rsiW7i tt-- if-'-,-" rss. , ifrtp-v "jy-"sryjsT- THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH. SECOND PART. PrrTSBUEG, SIFXDAY MAKCH 20, 1892L PAGES 9 TO 20. j "J J" . I !- - ,-, ., , , SWEATING RAMPAN T In Queen Victoria's Particu lar Personal Laundry, and Employes NOW THREATEN A STEIKE. The Discipline" Entirely Too Severe for the Low Wages. TWO OLD POACHERS EXECUTED For Killing Gamekeepers, and the GoTern ment Is Criticised. INTERESTING ITEMS FEOtt ABROAD fBY CABLE TO TUB DISPATCH.1 Loxdok, March 11 Copyright Ac cording to cablegrams which have been published here with regard to a certain in quiry proceeding at "Washington, the broad United States is singularly free from the evil known as "sweating." American manu iacturers and other virtuous citizens will therefore be able, without self-consciousness, to give full vent to their indignation when they learn here in The Dispatch that sweating is rampant in Queen Victoria's own personal particular laundry, and that persons employed therein decline to find, in. the honor appertaining to the washing of royalties' soiled linen, compensation for long hours, low wages, and tyrannical treat ment generally. The royal laundry is situated at Rich mond, in Surrey, and thither is sent wash ing from Windsor, Sandringham, and, in tact, all tne Irish palaces, i&icnmona is a picture of rural riverside loveliness, but the lot of the laundry people is far from idyllic They work 66 hours per week. Men in the machinery department are paid 22 to 25 shillings per week, and women, Jhe actual washers, from 16 to 18 shillings per week, ' The Discipline Quite Military. The discipline is quite military in its char acter, and severe and an elaborate system of fines prevails for late arrival, without any balance in shape of extra pay for extra half hours often worked at the conclusion of the nominal 11-hour day. Entire loss of wages is the penalty invariably inflicted upon a man or woman who may fall sick, and the work people are not allowed to enjoy even the few legal holidays which occur in the course of the year. Efforts are to be made to bring the griev ances of the laundry women under notice of the Queen and Princess of Wales, and even to propose a petition to the Prince of Wales. Each coarse is perfectly proper, and certain to result in nothing. Bolder spirits talk of a trade union combination, and there are wild whispers of a strike, whereat royalist nerves thrill with horror, although it is not seriously maintained that the Prince of Wales would have any great difficulty in getting his shirts washed, seeing that there are hundreds of noble dames and thousands of untitled lair ones who would gladly tuck up their sleeves tor the honor ad glory of poHindug his royal highness' linen. The Prment a Good Tune to Strike. The Queen and court started for Coste bella to-day and by the beginning of next week almost the entire royal family will be scattered about the Riviera. Xow, if ever, is the time for the laundry strike, for Rich mond will still have to wash the royal clothes. If the work were done in France the Qneen would have to pay for it. A cenerous country pays for the Richmond establishment, and will defray the freight to and from the Riviera, of clean and dirty linen alike. Then again, the average French blanchessese, as travelers have noted since the first stranger set foot in France, is per fectly demoniacal in her treatment of lingerie which, having passed through her hands too often, returns to its owner a tat tered remnant of its former self. A strike at Richmond at this juncture, therefore, would force upon Her Majesty considerations of economy which might re sult in a sharp order to the Lord High Chamberlain of the gold stick-in-waiting, or whichever exalted courtier mav have responsible charge of the royal wash-tubs, to raise wages say 10 per centum all around. Mistake of the British miners. Tha British miners speedily found out that thev had made a mistake. Their week's holiday had only put money in the hands of colliery owners and dealers, and before they have time to recoup themselves for the week's wages lost they will be notified of "a reduction in par. "With so many coal fields now open, and better mining appliances at command, the men can secure no benefit by restriction unless two days' rest a week is more beneficial to their well-being than one. There is a rumor that the employers themselves will refuse to reopen the col lieries on Mondav, and thus iorce the men Into another week's holiday against their will, but this is scarcely likely. Tne chief coal owners deny it. Their private inter ests are against it, and their only reason for so doinz would help the owners in Durham by depriving the men of a week's wages and thus prevent them from contributing to the relief of the Durham strikers, for though the "holiday movement" is now at an end, the struggle in Durham continues with in creased bitterness. The determination of both sides is strong, and with their grow ing desperation the men are getting vicious. ltongh Time for a Reporter. A reporter of the Newcastle Chronide, who had written