& Hflje BigpafrJj. ESTABLISHED FEBRUARY, 8, 1846 Vol.47. No. 82. -Entered at Pittsburg Postoffiee November, 1SS7, as second-class nutter. Business Office Comer Smithfield and Diamond Streets. News Rooms and Publishing House 78 and 80 Diamond Street, in New Dispatch Building. ZXSTTRS ADVERTTSIMG OFFICE. ROOM 76. TRIBUNE BUILDING. NEW YORK, where coin Ulete flies orTHE DISPATCH cm always be fonnd. Foreign advertisers appreciate the convenience. Home advertisers and friends of THE DISPATCH, while In New York, are also made welcome. TBB DISPATCH it regularly on tate ot-BmiftJno's, 1 Union Square, JWno Tork, and V Are de I'Opero. Pari, Prance, where anyone who hat been dUap. pointed at a hotel newt stand can obtain it, TEEMS OF THE DISPATCH. POSTAGE TRIE IN THE UNITED BTATXS. DAILT D16PATCII. One Year I 8 M Datlt Dispatch. Per Quarter 4 00 Dailt Dispatch, OneMonth 70 Daily Dispatch, Including Sunday, I year.. 10 00 Daily Dispatch. Including Sunday, Sm'ths. 2 SO D uly Dispatch, including Ecnday, 1 m'th. 90 Scjtday Dispatch. One Year ISO Weekly DisrATCH. One Year 1 The Daily Dispatch Is delivered by carriers at IS cents per week, or. lncludlns Sunday Edition, at ICcents per week. PITTSBURG. THURSDAY, MARCn 10. TWELVE. PAGES INCREASED TAXATION INDICATED. Twelve mills which is announced to be the millage fixed by the sub-committee having the matter in charge on a valua tion of $245,000,000, is an increase of $240, 000 on the tax levy of last year, which was 15 mills on a valuation of 5180,000,000. In addition to that the city can safely count on increased revenue from licenses of an equal amount, while It has an available asset of $150,000 appropriated last year on account of the unfinished streets. These figures,therefore,contemplate an increased expenditure for the coming year of over 5600,000. There is no possible excuse for any in crease in expenditures. The total of ap propriations last year was the largest ever known, and when we take into account that in departments of expenditure cover ing one-third the total there has been no appreciable enlargement, it leaves us the remarkable increase in the other depart ments of nearly two hundred per cent in ten years. If the increase contemplated by the figures published yesterday is per mitted it will establish a scale of expend iture in two departments of the city gov ernment three and a half times what they were in 1882. This is to be corrected by closely scrutinizing the appropriation ordinance when that document sees the light If the appropriations are kept down to the proper limits that twelve-mill tax levy can be re duced to ten mills. RETALIATION WITHOUT TVAE. The talk of Jingoes on both sides of the Atlantic about war as a result ot the Bering Sea dispute should be shut down on as speedily as possible, not so much for its liability to mischief as for its unadul terated idiocy. Neither nation can afford to fight each other on such a quarrel. It is especially absurd for the United States to talk of war for a multiplicity of reasons. In the first place in a naval contest, such as this must be, the United States would beat a very great disadvantage. Next, all the seals in the Pacific Ocean are not worth a day's actual hostilities. Finally, when the Government has submitted to arbitration whether sealing outside the three-mile limit is within its jurisdiction it cannot consistently engage in hostili ties to support a right which it has con sented to adjudicate. But if Lord Salisbury continues his present unfair attitude, the United States has a perfectly available means of retalia tion. One of the subjects of arbitration is as to international concert to preserve the seals. If the English Government will not continue the preservation pending the arbitration the United States need not do so either. Let the North American Com mercial Company kill all the seals on the rookeries this year and the Canadian sealers will come back with light loads. This would probably extinguish the sealing industry; but if that is to.be done anyway the United States might as well get the revenues from it When it is done, the nation will be rid of a matter that has cost a good deal more squabbling and worry, political and international, than it is worth. THE 3TEW COLLECTOR. The protracted uncertainty with regard to the vCollectorship of Internal Revenue for this district was ended yesterday when the President nominated George W. Miller for the position. The principal signifi cance of the appointment is in the fact that the fruits of victory are carried off by Mr. Dalzell. Mr. Miller's qualifications for the position, like those of Mr. Graham, are unquestioned; but the fact that Mr. Quay has no longer a speaking acquaint ance with the Federal machine sticks out strongly between the lines. So far as the incumbency of the office is concerned, Mr. Miller will be an efficient and reliable Collector, and his appoint ment will be satisfactory to the wide circle of that gentleman's friends and acquaint ances. A DIFFERXNCE IN PRIVILEGES. The statement that the total of claims filed on behalf of the sailors injured in the Valparaiso riot amount to 2,O65,0O0, not including those who were killed, sug gests reflections on the protection to life and person afforded to American citizens abroad as compared with the same protection in their own country. No one will dispute that citizens of the United States should be fully pro tected in foreign lands; but should there not "be some similarity in the measure of protection afforded to citizens in their own land? The general estimate of the law Is that 55,000 is the limit of damages to be paid by railroad and other corporations for each life lost by their neglect of precau tions. This limit has crystallized into statutes or a rule of law In some States, and it was supposed to be an in variable rule In the practice of this State until a year or two ago. Verdicts of 820,000 to $30,000 for permanent maiming have been cut down by the courts as ex cessive. Yet here we have an average claim of over $125,000 for each individual injured In the Valparaiso riot, or twenty five times the rate generally assessed on corporations for killing a man in this land of the free. Of course it will be said that the cas es are different, and that the damages claimed from Chile are exemplary dam ages. But why is there not the same basis for exemplary damages in one case as in the other? The ground for the claim on the Chilean Government, which is not tnst tne rioters, is that It neglected to. furnish the necessary protection to the lives and persons of our sailors in Valparaiso. The ground for the complaint against railroads, mine owners and others who are responsible for loss of life or injury of Dersons is that they neglect the necessary