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The exam ples of inequitable freight rates antago nistic to the interests of this city, given in the paper, are simply samples of similar injustices experienced at the hands of railroad corporations by the merchants and manufacturers of this city. For fif teen years the transportation companies have added insult to injury by acknowl edging the unfairness of their rates, and steadfastly refusing to right the wrong. It is high time that the railroad com panies should be obliged by the united action of Pittsburgers to accomplish that which they refuse to do of their own accord. The first step necessary is the awaken ing to the fact that the interest of one is the interest of the community in this matter. This done, there should be an extreme willingness on the part of every man, or firm, whose pocketbook has ex perienced the evil of freight discrimina tion to give detailed evidence of the same before the Chamber of Commerce Com mittee. With the amount of data thus obtainable the extent of the injustice will be manifest, and subscriptions for the Eupport of a freight bureau to obtain more equitable terms should be recognized as investments sure of an adequate re turn. That the freight bureau will have no easy tak is only another way of saying that it will need all the concerted support obtainable. With loyal backing, such a body can obtain its end by efforts in two directions. On the one hand attempts should be made to con tince existing transportation com panies that their present policy is cent wise and dollar foolish. And that the diversification of Pittsburg's in dustries, and the increase in its commerce resultant from the removal of injurious discrimination would more than repay in the near future any loss that could tempo rarily arise from the equalization. On the other hand, water communications should be encouraged and inducements offered lor the building o! new railway lines, while existing lines should be spurred to competition. Sir. Oliver's arguments and suggestions follow naturally from his facts, and only need the support they deserve to make them the source of immense public benefit. Pittsburg cannot afford to live on a reputa tion achieved under advantages that in some cases have ceased to exist, and in others are declining. There are more than enough advantages remaining to this locality to make it the manufacturing center of the world, but those advantages must be displayed by united public-spirited vigor. Railroad companies and the rest of the world are not going to do this or that simply to please a few Pittsburgers. They must be made to do what Pittsburg wants by a solid effort on Pittsburg's part to show them which way profit lies. THE MAYOR. SETS A STANDARD. The Mayor's veto of the Bellefield street railway ordinance was founded upon the public convenience, and his Honor's posi tion in support of another full and direct line to East Liberty was correct Among Counc.lmen, however, the Duquesne system had the call as against the Central Traction, and, as on many such previous occasions, the 3Ia3'or's excellent reasoning did not count with the Councilmeu, who repassed the ordinance above his veto. But, if Mayor Gourley seldom converts Councils, there are few of his vetoes which do not hit the center-mark for the public. Ha has done more than any other individual to interest taxpayers in the principles that should prevail in city government The results of his teachings, while frequently invisible in Councils, will be illustrated eventually at the polls. The broad and intelligent discussion of city issues by Mayor Gourley will for in stance have at least a decided effect on the choice of a successor to him in the Mayor's chair next winter. The public will want there a Mayor with the firm ness and determination to keep up the check which Mayor Gourley has set upon Councils. They will accept none whom they may tbink unwilling or unable to live up to Gourley's independent and ex cellent standard. Thus the utility and influence of the Mayor's vetoes are not to be measured by the treatment they get from Councils. They are serving a public service far be yond that HE IS WORSE NOW. The Philadelphia Press quotes from a speech of the Hon. Adlai Stevenson, Democratic candidate for Vice President, in 1878, accepting a Greenback nomina tion for Congress. This speech is espe cially noticeable as denouncing the resumption act, supporting its repeal, and calling for free coinage of silver. This would afford a very good measure of the financial reliability of the Vice Presidental candidate of the Democracy if a more forcible one was not afforded by a more recent declaration. It may be im portant that a man declared against resumption when it was a practically accomplished fact and has always joined the free silver shouters ; but it is more to the point when he stands committed to a measure more vicious and disturbing than those he stood for fourteen years ago. Tbe revival of State bank notes, as supported in the Democratic plat form and Indorsed by Stevenson, Is something besides which greenback ism would furnish a uniform circulation and free silver a stable and unfluctuating coin: So long as Stevenson can stand on the wildcat platform of 1893 ho Is not to be put to the blush by recalling that he upheld the rag baby of 1878. Indeed, to impeach a man who avows the desire to go back to the ante-bellum State bank, enormity, with subsequent relations to Greenbackism.is like indicting a self-confessed homicide for acts tending to provoke a breach of the peace. BULWARKS OF PROTECTION. The assurance contained in the Con gressional review published in The Dis patch this morning, to the effect that there is no prospect of the Democrats securing a majority of the next Senate, is one that will gratify all friends of pro tection and a sound financial system. A series of gerrymanders handicaps the Re publicans in the struggle for members of the House of Itepresentatives. It is certain, though, that there will be heavy inroads upon the present unwieldy Demo cratic majority in that branch. Nearly if not all of the ground lost in tbe tidal wave of 1890 will be regained. The most serious danger to the contin uation of the present policy is found in the possibility that the People's Party may hold the balance of power at one or Doth ends of the Capital. Even in that remote contingency a ReDUblican Ifresi dent in the White House can discourage and block the wild schemes of either free traders