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THE - PITTSBURG DISPATCH. TUESDAY, APRIL 5. 1892L
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TOO SHREWD TO BE MISLED.
Rhode Island is a small State, but what
is lacking in quantity of brain is to a con
siderable extent made up in quality.
There are some very shrewd thinkers
among the manufacturers, who cannot be
taken in by a spurious losrfc which scorns
even consistency, that chief est necessity for '
successful arcument As one of them
points out in TnE Dispatch thismorning,
it is simply ridiculous for Democrats to go
to Rhode island and tell the manufactur
ers that the Springer bill will reduce the
price of their raw material while they try
to persuade the wool raiser that it will
raise the price of his product Mr.
Springer's statement in the House yester
day that the only possible result of his bill
is to raise the price of American wool
should teach the Islanders that it is dan
gerous to trust a tariff-tinker cveu when
professedly bringing gifts. Then, too,
they are patriotic enough to refuse a ben
efit which would be merely a local and not
national.
If wool can be successfully raised in
America and it is but a blind minority
which attempts to deny facts clearly es
tablished by experience then America
should be self-contained in this as in all
other possible respects. Nothing should be
done to discourage the grazing industry.
Every tariff legislation should have for its
object the absolute independence of our
country from the rest of the world for the
necessaries and conveniences of life.
Opinion among the rank and file of voters
appears to be much more divided than it
should be on a question so clearly defined
as the leading issue of this election. If
Rhode Island should at this time elect a
body of men pledged to do all they can to
overthrow the ramparts of Protection the
result will in a degree be a national disas
ter. Such a performance would do much
to destroy a reputation for sagacity and
the State would not easily get over the
blow. On the other hand the prestice of
a patriotic rally would have force enough
to stagger the enemy and bring sure de
feat upon his cause.
IT WOULD HE A SMALLER JOB.
As an evidence of what it calls "bun
combe politics," the New York Press
refers to the $21,000,000 river and harbor
bill introduced in the House while that
bedy is opposed to the Nicaragua canal,
and says: '"Four annual appropriations of
521,000,000 each would probably build the
canal."
This is correct as far as it goes. But
it is necessary to add that any Congress
which would make those four appropria
tions of SSi,000,000 in toto, to build a
canal two thousand miles away from the
nearest territory of the United States,
would be buried so deep under popular
condemnation at the next election that it
could never show its head again. Tet
the job in that form would not be so rank
as in the form already presented to
Congress. The total of $84,000,000 would
give a crooked profit of 14,000,000 to the
promoters of the canal w ho have con
tracted with themselves to build it The
proposed guarantee of 100,000,000 will
give them a margin of 30,000,000 over the
engineer's estimates.
An appropriation of 21,000,000 for a
river and harbor bill without a clearly
defined basis of operations for the crea
tion of internal waterways is bad
economy. It is an example of the politi
cal vices which prevail in both parties
that a Congress elected for the correction
of previous extravagance cannot do better
tban produce a bill on this scale. But
when the plan is laid out so that each
year's expenditure will bring us further
on the way toward the completion of a
comprehensive system of ship canals,
there can be no way of spending the
people's money to yield such good returns.
On the other hand there could be no
more arrant and unjustifiable waste of
the public funds of the United States than
to put them into the swamps of Nicaragua
for the benefit of nearly everyone except
the people of this country. The Nicaragua
Canal Company is entitled to build its
own canal if it wishes, but it is not en
titled to either money or credit from the
United States Treasury.
SOUND ON S1LVEI:.
The Democrats of Minnesota had the
good sense to put themselves on a solid
ground with regard to stiver coinage.
They reject alike the reduction in the
standard of valuations proposed by the
Bland bill and the Government warehouse
policy of buying up silver and. storing it
away established by the present law.
They believe in the free coinage of silver
dollars that will be the equivalent of gold
dollars, and vice versa, and assert the
duty of Government "to examine the rel
ative values of the metals of coinage as
established by the commercial world, and
if there has been a sufficient fluctuation
in the value of either to make the ex
isting ratios unequal, then to readjust the
ratios so that the number of grains of
either metal in the unit of coinage, the
dollar, shall be equivalent in value, and
then to permit the free, unrestricted coin
age of both metals."
This is practically the silver policy out
lined by The Dispatches the correct
one. It is encouraging to find that the
Democracy of the Northwest are so little
affected by the cheap money heresies that
they keep themselves clear of the Bland
policy of reducing the dollar to 70 per
cent of its present value., and substitute in
m
its stead the sound method of rehabilitat
ing silver as a money metal. With that
Indication of sound opinion among the
Minnesota Democrats we have ground for
khope that the sections where the Bland
bill was supposed to nave tne greatest
strength will take the ground on the use
of silver without Involving an inflation
of values or a scaling of debts. If the
Democracy of the nation have the good
sense to take the position of the Minne
sota platform, they will be unassailable so
far as silver is concerned, however they
may be misled as to the tariff.
STUPID XCLTJSION.
A remarkable illustration of the changes
brought about by the whirligig of time is,
that a generation after the United States
joined other civilized powers in opening
the Chinese and Japanese empires to civil
ization, one branch of the United States
Congress passes a bill to establish against
the Chinese an exclusion as complete as
China ever set up against any other part
of the world.
The Geary bill, passed by tho House of
Representatives yesterday, forbids entrance
to the United States of any Chinese
person, except the Minister from China and
his private and official family. Why, if
such an exclusion is to be established, any
arrangement should be made for a Chinese
Minister it is difficult to say. unless it be
that the political managers recognize that
shutting up the Chinese mission at Wash
ington might also close certain fat berths
for our politicians in China. But it Is
certain that the bill is the most remarkable
and unwarranted measure that California
demagoguery could have devised.
The bill not only violates the treaty
obligations which we induced China to
agree to, but it is absolutely brutal in its
sacrifice of our own interests. If China
should try to make a creditable exhibit at
the World's Fair, the bill, if enacted,
would shut out every man sent to set up
the exhibit If Chinese statesmen or
capitalists should wish to come to that
exhibition to see what could be adapted
to the needs of then- land in the line of
machinery, or fabrics, this stupid law
would forbid them to patronize our in
stitutions. Under such a law there would
be no use in trying to keep up intercourse
and extend trade with China, and the
Chinese Government would be perfectly
justified in establishing the same rule of
non-intercourse with this nation on their
side.