precautions to protect persons exposed to danger. The necessity for protection is fully as urgent in one case as in the other; yet the measure of damages is put on an immpnsplv vnrvlnfr scale. It can hardly be wondered at if the com-? mon people should discover in mis con trast an involuntary avowal of the prin ciple that American railway and mining corporations are entitled to much cheaper privileges in the line of killing and maim ing American citizens than are conceded to foreign Governments. , WE WANT LESS VICE. The Keeley system has attracted more than usual attention lately by reason of the sensational attacks made on it from various quarters and the recent proceed ings before the New York Legislature. That public faith In the cure i&.unim palred Is shown by the Increasing demands for treatment all over the country, and the necessity for opening a fourth institu tion in this State. The cases cited by op ponents, even if they were better sup ported by evidence, are hardly worthy of consideration in comparison with the num ber of those whose return to sobriety is entirely undisputed. It must be remem bered, tod! that, even though a few cases should result fatally to the patients, their systems have been so sapped, and their constitutions so ruined by the habits of which they were the Ylctlms, that It Is Im possible with justice to lay the cause of their death to the treatment received in the attempt to wean them from their cravings. The liquor interests are naturally ar rayed against methods which successfully make inroads on their traffic. Professional jealousy is invariably opposed to secret cures in proportion to their success, yet Dr. Keeley has the same right to keep his formula unpublished as has every inventor to profit by his patent The whole ques tion resolves itself into one of whether the community is benefited by the insti tutions or the reverse. And while niany lives are brought back to usefulness, there can be no doubt about the matter, even though occasionally individuals seeking remedies for their vicious habits end a painful and obnoxious existence a trifle sooner than they would, if left to the in fluences which have enslaved them. Any thing which tends to reduce the total of depravity Is of advantage to humanity and will continue to receive the support of public opinion. DALZELIS-GOOD WORK. Mr. Dalzell made another demonstration of his ability In advancing the progress of a national project in which Western Penn sylvania is particularly interested by urging before the Committee on Rivers and Harbors the appropriation for a survey of the Ohio river and the Lake Erie Ship Canal. On the same day he urged the Secretary of the Navy to recognize the importance of the city by naming cruiser No. 6 "The Pittsburg." Mr. Dalzell's active and able advocacy of the ship canal project is certain to be of great aid. The material and commercial values of that great enterprise have been fully urged by the thorough work of the Ship Canal Commission; but what was needed, was a man of national position with the perception of the value of the project necessary to assume its advocacy, and with the ability to make that advo cacy effective. Mr. Dalzell furnishes" the lacking element as no other man In West: em Pennsylvania could, and his leader ship in the movement furnishes the best promise for its ultimate success. So long as Mr. Dalzell devotes his energies to sirch work he can rely on the united and en thusiastic support of all Western Pennsyl vania. A KESCLT OF COKPOKATE RULE. It Is Instructive to read in the Railway Age a statement of the causes of the great railway blockade just raised after three months of congestion. The cause is briefly stated to be that the capacity of the lines east of Chicago is not adequate to the demands liable to be made on them at any time of heavy freight movement During the past fifteen years the' railway systems west of Chicago and St Louis have been practically created to furnish transportation to a dozen States which, previous to that time, were', prairie and desert "With unlimited freight offered them," says the BaUWay Age, as was practically the case for a while this winter "the Western lines can at any time choke the Eastern lines in two or three weeks' time." In the light of this another fact assumes a peculiar character. It Is but a few years since the railway and banking powers of New York joined'in an edict that no more trunk lines were to be allowed through New York or Pennsylvania. That pro nunciamento of the corporate magnates was the fruition of the South Penn deal, and it proved of more binding force in actual effect than the enactments of the Constitution or the mandates of toe courts. It now appears that the corporate decree not 'only displayed its superiority to the law but actually resulted in leaving the country without adequate railway facili ties for the full development of its traffic. Probably the trunk line magnates can find consolation In Increased earnings from the fact that during three months they have been unable to handle the business of the country. But the results of arbitrary and absolute corporate rule do not appear so satisfactory from the stand point of the public INCAPABLE OF CITIZENSHIP. Another mob, this time located in Mem phis, Tennessee, has declared by its action that the people who compose it are not sufficiently instructed in the duties of citi zenship to require a fair administration of justice. This is.the only . conclusion pos sible when a mob takes prisoners from jail and shoots them without a trial If the law cannot be trusted to administer justice and punish criminals it is the fault of the- people. If thai administration of law is efficient, a still more egregious in capacity for self-government is shown by mobs that usurp the right to commit mur der. It is time to speak out plainly, and as sertihe principle that people who assume the right to kill others, black or white, not only commit murder, but prove their own incapacity fcr citizenship in a coun try governed by law. Ix is a mistake to argue that those men voting for a consideration of Bland's bill have committed themselves to Its princi ples. There is reason to betyeve that several votes were cast with the majority from a feeling that the Sooner the matter is decided the better It will be for the country. When citizens presume to take the law Into their own bands, as they did la Mem phis, a general condition of lawless rioting Is the natural and inevitable result The long threatened bombardment of the THE PHTSBURG Tariff was began yesterday and theBopub llcan party will rejoice in the fray. . There Is no standard lite Protection to fight and win under. Its strength Is but the more dearly shown by4he nature of the attacks made