or sub-Treasury advocates. The bare idea of such a situation is enough to arouse the business interests, workingmen and genuine farmers of the country to re newed efforts in behalf of the national ticket which stands upon a sound and unequivocal-platform. THE POLITICIANS' TUMBLE. One of the most interesting phases of the campaign and one also that is in danger of being passed over in the general hurly burly with less less notice than its importance demands is the confession of the great politicians who have, so to speak, traveled thus far in their political journey on their infallible knowledge of the popu lar temper that they were all wrong. The year has been remarkable for the em phatic declarations of the practical poli ticians that certain candidates could not be elected, and the subsequent recanta tions and confessions of the same politi cians that they were all wrong. The political novice who is wont to be lieve that all knowledge of thp popular temper is bound up in men of the Hill and Gorman stamp on the Democratic side, and of the Quay, Clarkson and Piatt type on the Republican, are now left at sea without a compass. For Hill and Gor man, and their followers in Tammany and out of it, having declared with one voice in June that Cleveland could not bo elected, now come forward and publicly avow that they were mistaken. They did not know the temper of the people, and so they confess their mistake. On the Republican side PJatt, Quay, Clarkson and the others have gone through the same process of error and confession; so that the net result is the parade of the practical politicians in a sort of auto de fe of conviction of error and recantation. But see where this leaves those who pin their faith on the wisdom of the practical politicians. If Hill, Gorman, Watterson and Croker on one side, and Quay, Piatt and Clarkson on the other were ignorant of the popular desire in June by their own confession in October, what reason is there to tie to their accuracy of percep tion now? If book study of practical pol itics did not qualify them to judge cor rectly four months ago, is there any just ground for belief that they have learned the art of infallibility in the short interval since? By their own confession the prac tical politicians stand convicted of wild error. After this the professional political sharp can be ranked at his true value, of knowing a little less about popular feeling than the average citizen. A POSSIBLE DEVELOP3EENT. The report that plans have been formed in London for running street stages by electricity indicates a possible and im portant change in the methods of mu nicipal transit The power in this case is furnished, by storage baiteries. It has long been perceived by tliose who look ahead that the perfection of the storage battery would make such result possible, although other things must aid to give the new depaiture the widest success. Prom inent among them is a street pavement approximating in smoothness the railway tracks now used by traction lines. When this is provided on leading av enues, the independence of storage bat tery vehicles and their ability to go wher ever the traffic offers will present some very positive attractions. Chief among its advantages will be the saving of the in vestment on tracks. An equal or greater investment in pavements having at least the smoothness of asphalt will be neces sary, but as this will be done by the city for the benefit of all traffic on the streets It will effect a great saving to those who wish to engage in street traffic. Then the ability of any person to run electric ve hicles over any suitably paved street would abolish any monopoly in rapid transit On the other hand, if 'such a system should come into use there would be some drawbacks requiring new regulations in the use of the streets. The speed to be allowed to vehicles not confined to tracks would be a problem of much importance. At present people on the streets have a certain degree of notice that they must look out for the high speed taken by cars on the tracks, and outside of the tracks they are reasonably safe. When most of our streets are occupied by cable or elec tric lines this measure of protection may not be very great; but it is something. If electric vehicles independent of tracks were to be permitted to take an equal rate of speed even that safety would be lost The changed condition of things might be met by setting aside certain streets for high-speed travel in given directions and restricting the rate of speed on all other streets. The possibilities of the newsortof street travel indicated by the London telegram in Sunday's Dispatch are verv interest ing. Among them is the probability that If the new system should come into vogue it would put an end to street railway com binations and squeeze the inflation out of watered stocks. WHERE IS THE SECURITX? Mr. M. D. Harter, who has been multi tudinously introduced as the father of the movement to repeal the tax on State bank notes, made a speech in New Tork the other night from the steps of the sub Treasury. Ho produced a bill which he proposes to introduce, the important feature of which can best be described in his own words : "You will observe that section 4 provMes for the repeal of the present unconstitutional and prohibitory THE PITTSBURG tax upon State bank circulation. I afsumo that the undeniable right of every State in the Union to authorize its banks to issue notes intended to circulate as money is one that each State has reserved to itself." There is no doubt that Mr. Harter stands by the Democratic platform, al though other and more prominent Demo crats have perceived the necessity of dodging it But, in view of the pedestal on which Harter has been placed by cer tain Mugwump organs as the author of the idea, what becomes of the painful assurances of the same organs that the tax is not to be repealed without seeming conditions that the new-old style of cur rency shall be made fully reliable? The Democratic platform makes no condi tions. Harter, the recognized Democratic authority, makes no conditions. His bill, which is the great Democratic refcrm of reviving the red-dog currency, makes no conditions. The whole thing is to be thrown open to the whims and vagaries of H different State legislatures, and the public is to be inflicted with 44 varying degrees of instability in the bank notes offered it if the Democratic idea pre vails. No more emphatic illustration of the dangers of Democratic supremacy need be adduced than this