5, 1892L 7 ' i ' ' i " : t THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH. SATURDAY, MARCH w-. 3 - N. r X4X4 BRIGHT, PURE, WHOLESOME REASIXOIK Tfl-MOIOFS DISPATGE Col. A. K. McClure Will Give Some Un written History of EX-GOVERNOR CURTIN. The Beauties of the Jungfrau and Alpine Scenery BY MARK MM. HIRE ABE SOME OTIIEB TREATS: HUSTLING EMPEBOK WILLIAM, By Slcrat Balstead. NOMINATION OF HARRISON, By F. G. Carpenter. FRESH NIHILISTIC rLOTS, By V. Gribayedon.1 KUNNING BROAD JUMP, By Walter C. Dohm. SI ABIE BLAINE'S WOOING, 6 By Bessie Bramble. JAPAN'S DANCE OP SOULS, By Lafcadio Heara. Besides these tnere will be an article on the Greek Biddies by the professor of Greek at Johns Hopkins. A page is devoted to fashions and other topics for women. Fresh literature for young folks. Newest things in science. A Lenten sermon by Rev. George Hodges. A column of numor from Bob Bur dette. Unexcelled Facilities by Cable and Telegraph for GETTING THE NEWS. IT FITS IIS EVERT HOME CIRCLE. $$ Vjje Bigpafrlf. 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The existing condition cannot last long and a change is bound to take the form of an improvement Meanwhile there are other lessons to be learned besides the most obvious one that caution should be exercised in making investments 'which are likely to en danger a glutting of the market For one thing, our iron manufacturers have not turned their attention sufficiently to the extension of their mar ket in foreign fields. There has not been enough enterprise in bidding for the de mands of South America, while there is nothing like a foreign trade to tide over temporary depression at home. Then, too, the unusual competition should show once more that necessity is the mother Of invention, and lead to economical im provements in many of the existing waste ful uses of fuel. Expenses azain can be reduced enormously by increased facili ties for transportation, and there should be a strong and earnest effort made to push the improvement of our waterways and urge the building of the ship canal to connect lakes "and rivers. If attention be paid to these matters, in proportion to their seriousness, the un satisfactory state of affairs will hasten toward its end, and its repetition may be prevented by a little more foresight than has been shown in the past STANFORD'S STAB AT SILVER. It is a little difficult to judge from the telegraphic summary of the Hon. Leland Stanford's new silver bill exactly what the multi-millionaire-soft-money-statesman wants to accomplish. It is stated' to pro vide that the Secretary of the Treasury shall purchase at the market price such silver bullion as may be offered, but he is not to pay over a dollar for 371 i grains. He is to issue for the purchase of this bullion such money as may be necessary without regard to the material of which the money thus put into circulation shall be composed. Xothlngis said in the sum mary of the manner in which the money Is to be redeemed, and the inference is that the Senator does not contemplate its redemption at alL That the Senator wishes to have the Treasury buy all the silver of the mines of his section, and that he wants a genel and unrestricted issue of paper money has been evident enough in his nrevious acts. That is the price which he desires the nation to pay at least so far as the intro duction of bills goes for the luxury of a Presidental nomination 'for Leland Stan ford. But what are we to 'make of the provision limiting purchases to the price of $1 for 371 grains of silver? The United States statutes endeavor to enact that 412)4 grains of silver shall constitute n dollar, and the complaint' of the silver men has been that the Government has failed in its duty to make -the obstinate markets of the world respect that law. Yet, here comes "a Senator from that Bilverj section who, while proposing that the United States Treasury shall load itself up with all the silver there is, and load the country up with an indefinite amount of paper money in exchange, also says the price of silver shall always-be ten per cent below its statutory coinage level. When the Senator's constituents leam that he has gone back on the great cause of boosting the price of silver to par, he will have to introduce several -more land loan bills and purchase an additional State Legislature or two before he can consider himself fully rehabilitated. THE PROPER TAX LETT. It is reported that the presentation of the appropriation ordinance will be again postponed for the reason that further time is needed to determine the tax rate which will be required. This reason is not valid against presenting to Councils the ordinance with a statement of the amounts appropriated, v leaving the tax rate blank until the factors which deter mine it are settled. Indeed, on the theory that Councils will exercise their own dis cretion in fixing the amount of the appro priations, this is the.only course that can be taken. If Councils should increase or diminish the appropriations reported by the Finance Committee the tax rate must be increased or diminished also. For that reason the appropriations should be re ported at once in order to permit a thor ough scrutiny of their amounts. In the meantime, it is to be hoped that the additional time will be utilized in gaining a clear perception of the degree to which the new valuation must decrease the millage, if it is not to be used for the purpose of effecting an actual increase of taxation. This can be seen most clearly by a comparison of the rates and amounts raised by taxation during the past six years. Amo&nt Tear. Valuation. Sate. Levied, ISS6 tU7.000.000 14 .11,033,000 1S57 118.000,000 18 2.124.0UO 1SS8 119.000,000 17.f 080.300 1SS3 180.000,000 12 2,160,000 1890 174,000,000 15 2,610,000 1891 180,000,000 IS 2,700,000 Average tax levy 12.252,800 In view of the latest estimates that the change in classifications will bring the to tal valuation up to 5250,000,000 or $260, 000,000, it is evident that a nine-mill rate will raise the average revenue of the past six years, during which period expendi tures outside of interest, sinking fund, ed ucation and public charities', were two and a half times greater than at the beginning of the 80's. It is true that the levy for- the last two years exceeded the average stated above, but there are very obvious reasons for the decrease of expenditures, as well as tax levy, this year. In the first place the increase of revenue from licenses will this year equal a mill of tax levy on the most conservative esti mate. This will about balance the de ficiency of last year. Next, the past two years have included liberal expenditures for praiseworthy objects, but which do not now require such large appropriations. The parks are not only paid for, but they are furnished with miles of well-constructed roadway. Their further orna mentation is work of a class which can best be done by gradual expenditure. The principal avenues have been repaved, and further expenditure in that line can be confined to streets in which the old pave ments are broken up. Enough can be saved on these two Items to reduce the ex penditures to the very liberal average of the past six years. In addition the prosperity of the city in 1880 justified liberal expenditures. But prosperity can be taxed out of a city. The indications for business this year require a relief from taxation. Councils should see that appropriations are held down to the point which will require no more than a ten mill levy on the present estimate of valuation. THE