upon It There will be much rejoicing at the sav ing of time and annoyance which will follow the decision that peddlers, canvassers and book agents mast be licensed! What a wonderful sacrifice of private opinion to public necessity, and, the delights of a salary, is displayed by the announcement that a publloexecutloner who has dismissed two hundred criminals to their account is opposed to the principle of capital punish ment A woman who attends a dinner while her husband is in Jail for shooting her sup posed lover must be as lacking In common sense as common decency. Etxeope is evidently the proper and most reliable source of American news, since it is from Antwerp that the Informa tion comes of a frustrated desire on the part of our Government to purchase the Kongo Free State. Bich or poor, Creede has thoroughly established Its claim to be considered as a mining camp by its repudiation and disre gard of established law. The movement to supply McKeesport with an efficient fire department should not be supposed to have any direct connection with that city's arrangements for lighting with electricity. Both measures are signs of progress. The Finance Committee of Councils have started aright in pruning the appropriation ordinance. It only remains for Councils to cut deeper and sorer. With the King of Sweden and Sarah Bernhardt an practical certainties at the World'sFair, and the prospect of other European luminaries. Kaiser Wilhelm will not be so very much missed after all. This is good weather for the young ducks, but it Is a cold day for seals outside of diplomatic circles. It would be a gentle token of esteem for the men who elected Speaker Crisp to pro vide him with some sort of pocket refrig erator to enable him to keep cool under the fire of debate. Honesty is the best policy, but William Losey dreamed otherwise and played a losing game. There is qnite an epidemic of stage quar rels Just now. In one Instance, at least, It cannot be said that The flowers that bloom In the soring, tra-la. Have nothing to do with the case. When all the seals are slaughtered mar riage will not be so much of a failure as it la at present Now that Mr. Miller has. been ap pointed during the absence of Secretary Foster and Senator Quay, it is more difficult than ever to understand what caused the long delay. Some sporting philanthropist should pre sent a few of the loud voiced prize-fighters with a gag. Cleveland is in touch with a very large part of the country when he remarks, "The blunders being made by the present Democratic Congress have never been ex ceeded." , PAMlLlABfTT breeds contempt, and naked lamps cause mine explosions. Cooking in a hotel is not an ideal occu pation for a leper, and the Philadelphia health authorities will do well to prevent the repetition of such an outrage on public safety.. ' PERTINENT PERSONALITIES. Alexander Dumas has decided to abandon his Paris residence and to sell at auction his splendid collection of works of Uelssonier, Corot, Dupre and other masters. Governor Btsssell, of Massachusetts, was greatly devoted to athletic snorts a few years ago, and by this Indulgence managed at various times to break his nose, one finger and both arms. Mrs. Lzase, the eloquent Kansas woman who was so Instrumental in bringing about the downfall of Ingalls, declares that every man has the right to drink all the whisky he can buy and pay tor. A Chicago newspaper says that B. P. Hutchinson, the great speculator, who is now In New York, is broken In spirit and that the fortune of $10,000,000 be possessed a few years ago has dwindled to an Insignificant sum. Pkof. David Swing, who is to Chicago what Beccherwas to Brooklyn and Spurgeon to London, has a diminutive Mexican dog, Chihuahua by name, whose personality is said to be as interesting as that of his dis tinguished owner. Mb. Tate, the wealthy Englishman who offered this Government a fine collection of pictures and $100,000 wherewith to erect a gallery if the Government would furnish a suitable site, has withdrawn his offer in dis gust at the way in which it was treated, Henry Arthur Jones, the English playwright, who wrote "The Middleman" and "The Dancing Girl," Is described as "a long-haired man of rather short stature, who beneath his soft felt hat and long locks has a fund of original and interesting Ideas." Prince Hatzfeldt and his American wife are among tbo prominent visitors at Pan this season. There is plenty of baccarat at the French Clnb there, and the Prince is said to be always ready to stake as large a portion of his wife's forts.no as the other players care to cover. HATIOHAX DEIKK BILLS. What the English Spend Would Hare Paid the Expenses of the Queen's Navy. . Minneapolis Tribune. 1 Dr. Burns, an English economist, "has Just published his annual report upon the drink Mil of Great Britain and Ireland. His con clusions are somewhat startling. Last year the total amount spent on intoxicating drinks In the United Kingdom aggregated some 1706,000,000. This means an annual ex penditures of $18 75 per head for every man, woman and child in the United Kingdom. It means an expenditure of $93 75 for every family of five persons. While the use of more expensive drinks has decreased the use of the cheaper alcohollo beverages has Increased enormouslv. In the 13 months Erigland consumed $100,000,000 worth of beer alone. This sum spent on single alcoholio stimu lant would nave paid nearly twice the ex penses of the army, the navy and the civil service. Looking at these statistics from a strictly economic point of view one begins to see why the English laboring man has to wage such . a continual struggle against poverty and starvation. The average wazes of a laboring man in some 50 cities in Eng land and wales Is estimated at $1 70 per week. Granting that he secures continuous work throughout the year, be makes $235. With the yearly drink bill of the average family amounting to $93 75 It is not a matter of surprise that English worklngroen do not Uveas comfortably as do their brothers in the United States. A HOVEL aUESTIOH AT LAW. Haselton In Doubt Whether City or Borough Licenses Are to Be Charged. Wiixsskasbb, Maroh 9. Judges Wood ward and Lynch to-day handed down an opinion on which the question is decided as to whether the saloon keepers of the new city of Hazel ton are to pay $500 as a city or $100 as -a borough. The Court decides that Hazelton became a city when the letters patent were granted, and that, conse quently, all saloon and hotel keepers must pay $500 a year info the county treasury. Exceptions have been filed by the attor neys lor the liquor men, who claim that Hazelton 1 not a city under the law until the officers elected hut February are in stalled. The case will be taken to the Su preme