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THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH, TUESDAY. MARCH 15. 1892.
ESTABLISHED FEBKUART. 8, 1846
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T1X VTION" AND TtOKK.
Many of our readers may be inclined to
criticise some of the details of Mr. Edward
Atkinson's article on "Taxation and
Work," published elsewhere. The classi
fication of the distribution of production
under the head of "rents, profits, interest,
salaries, earnings, wages, stealings and
taxes," is quite liable to evoke dissent,
viewed in the light of scientific classifica
tion. But Mr. Atkinson's main position,
that taxation is an appropriation of a por
tion of the products of industry or work
for the use of the public, and that the
monev raised by it is therefore a trust
fund, is indisputable. '
Mr. Atkinson's computation in this issue
is that the23, 000,000 workers in this nation
produce an average of 1600 each, meas
ured in money value, or a total of 513,
800,000,000. The division cf the pro
ductive force in the various occupations
occupies a considerable portion of his cur
rent article, while a future one will show
the measure of national taxes in terms of
work. As the national expenditures are
about one-twenty-sixth of the whole pro
duction, it is possible to anticipate from
the figures Mr. Atkinson has already given
that the national taxes appropriate an aver
age of eleven and a half days' work from
each worker in the year. This is, of course,
based on the supposition that his data are
correct.
Add to this the proportion of State,
municipal and county taxation, which Mr.
Atkinson estimates to be about equal to
national 'taxation, and it appears that the
average worker must labor nearly four
weeks out of the year to pay the total of
taxation which is drawn from industry.
There could hardly be a more forcible
way of showing the public duty of keep
ing down public expenditures to reasona
ble limits.
FOOLISH RErOBMEE'.
"SVhen will the officious people, who set
themselves up as the reformers of the
world, realize that instead of the end
justifying the means the employment of
doubtful methods is hurtful to any good
cause, and tends strongly to hinder the
progress of true improvement? "We ask
this question after a perusal of the revela
tion of the deceptive tactics of the people
in Philadelphia, as printed elsewhere, who
desire to restiict and lesson liquor-selling
facilities. Thoughtful citizens cannot fail
to be antagonized by systems of arithmetic
which are both fallacious and meretricious.
The scheme is so played out that it could
not fail of detection, and one is obliged to
suppose that folly rather than knavery
was the incentive of the performance.
The people who couple the names of
Law and Order with such ridiculous and
fraudulent actions do more than anyone
else to retard the enlightenment and im
provement of the community. True re
forms can only be secured -by honest
means, and it is high time that this plati
tude should form the basis -of effort
GENCKAIi ALGER'S CASE.
General ft. A. Alger has given publica
tion to the complete documents with re
gard to his leaving his command in the
Shenandoah Valley, in the fall of 1864,about
which a good deal of comment has been
made. The facts are, first, that early in
August, 18G4, General (then Colonel)
Alger sent in his resignation on account of
private reasons, which was ordered ac
cepted by President Lincoln. Learning
of the probability of an active campaign
lie did not presentthe resignation at the
War Department, but went to the Shenan
doah Valley with his regiment
On August 28 he was pronounced by a
surgeon unfit for duty, and left the regi
ment, sending in the application for leave
of absence by the surgeon. This applica
tion was disapproved by General Custer,
but the notice of its disapproval did not
reach General Alger, who had gone to
Washington. The unfavorable reports of
Generals Custer, Menit and Torbert, and
the recommendation that he be dismissed
for absence without leave, were forwarded
to Washington with the indorsement by
General Sheridan: "I have always con
sidered Colonel Alger a good officer, but
cannot excuse his conduct or withhold
my approval of the recommendation of
his immediate officers." But in the mean
time Alger had renewed his resignation,
and the papers were returned by the War
Department with the statement that
Colonel Alger had already been honor
ably discharged.
These are the full facts in the case.
They indicate that there was a lack of
form in Colonel Alger's absence for the
period of three weeks, but explain how he
could have been under the misapprehen
sion that his leave of absence had been
granted. While this irregularity may be
exaggerated by General Alger's enemies,
it is fully offset by the indorsements and
testimonials of Generals Custer, Sheridan
and Meade for Colonel Alger's promotion
on account of his services in the field. By
reason of these recommendations he was
brevetted Brigadier General and Major
General after the close of the war.
This gives a full view of the entire mat
ter impartially stated. The general opin
ion will be that those who unearthed it
have made the discovery of a mare'a nest
THE LAST INFORMATION.
The much mooted question, as . to
whether the Chief of the Depart
ment of Public Safety in Allegheny
was to be prosecuted under the
charges that have been made against him,
was settled yesterday by the filing of
formal informations. Tie charges will
therefore be subject to the test of legal
evidence and the case will necessarily
proceed to the result, either of vindication
or conviction.
In this case, as in the others arising
from the Allegheny disclosures, The Dis
patch can only repeat that the course of
bringing the charges under the action of
an authoritative court is the only proper
one. If the official has been guilty of the
offenses charged, tho public welfare re
quires his conviction and punishment , If
the charges are untrue, his own interest
will best be served by his vindication in a
court of justice.
Wherever charges of official misconduct
or corruption reach a definite and prima
facie form, the courts are the proper place
for either their proof or disproof.
MCNICIPAL EXPANSES COMPARED.
The comparison of municipal expend
itures of other cities with those of Pitts
burg, published in The Dispatch, con
tained one significant point not brought
out as prominently as it deserved. That is
the rate of public expenditure, or taxation,
in proportion to population in other cities
as compared to Pittsburg. The statistics
of but three cities were given Irl that
article on a basis which permits the com
parison to total public expenditures with
those of Pittsburg. These were Buffalo,
Detroit and Cincinnati. It is interesting
to learn that the municipal expenditures
of Buffalo are S15.40 per capita; of Detroit
$10.40, and of Cincinnati $15.50; while the
rate of expenditure fixed by the recently
enacted appropriation ordinance of Pitts
burg is $20.80 per capita.
