had been no
chance for observation. Prof. Burnham
said to-day that possibly during the night
the stianjrer near Chi Aurigje might be seen,
but he deemed it very improbable. The
ner star, he said, is of such a magnitude as
to bo discerned in clear weatherwithoutany
artificial aid, and to be distinctly seen
through an ordinary pair of opera glasses.
A local astionomer said In an Interview:
"Wo know that solar hydrogen flames, as
seen during total eclipses and exhibited at
all times thiough tho spectroscope, fre
quently shoot out to the dl-tance or 100,000
miles from the sun. It then, as is not im
possible, an outburst should take place simi
lar to thoe which have caused telescope
stars to become plainly visible to the naked
aye, what would become of this earth and all
the other planets, together with the inhabi
tants thereof. There is little room tor doubt
that a realization of this idea would imme
diately result in the extinction of all animal
life on this Klobe, but one can easily see that
the chances of such a calamity are very re
mote, when we consider the vast multitude
of all telescopic stars and the paucity of in
stances like the present."
MEEIWETEEE'S BEVENGE.
How
Cnto Yankee Traveler Got Even In
Europe.
Washington, Feb. 8. The story of Mr. Lee
Meriwether's recent experience with the
customs officials at Smyrna, who threw
him into prison because ho tried to
enter the country without proper papers
and had no money with which to bribe
them, has been published. He has presented
his case to tho authorities at Washington.
It will bo surprising if Mr. Meriwether doe3
not get even with the officials in one way or
another. Ho will Do remembered as the
young man who wrote a book on how to
travel in Em ope on 50 cents a day.
One day in Switzeiland. during that eco
nomical trip, he wentintoaiestanrant and
nsUed for a glass of cold milk. The waiter
brought him milk that was boiling hot, and
when Meriwether aio3e to go, refusing to
pay for what he had not ordered, the menial
seized his hat and gave it to the pro
prietor. Meriwether appealed to the local
magistrate and also to a lawyer and found
that tliev u ould do nothing to help him. He
returned to tho lestaurant and paid the pro
prietor tor the milk, temarking as he did so
that lie paid the money not for the milk but
for tho information that it was impossiple to
get justice in that town for impositions prac
ticed upon strangers. A few flavs later Meri
wether ciossed the frontier into Germany,
where he lost no time in preparing a nice
box full of sawdust which he sent back to
tho proprietor of the restaurant. He did
not pay the express chafes, which
amounted to $110. In tho Dor was a note
saying: "Thia is to remind you of the man
whose hat you stole."
PEINCEION'S EATINQ CLUB.
Had Board on the Outside Leads to Co
operative Housekeeping.
Princeton. N. J., Feb. 8. Special. The
University Eating Club was organized at a
mass meeting of the college held this even
ing. Joseph M. Huston, '92, who has been
the chief organizer of the club, said Prof.
Libbey had offered tho use of the large hall
in the University building for $S00 a year,
which is acceptable. A head steward at
$1,200 a year, a cook at $900, two assistants at
$4S0 each, live kitchen girls and a man for
general work will he appointed at a total
expense of $7,600. Tho estimated expense
for rent, coal, ice and some ceneral matters
ai e $4 000 a year. Tables will be supplied for
300 student, the price of board being $4 per
week. After paying all expenses the officers
of the club expect to have $21,400 a jear to
sunply food.
They promise the students better board
than is supplied by the boardinir house mis
tresses for $5 a week. The latter ate charged
with fleecing the students. Thenumerons
complaints of poor meat, milk and butter
suppliedatmost of the clubs were the direct
causes of the ptesent movement. Huston
said that all the officers from the President
down, except the marketing and house com
mittees of three men each to be appointed,
would have to pay tho full price for hoard.
These committees tozether with those
students who conducted clubs which will
join the new organization will get free
board.
BTJSSIAN WILD H00S.
One or the Rare Beasts Hilled After a Long
and Hard Chase.