It is by an exactly opposite course of
legislation that Great Britain has extended
her trade with China while ours has
dwindled nearly to the point of dis
appearance. The present law has pre
vented Chinese immigration from flooding
the country. There is no'need to stultify
the international policy simply to make
political capital for a California politician.
A LONG-STANDING NEED.
A sign of progress for which occasional
visitors to Pittsburg will be thankful is
contained in the assertion of Mr. Bigelow
that the long-promised street-corner signs
will soon be put up throughout the
city. The destitution of Pittsburg in the
matter of signs disclosing the names of
streets has longbeen asubjectof comment.
At intervals of four or five years an- out
burst of popular protest has been heard
and the expectation has been held out of a
complete reform by which any person at a
street corner can tell what the streets are
a thing now impossible to strangers at
eighty per cent of the street corners in the
city. Notwithstanding the periodical agi
tation tho street signs have not yet
materialized.
- The fact that the .promise b' them now
comes spontaneously and not in response
to any recent public demand permits the
hope that the material result will be mors
tangible than heretofore. It will certainly
supply a long-felt want when all the'street
corners are supplied so that the way-faring
man need not err in his excursions through
the city.
When Pittsburg Is fully supplied with
street signs the public will be' almost in
clined to hope for the realization of that
other and slightly more recent promise
from the head of the Department of Public
Works about putting all the electric wires
underground.
THE SMALLER TASK FIRST.
The possibility of making season fore
casts of the weather is discussed by the
New Tork Herald, with the result of
reaching this profound conclusion:
Much more may be achieved in this direc
tion than is now conceived of if the tropical
legions of the globe (in which nil the grand
movements of the atmosphere originate)
were laid under observational tribute, and
ocean going shipping also were more exten
sively employed by climatologists for col
lecting information bearing upon the prac
tical anplication of their science, and, apart
from all theories of the agency of sun spots
in terrestrial weather, it would be a gross
blunder to overlook the possibility of ob
taining important clevs for the better pre
diction of our seasons from the earnest and
patient students of solar meteorology.
A1J of which is very fine and impressive
ly in keeping with the Herald's assump
tion of especial wisdom on the subject of
weather. Nevertheless, before "observa
tional tribute" is laid on the tropics to
permit forecasts of the weather for an en
tire season, it is pertinent to suggest that
this tribute or something else should be
turned on the present task of foretelling
weather forty-eight hours in advance.
A week in which the patient weather
bureau kept up the prediction ",of severe
storms" for this section without success,
until it decreased its requirements and
obtained a moderate meed of verification
in the mild thunderstorm of Sunday, Is
not a good one in which to talk of turning
the science of "solar meteorology" to the
prediction of weather for an entire season.
TRUTH AS TO THE COMBINATION.
The whole story with regard to the
anthracite coal combination was told in
very few words by Frederick E. Saward,
of the Coal Trade Journal, before the
New York investigating committee. Mr.
Saward cannot be accused of being preju
diced against the anthracite interests. It
was to be supposed that a man in his posi
tion would be interested in glossing over
the fats; but he stated in succinct lan
guage the pivotal facts in the anthracite
business which have been heretofore
pointed out in these columns.
The combination of anthracite carriers,
having the power to restrict production
and shut off competition, would undoubt
edly do so, according to Mr. Saward.
They had already made an advance of 25
cents on chestnut coal, and would further
increase the price, especially at Western
points. Fortunately," we may parentheti
cally remark, they cannot increase it any
at Pittsburg, since it is already at a level
which makes it a luxury. The factor at the
'bottom of the anthracite combination was
pointed out by Mr. Saward In the fact
that though the average freight rates on
grain and merchandise had decreased to
one-sixth their level twenty years ago,
there had' been no sucbdecrease in the
freight charges on anthracite coal.
This is the fact The genesis of the
anthracite combination was the effort to
prevent competition from reducing freight
rates on. .that profitable traffic. The
method taken was that of monopolizing
the production of the traffic so as to prevent
competing lines from getting hold of it
The result is that the ratio of growth in
the anthracite trade is only a fraction of
that in tho bituminous output of the West
where competition reduces the charges of
transporte'rs'and middlemen to something
like a reasonable basis.
It is discreditable to the nation that laws
should be necessary to Insure purity at the
polls. A law having been framed for the
purpose which Is inadequate to suppress
corruption, the amount of ingenuity ex
pended to render It Ineffective Is disgrace
ful. Straight voting will never be secured
without great universal effort on the part of
individuals. Public ' sentiment ' Is more
powerful than statutory law lu matters of
this sort.
. Unlabeled streets are worse than
anonymous letters. The distribution of
nnmo plates to our stroets Is a much-needed
improvement which will remove a Ions-felt
want.
If the postponement of the raid on un
licensed doss were the only result of im
passable roads there would be no very great
reason for grief. Bat unfortunately tho fact
that there are roads quite near the city
which cannot bo traversed at this season,
even by a light' wagon.-without great diffi
culty, is a striking indication of tho way in
which rural trade, is burdened.
Such a scene as that which attended Mr.
Springer's return to tho House is a refresh
tag contrast to the tooth and nail partisan
personalities usually prevalent there.
The list of fatalities from the recent
Western storm continues to grow. If tho
area of the wind-swept district be consid
ei ed, the damage is trilling compared with
that of real railroad wrecks. Yet loss from
the latter can be reduced to a minimum by
an outlay for proper precautionary outfits,
while the former is almost entirely inde
pendent of human control.
The fact that the Missouri, carrying New
York's gift to starving Russians, sails under
the British flag is a startling commentary on
our shipping industries.
The Humane Society should investigate
the statement that cattle have been de
horned by hailstones. Such cruel exposure
must not bo allowed to continne. Cattle
owners ought to be compelled to provide
their beasts with bullet-proof armor for
such emergencies.
It is just possible that Somerset's lead
ing Industry will be crushed out of exist
ence before summer sets in.