deliberate and wanton proposition to turn our currency system backward to a plan condemned and found utterly vicious by the experience of this country 30 years and more ago. If the Democratic Presidental nominee bad shown any Inclination to inlorm the nation how the Protective tariff can bo Im proved upon, he would havo behaved logic ally. Instead of that, however, he lias done no more than say that the Protection of the Republican party is wofully wrong, that the Chicago demand for free traae is also deplorable, and that he nnds it easier simply to criticise the one and disregard the other than to attempt any constiuCtive work on his own account. Since the maliciously mistaken allega tion that a Democratic candidate is a l'io hlbitionist has been branded as "mud-slinging," it is drfflcut to imagine what tctru would aptly desciihe a similar charge that any Prohibitionist was a Democrat. A kxwly-disgovehed area of 15 miles by 22, rich in the possession of 20 kinds of marble, is described as n "vast field of un hewn headstones." There may be some ex cuse for such a description, as indicating the most profitable source of demand for the material, but to choose "headstones" in place of sculpture and tho adornment of buildings as the main use for 0 kinds of marblo is a reflection on the artistic if not tbe titllltaiiau tendency of the day. When railroad companies illuminate every inch of their tracks with electric light, as a wild-oyed rumor asserts that one cor poration thinks of doing, the world will be light enough lor the discovery of the millennium. That sudden and costly rise of Niagara is an indication that tho great falls are as mettlesome as an unbioken colt, and have the same sort of objection toboiu,r broken in and harnessed for the use of man. Kind ness will be of little use in dealing with so Inanimate a stubbornness, and it remains to bo seen whether tho nineteenth century man oc science lias enough force at his dis posal to curb and coerce so mighty an ex amplo of the perversity of nnture. Assertions supported by no evidence form the Democratic campaign mateiial. They look decidedly feeble in comparison to the facts of Protection illumined by arguments. A stranger in America at this time would be justified in imagining that the country was wholly given up to the cultiva tion or statisticians. And if he judged of the Arithmetic taught In our Public Schools by the contradictory estimates based upon the same figuics, ho would naturally arrive at the conclusion that it was a wonueriully elastic system of computations. That would be a frosty campaign indeed which eliminated tho use ot fire arms in tho hot-headed sections of the politically in tolerant South, TriE London Times is critical enough to think that neither Presidental candidate should be elected. Four yeais hence tho nomination lor tho Presidency should be left e.itirely to tho omniscient Times, and then of course everyone will be satisfied that there is no mistake about the matter. Mr. Adlai Stevexson's letter of ac ceLtance was a perluaetory performance about equally unnecessary, useless and un interesting. There only remains a week for the pub lication of new systems of logic or mathe matics in connection with the Presidental campaign. But even were the time longor the combinations have been w orked to such an extcut that there is hardly room for further oiiglnallty. With all tbe follies of rainbow chasing, a politician had better be sanguino than sanguinary. FOLK T.UiKKD ABOUT. JuiilA Maklowe used to be known as Fanny Brnugh, and when a very young girl she played boys with much cleverness. Hamilton Fish is now the sole sur vivor of those distinguished men who held tho Governorship of Now York prior to 1879. The Kaiser has decided that a picture of the German Empross (-hall bo put ud in every army barracks, so that soldiers shall be ablo to recognize herwnen they see her. Miss Harriet Monroe has been authorized by the Ways and Means Com mittee of the World's Fair to print and sell her Commemoiation Ode on the Exposition grounds. Ernest MiciiAtrx, a French black smith, is claimed to nave led, through tho invention of a velocipede, to the discovery of the bicycle. A monument in his honor Is about to bo erected at Earle-duc, his birth place. "Wiiittier's gains from his writings were much more substantial than poets usually realize. It Is understood that there is a revenue of $3,500 a year from his copyright ulone. The total volueoftheestatelspluced at $122,000. Mrs. Eunice Koss Davis, of Dedham, Mass., now 92 years old, Is the only surviving member of the Woman's Autl-Slavory So ciety. She is still in rather vigorous health. Last spring she suffered from a severe attack of pneumonia. Count Tolstoi has recently deposited his memoirs, including a large diary in manuscript, with the ourator of a Russian museum, the conditions being that they shall not be published until ten years after the author's death. T. B. Gaever, of Harper county, is the watermelon king in Kansas. lie has shipped 80,000 melons tills season and is taking the seeds Irom 80,000 more to ship to Eastern bouses. He is piling up money and making tho world happier ut tho same time. MONACO A DIAM0HD MINE. The Eevenue for the Last Fiscal Tear Was Over 83,000,000 Francs. Moste Carlo, Oct. 31. The principal shareholders of tho Societe Anonyme des Bains del Mor et du Cercie des Etrangers de Monaco held tholr half-yearly meeting in the Casino in Monaco Friday afternoon, to consider the financial reports of the busi ness transacted and the moneys disbursed by tho Board of Directors. It was reported that tbe total revenue fi.Y Vi t-olilna rlnHnor tH toot fldnnl tima were a little over 23.100,000 frar.es, a large) amount in excess iu mst years returns, J. no capital stock of tho5ocloieis30,00u,00Ufrancs, divided Into 60,000 shares at 600 francs aniece. Each share carries a coupon interest of 25 bancs per annum. DISPATCH, TUESDAY, THE HEAVENS FOB NOVEMBER. At its best November is but a poor month for star-gazing. The beautiful Indian sum mer nights so frequent In October are gone, and heavy veils of olouds are mora likely than not to cover the skies and shut out all view of celestial sights. Still, unless we are very unlucky in this respect, we are pretty sure to catch a glimpse of several or the heavenly phenomena visible here this month. The moon is full on the 4th and is totally eclipsed when at tho lull. This phenom-' cnon, however, occurs at about 10 A. jr., Pittsburg time, when the sun is high In the heavens, and