ETHICS OF SAVAGERT. It is an interesting indication of the pos sibility of turning an exponent of civiliza tion into a champion of barbarism to find a Texarkana newspaper defending the burning of a negro at the stake in that place.' The precious argument is as fol lows: In all ages of the heathen and Christian churches the faith has been propagated by burning unbelievers, and those who ordered the burnings were at the head of the moral and religious classes of their ages, regarded as good, pious, moral and often of extremely tender and sympathetic natures. In other words this newspaper, which might to be supposed by its very nature to represent modern civilization, places itself and its community on the platform of the witch and heretic-burners of two and three centuries ago, and upholds the prac tice of demonstrating religious truth by the convincing argument of incinerating alive all who will not be otherwise con vinced. This is a pleasing illustration of the possibilities of an unrestricted and en lightened press. But even that weak defense is not true: The cruelties of the dark ages had at least the semblance of law. People were not burned to death until they had under gone a trial under laws which were stupidly savage and barbarously unfair. The Texas and Arkansas reaction into savagery acknowledges no law except the cruelry and violence of a brutal mob. It Is very clear from this formal revival of the crime and cruelty of the dark ages that no one with any desire to live in a civilized atmosphere, and to enjoy the protection of law, can be guilty of the folly of living or investing in any prop erty in a section where the ethics of sav ages have survived throughout the nine teenth century. UNCLE JERRY'S BOOM. From Washington comes the pleasing news that the dissentient Republican lead ers have settled on a man with whom they intend to capture the Republican nomination. ' He will, according to the in spired declaration of the Washington cor respondent of the Boston Journal, "com mend himself to the Republican leaders and to the rank and file as a 'vote-getter.' " His "record and popular quali ties'" are such as will secure the support of "the agricultural classes and he would be certain to have a very large following among the farmers." Also "his quaint personality would make him a picturesque figure in the national campaign and would stimulate enthusiasm." Which appears to be the development of a boom for Uncle Jerry Busk. There have been reasons to suspect the presence of a Presidental bee in the bon net of the Hon. Jeremiah Busk since he accomplished the great work of getting the Weather Bureau transferred to his department The pull, which would be possessed by a Secretary of Agriculture who operated the Weather Bureau in strict accordance with agricul tural requirements, was an evident fact The Secretary's determination to have nothing but Republican weather mani fested early in the reorganization was a clear indication of his desire for the politi cal usufruct of meteorological administra tion. But the proposition to realize on it this year sounds a little premature. The Secretary of Agriculture should get his bureau into better shape in order to pre serve a more unvarying harmony between its predictions and subsequent events in the line of temperature, wind and pre cipitation before he essays to capture the Presidency withal. Besides which Uncle Jerry, with other members of the Cabinet, is understood to have pointed the finger of reprehension at Secretary Blaine for permitting his boom to swell to dangerous proportions while he remained in the Harrison Cabinet If this sort of thing goes on,Mr. Russell Har rison will have the duty of demanding a statement of Uncle Jerry's intentions. A FOSSIBlLmr OF MONOPOLY. . The subsequent reports as to the im pending coal strike in England ' cast con siderable doubt on the previous statement that it was a movement agreed upon be tween the coal miners and operators to raise the price of coal ,On the contrary the latest statements indicate that it is a bona fide attempt of the latter to force a ten per cent reduction in wages, and the prior statement was probably an inven tion to cloak the actual purpose. It is plain that no such universal sus pension as the first report indicated could be carried out unless the entire coal in dustry were controlled by a single organi zation. One operator would get tired of having, his capital stand idle, and his miners would get tired of 'going hungry. After one or two had led the way to re sumption the rest would follow like a flock of sheep. It is worth noticing that such a control as the Reading railroad deal proposes to establish over the anthracite industry would make it possible to employ this method of squeezing the consumers of coaL And in that method it is also worthy of mention that the miners would do all the . going hungry while the monopoly would take all profits. , HIS OUGHT TO BE WISER. If it be true that the British cabinet has refused to continue the modus vivendi to suspend sealing operations in Behring Sea, pending arbitration, it has put itself pains takingly and provokingly in the wrong. Of course such a step would indicate that the effort to reconcile the Canadian de mands with the obligations of. international negotiations was too much for the Tory Ministry. It would, however, be no less a nullification- of the understanding upon which arbitration proceedings were begun. - The course of the United States, if the report should prove true, would be diffi cult Talk Is heard of resuming the seiz ures in Behring's Sea, which would of course break off arbitration and incur the danger of an armed collision with a naval power greatly 4our superior. An other proposition is to shut out Canadian railroads from our territory, which, with a great crop to be moved to the seaboard, would be biting off the agricultural nose in the interest of the American trunk lines. It is highly improbable that the Tory cabinet would so clearly repudiate its own arrangement unless it was desirous of pro voking enmity between the United States and England. As that course on the eve of a general election would place an ad ditional seal on the certainty of his own defeat we must be permitted to doubt the probability of such folly on Lord Salisbury's part The common sense of both England and the United States recognizes that all the seals In the Pacific Ocean would not com pensate for a month of war between the two nations. There is no doubt that the deterrent effects of capital punishment are much less than could be desired. But when the New York Recorder says in that connection that "murder is Just as certain under certain cir cumstances to-day as it was in the Garden of Eden," it is very difficult to understand what is meant. For our only record of that agricultural estate contains not the slightest remark on homicidal crime within Its bor ders. One of the most ancient standards of length for cloth measuring is the ell, but the report from Chicago contains the first news of a drygoods house purchasing an L road. Secretary Foster struck the right note when, in speaking of the Immigration com mission, he said: "My aim in appointing the commission and in drafting the suggestions recently was not to block emigration, but to get the best class or immigrants." We cannot afford to shut out all immigration indiscriminately.bnt neither can we afford to admit immigrants withont insisting upon some selective supervision. Kaiser Wilhelm ought to know, and should be taught at