Haittwood Park, N. Y., Feb. 8. After a
five 'lays' chase over the hills and through
the the forest3 of Sullivan county, Lew
Boyd ran down and killed one of the Rus
sian wild hogs recently started by him and
Charles Steal ns, of Oakland Valley weeK be
fore last. Stearns succeeded in killing one of
the animals. Boyd next day started in on
the trail of the other and kept on it until he
bazged his game. He tramped more than
100 miles before he brought the wild hog
down, at a spot within two miles of the
place lie started In on the trail. While fol
lowing the wild hog he -hot a wildeat and a
fox and wounded a big bear that crossed his
path.
The wild hot weighed 300 pounds, and was
sold to Ernest Wolner,1 or Port Jcrvis. The
one Charles S'earns killed weighed 225
.pounds. The first one of these rare animals
killed was shot in Octoner, 1890. by County
Judge Crane, of PortJervis. None of the
tin ee were more than two years old, show
ing that they had all been bnm in the
woods. These hogs are tpe wild hogs of
Northern Russia, fiom which the bristles of
commerco aio obtained. They are sliver
r.iy, and built for strength and swittuess.
Thev have a fleeco of soft wool next their
skin, and are covered with bristles. Tho
skin is daik, like venison, nnd tastes moro
like that meat than like pork.
EMUIA ABBOIT'S ASHES
Quietly Placed In the Grand Monument to
Her Memory.
Gloucester, Mass., Feb. 8 Special.' All
that was moital of Emma Abbott, the
famous songstress, was laid in its final rest
ing place to-day. The only person in
Gloucester ontside M. L. Wethereil, brother
of Eugene, Miss Abbott's husband, who
'learned of the affair, were a group of actors
now playing at the Gloucester Opera House.
As a hack rumbled up one of the avenues
or the cemetery three gentlemen, the exe
cutors or Miss Abbott's will, allirhted, one
carrving a brown paper package about 10
inches'square. This contained the ashes of
Emma Abbott as thev wero received from
the crematory. The ashes of the renowned
slnser as she was cremated in her famous
$7,000 dress are, in bulk, about a quart. They
are sealed up in a square copper urn.
Mr. Beinhalter, the -Secretary or partner
of "the contractors of the monument,
took the box and placed It in the
receptacle. There was no prayer no
word, and the spectators Clif not even
rnmnva their hats. It was a climax of sim
plicity and in complete accord with Miss
Abbott's wishes. Tho heavy cover of the'
receptacle was put in position and the whole
covered with broken stones and cement,
preparatorv to the placing of the great stono
above it, which will form the floor of tho
monument canopy.
BUTXEE'S BOOK ONLY I0AHER
No One Can Pay For a Copy Except
For
Bis Own Use.
.Boston, Feb. 8.Ujpecial. General Butler
does not intend tflat his book shall find a
place on the shelves of any public library,
nor that it shfill be turned into a chromo for
any cheap magazine, as ho says. He also
adds:
"There is a set of rascals in the drygoods
trade who would pay the subscription price
and then self at half price, taking care to
sell enough drygoods to some unfortunate
wotnam to make themselves whole. People
say, 'When a man buys a book, can't he do
with it as he pleases?' Yes, but we don't sell
it to him. wo require every person who
buys a book to sign a contract that It is for
his own usb, and that otherwise the title
reverts. No book can be lawfully bouzlit
I save through an authorized 'agent, and the
authorized agent cannot sen 11 lawiuuy save
to those who sign this -contract, guarantee
ing that it is for their personal use."'
' r-
Women In Council at Kansas City,
Kansas Cut, Feb. 8. The Inter Stato
Women's Conference opened a three days'
session this evening. Among notable women
present are Jliss-Florence Belgarine, of Lon
don, Enzland; 'Mrs." Mary Seymour Howell,
ni Aew iou; iuia. -s. xr. flawu; auu jurBi
Noble Prentiss.
A FRAGRANT BOUQUET.
Events of the Day Bono Up in a Bunch,
From Which the Reader May Choose
Her Fnvorlte Blossom How the Pltts
burs World Wags.
It may be of interest to some in this town
to know" that the wedding dress of Mis3
Mattlo Mitchell, who will become Duchess
de la Rochefoucauld on Thursday, is to be of
point lace draperies over white satin and
diamonds. Her full, long point lace veil
will be secured by a diamond tiara sent by
her father, Senator Mitchell, of Oregon. She
will also wear a superb, diamond necklace
given to her by Mrs. Jame3 C. Ajer, and
sprays on the corsage and earrings that are
the gifts of her affiance. There seems to bo
no doubt of Miss Mitchell's surpassing love
liness, tho newspapers reallv being veracious
in that direction for once; for a Pittsburg
man who knew Miss Mitchell since she was
a llttlo girl says he never saw a handsomer
woman.