something which did not piease me miners, was set upon by thou sands of the men at one of their mass meet ings. He was pelted with mud and bricks, and finally chased through a neighboring town until helound refuge in a police sta tion. The police at the meeting were power less to protect him. The great coal strike has revealed the ex istence in all colliery districts of deep seated hatred of land owners and of strong determination to agitate for the abolition of the system of "mining royalties." For every ton of coal heaved and sent to bank the miner receives from 10 pence to 11 pence half-penny, and the owner of the land gets 12 pence, which is a first charge on the colliery output and has to be paid, whether the coal is sold at a loss or profit. The miners denounce the landlord as a "blackmailer, ana they want to confine his rights to the surface. At present he jowns not merely the surface, but every thing below it as far as a shaft can be sunk and minerals worked. This mining royalty grievance is sorely lelt and forcibly ex pressed by millions of Workers in this famine sufferers, has since her discharge been lying some distance off shore. Last night she was towed into the harbor by the steamers Concordia and Vornaerts, and if unbounded popular enthusiasm is proof of appreciation, the officers and crew of the Indiana win carry from the country a lively recollection of the gratitude of the Russian people. When the Indiana passed tha jetty she, was greeted with loud and enthusiastic cheering by the crowd that had assembled on the jetty. The steamer was received by the communal authorities and a large dele gation of the. leading merchants ot the port. After she was moored a number of the Or thodox Greek clergy proceeded aboard of hlr and held a thanksgiving service, which concluded with the formal and' impressive ceremony of blessing the ship. JOINING AN ORDER. Favorable Opinions ob Secret Societies From Great Thinkers. NOT INIMICAL TO GOVERNMENT. Views of Senators Sherman, Dolph and Tur ple and Justice Bradley. BISHOP POTTER FOE TIE CHUKCH A MOST PLEASANT DEATH. Prot, Helm Says the Man -"Who Dies by Fall Passes Away Happily Hi Descrip tion. Gleaned From Extensive Interviews With Men Who Have Fallen and IJved. I BT CABLE TO THE DISPi.TCH.1 Loxrxw. March 19. Prof. Heim, of the Zurich University, has for some years past been investigating the subject of death by fall, and has arrived at the startling con clusion that it is probably the most pleasant way of quitting life. Whenever this curi ously inquisitive professor heard of some body having tumbled off a roof or fallen down a precipice and survived, he promptly set oft to interview the sufferer, or engaged some otherlearned man on the spot to do so. Prof Heim has elaborate records of scores of cases, and upon these he has based a lecture, just delivered, which, if comforting to people about to eneaee in mountaineering or steeple climbing or other cognate pur suits, may encourage suicide and set a new fashion in self-murder. In all cases investigated by the professor the feel ings were the same,, or rather, they differ only In degree. The victim, he says, suffers no pain; in the paralyzing terror he is perfectly awtfre of what is going on; the time seems long to him; in a lew.seconds he is able to thins so much that hecan report for an entire hour on it; his think-ing power is immensely increased. In almost all cases the past seems suddenly lighted up as if by a flash ofliehtmne. All the phases of life pass before the mind's eye, nothing petty or unimportant disturbing the retrospect. Then gentle, soft tones sound in one's ears and die away last when unconsciousness sets in. One hears therfall of the body, but one does not feel it. Persons who have had several limbs broken by a fall do not know which limbs ore affected tiU they try to rise. "How can we explain this singular phenomenon?" says the professor. "Doubt less in such cases the extreme mental ex citement plays a great part, and we may reasonably assume that pain is, at it were, hypnotized thereby. At the moment ot fall the whole intellectual activity ia increased to an extraordinary degree. There is no trace of anxiety. One considers quickly what will happen or may happen. This is by no means a consequence of presence of mind it is rather a product of absolute necessity. A solemn composure takes possession of the victim. Death by fall is a beautiful one. Great thoughts fill the victim's soul; they fall painlessly into a trreat blue sky. This death is terrible only to those who remain behind." BALFOUR'S BLUNDERINGS. Obstructing the "Work of the House of Commons to Obtain a Battle Cry in the Coming Election Tho Obstructors Are the Liberals and tho Nationalists. fBT CABLE TO THE DISPATCH. J London1, March 19. The political feat ure of this week has been tWflockingoftheS Liberal-Unionists to Westminster at the command of the Government, and the ex hortations of their own leaders. The result has been shown in increased majorities ob tained by the Government, but there has been little acceleration of public business. Balfour has been blundering worse than ever, and, although he has resorted to desperate 'expedients, they have failed to relievethe congested order book of the House of Commons. 