Court, DISPATCH, THURSDAY, LIVE WASHINGTON WAIFS. Senator Morgan Has a Free List Measure The Pure Food BUI Passes, After All Another World's Fair Appropriation to Be Considered Next Week Springer Out ol Danger. Washington, Maroh 9. Mr. Morgan introduced a'blll in the Senate to-day, de claring that all laws, and parts of laws are inoperative which exempt from the payment of duties articles of oommeroe which are not on the free list entered in the Custom Houses of the United States for transportation through the United States to or from any British pos session. Senator Morgan savs he will use the same arguments in behalf of the bill that President Cleveland used in a message he sent to Congress in the first session of the Fiftieth Congress. This message recom mended certain retaliatory legislation touch ing intercourse with Canada, and was called "forth as a result of the rejection by the Sen ate of a treaty negotiated for the settlement and adjustment of the differences existing between the United States and Great Britain concerning the rights and privileges of American fishermen in the ports and waters of British North America. The President then recommended Immediate legislative action, conferring' on the Executive the power to suspend by proclamation the op eration of all laws and regulations permit ting the. transit of 'goods, wares and mer chandise In bond, across or over the terri tory of the United States, to and from Can ada, and this is the object of Sir. Morgan's bill, which would deprive the Canadian Pacific Ballroad of its valuable concession of the right to transport goods in bond through the United States to and from Europe and other foreign ports. Among the bills Introduced and referred was one with the following curious title, persented by Mr. Cullom (by request) "To test and try the science nf spelling and to provide for establishing 100 schools for the purpose; and to establish a spelling school in tne World's Columbian Exposition to be held in Chicago in 1893." The Senate loint resolution tor payment to the State of West Virginia of her share of the direct tax re fund was taken up and Mr. Daniel offered as an amendment and additional section In structing the Secretary of the Treasury to accept the terms agreed upon by the Com mittee or the Virginia bondholders, as to the bonded debt of Virginia. After debate the Joint resolution was made a special order for next Monday. The pure food bill was then taken up, and after the adoption of several slight amendments, it was passed without a division. The House Committee on the World's Columbian Exposition has designated Mon day, the 21st Instant, as a day on which it will hear arguments on the bill introduced by Representative- Durburrow, , making further appropriations for the World's Fair. At that time representatives of the World's Columbian Commission and of the Chicago directory" of the fair will be present to ex plain their respective wants. The World's Fair Investigating Committee of the House sub-committee of the House'Committee on Appropriations has in course of prepartlon letters of inquiry to be addressed to the sev eral persons having charge of expenditures for the World's Fair. Letters will be ad dressed to the heads of the local directory and the National Commission and Assistant Secretary Willets, of tho Agricultural De partment, who has charge of the Govern ment exhibits, asking detailed information relative to tne r air. The remains of the late Representative Kendall, of Kentucky, accompanied by the wife and son of the deceased and the Sena tors and Bepresentatives appointed to at tend the funeral In Kentucky, left Washing ton this afternoon. Senator Warren to-day introduced a bill asking for the cession of arid public lands to the States and Territories wherein situated. Ho will address the Senate upon the subject soon. Senator Hill has decided to go from here to Jackson, Miss., direct, and will leave Washington Sunday night. On his return he will stop a short time at Birmingham, Ala. All other invitations have been declined. Representative Springer is now con sidered piactically out of danger. Dr. Vin cent, his Illinois physician, left for home to night. Commissioner or Patents Simonds has issued an order announcing that in con sequence of want of room for the proper storage and arrangement of printed copies of patents, it will be impossible to fill orders in current Issues until additional room is provided. For years Secretaries of the In terior and Commissioners of Patents have urged upon Congress the necessity of addi tional room In which to Btore future issues of the printed descriptions of patents granted. All these efforts, however, have failed. Mr. Simonds savs that during the past year the Patent Office has sold 650,000 printed copies of patents at 10 cents each, and that the total receipts from this source since the establishment of the office had been more than $26,500,000. Although there isabalanceof $1,015,753 now In the treasury to the credit of the Patent Office, there is not room for the business of the office to be properly transacted. The President to-day sent to the Senate the name or Judson C. Clements of Georgia, to be Inter-State Commerce Commissioner, vice Walter L. Bragg, deceased and William Lindsay, declined. LET THE SUICIDE PB0CEED. A Midwinter Day's Madness That Means an Autumnal Disillusion. Brooklyn Eagle, Dem.l The Eagle is not sorry that the free sliver men won in the House on Monday. The re sult was vigorously contested by such Dem ocrats as unite the ethical and men tal qualifications of which the union is nec essary to realize that honest money is right andi that only an honest money party can win in this country. ' . Any event which sets off such Democrats from the free-silver errorists in the party is one ot which the ultimate effect will bo salutary. Incidentally Involved in that effect may be the failure of the Democracy to gain the next Presidency. It would, how ever, be a calamity to the party to win wrongly, and a calamity to the country that any party snouia so win. It the Democracy, by a majority or by auy considerable . portion of their number, are Intent on beating their principles before making their nominations, why let the sui cide proceed. The post mortem examina tion will be intelligently conducted. A true verdict will be renderedjaccording to the votes. The Eagle, while not censuring the unsuc cessful recourse to filibustering and while recognizing the motives of those who es sayed it, Is not grieved that it failed. The House has a right to its mind. The country has a right to know the mind of the House. The country will duly let its own mind be known to the House. A midwinter day's madness for free silver and a midsummer night's dieam of national