A correspondent, who shall be name
less, wishes to know whether or not it is
proper to takn leave of tho hostess at a
reception. Were Tub Dispatch a guest at a
function, and wished to withdraw somewhat
early, these aro tho conditions that aie
meant, are they not? it, naturally not nut
ting too high an estimation upon its individ
ual self, would wish to do so with the least
possible observation. Should tho hos
tess be giving her attention to the lion
or lioness of the evening, The Dispatch
would not thrust itsclt nor its hands upon
them, nor explain that it was called away
because it went to press in half an hour. It
wo:i!d realize that it was only an Infinitesi
mal moleculo or nothing that, aggregated,
goes to make a successlul social unit. At
tho same time it would be a good plan if one
should come mil tilt at the hostess on the
way to tho door,' and she being disengaged,
to murmur in the nnnrdent drawimr room
fashion of theage, "Awfully sorry mnst go
mighty smart time great sideboard fine
house," etc., etc. The nice, warm glow these
praises give the lady is likely to be re
membered when again she prepares her in
vitation list.
Some ten or a dozen years a;o, when
Major Wickersham lived in Pittsburg, Mis.
Wickcrsbam, then among the most success
ful entertainers in tho city, gave a small
dinner on his birthday. The Major was
called away without warning, so the wed
ding had to be celebrated without the bride.
Either some one was asked to Slithe vacant
place, or the chair was tilted for
ward as a delicato compliment, meaning
that none could occupy it even in tho ab
sence of its owner. I think Mrs. Wicker
sham was noted for her repartee in those
days, as well as her great, good common
sense. Somebody made a reproachful sort
of remark about the absence of tho person
the affair was meant to honor, and seemed
to think that there was a sort of absurdity
in the situation. "Well," said Mrs. Wicker
sham, "we have been celebrating the birth
day of the Father of his Country for nearly
a centnry and I have noveryet heard asper
sions cast upon George Washington for not
being present."
A few invitations in advance have
been received or Tancrod Commandery's
reception in the Alvin Theater on Tuesday
evening, February 23. Ir promises to he a
most delightful affair, a promise which is
likely to be observed, since the following
gentlemen form the committee: Mr. N. S.
Bishop. Mr. Harry Lauffer, Mr. J. T. Cun
ningham, Mr. George S. Houghton, Mr. Chas.
P. Walker, Mr. A. E. Hunt, Mr. L. T. Brown,
Mr. George L. Ghriest aud Mr. D. T. ColHng
wood. An interesting syllabus or its con
clave, which will be held in Denver, Col., in
Ansrnst. accompanies the invitation.
The Alvin Theater is to be very prettily
arranged for the occasion, which, consider
ing its general elegance, will make it a very
magnificent setting for so agreeable an affair.
The auditorium proper will have n dancing
floor built on it, and they say that a tine, full
orchestra will furnish the music for danc
ing Nor is this all. Between the dances
delightful concert music will be rendeied.
The dinner which Judge Kirkpatricfc, of
Sherman avenue, gave on last Saturday
evening for hi3 friend, Dr. George
Merritt, or Cherry Valley, N. Y., was
a most delightful and enjoyable affair.
Amomr those present wero the cnest of
honor, Dr. George JUorritt, C. W. Robb, Esq.,.
Dr. U. 15. limg, Missl -Nna u. rung,
one of the season's debutantes: Miss
Moore, Miss Sara Moore, Miss Herron,
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Jamison, C. C Lee,
Esq., Colonel and Mis. J. M. Echols
and Mrs. Caruthcrs, the host's sister.
The ladies were- all beautifully gowned.
Perhaps it will not be invidious to mention
particularly Mias King, who is considered
to be the most beautiful debutante or the
season. She looked extremely well In an
imported gown. The dinner was very
successful; Judge Kirkpatrick being a most
delightful host, whose affairs it is always
considered a great favor to be invited to.