once, that the strong and truthful court criticism, while only the false and cowardly fear and seek to stifle it. There are at the present time consider able differences of opinion expressed in the newspapers as to what constitutes states manship. As affording Bt least a negative definition, the following quotation from Macauleyis highly pertinent to the ques tion: "The petty craft so often mistaken for statesmanship by minds grown narrow inhabits of intrigue, Jobbing, and official etiquette." In making plans for great undertakings Chicago the magnificent would do well In future to pay more attention to detail and relegate display to the background. Even at the cost of a serious illness, it is a relief to have a lull in partisan bickerings and hear a man praised for his amiable characteristics, apart from his political be liefs. It is now hoped that Mr. Springer will recover, and that his return to health will evoke much rejoicing is evidenced Dy the warm expressions of feeling which have emanated from members of all parties. There is n o reason to suppose that Presi dent Harrison's return to Washington has been hastened for the purpose of making Pennsylvania appointments. The small minority which indorses the Law and Order, persecutions In Allegheny county will find food for thought in the clear, emphatic, sensible utterances of the bishops and ministers who guard the spirit ual welfare of this community. Bead and reflect, -ye of the saintly few who would block progress .-and stifle happiness to gratify shallow sentiment. POOR Senator Hill cannot fail to learn from the Fourteenth "district incident that he does not run the Tiger but is to be man aged by it just as It wills. ' , One thing at least is certain about the Presidental election the supply will far and away exceed the demand. That is, the supply of candidates will exoeed the de mand of the office. Of course the converse is equally true, and the demands of the office seekers will be woefully disappointed by the limited supply. It is said that Mr. Porter believes that a fraudulent -census has been taken in New York. It would be Interesting to know which one he refers to. ' Let the citizens' party, or the independ ent voters, do all they-, can to obtain com plete organization.for that is the only way to Insure their Interests In the city govern ment. Organization and energy, replacing the spasmodic efforts and the general apathy of the past, can work incalculable reforms. It is to be expected that the wished for news of Egan's recall wonld meet with more welcome than would greet the gentleman himself. " , The absolute .futility of employing re pressive without remedial measures to cope with the labor troubles in Germany 4s shown by the ublquUy of the disturbances and the readiness with which they break out else where when suppressed in one spot. No doubt the cremation'concern, of which Andrew Carnegie is a director, is fitted ex clusively with smoke consumers. With the increased competition which will follow the establishment of the Siemens and Holske Electrio Company In this conn try, a great cheapening in the prices of elec trical appliances may be expected In the near future. If Allegheny citizens fail to make known their wishes at to-day's primaries it will not be for want of ample warning. Many householders here are under an impression that Toledo must be In a very bad way if it hope to improve the pressure in its gas pipes as the result of Information obtained from practices in this city. This is the weather and this the season which makes our city sidewalks even pleas anter promenades than usual. Now that the Louisi ana Lottery has given notice that it 'will' quit business, in this country at least, It would be well to start a strong crusade against stock-exchange gambling. POTENTIAL PEOPLE. Vast Hordes That May Yet Overran West ern Civilization. Portland Oregonlan.l Haines, in his census of the population of India, states that "the returns show an in crease of 30,000,000 in the population in ten years, the total beiug 285,000,000. Add to this number 400,000,000, or probably more, in China, and it looks as if these vast hoides may yet overrun and wipe out Western civ ilization." The first thought with most is to scout such an idea. And yet there are thinkers who apprehend this very conse quence. It is not supposed, probably, that any movement of these vast bodies is to be expected soon, or that in their present con dition they would be formidable enemies. Numbers, without spirit, signify little. But conditions change with changes of time. Men's dispositions undergo transforma tions. Sluggish barbarians often awake, and become enterprising and aggressive. On the other hand there are tendencies in high civilization toward peaceful disposi tions and subjection of combative propensi ties. There is ceaseless effort among highly civilized States to abolish war, and scientific Inventions that make war terribly destruc tive cultivate and support the moral forces that move nations to arbitrate their disputes and dispose them toward peace. This again tends toward suppression of belligerent dis position and towaid effeminacy of character. Thus, high civilization may be prepared by forces working within it for irruDtion from lower civilizations, representing the spirit of restless adventure, guided by enterpris ing talents, provided with all the arms that inventive genius has given to the world, yet restrained by none of the moral and prudential considerations that have been developed through the better civilization. Historical analogies are never a perfect guide, because historical conditions are never exactly reproduced. The Saracenic irruption that covered Southern Europe a thousand years ago had onlv a general family resemblance to the great movement of the Northern races upon the Boman Em pire GOO years eailier. Conditions weie changed, old forces were exhausted and new impulses and agencies had been born. The' next vast enterprise of world conquest may De different from either: but whenever it shall come, and wherever its source, it will have this vital leatnre, common to all: Fresh vigor will impel and the weakness of decay will invite it. Once superior races, sapped by sentimentality and sunk in effem inacy, will yield to the onrush of new-loosed energy, stored up for generations in un noted inferiors, who have multiplied in in action while waiting for the impulse of movement. This is the common history of the overrunning of the Western Empire by the Teutons and the overrunnig of the East ern Empire by the Turks, though one de structive force Issued out of savage forests and the other out or the ruins of the oldest civilization on earth. Fancy the millions that swarm in Asia store than half the population of the world fermenting for a century or two under the growing impulse of that mysterious umest that from time to time stirs in peoples, then stiried to a world movement such as has swept across continents a dozen times since history began. These races have in them all the potency of that primitivefvigor and rel ish for conauest which Western nations are doing their best to replace with a senti- national good will. It is latent in languor and decay, but it has not undergone deliber ate emasculation. These races need only the awakened fever thirst of conquest and the inspiration of organization and leadership to lepeat the enterprise of Genghis and Tamerlane. Europe needs only a few cen turies of training in the school of non-resistance and international sentimentality that