OneDay sFeatures OfaGreatNewspaper TO-MORBOFS DISPATCH Will Contain 192 Columns of News and Select Reading:. THE CAMPAIGN ROUND-UP. With Reliable Reports of the Situation Everywhere. POLICE AND SPIES OF THE CZAR'S LAND. Frank G. Carpenter, who has been send ing sober truths Instead of sentl- mental nonsense from Russia, gives the exact facts in regard to the police system of Russia in all its ramifica tions. He was molested but once and scarcely needed his passport. How Alexander I1L is said to know each night where each one of his subjects sleeps. A comprehensive and in structive letter. A Page for Women. Best of Fiction. Science and Art. HERE AHE SOME ML AMOTIONS: XJzzie Borden's Head: "What the new school of phrenology has to say of the young woman accused of murdering lier parents. Earning Big Money: A careful compilation of the Incomes of some of the leading profession?! men of the United States, with good portraits. Murder Societies: Secret organizations imported from Europe which countenance the removal of people who stand in their way. Gotham's Horse Show: How Xew York Society is getting ready to give the lour-footed beauties a, mag nificent welcome. Isles or the Pacific: What the scientists have to say of the people who dwell on the points of land in the South Seas. Teaching in England: Henry Tuckley, whose articles on wages in Free Trade England have attracted so much notice, writes of the pedagogues' earnings. . Topics of the Time: A column of comment on Important events of the past week of the world's History, with interesting portraits. The Visiting Card: A few points on its use and abuse from one of the leading lights or the social world of America. Victoria's Servants: An interesting picture made from a group photograph of the Queen's serving men and gossip about them. Fashions of" the Day: Illustrations and descriptions of some of the choice bits of apparel selected by the dictators of the fashions. Gossip for the Fair: Timely topics of interest to women gath ered together in a clever column by Margaret IL Welch. Electric News: A Pittsburger's invention of an Invalid chair and the latest applications of the mysterious current. The CInb AVomcn: Fresh news from the inner circles of the rittshurg organizations for the benefit of the mothers, sisters, cousins and aunts. The Xens in Art: A carefully conducted department de voted to tneinterestsof Pittsburg artists and Pittsburg admirers of art. lie Lived on Comets: How Prof. Barnard struggled to fame on the rewards paid for the discovery of the sky wanderers. The World or Sport: All the news or the day and reviews of recent events in the professional and amateur fields. Fielding on Debts: The popular humoiist tears a few leaves from his big book of bitter experience. 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TOSTAGE Sunday Issne and all triple number copies, 2c: single and double number copies, lc. PITTSBURG. SATURDAY. NOV. 5. 189. TWELVE PAGES KESPECT NATIONAL AUTHORITY. Ill-advised and reprehensible in the ex treme is the action of Democratic leaders in advocating resistance to United States marshals, deputies and supervisors in the discharge of their duties at the polls. There is no doubt that the law is all on the side of the Federal authorities, and that the National Government has strength and determination enough to see that it is properly enforced. Any at tempt to resist the law will most certainly meet with prompt prosecution and proper punishment. This is no question of State rights, and any effort on the part of the Democrats to arouse a spirit of sectional ism will meet with most emphatic public disapproval. Americans have learned the benefits and duties of nationalism, and are prepared to maintain the former by per forming the latter in lending every assist ance to duly constituted national authori ties. The orders sent out for the appoint ment of Federal supervisors contain very explicit instructions as to their functions, and the most explicit obedience is to be expected in their fulfillment. These officers are-to interfere with no individual rights; on the contrary their duty is simply to in sist that those rights are not interfered with by interested partisans. And they are distinctly warned against assuming an attitude of intermeddling officiousness. Nothing could be more emphatically mod erate and dignified than the delineation of the scope of their work sent out from "Washington. Nothing can be more cer tain than that within their legal limits the officers will be upheld by the entire strength of national authority. "What the Democratic party may expect to achieve by the ridiculous attitude it has assumed is difficult to understand. What it will achieve If that attitude is persisted in is easily foreseen. Lawlessness will not go without its punishment This move is contrary to law, in violation of the Constitution and at this day and date It is to put the matter in the lowest plane of consideration bad policy. This na tion has learnt the value of the Union; it knows that disrespect for the Union Is the first step toward endangering it, and the vast majority of its people will see the disrespect in this ill advised action and mark it with its stern and unequivocal disapproval. But setting aside all consid eration of this unenforcihle bluster from a party point of view eliminating its bearing on partisan organizations, and studying the question from an unbiased patriotic standpoint it is extremely re grettable that such an attempt to stir up a spirit of disloyal unrest should have been made. IMPROVED POLICE WORK. The report that the police have in cus tody the gang of burglars that has been plundering the East End for some time is encouraging. It is to be hoped that the belief that the robbers are safely under lock and key may prove true, both for the safety of life and property and as a grati fying demonstration of improved police efficiency. For