when the moon, which is then cut offfrom its share of the sun's light by the earth, is of course on the other side of the earth and quite invisible to as here. And when tho moon rises at sunset It has already passed out of the earth's shadow and Its great round diso.will bob up sei enely smiling as if nothing had happened. Now it would be natural to think that when the sun, earth and moon all three fall in a straight line they would remain so for more than a paltry hour or so. But they don't, and the comparatively short duration of all eclipses is due to the rapid proper motion of the moon from west to cast. It is hard to realize that the proper motion of the moon is as great as it is, and probably not many or our readers appreci ate the fnot that tho moon's motion from west to east is easily noticeable in an even ing. But a little thought will show that it must be so. Tardiness of the Moon. The moon rises about au hour later each evening; hence It must have moved east consideiably during the 24 hours. So it hus about 13 and in one hour it moves east about 1-21 of 13, or a little over half a degree. That is just about the apparent diameter of tho moon, and, consequently, every hour tbe moon moves eastward across the sky a distance equal to Its own width. Of course, the earth's rotation on its axis causes all objects in the celestial vanlt to seem to move westwai d quite rapidly, and the moon's proper motion eastward can only be noticed by watching to see ir it fulls be hind other heavenly objects In their com mon courso to the horizon. Wo have a very good chance to obscrvo this on the evening of Novem ber 2, whon at about 6 o'clock tno moon passes under and very close to Ju piter. Now watch when Jupiter is Jnst above the left or eastern side of tbe moon. In about an hour you will notice that the blight planot Is just above the light or western side or tho moon. Knowing as we do that Jupiter's motion is very slow in deed, much too slow to bo noticed, then tnis must piove that tho moon is falling behind, or in othcr-wotds is really moving eastward among the stars. Whon the moon passes between us and a planet it of course hides or occults it, and according to whnt wo have just seen this must last for about an hour. Though these occupations aie not phenomena of any special importance, yet, when the planet is bright, it is a very beautiful and interesting sight to see it suddenly disappear behind tho moon, and after a long interval re appear just as suddenly on the other side. It is a'l especially fine sight to see a planet occulted by the daik and invisible edge of Hie moon, but unfortunately none oi the soveral occupations this month aioof that character. An Unusually Frequent Phenomenon. , The phenomenon is unusually frequent this month, every bright planothutMais be ing occulted in turn. Tho occultation of Jupiter on the 2d is visible as such only in tho tropics nnd south of the Equator. Saturn is hidden next on tho 13th, hue at & o'clock in the morning. On the same day Venus becomes occulted, too, but not In our lati tude. And on November 21 tho new moon occults Mercury, but, like that of Jupiter, this is only visible in southern latitudes, and here we will be lucky to see it even as a near approach, as it occurs about 5 o'clock in the ovanincr. When til" twilight la Dttll strong, and it will take a keen eyo to pick out the shy planet so low down to our.smolty horizon. Mars and Jupiter aro evening stars this month, Venus and Saturn morning stars. Mars' glory has now departed, but ho may be seen in tho south throm;houl the month glittering with that ruddy glow that is un mistakable, though scaicely half as bright as it was in August. About October 1 it may havo been noticed that Mars was In a direct lino with the two bright first magni tude stars, Altairand Vega, the latter bein the most northerly and Altair in the middle. Now it will bo seon that Mars Is noticeably to the east of the line of the two stars. Vega and Altatr are fixed stars and havo preserved and will preserve lor thousands of years their relative positions, so we are foiccd to the conolasion that Mars is slowly moving eastward. It is a case like that of tho moon and Jupiter, only Mars moves east in a day scarcely as much as the moon does in an hour. Still at tho end or a month this eastward motion of the planet Is plainly noticeable. The Position of Jupiter. Jupiter is well past opposition, but is as bright as ever, and will be by far the most conspicuous object in the sky during November. There are doubtless many readers of The Dispacii who havo never seen Mercury, but nould like to have a glimpse of tbe beauti ful llttlo planot if they only knew when and whare to look for it. Being the mem ber of the solar system nearest to the sun it is almost always hlddoii In the sun's rays, and is visible to the naked eye on compara tively few days of tho year. Mercury makes its greatest apparent distance from tho sun on November 3, but is unluckily so farsouth that it will require a very clear evening and a good pair of eyes to detect It. It may bo sedn Just after sunset on Novem ber 23, a little abovo the horizon ana about G south of where the sun sot. On November 1 tho constellations rise two hours earlier than they did on October 1, and at 9 p. M. this evening, Novembor 1, all the fixed stars are seen to be 30 farther west than they wero a month ago. The great constellation of Taurus, or the Bull, Is well up in the southeast at this time. The bright, redish star Aldebaran marks the eye of the Bull.andcannocbemlssea, as it Is the only first magnitude starln that quarter of the heaven s,exccpt the brill ian t will te Capel la, which lies farther to the north and oast. Tho Pleiades form part of Taurus, and may easily be seen a little abovo Aldebaran, glowing "like a swarm of firefles," as Eng land's departed laureate beautifully de scribed them. A Task for a Good Eyo. On a clear night a good eye can count six or seven separate stars in this gioup. But don't find lault with your eyes if you do not succeed in counting this numbor, lor a great deal depends on tho condition of the atmos phere. Prof. Pickering says he can easily pick out 11 or 12 with tho naked oye from his station in Peru, where the air is phenom onally clear. Such feats as that are, of course, impossible hero in our moisture laden atmosphore, but with a good opera glass the numbor or stars'visiblo In this tiny gronp will bo more than doubled. The constellation of Amiga is now hUh up la the Eastern sky