Social Chatter.
Mrs. UrDEGRAFP, who Is visiting Mrs. W.
P. DeArmitt, will bo the guest of honor at a
tea this afternoon, given by. .Miss Ella
Hav, of Stockton avenue. Mrs. Updejirafl
is always entertained when she visits Pitts
burg by Miss H.iy; and so highly does she
value her friend's attention that she delayed
her departure in order to take advantage of
the little tea ai ranged in her honor.
The Nella Brown Pond Company will be
at the Butler Street M. E. Church this even
ing at 7:15. Those that have the affair in
charge promise an evening or musical
pleasure, besides presenting a worthv caue
beforo the public that of increasing the
church fund.
The second lecture of the course, under
the'ausnices of the Mission League or Christ
Lutheran Church, will be given to-night in
that church, Sheridan avenue, near uroad
street, E.ist End. The Rev. J. Q. Waters
will be the lecturer and bis subject Is "The
Tung Family."
As a sad result of the tragic close to the
reopening ball at the Pittsburg Club on Fri
day n'ght, it is said that above a dozen
3 oung ladies are confined to their rooms
and Suffering severely from tho shock.
To-night the second card party of the sea
son at the Linden Club House, will be given
under the chaperonnge or Mrs. Frank P.
Bell and Mrs. Frederick G. Fricke,
The well known Linden Progressive
Euchre Clnb will be entertained by Mr. nnd
Mr-. D. O. Hutchinson. Simen avenue, Boule
vard Place, next Friday evening.
Mrs. TnoitAa McKeewIII give a reception
on Friday afternoon, from S to 6, in honor of
Miss Porter, of Indiana.
Mrs. L W. White and Miss White will en
tertain this evening at their Sewickley
home.
A BEUTAL KING.
Dahomey's Sovereign Still Takes Deligh
In Butchering Subjects.
The King of Dahomey continues to butcher
his prisoners and his subjects in royal
fashion. M. Lartigue, the French traveler,
gives a fearful description of the King's fes
tivals. In front of his palace at Abomey he
has two great tanks to receive the blood of
bis victims. Human sacrifices occur all the
year round,-but when the memory of King
Gnezoi3to be celebrated theslautjhter is
dreadful. ,
On tho 3d of August last, according to M.
Lartigno, the numlier of killed was over
seven hnndrod. Tho 5th of August was the
greit lestival. and his Majesty himself took
a hand in the killing. He came to the place
of butchery in a carriase drawn by four fine
horses and driven by four coachmen. Tbeo
coachmen wero ordered to advance to tho
ceutro of the place. They understood what
that meant. Thoy walked slowly. Tears
wero rolling down their checks. The
Klug arose, walked over to them, sabre in
hand, and decapitated tbem, one after the
other. The blootly work was continued until
the29th of August. Some of the blood of
the victims was canicd in buckets and
thrown upon the grave of the departed
monarch. Women were also sacrificed, and
the King was finally satisfied. He is resting
now, but he will soon begin operations
again.
FEOH SZ I0BIS TO EUE0PE.
The Whaleback May Be Utilized to Carry
Grain Without Breaking Balk.
St. Louis, Feb. 8. A scheme is on foot
which may result in the shipment of grain
from this city direct to Europe without
transhipment. The success of the new
steamers, known as the "whalebacks," in
makimr the voyage from Duluth to Liver
pool, has attracted tho attention both of
focal exporters and Eastern capitalists, and
It is believed that vessels of this class cau
be sent to Europe bv way of Mississippi
river and the Gulf of Mexico.
A representative or an E.i9tem syndlcato
has been in the city in consultation with. the
grain exporters.thcGovernmentengineersin
charge of the Mississippi riverimprovement
and men lamillar wth the river.with a view
of putting the plan into operation.
She Majr Hny Us.
Detroit Free Press.!
An English syndicate has boncbt the cot
ton presses of New Orleans. The English
are not in a position to conquer us, but they
I may buy us if this thing keeps, on.
XUKIOUS CONDENSATION-
Parsley is poisonous to manyShids
birds. y "
A bequest of f 200,000 has beeri'mzde t
Dr. Ignaz Hoppe, of tho University of Base
Switzerland, for the investigation, of tl
nature of the soul. '
In the year 1463 Parliament passed
law which prohibited -anyone from wearir
shoes "with toes more than two inchi
longer than the foot."