some years the prevalence of burg laries throughout tfie city was accom panied by a practical confession of inabil ity of the police to stop them. At least that was the most charitable way to ac count for the fact that the burglaries went on without either recovery of the stolen articles or the apprehension of the thieves. Many excuses were available for this failure, prominent among them the wide extent of thp residence wards and the long beats allotted to policemen. The fact remained, however, that the police system, for the support of which the peo ple paid, failed in its primary function of protecting the homes of the citizsns. The first evidence of a departure from this rule of inefficiency was in the trage dies which accompanied the breaking up of the Fitzsimmons gang. Following this there have been several other practical notifications to the burglarious gentry that they cannot pursue their industry in Pittsburg without hazard of capture. If the additional demonstration is afforded of capturing a whole gang of burglars after a comparatively brief career, that profession will be apt to come to the con clusion that Pittsburg is not a favorable field for their enterprise. If the police provide adequate protection of the homes of citizens from burglars they will score an important and honorable success. IT WORKS THE OTHER WAY. The natural results of the Democratic break in the direction of wildcat currency impels the Baltimore Sun to take refuge in the authority of ex-Governor William Pinkney "Whyte, of Maryland, as follows: Governor Whyte, who has always been an ndvocato of a sound financial poller, shows bow utterly unreasonable the criticism is. Indeed, be turns the argument against Sen ator Sherman and shows that representa tive Republican financier, by his own utter ances, to be a greenbacker, pnre and simple, and an advocate of flat money. .When the national debt is paid, says Mr. Sherman.and the national bank circulation has to be called in, then, let the Government issue Treasury notes upon the public faith. This is just what the Greenbackers advocated, only tbey Justly considered that if the Gov ernment can properly issue tnls flat money in the future It can do it now and pay off the bonds, and so provide a currency and substitute a non-interest bearing dobt for the bonds. This Republican policy, as out lined by Mr. .Sherman, is opposed to every principle of sound finances, and Governor Whyte justly holds it up to public reproba tion. To this extremely weak refuge there are two things to say. The first is that if ex- Goyernor Whyte claimed that a United States greenback, backed by "an ample coin reserve as well as the faith of the Government is not superior to the notes to' be issued on private re sources under the varying legislation of 44 different States, that alleged authority displayed the opposite of sound financial views. The second is that if ex-Governor Wbyte represented this as the sole alter native to the Democratic proposition ho indulged in a remarkable exhibition either of ignorance or misrepresentation. There are numerous other expedients, the most obvious of which is to continue the uni form national bank system with enlarged freedom as to the class of securities avail able as a basis for circulation. The question is not one which can be fixed by the character of Governor Whyte or any other man. It is on the contrary one on which the character of any man is fixed by his position. Governor Whyte has fixed his as an advocate of unsound currency. AN OLD EXCUSE FOR DEFEAT. It has been customary heretofore for the Democracy after they have undergone national defeat to raise the cry of "money" and "corruption." The indus try and variety with which they are in dulging in that howl before the election this year has a significance which perhaps ourDemocratic friends have overlooked. The persistence with which the Demo crats, from the Prcsidental candidate down to the New Tork World, insist that the Bepublicans are going to buy the election away from them argues a premo nition of defeat and the desire to furnish the explanation of it ,in advance. Tho stories of corruption funds are presented without the slightest foundation of evidence, and as fast as one is denied an other is supplied with changed names and increased amount?. While the roorback mongers started out with tens and hundreds of thousands they are now satisfied with nothing less than hundreds ofthousands and millions. The persist ence and slight variety of these inventions would he noticeable if they were not cast in the shade by the fact that the Democ racy is inventing its usual excuse for de feat before the defeat has been inflicted. While this is a departure from the usual Democratic procedure there is probably some method in it The usual course of raising the cry of "boodle" after the defeat has been soothing to the Democratic feel ings, but it was too plainly the result of spiteful disappointment to have any gen eral effect By announcing that they are to be defeated by money in advance of the election perhaps the Democrats hope to secure some credence for their oft-told tale. In addition, the horror of the party, which first imparted the systematic use of money into national politics, and whoso stronghold in New Tork is the seat of the most venal politics on the continent, at the alleged Republican boodle would be very amusing if it weTe not for its effrontery. CRABLIKE PROGRESSIVENESS. The Buffalo Inquirer quotes ex-Governor Daniel H. Chamberlain, formerly of South Carolina, and also a Republican in times past, as authority to the effeet that the Democratic party is now the worthiest of the two parties as the party of progress. Since Daniel H. Chamberlain has been in past years universally declared by the Democratic press to be a carpet-bagger and political adventurer, it is a novelty to find him set up as a prophet If about fifty per cent of what