and forms one of the most striking groups visible. It may bo rec ognized by its resemblance to a pentagon, tho bright Capclla being situated at the northern of tho five angles. This con stellation is now the synosnro of all eyes in the astronomical world. Within that pentagon, far beyond the reach of unaided vision, is a mighty mass which is undergo ing disturbances and changes of incompre hensible magnitude. About a year ago it created its first sensation by being born, so to speak, with the most startling sudden ness. This was interesting, and the atten tion of astronomers tho world over was at once attracted to Nova Aurlgm, or the now star in Auriga. Prof. Keeler, the uenial director of the Allegheny Observatory, took a great Interest in the little sti anger to mortal vision, and last spring delivered a lecture on it before the Academy of Science and Art in this city, in which be proposed several oilginal hypotheses to account for Its sudden appearance. Tho star gradually died away, as most Novae do, and it was supposed that that was tbe last of it. But since its disappearance several months ago it suddenly broke forth again and has since behaved In a manner quite unprecedented. At a visit to Prof. Keoler by The Dispatch NOVEMBER 1, 1892. writer, the latest information in regard to It was obtained. One Theory Has Been Spoiled. THETecent strange behavior of the star has knocked Prof. Keeler's hypotheses higher than a kite, but a foreign astron omer has just pnbllshea a new hypothesis to account for its now actions. The star is now plainly visible to largo tolescopes as a bright peck In the midst of a lalnt nebulous mass, and it Is supposed that Its sadden increase in light may be due to friction with various masses of nebulosity, which aro known tn bo scattered through space, and thiongh which this star is passing at a rate of over 200 miles per second. It must not bo supposed that the suddon blaze or light is of insignificant size becausu It is invisible to the naked eye. We would doubtless consider it a toleiably big blazo if our earth wero to bump up against some great comet and De instantly vaporized by the Intense heat which would result. But compared with the blaze which has taken place In that distant orb, tho conflagration of our earth would bo but the stiiking of a match to an eruption of Vesuvius. Think of that as you gaze at the peaceful constellation to-night! Could anyone after an effort to realize this stupendous fact attempt-to deny the existence of an omnipo tent Creator! Truly "the undevout astrono mer is mad." Prof. Keeler has Just completed his set of 12 drawings of Mars. They form a complete record of his observations, and are works of great beauty and accuracy, for Prof. Keeler is a daughtsman or unusual ability. They will probably be published in one of the as tronomical journals. Pittsburgers may well be proud of the work Prof. Keeler is do ing here, andanarticle of his in tho January Ccntmy on the planets will doubtless be lead with a great deal of Interest. Wtlie. 0UH MAIL POUCH. Eov. Mr. Williams Meant No Offense, and Kefers to Books on a Disputed Point. To the Editor of The Dispatcli i My attention has been called to a commu nication signed F. K. in your lssuo of yes terday in which I am accused of wantonly attacking the standing of the Roman Church in a recent card because therein I madeieference to "the Jesuit maxim, 'the end sanctifies tho means.'" I am also chal loed to give authority for calling the said maxim "the Jesuit maxim." As to the charge, I must most earnestly disclaim It. My object in my published card was most simple and evident, 1. o., to defend my ou ii people and the ladles of our Hospi tal Association irom an unjust aspersion. In so doing I used a popularly current phrase, but without for a moment Intend ing to cast a slur on the lioman Church. In deed, the Kowan Church was not at all in my mind at the time. I am not conscious of any hatred against that church. Indeed, on the contrary, I reveienco many of the saints on her calendar, I admire all the good shu is doing among us and 1 honor and re spect many of her priosts and people. And I do not i. old hoi responsible lor the maxims or actions of all the individuals or bodies m her lold. As to the challenge, although it deserves no answer, boing anonymously signed, yet as H appeals to my manhood, honor and truth, i will comply with tho request most briefly, and then absolutely close the mut tei, so far as I am concerned. I decline to enter Into any religious controvorsy.as such controversy is iruitful only of harm. Naturally 1 hnvon't the Jesuit'standards oi ethics at hand. But I can leler my critic to an undoubted authority where ho will find the maxim lu question cited, in the original Latin, from tmeo at least of the highest recognized standards of the Jesuit order. I quote briefly irom tho Encyaopwlia EHtan ntca. Vol. XIII, article Jesuits, page Cul (American reprint): "The result of dis passionate examination ot these and kin area works" (speaking of F. Guary, L.L; uorl & bcut lul), "always bearing in mind that no Jesuit writings can be published without special license Iiom tho general, alter carelul scrutiny and review, is that the three principles of probabilism, of mental reservation, und of justification or means by ends, which collectively make up what educated men intend by tue term 'Jesulty,' are lecognized maxims of the society. The following Jesuit theologians are eued: Busemhaum, whose Medulla The ologlaehasueeu more than 50 times printed, and lately by the ProDaganda itseli, lays down tho maxim in tho following terms: 'Cum flnls est llcltas, etlam media sunt llciia,' and 'Cut llcitnsestfinis, etiamllcent media.' Layman slnUlunyr-ln nls Thcolo glu Moralis, 'Cul coticlaaus est finis, oon cissa etium sunt media ad flnem ordmato,' and U aguman, in his Synopsis Thooloiae Moralis. yet more tersely, "Finis determlnat probltatem actus." CnAiti.ES D. Williams, Rector ot tit. Paul's Ciiurch. Steubesville, O., Oct. 21). JEKRI THE S0CKLESS. jERivr la not the stuff to make a martyr of ana nobody is likely to waste ammunition upon him. iVeto I'orft Times. jEnnY Sihpsox should not be assassinated. He has never done anything to deserve tho late of a martyr. Kansas City Star. Jerky Simpsox is altogothor too unique a personage to be even threatened with harm. May he live long, escape all manner of plots ana prosper. Huston Globe. Jerky Simpsok goes about with a body guard to protect him from assassination. Jerry appears to be afflicted with a rush of socks to the brain. CMcago Tribune. 