England is paying an immense price
for tho ill-Judged strike of the coal miners,
whicli should be a, powerful lesson to organ
ized labor. Xational trade is threatened,
and laboiersmust be tho greatest sufferers
in an era of depression and failure.
Spuing is here with all its gentleness
including the usual hailstorms. Hail balmy
spring!
The grand jury's severe remarks on the
New York polico force have already taken
effect. Although Sunday was the warmest
day that city ha.3 for years experienced at
this season, habitual imbibers were sent
empty and thirsty away.
Set a thief to.catoh a thief and build ex
press cars of steel to prevent stealing.
Human nature is a strange medley ot
conflicting attributes. Persons who are as a
rule remarkable for their accurate veracity
seem free from all conscientious scruples in
describing a fishing expedition, a hailstorm
or a cyclone.
Illicit whisky distilling ;is by no mean
a mere matter of moonshine.
Boston is undoubtedly a brainy city. A
member of its chess club has just beaten
the champion of the world. But it must be
deadly dull, for one of its journals says
there are no such things as harmless flirta
tions. V
In Rhode Island the politician proposes
but Providence disposes.
New Jersey is a State of contrasts. Its
Legislature has an undesirable reputation
for improbity, yet it has passed the best
road-making law ex tan tan done well worthy
of adoption by other States.
Bad food for soldiers is an excellent in
centive to desertion.
SUKELY in a country with immense areas
paralyzed by famine it is strangely Incon
gruous that the arrival of a relief cargo
should be celebrated by a grand and pre
sumably expensive banquet.
THIS IS V2BT HAED.
How One Boston Editor Sizes Up the Penn
sylvania Senators.
Boston Herald.
It is not gratifying to learn that Matthew
S. Quay is making headway in his contest
for re-election to the Senate from Pennsyl
vania, but It is not surprising. Mr. Quay's
Republican competitor lor tho place is
John Dalzell, at present member ot tho
House from the Pittsburg district. Mr. Dal
zell is a man of personal force and mental
nbljity. The latter trait is against him.
Pennsylvania has hardly had a statesman
in tne Senate for 40 years unless he has
been chosen by accident. She has developed
few men of capacity for anything better
than intrigue in either branch of Congress,
and such as have appeared have been care
fully kept out of the Senate. United States
Seuatorships there have been roserved for
the Camerons and Quays, and. if they can't
elect themselves, they usually succeed lu
putting ciphers in their places.
FAVORITES OF FAME.
John Greenleaf "WHirriEit, the
Ametican poet, began life as n shoemaker.
Mr. Charles E. Pugh. General .Man
ager of tho Pennsylvania Railroad, has
been with that company for 23 years.
The late General Spinola was noted,
when in Congress, for the bluntness with
which he rebuked any one who incurred his
displeasure.
"Mrs. Jackson, the Confederate soldier's
widow, is devoting all her time now to tho
education of her two motherless grand
children, Julia and Jackson Christian.
Me. Blaine's house in Augusta, Me.,
is being repainted outside and in, and tho
neighbors look for tho Secretary aud his
family for a few weeks' stay there before the
season opens at Bar Harbor.
The "K" in Mr. Jerome K. Jerome's
name stands for "Klapka." He is not yet 33
years of age, and has been in his time a
clerk, a schoolmaster, a shorthand writer, a
reporter, an actorund a Journalist.
People rarely hear nowadays of Emer
son Bennett, yet he was widely known 20
years ago as a novelist, his "Prairie Flower"
having reached fa sale of 100,000 copies. He is
a veteran of 70 and lives in Philadelphia.
JPoultney. Bigelow, of New York, and
the artist Remington will start in Hay on a
canoe trip from Berlin to the Baltic and St.
Petersburg. The Emperor will permit Mr.
Bigelow to fit out his canoe at the Royal sta
tion at Potsdam.
Sir Kobert Mobter, Great Britain's
Ambassador to Russia, is one of the most
powerful personalities in the diplomatic
service. He is popularly supposed to have
been one of the causes that led to Bismarck's
dismissal by his royal master.
Madame Modjeska, the famous actress,
lives ou a ranch which lies at the foot of
Santiago Peak, in California, 15 miles from a
town or railway. She is an enthusiastic
farmer, and takes great pride in her live
stbCk,of lYhlchslio has'a" largo number.
SOME AFFAIRS OF STATE.
The Bouse Passes a Most Sweeping Chinese
Exclusion Bill Ail Treaties Abrograted
Bering Sea Closed Season Being Con
sideredSome Old Casos Closed TJp By
Secretary Noble.
Washington, April 4. A bill held by
friends and fos alike to be'one of the most
Important now pending in the American
Congress, was passed by the House of Eep
lcscntativos to-day, after only 80 minutes'
debate. This measure, so rapidly rushed
through the House, is important not alone
from an American, but an international
standpoint, not alone because of its interest
to the industrial classes throughout tho na
tion, but because It is a nullification or im
portant existing treaties. The bill in ques
tion is commonly known as tho "Chinese
exclusion bill," and was reported by the
House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and
to-day taken notion upon by motion of Mr.
Geary, of California.
Mr. Hooker, of Mississippi, made an earn
est effort to rfcure a longer time for debate
than the half hour allowed under suspen
sion, dwelling upon tho Importance of tho
measure, but Mr. Hcard, of Missouri, oo
Jcctcd to his request.
Mr. Geary "said tho pending measure reme
died the defects which existed in the exist
ing law. No measure short of it could effect
tho ends desired, and he hoped the House,
at a time whon somncli was boingsaid about
Jirotecting American labor, would not ob
ect to protecting it from imported foreign
pauper labor.
a A Fatal Objection to the Bill.
Mr. Hitt, of Illinois, and Mr. Hooker
said that a fatal objection to this bill in the
mind of every man of honor and truth was
a deliberate violation of plighted faith. Mr.
Hltt said: "There were many business inter
ests at stake, but they wore all small dnst in
tho balance when compaiod with tho propo
sition to abiogate existing treaties. Wo
have had many anti-Chinese bills, each
made stioncrer than the other, but never be-
kfore has theio been presented to the House
duo which so utterlv disregards and violates
national faith, with a cold perfidy tins mil
declaies that all treaties in contravention
with this act should be repealed, sot
aside and abrogated." He discussed tho
Soint at length, and said that to pass the
ill wonld be a breach of honor and of good
faith.