the Democratic or gans have said of Chamberlain can be. ac cepted as true, what he asserts a party to be can.be taken as proof presumptive' that it is exactly the opposite. Fortunately tho matter thus mooted can be settled by a reference to the facts without trusting to the negative effect of Governor Chamberlain's assertions. There was a time when it was permitted to hope that the Democracy would become pro gressive. But since it has adopted Cal houmsm for its tir.ff views and wild-cat currency as its idea on the money question, its progrcssiveness is evidently like that of the crab which advances backwards. AS ORGAN'S STAB AT ITS PARTY. Another Democratic free trade organ lias fallen into the pit of its own antagon ism to protection. The New York Daily News has discovered that there is a duty on ham, eggs, fceef, oatmeal, potatoes and other agriculturalproducts. It there upon proceeds to inform its readers that the cost of food is increased by the amount of the duty. It specifically as sures the housewives that if there was not a duty of five cents a pound on ham that article could be purchased exactly five cents a pound cheaper. As the whole sale price of ham is about 12c, this, it will be perceived, would make very cheap ham. So far so good. But the esteemed New Tork News with this assertion lays out in the frigidity of death the stock Democratic assertion that the great farming interest gets no benefit from protection. If the price of ham could be five cents lower without protection it is plain that the American farmer would be obliged to take just five cents a pound less for his ham in the raw mater ial. Now,. if aboutone-fourthof the Demo cratic assertions concerning the oppression of the farmer can be taken as truth, the amount which tho News which we be lieve is the crgan of that personal friend of both Cleveland and Hill, Senator and. General W. L. Brown proposes to sub tract from their income by the abolition of the duties on their products would reduce them to utter want The time is too late to do anything now. Olherwise'we would suggest to our Demo cratic friends the necessity of calling a national convention, which, besides amending the platform so that their can didate can stand on it, should settle for the organs the momentous question whether the tariff on agricultural products Increases the price or whether it does not A REPUBLICAN AUGURY. It is comforting to find the New Tork Herald carefully canvassing the political situation in New Tork and coming to the conclusion that Cleveland has by far the best of the fight Tnisis almost hopeful augury. Every four, years" almost since the memory ,of man runneth not to the contrary, the Herald has come out In the last week before the election with a prediction-inspired by a firm conviction that the ticket to which it gives its favor is going to win. And with about one ex ception it took just a week to demonstrate the fact that the Herald had got down on the wrong side of the fence. Its political prophecies are like Wiggins' outlines of future weather excellent things to cop per. If it can be induced to abstain from predicting Republican success till next Wednesday tho prospects for the party will be entirely roseate. Fall River manufacturers have raised their wearers' wages by abont seven per cent without even being asked to do so. Of coarse the-prosperity in textile Industries which enables employers to take a step of this kind is simply another evidence of those ."disastrous" results of a protective policy, that the tariff'for revenue only peo ple are bo fond or howling about. Without a protective barrier between this country and European competition, American tex tile industries would either become ozttnot or the standard of wages would fall to tho level of those starvation rates that have re duced the Lancashire operatives to tho des perate condttion-whlch threatens the great est strike tho world has ever seen. This is a campaign of 'claimants. If friends of the rainbow-chasers could per suade some of the most oxtravagant to re linquish their claims andTreclaim them to tho limits of sweet reasonableness much future bitter disappointment could be dis pensed with. A verbal inaccuracy In the comments of The Dispatch the other day u as such as to permit of misconstruction Referring to the alteration or the Now York State law it was stated that it took away "tho represen tation of both parties on the election boards." What should have been said' was that it took away the equal representation of both parties on the city election boards. The only motive for such a change that can be imagined is that of giving Tammany the control of the eleotlon machinery necessary to Its existence. Mr. Seth Low saith that he intendeth to vote for Mr. Grover Cleveland. Realiz ing the difficulties in tho way of logical cf planation, deponent saltli nothing further but belleTOtli that least said will bo soonest mended, and so layeth low. A mysterious pest, known as black death, caused a mortality of one in thirty of the inhabitants of Turkestan after cholera had moved on to fresh fields and pastures new. This statement should bo more than enough to satisfy those who underrate the dangers from cholera itself, that this cpun try will do well to preserve a scrupulous cleanliness, and maintain all sanitary pre cautions to exclude both diseases from this country next year, bv refusing admittance to the one which is liable to be theprecursor or the other. Talk is the cheapest factor in a Presi dent at campaign.