'l he story that some one is trying to assas sinate Jeiry Simpson is very thin. Ho is too uselal a man to the Republicans, for be la making votes for them in every speech ho delivers. Toledo Blade. Mit. Jebut Simpson maybe rather stale as a Joke, but still no one would believe that he was such a dreary reminiscence as to lead even the wild Kansans to thirst for his gore. Cleveland Leader. t Jerky Simpson is now the object of an al leged assassination plot. Ho and Ignatius Donnelly might make arrangements to star jointly in a specially written political drama. Washington Mar. Mu. Jerry Simpson, like his People's party confrere Ignatius Donnelly, imagines him self tho object of an assassination conspir acy and goes about with a bodyguard. As a political advertisement this trick is get ting to be as futile as the actress' stolen diamonds. Detroit Journal. "Jerry" Simpson has Just "discovered" a "plot" to kill him. Who is there in Kansas that could possibly havo the heart to kill this harmless and amusing creature? Poor Jerry must be in a bad way in his campaign for re-election when he has tn resort to such yarns as this. Philadelphia Bulletin. Granted. Chicago Tribune.3 It may be considered settled for all time that Wayno MacVeagh will never, novervoto for D. Ii. Hill for anything. A Poser for the Democrats. Boston Traveller.! Conundrum! If freo trade is a failnro in Great Britain, bow is it to be made a success in the United States? DEATHS IIcKb' a1 USLW.'lEUtf. It. W. Coleman, Politician. "R. W. Coleman, the People's farty can didate for btate Land Commissioner In Texas, the editor or Truth, the party orgiu or lliehtilc, and one or the leaUtrjortlii't movement In Texas, died bituidayof tj'phol.l lever altera tniei hint;, lie wasouly earsof akc. lie canvassed through several or the Noiihern srates two jearn ago In leha!for the banners' Alliance movement, and was for sometime one of the eilltois of the Aatl nal EamomUt at Si ashlngiou. lie i as one of the must lorelbie orators In the south. Mrs. Mary Carlin. Mrs. Mary Carlin died yes'.erday morn ing at ner residence, o. S B street, Allegheny. She wali herSDih vear, was bom in Eosa town ship, this county, a.id had been a resident of Allegheny for Go yeard. She was identified with cnaritaule and church work nnd had a wide circle or friends. Four of her sons me engineers on the Fort Wayne Railroad and one is employed at the city water works, bhe was an aunt or cx-Chalr-man James.Uuuter, of Allegheny Common Council. Obitnary Notes. ADOLPn Storck, one of the oldest lumber mer chants of Baltimore, l'dead. William ulriiatt, manager 0r the Rocking ham I ottery. dropped dead at Harrisonburg, Va., Saturday from heart disc se. ClIAniEYKr.ua, a prominent wlnemakcr or St. Ueleua, C'ftl., died at his liome in San Frauclsco yesterday, as a result of paralysis of the throat. He was Ci years of axe. WILLIAM M. HARNETT, one of the best known Btlll-Ure painters in the country, died Saturday of oraemla at the New Tort City Hospital, wnlther he had been taken Thursday from his itadlo.wnere ho wm foand unconscious. A TBYIN6 FASHION. Princess Marie, of Edinburgh, Determines on a Style That May Worry American Girls A Batch of Weddings Scheduled Celebrating Hallow E'en. Princess Marie, of Edinburgh, has set a fashion that may prove trying to some of the belles who delight in following the load of a princess of the royal blood. She Is pre paring her trousseau, and in it Is included two stunning tartan gowns of Scottish man ufacture. Wo have seen, in this country, tho maidens attired in shirt waists of hugo plaids in bright colorings, but the tartan fad, if it takes possession of theAmorican girl, will go beyond anything wo havo hitherto seon. It U only a certain style of face and figure that can stand such a cos tume, and, by some unfortnnate decree of fate, it seems as if the wrong girl always gets hold of the most striking efloctsin dress. "We are getting back to first principles in the matter of wilting implements. While the pen point itself is or gold, the holder Is a quill that looks'llke the quill scriveners used a century ago, but that is made of an ostrich instead of a goose quill. Gold or silveror tlnyjowels Is formed into a mono gram, and the whole trinket is very dainty as well as useful. The officers elected for the ensuing year of the Wilklnsburg Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle are as follows: Presi dent, Miss Sue Duff: Vioo President. Mr. Samuel Wills; Secretary, Miss Clarissa Mof titt; Assistant Secretary, Mr. J. I Koethen; Treasurer, MIsb Margaret Young. The club will meet this evening and a cordial Invita tion is extended to everybody. This is tho American-Greek year of tno Clicieandls said to be more than usually Interesting. Social Chatter. A home wedding in w hich a grrat deal of interest was felt took place in Oakland yes terday morning. Miss Mollis McFarland, daughter ot Mrs. Catherine McFarland, was tno bride, and the groom was Mr. U. V. Wightman. Kov. J. L. Andrews, of Alle gheny, n as the officiating clergyman. Thero was a wedding breakfast, at which a num ber orguests oat down, and then tho young couple loft for an Eastern trip. Their homo will be in Alleqnlppa. It is expected that the ingathering of the Pittsuurg branch oi the Needlework Guild, in the Third l'resbv terian Church to-moriow evening, will be very largely attended. The branch now has 80 regular working sections, and several more are expected to be formed before long. The earned women who have charge ol the work of the Guild have been very active in their lubor of lovo and charity, and are gratified over their success. A nuptial ceremony In Canon City, Col., October 17, united the lives of Miss Nevaila u. (,'ariin, oi tnis city, and Mr. Claude W. Terry, Mauagur of the McCluro Hotel, of Canon City. The Key. L. J. Hall olliciuied. Tbe bride is tlie granddanxhtcr of the late Andrew Ui.nh.im, ot Pittsburg, and a grand niece ot Senator Graham. Tuxedo, that nltra-fashtonnblo resort, where only the smart set can teel thoroughly at home, has taken up All Hallow Eve, anu. there havo been all sorts or hobgob.ln tricks, in a general way, with nuts, apples, charms und so forth, and the Tuxeduns declare Halloween to be great fan. Miss Mary Oveeholt Marcle, eldest daughter of Captain V. C Marine, was mar ried to Mr. J. ado Shupe, of Mt. Pleasant, Pa., last Tuesua,, October 25. Tbe cere mony took place at Captain Marine's resi dence, Elverside, Ktv. J. C. McCoy, officiat