Returns from other cities do not permit
the comparison of total expenditures, but
give the basis for a comparison of the total
tax levy by millagc. This leaves room for
variations which may make the comparison
inexact; but as 40 per cent of the total ap
propriations in Pittsburg comes from
sources outside the tax levy it is fair to
conclude that other cities generally will
not derive a less proportion of their reve
nue from their millagc. The comparison
shows us that Chicago levies $5,000,000 by
millage, which on her population of 1,100,
000 is less than $5 per capita; Philadelphia
levies by a rate of 8.5 mills on $735,008,000,
a per capita of about $5.50; Milwaukee
levies $12.35 per capita; Minneapolis $16.25,
and Newark $11.77. Two of these cities
exceed Pittsburg's levy of S12 per capita;
but the question whether their other forms
of taxation are equal to ours renders the
comparison doubtful. It is certainly a
matter of interest to Pittsburgers that our
tax levy in proportion to population is
more than double that of either Philadel
phia or Chicago.
These comparisons, together with those
previously made on present taxation with
that of previous years, sufficiently estab
lish The Disi'ATcn's position that city ex
penditures hive grown beyond a reason
able limit. When the people appreciate
the fact sufficiently to correct it at the
polls, the rapid growth of appropriations
will be reversed and not until then.
PROUKEiSlVE CAPITALISTS.
One of the most marked tendencies of
the day is the realization by capitalists
that union is strength. Co-operation has
made, and continues to make, more prog
ress among the giants of finance than in
any other department of life, unless it be
that of the unification of the interests of
labor. That the formation of immense
corporations is frequently contrary to the
common welfare of the race, it is impos
sible to deny. Where the end sought by
the massing together of vast sums of
money is a strength which shall be able
to cripple competition, and secure monop
oly, the movement is directly hostile to
public interests. But the formation of the
"Transatlantic Mortgage and Securities
Trust, Limited," reported in our special
dispatches this morning, while it marks
an epoch from the immensity of its scope,
would seem to be innocuous because its
efforts will be diverse and distributed, and
not concentrated to secure despotism in
any particular industry.
There are several features in the under
taking which mark it as different from
most recent investments of English capital
in bulk in this country. The high stand
ing in the financial world of the backers
on both sides of the Atlantic points to a
sound business basis for the investment
The international nature of the Trust
shows that it is not an attempt of diamond
to cut diamond, and that moneyed English
men have learnt the necessity of utilizing
American knowledge of American affairs.
The vastness of the combination, .the
variety of its efforts and the ubiquity of
its interests will make it the subject of
much interested attention. If there should
be any attempt to act against the law by
the creation of monopolies, recent events
warrant the assumption that the law will
know what to do and will hesitate less
than it has done in the past.
A NEGATIVE ROAD BILL.
The vitality of the -agitation for good
roads is demonstrated by the fact that the
New York Legis'ature has a bill before it
for facilitating that work. It is satisfactory
that the necessity of work of this sort is
recognized; but otherwise the bill is a
very good example of what legislation of
tliis, sort ought not to be.
The whole work of building State roads
is to be placed in the hands of a commis
sion which will have the pleasure of
spending $10,'000,000 if the. people vote in
favor of a loan of that amount The only
check in the action of this commission is
the professional advice of the State Engi
neer. The part which local communities
are to have in the work, which should be
largely their own, is to appeal to the
Supreme Court if the line of road selected
by the commission does not suit them.
The State roads are to be built to con
nect county seats and places of greater
importance, which, as these points are
usually connected with each other by
railroads, is very nearly what is not
wanted. The measure of negative quali
ties is suggested by the fact that the sum
maries of the bill contain no intimation of
a standard of excellence or durability re
quired on the roads to be constructed un
der this act Until a more complete un
derstanding of the needs of the road
question is attained than is revealed by
this act, it would be better to continue the
public discussion and postpone legislative
action.
A WEAK VINDICATION.
Our esteemed cotemporary, the Phila
delphia Record, displays a decided disposi
tion to lean its advocacy of the Reading
deal on a very frail foundation when it
refers to the late action of the New Jersey
Legislature as a vindication of that com
bination. It might just as well have as
serted that the deal would be vindicated
by the Pennsylvania Legislature after
the right people had been seen.
New Jersey legislation has for several
years past been notoriously at the service
of every monopoly in need of it It hate
furnished broad gauge charters for the ex
press purpose of offering a haven for
Trusts that had been declared illegal by
courts where the public rights of the
people are held of some value, and has
furnished to order almost all kinds of
special legislation called for by railway
corporations. We believe that'the revenue
derived by the State for thus playing the.
valet to the combinations amounts to some
thousands of dollars per year; but what
the revenue to the politicians who run
the Legislature we would not undertake
to say. As the passage of this bill was
marked by the same vote of a solid cohort
as in the big grabs recently passed in New
York, we may rest assured the owners of
the .New Jersey Legislature are not op
crating their well disciplined forces In the
interest of the combinations merely for
the fun of the thing. 1
The combination should complete its
record by getting a judicial decision from
that light of the bench and New Jersey
politics, Hugg, of Gloucester, sanctioning
the combination. Hugg's indorsement
would be just as convincing as the New
Jersey Legislature's, and might come con
siderably cheaper.
While there i,s a strong demand- for the
exclusion of the Chinese laborer, as the only
effective means of depriving selfish, em
ployers of his cheap eervtce3, common
jnstice demands that a Chinaman who has
established commercial Interests In this
country1 should be allowed to attend to them,
and not be deprived of Ills right to go and
come at bis pleasure. For this reason the
recent decision of tho United States Supreme
Court, In the caso of Lew Ow Bew, cannot
fail to slvo the satisfaction which always.at
tend Its rulings.
Ojte main use of Presidenjal aspiration
Is to ufford recreative matter for discussion
among tho hardworking Scnatois during
their well-earned leisure moments.
Gathf.h wisdom where ye may, and
Judge It apart from the heresies held by
those who occasionally give utterance to it.