-and the talk of the bluffer is the cheapest of all. Unfortunately for Protection's opponents this country's pros perity is evident, and facts to the contrary cannot even be bought. Every Pittsburger who has knowledge of freight discrimination or other railroad inequities or iniquities ngainst this city should make a point of aiding tne move ment for redress by laying his evidence before the Committee on Transportation and Railroads of the Chamber ot Commerce on Wednesday next. Specific facts and fig ures are nocdod at the outset that time may be saved in arranging a plan of campaign against the evils to be removed. United States Deputy Marshals nay be relied upon to assume a becoming mar tial mcin, if any State officers are indiscreet enough to interfere with the exercise or un doubted legal rights at the polling booths. Apropos of that bond issue, Allegheni ans will be wise to Investigate tho records of all new candidates and existing Councllmen before proceeding to intrust them with the management or the city and its finances at the February election. Ante-election pro fessions or purity have been known ere now to develOD into post-election, anti-reform piactice. Professions are good in them selves, but are tho better for the indorse ment of research. Allegheny City is taking its time in removing those grade orosings, but it has at least gone furthor with the preliminaries to ridding itself of the dangerous nuisances than Pittsburg has. TnE sales of raw iron, steel, eta, in this market amounted to 103, tOQ tons for th e past week. This is the .largest weekly tonnage, exclusive of orjs, noted in four years, and is a most encouraging indication that tho temporary depresslon'ior the iron market has given place to renewed activity. Con sumption is evidently catching up with pro duction, as it was bound to do sooner or later, and nil Pltcsburgors will tejolce in the Improvement. There is safety in numbers at time?, but in the multitudinous inconsistencies of the Democrats of to-day there is security for neither the country nor that party. This long-continued dry spell will at least render the task of reaching the polls less difficult than usual in the rural districts. It is a strange reflection on the extent of the road evils, that the weather before an election has quite an appreciable effect on the results of the balloting in many counties. It was the wages of Fall River weavers in general and not tho wages of Candidate General Weaver that wero recently lalsed. No doubt Mr. Watterson would lice to torget at this date his plcturesqe metaphor about tho Democrats with Mr. Cleveland as candidate "marching through a slaughter house to an open grave." But tho remark was too striking to be readily burled in the oblivion of public forgotfuiness. With snow last night, it looks as though Tuesday would bo a remarkably cold day for some people, at least. F0I,K TAbKKf) ABOUT. Paul B. Dtj CnAiLLTj says thnt while ho was in Africa he had 22,000 opportunities to marry and declined them all. Sigurd Ibsen, the only son of Henrik Ibsen has married Froken Ballot Bjornsen. bigurd lives on a very rich father. The Democratic candidate for Vice Pres ident always writes his name on the hotel register thus: "A . E. Stevenson." Archduke Francis, ot Austria, is about to start for America, where he will spend three months on a shooting expedi tion. Dr. Luther, a Berlin physician, de scended irom Martin Luther.rcpresented the Luther lamily at the consecration servicos in Wittenberg. Dr. Edward Everett Hale has a step so quick and a voice so vigorous that not seeing him one would never suspect that he was a white-haired man over 70 years of age. Captain John F. Wh baton, or over SOyears Commander of the Chatham Artil lury, or Savannah, the bost known military company of the South, has resigned oaing to old ago, Amos Heavilon, a rich bachelor and a retired farmer of Franklorr, Ind ha do nated $33,000 to Purduo University, the stip ulation being that tho money bo usod lor permanent impiovements. Goversor Lyman E. Knapp, of Alaska, is out with the first Thanksgiving proclamation. In the States, generally, the Governors will be inclined to wait until after the 8;h instant, so as to know just how to regulate the flow of their enthusiasm. George Meredith, the novelist, recent ly attended the wedding of his son Maxse (named after his father's old friend, the Ad iniral), and attracted more attention than the bride and groom. Tho old gentleman sat in a front pow, a striking flguic, with a light salmon-pink tie and violet and pink boutouuiere. Worth His "Weight In Gold. Atlanta Journal. Ormonde, the king of the English turf, bas been sold to a California millionaire lor $150,000, the highest price ever paid for any horse In the world. That horse is worth bis weight in gold. Facts ,eed Ito Confirmation, llnrrlslmrg Patriot. It is lumored that the Republicans expect toelect one Harrison to the Presidency. Tile rumor cannot bo traced to a reliable source. CAMPAIGN NEWS AND COMMENT. Only once in recent Presidental contests has the electoral vote of a State been di vided. In California in 1880, because of the Chinese issue nnd the Morey letter Iraud, the result was very closo, five electors being chosen for Hancock and one for Garfield. This was caused by a difference of a few bundred votes betweon tho highest elector and the lowest one on the Democratic ticket, and is a possible contingency in any State where the election is determined by suoh a scant margin. This year, in addition to the chance of a mixed outcome such as in California, there is a practical certainty that the electoral voto or Michigan will be divided, and a possibility or such an event in Minnesota and Oregon. In Minnesota, as heretofore stated, the Democrats have withdrawn four or their nlno electoral can didates and replaced them with Populist nominee!. In Oregon one Democratic vacancy has been filled by an ad herent ot Weaver, the other three Cleveland nominees remaining on the ticket. Tho Republican campaign com mittees In both minncota and Oregon ate hopetul or securing the entiro number or electors, but admit that tho partial fusion has made the lesult on that portion of the candidates doubtful. It is not likely that this small number of electors will affect the general result, but the peculiar arrange