ing. One of tho notable Halloween parties was that given by Mr. und Mis. Davragh at .Sum ner station. Tho guescs wont from Pitts burg, Allegheny, Sharp-iburg aud other places. r. Darragh is superintendent of the Isabella Furiiuce Company. A number of Pittsburgers will be guests at the wedding or Miss Marie Graham and Mr. Orlando M. Brady, In Indianapolis, to-day. Miss Graham was for a short tune a resident oi Ha kins, and has a large circle of friends In Pittsburg and vicinity. Miss 1'bavelli will bring her throe months' visit in Se wickloy to a close to-day, going to Kent, O., and from thence to Woos ter. Wnen she leturns to her home In California, she will he accompanied by her niece. Miss Fanny Glenn. The wedding oi Mis Jennie Prather, or Sheffield street; Allegheny, and Mr. I L. ilrouifhton. ot tnis city, hau been set lor the 15th Inst. Tne celomony will bo performed by ltov. Dr. Cowan, of tbe Third Presby terian Church. This evening the Epwortn Eeagne of tho Noi th Avenue 31. E. Ciiurch is to give an entertainment in the lecturo room. There will bo music and recitations, and the e are to be several selections by the Epworth Octette. Mrs. Wit M. Grapton and her daughter, Miss Elsie Chew, oi feewiekloy, will leavu to day lor un extended visit to their lormer home, Fredericksourg, Va. They will be the guests of relatives. Halloween was celebrated last evening by tno young people of llev. Dr. McClur kln's church with a social s,t the residence ot Mr. T. J. Gillespie, Westminster street. This evening. Miss Minnie Jacob and Mr. Benjamin Bactch are to be marriod at the residence of the bride's mother, Mrs. F. Jacob, by Key. Frederick Kuort". Miss Gertrude Scott, or Bell avenne, Alle gheny, will give a. reception next Friday evening in honor of Miss Jessie Edwards, or Aledo, 111. Me. and Mrs. A. C. Martin, or Arch street, Allegheny, havo sent oat invitations lor a dinner next Thursday evening. The Itobertson-E-tplen wedding is to bo one oi tue society events oi to-uay. There were a largo nnmoerof Halloween parties in tho two cities. WHEEE 0TJS P1AG STILL WAV33. American Merchant Marino Still Ahead on the Lakes and the Pacific. Wasuikotos, Oct. 3L E. C. O'Brion, Com -missioner of Navigation, has just submitted advance copies of his annual report to tho Secretary ot tho Treasury. Tho Commis sioner expresses the opinion that the ex clusion of foreign vessels from participation in our domestic nnd coastwise commerce, as provided by tho act o. February li, 17A5, has alone saved our ship building and shipping Interests from ruin, and that in this abso lutely protected branch of our merchant marine we have attained to successes in nautical affairs for surpassing tnoso of auy other nation on the glube. In leferring to the Pacific const, the Com missioner says that while American steam navigation has been absolutely driven from the transatlantic trade it survives on the Pacific Ocean, first, for the reason that American lines are liable to sustain them selves, through association with the abso lutely protected steamer line between Now York nnd San Francisco, that lino having, since it was started in 18l9been regirded as a urancn oi our domestic commerce in which no foreign vessel can engago, and, Second, tor the reason that other American transpacific Hues enjoy the benefit ot pro tection wnlch arises from their asso ciation with a transcontinental rail way line. The Commissioner, how over, calls attention to what he regards as a threatening danger on the Pacific, the fact that the Dominion Government has at an outlay of about $.210,000 enabled the Canadian Pacific Hallway Company to con struct its Hue ueioss the continent and to place on the Paelflo Ocean, between British Columbia and China, n lino of steamers whlc'i receive from tho Canadian and Brit ish Governments mi ununal subsidy of tlDO.Co'O u year, which is about five tunes tho amount paid annually to Amencan steamers carrj ing to and trom Asia malls which sov eral times exceed in bulk tile mails carried by the Canadian line. A QTJAKEK CITY CAXHEDSAL. Plans Formed for a Great Episcopal Church In Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Oct. 31. A plan is being formed to establish in Philadelphia an im mense Protestant Episcopal Church, which will rival in strength any Piotestiint Church in America. It Is proposed to consolIJato the parishes or Epiphany, St. Stephen's Graco, and the Covenant, and to build 'on Epiphany's $500,000 prop erty, at the coruor oi Fifteeutti nnd Chestnut streets, a groit modern edi fice, which will le tno prldo or Pnlladel pliians and churchmen throughout tho country. This movement was started by St. Stephen's, which, with property and en dowments airsreaating in value $600,000, is handicapped bv its close surroundings and tho distance from tho homes or lis parish ioners. TIio Extremes Meet, Philadelphia Tlmes.l Trying to work some short cut to wealth may really turn out a way to get a rree and short hair-cut in Jail. It Isn't Much Else. New Orleans Picayune. To a man up a tree tbe mustaobe of a dude teems down. CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. There are counterfeit almonds. Nickel steel does not corrode in gait water. Twelve average tea-plants produce ona pound or tea. The "cabin boat" is disappearing from tbe Upper Mississippi river. The exclusive use of white bread has a tendency ri make teeth decay. During one month recently Japan ex ported 811,590 gross ot matches. Tbe first American newspaper was printed at Boston, September 23, 1690. The discovery of rich sapphire fields la reported In the vicinity of Craig, Mont Carpets were used in Nineveh and Babylon, as shown in paintings, B. C.f 1S0O. Free drawing schools for girls' were first organized in Frauce by Rosa Bonheur. In the eleventh century both English and French dandies covered their arms with bracelets. The King Chan, the Chinese official journal, has been published in Pekln for many centuries. The modern health drinking arose fron the ancient custom of dedicating cups o wine to divinities. A Kansas City fanning implement house intends sending out a young womai as a drummer next year. A Californian has produced for sssar a pieco of gold-bearlnz rock which hj claims is part of a meteorite. The Pope in. 1186 prohibited the crosti bow os barbarous and threatened crosa bowmen with excommunication. Sherman, Tex., has a 590,000 j'ail fron which ten prisoners lately escaped bysaw-', lug througn Iron bar3 with a 35-cent file. The playwrights of the