Mr. Gearv said that the Chinese Govern
ment, both thiough Its offlceis at homo and
in this country, had done everything in Its
power to violate the spirit of tho treaty.
Messrs. Hermann, of Oregon, and Cutting,
or Calllornia, nlso favored tho bill, and on
further debate it was passed by a vote of 179
yeas to 43 nays.
Sweeping Out the Chinese.
The bill absolutely prohibits any Chinese,
whether or not subjects of China, (excepting
diplomatlo and consular officers and ser
vants) fiom entering tho United States, and
Chinese who may hereafter leave tho United
States are prohibited from le turning to this
country. It makes liable to aurest upon
warrant issued by anv Justice. Judge or
United States Commissioner, Chinese or per
sons of Chinese descent entering the
United States by dossing its boundary
lincs, or found unlawfully in tho United
States, and provides for the pun
ishment of the Chinese by imprison
ment not exceeding five vears and subse
quent removal from the United States to
the country whence they came; provided
that when they come to the United States
lrom China by way of contiguous foreign
territory they shall bo returned to China.
The net applies to subjects of China, and nil
Chinese, even if subjects of any other for
eign power. A proviso allows the Secretary
of the Treasmy to admit Chinese, other
than laborers' or nitlsans, to temporarily
visit tho United States under such rules
as he may prescribe. The last clause repeals
all nets inconsistent with this, and abro
gates sets aatdo and repeals the provisions
of all treaties now in torce between the
United States and China-which may conflict
with tho provisions of this set. Violations
of tho law will be followed by fine and im
prisonment. Secretary Blaine and Secretary Fos
ter had a confeience with the President, this
morning, in legard to the arrangements for
a closed season in Bering Sea, this year, and
the President devoted a great part of the
day to the consideration of that subject, de
nying himself to all other visitors. It is un
derstood that the .negotiations for a modus
Vivendi are Hearing a conclusion, and whon
that compact is signed arrangements will be
'made to exchange gratification of the arbi-'
tration treaty.
TnE Logan case, which has become cele
brated thronghout the Southwest because of
the sensational and romantic circumstances
out of w hich it arose, was decided to-day by
the United States Supreme Court in favor of
the United States and against Eugene Lo
gan, Waggoner and Wallace, tho three men
defendants to the suit. The case came up
under the conspiracy laws, and grows out
of an assault upon four brothers named
Marlow by an armed mob while the Mal
lows and two other prisoners were in the
custody of a deputy marshal who was con
veying them to another county to prevent
lynching.
Secretary Noble to-day made an
order changing the site for-' the county seat
of county H, in the Cheyenne and Arapa
hoe reservation in Oklahoma Territory.
The site first selected was found to be un
suitable for the purpose on account of its
liability to oveinow from the neighboring
stream. The new site is the south half of
section 13, township 9, range IS west.
The House Committee on the Levees and
Improvements of the Mississippi River to
day held a meeting to consider tho various
bills that have been introduced to tho
House for the improvement of the river, and
tho bill nhoady passedby theSonate making
an appropiiation of between $18,000,000 and
S19 000,000 lor that purpose. The entii e time
of the meeting was taken up with discussion.
No action was taken further than to author
ize the appointment by the Chairman of a
snb-committee of threo members to deal
with the subject. ,
The Senate in executive session to-day
confirmed the following nominations, among
others: United States Marshals A. P.Coles
berry, Eastern district ofiPennJylvanla; P.
B. Hunt. Northern district of Texas. Post
masters: Ohio George Russell, Napoleon;
C. P. Washburn, Delphos. Pennsylvania
A. K. Black. Harrisburg: D. L. W illtams, Mc
Donald: J. H. Geary, Catawissa; J. C. Mc
Kean, Chailerol.
TnE President sent the following nomina
tions to the 'Senate, to-day: Medical
Director John Jlills Browne, to bo Surgeon
General and Chlet of the Buieau of Medicino
and Surgery, with rank of Commodoie.
Commodoie James A. Greer to be a Hear
Admiral. Captain Henry Erben to bo a
Commodore. Captain Thomas E. Rose, Six
teenth Infantry, to be Major.
Secretary Noble to-day rendered a de
cision in tho case of Wontel Grant against
the Northern Pacific Kailioad Company, in
whicli he holds in favor of Grant. The land
involved is located near the city of Spokane
"Falls, State of Washington, and is said to be
very vaiuaoie. xiio caso nas oecn beiore the
department lor nine years.
Senator Perkins to-day reported a
proposed amendment to the District of
Colnmbianppropriatlon bill, making an ap
propriation of $73,000 to enable the Enter
tainment Committee of the G. A. R. encamp
ment next September to pioporly provide
tor the comfort and pleasure of the veter
ans. The National Silver Committee will meet
in Washington April 20.
Withholding the Clubs' Fate.
Philadelphia, April 4. The Supreme
Court to-day heard arguments on tho ques
tion whether chnrteied clubs must take out
liquor license. Decision was reserved.
His Sand Yielded to Sugar.
Detroit Free Press
Alas, poor Sprockels! Wo knew him not
so well as we thought we did. Tho insati
able maw of the mighty sugar trust is now
bis abiding place. His sand yielded to sugar.
Big Timber Yet Before Them.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
It is tho turn of the Cle veland men to crow,
but they suould be mild about it in viow of
tho fact that there is yet a good deal of tim
ber for them to pass tcrough.
Signs Point in the Eight Direction.
Chicago Tribune.
The Century has taken up the fluht for
goad roads. All signs point to tho conclusion
that at the end of the century good roads
will bo fin do siecle,
GOSSIP OF SOCIETY. .