ment is one of tho most interesting features of this remarkable Presidental contest. Everything is big in Texaj, including the political claims. There is a Democratic split on Governor, and one faction claims that Clark will be elected by 75,000 plurality; the Hogg men say that Hoggvill havo 100, 000, and Nueent, tho Third party candidate, thinks that lie has a chance to slip in be tween. There is certainly room enough be tween tho estimates to let in anybody. Mb. Magee continues to keep the Demo crats in a state or perpetual alarm in Ala bama. They claim to have discovered that be is distributing tickets throughout the State, with either the regular Republican or new party candidates for Cougress in each distilct, but with all the electors of the fusion ticket. The most melodramatic appeals are hein r made to Democrats to see that tho State is kept in Hue, and the force Dill phantom is being worked to the limit. Tho following is a sample utterance from the Mobile SegUler, one of the leading Democratic papers of tho State: "We warn the colored voters that when they unite with the white Third party they invite a catastrophe from which their race cannot recover in a hundred years. We say now, clearly, pointedly nnd with full de liberation and knowledge or the weight of our words, that so certain as Alabama goes for Weaver or Harrison on the eighth day of November, we do not Intend to wait for a force law after next March to tie us hand and foot and to deliver us over to such blnck leaders as Wickershnm, Booth and Com panv. but the Alabama Legislature meeting in November, will, berore anew year sets in, take negro suffrage by tho throat and strangle thn life out of it. The colored voters can now take their choice." Such language indicates a very much agitated Democracy in the hitherto solid cotton com monwealth. . Blair county is expected to poll a great vote for Judge Dean, the Republican nomi nee for the Stiprome Court. It is said that party lines will not be drawn there on this office, at least. One of the leading lawyers and Demo crats of Colorado, John It Dixon, who was delegate to the National Convention of 1S8S, has announced his intention or voting for the Harrison electors. To Chairman A. E. Graham, of the Republican Central Com mittee or Pueblo county, Mr. Dixon said: "My reason for supporting the Harrison electors Is that the success of any of the Populist candidates will be an entering wedge and will invite renewed efforts In an other campaign, when it will be far more difficult to batilo them off than now. Even if the end to be obtained is to be as desira ble a result as the election of Mr. Cleveland, . It were fur better for Colorado that he be de feated than that he should be made a victor by the withering blight of the Omaha plat form. As between Cleveland and Colorado, I am for Colorado first. 1 concede to every Democrat the same privilege I claim, to think and act with absolute freedom about this ma'tter,' but I firmly believe that should the People's party iret coutrol in this State real estate will begin to decline, and all in dustrial enterprises in a large measure bo balked. In Kansas Eastern capital bnililed worso than U knew, thon took wings and fiew away, and it has not been back yet. Everybody knows why I say to my fellow Democrats: The wind blows from the plains of Kansas; soe it and you shall reap tho whirlwind. Tho way to keep the Weaver followers out Is to hit atallor them, nnd let them not get inside thobreastwoiks. This is my leason for supporting the H.uri son electors. I mean no aspersion In what I have said on the rank and file of the Peo ple's party. I do think, howevor, that thulr leaders are irresponsible, and that they aie being misguided." "If I only secure a balance ot power in the Electoral College." said General Weaver at Dakota, "I will throw my influence for a good friend of free silver." WniLE it is no longer probable that Mr. Blaine will be heard from again publicly in the canvass, ho is reported ns privately ex pressing his firm belief in Republican sue cess. In conversation with n friend in Washington this week he said: "Harrison will carry Indiana and he will be electod. 1 do not base my opinion as to Republican Bticcess in Indiana upon my own impres sions. I have it as the judgment of an oml ncnt Democrat who is lanilliar with tho sit uation. As to New York, " said Mr. Blaine, "the registration would seem to indicate enormous possibilities of Democratic fraud, but the reports from the interior of the State are favorable, nnd I should think that tho chances of Republican success in New York Mato are at least even. But I am sure that Harrison is to be elected. He has been gaining very much in the last month." Mr. Rlaine's summary of tho situation has the appearance or being careful and conserva tive, and his reputation for perc-ption in vests it with extraordinary weight. THE Rochester, K. Y., Chronicle notes that "certain mil Democrats, who thought it might be too cold to go fishing on election dny, accomplished their purpose by neglect ing to register. Hill and his gentlemen of leisure are out in force." The Democratic reformers of New York ate saying nothing about a recent victory attributed to Boss Cooper. It is the nlleged taking into camp of tho notorious John J. O'Brien Association. This association claims to control 2. COO votes and has usually sup ported the Republican national ticket. It holds sway in the tough district known as "DeAto." (Tho Eighth.) Two-thirds of tho members of this organization are divo keep ers or in some way directly interested in similar business. They all want to keep on the good side or Tammany, which controls the city governmentnnd the police. A com mittee ot this association went to Crokur six woeks ago and told him that they would support tho local Tammany nominations. Crokcrspurned their support. lie informed them very pointedly that Tammany didn't