Cleveland 1s hopelessly astray on tho tariff
question, but lew truer word3 have been
written than some of his to the Honorable
E. S. Brajganen; candidacy for the Presi
dentn'r office. Many men in whose bonnet
the hoe Is now loudly buzzing would do well
to realize that their "candidacy for the place
is not something to bo won by personal stiile
and active self-assertion."
OvERrnoDDGTioic has caused a glut in
tho iron market, but still armor plates can
not keep pace with the Government de
mands. This it food for thought.
TnEKE can be no doubt that American
citizenship has in the past been obtained
under circumstances disgraceful alike to the
persons applying for and the officials grant
ing the same. But while there is reason to
believe there is room for more restrictions
of a useful nature, tho chief end to be sought
is tbestrict and unflinching administration
of law, rather than new legislation which
may be evaded in the same slipshod fashion.
The force of habit is well shown by the
perpetiial alarmist tumors iTs to Blaine's
health, notwithstanding his withdrawal
from the Prebidental contest.
"What fools these mortals be!" The
paper which lays claim to the leadership of
the English press publishes a letter purport
ing to convey the expression of American
feeling toward England in most belligerent
language, and its authorship is traced to the
precocity of a yOuth of 15 years. The Times,
of Txmdon, has lang lost its reputation for
reliability, and this should make it the
laughing stock of nations.
General Alger has spared no effort to
clear his military record, but he preserves a
very ominous silence on the subject of that
Diamond match monopoly.
Captaix Felix McCtjbley and Lieu
tenant McKintosh will In future avoid break
waters In their anxiety to make short cuts.
The United States war ship Alliance is not
particularly valuable, and if its back De
broken there will bnt be the more demand
for efficient cruisers. It is pleasant to hear
.that there was no backwardness in the
timeiy ueip given uy me ui msn sauors.
Kaiser Wilhelm talks much of adopt
ing "ii on measures." They would appear to
be necessary to upport his brazen utter
ances. Men whose ingenuity is devoted to the
discovery of methods for the evasion of the
Baker ballot law show their desire for poli
tical purity in a strange way by publishing
their discoveries for the benefit of anyone
who cares to make use of them.
For autocratic utterance', sublime in
their self-centered vanity, Kaiser Wilhelm
has a formidable rival in John L. Sullivan.
The War Department cannot do better
than thoroughly investigate the charges
against Captain Bourke. So long as they
remain unrefuted they cast reproach upon
tho officer himself and through him on the
military service.
Sand should never be mixed with sugar
except In the matrimonial market, wheie it
is permissible to blend sweetness and grit. '
The Law and Order spies in Philadelphia
are worrying illegal liquor sellers instead of
newsagents. The exposure oftheirmethods
elsewhere in this issuo, however, will not
elevate them in public opinion abovo their
brethren here.
It is eminently appropriate that Fred
Douglass should have the management of
Honolulu's interests at tho World's'Fair.
Claus Spreckels stands alone in op
position to the Sugar Trust in this country.
By his independent action ho best serves his
own interests, and demonstrates his faith in
monopoly's lack, of omnipotence.
"Birds of a feather flock together," and
there is still plenty of room in the Allegheny
county Jail.
The publication of President Harrison's
speeches should contain a few of the occa
sions on which ho has failed to live up to his
strong pre-Presidental utterances on Civil
Service reform:
The proper way to speak of the millen
nium is to say that It lsa good time coming.
Senator Hill Is not using a private car
for his Southern tour, bnt he did not hesi
tate to order a special locomotive for his
speeches when they were In danger of being
left.
A live wire js so called because it is fre
quently tho cause of sudden death.
NoinnrGould more clearly indicate the
German Emperor's attitude toward hi sub
jects than that Inclination to draw his
sword in the midst of an insulting mob.
According to Tupper appears to mean
less in Canada than elsewhere.
'AN JBDICI AGAINST BEABDS.
Employes or Two Boston Hotels Obey an
Order to Shavo Themselves. '
Bostoit, March It An air of hairless
solemnity prevades tho Parker House and
Young's Hotel. J. Beed Wipple, proprietor
of both houses, yesterday had bis mustache
shaved off, and then issued a ukase, which
was sent out to all employes of his hotels
this morning. The result was that after 10
o'clock Chore was not a waiter in either house
bad a mustache or beard. The handsome
barkeeper in the basement of the Parker,
whose mnstache bad been the chief orna
ment of that room, feels that his dearest pos
session is gone, while Fred Purmont, the
clerk, Is soon to lose the decoration which
has only been brought to Us present high
state of beauty by years of cultivation and
attention.
'Well Done, Franklin Baptists.
Frahkliw, Pa., March 11 The Baptist
Church of Franklin, 'or which Bev. Dr.
Clarence A. Aumi is pastor, raised yester-
day"$4SS.e7 fr the Russian famine suf
ferers.'
LIVE WASHINGTON WAIFS.
.
A Chinese Merchant Wins a Case In the
Supreme Conrl Ben Butler Also a Win
nerProposed Change of the Natural
ization Laws Charges Against Uncle
Sam's Soldiers.
Washington, March 14. Lou Ow Bew
can remain inhe United States. The United
States Supreme Court so ruled, to-day, in an
opinion Tendered by Chief Justice Fuller,
which directed tho judgment of the United
States Circuit Court for the Northern district
of California affirmed by the newly created
Circuit Court or Appeals for the Pacific cir
cuit, ordering that Lou Ow Bew be deported
from the United States and returned to
China bo reversed.' Lou Ow Bewis a Chinese
merchant of Portland, Ore, who went to
China on a visit, and when he returned to
San Francisco was 1 efused permission to re
main in the United States because he had
failed to secure the certificate of Identifica
tion required by the sixth section of the
Chinese restriction act to be obtained from
the Chinese Government by merchants and
others coming to the' United States. The
United States Courts in California affirming
the legality of the Collector's action, Lou
Ow Bew brought the'mattcr here on habeas
corpus proceedings. The Court, in its opin
ion, after speaking of the rights and obliga
tions which persons assume by reason of
domicile in a foreign country, says it is of
opinion that it was not intended that com
mercial domicile should be forfeited by
temporal? absence at tho domicile of origin,
nor that resident merchants should be sub
jected to loss of rights guaranteed by treaty
ir they failed to produco from the domicile
of origin that evidence which residence in
the domicile of choice may have rendered it
difficult, if not impossible, to obtain. As Lou
Ow Bow is unlawfully restrained of his lib
citv, tho Court directed the lower court to
reverse its judgment and discharge him
from custody.