Making the New House Homelike A Meet
lng of Lovers of Artlstio China Walters
Act as Entertainers Fancy Fair in Alle
gheny. -
Several days have passed since moving
day, but there is a feeling now that life may
possibly be worth the living in the new
abode. The woman who Is responsible for
tbe comfort of the home has bor own tasks
in connection with the refurnishment of a
house in whloh very little of tbe furniture
that was so exaetly in its place in the old
home will consent to fit the new. It is the
experience of mosthousekeepers especially
young ones that it takes several weeks to
get settled down. A hint as to tho way In
which this settled-down feeling can be
hastened may not be out of place. Tho
secret is a simple oue. Let the big things in
the parlor find places as they may. but take
caro that the ornaments, tbe knick-knacks,
the statuettes, the pictures, the draperies,the
'thousand and one prottinesses that are in
the home of any woman of taste are ar
ranged as carefully as they ever were In the
old house. Once get these household goods
properly disposed of, and the bare, lonesome
feeling that is ono of the horrors of a new
homo wilt be dlsp died like snow under the
warm breath of spring.
- This evening the Duquesne Ceramic Clnb
will hold its first reception at the rooms or
the Academy of Science and Art There is
expected to be a large and interesting ex
hibit of art pottery, that will mark a new
era In the cultnre of this city, and in a direc
tion hitherto somewhat neglected. Tbe
looms will be decorated with exotics and on
tbe walls will be a number of valuable paint
ings. A large attendance is assured.
TnE waiters of the Kenmawr Hotel took
a hand in entertaining the guests last night.
They gave a very creditable concert of vocal
und Instrumental music. Some excellent
voices were brought forth in the coarse of
the programme, and tho audience, which
consisted of nearlr all the guests of the
hotel and many friends, was unanimous in
its praise of the affair. This is the first con
cert of tho kind ever given in Pittsburg, but
its success will insure its not being the last.
Mb. Morris "Wertheimer, of "Western
avenue, Allegheny, conducted a theater
party of ten couples to witness Miss Rose
Coghlan's performance of "Lady Barter" at
tho Duquesne Theater last night. The
entire party came in a four-in-hand coach,
with outriders. This is the first timo that
this kind of a conveyance was used for a
theater party, and tho young folks enjoyed
themselves Immensely In their peculiar con
veyance. Social Chatter.
Mas. Theodore W. Nevix, of Sewickley,
held a reception yesrerday.
Mn'. MoMastees and Mrs. Norraeuutt will
be the chaperones at to-night's meeting of
the Linden Euchre Club.
"The Sacrament3" will be the title of the
Rev. George Hodges' final lecture of the
Lenten scries, in St. Andrew's Episcopal
Church on Thursdav evening. The lectures
have been onjoyod by large audiences dur
ing Lent, nnd there is general regret over
tbe tact of their being nearly ended.
This afternoon the Ladles Aid Society of
the Southslde Hospital will meetatthe Guild
Houso to elect officers for the ensuing year.
Reports of offlcei s and standing committees
for tho past year will be read, and the work
lor the past 12 months will be reviewed.
The choir of tho Arch Street 31. E. Church
is busily i ehearsing its Easter mnslc. It ex
pects to render one otnhe best Easter pro
grammes in the two cities. Since most of the
churches are making extra preparations for
Easter, this is a very ambitious intention.
The Young Women's Christian Temper
ance Union of Wilklnsburg will give an en
tertainment in Ralston's Hall on Friday
evening. The Sonssa Male Quartet will take
part and, by special request, will sing "The
Soldier's Farewell." In addition there will
be a well-ariaaged programme of musical
and literary selections
A regular meeting of the Wilklnsburg
Chautauqua Circle was held last evening
at the residence of the Misses Moffltt, on
North street. After the readings that form
the business part of a Chautauqua circle
meeting there were music and recitations.
The interest in the Wilklnsburg Chautauqua
Circle is increasing from week to week.
A fasct fair is to be held in the. rooms of
the Helping Hand Society' on Tuesday, the
22d instnnt,under the auspices or the 11a
Clure Avenue Episcopal Mission, of Alle
gheny. The proceeds will be devoted to the
needs of the mission. The ladles of tbe
Holping Hand, as well as of the Episcopal
Mission, aie busy with preparations for the
event.
MAYOB SITARTS MESSAGE.
He Keviews Philadelphia's Financial Ca
lamity and Quotes Interesting Figures.
Philadelphia, April 4. Mayor Stuart in
his annual message says: "I was met at the
commencement of my term of office with a
financial calamity, such as none of my pre
decessors had ever experienced. In conse
quence the greater part of my flr3t official
year has been taken np with complications
growing out of the condition of affairs in the
Department of City Treasurer, under the
incumbency of John Bardsloy." The Mayor
briefly reviews the complications arising
from the ex-Treasurer's rascalties.
"In my inaugural address I stated that if
we expected the great improvements we so
much desired wo must have money, and
money in an amount considerably exceed
ing that which we have had in the past.
On January 1, 1891, tho funded debt was
$36,579,320 22: on January 1, 1S92, the funded
debt was $56,701,320 22. This indebtedness
will be leduced by the payment of $2,741,500
of the 6 per cent loan, and of $400,0CO of the
4 per cent loan that matures this year. I
had hoped to start upon tho second year of
my administration with greatly increased
appropriations in order that many of. tbe
permanent improvements contemplated by
me could have been commenced, but was
met with a deficiency from the year 1691 of
over hair a million dollars.
"To aid in making up tins deficit, I had to
permit $73,513 53 to be charged off from the
appropriations to the Department of Public
Works for the year 1592 In order that there
wonld not have to be returned to you all the
appropriation bill for tho esr, that they
could be scaled down, rearranged to come
within tlwlcgal llmltand bereappropritited.
Tins deficit in addition to the sum of $1,015,
S34 80 which would otherwise have been
uvailable for this yenr is, as follows: In
Keystono Natlonnl Bank. $411,551 32: In
Spring Garden National Bank, $113,402 25,
nnd school fund, $4:5,423 23, does not make a
very encouraging outlcok for tbe second
j ear of my administration."
Not the On'y Thing Obstructing Carlisle.
Chicago News.
The Ohio river is not the only thing be
tween Senator Carlisle and the Democratic
nomination.
DEATHS HERE AND LLSEWHERE.
Lewis Eandmesssr.