need the votes of the John .1. O' Jit ion As-o-ciatlon. "The test or the Democracy this year Is a voto lor Grover Cleveland,'- he said, "ir you want to voto the Democratic national ticket, all right. If nor, ho added significantly. "I'll see you later." The com mittee wentaway and chewed over the situ ation for six weeks but they finally con cluded that It would he wise not to brook tho linger of Croker, and the other morning the John J. O'lirlim Association flung a Cleveland, Stevenson and loiorm banner to the breeze. The campaign practically closes to-day. The politicians are about through and the' plain citizou will get a chance next week. A WOODED ISLAND AFLOAT. It Is a Detached Piece of This Continent and on Its Way to Europe. New Orleans, Xov. 4. The Hydrostatic officers have call oil attention t of the peculiar fact that n mass or forest growth resembling u large island, and supposed to have drifted from some portion of tho American continent, had luo:i sighted September 2j , Iii'tnct-u thu tuu.itictii mid 'thirtieth meridian-. . Ti.n i-iniid travel nhouf a mile nn hour ' in a ncirih nsteily dilrctimo It ix cvpeotud that u.ilesa tliu plot is brokup UP by n storm KwiUdriic to the routes takun, by Mea in stil ps and will eventually bring up oa the European coast. , SINGING FOR ALMS. Successful Maslcale Given for the Benefit of the Homeopathic Hospital Contri butions From Deceased Artists A Comlng-Out Reception Some. Pittsburg Ladles Start for Genoa. The musicale at the residence of Mr. and nnd Mrs. Jarvls Adams, Shadyslde, last evening was as enjoyable as was antici pated., The programme had been carefully selected, and comprised soma of the best works of tho most famous masters, as well ns modern compositions that havo found their way directly into the affections of cul tured musicians and tho public generally. The "Intermezzo," from "Cavallora Rnstl cana," for harp, violin and organ, was deli cately rendered by Mr. and Mrs. Franz Schiemodeke and Miss S. II. Kllllkolly, it be ing the first number on the programme. This gave promise of a delightful evening, nnd the promise was fulfilled. Miss Mary C B.mkerdandMn V. J. Bassman sang "Thou Art My Love," followed by Mrs. W. B. Wolfe, in the ballad, "Mornl.ig Zephyrs." Thon Mis. Joslab Cohen and Mrs. A. Israel played Schumann's concerto in A minor, showing finished execution in both the andante and allegro movements. Robandl's "Alia Stella Confldento," with violin and liaro obligato, was suns and played beauti fully by Mrs. Celestla McDonald and Mr. and Mrs. Schiemedoke. Mrs. McDonald has a sweet and well trained voice. Alter Sulli van's solo, "My Dearest Heart," had been sung by Mr. Fred Russman, he and Mrs. Woire rendered Lucuntoni's "A Night In Venice." By rcqnost Mrs. Maurice Coster recited Owen Meredith's "Aux Itallens," with much nxpression, followed by "Coras Where the Linrtoni Bloom." by Miss Mary C. Bankerd, a harp and violin selection by Mr. and Mr.. Schlemedeke. and a song by Mr. W. B. Edward". The "Good Niiht" quartet, from "Martha," broujht tho musical programmo to an end. Tho Adams mansion is splendidly adapted to such an entertainment as was given last evening. Tho largo hall on the lower floor was set apart lor the instrumental portion ot the programme. There was a pipe organ, a grand piano, nn upilgl-.t piano with music desks and conveniences for the performers on other Instruments. Between the double parlors a stage was erected tor the vocalists, with a piano for the accompanist. The audi ence sat on either side of tho stage, in the large hall, on the st.ilr.-i, and. in fact, where cver they could hear tho mulc to advan tage. One of the libraries wn given up to a phonograph, loaned for the occasion, with a dozen or so or cylinders containing records furnished by the late W. J. Florence, Soth ern, Lawrence Barrett. Joseph Jefferson, Colonellngersoll and others. This was a very pleasant as well as novel feature of the en tertainment. The phonograph room was In charge of Mrs. Dr II. W. Fulton, Mrs. George P. Bulmain and Mis S. C. Wood. Ovater were servod in the dining-rooms by Mrs. Norman Smith nnd Mrs. Georiro II. Aiider-ou, with a number of aids. Coffue and chocolate were dispensed by Mrs. Charles Wolfe. Miss Minnie Anderson and Mrs. John ltobsou. with n number of aid". There was a well arranged flower table, the attendants of nhicli wero Ml-s Priscllln Guthrie and Miss Gcrtriu'p Smith. The ushers were Mes'rs. Bradley, Harvey Miller, Robert King, Lockhart, Edwin Boyle, Thomas McCoy, Kobbins, Riddle Hawonh, Will Flanagan and J. E. Sell warts. All the ladles of the Board of .Managers of the Homeopathic Hospital wero present, with scores of young ladies to assist them in re ceiving the guests. The house was decorated with chrysan themums, this beautiful autumn flower being In evidenc everywhere. The house was full of the mon prominent ocietv people of the two cities, and the Homeo pathic Hospital, for whose benefit tho musicalo was given, will realize a very large sum. The ladies who arranged and directed tlieentertalnnie.it nte entitled to a great deal of credit for the indefatigable manner in which they worked for the causo. They performed taiks with their own hands that are usually relegated to the servants, and did not shrink, from anything that promised to assist in making the entertainment a success. TnE reception given yesterday by Dr. and Mrs. Andrew Eaton, at their Montgom ery avenue lesidence, was to mark tho 'coming out" of theirdanghter, Miss Lillian Eaton. It lasted throughout the afternoon and evening; and was attended by mCire (ban 3G0 guests in tho afternoon and 250 In tho evening. Tho occasion was also in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Whltesell, whose wedding took place recently, and of Miss F. Deland, of New Tork, who Is visit ing Dr. and Mrs. Eaton. Tne house was decorated with chrysanthemums, those in the dining room being gold and