On October 1, 1886, the postoffice at Chad
ron. Neb., was raised from the fourth class,
at $1,000, to the Presidental class at $1,3.
William Wilson, tho postmaster, was not
commissioned by tho President until Jan
uary 25, 18S7. Tho postmaster claims he was
entitled to pay at the Increased rate from
the date the office was raised in grade, while
the Treasury accounting officers maintained
that the incieased compensation ran only
Irom the date of Wilson's commission by
the President. The Court of Claims decided
in favor of Wilson, for $193, and the Supreme
Court to-day affirmed tuat decision.
General Benjamin F. Butler to-day
won the appeal which he took from tho de
cision ot the Circuit Court of the United
States Tor the Eastern district of Massachu
setts, affirming a Judgment for $15,000 and in
terest Horn 1S7H, obtained against him in one
of the Massachusetts courts by the National
Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.
Representative Oates, from the
Judiciary Committee of the House, to-day
submitted the report to accompany the bill
to change the naturalization laws. It recites
the shameful and Illegal manner in which
aliens have been naturalized in many parts
of this country, and declares that Congress
should make laws to amply protect the
states against the citizenation of criminals,
paupers, anarchists and aliens. The name
American cltizenjtays the report.in closing,
should be esteemed as that of a Roman when
Home was mistress of the woild. Such prido
can never be lelt by our foreign-born citi
zens until the piocess of conferring this
great boon upon him is attended with great
solemnity and scrutinized more closely than
at present.
General Schofield said to-day that
the War Department will undoubtedly in
vestigate the charges prefeired by certain
Mexican residents of Texas against Captain
John C. Boutke, Third Cavalry, growing out
of his conduct of the campaign against the
Garza revolutionists. The allegations
against Captain Bourke are that he allowed
bis troops to commit depredations on the
ranches of certain Mexicans along the Rio
Grande because of a suspicion that they
were conniving at the escape of the revolu
tionists. It also appears that certain Mexi
cans who visited San Antonio to complain of
Captain Bourke's acts wore arrested by the
civil authorities, but were subsequently re
leased on bonds.
The project for a. deep water channel
through the connecting waters of the Great
Lakes has practically received the approval
of the majority of the House Committee on
Rivers and Harbors, which is framing the
regular river and hurbor bill. The amount
of the appropriation has not yet been fixed.
A hill was to-day introduced in the
Senate, by Senator Allison, to compel rail
roads to equip their cars with automatic
couplets within a certain time. The bill
makes it unlawful for any railroads to use
cars not so equipped, and imposes fines for
violations of the act. It further provides
that the standard coupler shall be decided
by a letter ballot of all tho railroads, sent to
the Inter-State Commerce Commission by
July 2 next. The votes shall be based upon
the number of ireight cars owned by each
line, and the type ot coupler receiving CO per
cent or more of the entile vote shall he tho
standard type of coupler. If the roads Jail
to establish a standard type, then the type
shall be that known as the Master Car Build
ers' type.
The confirmations by the' Senate to-day
were as follows: Judges of Probate in Utah
Isaac Button, In Uintah county; James
McGarry, Beaver county; Daniel Page. Iron
county; C C Veille, Millard county; Lars P.
Edholm, Morgan county. W. A. Kelly, of
Oiegon, Commissioner for the District of
'Alaska.
The House Committee on Reform in the
Civil Service to-day agreed to report favor
ably, with immaterial modifications, Mr.
Andrew's bill to exclude political influence
in the employment of laboters under tho
authority of the United States.
TnivSenate Committee on the Judiciary
to-day leported to tho Senate all of tho
judicial nominations, including tho nomina
tion of Judge Woods, of Indiana, with the
recommendation that they be confirmed.
Chairman Hoar was present at the commit
tee meeting for the first time in soveral
weeks, and himself presented the roport.
The nominations of the ciicuit judges were
not considered bv the Senate in executive
session, to-day. Under the rules they went
over for a day without action. They will
probably bo called np to-morrow, unless
something unforeseen occurs.
FAY0EITES OP FAME.
Prof. Arthur Fairbanks, who has
been called from Dartmouth to Yale, Is to be
an instructor In the Divinity School.
Dr. Edward Everett Hale is one of
these pamphlet collectors. Ho keeps them
in a series of baskets suspended by rope and
pulley from the beams iu the celling of his
study.
The late Henry Doyle, Director General
of tho National Gallery of Iieland, was one
of those rare connoisseurs who know a good
painting when they scoit, regardless of the
name before the pinxit.
M. DE LiESSeps, though in comparatively
good physical health, has become so en
feebled in mind that he hardly recognizes
his oldest' friends, and is quite Incapable of
sustaining a conversation.
G. P. A. Healt, the portrait painter, is
passing his time while In Chicago at a family
hotel, where he appears in the corridors
clad in a loose-fitting suit oT black, and
wearing steel-rimmed spectacles.
Prince CHlMAY.the well-known Belgian
Minister of Foieign Affairs, intends to re
sign his place, it is said, at the end of the
present session of Parliament. He has been
at the head of the Belgian Ministry for many
years.
PEOF. Story, the Chicago spelling re
former, whose cause Senator Cullom is cham
pioning, thinks that though it will be diffi
cult for most people to acquire the now
system the next generation will have no
trouble about it. - 1
The Rev. J. Sanders Reed, 'who 'went to
the Pacific coast in December, 1889, from
Trinity Church, Newark, Ni J., to take
charge of Trinity, San Francisco, during the
first year or his Incumbency, raised the in
come over $10,000.
Secretary Noble and Senator Hiscock
resemble each other to a marked degree.