Lewis Landmesser, a resident of "Wilkes
barre for the past talf century, died at Atlantic,
Pa., vcstenlajr morning of heart failure. He
was born at Sp-jlssen, Prussia. 70 years ago and
came to this country wnen quits young. Daring
Ills life he held many positions of trust and was
one or the organizers of the Anthracite Bank of
Wilkesbarre. He leaves nearly 100 acres or coal
Unrt which Is estimated to be worth over halfa
million dollars. The deceased was the father or L.
II. Landmesser, recently appointed potirfaster of
Wllkesbarre.
Jr.cob Sclimastenberger.
Jacob SchmastcnberjTer, one of leading
farmers of.fatart. county, O., and County Commis
sioner, (lied at his home, at Minerva, ).. last
nleht. aced72. He was prominent In agricultural
ctrc:es .mil a man of wealth and energy. He leaves
a grown up family.
General Jamrs W. Singleton.
GeneralJamesW.Singletonlied yesterday
afternoon at Baltimore, aged 82 years. In 1M5
President Lincoln Intrusted General Singleton with
a mission to Richmond, whither he wrent four
times and conferred with Jefferson Davis and
others.
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Obituary Notes.
Tiiaddeus J. Barton' died Sunday at his home
in Baltimore, aged 70 jears. Mr. Barton was well
known all over the United States to the theatrical
profession. From early manhood he has been
manager of theaters and advance agent for com
panies. Mr. llarton presented Edwin Booth to the
public when that great actor had attained tbe age
of 17 years.
Mrs. Amelia Moore, widow of Joseph 8.
Moore, widely known under tbe nom do plume of
the "ParsecJIerchant," died 'suddenly of conges
tion of the lungs In Charleston, S. C Sunday.
She was about 50 rears old, sndvu born In Lon
don. Her husband died about a mouth ago.
W. T. Klikk, Justice of the Peace and one of
the leading Democratic politicians of Camber
county,1 died yesterday at Lcesburg, aged 40 years.
Mrs. Welthea Little Spbaode, widow of
Hon; Setb Bnraeue. died atDoxburr. Mass.. Tester
lay at the age of 103,
THE PLAFS TUB THING.
Tne Cogblans In Lady Barter Ship Aboy
Nautical Music The Hastier and the
Boomer A Glance at All tho Plays In
Town.
Hose Coghlan and her brother Charles
made their appearance together In "Lady
Barter" last night at tbe Duquesne Theater.
"Lady Barter" is a comedy of a rather
serious tone by Charles Coghlan. It is
an episode in tbe life of a refined
adventuress, and It Is undeniably a cleverly
written play, tarty Barter is tne extremelv
rapid widow of an obliging old party of 80,
who has had the decency to die betore tho
play opens. She hooks a lord, tbe most
eligible catch of the season, but as she is
playing her fish toward the matrimonial
shore a certain Oa'onel Pearce bobs np
loaded with letters from her lover,
who has been killed in Egypt,
and determined as soon as be learns of her
intent to marry Lord Brent to save that
young nobleman, who is his bosom friend,
from such a fate. The gradual lifting of tho
veil from Lady Barter' slightly damaged
Saat is tbe motive of tbe ulay. The process
I made entertaining bv the extromely
bright dialogue which Mr. Coghlan has
provided. The exohange of polite wit is, in
deed, too prolonged at times, and the play
lacks action, in the second act especially.
Played by less able actors it would be de
cidedly tedious in many places. Wo don't
know whether Mr. Coghlan Intended the
andlence to give a part at least
of its sympathies to the dis
reputable heroine at the end of the play,
but that most neonle will do so is nrobable.
for Lord. Brent looks contemptible enough as
Lady Barter almost drags him from his
eaves-dropping covert, and even the mili
tary hero with the Victoria Cross, of course
every soiuier in the English drama wears
that rare badge with modest grace
oven he cannot bo prond or nts
part in the final smoking out
of Ladv Barter. The best noint. technically.
is.the management of the snsDcnse. Ton
cannot guess exactly what Colonel Pearce'
irump caru is, tnougn you can see its
color, as It were, loner before it is nlaved.
It was played with considerable art last
night. Miss Coghlan made Ladu Barter an
intensely disagreeable and yet plainly at
tractive woman ot tho ramiuar uecKy
Sharp genus. Snch a part does not show
Miss Coghlan at her best, bnt the perform
ance was broadly telling. Some spots were
too broad, notably the underhand grin
to Colonel Pearce as she lay sup
posedly latnting in ner amanced's arms.
A sly and furtive smile might not have
brought down tho houso so effectivelv. but
it would have been nearer naturo and'bettor
art. Mr. Coghlan played with that gentle
manly composure ana quiet lorce mat are
so rarely met with among actors of his
class. Heroism, that is mild of manner and
clothed in qniet colors, looks so much big
ger than the bellowing braggart in
-a checked suit if tbe metaphor
will pass we meet so olten - in
romantic comedy. Mr. Thomas Whiffen
utilized a few momens on the stage to pre
sent an almost perfect picture of a philan
dering arch-deacon, and Mr. Hunter gave
anlcestudyofa robust wnrrior. Mr. John
T. Sullivan played the rather weak Lord
Brent somewhat flabbily, but perhaps it
was more the part's fault. The audience
cave the Coghlans three calls after tho
second act and enjoyed the whole perform
ance, evidently.'
I The Hustler at the ISIJon.
A crowded house at the Bijou, and that in
the face of the extremely warm weather of
last night, evidences that there are still
some people who want farce-comedy. In
"The Hustler" they are accommodated.
Without scheme or plot it carries out its in
tention or amusing witii iunny incident
and humorous savings. "The Ilustler"
company embodies quite a number
of clever specialists headed by the popular
John Kernel. M'lle Leonllda Stacclone, a
very clever Spanish dancer. Miss Mollie
Thompson, Miss Bosi France, Barney Rey
nolds, cnaries J. koss ana Eddie smitn an
made very pronounced hits in their special
features. Probably tho best impression
was made by Gus Mills In his really remnrk
able Impersonation of a female. Mr. Mills
both looks, sings and acts the part to per
fection. In that line of business he has
scarcely a peer In the profession.