substitutes arbitration for war to sink to a state of soft effeminacy, wholly favorable to the success of such an enterprise. These things are not done'in one day. To look ahead onlv a generation, this notion seems absurd. To look ahead as far ns the march of Genghis lies back, it is not so incredible. Thcio is immeasurable potency ot conquest in Russia. After disturbing the peace of Europe for a century, she has turned her face westward and is swiftly overrunning Asia. Fancy her restless spirit of adventure infused into the half billion of human being now sunk in apathy in India and China, and the whole seething mass' flung westward. There would be an emer gency not to bo met with elevated setiments of International good will and conrts of arbi tration. It is good for peoples never to for get how to fight. HIGH ON THE IADDEK., President Eliot, of Harvard Univer sity, started on Tuesday for a two months' trip to the Pacific coast. MRS. CLEVELAND i said to live in appre hension that her little daughter will be kid naped by some ruthless villain. The Rev. Joseph Cook believes that not enough "topless heaven and bottomless hell" is preached in the churches nowa days. The splendid gifts of Mr. Hotchkiss to Yale include a building fund of $150,000 and an endowment of $500,000 for the establish ment of a preparatory school. Major a O. Brock, Chief of the Bureau of Statistics, is authority for the statement that the farmers of this country are not greater borrowers than other classes of busi ness men. Secretary Blaine is still confined to the house with a cold, and was compelled to deny himself to visitors yesterday. He ex pects to be able to resume business at the State Department to-day. President McLeodj who '"is now in a position to water not less than $500,000,000 of coal railroad stock, was! less than 20 years ago, a borrower of 1100 with which to lay in a stock of mineral water as a starter in busi ness. Ex-Speaker Eeed once defined a statesman as a successful politician who is dead. This week a Boston man telegraphed him, asking, "Why don't yon die!" This was the reply he received: "Not yet; fame is the last infirmity. of noDle minds." Disraeli had no rival in the art of making graceful compliments. When the Chinese Ambassador once conveyed to him through an interpreter his regret that he could not speak English, Disraeli replied: "Pray tell His Excellency that I hope he will remain in this country nntll I can speak Chinese." Count Douglas, one of the members of the German Reichstag, is rapidly rising in the estimation of-Emperor William, and may, according to reports, become a mem ber of the Imperial Cabinet. He is exceed ingly wealthy, and, as his name indicates, is a descendaat of the famous Douglases of Scotland. Asking Clemency for Beaver Kdltors. Habsisbubo, March,!. Colonel Robert H. Thomas, of Mechanicsburg, Secretary of the Pennsylvania 8tate Editorial Association, has furnished each member of the associa tion for his signature a petition to be pre sented to the Board of Pardons at Its next meeting, asking that pardons be granted to John A. Mellon and William H. Porter, editors of the Beaver Biar, recently con victed of libeling Senator Quay. , Chance Are About Even. Chicago News. Being a European potentate is after all but little better than operating a grade-crossing street ear.' The chances of pulling through alive are about even. . LIVE WASHINGTON WAIFS. Dissatisfaction Over the Failure to Settle the Bering Sem Sealeries Matter The Status of 80,000 Pennsylvanlana Fixed by a Pension Decision Money for Pen sions for Next Tear. Washington, March 4. The conrse of the negotiations now in progress between the United States and Great Britain touch ing the seal fisheries in Bering Sea is being closely watched by the members of the committees of the Senate and House having .to do with foreign -relations. The report from London, published this morning, to the effect that Lord Salisbury has refused to renew the modus Vivendi under which the two Governments last year undertook to prevent illicit sealing In Bering 'Sea, was re ceived with dissatisfaction. It is realized that the arbitration provided for in the treaty about to be submitted to the Senate cannot be completed in time to avail for the protection ot the seal waters, and the counter proposition made by Lord Salis bury, looking to the establishment of a pro tected belt extending only 30 miles from the shores of the Priblylov Islands, is looked upon as being entirely inadequate to meet the case. The members of tbe Congres sional committees do not disguise their be lief, in private, that unless the British Gov ernment shows a deposition to Join in the work or protecting the waters of Bering Sea from tbe poachers during the progress of the arbitration, the United States Gov ernment Itself must undertake the task and execnte the law. which has not been re pealed, requiring it to protect the seal fish eries, xi mis course 19 loiioweu, wio situa tion will assume a phase very similar to that preceding the adoption of the modus Vivendi last year, and the Government will resume the policy of seizing offending ves sels, which may lead to energetic protests, and perhaps retaliatory action by Great Britain. The House Committee on Military Af fairs to-day completed consideration of the army appropriation bilL Tbe most import ant provision in the bill relates to payment for transportation over bond-aided railroads. It is provided that hereafter no money ap propriated for army transportation shall be used in payment of transportation over any of the non-bonded lines Owned, controlled or operated by the Union Pacific Railway Com- Bany, including the Oregon Short Line and :tah Northern Railway Company, or by the Southern Pacific Company over lines embraced in the Pacific system. . The max imum amount of mileage which may be allowed officers when traveling on duty without troops is reduced from 4 to 3 cents per mile. The total appropriation carried bv the bill is $24,245,649, which is $367,830 less than the appropriation for the current fiscal year. The appropriation carried by the bill is $1,703,553 less than the estimates of the De partment. The United States steamship Torktown, now at Callao, has been ordered to proceed to San Francisco with as little delay as possible, stopping en route at tbe principal ports of Central America and Mexico. Yesterday Assistant Secretary Bussey made an important decision in the pension caso of Budolph M. Manly, of Company I, Forty-seventh Pennsylvania Volunteer Militia. On June 15, 1S63, President Lincoln issued his proclamation, calling upon the Executive of tbe State of Pennsylvania for 50,000 volunteers, to Berve for the period of six months, unless sooner discharged. In. pursuance of that proclamation, the Gov ernor issued a general order calling for volunteers to repel the threatened and im minent invasion of Pennsylvania. In com pliance with this order the Forty-seventh Regiment was raised and mustered into tbe State service for 90 days instead of "six months," as designated In the call. Tbe records of the War Department show that Manly was mustered In on the 27th of June, 1863, and was mustered out with his company on August 13, 1803. During this service the evidence oil file shows that the soldier suf fered a sunstroke at Hagerstown, Md., from which he has never recovered. Upon his application, he was, in 1884, granted a pension of $24 a month, but on June 13, 1891, his name was dropped from the pension roll upon the ground that it had been ascertained