Mr. Noble holds himself very straight and is
prim, to a nicety In the matter f dress, while
Mr. HUcock slouches about In a listless
fashion, .wears negligee necktie 3 and a half-
bAtoned vest.
OUR MAIL POUCH.
The Smoke Nuisance Downtown.
To the Editor of The Dispatch: '
The other day I was waiting in an office on
the eighth floor of a certain bffllding down
town and idly looking out of the window at
the roofs below. My attention was drawn
to a smoke stack on a business block a
square away. The stack began emitting
black smoke, steadily increasing in volume
until it burst forth in great rolling clouds,
'swelling and changing into grotesque, horri
ble forms and seemed like some great giant
menacing the buildings below. Fascinated,
I watched the ever changing specter for
five minutes, when the smoke began to
lessen in volume and gradually disappeared,
leaving tho stack an innocent looking black
pipe. I turned.-und in the same square was
another stack going through the same oper
ation, its great clouds of smoke, inky black,
settling down upon the buildings beneath.
It snbslded in its turn, but upon the build
ing next to it was another ambitions stack
which eagerly contributed Its share of
smoke In precisely the same manner.
These last two stacks seemed to have en
tered into some arrangement, formed a
smoke trust perhaps, for during the houI
watched, which was, by the way, from 11 A.
v. to 12, one or the other of them was emit
ting smoke in dense volumes all the time.
In the same square I counted six or more
stacks and chimneys working in this inter
mittent manner all the time, having some
thing like ten minutes' action and then ten
minutes of repose.
While there maybe grave objections to
the use of smoke consumers in tho manu
factuie of Iron, as was pointed out In tho
meeting of the Engineers Seclety last
month, there can scarcely be such objections
in the case of such fires as have been re
ferrd to above, for the smoke was from the
boilers in large business blocks. It would
seem apparent to anyone that if all tbe
uuoiucita uiuvtu ui tne city were couipeiieu,
to use some smoke consuming device, not
only would there be a great saving in fuel to
the consumers, but moro than that, a great
stride in the abatement of tho smoke
nuisancn would be taken, for these stacks,
being in the heart of the citv, are so situated
that their smoke has full effect upon the at
mosphere and buildings, whereas the stacks
of iron mills are for the most part removed
to some out-lying suburb, wheie the smoke
does not have the effect it would at close
quarters.
The importance of having the stacks of
all business blocks smokeless is hardly real
ized, because one naturally thinks the smoke
from them is comparatively trifling. But if
anyone doubts let him go to the top of some
high building, use his eyes and be con
vinced. S.
PITT3BDBO, Pa., March 14.
HIS HESVE IS HIS FOSTTJBE.
How a Bear Speculator Cleared a Million on
Short Wheat.
Chicago Inter-Ocean.3
Ed Pardrldge, the bear speculator, Is with
out doubt the heaviest trader on the short
side that the world has ever seen. He is a
porsistent bear on wheat and has stayed on
that side when all the rest of the speulators
wet-o bullish and waiting to scare him into
covering his shorts. There have been
times of lato when it required nerve
and money to stand short, but iie bad both,
and has been nearer right on the speculative
situation than any other trader, and at the
same time has bet his monev freely. There
have been times when his line ran up into
the millions, when an advance of 1 cent
would mean the loss "of a fortune. The sit
uation has been such, however,that by hold
ing on things came his way and he got out
all right.
The wheat market has suffered of late by
the belief that there is too mbch wheat in
the country. This opinion was greatly in
creased by the publication of the Govern
ment crop report on Thursday showing re
serves in faimers' hands on March 1 of 171.
000,010 bnshels. a quantity never before ap
proached but once, in 18S4, when Un
reached 169,000,000 bushels. Oflate the local
bulls have gradually let go their holdings,v
having lost all the money they cared to.
The only large holders of wheat now
are said to be the foreigners,
and they are beginning to show
demoralization, and the unloading enables
Mr. Pardrldge to cover his shorts at a big
profit. Every day the past week, since the
price of wheat commenced to decline, Pard
lidge has lost heavily, but on the bleaks he
bought. On Thursday he took in several
million bushels. H" admitted yesterday
that he had bought 2,000,000 bushels on Fri
day and as much more esterday.
"I am gradually reducing my line," he
said, "and have made n great lcllIHg."
"You must have made over$7C0.000 oflate."
"I hayo made a great-deal of money, more.
tnan at nny otner time in my me. 1 guess
the profits will be more and I think wheat
will go lower still unless there is damage tb
the crop by cold weather."
PATH'S TEOUBLE WITH SCALCHI
Due to a Little Misunderstanding, the Two
Had While In Mexico.
New York, March 14. Special. Madame
Scalchi uas not well this morning and could
not be seen, but Signor Lolli, her husband,
assured callers that no quatiel had ever oc
curred between his wife and Patti; that
Madame Scalchi had the most unbounded
admiration for Patti, and the last time they
sang together they parted the best of friends
and that Madame Scalhi was as greatly sur
prised as any one when Messrs. Abbey and
Grau offeied to pay her for the supplement
ary season without availing themselves of
her services for which a contract was signed.
"My wife." said Signor Lolli, "refused to
tako her s,ilary without singing. She feels
very badly that any mUnndei standing
should exist. For the sake of Messr. Abbey
and Grau, with whom she is on the best of
terms, and out of consideration for her
womanly dignity, she absolutely refuses to
tell the reason for her contract being
broken. It my wife felt that she bad in any
way done a thing to offend Patti she would
be the first to apologize
The little aflalrwhichis the alleged reason
given by Patti for not wishing my wife to
sing with her, occurred in Mexico, and since
then they have sung, nnd, as I said, parted
good friends and my wife was utterly ignor
ant of the fact that Patti entertained any 111
feeling toward her till I was told it by the
management last week. It seems the last
night thuy sang together in Mexico "thoy
wero called before tho curtain several
times, and Madame Patti says that in hand
ing a bouquet to her Madame Scalchi
scratched her arm. That is all there is
is about it."