2Jo secret is now made of tha opposition's intentions. The Liberals are deliberately and avowedly ob structing business, in order to compel the trovemment to announce the date of the general election, and they are obstructing effectually, with the assistance of Balfour himself So glaring has been the gentle man's mismanagement of the House of Commons that some people are inclined to believe he is courting obstruction with a view of obtaining a battle cry in the coming struggle. But the expedient is a poor one. The cry of obstruction served well enough against Irish members in the old days when they were political Ishmaelites, but the obstructors now are the British Lib erals and Irish Nationalists combined. The country can see that the House of Commons is in a ludicrous muddle, and the rjeonle With a view to obtaining advice for young men who may be contemplating joining secret societies an, occasional correspondent of The Dispatch recently sent the follow ing questions, to tome leading public men: First Do you approve of secret orders on general principles? Second Are they or are. they not inimical to the stability and permanence of our Gov ernment, and if so whyt Third Do you think it an advantage or & disadvantage to a man in easiness, social and political life, tobe a member of such an organization? Fourth Which of the existing orders, if any, do you deem it most advisable for a young man to joint Among the answers received were the fol lowing: Senator Dolph, of Oregon, an active worker anion? secret societies, writes: Senator Dolph Approves Them. '1 will not undertake to answer as re gards secret political societies, for the rea son that I have never been a member of one. I will therefore speak only with regard to fraternal and charitable secret orders, to several of which. I belong. Many years ago I was a member of some temperance organ ization, and I am now an Odd Fellow and a Mason, as well as a member of the A O. of "IX W. From my experience in these or ganizations my answer to your first question must be yes. In reply to tout second I must say that I have teen nothing in the so cieties I have named, which I believed to be inimical to good government and free in stitutions. They are 'all, in my judgment, organized for proper and beneficial pur poses, -and all have greatly helped to bring about fraternal feeling between their mem bers, and, of course, between members of different political parties. "It is natural that as one grows older he should attach less importance to many ot the things connected with these orders; but I have been more and more convinced by my own experience that as practical organ ization for relieving the wants of their members, and as a means of aiding those members in the afflictions incident to hu man life, both the order of Odd Fellows and the institution of Masonry are valuable or ganizations. In this statement lies my an swer to your third question. In reply to your fourth question I can onlv say that it would be but natural that I should feel a partiality for the societies of which, as I have told you, I am a member. " What Senator Sherman Has to Say. Senator John Sherman writes: "To your first question I must reply that I can see no objection to secret orders which are merely Denencial organizations for will not inquire too closelv inln thraii thereof The Government still has a nom inal majority of over 70, and ii it cannot do its work with that there must be some thing radically wrong. That is the opinion which is rapidly becoming universal, and the Government has to reckon with it. Hr Balfour will find that his difficulties will disappear like magic the moment he plucks np courage to announce that Parliament will be dissolved as soon as the necessary business of the session shall have been com pleted. TWO BBmSH F0ACHEBS HAHGEQ. country. It has become a test question put to every Parliament candidate in all colliery and most labor constituencies, and it is ex tremely probable that it will come up for settlement in the next House of Commons. BOILING OVZS WITH GBAxTTUDE, The Indiana Cheered by the Banian People and Blessed by the Priests. Libau, KussiA, March 19. The Amer ican steamer Indiana, which brought to this port the gifts of flour and provisions sent by Americans for the relief of the Bustian They Killed Two Gamekeepers, but Their Gnllt Was in Doubt. rBT CABLX TO THE DIsrATCH.1 Londox, March 19. Home Secretary Matthews has to bear the brunt of much ex cited criticism, this week, and his de termined action in hanging two poachers produced a vigorous protest against the obnoxious British game laws. The Jacts are simple. Some keepers on the estate1 of the 'Squire of Pitstone found poachers bent upon securing hares and pheasants. The keepers opened the at tack, the poachers retaliated and got the best of it, two of the keepers being killed. The contention of the opposition is that the men were first attacked by the keepers, who were armed, and