white, and in tho library whtto with green background. Palms ulono were used in the parlors. Mrs. Eaton wore a black ratin gown trimmed with pearls, nnd Miss Lillian, who Nabean tltni young girl of the blue eyes and brown hnlr type, was radiant in white silk, dalntlly set off with white rosebuds. Mrs. Bean, a sister of Mrs. Eaton, wore a cream corded silk gown, elaborately trimmed with wh'te lace and embroidered ns to the bodice with a network of steel beads. Miss Poland was beautiful in white silk and lace, and Miss Casey, who assisted in receiving, wore red silk with an overdress of red tails. Mrs. Whitesoll's costume was a pale pink bro cade. In the evening there wes dancing, and the reception was enjoyable in every wny, to tho young people as well as to their eldeis. JonN Brougham's "Flies in a Web" is the next play to be given Dv the Tuesday Night Club, so it is announced. Mrs. William McCreery and her daughters. Misses Emily and Eliza Mc Creery, nro to sail to-day for Europe, their destination being Genoa. , A meeting was held yesterda-v at the Eniscopal residence of St. Paul's Cathodral, or the ladies who will bo in charge or the orphans' tea party, to take place November IG, in Lararetto Hall. This hall has been selected because it Is suited to the needs ot tho tea party. Postmastor McKean has offered tne ladle the use or the old post office, but the offer has been declined fortho reason siven. although tho ladles are very grateful to Mr. McKean for his kind intent. The Ladies' Aid Society, of the Bellevue Methodist Protestant Church, gave their annual supper last evening. Miss Virginia Keno, of Minneapolis, who is for the present the guest of Mrs. Henry Hays, or South Highland avenue, is gilted with more than ordinary musical ability, anil her visit has been a pleasure to be remembered by nil w 10 have been fortu nate enough to have met her. DEATHS HEEE ADD ELSEWHEB2. Mrs. Sylvlna B. Brown, Braddock. The death of Mrs. Sylvin3 B. Brown, of Braddock, at the agu of 34. Is an event In a family record that will beof ninch Interest to Pittsburg crs. Mrs. Rrowii was the widow of James Rrown, a member 6f Company F. One Hundred and Thlrty nlntli Pennsylvania Volunteers. Her son. J. S. W. Hrovrn, was one of the writing forte of THE Dis rATCH when war was declared. pncl with J. Hcmm loiter emlsted In the "Olil Thirteenth." after ward known as the One HttnCrcdaiiil Second Penn sylvania. Willie In the Held he contributed Intcr esiluir etters to THE Disfatch irom the fnnt oer the signature ossawatamte." Transferred to the Mississippi flotilla as a gunner on a mortar boat, lie tiled there. Mr', brown was horn la Wilkesliarrr. and wa married lu Alexandria, Iiiinttii)ttnn countv. Tile lamily settled in Alle gheny In 1345. where they have lived evir since. Altlmugu not a member ofth- new order of that name, Mrs. brown was a "daughter of the H..vo Intlon, " hor grandfather having been a tolUlerln the Lontlnentat armies during the eullru sereu 3 ears'oi that sirugirle: Or. TV. A. Van V. IHabon. Itev. Dr. William Augustus Van Vranken Malum, professor of didactic theology Jn the New Brunswick (N. J.) Theological Seminary, died Thursdiy at his horn ! In Seminary place. He was bom In New Brunswick in 13a and was graduated from Union Col cee. ScheiiectuK. in 1310, and from New Brunswick Seminary In lSlf. X. .. Tiecs. X. S. Bees died at his home on Dinwiddle street. He was vehicle JlcensofHcer for the City Treasurer. Mr. ltccs was quite active in G. A. It. circles, being a member of PostlaT. Obltnary Notes. Joiik Jones, a celebrated trainer of Jumping horses for the Prince of Wales and other noted .hngllsli personages, died yesterday. Jonx Jackson, for over 50 years editor and pro prietor of the Calais (Me.) AdxrrtUer, died yester day in his 80th year, as a result of an attack of the gllp last winter. O. C. Unions, assistant to General Passenger Agent C. G Hancock, of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, died suddenly at Ills residence lu Philadelphia Wednesday or paralysis of the heart. Mns. Sydskt Charles Blitoit, wlfo of the wcl.l'rfnnwn author and social reformer, anj mem ber of Pjtftainrnt for tin Poplnr district or lower Iltmli'is. dust MnldeinyTtiuralay at Cromer, Nor loik. Knxlnd. Mrs. Nam yMeadwcll, one of the oldest rrsl deuts of McKeesporC a woman widely known and highly rcspocted In that lection, died yesterday at the ajte of 73 years. Formany years she has been prominent in Methodist Church wgrk. CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. Russia uses iron telegraph poles. The ancients thought that silk grew oa trees. Of the foreign merchants in China, only 27 are Americans. The most heavily taxed country in Europe is France. The world's typewriter record is 182 words a minute, held by a lady. There is more money spent for eggs than for flour In the United States. Edison has 200 women in his employ, making the most delicate electrical instru ments. The total import of palm oil into Eng land U about 50,000 tons, valued at over $5,000,000. There is calculated to be about 50,000,. 