viotory on a scheme of clipped dollars wilt have an autumnal disillusion that will ren der the last session of an incapable Congress as interestinc as the colloquies in murderers' row In the New York Tombs between sen tence and execution. ' A Quixotic Crusade, Beading Press. J The PittsburgLaw and Order League is still keeping up its Qulxotio crusade against Sunday .newspapers. On last Sunday its agents were vigilantly watching the news boys and newsdealers, and as a result 17 fresh prosecutions were brought for violations of the blue laws of 1791. Up to this time about 150 prose cutions have been instituted for sell ing Sunday papers, and in nearly all the cases the alderman imposed fines of $25 and costs. All the cases have been appealed, however, and on March 11 they will be tried before the judges of the county court. In view of the prolific field presented, in Pitts burg and every other large city, for the op erations of antagonists of real vioe and Im morality, Buch vehement and presistent warfare upon harmless newspapers- is strongly suggestive of fighting windmills. A Haunted Farm Hear Youngirown. TouitQSTOWjr, March 9. Special, John' Kuriok, a German farmer occupying the farm of C. B., Wiok, north, of this city, has left the place, asserting that it was haunted by ghosts. He saye they surrounded the house at night, opened and ojosed doors, and prevented him' from gettlng'any rest. His health began to give way and he decided to evmue mo nocturnal visits uy migrating. Colonel Wick says that 'he dees not doubt the .fact of Kuriok-being irightened, but ghosts won't pay rent. MARCH 10. 1892. MONET FOB CHTJECH SUPPOSE If Gould Be Questioned as to Its Origin, All Should Be Asked to Explain. New Tork Sun. 1 The Bev. Dr. Bainsford, or St. George's Church, joins the Bev. Dr. Parkhurst, of the Madison Square Presbyterian Church, in ob jecting to the acceptance of a gift from Mr. Jay Gould for religious purposes until he tells how he got the money. If that ques tion is to be asked of Mr. Gould, it should be asked of everybody who makes a contribu tion for piouspurposes. Everybody who puts in money at the offertory of the church should be required to accompany the cash with an explanation whence it came. AU churches should at once set to work to trace to Its origin all the money contributed for their erection, and support, to discover whether it was obtained without disobedi ence to the commands of Christ and the principles of Christianity. A committee of investigation 'should be appointed by St. George's Chnrch, for instance, to examine the books and the history of the millionaire bankers and merchants who have given so liberally for its -maintenance, so that the money of their gifts may be traced to its sources. The, Bev. Dr. Bainsford's salary comes from many contributions, and whence the money for them was derived must be discov ered In order to satisfy his scruples as ex gressed with referenoe to the gift of Mr. ould, or the clergyman has been guilty of the Pharisaism wnloh the Divine Founder of Christianity zealously denonnoed. He has Judged one of his neighbors, and why should ne not judge all of them likewise, and him self also, by the standards of Christ which he preaches and bv which he professes to regulate his own life? If that is to be the rule as to one giver to the Church, it must be the rule for all. It must be applied to minis ters no less than to laymen. If Mr. Gould were an attendant upon St. George's Church, would Dr. Bainsford refuse to receive his money for its purposes? Mr. Pierpont Morgan is the treasurer of the churoh. Would he reject Mr. Gould's money if it was sent to his banking house until Mr. Gould explained how be bad obtained it? Yet Mr. Morgan, as a Christian, would be no less bonnd to refuse to receive the money at his banking bouse if he is bound to rejeot it at hi3 church. Though Jesus condemned the rich so tremendously. He did not spurn "their contributions for charity and religion. He did not demand of them whence they ob tained the money, and cry out against their offerings, but only commended the poor widow who vast, in her two mites as a more bountiful giver in having given "all her. living" while the others "did cast of their abundance," as do Mr. Jay Gould; Mr. Pier pont Morgan, Dr. Bainsford himself, and the parishioners or St. George's upon whom It relies ohlefly for its maintenance. All of these are rich men In the senee in which Jesus spoke, and the money of all of them was obtained and is held In violation or His precepts. SLUE XAWB IH BOST0H. How Agitation Against the Panday News paper Is Sized Up There. Boston Herald. Certain excellent gentlemen of this vicin ity have been occupying themselves the past week in an attempt to argue the Sun day newspaper out of existence. Their mo tives, we doubt not, are good, and they ap pear to feel a'flne sense of duty discharged while engaged in the operation. Still we are inclined to Inquire to what end in this effort? The. work frees their own mind, and agitates somewhat the minds of others. But do they reaHy expect that any thing further will result from it? 'Can it be possible that, after an experience now ex tending over nearly a generation, the fact that the Sunday newspaper has come to stay has not penetrated their consciousness. And are they not aware that its readers are constantly, on the increase, and that a large part of tbem come from members of their own churches and congregations? We can understand efforts to improve the Sunday newspaper, and to attract attention to that which is best in it, and aid those who are doing the most to make It worthy and acceptable to readers. We deeply sympa thize with it. indeed. But to attempt to rule out the Sunday newspaper altogether seems to us a scheme so sbsolutely we had almost said ostentatiously futile that it is difficult to see how practical men can waste their time over it. THE CHAMPI0K TORPEDO. i . - . Its Inventor .Haa to Come to McKeesport to Find His Material. ' MoKeksport, March 9. Special Patrick Cunningham, of New Bedford, Mass., in ventor of the Cunningham whaling lance, and also of the life-saving rocket, both of which are 'how used by the .Govern ment, vis In this city. He is here to Inspect the steel tubing turned out by the National Tube Works, which is to be used in the latest Cunningham Inven tionthe naval torpedo.' The steel tubes will be ready for the Government test about the middle or July. These mills are, the only ones which can turn out the steel tubes with the necessary strensth to bear the enormous pressure used In firing a. torpedo, andit iff positively known by both the officers of the concern and by the inventor that the tubing will stand the test. Cunningham claims that bis new inven tion will be more