the killing was done in the excitement of the fight. On the other hand Mr. Matthews points out that the jury found these men guilty of murder. There was more than a fight, as after the keepers were shot down and disabled the poachers beat their brains out with the butt ends of guns, while one keeper who tried to escape was shot down while running, and then had his skull fractured. That, Matthews declared, was murder, and he would not interfere with the verdict of the jury. The case, however, is beinj made much of, and is certain to tell against the Gov ernment at the general election. The game laws in England are numbered. The grow ing power of the democracy will prove suf ficient to wipe them out and men poaching in the good time coming will only have to submit to the ordinary civil process for trespass. Abe you wide-awake "WATCH AlIQUIPPA. Rlrthstone Souvenir Spoons, For all the months, price f3 00. B. Siedle & Sons, 54 Fifth av. Watch for Them. Special advertisements of houses, rooms and business stands lor rent in Monday's Dispatch. . . ' It mutual aid and protection, not in anv wav connected with politics or religion, but en joying respect for religious worship and souna moraiuv. xn answer to your second question I would say that I have never seen anything in such orders as lhave described that, was inimical to-the stability and per. your third question, I think that member ship in such a secret order tends to bring a young man into closer social communion: with a class of men who are generally lead er, or, at least, fair representatives of the. people among whom they live; gives him a place ot resort where he may find respecta ble associates and companions, and tends to shield him from the danger of the saloon and other bad association's, and is therefore an advantage to him. "To your fourth question, "Which of the existing orders do you deem it most, advis able for a young man to join?' I leave you to guess the answer of one whose father and brother - in -law General Beese were Grand Masters of the Masonio order in their day, and who is himself a member of the order of Odd Fellows, thongh for many years I have not been very active in that order." Bishop Potter Ii Treo Xaeon. Bt. Bev. H. O. Potter, D. IX, Protestant Episcopal Bishop of New York, is an active Free Mason, and writes as follows: "As I am myself a Free Mason, I need hardly say that I moat certainly do not re- fard such an order as being in any way ostile to our institutions. In this state ment you will find my answer to your first and second questions. I have often found membership in it a convenience, and I have personally known many instances in which it has done noble work in the cause of charity and humanity. As the result of my experience, I must "say in. answer to your third question that I assuredly consider it an advantage to a young man to be a mem ber of such an order. "In reply to your fourth and last ques tion, 'which of the existing secret orders do I deem it most advisable for a young man to join,' I can only say, as I have already stated above, that I am a Free Mason." Hon. David Turpie, of Indianapolis, the junior United States Senator in point of service from Indiana, contributes a letter of approval Powaerry Has no Objections. Hon. T. V. Powderly, the head of the Knights of Labor, is a high authority on the subject under discussion, and special consideration is merited by his view ex pressed below: "In reply to your letter,I would say that so far as secret societies are concerned lean see no harm in men belonging to organiza tions which work in secret I must there fore answer your first question in the affirm ative. In answer to your second, I may say that I know of no reason whv secret orders should be inimical to the stability and permanence of our Government. So far as your third question is concerned, I think that membership in some of the ex isting secret orders is often a very great ad vantage. Your fourth Question rvp.n man must determine for himself, and the answer to it must depend largelyupon the indi vidual, the circumstances by which he is surrounded, his needs, preferences, etc" Favorable Report From Enoch Pratt. Enoch Pratt, of Baltimore, is widely known as one of the wealthiest American citizens of our time, and the Lord Bounti ful of the Monumental City. He is the founder of the Enoch Pratt Free Librarr 4k1a a .-.:...! 