that the regiment to whicli he belonged was not in the United States service, but in the service of tbe State of Pennsylvania. This Is the position taken by the Judge Advocate General of the army in a decision rendered September 12, 1890. As sistant Secretary Bussey, however, atter an elaborate leview of the law and the evi dence in the case, concludes that it comes within tbe first sub-division of section 4693, of the Revised Statutes, which Includes among those entitled to the benefits of pen sion Any officer of the army, including reg ulars, volunteers and militia, or any officer in the navy or marine corps, or any enlisted man, however employed in the military or naval service of the United States, or in its marine corps, whether regularly mustered or not, disabled by reason of any wonnd or In Jury received, or disease contracted while in tbe service of the United States in the line of duty." This decision restores to the pen sionable status the 50,000 soldiers who served in the Pennsylvania militia aDout the time of Leo's invasion of that State. The House Appropriations Committee to-day finished the consideration of the bill making appropriations on account of pen-' slons for the fiscal year 1893. As completed, it appropriates $134,825,066, as compared with estimates aggregating $147,064,550, and an ap propriation for the curient year of $135, 214,785. The House Committee on Irrigation to day agi eed to the bill prepared by a sub committee for tbe cession ot the arid lands to the States and Territories for reclama tion. Representative Lapbara was author ized to report it to the House. The-second night session of the House for the consideration of private pension bills proved no more successful than tbe first. Mr. Kilgore, of Texas, was on hand, and his point of "no quorum" was a good one upon the first bill upon the calendar. Mr. Chipman's admonition that such a point would not redound either to tbe credit of the man who made it or to the party to which that man belonged was of no avail, and a call of the committee of the whole was ordered. But 87 members responded to their names, and this fact was reported to tbe House, and after a roll call the House adjourned. The House Naval Affairs Committee to day practically completed the consideration of the naval appropriation bill. The bill. In round figures, appropriates $24,000,000. The appropriation for the current fiscal year is $31,146,145, and the department estimates for the next fiscal year were $27,194,639. No ap propriation is made in the bill lor the new cruiser which is authorized. Under the head of "Increase of the Navy" $7,000,000 is appropriated for "construction" of ships heretofore authorized which is $384,000 less .than the department estimates and $2,000,000 "for "armament" of these .ships, which 13 $2,000,000 less than the estimates. The last Congress in the second session appropriated $17,607,000 for construction and armament of new ships, so that the bill proposes a de cieaseof over $8,000,000 in this respect. A new dry dock at Algiers, La., is provided for in tbe bill, the ultimate cost of which will be more than $8,000,000. Commissioner St. Clair, Chairman of the Federal Legislative Committee of tbe World's Columbian Commission, reached Washington this morning. This afternoon Mr. St. Clair and other members of tbe Leg islative Commute, President Baker, of the Chicago Local Directory of the World's Fair; Hon. Benlamin Butterworth, Solicitor Gen eral of the Fair, and Representative Dnr burow, Chairman of tbe House Committee on the Columbian Commission held a meeting at tbe -Arlington Hotel, to consider tbe question of the additional amount of money that will be asked from Congress for the fair. Furnished Chicago Food for Beflectlon, Chicago Tribune. The Pittsbubo Dispatch editorially calls attention to the fact that the burden of taxa tion in that city is far greater than in Chi cago. The tax levy here is expected to be 2 per cent on a valuation, of $250,000,000, while Pittsburg will levy only 12 to 13 mills on the dollar. But the latter will amount to $12 tor $15 percapita, while the tax in Chicago will be less 'than $5 per head. Thx Dispatch asks If Pittsburg ought not in Its present condition to administer its government as economically as Chicago does when the lat ter is preparing Itself for the World's Fair. It says: "Perhaps if our burdens of taxa tion were brought somewhat nearer those of the Western city we might approximate more closely to Chicago's wonderful rate of growth." Here Is a little food for reflection by those of the dwellers In this vicinity who grumble at the amount of their municipal taxes, A DAT 07 PHILAHTHSOPY. Professor Swing Favors a. Cross Between the European and Furltanlc Sunday Rochester Union Advertiser. ' Prof. David Swing, of Chicago, contributes to the March Forum a highly interesting paper on "What the American' Sunday Should Be," in which he attacks both the "European" and the "Puritanic' Sunday, but points out the merit in both. From his standpoint he is incapable of being as fair to the European as to therPurUanio Sunday, although he says expressly that "the United States cannot, as a nation, deal heavily in religious ideas. The Sunday of- those who worship a Creator, must add to tbe beauties of the citizen's Sunday acts and hours of worship and deeds of charity." This is a principle worth examining, in a seoular way, of course, for Sunday has its secular side. If Sunday is to derive its main sacred ness from the deeds of practical benevolence with which it is to be associated, it will be time to inquire what becomes of Its distinc tive association with sacred things. Religion and philanthropy are supposed to be nearly akin; but a great philanthropist may have no fixed religious views; so that in the case of a free thinker there seems no reason why he should take Sunday for deeds of philan thropy, since Snnday Is a Sew Testament day pure and simple and derives its sole im portance and sacredness from what is claimed for it in the New Testament If this principle that is the consecration of a natural and customary leisure day to mark a certain memory were adopted, we should soon have no Decoration, Fourth of July, Thanksgiving or Christmas day. The proper days for those national or religious ODservances would be the last Sunday in May, the first Sunday in July, the last Sun day In November and the last Sunday in De cember, respectively. But Decoration Day has been fixed by the unanimous appoint ment for the 30th of May. Independence Day would he no anniversary if it fell other than on the 4th of July. Thanksgiving Day falls by an old and honored custom on tbe last Thursday in November, and as for Christ mas tbe clock of the world would seem to be' out of order if it fell other thah on the 25th of December. This is an interesting thought the idea of Sunday as a philanthropic day, and looks very fair on. the surface; bnt the objection is a very ready one. People can not rest and work for others at the same time. A little time devoted every day to '-works of charity and mercy" would equal a whole Snnday of exhausting exertion. Prof. Swing evidently wants a cross between the "European" and the "Puritan" Snnday. It is a want which it may take some time to see supplied. 