Ship Ahoy at the A'.vln.
"Shin Ahovl". Donnelly and Miller's clean.
pretty and. amusing bnrletta appeared for
the second time in tbl3 city at the Alvln
Theater last evening. "Ship Ahoy!" is
really a farce-comedy with more pretense
to musical excellence than Is usuallv of
fered in such productions.' It is like "Pina
fore" la make-up and 13 unlike it in being
without design or object. It has
-the merit of being wholly pure in
tone. The authors have succeeded mar
ranging an amusing entertainment of the
farce-comedy character without inculcating
a single concert hall or suggestive feature.
That is more than can be said for many
shows of tbe kind. The company is com
posed of.very clever singers and actors, i In
the simple melodious music of composer
Fred Miller, they had no difficulty in being
both seen and heard to advantage. Tho
famous and beauteous Louise Montague sur
prised her Pittsburg friends by her splendid
singing. She is possessed ot a good voice,
somewhat limited in range, but extremely
effective in the work required in this
Serformance. Miss Florence Dnnbar nnd
iss Annie Barrett are also quite clever,
and made good impressions. Jesso Jenkins
ms Entitm Toddle did not dlsplav much
ability as an actor, but proved possessed of
a sweer, ngnc oantone voice, wnica ne usea
to advantage. The brunt of the work de
volves noon James E. Sullivan, who made
a very amusing part of the sorely tried
operatic manager, uoionei juapicion juiuoerry
Tim srnnerv in "Shin Ahov" is onlto eood.
The arrival of the White Squadron in Chesa
peake Bay ana tne accx oi a sea vessel are
extiemely pretty.
Tbe Boomer at the Opsra House.
"Tho Boomer" is a farce comedy of rather
less than the usual coherency, and while
tbere'are amusing things in it, as a whole It
is decidedly dull. The audience rendered this
verdict by gradually fading away as the play
progressed. Dan Packard and one or two
others worked hard and achieved some
humor, bnt "Tho Boomer" can hardly be
said to have brought his boom along.
Th9 Harris Theater.
A new play was given at this house yester
day, and Judging from the applause that
greeted it, "777" is a success. But judging
the play on its merits is a different thing. It
is R melodrama with an intricate plot, and,
ns a whole, is something beyoncl the capa
bility of the company In whose hands it has
fallen. A.W.Fremonr, the star, is interesting
and Willis Jackson's Poker Jim is not bad. but
there's not another character that conldn't
be 'improved.
The Academy ot BitLilc.
"Williams' and Orr's Meteors" are Jnst the
kind or specialty company that PIttsburgcrs
like. Of course there are better combina
tions on the road, but the "Meteors" have a
variety that sustains an interest among the
audience from start to finish of the pro
gramme. Last evening tho house was crowded,
as usual. Press Eldrldge, "Tuo Poor
Girl -Didn't Know, Tou Know,"
pleased everybody. It's a pity that spe
cialty companies haven't more artists of
the Eldrldge class. Watson nndHutchlngsnre
a real clever comedy couple. Gallagherand
West are passable. Faver and Sinclair, La
tona, Leslie and Collins. Trchluana nnd
Oume, the marvelous Japs and Price and
Elmer all secured applause. Cyclops and
Saudoweare in the company and they per
form tbelr wonderful feats of strength. Cy
clops still defies the world.
Notes of tho Stng
AT the World's Museum tho heat didn't
prevent largo audiences from loqking at the
giant and a clever variety performance in
the theater.
The wonderful educated fleas and a host
of other amusing features kept the large
audiences at Harry Davis' Museum enter
tained yesterday.
Pbof. Gleasos'b engagement closes Friday
night at the Auditorium, and during tho
last four nights ho will handle five very
vicious horses. To-niglit he will break to
rldo and drivo ono of the most vlcions
horses man ever attempted to handle. He
is known as "tho Broncho Bucker.
Mayor Stewart Slakes i Sweep.
Philadelphia, April 4. Mayor Stuart to
day announced a clean sweep in the Board
of Directors of the Department of Charities
and Correction, appointing an entirely now
board. The now officials are ox-Select
Councilman James A. Freeman, President;
John Hnggard, ex-Chairman of the Guar
dians of the Poor; William B. Gardner ox
Presldcntof the Gas Tinst; Major William
H. Lambert, General Agent of tneMutu.il
Life Insurance Company, and Alfred Moore.
Good Advice to the Democrats.
Chicago Inter-Ocean. J
A Boston man has invented an electrical
machine to disperso fog. The Democrats
should bny up the patont. It might help
them to clear up the fogs in whloh the party
la now floundering looking for light on the
'lUTerandtho tariff.
CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS.-
There are nearly 3,000 stitches in a pair
of hand-sewn boots.
TVolverhanipton has a bullock with a
wooden leg and a good appetite.
A Maine boy of 8 years is said to be
able to repeat 40 chapters of tte Bible.
The Emperor of China has ten men
whose sole duty Is to carry his umbrella.
The contractor who built an Indiana
Jail now occupies one of Its cells as a pris
oner. French reporters now take notes at
night by the light of a tiny incandescent
lamp attached to the pencil.
There is a brisk trade in second-hand
tombstones in London. Still stranger is the
custom of selling family vaults " partly filled.
It is reckoned that the British fleet,
which numbered 2,110 guns, fired away 45,
ooo pounds of powder during tno battle of
Trafalgar.
Paris is now the best lighted citvjn tho
world, and a model for all cities that are
bent on introducing electric lighting on a
grand scale.
Careful investigation in Prussia reveals
the remarkable fact that the average life of
Jews in Prussia is five years longer than
;hat of Christians.
A fine collection of seventeenth century
tobacco-pipes has Just been found under an
old London cellar and deposited in the
unuanall Mnsenra.
The Kothschild family, of Europe, says
Herr Flurscheim, the German economist. Is
estimated to be worth $1,000,000,000, and their
income to be $35,000,000.
The old troublesome question of how to
dispose of wires never arises in Paris, where,
thanks mainly to the subways, there aro ab
solutely no obstructive wires.