1.1-1. m .. uwi, mi Auabibuuuu wnica is one .ot the noblest of its kind in this country. His letter on the important topic under discus sion is appended: 'In answer to your first question I answer yes, and if I had my long Ufa to live over again I think I should join both tho Masons and the Odd Fellows. Secret orders whose only object is to promote fraternal feeling and mutual help and kindliness amonj their members, not only cannot be hostile ' ow Goverement or a menace to its sta bility, but on the contrary are directly fos tering the spirit of our tree institutions by inculcating the principles upon which they are based. It can not fail to be an advan tage to a young man trbe a member of such an order. I deem such organizations of great use, and from long experience among their members I am convinced thai they are cuci(uit insuiuuons ana ao great good. A Tolce From tie Grave. IThe following letter was received from, the .late Hon. Joseph P. Bradley, "Justice of the United States Supreme Court, only a few daya prior to his last illness: "In reply to your questions I would say, first that t oertainly do approve ot secret societies on general principles, as. I know of nothing against the. right, of men to hold secrets among themselves. There is not vio lation of moral or legal right in their doing so Second, I do not think, there is any thing inimical to the stability and perma nence of our Government in the tenets or practices, of any of our American secret orders such as the Masons, Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, Elks, American Mechanics, United Workmen, and, almost countless others. The objects of all these organizations are, charitable, fraternal 'and social, while the purposes of some of them also include the preservation of our institu tions and resistance ot all attempts to inter? fere with them. This, being the case, they cannot possibly ba hostile to American liberty. "Third, I deem it of great advantage to a young man to be a member of such an order, though I have never joined one. They all inculate the strictest morality, andrthe moral obligations required of their members are as rigid as those of church membership. Thev afford attendance and financial aid in sickness, protection from, enemies and countless other advantages. Fourth, my father and grandfather having been Masons, my preference would be for that order." The views of a number of men equally, or perhaps more, prominent in the world of thinkers than those quoted to-day will be published in these columns next Sunday. THE PLAN FOR THE CARNEGIp LIBRARY AS NOW MODIFIED BY THE ARCHITECTS. Frrs An Sts stopped tree by Dr. XUse.'s Great Nerve Restorer. No fits after 8nt day's use. Mar velous cares. Treatise and 2 00 trial bottle free to Fit cases, Dr. Kline, SB Arch St., Fhlla,. Pa. so Btrthstone Souvenir Spoons, For all the months, price S3 00. B. Siedle & Sons, 64 Fifth av. 500 hex in the steel works at Axjquippa. Herewith will bet found a reproduction of the hut authorized design for the Carnegie Library building. It was. sent from Boston, and 'published first on Thursday in a New York engineering paper; and while there are.no remarks, accompanying the. cut as given in the New York paper, the under, standing is that it is the latest rearrange ment by Longfellow, Alden and Harlow of their plans. The points of difference between this plan and that accepted by the commission flcont the competition of architects are numerous and marked. Prominent among them is the substitution of one large tower for the two originally intended. A section of the interior is said, also to be dispensed with, saving space, These modifications of the plana MM' BSSsW SSSSsS: . sw iZ5HE3saT8Es3MsgMBfcE2ifekgSMBjesMBK. ' ". . 9P ' TIFT 'wJJltfPpln'nT Fill wifflrTviMff .Jwjuji jiyfl BjsySii tLBO-BiBmBILsmSBatWy JiiiSeVSSSKarMassSsBiiK izzitBzSjHHLLiBTlsis mn have caused considerable, talk among tha people interested in the original competi tion. It is contended that the terms of the competition contemplated a choice from the designs as presented and that an opportunity to alter or modify them was not allowed to other architects such, aa Cooper, Butan ao4 Coolidge and others, whose designs were in favor among many visitors, and also with some of tha commission. There, ha like, wise for sometime past been an expression of adverse opinion aa to the proposed substi tution of pompeiiac brick for granite, which it has been reported is intended, . Chief Bigelow ot the. Public Works De partment was seen yesterday by a DlSf patch reporter and asked what ha knew of the modified plan; also" aa to the time for the beginning of the vork. The chief said the new plan aa above presented wasi a -erj? handsome one, though not the same as chosen in the competition. He had not been apprised officially about tha matter, nor did" he know when the work was to be gin. The commiion as a body had not passed yet upon these matter. Ha was disposed not to favor tha substitution of brick for granite. The Chief, as is well known, takes a great inter est in everything connected with Schenlcy Park, which he did so much to secure for the city, and he is desirous that the library building, in all respects, shall be an orna ment to the entrance. He- says, however there has been very litle, if any, commu nication, lately on the library building with the city authorities; but he supposed that as the spring opens up the commission will prepare for a start. No meetintr of that commission has yet Seen called, FROM : THE : BASEMENT TO THE TOPMOST FLOOR Of this great Hou'sefumishing Bazaar of the people there is not one article that does not appeal to the woman in her domestic 'aspirations for a cheerful and comfortable home, andatptrices and terms that make PURCHASING AN EASY MATTER. 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