10 ABOLISH GBACE BATS. The American Banking Asa Delation See Mo Benson for the Custom. Nxw Yobs, March 4. The Executive Coun cil of the American Banking, Association has decided to drafja bill to abolish days of grace, and to have it introduced into the Legislatures of the different States. Days of grace are as old as banking itself, but under present facilities for doing business, bankers think there is no reason for their existence in law or custom. There should, they say, be at least uniformity In regard to days of grace in the laws of the different States. As it is now, Alabama, Arizona. North and South Dakota, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Nebraska, New Jersey, North and South Carolina, Rhode Island and other States allow days of graco on sight drafts, while in New York, New Hampshire, Mary land, Pennsylvania and other States they are not allowed. In some States days of grace are allowed on one kind of drafts, and not allowed on other kinds, while in other States exactly the leverse is true. Hence the necessity for uniformity. MEXICO A BTJTXB. The First Shipment of Corn to that Conn try Has Been Made. St. Louis, Mo., March 4, The initial step in what is expected to prove a large business was taken on tbe MerchantsfExchange to day by a call for 18,000 bushels of corn for shipment to Mexico by the Tamolco route. This sale, although not of great Importance regarded as a single transaction, is the first of Its kind ever made. During, former years Mexico has raised a corn crop ample at all times for its own use. Last year there 'was a failure of the crop, and the United States has been called upon to snpply the deficiency. The sale to-day is understood as signifying that the Mexican reserves have been exhausted. HOI A HEW CEMBNX. A Patent Squabble Puts the Patentee In an Unenviable Light. St. Louis,March 4. Tbe cement with which the Eddystone lighthouse was built is to figure in a patent right suit of to-day. In an action brought in the United States Court against an alleged infringer of a patent for a composition of which sidewalks are now made tbe defense has made arrangements to introduce evidence that Sweaton, whose famous work at Eddvstone has saved hun dreds of lives, erected and nsed in 1759 the same composition which is now used in mak ing sidewalks in St. Louis. Pittsburg Ballroads at Peace. Chicago, March 4. Vice Chairman Donald, of the Central Traffic Association, received advices this afternoon from General Passen ger Agent Schnll, of the Baltimore and Ohio, and General Passenger Agent Ford, of Penn sylvania lines, to the effect that the con ference at Cincinnati resulted satisfactory to all parties, and that tbe passenger fares between Columbus, Chicairo and St. Louis will.be restored to full traffic rates, taking effect March 15. Idlers Should Listen to the Call. Toledo Blade. Idlers in tbe cities should hearken to the Macedonian call from the Red river region, where 10,000 laborers are wanted to do spring work on the farms. Well Shaken Before Spoken. Washington Post. The Kaiser's next speech will undoubtedly be well shaken before spoken. DEATHS HEBE AND ELSEWHERE. Captain Timothy Meaner. Captain Timothy Meaher, the steamboat man, who died Thursday, aged 79 years, was for many years identified with business on the Ala bama and TomDlgbee rivers. He was noted ai the importer of the last cargo of slaves brought to the United States. This was in the spring of 1861. He chartered the schooner Clotllde, which brought 160 negroes and managed to spirit them Into a cane brake 100 miles up the stream. The news of the Importation soon got abroad and Meaher was ar rested and tried, bnt proved that he had made every trip on its boat, the Toney, and the infer ence was that he had not time to receive the ne 'groes and personally superintend -the hiding of them.' Re was discharged. If convicted he would have suffered the death penalty. Tbe 30 negroes that fell to Meaher's share settled in a suburb of Mobile, where, being freed sbortly after their ar rival, they and their descendants have since re mained. They have never associated with other negroes, are bnt partially civilized, still use their native language.- and are rnled by a qneen of their own choosing. They enjoy a good reputation for Industry and honesty, and their colony Is one of the curiosities viewed by sightseers. Dr. Noah Porter. r Noah Porter, D. D., LL. D., died at his home In New Haven yesterday morning. He had been 1U for some time with the grip. Dr. Porter was born at Farmlngton. Conn., December 14, 1811. He was the son of Bev. Noah Porter, who had been a minister at Farmlngton for 55 years. and who died In 1866. He graduated at Yale In' 1831. was tutor there for two years longer, preached at New Milford. Conn., and Springlleid. Jlass.. until 1843: became frofessor of Moral Philosophy at Yale In 1846. and succeeded Dr. Woolseyas Presldentrof the-college In 1871. He was the author of a number of Important educational and philoso phical works, and was principal editor of the re vised edition of Webster's Dictionary. He was admittedly one of the most scholarly of American metaphysicians. ,.-lfrs. Bachel Bomack, 'Near Sardis, ft, yesterday, Mrs. Bachel Bomack, relict of the late William Romaek, died, aged 64 years. .Mrs.-Bomack. in her younger days, wa a weU-knaWn resident of Pittsburg, Pa,, being 'the youngest daughter of tbe laic Thomas Jones, of Jones' Ferry, and the sister of the late phralm and Nelson Jones and Mrs. Captain William Barnes, of the West End, and mother oCMrs. Warner, wife of G. O. Wagner, of the Pittsburg Poatofflee, and Charles Bomack, of thtf Pittsburg Water Works. Mr. Bomack died on tbe 28th of January, 1892, Just one month previous to his wife's death. Obituary Notes. Augustus Stobbs, who was seized with a para lytic stroke la Mansfield, Conn., Batnrday, died there yesterday. He was a priminent elttzen of jsroosiyn ana osjq 1 been. Treasurer of Plvmonth 1 Gaweh for aaumber of vsjars. OUR MAIL POUCH. Land the Source of jail Wealth. To the Editor of The Dispatch: The growing Interest In tbe subject of tax ation, and your remarks in a recent issue of Thx Dispatch with reference to the declara tions set forth in a recent circular Issued by8ingle tax men, prompt me to address you. Yon state: "AU taxes must be paid from earnings, and all earnings must be those of either capital or labor. The assertion, there fore, that this system of taxation (the single tax) will release the earnings of capital and labor from taxation is tantamount to the al luring promise to furnish the revenue of the national. State and municipal governments from nothing at alL" How, if as you say, all earnings are either those of capital or labor, hovf does it come that the mere land owner gets so large a share of what they prodnceT It will not do to say that land Is capital. Capital is wealth employed in tbe production ot more wealth, bntland is not wealth any more than a Southern slave was wealth. The emancipa tion of the slaves did not decrease the wealth of tbe country an iota; It merelv deprived some men of tbe power of robbing other men of all the wealth they produced except what was sufficient to maintain them in bodily health. While land Is not wealth. It is, however, the source or all wealth; and the value of It in exchange depends upon the power which ownership gives of appropriating a share of the wealth prodnced on it by labor; just as the value of a share depended upon the power of the owner to appropriate tbe slave's earnings. To call land capital or wealth is to mistake tbe source for the sub stance. The power to appropriate a share of what labor produces from land has a value just as a power to appropriate the earnings of a slave had a value. The owner who sold a slave did not transfer any wealth to the