last two cen turies usually received a dedication fee from the nobleman to whom the play was' dedi cated. The amount on depot with savings" banks in 1391 equaled $1,634,820,112; of their loans, investments and cosh on hand, $1,S24, 793524. The Czar's personal expenses are $9,000 000 a year, which Is $C 200,000 more than Russia's annual appropriation for common schools. A negro digging on his farm in Liberty county, Ga.. recently, found an iron pot con taining $4,000 in old French and Spanish sil ver coins. -, An ingenious Indianian has invented a plow in which an anaer or screw mold board is operated by means of n drivo wheel in tho rear. A chute, measuring three-quarters of a mile In length. In the logging 4amp at Clay ton, Ore., is described as one of the longest in the world. An average of three British seamen lose their lives every day by drowning, and 300 British stcaraors and sailing vessels are lost at sen yearly. The barroom of a hotel at Eordentown, S. J., is decorated with a pair of eleganS chandeliers that were brought fiom Spain by Joseph Bonaparte. Porphyry holders, which greatly re semble watermelons in size, shape and color, aro to be found in the Cascade Moan tains cast of Itosebtirg, Ore. At the head of the Gulf of Bothnia thoro Is a mountain, on tho summit of which tho sun shines perpetually during the five days of June, 19, 20, 21, '1 and 23. Tbe peach is of Persian origin and tbe apricot is Syrian. The former fruit is men tioned by classical writers as early as 200 B.C., bnt the latter not until 30 A.D. During tbe reign of Henry TV", of Eng land no person of a lower estate than a knight banneret was allowed to wear cloth or gold, or large sleeves, or to use either ermine or marten fur on his gown. It was not nntil the reign of the Em- press Josephine in France that tho pocket handkerchief was tolerated at all ai an arti cle lor public use. So lad would have tared to use ono m tne prosenee or others. Even tbe name was carefully avoided in po lite conversation. The great organ in the old Mormon Church at Salt Lake City has 2;704 piiW each 32 foet long and large enough to aab't tno body ora man or ordinary size. IC-.WiS built In tne early (lavs, when all freight was nanuicu irom aiissouri rive points acros3 the plains with ox teams. By placing two iron bars at seven or eight yards distance from each other, and patting them in communication on one side by an insulated wiro, and on the other side with a telephone. It is said that a storm can bn predicted 12 hour ahead through a cer- tain dead sound heard in the receiver. In the limited space between "Worth street and the battery, Xew York, where there are many large wholesale houses, it is , stated that 15.009 women are employe! as typewriters. A single typewriting mactine company finds employment, through Its various offices, forlo.otO women a year. The largest specimen ot extinct aninal -i ever found in tho world wai the skeleton of a Dlnosanrian reptile discovered in tbe Bid Lands in 1SS2. The weight or tho skull alote ns 694 pound", and of tho whole skeleton 1.900 tiouuds. It is now in the rooms of tha Academy or Xaturul Science, Philadelphia. r Koumiss, mare's milk fermented, is mentioned in tbe thirteenth century by Gulielmns de Rubruquis, a traveling monk: '-After a man has taken a draught thereof is Icaveth behind a taste like that of almond ( milk, aud maketli one's insides feel very comfortable, aud It also intoxicateth weak heads." Some English newspaper women who wanted to And out whether the people who sing In the London streets make a good liv ing or not, put on a disguise and taking a guitar went out to try it for themselves. After singing and playing for an hour and a half they hud collected 7s 4d. And the7 wero only amateurs at that and with no previous experience in pleasing tho people. The oldest man in England is said to be Amos Jinks, a native of Shropshire, now living at Wellingborough, Northampton shire. Tho claim that he is 107 years old, it is averred, has been Investigated and thor oughly verified by responsible parties. Tho old man ii withered and bent, his eyesight ( has tailed and his voice is shaky, bnt apart from these evidences of age he Is free from physical infirmity. He eats, drinks and bleeps well, und is not at all deaf. OKIGES'AL AND JOCOSE. TO 2JOVEXBEB. "We welcome you, November ninety-two, You take the laurel wreath, you really do; Events Important to us. each and all. During your reign are surely to befall. Onr President's elected in your time Which one? Well, we will not bet a dime; Bat. will you klndljr tell us which to call, Yale or Princeton? We're crazy 'boat football. Little Tommy "WiNTERGitEEN, Jr., ii In disgrace, and very much so. The other cvenms Mr. and Mrs. Thoma3 Wlntcrgreen, Sr., gave their annual dinner to their minister and his wife. and. of course. Tommy was permitted to go to the first table so that bis childish prattle might fill la any awskward pauses. Bnt. ilka all children. Tommy 'did not wilt for awkward pauses, but Joined in the conversation right and left, and it wasa't long be fore he had put his foot In It. They had been talk Ins; for some time about marriage and had about agreed that it was a very good thlag. when mamma's and papa's pride said: "You will never catch me a-marrjini;, so you won't." "Myhtllo man," said the good minister in bis regular dining out voice. "Yon will develop into such a fine look ing rellow that all the beautiful jrlrU ia tho neigh borhood will be flocking aboat you. and. before yon know It, cupM will take aim And pierce your heart." "Huh?" ejiculated Tommv. "Why," said the minister, "when yon are older you will not be able to resist the charms of lovelv women." Oh. yes. I will" said Tommy emphatically. And right here Is where mamma made a fatal mistake. She, poor soul, thinking that her darling had soma cute reason for his stand, said: "Tell ns; Dew drop, why you are so opposed to marrying?" "Be cause." replied the Dewdrop. "I'll have no wo man sajlng to me every evening when I get home. Thomas, you have been drinking again?1 " It was notanlght-mare that caused Tommy to scream that night about 9 o'clock, but the good minister and his wife had but a few moments before de parted. "A TOncn light parade reminds tne to much or Warner's operas," he said to his com panion, as they stood watching the Republican marchers pass by. "Whit" she asked. . "Because the drums play such a -promtaeal part, " he replied. ', V - --atnMm
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