The Egyptian fellah is apparently th
worst taxed man in the world. Even on tt
palm tree, which gives him food aiuTshelte
he pays 50 cents a year.
Children are not- numerous in Franc
Ont or 10 000 000 families in the repnblic on
fifth have no children atalland another lift
have only one child each.
Parents cannot name their.jbild'ren ju:
what they please In Germany. By imperii
order Government fnnctlonaries'aro''lOrbii
den henceforth to register any lnfinin
Christian name bearing -the sllghtesflreli
tion to politics. . j-
The sugar insect is of interest) th
physiciau, as It may possibly belthat th
larger numbers found in raw sugar "ttouI
make it injurious to the health ofWcoi
sumnr, and, moreover, there-is a skhxdlseas
produced by handling unrefined sugaEr
If a well conld be dug to the depth c
46 miles, the density ot the air at thcbottoi
w ould be as great "as that or quicts-silve-Bv
tho same law a cubic inch of air Jtake
4,000 milej above the earth's surfacwoiil
expand sufficiently to fill a sphere 2,000,000
OCO miles in diameter.
Jr -j
Cloves are the unopened flower of
small evergreen tree that resembles in. ai
pearance tho laurel or the bay. It is a nativ
of the Maracca or Spice Islands, 'but ha
been carried to all the warmer parts of th
world, and it Is now cultivated in. th
tiopical regions of America.
It is said that two poor Parisian winner
who cam a livelihood hy making artlflcir
flowcrs, have hit on a process for lvein
natnral flowers in brilliant hues. Public a
tention, wa3 called to the matter by florist
who received in a lot of flowers som'es'wee
Williams of a bright green color.
The throwing the shoe is a rel'rcfof a
Anglo-Saxon custom. In those, eariyday
tho bride's father delivered her shoe to th
husband, who touched her with it on th
forehead, to denote his authority over hei
This custom was probably founded upon
possible misinterpretation of Ruth iv.,7.
A man weigns less when the baromete;
is high, notwithstanding the fact that th
atmosphere pressure on him is more thai
when the barometer is low. As tbepressur
ofaironan ordinary-sized man isabontl
tons, tho rise of tho mercury fiom 29 to3
inches adds about one ton to the load lie ha
to cany. - 1
Malarial invalids who consume grea
quantities of quinine will be pained t
know that iu the manufacture of thls'dru;
there is quite as mucn mlserr as in th
disease which It alleviates. Tho makin;
produces cutaneous eruptions accompaniet
by a fever, the vapor Irom boiling solution
being the chief cause.
The Timber Indians used toborythei
dead in a very cmious way, selecting ro
the pnruose living sepulchers. Theylcf
the corpses of defunct persons to be de
voured by beasts or birds of urev.i J
similar custom is said to have been followo'
hy the ancient Persians, who threw out Ui
boiies of their dead on the roads.
In Africa floating bridges have, beci
constructed of trees and bamboos hount
together and forming a continuous;ant
flexible roadway. There aro examples o
bridges of boats upon the Chinese rivers
some with two or three boats removable, t
allow of tho passage of river traffic, ant
one which carries also a custom house.
There are many ore-producing edge;
on the precipitous sides of hills In the Rock
Mountains. These ledges are so lofty as t
be inaccessible by ordinary methods, there
fore, Mr. S. C. Rees, an experienced miner
proposes to r-ach them by means of ai
anchored baloon. This will enable hihi t(
secuie footholds on the ledges and inaki
entrance through thesidesof theprecipitou
hills. ,
The number of murders in this countrj
last year amounted to 5 905, or 1,618 mon
than In 1890, and 3,339 more than in 18S9L-3Thi
executions in 1891 numbered only-133, o
which 27 took place in the North.and-9611
the South. That is, one. murder in -48 r:
reived capital punishment. During th
same period, the lynching which ontragec.
instead of avensed the law, numbered 195, o:
68 more than in any previous year.