purchaser, he merely transferred the power to appropriate wealth to be produced by the slave in the future. The transfer of a title to land that has a rental value does not trans fer wealth, but merely the power to com mand a share of the wealth produced upon It by labor. No one will deny that all taxes are paid in the products of labor, and that rent that is, the price paid for the use of ground alone is also paid in such products, yet while a tax upon ground rent or the value ot land must be paid in the products of labor, it is paid out of that share of what labor produces which it cannot retain, and which, if not taken in taxes, goes into the pocttet of the landowner. The law or rent has all the per sistence of a law of nature. It is not witbin the power of man to annnl it. So long as two men want the same lot of ground, or so long as one piece is more productive than another, or one site or location will afford greater advantages for purposes of trade or exchange, so Jong will men be willing to pay a premium for the exclusive use of such su perior natural opportunities, ana so long will rent exist. Thus we see, that the earnings of labor and capital, where rent exists, is limited to the amount they can retain after paying the land owner the price demanded for the use of the natural opportunity. Under existing adjustments labor and capital pay a large share of what they produce for the mere privilege of producing, and bear the great burden of taxation besides. Now it may be seen bow taxes laid upon ground rent or tbe value of land, while being paid in the prod ucts of laoor, would come out of that share of the produce of labor which it cannot re tain, and which if not taken in taxes will be pocketed by the land owner, and, hence, It becomes apparent that taxes so laid cannot serve to decrease the earnings or labor. This value which single tax men would draw upon is a value which attaches to land by reason of the growth of the community, a value created by the presence of population and not by reason of any effort on the part of Individual owners. Being the product of social growth it is a value that should be ap plied to social needs before the earnings of labor and capital should he drawn upon for tbat purpose. Josx B. Suaf.ve. March 2. 801 Penn avenue, City. An Immigration Idea. To the Ttdltor of The Dispatch: Will you please grant me space for a few suggestions upon the subject of restriction of immigration that has received so much attention of late, both editorially and by press writers. Some have advocated a tax varying from $5 up to $100, which to my mind would be unjust and unconstitutional. Do not tax the immigrant who wants to make this country his home. Let his entrance here be as free as possible, yet throwaround it safeguards to protect us from the influx of undesirable citizens, criminals, Imbeciles and paupers. First I would require all foreigners to procure certificates of good moral character. irom amuunzeu oiucer? ol tucir uome gov ernment, signed and vouched for by certain citizens of long acquaintance at their homes, and If married or single. Second An examination by a competent physician regarding their bealth If reason ably sound, physically, mentally, together with age, birthplace, description.beight, etc., for future identification. All the above to be signed by officers of the Government from which they come and properly attested by our Minister or Representatives to their country. Third Upon landing require nil such immi grants or foreigners, coming here to make a home, or engage in business, to take an oath that they will take out naturalization papers within the period of five years from date of landing, or return again to their country; and if tbey do not bocome naturalized citi zens during tbat period, to be subject to ar rest and lorcible return to tbe land from which they came, and not allowed to retnrn again. All these papers to be signed in du plicate, one copy to be kept on file at the port of landing and duly recorded in a book of records for that purpose, the immigrant to keep a copy for his own use-and benefit. At each taking of the census require all people of foreign birth to state if they are naturalized citizens, date and place of land ing, and show their naturalization papers, all such as bave not conformed to tbe law to be so noted on tbe census returns and re ported to the Sheriff or municipal officers, whose duty it shall be to see that the law Is complied with. Fourth All persons (not minors accom panied by their parents) to have a certain sum of monev to support themselves at least six months: $50, or say $100, unless such per son produces a bond from some relative, father, brother, sister, son or danghter al readv a citizen of this country, that tbev will be personally responsible for their support and maintenance. Fifth All foreigners now living in this country to take out naturalization papers within a period of at least ten years, or re turn to tnetr native lana. This would not be arbitrary in its bear ings, would prevent the present influx ot a class of people who are a menace to onr country and dangerous to our society. It would soon make tbe people of this country American citizens, and with the duties tbat would devolve upon them as such they would become better citizens in the broad est sense. As "this is a Government of the people, for the people and by the people," let the peo ple suggest ideas regarding this subject of immigration, and from the multitude of sug gestions some form of law may be devised that shall prove a blessing to those already here, and those who wish to come. J. L. Akpxksox. Pittsburg, March 3. One Way to Get Even. Philadelphia Record. On the street where electric passenger railway service may be established the street should be lighted by the current that drives the cars. EXED'S KDIE SUSTAINED. The Hon Tom Reed is now almost a quo rum in himself. Chicago Tribune. "Tox" Reed was not a Czar after all. He was attending to business. The Supreme Court says so. New York Tribune. The importers asked: "What's the matter with Tom Reedt" and the Supreme Court promptly responded: "Oh! he's all right." Washington Pott. Speaker Rees was right when he counted those present and not voting, in order to make a quorum. This is a poor rule, but it will work both ways. Buffalo Enquirer. The smile with which Mr. Reed greets Democratic members of the House since the Supreme Court declared his patent quorum legal is said to be particularly sunny, and to terminate in Eastlake scrolls on the corners. Chicago News. Reed's rules upheld, the McKlnley law de clared valid, the Anarchists' appeal refused and the Say ward case decided in favor of the United States, is a pretty good batch of Supreme Conrt decisions, from an American point of view. Philadelphia Press. Thova8 B. Reed's method of counting a quorum in the House of Representatives has received tbe sanction of the United States Supreme Court. The Democratic House will not be slow, we presume, to take advantage of the ruling. New York Adver-Kmt. CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. A couple whose ages aggregated 146 years were married a few daysagoatFortk Dodge, la. r A wine cask has recently been built hx, Toledo, O., which holds 66,000 gallons and! weighs 40,000 pounds. 