000 worth or property at the bottom or tas Atlantic Ocean. Many animals yield to the seduction cf rum drinking, especially elephants, horses, cows and swine. Russia makes the best isinglass. It is obtained from the giant sturgeon which in habit the Caspian Sea. The total number of people in the United Kingdom who always wear glasses, except when In bed, is 825,000. There is no truth whatever in the belief that anyone falling into tho sea necessarily rises and sinks three times before drown ing. Kalamazoo, Mich., is called the Celery City from tho fact that on the outskirts of the city are the greatest celery gardens In the world. A German doctor has started the theory that most drunkards can be cured simply bv eating apples at every meal. The acid gas does it. The speed of the fastest railway train Is not much more than hair that or the golden eagle's flight. The bird often makes U0 miles an hour. Cocoanut trees in certain parts of India once almost Hfelesi in appearance have been made to yield abundantly by placing salt at the roots. A Kansas farmer who had much trouble in shipping ogg at last succeeded in getting a consignment delivered in good order by marking the box "dynamite" The largest cricket field or ground set apart entirely for the game is the well known ground or the Surrey Cricket Club at the Oval, Konnington, London, which covers ten acres. The glow-worm lays eggs which are themselves luminous; however, tins yonng batched from them are not possessed of those peculiar properties until after the first transformation. A shark recently washed ashore at Midian, British Columbia, bad two distinct tails, three per'ect eyes nnd what appeared to be the rudiment of a tin or flipper bang ing to the nnder Jaw. Mrs. Simon Manak, of Chicago, an Eskimo, bas presented her husband with a It-pound daughter. The child has the dis tinction or being the first baby born on the World's Fair Grounds. In a late plucking at the Coronado os trich farm nearly 300 feathers were obtained fiom one bird, which, when curled and dressed, will be worth $03. The femalo ostrich lays 70 eggs a year. The largest volcano in the world is at Mauna Loa in the Sandwich Islands. The cruder is 23 miles in diameter, and the stream o' lava flowing from it is 5J miles long and in places four miles wide. Midgets have excellent appetites, as a rule. Tom Thum ate more than Cluing, the Chinese zlnnr. Any of the lttttle folk will eat as much dinner as a man six feet high. Giants, as a rule, have small appetites. I An advertisement appears in a "West- J ern paper which reads thu: "If Ge'irra William B-own, who doierto,d his poorwifa 1 and babe 25 years ago. will return, tho nfore- V said babu will knock the stuffing out of him." The Colton Marble "Works have just quarried what is claimed to be the largess block of niarblo ever taken out in Cali fornia. It Is reported to lie 15 fept In length, 5 feet i inches in width and 6' feet 5 inches thick. It is said that the dramatic life of Japan, like evorj'thing else in that land. Is fast being reformed after Enropean models. Until quite lately it as illegal for male and lemnle actors to appear upon the stage at the samo momout. The Brazilian pottery tree contains snch a largo percentage or silica as to muko Its ashes a valuable ingredient in pottery making. When green its wood cuts hive so t sandstone. To the botanist it is known as moquiled utilis. A list of Alpine accidents lor 1893 shows there wore 32 fatalities in all, 26 hav ing occurrod In ascents without gnides, and six with guides. Twenty-six were tourists and six wero guides. Ten wero caused by attempts to gather edelweiss. Among recent novelties that of a news paper printed on the web or the sacred white spider is chronicled. It is a sheet about 11 inches by It inches, contains two columns of matter, including an English story, and is excellently printed. A recent English invention relates to the recovery, by a now process, of the greater part of tin from tin scrap. The scrap is melted with pig iron in a Inrnace and the tin thus volatized so that it can be recovcrod in a suitable condenser. Of 14 torpedo boats ordered by the British Government four are to be ISO feet long, of a speed of 27 knots, or about 31 statute miles. Tho extreme speed obtained by a torpodo boat is accredited to tho Adler. built at Elblng, Germany, 27.t knots, she is only 152 feot long. A Canadian electrician states that elec tricity causes the tides nnd demonstrates is by electrifying a rubbor comb by rubbing it throngh the hair and then drawing it over the top of a glass filled with water, the re sult being that the tidal wave follows the comb. The most curious character on the isl and ot Borneo is the whito Sultan or ltajah of Sarawak. He is an Englishman, Sir Charles Brooke, and tho United States is the only nation that recognizes his Boveretentj. He rules over a part of Borneo as large as Ireland, aud bis subjects pay tribute to him in rice. A two-years'stady at Gizeh has convinced Mr. Flinders Petrie that the Egyptian stone workers or 4.000 years ago had a surprising acquaintance with what had been con sidered modern tools. Among tho many tools used by the pyramid builders wore both solid and tubular drills, aud straight and circular saws. ORIGINAL AND JOCOSE. I know a 6gnre Jnnoesqne, A bust of marble white. Two arms to twine In love's embrace. Two bands, they're matchless quite. I know two eyes, two roguish eyes. The shade of azure sky: I know two cheeks, two rosy cheeks. Their bloom will never die. I know a mouth with cherry lipa. To kiss you'd give your life. And I would take it, irlend or foe. This beauty is my wife. SOME IASHIOS SOTIS, Wearers of seal plush sacqne.5 will find it adds to the deception to walk on the shady side of the street. While other goods will be used a great deal, yet checks will continue popular with dressmakers. The light colored ulster worn in Pittsburg last year Is a tbinr of the oast-ln fact. It's dyed. While evening ihress will be more extreme than t er this year, the aflcr-dinuer cigar will continue to wear a wrapper. Many morning gowns are disfigured with yokes (of eggs). It is much better to wear a napkin tucked under the chin. The most popular material for bell skirts wilt be huge alternate stripes of red and green they give a louder tone. No matter how unbecoming her gown might be. If it was bought in New Tork for a pile. She'll be Just as hapny as can be. Andsay, "Of course, I'm a sljbt, but It's style." She was very thin. As she tnrncd around to give a view of tliebick of her gown she said: . "What do you tlduk of my gowu? Ain't It a drtamf" . "InuneresDect." "Wht is that?" There's nothing In it." CHIC.. i i v -ai'i-Sjt.isS'i.-. i-. V-
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