Senor Lolli said that Madame Scalchi had
several important concert engagements and
that they should lemaiu in this country till
the middle of May. ,
SWIFTS NEWLT FOUND COMET.
It Looks Much Like' a Blnrred Star of the
Fifth Magnitude.
.San Fkaucisco, March 14. E. E. Barnard,
of Lick Observatory, makes the following
report on Swift's new comet: "I observed
the comet on the mornings of March 8, 9 and
10, and liave'care fully measured Its position
among the stars. To the naked eyo it ap
pears like a blurred star of fifth or sixth
magnitude without any tail. As it is pass
ing now through a singularly bleak region
of sky, to" the east of the milk dipper in
Sagittarius. It can be easily identified.
"Just now it is not known whether tho
comet will become brighter or not. If it has
not yet leached its perihelion we may ex
pect it to be a conspicuous object in the
morning sky after the withdrawal of the
moon in tho latter part of the month. A
small telescope shows a faint tail to it; with
a large telescope the comet is round and
bright, with a rather small, insignificant
nncleus of the eleventh magnitude. It is
visible'to the naked eye more from Its large
size than from any special brightness."
SO WOMEN NEED APPLY.
The Philadelphia Methodist Conference
Says They Cannot Be Delegates.
Philadelphia, March 14. A vote was taken
without discussion on the question of ad
mitting women to the general conference at
to-day's session or the Philadelphia .Metho
dist Episcopal Conference", which resulted
in the defeat of the proposition to admit
them by a vote of 101 yeas to 106 nays, many
or the ministers not voting.
Resolutions commending the work or
Captain B, IL Pratt, of the Indian school at
Carlisle, were offeied, nith a protest against
unfair discrimination against him by Con
gressional action as a great injustice to a
laithful public servant and well calculated
to excite alarm In the minds of all who hope
to see the principles of the separation of
Church and State maintained. The resolu
tions were unanimously adopted by a rising
vote.
A Pertinent Inquiry.
Toledo Blade.
A Judge in Pittsburg has decided that the
saleofSnnday newspapers is not a work of
necessity. The publishers do not intend to
give them away, and if It be not a necessity
to sell them how else can the readers get
themt An appeal to the Supreme Court will
ha fnVan aa ft rirtrflf Via
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A CROWDED HOUSE
Greets the German Court Musician! Re
publican America Likes Their Muslo
and Is Not Loath to Say So A Few
Monday Doings of Interest.
Old City Hall was almost soul inspir
ing last night; for so large an audience as
Messrs. Alfred and Helnricli Grunfeld
attracted there is but an occasional event
In these days. Only a few vacant
seats were discernible1 in the rear of
the hall and even those could have
been filled by tDe numerous lingerers
about the door. The notable brothers,
who appeared here for the first time, were
greeted warmly, and, as the evening passed
on, with Increasing enthusiasm. The pro
gramme opened with a Beethoven sonata,
op. 69, ror the piano and cello in four
movements, thus Introducing the two mu
sicians at the same time to the Pittsburg
public, and otherwise giving them an oppor
tunity to display a quite remarkable versa
tility. After the opening number, which
made an agreeable impression, at once win
ning the favor or the audience, the suc
ceeding three numbers employed the powers
or tho pianist, Alfred Grunfeld. These
three numbers lengthened themselves Into
nine selections from themes of the com
posers, Beethoven, Wagner, Liszt, in collab
oration, Moliquc, Moszkowski, Schumann
and one of the player's own compositions
a most delightful series of Hungarian
dances. Then Helnricli Grunfeld made his
bow in solo in one of bis brother's composi
tions, a romanze, followed by Baceherinl's
charming "Menuetto." , Tho last was lis
tened to with supreme attention.and proved
to be probably the most generally well re
ceived piece of the evening. Mr. Grunfeld
had so won his way into tho approbation of
the mnsical taste of tho andience.that even a
third selection, this time Popper's "bits"
did not suffice, and an imperative recall
brought forth the mnsiclan, bowing and
smiling, with his cello to respond to an en
core. The concluding number was devoted to
tne piano, Mr. Alfred Grunfeld presenting
two compositions or his own a serenade in
B major and a minuetto, ending with a fan
tasie written by him on motives from
"Lohengrin" and "Tannhau3er."
TnE "Woman's Christian Temperance Al
liance has secured General D. IL Hastings
for a lecture on the Johnstown flood at the
Old City Hall on Friday evening. It is a
subject with which he is yerv familiar and
one which he can make very "interesting. A
large delegation of Johnstown people Is ex
pected to be present, and a number of those
who gave timeandmoneyfor the relief ortho
sufferer? will occupy seats on tho platform.
General Hastings gives his services free to
the alliance, which will devote the proceeds
of the lectnre toward sending men to Keeley
ror treatment. The society has already
sent ten men there, and all the cases are re
ported to be progressing satisfactorily.
Rev. Mary Lathhop, President of the
Michigan State W. C; T. U deliverod her
flrstMectme in this vicinity In tho Wllkins
bnrg Presbyterian Church last evening.
There was a good attendance, though it
probably would have been larger had not a
mistaken" impression gone abroad that the
speaker t as to be heard on Monday evening
in Emory Church. Mrs. Lathropl: a large,
fine-looking woman, with a pleasant race and
a sweet and powerful voice. She is perfectly
at her ease on the platform, and drives her
sentences home with tne assurance and
vigor of one who believes herself to hold an
unassailable position in the matter under
discussion. The subject or her address was
"Divine Government." She referred to the
osophy as the first government of the world,
and traced the customs or the people from
the time when man was in direct intercourse
with God, to the present, when monarchies
pievail and democracy threatens. Before
the lecture Mrs. Lathrop, in
conversation, said of the License
Court that "it is only a result or
a great crime intrenched In government."
Mrs. Lathrop Is known in W. C. T. IT. circles
as the Daniel Webster or the temperance
reform, in compliment to her fluency and
clearness as a speaker. Tim lecture was un
der the auspices of the Wilkinsburg W. c. T.
U., and was de'ivcred free, the ladles of
WllklnsDurg defraying all expenses. Mrs.