effective than the White head or Ericcson torpedo, and will carry more explosive matter, besides traveling with greater speed. He also says that he can regulate the speed, and will use a power ful composition explosive of his own inven tion. He has searched far and wide for steel tublngXo come up ta his standard, and says be has found it here. Cunningham says his torpedo will propel itself much faster than the 100- feet per second hitherto attained,; and says It will carry Over 25 per cent of its own weight in dynamite or explosive matter, which Is between 10 and 15 per cent more than any known torpedo will oarry. He will not tell of the propelling power, but it is believed to be .electricity. ' Getting a Bad Name. Westmoreland Democrat. Official channels In Allegheny City are literally honeycombedlrith corruption. Ten days, ago Market Clerk Hastings was sen tenced to six months in Jail for embezzle ment. Saturday last ex-Mayor James Wy- mnn.who resigned because he was convicted of crime, was remanded to prison for three months for extortion. Assistant Postmaster Myleris under arrest charged with stealing Government funds. One of the preetnet election boards, at tho recent Kepubllcan primary, has been taken into custody for conspiracy and ' fraud. It has likewise been discovered that funds belonging to the municipal water'department, to a consider able amount, have been stolen. It should be added that Allegheny City, in all its official departments, is under complete and absolute control of the self-styled "God and morality" party. A Beginning Should Be Made. Norrlstown Herald. The agitation in reference to Improved roads should not be allowed to stop without some real gain being ,made in each district in the county. A beginning should be made In the work of macadamizing, bo it ever so small. . . THE0TJGH NEIGHB0ES EYES. In Philadelphia Democrats are trying their best to "get together" by keeping apart. Sunbury Pott. The war is evidently over 'and the Penn sylvania delegation to Minneapolis may yet be a unit for Harrison. Scrtmton Republican, The opponents of Quay may not be in creasing in numbers but they are gaining in eneravand couraze. Tbev seem to under stand the practical truth thai the only wast to beat Quay Is to fight him. Harritburg Patriot. , - ' ' There Is no division among, Washington county Democrats as to whq should be the candidate for President. Grover Cleveland Uncertainly the choice of all classes of 'Democrats In every section of the county. Washington Democrat. . Lawbehcs is one of the counties which Will have a test vote on the Senatorial ques tion at the Republican primaries. It is con sidered probable that the vote, there will show a large majority for the Senator over any other candidate. ErieDUpatch. Uiclesb Pennsylvania Republicans prefer a senatorial representation which borders upon "Innocuous desuetude" they should select tome other man, than Quay to fill Quay's place. During the -four years ofhla. service, previous to the present' session, he' answered MS roll calls aadhe failed to ans wer SU.atambmbvrgBpirit. A MOST MOVING IDYL. Mutability of Boarding House Life Some Result of the Frequent Changes A Character for a Tonng Woman Boarder Bomantlo Xplsode la s Sixteenth Cen tury Potter's Life. The now too prevalent furniture van pro vokes one into comparing Plttsburgers to "The Wandering Jew." It also causes one to speoulate in bewilderment as to where the numerous merits of the numerous houses on which housekeepers were felicitating them selves a year ago have disappeared. Did they exist in imagination only? Or oan a woman only content herself In one place at onetime for 12 months? Is the affection of a woman for her house as evanejpent as that which she haa for her.klnd? Why does she rate her contemplated residence higher than heaven in April of 1891 and condemn It lower than hades in the April of 1892? There appears to "be something wrong, and women say that the wrong lies in the houses, but it seems as if, should they search nearer home, they would doubtless find that the exterminator had better be applied there. It is not the householder, however, that ought be salivated with sympathy. It is the unfortunate roomer and boarder, who ex ists as persistently In the East End, as do files in the sunshine. He won't profit by for mer Aprils, but boards on regardless of the faot that his landlady is a woman with a mind of her own that is very apt to change, and who may rent a house owned by a woman having the same sort of a mind. A Case In Point in the East End Such There is a boarding' house to-day in the East End where it is positively a fact that in another month the boarders won't know where to lay their heads, nor, what is worse, .where to obtain their meals. The house is owned by a woman who has become Jealous of the success of her tenants, two young women, in their boarding house ven ture. She intends to try a hand at it herself when April comes: so she turns out her ten ants, and they perforce must eject their sub tenants on the pavement. In the house ex change, now at its height out there, the boarding bouse madam is getting the cold sbonlder, and since tbe'bouse agent won't help her it's not likely the Lord will. Nat urally one feels like sending up a heartfelt petition for the numberless boarders stand ing on the verge of homelessness in Pitts burg to-day. Of course, it may be that such a state of things is well merited judgment. Landla dleshave not always treated their boarders well as regards steak. Boarders occasion ally have retired from boarding bouses with out going through the formality of bidding their landladies "goodby." We have known of eases where towels were supplied with such scantiness and lnfrequenoy that one had to dry hlm&elf by installments and the linen by turns. Boarding Not a Good Career. Perhaps there are worse careers in this life than boarding; but nevertheless It Is not a life work to be taken up lightly, but so berly, thoughtrully and in the fear of future happiness. 