An Argentine physician, Ml Serger
states that the mussels are seldom injurious
at the time of maximum growth, whicl
corresponds with lull moon, but thatthej
become poor and often poisonous as thi
moon wanes. During this period manyo
the moilusks die, and the survlvorsseem tt
absorb tho products of the putrefaction o
their bodies. In consequence a form o.
liver complaint is common among the native
consumers of mussels. - c
A few years ago it was suspected -that
the latitude of places on the earth's surface
changes. Annmberof astronomers agreed
to make observations for two years, and the
result ha" just been made public. Latitude'
do change. Berlin, for exnmple, wa5Sfeet
nearer the North Pole in September than il
was in March. This change is not, of conrse,
a shilling of any one point on the earth's
surface. It is a tilting of the axi3 of the
earth.
Mrs. SarahHampton, of Koswelln'Ga.,
has a hat made of cow's horn that'has been
in the Hampton family for over 400, years.
The hat is about 5 inches long and ,3 wide
at one end and 2 at the other. .The. "box is
minutely fastened together with bras3"rivets.
On the lid is "W. C. H.. 1699," cut wfth a
knife. In the bottom of the box is ti piece 01
paper, but part of the writing is so dhnxhat
it cannot be read undera zlass. Onacan
read three lines. It savs that "Tills, hat
has been in the Hampton family 236 .years,
1GW." ' V
The Japanese have uniqne ways ol
doing things. Here, for example, js the
advertisement of a Tokio bookseller: 'lle
advantages of our establishment (1), Prices
cheap as a lottery: (2) books elegant, as a
singing girl; (3) print clear as crystal; (4)
paper tongh as clephant'shide; (5) customers
treated as politely as hy the rival stPamship
companies; (6) articles as plentllul ftsinh
library; (7) goods-dispatched as expediti
ously as a cannon ball: (8) parcels done up
with as much care as that bestowed on. her
husband by a loving wife: (9) all defects,
such as dissipation and idlenessj'will be
cured in yonng people paying ns freqnent
visits, and thev will becomesolidmenS(lO)
the other advantage we offer are too-many
for language to express."
DRIFTING WITTICISMS.
Eminent Specialist Yes, madarae, .your
husband Is suffering from temporary aberatlon.
due to overwork. The form of his mania Is quite
common. ' .
Wife Yes; he insists that he Is a millionaire.
Eminent Specialist And wants to pay me $503 fax
myadvlce. We'll have to humor hlmyott'tnovr.
Harper's Bazar. ' " " "
Here rests in peace a child of fate,
Don't Idly pas3 him, stranger. tj
In lire one day he tried to skate . -
Too near the sign mart ed "Dangers"
Judge.
Charlie Edith Grigson is a nice giflbut
her father Is a regular old pirate. . -,
Chappie- A pirate? How do yoa mafce that out?
Chartfc Well. I know from experience that he la
a free booter.-SnulA, Gray & Co.' JZmWiJ.&
"You have been losing flesh "clTt
haven't you?1 . ,
"Yes; I've been shaving myself." SemXoA
Dispatch. 3IC
"Tell me, darling, whvl love yorirj
Warbled Matel. soft and low; ' "
And I answered my dear charmer? sX
s "We're not married yet, yoo. know."
-Smith, Gray Co.'jXonWy.
Intelligent Foreigner Does tHe.aSt6
build tnose magnllicent boulevards? fidH
Chicago Man-No. sir' We do it ourselves'
"Wonderfull And who are the IdIoUJh3,t cut
thera aU to pieces by driving oTer thcitf wlth-trag-glcs
that have tires only an inch "l-Wjgri th
wheels?" -
"Er we are." Chicago Tribune. ' Sr3
"Old "Rowley was a stingy man". '
"Yes; they say he died so as not to have, to1 pal
his doctor's blU."-Jta'j. -
They sit beside the stove and giggje?
And every little while . . ,rV,
He steals a lbs from her that echoes, ""
For almost half a mile. '.....bkwjb
Mac YorKEertad.
"My dear," said a fond mother iohli'aoy;
why do j-oanot play with the little loatiiasl" -"Oh.
he's horrid. He says l)ad;nai4fffywards."'
just like papa."- . " ' -Jtuatt.iltaasi
Beform. win Dtgta ai nome la wie umuj,-jwu
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