Lathrop will lecture in the Emory M. E.
Cbnrch this evening.
The delayed meeting of the "Wilkinv
burg Chautauqua Circle will be held this
evening at the residence of Mr. Walter Keat
ing, Rebecca street. Mrs. Lathrop's lecture
was given the first place on Monday evon
lng and the meeting" postponed until to
night. A lecture, "The Uses of Ugliness,"
.will be. delivered next Mondny evening in
the Wilkinsbnrg Presbyterian' Church by
the Rev. Mr. Miller.
"Handy Asdy," a comedy, is to be
given on Thursday evening St. Patrick's
Day In the Wilkinsburr Oppra House for
the benefit of St. James' R. C. Church.
A DISTRICT meeting of the Allegheny
county W. C. T. U. was held In the Smitli
fleld Street Jit E. Church yesterday after
noon to complete arrangements for the
lecture of Lady Henry Somerset at Old City
Hall next Thursday evening. The meeting
was called to order with Mrs. Brice lathe
chair. It was decided to ex ten d invitations to
the following persons to occupy seats on the
platform: Rev. Messrs. Havs. McCrory,
Turner, Hill and Locke, Mrs. Hill. Mrs. Malr,
the officers of the.W. C. T. U. and the May
ors of Pittsburg and Allegheny. The fol
lowing committees were appointed: Hotel
Committee, Mrs. -Grimm and 3Irs. Ravnor;
Finance Committee, Mrs. Cadiz, Mrs." Gra
ham. Mrs. Morrison, Mrs. Brown, Mrs. Foster
and Mrs. Harris. Mrs. Boster was appointed
Cnalrman of a Committee on Collections.
Ladv Henry Somerset will arrive in the city
on Thursday morning.
The Presbyterian Union cf Pittsburg
and Allegheny will give a reception to its
membership and their Iriends on next 3Ion-
day evening at the Hotel Kenmawr. During
the early part of the evening, which will
be devoted to tbe literary phase
or ecclesiastical matters, the themes
under discussion are announced to
be "Incidents or Presbyterinnism in
Western Pennsvlvania," and "The Out
look or Prcsbyterianlsm in This locality."
The speakers will be notable Presbyterian
clergymen or this part or the State, includ
ing President Dr. Moffat, of Washington
and Jefferson College, Dr. Cowan, Dr. Mc
Clelland and Dr. Gibson. The evening will
close with a reception and dinner.
The Sisters of Charity at Seton Hall,
Greensburg, have issued invitations for an
afternoon with their pupils on St. Joseph's
Day, Saturday, March 19.
MRS. J. H. IiTGHTNER will give a chil
dren's festival in Lightner'aHallon Wednes
day evening. ,
TALK OP THE TIMES.
Is there such a thing as a boom microbe?
Washington Star. Yes; and it is multiplying,
itself very rapidly.
It is much pleasanter to read, about the
blizzard of this year than it was to experi
ence that or-vrour years ago. yew York
World. That's what tho people think, but
thej- have to take comfort in reading that It
is colder somewhere else.
The Chicago City Council seems to have
lost tho art or feeling ashamed of itself.
Chicago Kern. This an art that all Councils
seem to lose very readily.
Boston's running expenses for the Inst
nine months amounted to nearly $21,000,000.
Boston News. Boston comes high, but it
would be simply impossible to carry on this
country without Boston.
"Will Candidate Hill declare himself on sli
ver and other things on Mccklenbnrg
Declaration day down in North Carolina?
J'omona Timet. Not unless some one can
hypnotize him. He is not given to making
rash assertions. -
' The trouble with the dark horse is that he
is frequently um-overed too early in tho
gamer-Washington Post. None of them this
year have had any covers to tako off, and
none or them aro traveling toward the
White House, incognito. '
.The British lion seems to be laboring un
der the impression that somebody is trying
to twist his tail. Boston Herald. It Is a case
of perturbed conscience, probably.
Central Methodists for Prohibition.
York, March 14. At the Central Pennsyl
vania Methodists' Hpiscopal Conference to
day, the report of the Prohibition Commit
tee on Sunday observance was presented.
It requests tbe closing or tho Chicago Col
umbian Exhibition Sunday, and aUo pro
tests against tbe sale of Intoxicating liquor
on the Exposition grounds. It favors pro
hibition generally, and Invokes the aid and
support of tho conference In its behalf.
Bishop Andrews was presiding and sug
gested an amendment favoring the entire
abolition or tbe liquor traffic, which, on mo
tion- was aaopreo.
CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS.
The kaj'ak of the Arctic region is the
most seaworthy small boat In existence.
The" tusks of the walrus and seahorse
form bnt a small part of the world's ivory
product.
The name of the Postmaster General of
Slam is Lomdetch Phra Chon Nong Ya Thor
Shah Fa Bahaumangsi Swanguvusga Kooma
Araph Bhaunbbaddaroongasee Vavadey.
Captain Baker, an engineer in the
Britisn service, published a book in 1877
which clearly proved, to his mind at least,
that the end or tbe world would come on
September 20, 1878.
A "Washington man has mounted a
strange shaped deer head. It is said to be a
cross between a cariboo and a blacktail. It
presents a novel appearance, being different
from the ordinary deer head.
Portland, Ore., used to be quite a center
for collecting furs, but year by year, as the
country is settled up, the fur-bearing ani
mals grow more scarce and the amount of
furs marketed here become less.
A Marion county, la., physician is the
owner of a remarkable human monstrosity,
a male child, IS inches long, weighing nine
and one-half pounds, its head the perfect
counterpart of that of some gigantic serpent.
In 18S9 a man walking along Crescent
Beach, Block Island, discovered the hip
bones of some gigantic species of extinct
animal. The combined weight or the two
bones (generally speaking, the sacrum is
called a single bone), was nearly S0O pounds.
The hydraulic railroad now daily
operated in Paris consists of fonr carriages,
or car, each having a .capacity of 23 passen
gers. The train runs as smoothly as a boat
on water. There are no wheels.no steam,
no electricity. Apparently everything
moves of own accord.