'I'll confess," said a boarder of long and good standing, tho other day, "boarding has weaned me of domestic life and put me out of oonoelt with everything else. I thank the Loid that It U the Condition Into whloh he was pleased to put me; though, to be sure, I was neither born nor did I achieve board ing, but 1 had it thrust upon me. liemem ber when I was only a three-weeks-old boarder, ot one landlady selling us out to another landlady. I left the house on the morning of that particular occasion under the settled conviction that I was Mrs. Smith's front room gentleman, only to find upon returning that I and the other house hold chattels had become the property of Mrs. Jones. It was somewhat disappointing to have to be taught that Mrs. Smith was Just a womanlike the rest or them, and fl temale who, tapping the beam at 175 pounds, still could only be described as z Uncertain, coy and hard to please; Ana vanauie as tne snaue. By the light quivering aspen made." "I had staked my whole trust in human nature, in her, I had sworn she would not read an unopened letter which didn't belon? to her I wasn't in a position to say as much about the opened ones I had vowed that she never disturbed the warmth of my bed by removing the bed clothes entirely, or permitted the fresh air to trespass, and in return for all this she sold me to a Jones. In justice to her I must confess that she did display some reeling about losing me and Insisted upon weeping on my shoulder that night upon bidding me goodby. Occasion all the good lady sees me still, when I find she is ever banking upon some future happy state-when she and 1 will meet again In the l elation of landlady and lodger meet to part no more." A Woman Becommended as at Boarder. There is a raraavtr in Pittsburg in the form of a young woman, who was 'given a recommendation as a "crack lodger," by her landlady of a year's standing. The yonng lady has since married and the "character" has been framed and embellishes a spot in her parlor beside the marriage certificate, and Just beneath the legendary' story -'God bless our borne." It runs thus: "I wish to tell lodging housekeeuers in general that Miss Blankety Blank Is the best lodger, outside of a man, that ever I havo met. She doesn't keep very good hours, but then that's her business and not mine. I never knew her to wash a pair of stockings in her room in my life, and she certainly never asked the servant what we had had for dinner on Sunday. Neither did she tell her friend how few towels were served in the week, nor how often the pillow case was changed in the same time. I think she might have flirted with my husband, but I kept him safely out of tne way. She didn't attempt to save the soul ot anybody In the family, and made no fuss about looking after her own. I don't usually recommend females, but this Is an exceptnn that will do your heart good to see. I think if you were get ting a divorce from your husband, she would learn tho first thing of it from the newspapers, and she always pays her bills. The young lady told me thaf for a week she had the pick of the finest rooms in Pitts burg, and that from tbem dated a period of higher estimate for woman boarders and roomers. A Mediaeval Bomanoe Reproduced. Ihebb is a curious oolncldenco which may or may not have boon premeditated, be tween the third act of "Tbo Mlddlomau," and some Incidents m the life or Pallssy the Potter. As a good many probably know Bernard Pallssy was a French notter famous In the early sixteenth century for his indomitable purpose both in his pursuance of his trade and in his religion, he being a Huguenot and zealous if not overwise sup porter. He pursued his fathers profession, that of stained glass and survey, but not long after he was married the whole course of his life was changed. He happened to see a fine piece -of pottery, probably Ma jolica ware from Italy, and, thereupon, re solved to spend any time and labor needful, to discover the secret of the beau tiful enameled surface that he ad mired so much In that niece of pottery. His trade aa a glass painter had taught him something of the methods of painting and firing enameled colors, and at the neighboring village of the Chapelle des Pots he learned the rudiments of the potter's art in its simplest form; but this was all. He knew nothing whatever of the man ufacture of the finest sorts of Faiance, or of the composition of the white enamel, which was to form the covering of his clay vessels and the ground for his colored ornaments. It will be remembered in the dramatics scene of the third act In the play cited, that Blenkam, after a fruitless effort to obtain credit among the Tatlow coal merchants, for .fuel to keep his kiln going, in despair breaks the furniture and tosses it into the rapidly diminishing fire. He had labored on In the face of every ob stacle, until his family were .almost allenl ated from him, and certainly impoverished by him. From Palissy's own story, for he atterward irrunlged in autobiography, we have a tale nearly identical. From year unto year, he says, through a succession of utter failures and almost with out a glimpse of hope be labored on, work ing often blindly and at random in search of tho secret tor the white enamel. Almost starving for want of food, bis wife in rags bitterly and not unreasonably reproaching him for his cruelty, his furniture broken up to feed his kilns, and without a hand to help, Pallssy struggled on for nearly 16 year before success came. Like Pallssy, Blenkam Is successful in dis covering the much sought after seoret, but unlike Pallssy, his life closes on a scene of domestic contentment. Pallssy, unfortun ately for himself and nearly for his head, became as enthusiastic a disciple of French Protestantism as of French pottery, and gained the good man's crown a dungeon In the Bastille, where he contracted what was deleterious to life, andoonsequently death came. The romantic setting given to Blen kam brings his life to a happier though, per haps, not so elevated a close as that of the man who, unconsciously or otherwise, was the prototype of the immortal Cyrus Blenr ham. M. C G. Hunters After an Albino Deer. Psskxlb, Pa, Maroh 9. Special An albino, or perfectly white deer, has been seen on the hfllt about here several times recently. It la a fine large bunk, with long spreading antlers, and several gangs of hun ters are after him in spite of the law. CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. " There is said to he alO-year-old Georgia boy who Is cutting his third set of teeth. A prominent grocer In Xondon has ft 'provision cart" that Is run by electricity. A Philadelphia burelar left a vest but ton In the house he had broken into, and Is led to his arrest. Two women photographers in New Or leans are earning very handsome incomes from their work. The people of Hayti and several tribes in Central and South Americahold themoon in great veneration. In the Florence oil field of Colorado there was produced last year 100,000 barrels of illuminating and 5,000 barrels of lubricat ing olL More than $1,000,000 worth of Michi- gan lumber will be used in the World's Fair building, and S150.000 will go Michigan con traotors. If geologists be correct, New Zealand is a fragment of a continent which sank be neath the waters as the New World rose. It is a rello of a bygone age. Jane Scrimshaw lived in London dur ing the reign of eight sovereigns, JroinEliza beth to Ann?. Of her 127 yeara, eight of them were spent In an almshouse. The savings banks