In no three large cities in Europe have
greater advances in sanitation been shown
during tho last 20 years tban in the cities of
Bombay, Madras and Calcutta.
According to a law of nature, when a
body Is cooled It becomes heavier than when
it is hot. There is one exception to the rule,
however, and that Is In the case of water.
The latest whim for the owners of dogs
is to make them wear shoes in the house for
the purposeof protectingthepolished floors.
They are made of chamois, with leather
soles.
Out of 23,000 persons engaged in cabi
net making In London, 4 COO are foreigners.
Some estimates place tho nebrew popula
tion In East London at 60,000, another esti
mate places it at 35,000.
It is interesting to learn that the whole
of the magnlllcent brocades, velvets and
silks for the rostnmes in the Lyceum ver
sion of Henry VIII. were woven in English
looms by English workmen.
Black snow laiely fell in the Canton of
Geneva, Switzerland a phenomenon which
was onco thought to pressge the black plague
nnd other calamities but is now known to bo
due to a fungus in the snow.
The total force in the naval service
afloat in 1S90 was 5J,359 officers and men, of
whom 30,020 were between the ases of 15 and
24,17,310 between 23 and 35, 5,150 between 35
and 45, and 870 above 43 years of age.
There are 23 railway tunnels in Ea
land between one and two miles long, four
over two miles, two Just tSreo mill's, and
one tho Severn, on the Great Western
Ballway-ls over four and. a half miles long.
The proposed plan for the postal tnbo
between Franca and England is to suspend
two tubes, each about threo feet in diametr,
by means of steel cables thrown acro:s the
Channel, 120 feet above the level of the
water.
A geld coin passes from one to an
other 2,000,000,000 times before the stamp or
impression upon it becomes obliterated by
friction, whilo a sliver coin changes between
3,250,O0O,C0O times before it becomes entirely
effaced.
London's latest fad, the green carnation,
is said to be simply "a cros3 between a Com
mon carnation and a paint brush," a practi
cal illustration of painting the lily which is
financially as profitable as the- Tnllk-fed
squashes tbey sometimes raise up in Dakota,
to startle the tenderfoot.
Catarrh and lung troubles make the
residence of npes in -Northern Enropstmly
a brief pathway"W-'the gTave-Edgaf'A&a,
tbe noted Paris chimpanzee, has rdocntly
died of consumption, and tbe successor to
"Sally" in the London Zoological Garden has
a cough which is almost human.
Mulberry wood, the Doylestown, Pa.,
Intelligencer asserts, is the most durable ma
terial of which to make fence post3. It tells
of a farm near Strode's mill, Chester county,
fenced with this material 95 years ago. tho
posts being still in good condition. They
now snpport their 16th set of rails.
The pocket umbrella has not yet ar
rived, but a Florida negro was ont In the
rain a few days ago under a combination hat
and umbrella. It was his own manufacture,
made of palmetto, and was about three feet
in diameter. Ho walked about In a Florida
downpour without getting wet at alL
Mail carriers in Morocco are said to
avoid the risk of losing their places by over
sleeping by tying a string to one foot and
setting the end of It on Are before going to
sleep. Tho string, they know from experi
ence, will burn so long, and when the fire
reaches their foot it Is time for them to get
up.
In the most advanced Continental glass
manufactories glass blowing is no longer
done by tne mouth but by compressed air.
Lead mixing is done by workmen wearing a
mask in which are inserted sponges on a
level with tho nose and mouth. It is in this
manufactory that the glass panes perforated
in conical-shaped apertures to admit the air
are made.
In former times it was esteemed highly
Improper for single or unmarried persons to
wear rings, "utiles they were Judges, doc
tors or Senators." For all but these digni
taries snch an unwarranted ornotnentwas
considered an evidence or "vanity, lascivi
ousness nnd pride," and was looked upon ns
a great piece of presumption on tno paof
the wearer.
The earliest authentic account of lace is
about the sixth century, when high-born
Italian nuns wrought it for the adornment
or tbo sanctuary. Even before the English
nuns were famed for tbe very opon English
work, wondertullv lacey in effect. Monks
as well as nuns, give their mind to it. St,
Dunstan himself did not think it derogatory.
to make designs for the convent workere.
In Pelham's "Collection of Travels'
(180C), referring to ono of the Taciflc islands,
mention is made of a woman who was soon
shaving a child's head with a shark's tooth
fastened into tho end of a stick. The hair
was flrt wetted with a rag dipped in water,
and then, by a propor application or the in
strument, she completed the business as
effectually as If a razor had been employed.
JINGLES AND JOKELETS.
Tirlaa ftulflv T wonder what kind of
weapons the ancient Amazons fouebt with?
Prof. Crabbe Oil. powder and a bang. I faacr-
Just like their modern sisters. Judge.
Quite penniless the bard expired.
His creditors all sighed
'His odes have ever mvie us tired.
And yet In debt he died."
Washington S4l.
"So he rose from poverty to wealth ? Is
he very rich?"
..-- ... i- , v. Mnnff1! tn nnv a
ibicil. iiv la muiirai. ... ...-o j --
titled husband for his daughter. Jacksonville
limes.
Chappie "What are you going to do, now
that she has thrown you ovrboard?"
Chollr-Cawn'tsay:you don't suppose my man
would be willing to commit suicide, do you? Jo
Xori Herald.
'This kiss you give to me, dear LiL"'
Declared the lover true,
Shall neyer leave my lips until
I grre It back to you."
That very night at the church fah
He paid a dollar fee
For entrance to the vestry where
They held a "kissing bee."
Sew Tork Presi.
In the primary school the other day the
scholars were required to tell, in their own words.
something about the elephant.
Little Flossie, in her turn, stood up and said:
The plumage of the elephant Is brown." tact.
Short and sharp is his fondly khs,
As he leaves his Mary Jane.
He plants It a la hit or miss
And runs for the earliest train.
Jo'Set EsralX
Mrs. "Wyckoff Thomas I You never toM .
me yon were married before! Ah. men are de
ceivers ever; they say that even Adam bad a nrsl
wife. ' '
Mr.Wyclcoff So be did: but it was nls second
wife that raised Caln.-SmifA, Gray Cb,' ifcnXAty.
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