In a cave in the Pantheon the guide, by
striking the flaps of his coat, makes a noise
equal to that pipduced by firing a 12-pound
cannon. In the cave oCSmellln, near Viborg,
Finland, a stone thrown down a certain
abyss makes a reverberating echo which
sounds like the dying wait of some wild
animal.
The coldest region-in the United States
lies along the northern border of Minne
sota, between the sontbern point or the
Lake or the Woods and tho Dakota bor
der. "Tho temperature along that line often
falls as low as 50 degrees below zero. In
1S73 the instruments at Pembina registered
from 5G to 60 below.
William Miller, the founder of Seventh
Day Adventist faith, figured on tbe prophe
cies or Daniel and John until he finally
decided that tbe world wonld cone to an
end iu 1S43. Some or his followers had even
selected the day upon which the great event
would occur, going so far as to make "ascen
sion robes" for the occasion.
There are about 6,000 varieties of post
age stamps now used by the different nations
of the world. Tne mnseum of the Berlin
postoffice alone contains a collection of be
tween 4,000 and 5,0',0 different specimens of
these llttlo colored pasters. Half of this
number are European stamps, the remainder
divided between AmericaAsia, Africa and
Australia.
A section of roadway under the gate
leading to the departure platform of the St.
Pancras terminus, London, has for some
years past been paved with India rubber,
and many people must have been pleas
antly surprised at the deadening of sound
when passing over it on wheels and at the
grateful elasticity to the tread when travers
ing it on foot.
One of the hottest regions in the United
States is along the line of the Southern Pacific
Railroad in Arizonia. At Bagdad, in that
Territory, the thermometer has been known
to stand as high as HO in tho shade lor days
in succession. The ticket agent at Bagdad
says that he has seen the mercury standing
at 123 bn the cool side of the depot building
at midnight.
In many countries of the world, most
especially in England, France and Ger
many, not only tho peasants, but the mid
dle classes and the nobles believe that bees
are enrionsly and mysterionrly connected
with the weal or woe or tho human family
in general. It is a common saying in all the
English shires that bees do not "do well'
when tbe red coats are engaged in wars
abroad.
A "good eater" may require a3 many as
30 ears to carry luggage for the inner man
sufficient to last his lifetime, but what those
people1 would require who are always
hungry, nnd" whose stomachs are, to all in
tents and purposes, bottomless pits, the
statistician is unable to indicate further
than by pointing out that not only special
engines, but probably special lines, would
have to be built on which their "special"
trains might run at will.
If one potato would produce, when
planted, only a crop of ten potatoes, in ten
years the total product of this one potato
would be equal to 10.000,000,030, which would
be sufficient to restock the whole world with
the seed. The real value of that single
potato, then, would be such that it would be
better that the city of Sew York or Chicago
(Philadelphia never) should be totally
blotted off of the face of the world than that
one tuber should be lost to mankind.
The Victoria Colonist says there arrived
in town five young men who are all sons of
Northern Indian chiefo. Three of them are
skilled Jewelers, and all have with them
large stocks of native trinkets, costly and
otherwise. They have brought down, in ad
dition to their ordinary goods, a new style of
Indian ring, which recently seemed to be
tho cause of a great deal of curiosity and ad
miration among their friends on tho reserva
tion. The innovation consists of a plaited
circle of silver and bear skin.
A Detroit man has a novel walking cane
that represents the workof odd hours every
day for six weeks. It is made or old postage
stamps or various denominations and six
nationalities United States. Canadian, Eng
lish, French, German and Italian. It took
5 014 stamps to make the cane. The face
value or tne stamps was $100. Tho surface of
the cane, when the stumps were all on, was
filed smooth and finished until it glazed. A
heavy gold knob completes one or the hand
tomcat and most unique canes ever seen In
Detroit.
LIGHT nUaiOKESQUES.
She (despairingly) My family was al
ways economical, and I am a living example.
He (sympatlieilc)-Iudeed! How so? v
She I was born on Christmas day, and my birth
dav and Christmas presents have been always com
bined. Ilarper's Baiar.
I'm glad it is Lent, for there's no meat to
buy.
And I have a chance to pile np some wealth;
Since Christmas on the rent lam shy.
And to move would not agree with my health.
Somerset Sews,
"My father's an Odd Fellow I" boasted a
little boy.
"My father's a Free Mason!" replied the other;
"an that's higher, for the hod fellows wait on tho
masons." Smith, Gray'& Co.'t Monthly.
"Miss Bullion is very mercurial," re
marked Harlow as she passed them by.
"I should say so," answered BlDgham. "A reg
ular thermometer. In the summer time she was as
pleasant to me as could be when I met her In the
mountains, and now In the city she passes me by as
thoogh she were rrozen." Harper's Bazar.
She loved him "just a little" so she said
And with that little he was well content;
For In her gently heaving breast he read.
With quickened, lover's eye. how much she
meant
By ust a little."
If Dido smiled to see iEneas go;
If sweet Griselda was a scolding shrew;
If Juliet hated her dear Borneo;
IfThlsbe was a flirt ab. tnen, he knew
She loved him Just a little!
-Puci.
She Henry, yon are a perfect bear to
day. Henry "So. you are mistaken, my dear. I was a
bear all last week, but I've been a boll ever since
tho market took that tarn on Monday. Washing
ton Star.
"What do yon think of your little sister,
Osgoodson2" Inquired hU father.
She may Improve upon a more extended as
qnalntance.T' replied the little Boston boy, re
garding the new infant critically, "but at present
she seems absurdly crude and Immature."
Chicago Tribune.
It is said that the meek shall inherit the
earth;
If they do It will be at some far away timet
Mayhap by codicil they've been cut oa
And of the lexacy won' t get a dime.
New Tort Herald.
Literary Lodger (to new servant) Oh,
you are the new servant, and what might your
name be? (
Servant Anner, sir.
' 'Anna or Hannabr '
'Taln't nilther. sir; It's Anner with tw
haltcue."-aKW Soling,