1 On April 6, the word telegram will b Just forty years old. It was Introduced intaj the language by the Albany Journal in as; formal article. ' Two doctors in Idaho succeeded in cap? turing an enormous bear by means of av piece of pork saturated with chloroform and; sprinkled with sugar. After having lived happily together ion' more than 30 years, a Hew York wife, aged 60 years, applied for and secured a divorced from her husband, aged 70 years. The postage stamp will be 52 years oldU May 6. Its inventor was a printer, James Chalmers, or Dundee. Its introduce tion into the United States dates from.. 1S4L A girl four years old, three feet two inches high, and who measured two feec three inches around tbe waist, is what then Marion', H. C, people are boasting abouW just now. A correspondent of Forest and Strum reports the finding of a water dog in a trenchj leading from a 1250 foot artesian well near! Huron, H. D., from, which it is supposed toi have been ejected. t Utah derives its name from the TJtes, tribe of Indians originally inbabitlng it. If was originally a part of Upper California, and was conveyed to tbo united States by. Mexico by the treaty of 1815. "One of Aroostock's giant cedars," re-i port3 the Augusta, Me., Journal, "was cud down on Cary brook last week. This cedar was 4 feet on the stump, 62 feet long, and 10 Inches in diameter at the top end, makingi 1,491 reet." The Hindu hells, or narakas, are 136. The walls of the principal of these are over.' 100 miles In thickness, and their shine or fire J is so fierce tbat they burst the eyes or thoa who look at them even from the distance or 400 leagues. So many husbands and wives are living?;' apart in the little town of Kensington, Kan sas, that society is all broken up on accounflj of it. Nobody dares to give a party, butt; fortunately, there aro two churches auds religion goes on just the same. A historian of Macon county, Mo., re marks that the first Sunday school in than county created a commotion among the church members asbreamng in on the prac-. tice or "shooting tor beef" on Sunday. Ee-i ligion finally prevailed over beef. A young man of Dubuque, la, whor in the process of sowing his wild oat3, goe, into the Wisconsin Penitentiary forashortr term, was released a short time ago, and now learns that he has been loft $J6,000 by a con vict whom be knew at the prison. TVhat is said to have been the most ex-, pensive dinner ever given in Washington vfas spread the other night. There were W guests, the cost was $17 a plate, and $50O extra for flowers. There have been many more expensive dinnera than that given at' Delmomco's. The potato, a bacciferous herb with esculent roots, as Houghton calls it, or opti-1 mum benign! Numinis donum, dapes grata) dlviti; pauper! panis, as an eminent botanist styles it, v. as first discovered in America, according to Gerard's Herbal, published In., 1597, which authority Is quoted by the En cyclopedia Biitannica. There will be chosen this year 444 Pres-J idental electors, an increase or 43over tba number In 1SS3. In that year, 201 votes being: ' necessary to a choice, Cleveland received 163; and Harrison 233. Now 223 votes are needed to elect. The Cleveland States qr 1SSS have;, 175 votes and those earned by Harrison and, Morton have 2S9 electors. The tramp's name for himself and his, followers is Hobo, plural Hoboes. Bread ia called "punk," and policemenand other offi cers of the law are known as "screws." Bessing is called "battering for chewing;' railwav brakemen, "brakies:" poorhoases. "pogies;" prisons, '-pens," and liquor drink ing, "rushing the growler." A stranger entered the Xewtown, Kau. postofflce one day last week, and, buying a, quantity of postage stamps, asked permis sion to stamp all letters that the office was holding for postage. His request wasr granted, and he departed saying that it wa a charitable fad he had to go about the countryi'supplying the neglect of thought-' less people. In Buflalo a woman runs a street clean ing bureau: In Kansas City a woman is ia the lire department: at Vassar a yoims woman combs hair at 25 cents a head: a, Louisville lady makes specialshoppingtripa to Paris: another in New Tfork makes flat furnishing a business; still another in Xew Hampshire is president of a street railway company, while Chicago has a woman em balmer. The Spanish peasant works every day and dances half the night, and yet eats only his black bread, onion and watermelon. The Smyrna porter cats only a little fruits and some olives yet he walks off with his. load of 100 pounds. The coolie, fed on rice, is more active and can endnre more than, the negro fed on fat meat. The heavy work: of the world 1 not done by men who eat tha greatest quantity. Moderation in diet seem to be the prerequisite of endurance. In a horse mill moving at three feet per second, track 25 feet diameter, he exert with the machine the power of 4 horses. The greatest amount a horse can pull in a. horizontal line is 000 pounds, but he can only do this momentarily; in continued ex-ertion-) probably hair of this is the limit. He attains his growth In five years, will live 25, average 16 years. A horse will live 25 days on water withont solid food, 17 davs without eating or drinking, but only flva days on solid food without drinking. During a fall of snow at Lancaster re cently, accompanied by a violent wind, storm, great quantities of worms fell, being probably brought from some distant point by tne wind. Some of tbe worms wero tha ordinary cut-worm, but there was a speci men unknown, a long, many-footed insect, with a horned bead. A strange feature was the fact that the worms should, at this sea. son of tne year, exhibit so much life as did these remarkable visitors. Tbe snow ia some places was full or the worms, and Ig norant people were not a little worried over this strange visitation. BHYNEXBS AND KHXJUXETS. Ted Ton should give up the racesmj coy. Why don't you reform and save moneyf Ned I tried it hut week and was out more tnast ever. Ted Nonsense. How was that? Ned I went to all tbe church fairs. Jtofjs. "What vision this in gown of gray, With eyes cast down demnre. Who walks along the narrow way. Avoiding pleasure's lore? I noUce, wondering, as I pass Her .hair Is not in curl. The giddy winter maiden has Become a Lenten girl. Sem Tort EeraliUt Dr. Emdee I don't believe you get out enough; a man can't be weU without he exercises. Wool Exercises? that's Just what is killing me; the eirl In the next flat plays nothing else. Somer set Sun. The sorrows in sackcloth and ashes Through desolate mornings In Lent, She no longer a butterfly flashes. Her days are most prayerfully spent; But this I must say, she reposes When she prays upon cushions of down. Her ashes is ashes of roses And her sackcloth a tailor-made gown! Sew York Herald, Dinah Sho! Yo mean to say yo' don'i like dem brack stockin's? Betsy Dat am right, chile. Dey gio me a eight day crock Judge. Politician Yes, I am trying in my quie way to feel the public pulse as regards Voter (tired of the pump-handle exercise) Hon can you feel the pnbUo's pulse when you arc sbak lng its blamed arm off I Chicago Tribune. There was a donkey with a bray Tbat was respected miles away. Whec'er be kicked he always found" A victim lingering somewhere 'round. Some sorrowing man was sure to feel The fierce concussion of his heel. Come, learn, oh man, end learn It quick. From him, jnst when and where to kick. w Washington Star, "My husband received a-note-to-day in-4 woman's handwriting.' "Didjou open it?" "I did not. Andwbatbmore,Iteftlmnbyhnn .self thread It at his leisure." 'Don't you worry over iUr' "No, but I guess be does. Jt wafrommjdr mixer. "Sen York Press, - 41 :i'- iTJttMiiynirlte.i.1 '&1HI
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