in New Hampshire are said to have a greater proportion-of de posits in proportion to population than In any other State of the Union. In spite of the pressure of modern life and the abundance of periodical literature, 1,277,136 books form the Paris municipal libraries have been read during the year. Before the introduction of iron tools the making of a canoe was a work of enormous difficulty. The hatchets used were of stone and tne chisels were of mussel shells ground to a sharp edge. The famous Oroya Railroad of Peru has now been extended to -Port Tucker, on the Pichis river, thus connecting the head waters of the Amazon with the Pacific Ocean at Callao. Eecent experiments have been made ia Germany which show, as reported, that as bestos rjaper is not only no advantage In a floor as a protection against Are, but is prob ably somewhat injurious. Concerning the self purification of rivers Dr. Von Petlanko states that untreat ed sewage may with safety be discharged into a stream if its volume is not more than one-fifteenth of the river water. A new cement is attracting considerable attention In England, owing to its adhering so strongly to iron, wood and stone. It is made of 20 parts or gas tar, 75 parts of olay and silica earth and 5 parts of natural sul phates. Amost extraordinary instance of human longevity may be tound in Smellle's "Philos ophy of Natural History," where an account U given of Peter Torten, a native of Hun gary, who died January 5, 17a, at the ad vanced age of 1S3.' The kauri pine is undisputed sovereign ot the Australian forest. 2To other tree can approach it In grandeur of proportion or in lmpressiveness, when, as one of a clan. It holds as Its own stretches of country hun dreds of miles in extent. A prophet in Athens, Ga., predicts that the crop yield this year throughout this country will be the largest ever known, but that beginning with 1893, and for two years thereafter, there will be the greatest famine the world has ever known. There are wild dogs in droves, as well as flocks of chickens at large,and on Charles and Chatham Islands thousands of pussy cats, every one of them entirely black, Urve in crevices of lava near the eoast. and get a living by bunting for crabs and fishes. Br. Schliemann found bits of glass in his excavations at Maycense, though Homer does not mention it as a substance known in his time. The most eminent Egyptologers place the date of the first nse of glass at a period too remote to be given in years. At a recent meeting of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society It was stated that apples grown in grass eround will keep longer than the same fruit grown on culti vated land. Late-keeping varieties, there fore, should always bo grown in grass lands. An Austrian provincial paper lately contained the following advertisement: "A widow, who still possesses the entire ward robe of herdeceased husband, is disposed to enter into correspondence with a suitable gentleman, if such can be found, with aTiew tomairinteny." " . in 'the Lake of the "Woods country, which may be described as a wilderness of forest, rock and brushwood, a race of wild dogs have established themselves and are increasinz In numbers so rapidly that fears are entertained that the animals will yet be come troublesome. Since 1885 the course of the river Volga, Bussia, has rapidly been changing until the city of Saratov, once called the "Golden Port of the Volga," is left three miles away from its banks. Saratov is a well-built city of about 123,000 inhabitants. Its trade,which was very large, depended mainly on the river. The average girth of trees in Britain is not more than 12 feet, nor the average height above 60 feet. But in New Zealand there are miles of kauris whose average height is not less than 100 feet and whose girth Is not les3 than 30 teet and 0 feet. The largest kauri yet discovered was 70 feet in girth, and the trunk was 200 feet high. The different county treasurers of Illi nois have paid out in round figures $9,000 as bounty money, under a law allowing 2 cents for the head of each sparrow killed during December, January and February in that State. This shows that about 450,000 spar rows were killed, but the frisky little bird seems more numerous than ever. The sacred scarab, or beetle, of 3ypt, was the "tumble bug," which forms bits of manure into a ball for laying its ezss In. Two individuals, male and female, always .roll tho ball together, and they do this V 1 -t ...... rf Ann.. -In- ,fr f, 14 jnereiy lujrmia jjuijjvao v wuisjuij,, w, safe place and biding it. This Insect was re garded as a symbol of the Creator among the Hindoos, from whom the idea passed into Ejyot, The ball was Imagined to represent the "world, because it was round, and was supposed to be rolled from sunrise to sunset. Even at this day Egyptian women who de sire children eat the beetles for that end. LITTLE BUMOSESQUES. Mrs. PotterWell, I wonder what kept you out an night this timet Jack Foyer I tat up with a sick friend. Mrs. Potter What was his complaint? Mr. Potter He complained that the rut of ns cheated him. Puek. The man who wants to make amends For Ms acknowledged fallings. Who'd like to have a holt of friends. And sUence critics railings. Who fain would make himself secure From Jove's stray lightning flashes. Will shovel off his sidewalk, sore. And sprinkle It with ashes. Somarin Journal. Amy Tonng Mr. Dolley is a very close What a perfectly splendid lover he would make! Smith, Gray Cb.' Monthly. Mrs. Hicksi-How do you suppose Cupid came to pierce my heart? Hicks Shooting for practice, probably. Daaer Sim. It was just as we were starting; And I hope you understand. It was but to break the parting That I let him take my hand. Then he asked me something. Sorely, 1 had meant to answer 'Ho;" Bnt he held my hand securely. And he wouldn't let It go I -Puck. Jinks Ton say there are 26 years be tween you and your wife? There doesn't look tt be that difference In your ages. Breezey-Ob. there Isn't I referred to the length or time we'd been married. Aew IM Btrald. Suitor I trust that your daughter maj not regret her choice. Father-I gaess that she has acquired the pull, osophy of Hobson by this time. Judge. The leap year girl whom oft we see Tlveasy to resist 'er. Perhaps it would be hard were she As pretty as her sister. Wathinatm Star. "The advantage in buying a knife of thl kind." said the salesman persuasively, "Is that! has a good file blade. " "What-aw-ls a ale blade fawr" Inquired Mr Fweddy Olecbap. "For filing your anger nails." MI aw nevah use anything but toe edge of : gold coin for that," said Fweddr, transaxtogth presumptuous talesman ny a cold stare taroas hi eyeglsa. Chicago Trttvnc,- J
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